#juli is just terribly fond of her siblings

[aitian]

Wed, July 27th 3:27am

What’s on my mind tonight is loneliness. I just moved into a new place that is fresh & scary, I don’t know my neighbors or my town, & I have no safety net here. I can’t wait for Em to come live with us. It feels so overwhelming to be here alone with Emmy, figuring out my new job offers, & thinking about the next few months. 

I know I skipped a lot in the middle, but I will try my best to trace what has happened since December. I spent winter break at home feeling lighter than I had for a long time. Fall semester really was nourishing, & I was looking forward to a new kind of relationship with Emmy. The last bit of January and all of February were a blur as the two of us were traveling & performing, & discovering a lot of new things. I wish I had a better memory of what we did & talked about but I think I have been feeling really overwhelmed in many ways this year by the changes going on in my life and the part of my brain that comprehends and reflects on things is shot. During this time, I was anxious about grad school applications and reconciling my obligations in my final semester at school. I decided to take a really minimal course load, and reconnected with prof Solomon who was really generous about writing me a recommendation at the last minute. March and April were honestly torture. I had a really difficult time fighting evil at school, finishing my thesis, receiving terrible news from graduate programs, and applying for shit jobs. It was really demeaning and soul-crushing. I remember feeling lonely sometimes, feeling that Emmy was my only support in my daily life and that it was not enough. I felt like my emotions were not given respect and space to find resolution. Things like fear, grief, anxiety, and frustration were really eating at my core. At the same time, I was still creating really fulfilling spaces for myself. I took my queer kids on a journey that ended in a really wonderful talent show in April. By the time the show happened, I was already so tired and over it though, and I wish that I performed better. I think it was really awesome to be an older sibling to these cute peers though and I hope they come visit me this year. 

In May we graduated, and it was hard to say at the time, but I do think I felt a sense of pride for having lived through more of my life that I thought was possible. I was really dependent on Emmy in the last weeks of school. Sometimes it feels like they are really emotionally intuiting and can understand what I feel to a surprising degree, and other times I feel like I am with someone who is cute & irreverent. I’m still a kid too and I guess that’s where we have trouble taking care of each other sometimes. I think Emmy has been living without emotional support in many ways for a long time now though, and I have to take the lead in setting aside time for us to heal. I think this is one of the reasons I feel lonely these days, and I don’t wanna say anything because I don’t want Emmy to feel like I’m weak or disappointing more than I already am. That’s messed up, and I will come back to it. When it came time to graduate, I was ready to leave and also really grieving my potential futures. I had nothing up my sleeve and no prospects at all. My job applications were all failures, I was feeling deeply scammed by doctoral programs, and I felt ashamed to be more lost than ever about my path forward after spending four years preparing for this time. I carried these feelings with me at graduation, while feeling ambivalence toward my school and my peers for being the toxic muck that I waded through for so long, and feeling relieved and proud and complicated to celebrate the moments with my parents and Emmy. I wish I was more excited about the time so that mom could have felt the excitement and fulfillment of her journey too. I do have fond memories of graduation. Not the things that were said or the crowds that were there, but of the sun and the trees and the buildings on campus that let me enjoy the weather outside. Commencement took forever, and by the time I had sat in the hot sun for long enough, there was still more than half to go. When I fall got fed up, Emmy and I walked out from the crowd to get some cold water at the side of College Walk, and stood around sipping in the shade. It was one of our last moments together, and I felt so at peace to be there together. Suddenly, the event was over. We walked off college walk toward Amsterdam to get away from the rush of people leaving the plaza, and I realized it was my last chance to be alone with Emmy. We would see Emma together after I packed up my room before I would drive home with my family, but that moment was really when we would say bye. Holding hands and standing under a pillar near the gates, I started crying. It wasn’t just because I was sad to leave. I was happy to be there with Emmy, I was deeply regretful of the futures that were foreclosed, I was upset and frustrated toward myself and the cruel ways that folks I wished I could trust would treat me in a cruel system, I desperately needed a job so that we could be together, I missed my mom and wanted to be a better child, I was sad that I had wasted so much time at school while knowing that it had not been a waste at all either. These were just some of the feelings that I could not have explained in the moment. I just saw Emmy’s face under the mask & felt their hands & the words & silences we shared, & wanted to cry. I felt so alone, and so held, and so afraid, and so loved. 

I spent the rest of the summer looking for jobs and housing while being at home. I saw Adele and Erica and Tracy a little bit. I was really frustrated at dad. I went to many places with mom, most notably a trip to finger lakes. I was drinking every evening to relieve the anxiety that I felt. In may I was still lost, slowly thinking that my higher ed experience was probably most conducive to getting some kind of job in education, and started applying to teaching jobs at private schools where I did not need teacher certification. By mid-June, I realized that New Jersey certification was something that I could possibly accomplish, and just blindly moved forward with taking the praxis exam and applying for certification and jobs. I went on a camping trip with Alice, Emmy, Eony, and Em in June too that was pretty neat. I wish I had spent more time individually with every one of them, but being together was nice, and everyone was so goofy and smart and resourceful. In July, I came to found housing in NJ. I had schedules three tours for Saturday, and would spend the weekend at Emmy’s house. We did not get the beautiful apartment we applied for, but the realtor was really nice and helped us find the place I am sitting in right now. Emmy went to see some houses with her the next week, and we decided to move forward. Right after I got back from NJ, I started sending out applications for public school teaching jobs, and heard back from many places. I had six interviews the next week, and the week after I got two job offers. At the end of that week, I was moving into this house. 

84 Bentley is owned by some Korean folks who Emmy says used to be restaurant owners. The house was built in 1900 according to online sources, and it really is old. It was so hot over the weekend, I was having doubts about whether this place could really be okay, but today things have cooled down and I am feeling better. We got a cute glass table from a thrift store and some chairs from ikea, and em is going to bring a couch when they come. 

I was having a bad day today because the school I’m hoping to work at, Hackensack, had the July board meeting yesterday and my name was not on the personnel agenda. The administrators who interviewed me seemed really eager to have me teach, and they offered me the job on the spot after my second interview but I began to doubt whether I was too naive to trust them. I emailed yesterday, but they did not get back to me until late afternoon today that the teacher whose position I will fill was just resigned in the board meeting yesterday so I would be hired on the august agenda. I was feeling so lonely and afraid last night. Life is so long and scary. That I know to be true. Life is many other things too. I don’t want to struggle and feel overwhelmed and scared. I really need my loved ones to come together and hold it down for me

Highlights from the past few days

Halo halo from the shop down the block with Emmy

Lincoln park in the evening at the big fountain, sitting next to all the south asian families

Finding a beautiful little glass table at the thrift store and nice chairs at ikea

Moments alone at night to eat and relax

There’s so much to clean in the house still and I just don’t really have much energy for it. I’m feeling anxious about driving to work, parking the car, living in an unfamiliar place, starting a new job, returning to a scary public school system, meeting new people, being away from family & loved ones, and moving forward toward the rest of my life. 

So here is the prayer tonight: Please let there be peace. Please let me breathe deeply and rest easy. Please guide me with compassion and let me grow from my feelings. Please protect me and my loved ones. Please prevent all from harming us and let us build paths toward each other. I offer my thoughts and feelings with gratitude for the present, past, and future. 

[whatsortofschoolisthis]

Name: Wednesday Anne Drew

Gender: Female

Age: 16

Birth Date: July 1st 1973

Species: (Human, Lycanthrope, Metamorphmagus, Vampire, ect): Human

Blood Status: (Pureblood, Half-Blood, Muggleborn): Pureblood

Sexuality: Straight

Alignment: Neutral Good

Ethnicity: Irish-American

Nationality: English, 

Residence: Lives in North Devon on the left side of Rubin and her cousins, the Tuttle’s live on the right. Formerly from a small town in Appalachia West Virgina.

Myer Briggs Personality Type: INTP - The Thinker.

THE MAGE

1st Wand: Beech, 11 inches, bendy, and a unicorn hair core

The true match for a beech wand will be, if young, wise beyond his or her years, and if full-grown, rich in understanding and experience. Beech wands perform very weakly for the narrow-minded and intolerant. Such wizards and witches, having obtained a beech wand without having been suitably matched (yet coveting this most desirable, richly hued and highly prized wand wood), have often presented themselves at the homes of learned wandmakers such as myself, demanding to know the reason for their handsome wand’s lack of power. When properly matched, the beech wand is capable of a subtlety and artistry rarely seen in any other wood, hence its lustrous reputation.

Unicorn hair generally produces the most consistent magic, and is least subject to fluctuations and blockages. Wands with unicorn cores are generally the most difficult to turn to the Dark Arts. They are the most faithful of all wands, and usually remain strongly attached to their first owner, irrespective of whether he or she was an accomplished witch or wizard.Minor disadvantages of unicorn hair are that they do not make the most powerful wands (although the wand wood may compensate) and that they are prone to melancholy if seriously mishandled, meaning that the hair may ‘die’ and need replacing.

2nd Wand: Cherry Wood, 12 inches, slight flexibility, and a Thestral hair core

Considered highly prestigious in Turkey, Iran, Uzbekistan, Russia, and Japan, cherry is an extraordinarily powerful wand wood and demands, to summize from Ollivander, “owners with the highest self-control and mental strength.” Though Ollivander specifies this for dragon heartstring wands, such qualities are recommended for any cherry wand owner, lest they desire for their wand to run the show.

These witches and wizards believe in fate or destiny, and so they believe things happen for a reason. There is acceptance that they don’t have complete control over what happens to them, but that they also have control over their own actions. They may be hyper-responsible as a result and may even blame themselves for events unrelated to themselves.

They try to live like every day as their last– they do not want any regrets to follow them like ghosts. In doing so, they can be honest to the point of bluntness and will try everything they can. They also try to see the beauty in everything, and believe immortality is more of a curse than a gift. As cliche as it may be– transience, to them, is what makes life on earth beautiful and worth it.

These people will fight on a day to day basis for what they believe in, which is one of the reasons for this wand’s reputation of choosing warriors. So, despite their acceptance of fate, they are a stubborn folk and refuse to yield.

With the belief of thestrals as omens and bad luck, that the wand maker and the owner must have seen someone die and embrace death as a concept, as well as the tricky nature of this core make thestral tail hair a rare core to have. Many times when a person is matched with such a core, especially in pure blood families, they will have the person try another thousand wands, just to avoid the image associated with it. However, when such a pairing is allowed to happen that witch or wizard will never find a more faithful companion. This core has potent magic, and is among the most intelligent and sentient of wand cores. Owners are social, gentle with others’ feelings, and love to have philosophic conversations late into the night. They may appear morbid to friends, and have a fascination with death. These people often have a superior sense of direction, and rarely become lost or lose their possessions. Curiously, most of the small group of known thestral hair core owners have neutral resting faces, leading other to think they are perpetually either melancholic, cranky, or tired.

Animagus: Scarlett Tanager.

Misc Magical Abilities: (Legilimen, Seer, Parselmouth, Obscurial, ect): None.

Boggart Form: A dark indistinguishable shape with red eyes and shape teeth, what a ‘haint’ might look like in Wednesday’s eyes.

Riddikulus Form: The creature turns into a dapper 1920s man dancing aggressively around

Amortentia: (What do they smell like?): Spruce forests, Cherries, and clean mountain air.

Amortentia: (What do they smell?): Exploding snap smoke, Fudge, and Pine (Jae Kim)

Patronus: American Beaver

Patronus Memory: Eating wild strawberries in her grandmother’s tree.

Mirror of Erised: A simple house with a one eared crup and a calico cat.

Specialized/Favourite Spells:

Reparo- She often breaks her glasses.

Ferula and Episkey- Spends a lot of time outdoors and gets hurt a lot. 

Depulso- Will throw her enemies away with great force.

APPEARANCE

Faceclaim:  

(I have no idea who this is)

Voiceclaim: Kate Micucci

Game Appearance: 

Height: 5 ft 6

Weight: 140 pounds

Physique: Thin and Wiry.

Eye Colour: Blue

Hair Colour: Brick Red

Skin Tone: Light

Body Modifications: Gets a tattoo of a lobelia flower on her wrist in her fifth year.

Scarring: Miraculously, only gets one from her encounter with a manticore

Inventory: (what do they carry on them?): a picture of her baby sister Rose, her wand, an exploding snap deck, knitting needles, a handmade book of ‘Granny Magic’ spells, a bookbinding kit, and a few galleons

Fashion: Usually wears Skirt/Sweaters, a bracelet her mum got her, and her tortoiseshell glasses. Every once in a while decides to wear something wild, usually on holidays.

ALLEGIANCES

Hogwarts House: Ravenclaw

Affiliations/Organizations: Circle of Khanna, her family, and sometimes Hogwarts.

Professions:

- Magical Bookbinder at Florish and Blotts.

- Becomes a magical anthropologist and writes books/lectures about different magical traditions/systems, especially those in America. Also writes about the existence of Muggle Ghosts, usually known as shades or haints.

HOGWARTS INFORMATION

Class Proficiencies:  Ghoul Studies, Magical Theory, and History of Magic

Astronomy: E

Charms: O

DADA: O

Flying: A

Herbology: O

History of Magic: O

Potions: A

Transfiguration: E

Electives:

Ghoul Studies: O.

Divination: E

Magical Theory: O

Quidditch: Ravenclaw Keeper.

Extra Curricular: Sphinx Club, Frog Choir, and Ghoul Club.

Favourite Professors: 

Professor Flitwick: Trusts him with everything and tells him everything. Sees him (and Hagrid) as father figures.

Professor Sinistra- There’s really no particular reason why, she just likes her.

Professor Sprout- Reminds her of her Gran.

Least Favourite Professors:

Professor Snape- Whatever his damage is, Wednesday wishes he wouldn’t make it HER problem.

Relationships:

Brother: Jericho Jacob Drew AKA Jerry. Teams up with Danny during his initial search for the vaults and goes missing alongside him.

Misc Siblings: Her baby sister Rose age 4. Her cousins are the Ames children and Kit is also technically related. Maternal grandmother is Hannah Edelwood, she lives with the family and dies when Wednesday is 25.

Father: James Yaxley.

Stepfather: Noal Drew. She’s very fond of him and calls him Da. He’s originally from Dingle.

Mother: Ilse Drew (Nee Edelwood and Yaxley, First cousin to Saorise)

Love Interest:

Jae Kim: It’s a weird thing but they just decide they like each other and make it work.

Best Friends:

- Ben Copper

- Talbott Winger

- Tulip Kasarau.

- Tonks.

- Badeea Ali

- Charlie Weasley.

- Bill Weasley.

Rival:

- Merula Snyde

Enemy:

- Rakepick

- R

- Death Eaters.

Dormmates: (Who’s in your MC’s dorm with them?):

Tulip.

Badeea Ali.

Pets: Her calico Kneazle named Patches, Gray cat named Cranklin and a rat named Minnie. Has a toad that Jae gave her, his name is Robin. She and her mother share a Barn Owl named Specter. He is a terrible creature and despises children/teenagers.

Closest Canon Friends: Yes.

Closest MC Friends: None Yet

PERSONALITY:

- Very responsible but can be silly when she wants to be.

- Stubborn.

- Slightly morbid.

- Open Minded and welcoming to new ideas.

- Blunt, sometimes to the point where it hurts.

- Enjoys embarrassing her cousins, especially Hecate.

- A fighter, rarely gives up, but will accept whatever happens to her in spite of this.

MISC

- Witnessed her father’s death after an accidental shooting.

- Practices a mix of English magic and ‘Granny Magic’ from the Appalachian Mountains.

- Close to Sean, especially since they’re in the same house.

- Second Cousin to the Ames’s and a technical third to Kit.

- Has been living in England since she was eight. Has an American accent out of spite.

- Learned to bookbind from her stepfather, who binds books for both muggle and magic book collectors.

#harry potter hogwarts game #Harry Potter Hogwarts mystery #hphm #Wednesday Drew #I'm done making children now #I hope #found my old ipod with my old MC and ended up having to delete her #made a new one awhile ago

[redgoldsparks]

July Reading and Reviews by Maia Kobabe

Serenity (novelization) by Keith RA DeCandido

I bought this novelization of Serenity back in 2005, not long after watching the movie in theaters. I had recently been introduced to Firefly by friends and fell in love with it, possibly because there was so little of it: the fact it had been prematurely cut short meant it was left to my imagination how amazing the conclusion COULD have been. It's one of very few TV shows that I've watched more than once, and I hold onto an extreme nostalgic fondness for the characters and the world. It was interesting to re-read this book in 2020, with a much fuller knowledge of Whedon's unsavory behavior, and also during a period in which JKR's evolution into a full, loud TERF has caused me to spend a lot of time reflecting on how much or little of an author's problematic beliefs can be seen in their work. Part of what drew me to the Firefly crew was the fact that 4 of the 9 main characters are women, each one interestingly different from the others. As a high schooler, this near gender parity in a sci-fi ensemble show delighted me. Reading the book through much older eyes, I noticed that each of these unique women are completely defined by their relationships with men. This aspect of the story is probably more emphasized in the novelization because of the added internal narration. The dialogue in this book is exactly the same as the film, but the author gives thoughts to these women that I didn't always agree with or love. Still, it was fun to revisit this story, and I think there is still value in reading a flawed book, especially if it inspires some good thoughts or conversations.

Witch Hat Atelier vol 5 by Kamome Shirahama

Another beautiful installment of one of my favorite manga series. Coco's classmates taking the second test of witch craft have been attached by a member of the Brimmed Hats, the witches who want to bring forbidden magic back to the world. Coco and her friends have to use the limited spells they know to save a fellow apprentice from a terrible fate. Gorgeously drawn as always!

A Year Without a Name by Cyrus Grace Dunham

Dunham's short but powerful debut memoir covers the year in which they finally decided to start taking testosterone and do top surgery, after a lifetime of struggling with intense dysphoria and mental illness. Prior to the beginning of the narrative shown here, Durham had already been diagnosed with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder and generalized anxiety. They lay bare their failed attempts at self-definition through desire and worship of others, a string of passionate romances that bleed into each other, often twisted with jealousy and fear. Durham's life seems unmoored by responsibilities, as neither jobs or school commitments are mentioned between a trip to India, time spent in their parents house on the East Coast, their shared queer apartment in Los Angeles, and road trips up to the Bay Area. I always enjoy recognizing places I know in memoir, and I was delighted to read a scene that took place on a Northern California beach I also visited and loved as a child. It was hard not to compare Durham's gender evolution to my own, and be grateful for the comparative quietness and gentleness of my own journey.

Hotel Dare vol 1 by Terry Blas and Claudia Aguirre

Blond preteen Olive travels to Mexico with her adopted Latinx siblings Charlotte and Darwin, to spend the summer at their Grandmother Lupé’s (possibly haunted?) hotel. They discover a series of strange artifacts which allow them to visit alternate worlds, and also a history of missing family members. All of this plot is wrapped up quite quickly, though the ending also leaves the door open for a sequel. I liked a lot of the concepts in this book, but it just didn't quite come together for me.

Kriss: The Gift of Wrath by Ted Naifeh and Warren Wucinich

Kriss is a pale, emo, teenage misfit in village of hearty medieval peasants. He suspects that the couple who raised him are not his birth parents; he is haunted by ghosts, or gods, who whisper to him about the northern kingdom of Darkovia where his true destiny lies. Kriss's only friend in town is a kind girl named Anya, who confiders her own sadness over her mother's recent death. Kriss goes into the forest to hunt down the beast who killed her, and defeats it at great personal cost. This isn't a complicated story, but Naifeh is good at developing characters with clear personalities and motivations. I am curious to see where this story goes in volume 2!

We Are The Fire, We Are The Ashes by Joy McCullough

I had the pleasure of illustrating this novel! So I got to read the book early, and my review will be quite biased :D It takes place mostly over one summer during which high schooler Em Morales loses her faith in the justice system after the frat boy who raped her older sister is found guilty by a jury, but not sentenced to any prison time. Em was a writer on her school paper, and used her small social media platform to raise awareness and advocate for her sister's case. Now she is ready to quit journalism altogether in disgust. At loose ends, she reconnects with Jess, a nonbinary acquaintance also home for the summer but trying to avoid their divorcing parents. Jess is in the drama club, practices sword fighting, and loves medieval history. Jess introduces Em to the story of Marguerite de Bressieux, a 15th-century French noblewoman who according to legend took up a sword to avenge victims of sexual violence. Em starts writing poems about Marguerite de Bressieux, which Jess illustrates. I created 18 black and white pieces (Jess's art) for the book and it was one of my favorite illustration projects to date. I, too, was once a nonbinary Renaissance-Fair-obsessed teenager; I looked through a bunch of my own high school sketchbooks, as well as reference books on illuminated manuscripts, for inspiration while working on this. I can't wait for readers to get to see the book when it comes out in early 2021!

Deadly Class vol 1: Regan Youth by Rick Remember, Wes Craig, Lee Loughridge, and Rus Wooton

Set in the late 1980s, this story opens with teenage orphan Marcus living on the streets of San Francisco. He has a violent and tragic past; he has a bleak present; he wonders if he has any kind of future at all. Out of the blue, on Dia de Los Muertos, a handful of cops begin chasing Marcus seemingly trying to kill him. A group of teens intervene, and they save Marcus's life before kidnapping him and taking him to meet their mentor. It turns out they are all students at an underground school for assassins and they've had their eye on Marcus for a while. Most of the students are the children of Mafia, Yakuza, Neo Nazis or the heads of drug cartels, but Marcus is offered admittance. However, remarkably little of this first volume takes places at the school or shows any of the education that takes place there- instead it mostly follows two off-campus trips Marcus does that turn into drug-fulled murder scenes. I liked the art quite a lot and the inventive page layouts drew me in, but the story didn't do much for me. If you want to read about kids at an assassin school I'd recommend instead Five Weapons, a comic series by Jimmy Robinson which is much lighter, humorous and clever; or the fantasy trilogy Book of the Ancestor by Mark Lawrence, which is set at a girls' martial arts monastery and has multiple queer characters; or Robin Hobb's Assassin's Apprentice, the opening book of an epic and devastating fantasy series.

#reading #books #book reviews #comic book reviews #bookblr

[kinetic-elaboration]

July 20: Thoughts on The 100 2x04, Many Happy Returns

It’s literally been five months since I did one of these…

The wasteland was a pretty cool concept and I’m sad that they kinda pulled back on it later. Like, when characters can get from point A below the wasteland to point B above it without apparently passing through it at all, it makes it seem like the area is actually not that big after all. Is it, like, just NYC? And maybe the metro area? Also, again, as usual, floored by the costuming on this show. Amazing.

So Zoran is the first human Jaha meets on Earth. A kid and a mutated human.

Clarke is so intensely pragmatic. She legit doesn’t care if people once tried to kill her, as long as they aren’t trying to kill her now. I don’t really see this as forgiveness, but rather an ability to forget the past that isn’t useful to her. Also lol @Anya for saying Clarke is weak, like who broke who out of the Mountain hmmm?

“Everything is Grounder territory.” Murphy telling the truth. And even if some parts of the world aren’t Grounder territory, how the hell would Bellamy know?

Murphy, canonically a terrible runner. Rewatching these early eps just reinforces his glow up since then. (Not in terms of running, but in terms of, like, haircut.)

The wreckage of the Factory crash is so devastating, following the trail of bodies to the crash site. I still wish we’d found out what happened to everyone else. I guess we’re supposed to assume the rest of the stations exploded before impact? But still. I feel some bitterness.

This saving Mel story is entirely, 100% about keeping Bellamy, Finn, and Murphy stuck for most of an episode, allowing Octavia to find them, and then forcing Bellamy to come back to Camp Jaha rather than continue searching for Clarke—so he can, you know, run into Clarke. It’s pure filler. And imo not even very interesting filler since I’m not really like a rescue/adventure story person. I can’t even figure out how Mel ended up stranded along the side of the cliff. Was she climbing up and then got tired? Also, on a related note, at what point do they, Bellamy in particular, realize which station this is? Is it immediately obvious from the wreckage, or only from the identity of the survivor? Because this is Bellamy’s home.

All that time they were talking, Sterling was there in the background, doing whatever. Honestly though shame on Bellamy a little for letting Finn convince him not to save Mel.

Totally forgot they built an electric fence at Camp Jaha. Then, began work on a radio beacon.

I can’t even pay attention to the Clarke and Anya scenes because I’m too attracted to both of them. Less so in the mud. Which is 100% gratuitous given that uh, I don’t think the Mountain Men who almost never go outdoors and are currently wearing big ass gas masks on their faces can smell shit.

Bellamy and his adventure squad are such dumbasses. Huh, let’s tie this thin rope with a single knot around a stump and then just watch our friend use it to scale the side of a mountain. Nothing can go wrong there. I mean there are fucking four of them just standing around watching when they could be, uh, securing the rope? Anyway RIP Sterling, cause of death: idiocy. (Slash the narrative’s need to put Bellamy in the hero role at this point, and to up the ante on his heroism, and to waste some time.)

To be more fair, I think this is semi-important for Bellamy’s characterization, an early version of ‘save who we can save today.’ He’s at a sort of crossroads at this point, not really a leader anymore like in S1, but sort of a leader, and he needs to figure out what sort of leader he’ll be.

Monroe’s “Sterling was one of us” warms my heart because it speaks to my “the 100 were a distinct social group” theory, which I wish (again lol) had been more important to the show and for longer.

Murphy does fall in, though, pretty fast. After Monroe says the ‘one of us’ thing. Which is actually pretty impressive given that a few days ago he was blasting a hole in the dropship and running away with all their ammunition.

This must be such a trip for Jaha, like, he is aware that forest exists still, because of transmissions from the 100, but he’s in the middle of the fucking desert, and this is all he knows of Earth, whatsoever. Also, again, these sets are perfect, I love them so much.

How did the City of Light become a legend among the Grounders? It’s made from the Alie 1 chips…. Didn’t Becca, like, not like those? I’m assuming of course that literally any of this was ever thought out or ever made sense.

“I have no room for hate.” You know what I’m just gonna say it: I think this is true. This is really how Jaha lives the rest of his life. I think people forget since he wasn’t really himself for most of S3, and even in S2 his mission to the City of Light seemed kind of nutty (and boring). But “I have no room for hate” both describes him pretty well, and is rather a lovely thing about him. If only he hadn’t been so obsessed with the COL, tbh. Searching for it was a bad idea from the very beginning and it was also, I think, a rather cowardly idea.

I forgot that this was where the concept of radiation disfigurement came in and was explained. Is that really how it works? Like random mutations, even generations after the event, from non-mutated parents? Lol I have no idea. That said, Sienna kind of looks like she has some scarring on her face, too.

Here is Jaha finding someone who left her people for her son, whereas he sacrificed his son for his people. Does this also change his mind on things going forward? Connect to his insistence on the COL, at the expense of a chunk of his people?

I miss this thing where characters knew other characters even though we’d never seen them interact before, because, like, a history exists and then the show acknowledges it. That was fun.

I shipped Raven/Wick and I don’t regret it, even though fandom’s toxicity basically killed it for me in a lot of ways. They had a good rapport. More importantly, he might literally be the only man to not take shit from Raven and to actually be brave enough to challenge her.

 Engineering is such a damn good set.

This is a weird episode because our two mains have pretty much the least important, or at least least-interesting, story lines. They’re basically just being moved into position to reunite at the end of the ep, and that’s it.

Clarke: “I just need something sharp and sterile [to remove the tracker from your arm].” Anya: bites it out with her teeth.

Why do they bother putting trackers on the Grounders? Do they escape often?

Murphy’s not only helping with the rescue mission, he’s at the head of the line.

Bellamy’s legs appreciation.

Murphy: “Don’t you worry, Bellamy, I won’t drop you.” I mean…you did once try to hang him. But by-gones I guess. I do believe at heart Murphy just wants to be part of the crew.

I think the Raven and Wick scenes are my favorites of this episode. I have two uninjured legs and I wouldn’t climb that thing; Raven is a brave bitch. And when she has to give up and come down, probably the saddest moment of the ep, along with finding Factory station. Some of this is relevant to my big bang.

 After literally all this, Finn’s still like ‘Bellamy, just drop that rando’ lol. No, bitch, don’t do this half-assed. Stop being a wimp and pull them both up.

Before it’s revealed that the horn is Octavia, this really does look like Bellamy and the No Good Very Bad Day lol: first Factory is found destroyed, then Sterling dies, then you almost die when your fake rope breaks, then someone starts shooting arrows at you, then acid fog rolls in, like, what now universe??

I guess another purpose of this story line, being fair again, is that Murphy and Bellamy are now officially friends again. Like Murphy has proven himself completely trustworthy as of that little nod between them.

“She blew the horn” is s obviously ADR to explain what exactly is happening here. Which is helpful, even though she’s clearly carrying the horn.

Blake sibling reunion!

“Three mechanics made it to the ground.” I mean… you’d think it would be more than that… what with the entirety of Mecha making it. Or was that station mostly casualties? I don’t know, this still doesn’t make sense to me, how they split up people between stations. Season 2 implied it was random, Season 3 implied it was by home station.

“Your leg’s messed up and that blows. Figure out a way to work around it.” Legit question: is there anyone else who would have said that to her?

I really, truly miss Wick tbh. One of the few characters with a sense of humor. (And yet again: he was good for Raven.)

They’re really playing fast and loose with the rules about language in this verse huh? Warriors speak English, no everyone speaks English, no English is for friends only I guess?

Jaha just wants to be a dad. Like, do I think he was a good parent… I dunno. Is he a better parent than anyone else on this show? At this point I would have to say yes. (No, Clarke does not count as a “parent” jfc.)

Ruthless Clarke ftw.

Jaha making a chess board just breaks my heart. Just let him be a dad!!

It’s been such a freaking long time since I watched this, I can’t remember if Octavia had braids in the last ep or not, like how long she’s had them. And it’s really bugging me, because someone else must have put them in, and I’m trying to figure out who that might be.

Also, where did she get the horn? I guess the implication is it was Lincoln’s… I can’t really remember. Wouldn’t it still have been on his person when he was captured?

Octavia went off the rails but at this point I’m still very fond of her.

The map Finn gives Bellamy lists ‘statue’ (Lincoln Memorial?), ‘twin trees’ (???), ‘Ark’ (Alpha Station??), and ‘amusement park’ AND amusement park is very close to Ark so my question is why didn’t they use that amusement park for something interesting??

Bellamy knows he shouldn’t let Finn go off alone but then, what can he do? Finn never really adhered to his authority. And I don’t think he feels like he can flex that right now, like it’s sufficiently established in this new order.

But he does arm Murphy. Which says a lot about how much he has decided to trust him, but also how little he trusts Finn. I forgot about this split in the character groups, though I should have remembered it, since of course this leads directly to the massacre.

“Parting, such sweet sorrow, right?” is an interesting quote from a kid who can’t spell ‘die.’

Aw, Clarke goes back to the dropship. I forgot about that. But then of course she doesn’t realize… anything. She doesn’t know the Ark is down, she doesn’t know what happened to the few of her friends who were on the outside. And her face when she sees the message to her, and only her name is still visible…

Blah blah blah fight sequence.

Creepy skeleton parts on the ground.

 I think this could have been the start of an Anya/Clarke friendship of some sort: Clarke earns her respect by fighting well, Clarke’s people protect Anya, the alliance forms… too bad they had to kill her.

And Clarke figures out where Alpha is based on Raven and Wick’s balloon.

“We fell from Earth in a football stadium. I think they already know we’re here.”

BUT the balloon is also what sets off Byrne, and gets her so worried about Grounders she authorizes the ‘shoot on sight’ command that kills Anya and almost Clarke. On the one hand, this is a nicely wrought story line. On the other hand, they shouldn’t have killed Anya, so. A wash.

Was Byrne’s worry about the balloon warranted though? I can’t decide.

Zoran, such a kind soul.

How can there possibly be a bounty on Sky People (side note: Jaha’s reaction to that name like ‘huh well I guess that is what we are’) that people all the way out in the dead zone would know about? Like… they’ve been on Earth for like a month. And the war has only been going on for part of that time, arguably. If it even is a war.

Trent Lane voice: Betrayal, yeah, stab in the back, betrayal…

Too bad “To survive, we do what we must” didn’t end up in like the fandom lexicon. It’s a pretty good variant on the theme. Plus Jaha’s just so… like he’s been fucked over but he can’t even be mad, because he gets that she’s doing it for her son and he wishes he had that chance. Watching his scenes again, I really feel like he was underrated and I miss him a lot.

I wonder what happened to Zoran and family. Were they absorbed into the hive? More generally, what happened to people seeking the CoL before ALIE could get it properly running with Jaha’s help? Did they all just… die in the desert?

Alpha Station at night is so beautiful.

And Clarke is so happy.

And this is SUCH A SETUP FOR CLARKE AND ANYA TO BE FRIENDS OMG, Anya should have brokered peace with Lexa, there was such an obvious role for her… Her death was 100% random attempt at shock, this show’s #1 worst quality, which is saying a lot.

I mean shot in the back while she’s walking away these Sky Guards are incompetent.

RIP Anya.

I really thought the Bellarke reunion was in this ep for some reason. But then I also knew Anya died right at the end—for more Shock Value ofc—so I don’t even know. I remember the scenes but nothing of their order I guess.

#the year 2019 #2019: the 100 s2 #the 100 #the 100 rewatch #2019: fandom thoughts

[swannscroft]

Gun for Hire OC---> Far Cry 5

Elizabeth (Liz) Palmer “Fights because she can.”

Specialty:  Spy Age:  21 Birthday:  July 10th  Hair:  Blonde Eyes:  Hazel Height:  5’7” Location:  Whitetail Mountains- South of the Stone Ridge Chalet Occupation:  Former college student Backstory:   Liz grew up in Hope County and went to high school there.  She was the 2nd baseman for the Hope County Cougars softball team.  She helped them win the state championship two years in a row.  Despite her Cougars shirt, she fights with The Whitetail Militia.  She is the niece of Eli Palmer.  When she returned to her childhood home for the first time in years, she was captured by the cult. Jacob discovered her relation to Eli and used her against him

Recruitment Mission:  Help Liz blow up the speakers around the Stone Ridge Chalet. ELIMINATE all enemies/ FREE Liz/ TALK to Liz/ FOLLOW Liz/ BLOW UP the speakers (0/5) /TALK to Liz Rewards:   +600 Resistance points/ Liz Palmer added to your roster/ Carry more melee weapons

Special Abilities: MELEE EXPERT- Give her a bat and she’ll knock any Peggies out of the park. - Liz’s weapon of choice is a barbwire baseball bat with screws sticking out of it.  You’ll also be able to get a few extra melee weapons from her if yours run out.  That means more shovels and more dead Peggies. PEGGIE INTEL- Marks all locations of enemy properties on your map. - When active as one of your GFH all the locations of cult properties including; roadblocks, prisoners vans, and supply vehicles are revealed on your map for the specific region you are in.

Relationships:  

Eli- She is very close with her Uncle.  Will do anything he asks.  Even if that sometimes means not fighting if it means that she’s safe.

Wheaty- Is best friends with Wheaty.  They are always hanging out at the Wolf’s Den together and jamming to the best music.

Jess- The archer doesn’t like her.  Jess thinks that she’s just as bad as all the other Peggies.  Jess calls her ‘Jacob’s little bitch’.  The girls will get along if they share a common goal in killing cultists, but that’s about it.

Sharky- He and Liz will argue over which songs to play on the radio.  Sharky wants to play disco, while she prefers classic rock.  Despite their difference in music taste she finds Sharky very amusing.

Adelaide- She absolutely LOVES Adelaide.  Addie thinks of Liz as the daughter she never had and likes Liz better than Hurk Jr.  She and Addie will talk about which of the guys in Hope County are the hottest (and how the Seed bros are the hottest out of all of them.)

Grace- Liz really looks up to Grace and aspires to be like her.  Sometimes she’ll totally fangirl when Grace is around.  Grace finds it flattering but doesn’t see herself as a role model.

Pratt- She dated Staci Pratt for a few months in high school.  Despite their messy break up, she feels terrible that he is under Jacob’s control.

Hurk Jr- Liz totally wants to join Hurk’s Gate but he won’t let her because she isn’t named Hurk.  She told him by that logic he and his father would be the only ones that could join his cult.  

What she thinks of the Seed siblings:

Joseph- She finds his man bun creepy.  She can’t decide if he looks more like a hipster or a cowboy.  She almost accidently ended up in the cult when she was younger.  No one had told her that they were crazy.  Liz had wandered in Joseph’s compound one Sunday morning in high school.  She thought he was a youth pastor.  To her surprise Joseph was indeed not, a youth pastor.

John- Does not like John’s power of yes.  One of her worst fears is ending up in John’s bunker.  Getting her skin cut off isn’t her definition of a ‘good time’.

Jacob- Won’t really tell anyone the truth about what happened while she was with Jacob.  If you ask her about it she’ll dodge the question.  No one knows if he tortured her or something very different.  All everyone knows is that she spent a lot of time with the redhead soldier.  Jacob enjoyed knowing that he had Eli’s niece under his thumb.

Faith- Liz is actually quite fond of Faith.  She feels bad for the girl, knowing that she wasn’t the first girl controlled by Joseph.  Before Joseph had found Rachel, he had picked out Liz as one of the potential candidates for ‘Faith’.  You’ll sometimes see her chitchatting with Faith when she appears.  Liz has wandered into the bliss willingly to try to reason with Faith but the girl is too far gone.

Quotes:

In her recruitment mission- “Thanks for getting me out of that cage.  If I had been there any longer I’d be good as dead.  My name’s Liz.  I’m Eli’s niece.  My Uncle runs the militia up in these mountains.  I didn’t know shit about this Eden’s Gate nonsense before.  I had just gotten home and those fucking cultists nabbed me out on the road. Jacob was ready to write me off as weak, feed me to his judges, until he found out who I was.  He liked having me around, knowing that I was related to Eli.  He kept me in a cage and treated me like I was his pet, called me his ‘little lamb’.  I guess Jacob got tired of my big mouth.  I had outgrown my usefulness to him. He said he’d come back for me when I was nothing but bones.  I’ve gotten real sick of listening to this bastard talk.  Help me take out the speakers around here so I don’t have to listen to him anymore.”

“I’ll put in a good word with Eli for ya’, tell him you’re one of the good ones.  Look Dep, I know you got a lot of skilled people looking to help you but I’d love to fight back.  You and me, we’re gonna shove my bat so far up Jacob’s ass that he’s gonna choke on it.  See you around, Dep.

In Jacob’s region- “Why does everyone think that I fucked Jacob Seed?  I mean sure Jacob’s tall, buff, and okay whatever, he’s a hunk I’ll give him that.  But do you know how old he is?  47.  That’s fucking disgusting.  I ain’t nobody’s sugar baby.  Besides if someone told you were meat every day, you wouldn’t want to fuck them either.”

“I never got to properly thank you for getting me out of there Dep.  Eli’s really the only family I have left.  I’d do anything for him.  Even if that means doing some things that I don’t agree with.”

“I don’t think Jacob realizes that when he tells someone they are meat it has a different connotation when he says it to a woman.  It makes it sound like Jacob’s into some kinky shit.  Not that I would have firsthand experience about that.  Because... I don’t...”

“Truth is, I was really no one before I met Jacob.  I was just a dumb sorority girl.  Eden’s Gate trained me, they showed me how to fight.  Too bad all that training will be used to kill every single last one of them.”

“You’ve met Jacob in person before, right Dep?  He’s one ugly son of a bitch ain’t he?  He looks pretty good without a shirt though... like damn.  Did I just say that out loud?”

In John’s region- “I heard that John tattoos people’s chest then cuts off their skin and calls it ‘atonement’. I call being a perverted little shit.  He probably just kidnaps the pretty women so he can rip their shirts off.”

“Did I ever tell you about the time I just waltzed into Joseph’s Compound?  Yeah my dumb ass thought it was just a new church in town.  None of the warning signs in my head were going off.  I just thought ‘hey this church has tv screens for the song lyrics, that’s cool!’  I have a selfie with Joseph Seed somewhere on my phone.  I’m pretty sure I put it on my snapchat story too.”

“If no one else is gonna talk about the elephant in the room, I’m gonna say it.  All of the Seed Brothers are hot as fuck.  Too bad they’re all fucking insane.  Man it is always the crazy ones that get ya’.  Just ask all those women that went home with Ted Bundy.  You can’t.  Because you know…  They’re dead.”

In Faith’s region- “It’s not Faith’s fault that’s she’s crazy.  She wasn’t the first one to be controlled by Joseph.  There were countless girls before her who took on the name Faith.  He even sought me out at one point.  I’m just glad it was her who took the name and not me.”

“Everybody will go on and on about how great the Hope County baseball team is but they sucked ass.  It was the softball team that were the real ball players.  We won two state championships back to back.  I hit the game winning home run for one of them.  But I’m sure Sharky and Hurk will just tell you how fun it was to get hammered at the baseball games.”

“Killing all these angels, I feel just like Rick Grimes!  You don’t watch that show?  When this is all over Dep we’re sitting on my couch and binge watching every episode.  It’s going to be freaking awesome!”

#me: does shit like this instead of actually updating my fic #far cry 5 #far cry #liz palmer #jacob seed #jacob seed x oc #gun for hire oc #jacob seed x liz palmer #does anybody still read my garbage #or care about fc5 #because i'm still in this dumpster #make the darkness bright #mtdb

[inhumansforever]

Inhuman of The Day

July 11th - Lockjaw

Many years ago, a citizen of the lower caste of old Attilan wandered from the confines of the city and ventured into the world of the human.  This Inhuman was named Myrren Barabus; she had heard tales about the barbarism of her people’s human cousin and wanted to see for herself.  

Myrren came across a human settlement where she saw a dog tied up and left in the cold.  Myrren mistook this dog for a human infant and decided that she needed to save this child before it succumbed to the cold.  She absconded with the dog, returning to Attilan and ranting that she had to save the child from its poor treatment at the hands of the humans.  She was quickly apprehended by the security forces of the Royal Guard.  Unsure of what to do with the dog Myrren had brought to Attilan, she was handed over to Attilan’s chief of medical sciences, an Inhuman known as The Surgeon Supreme.   

This Surgeon Supreme was a rather unscrupulous researcher who frequently used animals as test subjects in his experiments.  He had previously been tasked by King Agon to look into the effects of Terrigen on fetal development.  Ago and his wife, Queen Rynda, were obsessed with expanding upon the effects of Terrigenesis.  They wanted to augment the powers Terrigen can unlock by exposing their child to the mists whist still in the womb.  Yet Agon wanted to sure such a thing was relatively safe before attempted to do so with his one child, so he ordered the Surgeon Supreme to conduct trial experiments on prenatal Terrigen exposure.  

The Surgeon Supreme had been stymied in his efforts so far, yet he felt that the dog brought to him represented a represented an excellent opportunity to succeed where he had thus far failed.  

Utilizing advanced Attilan technology, The Surgeon Supreme and his assistant extracted cellular material from the dog, cloned and altered it and then used it to impregnate the dog via in vitro fertilization.  Once the dog was pregnant, the Surgeon began exposing her to gradually higher doses of a special rendered gaseous form of Terrigen.  Monitoring this pregnancy, the Surgeon was excited to find that the pups gestating in her whom were indeed being changed by the Terrigen; and that one in particular appeared to be developing significant Inhuman powers.  

Lockjaw was the puppy who was developing these powers whist still in his mother’s whom.  These powers would ultimately include greatly increased size, strength and durability as well as the ability to teleport over vast distances.  Along with these powers, Lockjaw was also endowed with a preternatural sense of cosmic awareness.  And it was through this sense of awareness that little Lockjaw came to understand that his unborn brothers and sisters were in great peril.  With his powers, Lockjaw would likely be presented as a gift to the Surgeon’s king, yet his siblings would likely just end up victims of experimentation and dissection.  

Fearful over his siblings wellbeing, Lockjaw gained access to his teleporting powers and he teleported from his mother’s womb along with his brothers and sister, depositing each of the newborn pups to new locations where he felt they would be safe from the Surgeon’s neatly tinkering.  Lockjaw then teleported back to his mother’s side.

Lockjaw’s being imbued with such power was viewed as a great success.  The results were reported to King Agon, motivating Agon and his queen to move forward with their own experiments… experiments that would ultimately lead to their son’s Black Bolt and Maximus being born prenatally exposed to purified Terrigen Mist.  

Agon and Rynda’s actions caused their first son, Blackgarr, to be born with his incredible powers already in bloom.  This included Black Bolt’s hugely destructive sonic powers and the child was sequestered into a soundproof chamber until he could learn to fully control these powers.  It all made for an extremely lonely childhood.  

Agon had kept Lockjaw as a pet.  The dog appeared to very much bond with the newborn prince and have a calming effect on him.  And this led Agon to gift Lockjaw to his son as a companion to help abate the extreme solitude of his upbringing.  From there on out, Lockjaw rarely left Blackgarr’s side and a lifelong connection and friendship for forged.  As Blackgarr grew up and eventually ascended to the throne at the King of Attilan Lockjaw remained dutifully at his side.  He came to be known as the Royal Family’s escort and watchdog and was as much a member of this family as any of the other young Royals.  

As time past, Black Bolt’s duties as prince took more and more of his time, and Lockjaw found himself gravitating toward young Crystal.  Crystal was the youngest of the various children of Attilan’s inner aristocracy and often found herself left out.  She and Lockjaw became quite close and Lockjaw was fiercely loyal and protective of Crystal.  Many years later, Lockjaw would show a similar loyalty to Crystal’s daughter, Luna.  

Following the coup orchestrated by Black Bolt’s brother, Maximus, Lockjaw helped the deposed Royals escape Maximus’ forces.  He teleported the group to New York where the Royals eventually recruited the assistance of The Fantastic Four.  With the Fantastic Four’s assistance, Black Bolt and the others were able to put down Maximus’ coupons Black Bolt retook the throne.  In retaliation, Maximus triggered a negs-energy shield that cut Attilan off from the human world.  Lockjaw was trapped on the other side of this shield and was unable to use his teleportation powers to break through.  Blocked from returning home, Lockjaw wandered the countryside unintentionally terrorizing the local townsfolk who mistook him for some sort of monster.  Ultimately, Lockjaw came across Johnny Storm (The Human Torch) and his friend, Wyatt Wingfoot.  The three had a number of adventures together.  Johnny was hopeful that Lockjaw could be able to reunite him with Crystal, but it proved to be a feat beyond Lockjaw’s powers.

The negative zone force field was eventually deactivated, allowing Lockjaw to return home.  Lockjaw then transported Crystal to New York so she could be with her beloved Johnny.  Crystal became a member of The Fantastic Four and Lockjaw accompanied her for many of her adventures with the FF. Some time later, Lockjaw and Crystal were ensnarled in a complicated spell cast by the villainous alchemist, Diablo.  The two were ultimately rescued by Medusa and the Fantastic Four.  Some time thereafter, Lockjaw teleported Crystal to the aid of an injured Quicksilver, a fateful encounter that would eventually lead to Crystal and Quicksilver’s marriage and the birth of their daughter, Luna. 

Lockjaw helped Medusa escape to Earth when the Genetic Council decreed that she terminate her pregnancy.  He also helped in summoning The Avengers to assist The Inhumans in repelling the threat of Thane Ector and The Brethren. Lockjaw has shown great fondness for Ben Grimm, The Thing of The Fantastic Four.  The two have had many adventures together and he even traveled with him to France when Grimm chose to be a conscientious objector during the first ‘Superhero Civil War’ event.  Later, Lockjaw teamed up with a number of other super powered animals to form ‘The Pet Avengers.’ 

After Black Bolt was abducted by The Skrulls, The Inhumans joined forces with the Kree Imperial Army.  Kree scientists used a specialized technological method to augment Lockjaw’s power of teleportation, enhancing his range and allowing him to teleport himself and others across vast distances of interstellar space.  With Lockjaw’s assistance, Medusa and the others were successful in rescuing Black Bolt and then aiding The Kree in defeating The Shi’Ar empire and their despotic king, Vulcan. 

Some time thereafter, Lockjaw proved an invaluable asset to Black Bolt and Maximus’ efforts to protect The Inhumans from Thanos.  He also helped rescue numerous Inhumans during the fall of Attilan amidst The Infinity Event.   More recently, Medusa has sent Lockjaw to look after the new Inhuman, Kamala Khan (Ms. Marvel).    Medusa saw great potential in Kamala, as well as a great potential for getting into trouble and she assigned Lockjaw to look after her (although more often then not it has been Kamala who has saved Lockjaw from danger).  

Later, Lockjaw was utilized in a series of non-lethal attacks to extract revenge on Tony Stark for his crimes against New Attilan.  Lockjaw teleported into Stark’s personal garage of expensive sports cars and private jets, released a series of grenades and that teleporting away, leaving the bombs to blow up Stark’s garage.  

At the onset of the Inhumans/Mutant War, The X-Men looked to take Lockjaw off the playing field early.  Fantomex lured Lockjaw away with snacks and then tricked him into eating powerful sedatives that kept Lockjaw in a sedated state throughout much of the conflict.  He was eventually freed by Karnak. When Crystal decided to leave with the other Royals on a mission to he stars to discover a new source of Terrigen, she left her daughter, Luna, in the care of Lockjaw.  Lockjaw kept her safe during the terrible events of the Secret Empire ordeal.  

Following the Royal Family’s relocation to the new refuge of Arctillan on the dark side of the moon. Lockjaw detected a strong signal that informed him that his longest sibling were in danger.  Lockjaw sprung to action, checking in on each of his brothers and sisters to ensure that they were okay.  

Although Lockjaw’s siblings were not imbued with the same degree of Inhuman power possessed by Lockjaw, they were indeed affected by their exposure to Terrigen Gas.  A main effect of this exposure is that each had been granted a greatly extended lifespan.  

Lockjaw first visited his brother, Bixby, who resided with a kindly old lady in the Brushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn.  Upon Lockjaw’s arrival, he and Bixby were attacked by a swarm of artificially advanced hamsters in flying saucers looking to abduct Bixby.  

Lockjaw was able to fight off these marauding rodents with the assistance of the formerly retired hero, D-Man.  Lockjaw and D-Man then traveled to The Savage Land to check in on Lockjaw’s sister.  Encountering Ka-Zar the Savage and Lockjaw’s fellow Pet Avenger, Zabu, the group eventually located Lockjaw’s sister.  This sister was now known simply as ‘The Great Beast’ and she led a pack of giant wolves.  Clearly she did not require Lockjaw’s aide and next he and D-Man traveled between dimensions to the Marvel Anthropomorphic Universe where Lockjaw’s other sister, Doc Jaw, resided.  

It proved that it was Doc Jaw who had sent out the signal beckoning Lockjaw.  Her intention was to alter Lockjaw that Annihilus, lord of The Negative Zone, had abducted their final brother and was using him as a lure to entrap Lockjaw.  Annihilus’ ambition was to capture Lockjaw and utilize him to gain the ability for unlimited teleportation between the dimensions and hence continue his campaign to conquer and destroy all realities.  

Lockjaw and D-Man discovered the means to teleport to the Negative Zone and engaged Annihilus in a tremendous battle.  A battle that ended when Annihilus was apparently killed.  Lockjaw’s brother was saved and ended up in the care of D-Man.  Finally assured that all his siblings were well, Lockjaw returned to Arctillan for a well deserved rest.  

Lockjaw next traveled with the Royal Family to a summit of the Universal Inhumans to address the three posed  y a reinvigorated Kree Empire.  This ended up being a trap meant to lure The Royals away from Arctillan.  The Universal Inhuman Queens had been killed and, with the Royals gone, The Kree forces laid siege to Arctillan and sacked the city.  

Lockjaw teleported ahead to assist Maximus in fending off the Kree war general, a mysterious and terrible creature named Vox.  Yet Vox proved too powerful and both Lockjaw and Maximus appeared to be destroyed by the monster.  

A sad and unceremonious ending for a great hero and very good boy…  Although this will most assuredly not be the last we see from Lockjaw.   He is likely to return soon and is scheduled to appear in an upcoming issue of the young readers’ series ‘Marvel Adventures’ as well as the comics and animated shorts that are part of the Marvel Rising project.      

#Inhumans #Inhuman of The Day #Lockjaw

[starlingsrps]

rebecca price char. dev.

BASIC INFORMATION

FULL NAME: rebecca claire price

REASONING: nope

NICKNAME(S): becks or becca preferred, becky never.

PREFERRED NAME(S): rebecca

BIRTH DATE: july 20

AGE: twenty nine

ZODIAC: cancer

GENDER: cis female

PRONOUNS: she/her

ROMANTIC ORIENTATION: heteromantic

SEXUAL ORIENTATION: heterosexual

NATIONALITY: american

ETHNICITY: caucasian (german, english)

CURRENT LOCATION: austin, tx

LIVING CONDITIONS: p good and ruthlessly clean/organized. she lives with her fiance, kevin the actual living saint, and he gets enlisted to reorganize the furniture at least once a month and she is absolutely not allowed to go to flea markets unsupervised.

BACKGROUND

BIRTH PLACE: portland, or

HOMETOWN: mcminniville, or

SOCIAL CLASS: middle

EDUCATION LEVEL: bfa, ut-austin; education license

FATHER: hugo price, 70

MOTHER: evie price, 55

SIBLING(S): lucy quinn, 32; bella price, 25

BIRTH ORDER: middle

CHILDREN: jesus christ no

PET(S): ellis, cat

OTHER IMPORTANT RELATIVES: kevin saunders, 30, fiance

PREVIOUS RELATIONSHIPS: oh lord, dost thou have time? cause it was jake all through college and then a blur of dudes until kevin popped up like a knight in shining dockers.

CURRENT RELATIONSHIP: kevin saunders, corporate attorney and living saint.

ARRESTS?: a couple of close calls but mostly warnings

PRISON TIME?: nah

OCCUPATION & INCOME

PRIMARY SOURCE OF INCOME: kindergarten teacher

SECONDARY SOURCE OF INCOME: printmaker

CONTENT WITH THEIR JOB (OR LACK THERE OF)?: she wishes (a lot) that she had the fortitude to make printmaking her only job but she and kevin have the wedding to get through and want to move to the suburbs and start a family soon so it's best to just keep the etsy store open and have it be on the side for now.

PAST JOB(S): bartender, teaching assistant, printing press gofer

SPENDING HABITS: pretty reasonable, prone to very silly purchases like her cat shaped bud vases. they scare kevin, they delight her so they stay on the mantle.

MOST VALUABLE POSSESSION: the above vases. and her tools. and her engagement ring, which she is still prone to showing off six months later.

SKILLS & ABILITIES

PHYSICAL STRENGTH: ish? she's most stamina strong than physically strong but she can move a couch.

SPEED: yep

INTELLIGENCE: rebecca is a sturdy second in command on a pub trivia team.

ACCURACY: good

AGILITY: very good. she does teeny tiny detail work for her prints so she's very dexterous and agile.

STAMINA: good

TEAMWORK: not terrible.

TALENTS: generous, fun, creative

SHORTCOMINGS: flighty, nosy, and indecisive

LANGUAGE(S) SPOKEN: english, spanish

DRIVE?: sure just like a grandma

JUMP-STAR A CAR?: nope

CHANGE A FLAT TIRE?: not a clue

RIDE A BICYCLE?: yes

SWIM?: yes

PLAY AN INSTRUMENT?: nah

PLAY CHESS?: no

BRAID HAIR?: yes

TIE A TIE?: no

PICK A LOCK?: yes

PHYSICAL APPEARANCE & CHARACTERISTICS

FACE CLAIM: makenzie leigh

EYE COLOR: blue

HAIR COLOR: light brown

HAIR TYPE/STYLE: medium length, bangs that are her longest relationship

GLASSES/CONTACTS?: contacts but switches to her glasses when etching plates

DOMINANT HAND: right

HEIGHT: 5'5

BUILD: average

EXERCISE HABITS: run every morning 

SKIN TONE: fair

TATTOOS: she always meant to get a really kickass piece but never got around to making up her mind. add in that kevin's not big on tattoos and she doesn't think it'll ever happen. but she likes them on other people.

PIERCINGS: ears

MARKS/SCARS: a few small nicks here and there from being alive, a scar from a slipped chisel on the palm on her left hand.

USUAL EXPRESSION: pleasant - she laughs and smiles easily.

CLOTHING STYLE: anything she can sit on the floor in for work, kind of tomboy-ish off the clock. cleans up real well.  

JEWELRY: engagement ring

ALLERGIES: nah

DIET: garbage disposal

PHYSICAL AILMENTS: nope

PSYCHOLOGY

ENNEAGRAM TYPE: 7 - the enthusiast

MORAL ALIGNMENT: chaotic good

TEMPERAMENT: sanguine

ELEMENT: air

MBTI TYPE: ESFP - the entertainer

MENTAL CONDITIONS/DISORDERS: not...really? i'll come back to this. 

SOCIABILITY: fantastic. she's the public face of the rebecca and kevin relationship and she will make friends with damn near everyone.

EMOTIONAL STABILITY: pretty good, prone to bad moods and stewing like anyone else. 

OBSESSION(S): she won't let a plate go to print until she's 900% happy with it and that can take anywhere from an hour to forever.

COMPULSION(S): she will know if you've touched anything on her desk.

PHOBIA(S): spiders

ADDICTION(S): nah

DRUG USE: nothing that's not prescription

ALCOHOL USE: rebecca has a hard time turning down whiskey. it has, will, and always will get her into trouble.

PRONE TO VIOLENCE?: not at all

MANNERISMS

SPEECH STYLE: clear and bright

ACCENT: nah

QUIRKS: she gestures constantly

HOBBIES: print making, flea markets, the quest for the perfect velvet couch

NERVOUS TICKS: nah

DRIVES/MOTIVATIONS: happiness

POSITIVE TRAITS: bold, creative, outgoing, adventurous, charming

NEGATIVE TRAITS: sensitive, self-indulgent, impatient, risk-prone, defiant

SENSE OF HUMOR: goofy

DO THEY CURSE OFTEN?: not really? mostly because The Littles

CATCHPHRASE(S): nah

FAVORITES

ACTIVITY: going out with friends, etching, and hanging out with kevin

ANIMAL: otters

BEVERAGE: whiskey

BOOK: true crime scares the shit out of her but she'll read it all day if not attended to.

COLOR: red

DESIGNER: j.crew

FOOD: anything in some kind of pastry pocket

FLOWER: white roses

GEM: rose quartz to the point that it's the stone in her engagement ring

HOLIDAY: christmas eve

MODE OF TRANSPORTATION: drive

MOVIE: moulin rouge

SONG: "heroes" by david bowie

SCENERY: the ocean

SCENT: home, roses, freshly showered kevin

SPORT: not especially but she does get Hella into the olympics whenever it comes around.

TELEVISION SHOW: snapped

WEATHER: fall

VACATION DESTINATION: deeply fond of mexico but she'll kill you if you take her to a resort.

ATTITUDES

GREATEST DREAM: she wants to be shown in galleries again - etsy is fine, art fairs are fine, but damn she's forever chasing the high of her senior show.

GREATEST FEAR: anything happening to kevin while he's on one of his business trips

MOST AT EASE WHEN: working on a new plate

LEAST AT EASE WHEN: out of control, at one of kevin's very fancy corporate parties because she feels like she's too loud and too much for it.

WORST POSSIBLE THING THAT COULD HAPPEN: honestly, she just doesn't want to go back to who she was right after the breakup with jake. there were a lot of really bad attention seeking decisions made and a lot of not great guys and she's really grateful to kevin for kind of hauling her out of that.

BIGGEST ACHIEVEMENT: she's become someone she likes and that's enough.

BIGGEST REGRET: see above.

BIGGEST SECRET: never really did get over jake, didja becks?

TOP PRIORITIES: her life with kevin, personal satisfaction

#c: rebecca price

[the-musical-cc]

I read the Mary Poppins book the other day and I got some thoughts:

Mary Poppins isn’t human. At the very least, not entirely human. She has a snake cousin for frick’s sakes.

She honestly sounds to me like she’s daughter of a human man and a fae/elemental spirit lady who just wants to live in the human world and make a living taking care of kids but at the same time is so used to the ways of her mother’s kind that she doesn’t really manage to pass for human and is constantly frustrated for it.

She’s the true chaothic neutral.

Um, she and Bert do seem to have a thing going on? Like, at first I figured it could be just a sibling-like relationship or just a very, very close friendship which Disney had somehow interpreted as romantic tension, but Travers went out of her way to describe Bert being speechless when he sees her all dolled up, so like ??? And OK, maybe I could have thought of it as a one-sided thing, but she has Mary Poppins be super curt and even rude to people, even the kids and then be the sweetest to him so ??? How?? Was people not supposed to interpret it as a couple’s dynamic??? THEY GO ON DATES EVERY THIRD TUESDAY????

Honestly, I think Travers just wasn’t really fond of the thought of Mary Poppins and Bert being intimate in any way, which...yeah, I can completely relate to, they don’t give me that kind of vibe either and the few fics I’ve seen giving them the horny victorians treatment really, really made me uncomfortable. I just wish someone had introduced her to the concept of asexuality, ‘cause this really sounds like good ole ace/aro dating. Hell, even platonic love. IT’S STILL LOVE, DOÑA TRAVERS, YOU WROTE THEM AS TWO PEOPLE WHO LOVE EACH OTHER, SORRY, THAT’S WHAT YOU DID, THIS IS ALL ON YOU.

She’s described as being terribly fond of gazing at herself in glass windows ‘cause she knows she fine and, honestly? #Goals

SHE’S FUCKING BRUTAL, I LOVE HER

I do get some moments where I’m like ‘Bruh, you don’t need to be so rude to the kids for being kids, chill the fuck up’ but, yeah, I get it’s probably a context thing.

Honestly, I love Julie Andrews and the Disney version but the book version is kickass.

#mary poppins #P. L. Travers

[chameleon-cryptid]

Bex’li Nelhah

► Name ➔  "Bex’li..but people call me Bex. It’s not my mum’s name. She’s Bexa. I know, I know, that should mean I’m Bexa’li, but I’m not. She didn’t want it that way. Don’t ask me why. It was her choice. She also gave me a middle name. Miqo’te don’t usually have middle names. But I do.”

► Are you single ➔ “Yes.”

► Are you happy ➔ “I suppose. I mean, in the grand scheme of things, my life isn’t too bad.”

► Are you angry? ➔ “Well, I get angry when i see people mistreated. But generally no I’m not angry.”

► Are your parents still married ➔ “They were never married. But they do still talk from time to time.”

NINE FACTS

► Birth Place ➔ “The East Shroud. Over by Baelsar’s Wall.”

► Hair Color ➔ “Red.”

► Eye Color ➔ “One blue, one green. The family story is that my branch of the Nelhah clan always has one eye on the forest- the green one, and one eye on the heavens- the blue one. All of us have it. It runs on my mum’s side.”

► Birthday ➔ “25th Sun of the Fourth Umbral Moon.” ((July 25th))

► Mood ➔  “A little hungry. But I’m always a little hungry.”

► Gender ➔ “Male.”

► Summer or winter ➔ “I’m not great with the cold but I do like snow. As long as there’s a warm fire to retreat to afterward. But actually, probably autumn.”

► Morning or afternoon ➔ “Afternoon. I don’t usually see morning unless it’s right before I go to sleep.”

EIGHT THINGS ABOUT YOUR LOVE LIFE

► Are you in love ➔ “Um...I suppose not anymore. I mean you just don’t..get over someone immediately but..in my case, absence doesn’t make the heart grow fonder.”

► Do you believe in love at first sight ➔ “No. Lust at first sight exists, but not love.”

► Who ended your last relationship ➔ “Um, well, I guess he did. He had to leave for work reasons. I mean I don’t think i’ve ever ended a relationship, actually. Always the one getting broken up with.”

► Have you ever broken someone’s heart ➔ “Probably.”

► Are you afraid of commitments ➔ “No. If someone is so great it’s coming to a question of commitment, then usually, I happily commit. If for some reason I’m having second thoughts about it, then chances are it’s probably not the right time to commit.”

► Have you hugged someone within the last week? ➔ “Yeah, I’ve hugged Sarto and Sil.”

► Have you ever had a secret admirer ➔ “Um, yeah. But..nothing ever came of it.”

► Have you ever broken your own heart? ➔ “Maybe? I’m not sure.”

SIX CHOICES

► Love or lust ➔ “Love. Lust is just a series of biological reactions to an evolutionary desire to breed. Even if you can’t actually produce offspring with the person, your body tricks you into thinking if you try hard enough, maybe you can. But love appeals to the heart and the mind. To the person personally. Sex is great and all and I enjoy doing it but if you can’t seduce my mind, you don’t deserve this body.”

► Lemonade or iced tea ➔ “Oh...um, I really like citrus. How about both of them mixed! That sounds good!”

► Cats or Dogs ➔ “I prefer amphibians and reptiles and stuff.”

► A few best friends or many regular friends ➔ “I want lots of best friends and lots of regular friends. Why would I have it be either or?”

► Wild night out or romantic night in ➔ “Why not a romantic wild night out? These either-or questions are silly. Most of these things are better in combination.”

► Day or night ➔ "Night. Everything is better at night.”

FIVE HAVE YOU EVERS

► Been caught sneaking out ➔ “I suppose I was caught behind enemy lines once undercover. But that was more sneaking in than sneaking out.”

► Fallen down/up the stairs ➔ “Not that I can remember. Maybe when I was kit.”

► Wanted something/someone so badly it hurt? ➔ “Hurt? Yeah of course. But you learn from situations like that. It makes you stronger.”

► Wanted to disappear ➔ “No, I like to be seen. Attention has never bothered me.”

FOUR PREFERENCES

► Smile or eyes ➔ “Eyes, usually.”

► Shorter or Taller ➔ “Taller. I’m pretty tall for a Miqo’te...I suppose that’s one of the reasons I tend to be more attracted to Hyur.”

► Intelligence or Attraction ➔ “If they’re not intelligence, I have trouble being attracted to them. And for myself, ..well, doesn’t matter how hot you are, if you’re dumb as a bag of bricks, some people are going to be put off by that.”

► Hook-up or Relationship ➔ "Relationships. It’s like the difference between a lollipop and a four course meal at the Bismarck. Sure that lollipop is nice...for the short time you have it. Then it’s gone. And you’re still hungry.”

FAMILY

► Do you and your family get along ➔ “Yeah, Mum is a pretty amazing role model. My siblings tease me a bit because I’m the baby but we all get on fairly well.”

► Would you say you have a “messed up life” ➔ “No. I’m one of the few people about that hasn’t got some tragic past or terrible present or bleak outlook for the future actually.”

► Have you ever ran away from home ➔ “Not really. I’ve left home and come back, but I didn’t leave..because I was..running away.”

► Have you ever gotten kicked out ➔ “No.”

FRIENDS

► Do you secretly hate one of your friends ➔ “They wouldn’t be my friend if I hated them. There are people who I see regularly who I’m not greatly fond of, but I’m not exactly going to try to start some feud.”

► Do you consider all of your friends good friends ➔ “I know some better than others. But I try not to rate and categorise my friends.”

► Who is your best friend ➔ “Again, I try not to rate and categorise my friends.”

► Who knows everything about you ➔ “I am held by contract to keep some things secret as stated by the Eorzean Alliance Official Secrets Act.”

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