#inspired by malcom in the middle

[wintersovereign]

"Alright everyone," Elsa stepped onto a chair so the staff could see her. "There is a squirrel somewhere the castle. He's very agile, elusive, and possibly rabid. But we will catch him. We have to before he makes any other renovations like he did to the attic and the kitchens. Now I know we're all concerned with how quiet he's been for the past few hours so I've brought in reinforcements."

[smeargle]

Tan Line

For @croagunk💖

[theresattrpgforthat]

Hello Mint!

I discovered roleplaying through Lancer, and it made me love tactics with a little emergent behavior (with the occasional surprise super silly combo), the sort we also have in some tactical puzzle games like into the breach or tactical breach wizards. Do you know some tactical RPGs with combat that can almost feel like puzzles at times

THEME: Combat with Puzzles.

Hello friend! I think I have some solid recommendations here, but don't sleep on what I've already written about! You can check out some other recommendation posts at the bottom of this.

Celestial Bodies, by Charlotte Laskowski @binarystargames.

Adrift Among the Bodies of the Dead

For a generation after the calamity, the infinite dark between the stars felt cramped, crowded by refugees on ships meant for fewer people and shorter trips.  In the second generation, those who survived in their home-ships now cannibalized the metal skeletons of the less fortunate ships.  The third generation did not just expand their ships; they expanded their mecha and their operations. They fled to farther stars — populations in space stations and on surfaces booming as quickly as lives were lost in petty disputes.  The fourth generation discovered the Titans. No probe had yet reached these dead gods whose frozen bodies spanned hundreds of miles across. You are the fifth generation.

Celestial Bodies uses an inventory system that feels similar to Mausritter; you have to fit your weapons and other gear inside a grid in order to carry everything. Your “puzzle’ involves constructing your mech to work effectively in battle according to the strategy you prefer. You’re also tracking resources gained and resources used; it seems like you have to keep fighting in order to get access to the things that keep you going.

Ultraviolence Radiation, by KintaroTPC.

Ultraviolence Radiation (UVR) is an experiment in action.

Deflect bullets with a knife! Grab a guy and use him as a weapon against another guy! Take a smoke break in the middle of a hail of gunfire! Get your revenge and look cool doing it.

Featuring 100 enemies with unique Intros, Attacks and special things they do when they die! 28 Abilities to make the action hero you want to play! A rule set which takes inspiration from Beat-Em-Up arcade games and applied them to the Tabletop genre.

In Ultraviolence Radiation, one person is a player, while everyone else at the table plays the baddies. The fighter can’t use moves that draw from the same stat back-to-back; a limitation that points towards having to think carefully about what you’re going to do. There are also moves that have cooldown limitations; you can’t spam the same move, but rather have to time everything to make sure you still have access to good options. Additionally, the fighter has access to passive moves, which have no cooldown, and in some cases, might be consistently in effect. They also have interrupt moves, which can be used outside of your turn. This gives you a fairly complex list of options to choose from, which I think is an integral piece to a good combat game.

Mutation, by OneFootWall Games.

The World as we know it has changed. Two centuries from now a comet strikes Earth. This hunk of interstellar rock was an attack by some Klendathu wannabes. “Goddamn bugs whacked us, Johnny.”

It wasn’t really a comet or meteor, or even an asteroid. It was a seed bomb for terraforming sent by some alien species. This thing detonated a mile up over the Florida Keys and scattered radiation, some kind of bio-gel, and spores around the globe. It wiped out 80% of life on the surface. And we never even got to see the damn aliens…

The world was a little weird and quiet after that. But like Dr Ian Malcom in Jurassic Park says, “Life, uh, finds a way.”

A 3d6 system with a reasonable amount of crunch, distance matters in Mutation, and turns have an action economy. This plus the attacks, talents, psychic powers, skills, and gear which all constitute your character mean that you have a number of different distinct tools that can be used to overcome obstacles, especially in combat. Your character also has the opportunity to inflict and also take different conditions; having different ways to affect and damage your opponent feels like another layer of tactical precision to me.

There is a free quickstart if you want to take a peek behind the curtain before you buy.

Thrones and Threads, by OpalBreeze Games.

Throughout the land, warlords hire mercenary champions to try and dethrone one another. Once hired, these champions don cloth adornments embroidered with threads of vibrant colours that signify their allegiance. Endowed with formidable power, champions are tasked with cutting through enemy lines and destroying fortified strongholds until no obstacles remain between their forces and the enemy throne.

