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fallout-lou-begas · 10 months

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How do you write Cass? Like my god your version of her is so fucking good

Cass is a woman approaching 40 years old who has had to prove herself as capable from the second her deadbeat piece of shit father walked out. the consequence of this abandonment is that she is very intolerant of indignity. she will not be condescended to, she will not be intimidated, and she will gladly force anybody who talks a talk into proving whether or not they can walk the walk. if this sounds like a very reckless and dangerous way to interact with others than you would be correct but she's tough enough to handle herself. until she isn't, until she's out of her depth, until she shoves the wrong guy back. so maybe she just doesn't think about that. maybe she drinks instead of thinking about that. drinking's made her more friends than enemies like that, anyway; despite etching grudges so deep into her flesh that it scrimshaws her bones, she's not mean. she likes good people. she has respect for mailcarriers and soldiers and doctors. she has principles, very strong principles. life is fucking hard, loyalty in real tough times is a tremendous virtue. so she's more than willing to make amends when an ultimately benign fool manages to learn their lesson, apologizes, maybe wipes the blood off their nose. drinking, fighting, not like she has any other hobbies to bond with people over. her work keeps her too busy for that. and do you have any idea how hard it is to run a caravan when you're some country girl who left home young? the way the men look at you forces you to be tough if you weren't already, fortunately she was plenty tough already but they sure didn't like that. it's not even the sexual entitlement that pisses her off. it's the sweet little smiles like they're talking to some princess who ain't never even broke a horse before. who can't lift a big ol' heavy box herself. she is very intolerant of indignity. she will not be condescended to. but the assholes who run businesses like this, kissing the ring is usually a requirement for partnering up. fuck that. better do it herself. better toughen up again. better kill the first highwayman you run into as an independent caravaneer just to prove you can. doesn't matter he was crying and pissing himself. next guy might be worse. there'll always be a next guy. don't think about it. she just gets good at running a caravan. real good. damn good. so good it gets turned to fucking ash while her back is turned. and then some bitch who somehow become caravan queen of the desert (instead of her?) has the audacity—the fucking audacity—to buy out her name. the one fucking thing she has left. the one fucking thing her deadbeat stupid fucking father left her. well, there's still the necklace. funny how she can hold such a grudge against someone but still wear the reminder around her neck everywhere. maybe something snapped off broke at some point and she never noticed. maybe things would have been easier if she had just been born a man. she doesn't know what being transgender is and she will never think more about it. that's probably not even her deal. probably. maybe she's just angry. maybe it just feels good to be angry. at the very least it feels familiar, and familiar is good. right? right agnes? read @ikroah.

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ikroah · 4 months

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A girl can get somewhere in spite of stringy hair or even just a bit bowed at the knees if she can show a faultless…personality! —“Personality,” Johnny Mercer and the Pied Pipers (1946)

It Keeps Right On a-Hurtin’ #26 - Ring-a-Ding-Ding V

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ohhhhh my god why did i make this script so long my hand hurts this took forever aaaaagh

Welcome to the Lucky 38! This is a script that has remained basically the same for a long time but went through COUNTLESS extremely small rewrites over the course of production just to really nail Mr. House's dialogue. He's a long-winded guy, this whole issue is basically just him doing monologues, and I wanted to make sure it was all interesting and non-repetitive. I think I took out at least three uses of "merely" from the first draft.

One of the biggest production decisions of this issue was whether or not to cut the scene with Agnes and Cass and Victor, which immediately follows the end of the previous issue. The reason to include it was because it very necessarily established the change in location from the Vegas Strip to the Lucky 38 penthouse, which would have been jarring otherwise; the reason to exclude it was that it the issue was already extremely long and I thought opening right on Mr. House would have been more impactful. Ultimately, I did keep it, which was a good decision, but only because of the literally issue-saving idea to convey it as closed-circuit television footage instead of actual panels. Every single attempt at overlaying them with the lead-in to Mr. House was way too busy, but that idea really tied the page together like a nice rug.

And lastly, the framing device of the tarantula and the tarantula hawk was actually an extremely late addition to the comic. I had already finished the first three pages when I thought of it. My problem was that Mr. House's constant monologuing and Agnes' sad expressions got pretty repetitive. I needed something to break the action up while adding thematic heft and artistic variety. I've become a real enthusiast for wasps and tarantulas over the last couple months, so this one really was just a stroke of luck. It took only minimal revisions to make room for the framing device, with the most dramatic change being the complete replacement of the last page (which was originally just a splash page of the Lucky 38 in Vegas; bookending the first and last pages is so much better). So you see, the only reason for weaving a scene into this issue of a skittish desert-wanderer getting paralyzed and dragged toward a certain demise by a predator almost perfectly evolved to destroy it was just that I like bugs a lot. That's the only reason, yep.

Original Pencils:

Due to all of the photo-collage in the final version of the comic, there's a lot of panels and details that I (thankfully!) didn't have to draw myself. Sorry that the pencil isn't blue on the last three pages, I've been on the move for the holidays so they got scanned in grayscale by accident.

I did experiment with drawing the tarantula framing device myself, but ultimately went with the photo-collage method because the artistic juxtaposition actually made it much more readable when interspersed with the proceedings in the Lucky 38.

