#victoria’s not so live commentary

[cuttycrumbing]

Victoria’s last live commentary for Yuri On Ice:

(Pt. 52 but who’s counting?)

I’m not gonna lie to yall. I was staring at the selection screen after it ended for a good minute there, stupid smile frozen on my face even though it’s ended. I think there ought to be something poetic about that, smiling at the end of something I’ve fallen in love with so quickly and so fervently. I keep thinking there’s a next episode even though I know there is no next episode, no movie to watch, no season 2 to hope for.

Yall I love them so much. Yuuri is so good and adorable and I can’t wait to project all my anxiety and depression onto him someday. Victor is such a vibe and I love him for it. Yuri isn’t a perfect character but I love him so much and I love them all so much and—

Thanks for bearing with me, the folks that like my commentaries and I’m just in time to wish everyone a merry Christmas Eve, if yall celebrate!

[cuttycrumbing]

Moi à Haikyuu quand j’écris « demi et demi » mais c’est un peu ma faute car j’ai commencé un nouveau émission chutttttt

hyperfixation please stay with me long enough to complete the project. hyperfixation do not fade. hyperfixation finish what you started for the love of god

[timmydraker]

Tim Drake who hates his dad for various reasons, very few to do with his parenting and more for his actual personality, but his mother?

There isn’t a person alive he adores more than her.

Like, he genuinely worships the ground she stands on and will spend hundreds of hours thinking about what present to give her with a dozens ideas and he always, always, just decides to do them all.

His way of greeting his mother is to kiss her hands, the hands that raised him and defend him from people like Vale with unrelenting force.

Janet isn’t a submissive woman, she is a mother.

Like a predator in the wild, she will do whatever it takes to take care of her son. Janet is a quick witted woman raised in the high class, meaning she can verbally destroy anyone no matter how much their net worth is.

One of the most well known photos from all of Gotham is when Lex Luther came to visit and made a subtle remark about Tim being apart of the ‘woke kids’ after it spoke out about climate change. The photo is of Janet Drake, a remarkably tall woman in stiletto’s, pointing a finger at Lex Luther as if a witch making a curse, the hairless man standing there with a look of genuine regret, and nine year old Tim Drake standing behind his mother with a shit eating grin.

It naturally gets memed.

Tim has called restaurants ahead of time to make sure they will have his mother’s favourite wine when she goes to dinner events, dates with Jack, or a family dinner since he learnt what it was. (And if not then anything Bordeaux will do.)

Tim would come home and cry whenever he wasn’t able to tell his mum about the secret parts of his day, such as him taking photos of Batman and when he became Robin.

But his mother has so much to deal with, so many rude people and conniving businessmen, sexist journalist and people attacking her for her overtly pro-choice commentary.

She doesn’t need to worry about her baby boy and he calls her every night anyway, so she’ll know he is okay.

After all, she went through a horrible pregnancy and never once took it out on or blamed her son.

She went through body dysphoria from how it changed her, struggling with how her hips felt bigger and her whole self felt different, but learnt to love it because it was just proof she did the best she could for her baby.

Even though she went on trips with her husband, she never once forgot to call her son or bring him back little souvenirs. She fully supported him taking photos, buying him a camera even though she didn’t get the appeal, and would laugh so brightly when little Tim begged to take photos of her even though she had just woken up without a hint of make up on and curlers still in her hair.

Naturally, when she passes away he is a wreck.

Even Vickie Vale keeps quiet about it, knowing that the love the boy has for his mother isn’t something to mess with.

Photos of him sobbing at her grave are shamed by the masses, the journalist and paparazzi who toon the photos getting all kinds of backlash.

Bruce, who had once been watched by Tim like a hawk to make sure he wouldn’t do the same thing, subtly puts Tim on watch just in case. He’s not sure if Tim is at that breaking point, but the teenager spends hours walking around the empty house he and his mother used to live in while waiting for his dad to wake up. He’s like a ghost some days, wearing the same clothes and barely talking, while other days it’s like he’s running on pure determination to be the best Robin and heir for his mother’s company.

After a few months, Dick asks Tim what keeps him going even though he’s clearly hurting.

Tim, who has worn black most of that time like Queen Victoria, smiled at his pseudo-brother and answers like it’s obvious,

“Because I’d never hurt my mamas little boy.”

[fabbyf1]

Read the new chapter and AAAAAAAAA I LOVE IT I LOVE IT I LOVE IT

One note: highly amused by Max the entire time going: ‘well that sure is An Emotion I’m feeling! What is it? Who knows not important probably nothing don’t worry about it. Too busy rn loosing it over how hot and pretty and alluring charles is and how much he wants my dick’ I will forever be a sucker for oblivious characters starting on the journey of having an ‘oh’ moment XD

Absolutely loving how confident Charles is. He’s such a menace and it’s so fun and Max never stood a chance XD And holy fuck I love how you’ve written their banter in this one, it feels so true to character

Also I am now imagining a Victoria pov outtake of next chapter where Max leaves his own party early and she somehow knows or finds out it’s because of Charles and is just like ‘ah. Well that tracks. Hopefully my dearest idiot brother will finally have an epiphany 😐’

(Irl P.S. - the fact that Charles said ‘my Max’ in the press conference yesterday?? I’m dying!! I’m DYING!! Even though we will never get context for it I’m DEAD!!)

- Zoomimal

omgggggg bestieeeee!!! this totally made my day. i'm so fucking glad you're enjoying it 😭😭😭 i'm absolutely living for max's commentary as well. he's SO stupid. i love the way he rationalizes these feelings he's having and convinces himself it's not a big deal. it's just because charles is hot and absolutely nothing else!!! that's not any of his business!!!!!

i can't wait for it to smack him in the face soon 🤭

also YES to the victoria bit. i feel like she's going to know it's for charles and just be like ".... yeah checks out."

thank you for writing all of this out for me 😭😭 it really made me smile

[beardedmrbean]

In her garden in northern Athens, four-year-old Niovi plays make-believe, selling cakes from her imaginary shop.

For her two mums, Christina Leimoni and Victoria Kalfaki, their dream may soon become real, as Greece stands on the brink of legalising same-sex marriage.

Parliament will vote on the bill, introduced by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, on Thursday. Facing dissent from members of his own centre-right party, he will need to rely on support from the left-wing opposition to get it through.

Christina and Victoria will be there inside the chamber, willing it to pass. Two years ago, they returned to Greece from the UK, where they had moved for work - and to live their relationship freely.

They married in the UK and Niovi was born there. If the law passes, they plan to have their marriage recognised under Greek law.

'I have no say'

After Niovi's birth in London, they tried to register her at the Greek embassy, but were rebuffed. "The commentary was, 'You should have thought before having her'," Christina recalls.

