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hanni-3 · 8 days ago

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EVERYONE WELCOME...!!

LUCIA FLOQUET!!!!!!

I've been brainstorming for two days on how to word my thoughts out, specifically for step 2.......

At 10 years old Lucia Floquet moved to Golden all the way from France, she was skeptical with the whole moving out from the continent. But how much worse could it be? She barely bat an eye back in France, not having much friends, when people come up to her she ignores them. But she'll definitely miss the pastries, especially the mille-feuille. Those are her favorites. (Mille-feuille are French pastries that has three layers of puff pastry and two layers of pastry cream. And on top icing sugar or fondant. You can add jam or fruits.)

Lucia is a cis girl — but that's only in step 1. With a few doubts here in there still back in step 1.

If Lucia tolerates you enough, she can be a playful and teasing — if you're a girl. Lucia is the complete opposite. Hell, won't knowledge you once and if she did she'll just be plain with you. Even if you knew her since diapers she'll act as if you two are just neighbors, that's all you'll get.

THE RELATIONSHIP WITH THE LEADS!!!!!

Whenever you would ask Lucia about love, she'll look at you weird.

When Tamarack Baumann popped out of the leaves, Lucia was caught off guard was an understatement, but she tought Tamarack was so pretty, and so she blurted it out and quickly got embarrassed right after, but Tamarack just compliment her back plus her bow. Which Lucia complimented back with her hair tie.

They bonded very easily and attached to the hip! It was easier since they we're both girls, Lucia tought.

When she saw Qiu Lin up at his "hideout", she liked his hoodie, but quickly got annoyed by his personality and ignored him half the time. But as time passes she slowly started to tolerate him.

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When I was making her outfit I found this one rlly pretty and it suited them)

Gender dysphoria warning!! Read at ur own risk.

Lu personality did a whole 180° when they stepped into teenage hood.

Lu is no more a polite person, barely talks and is biting in general.

Not comfortable being called a "miss" anymore and people calling them their old name just icks her, deciding to shorten it sound it doesn't sound too 'feminine' but that's not their government name, just a nickname. And in this step they go by she/they, but feels less uncomfortable with 'they'.

In their room, when they we're twelve they used to have a mirror in the corner but now it's covered, not feeling comfortable with their look and how their body looked, more specifically their chest and would only wear baggy clothes with two baggy sweater under their hoddie to cover it up.

Their hair was annoying too, it grown over the years and people would come up and braid it for fun and compliment it. Lu we're grateful and happy for the compliments but they found it annoying and triggering when their strand of hair would rest on the back of their neck, feeling like carrying weight on their back which is why they put it up in a bun or ponytail most of the time.

Once they were home alone they really could take it anymore and still in their mind, they decided to cut their hair and that felt like the weight was finally off their shoulder and they could finally breath in peace. And asked their mom if they could them dye their hair.

(their hair went trought it all)

They're still best friends with Tee of course, going on walks in the forest and Lu talking about their gender, talking about they don't feel comfortable with their own skin and not feeling like someone.

And with Qiu? Their relationship grew between their years, knowing Autumn can count on them and they can do in return.

(Also why do people think they're dating or or something??)

BUT THE RAIN DOESN'T FALL FOREVER BABY!!!!!!

Lucas can proudly call themselves a man with he/him pronous but won't mind they/them. After tough battles of the storm the clouds dissipate from the side and the sun shine. He finally feels comfortable with his own skin.

Relationship with Tee? Yeah uhm, they're siblings. Can't tell anyone or them otherwise.

And Qiu? Uhmm....

Yeah so, Lucas knows what he's feeling for Qiu, and what he felt when he still battling. He actually likes them. Like, a lot..a lot, lot. But is scared to commit, scared to destroy the friendship in between of them. Everyone has to suffer and often encourage the other to just give hints and confess but Lucas rather shit himself than 'ruin' what's good between them.

WHOOOOOHOOOO there he is!! Btw he's the mc that I was talking about when I introduced Mariana :3 Thank you for taking your time to read this and have a great day/afternoon/night!!

#my writing #olnf rambles #olnf oc #olnf mc #our life: now & forever #our life now & forever #our life now and forever #olnf qiu #olnf tamarack #olnf Lucas #transgender #transmasc #:33333

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chu-diaries · 1 month ago

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140 days of productivity: day 50/140

📸: morning reading + reading at the hair salon

I woke up at 5:26 am again. At first I thought I should go back to sleep because I might need more rest but then I remembered that I slept for 7 hours straight and that I had a perfect night of sleep without any dreams. I also realized that I could use some early alone time to watch the sunrise, to hear the birds singing and to read.

I finished My Days at Morisaki Bookshop yesterday before going to bed and it’s official now: I didn’t like it. Unfortunately I compared the entire book to Hwang Boreum’s Hyunam-dong but I believe I wouldn’t have liked it even if I didn’t have read Hyunam-dong. Shallow characters and dialogues, weird and rushed decisions, huge gaps in the story… it’s not my thing.

I was looking through my books for something new to read and I found The Shell Seekers by Rosamunde Pilcher. Actually, it’s not really new, I read it 12 years ago when I found it at a bus stop. I was a teenager at the time and wasn’t really touched by the story, so I couldn’t remember anything about it. I guess I thought the main character was too old and she was dealing with aging problems and all these family issues with grown children. I couldn’t really connect with her because I was too young and I didn’t want to be a mother at the time.

I decided to reread it because now the main character kind of reminded me of myself—she almost died at 64 and now sees life as a gift. I’m not 64, but I’ve been dealing with anxiety, depression, and suicidal thoughts for decades, and only now, at 29, am I starting to appreciate life as a gift. I want to live, I want to be alive. I often think about getting old and healthy nowadays so I can finally relate to her.

Today I went to a curly hair salon for the first time and I got a new haircut with a curly hair specialist. It was amazing and I learned so much. They gave me a book about how to properly take care of my hair from now on and although it was 144 pages long I read it all while my hair was drying.

🥀: day 17/27

💧: 1 L

🏋🏻‍♀️: 🚫

🏃🏻‍♀️: 🚫

🕯️: tested different labels on my candles (4 h)

🪘: went to my class and took notes on the history of favelas and bohemians in Brazil (3 h)

🇰🇷: 🚫

📺: 🚫

📚: the shell seekers by rosamunde pilcher + o livro dos cachos by Sabrinah giampá

��: ice queen - baekhyun

🛑: 10 days pick free

💊: vitamin c, omega 3 and iron supplements

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super-cosmic-library · 1 year ago

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Part 2 of this post

Now on ao3!

Dustin was up to something, that much Steve could tell. He just didn’t know what.

However, whatever that plan entailed meant that Eddie was around all the time now. In fact, there were few days now that Steve didn’t see him for at least a few minutes. And he wasn’t complaining.

Well, he kind of was, but only internally. And only because he was beginning to understand the appeal of the whole “vampire boyfriend” trope. Or maybe it was just Eddie.

Because despite being technically as old as his parents, Eddie was hot. Downright delectable. And Steve knew it was probably weird to be into someone older than the internet when he was freshly out of high school, but Eddie acted like a high schooler.

(And yes, he understood that teenage girls all the time were attracted to grown-ass celebrities, but those people were unattainable. Or at least should be unattainable. Looking at you, Leonardo DiCaprio.)

Besides, maybe vampires did age, just really, really slowly. Both mentally and physically. Eddie wasn’t connected to the larger vampire community, so had no proof to the contrary. And he had already proven that most vampire cliches were false. So maybe he really was just 20 years old, despite having been born in the ‘60s.

Steve felt light-headed from all the hoops he was jumping through to try to justify his attraction.

And it wasn’t that he was opposed to people dating people with large age gaps. He had just never been interested in doing so. He wasn’t Billy Hargrove, who had basically acted as a sugar baby to all of Hawkins’ wealthy older Republican women. (From the way the bastard had talked about sex workers, Steve was sure that anyone who called him a sugar baby would become well acquainted with his fist. For the life of him, he didn’t understand what people saw in him after he opened his mouth.)

Also, the release of “All Too Well (10 Minute Version) [Taylor’s Version]” had rekindled the long-running conversation of how predatory large age gap relationships with freshly legal teenagers were. And Steve did not want to be a statistic.

But there was just something about Eddie that made these cautious thoughts turn to background noise. There was just something about him. He carried himself with a sort of confidence, like he didn’t care if he died (which he probably couldn’t). And he was constantly joking around with the kids. Hell, he never took himself too seriously, unlike most of the people Steve’s age, who were constantly trying to prove that they were adults. Maybe that was because he didn’t take himself seriously. Or maybe it was the vampire thing.

And Steve had expected to be grossed out by the whole “drinking blood” thing. He was whenever the kids talked about the vampires in their vampire stories doing it. But he didn’t find it repulsive. If anything, the red that tinged Eddie’s lips and teeth after he drank one of his human juice pouches awakened something in Steve. Something he didn’t really feel comfortable confronting just yet.

And it’s not like Steve was worried Eddie was straight. The black hanky he insisted on keeping in his back pocket was as glaring of an indicator as a rainbow Apple Watch band or an iced lavender oat milk latte in the middle of winter. However, Steve didn’t know if people still met up in parks like that. He thought most hookups happened over Grindr. Maybe at this point, it was just a fashion thing. Like how the vampires from What We Do in the Shadows still wore clothes from the time periods they died in.

It was a good thing that fashion trends had cycled back to ‘80s styles. Otherwise, Eddie would stick out like a sore thumb in his long hair and battle vest. The more he thought about it, the more he realized that pretty much anyone who had turned into a vampire in the last hundred years had lucked out these days due to all the influences modern fashion took from the previous decades.

Unless they stayed put as Eddie had, did other vampires hold onto their wardrobes from their living years? Or had the clothes become a burden to carry around when moving from town to town in hopes of avoiding suspicion? And how many other vampires existed that were hiding in plain sight? Because there had to be others, otherwise, how had Eddie turned into one?

All of these questions made Steve’s brain hurt, which, honestly, made sense. Steve had gotten used to not having to use his brain much since graduating high school. He was perfectly content to be his friend group’s himbo, even if most of the people in his friend group were much younger than him.

What would it be like to be a vampire’s trophy husband?

What would it be like to be a vampire’s personal blood bank?

Steve nearly swerved into the other lane when the thought of Eddie’s strong arm wrapping around his shoulders, teeth sinking into his neck, tough lapping at his skin assaulted him.

“Steve, pay attention to the road!” Dustin shouted from the passenger seat. “I don’t want to die at fifteen.”

“Awe, is Dusty-Buns scared of a little game of chicken?” Max jokingly sneered from the backseat. Or at least Steve hoped she was joking. Sometimes he couldn’t tell if the suicide jokes she made were serious or if it was just a by-product of being born Gen Z.

“I told you, it’s Dusty-Bun. Not buns,” Dustin huffed. “My buns aren’t dusty.”

“That’s not what Suzie said.”

Dustin let out an ear-splitting pterodactyl screech. “Suzie did not say that! She hasn’t even seen my buns.”

“Oh, right. I forgot you were a total virgin.”

“So are you!”

“Enough!” Steve snapped. “You two are, like, twelve. You should both be virgins, so stop shaming each other.”

“I’m not twelve!” Max protested.

“I literally just said I was fifteen! Were you even listening? You came to my birthday party.”

“Whatever,” Steve said, exasperated by his two favorite children. “You still shouldn’t shame people for their sex lives or lack thereof. It’s not cool. Now, can you stop shouting? We’re almost there.”

“Yes, Steve,” El responded.

He nearly jumped out of his skin. He had forgotten she was sitting in the backseat with Max. He regained his composure. “Right, thank you. See, this is why El is my favorite one of you.”

The other two teens squawked in protest, but at least this time they had the sense to not start a never-ending argument. Besides, Steve often called whoever was acting the best his favorite. Even Robin, even though she wasn’t one of the kids. He wouldn’t be surprised if one day soon he called Eddie his favorite kid.

Oh. That actually might be incredibly embarrassing. Mental note: do not call the guy you have a crush on your “favorite kid.”

They pulled up to the library. Dustin had been begging Steve to drive him there so he could do more research on vampires. Max and El had tagged along because they had a stack of finished books they needed to replenish and they had some Vampire Academy books on hold.

When the news of Eddie’s unalive status reached El and Max, they gave two wildly different reactions. El, ever wide-eyed and curious, had approached the situation in a similar, albeit calmer, way than the boys had. She asked questions, paused for answers, and actually showed some empathy when Eddie had told her about the more challenging aspects of never aging (i.e. having to hide from his friends who might question why he still looked like he did when they were all in high school). Max, on the other hand, didn’t seem to give a shit. Though that was just Max.

“Are you going to try to suck our blood or turn us into your brainless, undead army?” Max had asked Eddie when she first found out.

Eddie had blinked back at her. “Uh, no.”

“Then I don’t care.” She had stuck her earbud back in her ear, and that had been that.

As soon as he put the car in park, the kids scrambled to unbuckle and fling themselves out the doors. He watched through the windshield as they barreled through the library doors, nearly knocking over an elderly couple in the process.

He had no need to go into the library. Reading had never been a strength of his. The letters had a habit of swimming around the page, incapable of staying still for just one moment. Kind of like the kids.

Robin had once suggested that he might have dyslexia, but he had brushed her off. He would have known if he had a learning disability, right? His parents would have gotten him tested.

No, he just sucked at reading. That was all. He wasn’t missing much, anyway. Books were boring.

A rapt at the window startled him out of his thoughts, nearly getting a heart attack in the process. Steve turned his head to find Eddie standing outside the passenger’s side door, grinning mischievously at him.

He rolled down the window.

“You contemplating going inside, or what?” Eddie asked.

“Waiting on Dustin, Max, and El to get their books.”

“Mind if I join you.”

Steve reached over the console to open the passenger door for him.

“Thanks,” Eddie said, sliding into the seat and resting a genuinely impressive stack of mass market paperbacks in his lap. “Dustin still on his vampire research kick?”

Steve nodded. “I swear, that kid won’t quit until he’s gotten his hands on every vampire-related book in the county library system.”

“I don’t know what he’s expecting to find,” Eddie said, reorganizing his stack of books. “I told him everything I know about it. Besides, I’ve already gone through all of those books. It’s like the kid doesn’t trust me.”

“He just thinks too highly of himself. He’s smart, but that doesn’t mean the rest of us are complete idiots.” Steve watched as Eddie reorganized his stack again. “Whatcha got there?”

“Oh, just some returns.”

“How long did it take you to finish all those?” In high school, Steve could hardly finish two books of assigned reading over the summer months. It would probably take him a whole year to get through most of Eddie’s stack.

“Checked them out three weeks ago, so,” Eddie did the math in his head. “About three weeks.”

“Damn.”

“Eh, some of them I’ve already read, so I mostly just skimmed those ones.”

“Still.”

“You’ve got any plans after you and the little hellions are done here?” Eddie asked, brushing off the impressed look Steve was sure he was giving him.

“Was probably going to stop by the movie theater to bother Robin at work. Then go home and scroll around on my phone for a few hours. Why?”

Adrenaline had begun coursing through his veins. If this was what he thought it was, then he was about to get a date with Eddie Fucking Munson. He needed to keep his expression calm. Nonchalant. Like he wasn’t going to spontaneously combust due to the sheer joy of somehow catching Eddie’s eye.

“Yeesh, that sounds dull.” “Yeah, I guess it is. You’ve got any better ideas of what I could be doing?” Good job, Harrington. Show him you’re interested, but don’t make it too easy.

“Well, I was going to ask if you wanted to go play laser tag. Me and Chrissy and the Corroded Coffin boys were going to go play tonight, but we needed an even amount of players.”

Steve deflated a little at that. It was not quite what he had wanted. He had wanted a nice night in with Eddie. Maybe order in some pizza and completely ignore whatever movie they put on the TV. But, it wasn’t nothing.

Besides, Steve liked laser tag. Even more, he liked the idea of getting to see Eddie all flushed from running around. He knew Eddie was a competitive little shit. He had seen him and the kids play Mario Kart together.

