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Anyway colored some of my UC Gundam X Lancer designs!

Amuro, Char, Haman, and Sayla <3

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Lancer X GQuuuuuuX

The Witch and her Everest [G][M] Custom "No Dominion."

I won't let Shiiko die, even if that means transplanting her into an entirely different setting.

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John Berkey

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Unless those genre conventions are subverted. Sure, dumping Elmer Fudd into a Batman story might have turned ol' Elmer into a hitman of John Wick's caliber, but the story ended with Bugs outsmarting both Elmer and Bats.

(Yes, this actually happened; DC ran Looney Tunes/DCU crossover comics some years ago.)

something fun about all those "could granny weatherwax defeat kira" "could the infinity train fix izzy hands" sort of tumblr polls is like. there's a smug answer that's just "it depends whose story they're in," like, bugs bunny always wins if the genre is a looney tunes short but if he's in some sort of grimdark action drama then he's just a rabbit and gets shot by a hunter. but the other way to look at those polls is that's the whole question: whose genre rules have priority? there are some characters whose genre rules take priority over whatever story they're in.

here's what i say, granny weatherwax would always defeat kira precisely because granny can't exist in the death note universe without her own genre rules taking over; there's no "if it's a light yagami story then light wins" here because if granny's there it isn't a light yagami story. bugs bunny always wins because whatever story he enters becomes a looney tunes short, he cannot by his nature exist in any other context. the answer to "which our flag means death character could survive black sails?" is stede bonnet and only stede bonnet, because if any other ofmd character enters black sails they become a black sails character and most black sails characters die. but stede is the one who carries the romcom aura and that's part of who he is, if stede enters the world of black sails then black sails is now a romcom, and he's absolutely fine

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I have some thoughts on Gquuuuuuux; since a lot of them fall into spoiler territory, they're below the cut.

WHY IS THE GRANDPA GUNDAM APPARENTLY SENTIENT?

WHY IS LALAH PLAYING MERRY HELL WITH THE MULTIVERSE?

DOES THIS MEAN MAIN TIMELINE CHAR AND AMURO LIVED THROUGH THE AXIS FLASH?

IS SHUJI AN AMURO OR A KAMILLE?

WHAT IN THE UNGODLY FUCK IS GOING ON?

*Ahem.*

Honestly, I'm enjoying Gquuuuuuux, even if it's gone utterly off the rails. My major complaint on it is that it keeps with the Newtype/Psycomm-tech power raising that Unicorn started. However, as it hasn't been as...front and center as it was with Unicorn, I've found it a bit more bearable than I did with Unicorn. (Lalah apparently being something of a limiter also helps, methinks.)

And honestly, I am biased on that. While I love Unicorn's underlying storyline regarding the hunt for Laplace's Box, I absolutely hated some of the writer's other choices. The Vist Foundation is one, but the Psycoframe being raised to something that can warp reality and is commonly available was the one that ultimately helped cement my dislike of Unicorn.

(Before the Unicorn fandom gets up in my grill: While yes, Vist would have it through their control of Anaheim, nobody else would, especially not the Sleeves by that point. No, the psycoframe isn't the the internal skeleton of the MS, just the frame of the cockpit- go read the technical manual if you can find it. No, it can't fucking warp reality without another psycoframe within less than ten meters, and even then it will be exploding/dumping your ass in the Kira-Kira. No, the Unicorn, Banshee, or Phenex cannot beat the Turn-A in a one-on-one fight, even in destroy mode. They cannot even beat the G-Self in a one-on-one fight. No, you cannot argue; there's a G-Reco short film called "From the Past to the Future" that proves my point.)

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Blossom City by Eddie Mendoza - While the cherry trees are blooming, some mechs, face each other and fight

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Roughly seven times over, yes.

Fuck it, we're making Warhammer 40k an RPG.

Your models can't move unless they've undergone a deep moment of character growth.

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an open plan office full of programmers who sing sea-shanties as they work

oh we’ll be alright, if we get a clean compile we’ll be alright, if we get a clean compile we’ll be alright, if we get a clean compile and we’ll all hack on behind

oh we’ll roll the old editor along we’ll roll the old editor along we’ll roll the old editor along and we’ll all hack on behind

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you cannot fix that blond man please step away and let the professionals take over

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No transphobes allowed, only transborbs.

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Peter Morwood

The original post about his loss is here.

Today, finally, after more delay than I'd have liked (but the reasons for it were understandable and I support them), I brought his ashes home. They're sitting up on his desk, in front of his computer. It seemed logical, considering how very much of his time he spent up there working (among other things) on his Tumblr posts. (And his queue is still unspooling.)

I miss him so much... but that's never going to change. My job now is to make sure that he's not forgotten, by getting his books into print into more than one or two languages: a project that's going to take a while, but which I welcome.

Meanwhile, thanks again to all of you who've sent your support via Ko-Fi and other methods. You're all in my heart every day: along with him.

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Donald Trump spreads lies and misinformation about many things — immigrants, the LGBTQ+ community, DEI, “wokeness,” FEMA, tariffs. The list goes on. But know this. Spreading lies is all part of his bigger strategy to sow chaos and consolidate more power. Understand it — and do not fall for it. ‘Andor’ hits close to home, doesn’t it?

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The UC Gundam/Lancer brainrot is still in full swing.

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I mean, given Char's Counterattack can be read as OTL Char staging the most overwrought theater kid "suicide by cop rival" plot, he very well might have intended to do just that.

Assuming GQUUUUUUX doesn't retcon the Axis Flash, at least....

imagine if zeon held a state funeral for gquuuuuux char after he got zeknova’d

imagine if the kycilia let it slip that he’s casval rem deikun so they eulogize him as zeon deikun’s only son, their savior who gave his life defending the zabi family

imagine being so bad at your job that your opps get to commemorate you as a hero to further their legitimacy. uc char would kill himself

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5 years ago, I was in Rehab.

10 years ago, I was watching my Potential and Opportunities dissolve and evaporate in an ocean of cheap gin and expensive whiskey.

But 5 years ago, I was in Rehab.

One of the exercises they had us perform was to imagine ourselves happy, 5 years in the future.

Many of us in that room had forgotten how to imagine nice things happening to them. A few snorted (well, I snorted), finding the notion that we’d even still be around in 5 years grimly humorous.

For about half of us, it was the last stop on the way down.

But I indulged the therapist. I was there, after all, because I did not want to die. So, I imagined myself, 5 years hence.

Happy.

It came to me all at once; an artistic remix on Norman Rockwell’s Freedom From Want, reframed with myself placing food at the table.

Sunday Dinner At My Place, I answered, when it came my turn to share my fantasy. I was asked what food I imagined eating.

It’s not the meal itself, I said, it’s the implications framed around it. Sunday Dinner At My Place means that I have a Place. It means that I have Family that will actually speak to me and friends who actually want to see me. It means money enough not just to feed myself but others too. It means having the time to spare to take the time preparing the meal.

A lot of nodding heads all around me. A struck chord. Many people with no Place, in that place. Nowhere that would lament their leaving.

5 years hence, as I lay down to sleep in my Home, with my Wife and my Son, surrounded by my Art and my Flowers, I reflect.

It was a long road. It was hard. We lost people. So many people. There were long days and long nights and hospital stays. Angry arguments with ghosts. I changed, in ways I never hoped for, or expected. Good ways, finally, for once. Slowly, against the backdrop of a world in chaos, I found my mind.

Sometimes, My Wife wondered aloud, what she did to deserve me. After some stumbling with my feelings, I eventually settled on an answer.

I’m a Rescue.

She gave me a Home.

And, so, I gave her a Family.

It seemed fair

This Sunday, my folks, which whom I have not had a shouting match in years, will come over for dinner. We will cook and eat together. My Friend became My Wife, and she took a piece of me and with it she made Our Son. There will be many hugs, and no violence. Good Things Happened.

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but you don’t know what the future holds.

don’t give up yet, ok?

It could get good, even.

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For me this isn't even about empathy or sympathy (though there's value in those as well), it is just straight-up a human rights thing. Once you have decided that there is *any* category of human that can be treated as less-than-human you've said that humanity is conditional, and so are the rights that come with it. You've already lost, you've granted the fascists their point because *you agree with them* that some people don't deserve to be treated like humans.