"It was awful, I cried in the car for 45 minutes, I couldn't stop - it still brings bad memories," Victoria says, welling up with tears. "It's like being rejected by your country."

Without legal recognition for their marriage in Greece, only Victoria, who gave birth to Niovi, is accepted as her mother, even though the egg was from Christina.

At school, she has no say over decisions and when Niovi has been admitted to hospital, Christina has been barred from entering her room.

"My biggest fear is that if anything really bad happens to Victoria and she dies, our child instantly goes to social services, who then see if any of Victoria's relatives want to adopt her," she says.

"If they don't, she goes into an institution. I have no say. So the child wouldn't just lose one mother, she'd lose both of us."

Opposition by the Church

Fifteen of the European Union's 27 members have already legalised same-sex marriage. It is permitted in 35 countries worldwide.

Greece has lagged behind European neighbours largely because of opposition from its powerful church. If the law passes this week, it would become the first Christian Orthodox-majority country, and the first in Europe's southeast, to have marriage equality.

Same-sex couples would also be legally allowed to adopt children but not to have a baby through a surrogate - a recourse that is only legal here for heterosexual couples who have a medical need for assisted reproduction.

"Greece geographically is in the southeast, but culturally and politically it belongs to the West," says Alex Patelis, the prime minister's chief economic advisor and a member of the committee that drafted the marriage bill.

Mr Mitsotakis, recently storming to re-election, faces a weak opposition that has left him the space to tread onto their political turf without jeopardising his own position.

Mr Patelis says the bill is a cornerstone of the prime minister's beliefs: "It's often thought that human rights and equality are the purview of the parties of the left. This is coming from a centre-right party - and it's important to recognise that equality under law and individual rights are also the ideology of the right."

But Greek society is split. A recent poll for Proto Thema newspaper found 55% in favour of same-sex marriage and an even slimmer majority backing adoption.

Up to 50 of Mr Mitsotakis's 158 MPs are expected either to vote against the bill or to be conveniently absent from the chamber, meaning they can duck the vote.

A letter by the Church of Greece opposing the move was read out in morning mass across the country earlier this month, condemning what it said would "promote the abolition of fatherhood and motherhood… and put the sexual choices of homosexual adults above the interests of future children".

One of the most outspoken prelates has been Bishop Seraphim of Piraeus. At the city's Agii Anargiri Church, we watch as he leads a packed service, with worshippers in their Sunday best kissing icons and bowing heads.

He recently warned that he would block MPs who back the bill from his church, adding it would be preferable if they had not been born.

And, he said, he would refuse to baptise children of same-sex couples "to help them understand that what their guardians are doing is a sin."

Outside parliament on Syntagma Square, opponents gather to protest against the bill, beneath banners reading "No children for perverts" and chanting "Take your hands off our kids".

A video shows images including religious icons and, oddly, Bill Gates. Conspiracy theories about a new global order being imposed on Greece have blended with pious Greeks who believe their traditions are being destroyed.

"The Bible says marriage is between a man and a woman - and anything else is a big sin," says Rallou Perperidou.

"Like Sodom and Gomorrah, God destroyed people practising homosexuality. God will forgive them if they accept what they do is wrong and denounce it."

Kyriaki Chantzara, 38, is at the protest with her sister, who is expecting her tenth child.

"Homosexual people cannot give the right example for children because we think the existence of a female and male example is crucial to them. It is a human right for every child to have a father and a mother," she says.

Back in northern Athens, four-year-old Niovi is practising her English with nursery rhymes. Her mums help as she reads "Hickory Dickory Dock, the mouse ran up the clock…"

As time ticks towards the parliamentary vote, the women say their excitement is building. "I'm amazingly happy about it," says Christina.

"It's the start of accepting diversity in general as a country and accepting that all people have equal rights. And for us it will mean reality, because I am Niovi's mother, and this should be supported by the law. The legislation will bring truth to the reality."

[fatestayyuri]

Finished Ward Arc 5

I wish the interludes weren't so good so i could stop reading

i fucking hate this serial. I hate this serial so fucking much. if only it had the fucking decency to just be shit and incoherent all the way through instead of having flashes in the pan of good characters. on the flip side, the cluster interludes piss me off because they're good enough that i would make radically different posts if i post before them rather than after. the fork meatball platter strikes again

god. am i missing something from worm? if its two years after the apocalypse why can people make livings as interior decorators. why is there data but 'only' no unlimited data plans. if rations are so tight why are people talking about authentic italian sausage and fast food. i can buy cars and coffee being there because those are likely the two first things but like. they're building new skyscrapers? i mean the fact that they're building skyscrapers and focusing on fast food before housing the homeless in the tent cities could be biting commentary if like. it cohesed at all. why is all of NY and new england a single giant city. i don't get it. if there's strict caps and fuel rations why. why. why. why.

anyway my designated vicky bitching: she would be a fucking astology girl. i hate her so much. i hate her so much get me OUT of her fucking head

no lemme go back what kind of post apocalypse lets people make upper-middle class livings off of interior decorating and real estate. what the hell

anyway back to victoria 'cop' dallon. I hate her as she's written but like. I despise how the narrative is written around her. transplant her in a story where she can actually bounce her "i miss when we were CIVILIZED" about the city where nazis held power speech off of someone so they could punch her instead of just leaving it to fester in the air and i'd like her character a lot more. i don't know. he's clearly setting up themes and arcs and a journey of her healing past her paranoia but he just kind of. gets bored? is that the right word? it's frustrating.

it's poetry watching her fumble Ashley though. ashley 100% deserves better and i understand. I Understand why she blew that guy up. no notes. i love the way the villains went "ahh here comes the lecture" when victoria opened her mouth after though it was so fucking funny

the cluster though. god. the fucking cluster. they all deserve to kill rain so so bad.

the interplay of how they spiral while rain tries to rebuild and them all KNOWING it's the bleedthrough. I would eat my own organs, could you imagine?

the cluster dynamics are so good. I could eat this up all day. the interludes starring the villains are good too! I wish there was a web serial that just focused on the villains. Too bad it doesn't exist though, real shame

if ward was just the interludes it would be so good. I'm kind of dreading when they resolve the cluster because like. what else would i read this serial for. I guess Ashley and the rest of breakthrough? I'm not asking for all of them to be resolved as well as Snag was here just like. have them follow the narrative arcs. please. please tell me that the cluster is the one good thing about this serial and has a satisfying conclusion. I beg of you

[womanofwords]

Pumpkin Carving

Halloween was approaching, which meant a lot of things, as far as Tobey McCallister was concerned. Spooky decorations, orange and green foods in stores, costumes. But mostly pumpkins.

