#despite the comic setting

[sunnyyyteaaa]

🌻 Late nights

something I used to do when I was younger 💤

#rottmnt #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #despite the comic setting #i remember mostly doing this in the early mornings #since its always so cold in the mornings for some reason #it was like curling around a giant heating pad #so cozy <3 #rise of the tmnt #save rottmnt #sun art

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Bonus 7: Time moves sideways

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#poorly drawn mdzs #better drawn mdzs #mdzs #wei wuxian #Despite a whole ass inspiration board for reference - it turns out drawing and colouring half submerged people is a CHALLENGE. #I am channeling the zoobie bunny and internally screaming “WHY DID YOU THINK THIS WAS A GOOD IDEA”. #What I wanted was a cool transition between present and past! What I got was a very full mouth of my own foot! #That said: there are aspects I really like about this one and I feel like I got most of the way to where I wanted it to be. #Water is hard to draw and I am saying that even after dedicating a full 4 page comic with people in the water. #Forget hands. Water is my new nemesis. #I love how floaty this flashback transition was. The hazy mind wandering as LWJ carries him as a set up to recollection! #Aren't memories an incredible thing? To relive a moment in your mind? To have time repeat again and again? #And yet it is always a little different when we go to recall it once again. We are different people than the person we once were.

[serialreblogger]

the thing about the joker

is that - well, even canonically, he’s not actually “insane.” in the most canonical version of his backstory (bc there are many conflicting incarnations, but this one is the touchstone for a lot of later canon), he was part of a street gang before falling into a vat of Nondescript Toxic Waste that damaged his melanin production and That’s It. he supposedly “lost his mind” after seeing his reflection, which is absurd on many levels. no. he’s not “insane.” what he is, is an angry white boy.

the thing about the joker is that he exults in his own uncontainability. He laughs, because all of gotham - all the world - is built to be his playground. the only lunatic thing about him is the lunacy of ~Society~, to borrow from the joker’s own playbook; the lunacy of the joker lies in the world that grants him power: in the inheritance of loss: in white privilege, and what it means for everyone else.

“to prove a point.” those were the joker’s exact words, when he shot and paralyzed Barbara Gordon. she asked why: he laughed. “to prove a point.”

because that’s all he ever does. he hurts people because he can. and because all the power in the world can’t save him from getting hurt - and isn’t that just peachy?

because the thing about the joker is that he can get hurt. he has been hurt. but he has so much more capacity to harm than to be harmed. he is immortal. he and he alone will never have to face the consequences of the hurt that he inflicts on other people.

so then: why not hurt them? misery loves company, after all.

the joker is the embodiment and end result of our own social system: the madness of the exception: the laughter of the white man: the imprecation to smile, as he kills you.

(no one ever says it, i find, but it’s still true: barbara deserves to kill him.)

and who, then, is the batman? if the joker is the yin to his yang? if they’re two sides of one irredeemable coin, if they represent the “balance” of an unjustifiable system - who is he if not another white man?

because he is. Bruce Wayne is a white boy born into unspeakable privilege and forced to endure suffering anyway; who copes with his suffering by taking it out on others; who copes with his suffering, not by taking advantage of the world as it is, but by attempting to reshape it. to make it in his own image - as if it isn’t already his, as if claiming it further will crush out the pain.

the batman is the benevolent oppressor to the joker’s malevolent one. he changes nothing, in the end. two privileged white boys with their own respective navel-gazing grudges - where, after all, lies the difference between benevolence and malevolence?

because they are not “chaos” and “order.” not really. They are laissez-faire laughter and law. Joker exults in the disease of the system, Batman seeks to treat its symptoms, but neither of them will ever change anything about the root cause. because they may have suffered the faults of this system, but they still benefit so much more from it as it exists. Uphold it or break it, neither of them wants to change the law.

but the law is only as good as the people it’s made to protect. and who does that law protect, really?

