#day 5: missing scenes

[bestagons]

What Dan and Phil Text Each Other 4 + Familect (article)

[februairy]

a part from Surrender Yourself (let me help) by @cheswirls :)

[slickricklj]

Jill Valentine + Chris Redfield - When you know, you know.

Bonus:

[whovianofmidgard]

WIP Wednesday

I know I haven't posted a fic in some time, but that's because I'm working on Maedhros & Maglor week prompts. And to prove that I have been writing indeed, here are some snippets of what I've been working on:

For Day 1: Children, using the prompts Valinor and Innocence

Maitimo sang adorably to his sibling inside Nerdanel, his voice as pretty as an untrained elfing's. And just as an untrained elfing, he was not perfect at hitting all the notes. He struggled especially at a particularly high note, sounding off, coming out more as a breathless squeak. The baby, making sure their opinion was known of their brother's ability to sing, kicked her mother in the side. "Oof," Nerdanel grunted, just as Maitimo hopped up from her lap and excitedly shouted to the whole room his delight over the event. "Someone is a music critic," she muttered, rubbing her belly. All the while Maitimo ran up to Fëanáro, tugging on his father's sleeve in delight and bouncing on his tippy-toes. "Atya, Atya! I felt the baby! The baby moved!"

For Day 4: Strategists, using the prompt Mereth Aderthad

Maedhros watched as his younger brother padded over to his pack, humming a little tune all the way, and unfurled three different outfits, spreading them over his bed. Maglor surveyed all three with a careful eye, the carefree mood of the air shifting as he let the last bars of his melody trail off. “So, what’s the plan?” he asked Maedhros. “I know you have been plotting all throughout the ride here.” He did not dispute Maglor’s words, for he did indeed spend most of their journey to their uncle’s feast making plans of the diplomatic and reconnaissance kind. “I shall stay close to Uncle Nolo and ascertain his future plans. I will also approach the other elven ambassadors in the hopes of initiating further diplomatic relations, perhaps make some alliances, and I will prod around to see what the general opinion among the lords are,” Maedhros outlined. “You, Káno, should make nice with our Arafinwëan cousins and listen out for the usual things.” “Rumour, gossip, our current reputation, news of the Enemy, and any secrets that pass drunken loose lips,” Maglor listed by rote and discarded the stuffiest, most stately ensemble from his three clothing options, narrowing his eyes at the other two.

For the Day 6 prompt Reputation and Legend

Subject: Itemised Record of the Elven Relics Sold from the Elrond Peredhel Collection Date: Fourth Age 2100, the 7th of Nárië Location: The Restored Halls of the historical sight known as The Last Homely House, Rivendell, Eriador Auctioneer: Master Eadric, son of Wermund, representative of the Royal Preservation and Storage Houses Attendance: A total of 53 persons, of which 11 were representatives of cultural establishments, and 42 private collectors About the Collection: Entrusted in the keeping of King Elessar Telcontar by Lord Elrond Peredhel at the turning of the Ages (FO 1.), these elven relics were kept and preserved as per Lord Elrond Peredhel’s last will made upon the shores of Middle-earth (Royal Archive, sect. 15, E.01.). As outlined by said will, the Elrond Peredhel Collection was to be held within the King’s Storage Houses for the minimum of 2000 years, and the maximum of an additional century, or if within that timeframe should such an event come to pass that an elf of black hair and shining silver eyes with a hand possessing a burn scar, and may possibly give any combination of the names: Kanafinwë, Makalaurë, Maglor, or Fëanorion, should he seek out the Collection, any and all items of his choosing must be released into his care. Since no elf of such description has come forward to claim these relics in the past 2100 years, the Royal Preservation and Storage Houses put the items of the Elrond Peredhel Collection up for auction for the display of both public establishments and private collectors for historical and educational consumption as per the wishes of Lord Elrond Peredhel’s will. Note: In the past several centuries there has been no sighting of any elvish presence in Middle-earth, and their continued existence are put to question and is largely debated. However, in light of the myths and superstitions surrounding elvish contracts and oaths, experts of both the Royal Historians and the foremost scholarly circles in Eriador, Rhovanion and Gondor have agreed to honour the maximum deadline appointed in the will for fear of invoking some curse or Doom for accidentally breaking the terms early.

