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My app I use for comics sorts things alphabetically and it made it look like Gwenpool is just STUNNED by Batman lmao

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The Honey Tower sleeps at night

The Honey Tower sleeps at night. In the morning, the buzzing of the building starts to vibrate slightly as the internal hives wake up and start working. On the outside, bees dance around flowers and fly in and out of the tower. The beekeeper has already woken up before any of the bees and put her all of her gear on. She has made her way down the tower and is looking out over Hive Town. Their eyes linger on it for a few moments before she heads back in for the morning chores. Urban collects the honey bottles from the Dandelion floor and puts them in her bag. She takes them up to the Cornflower floor and places the full bottles into the crafter. She moves the bottles from the nearby hive into the crafter as well then moves up to the Wither Rose floor, pulls the manual farm lever twice and collects the honey bottles from it and the larger farm next to it, returning to the crafter and dropping the full bottles off. She takes a few swigs of the tower's hard work as she makes her way back up to the Sunflower floor, the captain's quarters. Bees are buzzing around, tasting the azaleas and carefully potted flowers. She is listening to the bees, listening to The Hive.

The Hive sleeps at night. The Hive is something large, beyond eternity. It is a glue that keeps planes of existence together and universes in clusters. A layer between everything. An unfathomable amount of bees enter and exit The Hive. From each plane and universe there are unique honeys and unique keepers. In Etern1ty, there is a single keeper and they are experiencing a honey sweet nightmare. The Hive has unique practices in each setting but generally there is a system of Elders, Fieldkeepers and Drones. Unfortunately, this universe only has one and she must play all of the roles herself. Interpreting what the Queen wants, organizing help from the bees and executing the orders.

The Tavern sleeps at night. Urban is at the Honey Tavern staring at the bees buzzing inside. Some of the first bees she cared for and nurtured buzzing around behind the glass. So much history in these bees to her. She hasn't been able to visit much because The Hive wanted her at Hive Town but now it needs her to close these hives. As she stares, remembering, her eyes start to water. They eventually calm down and does her work. She waits until all of the bees are inside their boxes and quickly and carefully remove the glass, cover the hives with gates and put the glass all back. They wire up the gates to some redstone so hopefully she might be able to open the hives again sometime. She hopes. She then has to remove the bees from the Inn too but she takes her time, letting the bees move into new clean hive boxes and carefully moves them to Hive Town with her. She leaves the spawn Pirate Town, a fraction of what made it so special to her.

Urban sleeps at night. Urban walks the dim path up to the tower. Arms full of wax, honey and buzzing hives. She unloads her arms and bag onto the Dandelion floor. She sorts the honey away into a barrel, sorts the hives next to the rest of the unused hives and stores the wax away in her bag. She does a stretch then stomps up the stairs. She collects all of the empty bottles and honey blocks from the crafter and carries them down to the bottom floor and sorts everything away. She sits at one of the tables for a moment and notices the honey on her clothes. She stands up and goes too the sink. They rub warm water on the places honey still is sticking to and rubs it off. The bees are starting to go to sleep now as she washes the honey out. She is careful though, near the slime stains. She knows she could probably wash them out but she wont. Urban stomps up the stairs and climbs the ladders until she gets to her bed. They look out at the Catboy Casino tower then turns around and looks at the purple bed sitting on one of her lofts. She takes her mask off once she hears that the buzzing has stopped and tucks herself in for sleep.

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again

It had been some time since these two had talked. They were both lost in time --- had been lost. They were nostalgic and she wanted a restart of sorts after she fell back asleep. They toured the impressive centerpiece on the land, walking around it, showing off every feature and quirk it had to show. She imagined with Them what it could be, what the whole place could be. Buzzing busy, full of life, full of beautiful things. Urban saw untapped potential. Flowers and life, like how it was when she was awake.

