#marz does stuff

[marzeatsplanets]

" in gravity falls, there is no one you can trust "

[donutfloats]

Gabriel’s flock is the closest you’re gonna get to a cult that actually isn’t a cult due to their mostly pacifistic ways

This does cause problems however when dissenters or spies start causing problems

Gabriel is a little backwards with how they deal with people like this, as they simply just kick them out instead of forcing them to to change their ways

Granted if they cause actual problems, like stealing, damage to property, or hurting others: they will get sent to jail

For the most part it’s these individuals choice if they want to stay, Gabriel isn’t forcing them

Doesn’t mean Gabriel can’t get frustrated tho and contemplate “what if I just said fuck it and murdered these people”

[urlocalmagicalcat]

what the fuck???????????? /neg

[vertumnanaturalis]

some messy morning headcanon babbling about the main cast's future kids or other related four gen stuff while it's on my mind

I am not gonna list every possibility for every possible ending or love interest for Sol here but prolific parent Sol is said to parent "dozens of children" - with a plural s! - while in peace timelines the council asks them to keep it in the low twenties, and the only number that really fits both criteria is twenty four. Twenty Four. Twenty Four fucking children holy shit oh my God Sol what the FUCK-

If Cal doesn't end up with Sol and Tammy is either dead or with Sol herself, he eventually settles down with Helio hydroponics farmer Bluebell "Belle"; They have an insane ten children together, including two sets of twins, as they both are eager to help the colony grow as much as possible.

If Sol and Cal stay together and Tammy is still alive, she eventually settles down with a pair of Helio soldiers, Pyrite "Py" and Obsidian "Obi", having been a surrogate for one of their three kids together, and then going on to have the trio's collective fifth child (the one made "the old fashioned way").

If Cal and Tammy either start dating in game or start dating in the epilogue, including Echinacea the two of them go on to have an even more insane twelve children together, including a set of triplets and a set of twins.

If Vace and Anemone aren't broken up, then they canonly have three kids together in the epilogue. (While text in the game files covers if they stayed together after Vace got therapy, I'm fairly certain that the game itself requires them to be broken up for Vace's final love event to happen.)

If Vace gets the therapy he needs, then he later goes on to have four children with fellow Helio soldier Hyacinth "Cici"; they attempted to go for an even mix of boys and girls, but they grew up to be all girls.

The one pregnancy Marz will surrogate is for Helio soldier Protogenos "Gen", another one of Rex's lovers; Although the kid does call Rex dad, there's never any assumption she's their mom.

The children Tang might create with her genetics are the only ones not fully accounted for in my headcanon list atm, and this is just because it would include needing to make a paradox not-sibling for each child for timelines where Tang does not give her dna to any children; The only two that I've settled on right now are a pair of twins born to and raised by Helio (ex-)soldiers Intelligentsia "Jenna" and Bastion "Bas", with both parents having their own twins

Rex, forever the maddest of lads and a prime example for why you need to spay and neuter your cats and dogs, could have anywhere from eight to seventeen children calling him dad from four to eight co-parents (with many of them not being in relationships with one another), and that's before any possible children he might have with Sol are added into the mix; Irregardless of how he's not the biological father of many/most of those children, I think that Tangent wants to strangle this man a little anyways

Bonus round! Auntie Seedant (or Nannie Seedant now) could have anywhere from nine to eighteen grandchildren; Stratus will eventually go on to have to children with his future partner doctor Enlightenment "Ten", Cumulus is guarenteed to have seven children with his future partner xeno whisperer Effervescence "Ves", while Cirrus might be a co-parent six children with farmer Nectarine "Nena", and we already covered Anemone's maybe kids above; Nimbus never has any direct children of his own, but he has a lot of kids in his own way, growing up to be (one of) the colony's future teacher(s)

[n01mistahphonelover]

HELLOOO!!!!

IT'S MEEE!! TOILET, THE ONE, THE ONLY [well not actually only but yeah-] CO-HOST OF INANIMATE INSANITY!!!!! >:D

NICKNAMES!!!! ദ്ദി(ᵔᗜᵔ)

(o/////o " ) = ONLY MISTAH PHONE CAN SAY THAT.

( ˶°ㅁ°) !! = MISTAH PHONE/CLOSE PEOPLE ONLY!

ദ്ദി(˵ •̀ ᴗ - ˵ ) ✧ = YESSS YESSSS ILOVEITILOVEITILOVEITILOVEIT!!!!!

