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[eswynn]

So there you are, sitting back in your plastic lawn chair on some backwater periphery world, enjoying a beer, when these guys show up. They start talking about the HPG network, the communications relays that link the stars together, and they start going on about some guy named Jerome Blake. Then they get to the good part- Apparently, your phone bill is due, and these guys are here to collect. Don't worry, they say, they offer local plans (demolisher tanks) and long distance plans (artillery.) What's your next move? This was my big project for this last week. I'm in the process of building a full Level III (Battalion) as an interchangeably ComStar / Word of Blake force. In total, It'll probably end up being more like a pair of Level IIIs, with everything I've got planned, but I don't think I have it in me to go for a full Level IV (Division.) Celestials, LAMs and a full Level II composed entirely of Toyamas are on the painting bench waiting to be activated in the name of The Master. This Level III is led by Demi-Precentor Vala Vanagand, a shadowy figure cloaked in mystery, but most of the local operations for this unit are coordinated by Adept Julius Vespasian from the cockpit of his Black Knight in the Level II that is primarily built for brawling / assault roles. Both Vespasian and Vanagand are suspected of being members of the Word of Blake, but they won't be outed for it until the Jihad. Supporting the Brawling Level II are a mixed arms scout / artillery Level II which mixes fast units with Arrow IV carrying mechs. Armor assets are grouped into two demi-company units, one being composed entirely of classic Demolisher Tanks while the other is composed entirely of Demolishers that have been upgraded with three turret-mounted, 30-point racks of Medium Range Missiles. The MRM variant is canon, but I couldn't find a model for it anywhere, so I actually created the missile turret in CAD just so I could have these guys in my Level III. #3dprinting #3dp #3dprinted #paintedminiatures #wargaming #tabletopgames #boardgamesofinstagram #boardgames #scifi #sciencefiction #battletech #robotech #mecha #weaseltech #epicscale #6mmminis #mechwarrior #comstar #wordofblake https://www.instagram.com/p/Cn-T1e5ywor/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[readingandwritingandreading]

Quiz Time!

Hello Friends! I don't get asked alot of questions about my writing or process so I thought it would be fun to see how you guys think I do it while I work on the next chapters of Alpha Drew and Alpha Bucky!

Question #1

And the correct answer is!! SONGS! Congrats to whoever voted for that one! Here are the songs and the parts of it that really stuck out to me (as you can see, i have several works coming soon that i am already getting info for):

Hold You Up - Marcel Barthel x Kiya Bryant x Fabian Aichner

Hold You Up – Shane Harper

“The world is so broken and sometimes it leaves you cold. And at times you can't feel the fire to guide you home. The demons will haunt you and try to steal what you know. But the angels, they brought you, and they're gonna hold you up.”

Heartbeat - Ethan Carter III x Adalynn Strowman

Heartbeat – Carrie Underwood

“I wanna feel it like a kick drum, beatin' faster in your chest. I wanna feel you holding onto me and make me hold my breath. You pull me closer, my head on your shoulder Baby, we won't need a song. We'll make a fallen star wish, one more slow kiss. What are we waiting on?”

Yours - Dominik Dijakovic x Skye Simmons

Yours – Russell Dickerson

“I was one in a hundred billion A burned out star in a galaxy. Just lost in the sky, wonderin' why, Everyone else shines out but me. But. I came to life when I first kissed you, The best me has his arms around you. You make me better than I was before, Thank God I'm yours.”

The Day Before You - Ridge Holland x Lyssa Hutchinson

The Day Before You – Rascal Flatts

“I was ready to settle for less than love And not much more. There was no such thing as a dream come true. But that was on the day before you. Now you're here and everything's changing. Suddenly life means so much, I can't wait to wake up tomorrow And find out this promise is true. I will never have to go back To the day before you.”

Long Time Coming - Bucky Barnes x Carina Rivera

Long Time Coming – Oliver James

“It's been a long time coming down this road, And now I know. What I've been waiting for. And like a lonely highway I'm trying to get home, Oh. Loves been a long time coming.”

From The Ground Up - Drew McIntire x Cassidy Riley 

From the Ground Up – Dan + Shay

“And we'll build this love from the ground up. Now 'til forever it's all of me, all of you, Just take my hand. And I'll be the man your dad hoped that I'd be. And we'll build this love from the ground up. For worse or for better And I will be all you need, Beside you I'll stand through the good and the bad We'll give all that we have And we'll build this love from the ground up.”

Finally Home - Ari Levinson x Brianna Collier 

Finally Home – Kerrie Roberts

“And there's no more road Nowhere else to go, Nothing left to miss, Nothing left for this wandering soul When I'm finally home. The ultimate healing, Where hurt can't reach me. I won't need to find every answer, All I need will be found within Your presence.”

Rescue Me - Marcel Barthel x Sofia (Reese) x Fabian Aichner

Rescue Me - Chris Young

“What's a happy ending if I can't get the girl? What's it matter if I save the world?”

Cross Every Line - Marcel Barthel x Alina Lawson x Fabian Aichner

Cross Every Line – Chris Young

“If you were captured, baby, I would be relentless. I'd declare it war and run right out them trenches. Yeah, you'd hear my battle cry I'd let the bullets fly Wouldn't be an enemy let behind the enemy line I'd cross every line in the world for you I'd cross every line in the world for you Nowhere I wouldn't go, nothin' I wouldn't do I'd cross every line in the world for you.”

What If - Julius Creed x Unnamed

What If – Kane Brown w/ Lauren Alaina

“What if I was made for you And you were made for me. What if this is it? What if it's meant to be? What if I ain't one of them fools just Playin' some game. What if I just pulled you close? What if I leaned in? And the stars line up and it's our last first kiss. What if one of these days baby I'd go and change your name. What if I loved all these what ifs away?”

[defineshitposting]

gripping you pleease show the wof 9 thing eventually <- wof dragons enthusiast and likes seeing your little clothguys

Okay so spoilers for 9 obviously and sort of for wings of fire as well, this is going to be real stream of consciousness so bear with me but ough. lizords.

