#and joins forces with moira :')

[rei-ismyname]

Magneto's cunning plan

Magneto's Sisyphean stint as Headmaster of the Xavier School begrudgingly but earnestly began at the behest of the bald one, who joined his birdwife in space. As the stresses piled up and his emotional support dwindled, Mags was overcome with desperation and dread. With the X-Men presumed dead and the New Mutants vanished without a trace, Magneto makes a drastic choice - to become a villain again, to revive MAGNETO.

I think Magneto suffers from a mood or personality disorder, especially considering his behaviour and appearance in the 1963 run - manic, inconsistent, out of touch with reality, delusional, violent yet cowardly - shifting moods and motivations from week to week. A Doylist explanation is that it was the Silver Age, but that's no fun. Given the scope of his trauma and the range of his moods, pathologising a single condition is fraught. After Claremont retconned him into a three dimensional person, Magneto displayed major depressive episodes as well.

I suspect that's what's happening here. Rationally, becoming a villain again to keep the focus on himself is not an effective way to protect other mutants, but it makes a kind of sense if you consider he thinks he's lost everyone all over again. Obviously Moira is not having it, but he digs his feet in upon receiving pushback. He has earned trust but tempers are hot and she can't trust him in this.

Callisto leaping out of the closet in a leather getup is a bit of mood whiplash at first glance, but he is using force on Moira and Callisto isn't having that. Ultimately neither can force him to stop something he's set on, and I think there's an element of self-destructive bridge burning on the way out. Perhaps he's trying to get into character, making grandiose statements and sweeping gestures as his cape flaps in the breeze. Either way he's not listening, and leaves after failing to convince anyone.

Interestingly, Mags greets Banshee fairly warmly considering, and doesn't react especially negatively to Sean keeping an eye on him. Intellectually, everyone must know that if Magneto wanted Moira hurt they wouldn't be able to stop him. I can't help but wonder if the open mistrust exacerbates his depressive mood, though the two men shake hands in farewell and leave on decent terms.

The situation was already pretty grim, and Magneto moving from an ally to an unknown affects the balance of power significantly. As far as Moira, Sean and Callisto are aware they're on their own against a sea of enemies. Magneto certainly draws attention to himself, as he's quite good at it, but shit Does Not Go Well escalating to Fatal Attractions and beyond. His mental health especially takes a dive, alternating manic and depressive with dubious support. Soon after leaving he ends up in the Savage Land with Rogue and fucking Ka-Zar. He basically breaks up with Rogue by killing Zaladane then rebuilds Asteroid M, brooding for months on end and neglecting appearance/hygiene.

[newx-menfan]

“Xavier isn’t that BAD… Lanzing and Kelly obviously blew it out of proportion….”

Xavier CONSTANTLY faking his death and making students LIE to one another to conceal said fake death…

2. Xavier sleeping with a psychiatric patient that was traumatized after the Holocaust (and possibly influencing her because he wanted a reality warping kid)…

3. Sending Scott with a less trained team (one of them being his long lost brother!) to fight Krakoa and then completely erasing the memory when the entire team except Scott dies…

4. Erasing Wolverine’s memories further after Romulus and Weapon X because Logan was valuable to him…

5. Onslaught (kind of not his fault, granted)…

6. Keeping records of how to defeat each member of the X-Men at Muir Island (Definitely his FAULT!)…

7. Inappropriate weird crush on Jean Grey 😬

8. Imprisoning Danger because he wanted a room of death to train his students… and then, again hid it from the X-Men…

9. Originally planning to invade Magik’s mind so Karma to take over Magik’s body and force her to unlock the door….(This is why everyone likes Magneto better!)

10. Knowing the X-Men never win in any of Moira’s lives and covering that up and Moira being a mutant from the X-Men…

You consistently NOTICE a THEME right? Xavier CONSTANTLY LIES to the X-Men… so it actually MAKES PERFECT SENSE that he would lie about going to save his daughter!

And this ISN’T even ALL of it- I just chose the most OBVIOUS ones! (could have posted about the Morlocks…the chronic brainwashing…pretty much ALL of Academy X era…)

Xavier definitely HAS his moments- allowing characters with dubious pasts like Rogue or Gambit to join…starting the school… starting Krakoa…

But Xavier ALSO REALLY sucks guys!

[mostlyinthemorning]

Around Schitt's Creek in 80 Days 6.02

6.02 The Incident

David is embarrassed by a childhood issue that resurfaces, and only spirals further when Patrick is so understanding; Johnny, Stevie and Roland attend a viewing for a nearby motel; Alexis helps Moira join social media.

IMDB Rating: 8.2

Best line: What's the thread count on this plastic? --and-- It's bedtime

Celebrity name drops: Ashley Tisdale

Behind the Scenes:

David's clothes: Biana Chandon (top), Random Identities (bottom l) and Comme des Garcons (bottom r)

Video:

Bonus content: Up Schitt’s Creek? Comedy as a Slantwise Pedagogical Encounter with Queerness

Fic rec: So Be Good to Me by FrazzledSquidz

David jerked awake again, hands automatically reaching below his waist to check for-

Thank fuck. No wetness.

See you tomorrow!

[radiation-run]

Theory on The Last Alarm episode name

I know The Last Alarm is a reference to the firefighter funeral tradition of ringing the bell to symbolize a fallen firefighter returning from duty for the last time; however, I did notice similarities between 9-1-1 and the 1940 movie The Last Alarm

The Last Alarm 1940 film plot

There has been a series of arson fires around the city (unnamed Los Angeles). While the culprit is unknown, it is believed that the fires are a crime of passion rather than a savior complex situation. The Arson Bureau and the Great Eastern Insurance Company work to find the arsonist.

Jim, fire captain at Fire Company No.7, is given a retirement dinner-party after being forced into retirement.

Jim and Burt (Jim's colleague and friend) make plans to go fishing after Burt retires in the near future.

Burt gets called to a fire where he is gravely injured. He dies at the hospital with Jim by his side.

Frank works at the Great Eastern Insurance Company alongside Joan (Jim's daughter and Frank's love interest.) He is tasked with finding the arsonist.

Jim joins the arson investigation, following Burt's death, and teams up with Frank.

Wendell, the arsonist, is caught by Jim and Frank with the help of Joan. He calls himself the god of fire shortly before tumbling down the stairs and into the basement fire he set at Jim's house.

A second dinner is held in honor of Jim, who is made honorary fire chief of the city, ending his (unwanted) retirement.

Connections between 9-1-1 and The Last Alarm (1940)

Jim: Athena/Bobby

Jim and Bobby both retired against theirwishes (Bobby forgetting about his resignation in s8 and having to work as an advisor on HotShots)

Jim and Athena both team up with their (for lack of a better word) step-son/adopted-son esque figure to find the culprit

Burt: Bobby/Athena (retirement plans)

Burt and Bobby are both hurt on the job which leads Jim/Athena to look for the arsonist/Moira.

Burt and Athena both still worked. Burt & Jim and Athena & Bobby planned out water-related retirement adventures (fishing/cruise)

Frank: Buck

Frank and Buck both team up with a not-quite-parental figure to find the culprit. They also have a not-yet-officially-established romantic relationship with a work colleague 🙈

Arsonist/Wendell: Moira

Wendell and Moira both commit crimes of passion. Wendell is shown to have an obsession with Vulcan, the god of fire, and Moira with Nobel laureates. While, surely people died in the fires, only one victim is mentioned, Burt. Similar to how only one death is mentioned/confirmed at the hands of Moira, Bobby.

Other Fun Connections

The movie was filmed at Fire Station 27 in Hollywood (the same El Paso fire station Eddie goes to for employment in 8×12)

Polly is the name of the actress (Polly Ann Young) who plays Joan, Jim's daughter. Joan is able to provide crucial information to Jim and Frank, who are then able to solve the arsonist case. Polly is also the name of the lab rat infected and cured by Moira.

In conclusion:

Bobby alive and possibly made fire chief

While it does not 100% align with 911, I thought those similarities were interesting 🤔🤨

If we could just combine all this with Chimney coma dream, that would be great

[moociaoafterdark]

It's funny how almost all of my w40k OCs during the period between 30k and 40k are either straight up not born yet (like a good chunk of them), in the half-dead state (Moira) or asleep (Asenath and her dynasty)...

... And then, there's Kuzman and Jackal, who have been alive and well this whole time. Like... 10k years is A LOT. What kind of stuff did these two got up to during that time? The possibilities are quite literally endless!

Also, it would be hilarious if Jackal decided to join Kuzman because he knew this guy is immortal and would be a great entertainment and companion for the time being. Scratching each other's backs, if you will. Jackal doesn't really like being forced to act like a goody two shoes, because Kuzman is on an eternal quest to redeem himself and helps whoever he can, but... Jackal makes it work :)

AND it's also hilarious to think of a duo of this... 9ft tall super soldier clad in an ancient armor and having thousands of years of experience, who is also unable to die... and his dog. Who is actually an ancient shard of a God of materium and is therefore way more powerful than Kuzman.

[zharrdor-kron-archive]

The Smoldering Scholar: A Pyromancer’s Departure

Recently, a visual representation of Kron’s likeness has been recovered, created by the talented mortal artisan @scriosart. While our records are typically textual, this piece outstanding quality shall be shown upon the request of my very excited and mayhaps narcistic disciple.

I. The Shaping Beneath the Flame

“Our birthright was fire, not as warmth, but as judgment. And when the mountain grew cold, I left to seek truer embers.”

This record concerns the schism not merely of clans, but of conviction. It is a matter of dwarven history, but also of divergence , not between timelines, but between allegiances. This is the account of Zharrdor Kron, a Dark Iron dwarf who rejected peace with Ironforge, abandoned the Shadowforge regime, and became a principal archivist of the League of E.V.I.L.

I speak not only as a witness of histories forgotten, but as one who sanctioned his early studies in temporal arcana. I am Dremsulos, of the Infinite flight, and master of Zharrdor.

Let us begin where all dwarf-lore fractures: at the War of the Three Hammers.

II. The Fracture of the Hammer

I. Embered Divergence: The Departure of Zharrdor Kron

Long ago, the dwarves of Ironforge were one, a race born of Titan-forged Earthen, now made mortal by the Curse of Flesh. Yet mortality brought not only freedom, but fracture. A series of civil wars and conflicts rose between the three rival clans, and the death of Modimus Anvilmar caused the final conflict that led to these results :

The Bronzebeards won by sheer number and talent, retaining the mountain throne.

The Wildhammers turned skyward, embracing shamanic rites in the heights of Grim Batol.

And the Dark Iron fled in the peaceful Redridge Mountains to the south, led by the sorcerer-king Thaurissan, who sought dominion through arcane might.

Unable to live with his clan's defeat, and driven by ambition and bitter exclusion, Thaurissan launched an assault to claim the throne. His recklessness, however, awakened a force beyond dwarven reckoning, Ragnaros the Firelord, an elemental tyrant bound to primordial flame.

Thus, the Dark Irons traded ambition for servitude. Beneath the earth, Shadowforge City rose, a metropolis of obsidian and chained fire, carved to please a master who demanded only combustion.

It was here that Zharrdor Kron was born, not in freedom, but within ritual, ash, and command.

II. Moira’s Ascension and the Pyromancer in Chains

Zharrdor Kron displayed early aptitude in elemental incantation, particularly in structured pyromancy. His studies favored discipline over spectacle: precision glyphcraft, symmetrical combustion, and geomantic layering. According to his early journals (now archived in League Vault 7-C), he cast his first stable fire ward at age nine. His second spell immolated a cave salamander and required three stonepriests to unbind.

But he never swore to Ragnaros. Even in youth, he regarded the Firelord as a mistake, one made not by gods, but by dwarves reaching beyond their purpose.

Generations later, a curious twist of fate emerged. Moira Thaurissan, daughter of Ironforge’s king, bore a child with the Dark Iron bloodline. Through this union came a political convergence no flame could have predicted: the Dark Iron dwarves joined the Alliance.

To him, diplomacy was simply a colder form of chain, and he saw the capitulation of their people.

He then departed. Alone.

III. Kron of Ash: From Pyromancer to Loremaster

His exodus was not one of rage, but of seeking. Zharrdor wandered abandoned fortresses, collapsed vaults, and forbidden zones sealed by Keepers and kings alike. His aim was no longer elemental conquest, but chronotectonic study, understanding how history fractures, and how truth survives disintegration.

It was during this period that I encountered him. Despite being mortal, he treated time not as a power, but as a text, to be translated, annotated, and preserved. I granted him limited access to pre-collapse timelines, and in return, he organized significant documentation now used by the Infinite archives in filtering corrupted strands.

Eventually, he encountered the League of E.V.I.L., a coalition not of villains, but of archivists, artificers, and dissenters whose moral compass defies alignment. They offered him no throne, no temple, no servitude.

Only ink. Flame. And questions.

He accepted.

He is now the Loremaster of the League, and chief scribe of its deep archives.

III. Embered Legacy, Unshaped Destiny

The tale of the Dark Iron dwarves is a lesson in consequence. Pride breeds rebellion. Rebellion courts power. Power invites corruption.

But not all flames are extinguished by control.

Some, like his, slip through cracks in the mountain and light new fires in forgotten places.

His pen burns as hot as any spell. His records are not meant to comfort. They are meant to endure.

And when next the mountains tremble, the vaults crack, or the Firelord’s name is whispered again, it may be his scrolls that decide who remembers what, and why.

Until then, the fire smolders.

— Dremsulos, Timebinder of the Infinite Flight

[wildwinterlunas]

Talon and Manipulation

Alright, the people have spoken so here you are. An analysis on the manipulation found in Talon. Specifically the inner council.

(Note; Ramattra will not be included in this because he is getting his own separate analysis, not only that but he is working with Talon, he is not a member of Talon)

Baptiste

Now you might think I'll start with the obvious choices like Reaper, Sigma and Widow, but no, I want to start with Baptiste. Specifically the manipulation used to bring in regular people into Talon.

In the Liberation mission if you play Baptiste when the Ramattra's speach comes on Baptiste will say "I recognize propaganda when I see it", meaning Talon most likely doesn't personally pick out their soldiers, they use propaganda. Which means that there is likely more people like Baptiste who joined Talon to make the world a better place and are now lying to themselves to keep that vision going.

This is only the beginning of the analysis and we already see that the foundation of Talon is built on manipulation, on the altered vison of what Talon is.

Widowmaker

Ok, let's get into the meat of it.

Widow, the manipulation Widow faced is probably the most commonly talked about, but only in context of her brainwashing and being forced to kill Gerard. No one really talks about what happened after. After she killed Gerard she was left without anyone to turn to and no where to go, she was terrified of how the kill made her feel. So she went to the only place she thought she would be safe, a place where she could chase the high she got from the kill, she ran back to Talon. Widows motivation for joining Talon isn't just to get a adrenalin rush, but it's also out of survival, and I think that's why she's so hostile towards Baptiste.

Baptiste got out, he survived, and now he's being helped by Overwatch. He's living proof that what happened to her, what she's doing, was unnecessary, that there was a possibility that if she stayed with Overwatch she could have gotten help. So she's hostile, she's angry at the world and at herself, but she can't leave now because she's in too deep, she's done too much. Widow's loyalty to Talon is literally programmed into her, though she did seemingly make the choice to fully join Talon, she can't make the choice to leave.

At least not yet.

Sigma

Sigma is probably the most simple, he's broken, he was broken before Talon captured him, and the only people who seem to care are Overwatch associates and Sombra. Sigma is incredibly unstable and Talon uses that to their advantage. Sigma goes through constant experimentation, though we don't know what this experimentation is, considering it's Moira conducting them we can assume it's bad.

Sigma is honestly the most tragic out of most of the Talon members, unlike everyone else we know who was in Talon, he's the only one who genuinely didn't have a choice. He was taken by Talon to which he was then used for his research and powers. We can assume that Sigma hasn't gone on any field missions, or at the very least ones that included the obvious harming of other people.

The only reason Sigma hasn't left Talon left is because he is genuinely being sheltered from the harm that Talon is doing, to the point where when they do do questionable things he either thinks it's normal, or he's oblivious to it.