ᵔ ᵕ ᵔ = I LIKE IT!!

( •̀ - •́ ) = I don't like it :[

ᕙ( ᗒᗣᗕ )ᕗ = NO.

NAME VARIATIONS!!

𐙚 Toilet ᵔ ᵕ ᵔ

𐙚 Toi ദ്ദി(˵ •̀ ᴗ - ˵ ) ✧

𐙚 TT ᵔ ᵕ ᵔ

𐙚 Mistah Toilet ദ്ദി(˵ •̀ ᴗ - ˵ ) ✧

PREFIXES!!

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𐙚 Mistah ( ˶°ㅁ°) !!

𐙚 Ma'am ദ്ദി(˵ •̀ ᴗ - ˵ ) ✧

𐙚 Madam ᕙ( ᗒᗣᗕ )ᕗ

𐙚 Miss/Ms. ( ˶°ㅁ°) !!

𐙚 Mx. ᵔ ᵕ ᵔ

𐙚 Sai (·•᷄‎ࡇ•᷅ ) [What the beans does that mean??]

𐙚 Bro ᵔ ᵕ ᵔ

𐙚 Girl ᵔ ᵕ ᵔ

𐙚 Dude ( •̀ - •́ )

𐙚 Mate ദ്ദി(˵ •̀ ᴗ - ˵ ) ✧

𐙚 Man ᵔ ᵕ ᵔ

𐙚 Buddy ( ˶°ㅁ°) !!

𐙚 Chum ദ്ദി(˵ •̀ ᴗ - ˵ ) ✧

𐙚 Pal ᕙ( ᗒᗣᗕ )ᕗ

𐙚 Friend ᵔ ᵕ ᵔ

OTHER!!

𐙚 Boyfriend (o/////o " ) [PLATONICALLY!]

𐙚 Girlfriend ᵔ ᵕ ᵔ [DEPENDS!]

𐙚 Bae ᕙ( ᗒᗣᗕ )ᕗ

𐙚 Boo (·•᷄‎ࡇ•᷅ ) [ehhh...]

𐙚 Baby ( •̀ - •́ )

𐙚 Sweetie ᵔ ᵕ ᵔ [DEPENDS!]

𐙚 Honey ( ˶°ㅁ°) !! [DEPENDS!]

𐙚 Leng ( ˶°ㅁ°) !! [PLATONICALLY!]

𐙚 Fit (·•᷄‎ࡇ•᷅ ) [UHHHH- IDK]

𐙚 "You Dunny" (o/////o " )

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𐙚 Idiot ( •̀ - •́ )

𐙚 Racoon ᵔ ᵕ ᵔ

𐙚 Racky (o/////o " )

𐙚 Religious Dr. Fizz drinker ദ്ദി(˵ •̀ ᴗ - ˵ ) ✧

ABOUT ME!!!๋࣭ ⭑⚝ (˶ˆᗜˆ˵)

𖹭 I'M A DEMI-BOY!

𖹭 I USE HE/THEY/IT!!! ദ്ദി(˵ •̀ ᴗ - ˵ ) ✧

𖹭 I AM TRANS FROM FTM!! •ᴗ•

𖹭 I USE ANY GENDER TERMS!!

𖹭 I AM FROM ENGLAND!!! 🇬🇧

𖹭 I HAVE AUTISM!!

𖹭 I ALSO HAVE TRICHOTALLOMANIA AND ATTACHMENT ISSUES SO I GET ATTACHED TO OTHERS A. LOT.

𖹭 I'M AN INSOMNIAC AND ALWAYS HAVE TOO MUCH ENERGY!! (っ˕ -｡)ᶻ 𝗓 𐰁

𖹭 I LOVE THE COLOUR PINK!!!!!! 𖹭

𖹭 I LOVE CATS AND RACOONS!! :33 ᓚ₍ ^. .^₎

𖹭 I TYPE IN BIG LETTERS A LOT!! ☆

𖹭 I LOVE USING SYMBOLS!! ↓

LITERALLY ME :0

𐙚OTHER STUFF! ദ്ദി(˵ •̀ ᴗ - ˵ ) ✧

I LIKE LISTENING TO MUSIC!!

SONGS I LIKE A LOT!!!

I AM AN ARTIST AND I LOVE TO DRAW A LOT!!

