#atom is 100% trapped in there

[atomra]

OUGHHH Alucard/Atom/Anderson but like... cuddling together,,,

Edit: Finished and updated image with coloured version!

[marlshroom]

came to the fucked up realization after finishing gravity falls again last night the parallels of the dream bubble bill made for mabel and the literal state of delusion he keeps himself in.

in the book of bill on the page where bill cipher describes how he figured out a way to manipulate her into giving him the rift, it says:

"Summers ending, my guy. Ending to death, bro. She'd do anything to make it last just a day longer. Probably something RASH and OUT OF CHARACTER, even!"

as we know, mabel cannot handle the fact that she will be growing up. that the relationship with her brother is going to change. she is scared of high school.

bill then says "That was it. She'd never make a deal with me. But she'd make a deal with someone she believed could give her more time. The dream was done. I had her."

bill then creates the dream bubble for mabel, he makes every one of her dreams come true, a place where time is still and she can be a kid forever. a lie so great that she wont have to face the truth.

in journal 3 on one of the pages bill is writing in code, we see this:

[ID: "I ask you, why must[should] time only move forward? Why must cause preceded effect. Who voted on the law of physics."]

my friend helped me break down what bill means by this:

why can we only move forward in the 4th dimension of time. why does something have to make another thing happen, why must cause come before the effect. why cant you move backwards, in the other direction, change the decisions youve made.

how interpret this is bill asking why he is not able to back and stop what he did to his family. he says to ford that he tried and failed to undo the past.** why did him wanting people to acknowledge his advantages instead of suppress him lead to the destruction of his whole dimension?

**(i just want to point out that this is probably the time where bill is the MOST open to anybody, or at least the first. to his henchmaniacs he had been telling them that he liberated his dimension until the oracle discovered the truth. here, to ford, he got so much closer to telling the truth. he SHOWS ford the last atoms of his world. he says that it was destroyed by a monster, not that it was liberated! destroyed)

back to when bill says "I had her" about mabel, he had her cause he knew exactly what needed to happen to trap mabel in a delusion because it is exactly what he is doing to himself. creating a fake narrative of what happened to him, that he was vindicated in killing his whole dimension. only ever doing exactly what he wants because confronting the truth is too scary for him(good fucking lord). the morality page offers good insight into this too.

i am actually just going to quote the whole page and highlight the important part. it speaks for itself really

"THE POINT IS it's[morality] is a very flexible concept! But parents and presidents don't want you to know that, because then you might start asking other questions, like who put them in charge, anyway? So they cram your brain full of guilt and regrets for transgressing the laws that they just made up(the laws that they made to prevent the destruction of their dimension, regardless of if the law + the wrongful medication of a fucking baby triangle did any good to actually prevent it). Wouldn't it be nice if you could put all that baggage down? Quell the shame that follows you everywhere for a lifetime of crimes? MAKE THE SCREAMS FINALLY STOP? The good news is you CAN silence that annoying voice, and here's how!

DENIAL

Works 100% of the time in every situation. What you you mean there are people who disagree? I can confidently say there aren't!

RATIONALIZATION

If you can do it, you can justify it! "Truth" is open-source code and anyone can edit it anytime! Want to be like me? List 3 "evil" things and then 3 "reasons why they're actually good." You'll be rationalizing like Bill in no time!

DETACHMENT

Did you know 100% of your human cells die and are replaced every 7 years? That means that anything you did 7 years ago wasn't even you-it was some dead loser! You can't be held accountable for what a dead person did! What? You think this is just another form of rationalization? I DENY THAT!

THE BILL CIPHER DECISION METHOD!

Working over the eons, the voices in my head teamed up and worked out a foolproof method for making any decision in any situation.

DO WHATEVER I WANT."

ooooooooooooooooooh boy.

he is fully admitting here that he is living in a completely different really in order to justify doing whatever he wants. he gives mabel the tools to deny, to rationalize, to detach herself from the reality of it all. that time has to move forward. and he thinks it will work because it worked on himself.

but it doesn't work on mabel because she understands that she needs other people. shes vunerable, she lets people in, admits when shes wrong. and bill cant do that because it would destroy the fantasy he's created for himself.

[mysticstronomy]

WHAT IS THE COLDEST PLANET IN OUR SOLAR SYSTEM??

Blog#418

Saturday, July 13th, 2024.

Welcome back,

The planets in our Solar System are heated by the Sun. Here on Earth, we are about 100 million miles away from the Sun – a distance that provides the perfect temperature for life.

You might think, then, that the coldest planet in the Solar System would be Neptune, as it is the furthest away from the Sun’s warmth. Neptune is an incredible three billion miles away from the Sun.

However, the coldest planet is not Neptune, but Uranus – even though Uranus is a billion miles closer to the Sun than Neptune. Uranus holds the record for the coldest temperature ever measured in the Solar System: a very chilly -224���. The temperature on Neptune is still very cold, of course – usually around -214℃ – but Uranus beats that.

The reason why Uranus is so cold is nothing to do with its distance from the Sun.

Billions of years ago, something big crashed into Uranus with so much force that it tipped the planet over onto its side. Uranus still rolls around the Sun on its side today. The impact of the crash also let some of the heat that was trapped inside Uranus escape.

The heat inside planets is left over from when they were formed. Planets are made when smaller chunks of rock smash together, building the full planet piece by piece over many millions of years.

Every time these rocks smash together, the planet gains a little more heat. If you clap your hands together for a long time they will start to feel hot – the same thing happens with planets.

Neptune wasn’t hit by a huge asteroid like Uranus was, so it has been able to hold on to more of its heat.

You might also be surprised to learn that the closest planet to the Sun, Mercury, can also be extremely cold. While the side of Mercury facing the Sun is more than 400℃, the side facing away from the Sun is nearly -200℃.

The reason for this is that Mercury does not have any atmosphere, unlike Earth. An atmosphere like ours acts like a blanket, holding heat in and spreading it all around. Because it does not have this blanket, the front side and the back side of Mercury can have very different temperatures.

For some nearby planets like Mars, we can send probes to study the atmosphere directly from the planet’s surface. However, we haven’t been able to do this for distant planets such as Neptune and Uranus.

Instead, we have to work out how cold they are by measuring their temperature from here on Earth. We do this by studying the light from the planet, which can tell us the types of atoms and molecules which make up the planet’s atmosphere. This information lets us know exactly what the temperature of the planet is: the atoms and molecules act as a kind of temperature “fingerprint” for the planet.

While these planets in our Solar System are incredibly cold, there are even chillier places in the universe. The coldest of all is the Boomerang Nebula, a cloud of dust and gas 30 million billion miles away from us. There, the temperature reaches -272℃.

Nothing in the Universe can be colder than -273℃, because at that temperature the tiny particles and atoms that everything is made of basically stop moving, and once that happens it’s impossible to go colder. This temperature is known as absolute zero. This means it is unlikely that we will ever find anywhere in the Universe colder than the Boomerang Nebula.

Originally published on https://www.hull.ac.uk

COMING UP!!

(Wednesday, July 17th, 2024)

"ARE WE SAFE FROM BLACK HOLES??"

[akai-akai]

okay so I've ranted about my "Simon Riley is a Dork" philosophy, now I bring you...

John MacTavish is a NERD.

I see how he's often pinned as the rambunctious "airhead" of the team, and that may be true to some to degree but he's not STUPID.

Listen, this man is a demolition expert. That involves all kinds of maths, measurements, electrical work, mechanics, technical shit I'm not well-versed in, etc. Demolitions experts have to be pretty damn smart to be considered experts.

I think Johnny was 100% a robotics kid growing up. Maybe even dabbled in coding and mathematics club. I seriously think he was one of the nerdy kids in highschool/secondary school.

And though that part of him is still very much there, it's quieter now. Shrouded by professionalism and experience and maturity. But then, sometimes when he's had a few too many drinks, or if Simon plucks just the right strings, he'll go on these long tangents about the different mathematics, or about this robot he built by hand in highschool by himself in his parents' garage-turned-robotics-lab— the garage lab that he accidentally set on fire and blew up a can of old hairspray his sister had left on his desk. (He totally wasn't using it as a blowtorch to kill some poor unsuspecting bug, his sister just left the spray there and he didn't notice it. That small burn scar on his left hand is completely unrelated.)

And of course, Simon will sit quietly and patiently, watching the way Johnny's eyes light up and his face gets more and more expressive, arms and hands moving wildly, animatedly. He's so passionate, it makes Simon's eyes soften with affection.

And when Johnny's especially focused on the blueprints in front of him during a mission, clock ticking and pressure weighing down on him, he's a sight to behold. Somehow, that's when he works best. Brows pinched, lips pressed in a tight line as his brain works over the details, pieces a plan together as he mutters under his breath, pen scratching on the paper, recites numbers for the other team members to remember. And then his brows smooth out and he gets this giddy look as things click together in his mind and his head snaps up and he gets to work— John knows to let him take the lead here, and quietly notes to himself that John MacTavish would make for a great Captain down the line.

