#max dissociation era!

[earthmoonz]

WIFEY. PT 2 | EP ONE (1.4)

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(transcript below)

[Distant talking, heartbeat thumping]

[Thumping continues, as does the talking, Max clenches their jaw]

(???): [broad leeds accent] Max, are you following love? I'm not saying this for me 'ealth.

(Max): S-sorry. Carry on Jacqui

(Jacqui): Alright, as I was saying- not too much has changed since you left. We’ve had a bit of a refurb so things look nicer and there’s some new girls but other than that procedure’s pretty standard. Upsell the drinks, keep it friendly but firm with the clientele and everything should be aces. Any questions?

(Max): Not that I can think of…

[Door knocks]

(Jacqui): Good. Come in love! [A young woman enters] Autumn- Max, Max - Autumn.

(Autumn): Hey. 

(Max): Hi.

(Jacqui): Splendid, you two are free to go. If there’s any problems don’t bring ‘em to me unless they’re high risk alright? 

(Autumn): Of course boss. Max, follow me, I’ll show you where to put your stuff.

[stobinesque]

intro & masterlist

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I follow and interact from @amusingdisplacement.

Mostly Stobin, Steddie, and Lucas Sinclair content here, but I am, broadly speaking, a multishipper! (There is the occasional canon-Stancy-critical reblog here and there, tagged anti-stancy for filtering purposes.)

No DNI criteria, but minors take note that there's fairly frequent 18+ content here. And B*lly Hargr*ve fans who don't think he's canonically racist: we will not get along.

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#jeff is steve's bi awakening au | #wayfinder tag [s4 lucas pov fix-it] | #first light tag [rockie apocalyptic first date fic] | #wigwag tag [steve's gay slut-discovery era: the fic]

fic list

highlights:

currently posting: Follow Celebration Microfics!

newest: held frozen like an angel to me • E • steddie • [read on ao3]

biggest hit: lay your cuts and bruises over my skin • unrated • Steve-centric • [ao3 only]

writer's higlight: the firmament in you • T • stobin • [read on ao3]

SERIES

semiotics 'verse

[series masterpost tk]

/ˌsemēˈädiks/ plural 1. the study of signs and symbols and their use or interpretation. "Queer identities, and the everyday practices and performances associated with them, cannot be dissociated from the ways in which they are expressed by language—in all its subtleties and implicit associations as well as explicit self-reports—as situated in dynamic contexts of social norms and values, politics, power, ideology and various media" (source)

lay your cuts and bruises over my skin

3/3 | wc: 22k | Unrated | Gen / Steve-centric | ao3 only

People like to say that Steve can’t take a punch. But that’s not strictly true. The other accusation—that he’s no good at throwing a punch—is closer to the truth. But really the issue can be neatly summarized by the fact that he’s a little too good at taking a punch. OR A history of Steve Harrington’s bruises.

plinth

One-Shot | wc: 1k | G | Gen / Robin & Max | read on ao3

There are monsters in Hawkins, Billy Hargrove is dead, and Robin is sitting next to his kid sister while her summer job burns in front of her.

phryctoria

7/7 | T | Gen / Stobin & Steve-centric

Sometimes your gay awakening is just having someone to show you it’s possible. After Starcourt, Steve realizes he's gay, comes out to his best friend, and starts figure out how to navigate his new reality with her. Sometimes your gay awakening is just having someone to show you it’s possible. After Starcourt, Steve realizes he's gay, comes out to his best friend, and starts figure out how to navigate his new reality with her.

A Cure for All That Ails You

One-Shot | wc: 6k | T | Gen / Stobin | read on ao3

Steve gives her a despairing look. “Please don’t tell me your only experience of grilled cheeses have been ones made with Kraft singles.” “Okay, I won’t tell you!” She says brightly. Steve looks to be on the brink of tears. “Hey…it’s okay, Steve. I promise you can pop my good-grilled-cheese cherry!” Steve’s expression, if anything, grows even more pained. “Please, for the love of God, do not put it like that.” For Lex's Spicy Six Summer Fanworks Challenge prompt: “How did you go through life so far without knowing how to make a grilled cheese sandwich?”

perfect creature rarely scene

held frozen like an angel to me

One-Shot | wc: 10.3k | E | Steddie | read on ao3

There's a figure in the doorway, silhouetted by the chandeliers he keeps faintly lit in the receiving hall. Eddie sees the outline of wings. Of horns. A flowered crown. No sooner has he had the thought to reach out than the figure is stalking towards him. Eddie still can't move, and the beat of his heart picks up its pace. Not yet pounding in terror, but racing like he's just started a chase. He wants to speak. Wants to cry out, wants to— "Hello, my pet."

ONE SHOTS

the shape of things lost; the shape of things to come

T | wc: 1k | Gen / Stobin | cw: Major (Canonical) Character Death, Post-Season 4 Vol. 2, Grief & Mourning, fatalistic thinking

hitch, loop, hand & heart [ READ ON AO3 ]

E | wc: 2k | cw/tags: Bondage, Shibari, Hand Kink, Praise Kink, Anal Fingering, Soft Dom Steve, Good Boy Eddie, ‘puppy’ used as a term of endearment

the mouth that feeds you [ READ ON AO3 ]

E | wc: 4k | cw/tags: Office Sex, Desk Sex,Lingerie, thigh biting, Stone Top Robin, Sassy Pillow Princess Nancy (kinda), ‘sir’ used as an honorific, Praise Kink, Oral Sex, Dacryphilia (just a dash), Edging, Vaginal Fingering, Squirting [there’s…a lot going on here]

CHALLENGES & PROMPT FILLS

Steddie Week fics:

Day Two: Fluff [T+]

Day Three: First Kiss [T]

Day Four: Familiar / “let me be the void you fill” [T+]

Days 6: Misunderstanding & 7: “Freedom!” by Wham / “talking could, if we’d just dare (you know that i’ll forgive you)” [part 1][part 2]

Steddie Microfic Challenge fics:

July

prompt: 'pool' original wc goal: 442 bonus round goal: 273 title: center stage • rating: E / M • cws: Kink, D/s dynamics, Public Sex, Bondage, Chastity Device (briefly implied), Boot Kink, Light Degradation/Humiliation

August

prompt: cake wc goal: 311 fill 1: gilding the lily • rating: E • cws: cockwarming, facials, group sex, “puppy” used as term of endearment

fill 2: avarice for pearls • rating: E • cws/tags: D/s dynamics, free use, sloppy seconds, Daddy Kink (no age play)

Spicy Six Summer Challenge fics

A Cure for All That Ails You One-Shot | wc: 6k | T | Gen / Stobin | read on ao3 prompt: “How did you go through life so far without knowing how to make a grilled cheese sandwich?”

TK: the firmament in you [prompt: Dancing under the stars. - stobin] TK: first light on the horizon (at the end of the world) [prompt: First date - rockie]

prompt fills

prompt: “Just pretend to be my date.” [stobin] rating: T (for language) | wc: 771

prompt: things you said but didn’t mean [stobin] rating: T (for language) | wc: 616 | cw: hurt/comfort, arguments & misunderstandings

prompt: things you said through a closed door [steddie] rating: M (for frank discussions of sex) | wc: 679 | cw: hurt/comfort, erectile dysfunction, internalized ableism

prompt: things you didn’t say at all [stobin] rating: G | wc: 276 | cw: angst, hurt/comfort, ambiguous loss

Playlists!

fic related mixes

World's #1 Babysitter Mixtape [rel: lay your cuts and bruises]

Steve & Robin's Scoops Tracks [rel: lay your cuts and bruises]

Steve's Heartbreak Playlist [rel: Steddie Week Day 7 fic]

Stobin Car Tracks #1 [Summer '85] [rel: phryctoria]

Jeff Taste Profie ['84] [rel: 'Jeff is Steve's Bi Awakening AU']

Wayfinder playlist

first light on the horizon [a Vickie mixtape]

(at the end of the world) first light vibes playlist]

the firmament in you playlist

perfect creature rarely seen series playlist

get to know the author mixes

Stobinesque's Ten Song Recs

STOBINESQUE [username playlist]

STOBINESQUE [vol. 2]

AMUSINGDISPLACEMENT [username playlist – main]

[theharrowing]

🗡️ Anon here with some Thoughts!

I think what fascinates me the most about this Yoongi character in Collateral is that we have definitely watched his control dwindle more and more over time in the main chapters, with how the Busan girls have been getting the upper hand more and causing some real problems, and also with his mental health. He keeps disappearing and becoming more quiet and distant.

So then to get a POV where he is having trouble with dissociation and thoughts about drugs (in almost a self-harm type of way) it really paints a much clearer picture of who this character is.

I am very concerned. It seems he is having some of the same issues as the mc, and I wonder if that is part of the reason her leaving (with the way that she did, with the note) is so painful?

In his POV and in Namjoon's POV, they both are like "we wanted a simpler life where we could be together" and I wonder if secretly their end goal is the same as the mcs?

Brilliant POV! Brilliant fic!! I don't know if I have been leaving comments about past chapters because this spring got very busy, but as always, I love your writing so much!! THANK YOU MOTHERRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Congrats on getting As! I hope you decide to write in your free time, but if not, I am looking forward to whatever you have to say!

(I saw somewhere that you were in your book reading era. Anything good lately?)

- 🗡️

DAGGER, MY LOVEEEE!!! 🗡️😍😍

i peeked at the tag, and it has been 4 months since we have gotten to chat. thank you so so so much for popping in and sharing your thoughts and saying hi!!!

books i have recently read/listened to and loved include:

This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El Mohtar and Max Gladstone - my only 5 star non-fiction read. i am OBSESSED.

Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro - i plan to read more of his books in the near future.

Annie Bot by Sierra Greer - i was on an AI kick for a bit. Annie and Klara could not be more different.

I'm Glad by Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy (memoir) - i didn't watch iCarly so i didn't know much about Jennette as a person or an actor, but it was fascinating and sad to hear her story.

tbh there are a lot more. i have a storygraph where i have been keeping track of everything i have been reading/listening to, if you wanna check it out!

NOW ONTO THE COLLATERAL STUFF, AHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i love talking about this fic.

yes, we have definitely been watching some parallels happen between a lo of these characters, whether it is with the wants/needs of some and the actions of some. MC mirrors Yoongi in some ways, Namjoon in some ways, Jeongguk in some ways. there is a big driving force between Namjoon and Yoongi that more or less boils down to the two of them being together no matter what, and worrying after one another. (i suppose this can be a natural occurrence when people spend a lot of time together, but in the case of MC, she hasn't quite been around as much, so it is interesting to see the ways in which she mirrors the men.)

you are correct to be concerned (lmao) and i hope that some of your questions and worries are answered soooooonnnn!!!!!! (do you have thoughts on the ex??? hehehe.)

THANKS SO MUCH FOR SAYING HI, MY DARLING DAGGER!!! it is always a pleasure!!! 💜💜💜

[roachemoji]

S2 02-03

Episode 2

LOVE A GOOD STRONG COLD OPEN

The way she navigates this space like she's been here a million times anddoesnt question it or look that afraid of disgusted by anything but is just afraid that .... her friends aren't actually with her???

dawning realization that OH im actually ALONE despite having said goodbye??? like she KNEW but she didnt KNOW and ughHHHGHGH

OH A GATE ??? im glad we get to see her actually leave the UD unlike SOMEONE!!!!!!!!!!!! im also glad she isnt stuck here for too long AND LEARNS SHE CAN OPEN THEM HERSELF!!!!!!!! unless she already knew that??? this doesnt feel like something she....didn't already understand she could do

also the VFX of like gross nasty flesh shit is REALLY cool

IMMEDIATELY GOING TO THE OLY HOUSE SHE KNEW !!!!! IS JUST AUGHHH i was abotu to say im surprised she didnt try to find Mike after this since Brenner died - FUCKING TED BITE BITE BITE BITE BITE BITE ATTACK

ShEs VeRy DaNgErOuS shes a BABY !!!!!!!!!!!!!! IF BREAKING THROUGH THAT WALL AND COMING BACK FROM THE UD WASN'T A EUPHAMISM FOR BIRTH IDK WHAT IS SORRY

Also knowing there are more kids than just El from the lab im gonna assume she isn't that woman's daughter??? Ik that woman's sister said she miscarried but im sure that was a cover and her kid actually WAS experiemented on - I just don't think it's El???

HOPPER GETTING TO BE A DAD AGAIN MAKES MY HEART SO FUCKING FULL!!!!! AND EL JUST WANTS TO GO TRICK OR TREATINNGGGGGGGG

Call back to the other Lab kid with the halloween masks or something

JUST LET HER TRICK OR TREATTT even if you did it.... in the woods, with the cabin ??? or in a town they've never been to ???

HES TEACHING HER WORDS AND SPELLING THEM OUT IM CRYING

sucker for a guy adopting a little girl why couldnt that have been ME (<- is a man)

JOYCE ALSO HAVING PTSD FROM EVERYTHING IS JUST GIRL I LOVE YOU KISS KISS KISS

I love that Will being able to draw keeps coming back and him actually being really good at it too???

