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[sarksarkos]

World's Finest '58: Getting Too Into The Weeds

This is World's Finest #97, which should be a thrilling story about Batman and Superman in a battle of brains and brawn, but it turns out to be a big pack of lies. Welcome to the Gutters.

The more you read these comics, the more you begin to see specific patterns, which is what I was hoping to uncover. I was hoping to get some insight into how they work to enhance the story. The more I read Batman and Superman comics, the more it baffles me that these worked so well for so long.

A good amount of Batman, Superman, or World's Finest comics are locked in to their formula. There's an inciting incident. Some criminals witness that incident and get an idea for a scheme to take down Batman/Superman. The criminals forward with the scheme, and it appears that they've won. There's a background event that doesn't make sense, and the comic will point this out. Batman/Superman reveal that they were not only aware of the scheme the whole time, they had set it in motion to catch the criminals. No further questions are answered.

It's not a bad story, this is basically every heist or con artist movie ever made. It's great if done properly and not overused. I honestly don't know what these comics think they're doing with it, but they are not succeeding. A good story makes you realize just how much work the protagonists put into their scheme and creates tension from how often it could go wrong and catharsis from how they escape that tension. These stories do none of that.

The inciting incident is thus: a bald professor makes one of those omniscent supercomputers that can predict literally any outcome, even based on events as random as a lightning strike. I'm going to spoil it right now, that professor is Superman in disguise, and he's been using his powers to make all the computer's "predictions" come true. He's been setting this up to capture a gang of random criminals he should have no trouble with, let alone with Batman's help.

The gang kidnap the professor and ask him to predict how to break up the Batman/Superman team. Again, this guy is Superman in disguise, and could just arrest them right now. The "computer" tells them to create a situation where it looks like the gang is taking a bribe and force Superman to go after them. This does not seem like something you would need a fake supercomputer to come up with.

I love Commissioner Gordon's face in the last panel. You know he knows that this is another wacky setup of his boys doing the most complicated plans in the world but everyone else in the room is too dumb to see through it. He's just gotta keep calm and let it all play out.

Commissioner Gordon is forced by the "Citizen's Committee" to arrest Batman. I bring this up because the leader of the committee, John Titus, is going to be revealed as the bad guy. He's just one of three indistinguishable bald white men with glasses. He doesn't even get as much foreshadowing as the bad guy in a Scooby Doo episode. We find out later that this "Citizen's Committee" is also involved with the supercomputer, which is presumably in Metropolis, but they also have power in Gotham. Okay. Sure.

Also, I love how the panels here make it look like Superman was just on the roof with Gordon the whole time and not saying anything until directly acknowledged.

Superman seemingly goes for the plan and burrows into the Batcave with a bunch of cops to arrest Batman. We see right away that the mansion above doesn't belong to Bruce Wayne, but some other guy. The comic is like "Oooh spooky what does this mean? It's probably not Superman and Batman putting on an elaborate hoax!"

Once the criminals think they've won, the big bad brings Superman disguised as the professor to meet with him. That's when Superman tears off his disguise and reveals himself, explaining their whole game for a full page of flashbacks. There's a brief fight where John Titus drops a lump of Kryptonite in the room, but Batman performs his civic duty as Kryptonite Disposal Squad, the only productive thing he does all issue.

And like... this all feels completely backwards from how you would write a story. The heroes are always secretly one step ahead of the bad guys, they never experience any real tension or setbacks because anything that looks like a setback was just part of their plan all along. More to the point, they're superheroes who should have no trouble figuring out who this old man is and stopping him. Batman and Superman working alone should be able to uncover John Titus' criminal connections in an afternoon.

The problem is that stories need time in which to be told. If you have a story like this, you need time to set up the problem, establish the stakes, have things go wrong for the characters, build up dramatic tension, all that good stuff. This was the period where you had three stories in a single issue, so they have around a dozen pages to tell the whole thing. And you can tell a simple story in a dozen pages, but you can't tell a complex mystery heist superhero adventure in that same space. That's like trying to fit the Iliad onto the back of a cereal box!

I meant to talk about some other comics in this post but every time I read an issue of World's Finest my blood starts to spurt out my ears like somebody dropped a mentos in me. Coming up, it's Green Arrow. Like from the teevee show. Until Next Time!

[lightning-water]

i don’t think Jays amnesia is accidental or legitimate

here’s why:

Jay knows his name his full name, implying that he knew it even with memory loss, and you might be thinking couldn’t the agents just tell him his name if he didn’t remember? well no one in the administration seemed to know who LLOYD GARMADON WAS until they broke zane out, they didn’t even Acknowledge Zane as a ninja when they arrested him implying that they have no idea who THE HEROS OF NINJAGO are

He knows he had lightning powers but nobody else knows this, which also connects to the administration didn’t know who jay was before or they would’ve informed him of his powers themselves and he would’ve known that they knew but he makes it seem like it’s a bad thing like bad things happen to Elemental Powers so if that is true why would they put somebody in the administration knowing that they have Elemental powers?

Still has similar personality traits to before (video games) so the memory loss didn’t cause Jay to completely loose himself, he still holds the similar traits to before. this seems more like someone took out the people and things he was doing and not erasing him as a person? idk if that makes sense but when Nya and Zane got their amnesia they blindly trusted people, the first person they saw who told them things and they believed them and they kind of acted differently but also they had no idea who they were they couldn’t even remember their name, so it just makes Jays amnesia more purposeful and thought out

he can’t remember anything before the administration- now he remembers all of his life at the administration but not a single thing before that? Also this tells us that if he woke up at the administration with no memory why would they give him a guy who knows nothing but his name a good position like a manager? it just doesn’t make sense unless they brought him in specifically, and why nothing before the administration, what happened to his mech? Did it crash and if so how did he not remember waking up at the crash and going to the administration, did they take him from the crash sight? And Nya told Zane that the merge was years ago no matter how many years it’s been wouldn’t Jay had to have had some sort of memories come back like anything? a face? a single memory? a name?

i had this theory i posted about where he also woke up at a monastery copy because i think there’s more out there because he walked right into where Bonzle was with no backup, none. Why would they send in an agent alone unless he didn’t say where he was going and instead just went along with his muscle memory and he was going to where Bonzle came from too so he knew where he was going he did not look lost once.

My ending point: somebody or something erased Jays memories it wasn’t just an accident or a bump on the head and i think most fingers are point to the administration/administrator, because it’s just weird timing that it’s just the administration that he remembers along with just his name, it just kind of seems thought out like they wanted him for a reason or something. There are things about himself that he knows, he doesn’t seem to be having an identity crisis so it’s almost as if someone picked and chose which things he could remember and which he would have to forget like people and his previous life. All the agents seem like they have something off about them too, maybe it’s requirement that they examine people who they believe would be good agents and erase their memories and take them which is why nobody questions it, it’s just what they know. Or maybe the Administrator works for Ras too and gives Ras amnesiac Elemental Masters for him like where did Tox come from? and why does it look like she’s on the bad guy side now? Maybe Ras’ plan B was getting other elemental masters to fight for him in the tournament of sources instead of the Forbidden 5 and to do that he had the administrator provide them and erasing their memories knowing that they wouldn’t willingly help Lord Ras.

Anyway that’s just a few (a lot) of things i think about at night

[arkanis-englishupdates]

SUMMARY OF ALL ARKANIS POVS

DAY 37 — 09/10/2024

The morning in Valigma begins calmly, but not entirely peacefully.

Pac starts to hear some lightning coming from outside his house, until in one of these lightning Pac receives a book ("Sorry but I don't have much time

Want to find out more about your true destiny?"). The text within the book is followed by coordinates of a location.

Arriving at the coordinates, Pac battles some monsters called "Diluted Thieves" and gets another book.

The book appears to be written by a famous thief from the Valigma's City who wore a balaclava and had managed to rob the city's central bank. The author of the book knew that his luck was running out more and more, ending up thinking about just running away from Valigma with his robbery so this doesn't happen.

Upon returning home, Pac is greeted by writing in Arkanya on his wall. Milo and Auau helps him translate and they find out what the phrases was "Thief" and "Little Thief".

As soon as they discover the translation, Pac's vision darkens and the phrases written in Arkanya disappear. Just as Pac's vision returns, lightning strikes outside his house again.

After what happened, Pac meets with Quel, Gris and Guhzera at their house and tells them what happened (Gris remembers that Bia had commented about the anagram of Araldo's name: Araldo = Ladrão [Thief in Portuguese]). Milo then wears a balaclava and Quel talks about Valigma's symbol of peace, a balaclava, and explains what Jota had told her yesterday (Balaclava is a treasure for the city of Valigma because it represents the day that the city's thief had been arrested)

After the conversation, everyone says goodbye and goes their separate ways.

