#The Cosmic Cutie (special)

[inspectorspacetimerevisited]

If anyone is bound to become mind-controlled, it would be W.I.T. soldiers. Which appears to be a commentary on how mindless soldiers can be when following orders from above.

The Prirde Warriors only fought back because they were being fired upon in the first place. They had no quarrel with humans!

[0bviouslyem1ly]

Hai hai! I'm interacting from my big account my little account is cosmic-c-kiddo and I was wondering do you think Lucifer would also be a caregiver?? I saw your regression head canons for him and was wondering if you have any cg headcanons?

Hi!! I do have some cg headcanons, yes! I hope you enjoy! 😊

Caregiver Lucifer Morningstar Headcanons!

•If you told him you were an age regressor, he would have no clue what it is. You'd have to thoroughly explain it to him, and he'd probably have a hard time understanding.

•Once he understands more about your regression, he'd try to be a bit softer and kinder with you.

•If you didn't tell him, he'd notice you were acting differently. He often pays attention to the people around him, and he'd definitely notice your personality/mood change. He'd ask you what's wrong, or why you're acting so "strange".

•Once he fully knows about your regression, he'd ask if you need help when you're feeling that way. He wants to try to help the best he can, but he's worried about hurting you, or doing something wrong.

•As your caregiver, at first he'd be confused, and a bit lost. He would probably talk to Amenadiel or Linda for advice on taking care of babies/kids in general.

•After a while, he'd at least know how to take care of your basic needs. Depending on your little age, he'd know at least some things to take care of you. If you're a younger age and like to use bottles, pacis, or diapers, he'd buy you the things you need to start with. He'd bottle feed you, buy you whatever little gear you like, ect.

•He would be so terrified to take care of you, but he wants to learn how. He'd do anything to make you feel safe.

•If you weren't scared of his devil face, he might use that to make you laugh. He'd make funny faces at you, and would always be trying to make you laugh or smile.

•He would bring you to Lux once and a while. He'd keep you away from all the people, and would be extremely overprotective of you.

•Everybody seems to love you, and find you adorable. (Whether you're regressed or not.) Chloe especially. If she knew about your regression, you, her and Lucifer would spend time together, and she'd help take care of you as well.

•I think Lucifer would love to play games with you. It's one of the only things he really knows how to do with kids, seeing as him and Trixie played games together. I think he'd love playing peek-a-boo with you.

•At first, he'd be nervous to be too close to you, afraid of hurting or scaring you, but after he is your caregiver for a while, he'd cuddle you quite often. He always wants to be by your side and doesn't want anything bad to happen to you. He'd sit on the couch with you and watch TV, while eating snacks.

•He loves cooking with you! (Or for you if you're too little to do much.) He'll let you help make dinner or snacks, or whatever food you want. He'd let you pour in the flour, or certain ingredients as long as you aren't near the stove/oven.

•It's kind of tricky thinking about nicknames, but I think he'd call you "Little Cutie" or "Little One". He's great at thinking of nicknames for people, so he'd give you a really special one. I can picture him calling you "Sunshine," too.

[courtofmatchups]

hello, i’d like to request an obey me matchup if thats okay <3

my name is bee, i’m an infp, aries, lesbian (okay with fictional men tho 🤭) and use she/they pronouns

personality: i’m very introverted, shy, and soft spoken, but with people i’m very comfortable with i tend to be a bit silly and say whatever i’m thinking. i’ve been told i’m quick with witty responses. i rarely get angry and try my best to be patient and understanding with the people around me, looking for the good in everyone i meet. due to my adhd i tend to space out a lot and forget what i’m saying easily, but i’d like to think all of that daydreaming has turned me into a creative person. art and drawing has been a huge passion of mine for as long as i can remember, and i specialize in pen and ink drawings. i’m currently working as a barista, but i plan to go back to school in the future to study art. i mainly express my love through gift giving and acts of service, and i prefer to receive words of affirmation and physical touch.

hobbies/interests: drawing, napping, gaming, horror (books, movies, games), lovecraftian/cosmic horror, bloodborne, souls series, elder scrolls, dark fantasy, history, historical dramas, metal music, annoying the shit out of people by telling them bloodborne lore

some of my favorite things: sunflowers, soft things, plushies, pens, naps on rainy days, soft lighting, electric wizard, garfield, sleeping in, cats, frogs, opossums, strawberry lemonade, doom metal, pompompurin

dislikes: loud noises, bright lights, and strong smells (they trigger my migraines), crowds, tomatoes, hot weather, spiders, opening shifts, acrylic paint, neon colors

appearance/aesthetic: 5’6, a little curvy, soft features, blue eyes, short and shaggy burgundy (dyed) hair, septum piercing, faint freckles. i usually wear grunge fairycore outfits, long skirts, lots of rings, crystal necklaces, and a little bit of makeup. at work my style leans more towards dark academia if i’m not feeling lazy in the morning. i mainly wear my doc martens everywhere as well. (easier to deal with if i accidentally spill at work.)

a few characters i relate to: sawako (kimi ni todoke) nell (haunting of hill house) kisa (fruits basket) asa (chainsaw man) lady maria (bloodborne)

i apologize if this is unorganized. have a lovely day! <3

It seems to me you've captured the heart of...

The Avatar of Lust

Asmodeus!

"What a cutie!" - Asmodeus

Asmo loves seeing your silly side and he will never tire of seeing you go from shy and soft spoken to outgoing. And your quick witted responses are good enough to give Satan and Belphie a run for their money. Like you, Asmo likes to find the beauty in everyone and everything, and there is just so much to admire about you. Your creativity is one of them. He appreciates that you like him for him.

If there is ever a time your mind wanders, he'll be there to get your mind back on track. ADHD can be a struggle to live with, especially since the world seems to be against you, but Asmo's here to support you, and cheer you on. He enjoys your artwork, and he appreciates the work you put into your work as a barista, and will support you all the way: before art school, during art school, and after art school.

Asmo's heard plenty of Levi's infodumping on his interests, so he's quite used to this kind of thing, and with you, he'd look forward to it. And seeing that you're into horror, he'd find an excuse to cling to you when something scary pops up.

A lot of your interests lines up with his, so that's also a plus. He'd love to take you shopping for clothes and accessories. And don't worry if you get overwhelmed by the environment, he'll get you out of there.

Overall, a happy relationship

[askthepeopleinfantasy]

A Destiny Upon the Stars.

Towards Halloween (part 1)

Hallow Land-Realm of Witchcraft

Celeste-Cosmo Witch and Fashion Designer

A witch isn't a old lady who rides a broom, making potions, casting spells, and wearing those old rags and hats. Witches believes in divine, spiritual, and physical connections and energy to the world and supernatuals. They manifest their power to create a better version of themselves, to see the unreal, and to feel the overflowing energy.

A witch can provide anything to lessen your troubles. That's what they do for most of their lives. In a dark room, under the moonlight, casting a protection circle, along their guiding goddess, those are some basic things a witches do to prepare their rituals and spells.

There is one witch who was different from the others. A young cosmo witch, who lives in a dark purple building who she call itself her home, and her little shop. Celeste Astera, she was a well known witch in Hallow Land who specialize at seeing the future. Ah, yes, a cosmo witch should be well knowledgable at astrology, divinations, and other performances what includes the topic of the cosmic universe. Everytime people sense the scent of deep, sweet smell of the purple roses, and the purple sparks dazzle in the air, they will gossip about the new divinations Celeste had preformed. Many said that her predictions were accurate, like all those lies are actually the truth!

"Celeste's predictions allow me to find my true love!! Now, we are like a power-couple who can conquer all!!"

"But I thought divinations and predicting the future were not accurate..."

"Oh you must go to her place! She even had a boutique shop! Just look at those fancy gowns is gonna make me TRILLED for the upcoming Halloween!"

Celeste was proud of her works and tasks everytime she hear a sight compliment, for those were her passion and a form of herself. To her love for the unpredictable destiny, her love for the millions of stars, her passion in styles, and her depths of astrological knowledge, this is what she as a cosmo witch do.

"Those cuties were gushing over these things again huh..~ Hehe, this Halloween is gonna be a magnificient night..~"

"Hmm..let me take a look by scrying..."

Summoning a crystal globe, she relax her body and allows her vision to focus on the glowing amethyst. Then, swoosh! An image formed in a blurry vision, but it could be a sign or message from the Heavenly Principles of Destiny. Slowly the image dissapeared before her eyes, as the cosmo witch could only smile when she get the answer.

