#cause they're making their first appearance in comics canon soon!!

[frnkxdiaz]

Walking through the picturesque streets of Cardinal Hill, you find Francisco Diaz, the 28 year old actor originally from Los Angeles, California. Living alongside them in such a small town, you know that they're charismatic and vain, but what you might not know is that they are a human, and that they’re hiding something… ― Taylor Zakhar Perez, bisexual, man, he/him. (tw: drugs, alcohol)

Stats

Name: Francisco Diaz

Faceclaim: Taylor Zakhar Perez

Gender & Pronouns: Cismale, he/him.

Age: 28

Birthday: July 4th, 1984

Occupation: Actor

Neighborhood: Upper Cardinal

Time in Cardinal Hill: A month.

Hometown: Los Angeles, CA

Favorite Song:

Personality:

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Positive Traits: Charismatic, Athletic, Upbeat

Negative Traits: Vain, Reckless, Dopey

Hobbies: Drinking, Working Out, Swimming

Likes: Hot Weather, Fruity Cocktails, Fast Cars

Dislikes: Boring People, Crazy Fans, Critics

Biography:

From the moment Francisco was born he was destined to be a star, whether he wanted to be one or not. Born into Diaz family in the heart of Los Angeles, his father Diego Diaz, an ex actor turned producer always had big things in mind for his only son.

He started taking Francisco to auditions from the age of five, leading to the boy starring in a few commercials, a guest appearance on almost every tv sitcom, until at the age of thirteen Frankie got his big break, bagging a starring role in Magic Moments, a sitcom about three teenagers living in Beverly Hills who discover they're all wizards and witches.

The show sky rocketed Francisco's career, making him a household name over night. He went to all the latest movie premieres, met all the stars and the show's popularity only grew.

He began appearing in other shows in much bigger roles, and even starred in a few of his own movies alongside big Hollywood actors. His dad became his agent and bagged him more roles and a lot more screentime in the show, but the fame quickly went to Francisco's head.

As he got older he started to become closed off from his family. Only really speaking to his dad when it was about the show. He often snuck out late at night and attended more and more big parties, which meant Frankie was exposed to things far before he should have been.

He'd often turn up to set hungover and extremely tired, even almost causing a stunt on set to go horribly wrong, but luckily nobody was majorly hurt.

The show's popularity started to dwindle by the seventh season, and with the four main stars getting closer to reaching adulthood, the network decided to end it.

Francisco was somewhat glad that the show got cancelled. He saw it as an opportunity to focus on more mature roles, and it would also give him more time to party and have a more normal life.

He had a few guest appearances on some bigger shows, and filmed a pilot for a comedy drama, but his personal life soon caught up with him when he made front page news(of a crappy but popular magazine) coming out of a well known(and married) actor's hotel.

The roles dried up a little after that. Nobody wanted to work with someone who had such a messy party boy lifestyle, and it didn't help that Frankie's dad was moving the family to Cardinal Hill.

At first he wanted to stay in California, get his own place, and try and make it on his own, but since he hadn't had a decent paying job since Magic Moments, and the royalties from that weren't great, he knew he needed his parents for financial stability. So he had to go.

He hated the town from the second he stepped foot in front of his new house. It was cold, quiet, and nothing like his life back home in California, but Frankie's determined to make the most of it.

Extras:

Other Stuff(Head Canons):

His tv show 'Magic Moments' was a mix between Sabrina The Teenage Witch(90s Version) Wizards of Waverly Place & 90210. Starting off silly and dumb, but trying it's best to tackle more mature themes in later seasons.

He played a character called Jake Young. The comic relief cool guy character who often found himself in ridiculous situations due to his inability to cast most spells.

He is often recognised for his role as Jake. He used to love the recognition but now that he's older and hasn't acted in over a year, it's a little embarrassing.

His parents put a large majority of the money he made on the show into a fund that Frankie won't be able have full access to until he's thirty, a cause of many arguments in the Diaz house.

He has two younger siblings, neither of which were pushed into acting after his parents saw what all the fame did to their eldest son.

He's heard rumours of a reboot of Magic Moments happening in a couple of years and hopes to be back in Cali by then to star in it.

He has no idea witches actually exist and doesn't believe in that stuff, even after receiving hate mail from a select few people who claim to be witches and aren't happy with his shows perpetuation of negative stereotypes.

His catchphrases on the show was saying 'Did I do that?", "I'm too bitchin' for this" and "That's heavy" at least once an episode and they get quoted to him regularly.

Wanted Connections

Ex/Hookup: He's a bit of a charmer and a heartbreaker. He's not been in town long but has probably already made quite a dent in the local dating scene.

Drinking Buddy: His parents have told him they'll cut him off financially if he doesn't sort out his drunken antics, but Francisco likes to think he's good at hiding them, he just might need a little help.

Hater: Maybe a witch who wasn't a fan of the show, or someone who Frankie just rubbed up the wrong way with his asshole-ish tendencies.

Anything! Hit me up!

[evilwickedme]

Oh my god I'm so sorry for taking so long. At first I just didn't get around to it but then I got insanely busy and now here it is woo

Anyway so just for background in case y'all aren't familiar, earth 65's Gwen Stacy was introduced in the Spider-Verse event in 2014 and got her own comic, Radioactive Spider Gwen, in 2015. That run ended in 2018, and she promptly got a run called Spider Gwen: Ghost Spider that ran for ten issues and a follow up run called Ghost Spider that ended too soon imho. These two runs firmly established her new identity, and she stops using both Spider Woman and Spider Gwen as her hero names, adopting Ghost Spider, which is a fine name imo and works well with her arc. So for a couple of years we have no main title comics for Gwen, although she appears here and there in 616 comics as of the end of Ghost Spider she only operates in 616 due to Stuff. Read the comics they're great I won't be getting into that here.

So like I said, Gwen doesn't have a title after 2019, but then a miniseries is announced, starting summer 2022, starring my beloved Ghost Spider. It's called Spider-Gwen: Gwen-Verse.

Wait, just a second, record scratch. Did I read that right? Spider-Gwen? I thought she'd been called Ghost Spider since 2018!

Oh well, maybe it's an artefact title, just meant to appeal to an audience that isn't familiar with her canon? Although like. That doesn't usually happen. Like Tim Drake isn't currently being referred to as Red Robin when he's operating as Robin just bc of recognizability (ignoring that fact that he should NOT be Robin anymore, but that's a different rant).

This is a minor problem, supposedly, but I think it's indicative of the problems inherent to the mini series as a whole, which is that Tim Seeley has no idea what the fuck he's talking about!!!!

Ghost Spider (2019) ends on this massive dramatic cliffhanger - that same aforementioned Stuff that prevents her from working in her own universe as a hero - and yet here there is no mention of any of that. Gwen is still going back and forth from 616, yeah, but there's no mention of her being unable to patrol her own universe at all. And then there's also the fact that this Gwen isn't anything like my Gwen at all. She's so out of character the entire time - in fact the entire plot hinges on it.

Like, okay, just a sec. I need to explain the idea behind gwenverse before I can explain why the entire plot hinges on Gwen being ooc. So the idea for gwenverse is that in the far far future there is an artist called Finale who wants to become, I shit you not, "the ultimate meme". In order to do this, Finale wants to copy herself across time. However, as she tries to copy herself, entirely coincidentally Gwen is crossing universes to go to college and boom suddenly she's the one being copied across the timeline and for some reason there is now a Thorgwen, Iron GWEN, Gwen Rogers, Gwen Howlett... Okay you get it. These versions of Gwen that have been copied into history have wreaked havoc on Earth 65 and its timeline, and now Gwen has to fix this shit.

The main theme of the narrative is that every version of Gwen spread throughout history has an aspect of Gwen that makes up most of her personality, and that in order to fix the timeline Gwen has to not only gather all the Gwens but also learn to love herself and correct her mistake. But there is so much wrong with this!!!!

Firstly WHAT THE FUCK WHY IS THIS NARRATIVE OF SELF ACCEPTANCE CAUSED ON ACCIDENT!!! If Gwen had SNEEZED before entering the portal none of this would have happened!!! Narratives that involve accepting your flaws should, always, every time, be caused by your flaws, you can't fucking change my mind. Gwen's self acceptance plot is entirely pulled out of Tim Seeley's ass. Not only is it not thematically coherent since it's accidental, he invents entirely new insecurities for Gwen that have NEVER been seen before in eight years of publication. Gwen HAS insecurities - that she won't always do the right thing, that she's not strong enough, that she's not a good friend. But she doesn't like, struggle with self love, or have anger issues, or any of the bullshit Tim Seeley pulled in this series.

Tim had a vague idea of what Teenage Girls™ Are Insecure About, and he had a vague recollection of the Wikipedia entry for Spider-Gwen, and he wrote a shitty story that had no thematic consistency or narrative appeal - it didn't make sense as a continuation of Gwen's character, and it completely ignored her previous plot and character development. It feels like whatever the opposite of fanfiction is - taking a character you have no respect or enjoyment of and writing for them because it's your job.

It's a waste of everyone's time, effort, and frankly, I could've written something better in high school.

Fuck Tim Seeley and screw gwenverse Gwen deserves better

Just saw somebody genuinely recommend the gwenverse series and I realized I'm not sure I ever explained here why I hate it so much, so... Is there an interest in reading me tearing it to shreds?

[forlornmelody]

10 Shows/10 GIFS

I was tagged by @popesheyward to do 10 GIFS of my favorite shows! Let’s see if I can come up with ten.

1) Titans (The show that made us friends.)

2) Gentleman Jack (Finally a sapphic period piece that isn’t super depressing!)

3) Derry Girls (Also a period piece with queerness and positivity, but this one you can watch with your mum!)

4) Legends of Tomorrow (aka the queerest show in the Arrowverse. Sorry, Batwoman.)

5) Batwoman (I got into it because gay. I stayed for the aesthetic.)

6) Sense 8 (I’m only a few episodes in but I’m hooked)

7) Orange Is the New Black (I stopped watching during season 4, I think? But kudos for being the first show where I had to message a friend demanding to know if a certain character survived a cliffy)

8) Burn Notice (hardly anyone talks about this show and it makes me sad. I LOVE THIS SHOW.)

9) Jessica Jones (I love me a misbehaving woman who doesn’t give a shit)

10) Teen Titans (last but definitely not least. For this show was my gateway into comics, especially DC Comics.)

Tagging: @scifi-ginger​ and @samfishers​, if you want to play. 

[jsio]

EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT

MILES PROWER, ANTI-TAILS

Moebius' true king.

Art by Arealscrog

Archie's wasted character

Who is Miles?

Miles Prower is the Anti equivalent of Tails, from Mobius Prime. He is afew years older, being 11 instead of 8 and much more mature. He still appears to possess Tails' youthful tenacity and desire for independence, but he has a violent rebellious attitude and shows no interest in holding himself to childish things, even though he's only 11 years old himself, hating the nickname "Tails" being an example.

Miles holds his younger counterpart in utter contempt for traits Miles sees as weaknesses, especially how Tails went down the path of Science and technology instead of his magical Chaos force heritage, implying that Miles went down a more mystical path instead of Science, but from what we see in the comic Miles is more in the political field, by that I mean he manipulates all the political aspects of Moebius.

His actions throughout the comic run make him out to be smart, picky, but also cold, calculating and always 5 steps ahead of his own team and Adversaries, this leading to Alicia making him the Suppression Squads leader behind the scenes, while she is the figurehead "ruler."

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That's Anti-Tails, Who throughout this I'll be reffering to as "Miles." Now you may be thinking, "Why make a post on an extremely obscure and hardly used Archie character? Why not someone Like Tails, Shadow or a more popular Archie character?"

