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Jonathan Hickman's names for X-Men eras
Gifted and 'time of hate and fear' totally work as neutral descriptions of the time they refer to. They're intuitive and even celebratory - the heroic poses and splash-style layouts.
The Lost Decade is hard to see as a positive thing though. Looked at one way it's the Phoenix Five who are in conversation with House of M and the post-Morrison years. They're supremely powerful and facing down Cap and Wolverine. There are some excellent runs in there, certainly some of my favourites.
Another way to look at it is they're literally on fire. From one pointless event to another, first solving a problem that didn't need solving then bending the entire line towards an arc of desperation and defeat, only to have House of M undone. The Phoenix definitely lost its marbles. The X-Men went to war with everyone, even each other, even future versions of themselves. They were kicked out of the US. Chuck and Jean were dead for a bunch of it and Cyclops was persona non grata. Logan was running the school. It could be referring to the state of big two comics in the 2000-2010s and the increasingly dark and edgy tone. Either way I find it funny.
Mayyybe I'm overthinking it, but it feels like a cheeky wink at something. Hickman was one of the writers of AvX, so it's bound to be in good spirits. What is your interpretation of The Lost Decade?
#hoxpox#x comics#the lost decade#x men#jonathan hickman#avx#house of M#phoenix five#marvel#comics#charles xavier#cyclops
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✦ Freshly ordained ✦
#a packless dog will happily accept his collar or something like that#own art#own characters#CanisAlbus#art#artists on tumblr#Machete#anthro#sighthound#dogs#canine#animals#maybe you might benefit from a little bit of context in this case#Machete becomes a priest at around 20 or so#he has trained all his life for this goal#he has worked himself to the bone and sacrificed so much#because he believes it would make him respectable and worthy and give his life a purpose and meaning#he gets his very first cassock from the tailor's and it immediately fits like a second skin#for the first time ever he feels like something he wears actually makes him look kind of nice#the hard part is over it'll be smooth sailing from here on out#there's a period in Vasco's and Machete's lives where they were apart for almost a decad#they met in their late teens when they were both studying in the same university in Venice#became friends and then lovers#but had to separate when Machete graduated and Vasco dropped out#Machete was ordained as intended and Vasco followed his father into politics#they meet again unexpectedly in their early 30's thanks to their similar jobs#Machete had became a cardinal secretary of state and Vasco was a Florentine diplomat#this takes place shortly after he had lost contact with Vasco and before he reconnects with him again
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“horror movies of the 1980s exist at the glorious watershed when special visual effects finally catch up with the gory imaginings of horror fans and movie makers. technical advances in special effects (animatronics, liquid and foam latex) meant the human frame could be distorted to grotesque new dimensions on screen. 1980s horror movies delivered the full colour close-up, look-no-strings-attached, special effect in a way that previous practitioners of the art could only dream about. everything lurking in the shadows in older horror movies was now dragged into the garish light of day. the monsters were finally out of the closet.”
#horror#horror movies#horror decades#80s horror#horroredit#moviesedit#filmedit#cinema#horror cinema#friday the 13th#the thing#the shining#a nightmare on elm street#re-animator#child's play#gremlins#the fly#the return of the living dead#demons#evil dead#ghostbusters#night of the demons#the lost boys#hellraiser#basket case#videodrome#near dark#possession#scanners#an american werewolf in london
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Bisexual crisis Crystal edition
#dead boy detectives#dbda#palasaki#palasaki week#it was supposed to be for the free day but i've completely lost the plot and I don't know if I'm on time#...or early#i know we all like to think crystal knows she likes girls#buuuut we saw her past. that is not an emotionally intelligent person#i think she was the kind of girl who put other girls down idk#i just think considering how she speaks for women so many times throughout the show#that it would be great character development#also charles figured it out decades ago#maybe even while he was alive#most of the time he crushes on girls though so you wouldn't know it#edwin probably doesn't know either i'm aware#but imagine if you will him reacting to this like "ugh#because he was there when Charles went through this journey and he did not care for it lol#whatever. niko you angel we all adore you#especially crystal... tho edwin might not like that#edwin: how dare you suggest you like niko more than i do?#preposterous
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can't change the weather, might not be forever but if it's forever, it's even better (x)
#hi my name is sam and im obsessed with beautiful outros and haunting final bridges#i love the different contexts of each scene but at the end of the day each scene is them being enamored af with each other#i wish we couldve had more teasing old peggy#even with alzheimers and decades lost between them she could still make him smile like THAT#my edit#billie eilish#birds of a feather#marveledit#captain america#peggy carter#steve rogers#steggy#usereme#mcuchallenge#marveladdicts#peggycarteredit#steverogersedit#steggyedit#tuserlyn#tusertyler#userlaro#usermelanie#userraffa#userelysia#tusertha#nessa007#userzaynab#userrlaura#whatelsecanwedonow#userholtz
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I'm sorry but the irony of Nico calling Max unprofessional is sending me so bad like sir there's an entire garage full of people, who were literally in the trenches trying to survive the Brocedes fallout while just doing their jobs, who might have a few things to say about your (& Lewis') level of professionalism at that time 😭✋️