Sometimes when he can't sleep or his mind's a little too loud, he'll sit up at the little desk in his barracks with the dim lamp illuminating a worn-out blue sketchbook, pencil eraser trapped between his teeth as he scans his old notes and sketches and unresolved equations. Mundane math and physics that doesn't take a lot of mental power, but still relaxes him nonetheless.

In addition, he'd be good at sketching. Specifically blueprints and modeling. Dimensional stuff and perspective. Finds a quiet corner somewhere on base— usually that old tree out by the dirt track— and sketches away models, some of which are totally unrealistic but he doesn't care. He'll sketch a giant sci-fi atomic canon model with realistic mathematics and semi-viable science behind it if he wants to.

When he needs to memorize a new model, he'll draw each individual piece, each little working part as if he's dissecting it and mapping it out in his brain. Sometimes when Simon flips through Johnny's sketchbooks, he'll find 10+ pages filled with the same model, over and over, and it's like he can see every thought process, every reasoning, every time Johnny clicks something together in his mind.

Johnny is brilliant. He's a scientist, an expert in his field. He's a total nerd and I love him for it.

(His average shower thoughts are either complex science that would give the average person a migraine, or Simon's eyes. No in between.)

NSFW:

This time, the tables are turned. Johnny will be mid-ride on top of Simon in bed, purposely distracting himself in his mind to hold off his own release (bc it's a competition and he'll be damned if he finishes first) and then suddenly he'll remember a bomb blueprint he was deconstructing the previous day and he'll plop down, sitting up stock straight as he curses and something makes a PING! sound in his brain and suddenly he's leaning over while Simon raises a questioning brow, hands still firmly gripping Johnny's hips as he snatches his notebook and pen from his table side drawer, flops the book unceremoniously on top of Simon's chest, hunches over, and begins writing and muttering to himself.

And Simon just waits, halfway between disgruntled and amused. Just sorta resorts to grinding his hips upward— to which Johnny firmly plants his hips downward, keeping them still, and Simon just sighs and waits some more.

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Simon's in love with this idiot, don't let him fool you. I love them a healthy amount.

[sadly-never-after]

Music in the EAH Universe and who listens to them Part 1.

This is just an excuse to try to make music puns and share music I think the characters would listen to. (Some of these are even canon by the books!) I don't even like a majority of these musicians but I am fully convinced of my choices here. I marked in colours the one that are canonically part of the EAH Universe.

Since Tumblr only allows 100 inline links for a post I have to make different parts.

Part 1 (Alistair, Apple, Ashlynn, Blondie, Briar, Bunny)

Part 2 (Cupid, Cedar, Cerise, Chase, Courtly, Daring)

Part 3 (Darling, Dexter, Duchess, Farrah, Faybelle, Ginger)

Part 4 (Holly, Hopper, Humphrey, Hunter, Jillian, Justine)

Part 5 (Kitty, Lizzie, Maddie, Meeshell, Melody, Nina)

Part 6 (Poppy, Ramona, Raven, Rosabella, Sparrow, Tucker)

♤♡◇♧ Alistair Wonderland Liddel ♤♡◇♧

David Longbow (Heroes, Changes, Under Pressure)

Tailor Hall (Fate of the stars, The Trap, Hymn for a Scarecrow)

The Beetles (Strawberry Fields Forever, Lucy in the sky with diamonds, Yesterday)

The Doorknobs (People Are Strange, Light My Fire, Strange Days)

The Poison (Lullaby, Three Imaginary Boys, The Caterpillar)

🍎❄🪞✨ Apple White ✨🪞❄🍎

One Reflection (You Don’t Know You’re Beautiful Charming, Story of my life, One Thing)

Taylor Quick (Love Story, Castles Crumbling, I Knew You Were Trouble)

Little Red Sheeran (The A Team, Celestial, Love In Slow Motion)

Reneé Rabbit (It‘s not my fault, poison poison, snow angel)

Chappell Throne (Good luck Babe, Kaleidoscope, California)

(the last two are secret because of comphet)

ʚ ☾⋆｡𖦹 °✩ 👠₊˚⊹♡ 𓍯 ɞ Ashlynn Ella ʚ ☾⋆｡𖦹 °✩ 👠₊˚⊹♡ 𓍯 ɞ

Taylor Quick (Wildest Dreams, Daylight, Lover)

Elvis Princely (Can't Help Falling In Love With You, Suspicious Minds, Love Me Tender)

Fleetwood Myth (Dreams, Landslide, Say You Love Me)

Florence & The Mill (Shake it out, South London Forever, No Choir)

Lana D'Aulnoy (Cinnamon Girl, Say Yes To Heaven, Margaret)

🗝🐻🧸📋🧋 Blondie Lockes 🗝🐻🧸📋🧋

ABBA-cadabra (Mamma Mia, Dancing Queen, Voulez-vous)

Goldie (Heart of Glass, Atomic, Rapture)

Fleetwood Myth (Little Lies, Second Hand News, Mystified)

Dolly Charmton (Jolene, Dumb Blonde, Powerful Women)

Maidonna (Material Girl, True Blue, Borderline)

🥀 ᶻ 𝗓 𐰁 🥀 Briar Beauty 🥀 𐰁 𝗓 ᶻ 🥀

Sugar and Spice Girls (Wannabe, Spice up your life, Stop)

Chappell Throne (Good Luck Babe, Pink Pony Club, HOT TO GO!)

Katy Fairy (I kissed a girl, Last Friday Night, California Gurls)

Royale (Green Light, Perfect Places, Ribs)

Gwen Stepfairy (Just A Girl, Misery, Cool)

ִֶָ𓂃 ࣪˖ ִֶָ🐇་༘࿐ Bunny Blanc ִֶָ𓂃 ࣪˖ ִֶָ🐇་༘࿐

The Beetles (Here Comes The Sun, She Loves You, All You Need Is Love)

The Doorknobs (Light My Fire, Love Me Two Times, The Spy)

Fleetwood Myth (As Long As You Follow, Monday Morning, Dreams)

Lana D'Aulnoy (Chemtrails Over the Country Club, Terrence Love You, White Dress)

Spellanie Martinez (Tunnel Vision, Tag, You're It, Notebook)

You are trapped on an eight-hour long road trip with these guys and you have to give one of them the aux chord.

[espinosaurusrexex]

The Trap - Introduction

Worlds Collide Collection

BuckyBarnes x Female!Reader apocalypse au

summary: Welcome to the apocalypse. This is the introduction to the new world you're about to enter. Let's see what your life is like. Do me a favor and be open, and maybe there'll even be a handsome stranger to meet...

a/n: so this is heavily influenced by The 100 and Love and Monsters and I guess also Maze Runner, if it seems chaotic at times, that’s because it is. With that being said: have fun reading i’d love to hear what you think 

word count: 2.2k

warnings: grumpy/sunshine, mentions of death and misery, loneliness, dystopia, nuclear weapon and monster stuff, obnoxiously optimistic reader (give her a chance okay)

collection playlist | main masterlist | collection masterlist

May 10th 2039

Hey Book,

Here are the things that happened today:

found a new pen (that’s great because this one is running out)

watched the acid fog from the building with the tall glass roof (pretty dope if you ask me!)

went to the west border and saw new tracks

finally got the nose right on that Gordon Ramsey sketch (it’s finished, yay!)

gave Berty a makeover

The day has been pretty sweet. I’m thinking of going out tonight to watch the meteor shower. Hope I don’t die.

Anyway, see ya tomorrow!

   ~You know who :)

The notebook closed with a loud thud that made even you twitch. Your eyes went to the basketball on the shelf above the makeshift bed.

“Sorry, Berty.” The ball didn’t respond, obviously. Its plastic wig shifted slightly further over the marker eyes, making it seem all crooked and funny looking. You weren’t crazy. You just preferred not to talk to yourself. 

A look at the window told you that it had gone dark by now. The weather conditions weren’t too great for another acid fog so your plan was good to go. You grabbed your backpack and headed out to the cliffs where you had the best view. Ever since the apocalypse started, there were a lot more stars visible at night. Half the population had been wiped out with the Hydra nukes and the rest played survivor with the mutated animals roaming the earth due to the atomic bombs that had been fired on that day. 

You remembered it vividly actually: Bright beams shooting through the sky and then it rained down like hellfire. Green glowing stripes covered the horizon from where you looked down onto the city.

The world hadn’t been that great to begin with to be honest. People were suffering, water and food supplies had shifted into the negative, and don’t even get started on climate. Humans had collectively decided that their planet was going to waste anyway. So, where was the harm in a little more destruction, right?

