#Agent Grasshopper

[plasticmantalk]

@/SpiderKnightART on Twitter posted an open document where folks could feel free to post pitches/ideas for what they described as “a DC Comics equivalent to Marvel’s Ultimate Universe”. My interest was piqued, so I submitted an idea! I took what most folks think when they hear “Ultimate U”*, ie playing with characters, setting, tone, etc, and made a Plastic Man premise with it, covering the first 10-12 issues.

*Minus, of course, the unsavory bits that are messed up.

So, without further ado, I present: Ultimate Plastic Man!

Thug Patrick “Patch” O’Brian has spent the entirety of his young life being miserable and aimless, hoping to find purpose, especially after he’s orphaned. In his latest prison stint, Eel volunteers for an experiment funded by the Ryder Corporation, searching for immortality in many different ways, a “throw spaghetti at the wall to see what sticks” type of approach. Patch is injected with something called only “The Crawford Chemical”, and then has all his bones broke at once, hoping for a mutative reaction.

Well, it succeeds. The Crawford Chemical works. But works too well, and transforms the young man into a pliable freak. He escapes from Ryder Corp with new powers, but lacking tight grip on reality, Patch goes on the lam. While hiding, he realizes that his body is now capable of elasticity, shape shifting, and even density control, all of which he’ll be able to master the longer he lives… which now seems like it’ll be a looooooong time.

A mysterious new friend, that only talks to him and who may or may not be real, convinces Patch to use these new “gifts” to right his wrongs. He starts with those he’s directly affected, which grows into an expanding list of people asking for favors and help. Throughout this time, Patch becomes a local hero to the small city of Mammoth, Illinois, even taking up the new name Plastic Man.

However Ryder Corp has different plans, and begins to send their failed, now-dying other prisoner experiments after “Plas”, in hopes that securing him will ensure their survival. Among them are freaks like Lady Granite, Doctor Forklift, The Clam, Half-Ape, and Thrilla. With all of these super freaks after our pliable pal, and even the US government putting an close eye on him, will Plastic Man be able to make it? Or will he be made into silly putty?

Ultimate Plastic Man would be a mix, story and tone wise, of the superhero adventure story, slapstick comedies, anti-corporate conspiracy, Don Quixote, My Name Is Earl, and The Toxic Avenger.

This isn’t what I’d do if I got the chance to pitch for Plas in the main DCU, a reboot, a movie or tv series, or even an Earth One story (despite the similarities to UU), this is just what I’d go for with an Ultimate Universe take on Plas.

What do you think?

#plastic man #dc comics #eel o'brian #woozy winks #ultimate universe #alternate take #elseworlds #ultimate Plastic Man #slight body horror #violence #characters included here are Plas an old lady an fbi/NBI agent you may recognize halluctionation woozy winks and the Grasshopper

[chimichangasanddoorknobs]

All hands are guns hands if you’re not a douche about it

Deadpool Volume 3 #22  

#deadpool #marvel comics #trapster #grasshopper #agent adsit #s.h.i.e.l.d.

[rainbowchaox]

hi rainbowwww

SPACE AU QUESTIONS

-Phil can't speak english right? (I think you said this at one point but I cannot remember for the life of me if I just made this up)

so communication would be through bug noises

would that be like crickets and grasshoppers making noises or like clicks just coming out of Phil's mouth (a different language of sorts rather than a completely different way of communicating)

-BUGZA he's got a scorpion-like tail. Is there any cure to the venom?

-Can Phil use his wings to fly or are they more for attracting a mate (like a moth's wings are pretty and all patterned to scare off predators, blend into the environment, but also to attract a mate (my friend has a hyper fixation on moths lmao))

-I like to imagine that bugza has eyes that blink sideways so the eyes lids blink left to right rather than up and down idk random tidbit I thought I'd add

-Missa eats too many poisonous plants and bugza has to nurse him back to health this is cannon to me <3

-Are chayanne and tallulah in this au perchance (i love my lil egg children lmao)

1. Phil does eventually learn to speak English as Vitari do have vocal cords. Vocally they make like cicada like screams. Trills and Clicks as well. Their wings also vibrate and make noises (like a cricket rubbing the legs together or bee buzzing). Vitari have a full language it’s just full of bug like noises and vocalizations.

2. Vitari do have venom in its tail. And said venom can be used to make an anti venom. Though usually the venom acts as paralyzing agent than actual like painful venom.

3. Phil and Vitari can fly but do use their wings to show off for courting purposes. But do make their wings pretty to attract prospective mates (Phil with his dark and iridescent green wings are esspeically pretty)

4. I’m taking that as canon. Let him be full creature.

5. Literally Canon. Missa is literally Laios (Delicious in Dungeon reference) and will eat everything despite common sense saying DONT EAT THE COLORFUL MUSHROOM or MAYBE DONT EAT RANDOM ALIEN ANIMALS.