I MOSTLY LOVE TO DOODLE TRADITIONALLY AND DIGITALLY!! ദ്ദി(˵ •̀ ᴗ - ˵ ) ✧

𖹭 IBIS PAINT>>

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DNI. (⊙ _ ⊙ )

If any of you are this, I DON'T WANNA SEE YOU HERE. SHOO. ᕙ( ᗒᗣᗕ )ᕗ

Racists, homophobes, transphobes, abelists, zoophiles, any other basic offensive criteria. NO.

People with s3xu4l humour. THAT’S GROSS.. Suggestive jokes are alright, but actually full on jokes about it, I DONT LIKE. Also jokes that s3xu4l1s3 things that are perfectly normal or jokes about r4p3/4ss4ult make me SUPER uncomfy. Also jokes about pregnancy. I don't like it!

People with OVERLY cruel humour/just mean in general. I'm a sensitive person sometimes so if not specified as a joke, that stuff can upset me.

Mistah Phone haters. GET OUT. /j

MEPAD. /JJJJ

People who gatekeep characters. I get that you kin them for a reason, but it's not fair to gatekeep! People can kin/relate to/like the character you kin too!

[Mod message! :D]

[✮ Hiya! Some of you probably know me as Marz/Cuppa/Cheese Pretzels! This is another one of my fiction kins blogs!]

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[star-whores69]

LATE AS HECK ART FIGHT COMPILATION: THE STUFF I DID (my art)

I went a little nuts and did like a million drawings for ArtFight 2024; here's some of my Star Wars themed ones (with links to the people who own the respective characters, who can btw let me know if they want off this post, idk)

Pretty proud of what I accomplished this last year, even if my art style has already changed a good bit since last July lmao

Kepler and Brea (I technically own a share of these two legally, but also so does @kissingarthurclaus)

Zola & Magda (Me8t)

Judas Solaine (@junker-thirsty)

Rahno & Journo (CryoSeaa)

Zorrin & Mella (@rainechiime)

Amarinda Amar (@jazaesis)

Marz Karls (@tyquu)

Caz Navidareh (@west-brooke)

Celestia Najeel (@sharky66)

Lumnis Solace (@almightycato)

Volya Sasiq and R2-M0 (Sketchyz)

Fourth Brother (aquatoned)

Cirzpibog Shio-Imela (@404ama)

Aemsa Drit (bra1n_fog)

Ieirus (chisswag)

Wraitch (@rookfern)

Bebe (caffeinated_color)

[darkimpala1897]

Random Marz thoughts.

Hambone addition.

Side note: I love this picture, it's just hilarious Ham eating Spam that rhymes.

Anyway...

Hambone can draw, and I don't mean like scribbles. He can really draw, like he is scary talented.

When he's not on a mission, he just draws anything or anyone.

After someone he knows is killed in action, he draws them from memory. Because he's got like photographic memory.

He also drew people he didn't know for other people who missed their friends, like for Helen he drew Nash for her, she didn't even ask. He just handed her the picture when she gave him a coffee, it nearly made her cry.

Bucky stole his drawing of Curt, and Buck which Ham didn't mind.

After Ham was in the Muenster mission, and they were going to send his stuff back home. Crosby stole all his drawings and framed them putting them in his office to lighten the place up.

In the camp, Ham continues his drawings mostly Buck and Bucky.

But he draws Brady, and he draws Meatball for DeMarco who misses the dog terribly.

When Ham gets back to the base, Crosby asks him to draw Bubbles for him, and he does.

Crosby uses that drawing to show Jean what Bubbles looked like.

Ham in my head yes he can draw amazingly, but his hand writing is absolute shit like it's like he asked a toddler to write for him, because you need a decipher just to understand it.

That's it, thanks for coming to me ted talk!

[dannybobany]

hi ok... this is the aforementioned Sol Ask!!

if i am not mistaken Sol is marze's stranger, but does Sol have a sunny counterpart, or has he jsut not been drawn yet?

if not i totally get that but im just wondering because sol is a very cool character to me esp with his whole god parallels and stuff,, and what kind of role does sol play? does he kinda peek in and out when marze needs a breather most, or a constant, or just an anomaly?

and for art purposes... does sol have a sunny face or is he different entity..