At his home, Guhzera receives an unusual visit from Araldo, who says he wants to train him like JVNQ. Araldo said he would take him to be an "apprentice" for a day and said that Guhzera would only need to sabotage a few things and, in return, he would give him power. If he broke the agreement, Milo would suffer for it.

After the conversation, Araldo disappears and Guzhera returns to focusing on his tasks. Hours later, after saying goodbye to Milo, Guhzera receives a visit from a deep-voiced being who looked exactly like Milo, saying the following phrase over and over again before disappearing as well:

"And if I die, daddy?"

In fear, Guhzera returns to his tasks again.

While at home, Quel receives a visit from Bia. The two talk about the dome (Quel wants to know how the dome managed to be done, and Bia explains that she felt Arkanya's flow stronger, which helped her activate it) and how Gris is doing.

Bia reveals to Quel that Choke is doing very well in training and thinks she will be able to help the specialists when she finishes.

Bia confesses that she would like it to be Quel in training, but that it's okay. Quel thanks her and Bia says that Choke has people by her side like Quel, Maethe and this will help her, because Arkanya is instable. Bia adds that Choke is bipolar and gets stressed easily, which could be linked to Guhzera.

Quel asks when Choke should return, and Bia believes she should be able to finish her last training session on Monday.

Bia then shares with Quel that she had some strange dreams about one of the specialists being able to use Arkanya (without Lankyas' help) in a way never seen before. She couldn't see the person's face but she's sure it's not the Mayor.

While they're on the subject, Que tells Bia about JVNQ being under Araldo's care now, and Bia is shocked by the information. Bia expresses her concern about a possible attack that Araldo could make and says she is weak and without enough Lankyas to protect everybody.

Quel asks if they could get Lankya from Araldo, planning an attack on the factory. Bia responds that Araldo must know some Coder who writes the Lankyas, because his Lankyas are bespoke (Bia mentions that she hasn't seen a Coder in 20 years, she says that the last one she met was a great friend of hers who disappeared from the map, but who hadn't died). The conversation goes on more about the hierarchy of Arkanya handlers, in short:

Coder: writes Lankyas.

Decoder: Reads and uses Lankyas.

Manipulator: Manipulates Arkanya.

Obstinate: does not manipulate Arkanya, but has an artifact imbued with Arkanya.

(The training that Quel failed was to become a Coder, and currently Choke's training was to become one.)

Changing the subject, Que tells Bia that Jota wants to see her, and Bia is surprised by the news but says she doesn't want to see him at all. Bia points out that she won't meet Jota, as she thinks he's up to something. Quel says that Jota has blood in his eyes and Bia decides to investigate him.

As the conversation continued, Quel tells Bia that Jota found out about her involvement in the death of his parents and Bia laughs indignantly, saying that it was absurd. Quel says that there is a tape at Araldo's factory that proves this but Bia denies it, saying that this is impossible. Quel says that a specialist got this information from someone, and Araldo confirmed it.

Quel says that Araldo never showed the tape to Jota.

Bia, nervous, quickly says that she needs to think about it and disappears.

[longitudinalwaveme]

Cloudy With a Chance of Sunspots

Captain Cold and Heat Wave weren't the only Rogues to have a reformation story in the late Bronze Age. Weather Wizard had one too---but it wasn't in the Flash comic book. Instead, it was placed in Adventure Comics #466, which was published in 1979. This issue had several stories in it, but the one we're interested in is "The Cloud with the Lethal Lightning!", which was written by Cary Bates, drawn by Mike Nasser and Vince Colleta, lettered by Ben Oda, and colored by Gene D'Angelo.

The opening teaser panel describes the Weather Wizard as a "master foe" of "diabolic cunning and nefarious motives" which...may be giving Pre-Crisis Mark too much credit.

The story opens with Barry Allen finding the Weather Wizard directing a tornado in one of the neighborhoods of Central City. Naturally assuming that his foe is up to no good, he runs in to stop him, only to be battered by hail.

"Forgive me, Flash, but I can't stand by and watch you run interference against my private tornado!" It's kind of impressive how Pre-Crisis Mark always manages to sound like a dork.

The hail delays Flash long enough for Weather Wizard to use his tornado for its intended purpose...sweeping up every auto wreck on an empty lot and transporting it to the city dump on the outskirts of town, "thereby relieving this neighborhood of an unpleasant eyesore!"

Barry is unimpressed by this display. "Since when does a Rogue-villain like you work for the sanitation department? Now what are you really up to?"

Mark insists that he's not up to anything. "You're looking at a new Mark Mardon, Flash---a changed man---who has discovered his true purpose in life---to wield the weather wand only on behalf of others---for the good of the general public!"

Barry isn't convinced by Mark's puppy-dog eyes and starts running him to police headquarters, much to Mark's annoyance. "Flash, I must protest! You know very well that my tornado and I committed no crime! You have no right to pull a citizen's arrest!" This is one of those wonderful sentences you can only get from comic books.

Flash explains that he's not arresting Mark, but instead taking him to be tested via a polygraph (also known a a lie detector) and a voice-print test. I'm not sure about this, but I get the feeling that it's not entirely legal to drag someone to police headquarters to have the sincerity of their reformation tested via lie detector.

Regardless, Mark passes the tests and demands an apology. Before Barry can respond one way or another, a radio broadcast (which is being interrupted by static) announces that another tornado is heading towards a farm town near Central City. Barry assumes that Weather Wizard somehow managed to fool the tests and is planning to use the tornado to wreck the farm town for...some nefarious purpose. Seriously, how would Weather Wizard benefit from destroying random fields?

Barry arrives at the farm town at about the same time as the tornado does, only for a horde of locusts to appear as well. The twister veers across the field, sucks up all the locusts, and draws them into the upper cloud layers, where they will freeze. Mark used his tornado to save the farmers' crops from the locusts (though how he knew about the locusts when Barry didn't is anyone's guess).

Barry then runs back to police headquarters and asks Weather Wizard how he directed a tornado from so far away. "How did you manage it from here, Wizard---or are you a magician now too?"

"Not at all---you just didn't notice that I left my Weather Wand behind when you whisked me away! It can telekinetically fly under its own power, don't you see? I knew about the locusts in advance, so I was mentally controlling the wand all along as it kept tabs on the tornado---directing it to the farmland via remote control!" So...uh...apparently the Wand is TELEPATHICALLY LINKED TO MARK'S BRAIN! How did he manage THAT feat?

Regardless, Barry apologizes to Weather Wizard for dragging him to police headquarters for no reason and he walks off.

The next evening, Barry is watching TV, which is being interrupted by static, just like the radio was earlier, as a result of excessive sunspot activity.

We then learn that Blue Valley (which is, incidentally, the hometown of Wally West, aka Kid Flash) is being threatened by a massive flood. Weather Wizard is so upset by the prospect of all those people losing their homes that he actually breaks down crying on live TV.

A few seconds later, the static shorts out the program, much to Barry's slightly bizarre relief. "Watching Weather Wizard break down in tears over the fate of flood victims is more than I can bear. He's even more unstable now than he used to be as a villain!" I mean, maybe it's a little weird that he's crying, but....is it THAT unsettling to have him display sympathy for other people, Barry? Shouldn't this be seen as a good thing?

Regardless, we cut to Blue Valley, which is indeed starting to flood thanks to a lot of heavy rain---only for the water to turn to water vapor, courtesy of the Weather Wizard. "My fabulous Weather Wand has transformed your floodwaters into a billowing low-lying fog---which is now rising up, up, and away from your Blue Valley street!" The citizens of Blue Valley are understandably pleased.

Citizen 1: "Jehosophat! Not even Flash could turn a flood into a harmless cloud!"

Citizen 2: "When it comes to weather, that guy really is a wizard!"

Good to see that Blue Valley's citizens have roughly the same intelligence as Central City's citizens.

Weather Wizard then flies back to Central City...in a flying car. Unbeknownst to him, the Weather Wand is pulling a rain cloud behind him....but more importantly, why does Weather Wizard need a flying car when he can fly on his own? And where did he get the flying car?

Meanwhile, Barry Allen is wiping spots off of his dishes when he comes to a sudden realization. "Wait a minute! Spots! How could I have been so dense not to see the connection before--sunspots! Not only do sunspots cause TV and radio static...it is a well-know fact that they also play havoc with the weather! What if the far-reaching sunspot radiation has also affected Mark Mardon's weather wand? Since the wand is directly attuned to Mardon's brain, and all though activity is electrical by nature, it's quite possible that the sunspots are causing 'mental static' between Mardon and his wand---causing brain overload and irrational behavior! And what could be more irrational for a life-long crook than sudden attacks of overwhelming sympathy and compassion for his fellow human beings?"

Yes. You read that right. Sun spots made the Weather Wizard turn good. I don't even know what to say.

Central City is suffering from a really bad heat wave, and, as such, the people (including one guy in a Superman t-shirt) are initially glad to see him and his cool rain. Unfortunately, ominous clouds are starting to gather, still unbeknownst to the Wizard, and suggest that things are about to go sideways.

Barry visits with some scientists, who confirm his bonkers "sunspots cause shifts in moral decision-making" theory, and Barry promptly runs off to stop the Weather Wizard before he accidentally destroys the city as a result of his worsening mental health (since a really big sunspot storm just happened).

Sure enough, Mark's rain quickly transforms into a violent thunderstorm (forcing Barry to make a pit stop to save two kids who were under a tree from being struck by lightning). Mark is so unstable at this point that he still genuinely believes he's helping people.

In order to stop the Weather Wizard, Barry, uh, runs up a lightning bolt to reach the Weather Wizard and then punches him in the face, knocking him out and putting an end to the storm.

Then Barry chucks the wand into the air so quickly that it burns up as a result of air friction. One would think this would mean that Mark should no longer have his wand, but the next time we see him he has it again like nothing happened.

Also, if the wand is so strongly tied to Mark's brain that electrical interference from sunspots was causing him mental problems, shouldn't destroying the wand entirely have even worse effects?

Later that week, the sunspot activity subsides, and Weather Wizard immediately gets himself arrested for hail stoning two police officers (so he either built a new wand in a few days, or the old one magically reconstituted itself after being burned up). "They were calling me names like "do-gooder" and "good Samaritan!" I was really getting steamed!" Oh, Mark...

We end with Barry thinking that even evil Mark is better than crazy unstable sunspot Mark (and grimacing like he's in pain for some reason.) The end!

This story is so bizarre that it's actually hilarious, and it's one of my favorite Weather Wizard issues on sheer absurdity alone. It's got questionable science, questionable psychology, strange reactions from Barry, Happy Friendly Weather Wizard, continuity snarls, and so much more. It's the gift that keeps on giving!

It is interesting to compare the way Weather Wizard, Captain Cold, and Heat Wave act while they're reformed. Mick seems to want an entirely normal life, without any costumed shenanigans. He finds a job in a match factory (because of course he does), and clearly wants to put the costumed life behind him entirely. Captain Cold seems to try to become a superhero and spends his time stopping crimes when he isn't hanging out with Myrna. It's not entirely clear to me where he's living (apparently it's not at her house) or if he has a civilian job of any type---though with as rich as Myrna is, he might not actually need a job. Weather Wizard acts like a superhero, too, but where Len focuses on stopping crime, Mark focuses more on natural disasters---locust flocks, floods, heat waves, etc. I also have no idea where he was living or what he was doing aside from helping people. In both cases, actually, their idea of being reformed was essentially mimicking the Flash (which does make some sense, given how much time they spend fighting him), but it is interesting that each of them effectively mimics roughly half of the Flash's usual superhero job---and they are both quite effective (Len's informants in particularly made him a really effective crimefighter). It's too bad that both reformations fell apart so quickly, but since both seemed to be based more on intense emotions (the emotional instability induced by the sunspots in Mark's case and lovesickness in Len's) than on a goal of reforming and staying reformed (like Mick had), it's also not that surprising.

I also admit that it's interesting to wonder if perhaps the sunspots were aggravating Mark's guilt over Clyde's death. We know that Clyde wanted to use the wand for humanitarian aid, and in  Flash v2 #139, we saw Mark bring a desert back to bloom during a brief period of reform. In other words, when Mark reforms, whether influenced by sunspots or not, he always seems to use the wand for the purpose for which it was originally intended, and, while Cary Bates definitely did not have that in mind while writing this story, it is an interesting way to work this bizarre story into broader canon.

[serenthest4r]

Head-canons for Dragons Rising!Jay

- The merge dropped him into an ocean near the realm of madness which he stayed by for a month hoping that Nya would be able to find him via her connection to the sea. When he realized it wasn't working he started walking through the realm of madness to find her.

- He slowly lost his memories while wandering the realm of madness, he was keeping a diary for the first year but one day he went to get food and left it (and the rest of his stuff) in the shelter he was staying in and never came back because he forgot about that as well.

- By the time the administration found him he had no memories or tokens of his past except the Ying medal and his name (which he only knew because it was written on his gi by Edna)

- All of his stuff is buried in a pile in the land of lost things.

- For a time there was a teen in the administration who he had a father daughter relationship with but one day she went to retrieve an artifact with her partner and neither returned. Jay didn't get attached to anyone after that

- He was originally in charge of the destruction of powerful objects but asked to move to realm reassignment when he realized that there was a possibility his Yang could come through and recognize him.

- In his dreams he often finds himself floating in the middle of the ocean accompanied by someone humming but his dreams always end with the peace breaking and him drowning.

- He's mistakenly called one of the people who work in damage control 'Cole' multiple times and he doesn't know why.

- When he first discovered he could control lightning he still has no knowledge of other elemental master and saw himself as an anomaly which is why he has hidden it from the rest of the administration.

- Because he hasn't used his element in years (except in short, accidental zaps) he can't properly control and has basically been reverted back to before he reached his true potential in terms of control and knowledge, if he wanted to he would be able to kill someone.

- He hates having to hurt people in order to arrest them to the point that it sometimes makes him sick.

- He hates mirrors.

- More recently, after his encounter with the spirit orb, he has been having dreams of people wearing different colored gi's, specifically a woman who he thinks is the most beautiful person he's ever seen.

- He has a goldfish named Fritz

[supersnaill]

PLEASE PLEASE tell us more about the karate au!! is it in a modern setting? how does the princess thing work in it? i want to knowwwww

so actually this isn't a completely new au it's just an extra part of my hylian high school au which is in turn......a zombie apocalypse so be warned hehe

LOTS OF STUFF UNDER THE CUT V

so i'm imagining it would be in a modern au. they're just regular guys (i haven't really thought of the princess stuff...i guess she's just distantly related to some old royalty here?) who train at their dojo and are trying to survive haha. They go to the same high school, too.

So the form of karate they're doing is shito-ryu, since that's what i do and i'm most familiar (also it's the best form of karate hehe), and it's going to be like.................australian dojo because i want this to be my self indulgent putting miphlink into my life :v ,minus the apocalypse but it's similar enough to today's life so it's ok

Link and Mipha are both brown belts going to black belt (relatable✌️😔) who kind of lost touch over time but reconnected when they had to start training. it was awkwardd, because Mipha had sort of ghosted him when her mum died and really withdrew into herself. Link thought that he'd done something wrong and then...didn't try to reach out to her again so she thought that he now hated her and it went badly. They become friends again quickly though, but there's some tension because Mipha's new friends don't really like him because to them, he just stopped being friends with her as soon as stuff got hard (which is technically true but he was just being an idiot).

Here are some vague outlines of the main characters and their roles (in and out of the dojo! ^^) Link: Senior student (around the same rank as Mipha but he got presented with his brown belt first so...by luck he usually is in front of her in rank). He also helps out the teacher. (15 yo) Had never held a sword before until he found a magical glowing one in a piece of rock, but prefers to just punch people in the nose. Mipha: Senior student and the demonstrator for sensei. Basically she is always picked for every demonstration and gets thrown around a lot in front of the class haha (15 yo). Also has some magical abilities she had no idea about 👀

Impa: Leading student & black belt! O: Mipha and Link look up to her but Link has a grudge after she gave Mipha a concussion in one tournament. Mipha thinks she's cool and took the concussion as a compliment and proof she needs to improve lol (17 yo)

Urbosa: Sensei! :D Very scary but sweet too. Post-apocalypse when she's having to look after the kids it's kind of awkward because she went from being teacher to practically their aunty so it's a tough transition and an interesting dynamic. (She still teaches them some practical stuff to use but rarely has time for kata and real teaching now that they live day-to-day) Has known about her lightning powers for years but tried to suppress them out of fear of being arrested and studied in a lab. (40s.)

Revali: Doesn't do karate but is instead an archery master and pretty good at a gun range too! Him and Mipha get very close when the apocalypse hits and he pretty much takes her under his wing (🥁) because at this point in time he's got no-one else and makes it his mission to try to reunite her with her family (17 yo). When he meets Link he pretty much usurps his position as leader of the group, so they get a pretty big rivalry after that. He has weapons but there is no way he is letting anyone near them.

Daruk: PE teacher at the kids' high school! I don't have many other things to say about him yet (sorry daruk 😭) he does have his protection, tho! (40s)

Zelda: One of Link's friends! Was really happy being friends with Mipha, too, and is really good at anything related to science and surprisingly, very talented at learning to use a crossbow when she finds one post-apocalypse. (i think she needs something way less dainty than that tiny little bow and arrow she gets in aoc.) Also awakens some interesting powers when her friends are in trouble and is able to purify zombies after that. (16yo)

this kind of diverged from karate to zombies but i hope you don't mind! this is honestly really self indulgent and i didn't want to have two hylian aus so i squished them together... my black belt test being interrupted by an apocalypse after i learnt three whole kata and trained for months would piss me off so much. mipha and link have so much strength

[lamuradex]

Novella November - Day 21

@novella-november

Three weeks down, nine days to go! The end is in sight, people.

Now my wordcount.

Wordcount: 44,968

I'm really aiming for that 60,000 before the month is up, but I'd be happy with 50K. Pull the NaNo from last year.

My story is certainly taking shape. I'm approaching some of the major plot points, twists in the middle and such. There's one twist which is my true goal. If I can get there before the month is over, then I'll be thrilled!

I find it interesting how things change as I write though. A character that I introduced to fill a gap suddenly becomes a recurring element. Having to devise new conflicts and conversations just to fill the space between events. I had a secondary character break a colleagues nose just to add some tension, but it also means I can have them make up later. Or even make out later. Now I'm considering that they have a one night stand, which was not in the original plan, but...

Anyway, all is going well, and I am very happy with my progress.

And now, a snippet. Maybe a long snippet, but a snippet nonetheless.

Here is Angela deciding to go out for a morning fly, having just had a very difficult night with her team.

She decided it was best to clear her head. Humans would go out for a walk or a run. She wasn’t human though. There was one small problem though. Her wings were beneath her shirt.

The thought of a topless morning flight crossed her mind, but was very quickly abandoned. Maybe just her bandages, like running clothes? But they were no protection from the cold. Instead, she removed her shirt, took out her knife, cut two holes in the back big enough for her little wings to poke through, and then put it back on. She’d just have to remember to wear a jacket if she went out in this top.

Her wings poked through the fabric holes and she fluttered them. And then, she ignited them, blue forms taking immediate shape, and launching her vertically into the air.

Her feet left the floor like there was a rocket on her back. The cold air was cuttingly brisk at high speeds, but the sun was just rising and it would be hours before it was warm. She would just have to bear it, her clothes at least providing some defence. She flew up for about five hundred feet, the view of the city stretching out below in all directions, and then arrested her assent with a sudden burst aimed up, flipping her in the air so she was facing the ground.

Galtan City stretched out below. The low rooves and houses directly below, to the businesses and warehouses some streets away, and then rising and falling rooftops, single stories, ten stories, blocks of flats, industrial complexes! The city rolled beneath her like a rocky range of mountains and moors, all lit by the golden morning sun. And in the distance, the city’s heart, skyscrapers, and a single grand tower in the middle.

It seemed like as good a destination as any.

With a burst of psychic energy from her wings, she launched across the sky. The wind pulled and dragged at her clothes, threatening to rip them off her, so she focused a bit of power from her wings as a shield ahead. It didn’t stop the wind, but it softened it, a dome of vibrating air staying ahead of her. She sped like a bullet for the tower, the air roaring past. Like a bird or a plane, she felt the updrafts and sped on, speeding like she was splitting the sky, the wind screaming at her ears! It took her minutes to cover the miles to the tower, and then veer dramatically upwards. She climbed further and further, and finally felt the strain on her wings as she neared the spire atop the building. The air was thinner and she was still heavier than a bird. Climbing that distance was a challenge, no mistake. But, she alighted atop the building, finding her footing, and holding onto the lightning rod spire for support.

She looked out across the cold morning, the golden light, and the vast, vast city. She understood that, by human standards, it was quite small. But she couldn’t even see the edges on the horizon, even from way up here. She’d never seen anything like it back home.

After just a few minutes, and some long chilly breaths, she nodded. She was done up here. With a jump from the roof, she leapt from the spire and fell.

She passed windows by the second, but knowing she needed to maintain some secrecy, she only dropped until what had to be the twentieth floor down from the top. Then her wings ignited, caught her, and spread wide and flat, carrying her like a glider across the air. She had blue wings against blue sky, so she doubted too many people could see her, even if they were looking up. They’d likely think she was some human pulling a stunt anyway.

She glided, gaining some speed as she descended, trying to lock in on the garage. She didn’t know the landscape, but she only had to spot the roof. The flat roof. Right there, nestled in one little street.

She honed in and dove at a steep angle, and just as she got too close, veered back up, g-forces pulling at her stomach, as she came to a looping stop about a hundred feet above the roof. She finished her loop, lowered herself down, and returned to the roof breathing heavily and happily.

And Hunter was waiting for her, an eyebrow raised.

“I was just wondering if you wanted breakfast?”

[efervon4u]

[ OUTGOING COMMUNICATIONS BROADCAST ]

People of Höllvania. This is Captain Nomantak, of Scaldra.

Many of you do not know me, but I am here to bring you a message direct from me to you.

After months of searching, and the loss of many of our bravest, the leader of the so called "Hex", foreign agent Arthur Nightgale has been apprehended this evening by an elite strike team operating under my command.

As you listen to me now, footage of the capture and the subsequent arrest will be broadcast on all public news channels. More is to follow.

While this is a true victory, both for Scaldra and Höllvania as a whole, it wouldn't have been possible without the heroic actions of someone just like you. A brave volunteer infiltrated the Hex's very stronghold, and provided us with the intelligence we needed to carry out this strike.

For their own safety, that hero of Höllvania is currently on their way to a charted flight out of the country, but I would like to let this moment stand as a testament to their bravery, and as a symbol of what a united Höllvania can truly accomplish, together.

Now, I'm sure many of you are wondering, why am I telling you all this? Why go live with such an announcement so soon?

Well, for that, I must revisit a previous matter. We have withheld this information, to be sure of it's authenticity, but we have reason to believe a vaccine is within reach for the Techrot infection. Not a cure, but a true and capable preventative to ensure the safety of our people and our nation.

The issue being, we do not have the materials to manufacture such a thing.

The only known example of the unique strain needed for the vaccine is in fact, within the Hex themselves. Unfortunately, Arthur alone does not carry the necessary antibodies we need, nor do most of the Hex. One, however, does.

Amir Beckett, known to many of you as the Lightning Bug of the Hex, has in his possession a unique strain, made hardier and more resistant by the natural conductivity his body has taken on after his infection.

I am coming to you tonight, as a plea to him.

Beckett, we're prepared to make an arrangement. For the good of Höllvania, we are prepared to release Arthur from our holding and back into the care of your comrades in exchange for yourself. Come in quietly, and we'll do everything in our power to see to it that you are given every comfort we can provide for the duration of the project.

After it is done, I have it on Viktor's personal word he would be willing to sign a pardon for you, and your compatriots, in exchange for your own contributions to the potentially life-saving cure this research could offer us.

Halbred Squadron, Arthur, and myself, are currently stationed within the old Savings & Loans building in Höllvania's historic district. We welcome you, and you ALONE to come in person to continue discussions.

I will warn you, do not mistake this gesture of good faith for weakness.

Any attempt to strike back at us, or to bring any kind of reinforcements to our meeting will be met with the swiftest force Scaldra can provide. Stormfall is on stand-by to drop directly onto the rat's nest, should any attempt to escalate the situation be made by the Hex. Anyone found inside of their lair will be considered a collaborator and thusly, a hostile target.

You have until midnight to make your decision. I'll be waiting.

[thewhumpcaretaker]

𝕺𝖓 𝕯𝖊𝖘𝖎𝖗𝖊 𝖆𝖓𝖉 𝕱𝖆𝖎𝖗𝖎𝖊𝖘

Note: I wrote this years ago when I was thinking about the concept of lust and found it today. ʚ♡ɞ

Never forget that we,

Like kittens at their yarn, pursue.

And when you chased the fairies down,

The goblin kings and dwarven crowns,

By hyacinths and in brittle aspen’s highest bough,

Where reckless kittens after little moths pursue, pursue,

What did you want to do?

