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turpentineproductions · 11 months

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EPISODE 22 - FINALE, PART 3: H.G. WELLS' HOUSE PARTY FOR HONOURED GUESTS (PLUS DOYLE)

The final installment has arrived! We hope you've enjoyed this trip through time...

Click the link to listen, or find us wherever you get your podcasts: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/hg-wells-has-his-regrets

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moreaugriffins · 1 year

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Question : How many fictional depictions of HG Wells do I know?

Answer : too many

Bonus Question : how many depictions of HG Wells have used their time machine to interview (dead) authors?

Answer : two

#doodles #hg wells #warehouse 13 #time after time #poe party #hg wells has his regrets #dead authors podcast #classic doctor who #untrue stories #i still have this nagging feeling that i've forgotten some versions of HG (that i know and have consumed their media)#technically i couldve drawn TV time after time HG as his more modern look but thats not fun #Doctor Who might be my favourite show but i will never forgive it for its version of HG Wells-

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buggernaut-kal · 2 months

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Hi, Zack!

Finished up the Hobby Hizack, barring a few stickers. As somebody who wanted the Hobby Hizack as a kit since I saw Char’s Counterattack this is pretty neat, but I do have some mixed feelings here and there. Call this a pseudo-review:

PROS:

Great part separation, stickers are mostly for vent and vernier details. Impressed the shoulder thrusters are separate parts!

Articulation is great for a High Grade. It’s got the Zaku II Revive’s swivel-elbow-thing so you can spin the forearm around while it’s bent AND it has a dropping hip joint to get better kicks and a great ab crunch.

Solid construction. Everything holds together nicely despite all the joints. Feels really good to pose and handle.

CONS:

Oddly enough they abandon the “chin switch” monoeye control in favor of popping the head open like the old HG Zaku II. Better than the static monoeyes of old but still strange.

The front skirt clashes with the waist when tilted past a normal walking angle… so making use of the dropping hip means you have to scrape parts past each other. It’s a weird tolerance oversight.

No hand options. You only get the “holding” hands.

Price. Previously a Side F exclusive and now P-Bandai, it came out to about $30. With no accessories either, that’s a pretty penny for a High Grade.

NOTES:

The Hobby Hizack being a civilian-use machine explains no weapons, but in absence of Hizack weapons I would have liked at least one open hand.

This design borrows some elements from the Hizack Custom, which has no model kit. The shoulder armor and leg boosters can be considered “exclusive” as such.

Despite originating from Char’s Counterattack this model is based on Advance of Zeta’s design. Given the different aesthetics it’s gonna stick out next to your CCA models.

Final Thoughts

The Hizack was derived from the Zaku II F2 in lore, and while I don’t have a standard Hizack I do have an F2. Interestingly, the AOZ proportions of the Hizack line-up quite well with the F2. I’ll have to see how a standard Hizack fares when I get one later down the line.

Overall I grabbed this because I really like the Hobby Hizack as this civilian-ified mobile suit that’s also derivative of the Zaku II. It’s got great shelf presence, is a really fun build, and has some excellent engineering, but the only turn off is exclusivity and price. I certainly don’t regret picking this up but I’d say only go for it if you’re a diehard fan of AOZ or Zaku derivatives in general.

#buggernaut rambles #gunpla #hobby hizack #kind of a review???#buggernat gunpla

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amtrak12 · 5 months

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Hey hi! I read your Helena Wells meta earlier, from ten years ago, and I found it so interesting and spot on, and at the end you were so sad that you felt like you didn't have a good grasp on the character - do you feel that has changed, since then? And if so, how? Or, what do you think of Helena these days?

(the meta you posted and linked here: https://www.tumblr.com/purlturtle/736985181321314304/your-helena-tangent-got-me-thinking-and-yes-this )

Oooo fun and deep questions! :D Thank you!!

Obviously, that was 2.5 high schools ago so I had to reread my original meta to refresh my memory. My first thought is: OMFG LEARN PARAGRAPH BREAKS!! O_O But then, as I kept reading and saw how many spaces were missing after periods and how the sentences after the missing space read like a new paragraph -- my second thought is, I think Tumblr did me dirty at some point in the last 10 years of formatting changes and I actually did use appropriate paragraph breaks originally. Rude. -_-

But on the point of your actual questions! lol

I don't remember writing that exact post, but being nervous and uncertain about my Helena characterization does ring a bell. I was DEFINITELY more confident in analyzing/meta-ing Myka or Pete (if it was in relation to Myka). HG made me nervous and that was only like 10% because she's British and I'm American.

Some of my uncertainty probably came from my lack of historical knowledge (which has not improved. Fun fact: this is why I nearly never invented an artifact for fic). A not-insignificant portion of my uncertainty probably also came from how confident the rest of the fandom spoke about Helena. It seemed like she was meta-ed more often and by more people than Myka was. (Which makes sense as -- in general -- Helena was/probably still is the more popular character in the B&W ship.) I don't remember ever feeling like someone was way off base or out of character with Helena, but I do remember reading meta/fic sometimes and struggling to decide if I disagreed with a character trait/action that the person assigned her or if it was an accurate aspect of Helena's character that I hadn't internalized yet.

Basically I had Opinions about how Myka (and Pete for that matter) should be written and definitely noticed when a fic disagreed with me. But figuring out HG was like the wild west to me and I could never pin her down with firm barriers on who her character is and isn't.

I am very, very rusty on my Warehouse 13 knowledge because it's been nearly a decade since I was deep in my analyzation of the show. So, I wouldn't say I have a better grasp on Helena's characterization today than I did in 2014. But there are some aspects I feel like I could understand better if I took the time to rewatch and meta.

Loss of a child -- look I don't have children, but I do have niblings now that I adore. I'm also raising a dog who taught me I do not have the energy or anxiety coping mechanisms to raise a human child, because worrying about her almost does me in on its own. And I'm in my mid-30's now and seem to have a better understanding of parent-child relationships (or I'm at least way more interested in exploring them now, both from the view of the child and the view of the parent). So, exploring Christina's death and just how much that affected Helena would absolutely be on my list of deep-dives. I never ignored this before, but I'm certain I could pull more out of this backstory today than I could've in 2014.

Helena's guilt -- I started rambling at the end of that post about which things Helena felt guilty about and whether she felt guilty at all. As far as I remember, I usually wrote her as feeling some measure of guilt for her past actions. (Although I was also usually writing full AU settings so it was a moot point.) But I also wasn't wrong when I pointed out how she didn't show any obvious signs of regret over her S2 actions, unless it was something that had hurt Myka. If I was going to go back and meta WH13, I would explore this topic deeper for sure.

Interestingly, it's not something I could've explored deeper prior to 2022-ish. But now I've watched the series Lucifer which deals entirely with guilt and has a protagonist with shut down emotions who doesn't regret things and then, through incremental changes over 6 seasons, opens up, learns to feel every emotion again, unpacks a lot of shit etc. And I have been FASCINATED by how the writers pulled that off, because on the surface it is not a show (or a protagonist) that I should care about. (And if I had watched it from ep 1.01 instead of completely ass backwards, I wouldn't have cared about him.) BUT I DO CARE! And I want to know how they pulled off Lucifer's character arc. And then I want to use some of the techniques they used to explore guilt and pain and apply them to Helena to see what emerges in her character. Because I think it would be really interesting.

And then finally, I'm not sure I have anything new to bring to the conversation around what Helena's future with the warehouse and/or happy ending looks like. But I could also never make up my mind on what would work best for her. Does she return as an agent? Does she become a regent? (Probably not, but you never know.) Does she just become the live-in inventor who doesn't venture into the field unless absolutely necessary? I have absolutely no idea what her future with the warehouse would look like if a romantic relationship with Myka is her happy ending. (Which is my personal goal obviously lol).

Because -- and this is where my Opinions on Myka come into play -- our girl Myka Bering is not leaving that warehouse. Ever. She is the new Artie. She will take over as the lead agent when he retires/partially retires. And then she will die there. In South Dakota of old age (because I refuse to let her die on a mission). Pete? Oh, my boy Pete will meet an awesome lady and retire to be a stay at home dad. He'll walk away one day. Myka? Absolutely never. You're burying her at the warehouse. Which means Helena will have to have some kind of relationship with it again, and I would have to figure out what that looks like because both today and in 2014, I can't decide what option fits her best.

I hope this answers your question! It was so deep and I love it :D I just don't have new thoughts on WH13 yet because I haven't looped back around to a full blown obsession with it yet. (It will happen. Round 2 of BERING AND WELLS ARE THE BEST THING EVER will absolutely happen at some point in my life because that's how I roll and they are.) So this is less meta about how my thoughts on Helena have changed, and more about how my approach to her character would change given the experience I've gained in the last ten years.

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS ASK!

#Helena Wells #Warehouse 13 #my meta #ask #purlturtle #yes I've started measuring time in the unit of measure 'high schools' (aka 4 years like American high schools)#because time lost meaning somewhere around 2013 when I got fully settled into my adult job

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dramioneasks · 1 year

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Hello! Maybe this is a hard ask to answer, but could you guys rec dramione fics with the best villains/antagonists in your opinion.

These are fics that I found had unique mysteries and were very AU (in a good way):

Femme Fatale By: cleotheo - M, 26 chapters - Draco Malfoy’s new position as an Auror for the British Ministry throws him head first into a hunt for a serial killer. Working with Harry Potter and Ron Weasley, he sets out to catch the killer as well as entering into a romantic relationship with their other colleague, Hermione Granger. Murder mystery with a side helping of Dramione romance.

The Assignment - Nightbloom7 - E, 17 chapters - Cursed objects are causing death and destruction. When the objects themselves are found to hold no trace of Dark Magic, the Department of Magical Artefacts is stumped. Draco Malfoy leant back in his chair and crossed his arms in bafflement. “And your professional assessment is that the best way of gathering evidence is sending Granger and I together to a sex club?” “Worried about your reputation, Malfoy?” Hermione asked flatly. He scoffed. “Hardly. If I were outed for going to an expensive parisian sex den it would be considered very much on brand.” "That’s why it’s so important we’re believable as a couple. We should talk about touching,” Hermione insisted. "Touching,” Draco repeated, alarm bells going off in his mind. "As in how much of it you’re okay with, where…" "Casual touching,“ he nodded. "But also, passionate touching,” Granger pressed. Merlin’s beard. Draco was quickly coming to the realisation that he was likely to regret this.

The Order of Serpents by bl_crtz - E, 43 chapters, Words: 190,103 - During the Battle of Hogwarts, Harry Potter walked into the forbidden forest, died, and walked out with crimson eyes as the new vessel of the Dark Lord. Since then, Hermione Granger served as an elite member of the True Order, isolating herself from other Order members and going on missions alone, not only haunted by the loss of her best friend, Harry, but Ron who had run away after the battle. Three and a half years later, Draco Malfoy shows up with his two year old son on the Order’s doorstep seeking to switch sides. Together, Draco and Hermione are forced to deal with not only each other, but their own past and confront who they’ve become because of the war.

Tremble & Depart - DarkoftheMoon - E, 30 chapters, Words: 139,609 - Draco Lucius Malfoy. Death Eater. Disposable. Life on probation at the Ministry meant keeping his head down and his mouth shut. On his first field assignment he’s tasked with investigating an abandoned Death Eater manor hiding more than a few secrets in its walls. Stuck with the only witch who agreed to work with him.

The Best of Me - MrsRen - M, 21 chapters - Officially, Hermione Granger was killed in action during the Battle of Hogwarts. Unofficially, Draco Malfoy has never stopped searching for her. Years after the war during a mission in France, his salvation comes in the form of a little blond boy and a familiar half-Kneazle.

High on Magic - LightofEvolution - M, 18 chapters - After years of living a life as a successful doctor, Hermione is needed in the world of magic again. A dangerous drug causes dramatic problems for the magical society, and it’s up to Hermione to solve them. And then there’s this certain blond Auror she can’t get out of her head… AU, EWE

The Fool, the Emperor, and the Hanged Man by ianthewaiting - M, 28 Chapters - Ten years after the fall of the Dark Lord, Hermione Granger leads of life of self-imposed obscurity, that is, until the day Headmistress Minerva McGonagall is murdered and a certain ‘hero’ is responsible. DM/HG, written originally in 2007-2008, and finally making its debut here! AU, DH-EWE, non-canon elements, time travel, character death, etc.

Hunted - bex-chan - M, 36 chapters - Forced to work together when their old schoolmates start dying, Hermione & Draco must overcome their differences to solve the mysterious deaths. The tension in the office is getting rather…heated. Mature themes. 4years PostHogwarts/War. EWE.

Inheritance By: bifmonzo - M, 31 chapters, Words: 190,240 - Draco is an Auror. Hermione is just trying to do her job. Neither of them are prepared for what happens after she wakes up hungover in his bed. And someone, but there’s really no telling who, has a secret that threatens the reality upon which their entire world is built. Dramione, nine years post-war.

WANDS OUT! - persephone_stone - M, 10 chapters - Albus Dumbledore appeared to have the perfect life: a successful career as a novelist, a loving family, and a dedicated staff. But when he is found dead of an apparent suicide on the morning of his 90th birthday, the life that seemed so perfect from the outside begins to unravel at the seams. With a team of investigators on the case, a greater mystery than any Albus could have written begins to unfold, full of lies, secrets, and murder. There’s only one thing to be sure of: everyone is a suspect. Join your favorite HP characters on a manic murder mystery romp, adapted from the Rian Johnson movie Knives Out! Note: Reading this will not spoil the movie, and having seen the movie will not spoil the story. I invite you to enjoy both!

Sins of the Past By: cleotheo - M, 36 chapters, Words: 100,880 - When Scorpius Malfoy and his best friend, Alex Zabini, go travelling the last thing anyone expects is for the two boys to run into trouble in Wizarding Britain. But when Alex is found unconscious outside of a nightclub and Scorpius is on the missing list, the Malfoys past comes back to haunt them as it becomes clear that someone is after revenge.

-Lisa

#anonymous #mystery #au #favourite fics

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defenestratin · 1 year

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Ahhh! I love your CoG/HG covers and seeing you do Fallen Hero fanart was *chef's kiss*!! The endings in the second book are immense! I'd like to ask what's the "canon" ending for your Sidestep?

Ahhhhh thank you so much!!! It’s always so wild to see people recognize my COG/HG work 👁👁 one of these days I should share some of my fav covers…

Ngl I’ve been meaning to do FHR fanart for YEARS, I’m so glad that Retribution gave me the push I needed to finally do it!!

In terms of my canon ending for Mal… Definitely one of the reprised epilogue endings with Ortega breaking him out, but I’m still playing to see if I’ll keep that specific one hehehe. Mal’s not exactly subtle and is a shit liar (because his temper always reveals more than he thinks and very often doesn’t give a shit in the moment but regrets it later) so it’s not hard for the Rangers to figure him out imo. I may have a more concrete answer after I finish more endings, but one where Mal’s recklessness (and sometimes lack of self-preservation) catches up to him is appropriate. Ortega definitely has his work cut out for him hahaha, I don’t envy him, Mal’s a handful 😔

Every time I play there’s always a new surprise, I’m seriously amazed at the sheer scope of Retribution compared to how good Rebirth already was, I’m OBSESSED!!!!!!

While I’m here I might as well share a lil snippet of a comic based on one of the scenes, my brainrot has gotten THAT bad

#sou talks things #ask #anonynous #doodle #Malcolm reeves #oc #fallen hero #fhr #i don’t know why it’s always smth w Mal that gives me comic brainworms #my funky lil muse…..

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blackboxpodcast · 1 year

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➡️- a currently ongoing podcast you’re interested in

I have several I've been dipping in and out of lately, including Hello From The Hallowoods, Re: Dracula, HG Wells Has His Regrets, and Welcome To Night Vale! Malevolent and Deviser are also on my list to try.

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purlturtle · 1 year

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5, 11, 12 for the WIP ask game

Hi and thanks for the ask! Since you didn't specify any particular WIP, I'm just gonna go with Commutata, which I'm currently posting on AO3!

5. How do I feel about posting chapters before the fic is finished? - this one I'll answer for all my fics/in general: can't do it. Cannot. Hell to the naw. Does not happen. Because what if I want to plant the seeds for something in chapter 33 all the way back in chapter 3, but chapter 3 has already been published without that seed and now I'm at work on 33 and can't put it in anymore? No. No no no no no. I only ever post when the entire fic is finished - I made one exception and boy did I regret it. Never again. *shudders*

11. Is the WIP inspired by anything/anyone? 12. How did I come up with it - as a matter of fact yes; I was watching Joanne Kelly's road trip movie Going The Distance, and thought, hey, a Bering and Wells road trip fic would be fun! At first I thought about fitting it into the Going The Distance plot, but then I decided to stick with Warehouse canon, but diverge from it. Because if you put pre-Yellowstone HG in a car with Myka Bering for a few weeks, I guarantee you you won't get Yellowstone HG. And that's what I wrote! And then it ended on a cliffhanger, and I had to write a part 2!

Thanks for asking! The rest of the questions is here, if anyone else wants a go!

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quibliography · 7 months

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Die by Kieron Gillen and Stephanie Hans

Synopsis: This horror fantasy graphic novel series is about a group of friends who are drawn back into a world they thought they had finally escaped as teenagers. Ash, Angela, Isabelle, Matt, and Chuck thought they had left the world of Die behind when they reappeared back in the real world years after mysteriously disappearing into a role-playing game on Ash's 16th birthday, a game designed by Solomon. But 'Sol', whom they had left behind in Die twenty five years ago, seems unable to let them leave.

My Quibs: I'm not really a hit-the-ground-running kind of reader (probably because I'm very easily disoriented). But Gillen definitely throws you in head first: no instructions, no sympathy. And the story will take off without you. Do you know anything about TTRPG? No? Too bad. (Although also, why are you even here in the first place. This is your own fault.) But the premise aside, Gillen will throw all these references around with no subtext to help. It's almost like reading in another language. Have you read Charlotte Bronte? HG Wells? Have you seen LOTR? Game of Thrones? Do you know about Cleopatra's reign? Thankfully, I am just nerdy enough to keep up, and what was actually difficult for me was to keep up with were the five(six?) main protagonists. I've always had trouble juggling a big handful of story lines. Especially when they don't share much thread except for their origins. But at least each character has specific motivations and history that, if I distill down to its core, is enough for us to relate to: Matt has grief, Angela has regret, Ash has shame, etc. And we get to see them process it whether by force or by choice as teenagers and adults. It's an interesting dichotomy of human behavior but drenched in depressing horror, real and existential. I mean, the characters even ask of themselves "Do we treat this like it's real or fantasy?". As a reader, do we embrace all their twisted demons into ourselves or keep it at the distance of a page. Gillen takes on so much and personally I think four books is not enough to take on and resolve six heavy topics adequately. It slammed me into the ground, dragged me through the worst of ourselves, and flung me back out into the real world. I might need twenty years myself before I go back in.

Should you read it? If you like ultra nerdy content and tabletop role-playing games.

Similar reads? A graphic novel about TTRPG? Is there another one out there?

(Spoiler Alert!) Gillen's take that we are all part of Die seemed a little too The Most Final Epic-est of Destiny Reveals and as much as I love ouroboros-y stories, in this case based on the story that Gillen had been telling, the fact that "it is what it is and will always be" seemed doubling down on the depressive aspect and a cop out. I mean, the fact that we, each, have so many stories in which we live and die, succeed and fail, shows there is will, in a way sort of, and we are not chained to any specific story line. *I just had a realization. I recently finished Bioshock Infinite (I know, waaay late to the game) and is Gillen trying to say something like Levine? Elizabeth also tells Booker something similar. "Constants and variables. Sometimes something's different, yet the same." Does Sol always gift himself the dice every time? Is there no way to end the cycle? Eh, if I were to choose then, Bioshock tells a much better story. Also, has it actually ended? The sacrifice of Chuck, giving Sol his place in the world, either read like the smallest hook into a spinoff/sequel or just a tongue-in-cheek farewell to his character.

What did you think of Die?

#die #kieron gillen #fantasy heartbreaker #split the party #the great game #bleed

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darkmarkets · 11 years

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DM's Field Guide to Dark Fiction - Weird Tale

pulpicanous fantasicae order: Tales of Terror

Common traits – An elusive species to pin down, a Weird Tale is simply a story that is hinged on the idea that this is not the world you know. It can involve anything from cosmic witches to metaphysicist prophets, parasitic changelings to homicidal pineal glands, and generally it whips up Fantasy, Sci Fi and Horror elements into an uncanny mush. Outright scares and gore tactics are not necessary for a Weird Tale's survival; however, in order to live, it needs to create a sense of unease, otherness, or a nagging feeling that the laws of nature have somehow been terribly broken.

Historical sightings – The Weird Tale emerged at the turn of a troubled 20th century, when technological developments and the seeds of globalization had people questioning their place in the world. Writers such as HG Wells, Mark Twain, Franz Kafka and other heralds of the literary establishment created stories that re-wrote existence in a weird fashion: Well's War of the Worlds (1896) was a classic progenitor of Sci Fi with a thick vein of Horror pumping through it; Twain's stories "The Great Dark" (written 1898) and "The Mysterious Stranger" (1910) were both extrapolations on the horrific nature of the universe; Kafka easily made readers regret being alive. Among this boom of troubled fiction came Robert W. Chamber's collection of short stories called The King in Yellow (1895), which is widely quoted as being inspiration for a little-known author at the time, Howard Phillips Lovecraft.

Thankfully, there was this little-known magazine around to help little-known Howard get his eldritch vision of the world out to audiences—in 1923, Weird Tales was founded to deliver fiction that was speculative and alternative, challenging the notions of Western literature and Western existence at the same time. It was through Weird Tales that audiences were introduced to the worlds of Robert E. Howard's Conan the Barbarian right along with H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos, but it's said that the term Weird fiction wasn't official until Lovecraft used it in his essay, Supernatural Horror in Literature (1927).

Continuing the tradition, many writers in midcentury years wrote fiction that has been labeled Weird, from literary darling Shirley Jackson to Twilight Zone creator Rod Sterling, giving way to a contemporary clutch of Weird artists, such as China Miéville, Clive Barker, Ramsay Campbell and Thomas Ligotti. Movements have begun to classify a millennial take on Weird Tales, called New Weird, which at first glance seems to be an updated urbanization of the fantastical world building traditions Lovecraft and his contemporaries made popular.

Modern habitats – In modern publishing, a Weird Tale is treated very similarly to Cross-Genre, Slipstream or any blending of the speculative triumvirate Fantasy-Sci Fi-Horror—and generally the less gore, the better. The roots of the genre are entrenched in the idea of the uncanny which, according to Freud, means a feeling one gets when seeing a thing that is at once familiar yet foreign; this is why a lot of modern Weird fiction gets classified under Urban Fantasy, Modern Fantasy, and Soft Sci Fi. Weird fiction's fixation on uncanniness lends well to dark speculations on the terrible nature of existence, but Texas Chainsaw-style running amok is not going to be appreciated here. (Unless you're Clive Barker; then you can do what you want.) Some good places to spot this creature in the wild are the modern day Weird Tales (no kidding!), Apex, and Shimmer Magazine.

Related: Supernatural Horror, Cosmic Horror, Cross-Genre, Slipstream