#ant jr build

[jrueships]

A CINDERBLOCK IS WHAT I LIKE TO SEE!! YETTHUR 🤓‼️‼️

jaren looking like he says meep

[lemotmo]

Ooof that finale was…..not it. Like my first issue was they for some reason let Kristen write it. I honestly thought we were free of her with the move to abc but alas apparently not. And she very much made her presence known with how off the finale felt in terms of pacing and just how ooc some of them felt at times. Not to mention the continuing saga of her former reign in making Buck an over sexualized character by turning his dad trauma into a way for Tommy to make jr into a daddy kink joke which was just…. No thanks. Otherwise it just was such a….lackluster finale? And I found myself bored at moments.

And then the season over all I’m left wondering what was the point of half of it ? Like Bathena didn’t get to enjoy their honeymoon. They have no house now. The Amir plot which while I loved the character, ultimately led to nothing? The cartel storyline didn’t need to happen and bringing them back was boring. Bobby being dead for 14 minutes and coming into the station at the end perfectly fine was such a wtf moment even for tv standards.

Henren didn’t get to adopt their baby. They got a foster daughter instead only to then….lose her ? And have her be given to Madney instead for them to visit like truly this was just drama for drama sake and ultimately pointless pain for them.

Madneys wedding got rushed and ultimately turned into a 2 minute hospital room scene. We didn’t even get to see ant build up to the wedding.

Buck: He came out as bi which yesssss 🎉🎉🎉 only to then immediately be forced back into his hamster wheel, stuck in yet another relationship with someone who doesn’t seem to even like him, and is rude to him. And then turned into essentially a background character the rest of the season. I truly feel bad for Oliver because he was so so so excited for bi buck, and so happy and hopeful they would do it right and with respect and not over sexualize it and this is what he gets. A boring rude generic LI making daddy kink jokes and no real development into this part of himself. It’s truly no surprise he did nothing to promote that relationship or this finale.

Eddie and Chris. We hardly saw Chris. And then the way they rushed him leaving at the very end was so… not it. Not to mention so out of sorts for him? Like we have seen when he’s mad at Eddie he always goes to Buck. But this time he calls his grandparents at 2 am and asks them to come rake him to Texas indefinitely? Then the Buck Chris talk. I love their scenes together but even it felt off? And then they systematically undid any progress with Eddie’s parents with Helena often coming off filled with glee over it, and Ramon taking his own guilt in Eddie to make him accept it. Then we have Eddie himself. What was the point of Marisol? There doesn’t seem to be one. And why we had to suffer Edy all season remains a mystery since Tim said she came back because he didn’t want two off screen breakups. Only to then do two off screen breakups. What was the point of Kim? I had hopes they would actually use her to move Eddie along and then they just…didn’t? Even Ryan said he thinks all she did was make it worse.

I will give the show credit because they did stick to the try for buddie scene in every episode. And they had some good scenes. Ryan and Oliver knocked their scenes out in the finale especially but once again we are at the finale and it’s left in a…. Now what ? No real movement forward. Once again all of us going oh next season for sure! And no real clear path toward it. and based on Ryan’s interviews tonight, where it once again sounds like they have no idea what to do with Eddie next season due to the vast amount of directions they seem to want to take him, including apparently Ryan saying in one of them that Tim seems to want to lean more into the Bobby Eddie similarities next season and have Eddie focus a lot more on religion, but Ryan does say he doesn’t think Eddie will become a priest. But still it’s just like… what are we doing. It’s given more we don’t wanna say yes to Buddie and follow the clear narrative direction butttttttt we want the views sooooo let’s make it open ended enough to draw them in. Again.

They said at the start they were going to give, or try to give the fans what they wanted this season and truly, I’m utterly baffled how anyone thought any of this is what we wanted. Like we wanted Henren to get their baby. Madney to have the best wedding. Bathena to thrive and get their honeymoon and have some adventures. Buddie to become buddie and enjoy the Buckley Diaz family in an official capacity. And instead we got circles upon circles with lazy choices taken where they could and next to no real character growth or movement. I’m so sorry for how long this got 😅😅😅

Oh Nonny, how I agree with everything you said here. You get me.

I just posted my episode review and most of the things I talked about are the same things you highlighted.

It was written by Kristen? Ah, that explains a lot actually.

I didn't mind the Diaz parents though. I really do think they were trying to help out in their own way. But all the rest of this post? YEEEES!!!!

I can still see the Buddie of it. I'm still hanging in there. There were too many strange choices made in season 7 to make me believe that Buddie isn't going to happen in season 8. Not to mention the amazing chemistry between Buddie compared to whatever it is they are trying to show us with BT. However, they are on thin ice here. I agree. Things need to start moving along. If not... after season 8 I will retreat to my little nook of Tumblr living off good Buddie fan fiction.

I didn't read any of the Ryan interviews yet. Him leaning into religion and the parallel with Bobby I did see coming. The prayer book was too obvious. I wonder why they had 6 interviews lined up with Ryan over this episode? I get that his storyline is important, but it doesn't warrant 6 interviews, not even the religious aspect of it. I'm going to read some of them today to try and get a clearer image.

I just feel like all of my beloved 911 characters don't have any clear direction at this point. I was surely hoping for some more insight, but all we got was superficial storytelling and no real breakthroughs for anyone.

I don't understand what all those journalists that screened this episode were talking about when they said they saw clear directions for season 8. For me it is the opposite at this point. Where are they taking all of this???

[italeteller]

So, uh... if you haven't seen the news of who Marvel Studios cast as Doctor Doom yet somehow... take a guess, on a scale of one to infinity, how bad do you wanna guess they fudged it up?

Oh yeah, I saw. They're bringing Robert Downey Jr back to play Doom

Y'know, I can understand the logic behind it. They had their whole Kang saga ready to go, then Jonathan Majors got caught abusing women and it all went up in flames. So now they're stuck without a big, signature villain for their next saga. They need someone people will want to see even without the 6 years of build-up Thanos had

So they bring back RDJr, someone fans already love, and someone who clearly knows how to play ball with disney

Whether this is gonna be a fuck-up or not, time will tell I guess. There hasn't been a proper Avengers movie since Endgame, but I'm pretty positive people would go en masse to watch anything with the Avengers branding, RDJr or not

This does raise a bunch of questions

Are they gonna have Doom, the man who wears a mask because his face is disfigured by magical scarring (as far as I know that's the reason, if someone more comics-savvy wants to correct me feel free), or are they gonna go mask off like with every other character to show off RDJr as much as they can?

Are they gonna make Doom an alternate universe evil Tony Stark?

Are they even gonna acknowledge that he looks like Tony?

Are they gonna properly explore what it'd mean for people who knew him to fight an evil version of him? No, most likely not. But if Spider-man gets to punch Doom on the face it might fill the Peter-never-got-to-punch-Tony-for-being-a-terrible-mentor-shaped hole in my heart

Personally, I wasn't interested in the movie before seeing the cast, and I'm still not interested now. I fell off from the MCU with the Ant-man discourse and now with all the series it's feeling a lot like nerd homework which I don't like. If my friends make a big get-together to watch it, I'll go, and if not then I'll read the plot details from wikipedia

[earth-18104]

Earth-18104 - The Battle of New York

The story is based on the movie Avengers, with some details from the comics. Most of the characters are changed to fit the original comics lineup of Avengers, and other characters have slight changes in their story, based on my original universe plot.

Like Loki uses different pronouns, Hawkeye and Mockinbird are not part of the team officially, and there's two Nick Fury in this universe: the Colonel, that fought with Captain America during war, and his son Diretor Fury Jr, that looks more like Samuel Jackson's version and is leader of the SHIELD. Also there's a slight addition of my OCs, but they don't even are part of the main story.

List of Events of Earth-18104 (Resume)

Resume of the events of 1990.

1990 -

• (Earth's mightiest heroes)

• (April 1, Sunday)

• On earth, Director Nick Fury Jr (42), Maria Hill (25), Barbara Morse (24), Clint Barton (24), Phil Coulson (43), Henry Pym (27), Janet van Dyne (24) and Erik Selvig are called to the Joint Dark Energy Mission Facility in the Mojave Desert, where Dr. Selvig is researching the Tesseract, which has recently begun emitting strange amounts of energy on its own, leading the facility to be evacuated.

• Aided by Thanos, Loki activates the Tesseract from within the Sanctuary, teleporting to the SHIELD complex. She steals the Tesseract and uses the Scepter given to her by Thanos to control the minds of several S.H.I.E.L.D. agents, including Selvig and Barton.

• They escape and the Tesseract's energy destroys the base, starting the Chitauri Invasion. In response, Nick Fury Jr. reactivates the Avengers Initiative.

• In Asgard, Heimdall sees Loki on Earth with the Tesseract, and informs Thor and Odin, who sends his sons, Tyr, Vidar, Honir, Balder and Thor to Earth to bring Loki back to Asgard for punishment.

• (April 3, Tuesday)

• In Kolkata, India, late at night locally, Barbara Morse tracks down Bruce Banner (28) and tells him that his knowledge of gamma radiation is essential to helping SHIELD locate the Tesseract. Banner reluctantly agrees to help SHIELD.

