reread the rest thus far of lackadaisy and there's the both v easy & difficult task of gathering a shit ton but only a shit ton of excerpts (like every single page is a highlight i'm not exaggerating)
and every single element is superlative and the way it all only becomes More So....already mentioned the way the like smooth gradient shading made the successful evocation of 3D Shapes more noticeable, along w/the consistent geometries of character design & details in fabric folds; the way Lighting & Coloring only goes on to become more prominent elements only enhances that further. the compositions, backgrounds, pacing, angles....everything is so dynamic & expressive, such as including the expressions which you know i also Love / absorbed
going "hell yes for people to discover this superlative comic" then having to occasionally refresh past site traffic overloaded server errors like "nooo" but actually yes
whilest clapping & cheering for the fun of everyone who's been here a minute. My God the invigorating reward when again i started reading in '07 & the concept of rocky & freckle on a "proper" run had only manifested via fun official bonus art, then a literal decade later as it was actually happening in the comic like screeeeaammm i can feel it coming in the air tonight oh lord etc....i've loved following it, again, if i see another new comic page. i am going to be Enriched
i also really was right on the ball myself this time around like okay okay yep i have picked up on Everything, at least to the degree i can lmao. i love the mysteries. i love how Character Focused it is too ofc and there's no characters i'm uniterested in / dislike. you gotta point to one of them, truly, and i have been a [pointing at freckle] enjoyer these fifteen years but fr i am a connoisseur of everyone, i love that so many characters are a weird mysterious chaos element story driver in their own right. i considered mordecai more intently than ever, love his like ultra mystery (and that we leave off on him doing some detectiving even) and truly fun that like, the source of the more Immediate problems he keeps having in every damn interaction isn't the like [wow mordecai with the just diving into the hatchet murdering] factor so much as it's that he's generally like "i am just standing here" and is not nt in any way that matters and people insist on fucking with him on that front. the peak tragedy of him in a bonus comic getting bullied into having to dance with someone to Be Polite like i'm so sorry i wish you could be that ficus too. anyways intrigued with the marigold &/or mordecai mysteries including that it's like, how coincidental is it that he talks about marigold having a thorn in its side & the savoys' nickname for him is peekon = thorn. there is so much to consider, love that for us truly. and i'm rooting for mordecai & nicodeme's dynamic out here, is another conclusion....very enriched by comparing & contrasting that serafine nicodeme mordecai triumvirate with the rocky ivy freckle one, to be sure. im enriched
i'm also enriched by every footnote that's got like historical facts / research notes / [this is inaccurate for xyz prioritization but here's the disclaimer] explanations. i Love information. and everything else like i loooove this comic it's Soooo Fucking putting my hands to my temples and inhaling at length through my teeth
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That's a good look, Ivy! And hey, getting the book up there with no hands is a trick itself, right?
"I supposed that's a pretty cool trick itself then! Floating things has to be one of the easiest things you can do with magic. It's one of the first things you learn!"
"So I never really thought of it as anything interesting to look at, If you like that I'm more than happy to float things for you! Hehehe." She gave a cheerful smile before she hummed quietly in thought.
"Oh! And everyone has a unique color of magic, So I guess it could be pretty entertaining to ask magic users to float things for you just to see what their magic color is!"
"Um... Uh... wait. I'm getting distracted again..."
Ivy went silent before cringing, "This brain. It's distracting." She seemed almost distressed for a moment. However, a smile quickly returned to her face, albeit a nervous one.
"Uhm, Well, I guess that's my cue, Sorryyy~ Maybe we can talk more later! I got things I have to do. Unfortunately, I can't stay like this forever I'd drive myself crazy. You knooowww how it is..."
She sighed, "It's exhausting."
-> Asks are closed until further notice, thank you for sending asks!
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"So, who..." "Not going to talk about that." for the Ivy au maybe? 👀
this prompt for this au is absolutely iconic ily ❣️❣️
Ava makes the mistake of heading to the ER's doctor's lounge instead of trekking back up to the CT floor, needing any moment of rest she can steal ten hours into a twelve hour shift. But when she enters the room, Will, Natalie, and April all stop talking, instantly and badly acting like they're focused on random things. Ava rolls her eyes, resisting the urge to tug her lab coat back over her abdomen. "God, you can just ask."
Natalie holds up her hands in a gesture of innocence, and Will grimaces and looks away, but April offers an awkward smile. "Congratulations...?"
"Yes," Ava confirms, the word ending in a hiss of irritation. "I'm pregnant. And I was really hoping I could avoid becoming everyone's business."
"Sorry," Will says sheepishly, rubbing the back of his neck.
"How are you doing?" April asks, a mixture of curiosity and compassion in her eyes. Honestly, Ava doesn't want either.
"I'm alright, just tired," she answers, her gaze drifting away. She sinks down onto the couch, hoping for a moment to close her eyes, but Natalie speaks before she can actually relax.
"So, Ava," she says, lips pursed, clearly going for nonchalance, "who..."
"I'm not going to talk about that," Ava says, a little more sharply than she means. Between the ache between her eyes and the fuss happening around her, she's at the end of a quickly-fraying rope. But her attempt to firmly end the conversation is foiled by Will.
"Nat," he says, not even doing Ava the kindness of actually addressing her, "it's gotta be Connor."
Ava drops her head into her hands-- she's too stressed and tired to argue, and besides, any protest she could make would only make him more certain.
