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I am begging Warrior Cats please PLEASE do not get involved in the Metaverse

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Godzilla Minus One thoughts (SPOILERS)

TLDW: Godzilla Minus One is easily one of the all time best films in the franchise so far. While it isn't my personal favorite, it absolutely deserves the praise fans and critics seem to be giving it. Outside from some personal nitpicks, I'd say this entry is worthy of standing shoulder-to-shoulder with the best.

10/10

THOUGHTS AND SPOILERS BELOW THE CUT!!! GO SEE IT!!!!!!

Boy does this movies come in swinging! Koichi setting up the main conflict of feeling like he is a coward (he's not, as the movie goes on to point out) and then the whiplash of GODZILLASAURUS

I know its just an unmutated Godzilla but HOLY FUCK the similarities are there and I love the design.

Personal nitpick #1: was hoping the movies would go more in depth with the origin of its Godzilla but the movies isn't really about what Godzilla is but rather what he does and represents to the story. As a result they don't really say what he is other than he is known to Odo Island's folklore. I like that, it gives him a mysterious vibe.

I gasped because I thought he ate a guy be then he yeeted him

Poor Koichi Can't Catch a Break the Movie

Noriko was great. It's clear she isn't used to being looked after and it shows.

Speaking of which, ALL the characters are wonderful. The Reiwa era looks like it is being defined by stronger human characters and stories and I am all here for that!

I'm actually surprised that the trailers (or at least the 2 I watched) didn't show to much Godzilla action. Or at least the final battle.

Godzilla REALLY has it out for folks in this movie. That lack of a clear origin helps actually. His attacks are sudden and brutal. He is REALLY visibly pissed off too.

SPEAKING OF BRUTAL HOLY FUCK!!! For as much damage Godzilla does to everyone, he gets FUCKED UP! Half his face blasted off! It's cool the see his regeneration ability realized in CG

Personal Nitpick #2: I do wish they had made Godzilla a more obviously tragic character. He is just as much a victim of war as he is a symbol of it. Again though, that isn't what this movie is about, and the ending does at least suggest a sequel isn't completely out of the question, so maybe we can still see why Godzilla decided that All Humans Are Bad.

His atomic breath is wild man. Creating mushroom clouds and massive creators is some nightmare fuel shit.

NORIKO NOOOOOOOOO :(

(dont worry she lives)

The plan to kill Godzilla was interesting. Explosive decompression is not really the first thing I would have thought up for a sea monster that brings up deep sea fish but the speed at which it happens is important.

KOICHI NOOOOOO (its okay he ejected)

Personal Nitpick #3:... I don't really like how they defeated Godzilla. I thought it was overkill. Like, yeah I get that Koichi needs to have is moment and all but blowing his head up I thought was a little much. and then he crumbles away? I guess he was frozen? Cool visual though. I imagine it was hell to convince Toho to have Godzilla die that way.

I heard Yamazaki was a big GMK fan, and the last scene really makes it obvious. I wonder if he isn't available for a sequel, Yamazaki would request Kaneko to direct...

Hey Noriko is alive!!!! Hey what's that on her neck? Why does it look like Godzilla's dorsal plate? Oh God Please Let Koichi Be Happy He Has Been Through Too Much.

The overall message of the movie is so goddamn moving, Live. That isn't a request, that's an order, a demand. Live, you should be happy to be alive. You may not think it, but people love you. People can forgive you. You don't deserve to die. Live and fight for the next generation so they don't make our mistakes. It is tough but you and people around you can make it better. You. Will. Live.

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🪱oh my! What’s this, our third intro post? Lawl, this time it’s complete. I don’t really want to rewrite everything again. TLDW we’re bad for you, we have every red flag in existence, we love hard. Diagnosed with DiD. Not pro or anti anything, we care very little about discourse. We want friends. Love of all things taboo.

Every alter uses a different emoji to indicate that they’re fronting. We call these “proxies”. I’ll make a list of the alters that’ll use this account. I’m Tazelein, btw.

🐰Daisy, she/her. My cute little pet! My sweet little toy. My darling. My little stress ball. A real softie. Shy and cute. My precious little thing. Does whatever I want.

🐁Fobi, it/she/they. Little prey. Skittish and nervous, fervently decides when we need to leave a situation. Has an overwhelming will to run and/or hide, depending on the nature of the threat it senses. She is our survival instincts and her only goal is keeping us alive. They won’t be convinced to stay in a dangerous situation, no matter what. I appreciate its desire to keep us alive, but its risk-aversion is a bit disappointing.

🦇Grim, it/any. A cutely fascinating specimen! Has a fascination with torture and abuse, just like me, but in a very different way. Can only process love through being hurt. Has an immense well of self-loathing, guilt, and shame. Hates us, but in a way that it desperately craves approval to fill the pit of self-loathing. Unfortunately, nothing ever will. Panics and lashes out desperately at any sign of betrayal or abandonment.

🎊Jynx, any. My cute niece! Well, he’s all grown up now, and really I couldn’t be more proud. Unless he was my own offspring, then I’d be more proud. She’s got a god complex and a strong desire to rule the world and make it all burn. Describes herself as a spiteful smiter. Vengeful and petty and all those good things. It also craves approval, but in the sense that it’ll destroy everyone who doesn’t worship it.

🚀Oscar, he/him. Bitter and angry, he’s completely done with relationships. Believes our system would be better off by ourselves, without anyone else. He’ll be cold and blunt. Holds no punches. He does, however, hold grudges. Will point out everything he doesn’t like about you, and everything he doesn’t like about us, and everything he thinks you won’t like about us, in an attempt to drive you away.

🥀Quasiren, they/them. Gaslight, gatekeep, girlboss! They will do whatever they deem necessary to get what they think the system needs. Right now, that’s relationships! Friendships, or romance if necessary. They specifically want very intense, codependent relationships. Maybe even toxic ones! Formerly 🌟

🥩Raptorse, it/its. Our carnivore. Really more of an omnivore, it’ll eat anything, but it’s particularly obsessed with eating moving things. Very animalistic, views everything that moves as food. Constantly hungry and won’t hesitate to bite down. Sometimes goes digging outside and swallows live insects. Only really fronts when we’re hungry, and we usually aren’t hungry, unless Quasi tries to starve us <3

🎆Starbound, she/any. Our righteous anger! Won’t hesitate to jump to defending one of our alters, even those she doesn’t like, if she thinks someone is wronging us in some way. Will even defend people outside of the system. She can get a bit violent, aggressive, and intense, though. To the point where she won’t stop at anything to prove a point.

🪱Tazelein, he/any. Me! Yours truly. The one and only. The marvelous! I value life and suffering. If I had my way, everyone would live forever and suffer forever. No one would ever die. Everyone would suffer with me, forever! I hate death with a burning passion that you wouldn’t believe.

🕊️Utopia, they/them. My grandchild! Also all grown. Has a fascination with religions. Wants to start their own. Is confident that they can make the world a better place if they were in charge of it, and desires to rule the world, but for different reasons than Jynx. Genuinely believes they can make the world the better place.

🦠Vitriol, it/its. All of the system’s self-loathing, guilt, shame, and suicidal ideation rolled into one. Hates our system more than anything in the world and believes we’re the scum of the earth. Wants to kill us feverishly. Has the ideology that we’ll abuse people if we aren’t killed off, and that’s a horrible and evil and bad thing. Personally, I don’t care about abuse, and I don’t think we should die, but Vitriol vehemently believes that we’re evil. Will push people away with the intention of protecting them from us, rather than protecting us from them (like Oscar).

🕸️Webber, any. My son! She’s such a wonderful cutiepie sweetheart. My darling Websie. Has the intent of keeping people in our lives at all costs to us and them. Hates abandonment and goodbyes and won’t let anyone go. For that reason, he is fascinated by kidnapping, stalking, and physical restraints. Doesn’t want to hurt anyone, however, and holds quite a lot of guilt for our actions. It doesn’t want to make people suffer or use people, it just doesn’t want to be abandoned.

🔥Xray, he/xe (xe/xim/xis, like he/him/his). Omnipotent primordial eldritch deity 1/3. God of destruction. Represented by fire, the sun, death, light, sharp angles, spikes, stone, blades, gore, and metal. Values truth, bravery, closure, curiosity, finality, persistence, and order. Has a composed demeanor and authoritative role in the system.

🌲Yarrow, it/they/yey (yey/yem/yeir, like they/them/their). Omnipotent primordial eldritch deity 2/3. Goddex of transformation. Represented by greenery, clouds, fungi, insects, the moon, mirrors, frost, trees, armor, and mountains. Values empathy, change, introspection, attentiveness, observation, rebellion, and protection. Has a guarded demeanor and informative role in the system.

🌊Zenith, ze/zer (ze/zer/zers, like she/her/hers). Omnipotent primordial eldritch deity 3/3. Goddess of creation. Represented by the ocean, cosmos, feathers, fur, scales, flowers, rainbows, shadows, eggs, and pens. Values humility, kindness, creativity, adventure, exertion, passion, and beauty. Has a loving demeanor and supportive role in the system.