"Guese this Halloween will have lots of customers hm hm~ Well, time to prepare a surprise...~"

[puppiekit]

ALSSOOO sorry for the repeated posts but that cutie mark post reminded me of my MLP ocs.... SO I REALLY WANT TO SHARE THEM REAL QUICK They all work at the Equestrian equivalent to NASA, whatever that entails. Cosmic Twinkle specializes in all the telescope work (finding / analyzing celestial objects) , Cyclone Chaser specializes in weather (loves digging into the weather / climate on said objects) , Voyager is just an astronaut (they fling him into space sometimes)

[thanksforthedinosaur]

march 2023

1. claire rosinkranz - sad in hawaii 2. carlie hanson - blueberry pancakes 3. ber - slutphase 4. sedona - sharkbite 5. mazie - give up! 6. nicole millar - hugs 7. mike posner - howling at the moon 8. jensen mcrae - dead girl walking 9. boyish - girls are mean 10. fig - splinter 11. chrissy - carsick 12. quinnie - flounder 13. khai dreams - bugs 14. leanna firestone - you just didn't like me that much 15. isabel pless - bechdel test 16. chymes - my own worst enemy 17. haven - g.o.a.t. 18. dyln - dead 2 me 19. bea miller - cynical 20. daine - portal 21. anne-marie - sad b!tch 22. brooke candy - juicy fruit 23. ari abdul - bored 24. zolita - ashley 25. patchymate - babyur2nice 26. nina cobham - worse & better 27. searows - house song 28. caroline spence - there's always room - alternate version 29. samia - dream song 30. shannon lay - angeles 31. death cab for cutie - pepper - acoustic 32. meadowlark - full me, half you 33. rosemary & garlic - summer 34. gracie abrams - will you cry? 35. rachel chinouriri - maybe i’m lonely 36. joy oladokun - changes 37. lunar vacation - only you 38. eliza mclamb - pulp 39. shania twain - best friend 40. the go! team - getting to know (all the ways we're wrong for each other) 41. jonatan leandoer96 - if i'm born i have to live 42. runo plum - yin to yang 43. triathalon - running 44. anna wise - the now 45. caroline polachek - blood and butter 46. charlie houston - bubbly 47. bridal party - baby anymore 48. steady holiday - newfound oxygen 49. gabby's world - closing door 50. leith - big trees 51. beabadoobee - glue song 52. infinity crush - demolition derby 53. sobs - cool - bonus track 54. nyarons - the space between us 55. paramore - running out of time 56. babygirl - sore eyes 57. tennis - pollen song 58. bully - lose you (feat. soccer mommy) 59. alex lahey - good time 60. trementina - fall into your bed 61. samiam - monterey canyon 62. real friends - six feet 63. body type - miss the world 64. neanderthal - hey bestie 65. thrice - silhouette 66. big|brave - the fable of subjugation 67. skrillex - ceremony 68. tini - cupido 69. jordan powers - pretty girl swag 70. asiatica - *sigh* nevermind 71. meltycanon - apple weather 72. nia archives - conveniency 73. lizzo - special (feat. sza) 74. sabrina claudio - right decision 75. justine skye - maybe 76. ella mai - sink or swim 77. rakiyah - cosmic queen 78. iamddb - where did the love go? 79. jean deaux - jd's revenge 80. raye - flip a switch. 81. enny - no more naija men 82. qveen herby - marie antoinette 83. planet giza - wyd 84. hkfiftyone - comedown (universe 1) 85. logic - lightsabers (feat. c dot castro) 86. flau'jae - ready or not freestyle 87. skrillex - rumble 88. blackwinterwells - give loop 89. tezatalks - oyxgen (sped up) 90. daine - skin deep 91. vallis alps - on the eve of the rush [134bpm vip] 92. izzy camina - celestial sodomy 93. princess nokia - complicated 94. piri - updown 95. alex lustig - neo 96. rebecca black - doe eyed

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4K4Gynr0WZAVwPHNVNp7OQ?si=20dfb5733e89439b

[clarktooncrossing]

HEY THERE PEOPLE OF TODAY AND ROBOTS OF TOMORROW! IT'S ME, CLARK!

Wow, two new pics in one year? Nobody could've expected this! Unlike that Total Solar Eclipse that happened earlier today. How wild was that? To think, we won't be seeing anything like that for another two decades. Absolutely crazy! Not to mention beautiful. Like hundreds of people I dared to venture outside with a set of paper glasses so I could stare up at the moon blocking the sun. Incredible as the moment was, it sadly didn't photograph well. Hence why I had to borrow this photo from a buddy of Mr-Herp-Derp. Thanks, random photographer who had that special lens made to document moments like this! You've made the Clarktoons' resident cosmic cutie very happy. Yes, of course Rosie Stardust had to stop by our neck of the multiverse to check this out. As always she was delighted to see what wonders the galaxy had to show.

Rosie: OH MY STARDUST! This is absolutely amazing! I mean look at that, the moon is actually blocking the sun! How incredible! Goodness me, isn't it stupendous how things like this can just happen? And so many of you get to share this experience for generations to come! When the next twenty years passes by, you can tell your loved ones how you were there to see the last one. Maybe by then they'll create filters for Terran phones so you can take a proper picture, Clark. Still, thanks for including me in such a special occasion. I hope the rest of you enjoyed it as much as I did!

MAY THE GLASSES BE WITH YOU!

[pugs-cats-bb-8]

Music Recs

A list of songs that I liked from the last month or so. Not all are "new" and not all are K-Pop.

Rover-Kai

2. Social Path-Stray Kids Feat. LiSA (Korean Ver.)

Took a couple listens

3. Crush-Zerobaseone

It kinda sounds like they're banging on pans. Another couple listens.

4. Dreams Come True-WJSN (Chinese Ver.)

I love Chinese versions of songs.

5. Hweek-Teentop

I don't know who these guys are. I remember somebody recommended the video and that's how I found it.

6. Thrill-E'Last (Reg Ver and Japanese Ver.)

7. Plastic Candy-Haseul

Took me a couple listens to get what she was saying. Because my brain does one of two things with foreign music. A. Ignore the words and listen to the beat. B. Try to figure out the words. Which isn't possible when you don't speak the language.

8. Uni-Weeekly

I thought they were saying Dumptruck. 🤣

9. Bottom Of The Ocean-Golden Child

Sounds like early One Direction.

10. Effortless-A.C.E (Reg Ver and Korean Ver.)

11. Full Metal Jacket-Epex

12. Sweet Venom-Enhypen (English Ver and Reg Ver.)

13. Grand Prix-Kep1er

I like the way they say "grand prix"

14. Dead Man Runnin'-Seulgi

15. On My Youth-WayV (Reg ver. and English Ver.)

That change up.

16. Super Yuppers!-WJSN Chocome

Fun music

17. Shadow-Sieyon, Dami (Dreamcatcher), Sim Hyung Bo (Slow Ver. and Reg. Ver.)

I don't know where I found this.

18. Love-WeeklyXKim Eana Project

19. Don't Push Me-Wendy, Seulgi (Original Ver. and Ballad Ver.)

20. Don't Blink-Aespa

21. Alcohol Is-Jo Yuri

So short. But so good.

22. Good Day (Special Daileee)-Weekly

23. Nothing On Me-Kai

I like the beat.

24. Loca (Reg Ver. Japanese Ver.)-Favorite

25. Chill Kill-Red Velvet

26. Independent Woman-Eite

27. New Look-TripleS

Retro. Reminds me of Back To The City-Kep1er.

28. Howl-Chuu

I love how her name is kiss in Japanese.

29. Bulldozer-Red Velvet

30. Unnatural-WJSN

31. Get A Guitar(English Ver,)-Riize

I will forever call them Rizie (Ri-zee)

32. Stronger-WJSN (Dawon and Yeonjung)

33. Jingle Bell Rock-Aespa

The original is one of the two Christmas songs I love.

34. Girls' Capitalism-TripleS

I thought they were saying "Call me cutie".

35. Memories Of Summer Rain-Weeekly

36. C'mon-Jini Feat. Amine (Reg ver. and Korean Ver.)

37. Sweet Crazy Love-Odd Eye Circle (English Ver.)

38. Either Way-Ive

39. Kiss Your Lips-WJSN The Black

40. Invincible-TripleS

41. Will I Ever See You Again-Red Velvet

42. Here I Am-Wheein

43. 28 Reasons-Seulgi

"I kiss your brother". Okay... 🤨 I assume whoever wrote the song doesn't have a brother.

44. Aliens-Chuu

Retro

45. Ven Para-Weeekly

46. Not Over You-Taemin

47. Bye Bye-Punch

48. Done-WJSN

49. Moonlight-WayV

50. Catch Me-WJSN

51. Paradise-NiziU (Korean Ver.)

52. Ringo-Itzy

53. Another Day-Monday Kiz, Punch

54. Back To Me-The Rose

55. Chasing That Feeling (Reg Ver. and English Ver.)-Tomorrow By Together

Retro

56. Off The Record-Ive

57. Drama-Aespa

Took a couple listens.