waylon jones is, in one issue, explicitly depicted as Black. between that and his skin disorder, there has never once been room for his character to be any more than a monster: king croc is, always, a character to be violated and brutalized, over and over and over and still - always - written as the villain. (he tried so hard to scrape out a place for himself, so many times, in so many incarnations, and each and every time he finds himself relegated once more to the sewers. he will never be anyone’s king. there is no place under the sun for people like him.)

victor fries only ever wanted to save his wife, and a capitalist mogul decided a few extra numbers on his eight-digit paycheck were more important than the people whose lives depended on that money. fries’ body was damaged to disability by that choice, left without the resources to find a cure for his wife, and he robbed banks because there was no other option available to him. we seem to have forgotten, or maybe never really understood, why that matters. why a desperate man trying to save his life and that of his loved ones under the crushing gears of capitalism is a villain, and the one who stops him is our hero. why, under the law batman upholds, a bank vault and a CEO’s hoard is worth more than a life.

poison ivy just wants to live, too. wants a life not defined by the devastation of her body, of the beings that exist as extensions of her, a life where green and growing things are not commodities to be plowed up and poisoned and destroyed for the sake of another man’s profit. these are villains; they are written as such. these are their motives.

who does batman fight for, really? who is our hero, this emblem of our law?

is he our hero? ours, the broken and bleeding members of the world he claims to protect?

who does the law protect, except him - him, and the joker?

#i'm having another Moment over batman friends #this is not a bruce wayne hate post #for the record. there is so much to be said in a bruce wayne hate post about child abuse and authorship and diversity of canon #but this isn't about bruce wayne. it isn't even really about the joker #i'm stuck on batman. batman as a story. batman as a myth #because the myths we tell and the threads that run consistently through them despite the multitude of tellers and times - #those say so much more than people give them credit for #who batman is - who his villains are - what those heroes and rogues represent? that *matters.* on a level wholly distinct from comic fandom #because one of the few things that remains true of batman across his many incarnations and authors and settings and media #is that: he stands for the law. (except for all the ways in which he breaks it.) his only role is to catch the criminals #when he loses control and begins dispensing Punishment he must be drawn back from the edge. because that is not Batman #Batman is Jim Gordon's only deputy. Batman is the myth of the Good Cop #and the joker? the joker is batman without the law #this too is one of the few strains that carry through nearly all tellings. the joker is never his opposite: #the joker is him without a direction. without restraint. without limits. without control #and these things say a lot about the world beyond batman. about the storytellers behind him. who - to them - is a hero? who is human? #and who is a monster? the joker is a monster because he is lawless. because he is ''mad.'' because he looks Wrong #bruce wayne is a hero because he is lawful. a dark hero because he walks very close to the line of that law - but lawful still #and what is that law? what law do these storytellers see fit to uphold? for which characters does that law do any good? #which characters explicitly harmed by that law are disposable? which are villains by birth? #the fact that someone made the creative decision to depict king croc as Black in a 2008 graphic novel wherein he went cannibal - #the fact that the issue where babs was assaulted and paralyzed was also the issue in which batman sat down and sympathized with the joker - #that all of these villains are neurodivergent or queer-coded or intersex or disabled or Disfigured or just plain not white - #it says a lot. not just about the comics; about the world in which so many writers have crafted this consistent narrative of heroic cruelty #the world that accepts these as our villains. these as our heroes. it says a lot. and it *matters.* #batman #dc comics #linden writes an essay #linden's originals #linden in the tags

[yourlocaltoad]

Head Imaginator parts from the Skylanders Creator App (Skylanders Creator, 2016) (pt5)

#not art #skylanders #skylanders image rip #skylanders creator #skylanders imaginators #imaginator parts #can i just say how like dryads exist #as a set but like they arent called tree elves #despite the leaf hair and leaf motifs #only different is canonically bushwhack horns are not conncected to his head and this dryad according to their set has branches for horns #but like in my headcanons his horns are branches instead #its also weird cuz some of the imagiantors parts are a reference to bushwhack??? #like noooo god forbid he speaks in the comics but nah we will give like 6 nods to his existence in imaginators #also their eyes are different #maybe bushwhack is just high all the time #forever weed brownie moment

[g36a2]

not the worst of lapham's crimes but tommy's short hair being a symbol of recovery was evil.