The au is set about two thousand years after the end of wof arc three, and despite what was implied Jerboa III's spell has led to no new animus dragons being born. As it stands though this has been largely inconsequential. Humans and dragons now (mostly) view each other as equals, and live in mixed communities working together. It's a period of growth for both species. 

One human (Julius) becomes fascinated by the advancements that were achieved in the era of animus dragons, and sets out to see if it's possible to bring the magic back. Through a combination of genetic engineering and more occult methods, a new artificial animus is brought into the world, and its potential is immediately obvious. This potential is unfortunately recognized by the wrong people, and the newborn Being is separated from its creator. At the same time the new lifeform was being developed, one of the continent's many conflicts had begun boiling over into full-blown war, and the Being is quickly viewed as a weapon. The predictable mistreatment leads to it growing a hatred for both humans and dragons, and also rapidly increases its size. It doesn't take long for it to turn against its captors, and a war that was originally bureaucratic in origin is now for survival against an onslaught of war machines.Casualties are very high, and while many dragons and humans are able to escape south to Pantala or in some cases the Sea kingdom, many more are lost in the chaos. Julius, who feels responsible for the ongoing carnage, manages to obtain the help of nine dragons who for varying reasons are willing to try anything that could help. They offer up their bodies as conduits for the next step, while Julius places a piece of his own consciousness into each. 

From this point the plot is much the same as the movie, with 9 awakening some time later than the others and discovering the talisman. He is found by 2, both are attacked by the (much larger) Cat Beast, and 2 is taken along with the talisman. An injured 9 is carried to the sheltered ruin of Sanctuary* by 5, meeting 1 and 8 and learning more about the reasons for the devastation around them. 9, unwilling to give up on 2, convinces 5 to join him in attempting a rescue, and they fly in the direction 9 saw the Beast take him. Arriving at the derelict Factory built into a mountain, they both reunite with 2 before the Cat Beast attacks them. Cornered by the Beast the trio are suddenly joined by 7, who kills the Cat. While the other three are reconnecting, 9’s curiosity gets the better of him, and he accidentally reawakens the dormant Being. Sensing remnants of its creator, it strips 2's soul from his body, and the other three flee before it can do the same to them. 7 leads 5 and 9 to the Library where the twins 3 and 4 meet them. Here they learn more about the destruction around them, and when 9 and 5 prepare to head back to Sanctuary 7 refuses to join them, while the Twins remain at the library to research.

After they return and are chastised by 1, 9 meets 6, who proves to have knowledge on the talisman and the group’s “Source”. 9 confronts 1 on his cowardice, but their argument is interrupted when the massive Winged Beast attacks. In the chaos the fragile ruins begin to collapse and burn, and it’s a struggle to escape both the monster and the failing walls. The beast is killed, but not before wounding 7 and destroying Sanctuary. The group all retreat to the Library, where 3 and 4 reveal what they’ve discovered, and 1 blurts out that she did in fact send 2 out to scout in the hopes that he would be killed. An enraged 7 attacks 1, but retreats in anguish when 9 intervenes. At the same time this is happening, 8, who had been sent out to keep watch for further monsters (and took the opportunity to smoke) is attacked and paralyzed by the newest horror, the Seamstress, with 2’s body fused to its tail. A frustrated 1 who had walked off alone is also attacked and envenomated, his yell alerting the others. 7 rejoins the ensuing fight, 1 is freed from her bindings, and 2’s body is cut loose from the creature. Despite both 5 and 9 managing to wound it, the Seamstress takes off with 8 and 7. Distressingly, before 9 convinces the others to mount a rescue, it is found that 2’s body still has a heartbeat.

After destroying several Seekers and making it to the now-active Factory, 9 heads in alone while 1, the twins, 5 and 6 look for a way to destroy the building and the Being inside. While inside 9 is forced to watch as 8’s soul is removed, before he tricks and kills the Seamstress, and escapes with 7 as the Being notices them. 5 and the others, having rigged explosives upon the Factory’s dam, begin igniting them as soon as they see the two fleeing, destroying the fortress in a wall of water. Rejoicing at finally defeating the threat, the group takes a breather at a bend in the river. 5, while washing his hands on the bank, sees that the Being is still alive and heading for them. He manages to alert the others before he is caught and claimed in front of the other six. In their race to gain altitude and escape, 6 sees that 5 is still breathing, realizing that their souls are being taken but not destroyed. As he is attempting to make this known, he is also taken. A distraught 9 tries to convince the remaining four to join him in looking for a way to save the others, but ends up heading out on his own.

Returning to the “first room” where he awoke, 9 finds the remains of Julius, notes on theirs and the Being’s creation, and a message for him specifically from both Julius and the dragon who gave up their body for him, Noonday. In a hidden room he also discovers a huge cache of eggs, over a hundred, all in stasis. With these revelations 9 races to the others, finding them trying and failing to kill the Being. As it draws closer and the group retreats to a sheltered tunnel, 9 makes the decision to sacrifice himself so the others may have a chance to survive and remove the talisman. Before he can do that though they are attacked and driven from the hideaway by the now-injured Being’s fury. Leftover ordinances explode around them, and they are separated and injured as the Being bears down on them. 9 prepares to give up his soul, but before he can, 1 takes his place and is claimed. With only moments to spare 9 removes the talisman, and the Being is killed. 7 and the twins rush to an unconscious 9's side, and when he comes to they embrace him. They then retrieve the bodies of 1, 6, 5, 8, and 2, in the hopes of reviving them, though 9 admits it may just as likely be for burial. All five are still breathing, though they also all have injuries, some serious. Using the talisman, 9 reintegrates each one's soul into their body in a bright flash of green, and they reawaken. After an emotional reunion and tending to the most major injuries, 9 and the others incinerate the body of the Being, its cremation releasing its contained energy and revitalizing the damaged landscape (and inadvertently bringing animus magic back into the world).

