#mantis/margot

[nextlevel-hq]

MASTERLIST

DC

Amanda Waller (57) - Viola Davis

Artemis Crock (28) - Jolie Nguyen

Barbara Gordon (29) - Kennedy McMann

Bernard Dowd (20) - Nicholas Galitzine

Buddy Baker (27) - Paul Mescal

Cassandra Cain (26) - Lana Condor

Clark Kent (37) - Henry Cavill

Damian Wayne (19) - Anthony Keyvan

Dick Grayson (29) - Balint Jasko

Ed Nygma (34) - Ben Whishaw

Harleen Quinzel (31) - Samara Weaving

Jason Todd (26) - Kyle Allen

Jonathan Crane (35) - Cillian Murphy

Koriand'r (29) - Kiki Layne

Lex Luthor (36) - Keahu Kahuanui

Lois Lane (36) - Odette Annable

Michael Carter (32) - Boyd Holbrook

Minhkhoa Khan (45) - Desmond Tan

Pamela Isley (33) - Cintia Dicker

Roy Harper (30) - Cameron Monaghan

Selina Kyle (31) - Ana de Armas

Stephanie Brown (20) - Kathryn Newton

Ted Kord (33) - Joseph Gordon Levitt

Tim Drake (33) - Tba

Zatanna Zatara (33) - Aslihan Malbora

MARVEL

Billy Kaplan (20) - Timothee Chalamet

Bruce Banner (32) - Hugh Dancy

Bucky Barnes (30) - Richard Rankin

Clint Barton (31) - Jake McDorman

Elektra Natchios (33) - Tashi Rodriguez

Felicia Hardy (30) - Imaan Hammam

Gabriel Summers (26) - Michael Yerger

Gwen Stacy (29) - Hanna Edwinson

Jean Grey (31) - Alina Kovalenko

Jemma Simmons (28) - Elizabeth Henstridge

Johnny Storm (28) - Taylor Zakhar Perez

Karolina Dean (24) - Ginny Gardner

Kate Bishop (23) - Momo Hirai

Laura Kinney (24) - Lizeth Selene

Leo Fitz (33) - Iain de Caestecker

Logan Howlett (45) - Hugh Jackman

Loki Laufeybur (38) - Erika Linder

Mantis (35) - Ninh Duong Lan Ngoc

Mary Jane Watson (29) - Marina Ruy Barbosa

Matt Murdock (32) - Charlie Cox

Nadia Van Dyne (20) - Mia Alves

Natasha Romanoff (36) - Irina Shayk

Ororo Munroe (38) - Anok Yai

Peter Parker (25) - Charlie Rowe

RJ Boyle (18) - Tanner Buchanan

Scott Summers (31) - Jamie Dornan

Sharon Carter (35) - Margot Robbie

Stephen Strange (46) - Dev Patel

Steve Rogers (40) - Chris Evans 

Wade Wilson (32) - Ryan Reynolds

Wanda Maximoff (35) - Gratiela Brancusi

Warren Worthington III (31) - Lucas Till

[skylarstark4826]

I loved this beautiful Fanart of the Dratis ship of The Guardians of the Galaxy of the characters of Drax The Destroyer and Mantis together especially because I really love that despite the fact that both were captured by the TVA (as in the Loki series) I am really happy that Drax and Mantis are together and that they are not alone there but above all because I realized that they were making a reference to the Barbie Live Action movie starring Robbie Margot but above all I wanted to show them Mantis and Drax Together and above all because I imagine that in the next movies and series of The Guardians of the Galaxy they cross with the TVA that ends up capturing Mantis and Drax and above all because it makes me imagine that something similar would happen with the characters of Sylvie and Loki but also something different with Drax and Mantis together... I don't know about you but I really want to see them together again in the next series and movies of the UCM and that then we can see them again... sincerely

By the way, these beautiful Fanarts of them are not mine and the credits are not for me, but I will let you know that right here I am going to leave you the link of the real creator on DeviantArt.

[kooperthefox]

Sanya the cockroach, Tanya the moth, Stas the dung beetle, Anatoly the worm, Eugene the spider, Max the mantis, Margot the centipede

[msb-lair]

Clutch #3324 - Porphyra/Laminaria

Mated On: 2023-08-27 # of eggs: 3 Hatched On: 2023-09-01

Progeny:

Hatchling 8837 (Elhaearn) - Undertide Male, Fern Tide/Radioactive Foam/Jade Remora, Uncommon - 15,000 on 2023-09-21

Hatchling 8838 (Gaeruil) - Undertide Male, Honeydew Poison/Mantis Toxin/Fern Remora, Common - 15,000 on 2023-11-16

Hatchling 8839 (Margot) - Undertide Female, Leaf Tide/Green Foam/Forest Remora, Unusual - 15 gems on 2023-09-21

Comments: 

[wearelondonhq]

(ray) welcome to london, HOB GADLING! did anyone ever tell you that you look just like LUKE EVANS? well, no matter, we hear that you are 44 and working as a HISTORY TEACHER. we also hear that you currently HAVE your memories from THE SANDMAN and have a tendency to be AMBITIOUS as well as RECKLESS. 

(ray) welcome to london, MARGOT MILLS! did anyone ever tell you that you look just like ANYA TAYLOR JOY? well, no matter, we hear that you are 27 and working as a SECRETARY. we also hear that you currently HAVE your memories from THE MENU and have a tendency to be CAUTIOUS as well as ARGUMENTATIVE. 

please can i also reserve mantis ( marvel ) pls & thank !!

— WELCOME TO LONDON, hob gadling & margot mills! you look very familiar, do we know you from somewhere? anyways, take your time settling in because whether you want to or not, it looks like you’re going to be living here for awhile! // welcome ray, please be sure to follow our checklist here. welcome to the group! mantis (mcu) is now on reserve!

