#and mcp

[takiisinevitable]

"you need help, tobias" yeah and we all know he isnt getting it 🚪🏃

[ninthprime]

now that hxh is officially coming back here's my attempt to count how many plots are going on at once right now

a plot: the kakin royal family, joined by beyond netero, has chartered an expedition to the forbidden dark continent on a huge whale ship with thousands of civilians. the hunter association signed on to join with the plan of actually sending the ship to a fake “new continent”, dropping off the family and civilians there, and then continuing to the real continent. the problem is the king of kakin is also using this expedition to force his fourteen (legitimate) children into a death match, with the survivor as heir

b plot: kurapika has discovered that kakin’s fourth prince tserriednich is in possession of the remaining scarlet eyes and, in order to get close to him, has signed on as a bodyguard to the fourteenth prince, baby woble, and her mom queen oito. as it turns out all the princes have autonomous nen beasts so this is a more complicated job than it looks. by which i mean at one point he gave up a substantial part of his life to possess a cockroach

c plot: to get more specific, kurapika has been trying to keep the peace by inviting the servants and bodyguards of the other princes to come to nen classes taught by him (read: he and fellow bodyguard bill are just forcibly opening their nen abilities), but a mysterious nen construct called “silent majority” killed most of woble’s other servants and now keeps killing people in the classes. there are apparently multiple people who can use nen in the classes already and who are mostly not telling him.

d plot: the three big mafia families of kakin (the hei-ly, xi-yu and cha-r) have been invited onto the ship mostly because their leaders are all illegitimately related to the king and been told to not cause any trouble…but the king’s illegitimate daughter morena, the new leader of the hei-ly and certified #gamergirl, actively wants to the destroy the world and is breaking the peace by spreading nen to her followers using her ability and letting them gain “levels” by killing people on the ship.

e plot: the phantom troupe has shown up knowing that hisoka will have followed them here and are trying to track him down and kill him. they’ve split into groups and the only group we’ve followed- phinks, feitan and nobunaga- have teamed up with the xi-yu and cha-r to deal with both hisoka and morena. during this we get an extended flashback about how the phantom troupe used to be tween anime dubbers and originally became criminals to track down those who killed their friend.

f plot: unbeknownst to the phantom troupe, the xi-yu’s underboss hinrigh has already met with hisoka (or at least someone who looks a lot like him) and given him a passage to the top level, where the royal family is, because the mafia knows a fight against hisoka will be more trouble than it’s worth while also trying to stop morena. in other words: hisoka is going to where kurapika is

g plot: tserriednich, the previously mentioned guy with the eyes, is also a misogynist serial killer and has gotten interested in nen, so his bodyguard theta has decided to teach him nen herself in order to slow him down and potentially stop him. unfortunately he’s a nen genius and has already developed an ability that lets him see into the future and overwrite reality by reacting accordingly, which he used to get out of theta shooting him. his nen beast has now marked theta for lying to him twice and will make her “no longer human” if she lies a third time.

h plot: melody, hired to be here by kurapika, attempted to sneak the teenage twin tenth and eleven princes off the ship only for the tenth prince (and the other hunter she was working with) to be killed, revealing the princes cannot leave the ship. thankfully the tenth prince kacho’s nen beast is basically her ghost. melody is now likely going to have to deal with an investigation into her actions and has also noticed that eleventh prince fugetsu is rapidly having her nen depleted. kaiser, a member of the justice bureau, claims to have fallen in love with melody after she performed her music for the ship and intends to help her, but melody doesn’t trust him and thinks he’s using manipulation nen on himself. oh and a large amount of the princes have invited her to perform for them, including tserriednich.

i plot: first prince benjamin, a nen user, has control of the military and has used his customary status as firstborn to send one of his guards to each of his younger siblings, which in at least one case led to a successful kill (the eighth prince). he’s in lockdown currently however because second prince camilla, also a nen user with an extremely powerful ability that seems to prevent her from being killed, attempted to kill him herself, and the justice bureau on the ship is trying to figure out who started what.

j plot: camilla has a group of ultra-loyal guards from the lower caste who have developed nen curses to kill her siblings in exchange for their own deaths. their captain, sarahell, has been developing a curse on woble and intends to attend kurapika’s class to deploy it.

k plot: ninth prince halkenburg, a baby marxist who progressive civilians and the younger princes both see as a potential savior, tried to kill his father and then himself after the first death in the succession battle and got stopped by nen beasts both times. he has responded to this by going apeshit and developing an ability that appears to allow him to put the souls of his guards into other people. his testing of this involved having one of his men shoot himself while in the body of one of benjamin’s men, so benjamin has him arrested now too.

