#the stargate pit

[noelledeltarune]

"your heart is like a gemstone; multifaceted and beautiful. i see how it sparkles. there are places that need polishing, but you are vital to your companions" AUGHAGEUAUEHAGURHAGURHGAUHURGAHUH

[kirbyoctournament]

Hello again all! After the riveting finale of last year's tournament, we've spent a few months collecting a selection of fun stats into our final 2024 Tournament Review!

From which participant had the most propaganda posted, to the total number of votes cast across the event, to which canon Kirby species was most represented, we hope you'll enjoy this send-off for the 2024 tourney!!

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★ POLLS WITH THE HIGHEST NUMBER OF VOTES a selection of the highest performing polls that attracted the most public attention

Mama D vs J: 848 votes

★ Dawn vs Starry Dee: 749 votes ★ Fylass vs Clark: 741 votes ★ Astro vs Noir Fontaine vs Techie: 592 votes ★ Sir Meteor vs Life: 554 votes

★ CHARACTERS WITH THE MOST PROPAGANDA characters who had the most propaganda posts for them, either from their own creator or from other artists

Fecto Flora 155 posts

★ Valfrey 112 posts ★ Sir Uther 108 posts ★ Noir Fontaine 98 posts ★ Dotty 95 posts

After applications closed at the end of April, the tournament ran from May 10th, 2024 to October 28th, 2024, just a few days shy of six months! During this time...

★ 143 competitors joined the tournament and made friends ★ 1,813 Propaganda posts were made by the community supporting those competitors, and reblogged to the @kirbyoctournament blog ★ 202 polls were made pitting your favorites against each other ★ across those polls, 43,165 votes were cast ★ and of all these, winners starstruck dee and Rope MF received 1179 votes and 699 votes respectively over the course of the event

★ RANDOM STATS

★ 36% (52) of entered OCs were of the "orb" species, with 33 of those taking up the mantle of "knight" specifically. far and away the most represented species ★ Waddle dees were the next most common entrant, with 17 OCs. ★ Ripple Fairies were the least showcased non common-enemy/custom species type, with only a single representative! ★ Of all OC names, "S" was the most common initial at 16 OCs, a statistic we do feel is influenced by the frequency of "sir" before names. Removing those, it was the letter "A", with 13. ★ The least successful initial was the letter "J", with all but one of their 4 representatives (75%) falling in the first round.

★ PROPAGANDA WITH THE MOST CHARACTERS INCLUDED most tournament characters included in a single piece (or single series) of propaganda

★ Tournament OCs Part One and Part Two by @ivynajspyder with a total of 60 competitors

★ 55 competitors Havent You Noticed I'm A Star? by @giantchasm ★ 29 competitors and 2 non competitors (total 31 characters) Congrats To Fecto Flora! by @ceoofmetagala ★ And an honorable mention with 13 competitors and 15 non competitors (total 28 characters), Stargate Commemorative Piece, by @moonverc3x

During the tournament, creators and fans of all kinds arrived to showcase their best skills in support of their own ocs, their friends, and even brand new favorite characters they had found. While it's of course impossible to pick just one stand out piece -and we strongly recommend you check our full propaganda tag to see many more of these incredible works- here are some notable and unique highlights suggested by the Kirby OC Tourney community!

★ Propaganda Hijack; Music cover by @boa35 ★ Vote Dotty; by @cauliarty ★ Vote Flora; by @metagalacafe ★ Valfrey icon; by @gethoce ★ Friendly Talk; by @sacrificecage

★ Dont Stop Rope MF Now; Animated music video by @mint-termsandconditions ★ Just another Astral; by @aseuki ★ Tea Time; by @quanblovk ★ Nighty Knight Mod; by @windstriker427 ★ Tournament armours; by @rosiegardenlove

★ Havent You Noticed I'm A Star; Animated music video by @giantchasm ★ Motifs and Symbols; by @kirbybecomesastarwarrior ★ Surprise propaganda; by @poppybros-jr ★ Go Life!; by @shippyo ★ Not In The Lead; by @hnm-tech-support

★ Noir's Field Trip; Masterpost of art, comics and asks by @desultory-novice ★ Space battle; by @pinkestmenace ★ Only In Passing; by @what-is-love-babey-dont-hurt-me ★ Wolfbell's Illustrated Roleplays; by @zombiecicada ★ Not Over yet; by @a-stardusted-sky

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And with this, we officially conclude the 2024 Kirby OC Tournament event!

Over the next few days we will reblog a few final propaganda posts we received notifications for since October. We also have a new pinned post with an FAQ regarding the tournament and when things may be picked up next!

Thank you for coming along on the ride with us, for sharing your creativity and supporting OCs, and for helping us to make this into a wonderful and enriching community event!

See you around!

[futa69]

Even though it has never really been directly mentioned or referenced, elements of the ancient astronaut theory have influenced our popular culture for a hundred years. Practically, everything from books, movies, television shows and video games. Since we will never be able to definitely prove it here on Earth and we're also on the verge of going back to the moon, establishing colonies on Mars, mining the asteroid belt and exploring deep space, we might actually find physical evidence of advanced civilizations that existed for over thousands of years ago out there in the galaxy. Whether we like it or not, all of this is going to happen eventually. So, we should definitely have this conversation right now. The future of the human race may very well depend on this discovery.

▪︎Edison's Conquest of Mars (1898)

▪︎The Call of Cthulhu (1926)

▪︎Analog Science Fiction and Fact (1930)

▪︎At the Mountains of Madness (1931)

▪︎Childhood's End (1953)

▪︎Forbidden Planet (1956)

▪︎Quartermass and the Pit (1958)

▪︎The Twilight Zone (1959)

▪︎The Sirens of Titan (1959)

▪︎The Flintstones (1960)

▪︎Doctor Who (1963)

▪︎Hercules Against the Moon Men (1964)

▪︎Known Space (1964)

▪︎Star Trek (1966)

▪︎2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

▪︎Chariots of the Gods (1968)

▪︎The Bible & Flying Saucers (1968)

▪︎Passport to Magonia (1969)

▪︎Horror Express (1972)

▪︎Rendezvous with Rama (1973)

▪︎Land of the Lost (1974)

▪︎The Spaceships of Ezekiel (1974)

▪︎The Outer Space Connection (1975)

▪︎Space: 1999 (1975)

▪︎The Sirius Mystery (1976)

▪︎The Earth Chronicles (1976)

▪︎Star Wars (1977)

▪︎Mysteries of the Gods (1977)

▪︎Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

▪︎The Manna Machine (1978)

▪︎Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)

▪︎Battlestar Galactica (1978)

▪︎Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1978)

▪︎Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979)

▪︎Alien (1979)

▪︎Hangar 18 (1980)

▪︎Valis (1981)

▪︎The Thing (1982)

