#my immortal liveblogging

[agnesandhilda]

very much a gen z moment on my part but finding out that screensavers were originally meant to prevent still images from being burnt onto idle crt monitors was a lightbulb moment for how I read 3d workers island

[jyhir]

YESSSS YESSS MORE UNDYING DUO

[ricochetfuel]

who gave this to pentar.

[tiny-feral-arachnid-man]

I guess I am getting "da hell out of here", because I have no idea who Amy Lee is.

Wait, hold up, lemme google it

About to start reading My Immortal properly and liveblogging my reactions, so. Be Warned. /lh

[poetryphase]

no cuz quick little rant cuz wtf do u mean 'there's too much loki in immortal thor' it's??? Thor??? why??? would??? there??? not??? be??? like idk if i need to direct u to the last like five grillion issues of thor ever, but im pretty sure loki's a pretty major part of it

[midol-official]

Would anyone know what the hell I mean if I say the hacker’s chapter of My Immortal reads like a Pesterlog

[mandareeboo]

Double caked up on a life-or-death spy mission

[ukitakejuushiro]

(⁠ ⁠˘⁠ ⁠³⁠˘⁠)⁠♥

[bitterflames]

still thinking about yin nanfeng (i think it was her anyway) calling zhang rishan an old immortal hag. can't speak on the nuances of the original dialogue but INCREDIBLE choices from viki sub team imo.

[ntshastark]

Wednesday lb on a Friday

IM #4 and USM #13

Iron Man #4

OH THE RASPUTIN ERA IS FINALLY OVER THANK GOD

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who's this white woman

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THEY DID THIS FOR MEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

MY TWO FAV MARVEL CHARACTERS GREETING EACH OTHER WITH A KISS NEAR THE CHEEK BC THE ARTIST IS BRAZILIAN AND THAT'S HOW WE DO IT HERE HELLOOOOOOOOO

i'm soo recolouring wanda in this later to use it everywhere, i'm making this panel my fucking brand, be forewarned

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oh wait nvm julius ohta isn't the artist in this issue. i still love the panel tho

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oh the double spread is SO pretty

i'm also making this my brand

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ETA: ironically, turns out the spread is by a brazilian artist lol (rod reis). we're taking over!

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wanda is so pale in this, it's so distracting

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NOT DARCY BEING DARKER THAN HER

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is this all there was to wanda in this issue? i'd usually be disappointed but i don't really trust spencer with her, so i'm actually hoping that's it tbh 😬

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oh i miss him.............

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here goes my last doubts about spencer being an aos fan

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oh she looks nothing like the tv version

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hmm

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i have no idea who that is, but i appreciate that the villainesses keep on coming

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oh someone pointed out on discord (yes i check the wednesday-spoilers channel right after reading every issue shh) that this was him not remembering his time as dos bc of the brain delete!! much like marvel, i keep forgetting this is still canon. such a nice detail

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oh spencer did an AMA on locg!!!! hold on

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THE SWORD HAS A NAME!!!!!!!!! it's totally gonna be something arthurian isn't it. either excalibur or some deep cut (also, thank you julius ohta for my life)

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i love him

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🥹

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THANK YOU MR ACKERMAN FOR MY LIFE!!!!!!

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i'm sorry this is too funny. he just kept saying it.

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oooo nice, i was already mourning the sword today bc i thought it'd be gone as soon as they could fix his shit

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three rumiko questions, she truly is the people's princess

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oh my god he'd get sooo political writing ollie, i need to see it

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He Is The Chosen One

but also

🤨🤔

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Ultimate Spider-Man #13

oh they're keeping the month skip thing even after a year... sigh. it's literally the only thing i don't like about this run

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OH SHIT?????

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oh wait, peter planned the suit replacing him???? dude wtf

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NULTS SAVAGE LAND!!!!!!!

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"boys".... hmmm

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i was so ready to treat this universe's parksborn as an entirely different beast, but hickman managed to adapt it so well... they haven't known each other for that long, they haven't yet gone through as many things together, and harry is absolutely keeping shit from peter and not to be fully trusted. but they're comrades in arms, they're partners in crime, they have a deep bond and trust forged not by time and friendship but by putting their lives in each other's hands. and harry... this harry is handsome, smart, successful, married to an amazing woman who's also a hot babe, he's even a superhero... and there's still one glaring way in which he could never compare to peter. and i have no doubt that, despite this universe's norman having died without ever meeting peter, harry is still going to feel like the least favourite son at some point. probably something to do with the suit AI.

