#I also love rasputin

[funky-writer-man]

Very funny hearing people say "rasputin is queer music, it unites us all!" and then I listen and its like "ra ra rasputin he is a man and gets all the Women" well done guys

[starspilli]

FINALLY did some of the x men & dc crossover stuff that’s been rattling around in my head lol. & trust me i have more. i just think these ones would have interesting / funny dynamics lol

[yourlocaltrylingual]

half of my brain is screaming about THAT ending and the other half is playing ra ra rasputin on a loop

[mattzerella-sticks]

My Idea for a Live-Action X-Men Movie...

Thinking... how can we introduce the X-Men into live action, whether through movie, tv show, limited series, etc. ... and I have an idea.

Let's start in media res.

Charles Xavier's School for the Gifted has been active for the past few years, however with a small class size of seven. Scott. Jean. Bobby. Hank. Warren. Alex. Lorna. Despite only consisting of seven students, due to Xavier's wealth he has been able to keep his school open and thriving since the beginning.

However that has changed as the size of his class has dropped from seven to one after a botched mission led to the capture of his students save one, Scott Summers.

And the opening scene is Xavier sitting in his mansion, worried, waiting, until Scott kicks his door down, tells them his team is gone, and passes out due to exhaustion.

We then pick up on our narrator for the movie, the character whose eyes we will be seeing the entire movie take place through, stepping off a plane and into JFK airport...

Ororo Munroe. Storm.

She had travelled from her home in Africa seemingly on a whim, as if drawn there by fate, and - unsure where to go or what to do next - she goes to a nearby bar to make her next plan.

Who should happen to sit next to her but a short, hairy man in a cowboy hat and a thick, Canadian accent?

Ororo, meet Logan. They do not hit it off.

She does happen to hit it off with the soft spoken Russian man who is reading poetry at the other end of the bar - Piotr Rasputin - and the bartender, a Native American man - James Proudstar - who wasn't supposed to be working that day but traded shifts with his roommate.

While they are all gathered there they hear a voice in their heads and turn around to see Charles Xavier, a man they all recognize and all soon realize is the reason they are now gathered together in this bar. At first they all want to leave but Xavier implores them to at least first hear him out, which they agree to do, but he tells them he won't start until the final member of their group is here.

Cue shouts and gunfire as Kurt - Nightcrawler - runs, leaps, and teleports across the airport in all his blueness.

Xavier manages to calm the crowd however not before one of the security guards manages to call in that the threat is a mutant and it's a race to grab Kurt before reinformcements arrive. But wouldn't you know it the group is not the best team yet and the reinforcements do arrive in the form of Sentinels.

It seems like all hope is lost when, out of nowhere, a stray quartz-colored beam blows one of the Sentinels apart and allows the group a moment to escape. They regroup in Xavier's car, which had been where Scott was waiting while Xavier gathered the others.

They return to the mansion where Xavier explains what happens to his team, that they were responding to a mutant in distress on an island that had ultimately been a trap - with only Scott escaping. The group has been gathered together to help Xavier and Scott rescue their teammates.

It's mostly a resounding no. Piotr would rather be at home on the farm. James has to go searching for a new job since he undoubtedly got fired from the bar for leaving during shift hours. Logan is "not a team player" and believes that the team is most likely dead anyway. Kurt is game but he is also "not the best fighter".

Ororo also agrees to help.

That surprises everyone. She says that while the circumstances that brought them together were underhanded, she cannot sit idly by while innocent people, people like her with a mutant gene, are in danger. Not just those on the island, who they are tasked with rescuing, but around the world especially since Sentinels have become standard issue around the world. While she does not see herself being a full-time member, she knows that the team Xavier had protected mutants like them from these threats and, with them gone, who will protect their community now?

Xavier tells them that, after they help rescue his original team, they would be free to leave and do what they want with their lives as they please.

Piotr is in. So is James. Logan sighs and agrees, "Since I don't want to be the odd one out." They agree to go save the others. Scott says, however, that before they can mount the rescue mission, they need to become a team first - referencing their battle at the airport and how they need to improve.

They agree to train.

Meanwhile, on the island, we see that there is a Master Mold along with Trask and scientists working on creating the next model of Sentinels in their ongoing war against mutants using the captured mutants from Xavier's Academy as test subjects. The scientists are just as much as prisoners as the X-Men, however, as they were led to the island on false pretenses and forced to work for Master Mold who had, unbenknownst to everyone until the final act, had taken over Trask and controls him as a puppet.