Well, it's because I believe that Miles had the potential to be one of Archie's most intresting original characters, I believe he could've easily held his own "Suppression Squad" comic run, but Archie Unfortunately really underused him and wasted his potential, but hey...

That's where us fans come in!

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This post is All about Miles Canonical self, every canon fact I can find about him and his full story in his short run during Pre-Reboot Archie Sonic, and my own personal headcanons in the later post.

But...before I get into any the headcanons, I need to teach those who don't know him about him, I need to talk about his Canonical self..so, let's get into it. Headcanons will be in the follow up post.

Canonical Apprearnces.

(Reworded from the wiki)

First appearance

The first appearance of Anti-Tails was back when the character was just "Evil Tails" and it was of him joining the Anti Freedom fighters in an attempt to take over Mobius Prime, prior to the downfall of Eggman.

He and his evil allies pretended to be the good Mobius Prime versions, and struck knothole with acts of mayhem, vandalism and overall mischief, a common thing on moebius. The real Freedom Fighters soon returned to set things straight, but their initial attempts to defeat the Anti-Freedom Fighters failed as their Anti-Mobius selves knew their moves as well as they did. Sally Acorn came upon the solution: switching combat partners. When he faced Rotor, Evil Tails proved unable to overcome the larger and stronger Mobian. Defeated along with the other Anti-Freedom Fighters, he was sent back to Anti-Mobius, where they continued to cause mayhem despite the efforts of the kindly Dr. Ivo Kintobor (Anti-Robotnik) to stop them.

This was the last we saw Evil Tails for awhile, however we did see a cameo of him along with every other tails when they all came together and formed Titan Tails.

The Suppression Squad

Art by Pota on Pixiv

Some time passed before his next appearance, and in that time "Anti-Mobius" went through changes in its name, now "Moebius." And all the characters changed alongside it.

Miles had assisted Boomer in stealing Dr Kintober's goal posts in order to allow the Suppression Squad to have access to inter-dimensional travel. Scourge obviously took this opportunity and went straight to Mobius Prime, along with a few other members of the SS, Miles being one of them, and they attempted an assult on the Freedom HQ, where we see Miles' and Tails face off, with Miles declaring to not be referrd to as Tails or Anti-Tails, but instead just "Miles".

He also indicated his disgust at Tails for having chosen a path of Science and study, despite having a strong connection to "Chaos force", aka magic. This has led to people believing Miles himself is a magic user.

When Metal Sonic attacked Scourge, believing him to be the real Sonic, Miles stayed back and observed instead of helping his king. Now, you may think that's betrayal, but in reality Miles didn't help because he did not wish to undermine Scourges strength, so instead he observed. Soon after Sonic came onto the scene he showed his willingness to help anyone, even his enimies, and this gave Miles an idea:

Let's team up with the freedom fighters to betray Scourge, that's the new plan.

Miles later met up with Sally, Bunnie, Antonie and Tails to offer an alliance, but didn't let Tails speak and showed his contempt to the original version, telling him, "Please don't talk, little boy, We're trying to have an intelligent conversation." Sally accepted the offer, knowing she needed all the help she could get for taking down Scourge.

Upon returning to Scourge, pretending to be running from the freedom fighters, Scourge asked for a summary on his mission, that being "bomb New Metropolis" but Miles ignored him however, instead reporting to Alicia (Anti-Sally) that his mission was a success. Immediately thereafter, Alicia told the Suppression Squad to, "Show our King just what we think of him", with Boomer and Patch clearly readying for battle

However, Miles was doubling up his betrayal, blasting both Sonic and Scourge back into Moebius for them to Duke it out there, with Boomer sealing the portal behind them. An ethical debate followed this, between Sally, Alicia and Miles, the trio being ordered to get the goal posts ready to be able to return the freedom fighters to Mobius after both groups agreed to make sure Scourge was defeated on Moebius by Sonic

Miles was as shocked as the rest of the group to find Scourge had defeated all of his opponents as Super Scourge. When the rest of the Knothole Freedom Fighters and Suppression Squad were quickly defeated, Scourge turned his sights on Miles, identifying him as the mastermind behind the betrayal.