6. Yes Tallulah and Chayanne are Vitari Hatchlings. Vitari have like an adoption like culture. The eggs sorta get chosen by whatever Vitari when said Vitari wants to adopt. Phil chose to hatch two eggs and those are Tallulah and Chayanne.

#qsmp #pissa #qsmp pissa #death family #space au

[wtfgaylittlezooid]

Been seeing a lot of ship charts for AvA and decided to do a relationship chart instead for the Bug Fables AU! I thought it would be fun since I think about the AU all the time and I don't tend to do a lot of ship content for this fandom. That, and it can act as a quick glance to all the characters and their designs.

A few notes: Some of these designs are placeholders or WIPs, I'll update this as I finish up designs. Sprout is the Piglin Child, Entity is the Lucky Block Entity, Maroon is the Corn Dog Guy.

Herobrine, Sprout, Ochre, Maroon, and Ginger are designed by @tatos-stick-pile

And since mostly everyone is shown here, all the species will be under the cut! :D

Alan: Deadlander Omega Second: Tree Bumblebee Chosen: Bald-Faced Hornet Dark: Black and Red Mason Wasp Victim: Cordyceps fungus in a Locust host

Blue: Blue Ghost Firefly Yellow: Caddisfly Red: Convergent Ladybug Green: Grasshopper

Agent: Dragonfly Ballista: Bombardier Beetle Hazard: Oriental Cockroach Primal: Budwing Mantis

Purple: Mothfly / False Citizen King: Violin Mantis Gold: Mantis Nymph Navy: Hierodulas Mantis Orchid: Orchid Mantis Maroon: Ruby Tiger Moth Ochre: Scalloped Oak Moth Ginger: Ruby Tiger Caterpillar

Herobrine: Golden Orb Weaver Spider Spider: Tarantula Skeleton: Deathstalker Scorpion Endie: Water Strider

Sprout / Piglin Kid: Leafbug Entity / Lucky Block: Haunted Cloak / Watcher Titan Ravagers: Amazonian Giant Centipede Reuben: Chomper

#anim vs bf au #THIS TOOK. SO LONG #LAWD #animator vs animation #ava #animation vs minecraft #avm #im not tagging all this #alan becker #my art #doodles

[cryingoflot49]

Book Review

The Man In the High Castle by Philip K. Dick

In Philip K. Dick’s The Man In rhe High Castle, Nabusuke Tagomi is a Japanese businessman in San Francisco whose consciousness has been changed by the events leading up to a day when he buys a piece of jewelry from an antique store. After contemplating his life while sitting in a park, he walks to the road to hire a pedecab. He is unable to see one even though other people can see them in abundance. He also notices a concrete highway ramp that he has never seen before; when he asks a stranger about it, the man explains that everybody has hated it for a long time because it is so ugly. Tagomi suddenly becomes aware of something that everybody else had known about. But there is nothing wrong with Tagomi. He is like everyone else in that we don’t see everything that is objectively present to us because we aren’t making a conscious effort to see everything. Our perceptions of the objective world come to us in pieces and fragments. We see things that others don’t and they see things that we don’t. Thus this novel poses the question of how we can form a solid moral foundation to guide our actions when our perceptions of reality are haphazard at best.

The story is an alternative history taking place after World War II, examining what American would be like if Germany and Japan had won the war. The USA has been divided into four new countries. The West Coast is part of Japan, the Northeast is part of Nazi Germany, the middle states are what is left of America, and the Southeast is left to rot as a neo-Confederate backwater. Racist hierarchies have been ratified into law and the strictly hierarchical Japanese culture has become the norm on the West coast.

Like Mr. Kurtz in Heart of Darkness, The Man In the High Castle, Hawthorne Abendsen, does not appear until the end. He is the author of a book called The Grasshopper Lies Heavy which is an alternative account of World War II in which he describes what would have happened if America had won the war. So, yes, Philip K. Dick wrote an alternative history novel that revolves around a fictional alternative history novel within the plot. This book is all the rage because most people are familiar with it whether they have read it or not. The irony is that the characters who haven’t read it think they know what happens in the book and they are invariably wrong. This is a brilliant framing device that works on the premise that readers will know how World War II ended before reading Dick’s novel. It takes your mind off into several directions at once and then demands that the reader sort out the mess. This is not literature for shallow people who like being spoonfed entertainment.

But getting back to Mr. Tagomi, the businessman acts as a liaison between two secrets agents, one a Japanese official and the other a German working for the anti-Nazi resistance who has learned that the Nazis have plans to betray their Japanese allies in a catastrophic way. The Nazis are on to the German agent and send some thugs out to kill him in the presence of Tagomi.

The Nazis are also on to a craftsman and businessman named Frank Frink. He runs a fledgling jewelry business with a partner and it is the products they make and sell that act as a link between most of the major characters in the novel. The Nazis want to execute Frink because they think he is an enemy of the state and part of a Jewish plot to dominate the world. In reality, Frink just wants to run a successful business so he can impress his ex-wife and get her to come back to him.

Thus the plot threads are individually easy to follow, but there isn’t one thread that stands out above all the others so saying that there is a plot supported by subplots is a mischaracterization. Even though all the story lines are clearly articulated and the characters mostly cross paths with each other, it is the equal weighting of all the elements that makes the book a bit frustrating to read.

So Frink passes through the life of a store owner named Childan, a dealer in Americana and antiques. Frink comes into the store to alert Childan that some pistols he has in stock are not authentic relics from the Civil War, but are, in fact, forgeries manufactured by a company that Frink once worked for. Frink, the honest businessman, appears to be motivated to sabotage the counterfeit market. Later Childan buys a stock of Frink’s jewelry and sells a uniquely shaped pin to Mr. Tagomi, the same pin that the Japanese man meditates on in the park when his life gets disrupted. Frink’s jewelry is another clever narrative device as the introduction of his products into the collectibles market causes everyone who comes into contact with them to re-evaluate their lives.

Childan carries two important philosophical themes in the narrative. One confronts the meaning of monetary values as well as the value of objects in geenral and the other examines the subjective moral ambiguity a person faces when thrown into an existentially uncomfortable position. Childan and Tagomi play off of each other because they both experience a crisis in their subjective orientation to the world. The former of Childan’s two themes happens when he learns about the counterfeit guns in his store. If a customer believes that a pistol is an authentic artifact from the Civil War, does it matter if that is not the reality? And why would a similar gun made at the same time but not used in the Civil War be of lesser value? The truth is that the value of the item is in the mind of whoever owns it or wants it. The guns have no inherent value of their own and that estimation of their value may be based on illusion, fantasy, lies, or ignorance. So how is it possible to form a moral judgment on how to sell an item when its valuation is based on an inaccurate perception of what it truly is? Philip K. Dick poses this question without answering it.

The latter dilemma involving Childan addresses the issue of maintaining a sense of self-worth in a humiliating situation. When Childan goes to visit some clients, a Japanese couple who are enamored with Americana, he feels as though their attempts to embrace American culture are superficial and patronizing. Even worse, they latch onto aspects of American culture that he despises like jazz. Childan’s problem is that, being American means having lost the war to Japan and Germany so Childan feels ashamed of some things that are authentically unique to America, especially in regards to people who aren’t white. Instead he admires German classical music and opera in an attempt to identify with the Nazis who defeated America. He sees them as being culturally superior because of their victory. The problem isn’t that Childan has any inhrent sympathy for fascism or Nazism; since he lives on the west coast and is subjected to the rigid hierarchies of Japan that have been imposed on California, a small business owner like himself is relegated to a mid-level social status with the wealthier and more powerful Japanese people over him. Because of this he feels humiliated after losing the status he held before the war. In an attempt to compensate for his humiliation, he embraces the cause of fascism in an act of bad faith. He suffers from the dilemma of finding refuge in any available port during a storm. That post just happens to be the Germans. In this way, Dick isn’t justifying Nazism. He is explaining why a confused individual might embrace it under uncomfortable circumstances like during the visit he makes to his Japanese customers’ apartment.

Then Childan agrees to sell Frink and his partner’s jewelry on commission from his store. As the jewelry begins to circulate among the other characters in the book, their perceptions of reality begin to change.

Finally, Frink’s wife Julianna goes on a trip through Colorado to find Abendsen, the author of The Grasshopper Lies Heavy. Simply put, she is on a mission to alert him because she learns the Nazis have hatched a plot to assassinate him. The Nazis in this book are reckless, treacherous backstabbers on a path to self-destruction and possibly the annihilation of the world in their quest for power.

One final narrative device worth considering is the presence of the I Ching, the ancient Taoist book of vaguely worded verses that act as an oracle for all the characters in the story. In a world characterized by uncertainty and unpredictability, they turn to it as a means of guidance. Really it acts as a literary chorus to move the plot along like the witches in Macbeth. It also serves as an explanatory device when there is nothing better to rely on which is a weakness in this book. For example, when Julianna meets up with Abendsen, they consult the I Ching to answer a question of importance to the story. They receive an answer but we are expected to accept it as true because the oracle says it us true and no further explanation is given. It seems that Dick had no further explanation to offer so he just used the I Ching as a means of filling in the gap, rendering the meaning of its answer pointless. This is a form of narrative cheating and something that makes the ending almost irrelevant.

