#Externals

[ourflagmeansworms]

I can't wait for Alice Dyer to endure the horrible trama that will come with her brother being some sort of murderous music external with spooky vibes that put grifters bone and that violin dude to shame.

[pageofqueens]

WINNER IS:

SELENE’S ROME ATTIRE!!

[o-soupnoodle-o]

First round of externals drawingssss(up next lady murbrey and [ERROR])

[braddocklegacy]

Captain Britain vs Saul

X-Men Unlimited #137

[catluniscia]

Selene Gallio The Black Pristess

Selene Gallio, formally the Black Queen of the inner circle, the sister hood of evil mutants, currently the Black Priestess, -tries to keep reading her wiki article- okay like she has done a lot and is like ancient, like born right after the sinking of Atlantis old...like I will be honest I am struggling explaining her, just read like the marvel wiki if you can on her, Cause it's a lot and I am gonna be honest, when I was researching  Madelyne Pryor because of Xmen 97, I found images of her with Selene and she was holding a skull and I was like...I wanna draw dark lady with skull...and now we are here...with my attempt at drawing her, Also that necklace was a pain to figure out how to do...now if you need me I will be napping for 1000 years...not really I have work to do.

[heckcareoxytwit]

Gideon the External has launched a cyberattack on X-Corps Island! Wiz Kid and Trinary go off to defend their base by fighting Gideon in the cyberspace in their own way.

X-Men Unlimited Infinity Comic #132, 2024

[strejdaking]

Happy X-July, or whatever! Trust me to be always too late for any celebration, I have decided, having finally seriously get into X-Men just in time for their 60th anniversarry, to share with you an obscure promotional comic from 1990s.

If you don't know, early 90s were not only the hight of X-Men's popularity, but a mythical time where people still not only read, but actually bought physical floppies of comics, to the point that in 1993, Toys R' Us could sell promotional comic NOT based on the hit cartoon, but taking place in the actual comics continuity, featuring X-Men's iconic adversary Gideon, surely the most significant character to debute in New Mutants #98,

This silly thing does actually have some historical significance for hardcore X-fans believe it or not, as it is not only the this the first time Deadpool has met any of the non-EXTREME X-Men (and only his second appearance outside of New Mutants/X-Force after Nomad #4-a very different time indeed), this is the only appearance of Karma of the New Mutants between Wolverine Volume 2 #9 in July 1989 and Beast #1 in May 1997, still searching for her siblings.

[momentsbeforemass]

The externals

“Never judge a book by its…”

It’s classic. It’s cliché. And it’s still needed.

Because one of the most common things that we stumble on is appearances, on how things look from the outside. The externals.

Whether it involves people, possessions, or events for most of us it is all too easy to focus on the externals.

Sometimes, we focus on them because we assume that they tell might us something about what’s going on inside.

Usually, we focus on the externals because we’ve mistaken them for the important part.

The point that Jesus is making with His unsettling responses in today’s Gospel (all leading up to this one - “No one who sets a hand to the plow and looks back to what was left behind is fit for the Kingdom of God”) is about seeing the externals for what they really are.

Sometimes the externals can point us in the right direction. Most of the time though, they don’t.

Most of the time, they’re not the important part. Most of the time, they’re just something extra. Something that keeps changing, something that passes away.

The point that Jesus is making is that once we understand what the externals really are, we’ll let them go.

We’ll put our time and attention where it needs to be – on the only thing that matters in the end, the only thing that stands firm.

Don’t focus on the external. Focus on the Eternal.

“While the world changes, the Cross stands firm.” – St. Bruno of Cologne

Today’s Readings

[pangur-and-grim]

alright, I’m annoyed with the class that I’m taking. it’s about writing novels, and I thought it would have cool stuff about balancing your narrative and developing themes etc, but instead she spent the first class talking about how every book fits into the Hero’s Journey (the monomyth template). and I was somewhat of a contrarian, and said “can you give us examples of books that don’t fit into this template?” and she said “no. because all books fit.”

but I dunno man, I just finished reading this Korean book where the plot is just the character having a string of hookups and reflecting on them without changing in any way. I don’t know if it’s possible to contort that into the Hero’s Journey.

[marvelman901]

Gideon!

What do you think about this External?

1st - Jim Lee.

5th - Keith Pollard and Josef Rubinstein.

[doesephs]

win for traumatised individuals! local eldritch horror is here to rip it all out free of charge

[pageofqueens]

[hobohobgoblim]

Somebody call the Office of Incident Assessment and Response one of their externals is loose.

From Facebook marketplace

😬

- Admin Ten

[braddocklegacy]

“So that just leaves…”

X-Men Unlimited #138 (2024)

[stardella]

At some point you just need a clear lore timeline with some vague implications

Bonus goof: