#alien!jesus max

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Steve who is kind of pissy and put-out that, after finally figuring out that liking boys is okay, he has no one to talk about cute boys to.

Robin will talk about girls all day long, but as soon as boys are brought up it’s all gagging and eye rolling and judgement.

Dustin settles with a slightly disturbed look, turning a magazine around every angle before giving Steve a hesitant, “I guess?”

Max just fights with him. On purpose, probably.

Steve would literally rather talk about wet paint before even trying with Nancy or Jonathan.

And it feels wrong and mean to talk about it with Eddie, who Steve loves very much and is absolutely his number one forever. But still, Steve is missing out on the opportunity to gossip and it’s horrible.

That is, until the night of The Gay bar. Steve’s first night at a gay bar. It deserves capital letters. He’s gotten to dance and kiss and hold on to Eddie all night and it’s been amazing. And then it happens.

A guy walks by, tall and golden, his black hair falling in a straight waterfall down his back. He’s wearing more glitter than clothes, and he looks almost alien, he’s so beautiful. Steve’s jaw drops.

He catches himself instantly, mouth closing with a click, and he whips his head around just in time to meet Eddie’s expression—shocked, panicked, and embarrassed—a perfect mirror to Steve’s.

They stare at each other for a moment, and then break into nervous giggles.

“Jesus,” Eddie says. “That guy was—”

“Insanely hot?” Steve laughs. They turn together, just in time to see the guy disappear into the crowd. “I didn’t know guys could be that pretty!”

“You saying I’m not pretty, Harrington?”

“You gave me shit last week that you’re actually handsome and rugged.”

“You called me cute!”

“And you are, dork!”

“… You think I could pull off a harness like that?”

Steve grins at him. “Oh, absolutely.”

[dear-ao3]

hi it's me the person from like a week ago who's writing that college paper about f1 i was gonna respond and then i immediately forgot lol. the paper is on the different media strategies and narratives of the fia, teams, drivers, gp locations, etc, and how they interact with each other. and also how the ways liberty media and the fia are marketing the sport and drawing in new fans is actually alienating people and suppressing the authenticity of the sport. especially post drive to survive.

i'm a comms major lol i am a massive public relations nerd

also a couple questions: idk how well versed you are in business stuff but how would you say f1 has changed its branding, especially pre liberty media to now? and how were drivers marketed before the era of portraying them as like,, pop stars? when was that shift? also if you have any specific examples (or places i could find examples) related to that stuff or sexism in f1 or just how f1 tries to control the narrative i would appreciate it because jesus christ the lack of research is terrible

ok dump over the essays not due for another like 3 weeks but when its done i can send it to you if you want to read it :)

aaaaa this got lost in my ask box i hope i’m not too late posting it :/ unfortunately i have no real sources for you. i know the shift was post drive to survive, but i think it also depends on the country because like f1 hasn’t really been a huge Thing in the us, but like ferrari has been italys second religion for years. so it might make sense if you focused it on a country. like in the time since dts first released they added two more us gps: miami (2022) and las vegas (2023). i know there’s a lot of british bias, especially by sky sports and sometimes in the penalties as well. i think fernando alonso called that out this year (?) and max also usually mentions it a few times (at brazil this year he definitely called out the british press) i know there’s also interviews of drivers saying post dts people recognized them way more (maybe this was daniel? or lando?) but some of them really like it (daniel) and some of them don’t (like max) you could also play the angle from social media, like george used to i know at least run his own twitter way back in the day (might have been pre f1 but i think he was still running it loosely in 2019 or at least tweeting himself) and now he doesn’t really touch social media At All cause of the comments he gets. lando used to run most of his own social media also until i think like 2020? 2021? (as in i don’t think he had a social media team) before he passed it off to someone else, though i know he still goes on for sure. i think a lot of them definitely cleaned up their media presence post dts (like lewis was certainly a pr nightmare at one point earlier in his career which a lot of people don’t realize or remember and we’re not even going to talk about fernando alonso). the sport has gotten more tame for sure over the years, they used to get away with doing and saying way more but that could also just be a general cultural shift, there’s also i know pockets of people who are like oh this sport used to be so respectful and manly and blah blah blah and like. there’s photos of michael schumacher at a party in a wedding dress. david coulthard used to pretend to kiss his teammates on the lips in front of the cameras. as for sexism, there have been female drivers before, usually only doing short stints. i know susie wolff has talked about this with the f1 academy how pretty much only lewis consistently shows up to support it. i think max (?) said earlier this year that academy is great but if they want them to make it to f1 they need to give them faster cars. there’s also the whole horner fiasco from earlier this year.

idk if any of this is useful. or if you’ve already turned in your paper. in any case, good luck :)

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Nancy Wheeler needs a steadier set of hands.

It’s a vital thing, the steadiness, and one which she’s prided herself on for a long time now, but in this moment? On this endless night? Nancy needs a steadier set of hands.

She stands along the wall, close to the door because it’s crowded beyond measure in the double-wide trailer that’s used primarily as a med center and because it’s hard enough to breathe during this conversation without direct access to an exit.

The fingers of her right hand tap against the side of her thigh, a discordant rhythm which her ballet instructors of her youth would have disparaged on the spot. Stay in time, Nancy! Don’t be so hesitant, Nancy! Did you forget how to count, Nancy?!

Her fingers tap, but the beat of her heart is not much better at keeping consistent time, so what is she meant to count along with? Where is the pace being set? Where is the music to guide her through this moment as her unsteady hands reach into the bag slung across her body and pull out a bottle of lake water, black as pitch and viscous?

Where is her partner in this pas de deux as the glass clatters with the uncontrollable force she uses to set it down on the table at the center of the room?

“Jesus Christ.”

“That’s our drinking water?”

“It looks like— like fuckin’ Venom.”

“What the hell is Venom, Henderson?”

“From Spider-Man? Symbiote alien from another planet and—”

“That’s our drinking water?”

Nancy stands against the wall.

She watches and she listens as they pass the bottle around, the glass face boasting Coca-Cola loud enough that it almost really does just look like a bottle of flat soda, and she chooses to let them bicker.

There was a time, some many months ago now, when Nancy would have walked in and at the very least pretended at enough confidence and certainty to convince everyone she had a plan and they would all be okay and they wouldn’t all die of thirst because the Upside Down and the entity controlling it has finally decided that direct action against their resources might be more efficient that sending monsters through the gates has been so far.

There was a time, indeed, when Nancy might have even felt such confidence, such certainty, but she can't remember that sensation now.

Not a sensory memory within her reach, not a modicum of cautious optimism born from a girl who had not yet learned the undeniable yearning of loss.

Nancy is here, as Joyce forces them all into some semblance of focus, kids and adults and the meeting of the two alike, but Nancy is also there.

Nancy is sixteen again, making a choice which changed her life, a choice she weighs in her hands during every moment of quiet, during every moment of noise too. If she had gotten in the car with Barb, would they have been able to outrun the forces of the Upside Down together?

Would Nancy simply have been dragged to her death with her best friend instead?

Is she fucked in the head for thinking both of those options may have been better than the reality?

“We need Max,” El is saying, arguing back against the sudden surge of insistence to fight. “When I can get through to Max, then we will have the upper hand.”

She says it a little stilted, a turn of phrase she's heard more than she's used, one which she likely only knows in this specific context.

Jonathan is standing beside her, close enough to offer visible support.

Eddie has a finger looped through the belt at Steve's waist, doing the same.

Robin sits beside Erica, Lucas on the other side of his sister, and Dustin pacing in the small space behind the couch.

Nancy leans against the wall by the door.

“We can't just wait around,” Steve shakes his head, almost in apology. “Vecna or— or the other thing, whatever's in charge at this point— it's making a play, right? That's what's happening? It's going on offense and we can't just keep playing defense, we have to actually make a play back.”

Nancy feels a headache brewing behind her eyes, clenches and unclenches her right hand in a fist to try and find something like stability. Fails at it.

“We've been holding our ground long enough,” Robin agrees with him boldly, “we understand how to fight back. If we catch him by surprise...”

“But can we? Catch him by surprise?” Lucas now, deep bags of grief under his eyes which Nancy understands all too well.

She wishes for him to never understand it as well as she does.

She wishes for a lot of things.

“He's baiting us,” Dustin shakes his head. “We tried that game with— with Max,” a thick swallow, “and he's mocking us with it. We should wait. We aren't ready.”

“It doesn't matter whether or not we're ready,” Nancy hears herself speaking and the way all those eyes turn on her is the sort of being seen she's avoided all her life.

Ever since she was a child, she hasn't been able to stomach people pretending to know her. Ever since she was a child it's been a form of control, a form of expectation, another set of rules she's had to conform to and she's goddamn tired of it.

She's really just so tired.

“It doesn't matter,” she shrugs, crosses her arms and grips at her biceps so no one can see the way her hands shake. “We'll never be ready, but if we wait long enough we will get weaker because we won't have water and we won't have food and it will be winter. He'll freeze us out before we can even try. It doesn't fucking matter.”

Things are escalating where the people of Hawkins are still trapped in the wasteland. In the midst of it, Nancy Wheeler finds catharsis, and maybe even hope. sequel to "that's just wasteland, baby!"

