#deluge

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Murder is not Scientific

(Part 1)

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Zagłoba hugs!

Who would refuse Jan Onufry Zagłoba a hug?

Let's remind ourselves of three great Polish actors, playing him:

Krzysztof Kowalewski (1937-2021), starring in "Ogniem i mieczem" (1999)

Kazimierz Wichniarz (1915-1995), starring in "Potop" (1974)

Mieczysław Pawlikowski (1920-1978), starring in "Pan Wołodyjowski" & "Przygody Pana Michała" (1969)

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assorted yuri

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Noah's ark on the Mount Ararat by Simon de Myle

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Incidentally, by Quirk!Tokyo standards, Minato is a monster.

In the Ultra Analysis book, the second databook for MHA, he'd basically get this:

Power: 6/6 (Sage Mode, summons, etc.)

Speed: 7/6 (Faster than All Might)

Technique: 7/6 (VERY nasty space-time ninjutsu and fuinjutsu arsenal)

Intelligence: 6/6 (battlefield commander par excellance)

Cooperativeness: 7/6 (will teleport allies to safety and problems to enemies)

He doesn't hit hard enough to destroy cities in one go, but it's amazing how many potential opponents aren't immune to being fatally stabbed in the face.

[churino]

Design for Deluge

Speedstream's loyal enforcer. A long-lost sister of the terrorcons and the monsterbots, she's a gentle giantess. She doesn't speak but elevates the voices of the unheard, always attentive and watching out for the interests of her friends. Her presence makes sure no one messes with the aquaspeeders

Not that her allies know of this, but Deluge is one of the few living things born on the dead world of cybertron. Long ago, she spawned out of the sea of rust alongside Rippersnapper and Jurara and crawled towards the mainland to meet with the other mutated monsters that they call family, but Deluge was captured by junkion monster hunters and sold into captivity where she was held among other creatures for roughly 26 earth years until that operation was investigated by the autobots and she was freed by the young, inexperienced and unsupervised Speedstream alongside every other captured creature. Who then proceeded to rip each other to shreds, both endangering Speedstream and forever traumatizing her with the consequences of lax leadership. But rather than watch in fear as the only people that had shown her kindness were torn to pieces, Deluge protected the autobots with her bulk and aided in pacifying her roommates

In the aftermath, the autobots didn't know what she was, but it was clear she wasn't an animal like the others and that she deserved to live among people, feeling guilty for releasing the animals when she was told not to, Speedstream offered to take her in. Even if she couldn't talk, Deluge was able to express that she was charmed by the sweaty little thing. And Deluge watched as Speedstream grew into a competent little leader. If a bit uptight, the two are profoundly close friends and will always have each other's interests in mind. To the point Deluge rarely even thinks of that family she never met and never came looking for her

On earth, she acts as cleanup and muscle for when speedstream and aquafend can't get something done. The sight of her presence in a battlefield is a horrifying thing to wittness as nothing that big should be able to move that fast. She's incredibly agile and powerful thanks to her hydrokinesis. Moving inside a massive bubble of water to wash over all her prey and provide safety for her allies inside the eye of the storm.

[helplessavacado]

Prompt 14: Deluge (a severe flood)

The Archangel Uriel, trying to avoid the rising waters of the Great Flood in Eden.

Genesis 7:4

Genesis 7:10-12

(Further lore and rambling below the cut)

Another traumatic and life-altering moment for a member of the heavenly host, yay!!!

Uriel, having been stationed as the guardsman of Eden, and isolated from pretty much everyone, was not made aware of God's plan to flood the earth (not the entire earth in my version, just a bunch of Africa, Europe, and Asia). As the rivers raced past their banks, as the churning waves took away trees, as creatures of all kinds suffocated under the water, Uriel remained at his post. He had been told to stay in Eden until the Almighty said his watch was no longer needed, and he had not received any word since Adam and Eve. "Surely," he thought, "Surely they have not forgotten me?" And yet, the sky remained dark, the rains continued to fall, and Uriel had to climb higher and higher to avoid the waters below. No word from Heaven. Birds plummeted into the water from sheer exhaustion, fish choked on the floating debris. Thirty seven days into the forty day downpour, as the final treetop was engulfed, Uriel finally abandoned the destroyed Eden. He arrived in Heaven, drenched and panicked. His siblings had been watching Noah and his family, and the lower ranking angels had been guiding the floodwaters. "Surely," he said, "Surely you did not forget me?" The heavenly host had no answer. Uriel never saw his people the same again.

Sixth day, fourteenth prompt, see y'all on the sixteenth with "Ashes"

[weepingwidar]

Justin Liam O'Brien (American, 1991) - Or a Deluge (2020)

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Deluge | John Martin [1834]

oil on canvas

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And how long before you realized (did you realize?) shame was a blade / you turned against yourself / and once you knew it / you could use it—

Leila Chatti, "Question Directed toward the Idea of Mary" from Deluge

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tempted to make a short fic out of this it would be funny.

also it kills us that three out of ten of these have harmed Arcee in awful scientist capacities in some way (Animated Shockwave with his interrogation techniques that involved taking her head apart, IDW1 Jhiaxus by being a transmedicalist shit instead of listening to her when it came to her gender affirming journey, and Flatline forcing her spark to power two other bodies), and she in turn mostly trashed them (while she did trash Prime Shockwave at least once iirc she didn't get the chance to take down Animated Shockwave, but sure gave him a hard time), and a fourth hasn't but was her arch-rival (Airachnid) before acquiring the mad scientist archetype in other continuities. Considering that Prime Ser-Ket is concurrent with Prime Airachnid and Arcee was on Cybertron for a long time in that continuity one has to wonder if she would have run into and fought Ser-Ket and the Forged before coming to Earth.... ....gaaaaaah feels like seeing the time knife is contemplating the transformers multiverse just the time knife, haha XD

also before you choose Shockwave as the winner because of IDW1 time travel shenanigans we want to point out there's a funny causal loop wherein that Shockwave's ideology originates from (and largely copies) Jhiaxus, who is maybe the only person he's shown any true loyalty to in the events leading up to Dark Cybertron. the counterpoint of course is that in Jhiaxus's opinion, Shockwave surpassed him by then in the sciences and he was but Shockwave's minion, so given that Shockwave is the only person Jhiaxus has ever truly cared for without also blatantly betraying, he'd probably just let Shockwave shoot him.

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Daniel Olbrychski as Andrzej Kmicic in J. Hoffman's "Potop"

From my old collection of press cuttings/photographs from the Polish Press. It is a fan & didactic account, existing only for the Cossack Heroes' glory and promoting Polish & Ukrainian heritage worldwide. Copyright belongs to the Photographer.

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yurikill ultrayuri

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The Deluge by Francis Danby