#I forgot the fucking title

[artiificiial]

the lovers

[luck-of-the-drawings]

!!! FLASHING LIGHTS WARNING!!! [IM NOT FUCKIN AROUND!!]

REACHED THE CUSP OF 'THIS MAY NEVER BE ABSOLUTELY FINISHED N IF I DONT SHOW IT NOW, IT WILL NEVER SEE THE LIGHT OF DAY.' SO HERE, A PROJECT IVE BEEN ORBITING AROUND UHH SINCE 2021 OR SO.

[nerdyenby]

I forgot real life was a thing… like Real Life; like the sixth installment of the Life Series — the April Fool’s special: Real Life. I just abruptly remembered that happened.

[sundial-bee-scribbles]

🖤🩶🤍💜

[hanzajesthanza]

dandelion is indeed the worst but if he’s not present in the next book i would legitimately be sorrowful as the whole thing will become a slog . you basically cannot have the “short stories” era-of-the-timeline iteration of geralt without dandelion, it would be like eating unbuttered bread.

though it’s not like season of storms did them dirty, i wasn’t disappointed with it (… with regards to them), but since it’s literally been over 20 years since the saga was finished i’m trying to prepare for any potential reality

[lesbiansanemi]

For the first time since I can remember I did not hate every second around my family and… not only that actually…. Kinda enjoyed myself? Idk, just got home and I’m real tired but I think that’s just cuz I was up early and busy and then had the drive home. Christmas stuff and all that. My mom did…? Get me a pair of shoes that were lesbian colors…. I can’t tell if that was some insane coincidence and she didn’t know or her trying to say/do something all things considered. Apparently my siblings kept telling her I wouldn’t like them when she picked them out (which is fair I wear almost exclusively all black and mostly boots over tennis shoes) but she insisted so…. Mmm…. On the one hand I wish she would just like… say something? But if it was some weird way of being supportive I guess it was kinda sweet? Idk. I might be reading into it and it was just a coincidence

They also all insisted on helping me move in February which kinda has me like ???? Because I’ve moved four times since I’ve moved out and they have never once done a THING to help even when I lived much closer but I’ll take it cuz that means I won’t have to rent a truck cuz they’ll bring theirs and I won’t have to hire ppl to move the big furniture so that’s a lot of money I’ll be saving

They're also giving me one of the beds and mattresses from my great grandma's house since they've been clearing it out after she died a few months ago because when they asked what all I would I have to move and didn't say a bed and then explained my bed is a 20+yo mattress laid directly on the floor they were like :/ which obvi I know wasn't ideal I just couldn't afford to get a new one but now I won't have to. Obviously it's used but it's still only a year or so old they said, and I don't think I've EVER had a mattress that wasn't at least 15 years old so that'll be nice. I hope it helps some of my back issues...

Anyways, idk what fucking happened to these people in the span of a couple months but it kinda feels unreal

[its-all-papaya]

nutcracker fic is done (pending editing)

she'll be up tomorrow at some point :)

[unforth]

I was supposed to start working at like 8:30 this morning and instead I've sat here playing with books because of the Hai Tang Books announcement.

All the books I want from Via Lactea: $287.95 CAD + shipping

All the books I want from Aloha Comics: $232.20 USD + shipping

All the books I've got on my Bookshop.org Wish List: $981 USD + shipping

All the books I've already pre-ordered from our local bookshop: approx. $650

All the books I can't even pre-order yet but know I want: ???????

Knowing that even if I can't afford it all, at least I've got these lists in order, or something: Priceless

[vaperarmand]

mostly i can’t wait to see luca guadagnino’s queer. WELCOME BACK CALL ME BY YOUR NAME ❤️

[spacerockband]

HOURLY COMICS DAY 2023 !!! THEY ARE VERY LATE !!

[gunksplunk]

best petrodragonic song

[aetheternity]

"Venti stans are low key annoying complaining about Venti not being the main focus of the Windblume festival."

First off we do not care. Second off ok???? Literally every character stan complains about their fave not getting enough screen time hop off.

It isn't even about screen time for me. It's about the fact that Venti hasn't truly felt like Venti in several updates. The last time he truly felt like himself was during Weinlesefest but even then he still didn't feel like the Venti we met all the way back during the first archon quest. And I don't wanna hear "hE hAd cHaRaCtEr dEvLoPmEnT." Cause no that isn't what happened, he regressed as a character. He's becoming fanon Venti in game. He gets used for alcohol jokes and Paimon calls him lazy then he dips. 🙄

"He was just in the Lantern Rite.." Shut Up. Shut Up. Shut all the fucking way up! He was terrible in LR and honestly if you cut Venti out of LR you basically have the same event. He did literally nothing of substance and he shouldn't have been there at all.

The first Windblume festival centered around Venti and showed us more of Venti being Mondstadt's archon. The second Windblume festival has barely anything to do with him. Excuse us if we're fucking disappointed, we have every right to be. Like I said literally every character's stans complain about them not getting enough screen time. Yeah sure if every Mondstadt event centered Venti it'd get old but the biggest problem is they decided to center a MONDSTADT EVENT around fucking SUMERU CHARACTERS. Fucking Collei gets more screen time than any Mondstadt character. Which wouldn't be a problem but this is a main Mondstadt event. Even though Venti was in LR 3 he wasn't a main focus he was a background character to the rest of the cast. Which is what Collei should've been cut out Tighnari and Cyno.

Mondstadt has so many underutilized characters and their screen time got spliced for the Sumeru fuckers who already have too much screen time. The entire last five updates have had Cyno in almost everything and Tighnari as well and while Collei has less screen time than them she has yet to be under used. If this was about Collei meeting up with Amber again they could've had that in a different event. If this was about Collei facing her anxiety it could've happened in a different event. They should've just had Sucrose helping Mondstadters cause guess what? You think this is going to be the last time a nation's event gets characters bombarding in? Hell no Fontaine is coming soon we're one hundred percent going to get nation festivals with random characters that have nothing to do with anything probably until the end of the game.

We'll see how happy ya'll are when your fave gets less screen time for some randos that have nothing to do with the nation you care about.

[caracello]

steady hands / don’t flinch.

[they/yip/it for s/i ( >.o)7⌒☆ !]

[hautsreadsmarvel]

“The Fantastic Four” x Four (1961, issues 10-12)

We’re gonna need to start grouping these by subject matter, rather than ordering them purely sequentially.

In this issue, you will find - a fourth wall break (kind of)! The Four answer fan-mail! The most ambitious crossover event in history! And Hauts exploding into tiny little giblets vibrating w inconsolable rage!

Issue 10 has a variation on the classic “the Four moving across New York causes much inconvenience” opening, followed by the officiation of the love triangle (eugh).

And then this happens.

Wadda hael. I thought it was a true fourth wall break at first, but it becomes clear that w/in the canon, the Marvel comic team coincidentally print stories about super-beings that are real in their world (thus how Torch was reading mags about Namor and the Hulk earlier). The extent to which these stories are true is not described, but since Lee and Kirby are coming up with a villain and Reed needs to “discuss a new plot” rather than just recount facts, they can’t be 1:1.

Anyways, as hinted at by the cover art, this is a body swap plot (Reed<-->DOOM). After DOOM’s banishment to space, he was taken in by trusting aliens who taught him one of their mental techniques - body swapping - then out of goodwill returned him to his planet. The other Four realize the deception when a false threat sees “Reed” scrambling to save himself and “DOOM” taking one for the team. DOOM gets swapped back to his old body when his concentration on the spell lapses, and then gets shot with his own shrinking ray. It’s a fine story, about as good a plot as we’ve gotten so far.

It also includes this funny gem:

Thankfully, DOOM’s internal monologue acknowledges this as bullshit double-talk, rather than it being a true Marvel-scientific fact.

As for character exploration, we are twice told straight-up Reed is the most goody two-shoes of the Four, so I guess that’s supposed to be his defining character trait. A shame that trait is shared by almost every other hero from this era.

Is it Reed’s aura of Good or his deep implied friendship with the Thing that causes the following reaction? Unsure, but this is pretty sweet:

Also, now that you mention it, it is a little weird to park an obviously expensive and desirable vehicle where anyone can freely access its controls.

Raw bullshit. I hope to see less “heat mirages” from the Torch, frankly his pyrokinesis is already versatile enough w/o adding illusions to the package too.

Issue 11 contains a brand-new alien species we will probably never hear from again, ‘cos they’re way OP compared to everything else so far. A “Poppupian” - a shapeshifter that can turn into virtually anything, even a rocket ship, an “asbestos-bladed buzz saw”, a mass of animate flower petals, or even a bomb that can detonate w/o being harmed and then reform itself - visits Earth and causes chaos because it just wants to have fun, not understanding the chaos it is causing. After the Four battle it and manage to endanger its life, they then attempt to save it, causing it to decide to stay on Earth with its new friends. This causes even more havoc, until Reed gets a bright idea and tells everyone on Earth to ignore the alien. After a few weeks of antics, it grows so bored it leaves. This is a refreshing and light adventure, again, on the upper crust of the stories we’ve gone thru so far.

“The Impossible Man” is an alright nom inventé, but it feels infringingly close to the already-used “Miracle Man”. I’m usually a sucker for this old style of titling characters, but I feel like there were cooler possible names for the Poppupian.

This issue also contains answers to irl fan-mail, framed as them answering in-universe fan-mail. This includes the story of how Reed and the Thing met in college, following up to the fateful day they gained powers. Neat. It also includes this:

…This is not a particularly compelling argument, even before the Thing implies it’s not cool to like Rhea Ripley. WRONG! SCUFFED! LOSER!! Thing, how could you?? Sue certainly needs more moments to shine, but I’m aware that at some point later in the comics she gains forcefield abilities too, so they probably couldn’t figure out any other way to make her “pull her weight”.

Finally, I think this issue contains the first usage of the word “clobber” by the Thing. Not “it’s clobberin’ time”, just “clobber”. Thought that was a neat lil bit of trivia to throw in here.

Issue 12 - the first bridging of the worlds. If you are wondering how long a “book-length epic!!” is, it’s 23 pages, not including the cover. Books are thinner in the Marvelverse, you heard it here first!

Wait, did I mention Alicia and the Thing are together? It starts offscreen (hm. offpanel), and I forgot to mention it in whatever issue it gets canonized in.

Gen. Ross commissions the Four to find and neutralize the Hulk.

Hey, remember when you could trust that a photo you saw was depicting a real thing since doctoring images is real hard? Yeah, me neither, Photoshop - or whatever the correct term is for whatever photo touch-up tech de jure predated it - has been around longer than I’ve been on the ‘net.

BURN. Just like that, even tho “Thunderbolt” Ross shows a compassionate side when asking Reed if the teenaged Torch should really be on this mission, Ross descends to the nadir of the F tier. Reed also takes a hit. Reed, please evolve into a real character with distinct and likeable attributes beyond “altruist” at some point.

Fantasti-car gets a glow-up. It can still split into 4 pieces, just looks cooler.

Wait wait wait - I was kidding about wanting Rick Jones to develop an actual personality. Is that actually beginning to happen? Will he become… eugh… a character I actually want to keep around? No. No, I will keep hating on him until the day he vanishes from the record. The Hulk doesn’t have sidekicks, fuck that noise.

The Hulk and the Four have a cool fight where they all get to show off… except for Sue, who only gets to disarm an “atomic ray” from a… commie spy… are you FUCKING KIDDING ME

I’ve been tricked! Hornswoggled! Deceived once more! Worse, this time they recognize who the true villain is ‘cause his wallet contains a membership card for a “subversive communist-front organization”!

Gods, what happens in the next issue - the Fantastic Four raze UC Berkeley?

[skhardwarevers1]

tell me why I had a Spanish exam. And I had a writing section. And I just decided to write about house of leaves. In Spanish

[oh-meow-swirls]

was looking through old posts and i'm surprised to see that i seemingly didn't have any commentary on anything in 3 in chapter 7, 8 or 9, the posts related to 3's story go from "my first reaction when i saw yopple-bot was 'i love you. but also you are definitely the boss for this chapter-'" to "i have been in hell all day. hell being bada-bing tower." funny to me cuz those chapters are like, the best ones sdfkljsdfjfsdkjlfsdjkl-