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Following these drawings, I wanted to do some kind of part 3

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Understand More About Printmaking

Printmaking is actually an art form that involves the uploading of an image in surface like an inked plate to another 1 like a piece of daily news, fabric, metal or even lumber. The talent finds its durability in its cosmetic value and its chance to be replicated, introducing greatly to the notion of world cultures. https://theartofberlin.com

1 will find alternative printmaking techniques as specific as Indian, Asian, European, as well as National civilizations. With each and every, a style has notable itself over time, transforming into a sort of aesthetic lifestyle for the people.

Printmaking is the method of generating artworks by generating, usually on paper. Other than in the case of monotyping, the procedure is capable of developing several duplicates for the exact same piece which is sometimes called a print. Each and every piece will not be your replica but an unique as it is not a good reproduction of some other type of masterwork and is more or less known as an impression. Portrait or drawing alternatively, produce a unique real piece of artwork. Printing are made from a single genuine surface regarded practically as a matrix. Typical kinds of matrices consist of: plates of aluminum, commonly copper or simply zinc for engraving or etching; piece of rock, put to use in lithography; chunks of wood for woodcuts, linoleum for linocuts combined with fabric plates to get screen-printing. But there's lots of other kinds. Works out printed from a singular plate create a edition, in modern times characteristically every signed in addition to numbered to make a restrained edition. Prints could possibly likewise be printed in book kind, as artist's publications. A single print is most likely the product of one and several techniques.

Printmaking techniques can be smashed into the following essential families or areas: 1) relief creating, where the ink goes over by the original surface of the matrix. Elimination techniques include: woodcut or woodblock being the Asian forms will often be known, wood engraving, linocut and metalcut; 2) intaglio, wherein the ink will go beneath the original surface area within the matrix. Intaglio skills include: engraving, etching, mezzotint, aquatint, chine-collé and drypoint; 3) planographic, in which the matrix maintains its general surface area yet a couple areas are dealt with to be able to make a graphic. Planographic solutions include: lithography, monotyping, as well as digital tactics. 4) stencil, including: screen printing in addition to pochoir. 5) Viscosity printing.

Other forms from printmaking techniques beyond these groups encompass collagraphy and foil imaging. Contemporary printmaking technology may covered such as digital units, photographic platforms along with combination of both digital camera methods and customary techniques. A number of such techniques can similarly be combined. An example, Rembrandt's prints may also be referred to as etchings designed for ease, yet commonly consist of work within engraving and drypoint as well, and at times don't have any etching in any way.

Frequently color around printmaking which involves etching, screen printing, woodcut, or linocut can be applied by also using separate dishes, blocks or window screens or by using a reductionist technique. In various plate color techniques are a number of plate designs, screens or prevents produced, each presenting a different coloration. By having a few printing approaches such as chine-collé and also monotyping, printmaking musicians and artists might sometimes purely paint into the tones they would like, as a painter will and next print. The subtractive color principle is furthermore used in offset or even digital print and is particularly present in bitmap or simply vectorial software inside CMYK or each and every color spaces.

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mar art program reviews:

procreate: uncomfortable. i can definitely see the appeal behind an ipad's portability and it has some really nice brushes but i hate apple too much for it. AND THE FACT THAT IT HAS A LAYER LIMIT???? it's absolutely a deal breaker no way. ive also overheard something about it having infinite zoom in???? it can be useful but it won't give you a good estimate of how much stuff fits on an image???

photoshop: used it for years, sucks ass. you still have to pay separately for the stabilizer right ? cant believe it's still the industry standard for illustration

illustrator: vectors are So Useful. it's not a program you'd use to make painterly art, of course, but it's perfect for lineless Shaped artstyles (and in fact makes adding lines extremely easy if you feel like it). and of course since it's vectorial you won't ever have to worry about stuff getting blurry when you scale it

krita: ive been using it for animation stuff and it's pretty great! can't speak much for all of its functions but free, open-source programs always get extra points too <3 lovely project. my main complaint though is that the pen and eraser are pretty much the same tool, i wish you could map the brushes separately (if anyone knows how to im all ears)

medibang: used the mobile version for a while and i think ive had the desktop one at some point too. also a lovely free program that has some always appreciated tools for comics (like for drawing panels and, if i remember correctly, even manga screen tones too?). the mobile version is a bit lacking in comparison to the other well-known mobile drawing app, ibis, that i haven't tried but well ibis has a time-lapse function (always adds a lot of points) and its symmetry rulers are also easier to use (at least since i last tried medibang). i think medibang's stabilizer was better though

clip studio: despite its recent messes and everything i still think it's definitely the best program out there and ive been a csp advocate for a while. so many useful features, an active community making assets and tutorials for it that you can easily access within the program without having to dive online and it's actually rather cheap, even more so during its frequent sales. it's so good. it's not my main program, though, because i still haven't found brushes im comfortable with </3 the stabilizer is also a bit confusing to me. however i think the new paid update requires you to always have internet connection which is an instant no for me. who thought that was a good idea

paint tool sai: my best friend <3 though the 2 update was Great it's still lacking in Many aspects (please please just let me align text to the center ill die happy), but it has the best stabilizer out there and configuring brushes is pretty intuitive. it seriously lacks a lot of functions but it's still the program im most comfortable with

ms paint: people seriously make such cool stuff in there. there's also nostalgia factor, and it actually has screentones too! last time i tried them they were a bit wonky but interesting to use

ive tried procreate a couple of times before and its . such a weirdly unnatural feeling, it's like you're dragging a line rather than drawing it

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Moodboard: Logan Lancaster

Part of Another Goddamn Hero Story

D.R.E.A.M. Index #337255 [Updated as of Dec 2019]

Classification: Class A.2.i [Secondary Tier, Threat Response, Legacy]

Name: Doctor Vectorious

Status: ACTIVE

Civilian Name: [CLEARANCE: TOP SECRET] Logan Lancaster

Threat Status: Threat Response Team

/////////H.A.T.C.H. Status: On Call

Partners/Sidekicks: member of  DI#A-4894 - Team Left Brain; DI#A-4895 - Team Right Brain

Primary Foes: N/A 

/////////No particular villains, just the normal run of chaotic forces

Powers: Speed - Broad Spectrum;

Costume: Dark blue and black bodysuit, white V, silver goggles

/////////Goggle technological enhancements include: binocular vision, night vision, recording and playback, rudimentary facial recognition

Age: 23

Height: 5’5”

Pronouns: He/Him

H.E.A.R.T.S. Class of ‘11; Advanced studies Class of ‘14 

Note: Son of DI#265345 - Professor Polarity; Earned his PhD in Physics from University of Harmony City in 2016; Key witness in trial of DI#265345 regarding Project Charcoal, see IR19-Z-0001.

Logan has been brilliant since his childhood. It is believed (by him and others) that his super speed extends to the rate at which he is able to absorb, process, and distill new information. In the past, he was known for his very strict black-and-white view of the world, particularly regarding supers and morality as a whole. This changed largely due to his parents’ involvement in Project Charcoal, coupled with his introduction and familiarity (and later relationship) with the members of Team Right Brain. 

He has recently resumed his research in addition to serving as an active super. Building on his doctoral thesis and some buried results produced by the other Drs. Lancaster, he is researching ways that supers (particularly young supers) can use the properties of power-dampeners and -enhancers to modulate the force of their powers for training, as well as for mental health applications.

While he shied away from the public eye in the immediate wake of his parents’ trial, he [and his partners] have been slowly taking on more prominent roles in awareness campaigns around young supers or those with newly-acquired powers, aimed at supporting the supers and their loved ones.

Appearance notes: Built like a sprinter - on the shorter side, stocky with thick thighs. Pale skin, light brown hair, grey eyes. Wears black, thick-rimmed glasses when he’s in civilian clothes.

Moodboard photo credits, via unsplash: blurred stars || goggles || fluid art || desktop || work harder || city blur || blue racing light || time moves on || microscope

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Proposal: Gothic Vectors and Gothic Lacuna: Gender, Reparative Love, and Unseen Agency in Tai Shani’s “Phantasmagoregasm”

Figure 1. Phantasmagoregasm Production Print. Reprinted from "Tai Shani", by Shani, T, 2019, Retrieved from https://www.taishani.com/shop/dark-continent-productions-print-set. Copyright 2019 by Tai Shani.

This is a proposal I’ve just sent this morning for the Sheffield Gothic conf. the deadline is the 9ths so still time to submit something. http://sheffieldgothicreadinggroup.blogspot.com/

The artist and 2019 Turner Prize collective winner Tai Shani has since 2014 produced artworks as part of a project called Dark Continent (DC), named for Freud's description of the sexuality of adult women (Freud, 2002, p. 90). DC takes inspiration from texts such as Christine de Pizan’s proto-feminist work “City of Women”, adapting and deviating from them to question “what consitutes the feminine” through a “messier and more agnostic model of gender that moves beyond the binarism of Pizan” (Crone, 2019, p. xi).

One artwork within DC is “Phantasmagoregasm” (Shani, 2018, 2019, n.d.), a narrative delivered by its titular character “an eighteenth-century hermaphrodite writer of gothic fiction” (Shani, 2019) which explicitly references Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Fall of The House of Usher” in its concern for the protean interrelations of bodies, objects, buildings, and affects. Shani however, offers a radical redeployment of the tropes and structures of the gothic, just as she does with those of gender.

Firstly, I draw from Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s concept of “reparative reading” (Sedgwick, 2002) with its calls back to Sedwick’s analysis of the gothic forms (Sedgwick, 1986), to consider how Phantasmagoregasm replaces the underpinning gothic presumption of paranoia, with queer care and love, via absense and affect. The reparative gothic position is used as a means to approach one of psychoanalyst Luce Irigaray’s rare direct addresses to art, “The Natal Lacuna” (Irigaray, 1994, 2006), and its related debates (MacCormack & McPhee, 2014; Robinson, 1994, 2006; Whitford, 1994). 

Secondly, I identify how, as a reconfiguration of the gothic form of barriers and transgressions, Phantasmagoregasm is concerned with vectors and pathways for energies witnessed only through their effects, particularly the repeated literary description of rapidly moving disembodied points of view, sound waves, wind, and abstract geometry. This “Vectorial Gothic” in Shani’s work is considered through the metaphor of director Sam Raimi’s agentic camera in “The Evil Dead” movies (Campbell, 2002; Raimi, 1981, 1987; Raimi & Spiegel, 1986; Semley, 2019), in order to create another approach to Irigaray’s text, via Sedgwick and theorist Katherine Hayles writing on Poe (Hayles, 1990). 

In conclusion, I consider how the queering of Gothic Desire and Gothic Space in Phantasmagoregasm readdresses structures of sexual difference and illuminates a feminist approach to art practice concerned with affect, love, and the negotiation of the unknown, or undescribable. 

Bibliography:

Campbell, B. (2002). If chins could kill: Confessions of a B movie actor: an autobiography (1st St. Martin's Griffin ed). New York: LA Weekly Books for Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Press.

Crone, B. (2019). Wounds of Un-Becoming. In Our Fatal Magic (pp. vii–xxiii). S.l.: STRANGE ATTRACTOR PRESS.

Freud, S. (2002). Wild Analysis (A. Phillips, Ed.; A. Bance, Trans.). Retrieved from http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/51108791.html

Graves, R. (2018). Tai Shani: Semiramis. Retrieved 27 November 2019, from Corridor8 website: https://corridor8.co.uk/article/tai-shani-semiramis/

Hayles, K. (1990). Chaos bound: Orderly disorder in contemporary literature and science. Ithaca, N.Y: Cornell University Press.

Irigaray, L. (1994, June). A Natal Lacuna (M. Whitford, Trans.). Women’s Art Magazine, (58), 11–13.

