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Solar Opposites in Mighty Solars Issue #48: “Monster Mayhem Pt. 1” Ch. 3
Back with Louise, she was looking around for help, until she sees Trevor popping out of the water as she screams and he jumps on her. Louise smiles in joy.
Louise: Trevor?
Trevor: Hey baby.
Trevor and Louise kiss. Then, they see Dr. Weatherstone arriving on a home ice slide made by her own hands and then, Janice flies over them with her own flight.
Dr. Weatherstone: Hey sis. What up?!
Louise: You guys are not gonna believe but I can create green lava! shows her new powers
Dr. Weatherstone: No way! I just got ice powers and when I found Janice, she told me she got air powers!
Trevor: No way! I got water powers too! We must tell the Mighty Solars, they can help us! Come on!
The quartet then takes off to find their fellow heroes. The Human Solars ran to the league witches of Earth-4 and the rest of their fellow Mighty Solars.
Human Terry: Guys, what happened?! What happened to to 5 Teen Witches?!
Human Jesse: I don’t know but this city is fancy!
Luke: Ugh! Someone has entered their minds and have made their form’s uncontrollable! When we tries to get them to hear us, someone went inside their minds and have turn them into the worst things possible, Titans!
The human Solars gasp.
Human Korvo: Oh no…we gotta save them or-
Miss Frankie/Nightsaw: Uh, quick fellow humans go get our fellow Mighty Solars aliens quick! winks at the Human Solars
Human Korvo: On it!
The human solars then went and hide behind the walls as they turn back into their Shlorpian forms.
Korvo: Mighty Solars, time to suit up!
Yumyulack, Jesse, Pupa, Sonya and Phoebe: Right!
Terry: Hell yeah!
The group suits up. And with that the Solar Opposites family transform into their Mighty Solars and runs up to meet the others.
Jesse Solar-Opposites/Fung-irl: Guys!
Rest of the Mighty Solars: Guys!
Darcy/Sonar Woman: Thank God you guys are okay!
Nova/Heartstar: We have big problems!
Yumyulack Solar-Opposites/Vil-Gil-An-T: What kind of problems?
Linda: The girls have lost control of their Zenith powers! They’ve become Kaiju beasts!
Terry Solar-Opposites/Mighton: That does NOT sound good.
Louise, Trevor, Dr. Weatherstone, Alice and Janice sees the Mighty Solars and runs up to them, which for Stacy G’s attention.
Stacy G: gasp Mom!
Louise: Stacy! I was so worried about you! kisses her on the forehead
Quasarblast smiles.
Trevor: Thank God we found you! You won’t be a fucking day we had-
Cherie: Guys! Duck!
Trevor: Huh?
The heroes, Earth-4 witches and their friends then see mega quintessence mutant Will attacking as they dodge her.
Jesse Solar-Opposites/Fung-irl: Jesus christ!
Montez: Ugh! These girls are literally not listening to us!
Phoebe MaCcarthy/Starburst: We have to save them, or worse…
Jesse Solar-Opposites/Fung-irl: KILL THEM?!
Mighty Solars: What?! No! That’s wrong! Fucking crazy! We’re not killers y’know.
Jesse Solar-Opposites/Fung-irl: Okay. Sorry. Geez.
Pupa Solar-Opposites/The Mighty Pupa: MURDER!
Yumyulack/Vil-Gil-An-T: It’s okay Pupa. Fung-irl just freaked out for a bit.
Terry Solar-Opposites/Mighton: It’s okay sweetie. We know you didn’t mean it.
Korvo Solar-Opposites/Quasarblast: I think what Starburst means is that we need to FIGHT them.
Suddenly, when the Five Kaiju Teen Witches combine their blast at the heroes, it ends up blasting Louise, Trevor, Alice, Dr. Weatherstone and Janice, which ends up powering them as they scream. As the dust clears, the heroes sees five new heroic figures as Stacy G looks in worried.
Stacy G: MOM!
Stacy G tries run up but Fung-irl stops her As the dust clears, like when the Calamity trio transformed in Amphibia it is revealed that Trevor, Louise, Alice, Janice and Dr. Weatherstone have received their own Mighty Solars super suits
Dr. Weatherstone/???: Woah!
Louise/???: voice gets distorted; lifts her green lava cape Swanky duds!
Vil-Gil-An-T‘s jaw drops in shock. Alice grins as she shoots a lightning spider web up at the sky as she grins and blows the smoke off of her finger.
Alice/???: Louise, I have no idea we can do that!
Dr. Weatherstone/???: Did you know about this?
Louise/???: Uh, nope. These powers feel way more intense than before.
Janice/???: floating behind Louise The powers must stack when used in tandem! H’no Classic synergy buff y’know.
Quasarblast suddenly thinks of something.
Korvo Solar-Opposites/Qausarblast: This is perfect! Maybe you guys can distract the girls while we-
Trevor/???: Guys! Look! I’m walking plasma of H2O! This is awesome!
Quasarblast shifts a little.
Korvo Solar Opposites/Qausarblast: As I was saying, you new five can help us distract the girls while we find a way to stop whoever is doing this to them!
Phoebe MacCarthy/Starburst: That could work!
Marissa: offscreen Oh will it?
The heroes gasp and then sees the dream amulet broken as smoke flies from it and then they see Marissa floating above the broken amulet.
Parker/Venus Tip: Oh no.
Min-Li: gasp What?! This is impossible?! You were supposed to be trapped and-
Marissa: It’s too late! These girls are now under my control!
Yumi: What do you mean?!
Marissa grins evilly which made Starburst growl and realize something.
Phoebe MacCarthy/Starburst: You bitch! It was you who did this! You’re a fucking psycho!
Quasarblast growls in anger upon hearing what Marissa did.
Korvo Solar-Opposites/Quasarblast: You monster! How could you-
Marissa: I had already some help! Someone who was willing to help me! It’s too late! These girls are now mine! Nothing can stop me-
Suddenly, a blast hits Marissa as she falls to the ground in pain and lets go her staff.
Terry Solar-Opposites/Mighton: What the fuck?! Who did that?!
Cherie: I don’t know.
Darcy/Sonar Woman: Wasn’t me!
Korvo Solar-Opposites/Quasarblast: We need to stop her now!
Suddenly a woman’s chuckle was heard, which sounded familiar to Cherie, Nova, Montez and Sherbet.
Nova/Heartstar: Oh my God… that voice…
Cherie: It can’t be… can it?
Sherbet/Fizziepop: Oh God. No! No!
Cheery Smithers/Bloody Sympathy: Guys, what’s wrong?
???: Oh you poor things. Trap in a mind of a rogue witch… all that woman wanted to is get her fucking stupid son back on her side and rule the world and take you for advantage… but she was just a fool… I however… can make an offer to you five…
Suddenly…a blazing lightning midnight purple spiritual mist appears as it reveals an old foe of the Wallians… Sister Sisto as the Heartstar, Cherie, Montez and Fizziepop gasp in horror while the others grow shock.
Cherie: Sister Sisto?!
Terry Solar-Opposites/Mighton: You know her?!
Sister Sisto/???: Hello, my former fellow Bowinians…
Jesse Solar-Opposites/Fung-irl: Bowinians?! What?!
Korvo Solar-Opposites/Quasarblast: Heartstar, what is happening?!
Nova/Heartstar: Guys, that’s the false prophet we were telling you about last time when we first met! That’s Sister Sisto!
Mighton gasps.
Yumyulack Solar-Opposites/Vil-Gil-An-T: WHAT?!
Quasarblast looks angrily at Yumyulack.
Korvo Solar-Opposites/Quasarblast: sighs in dismay; deadpan Way to go Vil-Gil-An-T… you accidentally created a villain!
Yumyulack Solar-Opposites/Vil-Gil-An-T: I didn’t know!
Montez: I’m sorry true! She’s a false prophet and a murder and a kidnapper! She’s the one who causes all of this! The death of Tim, death of Sister Sasha, the temperature, everything!
Vil-Gil-An-T starts crying.
Cherie: She also kidnapped Pezlie and made her an icon! She also used Jesse as a pawn of her own.
Korvo-Solar-Opposites/Qausarblast: comforts his son Hey, it’s okay… you didn’t know… shh…
Yumyulack Solar-Opposites/Vil-Gil-An-T: I’m so sorry, Cherie.
Cherie: comforts Vil-Gil-An-T It’s okay. You didn’t know. Sisto was also using Jesse as a legend just to get people to follow her in a path of death!
Sister Sisto/???: Oh, this is very touching but I think it’s time I sealed your fate!
Marissa growls but gets grabbed in the rope by Sister Sisto.
Marissa: Let me go! grunts
Ms. Frankie/Night Saw: You’re not gonna stop us!
Sister Sisto/???: Oh I sure will. For I am… reveals her new physical form and a villain suit of her own Black Mirror!
Heartstar gasps
Sonya/Nighthowler: Oh no! She’s crazy!
Sister Sisto/Black Mirror: Oooh! But first…
Black Mirror attacks Mighton.
Korvo Solar-Opposites/Quasarblast: MIGHTON! growls at Black Mirror
Mighton groans in pain while Qausarblast helps his hubby up and looks at Black Mirror furiously then uses her mind control on the 5 Kalju Teen Witches as they roar in pain. Marisa tries to get out a beastly looking potion, only the wind to blew it out of her hands onto Quasarblast’s leg as he screams in pain.
Nova/Heartstar: Qausarblast!
Jesse Solar-Opposites/Fung-irl: QUASARBLAST!
Yumyulack Solar-Opposites/Vil-Gil-An-T: Oh my God!
Sonya/Nighthowler: Daddy!
Sister Sisto/Black Mirror: I bet that hurts…
Suddenly, Quasarblast starts screaming in pain as he suddenly starts growing bigger and muscular and his skin starts to turn black as he starts growing to the size of a KaIju beast.
Randall/Blackhole: Oh shit!
Principal Cooke/Trailblazer: That’s a huge bitch!
Terry Solar-Opposites/Mighton: Quasarblast?!
Now a giant KaIju Mundane, Quasarblast roars while the rest of the Mighty Solars gasp in horror and Black Mirror laughs evilly.
Jesse Solar-Opposites/Fung-irl: What’s happening?!
Sonya/Nighthowler: Quasarblast! No!
Yumyulack Solar-Opposites/Vil-Gil-An-T: What have you done?! You turn our dad into a fucking monster!
Mighton starts crying.
Sister Sisto/Black Mirror: Aw what’s the matter Mighton? Love the makeover I intentionally did to your husband?
Mighton starts snarling in anger with tears in his eyes. He then punches Black Mirror in the face as she growls.
Sister Sisto/Black Mirror: You strong arm bitch! What the fuck?!
Terry Solar-Opposites/Mighton: YOU WILL PAY FOR WHAT YOU DID!
Black Mirror grins and escapes by turning into her spirit form and leads the 5 KaIju monsters away from the heroes. Mundane Quasarblast growls as his eyes glow aquamarine and angirly follows the monsters for battle.
Terry Solar-Opposites/Mighton: No…Korvo!
Nova/Heartstar: We have to go after them!
Louise/???: We’ll take care of the girls! You take care of Quasarblast!
The heroes split up while Mighton looks tearfully at Mundane Quasarblast roaring.
Terry Solar-Opposites/Mighton: KORVO!
Mega Mundane Quasarblast snarls as Mighton jumps up and lands on him desperately.
Terry Solar-Opposites/Mighton: SNAP OUT OF IT! PLEASE! I DON’T LIKE SEEING YOU LIKE THIS! crying PLEASE STOP!
Mega Mundane Qausarblast growls, which causes Mighton to cry even more as he hugs Quasarblast’s face.
Terry Solar-Opposites/Mighton: sobbing hysterically THIS ISN’T YOU! I KNOW YOU’RE IN THERE, KORVY!
Mega Mundane Quasarblast then stops growling as his face softens and he sees his husband crying.
Mega Mundane Korvo Solar-Opposites/Quasarblasr: T-Terry? Is that you?!
Terry Solar-Opposites/Mighton: Korvo?
Mega Mundane Korvo Solar-Opposites/Quasarblast: Terry? What’s happening to me?! I’m so scared! crying Help me!
Mighton kisses his husband’s face.
Terry Solar-Opposites/Mighton: Shh… it’s gonna be okay baby… we just have to get you out of here before the teen witches see you! I hope the others are doing okay!
Mega Mudane Quasarblast smiles.
Special thanks to @avaveevo, @asikreading, @themagicwolf6677, @king-of-squishmallows and all of my watchers for their support
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New Mutants Annual 4 (1988) . The Evolutionary War part 4 . Mind Games . Written by Louise Simonson Penciled by June Brigman Inked by Bob McLeod Colors by Glynis Oliver Lettered by John Workman Edited by Ann Nocenti and Bob Harras . The High Evolutionary's Purifiers kidnapped Magma and Empath, and New Mutants went to rescue them... . See more relevant content here: . #marvelman901newmutants #marvelman901evolutionarywar .#marvelman901highevolutionary #marvelman901warlock #marvelman901empath #marvelman901magneto #marvelman901wolfsbane #marvelman901moonstar #marvelman901hellfireclub #marvelman901emmafrost #marvelman901sebastianshaw #marvelman901magma #marvelman901magik #marvelman901cannonball #marvelman901sunspot #marvelman901selene . #newmutants #80s #highevolutionary #magma #hellfireclub https://www.instagram.com/p/CmMzGsYsix_/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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when i was first using aggie (before the magma update) i thought it was bad, like the bare minimum. but geez louise kleki is even worse haha
#melonposting#it has some cool editing features but aside from that... golly...#i'd be willing to use it if it were literally the only thing out there but i bet there's other online drawing software#i'll look around some more... i just chose kleki cuz it was one of the first things to come up...
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Introduction:
Hullo hullo! I’m Erika Louise, but just Erik is fine. Kalos Region native, born to Cyllage City. He/they- a sort of trainer, but mostly tourist/photographer, I’m not really one for battling.
I love Grass Types, but I have pretty easy connection with Psychic Types. [Father says my mind is free but heavily protected? My Aunt was the same- whatever all that means.] At the very least, Psychic Pokémon don’t teleport away when I want a picture.
My team consists of:
Saint my Natu (Lax); My starter. Gifted by my paternal Grandparents.
Rin my Axew (Impish); Caught him before I left Kalos.
And Aloe my Castform (Adamant); Adopted from a Hoenn institution. Apparently was caught up in a lot with team Magma/Aqua.
(OOC:Mod is 20. Main: @frogcodimg)
Pelipper Mail is open.
Anyone can chat even pokemon.
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#X-Men#New Mutants#Magma#Avengers#Hercules#Louise Simonson#Louis Williams Jr.#Curse of the Valkyries#covers
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the fall part seventeen - the sky is falling
basic summary: exactly what is says on the tin.
trigger warnings: stabbing, hypnotism
tagslist: @synonymsforzombie @spicydanhowell @skyewardlight @dreaming-of-stories-and-stars @cest-mellow @graveyardlettuce @lower-your-expectationss (i got so fucking close to forgetting the tagslist again but!! i remembered are y'all proud!!)
well, this certainly wasn't normal.
it looked like the sky was made of colourful lava. that was the only way marvin could think of to describe it. trails of thick magma looking chunks falling and hitting the ground, almost glitching but never actually harming anyone. it seemed that none of the nomags could see it, which wasn't surprising, given the veil, but with the way it had been collapsing recently, it had affected them in other ways. the nomags were starting to glitch the same way that anti did, the way everything seemed to do now that jackie has fucked things up. nothing stayed still anymore. marvin was really beginning to worry.
"if it's not hurting anyone, then we're ok," chase said to him uncertainly, holding louise and connor close to him. "right?"
chase had called stacy already, but she had no clue what was going on, the veil seemingly shielding her too. "why can't mama see the falling sky?" connor had asked him, and then the lot of them had tried to figure out why louise and connor could see through the veil when no other nomag's could. chase was certain it was just their blood relation to him, and the reason he could see it was his blood relation to marvin, jackie and henrik. none of them were quite certain how that worked, but they honestly had bigger problems to deal with right now.
the first call marvin had received was from naomi. "have you seen the fucking sky?" she shouted immediately, and marvin pulled the phone away from his ear, wincing. "it looks - it looks like -"
"sky lava?" marvin guessed. "and there's no need to shout, i'm right here."
"sorry," she said, much quieter. "and i was gonna say "fire clouds," but lava i guess i can see. anyway, what the fuck is this shit? is it to do with jackie again? i'm trying to contact lucas, but he won't pick up."
marvin sighed, listening to chase and henrik attempt to reassure connor and louise about the sky. difficult to do when none of them knew what was going on. "lucas was round with us for a while, but he left a few hours ago. he was texting chase not long ago too, so don't worry. i'm gonna try to contact kazuki or someone else from hecate, katy or charlie or mateo, just someone. hopefully we can somehow sort this."
"ok, ok," naomi said slowly. "ok. unrelated, but - i think anti was just round at my shop? asking for your address?"
marvin frowned. "when was this?"
"like, five minutes ago, not even. he left before i saw the sky and called you." something clattered on her end. "shit. so what's up with him? he was acting so weird."
marvin was about to answer when he saw a sleek white car pull up outside, and blinked when he saw who was inside. "naomi, i think i might have to call you back. i'm pretty sure kazuki just drove to our house."
"kazuki?" naomi asked. and sure enough, a tall woman in jeans and a perfectly sized white hoodie had stepped out, making eye contact with marvin through the window. marvin furrowed his brow, throwing both hands up in a what the fuck? gesture.
"yep, it's her," he said, stepping away from the window and marching towards the door purposefully. "i'll call you back soon. love you."
he clicked off and threw open the front door. kazuki was already there, chin lifted and a serious look on her face. "mr mcloughlin," she said. "i take it you've seen the sky."
"i have, yes," he said, raising an eyebrow. "never seen you dress so casually, kaz. the world must be ending."
"ha, ha," she said dryly. "i got dressed quickly. and don't call me kaz. now, the main problem." she waved a hand upwards. "i believe this is -"
"- to do with jackie?" marvin sighed. his eyes flickered to the ground. "it always is, isn't it."
kazuki nodded grimly. "may i come inside? the clouds are on fire and i have gotten three hours of sleep. i may need coffee."
marvin stepped aside to let her in. "i was just on a call with naomi. she actually said the same thing about fire clouds. personally, i think it looks like sky lava."
"naomi who?" kazuki asked, marching briskly through the kitchen. chase, connor and louise looked up in shock, and marvin shrugged, grimacing. "also, that's ridiculous. fire and lava don't even look the same."
"uh, hello," chase said faintly, blinking. "nice to see you here, uh - connor, louise, this is miss kamata. she's a magician like uncle marvin."
at those words, connor promptly leapt from his papa's lap and bounced up to kazuki excitedly. "oh, oh, you do magic too?" he squealed. "can i see? uncle marvin does such cool stuff, he lights his hand on fire and makes cool shapes appear in the air like uncle jackie does, only uncle jackie is way better at it and he can draw glowing dragons in the air!"
kazuki raised an eyebrow at the boy, who was practically vibrating with excitement. "well… i do air magic. i make things fly."
connor's eyes bulged, and his jaw dropped so far his mouth formed a perfect o. "no! way!" he gushed. "that's - that's so, so cool!"
chase chuckled, tapping the table to get his son's attention. "come on, con. miss kamata is busy right now. maybe you can see another day, but not now."
connor deflated. "these fire clouds are ruining everything," he mumbled, slinking over back to his father's lap.
marvin took that opportunity to restart his conversation. "it's naomi gudmundson," he explained. "agrokinesis magician? she's with hecate? how can you not know your own members?"
kazuki had recovered from connor's brief word dump, and was now leaning against the washing machine, shrugging. "i may know her. i recognize the last name, and i doubt it's all that common here. anyway, that's not what i'm here to talk to you about."
"are you here to talk about the the fire clouds?" louise piped up, to everyone's surprise. as soon as she'd said it she snuggled back on her father's lap, watching her legs swing under the new kitchen table. kazuki smiled at the child softly.
"i am," she said. "i do believe your… uncle jackie may be involved in this. are you…" she hesitated, and glanced towards marvin. she lowered her voice. "what do they know?"
"they think he's moved away," marvin whispered. "chase panicked. we couldn't just tell them - it would fucking kill them to find out what he did, so we told them he went to ireland for a while."
kazuki nodded, then turned back to the kids and smiled again. "your uncle might have come back. but… he's a little bit different now."
chase shook his head suddenly. "hey - hey, we don't know that," he said weakly. "he might not be - we haven't seen him since the incident at hecate, how would we know if he was coming back?"
kazuki gestured towards the window. "fire clouds," she deadpanned. "this isn't normal weather magic. it's something to do with the veil and we only know of one person who's been involved in that."
"jackie can't have anything to do with this," chase said firmly, seemingly having forgotten about the kids on his lap. "i've seen his magic, me and henrik both, it was nothing like this. i don't give a fucking shit about the goddamn veil. this is all -"
he suddenly remembered himself and flushed, shoulders shooting to his ears. "uh… don't use any of the words papa's using right now," he said quietly. connor and louise just looked at each other and giggled, bouncing on chase's legs and making him wince.
"i'll take them," henrik said, getting up quickly and clapping his hands. chase smiled gratefully, and the kids happily bounced to their feet to follow their uncle out into the hall and up the stairs to the kid's room, leaving marvin, chase and kazuki alone. a short, awkward silence followed.
"sorry for - that," chase mumbled, not looking up. "i'm stressed and being an asshole. god, i think i'm getting a fudging migraine too, christ."
"it's alright," kazuki said, also not looking up. "this is a lot. i have hecate members attempting to track the source of this whole sky thing, but there… doesn't appear to be one. it's everywhere. although, a few people have told me they are detecting some sort of magic signal somewhere. but apparently that's untraceable too, because of course it is." she sighed, flexing her hands and blowing hair out of her face. "i… i don't know what to do now. and i don't say that often."
marvin bit his lip, clicking his tongue softly. "mm. i - don't know either. i mean… i guessed we just have to wait and see what happens."
and they did. about fifteen minutes of small talk and awkward tea/coffee drinking passed, the three of them politely discussing everything but the weather as, funnily enough, that wasn't a great topic to help distract them from the issue at hand. however, they were all surprised to hear someone knock at the door, breaking the silence. marvin looked to the others for confirmation on what to do. both of them shrugged. marvin rolled his eyes and cracked the door slightly, startling when he saw who it was on the other side.
"anti," he sighed, breathing out slowly. "not sure who i was expecting. this is a bad time, man."
anti just raised his eyebrows. he looked worse off than when marvin had last seen him: hair yanked behind his ears, a bruise on his cheek, yellow scarf even more dirty looking. "i take it you've seen the sky lava?"
marvin gave a small, disbelieving laugh. "i fucking knew it looked like lava! kazuki, chase and henrik are saying it looks like fire -" he caught himself. "anyway. yes, i've seen it. kinda hard not to, wouldn't you say?"
anti shrugged. "i don't know, i'm partially colourblind and didn't notice until the bloody meteors or whatever started falling. speaking of, the things might not hurt, but they are very annoying. can i come inside?"
marvin threw his head back and sighed. "this shit again? seriously? i said it was a bad time." he wasn't sure letting anti in while the kids were here was a good idea, even though they were upstairs with henrik and most likely wouldn't hear or see anything. "can't you… i don't know, go bother… whoever it is that you bother when you're not fucking with us?"
