#creampuffs unite

[ggungabyfish]

Wow.

I think a rewatch may be in order soon.

[yume-fanfare]

candy house, the switch climax event, obsesses me because i feel like it's the epitome of akira doing whatever he wants but in a nearly-good way, the most "this should have been a light novel instead of an enstars event and then it could have been good" story

climaxes were stories supposed to serve a defined purpose: wrap up plotlines that had been set during es2. i have seen people complain that this did not happen at all but tbh i read in full the first stories that came out (parallel world, last mission, atlantis, 2×2...) and imo those achieved that very well. it's plain to see that it was as time went on that akira started to get carried away with his own odd ideas, and then things like the eden climax or this one happened.

and, to be fair, akira's plots often suck, and what you're supposed to focus on is the character dynamics and development rather than the outlandish situation they are actually in. however, from what i've heard from switchP, even those were bad in this.

rather than tying up plot threads or improving character dynamics, candy house is, instead, a pretty compelling sci-fi story, which seem to be akira's favorite. and even though i am not really into sci-fi, i am Dying to read it in full. it's going to be a ride.

it's terrible for an enstars story that's supposed to serve a purpose but it is really interesting as a Story. and also the hajime b-plot is there too

[drewcent]

It was Private Andrew's first day in his new unit, after receiving his oversized uniform he waddled towards his Sergeant, practically swimming within the folds of his ill fitting fabric. There he got greeted by quite the unconventional authority figure. "Finally," grunted the sergeant, while their protruding belly was taking up most of the space in their lap. "You have one and only order, soldier. No leftovers are allowed to be wasted, they have to disappear." Private Andrew blinked not understanding the weight of the situation he was in. Without a second thought or any room for negotiation he puffed out his chest and saluted his higher up. "Yes Sarge! I will not fail you!" Thus begun Andrew's one and only duty, make sure that not a single allocated meal is reported as wasted. At first he struggled to find room for all that excess amount of food that seemed to be coming out of the kitchen. But as his belly grew so did the amount of leftovers that was sent his way. His oversized uniform, initially baggy, grew increasingly snug with each passing day. Soon, his buttons strained and his once proud walk turned more into a waddle having to accommodate his ballooning belly preceding him. One fateful day, the Sergeant waddled in belly first, panic painted in their face. "Inspection next week, soldier! And the inspector hates nothin' more than wasting resources! We need the entire unit's pantry emptied by the end of the week! Also the inspector can't have the soldier in charge of the leftovers disposal looking so scrawny, you have some work to do!" Andrew stared down at his rounded out figure. Scrawny? Him? He patted his ever expanding gut, confused. On that day the Sergeant commenced Operation Creampuff. On top of "disposing" all the leftovers inside Private Andrew's stomach, all the ingredients found in the pantry had to be turned into a creamy heavy shake...

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[inoue-misaki]

The others told me to introduce me, so listen up creampuffs:

Inoue Misaki, last name -> first name.

16 years old, girl, probably the most athletic kid in the history of EVER at Kamiyama. Real ones know the rest. (love ya real ones <3 kiss kiss)

I may not have the best grades ever, but they only matter when you can't do a half-decent push-up, so WHO CARES? Not me!

Oh, yeah. I'm also part of the unit CIPHER: Elements of Crime- maybe ask @nakamura-renji about it, as far as I'm concerned he can do whatever. Bye.

A pjsk rp blog, made by @uranpyrochlore. More lore for this little lady shall be revealed...later!!! Isn't that fun!

However, she's totally not just so interested in sports and looking cool because she fears she has nothing else going for her....yeah totally.

Red text is in character. Any other colour isn't. Have fun!!

[mainstoryarchive]

Revolution - 62: Chaos

Translator: Creampuffs

Rei: The plan is a success. We leave the main part of the plan to our brethren – “2wink”!

[Read on my blog for the best viewing experience with Oi~ssu ♪]

Location: Auditorium

Rei: The plan is a success. We leave the main part of the plan to our brethren – “2wink”!

Hinata: Alrighty.

Yuta: That was a great performance, Sakuma-senpai.

Hinata: You called for us, so here we are ♪

Yuta: Tadaaa ♪

Keito: (……!? Where did they come from?)

(Their outfits are different – they’re not “UNDEAD”. I’ve never seen them before, but… are they newcomers who have yet to take part in an "A1"?)

(They shouldn’t be performing today, but all the paperwork must have been done behind the scenes.)

(It’s one outlandish scheme after the other!)

(They’re twins… which means they must be the first-year Aoi brothers. If I remember correctly, they should be members of the Light Music Club – Sakuma’s juniors. Are they also part of his plan?)

Hinata: Hey, stop looking so tense like the protagonist of a battle manga and leave already ♪

Yuta: You’re going over your performing time, so you’ll be penalised, you know~? ♪

Keito: Ugh… how imprudent can you two be? “UNDEAD” and “2wink” – just know you two won’t have a place at this school when this dreamfest is over!

Rei: Is now really the time to be talking about our fate? You never know – perhaps the school may undergo a change after this dreamfest.

If a revolution occurs, then the previous king will be taken to the guillotine ♪

But we’d only be a nuisance if we stayed here forever. My fellow unit members, we’re leaving!

We’ve done our job – I’ll be sure to shower my dear unit with praises afterwards ♪

Kaoru: What~? Being praised by you doesn’t make me happy at all, you know.

Anyway, is it true that I’ll get a kiss from the Transfer Student if I did my best for the performance?

That’s the only reason why I gave my everything for the performance, you know~? ♪

Rei: Hm. When did I ever say that…?

Kaoru: Wha!? It’s not time for you to start becoming senile, Sakuma-san.

You’ve got to be kidding me~ I worked so hard!

Koga: Stop yappin’ and get off the stage, you geezers! Outta my way!

Adonis, we’re leaving and taking the equipment we brought on stage with us!

We’ve also gotta set up the stage for “Trickstar”, so we’re hella busy!

Geez, why’re we even doin’ something like this…?

Well, I guess I do owe the Transfer Student. Now, we’re even, dammit!

Adonis: I’m good at doing manual labour. Kanzaki, could you lend a hand?

Souma: Hm? I do not think I am obligated to help you, though? W-What should I do… Hasumi-dono!

Keito: Don’t mind them. It’s not our time to perform anymore. We need to leave the stage, otherwise we’ll receive a penalty.

I’m going to leave the stage and get a grasp on the situation. Afterwards, I’ll summon the members of the Student Council, and then we’ll think about how to deal with all this.

We lost our initiative, but we can turn the tables around. No… the stable order the Student Council built will not crumble due to something of this level!

Hinata: Yeah, yeah. Just hurry up and leave, okay?

Yuta: It’s not fun if the opening act takes forever to leave, right? Especially when the audience is so pumped up already~

Keito: You’re saying… we’re the opening act!?

Hinata: Sorry if we hurt your pride, but that’s just how things naturally came to be~♪

Yuta: At the very least, that’s how the audience sees the three of us – “UNDEAD”, “AKATSUKI” and “2wink”.

Hinata: Attain victory first and put an end to everything…

Looks like the system that allowed you to be invincible was useless~ Normally, the opening act are those who appear on stage first ☆

Yuta: The heroes arrive after.

Hinata: With all that said, it’s time for the main stars to arrive…

“Trickstar”, the up-and-coming idol unit Yumenosaki Academy has been waiting for, will begin their performance shortly~☆

Yuta: Please welcome them with a big round of applause! ♪

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[tasteofantasy]

Now that I know all their names heheh

5, 12, and 14 with Cappuccino Cookie! (Yearnin-cryptid)

@yearnin-cryptid bring it

5. does your self insert have any special powers or abilities?

Their a Support Unit, so their main gimmick is to boost and to heal. I think a good way to describe their skill would be a coffee based Parfait Cookie. Only difference is instead of raising Defense, they raise Attack Speed. They still heal and reduce debuffs. For this they use their anis staff to produce cappuccino that's Just Right for consuption (do not confuse with Latte Magic)

12. how would the fandom view your character?

"Creampuff meets Vampire". They'd prob think the design is too mid for being an Epic Cookie and probs Also think they're a stalker towards Affogato while not doing much to help, when in reality they're a tired mess with trauma

14. what hobbies does your self insert have?

Watching streams. They're a big fan of both Parfait Cookie and Black Garlic Cookie and that takes them out of monotony and overworking. They tried to get the rest of the Cookie of Darkness into them, to which they're ignored cause they get a bit too excited about it

[radiomaxmusic]

Sunday, January 7, 2024 12pm ET: Across The Tracks

The United States has over 175 days related to awareness of specific foods or drinks. January features . . . January 1 National Bloody Mary DayJanuary 2 National Creampuff DayJanuary 3 National Chocolate Covered Cherry DayJanuary 5 National Whipped Cream DayJanuary 9 National Cassoulet DayJanuary 15 National Booch DayJanuary 19 National Popcorn DayJanuary 23 National Pie DayJanuary 24 National…

[brookston]

Holidays 1.2

Holidays

Ancestry Day (a.k.a. Ancestors' Day; Haiti)

Arbor Day (Ukraine)

Berchtoldstag (a.k.a. Berchtold's Day; Alsace, Liechtenstein, Switzerland)

Blacks & Whites' Carnival begins (until 7th; Colombia)

Boo Boo Bear Day

Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy Day

Bridge Day (New Caledonia)

Carnival Day (Saint Kitts and Nevis)

Carnival of Riosucio (a.k.a. Carnival of the Devil; Colombia) [Every Odd Year]

Dainichi-do Bugaku (Japan)

Day of Portuguese Pavement

Drinking Straw Day

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Fifty-Five Day

Granada Day (Spain)

Happy Mew Year For Cats Day

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Kaapse Klopse (Cape Town, South Africa)

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Mannam Jayanti (Kerala, India)

Mars Day Day

Miniature Golf Day

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Scour Day (Elder Scrolls)

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Shigoto Hajime (Beginning of the Work Year; Japan)

Slate Day (French Republic)

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Thrift with Flair Day

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Waldmaennchentag (Germany)

World Introvert Day

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Food & Drink Celebrations

National Buffet Day

National Chocolate Fondue Day

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Pabst Blue Ribbon Day

Swiss Cheese Day

1st Tuesday in January

Finalize Your Resolutions Day [1st Tuesday]

Independence & Related Days

Cliff Island (Declared; 2010) [unrecognized]

Georgia Statehood Day (#4; 1788)

Posaf (Declared; 2018) [unrecognized]

United States of Ackerman (Declared; 2018) [unrecognized]

Feast Days

Advent of Inanna (Ancient Sumer)

Advent of Isis (Ancient Egypt)

Basil the Great (Catholic Church and Church of England)

Birthday of Inanna (Sumerian Goddess and Patroness of Tavern Keepers)

The Building Inspector (Muppetism)

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Celebrate Surviving 2022 Day (Pastafarian)

Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg (Artology)

Day of Ekadashi (Hinduism)

Day of Victory of Love (Unification Church)

Defendens of Thebes (Christian)

Ernst Barlach (Artology)

Failure of Will Day (Church of the SubGenius)

Feast of the Holy Name of Jesus (varies between 1.2 and 1.5; Roman Catholic Church)

Fenris’s Day (Pagan)

Festival of Fetishes

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Festival of Four Winds & All Sky

Gaspar del Bufalo (Roman Catholic)

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Hercules (Positivist; Saint)

Isaac Asimov Day (Jayism)

Johann Konrad Wilhelm Löhe (Lutheran Church)

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Mange Loa (a.k.a. Jan Case Gateaux or Breaking of the Cakes)

Ninth Day of Christmas

Ray Harryhausen Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Seraphim of Sarov (Repose; Eastern Orthodox Church)

Slava Raškaj (Artology)

Swiss Cheese Day (Pastafarian)

Twelve Holy Days #8 (Scorpio, the generative system; Esoteric Christianity)

Twelvetide, Day #9 (a.k.a. the Twelve Days of Christmas or Christmastide) [until 1.5]

Vedanayagam Samuel Azariah (Episcopal Church)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Dies Ater (Unfortunate Day; Ancient Rome)

Fortunate Day (Pagan) [2 of 53]

Good Luck Day (Ancient Macedonia)

Perilous Day (13th Century England) [2 of 32]

Prime Number Day: 2 [1 of 72]

Sensho (先勝 Japan) [Good luck in the morning, bad luck in the afternoon.]

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Unglückstage (Unlucky Day; Pennsylvania Dutch) [2 of 30]

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Premieres

Billie Jean, by Michael Jackson (Song; 1983)

Bob Cummings Show (TV Series; 1955)

Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy, by The Andrews Sisters (Song; 1941)

The Brothers Karamazov, by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Novel; 1879)

Dog Pounded (WB LT Cartoon; 1954)

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Film; 1932)

The Flying Dutchman, by Richard Wagner (Opera; 1843)

He Was Her Man (WB MM Cartoon; 1937)

Jonathan Livingston Seagull, by Richard Bach (Novella; 1970)

Last Angry Moose, Part 1 (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S3, Ep. 139; 1962)

Mind and Matter, by Erwin Schrödinger (Philosophy Book; 1958)

My View of the World, by Erwin Schrödinger (Philosophy Book; 1951)

Nine Tomorrows, by Isaac Asimov (Short Stories; 1959)

Oscar and Lucinda (Film; 1998)

A Punch in the Snoot or The Nose Tattoo (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S3, Ep. 140; 1962)

Senses Working Overtime, by XTC (Song; 1982)

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (Novel; 1865)

The Secret Adversary, by Agatha Christie (Mystery Novel; 1922) [2]

Wisdom (Film; 1987)

The Worm Turns (Disney Cartoon; 1937)

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Svea (Sweden)

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J Cal: 2 White; Twosday [2 of 30]

Julian: 20 December 2023

Moon: _63%: Warning Gibbous

Positivist: 2 Moses (1st Month) [Hercules]

Runic Half Month: Eihwaz or Eoh (Yew Tree) [Day 8 of 15]

Season: Winter (Day 13 of 89)

Zodiac: Capricorn (Day 12 of 31)

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Holidays 1.2

Holidays

Ancestry Day (a.k.a. Ancestors' Day; Haiti)

Arbor Day (Ukraine)

Berchtoldstag (a.k.a. Berchtold's Day; Alsace, Liechtenstein, Switzerland)

Blacks & Whites' Carnival begins (until 7th; Colombia)

Boo Boo Bear Day

Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy Day

Bridge Day (New Caledonia)

Carnival Day (Saint Kitts and Nevis)

Carnival of Riosucio (a.k.a. Carnival of the Devil; Colombia) [Every Odd Year]

Dainichi-do Bugaku (Japan)

Day of Portuguese Pavement

Drinking Straw Day

Earth at Perihelion

Fifty-Five Day

Granada Day (Spain)

Happy Mew Year For Cats Day

International Day of Police

International Stop Spam Day

Jour des Aieux (Haiti)

Kaapse Klopse (Cape Town, South Africa)

Kakizome (First Writing; Japan)

Mannam Jayanti (Kerala, India)

Mars Day Day

Miniature Golf Day

National Breast Appreciation Day

National Erika Day

National Motivation and Inspiration Day

National Science Fiction Day

New Year Holiday (Scotland) [If Sunday, celebrated on 3rd]

Nylio (a.k.a. Nyinlong; Winter Solstice; Bhutan)

Personal Trainer Awareness Day

Pet Travel Safety Day

Positive Postcard Day

Procrastinator’s Day

Reconquest Day (Spain)

Run It Up the Flagpole and See If Anybody Salutes It Day

Sam Day

Scour Day (Elder Scrolls)

Second Day of New Year (a.k.a. ...

Bank Holiday (Multiple Countries)

Day After New Year’s Day (Cuba, Japan, Mauritius, New Zealand, North Korea, Russia, Romania, Serbia, South Africa, South Korea, Taiwan, Ukraine, United Kingdom, and Quebec, Canada)

New Year’s Second Day (Romania; Taiwan)

Second Day of the New Year (Kazakhstan, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Switzerland, Ukraine)

Second New Year’s Day Holiday (Russia)

Tweede Neue Jaar (Second New Year; Captain, South Africa)

Shigoto Hajime (Beginning of the Work Year; Japan)

Slate Day (French Republic)

Stop Spam Day

Takai Commission Holiday (Niue)

Thrift with Flair Day

Victory of Armed Forces Day (Cuba)

Waldmaennchentag (Germany)

World Introvert Day

World Population Control Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

National Buffet Day

National Chocolate Fondue Day

National Creampuff Day (a.k.a. Cream Puff Day)

Pabst Blue Ribbon Day

Swiss Cheese Day

1st Tuesday in January

Finalize Your Resolutions Day [1st Tuesday]

Independence & Related Days

Cliff Island (Declared; 2010) [unrecognized]

Georgia Statehood Day (#4; 1788)

Posaf (Declared; 2018) [unrecognized]

United States of Ackerman (Declared; 2018) [unrecognized]

Feast Days

Advent of Inanna (Ancient Sumer)

