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fucked up deer(ule)
#i have not watched centaurworld but yeah that sure is a fucked up deer alright#196#rule#meme#annihilation#scp#scp 2845#adventure time#centaurworld#infinity train#alan dracula#fucked up deer#my posts
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I know it’s been 3 months, but the thought of King Orange visiting color gang (or vice-versa) only to see Yellow flying around on his old staff (Like some Quidditch Wizard) cracks me up.
+ That was a weapon specifically constructed to destroy Minecraft but now it’s being used for silly little games between silly little sticks (which I love).
#animation vs minecraft#avm#alan becker#avm yellow#avm king orange#king orange#they’re so silly#Yellow does some neat aerial show stunts#maybe some flips perhaps#because everyone likes flips#King Orange just….#watches…#I love that they basically just repurposed it#World Annihilation -> Minecraft Racing
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the nonbiney swag posts brought me back to my jsab days… ahh the memories of never knowing how to draw blixer
#quality’s kinda shitty my bad#he was always so difficult for some reason#barely used to be able to draw both his lltnf and ng form#nevermind fucking ANNIHILATE.#alan becker#animation vs animator#ava red#ava the second coming#ava yellow#ava green#ava blue#ava the dark lord#just shapes and beats#jsab blixer#soul scribbles
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this scene gets its own special post because it was so diabolical of alan
#squid watches mash#aka squid gets emotionally annihilated by alan alda#m*a*s*h#mash#hawkeye pierce#hawkeye#fallen idol
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#he's literally autistic in canon you just have to look and you will see#not a headcanon not an au he's just autistic. not even subtext it's just text#btw if you disagree i can annihilate you with a laser beam#hawkeye pierce#mash 4077#alan alda#mashblr
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what's up ! non-exhaustive list of stories featuring weird plants :
The Day of the Triffids, John Wyndham
The Night of the Triffids, Simon Clark
In the Tall Grass, Stephen King and Joe Hill
The Boats of the 'Glen Carrig', William Hope Hodgson
The Man Whom the Trees Loved, Algernon Blackwood
The Red Tree, Caitlín R. Kiernan
Annihilation, Jeff VanderMeer
The Willows, Algernon Blackwood
The Nature of Balance, Tim Lebbon
'Bloom', John Langan
The Ruins, Scott Smith
The Wise Friend, Ramsey Campbell
'The Green Man of Freetown', The Envious Nothing : A Collection of Literary Ruins, Curtis M. Lawson
The Beauty, Aliya Whiteley
The Ash-Tree, M.R. James
Canavan's Backyard, J.P. Brennan
Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Jack Finney
The Hollow Places, T. Kingfisher
'Reaching for Ruins', Crow Shine, Alan Baxter
'Vortex of Horror', Gaylord Sabatini
Hothouse, Brian W. Aldiss
Vaster than Empires and More Slow, Ursula K. Le Guin
Odd Attachment, Ian M. Banks
Deathworld #1, Harry Harrison
The Bridge, John Skipp and Craig Spector
'The Garden of Paris', Eric Williams
Apartment Building E, Malachi King
The Seed from the Sepulchre, Clark Ashton Smith
Rappaccini's Daughter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Nursery, Lewis Mallory
The Other Side of the Mountain, Michel Bernanos
The Vegetarian, Han Kang
Sisyphean, Dempow Torishima
The Root Witch, Debra Castaneda
Semiosis, Sue Burke
The Wolf in Winter, Charlie Parker #12, John Connolly
Perennials, Bryce Gibson
Relic, Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
Gwen, in Green, Hugh Zachary
The Voice in the Night, William Hope Hodgson
Ordinary Horror, David Searcy
The Family Tree, Sheri S. Tepper
The Book of Koli, Rampart Trilogy #1, M.R. Carey
Seeders, A.J. Colucci
Concrete Jungle, Brett McBean
The Plant, Stephen King
Anthologies/collections :
The Roots of Evil: Weird Stories of Supernatural Plants, edited by Michel Parry
Chlorophobia: An Eco-Horror Anthology, edited by A.R. Ward
Roots of Evil: Beyond the Secret Life of Plants, edited by Carlos Cassaba
The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest, edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling
Sylvan Dread: Tales of Pastoral Darkness, Richard Gavin
Evil Roots: Killer Tales of the Botanical Gothic, edited by Daisy Butcher
Weird Woods: Tales From the Haunted Forests of Britain, edited by John Miller
'But fungi aren't plants' :
The Fungus, Harry Adam Knight
Growing Things and Other Stories, Paul Tremblay
The Girl with All the Gifts, M.R. Carey
Mexican Gothic, Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Fruiting Bodies, and Other Fungi, Brian Lumley
'The Black Mould', The Age of Decayed Futurity, Mark Samuels
What Moves the Dead, T. Kingfisher
The House Without a Summer, DeAnna Knippling
Mungwort, James Noll
Fungi, edited by Orrin Grey and Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Trouble with Lichen, John Wyndham
Notes :
all links lead to the goodreads page of the book, mostly because i like to look at book cover art ;
list features authors/books that i love (T. Kingfisher, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Ursula K. Le Guin, the collections from the British Library Tales of the Weird, etc.), but also a few that i don't like and some that i have not yet read ;
if upon seeing that list the first novel you check out is by Stephen King's you have not understood the assignment ;
not all of those are strictly horror stories, some are 100% science fiction (Brian W. Aldiss' Hothouse for instance).
#text#ramblings#plant tag#botanical horror#last time i posted a list of non-fiction books on the topic. time for some variety
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【 Shining Nikki CN+TW 】 Pavilion
【 Shining Nikki CN+TW 】 Pavilion
The glow passes through the stained glass windows of the church, reflecting the withered flowers of Ebner.
After the update on August 31, the theme event [Ember Night's Prayer] will be available for a limited time
Suit Display ::
Original :: Swooning Daybreak (沉于穹幕)
Recolor :: Swooning Dusk (沉于黄昏)
Collection :: Pigeon’s Glory
Designer :: Alan (艾伦)
Rarity :: SSR
Attribute :: Cool
Type :: Pavilion
Date :: 31/08—08/09/2023
Design Concept ::
The glass window reflects the colorful light and shadow,
Allen searches for traces of the true God with piety.
Annihilation, collapse, war, reincarnation...
Visions of revelation pour down,
That was the day he had been waiting for since he was born.
#Pigeon’s Glory#Pavilion#Alan#SSR#Cool#闪耀暖暖#閃耀暖暖#Shining Nikki#Nikki 3D#Nikki Up2U 4#Nikki 4#Orangecatty#3D Dress-Up Game#Nikki Diary Thailand
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Fantasy High Sophomore Year and Positive Masculinity
In the Cinema Therapy video "Aragorn vs. TOXIC MASCULINITY", Alan Decker, a licensed therapist, uses Aragorn to give an example of "Positive Masculinity," highlighting traits like providing, protecting, being brave, being determined, being ambitious, being sensitive of others feelings and being supportive, among others. I believe that, if we use these patterns of behavior as indications of Positive Masculinity, then the male characters of the DnD actual play show "Dimension 20: Fantasy High" and especially its sequel show "Sophomore Year" and associated one shots, are amazing examples of Positive Masculinity, especially as the second season draws to a close.
Of course, the most famous example comes from the season two episode "Blast from the Passed," in which Lou Wilson's character Fabian Seacaster yells "TOXIC MASCULINITY IS DEAD! I DANCE NOW!", a moment funny out of context and touching in context, as by that point he truly has overcome his toxic tendencies. The midway point of Sophomore Year is a sort of breaking point for Fabian, as everything he believed about himself comes crashing down around him and he has to pick up the pieces with the help of his friends. His fighting style is emblematic of this - pre-breakdown, Fabian is headstrong, rash and believes he doesn't need anyone to help him while after his breakdown, Fabian's fighting style becomes more dancelike (and, within the mechanics of the game, much more dangerous as Lou Wilson redesigned Fabian to be a College of Swords Bard/Battlemaster Fighter multiclass, a build legendary for its damage output).
