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Hi Lou. For your celebration could I please request Sam Wilson with friends to lovers trope or A/B/O AU with promts 19 &24🩶

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Alpha!Sam Wilson x omega!reader

Snapshots of a life built together

Warnings: a/b/o dynamics, implied smut, pregnancy, non-graphic birth, fluff

WC: 918

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3000 Follower Celebration

Being the only omega on the Avengers, you were by far the most overprotected omega in the world. No alpha or even beta was good enough for you in their eyes and so you were basically kept in an ivory tower locked away from the world. Yet none of them seemed to realise that there was one eligible alpha who had captured your heart long ago.

Only one person knew about your crush on Sam and that was Natasha. The alpha had caught you staring at the older man one time too many for it to be written off as just a friendly gaze. And every chance she could, she encouraged you to tell him but every time you tired, you just couldn’t get the words out.

So tonight, you were giving it one last shot. Dressed in a tight red dress that clung to you like a second skin, highlighting each and every curve of your body. With your hair perfectly done and heels that made your ass look brilliant, you felt like a goddess as you walked into the party. Pheromones rolled off of you in waves, making everyone turn their heads to watch as you glided through the crowd.

Your omega preened under the attention but still there was one pair of eyes that you were dying to see. And almost like a moment in a movie, there he was. He donned a deep maroon suit, sipping on a glass of whisky as he looked out the huge windows overlooking the city. Suddenly he turned and his eyes grew two sizes.

His scent of pine and leather grew more musky as you approached, his breathing becoming even deeper. You stopped just before him, the tip of your heels barely inches from his black dress shoes. “Hi.” You murmured bashfully.

“Hi.” He responded, seemingly at a loss for words. “You look just, wow. You look beautiful.” Sam finally spit out. Heat raced up your cheeks.

“Thank you, so do you. I mean, you look handsome.” Carefully, he placed his glass to the side, truly not caring about the alcohol anymore, before he offered a hand to you.

“Would you like to dance?” You took it, cradling his large palm in a gentle grip.

“I would love to.”

Sam stood on the other side of the kitchen counter, a good distance from you. He looked almost pained as he struggled to keep a level head. You were squirming on the kitchen stool he had forced you onto, the onset of your heat coming quickly but there was a serious discussion to be had first.

“I want to mark you.”

“I want that too.” You agreed immediately, another wave of slick soaking your already destroyed panties. Sam took in a deep breath through his mouth.

“And- I want a family with you.” You froze and then moaned loudly. Quickly, you slipped from the chair and grabbed your soon-to-be alpha by the collar of his shirt and tugged him down for an almost painful kiss. Tentatively, he held your thick waist, pulling your soft body closer to him. You growled against his lips, needing more.

But he pulled away, albeit reluctantly. “I need you to give me your consent or else we can’t spend your heat together.” He said firmly, looking into your lust-blown eyes.

“Yes! Yes! I want your pups! I want your mark! Just please, I need you inside of me right now.” And with that, his iron resolve shattered. He held you as tight as he could and pressed you back against the counter, fitting his slim hips between your plump thighs and rutted into your clothed heat.

“My omega, my fucking omega.” He snarled.

“‘M all yours.”

“Fuck you Wilson!” You screamed in agony, gripping onto the rails attached to your bedside as you bared down.

Sam paid no mind to your words, instead wiping away the sweat that had collected along your brow with a damp cloth. “I know ‘mega but you’re doing so good. Only a little bit more to go now.” You slumped back against the many pillows behind you as the contraction passed, finally able to catch your breath.

“You are never getting laid again.” You groaned and let your eyelids flutter shut, exhaustion quickly overtaking you. Yet Sam just chuckled and pressed a loving kiss to your forehead.

“That’s what you said the first two times but here we are yet again.” You just glared at your husband.

“Okay Mrs Wilson! Let’s see if you’re ready to push.” The beta doctor disappeared between your raised legs before reappearing once more. “You’re at 10 centimetres, it’s time.”

Quickly, Sam took your hand into his own, giving it a gentle squeeze of reassurance. You nodded at the doctor, feeling another contraction begin. “That’s it, keep going. Such a good girl.” Pain ripped through you like nothing else and you pushed.

The sun had begun to set over the farm property. All the kids were either at a friend’s house or still at school (your eldest had started college only 6 months ago) so for the first time since Sam had claimed you, the house was quiet.

You sighed and relaxed into the alpha’s open arms. His scent was milder now, not as powerful as it was in his prime but you still loved it all the same. You could feel him smile against the crown of your head before he laid a kiss there.

“I love you ‘mega.”

“I love you alpha.”

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madamealtruist · 2 months

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ANOTHER AU!? I know what you're saying... Gwen, you're nuts. But not only are you absolutely right, I think this one might be my most ambitious one yet. As a young nerd, there were two groups. The Marvel fans and the DC fans. And while the rivalry certainly has calmed down a bit, I was almost always torn. So, earlier in the week, I decided to do the one thing that every fanfic writer has tried at least once.

A Marvel/DC crossover.

But unlike the typical realm merger, to put it in Mortal Kombat terms, this is a universe where both properties coexist. For example, picture a group of people walking to a Big Belly Burger while listening to Just the Facts with J. Jonah Jameson. That's just a fraction. I have an ENTIRE starting cast as well.

Welcome... to Earth-812

JUSTICE LEAGUE

Bruce Wayne/Batman (Alex Organ/Edward Bosco)

Clark Kent/Superman (Talon Warburton)

Diana Prince/Wonder Woman (Grey DeLisle)

Dr. Bruce Banner/Hulk (Sean Chiplock/Lou Ferrigno)

Thor Odinson (Kyle Hebert)

Antoinette Stark/Iron Man (Erica Lindbeck/Andrew Bowen)

Steve Rogers/Captain America (Roger Craig Smith)

TEEN TITANS

Dick Grayson/Robin 1/Nightwing (Scott Menville)

Victor Stone/Cyborg (Khary Payton)

Kory Ander/Starfire (Kelly Rae Boyer)

Rachel Roth/Raven (Amanda Lee)

Garfield Logan/Beast Boy (Ben Schwartz)

Jaime Reyes/Blue Beetle (Miles Luna)

Peter Parker/Spider-Man (Nathan Sharp)

Gwen "Joyce Delaney" Stacy/Ghost Spider (Avril Lavigne)

SINISTER SIX

Slade Wilson/Deathstroke (Bryan Cranston)

???/Joker (Jason Marnocha)

Dr. Otto Octavius/Doctor Octopus (Alfred Molina)

Norman Osborn/Green Goblin (Steve Blum)

Howard Stark/Iron Monger (Jamieson Price)

Eduardo Dorrance/Bane (Danny Trejo)

MIDNIGHT SUNS

Dr. Victor Fries/Mr. Freeze (Arnold Schwarzenegger)

Dr. Harleen Quinzel/Harley Quinn (Brina Palencia)

Dr. Pamela Isley/Poison Ivy (Venus Terzo)

Nanaue Shei'ark/King Shark (Fred Tatasciore)

Louise Lincoln/Killer Frost (Jennifer Hale)

Edalyn Brock/Venom (Stephanie Beatriz/Lzzy Hale)

Kara Danvers/Supergirl (Addie Amick)

Johnny "Blaze" Ketch and Dani Ketch/Ghost Rider 1 and 2 (Clifford Chapin and Erica Mendez)

Wade Wilson/Deadpool (James A. Janisse)

Eric Brooks/Blade (Christopher Judge)

SWORDS OF RAO

Zod (Liam O'Brien)

Faora (Lauren Babic)

Non (Keith Ferguson)

GAMMA FREAKS

Dr. Brian Banner/The Father (Jim Cummings)

Rick Jones/Red Hulk (Nolan North/Darin De Paul)

Emil Blonsky/Abomination (Ike Amadi)

CULT OF FLAME

Cletus Kassady/Carnage (Robert Englund/Jacob Craner)

Frances Barrison/Shriek (Cree Summer)

Mephisto (Alan Lee)

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Professor Charles Xavier (Peter Capaldi)

James "Logan" Howlett/Wolverine (Steve Blum)

