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hrrystylesbookclub · 6 months

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okay, i finally saw tbosas and here are my thoughts

1. i personally think it would have benefited from being split into two movies, one in the capitol, one in twelve

2. i feel like sejanus wasn’t fleshed out as well as he could have been. i absolutely adore him but in the movie he came across as more reckless as opposed to filled with righteous fury, and his death wasn’t as painful as i was expecting (let’s be honest i wanted to fall to my knees sobbing at his death and instead i was just ‘ahhh noooo ☹️’)

3. ma deserved to be better featured in the movie + she would have helped flesh sejanus out (also to show snow’s relationship with the plinths in general would have really hammered in HOW evil he is)

4. i wish we had been able to spend more time in 12, seen snows HATRED for mockingjays spelt out clearer and spent more time with the covey and see how close they all are and how much they genuinely did trust snow

5. changing the ending of the games with everyone dying from the snakes was a little disappointing but i did laugh when the students started chanting “get her out!” (also when dr gaul said she didn’t care if there wasn’t a victor vs snow demanding there has to be a victor, which 64 years later comes to bite him in the ass was MWUH chefs kiss)

6. critiques aside, every single actor was PHENOMENAL. not a single weak or subpar performance in sight, even characters without any/much dialogue were incredible and scene stealers (shoutout to irene böhm as lamina)

7. the sets and costumes were EVERYTHING, almost everything was exactly how i pictured and if it wasn’t plucked straight from my brain it was even better than i could have imagined

8. rachel zegler and tom blyth please marry me please

9. the part where marcus comes over and tells lucy gray that she can run and get out KILLED me, oh i could just feel my heart shatter in my chest

10. OH MY GOD lucky flickerman being an absolute scene stealer, what an ICON, i laughed at everything he said

okay that’s all i can think of at this moment. overall i did love it but i do find myself being all “the book was better 🤓” but very rarely do movies come close to being as good, and as far as adaptations go i loved it and could make peace with most of their changes

#the ballad of songbirds and snakes #tbosas #suzanne collins #the hunger games #thg #coriolanus snow #president snow #lucy gray baird #the covey #sejanus plinth #dr gaul #lucky flickerman #rachel zegler #tom blyth #hunter schafer #josh andres rivera #viola davis #peter dinklage

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gayest-classiclit · 8 months

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a list of people in the classic literature sexyperson bracket

the following are already on the sexypedia and automatically in:

hamlet, hamlet

atticus finch, to kill a mockingbird

rodion raskolnikov, crime and punishment

sherlock holmes, the sherlock holmes books

arsene lupin, the arsene lupin books

frankenstein's monster/adam, frankenstein

jonathan harker, dracula. (his wife mina is tagteaming w/ him)

gerald croft, an inspector calls

big brother, 1984

erik/the phantom, phantom of the opera

mercutio, romeo and juliet

and the following have been submitted:

inspector goole, an inspector calls

benedetto, the count of monte cristo

edmond dantes, the count of monte cristo

gaspard caderousse, the count of monte cristo

quincey morris, dracula

ivan karamazov, the brothers karamazov

anatole kuragin and helene bezukhova, war and peace

dmitri razumikhin, crime and punishment

nastasya filippovna, the idiot

jean valjean, les miserables

captain hook, peter pan

dorian gray and basil hallward, the picture of dorian gray

charles bingley, pride and prejudice

carmilla, carmilla

helen of troy, greek mythology

benedick and beatrice, much ado about nothing

irene adler, the sherlock holmes books

annabel lee, annabel lee

violacesario, twelfth night

clopin trouillefrou, the hunchback of notre dame

lady macbeth, macbeth

therem harth ir em estraven, the left hand of darkness

eugene onegin, eugene onegin

alyosha karamazov, the brothers karamazov

count dracula, dracula

jesus christ and judas iscariot, the bible

henry jekyll, the strange case of dr jekyll and mr hyde

cathy ames, east of eden

enjolras, les miserables

hotspur, henry iv part 1

balladyna, balladyna

jay gatsby and daisy buchanan, the great gatsby

ruy blas, ruy blas

grendel's mother, beowulf

gregor samsa, the metamorphosis (by proxy)

eugene de rastignac, the human comedy

chloe, froth on the daydream

the duke de nemours, la princess de cleves

emma bovary, madame bovary

behemoth, the master and margarita

grantaire, les miserables

jane bennet, pride and prejudice

catherine, wuthering heights

milady de winter, the three musketeers

mephistopheles, faust

woland, the master and margarita

medea, greek mythology

prince hal from the henriad

fitzwilliam darcy from pride and prejudice

the woman behind the wallpaper from the yellow wallpaper

don rodrigue from the folktales

robin hood from the folktales this brings us to 63 entries so far! :)

#classic lit sexyperson bracket

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spiralcass · 10 months

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NEW X-MEN: THE ANIMATED SERIES - SEASON 2, EPISODE 3

We open on the Xavier Institute in the middle of the night. Dressed in casual clothes, sipping a beer, and with a six-pack at his side, Cyclops is seated on the roof and looking up at the stars. We cannot see his eyes, but we do not need to to know the pain in them.

"Room for one more?"

With the grace expected of a goddess, Storm floats up to the roof.

Scott is unsure until Ororo warmly smiles at him. He can't help but smile back at her, and pull out another beer for her. Ororo takes it and sits down next to him.

The two sip their drinks and stargaze together.

SCOTT: "I miss her so much."

ORORO: "We all do. We can only hope that, wherever Jean is, whatever she's doing, she's happy."

Another moment of silence.

SCOTT: "Thank you. For still talking to me."

ORORO: "You did an awful thing. But, unlike someone else, you know it was wrong. It was a mistake, one with grave, unforeseen consequences, but not a mistake I expect you to make again."

Scott's smile widens as he hangs his head and thanks her again.

ORORO: "We'll get through these dark times the way we always have. As a team. When Jean eventually comes home, your wife and my sister returned to us, our family will be whole again. And then, we need not ever even speak the name, "Emma Frost" again.

Scott chuckles. He hopes that day comes soon.

Scott raises up his beer, and Storm clinks hers against it.

We cut directly to a large home in Mississippi, where Rogue kisses her mother, Irene Adler on the cheek.

The two are standing in the doorway. Rogue wouldn't look out of place on a runway, while Irene, a blind, frail old woman with gray hair in a bun, glasses to hide her eyes, and a sweet smile on her face, is dressed far more conservatively.

Rogue says it's been nice spending time with her again, but she really does have to get back to Remy. Irene understands, a wife needs to be with her husband, but asks her to please never be a stranger again.

ROGUE: "If you can avoid stayin out of any more trouble, that won't be a problem."

Rogue gives her mom one more kiss, before saying she loves her and flying off.

Irene waves goodbye and shuts the door, only to immediately shift personas, a sneer overtaking her face as she cracks her wrinkly neck.

Irene puts on her Destiny costume, grabs her sidearm, and dons her helmet, all the while growling about how much she hates Gambit, and how she, for the life of her, cannot understand what Anna-Marie sees in her.

In the basement, Toad, Blob, Avalanche, and Pyro - the Brotherhood of Evil - are gathered. It's been a while since they were all together, and they're all catching up. Pyro just got out of jail after three years, and is positively itching to burn something again. Avalanche says he should count himself lucky. He was living on Genosha, and only wasn't there when everything went boom because he was getting drinks with Blob. Blob meanwhile has been in therapy.

PYRO: "You're in therapy, mate?"

BLOB: "Mmhmm. You should consider it too, Pyro. For a Flatscan, Dr. Garrison is the best."

Toad laughs at this.

TOAD: "Well, while you've been talking about your fee fees, I totally banged Husk!"

PYRO: "The X-Men girlie?"

AVALANCHE: "Isn't she a kid?"

TOAD: "She's 19!"

The other three exchange glances.

AVALANCHE: "Oh. Well then I just don't believe you."

As Toad shouts back, he's quickly silenced as Destiny comes downstairs, the boys all terrified of her mere presence.

Now that Rogue is gone, they can get down to business. Her wife has been in SHIELD custody for months now, and she refuses to tolerate that any longer. The four of them are to break into the prison she's being held in and bust her out.

Blob wants Mystique free as much as they do, but he raises the obvious question: won't the X-Men come to stop them?

TOAD: "Eh, he's got a point, boss. You see who's on their team these days? I'm awesome, but I dunno if the rest of these guys are up to fighting them."

Pyro smacks Toad on the back of the head.

DESTINY: "Yes, on your own, there is no future I see where you can succeed. This is why I've enlisted someone else to lead this mission."

AVALANCHE: "And who's…that?"

The Brotherhood all strike looks of disbelief as they glance up the staircase.

The camera pans up a short, muscular, excessively hairy man in a white tank top and jeans, chomping a cigar.

LOGAN: "Sup, bubs?"

Back at the school, Cessily and Roxy are hanging out in Bling!’s dorm room. The two are seated on Roxy’s bed, her side of the room decorated with band posters, with instruments all over the place. Cessily has headphones on and is listening to a hip-hop track. She’s clearly enjoying it, bobbing her head along with it. Roxy is happy to just watch her reactions until the song finishes.

Cessily takes the headphones off and tells Roxy that the song was amazing! Roxy plays it casual and says it’s not perfect yet and her mom and dad are still working out the kinks.

ROXY: “Aaaand, once they have, I may have talked them into letting you audition in front of them for a spot as a background dancer in the music video.”

Cessily freaks out with excitement and anxiety. That’s so cool, but also does she really think she can do this? Sofia’s the dancer, not her. Roxy assures her she’s seen Cessily’s cheer routines, and she should be perfect. And if she isn’t, her parents already agreed to let her be an extra no matter what.

Cessily practically squeals with joy.

CESSILY: “Roxanne Washington, you are the coolest girl in the world.”

ROXY: “Girl, I know that already.”

She smooches Cessily. To her surprise, Cessily suddenly shrinks in her seat, partially literally, as her face falls. Roxy questions what’s wrong, with Cessily explaining that she’s so amazing, and this opportunity is incredible, but…

CESSILY: “What will people say? Won’t everyone hate that there’s a freak in the background? Dancers in music videos are supposed to be hot.” Cessily partially melts onto the floor. “Not sure how *anyone* could look at me and think that.”

Roxy holds Cessily, not caring one bit that Cessily is mostly goop right now, and tells her that, first off, she’s been starring in her parents’ videos since she was little. Anyone who had a problem with Mutants checked out a long time ago, and they’re still riding high as hip-hop royalty. And as for Cess herself…

ROXY: “You’re stunning. One of a kind. The most beautiful metal in the world.”