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EXT. DESERT OUTSIDE OF NEW VEGAS. The city glitters in the distance, nestled between the shadows of mountains, with the spire of the LUCKY 38 towering above all else.

In the wilderness, a TARANTULA emerges from its burrow.

EXT. THE NEW VEGAS STRIP. On closed-circuit television monitors, a SECURITRON ROBOT approaches AGNES SANDS and ROSE OF SHARON CASSIDY, saying

VICTOR: Well howdy, partner! Fancy meetin' again here in Vegas!

CASS: What the fuck?

AGNES: Victor?

Unlike the usual police units, VICTOR's robotic "face" is that of a cowboy.

VICTOR: And heck, ya clean up nice! Sure lookin' a lot better now than when I rustled ya outta the bone orchard back in Goodsprings*--

CAP: *As was explained to Agnes way back in IKROAH #2. --Lou

VICTOR: --so how's about ol' Vic skips the rigamarole, huh? 'Fore all my yappin' makes ya want to go back, heh-heh-heh! I'm the welcome wagon, see. I'm to come and collect ya.

CASS: Agnes--

VICTOR: Boss wants t'see you, is what I'm sayin'.

AGNES: Boss?

VICTOR: Only of all of Vegas, friend!

CASS: Agnes.

MEANWHILE, the TARANTULA crawls beneath the starlight.

VICTOR: So why don't we mosey on over to the Lucky 38? And your good pal can come along, too!

CASS: I need to know what the fuck is going on, right now.

AGNES: I...I don't know.

VICTOR: And y'know, boss ain't ever let a soul inside before, least for not as long as I've been rollin' around on my spurs, so this ain't just an everyday social call, mind...

On the closed-circuit television monitors, VICTOR escorts AGNES and CASS to the entryway of the LUCKY 38.

VICTOR: ...but heck, I reckon ya'll oughta get along like franks on a fire! So come on! Lift's in the lobby here, and up to the top floor--and we can get the formalities out of the way before ya'll get [cut off]

INT. THE LUCKY 38 PENTHOUSE.

AGNES stands awestruck, looking upward, bathed in electronic green light. With horror, she ekes out a single question.

AGNES: ...what are you?

???: A "Hello" would have been preferable, but it'll take more than a crude faux pas to tarnish this moment. Who I am, Agnes--

What AGNES is looking at is a gigantic SUPERCOMPUTER and terminal, flanked by closed-circuit television monitors and guarded on both sides by SECURITRON police units. On the supercomputer's massive screen is the green-lit image of a face. The face

MR. HOUSE: --is ROBERT EDWIN HOUSE. The President, CEO, and sole proprietor of New Vegas--and more to the point, the intended recipient of a long delayed package.

AGNES: Oh, you...you mean the platinum chip?

MR. HOUSE: Correct. It's a...very precious artifact of the old world.

MR. HOUSE: My world, once.

In the back of the room, beyond AGNES, is an oil painting of MR. HOUSE, standing outside in front of what must have been a very large robot.

MR. HOUSE: In that world, I was the founder of RobCo Industries--a titan of innovation. We created a litany of robotic solutions for diverse markets, such as the Securitrons that you see here, and even a line of consumer-grade devices like the wrist-mounted Pip-Boy. But the platinum chip was, more than any other, my design. It was my vision.

MR. HOUSE: But it never left the factory in which it was originally made. Before it could even cool off from its assembly...we had the Great War. An international, thermonuclear bombardment of unimaginable power that annihilated the world in all of two hours.

MR. HOUSE: But not the entire world. Not Vegas. Not my Paradise. From my fortress of the Lucky 38, I saw to that. But as for the rest of the world, and my platinum chip--it took generations.

MR. HOUSE: First for the scarce remnants of humanity to crawl out from under their rocks, and for the world to at least resemble a functioning society again in which to do trade. And then for the work itself--of countless scavengers, treasure-seekers, and the like, all contracted to comb over the wreckage of Sunnyvale. It cost millions of caps, and later, New California dollars. And a not insignificant piece of my pre-war fortune as well. I, quite literally, moved mountains.

MR. HOUSE: I do not believe in providence, Agnes, but I do believe in destiny. How else to explain it? It was pristine when it was found. Neither the bombs nor the passage of time had so much as scuffed its sheen. But still...its value far transcended the mere market price of pure platinum.

MR. HOUSE: Amusingly, despite the discovery, I was still only as close to acquiring the chip as I had been originally in 2077. A final ordeal remained for me: how to ensure the safety of the platinum chip en route to its destination, from Sunnyvale to Vegas, without broadcasting its preciousness to thieves, armies, and raiders--or worse, to heavily armed fetishists for pre-war technology like the Brotherhood of Steel?

MR. HOUSE: Misdirection. Through a network of anonymous liaisons, I contracted the Mojave Express for a batch of deliveries, all superficially similar knick-knacks, to various intermediaries of myself. All but one of the orders were totally worthless decoys. But your identity as the carrier of the one genuine item was somehow compromised, leading to you getting attacked, and to the second disappearance of the chip.

MR. HOUSE: But look around you. Look where you are. You've made it, haven't you?

AGNES, still staring up at the visage of MR. HOUSE on-screen, doesn't respond. She frowns, nervous. The SECURITRONS guarding MR. HOUSE observe her stoically.

MR. HOUSE: Let me clarify: I had nothing to do with Benny's ambush. Heavens no! It goes completely against my interests. It would have been a perfectly quotidian day's work for you if not for his, and I stress, unexpected involvement. The platinum chip...belies its significance. For Benny to have not only discovered its delivery route but possibly enough of that significance to motivate such an act, this constituted a very troubling breach of my security. And I had been looking into it...but in a way, the issue seems to have resolved itself. Hm?

MR. HOUSE: A wild card. Now removed from the deck.

AGNES' gaze sinks to the floor.

MEANWHILE, a small shadow blots out the starlight in the desert outside of Vegas. It flies over the exploring TARANTULA.

AGNES looks back up at MR. HOUSE.

AGNES: I killed him.

HOUSE: So you did. I only wish that we could have spoken before you went rogue on my former protégé: if this story breaks, I can grant you amnesty, but not without controversy. And your infamy as an assassin could make our further arrangements quite difficult.

AGNES: Um...I didn't think there would be more to it than delivering the--

MR. HOUSE: Oh! Of course, of course! My apologies. Two hundred years of anticipation and yet I'm still getting ahead of myself. Well--would you mind? I've been waiting a long time for my mail.

The SECURITRON closest to AGNES wheels forward with its claw outstretched. AGNES reaches her fingers into a pocket beneath the belt of her dress to produce it: the PLATINUM CHIP. She holds it in her hand for a brief moment.

MEANWHILE, the shadow descends; the TARANTULA HAWK engages the TARANTULA.

AGNES relinquishes the PLATINUM CHIP to the SECURITRON.

MR. HOUSE: Thank you--it's a relief to pay for this chip for the final time.

The SECURITRON inserts the PLATINUM CHIP into a slot in MR. HOUSE'S supercomputer, feeding it into the drive with a CLIK.

MEANWHILE, the TARANTULA is fighting the TARANTULA HAWK.

From behind AGNES, another SECURITRON presents her with a stack of NEW CALIFORNIA REPUBLIC DOLLARS, which she gingerly takes in her hand and looks over.

MR. HOUSE: And I trust that you're satisfied with the agreed-upon compensation from the delivery contract, yes?

AGNES: Yeah, it's...it's fine...I'll be going now. Thanks.

MR. HOUSE: Oh? But you've only just arrived. I insist that you make yourself at home.

SFX: KZZSZZZTTT

The faces on the screens of the SECURITRONS in MR. HOUSE'S penthouse suddenly change from policemen to soldiers. AGNES recoils and tries to step away.

AGNES: H-hey, uh--

MEANWHILE, the TARANTULA HAWK pierces the underbelly of the TARANTULA with its stinger.

SECURITRONS surround AGNES.

MR. HOUSE: You are the first guest ever through the doors of the Lucky 38, you know. Nobody has so much as checked a coat inside since the war, so this meeting confers you a significant level of privilege...and inevitable celebrity. The people of Vegas have always gossiped, after all. Many have even clawed at the door desperately with dreams of being where you now stand. Surely you can comprehend how this compulsion to leave after such a deliberate and remarkable invitation risks considerable insult--to both myself and my citizenry? And very deliberate this invitation was. Don't you realize: if handing off my package was all for which you were needed, why wouldn't I have just had Victor relieve you of the chip outside? No, no, you see, as necessary as its acquisition was, the chip is ultimately just a key, for unlocking a new frontier...of possibilities.

MR. HOUSE: Possibilities for prosperity, peace, and technological advancement that haven't been seen in two hundred years. Possibilities greater than anything the New California Republic or Caesar's Legion could dream of, let alone achieve, by playing pretend in the clothes of their forebearers and convincing everyone else that it's statecraft. Possibilities--which if they key is turned by human hands--become certainties.

AGNES (a whisper): Are you not human?

MR. HOUSE: Don't let the video screens and computer terminals fool you: I am a living human. No less so than you. I just live with a particular set of, well...handicaps.

AGNES: You said you'd waited hundreds of years to--

MR. HOUSE: One could argue that the world has been waiting hundreds of years for this moment. Waiting for me. For the chip. For the long-dormant doors of the Lucky 38 to finally open, to a single and specially ordained individual: you, Agnes. And there are tremendous things waiting for us, waiting for us to accomplish them, together. I certainly couldn't do them with Benny. What do you say?

MEANWHILE, the TARANTULA has become completely paralyzed by the TARANTULA HAWK'S venom. The TARANTULA HAWK seizes its prey.

AGNES: ...no.

MR. HOUSE: I'm sorry--"No?"

AGNES: Yes--I mean, no. No! I don't want to help you! I...

Tears well in AGNES' eye.

AGNES: ...I just want to go back home.

MR. HOUSE: ...I see. Hmm.

MR. HOUSE: How do I put this in a way you'll understand?

MR. HOUSE: The die is cast.

AGNES, crying, looks up at MR. HOUSE again. Fear bulges on her face.

MR. HOUSE: Throughout the long delivery of this chip, several precise plans and fortuitous coincidences have aligned in just such a way as to make you, you specifically at this exact juncture, an irreplaceable asset in the ongoing endeavor of this wounded world's recovery from otherwise hopeless ruin.

MR. HOUSE: Your cooperation going forward is not merely crucial to this endeavor's success, but it's utterly non-negotiable. Should you entertain the moral issue of what's at stake, it's obligatory, even. It's why your refusal comes as such a...genuine surprise. Can't you see?

MR. HOUSE: I'm not a fascist, Agnes--I would never force you. But given the circumstances, I'm entitled, wouldn't you agree, to at least a brief demonstration of my vision? The vision that the platinum chip promises? Victor has surely seen your companion to the presidential suite by now--my other Securitrons can escort you to the basement, where I'm sure you can make a...properly informed decision.

The SECURITRONS close in on AGNES, who screams in protest.

AGNES: No! I said no! I already delivered your chip, I--I killed Benny! I-- I-- ...what do you want with me!?

MR. HOUSE: Haven't you been listening? I want what's best for you--for us. I know it's a lot, but bear with me for one moment longer, and I can assure you--that this is the beginning of something very incredible.

MEANWHILE, the TARANTULA HAWK has dragged the paralyzed TARANTULA back to the entrance of its own burrow.

The TARANTULA HAWK shoves its helpless prey into the hole, and then crawls in after it.

The TARANTULA is not seen again.

#fallout #fallout new vegas #fnv #courier six #rose of sharon cassidy #victor #mr. house #agnes sands #ikroah archive #volume 02 #26

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penny-anna · 5 months

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oh btw i read The Star Beast comic the other day n have Thoughts:

overall the TV episode struck me as a very solid & effective adaptation! other than the stuff about the Doctor & Donna's history there wasn't a huge amount of new material

can report that they defo DID amp up the ET parallels haha

really liked that the TV story had the Doctor work out that something was Up w the Meep rather than just having exposition handed to him, that was a good call

the comic does have a bit more emphasis on the relationship between the Meep & Sharon (Rose's analogue) which is actually something I thought was lacking in the TV story. in particular there's a good moment in the comic where the Meep tries his act on Sharon one last time after being arrested and she tells him to go to hell - would have liked to see some closure like that in the TV version but can see why they wanted the ending focused mostly on Donna, can't have everything ig

fun little fact!! Sharon is actually the very first black doctor who companion in any medium. so that's an interesting distinction The Star Beast has!

ANYWAY i found it on readcomiconline. u want to search for doctor who & then look for this entry:

#doctor who #doctor who spoilers

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victimsofyaoipoll · 8 months

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Round 3

Propaganda Under Cut

Sharon Carter

Sharon is portrayed as a conniving, meddling bitch/villain in fics. Multiple authors flat-out say that they need someone to be the bitch or villain in their fics and they used Sharon. She got so much hatred based on Steve kissing her in Civil War in 2016 that Marvel Studios changed its entire plan for multiple characters. This is despite how Sharon has been Steve's main love interest in the comics since December 9, 1965. Despite being off and on for decades (three of Steve's other love interests were while she was supposedly dead, with at least one writer saying they only created the love interest because Sharon was dead at the time)

When she first appeared she was unfairly treated by fans for "getting in the way" of the Steve Rogers/Bucky Barnes ship. A shame because she's a really good character. I'd talk more about how unfairly Sharon, and her actress Emily VanCamp, have been treated by the fanbase and the creators, but that's a different story.

She and Steve Rogers were meant to have a romantic relationship, but the entire fandom and many Stucky fans dislike her because it wasn’t a good ship. I think she isn’t the best but she doesn’t deserve so much hate

Elizabeth Midford

She started as just a cutie fiancée trying her best, turns out she's also a swordfighting genius, very under pressure to perform feminity in the Victorian Rose type of way. Fandom crucifies her bc she's Ciel's fiancée and they want him to be with his butler, Sebastian, the demon he sold his soul to for revenge

anime was a shitty canon divergent adaptation that butchered her character down to her "cutesy silly girly" persona, which obviously made the 2008 anime fans hate her with a passion (nothing wrong w being girly I'm just saying the adaptation made her super one dimensional) anyways fujoshis used to treat her as a villain because she's the fiance of Ciel,, who as u might know already was HEAVILY shipped with his butler, Sebastian back then (now it's kinda looked badly upon, nice tbh that ship sucks ass xD) She's a bit similar to Misa Amane from death note in the way she was treated. (Like an obstacle the yaoi ship must overcome rather than a person)

she's my silly little rabbit! i could gush about her character but i'll keep it short and just say that she's really well written and one of the best characters in the series. anyways she's ciel's fiance and she's like, rightfully annoying as any other 13 yr old girl would be but the fanbase fucking crucified her for even existing. she gets demonized for being 'annoying', but then ciel gets yaoishipped with an even more annoying guy. there is 100% an argument that lizzie/ciel is weird bc they're cousins (i personally don't ship it) but that falls flat when her detractors then ship the 13 yr old ciel with an eons old demon who Canonically looks like his father. the anime also never reached her main character development until years after its peak and that was only in a movie, so she really got the bad end of the stick here. not me though i had a giant crush on her when i was 12

#round 3 #poll #sharon carter #mcu #marvel #marvel comics #elizabeth midford #black butler

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haleviyah · 3 months

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#character design #character art #rose of sharon #rose of sharon comic #ezrael #angel of death

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ldknightshade · 3 months

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tags list!

metalocalypse!

general ✮ nathan explosion ✮ william murderface ✮ toki wartooth ✮ skwisgaar skwigelf ✮ pickles the drummer ✮ charles foster offdensen ✮ dick knubbler ✮ abigail remeltindtdrinc ✮ dr. rockzo ✮ amber ✮ jean-pierre

fandom sagas: toki cube

devil may cry!

general ✮ dante ✮ vergil ✮ nero ✮ lady ✮ trish ✮ nico ✮ v ✮ lucia ✮ kyrie ✮ urizen ✮ morrison

fallout: new vegas!

general ✮ arcade gannon ✮ veronica santangelo ✮ vulpes inculta ✮ joshua graham ✮ the king ✮ craig boone ✮ benny ✮ robert house ✮ ulysses ✮ rose of sharon cassidy ✮ raul alfonso tejada ✮ lily ✮ rex ✮ ed-e ✮ christine royce

shenanigans: seven plays new vegas

dc comics!

general ✮ dick grayson ✮ jason todd ✮ tim drake ✮ damian wayne ✮ bruce wayne ✮ vic sage

jeffrey combs posting!

sometimes the question/vic sage will have this tag due to voicing him in justice league unlimited

general ✮ herbert west ✮ crawford tillinghast ✮ the mold ✮ anton mordrid ✮ john reilly ✮ francisco

personal tags!

ldknightshade.txt - our text posts

ldknightshade.jpg - our photo posts

ldknightshade.mp3 - our audio posts

bestie bangers - our friends’ stuff (iconic edition)

🎭🎨 - bell’s posts

🦇💙 - dick’s posts

💀☕️ - at what point can monster return to man? / bell sadposting

🎧🎶 - playlists / music recs

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these are below / no link!

additional tags!

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will update as necessary!

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denimbex1986 · 5 months

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'The Fourteenth Doctor, Donna Noble, and Rose Noble receive a retro reimagining inspired by the comic behind Doctor Who's first 60th anniversary special in a new piece of artwork. The 60th anniversary celebrations of the long-running sci-fi series will be led by David Tennant and Catherine Tate across three specials airing throughout November and December. The first Doctor Who anniversary special, "The Star Beast," sees the Doctor swept up in an intergalactic chase, as a furry fugitive pursued by frightening Wrarth Warriors crash lands on Earth.

With the first Doctor Who 60th anniversary special introducing the tale of the Doctor's encounters with the Meep (Miriam Margolyes) and Wrarth Warriors, the official Doctor Who Twitter account has shared a new piece of artwork inspired by the latest episode.

Created by artist Butcher Billy, the artwork reimagines the Fourteenth Doctor, Donna, and Rose protecting the Meep from the Wrarth. They are posed similarly to the episode's original teaser poster, but stylized to resemble a retro comic book, complete with a corner box featuring the TARDIS. The artwork also features nods to the later specials, including the currently unexplored UNIT Tower along the London skyline in the background.

How Does "Doctor Who: The Star Beast" Differ From The Original Comic?

Created by comic book legends Pat Mills and Dave Gibbons, "The Star Beast" was first published in Doctor Who Weekly from February 1980 to April 1980, with the Fourth Doctor leading the adventure alongside mechanical dog companion K-9. Like in the television story, the Meep (named Beep in the comic) crash lands on Earth and seeks help from the Doctor to escape the Wrarth, though officers Zogroth and Zeep (renamed Zreeg in the show) soon reveal the Meep isn't what he seems. With the Meep having used mind-controlled humans to reconstruct its ship, it attempts to escape, but the Doctor soon puts a stop to its plan.

While the basic premise and character were adapted for Doctor Who's "The Star Beast," there are a number of significant differences between both stories. Alongside the addition of the Fourteenth Doctor, the Noble family, and UNIT, the story's setting is also changed from the small town of Blackcastle to London. While the Noble family would take the place of comic companions Sharon and Fudge, the latter would inspire the character of Rose's friend Fudge Merchandani (Dara Lall).

Between its legendary creators and unlikely villain, "The Star Beast" was a fondly remembered part of Doctor Who's expanded media that had been revisited time and again in comics and audio dramas. As such, not only did showrunner Russell T Davies' reimagining introduce the cutesy malevolence of the Meep to audiences worldwide, but it also treated longtime fans to a fun adaptation. The above artwork is a perfect merging of the new take on the tale and its comic origins to celebrate the Meep's leap to the small screen.'

#The Star Beast #Doctor Who #60th Anniversary #David Tennant #Rose Noble #Donna Noble #Yasmin Finney #Catherine Tate #the Meep #Russell T. Davies #Pat Mills #Dave Gibbons #Butcher Billy #Miriam Margolyes #K-9 #Wrarth Warriors

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fallout-lou-begas · 1 year

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CASS SWEEP 2: BACK FOR THE ATTACK

VOTE FOR CASS!!

Don't let the competition beg for scraps from the table—THAT DOG'S GOING OUTSIDE

(vote for raul too!! let's go grandpa!! cowpoke solidarity!!)

#fallout #fallout new vegas #rose of sharon cassidy #cass sweep #the art in the first pic is from various comics at ikroah dot tumblr dot com

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angedemystere · 1 year

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I wonder how the chosen would do the temptation in the wilderness? (Jesus was in the wilderness for 40 days and the devil appeared to him) it could be cool if satan is portrayed as a voice in Jesus’ head and is played by the same actor as Jesus

I've seen at least one take that kind of had that approach (Satan's presence and temptations are more subtly presented to Jesus) and oh MAN it's an effective way to tell that story. While Jesus's struggle was connected more to his divinity (hence the whole "turn the stones to bread" and further escalation) Satan was also trying to prey on his humanity (since that's the part that could sin), so having the "voice" of temptation come through as Jesus's human voice would make sense and also be terrifying. I rather hope we'll get a flashback to that in the show.

I know there's a movie called 40: The Temptation of Christ that came out a few years ago. Might watch it just to see how it approaches the subject (and it seems to cover not just the temptation at the end but other stuff throughout his fast).

Btw that version I mentioned at the top is Haleviyah's prologue for her Rose of Sharon comic. The comic is satirical of religious beliefs (especially Christianity), but even if you're wary of that, check out the prologue and see what you think

#ask #the chosen #jesus #rose of sharon

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ikroah · 8 months

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I've given everything I have, didn't know I'd run up such a tab, Oh, Lord, ain't the reapin' ever done? —“Ain’t the Reapin’ Ever Done,” Eddie Noack (1972)

It Keeps Right On a-Hurtin’ #25 - Ring-a-Ding-Ding IV

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At long last! As I've mentioned a few times, this issue got...delayed because I spent 2023 getting divorced, falling in love again, going outside, touching grass, laughing, playing, et cetera. But even if you toss all that aside this issue would still have been a doozy because I've been wanting to try an issue in this artstyle, and with a much large page size, for...well, for over a year now, ha. The thumbnails for this issue are nearly a whole year old!

Usually I have a lot of fun commentary about how a script changes over the course of working on an issue, or how the production panned out, but the making of this issue has been stretched over such a long time that I can't even begin to really describe it. Lemme just show you the original pencils so we can get out of here and move onto the next one, which will hopefully take far less than the time it takes to carry a pregnancy to term.

Oh, actually, there is one thing! If you spotted this happy couple on the first page, then check out @memepipboy's comics too.

Also, here's Vulpes in the dead Yamcha pose.

Which is also about how I feel after going on a bender of productivity last week to get the whole issue colored before it slipped away again.

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EXT. NEW VEGAS STRIP. A small plaza outside the casinos is flushed with lights and people, all coming and going, even at such a late hour. The crowd is monitored by the Strip's POLICE SECURITRONS. Two people are exiting a casino: ROSE OF SHARON CASSIDY, and

MESSENGER: AGNES SANDS!

AGNES: Oh God, I'm--

AGNES: --wait, are you NCR?

The MESSENGER that has called out AGNES' name is a surly and middle-aged man in uniform.

MESSENGER: Correct, ma'am. I'm a messenger.

AGNES: Courier, huh.

CASS: Hell do you want, boot boy? We're busy.

MESSENGER: Your presence is requested at the embassy on the south side of the Strip.

The exchange has caught the eye of a BYSTANDER READING A NEWSPAPER.

AGNES: You said requested, as opposed to, um, required?

MESSENGER: Yes. I'll be blunt with you, Sands: the incident near Gecko and your subsequent desertion have made you a fugitive of military police since 2269. I'm sure you know that--but this is not an arrest.

MESSENGER: This isn't even about your personal case, necessarily. It's only from chance reports at the Mojave Outpost and Boulder City that intelligence was made aware of your presence here at all. The NCR merely wants to let you know that you--as well as your companion--are persons of interest to us in two of our other open investigations: the Legion raid on Nipton, and recent terrorist attacks on merchants in the area such as Crimson Caravan.*

CAPTION: *Various events of IKROAH #7-16. -Lou.

MESSENGER: There's also some other matters, which are classified.

CASS, at AGNES' side, listens intently. Then she glares at AGNES, who is grimacing but avoiding her eye contact.

MESSENGER: Now, our intelligence officers only want to speak to you, not arrest you. So there should be no cause for alarm or any worry on your part. It's your choice to come to us willingly--and on your own time. But--

AGNES sweats nervously.

MESSENGER: My orders are to make this next part very clear. This is merely the current state of our interest in you and your companion. If your presence does become required, as opposed to merely requested, by the NCR--and it very well may--

MESSENGER: --consider this a nice, friendly notice. I'm here because the NCR knows where you are. And the NCR wanted you to know that, because it wants you to keep it in mind as you mull over whether--and when--you might be feeling co-operative. That is all. We'll be in touch, Miss Sands.

The MESSENGER departs. The BYSTANDER READING A NEWSPAPER observed the entire exchange. The moment that the MESSENGER is gone, he speaks:

BYSTANDER: Ahh...I must admit, it does make me glad when people discuss my work.

AGNES: W-what?

CASS: Pardon?

BYSTANDER: And it was fortunate, as it turns out, that you were spared that night in Nipton.

AGNES: Oh...oh no--

CASS: --YOU?

BYSTANDER: Very fortunate indeed--

The BYSTANDER grins.

BYSTANDER: --that you were spared from the burning tires, spared from the teeth of the dogs, spared even from the cross and stake--all of this, there, was the finest work yet of VULPES INCULTA--against the profligates of the west, and for the glory and the might of CAESAR'S LEGION.*

CAPTION:*IKROAH #9. -Lou.

AGNES and CASS are transfixed where they stand, taken aback by the reveal. CASS scowls while AGNES squirms with terror. She remembers:

The raging fires and the horror show of NIPTON. Crucified bodies and dogs to eat the corpses.

VULPES: During our talk in Nipton, I admittedly became quite curious about you, Agnes. You had intrigued me for some reason, and I wanted to know what it was. Only later did I finally place it.

Her hands up in front of her face, a futile barrier between herself and three men. Benny. His gun, pointed at her, shining in the light from the moon and the lantern.

VULPES: A tabloid story from the news on the radio. A courier shot in the head near Goodsprings Cemetery.

The SECURITRON with the cowboy face, VICTOR, carried her out of her grave. Or so she was told.

VULPES: --who miraculously returned from the grave. It was you.

There were three men. Two besides Benny. She found them later, one was dead and the other had two more with him.

VULPES: It was also you, as I would later discover...who slaughtered that pack of Great Khans in Boulder City. Clearly no ordinary courier.

VULPES: Why, even now, you assassinate the leader of the Chairmen in his own casino--in his own bedroom, no less. Very impressive.

AGNES: But how did you--

VULPES: Know? From one saboteur to another, I do have to commend you, Agnes. You're quite covert...for someone who had no reason to realize that she was already being watched, that is. Just as we have been watching Benny, the dearly departed.

VULPES grins wider.

VULPES: My network of frumentarii have detected something of a conspiracy in Vegas...something about a certain piece of platinum, I hear. Which reminds me--the mail has gotten so unreliable lately, don't you think?

AGNES is visibly panicked as VULPES continues.

VULPES: The NCR'S interest in you is not misplaced, Agnes Sands, given your recent exploits.

CASS is suddenly going down the casino steps--

VULPES: But I doubt that they are as quite aware of the bigger picture as--

--and raising her fist, and--

VULPES: the--

--punching VULPES in the face.

SFX: WHAM!

VULPES is flung to the ground, his nose bloodied. One of his teeth have been knocked clean from his mouth. He stares upward, in disbelief, up at the furious woman who's laid him out.

VULPES: Ah...yes. Rose of Sharon Cassidy. I've--

PTOOEY. A wad of spit splats against VULPES' cheek. CASS points a finger at him as he shuffles back onto his feet.

CASS: Get my name out of your mouth right now. I'm not afraid of you. You just piss me off. And unless you get lost I'll deck you so hard that you forget my name. Hopefully how to form complete sentences, too.

CASS: I think we've heard enough, you goddamn dogfucker, and whatever you're selling, we don't fucking want any.

VULPES: Ah...so no less impudent than last time, despite...well.

VULPES wipes the blood from his face with the back of his hand, muttering from behind his palm in LATIN.

VULPES: Sī cognōscere nōn vīs canis senex tum nēquam praeter futuendum eris.

VULPES reaches his bloody hand toward his dislodged hat.

VULPES: Agnes--the Legion has a particular use for you, a use which comes with certain courtesies that are not extended to your companion.

VULPES: ...she would do well to keep this in mind.

VULPES returns his hat to his head. AGNES has rejoined CASS at the base of the steps.

AGNES: "Use?" What use? I don't have anything--I mean, I'm not--whatever you--whatever the Legion wants with me, I don't know anything. About this, or about Benny. If you want the chip, I--

VULPES: Agnes, Agnes--you're a terrible liar. Or else just terribly naive.

VULPES turns to leave.

VULPES: If the NCR is interested in you, and they are, then seizing you for ourselves is certainly useful enough on its own. But truthfully, this isn't about the NCR. The Legion is interested in you--I am interested in you--because Mr. House is interested in you. You and that chip.

AGNES: Mr. House!? But I...no, no, I just thought the chip--

VULPES: Vale, courier. And vale, Rose of Sharon Cassidy. And be safe in your travels, if you can help it--you never know when somebody might be watching.

As VULPES departs, a SECURITRON approaches behind AGNES and CASS, casting a shadow over the both of them.

#fallout #fallout new vegas #fnv #courier six #rose of sharon cassidy #vulpes inculta #agnes sands #caesar's legion #new california republic #ncr #ikroah archive #volume 02 #25

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There’s something I’ve noticed while rewatching series 3 & reading the corresponding New Series Adventures novels for that season regarding Ten and Martha: Specifically, the nature of their relationship and the fandom criticism leveled at Ten for how he treated Martha.

It should be noted that Ten was very much not in a good place mentally through most of series 3: He had just lost the love of his Ninth and Tenth lives, the one person who had helped him heal from his grief and trauma over the Last Great Time War and was his best friend before their relationship developed into something romantic. Several of his actions throughout series 3 makes it appear that he has a death wish now that Rose is trapped in another universe and (as far as he knows) there is no way of getting to her: he would have drowned underneath the Thames if not for Donna’s interference (The Runaway Bride), allows the Plasmavore to nearly drain him dry (Smith and Jones), allows himself to get hit by a lightning strike, and dares the Daleks to straight-up kill him twice in the same episode (Daleks in Manhattan/Evolution of the Daleks). It also should be noted that whenever the Doctor in general (but Ten in particular) travels on xir own for a while, xe reverts heavily back to that ingrained Time Lord arrogance/brainwashing from the Matrix.

Does Ten take some missteps with Martha, especially when they’re back in Earth’s past? Yes, and I would argue that’s part of the point for this third series and a part of Ten’s character arc in general. Martha does not have the same outward privileges in various time periods that the white-male-presenting nonbinary Gallifreyan does, and this is very much intentional and pointed out by the writing. (Martha is also not the first time the Doctor has travelled with a companion of color. Sharon Davies traveled with the Fourth Doctor in the comics and predates Mickey Smith by 26 years, the Eighth Doctor Adventures novels had Anji Kapoor for multiple books, series 2 had Mickey, and there are more examples in the comics and audios.)

Is Ten in the wrong for how he handled Martha’s crush on him? No. Absolutely not. While Ten did fuck up a bit with Martha as his companion, this was one area of their relationship that he did not mess up.

This gifset showcases Ten’s immediate reaction to Martha flirting with him as soon as he invites her into the TARDIS. He brings up Rose, admits in all but name that their relationship was romantic (“Rose, her name was. Rose. And we were... together.”), and then states to Martha that she is not a replacement for Rose. When Martha continues to make flirtatious advances toward him, he shuts her down and tells her firmly to “Stop it”.

At which point Martha gets huffy that he’s not returning her advances and grumbles that she doesn’t go for non-humans anyway.

Which, if this was restricted to Martha’s introductory episode, it would be fine. But it isn’t, since it makes up a major running part of Martha’s character arc for the whole series in both the TV show and the New Series Adventures novels that correspond to this series.

The Shakespeare Code infamously has the scene where Ten and Martha share a bed in the inn. Ten makes it very clear that nothing romantic is going on from his end, and that he’s also still missing Rose. Martha, however, thinks she’s in a romance novel with the “and there was only one bed + UST” trope and gets annoyed when Ten not only does not pick up on her nonverbal signals, he becomes nostalgic for Rose and reminds Martha that this is only a one-off trip and he’s taking her back to her home time period the next morning.

Gridlock starts with Ten lying to Martha about Gallifrey when she asks him if they can go to his home planet; he spends the rest of the episode actively getting her back after she’s kidnapped, noting that he doesn’t even know her and he wants to make up for lying to her at the beginning of the episode. When the motorway is finally cleared and they’re back near the TARDIS, Ten comes clean that he lied to her about Gallifrey and then opens up to her in a way he didn’t to Rose on-screen. He also takes her to New Earth in the first place because, again, Ten is clearly in pain at this point in the series and heavily missing Rose, so naturally he would want to go somewhere he had visited with her. Martha is the one who characterizes this as Ten being on the “rebound” and sees herself as being in competition with Rose Tyler’s place in his life.

In the two-parter Human Nature/The Family of Blood, Ten has put the care of not only his human persona but his true Gallifreyan self (concealed in a special fobwatch) in Martha’s hands while the Family hunts for him. It never even occurs to the Doctor that his human self would fall in love due to his still-strong feelings for Rose, and indeed, Rose shows up in John Smith’s dreams and Journal of Impossible Things. Martha, however, feels entitled for the Doctor’s human persona to fall in love with her, if he has to fall for a human at all. (“You had to go fall in love with a human, and it wasn’t me.”) And again, why would the Doctor think his human self would be obligated to develop feelings for anyone, let alone Martha, when he had already shut her down and upon doing so, Martha said she didn’t go for aliens anyway? Ten had no reason not to believe her after xe was already quite firm about xir boundaries.

This even leaks over to the supplemental animated episode The Infinite Quest, where Martha’s heart’s desire is shown to be the Doctor yet the same is not true for Ten. It also shows up in the expanded universe, particularly the New Series Adventures novels Forever Autumn by Mark Morris and Peacemaker by James Swallow.

(Forever Autumn, pg. 33)

(Peacemaker, pg. 8)

(Peacemaker, pg. 57)

(Peacemaker, pg. 72)

It’s more noticeable in Peacemaker than Forever Autumn, but Martha is an official companion at this point and still unable to get over her jealousy of Rose. As in the TV series, she is annoyed whenever the subject of Rose comes up (which in the televised show only happens during Smith and Jones, The Shakespeare Code, Gridlock, and Utopia) or blatantly flirty with Ten even when he’s visibly uncomfortable and, again, has made his personal boundaries quite clear. In Peacemaker, Martha chooses to call her horse Rose in a deliberate effort to irritate Ten.

If the gender roles here were reversed and it was a man continuing to make advances toward a woman after she had firmly established boundaries and that she missed her partner and was in pain and grieving, fandom would absolutely be tearing into the man for continuing to pursue the relationship after being clearly told “no”.

Ten was under zero obligation to return Martha’s crush on him, and shortly after inviting her into his TARDIS he made it quite clear to her where he stood on their relationship: He was not looking for another romance. Martha was the one who kept violating his boundaries, reading romantic intentions into his actions that were not there, and became visibly annoyed whenever he shut her down.

The Tenth Doctor could be rude at times, but this was not one of them.

#( Bramble watches Doctor Who. )#Out of Gallifrey ( OOC )#[ the 10crit tag is a wild place y'all holy cow ]#[ especially where series 3 episodes are concerned ]#[ also sorry this is long AF ]

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Episode 347

July 2022 DC solicits Comic Reviews:

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Sandman Universe: Nightmare Country 1 by James Tynion IV, Lisandro Estherren, Patricio Delpeche, Yanick Paquette, Nathan Fairbairn

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