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Character Voice Tag!
Thank you to the lovely @mk-writes-stuff for the tag!! This game looks so fun :D
Rules: Rewrite your given line in the voices of your characters!
My line is "That's really sweet of you!"
Marika: Says nothing for a long moment, clearly caught on the wrong foot. She looks between the person who acted and what they did or gave, before attempting a smile that doesn't look like a sneer. Her declaration of "How sweet," drips with sarcasm regardless of intention.
Lorelei: "Oh, dear, you really don't have to! You're too kind," spoken genuinely and with a hand patting the air between herself and the person who acted.
Annie: "Oh! That's so sweet!" Her eyes light up. "Oh my goodness, you know, that reminds me—" The ensuing tangent lasts half an hour, minimum.
Ember: A small, heartfelt smile and breathy chuckle. "Sap." They may be on the verge of tears, depending on how their day is going.
Isa: A cascade of hand-fluttering signs and blushing, with little coherence beyond his repetition of "Thank you."
Lakia: She doesn't look the other person in the eye, and likely avoids looking at them altogether for several minutes. After a while, she breaks the silence with a stiff, "What's the catch?"
I'll tag: @writeblrfantasy, @vacantgodling, @nacricissa, and @writingrosesonneptune!! As always, absolutely 0 pressure to play, and this doubles as an open tag if you want to join in!
Your line is "This plan isn't going to work."
#tag game#the millennium saga#whispers#i have. no idea how to tag this#snip#i guess???#anyway thank u mk for the tag <3
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Godzilla Headcanon 2
Shin Godzilla
This version of Godzilla is interesting because he doesn't talk because he doesn't have a tongue and is either silent or roaring. Now this Godzilla is really just a confused-scared animal. An example of this would be Shin in his second form wandering around the city and only defending and attacking Japan after he was attacked first, because he saw them as the aggressor. But he does learn and evolve, it's entirely possible he could've evolved to become smarter.
Godzilla Ultima
This Godzilla can be best described as a dictator and a destroyer god. This Godzilla goes around and destroys whatever he wants because he can. After all, what can stop a four-dimensional being? He's cocky, easily angered, and manipulative. He's cocky because he's a god or thinks of himself as one, and in his universe, he is the strongest kaiju. He has a temper and can get easily angered if things don't go his way, kind of like Homelander. Manipulative because if he sees a kaiju that could possibly beat him, he'll try manipulating them into helping him, or he'll kill them.
Godzilla Minus One
Godzilla Minus One is like an animal in how he acts. This Godzilla acts like a beast—a mindless beast—when in reality he isn't. Granted, he isn't all smart, but he isn't like Shin. The atomic dinosaur fights aggressively and animalistically; he'll bite at his opponents and claw them. In terms of his intelligence, he can speak, or at least a kaijus version of it, and can recognize certain humans. He also has a hatred for humanity, thinking the humans he saw on his island caused his mutation, and he blames them for what he became.
Godzilla 1954 or Goijra
This Godzilla, or the good old 1954 Godzilla, is a vengeful kaiju blaming humanity, more specifically Japan, for causing his mutation and killing his family. He would stop at nothing to destroy Japan, which later ended in his death. Besides his hatred for humanity, he's rather quiet and collected. He's pretty smart and arguably the smartest Godzilla.
Godzilla or Zilla
Another Godzilla that's completely different compared to the other Godzilla's besides this Godzilla or Zilla being a she, she was also an iguana before she was turned into this. Zilla is caring towards her young, example would be her showing anger after her eggs were destroyed; to her fellow Kaiju, she's respectful and kind; and for some reason, Godzilla (Final Wars) doesn't like her.
Godzilla Earth
Godzilla Earth is also different from the other Godzilla's; think of him like Asgore. He's quiet, respectful, and quite kind once you get to know him. He also has a hatred for humanity, which, compared to other Godzilla's, is quite different. He sees them as nothing but parasites that destroyed the earth for nothing. This atomic dinosaur deeply cares for the planet, which is part of the reason why he destroyed the remaining humans on Earth. So, he could terraform the planet and fix its years of destruction, but what about the Kaiju he killed? Well, they got in the way. If they hadn't, he would've spared ones like Mothra or Battra, and unlike Asgore, he gets the job done.
Godzilla 2002 or Kiryu Saga
Godzilla 2002, or Kiryū saga, is a cold, aggressive, and a bit of a tsundere. This Godzilla hates humanity for what they did to his father, for killing him and using him as a weapon, especially against him. The atomic dinosaur was so hurt after he found his bones, and as a way to save himself from feeling the same pain again, he acts cold and a monster to get other kaiju to back off. He also isn't really a good fighter; he primarily relies on brute force and being stronger than his opponents. Think of Homelander when someone is stronger than him.
Millennium Godzilla
Millennium Godzilla is calm and not as aggressive compared to other Godzilla's. He's stoical, sure, but he's willing to show other emotions than anger or indifference. He has a little bit of a temper but keeps it under control. He only really attacks humanity because of the nuclear energy they produce. Other than that, he's okay compared to other Godzilla's. He's also the kind of kaiju to do something funny, but be confused on why it's funny.