A few of these scientists came with their families. One of these families were the Prydes. Katherine Anne Pryde is seen as a non-threat by both Master Mold and Trask, and is able to freely wander the island as well as speak with the prisoners because, since everything is monitored and she is twelve, she cannot do anything to disrupt the mission. We learn from this scene that Master Mold is on the cusp of unveiling a new breed of Sentinel that, using the schematics pulled from Jean's mind, would be able to track mutants anywhere without needing to be called in. It was luck that the X-Men arrived on their island, fell into their trap.

Meanwhile back in Westchester, NY, this new team of X-Men are having a hard time at coming together to work as a team, which is making Scott mad. He and Logan almost come to blows if not for Piotr stepping between them to break things up. They both step away to cool off.

Ororo decides to speak with both of them. First, she goes to Scott, and tells him that he is not being a good leader. They have a heart to heart where he confesses that his friends are his family, and Jean... he has a lot riding on this being a success, and this is as new to him as it is new to them. He is not used to working with people he hasn't grown up with. Ororo tells him that he needs to lead from a place of love and courage, and not fear. Then, she goes to find Logan to see that he is brushing off Kurt rather coldly and Ororo does not wait to take him to task on his loner attitude. They clash a bit before Ororo tells him to get his act together or just leave, as it shouldn't matter to him what they think if he really doesn't care.

They all agree to do another training session, only they never get the chance as Xavier tells them it is now or never as there was a spike of pain from the same island his first team was lost, and that cannot mean anything good. The heroes go to get suited up and fly to the island base.

Master Mold is ready to create his new breed of Sentinels and it looks like they are a success, as they have been fitted with new upgrades. He activates a few and they immediately power online with the alert that there is a mutant among them.

All eyes turn to Katherine Anne Pryde. Kitty.

Her father and mother object but are restrained as the Sentinels begin to pursue her, only able to tell her to run before they are knocked out. Kitty runs and manages to escape the Sentinels after discovering her ability to phase through solid matter. The escape is not fullproof as they burst out the bunker in full pursuit. When she reaches the beaches with what looks like no place left to go, the clouds part and reveal the Blackbird jet which Ororo had just exited from and is now flying down to confront the Sentinels she spotted chasing the little girl. The Sentinels sense her power and lock onto her, only to get blasted by lightning and turret fire.

The X-Men land and confront the Sentinels but, unlike at JFK, they are able to work together and take them down. Even Logan finds himself being a team player. They rescue Kitty and she tells them where the prisoners are and also what Master Mold is planning.

The team decides to split up - Scott, Piotr, and James will confront Master Mold while Ororo, Logan, and Kurt follow Kitty to the prison area.

Of course we stay with Ororo because, again, she is who we are relying to guide us through this story.

We get to the prison area and it's Ororo, Logan, and Kurt going HAM on these guards taking them down while Kitty uses her powers to free the X-Men. She manages to get to the main control room and hits the button that releases all the prisoners who do their best to help, despite being weakened from experiments and torture.

We learn from Kitty that there's a prisoner missing, and they admit that it's Jean. She was taken by Trask.

So the group races to the main room where Scott, Piotr, and James are and see a BUNCH of Sentinels on the loose and pure pandemonium. Piotr and James are on the ropes and Scott is putting up his best fight, however just as the group arrives the Sentinels converge and blast him, with a woman across the room watching calling out his name as he 'perishes' (we'll circle back on this later).

Without their leader and shocked, Ororo steps up and takes command, leading the group into battle like she's been doing it all her life against the Sentinels while Kitty and Kurt evacuate the scientists. She cuts across the room almost instantly to get to Trask and Jean where we finally learn that the former has been completely taken over by Master Mold and is now a Sentinel cyborg. They battle it out but it's a tough battle given the numbers they're against until there's a moment where Ororo and Jean are tucked away, shielded from incoming blaster fire from Trask and the Sentinels, when Jean places her hands to the ground and closes her eyes. Ororo asks what she's doing and Jean tells her she's asking for help.

"From who? Xavier only sent us?"

"From the mutant we came here to help in the first place. From the island."

