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endless-oc-creations · 11 months ago

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Mimi's Mobile Marvel Oc Masterlist

Updated: 1/02/24

Name: Alexei ‘Junior’ Shostakov

Title: Burned Bridges

Faceclaim: Karl Urban

Love interest: TBD {To Be Determined}

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Summary: More to be added.

Name: Alpheus

Title: In the Stars

Faceclaim: Jason Momoa

Love interest: Kingo

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Name: Amora Harley

Title: A White Witch & A Spider

Faceclaim: Jennifer Morrison

Love interest: Natasha Romanoff

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Summary: Since Amora was born her mother warned her about others using her powers for their own gain, too bad it was her own father being one of them. Her mother suddenly disappeared and Amora was forced to grow up in a lab run by her father to experiment and use her powers until one day a secret agent broke into the lab, destroying their lab and offering Amora a place in S.H.I.E.L.D alongside her. Amora agreed and joined S.H.I.E.L.D, using her powers to help save people and protect the one who saved her, Natasha Romanoff.

Name: Alice Brye

Title: Living Dead Girl

Faceclaim: Kate Beckinsale

Love interest: Eric Brooks

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Name: Bentley Brock

Title: ATLAS

Faceclaim: Dylan O'Brien

Love interest: Peter Parker {Andrew Spider-Verse}

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Summary: When Bentley was a little boy, his mother was the light of his life, like any little boy would be towards their loving mother, but he never knew his dad. His mom said that was because they broke up before she found out she was pregnant with him. Bentley always wondered about him, what he was like, was he nice? etc. His mom always told him all the good things about him, stories about him and his motorcycle, his humor, his kindness, every wonderful thing about the man, and Bentley's mother told him about it. But at the age of five Bentley's life came crashing down. One day he found his mom in her bed dead, she had died from a sudden heart attack in her sleep. Bentley was taken by a social worker who then brought him to the only person he had left, his dad, Eddie Brock. He didn't know what to do or feel at first, and his dad didn't seem to know either, but Bentley ended up getting extremely close to his dad and loved him dearly. When he was 15 another sudden event changed his life or well someone caused it, Carlton Drake. His dad was fired, his girlfriend Ann, a mother figure to him, left him after being fired from her job because of it and they had to move. Ann offered Bentley to stay with her but he declined, he wouldn't leave his dad. Yes, his dad was irresponsible and didn't go about things the right way, but he was confident enough to know that his dad had a reason to, Carlton Drake was a real bad guy. So he would try to gather enough evidence or research in secret to try and help his dad out because he wanted to see him smile again and live his life. But his research seemed to make him more confused and concerned about what was going on, aliens from outer space? Human experiments? And before he could even get further research his dad seemed to have one of the aliens...inside him? Its name was Venom and it would change both father and son's life forever.

Name: Alexandra Rhodes

Title: All the Stars

Faceclaim: Jasmin Savoy Brown

Love interest: To be Determined

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Name: Celine Jayden

Title: Fun Sized

Faceclaim: Kristen Bell

Love interest: Scott Lang

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Name: Frankie Rose Parker

Title: My Little Spider

Faceclaim: Winona Ryder

Love interest: May Parker

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Name: Helen Ivy

Title: Ready,Aim, Love

Faceclaim: Camren Bicondova

Love interest: Kate Bishop

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Name: Isabella Hayes

Title: Ignited Series

Faceclaim: Arden Cho

Love interest: Sam Wilson & Bucky Barnes

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Summary: Isabella was a total farm girl who grew up in a small town with her family. She was happy with her parents, little sister even her fiancé until one day a gang rolled into town and started destroying it when they wouldn't reply and during the chaos, Isabella was knocked out. When she came to she was greeted by the sight of her beloved town in ruins and flames...bodies littered around it. So she rushed off towards her family's farm praying that they were okay but it was not what she hoped. Her mother, father, sister, and even her beloved were slaughtered like everyone else in her town. Lost in grief and despair she never noticed a stranger who appeared behind her...offering her a chance to get revenge for all of her loved ones, at a price of course. So without anything to lose Isabella said yes without thinking of the consequences and becoming a Ghost Rider...

Name: Robyn Hammer

Series Title: The Merc and The Knight

Faceclaim: Blake Lively

Love interest: Wade Wilson and Vanessa Carlysle

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Summary: Robyn had a pretty normal life, working alongside her brother Weasel at Sister Margaret's School for Wayward Children as a bartender. A place where mercenaries accept and cash in on private jobs, this life was normal for her at least. One day she meets a certain mercenary named Wade Wilson who changed her life completely. At first, their relationship had been BFWB, Best Friends With Benefits, but then Wade met Vanessa. Eventually, Robyn had become a part of their relationship as well and she was happy, then Wade was diagnosed with cancer, turning their lives upside down. Robyn did her best to support both of her lovers, but one day Wade disappeared without a trace. After Robyn found out about the sketchy character that talked to Wade the night before and knowing Wade would be doing something stupid out of desperation, Robyn was determined to find him by doing anything necessary. Ultimately becoming the anti-hero Black Knight.

Name: Kevin Quill

Title: Cosmic Twins Series {1st part posted}

Faceclaim: Thomas Brodie-Sangster

Love interest: Adam Warlock(Possibly)

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Summary: When Kevin was just a baby he was taken from his home in an orphanage on the planet Terra. He was taken by a group of aliens going to sell him on the black market on the planet Knowhere, but he was spotted by a teenage Peter Quill who saved him just in time. He was taken in by Peter, who already gave him a name, Kevin Maverick, which in turn Yondu said if Quill didn’t want them to get rid of him it was his responsibility. So Kevin became a part of Yondu’s Ravagers and Quill’s younger brother. It was a crazy life growing up for Kevin, who doesn’t even know that his name was based on the actor Kevin Bacon from the movie Footloose or the Tom Cruise film Top Gun, it was even harder trying to make sure his older brother didn’t die doing stupid shit, but he loved being by his brother's side and the family he had grew in size when the Guardians of The Galaxy formed.

Name: Kvasir

Title: Timeless Series

Faceclaim: Kit Harington

Love interest: Loki Laufeyson & Mobius M. Mobius

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Summary: Kvasir learned at an early age that he was to be brought up as a warrior, the protector of the sons of King Odin. So, his father sent him away to be trained and live in the Royal Palace of Valaskjalf. He was a quiet boy that kept to himself and focused on his training despite missing his mother, who had unfortunately passed away a year before he was sent away. He would train under the rough commanders, which were way rougher than they should have been with him, but there was one person who was patient with him and helped him learn things smoother and that was Heimdall. When Kvasir had any free time he would be reading, keeping to himself. However, one day there was someone that had gotten Kvasir to open up more, and that someone was the one who he was sworn to protect Loki. He taught him fun, to play games, and even showed him his magic. So, the two became incredibly close, making Kvasir loyal to Loki and Loki alone. So, Kvasir grew up being by his side through anything...and it was true because when Loki took Odin's thrown after Thor's banishment, become his left-handed man. Even after that, Kvasir would still follow Loki to whatever depths of mischief he wrought against anyone.

Name: Laura Lewis

Title: Ascending Thunder

Faceclaim: Zooey Deschanel

Love interest: Thor Odinson

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Name: Jude Stark

Title: My Father’s Legacy Series

Faceclaim: Logan Lerman

Love interest: To Be Determined{TBD}

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Summary: In 2002 Tony Stark received a call from the hospital about a newborn baby boy being abandoned by his mother and she had put his name down as the father. Tony knew the woman as one of his drunken flings but wanted to make absolutely sure he was the father so he took a DNA test. The test came back to confirm that Tony Stark was indeed the father of the baby boy, throwing him into the unexpected world of a single dad. Tony ends up naming the baby boy Jude Edwin Stark. Growing up, Jude is a shy, but sweet caring boy who cares a lot for his dad, despite the fact that his dad is busy working. He also grew up with little spotlight as possible since his dad didn’t want all that pressure put on him like he did growing up and wanted him to at least have a little bit of a normal life. This ended when Jude was only 6 years old because of his dad being held hostage in Afghanistan and coming back a different person, becoming a superhero known as Iron Man.

Name: Victor Strange

Title: Something in the Way Series

Faceclaim: Mark Mckenna

Love interest: Peter Parker

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Summary: Victor had a weird twist in life, his mother left him and his dad when he was only three years old and never looked back. His father was a highly talented neurosurgeon that could barely give him the time of day, Victor also had weird vivid dreams about things happening that hadn’t happened yet. He wanted to go to his dad for help but Victor didn’t really know how to express his feelings towards his dad without being brushed away. But then his dad’s accident happen...it threw Victor’s life further into a loop, seeing the man that had always stood so strong was now feeling so worthless and lost. The only one that really helped Victor during this time was his dad’s ex Christine Palmer, who had been like a mother to him since he was younger. But then his dad pushed her away for good, leaving Victor alone with a dad he could barely even talk to without being yelled at to go away then one day he woke up and his dad was gone. He left just like his mom did, but gave him away to Christine. Victor refused to be abandoned again so made it his mission to track down his father's movements and eventually found him in Nepal. Where apparently his dad was learning to become a Master of the Mystic Arts to heal himself...oh and found out his dreams were an ability to see into the future...which should be great for him since he’s seen his father's death more than once.

Name: Vivian Iris

Title: I’ll be your Hero

Faceclaim: Alicia Vikander

Love interest: Marc Spector/Steven Grant & Layla El-Faouly

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#mimis masterlist #mcu masterlist #mimis mcu oc masterlist #oc masterlist

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rockhyrax · 2 years ago

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Spectacle Radio ep.99 :: 04.13.23 :: How can I comprehend time if I can't comprehend eternity?

Ryuichi Sakamoto - NHK Newswide (NHK television, 1980) Orson Welles conducting a satanic Ceremony (Necromancy, Bert I. Gordon, 1972) Jeanette - Porque te vas - (Cría Cuervos, Carlos Saura, 1976) Maria Vincent - Rififi in the City (Jess Franco, 1963) Yonatan Yudkovitz & Adir Dadia - This Little Light of Mine (MaLo Sutra Fish, 2021) Jane Arden & Mihai Dragutescu - Figures in White (Anti-Clock, Jane Arden & Jack Bond, 1979) Necromancy (Bert I. Gordon, 1972) Yonatan Yudkovitz & Adir Dadia - This Little Light of Mine (MaLo Sutra Fish, 2021) Franco Micalizzi - The Tough Ones (Umberto Lenzi, 1978) Amen Corner - Scream and Scream Again (Gordon Hessler, 1970)

Tree Spirit - Time to Know (Ganjasaurus Rex, Ursi Reynolds, 1987) … Dschinghis Khan // Ghengis Khan (used in Jia Zhangke's Platform, 2000) music from The Ring Seller (Youssef Chahine, 1973) Kishore Kumar, Amit Kumar, Ahsa Bholse // Aati Rahengi Baharen (from Kasme Vaade, 1978)

Imants Kalnins - Four White Shirts (1967) Xuefei Yang // cover of the theme from Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (RIP Sakamoto) theme from King of Beggars (Gordon Chan, 1992) Sawadika // Detective City Town (from Detective Chinatown, 2015) bed: Ryuchi Sakamoto // music from Alexei and the Spring (2002) … Ryuichi Sakamoto - Iceskating (Proxima, Alice Winocour, 2019) Michael Gordon - Decasia 3 (Bill Morrison, 2002) Glenn Branca - Gloria, First Movement (Antigone/Rites of Passion, Amy Greenfield, 1990) Steve Reich - Plastic Haircut (Robert Nelson, 1963) Herschel and the Music of the Stars (Percy Adlon, 1983) Takuro Iwa - Canard à l’Orange (Patrick Bowkanowski, 2002)

Meredith Monk - Turtle Dreams (Waltz) (Ping Chong, for WGBH-TV, 1983)

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pkmn-spira · 9 months ago

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Spira OST 1

A catalogue of carefully handpicked and curated music for the Spira experience

This part just showcases the battle themes and other misc.

