#the guy who single-handedly revived it

[lastofthe20thcenturygirls]

fuck filmfare all my homies hate filmfare

[losingmymarbelles]

are you guys ready to see my new fav image of mole witw musical 2017?

here it comes:

youre welcome

[disguisedcheezed]

How does it feel to be THE dirkjohn guy. I want your power

It feels like this.

Anyway. Before 2023, I seen every dirkjohn porn and it didn't even exceed the number digits on my two hands. Have you reblogged every single dirkjohn post before 2021 in this hell site and also get blocked 1 op? You could try lol(They deleted the posts and I am hurt). Can you recall the insane dirkjohners of 2016-2019? The dirkjohn ads of 2017? Have you tried single-handedly reviving the dirkjohn fandom on 2022, rekindled old dirkjohn fans' love for dirkjohn(and became friends with them), made new people hyperfixate on it and carrying it on your shoulders so effortlessly with out any form of exchange or feel withdrawals? You're too late for that. (THIS IS ALL LIGHT-HEARTED)

So... Uhmmmm. Maybe you could try and do the reblog every dirkjohn post thing. You might just get a fraction, I think.

So, yeah. I'm THE dirk john guy, I GUESS. (I humble myself.😭)

Bonus with my dirkjohn tulpas(that apparently existed since 2022 and I recently found out earlier this year. Yes. I'm plural. I hate these fucking bitches) who won't stop doing this. FUCK

[cult-bull]

Figurung things and styles out more and more, and man, I am proud of this one!

I present a Leshy with visible noseholes! Look at him! Look at him be a menace without even moving!

More about him under the cut!

Chaos is his name and his game. The first bishop to be revived by the lamb, and he took full advantage of that. How better to torment your slayer and yet purgatorial rescuer of a lamb who wants you to suffer the mortal consequences of your actions? Enjoy the heck out of mortal life. He has single-handedly caused Heket and cos revivals to take thrice as long to even be attempted because he shattered lamb's plans from the ground up.

Starts so many dance circles, i don't know why or how, but he does

Experiments with drink making a lot! Mostly produces bad/poisonous concoctions because he cants see the ingredients (at least he claims thats why, maybe he just mixes together whatever to see what will affect Lamb if they drink it)

Not on good terms with Narinder. Doesn't actively bully him (mostly) like a few others in the cult, but, feelings are... complicated.

Changes colors and types of flowers depending on the weather, mood and other factors like health. He owns various robes to mix and match if his appearance drastically changes.

Grew old and died once. A formative experience, but he was brought back by a very confused Lamb who, until that point, assumed Leshy would share Narinder's immortality.

There is more to say about this guy for sure, especially in his relationships with the lamb and Narinder, but this is most of his basics. I'm very happy how he turned out!

[thewriterowl]

Luke Skywalker is Mand’alor

Now that season 3 is done and I was able to stew over it, I find myself liking it more than the initial watch (not in love but I know it is that final scene that has made it loads better/worth it)...but I LOVE the idea more on Luke is the rightful ruler of Mandalore due to the ridiculous line of defeat of the Darksaber

Can you imagine?? We’ve had so much fun watching Din “my god let me just be a side character in my own show” Djarin do his thing...but Luke?? The guy who keeps getting pushed as the center of the galaxy? The poor guy. He already has to deal with being a “shared” Chosen One with his formerly very evil father, seen as a galactic hero who “single handedly” (he keeps saying this is not the case) took out the Empire, reviving a culture that was genocide-d basically on his own (his aunt seems to not be very involved in his life???), going on near-death missions still after doing his Chosen One duties...and now is a king by some weird technicality??

Do you know how DONE he would be???

Because he defeated his father, who defeated Kenobi, who defeated Maul? Or because he defeated his father who defeated the Emperor who defeated Maul? OR  because he defeated his father who defeated Ahsoka who defeated Maul? 

Luke would try to say, “The Emperor defeated me!” or “I didn’t win against my father, technically!” or “Weren’t at least one of those previous matches a draw or something???” or “Surely with all the hands it’s been passed around to the line was officially broken?????”. And like all of them have a counter-argument that still leads back RIGHT TO HIM because, even IF Anakin defeated the Emperor who defeated Luke, he still ADMITS that Luke defeated him by saving him from the Darkside with like his dying breath!! Or, even better because it is the words from Din in the season, he defeated the enemy who defeated/captured/cornered Din & Bo-Katan on the cruiser--cause, within the scene, it is heavily implied they were all about to die (aka be defeated) if he hadn’t shown up!

There is like literally no escape from it!

He literally just wants to be a teacher, like a pre-school teacher at this point and do fun flips over rocks while doing things to make people happy and not kill any more.

And he is made to be a king of a “cursed” planet of a former enemy.

Because of COURSE a Skywalker would have that luck.

[thatone-churro]

i love knowing pokemon lore but just like choosing to ignore it half the time, especially regarding legendaries and mythicals.

type: null? the creature literally designed to hunt and kill interdimensional beasts? that’s just a little doggy.

urshifu? that martial arts master with two diverse, powerful styles? big ol’ teddy bear. we also never did figure out what “distant region” kubfu was from btw.

calyrex? the literal god of nature/farmland revered to a level of having his own temple? that’s just a funky rabbit guy with horsies (and glastrier and spectrier, the deceased and revived mounts in service to this minor god are just that: just horsies), but that one i can blame on his questline.

ogerpon? the ogre that single-handedly killed three brainwashed creatures and was the feared subject of a local legend? silly little girl. like. that’s an actual child.

terapagos? the thing that can turn into an eldritch horror and completely uproot the elemental type system all pokemon are centered around on a whim and can manipulate time and space and with the player causes a paradox that makes us technically responsible for the death of one of our companion’s parents who is then replaced by an AI made in their image and almost cause the absolute destruction of paldea’s ecosystem? i nicknamed mine “scrunkly”.