Oh god i wrote too much lmao ANYWAYS from there it's all about healing and starting anew and maybe falling in love along the way. One for-sure project of theirs is reaching out to the survivors they know must exist (and dealing with a steadily growing gaggle of dragonets in the process). Everything after the main story is entirely self-indulgent, but I think since many other 9 enjoyers wished for a happier ending at least a little bit it’ll be enjoyable for people other than me lol. Will post my designs for the gang tomorrow, and also my interpretations of the two continents since those maps have always made the geology nerd in me mad lol (though i don't have solid designs for fabby or the beasts yet mostly just cause i want to make sure they're distinct from @astrogriffin 's awesome takes)

* different from Winter’s Sanctuary

[meddling-in-horror]

31 movies 31 days (kind of)

It's that time of year again folks, where I go insane and try to watch a movie a day for the entirety of October. You may see the addendum of 'kind of' attached to this years, and that's because I've decided to be rather ambitious: I'm watching 36 movies this year. This is in part due to a Halloween party hosted by a dear friend of mine, but whatever. You're here for the list, which is as follows:

X (2022, dir. Ti West) Pearl (2022, dir. Ti West) Maxxxine (2024, dir. Ti West) Satanic Hispanics (2022, anthology/multiple) Carrie (1976, dir. Brian De Palma) Blood Relatives (2022, dir. Noah Segan) Suitable Flesh (2023, dir. Joe Lynch) It's a Wonderful Knife (2023, dir. Tyler Macintyre) One Cut of the Dead (2017, dir. Shinichirou Ueda) Audition (1999, dir. Takashi Miike) A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014, Ana Lily Amirpour) Possession (1981, dir. Andrzej Żuławski) Jennifer's Body (2009, dir. Karyn Kusama) The Lure (2015, dir. Agnieszka Smoczynska) The Craft (1996, dir. Andrew Fleming) Stopmotion (2023, dir. Robert Morgan) Werewolves Within (2021, dir. John Ruben) The People Under the Stairs (1991, dir. Wes Craven) Def By Temptation (1990, dir. James Bond III) Day Shift (2022, dir. J. J. Perry) Candyman (1992, dir. Bernard Rose) Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022, dir. Halina Reijin) The Pope's Exorcist (2023, dir. Julius Avery) The Deliverance (2024, dir. Lee Daniels) It Follows (2014, dir. David Robert Mitchell) Run Rabbit Run (2023, dir. Daina Reid) Child's Play (1988, dir. Tom Holland) Child's Play 2 (1990, dir. John Lafia) Bride of Chucky (1998, dir. Ronny Yu) Seed of Chucky (2004, dir. Don Mancini) Trick r' Treat (2007, Michael Dougherty) You're Next (2011, dir. Adam Wingard) Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon (2006, dir. Scott Glosserman) Tucker & Dale v.s Evil (2010, dir. Eli Craig) Repo! The Genetic Opera (2008, dir. Darren Lynn Bousman) Terrifier (2016, dir. Damien Leone) Most of these are relatively new, and I haven't seen 32 of the 36 of them, but I think it's a promising lineup. Plus, I can go in and elaborate on Obvious White Director Syndrome.

I'll also be posting some con round up things from the year in the beginning of November as well, since my last con of the year is coming up mid-October. This was a really good year for horror, and I was able to have some great conversations with some really fucking cool people (my favorites being Bonnie Aarons, Felicia Rose, Rachel True, and Terrance Zdunich).

That's all for now, but I'm going to be a mite more active than normal, as I'm working on scripting for the podcast and a few fun video essays.

[zipzin]

Chapters: 37/? Fandom: Legends of Tomorrow, Arrow (TV 2012) Rating: Mature Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Sara Lance/Ava Sharpe, Laurel Lance & Sara Lance, Quentin Lance & Sara Lance, Dinah Lance (Arrow) & Sara Lance Characters: Sara Lance, Ava Sharpe, Laurel Lance, Quentin Lance, Dinah Lance (Arrow), Oliver Queen Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Childhood Friends, Friends to Lovers, they meet when they’re 11, they are super competitive, will sorta follow canon, Slow Burn, excessive soccer playing Summary: Act Two: Fall 2017, Part III

“There you are!” 

“Here I am?” Sara walked into the apartment to see her dad getting up from the couch. He embraced her, almost lifting her up from the ground.

“Wow, Dad! I’m alright,” She laughed and toed off her shoes, “What’s up?”

“What’s up?! You’ve been gone for a whole day!” She felt like a teenager again. “No calls! No texts! I even asked Oliver!”

“Hey, Dad, I’m fine,” Sara said. She gestured down at herself, “No bruises or anything.”

He rubbed his own chest and Sara’s hands went up, and dropped as his own did. They both lowered their gazes. 

“I try not to worry, Sara,” He said, “I know you can take care of yourself, but you’ll always be my little girl and when I didn’t hear anything.”

“I know,” Sara said, “I should have messaged. Rory found an anachronism and we all got a bit ahead of ourselves.”

“An anachronism?”

“Something displaced from time. He ran into Julius Caesar in Aruba,” She grinned.

“Oh.” His brow furrowed as he took her in, and Sara felt a little bit like she was being inspected for a first date that she never went on. She stared back, trying not to beam, but it was a losing battle, and he sighed.

“So,” He clapped her shoulder, “You’re back to time traveling.”

“Yeah,” Sara nodded and stared at him, the tension still in his shoulders, the furrow on his brow, and hugged him again. He gripped her back, hands digging into her shoulders like this might be the last time.

“You’ll stay for dinner?” He asked hopefully.

“Of course.”

“Good,” He broke away and retreated to the kitchen.

“Dad.”

“Go pack,” He waved her away, digging through the refrigerator.

She paused for a moment, watching as he busied himself around the kitchen, before turning to the room that had been hers for the last six months. It was messy, looking more like a teenager’s than she was strictly comfortable with. Her clothes were strewn across the floor and bed where she’d left them after getting ready for work, the first aid kit opened and half disassembled on the nightstand, and she was suddenly aware of the grubbiness of the floor underneath her bare feet.

She’d hardly bothered to clean it the past months, the shifts at Sink, Shower, and Stuff draining every semblance of life from her, and the patrols with Ollie taking any energy she had left. She winced when she realized that, while she’d clean up her clutter, she’d be leaving most of the mess for her father. Maybe she could manage a quick vacuum before she left.

She dug through her half empty closet until she found the duffel that had carried her things from the Waverider and didn’t bother to fold as she stuffed her clothes back in.

