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timidloner · 1 year

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me ascending every time you call me ram <3 (it's like a power up i love it, like joren with mc, you're enabling me to ramble more each time)(sorry in advance for the amount ill send) watch me call you lolo for the loner in your username

it was very clear so we appreciate it!! and exactly omfg you get it, there's nothing wrong with being a conventionally attractive white man but personally it's so underwhelming compared to what i sometimes imagined (one time i played a game where i thought the guy had long black hair brooding and sharp looks like babygirl right? but then i saw the pictures and he had short very bland looks i cried.) tiktok goes crazy with THESE especially with the fancasting people do for books, its always the same kind of dudes its tragic (definitely an interesting topic from a sociological perspective but ill stop too lmaoaoa)

moles are so attractive normally but now with your concept too? brain rot i cant believe... is joren's neck sensitive? please i need to know because just MC touching the moles but instead they watch joren's neck turn red and both end up blushing like fools and THE SCARS WOAHHHH????? MC turning his scars into something joren can love by admiring them (tho the angst would be crazy if the MC was to be disgusted but personally my MC could never cause joren is our big meow meow)(im still not over the fact he can purr like can the MC scratch the back of his ears too? i need MOREEEE MONSTER FACTS)

AWWW, I love it!! Lolo is such a cute nickname!!

And I actually went to booktok to study (laugh at) this phenomenon and you're so right!! There's nothing wrong with these dudes, of course, but when the entirety of your male cast looks the same, it just becomes booooooring. They look like brothers!! Add some spice, please!!

Fortunately, that kind of surprise hasn't happened to me, I either never see the characters' portraits (IF) or that's the first thing I do (VN). But I won't go into detail about my feelings here, gotta stay away from controversies now that I'm a game dev (never gets old), haha!!

And yes! I've always loved moles, on someone's wrist, neck, below their eye, or the edge of their mouth... Doesn't matter, they are great.

I'd say both his neck and wrists are sensitive. And I love that idea, but due to his skin tone, his blush isn't really visible! So instead of turning red, we could say that MC is touching him and suddenly his skin heats up under their palm and he starts to sweat a little bit!

And ugh, now I can't help but imagine MC calling Joren their handsome man while tracing his scars...

Like, he doesn't really care if he's considered good-looking or not, but MC calling him that???? He'd melt. Suddenly, he'd understand why everyone is so concerned about beauty, and how good that kind of validation feels. He'd even start putting more effort into his appearance.

And maybe he could start seeing his scars as proof of how brave he's been throughout his life? He could stop being neutral about it, and become proud of them?

On the other hand, if MC finds him disgusting for his scars, it would make him insecure for the first time in a really long time. He'd try to dress in tunics with long sleeves, and always face MC with the "better" side of his face, so they don't have to look at his scar.

And yes!! Of course MC gets to scratch his ears, I'm pouring all of my impossible dreams of cuddling a big cat in those scenes. I'll think of some monster facts for tomorrow!!

#ask away!#from lon to you #rambling✒️!!!#the stranger lore #never apologize for your asks #you know i love them <33 #now i must go to see Namor edits #and then sleep #good night <33

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comicavalcade · 9 months

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Submariner Summer 30

Ay mi amigos, it is time for a key edition of #SubmarinerSummer, because here in part 30 we are covering Tales to Astonish #96: Somewhere Stands...Skull Island! Namor faces off Plunderer and his vibra-gun on Skull Island right on the cover; love both figures' sense of motion

Raymond Marais takes over the tale, with Everett pencils and Colletta inks. The Title page gives us Namor back on his throne in Atlantis, ready for another Council of War. Dorma's still voicing her misgivings, though, thinking he's acting in rash hatred.

But Namor can't let go that the "air-breathers" had the temerity to build an undersea city in his territory. He feels its too late for diplomacy and he must act now. Vashti speaks up and reminds him he'd best take care of Plunderer first; Namor agrees, and knows where he is

As a Ka-Zar villain, Plunderer's base is of course in the Savage Land. So, Namor goes towards Antarctic waters since the Savage Land is hidden there. While there he visits the crumbling ruins that was his boyhood home, the previous Atlantis now destroyed, and makes his way to-

-the grave of Princess Fen, his dear beloved mother, the very sight of which threatens to overwhelm him. He attempts to banish the sadness with a happy memory. But he soon recalls instead the city's death and destruction, and her's, at the hands of an attack from the surface

So now we've seen how he lost his first city, his mother, and his memory, though he isn't sure who on the surface is to blame. But the surface keeps pushing, so he feels he must go to war...once Plunderer is taken care of. Before he can, though: Savage Land sea monster attack!

