#extinction team

[metis-iphigenia]

years can pass for all i care but i will never get over this letter ever

[rei-ismyname]

Magik and Colossus reach an understanding

I'm truly sorry for the Greg Land art. Ugh

The Extinction Team had some interesting dynamics, one of which was Colossus' struggle with The Juggernaut's power and Magik supporting him. Cyttorak is a cruel master but Ilyana has extensive experience with all things demonic. She doesn't like being called snowflake, however. At all.

The siblings took time off from being Phoenix people and travelled to his realm, The Crimson Cosmos. Pete makes a good argument, but Cyttorak says nah.

BEGONE

Hilariously, he wants to keep him because he's a hero. Violence and destruction is a constant for them, without any of the hiding folks like Cain Marko have to do. In trying to oppose him, it's revealed a demon lord is all powerful when in their domain.

After AvX went to shit and the siblings tried to take each other down, they took some time for a post-game chat. Pete, especially, is not dealing well.

Then Magik drops the bomb, putting the 'snowflake' business to bed for good.

Colossus is... not happy about this revelation.

It's pretty wild to learn that she was not acting in good faith at all, but then again they never expected to become the Phoenix Five. I think there's some misplaced anger on both sides, but ultimately they're both pretty messed up.

He loses his shit and attacks her while Magik twists the knife. She insists on a change of scenery and takes them to Limbo. With her first sword strike she breaks the curse, freeing him from Cyttorak.

'Remember what Cyttorak said? That a demon lord is all powerful in their own realm?'

'So you could have cured me anytime?'

Yep, and now he knows what it's like. She drops him back in Siberia and he says next time he sees her he'll kill her. The Rasputins stay at odds for a few years, but eventually Kitty Pryde brings them back together. It's hard to tell with Piotr but I think he learned something. Magik apologises and admits it was a shitty thing to do. Growth!

[vertigoartgore]

2013's Uncanny X-Men Vol.3 #4 (LGY : #568) cover by cover artist Chris Bachalo and inker Tim Townsend.

[maythedreadwolftakeyou]

not a desert technically but I just visited the dunes in Monterey and gleefully trampled on some ice plant and I feel like you might enjoy that. if you wanna talk about the kinds of vegetation that grow in sandy soil or something I invite you to 👀

(also you're doing it! you're surviving! you'll get through that doctorate!)

ok ready this is my most important soapbox of all because soils in the desert are very special and have such cool organisms you don't find in these arrangements outside of drylands...

first lookee here. wauw beautiful utah

ok now look closer

no closer closer closer

CLOSER CLOSER CLOSER

WOW is that MOSS? you are thinking. the answer is YES. but doesn't moss like lots of water you are thinking??? WELL USUALLY. BUT in the desert you will notice that things like grasses and shrubs have lots of space between them unlike in more temperate climates-vegetation cover is not truly continuous. And there's less leaf litter than in forests obscuring the dirt. Which means all that soil is just sitting out in the open with nothing to protect it from being blown away by those harsh desert winds... except of course for our friends the BIOLOGICAL SOIL CRUSTS. also known as crypotbiotic soils, cryptogrammic soils, and biocrusts (for short).

These are communities of mosses, lichens, cyanobacteria (aka blue green algae--yes, those are usually Wet too, but ironically so so common in deserts), and the tens of thousands of surface and subsurface microbes that are associated with them. It's easy to forget just how many organisms are living in one single scoop of soil, especially because science can barely identify 1% of these microbes. Like of JUST the ones we have enough info to classify enough to count in my own master's dataset left me with over 25,000 unique taxonomic units I had to manage. don't worry about what that means just know it was very annoying and makes statistics a headache. anyway you find them all over the southwest US states as well as in other deserts around the world (spain, australia, sooo many in china, incredible ones in the succulent karoo in south africa/namibia, plenty in argentina etc etc), if you know where to look...

anyway OUR HEROS THE BIOCRUST aren't just there to look pretty (though you will can see from photos they also do this :) ), but are a vital component to the dryland ecosystem! They literally hold the soil surface together to prevent erosion, they influence hydrology in terms of rainfall runoff + infiltration, they impact how seeds germinate, they contribute to nutrient cycling and what plant-available compounds are held at the soil surface... like i feel like Tumblr in general has been made aware of how fungi & root networks interact in large scale systems like forests, but that is also happening on a more microscopic level in deserts! just in the top couple centimeters soooo much is happening. Cyanobacteria in particular are tiny organisms that produce little nets of sugars woven in the soil to climb around on and protect themselves, and if you crumble a little bit of soil from the surface you can see how the little spiderweb strings literally hold together the sand particles.

