#marina khan

[baigmusic]

Baig - Baar Baar Dil Mera (Music Video)

From the album Karachi 1986 (Volume 2)

Video, album, and merch available on Karachi1986.com

Video Edit by Baig

Logo Design: @graphicmercenary

[youstupidplonk]

Thinking about ✨them✨

(The lesbian couple who went through their unhealthy situationship phase)

[diamond-punk0963]

Judge me on my main kins and the songs I resonate with them! (From a Personal Playlist)

Ruby Rose (RWBY);

Cruella (2021);

Harley Quinn (DC Films);

Captain Marvel (MCU);

Ms Marvel (MCU);

[lozfan-and-knuckles]

Princess Zelda, Princess Midna, Chief Makeela Riju, Princess Ruto, Princess Mipha, Queen Oren, Rutela, Irene, Nabooru, Chief Urbossa, Seres, Saria, Medli, Impa, Anjean, Astrid, Jolene, Princess Styla, Madame Couture, Queen Ambi, Princess Hilda, Din, Nayru, Farore, Hylia...,

Princess Sally Acorn, Princess Blaze the Cat, Amy Rose, Tikal, Sticks the Badger, Cream the Rabbit, Vanilla the Rabbit, Bunnie Rabbot, Nicole the Holo-Lynx, Tangle the Lemur, Whisper the Wolf, Jewel the Beetle, Belle the Tinkerer, Lanolin the Sheep, Marine the Racoon, Trip the Sungazer, Rouge the Bat, Ariem, Shara, Merlina, Maria, Princess Elise, Sonia, Queen Aleena....,

Princess Peach, Princess Daisy, Rosalina, Samus Aran, Callie, Marie, Pearl, Marina, Serana Volihar, Brelyna Maryon, Frea, Lydia, Mirabelle Ervine, Colette Marence, Farelda..

Annie Smith, Kathleen, Morgan le Fay, Penny the Penguin, Queen Guinevere., ,

Rose Tyler, Martha Jones, Donna Noble, Genny, Amy Pond, River Song, Jenny, Madam Vastra, Clara Oswald, Bill Pots, Yasmin Khan, Ruby Sunday, Sarah Jane Smith, Sky Smith, Rani Chandra, Maria Jackson, Jo Grant, Melanie Bush, Rommana, Susan Foreman, Ace McShane, Leela, Katarina, Liz Shaw, ......,

Isabella Garcia-Shapiro, Candace Flynn, Stacy Hirano, Ginger Hirano, The Fireside Girls, Vanessa Doofenshmirtz,

Katara, Toph, Korra, Suki, May, Ty Lee...,

I like girls!

Hello, tumblr user. Before you is a tumblr post asking you to name a female fictional character. You have unlimited time to tag a female character, NOT a male one.

Begin.

[insidecroydon]

Khan's 'life-changing' free school meals extended for extra year

The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has today confirmed that all primary school children in state-funded schools in the capital will continue to get free school meals for the next academic year, providing £140million extra funding as the cost-of-living crisis continues to hit families. Mayor Khan said that he recognises that families are in urgent need of support. The meals will help with the…

[autismswagsummit]

The Bracket has been set!

This year's competitor pool is hot, with 23 returning competitors and 41 new appearances. In Round 1, the matches will be broken up into 4 waves, divided by the quadrants displayed on the bracket. The matches will all be listed below the cut, for everyone's reference.