HIS LITTLE FUCKING COSTUME AND HIS BOWL CUT

DUSTIN'S SMILE IS SO FUCKING INFFECTIOUS I LOVE HIM SO MUCH I LITERALLY FEEL CRAZY

LUCAS' LITTLE SISTERRRRR PLEASEEEE

oh the hAUNTING REALIZATION THAT NO ONE ELSE IS IN COSTUME !!!!!!!!!! I JUST AOUSDKAJSHDKJALHDKJH

The balance that this show has with the boys experiencing like actual real genuine trauma that affects them DEEPLY while also still experiencing the mortifying ordeal of being in elementary school ??? AND IT BEING PORTRAYED AS LIKE A KNOW SERIOUSLY UPSETTING TO THEM!!!! Theyre still KIDS and i love that they don't shy away from that with them

LUCAS AND DUSTIN HAVING THEIR LIL BOY CRUSHES ON MAX !!!! AND THEYRE SO RIGHT

idk anything about her but is she trans is she like. like are we clocking this am i the only one?? please i dont know her but in my heart first glance 🫵 egg

JOYCE AND HOPPER GETTING CLOSE BC OF WILL AND THE LAB IS JUST!!! oh i JUst noticed the bracelet i just I KNEW IT WAS COMING I DIDNT KNOW IT WOULD BE SO SOON

WERE THEY BESTIESSS are they gonna fall in love ??? Thats my mom and dad <3

Okay the technitian going in there confuses me because how is.... im assuming there was a time skip to him going outside instead of having to watch him navigate out of the lab's underground but aksdjhakjdsh still

From the time it took between the first dude going in to Joyce and Hopper going in.... ik it's been almost a year since they saved Will, and obviously we didnt see them exiting the lab after it all happened .... idk it feels like an INSANE jump in understanding and testing and safety protocols and shit have gone in to going into the UD with "minimal" gear (@ em does technilogical discrepencies play a part in the timeline stuff? because it feels like it does???)

I really like how they actually portray PTSD and trauma?? Dissociating??? Being Triggered??? how its not a one time thing and affects them continuously??? I hATE the whole pretend like nothing's wrong thing - not for the era this is set in obviously its just infuriating asdkjhaskh LOVE that its clear that it DOES NOT HELP iidk this show and mental health so far feel really good i like it

dUSTIN AND LUCASSS theyre trying so hard i love this for them sosososos mUCh like THEY FEEL LIKE !!! THEyre actual little boys flirting and IM CRYING IM JUST Dustin is so smart and hes so BLINDED BY BEING A LITTLE BOY IN LOVE ( <- DUSTIN'S BIGGEST FAN )

EL'S LITTLE FUCKING CURLLSSSSSSSS

AUTISTICALLY LEARNING HOW TO BE A FUCKING PERSON THROUGH TV SHOWS GIRL ME TOO!!!!!!!

SORRY TO THAT OLD MAN BUT EL IS SO RIGHT - AND THEN TO ALSO FEEL GUILT FROM IT IS SO IMPORTANT LIKE UNDERSTANDING HER NEED FOR SURVIVAL BUT HAVING SO MUCH REMORSE !!!!!!

This is a huge aside but the pumpkins remind me of a one shot story by the people who write Old God's of Appalachia (which you should listen to if you can its incredible) - ANYWAY the episode titled Bumper Crop !!!!!

IM ASSUMING THAT .... the crops dying have something to do with that thing they set up in the UD???

OKAY BILLY.

YEAH HE - oh i can feel him triggering some shit this season might be hard to get through but i am a TROOPER !!!!! with my own trauma GOD brothers suck so much what is his fucking DEAL!!!!!!!!!!!! not excited for that

GODDDD AND NOW THERES MOLDY ASS FOOD AND DYING SHIT THATS UGHHH AND MAGGOTS STOP STOP STOP STO SP EW i love. contamination i love it

BOB i love him so much his stupid vampire costume AND HIS FUCKED UP LIL TEETH AKSHDASKJH IM SORRY YOU DONT GET IT JOHNATHAN

Will's bowl cut makes me loose my mind girl its so SHARP!!!!!!!!!!!! ASDKSAKJHDKSJHD that shit is CRISP

Johnathan is also like. me <3

STEVE AND BILLY JUST LOOKING AT EACH OTHER IS SO FUCKING FUNNY why is Steve's h air so BIGGG girl how do you get it to look like that

BOB IS SO CUTE STOP STOP DO PEOPLE NOT LIKE HIM ??? HES DOING HIS BEST TO REASSURE AND SUPPORT HER AND !!!! LIKE HER SAYING ITS SILLY AND HIM PROMISING ITS NOT !!!!!!

like hE IS SO ??? Bob is THE SILLY !!!!

DUSTIN SUPPORTER <- also loves 3 musketeers

hOPPERRR IS GONNA BE LATE TO PICK UP EL FOR TRICK OR TREATING BABY GIRL IM SO SORRY hes not doing it on purpose he loves you so much he loves you theres just a FREAK in the corn fields

THAT LIL BABY COWBOYYYYYYY <333

YEAH SHITS RIGHT you PROMISED HER !!!

oh baby with the BEAR - i didnt pick up the rest of the morse code but im going to assume he's saying sorry

WAS HE JUST PUTTING ?? WAFFLES OUT THERE HOPING SHE WOULD FIND THEM LIKE HE HAD NO FUCKING IDEA ???

SAD LIL MIKE !!!! he misses El so much but like AKSJDH damn

OHHH OAHDAKJSHD KAHJOHHH i hate when hes thrown back into the UD like this i hate it tos much holy shit it AHHHGHAHDJK

Whats uh whats the uh the parallel between Will and El both yelling for Mike immediately after being thrown into the UD ??

NAD MIKE IMMEDIATELY WITHOUT HESITATION SUPPORTING WILL !!!!!!!!

Johnathan isnt even like a freak hes cleaned up so much he looks so good THE CAMERA FOCUSING ON BOTH NANCY *AND* STEVE

Steve Harrington has the biggest wettest brownest eyes he looks like a fucking baby cow what the acTUAl fuck does he know whats happening is he actually aware of anything I think he'd like to run errands and stick his head out a car window

OH IM ,,,, STEVEEE , I,,, KING I LOVE YOU BUT I THINK YOU SHOULD WORRY ABOUT GETTING HER HOME ACTUALLY

im so glad Johnathan is there and i hope he helps

I could have sword i just saw a parallel about them sitting like this in a later season being compared to Nancy and Johnathan in some scene i havent seen yet

anyway MIKE MAKING WILL FEEL SAFE ENOUGH TO BE HONEST ABOUT HIS EXPERIENCES because Will doesnt make him feel Weird /neg ??? and ASKING WHAT WILL THINKS HIS EXPERIENCES ARE and this being like half thanks to El too ??

To all my House MD homies this feels like its a uh Wilson dating Amber and House being upset about it only to have an epiphany that Wilson is essentially dating the famale verson of him. Feels a lil like that

we can go craZY TOGETHERR !!!!!!!!!!

JOhnathan taking her hoMMEEEEEE still in my little boat of Polyam them i hope thats not niche because i wanna i AN wt to see fanart and I want to read fics and

HOPPER BEING SO !!! STRESSED AND FUCKED UP ABOUT UPSETTING HER AND BREAKING A PROMISE LIKE HE JUST APOLOGIZING AND ,,, GUILT TRIPPING HER TO COME EAT CANDY

Static makes me have auditory halucinations and for some reason Its really cool to see them use it for this purpose

IDKY I THOUGHT WHEN HE'D LOOK UP HE'D BE LOOKING AT WILL !!!!!

DUSTIN PLEASE KEEP BEING THE ONLY SURVIVOR IN A HORROR MOVIE OUGH okay at least it didnt attack him akhd

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Episode 3

DUSTIN'S MOM AND HER LITTLE CAT COSTUME AND HER LITTLE CAT SHE LOVES HER SON SO MUCH SHES GOD

Dustin i love you so much buddy but YOU GOT A LITTLE FREAK!!!!!!! oh thats me i look like that nvm i get it good night sweet little weirdo

3 musketeers enjoyer !!!! THATS gonna grow up to KILL someone real Water Horse over here!!! ALSO KING YOUR TURTLE???? YURTLE IS JUST OUT THERE HES GONNA GET COLD?????

IM SO GLAD WE GET TO SEE HOW HIM AND EL GOT TO BE WHAT THEY ARE !! LIKE !!! what the fuck posessed him to like start putting waffles in a BOX in the woods like AKSDJHALKJDH Im sorry but what if it wasnt El who took it ????

El being.... I don't know what term to use i understand that nonverbal isn't uh... accurate? I haven't seen anyone offering up another term in it's place so if you know one please let me know - but El being less verbal? Is important to me

IM SORRY SHE EXPLODED YOUR BREAKFAST THOUGH

THE BOBMOBILE!!!!!!!!!! I LOVE BOB!!!!!!!!!!!!!

DUSTIN IS SO UGH. HE LOVES LEARNING !!! HES SO FUCKING FUNNY also him SWEARING i love him so much i cant even put it into words

MR BALDO!!!!!

I love bob i love him so much if he does something bad or it turns out hes terrible im going to commit homicide (on the duffer brothers) HE IS SO ? LIKE WITH WILL ??? WITH JOYCE??? HES THE SILLY AND I LOVE HIM

OO HASDKHAS @aemiron-main SORRY IM TAGGING YOU FOR THIS PART LUCAS EXPLAINING TO MAX THAT THE BODY THEY FOUND WAS SUPER DECOMPOSED THE ONE THAT IN SEASON ONE WAS A FAKE BODY OF WILLS AND IK YOU MENTIONED THAT THE NEWSPAPER BEHIND HOPPER'S HEAD SAID THAT HE WAS TAKEN BY THE LAB OR SOMETHING I CAN'T REMEMBER VERBATIM - IS HE LYING TO HER BECAUSE HE KNOWS THE FAKE BODY THING SOUNDS INSANE OR IS THAT TRUE IN THIS TL??? HE EVEN KEEPS GOING TO EXPLAIN YOU CAN ASK ANYONE BUT I KNOW FOR A FACT PEOPLE SAW THE BODY AND KNEW IT WAS "WILL" EXCEPT FOR JOYCE AND HOPPER - SO WHO DIED. WHO DIED IN THIS TL. WHO WAS THE KID

the PROJECTOR bringing me back

DUSTIN MY BELOVED HIS FUCKING SMILE EVERY TIME

I CALLED IT ABOUT THE FUCKING LAB ITS DEFENITELY BC THEY HAVE SHIT SET UP AROUND IT!!!!!!

Hopper's plan being this all along ??? to like. help her? to make her feel safe? give her a home? LIKE HES. hes such a DAD IM GONNA CRY - who told him about the waffles i remember Mike mentioning it but i don't remember him mentioning it to Hopper????

girlie at least CLOSE THE DOOR B EHIND YOU ????

BILLY I S A HIGH SCH OO LER I THOUGHT HE WAS LIKE 25 LMAOO OASHKJAHLDKJAHSD

STEVE'S FREAK ASS HAIR !!!!

Thats your other boyfriend it could be. it should be. you could all date you couLd all be happy together i think

STEVE I JUST WANT TO BE LOVED HARRINGTON

AT least this feels far more justified in why he'd upset with her this time around ?? instead of his freak ass friends being disgusting

DUSTIN IS SO SMART !!!!! HIS LEVEL OF RESEARCH!!!!! HE MAKES ME SO HAPPY

IM SORRY THAT DART IS A VOMIT SLUG

BOB APOLOGIZING FOR POSSIBLY OVERSTEPPING LIKE I JUST HES SO GOOD HES SO I SWEAR TO GOD IF HES BAD IM GONNA ACTUALLY LOSE MY MIND OR IF HE GETS HURT???

JOYCEEEEEEEEE !!!! MY MOM !!!!! LIKE BOB JUST. HES SO WORRIED HE CARES SO MUCH AND HE LOVES HOW STRONG JOYCE IS AND BALANCES HER OUT WITH HIS UNDERSTANDING OF WILL I

I need you to tell me right now if Bob is Bad and Evil i need to GRIEVE IMMEDIATELY

RE THE PARALLELL FROM EARLIER WITH MIKE N WILL

JOHNATHAN JUST TRYING TO SET THINGS RIGHT AND LYING ON STEVES BEHALF AND NANCY LIED ON STEVES BEHALF WITH THE PRESENT I JUST KNOW SHE DID LIKE YA KAHSDKH ALKDJHA LKFHAKSJHL

Maybe things cant go back to the way they were THANK YOU YOURE RIGHT THATS HOW YOU MOVE FORWARD !!!!

if this is a different TL does that mean Barb is alive is barb alive in this one does she come back !!!!

OKAY IK HOPPER IS PROBABLY LYING ABOUT EL'S MOM BEING DEAD BUT IDK MAYBE HES NOT MAYBE HE THINKS THAT THAT WOMAN WAS HER MOM AND IN THIS TL SHES DEAD ???? trying to keep track of so much conflicting infoRMATION BC OF TIMELINE SHIT IM ON MY TOES

EVERYTIME JOYCE INTERACTS WITH TECHNOLOGY IM CONVINCED ITS GONNA FUCKING EXPLODE OR SOMETHING

agAIN WITH WILL FEELING SAFE ENOUGH TO TELL MIKE ABOUT EVERYTHING TO DO WITH THE UD and asking him to relay everything to the other two just in case???

