#the thread is so cool

[egophiliac]

HOW WE FEELING ABOUT THE UPCOMING NEWSS 👹👹👹

man, it's a good thing they stopped doing the episode 7 SSRs, because I'm really low on keys and gems right now and --

OH NO

[pastaxandria]

The Red Thread: Chapter 159

The Library of Pastaxandria has recorded for its archives: Chapter 159 of The Red Thread.

Ship: Matt Murdock x F!Reader

Chapter Summary:

Those cases wound up eating away most of your day, which was just fine with you since what you had planned would work best beneath the cover of night. By the time you sent off the last of your photos to Donovan, the brilliant, scorching sunshine of a late summer day had begun to recede, giving way to the growing softness of quiet twilight, the dampness in the air softening the glare of the streetlights into a hazy, eerie glow. A perfect night for a break-in in Queens, if you did say so yourself. Or: in which you put your skills in disguise to good use, Matt is worried, and you zero in on the key to tracking down Derek, and from there: Anthony, your old handler.

Wordcount: 7.3k

Warnings for this chapter: mention of drugs

Read me on AO3 where the penguins are

That's right, we're back, baby!

Matt over here like 'it's about time, now get to the part where i marry her'

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also also also. i dont know if this is ever gonna get really explicitly explored in the show. but.

like. theyve talked pretty minimally i think? about jovyres motivations as an antagonist. and while the main explanation they have gg on right now is the general "power corrupts universally" i also think. with how prominent this theme of sibling conflict has been ....

jovyre is cirillas younger sister. because of this, while cirilla gets to be the queen of the summer court, jovyre is relegated to being the princess of the "lesser" autumn court. an arbitrarily lower status. she had to use magic & trickery in lieu of cirillas' power and armies. her sister got to be a fairytale princess while she was the pragmatic ruler, with a chip on her shoulder. she has to get her hands dirty, "not all of us can be perfect can we". in spite of this, she was the one who stayed in command while her sister had fallen into her own despair. she negotiated her way into the unseelie crown. why should she have to be the one bending the knee to her sister. "i dont believe any of us should be limited by how we were born.... i only want to be her equal".

so its like. even though we havent met her yet. jovyres rise to power was explicitly via the death of the previous unseelie queen. of course she would be paranoid and defensive of her title. and while jovyre is plotting and planning and carefully amassing the army that she had to build herself to defend the crown she had to earn herself. her sister is in the columns of milfred murmurs and partying, all with the crown that she would have lost if not for her. "well some of us value beauty more than others". jovyres second offer to the band of boobs, "the more pragmatic approach", was to kill queen cirilla and bind her followers to someone else (someone more worthy, someone more fit to rule). at the time, jovyre admits that she would rather not take that option, "i dont wish for any harm to come to her". in the intervening 200 years. how many times did she wonder if she had made the right decision then. shes certainly changed her mind now

(and a minor thing ... because i admittedly might have misremembered. while talking to the band of boobs, she tells them that she wants to unite the seelie & unseelie courts. wouldnt it be nice for unseelie to get to experience spring and summer too? if im not wrong ...... the unseelie courts still only experience dusk and night? i might have totally misremembred this BUT if its true . then queen cirilla was also not as easy to negotiate with as jovyre expected)

anyway! all that to say is. given how this campaign has explored sibling relationships that are based around feelings of inadequacy & insecurity against a perfect older sibling. the way that leads to competition and jealousy, the desperate urge to prove that actually i AM better than my sister and im soo going to rub this into her face! well! maybe the story of jovyre and cirilla is not just entirely "power corrupts" and more also about the. "200 years of growing resentment and jealousy that has clouded all my love and protectiveness towards you into hatred, and envy, and havoc". on parallel planes, callie and cyra forgive each other, while jovyre plots her own sisters assassination.

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

thinking about puppet tattoo parlors. A wall covered in so many different thread colors to choose from - swatches of different types of stitch for different textures / effects. modified handheld sewing machines for tattooing with multiple settings for the different stitches. individual needles + embroidery thread as stick n pokes...

[tomscryingcorner]

you promised me you'd be here forever

[writer-room]

Love that the team continued to uphold Lloyd being extremely mentally unwell at all times. Barely functioning but insisting its fine. Plagued by the visions™. Legitimately had a panic attack when everything started to go wrong. Completely willing to fuck over his entire physiology with weird dragon magic because "yeah that'll probably be helpful later". Waking up screaming and shrugging because its totally normal to have nightmares that horrifying on the regular. A+ on this assignment lads, you've broken Lloyd down to his bare essentials.

[elle-p]

Early versions of parts of the Episode Aigis opening!

[polux-aka-hyakunana]

It has been forever since the last time I played with drawing screenshots

and some extra doodled ones

[blueberry-blast]

The piece I made for the anniversary collab going on in the fr discussion forum! Spent way too long on this just for it to be a compressed pixel-y blob in the final piece, plus I like how they turned out

[triangular-dude]

Booster Gold never came back in DCeased, so does that mean the future was never saved?

Booster Gold ends up dissipating due to something something future ruined. Ted becomes infected afterward but this little piece of writing isn’t really about him.

And then he appears next to Ted after his crew gets infected. So what does that mean?

I admittedly don’t know much about John Constantine but according to his wiki article he can see ghosts.

So what’s with Booster being there if he “was never born.” Though that may be an error, so I’m not going to press too hard on it as theory material. (After all, this isn’t like other series I like which I’m more than happy to push on inconsistencies, such as Ninjago.)

And then when everything seemingly went back to normal Booster still didn’t show up. “Oh maybe he forgot where they were or doesn’t know.” You forget the characterization of Booster at this time in the DC comics world. Only a few years prior his mini series with Ted ended, and he’d still been written as caring a lot about him, even joked about in relation to Ted such as in Jaimes’s comics. Not to mention that one of his most important solo comics revolved around getting Ted back from the dead (albeit it was tied to the 52 saga.) So to think he’d just casually forget after another crisis would be a bit out of character.

Under the cut I talk about Waverider and the solution to DCeased’s major conflict. So be warned.

(Yes, I made the image blurry because it’s pretty gorey and it may upset someone.)

I did not mention Waverider earlier because I don’t know how it would have worked with him. But he gets hit by Zombie! Ted and I presume he also turns into a zombie at some point.

We never see him after his very short time in this issue. So might another part of the future become infected after Damian’s sacrifice? And the sheer nature of the anti-life equation’s antidote would not destroy all specks of it within the entirety of reality. Simply those who were exposed to it, meaning the time frame that it was administered.

So might have Waverider infected some point in the future prior to Booster Gold’s birth or his escape from the future?

I may just be talking nonsense but hey, that’s just a theory, a DC theory!

also apparently Booster’s birthday is right next to mine, which is kinda dope considering he’s my favorite hero

[connect404]

Some pictures from Emmy cicierega's new Twitter thread that I really like

Unused drawings for the tattoo page

THE DETAILED FEET AND ASS 😰

I'm honestly fw the teeth dress

Little triangular specimen on a petri dish

Some cut searches from dipper's search history ! One of my favourite parts of the book so I was surprised to find out there were more searches they were considering for this part (ALSO WHYD THEY CUT OUT THE "normal to miss parents when away?" ADJDSVJEGEUDVJSH)

Alternate theraprism logo designs

A few bills

Ok I know this pic was shared on here already but it's still funny to me,,,,,like the way he clutches what is essentially his diary

Full image of the goosebumps parody book cover

Unused illusion illustration that was deemed "too hard to look at". I admit,it is hard on the eyes but regardless I love this version and wished it stayed in the book

[gjsxj0]

mindless rambling in tags don't mind me

[gummy-axolotl]

Mr. Neighbor!! I really really enjoyed this book, Idk how to describe it, but it just made me so happy. :-)

[itsbrucey]

Actually guys it's fine. Willy is going to be in Heaven for 5 minutes and Darryl Wilson is going to open those gates back up, blood around his mouth, on his hands, on his shirt. Dragging Willy's corpse behind him. It's Fine Y'all Here's How We Can Still Win.

[bigcats-birds-and-books]

your favorite of my favorites: A Book Poll

okay, i have now officially seen Just Enough open tags to override my vampiric need to be explicitly invited into things, so! here are my (current) Five Favorite Books for y'all to vote on, in order of Publication Date (and incidentally the order in which i read them)

shout out to @e-b-reads and @beardedbookdragon for the recent open tags! i am inflicting this on paying this forward to @asexualbookbird and @alloreli (who i warned), and to @sixofravens-reads (who i did not).

[lazysunjade]

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