[ruinaimagines]

Headcanons for Yi sang being inlove with a male sinner who's been newly recruited?

HAPPY LIMBUS COMPANY RELEASE I have been grinding on that game so much I swear it has single handedly revived me from the dead. I love all of the sinners so much my god. My intepretation of his character will probably adapt as there are new releases, but I hope you enjoy what I have for now!

Yi Sang in Love w/ New Male Sinner Headcanons:

Yi Sang is a smart but peculiar fellow. He often sticks to himself, chiming in occasionally but usually letting things and interactions play out by themselves. 

For this reason, I think that if you’re a new sinner it honestly might be a bit confusing to interact with him at first. He kind of comes off as unapproachable at first, especially with his brief introduction if there really is one at all. 

It’s easy to think he’s unfriendly and silently judging you, the way he stares and takes in everything can honestly leave some folks feeling vulnerable. His neutral expression doesn’t help either, it just makes it harder to tell what's actually going on in his head.

The other sinners are well aware that his personality isn’t standoff-ish, he just sort of comes off that way. A newcomer though, well you might think he has something against you (Rodion would be quick to assure otherwise).

He doesn’t really actively make an effort to get to know you better, I think that either you would have to be the one to attempt conversation with him or you would happen to be put on missions together that ultimately leads to bonding.

Working with him can honestly feel like he’s leaving you in the dust with how he so quickly comes to conclusions without explanation and kind of expects others to do the same. This isn’t really intentional though, it’s just how his mind works and if you asked for an explanation well he’d try his best but.. It’s hard to put into words.

That said I think he would find you over time a pretty comfortable individual to be around. The silence from him would grow to be a mutual and comfortable understanding. He notices his appreciation of your presence as it offers a chance for him to speak without feeling like it's sapping away at his energy.

Loud areas with lots of bustling or rambunctious people are just sort of overwhelming. It clouds his ability to think properly, leading him to just sort of zone out in his own world. It’s nice to have someone that doesn’t really mind when he totally checks out on the bus every once in a while, and who can bring him up to speed on anything that happens if it's important.

He’s a very poetic person and you’ll notice that very quickly. He’s fond of art and if you similarly are a fan of creativity with the dabble of philosophy then you’d be a prime person to talk to. Sure there’s Ryoshu but…. Yeah her idea of art most often is… dubious at least.

He’s still a bit shut-off but it is a major improvement from when you first met him. You’ll find that occasionally he’ll allude to his anxieties and fears, some things that you’d never really expect a man with his intimidating composure to have.

Yi Sang is way more talkative with you at this point and literally everyone notices. Even if you are completely unaware of his fondness in comparison to the other sinners they will make you aware.

Rodion teases the poor guy every once in a while, commenting about how you two are always trailing behind together with a sly smile on her face. His deadpan stare reflects absolutely no reaction, but she can tell he’s trying to think of a perfect response to not fumble on his words and it is comedy.

Gregor casually acknowledges the fact he probably has a crush on you every once in a while. Not really his business, but he thinks it’s kind of sweet to see two of his colleagues getting along so well.

Don is kind of off in her own world a lot of the time, but I can imagine that she has asked you for advice in her own dramatic ways on how to get him to talk to her. I don’t think she is 100% aware that he’s infatuated with you, she just wants to be better friends and consequently came to you for that cause she sees you as his bestie.

Heathcliff…. God I love him so much but Heathcliff? It might take a bit to get it through his thick head that Yi Sang likes you, but when it does? Honestly that’s probably how you learn. That man is NOT letting that go the moment there somehow conspires an argument between them. He wouldn’t directly tell you but you could hear him yelling from like 8 miles away saying something about how Yi Sang is ‘head over heels’ for you. 

I could see Yi Sang’s confession being through some kind of poem, one that shows the true passion he holds. He worries that you won’t believe him, or that you’ll think it’s some prank if he tells you in person.

It’s going to take a decent amount of courage in him to tell you. Murdering people? Oh he has that covered. Dealing with tense emotional situations?... uh.

I think he’s mainly concerned because hey you’re colleagues and what if you say no?? That’s awkward.

I think it would be kind of cute if you found out by accident, noticing a slip of paper falling out of his pocket, picking it up only to realize oh my lord it is a letter addressed to you. And it’s genuinely so sweet the metaphors this man uses are so colorful.

He is internally mortified. You were not supposed to see that- not yet, not until it was perfected (though his idea of what is ideal is sort of unobtainable.) Honestly he was prepping to pretend like he didn’t even know what that was.

When your reaction is positive and he learns that his love is mutual the largest relief washes over him. An audible uncharacteristic sigh comes from him as he no longer sits tensely. 

He is happy. He genuinely is, and though a bit shy with the news at the start, you’ll come to find him once again talking more and more once it settles in that it's reciprocated. It pulls him out of his concern for the past and future.

Probably unintentionally mentions the 24 scrapped papers, each with their own meticulously planned out and written words, only proving further his genuine desire to show his care towards you.

Hmm.. but under the condition it was an accident I would not be surprised if you looked over to see Rodion’s total cocky grin plastered on her face. She probably was the reason that paper slipped out, and she made sure you would see it. Even if she looked a bit puntable, she ultimately was the one rooting for you two since the very start.

[cartermagazine]

Today In History

Christopher Wallace aka The Notorious B.I.G. (Biggie Smalls) was born on this date May 21, 1972 in Brooklyn, NY.

“Big Poppa,” “Juicy,” “Warning,” “One More Chance,” “Hypnotize,” “Mo Money Mo Problems,” and “Ten Crack Commandments” are some of his huge hits.

At 24, Wallace rapid success was credited with single-handedly reviving New York City-based “East Coast” rap, which led him to be crowned one of The Greatest MC’s of All Time.

His legacy lives through his children, mother, music, other MCs, friends, fans, the culture and the borough that raised him… Brooklyn.

