#c: marvel age 1000

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Scott Summers in Marvel Age 1000 (2023), art by Marguerite Sauvage.

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WHY has no one come here to talk about the a.n from the donuts finale! Someone explain! MAMA POSTED SPOILERS FOR HER NEXT STORY LIKE A FREAKING MARVEL MOVIE END CREDITS SCENE AND NOONE IS ASKING FOR MORE!!!

Mama please! Astronaut Ellie?! Like is this a science fiction story? Are you turning Ellie into her savage starlight heroine? What IS this?!

I have a theory on this, take it or leave it.

Before I post this, please don’t take this as me whining about not getting hits, comments, followers, etc. I write for me, I write what makes me happy, and what I want to read as a fan. Anything beyond that whether it be 10 hits, 100 hits, or 1000 hits is a bonus.

I will talk a little about the spoilers under the cut 🫶🏻

Donuts & Coffee is a Joel/Ellie, teen audience & up, modern AU series - that’s three strikes against me in the TLOU fanfic universe.

Hits are low because of the Ellie/Joel tag - obviously

Hits are significantly lower in the TLOU fanfic universe when the rating is below mature. Y’all are naughty little cubs and like your spice and smut - that is NOT A BAD THING. Mama Bear likes the smut too, but with D&C, going as far back as the second installment, I made it clear there would be no smut. It’s a fluff series. That’s another strike.

Finally, the community seems to prefer canon divergent stories - Boston, Jackson - over Alternate Universes, specifically ones where Ellie and Joel don’t make their bonding journey across the country. Again, there’s nothing wrong with this, it just piles onto the strikes.

When we combine all those elements into one series - the hits and attention to Donuts & Coffee dropped off significantly after the story revolving around Joel’s accident. You ask why isn’t anyone talking about the “Marvel style end credits” author notes spoilers - because you have to read them in order to see them. That’s why I snuck them in there - I just wanted to see if anyone was paying attention. *shrug* kind of a reward for readers who read to the end.

So, what’s going on in the next Modern AU? Ellie is a former NASA astronaut - former? But how close in age is she to Joel? She’s 25, he’s just shy of 49. But, former astronaut? Yup, and starting a new career.

Is she Dr. Daniela Star? Nope.

There is a reason why Ellie is no longer an astronaut. There is a reason why Joel has a career on top of owning his business with Tommy. And they’re meet-cute? It’s an homage to CatrionaMac’s “Strawberry Lipgloss” - which you can find on ao3 and I highly recommend for your daily dose of Joellie fluff.

Oh and it’s going to be rated Mature.

And I won’t make you wait 50k words for the story to earn its rating 😘

Stay tuned - it’s coming soon

🫶🏻

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Marvel Comics New Releases for Wednesday, August 30, 2023

Avengers Omnibus Volume 3 HC (Alan Davis Book Market Cover)(New Printing), $100.00

Avengers Omnibus Volume 3 HC (John Buscema Direct Market Cover)(New Printing), $100.00

Avengers The Kang Dynasty TP, $39.99

Blade #1 (2nd Printing Cover A Elena Casagrande), $4.99

Blade #1 (2nd Printing Cover B David Marquez), AR

Blade #2 (Cover A Elena Casagrande), $3.99

Blade #2 (Cover B Bill Sienkiewicz), AR

Blade #2 (Cover C Mateus Manhanini), AR

Cult Of Carnage Misery #4 (Of 5)(Cover A Skan), $3.99

Danny Ketch Ghost Rider #4 (Of 5)(Cover A Ben Harvey), $3.99

Deadpool Badder Blood #3 (Of 5)(Cover A Rob Liefeld), $4.99

Deadpool Badder Blood #3 (Of 5)(Cover B Rob Liefeld), AR

Deadpool Badder Blood #3 (Of 5)(Cover C Rod Reis), AR

Death Of The Venomverse #3 (Of 5)(Cover A Bjorn Barends), $4.99

Death Of The Venomverse #3 (Of 5)(Cover B Gabriele Dell’Otto Connecting Virgin Variant), AR

Death Of The Venomverse #3 (Of 5)(Cover C Gabriele Dell’Otto Connecting Variant), AR

Death Of The Venomverse #3 (Of 5)(Cover D Mark Bagley), AR

Death Of The Venomverse #3 (Of 5)(Cover E Philip Tan), AR

Death Of The Venomverse #3 (Of 5)(Cover F Ryan Stegman Venom The Other Variant), AR

Death Of The Venomverse #3 (Of 5)(Cover G Rod Reis Design Variant), AR

Death Of The Venomverse #3 (Of 5)(Cover H Gerardo Sandoval), AR

Elektra Black White And Blood TP, $17.99

Fantastic Four Epic Collection Volume 9 The Crusader Syndrome TP, $49.99

Giant-Size X-Men #1 (Facsimile Edition)(New Printing), $7.99

Incredible Hulk #3 (Cover A Nic Klein), $3.99

Incredible Hulk #3 (Cover B Frank Miller), AR

Incredible Hulk #3 (Cover C Frank Miller Virgin Variant), AR

Incredible Hulk #3 (Cover D Federico Vicentini Stormbreakers Variant), AR

Invincible Iron Man Omnibus Volume 1 HC (Adi Granov Direct Market Cover)(New Printing), $100.00

Invincible Iron Man Omnibus Volume 1 HC (Gerald Parel Book Market Cover)(New Printing), $100.00

Invincible Iron Man Omnibus Volume 1 HC (Jack Kirby Cover Direct Market Cover)(New Printing), $100.00

Marauders By Steve Orlando Volume 2 TP, $29.99

Marvel Age #1000 (Cover A Gary Frank), $9.99

Marvel Age #1000 (Cover B Francis Manapul), AR

Marvel Age #1000 (Cover C Ryan Stegman), AR

Marvel Age #1000 (Cover D Greg Land), AR

Marvel Age #1000 (Cover E Javier Garron Marvel Icon Variant), AR

Marvel Age #1000 (Cover F George Perez), AR

Marvel Age #1000 (Cover G George Perez Virgin Variant), AR

Marvel Age #1000 (Cover H Frank Miller Wraparound Hidden Gem Variant), AR

Marvel Previews Volume 6 #24 (September 2023), AR

Marvels Voices Community TP, $24.99

Marvel-Verse Ironheart TP, $9.99

Moon Knight Annual #1 (Cover A Leinil Francis Yu), $4.99

Moon Knight Annual #1 (Cover B Creees Lee), AR

Moon Knight City Of The Dead #1 (Of 5)(2nd Printing Cover A Rod Reis), $4.99

Moon Knight City Of The Dead #1 (Of 5)(2nd Printing Cover B Alex Maleev), AR

Ms. Marvel The New Mutant #1 (Of 4)(Cover A Sara Pichelli), $4.99

Ms. Marvel The New Mutant #1 (Of 4)(Cover B Elena Casagrande Women Of Marvel Variant), AR

Ms. Marvel The New Mutant #1 (Of 4)(Cover C Elizabeth Torque Team Homage Variant), AR

Ms. Marvel The New Mutant #1 (Of 4)(Cover D Stanley Artgerm Lau), AR

Ms. Marvel The New Mutant #1 (Of 4)(Cover E John Tyler Christopher Action Figure Variant), AR

Ms. Marvel The New Mutant #1 (Of 4)(Cover F Luciano Vecchio Team Homage Variant), AR

Ms. Marvel The New Mutant #1 (Of 4)(Cover G Betsy Cola Homage Variant), AR

Ms. Marvel The New Mutant #1 (Of 4)(Cover H Lucas Werneck Homage Variant), AR

Ms. Marvel The New Mutant #1 (Of 4)(Cover I Arthur Adams), AR

Ms. Marvel The New Mutant #1 (Of 4)(Cover J Stanley Artgerm Lau Virgin Variant), AR

New Avengers Modern Era Epic Collection Volume 1 Assembled TP, $49.99

Punisher Volume 2 The King Of Killers Book Two TP, $24.99

Scarlet Witch By Steve Orlando Volume 1 The Last Door TP, $19.99

Spider-Man India #3 (Of 4)(Cover A Adam Kubert), AR

Spider-Man India #3 (Of 4)(Cover B John Giang), AR

Star Wars Bounty Hunters #37 (Cover A Marco Checchetto), $4.99

Star Wars Bounty Hunters #37 (Cover B Alex Maleev Jango Fett Variant), AR

Star Wars Bounty Hunters #37 (Cover C Alex Maleev Virgin Variant), AR

Star Wars Bounty Hunters #37 (Cover D Ryan Brown Kligson Variant), AR

Star Wars Bounty Hunters #37 (Cover E Chris Sprouse Return Of The Jedi 40th Anniversary Variant), AR

Star Wars Bounty Hunters #37 (Cover F Giuseppe Camuncoli The Clone Wars 15th Anniversary Variant), AR

Star Wars Doctor Aphra Omnibus Volume 2 HC (Joshua Sway Swaby Direct Market Cover), $75.00

Star Wars Doctor Aphra Omnibus Volume 2 HC (Valentina Remenar Book Market Cover), $75.00

Star Wars The Mandalorian Season 2 #3 (Cover A Steven Cummings), $4.99

Star Wars The Mandalorian Season 2 #3 (Cover B Concept Art Variant), AR

Star Wars The Mandalorian Season 2 #3 (Cover C David Baldeon), AR

Star Wars The Mandalorian Season 2 #3 (Cover D Terry Dodson), AR

Ultimate Invasion #3 (Of 4)(Cover A Bryan Hitch), $5.99

Ultimate Invasion #3 (Of 4)(Cover B Daniel Acuna), AR

Ultimate Invasion #3 (Of 4)(Cover C Alan Quah), AR

Venom Modern Era Epic Collection Volume 4 Agent Venom TP, $44.99

Wolverine #36 (Cover A Ryan Stegman), $3.99

Wolverine #36 (Cover B Leinil Francis Yu), AR

Wolverine #36 (Cover C George Perez), AR

Wolverine #36 (Cover D George Perez Virgin Variant), AR

DK PUBLISHING

Avengers Assembled The Origin Story OF Earth’s Mightiest Heroes HC, $30.00

DYNAMIC FORCES

Daredevil Black Widow Abattoir GN (Jim Starlin Personal File Copy Signed By Jim Starlin), AR

Marvel Comics Blank Variant (Ken Haeser Signed & Remarked Spider-Boy Sketch Edition), AR

Rampaging Hulk #4 (Jim Starlin Personal File Copy Signed By Jim Starlin), AR

Silver Surfer #37 (Jim Starlin Personal File Copy Signed By Jim Starlin), AR

Spider-Gwen Shadow Clones #1 (Cover G Pink Blank Variant)(Ken Haeser Signed & Remarked Edition), AR

Strange Tales #181 (Jim Starlin Personal File Copy Signed By Jim Starlin), AR

MARVEL PRESS

Spidey And His Amazing Friends Electro’s Gotta Glow SC, $5.99

Merchandise

Marvel Graphic Comic Box Daredevil, AR

Marvel Graphic Comic Box Predator Vs. Wolverine, AR

Marvel Infinity Saga EAA-121 Captain America Action Figure (Deluxe Version), AR

Masters Of The Universe Animated Core Action Figure Wave 5 Assortment, AR

Max Venom DS-065SP Captain America D-Stage 6 Inch Statue (Special Edition), AR

Max Venom DS-066SP Iron Man D-Stage 6 Inch Statue (Special Edition), AR

Max Venom DS-067SP Spider-Man D-Stage 6 Inch Statue (Special Edition), AR

Max Venom DS-068SP Little Groot D-Stage 6 Inch Statue (Special Edition), AR

Medieval Knight Spider-Man DAH-051 Dynamic 8-Ction Action Figure, AR

Spider-Man No Way Home Iron Spider S.H.Figuarts Action Figure, AR

Spider-Man Noir Framed Print, AR

Spider-Man Venom Pose Framed Print, AR

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Nominees announced for the 2023 Eisner Awards

Comic-Con International has announced the nominees for this year’s Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards. This is the 35th year for the awards, which will be given out at this year’s Comic-Con International on July 21.

