#double reed problems

[banishingsigils]

i made the mistake of using a new reed during rehearsal tonight. listen, all my other reeds were worse for wear and getting wavy, but it was rough and will take some time to break in this particular reed. sorry to the rest of my section for barely managing to play certain notes tonight

#maria blabs #clarinet problems for real #and i'm not even a double reed

[dontforgetthefrenchhorns]

Just, like, in your experience which section has been the most intolerable to be around and deal with. Also I separated the saxophones this time because last time people were upset I kept them together lmao <3

I'm causing problems on purpose <33

#concert band #band #marching band #band geek #polls

[clavissionary-position]

What Emma Would Do

Ignore me. This is just me working through my own thoughts and feelings on this. Also I'm an idiot.

***BIG EDIT: I misread and misinterpreted. Azel was nearly drugged and SA'd, so his reaction, however cruel, makes complete sense to me. If he was real I couldn't apologize to him enough.

Moving @/caffedrine's billion-dollar comments up here.

My original, misguided post is below the cut if you're interested.

I have to ask myself what Emma would do. Within reason. And only within the scope of this fictional game, because I'm not about to touch this topic as it exists in the real world. That's for people much smarter than me.

But for the game, my dismissing of Azel as a cruel misogynist without seeing his circumstances and worldview shuts down the conversation the same way it does when Azel dismisses a woman as a slut without seeing her circumstances and worldview.

(Did he actually use the word 'slut' or did google just translate 痴女 like that for me... I should double-check... edit: oh my bad, he calls her a "female molester", which... I can't say he's wrong considering she tried to give him an aphrodisiac...? The word also means "stupid woman", so he could very well have meant it that way too, especially for some reasons I get into later in the post.)

Soooo, he didn't actually call her a slut. I'm an idiot 😌 I'm sorry, Azel. Dunno if any of my points below mean anything, but I'll leave it here anyway:

The running theme in Ikepri is to look beyond the beast and see the human inside. To meet them halfway. To see their heart. And that heart is always so very terribly scarred. All these guys have gone through their own traumas and come out the other end behaving in ways designed to be armor, to protect themselves from any further pain.

I can only speculate about Azel this early in his story arc, but being showered with the same adoration and reverence that people only show a god, day in and day out, probably fucks with your mentality a bit if you are still only human at the end of the day. Having women try to seduce you only because you're The Living God, well, we saw what that kind of shallow treatment did to Silvio. Women see you as an object and so women become objects to you. You want to be loved, but you don't want to be hurt.

That might only be scratching the surface with Azel, though. He's also clearly jaded from listening to the same old interpersonal problems people have when in relationships. Love is actual trash to him, not even worth a single penny. It's trash because the very people who follow him prove it to him on a daily basis, I imagine.

Yet that's still not the full picture. I mean, we obviously won't have the full picture until his main route drops, but there's another key factor to consider with Azel.

He quotes Pascal in Licht's sequel. "Man is only a reed, the weakest thing in nature; but he is a thinking reed." The full quote goes onto say:

"All our dignity consists, then, in thought. This is the basis on which we must raise ourselves, and not space and time, which we would not know how to fill. Let us make it our task, then, to think well: here is the principle of morality.”

(Did I read the entire context of the quote? HA! What do you take me for? A scholar or something?)

Free will and independent thought is arguably the most important thing to Azel. He has no respect for the sheep who flock to him for direction (though he'll happily take their money and tributes). Even with the dancer who tried to seduce him in the prologue, when he tells her to lick up the food she dropped after he tripped her, he presents it as a choice. Nevermind that the staggeringly unequal power dynamics at play made it so this was nothing short of coercion in the end; there was no way the dancer was in a position to stand up for herself and say no, even if that's exactly what Azel wanted. But from his perspective, defiance would have been welcome. That's why he phrased it as a choice. That she started licking up the food only solidified in Azel's mind that this woman is an unthinking reed without dignity. If you're going to act like trash, he'll treat you like trash... maybe that was part of his thinking.

On a slightly different note, I think another reason he hates the idea of love so much is because love makes people lose their ability to reason, to think. I believe he outright says as much, iirc.

In the end, I don't know from where exactly Azel's fury and cruelty comes from. It could be all of these things, it might be something else entirely. All I can think is, you can't be 'God' everyday and not be scarred by humans.

In conclusion, I can't excuse Azel's behavior. I don't excuse it. But I think Emma would try to understand the why of it, like she does in any other route. The other running theme in Ikepri is that, as a certain someone would put it, the essence of all people is love. It's their environment that twists them. Somewhere in Azel is the purest kind of love. A kind that would make any god look away in shame. That's what I want to believe in, anyhow.

Also, I need stress that I was SO wrong about whether he actually called the dancer a slut or not. Google fucked me over by translating it that way! Ah, Azel, I'm so sorry!

#ikepri jp spoilers #ikepri azel #ikemen prince

[artbyblastweave]

As a big superhero guy, I have a question: Why do you think it's so common to show Reed Richards, Tony Stark, Hank Pym, Hank McCoy (ESPESCIALLY those last two) as, at best, morally ambiguous and at worst, downright awful in modern portrayals? Is it standard American anti-intellectualism, tied into our growing distrust of science and technology, or is it just that they seem kinda bland?

I don't think it's anti-intellectualism per se. For three of the four I think it's just a consequence of contemporary writers being Allowed To Notice And Unpack Things.

For Reed Richards, it's the result of fans and writers applying a level of scrutiny to early plots and character beats that weren't intended to stand up to any real level of scrutiny. He's a guy who got all his best friends horribly mutated by taking them up in an untested spacecraft. He's a guy who brainwashed a bunch of captured skrulls into thinking they were cows. He's a guy who keeps whipping up extremely specific technological solutions to the problem at hand, which never seem to trickle down to the consumer market- hence the "Reed Richards is Useless" trope. And he's gotta dodge and weave around patriarchal accusations vis a vis a lot of the casual sexism of early FF, where Sue had limited combat utility and was often in the mix as the Damsel-in-distress classic. And obviously excising the unconsidered sexism from the dynamic is the right way to go, but treating that early recklessness/ruthlessness/callousness seriously, as an actual personality flaw that he has, and has to work around, is significantly more interesting than just rewriting the character to not behave like that.

For Iron Man it's the result of people starting to take more seriously the moral implications of the fact that he's an arms dealer and a billionaire. (Apocryphally, Stan Lee did this to see if he could create a character who would be popular with his left-leaning audience despite being everything they hate ideologically, but I take this with a grain of salt.) Another element, I think, is that in preparation for the release of Iron Man, Marvel made him a headliner in Civil War in 2007; the nature of Civil War lent itself to him doing a lot of authoritarian bullshit, and said bullshit sort of set the bar for his capacity for extreme behavior when pressed. Put Iron Man in any situation, try to determine the extent he'll go to in order to resolve it, and you have to take into account that time he was sticking his colleagues in virtual-reality prisons on behalf of the government. A demonstrated willingness to do atrocities for what you think of as the greater good does add some flavor and tension, I have to give them that!

For Hank Pym, it's totally down to the midlife crisis arc from 1981, where he rebranded as Yellowjacket, got drummed out of the Avengers for using excessive force, and battered his wife Janet when she tried to. You know. Talk him out of building a robot to perform a false flag attack against the rest of the team to get back in their good graces. The whole arc was supposed to be a very deliberate tragedy about his mental breakdown but it kind of poisoned the well on the character and became the thing future writers endlessly relitigate, either doubling down on it (The Ultimates, Marvel Zombies) or trying to repudiate it (Mighty Avengers, Avengers Academy.) Even before that, though, he had a pointed loose-cannon mad scientist situation going on even in comparison to the others on this list- his debut was a Twighlight zone-style horror story where he nearly gets himself killed testing the shrinking formula, and he also created Ultron and nearly got everyone killed that way!

