#The Uncanny Experience

[cherikarchive]

X-Men Con: The Uncanny Experience

In case anyone here missed it: September 2023 there's gonna be an X-Men event in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Read more:

[illyanarasputinfan]

I would love to attend this.

[canisalbus]

What if I told you that RoobrickMarine went and wrote an entire novella starring my 16th century dog couple? It's very canon-adjacent, well researched and thoughtfully put together, has inspired me a ton during these past months and it's now publicly available at AO3. I highly recommend it.

✦ Separation ✦

[twincitiesgeek]

Here’s What We Know about the Uncanny Experience, the X-Men-Inspired Event Coming to Minneapolis

You might have heard that the Minneapolis Club will be turning into the X-Mansion next fall. Here's what we know so far about the Uncanny Experience and its organizers.

Giant Sized Productions Next year will be the 60th anniversary of the X-Men, created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, first appearing in comics—and to celebrate, the inaugural Uncanny Experience is coming to Minneapolis on September 16 and 17, 2023. Minnesota already has a lot of established conventions that happen throughout the year, along with comics and collectibles shows hosted by groups like…

[biblically-accurate-dca]

rejoice! fish 🐟

[befuddledcinnamonroll]

THIS SHOW

Can we talk about how they are literally not wasting a single frame in the storytelling? It's short, but so damn effective.

I've talked before about how this is not just a story about individuals, but about existing within a fucked up system.

It's about how we get accustomed to terrible treatment, because we exist in a space where everyone sees it as normal.

And those who realize it's not normal, those who try to push back, don't tend to last.

But once they're gone, we realize how much they (and their ability to see the truth) were protecting us from things being the absolute worst.

How our acceptance of this kind of life and workplace perpetuates the cycle for the new people as they come in.

And though we think we are only martyring ourselves, it results in the sacrifice of others. Because in our choices for ourselves, we are helping to feed them to the machine.

But it's still so hard to walk away, because you become so numb to it all. Until you are sure that parts of you are permanently broken.

And you also know that these systems are everywhere, they are our society, so who's to say you could ever find anything better?

It's the slow crushing of the soul, that makes you feel like it all could just be so futile.

Which is why what Kai is doing is so brilliant here.

He's not denying the reality of the world they exist in. He's not being pushy or angry about Hiro's choices.

Instead Kai is utilizing temptation, showing that there are things, some of them quite simple, that can bring joy. That can break through the futility.

That prove that you can still feel.

But you have to choose them. Because like all things in this life, they are ephemeral.

The systems might not go anywhere in our lifetimes, but that doesn't mean the choices we make don't matter. For ourselves - and for those who see us do it.

[the-punforgiven]

Do y'all ever get nightmares that just like, aren't scary?

Like you can tell your brain is trying to make this scary, but you just feel nothing?

[robo-milky]

[Quick Sketch]

Oops… added colour while looking at what coats would suit him and I’d die for the woof woof 😭😭

[mayasaura]

man they weren't kidding that sun does eclipse

[farsight-the-char]

Okay so the blonde (Calico) is formerly from wealth, raised to hate mutants, still struggling with internalized mutant-hate. Power is a psychic connection to her horse, which is basically her STAND by the sound of it.

Deathdream is undead, his powers allowing him to connect to spirits and other death related abilities.

Jitter (blue outfit) has a hyperfocus ability that lets her master abilities in bursts, but she will mentally crash if she uses her powers to long.

Ransom has a black hole for a heart, and was abandoned by his parents when he was kidnapped for a ransom.

..

Interesting spread of abilities.

Hope they survive the experience.

[vahloksekelle]

about to leave my vacation home in solstheim oh what a cool looking black rock oh is this someones temple nice wait why am i picking up a hammer

[worstcharacterpoll]

FINAL ROUND: Sheldon Cooper (The Big Bang Theory) vs. Ross Geller (Friends)

[Image description: Artwork of a showdown between Sheldon and Ross, depicted in two comic-style panels where they are drawn from the shoulders up and staring at each other. They are dramatically lit with a yellow and red background and action lines focused on the center. There is overlaid text reading "Sheldon vs. Ross" in the middle, and "worst character poll" on the top. End ID.]

[magenta-somethings]

thinking of kon & mary shelley’s frankenstein. specifically thinking of this paragraph of frankenstein:

"His limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his features as beautiful. Beautiful! Great God! His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath; his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness; but these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed almost of the same colour as the dun-white sockets in which they were set" --  Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818)

& the reign of supermen movie, which gave kon very pale — almost inhumanly pale — eyes. thinking of how in the movie it’s bc it was lex’s eye colour & his eyes are just like that, apparently, but how it could have easily also been a quirk of the cloning process. thinking of how in his first origin, he wasn’t even a true clone of superman, but instead human genetic material twisted & reshaped to imitate superman — to (re)create the perfect man. thinking of a superboy made to be beautiful — well, made to be superman but, i mean, have you seen the guy? so same thing — and he is beautiful but there’s also something… off. something about all the different parts that don’t quite come together. thinking of a superboy with inhumanly pale eyes, who learns not to take his sunglasses off because if he does suddenly everyone starts acting weird. thinking of a superboy who eventually gets his hands on some contact lenses and finally has superman's sky blue eyes. thinking of a superboy with something that marks him as not human — worse, not real �� and who doesn't understand what it is or why for ages, and when he does learn does anything to hide it. thinking of a superboy with a horrid contrast.

[bringcal]

rosies :3

[shrimpchipsss]

the embrace 

(from the kiss, gustav klimt)

[demidevildonnie]

let's all love lain