In terms of publishers, Image Comics received the most nominations, followed by DC, Fantagraphics, Marvel and Dark Horse. Creator-wise, Zoe Thorogood led the pack with five nominations. Hall of Fame nominees and inductees were announced earlier this month.

And the nominees are …

Best Short Story

“The Beekeeper’s Due,” by Jimmy Stamp and Débora Santos, in Scott Snyder Presents: Tales from the Cloakroom (Cloakroom Comics)

“Finding Batman” by Kevin Conroy and J. Bone in DC Pride 2022 (DC)

“Good Morning,” by Christopher Cantwell and Alex Lins, in Moon Knight: Black, White & Blood #4 (Marvel)

“Silent All These Years,” by Margaret Atwood and David Mack, in Tori Amos: Little Earthquakes (Z2)

“You Get It,” by Jonathan Hickman and Marco Checchetto, in Amazing Fantasy #1000 (Marvel)

Best Single Issue/One-Shot

Batman: One Bad Day: The Riddler, by Tom King and Mitch Gerads (DC)

Mary Jane & Black Cat Beyond, by Jed Mackay and C. F. Villa (Marvel)

Moon Knight: Black, White, and Blood #3, edited by Tom Brevoort (Marvel)

Star Trek #400, edited by Heather Antos (IDW)

A Vicious Circle Book 1, by Mattson Tomlin and Lee Bermejo (BOOM! Studios)

Best Continuing Series

Daredevil, by Chip Zdarsky, Marco Checchetto and Rafael de Latorre (Marvel)

The Department of Truth, by James Tynion IV and Martin Simmonds (Image)

Killadelphia, by Rodney Barnes and Jason Shawn Alexander (Image)

The Nice House on the Lake, by James Tynion IV and Alvaro Martinez Bueno (DC)

Nightwing, by Tom Taylor and Bruno Redondo (DC)

She-Hulk, by Rainbow Rowell, Rogê Antônio, Luca Maresca, and Takeshi Miyazawa (Marvel)

Best Limited Series

Animal Castle, by Xavier Dorison and Felix Delep (Ablaze)

Batman: One Bad Day, edited by Dave Wielgosz and Jessica Berbey (DC)

The Human Target, by Tom King and Greg Smallwood (DC)

Miracleman by Gaiman & Buckingham: The Silver Age, by Neil Gaiman and Mark Buckingham (Marvel)

Superman: Space Age, by Mark Russell, Michael Allred, and Laura Allred (DC)

Best New Series

The Atonement Bell, by Jim Ousley and Tyler B. Ruff (Red 5)

Love Everlasting, by Tom King and Elsa Charretier (Image)

Public Domain, by Chip Zdarsky (Image)

Star Trek, by Collin Kelly, Jackson Lanzing, and Ramon Rosanas (IDW)

Traveling to Mars, by Mark Russell and Roberto Meli (Ablaze)

Best Publication for Early Readers (up to age 8)

Beneath The Trees: A Fine Summer, by Dav (Magnetic Press)

Fox + Chick: Up and Down: and Other Stories, by Sergio Ruzzier (Chronicle Books)

Grumpy Monkey Who Threw That? by Suzanne Lang and Max Lang (Random House Studio)

Hey, Bruce!: An Interactive Book, by Ryan Higgins (Disney/Hyperion)

The Pigeon Will Ride the Roller Coaster! by Mo Willems (Union Square Kids)

Best Publication for Kids (ages 9-12)

Adventuregame Comics: Leviathan, by Jason Shiga (Amulet/Abrams)

Frizzy, by Claribel A. Ortega and Rose Bousamra (First Second/Macmillan)

Isla To Island, by Alexis Castellanos (Atheneum/Simon & Schuster)

Little Monarchs, by Jonathan Case (Margaret Ferguson Books/Holiday House)

Swim Team, by Johnnie Christmas (HarperAlley)

Best Publication for Teens (ages 13-17)

Chef’s Kiss, by Jarrett Melendez and Danica Brine (Oni)

Clementine Book One, by Tillie Walden (Image Skybound)

Do A Powerbomb! by Daniel Warren Johnson (Image)

Heartstopper Volume 4, by Alice Oseman (Scholastic Graphix)

Wash Day Diaries, by Jamila Rowser and Robyn Smith (Chronicle Books)

Best Humor Publication

Cryptid Club, by Sarah Andersen (Andrews McMeel)

I Hate This Place, by Kyle Starks and Artyom Topilin (Image Skybound)

Killer Queens, by David Booher and Claudia Balboni (Dark Horse)

Mr. Lovenstein Presents: Failure, by J. L. Westover (Image Skybound)

Revenge of the Librarians, by Tom Gauld (Drawn & Quarterly)

Best Anthology

Creepshow, edited by Alex Antone and Jon Moisan (Image Skybound)

The Illustrated Al: The Songs of “Weird Al” Yankovic, edited by Josh Bernstein (Z2)

The Nib Magazine, edited by Matt Bors (Nib)

Sensory: Life on the Spectrum, edited by Bex Ollerton (Andrews McMeel)

Tori Amos: Little Earthquakes, The Graphic Album, edited by Rantz Hoseley (Z2)

Best Reality-Based Work

Alfred Hitchcock: The Master of Suspense, by Noël Simsolo and Dominique Hé, translation by Montana Kane (NBM)

Alice Guy: First Lady of Film, by José-Louis Bocquet and Catel Muller, translation by Edward Gauvin (SelfMadeHero)

But I Live: Three Stories of Child Survivors of the Holocaust, edited by Charlotte Schallié (University of Toronto Press)

Flung Out of Space, by Grace Ellis and Hannah Templer (Abrams ComicArts)

Invisible Wounds: Graphic Journalism, by Jess Ruliffson (Fantagraphics)

Pinball: A Graphic History of the Silver Ball, by Jon Chad (First Second/Macmillan)

Best Graphic Memoir

Down to the Bone: A Leukemia Story, by Catherine Pioli, translated by J. T. Mahany (Graphic Mundi/Penn State University Press)

Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands, by Kate Beaton (Drawn & Quarterly)

It’s Lonely at the Centre of the Earth: An Auto-Bio-Graphic-Novel, by Zoe Thorogood (Image)

So Much for Love: How I Survived a Toxic Relationship, by Sophie Lambda (First Second/Macmillan)

Welcome to St. Hell: My Trans Teen Misadventure, by Lewis Hancox (Scholastic Graphix)

Best Graphic Album—New

The Book of Niall, by Barry Jones (Ellie & Beatty)

Crushing, by Sophie Burrows (Algonquin Young Readers)

Francis Rothbart! The Tale of a Fastidious Feral, by Thomas Woodruff (Fantagraphics)

The Night Eaters, Book 1: She Eats the Night, by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda (Abrams ComicArts)

Ultrasound, by Conor Stechschulte (Fantagraphics)

Best Graphic Album—Reprint

Days of Sand, by Aimée de Jongh, translation by Christopher Bradley (SelfMadeHero)

Geneviève Castrée: Complete Works, by Geneviève Castrée, translation by Phil Elverum and Aleshia Jensen (Drawn & Quarterly)

Mazebook Dark Horse Direct Edition, by Jeff Lemire (Dark Horse)

One Beautiful Spring Day, by Jim Woodring (Fantagraphics)

Parker: The Martini Edition—Last Call, by Richard Stark, Darwyn Cooke, Ed Brubaker, and Sean Phillips (IDW)

Super Spy Deluxe Edition, by Matt Kindt (Dark Horse)

Best Adaptation from Another Medium

Chivalry by Neil Gaiman, adapted by Colleen Doran (Dark Horse)

Rain by Joe Hill, adapted by David M. Booher and Zoe Thorogood (Syzygy/Image)

Ten Days in a Madhouse, by Nellie Bly, adapted by Brad Ricca and Courtney Sieh (Gallery 13/Simon $ Schuster)

Tori Amos: Little Earthquakes, The Graphic Album, edited by Rantz Hoseley (Z2)

A Visit to Moscow by Rabbi Rafael Grossman, adapted by Anna Olswanger and Yevgenia Nayberg (Turner)

Best U.S. Edition of International Material

Always Never, by Jordi Lafebre, translation by Montana Kane (Dark Horse)

Blacksad: They All Fall Down Part 1, by Juan Díaz Canales and Juanjo Guarnido, translation by Diana Schutz and Brandon Kander (Dark Horse)

Down to the Bone: A Leukemia Story, by Catherine Pioli, translation by J. T. Mahany (Graphic Mundi/Penn State University Press)

The Pass, by Espé, translation by J.T. Mahany (Graphic Mundi/Penn State University Press)

Tiki: A Very Ruff Year, by David Azencot and Fred Leclerc, translation by Nanette McGuinness (Life Drawn/Humanoids)

Best U.S. Edition of International Material—Asia

Black Paradox, by Junji Ito, translation by Jocelyne Allen (VIZ Media)

The Hellbound vols. 1-2, by Yeon Sang-ho and Choi Gyu-seok, translation by Danny Lim (Dark Horse)

Look Back, by Tatsuki Fujimoto, translation by Amanda Haley (VIZ Media)

PTSD Radio vol. 1, by Masaaki Nakayama, translation by Adam Hirsch (Kodansha)

Shuna’s Journey, by Hayao Miyazaki; translation by Alex Dudok de Wit (First Second/Macmillan)

Talk to My Back, by Yamada Murasaki, translation by Ryan Holmberg (Drawn & Quarterly)

Best Archival Collection/Project—Strips (at least 20 years old)

Bungleton Green and the Mystic Commandos, by Jay Jackson (New York Review Comics)

Come Over Come Over, It’s So Magic, and My Perfect Life, by Lynda Barry (Drawn & Quarterly)

The George Herriman Library: Krazy & Ignatz 1922-1924, by George Herriman, edited by J. Michael Catron (Fantagraphics)

Macanudo: Welcome to Elsewhere, by Liniers, edited by Gary Groth (Fantagraphics)

Pogo The Complete Syndicated Comic Strips: Volume 8: Hijinks from the Horn of Plenty, by Walt Kelly, edited by Mark Evanier and Eric Reynolds (Fantagraphics)

Best Archival Collection/Project—Comic Books (at least 20 Years Old)

The Deluxe Gimenez: The Fourth Power & The Starr Conspiracy, by Juan Gimenez, edited by Alex Donoghue and Bruno Lesigne (Humanoids)

The Fantastic Worlds of Frank Frazetta, edited by Dian Hansen (TASCHEN)

Home to Stay! The Complete Ray Bradbury EC Stories, by Ray Bradbury and various; edited by J. Michael Catron (Fantagraphics)

The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror Ominous Omnibus 1 (Abrams ComicArts)

Walt Disney’s Uncle Scrooge: The Diamond Jubilee Collection, by Carl Barks; edited by David Gerstein (Fantagraphics)

Best Writer

Grace Ellis, Flung Out of Space (Abrams ComicArts)

Tom King, Batman: Killing Time, Batman: One Bad Day, Gotham City: Year One, The Human Target, Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow (DC); Love Everlasting (Image)

Mark Russell, Traveling to Mars (Ablaze), One-Star Squadron, Superman: Space Age (DC); The Incal: Psychoverse (Humanoids)

James Tynion IV, House of Slaughter, Something Is Killing the Children, Wynd (BOOM! Studios); The Nice House on the Lake, The Sandman Universe: Nightmare Country (DC), The Closet, The Department of Truth (Image)

Chip Zdarsky, Stillwater (Image Skybound); Daredevil (Marvel)

Best Writer/Artist

Sarah Andersen, Cryptid Club (Andrews McMeel)

Kate Beaton, Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands (Drawn & Quarterly)

Espé, The Pass (Graphic Mundi/Penn State University)