Reaper

Gabriel Reyes is probably the epidemy of the affect Doomfists manipulation, he's honestly the reason I wanted to make this analysis. At the point when Reyes first interacts with Doomfist its after Ana's death and during the point in time where he and Jack couldn't be in a room without fighting. If you have also seen my Cassidy analysis you would also know that I think he and Cassidy drifted apart by this point as well. When Gabriel first interacted with Doomfist he was without a support network, and as we've established, Talon uses that to take advantage of people.

After the explosion and after Moira "saved" Reyes (I'll get to that in a minute), it stated that Gabe did mercenary work by himself for a year before he officially joined Talon. A year where he had to deal with constant pain, the trauma of the explosion and the lack of a support network. Reyes becoming Reaper was destined to happen the moment he shot Antonio. Like Cassidy himself said, that was the moment Overwatch truly started to fall.

And the longer Reaper is with Talon, the less and less of Gabriel Reyes we see. Reaper is in constant pain because of Moira's experimentation, and we see that she refuses to help. This brings me to my next point, Reyes would have survived the explosion, with or without Moira's help. Presumably Gabe and Jack where the same distance away from the explosion, now we don't really know what happened to Jack but we know he survived. Yes, Reyes went through more experimentation but we see that it didn't have as bad of negative effects until after his "death". The constant pain and the struggling to keep his form is a result of experimentation after the explosion.

Why do this? Because Gabriel Reyes has proven to be an asset. So spin the narrative, make it so it seems that Reyes couldn't survive without Talon. This is something that Reyes himself sees through, but he's too broken to leave. He needs something to fight for and Talon gives him that so he doesn't leave.

The Inner Council

Doomfist and Moira are probably the biggest manipulators in the Inner Council, followed by Sanjay. Both Moira and Doomfist use subjective facts to get into their targets heads, making them question what exactly it is that they're doing, if what they're doing is working. They like to make people reliant on them, to have control over them, and it works most of the time. Most of the time Moira uses it to get under peoples skin, to make them squirm, she is manipulative but that isn't her main tactic. Dommfist on the other hand, most of his voicelines with people is him trying to manipulate them in some way.

Sanjay is an interesting case because to me it seems that he genuinly believes what he's saying and unlike the other two he seems to be swayed by others, able to recognize when someone else has a better methodology. Meanwhile Max seems to only really use manipulation and bargaining as a way to save his own ass.

And I've detailed this before but Reyes in the later years of Blackwatch was also manipulative but it seemed almost unintentional.

Where the manipulation fails

Doomfist and Moira both tend to target those who are loosing/lost their support network. People who are prone to emotion and tend to not think things through because of it. What this doesn't account for is the people who can handle that. Let's talk about Sombra.

Sombra is a member of Talon but unlike every other member she isn't loyal to it. She's only in it for the resources. It honestly seems that she doesn't like or get along with most of Talon. She's been pointed out both in universe and out to be the most likely person to betray Talon, the problem with that is Doomfist seems to underestimate her, not seeing her very likely betrayal as a threat. Reaper being the one to bring up his concerns. Sombra is a person with no support network yet she is unaffected by Talon's manipulation. This is because the way you get to her isn't stripping her of a support network, it's giving her one, and that's something Talon can't do. The two people she's loyal to are Sigma and Baptiste, they are the people she tries to help.

Sombra is a victim of the Crisis like Baptiste is but unlike him it seems that she knew exactly what she was getting into. So when Baptiste finally stopped turning a blind eye and lying to himself, Sombra got back in contact with him and helped him escaped. It also seems that Cassidy trusts her enough to still trust Baptiste after fining out that they're in contact. Not only that but Sombra either already is, or is going to become Jack's informant on Talon information.

Talon's manipulation failed on Sombra so bad that she is now playing them like a fiddle.

[coochiequeens]

Ladies we saw the impact of having to provide full time childcare had on women's careers during covid. And we also saw how as long the fathers had a spare room to hole up in while WFH they were just 🤷‍♂️ concerning their wives frustrations.

By Moira Donegan

Last month, the White House issued a proposed budget to Congress that completely eliminated funding for Head Start, the six-decade-old early childhood education program for low-income families that serves as a source of childcare for large swaths of the American working class.

The funding was restored in the proposed budget after an outcry, but large numbers of employees who oversee the program at the office of Head Start were laid off in a budget-slashing measure under Robert F Kennedy Jr, the head of the Department of Health and Human Services. On Thursday, Kennedy said funding for the program would not be axed, but more cuts to childcare funding are likely coming: some Republicans have pushed to repeal a five-decade-old tax credit for daycare. The White House is entertaining proposals on how to incentivize and structurally coerce American women into bearing more children, but it seems to be determined to make doing so as costly to those women’s careers as possible.

That’s because the Republicans’ childcare policy, like their pro-natalist policy, is based on one goal: undoing the historic gains in women’s rights and status, and pushing American women out of the workforce, out of public life, out of full participation in society – and into a narrow domestic role of confinement, dependence and isolation.

The New York Times reported this week that the White House is now not only looking for ways to make more women have children, but to encourage “parents” to stay home to raise them. “Parents” here is a euphemism. Roughly 80% of stay-at-home parents are mothers: cultural traditions that encourage women, and not men, to sacrifice their careers for caregiving, along with persistent wage inequalities that make women, on the whole, lower earners than their male partners, both incentivize women, and not men, to drop out of the workforce and stay home when they have children

This state of affairs has been worsened by the dramatic rise in the cost of childcare, which is prohibitively expensive for many parents. The average cost of childcare per child per year in the US is now well north of $11,000, according to Child Care Aware of America, an industry advocacy group. In major cities such as New York, that price is significantly higher: from $16,000 to $19,000 per year. Existing tax credits need to be expanded, not eliminated, to reduce this burden on mothers and their families and to enable women to join the workforce at rates comparable to men and commensurate with their dignity and capacities. Currently, 26% of mothers do not engage in paid work, a figure that has barely budged in 40 years. Largely because of the unequally distributed burdens of childcare, men participate in the paid labor force at a rate that is more than 10% higher than women.

One might think that the solution would be to invest more in high-quality childcare, so that providers could open more slots, children could access more resources, and women could go to work and expend their talents in productive ways that earn them money, make use of their gifts and provide more dignity for women and more stability for families. This is not what the American right is proposing: Brad Wilcox, a sociologist who promotes traditional family and gender relations, has called such policy initiatives “work-ist”. Conservatives are proposing, instead, that women go back to the kitchen.

What emerges from the right is an effort to force women out of education and paid work and into pregnancy and dependence on men

The Trump administration, and the American right more broadly, wants the rate of women’s employment to be even lower, because it is advancing a lie that women are naturally, inevitably, uniformly and innately inclined to caregiving, child rearing and homemaking – and not to the positions of intellectual achievement, responsibility, leadership, ingenuity or independence that women may aspire to in the public world. “We cannot get away from the fact that a child is hardwired to bond with Mom,” says Janet Erickson, a fellow at the rightwing Institute for Family Studies, who once co-authored an op-ed with JD Vance calling on “parents” to drop out of the workforce to raise children. “I just think, why should we deny that?”

This kind of vague, evidence-free gesturing toward evolutionary psychology – the notion that babies are “hardwired” to prefer mothers who are not employed – is a common conservative tick: a recourse to dishonest and debunked science to lend empiricism to bigotry. There is in fact no evolutionary reason, and no biological reason, for mothers, and not fathers, to abandon independence, ambition or life outside the home for the sake of a child. The only reason is a sexist one.

Over the past decade, the left launched few vigorous defenses of a feminist politics that seeks to advance and secure women’s access to public life, paid work and fair remuneration. The American left has launched vigorous criticisms of the “girlboss”, a figure of malignant female ambition who seemed to make the exploitations of capitalism more offensive by virtue of her sex, and it has instead offered critiques of women’s ambition and romantic defenses of the labor of “care” that just happens to overlap with women’s traditional – and traditionally unpaid – roles in the home. This leftwing rhetoric has at times mirrored the similar romanticization of the unpaid housewife of yesteryear from the right, which has embraced tradwives, homesteading fantasies and an aestheticized rustic simplicity that aims to contrast feminist gains in the workforce with a fantasy of women’s rest. Together, these strains of rhetorical opposition to women in the workforce have made anti-feminism into a new kind of “socialism of fools” – a misguided misdirection of anger and resentment at the rapaciousness of capitalism towards a social justice movement for the rights of an oppressed class.

But what is on offer from the political right is not about the refashioning of work and life to be less extractive and exploitative for women, and particularly for mothers. It is instead about a sex segregation of human experience, an effort to make much of public life inaccessible to women. Combined with the right wing’s successful attack on the right to abortion, the Trump administration’s dramatic cuts to Title X programs that provide contraceptive access, and the rescinding of federal grants aimed at helping working women, what emerges from the rightwing policy agenda is an effort to force women out of education, out of decently paid work and into pregnancy, unemployment and dependence on men.

Theirs is an effort to shelter men from women’s economic competition, to revert to the regressive cultural modes of an imagined past, and to impose an artificially narrow vision of the capacities, aspirations, talents and desires of half of the American people.

Murray Rothbard, the paleoconservative 20th-century economist whose ideas have had a profound influence on the Trumpist worldview, once vowed: “We shall repeal the 20th century.” As far as the Republican right is concerned, it seems to want to repeal the gains of 20th-century feminism first.

Moira Donegan is a Guardian US columnist

[ilovequeercats]

LORE: Eventually as the opposing Talonclan begins to rise, Watchclan begins to start recruiting more and more warriors to join, including loners Batfur, Swiftfrost, Sleekdance, and Hollyberry, former members of Rogue groups Hawkstripe and Sparrowstrike, as well as the two apprentices Bigpaw and Quickpaw. The clan had begun to thrive, working to protect the forest from vicious rogue groups, the enemy clan, and invading twolegs. It wasn't all great however. One night while Ravenshadow was leading a patrol to confront the Talonclan leader, Talonstar, an accident occurred, causing Ravenshadow to impulsively end up killing the enemy leader, causing relations to worsen with the enemy clan as well as harming the clan's overall reputation in the forest. Because of this, and many other stunts Ravenshadow had been pulling lately, such as being unnecessarily cruel to some kittypets (will elaborate on this later), Watchstar was forced to demote his long-time friend as deputy and replace him with Leopardfang. Watchstar and Ravenshadow had already begun to have some inner conflict, but this worsened their relationship even further.

and anyway

ALLEGIANCES

Leader:

Watchstar-white tom with light blue eyes and a scarred flank. (Adult) (Soldier 76)

Apprentice: Quickpaw

Deputy:

Leopardfang -sleek brown she-cat with striking blue eyes. (Adult) (Sojourn)

Medicine Cat(s)

Owlsight -brown swirled classic tabby she-cat. (Adult) (Ana)

Lightwing -young pale golden she-cat. Earned her warrior name after saving Sparrowstrike from near death. (Young Adult) (Mercy)

Hollyberry -black tortishelle she-cat rescued from "The Gray House" (will be explained later). Her body is beginning to show signs of decay from her time there. (Adult) (Moira)

Warriors:

Ravenshadow -bitter black tom with a scarred flank and messy fur. (Adult) (Reaper)

Apprentice: Bigpaw

Lionheart -very large pale tom with a scratched out eye. (Adult) (Reinhardt)

Emberwhisker -small golden tabby with long curly whiskers. (Adult) (Torbjorn)

Batfur -sleek black and brown she-cat. Former loner named Aurora. (Adult) (Mina Liao)

Hawkstripe -scruffy brown tabby tom. Formerly apart of a group of vicious rogues and named Hawk. (Young Adult) (Cassidy)

Apprentice: Falconpaw

Sparrowstrike -extremely scarred silver tom. Formerly apart of a group of rogues and named Sparrow. Was found near death and saved primarily by Lightwing. Joined the clan to thank his saviors. (Young Adult) (Genji)

Swiftfrost -handsome black and white tom with icy blue eyes. Formerly a loner that lived with his mate Sleekdance. Formerly named Ice. (Adult) (Gerard)

Sleekdance -sleek, shy black she-cat. Joined the clan because of her mate Swiftfrost. Formerly a loner named Dancer. (Adult) (Ameile)

Apprentices:

Falconpaw -dark brown she-cat with blue eyes. (Apprentice) (Pharah)

Quickpaw -sleek ginger she-cat. Found abandoned alongside Bigpaw. (Young Apprentice) (Tracer)

Bigpaw -black dog that found his way into the clan after being found abandoned along with Quickpaw. (Young Apprentice) (Winston)

Queen(s):

Cream -Cream and white she-cat. Works as a permanent nursery queen since she has no want to battle or hunt, takes care of the kits in the clan. Has not had any kits of her own yet. Keeps her loner name. (Adult) (Ingrid)

[magntx]

🚩 + 💚

Send me 🚩 for one of my muse's red flags, or 💚 for a green flag. edit: I forgot the green flag

⠀ ⠀⠀ ⠀↪ ⠀ ⠀⠀ ⠀TACTICALLY AND EMOTIONALLY MANIPULTIVE . When he first met Wanda and Pietro, not knowing they are his children, he lured them into the brotherhood on false pretences and with the debt of him having saved them. (Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver Origin comic). In Quicksilver (1998), Magneto is a driving, protective and guiding force towards Pietro who is unsure in his role of being a knight of Wundagore and whether he is a villain or not. Magnus leads him towards a path and knowing himself but at the same time judges him for abandoning his family and more. "It is done, as it had to be done" he calls it. He once (twice) manipulated Lorna into sharing her powers with him in order to sap her powers until it physically damaged her when his powers were at their limit (Dark Seduction and Magneto (2014).

⠀ ⠀⠀ ⠀↪ ⠀ ⠀⠀ ⠀PROPAGANDA. He viciously twists his words, views and actions to turn them to be for a "greater good" of mutants regularly. Everything to get what he needs. Technically, he never was "allied" with the Hellfire Club-- it just gave him an advantage for a time and he manipulated them to fuel his every cause. His Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, with Wanda and Pietro, and his actions with Lorna, also shows how he uses the weak and vulnerable as they are easy to manipulate. In Dark Seduction and some other comics, he uses diplomacy, rhetoric and promises to gain control of Genosha again, or gain advantages from other powers (government or Namor). His promises and cooperation come at costs and usually are not strong. They are only so real as he needs them to be and until he reaches his goal. Many mutants, and teams like the Acolytes, join him in promise of his protection and he consolidates his power.

⠀ ⠀⠀ ⠀↪ ⠀ ⠀⠀ ⠀peak examples here are his actions on Avalon, in X-Factor, Son of M and X-Men: Fatal Attraction (1993) and Dark Seduction (2000) -- it happens so often there are endless examples really. Not to mention the entire Krakoa disaster with Moira.

[yanderes-galore]

Hello, it's me 🍀anon, if is okay to ask of a yandere blackwatch cassidy

Idk much about Blackwatch Cassidy but I'm going to try >:) Decided to default to Romantic for this. I appreciate feedback for how to write Blackwatch Cassidy as I wasn't sure what direction to take this, thank you.

I feel I could've added more to try and flesh certain parts of this but I ran out of ideas I guess :(

Yandere! Blackwatch! Cole Cassidy Concept

Pairing: Romantic

Possible Trigger Warnings: Gender-Neutral Darling, Obsession, Flirtatious behavior, Feelings of isolation, Manipulation, Jealousy, Slight mentions of intimacy, Marking, Possessive behavior, Consensual to Forced relationship.

What came to mind as I was researching this topic is Blackwatch! Cass with a Blackwatch Agent! Darling.

That would be the easiest way to have you and him interact as Blackwatch is primarily secretive.

Maybe you joined Reyes as a former Overwatch agent when he was cast out.

Or maybe you were handpicked to redeem yourself like Genji and Cassidy.

Blackwatch would most likely be the link that brings you two together when it comes to a Blackwatch! Cassidy concept.

In terms of personality it seems like Cassidy is similar to how he usually is in game.

Maybe due to recently being an outlaw he's a bit rough around the edges but overall he's still him.

He's the charming, carefree, polite, and sassy cowboy that wants to make things right.

He reluctantly joined Blackwatch as he saw it better than jail.

He also took it as a second chance to redeem himself.

It's through Blackwatch that he meets you.

You're part of the already small main team consisting of Reyes, Genji, Cassidy, and you.

Moira is also part of Blackwatch and takes missions from Reyes when needed.

How Blackwatch works is you all take covert missions.

No one is meant to know about them.