▪︎Xevious (1982)

▪︎Super Dimension Fortress Macross (1982)

▪︎The Transformers (1984)

▪︎Cocoon (1985)

▪︎Bio Booster Armor Guyver (1985)

▪︎The Legend of Zelda (1986)

▪︎Predator (1987)

▪︎Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988)

▪︎Red Dwarf (1988)

▪︎The Gods of Eden (1989)

▪︎Moontrap (1989)

▪︎Spriggan (1989)

▪︎Total Recall (1990)

▪︎Babylon 5 (1993)

▪︎The X-Files (1993)

▪︎Stargate (1994)

▪︎Neon Genesis Evangelion (1994)

▪︎Fingerprints of the Gods (1995)

▪︎Encounter with Tiber (1996)

▪︎Final Fantasy (1997)

▪︎Earth: Final Conflict (1997)

▪︎The Fifth Element (1997)

▪︎Space Island One (1998)

▪︎Naked Pictures of Famous People (1998)

▪︎The Giza Power Plant (1998)

▪︎Heritage Trilogy (1998)

▪︎Dilbert (1999)

▪︎Futurama (1999)

▪︎Star Ancestors (2000)

▪︎Mission to Mars (2000)

▪︎Halo (2001)

▪︎Ice Age (2002)

▪︎Alien vs. Predator (2004)

▪︎The Cygnus Mystery (2006)

▪︎The Orion Zone (2007)

▪︎Mass Effect (2007)

▪︎Assassin's Creed (2007)

▪︎Outlander (2008)

▪︎Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)

▪︎Marvel Cinematic Universe (2008)

▪︎Spore (2008)

▪︎Knowing (2009)

▪︎The Fourth Kind (2009)

▪︎Ancient Aliens (2009)

▪︎Borderlands (2009)

▪︎The Great Airship of 1897 (2010)

▪︎Dark Void (2010)

▪︎The Ancient Alien Question (2011)

▪︎Life And Death On Mars (2011)

▪︎Cowboys and Aliens (2011)

▪︎Battle: Los Angeles (2011)

▪︎Paul (2011)

▪︎John Carter (2012)

▪︎Prometheus (2012)

▪︎Iron Sky (2012)

▪︎Man of Steel (2013)

▪︎Jupiter Ascending (2015)

▪︎The Great Wall (2016)

▪︎Life (2017)

▪︎Beyond the Sky (2018)

▪︎Resident Alien (2021)

▪︎Moonfall (2022)

▪︎Prey (2022)

▪︎65 (2023)

[dr-futbol-blog]

The Brotherhood, Pt. 7

Make no mistake, for Acastus Kolya finding the thing that the Lanteans are looking for is at most a side-quest. Snatching something they are trying so hard to get their hands on is a bonus. Protecting his people from the Wraith is what he tells himself he is doing. But what this is really about is vengeance, pure and simple.

His first priority is making John Sheppard suffer and then, only after he has suffered sufficiently, to kill him. This is why he agreed to McKay's proposal to find the ZPM for him in exchange for his team. He never had any intention of keeping his word and letting them go (his "the others will be let go" definitely did not include the two of them). Taking McKay away from Sheppard and letting him stew in the pit in the ground without him is just toying with them, a cat playing with the mouse before taking its life.

At the gate, we get another close up of McKay touching things in an unnecessarily sensual manner. This seems to be a significant motif for this episode.

McKay: It's not working. Kolya: Try it again. McKay: Look, I've tried it twice, backwards and forwards. Kolya: We've played this game before, McKay. Try some other combinations of the same symbols.

In the A-plot, a Wraith dart scans the city of Atlantis and sends the information back to the Hive. Similarly, Kolya is gathering intel through his observation of McKay. He is trying to figure out how best to use McKay against Sheppard. By reminding him of their shared past experiences, he's also letting McKay know that he is very much going to hurt him if he does not do as he wants. The life of the Daganian woman next to him is especially expendable to Kolya, and he won't spare her like he did spare Weir due to his machinations.

Although, compared to the events in The Eye (S01E10), McKay is not being nearly as careful with what he says to him. What he's doing here, now, is not directly endangering Sheppard so he can let some of his displeasure show. Back then, anything he said could have cost either Weir or Sheppard their lives.

Note that Kolya is not looking at McKay while he lets him work on the DHD because he really doesn't care whether it works or not. And when he walks behind McKay, he stands uncomfortably close.

Pronos, Kolya's--let's say--second in command is interesting. He seems very intelligent and he is intentionally paralleled with Sheppard in this observation that there are 720 possible combinations for the stargate symbols on the stone tablets:

McKay: You joking? Do you have any idea how long that would take? Pranos: He's right. There are 720 possible gate address. McKay: It's a waste of time.

This was one of the first things Sheppard ever said to McKay (in Rising, S01E01), and it certainly was the moment that McKay noticed him, not as a good-looking military guy (which he had clearly noticed earlier, trail as he did after him as they entered Atlantis) but as a distinct person. Sheppard mentioning the 720 combinations that he had just calculated in his head where McKay hadn't even started doing the math was the beginning of the road that had lead to John Sheppard becoming the most important person in his world--and this is true regardless of how you interpret the nature of their relationship.

Note, however, that we know McKay knows how many combinations there are, we have seen him being told this, but here it is not he that makes a reference to them. He is not volunteering any information to Kolya. And, at the very least, this reference seems to remind him of Sheppard, even though he does he best to not let it show:

Pranos displays other signs of intelligence, as well:

Pranos: What about something else? What if these aren't stargate symbols? McKay: Look at them. What else would they be, huh? Allina: Actually, these symbols may not be gate-related.

For some reason, the intelligence of both of these characters is emphasized which, together with what happens with Sheppard and the tablets later, makes McKay seem off his game. Granted, this is not his core area of expertise, but we have been lead to believe he is the most intelligent person on the expedition (at least he would like to think so), so he should easily beat the natives of Pegasus in simple reasoning--if not in mental math. But I am wondering whether McKay is downplaying his abilities on purpose, or he is simply too distracted for his mind to be entirely on the problem.

And if he is not purposefully downplaying his skills (which we have seen him do with Kolya previously), he is definitely overplaying his praise of and affection for Allina for the same reason that Sheppard seemed to want to imply indifference toward him in front of Kolya. It's noticeable that Kolya does not threaten her life at all even though, if he believed that she was in any way significant to McKay, threatening her would be the best and quickest way to whip him into action. For all intents and purposes he acts as though she was not even there. But as stated, finding the ZPM is a secondary concern to him. He admitted himself that he could just as well have buried them all alive and called it a day.