The moment he unveils his new fighting style is during a fight he's in as he, Gorgug (played by Zac Oyama) and Riz (played by Brian Murphy) attempt to break their friend out of a magical prison. As Fabian begins to move and fight, he's met not with mockery or derision from his comrades, but with awe at the beauty of his fighting and the grace with which he moves. His father, now a demonic pirate, also reacts positively, tearing up when he sees Fabian dance and then utterly annihilate foes during the fight in which the quote that started this paragraph is uttered.
Fast forward to the Toxic Masculinity is dead moment, and we see how this rejection of Toxic Masculinity is embodied in Ragh (fan favorite NPC and former antagonist). Ragh was a closeted gay member of the equivalent of the football team of the high school that the cast of characters attends. His arc over season one was the rejection of the internalized homophobia he experiences and other toxic traits. These traits are replaced with a desire to protect his friends and be emotionally supportive and open. This, and Fabian's new dance-centric, non-toxic fighting style are contrasted with the toxic masculinity of Coach Daybreak and Dayne, antagonists from season one who come back to torment Fabian and Ragh. Dayne had previously assaulted Ragh when Ragh expressed his affection for him, a moment that happens offscreen in season one and that the Bad Kids pick up on and find grossly unfair in the final battle of season one.
Next are the other two male Bad Kids, Riz and Gorgug. The two of them are consistently positively masculine, sharing moments of emotional vulnerability with their fellow cast members (a particularly touching scene between Gorgug and Kristen comes to mind) and using their abilities to protect and care for their friends, like Riz pushing himself to be the best detective he can be. They also don't mock Fabian when he's dancing in the fight where his new style is debuted, instead repeatedly telling each other "Spring break, I believe in you!", which fittingly becomes not only their motto but the way in which Fabian uses an ability called Bardic Inspiration, oftentimes referred to as "weaponized believing in someone".
Finally, there are the adults, most notably Gilear, Jawbone, and Gorthalax. All three of them act as guiding figures, looking out for the emotional and physical well-being of those in their care. The moment in Sophomore Year that Gilear tells Fig that he had no idea she viewed herself as a manifestation of someone betraying him and that he's going to get his life together is particularly notable, as it shows that he feels like he has been failing her and is ashamed of that failure.
These examples clearly show the series' attitude towards toxic masculinity and the negative impacts it has on men, especially young men while encouraging positive masculinity, a message sorely needed in this day and age.
Link to the video referenced at the start:
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WIP INTRO--ANTHEM: INTERLUDE
"You know, we make a pretty good team. Shame one of us is about to die, huh?"
🎶SVRCINA -Who Are You?
Status | Planning / Writing 1st draft (I have a lot of pantser tendencies)
Genre | Sci-Fi / Fantasy, Thriller
Form | Novella, likely to become a novel
Age Grade | New Adult (for language and violence) Characters begin the book as 13 and ~15-17, end as 19 and ~21-23
POV | 3rd Person--slight omniscient?
Setting | Ceador Empire--Vōā and Vērrå Provinces, Cave Cities
Themes | Religion, devotion and loyalty, class struggle, recognition through other, Man vs. Self, Man vs. Man, enemies to allies/friends, anti-heroes
Warnings | Death, body horror, general horror, rabies similarities, climate trauma, human trafficking, physical / emotional / psychological abuse, suicidal ideation
Synopsis | After robbing Lunar Bay Resort, home to one of the most powerful people in the empire, but being seen by a strange kid free to roam the private housing wing, a young rogue from the underground must engage in an elusive game as his witness takes the offense more personally than originally suspected. Their rivalry reveals to them a deeper, grim grasp on their places in society, their own buried fears, how they can understand each other, and hurt and help one another. This intermission in the Anthem series tells the story of an integral bond that forms before the main story's events.