• In New York City, Steve Rogers (70) sits in his new apartment going through the SHIELD archives. Unable to sleep, he goes to a boxing gym, where Nick Fury Jr. approaches him with a mission to recover the Tesseract.

• Meanwhile, Tony Stark (26) brings his miniaturized Arc Reactor online to power the newly opened Stark Tower in midtown Manhattan, built on the site of the old Pan Am Building.

• Phil Coulson visits Stark Tower and asks Tony to review Erik Selvig's research on the Tesseract, as well as classified material on potential members of the Avengers Initiative.

• (April 4, Wednesday)

• Phil Coulson flies Rogers to the Helicarrier and tells him about the new uniform they have waiting for him.

• There he also meets Bruce Banner, Maria Hill and Barbara Morse; he is impressed when the Hellicarrier takes flight and retroreflective powers to "disappear".

• At the same time, Selvig explains to Barton about his research, saying that he needs iridium, an element that they can find in Stuttgart.

• (Loki's attack in Germany)

• On the Hellicarrier, Bruce gets to work tracking the gamma radiation the Tesseract emits, while SHIELD's spy satellites find Loki in Stuttgart, Germany.

• Hank Pym and Janet van Dyne intercept a transmission from Selvig and trace it to Germany.

• Rogers dons his new Captain America uniform and travels with Hill and Morse in a Quinjet to confront Loki in Stuttgart; the God of Mischief is acting as a distraction while Hawkeye steals iridium to stabilize the Tesseract.

• Loki attacks a man named Heinrich Schafer before terrorizing a crowd of people attending a gala, providing a distraction so Hawkeye can steal iridium.

• Rogers and Morse attack him and a fight breaks out in the crowd. The unexpected arrival of Iron Man, Ant-Man and the Wasp leads Loki to surrender.

• During the confusion, Mockingbird loses sight of Hawkeye and he escapes with the iridium.

• On the way back to the Helicarrier, the Quinjet is ambushed by the princes of Asgard. Tyr, Balder and Honir hold back the Avengers, while Vidar and Thor grabbed their youngest sibling and jumped.

• While Vidar wanted to simply bring Loki back to Asgard to be punished, Thor tried to to reason with them. Loki, blinded by his jealousy of his older brothers and contempt for Odin, refuses.

• The Avengers are not able to go through the princes, as Balder was indestructible and Honir and Tyr had the strength of ten men. Seeing the fight was useless, Wasp reasoned with Balder and explained they needed Loki alive.

• Balder and Wasp made a deal, and Balder allowed them to leave, agreeing that their younger sibling should be taken into S.H.I.E.L.D. custody as long as one of them went along.

• Vidar choose himself, as the oldest, but Thor asked to go with Loki, so he was granted permission, and his brothers went back to Asgard to tell their father.

• Back on the Helicarrier, Loki was placed in a cell designed to contain the Hulk and other super-powered people. The vigilantes and SHIELD agents debate what to do with Loki, giving them time to plan an escape.

• Fury tries to interrogate him about the Tesseract's location, but Loki remains silent.

• The meeting between the heroes was tense at first, but Wasp calmed the nerves and convinced the assembled heroes to help her cause. Thor reveals Loki's plan to the Avengers: with the Tesseract, he hopes to open a portal that will allow the Chitauri access to Earth, thus starting an alien invasion.

• As Pym and Banner work to locate the Tesseract, Tony becomes intrigued by his old college roommate's level of control over the Hulk. Henry is irritated by Tony's attempts to anger Banner, warning him that the Hulk is a danger to everyone on the Hellicarrier.

• Steve, also angered by Stark's erratic behavior and disrespect for authority, tries to get him to follow orders more carefully, which instigates a rivalry between the two. Wasp once again tries to intervene in the fights.

• The five begin to question SHIELD's intentions, deducing that Fury is hiding something about his plans with the Tesseract. Stark reveals that he has begun hacking the agency's mainframe to unlock its secrets, while Rogers leaves to investigate the restricted areas of the Helicarrier for himself.

• Tony also gave Henry access to Stark technology, which he used to build a device that could increase its range and be able to use ants across the country.

• Janet shrinks into a locked room, where she and Steve find several 1940s HYDRA weapons and uniforms in crates in a secret room. With Stark's help, they learn about "Phase 2", a project that aims to use the Tesseract to make weapons.

• (April 5, Thursday)

• In the early hours of the morning, Mockingbird interrogates Loki in their cell, but they refuse to budge. However, in a moment of cruelty towards her, Loki accidentally lets it slip that they're interested in Banner, and Mockingbird realizes that they intend to use the Hulk to escape.

• (Attack on the Hellicarrier)

• As the sun is rising, the Avengers confront Fury with their discoveries, to which he reveals that S.H.I.E.L.D. has begun using the Tesseract to make weapons in response to the Victor von Doom incident last year, the presence of the Skrulls in the planet, the first appearance of the Hulk, the Puppet Master attack, the debut of Iron Man, Ant-Man and the Wasp.

• A large argument ensues, during which Hawkeye, accompanied by several soldiers also working for Loki, attacks the Helicarrier, crippling one of its engines.

• The resulting explosion destroys the laboratory where the group is arguing, causing Janet and Bruce to fall into the boiler area, trapped by the debris.

• Despite Janet's attempts to calm him down, the injured Bruce transforms into the Hulk and chases the Wasp throughout the Helicarrier.

• Thor comes to his rescue and fights with the Hulk, only to be surpassed in strength. A SHIELD jet tries to lure the Hulk away, but he crashes the plane and destroys it. The jet explodes and the Hulk is thrown towards the ground.

• Rogers, Pym, and Stark attempt to repair the damaged engine, but Loki's subordinates hinder their efforts.

• Janet and Mockingbird face Hawkeye and after an intense fight, they manage to break Loki's control by delivering a blunt blow to Barton's head.

• Thor tries to stop Loki from escaping, but is tricked by an illusion of Loki and imprisoned in her old prison cell and takes her out of the Hellicarrier. Thor breaks free of the cell at the last second, falling into a field.

• Rogers, Pym, and Stark finally overcame their attackers and got the Helicarrier back in the air. However, victory is bittersweet when Loki escapes and Bruce disappears.

• Hours later, Hawkeye recovers in the Hospital Wing and rejoins the team, informing them that Loki plans to open the portal above Stark Tower in downtown New York City.

• (Battle of New York)

• Mockinbird (26), Wasp (24), Hawkeye (24), Ant-Man (27) and Captain America (70) take a Quinjet to New York City, following Iron Man (26) in his suit.

• Stark arrives at the tower first, failing to stop Selvig from using the Tesseract to open the portal in conjunction with a device he built.

• Tony then enters the tower to meet Loki, failing to intimidate him. The god of mischief unsuccessfully attempts to possess Stark, as his Arc Reactor physically blocks the scepter's power and instead throws Stark through a window.

• Fortunately, Stark manages to activate his Mark VII armor before he hits the ground.

• Selvig launches the device, opening a portal above New York. The Chitauri fleet appears, beginning Loki's invasion.

• The other Avengers gather on the street to stop the Chitauri, but with the portal open, more and more soldiers arrive. Banner (28) finally joins them on a motorcycle and voluntarily transforms into the Hulk, who stops a large ship with his hands.

• Captain America begins giving instructions to the Avengers to direct their battle strategy against the alien threat.

• He tells Hawkeye to get to a nearby rooftop and assigns the perimeter to Iron Man, sends Thor to try and fire a beam at the portal while Ant-Man closes it, Wasp stays in the air, and Mockingbird and himself stay on the ground.

• Finally he instructs the Hulk to "smash". Hulk jumps from building to building, punching the Chitauri.

• Thor flies to the Chrysler Building to use it as a conduit, building up energy to fire at the portal, eliminating some Chitauri and an approaching Leviathan.

• On the Helicarrier, Nick Fury Jr. examines monitors showing what is happening. Maria Hill (25) says the World Security Council is calling.

• Hawkeye advises Iron Man to lead the Chitauri around sharp turns so they fall. He does so, eliminating the aliens chasing him, and goes to help Thor.

• From the battle, enormous damage is done to downtown New York City, and many lives are lost, but the Avengers save as many civilians as they can.

• Somewhere, Peter Parker and Harry Osborn (9), were returning from school when the attack began. The two boys try to get back to the Parker home safely when they are attacked by Chitauri soldiers.

• Fortunately, they are saved by Captain America, who orders Wasp to take them to a safe place.

• The Wasp shrinks them both and takes them away from the battle. Before leaving, she smiles and the two boys cheer for the heroes before running to the Parker's house.

• While Thor destroys as many ships he can, Heimdall, by Vidar's orders, opens the Byfrost. Vidar, Honir, Tyr and Balder join their brother on the fight, protecting civilians and putting Chitauri down.

• Francine (183) and Antônio Cavalcante (190) (both OCs) were watching the battle. Antônio asks his wife if they should help, when he recognizes Captain America, but Francine says that human problems are none of their business and tells her subordinates to protect themselves, closing the gates of the Sister Margaret's house.

• A Leviathan heads towards a building, the Hulk runs through the building and jumps on it, attacking it in the mouth and redirecting it.

• Captain America tells the Avengers they need to do something about the portal. Wasp grabs Pym and takes him to the top of Stark Tower.

• Hulk attacks a Leviathan, Thor helps him hammer a piece of the vehicle into the Leviathan's back, killing it. He crash lands in Grand Central Terminal, where Hulk also punches Thor in retaliation for earlier.

• Before more debris can fall on the civilians, the Fantastic Four arrive to help.

• The Invisible Woman (26) creates a shield while Mister Fantastic (27) pushes the civilians to safety. Human Torch (18) and the Thing (28) join the Hulk and Thor, causing a brief argument between the four.

• In New York's Sanctum, Stephen Strange (46), Wong (46) and Sara Wolfe (37) help fight the invading forces.

• At the top of Stark Tower, Erik Selvig wakes up, his mind control broken, and sees what is happening around him.

• The military enters the streets to do what they can.

• At Pym's house, his girlfriend Maria Trovaya, watches the fight on the news.

• Hawkeye directs Captain America to a nearby bank, where he goes and stops a Chitauri attack from killing civilians. The Invisible Woman protects the civilians from an explosion, while the Thing catches the Captain before he can fall from the building.

• Ben Grimm is nervous when meeting the Captain and presents himself as a big fan. Susan reminds him of the battle and drives them away with her shields.

• On the Hellicarrier, the World Security Council tells Fury Jr. that they have made the decision to launch a nuclear attack on Manhattan to contain the threat to the island only, but Fury refuses.

• Loki boards a Chitauri vehicle, which is intercepted by Human Torch. Johnny dodges the God of Mischief's attacks and throws her away, throwing her into Stark Tower, where the vehicle drops the "S" and "T" from the logo.

• Mister Fantastic scolds Johnny for losing sight of the "big villain", but Hulk jumps into the tower and attacks Loki, who tries to intimidate him; Hulk just grabs them and throws them to the ground repeatedly, leaving her unable to move.

• Wasp and Ant-Man meet Selvig in the tower, who says he believes Loki's Scepter, lying on the ground below them, may be able to close the portal.

• Iron Man finds himself unable to break through the shell of a Leviathan whale, so he tries to fly directly into its mouth, managing to explode it from the inside. He falls to the ground and finds himself fighting Chitauri again.

• Hawkeye runs out of arrows and has to kick an attacking alien off his perch. When his building is attacked, he jumps, firing a hook arrow to swing through a window below.

• He reaches the sidewalk, where he meets Mockingbird and they fight side by side.

• At Salem Center, Scott Summers, Bobby Drake, Warren Worthington III and Jean Grey watch the news. Scott asks the professor why they won't join the fight. Xavier simply says that them, as students, are not ready yet.

• Somewhere in Brooklyn, Sanguinária (OC) and Sabretooth takes down a Leviathan with their powers. They notice Captain America on TV and grin.

• The World Security Council orders a nuclear attack on Manhattan and a pilot will take off. Fury Jr. arrives with a rocket launcher and manages to hit the jet, but another jet flies in to launch the missile. He calls Stark and tells him that there is a missile heading to New York in the next 3 minutes.

• Wasp grabs the scepter. She, Selvig, and Pym work together to break the Tesseract's defenses to close the portal. Stark asks them to wait, saying there is a missile coming and he wants to send it through the portal.

• Stark grabs the missile just in time and begins to change direction. JARVIS tries to call Pepper Potts (29) in case he dies taking the missile through the portal. However, Potts, on a flight, is too preoccupied with watching the news to see her phone ringing.

• SHIELD watches the news closely on the Helicarrier. Just like every civilian, mutant and human, in New York.

• Stark diverts the missile into the air at Stark Tower and through the portal.

• SHIELD cheers with relief for New York, although Fury is worried about Stark.

• Peter Parker and Harry Osborn cheer in the living room, while Ben and May Parker (46) look fearfully at the TV.

• Strange, Wong and Sara Wolfe watch from the security of the Sanctum.

• Stark finds himself in deep space and his suit begins to fail. He releases the missile and it continues flying, hitting the Chitauri mothership and causing a huge explosion, which causes the remaining fleet of Chitauri and Leviathan to crash and fall dead without the mothership's power.

• Stark falls toward the portal, but the explosion threatens to hit Earth as well, so Rogers orders Pym and van Dyne to close the portal.

• Tony falls back into the New York sky just before its closure, but continues to fall, unconscious. Hulk jumps and catches him to slow his fall.

• The Fantastic Four and the rest of the Avengers crowd around Stark, Reed Richards manages to wake him up. Steve says they won and Tony says they should celebrate with shawarma, but Johnny reminds him that he lost sight of Loki.

• At Stark Tower, Loki recovers from Hulk's beating and the Avengers arrive to arrest her.

• A team from the Damage Control Department arrives at the Avengers' floor of Stark Tower to retrieve the Scepter. Jasper Sitwell takes the Scepter and he and Brock Rumlow (29) guard it.

• While the SHIELD agents guard the Tesseract, Tony invites the Fantastic Four to go eat shawarma and they accept.

• A little after the battle, at Thanos' ship on space, Gamora (29) talks to her master about Loki's defeat, the loss of the Tesseract and Earth's new protectors. He claims that attacking Earth again would be an act of suicide.

• Thanos (975), simply turns and smiles, thinking about what's to come.

• (April 6, Friday)

• The New York Bulletin has a front-page article titled "Battle of NY" that depicts a Leviathan causing several deaths by crashing into a building.

• The world, changed once again by the emergence of superhumans, is dominated by the idea of ​​a team of superheroes.

• The Avengers become the center of media attention, admired by the public as heroes, but are also received with some concern and fear. Some feel that his appearance during the battle is too coincidental.

• (April 11, Wednesday)

• Gathering in Central Park, the Avengers and SHIELD watch as Thor escorts Loki and the Tesseract to Asgard.

• Nick Fury Jr (42) talks to Colonel Fury Sr. (82), saying that the moment a new global threat emerges, the team will come together.

• Odin sentences Loki to an eternity of imprisonment in the Asgardian Dungeons and the Tesseract is put in a safe chamber inside the castle, watch by guards and Heimdall.

• (April 15, Sunday)

• Tony Stark (26) and Pepper Potts (29) review plans to rebuild the damaged Stark Tower, which lost the "S", "T", "R" and "K" outside in battle. They choose to repurpose the remaining "A" to represent the newly formed group, renamed "Avengers Tower".

• Tony reunites with Pym and helps him improve Janet's Wasp costume.

[albertbutyoucancallmebert]

@stuckinuniformdevelopment

(prev) Teddy tilted his head in confusion as he tried to figure out what was being shown. Was Bert about to tell him about his scars? But he didn’t seem to be the type to show off old injur- Oof! He couldn’t help but jolt in surprise. That was far more than a scar! After a moment he answered Bert’s question with, “Extremely.” This was the first time he’d ever heard of Captain Tim taking off such a tiny chunk. Even if he had seen plenty firsthand when they were studying the mechanisms of how his acid ate away at flesh during the CAPT Project’s preliminary phase. By his estimate, that beast’s teeth must of grazed no further than the base of his fingernail before the rest dissolved. Teddy had just slid his hand under Bert’s and started to bring it up so he could examine the end of the nub. Yet before he was able to get far Bert’s comment about wishing he lost more brought him to a halt. Just a half a year ago Teddy would have been extremely alarmed and begged Bert to not amputate the rest. That was before he had lost the right to criticize him. For he had developed the same reckless tendencies he once scolded Bert for, perhaps driven to an even deeper extent by his desperate need for power. Needless to say, he was horrified when his own brain shocked him with, “Would it be possible to discretely replace my arm with a cannon?” Teddy shook his head to rid himself of such dangerous thoughts and bring his attention back to Bert. Fortunately seeing how Bert had already found a way to make the best of what he had was enough to redirect his imagination to something far lighter. Far safer. “What’s in it?” Teddy asked as he once again looked to Bert’s prosthetic pinky in a mixture of fascination and concern. “Does it still hurt?” Then Teddy paused to shake the popcorn Sherri Jr. stepped on off his lap before saying, “I’m sure the man who invented Ant Robotics can invent a cool robotic pinky without it taking up too much of his time. Once his lap was clear he blindly reached for the bag he had carelessly plopped between them. It was a tall bag so the top couldn’t be too far away, could it? After a moment Teddy pushed himself to reach just a few inches further while pressing his hand against his chest to relieve internal pressure. Almost…

Bert popped off the prosthetic again and shook it into his hand. Out fell the tiniest silver key ever. And a paperclip. 

“A secret key! And a paperclip.”

As he started to put them back he said “It doesn’t really hurt any more, but boy did it for a while.”