((if you dont have all the answers to this i totally get it, marzenie is a work in progress so i dont wanna like push too hard but this is just me being friendly curious :3))

also ugreigrjeg i was thinking ab marze's lantern.. an how it runs on blood.... and for some reason i was thinking "yeah ok the world of marzenie is shaped like heart and... hearts have blood" and also thinking deltarune and... my brain went "what if marze harvested blood for his lantern by like stabbing the earth kris deltarune style, pretty much representing how he's actively harming himself to continue being in marzenie, as he feels he deserves" and i felt the distinct need to share this for no reason

anyway thats thats enough ranting my apologies

NEVER APOLOGIZE FOR RANTING ABOUT MARZENIE MARZENIE IS BUILT TO BE RAMBLED ABOUT- anyway!

I LOVE THIS ASK… Sol

So first thing, yes Sol is like Basil’s stranger, No Sol has no other counterparts (i don’t count the moon parasite as a counterpart)

This has a lot to do with the fact that Marzenie is so involuntary for Basil, in fact he tries to separate it as much as he can from the real world due to his guilt around how people are represented in Marzenie

As for how close Sol and Sunny are? Well, I tend to think of Sol as like Sunny but with everything that could be perceived as a “flaw” removed, his hair is separated in neat, defined shapes, His face is smoothed out like varnished wood, and most of all… Sol is Happy, because that’s the one thing Basil truly NEEDS Sunny to be, those other differences are more a reflection of Basil failing to see the ways Sunny has messed up (the biggest of these being his perception of ‘fault’ for Mari’s death, this is one of the reasons I characterize Sol as a bit naive, he’s supposed to a being of true innocence, someone ultimately INCAPABLE of doing wrong)

Visually, here’s how I draw them

The general shapes are the same but Sol’s features are just that tiniest bit exaggerated… like Barbie’s with their big eyes

And with how he appears, I’d say he shows up when Basil really does NEED him, he’s a wandering presence that Marze spends his time searching for but he only actually shows himself when Marze needs help achieving a goal that would otherwise be impossible or escaping from some kind of danger- he’s Basically a deus ex machina but without the machina- I have it in my head that there’s several things that are “scripted losses” in Marzenie (me using game terms again) where Marze gets into mortal peril and out of nowhere… a wooden hand pushes open a door, or holds a rope on place or moves a inconvenient roadblock- but he’s always gone before Marze has the chance to interact with him

hope that enlightens things a bit around Sol and his Nature, another thing I’d like to point out is that the biggest reasons I describe Sol as a parallel for stranger is that while Stranger is a distressing presence that will ultimately push Sunny in the right direction, Sol is the opposite, a comforting presence that will ultimately push Basil in the wrong direction…

[fortemelody]

chat i had the biggest ghost and pals hyperfixation when i was 14…like it was so bad every fucking math class i would use my airpods secretly and listen to the songs on repeat while also drawing the characters on my paper. and when i wasn’t doing that i was just constantly thinking about it and looking up shit on the wiki and joining discord servers about it…

btw the fandom is so ass (or at least was?) a lot of people were obnoxious asf

i legit had to pry myself away from it becus i was like chronically online at that point 💀 not blaming that one on the fandom or franchise honestly it was my own fault but i’m just saying it made matters worse

and yet i still revisit it every couple months and have such a strong urge to draw the characters once again aughdkfkfkr but i think it’s a healthy relationship now so that’s good

my friend even got me a tamari plush which was legit the last song/character i remember seeing new content of before fully leaving the fandom which was kinda ironic (but not complaining at all it’s adorable i cherish it and i’m pretty sure it took months/years to come so i was prob into it when it was ordered)

i was also so deep that i listened to most of the songs in the marz mitzi era and i tried to listen to some of those again and good god they hurt my ears (in the most respectful way possible; i cannot make music for the life of me and i obviously know that ghost improved)

anywayssss uhm just wanted to say black and white is an underrated gem and the whole communications case could honestly be like turned into some prime time tv type shit and it would blow up i guarantee IM GIVIN YALL FREE IDEAS HERE!!!!

lastly i also wanted to see if anyone is in the fandom currently and wanted to be mutuals and like maybe fill me in on stuff if you want LMAO cus i’ll see art of like pathological facade and new songs that i don’t even know the name of now and feel like i’m old 😭 i know i just spent half of this post shitting on it but like i said some of it was my own fault and the franchise itself genuinely does hold a place in my heart

[sunshine-on-marz]

GNF x Reader

High school AU

Dividers by @cafekitsune

Well isn’t this fucking great. Once again the new student was upstaging you. Well not really, but it felt like it! Any time you’d answer a question, he’d answer the next one. He’s was so annoying and infuriating and- not hot. You’d never let yourself think that. Never.

“Are you alright?”

Shit. He was next to your desk.

“I’m fine.” You mumble as you close your notebook and put it in your bag.

“Are you sure? Because class ended a minute ago and you’re still sat here” he smirks as he leans over your desk.

“I’m fine. I just zoned out” you say as you pick up your bag and throw your r over your shoulder

“Let me hold your things love” he says softly. And when you freeze he takes your bag off your shoulder “we have 2nd period together too” he smiles.

He has a nice smile.

No. No he doesn’t.

Ok fine maybe he does.

The walk to class is so extremely embarrassing. Your friends are never gonna let you live this down. Of course the first time I hit walks you to class you absolutely despise him; of course.

George drops your stuff at your desk and smiles as he walks away and your cheeks are left burning.

—

This repeats itself for a few days, George dropping hints, you being too angry to pick up on them. So he takes matters into his own hands.

“Would you guys maybe want to convince y/n to run for prom Queen?”

Luckily for him, you were already planning on it.

—

The morning announcements rang through the classroom, boring the class and killing you with anticipation until you hear

“As you all know, prom is tomorrow, so, it’s time to announce our prom king and queen”

Deep breath

“The winners are…”

Deep breaths

“Y/N and George Davidson”

What

The class started congratulating you and you pushed your feeling aside, you were truly happy!

Then George walked over to you

“So, we won” he smiled

“Mhmm” you nod

“Do me a favor and meet me by the parking lot at lunch, alright gorgeous?” He says softly and you nod.

—

When the lunch bell rang you grabbed your things and walked over to the parking lot where you saw George and one of his friends. When George made eye contact with you he smiled before shooing off his friend.

“Hello” he said, smile still stuck to his lips.

“Hi George” you say, sounding suspicious

“Look, y/n. What did I do to make you so angry towards me! You seem lovely and people adore you, so, what did I do?” He asks, you sigh

“Nothing George, it’s nothing, you just seemed cocky” you say, he grabs you hand gently.

“I promise I’m not” he giggles and you nod

“I can tell” you breathe a small laugh and his face lights up at your small smile

“So would you like to be my prom date?” He asks, and how could you say no?

Do y’all want part two with prom?

OMG MARZ CAN WRITE???

Hi hunnys, sorry for never posting, life’s tough lol. But im here now with some gnf for ya!

[creepyfruit]

Favorite Exocolonist characters? And maybe least favorites if you have any?

I'll give you my character tier list (I decided to include only the kids idk maybe I'll make a separate one for adults)

Answer under the cut ↓

My least fav is obviously Vace. I don't think I need to elaborate but to make it clear l, I haven't ever tried to befriend him so I don't know much about him other than his obsession with killing things, being abusive and a bully.

Next I'll have to put Nomi Nomi not because I don't like them but simply because I've never went out of my way to befriend them so I don't really have an opinion.

Cal was my best friend in my first play through so it hurts me to put him so low but he deserves it. Listen mate I love animals as much as the average gal but you're doing too much. The victim blaming as well?? I'm sorry that I was born on a spaceship set to colonize an alien planet, what did you want me to do? Swim through space and go back to earth? Also your girlfriend's dad died a horrid death and that's still all you have to say? Pacifism isn't a good look on an environment like this one.

Rex is a great dude, there's nothing I dislike about him, he's just simply not as interesting as the others.

Tammy is also kind of on the same boat. I did have a lot of hearts with her on my second play through and helping her be more confident was a very enjoyable journey, she is obviously very kind and empathetic and that makes her incredibly likable. I wish she had some flaws to make a bit more realistic.

This is where things get tough because all the next characters are kinda close but Nem will have to take this one. I romanced her in my most recent play through and she really is just the cutest... until Kom dies and she adopts the whole Helio package. She did become slightly annoying even though I understand her trauma. It's good that you can help her grow out of it, that gives her bonus points. A fun character with some nice character development.

And here comes everyone's fav boy Dys. It took a lot of trying to befriend him, he made it very hard for me and I liked that. I liked how they made him weird and antisocial, he wasn't the misunderstood boy that no one likes but rather it's actually the opposite. His relationship with Tang is so beautifully complex I love every part of it although I still haven't gotten them to reconcile (that damn bar will be the death of me). I would have put him much lower if it wasn't for the exploration buddies relationship that he had with Sol because the most unlikable thing about him (that I honestly never understood) is his obsession with the gardeners. Maybe it's my lack of understanding or the fact that I never really went down that road (making him a gardener/befriending Sym) because it creeps me out but I just don't like his views on the subject. And also I hate his relationship with Sym, nothing cute about a 100+ yo alien praying on a 16 yo boy.

Marz is a character that I thought I was going to hate straight from my first play through. She seemed like the typical mean girl character, who's very pretty has a lot of money is obsessed with clothes and stuff and also bullies every one just because but she's not exactly like that. Sure she has kudos and status and loves her fashion but she has genuinely kind intentions behind her "bullying". She doesn't understand how words can hurt because due to her augument they can't hurt her, she thinks she's helping Dys fit in with her comments and she doesn't want him to be lonely. She's naturally a very commanding person and a true leader but she isn't looking for mindless sheep, she wants you to have self respect and a backbone and I love her for that. Also bonus points to our girl for helping us overthrow the government. I have to say though, all the above doesn't excuse the fact that she can be seriously mean sometimes, but we love her regardless.

My favourite girl, my sweet baby Tangent, who's gone through so much but no matter what you do she doesn't really get a happy ending. I had my eye on her the moment I saw her (her child sprite reminded me of Ino from Naruto that's why) and she was my first romance. Obviously that didn't end well cause my first ending turned out to be tangent's cure (I thought I was just helping my gf bro) and now I'm scared to even talk to her thinking I'll trigger it again but I love her non the less. She's such a complex character I could talk about her for days (special thanks to the person with the multiple tangent discussion posts) her relationship with Dys, the obviously toxic and abusive relationship with Instance, her importance to a whole colony at such a young age, the fact that she's held to adult standards which results in self harming habits and her loneliness, her struggle with mental illness and the death of her mother. I'm writing everything down in a synopsis pretty much because if I start I won't stop. I also love how this abusive relationship was handled compared to Nem and Vace. No matter what you say she won't see how bad Instance is for her and the product of all this abuse is ultimately horrible for her. It adds a realism that hurts to death but is necessary. I also adore her character because it gives us a reminder that not everyone gets a happy ending in life, sometimes the things people go through never really leave them, although admittedly I would kill to see my baby happy, she deserves it.

[marzeatsplanets]

compilation of generation loss memes i've made

[theomenroom]

exocolonist stuff about the green forever ending and the shimmer

Lum's bioweapon works because there's a fundamental weakness in vertumnan ecology because it isn't actually a wild ecosystem. it's a Garden in facsimile of the ecosystem before the Convergent Domain rose, and the Gardeners run their overlay on everything, and the Gardeners have spent 20,000 years alone on a planet without anyone even capable of conceptualizing a deliberate attack. Sym all but tells us as much, that Vertumna's ecosystem is all one thing that reconnects every Pollen and Glow in a way that real-world ecosystems aren't.

And it is Lum's bioweapon. Instance may have developed it and used Tangent to help, who in turn used Sol, and Instance was almost certainly doing bioweapons research before the Heliopause landed (certainly, Tangent says some unhinged things about their research that foreshadow the bioweapon from an early age), but Instance had more reason than ego to be against deploying this particular bioweapon.

Instance is such a complicated character, really. If you try to convince her to support Marz's bid by saying that Lum's war on nature is stupid, she says she supports it, even if she thinks Lum is an idiot and "war" isn't the right way of understanding what she wants to do. She almost certainly is in favor of deploying bioweapons targeted against species they want to remove (again, I'm nearly certain she's been researching bioweapons at least as far back as when they were researching the Shimmer); she opposes this particular bioweapon because it's too indiscriminate for her tastes, perhaps, and a bit because Lum is calling the shots and she has reasons to hate him personally.

I think it's likely she was dragging her heels, too. There's an event if you assist the governor where you can (with very high Organizing) eavesdrop on her trying to control the access levels granted to nameless Helio scientists assigned to her department (there's a whole essay in how the Helios are treated by the narrative as a mostly-nameless mass right up until the narrative needs them), where Sol speculates that she's trying to keep them from uncovering the engineered plague, if they know about it, and that doesn't make sense on its face (or several other levels). Researchers who spent 20 years conducting research in a military environment would know how to act when someone in the lab next to you is working on a classified project. She's not scared they'd find out that she's working on a bioweapon for Lum, she's scared they'd find out she's not doing her best work.