Outside, when they were talking for a bit longer, a corruption peeked over to peer at Them. It peered at Urban and everything that was around. It wasn't known to be a corruption, yet, just a distraction, something passing by. Eternally foolish, Urban wanted to enjoy it's company. She welcomed it and showed the guest --- the corruption --- around. It seemed to be a normal encounter and it was. It was, until they stayed, until the presence grew larger and warnings were issued. She let them all into her quarters --- into the bee's quarters. Urban had wanted it, They were fine with a guest, not the corruption.

They turned to their protecting tendencies as it started to show itself. Protect as many as possible, especially Their keeper. Anxiety continued to rise as she ran, warning others as stress spiked, They went across Hive Town, littering the cliffs, hills and buildings with warning cries --- with defense. The ground buzzing with worry --- her worry, her trembling. Panicked, she leapt through the night rain to the other she cared for --- the one They hadn't spoken to recently. He was calm. He was comforting. But then the ooze, the sickness, the plague started to seep through again. Reminding Them --- reminding them all --- that she had to leave and she had to take care of the problem on her own.

She pondered how she would get rid of the corruption. Then slowly, it became an if she would. They were mad and maybe this is what They deserved. To let it in even more. Let the corruption further take over.

She heard a whine at the bottom of the tower. They wanted to ignore it but it was familiar.

The corruption: a person --- A person: someone to help contain the corruption. She --- They --- rejected him --- but she didn't want to --- They did.

Droning. Swarming. The buzzing coming in waves again. The intensity almost the same as before. It feels like she is going to be stuck in the madness; forever. They keep reaching out to her. They keep directing her around, holding her mind in Their Brood.

--- She was in agony again. Writhing on the ground. The waves of violent droning quieted down enough for her to start cooling down and feel longing. The Hive was still there and she was thankful for that.

Stop the corruption. Urban knew there could be more of it around and she could finally take care of it now that The Hive wasn't spiking into her head. She would need help.

She welcomed herself into it's tower. It was worried and tired but supportive. The two worked into the night to seal where Urban knew the corruption to have been.

--- They were nearly unbothered. It was just one Keeper, They had universes to hold together and They could find another here if this one had to forfeit. This place only needs a single dedicated one, none more. Though, this one had a habit of being difficult.

Allow the corruption. She wants people around, distractions. They let her have them all. Hive Town was supposed to be just Urban and the bees, she needed to be fully dedicated but They had a sufficient tie to this world. If it faded they could just replace her.

She welcomed the distressed, the worried, the tired, the conflicted. More and more visited, then stayed.

She woke up early before the rest of the town like usual. Listening to the waves get louder; again.

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Some panels I really like from the new 2024 ultimate spider man

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forever

Urban awakes from a Nightmare. But she is awake now, away from the rotting and oozing night terrors. She awoke to their happy place where she felt one with the bees and flowers.

Some bees could go past the plane of her world and into the dreams just outside. Some bees came back with echoes from dreams of sand worlds, a planet with a new unexplored continent, but also from The Nightmare. She ignored all of them and played among the flowers.

As she frolicked and played in the fields forever, they started hearing more rambling echos. Echos of whimpering. The Nightmare had a dream of her. Curious, they comfort and inquiry the bee, “it’s ok honey, what’s wrong?” They spend forever talking about hardships and loss but the former pirate raises a sunflower for the bee to rest on, now calmer.

Forever, she dances but still, out of her control, there is chatter of insecurity and denial. This confuses them as they are able to do whatever she wants forever in her world. Could they not do that in dreams? In other worlds?

She listens to the bees. More swarm around, buzzing a hundred different things. They are all coming from the same Nightmare she woke up from at the beginning of her forever. The Nightmare misses her. It wants them back. A Nightmare with figures who have experienced impressions of nothing, people who grasp at the past but come up dry. This Nightmare misses her.

The swarm knew that Urban had a soothing presence so they all came to her. This was too much for them though.

Urban’s forever suddenly seemed shorter as they learned that this Nightmare had just started their forever. This Nightmare had an Urban, just as gentle. They were a protector.

But they couldn’t protect.

In this Nightmare, there was an oozing substance. She did not care for the ooze but they did care for someone who did. The one they couldn’t protect.

The two played, frolicked and danced but she could not protect them. Could not protect it from his own guilt.