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Love is doing the dishes even when it's the worst chore ever.

a @steddielovemonth prompt | 982 words | CW: gagging, food issues, sensory issues | Rating: T

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Jesus H. Christ. Eddie’s two seconds away from blowing chunks and he hasn’t even touched the sink yet. He’d spent the last hour dirting up half of their dishes and now he has to face the consequences. This is why he doesn’t do anything in the kitchen. Laundry? He’s on it. Dusting? Easy peasy. Scrubbing the bathroom? Piece of cake. But the dishes? He gets light headed just thinking about it. 

Steve gets it. He despises doing laundry and physically can’t handle cleaning the bathroom unless it’s an absolute necessity – almost identical to how Eddie feels about the dishes. Steve’s too freaked out by the germs and being stuck in a small room with little ventilation as he uses way too much chemicals to knock out said germs, his head can’t handle it. In the early days of their living arrangement, Eddie’s come home to Steve passed out in the hallway because he overdid it with the cleaning. 

And with Eddie’s fear of the dishes, from the wet food and dirty water containing the cycles of hell in its murky, unknown depths, they’ve figured out a process that works for them. Steve handles the kitchen and dishes, Eddie handles the bathrooms and laundry; they each get a room to clean and a never-ending daily task to manage. 

It never fails, though, that Eddie feels guilty when he cooks something. He usually tries not to cook anything that would mean more than two dishes max and some utensils. He can handle doing one or two dishes at a time, when it doesn’t make sense to fill the sink with soapy water and he can just knock the two out – no risk of reaching his hand into the garbage disposal or having some alien reach back to him. So fixing a sandwich is fine, but cooking a meal… 

Steve assures him it’s fine. They have their things and they’re working together to make this house function. They have a system that works and Steve really doesn’t mind if it means he never has to hunt for missing socks or worry about turning the whites pink any more. 

Yet the guilt persists. 

Eddie scrubs his face with his bare hands and groans as loud as possible. He can do this! It’s just a few dishes. He can do this one thing to help Steve’s day get a little easier… 

He reaches for the bright yellow gloves he bought at the store earlier and shoves his hands into the latex. It was a last minute purchase during his mild mental breakdown at Bradley Big Buy when he was getting the supplies for the dinner he’s prepared for Steve. How could he prepare this elaborate meal for Steve with the purpose of cheering him up, of taking away one more thing he has to do when he comes home (which should be any minute, oh my god), only to leave him a mountain of dishes that will probably be even more crusty than they are now. So he bought the gloves as a way to trick his brain into thinking it’d be different with the gloves on. 

For the record, it’s not. 

Sure, on one hand, his hands are safe from icky textures and surprises, but he can still feel when his hand bumps a stray spoon or knocks into a pot handle. It only takes away some of the sensations that send his spine crawling out of his skin. Even still, he has to put his hand into the water, which means it gets close to the disposal and he can barely see his fingers through all the suds and food particles, even with the bright, almost neon shade he grabbed. 

Steve cleans as he cooks so he only has to do a little bit of dishes at the end, but Eddie didn’t think about that until the sink was filled and he was piling dishes around it. So now he’s stuck tackling Mount Doom on a random weekday like it’s nothing. 

Eddie’s hands hover over the sink. He just has to start, then it’ll be a sprint until he’s done. That’s all it takes. Just have to actually do it. 

His fingertips nearly touch the sudsy water when he jerks back, a gag threatening to rip out of his throat. 

Okay, so it’s not as easy as he thought. 

Eddie glances around the kitchen, trying to find something that’ll help him get through this. His eyes fall onto the small sound system Steve keeps by the stove, no doubt filled with an old Billy Joel tape. Now that could work… He rips off his gloves and takes off. 

Five minutes later and Eddie’s found the perfect tape to drown out the bad feelings while he does the dishes. He pops the mixtape into the cassette player and turns the volume up as loud as he can without getting the cops called on him. Then he pulls his hair up into a bun, snaps the gloves back on and takes a deep breath. 

As a guitar riff rips through the air, Eddie screams along to the lyrics and plunges his hands into the water. 

Fifteen minutes later, Eddie hangs his head over the now empty sink, water draining as Ozzy’s voice rings out. He feels disgusting, exhausted from the effort, but it’s done. He did it. The dishes are dried and put away, counters wiped down, and their dinner is nearly done if the egg timer is anything to go by. 

He peels off his gloves and scrubs his hands raw to get rid of the lingering sensations. His shirt is covered in wet spots and he feels like he’s just returned from battle, but he fucking did it. 

And as Eddie’s slipping on a new shirt, he hears the Beamer pulling into the driveway. Time to surprise Stevie with the best night of his life. 

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Thanks to @lady-lostmind for betaing!

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FREEDOM.

I'm FINALLY done with Heavensward and Stormblood society quests!!

I had the Stormblood ones done a while ago, actually, they were a delight and I breezed through them, but put off doing the combined quest until after the Heavensward one bcs I'm trying to do them in order. But the Vanu and Moogles took SO LONG to do because they only give you a max of 150 reputation every day instead of the standard 180. That doesn't sound like a big difference, but jesus christ, it adds up, wound up adding like an extra 2 or 3 weeks onto the grind. Un-fucking-bearable.

I think that extended grind might be why I didn't enjoy the Heavensward societies that much.

The Vath were okay, kinda cute, didn't overstay their welcome, but I just wasn't terribly invested in them. I've seen the "trying to break away from a hivemind" story before and this one didn't have anything especially interesting to say and the bonds forged didn't feel especially profound. But they did give 210 rep a day, so it just breezed by and didn't annoy me at least.

The Vanu Vanu are.... fine? I personally find their speech patterns to get real old real quick, same problem I had with like. All of the ARR society quests. Just feels unnecessarily Othering. The vath at least have the excuse of being very alien in their hive-mind social structure, but the vanu are just. Big Time islander coded and those are just... people. Which also made the not-Haka dance emote you get from them, the Sundrop Dance, just feel all the more Wrong to use. Like, that feels like it's maybe crossing a line. None of the NPCs really stood out and I kinda didn't pay attention to most of it. Linu Vali has a pretty flower crown and THAT'S IT.

The Moogles are exhausting. I say this as someone who fucking loves moogles, even if not ESPECIALLY when they're being annoying, useless little shits, but they're kinda one-note and it gets old quick. Like, if I, me, someone who spent $40 on a plush of Lulu's moogle doll from FFX twice because the first one had its pom eaten by my dog, that person, ME, if you can't win ME over with your moogle in a hard-hat and drunk moogles getting hit by cartoon bombs, you've done something wrong. It especially drags because you're only getting 150 rep a day and the map is huge and you've got to use special mounts on so much bullshit, and fuck you if your queue popped while you were traveling on the mount, you have to go back and start over on this huge, huge map once you're done with your dungeon. Same problem I had with the Vanu, tbh. Just. A miserable grind and you will feel every second of it. It's almost worth it for the moogle dance though.

But the combined role quest was nice. I like the dance emote, it's got elements of the not-haka dance in there, but enough of the moogle dance that it just feels cute and not appropriative.

Also I'm getting tired of meeting this guy in his speedo.

But at least someone blew up his ship again, so all's well that ends well! Onto Stormblood, which I actually really liked the society quests for!

The Kojin were my least favorite of this bunch, their fixation with spiritual treasures and then "the real treasure being the friends we made along the way" was kinda dumb and not in like, a self-aware or silly way. It was played completely straight and I didn't really find any of the NPCs this time interesting or engaging so it all just fell kinda flat with me. Also I have. A big issue. With the naming of their prayer emote you can pick up being labelled; "Ballroom Etiquette: Heathen Gestures." Like. I know the etiquette books are played for very tongue-in-cheek laughs about boring fuddy duddies, but c'mon, man. That... yikes.

The Ananta are a big improvement, though, I really like them and Alpa stood out as a charming and vibrant character, she's so cute and driven and the humor finally lands for once. Having J'olhmyn as the straight-man to M'zhet Tia's antics works well, and the social blunders that Alpa makes through her more isolated upbringing are endearing. Neither aspect is overmined for laughs and Alpa is treated with enough sincerity that you buy-in to her emotional reality and care about her. Just a solid little self-contained story, I really like the ananta quests, and the emote you can get from them of the /charmed sway of being bewitched/enchanted by something or someone is just adorable. Also, love the false nails you can pick up, and the griffin and elephant mounts are cute too! A good story, fun NPCs, fantastic rewards, this is maybe the first society quest I actually recommend people do for something besides completionism or accessibility to crafting materials. The Ananta are great, I love them and my snaughter, snake-daughter.

The Namazu might be my favorite of all society quests. They're not the best one, I think those come in Endwalker, but they might be my favorite. I just.... I just love them. They're so muppety and stupid and the exact brand of physical comedy that can actually get a chuckle out of me. They're adorable and the premise of saving them from various improbable and absurd extinctions is hilarious. There are so many recurring gags and jokes and none of them overstay their welcome and the comedic timing is perfect every time. The quests are all cute, the story is hilarious and adorable, the characters are great, the rewards are AMAZING, if you love the Muppets or Gremlins or anything with Little Creechurs Doing Antics, you will have so much fun with these quests and love every minute of them and look forward to them. Also, just, like, side-note, but so many of the species in the society quests are so over-designed imo; the kojin, the vath, the amalj'aa. But the Namazu are so simple in a very iconic and cute way, like, they could literally be a new mascot of the Final Fantasy series they're so well designed. I love them so much.