There were pumpkins everywhere. On people's doorsteps carved into jack-o-lanterns, on decorations, on shirts, piled up on top of each other in a box in stores, everywhere. He saw it on a badge someone was wearing on her jacket. (He had to admit that the badge looked cool.)

It had even gotten to his mother.

"Theodore, we're here to get you a pumpkin," his mother said, matter of fact.

"What for?" he asked.

"For carving. I don't want you to feel left out."

Tobey spluttered with shock. "You never did pumpkin carving when you were a child, and you were fine!"

"I grew up in England. You are living in America. This is a very common practice in this country concerning Halloween. And I think you should have a pumpkin."

And that was that.

(PAUSE)

Tobey looked at the pumpkin as it sat on the kitchen counter, sneering at it. "What do I even need you for, huh?" he asked the pumpkin rhetorically. The pumpkin did not respond, because it was a pumpkin. With comedic timing, a flyer was slid through the letterbox.

HALLOWEEN FESTIVAL! the flyer happily advertised, in shades of orange, green, black, red and gold.

The red and gold were not found on the bubble writing, but on WordGirl. WordGirl was going to be there, supervising a pumpkin carving station.

Maybe it would be worth it after all.

(PAUSE)

Tobey walked in with the pumpkin, feeling out of place. Everyone seemed to know what they were doing and what they wanted to do, and he was just so . . . lost.

"Hi, Tobey!" WordGirl said, flying in with her own pumpkin. "How are you finding the Halloween festival so far?"

"Where's the pumpkin carving station?" Tobey asked.

"It's over here. You're a little early. Have you done this before?" she asked.

Tobey turned red. "N-no."

"That's OK. I'll walk you through it when it starts. Nice pumpkin."

"Thank you," Tobey said.

More people came in with pumpkins and sat down. All of them seemed to know what they were doing.

"OK, class, before we start with the fun part of cutting into the pumpkin, let's make a plan of what you want the face to look like," WordGirl said. "I brought markers, if you need that."

The markers were snatched up quickly. Tobey was lucky to get one at all. Looking around, he saw other people drawing faces onto the pumpkins. The markers were probably just to mark where they would cut later.

"Now for the gooey, gross part," WordGirl instructed. "We're going to cut the top off to make a lid and then we'll scoop out all the guts in the middle."

"Where do we put all the guts afterwards?" Tobey asked.

"Bob will be coming around with a box for it. They're going to be planted to make pumpkins for next year," WordGirl said.

She is so giving, Tobey thought, as she talked about the pumpkin seeds becoming the pumpkins used for next year. He drew a basic set of eyes, a nose and a smiley face for his pumpkin. Nothing too big, after all. It was only his first time.

"How are you getting on, Tobey?" WordGirl asked. Tobey turned red.

"Good. Drew a little something," he said.

"Looks great," WordGirl said. Tobey suppressed his glee.

She thought it looked great, Tobey thought, as he got out a knife and stabbed through the pumpkin. He sawed this way and that, and eventually, he fashioned himself a lid for his jack-o-lantern. Now time for the gross part, which a lot of people were already doing, with their own brand of commentary to go with it.

"Ew, it's so gross!" TJ said, as he stuck his whole forearm in.

"And squidgy!" Victoria Best said.

"I know. Just put the guts in there." WordGirl sighed and pointed to the box. "Once you're done, you can start with cutting out the face for your jack-o-lantern."

Tobey was terrified. The pumpkin didn't even have a face yet, but it was taunting him anyway. The first stab was the hardest, and Tobey was scared. What if it went off-track and he had a terrible pumpkin?

"Are you OK, Tobey?" WordGirl asked.

"Yes . . . no." He couldn't lie to her. "I'm worried. That I'll mess it up." He looked at her hopefully. "Could you help?"

"Sure!" WordGirl took Tobey's knife and gave Tobey a smaller knife. She even adjusted the way he held his knife, opening his hand and literally fixing the way he held the knife. He could have fainted with joy. "I'll do the mouth, and you can do the eyes and nose."

"Thank you," Tobey said, his voice shaking. He had to wipe the steam from his glasses before cutting the eyeholes so he could see what he was doing. Everyone else melted away as he and WordGirl worked on this pumpkin together.

Eventually, it was done, and they looked at it with pride. "It looks great," WordGirl said, smiling.

"So do you," Tobey said.

"What was that?"

"I said 'so true'! It is so very true that this jack-o-lantern looks good," Tobey stammered. "I feel like there should be a light or something!"

"Oh!" WordGirl rooted around in her pocket until she got a battery powered light. "It's battery powered, so no risk of it burning anything down."

"Thank you!" Tobey skipped off with his jack-o-lantern, WordGirl waving him off.

"How did it go?" his mother asked, when he returned.

Tobey presented the jack-o-lantern to his mother before setting it down next to the front door with the battery-powered candle. "Amazing."

[marsandstarss]

blue beetle thoughts

spoilers for blue beetle (2023) - I can't stop thinking about a couple of scenes and I need to mention it before my goldfish brain goes brrr

tw: not rlly proofread, I don't remember the name for Jaime's neighborhood

ok so, if you have / haven't seen blue beetle, there is something that I've noticed with the relationship between Kord Industries and imperialism.

In that one scene, when Nana Reyes kills some of the Kord soldiers, she says in Spanish "Baja con los imperialistas!" (Down with the imperialists!) I found this weird, because it seemingly comes outta nowhere. But it adds to the story, in one scene where Milagro and Jaime are on the roof, drinking beers. Here, Milagro mentions how they (Key Edge) used to own the other side of the tracks.

We can see that the people in these neighborhoods were driven out by (possibly) Kord Industries, and similar big companies to build up (both in terms of architecture, and possibly the O.M.A.C. machines.) It seems like Kord Industries was a symbol of imperialists, with how they had control over the people (the people being the people in Palmera City in Jaime and Milagro's beer scene, and Carapax's home).

Another scene that seems to prove my idea of Kord Imperialism/Industries is the backstory of Carapax. We learn that Carapax was originally a kid who lived with his mom in a forest area, and his home was bombed (seemingly) by Kord Industries, which ended up killing his mom. He was made a child soldier, and became a bodyguard/handler for Victoria Kord. It seems that Victoria Kord, or Kord Industries took over his home, to produce weapons (soldiers).

After thinking about all of this, it all makes sense. Nana would say "Down with the imperialists!", because Kord Industries are imperialists. They took over multiple places/areas, to produce weapons (whether it be physical weapons or soldiers).

(if anyone actually is reading this, tysm <3 I might post more on blue beetle, and I'd love some additional commentary and feedback.)

[zahri-melitor]

New(ish) Comics (this is the best week of the month, no lie)

Batman – Santa Claus: Silent Knight #1: this is fun. I like the way Bruce and Damian are written together. I am annoyed Babs is out as Batgirl. I'm amused that Tim is very specifically excluded from the story that involves real Santa given he'd not be wondering 'ooh oooh is Santa real' like Dick is here.