Advent of Isis (Ancient Egypt)

Basil the Great (Catholic Church and Church of England)

Birthday of Inanna (Sumerian Goddess and Patroness of Tavern Keepers)

The Building Inspector (Muppetism)

Cassé Gateau (Voudon)

Celebrate Surviving 2022 Day (Pastafarian)

Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg (Artology)

Day of Ekadashi (Hinduism)

Day of Victory of Love (Unification Church)

Defendens of Thebes (Christian)

Ernst Barlach (Artology)

Failure of Will Day (Church of the SubGenius)

Feast of the Holy Name of Jesus (varies between 1.2 and 1.5; Roman Catholic Church)

Fenris’s Day (Pagan)

Festival of Fetishes

Festival of Sleep Day [begins at sundown]

Festival of Four Winds & All Sky

Gaspar del Bufalo (Roman Catholic)

Gregory of Nazianzus (Catholic Church)

Hercules (Positivist; Saint)

Isaac Asimov Day (Jayism)

Johann Konrad Wilhelm Löhe (Lutheran Church)

Macarius of Alexandria (a.k.a. Macarius the Younger; Christian; Saint)

Mange Loa (a.k.a. Jan Case Gateaux or Breaking of the Cakes)

Ninth Day of Christmas

Ray Harryhausen Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Seraphim of Sarov (Repose; Eastern Orthodox Church)

Slava Raškaj (Artology)

Swiss Cheese Day (Pastafarian)

Twelve Holy Days #8 (Scorpio, the generative system; Esoteric Christianity)

Twelvetide, Day #9 (a.k.a. the Twelve Days of Christmas or Christmastide) [until 1.5]

Vedanayagam Samuel Azariah (Episcopal Church)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Dies Ater (Unfortunate Day; Ancient Rome)

Fortunate Day (Pagan) [2 of 53]

Good Luck Day (Ancient Macedonia)

Perilous Day (13th Century England) [2 of 32]

Prime Number Day: 2 [1 of 72]

Sensho (先勝 Japan) [Good luck in the morning, bad luck in the afternoon.]

Tycho Brahe Unlucky Day (Scandinavia) [1 of 37]

Unglückstage (Unlucky Day; Pennsylvania Dutch) [2 of 30]

Unlucky Monday (when Cain killed Abel; Philippines) [1st Monday] (1 of 4)

Very Unlucky Day (Grafton’s Manual of 1565) [2 of 60]

Premieres

Billie Jean, by Michael Jackson (Song; 1983)

Bob Cummings Show (TV Series; 1955)

Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy, by The Andrews Sisters (Song; 1941)

The Brothers Karamazov, by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Novel; 1879)

Dog Pounded (WB LT Cartoon; 1954)

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Film; 1932)

The Flying Dutchman, by Richard Wagner (Opera; 1843)

He Was Her Man (WB MM Cartoon; 1937)

Jonathan Livingston Seagull, by Richard Bach (Novella; 1970)

Last Angry Moose, Part 1 (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S3, Ep. 139; 1962)

Mind and Matter, by Erwin Schrödinger (Philosophy Book; 1958)

My View of the World, by Erwin Schrödinger (Philosophy Book; 1951)

Nine Tomorrows, by Isaac Asimov (Short Stories; 1959)

Oscar and Lucinda (Film; 1998)

A Punch in the Snoot or The Nose Tattoo (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S3, Ep. 140; 1962)

Senses Working Overtime, by XTC (Song; 1982)

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (Novel; 1865)

The Secret Adversary, by Agatha Christie (Mystery Novel; 1922) [2]

Wisdom (Film; 1987)

The Worm Turns (Disney Cartoon; 1937)

Today’s Name Days

Basilius, Dietmar, Gregor (Austria)

Bazilije, Grgo, Grgur (Croatia)

Karina (Czech Republic)

Abel (Denmark)

Algi, Esme, Esmi (Estonia)

Aapeli (Finland)

Basile (France)

Beatrix, Dietmar, Gregor, Makarius, Otfried (Germany)

Seraphim, Silvestros, Sylvester (Greece)

Ábel (Hungary)

Basilio, Modesto (Italy)

Ābels, Indulis, Ivo, Orests (Latvia)

Fulgentas, Gailutė, Mažvydas, Stefanija (Lithuania)

Dagfinn, Dagfrid (Norway)

Abel, Izydor, Makary, Odil, Strzeżysław (Poland)

Serafim, Silvestru (Romania)

Alexandra (Slovakia)

Basilio, Gregorio (Spain)

Svea (Sweden)

Sylvester (Ukraine)

Abel, Abelard, Abella, Abner, Adalhard, Adelard, Marsten, Marston, Rave (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 2 of 2024; 364 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 2 of week 1 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Beth (Birch) [Day 8 of 28]

Chinese: Month 12 (Jia-Zi), Day 21 (Yi-Chou)

Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)

Hebrew: 21 Teveth 5784

Islamic: 20 Jumada II 1445

J Cal: 2 White; Twosday [2 of 30]

Julian: 20 December 2023

Moon: _63%: Warning Gibbous

Positivist: 2 Moses (1st Month) [Hercules]

Runic Half Month: Eihwaz or Eoh (Yew Tree) [Day 8 of 15]

Season: Winter (Day 13 of 89)

Zodiac: Capricorn (Day 12 of 31)

[maryversusthemovies]

Blake Edwards' 1980s remake of a Weimar-era German film about a gender-bending cabaret singer and the mobster who falls in love with her/him in 1930s Paris, starring Julie Andrews, James Garner, and Robert Preston, is a delightful creampuff of a movie that should have absolutely no relevance to the incredibly stupid political and cultural climate of the United States in 2023, and yet here we are. What a time to be alive.

[whaleofatjme1920]

Can you do a 682 fluff and snut headcanons?

Please and thank you

682 Fluff and Spice

[GN!Reader]

[Warnings: Whatever comes with the monsterfucker territory. MINORS DNI]

[AN: Really bringing the monsterfucker appeal here, huh? I'm almost surprised I haven't seen more SCPs showing up for requests. It's been solid doctors so far.

I should also reiterate to whoever stumbles on this that SCP, Assassin's Creed and Darkwood are still kinda open and bypass the requests closed rule. That's just bc I don't get a lot of requests for the last two.]

Fluff

682 is not actually affectionate. This thing hates humans and is not ashamed to go off on long tangents about it. The closest you'll get to fluff is him going through his weird heat cycles.

He's naturally really protective of you. He tries to justify this by "I'm keeping my mate safe hurr durr" but come on. Eye roll, we know what you mean lizard.

He changes his size to either cuddle you or be "held" by you. You holding him is kinda rare but not unheard of.

He will purr around you! The first time it happened was... yeah.

Sometimes he licks the side of your face.

Does make an attempt for his containment unit to be nicer for you. He knows what he does in his free time...

He doesn't really have nicknames for you?? Just calls you by your name. But he has attempted "dear one" in a language that is no longer spoken.

He's surprisingly attentive to literally everything you say. Will bully staff into giving you what you want and need.

Spice

Yes he's subject to mating cycles/heat. I refuse to believe otherwise.

He's a really, really rough lover. Will pin you underneath him and go to town. He's not getting any smaller for you. Maybe the first time?? Wants to see if you can take all of him.

Grumbles a lot about breeding. I hope you're ready to be made an eternal creampuff.

Growls, marks you, his claw marks are on your body. There is no such thing as gentle love here. He will fuck you into submission and use you to your limit.

When he's not under the influence of his heats, he still wants to fuck. It's just kinda nice in his opinion. Experiments with different sizes to see how big he can get before you're absolutely stuffed.

I think he has a knotted dick. Once he pushes that monster in you, you're not going anywhere. Cockwarming vibes and he chides you for moving because he'll just fill you up even more.

He gives head to you SOMETIMES. Usually, his claws are pressing into you with the utmost care to not turn you into ribbons of flesh. His tongue is really nice though. It's not the smoothest, but nor is it sandpapery. Has nice texture.

He wants you to scream and moan for him, to beg. It fuels his already high god complex.

You can also try to fight him for dominance but it won't work at all. You're his fuck toy essentially.

[mainstoryarchive]

Kingdom - 66: Stars of the Show

Translator: Creampuffs

Subaru: Yahoo~☆

[Read on my blog for the best viewing experience with Oi~ssu ♪]

Location: Auditorium

Subaru: Yahoo~☆

Everyone~! Enjoy yourselves today, okay~☆

Hokuto: (…As expected of Akehoshi. He's not nervous in the very least and it looks like he's enjoying himself from the bottom of his heart.)

(He must be really happy to give our performance on stage. Converting even pressure into happiness and pushing forward is Akehoshi's strong point.)

(That's why he's more suited to be the leader. That isn't something to think about now, but…)

(He's facing the audience directly as well. Addressing them, smiling towards them, waving his hands.)

(This is the performance the unit from the student council… AKATSUKI forgot about.)

(AKATSUKI achieves their objectives in an indifferent manner and carries out their specified performance accurately. Without altering anything, whoever their opponent is or whatever kind of stage they perform.)

(That's how they gradually forgot about their audience's existence.)

(Whoever their audience, AKATSUKI has continued to win. Hence their arrogance; they have left out something crucial for us idols.)

(If the audience isn't there, if they aren't enjoying themselves, then even an excellent performance holds no meaning.)

(…I, too, had forgotten that until I received special training from the twins, but…)

(One man's fault is another man's lesson. It's our first time coming up on stage, too. We won't be able to last if we don't use our faces, our presence, to appeal to the audience.)

(Who are we singing to? Akehoshi will be the one to teach us how we should be as idols.)

(Akehoshi is a great guy that can be respected. He'd get full of himself if I told him personally, so I won't, though.)

(Guide us, Trickstar's first star.)

Subaru: …Hm? What is it, Hokke~? Is there something on my face?

Hokuto: No, it's nothing. Go act wildly and freely, Isara and I will back you up.

Mao: Eh, me too? That's why, I keep telling you guys not to drag me into things as you please. Well, I guess I don't mind~

Subaru, who charges towards the front lines, Makoto, who hangs back in the background, and me and Hokuto assisting—that's Trickstar, right~? ♪

Yuta: Ohoo! Next up, we've got the Fantastic Shapeshifting Magician! Isara Mao~♪

Hinata: Each member in Trickstar is a super star! All of them are pioneering figures who will pave the road for the future Yumenosaki Academy—They are dreams themselves ☆

Makoto: They're super fired up, huh?… R-Right! Okay, I'm going to do my best too! So that I don't get left behind, as well!

Yuta: Ah, I almost forgot. Lastly~ Umm, the guy with the glasses!

Hinata: Good luck, Four-eyes~♪ What was your name again? …Oh well, moving on! ☆

Makoto: Ehh, isn't the treatment towards me the only one that's way too sloppy!?

I-I'm Makoto Yuuki! It's a pleasure to be here! I'll do my very best~!

Hokuto: (Yeah, that's right. We need "a character who gets the role of being teased.")

(When everything is perfect… For example, when it's absolutely flawless like AKATSUKI, I have trouble breathing, just watching them.)

(In order to make the audience relax and calm down, we need a character with feigned ignorance, as comic relief.)

(And even if he makes mistakes due to a lack of ability… if the audience realizes that "it can't be helped because that's the character he is," then it becomes his "charm".)

(In fact, I'm sure that he'll be bathing in cheers and will receive a lot of support every time he makes a blunder.)

(While at the back of the line, working hard with all his power, trying to catch up to the other three, the audience will cheer on Yuuki's brave efforts. If we can turn it into something like that then the game is as good as ours.)

(Yuuki isn't the type of guy who would ever betray the audience's expectations, either.)

(Yuuki's surprisingly competitive, so he'll frantically come chasing after us, hot on our heels. He'll come tearing through the cheers and the encouragement,)

(And right after that, I'm sure he'll walk with us, side by side.)

(The twins are amazing… They conveyed our "point of view" to the audience with such a short introduction.)

(More than half of the audience here have never seen us before, but they learnt how to enjoy themselves… and how to relish the taste.)

(The preparations are perfect; they truly have set the table for us.)

(All that's left is to offer them our best dish:)

(Our performance.)

Hinata: Alrighty, we're gonna say "goodbye" here~♪

Yuta: The times we changed your diapers, carried you like babies on our backs, and petted you saying "good boy" are all over now ♪

Hokuto: Right, you can leave the rest to us. You've done a lot for us.

We'll thank you again at a later date. Right now, we'll devote all our energy to the stage right in front of us.

For everyone who has gathered here today, we Trickstar will show them our all.

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[thebibliomancer]

Essential Avengers: Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars #7-9

November, 1984

BERSERKER!

The death of an Avenger! The X-Men’s greatest battle! And, introducing the all-new SPIDER-WOMAN!

The cover sure isn’t burying the lede. This comic sure does introduce an All-New (presumably All-Different) Spider-Woman! Jessica Drew, move over! For now. You’ll be the Spider-Woman that endures in the long run.

Last times on Secret Wars: Some amazingly powerful being from Beyond the universe called the Beyonder kidnaps a bunch of heroes, villains, shades thereof, and chunks of random planets to put on a big toy commercial where action figures can bonk off each other.

The X-Men ditched the other heroes to do their own thing, as they’re wont to do. The villains storm the hero base and drop a mountain on them. The heroes take refuge at a small village where Johnny Storm finds a new girlfriend but there’s also a Galactus.

Galactus starts preparing a device to eat Battleworld, which would let him win the toy commercial in one fell swoop.

Oh, and Wasp was kidnapped by Magneto, escaped, crashed her escape ship, found the Lizard, and then got lasered to death by the Wrecking Crew. It was a Bad Time and I am sad, even though we know Wasp will be okay by the time they get back from Battleworld.

This time: Further not burying the lede.

The cover promised a new Spider-Woman and dammit, here’s one right away, first page. Truth in advertising!

Spider-Woman herself wastes no time introducing herself to everyone, that she comes from a chunk of Denver that got raptured by the Beyonder (still want that miniseries), that she came to help when she saw evidence of super fighting, and that she can pick up and throw large rocks so clearly she’d be able to help.

Captain America is hesitant about all this and Spider-Woman assumes that he thinks she’s a spy but as Captain America points out, why would Doom need to mess around with spies when he’s got so much power at his disposal.

Spider-Man is also hesitant at this new character. For different reasons.

Spider-Man: “She tossed that boulder as easily as I could have... at least! I wonder if she sticks to walls, too! And I wonder if I can sue her for infringing on my shticks! I should have gotten a patent or trademark or something...”

Cap tries to settle on the argument that a Secret War is too dangerous but Spider-Woman has the exceptional point “I suspect that it’s no less dangerous for the spectators, Captain America -- I might as well pitch in!”

And then the obvious toy pitch vehicle that the Wrecking Crew was driving in the swamp yesterday drives through the village blowing shit up, restarting the fires that the heroes just put out, and most insultingly of all, throwing Wasp van Dyne’s dead deceased corpse out the hatch before driving off.

Those dicks.

The heroes rush to Wasp and take her to Zsaji. That cool lady tries to heal Wasp but Jan has no pulse and isn’t breathing and might be beyond Cura. This may take Phoenix Down.

But since she went and got herself disintegrated on the Moon, Wasp is clearly dead forever.

-Looks over at Avengers #243- Hush, you!

The assembled heroes want to rush Doombase and kick the shit out of the villains and specifically the Wrecking Crew but Captain America tells them no.

Captain America: “Now, listen to me -- ! While we’re off getting even, what if Galactus starts to use that world-eating machine he’s building up on that mountain? Then every living thing on this world -- including these innocent villagers and all those people from that suburb of Denver will die! We’ve got to stay right here, ready to attack him! We may have only seconds to react when it begins!”

She-Hulk storms off while the other heroes debate the Galactus situation.

I’m sure this is fine.

Meanwhile, on the more volcano-y side of the planet, Xavier orders Cyclops, Rogue, and Wolverine to pursue Doom’s Four villains Molecule Man, Titania, Absorbing Man, and Doctor Octopus to try to capture them before they can return to Doom.

Back over at Doombase, Titania sees that her “little Owie” has been badly hurt and begs Enchantress to help.

Volcana: “Enchantress! You’re a sorceress! You could use your magic to transport me to my Owen!”

Enchantress -busy getting drunk-: “Yes... but why would I, mortal?”

Volcana: “Well... because... because I need you to! I can’t fly a ship! I -- I don’t even have a driver’s license for a car! Ultron won’t help me -- ! He only takes orders from Doom!”

Enchantress: “It takes much energy to transport a body as bloated as yours! I cannot be bothered!”

Wow! You’re a dick!

Volcana catches a lot of fat jokes and she’s not depicted as looking any different from Standard Comic Book Body Type. But also, don’t fatshame at all, Enchantress.

Anyway, Volcana promises anything to Enchantress if she helps.

Enchantress: “Rash words, mortal wench... and later, you shall deeply regret them!”

Its very handy for the villains that Volcana just showed up because their airship almost immediately gets show down by the X-Men. So even with Molecule Man out of commission, their numbers are back to Doom’s Four. And Volcana calls dibs on beating up Wolverine.

The X-Men have numbers but they’re not doing super well. Professor X is on the scene trying to be the field leader but the chaos of the battle and the villains’ minds being blocked by Enchantress’ magic makes it hard for him to coordinate.

Magneto even gets smack-talked by Absorbing Man.

Absorbing Man: “Tell me, Magneto. What’s scum like you doin’ hangin’ around with the X-Men? Sure, they’re outlaws -- but I thought you was big time! You got mass murder raps, manslaughter, terrorism, what else? Probably everything! You’re one of us! On second thought, a creampuff like you belongs with them losers!”

I can’t believe Magneto has to take that from a man who constantly carries a large metal orb with him everywhere.

Wolverine manages to slice off Absorbing Man’s arm, although the guy was made of rock at the time so it wasn’t as gory as it could have been.

Absorbing Man just. Picks up his arm and runs off to hit someone with it.

Amazing.

The villains manage to pin down the heroes with some Volcana blast and then steal one of the X-Men’s ships and get away.

Professor X declares that this is Totally a victory.

Xavier: “We lost nothing, save one of our ships -- which matters little -- and we gained much! We coalesced as a fighting unit passing our greatest test to date and I think we proved ourselves -- beyond a doubt!”

Like, you had a scuffle with some villains that ended inconclusively even though you had the advantage of a sneak attack, the villains stole one of your ships, and there was no major damage to either side.

It was largely pointless. But I guess Xavier has a vested interest in declaring it a huge success since it was his inaugural go at being field commander.

Meanwhile, skulking around Galactus’ ship, DOOM complains about doing that.

Doom: “Doctor Doom - a burglar! Rummaging about in another being’s home, seeking to steal some priceless thing! Bah! What choice do I have? I need a key, a way -- ! My armor’s sensors have led me to prize after prize -- hundreds, thousands of devices which, in the hands of a man as brilliant as myself could provide power to conquer entire galaxies -- ! Yet, all of them combined are not enough to defeat Galactus -- let alone the Beyonder! There must be a way! Doom must be supreme!”

Unfortunately for Doom, despite the volcano distraction making Galactus sigh and have to spend time fixing the planet so he can eat it, he senses something amiss in his house and mentally yeets Doom back to Battleworld.

The villains return back to Doombase but Doctor Octopus can’t help Molecule Man because dammit he’s a nuclear physicist, not a medical doctor! Ultron tells Volcana that there are medical devices that could fix Molecule Man up nicely but since he doesn’t have any relevant orders from Doom, he’s just going to stand here and look pretty. And Enchantress says she could heal him with a wave of her hand but refuses to because Volcana already gave her a blank check.

Absorbing Man returns and reattaches his arm by basically hoping like hell it’ll just be better if he holds it in place when he reverts to skin flesh.

And the Wrecking Crew have to throw the Lizard into a cell because he hasn’t stopped trying to eat their faces for killing Wasp, his new best friend.

The Wrecking Crew doesn’t get a chance to enjoy being back at base because She-Hulk has broken in and beats the crap out of them off-screen.

Titania comes in and starts fighting She-Hulk STARTING AN ENDURING RIVALRY.

Its fun how much got its start in Secret Wars.

The two fight more or less evenly from what I can tell but uh Doctor Octopus joins in as does the Absorbing Man and the Wrecking Crew once they catch their breath.

And She-Hulk is strong but this is a stomp.

In another part of Doombase where the Enchantress is sitting in “sullen reverie” refusing to get involved in the fight she can here, instead thinking about how much she’s going to seduce the crap out of Thor.

Doom arrives at Himbase after being expelled from Galactus’ ship and refuses to explain anything to Enchantress. He just stumbles over to his sweet bed and collapses in it.

Doom: “It is over... Finished...”

Back over at Zsaji’s Village, the heroes realize that She-Hulk took off. Hawkeye figures that she went after the villains and asks to go after her.

Hawkeye: “She can’t take ‘em alone, Cap! She needs us!”

Huh! When the chips are down even though they fought, Clint and Jen sure are coworkers.

Hulk also asks to go after her since she’s his cousin. The acknowledgement of which is what I’ve been wanting all along.

But Cap tells them no.

Hulk: “I don’t suppose you’d consider putting it to a vote?”

Trying to appeal to his love of democracy. How wily.

Captain America: “My heart would vote ‘yes’ in a minute... Too many innocent lives are at stake here, though! Many more than the few people on this planet -- we’ve got a universe depending on what we do here! We can’t allow ourselves the luxury of making decisions with our hearts!”

But Cap receives a psychic skype from Professor X who tells him that the X-Men can take Galactus watching duty for a bit so run along and save your teammate, you scamp.

Cap accepts.

Its fun how the tide of battle has shifted back and forth.

Now the heroes are largely fresh, having been sitting on their ass staring at Galactus, and the villains are bloodied from several fights with the X-Men and She-Hulk. Plus, their big gun Molecule Man got Wolverine’d.

But next issue is something so big that it overshadows basically everything else in Secret Wars.

December, 1984

INVASION!

YEAH ITS VENOM

OR WILL BE

Also, a bunch of other stuff happens. The cover is kind of funny for maybe unintentionally presaging what would happen where the black costume being more remembered than everything else in Secret Wars in general but definitely this issue specifically.

There’s actually a lot of really cool stuff happening in this issue.

Cap(tain America)’s group of heroes storms Doom’s Doombase, lucking out that Doom is too stunned by being expelled from Galactus’ ship to attempt any kind of defense and nobody else on his team has the braincells to be watching out for an attack.

Enchantress hears the heroes breaking in but she’s well and truly drunk by this point.

And bemoans her secret god meeting with Thor. That she was going to try to cast a spell on him to bend him to her will but is aware that she might have flipped good for him instead. And even now wonders what she’ll do if Thor shows up in front of her.

The villains still beating She-Hulk to her death hear the heroes breaking into the base and run off to ambush them, Doc Ock slamming She-Hulk against some wreckage as a coup de grace.

Wrecker gets the jump on Iron Man and Doc Ock dumps a convenient tank of water on Human Torch but Spider-Man jumps in and drops Bulldozer with one punch before he can pulp an extinguished Johnny.

The Thing tries fighting Absorbing Man but wouldn’t you know it, the Thing’s thingness fades at the worst time again, leaving him powerless.

Spider-Woman jumps in to save him.

She didn’t get to really do much in her actual introductory issue, despite being on the cover and splash. She just kinda shows up and goes ‘i can definitely help!’

She makes a much better second impression this time. Almost like she’s aware that she needs to sell herself.

Spider-Woman: “A clean knockout -- ! Of the awesome Absorbing Man -- ! And it’s only the fifth time I’ve ever been in a fight! The new Spider-Woman wins again!”

Marvel really wants you to like this non-Jessica Drew.

Piledriver charges Hawkeye, mocking him for missing with his arrows and gloating that arrows are useless to a guy who’s immune to bullets.

Piledriver: “Hawkeye the Archer! Hah! Boy you gonna need Hawkeye the M.A.S.H. doctor in a minute -- ‘cause I reckon this good ol’ boy is gonna ‘mash’ you!”

Good one, Piledriver. Good banter.

Hawkeye: “Those shots were just warnings, dummy! I don’t want to have to hit you! From my bow, at this range, an arrow hits a lot harder than any bullet! Back off... please...”

We did learn in the Hawkeye mini that Hawkeye’s bow has a ridiculous draw strength.

This is a pretty good Hawkeye moment people don’t really point to a lot.

Also, I do love when an invincible or durable person who isn’t used to getting hurt gets hurt once and goes ‘NOPE! I DO NOT CARE FOR THIS!’

Hulk busts into Enchantress’ drinking room and unfortunately falls for her “I am but a helpless female!” routine. She gets all up in his business, magically puts him to sleep, and then pours herself another drink.

It could have been a good day for Enchantress if Captain America hadn’t come in right after.

Captain America: “What have you done to the Hulk?”

Enchantress: “For the moment, he is merely asleep. Doubtless dreaming dreams of me! But, alas, he can never truly have me, for I am yours, my handsome captain! Am I not beautiful? Come to me...”

Points for audacity but Captain America is a champion of not thinking with his dick. Blah blah willpower is legendary, socked Prometheus in the noggin. You get it.

Anyway, he socks Enchantress in the noggin with his shield and knocks her out.