It’s not like you or any other normal citizen had had a chance to decide on another outcome anyway. The united governments of the world had been infiltrated by an organization with fucked up values and no sense for common human decency. They didn't care that their bombs would wipe out half of the world’s population. Hell, you’d be surprised if they even considered this an argument for their ‘cons’ column. But, hey, it had one benefit after all: if this was the worst it could get, there was nothing left to lose.

You kicked open the door of the buried school bus that had become your temporary home for a while now. Temporary in the sense that there was no way of knowing what would happen or when something would attack. You tried to make them all as cozy as possible though. Berty was a big part of that attempt. The painted basketball had become a loyal companion in your ever-shifting habitats. And even though it was a pain to transport a so unfortunately shaped object, you would never dare leave it behind. 

The humid evening air hit you like a broken fan. It was springtime, but that had stopped to matter many years ago. The weather merely shifted between scorching hot days and bearable nights. Though the wintertime was making being outside a little more doable. The trees hung low over your head when you stepped past the traps you had laid out around your home. You lived at the edge of the forest, which wasn’t the most secure place of all the ones you’ve had so far, but it was a little cooler. Most of the dangerous things out there hid several miles from the tree lines anyway. 

A dark sky stretched over your head as your feet dangled off the cliff by the forest. You were munching off an old can of beans that you had found on your stroll through the cities as the bright streams of light shot through the sky. It was beautiful and thrilling. Teetering you on the edge of remembering the very day that made this whole shit show go down. The sky was lit up back then too, but it wasn’t half as beautiful as this.

You could have sat like this for hours. The meteors wouldn’t stop passing until the sun rose, but there was a danger of being tired in broad daylight in this world. You couldn’t risk strolling through the morning with half a working brain. Especially because the morning brought a routine acid fog with its sunlight. You took a look at the tactical watch on your wrist. It was 3:30 am - Probably best to head back to safety.

As you stepped through the dried ground, you hummed a song from the old record in your bus. It didn’t work great and it was broken in several places which had you always listening to a slightly messed-up remix of the actual song, but you liked it anyway. Close to the bus, however, there was rustling from the side. Your body went into surviving mode immediately. There was a routine: hide, listen, escape. Only idiots fought whatever was out there. 

So that’s what you did.

The tree you hid behind was wide enough to cover you whole, which gave you easy access to sneak your head past the trunk and see what was making the noise. It came from about 20 feet before the buried bus, but there was nothing to be seen. The rustling continued though and as you stepped forwards from your cover, you noticed that it came from underneath. Something had fallen into your trap! It was foolproof of course, but you still approached it with care, fearfully and intrigued all together as to what you had caught this time... well, it was the first time here to be perfectly honest. Even more exciting to say the least.

Your feet crunched the dried leaves beneath you as a mumbled curse reached your ears. That was weird. Last time you checked, monsters didn’t talk. You were even more surprised, however, to find a broad man tangled in the hole you had dug outside your home. Of course, a person had been stupid enough to walk into your trap. You had been so excited about something more dangerous. 

The man had not noticed you standing above the hole just yet. He was still working with the net you had splayed out beneath the fallen leaves, too busy cursing his life away in the dirty opening. You cleared your throat after a minute, though. And as amusing as the whole scene had been, the man looking up at you wiped the smirk off your face immediately. He was gorgeous. Bright blue eyes gleamed up in the moonshine, a deep frown on his face as soon as the surprise to see you had faded.

“You got caught in my trap.” You said blankly, still captured by his face. You had not seen another person in nearly a month. It was strange, to say the least. That’s why you weren’t really expecting your mouth to say anything smart.

“This is supposed to be a trap?” The brown-haired man huffed before cutting through the last rope to free him from his restraints.

“Well you can’t get out, can you?” There was a short silence in which you caught the slightest hint of disbelief in his eyes.

“If you wanted to catch a monster with that, you wouldn’t be making such snarky comments. It’s barely deep enough for them.”

Anger crept up your neck. Who was this stranger to not only fall into your - awesome - intruder trap but also criticize your work even though he was the idiot stuck in it? “Why do you think I wanted to trap monsters? Maybe my trap was for people, which, in that case, it is brilliant.”

“It’s stupid,” he grumbled. 

“Oh come on give me a little credit, I only had spare materials.”

There was the confused glare again, and you couldn’t really place it just yet.“Yeah, yeah. Trap’s great now get me out.”

“That wasn’t genuine.” Your arms crossed before your chest, but you couldn’t hide the small smile forming on your lips. This was fun.

“You know what’s gonna be genuine? My foot in your ass once I get out of here.” Oh, not so fun.

“That's not a really good way to make me help you, you know?” You were about to step away when you heard him sigh deeply beneath you. A triumphant smirk appeared on your face before you held your head over the hole again.

“Can you please help me out of this genius trap?” The Brunette was rolling his eyes, but it was good enough for you - after all, you didn’t want to make enemies just yet.

“Why of course! I love people that appreciate good handy work!”

You nodded appreciatively and reached for the net he held your way. It took a little bit to get enough momentum but then he jumped and dug his boots into the soil walls and within seconds, the stranger was pulled up from the ground. 

“Drop the bullshit.”

“What bullshit?”

Now that he was standing in front of you like that, you noticed how tall he was, and built, too. It was a wonder you had managed to pull his weight out of there now that you thought about it. He was really handsome, too. His dark hair fell into his face and his eyes were bright blue, staring down at you with a gloomy expression. It didn’t scare you, though. You were more... fascinated by him, really.

He looked at you for a second, and the gears were literally turning behind his eyes. But he caught himself quickly, shaking his head and making his way out of the forest. You weren’t ready to have him leave, though. It was rare to meet people now, and this one seemed entertaining enough.

“Hey, where are you going?”

“Away.” You barely heard him over the heavy footsteps he pressed into the ground.

“You can’t go!”

That made him stop. The stranger turned around with an unfazed expression, his shoulders hanging low with annoyance, but you wouldn’t let up. “And why’s that?”

Shit, you hadn’t thought it would get this far. Your hands wrung the net as you stood there looking for an explanation. But the guy turned around with a condescending clicking of his tongue. “Wait! You haven’t told me your name.” You shuffled over to him in haste, you steps faster than his, but it was difficult to catch up to him, still.

“I don’t have to.”

“You do, actually. It’s a rule.” He stopped again, and you almost fell at the abrupt halt.

“A rule,” he repeated in disbelief, his face still unimpressed, but he was quite pretty this way.

You smiled. “Yup. You fall into my trap, you tell me your name.” To be honest, you were a little proud at how fast you had come up with the idea, but it seemed the stranger was still not impressed. He just crossed his arms and raised his eyebrows at you almost amused.

“That's not a rule.”

“It’s my rule.” Was that a tiny smile creeping onto his features? You liked it - looked way better than those broody anger lines.

Then he huffed and shook his head. “Bucky.”

“Gesundheit,” you answered immediately, but that seemed to stick that annoyed look right back onto his handsome face.

“No. Bucky is my name.” Oops.

“Oh. Sorry.” You tried it out in your head, then. And it suited him quite nicely. It was a little odd but witty - just like him. 

“Whatever.” His arms untangled before his broad chest and Bucky looked ready to leave again. You didn’t want that, though.

“Would... uh.. would you like to come in?” Why were you so nervous all of a sudden? Your hands were a little sweaty, but talking to someone that actually responded felt so good...

You earned another look with that question. Really, you’d already gotten used to those in the three minutes you knew him - seemed to be his M.O. 

“What?” He wasn’t confused this time, at least you didn’t think so. It sounded more like he hadn’t heard you.

“You know... be my guest.” A bright smile spread on your lips, but Bucky wasn’t buying it, and frankly, you were running out of ideas to keep him here. Normally, people were happy to see others around here, but Bucky? He didn’t seem to like talking very much.

“Sorry, gotta go.”

Your eyes found the ground as you heard his steps distancing from you again. “Oh, ok.” You mumbled to yourself, and with a last wash of hope, you called out again. “Will I see you again?”

“No.” He was already by the tree line, now. And Bucky didn’t seem like the type of person to run back the distance in slow-mo like you had seen in those old films. 

It didn’t discourage you, though. “Okay, you know where to find me!”

“Not gonna visit you!”

“See ya soon!” You waved and bit back a triumphant smile when you heard him chuckle before he disappeared out of the woods. 

Hey, Book, It’s me again.

And, man, what a great day!