“Give me all the chicken heads from Pasadena to Medina, bet big get in between ya then… Peep the prognosis, doses

blends and bends like twizzlers, Biggie’s fitting to hurt, what’s under that skirt?

(slow down, nigga, you’re killin ’em)

Who fillin ’em with octane?

Got ’em gassed up

’bout to get blast up, sup,

the last one, word to mother… Brother, miss’em…

I seen it when he kissed ’em at the wake, made his body shake

The high guy in 850 i’s, smoke tint rap terror, four chrome Anterior… Two-five by the livers, the fifth is conspicuous,

Bad Boy slipped in ninety-five ridiculous… My rap’s lines is like land mines…

One step, ka-boom, black suits fill the room…

To whom it may concern, Junior M.A.F.I.A.’s the click… Act up, I’ll have my honeys Total bust your shit.” - The Notorious B.I.G.

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[lavenderbirchtrees]

Dude I was looking at you Magolors and that gijinka is literal perfection!

what’s the deal with Magolor and Hyness by the way?

Thank you!!

Hyness and Magolor are connected in a lot of ways though its never directly.

Hyness is single-handedly the reason why Magolor does not know anything about his culture, as he destroyed all of Halicandra's written history and fled with a few followers. Some Halicandrans survived and eventually had Magolor. Magolor didn't know the whole picture of what happened but he didn't need to because he was well a kid but when he grew a bit older his mind would wander why there weren't many halacandrans that looked like him. He reached out to a mentor (an oc of mine named Gale) to fill the gaps of the history of his people. He gets in his own head when he learns that Halicandran tools were the stuff of legends and he sets out to find the master crown to revive Halicandra. He does not do this, as we see, he uses it for himself. When he initially arrives on dreamland he recognizes that Kirby is also Halicandran himself and really plays up the fact that they should be friends because he knows "exactly" where Kirby is coming from.

Post Return to Dreamland, Magolor finds his way back to the right dimension, makes amends, and his mentor takes him back. She's a lot more strict on him as a result and resigns him to selling gem apples for a while.

In KSA he helps Kirby to stop Hyness, he joins out of a morbid curiosity to see Hyness himself. I like to think he chickened out at the last minute, because of his reasonable fear of meeting the guy who is the reason why he doesn't know anything about his own culture.

I'm sure one of the mage sisters probably mentioned Magolor, to Hyness, which makes him more paranoid because he is convinced that the Halicandrans are (rightfully) out to get him and free Galacta.

This is less about Magolor and more about Gale; Hyness also happens to be his mentors father, but she didn't know it at the time. Ah the dramatic irony of it all!

[thedandelionthief]

actually i just need to talk about the love of my life NAQT quizlets for a second. i'm so thankful for the people who took the time to create these 100+ term quizlets for us struggling scholastic bowl members out here. i would genuinely be nowhere without them. the ones for art, music, mythology and literature are really practical because those questions tend to slip by everyone. if you become knowledgable in just one of those subjects you WILL carry your team and it's neat that it's possible just from taking the quizlets. and while i tend to stick to those kinds of subjects as they're what i'm best at, some of the science quizlets have introduced me to cool concepts i would love to learn more about. scholastic bowl has (albeit not single-handedly) revived my love of the sciences and made me actually look forward to taking more advanced STEM courses.

i am a quizlet guy til the day i DIE

[faeriemarie]

a guide to SOME my drs

contains: harry potter (golden era), marauders, stranger things, dash & lily, x-men, a few fame drs, and a 1900’s historical dr

harry potter

ravenclaw who is best friends with cho

like literally inseparable

we are the hogwarts “it” girls and everyone is obsessed with us

they want to dress like us and talk like us and be as stunningly beautiful and intelligent

so many people have a crush on me

including but not limited to: hermione, ginny, harry, ron, roger davies, neville, luna, and george weasley

marauders

i’m going into my 5th year as a ravenclaw at hogwarts

was never friends with the marauders (save for sirius)

always really good friends since 1st year

and we became practically like siblings

when he ran away, he runs to my house

and my parents welcome him with open arms

give him his own room and make him do chores

it’s like we’ve been siblings forever

then he introduces me to his friends

and remus and james both have crushes on me

and think i’m sirius’ real sister

love triangle ensues

stranger things #1

og female member of the party since 2nd grade

and will is basically my brother

i’ve known him longer than mike has

not so secret crush on thee mike wheeler

i play as a monk in d&d (although i’m not sure that role even existed in the 80’s)

eleven never crushes on mike and only has a friendship with him

when she meets me, she idolizes me and wants to BE me because i’m so cool

i become friends with max first

and stalk for the guys

devising plans with will on how to force lucas and max together

basically just tween fun time (with monsters ofc)

stranger things #2

teenager era starting in season 2

im a loser and friends with jonathan byers

im a major theatre kid and we became friends when he took pictures for our school musical

and ofc im friends with robin because she’s in pit

accidentally get involved with demodogs things when dustin recruits me to go with him and steve

i get to bond with steve and our romance starts

but nothing actually HAPPENS until season 3 over the summer

after he’s gotten over nancy and robin can force us together

stranger things #3

popular!marie x loser!mike

cheerleader who’s new to hawkins

i befriend lucas and he invites me to hellfire club

of course i join!!

i used to play d&d all the time with my cousins in new york

when i walk in, everyone is suspicious of me

but mike is so whipped

eddie doesn’t believe i even know how to play

but i bring out my character sheet and im literally at a higher level than him

… he is mildly impressed

so i’m allowed to join

and i bond with the guys

and mike walks me home every day (even though he’s still dating el)

will i come between them and break them up?

i am the drama fr

dash & lily

i’m lily but i have a different name, face, etc.