Junji Ito, Black Paradox, The Liminal Zone (VIZ Media)

Zoe Thorogood, It’s Lonely at the Centre of the Earth (Image)

Best Penciller/Inker or Penciller/Inker Team

Jason Shawn Alexander, Killadelphia, Nita Hawes’ Nightmare Blog (Image)

Alvaro Martínez Bueno, The Nice House on the Lake (DC)

Sean Phillips, Follow Me Down, The Ghost in You (Image)

Bruno Redondo, Nightwing (DC)

Greg Smallwood, The Human Target (DC)

Best Painter/Multimedia Artist (interior art)

Lee Bermejo, A Vicious Circle (BOOM! Studios)

Felix Delep, Animal Castle (Ablaze)

Daria Schmitt, The Monstrous Dreams of Mr. Providence (Europe Comics)

Sana Takeda, The Night Eaters: She Eats the Night (Abrams ComicArts); Monstress (Image)

Zoe Thorogood, Rain (Syzygy/Image)

Thomas Woodruff, Francis Rothbart! The Tale of a Fastidious Feral (Fantagraphics)

Best Cover Artist (for multiple covers)

Jen Bartel, She-Hulk (Marvel)

Bruno Redondo, Nightwing (DC)

Alex Ross, Astro City: That Was Then . . . (Image); Fantastic Four, Black Panther (Marvel)

Sana Takeda, Monstress (Image)

Zoe Thorogood, Joe Hill’s Rain (Syzygy/Image)

Best Coloring

Jordie Bellaire, The Nice House on the Lake, Suicide Squad: Blaze (DC); Antman, Miracleman by Gaiman & Buckingham: The Silver Age (Marvel)

Jean-Francois Beaulieu, I Hate Fairyland 2022, Twig (Image)

Dave McCaig, The Incal: Psychoverse (Humanoids)

Jacob Phillips, Follow Me Down, The Ghost in You, That Texas Blood (Image)

Alex Ross and Josh Johnson, The Fantastic Four: Full Circle (Abrams ComicArts)

Diana Sousa, Critical Role: Vox Machina Origins; The Mighty Nein Origins: Yasha Nydoorin; The Mighty Nein Origins: Fjord Stone; The Mighty Nein Origins: Caleb Widogast (Dark Horse)

Best Lettering

Pat Brosseau, Batman: The Knight, Wonder Woman: The Villainy of Our Fears (DC): Creepshow, Dark Ride, I Hate This Place, Skybound Presents: Afterschool (Image Skybound)

Chris Dickey, The Night Eaters: She Eats the Night (Abrams ComicArts)

Todd Klein, Chivalry (Dark Horse); Fables (DC); Miracleman by Gaiman & Buckingham: The Silver Age (Marvel)

Nate Piekos, Black Hammer Reborn, Minor Threats, Shaolin Cowboy, Stranger Things: Kamchatka (Dark Horse), I Hate Fairyland, Twig (Image)

Stan Sakai, Usagi Yojimbo (IDW)

Thomas Woodruff, Francis Rothbart! The Tale of a Fastidious Feral (Fantagraphics)

Best Comics-Related Periodical/Journalism

Alter Ego, edited by Roy Thomas (TwoMorrows)

Comic Book Creator, edited by Jon B. Cooke (TwoMorrows)

The Comics Journal #308, edited by Gary Groth, Kristy Valenti, and Rachel Miller (Fantagraphics)

PanelXPanel magazine, edited by Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou and Tiffany Babb (panelxpanel.com)

Rob Salkowitz, Forbes, ICv2, Publishers Weekly

Best Comics-Related Book

The Art of the News: Comics Journalism, edited by Katherine Kelp-Stebbins and Ben Saunders (Oregon State University Press)

Charles M. Schulz: The Art and Life of the Peanuts Creator in 100 Objects, by Benjamin L. Clark and Nat Gertler (Schulz Museum)

The Charlton Companion, by Jon B. Cooke (TwoMorrows)

Gladys Parker: A Life in Comics, A Passion for Fashion, by Trina Robbins (Hermes Press)

Resurrection: Comics in Post-Soviet Russia, by José Alaniz (Ohio State University Press)

Best Academic/Scholarly Work

Bandits, Misfits, and Superheroes: Whiteness and Its Borderlands in American Comics and Graphic Novels, by Josef Benson and Doug Singsen (University Press of Mississippi)

Graphic Medicine, edited by Erin La Cour and Anna Poletti (University of Hawai’i’ Press)

How Comics Travel: Publication, Translation, Radical Literacies, by Katherine Kelp-Stebbins (Ohio State University Press)

The LGBTQ+ Comics Studies Reader: Critical Openings, Future Directions, edited by Alison Halsall and Jonathan Warren (University Press of Mississippi)

Teaching with Comics and Graphic Novels. By Tim Smyth (Routledge)

Best Publication Design

Francis Rothbart! The Tale of a Fastidious Feral, designed by Thomas Woodruff, Jacob Covey, and Ryan Dinnick (Fantagraphics)

A Frog in the Fall (and later on), designed by Linnea Sterte, Olle Forsslöf, and Patrick Crotty (PEOW)

Joan Jett & the Blackhearts 40X40: Bad Reputation/I Love Rock-n-Roll, designed by Josh Bernstein and Jason Ullmeyer (Z2)

Mazebook Dark Horse Direct Edition, designed by Tom Muller (Dark Horse)

Parker: The Martini Edition—Last Call, designed by Sean Phillips (IDW)

Tori Amos: Little Earthquakes, The Graphic Album, designed by Lauryn Ipsum (Z2)

Best Webcomic

Deeply Dave, by Grover, http://www.deeplydave.com/

Delilah Dirk: Practical Defence Against Piracy, by Tony Cliff, https://www.delilahdirk.com/dd4/dd4-p46.html

Lore Olympus, by Rachel Smythe (WEBTOON), https://www.webtoons.com/en/romance/lore-olympus/list?title_no=1320&page=5

The Mannamong, by Michael Adam Lengyel, https://mannamong.com/episode-1/

Spores, by Joshua Barkman, https://falseknees.com/22ink1.html

Best Digital Comic

All Princesses Die Before Dawn, by Quentin Zuttion, translation by M. B. Valente (Europe Comics)

Barnstormers, by Scott Snyder and Tula Lotay (Comixology Originals)

Behind the Curtain, by Sara del Giudice, translation by M. B. Valente (Europe Comics)

Ripple Effects, by Jordan Hart, Bruno Chiroleu, Justin Harder, and Shane Kadlecik (Fanbase Press)

Sixty Years in Winter, by Ingrid Chabbert and Aimée de Jongh, translation by Matt Madden (Europe Comics)

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As far as their discombobulated plan now of throwing everything at the wall to see what sticks, I do believe they had a clear plan from the beginning—to make loads of $off of Sussex Royal, spin her elephant documentary for Disney into a marvel role, or that of a Disney princess (because of course she would be the first ever middle aged Disney princess lmao), do Met Gala, Oscars, etc, sign with a huge fashion house, etc. but when those blew up, she didn’t have a worthwhile plan B or plan C, etc etc 😂

It never occurred to her that her plan could fail. I mean why should it have? She managed to bag a whole ass Prince and run rough shod over a 1000 year old institution, if that worked then why not more?!

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tldr I """"like"""" Thor's canon development now bc I've done some fucking Olympic grade backfilling and contortion to recontextualize the canon to make it meaningful, but this results in me living in my own pocket universe of an interpretation where I can't really interact with other people bc they don't subscribe to my exact reading of canon

But bro I LOVE Ragnarok. I know that can be a controversial take (I've read the meta of people who think it "slaughtered" Thor and Loki's characterisations), but I just thought it was so much fun! Like on a movie watching experience level and on a lore/meta level, it's FUN. That's not something I can say for 95% of marvel movies, which are nigh universally too dimly lit and too reliant on hateful sarcasm between characters as a substitute for a relationship.

On a meta level, I 1000% subscribe to the idea that the entire movie is a retelling that Thor is preforming for his refugees, so it's a heavily edited, exaggerated, and sillier version of events meant to keep everyone's spirits up. On the point of lore continuity, I really appreciate that thor3 makes CANON and EXPLICIT Odin's campaign of imperialist violence behind his "peaceful" reign over the nine realms, I FUCKIN LOVE IT. I LOVE the context Hela gives to their family, because she makes canon and explicit Odin's disappointments in Thor. I LOVE that Mjolnir was Hela's weapon before it was Thor's because Mjolnir was never meant to be a metric for moral goodness or readiness for rule, but a metric for a colonialist's commitment to imperialist violence on behalf of an empire WHICH IS WHY IT FINDS CAPTAIN AMERICA WORTHY BUT NOT LOKI

(btw if anyone else can draw a line between Hela and Steve Rogers that is a. representative of Odin's priorities and b. includes Thor but excludes Loki, hmu, bc this is the best I got.)

(Mjolnir rejects Thor in thor1 bc Thor was trying to conquer Jotunheim for personal glory and doesn't accept him again until he starts thinking about the good of the empire again by protecting Midgard, an imperial asset. Mjolnir rejects Loki bc Loki is a not an imperialist in service of an empire)

Off topic but I know a lot of people get hung up on Thor leaving Loki paralyzed in the parking garage, potentially to be found by the grandmasters dudes? Like people say that was unaccountably cruel and ooc for Thor. But like, ok, they killed everyone on the way up, and Thor knows his armed gladiator rebellion is on his heels also headed for the parking garage, so I dunno, I never read it as Loki was in any particular danger? But I'm a notorious Thor apologist as well as a Loki apologist so 🤷‍♂️

Things I also love: loki defunding the military to spend that money on art and infrastructure, Loki's live action thorki fanfic that Asgard unaccountably loved, Loki stonewalling Odin's attempt to reconcile bc fuck Odin, Thor's lightning powers, Bruce banner is now a Jewish grandma, Hela have I mentioned Hela love that girlboss, Jeff goldblum love that wiggly man, the Valkyrie love that angry girl, "piss off ghost", inglorious deaths for all the warriors 3, "I'm here" (screaming, crying, shaking), the story about how Loki bit Thor as a snake as well as the confirmation that they are in fact the same age

I have complicated feelings about Thor's canon development tbh. On a very ground floor sort of reaction, I despise what they did to My Boy in infinity war and endgame. I think it's a disgusting character assassination and I don't think the russos understand humour and specifically how to use humour to expand on tragedy like what thor3 did.

On the other hand, if you've read my fic and meta, you'll know that I've accepted the canon development, bc at this point, I've done a LOT of very deliberate and concerted labour to MAKE the canon development we see between thor1 and endgame WORK. But, like, there was a LOT of labour that I, specifically, put into it. It fully relies on me specifically doing a lot of digging and reaching and mining these movies for every possible frame of content to the point where I am pretty sure I've put more effort into making all the development make continuous sense than any of the screenwriters put into the actual development.

And I think I've probably just drank too much of my own Kool aid but like, I am in a position now where I do think my interpretation of Thor's character development is THE most complete and accurate reading of his character development. Key to these points are: a) I think he is an ex-imperialist who is currently and actively trying to deprogram himself from the colonialists' mindset that Odin instilled within him b) he is trying to deprogram himself from Asgard's culture of extreme toxic masculinity wherein he was not taught to have any sort of emotional processing that did not involve physical violence c) Loki is/was/always will be the person he loves best

So like, as I try to show in my thorki canonverse fics (shameless plug for myself), I can make most of the bad decisions made about Thor's character in infinity war and endgame work if I recontextualize all of his canon actions with my own (well supported, well documented) headcanon'd baggage. Of course he goes on a death wish mission to get revenge on Thanos -- he has a literal deathwish bc he was already supposed to die with Loki. Of course he sinks into an unshakeable depression afterwards -- he has no identity now that he has no family bc he was never taught to live by himself or for himself. Of course he leaves new Asgard and abdicates his rule -- he hasn't wanted a hand in the dirty business of Empire ever since Odin's ambition got his mom and brother killed in thor2, and that hasn't changed. I try to make him go through all the canon-implied feelings and anxieties and doubts in front of the reader. My entire goal of this is that people read my shit, then look at canon and think "oohh that context DOES make it better!" I will be gratified if that is the case.

(The only thing I cannot fix is the bit in endgame where Thor walks past Loki's Tupperware cell and the narrative doesn't come to a screeching fucking halt as Thor has so many feelings that he has some sort of paralytic breakdown where he simultaneously wants to commit Time Crime (tm) so he can just stay here forever and also wishes he could just die here, next to loki, like he was always supposed to. Like, that needed to happen to really lynchpin all of my work together into one smooth, problem free reading, but I'm not allowed to have nice things so)

(oh also I didn't like Thor calling frigga "mom". Shouldn't it at least be "mum"? I think "mother" is best tbh, bc I don't really read them as having that sort of relationship, see "toxic masculinity", see also "homosocial socialisation")

(and ok I get that it was a nice moment for Thor to call the hammer back to his hand, and I get that it even still works with my headcanon that mjolnir finds Thor worthy still bc Thor is defending the imperial asset that is Midgard, but like God damnit. The uncritical and unquestioning use of that word "worthy" when he catches the hammer again. Like worthy of what you guys? Do you ever ask yourself that question bc I very much do. I kinda wish they didnt bring it up at all, or if they did, it didn't come back to Thor's hand and he is just like, wistfully, "that's all right, I suspected as much. I'm such a different man now, mjolnir doesn't recognize me. I don't think I'd be alive right now if I had been the same man I was")

Wow that got long, anyway, thanks for chatting with me! Again, always a pleasure to field asks!

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Mass Effect Tag

Wellio, I’ve been tagged by @berryshiara. Passing this on to @grummel83

Gunna answer my questions now. Y’all feel free to tell me what you think of these answers. ​

I’m a fan since: 2008. I was just out of high school and still not over KoTOR. I was fresh in the army and got to talking to some other dude fresh to the army about video games. He asked me if I played Mass Effect. I said no. By the next day I just about totally forgot about him, then he suddenly appeared out of nowhere sat in front of me in the chow hall and pulled a copy of ME1 for Xbox 360 out his pocket like he was a magician doing a magic trick (ACU pockets are huge.)

Anyway turns out that guy was a romance option and I must have picked the right dialogue options. I’m still with him, too.

Favorite game of the series:

Mass Effect 2. It seemed like that’s the one where choices mattered most and you really got to know your squaddies. Also MAJOR gameplay improvements over the first game. And that game gave me the most freedom to do basically whatever I wanted and wasnt afraid to give me consequences for it.

MShep or FShep:

FShep. Nothing against MShep, but for me the real Shep is FShep. Can’t beat Jennifer Hale’s voice. 

Earthborn, Colonist, or Spacer:

Colonist. I like having the background of knowing just how dangerous the galaxy can be and how the Alliance can’t be everywhere at once so sometimes you need to manage your best on your own.

Biotics or Tech:

Both.

Paragon or Renegade:

Paragon, mostly. I tried being renegade but some of the actions are just so pointlessly dickish, or even outright unhinged in a way that would make it impossible to believe the Alliance would ever promote Shepard as an officer or even keep her in the Alliance at all, especially in the first game.

That said, there are times where a renegade action is more expedient and practical than a paragon one, like in 2 when you stab a dude in the back to prevent him from repairing an enemy gunship, so even with a paragon playthrough, my Shepard will have no issues taking that opportunity. She’s already seconds away from betraying all those guys anyway.  

Paragon in treatment of others, renegade in combat pragmatism.

Favorite Class:

I play as infiltrator and vanguard.

Infiltrator is great for using a sniping and opening loot, and then for going invisible, and if I remember right AI hacking too. That’s cool and I wish there were more genuine opportunities for stealth.

Nowadays I play as Vanguard in my playthroughs mainly just so my Shepard can be canonically biotic for story reasons. From 2 on when looting no longer needs a special skill and I get to charge around the map. I don’t really care much about using biotics (that’s what the squadies are for) but the movement is super useful (when Shepard actually does the thing instead of just standing out in the open soaking up bullets until the ability decides to actually work.)

Favorite Companion:

Garrus. I like to set him up in sniper positions. When he actually STAYS where I put him instead of running straight up to enemies to try to snipe them at point blank, he’s great.

Also his quips in 2 on are pretty entertaining.

Least Favorite Companion:

Garrus, Oh my god. Go back to the sniper position where I put you. Leave tanking to krogan; you do not have the HP for this.

Also Kaidan in ME1. He can not shoot to save his life - literally.  

My Squad Selection:

For all ME1 playthroughs after my first one, Ashley and Kaidan, just of their comments and because... well... I only have so much time with them.

Apart from that I mainly just pick my team based on who’s likely to have the most interesting commentary on whatever the mission happens to be, squad balance be damned. 

Favorite In-Game Romance:

Garrus X Shepard is my favorite love story. They are just so adorable together and always supportive even when they disagree.

But my cannon romance is Kaidan X Shepard for the drama and angst.

Favorite NPC:

In ME1 there’s this random Turian on Noveria who randomly has like a New York accent and I absolutely adore him. He plays basically no part in the story other than some minor information but he’s just so pleasant to speak to.

“If you need anything, I’ll be here.”

Favorite Antagonist:

Morinth, the Ardat-Yakshi daughter of Samara. Yes, she’s a murderous vampire who will absolutely kill you given the chance... but like, it’s a medical condition. And I really can’t help but feel for ardat-yakshi in general when their only options are to spend their whole lives on the run from justicars out to execute them, or waste their entire 1000 year lifespan imprisoned in a monetary unable to experience the world at all. Yeah, Morinth is evil, but Ardat-Yakshi don’t exactly have a good deal.

Favorite Loyalty Mission:

Grunt’s loyalty mission is the best. I get to help my baby boy, reunite with Wrex, enjoy krogan society being fleshed out, have a kickass battle against a thresher maw, and get a breeding request. It’s nice to have a quest that isn’t about family drama and genuinely gets a happy end.

Favorite Mission:

Despite Citadel DLC requiring everyone to have a deathgrip on an idiot ball, and also basically gloss over some really dark stuff, the whole clone storyline with the whole crew is an absolute ride all the way though, with lots of interesting and unique scenarios, a ton of replay-value, and funny party banter that feels like it came straight out of a Marvel movie.

Favorite DLC:

Again, Citadel DLC. Not only did it come with the story above, it also had all those interactions with past and present crewmates, including a memorial for Thane (finally!), a cool apartment to hang out in, a party, an arcade, and an awesome battle arena. It really added a TON. Also, it’s nice to see Bioware figure out that DLC needs characters - I’m remembering back in the DLC to ME 1 the party never had a single thing to say, no matter what was going on. The fun and wacky Citadel DLC is a far cry from the serious and somewhat dark space opera Mass Effect started as, but as the final DLC capping off the end of the series, it gets to do a silly victory lap (and get the taste of the ending out of our mouths.)

Control, Synthesis, Or Destroy:

No.

Favorite Weapon:

Sniper rifles, whatever I have that’s fast and has high damage output. Also that one pistol that shoots tiny energy grenades. Pew pew.

Yeah I wasn’t really big into the weapons so much. I’m here to get my story on. 

Favorite Place:

The presidium on the Citadel. It bothered me a lot when I couldn’t explore it in the second game. I know it would have been terribly impractical, but as the presidium is just a huge ring, it would have been cool to be able to explore the whole thing, going past all the little park areas, shops, monuments and so on until you loop aaaaall the way back around to where you started. Like, how cool would it be if the ring had a running track? Maybe C-sec  academy trainees would be spotted jogging together along it in formation. And can you imagine grabbing a coffee (I was going to make up a space-related name for Starbucks but it’s already STARbucks...) and taking a nice stroll along the water before finding a nice bench to alien-watch from? Other locations in the game are like great places to explore and do gameplay stuff, but the presidium seems like a nice place to just be.

Favorite Quote:

"Stand in the ashes of a trillion dead souls and ask the ghosts if honor matters. The silence is your answer." - Javik.

This is such a fucking raw damn line. It makes me think a lot about Cerberus. When ME3 wasn’t out yet, I thought maybe the plan was Shepard would at some point choose a side, Alliance for paragons and Cerberus for renegades. It would have been so cool to have morality not merely be good vs evil, but idealism vs that ruthless calculus Garrus mentioned. How fucking raw would it be if Cerberus wasn’t just generically evil for no reason and suddenly indoctrinated but really were embodying that ruthless calculus, determined to defeat the reapers at any and all cost. Maybe Cerberus actions’ were more likely to do terrible things for the sake of ultimate victory, doing whatever it took, whereas the Alliance would be less willing to make the terrible choices and ultimately be less likely to succeed.

Now obviously, that’s not what happened, as it would have required Bioware to basically make two entirely separate games. But that line from Javik makes me think of that concept, and a universe where like Dragon Age party members can approve or disapprove of actions not merely as good or evil but along the lines of their personal values. I think Javik would sit at victory at all cost.

Also that one mission in 2 where some random NPC catches Shepard sneaking around and is all like ‘what are you doing here?’ and Shepard is like ‘What am I doing here? What are you doing here? Get out here before it blows!’ and the guy’s freaking out like WTF and she says ‘RUN!’ then laughs to herself as he flees from an imaginary bomb. Shep you troll. 

The thing I like the least about the entire franchise:

The misogyny and objectification that crept its way in, epically from the second game on. Really didn’t like those ass-shot camera angles, or female characters being slut-shamed in-universe for the clothes the designers made them wear. Yikes. 

But the biggest yikes for me in that regard is actually the reveal in 3 that the prothians guided asari development. That was fine and all, but the part that bothered me was the characters commenting “ooooh, so that’s why asari are so advanced,” as it was ever any kind of mystery before that exact moment. For one thing, asari aren’t really shown as being more advanced than anyone else, apart from having discovered the citadel first, and for second, why wouldn’t asari be advanced? All the way from ME1 it’s established that 1: Asari live for a really long time, and 2: can instant transmit information directly from brain to brain. That means they have long lifetime in which to accumulate knowledge and experience, and also can easily spread and preserve that knowledge without even the need for books. That ALONE should put them ahead. And even with all that, they only barely beat the salarians to discovering the Citadel first. But no one asks for an explanation for why salarians, who live only a few decades and can’t do mental data-transfer, are so advanced. No, only the success of the all-women race needs explaining. It was just one moment but it still bugs me. 

Also the general loss of realism after the second game. First game everyone gets armor, including full-face helmets automatically on in environments that need it. After that, people can apparently just wander the battlefield half-naked and even somehow survive in a total vacuum if they just put a plastic cup (that isn’t even connected to anything) over their mouth and nose. In the first game they at least made up some reasonable-sounding science fiction explanation for things, but after that it’s like F-it everything is just space magic now. 

Oh, and those repetitive unlocking stuff minigames. I use a mod to just skip those. 

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‘Til the End of the Line (or Not) OR: See? We TOLD You “No Homo.” Love, Markus and McFeely

*****WARNING: 99.9% SALT!! Contains spoilers for Avengers Endgame!!****

I guess this is part two of my personal processing of Endgame. @pitchforkcentral86 was not satisfied by my timey-wimey Endgame post, which centered on Steve’s choice to go back in time to be with Peggy and the implications of that choice. She remarked that yeah, it’s great that Steve might not be a total piece of crap, Pym particles, yada yada, whatever, but it still didn’t make her feel any less despair over this ending.

The source of her agony: Steve and Bucky’s relationship and its utter lack of satisfying resolution. So I shall address that now, because I think I feel worse about that than anything, and I can’t explain it away with Pym particles.

Anyone who has any investment at all in the relationship between Bucky and Steve — whether you are a Stucky person or whether you view them as platonic but deeply connected best friends — has probably had to spend the last two movies scraping around the floor, searching for crumbs, signs, any hints that these two people care about each other. We have been begging the Russos, the screenwriters Markus and McFeely, anyone who would listen, for anything to suggest that they are even on the barest of speaking terms, let alone that they have the intensity of relationship that the MCU spent 3+ movies explicitly convincing us that they have. I’ll even come out and say that although I ship Stucky in fandom and fic hardcore, I am not an MCU canon Stucky person per se. I’m 100% fine if the MCU wants to treat this as a deep, fraternal friendship. In fact, I see some benefits to this interpretation. How wonderful if men could love each other so deeply and have it NOT be sexual or romantic. But I’m also 100% fine with people interpreting this as romantic love, and there were times throughout this franchise where the actors, various parties in production, and Marvel itself has been agnostic on the subject, if not encouraging of gay interpretations of their relationship. Let it be what you want, fans have been told. Or just flat out post a pic of Steve and Bucky on #National Boyfriend Day like Civil War comic writer Mark Millar. Sure. At times, it almost felt safe to ship them. As soon as Civil War drew to a close, however, it started becoming... inconvenient for Bucky and Steve to be together. Steve needs to go to the Raft. Bucky needs to go into cryo. Steve needs to become Nomad and go secret avenging. Bucky needs to do his Vibranium Brain Magic (TM)/goat herding complex PTSD recovery program. Side note: Complex PTSD (C-PTSD) is my provisional diagnosis based on virtually nothing, because Bucky’s character has gotten so little substantive screen time that we can only guess at his psychological state, save what can be conveyed through glistening eyes and woobieface and “... but I did it.” Wow. Bowl me over, you really got me right in the McFeelys. Though +1000 to SebStan for working what he got to work with to the max. That motherfucker can act. We know for certain approximately jack shit about Bucky’s internal experience post-Winter Soldier. And so, like pretty much everything with Bucky and this friendship/ship arc, I will just guess at what is actually wrong with him. But after 70 years as a POW being tortured and possibly gaslit and definitely brainwashed, that is almost the textbook recipe for complex PTSD, so imma go with that. Returning to this distance. Now, it first appears to be largely logistical in nature. Steve is over here, Bucky is over there. Golly, just too busy to hang these days. All this secret avenging without you. And when we pine — pine — for the meaningful reunion of these two in IW, instead we got a “Hey brah, how's it hanging?” “You know, old and traumatized lol” exchange and a “let’s make sure our dicks don’t touch” back-slappy hug that lasted two seconds. This is without any hint as to whether these two have seen each other yet after Bucky’s de-thawing, leaving us to wonder whether this is really the big reunion we have been waiting for. 

(If we had audio, the sound would be 70% slapping.)

I’m going to pause here, because for many of us, this was devastating. After all, we were left with this shot of Steve as Bucky made the choice to go into cryo, a choice that seemed only somewhat justifiable on the vague grounds of “I can’t trust my own mind.” (Me either, pal.)

Ugh.

Perhaps this was also an avoidance strategy — easier to go back on ice than deal with the emotional fallout of what just happened. And who could blame him? He is probably still relearning how to cope effectively with things after his entire coping system was destroyed by his time with Hydra. But Steve was clearly disappointed or, at the very least, saddened by this. He gets something back just to lose it again. Enter distance. He leaves and goes avenging. Emotionally, perhaps this move to cryo created distance as well. Their relationship was on such fragile ground at this point, mostly an artifact from the ‘40s, and their chance to deepen it was taken away by the writers because Bucky wanted to go on ice for reasons and Steve needed to do Steve things. And so when IW rolled around, oh, did we want them to have a substantive reunion. But alas, we did not get that. We saw equally substantive exchanges between Bucky and Sam or Rocket and far more substantive exchanges between Steve and pretty much anyone else. And then we got the ultimate separation — (fake) death. Again. A traumatic, unplanned loss that costs another five years from their timeline, all before they even got the chance to properly re-establish a friendship. Again, I’m going off of what we actually see portrayed, not off of what we assume or would like to see. We have absolutely no idea how much Steve and Bucky interacted in Wakanda. But Steve busted Sam out of the Raft quite early, early enough that he still had a messed up face from the time Tony went in (unless he was getting beatings on the reg, which is possible). So if he was hanging with Sam since before Bucky went on ice, and Sam just visited Wakanda for the first time in IW, either Steve was borrowing the Quinjet to secretly visit Wakanda on his own to hang with Bucky, or he hadn’t been back to Wakanda since he left the first time. 

Regarding Steve visiting Wakanda between CW and IW — I found this bullshit from Markus and McFeely on the subject of whether Steve and Bucky met or talked prior to IW. The writers could not even agree about their own characters, with one saying that Steve and his crew probably visited Wakanda and hung out with Bucky and the other saying, eh, the two of them “maybe Skyped.” As to the former, this is not at all supported by the narrative or by logic. Infinity War is clearly Sam’s first time in Wakanda, with all that drama about “zomg you’re gonna hit those trees, bro!” as they are flying into the city. And why would Steve  leave his team alone and vulnerable, probably taking the Quinjet, their only form of reliable and safe transportation, so he could go visit Bucky alone? He’s not there for a booty call, y’all, because these guys have barely even rekindled their friendship. Moreover, the other secret avengers know how important Bucky is to Steve. This isn’t a secret. There would be no reason to go alone and no reason for T’Challa to forbid Nat, Sam, and Wanda from coming to Wakanda. So it makes no sense that Steve has visited Wakanda prior to IW, and thus, that would make IW their first meeting, which is… utter and heartbreaking garbage. But at least they had motherfucking SKYPE. MAYBE. Fuck. You. Very. Much. 

So, in the face of this shit reunion and Bucky’s subsequent dusting, some of us kindled hope for the upcoming Endgame. Perhaps we would get flashbacks. We knew there would be flashbacks or time travel because we saw stuff in the trailers and sneak peeks from the set. So maybe there would be something there to account for the utter lack of attention to their relationship in Infinity War. Again, this was the mere request that Markus and McFeely and the directors acknowledge wholeheartedly what they have been building for these characters since the beginning of their time in the MCU. This was not even strictly about Stucky. This was about doing justice for these characters as humans. But there were no flashbacks. Who knows what happened in Wakanda. We will have to fill in the blanks on our own. Not a single comment could be spared to even signal whether the IW Wakanda scene was their first time seeing each other since cryo.  “How’s that new arm treating you?” or “God, it’s been so long”/deep emotion would be all it would have taken to not keep us wondering one way or the other. This suggests a lack of consideration to the fans of these characters and this relationship — which, again, Markus and McFeely slaved to get us to pour our hearts into. So… Endgame. What was that? Bucky and Steve didn’t stand next to each other at Tony’s funeral. Okay. Bucky is not an A-list Avenger. He did kill Tony’s parents. Awkward. Bucky was comforted by Sam, his… guy he sat behind in the Volkswagen in Civil War and fought next to in IW, and he needed comfort apparently (?) because he… killed Martha and Howard Stark (??), which was sweet, and much more spontaneous affection than we’ve seen from Steve in an age, but what the actual fuck??? Was that Mickey Mouse standing behind the Iron Man 3 kid wearing a “Falcon and Winter Soldier” miniseries t-shirt?

And that ending. This was maybe the one implied nugget of friendship between them visible with an electron microscope. They obviously had at least one deep conversation about Steve deviating from the plan to go have a life, and they obviously had a discussion about who would succeed him as Cap. My dreams of Bucky Cap were dashed into dust, but as @pitchforkcentral86 said, it would have been cruel to give it to Bucky. Bucky would possibly have taken it if Steve kicked the bucket in EG, but it makes the most sense to be passed along in a planned way to Sam. So maybe they had at least one good conversation. Way, way off camera. Bucky said he would miss him. Recycled TFA line. Thank God it was not involving the words “jerk” and “punk.” Glistening woobie eyes. Steve leaving to go be with the one person who can make him feel like a whole human being, apparently, because there is nothing and nobody tethering him to this time in history anymore.

Whoa— wait— WHAT??? These are the moments where I literally double check the credits for the Cap movies to make sure that it says “Markus and McFeely.” Then I check the latest Avengers movies to make sure they also say “Markus and McFeely.” And they ALL DO!! The same two men painstakingly crafted the story of Steve Rogers and Bucky Barnes, two men who — let’s be literal in the narrative here, for the sake of making a conservative argument — are best friends from childhood. They hammered on this story HARD, making sure that their relationship was so strong that by the time 2016 rolled around, the depth and intensity of their friendship and Steve’s commitment to it would tear the Avengers apart. And along the way, something else happened.

When you put two people in relationship like this, you have to know that there will be consequences. People will grow very emotionally invested in their relationship, because that is exactly what the writers were asking the audience to do. These dudes did their job, all right! And then something else happened, quite easily, even though these things will also happen under much harsher conditions: Stucky. Winter Soldier alone probably launched a hundred thousand ships for these two — gay, gay ships, so very gay, the glitteriest, gayest of cruise liners — from a hundred thousand ports around the globe. This ship has permeated pop culture even outside the fandom (some dumb gross man jokes from Screen Junkies within, but the Stucky shenanigans start at around 3:15).

And perhaps that’s when Markus and McFeely realized what a monster they created, one that would clash in ugly ways with their forthcoming (heterosexual) narrative, — their endgame for Steve. And so what did they do? Overcorrect. Wildly. Pull the plug. Bucky and Steve can’t fall out as friends completely, but what’s the next best thing? Give them almost zero screen time together, lest anyone be tempted to think they have a serious relationship — and again, I’m just talking friendship at this point, let alone anything else. Make their lines devoid of substance. Keep us wondering about the nature of their dynamic. Did the distance grow too great? Is Bucky not able to reconnect with anyone? Is Steve too busy? Too salty?? Who knows! These are possibilities, but none are explained. Then just poof Bucky off the face of the earth for 5 years to create existential distance. And in the meantime, ensure that Bucky is shown as not even a passing thought for Steve Rogers. Ensure that his name is never once uttered by Steve until he is about to leave him to go be with Peggy — oh except when, in a real dick move, when he emotionally whumps his past self with the news that Bucky is alive for the sole purpose of getting out of a stranglehold. At the same time, ensure that Steve is seen becoming single-mindedly fixated on Peggy Carter, and make sure the audience — including all those pesky Stucky shippers — knows that he considers her the “love of his life.” Ensure we see the compass with increasing frequency and with maximum longing. Insert Steve finding the absurd photograph of himself on the Director of SHIELD’s desk, facing the door for any junior colleague to see her pining over him like a schoolgirl long after he died, which is just about the least Peggy Carter thing I can ever imagine (and these people created and wrote for the Agent Carter TV series!!!).

Then give us our first openly gay person in the MCU. And drop him in the same scene that you confirm once and for all that Peggy Carter is the love of Steve Rogers’ life. Have Steve be so fucking cool with it that he makes us proud and relieved that he’s not a homophobe. Whew! Only… it makes us feel kind of gross, and maybe we can’t quite figure out why at first. But maybe it’s because it feels  personal, like a concession, like the writers and director knew exactly what they were doing to a lot of people who feel a very specific way about Steve’s sexuality and about his relationship with Bucky Barnes. It feels like a tone deaf nod to the fandom. Sorry, guys. No homo. We really did try to warn you with the whole Sharon Carter thing. (Sharon Carter, in an act of gross and misogynistic misuse, remains one of the most criminally mistreated characters in the entire MCU, arguably serving almost entirely as a “no homo” device before being completely discarded, never to be heard from again.)

Which got me thinking — was this move to distance Steve and Bucky so abruptly a reactive move? The divide between Steve and Bucky that happens in IW and EG feels so cold and inorganic. It does not feel at all driven by the natural arc of the characters as established by the creators themselves. It feels rushed and confusing, like it just needed to happen for plot convenience (though not even clearly that), and once again, we are left trying to figure out what the fuck is actually going on.

Part of that is probably needing to lay the groundwork for Steve’s feelings of alienation, which lead him to his ultimate choice to go back in time. He can’t feel too connected to Bucky or he won’t want to go back to be with Peggy. But could part of this also possibly be a reaction to how strongly Stucky was adopted by the public? Did Markus and McFeely realize how much more strongly we love the idea of Steve and Bucky — as friends or lovers, who cares? — rather than Steve and Peggy, which was probably their ending for Steve all along? Did they realize their terrible mistake of bringing them so close, endearing them to us so much, and then realize “OH SHIT,” and then slam on the brakes? Is that why IW and EG felt like absolute shit for their relationship, even for those who are not total endgame Stucky people?

Okay, but what if their friendship just ran its course? Friendships do that, even really deep ones. These two have had a huge chronological and experiential rift that never was really healed (thanks to our dear writers). Steve saved Bucky’s life thrice but they never really reconnected. Presumably. As far as we know in the narrative we are given by the writers. Okay. Let’s say you need to get Steve back with Peggy and for Bucky to become pals with Sam instead because contracts and actors. Whatever. Fine. But if you are going to play the “our friendship has come and gone” card, you need to fully PLAY IT. You can’t make it some vague option that might be true because we can’t figure out what the hell is going on. They need to have an actual conversation. For fuck’s sake, if we have time to fuck around with Korg and Miek on the couch and time to have Banner take selfies with kids and do stupid time gags and a bunch of other little shit, there is enough time to have a brief conversation somewhere to imply that “things have changed” or “people change” or something to imply that the writers were even thinking about the course of Bucky and Steve’s relationship as more than just a platform to launch Steve back to Peggy and launch Bucky toward Sam for their spinoff series.

There was just no depth. How can they give us three movies composed almost entirely of Mariana Trench levels of depth between these two men and then give us virtually nothing in IW and then next to nothing in EG to “round out” their entire storyline? The shape of the emotional momentum in this relationship is so wonky and dissatisfying, and the lack of comment on the dissolution of their friendship in the narrative, the fact that it isn’t even being acknowledged, is one of the worst parts. This relationship died without being honored or even attended to at the most basic level, after being told that it is perhaps the most important relationship in Steve and Bucky’s lifetimes and being shown evidence of that fact.

Moreover, let’s get real — calling Peggy the love of Steve’s life should do nothing to diminish his friendship with Bucky Barnes. That’s not how love works. You don’t just get one person. You can have a best friend — hell, you can have two best friends — and a woman you love. (And even moreover, you don’t have to leap back through time to find closeness just because you can. But that’s another matter with Steve’s character that I will address in a future speculative character analysis on Steve in an effort to explain how he got to this point, because I have a super depressing head canon about it involving traumatic grief and loss.) 

But just like comic book science, perhaps there are comic book rules about love and affinity. You only get one person, and Steve gets Peggy. And apparently Bucky gets Sam. Because contracts. But as I said before, I would have been okay if they had a dissolution of their friendship because that was the course of their friendship. Just tell us what is happening. Have the decency to respect your characters by giving their relationship a true arc, whatever it is. You can’t just recycle a TFA line and call it an arc. That is not an arc. Markus and McFeely goddamn know better and we know they know better, because we just saw a beautiful relationship arc closing with Tony and Pepper and, on a smaller scale, with Tony and Peter fucking Parker.

By the way, the small in-person and symbolic interactions between Tony and Peter in EG? Those are what high quality, emotionally salient, brief interactions between people who care about each other look like.

1. Tony’s picture of Peter in his kitchen: He can see from where he does his dishes. He looks at it meaningfully and thoughtfully before making a major plot-essential decision that risks his way of life.

2. Tony and Peter’s reunion hug: It starts off with some humor and classic Peter rambling. Becomes a full-ass, real hug. Nobody slaps the other’s back. Peter remarks, very sincerely, “oh, this is nice.”  <3

3. Tony’s death scene: Peter is visibly and truly wrecked. Tony looks at him in a heartfelt way. Words are unnecessary. It is perfect.

Bonus IW moment, because it is one of the most moving images I have seen in the MCU: Tony has Peter’s ashes in his goddamn mouth, eyes closed. Defeated.

Jesus Christ. Don’t tell me Markus and McFeely don’t know how to write characters and brief, powerful interactions, even when the characters are not together. They most certainly are very, very capable of this.

So why did we get the lifeless, quippy drivel and lame physical contact they gave Bucky and Steve in IW and EG? Which, regarding their last convo, was Bucky spilling his guts and Steve being like “Yeah brah, you’ll be fine, don’t be a fucking idiot while I’m off being happy with the only person in the universe who can make me complete #surprisesoulmates.” Bucky offers his quippy mandatory TFA callback retort so that the audience remembers that these two once gave an actual fuck about each other at one point in the narrative.  Cue slappy-back-no-dick-touch hug. And please don’t tell me that this is just how men from the ‘40s hug. I would buy that for TFA, but after everything they’ve been through in Winter Soldier and Civil War? I am not buying it.

**Slap-slap**

So we get a Steve Rogers who exits the MCU permanently by making a contentious, questionable final choice with questionable implications that take a graduate degree and/or a hive mind to questionably figure out (or else I’m just a fucking idiot and I’m the only one who needed those things). And we also get the profoundly dissatisfying demise of a relationship that we invested a tremendous amount of emotional energy in because that is what the screenwriters and directors asked us to do. 

I am not writing this as a diehard Stucky shipper. I love Stucky, don’t get me wrong. It’s all I read and write in fandom. And I can certainly buy a world (at least, in Caps 1-3) where canon Steve’s love for Bucky is the gay kind and vice versa. Sure. But I am writing this as a person who loves good characters and good story, and this is such a hard fail that even if I had no emotional investment in these two characters, I would wonder what Markus and McFeely had against Steve and Bucky that they let their garden succumb to drought while they tended so considerately to Tony and Peter and Tony and Pepper and Steve and Natasha and Steve and a dead woman and Thor and Bruce and Thor and fucking Rocket, pretty much all of whom (with the exception of Tony and Pepper) have had so much less at stake, so much less time invested, and so much less of a reason for the audience to give a fuck.

But more importantly, I am writing this as a lover of Steve and Bucky, two people who have a well-established, rock-solid, indisputable human relationship that deserves so much more than what it got, especially given all of the unspeakable suffering these men have experienced separately and as a byproduct of their separation. Canonically. This is not made up fandom shippery superimposed upon Markus and McFeely’s precious creation. This is the truth of these two men as determined by the hands of the creators who also neglected them into nothingness, which is arguably a fate far worse than one or both of them dying an actual, final death.

I am left feeling disappointed and betrayed as a fan, wishing, as others have confided in me, that I was more of a Tony person and had been all along. Because then I would be walking away from this still grief-stricken, but at least it would be for the right reasons.

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I will leave you with this, arguably one of the last in-character moments for Bucky and Steve in the MCU. 

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Panels Far, Far Away: A Week in Star Wars Comics 8/28/19

A crowded week of comics brings the end of Galaxy’s Edge, two new Age of Resistance tales, and a one page wonder from Charles Soule.

Star Wars Age of Resistance: General Hux #1 written by Tom Taylor and art by Leonard Kirk

There are few characters that are as delightfully contemptible as Armitage Hux. Played with sniveling petulance by Domnhall Gleeson, this rabid cur has become the face of the First Order’s own take on fascism and male insecurity.

One larger criticism of Hux as a character is that his position as a punching bag for other big bads robs him of menace or presence. Writer Tom Taylor finds a way to take that concept and twist it, revealing the violent underbelly to Hux’s seemingly fragile exterior.

The set up to “Marooned” feels fairly familiar for Star Wars. Forcing two rivals to survive alongside one another following a shuttle crash bares more than a passing resemblance to Star Wars Rebels episode, “The Honorable Ones.” While Rebels used this story structure to force two enemies to find the humanity in one another, Taylor opts for a darker approach and shows how Hux uses Kylo Ren to help him manipulate those around him. Taylor paints a Hux that knows how to play the room but also harbors a violent and simmering need for vengeance. It goes a long way to transforming the man into a force to be reckoned with. It makes a case that maybe all those beatings dished out to Armitage over the course of two films may be building toward something awful.

Leonard Kirk’s art is best at the moments when his characters do their worst. There is a certain eerie quality to how he draws Hux and he captures this man’s own sadism in unsettling ways. 

Score: B+

Star Wars Age of Resistance: Poe Dameron #1 written by Tom Taylor and art by Ramon Rosanas

Out of the central characters in the current Star Wars trilogy, few have enjoyed the limelight quite as much as Poe Dameron. In addition to starring in all three of the sequel films, Poe also has a regular guest role on Star Wars Resistance and even got his own comic series that ran for over thirty issues. 

In this way, there just isn’t really much for writer Tom Taylor to offer. While there certainly are aspects of Poe’s character that could be explored (give him a boyfriend dammit), most of this hot shot’s life has been chronicled already.

Taylor finds a nice solution in giving us a much earlier story than we have previously experienced. We follow Poe during his New Republic days as he attempts to hunt down and capture a mysterious freighter that may have ties to the newly formed Resistance. 

There isn’t much drama here, but Taylor has clear fun in giving Poe a relatively low stakes mission to flex his pilot muscles and discover a less restrictive alternative to the New Republic navy. Taylor holds the identity of Poe’s mysterious rival until the last page, and while it isn’t necessarily shocking, the reveal is rife with dramatic irony and offers a fun twist on one of the more contested dynamics in The Last Jedi.

Score: B

Star Wars Galaxy’s Edge #5 written by Ethan Sacks and art by Will Sliney

It’s a standoff in Dok-Ondar’s shop of oddities as the past, present, and future of Batuu come crashing together. The result is a busy finale that is fun, but ultimately disposable and lacking in direction.

Kendoh’s crew has Dok-Ondar cornered in their attempt to steal half of the Sword of Khashyun and to make matters worse, the First Order has arrived to put a stop to the criminality of Ondar’s shop. Oh! And the old Ithorian still has to tell us what exactly happened with him and Doctor Aphra on Moraband. Everyone has a trick up their sleeves and who exactly is playing who will become apparent soon enough, but not after a few blaster bolts are shot and sarlacc’s are fed.

As you can probably tell, there’s a lot happening in the conclusion to Galaxy’s Edge. Not only did Ethan Sacks hold over the ending of his Doctor Aphra centered tale from last week, but there’s also three different factions locked in a room together with their sights on valuable treasure. It could have made for a fun and tense issue, but there just isn’t enough breathing room for many of Sack’s creative choices to pay off. In particular, Kendoh and her team were never really compelling characters so investment their fate and success is a hard sell. Dok-Ondar also takes a far more sinister turn here than one would expect from previous installments and it ends the comic on an oddly nefarious note.

In general, there’s a weird sort of disconnect happening throughout Galaxy’s Edge. There’s a particularly off putting sequence that sees the comic’s First Order antagonist rattling off about responsibility and order and how Batuu is in need of this sort of direction and hegemony. Will Sliney accompanies this monologue with brief stills of various locations at Batuu or, in a more cynical fashion, attractions at Disneyland. It feels as if the creative team got to the end of their script and realized that they hadn’t really done enough to plug the land that the comic ties into and this segment was thrown in. If we had spent more time with the planet of Batuu or its inhabitants maybe we could’ve had an emotional connection to this sequence, but as it stands, it feels hollow and calculated.

Sliney’s art also feels off here. The blocking for the big crowded showdown in Dok-Ondar’s shop is messy and confusing. For being the climax of five issues, it makes for an underwhelming set piece and disappointingly confusing to read.

Score: C

Marvel Comics #1000: “Red Four” written by Charles Soule and art by Terry Dodson

Well, turns out Marvel snuck in a tiny bit of Star Wars outside of its main line of books this week. The highest profile comic from the House of Ideas today consists of eighty different short stories each told with various creative teams to capture the full history of the Marvel universe and publisher. Given how important Star Wars was to the company in the 70’s and 80’s and now again in present day, it’s only appropriate that one of those eighty pages get dedicated to the galaxy far, far away.

As a whole, Marvel Comics #1000 is a fun if disjointed love letter to all things Marvel. Some stories work, some do not, but it’s really hard to be too critical of the individual pieces given the strict creative mandate that the various talents had to work under. Even with that considered, Charles Soule and Terry Dodson turn in a sizzler of a little Star Wars story that sees Darth Vader evading defeat by a team of Rebel pilots. It’s short, effective, and another bit of comics based coolness for the Dark Lord. Soule always had a great sense of how to write Vader and his punchy script makes the most of the single page. Dodson’s economical panel structure is to be commended. It’s a tight little story that is sure to bring a smirk to Vader fans.

Is it worth the $9.99 price of admission alone? Hell no. The story’s already available all over the place online if you really want to check it out. If you are a Marvel fan in addition to a Star Wars one, it is definitely worth giving this tribute a look, but if you don’t like to cross your fandom wires too much, probably give this a skip.

Score: B

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Any hints on what your first oc x reader piece will be? 👀 I’m a definite sucker for all things romance too eyyy

Ahh, I’ve been going back and forth on what I want to do for a bit! Things will be kept gender neutral for the initial run of samples - but of course if people are willing to commission me, then gender will be up to the commissioner 👀

I have a rough idea for a snarky fae guy and a modern day reader! I love working with the notion that faeries can’t lie.Otherwise?? Ghosts? Tree nymphs? ...Aliens?? The sky is NOT the limit, lmao.

I’m also playing around with like.. Some kind of super powered knock-off. I’ve consumed SO MUCH superhero media (and I mean it IS the age of hero media dc, marvel, bnha), holy crud, and there is a host of writing references for powers.

I’m open to suggestions of course too! I might do a run of ko-fi commissions ($3 for 500 words, $9 for 1000) next weekend. But this is after I actually have samples written and the blog up and going It’s going to be weird going by a pen name other than Quirk 😂  

Also, of course, the villain ficlet fest will still go as planned on the 3rd!! I don’t want anyone to feel abandoned, quirkfics is not going anywhere. C=

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memehellion fic commissions!

hello friends! now that my first semester of grad school is over I have some free time during the next month! and with this free time, I’d like to open up a couple of slots for fanfic commissions! I’ve written some fics over the years and I’d really like to get back into it! And it’s not a bad time considering the holidays are near c: 

some general info!

fandoms I’m in: Life is Strange, Undertale/Deltarune, Star Wars, Homestuck, Heathers, Be More Chill, Marvel (although I’m only really familiar with X-Men, but I can do some research!)

I’m fine with fluff and nsfw, but only situations I am comfortable writing about, and ONLY with of-age characters. That shouldn’t be needed to be said but here we are lmao. No abuse/non-con stuff either. 

As far as pricing goes: 

250-500 words: $3

500-750 words: $5

750-1000 words: $7

1,000-1,500 words: $10

I’m limiting myself to only 1,500 words because I have only about a month of free time and I’d to be able to put my all (of course) into my work! 

I only have a couple of incomplete stories up, but here’s my wattpad if you want a sample of my writing: https://www.wattpad.com/user/rxthlessly

thanks everyone!! i hope to hear from you :o) 

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Essential Nutritional Supplements Every Woman Needs

Do you have amazing dietary patterns? Better believe it, nor I. Is your bustling life preventing you from getting all your dietary-supplements? Then, at that point, having multivitamin supplements probably entered your thoughts eventually. Healthful deficiencies affect ladies than men. In any case, enhancements can connect dietary lacks and cause you to feel like Superwoman. We're talking about fundamental dietary enhancements each lady needs. Have you caught wind of coenzyme Q10? What might be said about probiotics? We're examining all that and the sky is the limit from there. Do you avoid eating spinach and beetroot? Then, at that point, iron enhancements may be a basic arrangement. You can call it buzzword however nutritionists have bothered the significance of this mineral for quite a long time. Iron aides in the arrangement of red platelets that assistance to ship oxygen to crucial organs. The suggested everyday portion of iron is 18 mg each day and increments to 27 mg during pregnancy. Since ladies lose a great deal of blood consistently through period, it makes arriving at this target troublesome. Concentrates on show ladies lose up to 1.6 mg of iron each day during their period. Labor and lactation likewise accompany a ton of iron misfortune. Lack of iron enhancements can forestall iron frailty, work on your endurance, and reduction your possibilities of mind haze, fragile nails, and slender hair. Do you see no improvement regardless of taking standard iron enhancements? Your body likely requirements Vitamin C. It will work on iron ingestion and give you most extreme advantages. Aside from that, Vitamin C can assist with areas of strength for building and teeth. Its cell reinforcement power can shield you from the normal cold and influenza as well as malignant growth. Ladies more than 19 years old require 75 mg of Vitamin C to help their insusceptible framework. However, assuming you're pregnant you ought to get 85 mg. L-ascorbic acid prerequisite additionally builds up to 120 mg during lactation. L-ascorbic acid can offer enemy of maturing benefits for your skin also. However long we're on the subject of brilliant skin, there is another significant enhancement… We are discussing collagen. It's certainly the wellspring of youth! Collagen is acquiring a ton of commendation from the magnificence local area in view of its unfathomable outcomes. As you age your body begins losing this protein from the skin to foster scarcely discernible differences and kinks. Center around requiring 3-10 grams of collagen each day. Proceed with it so that two or three months might see improvement in skin flexibility and hydration. Aside from the pill structure, collagen supplements are likewise accessible in a powder that you can mix into your smoothies and make them helpful to utilize. This protein isn't simply a marvel enhancer. Collagen assists you with battling joint inflammation, fixes joints, and tendons bones, and loosens up your stomach as well. Did you complete your glass of milk earlier today? No? Do you start your day with heaps of caffeine all things considered? All things considered, concentrates on show higher caffeine utilization is connected with diminished calcium retention and bone misfortune in the body. Lower calcium in your body can make your bones fragile and decrease bone thickness. Hormonal changes in postmenopausal ladies additionally can endanger you of osteoporosis. However, having 1000 mg of calcium consistently can give you helps past bone well being. It can areas of strength for assemble muscles, lower hypertension, and safeguard against disease and diabetes. Assuming you are over 50 years old you can have 1200 mg of calcium day to day. It's an unquestionable necessity for new moms developing or nursing their little ones. Make sure to remain under 2500 mg on the off chance that you're under 50. Grown-ups over 51 can have 2000 mg of calcium securely. An ace tip here is to peruse your calcium supplement name. In the event that it peruses calcium carbonate, make it a highlight have it with food. That way it gets retained better. Yet, assuming that you are having Calcium nitrate then there is no rigid rule. Likewise never take your calcium and iron enhancements together. They will tie with one another making both the enhancements pointless. Moving along, have you known about coenzyme Q10? This compound assists with fueling each cell. It is normally created in your body however its creation declines with age. On the off chance that you are confronting richness issues, coenzyme Q10 can bring uplifting news. Studies have shown coenzyme Q10 to have an immediate connection in shielding a lady's eggs from oxidative harm and dialing back the downfall old enough related barrenness by keeping up with the quality and amount of the eggs. Coenzyme Q10 is engaged with several different capacities like shielding you from neurodegenerative issues and heart issues. It additionally gives your skin the consideration it merits when you venture out in the sun. It has shown promising outcomes to protect your skin from disease. The suggested everyday portion of coenzyme Q10 is from 90

Essential Nutritional Supplements Every Woman Needs Mg to 200 mg each day however a portion of 500 mg can likewise be very much endured. Is your magnesium consumption sufficient? Preferably, you ought to get every one of the supplements from normal food sources. With drained magnesium in the dirt, most vegetables, seeds, entire grains, and nuts neglect to give a to the max of magnesium. The suggested portion of magnesium for ladies more than 30 is 320 mg each day. It can quiet down period cramps, manage pulse, keep up with bone thickness and fundamentally change temperament and PMS side effects. Those successive headache assaults and pregnancy-initiated leg spasms can likewise be mitigated when you stock up on magnesium. In the event that you're not ready to endure magnesium pills, change to fluid magnesium that can be effectively assimilated. Have you attempted any Vitamin An enhancements? Beta carotene or Provitamin A gets changed over completely to retinol in your body. It's significant for your cell development, division, propagation, Vision, and supporting generally speaking insusceptibility. You require 700 micrograms of Vitamin A day to day. You can get them from food varieties that are somewhat orange like pumpkin, carrots, or tomatoes. Stay away from supplements assuming that you eat these food varieties enough. More is guaranteed to mean worse. Since this is a fat-solvent nutrient it will collect in your liver causing joint torment and birth surrenders in children. Following up, you would rather not pass up the life-changing supplement folate. Any maternal eating routine isn't finished without this micronutrient. Your body needs only 400 micrograms of folate each day. The prerequisite altogether increments during pregnancy and lactation. Studies have shown folate to lessen the gamble of creating brain tube deserts in children. Yet, here is the trick. This happens provided that your body has sufficient folate during the underlying long stretches of origination. Most ladies probably won't know about their pregnancy around then. For that reason specialists recommend ladies of regenerative age no matter what their pregnancy have folate consistently. Do you appreciate open air exercises? While perhaps not then add Vitamin D enhancements to your medication bureau. Allow me to make sense of why. The best wellspring of vitamin D is daylight. So in the event that you don't aerobics in the sun enough you will require 600 International units of vitamin D each day. Numerous over-the-counter enhancements have Calcium and Vitamin D in a mix since vitamin D aides in the retention of calcium. It's a good idea to assemble them. Studies have shown vitamin D to forestall mortality and horribleness in ladies due to osteoporotic cracks. Since a large portion of us are lacking in vitamin D it won't damage to support resistance, decline insulin responsiveness, and help security from malignant growth through Vitamin D enhancements. How much of the time do you have nutrient K2? It's significant for blood thickening, bone digestion, and calcium guideline. Having this supplement would not dishearten you. There are two sorts of Vitamin K: Nutrient K1 or phylloquinone is tracked down in plants and has quite recently a 10% retention rate. Though Vitamin K2 or menaquinone is found in creature items like eggs, dairy cheddar, and aged food sources. The suggested everyday portion of nutrient K2 is 90 micrograms each day for ladies. Assuming you are on blood thinners attempt to stay away from this enhancement. Did Coronavirus cause you to lose your tasty locks? Then brighten up your taking care of oneself everyday practice and toss in 30 micrograms of biotin in your day to day nourishing enhancements. In spite of the fact that biotin lack is uncommon, its lack can cause balding, weak nails, textured facial skin, and redness on the face. Having a biotin supplement is substantially more compelling than involving extravagant shampoos and serums for hair development and skin revival. Lift your hand on the off chance that you are at legitimate fault for popping in a B complex container each time you feel somewhat off. A non-remedy portion of Vitamin B complex is the most effective way to keep yourself sound. It is a

Essential Nutritional Supplements Every Woman Needs Gathering of eight fundamental B nutrients that give a full scope of advantages to your body. The most significant of them are B6, and B12 for ladies. You require 1.3 mg of B6 and 2.4 micrograms of B12. Vitamin B complex has gained notoriety for mending contaminations, going bald, dermatitis, muscle spasms, shivering, and deadness in the legs and arms. It even aides in the digestion of your food, produces chemicals, further develops mind work, and forestalls cerebral pains. Lack of vitamin B complex can cause loss of hunger, sadness, and frailty. We should zero in on probiotics briefly. This supplement has procured a major name in stomach well being. Yet, it's frequently mistaken for prebiotics. Prebiotics are the toxic fiber that takes care of the great microorganisms in the stomach. They are by and large tracked down in oats, bananas, and garlic. Probiotics are the live microorganisms tracked down in yogurt, sauerkraut or kefir that benefit your stomach. Probiotics need prebiotics to work. The advantage of having probiotic supplements is That you get a mix of many kinds of probiotic microorganisms. Probiotics assist postmenopausal ladies with fending off disease and keep a solid vaginal pH . It's fundamental for treating crabby gut condition, looseness of the bowels, and other digestive system illnesses. Research likewise shows the mitigating of probiotics represses the development of bosom malignant growth cells. The keep going enhancement on this rundown that can drive you through most kinds of aggravation is Omega 3 unsaturated fat. It assists with adjusting your chemicals and oversee persistent torment. It's perfect for your heart and decreases blood press Read the full article

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Best Movies Coming to Netflix in July 2021

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Movies are back. It at least feels that way when you see the numbers that films like F9 and A Quiet Place Part II are earning. But more than just the thrill of going back to theaters, July signals what is typically considered to be the height of the summer movie season. On a hot evening, there are few things better than some cold air conditioning and a colder drink of your choice while escapism plays across a screen.