58. Heejin-Algorithm

59. Bad Reputation-Jini

60. Love Me Or Leave Me-Day6

61. Party Time (Japanese Ver.)-Favorite

62. Knock Knock (Who's There)-Red Velvet

63. Hmph!-WJSN Chocome

Fun music.

64. I-Yah-WJSN

I thought they were saying Aria.

65. Better Things-Aespa

66. Baddie-Ive

67. Sneakers (Japanese Ver.)-Izty

68. New-Yves (Loona)

69. Done For Me-Punch

70. Cosmic-Ryeowook, Bada

71. Stanger-Sunmi

That change up.

72. Keep Me Busy-Punch

Bonus tracks (Tracks already on my playlist)-

Guilty-Han Seung Yeon (Kara)

Hush-Miss A

Wicked Love-Yena

Lip Gloss-The Boyz

I love the way they say Lip Gloss.

5. Deja Vu-Jonna Koike

Songs that aren't on my playlist, but I think should be recommended.

I Love My Body-Hwasa

I love the message.

[pluralsword]

Mutuality/Sapphism

Also found at: [AO3]

Spacewarp/Perihelion, pg-13

With the hundreds of diplomats, sages, leaders, scouts, scientists, filework nerds, and errant warriors around to choose from in Lodestar's hull's big meeting hall to share our thoughts through embraces, there was one I hadn't been able to get out of my head all evening since she walked up to a podium and started talking several hours ago, now deep in some sort of playful parlay over a multiversal alliance community…

The heavy, sturdy steps of her bulky winged firetruck frame. the excited or bemused faceplate ruffling as they talked pleasantries, the sword at her side, the large open gestures towards people, the casual touch with people she knew, the hands over their spark. Vivacious, not afraid to level words of reproach when someone tried to dig at her diplomatic stance. I was affixed on their words when I looked away, barely processing the details, but hearing her bravery. I knew it was their diplomacy face and voice, but she also clearly spoke from profound belief about the autonomy of sapient entities and their communities cohabitating with the cosmos, transforming together.

God damn, I couldn't remember the last time someone like a woman had this brain module melting effect on me, and that I had admitted it to myself. I was used to feeling cool and flourishing with pizazz. What's my name? Oh right, Spacewarp. I had been so level-headed with Chromia, our cuddling and kisses left me with a thoughtful rush, but Perihelion...

Wowza, totally different equally enjoyable reaction. I love the multiverse.

Perihelion stepped away from Nautica who is also a cutie with her diplomacy special interest cryptid altertransformer shtick and those round turbine fins aw bolts, and the other delegates of their seven-fold group and strode towards me, waving.

My body tensed up immediately and I urged it to relax and loosen, and I almost fell over in the process. Wait she's coming towards me, what do I do be cool uh uh "Hi mighty sweetspark, what can I do for you?" I offered hands to clasp. What the scrap was that Spacewarp!?! My head filled with heat, and I tried to keep the embarassment out of my optics. “I um, lets start over.”

They laughed merrily, and met my hands with hers, and then inched their fingers over to hold mine briefly before letting go. I was totally flummoxed that she had taken my awful line or my apology so well. Was it awful? It was ironic I guess, whatever you do don't stare at the wheels on the sides of their thighs-

"Hey, Spacewarp, I was really impressed by your speech railing against imperial adventurism and disavowing the Decepticons on that basis. I've heard a lot about you from Flamewar and Grimlock about your cosmic kindness and wisdom, can we talk? I want to get to know you better, see if you'd be interested in helping the Mystibots, and uh-" she stopped for a moment, wheels on their wings whirring.

My brain module fired off a flurry of thoughts: she knows two of my fling pals, they wants me to do something with her faction, she wants to get to know me, scrap where is this going-

My wings teetered up and down. "Um, you were saying-"

"To explore mutual interests, sweetspark. I presume that's why your optics have been locked on me for several astro-cycles every time you look over where I happen to be before you look away and try to engage somewhere else. I'm quite flattered that the eloquent and known gallant rogue Spacewarp has been given pause by me. Am I presuming too much? I'm sorry-"

I guffawed. "No no, it's okay, you got it," I reached out to her hands and gave them a squeeze. "I'd like that. Sit with me a while, and then maybe a dance?" My mind finally started to get a grip. Common ground, thank Primus. "Let's start with why me?"

"Heh," they sat down in the chair next to me at the round table, and I joined her. "For the job? Already said. Me and you?" the pink and cyan biolight lines on her torso sides and forearms of her lavender frame brightened with a pulse. "Because I think you're sweet, because you have an honesty to you, because I think about how our big frames would complement each other holding one another... this is why I want to know you more, I need more than that. Your turn, what got you into me?"

"Ah, I get that," I laughed, confidence flowing a bit more at their compliments until my brain got stuck on the image of sitting in her arms, watching the stars, which left me excited and teaming with charge in my circuits. "Really do. You- you have this savvy, dedicated and passionate fire in you that I can only guess is why you have a Matrix of Leadership in your chest, you're a- new vocabulary for me" not sapphic, remember she's on a totally different aesthetic framework than your trans enby aft, "swordwielding trans torqdare mutuality is just a mood and a vibe all at once, I really like that. Something to do with liking people I can trust to watch my afterburner, but also it's my terminal sapphic brain, you get me?"

"I definitely do, 'sapphic brain'," she chuckled, and I snorted at their joke. "Maybe Sapphicwarp would be a good nickname... if I understand what you mean by your vocabulary, you've certainly picked up on how to talk about my aesthetic hearth." She put her hand over the middle of their chest, and leaving me a bit in awe at her easy flow over her love for that. "I'm a mutuality kind of dare myself, as you say. Your, aesthetic is-"

"I'm a sapphic nonbinary gal, on the masculine-spectrum side of things, your honor, and that's a lovely name," I nodded. "And um, what would you like to know about me? What I do, what I like, you've already heard much, I gather."

"Well, Sapphicwarp," Perihelion leaned on her hand while looking at me, and I felt like I was going to melt again from her words and gaze. "I guess what I want to know besides your love for reading, history, geography, music, languages, what do you do for fun when you're not traveling or in deep space between places? Besides sharing family time with your minibot pals."

"Oh uh, some of what you said, listening to music, reading the loads of books we've got downloaded or letting Boom Tube read to me, write my logs, think about folks I love, catch up on the latest Robot City Stone episode, and there's this 22nd century human-made evolution game from cells to space I really like when I don't got spoons for anything else..."

"Aww, that's really cool," she leaned back in her chair. "I really like reading too, philosophy stuff, tabletop board game manuals and fan supplements. That game sounds really interesting... we have an equivalent back home that was a multispecies project from when I was young, would you like a copy? It's one of my favorites, especially the procedural comic panel visual novel portions-"

"Please, I'd love that," I reached out a hand, and they put theirs on mine. "I've been meaning to get into the visual novel genre because there's just so, so much sapphic stuff there from over the millennia, but just couldn't find a gateway one in with pacing and replayability to my liking."

"It's called Assemblage of Stars, it has co-op, if you'd like," she winked. "I'll get you one from my quarters later, thumb drive with my other stuff and mods, and also the OS it runs on."

"I think I'd like that," I mellowness flowered in me, their hand touching mine, her glorious path crossed with my own, my frame and circuits feeling overjoyed in their shape sharing this moment, and the predictable urge after brought itself to words in my mouth. "I um, I know we can chat more, about where we're from, what our boundaries are, but I'll lay them flat on the table to level with you and then ask if you'd like to dance. I like kissing, my faceplate does come off, and I'm happy to share touch with limbs, terms of endearment are fine, not big on derogatory talk, am okay with touch anywhere, I just um, don't have what most members of a lot of organic species have-"

"Pff don't worry darling, even if I was interested in sex I don't have parts or wiring for that either and don't want them on me," she nodded and gave my hand a pat, leaving me content with their attention there. "My faceplate doesn't come off, but I am happy to receive kisses or nuzzle heads, and yeah I don't like put downs either. I do like gestalt patching though, sharing minds, if you'd like to try someday."

"Hmm, I think after we talk more after our dance, that would be swell. Would you be okay with me smooching you while we sashay in tempo?" I sighed, circuits cool and graceful, bustling.

"Yes, yes I would, and I think talking more after letting our bodies get to know each other on the dance floor is a good idea," she stood, letting go of my hand to offer an elbow. "Would love to lock elbows on the way there, thinking the observatory deck, stuff is nice and slow there."

"Uh, sure, that does sound perfect," I got to my feet and wrapped my arm around hers, and we made our way through the hall, greeting people in passing who we knew on the way out, and took the nearest turbolift, leaning in the blue gray wall of the big square after pushing the button for the observatory deck.

We gazed at each other some more as the turbolift propelled towards our destination. I was awash with feelings about how adorable Perihelion was and had been the whole time, holding her peace and to my delight enjoying mine. I reached out to her other shoulder and then wrapped my arm around her head. "I have half a mind to nuzzle heads with you right now, if you want, Perihelion Prime."

They responded by leaning in, her head’s wave crested helm clonking their faceplate with my own, rubbing up and down, pressing her helm guards occasionally with my own. I did my best to reply in kind, embracing her, sensors soft and attuned to her in my faceplate and mouth underneath, and my frame close with hers.

Endearing, quiet moments, slow and steady, filling my mind with the time and love, brought to a stop by the turbolift doors opening in front of the domed observatory. We untangled from our hug and stepped out, holding hands, chuckling, into the starry windows with soft notes wafting through the dancing crowd from a band composed of an armored car Arcee with an electric mini-harp, a sports car Jazz with a cyber-bass, a racecar Hot Rod with a clarinet, and a bird-winged engine-legged Airazor singing wordlessly into a microphone.

“The stars are beautiful, both in the void beyond, and in the people here,��� Perihelion hummed. “Like your own.”

“Aw, that’s a mighty fine complement for my spark, dear,” I looked into the constellations of the galactic arm around us, the hilly and light-speckled planet Caminus in view from our high orbit, which I eventually turned to fondly. “You can see the lights of one my favorite planetary community of polities in this universe. I love their take on the Way of Flame, how they embraced the ever-changing aspects of fire, the sense of home, story, and creation, and wary study of fire’s destructive power, that informs their gender systems’ structure and their society… like your hearth, of your own Caminus, no?” I looked over at Perihelion, and her faceplate ruffled with a nod.

“Yes, exactly that,” she slipped out of my hand to put her palms on the sides of my waist, facing me, and I keened quietly with excitement while she laughed. “My embrace of transformative momentum and rotational motion from force, with my carefully shaped heaviness in my frame and my sense of intrepidness and glory in being myself, does make my torqdareness and transness feel like a fire, a shining star. I adore it, and I like how people of this world use their own terms closer to yours for it. Since you have such a love for fire dear, shall we dance?”

“Please,” I put my hands on the sides of her mid-riff, my spark practically bursting from it’s casing, my mind pleased and focused on just Perihelion as they held me. “Something simple and close until the next song, then we can get a little more creative.”

“Mmm, agreed, Sapphicwarp, let’s start with some steps in a square,” Perihelion took a step forward, and I took a step back, and then to the side, which she copied, before taking the next step back, which I followed. Foot by foot, we made a square pattern, hands on our torsos, optics peering into each other’s. My metal frame may as well have softened, and her optics seemed to too, their green luminescence smaller as well, focused on me.

Step by step, we held each other’s torsos, in one another’s gravity. I loved every bit of it, and the quietness spoke volumes about our engagement in the rhythm and holding.

In the corner of my optic, the other three musicians in the band started to sing alongside Airazor, and the song came to a stop shortly after.

Perihelion and I hugged each other close, laughing. I was giddy across my fuselage. A simple thing, the dance we had done, but a nice dip further in mutual interest.

“Do you know the starflung dance?” Perihelion whispered in my audial.

“Maybe not yours, I know others by that name from other worlds,” I smiled under my faceplate, creasing the armor in front of my mouth. “Why don’t you show me when the next song starts?”

“Sure,” we held on a while longer, and then harp sounds came on, and she put one hand on one of my own, gently and firmly. “The idea is that I spin you around in step, and then let go of your waist to let you go into a further ‘orbit’, with you switching the hand that holds mine, and then you close back in and hold me, and do the same thing for me. Ready?”

“Sure,” I let my hand in her grip follow theirs up in front of us, and she started to turn, and I followed, a spinning stroll, note by note, until we came around in full, and she let go of my waist, and I stepped forward and away, letting go of their hand with my left to meet hers with my right, and we spun through several chords. I noticed some folk stop their dancing to watch us, and I gave a little nod and salute, firing my rocket thrusters for a little lift off the ground in the last part of the spin.

“Woohoo, yeah Spacewarp, you got it!” Perihelion cheered while keeping an iron grip on my hand, and I came back down to hold Perihelion close, nuzzling cheek guards again before stepping back and spinning her…

My senses alit and a twirl, I took in her few heavy steps before she took flight, almost pulling me up with them, and I followed her orbit as best as I could, quickly grabbing my faceplate to take it off as I saw them on her way down-

She embraced me under the wings, landing right along my torso, and I put an arm around her head and kissed her on the middle of their faceplate, nice and long.

Quiet cheers sounded around us, as my lips parted from her smooth sturdy faceplate, and she bonked my lips in return with lightness that showed practice, to my mind, the force of her head and neck available but held back. I let out a sigh, and kissed them again.

“Definitely want to get to know you after this, want to spin again, dear torqdare Perihelion?” I whispered.

“Yes, to both, dear Sapphicwarp…” Perihelion sniffed, and bright cyan droplets fell from her optics. “I think I know what that word really means now, it’s so pretty…”

“Aw- aw sweetie, I didn’t mean to make you cry,” I tried rubbing her wings, and they chuckled, still teary.

“It’s okay, it’s euphoria and passion- seeing you in me, though we are so different in other ways, there is a mutuality for sure,” she nuzzled my cheek with hers. “Maybe we could just stand here and kiss instead… I feel so amped up right now in all the right ways.”

“Then let’s do that,” I brought my face in to share more touches of armor and mouth, spark roaring inside me, turning their words over and liking them, my systems all warm and collected. Wowza, I think I love them and want to see if this lasts a while…

[fervxr]

Tales of Glory: [ Natlan ]

Hello, my cuties! Now this is all brain rot I got from watching Wakanda Forever and seeing Talokan. Let me explain what is Talokan — spoilers to Wakanda Forever head so ignore this whole headcanon if you want to watch the movie first!

Talokan is based on the mythical Aztec paradise Tl��lōcān, reigned over by the rain god Tlālōc. In ancient Aztec culture, the city was an afterlife destination for anyone who perished by drowning or by lightning. It's a hidden kingdom ruled by Namor, the Sub-Mariner. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever suggests that a fragment of the meteor that gave Wakanda vibranium, or another similar meteor, landed in the part of the world where Mesoamerican culture flourished.

Some 500 years prior, his mother was a member of a tribe in the Yucatan area of what is now Mexico. This tribe was terrorized by Spanish colonists, and tried to escape from them. Each member of the tribe drank a special herb from a glowing plant that looked just like the ones we know from Wakanda. This plant gave them the power to breathe underwater, but they could no longer survive on the surface. Centuries later, with breathing apparatus, they could emerge from the depths. But their skin would turn blue on contact with air. Only Namor was different from the rest of his tribe. Namor’s mother was pregnant when she ingested the herb, and so he became the first child born underwater. But possibly due to his being just a fetus when the herb entered his body, he came out a bit different. A mutant. He could survive underwater as well as on the surface without assistance, and could fly due to the tiny wings on his feet. He also had super strength and durability. All part of his mutation, a mutation no doubt connected to the herb. Under Namor’s rule, the people of Talokan have harnessed the power of the oceans, and in some cases, sea life itself, to their advantage.

Now you may ask why I’m getting brainrot of Natlan with Talokan? The thing I loved about Talokan there’s respectful and researched Mayan and Aztec influences in the empire and the people down to them speaking Mayan as well. Now my Murata view the sun and stars as a source of pyro energy and life.

Unlike Talokan being a hidden underwater empire, perhaps Natlan is a hidden city underground as well? After the death of the pyro archon, they’re hide underground or forced underground by the abyss. Having their fake sun for artificial closure to the death of the original pyro archon or normalcy back at the surface.

I want to believe like my Murata, that Natlan praises the sun like The civilizations from ancient pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, including the Aztec, Incan, and Mayan empires. These civilizations were sun worshipers and careful observers of astrological movement. The Aztec saw themselves as "the People of the Sun," whose divine duty was to wage cosmic war in order to provide the sun with his tlaxcaltiliztli ("nourishment").

I might touch up this headcanon more but this is the base ideas for how I see Natlan until it’s revealed more in game (possibly 2024 most likely pfft)

[sunder-the-gold]

Your Alicorn Is In Another Castle

Okay, long story short, during a wiki-crawl through TvTropes, I found this story.

My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic crossed over with Mario.

This fic relies on Meta and Tropes As Cosmic Forces, which I normally dislike, but I love the way this author sells it.

In this fanfic, King Bowser’s story is much, much older than Princess Peach and the Mario Brothers. He’s been doing this a long while.

He finds explaining his predicament to an Equestrian pony much easier than to other species. Ponies know exactly what it feels like to have a moment of brilliant realization about their Destinies on the day when they receive their Cutie Marks. They can easily, and with great horror, imagine the living hell of trying to ignore or even work against their Talents.

Bowser realized his Destiny is to kidnap Princesses. It’s such an indelible part of his nature that, even though he doesn’t have a Cutie Mark, he doesn’t need to cast an illusionary spell to show what his would look like to Twilight Sparkle.

Chains, binding and dragging a crown away.

But while his Talent made Bowser unstoppable at kidnapping a Princess, it didn’t actually lend itself to keeping them prisoner, or to defeating Heroes in battle. Bowser knew that, one day, he would bite off more than he could chew, and end up dead or worse.

So he quit, got married, had a son... and his wife left him because he couldn’t stop. He couldn’t stop dreaming about kidnapping; he would sleepwalk his way through sketching out plans.

In his darkest hour, he had an epiphany. What if he found a Princess who wanted to be kidnapped?

Princess Celestia is one of Bowser’s oldest clients, and it’s been forever since she contacted Bowser for one of his special vacations. The upcoming diplomatic meeting with the United Buffalo Tribes proved to be the straw that broke the Alicorn’s back, and she booked a kidnapping so she could get out of it without offending anyone.

Problem is, Celestia somehow forgot to inform Bowser that, since they last met, she’s no longer the only Alicorn Princess in Equestria. Operating on outdated information, Bowser’s abduction team kidnaps the wrong Alicorn Princess.

("Shells and spikes," he muttered. "It's the Daisy fiasco all over again.")

Unfortunately, the story ends just after an AMAZINGLY characterized King Bowser* finishes his explanation to Twilight Sparkle, and the author has left the readers waiting to see who the designated Hero will be for FIVE YEARS.

If that doesn’t deter you and the story sounds interesting, you can find it here.

*You can really feel the weight of Bowser’s age in this story. This is a man so far into his recovery and Living His Best Life that he can keep an even temper while talking about living through despair so deep he probably contemplated suicide. Including having the grace to not burden a distraught Twilight Sparkle about that detail, if he did. His pain is there, but distant enough that he doesn’t have to feel it anymore.

[inspectorspacetimerevisited]

At least the programme didn’t make a big deal about Lily’s nonbinary status.

Nor did they make any maternalistic rants about how an Infinity Dame can handle things an Infinity Knight can’t.

[tsuki-sennin]

Maaaaaaaaaaaan, Revice ended yesterday, and so all of a sudden, these Donbura Dorks decide they have to end their show too, huh? And here I thought we had something special :<

-Aww man, don't remind me.

-"Yes, that finale was pretty poggers and based. My compliments to Mr. Kinoshita and the crew. Now... we have no reason to continue with this charade!"

-Hooray, we all get to go home!

-Haruka can't see herself stopping the whole hero thing, huh?

-"Well, as long as there's a single human being left on Earth, I doubt that the desires that corrupt the Hitotsu-ki will ever disappear..."

-"THAT'S SO NOT TRAFFIC SAFE!"

-Donbrothers is over.

-Pick the MVP!

-Man, I'm gonna miss this absolute banger of an OP next week. ...who even are the new Ranger dudes, anyhow? Are they friends with Mr. Geats already? Is Cosmic Fury gonna air alongside Geats?

-Wait, is this a clip show!?

-Aw son of a bitch, Inoue tricked me!

-...did Inoue even write this episode?

-Hang on, lemme check...

-Saburo Yatsude... that's the pseudonym used by Toei itself. I believe they also wrote the scripts for the Den-O crossover specials and Zenkai Red last year.

-Checked and cross referenced some Wikipedia articles (very cursorily mind you). The only show among the Noto's inspirations to have a Saburo Yatsude "Created by" credit is The Kagestar. This makes me believe that some producer really likes Sonoza, and I can't blame them for that.

-Well, you have been through an awful lot for a teenager, Haruka. A lot of kids fantasize about superheroics, but rarely do they take full notice of the consequences, both social and physical. I'd know, I was one of those kids, writing self-inserts kept under lock and key. Hell, even now, as a 21 year old, I still think it'd be worth it just to have something else going on in my life.

-You're a bit different though. Even if you were basically dragged into Ranger work kicking and screaming, you perform your combat duties very admirably, and still strive for that normal life. Not to mention how far you've come as a person. The Haruka from 25 episodes ago absolutely wouldn't have gone out of her way to help out her teammates the way she's been lately. I'm proud of ya, kiddo.

-Shinichi, did you have to transform between cuts to make your point? Seems a bit extra. Ah who am I kidding, that's just who you are, I wouldn't have it any other way <3

-Let's see... you've definitely haven't changed as much as Haruka has, but there's so much about you that interests me all the same. All the small things you use your powers for to help others, the way you stick to your asceticism despite all the obvious personal risk to your safety, the way even slightly giving into your desires seems to burn you up so quick... remember in Episode 20 when you immediately started living up the hero image? Do you even use your Kibi-Points, I wonder?

-Tsuyoshiiiiii, my man!

-"I kinda am a total scrub... if only I were a cool guy... Heh, guess I kinda got my wish in a way!"

-...and yeah, that's very much like you :)

-Hmmm... who's Mr. InuBrother?

-"Wan..."

-Don't put words in the doggo's mouth!

-Oh shoot, hello Sononi!

-...er... I'm sure Condorman's a pretty cool hero! Kohan Kawauchi's responsible for the creation of Moonlight Mask, Japan's first ever tokusatsu TV superhero, so he evidently knew what he was doing. He also created Warrior of Love Rainbowman, which was an inspiration for Cutie Honey.

-He was also an Islamic convert, which led to the creation of this show called "Messenger of Allah", starring a young Sonny Chiba, of all actors! I was a big fan of him as a teenager, but I don't think I've ever heard of this. Which is crazy to me, because a show like Messenger of Allah is absolutely something that should be explored from top to bottom.

-Sorry, I should be focusing on Donbrothers right now, but... Huh... I keep wondering how shows like these get made.

-Uhhhh... Sononi! You're presenting your case for Tsubasa, right? Yeah, show me.

-Gotta save the love of your life, Tsubasa-san!

-"Who the fuck are these weirdos, this is bullshit"

-Oooooooooooh, Dog Man throwin' shade!

-I have to wonder... the actor playing Sayama, Ryoji Sugimoto... do you think he wonders exactly what he's supposed to be doing as a character?

-Damn, Crane Lady got kicks.

-Yeah, I think that's one of my nicknames for Natsumiho.

-Man, that Momoi Tarou.

-He's one of a kind madman.

-Yeah, guess he really speaks for himself, huh?

-Oh yeah, the Enya Rideon.

-Beeg AND Smol!

-Oh yeah, the headpat lmao

-"Wait, Don Onitaijin is five guys, burgers and fries?"

-I love that little plush doggie they use for Tsubasa, I hope they keep it around when he... maybe or maybe not joins with the rest full time.

-SONOI

-"Now, hold on a moment. ...there's another Don. ...technically two? Or perhaps not."

-"I'm gonna be the strongest hero! Waaaaaaaaah!"

-Dragon Punch! Shoryuken! Dragon! Dragon! Rock the Dragon!

-Tiger Cutter! Tiger Uppercut! Lions Tigers and Bears! Oh My!

-"But nah, my rival is Don Momotaro. And you can't have him."

-Oh shit, Donbrothers MVP time.

-And the winner is Don Kaito.

-YEP FUCKING CALLED IT LMAO

-"I win."

-Shut up Kaito kjlhklghvghjg

-"...why were you all rainbow-y in that stock footage?"

-Awwww, he wants to reward us :)

-"For you all :)"

-Free photobooks :)

-"I was born to be a hero. I've always been a hero. I am the hero."

-Heeeeeeeeeeeeeey, what're you lads doing here!?

-"Jesus Christ, it's been 26 episodes and this shit isn't over."

-"Next time, Sonoza... I will defeat Momoi Tarou! Then Sononi can deal with Inuzuka Tsubasa as she pleases and you can resume your manga browsing with Kito Haruka. Now... watch me blow some bubbles."

-Are we at a water park next episode? Epic.

[oswlld]

Sooooo im sure there’s other/better things to do but instead, I have composed this Watchlist that I am sure will never be finished, under the cut. Pls feel free to also send recs for movies/shows for me to check out!

[REVISED 02/05/24]

[All dates are subject to change, depending on my mood honestly] —

SHOWS - Scheduled High on the Hog (in prog) African Folktales (in prog) Devil’s Plan OR Murderville (Feb ’24)** Three Body Problem (2/15) Always a Witch (3/11) 23.5 Degrees (THAI, Coming Soon) Triage (THAI, April ’24) Tear Along the Dotted Line/This World Can’t Tear Me Down (ITA, April ’24)

SHOWS - Sched TBD No Regrets in Life Hometown Cha-cha-cha [Joan’s Galaxy] Revenant See You in My 19th Life Replacing Chef Chico Gudetama My Daemon First Love: Kieta Hatsukoi Alice in Borderland s2 3 Will Be Free Tooth Pari: When Love Bites Choona [Sesham Mike-Il Fathima] Life’s a Glitch: with Julien Bam [Jinn] If I Hadn’t Met You [Triptych] The Greatest Robbery of Brazil’s Central Bank Nobody’s Looking 1899 Black Sails Scott Pilgrim Takes Off Our Universe Life in Color [Light & Magic] Abbott Elementary** **= upon bestie’s request | [= pushed to 2025]

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MOVIES - Scheduled Over the Moon (2/10) American Symphony (2/11) Sky Ladder: The Art of Cai Guo-Qiang (2/11) Your Name Engraved Herein (2/12) Amy Tan: Unintended Memoir (2/24) Happy Together (2/24) The Holdovers (2/26) Bobi Wine: The People’s President (2/27) Rustin (2/28) American Fiction (2/29) Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am (3/1) Nimona (3/3) Society of the Snow (3/4) Elemental (3/6) El Conde (3/7) Oppenheimer (3/8) The Boy and the Heron OR Poor Things (3/9, TBD) Moonlit Winter (3/16) Polite Society (3/22)

MOVIES - Sched TBD My Big Fat Greek Wedding Rewatch** Cinderella, Brandy ver.** Seoul Vibe Yellow Door: ’90’s Lo-Fi Film Club Marry My Dead Body Between Maybes Seasons A Faraway Land A Perfect Fit Chandigarh Kare Aashiqui Joyland The Takedown Beyond the Universe Buddies Entergalactic Sorry to Bother You They Cloned Tyrone The Tragedy of Macbeth O Brother, Where Art Thou? UNKNOWN: Cosmic Time Machine Where the Wild Things Are Clue The Creator [Kizazi Moto: Generation Fire] [Suzume] [LEGO Star Wars films]** [The Mummy]** **= upon bestie’s request | [= pushed to 2025]

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Completed: LIZIQI Luca Behind the Try Gunpowder Milkshake Disney Insider Cosmos Possible Worlds The Mitchells vs the Machines Fantastic Mr Fox Muppet Haunted Mansion Star Wars: Visions What If…? Behind the Attractions Encanto Hawkeye Space Sweepers Chef’s Table Bad Buddy Wolfwalkers Make Happy Eternals Lupin Song Exploder Ali Wong Special Semantic Error Maya and the Three Tick, Tick… Boom! Turning Red Flee Street Food Latin America Among the Stars Twenty Five Twenty One Driving Home 2 U Killing Eve La Casa de Papel (DNF) Breaking Boundaries Doctor Who Special The Artist Breakfast, Lunch, & Dinner Cutie Pie (DNF) To My Star Making Fun Now You See Me HUMAN The World Within Moon Knight Blueming Sound of Magic Reset Bullsh*t Sucker Punch MARVEL Assembled Series Star Wars: Forces of Destiny BLACKPINK Kieta Hatsukoi Sketchbook Midnight in Paris Obi-Wan Color Rush Plus and Minus Badhaai Do To My Star 2 First Kill KinnPorsche Ms Marvel Newsies: the Musical Old Fashion Cupcake Mirai Lightyear Sense8 Rewatch Sandman Extraordinary Attorney Woo WWDitS s4 Hannah Gadsby: Douglas Everything Everywhere All at Once Lord of the Rings Rewatch Vice Versa Parent Trap Rewatch She/Hulk Alice in Borderland Doctor Who: The Power of the Doctor Glitch Sleep with Me Werewolf by Night Cherry Magic Cherry Magic: The Movie Bad Buddy Rewatch Andor Disenchanted Knives Out: Glass Onion Midnight at the Pera Palace Roman Holiday Doom at Your Service The Guardian Pinocchio Klaus Vice Versa Rewatch Heartstopper Our Great National Parks Fire of Love RRR A Trip to Infinity My Year of Dicks Le Pupille Puss in Boots: Last Wish National Treasure: Edge of History Gap the Series Wakanda Forever The 1619 Project My School President The Martha Mitchell Effect Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths Run for the Money Night Ride The Sea Beast The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, and the Horse Tár An Ostrich Told Me the World is Fake and I Think I Believe It Summer of Soul Stranger at the Gate Marcel the Shell with Shoes On Ice Merchants Haulout The Flying Sailor Elephant Whisperer Somebody Feed Phil Vincenzo Midnight Museum Paper Girls Mandalorian s3 The Wandering Earth Art & Tech Bird in Hand All Those Sensations in My Belly How My Grandmother Became a Chair Udahnut Zivot Bombay Rose Latin History for Morons The Day of Becoming You Wet Hidari Mao’s Mango Cut King of the Sea Star Wars: Visions (s2) Our Skyy 2 (VV + MSP + BB) Across the Spiderverse Mr Pete & The Iron Horse BJ’s Mobile Gift Shop Kukeri Keys to the City My Tooth, Your Love Voices Rising: Music of Wakanda Forever Show Me Love The Half of It The Eighth Sense Kabe Koji Secret Invasion (DNF) Glove Chicken Stories Goodnight Henry La Plongeuse The Tobos Dial Tone Salvation Has No Name Hysteresis Soft Animals Cat and Moth The Little Mermaid Our Beloved Summer Drifting Home I Told Sunset About You Ball People Well Wishes My Love, Your Love Meow or Never Stranding Stay Mountain Myrna the Monster Under the Skin I Lost My Body Barbie Lupin, p3 Wendell & Wild Haunted Mansion Secrets in the Hot Spring Over the Garden Wall A Time Called You (DNF,) Once Upon a Crime The Oskars Fantasy ONI Black Holes Doctor Who Specials The Holiday Interview with the Vampire, s1 Schitt’s Creek The Good Place Rewatch Flavorful Origins Chevalier Last Twilight Moving BlacKKKlansman

Pls see tags for more info - thank you!

[thegeekerynj]

All Death Metal Review (And nothing from Sweden!)

Death Metal: Trinity Crisis One Shot 

Writer: Scott Snyder   Artist: Francis Manapul

‘And who are YOU supposed to be? I’ve faced enough Dark Knights that no Batman scares me anymore!

Ha! Then it’s a good thing I’m not a Batman! I’m his MOTHER!’

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Sweet Christmas! That took me by surprise!

Harley kissing Jonah Hex, that was really sweet, and gods awful creepy, and kinda gross,  after the exchange, and some thought…

This is it, Gentle Readers… the Beginning of the End of the Beginning of… Oh, crap, now I’m lost… This is where the story starts rockin’!

The Gang’s all together, and the Black Lantern Bat has determined what they need to do.

The plan? Split up, naturally. That AL-ways works…

When we left them in DM #3, the Lanterns are protecting the Home Base, and taking out the Crisis Energy Antennae on the Earths left in the known Universes, The Flashes are off and running through the Speed Force, trying to find Metron, and stay ahead of the Bathattan who Laughs, while the Trinity (Superman / Antilife, Black Lantern Batman and  Warden Wonder Woman) along with Swamp Thing, Harley, Hex and Jarro, head for Castle Bat, to gain access to the Crisis Earths, where the Crisis Energy is being harvested for Perpetua.

**WHEW!**

Getting into the Castle involves getting past an army of Dark Knights… and we have a bunch of real winners here! 

Bat Monday - Salomon Grundy in Bat ears, I could have busted a gut laughing, until I thought about what kind of weapon a zombie with Batman’s training could be, and shivered…

Kull, the daughter of Batman and Wonder Woman, corrupted by the Dark Universe…

Ark, the living embodiment of Arkham, with all of the knowledge and abilities of ALL her worst inmates…

Chiroptor, the amalgam of Batman and Chemo (Great Elder Gods!!)… 

And the Pearl, Martha Wayne, in the equivalent of HellBat Armor, complete with her iconic pearl necklace.

This is a real mindscrew for Batman, and the panels depict it, most intently.

One nice thing about Scott Snyder… he is consistent about tying up loose ends. Once we are in Castle Bat, we find out what happened to Barbatos, the Big Bad from Dark Nights: Metal. Not that we were actually wondering, since we got Perpetual, and the Batman Who Laughs, but, like I said, it ties up the package nicely.

Then, we are introduced to the character I have been most happily waiting for… the Robin King, and his Utility Belt of Death!

Gentle Readers, this is the story we have been waiting for, the chapter which tells us what the Heroes Plan of Action is, and where the story has been going, for over 40 years. You see, the opening page of this book tells us where this story began… with Marv Wolfman and George Perez, and Crisis on Infinite Earths!

Not to spoil too much, but Crisis, Infinite Crisis, and Final Crisis, ]well… they have all played a part in getting us to this story. It seems, the “Crisis Energy’ has fed Perpetua while she was trapped within the Source Wall, and, now, she wants it all, so she can recreate the Universes in her image.

Great job, if you can get it…

I can’t say enough good things about this story and artwork, as Snyder and Manapul have put together a really tight, hard hitting bottle / lead story, bringing us to the next step in the saga… 

Jeebus on a popsicle stick, I hope no one lets me down… that will hurt!

Out of 5🌶        🌶🌶🌶🌶.5

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Death Metal: Multiverse’s End #1

Writer: James Tynion IV   Artist: Juan Gedeon

‘Mr. Rabbit?

Yes, Young Lady?

Thank you for saving me.

What a kind thing to say! It was so scary out there, and you stayed so brave. I don’t think I could have done it without your courage.

You’re really, really soft.

I use a special carrot shampoo.

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Once upon a time, about a million, bazillion years ago in cranky fat man years, somewhere around 1982, Roy Thomas and Scott Shaw! brought Earth-C into the DC Multiverse, the earth of anthropomorphic animals… yes, they brought Super-Hero Cartoon Animals to the Super Hero Universe.

Our introduction to this Earth was Rodney Rabbit, a comics writing and drawing hare, who created the Just’a Lotta Animals comic by day, and was Captain Carrot, a Superman-esque rabbit, who got his powers from super charged carrots, when danger struck.

But, I digress… because I got really excited!

So, we have teams on the 6 Earths, each Earth holding a tuning fork, focusing the psychic pain energy of the population to Perpetual, powering her attempts to recreate the Multiverse in her image. The Earths in play, Earth - 3 (Crime Syndicate), Earth - X (Nazi Earth), Earth - 29 (Bizarroworld), Earth - 43 (Blood League World) and Earth - 50 (Justice Lords Earth) are all worlds of pain and suffering.

Their energy is the right flavor for destroying, and creating.

The heroes, organized and led by the Green Lanterns of Sector 2814 (Hal Jordan, Guy Gardner, John Stewart, Kyle Rayner, Jessica Cruz, Simon Baz), are working to take down the Antennae before the energy can be fed to Perpetual to power her Cosmic Undoing. 

So, teamed with the Lanterns, we have Hawkgirl, Kid Flash (Earth-22), President Superman (Earth-23), Wonder Woman (Earth-6) and Captain Carrot, all hellbent on stopping the respective Antennae.

The problem… Each Earth’s inhabitants have been laced into the antennae, to directly feed the psychic energy to it..since the energy is effectively terror, well, what better way to induce some? Of course, this isn’t the only problem to be contended with…

Leave it to James Tynion IV to come up with a way to make a villain creepier than the Batman Who Laughs… How, you ask? Well, take the true polar opposite of Batman, and make him realize HE IS what Giggles says he is, and you have an interesting new ballgame.

You see, while the Batman who Laughs is the Ultimate CORRUPTED Batman, Owlman is the Anthesis of Batman, the purest EVIL to the Batman’s GOOD. And he plans to make sure that he continues to be the True Opposite…

Gedeon’s artwork is rough, but considering the story being told, and the pain portrayed by the characters, it fits, perfectly. Some times, I see Joe Staton and Nic Cuti in these pages, a little cartoony, but that’s not a complaint… The story concentrates a bunch on Guy Gardner and Cap, so, it seems to fit (and the art is reminiscent of the ‘A Guy and his G’Nort’ storyline from 1991). 

All in all, a very good story, and a fantastic use of a truly underused treasure.

Out of 5🌶        🌶🌶🌶🌶

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Speed Metal #1

Writer: Joshua Williamson   Pencils: Eddy Barrow   Inks: Eber Ferreira

‘Hey, Flash Family, Is it true a Flash has to die in every Crisis?!’

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And the levels of snark from the Darkest Knight have reached Epic Levels!

The first three pages of this issue give us a rehash of everything  having to do with Wally West, since the beginning of the Rebirth Era, from Barry pulling Wally out of the Speed Force, to Barry and Batman finding the Comedian’s Smiley Face button embedded in the Batcave wall, to the events of Heroes in Crisis and Flash Forward.

The action picks up as Barry, Wally, Wallace and Jay leave the Batman’s Vault, in search of Metron’s Chair, with the Darkest Knight hot on their trails. 

In the Speed Force.

With the Darkest Knight’s presence corrupting the Speed Force, Barry and Wally bickering the entire time, I’m reminded of why I hated the post Crisis Flash… Wally wasn’t mature enough to wear the mantle of Barry’s fame.

Sure, he had the speed, he was even faster than Barry, but he was still the same jealous little kid inside, the one who needed to be patted on the head, the one who couldn’t get on with the Titans, even though he was probably the most powerful of them. 

He was just an immature kid, and here, Williamson dragged that all into the foreground once again.

All so Wally West, the King of the Redemption Arc, could have another Redemption Arc…

Sorry, that did me in. 

The rest of the story is pretty good… the art is wonderful, the Jay / Barry / Wallace interplay is really kinda neat, and all the Black Flashes… well, I’m a sucker for Death icons, so a mass of Death Speedsters, well that’s fun with a CAPITAL F!

But, did we need another Wally gets to whine story?

Sorry, this wasn’t the finest arc of the Death Metal Saga.

Out of 5🌶        🌶🌶🌶

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Death Metal #4 ‘Shot In The Dark’

Writer: Scott ‘Scream King’ Snyder   Artist: Greg ‘The Muscle’ Capullo  Inks: Jonathan ‘Bloodied’ Glapion

“So, ever wonder why you never see A Harley Who Laughs’?’

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And, that Gentle Readers, is the crux of one of those puzzles about this series… Why don’t we ever see more twisted versions of the Villains who infest Earth Prime?

The Robin King (this is the character who rates SECOND on my memorable Characters list, especially with his own One-Shot—— Who’s First?? Time, Gentle Ones in time…) puts the explanation out there, and it is very simple.

And worth the read… But, I digress.

So, Issue 4 picks up with Sergeant Rock describing what has been happening on Earth - Prime, and we finally get to see who has been carrying him around… AMBUSH BUG! Yes, the character that made the Fourth Wall more transparent than an open Anderson window has been carrying Rock around as his own personal narrator…

Which, if you know the Bug, is a joke unto itself.

So, here we go, the ride is picking up steam, and we are now following 6, count’em SIX, separate story lines. A guy could get whiplash, or Bullwhip or some other third rate character… But, I digress.

We have the Trinity storyline, the SpeedMetal storyline, Multiverse’s End, and the Lantern Storyline from the last issue, the Justice League / Legion of Doom story… am I forgetting anything? 

Oh, and of course, the Robin King.

Where to start with this… I guess the simplest place to start is the artwork.

Greg Capullo’s pencils are absolutely wonderful. For anybody who it's to watch the process of drawing I want to watch so he's got a really wonderful touch I recommend Greg Capullo’s Instagram site. As he's drawing pages for these books, he posts the pencils as he finishes pieces of the process . Normally, he has six or seven photo panels showing exactly what he's been doing.  In man cases, this involves crowd scenes, with extensive detail. His work is beautiful, it’s easy to see why he is such a sought after talent.

Jonathan Glapion’s inks on Capullo’s pencils are comparable to Austin on Byrne, and Janson over Miller, Janson over Colan… Enhancing, and not hiding the intricate detail rendered in the pencils, adding that last flash of lightning to bring it all together. The balance struck between them is almost organic, a constant growth between the two, bringing them to levels bordering on the true Classic Art teams of the last 50 years.

I do not make these comparisons lightly

Now, to the story. Scott Snyder is powering a roller coaster with a rocket sled. The coordination between the different aspects of these stories is both intricate and daring. With all the different aspects of this story spinning like plates on sticks, Snyder juggles the plot lines, and what is left to him by the myriad of writers as Emmet Kelly did in the heyday of Ringling Brothers.

His deft touch, and subtle influences are balanced by lace covered sledgehammer blows, leaving the reader reeling, and wanting so very much more.

Scott Snyder, much like Tom Taylor, has pulled out all the stops, cut the brake lines, kicked out the jams, insert favorite euphemism for creating a high speed, non-stop mad ride to Hell!

And, much to my wallet’s chagrin, I am very happy about it.

Now, as it crosses to other books, and other writers pick up the reins, I am sure Snyder will still be the whip hand driving the story, not allowing some of these writers to go too far astray (unless it’s Tom King… then, well Woo Hoooo!)

I can’t say enough good things about this story, or the team creating it. I’m beginning t feel a little biased, but, what the heck.

Out of 5🌶        🌶🌶🌶🌶.5

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Death Metal: Robin King #1 ‘The Robin Who Would Be King’

Writer: Peter J. Tomasi   Artist: Riley Rossmo

‘Aw! Come on, this is the fun part!

Get up and let’s FIGHT!’

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Games, within games, within games…

So, the Batman who Laughs wasn’t infallible.

And the Robin King is going to be the bigger threat to the Darkest Knight than any combination of the Trinity, Flashes or their cohorts.

At least, that’s my takeaway from this issue.

We continue the story of the Robin King, as started in the Tales of the Dark Universe one shot.  Bruce has grown up, and grown into his sociopathy, and genius. He has used the family fortune to get all the training necessary, and to accumulate all the tools, to begin his reign as the true Evil Overlord of Gotham.

Utilizing his accumulated weapons, he has taken out Commissioner Gordon, Firestorm, Animal Man, Adam Strange Blue Beetle (Ted Kord), and the Red Tornado, all in truly spectacular and extraordinarily grisly fashion.

While the Black Hole Implosion for Firestorm was a particularly well thought out death, I think, so far, the ‘Mortal Coil’ Death, for the Red Tornado was the most imaginative… making his powers totally uncontrollable, while moving him closer to his ultimate dream, to be a real person, before his form totally destroys itself from the stresses of his own speed.

Marvelous! Fantastic! Gross!

Enter the Batman who Laughs, with the proposition to make the Robin King special, one of his own…

But, he’s a Robin, so, off to the Groblin Pit he goes!

Hence, his mistake, and possibly another chink in the boiler plate of his plans… since Bruce Wayne is NO Robin!

Peter Tomasi’s scripting for this issue is simply remarkable. The creep factor he brings to this iteration of Bruce Wayne is almost eviscerating. Reading this was painful to my eyes and psyche, feeling the levels of insanity drip off the page, and scratch across my mind like a little bird’s unnaturally sharp talons.

He really hit all the horror factors.

Then, there was the artwork for this story. Riley Rossmo’s artwork set the mood for this story. His shattered pencil / inks style, which can be distracting, was integral to telling this story. It allowed the Reader to view this story as if it were playing out in Bruce’s mind, its all the fracturing being how he is viewing the world.

For me, this story has been the highlight of the series… thus far. I am anticipating this, which is near the midpoint of things, is setting up the Wednesday Night Episode…so, - 

Tune In, Gentle Readers! 

Same Bat-Time

Same Bat Channel!

The Best Is Yet To Come!

Did I neglect there is a B-story, with Signal, Spoiler, Orphan and Red Robin taking on Quietus, the amalgam of Batman Ras’ al Ghul and Duke Thimas, from another Dark Universe, written by Tony Patrick and drawn by Daniel Sampere?

This story brings in a plot line for ‘What’s happening for the Other Bat-Family Elements’, as they try to find their way through Castle Bat’s myriad streets… 

I am guessing we will start to see more of these stories.

I am completely fine with this, rather than having to recap things later…

Out of 5🌶        🌶🌶🌶🌶.5

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Cutie mark Tattoo Friendship Is Magic: The Next Generation begins thirty years after the birth of Princess Flurry Heart, and the story is... a bit darker and more complicated than My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic before it. It delves into the backstory around Alicorns, where they came from, why Discord is the only Draconequus, and who is the prisoner in the deepest darkest cell of the cosmic oubliette that is Tartarus... (And admittedly, FIM:TNG does take some liberties with the events of MLP:FIM, mostly in regards to Equestria Girls and all episodes after and including The Cutie Re-Mark. That will become more apparent when it comes to the character bios for Sunset Shimmer, Flash Sentry, Starlight Glimmer, and others.) Now, I have done this for years now online, but I think it deserves attention here: whenever I discuss a couple, I always use an ampersand "&" between their names, whereas with platonic pairs/groups, I use the word "and" instead. And also, I think we all take it for granted that same-sex couples in Friendship Is Magic headcanons can have kids. I mean, magic is a thing in this universe, and it's not ENTIRELY written off that sex-changes could happen with magic. Or just, you know, other options with the magic to allow two mares or two stallions to have children together. Anyway, moving on.

This is Octavio Slate Pie, Pinkie's brother. Yes, he is technically a character from Pony Life, but bear with me on this. It will make sense in a little bit. Because, you see, this interpretation of Octavio Pie appeared in the original show. You may also notice that his color scheme and cutie mark are extremely familiar...

Marble Pie always felt great discomfort in her own body. She hated to speak and so mostly relied on her twin Pinkamena to do the talking for them. And after Pinkie got her cutie mark and became so much more talkative, this became much more convenient. Marble let her mane grow out and hid her face with it. She stayed mostly in the farm, and with Maud off to earn her rocktorate and Pinkie off in Ponyville spreading her brand of cheer, Marble's oldest sister Limestone was left to run the farm with her more mellow parents tending to the gruntwork. (As Earth Ponies, they would retain their vigor for far longer than Unicorns or Pegasi.)

And then Marble met Big McIntosh. It was the greatest Hearth's Warming Eve gift that Marble could have ever received, though not in the way that an outsider could have reckoned. Marble herself thought that she loved him at first, and her heart ached that he could have his own special somepony when he came with Sugar Belle the next Hearth's Warming. But as she thought about it, and how she felt about herself, Marble realized that she didn't love Big McIntosh like that. Rather, she wanted to be like him. Marble Pie wanted to be a stallion.

It took more willpower than he could have thought to come out to his older twin. Pinkie was visiting for their birthday and exclaimed that she was so happy to have planned the surprise birthday party for herself and her baby twin sister. "...not your sister." It was the most he had said at once in a long time. He continued, "...your b-b-brother." Pinkie's confusion gave way to absolute joy. She had a baby twin brother now! She had to change her plans post-haste! This would also be an introduction of her brother to everypony!

As for his name, he always loved the name of his cellist cousin Octavia Melody. He wrote it down as the male version Octavio, and it just felt right. His middle name of Slate comes from the metamorphic rock.

In no time, Octavio was the scene of the party (which he interjected himself into the planning for). He spoke more in one minute than he had in several years. To many, it seemed like the backlog of words he'd held back as a mare and filly had come spilling out now that he was a stallion. He cut his mane and tail short, no longer hiding his face. Applying for transitional spells and potions, his features became more pronounced, his voice deepening. Though he wouldn't talk nearly as much as he had at his birthday/coming-out party, Octavio became a much more sociable and open pony than he had ever been as Marble. He finally felt like he fit in his own body. He was finally happy.

For a short period, Octavio took up the same sort of role as party-planner as his twin, to the point that many would have called his parties Pinkie Pie Parties by mistake. This led to several misunderstandings when Pinkie received rave reviews for parties she definitely didn't remember planning. They had all the hallmarks of her parties, though, so only one pony could have put them through: her brother. She confronted him, fearful that he was trying to outdo her, outshine her. Octavio insisted he would never; she was the first one who he'd confessed to of feeling like a stallion. After more discussion, Octavio decided to take a different path with his party plans. He wouldn't use Pinkie's ideas, but his own.

Having opened up finally, Octavio Pie is bursting with self-confidence, to the point of smugness. While this means that he will not hesitate to do something that is firmly in his wheelhouse, he can unfortunately put others off. When it comes to one specific situation, though, he can soften his behavior and project profound empathy: supporting foals struggling with dysphoria. He hates to imagine foals being in the same position he'd been in for years: hating his body, hating his voice, feeling like an alien in his own skin and bones. With his own brand of parties and penchant for providing pet rocks, he yearns to help these foals enter their new identities with the happiest moments yet in their lives.

Octavio no longer lives at the Pie Family Farm, but travels Equestria with his wife planning parties. He specializes in coming-out parties. Among the foals he has thrown such parties for were Piñata Apple and Pumpkin Sweet. At a certain point he got a tattoo on his right foreleg representing his "bolt from the blue" revelation of being a stallion, and it serves as more of a symbol of an Octavio-brand coming-out party than his own cutie mark. He also may or may not have a touch of "Pinkie being Pinkie" that was awakened after his own coming-out, but anypony who knows will neither confirm nor deny.

(also, I know that octavio's cutie mark in pony life is different from marble's and not a tattoo, but everypony's cutie mark is different in pony life, so if you take issue, kindly shut up)

MLP:FiM (c) Lauren Faust / Hasbro FIM:TNG (c) me