mostly the same personality tho

it follows the basic plot

i put the notebook between franny and zooey

we exchange dares

dash gets back together with sofia

my bully is an oc instead of annoying ugly-ass edgar

we meet

i get drunk

we get together

yadayadayada you get it

x-men (prequel series)

i attend xavier’s school where my bestie is jubilee

i have chlorokenesis but i can control my powers the best of anyone

half dating peter maximoff but not really

he flirts with me all the time and i pretend like i hate it

everyone ships us tho

especially kurt and jean

2000’s actress

my resume includes…

cecilia in the virgin suicides

bianca stratford

lana in the princess diaries

louise in gilmore girls

elizabeth in pride & prejudice

rose in doctor who

emily in the devil wears prada

sophie in mamma mia

giselle in enchanted

summer in 500 days of summer

and more

early 2010’s fame dr

famous for a few cult classics like

sam in the perks of being a wallflower

or nicki in the bling ring

but i was also clara in doctor who

and i dated a couple notable celebrities

toby regbo… james mcavoy… thomas brodie-sangster

oh and i’m trending on 2012 tumblr

because i single-handedly revived indie sleaze

and had a flirtationship with alex turner

pretty much the whole am album is about me

dating finn wolfhard fame dr (heavily influenced by the posts of @wheelcr)

angsty and edgy poet and playwright

who graduated high school at 15 and has a bachelor’s degree in linguistics by 19

start dating in 2021

and fans are so obsessed with me

they even jumpstart my poetry career

and some high schools / colleges get the rights to my plays

so cool

ballerina for royal ballet

i started with them when i was very young

getting cast in the nutcracker as a party guest

and i work my way up

i debut with the professional company when i’m 15

with my debut ballet being romeo and juliet

i go on to star in mayerling, onegin, cinderella, anastasia, coppelia, sylvia, swan lake, sleeping beauty, don quixote, giselle, la bayadere, and sylphide all before i turn 25

plus i’m nursing a minor film career in the off season

just small movies like

phantom of the opera 2004 as christine

or atonement as cecilia tallis

i’m just an icon honestly

1910 small town america vibe

the vibe of our town and tuck everlasting

i’m just a small town girl and the brightest student ever seen

i get the highest grades and the town loves me

my parents are highly respected and educated citizens

plus 3 different guys are courting me, including:

a childhood friend who’s loved me for years

college boy studying to be a doctor

and a young reporter and assistant to my dad at our local paper

how ever will i choose?

[the-firebird69]

Here's the Last of the Pontiac's ( G6 GT ) POV Review & Test Drive

You told him he said if you put new tires and rims it's going to go very fast then he says if you do the top end and the dot exhaust it's like a reburner he said you will just be really happy with it so the guy says I don't think I can do all that it's looking into it and he said that he is going to try and get going on it and my son was surprised and kind of said it sort of and he goes into the what the deal is and he says you got beat out and the empire did it so your people and it would be only Chevy versus Ford and is not enough game there and you guys don't have a company and they said oh no and it is just the pseudo empire representing and these other guys are going to be making those cars or not making any will shut the whole thing down and Pontiac is one of the ways to to fight it and he said this is going to be awful but people understand it and it's like Dave Thomas he was saying that he was fighting the other two and he was not and Robert Shaker got out and started to beat up on them for real and now he's getting beat up and so he said I've got to help trying to revive it and he's still trying and he heard it was going on so he wanted to post this and he's got some support and he says this idea is really probably not that good and then he said what about maybe Grand Am and the G6 and that kind of stuff to get real support instead of housewives and stuff which people don't listen to and he said that's probably true and you need that too but that would come shortly after the minivan is very very famous because it has capacity and believe it or not this lady's school around and do things that require that soccer practice you have like eight people and he says wow this is intense and then you guys were using these minivans to get people to places so he's going to go ahead and look at it and it's good we really needed it but also going to start reviewing what you were saying about things because this concept is huge and what you're saying is you're saying it and people think someone's doing it and it's not getting done that's why we did the projects now they're getting done and you're upset because you said it's not delegated I'm putting it out there to get people to Captain it I need people to head up these ideas from the point of view of getting them started getting them in the pipe and keeping them going and making them a success and being president and vice president and chair people and they don't run themselves so we have a lot of people who are up and they hear it and it is a problem and they have seen it and they're going to get to it right now we need to get going on this stuff this car is awesome and a lot of people's lives are saved because of it and we're going to get going on it and we need people to be aware that we want this to go we need people who want to get involved in this particular brand to get going on it and to find a way to the group and sign on and understand that this car almost single-handedly defeated a huge portion of the empire and they don't like it and the guy I was sight and it's why and so we're going to publish this very real

Thor Freya

We said the top part and we want to get it going so he says get it going and grab those factories and start it up and make this car that all their sergeants and lieutenants drive and foreigners do too by the way this is a favorite and it won't be able to get the foreign cars but they'll have the Grand Am and the GTO and he says that tonight I need a lot of people though I want my people to wake up and get off the pot and stop saying where the balls about everything and we're behind on everything we need our people to be working and doing something cuz we're not doing anything because this is a very solid idea and opportunity for us and we have to make this work that we need it and I want you to get involved this Pontiac it's us it's like history he says

Frank Castle hardcastle

Olympus

[six-improbable-things]

In the past 3 in-game days, Rook (my dnd character) has:

(very heavy tw for death, violence, mentions of gore, torture.)

DAY 1:

Been literally assassinated by an assassin sent by the woman who kept him prisoner and tortured for 2 years. (Unconscious Count: 2, Death Count: 1, Times Covered in Blood and Gore Count: 1)

Woken up from being revived and not known that the party gunslinger (who is kinda-sorta his father figure) killed the assassin single-handedly and told her that "this is what you get for fucking with my family." Thought that no one in the party cared that he died.

While still covered in blood and low on hp, had to lead negotiations with the leaders of the city-state we're in to get them to help us commit treason against our home country.

