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queensconquest · 2 years

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INSIDE THE MUSES’ MINDSCAPES

Naturally this will be a LONG post , so the descriptions shall be placed under a read more so i don’t take up the entirety of the dash. Essentially however , these are the landscapes of each muse’s mind. Meaning that if you / your muse were to step inside my muse’s mind ( and not just a memory ) , this is the scenery that would greet them. Each muse will be bolded & in caps for theoretically easier looking if you want to find a specific muse’s mindscape , but when in doubt, ctrl + f also works to navigate. I didn’t do any of my request muses, but if you’d like to see theirs, you’re welcomed to say for me to in my ask and I will! Or if you’re also curious about why a muse’s mindscape is how it is, I can elaborate there too!

Please enjoy and thank you for reading any of the ones you do, I hope you like them!

HORN SKULD - Stepping into her mind is stepping into a medieval-esque garden. There are rows of shrubs and carefully tended plants, flowers always in their prime and a beautiful fountain in the middle of the garden area that beckons for one to sit. There is a calm elegance to it that is refreshing to the soul. Birds sing in the flowering trees somewhere and the temperature is neither too hot nor is it too cold, but the perfect temperature with a gentle breeze every now and again. You feel content here.

BYAKKOMARU - It is a location that the demon himself is not entirely sure where it came from (in truth it came from forgotten memories of his life as a human). Sunlight fills a perfect spot near a crystal clear river that soon turns into a waterfall. Peering over the cliff edge reveals a hidden city below. It’s name does not come to mind, yet the heart knows the necessity to protect it. Or at least what is inside it; those that hold value to the tiger. It is a sanctuary and a safe place that he will not allow any threat to enter, because to access it you must cross the demon himself. A fierce protectiveness burns in your chest.

BASTEYA IRCLU - Rather than a stagnant location, Basteya’s main space is that of a Great Western Railway Hall class locomotive in the passenger cars. There’s no one else on board, yet whenever one wants for something, it is there. But rarely is focus within the comfortable passenger train. The focus is outside, which often displays various places that Basteya has been and where he wishes to go again or is frequently thinking about. However, when accessing his memories, the outside of the train turns from landscapes to ‘ previews ‘ of the memories till it stops at where he wants. It makes you want to travel and explore.

CHROLLO LUCILFER - Chrollo’s shifts a bit from time to time. But often his landscape is foggy. Sometimes one will find themselves outside on a path that leads deeper into the fog. One may occasionally pass through gardens or graveyards on the way through the winding path, or even occasionally through the streets. Other times, one may find themselves standing atop towering buildings gazing at the city lights below shining through the dreary weather, idly watching. The other occasional place is a gothic cathedral with ornate stained glass windows and rows of empty pews. Outside of the fog obscures the rest of the world, and somewhere music occasionally drifts softly. The wood creaks in greeting if you sit down. Yet no matter what place you find yourself at, there’s always the sensation that there’s something you need to find, something that slips through your fingers. A vague sense that you are something else in this landscape, a wandering ghost that never quite can settle.

KALLUTO ZOLDYCK - His shifts and changes with age and moments. Often, it is like standing atop black water. It is dark above and dark below, but you never fall nor get wet. Each step however sends ripples across an invisible surface. Sometimes there is an item or figure in the distance ; most often Kikyo or Illumi ( and later the Troupe) and sometimes there’s a cherry blossom tree nearby, petals fluttering around gently in an unfelt breeze. Climbing up the tree offers safety, and climbing to the top reveals a beautiful star riddled sky full of endless possibilities. But do not look behind you from where you appear, or the shadows might latch on and threaten to drag you down.

SUWA - The first thing that registers is how cold it is inside his mind. It is a frigid cold and there’s a sense of heaviness in the air, like a weight pressed down on one’s shoulders. A glance around reveals a person standing up to the top of their ankles in blood extending as far as the eye can see — which isn’t far because of how dark it is. A pitch black darkness that surrounds everything, other than for a single white star high above like light seen from the bottom of the well. But no amount of reaching or walking every brings it closer. Wandering around only brings more horrors from piles of corpses to items floating on the surface of the blood like a hairpin or ruined stuffed animal rabbit. And somewhere deep inside there’s something roaring and chains straining - but nothing ever comes beyond the increasing feeling that you should not be here.

LUCIFER - Fittingly the most celestial appearance of all the mindscapes. Here one is surrounded by dazzling displays of the universe, of galaxies and nebulas. Here one is neither floating nor standing, but existing with everything wrapped around you and an ability to contort and shift the space into whatever one wishes for it to be. There is endless possibilities and no restrictions in this space. Only the freedom to do as one wills. Occasionally the space may take a specific scene if it is willed, but often it is beautifully abstract, where stardust spills through fingertips. It is an overwhelmingly inspiring and freeing spot to be. You feel invigorated.

FENRIR - It is a snowy landscape with harsh winds that threaten to knock one over. But no matter where one turns, there is nowhere and nothing in sight, but there’s only a sense of resignation to this fact. Around the clearing are tall pine trees covered and snow, and every now and again there is the sound of his mother singing. But the cold hurts. It makes all the scars on the body ache, and a chain keeps coiling itself around your ankle no matter how many times you unwrap it and throw it away. If one walks far enough, they may eventually stumble upon a cave, and going inside there it is a fire to help warm your fingers, but it is fueled by hatred. It is not hard to fuel when the gods faces are carved into the wall and makes the hate twist inside your chest.

STHENO - It’s a rough, jagged cliffside where lightening flashes through the sky and it rains. Danger is never far from each step that one takes while navigating the perilous landscape, although there are a few spots of safety that one can settle down in comfortably. But even then, dangerous is not so far removed as to be forgotten. Here there’s nothing that offers comfort, but your heart beats in rhythm with the storm. In the distance you can see water tornados reaching from the black clouds to the raging ocean. Anger bleeds into the air and you can feel it trying to wrap around you.

RUFUS LOHR - Opening your eyes here reveals a sprawling library unfolding before your eyes. It extends forever as far as you can see, consisting of multiple levels and filled to the brim with various books. From where you stand on the top layer, you can see the the floors below. Books shuffle and move here and there, pens write in blank pages by an unseen force, and sunlight filters into the warm oak rows. It’s peaceful and enchanting. If you walked away from this main platform, you think you could happily be lost among the rows and rows of books. Stars are painted onto the high ceilings to mimic the night sky and every now and then there’s a gentle recitation of a poem from an unknown speaker who’s voice is always perfect for the piece. It brings out the inner bookworm.

JACKAL - Open landscapes of the savanna lay sprawling out around everywhere, but ruins jut out from the ground here and there. In the distance smoke trails from an unseen source of destruction, and the scent carries. But it is not suffocating- rather it is an almost comfort. There is a need to move , to do something. Sometimes a figure appears, encourage mischief or chaos, the hunt. After a long day, the warm sun and sound of grass blowing is rather relaxing.

LING WEN - It is a small house, nothing elaborate or extravagant. And yet, it is clearly loved. There are poems written on napkins and small sheets of papers, stories in the works with half-filled journals, and books with pages well worn. High quality inks and papers lay waiting next to a fire that chases away the cold. Outside, winter blizzards blow and howl angrily, refusing to let anyone dare to come close to the lone house. But none of those harsh winds or heavy snows threaten the sanctity of the home. It is calm and quiet other than the crackling of the fire in the fireplace. At will, music may start but otherwise, it remains calm and undisturbed. It is cozy, a place full of passion that remains hidden from the rest of the world. After all, the weight of work demands priority. Yet this dust-free abode of the place indicates a still thriving passion in this harsh existence.

HE XUAN - Most often, it is unsurprising to find themselves underwater within his mind. Yet there is no struggle to breath, no panic. Nothing but a sense of steady calm and the gentle sound of the waves above and fish of thoughts swimming around. At times, one may sit on the sandy shores and simply observe the dark skies- but if they’re clouds or the night sky is hard to tell. At least until feelings of pain or anger surge forth and the waves crash against you over and over again, dragging you into turbulent waters while thunder echoes in your ears. Down to the dark parts of the ocean, no matter how you fight the shadows tug and age old wounds bleed. But, sometimes it is you who flees into the shadows that hold you close and mute the noise of the world away. The ocean does not like to give up what it holds. Not even you.

THOTH - When one opens their eyes, they will find themselves staring down into a bright blue pond in a verdant oasis in the middle of the desert. Yet it is not the sun in the sky but a bright and full moon that is closer than it is in real life. It bathes everything in a soft, silver light and you can’t help but to sit down and enjoy the moment. Ibis stand at the edges of the water but they neither bother nor are bothered by your presence. A small temple stands a short distance away, visibly full of books and scrolls and the soft glow of lanterns. If you go there, you will find answers. But for now you just enjoy the moment.

SEKHMET - It is a dangerous feat to try to enter into her mind. Depending on what part of her is in control, the landscape can drastically differ. When she is slaughtering for Ra or the pharaohs, rivers of blood pour through the desert valleys. The skies bleed red and orange and vultures circle high above the battlefield. It smells of death and slaughter, and war drums pound somewhere in the distance, urging to continue the bloody feast and to devour meat and wine. Sometimes one is standing in the sand, other times one stands at the city walls, ready for the slaughter. Other times, the scenery is drastically different. Lighting fills the temples, and songs fill the air before a table of meats and red alcohols. Sometimes people appear to tell and act out stories before her. Another section of the temple is full of medical herbs and a calming atmosphere few often attribute to the goddess. There are also many sealed boxes. Instinctively, you know you should not touch them.

NAGARE HISUI - His space resembles that out of the sci-fi genre. Screens full of information and data points, games, lists to do. Many of the screens are green or blue, and all appear before a gigantic tree that resembles that of the JUNGLE clan’s symbol. The tree is taller than you can see the top of, and one feels like a baby ant next to it. But luckily it is distant so as to not be too overwhelming. Turning around however reveals the small room of the JUNGLE headquarters main area that is the same here as it is in life. Often those close to him are present, offering him insight. On very rare occasions however, this scenery may be traded for sitting atop the rooftop of Mihashira Tower at night, while all the city below is alive and vibrant with colors and nightlife. It summons a feeling of change and optimism for the future - a desire for change.

YUKARI MISHAKUJI - For the fascination of the beauty angel in vivid beauty, his mind is quite calm. Often the place most commonly depicted is a stone bench in a japanese garden in blossom. A mini-waterfall trickles softly over the rocks, and vibrant colored koi fish swim in the water with elegant grace. A tea set sits at a table, ready to be poured, and a set of calligraphy brushes and fresh paper sit in an elegant gold and black box to the side. Often the sounds of guqin and/or flute music fill the air alongside the sound of birds. Sometimes there are guests, sometimes it is just him. It’s a peaceful, beautiful space with the skies painted pink and purples with the setting suns and the stars just starting to shine. On a rare occasion, this may be traded for relaxing on a boat drifting through a river of memories under a starry sky. It is always so beautiful and it hurts to look away.

AARAVOS - Rather surprisingly, his mindscape is not somewhere new or historic or fantastical or abstract. It’s almost an exact replica of his prison within the mirror. He does not mind it. Here there are books and places to wander, there is chess and a fireplace and comfort to relax in. The only difference is an apple tree in one corner of the room, towering and full of gold-colored apples he occasionally plucks. He doesn’t need to escape or alter anything from reality or his mind. Yet even should he one day escape from his current prison, his mind will likely still choose to host the scenery of that familiar space. It is more of a home than any other place he has lingered.