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[borrelia]

can u tell me more about what happened when robotnik got defeated in stc and sonic turned depressed aboyt it i saw u post panels from that a while ago and it reminded me of archie sonic

under the cut bc its fucking long. also i forgot what you said while i was getting all these scs so i went off on a completely different tangent. but this:

was sonic depressed about his friend dying, not robotnik being defeated. the most we got out of him after robotniks defeat was this:

and the immediate next panel, tails takes sonic on an adventure. but i thought you were asking about when robotnik was depressed so thats what the rest of the post is about.

so eggman loses his empire in issue 100 and sneaks off to flicky island for a while where he plots and schemes and such. he collaborates with the drakon empire to get to the chaos emeralds, absorbs their power, and temporarily becomes a god that just changes reality to torment sonic for like three issues starting in 127.

then knuckles neutralizes his power with the grey emerald and he shrinks down so small he ends up on an atom-sized planet. which is where we get what is essentially sonic storybook planet. they got secret rings and black knight in here. and he's kintobor again for a while :)

then he stops being kintobor. theyre all trapped on this tiny planet for AGESSSS its like 30 issues or somethign?? jesus. anyway robotnik figures out a way to get out in 164.

wanted to keep this bit in. badum tsss

enjoy nacks emaciated body. anyway it does this.

robotnik is defeated and pissed off about it. and wanders off to go lick his wounds. then in 171 we get this

which leads into this short little arc i always forget about where robotnik uses alternate dimension alien technology to drain the life energy of mobius and earth to make himself powerful enough to kill everyone. leading to this in 174

then the adventure 1 arc kicks off right after his defeat with him moping and depressed

which grimer tries to get him out of by releasing chaos

and gets us to the end of the comic, where robotnik gets chaos all the emeralds

becauuuse heee's sickavit!!

[chronoslogbestiary]

Log 3: Hidehounds

Document Serial Number: I27D88 Document Classification: Biological Creature Anomaly Species Name: Hidehounds

Hidehounds are animals similar to that of wolves and other canine predators, usually residing within modern and more nature-heavy dimensions. It is to be noted that Hidehounds usually are found hunting in packs of 5-10 Instances. If a single instance is found by itself, it may be setting up a trap, so take extreme caution.

Hidehounds are known for their extremely bizzare method of hunting, as well as the phenomenon that affects their physical structure. When a Hidehound is in distress or danger, it possesses legs with considerable strength when compared to an ordinary wolf. Using these legs, it can be seen running into any sturdy objects it can see nearby. However, a Hidehound then can be seen jumping before impact with said object, and seems to vanish.

This phenomenon is theorized to be an atomic level base instinct, where a Hidehound dissassembles itself and hides its atomic structure within an object, within the blink of an eye. However, it is still uncertain as to where the mass it deconstructs goes into.

Another possible theory is a connection to a supernatural state. The theory notes that it could be that a Hidehound, using the speed it generates, goes incorporeal and hides as a spirit within certain objects. This seems more plausible since it has been noted of two things: 1. Hidehounds appear to be capable of hiding within objects that wouldn't usually fit their size, such as a skipping stone or in Incident-HP, a water bottle. It also is to be noted that an object doesn't need to be hollow for a Hidehound to take residence within it. 2. Hidehounds have been documented being able to make physical contact with Spectral anomalies, or other incorporeal entities. While only observation was via a Hidehound attack on a Ditto Wisp, it is to be noted that it was a Wisp in its initial state, so any physical contact would've normally been impossible. it is also to be noted that Hidehounds can then shoot themselves out of their hiding locations at prey, usually using the momentum to sink their teeth into the prey, incapacitate and then consume them while immobile. It is to be noted that when a Hidehound leaves its hiding place, it becomes whole or corporeal, and can be injured.

However, a Hidehound is not immune to damage when hiding. Extensive testing has resulted in the revelation that, should a hiding space be destroyed, a Hidehound will be forced out of its hiding spot and into the mortal plane, where it must find another item to hide within, and is vulnerable. This is presumably why Hidehounds are most known to hide within Trees within its territory, as they can be tough to fully destroy before it can attack.

If you suspect you are within a Hidehound's territory, here are the steps recorded to escape with minimal damage: 1. Keep as far from any tough or solid objects as you can. A Hidehound could be hiding within one, and getting in close can risk massive damage. 2. Locate a path out. With time limited, you need to get away to empty space as fast as possible. Try and find a route with as minimal trees or other possible hiding areas, both to avoid a Hidehound attack and to minimize any obstruction on your way out. 3. Drop any food or edible items as you can. While Hidehounds are notably seen stalking their prey for days, they will prefer an easier meal than wasting energy on a running target. However, this is only possible as an effective distraction if you have enough food. Even if this is a small enough pile of food, it might not distract the pack. 4. Run as fast as you can. Run the route you planned for yourself, and be careful not to twist an ankle. This would draw more attention and make you an easy target. Until you are 100 feet away from any possible hiding spot, do not stop running. 5. Contact an AEON Rescue team and explain the situation. Provide your name, ID number, current dimensional location, and the current time. Then shelter in one location until you are retrieved.

[anti-katsuki-lounge]

YAOYOROZU IS THE QUEEN OF DESERVES BETTER!

She was so competent, intelligent, and levelheaded in the beginning of the series. Not only was she screwed over during the Sports Festival (multiple times), her personality was retconned. She way more "uwu" than she was originally and it makes her less distinct from the other 1A girls. Her hero costume isn't just revealing, it just sucks. It says nothing about her personality. The intended goal is "functionality" but it fails in that department too (she could break her spine on that stupid bookcase and she has no chest protection). Every time Hori seems like he's going to treat her seriously, he turns around and screws her over again whether it's to make a perverted joke or to just ignore her.

Also, Creation is the most OP quirk outside of AFO and OFA and Horikoshi doesn't freaking use it

Momo’s definitely up there in terms of “most screwed over”.

For starters, according to Hori, Momo has an intelligence stat of 6/5 S. To put that into perspective, that’s higher than Mei’s 5/5 A+ intelligence and on pair with both Nezu and All Might, a being with an intelligence boosting quirk and the Number 1 hero. Only AFO (the oldest person on the planet and someone who’s probably got an intelligence enhancing quirk) and Garaki (a literal mad scientist whose able to create creatures from corpses and copy quirks straight from someone’s DNA) beat her out in brains.

Secondly, her quirk is absurdly powerful. I’d put it as part of the Top 3 best quirks (Overhaul and New World Order are my other three picks). Sure, it has its limits of needing lipids for fuel and Momo having to remember complex atomic formulas, but the second weakness hardly ever comes up. If she really wanted to, she could create nukes. If given time to prepare, she instantly becomes a top threat. Sadly, Hori never does much in terms of creativity. Poor girl’s relegated to mainly creating basic traps and weapons. Hori keeps trying to make her be a frontline combatant when she really should be support/nuke option.

In terms of her arc, I do believe that the idea of her arc’s solid. Her arc’s one we constantly see in fiction. Genius comes in confident in their abilities, gets humbled, has their worldview shattered, is lost, and then reignites their flame. The problem is how it’s executed. Her losing to Fumikage makes sense. Momo didn’t bother to prepare ahead of time and was up against someone who had no known weakness (the light weakness is only known by 1-A after the Sports Arc. Until then, only Izuku and Ochako knew while Katsuki figured it out due to luck). Sadly, after this, we really don’t get much outta her. Her internship taught her shit. Her spark is reignited when she and Shoto face off against Eraserhead, but that was temporary. Her fight with Saiko Intelli (unrelated but I actually quite like her) only happens in the anime and is more of a team win than a personal win. During the Joint Training Arc, she doesn’t get a win either, instead tying with Itsuka. Her final main contribution comes during the War Arc where she creates the sleeping gas to put Giantomecha to sleep. Don’t get me wrong, it was a cool moment, but that was more of Ejiro’s moment. Simply put, Momo takes a lot of L’s for someone who is usually crucial to various victories. Also, like you said, throughout the story, she goes from being one of 1-A’s leaders to being a follower despite her intellect and growth.

Her costume I 100% agree on. Seriously, what is this girl wearing? So many people have said this before but you can have her costume have flaps that open up when she’s using her quirk rather than have her running around almost naked. It’s really not that hard to make a practical costume. If Mirio can have a costume that can phase through things with him, then Momo and Tooru could have costumes that both work with their quirks and not have them running around naked.

Lol, this turned into another rant, but Momo really got screwed over.

[hautsreadsmarvel]

The “Fantastic Four” (1961, issues 18-21, plus annual issue)

In this quintuple issue of the Fantastic Four, we’ve got: more Skrulls! More Namor! A guy I’m pretty sure is Kang the Conqueror! The actual “most dangerous villain of all time” (yes, all other comic mag covers are liars)! And… Adolf Hitler!?

Effective clickbait, don’tcha think? Well, I’m going to cover them in sequential order, so the suspense can build…

“A Skrull Walks Among Us!” (1961)

While the Four banter and prepare to go on various vacations (having learned nothing about leaving the HQ unmanned since their scrap w the Tinker) …

… the Skrulls have long since recovered from their defeat and created a new weapon to defeat our heroes: the Super-Skrull, who has stronger versions of each of the Fantastic Four’s powers!