SIDE A, PART 1

Donatello Hamato (Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) v.s L Lawliet (Death Note)

Mary Anta (Cemetery Mary) v.s Rui Kamishiro (Project Sekai)

Izuku Midoriya (My Hero Academia) v.s Branch (Dreamworks Trolls)

Snufkin (Moominvalley) v.s Futaba Sakura (Persona 5)

Gordon Freeman (Half Life) v.s Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes)

Blathers (Animal Crossing) v.s Princess Bubblegum (Adventure Time)

Jonathan Sims (The Magnus Archives) v.s Zane (Lego Ninjago)

Tomoko Kuroki (Watamote) v.s Cloud Strife (Final Fantasy 7)

SIDE A, PART 2

Frieren (Sousou no Frieren) v.s Papyrus (Undertale)

Tech (Star Wars: The Bad Batch) v.s Ferb Fletcher (Phineas & Ferb)

Stanford Pines (Gravity Falls) v.s Twilight Sparkle (My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic)

Berdly (Deltarune) v.s Gregory House (House M.D)

Data (Star Trek) v.s Idia Shroud (Twisted Wonderland)

Peridot (Steven Universe) v.s Penny Polendina (RWBY)

Sig (Puyo Puyo) v.s Marcy Wu (Amphibia)

Jotaro Kujo (Jojo's Bizarre Adventure) v.s Miles Edgeworth (Ace Attorney)

SIDE B, PART 1

Monkey D. Luffy (One Piece) v.s Alhaitham (Genshin Impact)

Laios Touden (Dungeon Meshi) v.s Iggy Maxwell (Our Wonderland)

Dendy (OK KO: Let's Be Heroes) v.s Gin Ibushi (Your Turn To Die)

Norma Khan (Dead End: Paranormal Park) v.s Link (The Legend of Zelda)

Starfire (Teen Titans) v.s Luz Noceda (The Owl House)

Siffrin (In Stars And Time) v.s Huey Duck (Ducktales 2017)

Lilo Pelekai (Lilo & Stitch) v.s Saiki Kusuo (The Disastrous Life of Saiki K.)

Woo Young Woo (Extraordinary Attorney Woo) v.s Miles "Tails" Prower (Sonic the Hedgehog)

SIDE B, PART 2

Razputin Aquato (Psychonauts) v.s Linhardt von Hevring (Fire Emblem Three Houses)

Ranpo Edogawa (Bungou Stray Dogs) v.s Entrapta (She-Ra and the Princesses of Power)

Murderbot (The Murderbot Diaries) v.s Kieran (Pokemon Scarlet & Violet)

Twyla Boogeyman (Monster High) v.s Marina Ida (Splatoon)

Hiccup Haddock (How To Train Your Dragon) v.s Batman (DC Comics)

Abed Nadir (Community) v.s Red Son (Lego Monkie Kid)

Uzi Doorman (Murder Drones) v.s Bingo Heeler (Bluey)

Gillion Tidestrider (Just Roll With It) v.s Spongebob Squarepants (Spongebob Squarepants)

[stupjam]

Marina on the Extreme-G khan bike. Extreme-G is on N64 NSO now! I have good memories messing around with cheat codes like "roller" and "nitroid." This is splatoon themed just because.

[youremyheaven]

if you ever feel like its too late or that you cant make it, just remember:

Tina Turner went solo when she was 37 and it wasn't until she was 44 that she had her first big hit

Murakami was 30 years old when he published his first novel and he was 38 when he achieved a big breakthrough with Norwegian Wood. throughout his 20s he ran a jazz bar

Marina Abramovic lived with her mum until she was 29yrs old and the art she made only started receiving critical acclaim in her 40s.

Shah Rukh Khan made his debut at the age of 22 in a tv series. He made his film debut when he was 27 and the movie that established him as a leading actor came out a month before his 30th birthday

Ava DuVernay was a journalist & later worked in PR in her 20s and was 32 years old when she first picked up a camera. She was 39 when she made her feature film debut

Leonard Cohen did not put out his first album until he was 33 years old

Debbie Harry formed Blondie when she was 29

Lisa Kudrow was 31 years old and Courteney Cox was 30 when Friends premiered

Lana Del Rey was 27 when Born to Die came out

its never too late to start or turn your life around. you can be successful at any age<333

[moon1ight-me1odies]

"what about october 7th"

"what about hamas"

what about:

1937 Jerusalem Massacre

1937 Haifa Massacre

1938 Haifa Massacre

1939 Haifa Massacre

1939 Balad Al Sheikh Massacre

1947 Al-Khisas Massacre

1947 Al-Abbasiya Massacre

1947 Balad Al Sheikh massacre

1947 Al-Sheikh Break Massacre

1947 Bab Al-Amud Massacre

1948 Al-Saraya Massacre

1948 Yazur Massacre

1948 Haifa Massacre

1948 Tabra Tulkarem Massacre

1948 Sa'sa' Massacre

1948 Jerusalem Massacre

1948 Al Hussayniyya Safad Massacre

1948 Abu Kabir Massacre

1948 Saliha Massacre

1948 Ramla Massacre

1948 Deir Yassin Massacre

1948 Qalunya Massacre

1948 Nasir Al-Din Massacre

1948 Tiberias Massacre

1948 Haifa Massacre (Hadar Alkarmel and Marina)

1948 Ein El Zaitun Massacre

1948 Safed Massacre

1948 Abu Shusha Massacre

1948 Beit Daras Massacre

1948 Lydda Massacre

1948 Tantura Massacre

1948 Al Dawayima Massacre

1948 Safsaf Massacre

1948 Saliha Massacre

1948 Eilabun Massacre

1948 Hula Massacre

1948 Arab Al-Mawasi Massacre

1953 Qibya Massacre

1956 Kafr Qasim Massacre

1956 Khan Yunis Massacre

1982 Sabra and Shatilla

Massacre (Lebanon)

1990 Al Aqsa Massacre

1994 Ibrahimi Mosque Massacre

2002 Jenin Refugee Camp Massacre

2008-09 Gaza Massacre

2009 Ibrahim Al Maqadma

mosque Massacre

2012 Gaza Massacre

2014 Gaza Massacre

2018-19 Gaza Massacre

2021 Gaza Massacre

2023-now Gaza Genocide

2024-Flour Massacre

FREE PALESTINE 🇵🇸

[aleisters]

if tony khan wasnt a fucking coward he'd book darby v marina for full gear

[nakibistan]

List of notable Muslim allies of queer, trans or LGBTQI+ folks

Imam al-Nawawi – ally of Mukhannathun or trans femmes, female transsexuals and effeminate queers

Saint Khawaja Gharib Nawaz – ally and patron of Hijra and Khawaja Sara communities

Saint Baba Bulleh Shah – ally and patron of Muslim Khawaja Sira communities

Saint Lal Shabaz Qalander – patron of Khawaja Sira & trans Muslim communities

Abu Muhammad Ali Ibn Hazm – ally of queer Muslims

Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini - ally of transgender & intersex folks

Sheikh Muhammad Sayyid Tantawi - ally of trans & intersex folks

Amina Wadud - ally of LGBTQI+ Muslims, founder of Queer Islamic Studies and Theology (QIST)