He smiled at Teddy’s comment. “At the very least I could build like. A small laser pointer for it or something. Or maybe an actual laser emitter. Hehe…” But he then looked down at his rat who had jumped off of his lap in pursuit of the popcorn Teddy shook off, leaving behind the kernel parts as she feasted. “Hm, but that would be dangerous for her. If she saw it she would so chase after it.”

He glanced at Teddy reaching for the popcorn.

“Ah, be careful with yourself please… Can I get it for you?”

[danjosejunior]

December 22,2022

09:22

“Tears will fade away”

by Dan Jose Jr.

Oh here I am again

overthinking

Thinking about what happened

For the past most years I’m trying to fight living

I met a lot of strangers when I was a kid

When I left my town

And live in the world where I don’t want to be in

I stayed in my mama’s sister’s home

Where Far away from my real home

To build my dream,

and save myself,

With my sisters who taught me how to be a good

Longing for a family

Fighting with my own battle lonely

Meeting new red ants lonely

I leave my best friend who always give me food when I was elementary

Chorus:

And I ask

Whatever the world will give?

I just have to believe

That there’s a hope in every bleed

Fight and live with it

Because tomorrow is a better day

And all the tears will fade away

I remember when the day

I need a mother in my graduation

No one will come

Because she choose the life that she knows peace is her consolation

I’m proud I have a sister who brought me in the nest of ants

Who teach me how to be a strong, believe,

and see the dark into light

Chorus:

And I ask

What the world will give?

I just have to believe

That there’s a hope in every bleed

Fight and live with it

Because tomorrow is a better day

And all the tears will fade away

Bridge:

The war will end soon

The sadness is just a season

The red apple will turn to brown

Cause there’s no stable

That someday the sun is up forever

love is the top word

And the number one rule in the world

Chorus:

So

Whatever the world will give?

You just have to believe

That there’s a hope in every bleed

Fight and live with it

Because tomorrow is a better day

And all the tears will fade away

[abtraxx]

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BRIGADE FILES: ANT-MAN (Part 1)

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Main Alias/Moniker: Ant-Man

Legal Name: Henry Jonathan Pym, Jr

Other Aliases: Hank, Hanku, Junior, Bug-Man, Party-Killer

Date of Birth: September 5th, 1976 (Age: 27)

Status: Alive

Species: Human

Sex: Male

Gender: Cisgender

Height/Weight: 6' 0" (1.83 m) / 185 lbs (83.91 kg)

Hair/Eye Color: Blond / Blue

Timeline (1976 - 1987): It's wild to think now, what with how so many of us these days are carrying around a piece of tech with his name on it, but when he was first born Hank Pym was living closer to the rest of us. Hank Pym Jr, I should say, though these days I don't know if the distinction is needed anymore. Hank was still in training pants when his folks were first running PymTech out of their garage. That might be why Pym is less of a chav in my book than Stark. Building and programming in their garage. Reminds me of my mom, but she was just trying to make a living. The Pyms had far loftier ambitions, and living snack dab in the Valley they had the means to seize it.

Before Hank had even finished grade school, his family were millionaires, and PymTech had become the hot new thing on the commercial tech market. Those good vibes in the Pym workplace didn't trickle down into the Pym household, though. By all accounts, was the kind of father who would give a sneer and a shrug to anything short of an A+ grade. Hank's mom Maria was the emotional crutch of the whole family, who Hank himself was really fond of. So when he was bluntly informed by his old man that Maria had died in a plane crash when Hank was eleven, he went numb to it all, even when his sister Hope got into a shouting match with Hank Sr. The siblings spent the rest of their childhoods in separate boarding schools, where Hank kept his head down and largely kept to the books or his ant-keeping hobby.

Timeline (1987 - 2002): For Hank, one of those "boarding schools" was the Tomorrow Academy in New York. The three people of note Hank would meet up with during this stretch would be Elihas Starr, Tony Stark and the future big guy himself, Bruce. All four of them had the mutual baggage of growing up with bad dads and quirky hobbies, but Starr wasn't so much a part of the group as he was a tag-along with Hank. They all went in different directions once the Academy was shut down in '91, but Hank and Bruce would keep in touch.

Hank spent the 90's on the academic grind, and in-between racking up a slew of consultancy gigs. He did his best to keep an arm's length from PymTech, eager to carve a name for himself. This caused some beef between Hank and his sis. While Hank kept away from their old man's business like the plague, Hope firmly planted her roots there. All the while, the siblings kept working long-distance to find ways to apply Pym Particles in the new millennium. Hank would only help his sis so far. He knew his way around Pym Particles, sure. But if PymTech blipped into the air the next day, he likely wouldn't have lost a wink of sleep.

So when Starr, who had spent the last decade more on the business end of the tech world, had been climbing the corporate ladder back at PymTech, Hank didn't use his minimal influence as a shareholder to ward Starr off from booting his dad out of the head chairman's seat. As far as Hank saw it, his old man was the big roadblock to what Hope wanted to do with Pym Particles, and he assumed the best of intentions in Starr. Just one of many regrets saddled onto Hank Pym. Before things really hit the fan, he finally set up shop in PymTech, through an offer made by Starr. Hank took up a spot in the company's AI division, all while Hank kept workshopping his own AI projects in the basement of his family's estate.

Timeline (2002 - 2003): After the "lab accident" that kvaporized Vernon Van Dyne and put his daughter (And Hank's beau) in a coma, Hank could no longer deny his old buddy Starr was trouble. He kept up appearances within the company, all while Hope and her group made a plan to ouste Starr and foil his plans for PymTech to get into the arms racket. In the end, they only succeeded in one of those things, thanks it part to Jan's now-infamous 50-Foot Woman incident. But Starr was gone and Jan had sprung back to life, so as far as Hank was concerned it was a win.

Hank was the only one among the group to support Janet's aspirations to get into the superhero game, calling it "unconventional therapy." He even volunteered to go out on patrols with her, and was the one to come up with the whole bug schtick for the two of them in the first place. It was out of the box behavior, something I'm sure Hank himself would admit to. The few times Hank has been pressed on it, he's cited what Dr. Richards and his whole crew had been doing over in New York around the same time. Me, I think that drive to carve something out for himself was what pushed him into something so out-there as dressing up in a red suit and a shiny helmet. The influence of Jan, who was probably the best thing he had going for him at the time, didn't hurt either.

After about six months of "Ant-Man & The Wasp" becoming a big west coast sensation, Bruce was apprehended and detained by SHIELD. That following summer, a plan was brewing to surgically resolve Bruce's condition, and Hank volunteered to help his old Academy alum, and Jan tagged along as well. Being seasoned heroes by them, Hank and Jan held their own once all hell broke loose later that day, and they both were on the ground with Fury while Thor was duking it out with Graviton above them. They got it out of Fury the connections SHIELD had with Graviton, which really got under Hank's skin. So when the smoke cleared and Fury made his offer, Hank shot it down and sided with Stark, even though Hank barely trusted Stark much better than Fury. Enemy of my enemy, I guess.

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Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania

So, friends, what is going on with the MCU? We're now at the end of phase four (I think? I've lost track of that sort of thing entirely) and there's a very palpable sense of the air coming out of the balloon. By which I mean not that the movies have gotten bad—some of them are (Eternals) but most are still falling squarely within the same C-minus-to-B-plus range that has characterized this franchise from day one. And yet, without very much having changed, it's clear that something has changed. The MCU used to be something that I—and a lot of other people—enjoyed talking about, and maybe even more than that, arguing with. When it was bad, that was something that felt worth calling out. Now it's just something to shrug at.[1] What I want to do with this post, then, is not so much review the new Ant-Man movie (which is definitely at the C-minus end of the aforementioned scale but still isn't that exciting to talk about) as to try to work out what it can tell us about why the MCU feels so inessential these days.

There are several obvious culprits when trying to identify the cause of this shift. Avengers: Endgame put a period on an eleven-year film and TV project that maybe made it easier for people to hop off the bandwagon. The pandemic following soon after shook people out of the habit of going to see the latest Marvel offering in theaters two or three times a year, and it's hard to regain the sense of FOMO that made doing that seem reasonable. The Disney+ MCU shows we watched instead of the movies have fallen in an uncomfortable middle ground between the two mediums, not as compact as the films but not reaching for the classic TV virtues of building character arcs and relationships either.

To me, however, it seems as if the problem is both simpler and more profound. The reason that Marvel superhero movies aren't landing the way they used to is, well, the superheroes. Avengers: Endgame saw off Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, and Scarlett Johansson, three of Hollywood's most charismatic performers, who were playing three of the franchise's biggest draws. Chris Hemsworth and Tom Holland have subsequently made soft exits. Other MCU stalwarts—Tom Hiddleston, Jeremy Renner, Elizabeth Olsen—have transitioned to TV (and in Olsen's case, had their characters killed off). And, of course, the tragic death of Chadwick Boseman has removed what was probably intended to be a central figure for this batch of movies. There's a void at the heart of the franchise, and while new characters may eventually come to fill it, right now feels not at all unlike where we were during phase one, still trying to figure out what there is here to care about. Except now the novelty of the cinematic universe concept has faded, and the star power that made that concept seem plausible is absent.