Super-stretching to >100mi/160km, vs Mr. Fantastic’s 500yd/~460m

Faster flight and more flame-state stamina than the Human Torch, as well as “anti-matter” fireballs that can shave off mountaintops

What looks like a deadlift of 100 tons/90.7 tonnes, vs Thing’s 5-ton limit

Invisibility, and some extra power left in suspense for later in the issue

Bro thinks he's Columbus On that note, a lot has been said - by people smarter than me - about how this sort of invading/conquering alien fiction is like a dark fantasy written by the beneficiaries of colonial empires attempting to present a horror they are not subject to, but there's nothing you can really do with such a premise in these short stories where the villain must always be defeated in 1-2 issues in order to be CCA-compliant.

I know I just randomly sniped at one-dimensional invading alien villains as a whole, but I love the weird-looking irises of the Skrulls, and the Super-Skrull deploys some awesome flexes on the F4 during these fights.

He clearly loves not just battle, but humiliating each member of the Foursome by defeating them w their own powers - including blinding the Torch with carbonized ash and headbutting the Thing far into the open sky. He even uses pyrokinesis to make weapons of flame, which is totally unnecessary but wicked cool:

Reed figures that the Super-Skrull is impossibly powerful for a single creature, and so therefore he must be receiving power beamed from a remote source. I… what? Wait, what? Y’all got no issue with y’all’s own powers all requiring way more power than could possibly be stored in your bodies - but the Super-Skrull’s might exceeds some arbitrary limit of believability? Well, Reed is a man of science, so clearly in Marvel physics either human bodies really can just store so much energy, or the radiation that “infuses the atoms” of heroes like the Hulk, Spider-Man, and of course the Fantastic-Four has some theoretical maximum concentration. Hm…

1) Of course the extra power our villain has is hypnotism. He also arrived on Earth in this issue on his own spacecraft, so the only one of the Trifecta of Villain Powers he’s missing is magnetism.

2) Wow, they managed to make Sue useful! Instead of just disarming a single evildoer, she’s now responsible for planting the signal jammer on the Super-Skrull, preventing the empowering rays from reaching him, and then tripping him into a cave that they seal up. I’m still holding out for her to get some mobility tech - even a grappling hook launcher would make her so much more versatile.

“Sub-Mariner Versus the Human Race!” (1963)

25 cents, daaaaaaaaaaaamn. That’s $2.52 today, or about as much as a Lunchable. Granted, this contains more than just the F4 story, it’s got extra diagrams, Q&As, a reprint and expansion of Spiderman’s first meeting with the F4, and individual pages dedicated to each of the villains they’ve faced so far. I won’t cover all of that stuff, though, and we should start w the story:

BEHOLD - the first double-page spread.

I love these two dipshits. Reed has to use asbestos netting to trap the Torch, because as we know asbestos is a perfectly safe material to hold people in. Everyone gets wound up, they all decide to vacay on a cruise, they spot sea monsters, the sea monsters take them to Namor and his recently rediscovered undersea kingdom.

Okay, the introduction of yet more superpowered sea-dwelling lifeforms goes some way to meliorating my complaints about the random powered fish in Namor’s previous appearance. I still don’t understand why they couldn’t just be technology, since by all rights Namor’s power mimicry now theoretically grants him radar and the ability to project what it sees thru the eyes. Also, now we have to contend with the idea that Earth is just chock-full of superpowered fish in future issues; if nobody else ever encounters/makes use of a mento-fish or a hypno-fish or the like, I’ll be quite disappointed. Also also, can we call it literally anything cooler than “tele-fish”? Please? Pretty please?

Namor is a treat, so is the Thing.

Meanwhile, this crummy love triangle has no chemistry and no depth to it. It just exists for the sake of filling word balloons. Don’t like it. Also you know how you can just grab the number of the UN? The singular number of the UN? A number that belongs to the entire UN, which you could use to call them?

At the UN, we get a really fun lecture on the origins and nature of Namor’s people. Apparently they’re just known scientific fact with documented historical encounters stretching back to the 1920s. Namor himself is a descendant of the undersea woman who was encountered in that time, and a surface-dwelling man. The meeting concludes w Namor declaring war upon humanity, as his legions attack across the world w “thousands of planes” and “legions” of infantrymen.

Reed’s plan is technically not a warcrime but it feels like it should be. Despite Atlanteans being able to survive out of water for up to 5 hours, the moment his anti-water ray hits their helmets they start “gasping” and “wheezing”, so. Not a great thing to experience.

Glorious Reedball makes his return for all of four panels. Also, damn, there were only 2 billion people back then!?

The resolution to this story is a (sigh) love pentagon. Oh gosh, you know how females get.

Anyways Namor, who doesn’t want any of the Four dead, least of all Sue, rescues her and in doing so earns the enmity of his own people. Uh. the ending was ok I guess. I was having a good ol’ time up to the love pentagon. Of course, the annual issue is good for more than just the story:

The “hobbies” section for each are basically what you’d expect, and the Sue one is obviously full of woman stereotypes, but this Q&A is otherwise informative.

So is this diagram, which seems to be the first time it gets called the Baxter Building - and also explicates that yes, while the Storms do live in a separate household (as depicted in the Human Torch solo run), the other two don’t. It seems largely accurate to "Save this for future reference" from issue #4 or 5 as well.

“Prisoners of the Pharoah!” (sic, 1961)

Huh, this one brings us back to the real-life publication date of 1961. I wonder why the reading order’s like that.

A pharoah(sic) from the future…? Is that Kang the Conqueror? I know a little bit about Kang, so I feel reasonable about that assertion.

Reed what are you talking about. What do you mean it shows a “vial containing a radioactive herb” anyways Reed suggests the group retrieve DOOM’s old time machine, go back to whatever period of time is depicted in the hieroglyph, and cure Alicia of her blindness. (When they reach his old castle, there’s a little nod to continuity with the moat having a glassy rut in it, courtesy of when the Torch burnt a path thru it for the Four to escape)

Frens : )

The cover spoils you on this plot twist, but it’s still cool to see it play out.

Rama-Tut is kind of a more fleshed-out take on the Tomorrow Man (from a peaceful time in the future, dreadfully bored of it), though he gets stuck in [whatever century this is] since his Sphinx-shaped time machine crash-landed.

The day is saved when the Thing inexplicably reverts to human form, thus slipping out of the body-controlling trance Rama-Tut’s ray weapon inflicted on him. He does judo on humans (is that… possible?), then frees Sue by shooting her again with the ray weapon; Sue frees everyone else.

They fend off Rama-Tut, it goes without saying, and when he leaves he atomizes the components of the time machine within the Sphinx, time travels outta there, and somehow removes all memory of his bizarre reign from the normal inhabitants of the time period.

This part of the ending is a little contrived - we were never priorly made privy to this “fault” in DOOM’s time machine, and anyways various members of the F4 at this point have been described as having radiation bonded to their atoms or somesuch, so by that logic they should also be ineligible for transtemporal transport - but I’m also glad they didn’t just suddenly cure Alicia’s blindness. The pacing would’ve felt off.

“The Mysterious Molecule Man!” (1961)

The Watcher shows up in a moving dimensional portal to tell the F4 about the genesis of the “Molecule Man”, a sad guy who is caught in an atomic technology malfunction and subsequently gets the power to manipulate any matter while holding a wand. The Watcher has to tell us about this because the Molecule Man could theoretically destroy “solar systems” or threaten “galaxies”, so now we know that any comics issue cover that proclaims it has the “most menacing and dangerous villain of all time” is a liar if the Watcher doesn’t show up to personally debrief us on the threat.

Anyways, the Molecule Man feels unappreciated and disgraced by society - his boss of 12 years can’t even remember his name when firing him - so he goes on a villainous rampage to take over the city, which includes levitating the Baxter Building and stalemating the F4 in a fight. Reed realizes that despite the Molecule Man’s ability to manipulate and transmute virtually anything into anything, he only ever used indirect attacks on the F4 instead of altering them directly, and so probably can’t affect organic matter. This hunch is correct, enabling them to sneak attack him and take his wand away, at which point the Watcher swallows him into another dimension.

This was an enjoyable one; I especially liked the fight scenes, which have much improved dynamism compared to prior issues. However I would like to bring up:

That is literally the opposite of how magnets work, and all but the youngest children reading this issue are going to know that’s the opposite of how magnets work. I’m going to assume that that’s also the opposite of how magnets work in the Marvelverse and the Molecule Man is just a dumdum.

“The Hate-Monger!” (1961)

The cover itself says “don’t dare reveal his true identity after reading this tale”, so I would like to apologize to those who worked on this cover for using the villain’s true identity in the opening paragraph of this blogpost.

This was certainly one of the issues of all time.

The F4 decide to deal with a guy spreading racist, classist, nationalist “unamerican” hate speech. Wow, I wonder how the authors will tackle this perpetually relevant subject!

…They don’t. It’s a guy using a “hate ray”, which he turns on the F4 to make them fight each other, and the hate ray forms much of the backbone of the plot. “What if hate and bigotry were created by a hate and bigotry machine?” is a really disappointing way to take this story, because instead of actually forging ahead with this spicy topic they’ve reduced it back to our heroes must destroy the machine and thwart the costumed criminal. “What if hate and bigotry could be solved by taking the antidote pill?” Gosh wouldn’t that be swell, why haven’t we thought of that in real life.

Also, this issue has a lot of stuff about imperiled fictional South American countries falling from the grace of democracy. (Inhale, exhale, ten deep breaths) At least it introduces Nick Fury, a former military sergeant who now works for the CIA as a colonel; he’s a tough-guy who smokes, brawls, and manipulates the heroes even in their hate-filled state to do America’s bidding, and of course will eventually head S.H.I.E.L.D. whenever it forms.

And to top off my coverage of this issue, I leave you with this strange last six panels:

Yeah, while I've enjoyed F4 issues so far, this is the first one I don’t. They don’t explicitly label Hitler a communist in this issue - because that would obviously make no fucking sense - but the Hate-Monger’s plans are coated in the usual things associated with the looming specter of communism. And making the Hate-Monger Hitler in the first place is also just such a waste of an interesting premise. Presenting and then completely dropping the idea of the F4 contending with intolerance and hateful mobs rooted in America - in favor of this simpler plot entirely made of elements borrowed from stories we’ve already seen before - is just such a, a waste!!

[daisychainsandbowties]

Palmer AU when there’s a serious storm, though. Ava being all, “momma earth, call it off, I wanna go out and play,” and Suzanne is just, “no.” The storm is knocking out everybody’s special fancy equipment so Beatrice is, “I’m going to take a nap. Would you like to join me Ava?” and Ava’s brain melts so she just nods emphatically and drags Beatrice to Beatrice’s quarters. Lilith first checks all her aquariums, then has to search for Camila. Suzanne helps her out so she doesn’t disturb avatrice and says Camila is probably in the ‘boiler room,” a small space full of machines loud enough to drown out a storm. Camila sits wrapped in her favorite blanket with a mug of tea. “Everyone says I’m crazy, but it is warmer in here,” Camila says in greeting. “Everyone says I’m crazy, but it’s usually about diving in places they wouldn’t want to dive.” “Is there anywhere you wouldn’t want to dive?” “… maybe the Hudson?” “Eww, yeah. Good call. Anyway, I like to wait out storms here. Wanna cuddle?”

beatrice is 100% the guy who has at least a dozen tracks on her phone that are like ‘10 hours of [insert extreme weather here]’ so she greets the prospect of a huge storm by carrying a load of blankets up to her observatory and stocking the mini-fridge ava got her with snacks.

ava: bea… you want to sit in a room that’s 64% glass while the sky tries to eat us??

beatrice: 😐 of course i do. how many times in my life will i have the chance to observe an arctic storm?

ava follows her up there, footsteps tentative on the metal steps, still making a racket in her hobnail boots. drawn by the prospect of lazy sex under a ripped-up sky and staying for the way beatrice holds her hand the whole time, as they wend up through the building with the wind already sighing at them through the thickness of the walls.

bea at first wrapped in her ragged blue blanket with threadbare, tasseled edges. her comfiest hoodie and a space heater running off solar batteries.

noticing that ava’s a little spooked and telling her in her soothing lecture monotone about the exact composition of the glass windows; all the reasons why they won’t break.

‘mechanically, breakage is about the propagation of cracks, on an atomic level, then into our visual range. thinner cracks are usually worse, if you’re the thing that’s breaking.’

(and ava doesn’t tell her that she knows about breaking, actually. that’s she done it).

‘but this glass doesn’t let it happen in the profuse way of the glass you’re used to. it’s stable, probably sturdier than the walls.’

the sea turning dark as the clouds scatter over the horizon, bea explaining how storms work, research papers she’s read about the atmosphere on venus and what Sagan said about the runaway greenhouse effect, everything trapped beneath the sulfuric clouds that make it so difficult to even look at the planet's surface.

‘what must that have felt like? to be denied the image of a distant place even though you could peer right towards it.’

‘you see then how light can illuminate, but also obscure. how the universe has so much light in it, but that can make it hard to see what sits behind the light, beyond it.'

'do you know how we discovered the dark parts of the universe? how we learned about them? through their absence in the visual field.’

she talks about the development of radar and infrared, and when the storm hits ava’s just draped against her, lost in the curve of her voice and her waist because she’s stuck her cold hands under bea’s hoodie. lazily pressing her mouth into bea’s neck to feel the hum of her low voice as vibration.

ava: i think i get it now

bea: what?

ava: how you can know a place, or a person, even without any light.

[scrapsovereign]

Fic idea: Isekai BG3 AU where Ascended Astarion and Gale try to kidnap Tav in an interesting setting to bring her back…but were off by about 100 years.

If you liked country, maybe you could write a song about the week you’ve had.

Starting Sunday, you cried all the way home from the vet and all night after you put down your very sick 21 year old cat, went in Monday to find you’ve been let go from your job at the Box of Human Suffering, and came back to your apartment early to find your partner in bed with their coworker.

Fan-fucking-tastic.

You make it to your bestie’s place and crashed in their spare room- you’re still invited to Ren Faire if you want to go. It’ll be fun! You can stress shop, get trashed, be hungover in the hot, hot sun…

Feeling like shit outdoors in the beautiful cottage core fever dream that is the PNW summer is better than feeling like shit at your apartment around your now ex-boyfriend. Besides, there’s no cell phone signal at site so you can avoid the inevitable garbage fire that is the social media fallout.

The night before you make your way to Ren Faire you can’t sleep. Stupid global warming. The open window in your friends’ guest bedroom helps to cool off the room some but it’s still pretty warm. Eventually, you fall asleep…with your phone on your face.

A slender, pale hand picks it up, puts it aside on the table next to you, and smooths back your hair. That feels really nice. You hum out in bliss, a peaceful smile on your lips.

“Soon, we shall be reunited at long last, my treasure.”

That voice. You’ve heard it before in dreams just like this one.

What happens next is something that you’re sure there’s a million Labyrinth fanfics about. Damn, that’s a spicy dream- you had to fake it with your ex but this guy? You have 3 orgasms! In an hour! That’s more than you had in your whole 2 year relationship that just ended!

The next morning, you make it to the event with your friends and are setting up when you hear the couple in the site next to you bickering. You poke your head around to look at the corner to see an Astarion and a Gale cosplayer arguing with each other. They’re so in character it hurts. “Astarion” looks like he’s about to stab “Gale” with a tent pole before you intervene and offer your help.

Turns out they’ve never been to one of these things before! You laugh darkly at the situation of your new thirst trap friends. Two hot guys with British accents at REN FAIRE of all places is like dumping a bucket of blood in shark-infested waters.

And YOU get to be their guide.

You learn a little more about them, but it doesn’t add up. “Greg” teaches computer science but doesn’t say where and looks at you weird when you crack a joke about the internet being a series of tubes. “Ryan” says he’s a lawyer who works in downtown Seattle but won’t tell you what flavor of lawyer he is and he’s never heard of Jeff Bezos’ Balls.

Huh.

Ryan is super excited to learn about and partake of all the drunken debauchery that happens after dark, so you drag your new friends to all the different camps and make sure they know some of the rules before you let them loose.

You knock back some blue pixie stick and cackle at Ryan when he does a spit-take from the sweetness of the drink. Greg (who ignored your warning about not eating more than one atomic cherry because he wanted to show off how well he could tie a knot with the stem) gets into a very spirited debate with your DnD buddies on the nature of “The Weave”. While he’s distracted, Ryan drags you away from site, away from the event, far beyond the parking lot.

He looks down at you with adoring eyes, your hands held delicately in his, his silver hair positively glowing in the moonlight. He begins to lean down toward you- oh shit, is he going to kiss you?!

“Uhhh…I’m fresh out of a breakup, this probably isn’t a great idea if you’re looking for something that isn’t casual- and I don’t want to come between whatever’s going on with you and Greg.”

He barks out a laugh. A wicked smile spreads across his face, displaying that really great pair of fake teeth. You make a mental note to ask him later where on Etsy he got them from.

“It’s time to go home, Octavia. You can abandon this little charade of yours.”

You stare up at him blankly, feeling uneasy all of a sudden.

Why is he calling you by your middle name? That you never gave to him? Which is also your grandmother’s first name? Your grandmother, (who you bear an uncanny resemblance to), who died more than a decade ago?

You ask him as such. His lips curl in to a snarl, his hands tighten painfully around yours.

“Don’t be stupid, pet. Do you know what we’ve had to go through to find you?! The bloody traffic from that awful place called ‘Renton’ was worse than the ordeal it took to infiltrate the Acquisitions Incorporated Office in Waterdeep. You’ve had your fun, but you’re coming back with us. Tonight.”

Waterdeep, as in Waterdeep in the DnD? What the LARP is he talking about?

You try to tell him that he doesn’t need to be in character, that this isn’t that kind of event when you don’t feel good all of a sudden.

The night swirls around you, wrapping you in a blanket of inky darkness.

You awaken from your dreamless slumber, noticing the softness of real silk sheets beneath you.

Slender fingers lovingly card through your hair. You’re held tenderly in strong arms. You can’t remember the last time you’ve felt so relaxed and comfortable.

Your stomach drops as a familiar voice lilts out above you.

“Welcome home, my darling consort…”

[pendragaryen]

The 100 rewatch 2023 S1 E2

Episode “Earth Skills” 

The kids fleeing through the woods after Jasper had been impaled at the river.

Jasper is still alive... His screams echoing from far away through the woods... it’s frightening. “They took him!” THEY ARE NOT ALONE ON EARTH! Some people must have survived the apocalypse so many years ago!

Poor Jaha thinks his son is dead... just no...

Wells on the ground digging graves for the kids that haven’t survived the landing. Why him... Poor thing...

Post-coital Bellamy leaving the dropship shirtless - and me with my jaw dropped. (At least, while i was watching it many years ago for the first time ;) ). But he’s still an asshole. Especially towards Wells atm. “What’s wrong with a little chaos?”--- I’M JUST GETTING STARTED. Well... whatever you say Bell...

Murphy as Bellamy’s little soldier. Unf... But oh, look! Wells got it. But OF COURSE Clarke and the others come back and get the wrong picture.

“Life support on the ark is failing!” Oh look at the kids faces... They didn’t know this.

Bellamy and his first speech to the kids ever! “We’re stronger than you think!” Aggressively good. And he’s got some points...

On the ark: Oh god... Jaha and Abby talking about a culling already. But... “Hope is everything!” YES ABBY!

Oh... Jaha accusing Kane to possibly be the man behind the plot to him being shot down. I totally forgot!

The dropship camp on earth: Monty is “too important” and isn’t allowed to go on a rescue mission for his best friend Jasper. Clarke shows authority again. And rightful so.

And then... Bellarke... “I came here for you.” The tension is almost palpable. Her glares at him too. “I hear you have a gun.” And instead of just ANSWERING her he has the audacity to lift up his shirt at his hip with his beautiful veiny hand to show her: He indeed HAS a gun... More then one so. Lol... He’s so annoyingly sexy. Clarke looking right through his attitude. Just lifting an eyebrow. Uh oh... Is there some certain... tension... between them? Or am i making things up? Doesn’t matter. This is INTERESTING...

Bellamy never leaving the “princess” out of sight while out on the rescue mission, even willing to “cut off her hand to get that wristband”. Yeah well... As if i could believe you, big-mouth.  ;)

The ark: RAVENNNN!!!! MY BEAUTIFUL SMARTASS RAVEN IS ENTERING THE STAGE!!! My day is saved. I LOVED Raven from the very first moment i saw her. And she’s a spacewalker! YESSS!

On earth again: Oh look, Atom hitting on O. And O hitting on him - mocking him. O being locked up with Monty in the dropship. Surprise surprise.

Abby and Jackson on the ark talking about Raven: “Ballsy kid.” “Yes she is, reminds me of someone...” Raven and Abby. This is going to be awesome.

Earth: Oh, yet ANOTHER scene filled with tension between rebel Bellamy and princess Clarke - BRAVE PRINCESS, there, he said it. ICONIC.  And that trademark smirk that makes my knees go weak in a way.

Bell realizing that Wells only came down to earth for Clarke. For “someone he loves”. He’s not the only one. Bell thinking of his sister O, of course. He MAY BE an asshole. But a smart and caring one.

Meanwhile Atom shows feelings on the dropship: “Bell loves you, O.” And he envies that.

And now there’s another scene i would usually skip while watching: Clarke and Finn bathing and having fun in a pond. Whatever. Teens. But oh, look, there’s Jasper’s blood. “We*re close.”

The ark: Raven again. Smarty knows that the kids on earth aren’t dying. They’re just stubborn kids taking off their wristbands.

Butterfly-O! This is such a cheesy, yet so lovely scene to watch. Glowing butterflies! Little Octavia never saw something like that before. She’s in awe. There’s also Atom who follwed her. O’s got her (probably) first kiss, and it’s kinda cute.

Meanwhile: OH GOD, POOR JASPER! Tied to a tree! Wounded and bleeding and in pain! Who tf DID THIS to him?!

And now everything’s happening so fast again: Everyone’s running towards Jasper and then BOOM Clarke suddenly falls into a trap - BUT BELL’s THERE! Magically he’s the first one to catch her, saving her life. There are wooden piles in that earth hole... The others come to help. They’re pulling Clarke out of the trap. Clarke flashes Bellamy a look - almost unbelieving what he did for her. Who would have thought? And Bell’s face seem to say: Why tf have i done this? Did i really do THAT? Mh... INTERESTING.

The council of the ark sitting together. They believe that earth is uninhabitable. Well... all of them except for Abby. They’re talking about a culling... This is... makabre. They really want to sacrifice hundreds of lives to save others. It’s hard to listen to this. But Jaha abstains - and this way he’s giving Abby more time to figure out what’s REALLY going on on earth.

On earth: They try to get Jasper down from that tree. And then there’s that black puma from out of nowhere and Clarke goes “BELLAMY! GUN!” For the first time we see fear in Bellamy’s eyes. He tries for his gun but - OH LOOK, WELL’S GOT IT! Again. “Now she sees you.” Yes she does.

The ark: “Did someone call for a mechanic?” Raven. I LOVE this girl. And of COURSE Raven can secretly fix a 130 years old rescue pod to help Abby (and herself) to get down to earth to the others... OF... COURSE... Woah! She really IS the smartest. A QUEEN BEE.

Earth: Food for the kids in the camp! “WHO’S HUNGRY!” Bellamy and his voice again. Seriously. That is a story of its own... sigh

They have Jasper back in camp but it doesn’t look good for him. Bell already being and ass again, only giving out food if they agree to take off their wristbands. Wtf! I wanna slap him! And Murphy!

Oh- oh... Atom catched by Bellamy while kissing O... His precious sister... Now he has to bear the consequences. “I WON’T BE DISOBEYED!” Woah there... Bellamy may be a rebel asshole, but a ROYAL one. A rebel king. ;)

And in the end: Oh look! First glimpse of Lincoln lingering in the shadows of the wood!

Boom out.

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This episode isn’t the best either, I know. But the whole thing is finally picking up speed and everything is in flow now. I remember while i watched it for the first time, that i felt VERY intrigued by the fact, that Bellamy, of all people, rescued the princess Clarke from falling into the trap. That was a plot choice. That was on purpose. And i felt like that this COULD lead to something. I didn’t know what that “something” would look like. But i HOPED that these two maybe... perhaps... would get along far more smoothly in the future... My senses were tingling. When these two shared looks with each other... there WAS something there. There’s no denying. And i liked what i saw. I still do. It’s still one of my fave episodes because of that. Also: I almost immediately fell in love with Raven Reyes. Dunno why exactly. She's just... so damn smart and beautiful. I have to admit that I indeed preferred her over Clarke as character. (Until S5 that is. From up on S5 Clarke was the no 1 female character for me. I suffered so much with her it's not even funny. But that's another story.)

I have to mention that at the point i watched the first season for the first time i haven‘t read The 100-novels. I started reading the first book around the 3rd season. So everything i felt was completely and only a reaction to what i saw on screen.

What i liked: Bellamy and Clarke bickering. Bellamy saving Clarke. RAVEN!

What i disliked: All this talk about a culling on the ark. And Bell and Murphy being assholes.

Fave quote(s): “What’s wrong with a little chaos?”  “Did someone call for a mechanic?” ICONIC

Song(s) i associate with the episode: “Precious illusions” by Alanis Morissette ( “These precious illusions in my head did not let me down when I was a kid.

And parting with them is like parting with a childhood best friend..”)

[hassanatforusmk]

Let's clearly name things: Over the past

17 years, Gaza has endured one of the

most brutal and horrific sieges. Israel has

been cutting off water, electricity,

medicine, and energy from one million

civilians trapped in a tiny area. Israel has

dropped the equivalent of over a quarter

of an atomic bomb on it in the past 12

days. From October 7th until today, Israel

has killed 9,000 innocent people without having any shame infront of the cameras

without any other lies of Israeli

propaganda. One truth for everyone:

every day, 100 Palestinian kid are killed

by the Israeli terrorism machine, and

there is no safe place anymore. Over half

a million people have been displaced in

Gaza because of Israel.

What is happening in Gaza is not a war,

but a genocide. Israel does not attack an

army, but rather attacks defenseless

civilians, women, children and the

elderly. They blow up homes and their

residents inside the homes. They don't

care if the homes contain children,

women, or even children.