I have no idea what's going on with Hank McCoy. I don't think I want to know what's going on with Hank McCoy. Every time I turn my ear in the direction of that corner of the fandom these days, all I hear is screaming. Are you guys alright

#asks #thoughts #comics #all positions outlined here are tentatively endorsed

[merge-conflict]

indicators of compromise

Alex has a glass waiting for Reed when he returns, and she catches a glimpse of a smile when he slides across the booth from her. Check: favorite drink is gin. He pulls the glass a little closer but doesn’t pick it up, hunching slightly as he settles. Check: chronic pain from old wounds. His thumb rubs against the rim, and he sighs.

“Any blank spots?” he asks, without preamble. Check: gets down to business.

“A few,” Alex says. “Three, maybe four, depending on how you slice it. Longest was about five minutes.”

“When?”

“After your conversation with Hansen and So Mi.” Alex slides the laptop a little closer. In the darkened interior of the Moth, the screen is painfully bright. “Did you see the way she reacted when So Mi touched her?”

“Mhm.” Reed finally lifts the glass, takes a drink. “Bit of a jolt. That what you want to show me?” Check: an eye for detail.

“In a manner of speaking– something showed up on her interface. Not sure what it was, since she had me sandboxed. Supposed to filter out everything but the raw feed– of course not all soft plays nice with that kind of thing. So you get these ugly boxes instead.”

Reed is quiet as she pulls up the recordings, scrubbing through the timeline. Check: patience of a saint. She’d been double-checking her work before he’d walked in, trying in vain to glean certainty from obfuscation. Coincidence is not correlation, and correlation is not cause, but it is always worth a little investigation. Sometimes it really is the small things.

“Here,” she says, on the paused video, her finger hovering over the top left of V’s vision. In this frame, it’s clear, showing the far wall over So Mi’s shoulder. “You can see top right, where there’s a bit of a smudge– she’s got something on her interface there, which also doesn’t play nice with the sandbox. We can’t read it, obviously, but we know it’s there. Now watch when So Mi brushes past her–“

She advances it, a few frames at a time, as V turns her head to watch So Mi pass by. After a few moments she stops, hearing Reed’s muttered little huh under his breath. She taps on the screen, where there’s a discolored rectangular smudge of pixels in the top left. (Figure Two)

“Okay, I see it,” he says. “Coincidence isn’t correlation though–“

“It happens twice more,” Alex interrupts, panning forward to the next one. She’d been working her way backwards once she’d noticed it. “Once, when she sees you at the bar. And one final time, when she took that little detour on the way out. Each time, it coincides with a specific event: So Mi’s touch (Figure Two), her seeing you, (Figure Three) her deciding to wander down a dark path after Hansen threw you out. (Figure Four)”

“That’s three,” Reed says. Check: good recall. “What’s the fourth?”

“Happens on her first sweep of the floor,” Alex tells him, scrubbing back quickly, the entire party turning into little more than a smear of light and color. “She doesn’t react the same as the other times, though– just pauses for a moment and then continues on. Hold on, here it is.”

“Huh. Looks a little familiar, but I can’t place the name.”

“Hideshi Hino,” Alex says. “At least I think so– she looks like she recognizes him, whoever he is, but she doesn’t get any closer.”

“Not really a blank spot,” Reed says. “You sure they’re all related?”

“I don’t think it’s the same thing as So Mi’s blank spots,” Alex says. “If I had to be honest, it seems like she’s having a conversation with someone. You’ve seen people take silent calls before. Attention starts to drift, they fidget– except for Hino it all fits the bill.”

“Like someone else was watching her too,” Reed muses, leaning back in the booth with a heavy sigh. “Some sort of handler, maybe?”

“But who?” Alex asks, frustrated. “Is Myers keeping a close eye? You said she seemed unusually interested in V.”

“Not really her style. I’ll see what I can find out, but we’ve got another problem.” Reed plays with his glass, avoiding Alex’s eye. Check: keeps important info annoyingly close to the chest. “Handler or not that brush with Hansen seemed to spook her. We left things a little… up in the air. Was hoping you might reach out, talk her down from the ledge.”

“She backed out?” Alex asks, surprised. Spooked is not how she’d read V’s body language in that elevator. “What’d she say?”

“Nothing specific,” Reed says, and he must be tired because he’s finally let the annoyance seep into his voice. “She was angry, but I don’t know why. You ever wonder how So Mi communicates with her, while Hansen’s got her locked up?”

“Not exactly my area of expertise,” Alex reminds him, as though he needs reminding. So Mi’s presence is in her absence: one of the empty seats in what had once been a crowded booth.

“Mm.” Reed takes a long drink, letting his eyes drift close for a moment. “Will you do it?”

“Thought you were the recruiter,” she says, pettily.

“She’s Myers’ recruit, not mine,” he says, unperturbed. “Less interested in an oath to the NUSA than a promise to the president. Think she could use a personal appeal.”

“And you’re not her type?”

His eyes flick open, frowning. Check: not a pushover. “Just talk with her Alex. So Mi trusts her, and we’re not going to be able to replace her this late in the game. See if you can figure out why’s she upset, and if anyone’s pulling her strings. Don’t push too hard.”

Alex leans back with a sarcastic two-finger salute. “Yes, sir.”

#cyberpunk 2077 #cyberpunk 2077 fanfic #my fic #phantom liberty #solomon reed #alena “alex” xenakis #indicators of compromise #ope just gonna throw this out here unedited because what the hell #decided to scrap everything I'd written before I've got a way better premise now

[maluarty-blog]

New IF :D

History:

After years of working as a prostitute in one of the wealthiest areas of your city, you find a job as a caretaker of a duke who has been wounded by the war. Hired by his sister, you are invited to live in their mansion with your son. Life really does seem to be giving you quite an opportunity, doesn't it?

Romantic options:

(Liah Chancellor) THE BLACK WIDOW:  Female

She's the woman who hired you, Cesar's older sister.

She returned to the city after her husband passed away. Her personality is calm, carefully rehearsed, perfect, worthy of a duchess.

Appearance: The duchess has long curly hair tied up in a low bun and dark skin, her dark brown eyes do justice to her striking appearance. She is short and is always seen wearing black garments.

(César Chancellor)  THE LOST KIN:  Male

He was a war hero, but his glory days have left their mark.

You've been hired to look after him and his needs. He seems to judge everything you do, sharp dark blue eyes that seem to look for any mistake, or does he simply want to get to know you better? There's no way of knowing unless you break through his invisible barriers.

Appearance: His skin is dark brown, marked with old scars. His long, wavy hair reaches his back like the light waves of the sea. His stories were grand, but the man in the wheelchair seems nothing more than a vague ghost of what was left behind of his greatness.

(Tiana Reed)   THE EXILED CHILD: Trans-Female

Tiana currently lives with Liah and her brother. She left home after her gender transition, losing her job as a lawyer and consequently her circle of friends. Many say that in childhood her hand was given in marriage to Liah, but the engagement was cancelled for unjustified reasons. With a light-hearted personality, she always seems to have a smile on her face, even if it sometimes looks worn.

Appearance: Her skin is fair and her blonde hair is cut short, she is of medium height and has round blue eyes. She is quite fashion-conscious, enjoying dressing up in a variety of outfits.

(Bruno Vanverd)  THE KIND HEART: Male

Bruno is a childhood friend of Dimas, your older brother, and consequently yours. The son of one of the biggest merchant families in the region, Bruno has always liked to be with people and be close to them, even if it's against his family's wishes.

Appearance: He's tall, towering over almost everyone around him, his messy brown hair and fair skin are well known on the streets of your neighbourhood, as are his careful, attentive honey eyes.

(Jean ??)  THE REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE: F or M

Jean is what they call a real troublemaker and a challenge for their family. Not even their lessons have been able to fix the rebellious person who only thinks about enjoying life's pleasures, without bothering about their family's problems. 

Appearance: Red hair (short and wavy if male, or shoulder-length and wavy if female) and pale skin. They're tall and their eyes are a shade of brown.

I intend to post it this weekend, I'm finishing correcting it and I also plan to release the complete prologue of Behind your eyes this week too! (finally!! because it's been ready since December, but I haven't had much time to do anything about it these past months, I really like to go over and over things, because English is not my first language and I really worry about how I write, I make a lot of mistakes on the keyboard with double letters ksks, and even though I've been on holiday, I've had a lot of exams and other matters( and cof baldurs gate 3 cof cof)).

#twine if #twine wip

[completeoveranalysis]

[8]

Oh oh oh! It’s neat to see Evil Wolverine’s magic circle wink out like that. What an interesting choice. I suppose this means his seemingly instant reaction to Yuuko's magic WASN'T an automatic defence, but something that he manually had to stand up and cast first hand. It's also interesting that they show it THIS way. They technically could have just used one panel and gotten the idea across no problem, but they specifically doubled it so we could SEE his Clow Reed Adjacent Magic Circle in double vision, one light and one dark, and BLURRED so that you can barely make it out before it goes completely dark. I don’t know if we’ve seen a magic circle look blurry like that. They didn't even change the swirling magic lines around the frame! It's EXACTLY the same except for the light and darkness of it all - Evil Wolverine appearing like his own mirror image, contrasted only with himself and - oh and not an actual mirror! In both the cover image and the page with Yuuko and Mokona' mirrored, the characters physically invert, they face toward/away from each other to complete the effect. But not Evil Wolverine! He's distorted even in his own dimension, and the BALANCE is visibly gone. There is nothing to balance him out, because nothing could. The imbalance he brings to the universe is his GOAL, so we get a quick glimpse, here and gone again, of him not matching the same pattern of everyone else. They didn't even need to do that. I love it.  

I'm also a big fan of him having to note out loud that his choices had consequences that actually outweighed their benefit. (Get used to this Evil Wolverine! It'll come back again!)

One thing I really want to know is WHAT the souls were actually for. Do you think he was using them to help create his clones and copies of people? Do you think he can’t create a soul from nothing, but can wipe one clean and imprint someone else’s soul onto it? I’d love to know - but preferably explained by someone else, because he’s insufferable and EXTREMELY UNCLEAR in all his monologues every single time. Sometimes he even spends pages describing things we already know! Truly the mansplainer of the multiverse.

...He is such a dramatic loser. No-one can even SEE this but he’s posing theatrically in stark silhouette all the same. 

It wouldn't even be as pathetic if he hadn’t killed Xing Huo, because then at least he'd have an audience.

Though on the PLUS SIDE this means that if they ever had a Tsubasa Stage Show they could just transfer his dialogue one for one and have a complete script for him to use. The dramatic poses and everything.

#Yes I NEED that to happen #Would I even be able to see it? Debatable #But do we deserve it? YES #Liveblogging the reservoir chronicle #Vol 183 #Tsubasa #Evil Wolverine #I'm stuck on the visual of his monocle here too #The blank circle within a circle #Like the big mirror he looks through #Like his magic circle before it faded to nothing #Is part of his realm represented by circles within circles? #Since we know they’re ringed off by time? Nothing of substance within? #Unable to affect anything outside it? Nothing at all inside? #Or a blank canvas to create a whole new existence?

[thebibliomancer]

Earth X #X

What the hell does #X mean??

Well, it means the end. The end of Earth… X. There’s two sequel series after this.

Mar-Vell gets the cover to the last issue. And thank goodness for lens flares because I’m fairly sure he’s very casual Friday.

Earth X. It’s hard to summarize the previous 13 (because #0) issues.

Long story short, the Earth is an egg. All superpowers and mutation are because the Celestials manipulated human evolution to make them guardians of the egg.

The mass mutation of Earth’s population has kicked off 200 years early because Black Bolt set off a terrigen bomb.

A psychic kid called the Skull rose as a Celestial failsafe to control the aggressive and unruly mutated population but Captain America killed him.

So the Celestials landed on Earth to wipe out all life before it threatens the egg but Black Bolt sacrifices himself to shout really loudly into space for Galactus.

Celestials vs Galactus.

Kind of a lose/lose situation for humanity.

The Earth X X issue is double sized. There’s a lot to cover but the subplots have mostly dried up.

Here’s one I’ll get out of the way early.

Reed Richards suddenly remembers that he promised Medusa that he’d help find her missing son.

God. I had completely forgotten about that. It was almost an inciting subplot that got the Inhumans bumping into Reed. But anyway, since Reed got Black Bolt killed, he feels obligated to duck out mid-plot resolution and reunite Medusa and her son.

Who was the new Black Knight all along.

Cool to wrap that up.

But back to the headlining fight.

According to New Watcher Aaron Stack, Galactus is tougher than one Celestial but might get overwhelmed by a Host of them.

And he keeps tinkering with his Galactus machines instead of punching giant space gods.

Luckily, Galactus gets some backup.

Namor toots as he pleases to summon sea monsters to attack the Celestials in the name of ancient-er Atlantis and for the dinosaurs.

He gets smacked aside.

Silver Surfers Norrin Radd and Shalla-Bal attack the Celestials to buy some time. And Shalla-Bal gets blowed up. Dangit, she’d only just been introduced last issue.

Loki brings an army from Hel, after convincing them that death is fake and that their entire identity was imposed on them.

(That’s why he shanked himself last time.)

They buy some time until the Celestials convince them death is real and they drop dead from it.

And during this, Galactus makes some big moves of his own.

I can practically HEAR this panel.

Like a static-y reverbish BWOOOOOOOOM!

Anyway, the Celestials eventually decide “fuck this actually” or however space gods would phrase it. They fuck off back into space.

Which just leaves the problem that now Galactus hunters and there’s a tasty planet right here.

Or whoever new Galactus this is.

Reed Richards turned Galactus into a star. The running narration implied that someone else has filled the vacated role.

Which has all to do with the tiers of mutation discussed in the previous issue.

Tier 1 - everyone has different powers. Ex: Earth right now.

Tier 2 - homogenization of powers into shapeshifting. Ex: the Skrulls or Reed Richards

And revealed this issue Tier 3 - completely malleable in body, mind, and will. Incredibly powerful but constrained by how observers identify them. Ex: the Asgardians.

This Galactus has become Galactus because he believes he’s Galactus and is believed to be Galactus.

But originally his name was

Franklin Richards.

Franklin who has connections to Galactus and has been said to be destined to be the last survivor of this universe the way Galactus was of the previous.

(I don’t know whether all that stuff predates Earth X or was inspired by it. Possible tally marks.)