"whatever people i bother when i'm not fucking with you are dead," anti signed flatly. his eyes flickered from an orangey brown to a dark blue, and marvin resisted the urge to step back. for a moment, he looked just like jackie. "i don't have shit else to do, and as much as i despise coming to you for help, i don't have much of a choice these days, do i?"
marvin suddenly frowned. "man, are you ok?"
anti blinked. "why?"
"i - you're shaking," marvin pointed out. "i don't know, you just… kind of look like you're in the middle of a panic attack."
anti scoffed and rolled his eyes despite how pale he had gone. marvin could hear his quick, laboured breaths from where he was standing. "no," he signed, like marvin was being ridiculous. "i'm fine. let me in, bitch."
marvin didn't believe him. but if henrik was upstairs, he figured it should be ok. first, he had a question. "why were you bothering naomi?"
anti frowned. "i... wasn't?"
"yes you were," marvin said. "she said you were just round at her shop."
"was not," anti scoffed. "i was halfway across town. walked all the way here. now let me in, i'm not used to feeling human temperatures and it's bloody baltic out here."
marvin sighed and finally stepped aside to let him in. anti slipped past and immediately froze, eyes wide and pupils dilated, fixed on kazuki still leaning on the sideboards. his hand immediately flashed to his side, bringing out a small switchblade and holding it out in front of him.
"woah - woah, anti, put it down!" marvin cried, jumping between him and kazuki. "she's not here to hurt you, we're just trying to figure out what's wrong with the sky, nothing more, ok? let's just - calm down, ok?"
anti didn't move. despite his uninterrupted trembling, his hand was steady on the knife. kazuki had barely flinched at his reaction, and stayed very still so as not to alarm him. "i'm just here to help marvin, anti," she said gently. "i'm not planning to hurt you, even after your little escape. i swear. i know you've been through a lot, and i'm not going to make it any worse for you. if it helps any, i'll stay right here so i won't scare you."
anti's face contorted with anger, but he couldn't sign while holding the knife, and after a moment he flipped it closed and put it back in his pocket, not blinking. "you don't fucking scare me," he spat once he'd freed up his hand. "you're just another pathetic fucking magician who relies on others to do your work for you. i could kill you even without my magic and the use of one of my hands."
marvin didn't translate any of that. "ok, so now what?" he said instead, glancing out the window behind kazuki's head. "sky's still going and we don't know why. kaz - kazuki, are you sure you don't know anything?"
she sighed, closing her eyes for a second. "sit down," she said, gesturing towards the table and pulling out a seat for herself. "i might be able to try and explain."
marvin sat down across from her and chase, who was on his phone and had been silent this whole time. he turned round to see anti still hovering hesitantly, hands hanging in the air. marvin pat the seat next to him. "you can sit down," he said, trying to keep his voice light. anti slowly shook his head, eyes darting back and forth to the door behind him, and marvin decided it'd be best to leave him be.
kazuki cleared her throat. "so. that necklace your brother has… i recognized it before i even saw it for that split second in new romney. i'm not sure of its actual name, but i am aware of its uses. i believe… it's some kind of soul holder."
everyone went very quiet for a moment, until marvin spoke again. "ok. please elaborate."
kazuki took a breath, tapping the table with her fingernails. "well. many years ago, there were all sorts of black magic artifacts that were used to enhance, give or take power. those who later split from hecate wanted to use that magic. we - the rest of us told them it was a bad idea. eventually, when the split happened, we took as many artifacts as we could and destroyed them." she let out a small sigh, closing her eyes. "it seems that some were… left. i'm not sure how many they still have, but jackie has gotten a hold of one and given his lack of previous black magic use, it seems that it's becoming too much for him to handle."
"you said soul holder," chase suddenly said, the first words he'd spoken since anti had arrived. he rubbed his temple, wincing. "are there… different types of these artifacts? and how do you know this one does, uh, whatever you think it does?"
she nodded grimly. "there's a few types, yes. some destroy. some kill. and some… do what your brother's one does. i believe that it takes souls into the necklace and, well, holds them there." she leaned her head back, sighing. "i can't think of a better way to explain it except that it's… hundreds of years old. who knows what types of magic has been contained in it? what people? we have no idea how powerful he could be."
anti suddenly clapped his hands, drawing their attention to him. "so hold on," he signed, still using the one hand. "this bitch has stolen a part of my fucking soul and that's how he's using my magic?"
kazuki looked to marvin, who loosely translated for her. once he'd finished, she sighed and glanced up to anti again. "i'm afraid so," she said. "from what i've seen, that's all it could be. i'm very sorry."
"motherfucker," anti signed, which marvin chose not to translate.
just then, they heard loud yelling from upstairs, and two sets of pounding footsteps racing down the steps above. "papa, papa!" the voices of two children cried, giggling all the while and getting louder as they got closer. "papa, uncle henrik just showed us something super cool, look, look -"
the children ran into the kitchen, laid eyes on anti, and froze.
anti didn't move.
there was a long moment where connor and louise just stared at him, confused looking. marvin held his breath, making eye contact with chase across the table. neither man said a word.
it was connor who eventually spoke. "uncle jackie?"
henrik appeared in the doorway behind them and also froze. "christ, him again?"
"oh!" louise suddenly shouted. "it's the london man!"
"oh yeah!" connor cried, grinning. "the man who wasn't papa who took us to london!"
"took you to london?" kazuki said, frowning. "what do you mean?"
"we're seriously just going to let him in yet again?" henrik said angrily, glaring at marvin. "seriously? after all the times we agreed not to trust him?"
"listen, i didn't want to," marvin argued. "but in case you hadn't noticed, circumstances are slightly different now -"
"can everyone just shut up?" chase suddenly cried, clutching his head and leaping to his feet. "i have a bloody migraine and god, you're all so fu- so loud, christ, i'm…" he shook his head and marched over to the door, grabbing a brown jacket off the coat rack. "i'm going for a walk or something, fire clouds and sky lava be damned. i don't… i'm done with this." he turned to face the room, which had gone very quiet. his eyes landed on henrik. "henny, will you come with?"
henrik hesitated, glancing at the kids. "it's - i don't know if it's safe, and -"
"i'll look after the kids," marvin said quickly. he smiled at chase reassuringly, who smiled back. "be safe out there, if you really have to go out. and be back within, like, ten minutes, preferably. please."
"we will," chase said gratefully. he opened the door and stepped outside. "thanks, marvy."
marvin flinched at the name. only jackie calls me that, he thought, but chase and henrik were gone before he could say a word.
-
"so where are we going?" henrik asked, practically jogging to keep up with his brother. chase was walking very quickly, which worried henrik slightly, especially given that he'd said he had a migraine. however, he brushed off his concerns with a small laugh. "slow down, chaser. i'm not in the mood to - ha, to chase you."
he could tell something was wrong when chase didn't laugh at his pun. "sorry," chase mumbled instead. "i'm just… feeling weird. i don't know… it's too much."
henrik slowed, heart suddenly racing. "uh, chase? i think we should go back. if you're feeling this unwell -"
"no," chase interrupted, and it sounded almost like a sob. his eyes were oddly dark. "no, i can't. don't - leave me."
he sped up the pace, leaving henrik to race after him. "chase - wait!" he cried. what was happening, why was he acting so strangely? he got the feeling this wasn't a normal migraine at all. "chase, slow. where are you going? chase!"
they rounded a corner, and chase suddenly stopped dead. his expression had gone totally blank, eyes wide and unfocused. his mouth was hanging open very slightly, hands dropped by his side.
henrik waved a hand in front of his face, breathing quickening. "chase? bruder? hello, are you -"
"henrik," came a voice from behind him. henrik's blood suddenly ran cold. "you're just in time for the show."
-
this was beginning to get very awkward.
marvin had attempted to usher the kids back upstairs, but that would leave kazuki and anti alone in the kitchen, which not only was a horrendous combination of people to leave alone, but was very rude to do. so they were now sitting in the living room watching octonauts on the tv, with marvin dithering in the doorway between the kitchen and the hall, trying to keep everything and everyone together. thankfully, connor and louise had stopped questioning anti's presence as soon at the familiar theme tune had started playing, leaving marvin to mostly focus on the other two. anti was pacing the kitchen ignoring kazuki, who was trying to talk to him. it was starting to become slightly annoying.
"is your arm still hurt?" kazuki was saying, as anti pretended he was suddenly deaf. "i can try to help if you'd show me it. we have healers in hecate - in fact, isn't your brother a healer? the doctor?"
"not my brother," anti suddenly signed. he flipped his hood up over his head, turning his face away from them. "fuck off, gods. always in other people's business."
there was a sudden noise from outside. a bang, like an explosion. kazuki stood and followed marvin to the window, looking outside to try and figure out what it was.
"i don't see anything," marvin muttered. the sky looked the same, and nothing seemed to be out of place. "what the fuck?"
"uncle marvin?" connor called from the other room. "what's going on?"
another bang sounded, and this time they could see a plume of black smoke rising over the buildings not far off from where they were. "ah, crap," marvin hissed, hands flying to his hair. "chase and henrik - we have to go after them, they could be in trouble."
kazuki shook her head. "the little ones," she reminded them. "we can't leave them alone."
connor and louise had padded into the hallway to see what was happening, eyes wide. marvin hesitated. he needed to make sure henrik and chase were safe, but he could need kazuki's help, and anti obviously couldn't stay with them. "oh - i don't know!" he despaired. "i - i have to see they're ok."
"papa and uncle henrik?" louise said softly. she was clutching her sonic teddy in her hands, her bottom lip quivering. "we wanna go make sure they're ok too! did the sky dragons get them?"
marvin glanced back into the kitchen at anti, who had stopped pacing and was staring out the window in there, and then back to kazuki, who looked slightly worried. he hesitated. "kazuki - can you stay here with them?"
"me?" she sounded shocked. "i - i am the leader of hecate's international network of magic, and right now there is magic related events happening that i need to -"
"please, kaz?" marvin turned to her with wide eyes, pleading. "just for a little bit? please, i'd owe you so so much, i just can't leave them alone, kazuki…"
kazuki inhaled sharply, then blew the air out her cheeks, groaning. "fine! you better not be long. i don't think i'm all that good with kids."
marvin threw his arms around her briefly, grinning. "thank you so much, kaz, i owe you!" then he turned to the confused looking kids, smiling at them. "kazuki is going to look after you two for a little bit, ok?"
"can we see the magic?" connor gasped. he grabbed louise's hand, squealing. "louise, we get to see the magic!"
kazuki laughed nervously, making a face in marvin's direction. "yes, i can show you some magic. let's go in here, uh - the living room, yes? what's this playing on the tv?"
marvin took the opportunity to leave, pausing at the door to look at anti. "well? are you coming?" he asked. anti jumped, and marvin raised an eyebrow. "come on, i'm not leaving you here alone."
anti shrugged, but followed him out the door, marvin locking it shut behind him. the smoke plumes were rising even higher, and the resounding booms were still sounding from not far off. "fucking hell," marvin muttered. anti glitched in agreement. "let's hurry up and -"
"marvin! marvin!"
he recognized the sound of chase's voice immediately. "chase!" he raced down the pavement, struggling not to slip as he followed his brother's voice. "chase, chase - shit!"
because fuck, jackie was standing in the middle of the street with aaron by his side, henrik and chase standing in front of them and staring blankly, eyes black and unfocused. it was such a scene that all marvin could do was stare. taking it in. his brothers, hypnotized, standing in the street, just… here. he couldn't breathe.
anti made a loud choking noise at the sight of jackie, taking an unwittingly step away. jackie smirked at him. "aw, anti, good to see you again. are you seriously afraid of me now? i thought you were above fear, isn't that what you told me once?" he laughed, and turned to marvin. his black eyes flashed coldly. "hello, marvy."
"jackie," marvin blurted. his chest tightened, taking in his older brother's form. his hair was shorter, almost as short as henrik's, and he was wearing a black jacket over a dark grey hoodie. so unlike his normal colourful clothing. it made marvin's head spin. "jackie, what have you done to chase and henrik? let - let them go, please."
jackie inhaled, dragging out his breath and tilting his head back. the silence was fucking deafening. all marvin could hear was the blood rushing in his ears and the silent, agitated hum of static rising from anti's direction.
