#How legs. How. How anything man

[inkyrainstorms]

Forwards, Beckon, Rebound

Based on chapter 9 of @aroace-get-out-of-my-face’s fic! I read the chapter and was humming this song to myself later that very day, and it was like two neurons connected in my brain to form a single coherent thought. I simply had to make this.

E. Have fun man.

[krisdreemurrs]

ppl who think season 2 of arcane was nuanced are really funny to me actually

[a-stars-art-blog]

Doodles of ideas that’ve been stuck in my head for a while now ☺️

Flat colors below bc I’m just super happy with how these turned out!!!!

I LOVE RENDERING

[sir-kettle-of-countertop]

Some little WIP sneak peak on a prop for an OC reference sheet. Meant to be a Geier self-maintenance guidebook of sorts.

How does it look so far? Is the language ok?

[veinsfullofstars]

✨ The wizard and the jester ✨

(ID: Kirby series fanart sketches of Marx and Magolor in humanized form, with some Marxolor shenanigans tossed in for funsies, plus one guest appearance by Kirby. More detailed descriptions in Alt Text. END ID)

Sketches started some time in 2021, finished 10/28/24.

[wildsaltair]

now that the seven busiest days of the year are FINALLY over, I can get back to my Maximus insanity. here have a close-up of the hands and arms that make guest appearances in every daydream I have ever had

[illegiblehandwriting1]

i love you flashbacks i love you pov shifts i love you nonlinear storytelling

[miniiinebulaee]

Man I'm so tired of this talk

[saiwestfield]

leg saga continued…

so, I have had constant chronic leg pain and restlessness since November of last year. I have officially reached the stage (of whatever the hell this is) where I suddenly get really weak in my legs?? And my arms are starting to get weak as well. No pain and no restlessness, only weakness (in my arms) So yeah things are getting weird here.. I also suddenly started getting mobility aid advice on Pinterest which feels like some kind of omen…

I’m preparing to have to start some kind of uh idk treatment?? Aid??? (I’m supposed to be in physical therapy right now but my therapist keeps forgetting about me :’)). But yeah, I don’t know if I’m ready to possibly lose the use of my legs or leg. Which could be possible. I know this may seem dramatic (and it probably is) but Ive really been losing use of my limbs lately. I’ve never had any bad medical issues or had any severe injuries, only many, mostly minor ankle sprains over the course of two years.

tldr, the future is not looking bright right now… should I be concerned😭

[hauntingblue]

Jayce telling vi she won't make it on her own.... okay mr. projector...

[found--family]

they couldn't let cesar and jesse return bc they would've taken one look at dean and cas interacting and known they had it bad for each other

[yourfavoriteabomination]

Every time I see Joe Quinn in literally any movie or show or anything he's in, I can't stop picturing him on his knees. He was meant to kneel, AND HE'S ALWAYS PLAYING SERVICE BRAT TYPES!!!!!!!!!! I'd do unholy things to him istg. That man lives in my head and heart rent-free

[adrift-in-thyme]

Odysseus: I’m a pretty cool dude. Minstrel, sing about my badass plan to sack Troy

Also Odysseus: MY LIFE IS SO SAD PLEASE STOP SINGING ABOUT IT

[wow-an-unfunny-joke]

I need more junkrat amputee content- Like bro is missing half of his limbs and I rarely see people utalize that- I mean it cost him an arm and a leg to get those prostetics, they probabaly weren't cheap either. His nubs need to breath every once in a while

[feralsneeze]

Not sneeze just mental health rambling in the tags

[kiragecko]

Ultimate Comics: A Retrospective

Ultimate Comics was a Marvel alternate universe that existed from 2000 to 2015. They were some of the first comics I ever read, and I wanted to talk a little about the various titles (that I remember) and what I think about them.

Ultimate Spider-Man -

Everyone says this is the best Ultimate series. It is.

It is also tonally different from the rest of the line, which leads to some fascinating crossovers. (66-67 is a fun one with Wolverine.)

Rather than reinventing the characters, it's pretty faithful to them, though Peter may be slightly less of a jerk than canon. It introduces most of Peter's canon cast, but writes them into a 14-15 year old's life, rather that the 'older teen'(/30 year old) of the original comics. A bit slow moving at times, and everyone talks like they're on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, but its a GOOD SERIES. And it's Spider-Man.

Ultimate Comics: Spider-Man -

This is also a good series, and a worthy successor to the previous one. Miles is wonderful. However, I'm not thick skinned enough for comics. I couldn't forgive Marvel for Ultimatum, and even though this series was really good at respecting Peter's death and writing a new Spider-man fully aware of the weight of his legacy, I was MAD. Stupid apocalyptic cross-over events. Stupid hyper-violence. I HATE IT.

Ultimate X-Men 1-33

Must a series be good? This one is not.

It's as soulless and obsessed with being cool as the Ultimates (see below), but instead of partner abuse, incest, and cannibalism, it's gleefully reveling in torture and young adults being incredibly petty dicks to each other.

I personally find gratuitous torture more intriguing than partner abuse. The Weapon X arc is compelling to a certain type of reader. (Me, for example.)

