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zeddpool · 7 months ago
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Yo @dawnquafam , you called?
Fr tho, this was fun to draw
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(for anyone wondering, Idk who Sheryl is either, it’s just that “Suck it everyone who said I was crazy for believing in Atlantis” wasn’t quite as funny)
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zeddhood · 11 months ago
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Maybe it’s just because I’m a huge sucker for rarepairs, but idk, I feel like Orm/Dr. Shin has potential
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honkytonk-hangman · 3 months ago
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Water Like a Stone (3/?)
[Orm Marius x Reader]
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Summary: Exiled on land and taken in by Tom Curry at the Lighthouse, Orm is introduced to family friend and Marine Park Ranger Grace, a woman unafraid of swimming with sharks and whose job it is to care for the Amnesty coastline... How is he not to adore her.
Warnings: Language, sexual references, mentions of almost drowning? Reader is named, but it shouldn't come up too often, it just makes it easier to write xxx
Notes: This is set post The Lost Kingdom, and is a slight AU given that in this story Atlantis hasn't yet come forward to the world. This is my first time writing for Orm, I hope you enjoy it!! TY to @hangmanssunnies you are my ROCK!!!!!!!
Word Count: 5.5k
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Arthur grins at Orm from across the room. Orm, for his part, ignores him.
“Grace’s really got you domesticated, huh?” he says, grinning wider when the seal pup in his brother’s arms fusses, and Orm shushes her. The blond looks up at his brother, and glares.
“Stop disturbing her, she’s meant to be feeding,” he scolds, turning back to the pup swaddled in his arms like a baby. He adjusts the bottle in his fingers.
“You know, when dad asked me if we had any leftover baby bottles, I was hoping that meant Junior would be getting a playmate,” Arthur tells him jovially.
Orm looks up at him sharply, and frowns.
“He does have a playmate. Mimi,” he nods at the seal in his arms, her round little body nestled in a towel. Arthur chortles, and nods.
“Yeah, she’s definitely a friendly little thing. Who came up with ‘Mimi’, anyway?” Arthur asks, his voice giving away how ridiculous he found the name. Orm straightens some and fixes his brother with a stern look.
“Grace did,” he tells him, his tone even, as if to let his brother know that he’s ready to defend your choice should he have more to say.
Arthur puts his hands up as if in surrender, but he snickers still.
“Mimi,” he says under his breath. Orm ignores him, and focuses on Mimi again as she finishes off the bottle in his hand, and wiggles impatiently.
“There, perhaps that will stop your mewling,” Orm faux complains, readying himself to plop the seal back on the ground when Arthur starts.
“What are you doing man? You have to burp her!”
Orm looks at his brother with a squint, his lips pursing.
“She’s a seal, she does not need to be ‘burped’,” he argues back, but Arthur is already standing, already in front of him, and already holding out his hands. Orm frowns up at him, and hesitates, but before he can make any choice, Arthur has leant down and plucked the pup from his hands. Orm watches as his brother adjusts the towel to hang over his shoulder, manoeuvring Mimi to rest against it.
He pats her back gently, even as the brat continues to wiggle. Orm stands too, unsure of himself, and wishing to be at hand should Mimi require freeing from his brother’s clutches, but before he can ask Arthur to place her down, she lets out a tiny, hearty little belch.
Orm and Arthur stare at one another. They both open their mouths, but neither gets to speak as a creaking from the doorway catches both their attention and they turn to find Tom, phone camera raised.
“Smile!” Tom says.
Arthur grins wide and gives a thumbs up. Orm frowns. The picture is taken and Orm blinks hurriedly, but turns back to Arthur and takes the seal from him, letting her down to scoot her way over to curl around Tom’s feet and bonk her head against his shins. “Now if you two are done getting on each other's nerves, help me bring the groceries in.”
The brothers comply in relatively friendly silence, making their way out to the car, where the trunk has already been opened. Mimi follows, and only manages to get under their feet once or twice, which is the best Orm could ask for, still, he smiles a little when Arthur almost trips. He accepts two heavy bags from his brother, but finds even though he turned to leave first, Arthur has fallen into step beside him quickly anyway.
“So…” Arthur begins, adjusting a package of toilet paper under arm. “How is Grace?” he asks. Orm sniffs a little, but relaxes himself almost immediately. Despite all evidence, he knows Arthur isn’t trying to get under his skin. The teasing is to be expected, natural even, but he calms, knowing Arthur does not ask for any reason other than to be pleasant.
“She is well,” Orm tells him, and oddly finds that contrary to his natural way of keeping his private affairs private, it isn’t hard for him to want to gush about you. “We have been in one another’s company for two months now,” he goes on, pausing for a moment before continuing. “I believe she is happy.”
Arthur, despite the bags in his hands, and the package under his arm, somehow manages to clap him on the shoulder.
“That’s sick, bro. Grace is great, you deserve somebody like that.”
Orm hums, unsure how to respond to that statement.
“Hey, did she ever tell you we went on a date once?” Arthur asks then, more mischief in his voice than before. Orm smiles, a little wickedly, but he looks over at his brother and nods.
“Oh, yes. She did not speak very highly of it,” Orm tells him as they ascend the steps and enter the kitchen door.
“What? Man, come on,” Arthur complains, but is quickly directed by their mother to place the bags on the table, and stow the toilet paper in the laundry.
“Atlanna tells me you gifted Grace a necklace the other day,” Mera lights up when she sees Orm. She stands by the windows, Junior perched on her hip and she bounces him ever so slightly. Orm passes by her to deposit his own bags, and side eyes her evenly as he does.
“I do not remember asking my mother to share such information,” he says pointedly, a little louder than necessary so that his mother, who had busied herself in the pantry can hear. As he passes Mera once more, he uses one of his now free hands to smooth over the top of Junior’s hair.
At the boy's soft little cooing, Orm stops, and raises his other hand so that he may cup Junior’s cheeks, chubby, and pink, and briefly mush them gently. Junior lets out a soft squeal and kicks his feet, using his fat little fingers to grasp and curl around Orm’s own hands. Pulling away, Junior fumbles to stay latched on to his uncle’s pointer, to which Orm shakes it faux warningly in his direction.
“Does she even know what that means?” Arthur asks then, reappearing from the laundry with a slight frown. Despite himself, Orm feels a flush form on his skin, and he wills it to leave.
“She will. I will tell her when the time is right,” Orm quickly says, wishing the conversation to be over. Atlanna pokes her head out of the pantry.
“Grace doesn’t know yet that we aren’t humans,” she explains.
Arthur makes a face, but before Orm can respond, his brother whistles as if the conversation should be over. Orm finds that he’s rather thankful.
“Speaking of not being human, Tylo wanted to see you.” Arthur tells him, clicking his fingers. Orm pushes off the counter he’d come to rest against and perks up.
“He’s out in the bay now?” he asks.
“Well, I told him to wait a bit deeper than that, but yeah,” Arthur tells him.
“You wanna go see him?”
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“You’re gonna tell Grace soon right?” Arthur asks, a small amount of concern entering his voice. Orm knew he wasn’t lucky enough to have this conversation just be over. The two brothers trudge up the shore, Orm only glancing behind him briefly when he hears Mimi slap up onto the surface behind them.
“I do not enjoy keeping anything from her, I will tell her soon,” Orm assures his brother quietly. Arthur grunts.
“She’s too smart, and if I’m honest brother,” he begins, stopping briefly to turn to Orm as they reach the crest of the small hill they’d climbed. “If she already likes you, I wouldn't worry about the rest.”
Orm stops to face Arthur, and frowns at him.
“Thank you… I think.”
Arthur grins at him, and claps him on the shoulder. Orm grunts a little, but gives his brother a grim smile. Mimi begins vocalising then, barking happily as she squeezes herself between their legs and hurries forth to the grassy lawn outside the lighthouse. Orm hums lowly at her as she goes, frowning once again.
“What’s got into her?” Arthur asks, dropping his hand from the blond’s back. Orm follows Mimi with his eyes, before quickly straightening up and turning away from his brother entirely.
“Grace is here,” he says absently, no longer paying any mind to the man beside him, finding himself following quickly after the seal pup. Behind him, Arthur makes a whooping noise, and vaguely, Orm hears him begin to trot after, making a sound he assumes to be that of a whip.
Orm ignores him.
By the time he reaches you, you’re sitting on the blanket he assumes had been laid out by his mother, across from Mera. You have Junior in your arms, and you coo at him sweetly. When Mimi reaches you, the brat attempts to crawl up into your lap too, and although you acknowledge her with a swift pet of your hand over her head, you do your best to keep the seal away from the baby.
You don’t notice him, until he’s stepping right up beside you, and gathering Mimi in his arms.
“Orm!” you say with a slight shock to your voice. Orm’s eyes haven’t left you since he first spotted you, and while crouched beside you, he leans in, with only a small amount of hesitation, knowing his mother and Mera sit right there, but regardless, he presses his lips to your cheek, earning a small sound of approval from you as he does.
“I had not expected to see you today,” he says, releasing Mimi as you let Mera take Junior back from you and you attempt to stand. Immediately, Orm straightens and offers you his hand, which you take gratefully, and allow him to help you up. He doesn’t release your hand, which makes you smile shyly at him, but he holds fast and steps slightly away from the blanket, gently guiding you with him.
“Grace!” Arthur interrupts just as you open your mouth to speak. You break your gaze with Orm, and smile politely as Arthur approaches. “Long time no see, chickie!” Arthur says, pulling you in by the shoulders. Your hand is pulled from Orm’s, and you fluster a little, but after a moment you hug Arthur back.
“Hey, what have you been saying about our date back in the day!?” Arthur asks suddenly then, pulling back from you and crossing his arms over his chest, almost intimidatingly. Orm’s heckles rise a little, but they’re calmed almost as soon as he registers Arthur’s words, and a sly grin takes its place on his face. You frown and cock your head. The taller man bucks his chin at the blond, but keeps his eyes on you. “Orm says you thought it was bad!” he faux complains. Orm’s smile widens. You look confused between the two brothers, though your eyes catch on Orm’s grin and the glint in his eyes.
“I never said anything like that,” you say slowly, realisation dawning on both you and Arthur, and you snort in amusement. Orm lets out a short, low chortle at the look on his brother’s face and you step back toward him and elbow him softly in his side. Your own smile takes on an impish quality, and you glance back at Arthur.
“If I’m honest, I don’t remember it much at all,” you tell him slyly, which only makes Orm scoff good naturedly.
“That is more damning than anything I implied,” Orm chuckles, slipping his hand down your still crooked elbow to take up your hand once more. Arthur glares. “If you would excuse us, brother,” the blond says then, sidestepping his brother and once more guiding you several steps away.
“Can you believe that guy?” You hear Arthur ask as both Mera and Atlanna hush him, and he sits down on the blanket, and begins cooing at his son.
“To what do I owe the pleasure?” He asks, knowing it’s much too formal, especially at this point in your relationship, but also knowing that you quite like his formal tendencies.
“I wanted to ask you something,” you say, turning your hand over in his to link your fingers. Orm looks down at your joined hands briefly, and his lips quirk up at the corner of his mouth.
“Anything,” he says, and once upon a time he would have scolded himself for replying as such and so quickly, but here and now, he allows himself the chance to be besotted.
You smile at him, clearly taken by his words, and any of his remaining restraint takes its leave of him.
“My father and I usually take a trip out in the bay once or twice a month, he called today and we’re going to go tomorrow,” you tell him, your eyes briefly flickering out to the water, and it’s such a simple thing, but Orm can’t help but feel his heart beat a little heavier in his chest at the clear adoration and joy in your gaze. “I thought maybe you’d like to come.”
The wind blows between you, dislodging some of your hair, which you quickly brush back. Orm watches, enchanted by you, and perhaps for the first time being struck by the thought that he’s glad to have been exiled to the surface, glad that he has the chance to experience such wind, experience the way it serves to highlight things about you he never might have known had he lived his entire life below the water’s surface.
“I would be honoured to accompany you both,” he tells you, not realising how his grip on your hand has tightened. You startle a little, as if you hadn’t expected him to accept your offer.
“Great!” You say excitedly, bopping up on your heels for a moment. Orm’s lips only widen in their smile, and he nods. “Well, we’ll meet you down by the docks in town at around nine,” you say.
“I look forward to it immensely,” Orm says, a light and airy feeling filling his chest at the prospect. You grin at him, but a moment later you blink rapidly and your smile drops a little.
“… My father can be a little strange, so you’ll have to forgive him for that,” you say, sounding a little nervous. Orm can’t help the chuckle that bubbles out of him at that.
“I am also strange, am I not?”
You laugh as well, and you squeeze his hand.
“You are, but in a different way,” you say, still smiling, but a small frown creasing your brows. Orm can’t help but recall his brother’s words from only a short while ago, of you being too smart to keep in the dark for much longer. His skin itches uncomfortably as he’s more aware of his dishonesty now than he normally feels cognisant of, and he doesn’t like it.
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The moment Orm meets Captain Havelock’s eyes, his blood runs cold. Your father looks him over in one swift glance, before meeting his eye again, and Orm feels a sickening feeling settle in his stomach.
He knows.
“Dad!” you say happily as you release Orm’s hand and step forward to where your father waits on the docks, beside the gangway that’s set up. Captain Havelock swivels his gaze away from Orm and to you, where his thick beard twitches and beneath the neatly groomed fuzz, a small smile appears. The pulled tautness of his eyebrows doesn’t disappear, however, despite the sinking feeling Orm has, he gets the distinct impression that is just your father’s face.
“Gracie,” Captain Havelock says gruffly, quickly wrapping you up in a tight bear hug. Orm swallows as you pull back, and your father adjusts to place his hands on his belt, his smile gone now, and he nods in Orm’s direction.
“Whose this, then?” he asks, voice almost entirely unreadable. Orm startles just a little, and despite everything in his body telling him to dive for the water, he steps forward as you gesture for him to do so.
“Dad, this is Orm. Orm, my father,” you introduce simply. Neither man makes to move at first, and Orm practically squirms under the sailor’s intense gaze.
“Call me Phillip,” your father eventually says simply, leaning forward and outstretching his hand. Orm nods, and quickly takes up the offered hand, shaking it firmly. Your father grunts, and after peering at him a moment too long, he nods at Orm.
Despite the cold feeling in his blood, oddly, the reaction seems to assure him. He searches his mind for anything he knows of human sailing culture, and jerks his head in the direction of the boat.
“Permission to come aboard?” he asks awkwardly. His eyes cut across to you just behind your father, and although you smile wide in amusement, you say nothing, your own eyes trailing up to your father, who’s grip on his hand tightens ever so slightly and he shakes it one last time, before he uses his free hand to clap Orm’s shoulder in a friendly manner. Before he releases him, Captain Havelock leans in slightly.
“Did Grace tell you that?” he asks. Orm shakes his head. “Good man, come aboard.”
Your father turns on his heel then and stalks heavily up the gangway and onto the modestly sized boat. You come to his side then, and pat his arm, shooting him an almost sympathetic smile, tinged with amusement.
“He likes you,” you say assertively, taking the hand Orm offers to you as you too mount the walkway, and move confidently over the bridge. Orm frowns and purses his lips.
“I am not so sure of that,” he says, mostly to himself, and follows you when you beckon.
Orm watches on as you and your father work in quiet unison to get ready to make off. He feels a little useless, but follows the tasks curiously with his eyes. He’s watching you lean over the boat to grasp at the mooring line when he perks up and steps around a large tack box in the middle of the small aft deck, placing his hands briefly at your sides to let you know he is there, and allowing you to step away. Orm reaches over and easily unties the knot around the docking post, his muscle memory from his duties at the lighthouse taking over as he begins to wind the rope up neatly.
“Hang it there,” you tell him, pointing to a hook on the inside of the boat, and he obeys, dusting his hands off once he’s done. Looking up, and around at the craft, Orm pauses when from inside the large covered cabin, he spies your father watching him intently, the other man not bothering to look away or act as though he had been doing anything else as the two make eye contact.
Instead, Captain Havelock siddles himself out of the fastened open door, and nods at the two of you.
“Ready to make sail?” he asks, and with an affirmative from the both of you, he returns back inside, and after only a few more moments of lingering by the pier, the boat's engines kick in, and you begin to move.
Orm comes to a quick conclusion that he enjoys being on a boat. It takes him a moment to gain his steadiness, but he finds it not unlike being beneath the waves, and the way Atlanteans are able to stabilise themselves despite the currents and the movement of the water around them. The salty air around him is familiar in a strange way, and despite the ‘foul weather’ (as Tom had called it earlier), he also enjoys the way the sea spits up and splashes against the sides of the boat as you cruise further and further away from the land.
“Why are you nervous?” you ask sometime later, exiting the cabin to find him where he stands on the back deck, looking out over the sea. Orm turns to you, hands clasped behind his back, but before he can unwind a hand to hold out for you, you sidle up to his side and wrap both your hands around his bicep, leaning your cheek on his shoulder. Orm straightens a little, making sure he stands steady for you, and looks back out at the water.
“Your father is not an unintimidating man, and he is your father,” he says truthfully, fighting against all instincts that tell him not to admit such a thing to you.
You chortle softly and lift your head briefly to kiss the top of his arm. He looks down at you, raising an eyebrow, but watches you as you rest your head once more against him.
“I am waiting for the moment in which he gives me, as Arthur called it, ‘the third degree’,” he says. You laugh again, and squeeze his arm a little, running your fingers up and over it.
“That’s not going to happen. You asked to come aboard his boat, trust me,” you tell him. Orm lets out a small scoff, and you lift your head again, this time manoeuvring around to his front, sliding yourself between him and the back of the boat, slipping both your hands up his arms and over his shoulders, before wrapping them around his neck.
“My dad isn’t like that. He’s had to leave for weeks at a time for work throughout my life, he trusts me, he trusts my opinion, and my opinion is that I like you,” you say, and despite this information not being exactly news to him, he feels his heart beat a little faster in his chest anyway. He unclasps his hands at last, and rests them lightly at your waist, smoothing his thumbs up and down over your thick knit sweater. “So his opinion is that he likes you too,” you tell him.
Orm hums, unconvinced, and looks up over your head briefly, before lowering his chin once more to meet your gaze. You roll your eyes some and shrug your head to the side. “Besides,” you say. “He’s the one who gave me my big knife,” you tell him, your voice dipping lower. His hands tighten a little around your middle and your lips curl upwards at his immediate reaction. “I can handle myself if you decide to mess me around,” you say.
Orm does not even give thought to the idea, instead he dips his head forward even more, almost so your faces touch.
“You know how I feel about that knife,” he says, brushing the tip of his nose over yours. You laugh, and kip up on your toes slightly to press a soft, short kiss to his lips. It's over much too soon for his liking, and when you pull away, he can’t help but chase you, resting his forehead against your own. “But I will defer to your opinion on such matters,” he says quietly, his eyes still fixed on your lips, and his voice barely above a whisper.
“Good,” you say simply, removing your hands from around his neck to cup his cheeks. He can’t help but lean into your touch, comforting as it is for him.
The boat slows, before eventually coming to a stop, and heavy footsteps from behind him make you both break apart slightly, to look over at your father, where he stands now in the doorway of the cabin.
“Orm,” he says roughly, almost barking it out. “Would you like to steer the boat?”
Orm looks back down at you, his eyebrows raised in surprise, and you remove your hands from where they’d come to rest against his collarbones, to tap his arms in encouragement.
“I told you so,” you say. “He never lets anyone drive his boat.”
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You watch as your father and Orm disappear into the cabin, but quickly you turn your head back out to the waves all around you, scanning the water. The weather may have been overcast and rainy, but it was beautiful out in the bay all the same. You smile when you feel the boat lurch a little, before it begins to move at a steady, slow pace, and you lean against the railing of the aft deck to watch the water.
Normally on these trips you take with your father, you’d expect to see Khan. He recognised your father’s boat, and you would often get updates from him about your finned friend when your father took tourists or the like out, and he’d assure them not to worry about the tiger shark trailing behind them. Sometimes, he’d even throw a fish or two back out to him.
You don’t see Khan, in fact you don’t seem to see any of the sea life you normally would expect to find in water this deep, and you hum to yourself, finally pushing off the railing to return inside. You pause upon entering, finding Orm and your father with their backs to you, Orm’s hands firmly set on the wheel, your father standing beside him, neither speaking, both simply staring out at the ocean ahead. You scoff internally, and roll your eyes.
Of course they’d get along. You knew they would. They were different stripes of strange, but they were both strange nonetheless, and it brings a smile to your face.
“Hey Dad,” you interrupt whatever it is they have going on in here, and your father turns his head back to you, not yet taking his eyes off the water, however. “Have you seen Khan out there today?” you ask. Your father grumbles and shakes his head. He points off to the left, and silently you watch as Orm gently turns the wheel in his hands to follow the wordless direction. You roll your eyes again.
“I haven’t seen the king in several days,” he says to you. Orm’s head twitches slightly to the side, but it’s as if he resists looking away from his work.
“Haven’t seen many fish, either, mind you,” he goes on after a few seconds. You frown.
“What? Really? In this season?” you ask, intrigued. Your father turns back to you at last, standing side on to look between you and the water ahead of the boat.
“Aye… Mighty strange,” he says, gaining a conspiratorial edge to his voice. “Almost as if something bigger has come up closer into the bay. Scaring ‘em all off…”
“Something bigger?” Orm asks, finally looking away from the water to frown at your father.
You watch them, almost appearing to have a silent conversation as they stare at one another, and you almost expect Orm to say something more, but you cock your head when he blinks rapidly, and suddenly looks away. You shake your head. Strange, you think.
Orm clears his throat, and his shoulders square up.
“Well whatever it is, it probably wouldn’t stay in water this shallow for very long,” he says. Your father stares intensely at the side of his face, and you ready yourself to tell him to cut it out.
“Aye, is that so?” he asks. Orm glances back over at him, seemingly anxious, meeting your fathers eye and nodding once.
“That’s what I would imagine,” Orm replies, uncomfortably, and you at last step forward, gaining your father’s attention and giving him a stern look. He lightens up almost immediately, but grunts and turns back to the water.
“We’ll stop over here, see if the lines have any luck.”
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Orm returns to the lighthouse in the dying evening light, a parcel of trout and striped bass in his hands. He feels a strange mixture of lightness and heaviness swirling around his chest, and he’s glad Tom and Arthur are both sitting at the kitchen table when he enters, closing the backdoor softly behind him.
“How’d it go?” Arthur sing-songs. Orm gently rests the parcel of fish meat on the table and purses his lips.
“He knows. About me. About us,” he says grimly. Tom only lets out a short, sharp chuckle, drawing the blond’s attention, and he frowns at the older man.
“I imagine he does,” he says, as if that is supposed to make him feel better. Arthur only nods along.
“How?” Orm tries not to grind out.
Tom shifts in his seat, pulling out the one beside him, and after only a moment of pause, Orm huffs, and sits down.
“Man spent years at sea, if he didn’t pick up a thing or two about the truth, I’d be worried,” he says lightly, before shrugging his shoulders, conceding. “Besides… he told me a story many years ago, said he fell off a ship once, started sinking real deep in all his gear… but was saved by a man who swam up from the depths, took him back to the surface, then disappeared… tell me that doesn’t sound like an Atlantean, or what-have-you.”
Orm flattens his lips and frowns even deeper.
“Grace never told me that,” he says, wishing he had been able to hear the story from you. Arthur waves his hands and takes a sip of the beer set in front of him.
“She probably wouldn’t. Humans get judgy about stuff like that, and Grace is a Ranger,” he says. “She probably just wants to keep the ‘professional’ trust folks around here have in her. You start talking about mermaids or whatever,” he makes a poof’ing noise and motion with his hands. Orm looks to Tom, who nods solemnly.
Orm startles then and looks back at Arthur.
“He knew Tylo had been out in the bay,” he says hurriedly. “He said ‘something big’ had been scaring off Khan and all the fish, you must make sure he retreats deeper!” Orm tells him firmly. Arthur’s face perks up into a wide grin and he leans forward.
“Khan’s still coming by? Man, I love that guy,” he says, ignoring the point of what his brother is telling him.
“Arthur–” Orm begins again, trying to sound stern, and reasonable, but Arthur only rolls his eyes and waves his hand again.
“I sent him back off to Atlantis this afternoon, stop worrying!” he says. Orm frowns deeper and purses his lips. “Besides,” Arthur goes on. “Maybe all this will finally get you to tell Grace the truth,” he shrugs.
Orm lets out an annoyed grumble and sits back in his chair.
“Why are you so concerned with how I handle my relationship?!” he asks, sounding a little more aggressive and angry than he really means to. Arthur shrugs again, still smiling, clearly pleased with himself for getting under his brother’s skin.
“Just think, no more lying, no more–”
“–I have never lied to Grace,” he growls, offended at the mere idea of doing so. Arthur’s smile falls some and he leans forward, matching Orm’s own aggression now.
“But you haven’t told her the truth, either, have you?” he bites back. Orm has really no recourse for that, and he snarls. “You can’t talk to her, really talk to her about your life, who you are. She won’t ever really know you,” Arthur says angrily. “And the longer you keep it from her, the worse it will be!”
Orm stands suddenly, as does Arthur, but neither man has the opportunity to act or say any more, as their mother appears in the doorway, hands on her hips and with danger in her eyes.
“Arthur! Enough!” she says, and both men are immediately cowed. “Your brother is capable of making his own judgments, and we will not have this discussion again, do you hear?”
A beat of silence passes between the two men, with Arthur huffing under his breath and taking his seat once more. Orm stays standing, but calms himself. He fixes his brother with a piercing look.
“My past is not an easy thing for me to wish to discuss… with anyone, let alone Grace. But I would not keep it from her, she has a right to know who I am, and what I’ve done,” he says heavily. Arthur stares at the table for a moment, before lifting his eyes to meet his brother. “And at that point I imagine she will make a choice to be with me or leave me,” he goes on, sucking in a deep breath. “And I am not ignorant of that fact.”
With that, Orm leaves the dining room entirely, not exactly shrugging off his mother’s hand that she places on his shoulder as he passes, but he certainly does not stay to talk further, trudging up to his room. Mimi wakes from the little bed of throws and cushions someone had made for her on the couch as he passes, and he’s halfway to the second floor before he hears her barking for him pathetically from the foot of the staircase.
Letting out a huff, he stops on the landing, and closes his eyes, before returning back down and picking her up. She mewls into his shoulder as he rests her against his chest, and absently he pets the back of her head as he once more ascends the stairs, and disappears into his room.
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random-movie-ideas · 5 months ago
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DC Cinematic Universe Pitch (TL;DR version)
So, in case you didn't have the time or interest to read through the hundred+ reblogged layout of the DC cinematic universe I was proposing over the last while, here's a relatively truncated version of that:
(Edit: Apparently it undoes my tabbing when not in edited mode, so I'm going to try bolding)
PHASE ONE
Title*
Elements they introduce*
Wonder Woman
Princess Diana
Queen Hippolyta
Donna Troy
Nubia
The Amazons
Themyscira
Steve Trevor
Barbara Ann Minerva (pre-Cheetah)
Etta Candy
Baroness Paula von Gunther
Doctor Poison
Martian Manhunter
J’onn J’onzz
John Stewart (pre-Green Lantern)
Katma Tui
The Green Lantern Corps
The Guardians
Scar
The Manhunters
The Flash
Barry Allen
Wally West (as Kid Flash)
Iris West
Joe West
Ralph Dibny (pre-Elongated Man)
Sue Dibny
The Rogues
Captain Cold
Captain Boomerang
Heat Wave
Weather Wizard
The Trickster
Pied Piper
Green Lantern
Hal Jordan
Thaal Sinestro (still a Green Lantern)
Abin Sur
Kilowog
Arisia Rrab
Salaak
Ch’p
Carol Ferris (pre-Star Sapphire)
Thomas Kalmaku
Red Lantern Corps
Atrocitus
Dex-Starr
Aqualad
Jackson Hyde
Garth of Shayeris
The concept of Atlantis
Atlan, the Dead King
Black Manta
Cal Durham
Dr. Stephen Shin
Black Jack
Eel
Scavenger
Charybdis and Scylla
Green Arrow
Oliver Queen
League of Shadows (Mentioned)
Black Canary
Roy Harper
Deathstroke
Deadshot
Task Force X
Amanda Waller
Count Vertigo
Vlatava
Justice League
Batman
Aquaman
Superman
Martha and Jonathan Kent
Lois Lane
General Zod
Faora-Ul
Ursa and Non
Jax-Ur
The Kryptonians
The Phantom Zone
Alfred Pennyworth
Queen Clea of Atlantis (briefly)
Teen Titans
Dick Grayson (as Nightwing)
Starfire
Cyborg
Raven
Beast Boy
The HIVE Academy
The HIVE Queen
Doctor Light
The HIVE Five
Bumblebee
PHASE TWO
Wonder Girl
Cassie Sandsmark
Vanessa Kapatelis (pre-Silver Swan)
Circe
Medusa
Superman
Supergirl
Zor-El
The City of Kandor
Brainiac
Darkseid (Mentioned)
Perry White
Jimmy Olsen
The Daily Planet
Batman and Batgirl
Barbara Gordon
Jim Gordon
The Mad Hatter
The Joker (in memory)
Catwoman (in memory)
Harley Quinn (in memory)
Two-Face (in memory)
Jason Todd’s death (in memory)
The Penguin (in memory)
The Riddler (in memory)
Killer Croc
Harvey Bullock and Renee Montoya
Nightwing
Tim Drake
Poison Ivy
Clayface
Roman Sionis (pre-Black Mask)
Aquaman
Queen Mera
Orm Marius
Tula Marius
Queen Atlanna
Nuidis Vulko
The Kingdom of Xebel
King Nereus
The Siren
The Trench
Green Arrow 2
Mia Dearden
Brick
Cupid
China White
Wonder Woman 2
Artemis of Bana-Mighdall
Queen Antiope
Bana-Mighdall
The White Magician
Green Lantern 2
Guy Gardner
Ganthet and Sayd
Carol Ferris as Star Sapphire
The Star Sapphire Corps
The Zamarons
Jillian Pearlman
Hector Hammond
Doctor Polaris
Sonar
The Tattooed Man
Hawkman and Hawkgirl
Carter Hall
Shiera Saunders
Prince Khufu
Princess Chay-Ara
Hath-Set
Kent Nelson (as Doctor Fate)
Inza Cramer
Nabu
Supergirl
Linda Danvers
The Silver Banshee
The Flash 2
Linda Park
Elongated Man
Solovar
Gorilla Grodd
Gorilla City
Marvel Family
Billy Batson
Mary Bromfield
Freddy Freeman
Dr. Sivana
Black Adam
The Wizard Shazam
Martian Manhunter 2
Saint Walker
Blue Lantern Corps
Larfleeze
The Orange Lantern
Aqualad 2
Dolphin
King Shark
Justice League 2
Vandal Savage
The Blue Beetle Scarab
Daniel Garrett
Ted Kord
Teen Titans 2
Terra
A new lineup of Task Force X
PHASE THREE
The Atom
Ray Palmer
Jean Loring
Booster Gold
Goldstar
Chronos the Time-Thief
Per Degaton
Firestorm
Ronnie Raymond
Martin Stein
Killer Frost
Jason Rusch (pre-Firestorm)
Superman 2
Lex Luthor
Emil Hamilton
Metallo
Bizarro
Kryptonite and its properties
Batman and Batgirl 2
The Iceberg Lounge
Catwoman, Joker, Harley, Two-Face, Penguin, and Riddler in person
Hugo Strange
Wonder Girl 2
Giganta
Doctor Psycho
Aquaman 2
Corum Rath
Kadaver
Lorena Marquez
The sinking of San Diego
Nightwing 2
Mr. Freeze
Nora Fries
Stephanie Brown
Arthur Brown
Wonder Woman 3
Barbara Ann Minerva as the Cheetah
The Duke of Deception
Marvel Family 2
Darla Dudley
Eugene Choi
Pedro Pena
Victor and Rosa Vasquez
Mister Mind
The Anti-Life Equation
Teen Titans 3
Jericho
Rose Wilson
The Wildebeest Society
Various new Titans
Green Lantern 3
The Sinestro Corps
Amon Sur
Lyssa Drak
Karu-Sil
Despotellis
Arkillo
Anti-Monitor
Parallax mentioned
Other Lanterns like Boudikka and Tomar-Re
Supergirl 2
Earth Three
Ultraman
Owlman
Superwoman
Power Girl
The Crime Syndicate
Alexander Luthor and family
Mr. Mxyzptlk
Martian Manhunter 3
Mongul
Warworld
Mongal and Mongul Jr.
Lobo
Big Barda
The Flash 3
Bart Allen
Meloni Thawne
Reverse Flash
Don and Dawn Allen
Time travel using the Speed Force
Green Arrow 3
Shado
Merlyn
Bronze Tiger
League of Shadows
Connor Hawke mentioned
Death of Oliver Queen
Justice League 3
Darkseid
Apokolips
Desaad
Granny Goodness
Mr. Miracle
New Gods
ANIMATED UNIVERSE
Superman
Earth Two
Golden Age Superman
Golden Age Lois Lane
The Ultra Humanite
Delores Winters
Plastic Man (Cameo)
Wonder Woman
Golden Age Wonder Woman
Eviless
Hypnota
Maxima
Jay Garrick
Jay Garrick
Johnny Quick
Jesse Quick
Mirror Master
Rainbow Raider
The Thinker
Aquaman
Golden Age Aquaman
Lori Lemaris
Topo
King Neptune
The Fisherman
The Malignant Amoeba
Batman
Golden Age Batman
Golden Age Robin
Golden Age Joker
Golden Age Penguin
Golden Age Catwoman
Golden Age Riddler
Bat-Mite
Alan Scott
Alan Scott
Rose Canton
Jennifer-Lynn Hayden (Pre-Jade)
Doiby Dickles
Ma Hunkel
Solomon Grundy
Justice Society of America
Mr. Terrific (Terry Sloane version)
Johnny Thunder
Hawk and Dove
Metamorpho
The Justice Society
The Legion of Doom
STANDALONE TRILOGY
Clark Kent
Earth Prime
Teenage Clark Kent
Jonathan and Martha Kent
Lana Lang
Pete Ross
Leslie Willis (pre-Livewire)
Chloe Sullivan
Whitney Fordman
The Toyman
Clark Kent 2
Teenage Lois Lane
Krypto the Super-Dog
The Parasite
Clark Kent 3
The Multiverse
Leslie Willis as Livewire
Atomic Skull briefly
CRISIS
Crisis on Infinite Earths (Part 1-3)
True nature of the Anti-Monitor
The imps Qwsp and Quirk
Destruction of Earth Two, Three, and Prime
Death of Barry Allen
Hal Jordan as Parallax
Apparent death of Mr. Miracle and Darkseid
Teenage Clark Kent only survivor of Earth Prime
PHASE FOUR
Superman 3
Doomsday
The death of Superman
Lois pregnant with Jon Kent
John Henry Irons (pre-Steel)
Batman & Batgirl 3
Hush
Arkham hostage situation
Barbara Gordon paralyzed
Jonathan Crane’s allegiance to the League of Shadows revealed
Batman, Catwoman, Joker, Harley, Penguin, Riddler, Two-Face, Poison Ivy, Mr. Freeze, and Killer Croc taken by the League
Wonder Girl 3
Vanessa Kapatelis as Silver Swan
Hawkworld
Kendra Saunders
Fel Andar
The Thanagarians
Katar Hol
Shayera Thal
Nightwing 3
Jason Todd resurrected as Red Hood
Roman Sionis as Black Mask
Firefly
Kyle Rayner
Genocide of the Green Lantern Corps by Parallax
Kyle Rayner
Jennifer-Lynn Hayden as Jade
Alexandra DeWitt
Alexander Nero
The Indigo Tribe
Miss Martian
M’gann M’orzz
Ma’alefa’ak
Despero
Kid Flash
Wally West as the Flash
Hunter Zolomon as Zoom
Golden Glider leading a new team of Rogues
Golden Glider
The Top
Starfire
The original Teen Titans disbanded
The Planet Tamaran
Blackfire
The Citadel
The Planet Rann
Adam Strange
Alanna
Buddy Baker
Aquaman 3
Offscreen death of Aquababy, separation of Aquaman and Mera
Thanatos
Doom Patrol
Niles Caulder
Robotman
Elasti-Woman
Mento
Negative Man
The Brotherhood of Evil
The Brain
Monsieur Mallah
Madame Rouge
General Immortus
General Zahl
Swamp Thing
Swamp Thing
Abigail Arcane
Anton Arcane
John Constantine
Steel
John Henry Irons as Steel
Natasha Irons
Conner Kent AKA Kon-El created
Hank Henshaw becomes Cyborg Superman
Impulse
XS
Owen Mercer, son of Captain Boomerang
Max Mercury
Cobalt Blue
Inertia
Teen Titans 4
The Big Bang
Static
Gear
Aquamaria
Hotstreak
Major Disaster
Rolando Texador
Holocaust
The Blood Syndicate
Zatanna
Zatanna Zatara
Jason Blood and Etrigan
Brother Blood
Cult of Trigon
Blue and Gold
Booster Gold and Blue Beetle’s friendship
T.O. Morrow
The Red Tornado
Maxwell Lord
Watchtower
Firestorm 2
Multiplex
Lorraine Reilly
Jason Rusch becomes Firestorm
Ronnie Raymond dies of cancer
Supergirl 3
Legion of Super-Heroes
Brainiac 5
Cosmic Boy
Saturn Girl
Lightning Lad
Mon-El
Brainiac 13
Kara remains in the future
The Atom 2
Murder of Sue Dibny
Murder of Doctor Light
Kimiyo Hoshi becomes Light
Jean Loring exposed as murderer
Blue Beetle murdered by Maxwell Lord
The Question
Vic Sage
Helena Bertinelli
Victor Zsasz
The Court of Owls
Death of Vic Sage
Justice League 4
Checkmate revealed
Anthony Ivo
Amazo
Jaime Reyes becomes the new Blue Beetle
Secret Society of Super-Villains revealed
Justice League Dark
Zatanna, Constantine, Raven, Swamp Thing, Etrigan, and Jared Stevens form Justice League Dark
Trigon unleashed
Son of Batman
Damian Wayne
Jonathan Crane as the Scarecrow revealed
War of the Gods, Part One
Circe, Cheetah, Giganta, Silver Swan, Doctor Poison, Queen Clea, Zara, and Blue Snowman form Villainy Inc.
Doctor Psycho turned into a pig
Death of Queen Hippolyta
Doors of Death opened
PHASE FIVE
War of the Gods, Part Two
The Firstborn
Murder of Circe, Doctor Poison, Queen Clea, Zara, and Blue Snowman
Ares
Zeus
Hercules
Gods of Olympus
Artemis of Bana-Mighdall returns from the dead
Aquaman, Hawkman, Hawkgirl, and Captain Marvel called on to protect the gods
Death of the Olympian pantheon
Champions of Olympus found a new pantheon
Blue and Gold 2
Booster and Jaime attempt to save Ted through time travel
Rip Hunter
Black Beetle
The Reach
The Bat Family, Part One
League of Shadows prison
Bane
Cassandra Cain
Batman, Catwoman, and eight villains work together to escape
Superboy
Expedition to Krypton
Alexander Luthor Jr.
The Eradicators
Death of Emil Hamilton
Teenage Clark Kent from Earth-Prime becomes Superboy-Prime
Birds of Prey
Black Canary, Huntress, and Renee Montoya as the Question form Birds of Prey
Barbara Gordon as Oracle
Dinah Drake, the original Black Canary
Katana
Sin
Lady Shiva
Sarah Lance as White Canary
The Speed Force
Barry Allen brought from the past
Barry, Wally, Bart, and allies join forces
Godspeed
Professor Alchemy
Death of Eobard Thawne, Hunter Zolomon, and Inertia
Savitar
Death of Max Mercury
Batwoman
Kate Kane as Batwoman
Bette Kane as Flamebird
Duke Thomas
Man-Bat
She-Bat
Zatanna 2
Klarion the Witch-Boy
Lucifer
Swamp Thing 2
Tefe Holland
The Floronic Man
Blackest Night
Jessica Cruz
Simon Baz
Black Hand
Birth of the Black Lantern Corps
Nekron mentioned
Adam Strange
Starro
War between Rann and Thanagar
The Bat Family, Part Two
Ra’s al-Ghul
Talia al-Ghul
Bat Family fully reunited
Deaths of the Joker and Ra’s al-Ghul
Steel 2
Natasha Irons as Steel
Manchester Black
Black Lightning
Jefferson Pierce
Anissa and Jennifer Pierce
Tobias Whale
Joey Toledo
Syonide
Death of Earl Clifford
The Atom 3
Princess Laethwyn
The Morlaidhans
Adam Cray
The Bug-Eyed Bandit
The Micro Squad
Firestorm 3
Ronnie Raymond resurrected as Deathstorm
Connor Hawke
Connor Hawke
Death of Merlyn
The Rogues
Owen Mercer takes his father’s place
Abra Kadabra trades the team’s souls
The demon Neron
Blackest Night, Part Two
Zombie apocalypse caused by the Black Lantern Corps
Resurrection of dead heroes and villains such as Superman, Barry Allen, Hal Jordan, Oliver Queen, the Question, Ted Kord, Jean Loring, Sue Dibny, the Joker, various members of the Suicide Squad, and more
Death of Amanda Waller at the hands of her fallen Suicide Squad members
Creation of the White Lantern ring
All intact zombies restored to life
ANIMATED UNIVERSE, PHASE TWO
Alan Scott 2
Icicle
Icicle Jr.
Jakeem Thunder
Cyclone
Universe still existing despite Crisis
Jennifer missing from this universe
Stargirl
Courtney Whitmore
Pat Dugan
Starman
All-American Kid
Nathaniel Adam’s transformation into Captain Atom
General Wade Eiling
Solomon Grundy’s past revealed
Al Pratt
Al Pratt as Golden Age Atom
Atom Smasher
Michael Holt’s Mr. Terrific
Fire and Ice
Ultra-Humanite’s return
Cyclotron
Hourman
Rick Tyler
Rex Tyler
Matthew Tyler
Hawk becoming Extant in the future
The Spectre
Spectre
Boston Brand’s murder
Doctor Mid-Nite
Beth Chapel (pre-Doctor Mid-Nite)
Eclipso
The Hook
Jay Garrick 2
Shade
The Phantom Stranger
The realization something is wrong with their universe
Justice Society of America 2
The Sandman
The revelation that their universe is preserved through the dreams of Jennifer-Lynn Hayden, residing in Earth-One
CRISIS
Final Crisis (Part 1-3)
Superboy-Prime, Alexander Luthor Jr., and Jennifer-Lynn Hayden the keys to restoring the Multiverse
Krona
Imperiex
Resurrection of Darkseid
Restoration of Earth Two, Earth Three, and Earth Prime
Edit: Let's see how that does.
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adamwatchesmovies · 9 months ago
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Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom (2023)
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While I didn't enjoy this film, that doesn't mean you won't. No matter what I say, the people involved in this project did it: they actually made a movie. That's something to be applauded. With that established...
I like DC’s roster of characters, and I fear this has blinded me to some obvious flaws in films like Wonder Woman 1984, Black Adam and Suicide Squad. I won't make that mistake with Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom.
Four years after the events of the first film, Arthur Curry/Aquaman (Jason Momoa) and Mera (Amber Heard) are married with a newborn son. Arthur is juggling his responsibilities as the king of Atlantis with his superhero-ing and fatherly duties when his enemy David Kane/Black Manta (Yahya Abdyl-Mateen II) reappears. Working with marine biologist Stephen Shin (Randall Park), Black Manta has obtained the mythical Black Trident. With it, he has the power to destroy Aquaman, his family and all of Atlantis.
This film has the pieces needed to construct a great story but doesn't know how. Unlike the other heroes in this universe, Aquaman has loved ones with super abilities. Even normal Atlanteans like his mother, Atlanna (Nicole Kidman) can hold their own in combat thanks to their enhanced strength, quasi-ability to fly (you can move in any direction underwater) and superhuman endurance. Mera can telekinetically control water. Black Manta is a regular, surface-dwelling human with a power suit. To get around this, the film hospitalizes Mera as soon as possible (was the decision made in response to Amber Heard’s courtroom drama? Who knows?), has all of Atlantis deadlocked in political squabbles that prevent them from doing anything - even though they’re all going to die if Black Manta isn’t stopped -, ignores elements from the first film (like that Leviathan we saw Aquaman commanding) and powers up Black Manta through magic strength. The setup alone feels cumbersome.
Black Manta’s plan raises the stakes appropriately, though I’m not sure how well it was really thought out. A part of you can’t help thinking “There had to be an easier way”. The point is, things are dire. With Mera and Atlanna unable to help, Aquaman needs to break his half-brother Orm (Patrick Wilson) out of prison and get him to help. Once Orm and Arthur are together, the movie picks up, largely because they form a tried-and-true dynamic. Aquaman is a goofball. Orm is serious. They’re former enemies, forced to work together. It worked so well in X-2: X-Men United but doesn’t here. Nearly every joke deflates the stakes rather than adds to the movie and with none of the action ever taking place on the surface world, Arthur is never the expert on anything. He’s always basically tagging along as Orm leads. Aside from the whole “waging war on the surface” thing he did before, you begin wondering if he wouldn’t be better suited as a ruler after all.
Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom has lofty ambitions. It wants to say something about pollution and the environment but in the end, doesn’t make any worthwhile points. The catastrophic disasters are mentioned only to give Aquaman a ticking clock; it barely affects his adventure and the resolution is an afterthought. Family is also an important theme… but it’s hampered by Mera and Atlanna being removed from the action so early. These major issues at the screenplay level are augmented by details throughout that make this film feel like it wasn’t thought all the way through. Black Manta’s minions, for example. We often see them walking around in these bulky deep sea diver outfits that must be heavy, difficult to maneuver and hamper the wearer’s vision. Why would they be wearing those outside of the water? How did he even convince said minions to join him on this quest for vengeance?
On a more positive note, Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom feels like a true sequel to its predecessor. Orm grows as a character. Aquaman does as well. We follow up on Black Manta. We get to explore more of the mythology and history of Atlantis. Even so, it’s a disappointment. I don’t think anyone bought the love story between Mera and Arthur in Aquaman. This sequel does nothing to help. Black Manta was not a particularly deep or compelling villain before and he isn’t now either. I won’t criticize it too much for not having Willem Dafoe’s Vulko return - the movie already has a lot of characters - but it’s a shame not to see him again.
As the last film in the DC’s cinematic universe, Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom is the equivalent of a shrug. The humor is much more miss than hit, the characters aren't used to their potential and the action isn't anything special. It does have a great mid-credit sequence - my favorite in a while - but overall, this is a clumsy, forgettable film. (Theatrical version on the big screen, February 11, 2024)
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omg, i was going through your tumblr, and is there any chance you'd share your translation of 'from eden' as gaeilge with us??
Haigh, anon! I can absolutely do that, here you go!
N.B. it should be said that I did this translation in the autumn of 2019, and I don't think it's entirely accurate, especially with the usage of "áille" (beautiful, beauty) as a term of address. Pretty much any time you address someone in Irish you prefix it with "a" (i.e. "a chroí", "a stór", "a thaisce") and I didn't do that here. Also, while "áille" can be a noun it seems most commonly used as an adjective so... yeah. I'm not a fluent gaeilgeoir, much as I wish I was, and there are probably other mistakes I don't notice even now. That being said, I'm not fixing it at this point lol. The translation has problems but I don't know how to fix them while having it work within the rhythm of the song. So here are the lyrics, flaws and all, and I hope they give you some enjoyment.
if anyone wants to build off these lyrics with improvements or use them for a cover, please feel free! though I'd appreciate a brief credit 💖
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As Éidin
Áille
Tá rud éigin tragóideach fút
Rud éigin fíor-draíochta fút
An aontaíonn tú?
Áille
Tá rud éigin uaigneach fút
Rud éigin oiriúnach fút
Tar níos gaire dom
Gan tuirseach, gan searbhas,
Gan íoróin
Gan “nach cuma?”, gan stánadh folamh,
Gan am dom
Curfá:
A chroí, d’aithin mé tú, c’súil le scáthán blianta ó shin
Suíonn idéalachas sa phríosún, thit dea-bhéasa ar a chlaíomh
D’éag soineantacht a’ screadadh; cuir do cheist orm, tá a fhíos agam
Shnámh mé ann as Éidin chun a suí taobh amuigh do dhoras
Áille
Tá rud éigin ainnis faoi seo
Rud éigin muirneach faoi seo
Ó, peaca is é
Dul an trá, picnic a dhear
Dom agus duit.
Téad ina lámh do an fear eile 
A crochadh ón crann
Curfá x 2
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newyorktheater · 5 years ago
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Below is the list of nominations announced tonight for the 15th annual New York Innovative Theater Awards, which celebrates the best of the city’s independent theater — aka Off-Off Broadway. The winners will be announced at a ceremony on September 16th, 2019. This year’s nominees include 147 individual artists and 64 productions presented by 73 theater companies!
Entangled by The Amoralists
In The Bleak Midwinter by Stuffed Olive
Queen by Astoria Performing Arts Center
Truth/Dare by Project Y
#YourMemorial by Pigeonholed
Red Emm and the Mad Monk by The Tank
OUTSTANDING ENSEMBLE
Alex & Eugene Isle of Shoals Productions, Inc. Aja Downing, Reggie Herold, Katherine Leidlein, Joseph M. Mace, Rori Nogee, Noah Pyzik, Jae Shin, Anna Stefanic, Brittany Zeinstra
Hamlet (What Dreams May Come) Ript Theater Company in association with The Secret Theatre Lindsay Alexandra Carter, Ade Otukoya, Chauncy Thomas, Nathan Winkelstein
The Maids The Seeing Place Theater Erin Cronican, Christine Redhead, Gaia Visnar
Plan G Randomly Specific Theatre Allan Hayhurst, Lauren LeBeouf, Tiffany May McRae, Sarah Misch, Larry Phillips, Forrest Weber
Spring Awakening Gallery Players Taylor Bloom, Aaron Braden, Harrison Bryan, Jacob Anthony Cain, Brendan Charles, Osborn Focht, Nick Godfrey, Gaby Greenwald, Nathaniel Gregory, Mikaela Kafka, Raquel Kahn, Isabella King, Thomas Kuklenski, Nicole Lopez, Gaby Mank, Tyler Moscaritola, Mariela Flor Olivo, Amanda Starr
Who Am I This Time? (And Other Conundrums Of Love) Wise Fish Theater Collective in association with Martina Bonolis & Meghan Ginley Zach Gamble, Meghan Ginley, Robin Johnson, Kent Koren, Franco Pedicini, Isabel Shill, Stephen Zuccaro
OUTSTANDING SOLO PERFORMANCE
Amie Cazel Pregnant Pause Good Pilgrim
Kim Katzberg Dad in a Box Eat a Radish Productions
Larry Phillips The Art of Acting: A Master Class with Fozzie Bear Larry Phillips
Laura Sisskin Fernandez You Hold a Pole Everday Playful Substance
OUTSTANDING ACTOR IN A FEATURED ROLE
Bruce Barton Hamlet Hudson Warehouse in association with Susane Lee
Daniel Burns She Calls Me Firefly Parity Productions in association with New Perspectives Theatre Company
Connor Chaney The Harrowing of Hell American Theatre of Actors in association with Collectio Musicorum, Inc.
Desmond Dutcher Mary, Mary Retro Productions
David Leeper Stupid Fucking Bird Stripped Scripts
Jacob Lewis Lovendahl Experimenting with Katz New Ambassadors Theatre Company in association with Julia Botero
Federico Mallet Eight Tales of Pedro The Secret Theatre
Scott McCord The Head Hunter One Shot Deal
OUTSTANDING ACTRESS IN A FEATURED ROLE
Maybe Burke Red Emma and the Mad Monk The Tank & Emma Orme
Adiagha Faizah You Wouldn’t Expect American Bard Theater Company
Melissa Glasgow A Chorus Line Gallery Players
Meghan E. Jones Mary, Mary Retro Productions
Meredith M. Sweeney Catch the Sparrow Isle of Shoals Productions, Inc.
Jo Vetter The Poor of New York Metropolitan Playhouse
Yokko Shinka Ren Gyo Soh
OUTSTANDING ACTOR IN A LEAD ROLE
Adam Belvo The Brutes spit&vigor in association with Jay Michaels Arts & Entertainment
Harrison Bryan Spring Awakening Gallery Players
Braeson Herold Worse Than Tigers The Mill in association with New Ohio Theatre
Milo Longenecker The Fantastical Dangerous Journey of Q Rebel Playhouse in association with 14th Street Y
Vinnie Penna Twelfth Night Boomerang Theatre Company
Olivier Renaud Stupid Fucking Bird Stripped Scripts
Evan Teich Assassins The Secret Theatre
Ronnie Williams Man Frog and Other People Necessary I. T. E. M. S. Project
OUTSTANDING ACTRESS IN A LEAD ROLE
Heather E. Cunningham Mary, Mary Retro Productions
Naomi Lorrain Entangled The Amoralists
Lori Elizabeth Parquet Operating Systems Flux Theatre Ensemble
Mahima Saigal Queen Astoria Performing Arts Center
Lisa Strum whatdoesfreemean? Nora’s Playhouse in association with The Tank
Shannon Marie Sullivan Worse Than Tigers The Mill in association with New Ohio Theatre
Gaia Visnar The Maids The Seeing Place Theater
OUTSTANDING CHOREOGRAPHY/MOVEMENT
Shiloh Goodin Spring Awakening Gallery Players
Eddie Gutierrez A Chorus Line Gallery Players
Alex Johnson Alex & Eugene Isle of Shoals Productions, Inc.
Joey McKneely Shadows, a dance musical Go Joe Enterprises
Shoko Tamal The Tempest The Secret Theatre
Yoshiko Usami Shinka Ren Gyo Soh
OUTSTANDING DIRECTOR
Adam Knight Stupid Fucking Bird Stripped Scripts
Katie Lindsay Red Emma and the Mad Monk The Tank & Emma Orme
Lauren A Shields Assassins The Secret Theatre
Sara Thigpen Twelfth Night Boomerang Theatre Company
Owen Thompson The Tempest The Secret Theatre
Yoshiko Usami Shinka Ren Gyo Soh
OUTSTANDING LIGHTING DESIGN
Annie Garrett-Larsen And Then There Were None The Secret Theatre
Asa Lipton Alex & Eugene Isle of Shoals Productions, Inc.