"i can't do that," jackie said softly. "i have to protect them. from him, and apparently... from you."
marvin's heart stopped. "what do you mean?"
jackie laughed harshly. "look at you. you're with him, aren't you?" he nodded towards anti, a look of disgust crossing his face. "this pathetic, glitching mistake of a being who's brought nothing but harm on our family, and you want to befriend him. clearly, henrik and chase aren't safe around you if you're willing to put them in such constant danger."
"you're - you're more of a danger to them than anti is right now," marvin stammered, trying to keep his voice steady. "jackie, this isn't you. you're not like this. please, listen -"
"i don't think it's up to you to decide who he is, magician," aaron interrupted. he was leaning on a bright blue bat, grinning cheekily. like this was a game. marvin didn't spare him a breath, keeping his eyes trained on jackie.
"this is… the black magic talking," marvin faltered. his hands felt very warm. he hadn't used any magic since he'd nearly hurt chase, and he was suddenly scared. "jackie, this is the black magic talking. we - we can get it out of your head! we can! you - we - this can be fixed, ok? just let our brothers go and we can help you."
jackie's expression softened. "marvin," he murmured, and marvin took a shaking breath, hope rising in his chest. "oh, marvin. i'm so sorry. you… you really believe in me, don't you?"
anti growled, the sound of static spiking. jackie grinned at him, and for a moment marvin couldn't see him any differently than the man who had always been so sweet to him, the man he'd called his brother. then it vanished, and jackie was a stranger, sneering at anti's rising rage. "i did miss you, aiden. five months is a lot of time to bond! we were so close, wouldn't you agree?" he laughed, a real, loud laugh. "and put the butter knife away, unless you're planning to make toast."
marvin had been so thrown by the "aiden" comment that he hadn't noticed anti taking out his switchblade again. it took a second for marvin to register what anti was about to do, and by then it was too late. "anti, no!"
the knife was flying towards aaron's face before marvin could blink. but the man was ready; his bat was raised to his face to block the blade in an instant, a swoop of magic covering his body. jackie stepped forwards and threw his arm up, creating a black shield to cover for anti's sudden attack.
"stop it!" marvin screamed as anti kicked out at jackie's shield, knocking him off balance. aaron immediately lunged for anti while his back was turned, and marvin made the split second decision to throw out a burning hand and shove aaron back, standing between the two of them.
aaron flashed a white grin. "you don't have to be involved in this fight. really, just let us take the glitch and you and your brothers are free. why is that such a hard decision?"
marvin gave a breathy laugh. "oh, i wish i knew," he said, and let the magic in his body loose.
he had been so afraid of this. of his magic exploding the way naomi's had. but now, he suddenly hated everything about this man, this smirking blonde idiot who'd helped take jackie away from them. he hated him and his magic reflected that. great swirls of concentrated power that wrapped around aaron and squeezed him, making him gasp. but it didn't last. aaron lashed out, and a solid black whip hit marvin in the face, burning into his skin. he screamed in agony, dropping his own magic to fight against the pain. aaron laughed and knocked marvin's legs out from under him, kicking him down to the ground.
he could see anti fighting - trying to fight - against jackie above him. jackie had seemingly overpowered him easily, lifting him into the air without even touching him. "pathetic!" he giggled, darkness trailing down his skin from his eyes and hands. "aiden, aiden, you used to be so powerful. what happened to you? oh, wait." he tossed back his head and roared with laughter. "i did, didn't i? it's funny, cause i'm powerful enough without your weak ass magic in my body. i don't even need it. but i truly do enjoy the irony of being able to do - this!"
a glitch ran through jackie's body and through his wall of magic, reaching anti and throwing him to the ground like a ragdoll. he slammed to the road beside marvin, crying out as his back cracked. aaron turned to jackie and straightened, his boot digging harder into marvin's chest.
"well, that was easy," jackie joked, grabbing aaron's hand. the two of them laughed for a second, and marvin managed to slowly turn his head and make eye contact with anti. turquoise eyes meeting brown. it reminded marvin of the day he'd freed anti from the music shop basement, of the exact moment jackie had discovered that marvin knew. the shared moment, the single shared thought.
we're fucked.
but they'd gotten out of that situation. and how had they done that? oh, oh, shit. he remembered. he remembered.
"now what?" aaron said, as he and jackie leaned over them. anti weakly tried to get up, and aaron whacked his chest with his bat to make him fall back. jackie grinned at him, the two sharing a knowing smile.
"well, now i take the glitch and…" his expression wavered as he looked at marvin. "well, he can go, i guess. all we need is this guy!" he kicked anti's side again. "hear that, marv? you're home free."
he clicked his fingers, and marvin heard chase and henrik both gasp, collapsing to the floor. he'd almost forgotten they were still standing there, black eyed and hypnotized. hopefully they now wouldn't be conscious enough to see what he was about to do. "come on, anti, up you get!" jackie said cheerfully. he reached down and grabbed anti's right arm, delighting in his pained cry. "oops, almost forgot you were still injured! almost. right, let's go -"
"you forget a lot," marvin spat. jackie's head snapped round to look at him, and marvin scowled. "you get on at me for not noticing shit, but hey - i can at least remember what types of magic my brothers specialize in."
jackie didn't manage to get another word out before marvin unleashed a wave of the magic he said he'd never use again. his own black magic. not as strong as jackie's, but he knew how to control it better, and it was just enough to shock him and aaron away, leaving marvin a gap to leap to his feet and fight back again.
a second chance, he thought. don't waste it, marvin.
aaron made an instant dash for anti while jackie went for marvin, but he was too quick for them this time. a fiery shield rose up in front of him, and marvin managed to reach out a hand to yank anti up before one of them got to him again. "you ok?" he asked quickly, and anti managed a nod despite the clear pain he was in. marvin nodded back. "good. stay back."
more magic. so much of it, marvin wasn't sure whose was whose anymore. aaron was the one he was concerned about; he clearly had far more control and practice with his magic, and was forcing marvin back with hit after hit of his crumbling black whips that arched from his bat like a wicked extension of himself. marvin couldn't seem to take him out. he panted, cursing under his breath, beads of sweat dripping down his face from the exertion of the fight. he couldn't take them both at once. he wasn't sure he'd even be able to just take jackie if he had to. he couldn't do this, he couldn't, he just couldn't -
and then aaron fell back with a gasp, all his magic dropping at once. and anti, pale and shaking but grinning smugly, yanked the knife he'd picked up out from his back.
"butter knife," he signed painstakingly with his bruised right hand. "how's that for butter knife?"
"shit -" jackie gasped, but marvin hadn't let the distraction pass him by, and cried out a spell that froze jackie to the spot, wrapping him in a tight rope of magic. the spells were so exhausting that he almost passed out then and there - he hadn't used dark magic in so long, and it had really drained him. luckily, anti scrambled to his side and grabbed his arm, keeping him upright. his hands were stained with blood. marvin watched as aaron fell to his knees, clutching at his chest in pain.
"bastard," jackie spat, writhing to free himself of marvin's bonds. his eyes had melted back to their original blue, and they were wild, focused on aaron now groaning on the ground. "bastard, bastard, let me go, don't you dare hurt him! you have no idea what you've done! no i̢d̸ea ͝at all!"
jackie let out a frustrated scream, tearing at the ropes with both restrained hands. anti and marvin glanced at each other, stepping back silently as blackness seeped out from jackie's chest and began to form into a solid shape in front of him. marvin held up a protective arm in front of anti as something began to create itself, the magic knitting into the shape of what looked to be a person. over the roar of magic, they could hear jackie laughing. "this one's for you, anti!" he cackled. "have you missed him?"
and oh, oh, oh shit. it was a person. a real person who had formed from jackie's magic, a man with curly black hair and blank brown eyes, staring ahead at nothing. marvin heard anti's breath hitch at the sight of him, and a single look at him showed he'd somehow gone even paler, mouth hanging open slightly in disbelief.
"that's right!" jackie cried, looking pleased despite his current situation. "i've seen your memories, anti, i've seen -"
and then marvin saw -
"you're… you smell like magic," came a voice. it was him, the curly haired man, speaking with a warm scottish accent. "harsh, like fire, or an overheating computer." he snorted, trying to keep eye contact with - with anti, because anti was there, different looking. no scars on his face, no scar on his neck, hair much shorter and a dark green colour. "do you do magic?"
and then both of them were sitting in what looked like a park, eating sausage rolls out of paper bags, two guitars abandoned on their laps as they talked faintly, eyes sparkling. "you're a dumbass!" anti laughed, and marvin had never seen him smile so genuinely before.
and then they were sitting very close to each other on the floor in a dark room, a song playing in the background as their faces touched, eyes closed and lips brushing -
"stop!" marvin yelled, struggling to shake himself from the memories. anti had all but collapsed, clinging to marvin's arms and shaking badly, terror and anger both making rounds on his face. "stop, how - jackie, stop, why are you doing this?"
marvin's magic had faltered, leaving jackie to step out of the bonds and fall to aaron's side. he lifted him in his arms, looking worried, feeling the blood on the man's back. "because he ruined our lives!" jackie screamed, and his eyes had turned black again, tears gathering in them as he clung to aaron's unconscious body. "how, how can you stand to be near him? he deserves to be hurt!"
the curly haired man hadn't moved since jackie had formed him, but now he was crumbling, dissolving into black dusty magic and retreating into jackie's body. like he had been there for nothing but show. through it all, marvin could still see chase and henrik, passed out on the road. at least they were safe. at least there was that.
"please," marvin croaked in a weak last ditch attempt to stop this. "jackie, you're my brother, i love you, i don't want to hurt you."
"you see good in anyone," jackie whispered. the sky above was almost screaming now, the colours beginning to whirl above jackie's had. despite the noise, marvin could still clearly hear his brother's voice. "even him. even me."
marvin was about to say something - something, anything, he wasn't sure what - when he stopped, listening, smelling the sharp scent that was suddenly filling the air. like a storm, like rain. judging by the look on jackie's face, he could smell it too. he stood unsteadily, lifting aaron in his arms. "what the fu-"
the black magic still lingering in the air parted. silver sparks clearing the air, even clearing the sky above, warming everything and bringing about that smell, the smell marvin realized was familiar. he gasped, almost laughing as jackie whirled round, looking to see who it was who dared to challenge him.
a man. messy dark hair and freckled skin, a mustache underneath his nose. a dark blue hoodie hanging off of him. eyes that glowed silver, hands that glowed silver, magic that stayed suspended in the air, silver. the world seemed to stop.
jameson jackson.
"you again," jackie spat. he couldn't even raise a hand to defend himself with both arms wrapped around aaron, who had stirred slightly and was moaning in pain. "my god, don't you get a hint?"
jamie raised a hand in front of him, not saying a word. the threat hung in the air along with the silver particles of solid magic that carried the weight of time in them. he looked so tired. he looked so powerful. marvin almost wouldn't have recognized him.
jackie growled softly, looking back and forth between marvin, anti and jamie. he seemed to realize how outnumbered he was, and shrank back, hoisting aaron higher in his arms. "watch your backs," he hissed angrily, eyes blazing. then he was gone, really gone.
anti pushed himself off of marvin, swaying on his feet. he couldn't take his eyes off jamie, who had lowered his arm and let his eyes return to their usual grey. he was staring back. for a long moment, the two just stood there, unmoving. afraid to break the year long silence.