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this panel is just. so perfect. he's a dangerous bastard. he loves his family. he would, in fact, kill you for touching them. i love him so much. welcome back peter parker.

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the contrast between peter and harry here is so fucking delicious, thank you mr hickman for my life

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THIS IS SO GOOD!!!!!!

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wait, how old is felicia supposed to be in this? bc i thought she was peter's age but she's actually not looking much older than richard tbh... and the framing here... is this heading where i think it is...

not sure how i feel about it tbh... not the romance per se, i'm surprisingly fine with the idea, but this positioning of richard as peter's "heir" over may(day)...

even the wraparound suit logo looks similar... not a fan. richard has actually been my bet for series death from day one, exactly bc he's such an outlier. everyone else in this series is an iconic spider-man character (even those who are iconic for their deaths), but richard? who's ever heard the tale of richard parker, spider-boy? no one. if anything, peter's male successor is miles.

this spiderling subplot should be may's. hell, i'd love to see her dating a young felicia (who, iirc, was first canonised as bisexual in a spider-girl issue). yeah, this may is too young, but making her the younger sibling was a conscious choice. if they're really having richard get into superheroing even after peter comes back, i highly doubt it wasn't planned from the start.

[mabaris]

wait. am i just desperate for an explanation why there’s so many ghouls in this game, or is this the reason. are they all actually wardens who left on their calling.

[forcebookish]

so good a guess i have no idea how the fuck she came up with it!??!?? guess she read the script lol

[sollucets]

i. uh. to me unfortunately NOTHING in the first two episodes has been as scary as khatha saying ‘get me the moths’

[croc-odette]

jacob: i bring people here to prove to my brother that people are inherently good

ricardo: where are the other people

jacob: oh they all died bc they suck

[tanoraqui]

Dungeon Meshi Liveblog: Of Ghosts & Griffins

What do they worship? The Winged Lion, whom they mistake for a god?

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It's so interesting how Izutsumi's cat is dominant in this place. I don't understand enough about soul magic or the spell that maintains this to know why. It FEELS right - this is a place for monsters, and that's the part of her that's a monster? But I bet there's worldbuilding that explains it...

WAIT, OR: that couple pages I reblogged with hte werewolf clearly implied that Izursumi isn't a human with a cat spirit put in her, she's a cat with a human spirit put in her. So maybe whatever enchantments shield and maintain the Golden Country bring the cat spirit to the fore as part of their preservative properties, doing their best to remove this curse upon the poor cat? Izutsumi doesn't change shape, just mind, because the souls are so mixed and/or the human soul is so much stronger than hte cat.

Who the fuck took a human soul and put it in a cat. Why would you do that I wonder if we'll ever know.

(The question of the comic is thus, of course: did Falin's soul get put inside a dragon's, in which case she'll be stuck with a dragonoid body at best, or did the dragon's get put inside Falin's, in which she should be able to shift back and forth at will once the Mage isn't forcibly holding the dragon's soul dominant?)

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This is the most hobbitly we've seen Chilchuck. I keep expecting him to start talking about how his old gaffer used to drink down at the pub.

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shadkjsh Chilchuck get your mind out of the gutter!

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These would unironically do numbers at the right Met Gala. I unironically really like the middle, floral one. And specificially the crossed-antlers brassiere on the third.

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They're dead! They're under a spell (a curse) of immortality so they can't change and they can't leave and nobody knows they exist and they can't make an impression on the world and nobody even really knows they did exist, not as individuals beyond a vague collective legend; and most of all they don't hunger, they don't want for anything in their bucolic life (except freedom or death) and they don't hunger for food, they don't eat and even if they do eat it they can't enjoy it, because they're immortal but in every single way that matters they are d e a d !

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Alright my current theory is: this kingdom always venerated a winged lion deity, for whatever reason. Myths happen. Then one day, a demon slipped in from wherever demons slip in and disguised itself as the winged lion in order to be easily trusted by the populace. It started offering the fulfillment of desires in exchange for the consumption of other desires.

It tricked the Mage somehow, so that by their powers combined they turned the populace of this city into a feeding pen for the demon - safe and happy forever! being slowly drained of all their desires.

But as the people's desires started to run truly dry, until they were functionally dead, the demon grew hungry - and maybe greedy. So it sent the villagers this "prophetic dream" about one who would save them, motivating Delgal to get to the surface - probably with the demon's help, covert so the Mage wouldn't know; still pretending to be a god if Delgal himself knew. It let the dungeon be opened, drawing all sort of greedy and desperate people down into its feasting range.