Urban hears the buzzing coming in and out in waves between visions of this Nightmare. Oh, how unlucky it ends. They died by the paws of someone with her own eyes. He was sweet as she was but he was scared by her. He only killed her because the oozing one wanted it, the one she couldn’t protect. They killed them.

The waves get louder as they fall asleep.

Drowning in The Nightmare; forever.

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2024 ultimate spiderman has INSANE shadows on faces sometimes

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One night

Urban and Catboy just got back from what Urban kept calling "plundering". Catboy was rowing the two of them around the Hivetown-Monarchy Ocean looking for loot and they came back somewhat successful. Now, they were putting their loot away. Catboy putting its shulkers away into the Ender Chest on the Sunflower floor and Urban had already put their booty away into their very empty storage. She went down to the rest of the tower to do her nightly chores. Catboy is somewhat used to this which is, for a moment, alarming to him but they shift focus to getting ready for bed. They head up to the loft Urban let him decorate and put a bed in. He sits on the bed for a moment, remembering what they talked about before getting to the tower. Catboy was about to leave through the portal but Urban was too polite to refuse. As he was lost in his head, he heard the trapdoor open from the bottom of the floor. Urban was coming up after completing all of her chores. She climbed up to the first loft and as she walked across it, Catboy listened to each step. Her heavy boots stomping up the lofts, getting closer to him. Every other night she would walk past him but this time she stopped. She almost starts walking again but asks before she can think again,

"Do you want to come up with me? Just for a moment?"

Catboy analyzes her motions for a few moments. She is ridged as she stands there. She is tense and her grip on her own hand grows tighter. Catboy nods with a slightly concerned face "Okay."

The two walk up to Urban's bed. Urban sits on the bed an invites Catboy to sit with them and they do. Urban's head turns to face out her balcony and gaze. Loadstone. Purple candle. Stray Casino. The Spawn mountain range. They both look out for a minute. Urban's look goes from the world to her hands. She looks at them for a few moments. One of her hands moves, hesitates but eventually pulls her sleeve out of their leather glove. She pulls the glove off. They stay concentrated, taking the next glove off. She reaches over and puts the empty gloves onto the loadstone. Urban looks over at Catboy to see his reaction. This would be insignificant if it was anyone else but Urban. Her hands. Catboy doesn't know what to say or how to react, it's eyes darting at her hands and at her mask and at the floor. Urban scoots closer to him, and raises her hands for him to inspect. He slowly reaches up and feels them with his paws. Her hands are trembling very slightly but they try to hide it, trying to relax. Catboy holds one of her hands in both of his paws. His paw pads feeling them and their warmth. He sets her hand down and slides his gloves off with much less effort than hers. It looks for a place to put them but Urban takes them and places them on top of theirs on the loadstone. Urban goes to hold Catboy's hand and gently feel it, the fuzzy fur on the back, it's paw pad and toe beans. She carefully and gently feels its fingers and claws. Rain starts to pour down. Catboy started to trace lines in Urban's palms, careful to not accidentally scratch her even though she wouldn't mind. Urban gently pressed her thumb into Catboy's paw, making his fingers spread out. Lightning struck the lighting rod just outside. The whole tower shook. Catboy jumped off the bed, onto his feet. Urban too was startled but she stood up because Catboy did.

"Are you ok?"

"Yes just… startled."

Urban hums in reply. A pause before she speaks again, "That was all. I just… I'm trying."

"Th-thank you, Urban."

"Mhm. Night Catboy."

"Good night."

Catboy steps softly on the wood back to his loft. He hears the rustling of Urban taking her boots off, then her mask. This was routine. And like usual, he didn't look back to see her. He waited for the sound of her taking her gloves off but remembered what had just happened. Then they realize it doesn't have his gloves anymore. They get in their beds separately. Waiting for it to pass.

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More awesome extreme shadows on faces in the new Ultimate Spider-Man series(plus goofy Peter reflection on wine glass). I really love Octavius’ little evil genius moment and Spidey and Goblin looking off the building.