#so many tags about to happen lmao #〉secret pieces of lost information〈 — ❁ ⌜horn headcanon⌟#〉intentions hidden in the past〈 — ⚠ ⌜byakkomaru headcanon⌟#〉in assumed death all is destroyed〈 — ◈ ⌜basteya headcanon⌟#〉a history as blank as a journal〈 — ᛭ ⌜chrollo headcanon⌟#〉ungathered information abandoned〈 — ✘ ⌜kalluto headcanon⌟#〉this isnt life its living death〈 — † ⌜suwa headcanon⌟#〉burned pages of god’s word〈 — ♚ ⌜lucifer headcanon⌟#〉stories recorded in shades〈 — ❀ ⌜yukari headcanon⌟#〉lost data on a king〈 — ϟ ⌜nagare headcanon⌟#〉information hidden in the book of thoth〈 — 𓅝 ⌜thoth headcanon⌟#〉learn from ancient errors〈 — 𓃬 ⌜sekhmet headcanon⌟#〉truth among the rumors〈 — ✒ ⌜ling wen headcanon⌟#〉ugly facts of a fate torn apart〈 — ≋ ⌜he xuan headcanon⌟#〉secrets kept buried in darkness〈 — ⛬ ⌜fenrir headcanon⌟#〉the stories are wrong this is truth〈 — § ⌜stheno headcanon⌟#〉what history lies beyond appearances〈 — ⚜ ⌜rufus headcanon⌟#〉stories of the jackal demon〈 — ❖ ⌜jackal headcanon⌟

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jasonmartian · 1 month

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It's Monday, which means another prompt from Animal Alphabets and this week J is for "Journal", so I sketched a quick Jackal Journaling.

What would be a great journal entry from a jackal?

#KidLitArt #Jackal #Journal

#dailydoodle #daily doodle #kidlitart #Jackal #Journal

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wolfishanatomy · 2 years

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#canine anatomy #bones #taxidermy #lycanthropy #poetry #journal #journal writing #canines #jackal #writing #wolfishanatomy

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scarletspider2the2ndpower · 2 years

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“The Osborn Journals,” Spider-Man: The Osborn Journal, (Vol. 1/1997), #1.

Writer: Glenn Greenberg; Penciler and Inker: Kyle Hotz; Inkers: Jason Moore and Al Milgrom; Colorist: Mark Bernardo; Letterer: Richard Starkings

#Marvel #Marvel comics #Marvel 616 #Spider-Man: The Osborn Journal #Cover Gallery #I don’t think I’ll /ever/ be over how Marvel editorial was so desperate for an out of the Clone Saga debacle that they basically #*spins wheel* “so uuuuh the person who’s REALLY behind the clones is not the Jackal not Scrier not Traveller but uuuuuuh #this one villain who’s been dead for 20 years of publication but don’t worry we’ll find a way to resurrect him”#cracks me up every time

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king-gob · 10 months

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Ben Reilly Reading Order

A friend asked me for a reading order for Ben Reilly/Scarlet Spider, and it turns out that is easier (MUCH easier) said than done.

Four and a half hours later, here it is. I figured I’d share it here as well, for anyone who might want it.

ORIGINAL CLONE SAGA Amazing Spider-Man #139-151

CLONE SAGA PRELUDES "Shrieking" - Amazing Spider-Man #390-393 "Live and Let Die" - Web of Spider-Man #113-116 "Beware the Rage of a Desperate Man" - Spider-Man #46-49 "The Predator and the Prey" - Spectacular Spider-Man #215-216 "Son of the Hunter" - Spider-Man #50

CLONE SAGA: ACT I (OF III) "Power and Responsibility/The Double" - Web of Spider-Man #117 - Amazing Spider-Man #394 - Spider-Man #51 - Spectacular Spider-Man #217 "The Exile Returns: Part One" - Web of Spider-Man #118 - Spider-Man #52 "Back from the Edge: Part One" - Amazing Spider-Man #395 - Spectacular Spider-Man #218 "Second-Rate Choices" - Spider-Man Unlimited #7 "The Exile Returns: Part Two" - Web of Spider-Man #119 - Spider-Man #53 "Back from the Edge: Part Two" - Amazing Spider-Man #396 - Spectacular Spider-Man #219 DETOUR: "Separation Anxiety" - Venom: Separation Anxiety #1-4 "Web of Life/Web of Death" - Web of Spider-Man #120 - Amazing Spider-Man #397 - Spider-Man #54 - Spectacular Spider-Man #220 - Amazing Spider-Man #398 - Web of Spider-Man #121 - Spider-Man #55 - Spectacular Spider-Man #221 "Behind the Terror" - Spider-Man Unlimited #8 "Funeral for an Octopus" - Spider-Man: Funeral for an Octopus #1-3 "Smoke and Mirrors" - Web of Spider-Man #122 - Amazing Spider-Man #399 - Spider-Man #56 "Puppet" - Spider-Man: The Clone Journal #1 "Players and Pawns" - Spectacular Spider-Man #222 - Web of Spider-Man #123 - Amazing Spider-Man #400 (Also Part 1 of "The Parker Legacy")

CLONE SAGA: ACT I (ACT II) (OF III) "Aftershocks/The Parker Legacy" - Spider-Man #57 - Spectacular Spider-Man #223 DETOUR: "Carnage Unleashed" - Venom: Carnage Unleashed #1-4 "The Mark of Kaine" - Web of Spider-Man #124 - Amazing Spider-Man #401 - Spider-Man #58 - Spectacular Spider-Man #224 - Spider-Man Unlimited #9 DETOUR: New Warriors #59-60 "Lives Unlived" - Web of Spider-Man #125 "Crossfire" - Amazing Spider-Man #402 - Spider-Man #59 - Spectacular Spider-Man #225 DETOUR: Spider-Man 2099 Meets Spider-Man #1 "The Trial of Peter Parker" - Web of Spider-Man #126 - Amazing Spider-Man #403 - Spider-Man #60 - Spectacular Spider-Man #226 "Planet of the Symbiotes" NOTE: If you read this (and you should), you should also read the Venom detours above. - Amazing Spider-Man Super Special #1 - Spider-Man Super Special #1 - Venom Super Special #1 - Spectacular Spider-Man Super Special #1 - Web of Spider-Man Super Special #1 "The Lost Years" - Spider-Man: The Lost Years #1-3 NOTE: There is an issue #0 but it's all reprints of stuff earlier in this list.

CLONE SAGA: ACT II (OF III) "The Jackal Files" - Spider-Man: The Jackal Files #1 "Maximum Clonage" - New Warriors #61 - Maximum Clonage Alpha #1 - Web of Spider-Man #127 - Amazing Spider-Man #404 - Spider-Man #61 - Spectacular Spider-Man #227 - Maximum Clonage Omega #1 "Exiled" - Web of Spider-Man #128 - Amazing Spider-Man #405 - Spider-Man #62 - Spider-Man Unlimited #10 DETOUR: At this point, Ben joins the New Warriors. He will be involved with them until issue #71, four issues before the end of the volume. The Maximum Clonage prelude in issue #61 is the only one that really matters for the Clone Saga so read those or don't, depending on how comprehensive you want to go and/or how much you enjoy New Warriors. - New Warriors #62-71 "Time Bomb" - Spectacular Spider-Man #228 - Web of Spider-Man #129 "The Greatest Responsibility" - Amazing Spider-Man #406 - Spider-Man #63 - Spectacular Spider-Man #229 "The Parker Years" - Spider-Man: The Parker Years" DETOUR: Spider-Man Team-Up #1-5

CLONE SAGA: ACT III (OF III) "You Say You Want an Evolution" - Scarlet Spider Unlimited #1 "Virtual Mortality" - Web of Scarlet Spider #1 - Amazing Scarlet Spider #1 - Scarlet Spider #1 - Spectacular Scarlet Spider #1 "Cyberwar Part One" - Web of Scarlet Spider #2 - Amazing Scarlet Spider #2 INTERLUDE: Green Goblin #1-3 "Cyberwar Part Two" - Scarlet Spider #2 - Spectacular Scarlet Spider #2 NOTE: The next several issues aren't a "story arc" in a traditional sense, but just follow Ben settling in as the One-And-Only Spider-Man. - Sensational Spider-Man #0 - Amazing Spider-Man Annual 1996 - Spider-Man Holiday Special 1995 - Amazing Spider-Man #407 - Spider-Man #64 - Spectacular Spider-Man #230 - Spider-Man Unlimited #11 "Nightmare in Scarlet!" - Web of Scarlet Spider #3 - New Warriors #67 - Web of Scarlet Spider #4 "Family Plot" - Spider-Man/Punisher: Family Plot #1-2 "The Final Adventure" - Spider-Man: The Final Adventure #1-4

CLONE SAGA: ACT IV (OF III) "Media Blizzard" - Sensational Spider-Man #1 - Amazing Spider-Man #408 - Spider-Man #65 "The Return of Kaine" - Spectacular Spider-Man #231 - Sensational Spider-Man #2 - Amazing Spider-Man #409 - Spider-Man #66 "A Show of Force" - Spectacular Spider-Man #232 "Web of Carnage" - Sensational Spider-Man #3 - Amazing Spider-Man #410 - Spider-Man #67 - Spectacular Spider-Man #233

CLONE SAGA: ACT IV (ACT II) (OF III) "Blood Brothers" - Sensational Spider-Man #4 - Amazing Spider-Man #411 - Spider-Man #68 - Spectacular Spider-Man #234 - Sensational Spider-Man #5 - Amazing Spider-Man #412 "It Begins with a Bang Not a Whimper" - Spider-Man #69 DETOUR: Venom: The Hunted #1-3 "Who Did Spider-Man Murder?" - Spider-Man Unlimited #12 NOTE: The following issues follow a loose storyline of Ben fighting villains while Peter slowly becomes sick. - Spectacular Spider-Man #235 - Daredevil #354 - Sensational Spider-Man #6 - Amazing Spider-Man #413 - Spider-Man #70 - Spectacular Spider-Man #236 - Sensational Spider-Man #7 - Amazing Spider-Man #414 - Spider-Man #71 - Spectacular Spider-Man #237 "Redemption" - Spider-Man: Redemption #1-4

CLONE SAGA: ACT IV (ACT III) (OF III) "Onslaught Impact" - Amazing Spider-Man #415 - Spider-Man #72 NOTE: Some more filler. Editorial problems at this time caused the Clone Saga to majorly stall out. - Spider-Man Unlimited #13 - Sensational Spider-Man #8 - Spectacular Spider-Man #238 - Sensational Spider-Man #9 - Amazing Spider-Man #416 - Spider-Man #73 - Spectacular Spider-Man #239 - Sensational Spider-Man #10 - Amazing Spider-Man #417 - Spider-Man #74 - Green Goblin #13 (end of this run; Ben is there) - Spider-Man Unlimited #14 "Revelations" - Spectacular Spider-Man #240 - Sensational Spider-Man #11 - Amazing Spider-Man #418 - Peter Parker: Spider-Man #75 (title change from adjectiveless SM)

CLONE SAGA: EPILOGUE - Spider-Man: The Osborn Journals #1 - Spider-Man: 101 Ways to End the Clone Saga #1

POST-REVELATIONS "Who Was Ben Reilly?" - Amazing Spider-Man Annual #36 - Amazing Spider-Man #608-610 "Scarlet Spiders" (Spider-Verse tie-in) - Scarlet Spiders #1-3

THE CLONE CONSPIRACY - Amazing Spider-Man Vol 4 #16-18 - Captain America FCBD 2016 (B story) - Amazing Spider-Man Vol 4 #19 - Clone Conspiracy #1 - Amazing Spider-Man Vol 4 #20 - Clone Conspiracy #2 - Amazing Spider-Man Vol 4 #21 - Clone Conspiracy #3 - Amazing Spider-Man Vol 4 #22 - Clone Conspiracy #4 - Amazing Spider-Man Vol 4 #23 - Clone Conspiracy #5 - Amazing Spider-Man Vol 4 #24 - Clone Conspiracy: Omega