DAY 2:

Killed two people in order to protect the party's secrets and our treason plot. (Times Covered in Blood and Gore Count: 2)

Led more negotiations with the ministers of the city-state.

During another ambush against the party been knocked unconscious twice. (Unconscious Count: 4, Times Covered in Blood and Fore Count: 3)

Passed out from exhaustion and adrenaline crash in front of the entire party due to being cursed by a demon lord and thus unable to sleep more than 3 hours a night for the past 2+ weeks.

Slept for 12 hours.

DAT 3 - MORNING:

On waking up, had a very emotionally vulnerable conversation with his current mentor, which led to his current mentor scolding him for his recklessness, telling Rook he was killing himself, and also said mentor finding out about the curse that Rook has been desperate to keep hidden for two weeks.

Was informed by the party that the dog they rescued from the previous day's ambush is actually the man who betrayed Rook and sold him to the woman who tortured him for 3 years.

Interrogated the Chihuahua and found out the location of his first mentor and former captain, the most important person in his life for many years and the first person who was ever truly kind to him, who he idolizes and had told himself he would never see again.

After being left alone by the party, had a panic attack/mental breakdown and decided to solve his problems by punching a mirror.

Had a conversation with the very concerned gunslinger/father figure.

DAY 3 - AFTERNOON:

Fought in a combat where he was knocked unconscious 4 more times. (Unconscious Count: 8)

Ended the combat as the only party member standing (with all of 4hp), after killing the boss and gutting her like a fish. (Times Covered in Blood and Gore Count: 4)

Got between the gunslinger and his personal villain (the guy who turned him into a werewolf), saying "you'll have to kill me first", with only 9hp remaining.

Got immediately knocked unconscious (Unconscious Count: 9) and one of the villain's pack of werewolves was ordered to kill him.

Narrowly saved from death by being healed right before being attacked by the werewolf. Didn't die, but went unconscious again. (Unconscious Count: 10)

Got killed by the gunslinger who is kind of a father figure to him, after the gunslinger's villain took control of his body (but not his brain). (Death Count: 2)

Got revived to 1hp, and immediately tried to go after the gunslinger, who was taken by his villain. (Not knowing that the gunslinger was the one who killed him.)

And that's all in just 3 days!!! :))))) You could make an argument it's all actually happened in 48 hours depending on the timing of the first ambush.

OH AND I SHOULD ADD: the reason I was the only person to die at the hands of the body-controlled gunslinger was because we lied and told the villain we only had one revivify diamond, because he asked how many we had, so he'd know how many people he could kill. Because he's on "no kill orders".

And!!!! Rook's mentor is going to have to find out that Rook died again while he wasn't there.

I will probably end up reblogging this with updates after next week's session, but holy shit, I don't know if I can wait that long.

[writingwithcolor]

Rebellion in Ojibwe Society: Considerations for Pre-Contact Indigenous Peoples

@raconteuse3​ asked:

Hi! I'm writing a fantasy story with an Ojibwe-like culture, and I'm wondering what rebellion/counter culture would look like in a tribal culture pre-contact? One of my characters has a rebellious spirit, but I keep writing her in a very ... American-teenage-rebellion way, which I know isn't a phase of life in all cultures. To rephrase in snarky terms, "what were Ojibwe punks up to 500 years ago?" I haven't been able to find any helpful information, so I thought I'd ask here! Thank you!

Traditional disclaimer: not raised under traditional parenting techniques, not from that nation, this is primarily pointing out structural differences in Indigenous society vs Western from a reconnecting person.

Teenagerhood as we know it is modern

When it comes to the concept of rebellion, there is one very important thing to keep in mind: how recent and privileged the concept of “teenagerhood is a sheltered time you figure yourself out” is. In a lot of traditional societies, you started helping doing the adult work in childhood alongside your parents. By teenage years you were a pretty valued member of the community, and were beginning to work on adult honours, were looking to get married, etc.

Pre-contact parenting traditions exists in modern day, too. You can absolutely look at very modern, very connected Indigenous societies and notice the way they structure work and parenting is different. Parenting traditions are going under a huge revival as communities heal from residential schools, and these traditional techniques are being preserved.

So what is she even rebelling against? She’d be in a world where she’d be granted a lot of autonomy, be able to do basically everything an adult could by this point, and would have been guided by people working alongside her. The traditional avenues of rebellion like “you don’t know what it’s like to grow up now” and “I’m not a kid stop treating me like one” are harder to rely on.

It’s really primarily an industrialization invention to have teen years be the “in between” years we know them as today. In modern times, teenage years are considered the years you focus on your education to eventually get started as an adult in your 20s, once you have a job that is in a separate institution to your family.

In non-industrial societies where the primary work available is what keeps the community running, and extra time is spent creating beauty (art, stories, music), or advancing our understanding of the world (medicine, scientific experiments). There is far less need for a period of being sheltered where all you do is educate yourself in order to be an adult; I’d assume the primary structures of teenage years would be based around helping teach emotional regulation.

A note: the average hunter-gatherer, according to anthropologists, only “does work” (to survive) about 20 hours a week. There would be plenty of time to do fun things in society. 

And I’m sure somebody in the notes will mention it: yes, the fact that the average age was closer to 60-70 instead of 80-90 like we have in industrial society is part of it. But elders could and did live into their 80s pre-contact, so the point is less salient than you’d think.

Environmental controls didn’t exist

The other important thing to keep in mind is: there was only so much rebellion you could do before you ended up dead from the natural world.

Elders were those who had survived and whose wisdom you could use to help everyone’s survival. Counsel and collective leadership were often prized, along with young experience. Humility was often taught as a virtue because pride went out and got you killed, and greed would render the land uninhabitable.

So really, the likelihood of having her be rebellious in any way we’d recognize is slim to none. Traditional Indigenous parenting techniques are worlds different than American parenting techniques, and anthropologist after anthropologist has noted that kids in Indigenous societies—when those societies don’t have massive traumas that come from, say, residential schools and parents never being able to learn Indigenous practices—are way more well adjusted than Western teenagers.

If you’re dead set on having her be rebellious in some way: my biggest suggestion would be to read ethnographies of the Ojibwe that described their cultural practices and see if there were any social norms discussed around teenage rebellion; you could get lucky and find a gem of rebellion actively described, or you might have to read through a bunch and piece together a cultural context from them. 

But you need to do this research anyway, so look for particularly thick and comprehensive tomes. As I said, this can be found in modern day, so you’re not super limited by time period. If you really��want to focus on “as it was”, you’ll be looking for writings between 1850 and 1930.

(I’ve read one ethnography that mentioned an avenue of rebellion among the Omaha, written in 1911. It described how arranged marriages for teenage girls were common, but if the girl could get her chosen husband’s family to treat her as his wife, then the father couldn’t force her to marry the guy he chose. But that relies on a patriarchal society, even if the idea of a patriarchal society would have looked different at the time)

Look for things published by universities; those will have the best academic rigour. I’m not super well versed in the modern anthropology programs because my education stopped right before I got to that point, but an edu with a heavy involvement in the tribe will be the best.

Historically your best sources, or at least a place to look for sources, are those who had close connections with the tribe and lived there for extended periods of time, or even better had tribal co-writers. An example of the former would be Margaret Mead, who wrote Coming of Age in American Samoa, and she kind of single handedly brought breastfeeding back to American society. Her work is highly debated, but the Samoans she worked with loved her; she lived with them for most of her life, from her 20s to retirement. An example of the latter is Alice Fletcher, who co-wrote The Omaha Tribe with Francis La Flesche.

Ojibwe, please comment: What does “rebellion” look like to you?

~ Mod Lesya

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Moon Knight Primer, Part 4

Moon Knight: Fist of Khonshu (1985), Marvel Fanfare #38, West Coast Avengers (1986) #21-41

Prologue

Part I

Part II

Part III

Small annoying biographical sidebar.  West Coast Avengers was the first time I encountered Moon Knight and the guys. And while you will see how that was not the best time to meet the System? I still have some warmth feelings about that run despite it being a very, very bad time for everyone involved.

(And for everyone involved, I mean it. West Coast Avengers single handedly destroyed not just Moon Knight’s relationship with Khonshu, but also Hawkeye and Mockingbird’s marriage AND Wanda and Vision’s marriage! In fact, West Coast Avengers is directly tied to the current status quo of Scarlet Witch as an unstable “crazy” woman and her children being not quite real. So basically, if you liked Wandavision and Multiverse of Madness? This is the comic run you want to read)

And when I say “Destroy”? I am not kidding. In a very funny turn of events, the Fist of Khonshu sets up a new status quo for Moon Knight and the guys that lasts exactly until the end of Moon Knight’s time with the Avengers. Which is a real pity as the mini introduced a lot of very interesting ideas, and the WCA run just… didn’t seem what to do with them. And then, the WCA run ALSO introduced interesting ideas that never went anywhere because they were in the middle of a very complex storyline and by the time that was over? Marc and co. were long gone and thus, it was not even worth it to bring them up again and, as far as I’ve read? No one brought them up ever again.  Well, until the TV series resurrected Harrow, so now I have hope.

Oh? Did I forget to mention? Four parts deep into this we FINALLY get to Harrow’s introduction in the comics! And he has absolutely nothing to do with the TV series Harrow, but this one? This one REALLY has a doctorate!

But I am getting ahead of myself again, so let’s start with what Fist of Khonshu changed from what we know of Moon Knight and the system, the new enemies the guys would fight, and why it is not very remembered as a mini.

Because it’s a new series, we of course have to go back to the origin of how Marc was revived by Khonshu to be his fist. Only that this time, we see that someone else was there besides Marlene and the diggers: Araamses, immortal priest of Anubis, and mayor pain in the ass for a whole issue.

The status quo as the series begins is that, after Rabbi Spector’s second death? Marlene finally got her wish, sort of, and Marc put down the mantle of Moon Knight… and also stopped letting Steven and Jake front. This is pretty much the lowest point for this mini, that we never hear from any of the Alters except for Marc, who is now enjoying Steven’s fortune and making a name for himself as Marc Spector, millionaire art gallery owner.  I have NO idea if this is because Alan Zelenetz, the main writer, really thought that integration therapy was good and worked and thus Marc didn’t need the others anymore, or because he didn’t want to bother with the Moon System at all.

Unfortunately for Marlene, but thankfully for us? This doesn’t last long. Among the things she convinced Marc to do was to sell Khonshu’s statue, and the second the thing is out of Grant… sorry, Spector’s mansion? Marc starts having visions of Khonshu calling him to Egypt, telling him that Moon Knight has to rise again against evil. Obviously, Marc wants to investigate, but Marlene, supportive as always, puts down an ultimatum: either he stays with her and forgets all that nonsense, or she won’t be there when he comes back.

And boy, they didn’t see it this way in the 80’s? But that was a huge red flag of a toxic, abusive relationship.

Thankfully, Marc doesn’t fall for that trick (Ok, the fact that a guy tries to kill him and upon failing, kills himself yelling “Death to Khonshu” helps a LOT to make him decide that yep, that is worth investigating), and even calls it her “spoiled kid act”. And yes, he will regret leaving, and spend pretty much the rest of the mini and part of WCA moping that he lost the love of his life? But Marlene is gone as the Girlfriend for now, and good riddance to her. She will appear again in the mini, breaking Marc’s heart over and over, but at the very least, she is no longer telling him he’s crazy every time he steps in his own home.

In Egypt he finds another secret tomb filled with Khonshu statues, and meets three blind priests who declare themselves to be the immortal servants of Khonshu and that they have contacted him because he choose to be Khonshu’s fist (as opposed as being chosen, they say that Marc putting on Khonshu’s robe on his shoulders upon revival is what made him accept become Khonshu’s fist) and he let the statue, his original compass to know when to act, fall into the hands of evil. So now THEY will tell him where to go and fight. Like a very annoying Bat signal because it comes with visions AND sound!

Fortunately, it also comes with its advantages: this time, the guys have proof that there is divine intervention in their lives, as not only he gets a pouch full of mystical weapons (An Ankh that glows when there’s mortal danger near, a boomerang covered with protective charms, wristbands with scarab darts, and so on) but also, the body strength will now increase proportionally to the phase and brilliance of the moon. So, new moon or cloudy day? The guys have normal strength. Full Moon? He can give Captain America a run for his money. This was probably one of the most popular additions of the era, and while it is no longer true for the comics (Long story that, we will go through it in time), it’s one many people still think about when thinking of Moon Knight’s abilities.

Marc starts thinking he must be insane by accepting, but he accepts anyway even if later decides that just because he took the weapons and the new costume doesn’t mean he is going to be Moon Knight again (Ah, the poor innocent guy). He fights Aaramses, is saved by a deus ex machina sandstorm that kills the other man, and gets the Khonshu statue back.

Back in New York we find that THIS time Marlene made good on her promise and left, but Marc can’t really spend much time looking for her because when she does? The Priests alert him to danger in Yucatan, and that’s where we meet Dr. Arthur Harrow.

Yes, you guys know that name. Unfortunately, THIS Dr. Arthur Harrow is not nearly as fun as Ethan Hawke’s Harrow, as he is a novel prize candidate who is following on the steps of Awschwitz’s scientists to create soldiers that can’t feel pain (Of course, the Nobel committee doesn’t know that part, they just know he’s doing advances in pain medicine). So yeah, run of the mill nazi villain for Moon Knight, who appears in this issue and we never, EVER see again.

Only really interesting thing is that, while the narration only refers to the guys as “Marc Spector”, whenever he is in the Moon Knight’s armor he thinks of Marc in the third person so… Who fronts? Who knows?

On the Marlene front? The writers FINALLY remembered that in her early appearances Marlene was called Fontaine and not Alarune, so they work to fix that particular plot hole by letting us now that Eric Fontaine? Is her ex-husband! And she’s going back to him because she has no money left and man, the writers REALLY wanted to make her look as if she only cared about money in her significant others! She still has to call Marc because Morpheus is back again, and this time with mind control powers so she really has no choice, as Morpheus is attacking her patients because she’s studying social work which is honestly the worst possible major for her.  (Also, as much as Marc hates Fontaine, he can’t really hate him when he finds out he’s on a wheelchair and that’s once again the last we hear from Fontaine in the mini)

Interestingly enough? While the Priests also send Marc (Who now thinks of himself as “Marc Spector, REFORMED mercenary and multi-millionaire”) visions about Morpheus, they scold him for thinking more about saving Marlene from the monster than about saving the innocent. While I think the Priests are a bit heavy handed? On this part, I am totally with them. But that is a thing that continues during the mini: Marc wants to quit being Moon Knight and only puts on the suit when the Priests insist… and then his own friends get affected by the case that he just rejected from the police (He has his own commissioner Gordon in the form of NY Detective Flint) so he realizes that he should’ve been more empathic and not just wait for the Priests to call him. Even if he really, really wants to quit (I have to check other comics, but I think this was also the time when Spiderman was quitting, and Captain America was quitting and Iron Man was close to quit and what was with the eighties and all superheroes wanting to hung the cape?)

Issues 5 and 6 have him fighting first two immortal priests that are sacrificing children to remain immortal and then a voodoo priestess who deals with heroine. Both issues end in a very low note and then the mini ends without a peep from Steven or Jake. As I said? Not a very good mini except for the “Moon Knight’s strength increases with the moon bit”.

And then… then we have the West Coast Avengers. (There’s Marvel Fanfare #38, but that one is even MORE run of the mill than Fist of Khonshu’s issues #5 and 6 with a “Boyband is actually made of old men who stole their fans’ youth with an incan idol” plot). And boy, West Coast Avengers makes a MESS out of things, as I said in the introduction because the very first thing it does? Is completely destroy the possibility that Khonshu is just in Marc’s mind by letting us hear the God’s voice as he talks not to any of the System… but to Clint Barton, aka. Hawkeye.

See, at the time the West Coast Avengers were divided in different time eras, and Clint, Wonderman and Tygra were stuck in ancient Egypt. There, Clint half-dies, and Khonshu, true to form, appears in his mind and offers him the same deal he offered Marc. Only Clint is not as easy to manipulate. He accepts helping Khonshu against Rama-tut, the enemy to fight, BUT only if Khonshu agrees to send his team back to their right time. Since Khonshu doesn’t have that power, the god instead sends a message  to Marc to go to California and help the Avengers in the present to figure out that the others are stuck in the past and get a time machine to get them out. After this, Khonshu returns Clint to life (Or to full strength, it’s not clear) and Clint gets to meet the priests of the cult of Khonshu who refer to him as “Beloved of Khonshu”, a term that has NEVER been used to refer to the Moon System.

And then Clint goes and creates the weapons that Marc is using in the future. Yeah, that’s right. Hawkeye made Moon Knight’s mystical arsenal because Khonshu asked him to, and Clint thought “Well, I can’t ask everyone to become a master archer so let’s diversify!”.

We get the Origin re-told, by the way, only that this time Marlene is nowhere to be seen, it’s the Priests themselves who bring Marc to the feet of the Statue, no one knows if he was dead or alive at the time, and we’re specifically told that the Alters came to be AFTER his resurrection, so that he had to quit being Moon Knight for his mental health to find himself again until the Priests called him back into service. This will be the first time the Origin is changed from its original form, but not the last.

Also, for all the “Everyone in the Marvel Universe thinks/knows Moon Knight is insane” meme? Here we have Marc being very careful not to let the Avengers know about his “schizophrenia” -his words, not mine- , even if really, Marc is sort of fronting all the time -sort of. This will get ugly soon- and Reed Richards, of all people, theorizing that Moon Knight’s powers come from an Egypcian god. So… no one thinks Khonshu is a figment of the System’s imagination! Yet.

And here comes the ugly part: Unlike in Fist of Khonshu, we do get to hear the other Alters, as they appear around Moon Knight from time to time. Except… at first we’re told that Marc IS fronting while being Moon Knight, and he only has three personalities (This comes handy when fighting a mind control ray… apparently, the ray can only control ONE person per zap, so since Moon Knight is only zapped twice, Steven and Jake get controlled, but Marc can still fight). Marc also seems convinced that Khonshu wants him to join the Avengers, so he has to say goodbye to Frenchie who is 100% supportive both of Moon Knight’s plurality and his career as an avenger. Frenchie is ten thousand times better than Marlene and that will again come up later as to why.

Oh, yes. The Ugly. See, from that point on, Moon Knight’s personality starts to change and be weird. On one hand, he speaks to Khonshu in his head a LOT. On the other, he suddenly has knowledge that none of the Alters had, such as a deep, deep understanding of Astrology when in his own book we know that none of the Alters had time or belief in the supernatural, even doubting Khonshu’s existence from time to time.  He also begins a relationship with Tygra, despite having earlier in his comic thought about how being Moon Knight was not conductive to romance.

When this happens, Steven and Jake start arguing with Marc about Marc wanting to be the only one in the body AGAIN. And they start wondering if the fact that Khonshu is now speaking to them is only a sign of madness… despite their powers being quite obviously real and moon-based. He is also in probation as an Avenger because Clint really doesn’t like it when people die and Marc… doesn’t have that particular hang-up. YET.

And then Khonshu comes up to speak up to Marc and tells him he WANTS Moon Knight to be an Avenger because the god is VERY interested in Clint Barton and the Avenger experience.  Which is problem #1 of Moon Knight’s time in the Avengers. They broke the cardinal rule of “We don’t show if Khonshu is real or not” in order to make the god obsess… over a completely different character.  Oh, and then we get told that nope, Khonshu doesn’t approve of Marc being with Tygra because she is “sun-oriented” despite claiming to love the moon and this is the first time Khonshu openly talks about his preferences about Moon Knight’s romantic life. While still insisting that he totally wants to understand Hawkeye and I do wonder about the West Coast Avenger’s writers obsession with Hawkeye back then.

Still, after Moon Knight saves Mockingbird from Phantom Rider -although they both lie to Hawkeye regarding exactly from whom he saved her- he officially becomes the #24 Avenger (Which, given that now the rooster of Avengers and ex-Avengers is about 150? Kinda impressive) but then, during a fight where Marc is left unconscious… Khonshu leaves the body. It is revealed then that he has been possessing the system, making them join the Avengers and then slowly taking over because since he was SO impressed by Hawkeye’s spirit, he wanted to be in the Avengers “personally”. And none of the Alters know about this. And he is more active than ever, as every time the team faces someone who can mind control them? Khonshu takes over to remain immune.

And yet, with Khonshu apparently over the moon for Hawkeye (yes, sorry, I just had to say that), when Hawkeye and Mockingbird divorce and separate? Moon Knight takes Mockingbird side and stays with her rather than remain with the Avengers.  And yet, Khonsu is STILL fronting as we get thoughts like “Assuming the form of Marc Spector is becoming a hindrance” -as he can’t use his full godly powers like that-  “My human Host, Marc Spector”, and stuff like that.

Finally, as the whole drama with Phantom Rider ends, Damion Hellstorm, Spawn of Satan, exorcises Khonshu from Moon Knight’s body and, after a very, very long fight with Seth’s armies (Because of a different crossover that was going on at the time), Khonshu declares that his little experiment with experiencing the human life was over, he had to go and fight Seth since they’re from the same pantheon, and thus, Marc will be left alone in his body (With the Alters, which Khonshu at some point calls “their madness” because Khonshu is an ass) but will still be the fist of Khonshu on earth and as such Marc is still under his service even if “their time of oneness is over”. Marc is not impressed. During the fight with the Seth armies, every bit of Moon Knight’s mystic arsenal is destroyed, so he is left only with his augmented strength during the moon cycle. 

Once Khonshu leaves and the fight is over, Marc -who is probably fronting- breaks things up with Tygra and leaves the avengers, stating that “I have met my maker, and I’m not sure I like what I saw” which marks the FIRST time Moon Knight and Khonshu are in real conflict, but not the last.

He also participated in the West Coast Avengers 2 and 3, but really, he was only there as a warm body to fight villains.

So there you have it, the series that brought the biggest change to Moon Knight status quo in the eighties, and yet… didn’t do anything interesting with the Alters. Seriously, I’d have KILLED to see Jake interacting with Clint, Steven with Tony Stark -as Iron Man was on the team for a bit at the same time as Moon Knight, and Marc with Mockingbird. To see the team confused as to who was fronting when with the guys desperately trying to keep their plurality a secret.  To NOT have Khonshu just become a Hawkeye fangirl and take over the guys’s autonomy just because he wanted to play Avenger near his new shiny non plural friend (That really left a bad taste in my mouth), but in the end, it was just a means to undo what they had done in the mini and get back to the original status quo, with just the new change of us knowing that Khonshu IS real, even if he is no longer around.

What did they do with that? Well, tune in for Part 5 when we get to see what happened in Marc Spector: Moon Knight (Oh, and The Punisher Annual 2), And that one is going to be short, and it’s going to be PAINFUL, so I am warning you right now.

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