(From issues 1-10)

Artists: Marco Checchetto, David Messina

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Thoughts on Absolute Batman #1

Non-comprehensive but still kinda thorough analysis w/ pics :3

Definitely spoilers for issue one of Absolute Batman

Gotham

I think one of the cool themes of Batman is he is closely connected to the city. Batman always has a pulse on the city but this Batman IS the pulse. Alfred describes how he has worked in every facet of the city. Water treatment, sanitation, policy, power and in the comic he is construction. This Batman is more connected to Gotham than ever. He is the nervous system.

I don’t have deep knowledge of Batman but I know a huge part of him is his connection to Gotham and I love how we see even more of this city, characterizing it even more.

Bruce

As mentioned in the Gotham section, I think this Batman is one of the most connected to the city—at least that I’ve seen. Bruce has literal hands on experience with Gotham. He is a multifaceted, skilled worker. He has worked in power, water, sanitation, interned in city hall and construction.

This Wayne has a lot of similarities between Peter Park’s traditional origin story. Some large ones of note are:

1. Both have a dead father figure (uncle/dad) from gunshot

2. Super smart, middle class

3. Captain Stacy / Governor Gordon die(Gordon’s dead right?) saving people

I do think there are a good amount of similarities but more different than similar. It’s very interesting.

I have no proof but I would t be surprised if his mom dies in this first or second arc. Also he is ripped 🥵

Batman

I am very excited to see how the Batman Bruce dynamic is. I don’t think this first issue is enough to tell but I’m curious what it’s like. Almost everything Bruce does is for Batman, for the city.

Batman is very well portrayed as a unit. Borderline force of nature. This is one of my favorite things about Batman but they do it a bit different. Batman does a lot of stuff with paranoia fear but this Batman is brutal, animalistic fear. Other Batman have a larger focus on stealth but this Batman took on a hoard, head on.

The bat tech this Batman has is obviously very interesting too. The batarangs coming off his ears is really funny but awesome. He’s got bull horns now to charge into someone lmao.

The possible cape is my stand out element, even above the axe. The cape being the way it is, controllable and stiff is soooo cool. He has increased reach, cocoon shield, spikes, gliding omg it’s crazy. I think that it was alluded that the bridge technology young Bruce made became the Batman cape. It’s a foldable, structurally secure thing. The axe is very cool and I think defines this Batman’s brutality compared to others. Batman has been brutal but I think it’s mostly blunt/bashing damage. Absolute Batman slices. He easily draws blood. He still technically doesn’t kill, just cripples whoever he deems fit but this is a “I didn’t kill them, they just didn’t get to the hospital within 15 minutes”.

As the series goes on I might make a post about what a cop this Batman is…

Black Mask

A friend I trust, who is a mega Batman fan, was hesitant about Black Mask but now he all onboard after the beginning. I’m mostly unfamiliar with Black Mask but love the art so much. (Mf bowl head 💀)

Misc.

I love seeing operative Alfred. I think the Bat and Alfred dynamic is already great and will develop in a way similar to Daredevil and the Punisher maybe. Sorta kinda allies.

These panels are really cool to me. I love how the cape communicates motion. Batman just LEAPS outta there.

Ok thanks for reading all the way(this means I love you now)

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Pined post heh

I have not seen enough talk about Marvel’s 2024 Ultimate series so I am putting the content I want to see into the world(slowly)

Main stuff I like: Celeste, Disco Elysium, Smash Bros. Melee, Spider-Man(in general and itsv/atsv), Minecraft, 🐻🐝

:3 girly

I’m new here so uh… I’m trying ;-;

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Favorite panels from the recent 2024 Ultimate X-men

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I doodled this last night. I don’t normally doodle but I might continue. My favorite bit is the top ish middle

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I wanna be a fangirl. Maybe that’s a weird thing to say but I’m new to wanting to be open about being a fan of things. I used to be shy about admiring what I was a fan of outside popular games my friends were playing but now I wanna be like out and about being a fan but like idk how. I didn’t learn how to.

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Made this from a receipt and a plastic fork. Call it #52