#this with tommy's ''saving the world'' line is so. #it should have been longer at the wedding. #g36a20p027 #like he doesn't get to keep any of the personality we saw him have prior to his recovery! #''a healthy happy man would not think badly of his brother's military service!'' all that really was the drugs + riley sr speaking #what about loving your brother despite believing the path your father's abuse has set him on is the wrong one... same as you? #what about reckoning with the fact that some of the things your abusive shithead father said were right? #tommy and riley sr shit on simon's service because they wanted to hurt simon. so it would have been the perfect plot twist #had tommy retained those views once recovered and in a better place. impactful even #but of course not. riley sr said those things BECAUSE he is an abusive shithead. and tommy because he was in a dark place #and it's so much more compelling to jumpcut to the most cartoonishly happy family of all time being fridged #like man simon changes the trajectory of tommy's life by loving him and staying with him through the worst of it #meanwhile tommy changes simon's life by fucking dying. and it's tragic but for me the emotional impact of this tragedy is tainted #because out of cowardice the writers kill tommy riley twice #first by discrediting what he stood for while an addict and only then by actually killing him off #you can even still kill him off. simon and tommy have a row about his being in the military and then boom dead family #keep everything about tommy as seen in the comics except have him be a counterweight to simon ''i kill killers not arabs'' riley #extra angst extra unfinished business AND tommy's character is not assassinated #FUCK! the comics could have been GOOD! #this is the exact same reluctance to depict anything even remotely anti-war that led mw3r's dogshittification #which is bizarre since my anti-war tommy conspiracy could still be vindicated through pro-boot eyes #since his role is to die his character coulda had a saving pvt. ryan-esque ''the naive are destroyed by the peace they advocate'' type deal #like them not having tommy believe the things he did post recovery reveal a genuine contempt for anti-war thinking #it's like the writers genuinely thought they wrote tommy overcoming multiple character flaws. nightmarish! #so i guess tommy's short hair is one of lapham's worst crimes as it reveals a disturbingly sincere veneration for the status quo during #twenty-fucking-ten of all times!!!

[thevelominati]

couple of thoughts because I was flipping through moon knight: resurrection war looking for something specific and therefore not reading it properly, BUT WILD THOUGHT, what if the machinations behind black spectre (3.0, question mark, if he's not carson knowles) is set?

I saw someone theorising it could be bushman, but bushman's that proud and that much of a foil to marc specifically that he absolutely wouldn't (IMO) bother to hide his identity as another of MK's rogues. bushman would want marc to know that it's him, and would want marc to know that raul bushman, of everyone, is that man that's beaten marc spector -- given their history.

#other wildcard thought is: what if it's morpheus after all #despite issue ...24? #was is 24? #but if mackay brings back set #BREATHES DEEPLY #what a deepcut that'd be #but like i said #absolute wildcard thought here #moon knight #moon knight comics #don't look at me #i've spent the last week sick and now I'm feeling better #i have a lot of mk feelings to share #something new and different for me

[depressedzelda]

I need like. A bible level miracle of an opportunity even suggest itself to me so i can possibly start a career in something lol

