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mild-secret-au · 1 year

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His Voice by Hou Yi

Name: Yasuhiro Hiraoka/Tadao

First Name Meaning: Calm and Leisurely. Most respectful. Peace And Honesty All Around. abundant honesty; widespread peace. Abundant tranquility.

Last Name Meaning: Peaceful hill/Loyal, complacent; satisfied.

Nicknames: purely kitsune, 8-tailed bodyguard, Gin, and Yasu or Hiro.

Birthday: September 17

Age: 169/24 (human disguise)

Species: a hybrid of Silver Fox, Red Fox, Grey Fox, and Zenko Kitsune (good fox & Japanese kitsune).

Gender: Male ♂

Relationship status: Single

Sexuality: Straight Ally & Asexual

Facts: Yasuhiro was raised by a human; a retired samurai father and a ninja mother after the death of his biological parents. When he was ready, he had a crush on Akane, but as time went on, he stopped developing feelings for her, he only saw Akane as a close friend and childhood friend.

Parents:

† Yukari Tadao (Deceased biological mother)

† Kitsu Tadao (Deseased biological father)

Akechi Hiraoka (Adopted father)

Haruka Hiraoka (Adopted mother)

Abilities:

Mythical Bestiary

Canine Physiology

Demon Physiology

Kitsune Physiology

Vulpes Physiology

Advantage Creation

Animal Imitation - only vulpine

Animal Morphing - only vulpine

Animalistic Vocalization

Artistic Intuition

Artistic Mastery

Battlefield Adaptation

Beast Mode

Beast Morphing

Calmness Empowerment

Camouflage

Claw Retraction

Club Proficiency

Combat Adaptation

Combat Specialism

Combat Specialist

Compass Sense

Decelerated Aging

Demon Mode

Demon Morphing

Determination Embodiment

Enhanced Agility

Enhanced Archery

Enhanced Combat

Enhanced Endurance

Enhanced Flailmanship

Enhanced Flexibility

Enhanced Hearing

Enhanced Leap

Enhanced Musicianship - flutes & biwa.

Enhanced Penmanship

Enhanced Preparedness

Enhanced Reflexes

Enhanced Saimanship

Enhanced Senses

Enhanced Smell

Enhanced Stealth

Enhanced Swordsmanship

Enhanced Wisdom

Enhanced Wits

Environmental Adaptation

Escape Artistry

Expressive Ears

Eye Color Shifting

Fur Generation

Glowing Eyes - only when the power is active or glow in the dark

Glowing Hands - only when the power is active

Human Disguise

Iaido Intuition

Iaido Mastery

Indomitable Determination

Invisibility

Katana Proficiency

Kendo Mastery

Knife Proficiency

Magnetoreception

Martial Arts Intuition

Martial Arts Mastery

Military Mastery

Multiple Tails

Night Vision

Ninja Magic

Ninjutsu Mastery

Ninpo Arts

Paw Protrusion

Peak Human Speed: Foxes can run at a speed of 50 km.

Pedagogy Mastery

Poetry Intuition - haiku.

Poetry Mastery - haiku.

Pointed Ears

Powerful Bite

Prehensile Tail

Spear Proficiency

Serenity Empowerment

Stealth Intuition

Strategy Adaptation

Tail Manifestation

Teaching Intuition

Temperature Regulation

Throwing Weapon Proficiency

Training Regimen

Tranquil State

Unique Eye Coloration

Vertical Pupils

Weapon Proficiency

Weapon Summoning

Kyudo Mastery

Powers:

Fire Arts

Fire Aura - only purple fire

Fire Defense

Fire Empowerment

Firestorm Creation - only purple fire

Hypnotic Voice

Fox Magic

Fox-Fire Generation

Fox-Fire Manipulation

Illusion Awareness

Illusion Constructs

Illusion Empowerment

Illusion Generation

Illusion Interaction

Illusion Manipulation

Illusion Negation

Illusion Reflection

Illusion Solidification

Illusion Transformation

Illusionary Environment

Illusive Appearance

Illusionary Magic

Illusive Power

Illusive Suggestion

Illusory Combat

Illusory Defense

Illusory Power Replication

Illusory Vision

Incineration

Layered Illusions

Living Illusion Creation

Purple Fire Attacks

Purple Fire Generation

Purple Fire Manipulation

Purple Fire Negation

Purple Fire Solidification

Pyro-Telekinesis - with purple fire

Pyrokinetic Constructs - only purple fire

Spirit Magic

Vocal Replication

Voice Masking

#mild secret au #mild secret oc #character design #oc info #artists on tumblr #digital art #my art style #sketchbook app #ipad art #my ocs do not steal #reference sheet #straight ally #asexual #Yasuhiro Hiraoka/Tadao #Yasuhiro the Silver Fox Kitsune #my art 2022 #character redesign #oc redesign

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bunny-angel-cat · 2 years

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Me? Posting art here? Yes. Meet Firestorm Fox!

#My art #I am so proud of this....#Firestorm Fox my beloved♡#If you wanna know more about her please #dm me :)

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spartalabouche · 4 years

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yesterday was the anniversary of me flirting really hard with my girlfriend by saying i was sandstorm and she was firestar. so i drew the cats that helped me get a girlfriend thank you warriors amen

#warrior cats #firestar #sandstorm #idk what their ship name is?#firestorm #sandfire #something like that #gekkering #png #fox art #scheduled

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masked-puppeteer · 6 years

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#my art #firestorm the wolf #william the rabbit #sky the fox #pls #tell me im not the only one #this is such a mood

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flowersofstarlight · 2 years

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💙Yuki the Spirit💙

Age: 6

Gender: Male

Species: Spirit

Powers and Abilities:

Chlorokinesis (controlling and growing plants)

Cryokinesis (controlling ice, snow, and frost)

Healing powers

Water-walking

Telepathy

Energy Blast, Concussive Roar, Portal Creation and Manipulation, Teleportation (using the Blue Gem’s powers)

Relatives:

Evra/Mother Spirit (mother)

50,000+ unnamed siblings

Native Kingdom: Serenia

Home Planet: Auroria

Likes: His friends and family, peace, harmony, friendship, magic, songs of Auroria, lullabies, arts and crafts, play games, flowers, snowflakes, butterflies, stars, sky

Dislikes: Corruption, threats to his family and friends, seeing his friends and family in danger, being alone, war, evil, nightmares, destruction, injustice, peanut butter

Yuki is a Spirit from another planet called “Auroria”. He is a small white and blue fox-like being with big ears and fluffy tail. Yuki is very kind, loving, joyful, and loves spending time with his friends and family. He is a determined and brave little Spirit who’s willing to help his friends and fight for what’s right. He enjoys playing in the snow, helping others, planting flowers, and seeing natural scenery.

He’s allied with Slate, Aiden, Emma, Dr. Lucas Neil, Margaret, Rock, Blues, Bass, Roll, Nora, Tempo, Kalinka, Firestorm, Rush, Beat, Eddie, Tango, Treble, Dr. Light, Dr. Cossack, Pedro Astil, Dr. Lalinde, Dr. Meadow, the Star Marshals, Stardroids, the 11th liners’ creators, and all Robot Masters.

Before he met Slate, Yuki was trying to escape from enemies (Erebus’s army) who were capturing his family. He was almost about to get captured, but he found Auroria’s Blue Gem and obtained its power by touching it. He managed to escape by opening a portal and transported to another planet.

He hates destruction when bad things happen to many people and nature because of bad people, including villains. He gets scared and worried when his family and friends are in danger, hurt, or have been captured and locked up somewhere in prison.

Yuki’s greatest strength is his belief in his friends, understanding there is true power of love, joy, and friendship. Yuki never gives up on anyone, he even stays strong and be brave for others and himself. And he maintains faith that his friends will always come through and that they’ll be with him to the end.

#mega man: rising heroes #megaman rising heroes #megaman #mega man #megaman au #megaman oc #Yuki the Spirit

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tessatechaitea · 4 years

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Justice League Spectacular #1 (1992)

Just off-panel: Bibbo's ice cream truck.

I probably shouldn't be reading this or Justice League Quarterly before I read the Giffen/DeMatteis Justice League but what can I do? That's the order they were placed in the short box! It would be a different story if free will were not an illusion but since it is, my hands are tied. It's either read this or, um, I don't know. Die from a temporal paradox? I won't risk it! I was looking through a bunch of my old writing and art last week and discovered a bunch of the kind of sentimental and sort of intellectual crap young people write. It's the kind of stuff you hide away and never show anybody ever and hope that when you die, it'll just get tossed in a dumpster with your old porn and Magic the Gathering cards. But it got me thinking about how brave I am! So brave! The kind of brave you wouldn't hesitate to call some jerk who signed up for the military because he couldn't live as a civilian. No, no. More braver than that! And being this super brave kind of person, I thought that maybe I should share some of this old poetry with everybody! But not yet! You have to work up to being truly brave! So instead, I'll share this piece of artwork I did that was supposed to be the first in a lengthy and disgusting series. It's of Lord Fondlerot, a character I created for the Dwarflover online comic I used to do. He was really into fucking things and I thought, "Hey! I should do a series of drawings where he fucks every creature in the monster manual!" But instead of doing an entire series, I drew one picture and grew either bored or disgusted with the concept. So here's that one picture:

Lord Fondlerot fucking an Axebeak.

Now you're probably wondering just how terrible my poetry must be if I'm opening with that! Well, you'll see soon enough! This issue begins with Sue Dibny still alive and visiting a Florida theme park with her husband, The Elasticated Man. Wow, remember when Sue Dibny was killed and all the heroes freaked out about their secret identities and considered doing intense brain damage to every single person who ever knew any of their identities until they found out that The Atom's ex-wife Jean Loring had gone cuckoo for Atom's cocoa puffs? She wanted them back so bad that she began threatening and murdering the loved ones of all the super heroes. It was the kind of story DC sometimes does where you read it and think, "Well, the twist at the end of that mystery was definitely worth the destruction of the most stable marriage in the DC Universe and also the death of Firestorm and Captain Boomerang! So good!" I mean it doesn't make you think that. It makes you think the exact opposite. Tom King would eventually do pretty much the same thing in Heroes in Crisis but instead of Jean Loring fucking up by accidentally killing Sue Dibny and murdering more people to cover her tracks, Wally West fucks up and kills Poison Ivy and some others and then tries to cover his tracks. But at least Tom King's had all of those entertaining scenes where the heroes are doing therapy and we get to see how much they're all suffering from PTSD. That's always a fun aspect of super heroes we never get to read enough about. Dammit! I keep doing it. I meant it was the opposite of fun! Although I still liked it because sometimes I just like seeing other people in pain. Not in a sick perverse way where I pop a boner or something! Just in that way where you sit around all day thinking, "My life is terrible and everything is wrong and I hate my parents for bringing me into this wretched existence and the only thing that might make me feel better is to learn that Superman sometimes feels the same way." Oh, remember when Tom King was writing Batman and he had that two issue Booster Gold arc where we got to see how fucking insane Booster Gold was from living through all of those horrible, wretched, dark alternate timelines? And the only way he can deal with the trauma and the PTSD is by making a joke out of everything? I'll have to think of that as the canon Booster Gold when I'm reading Giffen and DeMatteis's Justice League. Maybe it'll make all of Booster and Beetle's inappropriate joking more appropriate. Back to the story, Sue Dibny, alive and well, and her husband Ralph "The Elasticated Man" Dibny are busy showing a bunch of European diplomats around the non-Disney World theme park.

See? You can tell they're European because they're all smart and shit.

The first stop in the park is to Alice's Wonderland where the diplomats are attacked by the Royal Flush Gang. They are a gang whose theme is playing cards and not expensive toilets. Their powers are the ability to ride on gigantic cards and to make poker puns.

If looking good in tight fitting costumes is also a power, it's my new answer to the question of which super power would I choose..

Ten's outfit reminds me of the days when nipples were allowed to show through tops without being erased away through some kind of editing software. The 70s were a wild decade! Sure, there were also nips on television in the 80s but the 80s, generally speaking, sucked and were a huge contribution to the downfall of America.

The King of Spades mansplaining their entire concept to the Queen of Spades.

It's true that the royal flush beats any other poker hand but I doubt Superman is going to surrender after this concept is explained to him because, in the end, they're not fucking playing poker. It turns out Maxwell Lord paid the Royal Flush Gang to make a little trouble so the Justice League could beat them up and get some media attention. But the Justice League has apparently broken up and The Elasticated Man just isn't hero enough to save the European delegates all by himself. He might have been if the Royal Flush Gang had done what they were told and not really fight back. But why would they do that?! Wouldn't they still be in trouble with federal agents?! Booster Gold finds Blue Beetle busy pouting in the old Justice League cave headquarters. Booster has decided to try to cheer his old buddy up although why wouldn't Booster just travel to a timeline where Ted Kord is already cheered up? Is that how time travel works in the DCU? Or did Booster already try that, it went horribly sideways, and now he's a little more fucked up in the head when he returns to the "real" timeline?

For some reason, Ice and Fire have also come down to the cave. Probably to accidentally go on a double date with Booster and Beetle. Booster and Fire and Beetle and Ice hear a news report about the Royal Flush Gang and decide to go save Ralph. Superman also hears about the situation and heads to Florida where he's almost immediately defeated by The Royal Flush Gang. Not because they're dangerous and competent super villains but because some mysterious benefactor has give them weapons capable of knocking out Superman's powers. Maxwell Lord is not that benefactor so who could have done it? Certainly not Guy Gardner, right?! What would he want with getting the Justice League back together. Isn't he busy being Warrior or something by this point? Power Girl, Metamorpho, and Guy Gardner all join in on the fight. The guy behind it all is that Weapons Master dude who is desperate to get a new weapon for his arsenal: a Green Lantern ring. The attack on the Royal Flush Gang fails to get him the ring so he decides to attack directly. But not in this issue! He has to wait for a regular series issue. Ice uses Guy's ring to contact Hal Jordan because somebody finally decided this Justice League wasn't really a big league Justice League. Everybody reading it knew it for years. But I guess Dan Jurgens was assigned the task to get a new, more believably powerful League together. So Hal Jordan flies around to pick up some new members to save the day. He chooses The Flash and Aquaman which seems about right. But he also chooses Crimson Fox which seems like sliding backwards into goofy Justice League territory. Not that I totally approve of Aquaman but I have to admit he's a "serious" choice for the League.

Doctor Light also joins the party. Although why she'd keep the name of a pedo, I couldn't guess. Just become Lightwoman or something. But no! Once some jerk earns their doctorate, they just have to demand to be called Doctor.

I'm sorry. I was too distracted pointing out that Doctor Light joined the fight and how her namesake was a pervert to comment on Metamorpho acting like a huge fucking pig. Crimson Fox beats up some guys dressed as cards and admits that she's a boring idiot whose favorite part of the game is shuffling the cards. I understand the need to think up some kind of goofy one-liner when you go into battle but shouldn't you at least try to think up one that doesn't make yourself sound like a pathetic asshole? Weapons Master's plan failed but he figures he has enough information to get Green Lantern's ring next time. He'll then sell it to a Dominator for a few bucks and maybe some slaves. The big hitters talk it over and decide they should start a new Justice League without the approval of the United Nations. Yeah! Who needs some stupid Earthly authority when you've got an invulnerable Kryptonian, an all powerful space cop, and the king of the seven seas! All they need is a Greek Goddess and a mentally ill furry with a long history of violent behavior and they'll have the big team back together! Booyah! I mean, without that stupid Booyah shit because Cyborg is basically a toaster at this point. Maybe. I don't know! What am I, Johnni DC, Continuity Cop?! The heroes make one more decision: split the group into two Leagues. So once again, they're forming Justice League America and Justice League Europe. How come I don't remember this shit?! Did the comics get canceled in '92 and then immediately fired back up? I don't seem to remember two different incarnations of these teams. Maybe I should have stored my comic books in chronological order so it would all make sense. Justice League Spectacular #1 Rating: C. I just read the letters pages and it looks like this comic book takes place between JLA #60 and JLA #61! So editorial decided the teams needed to be shaken up and the best way to do it was to disband the League in the regular series, have a special one-shot comic that gets them back together but with a different roster, and then send them back to work in the next issue of the regular series. I guess I should just shove this comic book into the middle of the regular series so when I reread it all again in my 80s, it'll make more sense! Let's close with the worst drawing of Aquaman I've ever seen:

Actually, he looks a little bit like Grunion Guy.