Miles, cowering in fear, denied his role in betraying Scourge, who was threatening to beat him for his betrayal. However, Miles was saved by Silver the Hedgehog and unlike the rest of his allies, wasn't even hurt. Following Scourge's defeat and Miles' attempt to recruit Buns Rabbot into the Suppression Squad, Miles spoke to Alicia about who would be their new leader. Alicia explained that while she may be the figurehead ruler, they both knew Miles held the real authority at this point, to which Miles grinned.

That was the last we see of Miles in the Archie comics, he unfortunately isn't in the post reboot because he's now owned by Ken Penders, so we'll never see him again. Below is all of his official designs, and after that is my final thoughts on the character.

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My overview of Miles as a character.

I'm no Character analysist so I'll make this short and sweet, my review of Miles is that he's a Character with alot of potential, but he went wasted, not on purpose, but thanks to the lawsuit.

I believe that if that lawsuit never happened, and that arc was closed up nicely Anti-Tails would of became a far more realistic and grounded Character, and probably pretty popular too. Miles to me is a kid who was manipulated into a life of crime and now believes that's what is right, and I think that could of been an arc for him, mellowing out and becoming a true king for the people of Moebius. I also like how when Scourge goes Super and goes to Miles to confront him, he dosent stand up to him, he dosent become strong, but instead he cowers in fear, hes terrified and tries to lie, to me, that makes him feel more grounded, and I like that.

Personally I wish Miles was more popular, I wish he got more spotlight than he did and I wish his story got concluded, but with what we got, I think he's pretty good, and pretty interesting too! I've seen alot of ideas float around for this dude, all of them making sense in they're on way, and to be honest? His lack of story kinda helps make him more accessible.

Tl:Dr: I like Miles alot, and I hope this post helps you lot learn more about him and overall, gets more people down to write with him, draw with him and explore him!

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Would I change him in any way?

Yeah, there's one key part of Miles (from what we got) that I think was wasted. Now, what is that? What would I change about a Character I've mostly praised? Well...

I wish he was magical. In the Archie comics Tails is actually strongly connected to the "Chaos Force", not as connected as Shadow, but still VERY connected, and guess what? Miles and Tails ARE biologically the same, same DNA, and in that bit of the comic, Miles calls Tails out on something he should have no idea about if he himself isn't connected to the same thing (or Moebius equivalent). To me at least this kind of implies Miles is magical too.

Basically, I'd give Miles' moveset a touch of magical abilities, connecting him to Moebius' "Anarchy force". I think it would help separate him abit more from Tails, while also connecting them, because whenever you have science and magic together...they clash.

But yea that's all I'd change in what we got, just hints of magic, some magic attacks here and there. I think it'd be pretty neat, and it'd have the science Vs magic aspect with him and Tails relationship.

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Lets finally wrap this up! At least, for now.

Thank you so much for reading all this If you did, it, this took me alot of hours, and I, I think it's over 2000 words now you madman. Why not spend your time doing something more worthwhile? Why not...have fun? meet someone? Go on a date? Live your life? Why read a post on an obscure Character, mainac.

But in all seriousness thank you for reading my post, I really like this character (clearly) and I want to teach people about him, and I hope this post has done that! Post 2. There's going to be a sequel post going over all of my personal headcanons, and possibly a 3rd going over community ones. Keep ya eyes out~

But yea, big read, now you lot know about an obscure Character, and this was fun to write! But now I'm gonna end this post with a fun fact:

Miles and the Suppression Squad were going to have one more arc, it was teased at the end of issue 196, but unfortunately it never got written. That would of been really neat but unfortunately it never got to happen.

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BON'VOYAGE, HEDGEHOGS!