Hannah Marie/Rogue (Meghan Black)

Remy LeBeau/Gambit (Christina Vee, but with a Cajun accent)

Piotr Nikolaievitch Rasputin/Colossus (Stefan Kapičić)

Illyana Rasputin/Magik (Anya-Taylor Joy)

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Dr. Curt Connors/Lizard (Rob Zombie)

Max Dillon/Electro (Jamie Foxx)

Oswald Cobblepot/Penguin (Danny DeVito)

Dr. Joana Crane/Scarecrow (Kathleen Barr)

Waylon Jones/Killer Croc (Ron Perlman)

Victor von Doom/Doctor Doom (Lex Lang)

Erik Lensherr/Magneto (David Sobolov)

Frank Castle/Punisher (Thomas Jane)

Jason Todd/Robin 2/Red Hood (Jensen Ackles)

Flint Marko/Sandman (John DiMaggio)

Nick Fury (Karl Urban)

L. Thompsin Lincoln/Tombstone (Keith David)

Anastasia Kravenoff/Kraven the Hunter (Mariya Aranova)

Quinten Beck/Mysterio (Bruce Campbell)

Alexsei Systevich/Rhino (Paul Giamatti)

#au #marvel #dc #fanfiction #avengers #justice league #spider man #venom #batman #supergirl #superman #deadpool #too many to count!

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Wolf's Eye: Demon Strike

Redone Outline

I pitched a very minimally edited version of the outline from this post with absolutely NO prep and when my professor very carefully told me none of it made sense (after I stumbled through a twenty-word stuttering explanation of the story itself at 10:30am while my brain went blank) I cried.

Because I knew that and my brain was still being a little shit and refusing to process that. Not because I was upset at HIM. Mike was entirely within reason lol and he handled my misdeeds and my emotions quite well for a man who likely had no idea what was happening (with the story or with me).

But tl;dr I mortified myself. So to resolve the pain that caused me, I wrote up a proper outline (to resubmit) and now it's here for you all to admire! It's great. I'm proud of it. This is the most I've thought about Demon Strike in YEARS! And even if I don't use it for this class (which I probably won't because WEC has NO relation to me and this is one of those story and concept classes in which you have to base things off personal experience), I can still use the outline for my Graphic Novel thesis project thingy for my minor capstone next fall. So I still win.

Enjoy!

PART 1:

opens with Caitie Davis riding through the forests of Voaden (city), Iron Archs (dimension) on her motorcycle, the radio blaring some news story about the changing of hands of the WEC title—her and Jason assuming command. Gives a set time until that formal takeover date.

some things the radio man might discuss: the death of Jason’s father and how Jason is linked to Wilson’s death. Caitie’s surprising choice to co-lead with Jason and her adamancy about their working as a team together. Trails off with “and now the weather…”

arrives at the property and is let in. Greets the guards and Pitch, meets Jason at the front desk and goes up to talk to the temporary CEO—the doctor Wilson Alder appointed to take over until Jason was old enough to take on the family business.

Are given instructions to take the day/next few days off, rest before the storm so to speak. Warns them of the curse, of Myrixel, and suggests shoring things up during their downtime.

Caitie, Jason, Pitch, and Harper meet on the roof that night with beers and food over the fire pit

Reminisce, talk about Jason and Caitie taking over, mention Lou and how Caitie’s family still thinks it’s too dangerous for her to take on the mantle but how she’s going to anyway.

Mention the lycanthrope “curse” and Caitie blowing it off, and how she thinks they’ll be able to deal with Myrixel easily too. (Tattoo that indicates a hybrid??) Harken back to the radio man’s mention of Caitie’s adamancy that she and Jason co-lead because this is part of WHY

Jason goes down with Harper to get more beers and find they’ve run out in the aviary. Jason goes back down to the main floor, then to the desk to take the lift down to storage. Harper goes back to the roof. When Jason tries to take the lift back up, the handprint scanner fails. The lights start to flicker. He tries again. The lights go out, then flash on a grim purple.

“It would be you, Son of Alder.”

Or something else ominous

blurry first-person images of things going black, getting back to the first floor, someone at the front desk asking Jason if he’s okay, Myrixel turning them, the lights flickering purple

Back on the roof, the power shuts off and Harper says something about having a bad feeling about it (#StarWars reference). Goes down to check things out. Pitch gets onto the security network; Caitie tries to call Jason on HOLO.

Pitch goes silent, Caitie can’t get Jason.

the lights in the parking lot come back on, glowing the same grim, ominous purple as the basement where Jason was.

PART 2:

Caitie frantically tries to comm Jason again, spamming her HOLOscreen until it fizzles out in stark disgust with her. She curses at it, looks over the roof wall to see people filtering out of the building and one poor tech running out in a panic before toppling over themselves, getting up, and walking back inside unnaturally calm. Turns back to Pitch, who is still looking at his own screen, unreadable.

“Pitch...? What’s going on?” “Something’s wrong. The security network is on the fritz, everything is shutting down and the lockout measures are failing. Someone got in.” Caitie looks back at the parking lot. “We’ve got to get to Jason.”

They head back into the atrium where Caitie immediately goes for the training weapons (“they’re better than nothing”). Turns around to find Pitch halted on the stairs, hand on his hip holster, his eyes glowing purple. Has to fight her way away from him—or run, more like. Gets his indent pass off of his neck in the tussle (dog tags, which is unusual for an LA, they’re usually welded into their exoskin), runs for it.

Pitch is SCARY. He’s six feet tall and his color scheme is all red, yellow, and black. He has a fairly humanoid design for an LA, but he’s fitted with hidden blades and has high magic usage tolerance, as well as an android’s enhanced strength and durability. He’s formidable in a fight. Caitie gets the hell out of dodge.

Makes her way through the fifth floor (next floor down from the aviary atrium) in stealth mode, finds out the human members of the outfit are just as possessed as the LA members, and all of them have Myrixel’s glowing Hell’s Aisles sigil over their heads (on their foreheads?). Has to fight one of the weapons techs she interned under.

PART 2 has commentary from Caitie in caption boxes. PART 1 features mostly dialog bubble and special word bubble for the radio.

Gets down to floor four and has a view all the way across and through the building. The lights on the ceiling (underside of floor five) are a sickly purple and Jason is standing on the second-floor central platform, but Caitie can immediately tell it’s not her Jason. He’s giving orders and everyone is following them

Myrixel is directing the humanoids and Living Androids to track down anyone who didn’t slip under his command—anyone off the network. He doesn’t want a mistake like what happened with Alder (Jason witnessed, got away, and got to safety after his father’s commissioned murder).

Caitie is not on the network. She was riding back from university, having freshly graduated (this will have been made clear in PART 1), and hadn’t logged back in officially or gotten her new clearance codes. Immediate target on her back.

Gets spotted while watching. Temp attacks her, unleashing all three rings of his magic stabilization levels at her (i.e., he is very Unstable). Alerts Myrixel to her presence, runs through the fourth floor to try and escape Temp, then Bronze, then Alex. gets pinned in a closed room by Bronze and Temp (notorious prank/disaster duo, like brothers). Myrixel marches in after them.

Temp: wiry, avg. height LA with a lavender color theme, rabbit-like ears, and red highlight colors (stabilizers, eyes (not while possessed), wrist bracer runes. Bronze: same height, browns and blues for color themes, looks like a prep. Neither of them should be terrifying but they are (framing, power/control, dangerous, no holding back, VERY armed and dangerous). Alex is built like a mountain; six feet of metal alloy and crimson, orange, and heavy armor.

Myrixel gives some quick villain speech and then just. Fatally stabs her. He’s done this before; he’s not messing around. Locks her in the room (cleared-out storage?) to die.

Caitie still has Pitch’s indent tags. Tries to triage herself but is generally shit at healing magic and has inadequate supplies (searches the storage containers after Myrixel-Jason leaves with Temp and Bronze (which is WRONG because Temp has field training and hates seeing blood and Bronze is a medic).

overrides Myrixel’s technological control over Pitch, hopes it cracks the rest of him. Wraps his core coding in her own security spells (magitech functions as a code-runeset hybrid) and hopes for the best.

fades to black.