Either way, it is the combination of the efforts of Allina and Pranos that lead them to look for the answers in the monastery and the wall-painting they were looking at the previous night. We get a shot of McKay's back from the perspective of Kolya who is standing behind him, and he's looking real good. There are two candles burning behind him, one taller than the other, perhaps symbolic of something. Kolya is watching them from the same perspective that Sheppard did last night but now that it's daytime and Sheppard is not here, it's safer to show the audience how erotic the sight really is--and definitely was in the dim lighting of the night before.

Kolya is watching McKay, and he notices it. Kolya is watching him while he takes up a piece of food from the table and puts it into his mouth in what can only be described as a predatory gesture. This may well be of the same food Sheppard was eating the night before, also watching the two of them from behind. McKay clearly pauses, sees Kolya doing this, and then turns and calls Allina a genius. While Kolya had not threatened her life at all, this may be an attempt by McKay to make her seem necessary and invaluable, like he did with Weir previously. Trying to make it seem like they needed Weir so that he would spare her life. This is a possible explanation.

But as mentioned, Kolya has not threatened her at all and it was McKay that he was watching intently. He is making the vibe erotic by slowly biting down on the piece of food while making eye contact with him. If we assume that Sheppard and McKay had had a discussion about him agreeing to having to act the part of Valentino (which is to say, pretending to romance women) to throw people off the track now and again, it might be that that's what he decides to do, here. You can see the gears turning in his mind before he--not one to ordinarily and spontaneously compliment women--turns to her and calls her a genius.

If he can get Kolya to think that he cares about this woman, that she is special to him, it might make him less inclined to take his hatred of him out on Sheppard. And McKay does believe that Kolya hates him specifically, just reinforced by his earlier comment about his grating voice. From his perspective, Kolya had just been using Sheppard to get him to do what he wanted back on Atlantis.

We get yet another close up of McKay doing things with his hands, and all of them have been rather erotic. While there are three laser pointers that he is fiddling with here, there is also something undeniably phallic about it.

Kolya walks slowly toward McKay from behind which seems to cause him to step forward just to maintain the space between them. He also crosses his arms defensively. Kolya is a dangerous man whose presence would make McKay feel discomforted at the best of times but there is something predatory about the way he prowls here. In this context, he gives Allina another compliment:

Allina: I was hoping it would narrow the area down a little more. McKay: Well, it was worth a shot.

Notice that he is keeping his arms crossed while turned toward her the whole time which just tells us that his "courting" of her is not genuine. A person that is attracted to another removes barriers from between them, does not add to them. The reason why he is paying her compliments is related to Kolya's presence.

McKay figures out that the symbols aren't pointing to the location of the ninth tablet on the map but to the tablet itself that is hidden inside the wall. He asks them to give him a knife that would help him dig it out, and this is paralleled with Sheppard later asking Kolya for a gun so that he could "shoot him myself" which, again, is an attempt by Sheppard to make it seem like they are far less important to each other than they really are. I mean, Sheppard even asks McKay whether they "are good" afterward, making sure that McKay understood what he was going there.

Here, Kolya agrees to give him the knife. He does not consider McKay a threat, at least on the physical front. The thought that he would think that they would think that he poses a danger to them amuses him.

We get another close up of McKay's hand with more phallic imagery, and again it seems to be Kolya's perspective from which we are looking at McKay's hands working on cutting the tapestry.

McKay pulls out the piece after which Kolya congratulates him on his discovery, saying that he may live yet--reminding McKay of the fact that, as far as he is concerned, Kolya is very much going to kill them all. Kolya is seated behind the table, looking at him like a snack. He knows that they cannot trust this man. Rather than working on uncovering the ZPM, his mind is working on how to get them out of this.

And elsewhere, as he often does, Sheppard is working on the exact same problem.

Continued in Pt. 8

[thesettinghorizon]

... I've always heard of the apparent lore going on in Starset songs (A band I've become clinically addicted to years ago, even now because I've always had a fascination with space themes, and sci-fi (even though fantasy is my fave.. The combo of both though? It's delicious). Honestly probably because my dad watched star wars all the time, and because he started watching SG1 then, Stargate Atlantis my love for the sci-fi genre in particular has been renewed. I don't know how I got bored of the genre? But I think it's because most sci-fi I ended up seeing was kinda just repetitive ideas of guys in space suits, remaining on a ship 24/7. It's hard to explain).

I remember wanting to make characters based off the names of the Albums, however i never fully liked the base concept I had for their story. (It was a dystopian world concept i barely remember at all now.)

Either way, besides realizing Starset has, lore.. Even though I already knew about it, at least vaguely. (Based from a comment on Perfect Machine, and Monster I believe.) It seems like Carnivores (honestly this should've been obvious to me, but I'm a slow processor that gets confused easily and misinterprets information or the implications and points of what I'm told.) are an actual thing in the lore? I gotta read further into it. I have no idea if these Carnivores are human, or something else. In I think more than one song, Carnivores are mentioned. In the song Antigravity, there's the mention of "and far below, the carnivores are looking up to where I soar".

Besides realizing Starset has, a shit ton of lore (it's shown via their music videos, which again how did I not realize this.. They play out like a movie. A very interesting one.) BUT, I've heard apparently Starset has BOOKS?? WITH THE LORE?

Man I don't feel like reading a shit ton of lore but I definitely want to jump into this like a ball pit, I've been desperate for years to actually know what's going on in Starset's music videos, besides the meaning behind the songs for YEARS after I read vague comments on the meaning behind Perfect Machine, etc. So yeah I knew and didn't know...? That or I didn't expect there to be so much lore.. Somehow.

But god fuck, I want those books 😭

[meushell]

“We Are Kiddnapping You”

Teen • F/F/M/M • 1,525 Words • Romance • Fluff

Prompts from…

GATEathon Works: Stargazing (from January) and Cuddling (February)

FanfictionExchange Winterfest 2024-2025: Frosty

100 Ships Prompt Challenge: #54 – Rainbow

Most of the prompts also have a visual in the cover.

@gateathonworks @polyamships

Photos • Janet Fraiser • Cabin, donuts, hot chocolate, fire pit, and stars from Unsplash • Martouf • Peter Stebbings/“Malek” • His background are the trees from the cabin photo • His necklace is a modified/recolored pearl necklace from Unsplash • Sam Carter

“We Are Kiddnapping You” (1525 words) by Meushell Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Stargate SG-1 Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Janet Fraiser/Sam Carter/Martouf/Lantash/Malek Characters: Janet Fraiser, Martouf | Lantash, Malek, Sam Carter Additional Tags: One Shot, Slice of Life, Romance, Fluff, Dating, Established Relationship, Married Couple, Long-Distance Relationship, Foursome - F/F/M/M, Poly, Surprises, humans through alien eyes, Cuddles, Affection, Stargazing, Tok’ra, GATEathon Works, r/FanfictionExchange, 100ships Challenge Summary: “We are kidnapping you,” he said in the sweetest voice. There was a slight pause, then… “I have been told that is a custom among your people, and that you would not mind.” ~~ Martouf and Lantash surprise Janet with a trip to the mountains.