D'ART IS AUAKSDHAKJDH BEEFY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

dusTIN MY BOY IK YOU LOVE THE LITTLE FREAK BUT PLEASE is that a baby EggHeadMouthFreak i remember what its called i promise i defenitely do

the SUSPECSE of Nancy going to tell Barb's mom everything has me on edge i keep pausing

I JUST GOT CONSUMED WITH EL TRYING TO FIND MIC AND HOPPER AND THE PUMPKINS AND SKDFHJSKDJHF

MIKE fuCKING hating Max because Ougadhhkjs wOm a nnn but not the ONLY girl that he wants around him which god im not smart enough to deconstruct internalized homophobia and compulsary heterosexuality rn EVEN MORE WITH EL SHOWING UP AND DOING THAT TO MAX its beyond me how people ROOT for her and Mike when its.... so clear its little kids figuring themselves out and not like.... anything actually romantic. SERIOUS? yeah - huge thing learning about yourself like this but an actual Relationship????

WILL BABY BOY im so sorry yOU WENT THROUGH A DOOR AGAIN THE AUGH hates and portals and doors and shit - THE AKSDHAKJSDHAKSJD NOT THE FUCKING SMOKE MONSTER FROM LOST STOPPPP

the way D'art moves is s ofucking FUNNNYYYYYY

WILL REMEMBER WHAT BOB SAID PLEAS PLEASE PLEASE HES DOING HIS BEST HES JUST TRYING TO HELP AND WILL !!! JUST PLEASE TRYING TO STAND UP TO HI M AND OH -

Stranger Things S2 01

this is just me live blogging watching ST none of my thoughts are v coherent enjoy <3

STARTING OFF REAL INTERESTING BUT REAL TALK when you have like a cool haircut how do you expect not to be found if u do a crime???? LIKE I LOVE YOUR MOHAWK AND I GET IT U DONT WANT TO COVER IT BC OBVIOUSLY BUT!!!!

this is NOT the focus obviously its about the fact theres other kids from the lab BUT AKSHDAKSJDKH

DUSTINNNN!!!!!!!!! I LOVE HIM SO MUCH IM SO GLAD WE'RE STARTING ON HIM KISS KISS KISS

not the reagan sign STOP STOP ITS BEEN 2 SECONDS I HATE TED THATS HIS NAME RIGHT FIGHT KILL DESTROY BITE BITE BITE BITE

also the boys have grown SO MUCH !!!!!!! i forget there was actual real time between when these were filmed KSJHD im so excited to see Will and his perpetual bowl cut

JOYCE MY MOM!!!!!!!!!! SHES SO PRETTY AND SO CONCERNED I JUST LOVE HER

THE CHIP EATING DUDE FUCKING !!!! REMINDS ME OF THAT FUCKER FROM MONSTER HOUSE???????

THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HE REMINDS ME OF THIS ASKJDHASKJHDKAJSH

Will is so tiny ..... and little? oh hes being teleported into the fucking upside down again baby boy im so fucking sorry also ilu but why would you just walk outside away from wher eyour friends WERE to look at the horrifying shit world you were trapped and almost died in ????? aSDKJH

Im gonna have to DM you on discord or something so i can properly save all the things you have to say about the timelines and how the Russian shit plays into that because was anyone calling El (im assuming he's referring to her) is Russian??? IK this is possibly the third (?) timeline we've seen (genuinely let me know if i can do that its ok if not i forget tumblr has Dms)

ALSO WHO IS THIS GUY IM CRYING HES!!! WHAT A PI??? WHO ARE YOU

NANCY AND STEVE ALSO BESTIES IM CRYING STEVE IS hes trying so hard are they dating my brain is so full of queer shit that im so deadset on platonic hetero relationships - i paused for one second and unpaused and they kissed SO THAT ANSWERS MY QUESTION

idk what relationships to pay more attention to bc the dynamic between Mike and El interests me the most because of how compulsory everything feels and how El is going to navigate a completetly new environment and how Mike will cope with that? (im assuming its not well)

OH is this the !!! the guy that i see people talk about all the time YEAHHH THE BLOND MULLET MAN AND MAX what the fuck is his name Billy??? He looks trans

CRYING AT CHECKING OUT H IS ASS GIRL WAHT ASS HES FLAT HE HAS NOTH ING AKDSHASKHDKAJSH and those jeans are supposed to be supporting cheeks

I love Mr Clark so much and everyone who looks bored in his class just doesnt GET IT

BUT ALSO MAX I GET IT QUEEN the boys all staring are so good I FORGET THEY GO AS THE GHOST BUSTERS FOR HALLOWEEN

JOYCE MY MOM WHO IS THIS GUY HES??? GOOFY AND SHES SO HAPPY ??? BOB !!! i have no initial bad opinions of him bc hes silly and goofy and he makes Joyce so happy and she deserves to be SO SOSOS OS HAPPY and nothing but happy

IF i have to endure another god damn Hopper flash back im gonna throw up and scream and cry and lose my mind and I won't recover and I'll never come back

Im in call while I watch this episode because i really wanted to get through while and actually use my brain bc i don't that often - but my roommates bird is sitting next to her mic and farting really really softly into it and its making me lose my fucking mind

CORN MAZES WHEN YOURE TALL LOOK SO EASY AND LESS SCARY WHENEVER IM IN A FUCKING CORN MAZE ITS TERRIFYING AND I CANT SEE SHIT BC IM LIKE 2 FEET TALL

NANCCYCYY AND JOHNANATHANANSDNSAKDJ BESTIES BESTIES BESTIES BEST FRIENDS IM MAKING THEM A FRIENDSHIP BRACELET ITS THEIR FAVORITE COLOURS AND THEY NEVER TAKE THEM OFF

ADN STEVE TOO!!! IM SORRY YOURE A THIRD WHEEL BUT its the start of season 2 how do we feel about polyam relationships between them where the audience for that point me in the correct direction

DUSTIN IS RIGHT ALSO I LOVE HIM i love his little hats - MAX IS ALSO RIGHT

God i feel so ba for Will like to be??? singled out like that especially in elementary school? hell.

WHERE ARE THEY GOING TOGETHER WHAT IS HAPPENING ISNT THIS THE LAB ??? ougHHH THAt needle sound was unecessary

REALLY starting to see how this might be a different timelinei have no idea how ???? Joyce would.... trust them??? UNLESS THIS IS A HOSPITAL no its not ho films ina fucking hospital like this

also theyre mentioning the upside down

I understand needing to go back to the only place that fully understands that it exists and you need a place to talk to someone and also monitor him physically without being dismissed as insane - but i dont understand how Joyce OR Hopper would trust the Lab again after everything happened??????

I'm glad that he's actually getting help, and im glad that Joyce and Hopper are there to make him feel safe and support him given everything but !!!!!

this iS THE. He has PTSD. when did they get the word to describe that akjhaskjdh NVM HE JUST SAID IT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ALSO IS PRETENDING LIKE EVERYTHING IS NORMAL HELPFUL BC IT SURE THE FUCK IS N OT FOR ME ????????? also who is this DR hes kinder but "i need you to trust me" to JOYCE AFTER THE BRENNER SHIT ???

also them NOT MENTIONING IT WHEN THEY LEAVE BUT JOYCE UPSET ABOUT THE WHOLE "i need you to trust me" THING B UT NOT BRINIGN UP BRENNER?????? susususususus timeline shit anyway EM @ me tell me wahts up kiss kiss mwuah mwuah

OH they've upped their guinea pig game on entering the upside down and the gatelooks fucking uglier and uglier LOVE THE TORCH glad it works but no wonder the gate looks angry???

DUSTINNN I LOVE H IM I LOVE HIM SO MUCH

ough i have a feeling her older brother is gonna ..... trigger me a lil but we'll get through it

THEM BOTH HAVING A CRUSH ON HER!!!!!

If YouR fRiEnD jUmPs OfF a ClIfF 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪

THEYRE GOING OVER TO HAVE DINNER WITH BARBS FAMILY STOP STOP STO PST OPST OPST IM GONNA CRY Oh they hired a P.I okay yeah the bald guy he..... HIS CARD STOPPPPP

realizing they defenitely can't tell her parent's what actually happened to her an di hate that im gonna oaufkahd girl im so sorry im so sorry im so osrry UPSET BC SHE AS A CHARACTER DID NOT DESERVE TO DIE I WISH THEY HADN'T DONE HER DIRTY LIKE THAT

all the photos of her would make me so ill to look at like god NANCYYY THE GUILT AND B LAME GIRLIEEEE

also Mike rebelling after experiencing that kind of trauma and losing Will and El even though Will came back he's not the same of corse he's struggling - calling it with the !!!! WALKIE TALKIEEEE girl i miss her too

YEAHHH ITS dustiNNNN BUT HE AKSHDKAJSH

DUSTINNN IM KAHSDKJH I LOVE HIM I LOVE HIM SO MUCH HES SO SILLY !!!!!!!!!!!!! HES THE SILLY IN MY HEART

HONESTLY props to him again for not like invesigating something that was probably gonna be HORRIBLE he'd survive a horror movie

JOYCEEEEE IN MY FAV SHIRT SHES SO KISS KISS KISS KISS

Johnathan is such a good brother bro BUT ALSO WILL IS SO RIGHT I GET IT I GET IT I UNDERSTAND TREATING IT LIKE ITS NORMAL MAKES IT WORSE !!!! SOMETHING HAPPENED PLEASE ACKNOWLEGE THAT and JOHANATHANNN HES THE FREAK AND A WEIRDO

STOPA SDADKSHJ iT S THAT WHY YOU DONT HAVE ANY FRINEDS SHUT UP STOP STOP /POS

BOB i love you so far and ik that being a step parent in these situation (even tho hes only dating Joyce its the same) is so hard especially when there are kids involved BUT YOURE DOING SUCH A GOOD JOB

AND THEYRE ALL WATCHING THE MOVIE TOGETHER AHHH

ew the phone the trigger GIRL YOU GOT THIS ITS OKAY ITS OKAY BUT ALSO THATS SUCH A HORRENDOUS RINGTONE WHAT THE FUCK

love me a tech who accidentally ignores the alarms going off (i couldnt hear the song playing it feels important - unintentially placing importance on all the music in this show now thank u em)

OohuaAHDAKJH OH WILL IS GONNA get ,,,,, yoinked back again isn't he ouguhadhAKHDJS interesting that it really only affects the *outside* like doors are now portals in a way ? i cant remember if it affected the inside of the arcade immediately or not

OH MIST LOOKING MOTHER FUCKER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wood Waffle Hours !!!!!!!!!! OH NO CABIN HOURS??? IS SHE. IS SHE. BIG EYE BALL EMOJIS LET ME SEE MY GIRL LET ME SEE THE BABY GIRL !!!! this entire scene makes it seem like shes a fucking AKSJDHA freak ass creature

HER HAIRRRRR SHES SO CUTE STOPPPP HOPPERS LITTLE SMILE IM TEARING UP AND CRYING ACTUALLY LOOK AT THEM LOOK AT THEM LOOKA T THEM OUGHHAHAHHHHHHHH IM HEAVING

thank u for reading these were my thoughts

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

World War Z was published in 2006, but takes place in 2009 at the earliest.  Late in the book, astronaut Terry Knox states that the International Space Station took over 10 years to complete; it started construction in November 1998, and Chief of Staff Karl Rove Grover Carlson says that the Republican party barely eked back into power after a disastrous 2-termer who started a “brush fire war” in the Middle East (George W. Bush).  He mentions an election year, but he doesn’t specify if it was the new president’s first or second term, so it’s either set right after 2008 or 2012.  This was written before the Nintendo Wii was announced, but one chapter mentions that people brought their GameCubes with them as they fled their homes in search of safety in the frozen Canadian wilderness.  This same chapter also mentions that they didn’t know how to pick survival gear; a park ranger finds a SpongeBob SquarePants sleeping bag frozen in the mud because its owner didn’t know the difference between a child’s indoor sleeping bag for slumber parties and a real insulated survival bag for camping.

The new president is never named, he’s just told be be pro-big business and anti-regulation, pushing a placebo zombie vaccine through the FDA to jumpstart the economy.  When shit hits the fan, he is “sedated” and his vice president takes power; we’re never told what happened to the president, whether he was bitten or had a stroke, just that he was “sedated.”  His Vice President is directly implied to be Colin Powell; he’s former military with family in Jamaica and black.  He appoints Howard Dean to be his vice president to form a bipartisan coalition; he is never referred to by name, but it is clearly supposed to be Howard Dean.  He was a rising star in the Democratic party from Vermont whose wife is a doctor and whose career imploded after he had a passionate outburst.  In 2004, Howard Dean gave a speech where he started passinately screaming about how he was gonna start sweeping state primaries and ride a wave into the White House, punctuating his point by going “HHEEUEAHHGH!!”  This was political suicide in 2004, and he was laughed out of the race.  In the book, he is referred to only as “the Whacko” because of this.  It is implied that he was Powell’s second choice for VP, his first being Barack Obama; the Whacko says that the Democrats wanted somebody else, somebody of the same skin color as the president, but that the country wasn’t ready for that.  In 2004, Obama was a candidate for senate in Illinois, so popular and so well spoken that he gave a speech at the Democratic National Convention before he even won his seat; then and there, pundits already had him pegged as the first black president, they could see the writing on the walls.  The Whacko becomes president when Powell dies of stress, but he is consistently referred to only as the wartime Vice President, out of respect for his boss.