Cut to Pitch while Myrixel sizes him up and makes some comment about stealth force being useful for his takeover of the Archs, how he needs to be successful this time or else his contract will fall through “and, well, you know what happens to demons who don’t fulfill their contracts.”

Pitch wakes up. (All yellows)

PART 3:

Pitch wakes up as Myrixel leaves the aviary atrium, setting him up as a sentry “in case anymore haughty, stubborn miscreants try to make their way in.”

Comes out of it with a jolt and some magic sparks, then everything CRACKS open in full color and he stagers into a wall.

First person shots with yellow code overwriting purple, and a bright yellow sigil blinking in his viewscren. Pull back out and that same sigil is glowing over his head (forehead?) where Myrixel’s just was.

Flashback panels/flashes to a blurry/cut-off image of Wilson Alder talking over a yellow-orange HOLopad and Pitch’s voice laughing. “You can’t possess something twice, after all.” (Said as a joke, you can see Wil’s smile and the crinkles by his eyes. You can tell the two of them were friends.

Pull back to reality and Pitch repeats what Wil said. Moves out of frame.

Moves through the building the same way Caitie did, but doesn’t get recognized. He doesn’t give as much commentary (caption boxes) the way Caitie did. Just enough to pull you through the pages by the color of the boxes as he moves through the building.

commentary on his origins and what Will meant. Show don’t tell, but as it applies to dialog/narration in written media, if that makes sense.

Finds Caitie. Checks her vitals, checks the poorly packed stab wound, knows she isn’t going to make it. Makes some comment to her about being too stubborn to die like this. She makes some mostly-unconscious wisecrack about it. Hits her with a strong painkiller from the medkit she was able to find, grabs a blade and draws the zio’andar onto her shoulder.

“If you’re stubborn enough, you’ll be back. I hope you’ll be back, Davis. You… [insert some cheesy reference to when she was a kid and they played some game or another together and he stubbornly refused to let her win so she’d have a challenge]”

narration boxes briefly explain the zio’andar (for notes here: the zio’andar, or Void Death Rune, is a promise rune that, when activated with blood upon one’s death, the gods are bound to resurrect that person in fulfillment of the promise. The caveat is that the gods usually want something from that person/assign a quest, and sometimes the resurrection isn’t immediate. Pitch overrides the “not immediate” bit by tracing HIS sigil on her forehead, claiming her as his ward.

Pitch and Harper have been around since Jason and Caitie were little. They were the kids’ babysitters, which always wigged out Caitie’s parents

goes to find Myrixel-Jason

PART 4:

Caitie wakes up exactly where she died (all pinks, reds, and blues, NOT Myrixel’s purple).

panics, very confused. Realizes she’s sitting in a pool of her own dried blood but there isn’t any on her or her clothes, and the stab wound is gone. Even more confused.

Gets up, fishes a weapon out of some storage crate or another (it’s Wolf’s Eye. It should be very clear visually and thematically that this is just how the place operates) and creeps out of the storage room. It’s been a few hours, morning light is streaming in through the windows.

Pitch overrode the lock codes to get in and left it unlocked.

hears blaster fire, looks over the railing to the find the first floor consumed in a firefight between those still under Myrixel’s control and those under Pitch’s—yellow vs purple.

Myrixel-Jason and Pitch are alternating between shooting at each other and dodging each other’s hexes on the catwalk across the second floor

Caitie decides to go down and help Pitch

Caitie is still a little delirious at this point, both as a side effect of nearly dying, and falling asleep, and of the resurrection in general. Still doesn’t know how she’s alive or healed. Ends up blearily making her way through the fourth floor to the stairwell, no opposition is met because they’re all downstairs or, as we are shown, cowering in the offices.

Gets to the second floor, meets opposition. Bronze is fighting a purple-eyed Temp, who is overpowering him.

Caitie stops to help Bronze, even if she’s still not happy that he was one of the ones who cornered her (even though it’s not really his blame to shoulder).

Raises her blaster pistol to shoot only to realize there’s no battery pack—but it shoots anyway. Tattoos she did NOT have just a death-nap ago are lit up down her entire arms and Temp has a smoldering hole in his side.

Temp’s eyes gutter out and he collapses. Bronze makes a put-out noise, Caitie winces and tells him “At least when we fix him and upload his memory back up he won’t remember being possessed.”

While getting shot at by a couple purple-eyed techs, Caitie scrambles across the second floor while Bronze attempts to draw Myrixel’s attention with gunfire

Myrixel: “I thought you were the medic!” Bronze, who is also trained in combat and weapons handling because he works at Wolf’s Eye: “I have bad days!”

Caitie tackles Pitch right before he can shoot Myrixel-Jason down. “That’s still Jason’s body! We’re trying NOT to kill him, right?” Pitch, meanwhile, is seeing in double vision and can see the miasmic possession grip Myrixel has on him and is more focused on that. He is also, unfortunately, deeply attached to these kids and agrees that yeah, we probably shouldn’t kill Jason just to kill Myrixel.

immediately tries to bodily tackle Jason, who is her height and has less muscle anyway, but Pitch yanks her back before Myrixel can whack her to the side. Makes a comment about how she’s supposed to be dead. She throws some witty comment back at him.

He starts shooting again, Pitch and Caitie fall back. Bronze, meanwhile, has disappeared (presumably caught in the aftermath of whatever distract he caused)

Pitch is trying to figure out what, exactly, to do to stop Myrixel without killing him. Even before his memories were unlocked, he was a lethally trained fighter. Caitie, meanwhile, starts asking if he can just like, exorcise Myrixel

Pitch has a lightbulb moment.

Caitie is and can tackle Jason’s body to the ground. He’s seen her do it, and he knows how much Jason weighs. He decides to let her. Tells her to get him down and unconscious, which she is loath to do on purpose, but agrees anyway. Pitch gives her cover and Caitie uses her new glowy powers to draw Myrixel-Jason’s attention, then full-body tackles him to the catwalk and makes sure he hits his head real hard.

Myrixel may be a powerful contract demon, but he is currently possessing the comparatively frail body of Jason Alder, who does not yet have a plate in his head. He goes out like a light.

Pitch exorcises Myrixel from Jason with extreme predjudice. He retreats, trying to maintain control over the building and its inhabitants, but the outfit members start falling out of his control and the lights flicker.

The key to a contract demon like Myrixel’s powers working is their tether to the world they’re working in; they have to have a strong and receptive (forcibly or genuinely) host to possess. Without that, Myrixel’s power and plans fail and he loses control of Wolf’s Eye.

It’s for this same reason that Pitch (and Harper, but he’s not relevant here) has an LA body. He was originally sent to kill Wilson but ended up getting held hostage by whoever he possessed (probably Wil, he’s nutty like that) and through experience decided that he didn’t want to be the one to fuck up these people’s lives. So he had an LA body made and his Hell’s Aisles memories and powers locked away until he needed them. They were supposed to be easier to access, but the retrieval failed when Myrixel killed Wil.

the building falls back into its natural state—not its previous state. It’s pretty trashed. A couple hours of active close-quarters blaster fire and metal people tackling other metal people through walls will do that. Caitie gets off of Jason and Pitch decides they probably need to get him to a medic. Caitie remembers Bronze and goes to hunt him down.

Cut to a week later, when Jason is several days free of medical and healing from a pretty nasty concussion. Caitie is doing research on what, exactly, Pitch turned her into by using the zio’andar on her.

“No, but what the hell is a ziojic? Or ziorisa demonica? Pitch, whatever you magicked me into isn’t even researchable and has two names dude. What the fuck.” (Cue Pitch giving one of those long-suffering sighs and accepting that his new fate is to mentor a newly resurrected immortal-with-a-catch.)

Jason, meanwhile, is not entirely unaffected from the possession. In addition to lingering demonic eyes that might never change back, he’s also paler, has worse vision, and is left with a curse of his own.

Jason’s curse: Myrixel cursed him before he lost his ability to appear in the Archs. Jason’s body is essentially frozen in time...? He’s kind of like a walking corpse, in a way. His heart his stopped mid-beat, his pupils are stuck dilated, he’s got muscle rigidity and joint stiffness, it’s a whole thing. (Mobility aids? Vision impaired? Expound on what this means for him going forward and how he handles it)

casting Myrixel out, Pitch explains around this time, broke the contract curse on Wolf’s Eye since it rendered him unable to fulfill his contract terms. He makes some comment about how hopefully the person who commissioned him won’t try again, considering three Hell’s Aisles demons have now failed to take WEC down for good

alludes to the big bad of installment 2, aka the guy who commissioned Hell’s Aisles to take down Wolf’s Eye.

Cue that explanation, or maybe it’s already happened.

Pitch mentions something about knowing who contracted him, Harper, and Myrixel—and how Harper still doesn’t remember anything, and he’ll respect that choice. Other closing lines, some comment about how they can still take on anything, even if Jason is a cursed walking corpse (see notes).

View pulls out to a view of the whole main building and repairs beginning. Maybe Caitie issues a nonchalant challenge to the multiverse (which would be in character, and will totally come back to bite her in the ass)

Some other notes:

WEC adopts purple as its tech color to mark their triumph over Myrixel and to brandish as proof of it. It’s not his shade, its a pleasant lavender shade like Temp’s colors, kind of. Caitie’s eyes are a similar color permanently. Jason dyes his hair purple for shits and giggles, gives Caitie and Pitch war flashbacks in the process.

Caitie and Jason are not related, but they consider each other family. They grew up together, and when Wilson died, Jason came to live with the Davis family (he was around 12)

“Demon Strike” is the first installment of 3. “WEC: Order of the Puppet Master” deals with the people who contracted Myrixel and takes place the year after this (roughly). “WEC: Dark Pheonixes” takes place much later, after an interdimensional upset that isn’t relevant here.

magic system is pre-established but not necessary to understand beyond the fact that most of it is color coded, so the same color will generally do the same thing across the boards. Gets a little confusing with Light magic involved, but again, not important.

yes this did genuinely give me closure to write

#wolf's eye corporations #broken dimensions #yeah i know things mostly only make sense in my head mike but it's not MY fault speaking is hard #and in high-pressure situations my mind goes blank #that's the mental illness #brdim lore #original concept #brdim stories #outline #creative writing #potential graphic novel #yeah i should probably pick up therapy again

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daydreamerdrew · 2 years

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Comics read this past week:

Marvel:

The Hulk! (1978) #10-12

Similar to The Rampaging Hulk (1977) from last week, which this series actually evolved from, these issues were something I had skipped over in my Hulk readings and then had to go back to. I skipped them because I hadn’t started watching The Incredible Hulk (1978) TV show yet and I knew that this series tied into it in some way and so was concerned that the comic could spoil the show for me. The way it ended up tying in was that the Hulk doesn’t fight supervillains in this series, like he doesn’t in the TV show, and instead faces things like “the forces of nature, of social convention, of Fate, and, ultimately, his own personal crises and dilemmas.” I am not as into this book as I am the Hulk’s appearances in his main title and in The Defenders (1972) and it’s not that the premise doesn’t appeal to me so much as that I’m just not finding the specific stories quite as interesting. None of them were really doing anything particularly new or inventive with the Hulk that I hadn’t seen before in his supervillain-filled stories.

The main Hulk stories in these three issues were all written by Doug Moench and penciled by Ron Wilson. The first was inked by Ricardo Villamonte, the second by Fran Matera, and the third by Ernie Chan. Issue #10 also had a text story written by David Anthony Kraft and an interview with Bill Bixby and issue #12 had an interview with Lou Ferrigno. And there are also Moon Knight back-up stories in this series starting in issue #11 but I’ve decided to skip those for now and wait until I’ve already read through this whole series for the Hulk to go back and read through the Moon Knight stories all together.

the Iron Man stories in Tales of Suspense (1959) #98-99 and Iron Man and Sub-Mariner (1968) #1

In this little batch of Iron Man solo stories I went from November 1967 to January 1968. This batch marked the end of Stan Lee’s run on Iron Man as Archie Goodwin began writing the character starting with Tales of Suspense #99. It also marked the end of Iron Man sharing a book with another character, and so only having stories that are 12 pages long, because the Iron Man and Sub-Mariner one-shot served to bridge the gap between the end of Tales of Suspense and the beginning of Iron Man (1968) where he’ll have the whole issue to himself. Gene Colan penciled all three of these stories and he’ll continue to pencil the character in his first solo series. The first story here was inked Frank Giacoia and the second and third by Johnny Craig.

Harvey Comics:

the Neptina, Queen of the Deep, stories in Champion Comics (1939) #2-9 and Champ Comics (1940) #11-17

These stories, which made of the entirety of Neptina's existence, went from from December 1939 to February 1942. The main bulk of the stories were 6 or 8 pages and then they taper off and get shorter at the end. And there actually was a Neptina, Queen of the Deep, story in Champion Comics #10 but that issue unfortunately hasn't been scanned and posted online yet so I wasn't able to read it.

I don't know who the writers of these stories were. There is a credit within some of the stories to "Bently Wade" but that's clearly not an actual person as the writing changes considerably in the latter half of the batch and so is obviously not written by the same person who wrote the earlier stories. And I wasn't able to find out anything about Bently Wade or who used that pseudonym online. Not being able learn who wrote the early stories is really disappointing because the writing of them was legitimately impressive. The approach to continuity and the way the broader story evolved from issue to issue stood out from what I've read of it's contemporaries.

In the first issue we're introduced to Brad Fletcher, a Navy lieutenant, who is ordered to investigate a series of submarine disasters and is in the process captured by fish-men and brought before Neptina, the queen of a underwater kingdom, who finds him handsome and keeps him as a favored prisoner with some amount of monitored freedom. In the second issue Brad learns that Neptina has taken the crew of those destroyed submarines as slaves, which necessitated replacing their lungs and organs of speech with fish gills, and that she intends to go to war with the land people, which means that she needs to steal of lungs of a beautiful land woman for herself and of many land men for her army. Brad also meets the outlaw group the Maella, led by Mhersa, who oppose Neptina's rule and then the land woman who Neptina's fish-men soldiers capture for her, famous actress Norma Kane. From here we have a wonderful base to tell stories that continuously build on what's happened before. In the story in issue #6, while on a mission on land to sell her kingdom's sacred treasures to raise funds for her war, Neptina encounters the same police lieutenant who was skeptical of Brad and Norma's story when they escape to land in issue #5. Her actions in this issue contribute to the ongoing court politics issues between Neptina and fish-man scientist Mogg. Another recurring character with the underwater kingdom is sympathetic fish-man noble Gakk who helps Brad and Norma in multiple stories. Billy Todd, Norma's close friend who was with her when the fish-men captured her and so is the only one who knows what really happen to her, hires famous scientific investigator Milo Mason in issue #5 who then becomes a recurring character within the land parts of the stories. I found the various conflicts between all these different groups very interesting. And the stories weren’t too stuck on one character or another, sometimes focusing more on Brad and Norma and sometimes focusing more on Neptina and Mogg to ultimately create really distinct stories from issue to issue.

In my discussion of the writing I'm really mostly focusing on the events of the stories drawn by Harry Parkhurst as those were my definite favorites. He drew the Neptina stories in Champion Comics #2-9 and Champ Comics #11-12. His work here was legitimately stunning. His underwater scenes in particular were absolutely beautiful and there was certainly a lot of underwater scenes in the Neptina, Queen of the Deep, stories. I am 100% going to be seeking out more comics drawn by him. Both his art and the writing together made these stories the best Golden Age comics content that I've read so far. An absolute gem of a find that I would genuinely highly recommend.

I’ve listed this under Harvey Comics, as it was on the Digital Comic Book Museum website, but Harvey Comics didn’t actually begin publishing the series until Champ Comics #18. From what I’ve been able to find online, Champion Comics was initially published by Worth Publishing Company, which was likely just a front by Harry Donenfeld to hide his financial involvement with the series by claiming that artist Worth Carnahan was the publisher. The series was then bought by Champ Publishing Company and renamed to Champ Comics; or, more likely, Champ Publishing Company was created to publish Champ Comics. This new company was owned by Leo Greenwald. And the properties of Champ Publishing Company were eventually purchased by Family Comics which was an imprint of Harvey Comics.