(and if the Heliopause did have a bunch of "earth's top researchers" on it, why is it that under no circumstances can Lum put one of them in the second engineer job over an eighteen-year-old? she's a prodigy but earth has a huge population to draw top researchers from)

It's unlikely that the pre-Gardener vertumnan ecology had the same symbiotes as the current one does. It doesn't sound evolutionarily advantageous. It reminds me of how a cultivar of bananas have gone extinct, wiped out by disease, because that entire cultivar were clones, so they had exactly identical immune systems, so one parasite just swept through them. I am not a biologist, but parasite resistance is heavily-speculated as a driver for sexual reproduction according to wikipedia. There are pretty strong evolutionary pressures against being uniformly susceptible to the exact same parasites across a population.

So I kinda have to conclude that the Shimmer isn't a natural phenomenon. It's a fungal technology, part of the Gardeners. It's the way it is because they are the way they are.

[rlmartian]

So um yeah finally making one of these hello and welcome to hell. Have fun because we’re all gonna be burning together for the rest of time.

Some ground rules:

I do drawing request but I won't draw nsfw and If I dont want to draw something plz respect that 

Please do not argue about things on my posts

Please do try to keep as much nsfw out of my posts as possible

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Stuff abt me:

You can call me Marz or Mako 

Minor 

Demiromantic Asexual 

Any pronouns but preference towards he (its just the fastest to type lmao)

Chaotic neutral 

Does art and occasionally animation

Has the worst tagging you will ever see

No real posting schedule 

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Fandoms I’m currently being consumed by

Lego monkie kid (lmk), The Magnus archives (tma), Percy Jackson, Hatsune miku colorful stage, Rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles (ROTTMNT), Helluva boss and Hazbin hotel, Spider Verse, All things D&D, Mcu, Dc, Genshin impact, Voltron, And a bunch of manga, manhwa, and anime

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I like asks and don’t mind spam liking and rebloging 

Blog is LGBTQIA+ and Neurodivergent friendly and mostly family friendly 

Most of the content will probably be lmk 

My requests are open I mostly do character and outfit designs and I can draw oc’s and fanart

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[vertumnanaturalis]

Actually, woe, an incomplete list of fanfic ideas I eventually want to write be upon ye

( Technically under the list of things that belong in the continuality of Floriography for the Recursive Funeral but 9 times out of 10 can stand on their own without it )

Tang going to work in geoponics like she told Cal she would during the pixie bean event , except now its a week later and she's at an emotional low and her hair is a knotted mess all of the smells, and sounds of geoponics are overwhelming her but she doesn't wanna just give up because she should be able to ignore her feelings like an adult already, and she doesn't want to ask for help because she's not a little girl who needs help anymore, but one of the adults who works in geoponics told her that she can't go work in the fields with her hair loose and it needs to be in a bun or in a tight braid she can tuck away, and she's been sitting at the entrance to one of the domes for like 20 minutes trying not to have a breakdown when Sol shows up. Cue Sol knowing how to help without forcing Tang to accept it or make her like a little kid (even if the genuine and gentle affection that respects her boundries makes her cry a little bit, not that she wants to tell Sol that & they won't push)

Dys and Nomi getting back from an expedition pretty early in their friendship and Nomi's parents having been waiting for them at the depot and oh they are SO excited to see their Nomi Nomi making friends, they were worried that there weren't going to be other kids their age working out in the jungle, because it's so scary and dangerous out there and all that, and wow son you look like a bundle of twigs whens the last time you had a good family meal :) ? And Dys gets pulled into a family dinner at Nomi's before the stun debuff can even wear off. [Tentatively named "Loving Home"]

Teenage Utopia having a Teenager moment on the Stratospheric a bit before her 14th birthday / around Sol's first birthday, where she's upset about [something to mirror the pixie bean stuff that Sol later goes through but like the spin the bottle part not alien bean drugs] because theres so many things (read: kissing and dating) she can't do or take part of because the next youngest Earthborne kid is already 18 and the oldest Shipborne kid is barely 10 - But, luckily, counciler Besk is here just for moments like these! And as always, she knows just what to say and when she just needs to listen, and it really does help Utopia feel better. Thanks stars for that, what would they do without counciler Besk??? [Tentatively named "Special Age"]