"Wait, Ava, did you sleep with him?" There's an added weight to the couch, telling her Natalie has taken a seat next to her. She doesn't answer, fast regretting inviting this conversation at all.
"Hey," April interjects, "are we maybe crossing a line? Ava, you don't have to talk about it if you don't want to."
"Thank you, April," she sighs. "I don't-- I don't mind people knowing, I just don't want to be everyone's gossip. It feels..." she shudders, picking up her head and running her hands through her hair. "...gross."
She almost regrets her wording at the look on Natalie's face, but really, she can't spare much energy for comforting the other woman, even if her intentions are harmless.
"Hey, sorry," Will offers. "Congratulations. And it's... none of our business."
"Of course not," Nat agrees. "Sorry, Ava. If you need anything, just ask, okay? I'm happy to help."
Ava knows the offer is genuine, but she can't help but feel that she's not sure she knows her well enough to take her up on it. Another thing that's not Natalie's fault; she never really feels like she can connect with people easily, even when there's no reason they shouldn't be her friends. Again, she closes her eyes, too tired to voice any of this. "Thank you, Natalie," she murmurs, her voice almost too quiet for anyone to hear.
"Hey, let's clear out," Will suggests. "I can't even imagine what surgery shifts are like when you're wiped out like this."
"I'll come get you if you're needed for a patient," April promises.
"Good luck, Ava," Natalie says, her hand brushing her shoulder.
Ava makes herself open her eyes to smile gratefully at them. "Thank you."
It's not enough, but it's something.
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Sometimes I wish Heroes in Crisis would have been an anthology series spotlighting a few characters over the course of several issues. Currently I'm leaning towards Hotspot, Lagoon Boy, Roy Harper, either the Protector or Wally West, Poison Ivy, and Raven, but if the miniseries got expanded for some reason, I could add more or maybe just expand some of the ones already getting a spotlight.
But then other times, I wish they had gone with the AI secretly being behind everything, possibly due to integrating prejudices from historical practices that the Trinity didn't fully manage to filter out. But then instead of everyone staying dead, have Wally West briefly regain access to time travel and then go back in time to save everyone and prevent the issue from being able to recur. At the end of the book, the Trinity would be working to change Sanctuary and vet human therapists to keep it from happening again, and maybe we would end with a scene of Barry Allen and Wally West in which Barry is helping Wally to deal with what he saw before.
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The heritage of Serena’s family, specifically the family of her mother’s side, is a long line of powerful trainers and Mega Evolution specialists/masters. Her earliest and most direct ancestor, Celie Aralie, is regarded as the ‘mother of Mega Evolution’, having been the first woman in Kalos to Mega Evolve a pokemon (and being the second person to do so overall), as well as being the one to come up with the idea for the Tower of Mastery. This lineage is associated with being able to bond quickly and deeply with their partner pokemon, an important caveat for Mega Evolution and being a respected trainer overall. They have a deep, innate understanding of pokemon and can connect with them faster than the average person.
The Aralie family hailed from wartorn Kalos, pulling themselves out of death and poverty and focusing on harnessing the power of their bonds with pokemon, which later funneled into Mega Evolution. Serena’s family has lived in Kalos for the past three-thousand years, and Celie’s own children would go on to become the figureheads of the Tower of Mastery following the death of their mother, and later on their father. They worked to preserve the legacy of Mega Evolution and the history, passing on the knowledge to those who proved themselves worthy, just as their parents did.
As time progressed, the Aralie family held strong positions in Kalos, with her ancestors holding some of the first positions in the Elite Four when an actual league was established, and others holding brief titles as Gym Leaders later on as well. Some of the Aralie family opt to work with pokemon in other ways, immersing themselves in the natural habitats to study and learn more about the pokemon that they walked alongside. Others opt to put themselves in more nurturing roles for pokemon, similar to rehabilitation.
The Aralie family, with all the strong trainers they had, still fell back to the Tower of Mastery to uphold it as Celie did. Some focused full-time on Mega Evolution, taking care to tend to the tower and all of its students, while the more battle-adept focused on upholding their positions in the region’s League.
About 500 years ago, part of the Aralie family name turned into the Bellegrade name, and aura prowess became a small staple of the family. On rare occasions, such power skipped a generation, but it was something that was passed on more often than not. The Bellegrades waned slightly as far as interest in Mega Evolution went. Some of them did take up learning the art and perfecting it, while others had entirely different interests like those of the arts, philosophy, and mythology, with many scholars coming from the Bellegrade line. Old philosophical texts and writings along with mythological research with the Bellegrade name on it exist, but are few and far between due to the age of such items.
Mega Evolution as a whole remained a huge interest in the other part of the lineage, with what remained of the Aralie name still tending to the tower and passing on the title of the tower’s master to their children, and so on, even to present day with Gurkinn and his granddaughter, Korrina.
The Bellegrade family name would shift once more into the Beaumont name 500 years after that upon the marriage of Grace’s parents. The Bellegrade name belonged to Grace’s grandmother, who kept her name upon marrying her husband. Grace’s grandmother was the only one in her family to treat her with decency and respect, and was the driving force for Grace to change her last name to Bellegrade when she was able to do so. Grace, while having the potential to be a strong trainer, went the route of a Rhyhorn Racer, while her sister became a top contest star overseas.
And then there was Serena, becoming the first person in her family’s history to become Champion, while further learning and becoming proficient at Mega Evolution on the side. She knows of her heritage as a Bellegrade, but anything regarding the Aralie family is unknown to her.
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