Thrones and Threads is a role-playing battle arena based on Songs and Sagas, product of Fari RPGs, developed and authored by René-Pier Deshaies-Gélinas.

This game comes with 5 pregenerated characters and feels very much like an arena battle; combat is front and centre. Each character has a special move that makes them unique, and many of their traits are determined by different sizes of dice. Because each character has flavoured ways of using their stats, if you are inventive in how you describe your characters’ actions, you’ll likely be able to play to your strengths.

Strike Force Omega, by potatocubed.

It is the far future. Humanity spreads across the galaxy. Led by a council of corporate interests, the Imperial Core reaps the benefits of plunder and exploitation on an unimaginable scale, teeming trillions of human beings kept docile by mass media and the never-ending war against every other sentient species humanity has encountered.

You were a soldier in that war. Not one of the grunts, given basic training and a gun and shoved towards the enemy, although you might have started there. No, you were part of Strike Force Omega. Omega, because you ended things. Given the best training and equipment, remade by your corporate masters into a terrifying god of war, and expected to achieve the impossible on a regular basis. Which you did.

Until you got out.

But war has found you, even here. Not all the threats in the corp newsrooms are overstated.

The people of these worlds are frightened, but they will defend their homes against the oncoming tides – and they will fail and they will die. Even in their millions they cannot win.

Unless…

War is what you were made for, after all. You’ve killed and destroyed for far worse causes than this, so why not take up arms one more time and maybe try to claw back a little part of your soul?

LUMEN is generally a great system for strategic combat, all about creating combos that make you feel powerful and effective. Strike Force Omega is a setting that allows you to play with both magic and technology, and it includes 6 sample campaigns, one for each enemy faction written for the setting. Since the lore and world-building is built in, your characters already have a strong reason for fighting, something that sometimes I struggle to put together in Lancer.

demon blade ultimate, by Peach Garden Games.

Take up your Demon Blade and do battle against the oppression of the imperial army, put an end to the shaded cities, and bring the people of the undercity back to the sunlight.

Demon Blade Ultimate uses the Arts Grid, a character creation and power system pioneered in the legendary Horse Girl Infinity by Jordan Cuddlefish. Choose powers from the grid, unleash powerful summoning magic, and know that nothing is truly beyond your reach.

The grid system in Demon Blade involves choosing three powers on a grid. The spaces between the thing you want to do and the thing you are good at determines the difficulty of an action. Advancement allows you to increase your strengths, making you more powerful as you play.

This game takes a lot from shounen battle anime, so expect narratives about striving to improve yourself until you can vanquish the evil that threatens your people.

Other Recommendations:

Loot, by Gila RPGs.

My Dragoon Recommendation Post.

Fantasy With Tools Recommendation Post

Weapons & Weapon Customization Recommendation Post

Spatial Puzzle Recommendations

Combat Recommendations

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[misty-scatorccio]

Early 2000’s Juliette Lewis & Christina Ricci films 🎥

to celebrate our winning mistynat week theme—and to inspire you for @mistynat-season post-crash works—i’ve compiled a list of both Christina’s and Juliette’s early 2000’s films to help inspire you!

─── ୨ৎ Juliette Lewis

the way of the gun (2000)

my louisiana sky (2001)

picture claire (2001)

enough (2002)

hysterical blindness (2002)

cold creek manor (2003)

old school (2003)

starsky & hutch (2004)

blueberry (2004)

catch and release (2006)

whip it (2009)

─── ୨ৎ Christina Ricci

bless the child (2000)

the man who cried (2000)

prozac nation (2001)

the gathering (2002)

pumpkin (2002)

monster (2003)

anything else (2003)

cursed (2004)

black snake moan (2006)

penelope (2006)

malcom in the middle (2002-2006)

in the end of the world - as we know it. greys anatomy season 2 (2006)

speed racer (2008)

new york, i love you (2008)

after.life (2009)

[ririright]

“Sugar, Spies & Skywalkers”

Dad! Anakin x Daughter Reader

Inspired by THE episode of Malcom in the Middle

Anakin Skywalker sat on the living room couch like a man betrayed.

He was slouched deep into the cushions, arms folded, jaw tight, crucifix glinting like it too was judging the situation. The TV was on, but muted—some home improvement show where someone was screwing a cabinet door on upside down. Anakin didn’t blink. He was too focused. Too haunted.

(Y/N) had left at 2:05 PM to ride her bike “just around the block.”