Someone had better give Darkseid some coal, is all I can say.

Batman #139: …so we really are running Batman and Batman & Robin with contradictory plots right now. Cmon. There was even a way to finagle this so that Damian could be living with Bruce and have Zdarsky’s plot still work! Grump.

“I’m coming for you, Joker. I’m coming for all three of you. For the last time.” (actually there’s a printing error in this line and the letterer has ‘For the the last time’) I disbelieve this Zdarsky, sorry, though if you could figure out a way to get Joker out of the Bat books for a few years I think everyone would enjoy that.

Now that aside, I do want to note that apparently my decision to (re)read all of Henri Ducard’s appearances seems to have been prescient, given Zdarsky has just referred to ‘manhunting’, ‘training when I was young’ and ‘Paris’ all together. That’s Ducard. That trio is 100% Ducard. Sounds like I need to finish Henri Ducard’s post-2016 appearances, which I was delaying. So Batman: The Detective and Batman: The Knight are jumping up my reading list. (And a quick look at ‘Lucie Chesson’ says she’s from Batman: The Knight, so yep, gotta read)

Joker + dolls always makes me think of NML Endgame, personally.

Birds of Prey #3: Damn this continues to just be a solid read. Thompson keeps hitting yet another 'look I can be trusted' target every issue.

I could do with at least 30% less Harley commentary in this book, but I do acknowledge that at least half the team are unlikely to talk much in a combat situation. Future!Maps is cute and as I slowly approach Maps content I’m excited to meet her more. Also… SIN MY SWEETHEART. I have been waiting for this hug for SIXTEEN YEARS. (Literally. I was in DC fandom in 2007 when they were torn apart). Also loooooooooool Ollie got curbstomped by Diana, sucks to be you Ollie.

Blue Beetle #3: Oh I couldn’t help myself (in terms of how many panels I already posted), but Blue Beetle is doing such interesting things right now. Victoria’s finally being acknowledged on page as being super sus and villainous (rather than just slinking around being sus and concerning me deeply). I’m getting more and more worried about the identity of the Red Beetle. We got Traci back! Which from what I hear means that Trujillo is glossing over some of Traci’s recent characterisation, but we’ll see how this tracks (and in any case, re-establishing Jaime’s connections to the magic/dark side of DC via Traci is helpful if we’re about to do a Dan Garrett story).

Free my girl Dani Garrett if we’re doing a Dan Garrett storyline, she’s an autistic mildly amoral archaeologist and I desperately, DESPERATELY want to see her arguing with Victoria Kord over who ‘owns’ the scarab while Jaime’s standing in the middle going ‘excuse me nobody owns Khaji Da, it’s its own being! And my friend!’

Fire & Ice: Welcome to Smallville #3: hello Jimmy Olsen! Hello Turtle Jimmy lore! (I love how silly this book is. I do enjoy JLI stuff that doesn’t take itself seriously) I’m getting attached to a few of the new villains, particularly Linka Grodd.

Shazam! #5: MARY SIGHTING. Darla remains tiny and adorable and I love her too. This comic remains committed to ridiculous fun villains (and Waid and Mora have apparently been off raiding the ‘underused weird Silver Age villains’ list). Mr Dinosaur is an amazing addition to the canon. (And yes. Billy rebuilt the moon. Oh Shazam!) Also I see we are still back firmly in the ‘jealous Freddie’ plot that’s been hanging around for a while.

Warlord #25: this week we check back in with Tara, Mariah and Machiste. Grell’s done some fabulous art for the splash page that I really really like.

Travis is fighting *checks notes* snow giants as he's still too ashamed to come hang out with his friends and partner after the whole 'I killed Joshua' incident a few issues back. He's also cutting all sort of things with his Damascus Steel sword which I have to remind everyone and note is highly suspicious damascus steel, because it's made from a RIFLE and there is no way the type of steel used was able to be worked as damascene, given it likely was alloyed wrong.

I love Ashir here (the guy actually wearing clothes) as firstly, look! A rare appearance of someone with most of their skin covered! Secondly, Travis' burn of "I didn't know you had character".

Anyway, Travis is moping a bit here about being a lone warrior. You could go and hang out with your friends any time you want, Travis. You're the one who left, not them.

[andbrokenmemories]

because twig operates in the realm of vague interest. It masters stringing you along with neat biopunk vistas and weird developments and cute, low-nourishment character moments. its playing a shell game with its characters and setting to keep you engaged for just a little while longer. it is wildbow with all the monetary incentive and experience of the first two serials stabbing at a story kernel, a set of prototype ideas, the initial imperfect gristle worm and pact were made out of. And every other wildbow protagonist *bleeds* on the page with the *point* of them, acted out in a relentless march. the singular depth of taylor, the living and unwilling microcosm of Blake. the blunt grating commentaries on justice and social justice of the trio. Victoria Dallon

But Sy is the text presenting the kind of character the text knows Wildbow likes to write. a corkscrew of the order of character creation. a character with the rich inner monologue and unique psychology the text might just be able to flesh out, do something with, find the bleeding-heart point along the way. Sylvester is a shell. He is a thing meant to contain meaning, at some point, by the end. And at every turn, the text reveals what's under the cup, and it's a little piece of paper reading "Wouldn't it be fucked up if..?"

The shell curves in on itself to provide the illusion of its own multifaceted depth. like resolution loss from looking at the reflected mirrors within a mirror, every step that is taken with the character tropeifies his psychology further and further. a guy with the suffering of Blake and a guy with none of the empathy of the text like Blake; the first protagonist to play with romance and sex in a wildbow text doesn't do it for any worldbuilt out reason or resolution, but because it'd be interesting to read if it were written well, wouldn't it? Wouldn't it. Sy being a heartbreaker I guess reads as callous for callousnesses sake because it got put on the permanent backburner because it stopped being something to wrung something out of. We're not in the business of character exploration, we need to find more fucked up things to smile and nod at. More gore and viscera. More oddities. This is a text of oddities and enjoying fucked up things. It's a text that likes little ideas that look smart, in the way dogshit ID disorder caricatures look smart, look 'really makes you think'. Look alien. It is Wildbow as xenoficition writer and xenoficition as "what if there was a guy with voices in his head that told him to KILL people" and wow, wow, isn't it wildbows most underrated work. A real character piece, so many interesting ideas. So much *interest*. Wouldn't it be interesting if. Wouldn't it be fucked up if

[cuttycrumbing]

I've also decided this is a good time to officially announce that I am indeed planning on writing an Ice Ado -inspired/adjacent fic and hopefully the first chapter will be out by the end of the month

stuff for this fic will be under the vitya tag for now

[inimitablereel]

the star paths: an At the Feet of the Sun festivid

commentary below the cut

So this was my first time making a vid for a book, and I've got a lot to say about the process...

