#dawn breakers

[shockzndrawe]

Year of the Rabbit, with bunny mochis.

[nooly]

A NEW HAND TOUCHES THE BEACON

[quicklylosingcontrol]

obsessed with myself

[wiley-treehouse-gardens]

[smashpages]

Out this week: Knight Terrors tie-ins (DC, $3.99-4.99 each):

Along with the wrap-up of Knight Terrors this week comes an ending for the final five tie-in miniseries featuring Harley Quinn, Angel Breaker and Raptor, Power Girl and the Super-Family, Jim Gordon and the Titans.

See what else is arriving in comic shops this week.

[cloaksandcapes]

This armor was originally designed as a Armor Model for my homebrew Gunslinger\Artificer in a game I got to be a player. May rework it as a subclass later, but thought it would make a cool artifact armor as well!

Dawn Breaker Armor

Armor (light or medium), artifact (requires attunement)

“This magical armor is made of thousands of small, silver and gold plates that are housed in a star-shaped receptacle. When activated they flood out and form a nearly weightless full-suit of light or medium armor around the wearer, including a full helmet.”

While attuned to this armor you gain a +3 bonus to AC. You can don and doff the armor using a bonus action.

This armor has 20 charges for the following properties. The armor regains 1d8+6 expended charges daily at dawn. If you expend the last charge your speed increases by 10 feet until you regain any expended charges.

Quick Boost. (2 charges) You can use a bonus action to Dash or Disengage.

Warp Jump. (3 charges) When you are struck by an weapon or spell attack you can use your reaction to teleport up to 20 feet away to a location you can see.

Create Decoy. (5 charges) You can use a bonus action you turn invisible until the end of your turn and create an illusory decoy of yourself. When you use your movement, the decoy moves the same distance in the opposite direction. If the decoy runs into any obstructions, its movement ends. Kinetic Storage. (5 charges) Whenever you take physical or force damage, you can choose to take an additional d6 of that damage type. You store this extra damage as energy in the armor, up to 6 times. You can release this energy during an attack and add it to your normal damage roll. You expend charges only when adding the damage to your attack. All stored energy dissipates when the armor regains expended charges.

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[rainkays]

jess riley 2015 core | spring breakers <3

[jaykaycreates]

Had a fun idea to humanize some of my OCs ghosts as a fun design challenge. I Like how they came out! may do more in the future.

[shooting-the-stars]

I don't know if someone else notices,

Technically, this is it

[aron-mp4]

Collecting all outfits in HZD ✨

1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5

[womenofwrestlingfashion]

Chic Soiree Organza Crop Top from Sugar Thrillz (on sale: $55.20) & Ice Breaker Combat Boots from Club Exx (on sale: $111.30)

[postguiltypleasures]

My peak TV Journey: *Girls5Eva*

I am generally pretty strict with myself about trying to finish tv series  before starting new ones, but I made an exception for Girls5Eva. I had been meaning to try since it debuted. It was exactly as delightful as I hoped it would be. I immediately loved all four leads in the show. It is sort of n the trend of revisiting female celebrities treatment in the early 2000s. But the show’s story is also about now. It’s about the revisiting of the 2000s that we’re doing now, and it is also about how the streaming boom is one of many things that destroyed the mainstream as it existed then, creating new niches and making it harder to gain momentum. Given that, it is appropriate that it was created for Peacock, cancelled after two seasons, then renewed by Netflix before the strikes delayed it indefinitely. Will there be more? I have no idea, but, I’m glad that the two seasons of it do exist.

Watching this reigniting my enthusiasm for Sara Bareilles, which had waned after being disappointed by her 2013 album, The Blessed Unrest. (I have since re-listened, it’s too long but mostly fine. Also between that album and watching this show I saw her on Broadway as The Baker’s Wife in Into the Woods and she was great.) She’s hilarious here, as Dawn, the aspiring song writer who has been doing odd jobs in family businesses since the group’s original end. The groups aspiring song writer, some of he best moments come with singing songs that will never work. Dawn is also the only happily married member of the group and the relationship with her husband and son is delightful. Her husband, Scott, played by Daniel Breaker, is a middle school guidance counsellor. Far out enough from show business to be grounding, but also crazy in his own way. The second season ends with Dawn realizing that she’s pregnant with her second child and trying to figure out how to balance that and her firstborn with the band’s attempt at touring. There are jokes about her being a female Ted Lasso, leaving her child at home while she’s away for her career. (The final season of Ted Lasso proved to be very conscious of this aspect of the set up.) The end with an attempt at a mini tour was a good way next steps for her. 

