#stariel-and-stuff

[daresplaining]

Stupid question but how do the volumes in comics connect? I normally jump around a lot between arcs so I just assumed each volume is like a reboot. But, starting Zdarsky's run I realised that's not true as it continues on with a lot of previous plot points. So, is it each comic like a super long linear story, designed so you can still start reading at any point but it's still chronological?

Following on from that; what's the best way to read the comics? Cuz reading all Deadpool media is pretty ambitious (tho I wanna try [over the next eternity]). So, how can you stay on top of previous influential plot points, without having a thousand-issue-long reading list?

Currently I'm reading both Volume's 6+1 at the same time as I'm already hooked in Zdarsky's but wanna experience the whole story (baby-steps haha. There's sm to read but I don't just wanna look up a summary, cuz the nuances, writing and art are all just so good!!). Just wondering how people typically navigate reading comics? Idk if that makes any sense, I'm just used to picking issues based on screenshots I see online. So trying to read a whole character is pretty different, if that makes sense.

Thanks for your help and have a nice day!!

Not a stupid question at all! A lot of the process of getting into Big Two superhero comics is non-intuitive (this barrier to entry is an issue that the industry has been trying to solve for a while now), so I'm really glad you're asking.

Marvel doesn't tend to do total reboots the way that, for instance, DC does. There will be occasional retcons of details about a character's past or the events of previous runs (a Daredevil example: Matt's mentor, Stick, was not originally part of his origin story. He was retconned in several decades later, as a way to explain Matt's extreme martial arts skills. One of my other big favorites, Iron Fist, has a lot of lore tied to his backstory, and big chunks of that lore have been altered by various creative teams over the years), but in a very general sense, nothing is erased and everything is in-continuity. The Matt Murdock wearing the "I'm Not Daredevil" shirt in volume 3 is the same Matt Murdock who had his secret identity outed in the press in volume 2, etc. A new volume begins every time the comic gets a new #1 (which has begun happening more and more frequently; Daredevil volume 1 lasted thirty years, but we've gone from volume 3 to volume 8 in just over a decade), and a new creative team might take an approach to the characters/stories that differs greatly from previous runs/volumes, but it is all building on what came before, rather than over-writing it. "Each comic is like a super long linear story, designed so you can start reading at any point but it's still chronological" is a perfect way of putting it.

But, as you said, you can start reading at any point. This is one of the reasons Marvel re-launches their comics with a new #1 occasionally: to give new readers a clear on-ramp to the series (one of the efforts to lower the barrier to entry that I mentioned above). My very first issue of Daredevil was actually #500. I had not a goddamn clue what was going on. But I still had a great time, and it prompted me to seek out more Daredevil comics, which eventually led me to hop onto the current run at the time, and then to back-read all of the previous runs, and the rest is history. The important thing to keep in mind is that there is no wrong way to read a long-running Big Two comic. As you mention, we're talking about a massive number of issues, here, and every fan you ask is going to tell you a different story about where they started and what order they read things in and why. You can start at the very beginning and read all the way through. You can also hop around and read whatever runs look/sound cool to you. It is perfectly normal—and, in fact, I encourage this!—to jump into a more recent run that looks fun, the way you're doing with volume 6, with the understanding that you might not know everything that has happened before and that that's okay. Reading random issues based on screenshots you see online is fantastic (that is, in fact, why people post screenshots of their favorite comics online. Or at least, that's why I do it), and if something comes up that you don't understand, or a character appears who you've never heard of, don't be afraid of looking them up, if only to identify the comic where they originated so you can read it for yourself if you'd like.

I tend to be someone who gets really deeply into the characters/media that I like and so will read/watch everything I can get my hands on about them. When it comes to superhero comics, this means I enjoy going through and reading every single issue. Please note: you don't need to have read every single issue of Daredevil, or of Deadpool, etc. to be a fan! But if you're interested in doing it, I personally think it's a really neat experience to immerse yourself so deeply in the world of a character. One of the things that's incredibly cool to me about Big Two comics is how long they've been around and the fact that you can follow these characters through DECADES of development, watch the world change around them, see how different creative teams added to and reconsidered them...it's great. But it doesn't need to be done in order, and most importantly, it should be fun. If you're reading a run and find you aren't that into it, move to a different one. You'll discover which ones are your favorites, and you'll find what approaches to the characters speak to you the most, and no matter what order you go in, as long as you're having a good time, you're doing it right.