Just then, Dorma arrives, having felt compelled to go where Namor went. Unfortunately, she picks the wrong moment to get closer, as just then Plunderer attacks Namor and she gets caught in the blast radius!

But it takes more than that to stop Namor, especially when he's in the water, much to Plunderer's shock. Just as Namor is about to wrap him up, he reveals he saw Dorma sink from the previous attack and a wild-eyed Namor lays him out before going to her. She's actually fine, but he's angry

She wants to be beside him, but he tells her to return to Atlantis. She wonders if there's something else behind his anger. You ask me, he should keep Action Dorma. Unfortunately by the time Namor returns to the Plunderer, he's laid a trap for our Prince

Um. Plunderer sure knows how to outfit some henchmen, huh? Better rename it from Skull Island to Beefcake Island. At any rate, Plunderer has a scheme in motion because, y'know, villain. Meanwhile, Dorma makes it back to Atlantis, where their screens give a puzzling view of Namor

But the truth is Namor is caught, and the Plunderer's plan is conquest! We are once again at a cliffhanger, Namor Nation.

Once again we see the debate between Dorma and Namor about war, we revisit the site of the Atlantis from the Golden Age comics, go over its destruction, and the loss of one of the key characters in all Namor's history, his mother Fen. Oh, plus a sea monster, and a villain scheme. Quite a full issue, and you see why I called it key right at the start!

But now we look forward, because NEXT we will cover Tales to Astonish #97: The Sovereign And The Savages

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therubyreader · 1 year

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My Review of Gods of Jade and Shadow

See a full list of my book reviews here

*Disclaimer: there will be spoilers later on in the review*

After months of waiting (since November) I was finally able to get my hands on Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia and after all of that anticipation I finished the book in 5 hours and 45 minutes because I lack self control, and also self preservation skills because I stayed up late into the night reading when I had to be up early for work in the morning. I will admit I, probably like many others, was convinced to read the book because of people comparing Hun-Kame to Tenoch Huerta’s portrayal of Namor in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, and honestly I get it. Also I am a little biased because I’m Mexican so I’ll absolutely love any sort of Mexican media that gains popularity in the US, in solidarity, but this book was honestly very enjoyable without my biases. Before reading this my knowledge of Mayan mythology was pretty much nonexistent (with the exception of the little bit they included in Black Panther) which is due in part to being a victim of the American public school system but also because my family is from central Mexico which was the home of the Aztec empire so I’m much more familiar with Aztec mythology and language (technically it’s called Nahuatl). I did enjoy learning more about the mythology of one of the other great empires in Mexico and I’m glad more people are willing to read stories from my culture.

I totally recommend this book to anyone who’s interested in a coming of age story mixed with a mythological quest wherein a sheltered girl accidentally frees the Mayan god of death from her grandpa’s bedroom and they must go on a quest through Mexico to retrieve the missing pieces of his body in order to restore him to his throne plus some romance. Now I do have to mention there are some content/trigger warnings for the book (and also for the spoiler part of my review): self-harm, suicide but in the form of human sacrifice, animal sacrifice, physical and verbal abuse, colorism, racism, blood, and violence. If you are not comfortable with any of those topics please do not read this book.

As someone who has been a fan of Percy Jackson for the past decade (excuse me while I have a moment of feeling old) I loved the quest aspect of this story, god takes a mortal on a quest across the country is an underrated but wonderful genre. Is my only experience with this genre all of the Rick Riordan books and also now this one? Yes, but we’re not getting into specifics here. The fact that I got to see that trope with gods from my culture and mentioning places in Mexico I’m familiar with plus a main character that I imagine looks like me to a certain extent was something that healed part of my inner child. I’m a sucker for good Mexican representation and this book gave me exactly what I wanted plus written in a style that is authentically Latin American. This was also a pretty decent introduction to Mayan mythology, it’s very complex and this book made it easy enough to understand for someone like me who came into it without any prior knowledge. But I will add this here, if I see one more of you use Aztec imagery when you make edits for this book I will scream about it.

When I first put the book on hold I didn’t know that it was written by the same author who wrote Mexican Gothic, one of my favorite books I read last year and when I realized this I was even more excited to read it. Based on the only other book of hers I’d read I knew she had mastered the Latin American writing style that I was so used to reading from all of the literature classes I took in college, but in English, extremely poetic with multiple meanings and metaphors laced through it. I absolutely love this style of writing and I find that it’s hard to replicate in English translations of Spanish works because despite Spanish being my first language and my whole entire degree in it I am a little dumb when it comes to literature and understanding deeper meanings and it’s easier for me to understand them in English but I still struggle a bit. Luckily for me Silvia Moreno-Garcia is great at writing in this style and it makes the stories she tells that much more enjoyable.