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bored? enjoy this long ass video about Red White and Royal Blue

TLDW: it's not a fanfic with the serial numbers filed off. But mcquiston (they/them) spent a LOT of time on Tumblr and AO3 and LiveJournal in the 2010s.

Content note for anti-Semitism in the "carry it in my heart" portion, though. I got jumpscared so bad lmfao

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https://youtu.be/i13hrynnGNY?si=54-vbvG7UtoUndJa

Not sure this is the answer to what that anon was asking, but this video provides some pretty fascinating and well-explained insight into why Nintendo is so picky about the terminology people use when referring to their products, ex: why they always refer to it as "Nintendo Switch" and never just "the Switch".

Tldw, it has to do with Nintendo's entire value being wrapped up in the exclusivity of their IPs, and how their competitors (who are much more powerful companies than them) will exploit any weakness to get those IPs. Remember that email from a Microsoft executive that leaked earlier this year saying he thought acquiring Nintendo would be a "career move". These threats to Nintendo as a company are still relevant, hence why they're still defensive about this stuff

Thank you very much for this video! It definitely helped me understand some things better. It's wild to consider the gulf between Nintendo's actual size and resources, and the profitability and influence of their properties. Especially with something like Pokemon, which has been discussed to death already. But seriously, where does all that money go?? I don't just mean it in a "the games and services should be better" sense, but like... I dunno, they have far fewer employees to pay than the Xbox ecosystem, but even greater influence... I just don't understand the economy on that level, lol

Thinking about it more, I think saying "The ___ Game" sorta acts like quotation marks. It clearly establishes the full title of the game. Whatever is between "the" and "game" is the title and that helps Nintendo clearly define what they're talking about. And why other companies don't care about being that protective. As the video established, law like this only matters to the extent it's enforced. Companies can choose to care or not care about all these details based on how precarious they feel their position is.

Kind of a tangent, but based on the conclusions of this video: as a supporter of fan-works, my views on IP law as it exists are mixed, BUT I do think the best option if you get heavily invested in a massive fan project is to just turn it into something original, even if its inspirations are extremely obvious. (unless it's like a remake/QOL romhack of a specific game or something, in which case you just have to keep on taking that risk.) But turning a big fan-inspired thing into something original, I think that's the most healthy option from a creative perspective, too. (Speaking as someone where me and my partner's original world started out as a more blatant spoof of Zelda/gaming tropes and then evolved into something with its own worldbuilding and spirit.) Just look at Arzette, the game that mimics the CD-i Zeldas... Nintendo is even promoting it! You've got stuff like Bug Fables that's obviously based on Paper Mario but has a lot going on to set it apart. And so on. I never really understood how studios were able to "get away" with having extremely blatant inspirations like that (although of course I support it, as stated above), and this video helped me understand why. It's more about the trademark establishing a "seal of quality" if you will, so it doesn't really matter how many imitators there are as long as Nintendo can hold up their own work as a gold standard.

Although there HAVE been instances where companies tried (and even succeeded) to patent game mechanics- IIRC Nintendo even tried that recently with some stuff from Tears of the Kingdom that they didn't even necessarily invent. That's where they lose me entirely. It's one thing to trademark characters and settings, etc. but copyrighting ideas of that nature is bad for everyone,imo.

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argh I have so many thoughts about eishi and fiona and how they’re the same but different arg!! tldw (too long didn’t write) they are narrative foils but not in the way karasuma and takayama are. karasuma and takayama are two sides of the same coin. what one has the other is lacking. etc. etc. but fiona and eishi are fundamentally very similar. shrewd and calculating people who hold great contempt for others and believe themselves to be unique, and as a result of this (flawed) belief, they end up isolating themselves from others. cynics who don’t believe in the goodness of the universe or humanity. in a sense they are occupy the same side of the coin. a dark mirror maybe is a bit closer to what they are.

But I need to make this clear. Fiona isn’t the “bad end route” to Karasuma’s “good end route”. They are the same, but she started with horrible things out of her control. Her family situation is incredibly unstable, while Karasuma’s was... it was reasonable. The absentee father sucks, but objectively Fiona’s got it worse with the alcoholic single mother. (BUT THIS ISN”T A COMPETITION ABOUT WHO HAS IT WORSE EITHER !!! ) And even though she grew up around other birdmen, she was never able to learn how to rely on others, fearing that she was the weakest link who would be discarded at any moment. While Eishi learned to trust in his new friends... et cetera... and all these small things add up and you end up with fiona being bound to EDEN psychologically while Karasuma flies free...

She is not his “bad ending”. She is his “bad beginning”. She is who Karasuma could have been if he hadn’t been so lucky.

A lot of dark mirror type characters are often condemned by the media they’re trapped within, that there is sympathy for the villain, but ultimately they have done horrible things and they must atone! with death, more often than not!

But Fiona is not beyond salvation. That despite the fact she has tossed other birdmen under the bus for the sake of her own safety, the story doesn’t condemn her for doing these things— instead it says, you have suffered, you have experienced trauma, and perhaps the things you have done are awful, but it was the best you can do and the act of self-preservation was understandable... and so even still, you are not beyond saving. You can still be a better person from here on out. You can still be free.

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I think anyone involving themselves in any kind of harry potter debate needs to watch this video. Yes, the whole thing. Put it on in the bg or whatever and don't skip any of it, this video is very revealing and important to understanding the issues at play in the franchise.

tldw; Rowling is against progressive activism because she believes societal or status quo change in any direction is inherently bad. Her idea of a happy ending in the books is for the magical world that has slavery and discrimination built into it remain the same from beginning to end. Hermione fucking Granger (who Rowling stated likes to think of her as a black girl) is routinely mocked for wanting to end slavery. A guy in the Fantastic Beasts series wants to prevent WWII and he's a bad guy. And yes, the antisemitism and transphobia are very much present, with a few sprinkles of other kinds of racism and fatphobia courtesy of JKR.

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Hans Zimmer - Interstellar

I've made a few album reviews for this blog before, a funny thing given I know absolutely nothing about music theory. I wanted to talk about my favorite film soundtrack to my favorite movie Interstellar.

As an avid fan of movies, one of the things that lets me down the most isn't bad writing, shaky-cam, or flubbed lines. It's always been bad music. Every Frame a Painting made a terrific video on bad movie music a la Marvel back in 2016 that I think holds up well. The TLDW is this: a few factors are at play; there is a trend that movie music should be "seen, but not heard" in popular action/dramas combined with a quirk of the modern editing process that leads to directors subbing in 'temp music' during post-production. Directors hear the generic temp music, often pulled from other films, dozens or hundreds of times, cut the scenes to the timing of the music, and in the last stages of production, pass things on to the composer and insist the final product sounds like the temp work. Terrible.

This didn't happen on the set of Interstellar. Hans Zimmer recounts in a behind the scenes feature the beginning of the project--ostensibly consulted early on in production.

"I was working on a completely different movie and Chris said to me, 'If you were to write on page of something,' and he wouldn't tell me what the movie was about, 'if you would just write one page,' would I give him one day, just whatever came to mind, and start writing.'"

Nolan had given Zimmer some initial dialogue samples and ideas about the film, details on the genre or the scope.

"This is, of course, where Chris gets [me the idea] strictly about a father and his relationship with his son. It was only later I found out his son wasn't really his son at all, it was his daughter. I sat down and wrote this piece about what it feels like to be a father and what it feels like to have a son--I was writing about my son."

This core theme is the one almost anyone who has seen the movie thinks of--the ever-present organ sequence that beautifully merges into the spinny docking bit in "No Time for Caution." I like the spinny docking song, I like the fun organ bits in general, but this, actually, isn't my favorite bit of the soundtrack.

Interstellar lacks an exact overture. Rather, the three predominant musical themes arrive in their own time in their own tracks. The familiar urgent, building, action theme shows up in "Cornfield Chase," the second track. Following that is "Dust," where Murph meets her Ghost, which feels ethereal and menacing. It comes to embody both the physical antagonists in the movie and the mysterious forces that seem to have transcended reality to save humanity. The first track, "Dreaming of the Crash" starts with the documentary portion of the introduction. There is a rushing, rustling sound of wind through corn stalks.

Corn, sure. But dust. In your ears, your mouth... Dust just everywhere. Everywhere

Before you really process the first notes of music, you hear the sound of an entire choir exhaling at once. A rush, natural and familiar, but not wind or anything you would expect. An organ gradually blends in (I didn't even know organs could sound like this), extending itself to your reality. It sings its measure and there is a pause.

And then, a response.

And the song continues, played in human vocal range, the two voices growing to meet as the organ rises all at once. Cooper wakes up to find Murph by his side.

Were you dreaming about the crash?

This particular theme notably reemerges twice. "Stay" (5) extends upon the melody as Cooper and his daughter are separated for the first time in their lives. The song builds into a beautiful and heart-wrending crescendo as the rocket leaves the atmosphere. While another movie might ham up the music and, resultingly, make the scene feel sappy, Roger Sayer collapsing onto the keyboard genuinely brings a tear to my eye. The same effect is carried on to similar effect in "Detach," (I didn't have a video of the original organist for this one) another emotional moment in a largely passed-over track in discussion when McConaughey's character sacrifices himself for Brand and humanity. The crescendo just builds perfectly and carries you over a tremendous way, done better than even Samuel Barber could manage.

I'll save my thoughts on the fun spinny song, or the cool mountain one with synthesizers for better qualified critics, but I just wanted to leave my thoughts here.

Final Rating: 9.5/10

[yaraaltroreboot]

MagiHero Yara-san Episode-Issue Titles (TLDW)

TL; DW: Too Long, Didn't Write

TV show or comic book series, I just have to organize MagiHero Yara-san’s stories.

1 - MagiHero Arrival - Part 1

The exciting tale of Yara Santos start when she moves from Brazil to New York. She recently turned 20, and as possibly any young adult, is filled with doubts about how to be and act about everything. As she’s unpacking her stuff on her apartment, she find a 10-color pen with a magical totem attached to it. With a burst of inspiration, she draws ten MagiHero personas. The next day, the MagiHero drawings vanish from the paper sheets and Yara transforms into the Prime MagiHero Priya.

2 - MagiHero Arrival - Part 2

Testing her designed abilities, she finds Batroc the Leaper with a not-so-reliable team, being confronted by Spider-Man and his first team; Iron Fist however is not with them, having departed to K’un L’un to fulfill his duties. After they’re all defeated, Pryia’s powers time out and she returns to normal in a nearby alley. There, Spider-Man invited her to S.H.I.E.L.D. Academy, but she refuses, pointing she just got her powers and still don’t know if there’s more. Following Spidey’s advice, she visits Doctor Strange, and he explains the totem in her pen contains multiversal energy.

3 - Around the Big Apple with Squirrel Girl

Squirrel Girl comes over to Yara’s apartment to fill in the roommate vacancy, and to thank her, she shows her around New York and S.H.I.E.L.D. and shares some of her experiences in the academy. They end up bumping into the Magicians of the Pride trying to invade the Sanctum Sanctorum (yeah, great idea trying to invade Strange’s home) and along with Stephen, leave it clear they are not welcome.

4 - Purple Rage

Heroes all over New York get involved in scandalous crimes, including Spidey and Ms. Marvel. Determined to find out what happened to her friend, Yara go to S.H.I.E.L.D. and meet Daredevil and The Howling Commandos, developing a crush on Werewolf by Night. Soon, the pattern of crimes have a common facton: the Purple Man. Even though reluctanty to beat up her friends, Yara joins the fight, and as Heliantha, both her and Man-Thing destroy the Purple Man’s facility.

5 - Laufeyson Rise Again

During a visit to the Avengers Tower, Yara overhears from Thor that Loki’s lingering consciouness reencarnated, far earlier than expected. She tags along with both Thor and Thunderstrike (Jane Foster) to find Loki, but once they do, he’s revealed to be a preteen, with no memories of even being Loki or any human memories at all. Jane is skeptical, but Thor sees that as a possible chance to fix their broken bond. However, their bonding moments are cut short by an inasion of the Frost Giants. Seeing no other way he could help his “brother”, “Luke” puts on his helm and his memories flood back. Now as Kid Loki, he helps the Thors defeat the giants, but before he can turn on them, Luke’s consciousness make him stop and retreat.

6 - All About Mutants

Wanting to understand more about mutants like Wolverine, Yara visits the Fantastic Four, and has a chat with Mr. Fantastic about it, meeting also his and Invisible Woman’s children, Franklin and Valeria. The reunion is of course interrupted by a call to action, and fighting beside Wolverine and the Avengers trainee Reptil, they face off against Mole Man and his Moloids, now powered up by HYDRA.

7 - Morbid Bond

Morbius the Living Vampire is shown to be alive and well, even recovering partly his human appearance, and after facing off against the Web Warriors, he lures the Venom symbiote away from Agent Venom, seemingly splitting them forever. Meanwhile, Rhino and Vulture want to use their new animal-shaped armors on missions, but are still considered too unexperienced to do so (kinda weird telling this to former mutated villains, right?). Yara feels bad for Flash’s situation, but after they talk, she realizes Venom is still bonded with him, pointing that he might have left him to protect him. After some thought, even heavily weakened, Flash goes with Yara in her Mona form, Rhino and Vulture to where the Web Warriors find Morbius. He forces Venom to bond with him, and puts the new adaptations he made to proof… until it refuses to attack Flash and ejects the Living Vampire, bonding with his friend again, bringing Agent Venom back. Morbius is arrested, Spider-Man puts Rhino and Vulture into mission training and Flash is happily reunited with Venom once more. For now.

8 - Date Tripper

Yara gets a letter from Werewolf by Night and is excited to read he’s asking her on a date. Squirrel Girl is happy for her, but also worried something might go wrong; after all, it is her roomie’s first date. Around the next day, Jack Russell arrives in human form to pick Yara up and they talk during a walk about things they like to do; Yara however stops many times to help people across the city, especially children. Around night time, they have dinner in a regular place, and as Jack explains his origins to her and how it was Blade who “pushed him” to ask her out, he admits it was a wise move, because it’s been actually really long since a girl showed genuine interest in him as a person, and Yara was not just pretty, but kind and understanding. Their date is interrupted by Absorbing Man and Shriek (unlikely combination, right?), and Werewolf by Night and Yara in her Lucia form gives them their just desserts. Sitting under the moon light, Jack tells Yara she should accept herself the way she is, because she’s a wonderful person and he actually enjoyed being pushed to this date, but this doesn’t keep them from wrapping up their first date with a kiss. 

9 - Space Oddity

Nova is passing by Earth with the Guardians of the Galaxy, and they catch a glimpse of the Collector’s ship hovering above the planet. Squirrel Girl then calls Sam to tell him about the Black Order, but the call is cut short. Nova flies to New York and finds Yara in her Ragya form, Rhino and Speedball fighting against Black Dwarf and Corvus Glaive. Sam manages to get them out of Corvus’s weapon reach and they retreat to the Guardians’ ship. Yara is worried about her roomie and friends, and the Guardians are still pondering what were the chances of the Black Order resurging thanks to Adam Warlock. As they enter the Grand Master’s ship, they find Supergiant seeking for Thanos’ particles around the Earth, and both the Collector and the Grand Master trapped in the very pods they kept the heroes in during the Contest of Champions (talk about karma!). It all culminates in a big battle among our heroes, the Guardians, the Black Order and every hero Gigabyte, the Technopatic MagiHero frees from stasis. After a vow about the Mad Titan’s return, the Black Order retreats and the Elders of the Universe leave Earth (but not before Yara has a talk with the Collector and gives him a flower. Aw, that’s nice).

10 - The Runaways - Part 1

In Los Angeles, a group of teenagers and a pre-teen make their way to the subway, escaping from Cloak and Dagger. One of them opens up a map and trace their route to New York. The next day, Yara and Doreen are visiting Glorian, following a tip from Hulk; this interdimensional artisan is in fact the creator of Magihero’s totem, but he’s confused over how it ended up on Earth and took such a different shape; he does give some valuable advice about the multiversal energy he used on it, even opening the possibility of MagiHero opening portals to other worlds. The girls are called back to Earth by Cloak and Dagger, who inform them about a group of Los Angeles criminals they’re seeking. Squirrel Girl goes with them, and Yara finds a crying girl in the park. Her name is Molly Hayes and she lost her Doop doll and got separated from her friends. They are surprised by Wolverine’s fight with Juggernaut and Molly, excited to see her hero, jumps to fight him, revealing herself as a mutant. After recovering her doll on the ground, they’re teleported out of there by a goth girl, and as they appear in an alley, Molly reunited with her friends, who are revealed to be the criminals Cloak and Dagger are looking for: the Runaways. They’re not that okay with Molly befriending Yara, sure they can’t trust anyone, but she’s sure her new friend’s reliable; Molly then explain their parents did the crimes they’re being seeked for, and as they talk about the Pride, Yara recognize the Magicians from the time they tried invadir Doctor Strange’s house. Understanding they have an enemy in common, A-Wild agrees to cooperate with Yara to track down the rest of the Pride. Their reunion is crashed by Squirrel Girl, Cloak and Dagger, but Yara stops their fight with her Nyara form, and the Runaways escape. Dagger is furious at her, but Yara defends the Runaways. Cloak’s taken by the Outcasts of the Pride, who manipulate him to take everyone to their hideout.