Gulbanu Khaki/Gul Khaki - ally of LGBTQ+ muslims, mother of a gay imam

Khaled Hosseini - ally of transgender & proud muslim dad of a transgender child

Siddika Jessa - LGBTQI+ activist, mother of a gay muslim son

Ani Zonneveld

Pamela Taylor

Laura Silver

Omid Safi

Kecia Ali

Ghazala Anwar

Ensaf Haider

Saleemah Abdul-Ghafur

Farid Esack

Zaitun Mohamed Kasim/Toni Mohamed Kasim

Anne-Sophie Monsinay

Imam Kahina Bahloul

Imam Philip Tuley

Scott Siraj al-Haqq Kugle

Farouk Peru

Abdennur Prado

Ingrid Mattson

Hasan Minhaj

Reza Aslan

Alia Bano

Zaid Ibrahim

Azahn Munas

Ayman Fadel

Inayat Bunglawala

Shahla Khan Salter

Nakia Jackson

Jeewan Chanicka

Taj Hargey

Michael Muhammad Knight

Maajid Nawaz

Shehnilla Mohamed

Mustafa Akyol

Writer Sabina Khan

Activist Jerin Arifa

Urvah Khan - LGBTQI+ ally, co-founder of Muslim Pride Toronto

Imam Khaleel Mohammed

Imam Tareq Oubrou

Imam Dr Rashied Omar

Shaykha Fariha Fatima al-Jerrahi

Shaykha Amina Teslima al-Jerrahi

Scholar Hussein Abdullatif

Maysoun Douas

Fátima Taleb

Aydan Özoğuz

Omid Nouripour

Özcan Mutlu

Ekin Deligöz

Cem Özdemir

Artist Nadia Khan

Marina Mahathir

Siti Musdah Mulia

Karima Bennoune

Grand Mufti Sheikh Assadullah Mwale

Muneeb Qadir

Dr. Amir Hussein

Dr. Sana Yasir

Dr. Sali Berisha

Dr. Omer Adil

Hashim Thaçi

Albin Kurti

Supermodel Nadia Hussain

Irish-Bangladeshi singer Joy Elizabeth Akther Crookes

Salma Hayek

Fouad Yammine

Pakistani Director Asim Abbasi

Pakistani Actress Nadia Jamil

Indian Actor Saqib Saleem

Indian Actor Irrfan Khan

Indian Actor Aamir Khan

Indian Actress Zeenat Khan/Aman

Indian Actress Shabana Azmi

Indian Actress Saba Azad

Indian Actress Sara Ali Khan

Indian Actress Huma Qureshi

Indian Director Zoya Khan

Pakistani Actor Furqan Qureshi

Bangladeshi Actress Azmeri Haque Badhon

Actor Muneeb Butt

Indian Actress Zareen Khan

Indian Actor Imran khan

Pakistani Actress Mehar Bano

Filmmaker Faruk Kabir

Filmmaker Saim Sadiq

Filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

Riz Ahmed

Zayn Malik

Sally El-Hosaini

Malala Yousefzai

Hafid Abbas

Hojatoleslam Kariminia

Singer Sherina Munaf

Writer Alifa Rifaat

Writer Ismat Chughtai

Activist Nida Mushtaq

Activist Aan Anshori

Abdul Muiz Ghazali

Kyai Hussein Muhammad

Marzuki Wahid

Gigi Hadid

President Abdurrahman Wahid (Gus Dur) - ally of waria or transgender females

Sinta Nuriyah - ally of trans & waria folks

Politician Keith Ellison

Mayor Sadiq Khan

Politician Ilhan Omar

Politician Rashida Tlaib

Politician Rushanara Ali

Politician Nabilah Islam

Politician Shahana Hanif

Politician Rama Yade

Politician Humza Yousaf

Politician Zarah Sultana

UK Sectratary General Zara Mohammed

Turkish politician Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu

Bengali Influencer Sobia Ameen

Shaykh Michael Mumisa

Muhammad Musharraf Hossain Bhuiyan

Mufti Abdur Rahman Azad - Hijra ally

Sheikh Hasina - Ally of hijra-intersex communities

Lawyer Iftikhar Chaudhry

Amani Al-Khatahtbeh

Professor Amel Grami

Professor Muhammad Aslam Khaki

Mohammad Hashim Kamali

Mehrdad Alipour

Lawyer Imaan Mazari/Iman Mazari

Shireen Mazari

Syed Murad Ali Shah

[autisticgirliesbracket]

Welcome to the Autistic Girlies Bracket

A series of polls which strives to highlight all the canon autistic and autistic-coded girlies out there in media!! And then pit them against each other to prove who is the girlie of all time <3

View the Propaganda Masterposts!

> Round 1 results. > Round 2 results.

Revival Rounds Part I are currently ongoing, come and cast your vote!

Round 3 begins on Friday 30th June at 1pm EST / 6pm BST.

A complete list of girlies competing in Round 3 can be found under the cut:

Round 3

Matchup 1: Lilo Pelekai (Lilo & Stitch) 'VS' Lunella Lafayette (Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur)

Matchup 2: Matilda Wormwood (Matilda) 'VS' Lilith Clawthorne (The Owl House) 'VS' Rebecca Hawkins (Yu-Gi-Oh!)