"jamie," marvin suddenly said. and it was hitting him now that this was really him, his little brother, the artistic time traveler who he hadn't seen in so long, who had just disappeared without a trace. "jamie, oh my god, jamie!"
he raced past anti and threw his arms around jamie, muffled sobs escaping his lips as he buried his face in the smaller man's shoulder. jamie hugged him back tightly, and then pulled away with a huge grin. "marvin," he signed. "it's you."
he looked over marvin's shoulder and frowned, pulling the magician over to chase and henrik, who were now starting to regain consciousness, eyelids flickering. "jackie did this?" jamie signed, concern flickering across his face. "help me, we have to take them home. they should be ok, but just to make sure."
marvin had so many questions he suddenly wanted to ask. but he instead lifted chase into his arms, helping him stand while jamie did the same with henrik. questions could wait. jamie was home. nothing else mattered.
and when marvin turned to say something to anti, he had disappeared.
end act three - mind games.
#jacksepticeye#boop writes#marvin the magnificent#chase brody#jackieboy man#henrik von schneeplestein#antisepticeye#jameson jackson#kazuki kamata#naomi gudmundson#the fall
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Yesterday IT came to set up a computer in a new single office for a co-worker who has returned after long absence. After they had finished, I went downstairs to see whether everything was in order. When I opened the door, for a moment, it felt as if I were standing in one of the most beautiful video game sceneries in my memory, as if this dear memory had come to life somehow.
In Terranigma, the Earth is a hollow sphere, divided into the surface world and the under world, Lightside and Darkside. The under world, your home and the only world you have known, is a frozen wasteland, crystal mountains and rivers of magma hostile to life. On your solitary quest to resurrect the planet, you first traverse this dark, empty space to resurrect the long submerged continents. Then, leaving everything (someone) you have loved behind, you ascend to the surface. You awake to see: There is nothing waiting for you but devastated wasteland. Stale air. No plants, no animals, no humans. No life. A different kind of desolation, or perhaps just more of the same.
Alone, you crawl through a dark underground cavern, and eventually remove the parasite from the Ra Tree, thus restoring life to all plants. (There’s this beautiful, poetic video of nature coming back to the planet, imbuing the barren land with green.) The darkness lifts, clean air fills your lungs, and you find yourself in the scenery of the video above:
Grass beneath your feet, flowers sprouting where you step, eager to greet you, thank you, tell you their story, flowers singing for you to express their gratitude (and the music changes as the world is filled with their tender song), clear water enveloping all of it. You find that there is so much that nature has to tell you if you are willing to pause and listen. Such as that small red flower: You will no longer be alone. We will always watch over you. (They will continue to watch over you even after you have lost the voice to converse with nature. [I can’t believe that post has been on my mind for seven years already?!])
When I opened the door to the new office yesterday, expecting, aside from black hardware, nothing but sterile and empty white, I was greeted with the sight of two beautiful plants that I had not seen before, and that said co-worker must have brought from home. He’s... not a tender person, neither in appearance, behaviour nor language (that is not to say he can’t be tender), and not someone I would associate with plants or tending. In the background, I could hear water quietly flowing through the pipes, unlike on the floor above – and for a moment, I thought I heard birdsong. (The next station on Ark’s journey in Terranigma after Evergreen is Bird Sanctuary.) The unexpectedness of all of this made it feel as though I had stepped into the paradise above, and even though the surprise and the moment flashed by, in that moment, time seemed to stand still.
And it made me think of two poems of immense strength, and of immense comfort, that I had read and reread in the past week:
At the end of my suffering
there was a door.
Hear me out: that which you call death
I remember.
Overhead, noises, branches of the pine shifting.
Then nothing. The weak sun
flickered over the dry surface.
It is terrible to survive
as consciousness
buried in the dark earth.
Then it was over: that which you fear, being
a soul and unable
to speak, ending abruptly, the stiff earth
bending a little. And what I took to be
birds darting in low shrubs.
You who do not remember
passage from the other world
I tell you I could speak again: whatever
returns from oblivion returns
to find a voice:
from the center of my life came
a great fountain, deep blue
shadows on azure seawater.
— Louise Glück, The Wild Iris
Oh do you have time
to linger
for just a little while
out of your busy
and very important day
for the goldfinches
that have gathered
in a field of thistles
for a musical battle,
to see who can sing
the highest note,
or the lowest,
or the most expressive of mirth,
or the most tender?
Their strong, blunt beaks
drink the air
as they strive
melodiously
not for your sake
and not for mine
and not for the sake of winning
but for sheer delight and gratitude –
believe us, they say,
it is a serious thing
just to be alive
on this fresh morning
in the broken world.
I beg of you,
do not walk by
without pausing
to attend to this
rather ridiculous performance.
It could mean something.
It could mean everything.
It could be what Rilke meant, when he wrote:
You must change your life.
— Mary Oliver, Invitation
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EL TEXTO DE MODA, DE NOVEDAAAAAAAAAAD
Por Javier Zugarazo Tamayo
Leo a Andrés Amorós en su Introducción a la literatura, mientras critica la periodización de la creación literaria y al cambio de siglo como cambio de género, relata lo que a su vez él leyó en Orlando de Virginia Woolf. Dentro de esta novela inglesa, el personaje de Orlando transita por los siglos como si de horas se tratara. En Woolf, a la que leo por medio de Amorós, el fin de la centuria dieciochesca ocurre así: la transición sucede al ritmo de las doce campanadas (es obvio que las del Big Ben) de la última hora del año, a la primera una pequeña nube acaricia el cielo, a la doceava la oscuridad ya ha envuelto todo el cielo londinense: el siglo XIX había comenzado. En nuestra historia reciente, a partir del primero de junio, pero no estoy muy seguro que así sea, comenzó la era de la nueva normalidad y nuestro volver al futuro; el relato oficial habla de un regreso a lo nuevo, volvemos a ella, aunque nunca hayamos estado ahí. ¿Cómo se regresa a lo nuevo si este fetiche es inalcanzable y va siempre adelante?, o ¿es que ya la idea de progreso está truncada? ¿será el fin de la insistencia por la novedad moderna? ¿Qué será aquello que se acaba y cuáles las nubes que inundan nuestros cielos? ¿La antigua normalidad era normal para quién? ¿Cuántas normalidades atravesó Orlando a lo largo de sus cinco siglos? Orlando tránsito por el tiempo y por los sexos.
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Yo preferiría que la nueva normalidad mantenga la comprensión lenta del tiempo que tengo en estos meses de transición, espeso casi como magma en enfriamiento: cáustico, lento, pesante, de masa que no se quiere mover pero la inercia acaba por desplazarla. Nada de la velocidad propia de la vieja normalidad que no permitía sincronizarme con el ritmo interior. Dejar de lado el modo de vida rápido y furioso. No más la necesidad de producir por producir.
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Orlando se ha llevado al cine y al teatro. La versión cinematográfica la dirigió Sally Potter y fue protagonizada por Tilda Swinton. Para la puesta en escena Rei Kawakubo hizo los vestuarios. About time: fashion and duration sería el título de la exposición de este año del Costume Institute del Metropolitan Museum of Art y su famosa gala inaugural. Dicha exposición también ha sido inspirada por la novela de Virginia Woolf, el curador Andrew Bolton tuvo su revelación mientras Orlando entraba y salía de un laberinto.
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¿Cómo será mi nueva normalidad? Puede que termine haciéndome uno con la cama y alimentado sólo por verdes aceitunas, vistiendo la colección otoño 2005 Bed time story de Viktor and Rolf. Y para salir de casa sin salir aprenderé a bilocarme como Sor María Jesús de Ágreda, aquella monja concepcionista que evangelizó a los indios de la tribu Jumano de Texas sin nunca haber salido de España.
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El Orlando de la película vive algunas décadas más que el de la novela, hasta la década de los noventa del siglo XX, libertades creativas.
La exposición y gala del Costume Institute en el 2017 fue Comme des Garçons: Art of the In-Between, un homenaje a Rei Kawakubo. Rihanna fue sin duda la que mejor vistió el tema.
El amor de Virginia Woolf por la ropa no era amor, era otra cosa y quería averiguarlo a profundidad.
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O será que la ominosidad termina por abatirme: mis pies ya se cansan con sólo unos pasos, mi estómago es pesado y de metabolismo lento. Mi cabeza ahora es nubosa, espesa y aturdida ¿será por qué no he podido cortar mi cabello? Las paredes terminarán por caer sobre mí. Para protegerme, vestiré aquellos tres últimos looks de la colección primavera-verano 1997 de Comme des Garcons, rojos y con curvas que parecen dibujos de Louise Bourgeois.
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En la serie del fotógrafo David LaChapelle The house and the end of the world -¿casualidad?- aparece un vestido rojo coronado por almohadas de aquella colección del 2005 de Viktor and Rolf, la que usare si me vuelvo uno con la cama, de fondo un suburbio destruido very american way of life. Mismo vestido que utilizó Tilda Swinton para cruzar la calle y posar para el fotógrafo Jason Schmidt: Tilda sleep walking.
En septiembre de 1995, Tilda Swinton realizó junto a Cornelia Parker una instalación en la Serpentine Gallery titulada The maybe. En ella la actriz permanecía acostada dentro de una vitrina de cristal. Alrededor, otras vitrinas contenían objetos relacionados con el transcurrir del tiempo. Encuentro cierto parecido a mis días estos últimos meses, me faltan las vitrinas y capelos.
Tilda también curó una exposición de fotografía para la Aperture Foundation titulada: Orlando.
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Muere Christo, artista empaquetador del mundo. En la serie This is my house, David LaChapelle embala una de las casas que aparecen al fondo con plástico rosa como si de una pieza de Christo se tratara. Dice Ida Rodríguez Prampolini que Mathias Goeritz sugirió invitar a Christo a envolver el Palacio de Bellas Artes, dice Silvia Navarrete que Pedro Ramírez Vázquez montó en cólera con semejante ocurrencia.
La nueva normalidad aún no llega, pero se describe, se ensaya, se plantea, se comercializa, se reseña, se evalúa, se opina sobre ella, se califica, se estigmatiza, se desconfía pero no se desconfina.
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NEW MUTANTS OMNIBUS VOL. 1 HC SIENKIEWICZ COVER
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The future of the X-Men is here! Karma. Wolfsbane. Sunspot. Cannonball. Moonstar. Follow their early days at Xavier’s School — including battles against Sentinels, the Hellfire Club, the Brood and more! New recruits Magma, Magik and Cypher find their footing; a deadly rivalry begins with Emma Frost’s Hellions and the Demon Bear that haunts Dani Moonstar bares his teeth — Bill Sienkiewicz-style! Will the New Mutants survive — and if so, can they make a new friend in the alien Warlock? Plus: The mind-bending debut of Professor X’s son, Legion! The unsettling return of a shadow from the past! And the tragic tale that transformed Illyana Rasputin into Magik! Collecting MARVEL GRAPHIC NOVEL #4; NEW MUTANTS (1983) #1-34 and ANNUAL #1; MARVEL TEAM-UP (1972) #100 (A STORY), #149 and ANNUAL #6; UNCANNY X-MEN (1981) #160, #167, #180, #189 and #192 and MAGIK #1-4.
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NASA Selects Four Possible Missions to Study the Secrets of the Solar System NASA has selected four Discovery Program investigations to develop concept studies for new missions. Although they’re not official missions yet and some ultimately may not be chosen to move forward, the selections focus on compelling targets and science that are not covered by NASA’s active missions or recent selections. Final selections will be made next year. NASA’s Discovery Program invites scientists and engineers to assemble a team to design exciting planetary science missions that deepen what we know about the solar system and our place in it. These missions will provide frequent flight opportunities for focused planetary science investigations. The goal of the program is to address pressing questions in planetary science and increase our understanding of our solar system. “These selected missions have the potential to transform our understanding of some of the solar system’s most active and complex worlds,” said Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator of NASA's Science Mission Directorate. “Exploring any one of these celestial bodies will help unlock the secrets of how it, and others like it, came to be in the cosmos.” Each of the four nine-month studies will receive $3 million to develop and mature concepts and will conclude with a Concept Study Report. After evaluating the concept studies, NASA will continue development of up to two missions towards flight. The proposals were chosen based on their potential science value and feasibility of development plans following a competitive peer-review process. The selected proposals are: DAVINCI+ (Deep Atmosphere Venus Investigation of Noble gases, Chemistry, and Imaging Plus) DAVINCI+ will analyze Venus’ atmosphere to understand how it formed, evolved and determine whether Venus ever had an ocean. DAVINCI+ plunges through Venus’ inhospitable atmosphere to precisely measure its composition down to the surface. The instruments are encapsulated within a purpose-built descent sphere to protect them from the intense environment of Venus. The “+” in DAVINCI+ refers to the imaging component of the mission, which includes cameras on the descent sphere and orbiter designed to map surface rock-type. The last U.S.-led, in-situ mission to Venus was in 1978. The results from DAVINCI+ have the potential to reshape our understanding of terrestrial planet formation in our solar system and beyond. James Garvin of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, is the principal investigator. Goddard would provide project management. Io Volcano Observer (IVO) IVO would explore Jupiter’s moon, Io, to learn how tidal forces shape planetary bodies. Io is heated by the constant crush of Jupiter’s gravity and is the most volcanically active body in the solar system. Little is known about Io’s specific characteristics, such as whether a magma ocean exists in its interior. Using close-in flybys, IVO would assess how magma is generated and erupted on Io. The mission’s results could revolutionize our understanding of the formation and evolution of rocky, terrestrial bodies, as well as icy ocean worlds in our solar system, and extrasolar planets across the universe. Alfred McEwen of the University of Arizona in Tucson is the principal investigator. The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland would provide project management. TRIDENT Trident would explore Triton, a unique and highly active icy moon of Neptune, to understand pathways to habitable worlds at tremendous distances from the Sun. NASA’s Voyager 2 mission showed that Triton has active resurfacing—generating the second youngest surface in the solar system—with the potential for erupting plumes and an atmosphere. Coupled with an ionosphere that can create organic snow and the potential for an interior ocean, Triton is an exciting exploration target to understand how habitable worlds may develop in our solar system and others. Using a single fly-by, Trident would map Triton, characterize active processes, and determine whether the predicted subsurface ocean exists. Louise Prockter of the Lunar and Planetary Institute/Universities Space Research Association in Houston is the principal investigator. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, would provide project management VERITAS (Venus Emissivity, Radio Science, InSAR, Topography, and Spectroscopy) VERITAS would map Venus’ surface to determine the planet’s geologic history and understand why Venus developed so differently than the Earth. Orbiting Venus with a synthetic aperture radar, VERITAS charts surface elevations over nearly the entire planet to create three-dimensional reconstructions of topography and confirm whether processes, such as plate tectonics and volcanism, are still active on Venus. VERITAS would also map infrared emissions from the surface to map Venus’ geology, which is largely unknown. Suzanne Smrekar of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, is the principal investigator. JPL would provide project management. The concepts were chosen from proposals submitted in 2019 under NASA Announcement of Opportunity (AO) NNH19ZDA010O, Discovery Program. The selected investigations will be managed by the Planetary Missions Program Office at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, as part of the Discovery Program. The Discovery Program conducts space science investigations in the Planetary Science Division of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, guided by NASA’s agency priorities and the Decadal Survey process of the National Academy of Sciences. Established in 1992, NASA’s Discovery Program has supported the development and implementation of over 20 missions and instruments. These selections are part of the ninth Discovery Program competition.
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idk how long team magma was around for before the events of the games uh. courtney had a weird warped half-crush on maxie for like two years but then had a massive like....thelma and louise style revelation that he’s 1. stupid 2. ugly 3. gay and decides that she likes girls now
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Sneak Peek to Solar Opposites in Mighty Solars Issue #48: “Monster Mayhem”
The Human Solars ran to the league witches of Earth-4 and the rest of their fellow Mighty Solars
Human Terry: Guys, what happened?! What happened to to 5 Teen Witches?!
Human Jesse: I don’t know but this city is fancy!
Luke: Ugh! Someone has entered their minds and have made their form’s uncontrollable! When we tries to get them to hear us, someone went inside their minds and have turn them into the worst things possible, Titans!
The human Solars gasp.
Human Korvo: Oh no…we gotta save them or-
Miss Frankie/Nightsaw: Uh, quick fellow humans go get our fellow Mighty Solars aliens quick! winks at the Human Solars
Human Korvo: On it!
The human solars then went and hide behind the walls as they turn back into their Shlorpian forms.
Korvo: Mighty Solars, time to suit up!
Yumyulack, Jesse, Pupa, Sonya and Phoebe: Right!
Terry: Hell yeah!
The group suits up. And with that the Solar Opposites family transform into their Mighty Solars and runs up to meet the others.
Jesse Solar-Opposites/Fung-irl: Guys!
Rest of the Mighty Solars: Guys!
Darcy/Sonar Woman: Thank God you guys are okay!
Nova/Heartstar: We have big problems!
Yumyulack Solar-Opposites/Vil-Gil-An-T: What kind of problems?
Linda: The girls have lost control of their Zenith powers! They’ve become Kaiju beasts!
Terry Solar-Opposites/Mighton: That does NOT sound good.
Louise, Trevor, Dr. Weatherstone, Alice and Janice sees the Mighty Solars and runs up to them, which for Stacy G’s attention.
Stacy G: gasp Mom!
Louise: Stacy! I was so worried about you! kisses her on the forehead
Quasarblast smiles.
Trevor: Thank God we found you! You won’t be a fucking day we had-
Cherie: Guys! Duck!
Trevor: Huh?
The heroes, Earth-4 witches and their friends then see mega quintessence mutant Will attacking as they dodge her.
Jesse Solar-Opposites/Fung-irl: Jesus christ!
Montez: Ugh! These girls are literally not listening to us!
Phoebe MaCcarthy/Starburst: We have to save them, or worse…
Jesse Solar-Opposites/Fung-irl: KILL THEM?!
Mighty Solars: What?! No! That’s wrong! Fucking crazy! We’re not killers y’know.
Jesse Solar-Opposites/Fung-irl: Okay. Sorry. Geez.
Pupa Solar-Opposites/The Mighty Pupa: MURDER!
Yumyulack/Vil-Gil-An-T: It’s okay Pupa. Fung-irl just freaked out for a bit.
Terry Solar-Opposites/Mighton: It’s okay sweetie. We know you didn’t mean it.
Korvo Solar-Opposites/Quasarblast: I think what Starburst means is that we need to FIGHT them.
Suddenly, when the Five Kaiju Teen Witches combine their blast at the heroes, it ends up blasting Louise, Trevor, Alice, Dr. Weatherstone and Janice, which ends up powering them as they scream. As the dust clears, the heroes sees five new heroic figures as Stacy G looks in worried.
Stacy G: MOM!
Stacy G tries run up but Fung-irl stops her As the dust clears, like when the Calamity trio transformed in Amphibia it is revealed that Trevor, Louise, Alice, Janice and Dr. Weatherstone have received their own Mighty Solars super suits
Dr. Weatherstone/???: Woah!
Louise/???: voice gets distorted; lifts her green lava cape Swanky duds!
Vil-Gil-An-T‘s jaw drops in shock. Alice grins as she shoots a lightning spider web up at the sky as she grins and blows the smoke off of her finger.
Alice/???: Louise, I have no idea we can do that!
Dr. Weatherstone/???: Did you know about this?
Louise/???: Uh, nope. These powers feel way more intense than before.
Janice/???: floating behind Louise The powers must stack when used in tandem! H’no Classic synergy buff y’know.
Quasarblast suddenly thinks of something.
Korvo Solar-Opposites/Qausarblast: This is perfect! Maybe you guys can distract the girls while we-
Trevor/???: Guys! Look! I’m walking plasma of H2O! This is awesome!
Quasarblast shifts a little.
Korvo Solar Opposites/Qausarblast: As I was saying, you new five can help us distract the girls while we find a way to stop whoever is doing this to them!
Phoebe MacCarthy/Starburst: That could work!
Marissa: offscreen Oh will it?
The heroes gasp and then sees the dream amulet broken as smoke flies from it and then they see Marissa floating above the broken amulet.
Parker/Venus Tip: Oh no.
Min-Li: gasp What?! This is impossible?! You were supposed to be trapped and-
Marissa: It’s too late! These girls are now under my control!
Yumi: What do you mean?!
Marissa grins evilly which made Starburst growl and realize something.
Phoebe MacCarthy/Starburst: You bitch! It was you who did this! You’re a fucking psycho!
Quasarblast growls in anger upon hearing what Marissa did.
Korvo Solar-Opposites/Quasarblast: You monster! How could you-
Marissa: I had already some help! Someone who was willing to help me! It’s too late! These girls are now mine! Nothing can stop me-
Suddenly, a blast hits Marissa as she falls to the ground in pain and lets go her staff.
Terry Solar-Opposites/Mighton: What the fuck?! Who did that?!
Cherie: I don’t know.
Darcy/Sonar Woman: Wasn’t me!
Korvo Solar-Opposites/Quasarblast: We need to stop her now!
Suddenly a woman’s chuckle was heard, which sounded familiar to Cherie, Nova, Montez and Sherbet.
Nova/Heartstar: Oh my God… that voice…
Cherie: It can’t be… can it?
Sherbet/Fizziepop: Oh God. No! No!
Cheery Smithers/Bloody Sympathy: Guys, what’s wrong?
???: Oh you poor things. Trap in a mind of a rogue witch… all that woman wanted to is get her fucking stupid son back on her side and rule the world and take you for advantage… but she was just a fool… I however… can make an offer to you five…
Suddenly…a blazing lightning midnight purple spiritual mist appears as it reveals an old foe of the Wallians… Sister Sisto as the Heartstar, Cherie, Montez and Fizziepop gasp in horror while the others grow shock.
Cherie: Sister Sisto?!
Terry Solar-Opposites/Mighton: You know her?!
Sister Sisto/???: Hello, my former fellow Bowinians…
Jesse Solar-Opposites/Fung-irl: Bowinians?! What?!
Korvo Solar-Opposites/Quasarblast: Heartstar, what is happening?!
Nova/Heartstar: Guys, that’s the false prophet we were telling you about last time when we first met! That’s Sister Sisto!
Mighton gasps.
Yumyulack Solar-Opposites/Vil-Gil-An-T: WHAT?!
Quasarblast looks angrily at Yumyulack.
Korvo Solar-Opposites/Quasarblast: sighs in dismay; deadpan Way to go Vil-Gil-An-T… you accidentally created a villain!
Yumyulack Solar-Opposites/Vil-Gil-An-T: I didn’t know!
Montez: I’m sorry true! She’s a false prophet and a murder and a kidnapper! She’s the one who causes all of this! The death of Tim, death do Sister Sasha, the temperature, everything!
Vil-Gil-An-T starts crying.
Cherie: She also kidnapped Pezlie and made her an icon! She also used Jesse as a pawn of her own.
Korvo-Solar-Opposites/Qausarblast: comforts his son Hey, it’s okay… you didn’t know… shh…
Yumyulack Solar-Opposites/Vil-Gil-An-T: I’m so sorry, Cherie.
Cherie: comforts Vil-Gil-An-T It’s okay. You didn’t know. Sisto was also using Jesse as a legend just to get people to follow her in a path of death!
Sister Sisto/???: Oh, this is very touching but I think it’s time I sealed your fate!
Marissa growls but gets grabbed in the rope by Sister Sisto.
Marissa: Let me go! grunts
Ms. Frankie/Night Saw: You’re not gonna stop us!
Sister Sisto/???: Oh I sure will. For I am… reveals her new physical form and a villain suit of her own Black Mirror!
Heartstar gasps
Sonya/Nighthowler: Oh no! She’s crazy!
Sister Sisto/Black Mirror: Oooh! But first…
Black Mirror attacks Mighton.
Korvo Solar-Opposites/Quasarblast: MIGHTON! growls at Black Mirror
Mighton groans in pain while Qausarblast helps his hubby up and looks at Black Mirror furiously then uses her mind control on the 5 Kalju Teen Witches as they roar in pain. Marisa tries to get out a beastly looking potion, only the wind to blew it out of her hands onto Quasarblast’s leg as he screams in pain.
Nova/Heartstar: Qausarblast!
Jesse Solar-Opposites/Fung-irl: QUASARBLAST!
Yumyulack Solar-Opposites/Vil-Gil-An-T: Oh my God!
Sonya/Nighthowler: Daddy!
Sister Sisto/Black Mirror: I bet that hurts…
Suddenly, Quasarblast starts screaming in pain as he suddenly starts growing bigger and muscular and his skin starts to turn black as he starts growing to the size of a KaIju beast.
Randall/Blackhole: Oh shit!
Principal Cooke/Trailblazer: That’s a huge bitch!
Terry Solar-Opposites/Mighton: Quasarblast?!
Now a giant KaIju Mundane, Quasarblast roars while the rest of the Mighty Solars gasp in horror and Black Mirror laughs evilly.
Jesse Solar-Opposites/Fung-irl: What’s happening?!
Sonya/Nighthowler: Quasarblast! No!
Yumyulack Solar-Opposites/Vil-Gil-An-T: What have you done?! You turn our dad into a fucking monster!
Mighton starts crying.
Sister Sisto/Black Mirror: Aw what’s the matter Mighton? Love the makeover I intentionally did to your husband.
Mighton starts snarling in anger with tears in his eyes. He then punches Black Mirror in the face as she growls.
Sister Sisto/Black Mirror: You strong arm bitch! What the fuck?!
Terry Solar-Opposites/Mighton: YOU WILL PAY FOR WHAT YOU DID!
Black Mirror grins and escapes by turning into her spirit form and leads the 5 KaIju monsters away from the heroes. Mundane Quasarblast growls as his eyes glow aquamarine and angirly follows them monster for battle.
Terry Solar-Opposites/Mighton: No…Korvo!
Nova/Heartstar: We have to go after them!
Louise/???: We’ll take care of the girls! You take care of Quasarblast!
The heroes split up while Mighton looks tearfully at Mundane Quasarblast roaring.
Parker belongs to @prospitdaydreamer
Phoebe MacCarthy/Starburst and Monica Miller/Lightspeed belongs to @themagicwolf6677
#solar opposites#solar opposites au#tervo#solar opposites: mighty solars#mighty solars#sister sisto/black mirror#korvo/quasarblast#mundane korvo#w.i.t.c.h. reference#meet the Robinsons reference#amphibia reference#alice/black moon#louise/magma#trevor/slimar#janice/teleport woman#dr. weatherstone/blizzard#terry/mighton#yumyulack/vil gil an t#pupa/the mighty pupa#phoebe/starburst#monster attack#monica/lightspeed#principal cooke/trailblazer#darcy/sonar woman#miss frankie/night saw#sherbet/fizziepop#nova/heartstar#cherie the wall#montez the wall#cheery/blood sympathy
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Space Bandits #4
Space Bandits #4
Image Comics 2019
Written by Mark Millar
Illustrated by Matteo Scalera
Coloured by Marcelo Maiolo
Lettered by Clem Robins
The bandits pick off Cody’s enemies one by one, working their way through her old crew. But before they can wipe out the whole set, a familiar face from Thena’s past crackles over the telecast, and the girls turn their vengeful attention to her ex, Viggo.
Well now as the women find themselves in front an overly confident Bowser Weex and it looks like things are going to get rather interesting. While i am somewhat disappointed that everyone is so humanoid I am not in the least disappointed in the fact that Bowser (Sha Na Na anyone) is in chaps and a thong. If I am going to be a bit honest the girls have had a rather easy time of it so far with all this haven't they? It was bound to become a tad bit more complicated right before the last issue in this arc. They couldn't have utilised a better man to open this issue up with either.
I like the fact that this is just a straight up revenge scenario because we don't see many things like this that don't end up turning into something else. We've no idea if these two will remain friends when all this is said and done or become partners and run off into the stars to have further adventures and that is part of the appeal here. Also with the series of events as we see them unfold here's hoping that somehow the wires uncrossed and the tables were turned and he never he had such a lesson to learn.
The story development here is Mark's usual strong stuff as the information we get is on a need to know basis. Meaning we don't need to know until the girls do, the endings cliffhanger aside, so it has this immense appeal behind what we see. The character development is really marvellous and I love seeing how these two interact with one another as well as those around them. I love that we get more information about them through the dialogue and how the act and react to situations than anything else. Then when the pacing gets mixed up in all this moving it all forward we start to see the revelations, twists and turns come at us. The way the whole thing is being told is just fantastic.
Aside from the chaps and thong the interiors here are really rather interesting. The linework is nice to see and the attention to detail is fun! No seriously it's fun, from the way we see the white lizards as this gorgeous and serene to the harshness of death this book has it all in spades. There is some grandiose moments as well with some extremely nice wow moments as well as some that make you cringe, her highness for one. The utilisation of the page layouts and how we see the angles and perspective in the panels show a superb eye for storytelling. Oy vey the colour work is magnificent and I am a sucker for the gradation process and seeing what looks like magma from white to orange to red with that ombré effect is sensational.
Sometimes we don't want to have to think to hard and instead we want to just fun pure and simple. Mark is one of the best storytellers around these days and the man knows how to craft some of the best reads we'll ever have and here he uses to entertain us while still keeping his trademark skills on full display. This is a rip roaring Thelma and Louise style jaunt through space and I am just along for the ride and I cannot wait to see how this ends next issue!
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A Terceira Margem do Rio
Por Janine Louise
João Guimarães Rosa nascido em Cordisburgo (MG) em 27 de junho de 1908 foi um escritor, diplomata, novelista, romancista, contista e médico brasileiro, considerado por muitos o maior escritor brasileiro do século XX e um dos maiores de todos os tempos. Os contos e romances escritos por Guimarães Rosa ambientam-se quase todos no chamado sertão brasileiro. A sua obra destaca-se, sobretudo, pelas inovações de linguagem, sendo marcada pela influência de falares populares e regionais que, somados à erudição do autor, permitiu a criação de inúmeros vocábulos a partir de arcaísmos e palavras populares, invenções e intervenções semânticas e sintáticas. Os neologismos de Guimarães Rosa dão um tom especial, original e irreverente às suas obras, deixando os leitores curiosos e com a impressão que estão mesmo a escutar um diálogo do que há de mais original no país: o povo, com todos os nossos sotaques e idiossincrasias.
Eu falo: português, alemão, francês, inglês, espanhol, italiano, esperanto, um pouco de russo; leio: sueco, holandês, latim e grego (mas com o dicionário agarrado); entendo alguns dialetos alemães; estudei a gramática: do húngaro, do árabe, do sânscrito, do lituano, do polonês, do tupi, do hebraico, do japonês, do checo, do finlandês, do dinamarquês; bisbilhotei um pouco a respeito de outras. Mas tudo mal. E acho que estudar o espírito e o mecanismo de outras línguas ajuda muito à compreensão mais profunda do idioma nacional. Principalmente, porém, estudando-se por divertimento, gosto e distração. (JGR)
Realismo mágico, regionalismo, liberdade de invenções linguísticas e neologismos são algumas das características fundamentais da literatura de Guimarães Rosa, mas não as suficientes para explicar seu sucesso. Guimarães Rosa prova o quão importante é ter a linguagem a serviço da temática e vice-versa, uma potencializando a outra. Nesse sentido, o escritor mineiro inaugura uma metamorfose no regionalismo brasileiro que o traria de novo ao centro da ficção brasileira.
Guimarães Rosa também seria incluído no cânone internacional a partir do boom da literatura latino-americana pós-1950. O romance entrara em decadência nos Estados Unidos (onde à época era vitrine da própria arte literária, concorrendo apenas com o cinema), especialmente após a morte de Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1951), Thomas Mann (1955), Albert Camus (1960), Ernest Hemingway (1961), William Faulkner (1962). E, a partir de Cem anos de solidão (1967), do colombiano Gabriel García Márquez, a ficção latino-americana torna-se a representação de uma vitalidade artística e de uma capacidade de invenção ficcional que pareciam, naquele momento, perdidas para sempre. São desse período escritores como Mario Vargas Llosa (Peru), Carlos Fuentes (México), Julio Cortázar (Argentina), Juan Rulfo (México), Alejo Carpentier (Cuba) e, mais recentemente Ángel Rama (Uruguai).
Obras:
1936: Magma
1946: Sagarana
1952: Com o Vaqueiro Mariano
1956: Corpo de Baile: Noites do Sertão
1956: Grande Sertão: Veredas
1962: Primeiras Estórias
1964: Campo Geral
1967: Tutaméia – Terceiras Estórias
1969: Estas Estórias (póstumo)
1970: Ave, Palavra (póstumo)
2011: Antes das Primeiras Estórias (póstumo)
"A Terceira Margem do Rio" é o conto mais famoso e uma das obras mais influentes de Guimarães Rosa, publicado em seu livro Primeiras Estórias, lançado em 1962.
Narrado em primeira pessoa pelo filho de um homem que decide abandonar a família e toda a sociedade para viver dentro de uma pequena canoa num imenso rio.
Guimarães Rosa dá um tom regionalista e universal ao conto, em estilo de prosa poética e oralidade específica, tratando de grandes dilemas da existência humana.
A terceira margem do rio, é o mais famoso e o mais aberto conto do autor. Existe no conto uma intertextualidade bíblica com Noé. Neste conto o tempo cronológico é de um longo período, toda a vida do narrador, mas a intensidade com que as impressões e o amadurecimento do narrador são trabalhados dão enfoque ao tempo psicológico. O espaço é delimitado pela presença concreta do rio, caracterizando a paisagem rural de sempre. Desse espaço, como foi comentado anteriormente, emanam magia e transcendentalismo aos olhos do leitor, no ir e vir do rio e da vida. Os personagens são: filho (narrador-personagem), pai (“virara cabeludo, barbudo, de unhas grandes, mal e magro, ficado preto de sol e dos pêlos, com aspecto de bicho, conforme quase nu, mesmo dispondo das peças de roupas que a gente de tempos em tempos fornecia”), mãe, irmã, irmão, tio (irmão da mãe), mestre, Padre, dois soldados e jornalistas. Esses personagens, sem nomes, acabam se caracterizando como tipos sociais, por suas funções na história. A observação desse aspecto já mostra, no pai, a tendência ao isolamento. Sempre fora a mãe a responsável pelo comando prático da família. O pai, sempre quieto. O filho e narrador não foi aceito na infância para companheiro do pai no seu desafio. Na maturidade, quando tem a oportunidade, acha não estar preparado para ir rumo ao desconhecido, ao "inominável".
Curiosidades:
A canção "A Terceira Margem do Rio", com música de Milton Nascimento e letra de Caetano Veloso, foi composta em 1991, explicitamente a partir do conto homônimo de Guimarães Rosa. A canção está na faixa 9 do disco Circuladô (1991), de Caetano Veloso.
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Binge-Watching: Zero no Tsukaima S4, Episodes 10-12
At long last, we reach the end! In which we get the coolest final battle yet, things come together in a satisfying fashion, and I bid goodbye to one of the most unique experiences of by blogging “career”.
Wrath of the Ancient Dragon
I’ve mentioned before that one of the more interesting aspects of this season of Zero no Tsukaima has been how unusually loose and unstructured the plot has been. Compared to the long build-up to the inevitable climaxes of the previous few seasons, F has played more like a roadside showcase, traveling to new and interesting locations and seeing how our characters interact with them. It’s an interesting track to take with the final season of your show, but I think it ended up being the right call: free from the constraints of needing an ever-advancing plot, the show was able to take a step back and re-orient itself in the right direction after so much time traveling in the very wrong one. That said, this is the finale of the entire show, and it would be foolish to bid goodbye without some sort of fitting climax.
And god damn, did it deliver.