Which means you're primarily interacting with your team more than anyone else.

This means you and Cassidy speak... often.

Cassidy is capable of being platonic I suppose although he is more likely to be a romantic yandere.

He is heavy on flirtation due to being your typical charming cowboy.

You've no doubt heard stories of his outlaw days but don't hold it against him.

He wants to redeem himself, plus he isn't the only criminal here.

Look at Genji, he's from a criminal family.

He is also trying to redeem himself and face his brother.

Your origin is up to you, maybe you're also a criminal trying to fix things, maybe you have your own reasons.

Either way, you're in no place to judge the ex-outlaw.

For the most part Cassidy focuses on the missions he's given and his team.

He feels this way he's becoming a better person and keeping the world safe.

Everyone in Blackwatch has questionable morals yet it was a way out of the life he had.

When it comes to you and Cassidy your companionship starts as teasing.

Cassidy is naturally a smooth talker and finds you fun to tease.

In his eyes, no matter what you've done, to him you seem like an angel.

When working alongside you he is always one to stick with the plan and plays his part.

If you appear to struggle he rolls in to keep you out of harm's away along with keep the plan going.

Cassidy for the most part, even as part of Blackwatch, would still be sweet and charming towards you.

In terms of if he'd manipulate you... I can see it happening.

Cassidy no doubt tries to be the closest one to you while in Blackwatch.

Cassidy wants to be respectful of his fellow Blackwatch member, even if he has romantic feelings towards them...

Yet maybe he'll nudge them a little to show he's interested?

You and Cassidy may even make it a game to tease and flirt with one another.

As a result there's a feeling of isolation due to that.

My HC is Blackwatch members have to mostly stay out of sight and public eye.

You find companionship in your team and especially Cassidy.

Your job doesn't exactly allow you to go out and mingle with others often.

You don't have many relationship options and it hasn't really been a goal for you.

Yet the feeling of isolation still lingers in you... and Cassidy has been doing a good job with easing that feeling.

I personally can see that maybe you two even dated during Blackwatch to ease the lonely feeling.

What else are you supposed to do when you're both flirting and can only ever see a few people every day?

You are probably a reason Cassidy changes to be a better person in this AU.

He's happy he's met you and he may even change who you used to be too.

Cassidy seems like he'd be fine in a relationship.

He's affectionate, flirty, protective, but a bit jealous at times.

Honestly, there isn't many issues.

Cassidy shows protective tendencies as he doesn't really enjoy Moira's presence or Reyes, but respects them as team members.

He often drags you somewhere private to kiss you, maybe even nipping your neck playfully just to hear you make those little sounds.

He loves that you're his.

It becomes obvious that you two are partners, both in missions and intimacy.

The Blackwatch cowboy always appears to have an arm around your waist or his eyes on you from across the room.

Reyes only allows it as long as you keep it professional.

Cassidy has indeed shown signs of jealousy/possessive tendencies and signs of slight manipulation by this point.

You haven't seen it as that bad as it's easy to keep him under control.

A cute look and a soft kiss brings him to his knees when he gets worked up.

He listens as he's yours.

Big issues start to appear when Blackwatch falls apart.

Once infighting starts between Overwatch and Blackwatch your relationship changes.

Cassidy plans to leave Blackwatch as he wants no part of it.

Meanwhile you're hesitant as you don't want to leave the team you spent so long with.

Cassidy no doubt tries to drag you away from Overwatch and Blackwatch.

He feels you two could do so much more as heroes away from all of the fighting.

Maybe you refuse in an attempt to help things, irritating Cassidy.

Or maybe you join him only to break up later to try and start life anew.

Without Blackwatch ties.

Either way, I feel Cassidy would become a problem if you tried to leave the relationship more than before it.

He'll lure you in and make you feel warm around him.

As long as you stay, all is good.

Even more so in this concept as you both have been through a lot and changed each other with Blackwatch.

The moment you leave... starving him of your warmth, affection, and adoration...

Well, Cassidy no longer wants to play nice.

He's been your charming cowboy, he's changed because of you.

He thinks it's a bit foolish to think that he'll let you go so easily.

If you refuse to leave Blackwatch, he'll drag you.

If you wanted to break up after leaving, he refuses.

He doesn't like the idea of you breaking away from him after your shared past.

Cassidy believes you helped him move on from the life of an outlaw.

However, he isn't entirely good.

He's willing to push aside wanting to do the right thing to keep you as his little darling.

Part of him wants to leave hickeys, maybe even carve a branding with a knife to make it scar on you.

Sure, it's cruel, but he did use to be an outlaw.

You may have changed him, but not enough for him to give up what's his.

Even when Blackwatch is behind him... Cassidy still wants to keep you by his side.

It's up to you on if you come willingly... or by some more encouragement.

He'll show the world you're his if he has to.

Or maybe he'll lock you away?

You're his partner in crime... hell, now you're just partners in everything now.

Why would he want to leave his darling all alone now?

"Now where do you think you're going? We're a team, aren't we, darlin'? Of course we are... and that'll never change, right?"

[sapphicbookclub]

Black Sails to Sunward by Sheila Jenné

In a world of frock coats, solar sails, and rigid class boundaries, Lucy joins the Martian Imperial Navy as a midshipman. Mars and Earth are at war, and Lucy hopes for quick promotion. But when she arrives aboard ship, she finds her childhood ex-friend, Moira, already there. Class differences got in the way of their budding romance five years ago, and both of them are nursing grudges.

Those same class differences are threatening the ship, as the enlisted spacers threaten a mutiny and Lucy is forced to support the abusive officers. When Moira becomes a pirate, taking Lucy captive, the tables are turned. Lucy now has to rely on her enemy for her life.

Her oath as an officer forbids her from helping the pirates, but it’s becoming obvious that the Martian Empire doesn’t deserve her loyalty. If she throws in her lot with the pirates, her family is doomed to poverty, but it could give her a chance to reconcile with Moira and claim the love she rejected so long ago.

Genres: sci-fi, romance

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[dem0batz]

Active Writing Projects

This is a list of my current writing projects. Well, the ones I'm focusing my energy on anyway. On top of writing fanfic, I am also in the process of writing two original book series, so this list will include a mixture of both. All stories feature either afab-she/her!Reader or an Original Female Character.

Thanks for being here!

- Opal

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Fanfic

OpaLADS au // [Love and Deepspace] series

LADS (Caleb, Zayne, Sylus, Rafayel, Xavier) x mc!Reader

Synopsis: A series of connected one-shots taking place in the Love and Deepspace setting. Most of the one-shots are inspired by card memories and follows alongside with the canonical in-game storyline (taking some creative liberties, of course).

Tags: Reverse Harem/Why-Choose, Taboo romance, smut

Read on Tumblr // Read on AO3

Human Hunter // [Blackkklansman] chaptered fic

hunter!Flip Zimmerman x captive!Reader

Synopsis: Going on a road trip to attend a Halloween festival with your roommates over Fall break seemed like a great idea. It was supposed to be a fun little reprieve before going back to school to finish out the semester. Little did you expect to be kidnapped, forced into a sick game of predator and prey, and kept as a mad mountain man's pet.

Tags: Dead Dove, Do Not Eat; serial killer au, dark romance, erotic horror, captor/captive, predator/prey, noncon smut, violence, body horror, death

Read on AO3

Rainbow in the Dark // [Stranger Things] chaptered fic

Eddie Munson x new girl!Reader

Synopsis: New to Hawkins, Indiana, you join Hawkins High during junior year where you meet Eddie Munson. He takes you under his wing and ensures that your fate in the small town won’t be a lonely and miserable one. During this time, the two of you develop feelings for one another and go through the typical trials of teenage love, including school drama and parents. Not to mention, the nasty little secrets lurking beneath the community. Will your new relationship make it through the treacherous waters of young love, murder scandals, and a cursed town?

Tags: season 4 Fix-it, canon-adjacent, high school romance, smut, canon-typical horror and violence

Read on Tumblr // Read on AO3

Original Book Projects

Demon Spawn duet

Demon Girl

Demon FMC x Human MMC

Synopsis: The last child in line for Hell's throne, Thorne gives up her fiery inheritance in pursuit of carving her own path in the universe. Posing as a student at an ivy league university she is able to hunt for souls and grow her own power. Greyson is the Alternate Captain of the school's hockey team and heir to a multi-billion dollar tech company. It seems as though he has it all, but it's all a facade to cover the truth of his upbringing into high society. One fateful night, the two meet under dark club lights and seem to be thrust back toward one another over and over again.

Tags: Paranormal Romance (demon), Dark Urban Fantasy, Hockey Romance if you squint, Black Cat gf and Golden Retriever bf, Soul Pact, Smut; Sexual Switching, Mistress/Guard Dog

#Demon Spawn WIP for updates

Demon Heirs

Demon Triplets MMCs x Witch FMC

Synopsis: Atom was the original son, the first born of Lucifer's dozens of spawn-- one who was prophesied to be powerful enough to overthrow his father. The devil charged a witch with removing his heir's power. The best she could do was to split the power source into three, giving Hell's king three identical sons in return with their power weakened just enough to keep them under his thumb. With the death of her father, Moira Ambrose inherits the family's multi-billion dollar tech company, a role she had been raised for her entire life. She was no stranger to the paranormal, having been haunted since childhood by the visage of a drowned woman. What she never expected to discover was that her father had sold her to a Demonic trio in exchange for the success of his company and that she has powers of her own beyond all of their expectations.

Tags: Reverse Harem/Why-Choose, Paranormal Romance (demons x witch), Dark Urban Fantasy, Office Romance (if you squint), Magic and Lore, Soul Pact, Fated Mates, Smut; FMMM

#Demon Spawn WIP for updates

Rock Band Brothers triology

Series Tags: Reverse Harem/Why-Choose, Taboo romance (3 Brothers x FMC), Smutty but the romantic relationship dynamics are Slowburn (over the course of three books), Angst, Drama, Substance Abuse and Addiction, Mental Health struggles, Death, Grief

Book I

Drummer MMC (brother #2) x Cute Nerdy MMC x Bassist MMC (brother #3)

Synopsis: Astra comes tumbling into Matt's life like a little explosive ball of sunshine, a counter to his usual dark broodiness. Daughter of an astronomy professor, Astra grew up with a love for the cosmos that she passed onto Matt. He came from a family of musicians and opened her up to the world of music. The two had been inseparable since elementary school, but things changed during middle school with the introduction of Matt's middle brother, Benji, growing the duo into a trio. To Matt's dismay, his childhood crush on Astra comes crumbling down when she begins to date his brother. Meanwhile, the boys are trying to kick off a rock band with their eldest brother, Kai. With both boys being in love with the same girl, will they be able to put their problems aside for the good of the band? And will Astra be able to navigate the complicated feelings she is developing for all three brothers without losing herself in the process?

Tags: High School setting, Angst, Drama, Underage Substance Abuse, Smut; FMM, Death, Grief, Toxic Relationships

#Rock Band Bros WIP for updates // read on AO3

[zandiiangelspit]

Hey hey heyy :) I see that you do a lot Mauga x Sombra that is become soo addict now..I just want to know , what if one day Mauga would just , don't know, disappears from a mission and only come back to the Talon like..3 months after ??... did Sombra just get use or she would be a little anxious for the big man

(Ps: I BEG FOR FANFICTION WITH THIS DYNAMIC PLEASE GOD :') )

Talofa!~ Yes, join me... ♡♡♡

I may have gotten a little carried away with this, but here you go~ ♡

Thank you anon!!~

“Gone? What do you mean he’s gone?!”

“He’s a liability… he’s better off gone…”

Reaper snarled, his smoking silhouette disappearing off of the drop shop after touchdown back at the base. Sombra stood on the landing pad, a mixture of anger and confusion, glaring after the cloaked figure as he vanished from view. 

She hadn’t been on the mission, but her partner in crime - Mauga - had been, and finding out he hadn’t returned with the rest of the squad made a knot in her stomach. 

Sure, he had a habit of disappearing off and following his own rules on missions, but he always came back. She’d gotten used to his free nature in the time she had known him and admired it, even if it did drive her mad at times. This time would be the same, right? 

It wasn’t hidden that many of the superiors of Talon didn’t like Mauga, Reaper especially found his erratic and chaotic nature difficult. His charisma and toothy smiles doing little to win him over. Sombra too found him challenging at first, but after being forced to work together, she eventually understood his charming facade and even enjoyed his company, favouring him over many others. In fact, she had grown attached to him, seeking him out, growing excited when she knew they’d be paired up again.

Her face contorted into a snarl, she clenched her fists, trying to keep her short temper contained. Reaper’s lack of concern for Mauga getting under her skin more than she thought it ever would.

“Such a shame, I was beginning to see his potential.” 

Moira lamented as she sauntered past, hands folded neatly behind her back, glancing down at Sombra with a slight smirk. Any time she began to show interest in anyone was always a concern.

“Que te den, Moira…” she snapped, turning on her heels and back to her private quarters. Before she had even left the landing pad, she opened up her program in a bright burst of purple holograms around her, beginning her search for any pings and all cameras in operation at the location he was last known to be. 

Their mission had gone bad, leaving little to nothing in the wake of their attack making it more difficult. Of course it had gone wrong, she wasn’t there, she thought to herself.

But, If anyone could find him, it was her. 

Her heart raced, pounding in her chest as she searched, eyes darting across the multiple new glowing windows in front of her. Why was she so concerned with his whereabouts? Why did her chest ache at the idea of never seeing him again? 

Slowly her temper simmered down, but it was replaced instead with concern and fear. 

Back in her room she kept looking, biting her lip when she saw the destruction Reaper’s squad had brought on the factory they had descended upon. Mauga had caused more damage and survived worse. There was no way he was harmed or worse. 

“Where are you, Cariño…” she muttered quietly to herself. 

After hours and hours, long into the night, she finally paused her search. Nothing had come up, no leads and no sign of him. 

Curling up into herself, she hugged her knees as she looked up at the screens in front of her from her desk chair. Stills of surveillance cameras of the last known sightings of him flickered next to endless sequencing of locations and names linked to him. He could be anywhere. He had to be. 

She felt lost. Her heart ached. 

Pining for him in a way she never thought she would. 

Closing her eyes and resting her chin on her knees, releasing a breath she hadn’t realised she had been holding. His last words to her kept repeating in her mind, now more than 24 hours prior now; ~

“You better come back in one piece, amigo.” 

She called out to him as he stepped up into the drop shop, chuckling as he watched her with crossed arms scowling at him playfully. 

“Don’t worry, Sombs, I’ll always come back to you”. 

Flashing her a wink with a smile that made her heart fluttered, he disappeared behind the closing shuttle doors. She stayed until they disappeared from view, not knowing that it would be the last time she’d see him for a while.  ~

Back in her room she looked back up at his profile image, wishing that she could just pull him out of the hologram. Sombra wanted him back at base, she wanted him home, with her. 

Her cheeks flushed at the idea of him returning just for her. The idea that he was only sticking around at Talon for her. She hoped that was the case, and her needless worrying was for nothing. He would just saunter in like he always did, smug and confident, teasing her for wondering where he was.  

It hadn’t even been that long, and she was acting like a worried wife. He would come back. Hell, she had disappeared without a word, why was it so different for him to just disappear? She refused to let herself think it was because she cared deeply about him. That it was maybe because she had caught feelings for him. No. They were just close friends. Amigos. Partners in crime, like he said. Nothing more. Right?

But days passed, which turned to weeks, then months. He hadn’t been seen for 3 whole months with no communication or sightings. 

Her faith in him returning to her was beginning to wane. Just like everyone she had formed a bond with, they eventually faded, pushed her away, used her or even died. There was a reason she was so distant with others, rarely bonding with anyone past needing something or a common goal. 

Of course he was gone, just when she began to feel something more. Maybe she was just a fool, playing into his hands and his game, trusting him was the first mistake. Maybe his smiles and affection were just a facade. Not that it was anymore more than friendship. Maybe just a crush, she would kid herself, overthinking every interaction they ever had. He never left her mind and it was driving her mad.

“You’d think a man of that size would be hard to miss..” Widow sneered one day on a mission, grumbling again after his name had been mentioned yet again by the hacker.

She was right. How had he vanished?

But then again, he had a nasty habit of sneaking up on targets, surprising them and his teammates with how silent he could be. He was an excellent tracker. Even sneaking up on Baptiste was a feat in itself, and it still impressed her when she found out he had rolled into town without a second glance. 

“If he’s still alive….” Reaper growled, catching a glare from Sombra through her holograms as she scanned the building opposite them. 

Gritting her teeth, she tried to ignore his comment, still believing he was alive. “It would take more than that to kill him, pendejo, and you know it..” 

All she received was a rattling grow in response as he evaporated into smoke and slipped away toward their target. Widow tutted, muttering something to herself before grappling away, her voice then picking up through Sombra’s earpiece. 

“Forget him, focus on the task”.

~

The mission had gone without a hitch, perfectly executed, and they were ready for extraction. Widow and Reaper had already made their way out, leaving Sombra to find her own way out through the endless corridors. Teleporting out through the communications centre of the building, not without stealing what she could from the motherboards first, she appeared into the outside air with a digital flash. 

Over the coms in her ear, she could hear updates being relayed from the dropship approaching, but a faint crackle made her pause. Standing still she waited, listening for the noise until it sounded louder, closer.  The cold air shifted around her and she realised she wasn’t alone anymore. 

Vanishing, she quickly spun around, reappearing now armed and inches away from the figure who had quietly approached her. The barrel of her machine pistol aimed at his throat, her eyes a deep glowing purple, Sombra glared until she recognised the intense eyes staring back at her. 

Her expression softened, lowering her weapon with a soft gasp. “Mauga..?”

“That’s quite the greeting, Aitu'' he grinned, holding his large hands out in a casual manner, chuckling and she stood motionless. “Sorry to keep you waitin-..”

Cutting him off with a sharp slap to the face, his face instantly dropped from a wide grin to a tight pout. It hurt her hand more than it would ever hurt him, but it was instinct and the only response she could give him. 

Slowly blinking, he glared down at her, her eyes burning white with matching intensity.

“Hey! Lighten up, what was that for-..”

 “¡Maldita sea! Where have you been?!”

She was angry, but her voice betrayed her, less of a threat and more of a plea. It shocked him, seeing how distressed she seemed about seeing him. He simply stared at her as she began to rant at him, unintelligible cursing in Spanish before throwing her hands up at him, watching him expectantly. 

“I’ve been waiting for you! You said you’d come back to me!” Breathing heavily, Sombra stared up at him, her rage beginning to wane, her expression now pained and concerned. “Where were you…” 

Taken aback by her reaction, he looked away from her for a moment, the look in her eyes making his chest ache. Had she really been waiting on him? 

“I just, y’know. Needed time to recuperate.… I didn’t think… me coming back would matter that much to you..”

“Idiota, of course you matter to me!” 

Meeting her eyes again with a softer expression, Mauga saw for the first time just how much he meant to her. In that moment he actually felt wanted. 

“I matter to you?” 

His raised eyebrow and smirk threatening to take over his face made her look away, her scowl returning along with a flush across her face. Replacing her pistol back into it’s holster, she folded her arms, turning away from him to avoid seeing the smugness radiating from him. “Yeah! Y-yeah.. You do, okay?” 

But she was wrong. A hand gently placed on her shoulder, turning her around to face him. Reluctantly, she looked up at him, feeling the heat rise in her skin when he tilted her chin up with a finger. 

“You’re cute when you’re angry..” His voice was low and raspy, and it sent a chill up her spine. He’d never looked at her that way before and it made her heart race. “I’m sorry I left and didn’t say anything. But, I’m here now.” 

Unable to reply, biting her lip hard, she wrapped her arms around him, burying her face into his torso. She couldn’t look at him anymore, knowing her face would be a dead give away to how he was affecting her. No one had ever made her feel like this. Her heart pounded heavily, feeling his large arms wrap around her protectively. His skin was warm, and the rhythm of his two hearts brought her comfort. 

“I promise I won’t run off again.” he murmured against her hair, nuzzling against it, making her smile. “I’m scared that next time you might actually hunt me down.”

“There won’t be a next time, puta, I’ve already put a tracker on you..” she mumbled against his chest.

Chuckling, he shifted himself, feeling her hand pull away from his belt as she indeed left a small glowing purple tracker on him. He didn’t doubt she actually would, she always kept her word. But, part of it made him glad that someone actually wanted to have him around. That through all his elusiveness and chaotic nature, she still cared and wanted him. 

“Good, because I’m not going anywhere without you now.”

There was no one he’d rather have tracking him and no one he’d rather come home to.

[mariaisadora]

“Would you be there for me?”

Niran tilted his head, “For what?” he asks, curiosity with a slight hint of concern lacing his tone.

���When i need you, of course!”

Niran chuckles, “Of course i would, that's a silly question, My dear. I would ALWAYS be there for you.”

Y/N gives him a warm smile, one he loves and cherishes oh so much.

.....

Where is it now?

How could he do this to you?

He promised you.

He's a liar.

He's sorry.

“I'm sorry.”

...

“Her before Me.”

TW: ANGST NO COMFORT, DEATH, SLIGHT CURSING, BLOOD !!

.........

“Niran! Guess what today is!!” Y/N chirped happily, twirling around in her brand new baby blue summer dress.

..

In all honesty? Y/N never even wore blue clothing. She was more interested in pink, but she brought a new one hoping to impress her long time crush and best friend, Niran Pruksamanee.

Why blue?

....

It was always her color.

Satya Vaswani.

You cringed at the thought of her. although she was always kind to you, you would always feel a sharp pang go through your chest whenever Niran would openly throw himself at her and practically begging for her attention.

You shrug off the negative thoughts as you're greeted with Niran infront of you, giving you a bright and warm smile. “How could i forget! It's the anniversary of the day we first met!!” First meeting anniversary. Niran made that up since he insists that it was the most special day of his life. Sometimes you think he's lying and that he's just trying to flirt with you, hinting that your feelings for him were mutual. Until you saw how he acts with her. It was very humbling.

You smiled, looking up at him. “I reserved us a spot at your favorite restaurant! We should get going!”

“Is it ok if Satya joins us today? I don't want her to feel left out.”

You bit the inside of your cheek, forcing a smile before letting out a cheery “Of course!” and turning away. Tears threatening to spill as you walked away. Niran tilts his head at your suddenly cold demeanor but shrugs it off to you not wanting to be late.

. . . . . . . . . . .

The 3 of you arrived at the restaurant, having to add 1 extra seat at the table since you only planned for you and niran to go.

But.

Why does it feel like it's them that's celebrating? That it's their anniversary? Why. WHY DOES SHE HAVE TO RUIN EVERYTHIN—

You felt your blood boil, your hands clutching your dress tightly while you looked at the menu. You jolt when niran calls out to you.

“Y/n....Y/n..? Are you gonna order?..are you feeling ok?” He asks, putting his hand on your neck to check your temperature. A soft blush creeps its way up to your cheeks as you shake your head, “Uhm..i'll..order..later. I need to use the restroom. Excuse me.” You stood up, walking away and pretending to go to the restroom. You look back, seeing the two happily chatting away. You smile sadly before leaving the restaurant.

“aww..caught a love bug?”

“Sombra..you aren't even using that term correctly.”

“shut up, moira! I meant it literally!”

“it's still wrong.”

“Would you two shut up?” a deeper voice says, irritated.

“w-..what do you- want-”

..

THUD.

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“urgh.. my head.” You wake up with a throbbing pain on the back of your head. Squinting your eyes as they adjust to the bright lights..bright..blue lights. Wait. You know this place.

“NIRAN!” You tried to scream out, only to let out a muffled noise. Your mouth was covered. Tight. It hurt. But that didn't bother you as much as..why were you tied up in niran's lab? Where is he? Where are the strange people you met before you were knocked out?

“Moiraa, she's awake!” a voice calls out from outside of the lab before a tall woman with short red hair walked up to you.

“I see you are awake. I'll make this quick, tell me the location of this..‘gadget’ your boyfriend uses to produce his..'biolight' and we'll let you go.”

“Boyfriend..? B-biolight..? Gadget..? I have no idea what you're talking abo- !!!” You get cut off with a sharp pain in your arm as you scream, crying out in pain as you bleed out.

“Tell us everything you know about it's location. I am sure you are no fool. You know exactly what we are capable of doing to you if you refuse to cooperate.”

“I will NEVER tell you how to make it..he's spent basically his whole life making that biolight to heal the world!!” You said in between pants, the panic and fear in your body making it hard to breathe. The sight of your bloody arm making you want to pass out.

“Hmm. I didn't expect such a great scientist to be with a girl with such.. stupidity. Perhaps it is the black haired woman..what was it..Satya? That is his lover after all.”

Her words were like venom. Jealousy, Fear, Sadness, Pain all clouded your head at the same time. It hurt so badly. Everything hurt. Little did you know it was about to get so..so much worse.

“Tear her to shreds if you wish, just keep her..somewhat alive. We might be able to use her against him still, in the meantime we'll go for the black-haired girl, Satya Vaswani.”

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“Satya.. i'm worried. It's been a while since y/n was in the bathroom. i'll go check up on her, alright? Stay here.” Niran gave her a small smile before walking towards the bathroom. It was a single person bathroom available for all genders, he knocks softly on the door.

“Y/N? Dearest, are you in there?”

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No response.

..

“My sweet, could you answer me? Me and Satya are worried sick, if you're feeling unwell we could go back home and continue the rest of our day there!” He smiles nervously, hoping the girl he was looking for at the other side of the door would open up, answering him with a gentle smile.

..

No response.

..

Niran's head was racing with thoughts. His hand shakily reached up to the bathroom's door handle.

“did she leave..? Did i make her uncomfortable? Fuck..did i ruin our day? Ok...ok..calm down Niran. Just..try to open the door, if she didn't want you coming in she'd shut it off, right?..right.”

He tried to open the door, hoping it would get slammed shut only to reveal no one was there.

“shit.... SHIT.” He slams his hand on the door, brushing his hair back in frustration. “I'm so sorry.” he mumbled to himself repeatedly as he made his way back to the table only to find his best friend was gone.

“You too..Satya?” He sighed, he felt his heart ache as he gathered his belongings, walking back home. His mind wandering to where the two girls who meant so much to him went.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

“No..”

“No...no..no..nononono..NO- FUCK-”

He's panicking. He's panicking. He's panicking. He's panicking. BREATHE. BREATHE NIRAN. BREATHE. BREATHE. CALM DOWN.

FUCK.

There stood a bloody and beaten Satya, His best friend. His best FUCKING friend who he needed so badly to comfort him right now.

No.

They couldn't have found his home.

Not so quickly.

She was just in the restaurant a moment ago. . .

He felt sick.

He felt dizzy.

He felt so..so much guilt.

“Satya.. how? How did they do this to you..when..-” He sobbed, dropping down to his knees, “Please...-” He cried out, “Please wake up..��

How did they find him..?

...

Wait.

Wait.

WAIT.

His mind raced back to you. Panic increasing with every passing thought.

You left the restaurant first.

Surely they couldn't have-

..

He ran.

He ran so fucking fast to his lab, he ran as fast as his legs could carry him. He ran as quickly as his already broken down body could take him.

Please be ok.

Please be here.

Please be safe and sound

My love. My life. My lotus. My flower. My everything.

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“Y/N..?” his voice trembled in fear, dropping down to his knees as he curled up into a ball, rocking back and forth trying to calm himself down. To no avail.

There was his "everything".

Dead.

Lifeless.

Cold.

Next to her, a note written down, although it was incredibly shaky, he could still tell it was you who wrote it.

“Save her, Niran. Save her and not me. I'm already a goner but Satya is a stronger woman than i, She will make it through.

They want your metal glove. The one you used to show me about, the one that could heal the world.

I'm sorry.

I couldn't stop them. Please forgive me. Go now, Save Satya. I already knew this since i left the restaurant. I always knew that you would choose Her before..”

....

“Her before..what..?”

...

“Her before Me.” you said softly, blood dripping out of your mouth, tears falling from your eyes that once glistened with so much life.

“y/n..?”

He sobbed violently, shaking you, “WAKE UP!! PLEASE, KEEP YOUR EYES OPEN..I'M HERE.. I'M HERE. PLEASE!!” He sobbed, His chest rising and falling at a rapid pace, he couldn't calm down. You..Satya...why was this happening to him? All he wanted was to heal the world. Why does this world have so much hate for him when all he wanted was to give it love and care?

“Would you always be here for me?”

“of course..” he cried, cradling her slowly dying body. Feeling her growing colder..and colder.

“Then you'd always be there for Satya, right..?” you said weakly.

..

“of..” he gasped for air, his crying and panic causing him to have a meltdown, unable to respond before finally letting out a soft and broken “of course..”

“Choose Her..Not me..”

....

Then your blood ran cold.

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Niran lost of himself that day. Now standing on the tombstone of the one he loved and cherished the most with his best friend Satya trying her best to comfort him. Nothing worked though. Niran is now a shell of the man he used to be when he was loving you.

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[wildwinterlunas]

here was my theory on the timeline

In Eichenwalde, Reinhardt didn't listen. He kept rushing in. He lost an eye and everyone died. He left that battlefield believing it was because none of them were strong enough.

Adhabu Ngumi, seeing the Overwatch group lacked anyone big and strong, decided to join them once he took care of the Omnic Crisis in Africa.

Torbjörn died on that mission in Istanbul. Angela took this personally, and Brigitte grew up despising Overwatch for failing to save him

The Hashimoto clan hired Reinhardt to help kill the Shimada clan. They kept Hanzo and cast Genji adrift, putting him in a ship to Australia. They also trained Kiriko.

Satya was on a plane that crashed over Australia. She used what hardlight tech she had left and became a high ranking Junker, as did her new armored ninja friend.

Overwatch was unable to help in Canada, leaving Sojourn embittered and vengeful.

Adhabu found the young Akande Ogundimu, and trained the boy to be his successor, having saved him from his potential attacked Akinjide Adeyemi. Akande quickly became a powerful force of good for Overwatch.

Cassidy never ended up with Deadlock. Instead, in Mexico, Overwatch found a young Sombra, and took her in.

Angela and Tracer both joined Blackwatch, tired of the Overwatch's incompetence. Unfortunately, Gabriel was a harsh boss, no one ever being enough to help him, Tracer too weak and Angela too merciful.

Talon captured Ana instead of Amelie, gaining a deadly sniper. In turn, Amelie stepped up after Ana killed Gèrard and took her eye.

Zenyatta went with Ramattra that day. His face was damaged, leading him to use a new face with a singular eye.

Without a hacker to cover his tracks, Mauga quickly brought Baptiste back to Talon, where they brainwashed him into the elite assassin Scorpion.

When Overwatch fell, Angela made sure Gabriel didn't make it without issue, leaving him hospitalized in a coma. She and Tracer joined Talon, who had also employed Reinhardt, Brigitte, and Sojourn, as well as a reprogrammed and upgraded Bastion unit. Angela quickly took over Talon, showing no mercy, now leading the terrorist organization fueled by Vengeance.

Ok this, is amazaing, it makes sense and I'm honestly already invested in a story like this. It's a really good concept for a general Reverse or "What if" universe.

The shitty thing is the only character in that timeline that actually fits the concept of a mirror universe is Reinhardt. I'm gonna be honest and also say the Doomfist one is also highly likely cause sometimes in a mirror universe some minor characters do stay the same so the story makes sense.

I'm probably going to make my own timeline for this universe at some point but I'm going to wait for the game mode for this event to come out cause I know damn well that there is going to be interactions for that.

But for now I'll share what we can guess and what is confirmed about this universe.

Ana most likely shot out Amelie's eye in this universe, either it was an assassination attempt pre Amelie joining OW or it was after Amelie joined. However there is another explanation for Amelie's eye.

Amelie's eye could also be a stand in for Moira's experimentation in this universe, as Amelie's other eye is still yellow when they are originally a black/brown, and the scare on her chibi spray is more similar to either a slashing scar or a surgical scar.

Tracer killed Ramattra in this universe, meaning the Alive cinematic still happened. It also means that, most likely, Mondatta and Zenyatta run Null Sector.

Echo's Stealth/Camo skin seems to be her MW skin as new voice lines have been added. That and the addition of a Talon Athena implies that Mina Liao joined Talon.

That's all I can say for now cause I don't have the skins (yet) and no one posts anything apparently, but I'll post updates as soon as I can.