Main Characters |
Galen (he/him) | An overzealous member of a young gang in the Cave Cities, Galen is set on proving himself a trusted and invaluable subordinate to his boss. He is both resentful and overprotective of the only home he has--but not the only home he's ever known.
Willow (ve/they/he) | Training as a monk in the prestigious Yorough Temple thanks to vis pseudo-charge and warrior king of Vōā, Klaus Reitvelt, Will seeks to restore what little of vis pride remains and save vis life. Though none know of this injury to vis ego and why ve perceives this as a threat to vis life.
If you like__, you may like "Interlude"!
Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer for the weird plants and animals (the existentialism and metamorphic nature is for the rest of the series)
Heroes, X-Men, or My Hero Academia for "super"powers--everyone has the potential, but not everyone awakens them
NieR: Automata for its existentialism and a lot of other inspiration I took from it
A:TLA for the cat-and-mouse between Aang and Zuko
The dynamic between Leon S. Kennedy and Ada Wong in the Resident Evil 2 & 4 remakes
The complex (albeit non-familial in this context) relationship between Silco and Jinx in Arcane
LotR for its close friendships between men (not in a "what about the purity of brotherhood??!! 😱" kind of way; I am a queer writer who will always write queer stories)
Underground civilizations, figuratively through crime and literally in a mountain
An animistic religion slightly inspired by Shintoism, feudalistic society slightly based on Edo Period Japan
Fantasy languages inspired by Icelandic phonetics
The painting in the moodboard is The Fall by Alan Stephens Foster
#vesper posts#series: anthem#book: interlude#wip intro#tw blood#writeblr#sci fi#fantasy#thriller#action#writers of tumblr#authors of tumblr#vesper's writing
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Guys you just don't understand. How much I'm really wishing they ended it at mk11.
Holy shit. I really wish they stopped.
Like as much as i love alan Lee's shang tsung. I really eish they didn't do mk12/mk1.
Like i couldn't even finish storymode. I couldn't even watch it.
I just had to stop for my sanity.
Like i said I'm drunk as hell and i couldn't even stand it. I can't Imagine sober me.
I'm sorry guys,i tried.
Like nah. Cary hiroyuki tagawa still the goat.
I still stand by this shang tsung should have been the last.
I just feel like so sad rn. As a fan. I truly do.
Like we got something finally that felt somewhat ok. But we took it for granted.
😔💀
And i wanna apologize in advance if i said anything bad about mk11. Despite some of the bullshit. At least it was entertaining.
I can't even stomach mk12/mk1 storymode even with my mans. I tried. I really did y'all.
And i just can't.
I don't hate mk12/mk1 shang,i hate that that version has to be tied to the most shittiest mk game i ever laid eyes upon.
It's up there with mk annihilation in terms of shit quality. Those somehow worse with the racism and orientalism. Oof. That says something considering annihilation was made in the 90s. Like yikes. 😬
But back to shang,like how you gonna make me wanna ho back to older games to find more joy? This happens with every mk game. And not other fighting games. Ask yourself why?
Why you ask? Because nrs and ed boon,don't learn from their mistakes. And actually listen to fans.
Street fighter did. Look where that got them. In better positions and standing with fans. Thus is why they continue to be a better series. Same with tekken and even same with indie and other fighting game series.
Like old school shang,still the goat. Still the best for a reason. Like holy shit
Look at him!
So shang tsimps. I beg you... play mk11 and watch the og 95 movie. Or at least give other games in the series a try.
Thank you.
Legitimately and sincerely.
-mrstsung
#mortal kombat#self ship#self shipping#shang tsung#💚heart and soul🐍#shang tsung mortal kombat#mk f/o#antagonist f/o#villain f/o#villain/antagonist f/o#mini vent#like dont get me wrong i still love alan lee as shang but this at the same time makes me miss cary tagawa#and we has something beautiful but holy shit did we take it for granted#ughhhh#like it pains me sm guys#cary hiroyuki tagawa's shang tsung still gets to me
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Okay but imagine the next Monsterverse movie introduces SpaceGodzilla with the origins being that they changed the gender from male to female and she's the mother of Godzilla who was more of a tyrant queen than noble protector if anything. Like she raised Goji to be like her and not care about humans before being captured by aliens and experimented on before breaking out and annihilating them with her new abilities. Basically, she's Stella from Helluva Boss but a Kaiju and she rises from the water after returning from Earth and sees a city like "Ewww, what the fuck is this place?!" And annihilates it.
That would be a lot of potential kaiju introduction. Your idea is cool BTW.
So my idea about MV SpaceGodzilla is that some unknown illegal scientist (it may be one of Alan Jonah's close colleague) experimented one of Godzilla's DNA by combining it with crystals in hopes of by having destroy the Kaijus and humanity against him. Originally, the plan is to send this experiment through rocket from the atmosphere to detonate it from releasing its highly radioactive material from that particular place. Unfortunately, this was annihilate by a Monarch missile (with the assistance of reinforcements).
Unknown to them and the scientist, one of its shard was floated on a space after the explosion until it started to form into what we know as SpaceGodzilla. Technically, SpaceGodzilla was being monitored by an unknown organization who has plans to eliminate him because this organization predicted that although Monarch was almost late of warning this situation, they are desperate to allied with common political reasons.
They don't collaborate with Monarch due to their highly stricted rules and they only contacted from a certain person who knows their identity and hoe to defeat SpaceGodzilla.
Anyway, MV SpaceGodzilla is male so, I have no changes. But, he'll displays his sadistic nature and hunger for wiping out the humanity and Kaijus. He also feeds on radioactive minerals to form crystals that can absorb every radiation, that is when Godzilla arrived just to defeat him.
That's all what I have in MV SpaceGodzilla.
#my nerdy Kaiju concept again#from that space bastard#you know what i mean#he can be defeated too#in other way#asked and answered#godzilla#spacegodzilla#kaiju#monsterverse#toho#godzilla vs. spacegodzilla
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Justice League of America #65 - September 1968 (DC Comics - USA)
Cover Art: Dick Dillin
T.O. MORROW KILLS THE JUSTICE LEAGUE .. TODAY
Script: Gardner Fox
Art: Dick Dillin (Pencils), Sid Greene (Inks), Joe Letterse (Letters)
Characters: Justice League of America [Aquaman [Arthur Curry]; The Atom [Ray Palmer]; Batman [Bruce Wayne]; The Flash [Barry Allen]; Green Arrow [Oliver Queen]; Green Lantern [Hal Jordan]; Hawkman [Katar Hol / Carter Hall]; Superman [Clark Kent / Kal-El]; Wonder Woman [Diana Prince]]; Justice Society of America [Atom [Al Pratt]; Black Canary [Dinah Drake Lance]; Doctor Fate [Kent Nelson]; The Flash [Jay Garrick]; Green Lantern [Alan Scott]; Hawkman [Carter Hall]; Hourman [Rex Tyler]; Mr. Terrific [Terry Sloane]; Sandman [Wesley Dodds]]; Amazo (villain); Snapper Carr (JLA mascot); Crystal Creature (villain, Appellaxian); Doctor Light [Dr. Arthur Light] (villain); Hawkgirl [Shayera Thal / Shiera Hall]; Jean Loring (girlfriend of Green Lantern); Mera (wife of Aquaman); Midge (girlfriend of Snapper Carr); T. O. Morrow (villain); Red Tornado (android); Starro the Conqueror (villain); Super-Duper (villain); Steve Trevor (boyfriend of Wonder Woman)
Synopsis: T. O. Morrow has defeated the Justice Society on Earth-Two as part of his overall plan. He then defeats the Justice League on Earth-One. His scheme involves his supercomputer breaking down the vibrational barriers between universes, which will annihilate both Earths. Red Tornado revives some of the Justice League members, and together they defeat Morrow. He then revives the rest of the Justice League and the Justice Society.