That can prove just as true at home as in theaters. And as luck would have it, Netflix is pretty stuffed with new streaming content this month. Below there are space adventures, comedies, dramas, and more than a few epics worth your attention, either as a revisit or new discovery. And we’ve rounded them up for your scrolling pleasure.

Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997)

July 1

When the first Austin Powers opened in 1997, it was intended to be as much a crude love letter to the popular cinema of the 1960s as a modern day raunchy laugh-fest. Now with the benefit of another 20 years’ worth of hindsight, Mike Myers and Jay Roach’s spoof of Bondmania is itself an amusing time capsule of 1990s comedy tropes. There’s Myers’ cartoonishly larger-than-life characters—beginning with Powers but most dementedly perfected with Dr. Evil, the comedian’s riff on Ernst Stavro Blofeld—as well as the pair’s embrace of what they considered to be the defining trappings of the late ‘90s.

The film’s nostalgia for the ‘60s and its value as a piece of kitsch ‘90s nostalgia makes this Austin Powers (and to a lesser extent the second movie, The Spy Who Shagged Me) a fascinating relic, as well as a genuinely funny lowbrow symphony of sex gags, bathroom humor, and multiple digs at British stereotypes, including bad teeth. In other words, it’s a good time if you don’t take it too seriously. Just avoid the third one, which is also coming to Netflix.

The Karate Kid (1984)

July 1

1984’s The Karate Kid is the cultural apex of Reagan America’s obsession with martial arts movies and Rocky-style underdog stories. It offered ’80s kids the ultimate fantasy of learning martial arts to defeat local bullies and finding time to squeeze in a love subplot along the way. Granted, the Cobra Kai series has thrown a wrench into this film’s seemingly simple morality tale, but just try not to root for Daniel by the time you reach arguably the greatest montage in movie history.

There’s also something eternally comforting about watching Pat Morita beat-up ’80s thugs while validating parents everywhere by suggesting that you to can one day grow up to be a great warrior if you just sweep the floor, wax the car, and paint the fence.

Love Actually

July 1

Christmas in July? Sure, why not. This Yuletide classic likely needs no introduction. Writer-director Richard Curtis’ Love Actually is the ultimate romantic comedy, stuffing every cliché and setup from a holiday bag of tricks into one beautifully wrapped package. Perhaps its greatest strength though is it mixes in a touch of the bitter with its sweet, and doesn’t hide the thorns in its bouquet of roses. Plus, its use of “All I Want for Christmas” is still a banger nearly 20 years on.

Admittedly, we aren’t particularly inclined to watch this in July ourselves, but if you don’t mind the Christmas of it all, there are few better rom-coms in your queue at the moment.

Memoirs of a Geisha (2005)

July 1

This adaptation of the Arthur Golden novel of the same name was one of the highest profile literary adaptations of the early 2000s. It’s the story of a young girl sold to a geisha house in the legendary Gion district of Kyoto who then grows up to be the most famous geisha of 1930s imperial Japan… right before the war. The film (like its source material) had controversy in its day due to having a somewhat exoticized view of Japanese customs, as well as for the casting of Chinese actresses Michelle Yeoh and Zhang Ziyi in the roles of icons of Japanese culture, with Zhang playing central geisha Sayuri.

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But whatever its shortcomings, Memoirs of a Geisha is still an exquisitely crafted melodrama that provides an often delicate window into one of he most graceful and misunderstood arts. The film won Oscars for its costumes, art direction, and cinematography for a reason. Plus whenever Zhang and the actually Japanese Ken Watanabe share the screen, unrequited sizzle is hot to the touch.

Mortal Kombat (1995)

July 1

Look, 1995’s Mortal Kombat isn’t a great movie in the classic sense of the word. Those looking for notable ’90s schlock might even have a better time with 1994’s Street Fighter and Raul Julia’s scene-stealing performance as General M. Bison.

Yet at a time when video game movies still struggle to capture the magic of the games themselves, Mortal Kombat stands tall as one of the few adaptations that feel like an essential companion piece. It might lack the blood and gore that helped make 1992’s Mortal Kombat arcade game a cultural touchstone, but it perfectly captures the campy, shameless joy that has defined this franchise for nearly 30 years.

Star Trek (2009)

July 1

The idea of a Star Trek movie reboot wasn’t greeted with universal enthusiasm when it was first announced but then J.J. Abrams delighted many fans by creating a Trek origin story that was both familiar and new. Chris Pine shone as the cocky Kirk, bickering with Zachary Quinto’s Vulcan Spock while trying to save the universe from a pesky Romulan (Eric Bana). This was a standalone that could be enjoyed by audiences completely ignorant of the Star Trek legacy which also achieved the feat of not annoying many long-term followers of the multiple series. It was a combination of humor, heart, action and a zingy cast that won the day – it’s still the best of the three Star Trek reboot movies to date.

Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2005)

July 1

Alongside Step Brothers, Tallageda Nights remains a a biting snapshot of the 2000s zeitgeist from writer-director Adam McKay. Eventually he would drop (most of) the crude smirks in favor of dramedies about the excesses of the Bush years via The Big Short (2013) and Dick Cheney biopic Vice (2018), however Talladega Nights remains a well-aged and damning satire of that brief time when “NASCAR Dads” were a thing, which is all the more impressive since it was filmed in the midst of such jingoistic fervor.

So enters Will Ferrell in one of his signature roles as a NASCAR driver and the quintessential ugly American who’s boastful of his ignorance and proud that his two sons are named “Walker” and “Texas Ranger.” He’d be almost irredeemable if the movie wasn’t so quotable and endearing with its sketch comedy absurdities. There’s a reason Ferrell and co-star John C. Reilly became a recurring thing after this lunacy. Plus, that ending where adherents of the homophobic humor of the mid-2000s found out the joke was on them? Still pretty satisfying.

Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)

July 1

This is the movie that changed everything. Filmmakers had been experimenting with computer-generated visual effects for years, including director James Cameron with 1989’s The Abyss. But Cameron, as usual, upped his game with this 1991 action/sci-fi epic in which the main character — the villain — was a hybrid of live-action actor and CG visuals.

Those of us who saw T2 in the theater when it first came out can remember hearing the audience (and probably ourselves) audibly gasp as the T-1000 (an underrated and chilling Robert Patrick) slithered into his liquid metal form, creating a surreal and genuinely eerie moving target that not even Arnold Schwarzenegger’s brute strength could easily defeat. There were moments in this movie that remained seared into our brains for years as high points of what could be accomplished with CG.

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This writer prefers T2 to the original Terminator. It’s fashionable to go the other way, but the first movie, while excellent, is essentially a low-budget horror film, Schwarzenegger’s T-800 a somewhat more formidable stand-in for the usual unstoppable slasher. The characters in T2 are far more fleshed out, the action bigger and more spectacular, the stakes more grave and palpable. It was the first movie to cost more than $100 million but it felt like every penny was right there on the screen. And Cameron tied up his story ingeniously, making all the sequels and prequels, and sidequels since irrelevant and incoherent. We don’t need them; we have Terminator 2: Judgment Day.

Underworld (2003)

July 1

Is Underworld a good movie? No, not really. Is it a scary movie, what with the vampires and werewolves? Not at all. Well, is it at least entertaining?! Absolutely. Never before has a B-studio actioner been so deliciously pretentious and delightful in its pomposity.

Every bit the product of early 2000s action movie clichés, right down to Kate Beckinsale’s oh-so tight leather number,  Underworld excels in part because of the casting of talent like Beckinsale. A former Oxford student and star of the West End stage, she got her start in cinema by appearing in a Kenneth Branagh Shakespeare adaptation, and she brings a wholly unneeded (but welcome) conviction to this tale of vampire versus werewolves in a centuries-long feud. Shamelessly riffing on Romeo and Juliet, the film ups the British thespian pedigree with movie-stealing performances by Bill Nighy as a vampire patriarch and Michael Sheen (Beckinsale’s then-husband who she met in a production of The Seagull) as an angsty, tragic werewolf. It’s bizarre, overdone, and highly entertaining in addition to all the fang on fur action.

Snowpiercer (2013)

July 2

Before there was Parasite, there was Snowpiercer, the action-driven class parable brought to horrific and mesmerizing life by Oscar-winning Korean director Bong Joon-ho in 2013. The film is set in a future ice age in which the last of humanity survives on a train that circumnavigates a post-climate change Earth. The story follows Chris Evans‘ Curtis as he leads a revolt from the working class caboose to the upper class engine at the front of the train.

Loosely based on a French graphic novel, filmed in the Czech Republic as a Korean-Czech co-production, and featuring some of Hollywood’s biggest stars, with dialogue in both English and Korean, Snowpiercer is not only a truly international production that will keep Western audiences guessing, but it packs an ever effective social critique as we head further into an age of climate change and wealth inequality. Also, there is a scene in which Chris Evans slips on a fish.

The Beguiled (2017)

July 16

Sofia Coppola’s remake of the 1971 film of the same name (both are based on a Thomas Cullinan novel) is a somewhat slight yet undeniably intriguing addition to the filmmaker’s catalog. It’s the story of a wounded Union soldier being taken in by a Southern school for girls–stranded in the middle of the American Civil War–with salvation turning into damnation as the power dynamics between the sexes are tested. It is also an evocative piece of Southern Gothic with an ending that will stick with you. Top notch work from a cast that also includes Nicole Kidman, Kirsten Dunst, Elle Fanning, and Colin Farrell makes this a bit of an underrated gem.

The Twilight Saga

July 16

In July, not one, not two, not three, not even four, but all five of the movies adapted from Stephenie Meyer’s young adult phenomenon book series will be accessible on Netflix. Indulge in the nostalgia of Catherine Hardwicke’s faithful and comparatively intimate Twilight. Travel to Italy with a depressing Edward and Bella in New Moon. Lean into the horror absurdity of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn: Part 2. Or marathon all five for maximal escapism into a world where vegetarian vampires are the boyfriend ideal, the sun is always clouded, and the truly iconic emo-pop tunes never stop. 

Django Unchained (2012)

July 24

The second film Quentin Tarantino won an Oscar for, Django Unchained remains a highly potent revenge fantasy where a Black former slave (Jamie Foxx) seeks to free his wife from Mississippian bondage and ends up wiping out the entire infrastructure of a plantation in the process. Brutal, dazzlingly verbose in dialogue, and highly triggering in every meaning of the word—including quickdraw shootouts—this is a Southern-fried Spaghetti Western at its finest.

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Perhaps its other great asset is a terrific cast of richly drawn characters, including Foxx as Django (the “D” is silent), Christoph Waltz as German dentist-turned-bounty hunter Dr. King Shultz, Leonardo DiCaprio as sadistic slaveowner Calvin Candie, and Samuel L. Jackson as Stephen. While Waltz won a deserved Oscar for the film (his second from a Tarantino joint), it is Jackson’s turn as a house slave who becomes by far the most dangerous and cruel of Django’s adversaries who lingers in the memory years later… 

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