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Edit: the title for this comic is “Puzzle Rat” this one’s a few days late due to having a lot of doctors appointments sorry it’s  just 9 pages, and about some rats… it’s more symbolic than anything really

(it’s completely unrelated to any of my songs that have to do with “puzzleboy”) Patreon: www.patreon.com/PengoSolvent

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Shoutout to all the "troubled girls who find happiness and love with a 'monster' that treats them better than humanity did for most of their lives"; gotta be one of my favorite genders.

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saw a tiktok of a mother taking her very tiny daughter to an art museum and she’s just walking around going “whoooa” “woooaah” to everything but then they got to a marble statue of a nude woman lying on her back and the girl points and goes “mommy🫵” and i just immediately welled up with tears and all the comments are just laughing about it and of course it’s funny but how are you not insanely moved by the way art connects everyone on earth from a centuries-old sculptor to a toddler in 2023

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The fact that the question that lead to them making the deal about the any time personal question was Persephone asking Hades why he wasn’t married, and that Hades is finally using his any time personal question to ask her to be his wife…perhaps I WILL become a puddle of emotions on the floor

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I just saw that Shakespeare is trending, then i remembered

He mentioned Palestine in Othello

Othello was published in 1622, thats 401 years ago

four hundred one years ago

"I know a lady in Venice would have walked barefoot to Palestine for a touch of his nether lip."

- Act 4, Scene 3

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Macbeth inspired piece I did for studio art last year, made of all magazine clippings

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Watched Cyrano (2021) last night and I cannot get over the moment where the soldiers/guards begin to sing "Wherever I Fall".

I have a wife, I haven't seen. Since lilacs bloomed in Saint-Hippolyte,

she always wears them in her hair,

she let's them fall down everywhere.

I can see her in the glowing light dressing without a sound.

I promised I'd be home all right

But I gotta lay this body down

So take this letter to my wife

And tell her that I loved my life

And tell my boys, the Lord he found me.

When I say their names out loud, they're all around me.

Tell them not to cry at all.

Heaven is wherever I fall.

and this:

I have a girl, I think I love her

Should have told her, instead I told her mother

I gave her chocolates, I bought a ring

But I never told her anything

But I can see her in every detail now

Turning in my mind

I barely knew that girl at all

But I will love her till the end of time

So take this letter to my girl

Tell her that I saw the whole world

Say that right before I fell

I said her name out loud: Isabel

Tell her not to cry at all

Heaven is wherever I fall

...and this:

I have a father, he isn't well

Thinks he might be going to hell

He was a sinner, he liked to fight

So I don't know, he might be right

I can see him every Sunday morning

Diving into the fray

He wasn't one of God's best men

But I loved him anyway

So take this letter to him, please

Tell him I can't wait to see him

I went in first, I rang the bell

I called his name out loud and I gave 'em hell

So tell him not to cry at all

Heaven is wherever I fall

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Speaking of Cyrano de Bergerac, I recently saw the movie musical version of it released last year, with Peter Dinklage in the lead role. And I already thought it was an incredible casting choice, but today I found out that the screenplay (and the stage version) was written by Dinklage's wife, Erica Schmidt, and I just. Holy shit.

Is there not something so fucking romantic and intimate about loving your partner so much that you rewrite one of the most iconic and classic stories in the world to be about them, about the way they are overlooked for having a stigmatized physical trait, and portraying them as a sexy, compelling romantic lead so that the world can fall in love with them like you have? And making that classic story better, more meaningful and personal, because you put your own love for this person into it?

I'm just, I'm losing my shit over here, you guys. Now the whole movie just feels like we're seeing this man through his wife's eyes and I'm genuinely crying over this revelation.

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*breathe in, breathe out*

Okay.

Gonna only say this once.

NEITHER ROGUE NOR GAMBIT WERE CHEATING ON/DISLOYAL TO EACH OTHER DURING TAS OR 97. They "deserve" each other because they really do love each other, but BOTH OF THEM ARE TERRIBLE at making that clear. It's made crystal clear within ep 5 that Rogue and Erik weren't in a relationship; that she and Remy ALSO weren't in a relationship; and in TAS, REMY AND BELLE WEREN'T MARRIED.

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i actually can’t wait for gambit to say his “i can kiss your tears, i can taste your sadness. we’ll find ways to touch, body and soul” speech to rogue like dude fight BACK you got this

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Rogue forgetting about that crusty old man and seeking revenge for Remy only okay X-Men 97 you are forgiven for your sins

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Okay... aside from Lenore Zann ripping my goddamn heart out AGAIN, I love how everyone has completely stopped shying away from how Rogue/Gambit feel about each other.

They're all owning it now. Jubilee saying Remy loved Rogue, Rogue calling Remy, "MY man!" and acknowledging his death for the first time while in the backdrop of a widow mourning her husband. No subtlety at all. The denial is 100% DONE.

Rogue is finally confronting her feelings for Remy. She spent so much time pushing him away out of fear of hurting him with her powers, but now she accepts that she really did love him... and it hurts so fucking much.

The payoff to this better be worth it, I s2g...

At this point, I will accept nothing less than Remy being resurrected as Death or a Prime Sentinel and Rogue bringing him back by telling him she loves him. I'd also be fine with a timeline reset. But if that's not where this is headed, then FUCK THESE WRITERS FOREVER FOR PUTTING ME THROUGH THIS.

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A part of me finds it hilarious that Gambit gets a full funeral and eulogy, including photo, flowers, grieving friends, family and a feral lover, while Magneto, the leader of the X-Men, whose body was suspiciously never found, barely got mentioned by his team.

Nightcrawler : we are here to commemorate our friend, our hero, Gambit and... *looks down on paper* Magento

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A teaser WIP for a @rogue-gambit-fan-zine stretch goal!

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i want 60 thousand votes by next thursday

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I cant believe this tweet is how I find out