Anthony Logan Cole The Tempest The Secret Theatre
Kia Rogers Operating Systems Flux Theatre Ensemble
Kia Rogers Real Rodrigo Nogueira in association with The Tank
Cha See Honors Students Tavine Productions
OUTSTANDING COSTUME DESIGN
Michelle Beshaw Duke Oldřich & Washerwoman Božena, the True Story GOH Productions in association with Czechoslovak American Marionette Theatre
Sarah Marie Dixey Hamlet (What Dreams May Come) Ript Theater Company in association with The Secret Theatre
Julia Kulaya Experimenting with Katz New Ambassadors Theatre Company in association with Julia Botero
Marissa L. Menezes Once Upon a Mattress Gallery Players
Ben Philipp Mary, Mary Retro Productions
Yunzhu Zeng Where Is My Maple Town MapleTown Production Company
OUTSTANDING SET DESIGN
Matt Carlin Worse Than Tigers The Mill in association with New Ohio Theatre
Jack Cunningham & Rebecca Cunningham Mary, Mary Retro Productions
Gabriel Firestone Whirlwind Jordan’s Play Lab in association with Rebecca Crigler & Barn Owl, LLC
Lily Guerin The Year of the Solar Eclipse Kyoko & Ezra
Daniel Hogan Friendly’s Fire The Rising Sun Performance Company in association with the Theatre at the 14th Street Y
Matthew D. McCarren Goodbody The Crook Theater Company
Tim McMath Cannibal Galaxy: a love story Between Two Boroughs Productions
OUTSTANDING SOUND DESIGN
Beata Bocek Duke Oldřich & Washerwoman Božena, the True Story GOH Productions in association with Czechoslovak American Marionette Theatre
Margaret Montagna Queen Astoria Performing Arts Center
John Salutz Red Emma and the Mad Monk The Tank & Emma Orme
Aj Surasky Worse Than Tigers The Mill in association with New Ohio Theatre
Jeanne Travis Honors Students Tavine Productions
Fan Zhang Cannibal Galaxy: a love story Between Two Boroughs Productions
OUTSTANDING INNOVATIVE DESIGN
Hao Bai, Eric Marciano & Ildiko Nemeth – for Projection Design Electronic City, The New Stage Theatre Comapny
Yana Birykova – for Projection Design Cannibal Galaxy: a love story, Between Two Boroughs Productions
Magnus Pind Bjerre – for Video Design The Neurology of the Soul, Untitled Theater Co. No. 61
Raquel Cion, Maia Cruz Palileo, & Kim Katzberg for Video Design Dad in a Box, Eat a Radish Productions
Sarah George & Sonya Plenefisch – for Properties Design Whirlwind Jordan’s Play Lab in association with Rebecca Crigler & Barn Owl, LLC
John J.A. Jannone – for Video Design The Female Role Model Project, Transforma Theatre, Inc.
Keo X-Men – for Graffiti Design This Is Modern Art, Blessed Unrest
OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL MUSIC
Karen Bishko, Maxim Moston, & Edison Woods Shadows, a dance musical Go Joe Enterprises
Beata Bocek Duke Oldřich & Washerwoman Božena, the True Story GOH Productions in association with Czechoslovak American Marionette Theatre
Luis D’Elias Eight Tales of Pedro The Secret Theatre
Joe Jung A Midsummer Nights Dream Smith Street Stage
Teresa Lotz Red Emma and the Mad Monk The Tank & Emma Orme
Francesco Santalucia MacBeth First Maria Ensemble
OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL SHORT SCRIPT
Eliza Bent The Beyoncé Adjusted Realists
Kathleen Jones Pregnant Pause Good Pilgrim
Kim Katzberg Dad in a Box Eat a Radish Productions
Teresa Lotz She Calls Me Firefly Parity Productions in association with New Perspectives Theatre Company
Larry Phillips The Art of Acting: A Master Class with Fozzie Bear Larry Phillips
Carrie Robbins The Dragon Griswynd Days of the Giants LLC
OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL FULL-LENGTH SCRIPT
Emily J Daly #yourmemorial Pigeonholed
Gabriel Jason Dean Entangled The Amoralists
Tori Keenan-Zelt Truth/Dare Project Y Theatre Company
Dorothy Lyman In The Bleak Midwinter Stuffed Olive, Inc. in association with Allison Threadgold & Tana Sirois
Alexis Roblan Red Emma and the Mad Monk The Tank & Emma Orme
Madhuri Shekar Queen Astoria Performing Arts Center
Charly Evon Simpson Entangled The Amoralists
OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE ART PRODUCTION
The 11th Dimension ETdC Projects’ Lab in association with Roi Escudero & Valentin Ewan
Arkham Part of the 10th Annual H.P.Lovecraft Festival Radiotheatre in association with Theatre At St.John’s
Befuddled 101 Amnesia Wars Productions
Electronic City The New Stage Theatre Company
The Harrowing of Hell American Theatre of Actors in association with Collectio Musicorum, Inc.
now my hand is ready for my heart: intimate histories LaMaMa Experimental Theater Club In Association with Mount Tremper Arts
OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION OF A MUSICAL
Assassins The Secret Theatre
Caroline, or Change Astoria Performing Arts Center
A Chorus Line Gallery Players
Into The Woods Theater 2020
Red Emma and the Mad Monk The Tank & Emma Orme
Spring Awakening Gallery Players
OUTSTANDING PREMIERE PRODUCTION OF A PLAY
36 Juniper Wrong House Productions
In The Bleak Midwinter Stuffed Olive, Inc. in association with Allison Threadgold & Tana Sirois
Queen Astoria Performing Arts Center
Shinka Ren Gyo Soh
Whirlwind Jordan’s Play Lab in association with Rebecca Crigler & Barn Owl, LLC
Worse Than Tigers The Mill in association with New Ohio Theatre
OUTSTANDING REVIVAL OF A PLAY
And Then There Were None The Secret Theatre
Hamlet (What Dreams May Come) Ript Theater Company in association with The Secret Theatre
The Maids The Seeing Place Theater
Mary, Mary Retro Productions
Stupid Fucking Bird Stripped Scripts
The Tempest The Secret Theatre
The New York Innovative Theatre Foundation is a not-for-profit organization recognizing the great work of New York City’s Off-Off-Broadway,
NYIT Award Nominations 2019: Off-Off Broadway’s Finest Below is the list of nominations announced tonight for the 15th annual New York Innovative Theater Awards, which celebrates the best of the city’s independent theater — aka Off-Off Broadway.
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gothamsite · 6 years ago
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Hồ sơ nhân vật: Anti-Hero Black Manta là ai?
Tiểu sử nhân vật Black Manta
Black Manta thực chất là một người bình thường, không có siêu năng lực, nhưng không vì thế mà Black Manta là một kẻ tầm thường. Được xem là kẻ thù truyền kiếp và nguy hiểm nhất đối v��i Aquaman và The Others nhờ vào sự tài giỏi và thông minh của mình. Hãy cùng DCEU tìm hiểu xem Black Manta là ai nhé!
Black Manta
Black Manta được sáng tạo trong Aquaman #35 năm 1967 nhờ Bob Haney, có tên thật là David Hype. Là tên cướp biển và lính đánh thuê khét tiếng, Black Manta được hỗ trợ bằng bộ đồ công nghệ cao có khả năng bắn tia plasma từ mắt. Mặc dù không có siêu năng lực gì nhưng nhờ bộ đồ này mà Black Manta có khả năng chống đạn, chống nước, cũng như cường hóa sức mạnh và sức chịu đựng vượt mức bình thường. Đồng thời làm tăng sức mạnh, khả năng chiến đấu bằng tay không có sức mạnh lên đến ngang ngửa so với những người như Aquaman.
Trước Flashpoint, Black Manta ban đầu là một người yêu thích biển cả nhưng lại bị bắt cóc làm công nhân trên một tàu cá nhỏ. Một lần, Black Manta nhìn thấy Aquaman bơi cùng với cá heo ngoài biển, hắn cố gắng ra hiệu cầu cứu nhưng không được đáp lại. Từ đó, mà Black Manta đã nuôi lòng căm thù trong lòng. Khi trưởng thành Black Manta tự thiết kế cho mình bộ đồ lặn và chiếc mũ bảo hiểm có thể bắn tia năng lượng, trở thành một mối hiểm họa đáng gờm của Aquaman.
Khi Black Manta chiến đấu
Sau Flashpoint, nhân vật Black Manta được xây dựng thú vị hơn. Black Manta tên thật là David, là một thợ lặn và thợ săn kho báu nổi tiếng, sống cùng cha mình trên một chiếc thuyền. Một ngày, giáo sư Stephen Shin tìm đến hắn với một bản giao kèo, kiếm cho ông ta máu của Arthur Curry. Trong cuộc chiến, cha của Arthur đã nỗ lực bảo vệ con mình nên bị lên cơn đau tim và qua đời sau đó 3 ngày. Arthur đã tấn công tàu của Black Manta trong một ngày mưa bão nhằm trả thù cho cha mình, trong cơn tức giận anh đã giết chết cha của David vì tưởng nhầm ông là hung thủ. Từ đấy, Black Manta và Aquaman từ đấy trở thành kẻ thù truyền kiếp, không đội trời chung.