Also, the Attorney General is implied to be Rudy Giuliani; all that is said about him was that he was the mayor of New York and once tried to give himself emergency powers to stay in office after his term.  Giuliani did exactly that after 9/11.

Other real life figures mentioned in the book

Fidel Castro; a ton of Cuban Americans flee the continent and return to the island during the zombie war, and he jumpstarts the economy by putting them to work as cheap laborers and slowly integrating them back into Cuban society.  He rehabilitates his image by stepping down as dictator and democratizing the country, voting himself out of office before the “nortecubanos” could hang him for decades of war crimes.

Nelson Mendela, referred to by his birth name Rolihlahla, the father of modern South Africa, he personally invites Paul Redekker, a former apartheid era political analyst, to solve the zombie problem; in the 80s, Redekker created a plan for the white minority government in case the black majority ever rose up against them.  In real life, Mandela lowered the temperature when he was elected president, saying that revenge against the apartheid government would do more harm than good.  In the story, Mandela uses this as justification to reuse the apartheid era plan to handle the zombie outbreak instead.  Redekker is so overcome by his compassion and forgiveness that he has a mental episode and dissociates, believing himself to be a black South African.

Kim Jong-il, the dictator of North Korea, he withdraws all troops from the DMZ and shuts the entire country down.  After months of radio silence, it is revealed that the entire country’s population has vanished; all satellite imagery shows a desolate wasteland, no zombies, but no humans either. He presumably moved everyone into subterranean bunker systems where he not only control their lives as on the surface, but now their access to food, water, and air.  He presumably became the god emperor he always wanted to be; either that, or the entire tunnel complex has been overrun, turning every man woman and child in North Korea into zombies.  The South Korean government refuses to send a expedition into the North to figure out what happened, lest they open up one of the tunnels and unleash millions of zombies onto the surface.

Martin Scorsese, mentioned in passing only as “Marty,” a friend of world famous film director Roy Elliot, who himself is a thinly veiled pastiche of Steven Spielberg.  Interestingly enough, the audio book features Martin Scorsese doing the voice of the conartist who created the placebo vaccine

One chapter has a ton of vapid celebrities hole together in a fortified mansion on Long Island, and takes great care to show each of them getting torn apart not by zombies but by regular people who storm the facility because they were stupid enough to broadcast their location on reality television.  A redneck with a “Get’er Done” hat (Larry the Cable Guy) and some bald guy with diamond earrings (Howie Mandel) blow themselves up with a grenade.  Rival political commentators, an annoying guy who talks about feminization of western society and a leathery blonde (Bill Maher and Ann Coulter) have end-of-the-world viking sex as the facility burns to the ground.  A dumb starlet (Paris Hilton) is killed by one of her handlers and her little rat dog escapes on foot.  A radio shock jock (Howard Stern) actually survives the war and restarts his show.

Michael Stipe of REM joins the army to fight the zombies

Another war veteran mentions how his brother used to have a bunch of Mel Brooks’ old comedy skits on vinyl record, and how he and his squad acted out the “Boy meets Girl” puppet skit with some human skulls.  Mel Brooks is author and narrator Max Brooks’ father.

Queen Elizabeth II, refuses to evacuate England when the island is overrun by zombies.  She intends to remain in Buckingham Palace “for the duration,” mirroring the fact that her parents refused to evacuate to Canada during World War II.

Vladimir Putin declares himself Tsar of the Holy Russian Empire, an ultra-orthodox religious state that has armed priests execute political dissidents under the guise of mercy killing people who have been bitten by zombies.

Yang Liwei, the first “taikonaut” (Chinese astronaut) has a space station named after him

While the main conflict is about government responses to the zombie pandemic, we see glimpses of a greater war torn planet.

A major plot line involves a Chinese Civil War which sees the entire communist politburo nuked out of existence by a rebel sub commander, as well as an attempted “scorched space policy” where the government planned to blow up their space station with scuttling charges to cause a cascade of space debris to encircle the Earth and prevent any other countries from launching missions in the future (this is known as Kessler Syndrome in real life, and was featured as the inciting incident of the 2013 movie Gravity).  The People’s Republic becomes the United Federation.

Iran and Pakistan destroy each other in nuclear war; everyone thought it would be India and Pakistan, but they had very close diplomatic infrastructure in place to prevent such a catastrophe; Pakistan helped Iran build a nuclear arsenal, but as millions of refugees fled from India through Pakistan to the east, Iran had to blow up some Pakistani bridges to stem the flow of zombies, which led to a border war and eventually total nuclear retaliation.

Floridians flee to Cuba, Wisconsinites flee to Canada, the federal government flees to Hawaii.  Everything east of the Rockies is abandoned and ruled by warlords until the government sorts itself out and mounts an expedition to clear the continent of zombies by literally marching an unbroken line of soldiers stretching from Canada to Mexico across the wasteland to the Atlantic.

Israel withdraws from Gaza and the West Bank to become super isolationist, building a wall around the entire country to stop the zombies getting in (they were the first country to respond to the pandemic, and the most successful), but the religious right rebels against the secular left in a civil war that sees Jerusalem ceded to a unified Palestine.

It is an amazing, multifaceted story with so much going on that nobody recognizes.  It was written as a response to the end of the Cold War and the start of the War on Terror.  It’s about a geopolitical shift, a change in the status quo, a disaster from which the world never recovers; America before 9/11 was a very different place than American after 9/11.  Iraq and Afghanistan changed everything, and we’re still feeling their effects to this day; the story uses the zombie apocalypse as the next big international disaster the world must adapt to.  World War Z is World War III with zombies, and I think it would do a lot better if it were published today, now that we’ve had several decades to respond to the fall of the Soviet Union and the endless wars in the Middle East and a global pandemic.

[feminist-propaganda]

Single Mothers Will Probably Cry During Every Episode Of Queen’s Gambit - Episode 6

“Men are gonna come along and wanna teach you things” predicts Alice at the beginning of Episode 6. “Doesn’t make them any smarter” she continues. “In most ways, they’re not. But it makes them feel bigger. They can show you how things are done. You just let them blow by and you go on ahead and do what the hell you feel like”.

 Little Beth listens carefully. 

“It takes a strong woman to stay by herself in a world where people will settle for anything just to say they have something.”

As she finishes her sentence, the camera zooms out and we see her finishing the embroidery of Beth’s name onto the dress. Beth smiles, and her mother says “There we are”. She’s almost finished her project.

Episode 6 : Learn From Straight White Men

To survive under capitalism, it is necessary to learn from those who created it, ie Straight White men. Many feminists might want to avoid capitalism all together, and avoid the mentorship of White men, which they don’t find useful. But Beth’s mother understands that to truly extract oneself from the oppresive system she is in, Beth first needs to navigate that system. 

In the first part of the episode, we see Beth ride with Benny to New York. He seems good for her. He doesn’t let her drink. He improves her chess. He introduces her to his friends. 

A bunch of people don’t know this, but New York’s original name was New Amsterdam and it was founded by the Dutch. 

The city, like Mexico, is symbolically chosen in the mini-series, as it is the epicenter of modern day capitalistic activities.

The Netherlands was a poor nation swamp up until the 1600s, when the Dutch figured out that they could trade goods, ensure the boats that transported the goods they traded and then eventually created the stock market. To this day, Amsterdam remains the international capital of financial technology. Every year, hundreds of higly skills migrants from countries like India, Turkey, China or Greece come to Amsterdam to develop faster robots to trade at higher rates for trust funds and billionaires.

Trading changed the Netherlands forever. It launched what some history books still call the “Golden age” which is now being deconstructed as a racist era, where the Dutch played a key role in organizing the trans-atlantic slave trade. 

Even though modern day Dutch society likes to downplay the role the Netherlands played in the slave trade, it is proven that the Netherlands became immensely rich thanks to the slave trade. They were experts in importing the coffee and sugar that was grown by the slaves and trading it inside of Europe.

New York, is the projection of the Dutch dream in the West. It is the home of Wall Street, where we find the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) as well as the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations (NASDAQ), which is the same as the stock exchange only this time we let the robots to the high frequency automatic trading for us (yup).

In 1904-1905, right when Einstein was discovering the photoelectric effect in Germany, a man called Max Weber coined the phrase “the protestant work ethic”.

According to the theory of the “The protestant work ethic”, it is believed that there is something in protestant culture that encourages protestant communities to work very hard. As a result, a great deal of “ excess” is produced, and these goods can then be traded. According to this theory, the inventors of capitalism were just very hard working people, who accidentally made too much of something, and started selling it in a very organized way (the stock market). Then they became rich.

Martin Luther King disagrees:

“We have deluded ourselves into believing the myth that capitalism grew and prospered out of the Protestant ethic of hard work and sacrifice. The fact is that capitalism was built on the exploitation and suffering of black slaves and continues to thrive on the exploitation of the poor — both black and white, here and abroad.”

As the car pulls up in Benny’s street, and looking at these ever so simple Brownstone houses, I am reminded of the myths that protestants like to perpetuate about themselves. “We work so hard!” “We’re such simple people” “We eat stew” “My grandfather used to raise pigs”.

The never ending lies that protestants propagate about their work ethic serves an important purpose in White Supremacy. It tries to convince us that the wealth isn’t unequally distributed. That the privileges that the ruling class have are deserved, rather than stolen.

Benny is the ambassador of these White Men. He lives ever so simply. He offers Beth a mattress to sleep on the floor. He lives in a basement. There is no decoration on the walls. There are only the prizes he’s won at his competitions and tournaments, and some magazine covers. Again, the underlying subtext here is that Benny works hard, lives frugally, and deserves all of the awards he’s won.

Instead of resenting Benny, Beth accepts to learn from him, just like her mother told her to. She looks around his house, but doesn’t say a word, doesn’t judge. She’s here for a purpose, she’s here to take everything that he has in his head, and bring it with her to Paris to win against the Soviets.

She seems dissociated from the situation most of the time. The only time we see her getting a bit excited is when she meets the French model. Again, it’s the high fashion that seems to attract her, as if it’s a sign, an indication of something grander and more appropriate, something that she needs to follow. 

An adjournement in Chess, which is also the name of the episode, is when a player secretely puts his move into a sealed enveloppe after 5/6 hours of game. The players resume their play the following day. 

Towards the middle of the episode we find Beth right where we met her: in Paris. She plays her matches and makes it to the final with Borgov. Unfortunately, on the day before the final, she meets the French model from Benny’s, drinks and is so hangovered the next day she makes a fool of herself. Not even the two tranquilizers she takes before coming down from her hotel room can help her.

Losing to Borgov in Paris destroys Beth. She goes back to Kentucky and drinks her life away. By the end of the episode she looks sick. 

She’s probably discouraged because she’s gotten to the end of her mother’s advice for this episode. She followed the White Man, and all of his advice. She met him in the capital of capitalism, learned everything that was in his head. She even met his friends. She copied his cool. She became him. When she meets the french model in the hotel, they are themselves being the men they seek. They smoke, they drink pastis, they casually talk about fucking.

It’s also worth noting that by losing to Borgov, Beth isn’t failing Benny. He never won against Borgov either. Her presence at these tournaments is already the best that he’s ever achieved for himself. This is also why Benny’s teachings alone won’t get her past Paris, beyond the iron curtain, to Moscow and beyond. He’s never been where she needs to go, where her mother wants her to be. How can he take her there?

A single mother will tell her children to learn from the White Man, but she isn’t telling them to be the White Man. The White Man is probably the reason why she’s single in the first place, why she’s alone. The single mother tells her children to learn the White Man’s way to survive in his world first and then to unbuild it.

Single mothers are often poor, so they understand capitalism very well.  They understand that often times money does buy happiness. It gives you security. Strength even. And joy. Beth can’t extract herself from Kentucky, the deep south, segregation and the feminine mystique if she doesn’t have cash.

After she comes back from Paris, Beth finds Mr Wheatley is looking for her. He needs money and wants the house back. She buys his share from him and calls him pathetic. it’s another sign that she’s outgrown the men she used to learn from.

Now there is nothing else but the void, the emptiness beyond her, and she doesn’t know where else to go. It can be overwhelming and Beth copes with alcohol. Who could judge her?