Next update would be the cities/towns/other places + routes themes

Spira Character Battle Themes

Optional/Secret:

Maxine Rosewood

Gym Leaders:

Alexei Maxim

Aster Miller

Claudia Laurent

Ella Baldwin

Elena Beaumont

Estrella Lawrence

Laura Baldwin

Emile Rosewood (Option A) / Emile Rosewood (Option B)

Spiran Elite Four:

Ajax Adams

Olivia Beaumont

Morgan Pennywort

Cleo Morrison

Spiran Champion:

Stella Eclair (Pokémon Trainer) / Stella Eclair (Champion)

Team Celestial Themes And Battle Themes

Celestial HQ

Celestial Takeover

Celestial Grunt

Celestial Hoplite

Celestial Oracle

Maximillian Corporation (Celestial Occupation)

Prisma Observatory (Celestial Main HQ)

Celestum Prismata Stratos Ship

Admin Hades

Admins Phobos and Deimos

Admin Hephaestus

Admin Eris

Admin Athena

Leader Zeus

Leader Zeus (Celestum Prismata Stratos Ship Fight)

SYM Project Themes

SYM-01

SYM-02

SYM-03

SYM-04A + SYM-04B

SYM-05

SYM-06

SYM-07

SYM-08

SYM-09 (First Appearance/Fight) / (Meteoric Crash Site) / (Celestum Prismata Stratos Ship) / (Final Phase)

SYM-10

Misc. Themes

Battle for Argentum City

Meteoric Crash Site Wild Encounter Theme

Cryptid Isle Wild Encounter Theme

Anodyne Amusement Park Wild Encounter Theme

Anomalous Crater Wild Encounter Theme

Wild Pokémon Encounter Theme

Rare Wild Pokémon Encounter Theme

Cave Pokémon Encounter Theme

Surf Wild Encounter Theme

Mt. Agni Wild Encounter Theme

#;worldbuilding

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artbookdap · 2 years ago

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Some very good news on the book front. Lars Müller's 'The Spirit of Chairs' is here!⁠ ⁠ Presenting the renowned chair collection of ⁠ @thierrybarbiermueller — currently on view at @mudaclausanne — this 384-page feast for the eyes presents the humble chair as sculptural object. A surprising and delightful parade of seating that’s not always for sitting, it features work by Ron Arad, Arca, Alexey Brodovitch, Choi Byung-Hun, Sandro Chia, Niki de Saint Phalle, Tom Dixon, Front Design, Frank Gehry, Godspeed, Michael Graves, Gruppe B.R.A.N.D., Mary Heilmann, Steven Holl, Richard Hutten, Franco Joly, Donald Judd, Shiro Kuramata, Daniel Libeskind, Xavier Lust, Javier Mariscal, Jasper Morrison, Bruno Munari, Marc Newson, Isamu Noguchi, Objects of Common Interest, Werner Panton, Maria Pergay, Tejo Remy, Ettore Sottsass, Philippe Starck, Richard Tuttle, Maria Uys, Franz West and Zoom Design.⁠ ⁠ Edited with foreword by Marie Barbier-Mueller. Text by Thierry Barbier-Mueller, Lorette Coen, Chantal Prod'Hom, Charlotte Savolainen-Mailler, Jamieson Webster, Robert Wilson.⁠ ⁠ Read more via linkinbio.⁠ ⁠ #chairdesign #barbiermueller #thespiritofchairs #spiritofchairs ⁠ https://www.instagram.com/p/Cn4p61xunBp/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#chairdesign #barbiermueller #thespiritofchairs #spiritofchairs

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starlingsrps · 2 years ago

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matthew kincaid.

BASIC INFORMATION

FULL NAME: matthew thomas kincaid

NICKNAME(S): matt

PREFERRED NAME(S): matthew

BIRTH DATE: march 14

AGE: thirty five

ZODIAC: pisces sun/leo rising/virgo moon

GENDER: male

PRONOUNS: he/his

SEXUAL/ROMANTIC ORIENTATION: heterosexual/token straight on thin ice

NATIONALITY: american

CURRENT LOCATION: berkeley, ca

LIVING CONDITIONS: he rents in berkeley but spends a lot of time across the bay in san francisco socially. easier to rent a house in berkeley - it was important to him when he moved fern that she go from a house with a yard to another house with a yard so while it costs the earth, they do have a small craftsman bungalow with a yard.

BACKGROUND

BIRTH PLACE: los angeles, ca

HOMETOWN: los angeles, ca

SOCIAL CLASS: upper middle

EDUCATION LEVEL: b.a. in english, ucla; masters in library science from the university of illinois/masters in english from same.

FATHER: james kincaid, deceased

MOTHER: isidora kincaid

SIBLING(S): alexei, daphne, ophelia, and cassia

BIRTH ORDER: second oldest

CHILDREN: fern dale-kincaid, six going on forty

PET(S): oats, rabbit (his arm was twisted)

OTHER IMPORTANT RELATIVES: the brunch bunch tbh

PREVIOUS RELATIONSHIPS: amanda dale, 34. amanda is fern's mother and was matthew's college girlfriend - they were together up until two years ago until she developed an addiction to oxy while recovering from shoulder surgery. while it no longer feels like he lost a limb every second of the day, it still stings. he left everything behind in portland to move to the bay area so he and fern could start fresh and the legal protections he has around fern are intense - he has sole legal custody and in their last meeting, he made it clear to amanda that she was not welcome in either of their lives. he is extremely capable of completely burning someone from his life entirely.

CURRENT RELATIONSHIP: kind of dating naomi blake? it’s a lot he doesn’t know!!!

OCCUPATION & INCOME

PRIMARY SOURCE OF INCOME: head, morrison library at uc-berkeley

CONTENT WITH THEIR JOB (OR LACK THERE OF)?: matthew has preferred the company of books since he was a kid so he's very happy.

PAST JOB(S): assistant head of graduate services at portland state university, various other library positions; pizza maker

SPENDING HABITS: he's very frugal and budgeted unless it's fern because he is soft (that rabbit was not his idea).

SKILLS & ABILITIES

PHYSICAL STRENGTH: average? like he does go to the gym but he doesn't work at being a weight lifting dynamo. as long as he can heave fern around and move furniture, he's good.

SPEED: borderline loping in terms of pace

INTELLIGENCE: borderline pedantic.

ACCURACY: average

AGILITY: fine???

STAMINA: also fine????

TEAMWORK: a very good second in command but he will also not hesitate to establish order if he needs to. when the dad voice comes out, it is time to get it the fuck together.

LANGUAGE(S) SPOKEN: english, reasonable amount of spanish

DRIVE?: yep.

JUMP-STAR A CAR?: yep.

CHANGE A FLAT TIRE?: yep.

RIDE A BICYCLE?: yep. did he have to relearn so he could teach fern? shut up.

SWIM?: yep.

PLAY AN INSTRUMENT?: nope.

PLAY CHESS?: nope.

BRAID HAIR?: yep - all of them. he learned via youtube and he's a pro.

TIE A TIE?: yep.

PHYSICAL APPEARANCE & CHARACTERISTICS

FACE CLAIM: tom mison

EYE COLOR: blue

HAIR COLOR: brown

HAIR TYPE/STYLE: short on the sides, longish on top. he's pretty neat in terms of grooming all around.

GLASSES/CONTACTS?: both - man is blind as a fucking bat.

DOMINANT HAND: right

HEIGHT: 6'3

BUILD: lanky

EXERCISE HABITS: yeah like, he'll stop at the campus gym in the morning before work if the moon and tides are right and is trying to instill Healthy Habits in fern but once a housebound nerd, always a housebound nerd.

SKIN TONE: fair

TATTOOS: he does and it is absolutely a lord of the rings tattoo.

PIERCINGS: nope.

MARKS/SCARS: a few but nothing with a crazy story

NOTABLE FEATURES: long features, being tall af.

USUAL EXPRESSION: resting bitch face.

CLOTHING STYLE: p straight forward - jeans and a button down, jacket. there is a satchel that is carried because fern's purse can't hold anything and she comes with many accessories.

JEWELRY: a watch most of the time, periodically a friendship bracelet if fern is working on them.

ALLERGIES: nah.

DIET: like normal?

PSYCHOLOGY

MORAL ALIGNMENT: lawful good in a very "why wouldn't you follow the law???" way

TEMPERAMENT: sanguine

MBTI: INFP

MENTAL CONDITIONS/DISORDERS: depression; it's managed and treated. he's been through some shit in the past couple of years - therapy helps.

SOCIABILITY: introvert

EMOTIONAL STABILITY: pretty steady but he also compartmentalizes until he snaps so that's debatable.

PHOBIA(S): heights and fern being in danger.

ADDICTION(S): nah

DRUG USE: he will not say no to an edible if 1) fern is with other responsible adults for the evening 2) it isn't ditch weed 3) they are not going to a second location.

ALCOHOL USE: sure

PRONE TO VIOLENCE?: not at all but he does mutter under his breath a lot while driving - fern did not entirely pick up her colorful vocabulary from the brunch bunch.

MANNERISMS

SPEECH STYLE: medium-low, even pace, neutral accent.

ACCENT: nah.

HOBBIES: his main hobby is whatever fern wants to do but if he's left to his own devices, he likes to read and hike.

NERVOUS TICKS: fidgety lil fucker.

DRIVES/MOTIVATIONS: it's 80% fern and 20% being a cocky fucker who refuses to fail

POSITIVE TRAITS: confident, direct, sensible, dedicated, curious

NEGATIVE TRAITS: repressed, stubborn, competitive over dumb shit, secretive, stern

SENSE OF HUMOR: dry as a fucking bone

DO THEY CURSE OFTEN?: not often but it does happen. fern has heard everything at this point, he just has to remind her that she can't repeat it.

FAVORITES

ACTIVITY: any amount of time spent with fern - with it just being them for a few years, she's his favorite person to be with and he struggles a little bit with sharing her with the brunch bunch. he knows she's fine with alexei and irene and he knows everyone well /but he's going to worry. he will always worry.

ANIMAL: always down to look at penguin at the zoo

BEVERAGE: surgically attached to this iced black coffee. it cannot be removed from his person.

BOOK: the silmarillion

COLOR: blue

DESIGNER: not....really?

FOOD: breakfast is deeply important to him which is mostly how the brunch bunch got him in the first place.

FLOWER: like they're nice but

GEM: he is not above a cool rock but gem???

HOLIDAY: halloween is the best with kids but this year's experiment of bringing oats may have broken him.

MODE OF TRANSPORTATION: driving or walking

MUSICAL ARTIST: please don't make him ever go to a concert but since it's tom petty and he's dead: he's safe.

SONG: "wildflowers” because he’s been humming it to fern since she was a baby.

SCENERY: definitely a city guy but is also trying to raise fern with an appreciation of nature. it is not going well.

SCENT: books, lavender

SPORT: if they're going, baseball he guesses. if he's watching, he's just going to zone out in front of tennis.

SPORTS TEAM: no allegiances. at all. ever.

TELEVISION SHOW: game of thrones is inferior to lord of the rings (he has a list of talking points, don't get him started) BUT he did enjoy it to a point.

WEATHER: summer

VACATION DESTINATION: you saying he looks like he needs a vacation? (he does)

ATTITUDES

GREATEST DREAM: at this point, raise fern without her teenage rebellion being getting botox with irene.

GREATEST FEAR: very realistic, very intense recurring dreams that amanda takes fern. the amount of hoops that would have to be jumped for that to even begin to happen are many but it's a pretty real fear.

MOST AT EASE WHEN: ugh, fuck it: it is with the brunch bunch. TO A POINT. it's been a long while since he's had a friend group like this and it's been good for him to be around people who aren't like him all the time and who have embraced him and fern this thoroughly. he could do without some of fern's newest skills (why does she know how to make a cosmo) but they've become a family of sorts for them. also naomi but he's always waiting for the other shoe to drop so!

LEAST AT EASE WHEN: put on the defensive about things he does not feel that he needs to defend.

BIGGEST ACHIEVEMENT: fern. she has the habits of a thirty five year old divorcee but she's smart and kind and literally everything to him.

BIGGEST REGRET: he tries very hard to not have them because if he starts to regret amanda, then there's no fern and if he regrets moving to the bay area, there's no friend group so it's a lot of give and take. he regrets taking fern to disneyland on his own - rookie mistake.

