#eternal inferno

[devilshelter]

I’ve finally published the first chapter!!

Reblogs are very very appreciated!!

I’ll do masterpost later but now I will very appreciative for reblogs and feedback!

Russian Version on MangaLib

If you liked it you can support me on Patreon!!

[bitchthefuck1]

The thing about Francesca is that it isn't just saying "loving you is worth any punishment," it's saying "a punishment that keeps me with you is no punishment at all." It's not that you can brave a hurricane if it's the cost of loving someone, it's that standing in a hurricane for eternity with the person you love is still an eternity with the person you love, and how could you be happy with anything else?

[rivoluzionaria]

Auguste Rodin, The eternal idol (detail), 1889

[disco-archetypes]

ENCYCLOPEDIA - Sad FM is a radio station specializing in sad, slow rock songs. You seem to know its frequency by heart.

[mxsinistarrrr]

reworking my infernal oc mhm mhm

[dilutedh2so4]

You know what, the second circle of hell in Dante's Inferno actually sounds like a fun time for what is meant to be horrific eternal punishment. You get blasted this way and that by constant winds, basically just indoor skydiving.

And the people there! You got Paris, Helen, Sir Tristan, Dido, Cleopatra... what a set list, I'm heading down ASAP

[elisaenglish]

Bless It All to Hell

We are here when we crash past denial. Back against a wall aflame, I’m fire in your eyes, the dauntless angle of my head inclined, the dream inside the arc. You have me falling, calling yes to God (he’s strictly in the know)—a lick of karma in those kisses slow, the devil in the dance. Oh darling, capture that compulsion baked into bone, even as we burn by way of choosing.

[roboartrevolution86blog]

[9pixeldreamzoneblog]

[zhxk5h0csx]

[whwsd1wrof]

[thebibliomancer]

Essential Avengers: Avengers #299: I <3 NY

January, 1989

Mr. Fantastic -- Invisible Woman -- and the Captain versus the... ORPHAN-MAKER?!

Whew, a lot to react to here.

First, hello, 1989! We’re almost 90s here!

Two, ugh, Orphan-Maker and presumably Nanny. Do we have to?

Thirdly, and on the topic of do we have to... Wow, it is going to be a sour feeling when the Avengers 300 issue milestone is a tie-in to an X-Men event. Because it doesn’t end here, in 299.

I know that’s just how things lined up, time-wise. Even Daredevil got choked by a vacuum and had to fight a dentist/cop/truck man. But it is sour. Especially on the heels of all the Dr Druid stuff. The Avengers have one of their best runs and then it all goes to shit and the team is disbanded. And then their big new roster moment takes place during Inferno, fighting X-foes.

Not an auspicious start.

But we haven’t started that start yet.

Right now we have no Avengers, Inferno, a Fantastic Four crossover?, and a the Captain.

How did we get here? That’s a long story. Here’s the short version.

Nebula Ravonna Kang wanted a super-weapon hidden in a bubble in time and she needed the Avengers to help her because of a predestination thing. So she took over the team by corrupting Dr Druid with sex and power fantasies. Dr Druid manipulated Captain Marvel into a depowering and then took over the team. Then he and Nebula Kang Ravonna mind-controlled the three remaining Avengers and took them on a field trip to the time bubble. Where the mind control was broken by three random Kangs, the Avengers fought against Kang Nebula Ravonna and Dr Druid, and then those two fell into a time hole. Plot unsatisfactorily resolved, Thor disbanded the Avengers.

And now we’re now.

This has to be an ironic title, right?

I know the Daredevil tie-in ended with a ‘hell yeah, New York, WHOO!’ moment but that’s Daredevil. I’m almost positive he’s a masochist.

Anyway, between Avengers 298 and now, the Inferno thing has kicked in full swing. Firebrand from Gargoyle’s Quest is attacked tourists. And a motorcycle that turned into a motorcycle robot man attacks the Captain.

Who punches it in the face and turns it back into a motorcycle and rides off on it.

The Captain is pretty unflappable.

I guess the motorcycle had a radio because the Captain hears a report about a major battle at 45th St.

He motorcycles that way and finds there are a bunch of Inferno demons causing trouble but that an unknown group of heroes are giving them a tough time.

Unknown to the Captain. But maybe not to the reader.

(It’s the New Mutants.)

They look like dorks in their shhh we’re sneaking out to endanger our lives, don’t tell Magneto outfits.

Anyway, they’re fighting demons. They’re doing a good job of fighting demons.