It had been his first time playing the game. Apparently, he and Wayne had never gotten any of the gaming consoles that had come out in the past couple decades. Wayne was more of a sports/billiards guy, while Eddie preferred table top games. It had taken a good hour to teach Eddie how to play Mario Kart on the PS5 at Steve’s house. (His parents had gotten it for him for Christmas, despite him never showing an interest in video games past Wii Sports in middle school; but he kept it around for when the kids came over.) However, Steve chalked that up to the fact that Mike, Lucas, and Dustin kept yelling over each other as they tried to explain the controls to him.

But once he got the hang of it, he was an absolute demon. He threw red shells like there was no tomorrow. He had even managed to push all of the other boys’ characters off the tracks in Rainbow Row to slow them down. When Lucas had managed to beat him one time during his five race long winning streak, Steve swore Eddie was going to throw the controller at the TV.

He hadn’t. Once he seemed to realize how upset his loss had made him, he had closed his eyes, and took a few deep breathes. As soon as he had calmed himself down, he had congratulated Lucas on his victory, passed his controller off to Will, and joined Steve on the couch to watch the younger boys play.

So, yes, without a doubt Eddie was competitive. But not the type that cornered you in the locker room after you beat them at what was supposed to be a friendly game of basket ball. No, he was the type that you wanted to keep playing with, even after he lost.

“That sounds like fun,” Steve smiled at Eddie. “What time are you guys playing?”

Eddie grinned back at him. “We were planning on meeting up at the place at 8, but I can pick you up at 7:30 and we can go together.”

It wasn’t technically a date, but if Eddie wanted to drive him there when he knew perfectly well that Steve could drive himself (he was sitting in his car, after all), then that had to mean he was interested in him. At least, that’s what Steve had always done when he offered his crushes rides to group hang outs.

“Sure, I’d like that.”

If Steve had any doubts about Eddie returning his affection, they were silenced by how bright his eyes glowed. They were practically golden.

“Great, I’ll see you then.” And with that, Eddie ducked back out of the car.

Steve watched as he practically skipped to the library entrance. Right before he walked through the double doors, he looked back over his shoulder at Steve and waved his finger. Steve gave a small wave back to him, causing the other man to beam.

As Eddie disappeared, Steve realized that he would be spending the rest of the day staring at the clock in anticipation of tonight, and honestly, he was okay with it. Because with every minute that passed by was a minute closer to spending time with Eddie.

Oh, he was going to be blowing up Robin’s phone for the next twelve hours. He typed out an apology text to his best friend as well as a quick recap of what just happened. As soon as he hit send, his eyes wandered to the time up in the corner of his screen.

2:18 p.m.

This was going to be a long five hours.

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luimnigh · 1 year ago

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Let's Rate The New Champions!

So, this month Marvel is doing a run of themed variant covers. Each cover depicts a design for a teenage sidekick of the star of each book. This is inspired by the recent creation of Spider-Boy, aka Bailey Briggs, a young boy who claims to have been Peter Parker's sidekick for the last three years, but who all memories and evidence of his existence have been erased from reality.

So the idea is that all these characters are sidekicks that existed, but had their existence erased.

The weird thing is that Marvel didn't call these the "Teen Sidekick" covers, they're calling them the "New Champions" covers- the Champions being an existing team of teenage superheroes.

Almost as if they're saying they want to make actual characters of these covers.

As a resident fan of a Marvel character spawned by a run of themed variant covers inspired by a character created for a Spider-Man storyline, I thought I'd give my thoughts on each, propose a name and secret origin, and rate each concept.

Now, I am not an artist or a character designer, I am absolute layperson, the opinions expressed within are merely my own impressions.

So let's begin with:

Comments: I really like this. It's fairly simple but the pearlescent colours really add an oomph to the design. She looks like she either has hard light or magical powers, and they look really neat. And I really like the clawed fingertips on her gloves, tieing her back with Black Panther.

Secret Origin: Probably a tech or magic prodigy, out to defend Wakanda. I know T'Challa is no longer King in his current run, and is dealing with internal struggles, so maybe she's someone trying to step up and fill the void.

Hero Name: Is Neon Panther too obvious? ...wait is this design a Nyan Cat reference?

Score: 8/10. Just a really solid design.

Comments: That's Timothée Chalamet. That is Timothée Chalamet as a teenage boy version of Doctor Strange.

Secret Origin: Well, due to Strange not learning magic until he was an adult, "Time Travelling Teenage Strange" is out. Honestly, Strange is old enough to have a teenage kid, but also Strange is married to a woman from the Dark Dimension who is half-energy being, so who knows how quickly a child of theirs would age. If we're going with the idea that these characters were erased from existence, "Strange's Son" is a workable idea.

Hero Name: Well Dr Strange is the guy's real name, so this kid would probably just be Timmy Strange. Or whatever first name you wanna give him. Not Adam Strange, though, that's owned by DC.

Score: 5/10. It's not bad, it's just not creative.

Comments: Yes. Punk Rock Thing? Absolutely Yes. Fantastic design, oozes personality, the background gives a clear idea of character to this kid. I love it.

Secret Origin: The aforementioned Yancy Street is Ben Grimm's home turf. In the past, he's done some work combating gangs and mentoring the kids there. So this is a kid who's grown up in a bad neighbourhood, but has had a big-name superhero who grew up in the area keeping an eye out for them and their friends. At some point, they got caught up in a Fantastic Four adventure, get hit by cosmic rays, and become a Thing, so Ben takes them under his wing. They become a protector of their neighbourhood.

Hero Name: Wild Thing. Punk Rock. Spike. Take your pick of stone-based puns.

Score: 10/10, no notes. It's a punk rock Thing with stalagmites for spikes, it's a perfect idea.

Comment: Maybe I just like the punk look, but this is fucking adorable. This is a tween kid, who upon developing weather powers has decided she wants to be like Storm, and specifically she wants to be like Storm in her punk phase. Good taste, kid.

Secret Origin: X-Men are really easy to justify giving teenage sidekicks to, because even when they don't have a school, they're usually inviting mutant kids to come live in their mutant communities to escape violence anyway. So, X-Men, Mutant, fan of Storm.

Hero Name: I've heard people use Maystorm for this kid, but I don't know of that's an official name or not. If it is, may I suggest a real name of April Showers for pun value.

Score: 9/10.

Comment: On first glance: generic. It's just a kid version of White Vision. Gotta love MCU synergy. And there's already a teenage Vision, his daughter Viv. But there's an extra layer to this that they could use. White Vision was a version of Vision that was rebuilt after being destroyed, without his memories or personality. With his flight and intangibility, the ghost symbolism is obvious. So, symbolically, what we have here is a robot ghost child.

Secret Origin: Like I said, Robot Ghost Child. I mean, if you want to break the rule on these being new characters, there's an obvious candidate: Vin Vision, Vision's dead son from The Visions. A ghost of his son, haunting his and his daughter's lives.

Hero Name: Probably something kinda poetic, like "The Spectre of Vision".

Score: 5/10 for basic concept, points docked for lack of creativity and an already existing teenage version of the character, 8/10 if they decide to make them a Robot Ghost Child.

Comments: Okay, first off: Blade already has a teen sidekick, his daughter Brielle aka Bloodline. And as a result of that, I almost dismissed the design as merely okay. Then I had to describe everything this guy is wearing, and I realized that this design fucks severely. Two belts? Three necklaces? A fishnet sleeve under a elbow brace? Dude's stepped right of Final Fantasy to kill vampires and get into a homoerotic rivalry.

Secret Origin: Well, he's here to kill vampires. He was probably traumatised by vampires at some point. He probably started out hunting vampires on his own, crossed paths with Blade, and Blade took him under his wing.

Hero Name: ...I'm trying to think of a name based on blood or a bladed weapon, but I got nothing.

Score: 8.5/10.

Comments: Adorable. Like, maybe too adorable. That's either a very young kid, or that species is naturally quite small. I do love that they went with something more non-human.

Secret Origin: Absolutely some alien kid who looks up to Star Lord.