Irigaray, L. (2006). The Natal Lacuna. In S. Lotringer (Ed.), & B. Edwards (Trans.), More & less 3: : Hallucination of Theory (pp. 39–43). Pasadena, CA; Cambridge, MA: Fine Arts Graduate Studies Program and the Theory, Criticism and Curatorial Studies and Practice Graduate Programs, Art Center College of Design ; Distribution, MIT Press.

MacCormack, P., & McPhee, R. (2014). Creative Aproduction: Mucous and the Blank. InterAlia Special Issue: Bodily Fluids, (9), 146–164.

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Raimi, S., & Spiegel, S. (1986, May 5). Evil Dead II Shooting Script, Seventh Draft. Retrieved from http://www.bookofthedead.ws/website/evil_dead_2_in-print.html

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Sedgwick, E. K. (2003). Touching feeling: Affect, pedagogy, performativity. Durham: Duke University Press.

Semley, J. (2019). Naturom Demonto. How The Evil Dead Claims Evil from Both Literature and Cinema. In R. A. Riekki & J. A. Sartain (Eds.), The many lives of The evil dead: Essays on the cult film franchise (pp. 41–50). Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc.

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Westengard, L. (2019). Gothic queer culture: Marginalized communities and the ghosts of insidious trauma. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.

Whitford, M. (1994, October). Woman With Attitude. Women’s Art Magazine, (60), 15–17.

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Hey, just wanted to say I love your Haruka x Michiru and Moira fanarts a lot! Love your art style, as an artist wannabe I wanted to know if you can gimme some tips about cell shading, how do you do it for your fanarts? Do you work with Photoshop? :)

Hey there! ^^Thank you so muc!! I’m really happy that you like those and you’re into arts as well!Hehe.. ahem, I actually dislike Photoshop (mostly because my pc can’t take its… “”””awesomness””””, I guess?) But It’s undeniably a good program.I think Clip Studio works fine enough for me. I use it for like.. 90% of my work, (the rest 10% is using PS filters or adjusting colors)

I use a lot layer folders, layer effects (CSP has layer efffects only, no brush effects) and Linework Layers (those vectorial ones, where you can fix your lines, or thin or thicken their width, a very important-to-me-thing PS can’t do -yet- ).As for coloring… usually I use one main layer as color base, monochromatic, so I can create as many layers I need for each color and clip those on it, (it makes it easier to color stuff).Once I’m finished with that, I fuse those together with the base color layer (for a practical matter, so I don’t get confused later). When there are more than one character, I make a folder for each one of them.Then, shadows phase. It depends what’s the lightning around, I could be using a cold tone or a pink-yellow-ish tone for it, set on multiply effect . I think it’s good to imagine where your character could be placed (even without drawing the ambient, but surely, that could HELP). Lights now. Which layer effect for it? I would go for a glow dodge effect, opacity set between 10 and 20%. I could make more than one of these, but usually that happens after I’ve fused all of them together (base color + shadow + lights).NOW… I’ve recently met a new way of creating ambient light, in a more accurate way through “Linear Burn”, “Glow” and “Color Dodge“ effect layers.(It’s really complicated for me to explain this stuff through words. lol)Again, same concept of the multiply layer we used for shadows: I tend to use cold colors for the Linear Burn layer, and then warm ones for color and glow dodge layers (opacity set really low on all three). Those kind of effect layer are really good in order to help you with ambient lightning/shadows. Where do I put those? I usually put those three layers on top of the shadow or lights layer (doesn’t matter, depends on which one is on top), clipped on the shadow and lights ones ( in the end you’ll obtain a loooong row of clipped files on top of that poor basic color layer, if you haven’t fused any before. lol).I’d suggest you to not fuse any if you’re not sure about the coloring shadows or lights, but it’s still fixable if you fused those layers. It’ll just lenghten your time spent there…

I hope this last part wasn’t too confusing…edit:when I’m done with the basic, I could slip various effect layers to fix lights or shadows, depends on what I am looking for.I am very gut feeling in those things, so I don’t really have a method. I don’t know what I am doing either.

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I want to be an illustrator and I'd like to ask you if your income comes just from illustration or if you have like a part time job on the side? And in what way do you make money? I know about stickers, prints and keychains but i don't know where to really start. Also if you're comfortable with it I'd like to know how much you make in a month? Just a very rough estimate would be enough for me tbh If that's too much for an ask could i message you? so yeah I hope I don't sound too creepy sorry~

Hello! No worries, those are all valid questions! I work full-time as an illustrator for a company that I can't reveal atm because I am in the process of transferring from one company to the other. But my professional work as an illustrator at this company is completely different from what you see here or on my website. I mainly make vectorial illustration for games and videos about programming for kids. It is really different from my personal work.

With that being said, I would say that if you want to make money with your own art, these are some of the ways I know of:- commercial work;- private commissions;- merchandise (prints, stickers, pins, patches, apparel, etc);- patronage (on websites such as patreon, drip, etc)- donations (kofi, etc)

ABOUT COMMERCIAL WORK/PRIVATE COMMISSIONSThis is pretty basic: you get clients to commission you a piece or more, and that's it. You can work by contract or not, depending on the client. There's a lot I could say about this.. like A LOT. The possibilities for the type of work you will be commissioned to do are endless..

ABOUT MERCHANDISEAt the moment I only have prints available because by using Inprnt, I don't have to print and ship the merch myself. I upload my image and someone else takes care of the prints for me. Other websites, such as Redbubble or Society6, allow you to sell more than prints just as easily, such as mugs, pillows, apparel, posters, etc.The hardest part of running an online store where you are the one who sends the merch is having the time to research the companies you're gonna use to produce the merch, put it up online, advertise it and ship it. I have a full time job and I'm currently super focused on producing at least 1 portfolio piece a month, so it leaves me no time to think about anything else. I've tried several times to work on stickers and such, always without success. I would love to do it, though!

If you want to make stickers or other merch you have to:- decide whether you're gonna order or from a company or do it yourself;- decide which platform you will use for selling you things (etsy, tictail, storenvy, etc)- get informed with your local post office on shipping prices- order the required materials for packing your merch (on a local store or online)- make the actual merch!

As you can see, that's a lot of steps and it takes true dedication to it. However, if you do get people interested in your merch, you can make a lot of money with it! I personally don't sell a lot, but I also don't advertise a lot and I don't offer much more than prints.

ABOUT PATRONAGE/DONATIONSWhen you have a following who is very interested in what you do, they might pay you to have access to exclusive content. Usually if you want to set up a Patreon/drip/whatever, you NEED to have the following. Then, you can provide whatever you want, sketches, videos, tutorials, posts about your work, anything really. And if your following doesn't want to subscribe to something like this monthly, they might be up to donating you money through Ko-fi, or paypal, anything really. This is an unreliable source of money, though, but it's an option nonetheless.

My source of income comes from my day job alone. I currently don't accept private commissions and my merchandise does not sell very well, so unfortunately I can't really tell you how to make a living off of your art because I haven't done that myself. Besides, the amount of money you need to make a living varies from country to country. And like I said, I make very little selling prints online (sometimes not even summing up to 10€/month). But that's me and this should not discourage you. I don't advertises much and different styles of illustration may sell better than others, etc. A lot of factors go into whether you'll sell or not.

Besides, the way you try to make money reflects the type of career you want to make - if you wan't to do commercial work, you'll more likely look for Art Directors and commissioners, if you want to live off of your own personal art alone, you will have to build an audience, engage with it, and provide it the materials they would like to have. The possibilities are endless, so good luck! :)

If want/need more specific advice, let me know and feel free to e-mail me as well. I know this is a really long reply, there’s a lot to cover and I hope I covered some basics!!! ♥

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Artist Ask meme

Thank you for the ask, @lackadaisical-pottymouth <3

1. Do you prefer traditional drawing, or digital?

I’m more at ease with traditional drawing first. Plus, there are less distraction for me that way (and I get to keep all the version in one of my binders full of drawings :-3 ). 

But if I need sharp detail, corrections, inking, coloring, I’m more capable with digital. I do have a tablet (that’s 10 years old though and the pen is all sticky XD), but I’m mostly using mouse and anchors for vectorial drawings.

So, I’d say I like them both for what each brings XD

4. Do you have a DeviantArt, personal website, or art blog?

I do have a DA account, but there’s not much on it. I don’t often post my drawings. I used to more when a certain forum (mangatutorials) was still up, but that was back in 2007 or so.

Most of what I have online is on this blog.

15. How long does an average piece take you to complete?

It varies depending on the level of complexity, if I color it, if I go from draft to ink to coloring/digital. It can go from 30 minutes to several hours. 

For what I consider a complete drawing (idea to final colored piece), you can take example on the secret santa I did (which is a traditional drawing). It took about 5-7 hours (coming up with the idea, taking photos for pose ref, drafts, drawing the final piece, coloring, than editing in photoshop to enhance some colors and the effect).

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To Dust or To Gold

Part 8 of Another Goddamn Hero Story

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Chapter Pairings: established Royality, Analogical, pre-romantic LAMP (emphasis on Moxiety and Logince)

Chapter Warnings: Hospitals, death threats, background character deaths, some gore, hallucinations, self-hatred, bipolar cycling (both depressive and manic), cliffhanger ending :D

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“So,” Logan began.

“So,” Roman responded, reclining in an ornate ruby chair.

“Sew buttons!” Patton interrupted, draping himself across Roman’s lap.

Virgil growled in frustration. “Can you please focus for a single second?”

The heroes had relocated to the supers’ gym, still anxious to keep the untested villains away from the mayor.

“We don’t take orders, Reflex,” the Marauder replied evenly. “We’re only here because you two don’t seem as incompetent as the rest of the super assholes.”

“You don’t need to take orders,” Logan said, shooting Virgil a reassuring look even as he spoke. “We just need to know what exactly you can do, and plan how we’ll stay in contact.”

“Asking for my number already? I couldn’t possibly, not so soon,” Roman responded, fluttering his eyelashes.

“We’re not joining your ‘hatchet’ or whatever you call it,” Patton added. “We’re here to take down a murderer, not get sucked into the system.”

“We’re not asking you to join H.A.T.C.H.,” Logan said patiently. “But if we don’t know where you are or how to contact you, that just makes you a liability.”

“Actually it’s just an air ability,” Patton quipped back. His lips didn’t twitch. He didn’t grin. But the smugness was palpable from across the gym. Logan lost his train of thought at the overwhelmingly familiar feeling of a punster at work. He could practically see his dad’s irritatingly-pleased grin shining through Patton’s smooth mask.

Virgil, a true hero, came to Logan’s rescue. “So, air ability. Air manipulation, no matter where the air is, yeah? Inside or outside of a person?”

Gale Force paused, then nodded.

“And you, Shiny Red Boy, any limitations we need to know about?”

The Crimson Marauder gasped. “Shiny red boy? That’s the best you can do? I am appalled, I am disgusted, I spend my life dedicated to being chaotic neutral and this is the thanks I get??”

Virgil rolled his eyes. “Okay, Drama Red Queen, shall I paint the roses for you or are you going to answer the question?”

“Joke’s on you, I like that nickname,” Roman said with a sniff. “I just need to keep focused. And my constructs can only be autonomous if they’re tiny. And I can’t do more overall mass at once than something about the size of this entire room.”

Logan looked around the echoing room, designed for whole teams of heroes to practice in at once. “That’s some power,” he said softly. “And limited only by strength of mind. Fascinating.”

“And what about you two?” Patton asked in a saccharine-sweet voice. “You wouldn’t get us to divulge details without returning the favor, would you?”

“I have, as you’ve seen, a super speed ability. I can also speed read or manipulate just a hand or limb to go at enhanced speeds. I can go from 0 to 60 in .0001 seconds, and my top recorded speed is 1,700 miles per hour, or approximately 2,700 kilometers per hour.” Logan responded matter-of-factly.

