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Just marry the belle and be done.

X-Men Gold #30 (2018) "Remember It," X-Men '97 (2024)

see also: this thread started by @bornincaldecott, this gifset by @counterspelling, and this post

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you don’t like country/folk/americana? you don’t like the soulful lamenting and colorful storytelling of poor workers and immigrants of the past? banjo banjo🪕?

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having similar issues looking for similar help </3

I have bad dreams because I don't get goodnight kissies from a lesbian

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"Doctor Martin, why are you an atheist?"

Director Maria Kleinheart wasn't the sort of person who asked indirect or idle questions. She was in every way a Kleinheart, the spitting image of her grandmother. Only she wasn't staring out from a yellowed ad in a back issue of Popular Science or Woman's Day, she was staring from across desk made of polished slate.

Emil Martin didn't respond immediately. That sort of question usually came with an invitation to services or a badgering about Pascal's wager. That didn't fit what he knew about the director, though that wasn't much. An intense religious conversion would explain the rumors around her distance from the rest of her family.

"Director, is this a personal or work related question?" Emil finally asked.

"Work." She replied.

"Is that appropriate?"

"Yes. This is about security clearances."

That made even less sense. Emil decided to risk a lecture on his eternal soul and answered truthfully. "Pretty standard, insufficient evidence."

"Would you rather it be true?" She asked. "Would it be comforting to know you existed for a purpose, that someone was in charge of your existence, caring for you?"

"Not really." Emil replied. "I'm rather Hitchenisan in that regard."

"Good enough. Follow me."

-

"BE NOT AFRAID."

The words seemed to come out of the air itself. The thing was at the center of the large, expansive lab that had once been a missile silo. It was a sphere, surrounded by two rings of brass-like metal. The rings were lined with hemispherical semi-translucent white glass or crystal protrusions. The inner ring spun slowly, as did the central core, though only the faintest irregularities in its glowing blue-white corona revealed that motion.

The outer ring was held in place with steel chains, each link six inches in diameter. Two chains locked the ring to the floor, while a third latched the top to the ceiling. The cuffs the chains connected to seemed to have been welded shut around it.

"BE NOT AFRAID." It 'spoke' again. Its voice was clear and musical, but wrong and artificial at the same time. It sounded like familiar voices; his mother and father, his cousins, his old school pals, his boyfriends, even Director Kleinheart, each synthesized poorly via an AI speech simulator, all speaking in perfect time.

Every time it spoke, Emil smelled his grandfather's sweet cornbread fresh from the oven.

"That looks like an angel." He finally gasped.

"Looks like." Director Kleinheart smiled. He wasn't sure she could do that. "I knew we picked the right man."

"This is why you were asking about my beliefs?"

"Yes Doctor Martin. You see, freedom of religion is an extension of the principle of innocence until proven guilty. Once one faith is shown to be correct, all others are revealed as wrong."

"And you wanted to make sure I, what, wasn't guilty of being wrong?"

"No, the mistaken are innocent of everything except the actions they directly take." Kleinheart continued. "It's the ones who would take this to mean they were right that are fifth columnists to an unaccountable alien power."

"Oh." Emil replied. He didn't know quite what else to say.

"I want you on our team that's studying it. We need to know how it works, what it's made of, what those things its made of can be used for, you know the drill."

"BE NOT AFRAID." Again came the smell of cornbread.

"Are the restraints necessary?" Emil asked. "It is telling us we don't need to be afraid of it."

"Oh, we thought that too at first." The director said. "But we've already learned quite a bit about our little intruder here, even a bit of its 'source code' for lack of a better analogue. That message isn't meant for us."

"What is it then?"

"Can't you guess, Doctor?"

Dr. Emil Martin shrugged. "I have no idea."

"It isn't giving us a warning."

Director Kleinheart smiled for the second time in Emil's memory and spoke again.

"It's repeating its orders."

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@worm-generator is the roommate in question and they do in fact have a wip and it slays heehee 🤠

everybody wants a sapphic romance but nobody wants to hear about my sapphic romance where shitting is a metaphor for being in love

(it's because my roommate and I cooked this up last night and nobody knows but us)

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I hate tony simos with all the reasonable rage I can muster

spoilers

AND THEY DID. I am so happy about it he had so many opportunities to not be the fucking worst but nope

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I NEED A YEAR TO PROCESS EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENED IN THAT CIRCLE. A FULL YEAR.

RIZ JUST SAW FIG GETTING HURT AND LEAPED INTO ACTION TO SAVE HER,

ADAINE FELT A POWERFUL THING HAPPENING AND COUNTERSPELLED A GOD FOR FIG,

FABIAN JUST SAW THE MOONLIGHT DOING THINGS TO HIS FRIENDS AND CAST SMOKE,

GORGUG JUMPED IN WITH RIZ AND FIG AND CAST WARDING BOND,

KRISTEN JUMPED IN TOO AND THE MOMENT THEY NEEDED IT THE MOST, SHE USED HER STRENGTH TO HOLD ON AND KEEP HER FRIENDS FROM GETTING HURT.

IT'S ABOUT. THE LOVE. NONE OF THEM KNEW WHAT WAS THE RIGHT OR WRONG THING TO DO, THEY JUST ACTED. THEY JUST. ACTED. TO SAVE EACH OTHER AND FOLLOW EACH OTHER AND IM SDKLGHWUIOEGHSKDJGHSDG!!!!

IT'S ALL ABOUT THE LOVE!!!!!!!

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Israel went to Jenin today, in the West Bank, and kidnapped this 7 year old girl from her family. They do these things often but we rarely catch them on film [@/Carl0s_Vela on X.]:

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i’m micro plastic maxing. i want to give birth to a baby that’s already got shoes on

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as a lesbian with sad eyes & bangs i will be compiling a list of things my friends have called me

1. moo the dog (put on my jamas dog)

2. the big eyed gerbil (when you're being mean this is who you're being mean to)

3. that image of the pink stuffed animal with dork ass glasses and bangs

4. sad Victorian child who witnessed their parents die

5. modern child who dropped their ice cream just now

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Entire Gaza population now 100 percent severely food insecure

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Hamas just released its proposal for a permanent ceasefire. Israel has dismissed all of their proposals as “unrealistic” — and that has been echoed across the U.S. corporate media.

Here are the actual proposals from each side.

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Children in Rafah are preparing to welcome the holy month of Ramadan, after 145 days of genocide in the Gaza Strip.

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“My name is Aaron Bushnell. I am an active duty member of the United States Air Force and I will no longer be complicit in genocide. I am about to engage in an extreme act of protest, but compared to what people have been experiencing in Palestine at the hands of their colonizers, it’s not extreme at all. This is what our ruling class has decided will be normal. Free Palestine.”

—Aaron Bushnell

“The act of an American soldier sacrificing himself for Palestine is the highest sacrifice […] a poignant message to the American administration to stop its involvement in the aggression.”

—PFLP Central Media Dept.

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The IOF opened fire on starving civilians trying to collect food aid murdering dozens and injuring an estimated hundreds or more they then crushed some of the injured by running over them with tanks. This was their “reason.”