It didn’t take long until the room was relatively bare, the sheets stripped, and piled with towels in a corner. She carefully placed the photos her dad had littered through the room on the top of her half empty duffel. Her hands shook as she came to one of her and Ava, roughly fourteen, grinning in their soccer uniforms.

She almost left it, but shoved it under the rest and carried her duffel out to her dad’s entryway, now filled with the sounds of oil sizzling and the smell of onion and garlic.

“Is pasta okay?”

“That sounds great.” Sara grinned and leaned against one of the countertops. “Can I help?”

“No,” He smiled, “But I’d love to spend the time together.”

“Of course Dad.”

“You’re going back,” Her mom’s voice crackled through her phone.

“Yeah,” Sara answered, pacing through the armory of the Waverider. They hadn’t left yet, were still waiting for Nate and Ray to finish packing things up, Stein to say goodbye to his family, and Jax was making different repairs throughout the ship. Though she wasn’t sure how necessary those were.

“I’m happy for you,” Her mom said and Sara almost started in surprise.

“You are?”

“Yes Sara,” Her mom chuckled, “I love you and I know time traveling is what you love, as crazy as it sounds. Believe me, I didn’t imagine you working in customer service at 29, and I could tell you hated it.”

“It wasn’t so bad!”

“Sara.”

“Fine,” Sara huffed, “It was the worst job imaginable.”

Her mom laughed, “You know next time-”

“There’s not going to be a next time.”

“I can probably find you a job at the University.”

“Yeah, yeah, if I’m ever barred from time traveling again, I’ll think about it.” Sara said, “But we aren’t going to have the ship taken from us.” She crossed her fingers.

“I hope not and you better not get stranded in the past again.”

“Mom! That wasn’t my fault.”

“I know, I know,” Her mom chuckled.

“I don’t know when I’m going to see you again,” Sara continued, “But don’t worry, Gideon will take care of us.”

“Of course Captain, and Mrs. Lance.” Gideon answered and Sara rolled her eyes at the ceiling.

Her mom chuckled, “Sara, you know it’s impossible for me not to worry. You’re my daughter. But I’ll try not to, too much.”

“Yeah,” Sara said as Nate and Ray nodded at her with a pile of boxes and bags. She picked at one of her fingernails. “Of all the times for you to be in Coast City.”

“I know, I’m sorry.” Her mom winced, “I wish I could at least give you a hug.”

“It wasn’t like you could have known that we’d suddenly be back in business again.” Sara laughed, but it died quickly. She could take the Time Courier, but she was hesitant to use it for something so frivolous. Rip was probably tracking those things and she’d rather have it when they really needed to get out of dodge.

“Was there something else?” Her mom asked.

Sara let out a huff. Yes, there was Ava Sharpe, appearing in her life as quickly as she disappeared, acting like, well, Sara wasn’t even sure. She’d given zero indication that she remembered anything about Sara, or that they could talk about the fact, that hello, they were both time traveling! How insane was that!

Instead she’d just sniped and insulted like they didn’t have years of history and thought that Sara and the other Legends were just incompetent. She hadn’t even given an indication that they should talk, even to just vaguely clear the air or at least acknowledge that this was fucking weird!

“No,” Sara breathed out.

“If you’re sure,” Her mom said doubtfully.

Stein smiled at Sara as he boarded the ship, “Look Mom, we’re going to head off soon, so I’ll have to let you go.”

“Okay, honey, I love you. And have one of your geniuses make something so we can talk through time.”

“Okay, I’ll pitch it,” Sara laughed. “Goodbye.”

“Bye.”

There was no point in telling them, getting Nate's hopes (or fears?) up because Amaya could be busy. Or in the middle of a battle. Should she have told someone in case she’s suddenly in the middle of some war? No, Gideon would take care of it, right?

“Gideon?” Sara asked to space.

“Yes, Captain?”

“If something happens you can alert the ship, right?”

“Of course, Captain.”

Okay, so yeah, she was going to be fine. And the boys could probably figure out where she was going, they needed someone who had experience with animals. They needed someone who could track animals, because the only way Gideon was going to help them was if someone died. Or was maimed. And there was only one person who could get dinosaurs to calm down. So who else could Sara be going to see? 

Though, Sara knew, that was asking for a lot. They were probably in the hold playing with Ray’s shrink ray some more. As long as they fixed it, Sara didn’t care what they did. Besides breaking the ship, but she figured Jax was smart enough to fix anything major before she got back.

And she missed Amaya, a lot. Especially after being stuck in the ship with the boys for just a day. Someone, well, she wouldn’t call Amaya normal, sane? Rational?

Ray and Nate were the definition of book smart and not street smart, and Jax was too willing to see what would happen instead of reeling them in. Mick, was, well Mick, and while she loved Stein, he was lost in his own world even more than normal.

She could trust Amaya to run the ship in her absence, to spar with her, and to not totally lose her mind during a mission. And how interesting could Zambesi be compared to time travel?

The jumpship came to a rest on the ground and Sara let out a breath when she saw Amaya already standing there.

“Hey girl, good to see you.” Sara climbed out, “How about one final mission for old time’s sake?”

“Sara,” Amaya said in greeting, resignation battling with excitement across her face, “It is good to see you.”

“I can tell there’s a but in there.”

“This is my home, I’m its protector and I can’t leave.”

Sara looked around at the field they were standing in and made a show of nodding. Amaya’s jaw was clenched in determined precision and her eyes were practically begging her to leave.  

“I won’t pressure you,” Sara said, “But, I am gonna explain the mission to you.”

Amaya chuckled, “I wouldn’t expect anything less.”

“But first,” Sara stepped forward and hugged her, “I’ve missed you.”

“I’ve missed you too, all of you.” Sara bit her tongue. “It’s boring here compared to taking down the Legion,” Sara stuck her tongue out at the name. She still couldn’t believe that it stuck. “But the boring’s nice.” Amaya finished.

“It can’t be that boring,” Sara said, “You’re still Vixen after all.”

Amaya’s smile looked brittle, “Yes. I’m still defending my village.”

Sara nodded, “So, how about a tour?”