Hero Name: Squid Lord.

Score: 8/10.

Comments: Could Nora Valkyrie and Pyrrha Nikos please come pick up their child? No, but seriously, this really works. Like, it's recognisably Magneto-inspired while having it's own colour palette and identity. She clearly has hard-light abilities rather than Magneto's magnetism, but the top left also seems to imply hacking as part of her powerset as well. Perhaps that's justified by the electro- part of electromagnetism? Y'know, interesting direction to take it.

Secret Origin: ...look, I don't want to call Magneto a slut, but this would not be the first time he had a child who just reappeared in his life. If she's like, fifteen, then she would have been conceived soon before he made his debut on the world stage. Given how she favours his aesthetic, she may have even been brought up knowing he was her father, unlike the rest of his children. Probably idolizes him to an extent.

Hero Name: I've seen a lot of people suggest Magenta. I feel that maybe that could be her real name, though? Her being named after his pseudonym would be interesting. As for the hero name, though? Well, Monica Rambeau isn't using Spectrum right now, and that's a term in both light and electromagentism...

Score: 8.5/10

Comments: Y'know, I'd once again point out that there is a teenage Venom around... but given that's the white symbol on his chest, I think that could be Dylan Brock. Anyway, adorably creepy, clearly a kid. The question is: Alien or Demon? Venom is an alien, but Inferno (2022) did put Venom into contact with demons. And they do kinda look Dracula-inspired...

Secret Origin: Maybe alien, maybe demon, either way looks to be a Venom fan. Honestly, probably some sort of baby that's imprinted on Venom and follows them around like a lost puppy. A very deadly lost puppy. With the fluffy ruff? Nobility of some kind, too. A alien/demon prince.

Hero Name: I kinda want to do something with "bite", but I also think they could just be "The Prince In Black" to match Eddie Brock's current "King In Black" title.

Score: 7/10. Point docked for there already being a teenage Venom, who even has own sidekick in Rascal.

Comments: The problem with trying to make a Wolverine sidekick is twofold: one, Wolverine already has plenty of sidekicks. Two, there's already plenty of Wolverines. This person is competing with Fang aka Daken aka Akihiro, Talon, Laura Kinney, Gabby Kinney, Bellona, and Jimmy Hudson. And that's just counting the ones that I know are alive. And even the concept of a "more feral Wolverine" isn't even unique or original. It's just another Wolverine.

Secret Origin: ...the one thing that I keep looking at is that foot. It doesn't really strike me as Wolverine-y. It feels more... Sabertooth. So fuck it, let's pull a Conner Kent: they're a person who was made from the DNA of both Logan and Sabertooth, to try and create the ultimate killer. Logan's taking them under his wing to try and make sure the kid grows up to be a better person than either of them, hoping that nurture beats out both the natures in them.

Hero Name: Well, "Feral" is already taken, so fucked if I know.

Score: 4/10. Unoriginal, and the position's already filled multiple times over from multiple different directions.

Comments: There's already a Kid Deadpool. Kidpool. He was a member of the Deadpool Corps. He died in Deadpool Kills Deadpool, the second sequel to Deadpool Kills The Marvel Universe Vol 1. This design is just Deadpool as a teenage boy, and that's not even a unique idea.

Secret Origin: Fuck it, clone. Can't be a biological son, both because that would undermine the previous storylines surrounding Deadpool's daughter, and if he was as much older than Ellie as he looks, he'd have been born before Deadpool got his powers. So clone.

Hero Name: Probably just Teen Deadpool or something. Teenpool.

Score: 4/10. I'd score him lower but Wade seems to like him.

Comments: Cyberpunk Rollerskating Teen Girl Ghost Rider. I fucking love it. Like, being a Ghost Rider makes anything fucking metal, but the contrast between "teen girl on rollerskates" and "flaming skull demon of vengeance" really adds to the cool factor. The digital design to the skull also adds a unique quality, and it's not unprecedented, Robbie Reyes' skull is also more artificial that his two predecessors. It's clearly a Ghost Rider without being a copy of prior designs. Absolutely perfect.

Secret Origin: Well, from what I know from Tumblr is that teen girls like the occult, so I can imagine this girl summoning her demon of vengeance herself. But fitting the cyberpunk angle, rather than bullies I think she was probably out to get some corporation that was running riot over her community. Ghost Rider likely then heard stories of a demon of vengeance wrecking havoc on evildoers in the area, and went to check it out, and that's when he met her.

Hero Name: Firewire, the Unholy Roller.

Score: 10/10. I've seen some argue that Robbie Reyes already fits the Teen Ghost Rider niche, but he's alway been more of a Young Adult, so no points docked.

Comments: Speaking of contrasts, one of the major points that basically every popular version of the Hulk does is contrast brains and brawn. Every human side of a Hulk is an intelligent person, to contrast the brawn of the Hulk form. Bruce is a genius scientist, Jennifer is fantastic lawyer, and Amadeus (the existing teenage Hulk!) is the seventh smartest person in the world. So making a Hulk that's a dumbass, as the image implies, removes a layer of complexity from the character. Aside from that: it's just a blonde Hulk.

Origin Story: The only interesting thing I can think of is making him a kid who drove onto a nuclear testing range, but unlike Rick Jones, he didn't have a friendly scientist to save him. Then he probably seeks out Hulk himself, to help control his powers.

Hero Name: I dunno, Bulk?

Score: 4/10. It's just... so unoriginal. So close to the original.

Comments: It's the Mark 1 Iron Man suit with wings. So it kinda looks like he's taking inspiration from Mach, the former villain turned hero who changes his codename every time he upgrades his suit. Despite there already being a teenager in an Iron Man suit, Riri Williams, this one actually does provide a contrast with her by using the clunkier, more primitive design of the Mark 1.

Secret Origin: As the original, there's been multiple versions of the Mark 1 armour over the years. Not a far reach to assume one was destroyed at some point, and it's remains went unrecovered until this kid found it, fixed it up, and decided to use it. Tony, having a history of bad things happening when he loses control over his tech, likely went out to confiscate it, saw the kid being a hero with it, and gave his approval.

Hero Name: Honestly, Mark-1 sounds like a hero name already.

Score: 7/10.

Comments: Well, it's just someone in Miles' suit, but with long dreadlocks. Not the most creative, to be completely honest, but it does an eye-catching distinction. However, I think this someone is supposed to be a girl, and that does imply something specific going on here...

Secret Origin: Miles Morales had a Clone Saga of his own a couple years back. So, in the tradition of Ultimate Universe Spider-Men: a girl clone of Miles. This time we can probably have discussions of gender dysphoria and explicit comparisons to being transgender as part of her story. Give everyone who wanted more out of Ultimate Jessica Drew exactly what they want.

Hero Name: There's already five people sharing the name Spider-Woman, one more won't hurt.

Score: 7.5/10, not the most creative, but extra points for the potential for social commentary.

Comments: Oooh, I like this. The hat, hood and facemask gives him a sort of Bedouin-inspired look that really works with Moon Knight's Egyptian origins. And I love the little throwing moons between his fingers, and the armoured gloves, clearly this kid is nearly as violent as Moon Knight usually is. This design overall works pretty well.

Secret Origin: It is my understanding of Khonshu that it would be totally in-character for him to resurrect a dying child to be a Fist of Khonshu, and then dump him on Moon Knight to take care of and train him. Which would lead to conflict between Moon Knight and Khonshu, and also inner conflict as Mark/Steven/Jake could see this as them training their eventual replacement, while also grappling with the morality of putting this life on a kid.

Hero Name: Well, unfortunately Moon Boy is taken. Moon Squire? The Lunar Page?

Score: 8/10.

Comments: The more I look at this the more I like it. It's not an incredibly striking design, it's quite subtle and simple, but it's well-put together and it does grow on you. I didn't even notice the horns the first few times I looked at her. It looks similar enough to Wanda's current outfit in the comics that it's easy to see them as team, without being a direct copy.

Secret Origin: Well, there's probably a demonic or eldritch component to it. Honestly, Wanda recently absorbed Chthon, maybe she accidentally a magic baby using part of a demon again. Give her a kid to raise who isn't off ruling the Kree-Skrull Empire or wherever Tommy is nowadays.

