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I accidentally deleted the original post, so here it is again. Free Palestine.

Ways to Help (I had to hand type the url because tumblr won’t let me add it any other way, for some reason.)

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Had a weird dream about Free Willy but trying to break an Angel(?) out of a government facility and honestly now I’m attached to this big anxious bird. Learning to fly is hard when you’re a gangly preteen.

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@yaelokre ‘s babies, because I love them.

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Very real X-Men 97 leak because I am hoping so hard that they include my favorite OZT girl Daria

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Birdwomen Family: Harpyidae

Birdwomen are the most common of magical creatures, appearing on every continent except for Antarctica*. Opportunistic omnivores, birdwomen take the form of massive carrion birds, typically corvids, vultures, condors and eagles, with the heads of women. They appear to be exclusively female; however, some species such as the Mediterranean harpy (Harpia strophades) do pair up during the mating season, with members impressing prospective partners by inflating a pair of gular sacks at the base of the throat similar to the behaviour of frigatebirds (family Fregatidae) and the greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus).

The magic of most species of birdwomen are affiliated with storms and disease. The alkonost (Harpia bilibinae) lays its eggs in the sea, and their hatching causes thunderstorms to form, while the droppings of the Mediterranean harpy immediately befoul food.

While most species are reluctant to directly attack humans, birdwomen have no qualms in consuming carrion. Multiple cultures report birdwomen as constant companions to sites of battle and bloodshed. Nordic myths of Valkyries spiriting away the dead are almost certainly inspired by the sight of Scandinavian species of birdwomen feasting on the bodies of the slain after battle, possibly the crested harpy (Valkyria cristatus), nicknamed by professional harpiers as the "Thor's falcon."

The North American birdwoman (Harpia canadensis) is the largest known species of birdwoman, with species standing between five and six feet tall, with respective wingspans of 12 to 15 feet wide. Easily identified by their black, iridescent plumage, North American birdwomen exhibit an intelligent, often playful and curious personality. While native to western and central Canada and the northwestern United States, one birdwoman was sighted in Point Pleasant, West Virginia through the late 1960s; following the 1967 Silver Bridge collapse, one harpier reported seeing this same birdwoman consuming the bodies of two disappeared travellers who had washed up downriver.

*Sightings of the "penguinwomen" of Antarctica are unsubstantiated and should not be counted as fact.

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Option 1: Zelda is an average teenager in a modern AU Hyrule. One day she accidentally awakens Link, a knight from medieval Hyrule who was magically sealed away a thousand years ago and thinks Zelda is the same Zelda he swore an oath to protect a millennia ago. Zelda has to help him adjust to modern life, and also evil has returned and they probably have to take care of that.

Option 2: Same as option 1 but flipped. Link is the average modern teenager who accidentally awakens a medieval Zelda who thinks Link is the same Link who was made her champion a millennia ago. Also evil has returned and they probably have to take care of that.

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Truly baffled by the Met Gala theme this year.

Like theoretically “The Garden of Time” makes sense as the dress code to pair with the exhibition “Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion”

But it’s specifically named after the short story The Garden of Time by JG Ballard, which is surrealist tale about an aristocratic couple crushing time flowers to reverse time and hold off what they call an encroaching “army”: a mass of poor people approaching their villa from the surrounding nothingness.

Like I get that the accepted interpretation of the short so they is as a metaphor for the passage of time and cycles of creation and destruction but also like.

Also feels like some real Marie Antoinette shit.

Bad look guys.

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There should be a new name for Frankenstein’s monsters as a species. I love Frankenstein’s monsters, I love mismatched flesh tones and visible stitches, but I can’t keep calling them Frankenstein’s monsters because A) most of them aren’t made by Frankensteins, and B) it’s a fucking mouthful every time. We need a generic no name brand Frankenstein’s monster.

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hello !! would you mind if i changed my discord pfp to your hypnos edit :0? with credit of course 👍

Yeah sure, go for it! Sorry it’s pretty low quality.

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Just a quick and dirty little thing but wHY DID YOU FLAT IRON MY BOY???

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Love that with the new breed I got one FANTASTIC LADY. Turquoise/Plum/Pearl ! Lots of options but I really love this one!

