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zvaigzdelasas · 4 months

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China’s economy is currently on the operating table, hunched over by surgeons, chest cavity splayed open, hooked up to a cardiopulmonary machine, surrounded by nurses staring at monitors flashing vital signs. It all looks rather grim.

This surgery, however, is not an emergency bypass. That would be too easy. China has had many of those already – stimulus packages, grand infrastructure projects and many rounds of directed lending.

Every two decades or so, going all the way back to the founding of the PRC in 1949, the surgeons get ambitious. These guys are mad scientists attempting a comic book trope – to create the ultimate superhero.

They want to inject super serum, replace skeletal calcium with adamantium and dose the patient with gamma rays, giving China the powers of shazams out the wazoo.[...]

In the lamented “pre-reform” era, China’s mad scientists engineered spectacular growth by increasing investment from a prewar 6% of GDP to 20% in the first Five-Year Plan, covering 1952-1957. This led industrial output to register a compound annual growth rate.

The Great Leap Forward accelerated this growth to 66% in 1958 and 39% in 1959 before crashing and burning in 1961 when mismanagement of communal farms and “backyard blast furnaces” caught up with the mad scientists.

Course correction starting in 1962 recovered all lost ground by 1965. According to economist Cheng Chu-Yuan, China’s GDP growth averaged 11% between 1952 and 1966, the eve of the Cultural Revolution. (T. C. Liu of Cornell and K. C. Yeh of the Rand Corporation have a lower estimate: 8%.)

More importantly, China built a full kit of infrastructure, machinery and equipment capable of driving future industrialization.[...]

Many analysts have a tabula rasa understanding of China’s reform era, as if there had been no economy before Deng Xiaoping. In reality, China’s industrialization started right after the formation of the PRC with some of the fastest growth recorded in the 1950’s and 1960’s. Even during the “low growth” Cultural Revolution, resources directed towards public health (for example, barefoot doctors) and primary education doubled life expectancy and quadrupled adult literacy by 1980 from pre-PRC levels.

The mad scientists are now at it again. They have about twenty years of new data not just on China but from the rest of the world. When Zhu Rongji was head surgeon, history had ended and markets reigned supreme. This time around, the surgeons are correcting for market irrationality and negative externalities. The next twenty years is again being determined on the operating table.

Three years ago, the surgeons pried open China’s chest cavity with the three red lines credit limits, instantly seizing the speculation driven property sector. Since then, they ripped out unnecessary organs like education companies, clamped the Ant Financial artery and eviscerated the video game industry. All of this has caused spasms in vital signs from lackluster growth to rising youth unemployment. Wondering whether China will or will not stimulate the economy next quarter or next year is missing the forest from the trees. For the next few years, China’s economy will still be under the knife and whatever adjustments will merely be anesthesiologists and technicians nominally dialing the drugs up and down and adjusting the heart-lung machine to maintain vital signs.

What are these mad scientists trying to achieve? We believe President Xi Jinping’s 2020 target of doubling China’s GDP by 2035 stands. That is an average growth rate of 4.7% for 15 years. But beyond just a numerical target, it is important to figure out what superpowers China is trying to acquire. And just as importantly, what Kryptonite factors China is attempting to inoculate itself against.

China wants America’s Silicon Valley, but regulated; Japan’s car companies, but electrified; Germany’s Mittelstand, but scalable; and Korea’s chaebol conglomerates, but without political capture. It wants to lead the world in science and technology, but without cram schools. A thriving economy, but with common prosperity. Industry, without air pollution. Digital lifestyle, without gaming addiction. Material plenty, without hedonism. Modernity, without its ills. This is, of course, a wish-list and unrealistically ambitious. But these mad scientists sure as hell are going to try. They’ve developed a taste for it.

In college, early into the semester, we went through a ritual called course exchange. Students gathered in an auditorium to swap classes after sampling lectures for three weeks – satisfaction was not guaranteed. The strategy passed down to underclassmen applied to both course exchange and significant others: “Add before you drop.”

China is undergoing – but perhaps botching – the same process with a more party-esque slogan, “Establish the new before abolishing the old.”

The surgeons have been on a tear gutting the old. The big kahuna is, of course, the property sector. But right behind are platform monopolies, private education, financial services and video games. The new has been playing catch-up, with 5G equipment, electric vehicles, photovoltaics and wind turbines being leading examples.

From all appearances, the Industrial Party is in ascendance and China will double down on climbing the manufacturing value chain. The Industrial Party is a political identity that believes industry, science and technology should determine China’s future. Adherents believe that China’s strength lie in the technical skills of her population and thus favor hard-science, high-tech industries as opposed to services and business model innovations.

Therefore, Chinese politicians, whatever their predisposition, must find a way to create space for this next generation of scientists and technicians to develop themselves. They cannot be confined to a production line at a Foxconn plant. Maintaining social stability means finding a use for future scientists and technicians, which means pursuing industrialization. Is there any other way? The key variable for determining the course of China’s future development is thus the massive number of talented technical and scientific workers.

If mistakes were made, it would have been in sequencing and in faith – dropping before adding is a poor strategy in both love and course exchange. China’s mad scientists may have been too confident that electric vehicles and renewable energy would be followed quickly by semiconductors, pharmaceuticals and commercial aircraft.

Perhaps they have reason to be confident. Planning for this surgery has been in the works since 2015 with the Made in China 2025 project. China has been steadily eroding imports of high value added intermediary goods like batteries, precision parts and electrical components, flipping trade with South Korea from deficit to surplus.[...]

China never properly transitioned from its Soviet era Material Product System (MPS) of national accounts to the United Nation’s System of National Accounts (UNSNA) standard, leaving out much of services from reported GDP.

We calculate that China accounts for 22-24% of global GDP and 20-23% of global consumption. We also calculate that household consumption is 50-55% of China’s GDP, in line with global averages. China should easily be able to grow at 4.7% through 2035 with only a modest increase in consumption’s GDP share (5 percentage points over 10 years) without upsetting global economic balances.