[merinsedai]

for the @dreamlingbingo

Square/Prompt: A5: Stargate (replacing Truth Serum)

Title: Dreamling Abbey (epilogue)

Rating: G (Dreamling Abbey itself is M)

Ship(s): Dream of the Endless/Hob Gadling

Warnings: n/a

Additional Tags: Downton Abbey au, omegaverse, omega Dream, alpha hob

This is a third short addendum to my CHBB fic, Dreamling Abbey, which you can read on ao3 (mind tags), because Stargate SG-1 was one of my favourite shows back in the day. This is based on the opening scene of the 1994 movie though, and since I already had my Dream and Hob in Egypt in the 1920s, how could I resist?

The shouting and general excitement are what draws Dream down from their encampment to the excavation site proper. Balancing Aggie on one hip, he deftly navigates between the canvass covered stalls and the rickety wooden planks that criss-cross the pits and trenches on the ground to find his way to Hob. His husband is in the centre of the commotion, of course, broad brimmed hat pulled down low against the unforgiving glare of the Egyptian sun, and trusty notebook already in hand. 

Dream smiles to himself as he weaves through the growing crowd- his Hob, always where the action is! Dream spies Robyn and Orpheus as he walks and his smile grows more contented. Ever inseparable- and ever intrepid, even at just four and six- they are currently clambering amongst the detritus of the excavations, with a series of watchful eyes upon them. Aggie fidgets a bit in Dream’s arms, wanting to join her brothers’ fun, but she is too young yet to be let loose so Dream does his best to soothe her with his humming and jiggling until he reaches Hob. He immediately does his husbandly duty and relieves Dream of their daughter, who is thankfully distracted enough by tugging on her father’s beard to be  momentarily placated.

“What is going on?” Dream asks, shading his eyes with his hand and eying the commotion in the pit. 

“They’ve found something, love,” Hob answers “And it’s a bit… strange, by the looks of it.”

They watch on with interest as the workers scurry around, efficiently uncovering a large, circular object. Dream tilts his head as he watches the men lift away heavy hieroglyph-covered coverstones to reveal a hollow ring of grey…. Stone? He is not sure, it looks too smooth to be stone, but what metal could have lain buried for thousands of years? Surely these ancient people did not use or work with metal like this? The ring is divided into segments, and each segment contains a symbol.

“Those are not hieroglyphs?” he questions and out of the corner of his eye he sees Hob shake his head. He is writing furiously in his notebook- Pitman Shorthand that he and Dream had learned together- having been quickly relieved of Aggie by a helpful local, and looks excited.

“Definitely not,” he says. “Not sure what they are though. I’ve never seen anything like them. I wonder what they mean?” he looks up at Dream, eyes gleaming. “Nothing like a good mystery, is there, darling?”

***

Later, when the strange object has been fully uncovered and cleaned off, it is hauled into a standing position to be more closely examined. Dream, drawn by a feeling he can’t shake, returns with Hob to look at it again. They are allowed close, so well known by the team working here as to be practically family, and Dream reaches out to touch it curiously. He frowns. No, definitely not stone. A kind of metal, but not one he recognises. Certainly not iron or copper and steel would be absurd anyway.

“How curious this is,” he murmurs to Hob as his husband puts his arm around his waist. “It feels… very strange. I cannot put my finger on it, but it draws me in and repels me all at once.”

“Gives me the heebie jeebies a bit,” admits Hob, staring up at the ring. “This thing holds so many mysteries. I wonder what it was? And what happened here? It was clearly deliberately buried and  covered- no doubt the translators will be working feverishly on what the coverstones say- but it was so deep down, imagine the effort it must’ve taken those people… why’d they do it?”

“I want to know what these symbols mean,” Dream says, tracing one of them with his finger. It looked  like an unfinished triangle with a circle perched above its top point. “They fascinate me.”

“Well, could be a new project for you love. You and your ready mind. Not that Aggie will give you much time to concentrate, not now she’s getting her legs under her.”

Dream hums in agreement. “I should like that. I should like anyone to succeed. I feel like this thing has many secrets to reveal.”

“Well, with any luck we’ll live to see them.”

“Perhaps,” Dream touches the object again, traces light fingers over the patterns he can reach. “I feel like if a key could be found then this could unlock a great many adventures.”

[zaolat]

now that I'm home and rested I can finally do this lmao

tagged by @kavalyera you're lovelyyyy

Ten people I'd like to get to know better!

Last song: Bottom of the River by Delta Rae

Fave color: Turquoise <3

Last book: I'm reading through Beckett's Jyhad Diary if that counts >:3c

Last movie: Interstellar

Last TV show: Stargate: SG-1

Sweet/spicy/savory: hhhh sweet

Relationship status: Single :(

Last thing I googled: Berkeley Pit

Current obsession: vtm brainrot is real

Looking forward to: Visiting one of my friends for a week and a half and getting away from my family

tagging: you 🫵 if you're reading this and you want to do it! consider yourself tagged by myself since I don't know who's already been tagged in this!

[rosy-thorneded]

wip game

Rules: Make a new post with the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet or tell them something about it! Then tag as many people as you have WIPS. anyone who you think might enjoy this.

@gasmeros thanks for the tag. This was fun

@underforeversgrace, @bamboozled-and-alone, @weirdohasleft tag you're it

Anyone want to guess how many there are?

Asylum Peter

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StupidPeterStory-4

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Chameleon fix it

InvisoBang fic

Gotham Photographer

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Peter wakes up in Lazarus pit

Aunt May's date

Stargate

Spider-Man rescues Bruce Wayne

Incurable and Curable Side Effects of Death

Burning Anchors part 2 attempt 2

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Okay so plotty plotty plot plan

Haunting of the League Part 2

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Get Ate Maddie

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Assassin Peter

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Peter gets gassed (Fear Toxin)

Danny in DC against this will (sorta)

Peter Lies

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Danny Summoned

Spider-Man kidnapped by Ra's

Danny in Purgatory with Dean

GIW Yucky

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Laz Pit is a ghost AU

AIM take down (Spidey and Steve chat)

Daniel Masters

Jason saves Danny from Lex

Nocturn's Dream

Vlad's Return

Danny McFucking dies

Tucker the Sidekick

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Life's a bitch and I'm a dumbass

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Jim Lake Jr and Danny Fenton

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Jazz Grieving

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Jim Lake Jr and Danny Fenton stranded

Danny and de avengers

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Danny at Hogwarts

Troll Hunters/Danny Phantom Caught and Tired

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Spidey and the X-Men

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[mortallyfuriousbluebird]

If Stranger Things premiered in 2006 instead of 2016, there would be dozens of Stargate/Stargate Atlantis AUs and crossovers.