Hillman Periodicals:

the Rocket Riley stories in Rocket Comics (1940) #1-3

These three stories, which constituted the entirety of Rocket Riley’s existence, went from March 1940 to May 1940. The first two stories were 16 pages and the third was 12 pages. I started reading this because I thought the art style of the first story was really appealing but unfortunately the next two stories weren’t by the same artist. The writing wasn’t really notable to me other than that I found the simplicity and bluntness charming.

There isn’t any clear information online about who wrote or drew any of these stories which is unfortunate because I would have otherwise looked up what else the artist of the first story drew, but maybe I’ll stumble upon that style again in my random Golden Age comics readings someday.

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The Avengers movie except Loki is played by Brennan “Ultimate Chaotic Energy” Lee Mulligan

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Hello everyone, I'm Sandy/Dee Dee!

I love music (mostly 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s), reading, playing guitar, photography and retro/vintage stuff, old cars, dragons, etc.

Mostly here I will share my photos, things I created in Picsart, something with one of my favorite bands or my favorite quotes...

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Moji oblíbení fotografové: Mick Rock, Dežo Hoffmann, Jim Marshall, Daniel Angeli, Eric Kogan, Annie Leibowitz, Antonín Kratochvíl, Koh Hasebe, Andrea Lemos, Peter Simon, atd.

My Fave Bands/Singers: Queen, Rolling Stones, The Beatles, The Who, Ramones, Led Zeppelin, Metallica, Megadeth, Iron Maiden, Def Leppard, Nirvana, Foo Fighters, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Alice in Chains, Pink Floyd, Bon Jovi, Mötley Crüe, GnR, BGs, Roxette, KISS, Meky Žbirka, LP, Scorpions, The Doors, Velvet Underground, Lou Reed, Sex Pistols, Janis Joplin, David Bowie, Green Day, Aerosmith, Bowie, Elton John, Phil Collins, Genesis, Van Halen, Sadeyes, JVKE, David Kushner, Harry Styles, etc.

My Fave Artists: Warhol, Lichtestein, Modigliani, Kahlo, Ronnie Wood, Banksy, Botticelli,...

Favourite Movies: Hair, Bohemian Rhapsody, Grease, Dirty Dancing, Help, Yellow Submarine, Amelie from Montmartre, Lion King, The Song Remains The Same, Piti piti pa, Labyrinth, Ghostbusters, Sgt. Pepper's lonely hearts club, Rocket man, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Singing in the rain, etc....

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Loki - Season 1 (2021) Review

With glorious purpose comes great irresponsibility...

Plot: After stealing the Tesseract and messing with the timeline in Avengers: Endgame, the god of mischief Loki, having recently felt defeat from the Avengers at the Battle of New York and experienced what it means to be Hulk smashed, lands face to face with the TVA (Time Variance Authority) who hire him to help hunt down other time variances.

Out of all the MCU Disney+ shows from first glance Loki seemed like the most self contained standalone one as it was set way way back in the past and seemingly deviated from the main events and story direction that the overall Marvel Cinematic Universe was heading. It seemed as if Loki’s entire existence came to fruition thanks to the fans’ huge love for the character played so splendidly by Tom Hiddleston all these years and this wasn’t going to accumulate to more than fan service. And that would have been perfectly okay, as aforementioned Tom Hiddleston is so well cast as the titular antihero that you can watch his shtick endlessly. He is articulate, delivering lines like machine gun bullets along with a real range of mannerisms and faces to deliver those lines with devastating effect. He is the perfect actor to play Loki because he is both charming and handsome. He also has the English villain thing going for him so he comes across as classy even when he is being nasty and mean. He manages to balance smugness with goofiness and delivers the Nordic Asgardian tongue with Shakespearean gusto! Marvel have always been known for great casting and arguably....heck, not even an argument, he IS Marvel’s best casting choice. Not even Robert Downey Jr.’s Iron Man have as big a fan following as Hiddle-Loki! So making a show for the fans wasn’t out of question.

However, having now watched the Loki season finale it turns out this series has thus far had the biggest impact on the Marvel Cinematic Universe than any other Phase 4 show/movie so far. This thing sets up so much of what’s to come that it comes as a bit of a difficulty to review it as basically anything I say can be classed as a spoiler and then Marvel fans would eat me up like those rats do in the video game A Plague Tale: Innocence. There wouldn’t be a shed of skin left on me!! But what I can talk about is some stuff.

Tom Hiddleston is great as always, and also the clever casting of Owen Wilson as Mobius, one of the members of the TVA, results in a great buddy cop bromance between the two that I wish the show gave more time to, especially since Owen Wilson is so loveable in this, even if he doesn’t get to say his signature catchphrase “WOW”. In fact when the two share the screen together the series is at its highest. The rest of the cast have their moments too, and a stand out who’s role I cannot spoil but is so so good in this is Richard E. Grant. He plays a certain special character and nearly steals the entire show when he appears. Also visually the show looks great and the music score hits some solid notes. I did also enjoy the twists and turns and as I said, the set up for the future is really significant and leaves space for something great to look forward to. I was always wondering how Marvel could keep things interesting following the very conclusive Endgame, which seemed like a perfect franchise ender. But with what Loki sets up it kind of turns everything we know about the cinematic universe upside down, and I cannot wait to see where things go from here.

In terms of negatives, there’s an episode midway through this season’s six episode run which is evident filler and not even good filler. It felt like a knock-off episode of Doctor Who and not a good one, and overall felt pointless to the overall series arc. Secondly, there is a character introduced in this show called Sylvie played by Sophia Di Martino and she is obviously a Hollywood newcomer, however her acting in this was quite distracting. With folks like Hiddleston and Wilson, they fit so swimmingly into their characters, however with Di Martino you can tell that she is acting. None of her emotions felt real and she always kept the same expression on her face which really distracted from the overall immersion of the viewing. And she happens to have a significant role in this show so she’s in many scenes. Again, I don’t like berating individuals and I’m certain that in real life she’s a lovely person, but I didn’t seem to connect to her in this role.

Overall Loki features a lot of Loki, a lot of twists, a lot of turns, and a lot of Marvel-lous moments! And it’s a definite must watch for die hard fans as it’s a significant chapter in the Marvel saga.

Overall score: 7/10

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Tiptoeing through “The Frogman’s Daughter” guest cast

Kayla Smith as Kamran "Kam" Hanna Smith was last seen in “A Fait Accompli” leaving a parking structure under duress.

Michael King as Logan Reynolds King was Will in the OWN series Love Is_ and had guest roles in LA’s Finest, Black Lightning and Big Problems.

Alan Trong as Zee/Kyle McCarther Trong played Larry in Daybreak (2019) and appeared in episodes of Ghost Tape and The Leftovers.

Tiffany Smith as DHS Agent Megan Merkel Smith played Megan Markle in the TV movie “Harry & Meghan: Becoming Royal” in 2019. Had guest roles in Into the Dark, Liza on Demand, Supernatural, Jane the Virgin and Con Man. Smith worked as a host on unscripted series like Crafting Comics with Jim Higgins, CW Fan Talk: The Flash, DC: All Access and Collider Heroes.

Richard Balin as Andre Keller Played Marty in the season 10 “Hit and Run” episode of NCIS. Had guest roles in McMillan & Wife, Sanford & Son, Adam-12, The Bob Newhart Show, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Rookies Delvecchio, Serpico, Starsky & Hutch, The Tony Randall Show, Rhoda, Lou Grant, Quincy ME, Trapper John MD, Charlies Angels, Alice Private Benjamin, Simon & Simon, It’s Your Move, What’s Happening Now!, Misfits of Science, The New Adventures of Leave It to Beaver, Blacke’s Magic, MacGyver (1986), Designing Women, Moonlighting, Our House, Knots Landing, Starman, Sledge Hammer!, Murder She Wrote, LA Law, Lois & Clark, Days of Our Lives, Wings, ER and 9JKL.

Elizabeth Roper as Blaine Was Molly in Overthinking with Kat & June. Appeared in episodes of Modern Family, The Good Doctor, New Girl, Jane the Virgin, Faking It and Dark Wings.