This writing style also really complimented the way that Casiopea and Hun-Kame feel about each other, she’s an extremely sheltered 18 year-old girl from a very conservative society in pretty conservative time period who has no idea what it means to fall in love trying to explain her own emotions with a god who has, up until that moment, been incapable of feeling love how mortals do and not knowing how to express it. The way they use poetic metaphors when they’re trying to figure out their own emotions or even trying to tell the other how they feel really emphasizes the fact that they are both experiencing love for the first time and don’t know how to handle it. The line “I want to count the stars with you” being a substitute for “I love you” was honestly very beautiful and maybe I rolled around in anguish about it (hey God, it’s me again). It also adds to the mythological and magical feel of the story, since this book is technically magical realism (someone please ask me more about magical realism especially in Latin American books because I can talk about it for hours) the writing style really plays into the “our world but not quite” aspect that’s hard to describe, you just have to experience it.

Again, if you can stomach the trigger/content warnings above I totally recommend the book to you, it’s a great example of Latin American literature and is written beautifully.

Spoilers Below!!!

Let’s start at the end. One of the main complaints I’ve noticed about this book is how it doesn’t have a traditional happy ending one would expect from books, the ending is more realistic and some people are mad about it. I’ll let you all in on a secret, this is a very typical ending in Mexican stories, honestly this was a much happier ending than traditional stories. If any of you have watched any Mexican movies or read any Mexican books (in Spanish), you’ll know what I mean, because we love tragedy. Mexicans have an obsession with death and with extremely sad, heart wrenching stories with a more realistic or even tragic ending, so you all got let off easy with this one. I’m sure most of you expected Casiopea to become a Mayan Persephone but it’s not something that was accurate to the character, she just left an abusive household where she hadn’t even traveled outside of her small town and then immediately becoming a pseudo-death goddess and not really being able to leave Xibalba wouldn’t be what she wanted. Sure, you can probably imagine some future plotline where after her death and living a fulfilling life she accepts that role, but it’s not super realistic. She would probably meet a man on her adventures with Lorey and fall in love and get married or the idealist in me wants to think Casiopea and Hun-Kame would meet later in life and fall in love again. But within the parameters of the story and the characters Casiopea got the best deal she could’ve hoped for, freedom, a new friend, the ability to speak every language ever, and summon ghosts alongside some pearls she could sell for money (which I doubt she will do).

I would also like to think that Casiopea and Hun-Kame would remain friends, or as close to friends as you can be with a death god, they did love each other and flowers started blooming in Xibalba after Hun-Kame became a god again so the love wasn’t completely lost. Again, the idealist in me would want to believe that Hun-Kame is eventually able to love Casiopea in the same way he did when he was part human but it would take some time. Either way they both got a pretty decently happy ending and no one died, a win especially in stories like this.

My main complaint about this story is just how fast everything went. We really had no time to get to know how the characters were being shaped by the quest since they jumped from one location to the other and did very little in each place. You would think that Casiopea would’ve at least taken a little bit of time in each place to really explore, and even when she did the author didn’t let us experience that with her. I was genuinely excited to hear more about how those locations looked back in the 20s but was very disappointed when we got only a little bit of that knowledge. Also it would’ve been nice to learn more about how society was shaped by the revolution in day to day life, though there were some mentions of it I think hearing a little more would’ve been nice.

Also I think the quest was too easy. Yes they were racing against the clock but the way Hun-Kame was easily able to track down every single part of his body and get it back with very little fight was also a bit disappointing. I had expected and hoped for more of a fight when they were going around trying to retrieve the body parts, or even a little more intervention from Vucub-Kame since it felt like he was just letting his brother do whatever he wanted. I honestly felt like he did the bare minimum to try and stop his brother from succeeding, though he does admit he underestimated Casiopea but in all honesty she does very little apart from keeping Hun-Kame alive.

I also would’ve liked the romance aspect to be explored a little more, because Casiopea and Hun-Kame go from pretty much strangers to kind of flirting to in love with little explanation as to why. We do see it a bit from Casiopea’s point of view because she talks a lot about how handsome Hun-Kame is and how he’s really the first man to show her any attention and the only person aside from her parents who really cares for her, but I don’t think we really see the love story from Hun-Kame’s point of view until right at the end. He does mention how he finds her attractive but, at least for me, the jump from attraction to full on wanting to abandon his throne and immortality and let his brother’s plans succeed thus causing tons of death and destruction for her is pretty abrupt. He fully decides to give up everything he’s worked so hard to gain for her and it’s cute but also very strong emotions for such a short time they’ve spent together.

