#midnight furies comic

[sexysecy69]

I have no idea if someone else already said this, probably yes, still i think it would be such a good opportunity to explore more of Andraste real story.

It would be fun to have a game where you can play Andraste like every other Dragon Age game protagonist, make decisions, shape her character, drive for change and a better world, even have a romance, only to be crushed by the ending, where no matter what you did and what you chose, Andraste will always be burned at the stake.

Or maybe not.

Because you know what happens to saints, heroes and legends? Their real stories are forgotten, their words rewritten and their tales changed to suit the current needs of propaganda. That's what the Chantry did for centuries probably. Maybe Andraste wasn't even her real name, maybe she wasn't even blonde, maybe she was a mage.

So yeah, my idea for Andraste's tale would be a parallel to the Inquisitor's: two people in place of leadership, associated with religion (bride of the Maker/Herald of Andraste) even if they don't believe themselves, whose origins and actions gets modified or misinterpreted or forgotten (as we see with Inquisitor Ameridan in DAI)

#plus of course all discussion about magic and mage control and the creation of the circles of magi #dragon age #dragon age inquisition #andraste #andraste dragon age #of course this is all personal opinion #i just love to study religions and how they came to be and reflect on religious institutions and their power #also i'm italian and it's past midnight so sticazzi se ci sono errori di scrittura #it doesnt even have to be a game #it would be cool just to see it in book form or comics #but i think bioware is too coward to give us terrible beast unspeakable horror bloodlust and righteous fury probably abomination Andraste

[jpherron]

MIDNIGHT FURIES UPDATE! Zoe's about to drop some serious moves and that's all I'm gonna say.

Check it out! Tumblr - Webtoon -Tapas - Patreon

For new readers- Forced by tragedy to drop out of school to support her family, Zoe thinks her basketball days are over. Luckily, her mysterious friend Chase can get her into the most off-the-wall tournament no one’s ever heard of- one in a different dimension! But Zoe’s gotta be careful… There’s more at stake than just points, and Chase is playing her own game!

Start reading here on tumblr! Or click the links above for the other platforms.

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#webtoon #webcomic update #webcomic #webcomic recommendations #comics #sports manga #midnight furies #tapas #webtoon canvas #digital art

[fancyfade]

Infinity Inc - Todd, Jennie, Lyta, Beth and Infinity Inc 80sstyle by Fade31415

OK so

Found out that Jerry Ordway penciled the first 10 issues of infinity inc and decided to try drawing the characters. and then why not I tried to ink the characters in a similar style to how Ordway inked superman when he did close ups of faces (but he did not ink Infinity inc, that was Mike Machlan when Ordway was drawing). Anyway. It was hard as hell. I really do appreciate the 80s style shading where the shadows are done via ink but I can see why they don't do that anymore XD

Jennie-Lynn and Todd I did my best attempt at how Ordway draws them but Lyta I altered her facial features a little to make her more visually distinct proportion wise from Jennie-Lynn. I think I accidentally was inspired by how I draw Diana but oh well in this continuity Lyta is Diana's daughter so its not weird.

Beth was not drawn by Ordway, she appeared when Todd McFarlane (yes, the toy guy) was penciling infinity inc. I was inspired somewhat by his drawings and somewhat by the actress in stargirl who has a slightly rounder face.

#my art #infinity inc 1984 #infinity inc #dc comics #dc fanart #todd rice #beth chapel #lyta trevor #jennie lynn hayden #obsidian #jade #doctor midnight #fury

[unexpectedstormy]

There's a TV SHOW? And no one TOLD ME?

- Moon Anon

Okay Anon, get ready to have your mind blown. Here is a list of all of the media in the Dreamworks Dragons franchise in story chronological order (copy pasted from a reddit post):

Racing for the Gold (mini-series) 5 episodes

How to Train Your Dragon (movie)

Legend of the Boneknapper Dragon (short)

Gift of the Night Fury (short)

Book of Dragons (short)

Riders of Berk (TV show) 20 episodes

'Dragon Down', 'Dangers of The Deep', 'The Ice Castle', 'The Stowaway', 'The Legend of Ragnarok', and 'Underworld' (Comic Volumes)

Defenders of Berk (TV show) 20 episodes

'The Endless Night' and 'Snowmageddon' (Comic Volumes)

Dawn of Dragon Racers (short)

Race to the Edge (TV show) 6 seasons, 13 episodes each

How to Train Your Dragon 2 (movie)

Serpents Heir (comic)

Burning Midnight / Dragonvine (comic)

How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (movie)

How to Train Your Dragon: Homecoming (short)

Snoggletog Log (short)

*******

Other HTTYD spinoff TV shows:

Dragons: Rescue Riders

Dragons: The Nine Realms

You can watch all of the TV shows and some of the shorts on here for free:

https://www.wcostream.tv/anime/dragons-riders-of-berk

#httyd #rtte #how to train your dragon #race to the edge #an unexpected ask #moon anon my beloved

[bobgasm]

flashback | the meet-cute [01/04]

pairing: bob floyd x ofc!evelyn word count: 625 warnings: fluff, a meet-cute,

summary: in which evelyn and bob meet for the first time

author’s note: first flashback where we meet bob and evelyn! these are most likely going to be little drabbles rather than actual oneshots

the meet-cute | sincerely, | the elopement

The first time Robert saw Evelyn was in the street outside the antiques store. It had been a brief, fleeting glance. The bustling streets made it hard for him to find her again, but he knew he’d remember her smile if he ever had the pleasure of seeing it again.

Evelyn worked as a seamstress alongside a few other women – women who she’s grown close to. There was Tracy, who had bright red hair and a fiery personality to match. There was Valerie, who was the daughter of Caroline who owned the store. Both Valerie and Caroline were of the quieter type, but once they got comfortable around you, then never shut up. There was Willa, who hated every minute spent hemming and sewing clothes, but always knew everything about anyone who stepped inside the store.

Last but not least, was Doreen. Doreen had recently moved to town and had been desperate for a job. Caroline had taken a chance on her, and she fit in perfectly with the women at the store.

It was during Evelyn’s day off that she first saw Robert. He’d been at the newspaper stand talking with John, about what, she was unsure of. She hadn’t meant to stare, but he was truly the most handsome man she’d ever seen.

Their eyes had met for a brief second, shared a bashful smile, and she’d been captivated by the man ever since.

In her haste to get away, she’d lost sight of him in the busy street. She knew, though, that if she ever saw him again, she’d introduce herself.

The next day at work, Willa was talking about her new neighbour. Telling the women that he had the most gorgeous eyes and bashful smile, and the best part? He was single!

There was mention of a small housewarming party, and Evelyn found herself roped in. If not to prove that the man wasn’t the man she’d seen the day before, but something about Willa describing his smile as bashful sent her into a frenzy.

Evelyn cooked dinner for her parents before she left, assuring them she’d be home before midnight – she was opening the shop tomorrow, after all. They had no reason to believe she wouldn’t be home on time, and sent her off with a kiss and the neatly covered casserole dish that she’d prepared alongside preparing their own dinner.

The walk to Willa’s was a short way away. She enjoyed the cool breeze of the summer evening, but kept her cardigan on just in case. The sun was set low in the sky, casting a beautiful orange glow over the horizon. Evelyn rounded the corner that led to Willa’s place and took a second to straighten her clothing. Shuffling the casserole dish carefully so it didn’t drop, before eventually walking to Willa’s.

Willa was a petite woman, but her bark was definitely more ferocious than her bite. She looked like a stiff breeze would sweep her away, and then she spoke. Her soft voice didn’t match the fury she housed for the world, and it was almost comical.

“You took your time, Evie!”

“I was enjoying the evening stroll,” Evelyn confessed. “Why are you hosting the housewarming party, anyway?”

“Because Robert doesn’t know anyone yet, and if you saw how bland his place looked, you’d have suggested I just threw the party here anyway,” she replied with a dismissive tone. “Robert, this is my friend, Evelyn.”

The man from the newspaper stand stood before Evelyn wearing a crisp blue button down and slacks, and Evelyn felt like she’d had the breath knocked out of her.

The same could be said for Robert, who’s cheeks were rosy as he set eyes on the most beautiful woman he’d ever seen.

#robert floyd #robert floyd x ofc #robert floyd x oc #bob floyd #bob floyd x ofc #bob floyd x oc

[agentem]

Secret Invasion questions

Going into the finale, I still have a lot of questions about Secret Invasion. Foremost amongst them is, "why is this a show? Did you feel you had to make this just because there was a comic run called Secret Invasion?"

How long has Rhodey been a Skrull and when did it happen? I need an exact date and location of his human body, pls.

Was Varra "working with" Gravik? Because there was a lot of build up to her getting that gun and we were supposed to be surprised Nick's wife was a Skrull. But we never saw her do anything with Gravik besides introduce him to Nick as child. She didn't kill Nick which was the one order she was given.

Still don't know how Skrull!Ross tricked Maria Hill (if indeed that was Maria Hill, still hoping for an LMD).

Why were Nick Fury and Carol Danvers unable to find the Skrulls a home world? (BTW if the Skrulls are immune to radiation and "like the cold" could they survive on a planet in our solar system that is not habitable to humans? Or could they go live in regions of Earth that humans can't survive in? IDK if they like the cold I think think they should just ask some nice Canadians for a place to stay instead of starting a war.)

Why was Nick pretending to be a bad spy for a couple episodes if he didn't have any real arc to coming back to his Eyepatch and Trenchcoat? Was this all just a ruse to get Gravik to be cocky and self assured? Because it seems like he already was.

If Gravik is so dumb now why did they spend the entire first episode convincing us he was smart? (Why did Maria have to die?)

Talos said there are a million Skrulls but we have seen a couple dozen. Are there like Skrull families off living their best life who have nothing to do with this? Or are there other factions? I don't get it.

Why DO the Skrulls "like the cold" if they are reptiles? Don't reptiles often freeze in cold weather? I have no idea what Skrull biology is. It makes no sense.

Talos hated Gravik's plan from the jump. As did one woman on the Skrull council. G'iah, Beto, and even Pagon have all decided its a crap plan now after initially being on board. Varra disobeys his orders. Who actually is on Gravik's side besides Raava/Rhodes and the UK Prime Minister?

Russian intelligence. I know Russian intelligence might not work US or British groups. But they must know there are Skrulls in Russia. It's not my impression of that country that they are lacks with security. Can Putin (or whoever in President of Russia in the MCU) just call Ritson and be like, "Hey, bro I hate America and think you suck but that attack wasn't us, let's all just relax." Gravik is acting like this is the Cuban Missile Crisis when everyone was just waiting to nuke each other.

Is Monica on SABER? Can I see her? Did her and G'iah ever hang out? Can we move on yet?

Does Sonya know Blade? Because she should totally be in charge of the Midnight Suns or something.

#secret invasion #spoilers #secret invasion spoilers #nick fury #talos #g'iah #monica rambeau #rhodey #james rhodes #raava #gravik #mcu

[umbershift]

can u pls share ur webcomic Lists

I'm putting together a proper List and it's taking way longer than I thought it would so I'm gonna go ahead and throw out my favorites with links to the About pages if I can manage it:

Midnight Furies: My current favorite comic, has been for a couple years now. Urban fantasy basketball. It’s got a shark lesbian and a Best Girl and a sorta himbo and just some SUPER cool art. Read it

White Noise: At least to me, this one’s got a strong focus on grief and community and relationships. And xenophobia. Lots of fantasy creatures and magic in a modern setting. A good comic if you like world building. It just finished its first story arc and has a big backlog, so this is a very good time to start reading!

Shot & Chaser: Tre and Olly, a matched set, go storm-chasing. I found this one because of a short sort of nsfw sketch comic that made me fall in love with Tre and Olly. I first read it less than a month ago and I’ve reread it in its entirety about four times

Check, Please!: This one’s completed! Eric Bittle (Bitty) is gay and just started playing college hockey, and the comic covers his years on the team! It’s very cute and sweet, and I love the support that Bitty gets from people around him throughout the comic.

O Human Star: This one’s also completed! It’s sci-fi, it's got robots and it discusses gender and queerness and being out and being closeted. The last pages make me cry every single time I read them.

Barbarous: I love love love the art and paneling and colors on this one. Percy is a super smart magic school dropout helping maintain/run an apartment building (I can't remember the job description) along with Leeds, a big monstrous-looking guy with, shall we say, some secrets. It’s got some really cool “who is the monster and who is the man” vibes

I'm trying to focus on non-webtoons here but I can't not recommend Lavender Jack. It's only on Webtoon, as far as I know, but I ADORE it. Think batman-style crime fighter but with Spider-man levels of banter, and also he's a 1910’s gentleman. This one's also completed!

Also, and I cannot stress this enough: if you like a webcomic, go follow the artists/writers on social media. They often share webcomics and creators they like, which leads you to more webcomics to read. I found out about a lot of these from artists I was following.

#webcomics #READ THEM #OH MY GOD THERE'S SO MANY #IDC WHAT SORT OF STORIES YOU LIKE THERE IS A WEBCOMIC YOU WILL LOVE

[i-write-you-songs]

i got a random burst of energy at like midnight last night and wrote this

its based off of the comics that @rollthewhatever made bc their art is so pretty and its very well written

anyways yeah here you go

Air.

Janus couldn't breathe.

Of course, after all of this: getting stuck in this god forsaken place- with Virgil nonetheless- and loosing his hat and gloves, getting pulled my his caplet was quite a way to top it off.

He'd been sitting there, laughing with  at Virgil when he felt a cold presence- like someone had snapped a rubber band on the back of his neck before he felt hands grip his shoulders.

"Ah, shit." He hissed.

He was yanked back within a moment, the sudden pressure on his throat startled him and his back slammed against the floor as he was dragged back, panic rising in his chest as his heart pounded, fighting off the urge to scream as scenery flashed past his vision.

Virgil was suddenly right there, screaming and chasing after him, yelling.

Janus grabbed at Virgil aimlessly, arm stretched out but he was then dragged faster, the pressure on his throat exceeding to the extreme.

He clawed at the clasp, jaw stretched wide as he gasped for air before he got the button undone.

His head slammed down against the floor, an explosion of pain erupting from the back of his head and a wave of exhaustion washed over him.

"Get up! Get up!" Virgil reached out to grab him hit froze, eyes locked on something over Janus's shoulder.

He felt like he was choking on his terror, but Janus managed to cough out a 'cute' as he glanced back before Virgil grabbed him and hauled him off, sprinting the other way.

Janus's mind went blank as he ran, panting and feeling like he plain wanted to just cry. 

Once they were hidden, it took the two a moment to catch their breath.

"Janus, take off your clothes."

The words startled the side.

He pressed his hands over his chest.

"Virgil..." resorting to sarcasm would probably be the only reason why he isn't crying right now "I know you love me but... right now?"

The look on Virgils face was priceless and Janus let out an actual laugh.

"Just like old times, isn't it? Its been a while since we laughed like that." Janus snorted.

"No, you were laughing at me."

Virgil huffed, his ego clearly bruised as a blush spread across his face.

"May i ask you something?"

After a few moments of denying a question, Virgil succumbed.

"Why do you care about me so much?" Janus felt a tug at the bottom of his fictional heart, a soft look spreading across his face. 

"Wh... what?" Virgil looked astounded.

"You saved me, several times. When that thing appeared, when I lost my gloves, and just a bit ago..." Janus looked down for a moment. "Isn't it weird, you wanted to get rid of me, but you saved me. What made you do that? Instinct? Guilt?"

Virgil looked... mad. Upset.

"Are you- are you serious!?" 

A wave of panic set over Janus as Virgil begin to yell. How had he angered him?

"I'm not a psychopath! It's not like I want you to die-!"

"Virgil. We are imaginary beings. We don't die."

"That's not the point." Janus flinched as Virgil waved his hands around.

"We are at the pit of Thomas's mind, we don't know what will happen to us if we get caught!" Virgils eyes blazed. With fury or fear, Janus wasn't sure. Maybe both.

"Virgil, Buddy-"

"I am not your buddy." He snarled.

"...sure. Don't make such a fuss. I was just curious, you know?"

Janus hadn't realized that he was hugging himself, pressed against the wall until Virgil looked him up and down with his fists clenched.

"Fine, okay! I don't know why I saved you! I was stupid, I guess!" Virgil pushed his hands in his pockets. "I'm done with this. I'll- I'll just go."

He turned his steely gaze back onto Janus, a worried look meeting his.

"Don't follow me." He ordered. "Go find your own fucking escape or whatever."

And with that, anxiety turned and stormed away, leaving Janus to stand alone against the wall.

#sanders sides #phobia speaks #virgil sanders #janus sanders #i have the second part but I'm rewriting it since I got a little carried away w the angst

[denimbex1986]

'We are so back. Sure, the next season of Doctor Who isn’t supposed to drop until sometime in spring 2024. But to help us transition into the upcoming era, we’re getting three-anniversary specials and a Christmas special this month. Returning showrunner Russell T. Davies is hitting the ground running. Last week’s special was an ensemble adventure involving the Doctor, Donna Noble, multiple members of Donna’s family, and of course, the deceivingly adorable Beep the Meep. In contrast, this episode rests almost entirely on the Doctor and Donna’s shoulders. Good thing they’ve got giant arms! (Or at least, their evil twins do.)

David Tennant and Catherine Tate are flexing their acting skills as both protagonists and antagonists because this adventure introduces a pair of villains that can copy bodies and memories. Perhaps these so-called Not-Things are distant relatives of the creature from “Midnight”? Either way, it’s a thoroughly creepy premise. But in classic RTD fashion, the episode bounces between tense moments and playful humor, making it fitting that its title is a nod to a war song that’s still jaunty enough to be performed by a children’s choir.

“Wild Blue Yonder” picks up with the TARDIS crashing into an apple tree near Isaac Newton, who has enough melanin to inspire some uninspired “Doctor Woke” think pieces. The Doctor and Donna deliver a punchline about gravity in unison, and Newton promptly misremembers this new word as “mavity.” The whole scene feels like an opening sketch from another beloved BBC export — one more pun, and Noel Fielding could’ve walked out and announced it was sci-fi week on The Great British Baking Show. But the tone instantly shifts when the flaming TARDIS drops the Doctor and Donna off on a spaceship at the literal edge of the universe.

Much like Doctor Who itself, the TARDIS is in the process of rebuilding itself. That inadvertently reactivates a feature that causes the TARDIS to dematerialize when it senses hostile action, taking the sonic screwdriver with it. The Doctor and Donna are stranded and aware that they’re in danger. Not ideal. Donna is understandably panicked by the gravity (or mavity) of the situation. The show takes the opportunity to helpfully remind us that even though Fourteen has a familiar face, he’s still a different Doctor. When Donna tries to brush the Doctor off, he kisses her hand and holds it on his chest, offering both physical and verbal reassurance. Yeah, some of his past regenerations could never.

After a scan fails to detect other life signs on the ship, the Doctor decides that he and Donna should split up and complete tasks in different rooms. They meet back up, but something’s off. They don’t usually let the other ramble for that long without interrupting with a bit of banter, do they? Sure enough, the not-alive Not-Things reveal themselves by complaining that their arms are too long, with the camera cutting to the astonishingly elongated proof.

At first, it’s easy to identify the Not-Things. They’re puffed-up, distorted versions of the Doctor and Donna that clog the hallway. But their duplication gets better with each try. And with the ship’s walls periodically shifting, the Doctor and Donna eventually find it difficult to distinguish between body bender and BFF. (By the way, a spaceship where passengers are completing tasks, moving through hidden passages, and having heated arguments over who is an impostor? Oh, RTD definitely played Among Us during lockdown.)

Despite their comically stretchy bodies, the Not-Things struggle to wrap their heads around the concept of nuance. Most concerningly, they’ve decided that the universe is only about fury, hatred, and violence. Their restricted system of thinking makes them falter when presented with any seeming contradictions. How can Donna think she’s both dumb and brilliant? Why is the Doctor suggesting that a superstition can also be true? At one point, the Not-Doctor’s tie disappears after he drops it on the floor. In one of the more unsettling moments of the episode, he realizes his mistake: “When something is gone, it keeps existing.” The episode constantly emphasizes that things don’t always fit into mutually exclusive binaries. It feels like a thematic extension of the last special, which presented a nonbinary solution to the meta-crisis: The DoctorDonna couldn’t survive, but the introduction of Donna’s daughter, Rose — a third party — saved her mom’s life.

Conveniently, the Doctor and Donna don’t actually have to think of a way to take the Not-Things down. The ship’s previous captain has already done that by programming the ship to turn itself into a bomb, slowly enough that the object-permanence-challenged Not-Things haven’t figured out what’s happening three years later. The captain also took her own life before her plan could be copied from her mind. Unfortunately, the Not-Things find it easier to duplicate targets who are thinking, whose blood is pumping. The Doctor can’t stop himself from realizing that a slow-moving robot on the ship is a bomb trigger, which means the Not-Things reach the same conclusion. The Doctor speeds up the countdown, and the TARDIS senses that the Not-Things won’t have time to stop the detonation. This means the hostile action is over, so the TARDIS comes back! The Doctor hops on board with the wrong Donna, and the console alerts him to a tiny mistake in her wrist length. Just as the bomb goes off, he ejects the Not-Thing and scoops up his real companion.

Safely back in the TARDIS, the Doctor seems to be on the precipice of an emotional milestone. Earlier on the other ship, Not-Donna accessed the DoctorDonna’s memories and forced the Doctor to think about the consequences of Chris Chibnall’s era, including the Flux and the fact that the Doctor no longer knows where he’s from. The conversation affected him so much that he stopped to kick a wall afterward. I’d make a joke about men doing anything instead of going to therapy, but it was honestly pretty satisfying to see the Doctor finally reckon with the emotional fallout, even if he has to take it out on an inanimate object. Look, half of creation was destroyed, and his entire understanding of Time Lord history was rewritten … he can have a little tantrum, as a treat. Plenty of fans certainly did.

It feels like the Doctor is thinking about opening up about all of this to the real Donna because he carefully asks if she, too, remembers his past 15 years. When she says she doesn’t, however, he falls right back into old patterns of avoidance. Donna even accuses him of timing the TARDIS’s landing so he doesn’t have to talk about what happened. He doesn’t deny keeping her at arm’s length — in that sense, even before the Not-Thing, the Doctor’s limbs have always been too long.

To be fair, the universe does enable his behavior. There’s always a distracting fire that needs to be put out somewhere, and this episode is no exception. When the TARDIS finally lands, Wilf is parked outside waiting for his granddaughter and his favorite alien. We barely have time to enjoy Bernard Cribbins’s sweet posthumous appearance before explosions and fights break out in the street. Wilf reveals that “everyone’s gone mad” and the “whole world is coming to an end.” As easy as that, the Doctor has another excuse to put off processing his feelings.

Cut for Time (Lord)

• The Doctor is so unserious for pretending to be dying after licking that filament. The music added a dramatic touch that helped with the payoff of that scene and several others, so props to the sound designer.

• I appreciate the parallels between the Doctor and Donna’s conversations with the Not-Things. When Donna is wondering what her family (Rose, Shaun, and Sylvia) would do without her, the Doctor is thinking the same thing about his loved one (the TARDIS). The Doctor is reminded of the Timeless Child, and Donna gets to recount her own emotionally fraught origin story (sleep with one eye open, Auntie Iris).

• I’ve heard that some people didn’t love the look of all the body stuff, but I, for one, am glad it didn’t look too realistic. I’d rather be laughing at the Not-Doctor melting into a backbend and galloping around on all fours instead of having nightmares. Incidentally, I can’t believe those giant hands weren’t CGI.

• The Doctor surprises himself by admitting that he finds Isaac Newton to be “so hot.” Perhaps we’ll explore that more with Ncuti Gatwa’s Doctor … also, does that mean the Fourth Doctor was bluffing about explaining gravity to Newton after dropping apples on his head? He just wanted to flex in front of Romana, lol.

• I didn’t expect to get so emotional about the dedication to Bernard Cribbins in the end credits! Hoping to see more of him in the next episode.

• It seems like the chaos on Earth might have to do with the salt superstition the Doctor invoked at the edge of the universe, and I’m worried about it.'

#Doctor Who #David Tennant #Russell T. Davies #Catherine Tate #Donna Noble #The Star Beast #Wild Blue Yonder #Yasmin Finney #Rose Noble #Bernard Cribbins #Wilfred Mott #Ncuti Gatwa #Beep the Meep #Issac Newton #Flux #The Timeless Child #Chris Chibnall

[wolfepirat3]

And I'm back with more Warriors!

(little update on the fic for all those interested, i have nearly 3k of the first chapter done as of now so im going to guess ill have it posted within the next 2-3 days)

Anyways, this is for @kalenythekalenko who wanted to know some of my headcanons, so here's a few I've come up with since the beginning of infatuation with the movie 🤗 (+ some of my explanations/reasoning for them)

1) For some odd reason, the new bloods really take to Ajax upon joining and they end up following him around. This pisses him off as well as inflates his ego a bit to the point that he's not really sure if he hates or likes it.

I actually have no clue as to where this one came from, he just seems like the kind of guy a bunch of naïve new members would see and be like "hes so fuckin cool i want to be him"

I however do not think he's that cool, boo ajax boo 🍅🍅

2) Swan and Cowboy are really good friends

So i actually have a Swan and Cowboy bffs agenda? When watching the movie i notice how they kind just... End up near each other? Also the part after the fight with the Furies when Swan helps Cowboy up. Then there's afterwards when Cowboy and Snow want to go back for Ajax and Swan doesn't react to it until after Cowboy gives his reasoning (this one might actually be me looking a little too far into it). And then during the fight with the Punks when Cowboy takes out the Punk attacking Swan.

This feeling about their friendship was amplified when I played the game and during the backstory mission and realized that they had left the Destroyers together, stuck together while not associated with a gang, and then Swan would only join the Warriors if Cowboy would be able to as well.

(in a similar vein to this, I think Snow and Swan are also pretty good friends because Swan made Snow his main liutenant in the Jailbreak comic and I feel like some sort of camaraderie would've had to be apparent in order for that decision to be made.)

3) This one might be a little silly, but it did come to me at midnight a few days ago, but basically-- I feel like Cleon's the type of guy to just call people by their full names whenever addressing them.

Okay so I do have some sort of basis for this one. Whenever I read the original script + watched the deleted scenes I saw how Snow was originally Snowball and I just related Cleon addressing Snow in the one deleted scene to him calling everyone by full names. (I do wish they called him Snowball once or twice in the movie though I would've adored that)

4) okay so i dont know if this counts as a headcanon but i did decide to basically give personalities and names and stuff to characters from the Gladiators and Red Hook Shooters (two gangs that definitely exist but literally have nothing about them-- besides where theyre based and some of the Gladiators having canon appearances since they briefly show up in the beginning of the movie), but that's a whole long thing to put in here so just know I'm going to put this information to use in my fic (more shameless self promotion 😔)

Alright, I'm pretty sure those are the only things I can think of right now, of course with time I'll probably remember/think of some more and I'll share those too!

Thank you to everyone whose made it this far expressed so much interest in my stuff!!

You guys are 2 cool and I hope you have a good day, thank you again!

#the warriors 1979 #the warriors movie #the warriors game #swan the warriors #cowboy the warriors #headcanon

[chaos0pikachu]

tagged by @thatswhatsushesaid

Last song I listened to: Glimpse of Us by Joji

Three ships: fuck idk man when you’re a fandom 30-something like me you have a lot of them, let’s go with the last three I did a fanfic deep dive for: xiyao, phayu/rain, yohan/gaon

Currently reading: The Husky and His White Cat Shizun Vol 1by Meatbun, Midnight Furies by Jess Herron (if y’all are into web comics & sports manga READ THIS it’s like if studio trigger made a sports comic and were allowed to be gay as fuck which is), Scum Villain Vol 3 by Mxtx, and Mommie Dearest by Christine Crawford

Most recent movie I watched: idk I watch a lot of movies I think the last batch was rewatching Lord of the Rings, and watching The Whole Truth, Ride or Die, and Decision to Leave

Craving: financial stability at the moment

tagging (no pressure to participate!): @negrowhat, @yeetlegay, @luckydragon10, @liyazaki, @maibpenrai

#chaos pikachu speaks

[makiruz]

I took time to check the appearances of Garrett Sandford, the second Sandman, pre Neil Gaiman, there aren’t many but it’s fascinating because you can see how it all came together.

First off, it’s the Jack Kirby miniseries, which introduces Sandman as the guardian of dreams, his nightmares Brute and Glob, and Jed Walker as a boy with some dream stuff about him. Jed initially lives with his grandfather the lighthouse keeper but he dies in the series and goes to live with his mean aunt and uncle Clarice and Barnaby (after reading the Gaiman series that was a serious gut punch)

However this wasn’t the end for Pre-Gaiman Sandman; Jed mostly disappears, making one panel cameos (although a cancelled comic would’ve revealed he was Kamandi’s parallel universe counterpart) but Sandman comes back a few times thanks to Roy Thomas. First Thomas brings back Sandman’s enemy General Electric in Wonder Woman 295 and 296; and then he introduces Sandman himself in Wonder Woman 300, where he gives Sandman a name and a backstory, as Garret Sandford, a scientist who created a dream machine but got stuck in the Dream Dimension (aka the Dreaming) and now he can only come out for 1 hr when he blows his whistle. This issue by the way introduced Lyta Trevor later Lyta Hall, the daughter of Earth-Two Wonder Woman and Steve Trevor; I’m pretty sure it meant nothing at the time (it was part of the issue 300 celebration), but considering how central Lyta ended up being to the Sandman story can’t help but take notice

The next appearance of Garret Sandford was in Justice League of America Annual #1; this story wasn’t by Roy Thomas, but by Len Wein and Paul Levitz and it’s interesting because the League teams up with Sandman to fight Doctor Destiny, who you might know as John Dee or the guy with Dream’s ruby. I’m sure Dee would’ve tied with Dream regardless, because of his dream powers, but seeing them together years before Neil Gaiman came along is kind of amazing.

Anyway, Sandford does not actually come back after that, but Roy Thomas continues with the story of The Sadman, now in Infinity Inc. Infinity Inc started out as the story of the Next Generation of Earth-Two heroes, with the likes of Jade and Obsidian (children of Golden Age Green Lantern), Power Girl, Wildcat 2, Hourman 2, Doctor Midnight; and of course Lyta Trevor (Fury) and Hector Hall son of Golden Age Hawkman and Hawkgirl (called Silver Scarab). I don’t particularly care for the story of Infinity Inc, but the things you need to know is that they started pre-Crisis, they ended post-Crisis (so a lot of their backstory had to change) and Hector died and Lyta was pregnant with his child; in issues 49 to 51 The Sandman comes back spying on Lyta at night and Nuklon (who was in love with Lyta) finds out, and gets Lyta to help him catch him and discover that *gasp* Sandman is actually Hector! Hector reveals that the original Sandman, Garret Sandford went crazy and died (doesn’t say he committed suicide, but the implication is there) and after he (Hector) died he fell into the dream stream and ended in the Dream Dimension and became the new Sandman, but he can only be on Earth for 1 hour a day; he doesn’t want to prevent Lyta to live his life, but they’re still in love so they get married at the beginning of issue 51 and go to the Dream Dimension to have “A Happy Beginning” (so much for that). So here’s the important part about this story, it was published in early 1988, cover dates April to June 1988; issue one of Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman was published in December 1988 (cover date January 1989), The Doll’s House, the storyline that dealt with the superhero Sandman and Jed Walker started publication in mid 1989; Neil Gaiman was working with current DC continuity, he was building off the work of current DC author Roy Thomas; he wasn’t digging out some forgotten character, he was working with recent stories and it’s amazing.

You can tell how all the pieces of the story Gaiman told came together and it was current; it’s freaking brilliant and I love it

#Garrett Sanford #The Sadman #Neil Gaiman #Roy Thomas #Jack Kirby #my post #Lyta Hall #cw suicide mention

[jpherron]

MIDNIGHT FURIES UPDATE! Dee is cracking out her nova! What's Zoe gonna do?? (Spoiler: something cool)

Check it out! Tumblr - Webtoon -Tapas - Patreon - VOLUME 2 KICKSTARTER, ENDING SOON!

For new readers- Forced by tragedy to drop out of school to support her family, Zoe thinks her basketball days are over. Luckily, her mysterious friend Chase can get her into the most off-the-wall tournament no one’s ever heard of- one in a different dimension! But Zoe’s gotta be careful… There’s more at stake than just points, and Chase is playing her own game!

Start reading here on tumblr! Or click the links above for the other platforms >>

#webcomic #webtoon #comics #webcomic recommendations #original comic #webtoon canvas #sports manga #midnight furies

[mudd-art]

blease read Midnight Furies it's the best sport's comic I've ever read.

ofc I only show my love through ocs so here's my totally not self-insert: Bull!

He's a ref of a court themed around a labyrinth & speaks in such a thick west-country accent no American can understand her if she speaks more than a few syllables.

She might've been a player once? Under a different name 👀

#yes I gave him my snaggle tooth & buck teeth combo #midnight furies #midnight furies oc #fantasy basketball about gaining immortality 👌 would recommend

[tyrannosaurus-trainwreck]

Old-school Moon Knight: phase one

Moon Knight makes his first appearance in Werewolf by Night #32 (1975) as an antagonist-who-turns-ally to the titular character.

Point of note: Werewolf by Night’s name is Jack Russell, because Stan fucking Lee.

Mercenary Marc Spector agrees to catch a werewolf for a bunch of businessmen in exchange for ten grand. 

In a perfectly normal move for what’s basically a rotary club, they dress their new hire up in a silver superhero costume and tell him to go by Moon Knight.

Marc Spector:

Their evil plan is actually to keep Jack Russell captive and “release [the werewolf] at periodic intervals, in the hopes that he will commit various murders for our own private purposes.”

Just in case you’re sitting there like ‘That sounds like a dumb plan,’ I am here to remind you that ten grand in 1975 money is almost $54,000 in 2022 money. 

You can buy so much actual murder with that kind of money!  From guys who can probably read a map and talk and remember whether or not they did the murders, even!  You’re almost a year out before you break even on the werewolf-hitman scheme, and that’s assuming a) the werewolf reliably kills the people you want dead and b) Spector returns his silver ($24 per ounce in 2022 money) suit.

Which Spector does not, bee tee dubs.

In a perfectly ‘70s Comics move, he just... doesn’t take the costume off when the job is done.  He doesn’t even decide to keep it after he has a change of heart and helps the werewolf break free and put an end to the murder-scheme.  He just sits around in full cosplay mode for a day because the guys who hire him won’t pay up until Jack turns into a werewolf again and everybody’s sure the job’s done.  Murder Rotary is just like “Okay you seem to have gotten real attached to the outfit and lbr, none of us are capable of taking it off you, so you can just call it a bonus.”

I mean, I’m not going to lie, comics costumes have some incredibly stupid origin stories. “An evil conspiracy of homicidal entrepreneurs asked me to dress up in this, and then I liked it so much I kept wearing it even after I kicked their asses for justice” is almost refreshingly straightforward.

About a year afterward, we get two Moon Knight-only issues in a character-grabbag title (Marvel Spotlights #28 & 29) and a series of prominent guest appearances in other titles, like the Defenders arc where Nick Fury’s beer-loving supervillain brother builds himself a robot Nick Fury, which leads to the real Nick Fury and the robot Nick Fury going :| at each other in shared grief after the supervillain brother’s death. 

As the character gets more fleshed out, we find that mercenary Marc Spector previously made a lot of money doing *clears throat* Extremely Probable War Crimes, which as always puts a little bit of a crimp in how fun it is to spend a lot of money, so he has a secret identity: Stephen Grant, millionaire.  Also he has some superpowers as a result of Jack Russell biting him.  He is definitely not a werewolf, possibly because Jack Russell’s lycanthropy is the result of a familial curse, Because Comics, but Spector’s powers do get stronger or weaker by phase of the moon, Because Comics.

Marc Spector’s other secret identity is cabbie Jake Lockley, which he uses to gather intel on crime.  If this seems like a really time-intensive way of gathering intel on crime, it would be, but he primarily gathers intel on crime by asking people really blunt questions about crime while they go “What are you, a fucking cop?” and also by being the only cab driver in Manhattan willing to pick up a superhero fare at midnight in a shit part of town. 

Like, you know that stupid thing where Superman shows up and everyone’s like “Now where’s Clark Kent, he’d just be tickled pink to meet you!”? 

Only Moon Knight’s like “Don’t mind me, I’ll just walk home from here” and then five minutes later along comes a cab moseying through the mixed-use organized crime/industrial district at three AM right past the intersection where The Thing just got finished punching someone through the sidewalk for supercriming in an unbelievable stroke of luck.

The Thing’s like “Wow it sure is a shame Moon Knight decided to hoof it when this incredibly convenient cab showed up right after he left, but I guess them’s the breaks.”

Moon Knight’s like “Ha ha, yeah, it’s cool you don’t have your wallet, I’ll just bill the Fantastic Four.  So, have you heard anything about any weird crimes or supervillains lately?”

There are some jokes to the effect of Marc taking his alter egos a little too seriously and having to swap identities rapidly as situations call for one persona or another in quick succession, but no indication that they’re actually separate personalities.

Incidentally, throughout all of this, Marc’s butler and girlfriend/personal assistant are fully aware of his shenanigans and wish he’d cool it.  Marc’s friend/helicopter pilot is fully aware of his shenanigans and thinks they’re pretty dope.

#moon knight #comics #not the show #comics blast from the comics past #gif

[lunapaper]

Album Review: 'Dance Fever' - Florence + the Machine

Someone’s got a serious case of dance fever... 

Subsisting on a diet of horror films and 16th Century European history while in lockdown, Florence Welch goes bolder, darker and more introspective on Florence + the Machine’s fifth album, realising she longed for the sweet, sweet shred of guitars. As she recently told the New York Times: ‘Every album is a reaction to the last thing you made, and I was a little sick of my own [expletive], which is heavy piano. I missed guitars.’ 

The record is a full-on reckoning at times.  

‘King’ tackles perceptions of womanhood in an unforgiving industry (‘We argue in the kitchen about whether to have children/About the world ending and the scale of my ambition/And how much is art really worth’), unleashing a stormy cataclysm of strings and clattering percussion in a beautiful fit of rage. ‘Girls Against God’ envisions an army of ‘furious girls in their pyjamas waging war on heaven’ while in isolation, juxtaposed with a bluesy, soulful kind of groove.  

‘Well, did you miss me?’ Welch taunts on ‘Dream Girl Evil, ‘Walk on water just to kiss me?’ revelling in her perceived villainy as she obliterates the Madonna/whore complex. ‘Heaven is Here’ is a ‘clamour of joy, fury and grief,’ driven by handclaps and stomping feet, a rollicking singalong that sees the singer confess: ‘And еvery song I wrote became an escape rope/Tied around my neck to pull me up to Heaven.’ 

Throughout the record, Welch is surrounded by this raw feminine energy, a chorus of female voices always ready to lift her up and even cradle her during the record’s more sombre moments.  

Dance Fever is also Florence + the Machine’s most diverse release since 2015’s How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful. 

‘Free’ shivers with anxiety in the form of darting, jagged New Wave synths. ‘Choreomania’ (named after the ‘dancing plague’ of 1518 that saw people dance until they collapsed or died while in the grips of psychosis) eerily echoes ‘Dog Days are Over’ with its fluttering handclaps and steady drum beat, Welch just spinning until she ultimately dances herself to death. ‘Daffodil’ is jangling chamber pop with a determined strut, the singer caught in the ‘helpless optimism of spring’ as the world is ‘bent double from weeping’ during COVID.  

‘Cassandra’ is jazzy noir with a subtle Eastern twang and a swinging 60s cool, Welch drawing a parallel between herself and the Greek mythological figure. Recent single ‘My Love,’ however, is reminiscent of the glossy bravado of Lungs and Ceremonials, a glistening, stylish dancefloor filler that wouldn’t have looked too out of place on Jessie Ware’s last record. 

Welch’s lyricism, meanwhile, is stark, vivid and among some of her best yet. 

‘And it's good to be alive/Crying into cereal at midnight/If they ever let me out, I'm gonna really let it out/I listen to music from 2006 and feel kind of sick,’ she muses on ‘Girls Against God,’ painting a comically bleak and all-too relatable picture of life in lockdown. Her fear and regret on ‘Prayer Factory’ are visceral as she grips at ‘hotel sheets with gritted teeth.’ She turns pandemic hopelessness into powerful pop hooks on ‘My Love’ (‘My arms emptied/The skies emptied/The buildings emptied’). 

Most revealing and among the most self-eviscerating, though, is the gospel-inflected closer, ‘Morning Elvis.’  

‘When they dressed me and they put me on a plane to Memphis, well/I never got to see Elvis/I just sweated it out in a hotel room/But I think the king woulda understood/Why I never made it to Graceland,’ Welch recalls, bringing the album full circle. Sober since 2014, the singer is no longer begging the drunken gods of ‘Cassandra’ to take her back, instead turning self-destruction into a glorious rebirth as she fuels her hedonism into a state of pure transcendence. 

Dance Fever isn’t quite the bombastic post-lockdown disco-pop record we were all probably hoping for, nor is it light and subdued like 2018’s High As Hope.  

It’s the sound of a woman possessed, a woman reborn, a woman with nothing left to lose, humming with a fraught sense of urgency as lush soundscapes restlessly unfurl. For once, Jack Antonoff doesn’t rely on his usual grab bag of acoustics, instead taking inspiration from classic folk rock, psych-rock and late 00s indie pop. Contributions from Glass Animals’ Dave Bayley and producer Kid Harpoon, meanwhile, help retain the band’s stately grandeur. 

‘You said that rock and roll is dead,’ Welch muses on ‘Choreomania,’ ‘But is that just because it has not been/Resurrected in your image?’ And if this is her version of rock, then it’s a damn fine image, indeed: bold, beguiling, extravagant, and unapologetically feminine. Though sometimes falling short of its lofty ideas, this record truly is a fever you can’t sweat out… 

- Bianca B. 

#music #florence + the machine #florence and the machine #dance fever #new #reviews #albums #Bianca B