BEN REILLY: SCARLET SPIDER "Back in the Hood" - Ben Reilly: Scarlet Spider #1-6 DETOUR: Secret Empire "Death's Sting" - Ben Reilly: Scarlet Spider #7-9 "The Slingers Return" - Ben Reilly: Scarlet Spider #10-13 "Bad to the Bone" - Ben Reilly: Scarlet Spider #14

DAMNATION - Doctor Strange: Damnation #1 - Doctor Strange #386 - Doctor Strange: Damnation #2 - Doctor Strange #387 - Ben Reilly: Scarlet Spider #15 - Doctor Strange: Damnation #3 - Ben Reilly: Scarlet Spider #16 - Damnation: Johnny Blaze, Ghost Rider #1 - Doctor Strange #388 - Iron Fist #78-80 - Ben Reilly: Scarlet Spider #17 - Doctor Strange: Damnation #4 - Doctor Strange #389

BEN REILLY: SCARLET SPIDER (ACT II) "Untitled Mysertio Arc" - Ben Reilly: Scarlet Spider #18-19 "Deal with the Devil" - Ben Reilly: Scarlet Spider #20-25

SPIDER-GEDDON - Edge of Spider-Geddon #1-4 - Spider-Geddon #0 - Superior Octopus #1 - Spider-Geddon #1 - Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man #311-312 - Spider-Geddon #2 - Spider-Girls #1 - Spider-Gwen: Ghost Spider #1 - Spider-Force #1 - Vault of Spiders #1 - Spider-Geddon #3 - Vault of Spiders #2 - Spider-Force #2-3 - Spider-Geddon #4 - Spider-Gwen: Ghost Spider #2 - Spider-Girls #2-3 - Spider-Gwen: Ghost Spider #3 - Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man #313 - Spider-Geddon #5 - Spider-Gwen: Ghost Spider #4

DETOUR: BATTLE FOR THE SERPENT CROWN NOTE: Cameo from Ben in this Conan team-up book. - Conan: Battle for the Serpent Crown #1-5

DETOUR: IRON MAN BY CHRISTOPHER CANTWELL NOTE: Ben is one of Tony's "Space Friends" that join him in his crusade against Korvac. He drops out of the book around issue #19, when the group disbands. - Iron Man Vol 6 #1-19

SPIDER-MAN: BEYOND - Amazing Spider-Man #75-78 - Amazing Spider-Man #78.BEY - Amazing Spider-Man #79-80 - Amazing Spider-Man #80.BEY - Amazing Spider-Man #81-85 - Devil’s Reign – Spider-Man #1 - Amazing Spider-Man #86-87 - Mary Jane & Black Cat: Beyond #1 - Amazing Spider-Man #88 - Amazing Spider-Man #88.BEY - Amazing Spider-Man #89-92 - Amazing Spider-Man #92.BEY - Amazing Spider-Man #93

DARK WEB DETOUR: Hellions #1-18 DETOUR: New Mutants #25-28 NOTE: These detours will set up the Madelyne Pryor half of the Dark Web scheme. Completely optional for the purposes of this list, but recommended (They are good!) - Spider-Man/Venom: FCBD 2022 - Amazing Spider-Man Vol 6 #14 - Dark Web #1 - Amazing Spider-Man Vol 6 #15-17 - Dark Web: X-Men #1-3 - Amazing Spider-Man Vol 6 #18 - Dark Web: Finale #1 NOTE: I would read Hallows' Eve, as that book is about to circle around back into ASM for Ben plotlines. Might be a good idea to watch the upcoming Dark X-Men, as well.

#comics #spider-man #scarlet spider #ben reilly #marvel #m #I hope this helps you guys because I worked really hard on it lol

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see-arcane-scribbles · 2 years

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Extremely belated October 3rd thought:

What if they had a witness? Just some pedestrian, a shopkeeper, maybe a neighbor. Minding their own business when suddenly,

CRASH!

Some aristo in a black suit throws himself out of that big old house’s window. He pauses in the yard to shake his fist at the place.

"You think to baffle me, you—with your pale faces all in a row, like sheep in a butcher's. You shall be sorry yet, each one of you! You think you have left me without a place to rest; but I have more. My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side. Your girls that you all love are mine already; and through them you and others shall yet be mine—my creatures, to do my bidding and to be my jackals when I want to feed—"

He seems to have a good monologue going until some guy with white hair, a face full of murder, and a giant knife in his teeth comes scuttling out of the window like the world’s biggest and most pissed off spider.

“Bah!” says Goth Aristo before sprinting away, locking the gate, and…turning into mist? Is that a bat in there?? What???

White-haired Knife Man is forlorn at not getting to do any stabbing and goes sadly back to his friends who have also come out of the building, likewise armed and covered in garlic flowers and crosses. There, there buddy, we’ll skin him next time :)

The witness decides they’re not touching any of that, thanks.

But the newspaper is right there...

Fast-forward to the future, post-novel, and our heroes finally have time to catch up on the latest news—

PARANORMAL PERIL IN PICCADILLY!

WITNESS REPORTS THE HARROWING BATTLE OF A BAT-MAN AND SPIDER-GHOUL IN OUR VERY STREETS!

(In true Clark Kent fashion, Jonathan the White-haired Prettyboy is never singled out. He is a different man in Murder Mode, and the default sweetheart solicitor couldn’t speak harshly to a plant let alone attempt to slaughter a vampire in the street, ha ha)

((Mina still keeps one copy pasted in her journal and another framed on the mantel.))

#really if there had been any loose-lipped witnesses around while Dracula and our heroes were at work #it'd be a perfect opening to a whole other gothic horror story #just imagine what the groundskeeper would have thought spotting the Bloofer Lady and the boys that night...#dracula #jonathan harker #quincey morris #arthur holmwood #jack seward #abraham van helsing #mina harker #dracula daily

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samasmith23 · 6 months

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The Retconning of Aunt May's death from Amazing Spider-Man #400... aka, screw John Byrne!