And for once I kinda cared about the combined role quest! BECAUSE THEY KIDNAPPED MY SNAUGHTER! And also they stole one of my fish buddies and I had to get them back too. Also, the puppet who came to life from the kojin story, but he was already kinda dead anyways, so like, whatever, but OH NO! My snaughter!! So I was very invested in getting her back.

Also, the tables have turned, and now Talia is the one in her swimsuit when the villain shows up! WHAT A TWIST!

I mean, he's also in a speedo, this scene takes place in a hot spring, but I'm still counting it as a subversion.

Anyway, the Stormblood society quests are the first time I will call this GOOD CONTENT. The surprising siliness of ARR's combined society quests was entertaining after they'd all been played so straight with their dire stakes, but this time it felt like a consistent through-line from the individual to combined quests. The Kojin are the only ones that feel like kind of a letdown and even then, they're still as good as anything from Heavensward or ARR, so if you've done those until this point, you won't feel like you're wasting your time with them at least. And the other two are just great, and the combined quest is fun, and M'zhet Tia turns out to have been carrying Chekov's grenade this entire time, and it's just great. Actually got me to finally LAUGH and not just smile.

[reikunrei]

"More than just an ordinary human."

It's that time again! Another Doctor Who episode wahoo!! Let's check out season 3, episode 6:

"The Lazarus Experiment"

So, Lazarus is, obviously, taken from the biblical figure of Lazarus who was brought back from the dead by Jesus. The story of his revival is meant to exemplify the power Jesus has over death itself, but I won't be talking about that in-depth here; the Bible-talk is more James's wheelhouse lol.

As it applies to this Doctor Who episode, it's not so much about coming back from the dead, but rather about cheating death. Professor Richard Lazarus has created an invention, which he calls a "miracle" (the same word used by Patty in reference to "Henry's" powers in tfs), that will essentially de-age anyone who steps inside.

(Peeping the fact that he specifically mentions the moon landing like Mr. Clarke mentions it in st3)

However, there's a catch! He didn't do his proper research! He didn't account for all possible variables! And something in his DNA is trying to change him! (Another tfs word! We love to see it!)

Rejuvenating, you say? Even after the Doctor blows up Lazarus in his monster form and he comes out entirely unscathed? Golly, I wonder who that reminds me of! Anyway.

So basically what happened is Lazarus "changed his own molecular patterns" by "hack[ing] into his own genes" which is SUCH a NINA-ass word to use. Don't even remind me of all the computer stuff that's being pushed in the st5 leaks and updates. This has seemingly activated something in his DNA that's trying to make him change, and that "change" is a giant scorpion-like monster that is absolutely ravenous. Before the Doctor and Martha are looking at his DNA, we see a scene of Dr. Lazarus grabbing a finger-food platter from one of the waitstaff at his invention's unveiling and scarfs it down, saying he's famished, which the Doctor isn't surprised by (it's insinuated that he understands, at least loosely, what's happening because of the Time Lord's ability to regenerate, which always wears them out and makes them very energy-hungry).

In his monster form, Dr. Lazarus drains all the "life-energy" out of several human victims in order to sate his hunger, leaving an empty shell. (Insert Vecna consuming his victims to get stronger, insert "Henry" killing animals in tfs to sate the Shadow and it being much more powerful when "he" finally kills Virginia, insert Max being left an empty body without a soul/life, etc. etc., you get the picture. Not to mention that the Doctor equates it to "squeezing the juice out of an orange" ... I wasn't expecting a little st vr connection, but I'll take it!). He has little to no control over his transformation, and while he can feel it coming on, he can't just snap in and out of it; it simply takes over and he changes. The first time we see him transform, he writhes on the ground in agony and his wife asks if it's "some kind of seizure" (smash cut to "Henry" in tfs seizing).

Later, after some running around, being chased, and doing some thinking, the Doctor explains to Martha that this "thing" (Lazarus) isn't alien, it's "strictly human in origin." This form was becoming "dominant" because the process of de-aging himself likely awoke some dormant genes that "evolution rejected...millions of years ago...forgotten until Lazarus unlocked it by mistake."

A big part of this episode is about hubris. Dr. Lazarus is overconfident in his invention, and he spends ample part of the start of the episode dismissing the Doctor and Martha when they both warn him that something may be wrong/this may be more dangerous than he realizes. On top of Dr. Lazarus seeking out youth/prolonged life, much like the idea that Brenner is looking for some sort of power/immortality of some kind in st (barely even touching on the other weird stuff like Brenner not aging in tfs between 1959-1979), a lot of it made me think of El tearing into Brenner in 4.08, especially her emphasis on him being the monster, on all of this being his fault, all because he couldn't let Henry go. Brenner has constantly been presented to us, throughout all mediums, to be fairly stubborn and determined to get what he wants, even if the results are catastrophic (ie. the number of guards and orderlies who have died helping him with his child dungeon project, all of the children themselves dying in one way or another, even his own ass getting jumped by a demogorgon and then shot to bleed out and "die" in the desert).

Which leads into the other core aspect of this episode: humanity.

Throughout all of Doctor Who, the Doctor makes it clear that he finds humans utterly fascinating, especially in their mundanity. He emphasizes the importance of everyone's individuality and tells everyone they're special and important, even if they don't really "do" anything. Simply being who they are is what makes them matter; they don't need to be useful or supply anything groundbreaking in order to be amazing in his eyes. They exist as humans, and that's all that matters.

In this episode, we see Lazarus talk about how humans, as they are now, are basically inferior. While a large part of his motivations are about the money he'll make off of such an invention, we learn later that he has a distinct and deep fear of death and being defenseless against it. He wants to "change what it means to be human," to give them "a chance...to evolve, to improve" and to make sure he never has to face death like he did as a child: terrified and vulnerable.

We get the two following conversations between the Doctor and Lazarus, one at about the midway point of the episode before shit really hits the fan, and the other is near the very end of the episode after shit has really hit the fan.

This next one is split into several pieces to get in all the lines because they say a lot that jumps out as very important and distinctly Brenner, with some smatterings of One's monologue and some Henry-isms, especially from tfs, and the general presence of many of The Words.

I wanna point out that the Doctor being at the London Blitz is a direct reference to the episodes I talked about in my last dw post. And I find it incredibly interesting that a lot of the original tfs promo was heavily centered around church, like how this final standoff is in a cathedral, even so far as having Mr. Newby originally be listed as Father Newby, etc., despite the final play not being as heavy-handed with the religious imagery. Idk it's just itching something in my brain! I also wanna note that, since it's kinda hard to see here, the camera pans around Lazarus in a counterclockwise circle, following the path of the Doctor as he circles him, and we aaall know how st loves to use circling camera shots like that.

I especially want to touch on the second conversation the Doctor and Lazarus have in the church. The Doctor speaks to him calmly, trying to get him to understand and have compassion for the experience that is being human rather than trying to cheat it, and that living an exceptionally long life really isn't all it's cracked up to be. Even though Lazarus is now a "monster," he's still intensely humanized. He's killed at least four people at this point, but the Doctor doesn't go about simply trying to belittle, dehumanize, or kill him.

When it comes to Brenner, unfortunately, we still don't know much about his past, but we have a lot we can assume or extrapolate, at least based off what tfs has told us and the gaps we can fill in from st itself. We know, at least vaguely, that he and his father had a strained relationship. During the opening sequence of tfs on the USS Eldridge, we hear Captain Brenner talking to his other shipmates about how "it's my kid's birthday today, he told me he hates me."

However, later in the show, Brenner tells "Henry" that his father's return from Dimension X and subsequent death because of it compelled him to join Project Rainbow and devote his life to the cause and figure out what happened. With "Henry's" seeming ability to survive being infected by the Shadow, Brenner tries to tap into that. His main goal in tfs is to make contact with the Shadow and figure out what happened to his father, and since it's then explained that he made more children like "Henry" (specifically the immunity to the Shadow/the shared blood that supposedly gives them that immunity), it's clear he's trying to avoid is father's fate in that way. In short, it very much comes off as an attempt to try and cheat death.

Brenner, throughout the show, often presents what he does as good, both for the children in the lab and for humanity as a whole (though specifically for the US, focused on beating back those nasty commies). Even if he does bad things, it's for the greater good! He has good intentions! That's gotta count for something, right? /s

Both Lazarus and Brenner went into their respective experiments because they thought they could become better than human. Or in Brenner's case, at the very least he could live vicariously through his experiments to feel better than human, which was explicitly touched on in the vr game in clips like this one. As we also see in st4, El tries to call Brenner a monster, but when she relays this thinking to Vecna, he rejects it, and calls Brenner "an ordinary, mediocre man."