And Franklin whose name Black Bolt shouted into space, which drew Galactus to Earth to his confusion.

Reed can’t acknowledge Galactus is Franklin, not without leaving the universe without it’s counter to Celestials over-population. But he does suggest that Galactus is known for relocating the populations of the planets he eats. And since Franklactus is influenced by how he is viewed, the universe has a kinder Galactus now.

There’s no planet to relocate Inhumanity to so Galactus just slurps the Celestial embryo right out of Earth and flies off into space with it.

So the day is saved but damn that’s a sad and lonely existence for Franklin.

He doesn’t even get some Radd company because the Silver Surfer is staying on Earth.

Back on the Moon, Aaron Stack gets tired of Uatu’s blah blah blah.

He finds where the old Watcher is hiding, since he has only appeared on a screen. He throws Uatu’s prior dismissal of good and evil and says that evil is “to do nothing in the face of need.”

Then he unplugs Uatu from the observation equipment so that on top of being blind, he also can’t hear anything from Earth. A Watcher with nothing to observe.

“He doesn’t have the right to watch. He took my face.”

Aaron really held that grudge.

So now we get into the epilogues and sequel hooks for Universe X.

Now that he knows that the terrigen mist caused the mass mutation of humanity, Reed has some ideas on how to fix it.

But he’s getting some pushback. There are people who want to keep their cool new superpowers. And T’Challa thinks the mass mutation gave the animal spirits of Wakanda anthro bodies and he won’t endorse a plan that could reverse that.

Peter and May have repaired their relationship. May has been helping Peter get back in shape.

Cop Luke Cage is still after Peter to join the police but Peter laughs off the idea of becoming a cop.

The circus guys that became the new X-Men are going to stick around as X-Men.

I cannot fathom why these guys were given so much focus for the minimal impact they had on the plot. I could not tell you what their personalities or even powers are.

I also don’t understand why Circus Daredevil got so much attention.

Earth X still has its mysteries.

After being given some massive foreshadowing that he’d play a role, Mar-Vell finally shows up when the plot is done!

He assures Reed he’ll be huge in the sequel.

“There’s a lot that’s about to happen, Reed. I’m coming back. I’m coming back to save everyone. And they’re not going to like it.”

????

Reed asks him to clarify but Mar-Vell refuses.

He does find the time to imply he’s going to be born from Perfect Humans Adam Warlock and Her though.

Why? God knows.

Mar-Vell also suggests that the dream he kept giving Bruce was a big brain move to indirectly get Loki aware that the Asgardians are fiction so he’d shank himself, go to Hel, and recruit the inhabitants to help fight the Celestials.

That’s… either very big brain or a complete asspull.

Captain America is still sad he had to murder a child.

Aaron Stack decides he’s going to be the Watchman instead of the Watcher. Sounds like more of an active role and I dunno maybe he likes Alan Moore.

Luna finishes her transformation into a beautiful butterfly lady so she’s ready for her arranged marriage to Black Knight/the Prince. But he has no interest in her.

Oof, that’s rough.

And Reed finishes converting his old vibranium beacon towers into giant devices to siphon and burn the terrigen out of the atmosphere so things can eventually be normal.

He calls them Human Torches because even Reed Richards has his sentimental side.

So that’s Earth X.

I don’t love everything it does but it makes a decent stab at tying everything in Marvel up in a big Celestial-shaped bow. I can appreciate how fleshed out the setting is, how there’s still stuff going on that we don’t know, and how it’s tightly plotted so that a lot of what seems to be random weirdness plays into the resolution.

I like how many prominent heroes go from depressed and beaten down by the past to getting their groove back. Reed Richards, Tony Stark, Peter Parker all start in a bad place and find their heroism again.

The creative team must have been very confident it would succeed since there are SO MANY sequel hooks in the ending.

And it can’t be overstated how much of an impact Earth X had on the rest of Marvel. I tried to call out the times when something from Earth X inspired another Marvel book. And I probably missed a lot because the ideas have become common enough that I didn’t realize they originated here.

But the book never explains what the X in Earth X means so 0 out of 5 stars, bad comic.

#earth x #liveblog #Celestials #Galactus #silver surfer #namor mckenzie #Loki #mr fantastic #uatu the watcher #machine man #mar vell #Medusa #franklin richards #spider man #captain america #look basically everyone

[warpfive]

can I request malcolm reed with a medical officer S/O? ☄️

malcolm reed x doctor!reader

CW: gn!reader

malcolm doesn’t like going to sick bay. it’s nothing against you or phlox - their resident denobulan is strange but friendly and you…well, you’re you. malcolm would be hard-pressed to find an excuse not to see you if it weren’t for your occupation. he just doesn’t being poked and prodded and examined unless his life depends on it - and even then, he wants it to be over quickly.

in the beginning, malcolm had this fantasy that because he was dating you, he’d be somehow exempt from showing up for regular crew physicals. or at the very least, maybe he can get his physical from you…in private…in his quarters…

that’s not how it goes. malcolm is ordered into sickbay and you welcome him with a soft smile but direct him on the bed. he tries to give you a look, hoping you could maybe let him off the hook with a quick physical just so he could say he technically did it. but the only favor malcolm is given is a sweet laugh, and brush of his hand, and a scanner in his face.

before, in a crunch, malcolm would be able to work through an injury. if he focuses hard enough, he can usually ignore the pain until his work is done. that doesn’t really happen when he starts dating you. unless sick bay is swamped, you always seem to find malcolm right when he gets a scrape, or in the most serious instance, when he banged his head and was seeing double. (he didn’t seem too upset that there were two of you.)

on the other end of the spectrum, when malcolm gets sick, he only wants you to take care of him. again, nothing against phlox, but he prefers the way you press your cool hand against his burning forehead to phlox’s pet leech. he becomes a big baby when he’s sick, and while he puts up a front for the crew, he absolutely falls into bed and wants you to nurse him.

when he’s in a teasing mood, expect him to call you “doctor” in a flirty tone. of course, this is malcolm, so you really have to know him and get him to pick up on his flirting. he would teasingly call you “doctor” in front of other people and they would simply assume he was calling you by your title - but no, you picked up on the special way he says the syllables. 

but when you two are alone, malcolm is absolutely embarrassing. calling you things like “doctor delightful” and insists he needs a full body check-up. you tell him to talk to phlox about it and he argues that it needs to be done as soon as possible. besides, he trusts you more than most people - though, once you tell him he really should go to sick bay for this problem or that, he quickly changes the subject. 

malcolm is a great listener, so there’s been many occasions where he ends up sitting and listening as you ramble on about some problem you’re having in sick bay. he doesn’t really understand the medical talk (he was never very good at biology) but he does try his best to help. though, more often than not, malcolm helps you by just letting you ramble.

you’re a doctor. you’re not supposed to be biased for or against any one of your patients. so when the enterprise is attacked/disabled/etc and a lot of the crew start flooding in, malcolm is the one who sets you straight and reminds you that you can’t just treat him first and ignore those who need it most. he’s very good at being objective, though knowing you want to help him first will always affirm that you love him.

#star trek x reader #star trek headcanons #malcolm reed x reader #star trek enterprise x reader #im dumb and indecisive about how i wanna format these things so here's a gif even though none of my other posts have one

[i-bring-crack]

Most unexplored themes within Solo Leveling that would actually be fun to think about. spoilers, a lot of them.

Connections of the ancient past monsters in our mythology with the actual monsters.

Prophets like Norma Selner having the capabilities to forsee the future.

People having the physique to contain the power of a Monarch or Ruler.