Around the time of the festivids submission deadline I got persistently mildly sick and was coping by rereading a lot of Victoria Goddard books (actually not At the Feet of the Sun, I hadn't gotten there yet) and also trying to think of vid ideas while I was lying in bed coughing. Exactly one person (Tafadhali) requested Nine Worlds for festivids and more specifically requested the Lays of the Hearthfire subseries, so I knew I was trying to focus on those specific books.

A brief digression on my general conception of book vids: The two book vids I'd seen before this year's festivids that stuck in my mind were absternr's Nona the Ninth vid and Rhea's Machineries of Empires vid, both of which are great and I'd highly recommend watching if you've read the corresponding books. They both throw in a lot of different concepts from their worlds in ways that I assume aren't necessarily tied to a specific moment in canon (like a pile of skulls for nona the ninth or troop dynamics for machineries of empires), to put together the overall sense of that really complicated worldbuilding. So you have a vid that conceptually starts from specific characters or beats and then spirals outwards to have a full picture of what the vidder thinks the book is about. (To be clear, this is my reading, not a conversation I've had with the vidders, though I did talk to absternr about Barbie World in the very beginning idea generating phase.) So to make a book vid, I had this sense that I needed a really specific concept and to do a fair amount of storyboarding for what was my main idea and what other things about the book I wanted to pull in. I'm calling this discussion of book vids a digression because that's... not quite what I did here. A lot of the key concepts of Hands of the Emperor are not terribly visual (though if you have an idea of how to vid Kip achieves universal basic income, I'd love to see it). When I started trying to think of a key concept/emotional center of either the worldbuilding or Cliopher as a character that was easier to make visual, I came up with the corn sorting in At the Feet of the Sun. From there I thought, well, why not just do the whole section where Kip travels to the Sky Ocean? It's a really visual part of the book and also just going with here are the things that happened in this part of the book in order is a storyboard already built perfectly for me, without any planning required.

(I think you could also definitely make a more conceptual Kip character study vid starting from that corn sorting scene and his journey into the cave of his heart and spiraling out into scenes from his different lives. I hadn't really considered this option when I was coming up with vid ideas... I think you'd probably want to do a Kip faceclaim (and possibly also one for the emperor), which I was avoiding because I didn't want to go find actors. Unless you count a small child, an old man, and a beaver as a faceclaim?)

Once I'd gotten the idea to do a Sky Ocean themed vid, I didn't really think it would work? I'm a little afraid of book vids (stil honestly, I don't know if I'll make another one, though I had fun with this one), and I wasn't sure it'd be interesting to watch or long enough to be a full vid. This was a festivids treat, so I didn't have a length requirement, even though I ended up hitting over a minute anyways, but I just wasn't sure I had enough content to be interesting. From memory 8 months after having read the book, I was only coming up with like 3 scenes from the Sky Ocean trip from memory 8 months after having read the book (the corn sorting, the stair climbing, and I already knew I wanted to end with the new island, even though it's not quite in the sky ocean section). So I went through and reread the section of the book and highlighted every visual description of a moment, sort of color coded by how important I thought it was to include things. I ended up with 28 things highlighted, but as I kept going I highlighted less and less once I realized there were definitely going to be enough moments to include. (Also the reread portion of the vidding process was happening while I was still feeling pretty bad, atfots is a good thing to read while sick but that doesn't necessarily facilitate obsessive highlighting.)

28 highlighted passages turned into a list of 10 visuals I definitely wanted to find and 15 things I might or might not include (which in the end I included half of). This list was basically 20ish tiny research projects for me. Almost everything I'd written down from the star paths had a corresponding real world thing, but not everything was easy to find a video instead of still images, which would be harder to make into a nice vid. (The things I couldn't find a real version of were Kip's coral firepot - firepots are super real, but traditional ones are earthen not coral, and mostly I was finding lots of videos of modern things for grilling parties - and the kinds of birds at the sea witch's island, boobies with white feathers and black feet - they're kind of close to juvenile masked boobies? But I assume they were intentionally chosen to be a nonexistent bird since they're definitely magic.) I wanted to get the right specific types of animals, but those were all pretty easy to find. The HoTE support group discord was (unknowingly) helpful in my attempts to find the right kind of boat - I went searching through chat history and ended up on this New Zealand museum page, which has great images but I wanted videos (and I knew I needed boat building) so I started searching for types of boats and ended up at https://www.vaka.org, which had multiple whole documentaries that were super useful (and a major part of the footage for this project). In general I was trying to deep dive enough to get something that was Right but not really looking for any particular images for anything or to spend too too long on any of these mini research projects. The harder to find videos were actually the ones I started with because they're so specific to the book and fairytale-esque - e.g. there's lots and lots of videos of corn, but not a lot of sorting it by color into baskets. (You can find videos of corn piles, apparently a way people store corn is just kind of leaving it in a big pile, but it wasn't really visually appealing or something that said sorting to me.) I couldn't find anything close to what I really wanted for carrying Kip carrying the basket of mud up the stairs, so I split it out into three separate ideas: basket backpacks (which I didn't end up including), carrying mud (which gets you videos of beavers, I guess no one else wants mud), and climbing stairs (weirdly hard to find for such a common activity, I kept getting how to install stair lights which is not quite the right visual, before I started looking up stair climbing races, which was better).

My vidsong was also a little research project. Since I had such a strong narrative outline (by stealing it from the book), I didn't feel like I needed the song to be saying anything specific, so I wanted it to be some kind of Polynesian music, preferably something sort of thematically about journeys. While I was still trying to decide whether to do the vid, I asked on the discord if there was a real world equivalent of the Lays, and Victoria Goddard answered and pointed me at the band I ended up using, Te Vaka. I also listened to a bunch of smithsonian folkways and someone's Poly Jams🌺 spotify playlist before deciding that literally the first song I had found from Te Vaka on youtube was such a bop that I couldn't not use it. And it's about dancing and community, which is perfect for Kip!

This wasn't a project where I did any particularly complicated video editing. I think I went from having a zillion youtube videos downloaded (and one hour long documentary) to having a full vid in a day? Mostly I just put things in the order they happened in the book trying to beat match the music more or less and breaking things up with shots of sailing the vaha. My one still image editing thing is I did put in some clamshells on the island at the end, but I did that in davinci resolve, which is the video editing software I use, without breaking out photoshop or anything. (The first draft of my vid had somewhat more and more obvious clamshells, but my beta said it was a little awkward, so it's hopefully more subtle now.) I had originally thought about doing some color editing to make things look more magical, but honestly coming from the northern hemisphere all these shots of sunshine over oceans are pretty magical looking as is in January (and I didn't want to do the extra work :p)

This description of process would be incomplete without saying that rattyjol responded to my discord message asking for someone to look at a slightly secret visual fanwork and reassured me that it was obvious to someone other than me what was even happening in this vid.

