#Sword and quill

[tulikettuun]

After climbing all the way up to the Wind Temple and fighting a giant worm, I think they both deserve a little break.

[ironyscleverer]

One of my favorite character tropes now that I’m in my twenties

[rei-ismyname]

Nova tries to arrest Magneto

The Guardians of the Galaxy have been invited to the first Hellfire Gala, but only Richard Rider and Star Lord are able to make it. As they pull into The Peak, Nova is feeling skittish and anxious about everything changing. Krakoa's moves in particular have shaken the galaxy.

Among other things, he finds himself allied with reformed bad guys and has that reflexive heroic urge to punch them. DOOM, Super Skrull - he doesn't like grinning and pretending he can trust these people. When he and Peter Quill are greeted by Ambassador Magneto, Nova leaves him hanging on a handshake (rude!) and declares he's going down.

Rich clearly has an amazing memory (it's Al Ewing, so duh) and huge cop energy. He brings up an ancient space crime (that was actually Melter but whatever) and charges him with it. Mister One and Mister Two weren't mutants, they were Shi'Ar Subguardians. I actually covered these events here. You can decide for yourself if Mags is guilty.

Mags doesn't respond very well to his ranting and raving. As Brand and Star Lord try to calm them down, hero and villain step into old familiar roles. For Magneto, that role involves dramatic violence - he flings a vehicle at him. Mags loves throwing vehicles around and he must be missing it. Honestly, I love Magneto throwing vehicles around. It's fucking great.

Nova punches that shit in half as they trade one liners. There's still an air of politeness as they break shit. It's almost flirting, though ASCAB.

Abigail Brand has had enough of this shit and calls for a security team. Peter isn't much help but it's probably the right choice. Nova breaks down why exactly he's the galaxy's top cop. The Nova Force.

Marvel usually avoids specificity with marking time - 'a dozen years' has many implications.

Well, the Nova Force and punches to the face. He knocked his helmet off! Mags starts to get serious, switching to Master of Magnetism mode, but this is Brand's station dammit. She tells Rich he's full of shit and just wanted someone to punch. A clear bad guy he could oppose to feel like a good guy. She's not wrong either.

Nova admits he was being a dick and Mags meets him there. They start to chat, though good luck getting Magneto to be respectful about the Avengers. He frames it as a question about the Guardians' beginnings, but Mags takes the opportunity to reminisce on times past.

Nova trying to arrest him for 70s shenanigans has Mags dwelling on them. He does it in the most verbose and dramatic way possible, but he's saying that the simpler days of black and white morality pull at him too. Al Ewing had his hands on Magneto for SWORD, X-Men Red, and Resurrection of Magneto so he nails his state of mind. The secret king that's starting to crack as every choice feels like a bad one. The traumatized and grieving man that doesn't have ultraviolence as an outlet anymore.

These two powerful men hover in the docking ring and agree that change is scary, that DOOM probably shouldn't be trusted, ha. It's a nice moment for both of them, and Rich has his own trauma/violence dynamic, but I'm mainly interested in Magneto. He was knee deep in nasty shit at this point, but he's a lot more self aware and restrained. Dick Rider ended up fighting on Arakko during Judgement Day and the Genesis War, interestingly. Curious that both men found something they were looking for in the broken land.

[atlasfoundation]

Marvel Rivals - The Spring Festival 2025 Update

[sheyri]

Christopher Wolfe just cannot catch a break, can he?

Ink and Bone starts slow, it's okay-ish. He just has to teach for half of the book or so. But then it's off to a war zone, two of his postulants die, the travel back is very eventful, and then he gets arrested and questioned about Thomas' printing press.

Then in Paper and Fire alone he - relives some very painful memories - goes back to Rome - into the prison - INTO THE VERY TORTURE CHAMBER (just passing through) - then off to the Iron Tower with death looming outside - finds his research in the Black Archives, only to see it go up in flames in front of his eyes - into another war zone - then finally to the Burner capital

Ash and Quill starts off in said Burner capital, which is of course also a war zone. There he's imprisoned, NIC GETS SERIOUSLY INJURED and they barely make it out alive, only to be shipped to a slightly nicer prison, where he's then betrayed by the Brightwells and send to prison, but in Alexandria this time.

In Smoke and Iron he is, of course, in prison. But hey, he's only going a little mad. When he makes it out of there, he's almost immediately heading into another death trap. (But Nic called him amore mio and is proud of him for beheading a dragon automaton, so that's nice.)

Sword and Pen at least doesn't hold another prison, but his son is slowly dying from poison, his other kids are also in danger and the whole city is under attack. That's not exactly the definition of a relaxing holiday. And it ends with his daughter burning to death.

[fairytypingg]

hey yall remember that six fanarts thing from a while back. what if i did it... some of these were requests from friends so not all of them r my fandoms btw

[omnxnom]

Viscount Silver.....

(Part 3 of my Phantom!Sonic Series | Part 2)

[spillingskies]

jess brightwell being so full of love and loyalty without ever knowing it from his family is my roman empire

[bookwyrminspiration]

Sophie with a sword. Thoughts?

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girl with sword pretty

[floatstimmies]

Klimt van Zieks stimboard!🌹⚔️

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[dingodad]

maybe it's davepeta's?

this thought did cross my mind since the chapter select buttons have been filling in with colour as we go... @madam-melon-meow just pointed out that there is actually already an orange feather on the floor of vriska's room which i completely did not notice until now LOL so that's probably what it is. obviously weird that it stands out as the only object there that isn't historically connected with her but can you imagine if hell tier vriska wears a pirate hat with one of davepeta's feathers in it. i think that would be pretty cool

[krash-and-co]

yall we need ingo to win @favcharacterpoll because not only do we have to drag Kermit down with kipps but the idea of this poor other guy having NO IDEA what's going on, leaving relatively unscathed while the other two winners are visibly on the verge of death is the funniest thing ever to me

[confusedartblog]

crepi al lupo

[incorrect-starbula]

Peter: Oh cool. Mantis did the dishes.

Nebula: How do you know I didn't do the dishes?

Peter: Because once when all the knives were dirty I watched you cut a bagel with your arm.

[rustyelias]

Listening to rqg when sleepy turns me into a even bigger hater of bertie

Why is he the worst ever? Why is he so punchable?

[seancekitsch]

omg omg omg im so excited for them

hehehe me too!!! i cannot speak bc i already know what's gonna happen but...

What do you think is gonna happen at the feast?