“And what about you, Tall, Dark, and Muscly?” Roman asked.

“I picked my super name as Reflex for a reason. I’ve got fight, flight, and freeze. Super strength, superflight that can rival the Doc here for speed, and the shockwave you both saw the other day. I send out a burst of energy that stuns or knocks out anyone in a given radius.”

“Can you control who it affects?” Patton asked curiously. “Or is it just anyone?”

Virgil’s mouth twisted. “I can sometimes control it, yes. If I’m focused, and I’m not too upset at the time. It’s not guaranteed.”

“How upset were you the other day then?”

“You’d just attacked my partner. I was pissed, but in control. If you’d more seriously injured L- the Doctor, you might have needed more than one day to wake up from the coma I put you both in.”

“Partners are important,” Patton said softly, running a hand through Roman’s dark, wavy hair. He turned and made eye contact with the heroes. “If you hurt him, I will end you.” It wasn’t a threat, but a statement of fact.

Virgil locked eyes with the villain, jerking his head at Logan. “And if you hurt him, you’ll wish I’d only killed you.”

Roman chuckled, flashing a smile at Logan over Patton’s curly head. “Aww, look at then, they’re bonding!”

Logan looked up at his partner and back to Gale Force. “They’re bonding over death threats. I don’t think this is how I expected a hero-villain team-up to go.”

“It’s okay, Doc, you and me are clearly the pretty faces of our respective teams next to the brawn of our boys here.”

“Excuse you, I did not get three degrees in the time it takes most people to get one to be called just a pretty face,“ Logan said with an frown.

“Doesn’t make it any less true, though,” the Marauder replied with a wink. “Your face is pretty, you gotta accept it.”

Logan stared at the villain. “Is this flirting?”

“Do you want it to be?”

“No, I’m legitimately asking, I’m apparently unable to identify it on my own.”

Virgil and Patton stopped staring one another down in time to hear the last comment. Virgil snorted. “Doc, you have understatement down to an art.”

“Shush, you,” Logan said, blushing faintly.

“Do you have, like, a crush on him?” Roman gushed.

“Please, no-”

“Oooohhhh, he totally has a crush on him!!” Patton chimed in, bouncing in Roman’s lap.

“Reflex, I take all of this back, this was a terrible idea, I’m leaving…”

Virgil gently nudged Logan with a shoulder. “No you won’t. This is too important. And you and I are good, no matter what.”

“Yeah?”

“Yeah.”

“Darling, I think they might be gay,” Roman stage-whispered to Patton.

“And I think you might be annoying,” Virgil shot back. “Enough fucking around. We know your powers, you know ours. What we don’t know is anything about the bastard out here killing our city.”

Logan adjusted the goggles on top of his head. “We can tell you what we know from the Mayor. It’s not much. They clearly can cause some sort of nightmare or hallucination in others. The survivor mentioned the outline of a smile in the dust clouds.”

“Like the Cheshire Cat,” Roman murmured. “How very Carollian.” Logan started, a curious expression on his face as he looked at the taller villain.

Winds gusted around Gale Force as he lifted himself up off of his partner’s lap. “A survivor? Who saw what happened?”

“Yes, a teenage girl. She’s in the hospital.”

“Could we ask her for more detail?” Virgil mused aloud. “Get a full description of events, see if there are any little details she may have missed?”

“It’s worth a shot.”

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To say that the hospital staff reacted oddly to seeing the until-recently most prominent villains strolling in the front door, accompanied but not restrained by some of the best-loved heroes would be putting it mildly. Reflex had to undergo a brief concussion test administered by a well-meaning emergency tech, and Doctor Vectorious had to calmly talk a doctor into putting the defibrillator back on the wall and stop brandishing it as a weapon.

Once the misunderstanding was cleared up, Virgil politely asked after their patient.

“Ah, yes. She’s conscious and stable, if still very shaken. Her family is in with her right now.”

“Can we see her?”

“Not all of you! Pick just one, and her mom stays no matter who it is.”

Virgil nodded. “We should ask who she wants in there. Who she’d be most comfortable with. She’s just a kid, after all.”

The doctor nodded. “I’ll ask. You may wait here.” She paused, looking around the waiting room with many sets of staring eyes. “On second thought, follow me.”

Patton seemed completely oblivious to their observers. Roman stared at his surroundings as they walked, sniffing the air frequently. Virgil walked closer than normal to Logan, accidentally bumping him several times as he fought the urge to shrink into the hoodie he wasn’t wearing.

The doctor showed them to a smaller, empty waiting room and left them there with a brisk nod.

“Why’s it smell so weird here?” Roman finally asked.

“Weird?”

“Like, sharp. Stinging in smell form. Kinda acrid, I guess. But also a bit like soap?”

“That’s the antiseptic,” Logan said. “Have you not been in a hospital before?”

Roman went quiet, then finally said, “I haven’t been to a doctor’s office before. Not that I remember, anyway.”

Logan pursed his lips and Virgil was about to speak when the doctor returned.

“The patient has made her request,” she began.

“Yes?”

“...she asked for him,” the woman replied, pointing at the Crimson Marauder.

The group looked to Roman, then back at the doctor as one.

“I confirmed it with her. She specifically requested ‘the red one.’”

Roman nervously adjusted his cape and mask. “Can she speak to me now?”

“Yes, follow me.”

He stepped into the indicated door to see a middle-aged woman with plenty of silver threads in her plump braid helping the young woman on the cot drink from a pink plastic cup. “Um, hi, Ms. and Miss Rodrigeuz. I’m the Crimson Marauder,” he began.

The young woman sat up without her mother’s help, leaning forward eagerly.

“Are you really, though?”

“...would anyone try to impersonate me?”

“I mean… I saw the group. You’re with the heroes again. Are you still the Marauder if you’re back?” she asked with a bruised smile. 

“Back…?”

“You don’t remember me, do you. I was probably one of many people who thanked you, back in your Prince days.”

Roman’s eyes went wide. “Sofia? That Sofia?” he asked, voice cracking. “The little princess?”

“You do remember,” her mom commented softly, brushing a gentle hand through Sofia’s hair. “She kept that crown for years. Even when she insisted that princesses were ‘only for los niños’, she would keep pulling it out when she thought we couldn’t see.”

Roman swallowed a lump in his throat. “I could never forget. You were the first person ever to thank me. The first civilian to treat me like a real hero.”

“Only the first civilian?”

“I- another hero did, too. Many years ago.”

Sofia tilted her head. Her bruises were shockingly colorful, and she spoke carefully around a tender jaw, but she seemed otherwise in one piece. “Why did you stop?”

“What?”

“You were ours. The Prince of Sycamore Heights. Why did you become a villain?”

Roman looked down. “It’s… complicated. But I thought I could do a better job for our home this way.”

“Things did get better,” her mom said. “For years, it was so much better. After you got rid of the Patrol.”

“It wasn’t just me,” Roman responded automatically.

“You and Copper Eye. I remember,” Sofia said. “I loved watching her work.”

“So did I,” Roman said quietly, swiping at the tear wriggling out of his eye. He swallowed and settled his shoulders, trying to compose himself. “Sofia, can I ask you about what you remember about this attack?”

“It’s not much,” she warned.

“Anything helps. We’re going to get whoever did this. I promise.”

Sofia looked up, meeting his eyes directly. “Don’t promise unless you mean it.”

Roman looked back steadily, and placed a hand over his heart. “I, the Crimson Marauder, formerly the Scarlet Prince, promise you, Sofia Rodriguez: we’ll get the one who hurt you and all those people, or die in the attempt.”

Sofia nodded fiercely. “Here’s what I remember.”

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The Crimson Marauder sat on a red swing floating from nothing as Gale Force reclined on air beside him. They faced the heroes, who were more sensibly sitting on the edge of the roof of an office building near the middle of the city. All four contemplated the details Roman had shared in their own ways. A tiny tornado ran up and down Patton’s fingers, Roman created and vanished mini constructs, Logan’s fingers tapped so quickly they left erosion trails on the concrete, and Virgil hummed tunelessly under his breath.

“You know what seems weird to me?” Reflex said at length. “I don’t know if this means anything, but your friend seems like an extremely level-headed teenager. And yet...”

“...you gonna finish that or do you just think teenagers are dumb.”

“Oh, I don’t think they’re dumb, they just scare the living shit out of me,” Virgil said with a quirk in his smile. “No, she seems really collected, really rational, and yet she didn’t think twice before leaving safety to get to her family.”

“It’s family,” Patton said curtly. “Of course she didn’t.”

“Believe me, I understand protecting family,” Virgil replied. “But not even trying to confirm? Not even when she saw others running? It seems like she was just operating off panic.”

“You’d know all about that, wouldn’t you, Mr. Brendon Urie Wannabe,” Roman snarked. But he had also reached out and grabbed Patton’s hand, squeezing reassurance to his partner to counteract the dark cloud spread across his face.

“Do you think that tells us something about how the villain operates?” Doctor Vectorious asked Reflex, pushing them back on track.

“Maybe it’s more than just visual hallucinations?”

“Hm, interesting theory, but-” Logan began, when their watches began to blare with a new H.A.T.C.H. alert.

“Fuck, the harbor!” Virgil said.

“Southeast,” Logan said at the same time. He looked up at both villains. “Meet us there.”

Reflex was already soaring away, a streak of black and purple stretching through the city. A second blur joined him, black and white and blue paralleling his trajectory from the ground.

Roman squeezed Patton’s hand once more, tightly. “We’re doing this, yeah?”

“We are. We have to.”

“Okay then. Time for some thrilling heroics.”

As one, they went from sitting to moving, both riding a red hang glider that sped as quickly as the ripping wind that sprang up to carry it.

They soared over the city towards the water, following the heroes. Roman nudged Patton as they approached.

“What is that?”

“Looks like a dust cloud. Someone’s being naughty.”

“Should we land?”

Patton nodded, letting go of the frame to point to roof where the heroes were braced, trying to see into the obscured area. He floated down to land softly, Roman a breath behind him. They stared at the enormous cloud of dust and debris, trying to make out what was happening underneath.

Reflex frowned. “It’s not moving.”

Doctor Vectorious nodded. “If it were a true debris cloud, it should be dissipating or growing, not just staying static. It’s obscuring something, and I can’t tell what.”

“Maybe I can help clear things up,” Gale Force offered, sending winds towards the very center of the obstruction. Dust and rocks and debris blew up and away, out of the three-block radius and into the harbor.

The Crimson Marauder gasped aloud as the cloud faded. “Whatever I was expecting, that wasn’t it.”

The dust cloud had been pushed away. But a dark mass remained. It oozed through the streets, a bulbous form that dragged on corners and sidewalks but left no residue. It was mesmerizing, in an off-putting way. Colors shifted and played over its dark surface like far-off nebulas brought to earth, now an orange veil, now pink, now a green or blue haze. It absorbed light rather than giving any off, but besides the flicker of changing colors, no movement was seen.

“...I know I’m gonna regret this, but I think we should go straight into it,” Reflex offered, stepping out into the open air. “We need to know if it’s solid, and this is where the alert said the disturbance was.”

“Are all heroes dumb enough to wander into Definitely-Murderous-Glow-Clouds or is it just you?” Gale Force asked mildly.

“All hail the Glow Cloud,” Logan and Roman said at the same time, then scowled at the other for having the same thought.

“What else do you suggest then?”

Patton huffed, and paced on the edge of the roof. “...I don’t know.”

“We’ll send the strongest two first, then,” Doctor Vectorious mused. “‘Flex, you fly in with Gale Force to blow off any more debris, and to see if you can wind-funnel your way in. We’ll back you up, ready to pull you out if needed, or Marauder here can add a construct tunnel if you’re able to open it up. Is that acceptable?”

Patton frowned at what felt like condescension, at this hero trying to tell them what to do. But, with resignation, he realized he didn’t have a better plan, and Valerie’s murderer could be getting away right now for all they knew. Stiffly, he nodded his assent.

Roman cupped his neck, fingers tangled in the curls at his nape. “Be careful, gingerpie,” he whispered. “If you die, I’ll never forgive you.”

“Don’t worry, honeygold, I’ll be your boo no matter what,” Patton murmured back with a grin. He kissed Roman firmly on the mouth, right under his mask.

“I’m too pretty to date a ghost,” Roman complained, but he was smiling all the same.

Virgil rolled his eyes. “Okay, Hurricane Gay-trina, let’s not waste any more time. Can you make a wind tunnel I can fly through without getting hurt?”

Without a word, air raced past them into a clear cone that hollowed out, a tube of rushing wind that stretched from their spot towards the mass. Virgil acknowledged his villain partner with a two-fingered salute and sped down it, rocketing towards the form that continued to shift colors. He extended a clenched fist, bracing himself to collide with the edge, ready to use all his strength to bust through if possible.

Instead of hitting a hard edge, though, he just passed into it as the sun disappeared. Darkness surrounded him, the pitch black of an overcast midnight. He could suddenly hear impacts, crunching rock and shouts and screams, and froze. He couldn’t move suddenly, not without seeing around him. He might hurt those near him worse with too fast a movement or a misplaced step.

Virgil had never expected to experience relief at seeing Gale Force, but the tunnel of wind opened up the mass and brought in Patton and the setting sunlight in a joint beam. “It worked!” Virgil said. “Quick, blow away as much of this as you can. I can try to stun everyone if I need to.”

The villain didn’t pause or argue, but multiplied the cyclone until copies branched out in all directions. They punched through the dark haze in dozens of places, bringing in the scant evening light and blessedly fresh air. Some of the screams faded, and Virgil could finally see the faces of surrounding civilians as their terror faded into confusion.

Both hero and villain could see what had caused the screams. A young villain, a H.E.A.R.T.S. dropout Virgil remembered, had paused in the center of the chaos. They blinked, slowly shrinking their hands back from huge, car-sized fists to normal limbs. The villain looked around them, and down at their torn costume. It was as bloody and ripped as their hands, the bold gold and red of a ringmaster’s coat turned into something out of a horror film. The Contortionist fell heavily to their knees, still shaken.

A burst of blue fire brought attention to the other active combatant. This was a current H.E.A.R.T.S. student, not yet a full hero, and even through her mask it was clear she was terrified. Another flash of light and she popped into being closer to the newcomers.

“V- I mean, Reflex?” she asked in a tiny voice.

“It’s really me, Blynk,” he reassured her, crouching slightly to shrink the almost-foot difference in their heights.

“I- where did they go? The ones attacking me? They were… everywhere.” She balled one hand in the loose blue dress that made up her costume as the other pulled up the attached hood nervously.

“It was an illusion,” Patton explained. “This new villain, Agent Whisper. They make you see things that aren’t there.”

“I couldn’t get away,” she whispered. “No matter how many times I teleported, they were still there to catch me.”

“They’re gone,” Virgil assured her. “You’re safe.” He offered his arms, and the young hero dove into his embrace. Speaking over her head, he looked up at his villain partner. “Can you fully break this up?”

“Here comes Mister Blue Sky,” Patton said with incongruous cheer, expanding the existing funnels. Light filled more and more of their view until the full sky returned and the last of the strange substance melted into air.

A zip and a thud heralded the arrival of the missing hero-villain pair.

“Good work,” Logan told them both. “A small bit seemed to split off, but you cleared the area and appear to have fully disrupted any illusions.”

“They got away?” Patton asked sharply. “Which direction?” He was already started to drift into the air.

Virgil grabbed the loose tunic and tugged him down. “We can’t just chase after them!”

“Why the fuck not?”

The angry question was spat into Virgil’s face, but it was Logan and Roman who answered simultaneously, “We need to help the people here.”

The fading sunlight showed just how right they were. Craters littered the landscape around them. So did bodies. Every visible face was bruised or bloody, but luckily, most were moving as civilians picked themselves up out of the wreckage.

Logan was already confirming that emergency care was on the way as he zipped around the battlefield, assisting where he could. Roman took one look at the injured and started to conjure glowing splints and crutches.

Patton was still staring angrily at the direction Logan had indicated was  that of Agent Whisper’s escape, straining at Virgil’s hold. “Let me the fuck go,” he snapped. “I’m not here to be your goddamn hero, I’m here for revenge.”

“You think I don’t get that?” Virgil snapped back. “I want the bastard dead as much as you do, so don’t think for a second that you have a monopoly on rage here.”

“Then what are we waiting for? We’re the strongest and those two both know it. Let’s follow this piece of shit, grind them into dust, and be fucking done with this ‘partnership.’”

Virgil’s grip slackened for a second as he looked around them, a cloud of anger on his face. But it passed, and he pulled Gale Force all the way back to earth. “We can’t just rush in. This isn’t just for revenge: it’s to stop more people getting hurt. And it’s because we’re the strongest that we can’t risk blazing through, because we’ll be the reason more are hurt.”

Patton crossed his arms, glaring at the taller man. “What makes you think I care about a couple of casualties if it means I get revenge?”

“Because you’re still human,” Reflex responded. His gaze was level, understanding. “If all you wanted was their death at any cost, you wouldn’t have come to us. I’m not asking you to admit anything, but I have a feeling you know more about collateral damage than you ever wanted to know.” A nerve in Patton’s cheek jumped at that and Virgil nodded. “Like I said. Not asking you to admit anything. But I get it. I never wanted to be a hero. But then my partner convinced me that it’s not about getting recognition, it’s not about the fights. It’s about doing the best you can for as many people as you can. It’s about using these powers I never asked for to do what others can’t.”

Patton grumbled, but assented. “Fine. What can I do here, then?”

“Help me with the rubble? Drop it in the harbor if you need to.”

Reflex and Gale Force joined their partners in cleaning up the disaster zone. ‘Flex lifted enormous chunks of rock and concrete gently to free trapped limbs or to uncover more bodies. He tossed them into the air, where the wind-manipulator caught them and floated them safely to the water.

The Crimson Marauder flew into the air to check for more injured civilians, held aloft by his glowing hands. He was aware of Doctor Vectorious moving quickly somewhere below him, running up buildings and around the square to find civilians who’d been outside as well as in the surrounding apartments and offices. Was anyone limping? Anyone who needed a temporary bandage? Where was the emergency services van, shouldn’t they be here?

A huge crack of of rubble and rock shifting distracted him, and he whirled to see where the noise was coming from. By the time he registered that it was just Reflex working with Patton (aww, his love was working with one of his crushes!), he’d lost focus and his glow went out. He fell, stomach dropping as he tried to conjure something, anything, even just a mattress or a trampoline to break his fall.

A warm impact hit him as a blur originating from a nearby roof crashed into him and carried them both to a fire escape on the other side of the narrow street. The blur resolved back into Doctor Vectorious, and he found himself being held in the shorter man’s arms.

The speedster stared for a moment, then looked away with a slight pink tinge to his pale cheeks. “You’re, um,” he said, jerking his head towards him without looking back. “Uncovered.”

Roman started, feeling his face. The impact had knocked off his mask, and the hero was pointedly looking away to preserve his identity.

Or, perhaps, Logan was looking away because his internal monologue had been hijacked by the phrase, “Oh fuck, he’s hot.”

Roman quickly conjured a replacement mask and slid out of Logan’s hold to stand on his own again. The hero remained with his gaze averted until a siren’s blare drew close, announcing the arrival of the emergency crew.

“Thank fuck,” Roman sighed, and flew himself down to greet them. He explained quickly that his constructs needed to be replaced now so that they wouldn’t fade if they got too far away. He was already grateful that they’d be detached from him long enough that they hadn’t faded when he momentarily lost focus, and was eager to be able to draw back his energies further.

Virgil, Logan, and Patton ferried the injured from ruins of the street to the vans, including both the young hero and villain to the separate supers truck. Finally, they were able to move out. The heroes had acquired a better-functioning scanner for the villains, one that could call them specifically when they were needed, and allowed the villains to call them securely if they should so choose. About to part, Reflex paused, and offered Gale Force a handshake. Warily, the villain accepted, and the Marauder did too, in turn. Doctor Vectorious was more hesitant, but copied his partner.

Back in Logan’s apartment, the shorter man washed his face thoroughly, still shivering slightly at the remembrance of so many hurt. “How many casualties was it, all told?”

“Ten. All civilians. Both The Contortionist and Blynk are on bed rest, but they’ll recover. Total injuries are at about 25 people, but the techs said at least ten additional civilians avoided worse injuries that could have lead to critical conditions thanks to our timing as a group.”

Logan sighed. “I know I should be grateful that we were able to help so many, proportionally, but…”

“I know.”

“This villain is no joke, Virge. 35 deaths and it hasn’t yet been two days.”

“We’ll get them, Lo. I promise.”

Logan looked up. Virgil was back in civilian clothes that he left here in his partner’s apartment, one of his trusty black hoodies unzipped over a plain tee and sweatpants. Logan had changed back into his version of casual: a button-up not fully buttoned, no tie, and jeans.

“Speaking of promises…” he began. He ran a hand through already-mussed hair. “I was cut off, yesterday. I know that there are bigger, more pressing issues now but I still want to finish the thought I was trying to express.”

“Lo, it’s okay if you don’t return the sentiment, you know that, right? I’ll still love you as a friend no matter what.”

Logan sat next to Virgil on the couch. “I appreciate that, Vee, but that’s not where I was going.”

“Oh?” Virgil asked, smiling hopefully.

“I apologize for my obliviousness, Virgil, and for how long it took me to put this together, but I believe I feel the same type of romantic sentiment towards you as you’ve expressed that you feel towards me.” Logan reached out a tentative hand to take Virgil’s in his.

“You’re sounding like a textbook again, Lo,” Virgil teased, squeezing Logan’s hand.

“Sorry, I just-”

“I’m not complaining, not in the slightest. It’s part of you, ya know? It’s part of the charm.” He shifted over on the couch until their thighs were touching, and, receiving a nod of approval, draped an arm around his partner’s shoulders. “I love you, Logan.”

Logan blushed deep. “I love you as well, Virgil.”

“Can I kiss you?”

“Please do.”

Lips met in tentative sweetness and softness, neither pushing or needing to. This was them, comfort and companionship that felt as natural as breathing. And at this particular moment, breathing was the more difficult option of the two.

At long last, Logan broke off and looked up into Virgil’s dark eyes. “Are we… dating? It seems like an odd term, or at the very least an odd distinction.”

“I mean. We’re already partners,” Virgil said with a shrug and a grin.

“Oh no, don’t you start on puns too, now. There’s already Dad and Gale Force, I refuse to take any more of this.”

“Okay, okay,” Virgil said, laughing. “I’ll have mercy. Because I love you.” He most definitely did not add in the phrase because it was a relief to say it out loud after so many years of thinking it. He would definitely not continue to sprinkle it in liberally after seeing Logan’s pink-cheeked reaction to hearing it.

“I must say, I was quite impressed by the Marauder today. I thought he’d entirely turned his back on heroing when he realigned, but it appears he really is a hero at heart. Or, at the very least, a super who cares about the well-being of civilians over his personal gain.”

“Almost like people can have a change of heart without a change of personality,” Virgil commented mildly.

“He’s still a villain, though,” Logan added sharply. “And don’t think I didn’t see Gale Force trying to run off before you talked him down.”

Virgil sighed, letting his arm fall off Logan’s shoulders. “He’s not all bad, Lo. He’s just an angry human with far too many scars that haven’t come close to healing yet.”

“So are you. And yet you’re still a hero.”

“But I’ve had you, for nine years. He only has whats-his-name. Roman. Princey. Who’s just as burned, if not quite so angry.” Virgil’s voice was soft.

Logan frowned. “Why make excuses for them?”

“Because it’s not hard for me to picture a different world where I went that direction instead, Lo. I… I could picture myself neutral, hiding from my powers. Or a villain, angry at the city for not finding me sooner. Gale Force understands that. The fury. And besides that… I like them. For all that they’re frustrating and have evil tendencies and all the public displays of affection.”

An eyebrow raised above glasses frames. “You like them?”

“I mean, you know I’ve been flirting with Princey during fights. It’s not just because I’m a walking stereotype of a snarky hero. And the other one, Patton, he’s not bad-looking either.”

“Ah, I see,” Logan said quietly.

"This doesn’t affect how I feel about you, Lo, not in any way,” Virgil rushed to clarify. “It could never. It’ll always be you, no matter if I pursue these other feelings or not.”

Logan relaxed slightly. “I don’t know that I feel similarly, or even could, not when I only realized how I felt about you through a strong platonic bond over literal years.”

“That’s more than okay. You mean the most to me. If you’d rather I keep quiet about these feelings, just let them fade…”

“No, that’s unnecessary. I am not opposed to you, ah, pursuing them, just keep me informed. I do understand the… attraction.” Logan blushed lightly, but coughed and continued. “And as long as you’re safe. They’re still villains, Vee. We can’t trust them, not past taking down Agent Whisper.”

“You may be right. You usually are. But, I don’t know, man. I feel like maybe we can, this time.”

Logan raised an eyebrow again. “Virgil the cynic, wanting to trust people?”

“Oh look, it’s the pot, calling the kettle black,” Virgil replied, shoving Logan lightly in the shoulder.

“Guilty as charged.”

“By the way, can I borrow your phone charger, I wanna call Mom and Mama today, and the sibs if they’re home.”

“Why do you think I bought an extra-long purple cord?”

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D.R.E.A.M. Index #337475 Classification: A.3.i [Tertiary Tier Hero, Legacy] Name: Blynk Status: INACTIVE /////////Reason: Injury Civilian Name: [CLEARANCE: TOP SECRET] McKenzie Bleu Affiliation: Hero /////////H.A.T.C.H. Status: Temporarily Inactive Partners/Sidekicks: N/A Primary Foes: N/A Powers: Short-Range Teleportation; Enhanced Durability; /////////Range approximately 100 yds; does not need to see destination, but does need to focus on it Costume: Black leggings with lace up ballet slippers; blue dress with white stripe on the skirt with attached hood Age: 17 Height: 5’4 Pronouns: She/Her H.E.A.R.T.S. Class: Enrolled, anticipated ‘19 Note: Daughter of DI#265353; Not yet cleared for independent hero missions - involvement in IR 18-Z-0015 unintentional and due to proximity alone

D.R.E.A.M. Index #337432 Classification: Z.3.iv [Tertiary Tier Villain, Unknown] Name: The Contortionist Status: INACTIVE /////////Reason: Incarceration, Injury Civilian Name: [CLEARANCE: CONFIDENTIAL] Tai Kim Affiliation: Villain Partners/Sidekicks: N/A Primary Foes: N/A Powers: Body Plasticity - Medium Spectrum; /////////Can alter density and length of body parts; cannot fully transform into other shapes Costume: Bodysuit in black, red, and gold; designed to look like a tailcoat with gold braiding; /////////Strongly reminiscent of a ringmaster outfit, but able to stretch with them Age: 19 Height: 5’10 Pronouns: They/Them H.E.A.R.T.S. Class: Dropout Note: Believed to have left the city until involvement in IR 18-Z-0015

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They were woken early the next morning by yet another H.A.T.C.H. alert. Virgil gave a single breath to regret his poor, poor sleep schedule before changing into his costume.

Mayor and S.E.A.M. Stokes weren’t sure of the exact nature of the disturbance, but they knew it involved supers. In this uncertain climate, that meant sending their best, just to be prepared. At Virgil’s urging, Logan had conceded to alert their villain partners as well.

“What’s the harm in being ready, L?”

“They’re collectively responsible for over fifteen felonies.”

“...yeah, but they’re on our side now.”

Logan fixed his partner with a look.

“I know, I know. We can’t trust them entirely. But you trust me, right?”

Logan softened. “Of course I do. I trust you with my life.”

Virgil paused, blushing slightly. “I… god, I love you, Lo.”

“I love you as well.”

Standing by the window, in full costume, seconds before rushing to whatever crime scene had alerted them today, Virgil stole a moment to pull his partner in close and kiss him softly.

They parted, both pink-faced. “I’ve just got a hunch, Lo. I think we’ll need them, or at least not regret bringing them along. And I swear, I’ll protect you if they try anything.”

And thus, as they surveyed the scene from the top of a nearby building, the villains arrived as well.

“I don’t see Agent Piss-per anywhere,” Gale Force said with a frown.

“We haven’t either,” Logan replied evenly. “But they’ve been targeting super fights so far. It’s only logical to conclude that any fight between persons with enhanced abilities will continue to be targets for them.”

“I’m not participating in your self-righteous state-sanctioned vigilantism,” the Marauder said, lounging against the wall. “Who’s even fighting?”

“They’re a recurring duo. They either partner up or are on opposite sides, it depends on which muse is controlling her,” Virgil explained, gesturing to the dark-clad figure visible from above. Many brilliant lights surrounded her, with more seeming to sprout from the galaxy print on her suit. Tiny constellations flew towards her opponent and swirled around the other’s massive, cascading skirts. With Gale Force’s help, they could all hear the conversation on the wind - a steady stream of chat and compliments, even as star constructs disrupted the princess-figure’s attempts to infiltrate the nearby museum.

“Who’s this?”

“Today? Nebula. You may also know her as Ghost. But she’s not nearly as active as some I could name,” Logan explained, glancing side-eyed at where Gale Force seemed to be taking notes.

“Yes, but what about the aesthetic one,” the Marauder asked with a tone bordering on reverence.

Virgil smirked. “She’s known as Lovely Darling. A mesmerizer with a strong affinity for princesses. So you know, pretty familiar, except more people are infatuated with her than just herself.”

Roman pouted at the tall hero and opened his mouth to object when the air suddenly shifted and four sets of eyes snapped to the scene below.

A dark dust cloud was rising, despite the complete lack of debris or destruction from the existing fight. Looking for the details, Virgil saw how the ‘dust’ cloud dragged and stuck on corners as it neared both supers.

“Heads up!” Gale Force shouted, and the air itself carried his voice, surprising them both as they noticed the impending danger. Logan was there a breath later, grabbing them both and pulling them away before rejoining the group in a blur.

“Go in all at once?” Virgil asked.

“On y va,” Roman said firmly, and they moved forward as one. The minute they passed into the cloudlike mass, Roman had the strangest sense of someone muttering, Oh, this should be fun.

And then the world went grey. His limbs went heavy and his heart turned to lead. A sluggishness settled over his entire body as he crumpled to his knees. He couldn’t muster the energy to do anything but struggle to stay upright, and he watched his constructs melt away in a blink of an eye. Of course he couldn’t create anything. He was useless. Everyone knew he was the weakest of their group. No raw power like Reflex, no elemental power like Patton, no brilliant strategy like the Doctor. He just had his little red toys. And now, he didn’t even have those.

It was fitting, wasn’t it? Let everyone see how worthless he was, whether a hero or a villain. He could die here, in this cloud, and the world would not note his passing nor feel his loss. A tear coursed down his cheek and fell onto his hands as he struggle to just barely brace himself. All he was good for was tears. How had anyone been fooled enough to believe anything else? Had they even been fooled? Or had they just been humoring him, pretending that he had something to offer. Seeing his obvious fragility and flattering him the way you compliment a child’s terrible scribbles. Who could ever truly believe in him? His arms trembled, and he collapsed fully, prone upon the ground, awash in despair and listlessness.

Logan was running as he passed into the cloud. He was surprised to see it was only a hair’s width as he passed through, coming into practically the same daylit scene on the other side. He kept running as he looked for the villain. Ro- the Marauder was flying on his right, with Virgil and Gale Force on his left. Was that Agent Whisper up there? The dark, humanoid shape was further back than he’d guessed. He pushed himself to speed up, to get there faster before the villain could escape again. He was reaching a rate of one hundred miles per hour - why weren’t they getting closer? His muscles felt odd, not the normal level of burn for this speed, but the wind was rushing through his hair and he could see the world flashing by through his goggles. Perhaps his workout routine was finally helping him reach new speeds. He pushed harder, blurring into five hundred miles per hour, fighting to reach the villain. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw his villain partners had fallen behind him, but Virgil was still there on his left. But Agent Whisper was still so far away. He ran faster, nearing his top speed. He was a blur, a bullet streaking towards its target, but he could still see and feel his whole body. Finally, the dark antagonist was near, and he went to slow down to grab them, incapacitate them, bring them to justice.

But he couldn’t stop. His legs wouldn’t slow, his arms still pumping in rhythm to keep running. He was still moving, still in the nimbus of speed that almost no one could see. He looked frantically around only to see that he’d left Virgil far behind. He tried to turn, but couldn’t. He was just running, running, through the city, past the city, over hills and mountains and water and more mountains and he couldn’t stop. How would he get home? How would he live? How would he see Mom and Dad again, how would he be there for Jem and Bea? How would he be with Virgil, now that they finally were? He’d left him back there, surrounded by villains. He’d left him all alone, the one thing he’d promised would never happen back when they’d first met. How would time pass while he was stuck in this endless speed? Would he even feel it? Would he just run until his body gave out from the stress or exhaustion?

“Please!” he tried to yell. “Please, get me out!”

But his words were whipped away by the rush of air and movement all around him. He was trapped.

Virgil was prepared for his first step into the cloud, for the light to cut out and the fog to surround him. He felt slightly more of the texture this time, a weird film that clung to his skin. He strode in, scanning for the villain, trusting his hearing more than his sight, which extended only about three feet in any direction. He turned almost instinctively to look for Logan at his right, to check if the speedster had dashed in. He saw his partner but… Logan was frozen, eyes jumping and flitting around. His muscles twitched, but he seemed glued to the spot. His mouth opened, but no sound came out. Past him, a red-and-black form lay curled in a fetal position, unmoving.

Virgil reached his partner and love in a single step, reaching out for his shoulder. The impact caused Logan’s eyes to snap open as he cried out in pain. Virgil immediately pulled his hand back, only to see bones protruding from Logan’s arm from how strong his touch had been.

“Fuck, Lo, I didn’t mean to, I’m so sorry-”

“You always are,” Logan snapped back, blood seeping down his shoulder. “Sorry will mean nothing when you kill someone. They won’t care that you didn’t mean it!”

Tears sprang from Virgil’s eyes. He looked down to see the concrete was crumbling where his foot had touched the ground. “Please, Lo, let me help-”

“Don’t touch me!” his friend screamed, terror in his eyes. “Stay back!”

Virgil swallowed hard and obeyed, stepping back, but craters formed with each step. He backed into something and whirled to see a huge wall sway and fall, crushing those who’d been unlucky enough to be sitting behind it.

“Stop it!” Logan yelled, and his terror had shifted to hatred. “You ruin everything you touch!”

“I don’t-”

“Just hide away, Virgil. Just leave this city, leave your family, hide away where you won’t hurt anyone anymore. You’re a threat to everyone around you, so just go!”

Tears coursed down Virgil’s cheeks. “Lo, please-”

“You are and always have been nothing more than a ticking time bomb, Virgil. Didn’t Sandry teach you that?”

The tall hero froze. Logan no longer sounded like himself. Virgil knew his dearest friend would never mention that, no matter his anger. No one would - except Virgil himself. Logan’s words were Virgil’s own, the ones he directed against himself on all the dark days. The world crumbling at his touch, inadvertent pain against the one he loved? This was his own private nightmare made real. He took a deep breath, in for four counts. Hold for seven. Out for eight.

“I am not a monster,” he whispered to himself. “I have enhanced abilities. I use them to do the best I can to help others. I pull my punches, I take care to not use too much force. I don’t hurt my loved ones. I am a hero because I try to be one, and I succeed at an above-average rate.”

Slowly, the craters fixed themselves, and the wall re-erected itself. The blood and bones vanished off Logan’s arm, and he was now as he had been, frozen, looking with distress off into nothing as his eyes shifted rapidly. Virgil reached out slowly, gently, to brush his shoulder with a feather-light touch. His partner didn’t respond, but neither did he bruise.

Virgil turned, hearing footsteps. He kept breathing evenly, repeating his mantras to himself, and stepped towards the sound of movement. It was Gale Force, Patton, walking evenly through the mist without hesitation.

Patton stepped through the border of light to dark as easy as breathing. It took him almost ten steps before he realized he no longer heard the heroes and his partner on his right. He turned to see them all paralyzed. Roman’s beautiful, radiant red fire had faded. Patton had been around for enough dark days to recognize the despair etched into his love’s face. He almost ran to him when he saw that the Doctor was frozen too, not on his knees but standing. Doctor Vectorious, who was intriguing and infuriating and condescending and so very pretty seemed to shiver and jerk with some internal movement. Even Reflex had paused, looking confused and distressed. His love and his... partners. Not friends. They were coworkers, if that. Nothing more. What had put them in such a state?

He felt a slight weight on his chest. An impression of tears, of bricks and water and twisted metal. He turned, and walked towards the center of the cloud, seeking Agent Whisper. He was sure he was getting closer, he could feel it. And with every step he saw flashes of the past. A dusty courtyard, the Hundredth-of-an-Acre Wood. A lanky child carrying two giggling girls on his back. Phantom hands smacked his and ran away laughing in a game of tag. Two women smiled down at him, hands linked.

Now they shifted. Bruises and blood appeared, torsos were covered in brick. Limbs became maimed and mangled beyond recognition. And voices drifted out of mouths that couldn’t possibly be producing them.

“You should have saved us.”

“Why were you the only one to survive?”

“You let me die.”

Patton lifted a hand casually to push back the clouds and give himself more visibility. Finally, a form in the mist. It seemed to eat the light around it, a human-shaped hole cut out against reality, a black pit that had no eyes to stare at him.

“How?” a voice asked, shrieking in impossibly high and low octaves at once. It was an eagle’s cry and an earthquake’s rumble, unnatural and natural at once. Patton turned to it, and smiled brightly.

“Oh, kiddo, were you trying to make us feel bad? Here’s a fun little factoid for you!” He grunted with effort as he conjured a cone of air, tightly wound and pointed away from his team. His face fell into a dark mask as he sent the tornado hurtling towards the dark form opposing them. “I’ve felt worse.”

The form dodged easily, but backed up. Reflex appeared at Patton’s side, scowling and tensed to attack. The mist started to lift, helped along by Patton’s winds.

Both hero and villain heard a sound that might have been the crack of rock and might have been a swear. Clouds suddenly rushed past them, flowing from their backs towards Agent Whisper. They swirled around them and starting to soar into the air, a column of dark clouds even as the last traces faded from the square. Reflex shot off from the ground, ready to give chase, but in a breath the clouds were gone and out of sight.

“Fuck,” he said, coming back to land. “That was rough. How were you so unaffected?”

“It’s just ghosts,” Patton replied with a shrug. “I’m always surrounded by ghosts. I’m more worried about our partners.”

Reflex nodded, and they both flew over to where Roman and the Doctor were recovering. Patton was immediately kneeling at Roman’s side, rubbing a warm, grounding hand on his lower back.

“I’m here, love,” he whispered. “The dark is gone, you’re safe, and wonderful, and deserving of all the love I could possibly give you and at least twice as much on top of that.”

Roman stirred, slowly uncurling out of the fetal position. “Sunshine?” he asked raspily. “That’s really you?”

“It’s me, my ruby. I’m here. I love you. You deserve that love.”

Roman moved slowly to sitting up, shuddering. Patton continued to rub small, comforting circles on his lower back, the other hand coming up to run through Roman’s silky, dark hair.

“How did it come on so suddenly, Pat?”

“Agent Whisper, sweetness. I guess that’s what the illusions are - a blast of bad emotions, and our brains fill in the rest.”

Roman shivered and nodded. “Makes sense. And I’m already starting to feel better. Thank you, honeybunch. I don’t know what I’d do without you.”

Virgil half-listened to the villains’ conversation but his main focus was on Logan. He gently touched his arm, still flinching at the idea of accidentally hurting him. But the speedster’s eyes had finally gone back to normal, focusing on Virgil’s face instead of cycling rapidly.

“Vee?” he asked, voice barely audible. He cleared his throat and tried again. “Is this real?”

“Yes, L, it’s real,” Virgil murmured back.

“Can I-” words seemed to fail him, but he lifted his arms enough for Virgil to understand him.

“Of course,” he said, smiling as he wrapped his arms around his friend and partner. Logan hugged back tightly, burying his face in Virgil’s muscled shoulders to avoid knowing if there were tears on his face or not. Virgil hugged tighter, lifting Logan fully into the air and surprising a laugh out of the shorter man.

“Hey! I’m not a child!” he complained, grinning.

“But you are my babe,” Virgil responded, teasing. “My tiny boyfriend.”

Logan blushed a deep red at that. “Oh, yes, I suppose I am.”

“That’s gay,” Roman drawled, standing with Patton’s help. “Dear, look at the heroes, they’re gay.”

“Heroes? More like queeroes!”

Logan’s blush didn’t fade as he glared over. “That was terrible.”

“Is that why you’re laughing internally?” Virgil asked blandly, to Logan’s indignation.

“Hey, don’t out me in front of them!”

“Oh horror of horrors, the nerd might actually have a sense of humor,” Roman said, draping a hand dramatically over his forehead. Color had returned to his golden cheeks, and his eyes were practically crackling with rich hazel energy.

“I’m glad you’re both feeling better,” Virgil said, putting Logan back on his feet. “Even if this Whisper fuck got away again.”

“We know what they’re capable of, now,” Logan said. “We can prepare for next time. Or at least brace ourselves for it.”

Patton nodded. “‘Flex and I are proof it can be overcome. So there’s hope for you two as well.”

“Go home and get some rest, gather your emotional strength,” Virgil advised, slipping his hands into Logan’s grip. “I’ve got a feeling we’ll be called again much sooner than we’d like.”

The villains nodded and flew off together, Roman rocketing ahead of Patton.

“Ladybug, slow down,” Patton complained. “You’re going too fast for me!”

“You’re going too slow!” Roman cried happily, looping in circles high and low. “God, I can’t believe how much better I feel now that we’re away from that creep!” He laughed and created a glowing red surfboard. He stood on it and balanced with exaggerated outspread hands, conjuring a huge red wave that crashed over Patton as he flew through the air still. He giggled, and the wave crashed into an explosion of butterflies and ruby wings sprouted from his back.

“Ro, come on, let’s go home,” Patton pleaded. “We can bring the butterflies if you want.”

“Butterflies are old news,” Roman replied, snapping his fingers. The forms around him melted into a huge dragon that carried him on its back as it blew sparkling fire.

“Roro, please!”

“No, not a dragon. A witch!” Roman cried, unhearing. “No, both!” Crackles of energy sparked as the dragon shifted and twisted into a dragon-witch complete with crystalline hat.

Patton sighed. The emotional manipulation had triggered a manic phase, and there was no reasoning with Ro when he was in mania’s throes. He turned in mid-air and flew to their home alone, trusting that his love would come find him when he’d calmed.

Roman flew, creating and destroying and creating anew until the sun started to fade. When the light in the sky began to match the red light of his constructs, he looked up at the clouds and thought of Patton. His love, his salvation, his partner in crime. Literally. Not that they’d been caught more than the one time.

He flew lower, just above the rooftops, finally traveling at normal speeds once more. Just as the forced low had been brief, his uncontrollable high was resolving faster than normal, too. He sheepishly contemplated the apologies he would need to make to his partner for worrying him and leaving him behind when he’d soared into the sky.

He floated down to earth to walk the last few blocks home. He stepped off into a dark alley to change back into civilian clothes.

If only he’d looked a bit harder at the shadows.

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D.R.E.A.M. Index #337403 Classification: M.1.ii [Primary Tier Neutral, Acquired Powers] Name: Ghost/Nebula Status: ACTIVE Civilian Name: [CLEARANCE: CONFIDENTIAL] Lulu Ador Affiliation: Neutral /////////H.A.T.C.H. Status: Blackout Only Partners/Sidekicks: #337471; #337402 Primary Foes: #337402 Powers: Shadow Teleportation; Psionic Construction [Star Sprites] /////////As Ghost, can travel through any shadow to any other; As Nebula, can summon star-sprites who are directed by her thoughts Costume: Tailored suit in a galaxy print and bow tie with a matching mask Age: 27 Height: 5’7 Pronouns: She/Her H.E.A.R.T.S. Class ‘10 Note: Valedictorian of her class, on similar caliber to DI#337255 - Doctor Vectorious. Ghost appears to be almost like possession, while Nebula is the 'true' form. When as Nebula, she is a hero, albeit one frustrated with the overly-physical nature of typical heroing due to her fibro. Classified as neutral because any given day she may be one or the other

D.R.E.A.M. Index #337402 Classification: Z.2.i [Secondary Tier Villain, Legacy] Name: Lovely Darling Status: ACTIVE Civilian Name: [CLEARANCE: CONFIDENTIAL] Danielle Disney Affiliation: Villain Partners/Sidekicks: #337403 Primary Foes: #337403 Powers: Mesmerizing; Power of Suggestion; Forced Infatuation /////////Anyone within a radius of approximately 10 yards is susceptible; focus on a particular person makes it more compelling and longer-lasting Costume: Purple and pink ballgown with a hoop skirt; heart-shaped mask Age: 26 Height: 5’7 Pronouns: She/Her H.E.A.R.T.S. Class ‘11 Note: Teams up with DI#337403 - Ghost/Nebula and feuds with her in equal measure, depending on how much her current scheme might affect others

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a/n: Spot the Steven Universe reference! There's also a Firefly quote in there. Partly an homage to one of the other possible names for this fic as a whole, ‘Big Damn Heroes’

(Fanfic writing, aka, finding ways to sneak in references to other fandoms and also inserting your friends in as background characters <3)

[spamzineglasgow]

SPAM Digest #4 (Jan 2019)

A quick list of the editors’ current favourite critical essays, post-internet think pieces, and literature reviews that have influenced the way we think about contemporary poetics, technology and storytelling

The Secrets of the Wood Wide Web 

Having  had my curiosity of the physicalities of the internet sparked by a guest speaker at the Dark Mycology reading group organized by Glasgow collective A&E, a term that stuck with me was the Wood Wide Web. It seemed as though there were comparisons to be drawn by the way the internet functions with those of forests. In particular, the idea that the collaborations between plants and fungi in a given space can allow us to conceive of a dense woodland area as a single superorganism, much in the same way the thousands of ethernet cables that enable global communications can be conceived of as a single network or organism with the term 'internet'. What this Wood Wide Web actually comes down to is encapsulated in the term 'mycorrhiza'.