[widowshill]

fandom fanfic asks: 6, 14, 21? please and thank you!

FANDOM/FANFIC ASKS.

6. Favorite headcanon?

ohhhhhhhh probably my pet headcanon about the opening narration, that the letters vicki writes to herself that she mentions in 66 are the opening "my name is victoria winters" monologues:

"You must have written a great many letters to yourself." "It's like some people keep a diary, that's what it amounts to. My own personal diary written to myself." "You must have a pretty complete record of everything that's happened to you."

it's only ever mentioned the one time, so i don't know that there's that much purposeful intent to link it to the monologues? but thinking of them that way frames dark shadows as a gothic novel in the epistolary tradition put to screen — that victoria, our jane eyre, is relaying the story to us as the viewer, rather than the reader. but also that it's something she's writing for herself, to make sense of the world, to have a record, to put down a kind of family history for the single leaf of the winters family tree. the monologues are quite different tonally to the rest of the dialogue especially when victoria is our constant narrator, which i think supports the notion that they are interpreted through an in-universe hand — that they are something separate, a found object, recorded and crafted and read to us rather than spoken, and lived. and of course, they're in her voice.

and, too, that thinking of them as being vicki's work lends itself to interpreting her as not just record-keeper, but a writer — a poet, even! it's a weird habit, leftovers of her days at the foundling home, but it's also a creative exercise, and fitting with her role of gothic heroine where the pen, and the storytelling, and the page are her own, in a world that is otherwise vastly outside of her control. that she begins each letter — each day — with an assertion of "my name is victoria winters," clinging to her own identity and her name as anchor. that she feels the need to re-introduce herself to herself each time, as if she is in danger of becoming lost (she is!) — that victoria winters is a stranger to her. that, much like the course of the narrative itself, the monologues become not hers, that she fades out of them, that the story bleeds away from her pages, as she bleeds from the story.

14. Fandom you keep returning to?

p.irates of the caribbean my beloved. it has long been my companion and even though i'm much more in ds brain these days, it's definitely still in there! i ran my previous rp blog off and on for 10 years, it's my home port for me in a way — and if you talk to me for any length of time at all i'll be communicating in potc quotes (or bloopers quotes, or jack d.avenport commentary quotes, etc.) pirates have a way of coming back to haunt me in both surprising and utterly unsurprising ways.

21. Favorite fic trope?

hm. hm. i don't know that i have a favorite reading-wise, maybe hurt/comfort? when i write i tend to gravitate back to to marriages of convenience i have to say.

[the--highlanders]

good luck with moving! heres a question for you. 2 actually. firstly tardis team 2 movie night whos choosing what? secondly do you think polly/ben and victoria and zoe would get on? (btw your fics are insane. ben jamie freindship my beloved)

ahhh thank you so much!! ben jamie friendship my beloved also, I really really need to write something longer about them. also relisten to the selachian gambit because it's so good for ben-jamie brotp content

I'm SO sorry this has taken so long also!! but I have been thinking very hard about what their movie picks will be. ngl I don't think I'm enough of a movie person to like, pick specific movies but I've been thinking about Vibes

jamie is just like, impressed by movies in general, especially in s4. so he'll go for basically anything that the rest of the gang put on. especially since a modern/futuristic real-world setting is likely to be just as unfamiliar to him as scifi/fantasy setting! he probably doesn't always distinguish them super clearly because some of the scifi stuff is closer to his actual experiences ghfdkj. I feel like he'd quite like comedies/more light-hearted stuff though? & some action stuff/jumpscare-y horror is just a no-go because he's not super used to non-live media making noises on its own, and sudden loud noises/being suddenly scared doesn't always play nice with his trauma. he'd just rather avoid it. also I feel like he'd really like documentaries!! he's super curious about everything and it's a nice way for him to absorb information through auditory processing which he's good with/used to and without the issue of learning to read. sometimes he'll disappear for a bit and the others will end up finding him curled up on a sofa watching a documentary on the most random stuff

two also has super eclectic taste but in a more out there/esoteric way. he claims he just has super refined taste when the others won't watch some artsy 12-hour martian epic with him (and then falls asleep or wanders off like, half an hour in because he doesn't actually have that sort of ability to sit still). he will put on the weirdest alien stuff that's totally incomprehensible to everyone else though. but he's also into like, silent comedies. he's such a chaplin-esque character, how could he not be (though he denies any similarity to himself!). and he's more into fantasy than hard scifi - it's impossible to watch any sort of serious scifi with him unless you want to hear a constant commentary on the inaccuracies in it. (by series 6 jamie has picked up on this habit, albeit with his much more limited knowledge. zoe finds this super disconcerting).

ben is absolutely the instigator of two and jamie's comedy enjoyment. he's Also a silent comedy guy. but I think he'd like action/adventure films as well? he's got like, a whole host of them that he really loves and is always trying to get the others to watch. I feel like he's the biggest movie watcher of the tardis team honestly, like going to the cinema was something he did a fair bit pre-canon? maybe it's something he did with his father while he was still alive, so he has fond but kind of bittersweet memories of it. & tbh I feel like being interested in the heroes as well as the love interests was part of his bi awakening. so he'd be the one pushing for the movie nights to happen, and maybe also more inclined to pick out alien/futuristic stuff than polly is, because he wants to see what else is out there.

polly is probably the one who comes the closest to appreciating two's more esoteric movie picks?? like they're not necessarily her favourite thing but she'll sit down and watch them with him. it's bonding time for them. they paint each other's nails and hang out. I think she'd also like kinda film noir/darker stuff. juuust enough that two and jamie like to tease ben about how many films she watches where the wife kills her husband. (ben takes it in pretty good humour. he's a wife guy like that he would support polly for this). also she's a bad romcom watcher in the sense that she likes to yell at the screen about all the dumb decisions the characters make, why the main couple wouldn't work out, that sort of thing. it's stress relief for her. she gets the others into it and the four of them sit there shouting like they're watching a sports game

[cryingoflot49]

Book Review

Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town

by Paul Theroux

Two decades ago, the novelist and travel writer Paul Theroux took an overland trip through Africa, starting in Cairo, Egypt and ending in Cape Town, South Africa. This certainly isn’t the safest or the most comfortable means of experiencing the supposed “dark continent”, but it makes for some interesting experiences and insights. Keeping in mind that Theroux’s observations are just one point of view among many, his resulting book Dark Star provides a unique look at a region of the world that holds a permanent place off the beaten path.

