#brutha nature

[dpsqueerblog]

FtM

Jacob Williams (Marvel - Earth-616)

canon

#pride23 #canon queer characters #ftm #transgender #jacob williams #brutha nature #marvel #earth 616

[basingstokemercury]

Thinking about how Brutha carries Vorbis across the desert, because maybe he's a dangerous enemy but of course it's the right thing to do.

And in most stories this might lead to conciliation, realising the value of compassion, bridging gaps...

In fact, I'll digress for a moment and mention the Bonanza episode The Stranger, which inspired this post.

In that episode, the character Ben is travelling as the prisoner of a man who hates and intends to kill him.

But when their horses and supplies are stolen in an ambush en route, Ben helps his physically weaker enemy through the desert, eventually carrying him by the time they reach safety.

And the antagonist has this closing speech about how the hate is gone now, and he can't imagine killing Ben anymore.

In Small Gods, though, that's not what happens - they get home, Vorbis exactly returns to his former pitiless calculating self, and it seems fairly simple that Brutha could have saved many people a lot of trouble by letting him die.

I'm not sure how to analyse Pratchett's reasons for making this choice or whether it was necessarily the right thing to do, but it's a fascinating decision to make in a story exploring morality and human nature.

#just in case this needs saying: hi I'm religious please keep any commentary respectful #terry pratchett #bonanza #pondering the ponderosa

[marie-mcd]

A recurring feature that I like in Neil Gaiman's and Terry Pratchett's stories is the mundane and ordinary juxtaposed and blended with the extraordinary and fantastical.

There's a lot of humour derived from this, but it got me wondering if the concept also works as a theme under the surface of the humour, so I'll explore that idea a bit here with examples from Good Omens and Discworld.

First a look at the humour side, because it's fun, and so that people know what I'm referring to:

-In the opening sequence of Good Omens S1E1: an angel and a demon (fantastical beings) are conversing like ordinary people, using idioms like "Well that went down like a lead balloon", against a setting of biblical proportions.

-The Archangels' meeting in S2E6 discussing first the Second Coming ("Nah!"), and then next on the agenda is the cleaning roster.

-The visuals of heaven and hell in general - it's the subversion of expectations on what these places "should" look and function like - offices, clipboards, contracts, bureaucracy. This is humour and seems like theme/motif at the same time; the visual cues say a lot about heaven and hell and their role in this story.

-Death from the Discworld books owns an umbrella stand and a hairbrush, likes kitty cats, and rides a white horse named Binky.

-In Small Gods, the Great God Om is incarnated as a tortoise:

And it came to pass that in that time the Great God Om spake unto Brutha, the Chosen One:

'Psst!'

Next, looking at the concept's thematic or metaphorical potential.

The following excerpt gets me thinking about how people put outsized importance on mundane things, and about normalcy bias kicking in when a narrow mind is confronted with extraordinary events.

From Good Omens book (about RP Tyler):

It is a high and lonely destiny to be Chairman of the Lower Tadfield Residents' Association.

[…]

Your car is on fire.

No. Tyler just couldn't bring himself to say it. I mean, the man had to know that, didn't he? He was sitting in the middle of it. Possibly it was some kind of practical joke.

Next, a scene that makes me think about retreating into the mundane to cope, after being confronted with an extraordinary event.

From Good Omens S2E6:

Nina: Oh, God, I should've been open half an hour ago.

Maggie: How can you think about that after all this??

Nina: People need coffee, I sell coffee, it's my coffee shop.

And next, thinking about how the minutiae of the everyday distracts us from paying enough attention to big world issues (a bit of normalcy bias again too). 

From Good Omens book (when the horsepersons of the apocalypse arrive at the airbase):

No one stopped the four as they purposefully made their way into one of the long, low buildings under the forest of radio masts. No one paid any attention to them. Perhaps they saw nothing at all. Perhaps they saw what their minds were instructed to see, because the human brain is not equipped to see War, Famine, Pollution, and Death when they don't want to be seen, and has got so good at it that it often manages not to see them even when they abound on every side.

Next, two excerpts from Discworld books. At first I was thinking along the lines of needing to focus on the everyday because we can't spend all our time focusing on big existential stuff, or, how we take the wonders of nature for granted because of busy lives; but then I realized, I think it's actually a clever inversion of what we consider to be ordinary - that just being alive, against all odds, in the vast universe, is actually quite extraordinary.