Igris human origin.

False rankers.

Re awakened people.

Countries that suffered lossing their S ranks in Kamish, there where around 100 of them or somethinglike that.

Weapons made with Dungeon Materials.

Healers and the capability to be as strong or even stronger than A rank fighters.

The possibility of one of the National Hunters possessing a power that rivals or is equal to the human vessels.

Design change instead of the same european medieval suits of armor or witchy style, but I'll let it pass since every piece of clothing and armor in the manwha is just freaking awesome.

The timelines before the Cup of Reincarnation was used.

Rune stone capabilities.

S rank hunters good or bad influence in other parts of the world.

Sung Jin Woo's life after his father MIA, before being awakened and during the awakening process.

Jin Ah and Song I's friendship despite the other wanting to leave school and become a hunter.

Jin Ah during the time Jin woo was an E rank, her whole moment when she refused to let Jin Woo go on his first raid.

Baek Yoon Ho leaving the Fiend Guild.

Ming Byung Gyu's trauma.

Cha Hae In's backstory of becoming a third rate athlete to an S rank Hunter.

Cha Hae In's stench problem anywhere around Choi Jong In, her guild mates or even worse, the Annual International Guild Meeting.

Jin Woo's, Chi Yul's, Kim's and Ju Hee's trauma of the double dungeon.

The Kamish aftermath.

S rank Gates appearing in France, Russia, China, and USA.

The first year gates where introduced.

Liu Zhigang's and Thomas Andre's backstories.

Christopher Reed and Thomas Andre's acknowledgement towards one another.

Christopher Reed's fight.

Sung Ill Hwang whilst hidding.

Sung Ill Hwang's 10 or so years in the dungeon spent training.

The sentience of Esil.

The Architect's true body [bc let's be honest Jin Woo, he isn't going to contact the person who just killed him and betrayed him, so it doesn't mean he would be dead at all.]

#sung jin woo #norma selner #solo leveling spoilers #solo leveling au #solo leveling manwha #solo leveling igris #monarchs #rulers #healers #s ranks solo leveling #sung jin ah #cha hae in #choi jong in #baek yoon ho #thomas andre #christopher reed #liu zhigang #esil radiru #architect sl

[witchbitchheadedtoaditch]

Divination with Hieroglyphs!

Hello hello! I recently saw a Discord Bot that offered hieroglyphics as a form of divination and then I ended up on a very deep dive about hieroglyphs for divination because the source for that bot was a site on Wicca and it was literally the only one that I could find. I'm not going to name either the bot or the website because I don't really think that we should like, shit on them and frankly that's not the intent of the post lol. Anywho!

Hieroglyphs have, historically, not always been used for divination, but in today's world they absolutely can be used! If you're interested in learning more, the rest is below the cut so that it wouldn't be a crazy long post on your dash lol

So, there are like a couple hundred to a couple thousand different hieroglyphs in total that we've found, and it would be incredibly impractical to use all of them for divination. There are 23 ones that are used by the bot and that are listed on the website (though their names are wrong lol), and then there are a bunch more that I, personally use, so I thought I'd make a post to share them!

All of these names (with the exception of one, which I will note in the list) are the names that Egyptologists have given them, and the hieroglyph meanings are derived from both their general like, appearance, and the esoteric meanings that Egyptologists have been able to discern. The letter-number combination in parenthesis beside each one references the Gardiner code and the unicode associated with it.

So the 23 that are listed on the website and the 23 that are used by the bot are as follows (these are the correct names, and not the names used by either the site or the bot):

The Mouth (D21, U+1308B): communication, meetings, working out details with others

The Forearm (D36, U+1309D): receiving something positive; a gift of fate, the help of another, things falling into place unexpectedly without any effort

The Hand (D46, U+130A7): personal skill and ability, being able to make the situation however you want it to be

The Leg (D56, U+130BE): travel, movement, influences from other locations or people

The Egyptian Vulture (G1, U+1313F): a need for emotional distance from the situation, stepping back, not getting caught up, the emotions of the moment may be blinding, looking at the situation from a distance

The Owl (G17, U+13153): wisdom, insight, knowledge, having an overview of the situation and seeing it clearly

The Quail Chick (G43, U+13171): new beginnings, new directions, new doors opening, opportunity, potential

The Cobra (I10, U+13193): power and authority, taking a humble role and working within a system controlled by others

The Reed (M17, U+131CB): growth, expansion, business with many projects, creativity, self-expression

The Double Reeds (M17A, U+131CC): over-extension, too many obligations and too much to do, taking on more than you can handle, a need to cut back and simplify

Slope of Hill (N29, U+1320E): challenges and difficulties, an uphill battle

The Door Bolt (O34, U+13283): safety, protection, lack of fear

The Stool (Q3, U+132AA): help and support of others, good advice or aid from others will be helpful

The Lasso (V4, U+1336F): unseen problems obstacles or challenges, approach with caution, second looks at a situation

The Waters/The Ripple of Water (N35, U+13216): the divine is guiding one, relax and go with the flow, divine providence

The Lying Lion (E23, U+130ED): bravery, courage, self-confidence, strength to face the situation and strength to stand up to challenges

The Tethering Rope (V13, U+1337F): wealth and prosperity, solidification of wealth and having things you desire

The Twisted Wick (V28, U+1339B): letting go of the old to make way for the new, eternity, long lengths of time, let go of what you've outgrown

The Metal Vessel (W6, U+133B5): change, transformation, development from one thing to another, from chaos to order

The Loaf of Bread (X1, U+133CF): taking care of others, fulfilling duties or requirements in a situation, necessary details, doing your part to make a situation successful

The Cup (W10, U+133BA): pleasure, joy, enjoyment, good friends ad positive situations

The Palm Branch (M4, U+131B3): success, positive attention, admiration of others, reward of effort and honor, recognition

The "Slug" (there is no hieroglyph that is named the slug, but it looks like a slug so I'm calling it the slug, and that's what the bot and the site call it) (L8, U+131AC): slow movement, patience, the situation needs to develop at its own pace, things need to fall into place before they move forward.

Other Hieroglyphs

The Crouching Man Behind the Wall (A5, U+13004): concealment, secrecy, hiding, obscured truth and lack of honesty and transparency

The Seated Man Under A Vase (A6, U+13006): cleansing your space, purifying surroundings and heart, return to a situation refreshed and with a blank slate

The Man with A Basket (A9, U+1300B): overworked and underpaid, being weighed down by too much with nowhere to rest, burnout

The Man with Tied Arms (A13. U+1300F): traitorous, harmful behavior, needing to reconsider who one trusts

The Woman Suckling Child (B5, U+13054): nourishment, concern, taking care of others, looking to others for support

The G-d with Jackal Head (C6, U+13062): Anpu, abrupt ends, weighing one's decisions carefully, considering outcomes

The Goddess with Horned Sun-Disk (C9, U+13065): Hathor, feminine joy and liberation, sexual liberation, radical joy

The Goddess with Feather (C10, U+13066): Ma'at, order, balance, stress from disorganization, anxiety of disorder

The Horns (F13, U+1310B): new beginnings, clean slates, fresh new start

The Backbone and Spinal Cords (F40, U+1312B): length, strength, extension, long-lasting, welfare

The Bee (L2, U+131A4): Neith, sweetness, unification, productivity

The Stack (M35, U+131E4): abundance, growth, reaping the benefits of what you've sown, creating abundance

The Brazier (Q7, U+132AE): light, clarity, illumination

The Loaf on Mat (R4, U+132B5): offerings, boons, pleasing experiences, pardons, being pleased or happy, at peace, count your blessings, revel in the good things in your life

Two Bows Tied Vertically (R24, U+132CB): Neith, need for protection and order

The Ankh (S34, U+132F9): life, eternal life, nourishment, protection, the soul

The Sekhem Scepter (S42, U+13302): power and control, take control of your situation, work towards the end goal of what you need

The Bow (T10, U+13314): stretched and over extended, step back and re-evaluate priorities, what is most important?

The Divided Cartouche (V11, U+13378): division, exclusion, disconnecteness, loneliness

The Crossed Diagonal Sticks (Z10, U+133F5): breaks, division, overload, getting rid of what you must.

These are not all the hieroglyphs one could use if they chose to, in fact you have a whole plethora of hieroglyphs at your disposal! Research any meanings they might have had, if they resonate with you, and then add them to your practice if you so see fit :D

#divination #divining #scrying #fortune telling #hieroglyphs #hieroglyphics #egyptian #kemetic #kemeticism #neith #anubis #anpu #witch #witchblr #witchcraft #hathor #egyptian mythology #egyptian hieroglyphs #egyptian gods #ancient egypt

[stackthedeck]

Who’s Gwenpool’s favorite superhero? Has it been said?

It hasn't been explicitly stated as far as I'm aware, she's supposed to be a general super fan kinda reader which gives her an advantage over all characters because she knows everything, but we can make a couple guesses about who her favorites are

For one, we know it's not Deadpool, she actually doesn't read any of his comics which I think is a hilarious little detail

This is her room in the real world and we can see she's got a thor plushie and poster as well as a spider-man plushie and poster. There's also iron man, wolverine, hulk, and captain America stuff. Fair to say she's problem more of an avengers fan than an x stan

and then this is her room in 616, still pretty avengers heavy, but it's got heroes that she's met already (except Captain Marvel and She-Hulk). Gwen was reading a Miles comic in her universe so obviously, she liked him before, but I do think she picks her favorite heroes currently by how willing they are to hang out with her

She also just is so dedicated to getting Miles to hang out with her. Peter Parker was in unbelievable Gwenpool for one issue and Gwen didn't even try anything. But with Miles, she really wants to be on a team with him, he's a major player in her first solo series because she's always seeking him out

If she's shown reading a comic, it's always a spider-man comic the one she's reading here is Spider-Man double trouble with Peter and venom

Given this evidence I think it's safe to say she's biased towards Spider-Man, valuing both Miles and Peter just in different ways. This makes sense with her first attempt to get superpowers being her trying to get Peter to bite her so she gets Spider powers.

That being said...there's your favorite hero and then there's the hero that's your favorite because you've got a crush on them. It's pretty obvious that Gwen has no romantic feelings toward Miles...but there are other heroes who she's kinda weird around

There's a theory that Gwen has a crush on Jane Foster because of the whole wall shoving thing and how flustered she was. I personally like this idea and you know she's got a picture of her in her room

She is, unfortunately, a stucky shipper which like...girl you're a comics fan get it together. She also mentions wanting to see the winter soldier movie when in the pocket dimension working at the movie theatre so I think it's fair to assume she thinks they're hot

now you might be saying what about Reed Richards, she's canonically kissed him and to that I say, it was literally just a scheme to stay relevant. Check out Gwenpool strikes back #2 if you don't believe me (also check it out because it implies that Johnny isn't into women at all which... okay)

but my final answer is

Kamala Khan! Gwen literally calls her best girl and you know what Kamala is one of the only heroes that is consistently kind and compassionate with Gwen, often being the only one to explain the rules of this world and recognize her as perhaps mentally ill. I don't think Kamala was Gwen's favorite before entering the superhero world, but I think just being around her and the other heroes has shifted her perspective

#asks #tl dr it's probably one of the spider-men but I think her best friend is kamala #she also wears a power pack t shirt #she does imply that she's willing to date America chavez but I don't think that's a crush so much as a ploy to get a love interest #long post

[blue-mint-winter]

Star Trek Enterprise s1e11 Silent Enemy

Pretty exciting episode, the ship encounters an alien ship that refuses to communicate. Archer almost became self-aware that he's out there trying to contact aliens when he doesn't know much about his fellow humans he sees everyday.

I like how the problems with communication are a shared theme between plot A - encounters with the silent and hostile alien ship - and plot B - trying to find out Reed's favourite food for his suprise birthday dinner. It was easier to figure out the aliens (lol)

Hoshi's subtle attempts to complete the secret mission and find out Reed's favourite food ended in miscommunication. She sounded like she was flirting with him instead of asking him like a normal person. That was an awkward moment. But I'm glad she managed to succeed thanks to doctor Phlox. He seems to have better communication and social skills than her. Despite being a communications officer, Hoshi is a bit of an introvert.

Archer and Trip sounded in this episode like responsible officers. I almost couldn't believe what I was seeing.

Trip and Reed ordered the engineering crew to pull double shifts so they would install the phase cannons before the ship arrives at docks for the exact same reason. That situation didn't sit right with me. I guess they were worried about aliens attacking again, so there was necessity for better weapons to defend the ship, but the way they were reasoning was more like "let's do it because we like working" and "we're better than the crew working at docks, we want to show them up". Their subordinates had no way to refuse the extra work. Let's hope they got some more vacation time and the extra pay for those double shifts they were forced into.

Archer also had a moment of saving his pride when the aliens destroyed the amplifiers left in space, so he couldn't contact the Vulcans for help. I think safety of the ship and crew should be more important to him than his pride. And he even raised his voice at T'Pol like he thought she knew the attacking aliens and was hiding information from him. Man's a walking contradiction, walks around saying how he wants to get to know aliens better but is racist against friendly aliens he already knows (Vulcans).

#st #ent #my thoughts

[tgirldarkholme]

Roy Thomas, Arnold Heck, Gary Friedrich, Archie Goodwin: Carol may be NASA chief of security, but she hates the military higher-ups' guts and will always put what she believe is right over their orders. Gerry Conway, Chris Claremont: Carol's first love is writing. She published a tell-all exposé about her experiences in NASA which pissed off the military higher-ups quite a bit. She's an hardass investigative journalist who has no problem going against the government and military. She has massive untreated PTSD from when she was in the military before that. She is an ally of the anti-government mutant rights movement and she happily hacked the Pentagon's central database to wipe out all evidence of both her and the X-Men's existence. She strongly empathizes with Mar-Vell's own rebellion against his military. David Michelinie, Kurt Busiek: Carol enjoys casually threatening to maim obstructive bureaucrats because she actively wants her identity and past to remain a secret. Brian Reed, Brian Michael Bendis: Carol tried to be the middle ground between the underground resistance and the government in the first Civil War, and even then only because the pro-Registration side was led by a friend of her. She kept angsting about her best friend Jessica Jones and her daughter (Carol's goddaughter) being in Canada due to it and she was relieved when it ended (even if it was due to the Skrulls invading). During Norman Osborn's dictatorship she was one of the most radical members of the underground resistance due to her strong anti-imperialist convictions borne out of her being tortured when she was 18 by CIA regime change agents. Christos Gage: Her House of M reality counterpart (representing her greatest wish and which she spent her entire second stint as Ms. Marvel trying to emulate because she has all her memories) was a double agent inside S.H.I.E.L.D. for the mutant rights movement and a key figure in overthrowing the right-wing anti-mutant Nixon-Trask regime. Kelly Sue DeConnick:

(x)

I feel like this interview is somehow the galaxy-brained missing key to explaining everything that’s happened to Carol since becoming Captain Marvel. (cc @chadfarsight @danzafila)

#marvel #ms marvel #warbird #captain marvel #carol danvers #mar-vell #avengers #civil war #house of m #roy thomas #arnold heck #gary friedrich #archie goodwin #gerry conway #chris claremont #david michelinie #kurt busiek #brian reed #brian michael bendis #christos gage #kelly sue deconnick #anti kelly sue deconnick

[ask-anarky]

The Aftermath

The tangled mess that made up Detroit Steel was laid out in its hangar, dozens of engineers working on cutting out the damaged parts and salvaging the rest. The problem being there wasn’t much left that wasn’t warped by the impact, or a pile of molten slag. The decidedly not holographic form of Markus Barnes stood on the gantry, looking over this exceedingly expensive mess, with the pilot in a wheelchair to his side and covered in burns, while at his other side was the head of the engineering crew. “Thing wasn’t fast enough sir, those spiders ran circles around me, and the main gun sent me flying back too soon to be accurate.” “I didn’t ask you to be accurate, I asked you to fill the room with lead! How hard is it to gun down a room full of people with no way out of that room? Detroit steel cut down daemon lords and the masses of the undead in its first excursions, it practically won the battle of Lethe single handedly, how do half a dozen idiots in spandex bring it down?” “They’re faster than it?” Barnes seethed, his grip on the metal railing tightening before he took a breath, and turned to the engineer. “How do we make it faster?” The engineer was practically holding his clipboard up as a shield between him and his boss, who was clearly in a bad mood.

“Well, its motors are classed to move a lot faster, if we repaired it, and.. Replaced all the broken parts, we could set it to move much faster.” “Why didn’t we do that TO BEGIN WITH?” The engineer was practically bent over double, now actively blocking strings of spittle from Barnes as he turned a deeper shade of red. “Its- Its the cores sir, the abrahamic cores. They’re.. Well they run hot, they need a lot of ventilation or..” He pointed at the now frozen slag at the center of the wreckage. “We could fit one easily, but there’s no way the pilot would survive, and the cooling problem would just be even easier to exploit.” “So.. We need more power, and it can’t be our cores.” “That’s the long and short of it sir. If we could get our hands on one of the new Arc Reactors from-” Barnes ripped the clipboard out of his hands, and started smacking him with it, mostly on the helmet in a fairly pathetic display. “WE CANNOT! START BUYING PARTS! FROM STARK!”

The crew of engineers down on the shop floor stop their working, staring up at the man who signs their paychecks. “Alright sir, we get it, we'll work on some kind of solution. I’ll have some proposals on your desk by the end of the month.”

Quietly, almost unsettlingly, one of Hammers R&D Department crept up behind Markus, and tapped him on the shoulder, making him jump half a foot in the air. “Sir, if I may, you know I’ve been working on an alternate energy supply, one that would put Stark and the Abrahamic cores to bed permanently.” “Yes, yes I remember. I also remember telling you that you were blowing your entire teams budget in a tenth of the time the others were and to focus on something more affordable.” “Well.. I may have kept working, within my means of course. With your approval, and a little more funding, I may have a solution to my problem, and to yours.”

----------------------------------------------------------------------------- New York 2079

Obediah Stane’s old Monger Core was whirring with activity, the copper discs set around the room were spinning far beyond their capacity, making the walls of the room more like a blender than a surface. While the core was crackling with energy, arcs of electricity slamming into the walls, and ball lightning sparking to life for moments before dying. All the old monitoring equipment in the control deck was pulsing as the magnetic fields grew larger and larger, already breaching containment. Reed Richards and Susan Storm frantically tried to override the sequence while inside the core, Johnny Storm and Spider-Man were dodging the chaos as well as the bolts aimed straight at them. The charge at the center kept building and with swinging not an option, Spidey was forced to dodge blasts of super charged electricity with just his reflexes. As Electro was staggered by a blast of fire, Parker made a run for the console at the base of the core. “We can’t let you do this Electro! The magnetic field’s gonna destroy the earth, and I just put a down payment on an apartment!” Electro caught the next blast from Storm, warping the electro-magnetic field around the plasma, and sending it back at Storm who went flying into the blender. Parker was halfway through the shutdown sequence when his Spidey-sense went off, and he jumped to the side, the bolt of electricity coursing through the space he just occupied, and obliterating the console. “I wasn’t asking Spiderman! I’m about to be the biggest lightning bolt in history, then you’ll all pay! You, the blue wonders, and then everyone else!” Spidey shot a double bolt of webbing at him as he started to float towards the center of the core. “Really felt like you didn’t use the hyphen there Max! And you gotta have bigger goals, there’s a good chance this’ll kill you!” Electro just fried the bolts as they came near, cooking them so thoroughly they hit the ground with a clang as they landed, solid lumps of charcoal at this point. “You wanna see a light show Spiderman?” “Not feeling like no is an option here”

Peter jumped for Electro, just as his hand made contact with the contacts at the center of the core.

----------------------------------------------------------------------------

Electro screamed, but no noise came out, as his body was still coalescing. Tiny streaks of power made the air crackle, some of them sticking around, arcing to one another, some dissipating. More and more sparks, more strings of lightning, the spherical field started to have arcs cross its width.

“Give it more power” Barnes watched as the team upped the power poured in, it had cost a fortune to recreate most of the monger core, with some extra containment fields, but it was looking like it might not be a waste.

More arcs crisscrossed the field, forming a glowing, partially muscled skeleton, then a circulatory system, layers of glowing plasma and energy forming faux tissue, finally vocal chords. A distorted guttural scream through superheated air as Electro returned to life. “What- Where am I?!” 

He tried to send a bolt of power into the field, and was disappointed when it dissipated. “Mr Dillon, I’m Markus Barnes, CEO of HammerTec, and you have just come back from the dead.

“What do you mean back from the dead?” “Reed Richards threw the magnetic fields into overdrive, the only thing he could do with you burning out the controls was turn it up, and change the frequency. You were ripped apart by a thousand different overlapping magnetic fields. There wasn’t anything left of you.” Eletro clutched his head, memories of agony flashing through his head. He flared out his powers, energy crackling through the field and again, doing nothing.

“Keep going Mr Dillon, we’ve set up what could be the world's biggest power sink, you’re certainly going to keep the lights on for a long while!” Barnes patted the lead scientist on the back.

“You see, I need a power supply for my mech, a new one that won’t superheat it, and a pilot that can survive inside. It seems like you’re a two in one deal. And in return, you get to live! I’d take the deal if I were you.” Electro chuckled.

“You pumped a lot of power into me, yknow that? Needed a whole lot to pull myself together right?” “Right you are, Mr Dillon, but as I said, that field is connected to a sink, it doesn’t matter how much you pump in, it can take it.”

“Yeah, and so can I.” Electro slammed his palms onto the field, drawing in more and more power. “Trip the breakers! Disconnect the field!” One of the skeleton crew working on this project ran to the fuse terminal, flipping the switches over to disconnect the sink. Electro grunted, and the switches flicked back over. The labcoat went to switch it back over and the terminal instantly started to glow. Their skin around their hands started to blister and burn, and the sound of their own muscles snapping bones could be heard by the whole crew who grimaced.

“I’mma take the juice back if that’s okay with you Mr Barnes. And the name isn’t Max Dillon, it's Electro.” The spherical field started to glow so bright that the onlookers had to avert their eyes, most of them running for the exits. Markus Barnes just looked on hopelessly as the field emitters gave up the ghost at the sheer voltage running through them.

Electro floated above the scorched podium, electricity arcing from limb to limb.

“You got a lot more juice nowadays huh? I like that..” He dropped down to just above the floor in front of Barnes, small sparks flickering from his feet to the ground.

“I gotta thank you for bringing me back HammerTec, I’m gonna leave now but, I do owe you one. So I’m not gonna cook you, this time.” He reached up, and tapped Barnes at the center of his chest, and he dropped like a stone.

“Clear.”

#Anarky Writes

[cypriathus]

Here is the first deity that I'll be sharing who's based off of real life mythology!

Hekanotius Trivazolenus is a faithful protector and a lover of solitude that expects people to act independently. There are rare, yet random instances where she comes off as insufferable, showing unbearable arrogance and conceit. She shows slightly noticeable sadistic tendencies, acting merciless and domineering towards those who mistreat virgins and children and have hubris. She’s relatively amoral, making little distinction between helping good and cruel mages. She’s highly respected amongst Æylphitus, but tends to be misunderstood by humans and most Ufrajozlens. She possesses a mysterious aura, impressive intelligence, general benevolence, and extreme cunningness. Hekanotius strongly values her independence and her natural problem-solving skills, making sense of things from a rational perspective. She personally believes that people are purely motivated by self-interest and learning how to endure hardship without showing emotion is the key to calmness. She enjoys indulging herself on an intellectual level with people who pique her curiosity, and she’s prudently watchful for anything that might go wrong. In response to unfortunate situations and people who are suffering, she feels genuine concern and an understandable motivation to help them.

She’s a 13 ft (396.24 cm) three-headed woman that has a pear-shaped ectomorphic body type with four small breasts, upper arms that carry some of her weight, and prominent thighs. She possesses deathly pale skin, partially pointed ears, rose of ultramarine eyes with blue and gold tapetum lucidum, and soft blossom lips. Her glossy black hair reaches a bit over the middle of her lower back and it has slight curls halfway through. Hekanotius has golden freckles on her two right and left faces, neck, hands, lower legs, and feet, and black claws and talons. Her front head wears a pristine ivory mask that has two black eyes, a forehead vivid violet eye with a milano red vertical pupil, emotionless blood red lips, and a gilt-brass halo disc that has a crescent on top. There are two straight, forward-facing horns that protrude from each side of the forehead and two curved horns that face upwards and are above where the ears should be placed. Her mask has saffron markings that consist of inwards-facing, slightly curving spikes underneath her black eyes. In the middle of her mask is a cross that resembles a sword with the arm being in the shape of a fleur-de-lis and a semi-circular hilt. She wears bright red sandals with a cork sole, consisting of a strap between the big toe and second toe and another around the ankle. She wears a luxurious, rippling bossanova peplos with the width gathered at the side that are used as sleeves and a starry himation of duke blue with golden constellations. These constellations include Centaurus, Delphinus, Ophiuchus, Virgo, Libra, Canis Major, Lyra, Draco, and Cygnus. There is a golden girdle encircling Hekanotius’ waist with a red Dalmatian jasper triple moon buckle. She’s surrounded by a glowing mantis green aura, and she carries two reed torches tipped with blue flames, an obsidian key, and a serpentine dagger.

She can manipulate nocturnal animals, magic, spiritual boundaries, time, Pnemazokhus, cemeteries, birth, sexual reproduction, crossroads, gates to cities, domestic doorways, tunnels, the moon, darkness, shadows, dusk, the night sky, falling stars, and destructive energy. She’s able to shapeshift into dogs, polecats, lions, snakes, frogs, horses, quails, and any nocturnal animal, and telepathically communicate with sentient beings. As a result of her dimensional travelling, she’s metaphysically allowed to traverse to Nifjazroghetus on an annual basis. She can create double gates made from shadows and spiritual essence with the strophalos of shimmering moon dust in the centre, allowing her to access her dedicated grooves and temples. Due to the connection to Hekanotius’ biological parents, she has inherited their lordship over the skies, earth, and sea. In order to perceive the future, she’s able to conduct nighttime divinations through oneiromancy, astrology, and necromancy. She can turn herself and other individuals invisible from potential threats, renew her virginity, and use the mist to create illusions. She’s capable of creating servants who are flaming-haired women with two mismatched legs, one of copper and the other is that of a donkey. These servants or “Empousai” can take on different forms to frighten people and lure men to their beds in order to feast on their flesh and blood. She’s eternally youthful and immune to coldness, overheating, tiredness, diseases, viruses, parasites, disorders, and illnesses.

FAMILY:

Unnamed destruction god or “Perses” (father)

Unnamed star and dream goddess or “Asteria” (mother)

Hepnazomus (lover)

Älkechirnobus Vlewjaktzobius Z’Gloktjebhuxisa (husband)

Iajorszhun Blemafronus (son)

Unnamed granddaughter

Woskejurda (descendent)

Æbrithomus Teracholdius (descendent)

Penamozkithus (descendent)

Hrasvelgzon (descendent)

Kethanomius (descendent)

Zaghetrokius Hrimagoltzen Rimebzolah (descendent)

Gulvakombe (descendent)

ALIASES/NICKNAMES:

Hecate

The Gracious-Minded

The Rejoicing In Deer

The Blood-Drinker

The Heart-Eater

The Radiant-Haired

Devourer of the Prematurely Dead

She Who Meets

Spinner of Webs

The Star-Walker

She of Immortal Fame

Torch-bearer

She Without Borders

The Dominating Force

The Ferocious-Aspected

Horse-speaker

Tomb-disturber

Grave-robber

Bender of Proud Necks

Saffron-cloaked

Leader of Howling Dogs

Child’s Nurse

The Hater of Vice

The Shrill-Screamer

The She-Monster

The Night-Wanderer

The Mountain-Roamer

Smiter of the Light

The Many-Named

She Who Goes Down Before All

She Who Bursts Forth From The Earth

Door-breaker

She Who Roars Like A Beast

She Who Is Encircled By Serpents

She of Fiery Counsel

Labourer of the Moon

Spreader of Madness

Mistress of Corpses

The Wolf-Formed

Nourisher of Life

Ruin-bringer

Ruddy-footed

FUN FACTS/EXTRA INFORMATION:

She’s polyamorous and heteroflexible

She’s often accompanied by a friendly-looking female black dog who was originally a queen, and a deceitful and lascivious polecat that used to be a sorceress. She’s also followed by two male African lions, three horned vipers, four female white-tailed deers, five horses, Pnemazokhus, and torch-bearing nymphs.

In her artistic depictions, she’s often shown as having four heads and holding a pair of torches.

Her closest friends are Hadeszloni, Perszuthomina, Demathonszur, Kirczeloba, Medajzon, Tirchelomanus, and Phuntemosza.

As an Æylphitus, the different parts of her name have special meanings: Hekanotius means “worker from afar” and Trivazolenus means “three ways”.

Her sacred animals are the dog, lion, polecat, snake, frog, horse, and quail.

Her sacred plants are the henna, wolfsbane, and willow tree.

Her sacred stones are Dalmatian jasper, spessartite garnet, blue alexandrite, smoky topaz, anorthosite, larvikite, and indicolite.

Ghosts, grimoires, objects of magic, paired flaming torches, triple moon, a key, a dagger, and the crossroads are her sacred symbols.

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