In a broad sense, the sudden rise of the Ancient Dragon is nothing that special. It’s a villain we’ve never seen before, with no personal stakes invested in our characters’ development; it’s just a massive force of nature that threatens to destroy the world and must be stopped. Thematically, it’s pretty empty. But perhaps that’s fitting for a season that’s been all about just relaxing and not worrying about the big picture too much. After all, the point of this series, from the very beginning, was always first and foremost to be fun. And what this monster lacks in emotional resonance, he more than makes up for in pure spectacle. This is the single coolest villain battle Zero has ever thrown at us. The animation on the massive dragon itself is really damn spectacular; it really feels like a part of the earth itself that was roused from its slumber, big and lumbering and chunky and furious. It goes a long way in selling just what an overbearing menace this thing is. And as it gets more and more battle-damaged, its earthen scales peeling off to reveal the magma core underneath, it only gets cooler and cooler. This is the kind of no-bullshit reveling in fun fantasy nonsense that Zero excelled at back in the first season. This is the spark I’ve been missing for so long.
Should I Stay or Should I Go?
It should be noted, though, that just because we’re getting back to the fun roots of this show doesn’t mean we’ve abandoned all sense of stakes. What really makes this final battle work so well is how consistently the show puts its heroes in peril, adding a welcome level of darkness to the proceedings that befits the gravitas of such a climax. The scene where Derf is shattered by the dragon’s breath might have this show’s best animation of all time, intense and glaring and chaotic, selling the shock of losing one of our oldest mainstays incredibly well. Never mind the literal Pope getting chomped like a piece of popcorn chicken. If there was any way to signal “we’re going out with a bang”, that would be it.
But the real drama is still centered exactly where it should be: on Louise and Saito themselves. There’s something fittingly circular about their conflict in these final episodes: just like in the first season finale, Saito is caught between the opportunity to return to his world and the desire to stay here with the woman he loves. Only this time, there was never any question in his mind which one he was going to pick. He and Louise have been through too much together for him to leave her behind now. And Louise, in turn, has grown up enough to want to prioritize Saito’s safety over her own desires, pushing him into his own world without a second thought when before she kept her feelings too close to her chest. They’ve both grown so much that they find themselves of the opposite side of that same divide, still searching for that middle ground. But in reality, the choice was clear from the start. Saito is, and always has been, the Familiar of Zero. That’s the life he’s chosen. And just like in the season 1 finale, he proves that dedication by flying a fighter jet out of a solar eclipse back into this new world of his new life. The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Good to Have You Back
And with promises upheld and faith restored, there’s nothing left to do but send this show out with one hell of a fireworks display. Once again, all the disparate pieces of the season’s drifting plotlines- the fire orbs, the elves, the Elemental Siblings- come together in spectacular fashion, the show’s impressive interconnected worldbuilding on display once more. The return to the Magic Academy itself also feels fitting: after a season of traveling around new places, we’re coming back home for the final stretch. And after an exhilarating areal battle, we climax with Saito kamikaze-ing his plane into the dragon and Louise finishing it off with the coolest fucking explosion she’s ever pulled, whirling with all four elements in addition to her own void magic in an impressively animated blast of sakuga. There are some very noticeable logical shortcuts at play- Derf somehow being alive, the eclipse conveniently being this very same day, Saito somehow sneaking into a freaking military compound to steal a plane, the complicated way by which his dual Familiar status keeps him alive after exhausting his power- but those were never the point. The point, like I said before, was fun. And on that level, these final episodes have been the best showing this show’s put out in a very long time.
And, of course, after far too much time wasted on backtracking and side-stepping, Louise and Saito finally tie the knot. Again, it’s taken far too long to get to this point, but now that the show’s finally let them be a genuine couple again, they’ve really both come alive. For as fractured as the path has been to get here, the ultimate conclusion really is damn sweet. I imagine his parents are gonna have a metric buttload of questions for him when they answer the doorbell, but I think those two will be okay. At the very least, they’ve certainly earned their happy ending a hundred times over.
Odds and Ends
-”It’s about time you realized you’re a terrible liar.” I REALLY like this new Siesta. Give me the life coach over the third wheel any day.
-So, is the implication here that Julio and the Pope also have a romantic connection? Is that just the fate of every Void mage and their familiar?
-”If only I still had that rocket launcher from last time.” Yeah, very few problems a rocket launcher couldn’t solve.
-”Why is he telling them what to do?” “He likes it.” aksjdhha Ari you drama queen
-Henrietta’s battle armor is stiiiiiil stupid.
-”I hired them.” Tabitha is still cool by me.
Wow, am I finally done with this show? What a time it’s been. Expect my season 4 reflection later today, as well as what show will take its place!
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Cyberverse 17 watch! (EDIT: AND CYBERVERSE 18 WATCH)
Cyberverse 17
RATCHET!!! CHROMIA!!! WHEELJACK!!! ARCEE!!! OPTIMUS!!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
DONT TEASE ME LIKE THIS CYBERVERSE
Gosh I’m so used to it being just Bee and Windblade though, I wanna see the other characters but at the same time I’m 100% happy to have 10 more seasons of the “Bee and Windblade best friend show”
Nice art gallery Grimlock
AH YES....BIG LIKELIHOOD THAT THE ARK CRASHED IN THE WATER...
Oh it crashed in a swamp WELL THAT”S MARGINALLY BETTER
OH LMAO GRIMLOCK WAS WRONG. WELL. I GUESS WE’RE BACK TO SQUARE ONE, gotta go steal a boat now you guys
OK SO IT IS PROBABLY STILL ON LAND SOMEWHERE Jeez louise teletran
HELL YEAH PACIFIC NORTHWEST
AH YES AND THERE”S THE LITTLE SHOCKLET pls don’t get squished little buddy
I LOVE SHOCKWAVE’S VOICE BUT HEARING HIM SAY “MY PLAN HAS WORKED” IN THAT SERIOUS VOICE WITH THAT EXPRESSION CRACKS ME UP. GOSH I LOVE SHOCKWAVE
SHADOWSTRIKER JUST SAID “FOOLS” RIGHT AFTER THAT IN A DELIGHTED VOICE AND I JUST SNORTED SO LOUDLY, GOSH I LOVE THIS SHOW SO MUCH THE BAD GUYS ARE SUCH DORKS
I’ve said this before but Shockwave’s like a prime-time big villain capable of terror and destruction, but he’s stuck in a children’s show so he can’t actually accomplish any of that and I am loving it
Wait who’s steering the WHY WOULD YOU LET TELETRAN STEER THE PLANE
OHH IS THAT SUPPOSED TO BE MOUNT ST HELENS??? YOOOO
Seekers: *drop out of the sky and grab windblade’s wings*
Me: *WINCES*
MAN those are sturdy wings though oh my gosh. Glad Windblade’s such a tough gal
Seekers: *grab her turbines*
Me: *CRINGES AND YELLS ‘’OH NO’’ OUT LOUD*
DONT YOU DARE HURT WINDBLADE LEAVE HER ALONE!!!
WHEW oh thank goodness NOW GO HELP THE BOYS WINDBLADE
AWH GRIMLOCK CAUGHT BEE IN HIS TINY LITTLE DINO ARMS THAT”S SO ADORABLE....
“Grimlock save Bumblebee. Grimlock hero” YOU SURE ARE BUD
LMAO HE JUST CHUCKED BEE??? ALRIGHT THEN
Bee: *whips out his stinger blade and jumps on the seeker*
Me: Oh man is he gonna cut them in half???
Bee: *electrocutes them and jumps off*
Me: Ah right this is a kid’s show
Seeker: *falls out of the sky and explodes a second later behind some trees*
Me: WELL. ALRIGHT I GUESS THEY”RE DEAD
LMAO POOR THUNDERCRACKER, IM SO SORRY BUD
STARSCREAM!!!!!!!!!!! AHHHH ITS HIM
I WAS WONDERING WHEN HE”D POP UP AGAIN
“The quickest way to the Ark is through these lava tombs!” Teletran I JUST DON”T TRUST YOU MY DUDE
LMAO rest in frickin pieces Windblade and Bee, Grimlock’s probably super heavy
GRIMLOCK CAN YOU PLEASE NOT MONOLOGUE RIGHT NOW I CAN TELL SOMETHING’S ABOUT TO HAPPEN TO YOU
WHAT DID I SAY!!!
Grimlock pls your friends don’t need this kind of stress
WOW THE ARK ACTUALLY LOOKS OK??? SORTA???
AW!!! THAT HUG!!! THAT SPIN HUG!! IM GONNA CRY, CYBERVERSE YOU”RE KILLING ME WITH ALL THESE SWEET HUGS IM LOVING IT
WHAT NO YOU CAN”T END IT THERE!! PLEASE LET 18 BE OUT ALREADY
YES YES I FOUND IT, OK HERE WE GO, CYBERVERSE 18
MAN I was about to be so distraught IM SO GLAD 18 IS OUT
WAIT WTF SHOCKWAVE HOW THE HECK DID YOU GET THERE SO FAST Did Grimlock monologue long enough for you to catch up
Baby shocklet noooooo you were supposed to get adopted by the Autobots
yoOOOO SHOCKWAVE TRANSFORMED!!! HE”S A HUGE SHOCKLET wait does this mean all the baby shocklets can transform into tiny Shockwaves??? Probably not but IMAGINE IF THEY COULD.....
PAPA SHOCKWAVE AND HIS TINY KIDS....
Shockwave should let his kids have playdates with Soundwave’s kids wAIT DOES SOUNDWAVE EVEN HAVE HIS KIDS IN THIS UNIVERSE??? MAN
I TOTALLY FORGOT ABOUT THAT it’d be really cool to see Ravage / Rumble / Frenzy / Lazerbeak in another series but idk if they’re gonna make an appearance in Cyberverse :(
Ok anyways, back to the show
LMAO IT LOOKS LIKE THEY RAN PAST EACH OTHER FOR A SECOND Bee, one of you guys should go wake up the other Autobots / see if anyone’s still on the ship!! What if no one’s on there!!!
Oh man you know what I JUST realized??? In the intro, Hot Rod is driving behind Optimus. ~~~~Symbolism~~~~
Awh she just punched the gun out of Bee’s hand. I don’t know why but that made me laugh, just the sound she made when she did it was funny
THERE WE GO TELETRAN thank goodness SOMEONE took my advice lmao
BEE’S LITTLE WINK IS SO CUTE...CYBERVERSE BEE IS ADORABLE!!!! BUMBLEBEE I’D DIE FOR YOU
yoOOOO WINDBLADE’S TAKING ON SHOCKWAVE!!! KICK HIS BUTT
AW MAN I”M NOT EVEN THAT BIG OF A FAN OF TELETRAN BUT EVEN I GASPED WHEN HE WAS SHOT IN THE MIDDLE OF HIS SELF-SACRIFICING “IT”S FOR THE GREATER GOOD” SPEECH
HOLY HECK SHADOWSTRIKER JUST PUNCHED A FRICKIN T-REX, I LOVE HER
hoHOOOOHOOOOOO I LOVE THAT DECEPTICON WARSHIP
wHAT NO DONT ABANDON THE ARK
HELL YEAH, ATTABOY
OK NOW JUST...DONT DROP THE SHIELDS
they gotta get out of there before magma covers the entire ship, because if that hardens it’ll be impossible for them to get out
WHAT IF THE STASIS PODS OPEN AND NO ONE’S IN THEM
GASP OPTIMUS!!!!!
HE HUGGED OPTIMUS!!! SOBS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THANK YOU CYBERVERSE FOR DELIVERING ALL THE HUGS
HE DOESN”T LET GO, HE JUST CLOSES HIS EYES AND HUGS OPTIMUS TIGHTER, IM REALLY GONNA CRY
BATTLE MASK OPTIMUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO WAIT FOR THE NEXT EPISODE THAT”S SUCH A CLIFFHANGER
#i talk#I'm watching Transformers#I'm watching Cyberverse#Cyberverse spoiler /#primordial robot hell
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