#f1#formula 1#formula one#max verstappen#nico rosberg#lewis hamilton#brocedes#like niki lauda had to try multiple times to literally parent trap them to try and get them on speaking terms it never worked#because one would arrive they'd see the other and the other would leave#& if i remember correctly the garage crew would swap around from race to race as a like see we aren't favouring anybody gesture 😭#and thats no shade to nico because it was both of them contributing to that environment#his comment re max is just making me laugh#like if i was a part of the pr/media team - which is a part of the degree I'm working on irl - at merc that year i would've lost the plot#like its insane reflecting on it nearly a decade later but the poor souls just trying to do their job in the eye of that storm#truly gods strongest soldiers#ngl the professional comment irks me a bit because its not like max is engaging in inappropriate work place behaviour#he's engaging in another aspect of racing that his involvement raises awareness of & that makes racing more accessible#& we all know how inaccessible not only getting into racing is but also to continue to pursue the further along you go#theres so many stories of 1 sibling giving up racing so the other can keep going because the family can't afford for them both to race#its a huge financial strain & we only see a handful of drivers talk about that & try to do something to change it#and nicos fellow sky sports commentators are routinely unprofessional on so many levels#additionally max had a lot of valid reasons to be annoyed at his team today#but alas he's not english so he's ungrateful#i hate that drivers can't criticise their teams or car without immediately being branded as bratty & ungrateful#ESPECIALLY WHEN THEIR JOB IS TO GIVE FEEDBACK#you can see the double standards from sky when say Lando or George have complaints with their team/car v the likes of Max and Yuki#especially Yuki my god the things i would do to get the British media to leave him alone#this was a jokey post at one point and then became a rant whoops lmao#I'll leave it that before i write an actual essay here 😭✋️
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sorry twilight princess will always be eating holes in my brain. constantly and forever. I cannot ever be normal about it.
it's such a haunted game. you are a dead thing going through a dead world. you are something in between. you can go back but it will never be the same. you will never be the same. you are walking, constantly, through ghosts of what came before. you are exploring places long forgotten. you are the only one on this path because there is no one else that can walk it. you were just a farm boy. you were in the wrong place at the wrong time. right place at the wrong time? wrong place at the right time? you were just supposed to deliver a sword.
#twilight princess#loz#gnawing on how isolating it feels. how othering#its one of my favorite threads of all the games tbh i LOVE the different ways each explore loneliness#like im thinking about areas like the lost woods and the temple of time and the city in the sky and arbiter's grounds#all these places that are so empty or have been forgotten by the world around them#and then even places like castle town that were so full of life but you walk through it first when it's only populated by ghosts#you know the bones of every place before you ever know it's heart#sorry for yapping in the tags again i just have a lot of feelings about tp and tp link in general#this game has been consuming my thoughts for almost two decades now
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It's quite fascinating to watch video game consoles tiptoeing less than sneakily into ONLY having digital games. Like I feel crazy watching this happen in real time, esp w the release of the digital only Xbox series X. Is the average gamer just cool w this?? With not actually owning your games and the death of used games?? Yes sir I'd love to pay 70 dollars for years old games and also Greedy Video Game Company sir if you'd like to delete that shit off my personal console after Ive paid for it and give me no refund than go right ahead yes sir 🫡 CMON MAN !!!!!!!
#does the term 'lost media' mean anything like! I want to enjoy games for years and decades and even more years and I can't do that#if everything is digital purchase only and can be taken away for no reason!!!!!#CAN ANYONE HEAR ME IS THIS THING ON !!!#whatever
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es rarepair week 2024 day 1 | AU/future
lil ghostic au of mine!!! yuzuru and the rest of fine are long since trapped souls in an abandoned mansion of which rst come across while looking for shelter during a storm :] it doesnt um. particularly end well
#doodles#duck scribbles#es rarepair week 2024#midoyuzu#yuzumido#i Was gonna do the stardew au but then it made me kind of sad. actually this is even worse in that aspect but im in a mood#enstars#midori finds his diary of which details the life of and events leading to yuzuru and the rest of the residents' deaths and w it slowly#becomes able to see/interact with (to an extent) yuzurus spectre himself#midori takamine#yuzuru fushimi#ghostswere initially rather aggressively hospitable in order to keep lost strangers there to eventually die and become a lost soul like the#but most w time grew to just want to be freed and be able to pass on in peace. more hostile ghosts become vague wisps of what they were bef#ore once theyve lost their tether to humanity but those with a strong will still have more control and effect on their surroundings somewha#yuzuru specifically was determined to maintain the mansion and has for decades and maybe centuries kept it orderly hence the clarity of his#spirit!!! having been one of those hostile spirits himself before has moved on to gently guiding guests away from the more dangerous areas#and assisting them so as to ensure their safe leave#they look for a way to break the curse on the mansion together so as to free all their souls!! unfortunately for midori she fell in love w#someone who has long since died 👍#the lil ballroom scene was a funny thing i dreamed about a while ago actually. i like to think watarus ghost put on some music unprompted#oh and since the rest of rst is also there technically you can expect chiaki is Not having a very good time
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About that one ask where Machete murders everyone. I'm in my fire phase at the moment and thought blue would look good in contrast to Machete's usual red :)
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#wwwwhhhh oh boy#there he goes#can't decide whether I should feel bad for him destroying everything he's worked so hard for or happy to see him finally unleash#decades worth of resentment and bad energy#when I first saw this it was around noon I think and I had my brightness turned way down so I didn't see the text on the background#and pretty much lost it when I took a better look at it later#the lighting though! I love how vibrant blue the flames are and how they contrast against the red background#excellent unhinged villain cackle A+#thank you!#gift art#lavenkel#own characters#Machete#(don't) let him cook
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INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE ❧ i bet on losing dogs.