In the end, for a novel with so much to unpack and so many significant ideas, it could have been better. The pacing is slow and laborious. The characters all have flat affects. The plot lines become tangled in ways that make the result look like the end of a frayed rope rather than a cohesive work of writing. The pieces of the story just don’t hang together very well. It is an awkward book written by a young writer whose genius would come out in his later works of fiction.

The Man In the High Castle is certainly worth reading. It presents the abstract concept of what it means to live in a world where morality can never be certain since it based on faulty perceptions of reality. All the main characters exemplify this problem in the way they make choices while navigating through the world. In the end, there is no solution to this problem of certainty other than doing what they think is right even though they risk making costly mistakes in the end. It isn’t one of Philip K. Dick’s best works, but it is still good enough to read at least once. Just be patient as you read.

#book reviews #philip k dick #novels #fiction #vintage books #vintage paperbacks

[brightgnosis]

Pretty sure I'm going to loose my White and Purple Sages. RIP. Damned Grasshoppers won't stop eating my garden! And they've already chewed through half of my brand new Basil replants, too.

Supposedly they "dislike Sage" and yet I can't seem to keep them away from that exact part of my Garden. I'm not having issues with them literally anywhere else except for around my Lemon Balm, Basil, Sage, and Mullein- and out of that, they've decimated everything but the Genovese Basil and the Lemon Balm (and out of the Sages, the only ones they haven't touched are the Garden and Austrian Sages) ... Prolly because the two grow too fast compared to the others.

I swear I'm going to have to spray Neem every other day to keep the shit heads off the area, or something. Which I really don't want to do because that shit burns and I have to do it at very particular times or I'll hurt the plants more than I help the problem. But it's either that or kill the Grasshopper population, and I'd really rather not have to resort to getting an outright bacterial agent if I can help it.

I also need to re-plant both my Cilantro and my Parsley now, because both of them have officially bolted on me and I just can't get them to stop this season. But it’s too early in the season for this nonsense!

Also: Temperate Tulsi spicy. Love it.

#Personal #Gardening #Garden 2023 #2023 #Verderer #Domestic Witch #Domestic Witchcraft #Green Witch #Green Witchcraft #Cottage Witch #Cottage Witchcraft

[docgold13]

365 Marvel Comics Paper Cut-Out SuperHeroes - One Hero, Every Day, All Year…

September 24th - Mister Immortal 

When Craig Hollis was just a child he had an imaginary friend name D’urg who would often visit him.  This friend told Craig that he could never die, that the youngster was immortal.  This led young Craig taking numerous, highly dangerous risks.  Later in life, Craig discovered that this friend was not imaginary at all but was rather a specter of death and agent of oblivion known as ‘Deathurge.’  This entity had befriended Craig because he was like him.  Craig was born cursed with eternal life, made this way by Oblivion so that he could witness the end of time and through his experiences potentially provide answers about the meaning of existence.  

As Craig grew older he found that was indeed immortal; he could not die nor could he be injured and even if his entire form was disintegrated it would immediately re-manifest.  Around his mid-twenties, Craig stopped physically aging.  The prospect of an eternal life watching everyone he cares about age and die drove Craig into a deep depression.  After years spent trying to drown his sorrows in alcohol, Craig decided to try to do something productive with his immortality.  As such he placed an advertisement in the local newspaper seeking out costumed adventurers.  This ultimately led to the formation of the Great Lakes branch of The Avengers.  

Now calling himself ‘Mr. Immortal,’ the team Craig put together consisted of the Mutant heroes, Flatman, Big Bertha and Doorman along with the mysterious pterodactyl-like woman, Dinah Soar.  Squirrel Girl and The Grasshopper would also join the squad later on.

A version of Mr. Immortal features in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, appearing in the Disney+ series, She-Hulk: Attorney at Law and portrayed by actor, David Pasquesi.  The hero first appeared in West Coast Avengers Vol. 2 #46 (1989).

#365 Marvel Comics Heroes #Mr. Immortal #Great Lakes Avengers #she hulk: attorney at law #David Pasquesi #cut-out #paper art

[cina-full-moon-xanadium]

Kamen Rider J is a solid Tokusatsu movie, but I’ve never been quite sure on it as a Kamen Rider story?