In the reform period prior to Xi, everything was sacrificed at the altar of economic growth. In the new era, growth has been walked down from 9.6% in 2011 to an average of 4.7% in the Covid years (2020-2023) as an increasing litany of issues were given precedence. Debt however, soared over this time from 175% of GDP to over 300%. What exactly did all that debt buy?

When Xi assumed leadership of China, he declared that inequality could not be allowed to increase further. Inequality is perhaps the major Kryptonite factor of the American economy which China wasted no time in matching as the economy roared with market reforms.

While still problematic, inequality, as measured by the Gini coefficient, has steadily fallen since 2010 largely as a result of massive investment in urbanization, pushing people into cities and pushing cities up the tiering ladder.[...]

China also poured resources into stamping out last-mile poverty. While most poverty alleviation in China was through economic growth, recalcitrant extremely poverty could only be eradicated by concentrated marshaling of resources, from relocating entire villages to weekly visits by social workers.[...]

Since peaking in 2012, air pollution in Beijing has been cut by over 60%, with Shanghai falling over 50%. China, which used to dominate the list of most polluted cities, now only claims one spot in the top 20. None of this came cheap, from installing scrubbers in smoke stacks to increasing renewables to moving heavy industry to strict emissions regulations for cars.[...]

Before Hu Jintao handed the reins to Xi, Hu warned delegates to the 18th Party Congress in 2012 that “[corruption] could prove fatal to the party… and [cause] the fall of the state.” The popular opinion in the West is that Xi ended China’s highly successful reform era because of an ideological bent. This is off the mark. Xi was brought in to clean house as the wheels were coming off from excesses of the reform era.

Throughout Xi’s decade in office, there has been no letup in his anti-corruption campaign. In 2022, a record 638,000 officials were punished for corruption. While there haven’t been any large scale ideological appeals to the public, it’s a different story within the 98-million-member party.

During this time, free market capitalism and liberal democracies also faced their own existential tests. Success or failure going forward will depend on whether liberal institutions remain intact in the West and whether party discipline can be maintained in China. What the PRC has had since 1949 is a governing party with the political autonomy to play mad scientist. [...]

Of course we live in the real world, not a comic-book world. The question in the real world has always been whether the economy can be engineered by mad scientists from the top down or is it best left to the invisible hand of the market? [...]

The standard economic opinion – against all evidence – is that China was economically stagnant before Deng’s market reforms. The thinking on this for the American economys is undergoing a transformation in egghead land – just how has neoliberal economics benefitted the American people over the past few decades?

In a Q&A exchange at a conference in Malaysia, Eric Li, the barbed-tongued venture capitalist, was asked, “Do you think top-down directives are sustainable in the long run?” To which he replied, “It’s the only thing that’s sustainable.… That’s why America is failing today.” After World War II, Li said, the Americans “lost the ability to do top-down design.”

Dec 2023

#quite the colorful rhetorical device but lots of good data here

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sonicuniversesmackdown · 10 months

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Round One Match-ups

Round One will begin on Saturday 22nd July, when all 32 polls in the round will be posted and shall run for one week

Tumblr only lets you tag so many blogs in one post, so the left side will be posted below and the right side in a reblog, along with some notes:

TOP LEFT

Miles "Tails" Prower (OVA) - @tailsshowdown vs Blaze the Cat (IDW) - @blazeshowdown Shadow the Hedgehog & Maria Robotnik - @tragicsibsshowdown vs Dr. Eggman - @stachebracket Amy Rose (Fleetway) - @amyroseshowdown vs SONIC vs. KNUCKLES ~ NORTH WIND - @thepeakofsonicmusic Knuckles the Echidna - @sonicmalematchup vs Metal Sonic - @sonicpoorlittlemeowmeowshowdown Sonic the Hedgehog (IDW) - @bestactualsonicshowdown vs Stardust Speedway Bad Future (JP) - @sonic-instrumental-matchup Barry the Quokka - @themurderofsonic-knockout vs E-102 Gamma - @sonicseriesroboshowdown Sonic Adventure 2 OST - @best-sonic-soundtracks vs Shadow the Hedgehog - @edgelord-battle-bracket Ebony the Mystic Mog - @secretsonicshowdown vs Miles "Tails" Prower - @sonic-palooza

BOTTOM LEFT

Miles "Tails" Prower (Sonic X) - @sonicxpolll vs Matilda the Ant by @halcyon-pandion & @frostios - @sonic-oc-showdown Bunnie Rabbot-D'Coolette (pre-SGW) - @ultimatearchiesonicbracket vs Amy/Blaze - @sonicshipbattles Sonic's Theme (The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog) - @sonic-instrumental-matchup vs Knuckles the Echidna (Movie) - @knucklesshowdown Dr. Starline - @idwsonicshowdown vs Metal Sonic - @sonicvillaindeathmatch Infinite the Jackal (Post-Redemption) by @dreaminginmysoup - @best-infinite-brawl vs The Master Emerald - @sonic-macguffin-matchup Sonic/no one - @sonicshipbattles vs Stardust Speedway Present (JP/EU) - @thepeakofsonicmusic Rouge the Bat - @sonicgirlsmackdown vs Shadow the Hedgehog (Pre-SGW) - @shadowsmackdown Maria Robotnik - @bestsonichuman vs Sonic the Hedgehog & Miles "Tails" Prower - @adhdvsautismbracket

#Poll Notes #Round One #Sonic Universe Smackdown

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senig-fandom · 27 days

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Hace tiempo que no veo a Roscosmos, Aexa o a Nasa que a pasado con ellos?

En mi lore no tienen mucho, solamente e de mencionar que con el regreso de Centro, la gente voltea a ver los logros de México hacia lo tecnológico y avances espaciales en las que se involucra México Centro, haciendo a Aexa muy, pero muy feliz y de compartir conocimientos con su creador nuevamente, pero anda teniendo problemas con el presidente actual y la reducción de dinero, aunque Centro intenta ayudarla a escondidas como siempre.(El trio mexicano es conocido por ayudar a espaldas de los gobernantes y presidentes, porque saben que cuando algo vale la pena los ayudan poco a poco)

NASA trabaja para enviar a personas a la Luna en su ultimo trabajo y algunas explosiones de rayos gamma, ante todo lo demás, sigue trabajando hasta el agotamiento (aunque el no siente eso)

Roscosmo, creo que esta intentando colocar un centro espacial en la Luna o una central nuclear :/ no lo recuerdo con exactitud, de allí ya no tengo mas información que pueda colocar entre ellos 3.

De allí no tengo mas, solo ideas vagas, pero que no puedo hilarlos a lo original V.V

#countryhumans #senig #senig063 #organizationhumans #OrganizationHumans Aexa #OrganizationHumans AEM #OrganizationHumans NASA #OrganizationHumans Roscosmo

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elytra404 · 1 year

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so i love coming up with au's for my fandoms that ill never actually write, so yk what? its time to make them a tumblr series!! first up?

ely's hypothetical dsmp marvel au!!!

Meet: the avengers, though their fans tend to call them the sleepy bois! (an inside joke from when the iron bird may have fallen asleep before a very important conference). The line up is as follows!

The Iron Bird! This man, also know as Phil, or Philza affectionately, got rich from a mix of inheritance and coding skills! This one man army can rival all of Nintendo! Well, a man and a robot, if you include his highly advanced digital assistant!

Wilbur! More commonly known by the superhero name, Retrocognition, Wilbur is Philza's assistant! originally created as an ai, he now has a body thanks to the infinity stone in his head! He was originally made as a replica of Philza's son, whose death pushed him to becoming a superhero, but Wilbur has grown into his own being!

This brings us to Philza and Wilbur's first real friend for years, Fire ant. Moved on from her days as a german spy, Fire Ant now works for Phil and helps him in his superhero escapades! Those close to her know her as Niki, and well her instincts are sharp and her mind suspicious, she can make a mean pastry.

And now, coming out of the ice for the first time in decades, its Captain America! She may be a tad old, and catching on lost time, but shes still as strong as ever! Her real name is Cara, but her friends call her Puffy! Why? Nobody really remembers to be honest. Shes our favorite super soldier, and a complete bad ass when shes not trying to figure out how a phone works!

Next in the line up, the great god of thunder, Tho- oh, sorry, turns out he now prefers the more 'human' 'discrete' name of Technoblade? Well, no matter the name, Techno is a wonderful god! Loyal to his hammer, the orphan obliterator! (turns out Milnor was a mistranslation? well thank god(s) for that!) A tad absentminded, and always cracking jokes about some kind of wall, he may just be the most powerful on the team.

But our team wouldn't be complete without our final three! Why, its Goop, Hawkeye, and... Fundy? Sure!

First off, the amazing Goop! Thanks to some gamma rays, great scientist Charlie Sicle became some what of a monster. He's a totally normal man with a perfectly normal bone structure, until you make him mad! Then, well you ever heard of a d&d ooze? Yea... you can have fun with that.

Then, we have Hawkeye. Also known as Jack Manifold (hes not the best at secret identities), this super powered hero is... what is he actually? Why do they keep him around? Well... anyway this family man is probably a wonderful addition to the team!

And last but certainly not least, its the wonderful Fundy! Quickly taken in by Wilbur, this 15 year old was granted out of this world powers by a space stone! And with a slightly unhealthy amount of trauma and self loathing, what teen wouldn't want to be this orange wizard!

Of course, we have other heros! From Sneegsnag the bug man, to Spidered the purple spider hero, Foolish the wizard sorcerer, to King Ponk of Wakanda (and more importantly king of his lemon orchid). Many wonderful heros to beat all the terrorists in this galaxy!

And if its more heroes in the galaxy your looking for, may I introduce the wonderful Guardians of our galaxy?

Starting with our self selected caption, Tommy Inn! Tommy was swooped up as a young boy by aliens, with only his mothers favorite music disc and a handheld player to his name. He protects those discs with his life, almost more then he protects his own life!

Then, of course, we cant talk about the legendary captain without his newly full time best friend! Tho he used to be an enemy, Tubbo is down for the ride! If not a little skeptical of his best friends planning abilities. Former son of Madre, he's ready to gaurd that galaxy!

Of course we can't talk about the guardian without discussing Ranboo! This little devil was made in a lab, and looks oddly similar to a minecraft enderman! A tad insecure, this he/they will not hesitate to bite you.

And of course, Ranboo's loyal companion, Aimsey. Aimsey's species is apparently very close to this earth cartoon Tommy keeps talking about, Adventure time. However Aimsey and their complex language of "I am Aimsey" is a much needed team member.

And now you know the heros of our tales! Fighting Madre, who dreams of creating his own universe with the infinity stones, who knows what could come next!

(partially inspired by and helped with some stuff- @mariposathebutterflyboy )

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o5-10 · 4 days

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This is the best photo I have seen for scale of the ant. I apologize that Gamma Operative Bobby Liu is in it.

#logs #500 treasonous monkeys #under a watchful eye

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antvnger · 10 months

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Blood Brothers AU - Tony survives the Endgame

((I see your proposal, Anon, and raise you...something bigger.

Yes, I completely agree Scott would, and that will certainly be included here. But there’s definitely more to this here than just that.

You know the more I think about it, the more I realize the Russos were just mean and the more annoyed and angry I get. Tony did not have to die. And in my head, he didn’t. I’ve got my own ideas of how he survived, quite a few indeed. Heck, in one version of the story, it’s not a Time Heist, it’s a Quantum Heist and I threw in an OC to make sure he lives, but that’s neither here nor there…

Anyway, in the Blood Brothers universe, Tony does in fact live. So does Nat but that’s also neither here nor there. Here’s how.))

Thanos had just blown up the van. Captain Marvel was this close to escaping with the Stones to the Quantum Realm, but Thanos blew that idea to hell.

We know what happens next. Thanos and Carol fight, and just when we think Carol is really going to end the threat once and for all, Thanos remains one step ahead and knocks Carol into next week with the Power Stone.

And then…the look. Where a chess-master sorcerer and one who seems to defy all with an iron will lock eyes and know the moment has come.

But in this universe, the look doesn’t go unnoticed.

Ant-Man and the Wasp survive the exploding van in a similar fashion to how Scott survived Thanos’ initial attack on the compound. From the rubble near where the van once sat, a tiny Scott Stark groans, shakes his head, and slowly gets up. He hears a large crack resound and flinches, looking around frantically to see just in time how Thanos has gotten the better of Carol.

And somehow, for whatever reason, Doctor Strange catches Scott’s attention. That look of solemn urgency as he holds up one trembling finger. Strange did say they only had one shot at winning…and the look on his face makes Scott realize this was it.

Then his eyes travel to where Doctor Strange was looking, and his heart drops to his boots. No.

That’s another look Scott can recognize. Resolve. Resignation. He’s worn the same look himself on many occasions. Hell, he’d be wearing the look right now if he wasn’t feeling such panic and desperation to get to his brother as quickly as possible.

Because so many things are running through his head right now. Things like Bruce’s screams by just putting on the gauntlet, never mind the damage he endured after snapping his fingers.

Things like the fact that if it wasn’t for the part of him that was the Hulk, Bruce more than likely wouldn’t have survived the snap.

Things like Bruce saying the radiation coming off the Stones was gamma.

Things like Tony’s own words to Thor: “...that glove's channeling enough energy to light up a continent…”

Things like Rocket describing what it felt like to feel the effects of one Stone, never mind six.

Things like Tony was about to die. Scott was about to watch his brother die, and he knew it.

Panic propels the tiny Ant-Man forward towards Tony just as he sees his big brother cleverly swipe the Infinity Stones from the iron gauntlet.

But the younger Stark is clever too, and an idea - a desperate prayer really - blooms in his mind, one he would follow through in full force…whether it ends well for himself or not.

“I am inevitable,” he hears the Mad Titan exclaim with a calm that sends shivers down Scott’s spine. Thanos snaps his fingers, and nothing happens. Scott’s almost there.

Tony reveals the Stones in his gloved hand, and he flings his head back with a grunt as he bears the electric weight of six Infinity Stones. “And I…” He’s yards away now. “Am…”

Scott gets ready, mentally and physically, as he closes the gap between him and his older brother. He’s going to have to time it all perfectly. One shot to get this right.

“Iron Man.”

In the span of a second, three things happen. 1) Scott activates the Pym Particles with the button on his left hand to make him grow. 2) As Scott grows, he reaches out his right hand and grabs Tony’s right shoulder. 3) Tony snaps his fingers, and the world goes white.

This is where the world freezes for one very brief moment, and Tony is transported to the Soul Stone’s realm because he’s the one who snapped his fingers.

The world doesn’t freeze for Scott though.

As he grows giant, he gets down on one knee to keep his hold on Tony’s shoulder, and he struggles to hold on.

Scott feels everything and nothing all at once.

He learned something from hearing Rocket’s encounter with the Infinity Stone. They can be survivable if you don’t carry the burden alone. And/or if you’re big enough. Tony wasn’t but with Scott’s help, Tony could be.

Energy is neither created nor destroyed; it transfers and transforms. As if sensing a larger mass to consume, the energy of the Infinity Stones drains out of Tony’s shoulder directly in and up Scott’s right arm to the rest of his giant form, rumbling through him like a chain reaction of TNT.

Scott had never felt heat like that before. Heck, he’d never felt anything like that before. He almost expected death instantaneously simply from the sheer force of what electricity coursed through him, yet, miraculously, it didn’t come.

He doesn’t remember how or when he ended up on his back.

He doesn’t remember Hope was about to shrink him back to normal size, but he does remember hearing Doctor Strange shout, “No! If you want him to live, you leave him be!”

For a brief moment, Scott wonders who Strange is talking about.

He doesn’t really remember what Doctor Strange and the princess of Wakanda discuss so quickly and urgently. All he remembers is hearing the princess say, “Two more white boys to work on, and one is a giant.”

Oh, Scott realizes, they’re talking about me and Tony.

He remembers staring at the sky and seeing a beam of sunlight break through the clouds of ash. That’s all he remembers.

Until he wakes up with a start in an exotic and really cool looking hospital room…or lab. There’s so much cool tech, he thinks it’s not exactly a hospital ward.

His suit’s gone, and his right arm, chest, and upper right leg are bandaged up. “Weird…wha–what’s going on?” He looks around, and before he can call out if anyone was there, he finally notices another bed nearby with his brother lying on it, unconscious or asleep and missing an arm.

But very much alive according to the readout of his heartbeat on the nearby screen.

Scott learns many things later on, filling in the gaps in his memory.

He learns that while Scott could not save Tony from losing his arm as a result of actually snapping his fingers, the transfer of energy really did save his life.

He learns that Shuri had to run tests and scans on him while he was giant to make sure the radiation and the energy from the Stones were completely out of his system before he was shrunk back down. Doing so beforehand might have killed him because that would have thrown him into the same dilemma he spared Tony from. He was big enough as a giant to handle the energy, which is why he’s only escaped with bad burns. The scars look like lightning webbing across his skin.

He also learned Hope had to use her disks to shrink him. Any particles he had in his suit had mysteriously disappeared. Perhaps absorbed by the Infinity Stone energy, but that was speculation.

He learned he had been out cold for five days. Between breaking records in size and timeframe of being giant and the Infinity Stones, that was enough to make Scott sleep undisturbed for that long. Shuri had to assure everyone that he really was not dead. “He’s literally breathing on his own and mumbling incoherently every once in a while,” she informed them. “He’s sleeping very deeply.”

Tony went through surgery to remove the arm, and Shuri had to use some Vibranium on his heart to strengthen it. Even Tony’s heart can only take so much, but it’s strong and stable now and probably in better shape than it was before.

But the snap knocked him out cold too, and Tony wakes up a full day after Scott does. And he has no idea how in the world he’s alive until Bruce fills him in on everything that has come to pass.

Tony and Scott design and build an arm for Tony out of vibranium with the blessing of the Black Panther of course, they wouldn’t dare otherwise.

The mystery of the missing Pym particles gets solved soon enough when Scott gets frustrated with the pain in his hand and arm and suddenly bangs his head on the ceiling. And the. He freaks out whenever he sees how he’s drastically changed, and then he’s suddenly very small. “What the hell is going on?!”

Seems the Infinity Stones made him absorb all the Pym Particles he was carrying in his suit…but that's neither here nor there.

#for the ant mun #scott lang #ant-man #anon asks #blood brothers au #blood brothers #what if scott and tony were blood brothers #avengers endgame #endgame #ant man #antman

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earth-93 · 1 year

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EARTH-93: PROJECT INTRODUCTION

Hello, all.

I go by the handle "TheMysticSpyral" or just Mystic here on the interwebs, and I've been hashing out a fan project I call "Earth-93" for a few years now. Earth-93 is a simple but sprawling undertaking on my part, an attempt to revise the greater Marvel canon on a fixed, linear timeline. Though I bend this guideline here and there, on the whole I try to adhere to the 4:1 ratio of Marvel Time (Four years of IRL publication time to one year of in-universe continuity) in order to map out how I want events and arcs to develop, and when characters debut or become prominent.

As an example, here's a rough outline I have in mind for "Season 1" of Earth-93, roughly adapting the original 1960's run of comics:

November, 2002 - The Fantastic Four publicly debut.

December, 2002 - Janet Van Dyne is nearly killed in an act of sabotage. Her boyfriend Hank Pym flushes out the bugs within his family's company.

January, 2003 - Project: Gamma goes horribly wrong. Bruce Banner goes on the run. Donald Blake takes a vacation in Norway. He does not return the same man.

March, 2003 - Tony Stark is found in Afghanistan, after being presumed dead three months prior. The X-Men overthrow the Brotherhood of Mutants and their occupation of the nation of Santo Marco.

April, 2003 - Dr. Steven Strange returns from his extended sabbatical in Asia, purchases a townhouse in Greenwich Village as his new residency.

June, 2003 - Matt Murdock begins practicing law. Peter Parker is bitten by a spider during a college campus tour in Empire State University.

September, 2003 - After repeated delays, Reed Richards and Susan Storm hold a Fantastic Wedding in New York City. The Vault prison facility loses power, a Breakout ensues. Five mighty heroes find themselves united against a common threat.

October, 2003 - Captain America appears during a battle in Central Park, having been unearthed from ice deep below the English Channel a month prior.

February, 2004- The newly-crowned King T'Challa hosts a diplomatic visit of his nation of Wakanda.

May, 2004 - Mar-Vell makes his debut as Captain Marvel.

September, 2005- Galactus menaces Earth, but is narrowly repelled by its heroes.

From there, it's a little less squared away, though I absolutely have plans so don't hesitate to ask. In the meantime, I'll say that as a bridge between seasons one and two, I have plans to implement one of many crossover franchises into my Marvel canon, so stay tuned for that.

At the risk of jinxing things, I feel that I've reached a point in life in terms of writing ability, personal scheduling and mental health that I can produce and upload content far more consistently than before, and since I have been intending to branch out to other platforms aside from my starting place of DeviantArt, I may as well use this momentum to do a "soft reboot" of sorts. None of your content I have previously shared on dA will suddenly become non-canon (Though I definitely need to go back and update several details), nor will I stop uploading on dA altogether.

All content uploaded here on Tumblr will be the most official and updated, however, and for the time being will most certainly become my priority, since unlike dA and even Twitter, Tumblr's fate isn't exactly dangling above a bottomless pit at the moment. I will most definitely be posting separate fanworks and pitches down the line, but Earth-93 will very much remain the majority of my content. If "Earth-93" is not in the headline or in the tags, it's its own thing.

MASTER LIST

Fantastic Four

Invisible Woman

Mister Fantastic

Human Torch (Coming Soon!)

The Thing (Coming Soon!)

Avengers

Iron Man (Coming Soon!)

Thor (Coming Soon!)

Hulk

Ant-Man

Wasp

Rick Jones

X-Men

Professor X

Cyclops

Marvel Girl

Beast

Angel

Iceman

Mimic

Unus the Untouchable

Quicksilver

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therese-lokidottir · 5 months

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The Avengers: Earth Mightiest Heroes series watch

The Ultron Imperative Written by Brandon Auman

The episode begins with Ultron uploads himself to a satellite and begins taking over nuclear weapons from across the world. Ultron hijacks all of the S.H.I.E.L.D.. He introduces himself as Ultron-6 and says that he is about to bring peace and order to the world through the extinction of humanity.

Thor is trapped inside Amora's realm as she makes him forget everything but her.

Hank and Tony discover that Ultron has been upgrading his himself and transferring his intelligence into new bodies. Ultron activates Iron Man's Armor stored beneath the Avengers Mansion and attacks the Avengers with a hidden Ultron unit in the Stark Tower's armoury. Ultron infiltrates the Helicarrier to extract the security codes from Maria Hill. These codes give access to all of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s weapons around the world. Wasp contacts Tony and Hank to inform them that Ultron has hacked into armor and is attacking the Avengers. Hank discovers that the Helicarrier is also under attack. Ultron plans to keep the Avengers busy while using S.H.I.E.L.D.'s weapons to wipe out humanity.

Thor breaks free from Amora's enchantment and demands to be sent back which she angrily does warning him that Midgard is doomed

Back at the mansion Iron Man joins the battle and tells the other Avengers that Ultron plans to end all life on Earth. Iron Man, Hulk, and Wasp head to the Helicarrier to stop Ultron, while Black Panther and Hawkeye stay and fight the Iron Man Armors. Ultron overpowers Hill aboard the Helicarrier and tries to extract information from her brain, but is interrupted by the arrival of the Avengers. Hulk attacks, however, Ultron drains him of his Gamma energy, reverting him to Bruce Banner. He is about to kill Banner but is stopped by Iron Man. The Avengers fight Ultron, who is protected by an energy shield. Ultron claims that humanity is too weak to survive and that all life on Earth will soon end. Meanwhile, Hawk-Eye, Black Panther, and Ant-Man battle the Ultron hacked Iron Man armor they are almost defeated but luckily Thor arrives just in time to save them.

At the Helicarrier, Ultron attacks the Avengers and almost kills Iron Man but Thor and the rest of the Avengers arrive just in time to save them. Ultron fights Thor while Stark tries to regain control of the missile system and Ant-Man begins to upload something into Ultron's electronic brain. Ant-Man defeats Ultron by uploading logic instead of a virus, which shuts down Ultron. This saves the world just in time before the missiles detonate. Ant-Man explains because Ultron's programming was based on a human mind, he was flawed like humans and could not exist in his imperative.

Back at the Avengers Mansion, Thor tells Stark about Amora's warning when she sent him back to Midgard and Thor fears what the danger could be.

Got to be honest, I really do not have anything to say about this episode that I didn't cover in the previous one. It's not bad there is just no big character moments to discuss. At most, Tony does take the responsibly for Ultron and that I guess that's resolves some of Hank's critics towards Tony, but it's not all that satisfying. The action is good but nothing amazing stand out. All in all, this and the last episode could have been one and worked just as well.

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themrj8 · 8 months

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Hola gente, hace un buen tiempo que no publico nada por aquí. Hay algunas razones pero la razón principal es que "No tenía nada bueno para publicar". ¿Qué puedo decir? Las cosas que hice estos meses no pensé que tendrían suficiente impacto para publicarlas por aquí. Además un factor que influyó fue que empecé un nuevo ciclo de mi universidad y eso suele robarse toda mi atención.

La verdad me gustaría poder dibujar y escribir tan libremente como antes, pero hay veces que uno debe dejar de crear para ocuparse de cosas importantes. Lo bueno es que en esa realidad aun puede mantenerse momentos de diversión o creatividad y esta es una de esas ocasiones.

Así que de las pocas cosas que hice fue lo que están viendo aquí, un Fanfic.

La inspiración nació gracias a que algunos amigos de Discord decidieron empezar a crear historias de Spidersonas y todo por la película de Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse. Una maravillosa película que es muy recomendada.

De ella nacieron muchos diseños de Spidersonas e historias bastante interesantes, así que dije ¿Por qué no crear una también? y unos meses después henos aquí.

La verdad es un proyecto que quiero terminar sin importar el tiempo que tarde, así que si tienen curiosidad echen un vistazo. Aparte de escribir también tengo dibujos e ideas, tal vez comparta algunas por aquí.

¿Qué puedo ofrecer? Pues mi objetivo es hacer una historia agradable y sencilla de leer que poco a poco se ponga intensa pero sin ir muy lejos hasta llegar al final. O sea, que es una historia donde el camino sea disfrutable.

Además, no se preocupen si no saben de comics o de Spiderman, esta historia está hecha para tener referencias pero sin ellas pueden entender. Ya que, aunque sea una spidersona, es más una historia de una OC que otra cosa. Así que si les da algo de curiosidad me encantaría que le echaran un vistazo.

PD: A pesar de mis ánimos sigo siendo un novato ¿Les gustaría leer los fics de mis amigos que inspiraron todo esto y que tienen calidad? Pues echen un vistazo a esta lista:

Todas las historias sin excepción las recomiendo, ya que ciertamente sus creadores han hecho un muy buen trabajo con sus personajes.

#wattpad #spidersona #fanfics #historias #escritos #escrito #oc #Nidia clavel #spider-hush

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gofancyninjaworld · 2 years

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OPM Manga Update 210 Review: Absolute Evil

Story

The story opens with a whisper as menacing as the sibilant hiss of an angry snake. At a glance, the cover tells us what there is to know. God in his lunar peeping hole beaming approvingly down at his latest avatar as Garou comes striding out of the sea. The perfectly mirrored waves add to the unnaturalness of it and the skeletal remains of fish, birds, and mammals frame the lower half of the image, heralding only destruction.

The events of the story back it up. The Narrator is back; I generally don't welcome him but today he's got some contextual information worth having. Straightaway we learn that Garou's parlayed his miraculous talent for learning and Bang's teachings on utilizing the flow of energy into acquiring the very flow of the universe.

And what does he use it for? Cure cancer? As if! There's a pesky baldy to attack! He starts barraging Saitama with a flurry of fists, each of which literally splits atoms and creates a massive explosion. Over on the stranded warship, the automated decontamination procedures have started, indicating that this is no drill: those really are nuclear blasts going off. Sufficiently far away not to be shredded, but close enough to feel the wash, the heroes are buffeted by the dust, spray, and wind. A tattered Psykos watches with wonder at the size of those balls (no pun intended). Alas, its only effect is to annoy Saitama as his clothes are tattered.

I say alas because Garou ups the ante in the creepiest way. He has never asked Saitama his name and knows him only as the overpowered bald guy, but suddenly, here we are with Saitama's face looking out of the hole in Garou's face, calling him Saitama.

And then he mirrors Saitama's Consecutive Normal Punches perfectly, culminating with them punching each other in the face. They're both knocked into the sea and come back up. Saitama looks at his glove and notes that he's got a bit of a nosebleed, which makes him a little regretful that he's not kept his promise to Tareo in that regard. Not that he has time to worry about it because Garou does even worse: he powers up and unleashes something horrible. Seeing what's going to happen, Saitama jumps up so that he, and not the planet, can receive the brunt of the gamma ray burst that comes shooting out. Saitama is swept away...

...leaving the field clear for Garou to indulge in his favourite obsession: tormenting heroes. He loved doing it when he didn't have that much power and now that he does, oh ho ho ho, is he here to show them. Glowing with high-energy radiation, he appears before them and all gathered know that this is Very Bad News Indeed.

The Blizzard Group and Tank Toppers start to flee in terror, the S-Class heroes look transfixed with horror, but what's this? One lone figure is crawling towards the dread apparition. It's Bang, and he asks Garou what's happened to him, who has done this to him? To which Garou recounts his conversion story before thanking Bang for all his help in training him to prepare him for his destiny. Mentally bidding Tareo goodbye, Garou walks forward to cause what despair he can.

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This image inserted so fans stop bugging me

Yes, Genos is alive and (sorta) safe. He's even with it, following Saitama's actions up in the heavens with extreme interest. You can stop bugging Murata now.

Puri Puri is also accounted for and he's not sneaking off somewhere to do unspeakable things to heroes who aren't in a position to defend themselves.

Heh, you gotta love what fans latch onto.

This image also inserted to stop fans bugging me

Yes, Flashy Flash has taken a liking to Manako and won't let her come to any harm.

...more cynically, you can just hear the *clink* of wineglasses as ONE and Murata toast the successful launch of another line of plushies...

You get leukemia, and you get leukemia, and you get leukemia -- you ALL get leukemia!

With all due apologies to Oprah, Garou is literally toxic right now as he spews radiation everywhere. I would have loved to see a reveal of his 'life annihilation fist' technique to be just him being edgy but the Godz Okkie and its crew know a thing or two about nukes but nothing about Garou and have no reason to play along -- it's as bad as it sounds.

Garou's pretend evil is pretense no longer: turns out that when you knock on enough doors asking to see the Devil, he eventually answers. God (no ID) is not to be mocked; Garou pretending to be taken in but slapping His hand away was all He needed.

There's a great parallel between Garou and Homeless Emperor in what God told them. He has no interest in micro-managing his avatars. Instead, He likes to find unstable individuals, grant them catastrophic power, sit back and enjoy the chaos.

Garou believes himself fully in control of himself and his abilities, but as he advances, only death emanates from him. Like the cover image of a toxic slick poisoning all in its wake, Garou isn't just going to be punching heroes, he's poisoning them too. I thought God (no ID) simply didn't like human beings, but it looks like He's not too careful of the Earth either. Maybe when you can see a billion years into the future like it's next week, the loss of all complex life on a planet is a mere hiccup as new forms will inevitably re-evolve and fill the new ecological niches.

A lot of people ask how One-Punch Man is not a shonen, and it's this: the story is not about how to get what you want. Oh no, no, no. If you chase after it, you will almost certainly catch whatever it was you were after. The real story in OPM is how do you live with what you wanted? And that's a very adult problem, even if it's often cast in fantastical terms. Beefcake's lament is a potted cautionary tale that repeats across the story:

Garou wanted to be the Symbol of Fear? Well, he's got it. At the cost of destroying everything that made it worth his while to seek to be that symbol in the first place.

The S-Class heroes don't look like they're going to run, but they know it's hopeless. Someone needs to stop him before he destroys life on Earth. Blast? Saitama? Anybody?

#OPM #review #update 210 #Saitama #God (no ID)#Garou #the high price of achieving your dreams #heroes

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luiz-henrique · 6 months

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="[💎A GRANDE CLAVÍCULA -: LIVRO QUARTO (QUATRO) 🍀 ]"=

={ PREFÁCIO E APRESENTAÇÃO }=

Obra Dedicada à (...)-:

1-: Maçonaria Russa com sua Grande Loja em Moscou e na sua Vertência Negra ( " Seletiva e Mais" ) e Comando Maçônico Vermelho , com Toda a Integração de Lojas Maçônicas Russas .

2-: Ao Grande Escritor Michael W. Ford , Fundador da Ordem de Fósforo : Heósphoro ( Nome Grego - Romano do qual Surge a Insurgência do Nome Lúcifer ( Luxiferus ) , e Também da Ordem do Dragão.

3-: À Illuminati Organization , com Séde na Grã- Bretanha.

="( APRESENTAÇÃO )"=

" A GRANDE CLAVÍCULA -: LIVRO QUATRO 🍀 está Composta nos Seguintes Capítulos ou Secções (Seção : Secção ) -:

A , B , C , D , E , F , G , H -: Onde H se Divide nas Sub- Secções (...)-: H- ALPHA , H- BETA , H- GAMA ( GAMMA ) , H- DELTA , H- EPSILON , H- ZETA , H- ETA , H- THETA , H-IOTA , H-KAPPA 💎 , H- LAMBDA , H- MU , H- NU , H- XI , H - OMICRON 💎 , H- PI (π) 💎 , H- RHO : PARTES PRIMEIRA E SEGUNDA , H- SIGMA : PARTES PRIMEIRA , SEGUNDA , TERCEIRA E QUARTA 💎 , H- TAU INVERTIDA ( Todas estas Acima , Escritas até o Momento : 21 de Novembro de 2023 ) ...,

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-:"(Observação)"-:

A Obra como Todas as Seguintes Mencionadas que Escrevi (...)-:

A-: UM OUTRO SONHO DE UMA NOITE DE VERÃO ( RELATO DE CONTATO ).

B-: UMA INTRODUÇÃO AO ESPAÇO .

C-: O CAOS ( KHAOS ) , SEU VERDADEIRO SIGNIFICADO EXCEDENTE - COSMOLÓGICO .

D-: UM OUTRO SONHO NA CASA DA BRUXA : TOMOS PRIMEIRO , SEGUNDO E TERCEIRO.

E-: A GRANDE CLAVÍCULA -: LIVROS PRIMEIRO , SEGUNDO E TERCEIRO.

F-: FRONTEIRAS ( FRINGE ) : LIVROS PRIMEIRO E SEGUNDO.

G-: A TRANSITÓRIA CEGUEIRA E CALAMIDADE DOS ENFÁTICOS DESTA TERRA.

H- ODISSÉIA ( EM 30 CAPÍTULOS ).

I igual a J -: INDUMENTÁRIA DESLUMBRANTE.

K-: OUTRAS .