TOP PRIORITIES: fern, living and moving forward.

#c: matthew kincaid

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amifikunohime · 6 years ago

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Mamihlapinatapei Capítulo 4: Lucifer.

—Oh, Envy. Con que aquí estás —dijo una joven de cabello castaño y ojos naranja a un muchacho de edad aparentemente un tanto menor, vestido de mayordomo elegante.

—¿Se le ofrece algo, señorita? —respondió este, mirándole sin una pizca de emoción en los ojos. Su estatura no era muy alta, pero sí superaba a la de su presunta ama.

—Oh, no realmente… tan solo me preguntaba cuándo llegaremos a algún cuarto de juegos. El campo es precioso, mas no lo suficiente para entretenerme. Necesito juguetes y usar estos juguetes, ¿sabes?

—No se preocupe, señorita. Estoy seguro que llegaremos a algún reino, el descanso de los caballos terminará pronto.

—Ah… espero que en el castillo todo se encuentre en orden. Seguro se preguntan por qué me he ido tan repentinamente —al decir esto último, ella cubrió sus propios labios con la palma de su mano derecha para disimular su risa tímida.

A la orilla de un lago, algunos metros lejos de ellos, se hallaba un carruaje elegante de rosa salmón y oro. Este era tirado por un par de caballos: uno comía de las zanahorias que le daba otro sirviente, mientras que el segundo caballo bebía del agua del lago. La joven dama los miraba tranquila y risueña. Cuando se distraía, Envy posaba su mirada sobre ella y, aunque no sonreía, se notaba un brillo en sus ojos, el cual era apagado inmediatamente cuando ella se giraba para corresponderle la mirada.

—Siempre eres así…

—¿Disculpe, señorita?

Ella tan solo negó con su cabeza, aún sonriente, y alzó la falda de su vestido lo suficiente para caminar hacia el carruaje, pero a medio camino se quitó los tacones aguamarina, mismo color de las piedras en su joyería, y corrió en círculos por el campo, captando así la atención del jinete y el sirviente también. Reía como una niña pequeña que se sentía libre de todo estrés mundano, como si tuviese todo un universo para comerse por delante, y fue entonces que lo vio: un ensangrentado desconocido caminando por el sendero.

—Vaya, la suerte me sonríe esta tarde —susurró para sí misma, mordiéndose el labio en otra de sus sonrisas divertidas, justo antes de extender su pie.

Envy, al notar esta acción, corrió hacia los tacones de la joven y luego hasta ella para colocárselos delicadamente. Esta mujer, aprovechando que el rostro del mayordomo no se hallaba tan alejado, se inclinó levemente para besar su mejilla como un gesto de agradecimiento. Él agachó el rostro para ocultar el rubor con los largos mechones de su cabello rubio, el cual le llegaba hasta la cintura, mas lo recogía con un listón negro; ella sonrió, porque sabía la verdad desde hace mucho tiempo. Tan solo le gustaba jugar con las emociones de los demás y su querido Envy era tan, tan adorable… que disfrutaba tirar de él hasta romperlo.

Muy pronto el herido se hallaba frente a ellos en el sendero, pero no fue hasta que notó el carruaje que decidió acercarse a la dama, pues era la única que no vestía como servidumbre. Para no manchar su brillante vestido rosa coral, se detuvo a metro de distancia y, como le permitieron las heridas, le saludó con una reverencia.

—Disculpe mi intromisión, señorita…

—Aricia. La princesa Aricia —se presentó ella.

—Su majestad, mi nombre es Morrison, y busco refugio de la terrible situación en mi reino.

—Oh, ¿acaso es usted un noble?

—No, su majestad. Tan solo soy un lector que sufre la tortura de su pueblo, el cual está condenado por la tiranía de sus reyes —explicó el desertor.

—Oh… ¿es así? Qué terrible infortunio el tuyo, joven Morrison —le respondió Aricia, cubriendo sus labios con un abanico de mano— ¿tan crueles son los reyes de ese lugar?

—Lo son, su alteza, vaya que lo son. En especial el rey tirano, el ejecutor: Trapsuki. Ese hombre es un desalmado, no tiene emociones, algunos dudan que sea humano. Nadie es feliz si él se encuentra presente, su majestad, todos temen el filo de su cuchilla y el fuego de sus armas; la prueba soy yo, que tan solo tuve la mala suerte de caminar cerca de él y ¡bang! Me disparó de gravedad; si no fuese porque esquivé el golpe, ahora me hallaría muerto.

—Me han interesado las tierras que dices. Algo así no debería pasar desapercibido, ¿me contarías más en el carruaje?, ¿en dónde se ubica este reino?

—No es algo que usted debería saber, su majestad. Es peligroso ese lugar, jamás enviaría a una dama pequeña y delicada como usted a semejante barbarie. Le contaré todo lo que necesite saber, aunque temo manchar sus asientos de sangre.

—Oh, por ello no se preocupe, caballero, que Envy es hábil en la limpieza, ¿no es así, Envy? —la princesa le dirigió una mirada al aludido y este asintió en respuesta.

—Así es, señorita. Me encargaré de toda mancha en vuestras pertenencias —añadió el mayordomo.

—¿Lo ves? No hay de qué preocuparse, ahora vayamos para que puedas contarme más de todo este…horror— continuó la gobernante extranjera, ahora que tenía el apoyo de su sirviente, y le hizo un gesto al jinete—. Adelante, Shamus.

El carruaje se puso en marcha con la princesa, el mayordomo y el fugitivo dentro de él, mientras que el otro sirviente acompañaba al jinete de nombre Shamus en el asiento delantero y externo al carruaje. Morrison se encontraba confiado, sin esperarse el lugar a donde le llevaban; aunque al inicio escuchaba sus quejas, eventualmente la dama dejó de prestarle atención y se enfocaba más en el atractivo de este. Su forma de hablar era tan viva, tan pura, tan idealista que le provocaba unas terribles ganas de estrangular su cuello y escucharlo suplicar ronco. Ante estos pensamientos, la joven le dedicó una leve sonrisa y él se ruborizó, ignorante la naturaleza de esa mueca.

Aquella mujer, con sus mejillas pecosas y ojos brillantes, era como un ángel, o eso pensaba Alexei. Era tan calmada y elegante, incluso emanaba una especie de inocencia corrupta; ningún rey o reina podía hacerse llamar inocente, y él sabía eso; que seguramente ese bello ángel también había encubierto terribles actos. Mas no le importaba, eso no esfumaba la inocencia de su sonrisa. Le había acogido y escuchaba sus quejas, contestando prudentemente a todo lo que decía; sus palabras eran exactamente lo que él quería escuchar, incluso logró que por unos momentos se olvidase de la prometida que esperaba su regreso al reino. Había salido a buscar ayuda y creía haberla encontrado. Qué terrible equivocación.

Fue entonces cuando el carruaje no se detuvo frente a un castillo ni entrada a ningún reino, sino frente a una granja abandonada con animales muertos cuyo hedor penetraba sus fosas nasales y le ocasionaban náuseas. El rebelde observó confundido a la dama que mantenía inmutable la sonrisa pacífica frente a él; se veía ligeramente vacía ahora, sus ojos habían perdido el brillo y, aún así, le hallaba terriblemente atrayente; por otra parte, el rostro inexpresivo de Envy podía pasar desapercibido sin problema alguno. Tenía sus ojos fijos en ambos, intercalando, cada cierto tiempo, su atención entre ellos; pero era como si un fantasma observara en su lugar. Para Morrison, en ese coche tan solo existían Aricia y él.

—¿Y qué pretendes que yo haga? —rompió el silencio la princesa.

—No lo sé, tan solo deseaba su…—analizó esa pregunta por unos momentos, ¿qué es lo que deseaba realmente? —opinión.

—Si es así: creo que es terrible lo que cuentas, que los reyes no cumplan con sus labores, sin embargo… tampoco entiendo del todo la situación en tu reino. ¿Realmente debes ser tú quien cambie algo? Podrías simplemente quedarte conmigo.

—¿Disculpe, su alteza?

—De donde yo vengo: todos son felices. Nunca hay problemas. Nadie muere. Sin embargo, no cualquiera puede acceder a esa puerta… ¿cómo sé que eres merecedor de unirte a mí?

—Sé que ahora mismo no lo soy; tan solo soy un joven con sueños revolucionarios. Deseo poder cambiar la situación en mi reino, pero a veces me siento tan deprimido por mi impotencia que prefiero olvidarlo todo.

—Tienes carácter, podrías lograrlo si te lo propones, pero no tienes por qué pensar en eso cuando estás conmigo —susurró esto último, acercándose al joven para acariciar con sus dedos la herida que había hecho Trapsuki en él, manchando así de sangre sus guantes.

—… ¿está bromeando? —preguntó incrédulo el joven, al notar la naturaleza del comportamiento de la princesa. No le cabía en la cabeza la posibilidad de que una joven portadora de una corona se le insinuase en su carruaje estacionado junto a una granja pútrida.

—No, no lo estoy; y sí, deseo esto —le contestó ella, sonriendo con la vista de esa herida, en la que hundía poco a poco sus dedos —. Envy, la soga y mi látigo.

—Como ordene, señorita —el mayordomo rápidamente tomó una caja que se hallaba oculta bajo el asiento y de esta sacó la dichosa soga, manchada de sangre seca y demás cosas. Entonces, se abalanzó hacia Morrison para obstruir todos sus movimientos con el objeto mencionado; era obvio que estaba acostumbrado a atar humanos por la hábil forma en que realizaba los nudos.

—Te mostraré los beneficios de ser mío —sentenció Aricia.

#Mamihlapinatapei #litecyra #oc #aricia #luzbelle #alexei morrison #envy #ch4 #shamus

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The work done on Temuera Morrison as Boba Fett in “The Mandalorian” (plus other characters) has a “Best Special Make-Up Effects” nomination in the Make-Up Artists & Hair Stylist Guild Awards next month

Samantha Ward, one of the show's makeup artists, had this trivia to share: “The creatives did not want to see typical burn scars and kept focusing on an 'acid burned bleached' quality to the skin, because of the Sarlacc’s digestive acids. The final look utilized multiple pieces of Op-Site medical tape to create sections of textureless patches with highly wrinkled edges. Fourteen various scar and burn scar prosthetic transfers were placed all around Tem’s head. Both Brian Sipe and Alexei Dmitriew spatter washy layers of Ghastly, Cool Tone and "Co-Oliv_Ice" (a custom mix that Brian makes of Cool Tone / Olive Adjuster / Rice Paper) tattoo paints from Skin Illustrator over the scars, and lightly over the whole head. This would reduce or kill any cheery warmth his natural skin tone had. More Cool Tone, Pastel Yellow and a Light Sienna striations were used to enhance and and create a unique quality to the scar tissued skin.”

#bobafett #boba fett #themandalorian #trivia #starwars #star wars #dailyfett

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of-foolish-and-wise · 5 years ago

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mega-list of book recommendations

saw a mega-list of literary recommendations going around recently and was struck by the dearth of titles by poc, so i made a list of just poc titles to course-correct. keep in mind that i can only in good faith recommend what i’ve read, so i’m sure i’ve absolutely missed some integral titles. drop me an inbox message if you have more recs, i’m always open

canonical

the narrative of frederick douglass - frederick douglass

incidents in the life of a slave girl - harriet jacobs

the souls of black folk - w.e.b. dubois

montage of a dream deferred - langston hughes

cane - jean toomer

their eyes were watching god - zora neale hurston

the bean eaters - gwendolyn brooks

a raisin in the sun - lorraine hansberry

invisible man - ralph ellison

native son - richard wright

the autobiography of malcolm x - malcolm x

the fire next time - james baldwin

sister outsider: essays and speeches - audre lorde

things fall apart - chinua achebe

the garden of forking paths - jorge luis borges

one hundred years of solitude - gabriel garcia marquez

the color purple - alice walker

the woman warrior - maxine hong kingston

satanic verses - salman rushdie

beloved - toni morrison

sula - toni morrison

the house on mango street - sandra cisneros

the joy luck club - amy tan

DAMN. - kendrick lamar

plays

a tempest - aime cesaire

for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf - ntozake shange

fences - august wilson

dutchman - amiri baraka

the american play - suzan-lori parks

memoir

the light of the world - elizabeth alexander

how we fight for our lives - saeed jones

between the world and me - ta-nehisi coates

persepolis - marjane satrapi

men we reaped - jesmyn ward

heavy - kiese laymon

black boy - richard wright

the yellow house - sarah m broom

brothers and keepers - john edgar wideman

zami: a new spelling of my name - audre lorde

poetry

american sonnet for my past and future assassin - terrance hayes

the tradition - jericho brown

night sky with exit wounds - ocean vuong

citizen: an american lyric - claudia rankine

twenty love poems and a song of despair - pablo neruda

don’t call us dead - danez smith

eye level - jenny xie

life on mars - tracy k smith

a fortune for your disaster - hanif abdurraqib

postcolonial love poem - natalie diaz

i can’t talk about the trees without the blood - tiana clark

i wore my blackest hair - carlina duan

an american sunrise - joy harjo

oculus - sally wen mao

short stories

her body & other stories - carmen maria machado

interpreter of maladies - jhumpa lahiri

exhalation - ted chiang

ficciones - jorge louis borges

what is not yours is not yours - helen oyeyemi

sour heart - jenny zhang

essays

how to write an autobiographical novel: essays - alexander chee

trick mirror - jia tolentino

bad feminist - roxane gay

they can’t kill us until they kill us - hanif abdurraqib

we were eight years in power: an american tragedy - ta-nehisi coates

borderlands/la frontera: the new mestiza - gloria anzaldua

this bridge called my back: writings by radical women of color - ed. cherrie moraga and gloria anzaldua

white girls - hilton als

non-fiction

the new jim crow: mass incarceration in the era of colorblindness - michelle alexander

stamped from the beginning: the definitive history of racist ideas in america - ibram x kendi

bunk: the rise of hoaxes, humbug, plagiarists, phonies, post-facts, and fake news - kevin young

an alchemy of race and rights - patricia j williams

looking for lorraine: the radiant and radical life of lorraine hansberry - imani perry

the next billion users: digital life beyond the west - payal arora

fiction

passing - nella larson

caucasia - danzy senna

trust exercise - susan choi

on earth we’re briefly gorgeous - ocean vuong

corregidora - gayl jones

the fifth season - nk jemisin

the brief wondrous life of oscar wao - junot diaz

the round house - louise erdrich

there, there - tommy orange

little fires everywhere - celeste ng

the supervisor - viet than nguyen

kindred - octavia butler

the known world - edward p jones

the underground railroad - colson whitehead

the god of small things - arundhati roy

the vegetarian - han king

theory

playing in the dark: whiteness and the literary imagination - toni morrison

black skin, white masks - frantz fanon

mama’s baby, papa’s maybe: an american grammar book - hortense spillers

discourse on colonialism - aime cesaire

scenes of subjection - saidiya hartman

the signifyin(g) monkey - henry louis gates jr

pedagogy of the oppressed - paulo freire

feminist theory: from margin to center - bell hooks

black noise: rap music and black culture in contemporary america - tricia rose

decolonizing the mind: the politics of language in african literature - ngũgĩ wa thiong’o

black marxism: the making of the black radical tradition - cedric robinson

black feminist thought: knowledge, consciousness, and the politics of empowerment - patricia hill collins

black and blur (consent not to be a single thing) - fred moten

young adult

diary of a part-time indian - sherman alexei

the hate u give - angie thomas

emergency contact - mary hk choi

i am not your perfect mexican daughter - erika sanchez

poet x - elizabeth avecedo

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kamccormickhnd1b · 4 years ago

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Clean White Research: Richard Avedon

Who Was Richard Avedon?

Richard Avedon is an American photographer best known for his work in the fashion world and for his minimalist portraits. He worked first as a photographer for the Merchant Marines, taking identification photos. He then moved to fashion, shooting for Harper's Bazaar and Vogue, demanding that his models convey emotion and movement, a departure from the norm of motionless fashion photography.

Early Life

In his early life, Richard Avedon was born on May 15, 1923 in New York City. Anna Avedon, his mother, came from a family of dress manufacturers, and his father, Jacob Israel Avedon, owned a clothing store called Avedon's Fifth Avenue. Inspired by his parents' clothing businesses, as a boy, Avedon took a great interest in fashion, especially enjoying photographing the clothes in his father's store. At the age of 12, he joined the YMHA (Young Men's Hebrew Association) Camera Club.

Avedon attended DeWitt Clinton High School in New York City, where one of his classmates and closest friends was the great writer James Baldwin. In high school, Avedon also developed an affinity for poetry. He and Baldwin served as co-editors of the school's prestigious literary magazine, The Magpie, and during his senior year, in 1941, Avedon was named “Poet Laureate of New York City High Schools.” After high school, Avedon enrolled at Columbia University to study philosophy and poetry. However, he dropped out after only one year to serve in the United States Merchant Marine during World War II. As a Photographer's Mate Second Class, his main duty was taking identification portraits of sailors. Avedon served in the Merchant Marine for two years, from 1942 to 1944.

Beginning of Photography Career

After leaving the Merchant Marine in 1944, Avedon attended the New School for Social Research in New York City to study photography under Alexey Brodovitch, the acclaimed art director of Harper's Bazaar. Avedon and Brodovitch formed a close bond, and within one year Avedon was hired as a staff photographer for the magazine.

After several years photographing daily life in New York City, Avedon was assigned to cover the spring and fall fashion collections in Paris. While legendary editor Carmel Snow covered the runway shows, Avedon's task was to stage photographs of models wearing the new fashions out in the city itself. Throughout the late 1940s and early 1950s, he created elegant black-and-white photographs showcasing the latest fashions in real-life settings such as Paris's picturesque cafes, cabarets and streetcars.

Established as one of the most talented young fashion photographers in the business, in 1955, Avedon made fashion and photography history when he staged a photoshoot at a circus. The iconic photograph of that shoot, “Dovima with Elephants,” features the most famous model of the time in a black Dior evening gown with a long white silk sash. She is posed between two elephants, her back serenely arched as she holds on to the trunk of one elephant while reaching out fondly toward the other.

The image remains one of the most strikingly original and iconic fashion photographs of all time.

Portraits and Later Career

Avedon served as a staff photographer for Harper's Bazaar for 20 years, from 1945 to 1965. He had become well known for his fashion, but also his portraiture. His black-and-white portraits were remarkable for capturing the essential humanity and vulnerability lurking in such larger-than-life figures as President Dwight D. Eisenhower, Marilyn Monroe, Bob Dylan and The Beatles.

During the 1960s, Avedon also expanded into more explicitly political photography.

In 1965, Avedon left Harper's Bazaar and from 1966 to 1990 he worked as a photographer for Vogue, its chief rival among American fashion magazines. He continued to push the boundaries of fashion photography with surreal, provocative and often controversial pictures in which nudity, violence and death featured prominently. He also continued to take illuminating portraits of leading cultural and political figures, ranging from Stephen Sondheim and Toni Morrison to Hillary Clinton. In addition to his work for Vogue, Avedon was also a driving force behind photography's emergence as a legitimate art form during the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. In 1959, he published a book of photographs, Observations, featuring commentary by Truman Capote, and in 1964, he published Nothing Personal, another collection of photographs, with an essay by his old friend Baldwin.

Avedon was known as one of the greatest photographers of the 20th century, Avedon expanded the genre of photography with his surreal and provocative fashion photography as well as portraits that bared the souls of some of the most important and opaque figures in the world. Avedon was such a predominant cultural force that he inspired the classic 1957 film Funny Face, in which Fred Astaire's character is based on Avedon's life. While much has been and continues to be written about Avedon, he always believed that the story of his life was best told through his photographs.

#clean white #clean white portraiture #cleanwhite #richard avedon #inspiring photographers #student research

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goalhofer · 4 years ago

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2007-08 NHL assistant captains.

Anaheim: Chris Kunitz and Rob Niedermayer; Jr.

Atlanta: Niclas Hävelid, Marián Hossa, Ilya Kovalchuk, Vyacheslav Kozlov and Mark Recchi.

Boston: Glen Murray and Patrice Bergeron-Cleary.

Buffalo: Jaroslav Spacek and Derek Roy.

Calgary: Owen Nolan, Robyn Regehr, Rhett Warrener and Stéphane Yelle.

Carolina: Glen Wesley, Ray Whitney and Eric Staal.

Chicago: Martin Lapointe, Robert Lang, Patrick Sharp, Tuomo Ruutu, Brent Sopel, Brent Seabrook, Jonathan Toews, Adam Burish, Duncan Keith and Patrick Kane; Jr.

Colorado: Andrew Brunette and Ian Laperrière.

Columbus: Rostislav Klesla, David Výborný, Jan Modin and Michael Peca.

Dallas: Stu Barnes, Mike Modano; Jr. and Sergei Zubov.

Detroit: Pavel Datsyuk, Kris Draper and Carl Zetterberg.

Edmonton: Aleš Hemský, Shawn Horcoff, Steve Staios and Jarrett Stoll.

Florida: Bryan Allen and Stephen Weiss.

Los Angeles: Michael Cammalleri, Scott Thornton and Ľubomír Višňovský.

Minnesota: Brian Rolston and Mikko-Sakari Koivu.

Montreal: Chris Higgins and Alexei Kovalev.

Nashville: Steve Sullivan and Jean-Pierre Dumont.

New Jersey: Patrik Eliáš and John Madden.

New York Islanders: Brendan Witt and Mike Sillinger.

New York Rangers: Brendan Shanahan and Martin Straka.

Ottawa: Chris Phillips and Wade Redden.

Philadelphia: Simon Gagné, Derian Hatcher and Mike Richards.

Phoenix: Derek Morris, Ed Jovanovski and Steve Reinprecht.

Pittsburgh: Sergei Gonchar, Evgeni Malkin, Ryan Malone and Gary Roberts.

San Jose: Mike Grier, Anthony Rivet and Joe Thornton.

St. Louis: Barret Jackman, Keith Tkachuk and Paul Kariya.

Tampa Bay: Martin St. Louis and Vincent Lecavalier.

Toronto: Tomáš Kaberle and Bryan McCabe.

Vancouver: Trevor Linden and Brendan Morrison.

Washington: Alex Ovechkin and Donald Brashear.

#Music #Sports #Hockey #NHL #Pittsburgh Penguins #Boston Bruins #Buffalo Sabres #Atlanta Thrashers #Anaheim Ducks #Colorado Avalanche #St. Louis Blues #Los Angeles Kings #Awesome

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endless-oc-creations · 2 years ago

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Mimi's Mobile Marvel Oc Masterlist

Updated: 4/16/2023

Name: Alexei ‘Junior’ Shostakov

Title: Burned Bridges

Faceclaim: Karl Urban

Love interest: TBD {To Be Determined}

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Summary: More to be added.

Name: Alpheus

Title: In the Stars

Faceclaim: Jason Momoa

Love interest: Kingo

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Summary: More To Be Added...

Name: Amora Harley

Title: A White Witch & A Spider

Faceclaim: Jennifer Morrison

Love interest: Natasha Romanoff

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Name: Alexandra Rhodes

Title: All the Stars

Faceclaim: Jasmin Savoy Brown

Love interest: To be Determined

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Summary: More to be added.

Name: Alice Brye

Title: Living Dead Girl

Faceclaim: Kate Beckinsale

Love interest: Eric Brooks

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Summary: More To Be Added...

Name: Bentley Brock

Title: ATLAS

Faceclaim: Dylan O'Brien

Love interest: Peter Parker {Andrew Spider-Verse}

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Name: Celine Jayden

Title: Fun Sized

Faceclaim: Kristen Bell

Love interest: Scott Lang

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Summary: More To Be Added...

Name: Dimitri Shostakov

Title: Burned Bridges

Faceclaim: Tom Hopper

Love interest: None

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Summary: More to be added...

Name: Evelyn Burke

Title: Ghosts of my Past

Faceclaim: Jodie Comer

Love interest: Shang-Chi

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Summary: More To Be Added...

Name: Frankie Rose Parker

Title: My Little Spider

Faceclaim: Winona Ryder

Love interest: May Parker

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Name: Helen Scarlet

Title: Ready,Aim, Love

Faceclaim: Willa Holland

Love interest: Kate Bishop

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Name: Isabella Hayes

Title: Ignited Series

Faceclaim: Emma Stone

Love interest: Sam Wilson & Bucky Barnes

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Name: Robyn Nate

Title: Bang Bang

Faceclaim: Blake Lively

Love interest: Wade Wilson and Vanessa Carlysle

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Name: Kevin Quill

Title: Cosmic Twins Series {1st part posted}

Faceclaim: Thomas Brodie-Sangster

Love interest: Adam Warlock(Possibly)

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Name: Kvasir

Title: Timeless Series

Faceclaim: Alexander Dreymon

Love interest: Loki Laufeyson

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Name: Laura Lewis

Title: Ascending Thunder

Faceclaim: Zooey Deschanel

Love interest: Thor Odinson

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Summary: More To Be Added...

Name: Jude Stark

Title: My Father’s Legacy Series

Faceclaim: Brenton Thwaites

Love interest: To Be Determined{TBD}

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Name: Stephanie S. Stella

Title: Timeless Series

Faceclaim: Mariska Hargitay

Love interest: Mobius M. Mobius

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Summary: More To Be Added...

Name: Victor Strange

Title: Something in the Way Series

Faceclaim: Mark Mckenna

Love interest: Peter Parker

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Name: Vivian Iris

Title: I’ll be your Hero

Faceclaim: Alicia Vikander

Love interest: Marc Spector/Steven Grant & Layla El-Faouly

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Summary: More To Be Added...

#mimi masterlist #marvel ocs #mcu ocs

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thecanadianowl · 5 years ago

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So Superman: Red Son was...meh. I think my biggest problem is that it was way too short. There wasnt really a chance to see Superman's change in character. The removal of Alexei really hurt the character of Batman in this movie where he felt like a random character out of nowhere and Superman's decent to tyranny wasnt transparent. Also Lex's role is cut down heavily so his obsession with Superman and how it affext his relationship with Lois didnt really seem there, and there wasnt that epic moment where he beats Superman with an written letter. Albeit I am okay with them not doing the paradox ending because as cool as it is, it just seemed like something Grant Morrison would put in his own story and not Mark Millar. At least it was better than Batman: Hush.

#dc animated movies #superman red son

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bill-the-baker · 5 years ago

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Like what I did last year, I wish to end this year with a look back at those we lost over the past 12 months.

Emiliano Sala (31 October 1990 - 21 January/7 February 2019): An up-and-coming footballer who’s life was tragically cut short in an aviation accident that gripped the UK.

Bruno Ganz (22 March 1941 - 16 February 2019): The man who portrayed Adolf Hitler in the film “Downfall”, spawning a strong internet following through his strong acting skills.

Karl Lagerfeld (10 September 1933 - 19 February 2019): A fashion icon, who headed the Chanel brand for 35 years.

Keith Flint (17 September 1969 - 4 March 2019): The energetic and captivating lead singer of the Big Beat band The Prodigy, who sadly became another victim of the suicide epidemic.

Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg (5 January 1921 - 23 April 2019): A man who ensured unity and prosperity for the people of Europe, outside of his small nation.

Chris Reccardi (24 November 1964 - 2 May 2019): Prolific cartoonist and musician. Whilst his most famous work of “The Modifyers” is now known for rather unsavoury reasons, the fanbase that sprung up around it proved that there was strong potential in the dropped pilot.

Doris Day (3 April 1922 - 13 May 2019): A world-renowned actress who held starring roles in various classic Hollywood films, such as “Calamity Jane” and “The Man Who Knew Too Much”.

Tim Conway (15 December 1933 - 14 May 2019): Whilst younger audiences would recognise him as the voice of Barnacle Boy, from “SpongeBob SquarePants”, this comedian is also notable for his work in “McHale’s Navy” and “The Carol Burnett Show”.

Bob Hawke (9 December 1929 - 16 May 2019): Former-Australian Prime Minister who brought universal healthcare to those across the nation, whilst protecting the environment through a series of “Landcare” programmes.

I.M. Pei (26 April 1917 - 16 May 2019): Influential architect, best known for constructing the Louvre Pyramid in Paris, France and the Bank of China Tower in Hong Kong.

Judith Kerr (14 June 1923 - 22 May 2019): Author of the classic children’s books “The Tiger who Came to Tea”, and “When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit”, the latter of which detailing her family’s flight from the Nazi regime in Germany.

Prem Tinsulanonda (26 August 1920 - 26 May 2019): Former-Prime Minister and later Regent of Thailand following the death of King Bhumibol Adulyadej, holding the nation together in a time of mourning.

Etika (Desmond Amofah) (12 May 1990 - 19 June 2019): A fantastic figure on the internet, best known for his hyperactive personality, who succumbed to a severe mental decline that was dismissed by many until it was too late.

Cameron Boyce (28 May 1999 - 6 July 2019): A promising former-child actor, best known for appearing in “Jessie” and “Grown Ups”, who fell victim to a severe health condition as his life was about to begin.

Ross Perot (27 June 1930 - 9 July 2019): Billionaire and unconventional politician who’s ideas proved to be popular enough for him to compete against the two major parties in the 1992 and 1996 Presidential Elections.

Beji Caid Essebsi (29 November 1926 - 25 July 2019): The first democratically-elected President of Tunisia, who ensured a new era for the nation in the wake of the Arab Spring.

Russi Taylor (4 May 1944 - 26 July 2019): Iconic voice actress who held many popular voice roles in her life, such as Minnie Mouse, Huey, Louie and Dewey in the original “Ducktales” series, as well as Martin Prince, Sherri and Terri in “The Simpsons”.

Toni Morrison (18 February 1931 - 5 August 2019): Pulitzer-Prize winning novelist and essayist, who created various books such as “Song of Solomon” and “Beloved”.

Alec Holowka (not pictured) (30 October 1983 - 31 August 2019): A man who channelled his depression into the creation of the game “Night in the Woods”, before being defamed and subjected to Cancel Culture.

Jacques Chirac (29 November 1932 - 26 September 2019): Former President of France, who valiantly chose to not intervene in Iraq, to the disapproval of his country’s neighbours.

Alexei Leovnov (30 May 1934 - 11 October 2019): Russian cosmonaut who participated in the Soyuz-Apollo mission that brought the conflicting nations of the US and the USSR together.

Sulli (Choi Jin-ri) (29 March 1994 - 13/14 October 2019): A K-Pop star who fell victim to vicious Stan Culture and harmful attempts at defamation.

Yasuhiro Nakasone (27 May 1918 - 29 November 2019): An influential former-Japanese Prime Minister, who maintained a strong relationship with world leaders.

Caroll Spinney (26 December 1933 - 8 December 2019): Puppeteer who played the roles of Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch on “Sesame Street” for almost fifty years, defining the childhoods of many of today’s Americans.

Paul Volcker (5 September 1927 - 8 December 2019): An Economist who helped solve America’s economic problems in the late-1970s, ending the Great Inflation, and again in the late-2000s, managing the Great Recession.

Juice Wrld (Jarad Anthony Higgins) (2 December 1998 - 8 December 2019): A well-known rapper best known for the song “Lucid Dreams”, who, like Cameron Boyce, succumbed to seizure-related illnesses.

Marie Fredriksson (30 May 1958 - 9 December 2019): Singer for the pop-duo Roxette, who gained fame outside of her homeland of Sweden, through songs such as “It Must Have Been Love”.

Gershon Kingsley (28 October 1922 - 10 December 2019): A pioneer in electronic music, he composed “Popcorn”, arguably one of the first examples of “Synth-Pop” music, that set an example for much of the sounds heard today.

I would also like to conclude with some individuals who died last year, who I forgot to mention in my previous post:

R. Lee Emery (24 March 1944 - 15 April 2018): The embodiment of the “Strict Drill Sergeant” archetype, who was best known for appearing in “Full Metal Jacket” as Sergeant Herman, and in “Toy Story” as Sarge.

TotalBiscuit (John Bain) (8 July 1984 - 24 May 2018): A Cynical Brit who offered interesting viewpoints on video games and the video game industry, though died as he fell victim to cancer.

Barry Chuckle (Barry David Elliott) (24 December 1944 - 5 August 2018): A popular British children’s comedian, who always offered a heavy amount of charm through his goofy personality, as he comprised of one half of the Chuckle Brothers.

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Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice - Complete DC Comics Easter Eggs and Reference Guide

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This article contains nothing but Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and DCEU spoilers.

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice is the second movie in the DC Extended Universe series, which began with Man of Steel, and continued in the Wonder Woman movie, will continue further with the Justice League movie, and more. As a result, it's positively packed with references to DC Comics, and hints about the future of the DC Extended Universe.

Here's our complete and spoiler-filled breakdown of everything you might have missed in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.

Batman's Origin

- Just as Man of Steel opened with Superman's origin (his literal birth, in fact), so does Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice open with Batman's origin story. Thank heavens for that, because if we don't see what motivated young Bruce Wayne to become the Batman, we might never know! That is, of course, a joke.

While Batman first appeared in Detective Comics #27 in 1939, we didn't see his actual origin until a two-page segment in Detective Comics #33. To make up for that six month gap, DC Comics and their media partners are now contractually obligated to re-tell Batman's origin in some form, whether it's in the comics, on the screen, or via finger puppets, every six months in perpetuity. That's not true, but it sometimes feels that way.

The visual inspiration for this origin sequence is, like many things in the film, taken from Frank Miller, Klaus Janson, and Lynn Varley's seminal The Dark Knight Returns, which was first published in 1986. Things like the mustachioed Thomas Wayne and the string of pearls caught on the barrell of the gun are right out of there, as well as the (dream?) sequence where young Bruce is surrounded by bats after accidentally discovering the bat cave.

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The Waynes leave the movie theater after a revival screening of the 1940 version of The Mark of Zorro starring Tyrone Power. That particular Zorro film holds up really well, is a great watch, and feels like a superhero movie before there was ever really any such thing. Totally worth your time. I also believe that The Dark Knight Returns was where it was first revealed that this was the film the Waynes saw on that fateful night.

You can also spot Excalibur on the marquee, which is John Boorman's highly stylized, overly serious 140-minute take on the King Arthur legend (sounds like another movie we know), here to help illustrate that this sequence takes place in 1981. Excalibur feels like a very long film at 140 minutes. Batman v Superman, on the other hand, feels even longer than its 153 minute run time.

We wrote lots more on John Boorman's Excalibur right here, if you want to learn more about this crazy movie.

I owe a special thanks to Peter in the comments for catching this next little detail, Excalibur is listed as "coming next Wednesday." Now, aside from the fact that the movie actually opened on Friday, April 10th, 1981, "coming next Wednesday" is still pretty significant. First of all, new comic books come out every Wednesday, so this is a nod to that.

The Justice League can be seen as a modern day Knights of the Round Table. Couple that with the fact that the Excalibur movie is "coming soon" (and on a Wednesday, no less!) it's kind of an in-joke about how the Justice League movie is next on the schedule. That's pretty cool.

There's more on Excalibur coming down below, just be patient...

- Visible in the Wayne graveyard is the name "Solomon." Solomon Wayne was Bruce's Great, Great, Great Grandfather. When the Batman comics decided they wanted their Gotham City to look a little bit more like Anton Furst's Gotham designs from Tim Burton's Batman movies, a story was crafted to make it happen, and Solomon Wayne was part of that.

- It's also worth noting that this movie marks the first time we've seen Bill Finger's name in the opening credits of a Batman movie. That's a huge deal, as Finger was a major creative driving force behind Batman and his supporting cast, but for years, Bob Kane took all the credit. We have a little bit more about Bill Finger's bat-legacy right here.

The Supporting Characters

- Anatoli Knyazev is known to comic book fans as (wait for it) the KGBeast, because he was created in 1988 when that was what you named these kinds of villains. Anatoli has appeared in non-beastly form on a number of episodes of Arrow, as well. He first appeared in a story called "Ten Nights of the Beast" which is a pretty cool read if you can track it down.