Simply to know, by trembling caress,

That finds its halting way or makes its sudden trespass,

Either way breathless until

The scent of honeyed morn on yonder hill

Or sweat that tastes like spice of foreign fears, labors and loves unknown in these tame parts,

Finds lungs that shudder, winglike, in your breast,

Drives them through sprouting shoulder blades, through cardiac arrest,

Endowed with the levitation of power,

And do you reach? You do not know yourself, you cannot guess,

It has you now, desire,

That freckle-starred and fair,

That hair like cotton candy sunrise spins,

Or lace confection veil of a mourning bride,

Silver, pastel, carnival prize to win,

Blonde, angelic, to be buried in.

What do you wish?

To keep a jar, possess and tint in cola colored washes,

To own, to keep and make stay, to have to hold, and by this holding, see?

To use, to break? To be

Swallowed in a cloud?

Buried, with another body as your shroud?

What do bodies want,

To cherishingly crush the fragile, squeeze the darkly adored

Into powder, strike them like a chord,

And into a lightning storm release,

Follow the butchered ghost into the blaze,

Frenzied, to feast?

To taste the fleshy candy, sugared meat,

Were they of pomegranate blood and hot fondue, or did they proffer you

Sweatmeats beyond compare,

Fresh chestnuts where

Hearts beat in margination of a caramelized desperation,

Or,

Abandoning all metaphor,

Did you wish to fuck nymphs, happily kidnapped,

Too gentle and pure for your insatiable greed to stain,

That turn instead your insides gold and hollow from the loin and rot the veins?

Or did you wish to pay with your own cum and your own name,

Make wild love to twisted, pulsing horns while forked tongue lapped your thighs and spat a salted flame?

Did you wish to be bound and stolen,

Abandon all remembering and enter a slumbering,

Where ten thousand days unfold as handmaiden,

Desperate, adoring slave, rose laden,

To be kept in crystal, bell jars and castles in the stars,

To flail against the bars,

And then be broken, marred,

Into a better shape, to be reborn?

To cook sumptuous feasts from glamour and the air,

In gilded cages, warm, waxy drops of amber, and paralysis of fairy kiss,

Beneath the soil, be preened and wed to kings in amber halls,

Bewitched, resisting, to unearthly bliss,

Nun to a peerless, brutal, Pagan creature-god of beauty awful to behold,

Our lord the devil in her harlequin and gold,

Or, by bacchanalia rhapsody of lithe and lively riverdanse macabre,

Know his catlike motion and her deftness with a moonlight woven knife,

Its sting,

To die, impaled on his maple lily wings,

To walk hand in hand with one you cannot understand, and then to understand

A vivid moral compass, spinning, spinning in the depths,

And yet always pointing true,

For it always points the way desired by you.

Didn’t you wish,

To know your own soul’s lavish price,

To know what things

Lie beyond man’s kingdom and be given these,

Be given to these?

What happiness

And misery exist

Beyond even what exists -

The evils that we can imagine if we wish to be

Happy

Flailing ever forward into deeper reaches of paradox fantasy,

Where love’s most bitter, lashing embers stir,

Never to return,

Ever to pursue...

Think: if you caught a fairy,

What did you want to do?

And did you want to catch him, did you want her to catch you?

[blogger360ncislarules]

In the powerful movie, The Passion of the Christ, chronicling the end of Christ’s life, Jim Caviezel delivers a nuanced, moody performance that doesn’t deny Jesus’ humanity. It helped that Caviezel is a true believer. A devout Catholic, he went to confession and received Holy Communion every day while shooting Passion in Italy.

The 2004 work, directed and co-written by Braveheart and Lethal Weapon star Mel Gibson, brings the Stations of the Cross — 14 scenes depicting His final 12 hours — to the big screen in excruciating detail. The movie harrowingly shows the Agony in the Garden of Olives, His betrayal by Judas Iscariot, His arrest and torture, the carrying of the cross, and His crucifixion and death.

(Credit: Newmarket Releasing/courtesy Everett Collection)

Key moments in Jesus’ life, from the Last Supper to the Sermon on the Mount, and biblical events like Peter’s denial of Christ are seen throughout. It ends with a brief glimpse of the Resurrection. (The Passion of the Christ: Resurrection, a sequel, is reportedly starting production in 2024.)

The film was a box office hit and became the fifth highest-grossing movie of 2004, despite the dialogue being spoken entirely in reconstructed Aramaic, Hebrew, and Latin (with English subtitles). Gibson’s camera never shies away from the savagery and suffering of Jesus’ final hours, lingering on the brutal torture in all its painful, graphic detail.

“Growing up as a kid, the Passion of Jesus had always been sanitized,” Gibson told Sight Magazine in 2004. “I’ve decided not to hold back.” The film sparked widespread controversy. It was criticized by some moviegoers for wallowing in the gory spectacle of Jesus’ death. Many wondered: Where was the inspiration, uplift, and grace at Jesus’ ultimate sacrifice? Others, like legendary critic Roger Ebert, praised Passion for showing the “inescapable price that Jesus paid” and giving viewers “a visceral idea of what the Passion consisted of.”

Incredibly, Caviezel was struck by lightning while shooting the Sermon on the Mount. He joked to Entertainment Weekly that he looked like he “went to Don King’s hairstylist,” but it was a terrifying moment. Caviezel had fire on the left side of his head and later needed two heart surgeries. Was it a sign from God? Caviezel quipped that he simply looked up and asked, “Didn’t like that take, huh?”

[timaeusterrored]

The Ambrose Family

The Ambrose family had been blessed with beauty long before the beloved brothers were even born. Back to a time long forgotten. Back when dragons roamed the earth and demons of old still caused chaos.

The first born with the blessing was a woman named Lilith. With long hair and pointed ears, beloved by her brothers and the angels above. But as all angels do, she fell. And she fell for a human. And so began the curse of the Ambrose family. Cursed to be lovers, but to never be loved for long. A tragedy, a divorce, a death. It all began with Lilith.

The next few centuries and a statue handed down the line, whoever touched it was to have the curse. And the next poor person to touch it was an Altmer named Drystan.

Drystan was tall, beautiful, and loved by all. He held the power of lightning and the soul of a Dragonborn. And the love of Sithis. When his hands graced the statue in an attempt to save it, he had failed his bloodline from that moment. To never be truly happy.

Eventually, the curse was the last thing on Drystan’s mind as he was arrested and sent to a hellhole people called Skyrim. Where he met his one true love, a nord named Vilkas. The two had a rocky start, but eventually they were the happiest in Skyrim as far as Drystan was concerned. The heartbreak of never allowing a child in their home was nothing but a dull ache, and the burn of the Black Hand on his shoulder could be ignored for now.

Until of course, Vilkas found out. Drystan was soon shunned from his position in the Companions and left alone for three years�� until Vilkas was fatally wounded. His husband survived ten days, a day for every year the two were married. Drystan swore to burn Skyrim and kill every dragon as his revenge. Maybe that’s why Night City exists today.

Hundreds of years later, a pair of brothers were born. Link and Venus Ambrose were the pride and joy of their nomad family. Loved and cherished as promised. At the age of 19 is when Link was blessed with a baby girl named Amanda, and their mother hoped that just maybe the curse was broken for good… until Link’s husband was killed in a car accident. No one could have expected it, it was natural in the chaos of the modern world… but their mother knew.

Venus is the current victim of the curse, having lost their husband in an ambush and infertile, unable to have the family he had longed for. Jett Ambrose died in an attack and was unable to be saved, and Venus lost their soulmate. Unlike his family though, Venus was able to find love again, in the arms of two Rock legends and a Fixer in Night City. While heavily aware Jett was their soulmate… they never let that truly stop them from finding love again.

And then we have the adopted Jonas Lane, who prays to every fucking god he is left ALONE.

[v3joker]

[Game of Dice] Joker Skills

*Originally made to post to my YouTube community as each week I put something about Game of Dice there. This is also posted here, to Tumblr, to archive it.

Almost every Joker character (character with a hidden skill) has their skill based on an existing skill. Some just exist on that Joker skill, not as a regular skill. I usually explain new Jokers' skills by saying the name of the existing skill rather than explain what the skill does, since it's easier to say the name of the skill. :)

Anyway here's a list of all the Jokers with what skill it's based on cause I love having random knowledge for this game. Even the ones not based on skills.

[~☆~]

Ion

Phantom (Puppet/Chaotic City): Big Fish

Prince (Prince's Dignity/Insight): Color Finale

Mary

Wintry (Heaven's Blessings): Celebrity's Visit

Phantom Thief (Phantom Thief's Trick/Phantom Thief's Fancy Trick): no exact skill, but could be based on Knife in the Dark without JOY steal

Halloween (Candy/Halloween Magic): Smashing

Deadly Bunny (This Way, Please/Your Table is Ready): Exceptional Choice

Black Rose

Wintry (Speed UP/Can't Follow Me): High Jump

Card Queen (Greetings from a Magic Cat): Birthday Party

Bosun (Oppress/Overwhelm): n/a

Tora (& Tori)

Onmyouji (Onmyodo: Confuse/Exhaustion): Shiver Me Timbers!