Shortly after that first conversation I showed between Lazarus and the Doctor on the rooftop, after Lazarus transforms, there's a sequence where, from inside Lazarus's machine, the Doctor is able to reverse the polarity of the capsule so it reflects energy rather than receive it, and it blasts Lazarus away, turning him back into human form and supposedly killing him.

Right away, with this comment from Martha, Lazarus is equated back to an ordinary human. He's not made to be the "big bad villain" where everyone is glad he's dead, nor is he made out to be this reverent being. He's someone to be pitied. It's decidedly solemn. He was just a man out of his depth who bit off more than he could chew... much like how Brenner is a man out of his depth who bit off more than he could chew.

I wouldn’t be surprised if we learned that Brenner was actively harming himself in his attempt to do… whatever. Much like how Lazarus was harming himself (and others) in order to maintain his new youth, Brenner may be harming himself with his experiments. Whether that be via blood transfusions/consuming blood (see the post I linked from Stav above), or by doing something as drastic as physically combining himself with one of the Henwards, I doubt anything 100% good and rewarding could come from it. Even if he's looking for something like regenerative healing, as we see in Vecna and as hinted by Brenner not being dead despite getting jumped by a demogorgon, what does he have to do to reach that point? What risks are there involved that he may not have accounted for, simply because he would have no idea that they exist in the first place? Just looking at the circumstances of the weird Brenward face combo we get in 4.07… he didn’t exactly wind up in a great spot after combining himself, did he? Plus, while I'm of the mind that Vecna and the guy we see shape the Mind Flayer are two different dudes (James and Em have other posts about this as well), the way it's presented to us implies that Vecna evolved from the MF guy, so there's a sort of compounding that changes in his appearance from mostly-human to mostly-infected-by-the-UD, which... also doesn't seem great.

We can already see how being infected by the Shadow affects people, which is highlighted in Henry not sleeping and barely eating when he's flayed. Hell, Brenner saw what happened to his father after he returned from Dimension X, and he took the lives of several test subjects (many of them children) in his own experiments. He already knows that there are risks and detractions in this work.

At the very end of this dw episode, Lazarus is finally actually killed. Using the organ in the church, the Doctor amplifies its sound using his Sonic Screwdriver to create "hypersonic sound waves" in order to interfere with Lazarus on a molecular level, which is more or less the same thing he did with his machine. Lazarus falls from a high balcony within the church, disoriented by the noise, and turns back into a human upon death. He even reverts back to his "correct" elderly appearance as the Doctor kneels over him and gently shuts his eyes.

We've already seen something similar to this sort of death with Brenner in st4. While I wouldn't say it was a soft moment for him, since El was still clearly rejecting him, she still leaned into his touch, still listened to him, and clearly was grappling with a lot of messy feelings. She, in that moment, wanted to view him as a monster, but she couldn't. Not entirely. That's her Papa! That's someone who, for most of her life, despite every horrible thing he did, took care of her; who said he loved her and held her best interests at heart.

In my mind, this sort of "soft end" is what we should expect for Brenner and Vecna in st5. It could be even softer than what we see in st4, because as much as Brenner deserves to have his shit absolutely rocked, we've been increasingly shown that he is only human. Human's are not monsters, but humans can do monstrous things. That doesn't make them inhuman. And, as people like James and Em have spoken extensively about lately, Brenner is likely but one cog in the machine that is the Cycles in this show, and not necessarily the source of the cycles to begin with. He didn't pop outta the womb wanting to build a child torture dungeon, but something happened to bring him there and cloud his judgement.

And even if the death is something more intense and dramatic like that of Lazarus, it's not necessarily something to celebrate, yknow? Even if the threat is gone (which is a very good thing), it took many horrible, avoidable things to get there in the first place, and that's what's tragic.

B-B-B-Bonus Round: Just Some Extra Shit

vs "Henry" going missing in Nevada for 12 hours per tfs. Martha has been on several trips with the Doctor thus far, so there's the added bit of "the passage of time is messed up" seeing as, for her, it's been several days, but to everyone else it's only been 12 hours.

All of the above is so... yeah lol. Lazarus is repeatedly very weird to the two young women in this episode, Martha and her sister Tish, and he even rejects his elderly wife in one scene when she kisses him and he tells her to "look at [her]self." The sniffing thing even made me think of the demogorgon being given the trait of "smelling blood" so... I see you, Brennergorgon.

I could've probably fit this bit somewhere above, but I'm too lazy, so it's going here instead. Love a good boiler room setting and talking about sacrifices!

"Always the mothers" just like how Brenner say it was always the mothers who came to him convinced their children had abilities or issues, etc. (plus just a little context for Martha's mom's "dangerous" comment: this season has an overarching hidden plot about the Master, who I touched on in another one of my dw posts, wherein he basically holds political power over the city (hiding the fact that he's a Time Lord) and is trying to sabotage the Doctor).

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Kong's 2024 Halloween-a-thon - 31 days of spooky movies

I didn't get a chance to post it before Halloween, but I did watch another 31 days of Halloween movies. Here's the list if you want it.

The ones that were really good...

Maxxine

Trap

Fantasy Island

Honorable Mention - Edge of Sleep - Cause it was episodic and I think it could have played better as a full fledged movie.

Honorable Mention - Freefall - For the possession take. Very creative ideas.

As always, if you have specific triggers check out doesthedogdie for a list of what maybe in the movie you choose to watch.

I Saw the TV Glow – 20 mins boring as shit - Max

Bodies Bodies Bodies - Not good, not bad… forgettable. - Max

They - 20 mins boring – Max

The First Omen – Hulu – Underwhelming

Fantasy Island – Hulu – Decently good unique take on an old tv show

Succubus – interesting wanted more but got less

X-Files – I want to Believe – SUCKED - VUDU - I'm disappointed in you X-Files. That movie is worse than spiderman 3 (the one who shall not be named.)

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice – not terrible, very 1980s vintage

Mr. Crocker -hulu – just bad and lame really, bad parents and bad children being haunted by a kid show host who was I think into some horrible pedo things.

Hold your Breath -hulu Forgettable

Slayers – Hulu – if slaying were dumb, this is the movie for it.

Gaia – Hulu – Boring survivalist / horror /suspense with none of what it said it was supposed to have.

Little Monsters – Hulu – Comedy Horror with not much comedy – Kids and teacher and lazy white guy survive zombies

2019 The Grudge – Hulu – Decent creep factor, kid death

Handling The Dead – Hulu – bored

The Accursed – Revisited this one from 2022 to see if anything had changed in my previous review. I felt like I missed a lot of the point because I wasn’t aware of the culture it was representing. Was better the second time I watched it after reading up about culture.

Amulet – Hulu – Boring

Agnes – Hulu – A promising flop

The Free Fall – Hulu – Fairly decent take on possession.

The Edge of Sleep (Prime) – Mini TV series – Markiplier plays Dave a guy who’s got parasomnia. Really fairly good. I was expecting something a bit different but was pleasantly surprised.

Salem’s Lot remake - max – so so, vamps looked pretty cool

Maxxxine – max - Really good addition to the franchise that is Maxine Minx

Trap – Max - Really good. I expected a flop... but Josh Harnett made this movie great.

Return to Salem’s Lot - Max – Sucked – 1980s.

Poltergeist – Max - the original one, eh… probably pretty scary for the time.

They Live – Vudu - 1988 Roddy Piper sees aliens with glasses that want us to obey. Maybe scary back then, but not so much now.

Pheonix Forgotten – Vudu – Found Footage Style- Not my fav type of spookie.

Dark Skies – Vudu – Decent Aliens

Mouse Trap – Peacock - cheesy as all fuck, but it was hilarious in how bad it was. Steamboat Mickey goes mental and teens win. It's so bad that it almost spun 360 to make it good again... almost.

Blood and Honey 2 - Peacock - The person who thought these up is brilliant at twisting the most beloved Pooh of the 100 Acre woods... but Jesus fucking Christ it's brutal. So brutal it'd make Jason blush. Don't watch it if you love Winnie the pooh. It's triggering and it will taint your vision of them. Bad movie, loved the brutality and the creativity that went into it and tied it to the first in a crazy good way that makes sense, but can't like the premise about children.

AVP universe - Vudu - starting with Predator (Arnold movie) all the way through Aliens in chronological order. It makes so much more sense to watch them in their (in movie historical order). Lots of interesting lore, lots of gore, lots of tiny clothing... So far I liked Predator, Alien and Prometheus. The rest were ok on their own, but made better because of how much they tried to tie them in. Still not finished with these, but finished enough to post.

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Retcon-Fix AU

I'm never going to get around to write it, so I'd share the notes I have here and open the floor to questions.

This started off as an idea for a one shot. Taking the opening scene of Omniverse and tweaking it to fit an au. Zombozo is on the run after breaking into a...lab(?) with Ben and Gwen hot on his heels. There's nothing different about Ben on a surface level. On the other hand, Gwen is wearing an outfit similar to her future counterpart from the original series. After dealing with Zombozo there's this awkward goodbye between the two. Gwen's heading off world for the next leg of her anodite training and it will be years until they see each other again. She hates leaving him, Ben is clearly upset, but the only thing keeping her on Earth is guilt, bad memories, and bad blood between them. They hug it out, Ben sees her off, and later runs into Rook.