- The photographer who is apparently working for the CIA during Lois' misadventure in the desert is played by Argo's Michael Cassidy. And yes, as credited and as revealed in the film's Ultimate Edition, he is indeed Jimmy Olsen. "Superman's Pal" is promptly and brutally murdered. So, yeah, you can forget about that little piece of Superman mythology in the DC Extended Universe, as well. Read more about Mr. Snyder's comments on the matter here.

- Alfred Pennyworth first appeared in 1943's Batman #16. Like most enduring Batman characters, he was created by Bob Kane, Bill Finger, and Jerry Robinson. Alfred cut a rather different figure in his early appearances, and through the years he has become more of an aggressively badass figure.

Lex Luthor

- Lex Luthor has been around since Action Comics #23 in 1940 (you'll note that at the end of the movie, his prisoner number is AC23-1940), and as we see here, he had lustrous red hair. Later appearances alternately identified Lex as a shortening of Alexander or Alexei, and even later appearances revealed he was a childhood friend of Clark Kent, before a lab accident stole his luscious locks.

read more: The Actors Who Have Played Lex Luthor

- Lex Luthor's prison garb has the prisoner number of 16-TK421. TK421 is a reference to Star Wars when Luke and Han took on Stormtrooper disguises. You know, "TK421, why aren't you at your post?" Batman v Superman and The Force Awakens were tweaking each other with little social media crossovers during filming, but it appears this is the only one of those in-jokes made it to film.

Also, while orange prison jumpsuits certainly aren't just a DC Universe thing, Lex was looking a bit like Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely's vision of the character from All-Star Superman in this scene.

The Lex of this film is "Alexander Luthor, Jr." Which means his father's name isn't "Lionel" as it was in the Smallville TV series or a handful of the comics that followed. Something tells me that Alex Sr. didn't die of natural causes.

Luthor has been something of a jerk-of-all-trades during his career, from straight mad scientist to captain of industry to President of the United States. I wrote much more about that stuff right here.

Mercy Graves is Lex Luthor's bodyguard, a super strong badass, although you don't see any of that in this movie. Mercy was first introduced in Superman: The Animated Series where she had considerably more to do than she does in this film, and has recently appeared on the Supergirl TV series.

Kryptonite

Let's get into a few notes about Kryptonite...

- It's amazing that Man of Steel went an entire movie without going down the Kryptonite road, but we do finally get it here. Kryptonite was actually a creation of the (awesome) Adventures of Superman radio show, a necessary plot device so that original Man of Steel Bud Collyer could take a vacation from the radio show's punishing, almost daily schedule. For weeks, Superman was played by another actor, who was only required to groan in agony while Supes was at the mercy of the alien mineral.

- Here's something I never would have noticed (thanks to JACS in the comments!). Ralph Lister is credited as Emmett Vale, and he isn't the guy who finds the hunk of Kryptonite in the Indian Ocean as I initially thought, but he appears in Lex Luthor's laboratory. Dr. Vale is the creator of Metallo, the cyborg with the Kryptonite heart who would be a great choice to give Superman a headache if we were ever going to get another Superman solo movie, but since who knows if that will ever happen, well...forget it.

The way Kryptonite looks in this movie is a little like how it was shown in Superman: The Movie. Later in that film, when Supes is debilitated by the effects of Batman's Kryptonite spear, Lois chucks it in the water to get it away from him. That kinda' reminds me of the Supes/Miss Teschmacher exchange from the end of that movie, too.

Speaking of that Kryptonite spear, wireman (cool handle, by the way) in the comments found this little gem from the comics, that I wasn't aware of:

The Dark Knight Returns Influences

In The Dark Knight Returns, a comic which obviously has influenced this movie quite heavily, when Batman first returns to action he lends a hand to two cops in pursuit of suspects, one who isn't old enough to remember Batman in action, and one veteran who advises him to chill out and enjoy the show.

The rookie cop and the veteran cop, who Batman encounters while out whupping ass, remind me a little bit of this pair from Dark Knight Returns:

It can also be noted that this exchange played out much the same way in 2012's The Dark Knight Rises when Christian Bale's Batman first returns from retirement, much like in the iconic Frank Miller graphic novel.

By the way, the two officers in question are named "Officer Rucka" and "Officer Mazzucchelli." Greg Rucka was the writer of the excellent Gotham Central comic, and David Mazzucchelli was the artist on Frank Miller's other great Batman story, Batman: Year One.

The news montage (which, rather surprisingly, features a cameo by Andrew Sullivan!) is another nod to The Dark Knight Returns, which helped set up its near-future vision of the DCU via TV news clips. You may recognize some of the anti-superhero sentiment from these, as well. Also, we get the return of Glen Woodburn from Man of Steel, too.

read more: Ranking the Superman Movies

- Alfred's quote about "the next generation of Waynes" facing "an empty wine cellar" is lifted straight out of The Dark Knight Returns. You're going to read words very much like that a lot in the course of this article.

While most Batman costumes are fairly similar in essence, the proportions and lines on this particular version are also right out Frank Miller's artwork:

Pretty cool, right?

The bit with Batman sighting a rifle atop a tower calls to mind still more stuff from Dark Knight Returns, albeit there it was a "grappling hook" gun, while here it's to fire a tracer.

- Also, I don't suppose that I need to explain Bruce's "freaks dressed like clowns" joke, right? Of course I don't.

The shot of Superman lifting the Russian rocket (numbered 300 of course) over his head has a hint of this page from The Dark Knight Returns to it...

Batman's opening gambit in his fight with Superman is to hit him with a sonic blast, this (again) is straight out of Dark Knight Returns. Same with the Kryptonite dust/gas projectile.

There are lots of other direct similarities to the comics in that battle, too...

Look familiar? Check out that first panel on the left!

That armor looks pretty familiar too:

You get the idea, I'm sure.

- When Batman shows up to take out the KGBeast, the action comes right out of the first chapter of (say it with me now, kids!) The Dark Knight Returns. Batman bursts up out of the floor to whup ass. Batman bursts through the wall to take a giant honkin' gun from some dude. Batman says "I believe you" after armed asshat says "believe me, I'll kill her" and then takes him out. All from DKR. Just change the names of the goons.

During the Doomsday battle, complete with lightning bolts, we get a recreation of the cover of The Dark Knight Returns #1. No, seriously, check it out...

Told ya.

Also in Dark Knight Returns, Bruce is often brooding over a Robin costume in a glass case, and Alfred reminds him about "what happened to Jason..." which brings us to...

The Robin Connection

Needless to say, there's only one character who would have spray painted that on Robin's body, so this mirrors the events of the 1988 Batman comic event, "A Death in the Family," which allowed readers to decide (via a 1-900 number... those were different times) whether the second Robin would survive a brutal beating (with a crowbar) at the hands of the Joker and a subsequent warehouse explosion.

It's tough to really see the colors on this, and they're certainly muted, but the basic design certainly mirrors that of the first Tim Drake Robin costume, which also happened to be the first one in the main DC Universe continuity that looked genuinely badass.

It was designed by legendary Bat-artist Neal Adams and first brought to comics by Norm Breyfogle (thanks to our very own JL Bell for keeping me honest here!) and remains one of my favorite costume designs of all time. You can see Jason Todd's Robin costume in a similar glass case in the above image, as well.

It's never made clear which Robin this is supposed to be in the movie, but it's certainly Jason Todd. After all, there's a Nightwing movie in development and they can't do that if Dick Grayson is dead.

Zack Snyder clarified that whoever this Robin is, he died about ten years ago. He later specified that it's probably Dick Grayson. But since we know that this version of Batman has been active for at least 15 years (Alfred says 20), and that's about enough time for this to line up with the Jason Todd version of the character.

The Knightmare

During Batman's weird little nightmare/dream sequence, you can spot several clues as to the identity of the big villain of the DCEU. There's a gigantic Omega symbol in the sand, and Earth appears to have had fire pits (ala the planet Apokolips) installed.

Couple that with what appeared to be Parademons attacking the Dark Knight, and, well... it's looking more and more likely that Darkseid, Jack Kirby's most famous DC Comics creation (and one of the greatest comic book villains of all time) was supposed to make his debut in Justice League 2.

The strange symbol carved into the desert there is Darkseid's, while the winged creatures flying around are his Parademon minions...

For reference, here's what they look like when drawn by Jim Lee in the New 52 Justice League re-launch, which featured Darkseid as the team's first big threat, and which was clearly meant to inform their film efforts...

Also, the sharp-eyed JACS (who is quickly becoming the MVP of the comments on this thing) pointed out the similarities to Batman's Mad Max garb here and the nightmarish future Batman that Damian Wayne becomes during Grant Morrison's run as writer on the character.

Doomsday

- Doomsday was created by Dan Jurgens, Brett Breeding, Jerry Ordway, Louise Simonson, and Roger Stern in 1992 with the express purpose of killing Superman dead and driving up sales. He succeeded in all possible respects in Superman #75.

Doomsday's Kryptonian origins weren't revealed until much later, although he was never a Frankenstein's Monster version of Zod, nor did he have Lex Luthor's DNA, nor did he... ummm... you get the point. But the idea of Doomsday as a highly evolved/continuously evolving killing machine came right out of the comics, as does the "he grows more spikes as he takes damage" thing.

- When Superman and Doomsday take their battle to Stryker's Island, we're told it's uninhabited. In the comics, Stryker's Island is the home of a massive Metropolis penitentiary. Clearly that isn't the case here...unless in the bleak moral universe of the DCEU, the inhabitants of a prison are completely expendable forms of human life.

- Superman getting caught in a nuclear explosion, becoming a weird zombified thing, and then charging up/healing via the power of the sun comes straight out of a particular Batman story that has been referenced numerous times throughout this article... you have three guesses. Go ahead. Guess.

-Superman flying to almost certain death while carrying a Kryptonian object (albeit a much smaller one) also calls back to mind a similar storytelling beat from the end of Superman Returns.

- Lex Luthor in Zod's old ship, talking to the AI, feels similar to Lex's infiltration of the Fortress of Solitude in Superman II.

- Luthor using the ship to turn Zod's body into Doomsday is also quite reminiscent (intentionally or not) of Kevin Spacey's Lex Luthor using Kryptonian crystals to make a giant Kryptonite continent in Superman Returns.

Also, when Lex is talking to Zod's corpse (oofah), he says "you flew too close to the sun." This is a reference to the myth of Icarus, which doesn't remotely seem to apply to anything regarding Zod's arc. Unless he means "you flew too close to the son," as in "The Last Son of Krypton," but somehow I don't think that much thought went into this scene.

read more: Complete Schedule of Upcoming DCEU Superhero Movies

- Lex didn't create Doomsday in the comics, but in many recent versions of the story, Lex did create Bizarro, notably as an imperfect Kryptonian duplicate. There's a little bit of a similarity to that here. Bizarro is, of course, not in the movie, despite some hilariously inaccurate rumors.

Miscellaneous Cool Stuff

- Clark bringing Lois flowers and groceries is faintly reminiscent of their brief shot at domestic bliss in Superman II where Superman famously cooked Lois a souflee using heat vision, and flew around the world to get her some nice tropical flowers. This scene also illustrates the age old Supes/Lois problem, where she knows that he "belongs to the world" and not to her.

- Pery White refers to Clark as "Smallville" more than once in the film. That was Lois Lane's affectionate/condescending nickname for Clark on Superman: The Animated Series, which is an excellent way to spend your time, I might add.

Later, while admonishing Clark for actually, y'know, wanting to be a reporter and tell the truth, Perry says, "It's not 1938 anymore." 1938 is, of course, the year that Action Comics #1, the first appearance of Superman, was published. In other words, here's Perry White speaking for Zack Snyder, telling fans to stop whining over the fact that Superman doesn't behave very much like Superman in these movies.

- It appears that the Metropolis News channel, Channel 8, is indeed a GBS/Galaxy Broadcasting affiliate station. You can also spot a GBS microphone during a press conference later on, which is perhaps representative of their cable outlet or something similar.