I like it, to be sure -- and I found myself a lot more interested in everything it had to offer on this rewatch. But especially coming off of Shin and ZO’s retellings of the core Kamen Rider story, J as a movie seems to avoid the usual tropes as much as it possibly can; and that’s especially evident that I’ve now seen all of Showa Kamen Rider. Rather than a story about a man consigned to a tragic battle after being changed by evil or escaping evil, altered against his will; J is a miracle -- a power granted to our protagonist for his kind heart by agents of nature and the planet itself. For sure, Kouji Segawa straight up dies and has surgery done on him to bring him back to life, but there’s no loss or darker side involved with becoming J that usually marks a Kamen Rider story; certainly not at this point in time. What we’re left with is a very general Tokusatsu hero story about a nature-empowered superhero fighting to rescue a child and save the world from evil invaders; just he happens to be called Kamen Rider, looks like a grasshopper and has a transformation belt and motorbike. That’s like two out of four for this actor’s previous Tokusatsu role though, so y’know.

It’s just very difficult for me to talk about this movie, because often when I dig into an Ishinomori story now - especially a Kamen Rider one - there’s certain story elements you learn to look for and are kind of surprised when at least one of them isn’t there. No cross of fire, no real tragedy, no rise of fascism; I want to talk about this as a Kamen Rider story but I really can’t, because it just doesn’t feel like one, even next to the likes of Amazon and RX. If I can get at absolutely anything thematically, it’s the embracing of Kamen Rider as a being of nature; leaning into it even more after ZO; but it’s difficult to fully realise -- there’s certainly lip service paid to environmentalism in this movie, but it’s hardly like J’s extraterrestial enemies represent pollution or the like in any meaningful way. J is a warrior of the planet, and that’s clear in his captivating multiple green tones on his body and his receiving of miracles from the Earth... but I don’t think it all comes together in the way it should.

What I can talk about instead, then, is simply what the movie presents us with - and what most notably stands out is, just like the previous movies; a beautiful array of set design and effects. Compared to the darker tones of Shin and ZO though, this is much more wondrous; as if you’re expecting Spielberg to pop up as the Director credit -- so many nice nature shots contrasted with the glaring reds and blacks of the Fog Mother ship interior; which are all so intricate and convincing that you forget momentarily it isn’t real! That convincing nature continues onto the miniature set design inhabited by the giant Fog Mother and J fight at the end, with so many little touches like the concrete crushing beneath J’s feet, the moving treads and many machinery of Fog Mother; just the way everything is destroyed around them and covered by mist, even the final Rider Jump and Kick of J is... it’s magical, and I dare call it one of the best giant fights I’ve ever seen in Tokusatsu. It deserves to be watched just for that.

That’s it, then! I think J has a lot of interesting things to offer, but ultimately isn’t as fully realised as Shin and ZO are. Those are movies that know exactly what they want to do and achieve them to varying degrees of success, but J is unfortunately a little more middling with how many concepts it’s caught between and what exactly they were trying to do with it. I’d still recommend a watch for one of the most gorgeous Kamen Rider movies out there if nothing else.

#Ride through the 90s

[oneanimalpictureaday]

Mylabris quadripunctata, blister beetle, from Portugal.

Facts from the Blister Beetle wiki: Blister beetles are hypermetamorphic, going through several larval stages, the first of which is typically a mobile triungulin. The larvae are insectivorous, mainly attacking bees, though a few feed on grasshopper eggs. While sometimes considered parasitoids, in general, the meloid larva apparently consumes the immature host along with its provisions, and can often survive on the provisions alone; thus it is not an obligatory parasitoid, but rather a facultative parasitoid, or simply a kleptoparasite. The adults sometimes feed on flowers and leaves of plants of such diverse families as the Amaranthaceae, Asteraceae, Fabaceae, and Solanaceae. Cantharidin, a poisonous chemical that causes blistering of the skin, is secreted as a defensive agent. It is used medically to remove warts[1] and is collected for this purpose from species of the genera Mylabris and Lytta, especially Lytta vesicatoria, better known as "Spanish fly".Toxicity

#insects #blister beetle #Mylabris quadripunctata #beetle

[candispice]

"Since the fifties, the American public has heard a great deal about background radiation in cities such as Denver, though background radiation has little to do with the hazards of ingesting fission products.  In the United States, the public also heard that nuclear power is 'green.'  In the sixties, nuclear power saved fish that might have perish in hydroelectric dams.  In the 21st century, nuclear power promises a carbon-free future.  Soon after the Fukushima catastrophe, public relations agents dusted off a five-year-old report on the dangers of the coal industry.  It was a maneuver that had been seen before:  The Atomic Energy Commission first trumpeted the hazards of coal mining in the mind-sixties.  In the decades before the Fukushima disaster, the Japanese government and corporate proponents of nuclear power censored the Chernobyl disaster from textbooks and spent millions on advertising an image of nuclear safety.  Meanwhile, Japanese power companies glossed over accidents, doctored safety reports, and failed to purchase emergency equipment for fear of alerting workers of the danger of the industry.