Overall I think that the book and the concept were really original and enjoyable. I would still say that Mexican Gothic is still my favorite book by Silvia Moreno-Garcia and as far as I know, this being her first attempt at writing something based on mythology but in the real world, it was really good. I do love her writing style a lot and will definitely be reading more of her books in the future and I do kind of hope that she does something similar based on Aztec mythology next solely because I would like to see her take on it.

#val's book reviews #gods of jade and shadow #silvia moreno garcia #book review #bookblr #book worm

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kittybeewillows · 1 year

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Collision Course Part 2 (A Modern AU Fic with Artist! Namor and Scientist! Shuri). Part 1 here.

Edit: got my ao3 account!! All updates will be there from now on. See the story here.

"Where the hell have you been?" Erik called out from under the aircraft's belly.

Shuri rolled her eyes. Her cousin had grown up in the United States, which explained a lot of his manners.

Then again, he was right. She was indeed late.

Shuri had promised him that she would help him fix his aircraft, which he affectionately called Killmonger. She hated the name and she never failed to remind him of how dark it is.

"Cousin, you are not in a rush to go anywhere are you?" Shuri teased. If anyone else tried to make light of Erik's sentence, they would be met with her cousin's fists.

Instead, Erik rolled out from beneath the machine and threw an oily rag at her. She swatted it away and smiled, getting to work.

Erik was to remain landlocked in Wakanda after being caught smuggling vibranium out of the country. It was a political nightmare for T'challa, but deep down, Shuri understood why Erik did it. It would help countless other countries in need. In the end, T'challa also understood this eventually and initiated programs to help the outside world while keeping the world's only vibranium deposit secure.

Shuri's thoughts trailed back to Namor. He was obviously not Wakandan, therefore he must have been one of the recipients of her brother's program. Which means he was a brilliant man in his field.

She remembered his art. Scenes of a beautiful island with brilliant colors adorned the pages. Shuri has never seen color used that way. There was no doubt that he was worthy to be one of the selected outsiders to visit Wakanda, for the betterment of both of their countries. Shuri allowed her thoughts to linger on his face a little more. His ears and nostrils were both pierced, adorned with jade of all things. He was a beautiful man. A smile crept across her face without her noticing.

"You seem a little too happy today, cuz," said Erik, peaking from the window.

Shuri ignored his jab, but wanted to learn more about their nation's guests.

"Did you see the cultural exchange fellows?" she asked, trying to remain as neutral as possible.

"Nah, I don't have time for that," said Erik.

"You were supposed to be a consultant for the project remember? You're also partially the reason that they are here, cousin," replied Shuri.

Erik smiled a little bit at that, but chose to reply with a question instead.

"Someone new caught your eye?" he said.

Shuri blushed, suddenly remembering a crooked smile and a fleeting handshake. Erik laughed. For one of the most brilliant minds in the world, Shuri was easy to read. Not that she made any effort to conceal herself or her feelings.

But she will not have it from Erik today.

Shuri raised a blowtorch and lit it. "Mind your business or Killmonger gets burn marks," she warned.

That shut Erik up for once.

As Shuri worked, she suddenly remembered that T'challa had invited her to the ceremonial dinner welcoming the foreigners. Shuri did not think much of it at first, as she usually did not like attending her brother's political engagements.

T'challa did not admit this outright but the dinner, and the program as a whole, was still political in essence. Her brother was pushing for an inclusive, open door policy, which was controversial in their once-hidden nation. If the program was successful, her brother could enact even more positive changes to the world, not just Wakanda.

Of course then, it was suddenly clear to Shuri that she must go to the party. She must support her brother.

It definitely did not have anything with the man who had the most piercing brown eyes she had ever seen.

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(You guys, thanks so much to the positive response to my first drabble!!! I didn't expect it much from it. This time I wanted to explore Shuri's feelings. She is definitely more logical and rational than Namor, whereas Namor is rash and passionate. She is still a brilliant scientist who just happens to have mechanic skills on the side ofc. Some things don't change across the multiverse methinks. I also have loose ideas in my head of what I want to happen to certain characters other than Namor and Shuri but long story short, no one is dead here and everyone is a normal person trying their best in this version!!)

#namor x shuri #seaprincess #shuri x namor #namor #namuri #bpwf #black panther wakanda forever #namor the sub mariner #black panther 2 spoilers #shuri #shuramor #nashuri #wakanda forever #erik killmonger #erik stevens #killmonger #black panther #tchalla #fanfic

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