[takoyakitenchou]

can i have headcanons of seijuro and auden, pls?

yus here are some random hcs strewn about my google drive (and the margins of a few midterms lol) 

everything under the cut bc it’s kinda long

Ibusaki Seijuro, fuckboy extraordinaire

height in 2nd year: 5′11 (180 cm) 

weight in 2nd year: 160 lbs (73 kg)

preferred clothing brand: does not care as long as they’re Hawaiian shirts

favorite movie/show: Fight Club

favorite book: Shogun (Clavell)

top song on Spotify he’s on the Kurokiba family plan lol: 3 Nights by Dominic Fike

non-culinary activities: billiards and breaking (pop culture calls it breakdance but that is not the right term)

Sei is the first son of Ibusaki Shun and Sakaki Ryoko. He has his mother’s magenta hair and father’s slate grey eyes

Hawaiian shirts and Totsuki ties. Hawaiian shirts. He has an incorrigible belief that there is not enough color at Totsuki (obviously he hasn’t seen his hair lol) and therefore only wears the brightest colors possible. Sei can typically be seen in the early morning running daily laps around Legislation wearing his prized Birkenstocks

When he’s in the dorm or at Nakiri Mansion, however, he wears turtlenecks and sweatpants (with Birkenstocks)

Cooking in front of an audience is Seijuro’s true forte. He makes an elaborate live show out of every dish, spinning around in his basketball shorts, Hawaiian shirt, Totsuki tie, and Birkenstocks. Sei does not wear aprons lol but at the Autumn Elections, the Nakiri cousins persuaded Auden to coerce Seijuro into wearing at least semi-formal attire but he showed up in a flamboyant flannel instead. Wild af

He started getting into Spanish cuisine after he discovered Dia de los Muertos and the colorful calaveras, and he makes a point of making pan de muerto for the Nakiri-PSD members every year to celebrate the holiday. The only death he’s celebrating, though, is the death of Auden’s sanity (more on that later)

By virtue of his parents’ sake and smoked foods empire, he also dabbles in their specialties but he won’t be the heir to their company (working title IbuSakaki if I can arrange the kanji properly LOL). His max is fermenting sake for gang parties but after the SenAudpocalypSei (Sena + Auden + Seijuro + apocalypse), he starts smoking cigarettes and this is what really drives the final wedge between him and Auden

Sei and Auden stagiaire with the brothers Aldini and they learn how to use a mezzaluna. Extremely proficiently

One night he and his best bro Auden get on the drunker side despite both of them being notorious heavyweights, and they go to a tattoo shop and Sei gets six piercings in one ear. And two on the other. He doesn’t even notice until like six days later when one of the helixes on his left ear gets infected

Sei is the girl magnet of the school, and most people assume that he has like 593 girlfriends (or at least 593 girls that he fools around with), but in reality he’s almost always been in love with Marui Sena, and he’s actually not as much of a fuckboy as his reputation explicity states implies. But rep is rep, and he loves being the center of attention, so he lets the rumors spread like wildfire. And he does have a hoe-ish personality but this is completely repressed as soon as Sena transfers into gen 120 for high school

Sei’s one true weakness is his loyalty to Auden and his affections for Sena. Ultimately, his attempt to keep both on either side of him will serve as a catalyst for the SenAudpocalypSei and they’ll tear Totsuki up by its roots

He hangs out with Nakiri Jouichirou a lot (Asahi’s son, 117th gen and serving as the youngest lecturer in the history of Totsuki) and eventually learns the Crossed Knives technique from him. Jou acts more like an older brother than a professor to Sei and they grow extremely close

Kurokiba Auden, would-be Planet Earth narrator

height in 2nd year: 6′0 (183 cm)

weight in 2nd year: 165 lbs (75 kg)

preferred clothing brand: Billabong

favorite movie/show: Planet Earth

favorite books: Fountainhead (Rand) and The Prince (Machiavelli) his choices were heavily influenced by the Sorina and Akisako children

top song on Spotify: Wonderlust by Will Post

non-culinary activities: swim

Auden is the only child of Kurokiba Ryo and Nakiri Alice. When he was born, Souma and Erina were in that hazy pre-dating phase and so Alice and Ryo were unsure if the Sorina baby would be named Nakiri or Yukihira. They decided not to name their kid Nakiri Auden because Alice would do anything to avoid a repeat of the Nakiri cousins conflict (she inevitably has lingering resentments from being in Erina’s shadow for the first 18 years of her life) but Auden is the legal heir to the Nakiri-Totsuki Group. Obviously, Ryoali had no idea that Yukihira Kaede would end up not even being in the culinary business lol

The only potential competition for Auden’s inheritance ends up becoming Nakiri Jouichirou, who is the only one in the family from the next era who carries the Nakiri name. But Jouichirou is completely disinterested in running the empire so Auden has no trouble assuming the throne later on

Auden’s eyes are different reds. His heterochromia isn’t as noticeable as Kaede’s but his left eye is a few shades darker than his right. Especially after he joins the Elite Ten and gets no sleep (dark circles lol), he looks exactly like his dad but with shorter hair (think Central Arc but shorter). He uses his dad’s bandana on occasion but it only returns him to normal function. His voice is literal heaven. He could’ve been a narrator for Planet Earth.

He’s extremely soft and mild mannered, with none of his mother’s (and his father’s, to be fair) eccentricities. Auden is the most responsible out of the Elite Ten and pretty much the entire cast of the Genesis verse, 92′ers included. He has no emotional extrema (part of the reason why the bandana hardly affects him) and this is a relief for his parents, because it lessens his chances of dissociation and fugue

Auden specializes in Danish cuisine from a bit of a molecular standpoint, resulting from his time in the lab with his mom

In his second year of middle school, he dips a week to compete at national swim competition in Osaka and easily wins. He’s sponsored by Totsuki’s Sports Association and its founder/pres, Luc Tadokoro-Aldini

When he was younger, Auden spent a lot of time with Auntie Hisako, who drilled a whole bunch of medicinal knowledge into him because being a Ryoali child is a hazardous occupation so later when he meets Sei he finds out abt his smoking (Auden thought smoking as in cigarettes but Sei meant smoking as in food) and makes Sei promise not to smoke. It’s their first and only promise as best bros, and Sei picking up cigarettes in 3rd year pretty much destroys their friendship

Auden cuts the sleeves off of every t-shirt he owns, and ripped jeans are kind of his thing. Unlike Seijuro, who at least wears the Totsuki tie, Auden does not own a single article of the school uniform lol but Dean Hayama pretends not to notice

His goal is to be head chef for one of Tsukasa Eishi’s restaurants. This is pretty much the trigger for SenAudpocalypSei

I won’t go into too much detail about the SenAudpocalypSei bc that’ll take center stage in Renaissance anyhow but a vague summary is that Auden puts his career over his friends and Sei completely loses faith in him. Although the conflict stems from Auden’s career goals, it ends up revolving mostly around the love triangle between Seijuro, Auden, and Sena; ultimately they destroy a lot of the Totsuki dynamic that developed under Arato-Hayama Hikari’s tenure as first seat

[hellyeahomeland]

Well, it’s been a minute since we talked about anything around here, let alone something non-Homeland-related. 

As always, I got your back with a cutting-edge, of-this-moment recommendation for the next thing you should watch. 

That’s right, we are going BACK IN TIME to when Showtime still put that horrible watermark on all their shows and we are going to talk about United States of Tara, a show I recently entrely devoured in the span of a week. 

That gif above is about 50% of the reason to watch the show which is to say: ALL THE AWESOME LADIES. Since the concept of United States of Tara is a suburban middle-class family struggling with the dissociative identity disorder (fka multiple personality disorder) of its matriarch, played by Toni Collette with total and utter abandon, we actually get four, five, six, sometimes seven awesome ladies for the price of one! 

The central plot of the show is very late 2000s Showtime, in that “oh Carrie is just difficult? Can we give her some sort of pathology or....” way. But in the hands of Toni Collette, all is well. 

The show was created by Diablo Cody and the characters and story bleed through with her signature “fucked-up suburbia” vibe (while I’m at, please go watch Young Adult and Tully. You’re welcome in advance). 

Toni Collette stars as Tara Gregson, a sometimes-artist who spends most of her life trying to wrangle in her multiple personalities and give her two kids and husband a semblance of a normal life (the real thesis of this show is something along the lines of “normal is lame”). When the show starts, she’s got three “alters”: Alice, a 1950s-era Stepford wife; Buck, a Vietnam veteran/lethario; and T, a 16-year-old high school dropout. 

(T is my favorite alter: This is T: 

)

As the series goes on, Tara attempts multiple avenues to try to figure out why she’s like this and how to fix it (one of the really interesting subplots the show explores is the concept that so many people believe that DID is just... not a thing). 

She’s surrounded by a truly incredible all-star cast. John Corbett plays Max, her ever-loving husband, a Mr. Fix It type who takes all the craziness in stride. He is a true Cool Dad and their love is the anchor of the show. Rosemarie DeWitt plays Tara’s sister Charmaine, a real hot mess of a person who is one of those people who denies Tara has an actual mental illness. She likes to get her hot mess on with Patton Oswalt, who plays Max’s employee Neil. BABY BRIE LARSON plays Tara’s older daughter Kate. I have no words for how much I love Kate ok she is perfect please act shocked at this information. Kier Gilchrist is pitch perfect as the younger son Marshall, the “adult” of the family who’s also trying to figure out his identity. This is just the main gist. The show features guest stars like Viola Davis, Zosia Mamet, Joey Lauren Adams, and Ezzie Izzard. 

But you really come for the main cast and the Gregson family, who with each season grow messier and more fucked up and more absolutely and completely lovable. And love them I do. 

(all three seasons are on Hulu, get into it!) 

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(if you're not sure what to watch on HBO max once you're done with OFMD, and want to get your money's worth if you buy 1 month, "Doom Patrol" is also found family. There's Canon queer characters (including in the main cast) and ever includes trans and non-binary characters; it has some of the personally best rep for dissociative identity in main cast. Everyone is dealing with their own kind of mental health issues, as the plot, their own trauma and grief and dysphoria.

Brendan Fraser voices one of the leads and plays him in flashbacks; Diane Guerrero is another of the leads, and if you don't think you know her I'll tell you now that she voices Isabela in Encanto and plays Maritza in Orange is the New Black; Jovian Wade is another lead, he played Rigsy in Dr Who during 12/Capaldi's era; James Bond's Timothy Dalton is their Professor X analog; Alan Tudyk is the s1 antagonist; there's about a zillion guest stars from SPN for those who like that show; the moments of joy will make you cry happy tears. It's BIZARRE. Like fully completely a show for weird little artsy emotional queer people, but also people who like absurd humor and, to quote one of the bad guys, "character driven schlock".

Many many many of these characters were originally created by Grant Morrison, who is non-binary and one of the greatest comic book writers of our age. So anyway, I'm obsessed with OFMD, and Doom Patrol might not be for everyone who likes the gay pirate show, but all of my friends who I've convinced to try the weird misfit DC show have LOVED it. So come watch both!

Also also, if you're more into violence, humor, and heart: they have Peacemaker on there. It's directly tied into the world of "The Suicide Squad". I did not want to like Peacemaker the character, played by John Cena, and then I was waiting eagerly every week to see more of him peeled back and playing with my emotions through this raunchy sci-fi sidelined-superhero humor show. It attacks toxic masculinity, racism, and fascism with a fucking knife and stabs it repeatedly. With found family narrative just for fun among the team. A hilariously catchy opening credits. Lots of 80s glam-metal feel and music and referencing. Did you watch Orange is the New Black and loved the character Tastee? Well her actress, Danielle Brooks, plays the incredibly likeable second protagonist alongside John Cena and I would die for her. Her character is canonically a married lesbian and neither her nor her wife (also a woman of color) are fridged. Also there's an eagle named Eagle.

Right okay, so, that's my pitch on why you should pay for a month of HBO max. Watch 1 season so far of gay pirates, 3 seasons so far of found family absurd humor fuck ups/misfits, and 1 season so far of a sincere send up of self-serious supes.

They're really all about misfits, honestly. It's kinda my jam. You can ask me for CWs on any of them. I've watched each of these shows, or what's out of them so far, several times each. Doom Patrol is definitely the easier fit if you enjoy Our Flag Means Death, though!

Also oh shit, how could I forget HIS DARK MATERIALS. The 3rd and final season should be out this summer I think?! I can't pitch that one properly. But if you've read the books, YOU NEED TO COME WATCH IT.

And I haven't checked out the WWDITS movie spin off series "Wellington Paranormal" yet but apparently that's on there finally. About the 2 police investigators from it as they track supernatural events in New Zealand.)

How to watch Our Flag Means Death

A couple days ago, I made a post about why everyone should be watching Our Flag Means Death (staring Rhys Darby and Taika Wattiti) and that post… well, let’s just say it took off faster than I ever thought it would. If you have not seen that post yet, here’s the abridged version direct from the show creator himself: 

But if you want my pitch as well, you can also check out my original post here. 

Now, one thing I did NOT mention in that original post was how to watch the show, ant there have been a lot of questions about that. 

Answer: it’s airing on HBO Max and I would encourage people to watch it there if possible. 

Why? 