...whatever trick/bargain it made with hte Mage, it's probably going to try to do much the same with Marcille, with her terror of loss.

:D

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P.S. I love how Yaad keeps calling him "Sir Laios" like he's a knight, instead of just some guy with good intentions who thinks monsters are neat. Also, Chilchuck literally just shaking his head at Laios.

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Needless to say, the contrast between Laios's blind panic at being told he's a prophecied hero and king and Kabru's "If I had the ability to take over this dungeon and kingdom, I'd fix absolutely everything and no one would have any problems ever again" is hilarious and wonderful.

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Laios basically just told that orc chieftain that he'd think about what he'd do as king, right? ...Well, I guess it's time for him to think about it.

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THEIR HANDS ARE COLD BECAUSE THEY ARE D E A D.

Btw in a just world, Yaad would be a woman. Princess in a Tower vibes off the charts. Thank you for coming to my ted talk.

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I'M FINALLY PAST WHERE I GOT IN THE SHOW!!

I see this translation is calling the Mad Mage "Sissel." Just as its decision to call her the "lunatic magician", I deem this to be a stupid-ass decision and have elected to ignore it in favor of "Thistle", which is a much better name for a weird elf orphan turned mad mage.

Ah, damn, they corrected to he/him pronouns. So much for women's wrongs... I STAND BY it making perfect sense in-universe for our protagonists to get it wrong from their first, confusing meeting, though!

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Takin' a moment to appreciate Thistle's fucked up pupils, which I'm given to understand indicate the demon's influence. I'm having so much fun! Are you having fun? I'm having fun.

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...does the famous dwarvish sense of direction derive in part from secret dwarvish trail markers that they put in all dungeons and mines and never tell other species about? That's great. That's so good. They clearly do ALSO have sensitive inner ears, and secret cultural practices.

Btw I adore every time someone calls Chilchuck "Chil." NICKNAMES ARE A SIGN OF LOVE.

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SEEING SENSHI IN DISTRESS MAKES ME IN DISTRESS, AND THEN YOU DROP HIM LIKE THE FOOTBALL ON A CHAPTER CLIFFHANGER?! JAIL! JAIL FOR AUTHOR! JAIL FOR 1000 YEARS!!!

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This map is 10/10 desired detail. I want to know the difference between dwarf-style, gnome-style, compound and I bet elf-style dungeons so bad.

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Marcille just cut off one of her braids for Senshi! She didn't hesitate at all! Her hair!!!

And they're risking basically all their food on this! (Man I love how all life, including revivification and creating familiars, literally requires heavy caloric input. I love love love how this comic starts with the simple premise "food is essential to life" and says it over and over in infinite ways.)

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This is just very cool art to represent what's happening. I don't like looking at it, it makes my eye hurt.

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This visual is just so good.

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Brotp: In-Laws on a Mission

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unironically this panel fucks so hard. I need to name something after this. I also need to watch this episode just for the intense energy of this whole sequence.

(I Love how they're just squeezing and re-shaping these things like playdoh. Good familiars best friends just to tolerate this shit.)

Btw I also really like that, while Marcille has started teaching Laios some simple healing spells, that's kept clearly distinct from this sort of advanced magic. Multiclassing takes levels just like the rest!

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TWO-SHOT KO ON A GRIFFIN! Have I mentioned how fun it is that these guys are fucking good at their jobs? We love a little competence porn on the side.

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CHILCHUCK WAS THE FIRST TO START TALKING ABOUT HIS PAST! Yes, of course, he had to be. He's the one who's most aggressively closed-off about it, as opposed to passively closed off like the rest. Mulitple good panels here fo Chilchuck being the emotionally intelligent one, too.

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oh my god Senshi's story.

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I'm so glad she keeps putting them in full-body animal suits.

(And I feel Hiromu Arakawa's cowsona in the Chili's tonight...)

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P.S. OH, LAST MINUTE EDITION as I open the next chapter: They all changed species before they stepped in hte circle of change-your-species mushrooms!! Oh man I can't wait to see a) shenanigans and b) how this gets woven into the ongoing subplot of interspecies conflict, and any other greater themes. Fuck me uuupp Ryoko Kui! (...tomorrow, bc I have to go to bed now :( )

[revenge-of-the-assbutt]

100 notes and I'll liveblog reading My Immortal