Another important way to neutralize the plutonium disasters has been to naturalize them.  In the last decade, officials have repurposed the Hanford, Maiak, and Chernobyl territories as wildlife preserves.  The Chernobyl zone, open to tourism, features a breathtakingly beautiful terrain of forest, lakes, and streams.  Journalists and scientists describe it as teeming with wildlife.  Tim Mousseau, an evolutionary biologist, however, tracked birds in the Chernobyl zone and found a zone  of ecological calamity.  Even in areas of moderate contamination, 18 percent of the birds he followed had deformities; 40 percent of male barn swallows were sterile, and the total number of swallows was depressed by 66 percent.  Mousseau could not find in the hot spots bumblebees, butterflies, spiders, or grasshoppers.  Whole zones in the Zone are dead.  In eastern Washington, the territory around the Hanford Reservation is promoted as the last stand of original shrub-sage habitat in the Colombia Basin, yet periodically deer and rabbits wander from the preserve and leave radioactive droppings on Richland's lawns.  In the eighties, the Hanford Reach gained recognition as the last free-flowing stretch of the Colombia River.  Watching the river's water level rise and fall with demands for electricity in Portland while measuring the radioactivity of Mulberry tree on the graded gravel banks of the Colombia makes calling the Hanford segment 'wild' a reach indeed.

Wine production in the Colombia River's region's latest diversification project.  Tourists are encouraged to tour tasting rooms located in a large arc around the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, which figures as an unnamed area on the vineyard tour map.  As I tasted a few wines, I mentioned to a vintner that a lot of Wanapam Indians down the road are sick with cancers, and that a Centers for Disease Control study found local Indians had a one in fifty chance of getting cancer, in part because of there traditional diet of Colombia River fish.  If the study is correct, I asked, how did she feel about growing wine grapes so near the mothballed plutonium plant?"

-- Kate Brown, Plutopia

#Wanapam #nuclear #power #quote #book #health #cancer #environment #environmental racism #wine

[twistedxlights]

[kristen stewart — 32 — she/her] Introducing DANNY ELLIOT. Word on the street is they are a FUNERAL DIRECTOR, having been around for FIFTEEN YEARS. Though they are NIHILISTIC and MORBID, they can also be RELIABLE and AFFABLE. In the chaos of New York City, they’re sure to fit right in.

&. BASICS

full name: danny llyr elliot

nicknames: dan, elliot, mouse (jack malkovich only)

age / D.O.B.: 32 / 04.12.1990

hometown: los angeles, california

gender, pronouns, sexuality: cisfemale, she/her, pansexual

&. MORE BASIC INFO

job position: funeral director

education: BS in chemistry from columbia, MSc in stem cell engineering for regenerative medicine from the university of glasgow

relationship status: single

children: n/a

languages: english, some french

transportation: a black mini cooper with red racing stripes

tattoos: a splattering of 6 tattoos across both arms, including the words “one more time with feeling”

scars: a cut on her right hip from slipping on a rock during a shoot

&. PERSONALITY

zodiac sign: aries

mbti: intp

likes: photography, science, alt-rock bands, thrift shops

dislikes: hot sauce (not to be confused with buffalo sauce), crickets

bad habits: chewing pen caps

secret talent: her grandmother used to be a harp instructor and taught her how to play growing up. she’s only had the chance to show it off once, but it’s a neat party trick

fears: corpses**, grasshoppers

five + traits: reliable, affable, humorous, incisive, breezy

five - traits: nihilistic, morbid, irreverent, deceptive, perfectionistic

&. BACKGROUND

danny elliot spent the first seventeen years of her life split between worlds. primarily living with her mother in la brea, weekends consisted of auditions and photo shoots. her mother, a talent agent, knew the ins and outs of the business and just the right doors to knock on; how she ever ended up nearly marrying an embalmer is beyond danny. but they made it work, failed engagement and all, and spent the winter holidays together as a family. danny would fly out after thanksgiving and stay through new year’s with vivian arriving two days before christmas and leaving the next day. if life in the golden state was packed with schedules and obligations, the big apple was the opposite: lazy weekends and afternoons spent wandering central park. in his free time, her father would mentor her in biology and show dan around the city's various museums. so, when she got accepted at columbia, it was an easy decision to make the move across the country.

new york’s market opened a new chapter of possibilities for danny's modeling career, and she did pursue it with her mother’s help, though it was all just a means to an end. years of helping around the mortuary had fostered a love of science that only grew stronger with each class she took. in her junior year, danny took a forensics course, sparked by a case her father briefly mentioned over dinner. she was fascinated by the way tissue decomposition aided in determining the time of death, how cells wither when deprived of oxygen. how the only way to stop the process was for the heart to resume beating.

the following year, she signed on to a forensics lab, introducing her to its connection with stem cells and resulting in an overseas move to pursue a master's degree. modeling took a backseat, not that she gave it much thought by that point, and every waking moment became spent beneath fluorescent lights in the basement of a scottish research center. albeit grateful for the opportunity, the program revealed to danny the limitations of the field. ethics, application to live models being largely restricted to rats, and the fact that doing any real hands-on work would require a medical degree meant that the end of the program marked the end of her career as a burgeoning forensic scientist.

however, at home… she had a playground at her fingertips.

ray cassidy was hardly a young man when his daughter was born, and by the time she returned to the city he was showing signs of slowing down. ever the dutiful daughter —and eager to see what she could accomplish in her makeshift lab— danny stepped into the family business in an official capacity, becoming co-director. she scheduled appointments, arranged ceremonies and, most importantly, communicated with the local morgues. Good relations with the staff enabled her to redirect unclaimed bodies, no questions asked.

a year ago, when her father’s heath declined to the point of selling the business, the mortuary underwent an important change: the transfer of power to a mysterious buyer. danny, for her part, was relieved; the prospect of business ownership had never held much appeal and it meant more time to focus on her projects. even better, her new boss's proclivity towards secrecy works nicely with the direction her work has taken.

&. PERSONALITY

**growing up, danny was squeamish around death. she would refuse to step foot in the mortuary and loathed being alone there, preferring to explore the city while her father was out to avoid the ‘zombies’. as such, his clients grew accustomed to seeing dan at the front of house, handling communications for the business. however, she overcame her fear before the end of her first semester, trepidation warping into a strange fascination. but reputations stick, and maybe that’s for the best…

dan’s fascination with death, although birthed from a mixture of genuine curiosity and forced exposure, has warped into something darker. regenerative medicine, specifically the reanimation of dead tissue, holds her interest. late nights are spent mutilating limbs and experimenting with various specimens… just call her victoria frankenstein

she has asthma, though she rarely uses her inhaler and spends her friday nights smoking. she keeps an inhaler at her desk to placate those who know about the condition

dan has a morbid sense of humor. to her mother’s horror, her favorite thing when visiting home is to stand around the tar pits scaring tourists — ❛ wonder how many bodies are in there… i thought i heard screaming last night. ❜

she thinks more than she speaks, and when she does there’s much more left unsaid. that’s not to say she’s not genuine in her conversations, in fact she finds value in every interaction — just don’t expect to know her simply because you’re on her list of regulars

she’s incredibly laidback, largely in part of her belief that no one cares about anything but themselves and individual life’s as inconsequential in the greater scope of the universe. that said, she also doesn’t talk about her modeling days much, not finding it worthy of more than a passing remark. and apart from stumbling across an old campaign here and there, she now lives a life that is very separate from it

&. BOLD WHICH HABITS YOUR MUSE HAS

nail biting | throat clearing | lying | interrupting | chewing the ends of pens | smoking | swearing | knuckle cracking | thumb sucking | muttering under their breath | talking to themselves | nose picking | binge drinking | oversleeping | snacking between meals | skipping meals | picking at skin | impulse buying | talking with their mouth full | humming/singing to themselves | chewing gum | leg jiggling | foot tapping | hair twirling | whistling | eye rolling | licking lips | sniffing | squinting | rubbing hands together | jaw clenching | gesturing while talking | putting feet up on tables | tucking hair behind ears | chewing lips | crossing arms over chest | putting hands on hips | rubbing the back of their neck | being late | procrastinating | doodling | shredding paper | peeling off bottle labels | forgetfulness | running hands through hair | overreacting | teeth grinding | nostril flaring | slouching | pacing | drumming fingers | fist clenching | pinching bridge of nose | rubbing temples | rolling shoulders

&. CONNECTIONS

UNTIL WE GET OLD x splitting time between la and nyc for the entirety of her childhood, and then permanently moving to the city, dan has been around for a while. this is a friend who she’s stayed close with through it all, even if their paths are different

PINK PARTY x this is someone she runs into late at night on her way home from the mortuary, typically after she’s smoked her weekly blunt asthma be damned. sometimes she’ll share and others, when the smoke hangs a little too long, they’ll have to settle for splitting a massive pizza