Well, this show has not been marketed very well by HBO (as evidence by the sheer number of people who have commented on that original post that this is the first time they’re even hearing of this show), so as many people as we can get to watch the show on the platform, the better. That lets HBO know that there is in fact money in this silly little show and that means they might renew it for a season 2, which trust me, you will want after watching the first season. It’s very good. 

So, how to watch… 

1. If you have Hulu, I believe they still offer a free 1-week trial of HBO Max. The final two episodes of OFMD air on March 24th, so you should be able to watch all episodes inside that 1-week period. 

2. HBO is usually $15 a month, which is a bit steep. But with adds, they’re offering it for $10 a month. If you can afford that on your own or if you have a friend that wants to split 1 month with you, then get a month and see the comments section of this post where I make some other show recommendations to help you get your money’s worth out of that $10. 

3. I am not advocating for piracy…. ironically. Again, I want people driving up those viewership numbers so we can have a season 2. HOWEVER, I’m also not stopping anyone from putting suggestions for where to pirate the show in the comments… so… do with that what you will. 

Anyway, cheers and happy streaming! 

[hereliesbitches--me]

Verse Page

I have an assortment of verses with many kinds of people. Some are open, some are exclusive to an extent in certain fashions

But if you have ideas, please let me know! I’m always happy to reach out and explore. Note that some verses may have been repeated, but that is only because its catagorized.

Open Verses:

Fallout 4- :V: Wasteland Wanderer :

Side note: this is the only game in the fallout series I have played . And this was some really goofy idea to an extent

She was taken by a gunner as a toddler when her family was killed on hit. Then her not so great caretaker got sick of rules and hopped over to run a raider group, and dragged along that same little girl into not so great situations to live in.

By 16, she managed to escape and live on her own in the wasteland with the gained skill of gunners and raiders combined, although she’s not at all cynical. Bearing cat features, she jokes that she’s some kind if vault dweller experiment that escaped, and by adulthood she lives her life day by day collecting shiny trinkets and narrowly escaping trouble with maxed out charisma and luck above all else.

She’s got a German Shepard and a Mutant Hound as her dearest companions, and she’s made friends and family amongst a colony of mirelurks.

Life is gooood for this lucky little wastelander.  When will her luck be cut short is the real question.

The Walking dead/ Zombie Verse- :V: Last Stand:

He wasn’t supposed to die.. It should’ve been her. She’s not well enough to be left alone with their children, but by God is she trying hard. For their sake to overcome her mental illness.

Rosie was a soldier before the world went to shit, and while she already had a few odd ticks through a rough childhood. She served her time within the military until being honorably discharged as her mental state grew increasingly restless, thus she returns to civilian life. She would later meet her husband, Rocky, a former combat medic and now a simple jazz musician, and with his help he brings her back to a normal level of functioning- in addition to her two service dogs, Sergeant and Major, who were her partners in the field as an officer.

The two would settle down together, even have a daughter named Mia, while she returns herself to duty serving the public as an officer and sometimes detective. At some point, an undercover case goes sour does result in her assault, and later the birth of her son, Thursday. She keeps him despite the strain, unable to part with him, and her husband was a fairly understanding man that still took the boy as his own.

In the outbreak of the apocalypse, Rosie’s returning paranoia proved to be a useful asset. While they had evacuated to a shelter, Rosie’s previous military experience left her restless at the thought of being sitting ducks in a flock of people, and convinced her husband to wrack up what they could for an escape. They did so with impeccable timing, hours before the shelter would be overrun. With both she and her husband’s military experience, surviving the apocalypse was manageable to an extent, until Rosie’s mental state begins to deteriorate once more. Rocky was the positivity and foundation that kept the family going despite the grim world they now lived in, and he did his best to keep the moral high for his wife and kids. In his death, their world was further turned on his head with Rosie being the only caretaker alone, having not been on her own since she met her husband over 8 years before. She struggles to handle herself, living on raw soldier’s instinct while battling insomnia, dissociation, and depression for the sake of keeping the bloody world lighter her kids, as their father would have done.

While Mia, at 8 years old, carries on with the same optimism as her father instilled in her despite the heartbreak of his death

Thursday, at 6 years old,  has not spoken in months since the incident.

Berserk- :V: Berserk:

Falling into the world was a mistake.

One second, she was fighting a war, and in another she found her body ripped apart by overwhelming emotions and grief, before she awoke on the ground in some unknown place. Her last memories was holding her murdered son.. Her abilities, still in the works of being controlled and easily swayed by emotion, has dropped her into the middle ages far from the world and time she called her own.

Disoriented, confused, unnerved, and desperate to find out just where she is, the fallen angels wanders aimlessly through midland for any kind of answers. And a way to return home to where her family still resides. Hoping for the best with the unknown fate of the world she fell away from.

Marvel- :V: Marvel:

A generic tag for any interaction within the marvel verse and muses. I often clash my own lore into it, just to keep things interesting. I Usually take up Rosie having her powers, and thus is a single mother of 2 while managing her ’Angel Project’

Modern- :V: Modern:

Main verse storyline with my own original world. The bio written corresponds to this verse, but an adaption of ity still consist of Rosie serving formally in military before becoming a cop in the big city. Using her authority and her well built reputation to work in the shadows and serve her own agenda, while keeping a warm, friendly, and professional public facade.

:V: Fate can be kind:

(Marvel Based, singleship with @osteum)

Upon coming to New York, Rosie has been in the city for months, and already she finds herself in a dilemma. The shift from a small town deputy in a a remote Tennessee town is a big change, however with no one else to occupy her time at home by caring for, she drowns herself in cases in hopes of building a reputation. With a shortage in trails to follow, with some research she decides to track down an old infamous journalist from years before who could help her out- Eddie Brock. Man was an old criminal, but he could write one hell of story. She had a fair deal to offer in exchange, and while the intention initially was with pure professionalism

Things do not always go as planned.

[ This verse is open to any involvement. One can ask questions on Eddie or events, and it will all be happily answers. I wouldn’t mind getting s big group started! ]

Open Original verses:

:V: Little Moon:

Taking place in the years before Rosie became human, these are the ages of innocence as a Moon Guardian naive to the true evils of the world. She is curious, kind, rather eager for relief from her solitude.

:V: Soldier born from the ashes:

Taking place in her years after leaving the Calvary, her 20s are spent taking care of a monster woman

who survives off the raw blood and flesh of humans. The first time she’s ever been truly living alone without the guidance of an older person or her military ideals, the adjustment is hard as she lives a life of lies in order to keep the past of she and the monster woman a secret. She starts her career as a cop in a small town in Tennessee, and begins building her reputation here.

In this stage, to cope with the drastic change and overwhelming guilt of lies and murderer piled upon each other, she suffers from sociopathic tendencies and an identity crisis. You may come to find that the sweet shy officer is not the same person behind closed doors.

:V: No Place like Home:

An alternate ending of Iniquitous Essence verse, the world has reset itself- and it’s Hell on earth. In the war between the heavens and Hell, it was the demonic to be the victors, with their Queen undefeated and unstoppable. Rosie had given herself to servitude of this Queen, once her sympathetic friend, in order to spare the remnants of her friends, family, and humanity

And in 7 years, the earth was left to prepare for their return.  Though with more of ¾ of the human population vanquished, no matter what they did, they were unprepared.

Angels who fought the battle were bound to the earth, their wings ripped from them, and the gates to heaven sealed to keep the evils out. Demons now rule the lands, prowling predators, regions divided under the rule of arch demons, for as long as the Queen lives there will be no peace, for this is her ideals of justice. It’s a dog eat dog world, and the only stand for humans are the former earth angels who formed a rebellion.

After years of servitude as a general to the armies and as a warden to check on arch demond, Rosie breaks away from the Queen to search for her children she had to leave behind in order to spare them. With new knowledge to the death of the Queen, she travels the land in search of the rebels where she knows her children would have been part of, bearing a mask to hide one of the most hated recognizable faces in the world.

And by God, she hopes she can be forgiven.

:V: The Widow:

In the 1960s, it is an era of change to the world.

Rosie is a simple woman. A widow to a rich husband inherits his wealth after a  tragic murder, when a lunatic broke into their home, beat the wife, and stabbed her husband to death with a  broken wine bottle! Him and his friendly affair in the kitchen, what a story it made! Or the story they believed

Now the lovely widow finds comfort in her book club, a group of ladies she runs to pick out the stories of unfaithful husbands and wives with just the right price to send a cleanup crew to change the story.

By day, Rosie is the secretary to a multimillionaire businessman man named Jacob Alvin McCool, with whom she shares to trades of her husband with, and receives ¾ of the profit. His special cat doll to assure all business is going well, at all levels- both legal and illegal. At the evening she runs her hit man book club,using the unrest of society and other unlady like methods to keep it under wraps.

She has been nicknamed the Whore Widow

:V: Letters from War:

Set in the midst of WW2, there is more to war than just the fight amongst nations and radical ideals. Rosie is an American agent working in europe in a government branch which specializes in rescuing supernatural being like Vampires, Werewolves, and other immortals from the casualties of wars to keep their existence hidden from the clutches of the axis powers. She fights for a future for her daughter, for a world not divided by colors or by species.

:V: Mother to Monsters:

With @doctor-2-insane-andfriends

A combination between the lore of I and a friend of mine, Rosie - Release from the bindings which keep her trapped to her human body - mistakenly befriends a eldritch being whom she discovers travels across dimensions and galaxies spreading the ideals of The Void , speeding chaos and unrest through teaching which force beings to join the ranks of fear eaters in their conquest of domination.

Upon later understanding, she discovers the roots of these unholy creatures exist on the outer edge of the galaxy where a Moon much older than she no longer existed. A Moon who, much like her, had her own mind to show her worth through action rather than at a single post. Upon the revelation that the murder of that Moon had created the state of these poor fear eaters, the younger Lady Moon makes it her mission to pick up where her sister had left off. Taking on another portion do a galaxy to correct the methods of these creatures in a more productive manner,

To become the mother that had been lost before.

It is a long road ahead to fixing such a race in turmoil..

This verse is based absolutely on original lore of both myself and Lucas mun. If one has any questions on Fear Eaters or Moons, please ask us! It is open world and open to all sorts of interactions

[aion-rsa]

Green Lantern: What Guy Gardner Means for the HBO Series

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When HBO Max announced its Green Lantern live-action television series, speculation ran rampant on how the DC galactic superhero mantle would be handled after Ryan Reynolds starred in the notorious 2011 film flop. However, that speculation has just narrowed, with the casting of headliner Finn Wittrock. The catch? Rather than playing famous hero Hal Jordan, Wittrock will instead star as machismo-addled antihero Guy Gardner, who will eventually be joined by other ring-wielders from the comic lore. It’s an intriguing development that will undoubtedly define the tone of the series.

Who is Guy Gardner? While that might sound like an easy question to longtime DC Comics readers, initiate fans only familiar with Green Lantern’s film and television iterations are likely unaware of the powder keg of un-PC repartee that the classic character’s live-action arrival prospectively wields for the eventually assembled onscreen ensemble. In fact, Gardner is so prominent that Warner Bros. Television’s notorious 1997 Justice League of America live-action television pilot used him as the titular team’s version of Green Lantern. However, it was essentially an adaptation nod in name only, since this version of Gardner, played by Matthew Settle, was hardly the impetuous loudmouth that fans knew and loved, and was instead a generic amalgam of Green Lantern tropes, and didn’t even retain his signature, Moe Howard-esque bowl cut; a mistake that hopefully won’t be repeated.

Consequently, the casting of Finn Wittrock, reported by Variety, will serve as the first onscreen version of Guy Gardner’s Green Lantern since that campy debacle. In reality, though, he will be the first proper live-action version, since said JLA pilot was essentially disposed of with a single CBS Sunday night airing on Dec. 28, 1997, and simply used Gardner’s name as a shell, possibly to leave an opening for Hal Jordan to turn up in the various unrealized superhero fare that Warner Bros. Pictures had on tap (which, ironically enough, might be the reason he’s being used now). Yet, the role could become a natural fit for 36-year-old American actor Wittrock (pictured below), who, as of late, has been making a habit of playing volatile characters, coming off a prominent role as institutionalized murderer Edmund Tolleson on Netflix series Ratched and—possibly by some cosmic coincidence—will play a character named Harry Gardner on the upcoming anthology iteration of FX’s American Horror Story. Wittrock’s Guy Gardner will operate under the creative auspices of writer/showrunner Seth Grahame-Smith.

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Guy Gardner is the ultimate manifestation of masculinity and jingoism, one who operates with an actions-speak-louder-than-words ethos, all turned up to eleven. Moreover, he’s known to be a domineering member of heroic teams such as the Justice League who—more often than not—ends up clashing with his teammates as much as any supervillains. Interestingly, the character’s conception—by writer John Broome and artist Gil Kane—in the March 1968-stamped Green Lantern Vol. 2 #59 was designed as a retcon twist to Hal Jordan’s origin story. While Jordan famously inherited the Green Lantern ring from mortally-wounded alien Abin Sur, it would later be revealed that Hal was one of two Earthlings selected as potential successors, and only earned the mantle due to his closer proximity to the dying Lantern. While Gardner’s more covetous side took hold after he was relegated to being a back-up Lantern, the ring’s ability to assess a person’s innate potential meant that a true hero resided beneath his rough-around-the-edges exterior.