Now that you're Aware of biocrusts, when you look at larger scale landscape photos taken in un-trampled areas of desert, you will notice them as darker patches and textures on the lighter soil:

Yep there's these tiny little communities all over, that many people never learn to see. And now what I said before about mosses & cyanobacteria usually preferring wet environments--they have in fact adapted to life in the desert in ways that means they're dormant for most of the year. They live in stasis until the rainy season hits (or in some cases, winter moisture from a snow layer--many will photosynthesize through a few inches of snow since it's clear/white), and then burst into color and life. Many patches of biocrust will look utterly lifeless and dried out at first and then become vibrant and swell up within a few minutes of being exposed to moisture. Lichens, while more vibrant even when dry, will also mostly only grow/reproduce while wet. And biocrusts come in all sorts of colors, shapes, and preferred microhabitats!

anyway this post is long enough already so i'll be quick. while beautiful and important as you can imagine these are FRAGILE. if they get trampled too much, by humans or cows or cars, that's it. you're back to bare soil that can blow away whenever it wants.

I was lucky to get to participate in a 2x/year survey of one of the very few places in Utah to NEVER have cattle grazing or development, a remote area the entrance is kept secret to inside Canyonlands National Park, where you can see just how dense and lush biocrusts once could be in the US southwest:

ah... glorious. what special little guys. this is why if you visit many of the national parks in Utah you will see signs & stickers around with slogans like "Don't Bust The Crust" and "Tiptoe Through The Crypto" and etc. so heed that advice but DO stop and kneel down and get a better look at them!

[magpye-xio]

Favorite pigeon?

If you want to know my favourite pigeon, it's a Victoria crested pigeon (I've taken yummy pics of em and they slay)

[no-nic]

never underestimate the joy of crafting a shitty pin 😊🉐

literally the only rin merch i can buy around here is a funko pop, only good for gathering dust on a shelf. obito is slightly less rare (endangered -> vulnerable leap in conservation status). how do i express love for a character without inviting people into my room?

+ bby team 7 & some evil obitos >:3

[baalzebufo]

Whatever. Go My Scarab 🪲

so this is the start of my first 40k killteam! I'm building a hierotek circle, and this is my leader Kheper, The Eternal Sun. former opulent ruler of the Kheper Dynasty who is way down on his luck. he's a psychomancer whose favourite awful hallucinations to inflict are one million bugs eating you forever

i've got additional lore (he lost virtually all of his slaves and workers during the big sleep because tyranids munched half of his crown world and so woke up with basically just a handful of lackeys left) but mainly he's big, bitchy, and misses his bugs. (they went extinct in the time since he went to sleep and he's still bothered by it)

[oncillaphoenix]

*holds up N* fossil pokemon fan

[v1x-holo]

ENAsona time

https://artfight.net/character/5298090.or

She's also on Artfight

[thisonetimeinmeridian]

I saw a targ stan on twitter say the targ loyalist in them was starting to get annoyed when a bunch of tiktok videos kept appearing all reacting to the Stark theme and Winterfell in episode 1. All basically saying that that's where their true allegiance lies, and it felt like going home hearing that. Like ok go off, but you could've just kept scrolling on past, but instead, you decided to get pissed off and mouth off on twitter that people loved and were loyal to a house that wasn't your pro-incest and blood supremacy house. It just makes me laugh and gives me a concerning amount of joy.

[rei-ismyname]

X-Men pick sides during Schism

Logan and Scott have fallen out and the former is leaving Utopia to restart the school. All mutants have to choose whether to stay or leave and there's a sense of campaigning by both men. Their stump speeches are captioned over the framing device of a delightfully homoerotic caveman fight.

Rogue and Mags, who are kinda dating at this point, discuss. They both laugh at the idea that Magneto would leave, but it's not as funny as his jab at Logan. Rogue leaves.

Ororo's in the middle of packing her bags until she and Scott have a very frank conversation. She's not cool with the direction of Utopia but agrees to stay as a moral compass (and to support her friend.) It feels like the whole 'endangered species' thing isn't really being discussed.

Namor - not going anywhere. Probably wasn't invited. Rachel - might not have all the context, lol. She's leaving. Danger - primarily interested in rehabilitation of criminals, for some reason. Also, she hates the school. Quentin - would stay but doesn't get a choice. Doctor Nemesis - is a dick. Stays. Laura - goes to Avengers Academy, eventually

Magik - a prisoner. Martha Johanssen - staying, possibly because she's a brain in a jar. The Cuckoos - split, but they choose the school to be where Quentin Quire isn't. That doesn't work out.

Frenzy - leaves because she loves Scott after choosing to keep her memories from Age of X. Being here sucks for her. Gambit - gives a laconic reason, but he's probably going when Rogue is. Avalanche - he's like what? I don't even go here. Why are you asking me?

Toad wants to leave but Logan basically tells him to fuck off. He explicitly rejects him on the grounds of past violence - a bit rich coming from Logan. Toad begs and Logan only agrees when he offers to be the unpaid janitor. This is really shitty and unheroic. For someone who had their own journey of reform (kinda? I feel like people just got used to him) he's quite callous with other people's potential. Quentin Quire gets treated like a prince no matter what he does; Toad has to beg for the privilege of cleaning up shit and worse. I'd betray Logan too in his position.

The Academy X kids - their opinions are overshadowed by Prodigy and Hellion's pretty one-sided rivalry. David makes a good point backed up by facts and Hellion is understandably pissed off about not having hands. Rockslide is the sensible one, lol. These character models are so off.

Gentle advocates for everyone following their own path until Santo returns to oafish form and derails. He asks Blindfold where she's going but cuts her off before she can elaborate. The prophets are always ignored.

Emma lets Scott sweat for a bit before revealing she liquidated her corporate holdings to bankroll Utopia. She'll regret this, but it's a very selfless thing to do.

With that, the Schism is Schismed and the two sides go their separate ways. The only hard feelings are between Scott and Logan though, and even then it's mostly the latter. Thus, The Jean Grey School and Extinction Team were born.

[weirdfoxdreams]

Tazz Mollia shaded headshot as an attack on @pinnipedia-art ! Nothing on my head rn only the urge to draw extinct animals OCs.

[gothushi]

welcome!

requests are open! bot requests are open! my masterlist is here. (if masterlist link doesn’t work on mobile, i made an ‘ellies masterlist’ tag to use to search for it. ellies screenshots, ellies clips and ellies gifs can be used to find content) here i have four prompt lists linked, feel free to share your own thoughts/ideas or pick a character and pick one of the following prompts! be sure to let me know what list it’s from <3

list one (smut phrases)

list two (smut phrases/actions)

list three (softer, intimate lines)

list four (smut phrases)

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i’ll write for any of neil’s characters, feel free to suggest or ask about any i don’t have mentioned yet. fem! and gn! reader, no hard limits besides noncon honestly (if i do come across something i didn’t think of i’ll will respond accordingly)

[grimlover]

In my neil newbon whoreism era, alas there is a criminally low amount of content other than astarion. If I wrote some Luke Davenport, Priest, Nikoli, or Rob stuff, would any of y'all read it?

[grayrazor]

It’s a bit of a lapse how they send Kamille to Glasgow to keep him out of the way of a Colony Drop targeting Dublin. An object that size being thrown at the Earth should be closer to a Dinosaur-Killer Asteroid, make a nuclear bomb look like a firecracker. Nowhere in the British Isles would be safe, probably nowhere in Western Europe.

Maybe I'm a bit thrown off because later Gundam media like 08th MS Team and Gundam: The Origin had more hard sci-fi sensibilities, showed the Operation British colony drop killing billions of people with tsunamis and climate change beyond just the initial impact fireball. A massive crater where Sydney, Australia used to be and snow falling in the jungles of Southeast Asia

Nevertheless, it’s kinda weird how normal Earth looks in Gundam Unicorn and Hathaway, how there’s still an overpopulation problem. After the various massive impacts between MSG and Char’s Counterattack, Earth should be a wasteland, in the middle of the biggest mass extinction since The Great Dying. Maybe that plays a bigger role in Gundam F91, Gundam Crossbone, and Victory Gundam. I haven't gotten around to those yet.

[1-nexomon-a-day]

3/27/24