[aaaa-mpersand]

OCtober Day 3 Prompt: Youth

Thank you @oc-growth-and-development for this prompt! This is a small warm up scene of fluff. Kaspar is my character, Margot/Mantis is @statistical-improbabilities‘s character.  Kaspar and Mantis are childhood friends who grow apart in their teen years but reunite in their 20s/college. Not a romance, just wholesome brotp.   A giddy laugh escaped from his throat as he pelted across the scrapyard, weaving through old tires and piles of discarded furniture and appliances. Black dust coated his shoes, most of his shins, and made dark handprints on his shorts, but he barely gave it a thought. Heroes, of course, didn’t check to make sure their clothes weren’t dirty, neither did the daring spies or dashing vigilantes as they cleared gaps between buildings and pulled off impossible stunts. With a whoop and a bounding leap, he cleared a jagged, rusted metal part that would’ve torn open an infected wound in his leg, had he misjudged it, but with the sun on his warm brown skin and several acres of black dust and rusted metal, the world felt boundless.

It was only as an afterthought that he stopped to glance behind him, shifting his weight restlessly between his feet as he did. Small patches of grass poked out between rotting wooden tables and long torn-apart appliances, most of it brown and barely clinging to life, though there was the occasional flower here and there. He peered through the mounds of debris and garbage, looking for the familiar face he’d left in his dust only a few seconds ago. Or was it minutes. His patience ran out like water out of an open pipe, and he cupped his hands around his mouth. “Margot!” 

“I’m right here!” was the indignant reply, as a girl his age pulled her way through the wreckage that was a dismantled maglev frame. Her clothes were in a slightly better shape than Kaspar’s, which honestly didn’t mean much, seeing as he was just about covered in dust at this point. She was panting slightly as she approached him, using her fingers to comb her brown hair back out of her face. 

Kaspar bounced on his heels. “Come on, you’re taking forever.”

“I wouldn’t be if you waited for 10 seconds!” she said, but Kaspar was already off, this time crawling up a large mound of debris and muck. She made an indignant noise behind him, which made him stop, turn back, and hold out a hand to her. She took it without hesitation, and clambered up the hill behind him, trying to step carefully as the debris fell and shifted under their weight. 

When they got to the top, Kaspar promptly sat and slid his way down, scratching up his legs and pants and hands as he went. Though they stung, he simply rubbed his hands together and waited for Mantis to run-jump down the mound instead. The moment she got down, Kaspar took her hand again and led her towards the very corner of the scrapyard, where a miniature maglev vehicle was standing innocently.

“Look,” Kaspar said. He let go of Margot’s hand to make a wild gesture in the direction of it, as if showing off a masterpiece. “Most of it’s still there, and it’s just big enough for both of us.” 

By most, he meant most of the outside. The frame and doors were still intact, but if he’d known what to look for in the front, he would’ve noticed quite a few parts of the engine were missing. Still, Mantis looked just as mesmerized as he did, and came over to inspect it for herself. The seats in the back had been torn out, but the front ones remained, flea bitten as they were. Tires were missing, but the jack to put them back on was still there. She ran her hands over the scratched paint, pulling back to find them covered in a sheen on black dust. 

“How far do you think it can go?” she asked. “I dunno. Forever, probably, if we had enough petrol,” Kaspar said. He opened the door to the driver’s seat. 

“I want to drive,” Margot said, trying the door to the shotgun seat. She had to test the handle a few times before it finally opened. Peering in, she sneezed at the amount of dust covering the seats and the dashboard.

“I’ll let you go after me,” Kaspar said, hopping into the seat and fiddling with the assortment of buttons and pedals there. “We could go all the way to the national park they talked about in school. They have lakes and beaches, we could bring a dog–”

“We already have a dog. And he’s better than a real one, cause he doesn’t shit,” the last word felt foreign on her eight year old tongue. She jumped into her seat and glanced at Kaspar.

“I love Chicken Sandwich too,” he said, pushing the turn signal handle up and down to hear it click, “But… we could get a real dog, too, you know? One that can run with us, go swimming.”

“You can swim,” Margot replied, “I wanna go to the city. I heard they’ve got a museum there dedicated to all this old tech—it’s just sitting there! Don’t you want to mess with it?”

There was a moment of silence as Kaspar considered it. 

“We could go to both,” Kaspar offered. 

Margot nodded, leaning back into her seat. “Both is good.”

[statistical-improbabilities]

(And so it goes, and so it goes, and you’re the only one who knows.)

[gingeraleluke]

OKAY I KINDA WANT TO DO SHIPS SOO

𝙎𝙀𝙉𝘿 𝙈𝙀 𝘼 𝙌𝙐𝙄𝘾𝙆 𝘿𝙀𝙎𝘾𝙍𝙄𝙋𝙏𝙄𝙊𝙉 𝙊𝙁 𝙔𝙊𝙐𝙍𝙎𝙀𝙇𝙁 𝙁𝙊𝙍 𝘼 𝙎𝙃𝙄𝙋 + 𝙃𝙀𝘼𝘿𝘾𝘼𝙉𝙉𝙊𝙉 (CLOSED RN)

FANDOMS:

AVENGERS (tony, peter quill, peter parker, thor, black widow, wanda, vision, antman, bruce, carol, killmonger, black panther, mj, steve rogers, bucky, sam wilson, loki, hawkeye, gamora, war machine, nebula, valkyrie, wasp, doctor strange, mantis)

STRANGER THINGS (joyce, hopper, steve, billy, will, max, eleven, mike, robin, jonathan, lucas, dustin, eddie, peter, chrissy) if you want to only be shipped with the adults, let me know! the headcannons for the younger characters with be soft only and nothing explicit!

DC (bruce wayne, catwoman, harley quinn, the joker, robin, aquaman, the flash, wonder woman, deadshot, rick flag, katana, diablo, captain boomerang, enchantress, superman, lois lane)

X-MEN (cyclops, wolverine, jean, quicksilver, storm, rogue, raven, beast, xavier, erik, eddie brock, magik, deadpool, domino, cable, negasonic teenage warhead, yukio, vanessa, daredevil, luke cage, jessica jones, the punisher)

IT (richie, beverly, bill, stan, eddie, ben, mike) i will include both versions of them!