Busy Phillips played Summer, the member of the band who was also a member of Christian purity cult who starts the series with a learned passivity, and a lot of enthusiasm. This feels like semi-subverting her character type in other shows from Freaks and Geeks to Cougar Town where she is the more sexually experienced than significant characters she’s paired up with and generally pretty aggressive, where she's the opposite here. But these type’s have to exist together. The types also are bonded through loud taste in fashion and very limited experience, making them ignorant of a lot of common knowledge, but experts on some esoterica. At the start of the series she is unhappily married to Kev, who is the same cult and as she, and is a deeply closeted homosexual. He’s played by Andrew Rannells in a way that you can understand why their marriage only worked as long as it did because they lived apart most of the time. It’s sad and funny. Summer does get to grow. Her excitement about learning how to make a salad was adorable. Her pain on realizing that her parents didn’t live up to the celibacy standards they had for her was poignant and funny. I still smile thinking of the time she explains that since separating from Kev she’s joined “Christian Kringle” a dating app for Christians who love Santa. 

I feel new to Paula Pell as a performer. Looking at her IMDB page I can see that she has had small roles in things I have seen, but I don’t really remember her. She plays Gloria, the only member of the group who has successfully pursued an alternate career since the band’s end. There are some good jokes about her continuing to work as a dentist while the group tries the relaunch.  Pell is the oldest of the actors and in the flashbacks and archive footage her character is played by Erika Henningsen. Henningsen’s role is mostly to show how repressed Gloria was then, as an in the closet lesbian.  She doesn’t really stand on her own, which does work towards Gloria’s present day neurosis. In the time between Girls5Eva’s first go round and the present Gloria’s been married and divorced to a woman named Caroline. Caroline is both the only woman she has been with and not good for her. (She’s also played by Paula Pell’s real life wife Janine Brito.) This puts Gloria in more or less the same boat as Summer and they have a great rapport. I also want to say that at the beginning of the second season Gloria has a fantasy musical number about being on Percocet while delaying knee surgery.  It was hilarious and I can’t find it online.

The supposed break-out star from the band Girls5Eva is Wickie, played by Renée Elise Goldsberry. Between the original run and the relaunch she creates the impression that she has an international star powered brand business. She doesn’t. But the show makes clear she’s the one who’s been pursuing a career in music the longest, including a stint on Star Search, and is the most enthusiastic about fame. She left the band first to pursue attempt at a solo career, which is best dramatized by a scene from an episode of Cribs. Despite not being in any high profile projects for decades, she in intensely aware of the possibility of fan interest, including with foot fetishists. Early on she moves in with Dawn and her family. She brings with her a see through piano, the last remaining thing from her failed shot at the A-List. She is a wonderfully awful houseguest, barely learning Dawn’s husband and son’s names. But she’s hilarious in her oblivious behavior and her passion for fame and music has an interesting frisson that is great for comedy. The diva faking it after her failed career wouldn’t be funny without these qualities. 

The fifth member of Girls5Eva is Ashley played by Ashley Park. At one point Wiki says Ashley was the only other member of the band she respected as a singer. Between iterations of the band she mysteriously died while taking part in a magic act involving an infinity pool. Or did she? At the end of the first season Gloria announces that she thinks Ashley faked her death. This leads her to suspecting a mysterious singer who always wears a bee keeping mask might be Ashley. While that turned out to be wrong, I hope it turns out Ashley’s not dead. 

The first season included some songs Girls5eva and their fictional contemporaries. They are wonderfully awful. Filled with poorly aged reference and regrettable world philosophies. The fact that we only hear a couple of bars from them is even funnier. But as Dawn and her bandmates take over the song writing, the songs get better. They still include some really goofy lyrics, but they work. It makes sense that they find an audience amongst their contemporaries.

[trashbaget]

oh—ohh-kay i see, carlise cullen is valentine morgenstern

[jessread-s]

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[smashpages]

Out this week: Knight Terrors tie-in miniseries (DC, $3.99-4.99):

The crossover miniseries continue this week as Knight Terrors infect the sleep of the Titans, Power Girl and the Super-Twins, Harley Quinn, Angel Breaker and Jim Gordon.

See what else is arriving in your local comic shop this week.

[dark-breakers]

Shattered Star AU Dawn Outfits

Normal: A blue smocked sundress, a white apron, a pair of blue ballet flats, and a blue bow with a pink heart-shaped gemstone on the center of it on his tail.

Servant: A black dress with long sleeves and a knee-length skirt, a white apron, a pair of white tights, a pair of black knee-length boots with silver buttons on the outer side, a pair of white gloves, and a white bow with a black heart-shaped gemstone on the center of it on his tail.

Lord Eclipse's Masquerade Ball: A pink one-shoulder rosette iridescent ballgown, a pair of pink cher crystal embellished pumps, a pair of pink opera gloves, a pair of pink crystal heart stud earrings, a pink bow with a white heart-shaped gemstone on the center of it on his tail, and a pink masquerade mask.