Wanna know something else we can criticize John Byrne for aside from his general creepiness and bigotry? He undid Aunt May’s death in the beautifully written Amazing Spider-Man (1963) #400, "The Gift," aka one of the best stories to come out of the entire infamous Clone Saga era.

Like... when Linkara reviewed the Web of Death storyline, one particular complaint he brought up was how all of the all the beautiful & emotional moments between Peter Parker and comatose Aunt May were severely undermined in hindsight due to the later retcon that this wasn't actually May Parker, but instead an highly-skilled actress whom Norman Osborn replaced Aunt May with after her stroke and made resemble Peter's aunt through cloning technology.

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And the person who was responsible for this controversial retcon? None other than John Byrne!

Byrne apparently refused to even initiate his divisive 1999 Chapter One and The Next Chapter reboots of the Spider-Man titles unless he was allowed to utilize Aunt May as a member of Peter's supporting cast. Consequently, this meant completely retconning Aunt May's lovely and tragic send-off by J.M. DeMatteis & Mark Bagley in ASM #400, even though that issue was highly regarded and celebrated by even the most hardened detractors of The Clone Saga era as a whole.

And you know what made the retconning of Aunt May's death even more stupid? It directly contradicted Norman Osborn's own recounting of The Clone Saga from his perspective in The Osborn Journal one-shot after he was revealed to be the true mastermind behind the whole saga. Writer & editor Glenn Greenberg specifically made sure to include these passages from Norman's private journals:

-"And as luck would have it, the clone -- Reilly -- learned of May Parker's stroke and returned to New York to be near her during her final days. This saved me the trouble of concocting some elaborate scheme to lure him back to the city."

-"Then the old woman finally died, delivering a major emotional blow to Parker and his wife. My only regret is that I was NOT the cause."

Yup, Greenberg wanted to make sure that DeMatteis' brilliant work from ASM #400 wouldn't be undone by having Norman himself state in his private journals that May's death was strictly due to natural causes instead of another part of his behind-the-scene's manipulations. Which makes sense considering that the entire issue was dedicated to Peter & Aunt May's final days together as she revealed to her nephew that she had always known he was Spider-Man and was deeply proud of him before passing away in her bed right besides Peter, Mary Jane & Aunt Anna, with Peter's final words to his surrogate mother-figure being him quoting his favorite childhood novel Peter Pan to her, telling Aunt May:

"Let go. Fly. 'Second to the right... and straight on until morning.'"

Its honestly one of the most simultaneously heartbreaking & beautiful scenes that I've personally ever read in a comic. The silent panels of Ben Reilly crying to himself on the roof of the house, unable to be by his Aunt's side during her final moments since he's only a clone of her nephew, especially tug at my heartstrings (poor Benjy)! And its an issue that resonates with me even more deeply today than back when I initially read it a few years ago, since I now know what it feels like to lose a dearly beloved relative, with both my paternal grandmother (Nana) and maternal grandfather (Paps) having since passed away.

But then John Byrne decided in his infinite wisdom to screw it all up, ignoring all of that emotional weight and feelings of down-to-Earth loss by not only revealing that the Aunt May Peter watched die was actually just a random actress whom Norman Osborn "genetically modified via the Jackal’s cloning technology" (which again… makes ZERO sense), but that Osborn apparently now lied in his own personal diaries or something?

So yeah, the resurrection of Aunt May by John Byrne during the Spider-Man: The Gathering of Five/The Final Chapter arcs is easily one of the most insulting retcons that I've ever encountered since it spits in the face of one of the most beautifully written single-issues that I've personally ever read (both because of how it personally resonates with me as someone who's lost two grandparents, and because is J.M. DeMatteis is among my Top 5 favorite comic book writers).

But trust me, this is the LEAST of John Byrne's problems, which fellow comic creator Ramon Villalobos made an excellent thread discussing in detail if you want further information:

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bokutosmochi · 2 years

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random hinata shoyo headcannons

what's it? general

allergen warning/s? n/a

sugar level? 0.6k

regulars? @hanayanetwork

♧ once added >///< to one of his tweets on his private twitter. kageyama screenshotted it and sent it to the karasuno boy's volleyball gc. they will never let him live it down.

♧ smells really warm, like cinnamon. sometimes cinnamon apples. it's funny because he doesn't even like those. he doesn't hate them, but he doesn't like it either. he simply enjoys their scent.

♧ is so so bad at taking care of plants. he first got the idea of getting some plants after seeing them on tiktok all arranged in a lovely way, brightening up even the most dull rooms and hinata being himself bought a whole load of plants that caught his eye only for them to die one by one. he did everything he could, fertilizer, more water, less water, different types of soil, more sun, less sun, different genres of music - he even sang to one of them - only for them to wilt regardless.

♧ definitely sings while bathing. you cannot convince me otherwise. he does.

♧ likes lollipops. he's very aware that it's horrible for his diet, it's really just sugar and unhealthiness on a stick, but he can't help it. his favorite are cola flavored lollipops, followed by really milky strawberry or chocolate ones.

♧ summer is his favorite time of the year. he likes wearing sleeveless shirts, not only because they show off his arms, but also because it exposes more of his skin to the sun and he's fond of how sunshine feels on him. plus, there's also an increase in the number of people playing beach volleyball.

♧ i'm sorry, but he 100% has unironically had a live, laugh, love frame hanging in his room at some point during his high school days. one time, he let the karasuno volleyball team into his room and they quickly spotted it. tsukishima, kageyama, nishinoya, and tanaka were quick to tease him about it, and sugawara and daichi were quick to shut it down. hinata couldn't be happier about their presence at that very moment. still very embarrassed though, especially when he reunites with tobio in japan and he asks him about it -- whether he still has it or not.

♧ has a habit of trying different flavors of ramune and he always keeps the bottles. he thinks it's all too cute to get rid of.