SUPERNATURAL (dean, sam, cas, jack, crowley, rowena, charlie, meg, lucifer, gabriel)

AMERICAN HORROR STORY (tate, violet, michael, madison, brooke, montana, xavier, lana, kit, jimmy, the countess, zoe, kyle, kai, winter, misty, dandy, patrick march, cordelia)

THE OFFICE (jim, pam, michael, dwight, andy, kelly, erin, angela, ryan)

THAT 70’S SHOW (eric, jackie, hyde, donna, kelso, fez)

SHAMELESS (lip, ian, carl, debbie, fiona, veronica, kevin)

CELEBRITIES:

(if you pick a celebrity i will just write a headcannon for you! but i will be picking for the 5sos ships)

ARIANA GRANDE

VINNIE HACKER

TOM HOLLAND

TIMOTHÉE CHALAMET

MATTHEW GRAY GUBLER

5SOS (michael, calum, ashton, luke)

MELANIE MARTINEZ

BILLIE EILISH

HALSEY

MARGOT ROBBIE

CORPSE

+ ANY MARVEL ACTOR!

𝙃𝙊𝙒 𝙏𝙊 𝙂𝙀𝙏 𝘼 𝙎𝙃𝙄𝙋 :

1) PICK A FANDOM! IF YOU WANT SOMEONE UNDER THE CELEBRITY SECTION, THAN JUST PICK THEM

MAKE SURE YOUR MESSAGE CONTAINS:

2) A QUICK DESCRIPTION OF YOURSELF! (ex, YOUR PERSONALITY, WHAT YOU LOOK LIKE, ANYTHING ELSE YOU WANT ME TO KNOW

3) WHAT FANDOM OR CELEBRITY YOU PICKED

4) YOUR SEXUALITY! THIS IS TO MAKE SURE YOUR HEADCANNON IS AS ACCURATE AS POSSIBLE! (ex. IF YOU TELL ME THAT YOU IDENTIFY AS A STRAIGHT FEMALE, THAN I CAN MAKE SURE I DONT SHIP YOU WITH A FEMALE CHARACTER!)

it is completely okay to just say unlabeled, but just know that you might get a female/male ship!

you don’t need to clarify your sexuality if you are doing one of the celebrity options!

PLEASE DO THIS!! ITS COMPLETELY FOR FUN AND GIVES ME SOMETHING TO DO WHILE GETTING TO KNOW YOU GUYS :)

[akajustmerry]

mery i know you love harley so what are your expectations for the new suicide squad movie? i loooved birds of prey but i'm not sure about this one

hello! 

i am very VERY cautiously optimistic. of course, i am excited as always to see the love of my life, miss quinn. HOWEVER, James Gunn is not what i’d call Good at writing women. he’s a lot like Joss Whedon in the sense he’ll write “strong” women, but will only humiliate and punish them for that strength by not allowing them anything else. then, there’s the infantilisation too. i love gamora and nebula in gotg but they’re almost constantly undermined by male characters and mantis is infantilised to the point of dehumanisation. 

i get the sense that we’re going to see a very infantilised version of harley from him. now, harley does have a child-like wonder so he’ll probably use that to get away with it. but that frilly dress costume she’s in, combined with the footage of her screaming with the flowers and the rain dialogue.......smells a LOT like infantilisation to me. i am holding out hope that Margot wouldn’t have agreed to play Harley in a way that was inconsistent or unfaithful to her own work in BOP. 

idk tbh, I actually really enjoyed Suicide Squad (2016) and didn’t think it needed a whole reboot/sequel?? the new one looks bigger budget with a bigger cast and yeah i love Idris Elba, but at the end of the day, i don’t really like that this movie’s main marketing appeal is that its not Suicide Squad (2016). i also don’t like that their using James Gunn’s name like he’s an autuer, what the fuck is a “horribly beautiful mind?”. also King Shark isn’t just some barely speaking sharkman who can’t talk properly. he’s a really intelligent Atlantian! why is he Like That in the trailer???

will i watch it? yeah. do i hope my assumptions are wrong? definitely! do i also think that this movie looks and feels a lot like material gunn used for gotg because he wanted to say a fuck u to Disney for firing him? yeah. will i pay to watch it?? lmao nooo

[that-shamrock-vibe]

Movie Review: The Suicide Squad

Disclaimer: James Gunn has stated in interviews that everything in this movie is a spoiler, for that reason this non-spoiler review will strive as much as it can not to go into spoiler territory and instead give a vague overview...so if you have not or cannot see the movie yet then don't read on until you do.

General Reaction:

Here's something I never thought I'd say, James Gunn's The Suicide Squad is the best DCEU movie to date and honestly rivals Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight for in terms of the DC movie I personally think is the best...I'm not even joking, it was just that good.

I was actually crying during the final third of this movie, not just because of how emotional the movie got, but they were welling up tears of joy and I could feel myself grinning most of the way through. I've never really taken note of how emotionally invested I have been during a movie but honestly throughout I was cheering, laughing, egging the characters on. I was as invested as I'm sure sports people are with watching sports.

On the subject of emotion I will say this, if you have favourite characters going into this movie, do not get attached because the body count in The Suicide Squad is so high, and not just with humans, that every time I knew I was liking a character I was then left very sad when they died until the start of that final third when I just stopped saying "I like this character...oh wait they're dead!".

As predicted, because it was reported, the first 30 minutes of the movie is about establishing our main cast and team while culling the huge ensemble cast that may as well have all been wearing red shirts...and some of these characters were great, I posted a minor #emoji review on twitter and one of those characters who were fridged early on is in that review because they were one of my favourites going in.

That's all about that I can really say without going into spoiler territory buy on the whole this cast of characters actually surpasses both the Guardians of the Galaxy movies and the first Suicide Squad for me.

Also, for me at least, it was a little confusing going into this movie wondering if this was a sequel to the 2016 Suicide Squad movie or a soft reboot or reimagining. Based on the fact some of the cast are the same and there are one or two references to previous movies, I'd say it's the same. My logic is, as long as Margot Robbie is Harley Quinn it's the same timeline from Suicide Squad to Birds of Prey and now this.

But yes this is a James Gunn movie, and in truth I have not really cared for James Gunn movies in the past outside of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, didn't really care for the first outside of it being a Marvel movie. But if he was allowed to go full Gunn with The Suicide Squad, I want more of this!

Because I don't really know Gunn's work outside of the superhero genre, I couldn't really tell if some of the notable similarities to the Guardians movies here were Gunnisms or Gunn-Superheroisms, but the music playing over the Warner Bros/DC intro reminded me of Guardians and pretty much anytime there was an old school song playing over a scene, but then surprisingly Gunn does right by his female characters in this movie.