Patrick Garahan as Isiah Estevez No credits.

Zach Tinker as Tyler Tinker was David West in the season 16 “Boom” episode of NCIS. Was Fenmore Baldwin on The Young and the Restless. Appeared in episodes of Law & Order: True Crime, Small Shots, My Crazy Ex, Murder in the First, Turnt, You’re the Worst, American Horror Story, Station 19, 13 Reasons Why and LA’s Finest.

Michael Manuel as Carlos Guest roles include NYPD Blue ER, Home and Away, Water Rats, Wild Side, All Saints, Charmed (2003), Without a Trace, Medium, Wonderland and Los Americans.

Sloan Robinson as Mrs. Peters Robinson is currently playing Old Miss Kim on The Neighborhood.

Played Lt. Robertson in “The Princess and The Petty Officer” episode of JAG in season six. Had guest roles in episodes of LA Law, Sparks, The District, Providence, Kate Brasher, Judging Amy, The Division, The Parkers, Boston Public, Family Affair (2003), Las Vegas, Ghost Whisperer, Scrubs, Girlfriends, House, Southland The secret Life of the American Teenager, Body of Proof, Shameless, 2 Broke Girls, The Mentalist, SMILF, Legion, Grey’s Anatomy and Lucifer.

Written by: Indira Gibson Wilson and Jordana Lewis Jaffe Wilson played Sam’s sleeping wife in two episodes – “Found” in season one and “Betrayal” in season three. She is a longtime working actress with both comedy and drama credits. She also played a Technician in “Automatic for the People” in JAG’s 10th season and FBI Agent Filsk in “House Rules” in NCIS’s season 12.

For NCIS: Los Angeles’s season 12, Wilson has been the program’s executive story editor. She wrote an episode of Bull (“Teacher’s Pet”) and was a story editor for the final season of Empire.

Wilson is married to former NCIS: Los Angeles writer Joe C. Wilson, who is now a co-executive producer of The Equalizer.

Jordana Lewis Jaffe wrote or co-wrote “Honor”, “Patriot Acts”, “Dead Body Politic”, “Paper Soldiers”, “Unwritten Rule”, “Big Brother”, “Iron Curtain Rising”, “Exposure”, “Savior Faire”, “Beacon”, “Defectors”, “Exchange Rate”, “Black Market”, “Payback”, “Battle Scars”, “Mountebank”, “Vendetta”, “Where Everybody Knows Your Name”, “Pro Se” “Heist”, “Born to Run”, “Provenance”, “Commitment Issues”, “Knock Out” and “War Crimes”.

Directed by: Tawnia McKiernan, who directed “Exchange Rate", “High Value Target”, “Kulinda”, "Assets" and “Joy Ride”.

#tiptoeing #NCIS: Los Angeles #NCIS: LA #NCIS Los Angeles #ncis la

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25+ Album Covers That Should Be Made Into Funko Pops

Pop til you drop Funkoids, because black metal institution and number one threat to bats: Black Sabbath have joined the Funko Populous! As a Music Fan, tune chaser, melody makers and connoisseur of pop and circumstance I want to implore Funko Pop to take more risks. I know that Funko Pop is already greasing up the popper to churn out Nirvana Nevermind Babies funko or McFleetwood’s dangling Rumor orbs, but please consider some of these other iconic Album Covers. I don’t want to be caught dead or alive with a basic funko pop collection!

Let’s take a look at an album gallery of some classics and underground gems. In my deep dive through the towering Brian Wilson’s Ghost Archives I found that jazz has some of the best album covers around. Don’t be greedy Rock n Rollers!

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Minutemen’s Double Nickel on The Dime - Mike Watt’s Rearview Window eyes

2. Cleveland Eaton’s Half and Half - Winged Buffalo Deity

3. Talk Talk’s The Party’s Over - Face Face

R.I.P. Mark Hollis. Miss him all the time and what better way to remember him and his music’s legacy by a cheeky wink to their poppier heyday? ;)

4. Frank Ocean’s Blonde - Blondie

What other Funko Pops could possibly carry themselves with this much dignity and grace? A lot of these Funkos could learn a thing or two from Frank and say more with less face.

5. Supertramp’s Breakfast in America - The OJ Waitress

I know some of you NeoFunkophytes out there may only envision Funko Pop’s without mouths, but Funkos can pout and salivate and makes all sorts of faces now! So why not take advantage of this expanded emotional range by honoring the likeness of one of the most eager to please members of the American workforce? Looking forward to see what Laura Dern does with the role of the Supertramp Waitress in her upcoming one woman experience: Dern Tootin...basically an agonizing walk to say that the woman on this cover looks a lot like Laura Dern around the eyes.

6.Violent Femmes’ Mary Nohl’s Hallowed Ground Statue

A Funko Pop sovereign for your twisted hillbilly goth kids and non-ironic zealots in your life! Untapped Potential Market If There Ever Was One!

7. Iglooghost’s Little Grids- Mamu Garden Sprite

8. Barbara Streisand’s Encore - Leisurely Hotel Hostage

Make sure you put all your kids to bed and tuck your pets inside their thrones, because what I’m about to tell you will be devastating! Can you believe that the Great Dame Babs does not have a her likeness of her image engravened and immortalized in Funko form? Let’s fix that with honoring the time our Funny Girl recorded a Willy Wonka duet with Seth Macfarlane.

9. Raphael Saadiq’s Stine Rollin - The Whole Dang Crowd

Tag yourself Funko Pop! style! I’m clearly the bee hive side eyeing queen.

10. The Caretaker’s An Empty Bliss Beyond This World - Death Ball

11. the Horrors’ V - Fleshies

One huge problem I have with Funko Pop other than that they have been the driving factor in most of my divorces is that they only have one face. You buy a Funko pop you get the single face the Funko pop comes with. Show a little faith and save your wallet for a Funko Pop made up of many faces!

12. The Weather Report - Heavy Weather - The Flasher

How doesn’t this slick Weather peeper not have an entire franchise that get’s canceled and reboots that are kicked around various networks but never really sticks. Today’s forecast Funko Pop fever is here to stay no matter how many other idols and icons protest against them

13. Dee D. Jackson’s Cosmic Curves - Disco Fingers Jackson

Some heroes wear capes, but my heroes wear capes and have disco fingers.

14. Deerhoof’s Milk Man -Titular Milk Man

15. Lou Reed’s Ecstasy

Another musical legend that is missing from the pantheon of Funko Poppers needing proper representation.

16. oxy Music For Your Pleasure - Pleasure Panther

17. Vampire Weekend Contra - Karen

Break out the legal team Vampy Weekend because we’re taking the Contra lady to court to get her turned into a Funko Pop.

18. Earl Sweatshirt - Some Rap Songs - Blurry Early

Is my vision failing? Am I dying?! No! It’s just my new Some Rap Songs blurry Earl funko pop

19. Tyler, The Creator’s Flower Boy Flower Man

You knew this one was coming. If you’re surprised then you better be asleep behind the wheel.

20. Devo’s Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo’s Bizzaro Juan Chi-Chi Rogers

You would have thought the good people of Everett Washington would have been saturated in Devo Funkos, but no! I do agree that making a standard energry dome wearing Mothersbaugh would be too obvious, too safe. Q: Are we not timeless pop culture artificats? A: We Are Funko!

21. Sonic Youth’s EVOL - Lung Leg

Evol is represents an eras where the Youths were starting to going Pop! Take this idea and run it on the expressway to yr skull!

22. Grime’s Art Angels - Art Angel

Sentient manic pixie Canadian c apparently really despises this album. I think I am starting to understand why that is, it’s because those funk-holes didn’t call our upcoming hyperlink Overlord c Grimes!

23. Macontish Plus’ Floral Shoppe - Vapor David

Get with the times Funko Pop! Millenials! Zoomers! Xers! Boomers! Doesn’t matter who you are, there’s a spot for you in the vaporwave.

