#menphys

[brbgensokyo]

obsessed with how inspired some itasha get

[pigeonneaux]

trying to branch out and be more accessible to future employers, how'd you like my new art style? ❤️

[intomore]

Ernest C. Withers, “A sign outside the Memphis City Zoo” (ca. 1959)

Instead of desegregating the Memphis Zoo and allowing guests in regardless of race, one day out of the year was set aside for Black Americans to visit.

[frenchcurious]

Elvis Presley en 1956 chez lui à Memphis avec sa Messerschmitt Micro et son grand-père Jessie & Vernon et Gladys Presley. - source Cars & Motorbikes Stars of the Golden era.

[deadsquidstudios]

some traditional art from about a year-ish ago maybe that I forgot to post

raptor’s name is Menphies (pronounced Men-Fees) and I haven’t worked out the story for him yet

drawn with copic markers on Bristol board

[yongoflight]

happy (late) chinese new year

[tenuuchlegch]

You know if the whole “Oschon is Deryk or his baby opo-opo” theory holds up, it would make sense why Menphina aka his lover accompanied us in particular. The twelve probably see right through that guise of his. 

Imagine if he WAS the baby opo-opo though. It would make Menphina calling him cute that much more sweet. 

[brightblessed]

Roi who stopped believing in gods when he was like 11 years old seeing the 12 be real and hating and distrusting them no matter what:

[emily-lotus]

it's better that you don't know the truth.

"Like hell it is!" Emily wanted to smack the man but knew it would hurt her much more than him.

"Just tell me if they actually had the damn donuts I wanted!" Being pregnant had...consequences that uh, even she wasn't aware of. The cravings were just horrible.

Of course working while pregnant just meant everyone got to see how fucked up her hormones were. Mainly thanks to the Mako and Jenova cells that Hojo gave her that no one knew of.

"Damn it Gen did you even get anything for me? At least something sweet."

@poeticphoenix

[oajuricabaamazonas]

Alma, resiliência e tributo às mulheres negras

  Setenta anos separam três vozes que se movem para trás e para frente no tempo. É a partir desta fluência cronológica que Memphis, o livro de estreia da poeta Tara M. Stringfellow traça um retrato sobre legados de pessoas negras. Publicada pelo selo Tordesilhas, a obra apresenta um recorte da complexidade familiar e social vivenciada por afro-americanos: brutalidade e justiça, fé e perdão,…

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[frenchcurious]

Ettore Sottsass (1917-2007) Book Case, ''Carlton'' model, design en 1981 pour Memphis Milan. - source Koller.

[zoetheneko]

A menphis design inspired piece

[fadelion]

As much as I want to have Duke Thomas take the Jason Todd/Red Hood slot in a Reverse Robins type story, it feels like it'd be easier to put him in the Barbara Gordon Batgirl/Oracle position. Seeing Batman going about and doing his thing, and then being like, "Yeah, sure, I can pull that off," then having absolutely no quit when it comes to digging into dangerous problems that need to get solved and solving them with smarts and grit. I can also more easily see him catching a few in the spine as collateral damage to psychologically get at his mother more than I can see him getting exploded because he decided to dig into his family history. Imagine Duke's first interaction with Batman is when his parents find the Bat injured and bring him inside to patch him up, much like in canon. I don't doubt that Bruce Wayne would repay the favor, and suddenly Elaine Thomas is a person that Batman sends people to for help while getting all the funding and assistance she could ever ask for (and a lot more that she didn't, but she's not letting it go to waste), while Doug Thomas is brought into a construction labor union on a recommendation nobody can quite place the origin of and begins to work his way up the ranks, being an effective advocate for the rights of the city's workers. Actually, maybe Duke's gunshot wounds are a consequence of the mafia trying to get at Doug Thomas on union business. (MLK got popped speaking at a rally for sanitation workers in Menphis, so it's not like it couldn't happen.) Not even strictly villian related, but a product of the general Gotham environment and how almost every system seems to be corrupt on multiple levels. (Duke: "Do you think one bad day would stop me? It's Gotham, Bruce. Sometimes you just have bad days. Then tomorrow happens and you try again.") He's in a wheelchair for awhile, but slowly starts to heal over time for what seems like no apparent reason. At least until the metagene kicks in fully, anyway.

Then again, Jason Todd's death happened in Ethiopia, and he and Batman were in the country for different reasons. Maybe it'd be easier to get the Thomas Family killed if Duke stayed in Gotham (Jason was supposed to be on the bench if i remember right) and Gnomon popped up to try to claim his son. Things get wild, there's a spike in Metahumans for a week or two as it seems like almost everybody gets to be one, the Justice League on Batman watch to make sure he doesnt kill the Iranian Ambassador (the Joker, somehow), and while it's written off as an issue with the water supply, some get to keep their powers at the cost of being continually shunned and end up being treated somewhere between a like a leper snd like a living bomb.

The "No metas in Gotham" thing (that I'm honestly not sure ever was canon) isn't a Batman rule as much as a "I'm not trying to get hate crime'd so I'm gonna avoid the city like the plague" thing.

Either way, Gnomon ends up beaten and Thomas family ends up dead at the hands of an angry mob while trying to defend innocent metas from the nonsense of some villian. Only, Duke ends up coming back because Superboy Prime's Source Wall punch decides to reactivate Duke's body and metagene. After coming back and recovering in a city that's still, well, Gotham, he decides that that whole Batman thing didn't work and comes at the problem from the other side, making it his personal mission to get at Gotham's crime problem by putting himself in a position where he can fight for people pressured into bad situations, even more so if Gnomon comes back around, wondering why his son would debase himself by spending time among these fragile humans instead of ruling over them. The Omen becomes the feared figure among the mobs and gangs of Gotham, especially when some wake up to a golden hooded figure standing over their bed, before he whispers a warning and fades into the rooms shadows before the light of day fully peeks through the windows. Stories circulate about certain people being protected, like good teachers, preachers, priests, nuns, soup kitchen runners, respected public defenders, certain cops, generally "good" people or people making a positive difference in a way that earns them the animosity of the corrupt. Perhaps the worst of them wake up badly beaten in a jail cell that's permanently darkened by shadow, the only light coming from a small window on the cell door and the glowing eye painted on the ceiling, evidence of their crimes on their chest or on a trusted officer's desk.

Though honestly, I think I just need to learn more about Jason Todd and Barbara Gordon to make either work.

Or maybe just go to sleep.