Not just the Suicide Squad members either, there are minor civilians focused on at times in this movie and all three of them along with Amanda Waller have their moments to shine here...compare that to Guardians where the deadliest woman in the galaxy is outmatched by Mantis and it's definitely a step in the right direction for female representation.

But yes there are some Gunnisms I recognise that over here in the U.K. warrant the 15 rating which I think translates to an R-rating in the U.S, and the few but notable crude jokes that are Disneyfied in Guardians but are clearly there anyway.

Speaking of that 15/R-rating, I'm not sure how it works in other countries but in the U.K. with the rating slide that comes up it says "Contains XYZ" which is why it earns that specific rating. For this movie it was a 15 and one of the reasons why it was a 15 is because of gore...to which I just thought "Oh okay, so more heads exploding than the one we had in the first?"

No! There is that, but there is gore, I mean bloody, bloody, at one point having to look away because I may have thrown up otherwise gore! Without spoilers, I won't go say specifically the scene but I will say it involves a confrontation between the two All-Americans in the movie...that's all I'm saying.

Speaking of All-American, the latter half of this movie definitely goes into the corruption of America and it is somewhat political but doesn't bang you over the head with it like Black Widow did for example. It's a great commentary on American corruption and speaking as a Brit about a movie that 99% of the time takes place in, where I'm guessing is South America with Corto Maltease, I want more of this type of political commentary in superhero movies. The Captain America movies were that type of political thriller that honestly aspects of this movie was particularly towards the end.

In all, the action, the drama, the comedy (minus a couple of Gunnisms which I will actually allow) and the cinematography were on point in this movie. The cinematography and how they deal with some transitions between scenes and character interactions were honestly phenomenal, and I never thought I would say that about a James Gunn movie.

Cast:

I've said realistically all I can say about the cast without going into spoilers. James Gunn himself has said that everything in The Suicide Squad is a spoiler and honestly 98% of the movie is definitely spoiler territory. What you have seen in the trailers may feel like a large chunk of the movie, but it doesn't even scratch the surface.

The only thing I will say about who is main or focal and who isn't is, while this is very much an ensemble cast and no one character steals the show or takes centre stage like the first one did with Harley Quinn and Deadshot, here everyone has their time to shine as I said but I will say...look at the main movie posters, not the character ones but the actual promo movie ones, to know who are the focus characters in the movie...that's all I'll say.

But overall every actor is perfectly cast, both the returning cast and new cast. I did not know two thirds of these characters going into the movie. Basically if they weren't the ones who came over from the first Suicide Squad, or Thinker and King Shark, I didn't know who they were prior to this movie.

I also knew a little bit about Starro from Young Justice but I can pretty much guarantee that for what is a kid-friendly animated series, they would not have done what Gunn does with Starro in this movie because he/it/they is terrifying...nightmare fuel, honestly I was expecting to think this character was going to be laughable CGI that would be almost like Star-Lord v. Ronan dance-off in the first Guardians of the Galaxy in terms of stupidity which I hated, but this was, as I said, terrifying and you'll see why because it's genuinely nightmare fuel for me in those scenes.

Recommendation:

I am fully aware this movie is available in America...or will be...simultaneously in theaters and HBOMax. I cannot stress this enough, see The Suicide Squad in cinemas if you can. COVID safety aside there is no reason to not see this in cinemas if you are available to get there. The Suicide Squad demands to be seen on as big of a screen as possible.

I honestly can't say anything bad about the acting, the music, the action, the story, everything is so good. That's not me being biased because I would only be biased for certain characters and actors in this movie, but I'm a Marvel boy at heart.

In terms of my enjoyment and my emotional engagement with a movie, this is up there with X-Men: Days of Future Past and Cruella for me. I'm not going to say this is better than them because those two resonate personally with me whereas, having only seen this movie once, it is very much adrenaline fuelling me at the moment like first viewing Mad Max: Fury Road, which I also love, but it's up there as one of my favourite movies so far this year with Cruella.

That's all I can really say without spoilers, I know I have said a lot but at the same time I have waffled and tried not to delve too much into spoiler territory but that is why I put the disclaimer at the top of the review in case I do.

I am so fortunate I have given myself a mental week this week away from dissertation work to recentre myself after last week, because I will now have time to do a spoiler review as this is a movie that demands a spoiler review.

So that's my review for The Suicide Squad, what did you guys think? Post your comments and check out more DC Movie Reviews as well as other movie reviews and posts.

[eydika]