And uh. Midnight… SPRING…. AND THEN AMETHYST??? Like this was the best I could possibly tie those colors together WHY

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And now, a villain for her to fight.

To stand out in the world of psychics, you’ve usually gotta either be overwhelmingly powerful or extremely skilled at delicate manipulation.

The Crusher isn’t really either.

The lack of delicacy makes sense given the name, but people seem surprised by how weak Crusher is on the wider scale of psychic given how much havoc they can wreak.

See, most psychics learn to suppress psychic feedback to allow for cleaner, more discreet telepathy. Through some combination of talent and practice the Crusher figured out how to do the opposite, amplifying and broadcasting massive amounts of psychic feedback on command.

Suddenly, what would be a bit of pain from an untrained telepath’s speech or the annoying buzz of a crowd’s thoughts becomes a complete sensory overload, perfect cover to commit whatever robbery you want… for the right price.

Time Piece is one of those lesser sighted antiheroes who refuses to explain where or when she came from.

She’s got very modern sensibilities, but her speech is peculiarly Early Modern. She’s just as likely to break into as museum as she is to stop a bank robbery, but in her defense she (usually) doesn’t keep whatever she borrows from the museums. And when she gets into fights, her relatively shot distance time traveling doesn’t seem to be under her control, despite her cool additude mostly covering for it.

What she keeps on the down low, despite her name, is that she’s not just your standard teleporter. By touching an object Fluffy,” as her friends call her, can jump to the most important time in an objects history, part or present.

However, if she jumps back to her present using the same object that took her to that point in history she jumps out of the universe in which that action took place, meaning that she’s the only one who could confirm if she’s killed baby Hitler yet (or as she likes to phrase it “Only I know how many times have I’ve killed that bastard.”)

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I’m one of the X-Men fans who does enjoy the student body based stories, but I was initially a little underwhelmed by the Exceptional X-Men’s lineup. I’m of the opinion that it’s very important for an X-Men team have at least one visible mutant, especially a school team, but it didn’t look like any of them where that abnormal.

That was until I looked further into the information we have on them and learned that this was entirely due to the cover artist, as the series artist’s reference sheets for each of them where markedly different than the cover art. So, I figured I’d try to move the designs back towards what they are in my own version of the cover.

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I was chatting mutants from around the world and it came up that according to the Marvel wiki, there are only 5 characters from Portugal ever to feature in a Marvel comic, none of them mutants. One of them, however, is simply called “Man-of-War” with no further information given.

Presumably this is a play on the highly venomous Portuguese Man o’ War. Despite often being called jellyfish, Man o’ Wars are actually siphonophores, marine organism whose “body” is composed of many smaller animals that act as “their” organs.

Entirely unrelatedly, a Cephalophore is a type of saint who is depicted as carrying around their own severed head.

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See I would agree except I feel like I have to mention Laois is canonically really intimidated by the world of dragon lovers.

Laois may have a lot of fun facts, but he’s a generalist in the world of monsters. Like best this turns out in my opinion is that Laois enters that kinda positive shell shocked you fall into when your talking to another autistic person and they start infodumping about something your interested in but not all that familiar with.

Someone who’s read Dungeon Meshi please let me know how would it go if Laios Dungeon Meshi met Angua von Überwald.

Because people say “Carrot should meet Laios! Autism king meets autism king!” and I totally agree, but that would entail Laios meeting/learning of the existence of Angua, and I don’t know Laios well enough to know how well that would go. He seems like a nice boy but I keep thinking of the panel of the wolfman telling Laios he’s a werewolf chaser.

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I finally (got help) slapping Wordpress into shape and Runaway to the Stars is now releasing as a public webcomic! Thank you so much for your support over the years, and sticking with me while I'm slowly chewing my way through this book. I'm very excited to share this story! It'll be updating every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday thanks to the massive Patreon backlog. Patreon will continue to update as I finish pages, which happens on a sporadic non-schedule.

If you experience bugs with the site report them to me. Some things may occasionally break, as coding problems tend to be a very "whack-a-mole" affair; and I'm still getting used to the interface.

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Tumblr. Tumblr why did you mark this as mature.