24. Charles Gayle Trio’s Streets’- Streets The Clown(2012)

Do you hate clowns? Place a saxophone in a thoughtful clown’s arms and you may reconsider this. Funko Pop’s clown car is full to the brim with all kinds of creepy killer clowns

25. Bruce Hornsby’s Spirit Trail - Uncle Charles Hornsby

Let’s face it, eventually we’re going to need a Brexit collection and what better way than honor Bruce Hornsby’s Uncle Charles. Can we start a Charles Hornsby cigarette challenge an anti-smoking pro vaping campaign that will make the world a better place.

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Fargo: Top 10 Characters

Television shows like Breaking Bad, The Sopranos and The Wire are definitely three of the greatest in the genre of non-fantasy dramas, thrillers, and crime fiction. If you love those three shows, but you are unfamiliar with Fargo, stop whatever you are doing, and watch it now. Right now. Thank me later.

One of the reasons why Fargo is a work of genius is the intensity and depth of its characters. These characters, in my opinion, have earned the right to be categorized alongside Walter White, Tony Soprano, Omar Little and Don Draper, as some of the legendary TV characters of all time. This blog takes a look at eleven of the most astonishing characters Fargo has provided to the world of television.

Beware of spoilers, obviously.

Consolation Prize: Lester Nygaard (Season 1)

“Old Lester, now, he would've just let it slide. But not this guy.”

Played by Martin Freeman, or better known as Dr. John Watson from the twenty-first-century version of Sherlock Holmes, Lester Nygaard is a loser. Like all losers, we tend to feel bad for him, until his personality develops in a way which makes us abandon our pity for him. Pity is replaced by disgust, and sadness is replaced by anger. Lester’s transformation from a good-for-nothing non-achiever to a devious and heartless criminal and fugitive is definitely one of the most subtle character developments I’ve seen on TV. His role is often overshadowed by two other characters from the same season. Very important character nonetheless, brilliantly portrayed by Freeman.

10. Wes Wrench/Mr. Wrench (Season 1, Season 3)

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Played by the deaf, yet brilliant actor - Russel Harvard - Mr. Wrench also can’t hear. What can do is kill. He is an assassin, and he is loyal and lethal. He appears in the first season as one-half of the committed team of Mr. Wrench and Mr. Numbers (Grady Numbers). Wrench’s childish attitude is quick to win the hearts of the audience, while his kill skills and will-power earn him a spot on this list. After losing his partner (Mr. Numbers) in a gunfight, he is spared by his partner’s killer because the killer was himself impressed by Wrench’s skills and character. He reappears in season three as an invaluable accomplice to another character on this list, a role which makes us love him even more.

9. Molly Solverson (Season 1)

“Got to love a man who keeps his word, right?“

Played by Allison Tolman, Molly is the walking-definition of a young and hungry-for-justice police officer. A daughter to a police officer and a granddaughter to a sheriff, Molly is the character that makes us nurture the hope that there is hope for goodness and justice. After losing her murdered chief early on in the show, who is replaced by an incompetent one, Molly takes up the challenge of solving her chief’s murder all by herself, and she quickly finds herself trapped in a world of assassins and conspiracies. But despite being shot and hospitalized, she just does not give in, acting as the top cop that she isn’t. The character even earned Tolman the Emmy and Golden Globe nominations.

8. V.M. Varga (Season 3)

“The past is unpredictable.”

Played by David Thewlis, or as we know him - Professor Remus ‘Mooney’ Lupin - from the Harry Potter world, Varga is sick, and in all likelihood he will make you sick to the stomach. Sadistic and ruthless, with a portrait of Joseph Stalin on his desk, Varga uses a businessman hitherto leading a happy and normal life to further his money laundering scheme. Intimidation and disposal seem to be his key tactics to success, apparent when he makes the businessman’s subordinate drink his own urine as a punishment for acting suspiciously. With the worst teeth on the show, and probably suffering from bulimia, Thewlis’ villainous role does not allow us to take even a one minute break between episodes.

7. Floyd Gerhardt (Season 2)

“Three times, I sent men to do a job. Three times, they come back unfinished. I'll handle this myself.”

Played by Jean Smart, Floyd Gerhardt inherited one of the most difficult jobs in the world. After her husband Otto, the head of the Gerhardt crime syndicate, suffers a stroke and is unable to lead the mafia any longer, Floyd takes over all the guns and the money. Her eldest boy, Dodd, is unwilling to accept a woman, who is also old, as the new mafia don. However, throughout the season, Floyd shows us who’s boss as she uses an iron hand to deal with a rival gang from Kansas City and to investigate the homicide of her youngest son. One of the characteristics of Floyd which makes us like her so much is her love and concern for her granddaughter, who is mostly abused and humiliated by her father Dodd. The characters in season 2 are the strongest, but without Floyd, none of the other characters would be as appealing as they are.

6. Gloria Burgle (Season 3)

“There’s violence to knowing the world isn't what you thought.”

Played by Carrie Coon, Gloria is the older version of Molly Solverson. After finding her stepdad murdered via asphyxiation, Gloria’s investigation leads to bizarre outcomes that find her entwined in something very big and very dangerous. A recently divorced woman, whose position of Chief also got taken away, her new Chief is simply intolerable, who demands of her to let go of the investigation. But like Molly, she just doesn’t give up, and her relentless pursuit constitutes the heart of the third season. Gloria is an example of how some police officers simply cannot be intimidated or corrupted into submission. The final scene of Fargo is a conversation between Varga and Gloria, and arguably, that tense scene is one of the best dialogue exchanges in the series. A true superhero.

5. Lou Solverson (Season 2)

“Am I the only one here who’s clear on the concept of law enforcement?”

A loving father, a caring husband and the hotshot cop of town, Lou Solverson, played by Patrick Wilson, is your Marvel/DC superhero. Lou actually made his first appearance in the first season, as Molly’s father - former cop currently running a diner. In the second season, we are given a glimpse of Lou’s glory days as he single-handedly takes on both the Gerhardt Family and the Kansas City Mafia. Two things to note about Lou’s character - fearlessness and morality. Lou just does not submit to intimidation, as is seen in his confrontations with Mike Milligan on one occasion and with the Gerhardt Family on another. On the latter aspect, Lou is forced to take in his long-time friend Ed Blumquist on charges of murder, but the element of friendship does not deter Lou to do what he knows is his duty and is morally right.

4. Mike Milligan (Season 2)

“If the goal is to kill those who oppress you, what does it matter who goes first?”

Played by Bokeem Woodbine, Mike Milligan is the epitome of suave. A well-read man, who often uses poetic quotes out of nowhere to dramatize his point, Mike is an assassin working for the Kansas City Mafia, and is in charge of ripping the Gerhardt Family apart. Arguably the most cunning and nefarious character of the second season, what sets Mike apart from other villains is the unbelievable aura of calm he brings to a seemingly tense situation. Varga does that too, but Mike does it better. Intelligence is his most lethal weapon, as his loyal henchmen, known as The Kitchen Brothers, carry out most of the bloodshed for him. At the end, although Mike meets a fate worse than death, most of us would die to be him during a gang-war.

3. Lorne Malvo (Season 1)

“There are no saints in the animal kingdom. Only breakfast and dinner.”

Played by the former husband of Angelina Jolie, Billy Bob Thornton’s portrayal of Lorne Malvo goes down as the greatest villainous role in Fargo. Malvo, in simple words, is pure evil. He does not care. He is a predator, with an ideology best put as, “kill or be killed”. He begins an unusual friendship with the Lester Nygaard, whose character is antithetical to that of Malvo. He even saves Lester from arrest and gradually, through his venomous words, turns him from an innocent loser into a evil loser. Eventually, Lester tries to show him who’s boss, realizing he couldn’t have made a worse choice about who to fuck around with. The personification of evil that is Malvo, can be categorized with characters such an Anton Chigurh, the Joker and Hans Gruber (who has an unusual physical resemblance with Malvo) on the list of the greatest villains of all time.