♧ holds on to things when he sleeps, whether that's a loose grip on his pillow, a stuffed toy, a blanket, his significant other, hell, even his clothing. he just finds it impossible not to do it in his unconscious state.

♧ wants to join tv shows like american ninja warrior -- after all, he is ninja shoyo.

♧ tried to keep a dream journal and update it regularly, but at some point, he just forgot to use it.

♧ the pride and joy of msby black jackals whenever they go to a bar to celebrate a win and it's open mic night. he gets lost in the song he's singing but still manages to put on a performing of a lifetime, drunk and all.

♧ sketches random shit a lot. like his notebooks back in high school and middle school were literally just sketchbooks. no notes from class, only random doodles of random things.

♧ likes buying those scented colored gel pens, but he always forgets to use them.

♧ doesn't wake up at five o'clock in the morning to go jogging because he needs to exercise for his job. he wakes up at five o'clock in the morning to go jogging because he enjoys it.

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banjohymns · 5 months

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How about some fun little facts on Cain?

he used to keep journals of all the important things he's felt/experienced so he wouldn't forget them, since his memory is only as good as a mortal's, yet his body continues to live well past that. he lost the journals but doesn't know what happened to them or remember even keeping them...

he's a very good artist. he likes to doodle wildlife especially but has probably also drawn judas countless times but will never show him.

he sneezes when he has...certain thoughts. it's canon now 💀

he has deuteranomaly colorblindness (green weak)

he really doesn't like magic or occult things, since he strives to live a very low-key, relatively normal, comfortably boring life lol. despite the fact that his wife is a very powerful witch. he respects it though.

he's a very loving person. he feels deeply and has great affection for the people he cares about, but just sucks at expressing it because he's never had anyone teach him that it's fine to be vulnerable

he's not really touch averse, and he's more sensory hyposensitive than anything. he's just awkward about touch from people because, again.. he just doesn't know how to handle it from a social aspect, especially with judas who is very intense. he likes to let eve lay on him though for that good sensory feedback 👌

kinda a cain fact...hellhound infodump. hounds/jackals aren't from heaven or hell; they're completely neutral entities with associations of both life and death, used by both sides. they have human-like intelligence, although they can't speak since they're meant to remain neutral. they don't always take the form of canids, but usually do just to blend into society better. their appearances vary wildly, but the large, white eyes are a constant. they're always mentally bound to a specific person and exhibit the emotions and loyalties of their master. they can also be used as vessels for guardian angels.

#cain #ask #purgatoria

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blackbackedjackal · 8 months

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I wish Mitch McConnell dies on live TV no matter what.

#jackal's journal #a girl can dream

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collapsedsquid · 8 months

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Maier’s book offers a new solution to this enigma. In his view, all the classical categories used to describe the twentieth-century state miss its central feature: its orientation around the notion of a project, which could weld business interests, the general population, and state bureaucrats under a single, long-term time horizon. What united Roosevelt’s America, Stalin’s Russia, Attlee’s Britain, Hitler’s Germany, Mao’s China, and Nkrumah’s Ghana, then, was not a diffuse totalitarianism or developmental ideology. Rather, it was their status as project states, which all “had a transformative agenda . . . based on authoritarian and even totalitarian as well as liberal and democratic coalitions seeking to reform sclerotic institutions or societies that seemed unacceptably unequal.” Project states thereby tended to “see society as a plasmic whole, sometimes in terms of elites and masses, knowable and controllable through statistical science, biological and legal interventions.” The specimen did not come without ancestors, of course—in Maier’s view, Napoleonic France and the wartime organization of the U.S. federal government in 1861 already exhibited embryonic signs of a later project state—yet “as a continuing and nonexceptional form of polity,” the new creature only “came into its own in the twentieth century.” Maier’s category thereby demarcates and unifies. The notion of a “project state” allows us to understand what Mao, Hitler, De Gaulle, Attlee, and Nkrumah had in common. Yet it also clearly separates the twentieth-century state from its pre-1914 antecedents. Although Maier’s state never fully abolished capital, it did have a productively agonistic relationship with it: it was able to both discipline and repel those that controlled investment and to direct or claim those resources for itself. It was a state made for and by warfare, yet not exclusively so. To the disgust of neoliberals and New Leftists, it had an eternally uneasy relationship with the public-private divide, both on the social and on the economic front, encouraging higher birth rates while compiling calorific tables. Above all, it was pitted against the nineteenth-century nightwatchman state, both as a reality and as a metaphor; public authority was to turn itself from a mere facilitator of economic commerce into an active choreographer of social movements. As Maier notes, the hustle and bustle of the traffic jam was replaced by the “ordered direction of the Riefenstahlian march”; under its baldaquin, masses would gather for coordination and instruction, in a rage for order that ran across the whole interwar period. Maier’s concept does not rule out internal differentiation, of course: “creating the fascist man who would live as a lion and not as a jackal was a different project than raising out of poverty ‘one third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished,’” and Stalin was surprised to see Churchill switch office with Attlee when negotiating the postwar order. Still, all its forms took an energetic, even invasive interest in the populations that fell under their control: the project state built the National Health Service, transported prisoners to Kolyma, incinerated Dresden and Nagasaki, birthed cybernetics and nuclear power, reduced infant mortality, and cartelized the coal industries. Here was an entity “addicted to transformative agendas,” with a lifespan as short as it was eventful: born somewhere between 1914 and 1929, gone between 1973 and 1991. By the close of the 1980s, Maier admits, the project state had given up on its project and was no longer capable of controlling the forces of private capital. It slowly gave up the role of sculpting society, instead leaving the field open to self-experimentation and the emerging entrepreneurs of the self. In the historian’s view, its “audacity repelled many at the time and certainly social historians in the century since, but the ambitions constituted a major historical force and deserve empathetic understanding.”