Hawkeye and unthinged Ben try to find the rest of the heroes but run into Klaw and Lizard, who Klaw let out of his cell because he didn’t like to see anyone imprisoned but also because he liked the way Lizard talks. What an audiophile.

Ben Grimm: “Uh... any ideas, Hawk?”

Hawkeye: “Well... I guess we’ll have to outwit ‘em!”

Ben Grimm: “Us?!”

Hah.

Thor, Iron Man, Spider-Woman, and Mr Fantastic find Volcana and Molecule Man.

Iron Man makes the dubious tactical decision to charge right into Volcana’s plasma burst and burns out his armor.

Mr Fantastic pulls him out of the way and the other heroes try to get through Molecule Man’s fused air molecules invisible shield. They fail until Captain Marvel just lightbeams right through it. Because its transparent.

Love it. Love that her power works like that. Because it should.

Captain Marvel grabbing Molecule Man pulls open his Wolverine wounds and he passes out. Volcana surrenders to spare her boyfriend more pain.

Not that Monica intended that or knew he was wounded. This is still early Monica before Nextwave hardened her outlook. This is the Monica who was horrified when Blackout and Moonstone got pulled through a singularity.

Titania tried to drop a forty-ton beam on the heroes’ heads but is interrupted by Spider-Man thanks to his spectacular spider-sense.

She out-muscles him by a lot but she can’t actually lay a hit on him because he’s got superior spider agility. Maybe if she had more experience it’d be different but she’s basically in the angry flailing stage of her skill tree so far.

Spidey brags “With a little room to operate, no one can lay a glove on me -- not the X-Men, not the Absorbing Man, and not you!”

Titania: “When I get you I’ll -- AGGH!”

Spider-Man: “All you’re going to get is frustrated... and, eventually, trashed!”

Titania: “No! It’s not fair! *UHH!*”

Spider-Man: “But, if we were fighting in a broom closet, that’d be fair, right?”

Titania: “Stop it! Stop it! Stop -- !”

Spider-Man: “You ought to be happy, cuddles! You aspired to be a bully, and, man, you’re a classic! You talk tough and nasty when you’ve got the upper hand -- but when you’re losing -- well, that’s when the whining little wimp-ette inside comes spilling out!”

And then he defenestrates her without a window.

Fun fact: she apparently developed a Spider-Man phobia from this.

Understandably.

Y’know, in terms of embarrassing and traumatizing people, Spider-Man is having a good run in this story.

Captain American and Human Torch find a passed out Piledriver who fainted from blood loss after staggering away. And they find Ultron, standing between them and Doom.

Ultron is an Avengers-tier stomper who takes down entire teams and there’s just two heroes who coincidentally were both portrayed by Chris Evans. And the Human Torch’s fire is ineffective as Ultron gloats.

Ultron: “The core of the hottest star could not melt my adamantium body, human! Nothing can harm me! I am invincible! I am mechanically precise and computer-swift! I am perfect!”

When Ultron grapples Human Torch and starts throttling him, Cap tells him to use his nova-flame. Then hides behind his shield.

The flame melts a good portion of the room and the air being superheated somehow doesn’t make Cap crispy. And when the nova flare of the nova flame fades, Ultron’s chassis is still intact.

But the heat damaged something inside and Ultron is down. Johnny is also down, spent from the nova.

I like that the Fantastic Four would have their own way to deal with Ultron should that ever come up. Has it? You’d think it would.

Captain America proceeds to Doom alone but Doom is non-responsive from being Galactus’d.

And Reed, Spider-Man, and Hulk finds Hawkeye and Ben Grimm, where they have outwitted Klaw and Lizard.

Lizard: “Disssturb our gamess-s and the Lizard will dessstroy you! Once we finissh, we will do as you s-ssay!”

Well, whatever works!

With the fighting done, Captain Marvel finds She-Hulk, barely alive. The heroes jam her into a healing tube saving her in the nick of time.

The heroes also jam the villains into healing tubes because they’re heroes and are nice like that.

Considering the heroes were fighting to take prisoners and the villains very much weren’t, it’s lucky that the heroes won the majority of conflicts and got away from the one they didn’t.

The villains that didn’t need bacta treatments - or whatever is in those tubes - got shoved into cells. Also, Doom, because he might need the healing juice but it would require peeling him out of his armor and its probably booby-trapped.

Hawkeye and Captain Marvel return to the village to bring Wasp’s body to DoomHerobase for a funeral but they’re in for a surprise.

It turns out that Zsaji WAS able to heal Wasp who wasn’t dead just in a laser-induced death-like stasis. AS YA DO. It nearly killed Zsaji to bring Wasp back from such grievous injuries.

Colossus learns this by getting into her exposition drugs while she’s passed out and mind-melding with her.

Of course, it just makes the big lug fall deeper in love with her.

The important takeaway is that Wasp is alive. Just like we knew that she would be. The universe has been set right.

Over at Herobase, Reed Richards fixes the Iron Man armor after Rhodey got it a little melted.

Iron Man, James Rhodes: “I’m curious... were you surprised there was a black man under the metal?”

Reed Richards: “Hmm... No, I never gave it a thought! I knew there was a man under there...”

Its a nice exchange.

Its kinda ruined retroactively by Illuminati revealing that Reed knew Tony was Iron Man and would have known about Tony having to step down due to his alcoholism and likely knew about Rhodey taking over.

Dammit, Illuminati!

Elsewhere in the base, Spider-Man spots Hulk and Thor coming out of a room with Thor sporting a brand new cape and helmet. They tell Spidey that there’s a device in there that will make any clothes you want.

Except Spider-Man doesn’t bother asking which device and they don’t bother specifying so Spidey just picks the likeliest one and gets a black glob.

An important black glob.

To eventually be revealed to be an alien goo symbiote and later eventually tied to a dark god that predates the universe.

But for right now, its a way to incorporate a new costume design that a fan submitted. And Spider-Man handwaves it not looking like his old costume by assuming he was thinking of the new Spider-Woman.

So that’s how it is, Pete? She ‘ripped’ you off so you’re gonna rip her off?

You know whats really funny?

A month before this came out, in Spider-Man’s own book, he had learned that the costume was a living symbiote and had gotten rid of it.

It be like that with Secret Wars but its still funny that we’re finally seeing him get the costume just as he’s getting rid of it.

Anyway, Spider-Man’s new costume buzz is interrupted by the planet shaking and someone yelling in his brain.

Professor X: “CAPTAIN AMERICA! COME AT ONCE! IT HAS BEGUN! GALACTUS IS DEVOURING THE PLANET!”

It’s nice that the crises are waiting their turn.

January, 1985

ASSAULT ON GALACTUS!

The issue titles for this story are all so excited.

The X-Men were left on Galactus watching duty so when the big lug starts trying to eat the planet, the X-Men charge in to attack him.

Hm.

Y’know, I sometimes wonder what iconic storylines would have been like if a different set of characters handled it. This used to be great What If fodder. I know there was one where the Avengers tackled Galactus’ first appearance. And because it was the tone of What If at the time to viciously shoot down any divergence of the 616 timeline, THINGS WENT HORRIBLY WRONG.

Think of it like the Turn Left episode of Doctor Who.

POINT BEING, I wonder how the X-Men would have handled Galactus’ first appearance. Of course, this would be the O5 roster so they’d have their work cut out for them.

Heck, even with Storm on the team, the X-Men are over their heads with Galactus.

She hits him with two massive lightning bolts and Galactus keeps working like he didn’t even notice.

The X-Men seem to realize how out of their depth they are (especially sans Phoenixes, their usual Galactus-fighting go-to) but at Professor Xavier’s command they charge in anyway.

Galactus sends out a defensive drone so he can continue not paying the X-Men any mind and the mutants find themselves completely bogged down in fighting the drone while Galactus does his thing.

And from Zsaji’s sweet village, Captain Marvel, Wasp, and Hawkeye see a massive explosion where the X-Men were.

I guess they’re totally dead forever.

Wasp: “Should we head up there now?”

Hawkeye: “No! We’d better wait for Cap... and strike as a unit!”

Hah.

Its the expression, really. Like Hawkeye thinking to himself ‘oh I want no part of that.’

The non-X-Men assemble at Herobase to rush to the fight.

Mr. Fantastic: “Hurry! No telling how long the X-Men can hold out!”

Spider-Man: “Yeah! Where’s the rest of the alphabet when you need it?”

HAH!

Oh, Spider-Man, you are a delight.

In the airship over, Thor notices that Hulk looks glum and tries to cheer him up.

Thor: “If ‘tis that you do not fit in these chairs that depresses you, count yourself fortunate! They were made, I think, for insect men... or by trolls, for torture! If ‘tis the impending battle troubling thee -- just think! What greater chance for glory has man or god e’er known? More even than Ragnarok, this is the battle I was born millennia ago to fight! You, too, are a warrior born, Hulk! A taste of battle and the berserker battle-lust shall rise in thy soul!”

Hulk: “I doubt it! I lost that when I gained the intelligence of my human side -- Bruce Banner! And now I’m slowly losing that, too! I’m not savage enough... or smart enough to be a relevant factor!”

Well, You Tried, Thor.

Johnny Torch is trying to cheer up Ben Grimm who is as grim as his name over his powers popping in and out as they please.

And then the rocks pop back on just as Ben is dramatically bemoaning that he can’t control them.

The Thing: “Whoopie! I’m the Thing again! I’m so happy, I even like you!”

Human Torch: “Yeow! You lummox! Put me down! Jeez, I can see the headlines -- ‘affectionate hug slays Human Torch en route to battle -- universe destroyed as a result’!’“

This book has some decent lines.

Iron Man ogles Spider-Woman under the pretense of not trusting her but then goes a little ‘I’ll show them all!’

Iron Man: “A lot of guys have worked with Iron Man before -- but that was when Tony Stark was in this suit! I think they’ve started to realize there’s a different guy in here, now... an’ they got their doubts! They’re keepin’ their distance -- don’t quite trust me yet! Don’t matter! As long as I got this armor, I’m one ba-ad dude -- especially since Richards souped it up! As soon as that fight starts, I’ll show ‘em -- show ‘em I’m Iron Man! The real Iron Man! James Rhodes is Iron Man -- now and forever!”

Rhodey pls.

Also meanwhile, because this is a long flight, Spider-Man starts hopping all around the interior of the airship overexcited because he’s just discovered that the totally benign goo suit he got has webshooters!

And he squirts Johnny in the face to prove it because that’s just how Spider-Man is sometimes.

Johnny complains that this webbing is even harder to burn than his old stuff which will turn itself into a bit of a plot hole down the line when its revealed that symbiotes are weak to fire.

Whoops.

Its fine though. Pre-modern Venom has always had sloppy writing around it.

He also demonstrates the goo suit’s ability to change shape.

I can’t believe that Marvel were cowards and never had Peter go around in the Summer Variant suit.

Reed lets himself go down a melancholic musing rabbit hole and starts poking holes in the story logic.

Mr. Fantastic: “At face value, the whole thing is absurd! Why would a being so far removed from us and so powerful as the Beyonder bring us across the universe for a stupid, simplistic ‘good-versus-evil’ gladiatorial contest? Is he a mad god? A cosmic idiot? And why us? Why this odd collection of beings, mostly from Earth? And why Galactus? He doesn’t fit! Human beings and even gods may be tempted, but Galactus is a force of nature -- no more capable of having enemies than a hurricane or an earthquake! Why is he here? There must be more to this... but what possible purpose could there be?”

Credit where its due, these are things I’ve been wondering!

But Reed is so busy pondering this that he runs the airship into the energy discharge from Galactus’ machine and crashes the ship on top of Colossus.

Smooth move, absent minded professor.

With only seconds before the world starts to burn, the Avengers, Fantastic Four, and assorted leap into battle against Galactus.

Iron Man manages to get past Galactus’ defense drones and punch his world eating engine, thanks to the upgrades done to the armor.

But now that they’re being successful, Reed interjects and tells them to stop winning so hard. Yes, really.

Mr. Fantastic: “Ben, we can’t go through with this! At last I see a purpose here -- a meaning to the universe for this insane conflict! WE MUST NOT STOP GALACTUS!’

Then Galactus effortlessly blasts the heroes away.

Which, if nothing else, gives Reed a chance to catch his breath to EXPOSIT MORE.

Mr. Fantastic: “For the first time this whole thing makes seom sense to me! I see a possible purpose in it! This is a chance to rid our universe of the threat of Galactus! All we have to do is let him win this contest! If the Beyonder indeed, grants hsi wish, he’ll be freed of his planet-consuming hunger at long last!”

The Thing: “And if the Beyonder reneges?”

Mr. Fantastic: “Re-energized by consuming this world, Galactuc will attack -- I know it! And force the Beyonder to pay up -- or be destroyed in the attempt. Any way you look at it... the universe wins! Countless billions who would have eventually fallen prey to Galactus -- will live in peace!”

Spider-Man: “Yeah, but why us? Why were we picked to decide the fate of the universe?”

Mr. Fantastic: “Why not us? We picked ourselves, remember? Besides... we beings of Earth seem to have a knack for being pivotal in the cosmic scheme of things.”

Reed, some offense but you’re the last person who should be speaking on this.

Galactus is only alive now because you had a hunch that he had some Big Important Role in the cosmic order and saved his life.

You may remember that because THE ENTIRETY OF SPACE PUT YOU ON TRIAL FOR IT.

Turning around on that because now you have a different hunch that everything will be a-okay if the Beyonder kills Galactus, is just such a classic Reed move.

Anyway, the discussion ends because Galactus raptures Reed and the entire mountaintop his machine was sitting on.

Since the suspects of Reed rapturing were Galactus or the Beyonder, its not very surprising that its Galactus forcibly inviting Reed up to his solar-system sized apartment.

What, you thought that the Beyonder would be more present in this story that it initiated? Fool.

Anyway, Galactus wants to have a friendly talk at Reed. Because Galactus is one of the few people that can talk down at Reed and he just has to sit tight and listen.

Meanwhile, over at the former Doombase, locked in a Doomcell, its Doom. Still in his catatonia OR IS IT?

Doom: “THE WORLD SHIP IS THE WAY! Galactus’s home itself is the way I seek! At last, I see!”

He activates the get-out-of-jail-free button hidden in his ankle which activates a point-singularity power supply that busts the door off his cell.

He ignores all of the other imprisoned villains to free Klaw.

Doom: “You, yourself, Klaw, are a ‘recording’ of sorts, due to the time you spent as a wave of vibratory energy coursing through the walls of Galactus’s homeworld! Come with me!”

Klaw: “Where to? Toodle-oo, toodle-oo!”

Doom: “To the lab! I’m going to dissect you!”

Klaw: “Oh, good!”

If it were anyone else that would read as sarcastic.

Its also revealed that Doom talks to himself because he is constantly recording.

Doom: “Every utterance of Doom must be recorded for posterity!”

How on-brand.

Meanwhile, back over at where the fight was, Cyclops OPTIC BLASTS out of the hole Magneto buried the X-Men in to save them from Galactus’ exploding drone.

Good job, Magneto.

Buuut. The fight is over so the X-Men just vaguely wander over to Zsaji’s village to catch up with Captain America’s group.

Zsaji wakes up from her Wasp-healing coma and runs over... right past Colossus to embrace Johnny. To make Colossus sad in the background.

But Johnny is too worried about Reed being raptured to make out with his new space girlfriend right now.

The heroes debate what to do.

Cap(tain America) wants to just stand ready until Galactus comes back and Cap(tain Marvel) suggests finding some spaceships at former Doombase and mounting an assault on Galactus’ imagination-ruiningly huge homeship.

The Thing offers the daring option of ‘hey Reed said not to fight Galactus and dangit what Reed says goes!’

He’s as bad as the Inhumans, I swear.

Reed reappears right about when Iron Man and the Thing are about to come to blows over the ‘do whatever Reed says’ plan.

The Thing: “Stretch! What happened?”

Mr. Fantastic: “Not much! We had tea...”

NOW I KNOW that Galactus likely has some robot servant or device that makes tea for him. But I can’t get the image out of my head of Galactus holding a tiny teapot and serving Reed tea.

How dare this comic cut away and let that happen off-panel!

Anyway, their big OFF-PANEL talk?

Mr. Fantastic: “He told me that I was a ‘force of the universe’ just as he is -- ! That I’m a ‘universal champion of life’ just as he is an instrument of death!”

Now. Nooooow. Champion slash Avatar of Life is a legitimate thing in Marvel, once filled by, uh, Captain Marvel. The Kree guy version. So the position is open.

I just find it easier to believe that Galactus was saying random nonsense to try to befuddle Reed into doing what Galactus wants rather than it being official.

The Avatar of Life page on marvel wiki doesn’t seem to credit it. It only has two versions of Adam Warlock, Drax, and Cancerverse Mar-Vell.

Anyway.

Mr. Fantastic: “I don’t what to say! I’m more convinced than ever that it’s right to let Galactus do what he must! And if I’m a ‘Champion of Life’ does it not make sense to allow Galactus to slay us so that countless billions will live? Or was he telling me that I must fight to serve even these relatively few lives here? I just don’t know...”