While Dark Star is an easy book to read, breaking it down into its individual elements is a good way to approach its merits and examine its flaws. The first element of importance is Theroux’s sense of place. Wherever he goes, the author describes what he sees and the vibe he gets from his surroundings. Starting on the tourist trail in Egypt, he heads south through Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Zambia, and South Africa. You quickly get a sense of what he appreciates and what he doesn’t. He doesn’t like sites that are swarmed with tourists, nor does he like cities with their concentrations of crime and poverty. He also doesn’t like the “death traps” as he calls public transportation which are usually over-croded minivans driven at dangerous speeds on poorly maintained roads, pockmarked with hippopotamus-sized potholes. If you’ve ever traveled in a Third World country, you will know exaclt what he is talking about.

The places that Theroux does like are usually rural, especially farm lands or jungle villages. These are the places where he sees Africans at their best, meaning Africans being Africans in the absence of corrupt and filthy cities built up on the foundations of European colonialism. Some of the book’s best passages involve descriptions of the pyramids in Sudan which are rarely seen by tourists, a boat trip across Lake Victoria, another boat trip from Malawi across the Zambezi over the border into Zimbabwe, and the pristine countrysides of Zimbabwe and South Africa. All places, whether Theroux likes them or not, are described with language that is clear, simple, and direct, making it easy to visualize what he sees.

Another element that is done to near perfection is writings about the people. Theroux talks with tour guides, people on the streets and in the villages, farmers, nuns, educators, government officials, Indian businessmen, prostitutes, authors, intellectuals, and ordinary people. Just like with the places he goes, he describes these people vividly with precision so that you feel like you quickly get to know them. But not everyone is to his liking. He gets into small argument with a fanatical Rastafarian in Ethiopia, a little ornery with physically fit young men who refuse to work, government officials who demand bribes to do their jobs, and he really gives a hard time to a young American missionary woman about the psychological damage that her evangelical ministry is doing to the local people. There is also plenty of anger directed at clueless tourists as well as NGO and charity workers who he sees as being the Westerners who do the most damage to Africa.

The third element of importance is the author, Paul Theroux himself, and his thoughts and commentaries on everything he sees. Before getting into this subject, it should be mentioned that Theroux had a purpose to his journey. In the 1960s he worked as a Peace Corps volunteer, teaching in Malawi. After getting involved with a Leftist political group, he got fired then accepted a teaching position at a college in Uganda. He wanted to return and see what results, if any, his contributions to Africa grew into. What he found was a major disappointment. The charming campuses and villages where he had lived were in ruins and instead of a thriving civilization, he saw emaciated beggars, starving children, an ignorant populace, and chronically corrupt politicians. Shops that were formerly owned by Indian immigrants were abandoned and burnt to the ground, the result of a campaign of ethnic cleansing. African people wanted to buy from shops owned by Africans, but Africans never took control over the businesses after the Indians were killed or chased away. They resorted to begging, theft, petty crime, prostitution, and laziness instead of making an effort to build better villages for themselves. Due to the hopelessness of African society, the most educated citizens fled to America or Europe instead of staying in their home countries where they were most needed.

Throughout his travels in Tanzania, Uganda, and Malawi, Theroux gets increasingly bitter and cynical. He wanted to see Africans thriving and they weren’t. He directs all his wrath towards the Western charities and NGOs who he says are making the local people dependent on aid rather than learning how to run their societies for themselves. Even worse, these organizations work by bribing corrupt politicians to allow them to do work there, keeping greedy and psychotic leaders in positions of power they don’t deserve. Theroux points out that rural people who have given up on the hopeless market economy and returned to subsistence farming are the happiest and healthiest Africans he encounters. Heecomes close to advocating for a type of post-capitalist agrarian anarchism.

Some readers have criticized Theroux for his pessimistic views on contemporary Africa, but he does cite studies that support what he says. He also encounters a lot of Africans in several different countries that agree with him. To make sense of his negativity, you also have to remember that traveling overland through Africa is not exactly stress free. Anybody who has been on an extended backpacking trip anywhere in the world will tell you that traveler’s fatigue is a real thing. Theroux took a longer than average trip through one of the most underdeveloped regions in the world, got shot at by Somali bandits, stuck in the middle of nowhere when his transportation broke down, and got sick with food poisoning, magnifying his traveler’s fatigue to a outsize extent. These circumstances would make you grouchy too. But even in the darkest times, Theroux never loses his appreciation for Africa, the wildlife, the landscapes, and the people who are trying to make the best of their situations. Besides, by the time he crosses the river from Malawi into Zimbabwe, his mood really lightens up.

Dark Star is an engaging travelogue that should be read both critically and with an open mind. All the while, remember that this is Paul Theroux’s singular point of view. That doesn’t make it wrong; that just means that there are other points of view to take into account that may go against what he says even if they don’t necessarily invalidate his opinions. He saw what he saw and he expresses it well. This is raw and honest travel writing and if you haven’t been tough enough to make the same kind of journey, you’re not in a good place to be judgmental of the conclusions he draws.

[dirtyvulture]

😎 As I have always said I am ADHD Nerospicy so sometimes when I get on a train of thought I go full steam ahead until it is done or my thoughts gets away from me . I didn’t mean to write full novels of commentaries( 😅😅 )but I am just glad you enjoy them vulture and hopefully others do too. Plus I can’t help that the thoughts come at rapid fire.

Yes modern artists/ singers and songwriters have written songs about Esther and OG Wolverine’s love and Taylor Swift has written an entire album about it . You know the tick tock trend of “ Fuck Romeo and Juliet , I want what these Bicthes have” well that is everyone ( in both AUs it’s just that in the DK au no one but the Hudson family knows that it’s a - presumably - one sided love and who exactly the inspiration is)

The thing about DK R giving flowers to people she cares about and to her daughter Rogue , is that R watch her papa John always giving flowers to her Mother Elizabeth and John also gave R herself flowers( this is base on my own dad , he knows mama and I love flowers and always gives them to us just cause he loves us. He also gives them to my sister and my grandma which is his mother in law) just cause he loved them ( John was actually in love with Elizabeth and never did cheat and only ever treated her well. But deep down I think he knew she didn’t love him…. I don’t think he knew that she was cheating or that R wasn’t actually his . If he had suspicions of Elizabeth cheating/ R not being his then it wasn’t CONFIRMED until Thomas ultimately confronted him about the affair and then killed him . And if John suspected that R wasn’t his it wouldn’t have mattered because he loved his daughter no matter what) . That was one of the ways John showed his love and care to the people he loved and R took that with her.