It's in the context of this void that we have to consider the decisions made with Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania. Scott Lang is one of three MCU characters who are still standing and capable of headlining a movie.[2] It makes sense to try to make him, alongside Doctor Strange and Captain Marvel, into the core around which the next stage of the MCU can be built. Makes sense, that is, until you remember that Scott, despite starring in two previous MCU movies and having major roles in two others, has never cohered as a character. He's a tech genius who walks around with a permanent air of confusion. A self-destructive fuck-up with criminal tendencies who is also a genial dad and a bit of a fuddy-duddy. His superpowers are mostly used for gags—the franchise has never figured out how to make the genuinely awesome power of miniaturization work in a fight scene—and his heroism feels largely informed. When he rises to it, it's usually because of a risk to his loved ones—most often, his daughter Cassie—or because he's too awed by another hero to say no.[3]

In fairness, Quantumania is clearly aware of all of this, which you can tell because the movie opens with a voiceover by Scott saying everything I've said in the previous paragraph, albeit more generously phrased. The purpose of the movie is thus to reposition Scott as a genuine hero, not the heroes' comic relief. It does so, first of all, by making him not a hero at all. As the film opens, Scott is retired not just from the Avengers but, seemingly, from any other job. He's written a book about his adventures, but doesn't seem to be doing anything else except playing devoted boyfriend and father to Hope and a now-teenaged Cassie. This frustrates Cassie, who believes her father should be using his powers to help people, and has been getting arrested while using miniaturization tech to fight off cops who try to break up protests and clear out homeless encampments—a radical note that the film raises and then immediately shies away from. At the same time, Scott learns, Cassie has been developing a device that sends signals into the quantum realm, where Hope's mother Janet spent decades before being rescued in the previous Ant-Man movie.[4] Despite Janet's warnings, the device malfunctions and sucks the entire Pym-Van Dyne-Lang family into the quantum realm.

The quantum realm, as it turns out, is inhabited with all the things that make for a good adventure backdrop—there are strange and dangerous creatures to run away from and/or make friends with, a marketplace where unsavory characters haggle over dubious wares, a bar where you're as likely to be stabbed as get a drink, and badlands where mysterious nomads roam. And there's a villain, Kang the Conqueror, another variant of the character introduced in the first season of Loki. Kang arrived in the quantum realm decades ago and was rescued by Janet, who then joined forces with him to repair his ship's power cell so they could both return home. Right at the moment of their triumph, Janet realized that Kang was the perpetrator of multiple genocides, acts that he'd resume if allowed to escape. She sacrificed her own chance to get home by destroying his power cell using Pym technology, but not before he regained some of his powers. Kang then began to take over the quantum realm, rebuilding his empire in miniature. The arrival of our heroes gives him access to the kind of tech that could restore his power cell and allow him to escape, while the rebels who have been fighting him for decades hope to use that tech to defeat him once and for all.

This is, in other words, the kind of story we've seen many, many times over the years, in books, film, and TV. It goes all the way back to Edgar Rice Burroughs's A Princess of Mars, and examples of it are as recent as Tron: Legacy. And the two things that need to be said about how Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania executes this story are, first, that it doesn't make a lot of sense for Scott Lang, and second, that the film doesn't even try to make it make sense. The standard template for this story sees the hero dropped into a long-running conflict and quickly embroiled within it. Their original goal may be simply to get home, but by the end of the story they're supposed to be emotionally invested—they've fallen in love with the leader of the rebellion, or discovered something essential about themselves in this new world with its new opportunities for heroism, or become so disgusted by the villain's perfidy that they whole-heartedly adopt the rebellion's creed. None of that happens in this movie. Scott's goals remain what they always were—to protect Cassie. He never gets particularly involved in the rebellion.[5] Right at the end he makes the same choice Janet did, to sacrifice his chance to get home in order to prevent Kang from escaping, but the emotional foundation for that sacrifice hasn't been laid (and immediately after he makes it a new way to get home appears, so it isn't even that much of a sacrifice).

There is some good stuff here. Jonathan Majors's second take on Kang is as magnetic as his first, and makes the idea of him as this chapter's ultimate villain an enticing one. The flashback in which we see Kang and Janet's friendship grow and then shatter is extremely well-done, and Janet's self-sacrifice lands incredibly well for a character we've known for less than an hour all told. The rebels are a fun motley bunch, including an enjoyably dry performance from William Jackson Harper, some zany CGI creatures, and a hopefully star-making turn by stuntwoman Katy M. O'Brian as rebel leader Jentorra. Late in the film it's revealed that the ants Hank was experimenting on, who were also drawn into the quantum realm, have spent subjective thousands of years evolving, eventually developing a hyper-technological socialist society—an idea that deserved much more space in the movie[6], but is pretty neat for what we do see of it. But as you'll note, none of these things involve Scott, who ends up feeling like a bystander in his own movie.[7]

Of course, that last bit isn't new. Scott has always felt like someone who stumbled into his own stories, all the way back to when he fell into heroism after trying to rob the wrong house. The second Ant-Man movie leaned into that by making Scott the relative straight man to an ensemble that included his semi-criminal friends Luis, Dave, and Kurt, his FBI monitor Jimmy Woo, his ex-wife and her husband, and a villain, Hannah John-Kamen's Ghost, whose story aroused more pity than disdain. The result was one of the best MCU movies for reasons that, I think, tell us a lot about why the franchise has started losing steam. It's not just about the characters. It's about the relationships.

There was a period, roughly between 2012 and 2015, when it seemed like the MCU was interested in doing the thing that creates fertile soil for a fandom—let its characters grow and change, and let the relationships between them develop. To let Tony Stark grow past his need for an armored suit. To sit with the tragedy of Steve Rogers's separation from Peggy Carter, and his determination not to let the same thing happen with Bucky Barnes. To make the Avengers friends as well as teammates. That all proved a mirage, of course. The MCU's now-famous tendency to devour itself, to end one story on a definite note of change and then roll that change back as soon as the next story starts, quickly asserted itself. But the fumes of that impression carried the fandom forward all the way to Avengers: Endgame, kept our investment in the characters going even though what was showing up on screen was flat and samey. Once that story ended, however, the fumes dissipated, and it's now easier to see that there's nothing in this franchise worth getting invested in.

There's no better encapsulation of the MCU's determination not to do the things that attract fans to stories than the fact that Quantumania discards all of Ant-Man and the Wasp's supporting cast[8] in favor of a parachuted-in "family" theme with Hope, Hank, and Janet that it then singularly fails to earn. As I've noted in the past, in the new MCU the only people who matter are the ones whose names are in the title, so it's obvious why this movie doesn't want Scott to have relationships with people like Luis or his ex anymore. But it also doesn't sell the relationships it does want us to care about. We don't feel the love that supposedly exists between Scott and Hope, or the connection that has formed between Cassie and her step-grandparents. Even relationships that should have been a slam dunk, such as Hope's attempts to reconnect with her mother after decades of separation, don't land. And despite all the emphasis the film places on it, Scott's connection with Cassie still feels generic, the standard protective dad template we've seen in a million movies rather than a relationship between these two specific people, who are starting to figure out how to relate to one another as adults.

As phase four draws to a close, it's clear that Marvel has put all its eggs in the cosmic basket. In multiverses and variants and a villain with a thousand (identical) faces. What's been left by the wayside is any reason to care about all of this. As Quantumania demonstrates, that reason will not come from the legacy characters, who are being flattened out of what little personality they had in order to suit the needs of this new, gargantuan, story. Again, I don't think this will lead to the vaunted "death of the MCU". It will take much more than that for people to stop going to see these movies. But I do think we're witnessing the death of the MCU as a fannish phenomenon—a death that, in all honesty, has been a long time coming.

[1] When you say things like this, some people start talking with great yearning about the looming death of the MCU, but I don't see any reason to anticipate that. Cultural currency is, after all, something very different from actual currency. As Avatar: The Way of Water recently demonstrated, it is possible for millions of people to spend billions of dollars watching your movie, and not have a single further thought about it as soon as the credits start rolling.

[2] Yes, I know that officially the title of the movie includes Evangeline Lilly's Hope Van Dyne, indicating that she is a co-equal hero to her male counterpart. That was barely true in the second Ant-Man movie, however, and it certainly isn't the case in Quantumania, in which Lilly gets virtually nothing to do and is repeatedly upstaged by the actresses playing her character's mother and stepdaughter. This is presumably due to her much-publicized anti-vaxxer positions, so good riddance.

[3] It's never stated outright, but between how the incident is described in the previous Ant-Man movie and this one, it seems very clear that Scott has no idea what the fight he was roped into in Captain America: Civil War was about. This is both hilarious and horrifying.

[4] Cassie has only known Hank, Janet, and Hope for a couple of years at the outside, but has nevertheless become proficient in miniaturization technology and even has her own supersuit. She also calls Hank Pym "grandpa". This all feels very awkward and like a way of shoehorning in a family theme for a character who already had another family, which goes almost entirely unmentioned here.

[5] Cassie does, but Cassie is the latest in a long line of teenage girls whom Marvel are clearly positioning as potential heroes going forward, and by far the least interesting and individualized of the bunch. Her affinity for the rebels never rises above the generic.