Amaya’s eyes lit up, “Yes, I dreamed of showing,” she paused, “you the village.”

Sara kept her mouth firmly clamped shut.

Amaya led her out of the dusty field and into the village and began to point out different buildings and people. The people smiled at Amaya and stared at Sara, and Sara was pretty sure that if she’d had to find Amaya herself it would have been in chains. Did they know about the JSA? Time travel? Anything about Amaya’s absence, or did Amaya just say somethings were classified and everyone left it at that?

It was quaint. There were just over a hundred structures and Sara guessed most of them were homes. There didn’t seem to be any military or guards, which, well, she guessed she was walking alongside it. Amaya smiled and greeted everyone by name, the people staring at Sara with suspicion, but no one said anything.

Mount Kilimanjaro dominated the sky, and Sara found her eye drawn to it again and again. Zambesi was beautiful in a way Sara had only begun to appreciate during her time in Nanda Parbat, though this wasn’t in the middle of a desert. More a mix of savannah and scrubland. The air was fresh and Sara could only guess at how many stars you could see when night fell. 

Amaya’s shoulders held none of the tension they had during their hunt for the Legion, she somehow stood taller, and had a gracious smile that was never forced through every interruption.

She showed her the fields, where they kept goats that Amaya greeted by name and were remarkably nice. She showed her the mill, the well, and the granary.

“I’m not the leader,” Amaya said, “Most of the logistics I have nothing to do with, but I’m respected for my position and charged with its protection.”

“You really don’t have any help?” Sara asked.

“I don’t need it,” Amaya smirked and Sara laughed.

“Now, come, here’s my home.”

“It’s nice,” Sara said, as they settled down on some pillows and blankets.

Amaya laughed, “I know it’s not exactly a timeship from the future, but it’s home.”

“Hey!” Sara said, “I was an assassin trained to want nothing, this is luxury compared to the League.”

Amaya just shot her an unimpressed look.

“Of course, there’s a lot of things I’d miss.”

“Tell me about it,” Amaya sighed and when Sara opened her mouth she put a hand up, “That wasn’t an invitation.”

Sara laughed, “Your room on the Waverider is still open.”

“Sara.”

“I’m just saying, if you wanted, there’s the modern comforts of cell phones and the internet, a food fabricator.”

Amaya shook her head, “I thought you weren’t going to pressure me.”

“I’m not!” Sara laughed, “Just reminding you how nice sports bras are. Look,” Sara said, “Let me at least explain what’s going on.” At Amaya’s nod, she continued, “So apparently, Rip went back five years and recreated the Time Masters?”

“The Time Masters?” Amaya said.

“Oh, right,” Sara chuckled, “Forgot you weren’t there. They were this kinda evil organization, I mean, actually evil, who manipulated time for their own purposes, and let this guy Vandal Savage conquer the world and kill a bunch of people, but were the ones who commissioned Rip to time travel to begin with. They were why we were protecting the timeline, we blew them up to stop them and well, time pirates still existed, obviously.”

“Oh,” Amaya squinted, “I remember Ray telling Nathaniel about it.”

There was a heavy pause.

“Anyway,” Sara said, “Rip hated them, but he recreated them anyway. So, after Mick ran into Julius Caesar, we um, might have stolen the Waverider back and gotten him ourselves.”

Amaya bit her lip, “I’m sure it was that simple.”

Sara chuckled as she detailed the entire mission and just laughed as Amaya rolled her eyes.

“So,” Amaya said, “It seems like it’s more or less business as usual.”

Sara snorted.

“Why do you need my help?”

“We need help wrangling a sabertooth tiger.” Sara said and almost laughed at the spark in Amaya’s eyes. “It landed in 18-something Wisconsin and a circus picked it up. Ray made a shrink ray, but somehow made it larger and it escaped into the woods.”

Amaya bit her lip to keep from laughing and Sara sighed. “Please, none of us know how to track animals, and even if we did, we can’t commune with it or anything, and it will definitely try to eat us.”

“I’d love to help,” Amaya said, “But I can’t leave here.”

“Not even for a night?” Sara asked. “Just to get the tiger into containment? Hey, we could travel back right to when you left.”

“Is it ever that simple?” Amaya sighed, “I can’t go with you Sara.”

“Look, I’m not asking you to join back up. Just one easy mission,” Sara leaned forward.

“Trapping a giant saber-toothed tiger is easy?” Amaya lifted her eyebrows.

“For you. Your powers are the quickest way to handle this.” She’d talked to dinosaurs, what was one little cat? “Look, Amaya, I can’t give the Time Bureau an excuse to take the Waverider again.”

“I want to help you, but my life’s a little complicated right now,” Amaya insisted.

“Amaya, Amaya!” A girl ran in with a helmet clutched in her hands, three long scratch marks on the side.

“Foyinsola, this is Sara.” Amaya grinned, at both of them and Sara smiled back.

“Hey, what you got there?” She was pretty sure it was German? Belgian? She should have paid more attention to Nate’s history lectures about this time period.

“I found it in an acacia tree.” Foyinsola said and Amaya quickly grabbed it. Sara was a bit impressed, Amaya must have been going easy on her fighting when she was with them. Sara blinked as Amaya placed it to the side, looking shaken.

“You should be asleep little one. Now run along to bed, before I have to summon the ashe of a cobra to scare you!”

Foyinsola giggled as she ran out of the tent. Amaya looked so at ease with her, a gentleness with children that Sara had never felt in her life and for a moment, she just felt a stab of longing. “Normal life. It suits you. You seem at peace here.” Sara stood. She could recognize a losing battle when she saw one. Ray just better make sure the shrink ray actually worked this time and maybe Stein could adjust sensors to look for prehistoric cats. “Good-bye, Amaya. It was good to see you.”

“Wait.”

Sara turned back, her heart thudding with hope.

“Does Nathaniel know that I’d be returning?”

“Yeah,” Sara lied, “He’s thrilled.” 

What was a little lie between friends? And Nate would be totally normal about it. Hopefully. Probably not at all considering he had been ready to kill Rip a day ago. But, Amaya would be on the ship, helping them with the tiger, and it wasn’t like Sara was asking them to work together, so was it really going to matter much?