2. Ohanzee “Hanzee” Dent (Season 2)

“ “Send the Indian,” they'd say. “Who cares about booby traps? Give Hanzee a flashlight and a knife and send him down into the black echo.” ”

Played by Zahn McClarnon, Hanzee Dent is not an evil guy. He is a bad man, sure. But he is not EVIL. He is not a villain. Society alienated him, treated him like a mongrel and made him a ticking time-bomb only seconds away from the boom. A native-american assassin recruited by Otto Gerhardt from a very young age, Hanzee appears to be a loyal hit-man for the Gerhardt Family, until he loses his shit. An unstoppable force and a ruthless killer with a history of military service (Vietnam), Hanzee has an agenda of his own. His killing spree is triggered by a sign outside a pub boasting about murders of 22 Sioux Indians who were hung there, with a puddle of dried vomit beneath it. Arguably the most complicated character of the show, with an intense development of personality, Hanzee Dent is the only character in the show who is a lethal assassin but makes us pity him and root for him.

One Last Consolation Prize: Peggy Blumquist (Season 2)

“I just wanted to be someone.”

Played by Kirsten Dunst, or Mary Jane from the Tobey Maguire Spiderman series, Peggy Blumquist is the source of all the drama. After she accidentally runs over the youngest Gerhardt son, Rye Gerhardt, her husband, Ed Blumquist (another brilliant character) becomes number one on the Gerhardt Family’s blacklist, and acquires the nickname - The Butcher of Luverne. Peggy should not be perceived as stupid or a trouble-maker. Throughout the show, she feels what many of us also feel, that we are not living up to our potential. Her interests conflict with her husband’s interests, but eventually she does everything in her capacity to clean up the mess that she (unintentionally) created, and to save her husband from the cops and the mafia. Her portrayal by Dunst was vastly appreciated by critics and fans alike, but in a show comprising of so many awesome characters, it was impossible for me to include Peggy in my top ten.

1. Nikki Swango (Season 3)

“You've made me the happiest woman ever. Now, let's make a sex tape.”

In Fargo, we have super-heroes, heroes, villains and super-villains, and we have Nikki Swango, portrayed by Mary Elizabeth Winstead. Right from the moment we saw her eliminate a threat to her grand plan with the help an air-conditioner, Nikki provided Fargo with the most unique ‘unique character’. A genius who utilizes her intellect in a professional game of cards (Bridge), she may be, at first, perceived as selfish and shallow. But towards the end, it is evident that she actually did love her fiance Ray Stussy, and wasn’t just using him for her personal ambitions. It is hard to put a hero/villain label on her because she embodies the key characteristics of both roles - empathy, willpower, deviousness, ruthlessness and a thick skin. Her partnership with Mr. Wrench, her plan to execute the entire squad led by Varga AND extort two million dollars from him has to be one of the most memorable moments of the series. Not to forget how she, along with Wrench, hijacked the truck carrying all the documents needed by the IRS to prosecute Varga. Simply put, Nikki Swango is the badass of the show.

So that’s my list. I won’t ask you to like or comment on my blog (some feedback would be appreciated though). All I want from the world of Netflix, is that this TV show receives the viewership and appreciation that it deserves, which it hasn’t gotten yet.

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HERB VIGRAN

June 5, 1910 – November 29, 1986

Herbert Vigran was a character actor from the 1930s to the 1980s. Vigran was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, but his family moved to Fort Wayne, Indiana, when he was 16. He married Belle Pasternack in 1952 and they had two sons. Over his 50-year career, he made over 350 television and film appearances, many with Lucille Ball or for Desilu.

Vigran occasionally turned up on Lucille Ball’s radio show, “My Favorite Husband” (1948-50) in various roles.

Vigran also was heard on “Grandby’s Green Acres” a summer replacement series for “My Favorite Husband” which also featured Bea Benadaret and Gale Gordon. It was the radio prototype for the CBS TV sitcom “Green Acres” 15 years later. Ironically, although he appeared on TV’s “The Beverly Hillbillies” and “Petticoat Junction”, which shared characters and locations with “Green Acres,” it was the only series Vigran was not in!

He made his "I Love Lucy” debut as Jule, Ricky’s music agent, in “The Saxophone” (ILL S2;E2) in 1952...

....and immediately returned in “The Anniversary Present” (ILL S2;E3) to play the same character - and wearing the same costume!

In “The Anniversary Present” he co-starred with Gloria Blondell, whom he also appeared with in an episode of “The Life of Riley” in five episodes from 1953 to 1955, although, just like on “I Love Lucy,” the two never shared screen time!

November 1954, Vigran did an episode of Desilu’s “December Bride” as well as three episodes of “Our Miss Brooks” starring Even Arden and Gale Gordon.

He played Pete Wilson on two episodes of “The Ann Sothern Show” in 1959 and 1960. Lucille Ball played Lucy Ricardo on the series for a single episode in 1959.

He also played Mrs. Trumbull’s nephew Joe, the washing machine repairman, in “Never Do Business With Friends” (ILL S2;E31)...

...and Al Sparks, the publicist who turns Lucy and Ethel into Women from Mars, in “Lucy is Envious” (ILL S3;E23).

Vigran played the salesman who sold Lucy and Desi The Long, Long Trailer (1953).

On “The Lucy Show” he played the role of Doctor Jacoby, who was also Danfield’s part-time baseball umpire during season one. He returned to the same role in the more colorful season two.

He played a Danfield Postman in “Lucy and the Lost Stamp” (TLS S3;E14).

Vigran was a Los Angeles veterinarian in “Lucy and the Countess Have a Horse Guest” (TLS S4;E6). He discovers that Lucy and Rosie’s horse is a she, not a he, and that she is expecting! This episode marked William Frawley’s final screen appearance. Vigran had done four films with Frawley from 1947 to 1951.

In 1966′s “Lucy, the Super Woman” (TLS S4;E26), Vigran plays the man who comes to install and demonstrate the heavy computer that Mr. Mooney installs and Lucy later miraculously lifts off her boss’s foot!

Speaking of super powers, Vigran and Lucille Ball both acted opposite the Man of Steel (George Reeves). Vigran did six episodes of “The Adventures of Superman” between 1952 and 1958. In 1957, Superman was the surprise guest at Little Ricky’s birthday party on a season six episode of “I Love Lucy.”

In his final appearance on “The Lucy Show”, he played another doctor, Major Cooper, the doctor who gives Lou C. Carmichael a physical in “Lucy Gets Caught Up in the Draft” (TLS S5;E9). At the end of the episode, Jim Nabors does a cameo as Gomer Pyle.

Shortly afterwards, Vigran made four appearances on “Gomer Pyle USMC,” a spin-off of “The Andy Griffith Show” also filmed by Desilu. Vigran turned up in Mayberry in 1962 and 1965 on “The Andy Griffith Show” and in 1969 and 1970 on “Mayberry RFD”. Both shows were spin-offs of “The Danny Thomas Show” (also filmed by Desilu) on which Vigran appeared six times between 1955 and 1963. Like Lucille Ball he did a single episode of “Make Room For Granddaddy” (1971). Lucy played her “Here’s Lucy” character Lucy Carter. In 1959, “Danny Thomas” did a crossover episode with “The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour” (and vice versa) where the Williams’ and the Ricardos families meet - meaning that all of Herb Vigran’s characters on these shows are connected by degrees to Lucy Ricardo, Lucy Carmichael and Lucy Carter! Six Degrees of Lucy!

It becomes even more remarkable to learn that the day Vigran died, Monday, November 29, 1986, an episode of “Life With Lucy” was supposed to air, but the series was canceled a few weeks earlier.

Vigran and Larry J. Blake played cops on the beat in “Jack Benny’s Carnival Nights” (1968) featuring Lucille Ball, although they did not share any scenes together. For ten years, Vigran had appeared on 19 episodes of Benny’s television program. He also played a cop when Jack Benny starred in Desilu’s “Shower of Stars” in 1957. Coincidentally, Vigran and Blake also appeared together in a 1956 episode of Desilu’s “Cavalcade of America” where Blake also played a cop.

In 1959, Vigran did an episode each of Desilu-filmed shows “The Texan,” “The Untouchables,” and “Whirlybirds.”

In 1968, Desi Arnaz hired Vigran for an episode of his sitcom “The Mothers-in-Law.” Interestingly, the credits spell his full first name “Herburt” which is also how it was spelled in his Los Angeles Times obituary.

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