It was now 2:48 PM.

And he had intel.

Obi-Wan—of all people—had seen her.

“I just passed your little cupcake at the corner,” he’d said over the phone, sipping iced tea like this wasn’t DEFCON 1. “She was walking into Mrs. Donnelly’s front gate.”

Mrs. Donnelly.

Mrs. Freakin’ Donnelly.

The neighborhood widow with the full candy jar, fresh-baked cookies, a mini trampoline, and an evil glint in her eye like she knew she was stealing children’s affection out from under their parents. Anakin had been suspicious of her since the Christmas marshmallow fudge incident.

And now his own child—his babygirl—had snuck off to her house behind his back?

The betrayal.

So now he sat, elbows on knees, hands clasped like a dramatic Italian grandmother at a soap opera funeral, staring down the door.

When it creaked open at 2:51 PM, he didn’t move. Just called out:

“Have fun with your other father figure?”

(Y/N) froze like she’d been caught with stolen diamonds. Slowly, she shut the door behind her and turned.

Anakin was still seated. Still brooding. Still deadly calm.

“You smell like chocolate chips.”

(Y/N) blinked. “…Hi Daddy.”

“Don’t ‘Hi Daddy’ me. You think I wouldn’t find out?” he said, rising from the couch like he’d aged twenty years in the past hour. “You think I wouldn’t know? Obi-Wan saw you.”

“TRAITOR,” she muttered under her breath.

“I trusted you, babygirl,” he said, pacing now, hands on hips. “I made you pancakes this morning. I let you put glitter stickers on my toolbox. And this is how you repay me?”

“It’s just snacks, Daddy.”

“JUST snacks?” He turned to face her, eyes wild. “Are my snacks not enough for you? Are my apple slices and peanut butter… inadequate?”

“They don’t have rainbow sprinkles,” she said coolly, removing her shoes like she was not emotionally destroying him.

Anakin gasped. “Oh. I see. I’m not fun dad anymore. Is that it?”

“Mrs. Donnelly lets me eat on the trampoline.”

He staggered back like she’d slapped him.

“On the—on the—while bouncing?!”

“She has Capri Suns,” she added. “The grape kind.”

Anakin dropped onto the couch like his knees gave out. “I don’t even know who you are anymore.”

(Y/N) climbed onto the couch beside him. “I still love you.”

“No. Don’t say that. Not when your lips taste like betrayal and fudge-covered pretzels.”

She kissed his cheek.

He sighed dramatically and flopped sideways onto the cushions. “I lost you to Capri Suns.”

“I can bring you one next time?”

He turned to face her. “You’d do that?”

“Maybe… if you let me stay up an extra ten minutes tonight.”

He squinted. “You negotiating with me right now?”

She nodded, completely serious. “Fudge has changed me.”

He groaned and pulled her into a hug. “You’re lucky you’re cute.”

“You’re lucky I didn’t move in with her.”

He gasped again. “That’s it. You’re grounded. Forever.”

“Cool. Then you can’t stop me from sneaking out again tomorrow.”

Anakin looked into her smug little face.

“…So what time’s snack time over there, exactly?”

[thepowercut]

Dialectical Immaterialism

By Tamsyn Elle ( @meserach ), with spot illustrations by Jason K Jones ( @jkjones21 ) and @idonttakethislightly

This essay was originally published on February 14th 2025, in issue #1 of THE POWER CUT, a fanzine about The Power Fantasy, the Image Comics book by Kieron Gillen and Caspar Wijngaard. You can find that zine free to download right here.

The tagline of The Power Fantasy is “the eternal fight against fighting”. Author Kieron Gillen has described the book, functionally, as being a superhero comic with all the fight scenes removed. This may seem a more audacious move than it is. After all, a truism of narrative is that it’s always about conflict, and surely the fight scenes are where the conflicts of a superhero comic most come to a head. Is The Power Fantasy thus set to be dramatically inert, always trying to avoid pushing things to a point of crisis and resolution?

Well, no. For a start  I don’t actually buy the whole “narrative is about conflict” line, necessarily. Certainly stories in which everyone wants the same things and then just does them are going to lack incident, but clearly it doesn't always need to be zero-sum either. More than that, though, conflict actually runs right through this comic. It’s just a conflict that can’t ever come to fullest fruition because then the world ends; but that doesn’t mean we can’t lose a whole goddamn continent. Conflicts that can’t fully resolve can still resolve partially: people can still get what they want, or try to, with alternate avenues, as you can learn either through studying the Cold War or any middle class dinner party. You can do proxy wars. You can do brinkmanship. You can do almost anything.

Our cast still needs something to not quite fight about, though. And here TPF reveals itself as an embarrassment of riches. For our cast of six features no fewer than fifteen unique pairings (I did the maths!), and amongst those it definitely features oppositions. Points of comparison. Dialectics, by which I mean “I’ve read just enough Marx to be dangerous”, or rather I mean something like “opposing forces that act on history and society, producing through their interaction a unique emergent result”. I’m talking about contrasts. The cast of the Power Fantasy is a study in contrasts. In this essay I will…

No but really, look. Valentina and Etienne form an ethical dialectic, Kantian deontology versus utilitarian calculus. I got that one directly from Gillen’s newsletter, so you know it’s real.

Heavy and Jacky are two takes on the destiny of the 60s-70s counterculture post-1980. Drop out or sell out: leave common society and start your own place that can actually serve your ideals (and then defend it fiercely from the people who will inevitably attempt to destroy it) or in some way become reconciled to power. They’re two different kinds of cult leader.

Valentina and Eliza are literally an angel and a demon. Look, sometimes it isn't subtle. (Not that we can yet fully grasp what those things mean in this cosmology, mind you.)

Somewhat subtler is the contrast flagged up in the conversation between Masumi and Etienne Lux in issue #2. Lux means light, natch. Etienne has a brain that's all light, all sharp angles and clear delineations and clarity, networking everyone like fiber optics, learning everything. Masumi's mind, by contrast, is “a void from which no light escapes”.

Etienne and Heavy form a dualism of responses to being part of a marginalised population: one similar to the Professor X/Magneto dualism which is an obvious partial inspiration for the two characters and their relationship, plus their power sets. Much has been written about this dualism before and will be again (to say nothing of the supposed Malcom X vs Martin Luther King dualism which inspired Magneto and Professor X in turn) so I can’t possibly hope to summarise all of it here, but in very brief: it’s a split between ways a marginalised population (atomics/mutants/people of colour) should interact with their oppressors - with strength, violence, and demanding concessions, or with something subtler, more peaceable and reasonable - as Etienne puts it, being someone “governments can work with”.

Lux and Magus! Their similarity has already been stressed: Magus calls them the two smartest guys in the room. Both are manipulating people, controlling the flow of information carefully, the ones most obviously managing people. But for all Magus’ cynicism, he was the one to cry for the losses after the Second Summer of Love… which of them truly cares more about people? And in what ways? But I’m getting ahead of myself. See their essays, in the exciting pages to come!

Considering the dyads of the cast throws up other ideas. What if you compare Heavy to Masumi? They’ve scarcely interacted thus far, but what shows up if you contrast them? I’d suggest maybe the idea of power as a curse versus power as a tool of liberation. But also there’s something in the idea that the two of them are just barely holding themselves together: Masumi mentally, Heavy physically.

Masumi hasn’t had vast opportunity to rub against Magus and Valentina yet, but doubtless there will be contrasts and comparators there too. Certainly all three work hard, in their separate ways, to contain a destructive force - or at least something they see as destructive. Magus works to amass power because he fears others having it; Masumi wants only to be rid of her power and is afraid mostly of herself. Valentina is a protective figure who at least sometimes is adored by the public - check that graffiti in issue #1 in 1966! - while Masumi is hated and feared.

Yet despite this Valentina ends up in space, held isolated from the world to protect others from being her collateral damage; while Masumi can only be contained by keeping her enmeshed in the very social context Valentina craves to be part of. 

Eliza is the enigma of our cast, having had the least focus thus far, so it’s not yet clear exactly how she’ll be providing contrasts. We can speculate: she’s a person who’s done something bad, something sinful, towards a good end, which rubs interestingly with Etienne’s sense of himself as an ethical rather than a good person. Her evident faith places her at odds with Jacky’s cynicism, perhaps. Maybe there’s something in  comparing her and Masumi as both carrying around a monster of some kind, a difference in how they both feel about being marked or “fallen”. And with Heavy … is there something about martyrdom? Although all the cast are martyrs to some extent…

There’s contrasting groupings, too. The data page I’ve scrawled on over there gave us one: the atomics vs. the extradimensionals. But there’s more. There’s a distinction between Magus and Eliza and the other four: Magus and Eliza sought power, or bargained or worked to get it; the other four were, as far as we know, born into their power (Valentina) or developed it naturally during childhood (the Atomics). There’s the contrast between the superpowers who are considered problems to be managed (Heavy and Masumi) and the people who do the managing (Etienne, Valentina and Magus). There’s obviously a gender split (and never doubt a Kieron Gillen comic will have at least a little about gender in it).

One division I really like is the divide between those who really need other people around them (Jacky Magus and his Pyramid, Heavy and his Family, Masumi and her Isabella) and those who's isolation is more stressed: Etienne, Valentina and Eliza. All the cast are isolated to some extent, in their nature as singular superpowers, six against billions. But their attitudes and needs towards that are where this separation lies: in different ways Heavy, Masumi and Magus all crave people and surround themselves with them; Etienne and Valentina both like people but are held apart from them.

So, pairs of opposites. Groups of opposites. But are there oppositions inside each of our superpowers as well? Yes, that’s why I asked. The power of rhetoric! The oppositions inside each of our main cast - the contradictions and conflicts of their being, is, it turns out, our theme for this inaugural issue of THE POWER CUT, which it thrills me to always type in all caps. This theme was a surprise to me, but it was emerging naturally from what we were writing about anyway, and I’ve learned to honour the magic in such things. For this reason, the oppositional theme, we’ve called this issue “The Balancing Act”, because that’s also a quote from Etienne in issue #1. It being a reference makes what we’re doing literature, I think.

So! Here it is, our inaugural issue. Have a read, why don’t you. Explore the pages. We’ve got substantial essays on each of our main six cast, some other writing, and lots of lovely art. If it’s a success (by what metric exactly? Artistically, I guess?) I for one would like to do one for every trade paperback that comes out. If you’re interested in contributing to the next one, we’re interested in having you! We have a Discord and a Tumblr and whatnot. There’s going to be lots to talk about:  I think this comic is going to be a long haul, one way or another. These six haven’t finished rubbing up against each other yet.

… that sounds sexier than I meant it. Well, it is Valentine’s Day. (ED: this worked better at time of original publication).

[mathildepadme]

Malcom in the Middle Season 2 Episode 9 “Tutoring Reese” // Star Wars The Phantom Menace

inspired by @starryaida

[eyra]

Hello hello hope you're doing well... was wondering if you could give some book recommendations or ones that inspire you!!

Hello! I feel like I perhaps bore people by always giving the same answer to this question (my favourite book ever is The Secret History by Donna Tartt, a perfect text, zero notes) so instead I'll tell you which books I'm reading at the moment that I'm enjoying.

I actually read very little fiction so we've got four non-fiction, one fiction, and one poetry, and I'm just picking them up depending on my mood.

The Witch - Ronald Hutton // The Ruin of all Witches - Malcom Gaskill

Ronald Hutton is someone I love and adore and I could listen to him speak on any subject for hours and hours. I find the 1600s witch trials bit of history absolutely fascinating and I've actually got a trip to Salem this autumn so these two books felt like essential texts.

My Garden World - Monty Don // Oak and Ash and Thorn - Peter Fiennes

Monty Don, new love of my life. I'm big into gardening at the moment and this book is just so romantically written, it's a joy to read. Oak and Ash and Thorn is a study of Britain's woodlands and it's very interesting and very entertaining so far - I love this author's writing style too.

Conversations with Friends - Sally Rooney // Collected Poems - Sylvia Plath

To say I was obsessed with the BBC adaptation of Conversations with Friends would be an understatement so I don't know why it took me so long to pick up the book. If Sally Rooney and Donna Tartt sit at opposite ends of a spectrum then I like to think my writing is right in the middle of that line (for the love of god don't take that as me comparing myself to either of these two writers, Jesus I can only wish for such company). Sylvia Plath is another writer I stayed away from for too long and I've been enjoying picking my way through this collection.

[kanejw]

What was read 2024

What follows is works read in the last year, in order. Some collections of poetry in here and a couple of plays. Faust is broken in two as I read the supplementary works with it & needed a breather. Just one was abandoned (Arabian Nights). One huge disappointment in Neil Gaiman's collection. Some were loaned from libraries, some were bought new, some were recommended from people I admire, some were gifts, some travelled a great distance to sit on my shelves. Most enriched, some inspired and from all something has been learned.

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle Haruki Murakami (1994)

Tender is the Flesh Agustina Bazterrica (2017)

The Mamba Mentality Kobe Bryant (2018)

The Devil’s Cup Stewart Lee Allen (2000)

Of The Farm John Updike (1965)

A Confederacy of Dunces John Kennedy Toole (1980)

Death on Credit Louis-Ferdinand Celine (1936)

Wilt Tom Sharpe (1976)

Odyssey - Homer (Samuel Butler translation 1879)

Hard Times Charles Dickens (1854)

A Good Man Is Hard to Find Flannery O’Connor (1953)

Lincoln in the Bardo George Saunders (2017)

Wolf Hall Hilary Mantel (2009)

Underworld Don DeLillo (1997)

The Turn of the Screw Henry James (1898)

The Satanic Verses Salman Rushdie (1988)

Trigger Warning Neil Gaiman (2015)

Child of God Cormac McCarthy (1973)

Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit Jeanette Winterson (1985)

The Centaur John Updike (1963)

Porterhouse Blue Tom Sharpe (1974)

Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes (1605 & 1615) (Thomas Lathrop translation 2005)

Summer Lightning P.G. Wodehouse (1929)

Castle to Castle Louis-Ferdinand Celine (1957)

Purgatorio Dante Alighieri (~1321)

Plexus Henry Miller (1953)

Paradiso Dante Alighieri (~1321)

The Pale King David Foster Wallace (2011)

Don’t Look Now. Not after Midnight. A Border-Line Case. The Way of the Cross. The Breakthrough. Daphne du Maurier collection (1971)

Last Exit to Brooklyn Hubert Selby Jr. (1964)

The Bostonians Henry James (1886)

The Covenant James A.Michener (1980)

The Arabian Nights. Nights 1 through 10 & The story of Ali Baba and the forty thieves killed by a slave girl. Malcom C.Lyons & Ursula Lyons (2008)

Rebecca Daphne du Maurier (1938)

Faust Part I Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1808/29) Albert G. Latham translation with supplementary text 1908

The Vegetarian Han Kang (2007)

The Prague Cemetery Umberto Eco (2010)

The Stranger in the Woods Michael Finkel (2017)

As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning Laurie Lee (1969)

The Exorcist William Peter Blatty (1971)

Faust Part II Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1832) Albert G. Latham translation with supplementary text 1908

The Road to Los Angeles John Fante (1985) published posthumously. (1936)

A Month in the Country J. L. Carr (1980)

The Winter’s Tale William Shakespeare (1609)

Candide Voltaire (1759)

Woke Up This Morning: The Definitive Oral History of The Sopranos Michael Imperioli and Steve Schirripa (2021)

The 120 Days of Sodom or The School of Libertinage The Marquis de Sade (1785) (published first in 1904)

UZUMAKI Spiral collection. Junji Ito (1998-99)

Vagabonding Rolf Potts (2002)

The Snows of Kilimanjaro et al Ernest Hemingway (1944)

Love Is a Dog from Hell: Poems 1974-1977 Charles Bukowski (1977)

Spring Snow Yukio Mishima (1969)

Mortality Christopher Hitchens (2012)

Disloyal A Memoir Michael Cohen (2020)

Orbital Samantha Harvey (2023)

Inside Story Martin Amis (2020)

Coleridge Poems & Prose selected by Peter Washington (1997) S.TC

The City and Its Uncertain Walls Haruki Murakami (2023)

V. Thomas Pynchon (1963)

Whiskey Words & a Shovel I R. H. Sin (2015)

Collected Poems 1938-83 Philip Larkin (1988/03)

Nexus Henry Miller (1959)

America at Middle Age Louis Galambos (1983)

Mysteries Knut Hamsun (1892)

Sylvia Plath Poems collection by C.A.Duffy (2012)

Experience Martin Amis (2000)

Sonny Boy Al Pacino (2024)

[sirwormbell-the4st]

@evilhorse936 said i should yap about malcom blame evilhorse its evilhorse's fault

ok so in the simplest of terms malcoms basically cupid if he was a stinky gamer geek from the midwest. and also a robot kind of. this story has gotten so convoluted over the past year or so.

it all started with this inventor called malcolm. who i guess is kinda like a god in the power sense or whatevs. a mysterious entity from another plane of existence. malcolm looks into the future and sees a human being born that he's REALLY going to hate. No explanation why (too lazy to write that part). So being the petty god he is, malcolm makes it his mission to mess up the family tree of this person so bad that theyll be basically a completely different person. In order to come down to earth, he creates a puppet / vessel to control. it can grow and bleed like any human, but thats just a well crafted disguise. its a robot of sorts comprised of complex and indescribable mechanisms. think bee and puppycat. the vessels general mission is to seek out those who are meant for eachother and bring them together with weird god magic YAY!!! but the actual main goal is to seek out the ancestors of this person malcolms gonna hate and make them like. have children with DIFFERENT PEOPLE (malcolm doesnt like to kill thats why hes doing all this petty shit. well more like he cant kill.).

It starts off well. the vessel learns to walk and often wanders from its "parents" for its mission.

When the vessel gets older, earth starts to change him. while gender never mattered before, expression suddenly meant something. (HES TRANS YAY!!!!). he has real, human love for his parents. (well ok he has mommy issues but he loves his dad guys theyre the best father n son duo theyre <3 :( HE LOVES HIM JUST THE WAY HE IS OUGH)he finds passion for cooking, videogames, sitcoms, and comic books. He changed his name to malcom because he loves watching malcolm in the middle with his dad. it felt right. he might have been drawn to it because hes supposed to BE his creator, but he has taken it and made the name his own. (no L obv) by the time hes in his teens, malcolm has lost control mostly. hes fighting back with the small notion of identity and existence. his own soul is forming. ok i need to wrap this up ok so.

he starts making friends for the first time finally and then gets really gay for this emo geek named shay and then once they become boyfriends malcolms like FINE!!! FINE YOU CAN BE A REAL BOY PINOCCHIO STYLE OR WHATEVER FINE!!!!! and after all that angst, gayness, and all those identity crises, bros a real boy :3

his special interest is cooking!! he makes a cooking youtube channel and eventually becomes a chef :) hes a skater bro and hes also been a devoted gamer like this whole time hes greasy and plays overwatch. hes a loser all around.

malcolm: "you are my creation. you aren't like them. you are a machine. a computer designed to carry out my orders"

malcom: "computer? ok computer? radiohead?"

BEFORE ANYONE SAYS ANYTHING, IM AWARE OF FHE PARALLELS BUT HE WASNT SUPPOSED TO BE INSPIRED BY NGE PLEASE.. GUYS...... I PROMISE.................GUYS.........

[thequietkid-moonie]

GUYSGUYSGUYSGUYSGUYSGUYSGUYSGUYS !!!! I WANT TO SHARE A THOUGHT THAT HAS BEING I MY MIND FOR A WHILE !!! PLEAAAAASE HESRD ME OUT !!!

This is me just ranting, so if you read it thank u so much! <3

Along with my mother I being watching again Malcom in the middle, I hold a great love for that series since it was part of my childhood and I can finally watch it at its full for the millionth time and I being noticing a few things

Like, I being putting more attention to the relasionship of Lois and Hal and broooo those bitches really love each other!!

Like, they have being through a lot and his family are a complete mess but they still love each other and keep going, facing all the problems because they love each other and they love their sons!!

There is even a chapter where the plot its all about how Hal really only has eyes for Lois, he is unable to look at any other woman with desire because its Lois the only woman he truly desire and love

Brooooooo

Its not a perfect relasionship since they have quite some troubles but they are perfect for each other! (Lois literally helps Hal with his maniac episodes and know how to deal with it!!!)

I may or may not be a little envy AND I am even inspired by it, bro I really want to write anything with that kind of stronge love now !!

[rlynntheskeleton]

▪▪▪This may just be the nostalgia talking but Malcolm in the Middle was an iconic 00s show that deserves more love▪▪▪

[eikouxd]

♤♡Ask A Bidder: Mushroom of Time: Dragon Thief ◇♧

Wanted to post this a week early :) since this week it's my birthday and will be busy to post and draw the comic! Therefore, Ask a Bidder will be back in the 2nd week of July, hopefully. There are alot of references in this comic see if you can spot them all ! *the last scene was inspired by Malcom in the Middle.

Previous Comic:

[muttman]

Hard to swallow pills (for tumblr):

A species that lives entirely underground would have little reason to have melanin, especially if they live primarily around a climate similar to England and Europe in general, especially because lighter skin allows for more vitamins to be obtained when there is less sun normally, this is why non-europeans and non-east asians are darker, the sun is more ínstense and so there’s need for protection and less need to take in more vitamins.

Any added character to Tolkien’s canon does by definition break canon, because the story then has to be changed to accommodate them. Any Beardless dwarf or short haired elf also applies, because of the pre-established culture of each race, and so the culture has to be augmented from what was written by Tolkien to accommodate.

Elves as Tolkien wrote them had long flowing hair because they saw that as beautiful, and the Dwarves never shaved. In addition to the melanin thing, the modern elves make no sense.

Middle Earth was inspired by European mythology, and so has European characters. It features non-europeans from far off lands, like the Harad of the south and the Easterlings of the East, but overall it makes sense as to why the characters are light skinned (I say this as a Mestizo). You shouldn’t cast Christian Bale to play Malcom X, nor Awkwafina to play Robert the Bruce. Same as you’d cast dark, straight haired mestizo (or a fully indigenous Nahuatl speaker if you’re lucky) to play an Aztec or a Mayan.

Grogu is a cutsy piece of bait to get you to watch mediocre shows and distract from the shit sequel trilogy. Star Wars is now just colorful garbage and Din Djarin is (and always has been) a different breed of Gary Stu than Rey, but still such none the less, a plank of wood with all of the “super kewl” items that people know, like Yoda’s species (formerly tridactyls), and the darksaber.

Star Wars and Star Trek, and soon Middle Earth, are being lost to the Normies, and the only way to preserve the original fandom is to make sure you keep an iron grip on your original copies of the series and of Tolkien’s work, to prevent the Heirs from allowing editing.

The people here clap for the most basic shit imaginable, like Din Djarin holding his hands up from a droid about to shoot him. Despite the fact that his opinion on droids has been aboit as stable as a wet noodle, and this isn’t even his show.

Tumblr has not improved as much as you’d think since the exodus, but instead simply infected other sites with its exodus.

Modern Writing, relies now so heavily on the fans making the character traits for the writers, that characters like Din Djarin have exploded in popularity, despite being planks of wood.

Now, I’m leaving this stupid site to learn to write properly, so I can rebuild where Disney and others destroyed, and I’ll laugh as their properties continue to plummit and the Normies slowly fade, to find a new nieche to make into a trend, only to find its fandom wiser, and gatekeeping the fuck out of it, and see peace be restored.

[ghurab-alzilal]

A good batboy has a plan for the plan 😉

2nd Day: Jealousy

Inspired by the canon of DCAMU in the movie "Teen Titans vs Justice League" and the scene of "Malcom in the Middle" series.

[the-sith-in-the-sky-with-diamond]

The new story content of swtor just inspired me …

Luhcy is so done, she feels like she is still a slave and can’t choose her own path. [there is absolutely no spoiler there] I was thinking of a lot of different AU with happy/sappy/sad ending… like

She went into adventure life with Theron(and Nik ?) &kiddos

Leaves odessen for vacation and Theron secretly drive them to Ordd Mantel and they live hidden there (link to TBB)

Internal Alliance war/Empire that leads Odessen to withdraw from the galaxy (with force mist protecting the planet)

Gives to Deoris (the second in command of the Alliance, my cathar havoc squad leader) the leading and just go live in a friend fancy mansion on Alderaan

Just build an organic house around the cave they escape in on Odessen for vacation now being their full time home

Go rogue to corsucant, either at first at Theron s old appartement (that Malcom was keep paying the bills sentimentally) and then buy a huge penthouse on the top of a corrie building; or either living on Malcom’s home

Luhcy throw everything away and began a personal journey on the galaxy, until theron (&nik) find her and they set on Tattooine/ Yavin IV/ Rishi or Endor

Living in a wreck of a ship on Danttooine

Anyway I m just talking nonsense but I can’t imagine Luhcy keeping on with betraying the empire, all the pressure, the republic probably never accept her and keep giving them tasks… around the story of the new patch, Luhcy & Theron had: Tasiele (who borns not so long after the fall of Zakuul Empire), the twins Leto and Ghanima (born after the traitor arc, on au where Nik is still around/polyship, he might be their father 👀), and a lil toddler girl ( not sure of her name and her birth date…). So the little tribe needs more space anyway… and yeah with Shae shenanigans it would probably being the push to just shrugs, made a middle finger to the galaxy drama and choosing to be happy and living free. « Nothing is more important than family » right? ;)

Anyway I have throw away the au where Luhcy died on Ossus to save Praven. There was too much interesting canon shenanigans to put her through!

So some very very messy sketch for house ideas… I really like the first, the the second was closer to the ideas I ve got at the beginning ( notably for a setting down on Ordd Mantel…)