I hope this helps!

[stariel-and-stuff]

New blog

Since I’ve formed a new special interest (being comics [in particular Marvel comics]) I’ve descosed to start a new blog dedicated to posting MCU/Marvel comics/related things.

My main acc is a cross between many things but is mainly used as a Hermitcraft fan acc (another special interest) and as I don’t want my comic reblogs to be hidden by floods of other fandom stuff I’m moving it.

The blog is called: @/sp1dey-riel

Thank you for reading and I hope you have a great day!!

[stariel-and-stuff]

MET A GIRL AT SEVENTEEN

THOUGHT SHE MEANT THE WORLD TO ME

SHE TURNED OUT TO BE A CHEAT

SAID SHE’D BEEN THINKING FOR A LONG TIME

AND SHE FOUND SOMEBODY NEW

I’VE BEEN THINKING THAT THIS WHOLE TIME

GIRL I NEVER THOUGHT YOU’D STAY, THAT’S OKAYYYY

I HOPE HE TAKES YOUR FILTHY HEART

AND THEN HE THROWS YOU AWAY SOME DAY

BEFORE YOU GO THERE’S SOME THING YOU OUGHT TO KNOWWWW

IF YOU CAN’T HANG THEN THERE’S THE DOOR, BABY x4

IIIIII DON’T WANNA TAKE YOUR PRECIOUS TIME

CUZ YOU’RE SUCH A PRETTY PRETTY PRETTY PRETTY FACE

BUT YOU TURNED INTO A PRETTY BIG WASTE OF MY TIME

reblog w the song lyrics in your head NOW. either stuck in yr head or what yr listening to

[starielluvsanime]

Getting back into anime cuz my friends are obsessed with it (especially MHA).

What I’ve watched so far:

Studio Ghibli- Kiki, Totorro, Ponyo, Howls, Cat Returns, Spirited Away

Pokémon- all the series, books and movies up until Alola season one

Dinosaur King- everything

Doki Doki Literature Club- watched lots of play throughs as a kid and played a few times myself now

Danganrompa- season one

Demon Slayer- everything on Netflix (2022)

Kakeguri- everything on Netflix

Haikyuu- everything but the movies

Komi Can't Communicate- season one

MHA- season six (goal: finish everything before season eight is released. At the rate I’m going at rn I’ll be done in 2weeks HAHA, I started a week ago)

[starielart]

The piece I tried to convince Slushy to make the Tower Power 4(?) thumbnail

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[stariel-and-stuff]

Fortnite and Greek Myths

Man Fortnite loves to go and make me cry. First they took Midas and Minos now the entire pantheon???? And Cerberus is a human now???? Why???? As a greek pagan I'd like to say I am kind of offended

[orchid-merryweather]

It's crazy how I managed to get myself into the most niche fandom of all time. Like it's actually fucking crazy. Like I can find actually nothing for the Stariel series. Like, I didn't think these books would be so niche. They're great, amazing world building, an fmc who just can't catch a fucking break, a self-hating gay, interesting magic system and just a lot of good stuff, if you can forgive my inability to describe things. But what do I see when I search for the series on Tumblr? Nothing. Maybe a single piece of fanart if I'm lucky and then I see my own posts about the books. I search it on YouTube? Nothing, other than like two book reviews. So I decide to make acquaintance with the Tumblr user's oldest friend, Ao3. AND THERES FUCKING NOTHING. And I think "oh maybe I just don't know how to use Ao3 so I spend ten minutes searching and also searching other vaguely niche things I'm into (which did give results) AND STILL GET NOTHING. HOW?? So I go to Wattpad, I have to install the app and make an account because I wasn't on there yet. STILL NOTHING. IT'S LIKE THESE BOOKS DON'T EVEN EXIST. It's crazy, I've seen more people shipping House Of Leaves characters than I have people even acknowledging The Stariel Quartet.

[stariel-posting]

I simply cannot stop making side blogs, it seems. My main is @orchid-merryweather so you can call me Orchid!

I won't cease to post about the Stariel quartet on my main, (quite the contrary), but any post I make about the books on my main will be reblogged to here. A place for all three people in this fandom to discuss the books!

Feel free to send me an ask, or a message though I would prefer an ask, to chat with me about the books!

(Asks and tags stuff, lists and ect. Below the cut 👇)

Send me asks! Anything! PLEASE! Ask me my opinion on any ship, tell me about your headcannons, anything, I'd be glad to receive it! Also, request me ANY fic ideas you come up with and I'll write at least a chapter about it to post to my AO3. My writing may not be good, but I try my best.

Ask games:

Lab partner, elevator, employee trainer.

Tags:

shadowcatsmere: the ship name I invented for Catsmere x Sunnika, (see this post)

It's a tragic thing that there exists so little a fandom for this series! It's seriously amazing and I need more people to know about it. While I have you here, let me recommend you the few (litteraly only two in existence that I could find) fics people have written for these amazing books:

Stormcrow, Shepherd Us by Rikku on AO3, an amazing fic of Irokoi x Penharrow. I didn't understand the appeal of the ship before, but I sure did after I read the fic. I'm still crying over it.

And uhm. I'm writing a very normal definitely not mpreg fic about Marius and Rakken that currently has three chapters posted as I'm writing this, it's called Yet Another Half Faerie Child and my AO3 handle is Orchid_Merryweather.

[starielluvsdnd]

I literally just wanted a place to rant abt my games

I’m currently playing three games:

Dungeon of Duffla-

-Run by Kingsley Master

-Featuring party members Larkian, Spork, Roliervie (mine), Oliver and Delg (Starlings)

-World is in political uncertainty as there’s 3 potential leaders/groups

Albatros in the Crows Nest

-Run by Starling

-Featuring party members Luz, Grian, Virgil (mine), King, Skeleman With Magic Powers Purple (Starlings), Strong-String-Strix and Mary Poppins (Kingsleys)

-Has a much more comedic tone due to the fandom characters

Unnamed West Marshes Campaign

-Still being setup

-I should be the main dm

-Party members Aiko (mine), Sheira (Friend ima call Sal)

Before these I played in 2 cancelled and unfinished games which I may talk about on occasion:

Destiny of Uralg

-Run by @kawaiimarea

-I played Aiko Oakbuckle

-Had enough players for only one character each

Macas Mystry

-Run by Kingsley

-I played Eryn (I don’t remember her last name)

-Featured me, @kawaiimarea and a mate of Kingsleys

Speak No Harm

-Run by me

-Featuring party members Aiko/Tanya, Fennel (mine), Faragrim, Jam, Perrigren (Kingsleys), Varien and Dakota (Starlings)

-Was took place in mini faewild

-Only ran 2 sessions (using the rest of the plot for a new campaign)

When tagging I’m gonna use

Stariel posts/speaks/reblogs depending on if the posts mine/if I add to someone else’s/or if I reblog it

When referring to a character (or campaign in general) I’ll always tag both the character and the campaign they’re from. But I only have the campaign tags saved in ‘featured tags’ so if you want to find a specific character tag you have to click on their campaign and find their tag on another post.

Any campaigns that fizzled out before I made this account are tagged under #previous campaigns (you’ll find those campaign and character tags under there)

On occasion I reblog stuff about the DND movie under #honour among thieves

A campaign I may reblog about (which I’m not in) is called #Dndecked out

[st4riel-the-w1tchling]

My Intro Post!!

Hello and welcome to my blog!! My name’s Ari, but you can call me whatever idc. I’m a girl, a minor, an Aquarius if that matters to you and I have 2 younger brothers.

I lived in Australia for lots of my childhood however moved to Spain last year. I’ve done research and while different people seem to have different definitions of the term, I identify as Hispanic as I’m quite immersed in the Spanish culture, language, etc, never plan on leaving and have been raised like a Spanish kid (my parents have wanted to live here since they were kids so they’ve been preparing us for life here since we were newborn) even though I’m genetically Australian. If you believe I don’t fit the term idc that’s your opinion but this is how I identify.

I’ve been practicing witchcraft since late 2021 and believed in the Greek gods since I was a kid (because of PJO lol). I call myself a Greek pagan witch with animist and omnist beliefs, I believe the terms Hellenism and polytheism may apply but idk enough about them to use them to describe myself.

I started working with Aphrodite 4 days into my practice cuz I’m a bit silly however I’ve gotten more consistent and comfortable with my worship over time. Now working with her is just a part of my daily life, I love all her different epithets (I think is the word) she’s just so cool. I want to start working with King Hades and Queen Persephone in the future.

I’m trying to get better at note taking cuz I often forget. This blog is for saving notes #info, #paganism, #animism and #witchcraft stuff, I’ll post stuff related to #greek mythology under its own tag if not practitioner based, all deity/entity stuff is under its own tag (eg. #aphrodite, #hermes, #odysseus, #telemachus, etc).I also post related fandom stuff here like; #hades game, #pjo, #epic the musical, etc and stuff I’m more critical of like; #anti Madeline miller, #anti lore olympus under their own tags. My posts and asks are under #stariel posts and #stariel asks, all reblogs and queued are #stariel reblogs and #q, if I add a bit of my own input to a post it goes under #stariel convos, if I’m interacting with the community/mutuals it goes under #stariel community and #fave contains well all my fav posts.

I love spirit work and when I’m more experienced I plan on working with ghosts and animal spirits though currently I’m content just talking to my plants, house, divination tools and Aphrodite. I also want to start Ancestor Work soon. I’m a big fan of baneful protection magic and glamour/love magic. I’m pretty proud of my clair senses, intuition and divination abilities, I’ve always been an empath (my definition is; good at sensing energy and emotions) so I’ve put lots of effort into improving these skills which I’m quite happy with the strength of now.

You may also see special interest junk here (I’m neurodivergent) however I’ll try keep it at a minimum and it’ll only be posted if it is related to the topics of this blog (eg. Marvel comics [that and witchy stuff are my 2 big things] and also other interests like #Hermitcraft).

I’m a nickname person, I have some of the best nicknames ever (Stariel was one and now it’s my user for everything) so now I give everyone/thing nicknames lol. Just a warning, if we become friends I’m giving you 10,000 nicknames. I’m also a yapper as you can see below, irl I’ve learned to contain and summarise my paragraphs but on tumblr I let myself go wild and add as many irrelevant details/thoughts I have so I apologise in advance for the essays.

I personally believe hugely in free speech so there’s no DNI for this blog. Everyone is welcome as long as civil discussion is maintained no blatant straw manning/mud slinging if you want to debate me or someone else here on a topic make sure to be respectful about it, thanks.

And that’s about all I have to say right now, I seriously should make intros for my other blogs. Enjoy your stay!!

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[stariel-and-stuff]

Quick intro post:

Hi I’m Ari and this is my main blog

I mostly reblog memes/things I find funny here (#funny), cute things (#sillies and #the sillies), mental health/‘political’ (more avoiding being radicalised and stuff like it) things (#psychology), things that I relate with being #hispanic and some fandom things (#hermitcraft #undertale #the Princess bride, I don’t have a set tag for #marauders stuff I’ll use a couple of ones like #the marauders or #marauders era).

Special interests are the occult (Hellenic polytheistic paganism and witchcraft mainly but also unsolved mysteries and the supernatural, I also love any and all horror media [I have a goal of watching all horror/suspense/halloween movies cuz spooky season is everything to me]), Hermitcraft which this blog has began to centre around (+tumblr shanadagans and anything I hyperfix on/like [that I don’t make a new blog for]- I mainly watch Grian and Gems pov but I float around), marvel comics (red trio are my everything bro) and sharks.

If you want a longer more detailed intro I posted one on my witchy/polytheist account, here’s the link:

No DNI just keep in mind I’m a minor so NSFW be careful as it’s illegal for you to interact

My other blogs in order of activity:

@starieldraws

@starieltalksys

@starielluvsplay1ngdnd

@starielluvsgeekmythos

@st4riel-the-w1tchling

@sp1dey-riel

@starielluvsharks

@starielluvsanime

@starielluvsreggieblack

@starielnerdsout

@lilst2ri

@st6riel-loves-good-omens

@childofthestarsandstreets

@stariel-the-coyote

@st8riel-blogs

@st9riel-blogs-fem

[st4riel-the-w1tchling]

Just went through a purged a bunch of the filler posts on my blog ^^

I think I want this blog to become more professional/organised again as it’s becoming difficult for me to find all the info dense posts I reblogged in the beginning. This doesn’t mean much for the future of the blog or anything I’m just gonna let all my queued stuff run out (and remove some as I go) then be more sparing with what I choose to rb here

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