eydika’s name list 2.0

more... names because the first name list I made isn’t enough anymore

A

Abaddon

Abbey / Abbie

Abel

Ace

Ada

Adam

Adrien

Agnes

Aiden

Akari

Alaska

Alchemy

Alec / Alex / Alexa

Alessi / Alessia

Alexis

Aliana / Alianna

Alice

Alison

Alistair

Alivia

Allie / Ally

Alpha

Alya

Amber

Amelia

Amity

Amos

Amy

Andie / Andy

Andrew

Andromeda

Angel

Anita

Anna / Anne

Annabelle / Annie

Apollo

Apple

Apricot

April

Archer / Archie

Arden

Ares

Argus

Ariel

Aron / Aaron / Auron

Arrow

Artemis

Arthur

Artis

Arya

Ash / Asher

Aspen / Aspyn

Astrid

Athena

Atlas

Atticus

Aubrey / Audrey

Audio

Auger

Auggie

August

Aurelia

Aurora

Austin

Autumn

Ava / Avaline / Avalon / Aveline

Avery / Avrey

Aya

B

Baby

Barbie

Basil

Bea / Bee

Bean

Beatrice / Beatriz

Bébé

Beck / Beckett

Beetle

Bella / Belle

Beryl

Betty

Bijou

Billie

Birdie

Bishop

Bitter

Blair / Blaire

Blaise

Bloom

Blue / Blu

Boheme

Bonnie

Bowie

Briar

Bridget

Brina

Brody

Bryson

Bunny

Byron

C

Cade / Cadea / Caden

Cairo

Cal / Calum

Caleb

Callie

Calliope

Calvin

Cameron

Candace

Canopy

Carly / Carlie

Carol / Caroline

Carter

Casper

Cassandra

Cassius

Catherine

Celia

Cetus

Chance

Charlotte

Cherry

China

Chip

Chloe

Cian

Cinnamon

Civet

Clara / Clary / Clarabelle

Claire

Clementine

Cleo

Clover

Cobalt

Colby

Colt / Colten

Constance

Cooper

Cora

Corey

Corvus

Cosmo

Cricket

Cynthia

Cyra

Cyrus

D

Dacre

Daisy

Dakota

Dalia

Dallas

Damien

Dana

Dandelion

Dandy

Dante

Daphne

Darby / Darcy

Darius

Darla

Davina / Divina

Davos

Dawn

Deacon

Deb

December

Deja

Delaney

Delta

Demi

Denim

Denver

Desmond

Dexter

Diego

Digit

Dion / Dior

DJ

Doe

Domino

Donna

Doran

Dorothy / Dot / Dottie

Douglas

Dune

Dusk

Dylan

E

Eachan

Ebele

Ebony

Echo

Eden

Edris

Effi / Effie

Egan

Elijah

Eliza

Ella / Ellie

Elliot

Ellis

Elodie

Elsbeth / Elspeth

Elsie

Elyse

Embla

Emily

Emlyn

Emma

Emmett

Emory

Erica

Erin

Ernest

Ernie

Esryn

Estelle

Ethan

Eugene

Eva / Eve / Evie

Evan

Evangeline

F

Fae / Fee

Faith

Fawn

Fawke

Felix

Fenris

Fergus

Ferris

Fig / Figgy

Finbar

Fizz

Fletcher

Fleur

Flint

Flora / Florence

Forrest

Fox

Frankie

Freya

G

Gage

Gaia

Gavin

Gemma

Gene / Genesis / Genevieve

Gigi

Gil

Giselle

Gladys

Gloom

Gloria / Glory

Goldie

Grace / Gracie

Greta

Griffin

Gus

H

Hadley

Hailey

Hana

Harlow

Harmony

Harper

Hawk

Hayden

Hazel

Hector

Henley

Henry

Hera / Hero

Honey / Honeydew

Hope

Hunter

I

Ian / Ion

Idris

Ieni

Iesha

Illori

Ilya

Imelda

Imogen

Imp

India

Indira

Ingrid

Irina

Iris

Isaac

Isara

Isla

Ivory / Ivy

Izzy

J

Jack / Jackie

Jade

Jake

Janice / Janis

Jason

Jasper

Jay / Joy

Jenan

Jericho

Jerry

Jibo

Jill

Jinx

Joan

Jude / Judith

Juleka

Juli / Julip

June / Juno

Juniper

Jupiter

Justice

K

Kaiven

Kale

Kappa

Kayla

Kellen

Kelly

Kes

Kimber

Kitana

Kitty

Kiwi

Knox

Kris

Kristy / Kirsty

Krull

Kumo

L

Laken

Lana

Lapse

Lark

Laurel

Lavender

Lemon

Lenka

Leo / Leon / Leonie

Levitt

Liberty

Lilac

Lilith

Lima

Lindsey

Locus / Lotus

Lottie

Luca / Luka

Lucia / Lucie / Lucy

Lucille

Lucky

Luis

Luna / Louna

Luther

Lux

Lynn

M

Mabel / Mable / Maple

Madison

Mae / May

Maeve

Magnolia

Mango

Mantis

March

Marcia / Marcy

Margaux / Margo / Margot

Marina

Marion

Marley

Marmalade

Mars

Martha

Mary

Mason

Maude

Maura

Maxine

Maya

Meadow

Medea

Melancholia

Melba

Memphis

Mercedes

Mercy

Mick

Milan

Milla

Millenia

Milo

Mina / Mona

Minerva

Minnie

Minnow

Miron

Misery

Mona

Monday

Montgomery

Monty

Morrigan

Morwenna

Myrtle

N

Nana

Nancy

Nasira

Nate

Nathaniel

Naveed

Navy

Ned

Nefarian

Ness

Nestor

Never

Newt

Nikki

Noah

Nora

Norma

Nova

Nutmeg

Nye

Nyx

O

Octa

October

Odessa

Olive / Olivia

Ollie

Omega

Omen

Onyx

Opal

Ophelia

Oriana / Orion

Oscar / Oskar

Otis

Owen

Ozzy / Ozzie

P

Paige

Paisley

Parker

Pat / Pattie

Paula / Paola

Pea / Peach

Pebble

Penelope

Pepper

Pepsi

Percy

Petrichor

Philippa

Philomena

Phoebe

Phoenix

Piccolo

Pip / Piper

Pixie

Poe

Pollux

Pomeline

Poppy

Portia

Primrose

Q

Queen

Quentin

Quibble

Quincy

Quinn

R

Rachel

Radian

Ransom

Raven

Ray

Razzia

Rebus / Remus

Reverie

Rhubarb

Rick

Rider / Ryder

Rigby

Rilla

Roach

Robin

Rory

Rosa / Rosalie

Rose

Roux

Rowan

Roxanne / Roxie / Roxy

Ruben

Ruby

Rune

S

Sabina / Sabine / Sabrina

Sable

Sadie

Saffron

Sage / Saige

Salem

Sam / Samantha / Sammie

Savant

Savian

Scarlett