Rudolph (Surprise Entry/Gift): Home for Newlyweds

Rica

Rockstar (Rica's Dimension Shift/Rica's Teleport): Dimension Shift

Goddess of Love (Love Melody/Serenade): Yikes! Crocodile, but upgraded

Raven

Beast (True/Forever Love): Skydive, w/ double summon

Lynnway

Baseball Girl (Swing/Full Swing): Nano Warp Machine

Stella

Cosmic Girl (Space Travel/Exploration): Strange Pipette, w/ summon

Rabbit Hacker (Keylogger/Dropper): Gotcha!

Doria

Undercover (Emergency Custody/Violent Criminal Arrested): Mirror Mirror

Sharon

Mechanic (Sharon's Calculation/Victory Formula): Let's Count (Hello Kitty collab skill)

Archaeologist (Relic Thief/Power): Interception

Sophia

Unicorn (Unicorn Gravitation/Magic): Retribution Reverse

Isabelle

Noble (Isabelle's Day/Isabelle's Special Day): Come Over Here

Gothic (Ghostly Greetings/Touch): Touch of Succubus

Sailor (Sympathy/Special Sympathy): Song of Mermaid

Anthony

Queen of Hearts (Heart Beam/Queen's Heart Beam): Critical Hit, w/ summon

Space Pirate: no exact skill but could be based on Strange Pipette and/or Home Run

Kai

Guardian (Judgement/Divine Judgement): Gravity Field

Honor Student (Wisdom/Experience Drain): Life Drain

Demon (Skill/Power Drain): n/a

Lucy

9-Tailed (Ready to Feed On/Bon Appetit): Invisible Hand, w/ Stop!

Mouse King Lucy (Building Mouse Village/Kingdom): Spartan Training

Prince

Mad Hatter (Teatime/Sweet Teatime): Divine Protection

Delinquent (Focus/Man-to-Man Block): Spotlight

Liz

Cheer Leader (Lucky Cheering): Master Navigator

Tomboy (Full/Pinpoint Dash): Hidden Quest

Alice

Hong Kong (Awakened Alice!): Symbol of Wealth

Hong Kong II (Happy/Sweet Snack Time): Counterattack

Beautiful (Splendid/Shining Beauty): Don't Stand in Front

Ling Ling

Goal Keeper (Nothing get pass me/Nothing can pass me): Knife in the Dark

Sky Warrior (Warrior Stance/Victory Pose): Excellent Choice

Magical Girl (Magical Awakening/True Power of Magic): Critical Magic Show

Dr. X

Original (Gravity UP): Yikes! Crocodile!

Lightning God (God's Wrath/Punishment): n/a

Captain (Rear/Surrounding Pursuit): Mischief of Spirits

Refia

Original (Counterattack): Counterattack, w/ can't takeover

Detained (Mental Interference/Control): No Escape

Soldier (Doll Escort/Protection): Music Start

Kaito

Original (Rapid Growth/Data Manipulation): Rapid Growth, w/ can't takeover (whole game installation)

Darkened (Spreading Darkness/Crawling Chaos): Broken Brake

Yuki

Original (Ninjutsu: Slow/Onmyodo: Blizzard): Slow

Yukata (Take This/Taste This): Switch, w/ Steal Prop *Blizzard is supposed to have Ninjutsu as the prefix, but it has never been fixed. So it has Onmyodo like Onmyouji Tora

Heidi

Original (Climax/Encore): Leave it to Fate (Climax), targets up to 3 cities at higher grades

Fairy Queen (Blooming Dream/Dream in Full Bloom): Christmas Miracle

Reapercy

Original (Checkmate/Golden Checkmate): Curse (Checkmate), Girl Crush

Pool Party (Come on In/Come Here): n/a

Devil Reapercy (Rogue/Outlaw): Solitude

Gray

Original (City Shooter/Sniper): Steal Prop, w/ summon

Space Police (Police Officer/Investigator): Every Inspiration

Howl

Original (Wolf Summon/Big Game Hunting): Retribution

Puppeteer (Trap Hole/Endless Trap Hole): Maelstrom

Fia

Original (Fan Meeting): Doll Fishing

Sea Fairy (Let's Play/Have Fun in the Water!): Domino

Magical Girl (Magical Refraction/Reflection): Time Rewind, no Panda installation

Fairy Dancer (Fairy Dance/Eye Catching Fairy Dance): The Solitude of Glamor

Ren

Original (Meditation/P.T): Power Up!

Magic Cat (Spell of Destruction/Apocalypse): Ch.1 Renaissance/Ch. 2 Destruction

Rosé

Original (Sharp/Harsh Lash): Charming Rainbow

Devil (Bewitch/Beckon): Charming Rainbow, but upgraded

Sun Knight (Sword of Victory/Sword of Promised Victory): n/a

Rina

Original (Joyful/Blessed March): Speedster

Angel (Song/Blessing of Angel): Color Sync

Moon Archer (Piercing Arrow/Mirage Piercing Arrow): Curse of Clown

Ballet (Attitude/Arabesque): Poisoned

Yura

Original (Butterfly Dance/Blue Butterfly Dance): Push

Christmas (Yura's Gift/Sincerity): Sweet Trap

Gothic (Flutter/Crystal Light Butterfly): Psychokinesis

Pierre

Original (i love cakes/I love anything sweet): Charming Bubble

Winter Festival (Baker's/Pierre's Gift): Santa's Gift

Agent (Good Will/Samaritan): Give and Take

Violet

Original (I Got You!/Don't Move!): Girl Crush

Seaside (Hydro Pump/Cannon): Self-Defense

Saint (Authority/Splendor): Girl Crush, but it also decreases character & dice abilities (Energy Drink [Goods])

Scarlett

Original (Locating the Target/Target Located): Come With Me

Seaside (Hang out with me!/Let's play!): Thief Target Area

Witch Trainee (Scary Prank/Dangerous Prank): Signal

Leo

Original (Secret in the Hoodie/Weapon in the Hoodie): Hexcraft

Young Master (Young Master's Mischief/Weapon): Demon Invasion

Villain (Breakdown/Wide Breakdown): Ocean Party

Fairy Knight (Impressive/Flashy Swordsmanship): Event for You

Kara

Original (Warning Shot/Suppressive Fire): The Art of Theft

Great Witch (Magic Concentration/Discharge): First Place Dash

Hera

Original (Black Hole/Super Black Hole): Besiege

Circus Master (Continuing Show/Express Night): Double Trap

Sora

Original (Hero Power/Just Power): Guardian of Justice

Dreamman

Original (Give me strength!): Symbol of Wealth

[thebookofjeremiah]

"The White Dome." From the Book of Jeremiah, 10: 12-16.

Jeremiah continues to explain the supremacy of God over all the gods. Some gods we like, some we donot. Some like us, some do not. The point of the Book of Jeremiah is not about mythology however but about the hot spots in the grammatical stuctures of the Torah. One of these is a format called the Hymn.

Hymns are 568, ךסח‎, techasch,‎ "a translation", the planting of the emotions for later. This implies hymns are prophecies but more than likely they are a promise if one studies and resolves the Torah, one will be less stupid than ever before:

A Hymn of Praise to God

12 The Lord made the earth by his power;     by his wisdom he created the world     and stretched out the heavens. 13 At his command the waters above the sky[b] roar;     he brings clouds from the ends of the earth. He makes lightning flash in the rain     and sends the wind from his storeroom. 14 At the sight of this, people feel stupid and senseless;     those who make idols are disillusioned,     because the gods they make are false and lifeless. 15 They are worthless and should be despised;     they will be destroyed when the Lord comes to deal with them. 16 The God of Jacob is not like them;     he is the one who made everything,     and he has chosen Israel to be his very own people.     The Lord Almighty is his name.

One would not compose nor sing a hymn to an idol, it is not at all dynamic. But to pay homage to the formless being that moves everything around all of the time, that is true wisdom, provided we train the mind how to sense Him. This cannot be done without Kabbalah, Mishnah, Gemara, and Gematria, AKA the heavens, the sky, the rivers, the water, the earth etc.

Observe. The Values in Gematria are:

v. 12: The Lord made the earth by His power. The Number is 6940, סטם, stam, "an evil deed, a transgression, only randomly just."