While Gardner was initially depicted as aggressive and ambitious, the notoriety that eventually made him a comic book icon wasn’t quite there yet during his early appearances. Indeed, the bombastic personality that comic fans would come to embrace (ironically or not,) was an organic accident of sorts. Having been left in a coma for several years—after the combination of a bus accident, a ring battery malfunction and torture in the Phantom Zone—the character was revived by the Controllers during 1985’s Crisis on Infinite Earths storyline. Yet, the newer, louder facets of Gardner’s personality came from Green Lantern artist Steve Englehart and artist Joe Staton, who dovetailed him with the idea of a figure who parodied the hyper-masculine action movie heroes of the time. Yet, the whole “organic accident” part of this rebirth resided in the fact that Gardner was so drastically different from Broome and Kane’s original iteration that he may as well had been a completely different character altogether, which would have instead yielded Englehart and Staton credit and royalties as the creators; a move they both regret to this day.

Read more

Comics

New Green Lantern Series Expands Cosmic DC Universe

By Jim Dandy

Movies

Ryan Reynolds Releases a Green Lantern Cut of Justice League

By Joseph Baxter

Gardner would gain significant prominence as the founding member of an all-new version of DC’s Justice League in 1987, in a run written by Keith Giffen and J.M. DeMatteis. There, his legend as a quixotic antihero was solidified in the team’s formation, during which his consistent badgering of Batman culminates in the Dark Knight knocking him out cold with a single punch. Yet, Gardner’s abusively traumatic childhood, along with a touch of dissociative identity disorder caused by his coma, was used to explain his often-bellicose nature. These character layers helped him emerge as an affectionately-damaged fan-favorite alternative Green Lanterns. It was a stride that was hit during a most accommodating era for such a personality, the late-1980s and early-1990s, when the concept of antiheroes was starting to have a prominent place in the comic book world; an era during which seemingly irredeemable villains were being positioned as protagonists in their own standalone titles. While Gardner did field a failed reinvention—fully-clad in black leather—in which he briefly called himself “Warrior,” he remains an A-lister in the DC Universe.

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Regardless, Guy Gardner has frequently flown close to the edge of evilness, notably during a storyline in which possession of Sinestro’s yellow Qwardian Power Ring channeled malevolent, fear-based powers, but don’t expect a villain arc from Wittrock’s rendition on HBO Max’s Green Lantern. Rather, like in the comics, expect a brash-yet-bold source of tension in a team dynamic. With this version of Gardner said to come from an era-appropriate 1984, the plot will cross time itself to include a 1941 version of Golden Age Green Lantern Alan Scott (said to be depicted as a closeted FBI agent,) and half-alien Bree Jarta. Indeed, Gardner ultimately answers the clarion call of the Corps when the universe—as it often does—becomes besieged by some kind of existential threat.  

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[theday]

mx in sg: the experience

FHJGDGHSHGFGGHD as usual starting off with the keyboard smash anyway! ill be talking about my experience seeing mx live yesterday (3/3) second part is abt when mx were on stage but its quite dry bc i dont remember much

ill be going in chronological order so [jooheon voice] lets get it

i was gonna meet my friend (karissa) at 3:30 because we were going to meet the person selling us our tickets at 4pm but that got delayed until like 5pm which was fine though

anyway i met her and we started queueing because although official queuing was supposed to start at 6pm they pushed it forward to 3pm (which was unfortunate for those who were busy and couldnt come until much later - the organizer never released an official statement saying the queuing started earlier) 

so as soon as karissa and i arrived at like. the place (near the venue) we got lost for about a whole 5 minutes lmao so i texted james asking him where the hell . they were and we made it and joined the queue immediately (we were the last few people of the second batch) 

we just sat there and. collected freebies and our banners (for the fan events) while we waited for the seller to come give us our tickets 

when they came i was like . fucking screaming because one of the seller was someone i knew from primary school (4 years ago) and i was likeudghdgghdhsh??????? that was the highlight of the daydhfhs

after we bought the tickets and shit we were slightly concerned they wouldnt work lmao but they did god bless

while we waited for the doors to open and stuff a group of people did dance covers of mx songs and later other groups too everyone was cheering for them which was nice fgfghdgh

the hype died down and we just waited quietly until it hit 6pm and i started listening to the day6 stream LMAO but after 4 songs i had to stop because suddenly everyone was standing up?? 

for nothing though because we sat down like 30 minutes later at around 7? 7:30? everyone stood up again and this time people were given wrist tag things u kno.. ya there were three (?) kinds i think gold for those who held a superfan ticket, pink for general admission and some other colour for those who got tickets for free and could sit on chairs dhdghs 

it was a free standing event in an outdoor space so superfan ticket holders got to stand closer to the stage? and those with general admission had to stand behind us and it was separated by a barricade 

we entered at like 8pm because we were the second batch (there was a third batch behind us) and it was already filled?? not exactly but from where we were standing we couldn’t really see the stage 

in the end we were in the middle which wasnt exactly the best but its definitely better than those standing all the way at the back rip 

i think at like 7:45 they started playing the music videos and everyone was shouting the lyrics it was cute i loved it but my throat told me to die after i yelled for like all of their mvsjhdgdghd 

also when all in played u bet my ass i jumped up and downdhg

also water wasnt allowed inside which i think is normal so i chugged mine down as fast as i could before entering (i had a little left and the lady let me in with it thanks queen) (i drank it all before they even came on stage)

the hype was real though and it was great 

when it hit 8:30pm the introduction video started and suddenly i was getting pushed forward and wow . dont go if ur not a fan of people invading your personal bubble. i wish fans had more sense to Not push around and stuff but what can we do rip 

other than that when they came out oh gOD when they came out i was likebfhgddgs??!?!??!?! i had to stand on my tip toes to see them

they started with beautiful and i was liek. dissociating i jsut sang along and shit it was amazing?????? 

the first person i saw was kihyun and then minhyuk?? i dont remember who else i saw but iw ss losing my fucking mind over how good everyone looked

anyway after that was um.............. fuck. .... i dont know..........

IFMFHGHSGF IM CRYING MY BRAIN TOLD ME TO DIE

white love maybe? i think they did like an introduction of themselves ??

anyway ill figure the songs out later they started playing games i think or was that another time im bad at this clearly 

ask james for the details of the songs i dont remember shit from that i just remember singing along to the songs badly and moving my arm back and forthhfgsgh 

also team work makes the dream work because karissa was recording and i helped her to zoom in and ensure they looked human with the brightness and stuff fhjdgsgh 

but !! everyone did the fanchants really well it was so heartworming 

also during white love they made us do that one part u know the one and it was awesome!!!!! during white sugar they threw m&m’s and i got to get a good look at their faces without having to look at the screen!! 

honestly was good too god im so happie 

hm. they did a mon-story time and showed us pics from previous eras (trespass > i dnt remmeber fuck > beautiful world tour > mxray > first win) ?? might be wrong dghdgs and they talked about stuff that happened i blanked out though so i dont know what they said 

also when they flashed the first win part they started throwing hands @ each other usual mx shit dhjgsgd

we chanted monsta x and they chanted monbebe back at us :-( i love them

i think changkyun said he doesnt wnat to do another season of mxray LMAODHFGHHGS fucking loser 

the translator made me laugh he was super monotone fhgdghfsh

then they played mon-ccaso dghghfsh and drew what they wanted to eat with singaporean mbb!!

there was a bug in front of wonho and he got !!!! fhdgh cute .

shownu: ????? what was it ?? a drink it looked like a cocktail and kihyun was like “non alcoholic” dghffsgs

wonho: ice cream!!! hes so cute his drawing was so cute also he wrote monbebe before they announced the game his handwriting is so pretty tf

minhyuk: ramyeon lmao (in his words: traditional korean noodles) 

kihyun: uh oH HE DREW A CRABFGHGSHS and said chili and pepper crab!!!

hyungwon: he drew a shrimpfhggdgs fucking . it was so cute

jooheon: mandu!! or dumplings :D

changkyun: water. JHDHGDGSG KING HONESTLY IW AS LIKE JUMPING UP AND DOWN IN EXCITEMENT!! love me a water stan 

anyway they talked about what they drew and when it came to minhyuk’s turn he was like guess and everyone just shit on him DHJDHSHG 

some examples: “hair” Gghdhg and some fans (including me) screamed cucumberhjfghgs let this man live 

minhyuk also tried to make fun of jooheons drawing but it failed bc none of us understood his joke

so they made us vote by screaming and they each stood up while holding their sketchbooks and we’d scream

winner was changkyun (i yelled my heart out and jumped bitch)

FHGSGG W INNER HAD TO DO AEGYO THOUGHDG played urself

they did oppaya and i think there are fancams somewhere

then they made wonho do it hhdggs best 1 minute of my life

after that was uhh??????? brain machine broke i dont know im not even going in order anymore

they either did from zero first or the fan videos were shown first

if so the fan videos were of fans talking about how much they love/appreciate mx and it was sweet after that we raised our banners for the fan vid

and then the CAKE came for wonho and we sang happy birthday to wonho (kihyun asked us to sing once too at the start hjdghgsg we did that in english this time it was in korean) 

also funny hfgdhgs thing... they talked in korean and a lot of people replied in korean so they got shockedhfgh FUCJ DAY6 ok safe im listening now

i think they (minhyuk?) asked who thought/if he was handsome and got rly happie when we said yea

after him someone asked too LOLJHDGSG

back 2 whatever fdsh um oh yeah the cake was done to look like ramyeon in a pot :D ill add a link

wonho cut himself with the knife D-: babie 

he kept wanting to eat it though so hopefully he liked it 

maybe after that they did from zero???? ufhffghsgghdg idk

after that was hero!!!!!!! god we were all so pumped 

shine forever next 

and then they stopped to take a break i thinkfhgshgd 

at some point they asked fans (a jooheon stan and a wonho one) what songs they liked :-D the jooheon one said beautiful and the other said ill be there if im not wrong

they also made the rappers sing bits from some songs hfgsg i dont remember which songs tho hdhs

changkyun tried his besthjdg

they did their ending ment and went to dramarama!! 

after that it was silent for like 5 minutes max as we chanted mx and for encore

they came out and did ill be there (?) (first verse to chorus) and talked again before doing 5:14! 

they were dressed in casual tshirts which was a relief hjghgdh because it was reallly fuckng hot hdh changkyun mentioned the weather too sorry dude thats life

they waved at fans and played amongst themselves kihyun dumped water on jooheon LMAO i got a clear view of that

stay hydrated !

they just kept dumping water on each other i love a family :-D

and then they said bye and left

jooheon kept going byEE though dhgdhs hes so cute :-( 

ok heres what i thought abt the monstas themselves

kihyun looked especially good with that tie by the way 

jesus i got to see wonho with dark hair i truly. died

ALSO SHOWNU LOOKS SO HANDSOME IRL!!!! MY WIG WAS SNATCHED!!!!!!!!!!!

hyungwon was rly cute too when he interacted with the fans :-(

there was one time wonho smiled and it was caught on the screen i . felt my heart burst in that moment

alsowwhen minhyuk took center position for their choreos he has this ?? charisma ??? its amazong like the one smirk/grin he does u know that? yeah i saw it in beautoful and died

joohoen and changkyun also did their best hyping mbbs up by yelling to sing along and stuff ihdjgf i love them

this is just mx loving hours 

also kihyun did the DHDHHSH EYE SMILE!!! HE DID IT SO MANY TIMES HE WAS SO HAPPIE I LOVE HIM!!!!!!!!!!!!

i didnt get to see jooheon much but he was so playful with minhyuk it was so cute!!!!!!! 

they all look so good and sound even better live!!! kihyuns adlibs god help me. 

i love them so much. i really do fhhdghghs im happy i went no more regrets and no more telling myself i didnt have a blast because i!!!! i loved every second of it even when i got someones hair stuck to my arm LMAO 

after it ended we immediately left for the exit andggdghs WOW standing up i was fine but moving?? moving was HELL my legs hurt so bad

ok so we got home and thats that but like.... heres where my self reflection comes in

so you dont have to read this part

i think. the reason i dont remember much is because.. i dont want to? like. at some point i got a clear view of wonho in the Flesh and i was thinkng about how i was really seeing them? for real????? and i got. really sad i think?? 

so to prevent myself from getting sad i probably tried to forget? everything?? theres also my bad memory of course but i cant even remember their faces i feel like its because im trying to forget or some deep shit 

anyway i think im also makig myself not be happy??? this is phrased v bad but its like im trying to kill the fun and only think abt the negatives of the whole event

which wasnt even much so its like. my minds blankfhjfhd

talking about it here helps though like i get to. share and actually talk about what happened so yeah i can say that i had fun even though i couldnt see them i had a blast singing along it was awesome

the only bad part was how i didnt like watching from the screens because it felt like i wasnt seeing them live?? ooMGHDDS DAY6 ARE DOING BETTTER BTTER

tldr; im not that upset over it now thank god and i can proudly say i had fun and although i cant remember much it was a great experience

thank you for coming to my tedtalk if you did <3

[tnoya001]

March update

I’ve been thinking a lot about two aspects of my project. One, the more time has passed, the more personal this work has become. The initial idea was to artistically contain time through the use of Machine Learning, by crafting a dataset through a durational process consisting of taking multiple photos of the sky every day for 6 months, and using a styleGAN2 model to generate digital copies of the physical world. A translation if you will. However, an overlapping with my Critical Studies dissertation, where I dealt with nostalgia within a Venezuelan context (I’m from Venezuela, I lived there until August 2015), started sparking feelings and thoughts I had had before, but hadn't use in any art projects (that I can recall). 

These ideas started taking shape: the inherent cruelty of time – time is inherently cruel. Moments pass and disappear never to be seen again. The sky turns out to be a perfect example of this. Always similar, for millions of years, yet never the same. In my case, blue skies symbolise an easier time. My childhood. Life was easier –or at least it seemed–, my worries were simpler. Things were warm and fun. 

Slowly, as I ventured into my pre-teen years, the socio-cultural environment where I resided started to change for the worse. This had immediate and long lasting consequences on me, my family, and million others. Growing up surrounded by ultra-violence, injustice, cultural decay, and many other horrors takes a toll on you. It changes you forever. Even if one is able to get out without physical scars, psychological scars are there to stay. Not only does it alter your behaviour –to this day I cannot walk without being aware of who and what is around me, motorcycle sounds and sudden loud noises scare me to death, and any interaction with police or immigration officers makes me feel like I’m about to die– but it creates a perfect storm for an epidemic of nostalgia. 

It was –and it is– common to hear comments in pro of the military dictatorship of Pérez Jiménez in the 50s, as bad as that one was, at least there was economic growth and rule of law, or so people said. Other eras came to people’s minds as well, but for me, it wasn’t about a previous political era, nor a previous period of social stability, for me it was about my childhood years. Years riddled with adventures, fun, and freedom. This marked me. I have grown up to be a very nostalgic and melancholic person. Having been forced to leave my homeland has created a sort of dissociative state of mind, one does an effort to bury this, but it permeates one way or another. These are some of my thoughts, my meditations:

Living two lives, one in the past, one on the present. What if? I have murdered my past selfs, my past lives; now I have to live with the consequences. I have done everything, yet I haven’t done enough. I judge others. How can they complain? Do they even know? They don’t know shit. Who am I to judge? Who am I to know? I know. Forever an outsider. To inhabit between places. Borrowed words. If you look back you lose, but if you don’t, you forget. We drove around, not knowing it was gonna be the last time. Seeing those fields. Crossing that river. The crux. I have seen moments that are now lost. Webs of innocent decisions with decade lasting consequences. What if I had turned right. What if I had said yes. What if I had kicked that ball. Wha if I hadn’t taken that bus. Never-ending adaptation and acculturation. The thing about immigration is that you can never really go back to exactly where you came from because that place no longer exists once enough time has passed. The person you were back in that first home also doesn’t really exist anymore. Your struggles and your triumphs, your experiences and your age have also changed who you are. That ‘you’, who once lived in that place that no longer exists, also no longer exists. How can I detach?

I’ve come to the conclusion that I need to adapt my work slightly for web. Originally, this was supposed to be an immersive installation. With 4 large projections and surround sound. This would’ve facilitated the experience of witnessing subtle changes in my GAN skies. Given that the exhibition will be online, I think I need another way to hook audiences. As I believe seeing a small video of GAN skies will inevitably become boring after some seconds (if I’m lucky minutes). This is where the previous written thoughts come into play. I’m gonna add on-screen text to my final video. Red subtitles. Sentences, passages, words. I will use them to craft a narrative. It’ll be like a stream of consciousness. I believe these thoughts and experiences are universal among migrants and refugees, among people who were forced to flee. I think it works well with the main concept of using Machine Learning to try to contain time, moments. To recreate them. Given them new infinite life inside the digital world, where things can persist till eternity –or till the servers are disconnected. 

Influences: Moshin Hamid (Exit West), Vahni Capildeo (Measures of Expatriation), Svetlana Boym (The Future of Nostalgia), (Arcade Fire (The Suburbs), Terrence Malick (The Tree of Life, Knight of Cups, A Hidden Life, Badlands, Days of Heaven).

The second thing I've been thinking about it the actual structure of my GAN skies. So far my options are: 

1) create a whole day, from sunrise to sundown and spread it among x minutes. 

2) create several days spread among x minutes, which will create more of a time-lapse vibe, unless I go for something extremely long like 2h (which I don’t want to, I wanna stay around the 12min mark). 

3) don’t have a logical structure and have random seeds populate x minutes. 

This is where I’m at wight now, at least in terms of content and concept. Technically speaking, I feel alright. I have done tests in TensorFlow through Paperspace and it’s just a matter of waiting till I have my final dataset on the first week of April. I still plan to use Max to create my soundtrack. I’ll probably mix the final track in an app/software that allows to do binaural mixes, as I think this is a good replacement for mi initial 5.1 surround sound idea.  

Along these lines:

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[spector]

moon knight vol 7 - extensive thoughts after just 2 issues! ur welc! 

tl;dr - my opinion is: mixed but ultimately enthusiastic feelings !! definitely more good than bad.

some people say... hm... well I say that with each new writer for moon knight, there’s basically a new characterization of said character. that’s the case with every superhero run switching writers, true, but it’s never as quite pronounced as it is with moon knight. vols 1-2 were a time for establishing a character, in vol 3 we’ve seen him become a broken gritty man, vol 4 we had a COMPLETELY different interpretation of marc’s illness, vol 5 was the new defining vol for marc’s character but also THE LEAST character driven vol (its incredible how well it works even though it never stops to actually... tell us who marc spector is, but that is also on purpose and i could talk abt the instrumentation of his character in vol 5 but this aint the post for it), vol 6 continued that idea but also laid groundwork for returning to vol 1-2 era.

so this is where we’re at when we read moon knight 188 and 189. the grand circle, we saw this comic title start off as a sorta naive attempt (but not misguided by any means) at telling a story about a mentally ill man in a superhero world. we saw it develop into a much more mature story with more realism with correct and respective portrayal. and now vol 7 has to continue that-- but it does so by coming back to the original formula with marc alternate identities actually functioning as their own characters, as opposed to marc just saying stuff like ‘yeah i have people living in my head’

the thing is that i am glad to see the old formula back-- but at the same time it feels cheapened. consider those two panels, first one is from 189 issue: 

and issue 11 of vol 6 by jeff lemire

u can tell which take on marcs mental illness is more... grounded. one is portrayed as effortless switching between completely different lives, different vibrant characters. very movie-like, very jekyll and hyde. the other take is portrayed as an actual coping mechanism with actual social implications, marc is shown dissociating at the wake and his mother is actually ANGRY at him. lemire’s portrayal of DID is more realistic because it showed it as a disorder of memory, of coping, connected with identity crisis, marc was shown trying to deal with it and the whole arc ended with marc being on a pro-recovery road to own well-being. 

HERE... we’re back to the very theatrical portrayal and.. it’s not necessarily a step forward. if anything it cheapens the narrative marc has developed over the vol 5 and vol 6. 

furthermore we get to a twist where jake is implied to be doing terrible things and marc doesn’t even know about it which is a very... stereotypical story, very freudian, very pop culture. but credit has to be given where its due, the groundwork for that plotpoint was laid down back in vol 5 (issue 8)

yeah im not too pleased with this development, but its only 2 issues so maybe max bemis will manage to get more serious with it. i dont mean that grim jokes should be gone from moon knight comics, i just oppose a very sensualized portrayal of mental illness. i agree that it can be viewed as a colorful and interesting story but its... fake, cheap, disrespectful. vol 5+6 were good because they treated the subject seriously, they didnt go for a simplistic but colorful narrative that we know from dr jekyll and mr hyde. IT IS A DIFFICULT TOPIC TO TACKLE, believe me i know, but the attempt needs to be made. 

i think my main complaint for current mk stuff is just... the execution is kinda lacking. did i love marc’s little grim joke? SURE I DID. did i think it could be executed better? yea.. the dialogue seems stiff at point, khonshu has taken on a different voice that resembles the previous khonshu but somehow .... 

oh god

khonshu got whedon-ized... thats what it reminded me of... fkhggkh

BUT TO COME TO THE GOOD THINGS... im so glad my fav is still getting new stories, im glad we’re going forward with him. im glad we’re returning to the egyptian myths. there are a lot of good things in those 2 issues so far. the new villain seems very interesting ?? i actually love that dude as a villain i really do !!! some jokes landed really fucking well, like the one abt telepaths. jacen burrows draws EXCELLENT fight scenes!! i love khonshu being the narrator, thats so fucking clever!!! the references to ‘is he actually mentally ill’ issue that has been around since forever are also a good touch

the main plot that seems to be constructed around the character of sun god and bushman actually seems extremely interesting and i cant wait for the throwdown to begin. i like what was done to the character of marc spector specifically, im NOT THAT OPTIMISTIC ABT THE PORTRAYAL OF THE DISORDER HE HAS (esp since it got called ‘multiple personality disorder’... again... i gotta tweet that dude).

arguably it might be because this is jsut the second issue and bemis is trying to rope readers in by showing a very dramatic take on it and maybe then it will ... CHILL. moon knight is a VERY difficult comic to write (at least after what ellis and lemire contributed) and all of those issues can be fixed. bemis already has bonus points from me for acknowleding marc being jewish in just second issue. plus like i said, the main plot looks very interesting, i am freakin hooked dudes! its just that i have this gripe with the portrayal of what marc suffers from... we were doing so well and this is a bit of a step back in my opinion.

BUT ULTIMATELY I AM VERY MUCH ENGAGED, i loved some bits of it, didnt like other bits, but i definitely wanna see more and i wanna read more and ultimately i did like this last issue! and the previous one before it! im glad to see marc in more superhero stories. what ellis and lemire did for this title isnt going anywhere!! and i feel like bemis is gonna expand on some issues (like khonshu stuff) and add some other rich mythos to marcs character so u kno what... im optimistic! i just hope this one thing gets straightened out and that writing picks up a little bit. 

also jacen i love you but tell ur colorist that marc has brown hair THANKS

PS. thank u for letting marc say fuck 

PPS. i didnt proofread this i dont know a single word in english thanks

[haunthearted]

Is there any chance you'd have a way to make a little ghostkin feel comfortable in their physical life? Like, ways to make their room better, ways to meditate differently, foods, anything? Sorry if this is a little to broad or vague. :/

I can do my best, my darkling - thank you for writing ^_^

Part of what's hard about ghost advice and care ideas is, as a group, we are so diverse. Say someone who identifies with a racoon; racoons are the same the world over, even if racoon people are not, so they can draw consistent ideas from racoon habitats, eating habits and so on.

What is a ghost's habitat? Anywhere there have been people. I try to be mindful when blogging that I have a very particular experience of ghostliness drawn from victoriana/analogue sound/presence.

For this reason, I definitely think sitting down and brainstorming these things for yourself is a really good ghosty activity. There’s a big different between lost ghosts, angry ghosts, soft ghosts and scary ghosts.

Soft ghosts, I’d recommend soft fairy lights, good cushions, some blankets, whatever makes a space feel gentle and safe. For ghosts who think a lot about anger or horror, I’d look out things either to help express rage - great music to shout to, art methods which require you to throw paint or stab things - or for de-escalating strong feelings, like high-energy exercising. I’m a dissociative ghost, so a lot of my ghost activities are actually about grounding and becoming bodied again; but a ghost who was sad they weren’t floaty any more would have the opposite problem.

It’s also about eras of time. For a ghost who felt they came from the 90s, their welcome pack would include: buffy the vampire slayer on VHS, a packet of pokemon cards, neon gummy bracelets, sparkly hair grips, sugary cereal with a free toy, and instructions to spend one hour MAX on the internet, and spend it learning HTML to pimp out your geocities page. The 90s ghost tastes like Sunny D hitting the back of your throat, sounds like the Win95 startup sound - and smells like teen spirit.

None of these are inherently ghostly. What makes them haunt is an out-of-timeness, a wrongness. These things were not ghostly when I had them as a small thing, but they are ghostly now - otherworldly things.

But then, for other ghosts - I’d break out the Victoriana. Their welcome pack would include how-to-make daguerreotypes makeables, a phonogram or a playlist of phonogram tunes, a good cup of tea with sponge cake, recommendations to purchase a good hat etc Rich Victorians loved odd plants in hothouses, I’d probably suggest you get a succulent or orchid, and learn to paint plates or screens or try needlepoint.

I apologise if this is a cop out! I encourage you to:

Brainstorm what sort of ghost associations you have - possibly using the 6 Ghostly Senses meme

Check out our new and improved Ghostkin Activities master-list page

Message me back with more detail about you, and I’ll try and write something specific

Friends, these offers go for you too: I do love answering asks, so do let me know how I can help, and we'll do our best to navigate this unexpected afterlife together.