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cutielando · 2 months

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i should hate you, but i can't ~ rafe cameron

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Rafe Cameron.

There were no words to describe what you felt for the boy.

Love? Adoration? Hate? Disgust?

It was a multitude of things all stacked against each other, each battling to come out on top. He was rude, he was a junkie, he couldn't stop picking fights to save his life, he belittled everyone around him, and that was just the tip of the iceberg.

So then, why were you so attracted to him?

Maybe it was your very poor taste in men? Or yo were just unfortunate enough to be attracted to the bad guys? The possibilities were endless.

Rafe knew how much of a crush you had on him. He used every single opportunity to point it out when you would find yourself alone in his presence. Especially at the parties he would host.

You never wanted to give him the satisfaction of seeing you too much, but his parties were legendary on the whole island and your friends never missed one. You couldn't allow yourself to be the only one who wouldn't go, it would be too obvious.

That's how you found yourself in the kitchen of Tannyhill, trying to find a bottle of vodka to refill your cup.

Kooks were dancing all around you, grinding against each other, spilling their drinks all over themselves and not having a care in the world. Typical for every party held on Figure 8.

You were desperately trying not to bump into anyone, quickly finding your way towards the alcohol counter.

"Where the fuck is it?" you mumbled to yourself, not seeing the bottle anywhere on the tray.

"Looking for something?" a voice called out from behind you. More specifically, his voice.

You rolled your eyes before turning around, your eyes landing on the man of the house himself, Rafe Cameron.

Eyebrows raised, a taunting smile on his face looking back at you, the alcohol bottle you had eagerly been searching for right in his hands.

"What's it to you?" you crossed your arms, resting your back against the counter.

"Given that you are snooping around in my house, I would say I deserve to know what you were searching for so desperately, wouldn't you agree?" his tone was taunting, just like his whole personality. Living to make your life miserable.

You rolled your eyes, but couldn't deny that he was a tiny bit right. You had, after all, been snooping around his house searching for alcohol.

"I was looking for the vodka, had to get a refill and entertain myself somehow" you explained, tired of the conversation already.

"You should've just come to me and asked about it, sweetheart. You know I'd never deny you" he winked before handing you the bottle, departing right after that.

This was the interaction you always had with him. He would just come in, make fun of you in some way, proceed to sneakily try and flirt before just leaving.

It was an ongoing cycle with him.

One you never thought you'd participate in.

As the night rolled away, so did the alcohol into your system. It was well past midnight and you were having the time of your life, dancing with your friends and not having a care in the world.

The interruption came when a Kook, more specifically someone you couldn't stand being around, decided to just come up behind you and start dancing with you.��

"You've got some moves on you, baby" he whispered in your ear, his hands caressing and guiding your hips against his.

You tried to pry yourself out of his arms, but the hold he had on you made it impossible. He was holding onto your hips tightly, grinding into your behind.

Rafe's eyes found you in the middle of the huge sea of people in his living room, his anger rapidly spreading through his body when he noticed how uncomfortable you looked. Downing the last remnants of his drink, he quickly made his way towards you.

"Let go of her" when you heard Rafe's voice, it was like hearing an angel. You had never been more grateful to be with him than you were in that moment.

"Get lost, dude, we're having fun" the Kook answered, gripping your hips even tighter now.

Even in your hazy state, you started pulling away from him, clawing at his hands to let you go.

Before you could even register what was going on, you felt his hands being yanked off of you, and you saw Rafe hovering over the Kook, who was on the floor holding his bleeding nose.

"Don't ever touch her, or anyone, like that ever again, do you hear me?" you heard Rafe say, his voice dangerously low.

When the Kook nodded, Rafe turned around and took your hand, pulling you through the crowd and towards the back door. He slid open the door and you were met with fresh air, your brain starting to sober up a little.

"Are you okay?" Rafe asked, taking off his jacket and draping it over your shoulder when he noticed you shivering in just your dress.

You nodded, words not yet able to roll from your lips.

"Why did you do that?" you asked after spending some minutes in silence, your mind still hazy but almost completely sober now.

You had always been able to handle your alcohol pretty well, which many times came in handy. Especially now, when you were alone with Rafe Cameron in his backyard after he just saved you from a creep.

"What?" he asked.

"Why did you help me back there?" you specified, shuffling so you were closer to him.

He shrugged, kicking his feet. "Anyone would've done the same. Plus, I don't like guys who touch girls against their wills, and you clearly looked uncomfortable while he had his hands on your body" he explained further.

You stared at him, both of your eyes locked on the other. Maybe it was the alcohol still in your system that prompted your actions, or maybe you had just been suppressing it for far too long, but you found yourself kissing him, your hands gripping onto his shoulder and the hair at the back of his head.

He was stunned for a brief moment before he relaxed into the kiss, pulling you closer and holding your waist gently.

If anyone would have seen the two of you in that moment, they would have thought the world had gone crazy. You spent so many years hating each other, making fun and just picking on one another, you had never given second thought to the feeling bubbling in the pit of your stomach every time you would see each other, when your eyes would lock in a crowd of people.

When you pulled away to catch your breath, neither of you could help the big smile that was on your faces.

"What did we just do?" you asked, biting your lip.

"I think maybe we got tired of hating each other" he teased, holding you against his body.

"Oh, Rafe, as much as I wanted, I could never hate you" you said before leaning in again, not being able to get enough of his lips.

Oh, what a turn of events.

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sampsonstorm-critical · 3 months

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So. I DID watch Hazbin Hotel. And oh boy. So I'm going to give my critique on the show.

"antagonists and supporting" Characters- A bit better than Helluva. Studio oversight curbed some stuff. The characters somewhat had their own personalities in their dialogue. Some characters I thought could be cut out. I'm sorry but Sir Pentious is one of them. He's too cartoony even for this universe. He's annoying on the level jar jar binx was in star wars. Same with Mimzy. I think they could've done much better with Adam, but they just made him a dude bro? I did like the Seraphim sisters. Lute was just a bitchy, cynical, anime antagonist. Nifty was a bit aggravating too on the same level as Sir Pentious. I liked Husk as a character. Lucifer being a crushed dreamer fallen angel was actually interesting however his take on his people that he rules? Now if he was actively choosing to punish them himself using hells tools, it would be one thing? But he just has depression??? I guess? After thousands of years? Instead of trying to reconnect with his daughter, he just Mopes??? Like a sad boy??? No. Sorry. You lost me. Cherry Bomb? Meh. She's pretty shallowly written.

Now!

Main Characters -

Charlie- I hate her. I hate how fucking useless she is. She's the main protagonist for fucks sake. Now if she started like this and actually got better as the story went along in season 1, then alright. But she just gets her ass kicked and daddy has to save her skin. Way to take away her independence as a character.

Vaggie- I like Vaggies premise, but I hate the way her arc is executed. And the fact that she lets Lute live??? I'm sorry? WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT?! No way. No how. Someone like her from a military background, or hells backdrop would let someone as callous as Lute live.

Alastor - he's my favorite character but, it's not his show. And it feels like it is. I love Alastor, he's the only entertainment I get from this show for the most part.

Angel - he's a characature. He is a walking stereotype. I know many people like him including the hypersexuality. Angel dust unless written for plot specific purposes only, is a very selfish unredeemable person. I'm sorry. He's being raped, and he still sexually harasses other people, knowing how it makes him feel? Now this would be great if we weren't supposed to feel bad for him right away, because it would show how abused can become abusers even if they don't mean too. And that could've been part of his arc to becoming a better person. But no.

The Vs - I like Vox. He's written to be genuinely manipulative, charismatic, and intimidating. I like Velvet too. I wish we knew anything about her. Valentino is written to be a villain, but some of his more childish moments are a bit of a movie mood killer.

On to the show as a whole.

So the most hated part of HH. Episode 4s infamous sexual assault scene. - I actually think it was very raw. It was done in an artistic taste. And I DEFINITELY think that if it wasn't taken from a SA fetishizer, it would've sat with me better. I understand what they were portraying and as someone who's had friends, gay men from the aids crisis era who have been SA, I see it but it's not done well. The only instance it's done well is when Angel is shown in the studio with Valentino especially when he tells Charlie to leave.

The build up and pay off issue - the music for the most part was good. OUT OF CONTEXT. I. Context it pays off without building up the conflict. It just resolves immediately. And these aren't Saturday morning cartoon conflicts. These are deep seeded emotional traumas between people. They don't resolve within one episode. These types of conflicts should resolve in 3 part episodes to 1 season. Yet again the Helluva problem shows up. Setting up too many character arcs and plotlines that cannot be properly resolved in the time span.

The finally- it was. Hot. Garbage. What the fuck was Charlie wearing to fight???? What the fuck???? Seriously???? And Angel???? In his booty shorts??? And we're supposed to take the extermination seriously??? HA! No. I do like in the episodes leading up to the finally, where Charlie and Emily rise against Heaven. I think they should have kept going with that moment in the song "If hell is forever, then Heaven must be a lie". It was very powerful and undermined immediately with "the big reveal!" Yuck. And don't even get me started on how NIFTY is the one who killed ADAM! SERIOUSLY? I think it was actually cool to see Alastor get HIS shit kicked in and see him crack under the pressure for once. I DO NOT like how Charlie's daddy had to come and fight her battles especially seeling as how he could do it the whole fucking time for thousands of years????!

#helluva critical #helluva criticism #helluva critique #helluva rewrite #hazbin hotel critical #hazbin hotel criticism #anti hazbin hotel #hazbin hotel critique #anti spindlehorse #anti helluva boss #anti vivziepop

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sinimake · 4 months

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Some Kenshi specific headcanons!

His parents died when he was a teenager, leaving him and his younger sister. That's when Kenshi really got into the yakuza business because there were no adult to shield him from criminal life, and he had to earn money to keep them afloat.

He's indifferent to cold weather but absolutely hates humid heat. Summers in Japan are his nightmare, especially since he has to wear long sleeves to cover up his tattoos. It is the main reason why he's so on edge and irritated most of the time.

He grips things in his hand when he's thinking and focused. God help Johnny if Kenshi's hand is on his thigh when it happens.

Has no skincare routine. He uses cheap 2-in-1 shampoo and washes his face with hand soap.

Not specifically interested in cars but he is a beast behind a wheel—difting, clutch kicking and obstacle course swerving. He knows how to drive.

Bit of an adrenaline junkie. He loves the kick but doesn't seek out danger purposedly.

He's absolute sweetheart with children, women and elders. He's that type to intentionally walk slow as he crosses road to make sure elders cross it safely too. He keeps children out of trouble and protects women from creepers. But because it is usually how the yakuza exploit people as payback from their help, people are very vary of Kenshi. So he learns to do it subtly over the time.

Very humble in nature but can be a cocky mofo when he wants to.

Constantly smells like cloves because of choji oil he uses for his katana

Has glass eyes. Johnny always tries to get him to wear wild and different prosthetics (once tried to put sharingan in him), but he just sticks to all white ones because he doesn't really show his eyes to others anyway.

He wears leather gloves to hide his tattoos on his hands.

He's a natural leader!!! This is a canon thing we need to pay more attention to!!!

Has strong sense of justice. He diligently tries to live an honest life after the yakuza and not break any laws but if it is absolutely necessary, he will take it to the extreme. Needs Sento? Doesn't wanna rob a dude blind but he's gonna break into his mansion and threaten him to give it to him.

Loves spicy food! Constantly trying to get Johnny's spice tolerance up.

I previously mentioned he never went to college, but he's always been effortlessly smart in school. He was a type of smart student who doesn't study for exams but still aces them.

He wants to have his own dojo in the future.

Very light sleeper bc old habits die hard.

I said he loves spice, but he doesn't really have that much preference in food and will eat anything. His sister cooks him debauchery of bento all the time, but Kenshi always wolves them down. (They both shouldn't be allowed in the kitchen. Bad cooking is in their bloodline)

Got no solid music taste but will listen to either angry metal or traditional japanese music on his own.

You know those plates of candies on the receptions' tables? He always grabs a candy off it to later give it to others. Many times, Johnny has received candies out of nowhere from Kenshi.

Sometimes has verbal altercations with the voice over accessibility feature of his phone.

Always gets into arguments with tsa agents bc of sento.

#we dont whumpee him in this household #kenshi takahashi #mortal kombat #kenshi takahashi headcanon #mk1 #mk1 2023 #mortal kombat 2023 #johnshi headcanon

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kadextra · 4 months

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q!Forever & q!Bad, comedy and tragedy are two sides of the same coin

(little meta rp analysis & appreciation)

Comedy and tragedy- complimentary concepts when it comes to the dynamic that is these two characters.

Their lore together is truly like a soap opera to me in the way it operates, entertaining in how goofy it is- I laughed so much during interrodate. They had a whole elaborate musical prank war over a stolen gun (which neither of them even had, they’re just too dedicated to the bit.) The first thing they say to each other after q!Forever returns from the nether is “You look terrible!” 💀 and my guy gifted a bloody chainsaw as the flower of the day to q!Bad in purgatory 1 which was happily accepted.

Even when the characters show attraction for each other, it’s usually through some ridiculous romcom thing. q!Forever is in love with q!Bad dressed as pink barbie and thinks photos of her are the best gift a person could ever receive?? 🤨 q!Bad daydreams about q!Forever as a lobster with blonde hair and a six-pack??? brother be projecting him onto larry the lobster from spongebob squarepants dude what is wrong with them 😭 sometimes I wonder how they’re able to do all these bits in improv and take it seriously, it’s impressive

The characters are not normal, their relationship is not normal, it cannot be viewed normally. the ccs know exactly what they’re doing in creating whatever *gestures* this is, and it’s amazing. over the top, cute, played perfectly for comedy

But the characters aren’t just that, you can’t have them without the inverse 🎭 like a punch to the gut after all the sillies, they really know how to do tragedy well.

I very much look forward to whenever they’re at the top of their angst game, bc they both LOVE to make their cubitos suffer. to an insane degree. My god these two can’t go 3 days with their characters experiencing some peace and joyful whimsy, they *must* rp their ocs actively dying, horribly diseased, going crazy

And they go hard with it. I’m very serious when I say multiple times during the lore I’ve had to get up and walk away to calm down because it was too intense. super special shoutout to the q!Forever first happy pills arc stream & October 1st q!Bad psychotic breakdown stream. I’ve never been so shocked as I was watching those live, the stamina to do highly emotional rp like that is actually nuts. some of the most angsty mfs on this server fr (the #1 spot goes to quackity though. hey maybe i’ll make a tierlist)

So when Bad & Forever bring the best of their angst ability into serious rp interactions together that Aren’t comedic…? we are in for a treat. that talk they had right when q!cellbit died to the code, the richas rescue mission, the election, voting arguments, post-ron kidnapping, colorblind test/therapy, flower of the day. many scenes that are seared into my mind, but none is more so than The Happy Pills Proposal. goosebumps whenever I think about it… the scene ever. the way it was framed, the lines they said, how it had tense, chilling buildup before a literal explosion. how are these people capable of doing the most silly things and then turning around to stab us in the heart 50 times

So you bet I’m crossing my fingers for a meeting between @v@ & q!Bad. Forever is absolutely killing the role so far. If q!Bad gets involved I can already taste the glorious angst…. since he has specific traumatic experience in also being possessed, & having killed his possessed friends in another life. he recalled the memory when talking about how to save q!Forever last night. fun! *shaking*

anyways that’s all :D love these characters, I had been wanting to do a little meta appreciation post for a while so I thought why not now ^^

#qsmp #qsmp forever #qsmp badboyhalo

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olderthannetfic · 6 months

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It's very exhausting seeing people in my fandom get angry that an author deleted his work prior to committing suicide. Everyone's sad they don't get to read the story. I have not seen a single person even pretend to dislike the fact that a person is dead. I have seen two people say, respectively, "he could've at least given us a content drop first, end on a high note" and "content creators who don't at least leave the content up shouldn't post".

And I know, I know, fandom olds: it is parasocial and toxic and bad to expect anyone online to dislike the death of another person, I'm a Gen Z snowflake, I need to grow up, etc. In my defense, I am neurodivergent and probably not seeing this correctly. But as an admittedly fucked up person... I kind of don't like 1. the fact that a human being died 2. no one even saying "oh that's sad" or feigning valuing human life 3. everyone referring to him not as an author but as a content creator and 4. the only thing I've seen people discuss is wanting content.

I don't really vibe with the concept that people in fandom are just content mills that exist to hand us content day in and day out and that's all that matters. This dude had whole conversations with people in the comments, he was really nice and gave people encouragement, commented on his readers' fics, and he never had an unkind word to say about anyone. He answered questions on his tumblr and always had funny, weirdly specific memes for everything. And some of the same super-distinct usernames I remember him interacting with are the ones complaining about content. Not writing, just content, that demeaning internet term that also applies to AI.

He was the one who inspired me to start writing and now I don't know if I want to post. I don't want to be seen as a content mill, a bot who spits out something to be consumed that's seen as more important than a person. I don't want to contribute to this weird culture where fiction matters more than reality.

Again: I know. Snowflake, Gen Z bad, fandom olds unbothered and cool, etc. But I never claimed to be cool. I just claim this is not how fandom should be. We should be hanging out, talking to and supporting each other. You don't have to be friends, but you should aim to not see art in terms of content creation and consumption.

IDK, I don't really think I'm explaining this clearly. I just feel like we should try to not be assholes.

Uh... that's not what parasocial means, you weirdo, and no fandom olds think it's in good taste to whine about somebody who committed suicide not going out on a high note.

Don't be an ageist twit when you're just repeating what anyone older would say.

I assume people are reacting this way because 1. people are jerks, duh and 2. they probably don't pay attention to internet acquaintances' "suicides" after way too many fake ones.

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missyandthemisfits · 1 month

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JJK - Grocery Shopping With Them Pt. I

Yuji Itadori - He’s got a hard time staying next to the cart especially once he sees something cool or funny or weird. Like, he doesn’t like wander half way across the store or anything like that, but he’s skipping his way up to the weird off brand cereal just as soon as you make it to the aisle, grinning back at you with that dorky smile as he does.

“Babe look, they’re called Nut O’s!” He’s snickering way too hard and loud and it’s just a liiitle embarrassing, but endearing. You chuckle as he shuffles back over, box in hand. “Can we get em?”

You snort and sigh halfheartedly, not really accustomed to denying the sweetheart.

“Throw it in, Yu.”

It was seriously hard not to spoil him sometimes.

Megumi Fushiguro - When I say he has a mental and physical checklist of everything you guys have vs everything you guys need to stock up on- it’s that serious for him. No like shopping is actually no joke. Any sort of suggestions made that aren’t on the list? He’s scowling a little harder than normal, eyeballing you and the food item you two definitely don’t need-

“But Megumiii, they look so good - please babe we have to try them!” He crosses his arms in scrutiny.

“That’s an unnecessary expense. Don’t even get me started on the sugar content-,”

“Oh my fucking- PLEASE.” There’s a long sigh and he finally relents.

But make no mistake he’s taking satisfaction in the fact that you inevitably hate the taste. Megumi 17, (Name) 0.

Nobara Kugisaki - Honestly? Y’all get the same level of giddy to see weird foods and utensils in the store, so much so you’ve got an entire collection of things like …sriracha pocky and those boxes of foreign snacks, all of which you end up recording yourselves try for the masses.

“Dude, no this is actually fucking gross I’m gonna-,” You’re laughing hysterically as she gags beside you, snorting a bit as she downs her entire bottle of water.

“It actually wasn’t that bad for me.” The look she gives you in response is priceless.

Maki Zenin - She’s the type to carry a book around in the store and let you take as much time as you need deliberating over spinach vs lettuce because she’s got her entertainment. She’s got very specific tastes too so it makes it really easy to shop for her when she’s not around, you on the other hand are so very indecisive- but she’s learned to live with that.

“Maki…should I get spicy or regular?”

“Hmm,” she doesn’t even glance up, “Flip a coin?”

“But what if I get home and decide I want the other one? Uggghhh-,” She finally peers over the pages.

“Just get both.” You’re looking at her in teary-eyed awe.

“You’re the smartest person I know Maki!”

“I know.”

Toge Inumaki - Loves going grocery shopping with you. I mean, loves spending all his free time with you, but there’s something about grocery shopping that just makes his day. He adores the domesticated feel of it all, he surmises.

“Salmon.” He gives a thumbs up at the wasabi flavored prawn chips in your hands and you cheer a little, placing them in the cart.

“Sure they won’t be too spicy for you?” He thinks for a moment.

“Mustard Leaf.” He gives a shrug and you chuckle.

“What do you mean you’re not sure? Weren’t these your suggestion?”

“Salmon Roe.” He gives a nod and you can tell by the way his eyes sparkle he’s smiling under his scarf.

“Well alright, don’t say I didn’t warn you…”

Always a pleasant experience to be around this cutie.

#jjk x reader #jujutsu kaisen #yuji itadori #megumi fushiguro #nobara kugisaki #maki zenin #inumaki toge #jjk headcanons

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ray-jaykub · 6 months

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Hi! I'm a new follower! @hagelpaimon recommended you for this specific request. If you're interested, I was wondering if you could write some Bayverse fluff for me.

F!Reader has a southern accent and even though it isn't thick, there are certain words she says that makes her sound like a country bumpkin. And her turtle S/O (lovingly, of course) teases her for it. You can make it for each turtle or just Donnie. And you can make it NSFW if you wanna. Whatever you think fits! Thank you and happy writing 🐢💙❤️💜🧡

Thought I would crawl out of my adult cave and answer an ask that spoke to me. And as a country bumpkin (hoot hoot, very, very south georgia), I can say this hits the mark. I'm gonna do a little of all the turtles and

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Now, as someone who grew up around people who talked like me, I assumed I could hide it well. But that wasn't until I started sending audio messages back and forth with @moxfirefly did I realized how bad it was... Now I've never tried writing a southern accent, despite having one, so bear with me.

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Leo:

- He finds it so endearing and sweet and just can't find it in his heart to make fun of you

- Like, the way you call his name? The twang makes him smile because that means time with you

- His brothers and him obviously don't get out and talk to people, so I can imagine they're probably a lil stumped on why you sound the way you do

- Luckily, Leo is an old western movie fan, so at least he knows Cowboys.... please be patient with him

- If you're shy about the way you talk, he won't acknowledge it, but over time, he hopes you two get comfortable enough that you'll express yourself more

- Seriously, can't get over when you call him or his brother's names. Like omg they just said "Dawnie" and the way you pronounce Manhattan?

Raphael:

- Why you sound like that??

- Definitely believes you're from some weird part of New York, or God forbid Jersey

- Won't and will not understand unless you play country music for him and go like "these are my people"

- makes you a country mix, even if you don't like country. He's trying! You can't deny him that

-He says it's to make you feel "closer to home" and honestly, it lowkey works when you're feeling home sick

- He sees a cowboy film??? Prepare for him to throw a cowboy hat on your noggin

-Save a horse ride a cowboy, yeah? (I'm cringing)

Donnie:

- LOVES IT, ADORES IT

- He's really big on dialect and accents, especially for someone he fancies

- Will ask you to say certain words at random times of the day, early mornings when you haven't woken up, late at night when you're sleepy

- When you're angry???

- He has to hold out on bringing the recorder. But he's taking in every word

- Just imagine yelling at him, and he's looking at you with big doe eyes because wow... when was a country accent kinda sexy??

- He has to say one of his favorite things is when you both are whispering, and he leans down to hear you better, woof 😮‍💨

- He needs a southern girl 😤 GIVE HIM A TASTE OF THE SOUTH

Mikey:

- Will tease you, mock you, repeat every word you say... with love of course

- just expect to hear his lil giggle after you've said something particularly southern

- If you're the type to say our phrases (colder than a witches tit, you call undies breeches, you make crazy comparisons) he will adopt them and look stupid doing it

- Just imagine Mikey, surfer dude, New Yorker, saying, "I reckon"

- Like baby... please hush

- lowkey the one that helped Raph make the country mix tape, added a few personal favorites (the fucking wal-mart yodeling kid, for some reason)

- Gets you boots, even if you don't wear them, and tries really hard to convince you to dress like Barbie in her cowgirl outfit

- Never a dull moment with this doofus

........Go Dawgs

#teenage mutant ninja turtles #tmnt x reader #donatello #leonardo #tmnt #michelangelo #raphael #southern reader #country

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blazehedgehog · 5 months

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Thoughts on this years Game Awards ceremony?

I want to like Geoff Keighley. Every year he gets on camera and the dude is practically radiant. He's beaming. He's living his best life and loves getting to be the host of that show. And I truly believe that. I don't think it's some gameshow host act, where the moment he steps off stage his expression goes dark. I think that dude is doing his dream job and his life cannot get better.

But there are so many problems with The Game Awards. Rushing through winners lists just so they can get to showing more trailers, visibly flashing "WRAP IT UP" warning signs to people who are tearfully eulogizing dead colleagues, while also giving extended time slots to Hollywood celebrities and people that are friends of Geoff just to say effectively nothing. Hideo Kojima and Jordan Peele spent eight full minutes on something that was effectively just a logo.

And, like did y'all catch that bit with Anthony Mackie? On stream we heard nothing but solid, constant applause as he walked out. But when he got to his mark I'm pretty sure he called out how the the real people in the theater all stopped clapping for him almost immediately save for one specific section of seats on stage right. Meaning all the cheering and clapping and people going "Ohhhhh!!" at exciting things happening on screen is fake. Nobody in the audience is actually doing that. It's the awards show equivalent of a live laugh track. Think of all the times they cut to a shot of the crowd and everybody appears to be sitting in silence.

Which is to say nothing of literally everything else happening around The Game Awards. They have something called "The Future Class" every year, a diverse selection of (international?) up and coming game developers, and a non-trivial percentage of the Future Class this year asked for The Game Awards to make a statement about ending the crisis in Gaza. They were ignored. Geoff couldn't even spare table scraps.

Increasingly longer and longer shadows are being cast on The Game Awards. It's starting to go beyond just being "a bad awards show." It's starting to feel like four hours of advertisements with the thinnest pretenses of "honoring our industry."

Keighley may be living his best life but it sure seems to be focused on making him not only look good, but making him a lot of money in the process. All while dodging responsibility for anything beyond those two goals. For something that probably puts literal millions of dollars into his pocket, he sure doesn't want to take it very seriously.

Bad taste.

#geoff keighley #the game awards #tga #awards #gaming

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hi can I request the brothers (minus mammon) x reader that's one sided because reader connects with mammon a lot more than they do with the bros and hangs out with him a lot to the point everyone thinks reader and mammon are dating and the brothers get jealous because they wish they were mammon? (sorry if its confusing)

I love this so much!! Thank you for requesting!

A connection one may never have

Lucifer

-as the avatar of pride, lucifer took this blow very hard. You’d prefer his younger brother over him?

-occasionally he’d see mammon sneaking into your room at night, to cuddle or watch some cheesy movie.

-Lucifer has tried to put a stop to it, but it’s always met with a pleading eyed MC staring up at him “really? Just one more night?”

-or on movie nights when you’re cuddled up next to Mammon, whispering in his ear and then laughing.

-It got to a point that Lucifer started making up excuses to keep mammon away from you.

“Mammon, you need to finish your homework”

“MC, could you help me with something in my study?”

-once lower demons around RAD started talking about you two dating, he started to find even more reasons to keep you apart, even if he could be with you.

-he might claim that something happened to your room and you have to sleep in the purgatory hall.

Leviathan

-he is quite literally the avatar of envy. This dude is going ballistic

-your spending time with his no good older brother? That makes sense, he’s just some no good otaku.

-he might start putting himself down in front of you so you’ll start complimenting him.

“If you don’t think I’m yucky and disgusting, then why don’t you… maybe… watch some anime in my room with me tonight”

-if you accept, this dude will think that this will always work (don’t feed into this)

-but.. on the other hand if you say no, he’s going to be super depressed. Like he’s not eating dinner for the next week. He’ll be snacking mindlessly on junk in his room.

-maybe a knock on his door will cheer him up?

-when he starts to hear rumours of you and mammon dating he is… more than miserable.

-this dude is watching angsty romance movies, specifically human x demon ones (if he could find one)

Satan

-mammon? That imbecile? He probably can’t spell his own name. You’d prefer Mammon over him?

-pushes his sadness down and gets mad.

-might start throwing stuff, or putting extra salt in mammons dinner to make it taste bad. He’s petty, what can i say?

-starts reading phycology books on humans and how they choose romantic partners. This dude is following ALL the steps.

-he’s taking interest in your hobbies, and doting on you. Maybe leaving tea and cookies outside your door.

-one time he sees Mammon eating the cookies he made.

-he tried to choke him.

-ain’t no way he’s letting his brother eat the cookies he made for MC!

-someone mentions to him that your dating? He denies it. No way.

“Hey Satan, is MC dating Mammon? They are right?”

“No.”

-very blunt. Might just ask you if your dating Mammon just to get confirmation

Asmodeus

-oh MC you must be joking! You wanna cuddle up with mammon when you could be painting his nails?!

-acts like a brat.

-sees Mammon bringing over some food for you? Sneaks into Mammons seat and thanks Mammon for the snacks

“Oh mammon, thank you for bringing us some snacks, is there anything else you need?”

-might get kind of depressed when you ask him to get up and give mammon his spot back

“What? You’d rather sit next to Mammon than me?”

-when he hears that you and Mammon are dating, to be honest he was probably the first of the brothers to find out.

-he would start crying. He is Mammons younger brother, and it would hurt to have someone you like taken from you. Especially when that person if your brother! (And when your not used to being turned down)

-has a TON of salt care days, in the beginning he might invite you to one, just to subtly interrogate you about your relationship with mammon

-don’t blame him if he does anything crazy! He’s the avatar of lust after all!

(Might put a love potion in one of your drinks- be warned)

Beelzebub

-he can understand you not wanting to hang out with him ALL the time, he has a pretty strict schedule; wake up, eat, eat some more, eat, maybe a nap, dinner, and then work out.

-but he does sometimes have free nights where he’ll want to hang out with you, but those night are limited

-so when one week you say to him that you can’t watch a movie and eat popcorn with him because your hanging out with Mammon? He gets kind of sad!

- he won’t try to keep you from Mammon like some of his brothers would, he’d probably mope for a bit before continuing to find a time you guys could hang out.

-probably most reasonable to be honest.

-i could see him asking to have a day you can hang out and having you put it on a calendar.

-after you hung out, he’d be happy with the time he got to spend with you! Well- until he got a message from one of his fangol teammates saying you guys were dating!

-would just ask you if you were dating, when you tell him that your not he’d be pretty relieved

Belphagor

-didn’t really notice how close you’d gotten, he’s been catching up on sleep! Don’t blame him!

-when he notices he can’t stop noticing though

-he once walked into the living room to take a nap on the couch and he saw you braiding his hair. What? Why don’t you braid his hair? It helps him fall asleep

-might just boot Mammon off your lap, like literally kick him off and lye on your lap

-he’s not afraid to anger his brother

-when you tell him that what he did wasn’t nice he’d probably just say “and?”

-continues to do stuff like that, Mammons sleeping in your room? Not anymore. Your sharing headphones? Not after he pulls them out of Mammons ears.

-if you give him some attention he’ll stop, just cuddle him till he falls asleep and you can go hang out with mammon!

-when someone tells him your dating mammon he might choke them (get it?)

-actually, scratch that, he might choke mammon.

-your going to have to reassure him that it was just a rumour.

Thanks again for the request, i realize now this isn’t very angsty but oh well! I hope you like it!

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The obi wan Kenobi show doesn’t work because it contradicts episode 4, which specifically states that the last time obi wan and vader met was in episode 3, having them duel again is just pointless and it contradicts an entire film, also why doesn’t Palpatine and the Empire arrest Bail Organa if they have suspicions he’s working with a Jedi? Bail Organa is smart and hes a good guy against the fascist empire and evil sith but in this show it makes him look not very smart.

I'm not sure why you're sending this message to ME, someone who's made it fairly clear that I LIKE the Kenobi show (and if I haven't, this is my definitive statement that I LOVE the Kenobi show and find it one of the best shows that D+ has released thus far), unless you're intentionally trying to start a debate/discussion about this.

I'm not going to change my mind about the Kenobi show and suddenly decide it's a bad show, so if you're trying to change my mind about it for some reason, it won't work. Much like the Prequel Trilogy, I'm perfectly willing to acknowledge the Kenobi show has flaws and isn't a perfectly written show, but it has a VISION and a PLAN, something that is all too rare within Star Wars these days.

It's also one of the VERY vanishingly few genuinely pro-Jedi and sort-of Jedi-centric stories out there. I'm unlikely to get very many of those, so Kenobi is a diamond in a rough for me. So I don't CARE what accusations people level at this show. Most of them are inaccurate or entirely based on personal taste alone. If the Kenobi show isn't for you, it isn't for you; there's PLENTY of Star Wars things that have come out that aren't for me but seem to have something in them that appeals to other people. Nothing anyone critiques about it is going to change the fact that there's a LOT I love about this show and the fact that it feels like it was made with fans like me in mind.

So if what you want is to just vent about a show that didn't work for you, maybe go to someone else to do it because you won't get it from me. (If you want to vent about, say, TBB or the Ahsoka show on the other hand, I'm exactly who you should talk to. Come vent at me about those shows any time.)

All that being said, this is my response to your specific accusations.

First, I'll address the Bail Organa thing because that just seems simpler. The ONLY person who has any suspicions that Bail is working with a Jedi during the Kenobi show is Reva, who leaves the whole Inquisitorius and the Empire by the end of the show. While there's perhaps some evidence of Obi-Wan wandering around with Leia, he's demonstrably not the person who TOOK Leia nor is he the person who RETURNED Leia, so there's zero evidence of Obi-Wan and Bail actually interacting beyond the message Bail sent to Obi-Wan that nobody saw except Reva and Obi-Wan, and that Reva took with her off of Jabiim, so it's never going to end up as evidence of anything.

The other reason Palpatine is not going after Bail Organa despite what are likely STRONG suspicions that Bail isn't loyal and is helping the Rebellion, is the same reason that the Senate doesn't get eliminated until ANH. Palpatine is still putting up a semblance of "democracy" to string people along with the idea that the Empire is a benevolent force working on behalf of the greater good. Bail is a well-known and well-liked and influential Senator on his own, AND he's the husband of the reigning monarch of Alderaan. Killing him without pretty serious evidence of wrong-doing could be a majorly bad political move for Palpatine. He also likely believes that, even if Bail IS working with the Rebellion, he's not that big of a threat. Why expend effort on killing someone who's not that big of a threat and when it might cause more people to turn against you for killing a well-liked dude without evidence of wrong-doing? What does Palpatine truly GAIN from this? He ONLY turns on Alderaan after two things happen: first, the Death Star is completed and he has a weapon that he can use to eliminate large swathes of enemies VERY quickly; second, Leia is caught working with the Rebels which implicates the entire royal family. So now not only does Palpatine have evidence of wrong-doing, he also has the means to stop CARING about what people think anyway because the Death Star means he can completely dismantle the ENTIRE SENATE and do whatever he wants to whoever he wants.

Now let's look at the accusation that the Kenobi show contradicts what's stated in ANH. Personally, I don't think it does. I'll grant that it contradicts what's IMPLIED by both ANH and ROTS and what most fans largely had assumed had happened. I'll even grant that the extra meeting during this time period is a little awkward narratively given that Obi-Wan had to win in order to survive at all but he also couldn't kill Anakin and people already had issues with this in ROTS where it's more easily explained away, so it's even harder to buy that Obi-Wan doesn't finish the job in THIS story.

But none of that means that it directly contradicts anything said in ANH. When Anakin first senses Obi-Wan's presence, all he says is he's feeling a presence he hasn't felt since... and then he fades off and never finishes that sentence. What he says during their actual fight is "I've been waiting for you, Obi-Wan. We meet again, at last. The circle is now complete... When I left you, I was but the learner; now I am the master." There's NOTHING specific in this dialogue. The bit about having been a learner when Anakin left is already contradicted by the Prequels anyway since Anakin was technically already Knighted by the time he betrays everyone and joins the Sith and the bit about having "left" Obi-Wan is again contradicted by the Prequels first since their final confrontation has Obi-Wan leave Anakin, not the other way around (unless we count the initial betrayal and joining the Sith as Anakin "leaving" but they see each other after that, so). So anything you could claim the Kenobi show "contradicted" from ANH is something the Prequels already contradicted. Anakin also makes the claim here that he's a "Master" when Anakin is actually a Sith APPRENTICE and he wasn't ever a Jedi Master, either. Anakin is someone who exaggerates and manipulates the truth of things as he wants, so everything he says has to be taken with a grain of salt anyway. He's an unreliable narrator in the extreme.

Which makes it pretty easy to just say, "Well Anakin's lying about shit because this is what he wants to believe even if it isn't true." Sure, it doesn't match with the Kenobi show, but it doesn't match the Prequels either, so unless you're about to tell me that we have to toss out the entire Prequel Trilogy (something we're ALSO not going to agree on), then I think the Kenobi show should be given a pass for this.

Finally, like I said, I DO recognize there's some awkwardness introduced to the narrative in this show. There's weird timing for things, it does go against popular assumptions, etc. But just like a lot of people have done for shows THEY wanted to enjoy, I'm willing to come up with my own headcanons to make the Kenobi show work. I tend to view the Kenobi show as more of a character exploration via metaphor than a straightforward narrative. This show and the story it's telling are SO laser-focused on Obi-Wan's journey towards reclaiming his Jedi identity that it occasionally has to do some odd things to make the narrative fall into place to allow that journey to happen in exactly the way they want it. The plot came second to the character in this case (the opposite of the Ahsoka show where the plot is very basic and straightforward but the characters were completely left by the wayside which leaves the narrative an incomprehensible mess anyway; give me more shows with flaws like the Kenobi show over shows like the Ahsoka show ANY DAY). Whenever I recommend this show to people I tell them to focus on the character journey Obi-Wan goes on and to view the show more metaphorically than literally. It works for some people, it doesn't for others.

My personal favorite headcanon for the Kenobi show is that it's a representation of Obi-Wan's personal Force Ghost test, not unlike the one we know Yoda had in TCW season 6. In that, he's sent to several different places, some real and some not, in order to face different things he has to overcome before the Force decides he's ready to learn this skill. Sometimes he's led by a specific person through the test, sometimes he's not. This isn't ENTIRELY dissimilar to what happens to Obi-Wan in the Kenobi show where he keeps bouncing to different places and being guided by different characters towards the one major thing he has to face and overcome. And while Anakin's dialogue after the mask is sliced off doesn't make a TON of sense to me as something Anakin would actually say, it works for me as something that Obi-Wan has thought about HIMSELF. Anakin isn't really Anakin here, he's a manifestation of all of Obi-Wan's pain and fears and doubts. Anakin saying that he's not Obi-Wan's failure is something the real Anakin would NEVER say (except as a way to keep separating himself from the atrocities he's done), but it IS something Obi-Wan would need to come to accept. And who better for that lesson to come from than the face of the person who betrayed him, the person who destroyed his universe.

Much like Yoda's journey took him to both real places and some that seem somewhat less real, Obi-Wan's journey could be a mixture of both real events AND some things that are a little more metaphysical. The final confrontation on that moon could perhaps be one of those metaphysical things. He's drawn to that moon and it does work to draw the Empire away from the refugees, but it's not really Anakin he sees down there or something. Does anything in the show support this? No, of course not. But nothing really makes it impossible for it to be true, either. It makes things work better for me, something I'm willing to do because there's a LOT about this show that really really fucking works for me already, so I'm willing to put in a little extra effort to smooth over the things that don't work as well into something else. If you don't like the show enough to do that work, that's fine. But then I'm not the person to come venting to about it.

#star wars #obi-wan kenobi #obi-wan kenobi show #star wars obi-wan kenobi #sw owk #owk #kenobi show #kenobi series

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Breaking down the comics: BEMIS. Part 4

READING THINGS SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO!

Part one is here.

Part two is here.

Part three is here.

Issue #197.

Oh look! Burrows is back! …It’s a sad day when that makes me happy. Which means that this is going to start to get gore filled again. Yay.

I'm going to be perfectly honest here... I didn't finish the Bemis run. When it first came out, I was so pissed off after a while that I stopped reading.

I can't remember which one I stopped at, but I have a strong suspicion I know the point it was.

So you guys? We're going to be surprised by the ending together!

Anyways...

Back to the moldy bread factory we go.

We start with three cloaked guys (very cult looking) and five other guys.

The five other guys all sit down at a stupidly long table.

The leader welcomes them all. "Welcome to the Bi-Annual Feast of the Societe des Sadiques. You have been chosen--Selected--from a vast pool of candidates. Having proved your loyalty, your zeal, and your passion."

Oh good... Let's see who we got this time. Bemis seems to like to put in strong stereotypes and then just make fun of them unfairly.

We start with a photographer dude with thick glasses and a bit of a sad stubble face.

Then we have a female drug lord and executive level madame. I have no idea what that is, but she's stressed up in a 'little black dress'.

Then we have someone that is just listed as having 'a particular distinction, even in this group' and he's in a Guy Fieri flame shirt.

Lastly we have a shirtless man with tattoos and piercings all over him and a green mohawk. "A tattoo artist, body piercer, and reality television mogul".

So be prepared to have Bemis give them all incredibly dislikeable characteristics. You ready?

Cause this is a group dedicated to "Sadism, in all its shapes and forms."

We are going to get a look at what Bemis considers extreme sadism as well as people that find it not only enjoyable, but also get off on it sexually.

And I will take the stance that I have nothing against consensual sadism. Every fetish has a time and place as long as everyone involved is enjoying themselves and also has safety in mind!

Bemis isn't going to do that. He’s only going to show the bad side. And try to make it edgy.

The leader asks the four others to tell them how they came to 'know and practice your fascination with the pain of others'.

We start with the photographer named "Liberation".

You see him as a teen getting into photography. Specifically the early 2000s in New York at the "coked-up rock shows". We see him taking pictures at a punk rock show, taking pictures of a couple making out in a dingy dirty corner of the club. Then we see him taking pictures of a passed out person in a toilet stall that has ODed on probably heroin cause there's a needle next to them.

I'm not showing this.

"I photographed my first cadaver in 2001."

He talks about fashion photography that was run more like a frat party. How popular he got and how "brand" he was.

Despite all this, he felt his true calling was in death photography and that he was sure that there would be people interested in "black market photography."

"Snuff Couture".

For those that don't know, Snuff films are films that feature people dying. Many of these films have been proven to be fake death films that are very violently acted and very real looking. On the dark web, there ARE real films out there. It's...Don't look this up. I grew up in the beginning of the internet and remember the unsafe place it used to be. I've seen things I shouldn't have seen. Don't look into this one.

So he was killing people and taking pictures while he did it then selling it to other people that 'taste'.

The group claps and they move on to the next person. The drug lord, Lyla.

She talks about how the mafia isn't what it used to be and that the chinese economy and triad was edging them out of jobs.

"What was going to be a straight-up assassination of the head of the Triads could have turned seriously messy when his wife and 2-month-old child turned out to be home at the time."

You see a bunch of dead guys and a woman holding a baby. They shoot the woman and you see a happy baby covered in blood. The baby is Lyla, who apparently got adopted by the Mafia after they killed her parents.

"See, it would have been some kind of weird fairy tale if I was brought up by the mafia don who ordered the hit. My life would have been a walk in the park. But when they stole me, they entrusted me to Daniel DeCriscio, also known as "the deathbringer" in the press for being, at the time of his death, the most prolific and brutal hitman of all time."

Apparently he taught her exactly where she was from, made her fight on the streets for her food, and she wasn't allowed to sleep or eat till she trained with him.

"I learned to kill before I wore my first bra. And so I did. Kill, that is. A lot. I think I was nearing triple digits by the time I was 20. I was good. I rose through the ranks."

She eventually became his replacement assassin and murdered her 'father'. She became a 'Made Man' (not how it's done but that's a mafia lesson for a later time). She slowly killed off the leaders until she became the main leader.

Badda bing badda boom.

Next guy is "Sol". The Guy Fieri shirt guy.

"Well, I started out by lobbing grenades in public places and running away. No particular motivation besides...throwing a cog in the machine. The weird thing is, they never caught me."

This is called terrorism.

"So, I went on to start murdering random women from 1999 'til the present."

This is called misogyny.

"They didn't catch me for that, either. I guess I made the cut because I'm the only living man who's been both a serial killer and a mass murderer."

Not true. Not true at all.

The group claps.

Lastly, we have "Tilt" the tattoo guy.

Wanna know how I know Bemis has no idea about tattoo culture?

The way he depicts the tattoo parlor.

You don't show up to 'watch people work'. And a topless lady? This would be done with a privacy screen and people wouldn't be gathered around like that taking pictures.

Tattoo artists, PROPER ones are actually very protective of their work. If they designed it, it's their art. Doesn't matter if it's on your body, it's still their art.

We see depictions of 'outrageous' piercings. Some of which are medically unsound. (A piercing that goes on the underside of an eyelid? Yeah, have fun with your corneal ulcer).

Then he did a tattoo show. We aren't going to talk about the controversial tattoo show who I won't name here. Just know... It's not well thought of in a lot of circles.

He got rich and "Being rich made it so I could have whatever I wanted. And all I ever really wanted....Was to pierce someone to death."

Uh huh.

So we see shadow images of bodies with outlandish piercings (Which, not all of them would actually cause death... I've seen people with some of these piercings).

He brags about perfecting the art of 'hurt'.

He then tosses in a completely unnecessary background. It's just not needed. He should have ended it with the images of the piercing. This is just over explanation of things and bad writing.

"See, I came from nothing. Grew up in pretty horrible circumstances. I was already mad then. And once I had money, they started treating me different. Like now I was finally worth something. That made me even madder. So now... I get even."

Why is he shirtless here? Why when you have a heavily tattooed and pierced man do you always have them be shirtless? Is it a macho thing? Wear a shirt! You have to protect your tattoo from the sun! They're going to fade and get shitty!

Anyways, the group claps.

One of the hooded figures sits down with the group.

"Woo-Hoo! Another classic. I love how not dark this whole thing is!"

Lyla is offended by the hooded guy sitting next to her.

"What do you think you're doing? Do you know who we are? You're barely fit to serve us booze."

"It was pretty good, though, right? I heard this wine pairs well with psychopathology."

"Get out of that seat, trash."

"Well, the thing is, Lyla, you charming flatterer... I'm actually here for the induction ceremony. I'd like to throw my hat in the ring."

He takes off his hood and....

I hate this art. I hate so much about this.

A sadist. Making Moon Knight into a sadist. Specifically Marc.

Marc is not a sadist. Marc hates how violent he is. He hates his anger issues. He had issues in other runs with…murdering the bad guys… But I don’t think Bemis knows what makes a sadist.

A Sadist is NOT someone out to watch others be murdered, be out for revenge, or tossing grenades and running away.

According to the dictionary… “Sadist: A person who derives pleasure, especially sexual gratification, from inflicting pain or humiliation on others. “

They bask in other’s pain. They cause pain and enjoy witnessing the pain they are causing.

So... Moon Knight assures them that "No, no! I'm not $%#& with you! I really am! I mean, yeah, I got into what I do to save people's lives. I'm a good guy. But I was messed up as a child and ended up with Dossociatve Identity Disorder. LIke, there are other people living in my head. People cope with mental illness in different ways.

Rather than become a bad person myself, I decided to start professionally beating the snow out of evil criminals. It's basically my job. And you have to start enjoying your work or...what's the point?

That broken part of me is made of bleak, pitch-black fury. So, the blood-spray and bone breaking... I won't lie, I enjoy it. I look forward to it, sometimes. Hard to admit, but it's true."

I HAVE SO MANY PROBLEMS WITH THIS.

He is implying that mentally ill people are inherently violent. 'rather than become a bad person'. He says that he has people living in his head (as if he is the house owner and they are paying rent!?) and rather than become bad, he had to chose to fight crime.

That his trauma, his illness, his everything means he was going to fall down the same path of evil.

DID DOES NOT MAKE A PERSON EVIL! I know so many systems and they are all such kind and wonderful people. They are traumatized. They are in pain. They are doing what they can with their lives and NONE of them are bad people or violent or evil!

Marc carries on. "So, I'm going to hurt every one of you. Hurt you badly, if you don't cooperate. And yeah... I'm going to kind of really, really enjoy it. Did I make the cut?"

The other henchmen open fire on him.

Just as things are about to turn into a brawl, someone else enters, telling them to stop.

"The masked man is not to be harmed. At least...Not yet. I knew this day would come. In the exclusive circles I run in... The threat of your existence, as well as your true identity, are a known quantity."

He's not exactly ever been good at hiding his identity, but Bemis keeps saying "my exclusive circles know you well!" Who the hell are these circles? Is there a MK watch group out there? I wouldn't be surprised.

Oh good. They're playing coy banter.

"And I knew you'd know And that one day I'd find you. Why do you think I'm here?"

And the new mystery figure tells him that he's arrived in time for the ritual.

Then he gives Moon Knight a hug that no one is happy about.

"[...] You've earned a personal invitation...courtesy of your Uncle Ernst."

Oh good. The Nazi is back.

And that ends this absolute trash of an issue. Nothing happened in this episode. We got people doing their best to be VAGUELY scary or menacing then had them immediately be upstaged and then an old Nazi showed up that looked weird and gave Moon Knight a hug.

ISSUE #198.

Alright, intro! Oh look, the blurb has updated.

Why is the society of sadists in French? French doesn't automatically make things authentic or fancy.

The Societe des Sadiques. "A secret group of uber-sadists" is meeting up for some biannual feast for their new inductees. Moon Knight shows up, on the hunt for their 'mysterious leader-Ernst, the Nazi who Marc witnessed torturing a man in his synagogue as a child, the traumatic event thta fed into Marc's dissociative identity disorder."

I hate that I had to type that sentence. It was long and badly worked and also just... I feel so dirty.

"Now Ernst can follow through on his ultimate plan..."

Oh for cry out loud...

I don't even know where to start.

So... We have Ernst addressing his audience, made to look like he's talking to the reader. He's got a little Moon Knight toy and he's wearing what looks like a purple jester collar.

I'll show you in a second because I want you to appreciate this.

He's gonna monologue for a solid minute or two.

"And so our drama begins, dear audience. In which a flawed hero is tested. His already dubious moral standing called into question Is he man, or is he dragon? Today, the societe des Sadiques will tease out the essence of his core."

So are we supposed to forget the fact that he's an ACTUAL Nazi?

Here's the problem. Now Bemis is going to try to turn him into a modern day villain that's worse than the Nazi he was.

And you can't do that. You can't take an original Nazi that admitted to atrocious crimes against Jewish people and then put him in America as the head of some murderous sadistic cult. That doesn't make him worse. He was already as bad as he can get. This feels like a step backwards and almost like you're apologizing for him being a Nazi in the first place and trying to explain it away.

If Bemis tries to make it about Ernst having a terrible childhood to explain his sadistic needs to be a jew torturing/murdering Nazi I swear I'm going to lose it.

"I confess...There's a part of me that wants to see him escape this spiritually unscathed. But this is our GAUNTLET. Where the contenders for entrance into our society are made to discover just how truly merciless they are.

In the end, they'll face one another, and if they can live up to that...Then we shall bless them."

What on earth is he talking about and why should we care. Bemis sure loves his long pointless exposition babble.

"As for our Little "Surprise" guest...I can only say his arrival has been anticipated. Call him a Pet Project.

If I were a betting man... I'd bet that what we are about to witness...Is the birth of a monster."

Uh huh. That's disgusting. Why was this needed? Ew.

And now we have Moon Knight on some sort of light runway with people in masks all around clapping.

Why is this all so bad?

Oh no. Here we go. Here it is people! What you've ALL been waiting for.

You've heard us talk about it in passing. "Don't read Bemis. Rabid Dolphins".

YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND.

And now here we are.

I give you... Rabid Dolphin:

As someone who has spent an upsetting amount of time studying Rabies… I have a LOT of questions. But I’m just going to move on. I don’t want to give this more brain power than I need to. Because what’s about to happen is upsetting enough. I’m just going to apologize for making you witness the rabid dolphin incident.

In this next part it's called "Second trial Man vs. Inhumanity.

I don't even know what is happening here. YOu've got some sort of paper mache room? There are animals in statue paper mache and some big guy that's covered in paper so only his head is visible.

Marc walks into the room and finds a newspaper article on the wall. The paper man yells at him and tells him not to read the paper. He's pissed that he's there and swears up and down that he knows people that can make his life a living hell.

Marc reads the paper. "Sickening 'torture farm' raided by FBI. Jess Ebidiah, 38, implicated in what may be the worst case of animal cruelty in the history of California."

Uh huh.

Marc takes out a moon crescent and it just says "Trial passed."

Third Trial: "Man vs Himself".

This is where I just get angry. The dolphin hurt my head and made me tired. Now I'm seething.

So you see a guy in a weird outfit that looks like a cross between the punisher, a luchadore, and a gimp outfit.

He introduces himself "Greg Salinger, AKA Foolkiller."

He's a crime fighter that is also a licensed Shrink.

What does that mean? Is he a therapist? A psychologist? A Psychiatrist? What the hell does 'SHRINK' make him? What credentials does he have? Not all 'shrinks' are trained in how to handle all problems. Some specialize in PTSD, dissociative states, or other things. Not all are equiped to handle D.I.D.

The man addresses Marc by name and tells him that the cultists are forcing him to do this under threat that his family be killed if he doesn't 'assess' Marc.

Marc takes a seat at the couch and the shrink asks what Marc did to the man in the last room.

We don't get to hear the story, but in the next panel "Three minutes later" we see the therapist trying not to vomit (that's professional). Even the cultist guy with the gun on them looks shocked.

This is a cope out. Bemis wants us to think it's some unfathomable horror that can even make the therapist vomit.

"Marc, it's my opinion that you suffer from certain...OTHER chemical--and Personality-based--Disorders outside your clinical diagnosis of Dissociative Identity Disorder. See, I know what it's like to want to stop criminals from hurting people, but...The sort of actions you describe suggest a pathology that...Marc, has anyone ever spoken with you about Bipolar II? Or the spectrum of Personality Disorders relating to Borderline thinking?"

PAUSE. MAJOR PAUSE.

As I noted off the bat in part 1. Bemis is Bipolar. Self diagnosed or professionally, I'm not here to question it. If he says he is Bipolar, then he's Bipolar.

He's attempting to Move Marc into a position he can self identify with. Which, unfortunately, moves him away from DID and into a different area that Bemis can claim to now be an expert on and therefore no one can question him.

There's a major problem with this. It DOES take him away from the spectrum of DID that exists and forces him into another one and also putting all these negative traits he's given to Marc onto Bi Polar people, making the audience start to associate all these terrible and dangerous things with them.

It ALSO is taking away from something called System Accountability.

This is something that is learned in systems and it does take time to trust in the system for it to work. It also involves a heavy amount of intersystem communication.

It means that if someone in your system is an asshole, the WHOLE system is responsible for making sure that this asshole gets help as well as attempts to NOT be an asshole.

It means that no one is out there beating their spouse and claiming it was 'the bad alter'.

Even deeper, it means that they have developed a fail safe to protect the body. If someone is hurting the body or putting it at risk, the rest of the system can take charge and make sure that person is no longer given access to the body until they are able to get help.

You only get one body and you have to share it. This takes time and trust, but it is something I've seen done.

We've seen it done in the MacKay run when Steven forced control away from Marc so as not to cause them further trauma.

UGH.

UNPAUSE...

"All very common. These things don't ever make you a mean person. On their own they in no way imply... But the MIX... You've got a heady mix, there, champ. And it's pretty apparent someone hurt you very badly at some point. The thing about it is...

I think you need to admit to yourself that your need to hurt people may go beyond just wanting to protect others. An addiction to sadism isn't anything to scoff at...Or frame with a pretty costume and make disappear. I'm sorry, Marc. You have to start thinking of it like...A nearly incurable disease."

NO. NOPE. Not even remotely… This is SUCH a cope out. And why in each run does Bemis have an ‘epiphany’ moment with Marc realizing that he’s a terrible person and having to go on some inner journey down some path where he realizes the bad guy is right?

The therapist babbling about some sort of ‘mix of personality’ issues… ANd ‘incurable diseases’. Ableist shit.

What Marc has is trauma. Extreme trauma coming from more than one person or place in his past timeline. He hasn’t learned how to handle his trauma or how to connect with people. He views himself as deserving of his trauma. Thus, he views himself as a bad person or thing that deserved what happened to him. He’s also incredibly angry about it and dealing with generational trauma being placed on top of everything else!

This is a fact. This is coming from the Moench/Zelenitz run. In the Lemire run he takes it a step further and deals with Marc’s fear of attachment and abandonment issues. As well as his uncomfortable realization and acceptance that he has DID and he has to learn to communicate and talk to Steven and Jake and they have to work as a team.

Putting ALL this on MARC alone is not okay. Treating it as some sort of horrible disease and blaming his violent tendencies and ‘insanity’ on a chemical imbalance and on his DID is just… I want to beat Bemis with a DSM book.

"Third Trial completed. The Hero is crowned a Prince of Death." And we see him being dressed in cult robes by guys in moon knight like masks. I don't even know anymore.

Even though we see them clearly fitting him and measuring him in PURPLE, in the next scene he's in a fully new and fixed up white Moon Knight suit. Who knows.

….I don’t remember this next part. I honestly think I stopped reading the run at the dolphin bit. Oh no. I thought I got further than this. There’s still two issues left. Oh no…. Did I skim the rest out of frustrated rage? You and me, dear reader…We’re going to get through this together. We got this.

Fourth Trial time. "Fun with Morpheus, Dream Eater."

YOU. HAVE.GOT.TO.BE.KIDDING ME.

I'm gonna... I'm going to punch something.

That's not Morpheus. And Marc knows how to handle Morpheus. This isn't what Morpheus DOES.

"That's for that time with the thing."

BEMIS DOESN"T EVEN KNOW WHO MORPHEUS IS OR WHAT HAPPENED. He's just throwing him in because he thinks he can mess with Marc's mind!

Morpheus is a DREAM maker! He attacks with 'dream waves' because he himself can't sleep or dream.

So we go to the inner world where we see the boys all in gladiator and medieval armor in ruins.

Steven: "I thought he said he wanted to handle this himself."

Khonshu: "He is holding onto a grip that is...Tenuous, to say the least."

This is bullshit.

This is not how his system works.

this is not how they work.

See current MacKay run to see how they work together when they are attacked psychically.

He also went ahead and gave them 'roles'.

Steven is "The Mind", Jake is "The Robust Undercarriage". Khonshu is "The Spirit".

Then we see a fourth blank space, probably reserved for Marc?

So... Fifth Trial. "Royale"?

We see him just fighting the four other guys from earlier.

His outfit looks purple here. Maybe it was supposed to be purple in the other image and they got the shading wrong. I don't know. I hate this art.

Moon Knight has zero trouble dealing with these 'sadists'. "Trial? Nah. Spanking" it says.

You see, these guys aren't fighters. I don't know why they think they are or Bemis thinks they should fight MK.

They are sadists that enjoy picking on the innocent and incapacitating their victims to torture them and kill them. The only one that knows how to fight is the assassin, and all she does is stand there with a gun shooting him till he punches her out.

Marc stands over the bludgeoned members of the cult and yells at a camera. "Ernst. I get the damn point. I'm ready and I'm yours. I've always been %#^& YOURS!"

I would like to remind you that Ernst is a Nazi.

Steven in the background says "I...I can't do it anymore..."

Khonshu tells him to "Let him go, Steven. He will not let our traits serve him now. That duty falls to...the other."

Ernst calls him 'my son' and invites him in.

"Trial 666." clever.

"The entire society, though not present tonight, has been anticipating this moment for a long time. I knew eventually when you were ready, you'd track me down. I knew the seeds I planted would bear fruit, my little...First-round pick."

Bull shit. Marc was not supposed to find out about Ernst. He told Marc not to go to his office till much later and he wasn't expecting Marc to find his hidden place in the basement. Then he ran off and didn't confront Marc again. This wasn't 'all according to plan!' I HATE when the bad guys do that. There was no plan. It cheapens the value of the surprise of the hero finding out in the first place!

We see a very TIRED and broken down Marc as he follows Ernst into the back room.

"All it took was the careful manipulation of your...Friend...Jake Lockley's undesirable "sources". I always saw something in you. Now you must see it in yourself."

Are you kidding me. Is he going to blame this all on Jake?

Jake the Most Jewish Part of his System?! The one that speaks Yiddish and openly presents himself as Jewish?!

Ernst walks Moon Knight down a long badly designed hallway with pictures of members. You see some guys in Nazi uniforms from WWII and various other guys that we don't get close up pictures of. Because Bemis lacks imagination...or Historical knowledge.

"Choice one. You fight us. ALl of us, our full might, focused soley on you. You almost assuredly, will not make it back to see your daughter alive, nor save her from me. Two. You abstain. I eliminate your child. It would take a wave of my hand. Only your value to me has prevented this so far. Or THREE. Complete the ritual. Become what you were MEANT to be, beside me, forever." And he gives Marc a picture of Diatrice.

Oh. Oh wait. No. I remember this now. Fuck. I had completely blocked it out of my memory. Fuck. I have regrets.

I’m going to need a minute and I advise that you all take a minute too.

This…This is worse than I thought it was. Worse than I thought it could be.

EXTREME TRIGGER WARNING: Racism. Nazi idealization. Race wars. Implied child harm.

This is bad. I can’t stress this enough. We’re about to talk about some really fucked up things.

I am going to… very carefully…sensor this. It needs to be talked about. This didn’t age well. Especially with the way things have been going for the past several years.

So please… tread carefully and take care of yourself. If you need to nope out, I respect that. If you have had enough and need to just stop and go “Yeah. Bemis was bad. I’m glad I didn’t read that” then do it. If you need to know, then let’s continue.

***************EXTREME TRIGGER AHEAD*****************

So Marc turns to the door after he's locked in a room with his choice on what he has to do.

Fight them all (which I don't get how this is a choice because we know what Marc can do. But the threat of him losing and them going after his daughter is there.) Surrendering and losing his daughter. Or becoming one of them and doing 'what needs to be done'.

He turns around to find out what his next task is.

I don't want to draw this out. I really don't. Bemis does. It does it because he wants the impact of what his choice is to hit you hard in the stomach.

And it does. It hits VERY hard. But not in the way Bemis wants it to. He thinks he's being clever. He thinks that he's set it up so that Marc has been pushed too hard and realized like he did with the Sun King that the villain is right and he has to do it.

So he wants the reader to think the hero has given in and might actually do it.

This is BAD writing.

Instead, the way it comes across is scary. It's fucking scary because of the current climate. Because of all the things that happened in 2020. Because of all the things happening now.

I'm so angry right now. I'm angry and hurt.

I'm going to just TELL YOU what the choice is then I'm going to back track and show you the lead up to it. Okay?

*****He wants Marc to murder a little black girl*****

Backing up. Let’s…Let’s just take this a panel at a time.

Marc sees the 'choice' before him and he reacts with disgust.

And we finally see Jake speak up. He's been pretty quiet this issue besides lurking in the background.

And knowing what Bemis does with Jake and what he obviously thinks of Jake... You're about to see why. And Bemis probably feels like he's being so clever and doing some sort of redeemed character arch. Only the character he tarnished himself and now is trying to make better?

"Being your dark side"

I'm so angry.

I don't even have the energy to explain it. I've been explaining it. If I haven't gotten through to you yet...

"And now you won't even...To save her life? Sometimes horrible decisions have to be made when Nazis get involved."

This is how the holocaust got started.

This is why no one stood up against them when they saw and then denied and refused to acknowledge what was happening.

"You think I want this to have to be my call?!" Jake is yelling at Marc.

Marc shuts down and curls up in a little ball on the floor.

"I don't wanna. I don't wanna. Ah God... Dad... Dad, where are you? He made me... I saw..."

So we see Bemis' version of a PTSD type of flashback shut down.

I can't say if this is accurate or not because everyone is different. I've had shut downs before. Both silent and a few with some sort of pleading similar to this but never to anyone in particular. So sure. Close enough I guess.

In this shut down, we see Steven, Khonshu, and Jake standing there watching.

None of them move to comfort Marc.

Jake "take that as 'feel free to take over until I grow a set of STONES, Jake'"

I'm frowning so hard.

Jake pops up in the body, complete with full mustache. I guess it was in his pocket? Even though he is wearing a whole new outfit?

"Hi, my name is Jake. Don't worry about anything. Just be...Just be very still."

The 'choice' pleads with him not to hurt her.

"God in heaven, I'm sorry. I don't want to do this. I don't want to do this!"

Yeah... Ignoring all the other issues... There's also a major flaw in the religious talk here too.

Jake stops and drops his crescent dart. "I don't want to do this."

Ernst is displeased. He thought for sure Marc would do it and join him. Because...I don't know. I have no idea. I just... Maybe I'm not filled with enough self righteous rage to be able to think like a Nazi?

He tells his people to "Clean up and move out. This is over".

And we get our first look at the girl. I'll let you judge how she's portrayed.

It’s pretty clear that he asked for the most innocent young looking version of a black girl he could get. Even gave her the pigtails.

Before he can do anything, the room opens up to show them in the middle of a forest clearing surrounded by cloaked guys.

A large airship shows up. Moon Knight prepares to fight all these guys.

We get TWO quotes.

Now... Keep in mind that this run has been about Nazis.

So do we get a quote from that time period? Or a quote about the evils in the world?

Nope.

"The Killing was a means to an end. That was the least satisfactory part." -Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer.

The serial killer, Dahmer. The one that was a sex offender who killed and dismembered a whole lot of young men. He then ate and performed necrophilia on them. As well as turning parts of them into things like lamp shades and thing...

Dahmer was diagnosed with Borderline personality disorder, schizotypal personality disorder, and psychotic disorder.

I'm sensing Bemis is trying to make a parallel.

Next quote?

"A psychoneurosis must be understood, ultimately, as the suffering of a soul which has not discovered its meaning." -Carl Gustav Jung.

Back to quoting JUNG. I have a lot of issues with JUNG's philosophy Especially when it comes to his views on the nature of personality and roles and how they can often be wrongly attributed to D.I.D. I’m nog going to get into it, but at lot of people jump to Jung in an effort to sound smart and like they know what they’re talking about even though they only ever read maybe ONE thing on Jung or heard a quote by him once and went “there’s a smart guy!”

Anyways. This issue is over.

Two more to go. Just two more… Then we never have to look at this bread again.

ISSUE #199.

Oh look. We got a new artist. Davidson. Ah fuck it's Paul Davidson again.

Becky Cloonan did the cover. Which is why it looks so nice and lures you into a false sense of security.

Can we skip this one? Like…. Legit… Is it needed? It is the most garbage filled issue. You thought the last Davidson issue was bad with Mr. Butterflyman and the collective?

So... We open with Ernst in a cafe with Marc.

Ernst is yelling at him about how there "No such thing as Multiple Personality DIsorder or whatever your legion of soft, pliable brats choose to call it these days."

Uh huh.

"Your trio of imaginary friends are merely extensions of your own whim. 'Mental illness'? 'Social Awareness'? Do not even get me started on the proliferated fallacies of 'queer' and 'multiethnic'. 'Me too! Me too!' SHEEP. You choose to dwell among sheep!"

This is hate speech. I've heard it in person. I've heard a lot of these EXACT things said in person.

He's attempting to caricature the people who make these speeches, but he's doing a piss poor job of it and it makes them come off as being 'in the right'.

He tells Marc, who looks sad and pitiful here in this style., that he has been 'whisked away from your punching circus and shot with drugs'.

This is what we call a cop out. He didn't want to have to write or lay out or have them draw the HUGE brawl that he lined up for us at the end of the last issue.

So he's taken it away and put us somewhere else so we can listen to this guy MONOLOGUE for an ENTIRE ISSUE about the bad things in today's society.

See why I want to skip it?

He also says "What happened to the little girl? [....] is irrelevant. Fill in the blanks yourself. Hehe. he."

Yeah... I don't like what that implies.

He tells Marc that this is his last chance. If he doesn't comprehend what Ernst is trying to do in this last test then Diatrice dies.

Marc starts to see a weird Cthulu thing walking by. Ernst tells him not to be distracted.

He calls him weak and crazy.

"I stole your heart in your youth...But this is not your Ghetto. Here I can grip it tight and squeeze."

I take serious displeasure in the fact that he talks about Marc's Ghetto. We know Marc grew up well off in a proper home. And a Nazi using the term Ghetto to describe his growing up conditions is just poor taste.

"Ask yourself....Did I break your mind? Or did we break your genes?"

Uh huh.

"We're friends, Marc. And I have seen your power. I am in need of an heir. And a young, able fist."

Ew.

"See. I was never a true anti-semite. I was and am a REALIST."

Are you fucking kidding me right now

"I realist offers fame, money, and power consolidated. Bargain bin vigilantes. You do not belong among them. Besides, soon none of you or your kind will matter. Du schwein."

This is disgusting.

You see why this is wrong, right?

He's now backtracking from the Nazi plot line. Saying "Oh fuck. I should have just made him a cult leader from the start. But I had to use some way to traumatize his past so his being Jewish was the problem the whole time!"

So now Marc is tripping pretty hard on the drugs and seeing monsters and demons and things.

You can see why I’m not posting much art from this issue.

Between the art (I hate this so much) and that LONG meaningless hate speech there, there is literally nothing of merit to this issue.

He goes on and on like this.

I have no idea what he's talking about. He's just saying things that sound meaningful and metaphorical at this point.

Blah blah blah "Here we can hear the fait, weak sounds of self-knowledge as our dark idea literally comes to life. Here, we taught it how to both love and despise itself. Perhaps what we created can think at this point? Like a child. AN IDIOT GOLEM who fancies itself some kind of philosopher."

The not so subtle use of anti-semetic language is not lost on me.

And you know what else we need more of? That’s right. Racism.

Marc protests he won't hurt these people.

Ernst yells at him to do it. "Make them hurt like you want the world to hurt, Marc!"

They are now in some druggy's house. He tells Marc to look at the man deeper and see the monsters inside him.

Marc yells out for Khonshu, Steven, and even Jake, asking for help.

And we see them trapped in some sort of Egyptian bubble thing under Ra's eye.

Marc rebells and Ernst kicks him in the balls. I kid you not.

Then tells him to "Say you're nothing but an errant SLAVE."

ANd Marc is on his knees crying and says he's his slave.

"Say I'm the first man you ever loved."

"You're not my dad. YOu're not my dad!"

"Join me or she dies!"

"I...You're the first man I ever..."

"Ha! You are like clay! Now. Say these words. 'I am no hero. I don't deserve my own infinity. ANd today is the day I finally give up."

NOPE. NOPE NOPE NOPE.

This here? This is anti-semitism propaganda.

They believe that the jewish people think they are uppity and holier than thou and will be the rulers of the earth and afterlife.

This is incorrect. This is Messianich teachings. And Bemis slipped it in. Didn't think we'd notice, but we did.

Marc refuses to say it and he fights back. We see Khonshu and Jake and Steven break free and start to fight the monsters and Marc hits him in the gut.

"Because I would rather my daughter DIE than grow up in your sick fable."

Marc tells him that he doesn't think his daughter is in danger because once the cultists saw Marc fighting back, they abandoned Ernst.

Ernst begs him. "Stop. you don't know what it was like, Marc. In Germany. For a man like me."

"I can imagine. My grandparents were Czech, remember?"

It's like Bemis can't decide what to do with the story line he already set down with Ernst killing Marc's Grandfather and fleeing Europe.

Even the art is inconsistent.

And he heads back out to the streets and it's still covered in demons and angels and cherubs and devils and so on...

And then he runs into "The Sun King".

Who Bemis probably thinks is the best villain ever because he made him. What a twist.

He doesn’t look like Jesus anymore. Why does he look like Rasputin now? Ra Ra Rasputin… LOL It’s a pun. And now that song is stuck in my head.

You know what REALLY upsets me?

The fact that BEMIS got a huge milestone…

ISSUE #200.

Art back to Jacen Burrows. Cover by Becky Cloonan.

This is an oversized anniversary issue. LAST ISSUE EVERYONE. I can see the end of this endless torture and bread factory.

Oh, Jesus is back.

Thanks Burrows.

Also… I have ZERO memory of this issue. I legit don’t think I read this issue so getting to the end will be a surprise to me.

We get a flashback to them all leaving the island.

Marc is talking to Sun King.

"I mean it! It's a Quasi-Max asylum run by the government, and they'll put you down if you even try to escape, but...I belive you can be redeemed. Maybe. In all seriousness, you need help."

Truth, remember him?, asks if he can go too.

Truth legit wants to be helped.

Ra is pretty pissy at the whole ordeal.

We get to hear a lot of psycho babble as Truth and Ra are analyzed.

I'm not typing all that up.

WOW. They just attacked Asecuality too! They're just adding to the list aren't they?

"The Truth's Asexuality a normal reaction due to being socially abandoned."

I lied. Here's more that boils my blood.

"...Mental Illness being both a difficult and challenging trait and a beautiful gift to be shared with others when utilized in a positive, giving way, as referred to in Dr. Lemire's seminal thesis, 'Healing, or: How to be okay with being you.'"

At least he's getting CLOSER to what Lemire was getting at.

We see Sun King starting to heal and also get his fire powers back. He is happy to have been paired with the Truth. They're bonding.

Then we see Ernst bust in with his cult. He spouts things about old money buying them out and tells them to come get one more shot at Moon Knight.

Now we are back to present times and Sun King looks weird again???

Marc tackles him in the street and threatens him. Truth tells him to stop and listen to him for a second but Marc isn't listening. So Ra attacks and burns up the cult followers around them.

Where is this going? Am I the only one that doesn’t understand where this is going now? With Ernst ‘gone’ and Sun king on his side for now and Truth doing his own thing… How are there so many pages left?

Sun King tells Marc that Ra can go to hell because Moon Knight is a good man while he himself is not. But he was born with fire powers so he's going to "Prevent the creation of 'monsters' like me. For the rest of my life. Or I will die, trying to eradicate that dead Nazi's legacy."

Marc tells Sun King that he needs his crew.

Oh look. It's the army of random regular people that Marc recruited from the island.

They all head to Marlene's house.

Marc tells Marlene that a crazy group of Nazi sadists are coming after them so he hired the Sun King and his goons to come help protect them.

Marlene Maces the Sun King despite being told not to.

Marlene starts to yell at Marc about his 'weirdness' and problems and that she can take care of herself.

Marc, Jake, Steven, and Khonshu gather with Marelne to form a plan.

Marlene points out that she can't see or hear Jake, Steven, and Khonshu and that Marc is just standing there in silence.

In the background we get a cameo with Dr. Emmett yelling about making Sun King Believe.

whoopie doo. Chaos. Fun. everyone's crazy. wheeee.

Diatrice interrupts (and she is drawn very poorly and kinda looks like a frog face with pink hair. I hate this art.

She drew a comic of them all saving the world.

Marc is in good spirits now so he and Sun King run off to...I don't know. Things.

And we find Moon Knight and Sun King facing the giant hover craft after it catches fire and crashes.

The dialogue here is... It's bad.

They fight more cultists.

And there's a big battle scene of Marc's army fighting cultists and things are on fire and Moon Knight and Sun King are fighting...

It's a mess of just like.... 2 giant spreads of just chaotic fighting.

Glad they are using this 200 issue anniversary well.

Sun King tells Marc that "you're pathologically violent but you, almost literally, wouldn't hurt a fly."

Then we...get Sun King's LONG back story that includes things like "My past is spotty, but I know I'm from the southern states and that I was born a Christian."

Who even asked?

"We 'Play for the same team'. Christians come from Jews who come from...It goes on."

It literally doesn't go on. It literally doesn't. But history. Can't be bothered, right?

He starts talking about Atheists, magicians, witches, and beautiful people all fighting for the right to believe in anything.

Then he goes on about "our fixation with the beauty of the Egyptian spirituality' and 'reconciling our peoples' ancient struggle and the uselessness of bigotry."

Whhhhhhyyyyy is he still going on about this?! NO ONE ASKED.

"Now imagine a mentally Ill "Power" whose ability was to take his own inner devastation and then force the world to believe it."

Almost sounds like you're saying DID isn't a real thing but just a construct of the mind that is being forced on others... Careful there, Bemis. You might give yourself away.

He tells Marc that there is a new leader to the cult. The real enermy is "The False Truth".

And we see Truth attached to some sort of weird machine thing. Ernst brain washed him to do his dirty work.

The Truth attacks and forces Ernst's knowledge on them.

Here we go...Ready?

"1935. Ernst is imbued by one of Hiler's mystical artifacts with what we will refer to as 'the blue corruption'." It infects people with 'self-created thought virus, or Meme."

fuuuuuuuuuuuu-

"1936 Jose Mengele creates an unseen subsect of Jewish people 'Infected' by the artifact under Ernst's supervision, using his brain as a conduit."

-uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck

"This plan is unsuccessful, but the altered children remain and disperse into the post-holocaust diaspora.

There are images here. I'm not showing you those. They aren't good.

1938....(the war ended in 1945. Why is he...FINE. Let's go with it...) Something about comic books with 'corrupted ink' and preserving the medium's integrity.

1944 the war is closing. Erst is the only Nazi officer who has the corruption. His psychological devastation and personal history cause the corruption to turn into a sort of Venom?

Marc concludes that this all can't be true because then he can change what happened too and still have all his friends and be married to Marlene and have been there for their baby's birth....

This is false logic and I have no idea what he's talking about.

Marc tells him that he's too crazy to fall for Ernst's memories and truth.

They tell truth that the blue goo Ernst was injecting into him is making him crazy and aggressive.

Truth attacks them Moon Knight and Sun King again.

Things are said... Bad things.

They argue back and forth in an attempt for Truth to get them fighting. ...I'm not going to waste my time on what they said. Just know that it's poorly informed crap and more stuff about Jews being slaves to Egypt.

Then....Jake... sorta takes over? He attacks truth, smashes up the machine. He yells that he's "a Jew too." Then Khonshu attacks him too....

Then Moon Knight declares he is "No Man's Slave" and breaks his arm.

Marlene shows up? She yells at Sun King for a bit. Threatens to mace him if he ever goes near her kid again.

Sun King sticks up for Truth and notes that "allowed himself to have his mind warped by abusers." He offers his friendship to Marc.

Marc and Marlene agree...as long as he goes to a mental health facility first.

The orderlies offer to take Marc in for help too. He tells them he's fine and leaves.

Marc calls up Marlene to tell her he's coming home.

And we get at long last... WTF am I looking at?

I…I’m exhausted. It’s 3am Christmas Eve and I’m exhausted.

Why did I read this. Why did I put myself through this? Why did Marvel let this happen? Why did Bemis get away with this crime?

How did Moon Knight survive this run?!

Why did this run follow one of the best written runs ever?

I had plans to type up a big breakdown on why this whole two trade run was so bad… But if you made it this far with me (Thank you. Thank you so much. And I’m sorry), you know why it’s bad. You saw it.

I’ll be real… I lost steam here. This was like a 10+ psych hit attack and I’m just baffled now. That ending was so convoluted and trash. The plot didn’t know where it was going. The characters were so rushed. The pace had issues. The bad guy didn’t know he was a bad guy till he suddenly needed a bad guy. The main bad guy couldn’t decide on why he was the main bad guy… And the good guy kept having existential moments of “Maybe I’m the villain?”

It’s safe to say that EVERYTHING Bemis set up in these comics all faded away and were never touched again. With good reason.

It’s like he set up a whole world ready for people to use and patted himself on the back and thought he’d done a really good job and done everyone a favor and then the world had time to process what he did. And the smart people? They took one look and went “No. No no nononono.” And closed that door again.

Keep it closed. Lock it tight. Don’t let any of it sneak out. I beg you.

We don’t need this racist, anti-semetic, homophobic, ableist shit in this fandom. If you know someone that is a Bemis fan and cites it as ‘an amazing run’ or ‘one of the best runs’, I encourage you to REALLY look at that person. They’re probably not healthy to be around.

So… This was Bemis. Thank you for taking this journey with me. I need to go… go do anything that isn’t this. Expect some Moench soon. I need to not have this taste in my brain anymore. Questions and comments are welcome. Hate and bigotry are not. Feel free to discuss this run. But remember, Friends don’t let Friends read Bemis.

#Moon Knight #Moon Knight comic #Analyzing the comics #BEMIS #It's done you guys #I'm free #Friends don't let friends read Bemis #I did this for you #I'm sorry #I have so many regrets #Gonna go to bed #then read some GOOD Moon Knight

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callmearcturus · 5 days

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@dragonsinthecode replied to your post “aw shit it's really good. the first episode was...”:

I gave episode 1 a solid 9/10 as someone whose never played a fallout game - and fallout fans I watched with were surprised. What's your ranking?

The first episode alone was a 9 out of 10, yeah. It has so many markers of Getting It.

the cold open of Walter Goggins and his daughter and the horror settling in was amazing

Lucy's vault was honestly pitch perfect and the way they explain the experiment of the vault so far, the way it seems to be connected to another vault that they are not allowed to interact with outside of very specific times of the year for no fucking reason, that is New Vegas-level of good vault bullshit. as we all know, The Vaults Were Never Meant To Save Anyone.

that fact that a not-insignificant portion of Lucy's motivation is wanting to get laid is very fucking funny and i love it

the dawning realization of What Went Wrong, that was an incredible Holy Shit moment

the way the sheer violence and gore and brutality just soared over the threshold of bad taste and into comedy, l m a o

the brotherhood of steel being transparently and immediately Not The Good Guys, someone understood the fucking assignment.

actually, so: a lot of fallout fans take umbrage with how Bethesda's stewardship of the BoS specifically treats them and how annoying it is, because the BoS are reclusive paranoid technocultists who create problems for everyone but: they have the cool power armor, so Bethesda backslides into making them the good guys by default, which is so aggravating but the specific way Maximum views the power armor feels like its in conversation with that narrative blunder, that everything about Maximus' life kind of fucking sucks but OH MAN COOL ROBOT ARMOR. that's potent acknowledgement of how branding smooths things over.

dude, incidental cool nonbinary character, HUGE fan of that

i actually like the acceleration and heightening of the religious aspects of the BoS, making all the subtextual shit REALLY textual, further painting them as religious nutjobs

Maximus' interrogation was extremely well done, huge fan of the actor in that scene specifically

SO YEAH THAT'S MY THOUGHTS ON THE FIRST EPISODE.

what pisses me off is, as I explained to a friend last night:

it's so easy to not care about Fallout when the last good piece of Fallout media was........ hang on

September 2011. like, I have rarely had more contempt for a game than I did for FO4, I actively regretted giving it my time, and FO76 just. no. i tried it. I do not Get It.

so it's easy to be Normal about Fallout when there's no hope of good installments to that universe, right?

SO NOW I'M GLARING AT THE FALLOUT TV SHOW LIKE WHO THE FUCK GAVE YOU PERMISSION??????

anyway looking forward to watching more when i have time

#dragonsinthecode #fallout tv spoilers #fallout #fonv

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slocumjoe · 10 months

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do you think any of the companions drink? what would their habits be?

how the companions booze it 🍻

Cait; Hard drinker who, surprisingly, can't hold her liquor. She gets drunk quickly, but takes some time to drop out of the race, so to speak. Obviously, she used drink out of trauma response, but having gotten clean from the drug addiction, Cait drinks sparingly and rarely. Like, actually eats as she does so. Doesn't drink water because Cait isn't a water drinker. Her drunkenness depends heavily on her mood pre-boozing. Her booze of choice is beer.

Curie; does not drink. However, did try wine. Did not like it. She just makes sure there's water and food available for the local alcoholics, and badgers them to partake in such necessities. The worst days at the clinic are days after a party and she likes to lessen that load as much as possible.

Danse; Alcoholic. One of the alcoholics Curie is always after. Danse drinks when he doesn't have work, to sleep. No exception. And he drinks a fucking LOT. Like...opposite to Cait, he takes a lot to get drunk, and even more to fall down. He chugs vodka, whiskey, tequila...basically, if even one shot isn't for the faint of heart, Danse takes swigs right from the bottle. It impresses some people, but he isn't doing it to impress. Danse isn't that kind of person who takes pride in his alcoholism. This problem gets worse after BB, but he gradually gets better as time goes on.

Deacon; used to have a problem, so now alcohol is kind of a...soft no. He'll have a drink. A drink. And it won't be anything too crazy. A glass of wine, a beer or two, maybe a shot. He drinks as a social thing, just to be polite. Customs, yknow? Besides, he wants to keep his head clear. Also suffers from bad hangovers. The type to spend the whole morning puking even if he didn't have that much.

Gage: Also used to have a problem. He wasn't an alcoholic, but rather, weak to peer pressure. He wanted to impress all the big tough raiders by putting away as much crap as they could. And for the most part, Gage very much could outdrink most people. But being that drunk that often is not safe for a young man in his position, and he learned real quick that its better to the smart stick in the mud than the fun, cool, vulnerable target.

Hancock; the type of guy to think his problem makes him cool and fun. Im sorry, but he is. Hancock is the kind of person who's like "yeah man I was barely walking and shit, I had like, 30 shots or something? Haha I forget dude! So I'm like half crawling back to my place and its fucking...what, 10 in the morning? And I got work in 2 hours man, and everyone on the streets looking at me weird, ahah, shit was crazy!" Hancock drinks whatever he has, with no preference or complaint. However, there's a specific brand of whiskey that burns like a mother fucker that he likes to drink to show off. Doesn't eat or drink water. Curie has yet to give up on him in all but spirit.

MacCready; the most normal, healthy drinker. He likes the occasional beer, but his soft spot is a margarita. Or a sangria. Not into alcohol on its own. He doesn't want to taste it. He'll rarely have a drink without food. Drinking water is his weakness here, as he also isn't a water person. Mac will have a beer with dinner, and maybe another, and maybe another if the vibe is right, and if he doesn't catch himself, will end up tipsy. If he doesn't catch himself at tipsy, homeboy is getting pickled.

Nick; Used to enjoy a martini, a brandy, a wine, a rum. A gentleman of refined taste. At least, thats what he'll say. OG Nick bought his alcohol based on coupons or whatever was cheap. This man drinks bud light. Now, Nick mostly just babysits people who can get drunk. But he used to have his alcohol in accordance to whatever he was eating. Sub from the shop down the corner? Donuts? Afformentioned bud light. Dinner with Jenny, homemade seafood pasta? A wine. He's big on the idea that certain drinks have rules.

Piper; wine bitch. Drinks out of a coffee mug if ones clean. If not...girly gets a straw. She doesn't have a problem, but you wouldn't know it if you saw her while she enjoyed a drink. Wine is pretty much the only drink she likes. Beer is gross, moonshine has done enough to her, vodka is too strong to be enjoyed. She likes wine because it tastes good to her. Her taste sways towards the dry ones. Because she drinks for the taste, she isn't keen on getting drunk, so Piper is good about staying fed and hydrated. When she isn't, her hangovers are...demonic.

Preston; drinks occasionally, and never wants to get drunk. He doesn't like the feeling of being drunk, though he doesn't get hangovers. Even when inebriated, Preston mama-hens and keeps everyone eating and chugging water, so he ends up taking care of himself as well. His taste is both broad and limited. He'll drink anything—provided its local. Preston will not drink a name brand. He doesn't want Heineken, he wants Craig's magic wheat poison. He doesn't want Franzia, he wants a bottle of whatever the twitchy lesbian living in a boat house has fermenting amongst the seaweed and barnacles.

X6-88; the only alcohol you could get this man to drink is alcohol disguised as dessert. Ole Smokey banana cream moonshine comes to mind. He'll know its alcohol, you can't hide it from him, but provided its tasty enough...you might get him to indulge a little. If only for the fact that its basically candy. Otherwise, he isn't drinking. He probably can't even get drunk, not without causing a shortage.

#fallout 4 #fo4 #paladin danse #preston garvey #nick valentine #x6-88 #piper wright #companions react #robert joseph maccready #porter gage

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lemonsuponlemons · 2 years

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Matt Murdock and virgin!Reader

We have said that he has an innocent/corruption kink

So dude's got a thing for virgins most probably

Not specifically seeking them out because that's creepy and predatory

But definitely not backing down from an opportunity

So, anyway, you let it slip in a conversation that you've never had sex

Because it's nothing to be ashamed of! The social construct of virginity and its importance is misogynistic!

Matt doesn't make you feel bad about it or anything, maybe makes a humorous remark but that's it

"Waiting for someone specific?"

And what if I was, smartass

I know we're all imagining Matt to have a rabbit-style railing and I agree but this one time it's a lil different

He might even get a little sentimental, the girl he's hopelessly simping for is letting him have her v-card

The amount of trust and affection you must have for him??? His heart is busting a nut

You know how athletes put their trophies in glass cases and shit? Yeah

His sensuality surprises you, simply because he doesn't seem like that type of guy, no matter how dramatic he gets

So Matt's very careful, gentle and relaxed, at least on the outside

Because inside his thoughts are completely incomprehensible like someone screaming gibberish

It's not the first time he has kissed your neck but it is the first time he gets a moan out of you

And boy did that send him to the afterlife and back

He might be a little more vocal than he usually would be, just trying to get you more comfortable with your own reactions

Asks "You okay?" every few minutes

Matt's just making sure, ok

Definitely fingers you

(i mean have yall seen those hands bye)

You're cumming undone all over his fingers, thinking that it can't get better

Lemme tell you how wrong you are

Matt's keeping your leg on his hip, giving him a nice angle that works wonderfully on you

He's got one filthy mouth but tries to keep it PG for now, telling you only the nice stuff

"You feel so good"

"Fuck you're pretty"

Calls you "good girl", "baby girl" or "baby"

His other hand is holding your face

Kisses wherever he can

Nibbles on your neck, jaw and earlobes

You're moaning and squealing right into his ear

Your fingernails will leave very unambiguous scratches on his biceps and back

He groans softly against your, now bruised, skin

Although Matt's having the time of his life slowly and passionately railing you

Your reactions are very inviting and he's *this* close to losing his damn mind

When you quietly moaned his name, Matt was ready to cum right there and then

Now he wants to find out how loud you can get

Having you cry out his name is currently #1 on his bucket list

You can ride him but considering his iron grip on your hips, he's still the dominant one

Your arms giving out and fingernails digging into his chest when you're cumming

If you're up for a second round, he's up for going wild and getting you mewling

(that filthy mouth will have its glorious debut)

And if you're not, he's gonna be thinking about it for quite some time because now that he got a taste of your sweet cunt there's no going back

Matt brings you water and a towel no questions asked

Post-sex Matt is all smiley

Whispered pillow talk while he's holding you against his chest and trailing your bare skin with his rough hands

You're falling asleep with your face mushed into his chest and he kisses the top of your head

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asteria7fics · 2 months

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Can we have some of your personal style headcanons?

Why yes, dear anon, you absolutely can!

I'll only share SFW ones here, but if you're interested in NSFW ones please let me know d(･∀･○)

This also contains some mild spoilers for the fic I'm currently working on - NOT The Song of Broflovski. If you'd rather go into that totally blind, then maybe skip this answer. Otherwise, read on!

Alright, so let's start from the beginning. I personally write Kyle as figuring out his feelings first, while Stan acts on them first. Neither one is stoked on the idea of coming out (Stan for Randy-trauma related reasons, Kyle for Cartman-trauma related ones) so they don't publicly come out/start actually dating until late high school when they know they're about to skip town and move away to college.

That doesn't stop them from messing around of course, but I'll save that info for a NSFW drop. (¬‿¬)

I also really like the idea of their relationship not changing massively even after they've become an official couple. They still fight, they still do a lot of the same activities together, and they never really adopt any pet names outside of still calling one another 'dude' all the damn time. Just two straight dudes in love, honestly.

Kyle is Stan's #1 defender, and will go to war with douchebags in the comments of Stan's social media posts (hard headcanon him as still being a musician/leaning really hard into his passion for music. Crimson Dawn is definitely still a thing in the Asteriaverse). You dare to talk shit about Stanley Marsh on the internet?? In front of God and everyone?? Baby you're getting doxed. Bye.

He also just unironically loves the music Stan makes, with Crimson Dawn and otherwise. Like, shitty phone recording from a performance as his ringtone kinda love. I think Kyle would have pretty eclectic music taste in general, but I like the idea of them bonding over the kind of stuff Stan would want to make.

I like to think Stan is more of a bad/freeing influence on Kyle. My Kyle has a little bit of a stick up his ass, especially as he gets older and there's more pressure on him to excel in school. Stan really becomes the person that wraps him up in a blanket after a long day of studying, passes him a drink and puts on Monty Python so they both can just relax and have fun together.

And they're absolutely the guys at the party standing in the corner by the drinks, cracking jokes to one another while they watch everyone else make complete asses of themselves. Just in their own little world, until they get properly drunk and end up making out in a bathroom or some shit. Just messy bitches.

They simultaneously communicate extremely well and absolutely horribly. They have the kind of connection where one look says it all, but when it comes down to deeper issues and arguments they're both trash at communicating their feelings. Kyle gets too heated and just starts RANTING while Stan can barely articulate a singular feeling. Eventually Stan figures out that he kinda just has to let Kyle get his shit off his chest and eventually he'll calm down enough to help Stan sort out his feelings too, but those first couple years? Rough haha no smooth sailing for my boys I'm afraid.

Alright, I'm gonna stop here because I could probably sit here and talk about these losers all day. These are pretty surface level, both because I don't want to spoil too much and because I'm always forming new headcanons for them! Really specific ones usually come to me in the moment while I'm writing, so I'll definitely come up with more before this next project is finished!

Thank you very much for the ask!! ( ´⌣`ʃƪ)

#ask asteria #style #headcanons #stan marsh #kyle broflovski #south park #sp fandom

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