Matchup 3: Entrapta (She-Ra and the Princesses of Power) 'VS' Woo Young-Woo (Extraordinary Attorney Woo)

Matchup 4: Baru Cormorant (The Masquerade Series, with bracket art created by @anthyies) 'VS' Norma Khan (Dead End Paranormal Park) 'VS' Peridot (Steven Universe)

Matchup 5: Harrowhark Nonagesimus (The Locked Tomb) 'VS' Asa Mitaka (Chainsaw Man)

Matchup 6: Maya Fey (Ace Attorney) 'VS' Twilight Sparkle (My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic)

Matchup 7: Mabel Pines (Gravity Falls) 'VS' Marina (Splatoon) 'VS' Ayda Aguefort (Dimension 20: Fantasy High)

Matchup 8: Katie Mitchell (The Mitchells vs. the Machines) 'VS' Elle Woods (Legally Blonde) 'VS' Futaba Sakura (Persona 5)

[annabelle--cane]

it's these mag 196 stage directions that particularly enthrall me. there is no reason they have to be phrased like this. they could have used any other word choice, these lines could just as easily say "martin sounds distressed over the noises of annabelle restraining him with webs" or something, and yet they don't. "but marina," you cry, "didn't anil godigamuwe write this transcript, not jonny, the author? surely that takes away from the weight and canonicity of the syntax, this is equivalent to a silly fan joke," and to that I say: this is an official transcript that released along with the episode, it's as canon as elizabeth moffatt's soundscaping, or anika khan's s5 logo design. the official way that the podcast the magnus archives wants us to understand this interaction is that martin is audibly quivering while sticky sounds slap wetly as annabelle slings web. and for that I thank them.

[roabythecow1]

Meet The Bloggerrrrr:

Hi! I'm Roah 🧡, Roaby 🐄, Bee 🐝, or Pearlaby 🎀. We have another alter too but you won't meet them online. Roah also likes the nickname Heifer 🧡. I'm an adult. They/them, shey/heyr, hey/heym. I'm comfortable with both feminine and masculine terms. Also a bisexual, aspec furry ayooooo. ✌️ Other hot attributes of mine I'm comfortable sharing: autism, OCD, probably dyscalculia and for sure a reading disorder of sorts.

I list these things because it is genuinely important to me that people know them. Please keep in mind my reading comprehension issues if you regularly interact with me. Also, important notes: Roaby can be manic to an extent and Bee is young and often dissociated.

I'm an off and on traditional and digital artist 🎨, crafter ✂️, songwriter 🎶, poet ✒️, original story and fanfiction writer 📝. Aside from merch, I collect stickers 💟, stuffed animals 🧸, LPS 🐱, CDs 💿, pins 🧷, jars 🫙, feathers 🪶, animal bones 🦴, dead butterflies 🦋, turtle stuff 🐢, bear stuff 🐻, and cow stuff 🐮.

Beloveds:

Yellow 💛, brown 🤎, Thai food 🍜, mandarin oranges 🍊, sweet tea 🫖, coffee ☕️, therians 🐈‍⬛️, PEARL 🎀 (She's literally me guys), For Forever by Ben Platt 💙 and Ultimately by Khai Dreams 🌸. My family means the world to me and I LOVE my friends and Discord server 🫶.

PSSSSST 🗣 @funky-introverted-writers

(Click "keep reading" to see my most influential media, side blogs, and Tumblr mutuals 💛)

Most influential media:

Undertale (The Dark Ages...) 💀❤️, Handplates Undertale AU 💀❤️‍🩹, Steven Universe 👽🌎, My Little Pony 🦄✨, Good Omens 😈😇, Camp Camp ⛺🙄, Dear Evan Hansen 🫂🏳️‍🌈, Moomin Valley 🍃🏳️‍🌈, Avatar The Last Airbender 🧑‍🦲⬇️, Adventure Time 🗡️🐶, Rick and Morty 🥼🧪, Rise of The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 🐢🐀, Community 🫂🎓, Bluey 🐶💙, Fionna and Cake 🗡️🐱, Helluva Boss 🔫���, Animal Jam 🐰🐾, Bo Burnham 😃🔫, Ben Platt 💙🏳️‍🌈, Cavetown 🧑🏻‍🦰🐸, Tiny Tim 🥰🌷, The Front Bottoms 💔🥲, MARINA 🖤🙄, Madilyn Mei 👩☕, Noah Khan 🌲😔, NF 💔🔗

Side blogs:

@roabythecow @roahs-lps-ark @in-tandem-with-fandom @funky-introverted-writers

Tumblr mutuals:

@i-got-da-rubes @blinday @housefinches @gaybabything @notebook-enthusiast @sweet-summer-dreams @historianroo @spinspoon @penciled-palominos @hauntedestablishments @thatoneuserwho @airbluest @pileofpawns

[the-tortured-artists-department]

TS Outfit Madness: Round 1, Matchup 12

Be sure to follow tsoutfitmadness for all upcoming polls! I really appreciate all reblogs! It helps get a bigger sample size for each poll & always keeps things more exciting 🫶🏼

For the duration of this tournament, I will be running a contest where you simply need to fill out this Google Form after you vote.

[snugglesquiggle]

Tines of the Devil's Fork

Storm-veiled stars, frozen city ruins, knives in the sky. Railgun finished early, Uzi hunts.

here's something short and experimental. what if uzi repaired her railgun with Something Else?

i'd appreciate kudos and comments, but this is short enough i can put it all here on tumblr

i.

Stars, the few times Uzi saw them, shined all sorts of colors. Blue, yellow, red. Beneath the streetlamps, acid-tinged snow-flakes glittered, bright and scattered the same way, but they were only white. Crap replacement.

Uzi keeps eyes on the sky; she was savvy, knew to stay on-guard. Two scavengers chit-chat beside her, eyes on facial animations instead. But they listened as she’d ranted railgun electromagnetics and anime choreography. Seemed interested. She thought of Doll, back when they were sleepover-sisters. Crap replacement.

No time for angst, just action. Uzi holds her railgun, and thinks of Khan.

ii.

Shadows scowl and loom. Spooky streets. Uzi knew spooky all her life. In Doll’s sleepovers they played dare-games in closet darkness. Rumors said if you shut out all light, you sometimes felt watched. Doll did every time. Uzi too.

Dark is nice, sharpens senses. Uzi’d thought her railgun needed a glowing green spare part. A macguffin. Then she brought a copper-wrapped tuning fork to a room with no lights. Completion sung to her, and the railgun felt done.

Just needs a target.

Till then, it’s scavenging.

An apartment block stands, no lights powered, but copper’s in the walls.

iii.

Crack. Quin sledghammers wall-plaster. Pipes burst, water gushing out. Cracking piñatas, copper wire candy.

Streetlamps flicker outside. The wind stops, choked breath. Transformer fails — whole block in overcast night. One lamp left, shines a vigil.

Knife-whisper. When you see yellow, he’s already dead.

Neck cut, life gushing out. Cracking piñatas like color-inverted eggs. Quin-candy.

No angst, just action.

Anime choreography. Duck under wing-sweep, copper wire lasso, gotcha.

Acid burbles — vocalsynth fries — name’s Marina.

The railgun sings. Point-blank. Core bursts, scream-roars, blood gushing out. Street’s lit anew, green light like lightning.

Still no wind.

iv.

Uzi is cold-hot. Alone like a glacier. Angry like a simmering volcano.

Fatal Error beneath bowl-cut and pinstripe suit.

Fatal Error beneath blue-dyed fringe and crop-top.

Plug a wire, mount file storage like an external hard-drive, Uzi is looking for momentos, funeral fodder or catharsis to carry back. Searching just makes her feel hot.

She looks to the victory-defeat.