Sim dou Permissão para Quem quiser publicar Sem que Este meu Passageiro Referencial Ganhe Nada em Troca , Após Verificarem o Contexto , com as Condições das Obras Não Serem Alteradas e de Nestas Terem o Nome do Autor , escrito deste módo -: HENRICH , de Codinome : CHYREN .

Pois Nenhuma Foi Publicada dado que no Brasil estou em Situação de Escassez e Penúria Econômica ou Calamidade Mais Abrangente , e Não Foram Registradas os Direitos Autorais por Causa do Assédio e Discriminação da ABIN em Brasília no Distrito Federal Contra meu Referencial , eram para serem Registradas na Biblioteca Nacional do Rio de Janeiro.

E para Todos que Enviei -: Nem Squér Leram , pois Não tem Interesse no Assunto e Algo Mais e para Não lhes Carregar o Celular 📲 , as Jogaram na Lixeira 🚮🗑️ , Sem Lerem o Contexto.

Entretanto -: Os Seres que Não Procedem desta Terra 🌎🌍 , me disseram que Estas Obras não são para a Mentalidade Enraizada dos Enfáticos desta Terra , Não Foram Perdidas , Estes as Tem de Forma Amplificada e Outras ao INDIZÍVEL...,

Quem está Perdido é Tal Esquema Mundial Mais que Passageiro...,

e que nas Margens de 4 Anos e Meio Após o Referencial que Outros destes Elaboraram para ser chamado Luíz Henrique ser dado como morto...,

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estarão Sem o Saber das Multidões , em Intercessão Contatal com Enviados das Forças Superiores do Além desta Terra 🌎🌍...,

para Receberem Ordens que Devem ser Cumpridas no Antecedente ao Armageddon que é um Nome Metafórico da Faixa Dimensional Onde seu Mundo Deverá ser Varrido com a Terra Intacta , pois por Detrás da Terra Hão Mundos por Detrás de Mundos e Mais...,

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ANTE O VISLUMBRAR DE DEUS :

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COM SEUS NOMES E MISTÉRIOS SAGRADOS (...) !!!-:

Assinado : HENRICH (...)-:

CHYREN !!! ! !!! "

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greatwyrmgold · 8 months

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Watched Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero on a whim the other night. Things I liked:

Pan. She had so much fun whenever she was with Papa or Grandpa Piccolo! Not so much when they were both busy fighting the giant monster, but hey.

The movie focuses on Piccolo, Gohan, and Pan instead of Goku and Vegeta.

Magenta's rant about how Capsule Corp is clearly just a front for a coalition of alien invaders working to control the Earth. It's 90% recognizable conspiratorial nonsense (minus the antisemitism and unpleasant context) and 10% weird sh*t that's just canon.

Despite the Red Ribbon Army's advanced intelligence-gathering tech, they still consider Mr. Satan to be a threat on par with Goku or Vegeta.

Piccolo has a house now!

Super Sai-ants.

Gamma 1's occasional moments of genre savvy. The first thing he says is "You say you killed King Piccolo? Did you look for the body?"

The Gammas in general, really. Especially the background squabbling-siblings moments.

All the new characters have such delightful, quirky personalities. Dragon Ball is at its best when it's a comedy series spiced with action.

Piccolo doing that thing Frieza did in the Broly movie where he hurt Paragus to make Broly get a rage-induced power-up, just without actually hurting Pan.

I can't talk much about Max Cell without ruining the positive tone I'm aiming for here, but I like the way he serves as a fulcrum of conflict between Magenta and Dr. Hedo, and that his design makes Semi-Perfect Cell look intimidating. (And not just by virtue of being kaiju-sized.)

One storyboard artist really liked the idea of the Z-fighters jumping off of high things in skydiving poses before activating their flight, and the higher-ups were right to let them do it twice.

Namekian stretchy-arms and gigantification return! Piccolo even uses both at the same time! More Dragon Ball fight scenes should use weird little abilities like that; stretchy arms aren't gonna win a fight Piccolo would lose otherwise, but they make a fight scene more unique and interesting.

The animation is good, the haters just noticed that it's CG.

Pan. She's adorable.

Things I didn't like:

Enough "Ha ha, Dr. Hedo/Gotenks is fat" jokes to stand out as a Thing.

Act 3 is basically just one overstuffed fight scene.

Cell Max is fine as a plot point and setpiece, I guess, but also not interesting.

There is no way Goten and Trunks haven't been fusing for fun enough to remember how it works. If they messed up because they were rushing or because of a disruption from the active action scene or something, that would be one thing, but suggesting that they're just rusty is...kinda dumb.

Gohan's new transformation feels like that form Future Trunks got in the Goku Black arc, in that it's an unexplained power-up he randomly got that I assume is meant to justify him fighting god-tier foes, but they didn't want to give him Super Saiyan God or Blue because reasons. My feelings about Orange Piccolo are similar, but with more understanding about why they didn't give him an existing Super Saiyan form and less irritation about being an obvious retread of the Super Saiyan 2 transformation bit in the Cell arc.

Also, Gohan's new transformation's hair. On one hand, it's among the most obvious ways that said transformation is calling back to the SSJ2 transformation against Cell, which is irritating. On the other hand, it also looks absurd. It's just...scale up Gohan's preteen hairstyle by 250% and make it gray. Why gray? And why make it that big? If it had gone full SSJ3 I might have liked it, but it doesn't go far enough, and the hair stays too stiff, like it doesn't realize it's three feet long and should be pulled down by gravity.

Basically every scene on Beerus's planet, and not just because Goku and Vegeta were there. It's good to establish why they're not coming in to save the day, but they didn't need to spend so much time on it! And they definitely didn't have to use that time on a pointless fight scene and Beerus flirting with Cheelai!

Gohan getting more focus? Getting to be a character who's important to the plot? I like that! The interpretation of that idea as "Gohan needs to focus on training instead of studying all the time"? Not so much. At least it was mixed in with a dash of "You're so focused on the academic stuff that you're neglecting your family, too," which is a less frustrating point.

#dragon ball #dragon ball super super hero #(a title almost as bad as SSGSS)#random thoughts

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