Người cứu sống Black Manta chính là Stephen Shin (Randall Park) - một bị ám ảnh bởi Atlantis và quyết tâm phơi bày sự tồn tại của nó với thế giới. Khi Black Manta tỉnh dậy với một mắt bị băng bó, Shin đang tìm cách khôi phục bộ áo giáp đen với công nghệ Atlantean mà Orm (Patrick Wilson) đã cung cấp cho Manta, và dường như hắn đã thành công.
Manta chạm trán với Aquaman
Ngay sau đó, cả 2 đã đưa ra thỏa thuận: Shin sẽ giúp Manta tìm ra Aquaman để trả thù cho cái chết của cha hắn. Đổi lại, Manta sẽ kể cho Shin mọi thứ hắn biết v��� Atlantis và nơi tìm thấy nó.
Khi còn trẻ Aquaman đã tập trung một nhóm gọi The Others, mỗi người sở hữu 1 trong 6 món thần vật của Dead King, nhằm truy bắt Black Manta nhưng thất bại, cả nhóm sau đó tan rã mỗi người đi một con đường riêng. Nhiều năm sau, Black Manta bất ngờ sát hại Kahina, một thành viên của nhóm, và bắt đầu truy sát những người còn lại. Aquaman liền tập hợp những người đồng đội cũ để săn tìm Black Manta. Cuộc đuổi bắt này đã kết thúc khi Black Manta bắt cóc giáo sư Stephen Shin nhằm lấy thông tin về thần vật thứ 7 – Quyền trượng của Dead King. Đồng thời, Vostok-X là một thành viên của The Others cũng mất mạng khi cố ngăn Black Manta mang quyền trượng đi. Trong quá trình chuyển giao quyền trượng cho khách hàng, Black Manta bị mai phục và đánh bại bởi Aquaman và The Others. Mặc dù đã thề sẽ trả thù, Aquaman quyết định để David sống và tống hắn vào Belle Reve.
The Others
Sau đó, Black Manta ngày càng tàn nhẫn hơn khi mà nếu không tìm cách giết vị siêu anh hùng thì cũng tìm cách loại bỏ những người thân thiết nhất với Aquaman. Hắn thậm chí còn từng là một thành viên của Suicide Squad. Trước đó thì hắn không tham gia, nhưng sau đổi lý do nghĩ rằng Aquaman đã chết và bởi vì cuộc đời hắn đã không còn ý nghĩa gì nữa.
Khi còn ở Belle Reve, Waller ngỏ ý mời Black Manta tham gia Suicide rime Syndicate tấn công Trái Đất và giải thoát tất cả tù nhân trong đó có cả Black Manta. Trong đống đổ nát của Watch Tower, Crime Syndicate tuyên bố đã tiêu diệt Justice League và đưa ra bằng chứng, trong số đó có cả đinh ba của Aquaman. Black Manta lấy chiếc đinh ba rồi bỏ đi viếng mộ cha mình. Ultraman khi di chuyển mặt trăng để che măt trời khiến thủy triều dâng đánh bật mộ cha Black Manta khiến hắn tức giận và thề sẽ trả thù. Black Adam sau khi bị Ultraman đập cho hiểu vấn đề rồi vứt xuống biển thì được Manta vớt lên, cả 2 sau đó gia nhập với nhóm của Lex Luthor để cứu thế giới. Sau khi Crime Syndicate bị đánh bại, Black Manta bỏ lại đinh ba của Aquaman ở cảng Metropolis với lời nhắn: “ Anh mừng là em chưa chết”.
Món nợ máu với Aquaman
Từng có thời kì Crime Syndicate tấn công Trái Đất và giải thoát tất cả tù nhân bao gồm cả Black Manta. Trong đống đổ nát của Watch Tower, Crime Syndicate tuyên bố đã tiêu diệt Justice League và đưa ra bằng chứng, trong số đó có cả đinh ba của Aquaman. Black Manta lấy chiếc đinh ba rồi bỏ đi viếng mộ cha mình. Ultraman khi di chuyển mặt trăng để che măt trời khiến thủy triều dâng đánh bật mộ cha Black Manta khiến hắn tức giận và thề sẽ trả thù. Black Adam sau khi bị Ultraman đập cho hiểu vấn đề rồi vứt xuống biển thì được Manta vớt lên, cả 2 sau đó gia nhập với nhóm của Lex Luthor để cứu thế giới. Sau khi Crime Syndicate bị đánh bại, Black Manta bỏ lại đinh ba của Aquaman ở cảng Metropolis với lời nhắn: “ Anh mừng là em chưa chết”. Black Manta cũng đã từng đứng về phía “không ác lắm”, chẳng hạn như trở thành thành viên của Injustice League, giúp Lex Luthor và các phản diện khác đánh bại Crime Syndicate, phiên bản độc ác hơn của Justice League đến từ Earth-3 đã suýt tí nữa thống trị thế giới.
Black Manta chạm trán Aquaman
Cuối cùng, Black Manta bắt đầu với Mera và trạm nghiên cứu Spindriff nhằm phá hoại mối hòa bình giữa Atlantis và mặt đất để từ đó có thể tiêu diệt Aquaman một lần và mãi mãi. Black Manta giả làm phóng viên để trà trộn vào trong và cái thuốc nổ khắp trạm nghiên cứu. Sau đó, trong lúc đang cố giết Mera thì bị Aquanman phát hiện. Mặc dù Aquaman muốn cả 2 quên đi thù hận nhưng Black Manta từ hối nên cả hai đã gia chiến. Ưu thế nghiêng về phía mình nhưng Aquaman lại định chĩa cây đinh ba về phía mình và trao cho Black Manta cơ hội nhưng việc này kh��ng thỏa mãn được Black Manta. Cuối cùng hắn nhận ra không thể sống thiếu Aquaman và quy hàng, Arthur cũng xin lỗi vì đã sát hại nhầm cha của Black Manta.
Sức mạnh và năng lực
- Không có sức mạnh siêu năng lực
- Kĩ năng đấu tay đôi ngay ngửa với Deadthstroke trong thời gian ở Suicide Squad
- Có thể đấu được dưới nước nhờ vào sự hỗ trợ từ bộ áo giáp.
- Khả năng bơi tốt ngang ngửa các vận động viên quốc tế
- Mũ bảo hiểm bắn ra tia Heat Vision.
Những điều chưa biết về Black Manta
Black Manta là người đã chặt đứt một cánh tay của Aquaman. Trước đó, một bàn tay của Aquaman đã từng mất trong một cuộc điều tra về sự cố rò rỉ hạt nhân bởi tên khủng bố Charybdis, hắn đã ép bàn tay trái của Aquaman xuống dòng sống nơi đầy lũ cá piranha, chưa kịp hiểu gì đang xảy ra thì lũ cá này đã rỉa sạch bàn tay trái, sau đó lại tiếp tục mất bàn tay còn lại dưới lưỡi kiếm của Black Manta.
Black Manta đã giết con của Aquaman
Giết con trai cả của Aquaman là Arthur Curry Jr. Aquaman lấy Mera làm vợ và sinh ra 3 người con, tuy nhiên số phận của những đứa trẻ này đều vô cùng đau đớn. Đặc biệt trong đó, Arthur Curry Jr bị chết ngạt bởi Black Manta.
Black Manta là một trong những nhân vật được tạo hình với trang phục ấn tượng nhất vũ trụ DC trong truyện tranh. Nhà sản xuất phim đã giữ nguyên thiết kế hình tượng nguyên bản của nhân vật này, từ chiếc mũ giáo lớn đầy đe dọa với căp mắt to đỏ rực.
Tạo hình của Black Manta
Phiên bản điện ảnh của Aquaman có phần mid-credit giải thích về Black Manta. Sau khi thất bại và bị thương nặng ở trận quyết đấu cùng Aquaman tại Sicily, Black Manta bay xuống mặt đại dương. Phần mid-credit đã hé lộ là anh được cứu bởi những người đi thuyền gần đó. Và người Black Manta không ai khác chính là Stephen Shin – một kẻ bị ám ảnh bởi Atlantis và quyết tâm phơi bày sự tồn tại của nó với thế giới. Sau đó Shin còn tìm cách khôi phục bộ giáp đen với công nghệ Atlantean mà Orm đã cung cấp cho Manta. Sau đó thì cả 2 đã có thỏa thuận rằng Shin sẽ giúp Manta tìm ra Aquaman để trả thù cho cha còn ngược lại hắn sẽ được biết mọi thứ về Atlantis và nơi tìm thấy nó.
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zeddpool · 10 months ago
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Shin and Orm on a date tour of Coast City and looking at google maps cuz they got lost
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zeddpool · 11 months ago
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Practice sketches of Orm and Dr. Shin. I have a bit of a soft-spot for disgraced scientists who go down the wrong path in pursuit of their passion but when it comes down to it will do the right thing in the end. It’s a surprisingly common trope and I’m a sucker for it every time.
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(Honestly the only reason I don’t have a full-blown case of brainworms is that the Aquaman movie fandom seems to currently consist of me, 5 other people, and a possum we found in a dumpster)
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