Batman story #1,247
#comics#dc comics#justice league of america#batman#green lantern#aquaman#wonder woman#green arrow#superman#flash#atom#hawkman#dick dillin#gardner fox#sid greene#joe letterse#1968
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did you know every time I type my name into the tags the suggestion is always "aka squid gets emotionally annihilated by alan alda" idk I just thought you should know
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Ren's "similar to Umineko" list! (now overhauled)(You're welcome)
Stuff on here reminds me of Umineko for a variety of reasons. If I add to it, I'll just edit this post and add the date I added it to this list. Separated by genre this time.
Under the read-more, with the "why it reminds me of Umineko" blurb after the title rather than a whole plot synopsis like I had done in the previous list
Feel free to rec stuff in tags or in comments etc. if I haven't read/played/watched it it might be hard for me to add it but I'll definitely add it to my own list of things to check out!
VIDEO GAMES
The House In Fata Morgana - Visual novel, Unreliable narration, witch haunting an illusory mansion for thousands of years, cycles of abuse and trauma, Gothic setting, romance
9 Hours 9 Persons 9 Doors - Visual novel, "The killer is among us" (lol), murder mystery scoping out paranormal/metaphysical elements and twisting them into its own crazy logic, romance
NieR Replicant - It's up to you to find your own happiness whatever that means to you despite the circumstances of the world you're living in or your own birth
Alan Wake - Author creates and infers reality around him, horror setting, unreliable narration, creations rallying against their creator
Alan Wake 2 - see the above, it's the sequel, except Alan Wake 2 is an actual survival horror. I didn't like Alan Wake 1 much but I'm LOVING 2 so far.
The Forgotten City - I haven't played this just saw someone on Twitter say to play it if you like Umineko so I'm trusting their recommendation
Pathologic Classic HD - Questions of morality, wishy-washiness on the reality of the fantastical elements of the town's culture, meta universe shenanigans forcing you to contend with "none of this matters, so why do/should I care?"
Patho 2 can probably go here too but I am playing that at the moment.
ANIMANGA
Naoki Urasawa's Monster - "Why did the culprit do this?" over "Who is the culprit?", murder mystery, cycles of abuse, questions of character identity, the ultimate "victim of circumstances has created the monster" situation
Shiki - Sleepy town being annihilated by an unknown threat, humans doing unspeakable things in the name of justice, the question of the antagonist's morality/justice is brought to the forefront and maybe they were right all along...?
Princess Tutu - Characters who have been created for a story and are living out a narrative sort of against their will, the narrative as a framing device and also a prison, love love love lots of love, the death of the author and what this means for a tale and the characters within it too--if you can only call them characters
I Want To Hold Aono-kun so Badly I Could Die - romantic relationships as a way to combat your personal loneliness, horror and romance and how they intersect...kind of hard to explain this one unless you've finished Umineko but this manga really reads like AU Bato[redacted] to me so far, lots of supernatural elements, learning how to find happiness
TV
Succession - Rich people dealing with their abusive and unpredictable father deciding who will be the successor for the family business and dragging everyone else into it, cycles of literally every sort
MOVIES
Knives Out (2019) - Rich family called to a house to discuss the ailing patriarch's will only for him to be murdered, murder mystery
Haven't seen Glass Onion yet but that too.
Decision To Leave (2022) - Confessions of the unspeakable as acts of love, Another time another place maybe it could have worked, I created myself to love you, tragic romance, the sea as a motif representing character worlds
Memento (2000) - it's up to the watcher to interpret events as they happen and piece them together, the most unreliable narrator of narrators, just go in blind
The Prestige (2006) - Magicians get into a big dick competition and destroy their relationships for the sake of greatness, branches into metaphysical territory for the sake of pursuing magic
House (1977) - Group of girls visit an ancient family home, horror setting, love is always enduring for better or for worse, witches, using other bodies to fulfill your own wish
BOOKS
The Locked Tomb Quartet - Cites Umineko (and 999!) as an inspiration and Muir is a very very referential reader so it's kind of hard to say stuff without spoiling TLT also so honestly just go read it.