Scotty

Scout

Sean

Sesame

Shea

Skye / Skylar

Sloane

Solomon

Spencer

Sprout

Star

Stella

Sunny

Sybil

Syc

Symphony

T

Tabea

Tabitha / Tabs

Tali / Talia

Tasha

Tate

Tau

Temper

Tharan

Theodora / Theodosia

Theros

Thimble

Thirteen

Thorn

Tia

Tilda

Tina

Topaz

Tora / Torian

Trinity

Trixie

Trope

Tulip

Turnip

Twig

U

Ukiyo

Umara

Umbra

Ursa

V

Valentin

Valerie

Valora

Vargas

Vaughn

Vector

Vega / Vegas

Velvet

Venus

Vera

Vernon

Vesper

Vinette

Violet

Vivek

Volt

W

Waverly

Wednesday

Wendy

Wes

Whisper

William

Willow

Winnie

Winona

Winter

Wish

Wren

X + Y + Z

Xena / Xenia

Xeno / Xenos

Yuki

Yuri

Zafira

Zaria

Zephyr

Zero

Zoe / Zoelle

Zona

Zyra

LAST NAMES

Abbot

Abernathy

Alton

Arcanum

Ashe

Astor

Badger

Balker

Bass

Bennett

Benton

Blake

Bleu

Blunt

Blythe

Cable

Cabot

Cain

Carter

Carver

Castillo

Choi

Clemonte

Coldwell

Collins

Colt

Craft

Craven

Crimson

Croft

Dabney

Danvers

Dayholt

Delpy

Driver

Dyer

Eades

Edge

Epithet

Epps

Evert

Farley

Fell

Fenner

Fig

Finch

Findlay

Fletcher

Foley

Fowler

Fray

Freud

Frost

Geller

Gill

Guest

Hale

Hapley

Harp

Hart

Hearst

Hooper

Hunt

Hyde

Ivy

Jinx

Keller

Kersey

Kingsley

Knight

Knox

Kraft

Krav

Laveau

Lecter

Lock / Lockwood

Lowell

Lush

Marr

Mills

Mist

Morgan

Morrison

Murray

Myers

Oaks

Patel

Pierce

Pike

Powell

Price

Pruitt

Quint

Quiver

Random

Ripley

Ryder

Sears

Sloane

Sparks

Stele

Strom

Sutton

Talbot

Tate

Thorne

Twig

Twist

Tycho

Utley

Valentine

Vance

Vaughn

Vos

Walker

Wallow

Weaver

Webb

Wiley

Wilkes

Winston

Wreath

Wright

Wrong

York

Zella

Zepeda

[maesvtro]

hello friends!! so somehow i managed to reach 200 this week thank you guys for being here i love you all so very much <333 ALSO AESTHETIC BLOGRATES AND MOODBOARDS Y’ALL!!! thank you for putting up with my chaotic nightmare of an ass and being amazing people. i hope that we have more of these wonderful moments and maybe prank jamie once in a while. the shining 2.0 cast assemble!!

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url!! avengers | revengers | sanctum guardian | guardians

icon!! steve | tony | bruce | clint | natasha | thor

theme!! gamora | peter | rocket | groot | mantis

content!! scott | hope | t’challa | shuri | carol | stephen

overall!! the avengers | age of ultron | infinity war | endgame

following!! no, sorry! | i am now | till the end of the line

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url!! batfam | justice league | injustice league | birds of prey | gotham sirens | teen titans

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theme!! bruce wayne | dick grayson | jason todd | tim drake | damian wayne | duke thomas | alfred pennyworth 

content!! black canary | starfire | diana prince | zatanna | donna troy | cassandra cain | barbara gordon | stephanie brown

following!! no, sorry! | i am now | forever and always

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url!! stark | tyrell | targaryen | lannister | baratheon | greyjoy | martell

icon!! lord/lady | knight/knightess | mercenary | faceless man/woman

theme!! the wall | winterfell | king’s landing | highgarden | dorne | volantis | qarth

content!! jon snow | tyrion lannister | sansa stark | daenarys stormborn | brienne of tarth | missandei

following!! no, sorry! | i am now | let’s play a game of thrones

[mantismonarch]

"New Life" Stagmomantis carolina (Carolina mantis) L1 nymph. Babies have been staggering out for days now. Two of the ooths from BFF have hatched. Still waiting on Margot Robbie's ooth to hatch. #stagmomantiscarolina #carolina #carolinamantis #unusualpets #prayingmantis #mantis #mantodea #natgeo #insects #wildlife #nature #invert #entomology #smol #animals #alien #pets #photography #mantismonarch #babies #newborn https://www.instagram.com/p/CAlO9b3sXPK/?igshid=ukas4ixbkfn0

[multiverseofmiracleshq]

TWELVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS MIRACLES DAYS ONE & TWO ( BODY SWITCH ): back  again by popular demand it’s a day of body changing. just like always, you’ll have all the memories of your host body. once again we’ve given everyone a new, unique pairing, and like last year we’ve entered open characters into the mix and some swaps aren’t reciprocal. below you’ll find each character listed and the fc used. the arrow will indicate whose body they are in, and that does not mean that person is in theirs. let us know if you have any questions, otherwise, welcome to the whacky world of waking up as someone else.