Early 20s Cal and Marz watching some romantic couple their age doing something romantic and Cal mentioning Tammy and Marz just turning to him and going "She's been gone a decade Cal, obsessing over your theoretical relationship with a dead 11 year old is getting a little creepy. Like. Seek help. You're 24. " which. Cal does not take gracefully. [Tentatively named "Seek Help"]

A bunch of the planetborne kids keep following Dys around and he asks Tammy about it, and she has to explain to him that he's like catnip to the average 4 year old in the way that batman or dinosaurs are (can't get scared of anything, goes outside and has adventures all day, gets to explore ancient ruins and see all sorts of cool scary aliens, doesn't have follow the rules or listen to anybody). [Tentatively named "Newfound Popularity"]

Anemone coming to dinner at Anne's place in the first time in ages after her mother keeps bothering her about it, and she arrives a little bit earlier than expected and catches the triplets at the end of some sort of argument that she can't hear before its over. Things stay calm for a little bit and Nem keeps being surprised at how much her brothers have grown while shes been focused on the garrison, often not knowing what their hobbies or interests are now, especially prominant with Nimbus as the youngest. It all culminates in the triplets earlier fight coming to the forefront again, at the heart of it being each one of them coping with the loss of Kom and the colony's situation in a very different way and their relationships with eachother deteriorating because of it, all while Anne tries to get them to keep it together so Nem comes back again, and while Nimbus doesn't seem to super react to it and instead keeps trying to get Anemone's attention while he can. [Tentatively named "Family Dinner"]

I might add on to this list later, because it is Not all of the ideas I have, and none of these are ones delving into other chains of timelines or other aus (of which I have... too many concepts...)

[zahri-melitor]

Finished Superboy (1994). It’s a really interesting run all together, in that it’s a run full of complicated story ideas, often let down in execution. The one through line is too high expectations on too young a character.

The Karl and Barbara Kesel writing team are probably my favourite on the entire book. The biggest crime is that Barbara never got more than two issues in her own name, AND that due to time and history we will never know how much input Barbara had on the initial run of #1-30. But I can see it. She’s there, too, even if it’s simply in terms of discussing plot points and characterisation.

Kesel had the best settings and side character development as well. When I think of pretty much all my favourite storylines, there’s a Kesel behind them. (Also some of the weirdest plots. Like the sentient animals and the weird hippies who commune with machines)

I want to say nobody understands Knockout except Karl Kesel but wow do none of the other writers ever get what Kesel was trying to do with Kay.

I do also like some of what Ron Marz did, but my biggest frustration is that Kesel and Marz both wanted to write about an exploited child star…but never really understood the storyline the other was advancing. Which led to some of the plot incoherence (see Marz successfully moving Tana into realising Kon was 16, and the ping pong back and forth over Tana and Roxy’s feelings towards Kon).

In hindsight I do have to wonder how much impact Eddie Berganza had on the development of the narrative that Kon’s just into any woman in his eyeline. Because it’s there, and different writers are more blatant about it than others.

Jay Faerber using his three issues just to basically do some stuff he didn’t have time to get to in Titans is the funniest shit ever. However, can’t go past Jim Harper (clone) getting to meet Lian Harper. My ENTIRE heart.

Joe Kelly was a ride, because he ping ponged back and forth between some of the most heart wrenching characterisation you’ve ever seen, hilarious visualisation of deep issues about Kon as a character, and some of the most bonkers plots in the entire run.

Like how do you have a panel of Kon and Clark mourning Pa Kent (who they think is dead) in the middle of a story where the remainder of it is a bonkers dream sequence? Oh Kelly.

Didio and Palmiotti as a team - look I don’t think any of this run is good. It’s certainly got some of the worst of Kon overlooking the interiority of the women around him. It does hit the ‘exploited minor’ point again, but in a way that felt less aware by the writing team? It was far more ‘time to grow up’ exploitation rather than the clear celebrity manipulation Kesel wrote or the ownership CADMUS displayed.

Overall? Superboy is a run that made me think. It’s a run you can’t just take at surface level as there’s often a deeper thread running under what’s been written. It did some striking things with particularly Roxy Leech and Serling Roquette over the years, much of which is underappreciated.

It’s quite often not a comfortable read. But it is a fascinating one (and should be given a more deep look by some fans).