Now I am thinking about a scene where R was giving flowers to Jean when she got with / is with Scott ( this isn’t an ulterior motive or R trying to steal Jean , Jean is someone that R genuinely cares about and she wanted to show Jean that she appreciates and cares about her) . R was saying that she saw these and thought about her and then thought Jean would appreciate them. Jean thanks R then gives her a kiss on the cheek (Jean is clearly shocked because besides R no one has given Jean flowers ) then Scott scoffed . R turns to him and then says “ I know that I may have ….. older sensibilities when it comes to wooing a partner but I don’t think that the act of giving flowers to someone has gone COMPLETELY OUT OF FASHION.” R looks at Jean then pointedly says to Scoot “ After all even when one successfully does woo and has the desired partner one would think that one would continue to woo and be romantic or show affection through flowers or other actions of love for their partner. One should appreciate the BEAUTY in their lives …… but what would I know right ? Me and my OLD SENSIBILITIES.” Then she just walks away.

For Rouge R just handed her the flowers after Rouge was sad one day because she misses her family ( I can’t remember if they accepted her in the movies or what was the situation with them was ) and when Rouge saw the flowers she just sobbed and grabbed ahold of R hugging them . R told Rogue that she is an amazing person and ANYONE would be PROUD of her and to call her their child ( R left out that she does view Rogue as her child) . Afterwards R would give flowers to Rogue outright or surprise her with flowers in Rogue’s room.

R is a traditional romantic and I will talk more about this later . She went all out wooing and being romantic with her old friend until Victoria Creed came. R wouldn’t admit it but she is a bit of a hopeless romantic and since she was a child she not only wanted adventure but also a love of the stories she read in books( but doesn’t believe she deserves it). R got ( and kept ) her gentle nature / kindness, could see the beauty in things/ people and kept her humanity in a LARGE PART due to John Howlett( without him she would have turned out JUST LIKE Victoria/ Sabertooth) She gets her hopeless romantic nature from John .

For the last bit I will cover the SB Au

SB got their name from the OG Wolverine so it’s R ( OG Wolverine just isn’t OUR “ R” of this universe if that makes sense) and if you go back and reread the post I introduced the across over or at least one of the other posts that has the crossover au of the SB au then you know that people had made fun of SB when they were younger because they were named after the inventor of pads but SB didn’t care and was / is very proud of their name sake. And now that OG Wolverine is so popular and blowing up everybody wants to act like them being named after her is the best thing ever. SB is just like “ Fake ass Bicthes!!!! I KNOW my name and name sake is amazing !!!” ( the OG Wolverine just wasn’t named Jane Howlett then later changed it to R . Jane Howlett isn’t the Howlett of WWI because Jane would be 82 years old then . OG Wolverine’s name was always R)

But it does add to the parallels between SB AU ! Esther and sergeant Romanoff because not only do they look strikingly similar but their loves were both named R . It kinda adds more weight to the fact that Esther lost her chance with her R …. Her Wolvie and Nat VERY NEARLY lost her R …. Her 🥩 beef .

SB is 1000 percent the romantic in the relationship and will definitely get Nat flowers all the time , they also always say that sergeant Romanoff is their Esther to the OG Wolverine ( Esther and Og wolverine were a …… softer relationship than whatever Nat and beef have but they do love each other just as much) and SB always wanted a love story like Esther and OG Wolverine ( again they were MUCH MUCH MUCH softer than Nat and SB but what Nat and SB have works for them ) . Nat will roll her eyes and pretend to HATE it but secretly LOVES EVERY SECOND.

I have more thoughts but I will have them for next time but I will leave with some questions and a few little bits of information. One is when R works up the courage to give Nat flowers for the first time ( probably to make her feel welcome and a bit because she is may or may not be having feelings that she isn’t ready to admit out and flat out plans to lock away until the person in question inevitably dies like R always does) R is walking to where she thinks Nat is but immediately panicked and fully Bicthes out and just leaves her the flowers on Nat’s bed.

My question is how will James and Heather Hudson play a role in this ( if they are the couple I was thinking of , the old couple that found , help, and was killed in front of Wolverine in the movie) because Vulture you said you wanted to add them in especially with the connection to Esther Hudson? What is Victoria Creed aka Sabertooth going to look like? Also I think it would be a bit hard to do woodworking/ crafting with a bone claw ( because R didn’t have the procedure and metal put in yet) …. Especially all the little intricate details and designs R added to the box. R wanted it as beautiful and delicate as she saw Esther so she probably used a pocket knife. All I will say now is that R later on made, carved and painted a pair of wooden rings for both the old friend and R . I will talk about it later in a different post.

Lastly I don’t know if Rouge of comics / movies/ cartoons ages but that is why I was begging for you vulture to say that when Rogue hits 25 or 30 she stops aging so R doesn’t have to lose her child and I am begging that any child that R adopts ( or possibly has biology….. don’t think I didn’t see that sneaky little comment) doesn’t age ( along aside a possible wife that was a ex black widow but I don’t know where R could possibly find someone like that 👀👀👀)

I love hearing your thoughts! Some of them are things I've never thought about and I like how you can still tie in your ideas with the ones I've already created :)

I really love the idea of Wolvie!R giving flowers to the people she loves. If I hadn't already written Part 3, I would've snuck something in, but maybe for a future installment! Imagine how flustered a certain Widow would become if her grumpy lover came by and shoved flowers in her face lol.

Very bold of R to give Jean flowers knowing she's with Scott lol, but that sounds like an R thing to do. But as bitter as R was that Jean chose Scott over her...let's just say it was probably better that way.

Even after R left the mansion for some time, I imagine she always found a way to make sure Rogue got flowers from her every month. And Rogue would always be bragging to the other girls how Wolvie always sends her flowers (which makes some like Kitty jealous lol).

R has spent centuries searching for her true love, even after her old friend passed. And maybe after she fell out with Jean, she truly felt there was no one out there, so she moved away to live in the cabin alone. But as we know...someone came along. :)

I think once Sergeant Beef is allowed to be public about their relationship with Nat, they will be going all out and bringing Nat flowers or taking her to dinners and cooking for her.

As I mentioned in a previous paragraph, R probably won't give Nat flowers until they're in an established relationship, so basically soon. :)

Well, with James and Heather Hudson, I was just thinking that perhaps Heather could be a decedent of Esther, which is why Heather played such a big role in helping Wolvie (although sadly it would've been towards the end of her life, but Heather was so happy she finally got to meet the legendary Wolverine and help her).

No spoilers on Sabertooth. :)

I think it would also be cute if Esther's box was NOT intricately carved and just kind of messy because Wolvie wouldn't have had good control with her claws yet.

I can't confirm that every child R "adopts" doesn't age, but perhaps the most special ones don't. And I'm sure R would be a lot happier to foster children if she had a partner with her who didn't age either...

Part 3 comes out tonight, so hopefully you get some questions answered then!