abigail brand →   jean-paul beaubier ( fc: matthew daddario ) alex summers →  tabitha smith ( fc: hailee steinfeld ) america chavez →  xandra neramani ( fc: kaylee bryant ) amka aliyak → nadia van dyne ( fc: zoey deutch ) betsy braddock → alex summers ( fc: oliver jackson cohen ) billy kaplan → teddy altman ( fc: cody christian ) bobby drake →  jimmy hudson ( fc: liam hemsworth ) bobby drake (older) → older hank mccoy ( fc: karl urban ) bucky barnes → yelena belova ( fc: florence pugh ) bucky barnes (616) → veronica eden ( fc: victoria pedretti ) carol danvers → sam wilson ( fc: anthony mackie ) charles xavier → moira mactaggart ( fc: thandie newton ) clint barton → kate bishop ( fc: camila mendes ) crystalia amaquelin → pietro maximoff ( fc: aaron taylor-johnson ) daken → jeanne-marie beaubier ( fc: phoebe tonkin ) danielle moonstar → rahne sinclair ( fc: sophie skelton ) drax → peter quill ( fc: derek theler ) emma frost → kate pryde ( fc: zoe kravitz ) erik lehnsherr → charles xavier ( fc: idris elba ) felicia hardy → michelle jones ( fc: zendaya ) gamora → mantis ( fc: pom klementieff ) gerry drew → jessica drew ( fc: inbar lavi ) gwenpool → v special body. can’t participate.  gwen stacy → peter parker ( fc: tom holland ) gwen stacy (65) → miles morales ( fc: jordan fisher ) illyana rasputin → older scott summers ( fc: matt bomer ) hank mccoy → bobby drake ( fc: dylan o’brien ) hank mccoy (older) → betsy braddock ( fc: jodie comer ) james rogers → tommy shepherd ( fc: gregg sulkin ) jean grey → hank mccoy ( taron egertonn ) jean grey (older) → logan howlett ( hugh jackman ) jean-paul beaubier → abigail brand ( fc: crystal reed ) jeanne-marie beaubier → daken ( fc: charles melton ) jessica drew → clint barton ( fc: chris pine ) jimmy hudson → laura kinney ( fc: lulu antariksa ) julian keller → lana baumgarter ( fc: danielle rose russell ) kamala khan → scott summers ( fc: steven r mcqueen ) kate bishop → america chavez ( fc: lindsey morgan ) kate pryde → emma frost ( fc: margot robbie ) lana baumgartner → lori baumgartner ( fc: anne hathaway ) laura kinney → julian keller ( fc: noah centineo ) loki laufayson → rosalind solomon ( fc: ana de armas ) lorna dane → rogue ( fc: eiza gonzalez ) michelle jones → gwen stacy ( fc: olivia holt ) miles morales → 65 gwen stacy ( fc: jenny boyd ) moira mactaggert → her body is taken, but moira is nowhere to be found. nadia van dyne → amka aliyak ( fc: anna lambe ) natasha romanoff → bucky barnes ( fc: sebastian stan ) nathan summers → esme cuckoo ( fc: skyler samuels ) peter parker → tony stark ( fc: robert downey jr ) peter quill → gamora ( fc: zoe saldana ) pietro maximoff → crystalia amaquelin ( fc: holland roden ) rahne sinclair → danielle moonstar ( fc: devery jacobs ) remy lebeau → lorna dane ( fc: paulina singer ) ripley ryan → carol danvers ( fc: rebecca rittenhouse ) rogue → remy lebeau ( fc: jack falahee ) rosalind solomon → thor odinson ( fc: chris hemsworth ) sam alexander → tiana toomes ( fc: brittany o’grady ) sam wilson → steve rogers ( fc: chris evans ) scott summers → illyana rasputin ( fc: kristine froseth ) scott summers (older) → older jean grey ( fc: rachel mcadams ) stepford, esme → quentin quire ( fc: dane dehaan ) stephen strange → wanda maximoff ( fc: elizabeth olsen ) steve rogers → natasha romanoff ( fc: scarlet johansson ) susan storm → stephen strange ( fc: benedict cumberbatch ) tabitha smith → nathan summers ( fc: thomas doherty ) theodore altman → billy kaplan ( fc: nick robinson ) thor odinson → rocket raccoon ( fc: raccoon ) tiana toomes → sam alexander ( fc: alberto rosende ) tommy shepherd → james rogers ( fc: dominic sherwood ) tony stark → teenaged morgan stark ( fc: katherine langford ) valkyrie → loki laufayson ( fc: tom hiddleston ) veronica eden → felicia hardy ( fc: emeraude toubia ) wanda maximoff → erik lehnsherr ( fc: giancarlo esposito ) xandra neramani → cal’syee neramani ( fc: kate siegel ) yelena belova → 616 bucky barnes ( fc: richard madden )

[theprocrastinatingalien]

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3 has a Director! Um... James Gunn!

Yesterday we were given the awesome gift of a new trailer and poster for AVENGERS: ENDGAME... and today we are treated once again...

Disney have reinstated James Gunn as the director of GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL 3.

If you're a fan of the GOTG movies, then this is awesome news.  Disney had fired Gunn from the project due to historic offensive tweets.  A lot of fans argued this, as Gunn had already apologised for these, and they were before he'd started working for Marvel. The cast were also quite vocal, Dave Bautista in particular (he threatened to walk - contract or non contract - if they didn't at least use Gunn's script for the third movie)… and now, some time later things have calmed down and Gunn is back.

A lot of other directors had also spoken out stating they thought he should be allowed to continue - and other companies expressed interest in the director if Disney didn't want him.  In fact, Gunn's now working on THE SUICIDE SQUAD for Warner Brothers, as part of the DCEU.  It's actually possible Disney have had to backtrack a little, as it's quite possible they couldn't find anyone wishing to take on the project.

Whatever the real reason, Gunn's return is good news.  Whilst guided by Marvel, the two previous GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY movies were very much his vision, his tone... and it makes sense to allow him to close out the trilogy with this cast.

It had previously been noted by Marvel visionary Kevin Feige that Vol 3 had really paved the way for a cosmic side to the MCU going forward.

Gunn will now complete his work on THE SUICIDE SQUAD, with the likes of Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn, and Idris Elba taking from Will Smith as Deadshot… and then move on to GOTG Vol 3.   Originally the third movie was expected to be released early 2020, and whilst that's now unlikely, it probably won't be too far off.  Maybe 2021 at the latest.

All the surviving cast members from the last film are expected to return: Chris Pratt (Star-Lord), Zoe Saldana (Gamora), Dave Bautista (Drax), Vin Diesel (Groot), Bradley Cooper (Rocket), Karen Gillan (Nebula), Pom Klementieff (Mantis) and Sean Gunn (Kraglin).

Of course, we will have to see how AVENGERS: ENDGAME pans out, as it's possible not all those characters will still be present (Nebula is a full on Avenger now judging by the looks of the trailer) and most of the team were dusted by Thanos' finger snap.  But that's going to be undone... right?  I mean, right??? Either way, I would also expect a sneaky flashback cameo for Michael Rooker's Yondu in there somewhere too ;-)

[aaaa-mpersand]

OCtober Day 6: Luxury

Thank you @oc-growth-and-development for the prompt, as always. This is three bros, two of them roasting Pacific Rim to hell and back. I’m a big fan of this movie I swear. This is a continuation of the Exy AU, following Finley (from OCtober Day 2: Mercy). He’s in a new team, and he doesn’t need friends, they disappoint him. Very Regrettably for Finley, the friends don’t agree. Fluff with some mild angst at the end. We stan found family. Kaspar and Finley are my characters, Mantis/Margot is @statistical-improbabilities character. I also named dropped @statistical-improbabilities Mya and @carry-on-my-wayward-brain Dusk.

“This is absurd,” Finley said, watching the robot on screen slam a cargo boat into the monster’s face with a deafening crunch. 

They were sitting on the floor of Kaspar’s room, rough carpet under their legs, Mantis’ laptop in front of them as an action movie flashed on screen. Finley watched the big robot slap the godzilla-like thing repeatedly in the face, only for the creature to grab them by the tail and rip their boat-made-baseball-bat into half. He vaguely wondered, not for the first time that night, how he’d even gotten here. 