Materal Collection: initialization failed, retrying... beneath afro and sweater vest.

They don’t even die like us.

Kick and smash and kick and smash and it’s action but it’s nothing.

She’s smaller even when it’s dead.

v.

Digging through murder drone carcass, those bones and sacs, you still find electronics. Like a radio — buzzing.

Wind again, ice scratching her cheek. Electromagnetic humming — on-edge. Above glittering snowfall, that yellow glint. X marks your death.

Frickin’ cooldowns! No railgun. Detatched murder-claw? Crap replacement.

Cloud-crash, snow debris. No pouncing? Idiot ball?

“Yeesh. R got cooked by a toaster?” Wary, circling.

Shotgun-barrel jabs. “You reckon it bears the devil’s fork?” Still, focused.

“Hate seein’ a fork stuck in a toaster.”

Uzi blurts, “That’s right. My corpse-meal!”

Wary, focused – then blink. Quick as death, gone as wind.

vi.

Uzi’s frame rattled. Like digital adrenaline. Robot hormones.

Murder drones fled. She bluffed, they believed. She looked back, met eye with red error.

Better act the part, could be watching.

You wanted to carry back part of them. You wanted catharsis.

Murder drones probably don’t even taste like us. Right?

Intrusive thoughts didn’t make sense.

Uzi felt cold-hot. Ice makes stones crack. Electric voltage fries circuits. Uzi felt broken-growing. Hormones.

That was just angst. This is action. Hands cupped, plastic goblet for king’s wine. Queen’s royal jelly.

Railgun whines red overheat. Cool hands cradle it. She walks away.

vii.

Snow crested Uzi’s beanie, above icicle-feathers like an inverse crown. Her rime is undisturbed. Winds went still; clouds ran dry of false stars.

Digging through her bat-wing backback, you find extraneous electronics. MP3 player. Nightcore? Anime OPs? Not hitting. Corrupted file, howling static. That’s it.

Uzi groans loud in night, frame rattling. No one to talk to. Angst-abyss. She’s melting glaciers, she’s dormant volcanos.

Her feet crack like sledgehammers against ice-slick roads.

She’s remembering two smiling scavengers she’d left Outpost-3 with. Then thinking of Doll. Thinking of Khan.

Of her mother.

Her railgun cooled quiet.

viii.

The world’s different outside of Outpost-3. A different key, her core beating new tempos, orchestral remix.

Uzi knows how. Khan read door blueprints like bedtime stories. Never explained why Door Two, just what it was: a faraday cage. Canceling that fundamental noise of the light and iron: electromagnetism.

Murder drones use it to hunt: communication, triangulation, disruption.

Uzi runs a finger down the railgun’s barrel. Guess I use it to hunt, too.

In that dark room, watched and sung to, Uzi felt completion and it attracted her.

If she’d felt repulsed? Now she understands why.

Time to change keys.

ix.

Stars, the few times Uzi saw them, had four points. That’s how Light diffracted through lenses; squishy human eyes saw differently. They’re all messed up.

What do stars look like to murder drones? They don’t even die like us. Probably don’t see like us either.

That carcass was squishy inside. Muscles in place of servos. Crap replacement.

Last bridge back home is perilously slick. Last gust of wind tugs her hoodie. And she slips. Last moment, she ledge-grabs — with both hands.

Railgun tumbling down. One hand holding secure, the other’s thrown to reach out in a futile, dramatic gesture.

x.

Three prongs of purple code erupt in miracle-glow between splayed fingers.

It’s mirrored ten meters abyssward, cradling the fruit of months brainstorming, months tinkering, months hoping. The railgun that sung to her (in the same tonality murder drones hummed.)

Her replacement for — what?

It rises like snow never could. When it’s inches away, she stares at the symbol.

The devil’s fork.

Did she hate seeing it? Stepping off the bridge, her electricity hummed in the gun she cradled. She sees Door Three, and a rift high above.

Stars still shine, yellow and blue-red — three-pointed and ever-shifting.