Hero Name: Stellar Witch?

Score: 8/10.

Comments: So, interesting contrast with the other Hulk on this list, the cover ultimately gives us less information about who she is, but given that I didn't like the last guy's information, that ultimately comes off as a bonus. Comparing her to the motorcycle, she appears to be the smallest Hulk we've ever seen, and I like the contrast of small size/physical powerhouse. The design is very civilian, but that does work for a Hulk

Secret Origin: In the spirit of She-Hulk, let's say she became a Hulk due to a medical emergency. Childhood cancer, experimental gamma-ray treatment gone wrong, activates a latent mutation, permanent Hulking like She-Hulk used to be. She met Jennifer Walters when her parents hired her sue the hospital. They won the case when Bruce testified that without a latent mutation in her DNA, the amount of Gamma rays she was subjected to would have killed her.

Hero Name: Hulk Girl. Hulk names usually aren't creative.

Score: 7.5/10. Not the most creative, but some effort put in.

Comments: Okay, giving Black Cat an apprentice does seem like a cool idea. I do like the jacket over the jumpsuit, and the inversion of Felicia's usual colours. Though I do question a thief dressed in bright white, it's probably not the most impractical thief outfit in this image.

Secret Origin: Well, given the shared hair colour, I'd suggest they're related. Cousins, maybe? I know Felicia apparently has a niece, maybe it's her nephew. At the very least, I think he sought her out to learn from the best, rather that her deciding to take someone under her wing while spotting them out thieving.

Hero Name: I'm sure there's a White Cat out there, so instead I'm going to suggest Calico.

Score: 7/10.

Comments: Now here's one that went in an interesting direction with the assignment. The suit is very Steve Rogers, but the wings harken towards Sam Wilson. Taking elements of both Captains America, and making something new out of them. The insect-like design of the wings make them distinct from Sam's. They almost look like they could belong to The Wasp. The hexagonal paneling and the way they glow makes it look like they're made with hard-light.

Secret Origin: Honestly, she looks like she could be the daughter of Janet Van Dyne and Steve Rogers, so why not just make her the alternate-universe daughter of Janet Van Dyne and Steve Rogers, stuck on Earth-616. She traveled to this universe, chasing a villain, but found herself unable to return home after the villain stole her travel device. The whole "all evidence of her existence being erased" thing would hit harder for her, as this would be the second time that people who are supposed to be her parents don't know who she is.

Hero Name: I'm torn between Glowbug, for the glowing wings; or Doodlebug, for Yankee Doodle.

Score: 8.5/10

Comments: Once again: there's already an existing teenage version of Captain Marvel. You may have heard of her. Aside from that, I do like how he takes elements from both Carol's Ms Marvel and Captain Marvel outfits, and I do have to give it props for being one of only two designs here where a male sidekick is taking inspiration from a female character. I do wonder why this teenager seems to be working with the US Air Force, though.

Secret Origin: Actually, that gives me an idea: this kid's parents work for the US Air Force. One night, he wanders out onto a restricted part of the base, and stumbles on an Air Force experiment that goes wrong and ends up empowering him. The Air Force goes "it's free supersoldier" and starts sending him on missions. Carol finds out, and after blowing up at the Air Force for deciding to employ a child soldier, takes the kid under her wing.

Hero Name: Well, Marvel Boy is taken, and so is Captain Marvel Jr. How about another one of Carol's aliases: Warbird.

Score: 7.5/10.

Comments: Oh this is fucking awesome. I've seen people say she looks like Jinx Arcane/LoL, and yeah I see that, but it still looks absolutely rad. Her mace has a very interesting design, and it's clear that she has lightning powers, which connect her to Thor, but the Ravens are usually symbolic of Odin. Almost as it trying to say she's connected to both. A lineage.

Secret Origin: In myth, Thor has three biological children. Magni and Modi, his two sons, have been explained in Marvel comics as existing in a prior version of the Aesir, from before a previous Ragnarök. But no such explanation exists for the lack of Thor's daughter, þrùdr, or Thrúd. With both visual references to Odin and Thor in her design, she clearly looks like she's supposed to be related to both, and this character being Thrud would do that. Thor's daughter, who's existence was erased from reality, but who's name is still uttered in the Poetic Edda. Hell of a concept.

Hero Name: Even if she's not Thor's daughter, I'd still vote to call her Thrud. Have his sidekick be mistaken in myth for his daughter.

Score: 10/10. Absolutely great. No notes. Surprised she doesn't exist already.

So in conclusion, a lot of great concepts mixed in with a few not-so-great ones. I don't think all of these should be introduced to the 616, but a couple of these would work as great additions. Personally, I'd predict the Thorsdottir has the best shot of actually coming into existence, purely for the fact that she'd work as MCU synergy, with MCU!Thor now being a dad. And I can't be mad at that, she's one of the best concepts here.

#marvel #marvel comics #new champions

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wickedsrest-rp · 9 months ago

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Name: Kyle Pryce Species: Werewolf Occupation: Line cook at Driftwood Diner Age: 22 Years Old Played By: Knifes Face Claim: D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai

"I AM THE NIGHT AND THE MOON."

Growing up in Kingfisher First Nation, Kyle fit in like a puzzle piece. He was surrounded by family, growing along with some of his cousins who lived literally next door. At school he did well and had friends. Community was a call–or sometimes a holler from the front yard–away. That feeling of belonging started to change when his parents divorced. Kyle was 10 when his dad moved to Toronto, and Kyle spent the school years with him, only flying home to his mom over the summers. Suddenly neither house truly felt like his house. His cousins were growing up without him, his things were split between homes, and he didn’t like this new school. When he was 12, that feeling got worse. His dad wanted to move back to the area where he’d grown up to be closer to family. That was a fine sentiment, but Kyle didn’t want to move to Maine. He didn’t know anyone in America. It didn’t help that his dad must have picked the strangest place he could find. Some town that was really committed to the bit of outweirding itself daily, called Wicked’s Rest.

As weird as it was, Kyle didn’t quite fit in here either. There never seemed to be a place for him to stand out in any meaningful way. In school, his grades were at (or slightly below, if we’re being honest,) the average. He didn’t really fit in with most of his peers, and his teachers insisted that if he were to only apply himself, he would really excel. Naturally, this fed perfectly into the average teenage rebellion. The black eyeliner, the stolen cigarettes smoked in bathroom stalls, the questionable taste in music–even his emo phase was perfectly predictable. Ever summer, his mom insisted she understood what he was going through. Kyle wanted some kind of change to just hit him and turn things around.

It hit him like a truck; both the change he so desired, and the werewolf that attacked him. He was barely out of highschool at the time, 19 and biking home to downtown from work on Worm Row. Kyle had figured it would be faster to take a shortcut through the woods than to bike all the way around. A little off-roading at dusk sounded fun, too. He rode through the Wormwoods as night fell around him, carving his path through the woods with nothing but his front headlight to guide him. He could see the lights of downtown through the trees, nearly out of the woods. He hadn’t expected anything else to be in the forest. When a dog, and a big one at that, sprung up behind him, Kyle figured he could outrun it. Two wheels beats four legs anyday. The dog gave chase, and it was wicked fast. Kyle peddled for his life, but hit a fallen limb and tumbled over the handlebars of his bike. The beast was on him in an instant. He must have looked like an easy meal, but he fought off his would-be killer with every ounce of teen rage he had in him. Turns out, he had a lot of pent up angst. For the first month after the bite, the biggest threat on Kyle’s mind was rabies and the vaccinations he would have to get to prevent rabies. The first full moon gave him much more to worry about. He woke in the morning and found himself in the woods, covered in blood. He would have panicked at that, if not for the half eaten deer beside him. With all the destruction left in his wake, Kyle felt…right for once. For once in his life, he felt powerful. He was a wolf now. He had a wolf mind and body and soul. On all levels, including physical, he was a wolf. He squashed down any guilt he had about the collateral damage, and let that feeling of power fuel him. For a time, it was all he had.

Kyle’s whole demeanor began to shift. For years, all he wanted was someone, anyone, to be proud of him; he wanted approval. He wasn’t going to be anyone’s doormat anymore. He wasn’t going to be a disappointment anymore. Kyle’s few friends were quick to notice the shift in confidence and embraced it wholeheartedly. They call him “Darkhowl,” though they don’t know how accurate that is. The group went from kind of quiet loners to real assholes. If people were going to be disappointed in Kyle, he was going to give them a damn good reason. He dove headfirst into being a badass wolf and no one is going to take away his power.

Truthfully, he hasn’t changed much since then. He’s learning more and more about the supernatural side of Wicked’s Rest, and isolating himself farther and farther from who he used to be. He has fewer friends now, but that’s okay because a real wolf doesn’t need a pack to be strong.

Character Facts:

Personality: Sympathetic, resilient, adventurous, moody, stubborn, impulsive

Kyle is still an edgy emo kid, he’s just an edgy emo twenty-something now. He wants to fit in, but in like a “you don’t understand me, mom” kind of way.

He’s picked up howling. Just at random. It’s kind of a problem.

He has several (questionable) werewolf related tattoos; just really putting it all out there. The most notable of which is “I AM THE NIGHT AND THE MOON” across his chest.

He and his dad live together in an apartment above a shop downtown.

#bio #retired

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carbonh1ck4 · 1 month ago

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Divergent is the worst book I have ever read, and I couldn't get past the second book

The factions are dumb as shit and I haven't a clue how those were made. "Ok, you're 16 now, time to leave your family and choose between smart, brave, self-hate, honesty, or happy and kind farmer!"

Like, what? Oh, looking in a mirror, wearing bright clothes, doing things you enjoy, having birthdays, all prohibited because it could make you actually like being alive? Crazy shit, how does that even get incorporated into a government? Bullshit, selfless faction is definitely the dumbest.

Honesty makes sense to an extent, I guess? Not really the strongest personality trait, like, what? Ok I guess? You don't lie, good job, good work.

Happy and kind farmer, you get to just be happy! And kind! And you get to farm! This is all fine and dandy, farming is important! But, does being kind have anything to do with this? To an extent maybe?

Brave. Just, jump off trains with blind faith that no one is lying to you about the net. Go to war. What do they even fight? Like, why is the city so cut off from the world? What is with the rest of the world? Maybe they answer that in later books, but ehhhh. We're coming back to this one.

Smart. Yeah, advancing technology is important, but it's so... Broad? Like, smart, learning, knowledge. Do they have it split up more? Tris' brother went here, what was he learning? Idk, also seems sorta reductive, is this just like choosing to go to college in a way? I guess.

Back to the Dauntless faction, it's so weird? Let me backtrack.

Tris chooses to go to the edgy ballsy faction at 16,has no family, friends, or self respect (she comes from the self hate faction), and also not really a personality (for easy marketing and projection!) She meets a guy only two years older than her, but he also is highly regarded in the new society she lives in for being having four fears, and being called Four. He's her teacher and really buddy buddy with the faction leader. No, definitely no power imbalance.

Also, I didn't like reading about her anxiety and fear about being intimate with him. It just, didn't sit right? Especially since I read this in 6th grade and with the definitely their power imbalance, even if it wasn't used against her directly, still there. Gross.

AND it was one of her six fears, which a bunch of grown adults were giggling about. Wow, 16 year old scared of intimacy. Haha, funny Tee hee. Gross-er. Somehow, even more icky.

Also, dauntless is just so.... What are they protecting the people from? Do they state that out later? And, if they're protecting the people, shouldn't they be outside the city with the farmers? Wouldn't they intermingle more? The farmers would be in the most danger and are pretty god damn important, and would probably make the dauntless seem less... Child torture-y? "This teenager is disobedient! Start throwing the knives!" This also makes no sense. Like, yeah, ok, throwing weapons at the children will make them stop flinching away from weapons being thrown at them because they want the weapons to stop being thrown at them. Wtf.

I liked the farmers. They made sense and weren't gross at all. Just, yeah, kindness and farming! Yippee!

Also, they just ship 16 year olds off to different factions to potentially never see their family or anyone they know again? Like, why? Doesn't make sense.

I don't understand how a government like this could even be formed. It blatantly would never work long term, and I sorta wanna know more about the world outside of the city and about how this society and government formed, because it makes zero sense. It doesn't seem like there's some sorta threat or societal collapse that led to them completely reshaping society?

Anyway, piss poor book series, piss poor romance, piss poor world building. 0/10, hate that shit, gross

#divergent factions hate #divergent

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roadhogsbigbelly · 2 years ago

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i remember in the mid 2010′s there was a pretty huge popularity of “stop shitting on media made for teenage girls” activism, because in the early 2010′s it was extremely popular to make fun of Justin Beiber, or twilight, or boybands or any piece of media made towards teenage girls, and media made for teen girls were put on a much higher sense of scrutiny than media made for teenage boys. and it WAS good that people were pointing the misogny of lot of the hate. The unfortunate result is that people started ignoring the mass “problematic” elements of some of these pieces of media. Most famously, the amount of racism and grooming in twilight (like how jacob fell in love with an actual baby) or the amount of actual misogyny in music made towards teenage girls BUT it also resulted in the weird dismissal of any criticism of media for teenage girls with “you’re really taking songs/movies/shows for 14 year olds girls seriously” which was not only anti-intellectual but also still like insulting media for teenage girls. as if it’s impossible for media for teenage girls to actually be good. and I’m seeing this again with media for children, because in general, I do think there was a problem with adults being weirdly hateful about media made for children. i remember a lot of grown-ass adults getting really pissed that children liked fornite for rather petty reasons, or adults claiming that kids who weren’t born in the 90′s “didn’t have a childhood” and that “all cartoons made today suck” when they haven’t actually watched it. But in turn I’ve seen a lot of weirdly dismissive comments about anyone who takes media made for children remotely seriously? because “x media didn’t get worse you’re just not 10 anymore″ is JUST as lazy of an analysis as “all cartoons made today suck, while all the cartoons i grew up with were great” because rather than analyzing cartoons on a base by base basis it’s dismissing any criticism becauses ALL cartoons are the same level of quality. which isn’t actually a defense of modern kids media. and similiar to the twilight example, it’s let to the weird belief that it’s impossible for media made for children to carry harmful messaging or content. there’s a shit ton of tumblr posts where the punchline is “this person thinks steven universe (a show for CHILDREN!!!!) is irreeadamble media” and while i wouldn’t say steven universe is anywhere close to being that bad, it still contains rather racist and weirdly sexually content, in particulally the human zoo,. concrete (a design in the art book that resembled racist caricatures, that somehow ended up there) and steg who for a character meant to fusion of a father and son was weirdly fucking sexualized for no reason. and in general, there’s this weird dismissal that kids' media can actually BE good, so it’s pointless to criticize, which again isn’t really a defense of kids media but rather a dismissal that they’re culturally important enough to be worth looking into as if disney one of the richest companies in the planet.

#essay #media criticism

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gaymer-hag-stan · 1 year ago

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Inspired by fistsofcarnage's post found here:

I decided to share my own opinion on the Tekken 8 base roster while we wait for its release!

A more detailed ranking:

Favourites

1. Nina Williams - My Queen since c. 2005

2. Jun Kazama - I really really missed her

3. Lili - Crazy rich girl? Love it

4. Zafina - Weird spider / scarecrow / praying mantis Egyptian lady? Of course I love her

5. Azucena Milagros Ortiz Castillo - La Reina del cafe is looking GREAT

6. Jin Kazama - Him and Hwoarang have been my main "men allowed on the upper tiers" for a while now

7. Ling Xiaoyu - My love for Xiao is a relatively more recent development but she's a queen alright

8. Hwoarang - Angery kick boi. You love to see it

Love (?) Is a strong word to describe my feelings for the following but I like them alright and maybe even played as them in past Tekken games

9. King - I mean it's king

10. Shaheen - A huge downgrade over his Tekken 7 design, still cool

11. Asuka Kazama - Asuka had tons of potential for me but her one-sided rivalry with Lili and them being positioned as the main female rivalry of the series for a while now (I wonder if it has anything to do with them being teenagers~) has kinda damaged her characterisation a bit for me. She's kinda there for Lili to have something to play with nowadays rather than being her own character. I still like her but nowhere near the amount I liked her in her Tekken 5 era.

12. Steve Fox - Steve is cool. He's okay.

13. Lee Chaolan - This is such a weird redesign... Lee is so extra and fun but I can't stand the new look.

14. Yoshimitsu - Yoshimitsu is Yoshimitsu

15. Reina - Kinda basic but cute

16. Leo Kliesen - Kinda basic but cute

17. Lars - Kinda basic

Neutral / Dislike - My phone and also Tumblr only had an orange-y yellow marker so I merged these two together

18. Victor Chevalier - French James Bond Ninja Noctis Samurai looks kinda cool

19. Raven - I liked Master Raven more

20. Claudio Serafino - I liked him back when he was revealed but he ultimately became too forgettable for me

21. Devil Jin - Edgier Jin. Whatevs

22. Alisa Bosconovitch - Sex slave robot modelled after an old man's dead teenage daughter that a middle-aged man has the hots for will never not be creepy

23. Leroy Smith - Meh

24. Kuma - Even bigger meh, and I'm also still mad that both him and the other fucking bear keep taking up TWO slots but Christie being playable alongside Eddy in Tekken 7 was such a ludicrous idea for Namco

25. Marshall Law - I liked his Tekken 4 / 5 moustached look more. Him gulping all the fucking steroids in the world between Tekken 7 and 8 was not a wise choice

Hate

26. Panda - Read Kuma's entry. She's lower than him because she looks weirder now and I think both look weird when they put clothes on them but she looks weirder this time

27. Kazuya Mishima - Too boring

28. Bryan Fury - Too ugly, boring and loud

29. Paul Phoenix - Too ugly and boring, and also he looks his worst in this redesign

30. Sergei Dragunov - Too boring and ugly but at least he's fun to play with

31. Feng Wei - Too ugly and loud

32. Jack-8 - It's a JACK unit... All these redesigns and upgraded models and Jane still hasn't figured out how to not make him look fucking ridiculous

I'm still missing Anna Williams, Christie Montero and (mum) Kunimitsu. I hope Anna at least fucking makes it as Christie is probably gonna be left out in favour of Eddy again and since they introduced a younger, cutesier and more boring version of Kunimitsu in the form of her daughter I don't think we're ever seeing her again.

I wouldn't mind seeing Katarina return either, Miguel's chest is always nice to look at and I'm DEFINITELY on the Lucky Chloe did nothing wrong camp! I also think that over the years I've grown more fond of Forest than Marshall but unless his dad's liver stops working from all the extra steroids he took I don't see him making it back until the next Tag Tournament

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bohemian-nights · 1 year ago

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People really have the ages in HOTD messed up and this is shown the most when discussing the eye situation. Between episodes 5-6 ten years have passed. This would make Aegon 15, Helaena 13, Aemond 10, Jace 9, Baela 9, Luke 8 and Rhaena 8. Between episodes 7-8 six years have passed. This would make Aegon 21, Helaena 19, Aemond 16, Jace 15, Baela 15, Luke 14, and Rhaena 14.

Yeah people really act like Aemond is this fully grown man going after an innocent little kid

Which in retrospect hiring teenagers and putting them next to Ewan Mitchell who looks every bit the fully grown man that he is to play a 16-year-old messes up people’s perception of the character, but then you have to factor in Alysmond so they couldn't get an actual teenager to play him without it looking weird.

They are all around the same age. I don’t know if the showrunners did it on purpose, but Aemond is even younger than his book counterpart. It was kid on kid violence and he was the injured party.

#bnasks #bnask #hotd fandom bs

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dailyaudiobiblechronological · 2 years ago

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1/26/2023 DAB Chronological Transcription

Genesis 41 - 42

Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible Chronological, I'm China. Today is the 26th day of January, welcome. It is so great to be here with you today. I hope that you are having a great week, a great day, and if not, may the peace of the Lord rest upon you today. We are continuing on in the Book of Genesis, with chapters 41 to 42, continuing on with the Common English Bible for this week.

Commentary

Wow what a story. I love reading this story. It also makes my heart sad. But I love reading this story because we see that there is the underdog and he's going to be okay. And so Joseph, or sorry, Pharaoh, has this dream and he's kind of talking about it. There must be a lot of commotion. Have you ever had a dream where you wake up and you're like, I gotta, I got to tell somebody about this is a dream was weird. Man, that dream was weird. Or if you have almost like a nightmare and you're like, I really got to process this out so that it can leave my head. It must have been really burning in Pharaoh because he's really trying to get a response and I don't know if they are just kind of like scratching their heads and saying we don't know, or if they're trying to give him interpretations. And he's like, that doesn't feel like it's true. And so then Pharaoh's cup barer is like, oh yeah, there was this guy down in the dungeon, he interpreted my dream and also this other guy's dream and they both happened. Forgot about him, was supposed to remember him, didn't won't you ask him. And so I love that Joseph, he's being told, or sorry, he's being asked to interpret the dream. And Pharaoh says, I've I've heard that you can give interpretations. And Joseph responds, actually, it's the Lord who gives the interpretation. It's the Lord, it's not me. And so Joseph says, actually what you have is just one complete dream. You just woke up in the middle of it. But it was one dream, one meeting. Here's what it is. And so Joseph starts, he gets put in this place of power, of leadership, because he has really proven to be a great man of character as we have read throughout his life over the past couple of days, but over his life. And so now he's 30 years old. 30 years old. That is crazy. He's a teenager when he is I mean, I'm assuming that he's like a young boy. So probably teenager years that he's sold into slavery. But I could be wrong on that. Maybe it was early 20s, I'm not sure. But so he is now in this place of of power because he heard correctly and he was a good steward of what the Lord gave him. And Joseph's brothers arrive in Egypt. Jacobs is like, what are you doing looking at each other? Go, go get some grain. Like, of course this is the right answer, go. And Joseph recognizes his brothers, and obviously everybody has aged. My best guess is that my best guess is it's been at least 16 years since he's seen them, maybe more. But the seven years of plentiful and now the seven years of famine well, I'm not sure what year of famine. I don't know if it's the first year or how many years, so I guess I don't know how long that you've seen them, but it's been a long time. And everybody's aged, everybody's grown up, but he remembers them. He sees them, which I'm I'm sure if you see ten men together, you're going to maybe be like, oh, I had 10 brothers. Oh, wait, you guys kind of look like those brothers. I don't know. Or maybe he just immediately recognized them, but anyways, he has a stark tone with them, and he kind of makes this deal with them. And you also have to remember that Benjamin is Joseph's full brother, and I don't know that he's seen him. And so I don't know what the significance is that he's like, I want to see Benjamin, but he's kind of holding them in captivity, and then he's being a little gracious, and then he's like, I'll hold one of you, and then the rest of you go back. And Jacob is, like, in distress. This guy is like, I can't catch a break. Like, what is happening? What is my life right now? Today's story is a good reminder for Joseph, because yesterday we talked about being alone in the dungeon and feeling forgotten, feeling, Man, I'm really counting on this to get me out of here. Don't forget me, remember me. And then it not happening for another two or three years before he's out. That's a long time. Two or three years is a long time of being in a dungeon with no progress being made. But rest assured, he's out. He's now in a completely, like, 180 degree turn of just very opposite, very different lifestyle, very different way of life. And so really forget not that God is a God of redemption. That when we are people who follow the Lord and steward what he has given us, and we wait upon Him, that all things work out for the good, for those who love Him and who serve Him. And I know we're not in Romans right now, but that is the truth. That truth follows us all the way from the beginning of Genesis one one to all the way down to when we read about it in Romans and then pass that as well. But we've seen that that is echoed and true here, even in today's story.

Prayer

So, Lord, I thank you for your word. I thank you that you are a God who cares for his people and that the truth is that nobody is forgotten, nobody is abandoned by you. No one's out of your reach or out of your sight. And I thank you that you see us, you know us, you care for us, you love us and you have us in Your hand. I pray that we would be a people who grasp that even in those times where we're not hearing anything or we're not sensing anything or we're maybe feeling restless or confused, God, I thank you that Your truth would sustain us. Thank you that we can remember that you're sovereign, we can remember Your words even when we are not able to really grasp what's going on. I thank you that Your peace surpasses all understanding and that it sustains us. And thank God, I just thank you for who you are and it is in Your name we pray, amen.

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Hi, this is Chassis from Kansas. I wanted to call with a heavy heart to ask for prayers for a very close family friend of mine that I have known since I was probably two or three years old. She unexpectedly lost her husband in an accident on Wednesday, January 18. He was only 24 years old and he was in a semi tractor trailer accident that took his life. They do have two little boys sorry at home and they need their prayers right now and all this community is an amazing team of prayer warriors. She just lost her mom almost a year and a half ago so this is still pretty fresh to her. And losing her mom and now losing her husband has shaken all of us, her family very much and we're just giving prayers and I know you guys are amazing prayer warriors in this community and also to anybody who's new. I just want to encourage you to stay with it, stay with this community because this community is so uplifting and so Godly and everybody truly does care about each other. Even if someone doesn't necessarily call in and pray for your prayer request on here. Know that people in this community all over the world are praying for you. This community is what helped me get through one of the hardest years of my life last year and I'm so thankful to God for each and every one of you. I love you all and God bless all of you.

Hello DABCers, my name is Neil. I live in the beautiful mountains of North Georgia. I am currently standing in the gap and prayed for my wife's salvation, for the salvation of my kids, and for the restoration of my marriage and my family. At the tender age of 13, my wife was the victim of a forced encounter at the hands of a cousin. When she told her father, he called her a whore and basically said it was her fault. When my wife was 18, she married what turned out to be an abusive alcoholic. She's had a very hard life. Most of her life. We've been together for eleven plus years. She had an okay relationship with her father, but never as close as a father daughter should be. In April of 2020, he passed away, which seems to have flipped a switch in my wife. Within a few months, she had left the marriage, left the family, and is living on the other side of the mountain, living a very sinful life. I am standing in the Gap to pray for her. If I don't stand to pray for her, who will? If I don't stand, pray in battle and fight for my family, my kids, my marriage, who will? So I covet and ask for the prayers of others to join me as I pray for my wife's salvation of my kids, and for my marriage and my family to be restored. I thank you all.

Hi, everyone. It's Christy in Kentucky. I pray that each of you are having a beautiful day today. Father, thank you for this day. Father, we are lifting up these your children to you Father, in prayer, and we thank you in advance for hearing and answering our prayers. Lord. Father, today we pray for Preston, whose dad, J has been diagnosed with cancer in his abdomen, in his liver and in these bones. Father, you are our God of miracles. And Lord, we are praying for a miracle for Jay, be with him, Father, as he goes through these surgeries, Father, and these treatments, and bless Preston and his family with peace. Lord, we also pray for Katie in Ontario, where she told us that a 15 year old boy was hit and killed by a car that was driven by another 15 year old boy. Lord Jesus. So many children. Father. Lord, we are asking you be with these families, Father, and comfort them in the way that only you can do. Lord, we also pray as Delena has put out a prayer for the three young women who were riding in a car. Lacey, the driver, has gone home to be with Jesus and her two other sisters sustained injuries. One is still in serious condition. Her name is Lila and the other one has come home and with minor injuries. Lord, these children, father, these families, father, lord, please, please, Lord, be with them. And we know that you are just pray that your presence will be known, Father, that you comfort them, lord, their children, lord, they're just children, lord, be with them. Walk with them as they walk through this time. We love you, Jesus. We love you so much. Thank you. Thank you for hearing and answering these prayers. Come in.

Dear DAB community. This is Mark from England. I want to bring your attention and ask for prayer for a dear friend, Miriam. She's the wife of a Christian minister and had just taken early retirement, and unfortunately, she's been diagnosed with an aggressive form of pancreatic cancer. So we want to lift Miriam up before the Lord and ask for prayers and ask him to intervene and provide a miracle for Miriam. We look at this time at Philippians four, verses six and seven, where it says, be careful for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving. Let your request been made known unto God. And the peace of God which passeth all understanding shall keep your hearts and mind through Jesus Christ. So we say, Dear Lord and Savior, we bow as humble servants of the Lord, and we ask for prayer and supplication for Miriam. We ask that you heal her body. We ask for a miracle because doctors have given her very little time. So, Lord, we know that her and her husband have been servants of the Lord through the work that they've done for over close on 35 years. So, Lord, be with them. Be with them, whatever the outcome. Lord, this is our prayer. In the holy name, we ask that you deliver them, Lord amen.

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its-elvie-innit · 8 months ago

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I actually told this to my 16 now 17 year old coworker when the topic came up recently, but as someone who is just out of high school high school IS genuinely one of the most interesting settings for Doing Things you can possibly interact with. I think that's why so many stories are set there.

Don't get me wrong, high-school is NOT the most interesting thing you will ever do. But it is a pre-built similar universe that almost EVERYONE in American, Canadian, and (the equivalents in English speaking countries ) European world has gone through.

Everyone reasonably knows each other, it's an isolated community that interacts with other isolated communities (other high schools) that hosts community events regularly (things that could be classified as clubs, competitions, pep rallies and concerts. Even events that involve the larger, more general community like elections being hosted during the day)

Everyone's experiencing a lot of things for the first time. Everyone's growing and changing with their interests at a rate that is much easier to track than in real, grown-up life. Everyone has free time. Most of the people who go to school live right next to the school or within 10 minutes of it when you're in a populated area. That means the people who go to school have easy access to each other unless you're out-of-district. There's a TON of different pre-built meetings, events, conflicts, that you have basically written for you already in your head, because a lot of people have probably done those things already!!!

Speaking of quote un quote "pre-built", you have so much of the story written for you that you can mix and match. A built-in ending for a relationship, hopeful, ambiguous, sad, happy? That's graduation. A climax of events? Prom. What if you have a platonic story, well, let's think of haikyuu here, volleyball game at the end of the season. This can be applicable for SO many stories and all of them are very clear cut in how you write them, which not only allows for an easy plot but also plenty of subversion. People go through a lot in high school. It's kind of a thing.

If you're going for the stereotype, too, you get the added bonus of appealing to a YA audience by giving them cliques. In a huge amount of YA fiction, you have a bunch of little clubs the reader can put themselves in. Harry Potter has the houses, Divergent had..whatever they were doing, the Hunger Games had the districts, Warrior Cats had the clans, Percy Jackson had the godly parents. If there's one thing people love, it's self-identifying as a unique little group, ESPECIALLY teenagers who are looking for a sense of identity.

You also, like, can't get out of school. Even people who skip still go sometimes. If they don't, that's another plot line, isn't it? This forced attendance is literally the EASIEST WAY to make conflict happen. In the real world you would have to have someone, I don't know, bump into an ex or a love interest in a grocery store, multiple times, or into a potential friend or enemy in a way that would allow them into the main plot line which is really hard to do because real people don't normally invite strangers into their book club on an everyday basis. In high school, the ex is in your math class. The book club was posted on a cork board in lunch. The love interest is your lab partner. Almost all popular tropes are insular. Coffee shop au, flower and tattoo, even university aus, which almost ALWAYS involve at least one character in the dorms. That's for a reason.

On an off note, being teenagers allows your mcs to be stupid in a way that wouldn't be acceptable for an adult who has to work and pay taxes. People want their characters to be stupid sometimes. It makes it way easier to make the obvious stuff happen.

It might feel weird to be left out of so much media as someone who's grown out of the stage where you think being a highschooler is cool and interesting, but that's okay. All you have to do is remember that you don't have to do calculus anymore, and they do.

Part of getting older is realizing how absolutely insane it is that basically every form of media is constantly trying to convince us that the most interesting moments of the lived human experience are happening in HIGH SCHOOL…… girl who gives a flying fuck what 16 year olds are doing.

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