Magpie Murders - Murder within a murder
And Then There Were None (duh) - Directly inspired Umineko and the murders within Umineko
The Last Unicorn - Characters acknowledge they are living in a fairy tale, the unicorn is often called the only 'real' one in the group due to her immortality, dream-like narration and fantastical whimsy, ocean representing character strife
House Of Leaves - The metaphysical book of metaphysical books with stories within stories within stories and extremely unconventional formatting, house as a vehicle to tell a horror story
IT - Two stories in different times existing side by side to inform the reader how to read it. I never finished reading this either though sorry </3
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead - metafiction play about characters and the absurdity of their existence, repeating stories, tragedy is only a story and the characters within only exist to tell that story regardless of their own individuality
Wuthering Heights - toxic romance the novel, idk why I didn't have this here yet. Honestly I'm not super big on this book but it's a classic for a reason. Dread, isolated spaces, fucked up romance, ghosts, etc.
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tagged by: @carmybcrzatto tysm, darling! 💝
3 SONGS
Fleetwood Mac - Tusk
Muse - Supermassive Black Hole
Soda Stereo - Persiana Americana
3 BOOKS
A Song of Ice and Fire by George RR Martin (yes, the entire series, I'm cheating)
Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin
Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges
3 MOVIES
Midsommar (dir. Ari Aster)
Annihilation (dir. Alex Garland)
Isle of Dogs (dir. Wes Anderson)
no pressure tags: @revolution-starter @axreliono @roostersrocket @aemondtargaryen @frodo-baggins @maevemills @camiladnne @pedropascalsx @lavendertales @moonlight-prose @agirllovespancakes @mitchi-c @oloreaa @mandaloresson @acourtofsnakes
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Nothing can sum up Keith Giffen’s character better than the Facebook post he wrote to announce his own death at the age of 70: “I told them I was sick … Anything not to go to New York Comic Con. Thanx. Keith Giffen 1952-2023. Bwah ha ha ha ha.”
That eruption of maniacal merriment was recognised by comic fans as a last defiant laugh from the sardonic comic writer and artist, who has died of complications following a stroke, after a 50-year career during which he created many memorable characters including Jaime Reyes (Blue Beetle), Rocket Raccoon, Ambush Bug and Lobo.
A Mexican-American teenager, Reyes first appeared in Infinite Crisis #3 (2006) and became Blue Beetle two issues later, when he gained superhuman powers via a scarab that morphs into an alien battle suit, eventually going on to appear in the 2023 Blue Beetle movie.
One of the stars of the Guardians of the Galaxy movies was created by Giffen early in his artistic career. Rocket Raccoon was a smart-mouthed anthropomorphic weapons expert who first appeared in Marvel Preview #7 (1976), written by Bill Mantlo, who resurrected the character in his own four-part miniseries in 1985.
Among Giffen’s other early creations, Ambush Bug’s debut in DC Comics Presents #52 (1982) and its sequel, which involved the Legion of Substitute Heroes, were so successful that they led to several miniseries and one-shots drawn by Giffen featuring the absurd, fancifully dressed alien wannabe hero, and a one-shot Legion of Substitute Heroes Special (1985).
In 1982 Giffen joined the writer Paul Levitz on The Legion of Super-Heroes #287 and began transforming the series into a saga of considerable depth. One of the most popular storylines in comic book history, The Great Darkness Saga (#290-294, 1982), featured Darkseid as its cosmic villain and Legionnaires and other heroes from across time teaming up to confront him. As a result, Legion of Super-Heroes became one of DC’s bestsellers of the early 1980s.
Lobo, who first appeared in Omega Men #3 (1983), was intended as a parody of violent characters such as Wolverine, but became a poster boy for violence when Giffen teamed up with the writer Alan Grant and artist Simon Bisley for Lobo: The Last Czarnian (1990), which spawned numerous miniseries and specials in which Giffen continually pushed the envelope of acceptability as Lobo battled everyone from Santa Claus to his own children. Combat Christ and the Howlin’ Apostles proved to be DC’s limit.
Giffen was heavily involved in numerous crossover event series, designed, he said, to “significantly alter the status quo or introduce new characters into the status quo”, including Invasion! (1988), the weekly 52 (2006-07) and Countdown to Final Crisis (2007-08) for DC, and Annihilation (2006-07) from Marvel. His creativity and tongue-in-cheek humour earned him a loyal fanbase and he won an Inkpot award in 1991.
The son of Rosa Ann (nee Duncan) and James, a salesman for a textile company, Giffen was born in Queens, New York, but grew up in Little Falls, New Jersey. He was a fan of comics from the age of eight, when his mother handed him a copy of World’s Finest, and especially loved Marvel’s monster books and Gene Colan’s Giant-Man. He began creating his own characters at high school and went on to spend “one abysmal year” at the School of Visual Arts in New York (“the less said about that, the better”).
Apart from a year of night classes at duCret School of Art, New Jersey, Giffen was self-taught, studying books on anatomy and perspective during his four years working as a hazardous materials handler at Hoffmann-La Roche pharmaceuticals. During a week’s holiday he decided to submit samples to comic companies. At Marvel, an artist had dropped out of illustrating a back-up story (The Sword and the Star) for Marvel Preview, and Mantlo, who had spotted Giffen’s portfolio, suggested they give him a try.
Giffen briefly produced layouts for Wally Wood on Justice Society of America for DC’s All Star Comics (1976), but was let go. After a period of selling vacuum cleaners door-to-door and other odd jobs, he tried again, drawing horror stories and Doctor Fate as a back-up strip in The Flash (1982), and working his way up to the Legion of Super-Heroes.
An accusation of “swiping” the work of José Muñoz in Ambush Bug (1985) – Giffen said he “parroted” it, rather than doing an outright copy – derailed his career for a time, until he was offered the chance to plot, and do breakdowns for, Justice League (1987-92) and its spinoff, Justice League Europe (1989-92), working with JM DeMatteis and Kevin Maguire. He also plotted and did breakdowns for Aquaman (1989) and plots for L.E.G.I.O.N. ’89/’90 (1989-90), a superhero group spun off from Invasion.
The range of Giffen’s output over the next 30 years was astonishing. He drew the superhero parodies The Heckler (1992-93) and Punx (1995-96), the return of Justice League International in Justice League: Generation Lost (2010), and episodes of Outsiders (2011), O.M.A.C. (2011-12) and Infinity Man and the Forever People (2014-15). He plotted or wrote full scripts for Eclipso (1992-93), Vext (1999), Suicide Squad (2001-02), a biography of HP Lovecraft (2004), Blue Beetle (2006-07), Midnighter (2007-08), Wetworks (2007-08), Reign in Hell (2008-09), Doom Patrol (2009-11), Booster Gold (2009-11), Magog (2009-10), Justice League 3000 (2014-15) and The New 52: Futures End (2014-15), all for DC; and for Marvel he wrote stories featuring Marvel Monsters: Where Monsters Dwell (2005), Drax the Destroyer (2005-06), Defenders (2005-06), Nick Fury’s Howling Commandos (2005-06) and Annihilation spin-offs Annihilation: Silver Surfer (2006) and Annihilation: Conquest – Starlord (2007).
During the same period he also penned or plotted various comics for Image (1993-94) and Valiant (1994-96), adaptations of Japanese manga, Battle Royale (2003-06) and Battle Vixens (2004-10), for Tokyopop and 10 (2005), Hero Squared (2005-07), Planetary Brigade (2006-07) and others for BOOM! Studios. He was also a storyboard artist for the animated shows Batman Beyond and Static Shock, as well as writing episodes of Ed, Edd n Eddy and Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi for Cartoon Network.
In early 2023 he produced a podcast titled I’m Not Dead Yet, and had recently moved to Tampa in Florida.
He is survived by his children, Kyle and Melinda. His wife, Anna, predeceased him.
🔔 Keith Ian Giffen, artist and writer, born 30 November 1952; died 9 October 2023
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