From there the idea blossomed into a multi chapter series cutting back and forth between the present and the past, showing whats different in this timeline. But that changed into just starting at the beginning in the original series to show the differences in the time line. 'Cause the premise of this au became: cherry pick and take all those little retcons, hammer them out to work from the beginning, and go from there.

The Big three are thus: Figure out whats ever happening in Max's backstory and streamline it. The Plumbers in the OS, to me, felt like it started on Earth with humanity encountering aliens before the organization reached out into space. That was later changed to be that the Plumbers were a galactic police force who, kind of, absorbed a human group of the same name. We later learn that's because of George Washington's own encounter with aliens and him forming an organization to combat such a threat, like the American equivalent of the Forever Knights.

That's weird, a little too clunky. So the streamlined version for this AU was to make it more like X-Com. That the increase of alien activity and sighting in the 50's led to the formation of an secret, international paramilitary group that would rapidly deploy to such threats and deal with them. Either through combat or simple negotiation. Eventually the accumulated alien tech would advance their gear and what not. Max running into Verona is what introduced him to the organization. This is like in the 60s.

Its around the late 70's/early 80s that the Plumbers as a galactic police force starts to form. A bunch of alien cultures form a coalition/federation to deal with the expanding Incursion threat and the Plumbers are a byproduct of that. Rules and laws are hammered out and the Plumbers finally notice criminals would head to the outer rim to escape the authorities and decide to investigate. They come across Earth, come into contact with X-Com (just gonna call it that), when an invasive species starts spreading across the galaxy. X-Com has a shit ton of members and the Plumbers cut them a deal. Help them deal with the Lenopan threat and the galactic community would consider Earth off limits.

The world governments that fund X-Com are on the fence until they see the tech level of the rest of the galaxy. Giving Earth another century to catch up is to good of an opportunity to pass. X-Com gets involved in the Lenopan Wars, turn the tide, and peace is brokered. Some soldiers decide to stay out in space and become Plumbers while those who stay behind are forced into retirement as X-Com is quickly mothballed. Probably a larger scheme by the Forever Knights to remove their competition. Like Hydra infiltrating Shield to get it taken down.

Jesus Christ. Sorry about the world building tangent.

The second change being Kevin. Its later revealed in the series that he is a genetic experiment by the Rooters to make hybrid soldiers. Honestly, don't like it. In this AU human-alien hybrids can exist. Its the Forever Knights that the runaway and take him in. He doesn't run into Ben and Gwen by chance. Instead he's purposely following them, keeping tabs on them for the Forever Knights from the shadows until they give him the order to engage. Him absorbing some energy from the Omnitrix is a plot point. He goes rogue with Ben and Gwen reeling him back, but ultimately failing. Kevin winds up stuck in the Null Void until we see him again in Alien Force. Gives him time to return to normal, meet Argit, and break away from the Forever Knights.

The thirds change is Gwen. This is honestly the crux of the AU when I was first jotting the notes down. Its retconned in Alien Force that her capacity for magic stems from her Anodite heritage. In this fic, her spark catches early and she has access to mana at the start of the original series.

She has a hard time controlling her powers. Most Anodite hybrids do. Every emotional outburst is dangerous, and her parents haven't exactly handled the whole thing well. Not physically abusive, but their own fear of the daughter and distancing her from anything or anyone she might hurt has effected the development of her social skills. Like, her brother gets to join all these clubs, hang out with friends, and attend school where she is home schooled and not allowed out. Just to note, her and Ken have a close relationship. He would've gone on the Summer road trip, but his parents signed him up for camp. The only reason why their letting Gwen go with Max in the first place is for him to train her. They handled everything so far by ignoring it, which doesn't help Gwen. She's ten by the time they wise up and ask Max for help, Previously, when she got her powers and everything came to light, they kicked him out of their lives.

What about Ben? The omnitrix and plot surrounding it is largely the same. Vilgax wants to conquer the galaxy and tracks down a weapon to do it. Gives chase, but the watch is dropped off on Earth and he's injured. He's purposefully blocking any outgoing signal from Earth about his presence or the increase alien activity, but its only a matter of time before the plumbers catch wind that something is up and get involved. Earth is on the opposite side of hostile territory so he's working under a time limit.

Ben himself is largely the same but gay. That's more of a self indulgent thing than anything else, tbh. He confessed his feelings to a boy on valentines, the bullies got word of it, and haven't left him alone since. He's starting off the series with a chip on his shoulder. His parents want him to get away from it all, and hopefully a summer road trip away will help.

Ben has mixed feelings about Gwen. The last time he saw her they snuck away with Ken to play out in the woods. Ben convinced her to use her powers and got knocked back hard because of it. He's a little scarred of her, a little jealous, but Ken (who he considers as an older brother) told him to keep an eye out on Gwen.

Ben gets a crush on Kevin when they first meet, but Kevin is straight as hell. He's also an agent working for the Forever Knights and uses Ben's crush on him to get close to the omnitrix. They actually do form a loose friendship, but at that point Vilgax is attacking in person, Gwen can't handle him alone, and the watch has timed out. So he touches the omnitrix and mutates to deal with Vilgax and gets stuck in the null void for his troubles.

"But what happens to Kevin?" you ask. If the original one-shot with Ben and Gwen is canon, where is he by the time Omniverse begins? Six feet under. He pulled the same trick in Ultimate Alien to deal with Aggregor and got the same result from the prime timeline: he becomes hostile to Ben and Gwen, hunting them down to feed the energy addiction.

"I can't believe Ben kills him." That's the neat part, he doesn't. Its Gwen that puts him down. This isn't the second time Kevin has absorbed energy. He's done it before, slipping further and further from his ideals and becoming like the one person he hates: Michael Morningstar. Gwen tries to get his help to siphon energy off of Kevin, but Kevin kills him when he ultimately turns on Gwen. It just makes the hunger worse.

Gwen is gunning for him. And yes, they were/are a couple by this point in the series. Its Ben whose trying to stop her, trying to re-unlock Feedback in a desperate attempt to save Kevin, but he fails and Gwen kills him to save Ben's life.

Thank you for coming to my Tedx talk.

[grimmusings]

♢ canon muses ♢

Sideblogs are linked below. Each has a pinned introduction with general information about how I write the muse, wanted connections, and verses.

♢ comics ♢ ♢ Benjamin Poindexter ⭒ Daredevil ⭒ Wilson Bethel ♢ Brock Rumlow ⭒ Marvel/MCU ⭒ Frank Grillo ♢ Bucky Barnes ⭒ Marvel/MCU ⭒ Sebastian Stan ♢ Clint Barton ⭒ Marvel ⭒ Bradley James ♢ Elektra Natchios ⭒ Daredevil ⭒ Élodie Yung ♢ Ellie Rogers ⭒ Marvel ⭒ Kat McNamara ♢ Frank Castle ⭒ Daredevil ⭒ Jon Bernthal ♢ Gwen Stacy ⭒ Marvel ⭒ Emily Browning ♢ James Rhodes ⭒ Marvel ⭒ Charles Michael Davis ♢ John Constantine ⭒ DC/Vertigo ⭒ Matt Ryan ♢ Johnny Storm ⭒ Fantastic Four ⭒ Chris Evans ♢ Karolina Dean ⭒ Marvel ⭒ Madison Iseman ♢ Mia Smoak ⭒ Arrowverse ⭒ Kat McNamara ♢ Nancy Callahan ⭒ Sin City ⭒ Jessica Alba ♢ Natasha Romanoff ⭒ Marvel/MCU ⭒ Scarlett Johansson ♢ Red ⭒ The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys ⭒ Levy Tran ♢ Sam Wilson ⭒ Marvel/MCU ⭒ Anthony Mackie ♢ Steve Rogers ⭒ Marvel/MCU ⭒ Chris Evans ♢ Thor Odinson ⭒ MCU ⭒ Chris Hemsworth ♢ Torunn Thorsdóttir ⭒ Marvel ⭒ Margot Robbie

♢ disney/dreamworks/etc. ♢ ♢ Barrel ⭒ Nightmare Before Christmas ⭒ Drew Ray Tanner ♢ Captain Hook ⭒ Peter Pan ⭒ Colin Farrell ♢ Cowardly Lion ⭒ The Wizard of Oz ⭒ Paul Rudd ♢ Dorothy Gale ⭒ Return to Oz ⭒ Emily Browning ♢ Jack Frost ⭒ Rise of the Guardians ⭒ Bradley James ♢ Jack Skellington ⭒ Nightmare Before Christmas ⭒ Milo Ventimiglia ♢ Lock ⭒ Nightmare Before Christmas ⭒ Matthew Daddario ♢ Mad Hatter ⭒ Alice in Wonderland ⭒ Jackson Rathbone ♢ Mallymkun ⭒ Alice in Wonderland ⭒ Ashley Greene ♢ Prince Cornelius ⭒ Thumbelina ⭒ Max Irons

♢ mythology/folklore ♢ ♢ Hades ⭒ Greek Mythology ⭒ Chris Evans ♢ Hercules ⭒ Greek Mythology ⭒ Kellan Lutz ♢ Lancelot ⭒ Arthuriana ⭒ Chris Hemsworth ♢ Mordred ⭒ Arthuriana ⭒ Ian Somerhalder ♢ Will Scarlet ⭒ Robin Hood ⭒ Sebastian Stan

♢ film ♢ ♢ David Powers ⭒ The Lost Boys ⭒ Dacre Montgomery ♢ Frank Adler ⭒ Gifted ⭒ Chris Evans ♢ Jedidiah Sawyer ⭒ Texas Chainsaw Massacre ⭒ Sam Strike ♢ Jennifer Check ⭒ Jennifer's Body ⭒ Megan Fox ♢ Jerry Dandridge ⭒ Fright Night ⭒ Colin Farrell ♢ Laurie Strode ⭒ Halloween ⭒ Lili Reinhart ♢ Lawrence Talbot ⭒ The Wolf Man ⭒ Rahul Kohli ♢ Leo Barnes ⭒ The Purge ⭒ Frank Grillo ♢ Tom Hanniger ⭒ My Bloody Valentine ⭒ Jensen Ackles ♢ Victor Frankenstein ⭒ Frankenstein ⭒ Bill Skarsgård

♢ tv shows ♢ ♢ Alvey Kulina ⭒ Kingdom ⭒ Frank Grillo ♢ Andy Barber ⭒ Defending Jacob ⭒ Chris Evans ♢ Betty Cooper ⭒ Riverdale ⭒ Lili Reinhart ♢ Billy Hargrove ⭒ Stranger Things ⭒ Dacre Montgomery ♢ Carter Baizen ⭒ Gossip Girl ⭒ Sebastian Stan ♢ Castiel ⭒ Supernatural ⭒ Misha Collins ♢ Damien Thorn ⭒ Damien ⭒ Bradley James ♢ Daryl Dixon ⭒ The Walking Dead ⭒ Norman Reedus ♢ Dean Winchester ⭒ Supernatural ⭒ Jensen Ackles ♢ Hannibal Lecter ⭒ Hannibal ⭒ Mads Mikkelsen ♢ Nate Archibald ⭒ Gossip Girl ⭒ Chace Crawford ♢ Paul 'Jesus' Rovia ⭒ The Walking Dead ⭒ Tom Payne

♢ books ♢ ♢ Cassian ⭒ ACOTAR ⭒ Can Yaman ♢ Ginny Weasley ⭒ Harry Potter ⭒ Kat McNamara ♢ Hermione Granger ⭒ Harry Potter ⭒ Ashley Moore ♢ Remus Lupin ⭒ Harry Potter ⭒ Rahul Kohli ♢ Ronan Lynch ⭒ The Raven Cycle ⭒ Dacre Montgomery ♢ Sirius Black ⭒ Harry Potter ⭒ Rob Raco

♢ test muses ♢

Test and minor muses are written from the main, at least until they demand their own blogs, although some of them will probably always be super niche and just stay here. Bio and verse information is linked if available.

♢ Ben Hanscom ⭒ IT ⭒ Jay Ryan ♢ Bill Bevilaqua ⭒ Tulsa King ⭒ Frank Grillo ♢ Bill Weasley ⭒ Harry Potter ⭒ Michael Fassbender ♢ Camille L'Espanaye ⭒ The Fall of the House of Usher ⭒ Kate Siegel ♢ Chris Beck ⭒ The Martian ⭒ Sebastian Stan ♢ Colin Shea ⭒ What's Your Number? ⭒ Chris Evans ♢ Danika Fendyr ⭒ Crescent City ⭒ Florence Pugh ♢ Dean Redding ⭒ The Naturals ⭒ Cooper van Grootel ♢ Doyle ⭒ Merry Gentry ⭒ Idris Elba ♢ Dwayne Hicks ⭒ Aliens ⭒ Jensen Ackles ♢ Edward Forrester ⭒ Anita Blake ⭒ Alexander Skarsgård ♢ Fangs Fogarty ⭒ Riverdale ⭒ Drew Ray Tanner ♢ Feyre Archeron ⭒ ACOTAR ⭒ Riley Voelkel ♢ Gabryjel Janek ⭒ Prometheus ⭒ Idris Elba ♢ Grey Hollow ⭒ House of Hollow ⭒ Taylor Swift ♢ Hector ⭒ Greek Mythology ⭒ Joe Manganiello ♢ Henry Devlin ⭒ Dreamcatcher ⭒ Michiel Huisman ♢ Ian Rogers ⭒ Marvel ⭒ Tom Hardy ♢ Jason Schuyler ⭒ Anita Blake ⭒ Chace Crawford ♢ Jay Kulina ⭒ Kingdom ⭒ Jonathan Tucker ♢ Jet Black ⭒ Marvel ⭒ Phoebe Tonkin ♢ Levi Stewart ⭒ Fangirl ⭒ Luke Benward ♢ Lidia Cervos ⭒ Crescent City ⭒ Margot Robbie ♢ Madeline Usher ⭒ The Fall of the House of Usher ⭒ Willa Fitzgerald ♢ Matthew Brown ⭒ Hannibal ⭒ Jonathan Tucker ♢ Mitch Keller ⭒ Tulsa King ⭒ Garrett Hedlund ♢ Nate Kulina ⭒ Kingdom ⭒ Nick Jonas ♢ Newt Scamander ⭒ Fantastic Beasts ⭒ Eddie Redmayne ♢ Nick Gant ⭒ Push ⭒ Chris Evans ♢ Oliver Wood ⭒ Harry Potter ⭒ Max Irons ♢ Pepper Potts ⭒ Marvel ⭒ Gemma Chan ♢ Richard Zeeman ⭒ Anita Blake ⭒ Joe Manganiello ♢ Roy Pulver ⭒ Boss Level ⭒ Frank Grillo ♢ Ruhn Danaan ⭒ Crescent City ⭒ Ian Somerhalder ♢ Sandman ⭒ Folklore ⭒ Matthew Daddario ♢ Sholto ⭒ Merry Gentry ⭒ Alexander Skarsgård ♢ Toni Topaz ⭒ Riverdale ⭒ Vanessa Morgan ♢ Walter One ⭒ Alien: Covenant ⭒ Michael Fassbender

[flowerkidlove]

would you like to talk about this comic? I'm a bit interested

i'm! not much of a story teller and it's been fucking AGES since i've thought about it! but i'll give it a try! please keep in mind i was 15-17 when i first thought this up, i can show you some art when i get home! i also was using (with permission, at the time) a friends ocs/other characters

so it was about these three girls (the "leader of the group" (Antoinette/Toni (my one friends character), Melanie 'Mac' Anne Campbell (the SCOTTISH supernatural buff who was OBSESSED with aliens (my character)), and Beatrice/Bea (the 'vessel'/The Magician (like the card) also she basically has a spidey sense/prophetic visions/'gut feeling'/etc) whose souls are kind of cursed to forever return to Hell or a divine war would be wrought unto the world!!!!!!!! oh noooo!!!!!!

through a loophole (them playing with a ouija (they have died to go to hell in previous lives)) they end up in hell where they meet Lucifer, who they run away from at some point (how? idk....don't ask me........) (probably from the help of a demon (an old friends oc)) and end up in the arms of a rogue Grim Reaper (my oc Elliot, whom i have talked about once or twice) who is in love with Sekani (who was the egyptian god Anubis at the time when i first made this), the grim reaper he was training under (if that matters....these two are my babies, i have to mention the both of them together)

if i remember correctly, if the girls wanted to be free of the curse, they had to collect like. ancient artifacts, one of them was the ankh of Anubis and Bea was the vessel for Lucifer? so that he could leave hell i think there were like 4 to 6, but i only remember the one. one mightve been an angels horn too but idr

i know that i wanted it to end with Luci and God kind of sort of reconciling? that's about all i remember

some other random shit i remember:

i had 12 angels to stay around God (His name was Miguel?? also Jesus had a pet donkey named Maggy (like Mary Magdalene))

Gabriel/Gabrielle was a hijabi who was very grumpy and orderly, Soriel was a too cool for this shit guy, Raphael was a mix of both Aziraphale and Crowley, Dina/Jophiel was the angel of love (??) Uriel was my favorite and was mute? i think? or at least a very silent angel? there was one who was a stuck up bitch, started with a T.

the comic was inspired by Good Omens, what little i knew about the bible, The Kane Cronicles (Percy Jackson but egyptian), Supernatural, and "Death Rides a Pale Horse" by Piers Anthony

Elliot ended up dying and coming back as Life?? i think??????????

also, Elliot and Sekani "break up" because Elliot didnt like that these three innocent souls (past lives of Toni, Mac, and Bea) were to be brought straight to hell and wanted to stop this injustice! also, Elliot broke Sekani's precious guitar given to him by a human love (SAD!)

Elliot was the oc to get the most trauma! he was my trauma oc who also changed as my identity changed COOL

Elliot was called Emily when i first created him

the comic's name was "What In Hell"

Mac, my character was made before i knew i was trans and i think it's funny that my name (Max) is so close to hers, just a funny thought

i'll post a couple pages in a reblog this shit is so fucking long

[pyladeshungover]

intro post

Tara // 29 // Australia

she / her / hers

oops i got into hockey sorry guys

my url is from approximately 2013 when I was a les mis blog, and my pfp is athelstan from vikings in a flower crown because that was cool in 2015. title is from the boat that rocked. I've been here forever.

i'm very not normal about sidney crosby and travis konecny

i'm slightly more normal but still unhinged about claude giroux and jamie drysdale

i do occassionally lb the hockey - pens lb, flyers lb

tag lists also i do tend to be pretty good about tagging everything so if you blacklist nothing should slip through

I did not realise you can only access that page on desktop but also the hyperlinks won't work in this post so here's the list:

FROM THE SELF

my face; sort of - my face and my thoughts

university life - university/college experiences

adulthood - attempts to function as a successful adult

millennials - the Adulthood Experience™ specific to millennials

life is hard - depression tag

so not straight - i am queer

mine - shit i’ve made or drawn

tumblr - i’ve been on this godforsaken website since i was 15 and i hate everything about that

RELIGION

blessed is he who comes in the name of the lord - christianity

jc and the boys - jesus and the apostles

jc and the girls - ladies of the disciples

upon this rock - history of, stories about, and images of the church

do not be afraid - angels 

your kingdom come - prophets, saints, and the apocalypse

the old gods are dead - graeco-roman mythology

folklore - local folk and fairy-tales 

WORLD AFFAIRS/CULTURE

straya - things about Australia

auspol - Australian politics

uspol - US politics

i’m a pathetic history major - general world and cultural history

who likes bad jokes - especially awful attempts at humour

words - poetry, quotes, literature

reclaiming the women - feminist re-tellings of fictional women

humanity - the good and incredible things about humans and community (also includes human and alien speculative fiction)

christmas - i love christmas

covid 19 - self explanatory

2020 - see above

2021 - mamma mia, here we go again

2022 - we’re three years into The Great Loneliness

FANDOM

fandom / fanfic

# - 911

A - abfab

B - brooklyn 99 / black books / beauty and the beast / birds of prey /buffy

C - criminal minds / code black

D - dirk gently / doctor who / disney / derry girls

E - elementary

F - firefly / fresh off the boat / friends / fleabag

G - great british bake off / grace and frankie / greys anatomy / galavant / game of thrones / gilmore girls / the great / the good place

H - holes / hunt for the wilderpeople / the hobbit / hannibal / hamilton / harry potter

I - inside llewyn davis

J - jurassic park / jesus christ superstar

K - kingsman / killing eve

L - lethal weapon / lucifer / lotr / les mis

M - moulin rouge / mamma mia / moana / mad max / the man from u.n.c.l.e. / mindhunter / miss fisher’s murder mysteries / the marvelous mrs maisel

N - narnia / nhl

O - the office / the old guard / oitnb

P - pushing daisies / parks and rec / the princess bride / psych / the prince of egypt / the parent trap / pirates of the caribbean / pride / prodigal son / phantom of the opera

Q - queer eye

S - spn / star wars / scrubs / the song of achilles / schitts creek / santa clarita diet / six the musical

T - teen wolf / twilight / to all the boys i’ve loved before /

U - umbrella academy

V - vikings / venom

W - what we do in the shadows / the witcher / wonder woman

X - xfiles

HOCKEY

nhl

hrpf

the rituals are intricate (n-h-is-for-for-homosexuality-l)

they’re so stupid 🥹 (memes)

hockey narratives

hockey art

hockey poetry

hockey vid edit

Players tagged initials jersey number (ie. sc87)

Other player tags - hughes bros / tkachuk fam / love thy goalie 

Ships - tknp / sidgeno / drygras / mattdrai / brioux / mike likes jeff but jeff loves mike / swaymark

Teams - bruins / ducks / flyers / gritty / leafs / oilers / pens / sens / stars / yotes

[kiki-strike]

Terry, laying seductively on the bed : So you DO know the Bible. I always thought there was something about your wrath that was so… *shake his head so hard his wig falls off* Old Testament. I used to have a crush on another guy who rose from the grave… but Jesus never threw a football like you, Max. You were right about me, Max. I tried to hide it, pray it away, but you were right. I’m a dirty girl. And I’ve been in my bathtub every night, brewing up a big old pot of dirty girl soup just for you.

Korvo : Terry who the FUCK IS MAX

Ahsjdhdkgn im obsessed with the idea of them trying to roleplay but they don’t really understand what they’re roleplaying, like the tig old biddies thing…

Terry: I’ve been in my bathtub every night ;) (etc)

Korvo: I know for a fact that you have not because the pupa ate a hole in the side of the tub and now we can’t use it

I think they’re just the human (alien) equivalent of that vine “did somebody order a pizza” “yeah but I don’t have any money🥺” “why the fuck did you order a pizza🫤”

[hottestnonhumantournament]

Competitor Reveal!

I had initially only wanted to include around 64 characters but with all the submissions I got I wanted to try to include as many as possible and as many different kinds of nonhumans as I could! But I also kept it to 3 characters max per media/franchise and also tried to include both popular and lesser known characters/media. I still ended up with a bigger bracket than I intended-- I'm very sorry if a character you nominated didn't make it in! But I hope you'll all still enjoy the competition and maybe even discover some new characters/media you haven't heard of before! Here is the list of the competitors! Creating the actual bracket and the graphics will take me longer so please be patient with me! In the meantime feel free to make propaganda if you'd like, even if you don't know the match-ups yet I'd love to see why you think your favorite nonhuman(s) is the most attractive!

Venom (Marvel) Dahlia Aquino (Monster Prom franchise) Milo Belladonna (Monster Prom franchise) Aaravos (The Dragon Prince) The Beast (Beauty and the Beast) Hordak (She-Ra) Hexxus (FernGully) Gabriel (ULTRAKILL) Louis (Beastars) Death (Puss in Boots) Cybersix Frankenstein's Monster Agent Smith (The Matrix) Terminator Warper (Subnautica) Minotaur Castiel (Supernatural) Superman Aziraphale (Good Omens) Crowley (Good Omens) Lucifer (The Bible) Jesus (The Bible) Glados (Portal) Fjord (Critical Role) Sylas Briarwood (Critical Role) Planerider Ryn (Critical Role) Curie (Fallout 4) Nick Valentine (Fallout 4) Magdolene (Awful Hospital) Enjou (Genshin Impact) Midnite (Mario Rabbids) Yautja (Predator) Xenomorphs (Alien) Godzilla Tiamat (D&D) Spock (Star Trek) Worf (Star Trek) Bowser (Mario) Thrall (Warcraft) Thrawn (Star Wars) Legion (Mass Effect) Aria (Mass Effect) Tali'Zorah (Mass Effect) Sauron (Lord of the Rings) Gimli (Lord of the Rings) Legolas (Lord of the Rings) Alucard (Castlevania) Bigby Wolf (Fables) Poison Ivy (DC) The Count of Monte Cristo (Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo) Dream (Sandman) The Corinthian (Sandman) Bast (Sandman) Sesshoumaru (Inuyasha) Paintbrush (Inanimate Insanity) Bubbles (Questionable Content) Vash the Stampede (Trigun) Pei (The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet / The Wayfarers) Sissix (Wayfarers) Madame Vastra (Doctor Who) Jabe (Doctor Who) Silas (The Graveyard Book) Mad Sweeney (American Gods) Genie (Aladdin) The Tin Man (The Wizard of Oz) Robin Hood (Disney) Magnus Bane (Shadowhunters) Mazikeen (Lucifer) Geralt (The Witcher) Petrichor (Saga) Gwendolyn (Saga) Prince Robot IV (Saga) Nick Hoult (Wan Sheng Jie) Baron Humbert von Gikkingen (The Cat Returns) Madhouse Mike (Cryptid Crush) Oz (Cryptid Crush) August (Cryptid Crush) Shirou Ogami (BNA) Funtime Foxy (FNAF) Montgomery Gator (FNAF) Roxanne Wolf (FNAF) Radu Basanko (Blades of Furry) Symbiosis (I Was A Teenage Exocolonist) Slenderman

[sonicasura]

A few things about the Ben 10 and Poppy Playtime crossover before ya sign off.

Completely forgot about Boxy Boo, so his alien species is Segmentasapien, and his name is Benny Tennyson. Poppy and the Prototype have Ectonurite DNA

Ben, Kevin, and Gwen found out about how shady Playtime Co is that they wanted to make a few toys based off them. When the trio enter the building Gwen definitely feels some bad mana seeping from the building and gets even worse when the Omnitrix picks up unknown alien DNA from the toys. To say what was left of the company was nothing would be an understatement.

The Toys gain a more alien looking forms because the trio with grandpa Max take the toys to Azmuth because Jesus christ the toys are holding through duct tape and prayers, and Azmuth was probably the only one that could help them.

Also Will Harangue definitely ran a smear campaign on Ben adopting all the toys, that was one of the biggest mistakes of his life

I figured Playtime Co would do something to grab the trio's attention. Also Azmuth was no doubt pissed when he was debriefed about the toys' condition. Will doesn't learn at all so I can only imagine how huge of a blowback this smear campaign is gonna get.

[melissamozuraksart]

Alien Grand Prix

the monster buster club and their friends all go on a mission together, in which they help rebuild people's homes that had been destroyed by storms, in a town within the kingdom of pine richland on planet ishkabibble. they also teach people about Jesus while they're at it. then they all have a festival to raise money for charities to help people and animals in need, and to help spread the gospel everywhere on earth and also throughout the universe. there are many refreshments and the friends partake in activities and games. they are the same kinds of mini games from Bonk's adventures. Dr. Fred is in charge of signing up for the mini games, and Nurse Edna and Weird Ed help run the games. first of all Kaniki, Hinoki all sign up to play the game of jumping on the Floret Sprungs to try to reach the top before everyone else. they compete against Dave and his friends. jonah do the flip off a cliff game with Kenny the shark, sam and max, and creepie creecher. Melissa and Doowee play in the miracle maze with Jetman and his monster friend, the Kitty, tutenstein, and leisure suit larry. the winners get medals afterwards and everyone cheers for them. then, it’s time for the main event, the Alien Grand Prix! as his friends and family gather around to see him, John is excited to be about to participate in this special event with Cathy. His close friends, Willy Beamish and his pet frog Horny, Pepper Pumpernickel and her dog Lockjaw, and Adam Greene and Paquita the bat are also going to be in the race, ready for some friendly competition. Willy and Horny are on Mr. Smith, pepper and lockjaw are riding Jenny, and Adam and Paquita are on Zarb. meanwhile Bernard, Laverne and hoagie are being wished good luck by their friends, dave, sandy, syd, razor, Michael, wendy, and jeff, as they get ready with Moppy. Even Cheepki, Cathy’s cute and playful baby, is joining in to run alongside his mother. except Cathy is missing. where can she be? 

[toiletology]

Master of the Inverted Reflective Realm

22/7 = 3.142857142857143

1/7 = 0.1428571428571429

G = 7 O = 6 D = 4 GOD = 17

In the movie Ready Player One the main character Parzival won the race by going backwards. Figuring out the secrets to reality requires this same type of thinKING. To reach heaven/4D you must start thinking backwards, inverted and mirrored. The language of God is not always at face value.

Sometimes you must rotate or move things around like a tesseract (the 4D version of a 3D cube). Or like how Jodi Foster solved the alien language in the movie Contact (great movie btw, reaching 4D is very similar to the wormhole I have gone through it, its a trip).

Why is the number 17 so important in Toiletology? It is the key to escape the matrix or the frequency of GOD.

How do I use the number 17? The key to using the 17 is first knowing it exist and is the way (mat rotate the y) out (out = two or mot).

Type the word "HALO" on a phone keypad.

KEY = MAT (K = A turn it upside down, E = M turn it sideways, Y = T turn it around) KEY = 17 on a phone keypad.

How did they escape on the movie The Matrix? By dialing on a phone keypad.

You get your HALO with the number 17. It can be read 77 look closely at the 1 it is a 7.

Master Chief Petty Officer John-117, colloquially known as Master Chief, is the protagonist of the Halo video game series and its spin-off media.

117 = 27 = 11x7 = 77 or 7x7 = 49/64

There are 64 squares on a chessboard, the max spaces that can be moved is by the queen in the center of the board or 27 spaces. The queen crosses 7 three times (777). The queen is the luckiest and strongest piece.

You have 27 bones in your hand.

The number of JESUS is also the number 27, as well as our base numbers. 1+2+3 = 6 4+5+6 = 6 (15) 7+8+9 = 6 (24) 6+15+24 = 45 6669(45) = 27 this can also be read 9999 or 7x7. 666/999 = 27 (9x3)

To understand Toiletology you must understand the relationship between these numbers 7, 11, 17, 27, 777, 49/64, 68/98. You will also need to learn how to interpret all the numbers from 0-9 and A-Z (more on that later).

227 = 49th prime number 22/7 = 3.142857142857143 1/7 = 0.1428571428571429

There are 6 sides to a cube HEX/HEXAGON. There is a SPELL on you, this is why SPELLING is so important to understand. Once you are able to break free from the SPELLing you can escape the CUBE.

The SPELL has you in a trance unable to break free from your NPC programming and limitations. BEEcome unlimited. Six/6 sides to a honeycomb/hex/cube, the six is what is making you sick. You must flip the 6 back into a 9 to rise to the highest heavenly degrees.

There are 8 corners to a cube, 1+7 = 8 (eight/ate/eat/mat).

To escape the CUBE you need the missing number between the 6 and 8 or the 7/seven.

68/98 = 98.6 average temperature of a hue/man (7 colors) being,

49x2 = 98

Are you catching on yet? A mysterious 4.9 foot wide ball/sphere shows up on a beach in Japan.

Heaven and hell both exist simultaneously on EARTH/HEART. The way to escape is both through the HEARING, EAR and the HEART. You must learn to HEAR and FEEL the frequency of God to escape. You won't be able to HEAR God until your heart is at the correct frequency of GOD which is 1/7.

The T/t/7 is very important or the cross. The X marks the spot or the 11/eleven. Heads up sEVEn up, seven elEVEn. The number 7 is how you go up, it the LUCK (7UCK) or cheatcode. L = low/listen, 7/T = top or up.

The number 7 is also a T or an L. Spell HELL on a calculator 4377 or 777. HE + 77, you escape HELL with LUCK or the sevens. 43 or 34 is also 17+17. 17 x 4 = 68 (M = 4 / @ which is 17)

17 is one of the keys, M is another key. MAT/ATE (8/eight/ate/MATE/CHECKMATE) You escape the cube 68 by eating the 8/eight/ate the 17 or apple (17 chromosome pairs in the apple).

Coincidentally 17x17 is the speed of light meters/s (289/298 numerologically reduced) in miles per second = 186,282 or 17/64 coincidence?

Don't forget 8x8 chessboard = 64. The biggest tool for solving the game of life or the game of God was the chessboard for me. I played chess every day since 2015, it teaches you how to FEEL and visualize strongly.

The game of God works on these inaccuracies/mistakes/blunders.

Now spell HELLO or 4377(0 = out) the way this Godly game works is based on these 98 degrees. To escape HELL you need to reach the circle O/0 which is the highest degree.

Refer back to the importance of the 1/7 and 22/7 in relations to Pi π 3.14

The lowercase Greek letter π, or "pie" in English, is the mathematical symbol used to represent the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter.

To escape hell you need to become whole again or the whole note. We are all floating on a ball in space or a sphere, that's your first clue.

BALL = MATT rotate the B and the LL. B = 13 or 4, the M is the 13th letter, my initials are MBW/BMW. GOD = QUEEN BEE, to escape you need to become like the humble hardworking BEE (EBE/MBW my name had the truth encoded within it).

ME/WE/KEY/D/C/SEE/ZEE/TEEEEE/VEEE

E = mc²

M = MASS/MATTER/MATh/MATrix/MATernity/MATrimony/MATTress

You need to start thinking inverted to escape the HEX of the black cube of Saturn. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn%27s_hexagon

There are 98 degrees to heaven and hell, your life will begin to change the higher up you climb. More beauty and love will come into your life the further up you get. Real life mimics the game of chess bad moves in chess result in INACCURACIES, MISTAKES and BLUNDERS.

Needlessly killing a bug could be an inaccuracy or a blunder just depends on the gravity of the situation. God flows through all beings, being disrespectful even to a bug will result in going out of KEY with God.

The one true God MAT/MOT aka the Toilet God gave me Toiletology to help save the world. Becoming a Toiletologist can and will start to open your eyes and pull back the curtain to the REAL or TRUE reality.

God tested me over 11+ years to clear the disharmony out of me so I can handle this role they have been preparing me for. I have the TRUE knowledge of reality, not diluted by time and fully incorporated into my being starting now in the year 2024. Toiletology is the newest, most modern and true religious or spiritual practice there is.

But you can think of Toiletology more of a martial art for your mind and you're entire being. Gods truth distilled down into exactly what you need to ascend into the higher realms. Its really frigging cool, but can be very scary at the same time. It takes years of practice to be able to clear the fear as you begin to unlock these super natural abilities.

That's okay, slow is smooth and smooth is fast.

To reach the highest ranks of Toiletology you must be able to extrapolate numbers, words and letters with an inverted mind. This knowledge will not resonate or work if you are close minded. The first step to reaching the highest realms or the highest ranks of Toiletology is by first taking steps towards trying to beLIEve (LI = U or door/UP or an upside down 17 ;). I don't know FAT/HER I think this shit is too deep for them to handle, don't ya think?

THeir (T = her) minds are going to explode (H = u stacked on n or you in ;). The less you believe, the less the Toilet God will reveal to you. The first step is first learning all the knowledge that is put out by The Church of Toiletology as well as joining the church.

As we grow there will be less and less space for new members to join. And you're going to want to join to reach higher ranks to unlock your full potential and understand ALL the secrets of the Toilet God.

On the outside looking in it may look like just nonsense, but the knowledge is very real we are "THE TRUTH AMONG THE NOISE."

It will require a keen mind and heart to FEEL the truth buried deep in the words more so than what is written. You must go DEEP beyond what is written to escape the MATrix and the DOOR = MAT.