- You can spot a mention of Gotham's Blackgate Prison when Clark is doing his investigation into Batman.

Incidentally, the Ultimate Edition has a lot more going on as far as Clark's investigative reporting, and that along with Henry Cavill's performance remind me quite abit of the better moments of the 1950s Adventures of Superman TV series. George Reeves routinely played Clark has a hard-edged reporter, and Cavill definitely channels some of that here.

read more - Men of Steel: 11 Actors Who Have Played Superman on Screen

- Bruce Wayne's "one percent chance" logic is childish and horrifying, and sounds like something Donald Trump would say about immigrants. It certainly was the logic that Dick Cheney used to condone "enhanced interrogation techniques."

- You can spot "Nicholson Terminal," which the Batmobile obliterates. Maybe this is a nod to Jack Nicholson's iconic take on the Joker. Maybe it isn't. Does this movie really ever make sense?

- When Senator Finch is asked "Must there be a Superman" well, that's a reference to a classic Superman tale. Not just any classic Superman story, either. The first published Superman story by Supes-writer extraordinaire, Elliott S! Maggin (that's not a typo) in Superman #247 from 1972. That story is far more nuanced and interesting in its 24 pages than this movie in its two and a half hours, and it's 100 percent worth reading.

- There's a pretty hilarious Wilhelm Scream when the Batmobile overturns some poor hood's car.

- Ma Kent's "you don't owe this world a thing" speech marks the return of evil, dystopian, Hunger Games Smallville logic to the series. For real, is it any wonder that the DCEU's Clark Kent is such a brooding mope? Between stuff like this and hallucination Pa Kent telling Clark about the time he drowned a bunch of horses by accident, it's a miracle that Superman isn't just snapping necks like... oh, wait, he already did that.

read more: Does Superman Have a Future in the DCEU?

- Hey, remember when the internet said that Scoot McNairy was playing Hal Jordan/Jimmy Olsen/Ted Kord/Morgan Edge/Che Guevara/Spider-Man/Ad Nauseum? Yeah. That didn't happen. He's Wallace Keefe, a character we've never heard of. The only Keef I give a damn about is Richards.

- Ma Kent is now working at Rolli's Diner. Now, there's two smaller Lex Luthor stories from the comics that Rolli's ties into. Superman #9 (1987) featured a backup story called "Metropolis, 900 miles" which dealt with Lex Luthor offering a kind of "indecent proposal" to a waitress at Rolli's.

Lex's kidnapping of Martha Kent is also kinda' like a story from Superman #2 (1987) where he kidnapped Lana Lang after he figured out that young Superman had ties to Smallville. He ended up figuring out that Superman was Clark Kent but refused to believe it.

- In the background during these scenes there's a prominent piece of question mark graffiti, which may or may not be a reference to the Riddler. There's some "Who Watches the Watchmen?" graffiti (not in this image), too.

- Lois boards a red helicopter on the Daily Planet rooftop, which reminds me of the best scene in the best Superman movie, the immortal Superman: The Movie.

The Justice League Connection

- So, in case you cannot tell because he's almost unrecognizable, the lightning tornado dream sequence echo voice thing is the DC Extended Universe version of The Flash (and that's Ezra Miller in the role). The Flash appearing in mysterious form, kind of like a dream, and possibly from a different point in time, is very much a reference to Crisis on Infinite Earths where Flash was appearing to various heroes trying to warn them of what was to come while he was busy dying later in the story fighting the very same threat.

Flash also seems to be teasing something about Lois Lane being "the key." If Bruce is right about Superman, that means Flash is speaking to Bruce from a time in the future where Superman has become a threat, perhaps because of the death of Lois Lane...or maybe Lois is the key to turning him good again, or bringing him back to life.

This could be a reference to the Injustice: Gods Among Us video game and comics, which features a morally compromised DC Universe where heroes fight each other and Superman is a terrible person. So, you know, that sounds awfully familiar all of a sudden, doesn't it?

We wrote more about the Injustice comics right here, if you're interested. I'm saving some more about the implications of this for another article, too.

- I'm sure you all realized that was Jason Momoa as Aquaman during the underwater sequence, right? His look here is reminiscent of how he appeared on the excellent Justice League animated series and his mid-90s makeover.

- The weird horror movie/RoboCop sequence is the origin of Cyborg, played by Ray Fisher, who made his next appearance in Justice League. He was scheduled to get his own movie in 2020, but that no longer appears to be happening.

read more: Every DCEU Easter Egg in the Aquaman Movie

One cool thing about that scene is that the weird cube thing that apparently makes the Cyborg project successful is a Mother Box, which makes this the film's second overt Jack Kirby reference, and the imminent arrival of Steppenwolf as the villain of Justice League.

Wonder Woman

- By the way, Wonder Woman first appeared in All Star Comics #8 in 1941, but the Wonder Woman in this movie is even older than that. Gal Gadot's Wonder Woman garb is reminiscent of how artists like Alex Ross drew her in Kingdom Come and Darwyn Cooke did in New Frontier to make her look more like the warrior princess she's traditionally depicted as.

You can also spot Chris Pine as Steve Trevor in that photo from 1918 and the rest of his World War I crew that we got to meet in her movie.

Gal Gadot's Wonder Woman performance is even better with a little more context after seeing her in action in her solo flick. For example, I only just noticed how immediately bored/disgusted she is with Lex Luthor when he's giving his little speech at the party. She sees right through him. It's awesome.

The Death of Superman

A few notes about the "death" of Superman...

I have to admit, this is really cool. Remember all the Excalibur stuff up top? It's back! A few of you sharp-eyed folks pointed out the similarities to this scene in Boorman's flick, and they are undeniable...

Video of Excalibur Mordred's death

- When you see his body cradled by Lois Lane, it's a nod to Dan Jurgens and Brett Breeding's art from Superman #75.

- In the Ultimate Edition, before Lex is captured, he's seen communing with a mysterious figure on the ship. This is likely Steppenwolf, the villain of the Justice League movie, although there's a slight chance it's Yuga Khan, the father of Darkseid. But really, it's probably Steppenwolf.

- Ending on "Amazing Grace" and an ambiguous/hopeful note is more than a little reminiscent of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, which featured the death of Spock. Superman has somehow managed to show even less emotion and seemed even more alien than Spock ever did in this franchise so far, so it's really, really appropriate.

- You can see the weird little telekinetic effect that was used to show that Superman's powers were about to manifest in Man of Steel. So, y'know, of course he's not dead.

I explained the implications of Superman's death and the ending of this movie in greater detail here.

- Superman's coffin is black with a silver "S" logo. When Superman returned from the dead during the Death and Return of Superman story in the '90s, he wore a black suit with a silver "S" on it.

- By the way, it's worth noting that Warner Bros. has been trying to kill Superman on screen since at least 1995. Virtually every draft of every Superman movie of the last twenty years featured some form of Superman getting croaked (occasionally at the hands of Doomsday), while most others at least teased, it, too...including Superman Returns.

- To bring things full circle, I should also bring up the fact that The Dark Knight Returns also ends a "death" albeit Batman's (he isn't really dead, either). That hopeful ending involves Superman overhearing Bruce's heartbeat. Some folks claim they can hear a heartbeat as we zoom in on Clark's coffin, and that's another DKR reference for you!

Mike Cecchini is the Editor in Chief of Den of Geek. You can read more of his work here. Follow him on Twitter @wayoutstuff.

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New Findings about the Dodgy Dossier [Weekly Update] (Repost)

Judicial Watch ^ | October 9, 2020 | Tom Fitton

Posted on 10/10/2020, 1:47:51 PM by jazusamo

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State Dept Officials Were Skeptical about Christopher Steele Reports

We have now received 48 pages of emails among top Obama State Department officials and a U.S. Ambassador expressing skepticism about Steele reports by Steele’s London-based private intelligence firm Orbis Business Intelligence.

Steele was the author of the Clinton-funded, anti-Trump dossier. One assistant secretary of state says some of Steele’s reports sound “extreme” and others “do not ring true,” while the U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine calls some Steele reports “flaky.”

We obtained the heavily-redacted emails in our FOIA lawsuit filed on April 25, 2018, on behalf of the Daily Caller News Foundation against State after it failed to respond to three separate FOIA requests ( Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of State (No. 1:18-cv- 00968)). The lawsuit seeks:

All records of communications between State Department officials, including former Secretary of State John Kerry, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland, on the one hand, and British National Christopher Steele and/or employees or contractors of Steele’s company, Orbis Business Intelligence, on the other hand.

All records and/or memoranda provided by Christopher Steele and/or his firm Orbis Business Intelligence or by others acting on Steele’s/Orbis’s behalf to State Department officials.

Any and all records in the custody of the State Department related to the provision of documents to British national Christopher Steele and/or his firm, Orbis Business Intelligence, or the receipt of documents from Steele or his firm. Time period is January 20, 2009 through the present.

All records created in 2016 by Jonathan M. Winer relating to research compiled by Christopher Steele.

In a mostly redacted, July 1, 2014, email exchange between then-Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland and Winer concerning “Two Pieces from Orbis on Russia-Ukraine,” Winer tells Nuland at one point, “Chris is a good friend and I do trust him. I find them fascinating snapshots too. [Redacted] I told him we don’t leak, that would be other parts of the USG and not to worry.”

In a July 22, 2014, email , Winer tells Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for European Affairs Paul Jones and Nuland, “I’ve told Chris Steele at Orbis I think the material is great, and I will continue to retransmit as he sends them to me.”

In a September 4, 2014, email , Jones tells Winer and Nuland of Steele’s reports, “Credible, useful – tx as always!”

In a December 29, 2014, email to Ambassador Pyatt, under the subject line “O [Orbis] Report: Coal Scandal and Ukrainian Politics,” Nuland says, “This is one of those industry intel reports. Rings a bit extreme to me. You guys?

Winer sends an almost completely redacted email on February 12, 2015 to his assistant Miller instructing her to forward “high side to three usual persons” (Nuland, Jones and himself) an “O” [Orbis] report “concerning company said to be secretly owned by Putin, Putin’s Mistress and Friends.”

In a declassified but heavily redacted, March 23, 2015, email from Nuland to Jones, Winer and his special assistant Nina Miller, under the subject line: “RE: O Report, March 13 – Growing Political Instability In Kiev and Yulia’s Return to Power?” Nuland remarks, “Some of this rings true, some not. [Redacted]”

In an otherwise redacted November 9, 2015, email to Nuland, under the subject line “Three Recent O [Orbis] Reports on Ukraine Security and Politics,” United States Ambassador to Ukraine, Geoffrey Pyatt says, “So I would put this in the same category as their other flaky reports.”

In a February 2018 op-ed in The Washington Post Winer admitted to working with Steele on the dossier. Winer told the Senate Intelligence Committee that he “ destroyed all the correspondence ” he had with Steele, apparently at Steele’s request.

“The sad truth is due to the over-redactions by a government intent on hiding the truth from its own people, it’s not really easy to make out what’s fully going on from this newest batch of documents. It is becoming clearer that there were unprecedented levels of collusion between Obama administration officials and outside partisans in an effort to harm Trump, even though some government officials recognized that Christopher Steele’s intel was questionable at best,” said Daily Caller News Foundation President Neil Patel. “Our lawsuit with Judicial Watch will keep going until we get all the truth out to the American people.”

Christopher Steele had a willing partner with the Obama State Department – despite top officials having little confidence in his work. These documents demonstrate that the Obama administration had multiple warning signs that Steele was unreliable—yet they used his garbage Dossier to target and spy on President Trump.

Here’s some background.

In September 2019, we released 146 pages of documents revealing that Steele had an extensive and close working relationship dating back to May of 2014 with high-ranking Obama State Department officials including Winer and Nuland. Judicial Watch also uncovered documents showing that less than a month before the presidential inauguration Winer had a 10-minute phone call with Alexey Vladimirovich Skosyrev, the “political chief” at the Russian Embassy in Washington, DC.

In July 2019, we released 84 pages of documents revealing an email exchange between Nuland and Winer, discussing a “face-to-face” meeting on a “Russian matter” in New York in September 2016.