Yeeeeah. More convinced than ever that Galactus was filling Reed’s brain with cognitive chaff so to speak.

But Ben “Thing” Grimm is like ‘hey if Reed tells me I gotta die for the good of the universe then I’m ready to die so we’re not fighting unless Reed says so.’

Hawkeye: “This is a real crock! We’ve got to fight! Quitters! Cowards!”

I rarely say this but I think Hawkeye has a point.

Anyway, Galactus reappears the mountaintop, his machine, and himself to get back to snacking on the planet.

Far be it from me to tell Galactus how to ‘mortals are beneath my notice’ but maybe he’d get better results relocating his machine to the other side of the planet. Get some element of surprise, a head start.

No? Fine.

Captain America: “All right, listen up! I’m going to fight! The rest of you come or not as your conscience dictates!”

Wasp: “We’re with you, Cap!”

Captain America: “Good! But first... I just want to tell you, Professor Xavier, that despite our differences, you and your people did us -- and the universe, as far as I’m concerned -- a great service, earlier!”

Professor Xavier: “It was an honor!”

Captain America: “I hope you, the X-Men... and Magneto will come and fight side by side with us now! No one here will deny you’ve earned that much!”

Think about all the grief that could have been saved if people were willing to give Magneto the benefit of the doubt at the beginning of the story! Womp womp!

Meanwhile at Doombase (because the heroes are all off doing stuff and when the heroes are away Doom gets his base back), Doom observes the battle against Galactus starting AND that the Beyonder has cracked open his portal to watch the fight.

But more importantly, Doom cut Klaw into slices.

Back over at the heroes fighting Galactus, the heroes are fighting Galactus.

As in, directly. No drones.

Its a sign that they’re making some sort of progress.

He’s still batting them around like leaves in the wind.

But the Terrific Three show up to actually help.

Mr. Fantastic: “Galactus used enormous amounts of energy transporting his homeworld here -- and I’m sure he hasn’t fed for months! His power is almost depleted! We can take him!”

Captain America: “Richards, I -- I’m glad you’re here -- but what made you change your mind?”

Mr. Fantastic: “I... thought about what Galactus said -- and I’m still not certain that, in the cosmic scheme of things, what we’re doing is right -- but I realized just how badly I want to see my baby born, Cap! I want that more than anything -- ! And I’m going to fight for it!”

Aww.

He’s going to be waiting a long time for that baby though.

Not because of comic book time but because of intense drama reasons.

The heroes manage to reach the top of the mountain and start trashing Galactus’ machine despite Reed insisting that they ignore it and prevent Galactus from escaping.

And Galactus just animation-cell-slides-up ‘I must return to my homeworld’ style.

And as Reed explains how badly they done fucked up, Galactus takes a last look around his homeworld/spaceship. Because he doesn’t need his machine to eat planets. It just makes the process more efficient. So if the heroes are going to be annoying about him eating Battleworld, he’s just going to eat his own dang home!

Mr. Fantastic: “He’s devouring his own living world -- perhaps the greatest energy source in the universe! Moments after he’s finished, this godforsaken planet will be next! We won’t be able to stop him this time! Then he’ll probably consume the sun too! He’ll want every iota of energy available in case he must do battle with the Beyonder! We’re dead men!”

Wow. Is that the most kirby krackle we’ve ever seen?

But as Galactus converts his home into POWER COSMIC, Doom is ready with his own plan to steal that power, aided by a series of lenses he’s turned Klaw into.

As ya do?

You’ll have to tune in to the last quarter of Secret Wars to see if Doom succeeds in doing that thing that he always tries to do.

My thought is: maybe.

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[skittidyne]

i see kyouhaba is alive and well

and y’all i’m so fucking pumped about tanaka character arc

BUT DOES EVERYONE KNOW HOW PROUD I AM OF SAWAMURA DAICHI

[jackarychaoti]

Welcome Back to Hell. (Pt. 4)

                                                  - Music - 

The Argent Tournament grounds had never looked so rough. By the time Jackary managed to arrive, it was barely in one, tired piece and though he was luckily to have a few of the Crusade recognize him, it didn't help that they now wanted him in the medical bay instead of reporting for duty as commanded. While two Paladins moved to lightly support Jackary from either side to help with his arm and the limp, Jack paused when they moved by a large tent.

The distinct scent of whelps hit his nose, the stench of frostwyrm hatchlings and yet Jack chalked it up to the smell of the fallen wyrm on himself as the true culprit. He hadn't even realized that as he walked through the gathered smell that the one person he was searching for was right inside, recruiting a new generation of Dragonsworn.

They unknowingly passed each other by.

The Emerald was placed in the infirmary, settled onto a bed within the corner. Forced to lay back and relax while the wound left by the scourge dragon was investigated and cleaned, Jackary’s free arm wrapped over his eyes to hide them, a steady frown on his face. He'd lived through this before, this exact song and dance and there they were again. Scourge, infections, infirmary visits, missing people.... It was enough to cause a dull ache in his chest that seemed to hurt worse than his arm.

Waiting for the healers to be done with him felt like an eternity when he should have been out there, looking for the person that truly mattered. Yet, he had realized that he’d left Novarin and Kou to do his defense job with a Merc team he and Dicenne made themselves readily available to assist. With the guilty thought of leaving them in the dust, Jack fumbled a set of fingers up to click on the earpiece, activating the link.

“Nova.”

The camp that had originally been in the Crossroads had been torn down and relocated to help assist the building threat in Orgrimmar but that didn’t stop the crew from working overtime. The battle was becoming that much harder and the members, no matter how well they worked as individual units or of the same team, were starting to feel the strain.

Novarin had been sitting beside the sleeping fox, the nasty gash on the mend thanks to the quick work of the healers but it had done quite a number on the tiny Vulpera. Between possible infection and stitches to close the wound before they could start healing it had taken some definite skill and it wore the fox out completely to be subject to such. Of course, Novarin silently blamed himself for not only doubting the critter but not sending him back to camp where he would have been safe.

Those thoughts were pulled away from him when he heard his name on the comm. It wasn’t Talon, he thought to himself. Ah— he knew that tired voice anywhere, no matter how rough Jack sounded.

“Chaoti, abou’ time.” Nova quipped in reply, glancing over to check the breathing status via Kou’s movements. “Though’ f’er sure ya’d up n’ jus’ left us t’ do y’er dirty work, aye?”

“I apologize about that, things haven’t been going well in Icecrown—”

“—Can’t be as bad as Orgrimmar righ’ now, buddy,” the answer cut Jack off briefly as Nova reached for a cigarette, the itching habit of needing one overtaking his senses not to smoke in the enclosed space where the Vulpera slept.

“They’re... Bringing dead folk back to life, Frostwyrms everywhere, the sky is shattered.” Jack offered to explain, eyes closing to relax as they spoke.

“Orgrimmar is flooded wit’ scourge, aye? N’Sin n’ I were issued orders t’ come assist wit’ th’ shite in Icecrown, I can’t cover f’er ya much longer.” Nova huffed, clicking open his fetched lighter to ignite the cigarette now resting between his lips. “Kou’s ‘urt, healers worked on ‘im f’er quite a while las’ nigh’.” The Shadowblade paused briefly, frowning to himself. “Did ya find who you were lookin’ for, at least?”

Judging by Jack’s silence at first, the answer was obvious and another swelling pain rushed through the Mage’s chest and into his throat. Lips parted to answer but they were dry and his voice failed him. The noise that escaped was a pained sigh, what should have been his answer was nothing more than a dull huff of air.

“I see... Keep y’er ‘ead up, alrigh’? Ya got good people ‘ere on this team, they coul’ use ya ‘ere t’ help defend th’ city.”

“Y-Yeah... I’ll, ah...” Swallowing hard, Jack silently scowled at himself, angry he couldn’t pull it together for anyone. “I’ll be there soon and trade you places, but... Will you look for him if you’re in Icecrown? For me?”

“Tch...” Nova exhaled the smoke in irritation but he knew the feeling of missing a lover, his own hadn’t even left a trace of evidence behind for him to follow. “Yeh, promise I will. Jus’ get here soon.”

When the comm clicked off, Jackary raised his blurred vision up to the ceiling of the tent, blinking slowly when he realized the heated tears were steadily cutting down his cheeks.

Somewhere across the world, Nova moved a free hand to soothingly pet over the top of Kou’s head, rubbing down one of those overly large ears. A sigh escaped. 

“Hang in there, Creampuff. It’ll all be o’er soon...”

@novarin @koukikai