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staydandy · 2 years

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Falsify (2017) - 조작 - Whump List

List by StayDandy Synopsis : In modern society, journalism has lost its integrity, and journalists who focus on the facts have disappeared. However, we've seen that there are still journalists who seek the truth, and if there is at least one person who is willing to look, the truth will come out from the darkness. Here we have two journalists. Han Moo Yeong is a "media jackal", a journalist who will write any story in order to get views, who is trying to dig up & reveal the truth. (MDL) AKA : Manipulation | Fabrication | Distorted

Whumpee : Han Moo Yeong played by Namkoong Min

Country : 🇰🇷 South Korea Genres : Thriller, Mystery, Law

Notes : This is a Full Whump List • My favorite episodes are pink : 00

Episodes on List : 9 Total Episodes : 32

*Spoilers below*

01 : In a fight; choked, slammed on a desk, thrown through a window … applying patches & bandaging himself … [flashback] stabbed

03 : Thrown into a bookcase, briefly knocked out … in a fight, cut, stabbed … hospitalized

11 : Arrested, cuffed

13 : In a fist fight … arrested … in a car crash

14 : … continued from previous ep. ... Passes out .. in hospital, anesthetized for surgery … lying unconscious with oxygen mask … attacked by the assassin, in a fight

15 : … continued from previous ep. ... [replay] Attacked by the assassin while hospitalized, in a fight (turns out to be a nightmare) .. wakes with a shock, rips out his IV

16 : Leaves the hospital early on a crutch

18 : Runs around trying to find someone, limping heavily on his bum leg

32 : In a fist fight

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livealittleoc-cb · 1 year

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"Where is the sundial?”

:･ﾟ✧:･.☽˚｡･ﾟ✧:･.: Anubis [Anpu or Aten Sayed]

⋆｡°✩ Egyptian God of Death, Afterlife, Cemeteries, && Embalming; Protector of Graves && the Dead

⋆｡°✩ Older Brother of Set

⋆｡°✩ He is mortician at a funeral home in the human realm; he also works with the dead in Astria

⋆｡°✩ Has an emotional support snake named Piper [this is possible I searched it up-]

⋆｡°✩ He has an anxiety disorder && gets overwhelmed around too many people

⋆｡°✩ Tends to stick around people he cares about, other then Hades, he hates how he fathers him around

⋆｡°✩ He is mute && does not talk with anyone other then Set, Jay, && other gods

⋆｡°✩ When he does talk his voice is really deep && gravely from lack of use, it also hurts a bit && takes a good amount of his energy

⋆｡°✩ In "Human" form he is Egypt, in Astria he is from Sceile [Cairo, Egypt]

⋆｡°✩ He doesn't mind pronouns but does tend to go by He/They / Bi, Poly, Demisexual / 26 [Human Years], is as old as death && cemeteries / 12/30 [Capricorn] / 6'0"

⋆｡°✩ He is:

very very quiet

kind of shy

very curious once you catch his attention

good boy

anxious as hell

tends to overthink a little

God Information / Form Stuff

⋆｡°✩ he feeds off of death && graveyards

⋆｡°✩ death is the most effective for him

⋆｡°✩ in older times you could catch him walking around battlefields to regain energy, now he takes walks around graveyards [ideal date lowkey-]

⋆｡°✩ he lives at the funeral home or in graveyards when not in these places he's napping at home

⋆｡°✩ when he feeds his eyes glow grey

⋆｡°✩ as a god he can smell && sense emotions well but the smell/sensation of anxiety is the strongest he can depict

⋆｡°✩ he can also sense when someone is close to death

⋆｡°✩ he has more strength then a normal human && greater amount of strength compared to other gods

⋆｡°✩ he can change his "human" apperance [height, eye color, hair color, etc.]

⋆｡°✩ each god has a human name they go by, his is Anpu or Aten

⋆｡°✩ in his god form he is 7'0"

⋆｡°✩ in his god form, his eyes have one completely white && the other completely grey, his skin is a lot tanner, has black curls, has jackal ears && a tail as well as sharp canines, he carries a staff && small journal to record deaths on, his nails are permanently painted grey, his torso && arms are covered in hieroglyphic tattoos

⋆｡°✩ he has black tears stream down his face in respect to the dead

⋆｡°✩ when not in astria or the human realm he resides in the underworld realm [hell, typically district 1]

⋆｡°✩ in his half && half form he is his normal 6'0", has small diamond stud earrings, her eyes are either their normal one grey one black or dark brown, curly black hair && sometimes has his jackal ears, tail && canines out

⋆｡°✩ him && set both can turn into full jackals to blend into certain places; they also can have a jackal head && human body but they detest this form

Extras

⋆｡°✩ natural eye color: one grey one black

⋆｡°✩ eyes might glow a light grey when anxious

⋆｡°✩ he only has regular earrings

⋆｡°✩ likes: chipmunks [like a lot lmao], Piper, silence, graveyards, alone time, spending time with someone, books, owls

⋆｡°✩ dislikes: too much noise [mainly from people he's not use to], crowds, when he can't speak, his anxiety

⋆｡°✩languages: arabic && english

NSFW

⋆｡°✩ sub, obedient; some of his kinks are size kink, oral [recieving && giving], slight bondage [recieving], dirty talk [reciving], praise [giving && recieving], auralism, marking [giving], public [secret kink]

⋆｡°✩ hard nos: feet, watersports, wasteplay

⋆｡°✩ he is too shy to start anything but doesn't mind domming if his partner really wants him to but does prefer to sub a lot more

⋆｡°✩ he is open to other kinks but he might subdrop with harder kinks

⋆｡°✩ his eyes both turn a darker grey when arroused

⋆｡°✩ safe word: coffin

⋆｡°✩ he uses ⚰️ on dash

⋆｡°✩ when writing he does this ‘hello’

⋆｡°✩ when signing he does this ‘hello’

Relationship Statuses

⋆｡°✩ at a graveyard && calm

⋆｡°✩ single [1/2-3], happily dating @welcome-to-maniac [chip chip 🐿️] [07.25.23]; uninterested

⋆｡°✩ friends: