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Something a little lighter during this rough week.

My kid loves Marry Poppins, so I have rewatched the film a bunch of times recently, and have head cannon for said 60 year old movie of an even older book. It is thus.

Marry Poppins is a feminist anarchosocialist witch that was watching over the home of the most important financier of the women’s suffrage movement in Britain. This is why the movie opens with her in the clouds. Seeing that the current nanny for the house was complete shite, she infiltrates the Banks family. She causes the wind to blow Jane and Micheal’s kite away in order to get the current nanny to quit. Maybe she also charmed the nanny. I wouldn’t put it past her, Marry Poppins is thorough.

Once the call for new nanny’s goes out, she blows the rest of the applicants away, guarantying herself the position. Now that she is in close proximity to Winnifred, she can better protect her and ensure she can stay part of the movement. However, her new position also gives her proximity to money and power. So does MP waste her time? No, she engages in active sabotage on the capitalist patriarchy.

First, she enlists the assistance of semi magical revolutionary agent, known as Burt. He helps her ingratiate herself with Jane and Micheal, and assists her in casting the ritual “kill billionaires”, or as it is referred to in the film “supercalifragilisticexpialidocious”. The next day she makes plans to meet up with an agent to crash the fishing industry, but Burt directs Andrew to intercept her as the agent has been compromised. They spend the rest of the day building an alibi.

Marry P then manipulates Mr banks into taking the children to the bank after she casts “run on the banks” on Micheals allowance, and sets it to go off if a banker tries to steal it. A side effect of the spell is teaching Micheal to value money as a way to do good in the world. As he is entering a bank and would never willingly relinquish even 2 pence to a house of patriarchal power, the trap’s success is a forgone conclusion.

M Pop now has a free day to partake in less child friendly forms of sabotage. She sends Burt to check on the children while she is out.

She meets up with them later and ritual casts “change of heart” on Mr banks with Burt’s help. This is the final step in “kill billionaires” while also ensuring Mr banks doesn’t seek divorce due to his inability to father his children or form any sort of meaningful relationship with Winifred.

Mr. Banks then goes to get sacked by the fiduciary bank people. The bank is crafty though. They have old magical rituals (typical patriarchal hazing) to destroy Mr. Banks will, thus making it impossible for anybody but the strongest witch to cast kill billionaires, and they have cast “patriarchy” on every stone used to build the bank. Making it impossible for a witch to enter the building.

However, Marry Poppins is not some conjurer of cheap tricks. She has sent Mr. Banks with the spell instead. Her aura of positivity has suffused every person that Mr. Banks loves, and he easily over comes the hazing spell and casts supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.

Mr. Dawes dies, Mr Banks gets rehired back into the bank because of the vacancy at the bank (they are too lazy to train a new guy). This is according to plan (so Winnifred is still able to finance the suffragette movement) and she floats off to continue her tireless support of women and the working class.

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Football and its effect on Human-Krogan relations

I don't know how tumblr works, but I'm posting a comic idea I want to see and you can't stop me. This would follow Wrex wordlessly through a day in his life during the reaper war. It starts Scene to Scene with him glad handing a few Turian diplomats in the presidium. Him worrying over a holo of a battlefield map on some far flung world while Asari Attaches look on in trained impassivity as his soldiers die. Him having a heated "Discussion" with a Salarian "agent in a back alley. Him going before the Council and not bringing it up  because he needs Salarian support. It then switches action to action, he bows to the council and struts out. (He maintains a great stoicism, as the future of his people depend on working well with these people.). Each step has purpose. 

Hard cut from side point of view to behind and above his right shoulder showing a hallway just full of microaggressions. I'm talking, a Volus tapping his friend and pointing, an Asari couple holding each other closer and clutching alien handbags, a Salarian giving him the evil eye. The next panel switches back to a side view of Wrex exiting the hallway while two batarians shoulder shove him. Which he allows to avoid an incident. 

But the next page is just 9 moment to moment head shots of him 1. stopping wide eyed looking up facing forward, 2.  looking down and cussing "Fuck This" under his breath, 3. turning around raising his fist, 4. abject fury, 5. abating abject fury, 6. Self loathing at breaking his cool, 7 turning back around in disgust, 8. Closing his eyes and gaining his composure, 9. eyes focused and resolute as he carries on his way. 

We continue with a couple scene to scene of him walking around the presidium. But then he opens up another door and it's a full page panel, this time over his left shoulder, showing a relaxing Fem Shep on a couch watching a football game on a large holo screen in a warmly lit presidium lounge room. 

Moment to moment from the perspective of the tv watching Shep and Wrex. Wrex walks into the room, placing his hands on the couch on the back of the seat next to Shepard. He asks "What is this?". 

Shep looks back and says "Oh hey Wrex, Its football highlights." ( She is bruised up and sporting a sling on her right harm. She is recovering from a rough mission before heading to Tochanka) She looks up at him waiting for more questions. Wrex has none for two panels so she looks back at the tv. A panel of watching placidly, then one where Shep flinches and grimaces with a smile as if she just saw someone get lit up, and Wrex's eyes widen.

The next half page is two rows of 3 panels. 1. Shep relaxes and says without looking back "That's called The Hit!. Wrex moves to walk out of the left side of the panel. 2. Shep "Those guys were not ok after that." still watching the holo. Wrex is halfway out of the panel. 3. Shep is silent and doesn't look back. A wry smile on her face as she remembers those days when she hit people like that. Wrex is gone. Second row. 4. Shep is quiet, Wrex is halfway back into the panel, this time in front of the couch. 5. Shep now sees Wrex coming, looks at him questioningly and says "Wrex?". Wrex is now fully in the panel and almost to Shepard. 6. Wrex is hugging Shepard with his back turned to us and Shepard's head is just visible over his left shoulder. She shouts "WREX! You good?".  The next page is two panels split diagonally top and bottom. The first is a panned out view of the holo with Wrex lifting Shepard off the ground in a bear hug in front of it, while Ray Lewis is absolutely lighting someone up behind him. Wrex says "yes" . And then a tight in view of a highly stylized face of a silently weeping Wrex holding on to Shepard like she's a piece of driftwood and he's drowning at sea. Tears in his eyes, he says " The Krogan are not alone."