#its unfortunate but its true thay i am in fact running out of time i could be using to accomplish something meaningful and set myself up #for a promising future. like ill be having a late start regardless. but i know that this is something i have to do sooner or later #i cant stay in retail. i cant serve people who willingly politicize a genocide as it happens in real time #i know there are plenty of zionists here just based on the comic store job alone lol i know theyre here too #despite there also being plenty of palestinians that i have Already witnessed just outside my current work now get ostracized #its gut wrenching. i cant stay here #but i am abbbbsoLUTELY clueless in what i should be working towards #ill be honest...i dont like my new job and i Dont trust my boss. i dont like her. she is rude and unnecessarily so. #if i so much as wore a palestinian bracelet i know im going to relive some twilight zone stern talking to shit Again #what ever happened to community or humanity anyways im getting off topic lol #i just needed to write all these rebounding thoughts down theres a lot going on #i gotta go on a quest and figureee it out. you know #figure it OUT 💪💪💪

[len-illus]

Genshin OC: Isla

Isla ??? from Fontaine

A cartoonist for one of Steambird's competitors by day, forensic sketch artist by demand

Keeps her materials in a small satchel anywhere she goes in case inspiration strikes

Accompanies the Traveler to sketch new sights

Likes to traipse around the city of Fontaine to sketch random people and places (although she's getting tired of it)

Gets to hear a lot of gossip

Moderately social, but prefers to keep to herself

Keeps her vision behind her, next to her bag

2nd daughter in a noble family of notable healers, but lives away from the family

Grew up learning noble arts, hence her proficiency in the arts and in swordsmanship

more sketches under the cut ↴

Text (from top to bottom, left to right):

Isla: Dyed in colour! Isla: A sketch? That'll be 70 mora please. Traveler: You are selling yourself short.. >: ( Isla: The beautiful windmills of Mondstat! Isla: The vivid blue sky of Liyue! Isla: The glowing flora of Inazuma! Traveler: Looks dangerous tho.

Text (from top to bottom, left to right):

Paimon: It's great here in Fontaine, but it'd be nice to get someone familiar wi— Isla: TRAVELER!! Isla: Hey Traveler (and his tiny friend)! I have something for you! Paimon: bitch I'm not that small Isla: I saw you from afar and thought you looked gorgeous. So I couldn't help myself and sketched you! Please have it!

#len-sess #art #illustration #comic #old art #oc #genshin impact #genshin #genshin oc #my baby #tbh she's due for a redesign #bc her hair is way too similar to raiden shogun X'D #and her color palette could be better #if its not obvious this set of illustrations were made before 2.0 was even a thing w #i'm keeping the scarf tho #my art teacher used to always have a scarf around his neck #despite us living in this very warm and humid tropical country

[daydreamerdrew]

Captain Marvel Adventures (1941) #27

#I can’t post the following panels due to Steamboat’s presence #but right after this Mr. Morris has Billy work on a rock garden on the roof to take his mind off of Mr. Mind still being free #I really love their relationship #I think that a boss that’s considerate but also has a lot of faith in Billy’s capabilities as a reporter #and gives him a lot of responsibility #is a dynamic with an adult that works really well for Billy #after previously being horribly neglected and abused by his uncle #who also tried to pressure Billy into stealing #now Billy is doing work that he enjoys and feels is worthwhile #and that he also gets good pay and respect for #my opinion is that the formal structure of the employee and boss dynamic makes this relationship more comfortable for Billy #as despite the fact that Billy gets paid by Mr. Morris #there isn’t really that dependent on an adult element that I think Billy would really struggle to feel safe within #instead there’s set stable expectations #fawcett comics #billy batson #sterling morris #my posts #comic panels

[gameboyhamazing]

i don’t play pokemon masters but if the versions of Lillie Lusamine and Gladion in there are from usum instead of the OG sumo, that makes so much fucking sense. usum butchered one of the things I love most about alola (the story) and tried so hard to make lusamine redeemable and I hated it bc they all forgave her instantly when I’d already played sumo and had that version of her in my mind where she was an absolute bitch who was depicted very clearly as abusive (both in the past and present), and I was very confused why Lillie just forgave her right away when all the wounds were still extremely fresh and/or reopened. if the aether fam in masters is from usum it makes so much more sense why they feel so wrong to me bc it’s the versions of them that are toned down to make room for the ultra recon squad

#pokemon #pkmn #pkmn sumo #pokemon sun and moon #I love the plot and setting of sun and moo. with all my heart #and I always disliked the ultra games despite them supposedly being the definitive versions #and couldn’t figure out why until I saw that one comic #you know the one #the one where it compares the exeggutor island scenes from the two #and shows how in sumo you have a nice moment with lillie #but in usum it’s just the generic veteran trainer who brings you there standing with you #and that was when I realized #it was the story that I had problems with #update: I downloaded pokemas like an hour after I posted this lol

[ct-hardcase]

totj last episode spoilers ahead:

alright so uh. I really don’t know how to feel about the last totj episode (I enjoyed all the others!!!) since it has similar vibes to the novel but with all of what I’d consider integral and interesting to the story filed off.

And btw, I am/was more than willing to set this in canon after the novel but the story beats here (Ahsoka getting back into contact with Bail/using his ships to rescue the remaining farmers, the setting seeming almost a copy/paste farm planet with mountains/rolling hills, the fact that it was specifically a blow to the inquisitor’s face that killed him, Ahsoka not drawing her lightsaber once during the fight) but there are enough differences for me to hesitate to say they’re the same thing (the completely different cast, the way the inquisitor was called to the village, the imperial presence being more removed from the villagers).

So this leaves me (and canon, I suspect) in this gray area, where referring to Ahsoka’s past could refer you to the events of the novel, or this, and it’s not really clear which one, leaving the novel to be completely ignored/disposed of.

And on top of that it’s weird because I feel it thematically works with the rest of the episodes’ story arcs but metatextually plays weird with the novel and leaves me with a lot of weird feelings about the whole thing

[d*nt rb]

#totj spoilers #tales of the jedi spoilers #sw spoilers #sw negativity #also. I have complicated feelings about this a) being referenced in the Ahsoka show which I have a lot of baggage about due to R*sario #also also my concern about the novel isn’t re: EK #it’s more that a part of Ahsoka’s story is edging close to being completely overwritten #and it + Kanan’s order 66 change set a precedent for novels/comics I don’t like #and further I hate that I knew I’d probably be disappointed by Filoni’s writing of the inqusitor but— #especially *after* seeing how well they could be written going back to him using them as set dressing is somehow more deeply disappointing #despite knowing damn well he probably wouldn’t have much of a role #inquisitorius tag

[mishkakagehishka]

I guess i'm at that age where all i want to write about is commentary on society

#she's at that special age where a writer only thinks about one thing. how to tear everything she hates apart but #formed as a little prose novel full of symbols and metaphors #i'm saying i wanna write that wip about the devaluation of writing as an artform through fast-fashion-esque treatment of literature #and the tiktokification of literature and so on and so forth #but i also wanna write about this. way that art in general is thought of as having no value despite the fact #that art is such a strong part of all our lives whether we're aware of it or not #and the fact that you can be unaware of it - because it's simply that deeply woven into our lives as human beings #there is nothing more human than art. even AI can only make derivative art but humans are the ones who can /create/ #even when you emulate it's still your own original spin on art #and the fact that - despite music despite television despite dance despite comics despite it all being so #prevalent in society such a key feature of all our lives such a comfort to us. the arts are seen as lesser as unimportant as not even #secondary or tertiary but entirely on the bottom of the list of ''work that needs to be done'' is just... #none of you (the people who devalue art in such ways) know what you're asking for when you're asking for artists to go back to starving #without artists all we would have is work complemented by the most basic functions #eating sleeping pissing fucking. what would set us apart from animals would be work - and even that. ants and bees and beavers. #whatever. i won't linger on it for now

[scarletspider2the2ndpower]

“Life after Death,” Scarlet Spider (Vol. 2/2012), #1.

Writer: Christopher Yost; Penciler : Ryan Stegman; Inker: Michael Babinsky; Colorist: Marte Garcia; Letterer: Joe Caramagna

#Marvel #Marvel comics #Marvel 616 #Scarlet Spider vol. 2 #Scarlet Spider 2012 #Scarlet Spider #Kaine #Kaine Parker #AKSHDHSJ THIS #Fun fact: this was the first issue I ever read with Kaine and (as if the rest of issue hadn’t already sold me) #this was the moment where I knew I would get a kick out of Kaine’s character #this also set the tone for the rest of the book and I was so on board #just for how starkly different from Spidey he was if nothing else #Imagine expecting to get saved by Spider-Man where he webs up the approaching vehicle #and makes some quip like “and yet I still can never catch a cab in this city ;D” #but instead you get buzzcut shirtless “Spider-Man” + 50% mass who yells obscenities and actually increases the lethality #of the incident by a factor of two #but yeah all jokes aside there is some actually serious content here #for example despite its absurd shock value this accident does actually have farther reaching negative consequences (rightfully so) #that whole “none of the responsibility” thing does catch up to Kaine even as he fumbles and learns his way to being a hero #That first panel is interesting first for the contrast with that earlier double spread (descending into darkness vs basking in the light) #and then for the fact that Kaine even tries to get involved at all when it’s obvious by that final page that Kaine’s first instinct now #(since he’s trying to move on from his past which was characterized by “fight”) is almost always “flight” #I also just find it interesting how Kaine expects to be made a spectacle of by the public #makes you wonder how people in the past have reacted to his uncovered face

[kingmaximusboltagon]

oh hey while i'm here i finished a Small Scene from the comic rewrite!! because fuck it, i had the idea, and i needed to immediately fix some things. under the cut for spoiler reasons, i guess, i'm kinda just taking random things i like and mashing them together at this point ?? WHATEVER here it is !!

Are you alright?

Maximus frowns at the question, and shrugs. “Oh, they were already prosthetics. I can rebuild it. Won’t take long, so don’t fret.”

But it hurts, doesn’t it?

“Not particularly.”

Maximus turns away to tinker with the broken parts of a gun on the table, still wearing the torn jacket, the edges singed away.

Blackagar takes the few steps closer to stand at his side, well aware of the half-truth he was being told. Maximus never admitted when he was injured or in pain, but he was his brother; Blackagar had known him almost his entire life, and he knew him well enough to know when Maximus was being truthful or not.

And he’s heard him grumble complaints and rub at his arms often enough to know that they did hurt. Blackagar hadn’t known, couldn’t have known - before Blackagar himself, Attilan did not speak of things like this. Attilan did not speak of many things before Blackagar. There are many things now that he doesn’t want to speak of.

If he had known how much it would affect Maximus, he would have tried to constrain himself more. Maximus was clearly able to live with it, but there was a lifetime of pain that Blackagar was responsible for now, that he couldn’t really do anything to prevent. A lifetime of different.

Blackagar himself was stuck in a lifetime of different. All he’s ever wanted was to prevent his family from being him, and all he’s seemed capable of doing is being the cause of their suffering.

“Your sulking is distracting me.”

Blackagar glances at his brother, who had stopped prodding at the contents on his table to look up at him. Blackagar tilts his head. I would sulk less if I knew you were alright.

Maximus scoffs, and makes a move to cross his arms, before belatedly moving the one to rest on his hip, instead. “Oh, go worry over someone else. I’ve already told you I’m fine. I do need to fix this, so go away.”

He turns his gaze back to the table, though he makes no move to mess with any of it anymore. Nor does he make any move to walk away.

They stand in silence for a long few moments.

“How is Medusa?” Maximus asks quietly.

Blackagar feels his lips twitch. Recovering. She’ll be strong enough to join in the fight.

“And Karnak?”

Focused on tracking down Vox. A lot has happened. I don’t know if he’s processed most of it.

Maximus lets out a humorless chuckle. “I suppose a lot has happened.” He taps restlessly against the edge of the table. “Have you sent anything out to Ahura and Luna?”