This is true, our world is sinful for the most part, nearly 100% of the time. We engage in kindness, compassion, consideration, etc. only periodically or under extreme duress.

v. 13: He sends the wind from His storeroom. The Number is 7582, עהףב‎, hefab,"the public house."

It is the approach to the "locality" that shapes the entire world. As we have seen, the US Government chose to ignore details within the law and the circumstances around it and a Third World War is looming, basic servics and basic goodnesses are waning. We have for reasons that are very confusing and not a source of delight to deal with the consequences of lax law enforcement rather than hit like a hammer the moment a creep or a freak does not comply with the regulations.

This makes no sense whatsoever. Anyone who has had to do jury duty is told if the evidence suggests the defendant has violated the law, you must convict. Jury trials are not used for interpretation but verification. Our planet's chief executives are not evidently obeying the law and we must try them. There is no need for more evidence of their sinfulness, nor should we have to pay their wages.

v. 14: At the sight of this, people feel senseless. The Number is 5563, ננחשג, nnehisg‎, "an alloy."

An alloy is the combination of the people, the public sector, the church, the academy and the hospitality/arts/recreation sectors. We require all of these to be lawful, healthy, productive and happy. When the law, the foundastion of the former lets us down, the rest lose their impact. As God told Jeremiah, casual involvement or the pulsing of the law throughout our lives is not appropriate. The law must be fully involved, steady, dependable or our lives unravel. Our lawyers make excuses, not arrests and that is why things are fucked up.

v. 15: They are worthless and should be despised. The Number is 7578, ע‎העח, a‎haach, "later, afterwards."

Stupid must have a definition and a defined end.

The Hebrew word "chayah" (חיָה) means "to bring back to life, to restore to consciousness," or "to restore to a previous condition". 

Here's a more detailed explanation:

Hebrew Word: chayah (חיָה) 

Meaning: "to bring back to life," "to restore to consciousness," or "to restore to a previous condition" 

Abarim Publications: Abarim Publications is a resource for studying the Hebrew language and Bible. 

Context: The word "chayah" is used in the context of revival or restoration. 

Example: The word "revival" is derived from the Hebrew word chayah. 

The concept of Shabbat, which comes first in any discussion of the Mishnah so we know where we are going is the path to "original innocence." God says once we grow weary of erring, we will stop causing our own troubles and it will be as if we were reborn.

I have discovered this is true; if only the planet were not being run by assholes and fools, anyone who is like me, a survivor and badly in need of a new lease on life might have stronger feelings of elation about this.

v. 16: The God of Jacob is not like them. God keeps His promises to those who are willing to understand and react to life appropriately. The measurement of what is appropriate and what is not, contained in the Torah and the Gospels has not changed, and neither have we.

The Number is 8355, ףגן‎ה, fagana, "diligently defend the garden."

I will never forget the day the Secret Service called me and wanted to know what was up with all of my phone calls and attempts to get President Trump and Mike Pence arrested for the election fraud of 2016 and trafficking in sex with minors along with their friends and family members in the Faith. Numerous emails and phone calls to local and national poliicians bore no fruit, so I attempted to get foreign countries to sanction America for operating a failed state. This activity was concentrated right after January 6, which I learned was caused because I was pressuring the law to put a stop to it. You see how all of this turned out on October 7, 2023. President Trump and his cabinet were almost certainly involved and have even confessed to it.

The Secret Service and the FBI knew I was imperiled and have been ever since, and now the entire planet has a spastic colon because a mass murdering criminal is being allowed to occupy the office of the President. I have been treated like I am Hitler or Mao because I sent some emails out and made some phone calls to call attention to somethings that were in desperate need of the human race's attention, but nothing was done, as you can now see.

The tariffs Donald Trump has imposed as a result of his fat orange fingers moving across those white boards will take years to recover from, if ever:

"With a 25% inflation rate, it would take approximately 3 years for the purchasing power of money to halve, using the Rule of 72. 

Here's a breakdown:

Rule of 72: This rule is a quick way to estimate how long it takes for an investment (or in this case, the purchasing power of money) to double or halve in value. 

Calculation: Divide 72 by the inflation rate (as a percentage) to get the approximate number of years it takes for the purchasing power to halve. 

In this case: 72 / 25 = 2.88 years, which is approximately 3 years. 

Important Note: This is an approximation, and the actual time it takes for the purchasing power to halve can vary slightly depending on the specific inflation rate and other economic factors. 

Many of the tariffs Trump has imposed will double the costs of the goods well past their value or profitability. Some of the tariffs which are set at 50% will cause currency to lose half its value in under two years.

Instead of hauling his fat orange ass on board that airplane of his and traveling to meet with foreign diplomats and business leaders in order to attract economic opportunities to America using tax incentives and grants to help startups, he has fucked us all and you let him do it. You must strongly consider undoing your mistake at once and reset the costs of doing business all around the world before those tariffs cause cascade failure to the value of our wealth and money.

The final Gemara is ךסח‎סטםעהףבננחשג ע‎העח ףגן‎ה, techasch‎stame'ahephavnenechseg a‎ha'ach hapggen‎ha, techaschstame ahephavne nechseg aha'ach hapggenha, "Just save yourself. White dome your property, then the demonstration."

A white dome is 1111, עקייה, akiya, "obedience to the law."

I spoke with the FBI on October 31, 2022 again about what had happened to me, and how concerned I was over the fact Donald Trump, Mike Pence, Mitt Romney, Josh Hawley, JD Vance and his icky wife had committed capital crimes, were pursuing me and would not leave me alone.

After that phone call, I was physically attacked again and again, called the police again, and was told they were not planning to help me. The attacks continued while I was at my office, I lost a job I really liked and place(s) to live as a result. I have not yet resumed a normal way of life, I am punished if I try. These same persons killed my mother, my grandmother, an aunt, and threaten me, my family and you and yours every day. Perhaps Rule 72 will help change your minds as to how susceptible to all of this you wish to be.

The other question we need to answer in spite of my personal inability to escape all of this drama is when is the best insertion point of the law? The economic forecast says now, right exactly now.

I employ all sane and responsible persons to force the US Government to follow its own laws and enforce federal restrictions on persons who insurrect from holding public office. As soon as this is done, we can fix all the damage Trump and his Republican Party have caused. Everyone will be safer and happier once this is done.

As for my unfinished role in all of this, I published a book that claims God, man, the church, the state, and the Self were meant to work together to give each other peace and a measure of glory. Its publication helped incite January 6, and amplified the attacks on my life family members. It clearly brought out the worst in the ignorant and the wicked. I need to prove the opposite is true, that the righteous can read the Gospels etc. and beccome convinced to act like saints. So far that has not happened, but I insist.

I want Donald Trump and his cabinets and everyone involved in the harmful things he has to done to this planet arrested at once. I will not stop asking until this is done.

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[feyyrunes]

meet my OC

Kicking if off with my first Tav, Yfrin Sallowsong!

⚡Age: 32 ⚡Race: Half-Elf ⚡Class: Evocation Wizard ⚡Alignment: True Neutral ⚡Romances: Astarion ⚡Background: Noble Backstory: Yfrin Sallowsong is half-wood elf and half human. She's the third child of House Sallowsong, who made their fortune off lumber. Lord Sallowsong, her father, is the wood elf and the noble, her mother died when she was very young from illness. Yfrin's brother Silas is the heir. Her middle brother, Aimer, has always been distant and quiet, but she suspects he might have a good head for strategy on him, and a better heart than Silas. Yfrin’s court looks down on her and her siblings for being half elves and not full wood elves, as her father broke tradition to marry her mother. He’s been on his deathbed for about 10 years and Silas is in a regent type role. Yfrin suspects Silas of poisoning their dad but she can’t prove it. Silas is cruel and manipulative and sees his siblings as a means to gaining power. When Yfrin was 19 she was engaged to somebody she thought was the love of her life, only to find out a few days before the wedding it had all been a political alliance arranged by Silas and her betrothed had another lover. Heartbroken, she fled to study wizardry, hoping to find an escape from politics. But Silas’s reach went far, and she found that no matter what she did she could not escape her name. Upon her graduation, she tried to steal a small fortune and flee Baldur’s Gate altogether, but Silas tracked her down and now has effectively placed her under house arrest. She refuses to marry but Silas makes “arrangements” for political allies to spend time with her, in the hopes they will divulge information to her. Silas uses her love for their father as leverage, knowing she won’t leave while he’s still alive. She doesn’t care about using her body so long as she doesn’t have to give up what little freedom she has left, finding no comfort in the idea of being bound to one other person for the rest of her days. She settles for the jewel-encrusted bars of her cage, summoning lightning and fire when she’s angry, threatening to watch the empire Silas has built off their family’s lumber burn. Mostly, though, she’s bored, feeling nothing for her revolving door of companions, dreaming of a great, wide world out there to see. When she is kidnapped on the nautiloid, this is finally her Main Character Moment, where she gets to be the hero of her own story. At the same time, power-hungry, desperate Yfrin is also discovering that maybe the world has enough heroes already.