Cessily liqufies even further, but this time with a smile creeping across her face.

CESSILY: “You mean that?”

ROXY: “I never lie.”

Roxy detaches a piece of diamond from herself and sticks it into Cessily, tickling her with it.

Laughing hysterically uncontrollably, Cessily jovially tells her girlfriend to stop. Roxy only joins in the laughter.

We cut from Roxy laughing to Roxy shouting, as Bling! and her squad run drills in the Danger Room. The rest of Roxy’s squad consists of Pixie, Match, Indra, Loa, and Network. They are not doing well, with Roxy unable to hit the target circling her with her diamond shards, Loa unable to catch the target she’s supposed to disintegrate through, Match running out of steam before he can finish melting his assigned beam, Indra’s armor form unable to withstand the drone attacks it faces, and Pixie just getting scared of the drones she’s supposed to be fighting and flying headfirst into a wall.

PIXIE, rubbing her bike helmet on the floor: “Aww, thanks helmet. You’re always there for me.”

The only member of the squad who’s performing well at all is Network, who’s using her ability to interface with technology to shut down the other tests one by one.

Above the Danger Room, the kids aren’t the only ones who are frustrated. Scott is on his phone, shouting at the top of his lungs.

SCOTT: “Your vacation is over, Sunspot! Get back here, now! Northstar says he wants your spot, and I WILL give it to him!”

Scott hands up and takes a breath as he joins the rest of the teachers present, Hank, who’s squad this is, Iceman, who wanted to come see his oldest friend, and Emma, who was curious to see what Bling! had since she’s spending so much time with her squad now.

Beast knows it’s not what she was hoping to hear, but, no, Bling! Is, fittingly, quite close to Mercury’s skill level currently, not the rest of her little prodigies.

BEAST: “Of course, there’s no shame in one’s strength being in the lab.”

ICEMAN, obnoxiously eating a banana: “Yeah, we wouldn’t be able to do anything without you science dorks.” Bobby swallows. “Good thing to be getting your seat nice and warmed up for her.”

BEAST, unamused: “Mmhmm.”

Suddenly, Network is blasted across the Danger Room and into the opposite wall, hitting her head and getting knocked unconscious.

As everyone freaks out, Scott orders Beast to shut the Danger Room down and tell his kids to stay bacl. He questions what happened, but Beast isn’t sure. Before she ever set foot in the Danger Room, he’d made sure Network’s powers would never trigger any defensive response.

Scott pinches his forehead. He’s gonna go make sure Sarah is okay, and help calm the others, who are still visibly freaked out downstairs, but he wants Beast to make figuring out what happened and fixing it his top priority. No more kids are getting hurt inside these walls, dammit.

Beast understands, but Iceman wants to help. He may not understand any of this stuff, but there has to be someway an Omega can be useful. Besides, it’ll give them more of a chance to catch up.

BEAST: “Oh, that’s really not necessary.”

ICEMAN: “Come on, I don’t mind, it’s all chill.”

The others all groan at that.

EMMA, putting a hand on Scott’s shoulder: “Well, while you boys get to work, I have some new students to greet.”

SCOTT, swatting Emma’s hand off of him: “New students? I haven’t received any reports about any. Who’s bringing them?”

EMMA, clearly displeased with Scott’s attitude: “Oh, don’t worry about that. They have their own means of transportation.”

At an airport, a private jet lands. With a driver and limo waiting for them, attendants seeing to their luggage, and a carpet rolled out, five identical blonde teenage girls, sporting sunglasses, exit their place and enter their car. The limo rolls out and drives across New York City, until arriving at the Xavier Institute.

The girls get out and step through the school’s gates. As they remove their sunglasses and put them in their purses in unison, their eyes look like they’re all judging the school.

ESME: “This seems…”

SOPHIE: “...adequate.”

As the five strut toward the school itself, the bombshells draw the attention of the students who are presently outside. For one student, however, simply looking at these mysterious new girls isn’t enough, as he rushes up to them.

DJ, with a cocky shithead smirk on his face: “Hello, ladies! You must be new here. I’m Mark. I basically run this place. Want me to show you around?”

The girls smile as their eyes glow a familiar shade of blue in unison.

“Go jump in a well.”

Mark’s eyes flash blue for just a second.

DJ, with the dopiest dumbass grin on his face: “OK!”

DJ runs off to go jump in a well.

(AUTHOR’S NOTE: DJ was never seen again.)

As the girls laugh among themselves, they’re greeted by Emma.

EMMA: “The Stepford Cuckoos. A pleasure to meet you all.”

Pointing at them one by one, she makes sure she knows who is who. In the center of their arrangement is Sophie, at her sides are Esme and Phoebe, and on the ends are Celeste and Irma.

Emma notes that, with her now teaching Jean’s telepathy class, she’s gotten a chance to know an obnoxious, arrogant young man who thinks he’s the most powerful telepath of his generation. She hopes that her expectations for these five remarkable, well-bred young women are rightly placef, and they’ll be able to crush his dreams.

THE CUCKOOS: “We settle for nothing but the best, Ms. Frost.”

EMMA: “Girls after my own heart.”

Emma volunteers to show them around and introduce them to her current prized students, but they tell her that won’t be necessary. They’ve already ripped the knowledge of the campus’ layout out of the other students’ heads, and they already have a very good idea of who they want to be friends with.

Emma pays no mind as they all smile obviously evily.

In the Danger Room, Beast is going around opening to panels to examine the system’s inner workings. He remarks to himself about how this room has always been such a scientific achievement, always updated to be on the cutting edge of progress. Professor Xavier truly is a genius like no other. He hopes he can live up his standards on its maintenance.

While Beast says all this, Bobby stands behind him, clearly not paying attention and lost in his own little world. Hank notices.

HANK: “Bobby, are you even paying attention, or am I speaking to the air?”

BOBBY: “Sorry, sorry. Yeah, the professor was great…mostly. But come on! I wanna hear about what you’ve been up to, fuzz. Get it? Rhymes with cuz? And you’re fuzzy?”

Hank pinches his nose and tells Bobby that between teaching and his research, he hasn’t had time to “be up” to anything. Not anything he’d understand at least.

Bobby questions why it seems like Hank isn’t happy to have him around. Didn’t he miss him? As Hank starts to answer, he presses a series of buttons on a panel, which results in a trap door opening and the two men falling through it.

In Scott’s office, he’s hard at work as ever when Emma slinks in. She tells him to cancel his non-existent plans for the night, because she got them seats for the grand opening of the hottest new restaurant in the city. Scott flatly tells her he isn’t interested as he continues to type.

Emma questions if he really wants to do this whole dance AGAIN. She sees how he looks at her, she knows what he thinks about her, and she sure as Hell knows how she made him feel, so what’s the problem?

Scott doesn’t even respond.

EMMA: “Oh, is this about poor Jean? Still feeling sorry for how you betrayed her? Genosha’s destruction isn’t the only thing which would have happened without us. The second you rightfully obliterated Stryker, Jean’s fate was already sealed. Cassandra Nova had seen to that. She feels no guilt for what she’s done, not as we do. Unless you wish to tell me that you regret killing Stryker, and that it wasn’t the most freeing moment of your life, then you have nothing to brood over, and no reason to resist what you desire.”

Scott stands, not changing his expression.

SCOTT: “This isn’t you, Emma. I’ve gotten to see a different side of you, a side I care for, respect, and am grateful to have around…but this? Chasing after me when I’m not interested? That’s beneath you. So whatever game you’re playing, drop it.”

Scott heads for his door, only to stop momentarily as Emma responds.

EMMA: There’s no game. Not currently. I’m just looking for someone to play with.”

After hesitating for a moment, Scott exits.

Back in Bling!’s room, with class having gotten out early due to the accident with Network, she’s jamming out on one of her guitars. Across the room, her roommate, Pixie, has puffy, pink-furred, over-sized headphones on, is watching one of Sofia’s makeup tutorials and taking notes, her facorite stuffed animal, Mr. Dogbear, “watching” with her. Pixie’s side of the room is filled with flowers and many other stuffed animals.

When Roxy takes a quick water break, there are multiple simultaneous knocks on their door. Roxy puts down her guitar and goes to see who it is, opening her door to reveal the Cuckoos all smiling at her.

ROXY, confused: “Uh, can I help you?”

SOPHIE: “You’re Roxanne Washington. Daughter of Roy and Angel Washington. I’m Sophie Cuckoo. These are my sisters Phoebe, Esme, Celeste, and Irma. We’re going to be best friends now.”

ROXY, weirded out: “Riiiiight. Listen, it’s cool you guys are fans but you can’t just do…this. How about you come sit with my friends and I at lunch tomorrow? Sounds good? Good.”

Roxy starts closing the door, but Esme keeps it open with her high-heel.

PHOEBE: “We’re going to be famous Mutant pop stars one day. Like Dazzler. It only makes sense we get along.”

Just as Roxy is started to get freaked out by these girls, Pixie notices what’s going on and flutters over to them, taking her headphones off. She tells the Cuckoos their outfits and hair are really pretty, only for the Cuckoos to flash their eyes blue, and making Pixie’s flash blue for a second. Pixie spins around and, from her perspective, all of her stuffed animals have been mangled and torn apart.

Pixie screams hysterically as she flies over to them in tears.

PIXIE: “Mr. Dogbear! Everyone!”

As the Cuckoos giggle, Roxy questions what the Hell is wrong with them…only for her eyes to flash blue. An instant later, she’s pointing and laughing at Megan with her new best friends.

ROXY: “This is hilarious.”

IRMA: “We knew you’d think so.”

At a SHEILD prison in Arizona, two uniformed agents are having coffee in the break room. One of the guys mentions that they need to go feed the inmates. The other guy groans. He really doesn’t want Mutie duty again.

SHIELD AGENT #1: “Heh. Duty.”

SHIELD AGENT #2: “Real mature, Dave.”

The other agent doesn’t want to have to go near the Mutants either, so they play rock, paper, scissors for who gets to feed the human prisoners, and who has to feed the Mutant prisoners.

Naturally, Dave loses.

Mumbling and grumbling the whole time, Dave brings a food cart to the Mutant section of the prison. Along with season one villains such as Mastermind and Sabretooth, we get cameos from Lady Deathstrike, Black Tom Cassidy, Frenzy, and Nanny & Orphan Maker, all of whom are in SHIELD custody.

Simultaneously afraid and disgusted by all of them, he eventually arrives at Mystique. Her, he takes an extra moment on. He doesn’t get her. She was one of the good ones, helping the government capture dangerous Mutants. Why would she throw away the good thing they had going by picking a fight with the X-Men?

Mystique laughs as she seductively saunters over to the agent, a glass-quartz wall separating them.

MYSTIQUE: “Well, David, it’s really quite simple. Capturing Mutants was business. Desiring the death of your entire race? That’s what I dream of.”

The agent snorts. She should recheck the scoreboard. Mutants are the ones who look like they’re on the way out.

MYSTIQUE: “Perhaps. But your numbers are dwindling too. For instance, you’re about to be crushed to death.”

SHIELD AGENT #1: “Huh? What are you…?”

Blob crashes through the cieling and crushes Dave to death, leaving nothing behind but blood and gore underneath him.

BLOB: “Ooph. That hurt my butt.” He dusts himself off and stands up. “Rescue team’s here, Mystique!”

Mystique speaks as the rest of the Brotherhood drop down from their plane.

MYSTIQUE: “Of course you are. Just as she said you would be.”

In the school cafeteria, Cessily, Sofia, Sooraya, Brian, and Laura are at their usual table. Sofia is frustrated. She’s been pumping out more content than she has since she got here since she’s no longer spending so much time with Julian, but that jerk is all people are commenting about. They just HAVE to know how the “Mutant Prom King and Prom Queen” are doing.

SOFIA: “It wasn’t even a prom!”

Before this can be dwelled on too much, Roxy enters the cafeteria alongside the Cuckoos. Cessily enthusiastically calls over to her girlfriend to introduce her to her new friends, while Laura questions who these new girls are.

LAURA: “They’re cute…but they don’t smell right.”

Roxy and the Cuckoos turn their attention to the squad and laugh, before finding a different table.

CESSILY, confused and hurt: “Huh?”

BRIAN: “Hey, don’t panic. Maybe they just madea funny joke, and she wants some time alone with the girls.”

SOORAYA: “You panicked at the dance. I don’t know romance, but I know you can’t become afraid of everything.”

CESSILY: “Yeah. I guess. Maybe you’re –”

Before Cessily can finish that sentence, Sofia picks her up with her winds and flies the two of them over toward the Cuckoos and Bling!

SOFIA: “She does NOT get to do this too!”

CESSILY: “Sofia, wait, I don’t want to…!”

Cessily trails off as they land.

CELESTE: “Oh, look, Roxy. It’s your girlfriend and…”

SOPHIE: “Sofia Mantega. The most popular girl in this school. Of course, without your man, that won’t last.”

SOFIA: “Who do you think you are?!”

ESME: “Careful, Sophie. Get her too mad and she’ll try to kill us.”

Bringing up the Shaw incident partially shuts Sofia down.

ROXY: “They’re the Stepford Cuckoos. And I’m trading up.”

CESSILY: “Wh…what do you mean?”

Roxy laughs.

ROXY: “Sofia gets it. It’s why she brought you over here. You two are a matching set.” She mockingly waves at Cessily. “Buh bye.”

Cessily starts crying, as the Cuckoos cackle.

ROXY: “Honestly, I was just curious what you’d be like in bed. There are no other freaks as freaky as you out there. One of a kind.”

Cessily breaks down completely, sobbing and begging Roxy not to mean this, at which point Sofia utter a somber sigh and flies them both away, hugging her.

SOFIA: “It is going to be, Cessily. I will get you through this. I know what you need.”

In the school’s gymnasium, Scott is playing basketball with two members of his squad, Quill and Specter. The game of course is brought to a sudden end with Quill accidentally pops the ball on one of his spikes. While Specter gets mad at him cause that was HIS ball, Scott walks away to take a call.

On the other end of the line, we see Maria Hill, acting commander of SHIELD, on the Helicarrier. She informs him that Mystique is presently being broken out of prison by the Brotherhood of Evil, and the agents they have stationed there won’t be able to hold them off for long. They require immediate assistance.

Scott questions why they can’t handle this themselves. Maria answers that “The X-Men deal with Mutant problems” was the deal their predecessors made, and she intends for him to stick to it.

MARIA: “Not to mention, there’s someone with them we can’t do anything about.”

Scott raises an eyebrow.

We hardcut to a new Blackbird being geared up for takeoff. The only ones on board are Cyclops and Storm, and Scott is livid.

STORM: “You don’t wish to bring the others?””

CYCLOPS: “Kitty and Laura have enough on their plates. If Logan’s actually cracked, they don’t need to know. And we don’t need Bobby for this…or Emma. You shouldn’t have any problem dealing with the Brotherhood while Logan and I have a talk.”

STORM, calmly: “You had me, “or Emma”.”

The Blackbird takes off, heading for Arizona.

Iceman and Beast wake up suspended in mid-air in darkness, their arms and legs wrapped in metal cables.

Bobby notices where they are and asks if it’s weird that was the best he’s slept in ages. Beast ignores him and notes he has no idea where they are. He’s looked over the Danger Room’s schematics a million times, and he’s never seen anything about a lower level to it.

BOBBY: “According to Cyclops, the Professor hid a sister from us. Not too hard to assume he’d hide a scary basement or two.”

BEAST: “Hmm. Touche.”

Bobby says he’ll get them out in a flash and tries to freeze the cables, but no matter how hard he pushes, the ice melts. Hank tells him it’s no use. Between this and what happened to Network, he can only hypothesize a virus has caused the Danger Room to resist being examined or tinkered with, and with its ability to counter every X-Man’s powers, there’s nothing they can do. Not till someone comes looking for them, at least.

BOBBY: “Soooo, we’re stuck here?”

HANK: “That’s what I said, yes.”

BOBBY: “Right…so what fur brush have you been using? Cause I could definitely use it for my hair.”

Hank groans in annoyance.

At the Grindhouse, Cessily is crying her heart out to Sofia as they both have coffee. She just doesn’t understand why Roxy would do this. Sofia says she can’t understand herself, but maybe that Quentin kid has some points about people like her and Julian.

Cessily takes a deep breath in. She questions if Sofia is going to fight Bling! for her, with Sofia laughing that, no, she isn’t Noriko. Surge fighting Hellion didn’t make her feel better. Doing what she loves with a friend, and remembering that’s what’s important, did. So, they’re going to put together an Xavier’s cheer routine to do together to post on her Instagram and TikTok.

Cessily slightly smiles and says that’s a sweet idea, but she can’t. She’s a freak. She can’t put herself online. Sofia slams her hands down on the table. She insists that Cessily cannot listen to the cruel things Roxy said about her. She is beautiful, and she promises all of her Sofia Stans will say so as well.

CESSILY: “I don’t know. Also, I thought you were calling your fans Wind Babies.”

SOFIA: “People didn’t like it.”

CESSILY: “I didn’t either. I don’t like tihs name either.”

SOFIA: “Really? I am off my branding game.”

Now working here as a waitress, Noriko approaches her friends.

NORIKO: “Hey, Sooraya let me know what happened. Said she was telling me so I wouldn’t say anything insensitive or dumb. Anyway, you wanna know what I think you should do?”

CESSILY: “Nori, I appreciate the thought, but I’m pretty sure whatever you’re about to say is going to make me feel infinitely worse.”

NORIKO, slamming her hands down on the table: “YOU GO UP TO THIS NEW BITCHY BIMBO BRIGADE, YOU GIVE THEM A PIECE OF YOUR MIND, AND YOU DEMAND TO KNOW WHAT THEY DID TO YOUR GIRL! THEY’RE MUTANTS! THEY PROBABLY USED THEIR POWERS ON HER!”

SOFIA, sighing: “Noriko, I’m helping her move on. Accepting the facts is the only way she will–”

CESSILY: “I can’t believe I’m saying this, but you’re right, Nori. Yeah. The Cuckoos? I’m gonna figure out what they did to Roxy and save her from them!”

NORIKO: “Hell yeah!”

The two high-five as Sofia embarassedly put her face in her hands.

In the SHIELD prison, SHIELD agents fight a desperate, losing battle against the Brotherhood as they make their escape from the secure facility. The agency’s marksmen are useless as the Blob acts as a bulletproof wall to protect his team, while their martial artists are no match for the supernaturally agile Toad and Mystique, Avalanche and Pyro using their localized earthquakes and flamethrowers to ensure none of their enemies can even stay still.

This isn’t a fight. It’s a massacre.

All the while, Logan stands back and does nothing but seethe.

TOAD, taking a pistol from an agent whose neck he just broke and mockingly bowing as he hands it to Mystique: “Madame.”

Mystique takes it from him and, with a sadistic grin on her face, swiftly headshots the entire next round of agents to come for them.

They’re almost out the front door, when, at last, they’re stopped in their tracks by the appearance of Cyclops and Storm.

Blob and Avalanche shrink a little, nervous about taking them on, while Pyro and Toad appear excited to throw down. Logan is sneering right at Scott.

MYSTIQUE: “Cyclops. I’m glad you’re here. I’ve been waiting for another chance to kill you. And, would you believe it: there’s someone who wants to kill you even more?”

Logan steps forward and pulls out his claws.

ORORO: “Logan, do not do this.”

LOGAN: “Sorry, Stormy. This isn’t about you.”

As the two teams stare each other down, Cyclops fires the first shot.

In the school’s dance studio, the Cuckoos are performing a routine to the most soulless pop song imaginable, with Bling! cheering them on.

As the song enters its final verse, however, their speakers are unplugged by a pissed off Mercury.

The Cuckoos and Roxy all ground around and taunt Cessily, but she isn’t backing down. She doesn’t know who these girls are or what their powers are, but she knows Roxy would never act like she’s doing, and she would never, ever enjoy trashy music like she was just listening to.

CELESTE: “Aww, can someone not accept they were just used and tossed aside?”

PHOEBE: “Like a tin can?”

The Cuckoos cackle.

Cessily holds herself together, hard as it is for her, as she says she doesn’t care if they’re telepaths or just have mind control, but they’re going to undo it NOW.

Roxy gets right in Cessily’s face. She tells her to face facts. She was never into her cause she’s a loser. Although the Cuckoos did get ONE thing wrong.

ROXY: “We never slept together. Girl was a damn cheerleader, but she’s still a virgin. She’s as freaky on the inside as she is on the outside.”

As the Cuckoos all start mocking Cessily, she just utters, ”Please”, as she tenses up, grits her teeth, and clenches her fists.

SOPHIE: “I don’t believe she’s gotten the message yet.”

ESME: “Let’s teach her this time, Sophie.”

As Cessily struggles not to let her rage get the best of her, her eyes flash blue. She roars and stretches out her entire body to attack the Cuckoos, only for the quintuplets to effortlessly blast her away and nearly knock her unconscious with a single psy-blast.

Roxy hollers as the Cuckoos stand over the half-way melted Cessily.

IRMA: “You can believe what you’d like.”

CELESTE: “But we hope you get the message.”

SOPHIE: “Never fuck with us.”

Cessily cries as she further melts into the floor, as her tormentors strut away…only for her eyes to widen upon hearing what Roxy is shouting.

ROXY: “Ms. Moonstar! Wherever you are, we’ve got a problem! One of your kids just tried to kill the new girls!”

Cessily belts out a high-pitch screech of despair.

Back at the SHEILD base, the X-Men and Brotherhood’s fight has begun.

Storm is battling Mystique, Toad, Pyro, Avalanche, and Blob all at once. With what Storm can do limited by the confined space they’re in, Mystique and Toad’s taunts and difficult to hit natures, Pyro being able to manipulate his flames to move in any direction, Avalanche staying behind Blob, who’s durable enough to even tank Storm’s attacks, as he launches his seismic waves at her, they’re able to keep her busy, if nothing else. Still, Storm clearly has them all on defense, and it’s evident that they really do need all five of them to be a match for her.

While the Brotherhood are able to successfully keep the big gun busy, the main event of Cyclops vs Logan takes place further down the hall. For all of Scott’s skill and precision, he struggles to land a hit on Logan with his beams, while Logan jumps around his attacks and picks key moments to move in and kick Scott around.

Scott questions what the Hell Logan is doing, with Logan spitting back that he’d have loved to ask him the same thing before it was too late.

SCOTT: “Wiat…is this about Jean?!”

LOGAN: “What else would it be about?!”

Logan manages to slash Cyclops across the chest and, while he’s stunned, kicks him to the floor.

LOGAN: “She trusted you!”

Scott can only cringe. He knows he cannot defend himself.

In Dani’s classroom, Mercury continues to cry as she’s chewed out for attacking The Cuckoos, with no knowledge of how she was manipulated into doing so. Dani is starting to think therapy should be mandatory for every kid who went out to fight the sentinels, because she knows they’re good kids, but they just keep on acting out.

DANI: “Two weeks detention, Cessily. I’m sorry.”

CESSILY: “WHAT?!”

DANI: “You didn’t nearly destroy the school like Noriko, so you’re getting off easy by comparison. But you can’t do this again. No matter how much you’re hurting.”

Cessily sniffles.

CESSILY: “I’m sorry, Miss Moonstar. I don’t know what came over me. It’s like one second I was just angry, and the next, I felt like I HAD to hurt them.”

DANI: “I know, but…” Dani trails off as she has a thought. “Cessily, you said Roxanne only started acting differently after The Cuckoos showed up, right?”

Cessily nods and tells her that just this morning, Roxy was arranging with her parents for her to audition for their next music video, but she guesses that was a lie.

Dani, without another word, proceeds to give a call to Roxy’s father. We only see Dani’s side of the conversation, but all she does is check to see if Roxy was lying or not. Of course, she was not.

With Cessily still deeply confused as to what’s going on, Dani hangs up and hops onto her computer. Cessily questions what she’s doing. Dani pulls up The Cuckoos’ file and the audience gets to see two of Emma’s notes about them: 1) They’re among the most gifted telepaths she’s ever met, perhaps on the same level as Captain Britain, and 2) They have sociopathic tendencies.

Dani smacks her desk.

DANI: “God dammit.”

CESSILY: “What’s going on?”

Dani gets up and tells Cessily to follow her. She’s not the one getting detention today.

Iceman and Beast are still stuck in the under-level of the Danger Room. Bobby asks Hank if he’s seen any good movies lately. Hank doesn’t answer. Bobby asks Hank if he’s built anything cool lately. Hank just sighs. Bobby, starting to get a little pissed at his old friend’s attitude, begins whistling obnoxiously.

Hank tries to ignore it, but the longer Bobby goes, the louder he gets. And, eventually, Hank snaps.

HANK: “Would you quit it with that infernal, brain-rattling whistling?!”

BOBBY, instantly shooting back: “Only if you tell me what your problem is! You’ve had a stick up your butt ever since I got here. What, have you come so far as a scientist that I’m too low brow for you now? You’re too good for me, so you don’t want me around?”

HANK: “No, I DON’T want you around, but it has nothing to do with me.”

BOBBY: “Then why?!”

Hank sighs.

HANK: “When I got the call from Jean that the school would be re-opening and the X-Men would be re-forming, I was thrilled. I thought it would be just like the old days, but better. But…they aren’t. They’re so different, I’m not even sure I fully comprehend them. What I understand is that we’re moving in the wrong direction. And anyone who’s on this ship when it reaches its endpoint will be worse for it.”

There’s a pause as the atmosphere becomes more somber.

BOBBY: “Look, if this is about Scott and Emma–”

HANK: “Not just them, but…yes. And please, do not try and defend their actions to me. As far as I’m concerned, the man who’d cheat on Jean and who’d murder a woman, even a monster like Cassandra Nova, in cold blood, is not the Cyclops we grew up with.”

Another pause.

BOBBY: “So what are YOU still doing here then?”

BEAST: “I’m seeing out the rest of the school-year for my students. I’ve already arranged for Forge to come and take my place come September.”

BOBBY: “Damn. It’ll suck not having you around, but I’m not going anywhere.” Bobby chuckles. “And hey, when things do work out for the best, I’ll be able to laugh in your face that you were wrong about something for once.”

Beast smiles remorsefully.

BEAST: “I’ve never hoped for you to make stupid jokes at my expense more.”

Storm continues to battle the Brotherhood, but the fight doesn’t last long.

Toad hops on Storm’s back and sniffs her hair, poorly flirting with her as he asks what shampoo she uses, because it’s making his heart go crazy, only for her to blow him away with a fierce wind, sending him flying into Pyro, and launching them both down the extended hallway headfirst into a wall, knocking them both out. Without Pyro as backup and Toad’s distractions, Avalanche is defenseless as Storm takes him down with a single lightning blast.

STORM: “Dammit.”

Ororo realizes in the middle of the action, Mystique abandoned her team and made a run for it. She goes to fly after her, but Blob attacks. Storm proceeds to just lift him off the ground, leaving him to wiggle his legs, as he’s left helpless.

BLOB: “Hey! You let me go, now! I’ll knock your head off!”

STORM: “Fred, weren’t you in therapy?”

BLOB: “I still am! Just here supporting my family.”

STORM: “You may have meant well, but this destructive behavior under any circumstances will only ever set you back. You need to cease being a super-villain if you wish to make progress. Do you understand?”

BLOB: “I…you…yeah. Sorry, Storm.”

STORM: “It’s okay.”

As Fred smiles, Ororo grabs his face and electrocutes him at point blank range until he’s unconscious.

With the boys all down, Storm calls out to Cyclops, who’s barely holding his own against Logan in hand-to-hand combat, that she’s pursuing Mystique, and flies off.

As Logan and Scott continue to fight, their conversation continues. Scott tells Logan that he knows he messed up. No matter what he was feeling toward Emma at that moment, he shouldn’t have betrayed Jean.

SCOTT: “And if you think I haven’t been beating myself up for what I did every second since it happened, then you don’t know me at all.”

LOGAN: “Guilt doesn’t make things any better, Bub.”

SCOTT: “No, it doesn’t…but isn’t there also a reason she chose me over you?”

As Logan loses his cool completely at that and attacks more like an animal than the master martial artist he is, Scott is finally able to land a blast on him and put distance between them.

Scott tells Logan that he knows he loved Jean just as much as he does, and that Jean loved him back, but while Scott may have hurt her worse, Logan hurt her first.

SCOTT: “Or do you think she didn’t end things with you for good because she couldn’t stand your attitude? Your jealousy, your sense of “ownership”, and the way you’d run off on her for “business” on a dime. Face it, Logan. Neither of us was good enough for her. Neither of us was ever good enough for her.”

Veins practically pop out of Logan's head as he hears all this. Once Scott is done, however, Logan finally gets a hold of his temper.

Both unsure of what to say, but their fight over, the two simply stand where they are.

The Cuckoos are getting moved into their dorm room, with Bling! helping them decorate. They're all laughing about something when Dani appears in their doorway, Mercury nervously hiding behind her.

Sophie asks if Cessily has received her punishment and has been brought here to offer an apology, but Dani tells her to cut the crap. She knows what they did.

The Cuckoos play dumb, but Dani doesn't play around with this kind of thing and uses her powers on them. While we don't see what they see, Dani subjects them to their worst fears. As they cry and scream, Roxy threatens Dani, while Dani orders the Cuckoos to undo the brainwashing.

The Cuckoos quickly relent in the face of a challenge, as bullies so often do, and free Roxy from their control. Dani turns her powers off, and the sisters collapse on their beds.

CESSILY, sheepishly: "Roxy?"

Roxy groans as she rubs her aching head. For a moment, it seems like she doesn't remember anything, but her mind is just playing catch up.

Roxy runs into Cessily's arms as she apologizes profusely, but Cessily is just crying happy tears none of this was real and that she has her back.

Roxy spins around, not letting go of Cess, and shouts at the Cuckoos that they're all fucking psychopaths.

Roxy leads Cess out of there.

CELESTE, holding herself: "Sociopaths, actually."

PHOEBE: "People always get those mixed up."

IRMA: "We're in trouble, aren't we?"

DANI: "Ooooh, big time."

Scott and Logan stand next to each other, backs against the wall of the SHIELD base hallway.

It's silent at first, save for the occasional sniffle or cough, until Logan speaks.

LOGAN: "So…seriously? Frost?"

Scott laughs. He knows it seems crazy, but he's gotten to know her better than anyone, and she understands parts of him he never even knew existed. Parts of him which were repressed for so long.

Intending to insult himself, Scott says he might actually have more in common with her than he ever did with Jean. Still, that doesn't change anything. He isn't taking their relationship any further.

Another brief silence.

LOGAN: "Why the Hell not?"

Logan says there are few things he cares about less than the love life of Scott Summers if Jean isn't involved, but she clearly means something to him, and he did what he did for a reason. He acted on instinct, and instinct? That's who you are.

More silence.

SCOTT: "Are you just saying all of this so you have no competition when Jean comes home?"

LOGAN: "That depends. Do you agree?"

Before this subject can be further discussed, Storm returns. Mystique got away…again.

She questions what Logan was doing here, and the succinct answer just makes her pinch her forehead over how stupid her boys are. He *really* helped break free one of their greatest enemies just so he could fight Scott.

Logan makes a point that he didn't actually kill anyone here, he just didn't stop the Brotherhood from killing the cops who'd be rounding them all up if Charles hadn't made a convenient arrangement with them. Storm tells him Maria Hill is still going to want him locked up just for being here and helping Mystique escape, but Scott assures them both he won't let that happen. X-Men don't just turn over their own.

Scott and Logan fist clasp.

In the cafeteria, Cessily and Roxy are having dinner. Roxy feels so incredibly violated by what the Cuckoos did, but she's more concerned about if Cess is okay. She knows she didn't mean any of what she said, right?

There's no doubt in Cessily's mind. Now that she has her girlfriend back, everything is perfect. For her. She's going to do everything she can to make sure Roxy is okay too. She's heard a bunch of kids are going to see a guy named Dr. Garrison, a Mutant ally therapist, lately, so maybe they can give him a call.

Roxy shakes her head, saying she doesn't want that.

ROXY: "But, seriously, if after all this you don't want to be in my rents' music video, it's chill. You gotta take care of yourself first."

Cessily giggles and, under her breath, remarks that "Nori actually brought it back."

Picking her head up, Cessily says she's more confident than ever that she wants to be in the video. If it took literal brainwashing to make the coolest girl on Earth think she isn't hot, and girls like the Cuckoos are the only ones who disagree, then she has nothing to worry about.

CESSILY: "Maybe being a Mutant isn't the worst thing in the world after all."

As the two hold hands, the Cuckoos enter the cafeteria.

ROXY: "Yo barbies!" The sisters turn to look at her. "If you wanted to be my friend that badly, you could have just tried being nice."

The Cuckoos seem like they may have something apologetic to say, but they quickly turn back around and continue walking, sneers on their faces.

Continuing to pan across the cafeteria, we find Sofia and Noriko. Sofia questions how Noriko knew all wasn't as it seemed with Roxy. Noriko sighs and tells her that, after her fight with Julian, she no longer thinks things are with him either. Sofia isn't sure what to say to that.

In Emma's bedroom in the school, she's in her nightgown and brushing her hair before bed. There's a knock at her door.

Emma gets up and opens the door to reveal Scott. Before Emma can even get out the first three words of a witty remark, Scott grabs her and plants a long kiss on her lips. The two walk over to and fall onto the bed as Emma shuts her door telekinetically.

Scott, on top of her, pulls up to breathe, smiling as he sees the widest grin on Emma's face.

EMMA: "What changed your mind?"

SCOTT: "Instinct is who you are. I'm done denying who I am just to make others happy." Pause. "Even if she hates me for it."

The two resume enthusiastically making out as they rip each other's clothes off.

We cut directly to Mystique and Destiny, also making out in bed.

MYSTIQUE: "I counted the days till we would be reunited."

DESTINY: "As did I, my immortal love."

MYSTIQUE, smiling innocently: "I only wish my prison stay could have been as lovely as time with our daughter." Pause. "Is everything still on track?"

DESTINY: "Yes. We are still moving toward the sacred timeline."

The two resume having sex, as we cut between them, Scott and Emma having sex, and Cessily and Roxy just resting their heads against one another as they listen to music together.

In the Danger Room basement, Bobby and Hank are both passed out when Kurt BAMFS in, having been looking everywhere for them. With Beast's back aching and Bobby joking about not getting to do his skin care before falling asleep, Kurt teleports them out.

Once back in the common area, Kurt asks what happened. Beast isn't positive on the details, but it shouldn't be anything serious. So long as no one uses the Danger Room, everything should be fine.

We close out in the Danger Room, sinister music playing as a feminine face forms in one of its walls.

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BONUS:

Since several members were revealed this episode, I’ll mention that Scott’s squad consists of Quill, Specter, Armor, Greymalkin, Wolf Cub, and, formerly, DJ.

#New X-Men: The Animated Series #New X-Men #Academy X #Scott Summers #Emma Frost #Ororo Munroe #Kitty Pryde #Roberto Da Costa #Laura Kinney #Bobby Drake #Sofia Mantega #Julian Keller #Noriko Ashida #Sooraya Qadir #Cessily Kincaid #Brian Cruz #Roxanne Washington #The Stepford Cuckoos

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justarandomidiot1 · 10 months

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me and my bird as Ace Attorney characters!

name explanation:

me and my parrot's names being Alex and Pepper respectively is a nice coincidence since they can easily be nods to Dr. Irene Pepperberg and her work with Alex the African gray

"Gray" was chosen as a last name to keep the African gray motif

#ace attorney #ace attorney oc #ace attorney sona #an idiot's ocs #alex gray #pepper gray #alex and pepper gray #african gray #id in alt text #artists on tumblr

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surely-galena · 11 months

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I think Rosa intentionally broke a law. Recently looked into some laws because of yt and found this.

With what she says at the end of episode 7, it's not straight up evidence falsification but that is almost too close to breaking the law for comfort.

She straight up admits that it isn't verified, yet earlier she presents it in court as if it was confirmed.

This is a bit in the gray area because technically it would be valid... if they had a bit more time, but they didn't, so this is possibly false evidence, because if the report came out and it's revealed that the gloves teardd after...

I think it'd be interesting if that was illegal, because it marks a loss of Rosa's moral/ethical compass in her pursuit of black & white justice.

Hi Rose! Sorry this took so long, I was swamped with classes and exam season (my queue has been getting a lot of use recently), but now I've got enough time to answer this!

I don't know if MC/Rosa intentionally broke a law because I'm not super clear on how the legal system in Stellis works (if I had to make a guess, it would probably be based on the Chinese legal system but I still wouldn't be 100% certain). So I'd agree with you about it being in a gray area because even if it isn't explicitly illegal, MC does admit it -- she made a deliberate choice to trick Irene into confessing.

And yet, at this point in the story, I think MC is still aligned with the law, or at least trying to do things by the legal system she's training under. It feels very much like a point of transition because the more recent chapters of the main story have really been digging into gray areas and the places where the law doesn't rectify everything.

We know from the prologue that somewhere along the line, something changes -- either symbolically or in a more tangible way. If we are indeed going to see Rosa lose her faith in the justice system, this could be a key moment to represent that. It might be a sign or something to foreshadow future events, but either way, it is interesting that it's not something the story treats as 'morally/ethically bad'.

MC does admit that Irene got dealt a really bad hand in life -- "Miss Burke, we will get you all the justice you deserve for the pain you went through." So you're right that she's still walking this path towards getting justice, even if it means resorting to underhanded tactics.

Apologies for dragging another fandom into this, but it also sort of reminds me of the DRV3 trials where at certain points, you have to lie in order to get the truth. And given that the way that ToT cases and DR cases wildly differ, it's definitely very interesting to see MC drift away from being strictly lawful to being a little bit more neutral in the way she deals with the people around her.

Anyway, thank you for the interesting thoughts, Rose! I'm keeping an eye out for MC as the main story progresses. Is she going to keep on the lawful path to justice, or are her methods going to diverge in some way?

#asks #roshie-writes #tears of themis #however much MC diverges from the law #I don't think we're going to see something as extreme as vigilante!Rosa. Although it would be funny to picture her as Batman.#either way this is an interesting arc/shift in ideology to take as MC and the team uncover more and more morally gray areas

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jezabatlovesbats · 2 years

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Day 6 of Unitober is Richard, so let’s talk about him.

Richard, to me, is another very interesting character. When I think about the Unigang being in a band, I see him being on bass, probably because of his deep voice. I still ship him with that girl brick we saw in Crushing Defeat, who in the Big Bright World AU is named Irene. Just like Dr. Fox, I’ve thought up some ideas for what Rick’s past was like because I’m truly curious to know. (“My journey through life has always been difficult…”) Not only that, but I also feel sorry for him.

Like, really. I do. The first couple of times I saw Film Fest, his film really caught my attention. “Really makes you think, doesn’t it?” Yes. Yes it does.

Rewatching his film, I’m thinking back to a YouTube comment I once saw that I unfortunately can’t see anymore because the video it was on was marked as “for kids.” The comment analyzed his film, explaining that Richard’s work is pretty much his life. No one can really understand how he feels about it because they usually don’t acknowledge him (“I am surrounded, but I am alone. They see me, but do they SEE me?”). Day by day, he’s carrying the entire castle on his nonexistent shoulders.

Though he’s a friend to Unikitty and the gang, there are moments in the show when he’s pushed aside, not taken seriously, or left in the dark unseen. There are quotes that show this, such as in Laser Tag: “Now I look as invisible as I feel.”

This is the kind of impression I’ve gotten from Richard’s character, and it’s why I feel bad for him. I see him as a character who’s often forgotten about and pushed aside because of how “boring” he is. He’s unnoticed, like he’s a gray brick in a gray brick wall. It’s kind of sad because he does so much for Unikitty and the gang.

Richard deserves better. I’m happy that the other Unigang members are truly grateful to have him around.

#Unikitty!#Richard #Unikittytober

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in-inertia · 1 year

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About Gladiia

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Gladiia is a character from the game Arknights. I have a little blurb about what Arknights is at the bottom of Mudrock’s about page.

Also see: Irene! Irene is also a character from Arknights, an associate of Gladiia’s run by my friend Serenity. Whisperain is also in this same setting, an associate of Gladiia’s run by Rayne!

All art is by me unless otherwise indicated, save for official art for Arknights © Hypergryph. The verty good above image was drawn by Bunny! Header image for the dashboard appearance is by Emiliano Arano.

CONTENT WARNING AT THE BOTTOM.

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The Short(er) Version:

Gladiia is a tech expert and supersoldier (Abyssal Hunter) from an undersea nation called Ægir that she’s been separated from for years.

She’s spent most of her life fighting a threat called the Seaborn, which is akin to the Flood from Halo. Her own extreme physical strength comes from a genetic experiment combining her with Seaborn genetic material. Most of her fellow Hunters died in a great fight with a Seaborn God. Ægir believes them all to be dead. Gladiia has survivor’s guilt, wishing that she’d died alongside her men.

She is slowly becoming a Seaborn herself, as that is the ending each Abyssal Hunter will eventually face if they don’t die in battle. It’s an end that can be staved off with mental fortitude, but while Gladiia’s extremely stubborn, her mental fortitude is weakening. It’s starting to show on her body—her neck is covered in scales from the beginnings of her transformation. Gladiia finds it extremely repulsive, and hates herself as a result.

She’s homesick, and dearly misses Ægirian culture. She loves the arts, especially music and dance. She loves Ægir, and remains devoted to it. Ægir’s technological superiority over other nations and the depth of its cultural productions makes her a little arrogant.

She’s lonely. Her relationship with her other Hunters is still strained, and outside of the distant and mercurial Dr. Kal'tsit, she has no real companions. She was compelled to make this blog by Kal'tsit, who believes that it might be a way to encourage her to open up to others—which might help her with her self-image issues.

Abyssal Hunters and Ægir:

Gladiia is a technician and military officer of the technologically advanced undersea nation of Ægir, which faces an existential threat. The Seaborn, a hivemind of pelagic, self-replicating, and perpetually evolving and adapting creatures (which are somewhat akin to the concept of a “gray goo”), threaten to wipe them out. The Seaborn are pushed forward by an extreme capacity for evolution, and have a corruptive nature: those who are exposed to or consume Seaborn will eventually become Seaborn themselves, losing their individuality and becoming solely focused on oneness and the survival of the hivemind.

To combat the Seaborn threat, they created the Abyssal Hunters, supersoldiers who are a combination of Ægir-born humans and seaborn.

Some years ago, the Abyssal Hunters were destroyed. They were sacrificed by Ægir in a suicide mission that dealt a fatal blow to the Seaborn God, Ishar-mla, preventing it from rousing the whole of the slumbering Seaborn force. Of the four Companies of Hunters, the First and Fourth perished in their entirety, and the Second and Third were devastated.

As it stands, only four Hunters are known to have survived:

Captain of the Second, Gladiia

Her subordinate, Laurentina

Captain of the Third, Ulpianus

His subordinate, Skadi

Stranded from Ægir, with no way of returning home and no knowledge of other survivors, the Abyssal Hunters went separate ways until the present day. Dr. Kal'tsit of Rhodes Island helped Gladiia reunite with Skadi and Laurentina, though each of them presented their own problems.

Skadi, who dealt the finishing blow to Ishar-mla, currently is home to the God’s corruption, which threatens to bloom into disaster again.

Laurentina became the subject of an awful experiment by a Seaborn-worshipping cultist named Amaia, which gave her an awful case of oripathy (see Mudrock’s page) by injecting liquid originium into her spine.

Relationships:

Gladiia and Laurentina have a close, intimate relationship. Unfortunately, Laurentina’s extreme oripathy has significantly damaged her sanity. For a long time, she was in a mental fog whenever she’s not by the sea—where the Seaborn part of her becomes strong enough to fight off the oripathy, letting her be lucid again. She’s recently begun to recover, but not without periods of relapse.

Her relationship with Skadi is slowly improving, but slowly is the operative term here. Without Laurentina to bring them together, they rarely speak, and never informally. Her relationship with Ulpianus is…

It is just bad. (It’s just bad, bad.)

Nonetheless, Gladiia continues to lead Laurentina and Skadi in her pursuit of returning to Ægir. She works closely with the woman who reunited them, Rhodes Island Head of Medicine Kal'tsit—and might be developing (as far as she knows, unrequited) feelings for her.

Beyond those, Gladiia doesn’t really know anyone. Skadi and Laurentina have both been making friends, but outside of Kal'tsit, Gladiia doesn’t have anyone outside of the Hunters. She doesn’t know how to make connections. She shows up to bars, but doesn’t talk to anyone, just listens to music in the corner. She shows up to balls, but just dances by herself—even though she’d dance with anyone who asked her.

She’s intimidating, arrogant, and while she’s not necessarily unkind, she is distant and overly formal. Beneath the forced politeness is a very angry and spiteful woman, and the only thing she hates more than herself are the Seaborn. It’s very hard for anyone who wants to give Gladiia the companionship she desires to do so.

Content Warning:

These sort of things are central to Gladiia’s character, and while I don’t expect she’ll ever be talking about them frequently (if at all), they may come up.

THE WORST OF THESETHINGS WILL BE TAGGED AND UNDER READMORES IF THEY EVER GET DISCUSSED! Let me know if there's anything else you'd need tagged!

At the time of writing this, Gladiia hasn’t even told anyone about the nature of her illness. She’s not going to be making vent posts about this, so it’s likely that they’re just never going to be discussed publicly. If your character wants to get very close to her, she might eventually speak about it in private. In that case, I’ll warn you ahead of time.

Illness, vomiting, seizures, disordered eating, nightmares/insomnia

Gladiia suffers constantly from symptoms of moderate-to-severe illness, as a result of her Seaborn transformation. We see this in her operator record, where she has a seizure and vomits from dehydration due to her Seaborn cells rejecting being on land. From Under Tides, we know that she’s constantly nauseated from the smell of her own scales.

This also leads to a problem with food. Because she’s constantly nauseated, she can’t keep down food well.

Because of constant and intense nightmares, Gladiia cannot sleep well. She went without sleeping for weeks until she collapsed while spending time with Laurentina. Laurentina now sings to her while she’s having nightmares, letting her get better rest, but it’s still a poor situation.

Mental health issues, survivor’s guilt, suicidal ideation

Gladiia is, frankly speaking, in a bad way. The following is canonical information, some of which comes from her currently CN-only module vignette. She wrote a suicide note when she was selected for the Abyssal Hunter program, and (as said before) she wishes she’d died alongside the rest of the Hunters in the Profound Silence. She believes herself to be disgusting and ugly. She does not see a life for herself in the future. Even her most beautiful dreams aren’t of a better life, but a more dignified death.

It’s likely that she would have taken her own life had she not met Laurentina. It’s only Laurentina, Skadi, and potentially now Kal’tsit that have stopped her from doing so.

That said, the point of this blog is not for her to wallow in misery! It’s the catharsis of seeing her get better. Seeing her break out of her shell of loneliness.

Child abuse and neglect

Gladiia herself really does not like talking about this, but she was abused and neglected by her mother. It made her childhood empty, spiteful, and lonely. This abuse is why she clutches so hard to the family she’s found in the Abyssal Hunters.

#ooc

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critical-quoter · 6 months

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October Books

(Look at that... Just a few short massive posts and I'm all caught up with my monthly books read.)

Twisted Game - Eva Ashwood ⭐⭐ Temptation - Ivy Smoak ⭐ Broken Souls - Ariana Cane ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Kenna's Dragon - Leigh Miller ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Chasing Your Ghost - Maggie Fields ⭐⭐⭐ Of Deathless Shadows - K. M. Moronova ⭐⭐ Bittersweet Memories - Catharina Maura ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Silver or Lead - Darcy Halifax ⭐⭐⭐⭐ One-Way Ride - Darcy Halifax ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Tempted - Zoe Ashwood ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Ensnared - Zoe Ashwood ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Seduced - Zoe Ashwood ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Screwed - Torri Heat ⭐⭐⭐⭐ When She Unravels - Gabrielle Sands ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Return to Us - Corinne Michaels ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Consolation - Corinne Michaels ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Conviction - Corinne Michaels ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Warrior Midwife - E. P. Bali ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Warrior Priestess - E. P. Bali ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Warrior Queen - E. P. Bali ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Fated Crossing - Michelle Rose ⭐⭐ The Society #StalkerProblems - Ivy Smoak ⭐ Hookah Smoking Caterpillar - Beatrix Hollow ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Fire and Ice - Victoria Paige ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Truth and Other Lies - Lyra Wolf ⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Order of Chaos - Lyra Wolf ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Eat Your Heart Out - Eden O'Neill ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Grumpy Romance - Nia Arthurs ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Sweet Venom - L. A. Ferro ⭐⭐⭐ Crooked Paradise - Eva Chase and Harlow King ⭐⭐ Hopeless - Elsie Silver ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Best Laid Plans - L. K. Farlow ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Cruel Deception - Monica Kayne ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Summer's Snow - Carly H. Mannon ⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Payback - Julie Weaver ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Man Possessed - Haley Tyler ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Carter's Flame - Tiffany Patterson ⭐⭐⭐⭐ King's Bride - Beck Michaels ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Ascend - Swati M. H. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Scandalous Games - Simran ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Flow - Kennedy Ryan ⭐⭐⭐ Divine Wickedness - Lexes L. Saia ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Ranger - Dr. Rebecca Sharp ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Ever King - L. J. Andrews ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Devil's Reward - Emily Rose ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Captured Light - Raya Morris Edwards ⭐⭐⭐ Curse of Shadows and Thorns - L. J. Andrews ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Court of Ice and Ash - L. J. Andrews ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Academy of Protectors - Gray Holbern ⭐ Icebreaker - Hannah Grace ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Bait - Jade West ⭐ Triple Threat - K. Webster ⭐⭐⭐ Faux Beau - Marina Adair ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Den of Vipers - K. A. Knight ⭐ Animus - Ophelia Bell ⭐⭐⭐ The Hating Game - Sally Thorne ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A Broken Throne of Bronze - Renna Ashley ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Star-Crossed Letters - Sarah Deeham ⭐⭐⭐⭐ A Bond of Broken Glass - T. A. Lawrence ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A Throne of Blood and Ice - T. A. Lawrence ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A Voice Without Reason - Irene Bahrd ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Call of the Sea - Kate Schumacher ⭐⭐⭐ Hate You Later - Ciara Blume ⭐⭐ Mute - M. L. Nystrom ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Escaping Liam - H. L. Swan ⭐⭐⭐ House of Earth and Blood - Sarah J. Maas ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

66 total books read for October 2023

#book #books #booklr #book lover #book quotes #reading #quote #lit #literature #novel #october reads #october 2023

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xantheaugustine · 3 years

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I think that Sins of London could be at least partially inspired by Penny Dreadful.

First of all there’s Victorian London with murders and supernatural monsters hidden in the shadow.

Then we meet a famous character like Sherlock Holmes and this gentleman whose name recalls Dorian Gray’s. In Penny Dreadful there are as well characters from traditional literature like Victor Frankenstein, Dorian Gray, Dracula, Dr Jekyll and so on.

Abigail has a strong connection with the supernatural world, like Vanessa Ives, and sees Mr Roger Evans as a paternal figure, as Vanessa does with Sir Malcolm Murray.

Mr Evans also has traveled a lot to Africa and has a strong connection with it, like Sir Murray. They both have a butler, respectively Alfred and Sembene.

MC (Irene) is hired by the two of them for her abilities, like Ethan Chandler, to help to reach their still unknown goal.

The monsters are people getting turned by some other monster and obey to a master, like Dracula and his vampires.

Also the scene where MC and the others visit that monster chained in the basement of Mr Evans’ mansion reminded me of Fenton locked up in the cellar of Sir Murray’s.

I don’t know if Romance Club said anything about this, but I don’t think it’s a coincidence😳

#romance club #sins of london #rc sins of london #abigail #gray #sherlock #sherlock holmes #mr evans #victorian london #penny dreadful #vanessa ives #ethan chandler #malcolm murray #victor frankenstein #dorian gray

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alixennial · 3 years

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Sins Of London (Romance Club)

(only very minor spoilers, if any)

I've only read season 1 so far and I have very mixed feelings about it.

TL;DR Exciting premise. Sherlock is an interesting romance option so far. Gray is gonna get booted in the nether regions if he continues to flirt like that. I lack the memory skills to do very well in this game. The artwork is pretty and the writing is ok but where is all the Victorian slang?

More under the cut.

I love the premise and the setting: a steampunk-inspired dark urban fantasy set in Victorian era London. You play as Irene, a thief who grew up on the streets of London. I do like Irene, she's fearless and independent and a little rough around the edges. Later episodes see her make some questionable choices that are out of your control, but as MC's go, she's pretty good (and I love some the outfits you can dress her up in, so there's that!)

There's 3 main love interests: Abigail (F), Gray (M) and Sherlock Holmes (M). I am attempting to romance Holmes obviously as he was the one to treat me with the most contempt. Cold jerk? I’ll take that one please. ❤️

It’s an interesting interpretation of Holmes, with him having more murderous tendencies than ACD’s original creation (for reasons that become clear) and I’m not hating it 😋

The story falls into similar traps as many CYOA books, in that some of the characters behave inconsistently as you are given multiple opportunities to get closer to them - a typical drawback of single stories with multiple love interests. Sometimes you are forced into interactions that don't suit the relationships you've built so far. That said, interactions with Holmes have been consistent so far (presumably because I'm attempting to romance him).

Choices you make in the game affect your ⭐️ fame status, 💰 money and 💪 abilities - all of which can influence the story direction. There are two main abilities you can advance: Mystical (the Sepulchral Whisper path) and Physical (the Crimson Shadow path). In most cases you have to choose between the two and so far I am very firmly on the Crimson Shadow path as I'm building Irene's fighting capabilities and collecting weapons. Situations arise where you can fight with spells or brute force and my Irene is a kickass fighter. 💪👊

There's some interesting in-game mechanics which require quick thinking & reflexes and a good memory. I'm ok on the first part, but I have the working memory of an overtired goldfish 🐠 so I have lost out on fame points because I cannot remember very basic instructions for more than a few seconds. I prefer a good story to a test of my own capabilities personally but it keeps things amusing, I guess. 😝

So watch out for characters giving you directions to places or suchlike, you may need to recall them and sometimes under pressure of a timer.

The writing is fine, though nothing really stands out as wow, that is a line! There isn't a lot of figurative language used if that’s your thing. Mostly I’m disappointed in the lack of glorious Victorian slang - very much a wasted opportunity! Given Irene’s background I think she would have picked up a lot of slang.

I love the artwork despite that the CGs don't always match your MCs appearance. The character designs and backgrounds are beautiful though.

I'm very much torn between loving some elements of the book, wanting to love other elements, and being reminded why I don't play the Choices app anymore. I intend to read season 2 though. More than anything, I'm curious about how much your choices influence the plot. I don't think it's Storyscape level of deviation but I’d need to investigate further!

#sins of london #rc sins of london #romance club

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cream-and-tea · 2 years

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hello! I noticed you post/rb about podcasts sometimes and I've been kinda wanting to start listening to some (I already have a few but i mean more plot-based ones) but I'm not sure where to start, so I thought I would ask if you have any reccomendations?

okay okay okay! sorry this took so long to answer i got SO excited when i got this ask that i froze up and then just had to put together a little list of a few of my favourite shows that i think would be good to start out with (in no particular order):

MABEL

low fantasy podcast with horror elements that follows Anna Limone, the caretaker of a mysterious old woman and her massive house, as she leaves voicemails for said woman’s missing granddaughter (the titular Mabel) all while attempting to unravel the mystery surrounding the house and Mabels disappearance. This one has some of THE most stunning prose I have ever come across and features haunted houses, fae magic, absolutely unhinged woman, complex characters and a beautifully crafted wlw romance between the two main characters that manages to get me every time (it’s about the yearning…. the devotion….). It has three completed seasons that can be listened to as a complete story (with the potential for more to come though), I 100% recommend it and even though it has a bit of a slow start you will NOT regret listening to it.

HELLO FROM THE HALLOWOODS

Really sweet horror/fantasy podcast about a dying earth beset with supernatural horrors afte mysterious black rains caused a supernatural forest to cover the entire planet. The entire thing is narrated by an elder god of dreams and follows a large cast of characters and stories that eventually weave together into a larger plot over time. Incredibly queer and has something for anyone in its large cast of characters and range of stories even though it takes a while for it all to come together. The whole thing focuses on finding hope and light at the end of the world and how people and their relationships with each other matter despite everything. Has a completed first season and is releasing its second one this year. Incredibly easy to binge with really soothing narration.

WHERE THE STARS FELL

Very fun gravity-falls-style-fantasy podcast that centres around Dr. Edison Tucker, an eccentric scientist with a fascination with the supernatural that likely stems from the fact that she is unable to die or be injured. Ed has set her sights (and grant money) on the little middle-of-nowhere town of Jerusalem, widely known as the strangest town in America, where she heads to investigate the mysteries lurking just beyond the treeline and to clash homoerotically completely reasonably with her new roommate: renowned author Lucille Kensington, who’s hiding a fair few secrets of her own. Really fun characters and an intriguing mystery plus if you’re as much as a sucker for the enemies-to-begrudging-allies-to-tentative-friends-to-maybe-more dynamic as I am then this one is definitely a real treat! Has the full first season out with s2 coming soon.

THE HEART OF ETHER

Horror podcast that follows Irene Gray who, years after her girlfriend Rose mysteriously disappeared, moves to the small town of Daughtler Washington to start a new chapter in her life. The whole thing is told through messages Irene records for Rose and various other sources as she begins to dive deeper into the mysterious and terrifying forces surrounding Daughtler, it’s residents, and perhaps even Rose’s disappearance all those years ago. Its a really good meditation on grief and mental health with a really interesting main character and driving conflict, with worldbuilding and depth that really picks up in s2. I’d strongly recommend it if you want a shorter listen with a strong emotional conflict, excellent voice acting and slowly building tension. It’s on a hiatus but with a full season one and part of season two out currently.

(i have a LOT of other great shows but these ones all came out with a similar kind of genre/theme going and the list was getting pretty long lol. i thought these ones kinda fit the ✨vibes✨ of your blog from what i’ve seen) (i hope this didn’t get to long and rambling)

#*stares in podcast rambling*#all of these shows also provide transcripts and trigger warnings ofc #they’re also all pretty smaller/lesser known which i kinda went out of my way for #bc they all deserve so much love #mabel podcast #hfthw #wtsf #thoe

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118 years since the wedding of HRH Prince Andreas of Greece and Denmark to HRH Princess Aliki of Battenberg in 06–10–1903

Princess Alice was considered to be the most beautiful princess in Europe. At the age of 17 she met Prince Andrew of Greece while in London for King Edward VII’s coronation. They were married in a civil service on 6 October 1903 at Darmstadt in the state of Hesse, Germany, followed by two religious services: one Lutheran and the other Greek Orthodox in the Russian Chapel. The bride and groom were both closely related to the ruling houses of the United Kingdom, Germany, Russia, Denmark and Greece. They settled in Athens, Greece, and Prince Andrew continued his career in the military while Princess Alice or Princess Andrew as she was also known as it was customary for a princess to take the name of her husband, became involved in charity work. The couple had four daughters and one son, Prince Phillip, who later married Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom

Alice and Andrew on their religious wedding day in Darmstadt .

Bellow an article originally appeared in the New York Times on 8 Oct 1903

Darmstadt, Oct. 7

In the presence of a notable gathering, which included an Emperor, an Empress, a King, and two Queens, the marriage of Princess Alice of Battenberg and Prince Andreas of Greece was celebrated today according to the rites of the Lutheran and Greek churches.

In the guest list was the bride’s aunts, uncles, and parents at the wedding Grand Duke Ernst of Hesse and by Rhine, Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna of Russia, Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, Princess Irene of Prussia, Prince Henry of Prussia, Grand Duchess Elisabeth Feodorovna of Russia, Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia, Princess Louis of Battenberg, and Prince Louis of Battenberg

The wedding party, whose dresses and uniforms made a very effective spectacle, assembled at 3:30 in the old castle, and then crossed the castle yard to the castle church. Prince George of Greece with Princess Victoria led the procession, and they were followed by the Grand Duke of Hesse , with the Czarina [6]; the Czar , with Queen Alexandra the members of the Greek royal family, and finally Prince Louis of Battenberg , with his daughters, the Princesses Alice and Louise

The church was filled with diplomats, the local authorities, and the royal suites. The Protestant ceremony lasted three-quarters of an hour, the officiating clergyman being the Rev. Dr. Petersen. The party then, amid the ringing of the famous chimes, drove in reverse order to the Greek chapel, a mile distant on the Mathildanhohe, where they were greeted by a large crowd. There the marriage ceremony was celebrated according to the Greek rites by Archpriest Janitcheff, a Russian choir performing the musical service. All then returned directly to the palace.

The bride wore white crepe de chine, with orange blossoms, and a bodice of Point de Venise lace

and wore the diamond tiara that may have been her wedding gift from her uncle and aunt,

and a diamond circle-and-star necklace that’s said to have been a wedding gift from her mother

Tsar Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna of Russia

Queen Alexandra was dressed in purple tulle, with sequins, and had a diamond diadem. The Czarina wore a gown of white tulle embroidered with silver, and wore a Russian diadem. The Queen of Greece was in gray satin.

A family dinner was held this evening, with forty-two covers. Afterward the wedded couple started in a motor car, presented by the Czar, for Heiligenberg Castle on a short honeymoon.

The gifts to the bridal couple include a massive silver epergne from the King and Queen of England and a magnificent diadem of brilliants from the Czar and Czarina .

The civil marriage of Prince Andrew and Princess Alice took place on Tuesday.

118 χρόνια από τον γάμου Της ΑΒΥ Πρίγκιπα Αντρέα της Ελλάδας και Δανίας με Την ΑΒΥ Πριγκίπισσα Αλίκη του Μπατενμπεργκ στις 06–10–1903

Η πριγκίπισσα Αλίκη θεωρούνταν η πιο όμορφη πριγκίπισσα στην Ευρώπη. Σε ηλικία 17 ετών γνώρισε τον πρίγκιπα της Ελλάδας Ανδρέα ενώ βρισκόταν στο Λονδίνο για τη στέψη του βασιλιά Εδουάρδου Ζ '. Παντρεύτηκαν σε δημόσια υπηρεσία στις 6 Οκτωβρίου 1903 στο Ντάρμσταντ στο κρατίδιο της Έσσης, στη Γερμανία, και ακολούθησαν δύο θρησκευτικές λειτουργίες: η μία Λουθηρανική και η άλλη Ελληνορθόδοξη στο Ρωσικό Παρεκκλήσι. Η νύφη και ο γαμπρός είχαν στενή σχέση με τους κυβερνώντες Βασιλικους οίκους του Ηνωμένου Βασιλείου, της Γερμανίας, της Ρωσίας, της Δανίας και της Ελλάδας. Εγκαταστάθηκαν στην Αθήνα της Ελλάδας και ο πρίγκιπας Ανδρέας συνέχισε την καριέρα του στο στρατό, ενώ η πριγκίπισσα Αλίκη ή η πριγκίπισσα Άντρεα όπως ήταν επίσης γνωστό ως συνήθεια για μια πριγκίπισσα να παίρνει το όνομα του συζύγου της, ασχολήθηκε με φιλανθρωπικό έργο. Το ζευγάρι είχε τέσσερις κόρες και έναν γιο, τον πρίγκιπα Φίλιππο, ο οποίος αργότερα παντρεύτηκε τη βασίλισσα Ελισάβετ Β 'του Ηνωμένου Βασιλείου

Παρακάτω ένα άρθρο για τον Βασιλικό εμφανίστηκε αρχικά στους New York Times στις 8 Οκτωβρίου 1903

Ντάρμσταντ, 7 Οκτωβρίου

Παρουσία μιας αξιόλογης συγκέντρωσης, η οποία περιελάμβανε έναν αυτοκράτορα, μια αυτοκράτειρα, έναν βασιλιά και δύο βασίλισσες, ο γάμος της πριγκίπισσας Αλίκης του Μπάτενμπεργκ και του πρίγκιπα Ανδρέα της Ελλάδας γιορτάστηκε σήμερα σύμφωνα με τις τελετές των λουθηρανικών και ελληνικών εκκλησ��ών.

Στη λίστα καλεσμένων ήταν οι θείες, οι θείοι και οι γονείς της νύφης Μεγάλος Δούκας Έρνστ της Έσσης και από τον Ρήνο, η Τσαρίνα Αλεξάνδρα Φεοντόροβνα της Ρωσίας, ο τσάρος Νικόλαος Β της Ρωσίας, η Πριγκίπισσα Ειρήνη της Πρωσίας, ο Πρίγκιπας Ερρίκος της Πρωσίας, η Μεγάλη Δούκισσα Ελισάβετ Feodorovna της Ρωσίας, Μέγας Δούκας Σεργκέι Αλεξάντροβιτς της Ρωσίας, πριγκίπισσα Louis του Battenberg και πρίγκιπας Louis του Battenberg

Το γαμήλιο πάρτι, του οποίου τα φορέματα και οι στολές έκαναν ένα πολύ αποτελεσματικό θέαμα, ξεκινησε στις 3:30 στο παλιό κάστρο και στη συνέχεια διασχιζοντας την αυλή του κάστρου στην εκκλησία του κάστρου. Ο πρίγκιπας Γεώργιος της Ελλάδας με την πριγκίπισσα Βικτώρια ηγήθηκε της πορείας και ακολούθησαν ο Μεγάλος Δούκας της Έσσης, με την Τσαρίνα ο τσάρος, με τη βασίλισσα Αλεξάνδρα τα μέλη της ελληνικής βασιλικής οικογένειας, και τέλος τον πρίγκιπα Λούις του Μπάτενμπεργκ, με τις κόρες του, τις πριγκίπισσες Αλίκη και τη Λουίζα μετέπειτα Βασσιλισα Λουίζα της Σουηδιας

Η εκκλησία ήταν γεμάτη με διπλωμάτες, τις τοπικές αρχές και τις βασιλικές οικογένειες Η προτεσταντική τελετή διήρκεσε τρία τέταρτα της ώρας, με ιερέα τον κληρικό σεβ. Dr. Petersen. Το πάρτι στη συνέχεια, οδήγησε με αντίστροφη σειρά στο ελληνικό παρεκκλήσι, ένα μίλι μακριά στο Mathildanhohe, όπου τους υποδέχτηκε ένα μεγάλο πλήθος. Εκεί η τελετή του γάμου γιορτάστηκε σύμφωνα με τις ελληνικές τελετές από τον αρχιερέα Janitcheff, μια ρωσική χορωδία που εκτελούσε τη μουσική λειτουργία. Στη συνέχεια, όλοι επέστρεψαν απευθείας στο παλάτι.

Η νύφη φορούσε λευκο κρέπα ντε κινέ, με άνθη πορτοκαλιάς και μπούστο από δαντέλα Point de Venise

και φόρουσε τη διαμαντένια τιάρα που μπορεί να ήταν το δώρο του γάμου της από τον θείο και τη θεία της,και ένα διαμαντένιο κολιέ με σχήμα κύκλου με διαμαντένια αστέρια που λέγεται ότι ήταν δώρο γάμου από τη μητέρα της

Ο τσάρος Νικόλαος Β και η Τσαρίνα Αλεξάνδρα Φεοντόροβνα της Ρωσίας

Η βασίλισσα Αλεξάνδρα ήταν ντυμένη με μωβ τούλι, με παγιέτες και είχε διαμαντένιο διάδημα. Η Τσαρίνα φορούσε φόρεμα από λευκό τούλι κεντημένο με ασήμι και φορούσε ρωσικό διάδημα. Η βασίλισσα της Ελλάδας ήταν σε γκρι σατέν.

Ένα οικογενειακό δείπνο πραγματοποιήθηκε σήμερα το βράδυ.

Στη συνέχεια, το ζευγάρι ξεκίνησε με ένα μηχανοκίνητο αυτοκίνητο, το οποίο παραχωρισε ο τσάρος, για το Κάστρο Heiligenberg σε ένα σύντομο μήνα του μέλιτος.

Τα δώρα στο νυφικό ζευγάρι περιλαμβάνουν μια τεράστια ασημένια epergne από τον βασιλιά και τη βασίλισσα της Αγγλίας και ένα υπέροχο διάδημα από τον Τσάρο και την Τσαρίνα.

Ο πολιτικός γάμος του πρίγκιπα Andrew και της πριγκίπισσας Aλικης πραγματοποιήθηκε την Τρίτη.

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gayest-classiclit · 5 months

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GUYS GUESS WHAT 💥

we now have a bracket! poll times are hit or miss. we'll see

your matchups are under the cut vvv

PART A

Viola/Cesario (Twelfth Night) vs Jane Bennet (Pride and Prejudice)

Medea (Greek mythology) vs Benedick and Beatrice (Much Ado About Nothing)

Grantaire (Les Miserables) vs Prince Hal (the Henriad)

Enjolras (Les Miserables) vs Clopin Trouillefou (Notre Dame de Paris)

Milady de Winter (The Count of Monte Cristo) vs Don Rodigue (Spanish folktales)

Mephistopheles (Faust) vs Big Brother (1984)

Jean Valjean (Les Miserables) vs Queequeg (Moby Dick)

Helen of Troy (Greek mythology) vs Jesus and Judas (the Bible)

PART B

Sherlock Holmes (the Sherlock Holmes books) vs Fitzwilliam Darcy (Pride and Prejudice)

Catherine Earnshaw (Wuthering Heights) vs Jonathan and Mina Harker (Dracula)

Cathy Ames (East of Eden) vs Lady Macbeth (Macbeth)

Arsene Lupin (the Arsene Lupin books) vs Eugene Onegin (Eugene Onegin)

Charles Bingley (Pride and Prejudice) vs Gregor Samsa (The Metamorphosis)

Ivan Karamazov (The Brothers Karamazov) vs Frankenstein's Monster/Adam (Frankenstein)

Therem Harth Ir Em Estraven (The Left Hand of Darkness) vs Eugene de Rastignac (The Human Comedy)

Winston Smith (1984) vs Inspector Goole (An Inspector Calls)

PART C

Quincey Morris (Dracula) vs Count Dracula (Dracula)

Annabel Lee (Annabel Lee) vs the Woman Behind the Wallpaper (The Yellow Wallpaper)

the Duke de Nemours (La Princess de Cleves) vs Dorian Gray and Basil Hallward (The Picture of Dorian Gray)

Mercutio (Romeo and Juliet) vs Carmilla (Carmilla)

Hotspur (the Henriad) vs Edmond Dantes (The Count of Monte Cristo)

Hamlet (Hamlet) vs Atticus Finch (To Kill a Mockingbird)

Alyosha Karamazov (The Brothers Karamazov) vs Robin Hood (assorted folktales)

Grendel's mother (Beowulf) vs Rodion Raskolnikov (Crime and Punishment)

PART D

Dmitri Razumikhin (Crime and Punishment) vs Balladyna (Balladyna)

Benedetto (The Count of Monte Cristo) vs Captain Hook (Peter Pan)

Gerald Croft (An Inspector Calls) vs Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan (The Great Gatsby)

Irene Adler (the Sherlock Holmes books) vs Emma Bovary (Madame Bovary)

Erik/the Phantom (The Phantom of the Opera) vs Gaspard Caderousse (The Count of Monte Cristo)

Woland (The Master and Margarita) vs Nastasya Filippovna (The Idiot)

Henry Jekyll (The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde) vs Ruy Blas (Ruy Blas)

Behemoth (The Master and Margarita) vs Anatole Kuragin and Helene Bezukova (War and Peace)

#lesgooooooo #rip beatty he died for the bracket to go up #still mourning his loss tbh #anyways #classic lit sexyperson bracket #tournament poll #let's see if depression holds up i guess??????

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