And finally for Day 7: Partners

Maitimo started small and simple with his first gift, if it could be even called one. He timed it right and came upon Makalaurë in the woodworking shed from behind, where his brother worked on mending the snapped neck of a broken lute, and tapping him on the shoulder Maitimo played his hand.  The minstrel looked up from his project, all covered in dust and wood shavings, frazzled dark curls escaping his braid. It was an endearing look that Maitimo had caught him in, and he greatly regretted not bringing paper and charcoal to capture his brother's image to keep.  Then Makalaurë noticed the gift in Maitimo's hand and all but pounced on it.  "Yes, this is exactly what I need," he cried and took the bundle of silver strings, immediately restringing the newly fixed lute. He just as soon all but forgot about his elder brother's presence, turning the pegs with a single-minded focus, until Maitimo pointedly cleared his throat.  Makalaurë's gaze snapped up at Maitimo's face and aimed him a crooked smile, slightly embarrassed for being so absorbed in his project.   "Thank you, Nelyo. I do appreciate the strings." 

[hellinhawkins]

wild how they made it look like el and mike were running to each other only for us to discover that mike was running towards her as she ran away and hid

[autism-corner]

they should giv e me wife images daily

[deus-ex-mona]

chapter 6 is now on episode 9 of the [redacted] anime… the hallway fight scene is close

[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.

[besohappilylarry]

Title: tell me some things last Relationships: George Harrison/Ringo Starr Characters: George Harrison (The Beatles), Ringo Starr, Dhani Harrison, Original Female Character(s) Additional Tags: Fix-It, Fluff and Angst, Hurt/Comfort, probably inaccurate descriptions of cancer treatment, but i tried my best, blink and you miss it mclennon, it's a fix it afterall Summary: Glimpses at George and Ringo's relationship as George is fighting cancer.

[maramirror11]

2023 vs 2019

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

I wanted to finish before the new year but I couldn't. This was one of my first digital drawings and I got nostalgic.

[feelingthedisaster]

why did i took on so many responsabilities on exam weeks of all times?

[hermitw]

Good news everyone, my tiktok algorithm is back on JJK but without the gege hate and this morning I have seen several connections made there that I didn't know about already akxnakxnajxlaldb I love when this happens on my god

Gojo telling Megumi not to get left behind bc Gojo feels like he was left behind and doesn't want his student to feel the same way (it feels simple and obvious now but I missed it ok).

Also the Haibara / Nanami ship?? We see so little of them but those points were solid I am kinda convinced

Now I just want someone to prove whether Kenjaku and Tengen had a breakup and whether Tengen is Sukuna's mother

Which would make Sukuna one more of Kenjaku's kids, if both are true.

[blorboresidue]

ah fuck it might be 7 chapters now

[cute-pluto]

the way i do fancomics sometimes can feel unmarred from the present i think? or it try to make em. erm. i tend to like to transition a lot between scenes of past and present not because theyre flashbacks teh characters are actually thinking about but bc its coheres even if theyre not the same scene.

anyway i think my comic influences come from a multitude of sources but recently ive been thinking about this one emerald duo comic guy (that fell off the face of the internet. sad!) that does stuff i think i try to do, the way it focuses on a stream of events from the past (and sometmes future) basically as much as it does the present comversation x x

[breeberrypies]

rbing bc there were too many tags so it wouldn’t show in my art tag. LET ME SPEAK MY TRUTH ABT MY SHOW⁉️⁉️

++(also you guys should totally not pirate this tv series nobody cares about anymore on wcostream.tv)

THEY TOOK VOLTRON OFF NETFLIX.

[jorisjurgen]

After I complete the edit for "Flower war!" + publish next chapter of MAD, i'd like to choose which crepinjurgen wip to work on.

I may elect to disregard your opinion but I want to know the general consensus. also damn i now realize i should put this poll into the crepinjurgen fan discord but lowkey idgaf.