If you remember from Evolutionary War, Danielle Moonstar got her powers boosted so she can physically manifest things instead of just illusions now. So she wants to manifest a demon’s greatest fear and the Captain coincidentally shows up and swings a demon into a light pole.

Obviously, everyone first assumes that this weird dude on a motorcycle is the demon’s greatest fear.

In fairness, he looks like dollar store knockoff Captain America.

They don’t recognize him is what I’m saying.

The Captain doesn’t recognize them either. There’s just so many heroes around now and so many X-books.

Cannonball comments that the Captain looks like Captain America, which Steve unhelpfully answers that he and Captain America are old friends.

Are you hiding that you were Captain America, Steve? What’s your game here?

(And Cannonball basically figures out from that coy answer that the Captain is Captain America anyway so. Good job?)

The Captain asks the New Mutants hey what the fuck is going on?

And Cannonball gives Cap the quick and dirty synopsis. There’s a bunch of demons from Limbo causing trouble. S’ym (who is a very, very loose reference to Cerebus the Aardvark) is leading some of them in an invasion of New York. And there’s another demon called N’astirh, possibly because David Sim sternly asked Marvel to stop loosely referencing his stuff, which is rich when you remember all the references in Cerebus. Anyway, N’astirh is doing some nastier stuff involving sacrificing babies. He’s the dude that’s been messing with Madelyne Pryor but I don’t have time to go into Inferno stuff. Please don’t make me.

POINT BEING: that’s the situation.

Unlike Magneto, the Captain doesn’t have a problem with the New Mutants risking their lives. I mean, look how much he risked Bucky! So he tells them good luck fighting demons.

And decides to go recruit some more friends into the fight.

Speaking of things I don’t want to get into but in this case I will.

The Eternals.

After Jack Kirby’s Eternals run wrapped up, some loose ends were tied off in Thor. Usual Eternal leader Zuras is dead, currently, and his daughter Thena is leadering.

And she’s got brave new ideas.

Like letting the Forgotten One out of his jail.

The Forgotten One is an Eternal that’s been in Eternal jail for so long that everyone has forgotten his name. And/or he had his name stricken from the collective minds of Eternals, depending on when you ask. But his deal is that he’s All the Coolest Heroes, Actually. Just a cool Eternal mistaken for Gilgamesh and Hercules and so on.

What? You’re saying that there actually is a Hercules who also claims the same adventures?

Yeah, they were operating in the same area in the same time doing a lot of the same stuff.

Look, Jack Kirby loves Ancient Astronauts and Eternals wasn’t really supposed to be in the Marvel Universe.

Anyway, this guy is gonna be called Gilgamesh so I’ll call him Gilgamesh.

He’s just a big, buff dude with the Prince Valiant haircut.

Since he’s a monster fighting man, Thena sends him to help out with New York’s invasion of demons.

Since time is of the essence, Gilgamesh stops to forge an entire new set of armor and a new sword.

Priorities!

Meanwhile, in Connecticut. The Connecticut Richardses.

Franklin is scared because he had a premonition that a “bogey man” is coming so Sue lets Franklin squeeze into bed with her and Reed.

NOT A PANEL LATER, Nanny and the Orphan-Maker show up in their spaceship.

Orphan-Maker deactivates all the alarm systems and breaks into the house.

He uses some “pixie sand” to make sure Franklin stays asleep. And then he does the thing his name is.

He’s the Orphan-Maker. He makes orphans.

He pulls a gun to blow Reed’s brains out but Franklin astral projected (to Orphan-Maker’s confusion) and called for Sue.

Sue doesn’t wake up but apparently she reflexively threw up an invisible shield over the bed.

Phew. Imagine if two of the original Fantastic Four died in an Avengers book to an X-Men villain! Fans would riot!

The Orphan-Maker decides to just skedaddle with Franklin and does.

NOT A PANEL LATER, the Captain shows up.

Nobody answers when he knocks on the door in the middle of the night.

HOW SUSPICIOUS. 

So he investigates.

(In fairness, he sees the damage Orphan-Maker left breaking into the place.)

So Captain America breaks in through the same window Orphan-Maker left open and finds Reed and Sue sleeping under an invisible force field.

Which he can see, somehow.

Get your eyes checked, Cap. That’s not how invisibility works.

When he touches the shield, it FDSSSPT!s away and Reed and Sue wake up.

Sue says she had a weird dream about using her force field powers (AND THEN WHEN SHE WOKE UP THE PILLOW WAS GONE?) but quickly realizes that Franklin is missing and has parent panic.

Reed leaps into action.

First, he SOMEHOW recognizes that a dude called the Captain wearing a patriotic-ish uniform and carrying a shield is, in fact, Captain America.