Hopefully not.

Sara wasn’t going to admit to anyone that she was grateful that Amaya was carrying the sabertooth tiger. It might be tiny, but it still had fangs. And claws. And she was being completely normal, not like Amaya who was cooing over it like it was some neighbor’s housecat.

“That wasn’t so bad,” Amaya said when the tiger began to purr.

“For you,” Sara scoffed. “We never would have tracked it or,” she waved at Amaya’s arms. “Thanks.”

“You should have told Nathaniel.” Amaya said in lieu of responding.

Sara sighed and pinched her nose, “He’s an adult, he can get over it.”

“I-” Amaya paused, stuttering a step over a tree root, “I didn’t leave things great.”

“No kidding,” Sara muttered under her breath.

“I might have left on his birthday.”

“Amaya!” Sara did her best to keep her laugh in, but it trickled out and if looks could kill Sara would be in the ground. “That’s cold.”

“I, I saw Mari on the news.” Amaya said.

“You couldn’t wait? Like ten hours?”

“I knew that if I saw him again to tell him I’d lose my nerve. And I had to see her, and if I wanted the timeline to stay on track,” she trailed off.

“You had to return,” Sara finished for her. She looked over at Amaya, who was staring at the tiger in her hands like it held the answers. “Did you at least leave a note?”

“No.”

Sara couldn’t help it and burst into laughter.

“Sara!”

“I’m sorry Amaya, that’s, it’s just,” Sara got herself under control, “That’s like something Ollie would do when he was in max douchebag phase. I didn’t think you had it in you. Hell, no wonder Nate’s so mad.”

“As he should be.” Amaya said firmly, “It meant that door was closed. I could live in 1942 and not be thinking of what could have been.”

Sara didn’t have anything to say about that. “Right.” 

At least Nate’s behavior made sense. She’d thought that they’d had some sort of tearful goodbye as they talked about the timeline before Amaya’d left. And then he spent the rest of the weeks staring longingly at their old pictures. So she couldn’t blame him, it’s not like she handled her own breakups great, leaving Nyssa had been as much about leaving the league as it was Nyssa, even if poisoning herself the first time had definitely been the nuclear option. And Ava and her weren’t anything like Nate and Amaya, even if Ava had ghosted her. Ava had turned into a bitch, which apparently Sara had been preventing all this time. 

“Well,” Sara said, as the ship came into view, “The mission’s done.”

“Yeah.”

Sara put a hand on Amaya’s shoulder. “You can stay if you want.”

“I can’t.”

“Okay, but it’s always an option, in case you change your mind for whatever reason. Even if it’s just for a week or something. I’m the captain and I can deal with an annoyed crewmate, okay?”

Amaya gave her a tremulous smile, “Thanks Sara.”

“And it would be nice to have at least one person who isn’t going to guarantee every mission ends in an almost disaster.”

Amaya forced a laugh, “The answer’s still no.”

“Fair.” Sara muttered as they walked onto the ship.

[epistrefei]

also delighted to share that artemis' timeline is coming along nicely. need to put more actual. Artemis in there. but you know. VERY VERY briefly touching on a lot because it's just entirely too much to put in one place due to historical events

timeline framework below the cut

1674 BC - Artemis & Apollo are born to Zeus and Leto.

1664 BC - First Olympic games

1654 BC - Pandora opens a jar gifted to her and suffers the consequences

1628 BC - the Titans attempt to gain power once more but are defeated by the Gods. Atlas is punished by being made to carry the sky. Typhon is defeated and trapped under a volcano.

1460 BC - Zeus sends a flood to destroy all of mankind after Lycaeon outrages the Gods. Deucalion and his family escape after Prometheus tells them to build an Ark.

1420 BC - Persephone is abducted by Hades.

1365 BC - Perseus is born.

1363 BC - Apollo fathers Asclepius.

1344 BC - Pegasus is born from Medusa's blood after Perseus slays her.

1286 BC - Herakles is born.

1271 BC - Theseus is born.

1270 BC - All of Greece is plagued by earthquakes and famine.

1258-1246 BC - The Labours of Herakles take place.

1252 BC - Theseus kills the Minotaur at the center of the labyrinth built by Daedalus.

1246 BC - the birth of Achilles.

1246 BC - The voyage of Jason and the Argonauts.

1245 BC - Orpheus tries to rescue Eurydice.

1226 BC - Herakles dies and becomes a God after the Oracle of Dodona predicted such 15 months before.

1215 BC - Agamemnon restored as king of Mycanae.

1206 BC - Theseus is killed.

1193-1183 BC - the siege of Troy.

1183-1173 BC - The Odyssey.

1101-1150 BC - the Iron Age/dark age of Greece begins, humans and the Gods distance themselves from one another.

880 BC - Homer writes his poems.

753 BC - Ancient Rome is characterized here until 476 AD.

600 BC - Classical antiquity begins. Ancient Greece is characterized here until 600 AD.

500-499 BC - Artemis engages in a brief but intense relationship with the archaic poetess Sappho while masquerading as a huntress on the island of Lesbos. She often brought Sappho's family bounty in exchange for coin, as they were one of the wealthy in Mytilene.

490 BC - the Persians are defeated.

447 BC - The Parthenon is built.

440 BC - Herotodos writes his stories.

332 BC - Alexander III conquers Egypt.

330 BC - Alexander III conquers Persia.

51 BC - Cleopatra rules Egypt.

50-40 BC - Artemis travels between Egypt and the Roman Republic guised as a diplomat alongside her sister Athene.

44 BC - Julius Caesar is murdered. Beginning of the Roman Empire.

30 BC - Cleopatra and Marcus Antonius commit suicide.

14 AD - Death of Augustus Caesar.

37 AD - Death of Emperor Tiberius.

41 AD- Emperor Caligula is assassinated.

54 AD - Emperor Claudius dies and Nero succeeds.

68 AD - Nero commits suicide.

79 AD - the destruction of Pompeii due to Mount Vesuvius' eruption. The Gods quarrel over their involvement. Artemis and Apollon attempt to save as many children as possible and largely fail without assistance.