Spoilers under the cut talking about her "Good" and "bad" endings

Yfrin takes the mind flayer parasites and is not okay when she loses these powers. It takes a lot of grieving to get over the loss of them.

She saw right through Astarion from the beginning and was also manipulating him, but they ended up bonding over their similar trauma and developing a real respect for each other.

She admires Halsin for being so kind, even in the face of all of his troubles. She would never do this herself but she really likes it about him, and when that kindness is turned on her, she has trouble accepting it at first but eventually she learns to bask in it

If she was a main companion in the game you could convince her to kill Silas, finally say goodbye to her father, and have her brother Aimer take over.

In her good ending, post-game, Yfrin tracks down the gods cure Astarion of his vampirism with a Wish spell (I haven’t decided if she succeeds or not but definitely this is what she does), and then she goes to live with the wood elves and she reconnects with nature. Yfrin is canonically poly and eventually has a child with a human trader named Dain.

Astarion and Yfrin eventually part but remain on good terms and occasionally exchange letters.

In Yfrin's bad ending, she returns to House Sallowsong, where she lets her brother Silas kill their father. She becomes an aide to Silas, and it is implied that eventually Silas will grow suspicious of Yfrin's power and poison her.

[shadowwolflady]

Jomae

Warning: depictions of violence

Summary: what happened to the village of the Lock afterwards?

Character death, Kakashi X OC, hurt, comfort

Kakashi X Rai

A small army of 12 of Konoha's most elite raced through the shadows towards their border. They had all been summoned and told about a small village that had intel on Konoha and needed to be dealt with. Permanently.

According to records, several spies infiltrated Konoha's walls disguised as civilians, one of them captured and brought in. All had eyes kept on them as they went about the village. But the most infuriating thing was, the one who was brought in under arrest, was let go.

Rai was among the lethal killers darting through the shadows, as was her Captain of Team Ro, Tenzo. She recalled the five photos of the individuals that were seen within the walls.

Such a daunting task ahead of them. An annihilation of an entire village.

Nobody left alive.

Not even the children.

Not much was known about the village, other than it was small and remote. The population was estimated between 100 to 200 people.

Now, Rai mostly worked with Tenzo. They were familiar with each other. However, she hadn't worked with the others. She had heard of them and their skills, researched them prior to leaving to brief her on their skills and capabilities. All of them had high body counts.

Of the 12, three were women. The others were all men. However, 11 of them were human. While one was a demon. The Wolf, as Rai was called, was notorious among the ANBU as a demon. Many steered clear of her. All of these individuals were hand picked specifically for this kind of mission. They specialized in mass execution.

Among them were water users, earth users, a wood user, miasma user, lightning user, air users, and a fire user. All knew to not bring attention to their targets and their mission, so bright, loud, and flashy jutsus of any sort were banned for them, unless absolutely necessary. But that wasn't a problem for this group.

Rai had to keep herself under control. She could feel her power threatening to break her composure as the team slipped through the shadows of the forest.

Upon crossing a border, they took more careful routes to avoid any well traveled areas.

Finally, they crested a small mountain range, halting in the dense foliage as they assessed the village below.

They already had a plan of attack. To strike in the middle of the night.

The village wasn't too spread out. It was true the tricky part was the outlying buildings, but the trickier part was internal ones.

There was a shift in the air. Rai took several whiffs. A storm was approaching. Perfect.

As the night started the storm struck. The river raged, ‘taking’ out the main bridge into the country. With the threat of commoners stumbling upon them minimized, they slipped into position.

Rai, Tenzo, and one other male waited on the eastern edge of the territory.

Lightning struck the top of a mountain.

They were off.

Shadows swallowed unsuspecting individuals with teeth and claws. A fog like miasma lulled many into an eternal sleep. The sounds of grunts, cries, and bodies falling were drowned out by the storm. House by house, room by room, person by person was swiftly taken.

Shadow clones of the others darted in and out of the darkness. Lights steadily went out throughout the village.

As quickly as it started, it ended. Several hours it took to thoroughly go through the village and annihilate every single person.

Meeting up in the middle, Rai and several others pulled out scrolls. These were to take bodies of specific individuals back to Konoha.

Rai had come across the female target. The dark haired woman wasn't expecting anything or anyone. Her attack was quick and through her heart. The woman dropped where she was walking. Upon returning to the small home of the woman, Rai opened the scroll. Double checking the info, she IDed the woman. This was the woman that stole intel.

Draping the scroll upside down over the body, a poof sounded as the body was absorbed into the seal. The scroll retracted and sealed on itself. Nothing was left of the woman but the blood stain she left on the floor.

Rai picked up the scroll and placed it in her back pouch.

It had to be after 3 am when the elites gathered quickly in the lightening storm.

The earth users created a massive crevice to bury the whole village. The water users helped to create mud and wash the buildings and bodies into the large gaps before the earth users closed the crevice.

Tenzo was up next. He used his wood style to create a forest around them of varying tree maturity. Saplings to mature trees sprung up around them.

The group retreated, taking one last look at where Jomae used to be. Now, it looked like there was never a village there.

Lightning danced across the sky as they turned and headed for home.

Kakashi thought it was a little unusual for Ibiki to be out and about. Even more so that Ibiki was knocking on his door early in the morning. “Kakashi, we need you down at the morgue.”

The morgue? They needed identification of a body.

Getting up, he dragged himself out of bed and got dressed before heading down to the interrogation unit's morgue. A thick heavy metal door down a dark hallway blocked his way into the interrogation unit. Rapping lightly on the metal, a small panel opened to reveal Ibiki's eyes before closing. The door opened with an eerie squeak, allowing Kakashi inside.

The whole way down here, Kakashi didn't have a good feeling. He followed Ibiki to the morgue. Inoichi was there as well, at one of the five blanket covered bodies on the tables. It looked like he was trying to get information from the mind of the person beneath the cloth.

Ibiki made his way to the fourth table by a medical nin. The medical nin looked at Ibiki and Kakashi before rolling back the cloth to reveal a face.

The face of a woman.

Of Hanare.

Kakashi gritted his teeth as his heart dropped. He felt sick.

“Does this woman look familiar?” Ibiki asked him. It took Kakashi a bit to compose himself and not let his anger get the best of him before he nodded. “Can you give us a name?”

“The name she had given me was Hanare.” Kakashi felt as if his mouth wasn't his own. The words felt weird.

“Thank you,” Ibiki said before the medical nin pulled the cover back over the woman's head to conceal her identity.

No. This wasn't true. This wasn't happening. Kakashi was in a fog as his feet carried him through the village. He wasn't paying attention to where he was going.

He found himself in the park. A bench called for him to sit. So he did, with his elbows on his knees. He just needed a bit to think, to accept all that just happened. The sight of the woman on the table, beneath the white blanket. It startled him.

Sitting there for several minutes, he took in a deep breath and sat up, looking up to the sky. There was no way he could deal with his genin today. Perhaps Rai would make him feel better. Hauling himself up off the stone bench, he turned and stuffed his hands into his pockets as he made his way to Rai's apartment.

The door opened. He greeted her with a small sad smile.

“Kakashi?” Rai asked in a soft voice. She was stunned to see him at her door. But what stunned her the most was the sad look he held in his eye. What happened? She wondered as she stepped aside to let him in. Something was bothering him.

Kakashi slipped off his shoes without a sound. Then, he stepped deeper into her place, slipping off his head band and unzipping his vest.

Okay, something was really wrong. Rai watched as he sat himself down on her couch. Rai kept an eye on him as she walked around her couch and sat on his left. The moment she settled, Kakashi leaned over and placed his head on her shoulder. How her heart hurt for him. Something was bothering him. Turning herself, she placed a hand on his head and placed a kiss in his hair. Shifting herself back a bit more, she wrapped her other arm around him, coaxing him to lay on top of her. Kakashi didn't fuss. He accepted her actions. Tucking his head beneath her chin, he made himself comfortable. He wasn't planning on going anywhere for a bit.

How Rai wanted to ask what happened. To allow him to talk and voice his sadness or concern. But with him being this quiet, she thought to just let him be. She placed another kiss on his head as she let her fingers run through his silver mane.