However, Ultimates at least had some partial characters and a few archetypes. Mark Millar's Ultimate X-Men doesn't even have different varieties of dickishness. Not a single personality to be found. Just cardboard cutouts there to deliver quips.

(13 and 14 are a fill-in about Gambit and are really sweet, despite being by Chuck Austen. This version of Gambit will never return. Neither will this version of Chuck Austen. But I found them worth reading.)

Ultimate X-Men 34-100

The series could not recover from having zero characters. The lineup was too high profile to switch out for characters with actual personalities, but also utterly uninteresting for anything other than flashy action movie violence. I stuck around for another 40 or so issues, but the only ones worth reading are the Spider-Man crossover in 34-39, where Peter Parker tries to help out Wolverine and really struggles with the genre shift to ultraviolent action thriller. Everyone should read that. It's great!

The Ultimates -

Okay, this mini-series actually has cool stuff in it. It is drastically weakened by being WAY too focused on that cool stuff, but I ... look, I absolutely don't recommend it, but I enjoyed it when I was 18.

This is the Ultimate version of the Avengers. The Avengers movie is heavily based on these guys.

Things that are cool:

Ultimate Thor is FASCINATING. Hippie cult leader who may be delusional about actually being Thor. Not really a superhero, but sort of helps out. Mark Millar doesn't respect liberals (or anyone else), but the character kind of gets away from him and is good anyways? (All that lovely ambiguity will quickly be lost. But this bit was good.)

Ultimate Iron Man is Movie Iron Man. He's got all the early movie version's flaws and strengths. His quips are often very good. He was interesting enough that I read his first mini. (A mistake. More later.)

Things that are mixed:

Ultimate Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver are ... look, I liked melodrama as a young adult. These guys were consistently my favourite parts of the first 2 minis. They're not good people. They only pretend to do heroics (and even the pretense is perfunctory). It's heavily implied that they're in an incestual relationship. But even cowering from their abusive father is done with such flair and emotion! Mark Millar writes good hooks for hurt/comfort, okay?

Ultimate Black Widow and Hawkeye are ... the basis for the movie versions. That means these guys are responsible for Hawkeye having an awful buzzcut, no expression, and a wife and kids. These guys are also the reason the movie versions are so intertwined in each other and so heavily tied to SHIELD. Black Widow is the female with the closest thing to a personality in this mini.

Things that aren't cool:

Ultimate Captain America is fundamentally broken. Fails as Captain America. This is Jingoistic post-9/11 Americans at their worst. Attracted to a lady married to someone else and super creepy about it. Takes SUCH JOY in beating up her husband when the man turns out to be abusive - like, it's not about her at all, he just likes hurting people. A bad person.

Ultimate Wasp and Giant-Man are the aforementioned wife and abusive husband. She is a macguffin with an INCREDIBLE costume. He gets far too much screen time for such a pathetic abusive piece of slime.

The Ultimate Hulk shouldn't be a mass murderer. Bruce is pathetic, and watching him with his ex is ... bad. Why does Mark Millar hate everyone he writes?

Things that matter:

Not the plot. It's an early 2000s action movie. All flash, no substance.

The Ultimates 2:

More of the same, but not as good. Still ultra-nationalistic. Still soulless. The Maximoff twins remain an uncomfortable delight while doing nothing. Hawkeye's small children's dead bodies are graphically shown on panel. Nobody is likeable or a character, Tony's stupid opinions aren't as forgiveable, and Thor is absent most of the miniseries.

The Ultimates 3:

Jeff Loeb tries to ape Millar's style. He gets the grossness and violence right! He misses badly on the subtlety, which is REALLY impressive, since Millar isn't known for it. (The Hulk eats people, you guys.) Thankfully, I bowed out after number 2.

Ultimate Fantastic Four -

Mediocre. Non-descript. Nothing new to say, but not good at what made the original work. (Family. It has always been about family.) The lackluster movie does a slightly better job. I don't care about these characters until Ultimate Reed goes evil (far after this series), and then I hate him.

Ultimate Iron Man -

??? What? I ...

I like Ender's Game. I do not think the writer of Ender's Game should being trying to integrate into a shared universe. This isn't Tony Stark, and it ruins the character for anyone else to use. Why are all his nerves brain tissue???

Ultimate Daredevil and Elektra and Ultimate Elektra -

Reading these made me slightly interested in Daredevil comics. But only so I could see a better version of these characters. Boring. (I satisfied the faint interest by watching the Daredevil movie. The one you all complain about. Much more interesting than this.)

Ultimate Comics: Thor -

Wanted to like it more than I did. It's okay, but too grounded to get away with the shallowness of Millar's stuff, and too attached to Millar's stuff to work as something real. Mark Millar does not create anything worth building on, because all his creations are hollow facades.

Ultimatum -

HATE IT. BURN IT WITH FIRE!!!!!!!!!

People writing about things they don't like are awful. People who delight in destroying other people's toys are the worst. This series taught me not to trust alternate universes, because the higher ups consider them disposable.

Just an excuse to make the ending of all their books as unsatisfying as possible.