YOU’RE PRESSED x anyone can be bought for a price, and dan is no different. if it furthers her illicit research, she’s game. need to stash a body? there’s a fridge for that… for the meager price of the victim’s bone marrow

ONLY SKELETONS TO HIDE x be it the way she watches crime docs a little too closely or the glint in her eye she waxes philosophical about tissue regeneration, this is someone who got close enough to catch a glimpse of what danny hides beneath the surface

#wb.intro #iii. these 𝖛𝖎𝖔𝖑𝖊𝖓𝖙 delights have 𝓋𝒾𝑜ℓℯ𝓃𝓉 𝕖𝕟𝕕𝕤 ; – musings. #death mention tw #gore mention tw #//like this and i'll come find you for plots en la mañana :)) #no clue what to do with the trigger warnings when this chick dices people like she works at benihana

[amerasdreams]

From writing today -

{Spoilers for Generation Chapter 50}

~

A lull of a few heartbeats. Then the gunfire started up again, as furious as a fireworks finale.

Gray’s jaw was set as he gazed toward the gap where the light shone in, as if trying to catch any motion.

From his slightly shadowed vantage point, Jason couldn’t see anything at all.

“Dana?” he asked, his whisper drowned out by the gunshots.

She swept her short hair back, eyes fixed on the metal face of the warehouse, half-hidden by bushes and the hill of grass.

She knelt, keeping Gray’s hand gently in hers. Then, she let go, and crept toward the gap.

“Dana,” said Jason. “Don’t—”

She stopped, looked at him, paled, as if realizing what she’d been doing. She took a deep breath and crept back. Proffered her hand, but Gray smiled and shook his head.

Silence.

Just the wind hitting the shed so its loose pieces rattled and banged, the swish of grass, the hum of grasshoppers and crickets, a constant undertone, suddenly switched to high volume.

They sat there, frozen; Jason wasn’t sure how long.

Dana glanced at her watch again. “They really should have contacted us by now…”

“Maybe they have more important things to do,” said Jason.

“We should have arranged some sort of communication,” said Gray. “It seemed a bit haphazard.”

Jason nodded. “Us freelancers aren’t the priority… they treat us as second class sometimes. I…wouldn’t have thought that of Saul though….”

He had a sudden flash of Saul as a young man, naïve, eager, a bit nervous. Now a leader in his field, an agent… with a family.

His heart thumped hard. He had a bad feeling.

His phone buzzed.

#writing #adventures in odyssey #fanfiction #jason whittaker #gray #dana kant #spies #reporter #muldavia #gunshots #saul amir

[khorren]

Toying around with a new Norn (mesmer, mirage in particular). I know her first name, but not her second. I don't think I want to put her in the Ulvstrom family, but that means coming up with a new norn surname, and do you have any idea how long it took me to come up with Ulvstrom?

Anyway, her grandparents were part of a group of Whispers agents operating in Cantha. They were.... not happy with things the Whispers were doing so they fled Cantha the super mega long way around and ended up Tyria. Their family do not trust the Whispers at all. This chicky's parents work within the Priory and she's been helping in the public library since she was knee-high to a grasshopper where she met a young Aoife who was traveling with her dad.

So now I'm going to stare at things on the internet til I come up with a surname.

#character babbles

[wtfgaylittlezooid]

Current Bug/Species List for the Anim Vs BF AU

Alan: Deadlander Omega

Victim: Locust / Cordyceps Fungus

Chosen One: Bald-Faced Hornet

Dark Lord: Red and Black Mason Wasp

Second Coming: Tree Bumblebee

Red: Convergent Ladybug

Yellow: Caddisfly

Green: Grasshopper

Blue: Blue Ghost Firefly

Purple: Mothfly / False Citizen

King: Violin Mantis

Orchid: Orchid Mantis

Navy: Mantis (vague)

Ballista: Bombardier Beetle

Primal: Budwing Mantis

Hazard: Oriental Cockroach

Agent: Dragonfly

Herobrine: Golden Orb Weaver Spider

Skeleton: Deathstalker Scorpion

Spider: Tarantula

Enderman: Water Strider

Lucky Block Entity: Haunted Cloak (similar to the Watcher boss)

And of course the characters that still need species and to be integrated are the Piglins and Piglin kid, the Titan Ravagers (?haven’t decided if I want them or not), and Reuben.

#Anim vs bf au #this is mostly for my own reference #if you don’t know the species feel free to ask since some are based on bug fables enemies #animator vs animation #Ava #avm #animation vs minecraft #Anim vs

[mamahuggiebear13]

Check out this listing I just added to my Poshmark closet: Size 10m Flip Flops by Get Fit Grasshoppers*.

[architectureassignmenthelp]

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