#interview with the vampire#iwtvedit#iwtv#louis de pointe du lac#claudia de pointe du lac#lestat de lioncourt#the vampire armand#daniel molloy#madeline eparvier#tusermich#edits#please no one point out the fact that these are not symmetric in numbers#it's taking all of me not to redo this from scratch cause of this i'm in physical pain#but it took too much time and i need to let go of perfectionism lmao#this came to me in a vision...#the idea of louis' life being this constant maelstrom of love and betrayal#a circle of violence and lost causes#as a victim and then as a perpetrator when he finds himself letting claudia down#claudia who left but then came back and stayed and then tried to leave again but was sacrificed in his name#lestat not knowing how to let go but then doing it in the worst of ways and armand lying through his teeth for decades just to not be alone#i love them all so dearly#beloved complex characters
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#fucking idiots the both of them#lewis you lost nico 'britney' rosberg????#and nico you lost lewis hamilton????#you stupid fucking idiots#me whacking them with a roller up newspaper: IT'S. BEEN. A. DECADE. TALK. TO. EACH. OTHER#i mean like at this point it has to be a psychological experiment#how much psychic damage can our fans take before they snap?#why am i sobbing over two forty year olds on the bus?#anthony hamilton and keke rosberg please hold an intervention for your children#im sorry but if i fumbled britney and lewis you would've had to sedate me#like straitjacket and psych ward and everything#lewis hamilton#nico rosberg#f1#brocedes
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Picture of little baby me, I wanna say circa 2014? Maybe? I would have been like uh 9, maybe 10?? This was on a field trip LOOK AT HOW GOOFY BILL’S PROPORTIONS ARE
#doctorsiren#gravity falls#bill cipher#siren speaks#my art#my glasses must have been lost or broken at the time this photo was taken#bc those are the only reasons I wouldn’t be wearing them#WHY DO I HAVE EYEBAGS LIKE THWT HAHAH#also it’s funny bc now I have a very square face compared to this#Ough this was like a decade ago…#I remember one time I drew Bill on the back of a restaurant kids thing and my dad was like ????#because he didn’t know about gravity falls really yet
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people are rightfully worried about AI and its influence on media and artists today but what really has me shook in the back of my brain is that 15-20 years from now we're gonna see tip-of-my-tongue discussion threads from covid gen adults who swear they remember an episode of spongebob where the characters stood around talking about the cybertruck's new jellyfishing compartment all while being bombarded with random cuts of mr krabs screaming and subliminal messages about the world ending in 2036
#it's already hard enough to track down lost media with false memories and mandela effects#imagine what it'll be like when the false memories were rooted in fake content ripped from real things#we're in the short term consequence phase rn where we're seeing the impact on jobs and creative fields#give it a decade and we'll be seeing the long term effects on culture and generational experiences
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Acknowledge me. Love me.
#surprise! the baby yall kicked to the streets at 15 isnt a well adjusted adult and desperately wants your love and acceptance#wrestling#wwe#wwe raw#wwe raw on netflix#solo sikoa#roman reigns#the bloodline#wweedit#wrestlingedit#my gifs#you left him alone around your manipulative cousin and now he imitates him bc despite his abuse yall 'respect' and follow him#not sure what tf outcome you were expecting but here we are!#even if its out of fear you do not leave roman (long). like how solo was left. how solo continues to be left.#the person nearly a decade younger than you and did not have siblings closer to his age so he looked up to you#you were never equals but now he wants to be and still isnt#and he turned to a cousin closer to his peer age who was also rejected by the family who repeatedly spouts his love so loudly#roman has everything solo could want: a secure place at the top. loved by the family. usos loyally at his side calling him their brother.#so kinda poetic of him to word it 'no matter what i did to prove you my love' like ok shakespeare! break my heart king!#he just wants to be loved and accepted and respected im so sad#and roman just used him bc he lost his control on jey#IM SAD
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