From Small Gods:

And one of [the brain's] functions is to make the miraculous seem ordinary and turn the unusual into the usual.

Because if this was not the case, then human beings, faced with the daily wondrousness of everything, would go around wearing big stupid grins […] And no one would do much work.

Gods don't like people not doing much work. People who aren't busy all the time might start to think.

Part of the brain exists to stop this happening. It is very efficient. It can make people experience boredom in the middle of marvels.

[more going on in the above than just the subject of the post, but I'm narrowing the focus here]

From Hogfather:

THERE IS A PLACE WHERE TWO GALAXIES HAVE BEEN COLLIDING FOR A MILLION YEARS, said Death, apropos of nothing. DON'T TRY TO TELL ME THAT'S RIGHT.

"Yes, but people don't think about that," said Susan. Somewhere there was a bed …

CORRECT. STARS EXPLODE, WORLDS COLLIDE, THERE'S HARDLY ANYWHERE IN THE UNIVERSE WHERE HUMANS CAN LIVE WITHOUT BEING FROZEN OR FRIED, AND YET YOU BELIEVE THAT A … A BED IS A NORMAL THING. IT IS THE MOST AMAZING TALENT.

And a quote from Terry Pratchett himself, inverting ordinary/extraordinary (the whole video is great, by the way):

Within the story of evolution is a story far more interesting than any in the Bible. It teaches us amazing things: that stars are not important - there is nothing interesting about stars. Street lamps are very important, because they're so rare. As far as we know there's only a few million of them in the universe. And they were built by monkeys! Who came up with philosophy, and gods.

He also mentioned here that his impression after reading the Old Testament was: "If this is all true, then we are in the hands of a madman!" Off topic again, but relevant to some of what went into Good Omens I think.

Not sure if I've proved anything here, and that wasn't the goal, but it was fun to find some quotes for my brain to play around with!

#long post #good omens #good omens meta #good omens 2 #good omens book #Discworld meta #Discworld #neil gaiman #terry pratchett #gnu terry pratchett #hogfather #small gods #p

[heckcareoxytwit]

The mutants of Krakoa are sent on their mission to investigate who is behind the terrorist attack and they help the survivors of the bombed city. Also, they fend off the Watchdogs who are harassing the mutants and survivors.

The mutants who do things in this comic are...

Storm disperses the biotoxic gas in the air and she helps out in fending off the Watchdogs. She also creates an oxygen-rich bubble environment to enhance Triage's healing powers.

Cyclops and Monet St Croix do most of the fighting in fending off the Watchdogs who are harassing the mutants.

Bishop helps out the survivors as well as fending off the Watchdogs.

Cerebra and Tempo analyze the skull and they found out that the skull belonged to a young mutant who was kidnapped and used as a living weapon by Orchis.

Thunderbird frees the trapped man inside the car, he also knows that the Heritage Foundation might have something to do with the X-Gene used to create the exploding mutant so he informs the CSI team that they were buying native X-Genes.

Iceman creates ice bowls for the dogs to drink water out of. He also uses his ice golems to do CPA stuff in the office, helping the town prepare for upcoming bureaucratic and budgetary battles.

Triage works to heal the critically injured and notes that half the town is sick or infectious due to the "dirty bomb" explosion.

Tag's powers are great for evacuation and he "tags" destroyed cars and buildings to help people escape them, while Karma telepathically guides people out of complexes.

Angel helps out in not only taking the trapped survivors out of the window from the building, he also helps out Cyclops, Monet, Bishop, Jean Grey and Bishop in fending off the Watchdogs.

Jean Grey ends up her telekinesis levitating most of the Watchdogs and after reading their minds realizes they're not part of the false flag operation. They actually believe mutants are responsible for the attack. She gets them out of the way and has them "chasing their own tails." Jean Grey also rebuilds people's homes using their memories as blueprints.

Somnus keeps the wounded but stable victims dreaming comfortably as they rest.

Thumbelina uses her shrinking powers to perform microsurgeries inside the survivors' bodies.

Wicked the Genoshan mutant connects the deceased with their loved ones as grief counseling. Bishop notes that without backups of these people the Phoenix Foundation can't bring them back.

Icarus singing local tunes to lift the hearts of the victims.

Escapade switching places with trapped people as she seems good at escaping.

Crave the random mutant eats the contents of biohazard bags that have been collected, neutralizing them. He also finds them delicious.

Northstar and Aurora light up the night sky.

Sanjar Javeed (Horseman Death from Remender's Uncanny X-Force) boosts the immune systems of the most vulnerable.

Brutha Nature grows air-scrubbing flora all over town.

Alchemist (Sudi Abadi) purifies the contaminated water.

Theia also helps to reassemble the streets, businesses, etc.

Greycrow cooks a massive pot of seafood boil while Madrox fills and passes out bowls.

Eye-Scream the obscure mutant makes ice cream for the children.

Hindsight uses his telemetry to do more investigations.

--- X-Men: Before the Fall - Mutant First Strike #1, 2023

Whew! What a list!

#Storm #Ororo Munroe #Tempo #Heather Tucker #Jean Grey #Cyclops #Scott Summers #Monet St Croix #Iceman #Bobby Drake #Bishop #Lucas Bishop #Triage #Christopher Muse #Angel #Archangel #Warren Worthington III #Thunderbird #John Proudstar #X Men #XMen #too many to tag #marvel

[secondimpact]

A skinny old man in a toga picked himself up from the cobbles where he had landed, and glared at the doorway.

‘I’m telling you, listen, a finite intellect, right, cannot by means of comparison reach the absolute truth of things, because being by nature indivisible, truth excludes the concepts of “more” or “less” so that nothing but truth itself can be the exact measure of truth. You bastards,’ he said.

Someone from inside the building said, ‘Oh yeah? Sez you.’

The old man ignored Brutha but, with great difficulty, pulled a cobblestone loose and hefted it in his hand.

Then he dived back through the doorway. There was a distant scream of rage.

‘Ah, Philosophy,’ said Om.

Small Gods by Terry Pratchett

#discworld — small gods #terry pratchett

[jelly-o630]

Spoilers for Terry Pratchett’s Small Gods

I’m about 3/4s of of the way through Small Gods en and I’m at the part where library is burning down and everyone’s trying to escape to Ankh-Morpork and in my head I was thinking ‘okey so they managed to save hundreds of scrolls using Brutha’s perfect memory and every character we care about is escaping to live in a safe city where Om can maybe become a big god again- okey I can see how this book is going to end, kinda bittersweet with the burning of Ephebe but the characters we like are free and there’ll probably be more wisdom about the nature of religion in this last quarter of the book which may very well be a slow ending about the characters we like having a happy ending’ BUT THEN they start taking about putting Vorbis on god damn TRIAL for what’s he’s done and Brutha being 100% precent for it and I’m just here like HoLy sHiT he’s actually gonna do it HOLY SHIT TERRY PRATCHETT IS GONNA HAVE HIS RELIGIOUS LEADER CHARACTER LOOK HIS ACTIONS IN THE GODDAMN EYE AND MAYBE NOT REALIZE WHAT HE’S DONE BUT HAVE MOST EVERYONE ELSE IN OMNIA REALIZE AND THEY WILL FINALLY BE FREE OF THE FAKE SURENESS AND FEAR OF THEIR LIVES VORBIS WILL FACE ACTUAL REAL CONSEQUENCES FOR HIS ACTIONS OH MY GOD OH MY GOD TERYY I UNDERSTAND WHY THEY KNIGHTED YOU

#small gods #when there was a quarter left of the book I was like uhhh wait a minute why does it feel like it’s ending #then Simony starts talking about a trial and I was LIKE HOLY SHIT #Everyone needs to read this book #good omens fans pick up a Terry Pratchett book RIGHT NOW #I already got someone from work interest in reading it when I’m done #I want to give this away tbh #it feels wrong to keep such perfection in just my own possession #Terry Pratchett #great god om #discworld #the turtle moves #haven’t read a book with this much excellent religious commentary since the screwtape letters

[dimity-lawn]

What should I name my kayak? I'm torn between The Twoflower and Sink Me Own Boat Dibbler. Any discworld inspired ideas?

Either would be a solid choice. I think that The Twoflower could be a nice name whether you're peacefully paddling in calm waters or on an adventure of a more tourist-y nature. I love Sink Me Own Boat Dibbler, which definitely sounds like a character right out of Discworld.

Alas, I would normally be better at suggesting names, but I'm sorry to say that you've caught me in a mix of tired/preoccupied/unfocused that does not lend itself well to thinking of Discworld-related kayak names. But, since you did ask for ideas, how about Cheesemonger, in reference to the scene in Monstrous Regiment in which the folk song behind the regiment's nickname is discussed? ["Was there canoodling, sarge?" said Tonker, grinning. "Kayaking, I expect," said Igorina to general sniggering.]

If you wanted to name it after a Discworld boat, here is a (incomplete) list of boat names:

Prid of Ankh-Morpork: The flagship of the Ankh-Morporkian fleet. The man painting the name before it sailed for Klatch forgot the "e". (Jingo)

Unnamed Boat: When Vorbis takes over Ephebe Simony, Brutha, Om, Didactylos, and Urn use this vessel to flee Ephebe. This steam powered craft was built by Urn, who felt that it did not need a name as it was a thing and that it would have been a waste to have broken an amphora of wine over it. (Small Gods)

Fin of God: This Omnian ship was destroyed by the Sea Queen while in pursuit of the Unnamed Boat, and is now in search of an agreeable Promised Land. (Small Gods)

Melon Boat: This unusual thing that the Senior Wrangler insisted on calling the "melon boat" brought the wizards and Mrs. Whitlow from Mono Island to XXXX. (The Last Continent)

Maria Pesto: This ship breifly orbited the Disc after it was blown over The Rim near the Bay of Mante. This may have been the boat that Death was supposed to find in Mort. [YOU HAVEN'T HEARD OF THE BAY OF MANTE, HAVE YOU? "No, sir," said Mort. FAMOUS SHIPWRECK THERE. "Was there?" THERE WILL BE, said Death, IF I CAN FIND THE D@-N PLACE.] (The Last Hero)

#discworld #gnu terry pratchett #ask #answer(s) from yours truly #boats #names #jingo #small gods #the last continent #mort #the last hero #have fun #i love naming things #let me know what you decide

[bigskydreaming]

Not to be aggro on main, but X-fandom’s pissing me off today, so here, have a stan post for Vita Ayala’s work on the X-books.

I think a lot about the fact that the second Vita Ayala got their hands on an X-book, they took the maxim ‘if you want representation, make it yourself’ to heart and added like, a full fucking DOZEN new LGBTQ+ characters of color to the X-books. And how they’ve made a point to keep bringing these characters into background scenes as often as possible, even when writing books revolving around more popular mutants, to try and cement the existence of this broader community of LGBTQ+ mutants of color just out there living their lives on Krakoa.

And I think a lot about the way so many fans - particularly ones who go gaga for even the slightest subtextual tease that relatively obscure white mutants might be LGBTQ+.......were outright DISMISSIVE of Ayala’s efforts here.

There were posts and forum pages and tweets and reddit threads about what a waste of page time all these OCs were (when Ayala deliberately threaded their invention and introduction throughout stories about more popular characters in such a way that these minor characters NEVER actually derailed the main story they were telling).

And there were fans who were like ‘they should have just saved it for creator owned stuff’ as though fandom wouldn’t be drooling over the introduction of new obscure white LGBTQ+ characters in high profile X-books.

Because that was the main difference here, make no mistake.

Ayala created and introduced an entire swath of new LGBTQ+ mutant characters in just a handful of their very first Marvel issues, and has kept pushing them their entire several years of writing for Marvel. And some of those characters like Brutha Nature and Joshua Engelhard have been pushed and promoed by other writers in turn, like Orlando in the new X-Men Unlimited issue, or Howard in Knights of X.....but fandom at large is still like yawn, wake me when I should care.

And the thing is, I’ve been in X-fandom for like twenty-five fucking years. I’ve watched generations of fans latch onto the most minor two-appearance-only characters based on just one or two possibly subtextual exchanges or implications here and there.

The absolute ONLY difference between that phenomenon, and the complete apathy - and even outright antagonism - a lot of fans, including white LGBTQ+ ones - have displayed towards Ayala’s continued efforts to create and boost the visibility of more LGBTQ+ characters of color....

Is that none of Ayala’s creations were white LGBTQ+ characters specifically.

And the difference that created in how fandom received these new characters or reacted even just to Ayala’s desire to create them and platform them in X-books, like....isn’t remotely subtle.

Not to mention the willful obliviousness of people arguing that if Ayala wanted to promote more LGBTQ+ representation among mutants, they should have developed already-existing LGBTQ+ mutants....

While just so happening to gloss over the fact that with the exception of the higher profile LBGTQ+ mutants of color who already get focused on - like Julio Rictor and Karma....there weren’t any under-utilized LGBTQ+ mutants of color TO further develop.

People really think they’re slick when they say ‘oh I don’t mind Ayala wanting to push more representation, I just think they should have focused more on existing mutants instead of creating a whole bunch of OCs who will be forgotten about and never used by anyone else’ - 

When the reality is....without Ayala’s creations, this just ‘happens’ to mean Ayala would have no other options TO focus on, aside from.....minor white LGBTQ+ characters.

The fact was Ayala didn’t just want to push LGBTQ+ representation, they wanted to push representation for LGBTQ+ mutants OF COLOR, specifically, and first they had to CREATE those mutants.

And fandom’s been out here giving them shit for it for years now, all while claiming to still want diversity at the exact same time. Just....not Ayala’s brand of diversity.

Fuck those fans.

Anyway, other X-fans can miss me with their blatant fucking hypocrisy, I’ll stay stanning Ayala and every single one of their new CANON mutant characters. Other fans can go around patting their fave white cishet creators on the back for dropping CRUMBS, I’d rather save my accolades for someone who hasn’t wasted a single second of their time on high profile X-books and is using every page they can to introduce and push more mutants of color, LGBTQ+ mutants, and mutants whose identities fall under both these umbrellas.

Like Jamie Rogers (ace), Rosie Rodriguez, Cam Long (non-binary, identifies as queer), Hector Pullman (gay, autistic)

and Gabrielle Diwa aka Galura (lesbian and Karma’s canon girlfriend), Michael Diwa (bisexual), Markos Argyros, Jason Jackson, Aura Charles (identifies as queer)

and Joshua Engelhard, Monica (non-binary), Jacob Williams aka Brutha Nature (trans boy), Christopher O’Leary, Megan Ogawa aka Kappa (bisexual)

and Alec Walsh, Leonara Eng (trans woman), Liana, Julia, and Alice Campbell (non-binary).

And yes, again - every single one of these characters is canon.

#And this doesn't even include the characters from their Children of the Atom miniseries #like lesbian Afro-Latine shapeshifter Carmen Cruz etc

[lovecatsys]

i think we should get a lost club book its been a LONG time since we had a new book with a teenage mutant team in it. Like, I wanna see:

Cosmar being a main character again

Shela and Martha being gfs hopefully after their relationship starts in Lethal Legion

Leo making progress in her transition (and just being established more as a character tbh)

Anole and Rain Boy kicked out maybe replaced by Brutha Nature and another of Ayala's characters who are established as being around Gabby and Tashi's age (the age stuff is so weird 😭)

Gabby being written as the age she should be at this point (15-16) and just getting more time and character development, also her queerness being touched on/confirmed

I want Vita Ayala to do this SO much I'd love to see the way they write Shela and also just love to see them doing stuff again I miss their writing so much

#i need my gay and trans little group back #the lost club #new mutants #x men #gabby kinney #shela sexton #natashia repina #leonara eng #martha johansson #escabella #jacob williams

[unkalaki]

I just read Small Gods again and then I couldnt stop and due to some reasons that I dont fully understand myself i then continued on and read Going Postal and Making Money. I think thats how Pratchett goes, for me at least. It is such an adventure, even on your 10th or 20th time, that you just cant have enough.

Small Gods though. I reread it, an activity that i recommend everyone do from time to time. Of all of Pratchett’s books this one has always affected me the most. I dont really know why. I think i read it at a time of my own life that Brutha’s journey from certainty of faith to questioning and going on conicided with my own, less defined portion. When I first read it, I was myself starting to venture into the quicksand of doubt and it was scary. Going your whole life, with certainty of faith and then losing it is, as necessary as it may have been, a very scary, lonely thing to do. Just the simple questions that you are faced with, which when unanswered use that very own simplicity to batter down your previous assumptions and lay your own worldview bare. To see the same shown happening to Brutha, a character that i found myself endeared to from the first moment of being described as a giant with a heart of a mouse and the simplicity of a newborn (some would call it stupidity, shows what they know) just elicited a very simple feeling of kinship.