#Justice League Spectacular #Justice League #DC COmics #DC #Dan Jurgens #Gerard Jones

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thedcdunce · 5 years

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Blue Devil

“Killing demons has kept me plenty busy.” - Blue Devil

Real Name: Daniel Patrick Cassidy

Aliases:

Kid Devil

Gopher

Gender: Male

Height: 6′ 8″

Weight: 385 lbs (175 kg)

Eyes: Yellow

Hair: Bald

Skin: Blue

Powers:

Demonic Physiology

Abilities:

Acrobatics

Acting

Martial Arts

Mechanical Engineering/Gadgetry

Weaknesses:

Weirdness Magnet

Technological Reliability

Equipment:

Blue Devil Costume

Blue Devil Trident

Devilmobile

Trident of Lucifer

Universe:

Earth-One

New Earth

Base of Operations:

Oblivion Bar

Metropolis

Los Angeles

Malibu, California

House of Weirdness

Citizenship: American

Marital Status: Single

Occupation:

Special Effects Artist

Stuntman

First Appearance: Firestorm Vol 2 #24 (June, 1984)

Powers

Demonic Physiology: In his original superhero form, Blue Devil's abilities were largely the result of the technological devices built into his costume. Danny was reborn as a genuine demon after he was defeated by Neron in Hell.

Superhuman Strength

Superhuman Agility

Superhuman Durability

Accelerated Healing

Enhanced Senses

Enhanced Hearing

Enhanced Vision

Abilities

Acrobatics: Danny was an experienced stuntman. The Blue Devil suit then enhanced his strength and agility dramatically.

Acting: Danny worked in the film industry as an actor, stuntman, and special effects artist. He starred alongside Wayne Tarrant and Sharon Scott in the film, Blue Devil, as the title role.

Martial Arts

Boxing: Dan was an amateur boxer who retired undefeated in his last twenty fights, and was able to hold his own against Van Vanucci.

Mechanical Engineering/Gadgetry: Danny's greatest technical achievement was building the original Blue Devil suit and rocket propelled trident.

Weaknesses

Weirdness Magnet: After being fused into the Blue Devil suit, Norm theorized that Dan's fusion of science and magic made him a "weirdness magnet" that attracted abnormal activity to him. This was dismissed as a joke until until Dr. Kylburn had the statisticians at S.T.A.R. Labs substantiate the claims. They even gave him money to put his uncanny probability to the test in Las Vegas. The theory became conclusive upon meeting Cain, who confirmed the existence of such a concept, even pinpointing the positively charged force radiating from his abdomen. It's unknown if this phenomenon was caused by the magic of Nebiros or Danny's family history which has faerie blood on his uncle Seamus' side.

Technological Reliability: Although the suit was organically grafted to Danny, it was still mechanical in nature and vulnerable to being hijacked by the the correct frequency. His former friend and fellow stuntman Larry Bolatnsky managed to remotely control Blue Devil to fight Firestorm.

Equipment

Blue Devil Costume: Blue Devil's powers originally came from a highly sophisticated stunt suit Danny built for practical in-camera effects. The techno-organic exosuit disappeared when he was reborn as a true demon.

Superhuman Strength: Increased Danny's strength at least twenty times the norm.

Super-Leaping

Superhuman Durability

Accelerated Healing: After being grafted to Cassidy's body, the costume became organic and gained the ability to self-repair at an extremely fast rate.

Superhuman Agility

Enhanced Senses

Enhanced Hearing

Enhanced Vision: Infrared night vision.

Enhanced Vocals: Voice modulator.

Amphibious: The suit had "mini-gills" built into it, allowing Danny to breathe underwater.

Explosives: Exploding bubble effect from cuffs.

Blue Devil Trident: The trident had cybernetic relay connections to the suit, allowing it to be summoned and controlled remotely. In his original superhero costume, Blue Devil relied on the rocket-powered trident he had created to fly into action. It was built to support the weight of at least 20 people and traveled at approximately 60 mph.

Flight: Though mostly used enhance his super-leaping, the rockets could also provide sustained flight.

Flame Effect: The trident could be used to shoot fire.

Devilmobile: Danny's civilian vehicle was converted overnight by Jack Edison and James Jesse into a themed Devilmobile. Its gadgetry included an oil slick, a mist bomb, an anti-gravity disk, an ejector seat, booster rockets, and pyrotechnic and explosive features. It also had a reclining "make out" function.

Trident of Lucifer: Allows him to find demons on Earth and banish them to Hell.

Reluctant Hero

Dan Cassidy was a special effects wizard and stuntman whose credits had included The Battle of the Las Vegas Showgirls and Space Ninja when he was hired by his friend, film director Marla Bloom, to create and play the title character in the Verner Bros. monster movie Blue Devil. Cassidy's specialty was somewhat unusual - rather than create optical effects that would later be applied in post-production, Cassidy specialized in "in camera" mechanical and cybernetic effects. To that end, Cassidy created a full-body costume for Blue Devil, complete with a powered exoskeleton and built-in pyrotechnic devices. Cassidy also created a rocket-powered prop trident which was, among other things, capable of flying.

During location filming on the mysterious Ile Du Diable, Wayne Tarrant, the "hero" of the film, and his co-star Sharon Scott, accidentally freed a demon named Nebiros. Though Cassidy faced incredible odds and a near-death experience, he was able to effectively use the devices built into his costume to drive the demon back to its home dimension. Unfortunately, he was blasted with demonic energy in the process. After the fight, Cassidy found that the blast had permanently grafted the Blue Devil costume to his body. Cassidy, a devout Irish Catholic, was stuck in the "skin" of an unholy Blue Devil.

While trying to find ways of escaping his costume, the newly-named Blue Devil soon found himself involved in conflicts with super villains such as Metallo and The Trickster. Nebiros, who now had an affinity for his "little brother," would return time and time again to harass the Blue Devil, and just as often Cassidy would banish him to his own dimension. Cassidy's friend Norm Paxton, a cinematographer, theorized that the blast that had made Cassidy a Blue Devil had also turned him into a sort of "weirdness magnet." Though he initially insisted that he was no super hero, it took him little time to adapt to the realities of his existence. While he continued to seek a way to regain a normal life, Cassidy became more comfortable in the role of hero over time, and even gained an unwanted sidekick in the form of Kid Devil - actually Eddie Bloomberg, Marla Bloom's nephew.

Blue Devil would spend the next few years working with superheroes as diverse as The Creeper, Black Orchid, the Omega Men, and Superman. Later, he would also encounter Cain and Abel, who would go on to rent Blue Devil a room in the other-dimensional House of Weirdness, sister structure to the House of Mystery and House of Secrets. That house contained mystical doorways into a Malibu beach house, a house outside of Metropolis, and several other places.

Retirement and Comeback

After joining the rest of the heroic community in fighting the Anti-Monitor during the Crisis on Infinite Earths, Blue Devil found that he was attracting less and less weirdness to him and his friends, and went into semi-retirement as a hero. Though his younger sister Frankie was later revealed to have been a sleeper agent of the Manhunters, Blue Devil did not publicly participate in the Millennium affair or any of the subsequent major events during which the super-hero community banded together.

After a several-year period during which Cassidy's and Marla Bloom's careers suffered a downturn, Blue Devil resolved to help both himself and his good friend. Sensing an opportunity when the Justice League instituted an open-door membership policy, and sponsored by the mysterious organization known as the Arcana, Blue Devil came out of retirement and joined the team in order to make a "comeback" as a celebrity. Though he was only barely tolerated by some of the more serious members of the team, Cassidy's heart was in the right place, and he embarked on a quest to increase both his powers and his fortune.

Shortly after Blue Devil joined the team, the demon Neron took control of Hell and began seeking souls on Earth. Recognizing Cassidy's sense of thwarted ambition, Neron approached him with the chance to be a movie star, which the latter eagerly accepted. Cassidy had no way of knowing, however, that the true cost of his bargain would be the death of his close friend Marla Bloom. After performing the seemingly innocuous task of destroying an automatic electrical substation far in the desert, a chain of events was set in motion that would result in Bloom and her pilot dying in a helicopter accident. Blue Devil got his wish - sympathetic movie offers began to pour in - but the price was too high.

Guilt-ridden, Cassidy made the ultimate heroic sacrifice: he cheated Neron of his soul, but died in the process. Soon after, he was reincarnated as an actual demon, with an increase in power.

Demonic Existence

After the JLA disbanded and reformed again, this time with an invitation-only membership, Cassidy found himself without a team. Having long before lost the companionship of his movie-studio friends, he joined a new "Justice League of France" consisting of himself, Firestorm, the second Amazing Man, the surviving Crimson Fox, and a woman who claimed to be Icemaiden. Unfortunately, the latter was in fact the villainous Nash in disguise, and she killed nearly all of her erstwhile teammates. Again, the Blue Devil was destroyed, and again, he was restored to life, this time by the magician Faust, who used the Devil's bones to reanimate him. Facing Nebiros for the last time, Cassidy was granted the demon's Trident of Satan. Controlled by Faust, Blue Devil joined the Sentinels of Magic, where he worked alongside Ragman and Enchantress among other supernaturally powered beings. He was finally freed from his obligation to the team when Faust restored his last bone to him - however, Blue Devil soon lost his life a third time while fighting Hermes Trismegistus.

The Shadowpact

The Blue Devil did not remain dead long, however, and was soon seen roaming the Earth and banishing demons back to Hell. Cassidy began working as a bouncer at the Oblivion Bar, working for Nightmaster. There, he joined with Ragman and Enchantress once again, as well as Nightshade and Detective Chimp, in battle against the Spectre, who had declared war on all magic. He soon became the strong-man of the newly-dubbed Shadowpact, able even to wound Eclipso, and has since decided to stay with the team. He now helps his new teammates to contain the wild magic set free by the Spectre's actions.

Shortly after the Infinite Crisis, Blue Devil and his teammates were trapped inside a "blood shield" that grew over the town of Riverrock, Wyoming. While inside the town, Cassidy met a member of magic-based villain group called the Pentacle named Jack of Fire. Jack, who wore a bandana over his mouth and wielded pyrokinetic abilities, claimed that he was Cassidy's brother, and that Cassidy's deal with Neron had cursed the entire Cassidy family to Hell. In addition to becoming demonic himself, Jack claimed that Blue Devil's late parents had been pulled out of Heaven, and that his "sisters" Mary and Frances were also cursed. The veracity of these claims is questionable - though Cassidy does have a sister, Mary Frances, he had never before mentioned a brother or another sister. Oddly, Blue Devil claimed to have no recollection of having any siblings at all - a mystery that has yet to be solved.

One day, Blue Devil's former sidekick Eddie Bloomberg, now a true demon himself, came to Cassidy inquiring about his aunt Marla's death. Blue Devil admitted that he had not been honest with Eddie regarding the circumstances of her demise, and the teen responded hastily in shock. Before he could explain the truth to Eddie, Cassidy was told by his former sidekick to stay far away.

Cassidy then found himself under threat by the former Justice League member Zauriel. Because of Blue Devil's popularity as a demon, he had unknowingly given hell and demons a better image, prompting others to make their own deals with demons. As a result, Zauriel was tasked with killing Blue Devil and doing away with his bad influence on the populace. However, when Zauriel realized that Blue Devil wanted nothing more than to combat hell, Zauriel agreed to give him some time to repair his mistakes. Blue Devil is currently in hell bargaining for his soul with a lawyer. After briefly resuming his human body with a more powerful exosuit, Cassidy is given back his Trident and demonic powers by Jack of Fire, but as a "demon with a soul".

His most recent appearance was with Zatanna and the Phantom Stranger at the desecrated grave of Batman in Blackest Night. In typical fashion, he cracks that the Stranger brought them there to "hold hands and sing Kumbaya." That changes when black rings take control of Crispus Allen. While Zatanna was sent to gather the Justice League, Blue Devil and the Stranger attempt to stop the Black Lantern Spectre, failing miserably. He and the Stranger head to Nanda Parbat, where the Stranger helps Deadman remove the black ring from his body. Blue Devil is then tasked by the Stranger to protect the body, being told that it is of "singular importance".

Fun Facts

Blue Devil's body gives off the aroma of brimstone.

Danny's an Irish Catholic and therefore has prayed at times of great need or during Mass. He still burns whenever he sets foot on holy ground.

#blue devil #daniel patrick cassidy #daniel cassidy #Shadowpact #justice league of america #jla #Justice Society of America #jsa #sentinels of magic #Spirit Squad #dc #DC comics #thedcdunce

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thecomicsnexus · 5 years

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A League Divided

JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #200 MARCH 1982 BY GERRY CONWAY, GEORGE PEREZ, JIM APARO, GIL KANE, JOE KUBERT, BRIAN BOLLAND, TERRY AUSTIN, DICK GIORDANO, BRETT BREEDING, PAT BRODERICK, FRANK GIACOIA, CARMINE INFANTINO, CARL GAFFORD, TATJANA WOOD, ADRIENNE ROY, ANTHONY TOLLIN

SYNOPSIS (FROM DC WIKIA)

A powerful post-hypnotic suggestion turns the seven original Justice League members into mind-controlled pawns, who are forced to reassemble the seven Appellax meteorites in which the alien foes of their first adventure came to Earth. The later members of the League are alerted to the plight of their comrades when J'onn J'onzz battles Firestorm to reclaim the first meteor fragment in the JLA satellite. Former member Green Arrow, brought to the meeting by Firestorm and Black Canary, recalls the others' memories of that first case, and the new members set out to battle their team-mates.

The Phantom Stranger intervenes to give Aquaman a victory over the Red Tornado; Wonder Woman escapes from Zatanna on Paradise Island; Green Lantern over-comes the Atom; the Flash defeats the Elongated Man; Batman evades both Green Arrow and Black Canary; and Superman uses a robot to trick Hawkman, who is rescued from death in space only by Adam Strange's Zeta-beam. While the other members are battling old comrades, the charter members, having no memory of the years since the League's formation, see their former teammates as unknown villains, and thus are not held back in their efforts to battle them. While the defeated members rendezvous with Firestorm and Snapper Carr aboard the satellite, the mesmerized original members meet at the site of their first headquarters, only to have the gathered meteorites erupt with the seed-clone duplicate forms of the villainous Appellax aliens.

Their memories restored by shock, the JLA combats the aliens, but is soundly beaten. They then join forces with the other members to seek out and destroy the seed-clones in teams: Batman, Black Canary, Green Arrow, Hawkman, Superman, Wonder Woman, and Zatanna overcome the wooden, crystal, and mercurial creatures; Aquaman, Elongated Man, Flash, and Red Tornado battle the glass and fire beings; and Atom, Firestorm, Green Lantern, and the Martian Manhunter take on the stone giant and the rock successfully. With the menace ended, Snapper Carr and J'onn J'onzz take their leave, and Green Arrow reconsiders his earlier decision, rejoining the team as a regular member.

FROM THE AUTHOR

REVIEW

I kind of feel bad for Gerry Conway after reading that editorial. It’s title is “the first two hundred”. He wasn’t aware that it was pretty much the end (as this title ends a little after the Crisis, an event that his main artist was heavily involved in). He also says that they tried to do a “Gardner Fox” story. And they succeeded. Now, this is my personal opinion (like, almost everything I write under “Review”), but doing a Gardner Fox story is not a good thing in 1982. I am not sure how readers felt about Fox in the sixties and forties (judging by the letters, he was a fan-favorite), but to me, his writing is just not polished, and it never seemed to get better, at least in comic-books.

The result is a very repetitive story (one of the big no- no’s of storytelling), with a formula so predictable that it only takes one chapter to know how the story will continue, and by the time you get to the climax, you just don’t care anymore.