11 - The Runaways - Part 2

Yara, Squirrel Girl and Dagger wake up in a mystical-like room, observed by six couples; she immediatly recognize the Magicians and the Outcasts, and understands they’re in fromt of the Pride themselves. They demand her to bring their children to them, so they can convince they’re doing this for their own good; in exchange, they’ll free Cloak. Understanding their manipulative nature, Dagger agrees for now, but once they’re out of there, she tells Yara and Doreen to look for the Runaways while she’ll find out what’s really going on. Squirrel Girl’s furry pal Tippy Toe track down the heroes on an out-of-buisiness motel, and although ready to fight, Molly insists they listen to Yara. Unable to lie, Yara admits the Pride wants them, and Arsenic explain their side of the story; at the same time, Dagger investigates about the Pride through S.H.I.EL.D.: Alex Wilder (A-Wild), Chase Stein (Talkback), Gertrude Yorkes (Arsenic), Nico Minoru (Sister Grimm), Karolina Dean (Lucy in the Sky) and Molly Hayes (Bruiser/Princess Powerful) always hang out together once a year while their families took part on some charity event; one day, they invaded the event only to find out it was a sacrificial ritual for some entities called Gibborim. Unable to save the girl, the kids decide to expose the Pride’s atrocities to the police. However, as they look for evidence, some of them discover their powers. Molly is taken by the Rpide and they threaten the kids until her mutant abilities are awaken. As before, Yara and A-Wild agree to cooperate to defeat the Pride; they “surrender” to Dagger and Alex’s parents come over through a portal; they explain the Gibborim existed before any other entity and demanded their sacrifices to get their servants closer to save humanity from its own stupidity, and even to live forever; Squirrel Girl’s furry friends give them the signal, but the Pride already knew about their plan, and trapped Gravity, Vulture and Kid Arachnid. Yara transforms into Ragya and leads the battle against the now-assembling Pride. Molly is overpowered by Gertrude’s parents, but Wolverine joins the party, saving her and helping the team win the battle and free their friends. The Pride retreats through a portal, and although thankful for their help, the Runaways do not want S.H.I.E.L.D.’s help, still unsure they can trust much people; however, Alex do hope they can work together with other heroes, and Yara assures they’re never alone, as they start looking for a new hideout.

12 - Deadpoolades

While getting a computer call from her family in Brazil, Yara tells her grandmother Rose and her uncle Gabriel what’s new without really telling the superheroic stuff: she found a roommate, new friends, a guy that likes her and might soon look for a part-time job. Their chat is cut short when her room is invaded by Deadpool, and he drags her into a chase by stealing her 10-color pen and opening a portal with it, the totem changing to suit Deadpool’s crazy personality. Annoyed by the Merc with a Mouth, Yara follows him through the portals he open and pass by Asgard, the Howling Commandos’s Monster Truck, the Avengers Tower and ends up in Peter Parker’s house. Lucky for her, Spider-Man and Scarlet Spider intercept Deadpool. Peter explains what he went through with this guy, and while they discuss over moral and how annoying each other think they are, Yara wants to find out how he unlocked the portal-opening power. Retrieving her pen, she turns into Pryia, and Deadpool points out the fabric of reality has lots of strings some people like him can manipulate; in this universe, Peter Parker has this power too. However, he tells Yara someone so unexperienced with “awareness” couldn’t possibly learn with the master or help him track down the Wise Men of the Pride; the mention is enough for Yara to want in on that mission. Scarlet and Spidey tag along with them, Peter watching the Merc with a Mouth closely to avoid him getting to Yara’s mind or nerves. While traveling through different locations with the totem’s power, and training Pryia’s awareness with fantasy world traveling, Deadpool finds his “targets” in a bunker, contacting the Pride while revealing to be expecting him to come; Peter accuses Deadpool of working for the Pride and bringing them there as the actual targets, but he could not care less for Spidey’s nagging. The Wise Men then reveal their reward to be “better than money”, offering Deadpool to join their Gibborim cult; he doesn’t take it well, and joins the heroes to beat the mad scientists. In a fantasy battle filled with crazy imagination traps, Spidey, Deadpool and Pryia beat the Wise Men. Deadpool isn’t able to finish them however, as the MagiHero switched his weapons with toys; Deadpool laughs at that, while Scarlet is just confused about what the heck just happened, Spidey and Yara winking at each other.

13 - A Spidey Kind of Halloween

Halloween arrives at New York, and many heroes are invited to the Avengers tower to party the whole night. Yara refuses to go with Squirrel Girl because she’s not much of a rave person, and justify her costume picking to Jack Russell as a thing she always did on Halloween, even without trick-or-treating in her country. Spider-Man overhears that while passing by her window and lets go of his plans of sneaking into the Avengers’ party (they didn’t sent him an invitation again. Why, just why?) and takes her on her first trick-or-treating adventure. While they follow a group of trick-or-treaters and get some candy themselves, Spidey shares some creepy super stories about Scarlet Spider’s nightmare demons, a interdimensional travel with Dr. Strange and Gravity and Echo testing out a urban legend; by the end of the trick-or-treating route, Yara connect the dots to find out the three stories happened in the same day. When they get back to Yara’s home, Jack is watching her horror anime collection with Rhino, Vulture, Squirrel Girl and Speedball (confirmed couple!), and they tell the party was crashed by some “weird bug lawyers” and Blade actually beat them all up single-handedly. They wrap up the night with a cool scary movie sleepover.

14 - Vote for Jameson

Squirrel Girl and Yara are hanging out around the mall, and after getting a flyer annoucing J. Jonah Jameson’s run for mayor, Yara speaks out loud of how much she dislikes him, recalling the time she went jobhunting at the Daily Bugle and he ripped off her Spider-Man plushie’s head. Sure it wasn’t wise to bring a plushie when jobhunting, but she was frightened as heck of not succeeding, and that plushie was a gift from her rockstar father. Nearby their table, they meet Jameson’s son John, who’s worried about his father’s candidacy, not just for the Spidey-hating reputation he built, but because apparently he’s been influenced by a group of people to write harrowing anti-hero propaganda. Unlike his father, John doesn’t hate Spidey; in fact, he’s eternally grateful for him saving his life, and doesn’t want him or any of the superheroes around town to get into trouble. Even not wanting to help J. Jonah, Yara and Doreen inform their finding to Nick Fury, and he sends two agents of S.H.I.E.L.D to infiltrate Jameson’s operation with Doreen and John; by Squirrel Girl’s insistence, Yara joins in too, using her MagiHero Gigabyte to help uncovering any viable evidence. They find the Thieves of The Pride are the ones planting bad ideas on Jameson’s mind in order to locate the Runaways and prevent any superhero to get in their way. When the agents and the heroes are surrendered, John reveals to still have some Man-Wolf abilities, freeing everyone and convincing his father that these methods will only bring more problems to New York; hating Spider-Man is no excuse to spread hatred everwhere else. Even though not changing his mind about Spidey completely, Jameson listens to John and the Thieves retreat before they can do anything to stop them. Later, as the girls ponder about the Pride’s nest step, Jameson appears on the screen, announcing his candidacy without attacking any superheroes, including Spidey for once.

15 - Robot Riot

During a visit to Stark Industries with Rhino, Yara observe Iron Spider work non-stop in his new blueprints. Suddenly, they’re attacked by one of the mech weapons in exposition, being saved by Iron Man himself. Tony reveals his sore loser rival Justin Hammer somehow got tecnopathic abilities and has stolen most of his armors’ parts and weaponry. Hammer reveals himself in one of Stark’s screens and gloats about his new powers provided by his “new benefactors”, which Yara knows for sure are the Pride. After she assures tow can play that game and turns into Gigabyte, they all make their way to the academy, following a call from Vulture: all the security grids were deactivated and the villains were escaping, except for Doc Ock. Hammer offers him to join his side, but when the egos collide, he shortcircuit his nanotechnology, turning Ock back to his hairy, scarred face self. Gigabyte face off against Hammer while Iron Man and the others help surrendering the villains and restoring the system, Gigabyte times out in the worst possible time, but before Hammer can harm Yara, Ock provides a distraction so they can escape. Out of Hammer’s sight and reuniting with the others, Yara feels ashamed for failing, but being encouraged by Tony and Amadeus, she recalls another technological hero than can help, and accepts Ock’s idea of a change of strategy. Hammer expands his technopatic ability in New York, and clearly is losing his mind with it. Now as the Fighter Robot Starshine, Yara face off against Hammer once more, helped by Rhino, Iron Man and Iron Spider. With combined EMP power, they defeat Justin and rip the Pride’s technopath armor apart, not that it helps with his sanity. Hammer is taken to the asylum, Ock goes back to prison (after getting his nanotechnology restored and a thank you kiss on the cheek by Yara), and Yara helps the Academy students to set everything back to normal.

16 - The Wrath of K’un Zi

Doreen and Yara are hanging around the apartment, talking over rent paying; Yara still feels a bit unsure about her roommate paying her rent by herself, and still wants to find a job to help as well, even though Doreen really don’t see it as a big issue. Their talk is interrupted by an unexpected visitor outside: Nova burst through the window with an injured Iron Fist, and is followed by a female ninja that has no name, due to very racist ancient rules of the Capital Cities of Heaven. While recovering quickly, Danny explains K’un L’un was for years being threatened by K’un Zi, due to a misfortunate incident caused by the previous Iron Fist, his grandfather Orson Randall: he accidentaly killed K’un Zi’s champion due to his war trauma. Now, Davos the Steel Serpent is leading an all-out attack on K’un L’un, and although the rebellion leaded by his tutor Lei-Kung the Thunderer suceeded for a while, Danny knew he had to call help from outside. They all rush back to K’un L’un to find the Steel Serpent himself talking to HYDRA, recalling their plan. Reuniting with all the female rebels in very fashionable disguises, Yara and Doreen sneak into K’un-Zi to rescue Lei-Kung, but obviously Squirrel Girl doesn’t go unnoticed (*cough* tail giveaway). Yara turns into Ragya and the female squad wipes the floor with Steel Serpent’s army. The Thunderer then reveals Davos is his son, and his plan would cause an obliterating chain reaction on all Capital Cities of Heaven. Steel Serpent ignores his father and adoptive sister’s pleas to stop, and blames it all on the Iron Fist legacy: he was banned from the city for not surrendering after losing to Danny’s father Wendell Rand and challenging the dragon Shao-Lao for his own rules. Iron Fist then challenges Davos to battle, while The Thunderer and the female rebellion help protecting K’un L’un from HYDRA and Nova, Yara and Squirrel Girl take over the kamikaze plane before it crashes on the city. Iron Fist is victorious, Steel Serpent becomes a prisoner and The Thunderer supports Danny on the decision to long-due erase the sexist policies of all Capital Cities. Before Yara and Doreen leave with Nova, Danny ask his friend to give Misty Knight a letter from him if she ever returned to New York.

17 - Guests And Beasts

During a calm night, Yara follows the instructions of an invitation to a fancy party on the Dakota Apartments, which is already a big geeking point for her due to her horror movie appreciation. Vulture is there already, having come alone due to Rhino putting all his focus on obsessively upgrading his armor. As they get in, Ant-Man, She-Hulk, Falcon, Power Man and Vision are there. While they wonder over the reason for this random inviting, their mysterious host is revealed as a eccentric woman by the name of Rachel Oskar, with a fascination for heroes and their weaknesses; as lights go out for the first time that night, all guests hear whispers from all sides, and Yara desperately try finding the source of those. When the lights are on again, Oskar is gone, and the heroes stare at each other in defiance, except for Vision. As tension rises among the “suspects”, which Yara finds confusing since they haven’t even heard of that lady, she and the android find a secret passage and accidentaly send all heroes to separate hallways. Yara starts hearing the whispers again about Vision being a threat in general for being an android that acted human, and almost gives in by transfoming into Gamma, until Kid Loki appears and snap her out of it. Turns out he’s the true responsible for Rachel Oskar’s mystery party, but she proved to have grown stronger than he recalled, and actually imprisoned him in a secret room of that magical madhouse. She’s actually a goddess called Ratatoskr, who enjoys causing discord between all races with her manipulative whispering. With Kid Loki’s unusual help, Yara and Vision find and save all guests: Vulture was surrounded by frightening versions of his parents and his past self, Power Man and She-Hulk were stuck in a shrinking room, and Falcon and Ant-Man fought each other for their way out. Rachel Oskar reappears once everyone is there to stop Sam and Scott, and she reveals her monstruous giant squirrel form. With all heroes’ efforts combined, Ratatoskr gets trapped and all her illusions and destruction are reverted. Kid Loki departs before anyone can thank him, Falcon and Vision take the goddess of chaos to Thor and Yara and Vulture can only hope that next time they’re invited to a mystery party, they know why and if it’s not a trap.

18 - Fierce Feline

Nighttime in New York; Spider-Man and Scarlet Spider are supervising a student’s first patrol: Maya Lopez aka Echo, a martial arts expert with photographic reflexes that would make Taskmaster both proud and scared. They find a mysterious white-haired lady stealing a bank after seemingly foiling the Wrecking Crew’s attempt to do so; she introduce herself as Black Cat, and easily avoid Echo’s attacks to her shock; things get worse when Spidey and Scarlet get trapped into the bank vault, and Felicia takes the credit for stopping them. Meanwhile, at Yara’s apartment, she reads over and over the letters she get every week from Werewolf by Night, and Squirrel Girl thinks it’s about time they go on another date. Their chat is cut by Maya knocking on the window, and as she explains the situation, she is still upset that none of her moves worked; like Hawkeye, she never miss. As the girls come to S.H.I.E.L.D Academy the next day, Spider-Man is talking to Dr. Strange about what Ben and him found about Black Cat: she’s the daughter of famous cat burglar Walter Hardy, and along with years of martial arts training and acrobatics, she possess tychokinesis, which is the power to affect probabilities, or on other words, cause “bad luck” to anyone that stands in her way. Yara is both amazed and worried over such a power existing and wonders if there’s even a way to stop it; Echo wants to know that too, decided to get revenge on that bad kitty; Scarlet Spider however advise her that this is not the right attitude to have. That night, Squirrel Girl and Yara in her Lucia form are waiting with Scarlet for White Tiger; and she has a plan to corner Black Cat in her own bad luck. They manage to track her down, and their strategy of avoiding possible incidents seem to work, until Echo charge aginst her from the nearest alley. The two fight until Black Cat immobilize her opponent and gets clawed in the face by White Tiger. A news helicopter film the whole incident and a tabloid revolving heroes going rogue against the new hero on NY is launched the next day. Maya is very disappointed at herself for being so careless and blind to the consequences, and Spider-Man keep alert for the progress of both this newsflash and Black Cat’s trails. Yara and Doreen try comforting her, but it’s only when Ava Ayala points out how Spider-Man prevented her from making a deadly mistake that Echo understands it’s not too late; she asks White Tiger for help, wanting to make things right. As the sun starts to set, Black Cat contacts her benefactor before she’s challenged once more by Echo, while Lucia stands by presumebly as their “judge”. Following White Tiger’s advice, Maya clears her mind of revenge and anger and focus on her objective, always watching out for any possible opening to attack and any possiblity on her surroudings. Scarlet get amateur footage by the Wrecking Crew themselves of Black Cat’s true actions on that night at the bank, and anonymously gives the truth to the news. As the fierce fighters take their battle to Broadway, the Daily Bugle report the truth all over the city, and Black Cat is defeated in battle by Echo. She’s not arrested for long, as she sneaks her way out by causing a pointless fight between civilians, but Spider-Man is already alert for this, and S.H.E.I.L.D. is informed to keep watching for her. Yara congratulates the team for the success of the mission and Ava suggest she join the Academy, but she asks for a little more time to think about that.

19 - Winter is Coming

Captain America is on a recognition misssion with the to-be Avenger Humberto Lopez aka Reptil, flying over Canada to find out about H.Y.D.R.A.’s new plan. Their plane is attacked, not by enemy fire, but by dozens of clawed creatures, which are soon identified as Wendigos. As news of Cap’s disappearence spread across New York, Reptil returns to the Avengers Tower, Yara and Squirrel Girl being there for a visit. The boy is visibly shaken by the experience, and Iron Man decides to send a squad to find Cap: Hulk is chosen to lead the team, due to his experience with Wendigos, and in a tease that backfires, Hawkeye suggest they take Yara with them. Back to Canada, Cap finds out the Pride’s Colonists and Magicians scheming to enhance the Wendigo King’s amulet abilities to put the world into submission to the Gibborim, since the original Wendigo has been destroyed. Before he can act, the Winter Soldier invades their facility and uncovers Cap’s hideout, demanding to stay out of his way and mission. As the Avengers rescue team formed by Hulk, Hawkeye, Reptil, Ms. Marvel and as an extra, A-Bomb, arrive at the last location of Cap, Yara transforms into Lucia and use her teleporting ability to distract the incoming army of Wendigos. Captain America and Winter Soldier battle the Pride’s couples, Steve still trying to reach for Bucky and actually being glad that he’s still alive, and Winter Soldier aiming to retrieve that necklace for H.Y.D.R.A.’s benefit. Just then, Hulk and Hawkeye storm their way into the hideout, and Cap ask them to not hurt Bucky. Lucia is hiding with Ms. Marvel and Reptil, needing a new plan to keep the Wendigos’ fangs out of their reach; with Therizinosaurus claws, Lopez traps the white-furred army under chunks of ice and  starts digging their way into the Avengers’ location, but not before Kamala gets her leg clawed; knowing it won’t be long before she starts changing, she pulls Reptil and Yara into the tunnel. Things aren’t looking so good for our heroes, for the Colonists use the amulet to call the Wendigos, including the transforming Ms. Marvel. Yara and Retil arrive in apparently the worst time, but quickly thinking, MagiHero asks Cap for the shield and transforms into Lucia once more, distracting the Magicians while Reptil frees the Avengers and they take on the colonists. Winter Soldier is tempted to take the amulet, but as he see captain America about to be clawed by an incoming Wendigo, he chooses to destroy it, undoing the curse on all the white furballs. As the Pride retreats, Cap congratulates Yara and Reptil on their teamwork, while Kamala deeply regrets almost turning her hero into a Wendigo. As he reflects on Winter Soldier’s decision with optimism, Yara just can’t wait to get home and get something warm to eat and wear.

21 - Dazzling Night

It’s the end of fall season, and Spider-Woman leaves her symbiote under Agent Venom’s care as she leaves for “girls’ night”, picking up along the way Dagger and Squirrel Girl. Doreen insists Yara come with them, pointing that “she needs some girl time after spending so much time with the boys”. Mary Jane has great plans for them: thanks to Harry, she got them tickets to see Dazzler, the mutant pop star, in concert. Yara however isn’t comfortable with the idea, not being able to be in noisy places for very long; also, she didn’t get any letters from Werewolf by Night lately, and she misses him dearly. As they take the Spider-Jet to Japan, the show is crowded, and Yara really doesn’t wanna get in; however, as she sees three familiar faces among the crowd, she leads the girls to follow those faces until the lights go out. Someone enter the stage, and it isn’t Dazzler, but Emma Frost. She immediatly starts attacking the crowd, and since Mary Jane doesn’t have her powers at the moment, Dagger leads the girls into attack. Yara transforms into Magenta, the rockstar MagiHero, in her magical girl form, and provides some wicked keytar action to help in the attack, but they’re foiled by Emma’s telephatic powers, and almost attack each other, being stopped by Lucy in the Sky, Princess Powerful and Sister Grimm. Before they leave the stage as the crowd starts waking up, Magenta frees Dazzler from her captivity. As she explains that Frost is planning to start a mutant utopia and she’s been trying unsuccessfully to stop her, Yara wonders about the rest of the Runaways. Molly explains A-Wild and Talkback have been arguing a lot over morality and decisions, and that they actually sneaked out with Gertrude covering up for them. The girls put their minds together to find a way to stop Emma’s destructive ability, and as Yara gets to know about Dazzler’s powers, she finally provides a plan. With the girls disguised as band members and Magenta in her rockstar form, Dazzler face off against Emma in an explosion of music and light. Frost at first seems to have the upper hand, but as she gets attacked by the heroes from all sides, she’s forced to use her diamond ability, this preventing her from using telephatic powers. Dazzler finish her off with a sonic blast, rendering Frost unconscious after a frequency that could crack her surface. As the Japanese cheer for their heroes, Yara admits she wore ear protectors before the attack started, due to the intensity. Dazzler isn’t offended, and in fact points out she did that as well when she first tried her abilities. As the show restarts, Dazzler and Magenta, accompanied by the girls, perform together a song for Yara’s loved one; the Web Warriors, Avengers, New Warriors and even the Howling Commandos tuned into the live transmission to see the show.

22 - The Bride of Morbius

The Howling commandos is contacted by Nick Fury, who has some harrowing news for Werewolf by Night: his niece Nina Price aka Vampire by Night, member of the second Commandos team, was seen with Morbius the Living Vampire. Thanks to Squirrel Girl’s pals, Yara finds out her boyfriend is on town, so she runs to the Academy and find him comforting his sister Lissa, Nina’s mother. Since she grew up with Jack and was one of the closest to him in his first werewolf incidents, Lissa is still protective of her brother, and starts suspecting the love Yara feels for him is merely a crush (she’s also worried about her being too young for him, but Yara is 20). Convincing Nick he’d protect her and promising Lissa he’d bring Nina home, Jack and the Howling Commandos leave on the Monster Truck. They find him at Oscorp, after being lured by Nina herself, and she turns into her white wolf form to confront her followers. Yara turns into Nyara to fight her, but Lissa stops her, trying to reason with Nina. Morbius points out he has opened his eyes to things science can’t explain; in other words, he’s been messing with magic and the power of mesmerizing, thanks to Dracula. He points out not only his “to-be bride” has potential in being a gratifying partner, but also possessing two types of monster powers makes her a great test subject. Nyara is disgusted by his attitude and is not afraid to speak her mind, even letting out she can’t believe she found him cute the first time she saw him. After leaving them with nina, and the team is surrounded, Jack feels tempted to rage out as a werewolf, but Blade provides an easy way out of there. As they chase the Living Vampire in the Monster Truck, Lissa and Yara have a serious talk about their families and relationships. As the Monster Truck is plummeted to the ground by Dracula’s vampire lackeys, the king of vampires himself is both impressed and dubious about Morbius’s power weaponizing ideas; during the battle, Jack Russell can’t hold back his troubled mind, and after asking everyone to step back, unleashes full werewolf rage, fighting the Living Vampire off with all his strength. After his fury is all burned out, Yara approach him, even though he tries to ask her not to do it; as she assures she’s willing to do what it takes to both help him and make things work, Lissa sees her feelings towards her brother are true. Dracula interrupts their moment presenting his improved lackeys, leaded by Morbius and Vampire by Night. Lissa tries reaching for her again during the battle, and as Jack reaches for his niece’s hand, she remembers when they actually met for the first time and snaps out of her hypnotized trance, wiping the floor with Morbius and helping the Commandos win the battle. As both vampires retreat when day arise, Lissa apologizes to Yara for doubting her, and both of them, including Nina, agree that it hurts them that Jack doesn’t really keep in touch; it’s a promise Werewolf by Night will keep working in.

23 - MagiHero’s Amazing Fantasies

While visiting a children’s hospital, Yara enjoys being in both a quiet place and a place with kids to talk with; she loves children to the point where she stops things she does to try comforting one that’s crying. When she sees a bunch of children gloomy in a room, the nurse explains they couldn’t schedule with any local superheroes to spend some time with them; she offers to help, but because of usual boring hospital procedures, she can’t really fill in the blanks. Yara’s upset about that, especially because of all the sad children, but then Reptil, who just came back from a field trip with another group of kids, convince the nurse to let her do it, explaining she’s as much of a hero as he or any of the others are. As she greets all of the kids, she explains her powers are only for serious trouble, but she have indeed some great stories to tell. Using a puppet show stage and some random dolls, she tells the stories of Spider-Man and Patrioteer’s friendship (Insect Man and Tin Pal), Werewolf by Night’s origins (Puppy Boy) and one of her favorites, the time when Squirrel Girl helped Hulk defeat Abomination, this one not requiring a nickname. Unknown to her, Doreen just happened to pass by and listen all three of the stories and her clapping calls her attention and the excitement of every single child. The nurse is visibly satisfied with Yara’s work and wants to call her sometime again that week to tell more stories; of course she takes the job, but later at home, she starts worrying about not having anything else to tell the kids, having only told the stories she could remember by the time. Squirrel Girl then recalls the many things she accomplished over the year, and assures she might have more to tell than she thinks. Later in the week, Yara transforms into Gamma, Ragya and Priya, this time telling about her own adventures, still with nicknames for most heroes and villains though: the time when she and the Thors met Kid Loki (King and Queen Lightning and Chaos Boy), her space adventure with Nova and the Guardians of the Galaxy (Star Prince and the Guardians) and her first encounter with Deadpool (Red Joke). The kids clearly recognize the heroes and villains, and one of them is admired she got to hang out with so many superheroes, and that actually made her one; but Yara replies that not all heroes have powers, and that it depends on how we use what we have to help people. After leaving the hospital, Squirrel Girl ask her how things went, and she’s happy to announce they want to see MagiHero again to hear more of her adventures.

24 - The Mole (Rise of the Gibborim) - Part 1 

Doreen and Yara wonder about the future and Yara wished she could make her choices as easily as she made friends. Out of a sudden, they’re visited by Alex and Nico through a portal; they need MagiHero to help them track down a secret agent from the Pride, only known by his codename, “The Mole”; he’s been helping their parents to get the items needed for a ritual that’ll bring the Gibborim to their reality. Squirrel Girl stays at the apartment while Yara follow them, through every corner of the city, trying to find any clues. As they reunite with the other Runaways, Molly’s excited to see Yara again and present her to their dinosaur friend Old Lace, created by Arsenic’s parents. As the Runaways assemble the clues they gathered during all the time they’ve been in New York, Yara helps them triangulate the exact possible location of the Pride’s rite (even though math isn’t really her strongest point). As they make their way to the One World Observatory, Molly tells Yara everything that happened since the last time they met at the Dazzler show: Alex apparently has stopped interacting with the team unless they’re fighting agianst criminals, and they have defeated lots of those lately; so much that Captain America and Nick Fury are both interested in training them. Familiar with the indecisive feeling, Yara admits she also doesn’t know what to choose for her future, since many times she had big expectations frustrated. Their chat is cut when Alex is taken away by two mysterious figures, and the Runaways can only find his glasses. Helped by Old Lace, Gertrude finds a missing piece of their evidence trail and starts getting suspicious. As she convinces the team to take a different direction to find Alex, the Pride is observing their every move, and everything seems ready to bring their masters back.

25 - Prideful (Rise of the Gibborim) - Part 2

Following Gertrude’s direction, the Runaways formulate an invasion plan that can save Alex and stop the rite from happening. Squirrel Girl calls Yara, telling her lots of weird things are happening across town, and in fact, Vulture just got his arm broken. Nico sense her evil parents’ presence and Yara promises to call Doreen later. Each of the Runaways break into the top of the observatory, reaching for the items of the rite, but their plan is foiled when Alex appears in front of them and reveals to be the Mole; he convinced himself that serving the Gibborim might be more worth it than saving the world from the Pride, ergo, he started to secretly help his parents get the very items the team was hoping to retrieve. Yara is stunned by his betrayal and the Runaways prepare to battle, but the Pride already started to conjure their evil masters, and surrender the heroes. Three different portals open across New York, and the Pride approach one of them outside the observatory; making the heroes watch; a giant arm appears and destroys Yara and Doreen’s apartment. With a turmoil of feelings bursting in her mind, Yara snaps and without even transforming, her totem liberates her MagiHero powers to free the Runaways and defeat the Pride; as she gives in to brutality, punching Alex in the face, it isn’t until Molly calls for her that she snaps back into reality, her totem’s powers diminishing. Alex’s parents greet their masters to their realm and place their son as a sacrifice, betraying his trust. As Alex is destroyed, Nico finds a way to seal them back again and with the combined efforts of the Runaways, and the totem’s lingering energy on Yara’s being, they seal the three portals at once. As the Pride retreats, and the Runaways are greeted as heroes, Yara looks in fear and sadness towards her destroyed home, fearing this wasn’t a complete victory.

26 - What’s Eating Yara Santos?

It’s been a week after the supposed Rise of the Gibborim: the ancient entities were once more sealed away, and the Runaways are called heroes in New York. Yara however is visibly shaken by the incident, feeling guilty for not being able to help Alex and for leaving Squirrel Girl behind on their home once the team made their escape. She finds puzzling how his friends don’t show remorse for losing their leader; Karolina then explains they suspected Alex was turning to the dark side for a long time, especially due to some upsetting arguments that proved he was becoming unusually obsessed with restoring his family’s name. As Molly comes over to comfort Yara, Doreen is brought with her, revealing to have survived the destruction of their apartment and isn’t mad with Yara, being glad she made it. However, she doesn’t want to go home yet; the incident being too imprinted on her mind yet. Now as the de facto leader, Nico decides the team SHOULD affiliate with S.H.I.E.L.D. to become better heroes themselves; meanwhile, Yara and Squirrel Girl go to L.A. to visit Doreen’s parents and take a break for a while. Yara is happy to visit her roomie’s house, but can’t keep her mind out of worries. Chipmunk Hunk and Koi Boi, two of Squirrel Girl’s old friends, offer to take her for a spin across L.A., ponting out the amazing locations and how close they are to Hollywood; Yara however has an emotional breakdown and run across the city without looking to where she’s going. She ends up crossing paths with Hippo the Hippo and is rescued by Doreen and her friends, before helping them calm it down. As things calm down, Squirrel Girl apologizes for all the sudden decisions she has made, pointing out she was justy trying to make Yara feel better; she replies with a hug, assuring Doreen she’s the greatesrt friend she ever had, and everyone gets pretty emotional. After a delicious dinner at the Greens, Yara and Doreen decide to spend the weekend around, and go back to NYC by Monday; their calm moment is cut short by Nova and Molly’s arrival. Although the Pride had left, they actrually have opened four portals, having hidden one of them with another spell, and its effects were causing major chaos in New York, all superheroes available being present to help the civilians. They immediatly rush back to the city, and even though Yara is still afraid, she won’t let this stop her from helping; this renewed spirit reawakening the totem’s power. She quickly transitions from MagiHero to MagiHero to help everyone she can, and use the totem’s energy to help sealing the portal for once, collapsing of exhaustion afterwards.  As she wakes up in her rebuilt apartment, Alex, Adrian, Molly, Doreen and Jack Russell are there, happy to see her well; in the aftermath, Yara supports the runaways in their first day at S.H.I.E.L.D. Academy and Squirrel Girl and her promise to face what comes next together.

[lovphobic]

WHY ARE ALL THE ONES THAT HAPPENED CLOSER TO ME AN HOUR LING BRO I WANNA KNOW BUT NOT THAT BAD CAN I GET A TLDW

[comradecowplant]

i decided to rewatch season 1 of the wilds (because i like to suffer recreationally) before digging into s2 and oh my fucking god i forgot how insufferable Leah is (who is somehow the fucking Main Girl??? actually idk why it still surprises me how the most uninteresting white girl always gets to be the audience lens. tbh it's on me for being so annoyed & disappointed)

and i have mentioned this in pretty much every post i've ever made of this show but i am physically/mentally/emotionally/spiritually unable to get over how even if someone just has a rudimentary, layman's understanding of academia and an intro to pop psychology, how absolutely garbage the CENTRAL PLOT FOCUS of Jerk-Off Motion Gretchen's (i call her that now bc every time she speaks requires a jerk-off motion) experiment is. like, there HAD to be writers/crew who thought to themselves "hmm well this literally makes no sense" but somehow all this trash still made it into the final product? tldw, white woman is a bad parent and instead of reflecting on that she decides to traumatize more children to prove that *checks notes* xy chromosomes are inherently more violent & less cooperative which will somehow grant her re-entrance into academia and ChAnGe ThE wOrLd????? i hate it so much, and it has become a Brain Thing that i cannot stop fixating on, and also i miss Yellowjackets :( :( :(

[meerkeri]

Sapnap learned to stop killing other people’s pet....but at what cost?

[dreamsclock]

Hey if u want some excellent fuel from c!Dream angst, you should watch the video on Isolation by Vsauce. Its VERY interesting and gives so much info on boredom & staying in a small room with no stimulus. Tldw even if Dream weren’t getting regularly beat up, the prison itself is design in such a way it could be considered a form of torture //sun-is-a-square

SUN !!! hooooly shit that was one of the most useful and interesting documentaries i've watched in a long time - that was so informative and so fascinating. i'll probably reference this a few times when writing / analysing c!dream now, but here are some of my thoughts!!

warnings: solitary cofinement, mentions of self harm and suicide, mentions of dissociation, derealisation, dereality, mental deterioration and mental instability, general prison arc themes

"when left alone with a very negative stimulus, people will go ahead and re-experience it just because it's something to do."

in the documentary video, a man was put in a room with a button that administered a small electric shock that hurt and was unpleasant. previously, he used it, and said he never wanted to use it again. within two minutes (1:57) of being in that room, left alone with no other stimuli, he pressed the button, and did it again within ten minutes, because he was bored.

he wasn't obliged to press the button - he could have waited out the time without using it at all, but due to the lack of other activities in the room, he chose to press it: to give himself a painful experience despite knowing it was going to hurt.

we can see c!dream very quickly deteriorate in the same way - iirc, within the first day and night of him being put in there, he died a couple of times, which could have been him trying to escape, or could have been him so desperate already for stimulation and bored of waiting for c!tommy to visit that he decided to jump into lava. he does this several times in prison, and also randomly sets himself on fire - which people have been debating for months, trying to understand if the self harm is genuine distress or manipulation. after watching the video on isolation and boredom, i think it's desire for stimuli and change: the brain NEEDS stimulating, and when given the opportunity to be stimulated, even with a negative stimuli, the person in question is going to take that stimulus even at the risk of being hurt.

i want to move onto sensory deprivation !! in the video, it was described as "looking in a mirror for hours" - short term sensory deprivation, that was. an interview with a prisoner who suffered from involuntary solitary confinement said this:

"you're left [in that room] with your own thoughts. that's it/ [...] it's like your in limbo."

in a place like pandora's vault, there is no opportunity for good or positive thoughts. especially because it's c!dream we're talking about in this scenario: he's already got a head full of very bad, very destructive thoughts, and clearly he's already very unstable before he is imprisoned. during imprisonment, we see him spiral with every visit - and, as the man being interviewed mentioned, "mentally, it scars [long term prisoners] for life."

...which of course brings me on to the side effects and analysis of long term solitary confinement. with a doctor and psychologist watching over him, vsauce entered a white room, completely white, with a bright white light above him and his meals in bottles. he stayed there for three days with no human contact, no activities, and no way of being able to judge the time.

several incredibly interesting things happened. without any way of telling the time, and the light above him being the same brightness level 24/7, his internal clock was absolutely destroyed: he went to bed at 10:30pm, woke up just after 4:30am, and assumed it was near enough 9am. by the second day, he thought it was the end of the third. time completely goes out the window in solitary confinement, and his sleep schedule got incredibly interrupted too.

he began to deteriorate: he said his thoughts were incoherent, and it was hard to remember even the thoughts he'd just had seconds before. though he began talking animatedly out loud to himself and doing pushups, walking round the room to entertain himself, etc, by the middle of the second day he was just sitting and lying down and staring at walls. he grew agitated and upset and after claimed every little noise he heard was startling.

his dreams began revolving around the room: at one point, he got up, looked incredibly confused, tried to leave the room, got even more confused, and went back to sleep. the psychologist said it looked like it was becoming a struggle for him to tell apart dreams from reality, since they were both set in the exact same room in the exact same conditions.

this was all just within three days. c!dream has been in there for seven months and eight days, as of writing this post. it's safe to say we see a lot of this within c!dream already: and the psychologist hypothesised further changes / deteriorations with a longer timeframe, the doctor included. with the disruption to a person's circadian cycle comes the disruption of hormone cycles, cognitive abilities, metabolic processes, and more - vsauce's heartrate altered a lot in the process too. when voicing his fears, the psychologist admitted to vsauce that people undergoing long-term isolation have also experienced breakdowns, mass hallucinations, total dissociations from reality, psychotic breakdowns, all of which were possible.

so though the timeframe of their isolations and the conditions were very different, the effects are a very good example of what c!dream is currently going through. we can see this on different streams that he's in too: his boredom, his excitement and immediate fondness over the cat and c!tommy and other visitors (stimulation), his desperation to keep the clock (to keep in balance with the time in the outside world), his self destructive behaviour (stimulaton, even if it's negative), and even killing c!tommy aligns with this.

killing c!tommy always struck me as somewhat irrational (though it also helped prove the revive book was real and he wasn't lying). it just seemed very spur-of-the-moment, very emotional, very sudden, especially considering only two months prior, c!dream claimed he would never kill c!tommy because he was "too fun". but the prison rewrites who you are as a person: it's what solitary confinement does. we even see it happen to c!tommy while he's in there - he's louder and more rambly than usual, not to mention more aggressive to c!dream (though he is stuck in a cage with his abuser, so that makes sense). c!tommy is affected by this almost solitary confinement, and claims it was worse than dying, which was also awful - now it's easy to understand why.

it's just all so interesting to me! i've been hyperfixated on this for like two hours now but MAN real life effects are so interesting and it's amazing how cc!dream is incorporating it into his character. i definitely have new ideas on writing / analysing c!dream and had a lot of fun watching this documentary, so thank you for the recommendation sun :DDD the prison has always been an awful place, even before c!quackity - and watching this video definitely drilled that home. i definitely recommend it!!

[automatictears]

Dave Grohl and Taylor Hawkins - their opinion on smoking cigarettes

TLDW: if smoking bad, why sexy?

[wgsphoenix]

messy tldw on the current meta. this is just first thoughts and i havent reviewed vods yet so i cant go over the interactions in detail. 

the base comp is sigma/ball, echo/tracer/ashe/sometimes mccree, zen/brig/mercy. orisa/sigma is also sometimes played but is only viable in limited situations

this comp is not dive so much as it is spam. the backline is too tanky to make diving useful, so it usually comes down to breaking sigma shield and forcing his cooldowns

theoretically a rush comp could mess with them, but after losing one fight it would be pretty easy to play around it (+ rein sucks). double shield has its moments on certain maps but losing one fight w/ it makes it hard to ever set back up and makes it hard to get value out of the dps that r strong rn

more in depth stuff under the cut

why ball/sigma is played

ball is the foundation of this comp. his speed, shield, disruption, and area denial w/ mines means he can literally spin circles around the other main tanks. winston has less of a capacity to survive cc than him and rein just is bad bc shatter sucks, limited mobility, he cant do anything when shielding, etc. orisa IS sometimes viable as a counter bc of fortify and supercharger, but she has no mobility and running anything but sigma with her is ineffective. hog/zarya doesnt work either but ill get to that later

its sorta a chicken or egg type thing but to me the rest of this comp is focused around denying the enemy ball value/capitalizing on your ball’s value. for this reason, sigma is the other tank paired with ball. his rock is a useful bit of cc, his shield can block burst and piledrive damage and destroy mines, and his grasp helps defend his supports from burst damage. his ultimate is also very good at isolating targets for a kill and also gives him high ground

none of the other main tanks are able to do everything that sigma does. winston can’t protect the backline and can’t poke at enemy shields, rein is bad, and orisa could protect her backline but this comp also focuses around shield break a lot so it’s easy to force her cooldowns and kill her

zarya isn’t played because she’s basically a free kill once her bubbles are used, she doesn’t have as much survivability as sigma does and she’s unable to do damage as she can’t get close enough to the other team’s backline to be effective. her ult is just worse flux specifically bc it doesnt give her high ground and it takes eons to charge. hog has good survivability, but can’t protect his backline during a push. hooking anything vs this comp would be very hard. his ult is comparatively shitty area control and he’s pretty helpless during it so he does fast. dva gets chewed up pretty fast by the dps and again this comp is very tanky so she can’t get much value out of dives. in terms of defending the backline, she’s just worse sigma. she might be playable on certain maps with lots of high ground, but i wouldn’t risk it. 

the mobility + burst dmg of the dps mean that hog/zarya isn’t viable anymore bc they just get burst down so fast, and neither of their ults/abilities do much compared to ball/sigma bc the comp is so spread out. also neither of them are able to protect the supports at all

runaway tried zarya/sigma for like 2 minutes and it sucked because they dont really have a frontline in this case and neither can begin an engage vs a dive

why tracer/echo/ashe is played

what makes dps strong in this meta is their ability to counter and synergize with ball. dps have to be able to chase him down, deal enough damage to force him away, and have the mobility to quickly switch targets to the enemy backline as soon as the ball is forced back. they also can’t be dps that he can feasibly 1v1. in terms of synergy, ball’s disruption makes for quick picks on out of position heroes, which means you need a LOT of focused damage, speed, and (vertical) mobility. on those qualifiers, widow, reaper, hanzo, junkrat, and doom are out. sombra and reaper can’t easily get assassinations so theyre out as well. sym torb and mei output a lot of damage and counter ball, but have no mobility and generally don’t synergize well with ball. bastion is (imo) always debatably playable in some kinda weird bunker setup, but usually not worth the risk and only works on certain maps

out of the heroes we’re left with (ashe, echo, genji, mccree, pharah, s76, and tracer), echo ashe tracer and mccree emerge as just. better versions of the others. echo has great mobility and her beam is essential for dealing w/ ball and enemy shields. her ult also fucks. pharah is just a worse version of her and can’t get as much value. tracer has a lot of survivability and mobility, and her kit allows her to get quick picks by sheer spam and force ults. genji has mobility but can’t survive as well as tracer and you have to invest a lot more into making his ult get value. ashe outputs a lot of damage, charges her ult fast w/ dynamite, and also has vertical mobility with her coach gun. her ult is good for area control. mccree is more or less the same, but you trade mobility for cc and slightly more tankiness. s76 has none of those and just sucks

i’ve only seen the cree played in APAC a bit as a replacement for the tracer, i think to give more stability to the backline and to make it easier to handle the echo. that feels more like a playstyle thing than anything else. 

the sigma pick is mostly a reaction to these dps. echo absolutely chews up tanks (minus sigma), and sigma can eat pulse and echo right click on top of having a shield + cc so hes kinda a must pick

tracer/echo is the most common duo, with tracer/ashe, ashe/echo, mccree/echo, and ashe/mccree being played on certain maps/by certain teams. NA/EU hasnt played anything with mccree so far. i dont have a complete handle on how they stack up yet but i think i like mccree/echo and tracer/echo best so far

you Could try to run a more divey dps duo i guess, but that’s more easily counterable than sticking with meta

why zen/brig/mercy is played

lucio and moira can’t be played because they have extremely limited range. dive is easily countered right now, so your backline isn’t going to have any easy escapes. zen is the most played support in this comp bc he does tons of damage to shields + discord is great for quick kills (havent made specific notes of it but itll be interesting to see where his harmony/discord usually go). trance is good for surviving flux + surviving spam in general. ana has more heals, but less value bc her nade is pretty easily blocked/eaten and bc nano is single target

brig + mercy are viable in different situations. brig is still sorta tanky + can defend against ball w/ cc and has rally as a backup while also doing pretty good heals. mercy is played on maps with good vertical mobility, usually alongside the ashe. balls have to play more carefully in that circumstance to not die. mercy also allows for echo to go hyper aggro, + valk is a good tempo ult. im not sure which i prefer, and id need to vod review to look at the interactions in detail

misc notes/interactions off the top of my head

echo and tracer end up chasing the ball off a lot and/or killing him, especially w/ beam. ball has to play REALLY careful in this comp and will still take a lot of damage regardless. ults charge fast

tracers duel each other sometimes, but i dont think ive seen many echo fights

echo beam also is good against sigma shield and uses her right click to force grasp so tracer can pulse (ive seen that like once but i think its happening more than that)

in this meta piledriving as ball into more than one target can be a death sentence. jihun did this a lot and was punished harshly for it, but his team also was always Right There when he did (kalios shielded right in front of him so he’d take less damage), but i think it just ended up burning more cooldowns than getting value

individual teams are centering different players, and running different dps/supports to do so. i don’t think there’s an optimal playstyle when it comes to revolving around different dps and that its based on player comfort. the one thing you absolutely should not do is make your ball the playmaker cough cough abang cough

if i have to see one more team pull out the genji i’m gonna scream