This word comes from a melding of the Greek word for fungus (mykós) and root (riza). It's semantic form mirrors its biological definition, the growing together of roots and fungi. Through this formation, individual plants are linked together through an 'underground hyphal network', one that has become known as the Wood Wide Web.

Mycologists have come to picture this partnership between certain types plants and fungi as a symbiosis, one that connects rather than infects. Visualised in a way that reminds me of fibre-optic threads, certain fungi send out gossamer-fine fungal tubes called hyphae. These tubes run through the soil, right through to the tips of certain plant roots, reaching them at the cellular level, a process mycologists believe to be around four hundred and fifty million years old.

The implications of this multispecies system go beyond the mere exchange of nutrients between certain plant and fungi. What is perhaps most intriguing is the revelation of both communicatory and utilitarian systems that this reveals. One example being that a dying tree has the ability to pass over its resources to other trees for the well-being of the community. This goes hand in hand with the trees' abilities to send out warning messages to its neighbours, alerting them to infection from insects such as Aphids, instructing them to raise their defensive responses before the insect reaches their roots. Whilst, as this article points out, above ground communication between plants has been known for some time, it is the precision of such warnings between source and recipient that flow through the myco-net that raises big questions in relation to ecosystems. One of the most captivating, and perhaps most pertinent, in an age where transhumanism is gaining popularity, is about where one species begins and another ends.

M.P.

‘New Feelings: Crush Fatigue’ by Alexandra Molotkow in Real Life Mag

What a relief it is to have a word that legitimates the ache of a crush, placed in context. As part of Real Life’s ‘NEW FEELINGS’ column, Molotkow’s essay explores the condition of ‘limerence’: an ‘infatuation’ that is tormentingly ‘both all-consuming and totally frivolous’. Citing Dorothy Tennov’s 1979 book, Love and Limerence, Molotkow considers the term as a state of being, a cleaving within the daily that creates its own pulse and energy — both ‘disruptive and wasteful’, an outsourcing of pain; but also a drive and a joy. To have a ‘limerent crush’ is ‘a quick and deep way of reaching beyond yourself’; perhaps a solution to the refractions of narcissism which plague our lives online. Usefully, Molotkow situates limerence within the phenomenology and infrastructure of the internet, its mediated impulse towards constant contact, connection, immediacy.

We might think of limerence as an intensification of what Kathleen Stewart calls ‘ordinary affects’: ‘the varied, surging capacities to affect and to be affected that give everyday life the quality of a continual motion of relations, scenes, contingencies and emergence’. Like clouds, limerent crushes are made of vapour — so many scenes, pixelations of memories and images — and they loom over you awhile, and eventually will almost certainly dissipate. There is a potential resistance to tuning into limerence, the way it distracts one’s attention from the quantitative mundanity of labour, of daily existence. Overwhelmingly, however, contemporary capitalism keeps us on the self-producing circuit of an orbital, lovesick sugar rush: ‘social media platforms and search engines both mimic the structure of an obsession and provide new compulsions for it’; ‘the internet has a way of literalizing obsession’.

Ultimately, crushes are less about the crush and more about the sufferer of limerence itself. Obsession breeds self-obsession, a negative inward folding. And yet this is where all the valuable, lamenting art, the poems and lovelorn ballads come from. Beam me up, softboi (and the problematic gender divisions therein such crushing)! The advantage of the limerent experience is its allowance of a gap, of room for fantasy within everyday life. Molotkow posits the relatable idea that the preferred kind of relationship is one ‘wherein you remain at a distance while giving each other something to think about’. The internet makes visible the footprints of your longing: those read receipts, unsent messages, time since last online, Instagram stories that vanish by morning. Maybe the kindness of strangers is the trade of impressions, the chance nick of intimacy that occurs in the virtual or IRL city. The residue traces of crushes you miss, little hurts that throb like an old toothache.

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M.S.

Allison Parrish "Experimental Creative Writing with the Vectorized Word" at Strange Loop

Allison Parrish (a poet, computer programmer, force of nature, and generally massive crush of mine) introduces in this lecture the fascinating concept - or rather, possibility - of representing ordinary and literary language as a spectrum of vectors, that is as an assemblage of the data-storing elements on which computer programming language is built.

Parrish's talk stems from Amiri Baraka's seductive vision of an imaginary writing-machine that could be commanded with our entire body as opposed to only with our fingers - a sort of writing-theremin. Would it be possible, Parrish asks, to create an interface that could similarly allow us to translate bodily gestures into language?  Parrish finds the main issue with the Barakian project in a crucial difference between sound and language; namely, that sound is continuous and measurable, whereas language isn't. The real question, then, becomes whether or not it is possible to represent language as a continuous function. Hence, Parrish's attempt to contemplate how we might go about turning words into vectors.

Parrish then goes on to explain the way she attempted to go about it herself. Her starting hypothesis is a distributional one: linguistic items with similar distributions tend have similar meanings (i.e. words that occur in similar linguistic patterns must have related meanings). Her method, then, was to transform words into numerical vectors derived from an analysis of which words behave similarly in a sample textual database (for example, according to her methodology, superlative adjectives or the names of months ended up being represented as very similar vectors).  

The productive and exciting part of Parrish's enterprise is that once words are reduced to vectors, all sorts of mathematical operations can be performed on them. Average vectors-words can be calculated within a particular set or source text (the average between 'day' and 'night' in Bram Stoker's Dracula is 'morning' or 'evening'), and so can sum-words, subtraction-words, and all sorts of alterations (also in Dracula, water + frozen = ice). Moreover, Parrish highlights that because word vectors consist in a continuous representation of meaning, that is they can be represented as a continuous wave form, like an audio file or an image, then operations typical of these formats can also be applied. Vectorial texts can be blurred, compressed, and blended with other texts at different gradients (which she codes an interface to do!).

The talk is 40 minutes long and tbh worth all of your time - but if you need convincing, you might want to start with the text-merging experiments start around the 20 min mark :’)

D.B.

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Original Post from Microsoft Secure Author: Eric Avena

Scientific and technological advancements in deep learning, a category of algorithms within the larger framework of machine learning, provide new opportunities for development of state-of-the art protection technologies. Deep learning methods are impressively outperforming traditional methods on such tasks as image and text classification. With these developments, there’s great potential for building novel threat detection methods using deep learning.

Machine learning algorithms work with numbers, so objects like images, documents, or emails are converted into numerical form through a step called feature engineering, which, in traditional machine learning methods, requires a significant amount of human effort. With deep learning, algorithms can operate on relatively raw data and extract features without human intervention.

At Microsoft, we make significant investments in pioneering machine learning that inform our security solutions with actionable knowledge through data, helping deliver intelligent, accurate, and real-time protection against a wide range of threats. In this blog, we present an example of a deep learning technique that was initially developed for natural language processing (NLP) and now adopted and applied to expand our coverage of detecting malicious PowerShell scripts, which continue to be a critical attack vector. These deep learning-based detections add to the industry-leading endpoint detection and response capabilities in Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection (Microsoft Defender ATP).

Word embedding in natural language processing

Keeping in mind that our goal is to classify PowerShell scripts, we briefly look at how text classification is approached in the domain of natural language processing. An important step is to convert words to vectors (tuples of numbers) that can be consumed by machine learning algorithms. A basic approach, known as one-hot encoding, first assigns a unique integer to each word in the vocabulary, then represents each word as a vector of 0s, with 1 at the integer index corresponding to that word. Although useful in many cases, the one-hot encoding has significant flaws. A major issue is that all words are equidistant from each other, and semantic relations between words are not reflected in geometric relations between the corresponding vectors.

Contextual embedding is a more recent approach that overcomes these limitations by learning compact representations of words from data under the assumption that words that frequently appear in similar context tend to bear similar meaning. The embedding is trained on large textual datasets like Wikipedia. The Word2vec algorithm, an implementation of this technique, is famous not only for translating semantic similarity of words to geometric similarity of vectors, but also for preserving polarity relations between words. For example, in Word2vec representation:

Madrid – Spain + Italy ≈ Rome

Embedding of PowerShell scripts

Since training a good embedding requires a significant amount of data, we used a large and diverse corpus of 386K distinct unlabeled PowerShell scripts. The Word2vec algorithm, which is typically used with human languages, provides similarly meaningful results when applied to PowerShell language. To accomplish this, we split the PowerShell scripts into tokens, which then allowed us to use the Word2vec algorithm to assign a vectorial representation to each token .

Figure 1 shows a 2-dimensional visualization of the vector representations of 5,000 randomly selected tokens, with some tokens of interest highlighted. Note how semantically similar tokens are placed near each other. For example, the vectors representing -eq, -ne and -gt, which in PowerShell are aliases for “equal”, “not-equal” and “greater-than”, respectively, are clustered together. Similarly, the vectors representing the allSigned, remoteSigned, bypass, and unrestricted tokens, all of which are valid values for the execution policy setting in PowerShell, are clustered together.

Figure 1. 2D visualization of 5,000 tokens using Word2vec

Examining the vector representations of the tokens, we found a few additional interesting relationships.

Token similarity: Using the Word2vec representation of tokens, we can identify commands in PowerShell that have an alias. In many cases, the token closest to a given command is its alias. For example, the representations of the token Invoke-Expression and its alias IEX are closest to each other. Two additional examples of this phenomenon are the Invoke-WebRequest and its alias IWR, and the Get-ChildItem command and its alias GCI.

We also measured distances within sets of several tokens. Consider, for example, the four tokens $i, $j, $k and $true (see the right side of Figure 2). The first three are usually used to represent a numeric variable and the last naturally represents a Boolean constant. As expected, the $true token mismatched the others – it was the farthest (using the Euclidean distance) from the center of mass of the group.

More specific to the semantics of PowerShell in cybersecurity, we checked the representations of the tokens: bypass, normal, minimized, maximized, and hidden (see the left side of Figure 2). While the first token is a legal value for the ExecutionPolicy flag in PowerShell, the rest are legal values for the WindowStyle flag. As expected, the vector representation of bypass was the farthest from the center of mass of the vectors representing all other four tokens.

Figure 2. 3D visualization of selected tokens

Linear Relationships: Since Word2vec preserves linear relationships, computing linear combinations of the vectorial representations results in semantically meaningful results. Below are a few interesting relationships we found:

high – $false + $true ≈’ low ‘-eq’ – $false + $true ‘≈ ‘-neq’ DownloadFile – $destfile + $str ≈’ DownloadString ‘ Export-CSV’ – $csv + $html ‘≈ ‘ConvertTo-html’ ‘Get-Process’-$processes+$services ‘≈ ‘Get-Service’

In each of the above expressions, the sign ≈ signifies that the vector on the right side is the closest (among all the vectors representing tokens in the vocabulary) to the vector that is the result of the computation on the left side.

Detection of malicious PowerShell scripts with deep learning

We used the Word2vec embedding of the PowerShell language presented in the previous section to train deep learning models capable of detecting malicious PowerShell scripts. The classification model is trained and validated using a large dataset of PowerShell scripts that are labeled “clean” or “malicious,” while the embeddings are trained on unlabeled data. The flow is presented in Figure 3.

Figure 3 High-level overview of our model generation process

Using GPU computing in Microsoft Azure, we experimented with a variety of deep learning and traditional ML models. The best performing deep learning model increases the coverage (for a fixed low FP rate of 0.1%) by 22 percentage points compared to traditional ML models. This model, presented in Figure 4, combines several deep learning building blocks such as Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and Long Short-Term Memory Recurrent Neural Networks (LSTM-RNN). Neural networks are ML algorithms inspired by biological neural systems like the human brain. In addition to the pretrained embedding described here, the model is provided with character-level embedding of the script.

Figure 4 Network architecture of the best performing model

Real-world application of deep learning to detecting malicious PowerShell

The best performing deep learning model is applied at scale using Microsoft ML.Net technology and ONNX format for deep neural networks to the PowerShell scripts observed by Microsoft Defender ATP through the AMSI interface. This model augments the suite of ML models and heuristics used by Microsoft Defender ATP to protect against malicious usage of scripting languages.

Since its first deployment, this deep learning model detected with high precision many cases of malicious and red team PowerShell activities, some undiscovered by other methods. The signal obtained through PowerShell is combined with a wide range of ML models and signals of Microsoft Defender ATP to detect cyberattacks.

The following are examples of malicious PowerShell scripts that deep learning can confidently detect but can be challenging for other detection methods:

Figure 5. Heavily obfuscated malicious script

Figure 6. Obfuscated script that downloads and runs payload

Figure 7. Script that decrypts and executes malicious code

Enhancing Microsoft Defender ATP with deep learning

Deep learning methods significantly improve detection of threats. In this blog, we discussed a concrete application of deep learning to a particularly evasive class of threats: malicious PowerShell scripts. We have and will continue to develop deep learning-based protections across multiple capabilities in Microsoft Defender ATP.

Development and productization of deep learning systems for cyber defense require large volumes of data, computations, resources, and engineering effort. Microsoft Defender ATP combines data collected from millions of endpoints with Microsoft computational resources and algorithms to provide industry-leading protection against attacks.

Stronger detection of malicious PowerShell scripts and other threats on endpoints using deep learning mean richer and better-informed security through Microsoft Threat Protection, which provides comprehensive security for identities, endpoints, email and data, apps, and infrastructure.

  Shay Kels and Amir Rubin Microsoft Defender ATP team

  Additional references:

A. Rubin, S. Kels, D. Hendler, Detecting Malicious PowerShell Scripts Using Contextual Embeddings

A. Rubin, S. Kels, D. Hendler, Detecting malicious PowerShell commands using deep neural 

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World map vector graphics you can download with a few clicks

If you’re looking at including a world map on your website designs, a world map vector is just the thing.  A world map is a great addition to any tourist site.  You can show your viewers how to travel from Germany to Sweden, or even how sustainable products prevent plastic from landing up on beaches around the world.  As a designer, you can use free vector maps for any number of reasons.  And a creative world map vector will add to your site designs too.

Artists and graphic designers have come up with some awesome map vector designs over the years.  From fruit peels to water, there is no end to the creative materials they have used to create a world vector map.

If you’ve been searching for an original and creative free vector world map, you’ll know this takes time.  Save that time by exploring our list op map of the world vector designs.  You’ll be certain to meet your artistic deadlines with time to spare.

There’s no longer any need to search the internet for that perfect world map.  And you will no longer need to work on your own designs.  Meet tight deadlines with this great list of vector designs. These free vectors are easily downloadable and will add a professional touch to your website.

Why would you need to use a world map vector?

Why would you want to use a vector world map?  After all, the last time you really took interest in a map of the world was during a school class.  You certainly don’t want to go back there and you might have largely forgotten the need for world maps.  You’re a designer after all.  Your goal is to help your clients come up with great designs.

It’s the need for great designs which will draw you towards world maps.  As you begin to work with clients in a globalized market, many companies want to share their global locations to customers around the world.  Sustainable companies may want to show how their products are having a positive impact worldwide.  And travel companies would use a world map to show tour routes.

So from About Us pages, where companies share how their businesses have been located throughout the world, to Contact Us pages, a company is able to share their work goals and locations.

Free world vector maps

There are many different world map styles available online.  Some world map line art designs are super clean, while other world vector map illustrations are playful and creative.

This collection adds a range of different choices so that you can find what you need.  Enjoy searching through our choices.

World With Landmarks

Looking for a world map which will show you many famous landmarks?  Download this world map free and your site visitors will be able to look at pins which show these important sites.

World Map With Connection

How would you like to use a vector which is semi-transparent?  You’ll get dots and connections to show to your viewers.  What a great free world map to download.

World Map Vector Design

This world vector has separate continents so you can show your viewers elements important to your site.

Infographic Location Elements

Would you like to use a vector world map which shows you a specific location as well as planes to reach these points?  If so this is a great free world map to download.

Framed Watercolor World Map

Would you like an attractive map of the world vector created in watercolor style? This sophisticated map vector will add creativity and sophistication to your site.

Retro World Map

Vintage style has become increasingly popular and what could be better than this high quality world map?  Created in retro style, this world map seems to be created on old paper.

Green World Map

If you’re looking for free world maps which will stand out on your site, have a look at this green map vector.  Checkpoints are all in red for contrasting effect.  For striking results download this free vector now.

Vector World Map

If you want to look at different countries in a single glance then this free world map is for you.  This world map has different colors for different countries which makes it a great choice for your site.

Infographic World Map

You can use this vector to isolate specific locations.  Pins and text holders will enable you to show where your clients are based and offer up information about this.

Dot World Connection Map

Would you like to show how different areas within the world connect? Use this vector world map.  Dots and lines show connectivity on this free world vector map.

Dots and Connections Map

Create networks of connections using dots on this global map vector.

Dotted Pattern Map

A dotted pattern enables you to show different parts of the world on this free world map.

Technical Style Map

Are you looking for a map vector with a technical appearance?  If so, this great world map is free to download.

3D World Map

If you’re looking for a 3D world vector you’ll love this global map vector.  Colored in blue, this free vectors world map gives you four different perspectives too.

Colored World Map

If you’re looking for a great map vector for an educational site, this one makes a great option.  Each country has a different color for easy viewing.

Blue World Map

If you would love a world map free in low – poly style, you’ll love this blue vector.

Network World Map

This vector world map has a network concept which makes it the perfect choice for your website designs.

Geometric World Map

This world vector has colorful geometric transitions which makes it a great free vectors world map for your site.

Dotted World Map

This high quality world map has different continents in different colors.  Great for an overview, uses dots to show locations.  This makes it an excellent world map free vector for your site.

Scribbled World Map

Looking for a creative maps vector?  This world map line art drawing uses pen to give a subtle effect.  Great for adding a handmade element to your site, this map of the world vector is also free for download.

Reflection World Map

Are you looking for a vector of the world which has low – poly colour transitions?  If so, this blue vector of the world is just for you.

Color Scheme World Map

If you are looking for a colorful vector map of the world, this subtle, pastel style design makes a great option.  County names are included.

Watercolor World Map

Add a soft and subtle touch to your site with this watercolor vector of the world.  Designed in attractive blue and turquoise, you’ll add artistic appeal to your site.

3D World Map

This great map of the world vector has been created in 3D and comes in a green color, with each country shown in a different green shade.

Vector World Map

Would you like a political world vector map?  If so, this free vector map is a great choice.  Soft shades distinguish countries from one another.  You can download this map in different formats for both vector and raster. You can also get a blank free vector map and begin to design your political map from this basis.

Vectorial World Map

A vector of the world map which comes in a colorful pattern.  You can use this free vector map for all of your design projects.

Free vectorial world map

If you are looking for a free vector map from an open source, you’ll love this brightly colored vector of the world.  Each country is titled and can be customized using Illustrator.  You can use this map free for all of your personal projects.

Vector Tech Map

This is an excellent free vector map which is great for use in both web and print design.  Designed by Chadlonius, this vector is great for website backgrounds.  You can use this vector for all of your design projects, personal and commercial, as long as you give credit to the designer.

MacDaddy World

If you are looking for a free world map which offers up broad continent shapes without individual countries, you’ll love this world map.  It makes a great choice for art projects and has a vintage aesthetic.  You’ll also enjoy the soft coloring on this map vector.

Dark World Map

This is a free map of the world vector which uses negative space to create networks.  Overall, the map is dark and very attractive.  Download this earth map vector free.

Glowing World Map

This is a free vector map which glows to reveal international networks.  You can download this global map vector for your website designs.

Vector World Map Version 2.2

If you love a traditional world map aesthetic, this is a great choice for you.  It is old but has been updated into a very useful and practical political world map.  You can also select countries using this earth map vector.

Vector Maps

If you are looking for more than just a single map of the world vector, this sophisticated selection will give you great choices.

This is a world map labeled not only with countries but city titles too.  You can edit or adjust this map, changing colors, texts, lettering and even line thickness to create a completely customized design.  You’ll love this vector as it gives a great foundation for creating maps of different areas, countries or continents.

Vector World Map

If you’d like a very effective and free world map vector to use on your website designs, this one makes a great choice.

La Cartoteca World Map

This great world vector map is a particular favorite amongst graphic designers.  It comes absolutely free and can be labeled and edited to create a customized design.  Information is based on Natural Earth as well as CIA World FactBook Data.

World Continents Map Vector

Are you looking for a high-quality world map which comes absolutely free?  If so, you’ll love this great vector map of the world.  It shows you the different continents, making it perfect for a broad overview of global locations.

Outlined World Map

If you are looking for free country maps, this one makes a great choice.  You can also include clocks, pins and checkpoints in your overall design.

Infographic and Continents World Map

If you would like a world map with different colored continents, as well as name tags for continents and oceans, this maps vector makes a great choice.

Vector Open Stock 4-Color World Map

This free map vector has four different colours to add interesting appeal to your site.  You can use it free for both personal and commercial use as long as you credit the site designer when you publish it on your site.

Wikipedia Equirectangular World Map

If you are looking for a world vector free of charge to absolutely everyone, this Wikipedia option is a great choice.  You can use this free map vector in two different sizes, and it comes in SVG format.

Grayscale World Map

This free vector map of the world is grayscale and uses shadows as well as country outlines.  Download free for your project designs.

Shadows World Map

If you are looking for a map of the world vector which works with shadows and gradients, you will love this vector of the world.

Premium Vector Maps

World Map

If you want to work with a premium vector map of the world, this file will cost you $7.  This price includes country names, capitals, oceans, pie charts as well as information about the world.

You’ll get both A2 and A3 size designs which can be printed out.

A choice of CMYK colors for print designs.

Fonts or letters which can be changed or edited.

Content which can be layered for customized results.

This map can be used in AI, JPEG, PDF and EPS format.

Triangled Vector World Map

This great vector map of the world has a 3D aesthetic.  It is a polygonal artwork which is unique in appearance.  You will be able to use this vector design to add a professional element to a modern website.  Size can easily be adjusted without losing quality.  It comes in AI, EPS and JPEG.

Flat Style Abstract World Map

For a gorgeous world vector which has been carefully designed, this flat style design makes a great choice.  This world map vector has a cartoon style design with simple country outlines, colorful illustrations and even animals on their respective continents.  It makes a great choice for an educational site as well as for children’s designs.

Grunge painted world map

What would a collection of world map designs be without a grunge style map?  This world map is very creative, with a grunge style appearance, textures, cool colors and decorative elements.  This map would make a cool addition to trendy designs, banners and t-shirts.  It has an EPS file format.

World Map – dots + squares

If you are looking for a vector which will add a polished and sophisticated element to your site, this is a great option.  Well suited to digital design, the designer has used squares and dots to create, with exquisite skill, each country of the world.  This world vector comes in 4 different resolutions depending on the size of your design.  Choose between low resolution, medium, high or super high.

In addition, you will be able to edit each and every detail on your design, changing the size of your circles and squares with just a few simple clicks. What more could you ask for than this map vector.

Final thoughts on these world map vector designs

You can use world map designs for many different purposes.  From presentations to website designs, location designs and information on international relations, a world vector can serve multiple purposes.

Begin by exploring what you need as well as the style of your site.  From there, all you will need to do is browse this collection of vector designs.  There are many different styles and we are sure that you will find one perfect for your site or project.

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