Steddie in Space

McShep in the UD

Anyway:

I am old. I am ancient. I remember the before times. I remember livejournal when it was a decent website. I remember my first Tumblr, now lost (due to me forgetting the login details from 2008). I remember a time before AO3, before *hrk* Wattpad. I remember the pit of voles that was FF.net (never change, love you). I remember zines and talking about your ships on AIM/MSN and chatrooms and BBoards. I remember the awful html sparkle gif infested geocities.

I love fandom and I'm so happy to get to be here as an ancient one.

(And no, I'm not telling you how old I am, but I had a dial television and rotary phone as a kid.)

[ayaitch]

10 Fandoms, 10 Characters, 10 Tags

Ok, after agonizing over these choices for days, I'm just posting lest I overthink it any further.

Thank you for the tag @robo-dino-puppy! I hope I do this right. I'm also not very good at ranking things, so this is mostly in the order the character comes to mind. Also, I am not sure I can come up with ten fandoms I'm involved in, so a few may just be me reaching for something to list.

Horizon Forbidden West - Ikkotah

Was there any surprise he would be on my list somewhere? There should not have been. There is literally nothing special or compelling about him, he is just a heartbroken guy who stole my heart.

Stargate SG-1 - Teal'c

Teal'c was an awesome character, and I will forever defend his sense of humor. He made so many jokes that were intended to fall flat, but I could never help but laugh at them, even while the SG team gave him sad/confused looks.

Star Wars: Rebels - Zeb

I'm stealing this from @robo-dino-puppy, but it can't be helped. Zeb is the best. He is such a great character, and has such a tragic backstory and compelling story in the show. He was so underutilized and his live action model was incredible. They need to get him in the Ahsoka show! (And let him have Kallus back too!)

M*A*S*H - Charles Emerson Winchester, III

I loved Charles in MASH. He was such an arrogant guy, but he was also very competent, intelligent, and would help so many people without question, because it was his duty as a doctor. He had a very soft side too that was just wonderful to see come out here and there.

The X-Files - Dana Scully

Scully was so awesome. She was very rarely a damsel in distress, she was so damn smart, her sarcasm and wit were what I dreamed I could also have someday.

Sailor Moon - Sailor Uranus/Haruka Tenoh

I thought Sailor Uranus was the coolest. The first canonically gay character I encountered, and I was a vocal angry fan about what the dub did to her and Neptune. As an early teen, Sailor Uranus was everything I thought women needed to be. Awesome, buff, no-nonsense, no men.

The Lord of the Rings - Eowyn

I wanted to dislike her so much when the Two Towers came out, because she seemed so extraneous and convinced of her own importance to the plot, but she wiped the floor with my expectations and I fell in love. She was just so awesome. Then I was disappointed she got together with Faramir, because she shouldn't need a dude, but I loved Faramir as well, so I accepted the match. (Yes, I was one of those people who saw the movies before reading the books...)

The Legend of Korra - Asami Sato

Smart, capable, and compassionate. Asami was one of my favorites from go, even though the narrative pitted her against Korra for the Mako love triangle thing at first. She pulled her weight within the group, and I loved how resourceful she was.

Animorphs - Marco

Marco was so lovable as far as I was concerned. He was that oddball guy who hid all his pain and neglect under a front. He was very relatable when I was reading those books, and I was so invested in his story.

Gargoyles - Brooklyn

I liked Brooklyn a lot when Gargoyles was on. He had his act together most of the time, and I liked his overall character. I like that he wanted to do right by his family/friends, but wasn't serious all the time.

I haven't thought about some of these characters in a very long time, but I liked revisiting some of my favorites. This was fun!

[futa69]

You're already a fan of the ancient astronaut theory.

Here's a list of books, movies, TV shows, and video games featuring ancient astronauts. (revised)

▪︎Edison's Conquest of Mars (1898)

▪︎The Call of Cthulhu (1926)

▪︎Analog Science Fiction and Fact (1930)

▪︎At the Mountains of Madness (1931)

▪︎Childhood's End (1953)

▪︎Forbidden Planet (1956)

▪︎Quartermass and the Pit (1958)

▪︎The Twilight Zone (1959)

▪︎The Sirens of Titan (1959)

▪︎The Flintstones (1960)

▪︎Doctor Who (1963)

▪︎Hercules Against the Moon Men (1964)

▪︎Known Space (1964)

▪︎Star Trek (1966)

▪︎2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

▪︎Chariots of the Gods (1968)

▪︎The Bible & Flying Saucers (1968)

▪︎Horror Express (1972)

▪︎Rendezvous with Rama (1973)

▪︎Land of the Lost (1974)

▪︎The Spaceships of Ezekiel (1974)

▪︎The Outer Space Connection (1975)

▪︎Space: 1999 (1975)

▪︎The Sirius Mystery (1976)

▪︎The Earth Chronicles (1976)

▪︎Star Wars (1977)

▪︎Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

▪︎The Manna Machine (1978)

▪︎Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)

▪︎Battlestar Galactica (1978)

▪︎Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1978)

▪︎Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979)

▪︎Alien (1979)

▪︎Hangar 18 (1980)

▪︎Valis (1981)

▪︎The Thing (1982)

▪︎Xevious (1982)

▪︎Super Dimension Fortress Macross (1982)

▪︎The Transformers (1984)

▪︎Cocoon (1985)

▪︎Bio Booster Armor Guyver (1985)

▪︎The Legend of Zelda (1986)

▪︎Predator (1987)

▪︎Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988)

▪︎Red Dwarf (1988)

▪︎The Gods of Eden (1989)

▪︎Moontrap (1989)

▪︎Spriggan (1989)

▪︎Total Recall (1990)

▪︎Babylon 5 (1993)

▪︎The X-Files (1993)

▪︎Stargate (1994)

▪︎Neon Genesis Evangelion (1994)

▪︎Fingerprints of the Gods (1995)

▪︎Encounter with Tiber (1996)

▪︎Final Fantasy (1997)

▪︎Earth: Final Conflict (1997)

▪︎The Fifth Element (1997)

▪︎Space Island One (1998)

▪︎Naked Pictures of Famous People (1998)

▪︎Dilbert (1999)

▪︎Futurama (1999)

▪︎Star Ancestors (2000)

▪︎Mission to Mars (2000)

▪︎Halo (2001)

▪︎Ice Age (2002)

▪︎Alien vs. Predator (2004)

▪︎The Orion Zone (2007)

▪︎Mass Effect (2007)

▪︎Assassin's Creed (2007)

▪︎Outlander (2008)

▪︎Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)

▪︎Marvel Cinematic Universe (2008)

▪︎Spore (2008)

▪︎Knowing (2009)

▪︎The Fourth Kind (2009)

▪︎Ancient Aliens (2009)

▪︎Borderlands (2009)

▪︎The Great Airship of 1897 (2010)

▪︎Dark Void (2010)

▪︎The Ancient Alien Question (2011)

▪︎Cowboys and Aliens (2011)

▪︎Battle: Los Angeles (2011)

▪︎Paul (2011)

▪︎John Carter (2012)

▪︎Prometheus (2012)

▪︎Iron Sky (2012)

▪︎Man of Steel (2013)

▪︎Beyond the Sky (2018)

▪︎Resident Alien (2021)

▪︎Moonfall (2022)

▪︎Prey (2022)

▪︎65 (2023)

[bagheerita]

Art/fic trade with @annwayne!!