[justforbooks]

Alfred Nobel stipulated that his annual prizes be awarded to those who “have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind”. Few scientific advances have had a greater impact on our lives than that made by the American materials chemist John Goodenough, a chemistry Nobel laureate in 2019 for his role in inventing the rechargeable lithium battery.

If you are reading this on a handheld device, it will almost certainly have a lithium battery inside. These power packs have been instrumental to the advent of electric cars, and their ability to store power such as that generated by ephemeral renewable sources could aid the transition away from a fossil-fuel energy economy.

For year after year Goodenough, who has died aged 100, featured in the list of Nobel predictions. Only his remarkable longevity saved the Swedish committee from an embarrassing injustice – he is the oldest person to have been awarded a Nobel. He seemed phlegmatic about being repeatedly overlooked, even though he did not enjoy any financial reward for his breakthrough either: in the 1980s he was not encouraged to take out a patent on the battery breakthrough he made at Oxford University. He was glad enough still to be able to do research, which he sustained almost until the very end of his life.

He left Oxford in 1986 for the University of Texas at Austin to escape compulsory retirement at 65, convinced – rightly – that he had a lot more still to offer. “Why would anyone retire and simply wait to die?” he asked. His vitality and enjoyment in the lab well into his 90s, punctuated by his loud and high-pitched laugh, was a constant cause of amazement.

One would hardly have guessed from that demeanour how unhappy his childhood had been, as the second of three children of extremely distant parents in what he called “a disaster” of a marriage. He was born in the city of Jena, Germany, to Helen (nee Lewis) and Erwin Goodenough.

They were both Americans who were living in Oxford – Erwin was studying for a DPhil at the university and, according to his son, “enjoyed the culture of the Weimar Republic; he spent much of his long summer vacations in Germany as well as in Rome”.

John was taken as a baby to the US, where his father became a professor of religious history at Yale University. John grew up mostly in a boarding school in Massachusetts, from where, despite being an undiagnosed dyslexic, he won a place to study mathematics at Yale. After wartime military service as a meteorologist, he gained a doctorate in physics at the University of Chicago and in 1952 began research on magnetic materials for information storage at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

That work qualified him to switch to inorganic materials chemistry when in 1976 he moved to Oxford. At that time, interest was growing in electric vehicles, which were being held back by the lack of suitable batteries.

The potential benefits of electric cars as quieter and less polluting than those using the petrol-fired internal combustion engine had been recognised since their inception. But the lead-acid batteries used as starter batteries and the power source for vehicle electronics were utterly unequal to the task of supplying the motive power: they were too heavy and offered too little power.

The dream of battery-powered cars was resurrected in the 60s, but it was only a decade later, with the Opec oil crisis in full swing, that the industry took them seriously.

The key was to find the right materials for the battery electrodes. Lithium metal looked attractive because it is lightweight and capable of delivering high voltages. The idea was that lithium at the positive electrode would provide electrically charged ions that travel to the negative electrode, where they could be trapped between the layers of atoms in materials called intercalators.

The British chemist Stanley Whittingham, one of Goodenough’s co-laureates, working at the Exxon laboratories in New Jersey, found a suitable intercalator called titanium disulfide in 1976. Four years later, Goodenough in Oxford identified the material – a form of cobalt oxide – that became the industry standard, offering a higher voltage and greater power density.

Early lithium batteries had a tendency to catch fire because of the high chemical reactivity of pure lithium. But the third 2019 laureate, the Japanese researcher Akira Yoshino, of the Asahi Kasei Corporation in Tokyo, replaced lithium electrodes with graphite-like carbon made from petroleum coke, which also intercalates lithium so that the ions merely shuttle back and forth between the two sets of layers, making them easily rechargeable.

The lithium-ion battery was commercialised in 1991 by the Sony Corporation, and now commands an estimated $92bn market. Without it there could have been none of today’s handheld electronics – laptops, smartphones, tablets. Elon Musk’s Tesla electric cars depend on them.

There is still room for improvement and Goodenough never stopped seeking it. In the past decade he was working, among other things, on making batteries that operate at low temperatures, suitable for powering cars in the winter.

He was also seeking a new, safer way to reinstate pure lithium electrodes, which could give lithium batteries more energy capacity. At the same time, he expressed concerns about the international tensions that might arise over the limited global supplies of lithium.

Goodenough maintained a strong Christian belief throughout his life, seeing no conflict with his scientific work. “The scientist is trying to do something for society and for his fellow man,” he said. “In that sense why should there be a conflict?” During his 90s he cared for his wife, Irene (nee Wiseman), who had Alzheimer’s disease. They had married in 1951; she died in 2016.

“I’d like to get all the gas emissions off the highways of the world”, Goodenough said in 2018. “I’m hoping to see it before I die.” It was always an ambitious aspiration, even for someone with his staying power. But if it happens one day, Goodenough will have played a central part in that.

🔔 John Bannister Goodenough, materials scientist, born 25 July 1922; died 25 June 2023

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(For the sun and moon ask post thing if you’re still doing it.) Numbers: 2, 6, 10, 24, 32.

I am!! Thank you!

2. Who is your most hated character?

There aren't any character I really hate on the show! The story progression of every character interests me, and how they interact with each other, and I really do love each and every one of them. All the funky secondary characters, all the AU characters, even the ones we only get mentions of or hear in the backgrounds of episodes, like Nice Eclipses Sun and Moon bring their own theories and discussions with them. Even characters I'm impartial to I don't really hate? I'm just more like 'eh' when they show up at best and cringing at worst.

As I have to pick one, however, Lord Monty or the Garbage Can Guy. Didn't really care for them, and nothing in recent episodes has pulled my interest for them.

6. Who is your least favorite villian?

Hatsune Miku! :D Drop kicking her into space.

Bloodmoon.

10. Who is your least favorite AU character?

Do the Rainbow Friends count as AU characters? I'm never all that interested in crossover episodes with different franchises, so any of those characters (AKA The Rainbow Friends, Wally Darling, ect.)

Otherwise, Lord Monty.

24. What is your all time favorite episode?

What if I said skibidi toilI'm very partial to the 'Minecraft But THE UGLIEST TEXTURE PACK with SUN and MOON'. I go back and watch that episode often, probably the only one I've purposefully pulled up to watch multiple times. It's just a fun, cute episode.

I also really like the one chunk Minecraft challenge episodes, for the same reason.

32. What is your most favorite plot-focused "in VR-CHAT" episode?

OOOOOOOOOOF. This is such a hard quessstion. Nearly half the episodes on the channel are VR-CHAT episodes and very few of those are not plot-focused/lore episodes. (465 vids, 188 VRCHAT Eps) And since all the lore episodes are connected, picking just one from a set of episodes is REALLY difficult for me, because I tend to look at groups of episodes as a whole, rather than individually.

You've got the interview and the episode right after in the bunker. I'm a bit nostalgic for those, the animations and animatics of those two episodes folks did is what drew me to the show.

You've got Eclipse showing up to infect Moon and the introduction of Lunar.

October. Just... All of October.

The Death of Eclipse, Sun and Moon's Secret Sister, Bloodmoon is Shut Down, The Trapping Episode, How Sun Met Moon, Killcode and Moon's Final Conversation, Moon's DEATH, LUNAR'S DEATH, Moon's return, Sun and Moon's New Enemy, Original Moon Returns, Eclipse is Dying, Earth Confronts Eclipse. Over 100 episodes to choose from, there are SO many good ones, and we're still fuckin going!

If I had to narrow it down to one that I personally like, Just One, I think I'd go with 'Sun LEARNS MAGIC!? in VRCHAT'.

It's... I'm always a sucker for the 'person pushed over the edge gains incredible powers because of their emotions' trope. That alone made the episode sing for me. I'm pretty sure I whooped in real life when Sun broke out of that cage.

Alongside that, it's the first appearance of hallucination Bloodmoon. It's the follow up to 'Sun is TRAPPED by Moon in VRCHAT' which is another beast of an episode that I like for different reasons. It's retroactively the beginning of the end for Old Moon, the episode where he makes the decision to follow Eclipses plan to go in and eradicate Killcode for good. The last time Eclipse and Old Moon spoke to one another, their final interaction before the reset. I personally love the interactions between Old Moon and Eclipse in this episode, it feels like they're playing chess with each other. "Energy Spike Detected!" Sun's reaction to seeing 'Bloodmoon'. "I SAW it. You... You DISENTEGRATED. Into ash! Atoms."

"SHUT UP!"

It felt like a turning point in the show. It set up SO many plot points, some of which are still being delved into and going back and watching it again after all this time and noticing the little details, like the way Eclipse says goodbye to Old Moon, or the way Sun tries and assure himself that 'Bloodmoon' isn't real. It's...

It's a really good episode.