“I don’t know about that,” Kaspar said, a tub of ice cream in his lap as he put another spoonful of it into his mouth, never taking his eyes off the screen. “It looks pretty realistic to me.” “Please,” Mantis said next to him. Or Margot. She’d introduced herself as the former, but Kaspar used the latter almost exclusively. Finley had simply avoided calling her by name. “I’ve seen Green Lantern movies with better CGI effects.” “Touche,” he said, but didn’t sound the least bit insulted. He ate another scoop of ice cream. With a certain degree of fear, disgust, and strange admiration, Finley saw he was almost done with the tub. “Shhh, guys, the next part is my favorite fight scene.”

Mantis fell silent, so Finley turned back to the screen. The monster was now playing hide and seek with the robot. How anything as tall as a skyscraper managed to hide, even in a metropolitan like Tokyo, was beyond Finley’s comprehension, but he’d never been to Tokyo, so he stayed silent. 

A flashy action shot of the monster, oh so surprisingly, ambushing the protagonists. He let the lights flash from the screen as he thought about what had gotten him here. After spending hours on schoolwork in Mantis’ room, he’d been dragged along to dinner with the two of them. Kaspar suggested they all go to his room to relax before he and Finley went to the gym to do extra practice that night.

Finley hadn’t been pleased. 

“Come on, Finley, a little fun never hurt anyone,” Kaspar had said. When Finley had stared back, wholly unconvinced, Kaspar merely smiled fondly and rolled his eyes, as if he’d seen that same look hundreds of times before. “I’ll stay an extra hour to help you on overhead drills.”

“Dusk or Mya are going to get there first,” he muttered, but followed anyway.

Finley watched the monster beat its previously unnoticeable wings and lift the robot into the sky. Tension was supposedly rocketing as fast as that 500 ton beast could fly, which was apparently a thousand miles a second. He was owed a lot of overhead drills for this.

When the protagonists looked like they were about to die, all hope lost, the solution was found in a dramatic twist. The robot fell unceremoniously to the ground from an altitude of 50,000 miles above sea level. Everyone was unscathed. 

Kaspar paused the movie.

“Thoughts?” he asked, a smile playing on his ice-cream coated lips as he glanced over at Finley.

“If this movie wanted any shred of my respect, they should’ve both died right there,” Finley said. Despite the fact that he knew Kaspar had a good temper and couldn’t kill a fly, he glanced over to watch his reaction.

“Exactly what I’ve been saying,” Mantis said. Finley blinked in surprise “At the very least, the whole Jaeger should’ve fallen apart. It was way too big to have gotten out of that with just scratches.”

“Yeah, but then it wouldn’t have been as cool,” Kaspar said, leaning back lazily. He seemed completely undisturbed by the fact that both Finley and Mantis had been insulting what he had introduced as his ‘favorite movie of all time’ for the last hour. Mantis, who had evidently watched it a few times already, had said something sarcastic, but sat down to watch it all the same. 

In the last 57 minutes, she’d pointed out the main male lead’s horrible haircut, roasted his fashion sense, and cut into three major worldbuilding flaws. Finley joined her cringing, covering his eyes like a vampire in sunlight, when the female lead accidentally walked into the male lead’s room while he was shirtless. “Proper physics is cool,” Mantis said. She reached for the bowl of popcorn, and popped a few in her mouth, before washing it down with an energy drink. Finley didn’t want to know what that tasted like. “This whole thing doesn’t make any sense,” he said, irritably. 

“What about it doesn’t make sense?” Kaspar asked. Finley glanced at him. He seemed relaxed. Happy, even, with a content smile on his face. “Everything. Why are giant robots the best weapon in this scenario? They’re going to be rebuilding that place for years with the footprints it left on the roads, let alone the infrastructure damage. Second of all, how do the kaiju keep following the scientist guy around?” “Because he mind-melded with them,” Kaspar said, “The Kaiju are a hive mind.”

Finley snorted. “Why the fuck would anyone mind-meld with a hive mind race of monsters?” 

Kaspar shrugged. He tapped his spoon against his chin for a moment, thinking. “Science?” He said, almost to himself, and turned to Mantis questioningly. Finley pulled a look so skeptical he could’ve made Newton doubt whether gravity was real. Mantis, however, thought only for a moment before she nodded, “Science.”

“This is stupid,” he huffed. “To quote,” Mantis pointed out, matter-of-factly, “it’s either the most awesome dumb movie ever made–” 

“–Or the dumbest awesome movie ever made,” Kaspar said, almost gleefully, as he pressed the play button. Finley sighed.

He stayed for the rest of the movie.

---

He waited for Kaspar outside the dorms while the other man was grabbing his things to go to the court to practice. It was late by now, the sky ink black save for the few stars visible through all the light pollution. Cold wind made the chilly temperatures just that much colder. Finley waited under a street light, his things all ready, a change of clothes, water bottle, and a pair of gloves in his gym bag. With a sigh, he unzipped it, pulled out the gloves. They were black and maroon––ravens colors––and the only pair he had. 

He wrapped his arms around himself. Though years of playing exy had even him lean muscle, he was still scrawny, and not the biggest fan of the cold. Glancing at the door of the dorms, he waited. The two hours he spent watching a dumb action movie indoors would’ve been a luxury unheard of in the Ravens. Siobhan had never been a fan of movies, anyway, so there would’ve been no one for him to watch it with. For that, he was almost grateful; the movie hadn’t gotten better in the second half. 

Still, the image stayed in his mind. Kaspar and Mantis, exchanging quips and inside jokes. Mantis didn’t glance over for his reaction when she criticized the protagonist’s haircut to hell and back. When she had run out of her energy drink, Kaspar had promptly pulled another one out and passed it over to her. 

He tried to picture himself and Siobhan in those shoes. Finley didn’t have a favorite drink, and what Siobhan said was never a joke. 

But they had stood next to each other for so long. A menace on the court, the two of them. An impenetrable defense and an unstoppable offense. It had never been perfect. Admittedly, nothing in The Ravens had been, but still, he sometimes tried to find Siobhan’s triumphant grin on the faces of his new teammates. Her iron will in Kaspar’s eyes when he swung his racquet.

He sighed, staring up at the night sky. In another life, perhaps, though he doubted that concept was anything more than an impossible wish. “Hey, sorry that took awhile,” Kaspar said, stepping out of the dorms. He had obviously rushed, his shoelaces untied, and the horrible orange color of his hoodie clashing with the gold and red of his Trojans track pants. 

Finley merely huffed, and stalked down the path without him.