106-117 AD - the Roman Empire at its largest. The Gods are worshipped as their Roman counterparts. Artemis is known as Diana.

126 AD - Hadrian completes the Roman pantheon.

393 AD - The Pythia, Oracle of Delphi, gives her last prophecy to Emperor Theodosius I: "Tell the King that my hall has fallen to the ground. Phoibos no longer has his house, nor his mantic bay, nor his prophetic spring; the water has dried up."

380 AD - Christianity is declared heretical.

476 AD - the end of classical antiquity and Ancient History. The Middle Ages begin, also known as the Dark Ages due to very little being recorded.

1450 AD - The early Modern Era is characterized until 1750 AD. Marked by those such as Leonardo Da Vinci, William Shakespeare, Johann Sebastian Bach, etc.

1650 AD - The Age of Reason characterized until 1800 AD.

1800 AD. - The Modern Era characterized until present day.

[bigboimoose]

Released March 22, 1985, The Last Dragon is a American martial arts comedy film directed by Michael Schultz, produced by Rupert Hitzig, Berry Gordy and Joseph Caracciolo, and starring Taimak, Julius J. Carry III, Chris Murney, Leo O'Brien, Faith Prince, Glen Eaton and Vanity.

[adamwatchesmovies]

Disco Godfather (1979)

Disco Godfather is the most competent of Rudy Ray Moore’s 1970s films. For anyone else, that would be a selling point. For an actor of dubious talent whose fans mostly like him because his movies are accidentally funny, it's a warning. While this action film has some chuckle-worthy scenes and a few pleasant surprises, it’s overwhelmingly dull.

When Bucky (Julius J. Carry III) gets wacked out on angel dust and hospitalized, his uncle Tucker Williams (Rudy Ray Moore), a retired police detective turned rapper/disco club owner, decides to take down the drug dealers who got his nephew hooked. After repeated, failed attempts to make his way up the chain to the boss behind it all, Williams suspects someone in the department can’t be trusted.

Even before the film begins, there are dark clouds ahead. Did that screen just say "Rated PG"?. Yes, this film was made before the creation of the PG-13 rating but all of Moore’s other films had a lot of cursing and sleazy nudity. You might even say it was a selling point. Of course he isn’t actually playing Dolemite or Petey Wheatstraw (same character, really) but you expect someone called "The Disco Godfather" to be juggling a half-dozen women at least. When you realize he isn't, you brace yourself for the worst.

Moore’s other trademarks are all here. There are plenty of "martial arts" action scenes, each less convincing than the last. The punches and kicks are so slow it couldn’t be more obvious that none of them connect. Even if they did, none would cause anyone any kind of injury. As before, you already have a hard time believing Moore’s character would take down any opponent but director J. Robert Wagoner could’ve tried a little harder!

As for the performances, this is where the movie gets more enjoyable (for the wrong reasons). Take a drink every time you think "this person has to be the worst actor in this movie" and you’ll be dead from alcohol poisoning an hour in. There isn’t a convincing line delivery anywhere, and the wooden reactions are made even worse by the horrendous screenplay. At one point, two thugs attack Tucker in his office. He narrowly fends them off and they run away. From the same corridor comes his secretary, acting as if two bruised and bloodied assassinsrunning past her is the most normal thing she’s seen all day. And of course, Tucker doesn’t call the police or report this. I know what you’re thinking, "It’s because he knows there’s a rat in the precinct" but does he think it’s his former best friend Lt. Frank Hayes (Frank Finn)? How could he when the culprit is the most shifty-eyed, forehead-drenched-with-sweat, crooked-cop-if-I’ve-ever-seen-one ever?

Fans of failed cinema will also enjoy the scenes in which Disco Godfather turns into a wannabe Reefer Madness. While PCP isn’t as "harmless" as marijuana, the recovering addicts are so over-the-top you can’t stop yourself from laughing. The testimonies from the worried parents and former addicts preaching to the at-risk youths can’t be taken seriously. The slogan "Attack the Whack" is too goofy to be effective. It takes all of your willpower not to yell "Wiggedy whack!" whenever someone says something or someone is "whack". You might just explode when you hear it accidentally switched to "Whack the Attack". Then, there’s a so-called testimony from a former victim of angel dust and her speech… is NOTHING! It’s treated as an emotional reflection of a difficult life but it sounds like a placeholder that was meant to be swapped out!

The last enjoyable element of the picture are the psychedellic scenes. The special effects range from bad… to really bad. Some of the drug-induced demons we see make the orcs in Ralph Bakshi’s "The Lord of the Rings" look like the ones in Peter Jackson’s films. It comes out of a nowhere so profound and so surprising your face will be stuck in a permanent confused look.

All of this makes Disco Godfather sound like fun if you like bad movies. It would be if all of the boring bits were edited out and only the wackiest scenes remained. Unfortunately, there is indeed a plot and it's so generic it might as well be the first template you get from a free screenwriting software. The characters are so flat, the overall product so predictable and lackluster that you’ll be bored for about 75% of the running time. You’ll remember Moore’s saying "Put your weight on it!" (I still don’t know what that actually means) but little else about Disco Godfather. (June 25, 2021)

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 10.3

2457 BC – Gaecheonjeol, Hwanung (환웅) purportedly descended from heaven. South Korea's National Foundation Day. 52 BC – Gallic Wars: Vercingetorix, leader of the Gauls, surrenders to the Romans under Julius Caesar, ending the siege and battle of Alesia. 42 BC – Liberators' civil war: Triumvirs Mark Antony and Octavian fight to a draw Caesar's assassins Brutus and Cassius in the first part of the Battle of Philippi, where Cassius commits suicide believing the battle is lost. 382 – Roman Emperor Theodosius I concludes a peace treaty with the Goths and settles them in the Balkans. 1392 – Muhammed VII becomes the twelfth sultan of the Emirate of Granada. 1574 – The Siege of Leiden is lifted by the Watergeuzen. 1683 – Qing dynasty naval commander Shi Lang receives the surrender of the Tungning kingdom on Taiwan after the Battle of Penghu. 1712 – The Duke of Montrose issues a warrant for the arrest of Rob Roy MacGregor. 1739 – The Treaty of Niš is signed by the Ottoman Empire and Russia ending the Russian–Turkish War. 1789 – George Washington proclaims Thursday November 26, 1789 a Thanksgiving Day. 1792 – A militia departs from the Spanish stronghold of Valdivia to quell a Huilliche uprising in southern Chile. 1863 – The last Thursday in November is declared as Thanksgiving Day by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln. 1873 – Chief Kintpuash and companions are hanged for their part in the Modoc War of northern California. 1912 – U.S. forces defeat Nicaraguan rebels at the Battle of Coyotepe Hill. 1918 – Tsar Boris III of Bulgaria accedes to the throne. 1919 – Cincinnati Reds pitcher Adolfo Luque becomes the first Latin American player to appear in a World Series. 1929 – The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes is renamed to Yugoslavia by King Alexander I. 1932 – The Kingdom of Iraq gains independence from the United Kingdom. 1935 – Second Italo-Abyssinian War: Italy invades Ethiopia. 1942 – A German V-2 rocket reaches a record 85 km (46 nm) in altitude. 1943 – World War II: German forces murder 92 civilians in Lingiades, Greece. 1946 – An American Overseas Airlines Douglas DC-4 crashes near Ernest Harmon Air Force Base in Stephenville, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, killing 39. 1949 – WERD, the first black-owned radio station in the United States, opens in Atlanta. 1951 – Korean War: The First Battle of Maryang San pits Commonwealth troops against communist Chinese troops. 1952 – The United Kingdom successfully tests a nuclear weapon in the Montebello Islands, Western Australia, to become the world's third nuclear power. 1957 – The California State Superior Court rules that the book Howl and Other Poems is not obscene. 1962 – Project Mercury: US astronaut Wally Schirra, in Sigma 7, is launched from Cape Canaveral for a six-orbit flight. 1963 – A violent coup in Honduras begins two decades of military rule. 1981 – The hunger strike at the Maze Prison in Northern Ireland ends after seven months and ten deaths. 1985 – The Space Shuttle Atlantis makes its maiden flight, carrying two DSCS-III Satellites on STS-51-J. 1986 – TASCC, a superconducting cyclotron at the Chalk River Laboratories in Canada, is officially opened. 1989 – A coup in Panama City is suppressed and 11 participants are executed. 1990 – The German Democratic Republic is abolished and becomes part of the Federal Republic of Germany; the event is afterwards celebrated as German Unity Day. 1991 – Nadine Gordimer is announced as the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. 1993 – An American attack against a warlord in Mogadishu fails; eighteen US soldiers and over 350 Somalis die. 1995 – O. J. Simpson murder case: O. J. Simpson is acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman. 2008 – The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 for the U.S. financial system is signed by President George W. Bush. 2009 – Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Turkey join in the Turkic Council.

[graphicpolicy]

Berry Gordy's The Last Dragon comes to 4K Steelbook September 19

Berry Gordy's The Last Dragon comes to 4K Steelbook September 19 #movies

Berry Gordy’s The Last Dragon is getting a 4K Steelbook release on September 19th. Martial arts student Leroy Green (Taimak) is on a quest to obtain the elusive all-powerful force known as “The Glow.” Along the way, he must battle the evil, self-proclaimed “Shogun of Harlem” – a kung fu warrior also known as Sho’nuff (Julius J. Carry III) – and rescue a beautiful singer (Prince protégée Vanity)…

[mrsdawg4908]

Leroy Green (Taimak), a young martial artist living in New York City, trains tirelessly to attain the same level of mastery as the great Bruce Lee. One night, his life changes forever when he rescues television personality Laura Charles (Vanity) from evil businessman Eddie Arkadian (Chris Murney). Impressed by Leroy's bravery, Laura falls for Leroy -- but to keep her safe, he will have to defeat a gang leader named Sho'nuff (Julius J. Carry III), the self-styled Shogun of Harlem.

https://youtu.be/Z7Crt4S1IZM

[retropunch]

The Last Dragon (1985) - trailer

In New York City, a young man searches for a Master to obtain the final level of martial arts mastery known as the Glow.

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The Last Syrup Dragon

[dailyborgia]

Borgia, Lucrezia, in “Dominae fortunae suae [Mrs. own Fortune]. La forza trasformatrice dell’ingegno femminile [The transforming power of female ingenuity ]": 

Lucrezia, a Ferrara, diede anche prova di una compiuta maturità politica e istituzionale. Nell’agosto del 1503 era morto suo padre, Alessandro VI, e al soglio papale veniva eletto, dopo il breve pontificato di Pio III, l’acerrimo nemico dei Borgia, papa Giulio II (della Rovere). Il nuovo ordine politico portò, dopo una breve resistenza, alla riconquista pontificia della signoria romagnola di Cesare Borgia, nonostante gli aiuti militari inviati dalla sorella. Nel 1505, dopo la morte del duca Ercole I d’Este e l’incoronazione del marito Alfonso, Lucrezia divenne ufficialmente duchessa di Ferrara. In questi anni ella svolse con diligenza le mansioni che il marito le affidava sia in tempo di pace, sia durante le assenze per le campagne militari. Fu deputata dal marito alla gestione delle istanze dei cittadini presso il principe, che svolse, come riferisce un relatore contemporaneo, con “ingegno e bona gratia”.

Lucrezia, in Ferrara, also gave proof of a complete political and institutional maturity. In August 1503 his father, Alexander VI, had died and he was coming to the papal throne elected, after the brief pontificate of Pius III, the bitter enemy of the Borgias, Pope Julius II (della Rovere). The new political order led, after a short resistance, to the reconquest papal of the Romagna lordship of Cesare Borgia, despite the military aid sent from his sister. In 1505, after the death of Duke Ercole I d’Este and the coronation of husband Alfonso, Lucrezia officially became Duchess of Ferrara. In these years she she diligently carried out the duties that her husband entrusted to her both in peacetime and during absences for military campaigns. She was deputed by her husband to the management of the petitions of citizens to the prince, which he carried out, as reported by a speaker contemporary, with “ingenuity and bona gratia”. (David Salomoni)