Crystal’s trying to get to them. She may leave for Earth. You are free to go with her, if you would like.

Maximus hums. “Of course I am. You wouldn’t keep me trapped here.”

I do not know how this fight will turn out. Ahura and Luna are fond of you. Perhaps more than they are fond of me.

Maximus meets his gaze again, and there’s an anxious glint in his eyes. “We’ve survived worse, brother. When this is over, we will go to Earth together.”

Blackagar can hope those words to be true. He wants them to be true.

“Besides,” Maximus says, waving with his arm as he trots off, leaving Blackagar to trail after him, “I do believe this is my fight, as well. My city was attacked, my cousin killed.” He digs through a charred box of half-melted metallic parts, before making an annoyed noise and dragging the entire box back towards a cleaner part of the floor, his only remaining table taken up already.

“And he killed Lockjaw,” Maximus says, grief finally seeping into his voice, as he turns an intense gaze to Blackagar, “I want revenge. I’m not running.”

Then I am glad we want the same thing.

“And it only took our entire city falling.” Maximus replies with a smirk.

#meant #am i actually going to go through with killing lockjaw? undecided #i'd hate to be a cop out like the source #but also like. doggy :( #at the very least if lockjaw does go out i want him to be with maximus as the first issue set up #and for the love of FUCK where are their kids #like. by the midway point the royal family assumed that like HALF of them are dead. WHY would they not talk to their kids #WHAT IF VOX HAD GONE TO EARTH??? they would have DIED and not even be warned?????? #medusa. crystal. please. #esp since at one point bolt is missing and presumed to be dead. medusa then puts all her energy into tracking down vox instead of like. #maybe warning her son to make sure even more of her family doesn't die #no. can comic writers remember when characters have children a little more often. like they even acknowledge ahura and luna IN THE ART #sorry im just ranting about this now. i firmly believe with how upset they're all to be (despite not really. showing that.) #about their family all dying that they'd at least think of those two maybe one time? #bb literally writes down the names of 11.000 inhumans he doesn't know and yet doesnt think to send word down to earth about any of this #i feel he should very strongly try to protect the few remaining inhumans left but he just. doesnt. #maximus boltagon #blackagar boltagon #medusalith amaquelin #lockjaw inhumans #inhumans #ahura boltagon #luna maximoff #crystalia amaquelin #karnak mander-azur

[scorchedhearth]

you dont understand, i love isamot kol

#him and vath are so cool together. i admit i like their first iteration in the rebirth comics better than what they have here #i liked hot head and holder of grudge isamot with a too-cool and detached vath than the happy-go-lucky kol and anger management vath we #have now. that was more fun imo. and they both had the same flaws despite the different characters so it was a nice way to breach #despite vath telling kol to play nice he was just as hardheaded and set on his positions he just hid it. hence the too cool and unemotional #that played off kol burning-out attitude. that was a nice mix! here it's just. old and angry with emotional and dumbed down which... meh #anyway they're fun. nice partners and i love the lizard boy

[beatcroc]

you ever think about how gerome and fake pep are the only two guys who really only ever knew the tower as their home? i do

lots of fp text in this one so full un-ciphered script is going under cut below. [mostly just a bunch of headcanon nonsense about his whole Situation in the tower :p] [there is also a second bonus after because i am insufferable] anyway,

bonus:

hey! it's a series! fake peppino world tour: [noise] [noisette] [peppino] [gustavo] [gerome]<- u are here [noisette again]

gerome: i say there monstrosity! do you know the times? fp: …? gerome: haha! just an old joke, lad. gerome: but seriously, i never saw you around the tower much. what's your deal? fp: ... fp: 👈 ?? gerome: yes you! you never struck me as just some hired goon like the rest. fp: i… i don't really know. gerome: oh come now, you needn't be modest. fp: i'm not! i- [fp takes a seat] fp: they…. didn't tell me much. the…the lab. you know it? gerome: i'd pass though, now and again. fp: i was there for awhile, with lots of other copies gerome: oh, you knew the other clones? what were they like? fp: nutritious. gerome: ah. fp: they-the tall one- moved me to….「bruno's」 later. gerome: tall one… you mean pizzahead? fp: uh….right.「pizzahead」 …started changing it. kept changing it. i think i was waiting for something. waiting… to open? but he told me to keep-stay in there. to guard it. was there…longer than the labs but we never got to finish…. but i think we were close. But then「pep- pep: woah. never seen him this chatty gerome: just have to ask the right questions, i suppose pep: I mean, sure but-- wait, you can understand him??? gerome: it's only natural, after all, he is at least in part- part of the tower; made from its power and resources, and so connected with my brother...and to some extent, myself. his speech resonates with the old echoes through its chambers, and while i may not be as omniscient, it has no secrets that would fully elude me. pep: ...uh. ok, sure. what's he saying? fp: ..! fp: XXX! gerome: ah…. seems he's a bit embarrassed. pep: aw. er…look, it may not be my business, but whatever happened in the tower is behind us now, yeah? i know i sure try to forget it too fp: 😬 fp: ...😓👍 [fp turns back to gerome] fp: ............i wasn’t done gerome: he wasn't done. fp: yeah. then 「peppino」 came through. you probably know. hard to miss him. gerome: heh, I'll say. fp: We fought, I stayed…. didn't know anything else until 「pizzahead」grabbed me. fighting more on the roof... fp: You know the rest? you ran out with us... gerome: mhm fp: And… now we’re here. gerome: now we’re here… fp: ...that's all i had. so..... i still don't really know. sorry... gerome: ah, don't be. that's just how it goes, i guess. not much that can be done now... gerome: i suppose we both left some things behind in that tower. i certainly know it can be daunting to leave the fold of familiarity. gerome: but, for what it's worth...i think it’s for the better things worked out for us as they did. fp: yeah…

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#pizza tower #peppino spaghetti #fake peppino #gerome #pillar john #pizzaposting #man. there was a lot of really specific shit i wanted to say in this one that i dont think i communicated very clearly at all #its fine though i dont think the ambiguity is necessarily a bad thing. he sure is feeling something and its on you to figure out what #i was picking up on a couple different reads as i went and i don't think any of them are really 'wrong' per se #but also there Is technically a 'correct' one which i will certainly ramble abt if someone asks <:3c #anyway i kinda scrapped that longer angsty comic with the bros so this is my main pillar bros propaganda post now i guess #begging and crying people to care abt & include them etc #now to be clear i dont think gerome has like. never been anywhere else or anything #i think he and john could p much travel freely before the whole pizzahead takeover #but after that happened john was confined to the tower and gerome just wound up staying in there all the time to help take care of him #so it's been a bit since gerome truly Ventured:tm: #fake pep on the other hand i straight up do not think had ever set foot outside the tower until postgame #so. yeah the tower was a pretty big and fundamental deal for these guys' sense of security. #and now that it's gone i think they should be friends about it #and also more generally i think gerome is a great confidant for fp!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! [!!!] #besides the whole 'can actually understand him' thing gerome is just a cool & chill lil dude to talk to #no shade to peppino ofc he's a decent enough role model and tries his best to understand despite the barriers. but like. yknow. #he is also very reactive. and intimidating. and bad at handling emotions. #and you knooooowwww he is not going to want to talk about tower shit specifically for a variety of reasons #i think gerome enjoys fp's perspective on tower stuff though. #rem and i were bouncing off eachother wrt the tower and cloning and all the natural john duplicates/bodies #fp is not the natural 'subject' for the tower's processes but he a product of its nature just as much as any john #so i am thinking. maybe gerome also considers fp family. i think that would be nice. #aahhhhh...something about bridges. something about liminality. #you can take the beast out of the tower but you can't take the tower out of the beast