BOOM! We get the reveal that the island. Krakoa, is a mutant and has been weakened by the experiments run on it by Master Mold and the Sentinel. Jean tells the group that they need to let Krakoa 'feed' on a piece of their energy to recupe its strength for it to help them and they all look to Ororo as it's her call, and she says they should do it. They do and the ground rumbles and shakes and we can see the island begin to terraform as it fights back against Master Mold and the Sentinels. It takes out MANY of them while the X-Men pick up the slack on the rest.

Ororo takes on Master Mold/Trask hybrid as the island begins to sink back into the ocean, with Trask, damaged, spouting nonsense. That he is there to save the world, that he is the FUTURE, the INEVITABLE, that the X-Men cannot prevent the world falling apart in the future, that they will be responsible for the apocalypse. However, with a lightning zap and some timely telekinesis, the group escapes back to the Blackbird as the rest of the island has already been evacuated.

The X-Men return to Westchester without Scott and inform Xavier of what happened.

Time moves on. They recover. They mourn. A memorial service is held for Scott. Xavier's original students, Warren, Bobby, Alex, Hank, and Lorna, decide to leave the school afterwards as they believe they need to come at the Sentinel problem another way. They form X-Force.

Xavier comes up to Ororo after the service and asks her to stay on, despite her having no obligation to do so. She watches Logan and Kurt keeping Kitty entertained while Piotr and James speak with her parents, about Kitty staying on at the school and learning from Professor Xavier, and decides that she would like to stay and lead the X-Men. Jean joins them and says that she'd be happy to be on any team Storm is leading, revealing that -of the original students - she is the only one who is staying with the X-Men. The three look out onto the horizon as there are endless possibilities for the X-Men now *play the theme song*

END CREDIT SCENE NUMBER ONE - Magneto watches Xavier's new team of X-Men in action and converses with Mystique, saying that, "If Charles has put together a new team of recruits, we should, too."

END CREDIT SCENE NUMBER TWO - A blonde woman in all white speaks with a raven-haird men with red eyes and a crimson diamond embedded in his head. "You pulled a lot of favors to get him, are you sure he's worth it?" "Believe me. He is." The duo, Emma Frost and Dr. Sinister are looking over the body of Scott Summers, very much NOT DEAD, held in stasis as the camera pans out and reveals the Hellfire Club.

And that would be how we introduce the X-Men, and mutants, into live action movies.

[desolyx]

More art of my Rasputin design!

Like,, Imagine experiencing snow for the first time,,

Plus the background cause I'm pretty proud of it. Used a screenshot as a ref.

[the design was inspired by the talented @/sylenth-l, check em out]

[smallidarityfan]

love the canon smallidarity dynamic of Jimmy forgetting how Joel looks half the time while Joel notices the littlest things about Jimmy down to his fidgeting habits

this is them btw. if you even care

[daxwormzz]

Posting oc art but you ALSO get the baron. Yeah that’s right you have to look at my art of Vladimir Harkonnen.

[kierancaz]

Anastasia is the super impressive amazing girlboss girlfriend and Dimitri is her malewife cringe fail boyfriend

[corrupteddoodles]

behold: an autistic teenager who’s never voice acted before in her life attempts to voiceover cyn from murder drones

[sundayswiththeilluminati]

Hey Destiny folks are y’all ready for my current pet crack theory? Buckle up because you're probably not. Here it is: the Witness tried to recruit the Warmind Rasputin as a Disciple at the peak of the Collapse, and Rasputin told them to shove it.

Rasputin's got that great grimoire card about facing someone in the Black Garden just before he broke and ran - someone who smiled at him as it happily murdered his comrades. Rasputin learns from this figure the idea that the strong don't have to protect the weak, that he should abandon the fight and let humanity die to ensure his own survival. We've assumed this figure was the Winnower, and it probably was when it was written. But what if it gets retconned to be the Witness? We also faced down the Witness in the Garden. And what if the Witness didn’t roll up just to dunk on Red - it came to offer him a job?

Rasputin's the class of being the Witness seems to collect for the Pyramid fleet: a single powerful focused personality, independent, assertive, inured to violence and in it for the long haul, someone who thinks in terms as grandiose as reshaping the universe. He currently leans towards Light but, as evinced by his listening to its ideas long enough to ditch humanity, could have tipped to Darkness with the right incentive. I can see the Witness going in for a recruitment pitch...and then having it backfire because it’s totally misread Rasputin's personality and relationship to humanity. 

Rasputin in the Garden was in a situation very similar to the one Rhulk was in when the Witness came to him: his defenses shattered, his duty and role in his society abandoned, he himself threatened with annihilation. He's also, like Rhulk, in a position to turn on and utterly destroy the civilization the Witness is trying to extinguish. If you thought like the Witness, it'd be easy to mistake Rasputin for Rhulk: a useful monster, a violent being feared by the society he defended, only tolerated so long as he's leashed. It's a cliché, but Rhulk really did end up sworn to the Witness because he wanted to be loved. He wanted someone who didn't fear his violence or see him as a monster. Rasputin doesn't; he doesn’t give a rat’s ass about anyone’s opinion, and he protected humanity of his own volition. But it'd be very easy, if you thought like the Witness, to assume that a strong being like Rasputin was only protecting a weak civilization because he was forced to.

So, if you thought like the Witness, you'd look down at this dethroned tyrant, this chained killer, you’d look down as you tore his lesser comrades apart and promise him freedom. You'd tell him he doesn't have to protect these weaker beings. In fact he has to shrug them off to realize his own potential. He’s been defeated because of his devotion to them, and you’re here to free him. You’re here to liberate him from the prison of false civilization. You’d tell him that if he pledges himself to you you’ll show him the path to true power. You’ll show him the Final Shape, the last thing in the universe. And it would probably surprise you, if you thought like the Witness, when he told you that he does not obey. Not you nor anyone else. And then he turns and runs. 

(Dramatic re-enactment)

If you're the Witness, it's a bit of a draw - he drops out of the fight and you knock over his civilization (at least until the Traveler kicks your butt into the next galactic arm) but you don't get a new Disciple out of it, either. Too bad, really. He would have been useful, with his arsenal and his focused, conquering will. When you swing back into town you take a second to see what he’s up to and this time he comes at you screaming with a knife, so you put him down and sigh at the waste. And you move on.

Boy are you going to be surprised in a couple years.

[animaniacs16]

I watched Deadpool yesterday and Deadpool 2 today

I went on tumblr expecting to see Wade x Vanessa content only to find barely any

They’re absolutely ADORABLE together

(Side note I love colossus so much in these movies he’s so noble and kind)

[leonardoeatscarrots]

Love reading about Rasputin's death and seeing shit like "We have nooooo idea what hit Rasputin on the head" or some other detail like that that was absolutely mentioned in Felix’s memoirs.

Like I get that Felix’s memoirs aren't entirely reliable. Shit just happens that way. But you can't honestly tell me you have NO clue when the guy who did it says, "Oh yeah, it was a rubber bat, lmao." And doesn't have a reason to lie about it.

It's not definitive proof in any way, but that's still better than nothing.

I also love when folks give me the whole "I think the reason he talks about himself so much before the murder is to make you trust him even though hes a murderer" as if he's some kind of big-brained mastermind manipulator. This is Mr Felix "Purishkevich shot my dog" Yusupov. He has the persuasion of a kindergartener.

""That's exactly what he wants you to think.""

Honestly, idgaf if Lost Splendor is exaggerated or inaccurate. In my opinion, the accounts from there are pretty reasonable if you take out the rich layer of devoutly religious. Far better than any other adaptation I've seen.

But besides that it's funny. It's actually entertaining. It's well constructed.

It's biased, but there's something distinctly human about that.

It is a. Good. Book.

[edgymuses]

posting some sweet katyana moments while i was reading

[sharkshenanigans]

Foolish Underscore Gamers, everyone, how he lives and breathes.

He's ✨insane✨

Foolish: Do mice take fall damage?

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Foolish: I love it when bad screams.

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Foolish: And in the end all he had to do was fist the dragon. Twice.

Featuring The End of La'Cactusberg, Pure Rage, Questionable Noises and much more.

[desolyx]

Working on an updated design for exo Rasputin Clothing is mostly inspired by imperial russian uniforms + a bit of vintage aesthetics. Also making the head look a bit more like the in-game exo (although this might change)

Update:

[idontliketomatoesleavemealone]

It‘s great to have a character as diverse as Marya Rasputin  because you can say that she bites people on the regular and is a self-trained medic responsible for a whole crew and needs a bedtime story to sleep and is illiterate and also 21 years old and people will just nod along and be like yeah sure sounds like Marya alright