#They're like a slightly warped reflection of themselves

[some-pers0n]

Every once in a while I think about the ship I've been obsessed over for close to two years now and feel like I'm ascending to another plane of reality. Like sometimes you just encounter a ship that hits every single mark and is perfect in every regard and you're left stunned how something like that can even exist

[ardbar]

Do you think Evbo ever gets cravings?

Sometimes I wonder if a diet of only raw meat mixed with the natural magic that would come from being so close to The Void 24/7 could change the Noobs biologically. Not a lot, but it makes it easier for them to digest meat than other foods. Raw food becomes easier and easier on their stomach with each passing day. Over weeks their teeth turn sharp to help them rip apart the tough food they are given. They don't have the armor that the pros do, so the magic makes their legs sturdier. They can jump as fast as others without special training but the claws that can only be used through Leather Boots due to the flexibility of the material helps them grip the blocks better. Evbo has almost fallen many times because he tried to grip the edge of a block with his Talons and lean outward for a better view of something, only for his Talons to strike the metal of the soles of his boots instead of the soft grass and dirt. Their eyes shine back light due to the fact there are no light sources other than the sun.

Perhaps their arms are much stronger than any other layer as well, because they're the only ones who will sometimes slip and grabbing onto the side of a block they haul themselves back up. Never when a Pro is around to see them of course, but in secret they teach eachother how to Grip.

These changes only really effect those who have lived there for weeks or months, with Evbo and The Old Man being the Most Changed of all of them due to being the only ones who have survived there for Years. Evbo doesn't know why he makes everyone on the higher levels nervous when they look at him. He doesn't know that he literally registers as Other to them with proportions that are Slightly Off. Arms to thick, claws to long, teeth to sharp, eyes that reflect Golden.

Mmm, this started off as reasons why Evbo would crave raw meat and spiraled into him being Uncanny Valley to the Masters and Pros. But speaking of meat! I wonder if his transformation over the years left him craving the taste and texture of raw meat. I wonder if he ever goes to the Pro Level as champion to "inspect" the farms and take 3 or four raw stake and chicken and run all the way to his throne with them. I wonder if he has a chest next to it, packed with ice. A chest stocked with raw meat that he can tear into and taste Home. I wonder if he ever cries into his hidden meat stash.

I wonder what EMF thought when he became champion and found a chest packed with ice and raw meat sitting in a place only Evbo could reach before that moment. I wonder if he asked. I wonder if Evbo would have answered.

OOOOO THIS IS SUPER COOL! I really love the way you wrote it, body horror is just so much fun. This honestly reminded me of the Magnus archives a tad, so if you are into that sort of stuff I would check it out. In other minecraft related propertys I've played around with ideas of the void warping and twisting creatures into something that Isn't quite human, I think I have a grian fic about that floating around on a03. While it's not an idea I've given more thought to for Parkciv I still think it's really cool! I think it would also be kinda interesting to combined with another idea. I think it would be really interesting if becoming a god slowly starts to change Evbo, I've always thought it would be interesting if after becoming a god evbo starts to lose some of his human traits physically showing how different he was now than what he once was and the people he cares about. If this is combined with your idea about Evbo being different than everyone else because of the void, his godhood could slowly remove these traits and thus remove the last few connections he has to his life before. One day there would be nothing left to show of the time he spent everyday struggling it would be like it never happened, no one but him even remembered what it was like. He was scarred in more ways than one but they showed that he had overcame it, now it was nothing but a distant memory. He might even start to ask himself after enough time has past, did it even happen? It wouldn't be the first time his memories lied to him.

(btw sorry for being slow with the replies kinda had a hectic day and I didn't want to just reply to it on my phone)

[scarlet--wiccan]

Does Billy have probability warping as his x-gene?

Billy is not a mutant and doesn't have an x-gene, so the short answer is no.

The slightly longer answer is that the text does not investigate the exact mechanics of Billy and Tommy's powers, and even prior to the retcon, it was actually a little vague about whether or not they were mutants themselves. I have always taken it as read that Billy and Tommy's powers are an exact duplicate of Wanda and Pietro's-- which, in the 2000s, would have meant that they were mutants. As I've said, the text supports the idea that Billy and Tommy are genetically identical to the original William and Thomas Maximoff.

For the majority of Wanda's publication history, she was considered a mutant, and this was still the case when Billy and Tommy were first introduced in Young Avengers, but our understanding of Wanda's mutation changed a few times over the years. In the late 90s, we learned that Wanda's probability-altering "hex power" is not actually her natural mutation. Per Busiek, Chthon altered Wanda's mutation to serve as a conduit for chaos magic, and her natural power would have been something elemental, similar to Magneto. Her "hexes," therefore, were an unrefined expression of raw chaos magic, and not a purely mutant power.

I typically prefer a more granular, distinct interpretation of Wanda's abilities, but the fact remains that her probability powers are not the naturally-occurring expression of her x-gene, and the same could therefore be said for Billy. In the current canon, they're not mutants, so none of this really matters.

Lately, I've seen some debate as to whether or not Billy's powers are fundamentally the same as Wanda's. I think they are. In the original run of Young Avengers, Heinberg intentionally sought to distinguish them by having Billy's powers manifest and express themselves very differently than Wanda's hexes. But at their core, both characters' powers are defined as chaos magic, and I think it's worth noting that since HoM, Wanda barely uses her classic hexes anymore. In practice, their abilities are very similar, especially in stories like Young Avengers (2013), which focused largely on reality warping, taking cues from HoM and Wanda's Nexus lore. Billy still uses the distinctive chanting gimmick, but I think that's meant to reflect the differences in their education and experience level, more than anything else.

In my mind, it makes a lot more sense and is much more interesting that these characters have the same basic power but express it differently, as a result of differing circumstances, and it just makes the overall story more cohesive? Why would Billy have fundamentally different powers if he inherited them from Wanda, especially in light of the retcon that part of their magical talent comes from a much longer lineage?

[frogsandfries]

Let's talk projects

I don't really talk about my work much anymore/lately. I just don't have much to say lately. I'm not up to anything big; I don't have a studio, so I can't do much sculpting. I fill my time with embroidery, and pin design and bead pattern-making on my tablet. I get paid Thursday, and while getting a set of wheels is my big priority, I'm really desperately crossing my fingers that I have something left over to start working on this bead pattern:

Feel free to try it out, if it strikes your fancy. I really put a lot of time and effort into it, but literally all I'm asking is that you give me a mention. I would also love to know how it went for you. I designed it for 15/0 beads, and theoretically, it should weave up to about the size of a credit card or playing card. I have no idea what I intended for a finished weaving; I'm not even certain that it will look good finished, but you can keep an eye out on my art Tumblr, Stosphia.

If this works, I was thinking about using it to illustrate at least a couple hundred frames of my graphic novel. I know, I know: What graphic novel? I don't even really write anymore, and my life has been such chaos and disorder for the last three years, my project reflects that. What in the ever-hecking heck was I imagining I would do with the weavings themselves? Also, it's an awful lot of work for a graphic novel.

This is a very grungy, grimey tarot card patch that is slightly, weirdly, just a tiny little bit warped and stretched. Noob mistake.

It's in a six-inch hoop, and it got stretched the slightest bit from the original four-and-three-quarter inches. Apart from being grimey, which I should be able to Oxy back in order, I've been making incredible progress here in Arizona. I started this in January, and back in Wisconsin, I had been working full time as well as trying to work on a conversion van. Embroidery just wasn't a priority. Most of my time in Oregon, I was too depressed to function because of the guy we were stuck with. Here in Arizona, I walk most of the day and it's rarely gloomy or cloudy. I also only work part-time, so I have plenty of time on my hands.

The reason I like the tarot and ATC formats is that obviously, there's not so much space to fill, so even if it's a silly and weird idea to embroider tarot or ATCs, they're small enough to work up (relatively) quickly, as well as small enough to wear. I definitely love the wearability factor.

I wonder if it might not be a good idea to take a break between this and my first graphic novel ATC to stitch something more random, more for fun. Something simple that I might be able to show off in public, maybe even at work.

Which reminds me.

At about four-by-three inches, I wouldn't call this small, but I designed this before I saw a Single Pale Rose. And I've been thinking about it maybe kind of a lot lately. It was supposed to be kind of a memorial-style piece. Now I'm not sure.

Regardless, this is not an inbetweeny piece. This patch, if I did stitch it, would be its own piece. For my inbetween/stretching/warmup/fun patch, I have a handful of small little doodles that I might try. Or, I was going to experiment with flair-style hand-stitched pokemon. Even at the rate I've been charging along, my first tarot card still probably has a couple weeks left on it, which means I have some time to decide.

I know a while back I was complaining about not being crazy about the Print-Stitch-Dissolve paper. Unfortunately, before I got to give it a second shot, my pack was ruined in rainy Oregon, so even if I don't have money for beads, I definitely want to order a new pack of Print-Stitch-Dissolve paper. I'm so disappointed and annoyed because it's expensive for paper and I'm not sure I'll change my mind even after this experiment I have planned. Before I throw away the damaged pack, I'm going to see if I can salvage any bit of it.

That's pretty much it. There are certainly projects that I want to be working on, but between my friend's fines, my bill, only working part-time, and not having our own transportation, I'm just making it work with what I have. I have a tablet; I have massive amounts of embroidery thread; and I have time.