There are some improvements, though. The main story following the new leaguers at the satellite is entertaining.

But perhaps the best thing about this story is the art. That is the only thing that keeps you going when the story fails. Brian Bolland and Joe Kubert are perhaps the gems of this issue.

I give the issue a score of 8

#george perez #dc comics #justice league of america #jla #bronze age #comics #review #1982

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phroyd · 6 years

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Predictably, Carrey's remarks did not sit well with conservatives.

Fox News contributor Michelle Malkin tweeted that Carrey should buy a one-way ticket to Caracas. (“And don't come back,” she added.) Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee, ever ready with a dad joke, accused Carrey of “playing both DUMB AND DUMBER,” a reference to the hit 1994 movie that helped cement Carrey's fame.

Anyone who was surprised by Carrey's political leanings has not been paying attention. The comedian has long posted to Twitter his own artwork lambasting Trump and his administration.

In one piece Maher showed the audience Sunday, Carrey depicted Trump as the Wicked Witch of the West from “The Wizard of Oz,” with Speaker of the House Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) and Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) surrounding him as flying monkeys. In a more recent painting, Carrey caricatured Rudolph W. Giuliani and Trump as torch-bearing vampires descending a crypt.

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He added a link to vote.gov, a none-too-subtle push for people to register to vote in the coming elections.

On Friday, Carrey told Maher art has been an outlet for him to reflect on the “carpet-bombing of outrage that's happening."

It was Carrey's first time on Maher's show, ostensibly to promote his new Showtime television series, “Kidding.” The two men chatted about what it was like to work on that project and expressed mutual admiration for each other's comedy roots. But the conversation — as it usually does on “Real Time” — repeatedly reverted to politics.

First, it was a mention of “Cable Guy” and “Truman Show,” two of Carrey's '90s movies, that prompted the switch.

"There's something about them that's very prescient about the way the world came to be,” Maher said.

Carrey agreed, saying he felt society was “parentless."

"There are generations growing up right now who are learning to lie, that lying is okay. That you're supposed to hate half the country,” Carrey said. “If anything, we've got to get back to a place where we realize that a vote is not who you are. Because you voted Republican, you're not stupid. You're not different. You're not worthless. I could break bread with anybody who voted for Trump. We could find some common ground to love each other."

The audience applauded this cross-aisle olive branch. Then Carrey snapped into Ace Ventura mode.

Just stop doing stupid stuff! He implored, using an expletive in lieu of “stuff."

"That's all we expect!” he shouted. “Just get it together."

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#jum carey #bill maher #socialism

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CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS BOX SET

written by MARV WOLFMAN, GARDNER FOX, ROY THOMAS, GERRY CONWAY and others art by GEORGE PEREZ, MIKE SEKOWSKY, DICK DILLIN, TODD McFARLANE and others box art by NICOLA SCOTT and JERRY ORDWAY Since the Justice League of America first met their Earth-2 counterparts, the Justice Society of America, the concept of a world-shaking “Crisis” has been a defining part of DC history. Now, for the first time, DC packs one incredible box set with every Crisis tale leading up to and including the industry defining CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS! This box set combines six previously existing CRISIS collected editions, printed for the first time in hardcover, with eight new CRISIS hardcover collections that spotlight the most important heroes of the 1980s CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS! Join the Justice League, the Justice Society, the All-Star Squadron, Infinity Inc., Superman, Green Lantern and countless other heroes as they give their all to save the DC Universe! This box set includes these hardcovers: • CRISIS ON MULTIPLE EARTHS VOL. 1 HC Collects JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #21-22, 29-30, 37-38 and 46-47 • CRISIS ON MULTIPLE EARTHS VOL. 2 HC Collects JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #55-56, 64-65, 73-74 and 82-83 • CRISIS ON MULTIPLE EARTHS VOL. 3 HC Collects JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #91-92, 100-102, 107-108 and 113 • CRISIS ON MULTIPLE EARTHS VOL. 4 HC Collects JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #123-124, 135-137 and 147-148 • CRISIS ON MULTIPLE EARTHS VOL. 5 HC Collects JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #159-160, 171-172 and 183-185 • CRISIS ON MULTIPLE EARTHS VOL. 6 HC Collects JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #195-197, 207-209 and ALL-STAR SQUADRON #14-15 • CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS HC Collects CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS #1-12 • CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS: ALL-STAR SQUADRON HC This new title collects ALL-STAR SQUADRON #50-60 • CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS: GREEN LANTERN HC This new title collects GREEN LANTERN #194-198, THE LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES #16 and 18 and THE OMEGA MEN #31 and 33 • CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS: JUSTICE LEAGUE HC This new title collects THE FURY OF FIRESTORM #41-42, DETECTIVE COMICS #558, WONDER WOMAN #327-329 and THE NEW TEEN TITANS #13-14 • CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS: LEGENDS HC This new title collects THE LOSERS SPECIAL #1, SWAMP THING #44 and 46, LEGENDS OF THE DC UNIVERSE: CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS #1, BLUE DEVIL #17-18 and AMETHYST #13 • CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS: INFINITY, INC. HC This new title collects INFINITY, INC. #18-25, INFINITY, INC. ANNUAL #1 and JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #244-245 • CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS: SUPERMAN HC This new title collects DC COMICS PRESENTS #78, 86-88 and 94-95, SUPERMAN #413-415 and JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA ANNUAL #3 • CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS: BEHIND THE CRISIS This new title collects THE HISTORY OF THE DC UNIVERSE #1-2, pre-Crisis appearances of the Monitor, behind-the-scenes material and more ON SALE 11.06.19 $500.00 US | FC DIMENSIONS: APPROX. 12.5” high x 13.5” wide x 8” deep WEIGHT: APPROX. 28 lbs. * Dimensions and weight subject to change ISBN: 978-1-4012-9517-2 ART NOT FINAL

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paraclete0407 · 3 years

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Unwritten Poems, Errata, Desiderata

‘The Intense Reality of a Bowl of Soup’ - it was traditional Korean fishcake-soup that everyone knows or knew I like a kind of ‘everlasting lucence.’ I have compressed and combined / mixed episodes mentally; the man’s wife was knitting.

I associated this woman with ‘Who Knows Where the Time Goes’ but that is not how people really are today, here or there. More like the last ‘nosegay’ of songs on ‘Feeling Strangely Fine’ but that is also ‘mandatorily retired.’

‘Do you want to borrow my vacuum-cleaner?’

People have forms and processes and sometimes their seem seems the end of their be (Trumpism?) but others are hidden, dying to the world or dead to the world. You know what their face could be but you envision moments and actions / activity-suites instead of frozen statuesque ‘portraiture’ I remember that my favorite poem in that year abroad was a ‘parable of professionalism’ called ‘A Pastoral Nun’ by Wallace Stevens who valedictory line was ‘Each matters only in that which it conceives.’

‘The high apartment-window lights at midnight; Glenn Gould op. 111 like fanning through the pages of the Arietta as though to say, “yeah yeah but this too is old and Beethoven is known and I have my own idea, or music or, “Idea of North” and I’m giving you [tidbits according to my Belgian ex-friend] but a “soupcon” of what I’ve already though through and - pace “Chinese way of war / lie-fare+ / sex-/pornography-fare / motherly-sisterly-motivate-you-dept.-of-future-cannibalization-/Orphic-sparagmos [Gr. tearing or ripping apart]-/hog-farming-fare & I decided that I don’t really know whether or not I believe you’re worthy of being taught in a clear personal voice.”

‘And in those years I was telling other people to be better than me & I was plagiarizing or ‘ammo-running-forward’ advice and “idea-sentiment-vision-bullets” which I felt were lessons others could apply I could not, as I was only ever a image of the things or characters I wished I could be.

‘My’ professor WC Dowling wrote an op-ed about university athletics and concerning the lives and ultimately souls of [now capital] Black boys stating that the powers that be ought to look with more love and affection and concern on the little fellows at the library rather than the future LeBrons + I told my Great Recession-barely-employed internet-friend that if he couldn’t get a job with JET since they were anti-SEA-racist and he’s profoundly dark-skinned he could at least work on studying for the JLPT at the library rather than moping at home. In the end he was more driven and was ‘better ground for the seed / word’ than I might’ve assumed and after acing the JLPT got a job not only in JP but in ‘immortal Kyoto’ with the deer-park. So he learned how to knock.

Dowling was the protagonist of a really retarded pozzed novel about academic / intellectual rebellion but from what I gather Rutgers has gotten a lot better in numerous respects and mended and more completely ‘realized the realizacion’ of programs such as Korean translation that were only fritterings in my time.

‘I’m gonna work on Wall Street and take cocaine and give my parents a lot of money then blow my brains out; I like to drink vodka; I like a warm shower and cold bathroom tiles.’ IDK why in past I would stay up all night watching over some people - whom I ‘wanted’ - whilst the rest of the world was burning; or at least, was literally full of war and death and anti-life behaviors and attitudes and, but at the same time, people who were really looking for life and love and to find ‘soul-friends.’

‘A gaggle of night-shifters... smoking nurses...’

The US general who to my reckoning was most responsible for the operation to capitally punish bin Laden wrote to his wife, ‘When I see the overfed greed of [America], people desperate to be led...’ All this time there was a potential culture of life, people in ‘my’ generation and Gen-Z were not grandiose, megalomaniacal, exorbitant, nor did we look backward like the current US president to say things like, ‘One of my heroes was MLK, the Vietnam War sth sth,’ which right ow just prompts me to think how many Vietnamese families were - pace Kim Thuy - destroyed by communism + how many Black families were damaged by merciless drug-laws as well as expending huge amounts of government treasure on prisons that (to me as a 1990′s Richard Holbrooke+ fan-boy) could’ve gone to Education, State, or for that matter the part of the military responsible for protecting billions of people against China instead of tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands or millions against criminals.

Puts in mind of the Canadian ‘Christian platonist’ literary critic, ‘If murder were an actual threat to civilization like war it wouldn’t be so relaxing to read about.’ I thought this was great but IDK why in retrospect I didn’t realize that a) murder’s a threat to the Lord and all that is and vice-versa necessitates a super-massive counter-threat or automatic counter-consequence and b) people DO read military fiction about genocide, omnicide, retired SEAL’s with bunkers, etc. to relax.

Anyway why is Canada libertarian, why do they host PornHub and HushMail, why are they so seemingly anti-immigrant and why do they think that N. American Anglo-French-etc. civilization is the ultra-adult of the world today while Korea is a child-race and child-civilization that didn’t even figure out stuff like that people have an inner life you can never really penetrate or surveil (that I think) but there are still very legitimate reasons to delimit privacy.

Everyone was working on a potential life but it’s like Andre Maurois’ ‘Climates’ where the guy is haunted by his first wife - ‘the saddest river’ - and didn’t realize his second wife is an utter diamond who is determined to be sth better than ‘happy all the time’ and he’s still just looking for s1 with whom to digest the first wife - stupid, pozzed, not only b/c you can’t really excrete all your remembrances but b’c it was more ‘book-group in Babylon and watching your next-door neighbor’s home turn in to “human smoke” on your big-screen in Nero’s firestorm.’

MY last novel that I wanted to hold and hone while eating lemon-soup as ‘Lily and Flicker’ and General of the Army George Catlett Marshall and his second wife b/c I wanted to understand how this man could seemingly hold everything and everyone all the time without getting angry. ‘Flicker’ was a derogatory nickname from his elder brother who appears largely forgotten by history whereas ‘GCM5-star,’ with innumerable titles and honors, is haunting the whole world today along with St. Augustine Bishop of Hippo, expositor of the ‘fearful symmetries’ and also differences beteen Heaven and Earth, advisor to the Roman general Belisarius... and to [’just me’], Pope St. John Paul II of ‘Human Life’ / ‘Humana Vitae.’

What is it about smallness and greatness?

‘The Millennial was unable to hold the adult version of themselves upright with the proper intensity, address [noun] or readiness to answer others [Colossians 4:6].’ But I don’t at to be Choire Sicha writing future history or w/e when I sincerely look around Milwaukee, Fox Point, Germantown and feel this was all a huge industrial rabbit-farm kill-zone and they are gonna launch a neutron-or Black Death-mounted DF-26 all over here, wipe out Caucasians and take the water and good soil.

‘St Germain Dream’ was meant to be my ‘Hyper-Lolita’ talking about how a) it’s useless and stupid to hide the truth in fiction or art when you can say what it is [child-rape, death, human trafficking, Hell / Inferno] only the love-affair is not mutual sex-trafficking or the Millennialistic attitude that said, ‘If I have to get fattened for slaughter and sexually enslaved by Boomers I want at least to get obese on my own terms and raped for free once in my life,’ but an affirmation that people were and are capable of ‘dwelling in understanding.’

But ‘in the end they just stopped talking about themselves.’ & I didn’t realize how much somebody who might once have admired or looked to me would become the cynosure my own admiration or that I would be slightly intimidated by a ‘wifely smile.’

‘Mr. David James Johnston would take off after hours and drive the Ferrari around the reservoir with his “Super Junior Heechul outfit.” He didn’t have ay money for a Ferrari and Ferrari’s weren’t really the best cars anymore(?) but they liked to watch him drive.

I used to dream of somebody advocating for me like, ‘He is a future billionaire,’ but the love of whose severity and gravity and conviction I fantasized was not passionately dramatic in the accustomed ‘K-wave-emotional-hedonism-sadism-sensationalistic-moneyshot-meltdown-cadenza’ fashion. I came to feel recently that love was about giving someone a chance, a job, a responsibility, another to love, or to tell them that in future simply they would be the one giving love.

Many years ago my Xanga friend-of-friend said, a) ‘I am sad my Chinese aunt is anti-gym’ and b) ‘I am always thinking about personal responsibilities but not sure I can HOLD ANOTHER’S LIFE IN MY HAND.’ They were always thinking about their future whilst trying to be part of the present.

I told my old friend that I wish he could eventually reconcile with their ex-spouse but for all I know his attitude toward me, Millennial-ness, Covid, whoever or whatever blew up America and why, was all this ‘Parting Glass’ lumpen-Proustian view that mistook human character in this world (total depravity or existence ‘conditioned’ in Hegelian sense by Augustinian Original Sin), for the immutable ‘way of the world’ and thought nothing essentially would ever change only and simply b/c specific individuals could or would repeat their mistakes. This person always jokes about ephebophilia or ‘youth-o-phagia’ (eating the young); ‘casting couch’ culture. How often do you have to be sophisticated in the same way before it no longer makes you special?

I wish I were in he Vatican right now or a secret church in NK or wherever Francis Chan is doing what I can and somehow reading all the misreading and anti-reading that is everywhere amid the ‘Delta summer deliberate mishearing Milwaukee CultRev torch-parade.’

I used to love a song called ‘In Yr Room’ by Airiel which my friend might’ve classed as ‘shoegaze’ but is really ‘floor-gaze’ or just ‘gaze, contemplate.’ Shoegaze has effects and is whimsical, seems to use rubato, ‘In Yr Room’ is totally flatlining or ‘solid’ or ‘linear.’ It is ‘skin and blood, permeation, abiding / constancy.’ It is also like the question ‘why’ or ‘why should _ _.’ ‘I always try to keep me _ _ from _ _ besides, I still.’

When I was being a real brat and making Zhuangzi-inspired notebook-fictions in which the Millennial narrator kept going back to their ‘proud tower’ to start another essay-bomb before resuming the living narrative I made a fictious book called ‘The Collected Sayings of Park Chunghee [the military dictator and supreme head or so a supreme council for reconstruction who might or might not have been the most important single decision-making individual in causing Korea to become basically a superpower in one generation]’ that they only give to Koreans and he talked a lot about floors.

‘The Bunny Style Incident’ of or two which this had bee meant as a decoration or crown of sorts was meant to be attack on kultur / art / expressive freedom / beauty itself [again be with me St Aurelius Augustinius, lord of Redaction, censorship, expurgation, curriculum], an early attack on K-wave, derived from an observation of Plato that Tragedy should be banned from the Republic since people went to the tragedy and came out mad, suddenly remembering ever bad thing that is and wanting to attack everyone / wage ‘private war / me global offensive.’

The main character isn’t sure what to do and has wrongheadedly discarded his accustomed method of looking for love so he has a tiny sip of beer and listens to ‘Bunny Style’ by T-ara, goes to a hostess-bar I made up called ‘L’Arabie’ that is a reference to Joyce as well as quasi-Jungian ‘shared imagination’ of our time which is mutatis mutandis polyamory or ‘real life harem anime / fanfic.’ A guy there named ‘Mickey’ is like ‘I manage Dunkin Donuts in Gangnam and I know you’re good at talking with women so you can talk w/ this hostess for me?’

The main character does it for while on the grounds of ‘teaching / assisting others’ loves’ until Mickey starts patently ‘simping’ or saying noble knightly stuff he clearly has no plan of following through on. IRL I walked out on this person when they went to the BR but in ‘Bunny Style Incident’ I accidentally took any amount of drink whatsoever, through a thin-wristed punch in an attempt to ‘teach to touch’ and got internal organ damage due to Mickey’s simplicity of character, singleness of heart / focus, childhood taekwondo, ROKA practical martial arts / CQC drill et cetera nd the act that he wasn’t trying to ‘educate’ anyone about anything but literally just wanted to have some kind of ‘relations’ or ‘good time’ and perhaps not even sexual or ‘amatory’ with this young woman but just wanted smeone to say something to like, ‘b/c of you I will believe in God, make a compact / promise / vow / faith-wish.’ But myself was like, ‘Dude you’re simping and you’re being tempted too to act more than you are & I don’t want to edit what you’re drafting or translate your intentions.’ But in the end my reactive anger, rage, pride, was very imaginably worse than this person’s singleminded desire and ‘working oneself up.’

But that’s all before Covid too and I still feel like I see kids at the Public Market witnessing the produce of this bountiful land but why don’t you go home to your prayer-closet b/c right now it’s what Eric Fiegl-Ding s calling the ‘summer-winter’ of peril’ and that’s exactly what it is.

Years ago I wanted to write a retarded psychopathic story called ‘Winter and Summer’ about a Confucian scholar accompanying the maniacal democidal NYTimes Business Pages darling Xiang Yu, a demonic ‘bawang’ or hegemonic warlord of China who partied on his last day by slaughtering civilians and in the end is said by SIma Qian Grand Historian to have self-decapitated (dept. of culture of achievement)... but it’s all here and the mental Khanate, the self-appointed punishers of Mankind, mental Xiang Yu’s, mental B-52′s, ppl that think perforating masseuses with AR-15′s is motivated from treatable basically honorable struggle with sex-addiction in a culture that wanted to make E.Asian women in general and K-women ultra-acutely into sex-slaves or [AsianFanfics /4chan lexicon... are waiting it seems to me for night, death, and the Devil to fall over the Midwest but I feel as if they don’t really get how bad it could be or how many ghosts and shadows would be left over due to the fact that it was regarded as life-affirming not to change one’s mind.

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takemyhandnlm1026 · 3 years

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Image by the amazing: https://www.deviantart.com/porplebear (IT IS THIER WORK AND MY COMMISION, DO NOT REPOST OR USE FOR YOUR OWN PURPOSES!)

Gif by the equally amazing : https://www.deviantart.com/channyni

Monochrome pic: https://www.deviantart.com/purenai

Before we begin, a bit of an explanation on the world on Take My Hand(TmH). TmH is based in an ancient fantasy landscape heavily influenced by Japanese and Chinese culture, as I am a middle class white chick from the USA, I ask if anyone spots a mistake or something possibly offensive please bring it to my attention. I am doing my best asking and doing research, all advice is or research sources are welcome O(∩_∩)O

Let me tackle the thing most people probably noticed first when they looked at this picture - everyone in my world is a fox kemonomimi, meaning they have the ears and tails of foxes. In TmH, the number of tails a person has directly correlates with how powerful their spiritual core is. The most powerful have nine, and the average civilian has one.

When it comes to names, it goes like this(using Riluathonel in example)-

childhood name(from birth to age 13, after this point it is most often used by close family and, with permission, friends) - Nel

Common name (gained in the years between 13 and 21) - Thonel

formal name (can be gained during the 13 to 21-year period if one accomplishes somthing of proper note, but is most often gained in the later years) - Riluathonel

I will write more about my world as I go, but that's what you need to know right at this moment.

Allow me to introduce the two MCs of Take My Hand, without giving too much away (✿◡‿◡)

On the left with the black hair is -Imwynath Imwynlaith Spirowea, common name Laith, of the Spirowea clan. Laith has had his proper name Imwynath Imwynlaith since birth because of clan traditions, it’s explained in the book ;).

Laith is a feisty, free spirited character, who enjoys playing pranks on his teachers and climbing his giant of a father like a tree. At age 23, he already has five tails, the same as his two older siblings. Laith is rather short, especially when compared with the other males of his clan, and has a lean build that often makes people think he is both younger and weaker than he is.

He has two older brothers, Alorathil, common name Athil and Flithowen common name Thowen, 1 younger brother and 2 younger sisters(yet to be named), and another sibling on the way.

He’s most often seen holding a menagerie of painted hand fans and wearing a tassel earing in his left ear.

His preferred weapons are his war fans (yet to be named), two large fans with detailed jade guards, one with blue and the other black.

His spiritual weapon is his bamboo flute (yet to be named).

（〃｀ 3′〃）

On the right we have Riluathonel Daunfyr, common name Thonel, of the Daunfyr clan.

Thonel is a serious if shy individual, more prone to fading into the background than standing out. The best way to describe Thonel is big. He stands a full head above his older brother, and only the top of Laith’s head can reach Thone’s chin, if he stands on his tiptoes. He is muscular, spending much of his time in physical training. He has 3 tails, while his siblings each have 4.

He has a brother, Syveriawyn, common name Riawyn, and a sister, Selrindel, common name Rindel. It is a tradition that those of the main line keep their birth dates a secret. No one knows exactly how old the three siblings are. They are most commonly referred to as the Daunfyr Triplets.

His preferred weapon is his Guandao (yet to be named), named Firestorm made out of the dark metal his clan is known for forging.

His spiritual weapon is a Xiao, a vertical flute(yet to be named).

That’s all for now, I hope you enjoy learning about these two as time goes on, thank you for taking the time to read this o(〃＾▽＾〃)o

If you’d like more art and/or to support my work, consider buying me a coffee<3

#writing #romance #boy love #fox boys #magic #fantasy #writeblr

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marco42james · 5 years

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Using Comics to Teach Chemistry (and more!)

C.A. Preece shows us how to do this.

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Science can be difficult for low to average readers. Today, we’ll dig into the power of comic books to help us teach difficult subjects to students by making learning reachable and approachable. C.A. Preece works to reach every learner by working to make science approachable and understandable.

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Find a difficult subject and create a comic or find a comic to help make it more approachable. Reflect on what you learn in your learning journal.

C.A. Preece – Bio As Submitted

MY BACKGROUND I am a high school chemistry teacher and have been for seven beautiful years, now. Using facilitated diffusion, knowledge was beaten into my fertile mind at Morehead State University and the University of Kentucky granting me the power of holding a piece of paper that says: Bachelor’s of Science in Chemistry at Morehead State University as well as a Master’s of Arts in Teaching. In addition, I have taken 30+ graduate chemistry and education hours from the University of Kentucky in the pursuit of a Ph.D. in S.T.E.M. Education. Along with teaching and grad school, I write! My first publication was in July 2017 with CheMystery! A graphic novel aimed at providing quality chemistry knowledge through the lens of superheroes. Also, I do science consulting. I have had the pleasure of assisting Frank Barbiere, Greg Rucka and the creators of Doctor Puppet on projects.

MY PASSION Teaching, science and reading comics! I love comics of all kinds but the ones that truly win my heart are comics with great characters and even greater science. This medium is a great way to communicate many ideas and since science is so graphic, I think it can be a beautiful marriage when done right. Here are some of my favorite characters: Marvel- Captain America/Black Bolt DC- Firestorm Indy- Dr. Solar

PANELS on Science in Comics + Lexington Comic Con 2015 with Bob Hall and Kody Chamberlain + D.C.’s Awesome Con 2015 with Duncan Rouleau and Tom King + Baltimore Comic Con 2015 with Mark Waid and Ramona Fradon + Lexington Comic Con 2016 with Matt Hawkins and Nathan Fox + Indiana Comic Con 2016 with Neal Adams + Lexington Comic Con 2017 + Heroes Con 2017 with Josh Reynolds, Shari Brady, and Matt Brady + KSTA Conference 2017 on Using Science Comics in the Classroom with Josh Woodward + Derby City Comic Con 2017 with Megan Scholar + Lexington Comic Con 2018 with Jim Shooter and Erica Schultz + ConGlomeration 2018 + Indy Pop Con 2018

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drookenposts · 7 years

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For @dreamkeeperscomic, the collective group of active people that loved your comic and together in one massive picture. 9 months of work, well 8 with the one break month, but it’s all complete. Love your comic as well. stay strong and love to read more of your series. More descriptive info below the break

DreamKeepers copyright to them Everyone copyrighted to them Art copyright by me

Alright, this group pic was the culmination of my determination in September 2016, and something i did solely on my own. during 2016, i was sketching up the pic as i was collecting everyone’s refs that wanted in. All during high school. I loved making it and was great to see the fruits of my labor. I still think i did my best on this picture. Here we have the gif of the creation of it, if it wasn't to large and being a but to upload. And if you see a blur instead of a pic, HERE is a better quality pic.

The sketch was fun and took place during the first 3 months, sept-nov, and collecting refs. The rest of the months were line are as i tried looking for some free time to do the line art. Then coloring and extra characters i could add in. I wasnt keeping track of the time i spent working on it, but i can confidently say it was around 100 hours of work.

Everyone in the pic all agreed to send me their ref for the pic. 9 of them are from the Dreamkeeper series (Vi, Whip, Mace, Grunn, Spincter, Namah, Lilith, Paige and bast), and 3 of them are added in after they drew (Konig, Cruleo, non Newtonian) And the list of people using their Discord username, left to right. over all, it has 125 total characters

First: Dirian, Paige, Zerat, Neit raven, Tomba, firestorm wall, way cool, firenightflame/moxxy, Mowskii, , Mace, Kyma, Fox, phantom/crisssketch, Fetherous, stratica, god of velcro, vi, kit, Jay, Geo (Hal), potatofox, Dave, Liz, acus, Yota, Regent, Zev, Macoin, black gold knight, Dario, Zagura, Spore fox, his mate, Bast, black jack o'hare, Kaegren, Talonxander, Vaaiwithblue, Lavo, SuperDS64, Non Newtonian, FRZNxPhoenix, Dem, TheTalkSpy, Hyper K Second: Ashielf, Hakuzo, ThanatosZero, Phantomshotgun, Paddy, midningt blaze, Jon up, Aviator, foolish, Kinetic Burn, Javalin, Dude, Natemare, Cold winter, Calbeck, Jake the otter, Drooken, Scott/voidslice, Tardium, Cyber shepard, Lucarionation, Goe (Miri), Endless/thebrando, Silver, Lyril stargate, Fetherous, nitwitchgun, ZachSeligson, Saval, mobile crusier, sirdubdub, jerjune, collin B, Shadow ferret, Drones foul, Typhoonteaser, Ivy Third: Gabrail/cyberpikachu, The lord of lemons, Dereger/Snuggleshrub, St34lth, dragonlost, fish, SoFox, Lord kio, Lilith, Momosukida, dying duchman, Naham, Julia, ZycanAlpha, Kovax, Mr. bubbles, benjzockt, RashallVally, Gunner^, Crux, Gunny, Ezio, Northern gate, Prometheus, AJ valintine, Corvus, whip, Estrats, Grunn, Amber wolf, beanie, potato sterio, Makoda, Weaver, Maestro, BanditRingtail, Eric, sasha hyena, Litromo, Neilo, Dramatic

#Dreamkeepers #art #my art #group picture #furry #fish #bird #dragon #poster #fun #125 #anthro #shark #fox #cat #rat

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a1detective · 5 years

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Maybe you’ve heard of Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven? Maybe you already know their reported political strategy—used by destructive Democrats, it seems. I have it that the Cloward-Piven Strategy is being co-opted by socialist and Bolshevik Democrats everywhere. I have it that the strategy would ultimately lead to some sort of “National System,” such as communism.

No Big Deal, am I right? Everybody sees it coming straight for us on rails, am I right? Yup: goodbye democracy; hello Totalitarian Democrat Rule.

What really peeves a lot of us older “folks,” is that this slaughter of America and America Traditions is taking place in silence. It bothers us that Truth, Justice, and the American Way, are being slaughtered in front of a traitorous, lying Enemy Of The People.

The so-called, “news” media is silent amid the slaughter. Immobile amid the blood. Insensitive to the obliteration of America, Trump, Conservatism, and Conservative Americans. The Cloward-Piven Strategy goes unmentioned.

A totally-insane mass media slavers and spits and twerks—reporting Democrat Distractions and distractions and distractions. And reporting some distractions the media creates itself. Instead of reporting true news, the so-called, “MSM” does not seem to ever stop lying.

They never stop trying to “get” Donald Trump, by any means necessary. They never stop inventing fake stories to make their “case,” by any means necessary. They never seem to care one damn about real Americans and the real America, but worship and promote the foreign invader—by any means necessary.

If a Mexican or South American kills, rapes, steals, or is otherwise violent—it is a non-story. If a Muslim or Islamist kills, rapes, steals, or is otherwise violent—it is a non story.

Or the Muslim was a “lone wolf,” or “mentally disturbed, but there’s no known motive and no Islam here,” we are told.

The so-called “mass media,” can’t even settle on a central theme. Every day brings a dozen new insanities—bizarre acts, crazy stories, and unprovable accusations. All of this performance “art” is done in the name of destroying Trump and America. It’s performed to insinuate, enable, and institute Democrat, Totalitarian Rule.

Via Communism.

The mass-media is silent amid the slaughter and blood brought by their unreported Brave New World. A world of iron-clawed, minority rule; of death, murder, slaughter, ruin, destruction, firestorm, tornadic social media, money-laundering, bribery, racism—and the worst politics, of lies and lunacy.

It’s a slaughter. America is under attack by politicians and their enforcers. And the youngest among them are on board.

Older People remember a Golden Age. But “new Americans” —and their seeming newest gods, and leaders— can only fantasize.

They dream—of “Evil in an America which was Never Great.

And all this while, the Brave New Media is silent. They say nothing. They know nothing. They see nothing. They hear nothing.

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Ah! But—you see—they know better. They really do. They keep silent about the Truth. In the case of Cloward-Piven, the strategy is all written down to be read. And reported. But the media is silent.

In my opinion, a god-cursed media and supplicant “journalists” are closing in on a special Hell of their own creation. They have voluntarily already entered some other dimension—one of lies, censorship, political demons, self-promotion, nightmare, and twisted landscapes.

Except—now they can never leave. They can never lose the patina of acquired scum. Like murderers—their crimes will follow them everywhere, to the ends of the world, to the last places, and for all time.

The Cloward–Piven strategy is a political strategy outlined in 1966 by American sociologists and political activists Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven…in order to precipitate a crisis that would lead to… a national system….

…Cloward and Piven’s article is focused on forcing the Democratic Party…to take federal action… [in order to] produce bureaucratic disruption in welfare agencies and fiscal disruption in local and state governments that would: …deepen existing divisions… [between] the remaining white middle class, the working-class ethnic groups and the growing minority poor….

…a national Democratic administration would [thereby] be constrained to advance a…[communist] solution….

—wikipedia.org

A Bloody Plot To Destroy America, and SILENCE OF THE SLAUGHTER. Maybe you’ve heard of Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven? Maybe you already know their reported political strategy—used by destructive Democrats, it seems.

#mainstream media #MEDIA #media censorship #media hell usa #media lies #Media lies usa #media trump usa #media violence #msm usa #The Media

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