#c: wednesday

[nickwildexx]

⍋*:･ﾟ  closed starter ( for @blackcoffeeandpoe )

location: lucky cat cafe

nick sniffed the air as the straight-faced woman’s order came up; a fantastically secret trait of his was being able to guess ingredients with his keen sense of smell. and while this probably could be used for something good like, uh, cooking — he often used this skill as a way to bother people into knowing more about them. 

he let out a low whistle. “black coffee. you’re really going for the whole darkness thing, aren’t you? very poetic. i’m a macchiato man, myself.”

[onwcrds]

— ❛ CLOSED. ❜  @blackcoffeeandpoe​

🚐 ⠀  ⠀ ⠀  ⠀ ───────────   barley   had   no   idea   why   he   was   given   envelopes   upon   arriving   but   he   was   curious   now   !   it   had   been   a   while   since   a   ball   had   taken   place.   this   time   he   was   officially   dating   penny   so   it   was   pretty   exciting   if   he   did   say   so   himself.   he   went   to   the   gardens   as   instructed   and   waited   for   the   other   half   of   this   paired   interaction.   it   took   a   while   but   soon   he   was   face   to   face   with   a   stranger.   cool   !      “   hey   !   looks   like   we   got   paired   together.   i’m   barley.   nice   to   meet   ya.   ”

[ladystoneboobs]

imo one of the biggest proofs of sansa's character growth post-agot (which seems to be overlooked) is this, where grrm makes sure we know how her perspective of the trident incident has indeed shifted. why else even say this? it's not what the tyrells wanted to know, they asked about joff's treatment of her in particular, and "he lied about the butcher's boy" means nothing without context (and even if she said the lannisters used that lie to justify killing mycah, i doubt olenna, at least, would care). but for sansa atp, joffrey's sins against mycah are worth remembering and reporting as his first crime (known to her), that incident is now recognized as evidence of joff's montrosity, the wrongs committed against mycah by joffrey personally (as in not even his death) are on par with sansa losing her wolf and being beaten by the kg. sure, she still has some classism remaining, but to say she cares nothing for the smallfolk, and is still the same girl disgusted by mycah's smellyness, who later repeated joffrey's lie about him weeks after the fact and blamed arya for lady's death more than joffrey, that's just demonstrably untrue.

[crismakesstuff]

they definitely went as morticia and gomez one year

🔮🦇happy halloween! 🪦🎃

[harvocel]

old piece I did for @dsmpwinendine

proceeds went to action against hunger + SFA :]

[retrogamelovers]

🎮

[atlantis-fell]

Storm, A Hero's Hero

Well, let's kick off my coming back to tumblr with a review for my favorite character, Storm. Ororo debuts in her solo series in the most heroic way possible. She's saving civilians on the ground and helping with repairs at an apparent nuclear reactor meltdown. The way this is shown on-panel is beautifully drawn and gives off a Superman-esque energy that feels natural to Ororo. After years of being a veteran leader of X-men, Goddess to many lands, and her role as Regent of Arakko and Voice of Sol, Ororo finally makes her presence known to everyone that she's carving out her own individual path with the resources and experience she's obtained over the years. This also includes leveraging her global adoration from civilians, superheroes, and beyond.

Storm has her own base of operations! The Storm Sanctuary. A literal sanctuary that is mobile and includes shelter and habitat, even for animals. A lot of fans asked where all of this came from. Storm being a former Regent of Mars and being Voice of Sol clearly paid well. Her home is also on the Storm Sanctury, and we see her grand closet and room designs. Murewa Ayodele and Lucas Werneck are already delivering on the promised wardrobes.

Storm's mission is to tackle and address the problems of the world on her terms. After declaring her intentions, she's immediately faced with multiple conflicts and a moral dilemma. The first conflict was discovering the nuclear meltdown was a mutant manifesting their powers for the first time. The second conflict and moral dilemma rolled into one is deciding to reveal to the public a mutant caused the meltdown after her heroic deeds tipped the general public in favor of Storm and mutantdom. The honesty and transparency come at a high cost because mutants are collectively subject to mutant bigotry and oppression. A show of integrity and power is not always meant to appease.

The future is bright for this solo series for Storm as we're already introduced to a much deserved spotlight, foundation, and story centered on Storm and her individual journey. There's also the foreshadowing of her ascension to Eternal Storm. I've made plenty of essays on Storm's godhead and elemental powers, but Eternal Storm appears to be a succession of both. From what we can tell from the last page of issue 1 and promotional art, it looks like Storm is going to become the Avatar of Eternity, the embodiment of all of existence and time. Now, G.O.Ds introduced Avatars, and we've known avatars of greater powers like Jean Grey and Phoenix Force and Thor and his Odin-Force. We are also informed Oblivion, the embodiment of nothingness and non-existentence, will be her foe in some way. Clearly, this series is going to be a defining moment for comics and Storm for years to come, and it's exciting.

- The Creation of Eternal Storm

[shannonsketches]

[coredrill]

Gwenpool and Nadia Van Dyne in “Everything’s Coming Up Aces” from Marvel’s Voices: Pride (2023)

[bleue-flora]

[squirrel-gay]

I’ll post this here so I don’t forget because I already put my laptop away.

So, Wednesday remembers Enid likes cats and she immediately takes her to meet Kitty.

And Kitty’s the laziest lion ever, Enids delighted. Like “OMG, big kitty, can i pet him?”

And maybe during the full moon Kitty and Wolf!Enid play around for a bit before Kitty goes to sleep, but it helps bring Enid’s energy down.

[dyingroses]

[ladystoneboobs]

the younger starklings about robb (robb the strong and brave big brother, the perfect heir, the fierce and unbeatable young wolf):

arya

bran

sansa

meanwhile, actual robb (robb the lord and then robb the kitn):

before arya ever promised to be strong by using robb as her benchmark, the definition of stark strength, ned had to remind robb to be strong as the ruling stark in winterfell. (strong for bran and rickon, the brothers he thought he failed by sending their would-be killer away, leading to his great moment of weakness in jeyne westerling's bed.) as his siblings' faith in his ultimate triumph held strong, even after the loss of the north, robb himself was struggling with despair.

as grenn once told sam, maybe everyone is just pretending to be brave, maybe that's how people become brave. robb was faking it to make it too, imitating his father's lordly attitude as bran later tried to imitate robb's. as his younger siblings remembered him as their shining example, robb was trying to live up to his father's example. not the ned who'd been in his circumstances, a teenager unexpectedly turned into a lord and fighting a war to save his family. no, ofc, he never knew that young ned. the ned he knew as his father, the standard to measure himself against, was an adult man in his mid-30s who'd ruled the north for ~15 years. but was that standard for a 15/16yo any more fair and valid an expectation than 8/9yo bran believing he was almost a man grown and holding himself to the standard of 15/16yo robb as robb's heir?

and the only person left close enough to see robb as the boy he still was died with him.

[downtherabbitholewithlucy]

Wes Borland: The Human Emoji

[skitskatdacat63]

[sapphyreblayze]

Sigrid Nansen in Absolute Power #3