A bit of flirty Todd/Teyla in a beach setting. <3

Read at AO3:

Or under the cut:

The sun was a comfort on her skin as Teyla lay back in her chair, relaxing for the first time in what felt like ages, soaking in the warmth. 

Weeks of rain and fog had shrouded Atlantis, her team's dour mood not helped by an overlong mission to P3S-403 where the town they visited was still held in the depths of winter. Returning to a break in the weather and warmer temperatures was most appreciated. Many of the city's residents had journeyed to the nearest section of the mainland to make the most of it.

Teyla shifted on the towel she'd spread over the chair John called a "deck chair" and let the balmy breeze carry the distant sounds of her teammates and fellow citizens of Atlantis past her. Ronon and John were having some sort of debate about surfing in between their actual surfing. Rodney was discussing, somewhat stridently, with Carson the potential venomous properties of a creature he'd found. Farther down the beach, Doctors Cole and Zelenka were talking and fishing, along with Major Lorne and Lieutenant Rivers. Teyla, Amelia, and Marie had been swimming earlier- Teyla amused by the Earth tradition of swimming while clothed in a bikini- and had now taken over a trio of the deck chairs that had been set out, relaxing after their exertion. Teyla was comfortable, by her hand was a drink Amelia called a tequila sunrise, and she was warm and drowsy.

The warmth shining down on her suddenly went cold and dark. Teyla cracked open an eye with a frown. 

Todd was looming over her, scowling. 

"You are blocking the sun," she informed him. 

His scowl deepened. "If you do not control your expedition leader, I may be forced to take drastic action." 

Teyla blinked. She was slightly intrigued, but not enough to actually get up from her comfortable seat. "That is not a good reason to block my sunlight," she retorted. 

Todd grumbled under his breath but shifted to the side. Amelia made a sound of wordless protest, as he was now blocking the sun from reaching her. Teyla lowered her sunglasses to raise an eyebrow at Todd. 

He snarled, softly, and dropped into a crouch beside her. He looked around, as if feeling hunted. 

Teyla found herself now curious in spite of herself. "What is the problem with Mister Woolsey?"

"He is insisting that I accept a garland of foul-smelling leaves in recognition of the accord between our peoples." 

Teyla had the garland of leaves and flowers that Woolsey had given her currently wound around her head. "Such as this?" she asked, touching her crown. 

Todd narrowed his eyes and inhaled. "Yes," he admitted. "Though yours does not smell quite so terrible." The sensory pits near his nose fluttered. "The scent is actually not unpleasant when combined with your own." 

Teyla smirked. "So complimentary. He must have you quite unsettled." 

Todd scowled at her grumpily, and ducked down further behind her chair as Mister Woolsey walked past them and down to an area where several people were grilling and cooking. 

Teyla rolled her eyes. "There is a very simple way to get him to stop," she observed. 

"And what is that?" Todd asked haughtily.  

"To accept the garland from him of course. Perhaps then he would leave you alone."

Todd made a desperate, wounded sound deep in his throat. 

Teyla sat up, no longer able to relax. "You wouldn't have to keep it if it smells so terrible," she observed. 

Todd sighed. He was sitting on the ground behind her chair now, as deep in shadow as he could get. His eyes were narrowed as he peered up at her. "I could not accept such a token and then discard it." He looked away, uneasy, as if the confession revealed more than he wished.

Teyla softened. “Come then.” She stood from her chair and knotted the towel around her waist, its thin material wafting around her legs like a skirt. She took her drink in her hand and walked past the chairs, making her way along the rocky ridge where they had been soaking in the sun and up to a path that led under the cover of nearby trees. 

Todd followed her eagerly, and when her bare feet stepping on broken branches and seed pods from the trees made her hiss and stumble, he offered his left hand to help her balance. 

She didn’t thank him, but said, “The trail opens up again further ahead.” And even as she spoke the rocky trail they followed became covered with loose sand. The trees to their right were only small specimens now, their roots twisting through the sand as the ground in that direction sloped away down to the water in a long smooth line. Teyla's feet sank into the sand; it was hot on the top, where the sun hit, but cooler and moist underneath when she dug her feet in. 

The trail continued along the high rocky ridge, but below them the sandy slope led to a small cove, and Teyla made her way down the side of the dune to where the sand was level on the water's shoreline. The sand here, and the rolling in of the waves, was undisturbed by any others, and only the distant sight of surfers and swimmers, and the occasional shouts from her friends and coworkers, prevented the cove from being entirely private.

Teyla arranged her towel-skirt beneath her and sat down, sipping her drink.  "I hope you did not get too much sand in your boots descending the dune," she said with more amusement than sympathy to Todd.

He hummed thoughtfully, pulling off one boot and tipping it upside down to pour out what was definitely a large amount of sand. "Your plea appears to have been ignored," he observed. 

Teyla laughed. "You are not exactly dressed to enjoy a day at the beach. Why did you come?" 

His eyes rested on her. "Because you invited me." He cocked his head. "Why did you invite me?" 

"To see if you would come," she admitted. "And here you are." She looked at him levelly, her sunglasses sliding down her nose so that she could look at him over the top of their dark lenses. 

"Well, my queen commanded my presence." He smirked. "How could I do anything other than attend her whim?" 

Teyla snorted. 

Todd's smirk spread, and he sat down beside her in the sand. 

"That will not help prevent you from getting sand in your boots," Teyla warned him.

"It seems an attempt to separate the sand from my person is doomed," Todd replied. He gazed back at her, amused despite any discomfort.

"I don't suppose Wraith have beach clothes," Teyla observed. 

Todd huffed and said wryly, "That would be accurate." He rubbed rough grains of sand between the pads of his fingers sadly. "Though it is unfortunate as well. Our normal attire does not do well in such an environment." 

Teyla leaned back on one arm, braced behind her against the sand, and held her drink in her other hand, rolling the ice inside so that it clicked against the sides of the glass. "You could adopt a popular tradition and wear nothing at all," she suggested.  

Todd drew himself up as if offended at the suggestion, but his smile grew sly and he leaned back on his left hand, mirroring Teyla's posture. "Would that please you?" 

"Me?" Teyla held her drink against her cheek, her skin feeling quite warm against the glass's icy surface. "We were discussing your comfort." 

"I am quite comfortable," he replied, grinning at her. 

"Oh? Well, if we’ve exhausted that topic and there’s nothing else to discuss, maybe it's time for a swim." She raised an eyebrow at him. "Are you planning on swimming?" 

"I'll have you know Wraith are excellent swimmers."

"I am certain," Teyla replied with false sincerity. "Though I feel that that your normal aura of threat would be difficult for you to maintain with your apparel sopping wet and squeaking with every step."

Todd threw back his head and laughed. "What is it you say, touché? I will concede your point. As you've won, I suppose I must divest myself of an article of clothing?"

I believe you are thinking of poker," Teyla observed.

"Am I?" Todd affected surprise. "Hmm. So, then you agree I don't owe you a forfeit?" 

"I didn't say that." Teyla's eyes shone. "Perhaps you should double the forfeit, as you confused the stakes."

Todd laid a hand to his chest as if wounded by her remark. "I? Confused? I am quite certain that it was you who mentioned the wrong game."

Teyla blinked in surprise. "Are you suggesting I should be the one to take off my clothes?"

"If that is what you wish, my queen," Todd agreed eagerly. 

Stymied, Teyla set her drink on the ground. She stood up, her skirt clutched around her. Then she released the material and it fluttered to the ground. "I am going swimming," she stated. 

"As you say, my queen." Todd cocked his head. "Though, surely it is dangerous to swim alone."

It's dangerous to swim with Wraith," she retorted. "Especially one who will not admit when they have lost."

Very well." Todd pulled off his other boot, wiggling his toes in the sand while making a face. He stood, undoing his coat as he moved to let it fall from his arms. He had a sleeveless shirt of a thin material that he wore under it; Teyla was certainly not watching the way it clung to his muscles. He continued, pulling the shirt over his head and pulling his long legs free of his long, tight leather pants, under which he wore nothing at all. 

"Am I now properly attired for swimming?" he asked her innocently, then affected a deep concern. "Though I heard one of the others mention sunburn and I wondered if I should be concerned. I have not bared so much skin in a long time."

Teyla took off her sunglasses, tossing them down on her towel, and then looked him up and down. Mostly down. She met his eyes. "It's not that much," she assured him. "I wouldn't worry."

Todd laughed easily again. He moved past her and into the water first, moving like a creature entirely comfortable with that environment.

Teyla huffed a small sigh of annoyance to hide her smile and focused on swimming. The water was warmer near the beach where it was only as shallow as her ankles, but quickly became cold when it was deep enough to swim in. She swam out to the mouth of the cove, about 200 yards, to where she could see the surfers quite well beyond the outcropping that set apart this cove. She paused there and her feet, treading under the water, struck sand. She set both feet down and found herself standing on a sandbar, the water only coming up to her collarbone. 

She'd seen no sign of Todd since entering the water, but, once she stopped, he surfaced near her. The droplets of water on his skin caught the sunlight, shining like jewels. He turned toward her grinning. 

"Are you enjoying your swim?" he purred, the sound warming her in a way that should not have been possible.

"The view was excellent, until recently," she replied. 

He caught the amusement in her expression and his grin widened in response. He lifted his hands out of the water to display a fistful of shells of a familiar bivalve in his left hand. "I have heard these are quite tasty." 

Teyla reached out to take them from him, examining the shells. 

Todd stood up on the sand bar, looming over her as he stepped close. His eyes flashed, without any aid from the sunlight. "It is said they are prized for their amorous properties." He grinned.

Teyla handed the shells back to him. His smile faded, though he did not let any true disappointment show.

"Take them back to the beach," Teyla said. "We can eat them there." She met his eyes, then looked away as if indifferent. "I would like to enjoy them while finishing my drink."

He grinned again. "Yes, my queen." The words were teasing, but his manner was eager. He dove back into the water and swam a circle around her before vanishing into the darkness of the ocean.

When he couldn't see, Teyla smirked. She dove back into the water as well, headed for the beach.

[freckleslikestars]

Have I ever told y’all about the stargate game I play when I go round the charity shops?

So essentially the premise is this: for every non-consecutive stargate sg-1, Atlantis or universe dvd I find in a shop, I get a point.

So for example if I find stargate sg-1 season 1 disc 5, season 4 disc 2 and Atlantis season 3 disc 2, I get three points. The DVDs of the films count as half a point each - just cause they seem slightly more logical to sell on their own.

However. For every consecutive disc I find, I lose half a point. So if I were to find sg-1 season 1 discs 1&2, I’d get one point for finding disc 1, but then lose a point for finding disc 2 (though if I’m in a weird mood and they’re not next to one another on the shelf I only lose ¼ of a point). It means there’s the potential to have a sub 0 score.

Depending on time and if I’m with other people and a variety of other factors, I’ll either pit stores against each other, or I’ll do a total for the whole trip.

The highest score I’ve ever gotten from a whole day trip (6 charity shops) was 16. Didn’t find a single consecutive disc that day. I’ve never gotten a sub zero score.

[voice-of-illogical-sense]

Of 'Grumbats'

When I started picturing this, I imagined an orc, then a lizard type thing that would refer to their race as "brother" or "sister" but then moved onto the idea of a mole-rat. They are technically called "Grumbats".

There is at least one queen, they produce copious amounts of self-fertilised eggs. They bury themselves underground, hibernating mentally, just producing eggs in a main-nest.

These creatures have rat-like, mangy, dirty, vermin features. When in harsh environments they develop a hunch full of fat stores but usually they stand up like a humanoid.

They aren't purely biological, they have a magical element built into them. They have two vertical pouches on their torso when they can incubate an egg (seedling) through to a joey (puggle). After that, although tiny, they will travel outside, either upon their parent or waiting in a sub-nest.

Although they treat each other as siblings (except a queen) they ARE capable of being different individuals, not clones, yet sharing traits from those that raised them. In fact, some believe that there is some kind of magical transference that occurs whilst in egg form that influences the potential of the joey that emerges.

I was imagining a stargate scenario when they don't really reproduce but have marsupial features. They do not feel complete until they have an egg that they can raise

Some individuals can almost come out as carbon copies of those that raised them, keeping their legacy alive. It's almost as if someone saw the race of tortles and devised a way to improve upon it.

Queens have six pouches where they can incubate eggs. This way she can generate protectors, tenders, hunters, or egg-runners, slight variations on her young.

Rather than a hunch, the queen can grow tendrils and cancerous growths upon her body by concentrating deeply or with the help of a tender. A growth can have its own pouch for incubating eggs, or it can be a fat store for times of drought, deep hibernation, or seige. The tendrils work like roots, taking nutrients out of the ground or out of the food that hunters have placed there. There is often a "stomach room" full of tendrils with rotting food stuffs lashed up against the walls or a pit with tendrils at the mouth.

A queen will quickly start developing another queen in a growth, in a far off place as a safety measure. The egg mutates through nutrients and magical energy, ready to hatch when a tendril is deliberately severed/dies off.

All, including the queen have an organ in their hand that can leech life-energy and magical energy. This is how most prefer to feed but they do have the ability to hunt, eat and digest their own prey. This leeching ability varies, depending on the specialisation they have.

In addition to queens, protectors, tenders, hunters and egg-runners... there are also digger drones, transporter drones, leecher-healers, survivor scouts, mentalists, incubators and detectors. It seems they run on a caste system that can defy their racial traits or class.

The colony has existed for thousands of years, surviving disasters, and rising from the ashes time and again. Entire armies of Grumbats have fallen, settlements and family pack lineages have ended. The line of queens has never been broken though, her young rising from the soil. Even though these intelligent creatures have been here long before men, orc and elf, they are still considered as disease-ridden animals by many. Their marsupial faces, a lack of their own written culture or language, and the squalor they can survive in does not help with this stereotype.

The grumbat is a mix of HR Giger's Alien, the Saarlac, Stargate's Jafaa, Predator hunters, Tolkien's orcs and the Labyrinth's goblins. It allows for body horror, and fast-breeding hives of enemies, yet can be an underdog ready to become a hero.

[ancientcosmicsecrets]

Ancient Portals

Many ancient cultures speak of portals to other worlds and gateways to star systems where their "creators" reside. Conventional wisdom tells us these tales are merely myths and legends. However, recently declassified FBI files have stated that beings from other dimensions and planets have visited Earth. NASA has announced that "portals" appear to be hidden within the Earth's magnetic field, making some wonder if the legends of stargates, portals, and wormholes may have some degree of truth to them.

The Place Of The Gods

The Abu Sir Pyramids, a site shrouded in mystery and claimed to be one of the oldest on the planet, hold a unique secret. Within its depths lies an ancient platform made of alabaster, a material believed to be in tune with the 'vibration' of Earth. This platform, it is said, can 'open the senses' for a person to communicate and 'be one' with the higher, sacred energies of the Universe. It is a stargate, the conduit through which the holy energies, the Neters (gods), were believed to have traversed.

As the legends of Abu Ghurab being a stargate, there are signs of what some would perceive as advanced technology having been used to create the site. One example is the exact circular markings drilled into the alabaster.

Sumerian Stargate

A famous Sumerian seal, a relic steeped in mystery, depicts a Sumerian god emerging from a portal of his world into ours. The god, seemingly on a staircase, is moving away from the viewer. On each side of the emerging god are strange shimmering water columns. Another equally enigmatic Sumerian artifact is that of Ninurta. Ninurta not only appears to be wearing a modern-day wristwatch but also uses his finger to press what appears to be a button on the wall of the gateway he is standing in.

Chapter 9 of the Book of Revelations speaks of this stargate. The verse reads, "(1)Then the fifth angel sounded his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from heaven to Earth, and it was given the key to the pit of the abyss. (2)The star opened the pit of the abyss, and smoke rose out of it like the smoke of a great furnace, and the smoke from the pit darkened the sun and the air. (3) Locusts descended on the Earth out of the smoke.

Gate of the Sun

Believed by some to be a portal to the land of the gods, the "Gate of the Sun" in Bolivia shares much of its legends with other similar sites in the Andes region. Tiahuanaco city is said to be one of the most important sites of ancient America, with legends stating that the Sun god, Viracocha, appeared in Tiahuanaco and made it "the place of creation"—the place he chose to start the human race.

Carved from one block of stone and thought to be 14,000 years old, the gateway displays what appears to be human beings with "rectangular helmets." This has led many researchers to state that the purpose of the gate is indeed connected to something astronomical, although this is hotly debated. The top middle of the arch features a carving of the supposed sun god and shows what look to be rays of light appearing behind and forcing their way around all sides of the deity's head.

The 'Doorway of the Gods'

The Native American tribes once knew Sedona, a small town in Arizona called Nawanda, and at one time, it was the most sacred city to them. The Red Rocks of the deserts surrounding the small town can create vortexes capable of transporting people to another realm or dimension. Native Americans believed these rocks were spiritually charged, while sounds emanating from them have been reported. In the mountains of Arizona, it claims to be the "Doorway of the gods"—a strange stone arch portal to another time and space.

In the 1950s-1950s, a local tribesman aided treasure hunters searching for gold in the mountains. He told them a story of his people, dating back to the 1800's1800s, of three tribe members who had discovered the archway while riding in the desert. The story goes that he disappeared when one of them walked through. Believing they had encroached on sacred land, the other two fled.

The helpful tribesman stated he had also seen a strange incident at the alleged doorway. While out in the desert, a sudden rainstorm hit the area, turning the skies grey with clouds. As he turned to leave, he caught a glimpse of the archway and saw the skies through the arch were clear blue. He walked closer to it, seeing that the archway's image of the mountain range was the same, and the only difference was the sky. However, he, too, became scared, mounted his horse, and returned home.

He told the treasure hunters that only his people knew of the stories. He had only spoken of it because they had shown him kindness and to serve as a warning not to walk through the archway should they come across it. Numerous ancient sites worldwide display fascinating properties that archaeologists cannot explain. These sites prove that thousands of years ago, ancient cultures knew of a technology that has been lost in modern times.

Ancient sites like the Gate of Hayu Marka in South America and Mada'in Saleh in Africa display fascinating similarities in their construction and extensive history that speaks of intriguing details. Locals consider these ancient sites as powerful places with mystical powers. These strange doorways were created by civilizations thousands of years ago for mysterious reasons. Why build gigantic doors into solid rock? Were these sites designed to support local legends? If so, why are these legends not an isolated phenomenon?

Legends tell that in the distant past, great heroes crossed into the land of the gods and enjoyed a prosperous and glorious immortal life. Among the most famous legends is one that says that during the Spanish conquest, an Incan priest called Amaru Muru, from the temple of the seven rays, fled from his temple with a sacred golden disk known as "the key to the gods of the seven rays. "

The priest hid in the mountains of Hayu Brand, afraid that the Spanish might take the key from him. Later, the priest arrived at the "Gate of the Gods" at Hayu Marca, where he showed the key to several local priests and shamans. After they had performed a ritual, the door opened with a blue light emanating from it. The priest, Amaru Muru, handed the golden disk to one of the shamans and entered the door; he was never seen again.

This fantastic story sounds eerily similar to what we call a stargate or portal today. While modern science believes such travel is impossible, legends all around the globe speak of travel through mysterious 'gates' thousands of years ago.