Moving on, the part of Small Gods that makes me go back again and again is the very simple line that just breaks me.

“In a hundred years we will all be dead.... but here and now we are alive”

A lot of people, me included, learn to start thinking, actually thinking about the world in their mid to late teens. They start to see the realities of the world. Most of them till that point have been sheltered from the world in one way or another. Even those that have not rarely have the words to describe the evil things that may have happened to them. Evil is a word that you know but it is usually limited to things that are not actually real. It is stories about things that dont happen to real people. It is an aspect of fiction that you have heard about but whose existence you dont really fathom. However, this is the time where you start to think about actions, about the world and about the realities of evil. And when you start to do that you start to see evil everywhere. You start to see it in the small acts that people commit everyday. You start to notice it in the small things. Not the big evil of nefarious individuals in thier high rooms cackling to themselves about stupid words like “schemes” and what not. It is the small evils. The banal evil. The stupid mindless evil that people have looked at everywhere and learned to live with.

This is the point where most people make the choice to make limiters. People calibrate their eyes. You choose the level of evil that you are comfortable with and block it. Your eyes no longer see it, no longer recognise it as anything at all. They just glaze over it. It is a necessary thing to do for some. Looking at the way society deals with those it deems necessary all the time, taking it all in all the time, trying to conjure up all the requisite pain that you should for everything is something that is not possible. You learn to choose your battles. For some people these are limited to certain things/peoples/organisations etc. 

Others go down the darker paths of cynicism or nihilism. It is all bad everywhere which means that it does not matter. Everything is bad, everything is awful, all the people are bad. So your response is:

“FUCK IT”

This doesnt help anything. Bald faced cynicism is just another shield that you make to make sure that you can survive this world with you sanity intact. But its not a good path. It is a self defeating one because it by its very nature leads you down a path where everything and everyone is bad and thus you just lose those very important things that make life worth living, such as hope and the yearning to do more, to be better.

Terry however knows this and addresses this head on. The world may be evil, you may be a finite speck of dust on a cosmo that cares naught about you. In the grand cosmo you may not matter but that does not mean that here and now you do not matter. In a hundred years we will all be dead but that does not give you the right to say that a life happening today, a simple life, a humble life, a life that all the stupid high minded people would term as “unimpactful” does not matter. It matters because that life is being lived. Here and now they are alive. Here and now they feel. Their pain, their loss, their joy, it is real and the fact that it might not be remembered in a hundred years matters not in the least. IT IS REAL, IT IS A LIFE AND THEY MATTER. And in saying so Terry tells you in a such a caring and soft way that you cant help but cry:

“You Matter”.

Terry Pratchett was a funny old man but he was at the same time one of teh most compassionate men. It is just so apparent from his works. His compassion was directed at that most forgotten sections of society. The lowly masses of people that are necessary to make a society, if only to create the background music for the more “important players” to play their highly important games with each other. These people are often glossed over by most player but Terry saw them, saw us and he loved them. He didnt romanticise them. He saw them for the small minded, often stupid, mindlessly offensive people that they could be and most often were but he said “yeah so what”. That is who we are most of the time and we still matter.

I started reading Discworld about 6 months after Terry died. But to this day i sometimes still cry because i miss him. I miss someone i never knew but whose words have changed me. Changed my life and my world view over everything. Changed me in ways that i still appreciate. A beacon of humanitariasm.

GNU TERRY PRATCHETT.

Thank you for everything 

#terry pratchett #discworld #pterry #pratchett #smallgods #small gods #brutha #terrypratchett #compassion #sam vimes #vimes #samuel vimes #ankh morpork #here and now we are alive #crying

[queer-xmen-tournament]

Where this blog goes next

For a really long time, I've been wanting to create a fanmade X-Men team composed of exclusively queer mutants- and now, I figured since I already have this blog, why not let tumblr decide?

So what I've done, is created 7 spots on the team, based on each characters power and skill set, and grouped a bunch of characters together for a singular poll for each spot. Before the polls go out, I'm going to make a little propaganda post for each person in the group, to make sure everybody knows who is who, and why they should vote for them!

This is only including people who are out as queer in universe, so even though Gabby has been implied to be queer, and Kate has been confirmed to be bi, neither of them are really "out" in their respective universes yet, so they couldn't really be on the team yet.

Here are the groups:

The Psychic

Captain Britain | Betsy Braddock

Askani | Rachel Summers

Negasonic Teenage Warhead | Ellie Phimister

Leo Eng

Alef Chernekhov

The Powerhouse

Iceman | Bobby Drake

Rictor | Julio Richter

Pyro | Simon Lasker

Tempo | Heather Tucker

Good Arson | Rex Ridley

Theia

Kappa | Megan Ogawa

Christopher O'Leary

The Shapeshifter

Mystique | Raven Darkholme

Gimmick | Carmen Cruz

Morph | Benjamin Deeds

Jessie Drake

Faceshopper | Soph

The Warrior

Shatterstar | Gaveedra Seven

Fang | Akihiro

Anole | Victor Borkowski

Mercury | Cessily Kincaid

Jonas Graymalkin

Bling! | Roxy Washington

Madin

Bouncer | Renata Da Lima

The Gimmick

Escapade | Shela Sexton

Loa | Alani Ryan

Aphelion | Reed

Darkveil | Darnell Wade

Jumbo Carnation

Brutha Nature | Jacob Williams

Morgan Red

Monica Sellers

Hector Pullman

The Flyer

Northstar | Jean-Paul Beaubier

Pixie | Megan Gwynn

Galura | Elle Diwa

Aura Charles

Michael Diwa

Liana

The Additional Psionic

Karma | Xuân Cao Mạnh

Destiny | Irene Adler

Prodigy | David Alleyne

Somnus | Carl Valentino

Hindsight | Nathaniel Carver

Pity Girl | Nora Kuang

Christian Frost

Bad Guy | Gabe

Alice Campbell

I hope to start posting these on Monday!

[www-tomemyx-men]

Members of Kitty Pryde’s Marauders:

Birdy

 Alchemist

Somnus

Tempo

Brutha Nature

Hellion

Sharkgirl

Wind Dancer

Surge

Wallflower

Elixir

Triage

Aurora

Wildchild

Eye-Boy

Reserve Members:

Star-Lord (Upon disbandment of GOTG)

Magik

#nation of krakoa #to me my x men #kitty pryde #house of x #mauraders #krakoa trading company

[tournament-of-x]

The Tournament of X

Contestants Index: B

Banshee

Beak

Beast

Bei the Blood Moon

Benjamin Deeds

Bennet du Paris

Betsy Braddock

Big Bertha

Billy Kaplan-Altman

Bishop

Birdy

The Black King

Black Priestess

The Black Queen

Black Tom Cassidy

Blindfold

Bling!

Blink

Bliss

Blob

Bobby Drake

Boom-Boom

Brian Cruz

Broo

Brutha Nature

Burke

Butterfly

#tournament of x #contestants index #banshee #beast #bei the blood moon #benjamin deeds #bennet du paris #betsy braddock #big bertha #billy kaplan #bishop #birdy #blindfold #bling! #blink #bliss #blob #bobby drake #boom-boom #brian cruz #broo #brutha nature #burke

[yarnstrongsista]

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[atacxgymcapoeira]

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[incognito-princess]

So one day, I was just teaching my 3rd graders, minding my own business, and one of my students said or did something (I can't remember what) and being the funny and multi-cultural teacher I am I said, "Au contraire mon frère." My class naturally wanted to know what that meant... now here's where I can't explain what happened next. I can't explain why the words came out of my mouth like this, but I answered by saying, "On the contrary my brutha!" Just like that. So much 1970s NYC sass I'm surprised I didn't sprout platform shoes!!!

This divided kids into 3 types (with much overlap) of kids who would say, "au contraire mon frère", the kids that said, "on the contrary my brutha!" and the kids who figured out that they could also say, "on the contrary my sista!" for the rest of the school year... to everyone, other kids, other teachers, the AP, the principal... their parents...

#meg teaches #kids to do #silly things #it's a job perk