In June 2019 we released 41 pages of documents from the State Department revealing that Winer played a key role in facilitating Steele’s access to other top government officials and prominent international business executives. Winer was even approached by a movie producer about making a movie about the Russiagate targeting of President Trump.

Well, it does read like a spy novel.

The Left’s Plan for Election Violence

Don’t think the Leftist violence in our streets is random. With the weakest presidential candidate in history, the Democrats are relying on a backup plan. We’ve looked into this extensively, as Micah Morrison, our chief investigative reporter, describes in his Investigative Bulletin.

With Donald Trump out of the hospital, the presidential race takes a final turn into the home stretch. Judicial Watch has been highlighting one largely overlooked aspect of the race: the Left’s plan to violently challenge election results. The plan was detailed in a document from a magically appearing new group, the Transition Integrity Project. They released an ostensibly bi-partisan report , “Preventing a Disrupted Presidential Election.”

I wrote about the TIP report in August. In September, our investigative team followed up with a detailed deep dive, “ The Militant Left’s Plan to Disrupt the 2020 Presidential Election .” It is disturbing reading.

The main takeaway from the Judicial Watch special report? This is not simply the thinking of a group of nutty left-wing academics and activists, but a document straight from the center of the Democratic Party.

The figure at the heart of the Transition Integrity Project is John Podesta, the senior strategist for the Democratic Party. Podesta was a top aide to presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, founder of the influential liberal think tank, the Center for American Progress, and chairman of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. For the electoral “war games” mapped out in the TIP report, Podesta played Joe Biden.

TIP “is a collection of professional Democratic operatives and Republican ‘Never Trumpers,’” the Judicial Watch report notes. “Organizers and leaders include Georgetown law professor Rosa Brooks, Nils Gilman of the ‘independent’ Berggruen Institute in California,” and Podesta. Anti-Trump Republicans in the group include Michael Steele, David Frum, and Bill Kristol.

Judicial Watch’s disturbing conclusion? The publication of the TIP report “is an information warfare strategy employed for revolutionary political purposes.” It’s a sophisticated action plan that includes cultivating an anti-Trump electoral consensus in the media; planning for “a street fight, not a legal battle;” leveling a vast array of criminal accusations against the president and his team; co-opting an already sympathetic federal bureaucracy into the anti-Trump effort; and pressuring the military, law enforcement, and state-level civil servants.

The TIP call to violence is subtle at times but the smell of gunpowder is unmistakable. The Judicial Watch report cites numerous outrageous scenarios advanced by TIP: the president will commit elections crimes; he will rob the federal till; encourage chaos and violence; use the military to advance his electoral aims; initiate a crisis for his own benefit; refuse to leave the White House. Trump is “ruthless,” but Biden is “constrained.”

The media is already getting the message. To halt Trump corruption, one New York Times columnist wrote , people “may have to put their bodies on the line in a way that few living Americans have experienced.”

Read the full Judicial Watch special report here .

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Mamihlapinatapei Capítulo 3: Trapsuki.

—No tengo el tiempo para esto—se quejó un joven vestido de militar mientras caminaba por las calles del reino.

Las personas se ocultaban al ver aquellos gélidos ojos turquesa en el rostro inexpresivo del militar. Si les notaba o no, era algo desconocido para ellos. La respuesta era clara: los notaba, mas no les daba la importancia suficiente para reaccionar. Tan solo era gente asustada, actuando como gatos miedosos; si ellos no habían cometido ningún crimen, no había motivos para temerle. Quizá despertaban una sospecha en él al inicio, pero a estas alturas, al igual que los demás reyes, tan solo se hallaba cansado.

—Vaya, pero si es el rey Trapsuki, ¿qué la trae a las tierras de los mortales, su alteza? —le dirigió la palabra un enano de apariencia desagradable: piel sucia, dientes rotos y cabello grasoso, vestido de harapos. El rey tan solo se rió.

La conversación murió ahí. El rey, que prefería utilizar su uniforme a salir con ropas elegantes y llamativas, continuó su caminata hasta que uno de sus guardias le halló. Su reino era el más estricto y, por tanto, el más ordenado de todos. Los rebeldes rara vez entraban a sus tierras para molestar y cuando lo hacían eran encarcelados o ejecutados de inmediato. Los demás reyes no estaban demasiado de acuerdo en esas medidas, pero era lo que mantenía al caos lejos de su palacio.

—Su alteza, usted no debería recorrer estas calles sin compañía—le dijo el guardia, preocupado por la seguridad de su rey.

—Meh—le respondió, restando importancia a sus palabras, entonces tomó su pistola y apuntó al guardia—¿alguna vez me has visto fallar un tiro? Yo soy el rey del...

—Lo siento, su alteza—se apresuró el guardia, interrumpiendo a superior. Temeroso por su vida, acompañó su disculpa junto a una reverencia.

—…—Trapsuki suspiró, después de un silencio breve. Aunque ser temido y respetado era gratificante, a veces también le agobiaba que no captaran su humor.

El rey guardó su arma y cedió ante la petición de su guardia. Acompañado por algunos guardias más, se dirigió de regreso a su castillo. No estaba demasiado lejos, por lo que se negó a utilizar alguna carroza, además él solo se subía a su carroza personal y no esperaría a que fuesen por ella al palacio: se le haría tarde para cenar y ya comenzaba a sentir hambre. Los demás reyes esperaban a que se ocultara el sol para cenar, pero él prefería hacerlo durante el atardecer, o antes. Como militar, cuidaba su figura y comer demasiado tarde le podía caer pesado.

Una vez dentro de su castillo, colgó su saco militar y pasó los dedos por su cabello rosa pastel, realizándose a sí mismo un masaje craneal para calmar el estrés que sentía. Uno de estos días acabaría con todo, tan solo debía hallar esa semilla del mal para erradicarla. Uno de estos días, lo tenía por seguro. En su castillo casi no había servidumbre, puesto que no le gustaba. Tan solo alguno que otro guardia en las afueras, vigilando que nadie entrara para atentar contra la vida o las pertenencias del rey.

—Quizá aún hay algo de pastel de chocolate…—habló en voz baja, caminando hacia la cocina para comprobarlo.

En efecto, aún había algunas rebanadas del dichoso postre, pero no podía tan solo comer esto. Recogió sus mangas y se dirigió hacia el cajón de las carnes para elegir qué comer. Por la actitud que poseía el pelirrosa y los altos muros en su castillo, muchos pensarían que recibía los mejores tratos y una docena de chefs le prepararían desayuno, comida y cena, mas no era así. Las personas se equivocaban en muchas cosas sobre el rey.

Después de cenar, dio otro paseo por las calles cercanas al palacio, siendo escoltado por sus guardias a unos cuantos metros de distancia, para no invadir su valioso espacio personal; luego volvió al castillo para apreciar su jardín, y finalmente entró para leer algunos reportes y cartas. Había una con un sello real de otro reino, mas la ignoró por el momento; con los problemas que tenía en Litecyra, no podía detenerse a ver invitaciones diplomáticas en otros reinos. Solo dios sabría qué sucedería en el reino si alguno de los cuatro reyes desapareciera algunos días.

Terminada la rutina, el rey subió al nivel más alto en su palacio, donde se hallaba su alcoba. Para acceder a ella primero se debía entrar a un pasillo, el cual era el único con puerta al pie de las escaleras tanto ascendentes como descendentes y que debían ser abiertas con llave. A diferencia del resto del edificio, cuyo suelo era de piedra tallada y las paredes decoradas con un papel negro de detalles dorados, este piso tenía paredes turquesas con grabados plateados y el suelo se hallaba cubierto por una alfombra rosa pálido. En cuanto el rey llegó a semejante lugar y cerró la puerta detrás de él, soltó un largo suspiro y sonrió tranquilo.

Dentro de su tan esperada habitación, cuyas decoraciones no variaban demasiado, se dispuso a cambiarse de ropa: su pijama era rosa con botones negros, al contrario de sus zapatillas. Finalmente estaba en la comodidad de su cama, con sus ropas suaves y de aroma dulce. Las sábanas de seda egipcia rosa acariciaban su piel, y él se abrazaba a las grandes almohadas de plumas junto a él. Emanaba una inocencia y pureza que todos desconocían, porque nadie jamás había estado en ese piso, esa habitación, con él.

—Ah…ya terminé con todo por hoy, es mejor si voy a dormir, para así rendir mañana.

Esta era la vida del rey. Aunque la situación política actual le tenía cansado como a todos los nobles, esta no arruinaría la paz y el orden en su día a día. Él simplemente debía seguir haciendo lo mismo de siempre, estando un tanto alerta, y estas noches de paz se mantendrían; día tras día repetía las mismas acciones, caminaba por los mismos lugares, hablaba con las mismas personas, a excepción de las invitaciones al palacio de Colette, Monique o Rise. Él no tenía muchos invitados, ya que en su hogar no tenía servidumbre para atender a una gran cantidad de caprichosos y además era algo introvertido para eso; solo debía abrazarse a la comodidad de su hogar y olvidar todo lo demás, olvidar todo lo demás, olvidar esas cadenas y todo lo demás.

El día siguiente fue una de esas raras excepciones. No solía visitar a Monique si no tenían algún asunto del cual hablar, ya que él respetaba bastante a la Reina Suprema y no quería arrebatarle su valioso tiempo con trivialidades. En lugar de cenar en su hogar, compartiría la mesa junto a ella en el palacio supremo mientras hablarían de tácticas estratégicas para mover sus unidades militares fuera del reino y conquistar más territorios. ¿Quién diría que un plan tan simple entre monarcas cambiaría tantas cosas? Cerca del palacio se halló al caballero Cinder Phoenix, a quien llamaba caballero oscuro por sus ropas y ese afán de vigilar durante la noche y dormir en el día, a diferencia de todos los demás.

—Bienvenido, su alteza —le saludó el caballero, quitándose su casco de metal negro para revelar ese rostro femenino marcado por un par de cicatrices.

—Black Phoenix —le respondió Trapsuki, con su rostro inexpresivo de siempre— ¿todo en orden?

—Así es, ningún bastardo ha estado armando su desmadre.

—Bien. Sigue así.

La conversación fue corta, puesto que ninguno de los dos era de muchas palabras. El rey continuó su camino, opuesto al del caballero; Cinder solía pasarse las tardes y noches merodeando el centro de la ciudad para ejecutar a aquellos que no cumpliesen las órdenes de las reinas; en algún momento trabajó en su fracción del reino también, pero posiblemente Monique le requería más. Era un hombre querido y temido a la vez, pero tenía la confianza de la corona.

Quizá debió seguir al caballero, o aceptar alguna escolta, porque a unas pocas calles, cerca del palacio de la reina, se encontró con el alborotador infame: Alexei Morrison. Un joven que utilizaba su carisma para engañar a los demás, creando conflictos y disputas entre los habitantes con “fines culturales”. Si tenía buenas o malas intenciones, eso no era algo que le importara mucho al rey; le tenía ahí, a solas, y notó el cuchillo que sobresalía levemente de su gabardina. Sin pensarlo mucho, Trapsuki tomó una decisión; tiró de su gatillo, directamente a la cabeza del rebelde, quien no había ignorado en absoluto al rey y esquivó débilmente el ataque; no lo recibió en la cabeza, pero le dejó inconsciente en el suelo. Debido a que la distancia entre ambos no era tanta, el rostro del monarca se manchó de sangre, sin embargo: esto no le impidió continuar su trayecto hasta el castillo de la reina.

—Al menos no manchó mi uniforme.

Unas horas más tarde, cuando los guardias de la reina volvieron al castillo mientras ellos jugaban ajedrez como ejercicio estratégico para anunciar que el cadáver de Morrison no fue encontrado, ambos monarcas empalidecieron por las posibilidades. Monique se levantó de su lugar, tomando con cuidado la pomposa falda de su vestido azul para andar en sus tacones escaleras abajo y se giró para sonreírle con cierta severidad al uniformado, quien le observaba en silencio alejarse:

—Convocaré una asamblea. Esto no puede ser buenas noticias.

#Mamihlapinatapei #ch3 #trapsuki #monique #colette #alexei morrison #cinder phoenix #litecyra

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