He asks Cap what’s going on with him but Cap says that his thing can wait until after the demon invasion/child kidnapping thing.

Second, Reed activates the super-advanced security system.

Sure, the alarm lines were super obvious and easy to cut but the security cameras were running the whole time and captured everything.

Reed doesn’t recognize the armored dude that stole Franklin or the ship he got into but either way, he’s able to track the energy signature of the ship... TO NEW YORK.

Which is where the demon invasion is. Convenient!

Mr and Mrs Fantastic and their good pal the Captain get in a Fantasti-Car and zoom off.

Meanwhile, in the Eternal city of Olympia, Gilgamesh finishes his new armor.

Go back to the drawing board, ya dingus.

Most of it is fine, I guess. And gold and brown isn’t over-represented in the WORST ROSTER so they’re perfectly fine colors. The bull-head helmet looks dumb though.

Also, despite spending time making a new sword, he’s decided that since he hasn’t wielded any weapon in a while, he’s too rusty. So he’s just going to use his FISTS.

Gilgamesh: “I am long out of practice. A weapon too long in the scabbard whose edge has been dulled by time and rust. This will hone me again.”

Meanwhile, above New York City, Nanny leaves Orphan-Maker to pilot the airship while Nanny checks on Franklin.

Nanny is surprised that Franklin is so hard to keep asleep. She runs some scans on him and is further surprised at Franklin’s mutations (hahah cursed future knowledge).

She asks the sleeping kid what his name is and has a panic when he says Franklin Richards and that his mom and dad are Susan and Reed.

Nanny calls Orphan-Maker (Peter) and asks him if he really orphan-made Franklin’s parents and calls him out for lying when he lies about it.

So she swats his robot palm with an electro-switch. Because why not.

Nanny has a Concern now because they kidnapped MR FANTASTIC AND INVISIBLE WOMAN’S KID and didn’t KILL MR FANTASTIC AND INVISIBLE WOMAN!

Hey, I can’t see things going well for you either if you’d half of the first family of Marvel comics.

Now there’s a What If concept.

Anyway, Nanny has a Plan for dealing with PISSING OFF HALF OF THE FANTASTIC FOUR and she heads into the forge to go prepare.

She has a forge on her spaceship. Why wouldn’t she.

The Fantastic Three of Reed, Sue, and the Captain catch up to Nanny’s ship and Reed (gently) knocks it out of the sky with an energy drain.

The Fantasti-Car can do that. Why wouldn’t it?

Nanny’s ship bounces to a very safe and not at all hazardous stop in a park.

The Captain jumps out of the Fantasti-Car instead of waiting for it to park and lands on Nanny’s ship.

Orphan-Maker comes out and starts throwing fisticuffs and the Captain is surprised that the robot-suit dude doesn’t even flinch when Cap gets under his guard and hits him with his Captain vibranium shield. And further surprised when the dude bonks him in the head.

Invisible Sue finds that her powers just slide off Orphan-Maker. Like he’s got some kind of screening device protecting him.

Orphan-Maker hoists the Captain into the air to throw him but Mr Fantastic just snatches him out of O-M’s grip.

Then Orphan-Maker pulls a regular ass gun on Mr Fantastic.

I don’t know why this is so funny to me.

Maybe because he’s pretty clearly a child in a highly advanced robot suit and he pulls out a normal gun.

It has similar energy to those dragonball fanimated videos where characters who can blow up the world panic if someone pulls a gun.

The Captain just throws his not-as-mighty-but-still-pretty-mighty shield and smashes the gun. And when the shield boomerangs back, Cap throws it again and hits Orphan-Maker under the chin. Since the suit is tough but Cap noticed where its weak points were while he was getting hoisted.

Anyway, after getting bonked in the chin with a still-pretty-mighty-shield, Orphan-Maker sits and cries to Nanny that the mean men hurt him.

It starts to dawn on the Captain that inside this robot suit there’s just a small child but he doesn’t get to wrestle over this suspicion long because a different and red robot suit comes out of Nanny’s ship and bonks Cap in the head. Knocking him the fuck out.

People keep punching him in the head today.

Anyway, this is probably, definitely Franklin. Nanny is the kind of sicko who’d put a child in a robot suit and make him kill his own parents.

What a creep.

And she looks like an egg.

Mr Fantastic and Invisible Woman now realize that they’ve actually got to contribute to the fight more.

Invisibsue uses force fields to blow a mouth flamethrower so that Reedtastic can get in close and tangle around the new red guy.

But Red-Suit electrifies the exterior of the robot suit. Knocking Reed the fuck out.

Sue realizes that this new red guy doesn’t have a protective screen so she puts an invisible force field around him.

But red dude is beefy and punches through the force field bubble. And she can’t put up another bubble fast enough! But she has enough time to verbalize that she can’t put up another bubble in time!

With Cap unconscious and being sat on by Orphan-Maker and Reed unconscious, nobody is left to save her- Nah, just kidding.

Gilgamesh shows up in a flash of lightning.

I didn’t know he had lightning powers.

Was this supposed to be Thor?

It even does the KRACKTHOOM!

Anyway, Gilgamesh blasts red guy away from Sue.

Nanny comes out of the ship tsk-ing that another hero showed up.

She yells at red guy that his “homework isn’t complete yet! I want these people dead! All of them! And I want them dead now!”

Red guy (it’s Franklin. Its clearly Franklin. Even Sue and Reed realize that its Franklin by now) says he doesn’t want to kill people dead but Nanny threatens to take away his nice robot suit and what’s more “there’ll be no dessert for a month!”

Red Franklin: “Oh, no, Nanny! Not that!”

Nanny is actually pleased that Reed and Sue have finally realize because the knowledge will surely prevent them from fighting back seriously.

(What Nanny doesn’t know is that Reed has put Franklin in a coma at least once.)

Gilgamesh points out that Red Franklin isn’t his son and he’d gladly kill him to stop him from killing his own parents.

Invisible Woman: “Reed, what are we going to do?”

The Captain, who I didn’t know was named Reed: “Offhand, Susan, I’d say we were in for the trickiest fight of our lives!”

Nanny: “What’s so tricky about it? All you have to do is die!”

I say we let Gilgamesh crack this egg. In the violence sense.

Follow @essential-avengers​ because that’s the place. Like, reblog, and comment because it makes me feel good about spending my time liveblogging. Yell at an egg today. That’s no yolk.

[izzysarchivedblogs]

ship tag drop cause tumblr messed up the tags; so i'm re-tagging ships/fixing thing / saving this poste to add to so i always have te tags....

hey if we write / ship together and you want one of these (does not have to be romantic) than let me know !

@crisispider -> ships; crisispider; familiarity is knowing every line and crack even in the dark (spiderhawk)

@thefleetsfinest -> dynamics; thefleetsfinest; it ain't heavy when you got a friend (recovery buddies)

@thefleetsfinest -> ships; thefleetsfinest; breathe in and come close and feel this and feel me and feel it all (Len and Lin)

@mr-tony-stark -> ships; mrtonystark; will you wait for me the way birds wait for the sun to rise? will you kiss me as the sun rises? (ironhawk)

@biitchcakes -> ships; biitchcakes; and her kisses on his skin felt like wisps of butterfly wings turn to a slow inferno (spiderhawk)

@biitchcakes -> ships; biitchcakes; you think she turned on the stars (spidertigra)

@amethystarrows -> dynamics; amethystarrows; when i am with you there is no place i'd rather be (the hawkeyes)

@gammaragee -> ships; gammaragee; I love you as certain dark things are to be loved between the shadow and the soul; (tigrahulk)

@gammaragee -> ships; gammaragee; its in the eyes always in his eyes danger and trust are held; (hulkeye)

@voluntadfuerte -> ships; voluntadfuerte; eternity was in our lips and in our eyes; (hawkingbird)

[splendidemendax]

it’s endlessly funny to me that dante put ovid in limbo. like. really. really? ovid. ovid the righteous pagan. ovid.

[honeydrop-sweetheart]

So I had some idiot intrusive thought because some dickhead in some show I had on a few days ago spat out the cliche retort: "Yeah, well people in hell want ice water". And IDK I know I've heard it a thousand times but it irked me at the time and I chalked it up to 1) it's trite 2) I guess YMMV but I usually only hear it used very callously.

But apparently that wasn't the end of the analysis because it would not leave my mind and the infinite melodrama/shitpost generator that is my brain finally hit some traction tonight: it feels like being talked down to in a way I have decided is entirely unearned because "it shows such a pedestrian view of everything and, frankly, I won't be condescended to by someone who doesn't even have the class and artistic flair to default to Inferno for their mental image of hell."

Anyway, then I made this:

[dandelionjack]

not to get all edgy pseudo nihilist teenager… i want to believe that unconditional eternal love wins out in the end and that god cares and has a plan for the ultimate salvation of all of us but sometimes. sometimes it gets hard to have faith in the idea that anyone is out there looking out for us at all. are we left all alone to fend for ourselves against those who believe that their power in the now absolves them of any consequences and responsibility in the future