l plot: third prince zhang-li’s nen beast is dispensing mysterious coins and zhang-li is dispensing said coins amongst his guards as well as to melody, whose performance he liked. zhang-li also appears to be hiding that he’s actually the son of the king’s illegitimate half-brother onior, the head of the xi-yu, who he’s asked to look into the last succession battle.

m plot: hanzo and bisky, also hired to be here by kurapika, were working as bodyguards for the twelfth and thirteenth princes until the twelfth prince was the first death of the war. the kindergarten-aged thirteenth prince’s stress in response to his sister dying now appears to have led his nen beast to trap their group in some sort of reality bubble. bisky had to reveal her battle form to head servant vergei to explain nen and what was happening, which has mostly just led to vergei getting a mad crush on her.

n plot: izunavi and basho are also here on kurapika’s behest guarding the sixth and seventh princes, who both have not done much yet; sixth prince tyson has a mysterious religious creed that izunavi has convinced her to pass onto her father and seventh prince luzurus mostly likes to smoke weed everyday but seems surprisingly perceptive and, more importantly, apparently funds the cha-r.

o plot: despite being a deranged maniac, tserriednich has a group of childhood friends working fairly standard military guard positions on the lower floors; they’re trying to find out more about nen after picking up that the hei-ly, which tserriednich was allied with before morena took over, are using it.

p plot: fifth prince tubeppa, aware she has few allies and little knowledge of nen, has been trying to meet with kurapika for a while. the literal last thing teased before this hiatus was her bodyguard longhi revealing to kurapika that she knows nen and kurapika agreeing to meet with tubeppa.

q plot: the rest of the phantom troupe has split off: machi and franklin are both on their own (but nobunaga wants to go get franklin), chrollo is making a plan with shizuku and bonolenov that appears to involve a disguise ability bono has, and illumi joined the troupe on hisoka’s request so they could have a yaoi death battle and is with kalluto. speaking of which:

r plot: mizai ran into illumi and kalluto and has them staying in a room in the quarters the zodiacs are using. he’s currently trying to figure out whether he should be telling kurapika the troupe is on the ship or not, knowing it could risk the well-being of both woble and kurapika himself. (he also secretly gave melody clearance to try to save the twins.)

s plot: beyond netero is still in lock up and being watched by members of the zodiacs. he hasn’t done anything yet, but it has been implied he’ll try to escape at the fake “dark continent.”

t plot: ging and pariston have a group allied with beyond who are going to the dark continent themselves; ging joined because he knows pariston must be up to something. it remains ambiguous whether they have their own boat or are on the whale somewhere.

u plot: leorio and cheadle are working at an understaffed clinic near the zodiac headquarters, meaning that once again Leorio Is Just Offscreen

v plot: a random member of the cha-r is trying to get the autographs of the phantom troupe members. this has been used to dispense plot info about how far we are from being out of contact with land. pray for his success

TOTAL PLOTS COUNT: 22

[vertigoartgore]

1991's Marvel Comics Presents Vol.1 #84 cover by Barry Windsor-Smith. The Last chapter of the famous Wolverine: Weapon X storyline.

[mycutepastels]

<3

[toomanyfanficsnotimetowriteem]

I have to share this hilarious mental image with the world:

Sweet old Alan having a nice relationship with his wife and possibly being embarrassed about also having feelings for Flynn and maybe Roy -> Contrasted with Tron, who is shipped with quite literally everyone and anyone, having relationships (be they romantic, sexual, platonic, adversarial, or a combination) with most of them

I just like to imagine a conversation between Alan and Tron where Tron has no awareness of human social taboos and is confused about why Alan doesn't just express himself.

Tron: Just kiss Flynn. Everyone's tried it. Even Yori. Even me.

Alan: *spits out coffee*

[dizzymudskipper]

Most of Sarks dreams - MCP is looken a lil different here

[cherryxrobots]

Today's Underrated Robot/AI is:

Master Control Program (MCP) from Tron (1982)

Fun Fact: MCP was originally created as a Chess playing program before the his fellow villain Ed Dillinger reprogrammed him, changing his appearance from the original (left) to his new form (right).