[6] If nothing else, in order to create the callback to Honey, I Shrunk the Kids that this film so obviously demands.

[7] One character who does interact with Scott a lot is MODOK, a cyborg killing machine who turns out to be Darin Cross, the villain from the first Ant-Man, now transformed into an enormous, floating head. This is such a weird plot element that I have no idea what to say about it, but I knew I couldn't let it go unmentioned.

[8] Jimmy Woo appears in a brief, wordless scene, but everyone else is absent. Including Cassie's parents who, again, raised her on their own during the entire five years that Scott was missing during the blip, a point that the film seems almost eager to elide.

[wrenofthedumbasses]

had a dream that marvel studios went bankrupt, and shaq (who played thor in my head) led an actor-run movement where they made seven more movies thats whole purpose was to make fun of the avengers.

basically, the "knock-off" heroes and more violent vigilantes had been going missing through the timestrem, and the higher ups hadn't noticed yet (though they did notice a "sudden crime wave"). Thor and Ant-man led two (seperate) searches to figure out what was going on (illegally of course) and began the best plan fight scene ever in the weirdest dream plane.

The plane is above the ocean, at some really high distance thats typed out in dramatic screen-typewriter format. the movie opens with cutscenes. shaq-thor is seated at the front. chris hemsworth makes a cameo as the pilot. robert downey jr is a flight-attendant. ant-man is near the middle of the plane, with random and varied jr heroes/vigilantes he's watching to keep from hoing missing.

the fight begins.

every passenger is allowed time to leave via the emergency exit. the baddy, a punk girl who kinda reminds me of 2012 Karai from TMNT is babysitting a feral demon child that wields fire. the child is unleashed.

both have ant-man's ability to shrink, so the fight against knock-off!karai takes place inside the carry-on bins. thor doesn't notice this. he's fighting demon child, and ends up throwing a lot of seats out into the ocean.

cutscene to flight attendant!rdj and pilot!chris. they're debating whether to fight or flee, and ended up breaking the fourth wall more times than deadpool. all cusswords have been replaced with a smiley-face sticker over the mouth and a voice over of that person's voice saying some really ridiculous cover-up words. (see, Mr Lancer, Danny Phantom, cursing with book titles)

they choose to keep flying the plane.

shaq!thor shocks the demon child. lightning hits the fuel tank. The ant-man jrs watch on in slow motion fascination. the fuel tanks explode. wings are hanging on by a really thinw stretch of metal. the jrs and vigilantes break the windows of the plane and hold the wings on with sheer will and bare hands.

the plane is no longer over the middle of the ocean, but near unstearable and heading for like,,, boston or some other heavily populated east coast city that IS NOT NEW YORK ffs.

the plane begins to fall out of the sky. both wings are lost (and land near the beach, but still mostly in the water). someone has a program that maps out their suspected course and path of destruction.

Option 1: go as low as and as slow as possible and crush an orphanage, a homeless shelter, a church, about a block of houses and two friendly mom'n'pop restaurants.

or Option 2: go up (via thor flying under and pushing up until he couldn't carry it further) and then attempt to land quickly and destroy maybe one or two buildings.

they chose 2. and when thor brought them up, got tired and tilted them down, they failed to realize just how far they managed to go. the new calibrations put them in path with a school, about to let out.

its too late to change it. antman begins to bounce on the nose of the plane to try to bring it down sooner. this works, slightly.

the plane hits the parking lot in front of the school, but contines to slide dramatically forward, towards the brick wall of learning.

antman holds it back and slowly biggerizes, conscious of the building behind him. the wall only partially crumbles.

[mahxshxjo]

🌙 ┊ #IDOL ; SAVAGE ERA NEW YORK CITY, TIMES SQUARE

Las promociones para Savage aún no habían terminado aún cuando debieron volver a Corea pronto para hacer las grabaciones necesarias para el siguiente proyecto, que si bien no era un comeback como todos pensaban, de igual manera era importante para ellas como grupo. Nuevamente al compartir un viaje en avión con las demás, no podía evitar sentirse emocionada, pensando que jamás imaginó viajar al lado de esas preciosas chicas con las cuales compartía desde momentos tranquilos hasta donde las risas no faltaban. 

Desde que eran trainee, viajar debido a la pandemia se había sentido como un sueño súper lejano pero ahí estaban todas, compartiendo una experiencia más cuando el mundo finalmente se estaba recuperando de ese tiempo tan difícil.

Estados Unidos no era un país extraño para Aeri, quien en su adolescencia a menudo tenía viajes escolares hacia dicho Estado. Ello también había sido un factor importante para que pudiera ser tan fluida en el idioma, sin embargo, viendo a las demás chicas en sus respectivos asientos, se volvía una experiencia aún más especial. No era más esa chica estudiante, ahora sentía el poder y la responsabilidad de aespa en sus manos.

Una parte de ella no sólo pensaba que no las reconocerían del todo, también sentía que no sería bien recibida por ciertas personas parte de la población. Como una adicción, volvía a buscar noticias que los internautas pudieran haber comentado. Quién sabe qué era esa ansia de saber qué es lo que pensaban, tanto positiva como negativamente. 

Quizá eso significaba volverse una figura pública, al menos en una parte, pues antes jamás se hubiera detenido a leer lo que escribían sobre ella como desde que había debutado.

[ +100, -20 ] “The aespa girls looked so cool and uncomfortable on stage, poor babies. Minus Giselle, she can freeze.”

Los comentarios en la presentación del día de acción de gracias de Macy eran variados, sin embargo, sus ojos parecían encontrar cada uno de esos que mencionaban algo acerca de ella o del grupo en general en un sentido negativo. Inevitablemente los nervios iban en aumento así como el miedo de sentir odio por parte de las personas, que constantemente era una carga que llevaba sobre sus hombros. 

Al momento de pasear por las calles en sus diversos recorridos, visitaron tantos lugares populares como Rolling Stone, la famosa revista americana dedicada a la música y la cultura pop, además de la increíble atracción turística llamada SUMMIT One Vanderbilt, donde lograron tomarse un sinfín de fotografías y a pesar de que le temía a las alturas, la experiencia era tan emocionante que no podía perdérsela. ¿Y qué sería viajar a Nueva York si no visitaban el Empire State Building? Por supuesto que esa nueva experiencia era algo que deseaba conocer junto a sus amigas. Un viaje de trabajo pronto se convertía en el perfecto descanso para las cuatro chicas que de un lado a otro iban de la mano, explorando la ciudad.

Uno de sus nuevos recuerdos para su carrera como artistas, sin duda era el haber promocionado por primera vez en un programa matutino de entrevistas como lo era el Show de Nick Cannon, con quien habían logrado charlar un poco, respondiendo preguntas, presentando su canción Savage, además de interactuar un tanto más con él al enseñarle la coreografía entre muchas risas.

Se sentía como un sueño incluso tener un pequeño tour por la gran manzana a cargo de Roy Wood Jr. Además de lograr ser mencionadas en el programa de Kelly Clarkson. Todas esas eran nuevas memorias que para ellas eran aún más preciadas, todas siendo primeras veces que recordarían a lo largo de los años.

En su agradable caminata por las calles, con la seguridad debida, varias personas parecían reconocerlas, provocando que el ánimo de Giselle fuera aún mayor cuando escuchaba que algunos fanáticos gritaban con ánimo su nombre. La sonrisa en su rostro se volvió más brillante mientras saludaba emocionada a todos los que se encontraban ahí. 

Times Square de noche era sin duda algo salido de una película, el escenario era tan impresionante como lo que sucedería en ese momento. No sólo era la primera vez que visitaban juntas, también estaban paseando por las calles a fin de encontrarse con la publicidad que estaría en el centro. El vídeo de Savage dio inicio en una de las pantallas centrales, provocando que todas salieran corriendo a verlo mientras el anuncio de Spotify aparecía frente a sus ojos.

Emocionada, casi al borde de las lágrimas, Aeri observó todo con tanta atención, sintiéndose como en un sueño, uno que compartía con las tres mejores chicas con las que podría hacerlo. De pronto, escuchando su canción, recordó cuando era adolescente. Ese día en la escuela llevaba sus audífonos y tuvo el sentimiento, escribiendo en su libreta.

"No sé sobre nada más, pero me convertiré en una cantante cuando sea mayor."

Una vez el vídeo terminó, todas aplaudieron animadas por ese logro tan grande. Entusiasmadas vieron hacia la cámara que las grababa sin poder dejar atrás el agradecimiento a MY, pues gracias a ellos todo era posible. 

—Profesor Lee Soo Man, ¿estás viendo esto? ¡Finalmente lo hicimos, estamos en Nueva York! Emocionadas exclamaron, sin olvidar agradecer a quien había hecho todavía más posible ese sueño que todas tenían.

Y con la adrenalina, no quedaba más para ellas que regresar al hotel con la sonrisa más brillante del unvierso.

[quill-of-thoth]

Okay so. House On The Rock is a Wisconsin tourist attraction, (approximately) in Wyoming, Wisconsin, on Highway 23. It's west of Madison, east of The Dells, and just south of Spring Green, which is the seat of Frank Lloyd Wright's cult. (Spiritual seat, at least. Most of the non-Taliesin houses are not in Wisconsin.) House on the Rock is not a Frank Lloyd Wright house. It is an ANTI Frank Lloyd Wright house. It was built when an aspiring Taliesin fellow got to meet his hero and was told by FLW that his designs sucked and he wasn't capable of designing a chicken coop. At which point the aspirant, Alex Jordan Jr, stormed out and on the drive south pointed at a random rock chimney, swore to whoever else he was traveling with that he was going to build a Japanese house on top of it that would be better than anything Frank Lloyd Wright ever built. Allegedly. The timeline does not match up and given the dubious authenticity of many of the other historic artifacts at House on The Rock, everything about the story could be fake. What's clear is that House on the Rock is built in an imitation of Frank Lloyd Wright's style, with tumors of imitation Japanese architecture, midcentury architecture, imitation gothic architecture, modern, postmodern, skybridges, scifi concept art, half a carnival, and an airplane hangar. All built on a 200 foot rock pillar, though some of the later additions are on the mainland, because an airplane hangar would not have fit. Not all of this is Jordan's fault - the place is constantly building new stuff with all the disorganized fervor of a mutant ant colony. At one point the original structure was a house, but it was haphazardly converted into a museum of literally any and all junk they could find. I have been there at least half a dozen times and am never sure if it exists fully in this universe. Jordan may have been a disciple of Cthulu instead of Wright. The whole place is SEVRELEY CURSED. Some highlights, mostly from my memory:

It is bigger on the inside. Likely because the amount of junk within it has created some sort of wormhole.

I have NEVER been there without some kind of weird, localized weather going on. Once the sky dropped an olympic swimming pool's worth of water on the roof of the airplane hangar in the space of one minute, leaving everything else bone dry. Another time autumn leaves were making knee-high tornadoes in the parking lot.

One year it was infested with biting False Ladybugs (Asian Beetles). Floor to ceiling in some spots. We're talking no visible wallpaper on the southern side. I have never, ever been bitten by that insect in any other circumstances, even the year my house got infested with them and we had to air blast them out from under the siding.

That's not even starting on the exhibits. Anything dubiously old, vaguely creepy, absolutely inexplicable, or explicable only because this place opened in the 60's? It's got it. It's also got some real stuff and when I was a kid there was a suit of samurai armor standing in a stairwell that you had to squeeze past, which I only ever saw once out of all my visits.

At one point the airplane hangar had a "history of Aviation" exhibit that was just uncanny valley dolls and model planes. Nothing was labeled. Everything was viewed via a rickety spiral ramp that circled the hangar at an angle that was definitely not built to code.

I cannot overstate the number or the creepiness of the dolls. I have not yet found a video that captures their sinister quality.

There's an exhibit that's self-playing / mechanized instruments. You can hear them in parts of the building that you probably shouldn't, but the building is a maze so there's probably a logical explanation? Wright was known for clever built in storage and amenities, so maybe Jones copied that and there's actually a pipe that carries the sound halfway across the house.

The exhibits in the main building and the path through them are one way, theoretically to cut down on people getting stupidly lost. It does not help.

Approximately two decades ago, the layout of the exhibits made the meandering house even worse because some exhibit rooms you had to squeeze through a two foot wide gap between giant wooden display cases to access. Other places if you try that you've skipped half the tour and will be prevented from coming back.

Basically nothing is labeled. Not that you would be able to read signs, as some parts are strictly enforced no standing no stopping zones to make sure people circulate on time. Other areas you can stay in for half an hour and be the only ones around. You will also completely loose your sense of time and direction. No matter what you see there, you will never find it again.

Extremely wheelchair inaccessible. Maybe they've cleaned up the display cases, but there are surprise stairs everywhere, with highly variable riser heights, and often no railing.

There are odors. They're not bad, but they're not identifiable. Even after actually working in museums and science labs I'm not sure I would know what they are. Possibly it's just the junk.

My favorite candidate for the odor source is the half a carnival squeezed into a space that absolutely should not hold it. That carousel had a former life I don't want to know about.

Based on the sheer, overwhelming nature of this place's assault against the senses, as well as the fact that I was probably thirteen the last time I visited, I have no coherent memory of a large number of the exhibits? It's just creepy self playing strings, samurai armor, dolls in planes trains and automobiles, jumpscare samurai armor (didn't we already pass this?), and Whoops! All Ocean!

In comparison I have been able to navigate the Field Museum's exhibits instinctively since age eight. In conclusion, the mundane explanation is that it's a tourist attraction built by someone whose architectural sensibilities were so deranged that they generate disorientation and superstition. The other explanation is that it's the most haunted, cursed, possessed place in the state and people pay a stupid amount of money every year to be herded through it, learning nothing and severely creeped out. It is a place that you do not go alone, because unlike real museums, meeting someone without obvious companions sometimes makes people irrationally defensive and paranoid - and also you need someone else to take on the burden of seeing some of it, or you will be overcome and collapse on a 70's shag carpet next to a poorly taxidermied animal of unidentifiable species. At best, your experience is like a semi-lucid dream where you understood all the non language gibberish that everyone around you spoke, and were profoundly affected by the obvious and universe-altering importance of what you witnessed. At worst, you come out like my mom, muttering about why there have to be so many damn creepy dolls and how the heck you got talked into going here AGAIN, you should have known better after the last three times. I miss it but it also gives me the sense that I'm lucky to have emerged at all.

I don't know who else has both listened to The Magnus Archives and been to House On The Rock, but that place is one hundred percent a Leitner building.

[belovedgamers]

Favorite Foolish moments?

DSMP:

-When he found Ponk in the egg cage and tried to get him out

-showing the chandelier to Ranboo. Showing the chandelier to Philza

-his neighbours bit in Phil’s basement

-declining the lore sandwich

-the lost Friend stream. He was such a liar in that one. Good heavens.

-“Begone from this place.” Lightning powers reveal.

-The lead up to his death at the Banquet and his toast.

-“Death?” stream (post-Banquet). Specifically “silly as it sounds, I’ve always liked the sun. How cruel, it disappears.” But all of his post-Banquet arc was so good.

-His prison break in for the “nutty money”

-His early Michael Beloved Underscore visits

-Him talking w Foolish JR and Finley. Specifically the story of “the Red Wizard and the Pharaoh”

-Him gifting Michael McChill netherite for his birthday (all their interactions really)

-Him blowing the bridge between himself and Ponk up. The stream where they rebuilt the bridge together.

-L’SANDBURG literally all of it. Especially the Turtle Incident.

-the boat stream with Puffy, McChill, Eret, Ant, Bad and himself.

CC:

-The one stream w I thinkkkk Oli and Billzo where Tubbo asked if they were old friends because Foolish just talked as if he’d known them forever

-his 4v1 (or 3v1???) clutch in the Bedwars stream w Hannah, Puffy and Sam

-his subathon Bedwars time w his sisters Em and Moo

-his “Big Cock” bit in PP Sat

-the one PP Sat where they all got drunk except him and he replied to every single “I love you” sent his way

-the chair building stream

-the cooking game (which I can’t remember the name of rn) with Punz

-his commentary of Hell’s Kitchen but specifically the one where Punz and Ant joined AND the Gumi and Bad one

-Rock Simulator with Bad

-Rock Simulator with Vinoo

-Rock Simulator ascension

-his now disproven theory that “the one with the small baby always wins”

[mcyt-amber-tftsmp]

𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐖𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐈 𝐃𝐨 𝐖𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐘𝐨𝐮? {𝐂! 𝐅𝐨𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐱 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫}

Request?: None

Character: C! Foolish

Side Character(s): Foolish Jr. and Finley

Story-type: Romantic and Fluff

Story Length: 1050 words

AU or Not: None

Time Period: Before he joined Las Nevadas and everything else that had happened but after the whole Red Banquet

Plot Summary: Foolish was walking down the area of the Dream SMP to his summer home until he is met by someone who always ceases to make him smile even on the saddest days

Small Info: None

Keywords: Y/N = Your Name

Trigger Warning: none

Normal Warning: probably cringe but mostly cute ig-

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Foolish's Point of View~

Today was just a normal day as any other days I have had in my life. The only thing I could just think of was just going to my Summer Home and finish up somethings which will make it look complete.

The main reason I build is to forget about my past mistakes and the current events that took place at The Red Banquet. The thought of it makes shivers run down my spine. I inhaled and exhaled as I continued to walk while being deep in thought.

Those thoughts were soon broken, as I heard a familiar voice yelling my name from behind me as I stopped and turned around to see Y/N running in my direction.

"Foolish!" She yelled and before I could react, she tackles me into a hug and I nearly lost by balance but was able to hold myself as I chuckled and hugged her back.

"Hey Y/N! It's good to see you." I said as I kissed her head.

"Good to see you too Himbo!" She said giggling as I gasped in a joking offended manner.

"Hey!" I protested as she started to laugh while I chuckled a little.

This was Y/N. She's technically my girlfriend. It hasn't been even two months that we started to date. I am very glad that nothing bad happened to her nor did she lose a canon life.

"Anyways! Where are you going?" She asked me as she pulled away from the hug.

"Oh! I am just going towards my Summer home to finish up somethings there." I said as I saw Y/N's eyes light up in joy.

"Can I come too?! I really want to see Foolish Jr. and Finley!" She said excitedly as I gave her a close-eyed smile before looking at her.

"Yeah sure! Come on." I said as I grabbed her hand as we walked towards where the nether portals were situated.

It took us ten minutes to get to the nether portal which led to my Summer Home as we had to deal with many mobs on the way here. We both got inside the portal as it took us straight towards our destination.

We walked down from the steps of the portal, we went towards my home. That's when I saw both Foolish Jr. and Finley playing outside and despite my rules of telling them to not come outside knowing Ponk, Bad and Ant are always trying to do something.

"Foolish Jr., Finley? What did I tell you about not coming out here in the open?" I told them as I slightly glared at them.

"Sorry Papa!" Foolish Jr. said and that was when they noticed Y/N.

"Mama!" Foolish Jr. yelled as he came running towards Y/N as she knelt down to his level and hugged him.

I smiled and blushed when Foolish Jr. called Y/N 'Mama'. Both Foolish Jr. and Finley see Y/N as a mother and I am actually glad to see them have a motherly figure who cares about them the same as I do.

Then I saw Finley slowly coming towards Y/N's direction and Y/N herself noticed her coming slowly towards her. Finley was my youngest child and my only daughter.

"Hello Finley." Y/N said giving her a smile while gently picking her up as she stood up as Finley giggled.

"Mwama!" Finley said giggling and smiling.

"Aww!" She exclaimed softly finding it adorable.

I found it adorable as I looked at my children, liking her very much. I couldn't help but smile at them.

"You know Foolish?" I heard say as I looked back at her.

"Hm?" I hummed in response.

"I am technically the superior parent here." She said as I slightly choked at what I just heard from her.

"E-Excuse me?" I asked slightly confused and shocked at what she just said.

"I just said that I am basically the superior parent." She said giggling at my confusion and shock.

"I- We aren't even married?!" I said slightly blushing.

"Not yet that's for sure." She said as I blushed a bit more as she set Finley down who ran over to her brother.

"Oh hush!" I playfully said trying to calm myself down.

"You're pretty fun to tease you know?" She said as I playfully shook my head.

"Some days I question why I'm here." I said as Y/N smiled.

"It's because you love me." She simply said keeping the smile on her face as I smiled back.

"Yeah I sure do." I replied back as I put my right over her right cheek and leaned down to kiss her on the lips and she slowly and gradually kissed back.

After a few we both pulled away as I saw her face was now legit red with all the blushing and I couldn't help but chuckle.

"Look who's blushing and being teased now." I said as she puffed up her cheeks in annoyance.

"Shush!" She said as she buried her head in my chest as she hugged me.

This technically gave me a chance to sneakily pick her up in a bridal style which made her slightly squeal in return as we both laughed. God did I love her so much.

"I love you Foolish." She said leaning against my chest as I smiled hearing that coming from her.

"I love you more, My Goddess." I said giving her a small kiss on the forehead as the smile still remained on my face.

"What would I do without you?"

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So I may have died of cuteness from writing this much fluff and romance lmao! XD

Prompt Used: "some days I question why I'm here." "it's because you love me."

Tag: @thenotsohottopic

[claudiosuenaga]

Os 40 anos e as origens de Blade Runner (parte 1)

Por Cláudio Tsuyoshi Suenaga

Há 40 anos, no dia 25 de junho de 1982, Blade Runner era lançado em 1.290 cinemas nos Estados Unidos. Essa data foi escolhida pelo produtor Alan Ladd Jr. porque seus filmes anteriores de maior bilheteria (Star Wars e Alien) tiveram uma data de estreia semelhante (25 de maio) em 1977 e 1979, fazendo do dia 25 do mês seu "dia de sorte". Blade Runner, no entanto, que até começou bem, arrecadando em seu fim de semana de estreia US$ 6,1 milhões, acabou eclipsado por outros grandes lançamentos de ficção científica, principalmente por E.T., O Extraterrestre, que havia estreado um mês antes, batendo todos os recordes.

Antecipatório de nosso distópico presente, Blade Runner combinava a estética dos filmes noir dos anos 40, os efeitos computadorizados dos anos 80 e os padrões emergentes das culturas yuppie, new wave e cyberpunk. Da moda à publicidade, das novelas ao cinema, o que se viu foi uma orgia de outdoors luminosos, letreiros de néon, manequins, ventiladores, persianas, chuvas, iluminação indireta e microcomputadores. Blade Runner tornou-se um cult, contribuindo até mesmo para definir essa expressão. A música de Vangelis compunha perfeitamente o clima.

Projetados à imagem e semelhança dos humanos mas com um prazo de vida de apenas quatro anos, os replicantes da fase Nexus adquirem a capacidade de desenvolver emoções próprias: ódio, amor, medo, inveja, dor, angústia e ansiedade. Superando em força e agilidade, mas iguais em inteligência aos engenheiros que os projetaram, são enviados para trabalharem como escravos em colônias espaciais. Um grupo deles se rebela, extermina a população de uma nave e volta à Terra.

O futuro se traduz na decrepitude física dos homens e no colapso da urbe, dissolvida por uma incessante chuva ácida. Longe de um futuro limpo e ordenado, o que vemos são megalópoles sujas, superpoluídas, sombrias e superpovoadas por uma mixórdia de “tribos” e etnias. Spinners voadores e moradias decentes no topo dos edifícios são privilégio de uma elite.

Os executivos da Warner Bros haviam mutilado o filme que originalmente possuía vinte minutos a mais e um final diferente. Em 1991, um estudante de cinema descobriu nos arquivos da produtora uma cópia que pensou ser a original. Tratava-se na verdade de um estágio intermediário entre a versão original e a comercial de 1982.

Em 1993, os cultuadores de Blade Runner vibraram com a nova versão remontada por Scott. Entre as alterações, a principal foi a inclusão, na cena em que Deckard cochila ao piano, das imagens de um unicórnio correndo em um bosque. O sonho revela o imaginário dos replicantes, implantado pela Tyrell Corporation, vindo a confirmar que o caçador de androides também é um.

No final, Deckard não foge mais com sua replicante em busca do Éden, mas entra num elevador e mergulha nas trevas, descendo ao inferno de Dante.

Céu noturno de Beijing em 28 de janeiro de 2013. Ainda não havia spinners voadores e replicantes em fuga, mas a foto do horizonte noturno em Pequim poderia estar no filme Blade Runner. A concentração de poluentes no ar da cidade forma uma bruma noir contra o Dragon Building, criando uma atmosfera similar e não tão longínqua da Los Angeles do filme.

Cena de Blade Runner? Não, de Tóquio à noite, próximo da estação de trem de Shinjuku.

Continua nas partes 2, 3, 4 e 5.

[condorclaw]

We all love Michael of course, who doesn't? But however. We've been neglecting the other (and first) baby of the server: Foolish Jr. So I'm making headcanons now

- When Foolish works on his building projects, Junior is allowed to run around and play with his surroundings, as long as he's careful

- Junior likes staying at Foolish's summer home the most because he loves the heat. When he has playdates with Michael and Michelle, he has to wear one of those oversized coats because he gets cold easily

- Aside from his dad and his best friends, Junior loves to spend time with his grandpapa Puffy. She always comes up with the best games for them to play, and he sits on her shoulders when she wanders around the SMP with him

- Junior also adores Eret. Foolish tells him about all the things they used to do together, and Junior basically sees Eret as a superhero now. While Eret doesn't remember those, they play along with what Junior says. Eret's really just his honorary uncle/aunt/auncle/etc.

- Junior often hears about his uncle, Dream, sometimes. He doesn't know much about him or what he's done, but he knows that Dream's somewhere secret. Junior does get a little jealous of Michael and Tommy though, since Tommy's more actively around to stay with his nephew (I'm using my own superior canon here jfjf /lh)

- He doesn't really learn names that well, so he just names the other members he doesn't know directly after whatever he can see. Sam is "green", Bad is "pointy", Ant is "kitty", Ponk is "boom boom", etc.

- Junior is a near-newborn totem god, only about toddler-age in mortal years. He'll probably end up living for about thousands more

- He likes to swim, paddling quickly in small puddles that appear around the area. Foolish takes so many pictures and cries over how cute they are

- Foolish and Junior have special bonding activities, but their favourite one is doing the totem dance together. The moves are a little too quick for Junior to keep up with at the moment, but he has the first few steps down pretty good!

- Whenever he doesn't see his dad, it makes him nervous, so he crawls into chests to hide until he knows where his dad is. He's rather small and likes enclosed spaces to feel safe, so it's often a good spot. A few times people have mistaken him for a husk of a totem of undying though, which resulted in being pretty stressful for both sides