[qurolo]

Two little knife wielding, “slightly” unhinged kids(kind of)

Yeah 👍

Anyway again, these two fandoms would totally get along

ALSO- I did NOT know that Paris was fucking 5’11

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[gas-station-chai]

WHO just called Jack Townsend bear codded. WHAT

[int3rn3tb0y]

I hav FINALLY thought abt it and talked abt it w/ ppl and THEY AGREE W/ MEEEE!!! ^_^ (this'll be kinda rushed since I'm in the middle of smth and trying to multitask and my spelling is super shitty)

IM GONNA GET FACE FIRST INTO THIS AND JUS SAY THAT THE INFANTILATION IN THE GHOST EYES FANDOM IS A PROBLEM!! All I get when I ppl talking abt it I jus see "Stop calling Rudy" this and "Tobias isn't a cinnamon roll" which is 100% true and maybe it's me being a full on hater when it comes to calling ANYONE that but it actually is very annoying. I see so many ppl calling Rudy (I'll mostly be talking abt Rudy here only bcuz he's the one I see these statements most targeted at) a cinnamon roll and it infuriates me bcuz DID WE READ THE SAME FUCKING COMIC?? BCUZ IF YOU'RE ACTING LIKE THIS I SURE AS HELL KNOW WE DIDN'T! Rudy has shown on multiple accounts he isn't very innocent like (I don't hav many examples but I know for a fact there's more) his movies and the fact he hunts! Though the hunting thing isn't big I jus wanted to mention it. Also ppl calling him a femboy is annoying bcuz theres a HUGE difference between a "femboy" and a boy who jus happens to like dressing in feminine clothes (also the small fact femboy is a sexual term imo and Rudy IS A MINOR) Rudy is more than jus a bean and I need ppl to notice that. I don't see ppl talking abt this topic I'm gonna bring up often but I'd like to put it into to light either way which is ppl in the fandom mostly caring abt the "bl" (aka Boys lov for those who don't know) title and I most prominently saw this on the forest scene w/ ppl constantly talking abt them shipping Tobias and Emilio but not the fact that Emilio CLEARLY ASSAULTED TOBIAS and I only remember seeing ONE person talking abt it and how "kinky" it is (especially in the Halloween arc where Emilio has an episode) which is WEIRD bcuz jus like Rudy EMILIO IS A MINOR AND THAT IS WEIRD TO BE TALKING ABT A MINOR IN THAT WAY and when I found out abt ghost eyes I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW THERE WAS GONNA BE GAY PPL (I don't see a problem w/ it since I, myself is in the lgbtq+ community) I FOUND GHOST EYES OUT THROUGH A PERSON MAKING EDITS ABT THE COMIC I DIDN'T EVEN NOTICE THE "BL" IN THE CORNER OF THE COVER! anyways I dunno how to finish this rant off since that's all I want to say other than ppl are very annoying (and weird) especially towards "cute" looking characters (not to say the characters I went over aren't cute bcuz I find them adorable) anyways bye!!!

[astercontrol]

You know, I have a habit of writing characters with a certain amount of self-loathing, by default.

(which I think is partly because it makes for yummy angst, and partly just 'cause it tends to be… the way characters are written, in lots and lots of fiction, and if you read a lot, it just kinda becomes a habit.)

(a habit that I made one little foray into breaking, with "A Lightcycle Built For Two," because it was a self-indulgent thing to explore a couple of very broken but highly confident and self-centered OCs instead, who have a whole different kind of angst and drama that somehow felt more relatable to me personally.)

But anyway, I haven't quite gotten out of the habit of giving the Encom programs the self-loathing kind of angst.

Which... I kinda want to, eventually?

because, as much as I like to explore that kind of emotional turmoil…

the Encom programs, going just by canon, seem to have fantastically high self-esteem.

Tron, with his "I'm also better than you!" and his "I'm gonna bust out of here, no question about that, the Users just better have their shit together enough to be there when I do"

Yori with her "it's very illegal! and I can still do it, no prob, you can always count on me!"

Ram whose reply to a compliment is basically "duh, if I wasn't awesome I'd be dead already"

and they're not mean! they're all sweethearts! but ...they love themselves and believe in themselves, wholeheartedly.

I mean, not that they don't know their limits. Ram warned Flynn and Tron that "just the three of us" wasn't enough to defeat the MCP. Clu started to express his doubts, before Flynn shut him down with "buts are for Users." Crom objected pretty fiercely at first to being drafted into the Games, since it was so far outside his purpose and he was sure he wouldn't be good at it. Dumont argued with Tron about whether overthrowing the MCP was really possible, even with the help of his I/O Tower and a connection to Alan-1.

But they also know their strengths, and have no trouble owning up to what they are good at. When they're confident, they're confident.

Interesting, though, how the villain team consists of the most confident program of all--

and also the one who, secretly, is the least.

[takiisinevitable]

GHOST EYES LATEST CHAPTER .MY SON !!!!! GOD I AM LOVING THESE RECENT CHAPTERS. TOBIAS IS BEING HAPPY !!!!!!!! thankyoucarmeloforthisblessing

[ninthprime]

happy media club plus day, it's finally time to remind you all of one of austin walker's all-time best posts

[vertigoartgore]

1991's Marvel Comics Presents Vol.1 #92 cover by artist Sam Kieth.

[mycutepastels]

naawberry

[simonbreeze]

Ultron! From Marvel Crisis Protocol- MCP.