#fanfic writer#fanfic#wattpad#headcanon#godzilla#Kiryu Saga#millennium Godzilla#minus one#shin godzilla#godzilla ultima
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La saga Millennium es una serie de novelas criminales suecas creada por Stieg Larsson y escritas las tres primeras obras por él mismo y las siguientes por David Lagercrantz, que ha conseguido un éxito de ventas a nivel internacional.
#Saga Millennium#Serie Literaria#Lizbeth Salander#actress: Noomi Rapace#writer: Stieg Larsson#sweden
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I THOUGHT THIS WOULD GO ON LONGER.
#swan watches jjk#jujutsu kaisen#look it was supposed to be the arc spanning the saga#like Yugi gathering up the millennium items#or Luffy finding all the pieces of the one piece#but we're 75% done
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The Star Wars Saga: Millennium Falcon ULTRA Supercut
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Look, I love BBC Merlin and how they told the lore, but I’m a sucker for the relationship between Arthur and Mordred in the mythology. Specifically, I love how Mary Stewart (author of The Arthurian Saga**) and Nancy Springer (author of I Am Mordred**) wrote about the father/son relationship between them. So naturally, my brain has been conjuring up how I can include that in my Flipping the Coin au.
Since the main premise is Merlin died/Arthur lives, and now Arthur is the one waiting for Merlin to come back, things would stay consistent with canon up to the last episode (when Merlin flips the coin of their destiny and sacrifices himself so Arthur can live and thus stop Camlann from happening altogether). Which is where this idea will start:
Gwen is barren. She and Arthur never have kids. Eventually, everyone Arthur knows and loves dies. He can’t rule Camelot forever, and after Gwen’s death, he no longer wants to, so he fakes his death and wanders off figure out why he’s still here. He never gets an answer for that. Arthur spends the next millennium waiting. He keeps living. He meets people, experiences things he’d never experienced before, and learns things he’d never dreamed of learning. He can’t stay anywhere long, or else suspicions will rise, but he gets to see the world change, how technology advances, and witness humans continuing to be humans. When war breaks out, he joins the battle. It’s familiar. The rush of adrenaline is the same whether he’s wielding a sword or a gun. Only, he can’t see the enemy’s face anymore.
Peace comes again. At some point, he sleeps with a woman, and she happens to become pregnant. Bisexual disaster that he is, he’s had all sorts of partners from both sexes, but has never had this happen, even before the advent of reliable birth control. Later, he’ll learn her name is Morgause. She doesn’t look like the Morgause he knew before, nor does she act like her, but her name haunts him. After the baby is born, she gives him to Arthur, says she has no intentions of being a mother, and leaves. The last thing she had said to him was the baby’s name.
Mordred.
That night, Arthur holds Mordred and weeps.
There is irony in his son being named Mordred. First, in that the legends surrounding him, Merlin, Camelot, the Knights of the Round Table, and all of it, had long ago decided Mordred was his son. And two, in a retelling of that legend, it had aptly phrased what he sensed was happening now. Granted, he isn’t a sorcerer, he doesn’t have magic, so he can’t support his feeling with anything other than he’d been around a long time and knew to his very core that it was true. Mordred’s birth is a signal of the beginning of the end.
Fatherhood brings him a new sense of purpose. Gone are the days of loneliness and drudgery. Every day with Mordred brings a new light into his life. Each smile is a miracle. Seeing Mordred experience things for the first time brings a new appreciation. Being there to watch him grow makes time fly like it never has before. But Arthur is afraid. He doesn’t want to be his father. He doesn’t know how to be a father, or what the right way to do it is. In all the years he’s been on the Earth, he’s never known a man who could concretely say, “This is the way to raise a son,” and actually reap the fruits of their efforts. Too frequently, he’d seen sons grow outside of the visions their fathers molded for them and receive only disappointment and disdain in return. So he was afraid, because he too had been that son.
*cue a series of fluffy father/son one shots of Arthur raising Mordred until Merlin comes back, takes one look, and is is like WTF????? No, I won’t have Mordred for a step son >:(*
**Mary Stewart and Nancy Springer have several other works, not just the stories I mentioned. The ones mentioned are the ones I’m pulling inspiration from ^^
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Guinevere’s barrenness is not a headcanon I typically subscribe to for BBC Merlin. My headcanon is that after Arthur’s death, Gwen gives birth, and their child eventually succeeds her as ruler.
I’ve always seen Mordred’s appearance as the harbinger of Arthur’s downfall. Thus, the reason for the plot bunnies in my brain going crazy with this idea of how I could bring him in, still remain mostly canon compliant with BBC Merlin, and build off some of my favorite parts of the lore. (Mandatory disclaimer: for BBC Merlin, I don’t headcanon Mordred as Arthur’s son. But for the mythology, I do wholeheartedly support that canon.)
Arthur’s choice to participate and live once Camelot is gone is a decision to contrast my headcanon of how Merlin handled it. I don’t think Merlin thrived. I think he stayed busy, and tried to remain hopeful, but I think he was anxiously consumed with the anticipation of wondering when Arthur would come back. In this au, Arthur may or may not know that Merlin is supposed to come back (I’m still working on that detail), but he’s always been around others. I think he would seek camaraderie, and companionship, and that he would connect with others but only to a superficial level. I don’t think he’d exist in a void of loneliness. Plus, he doesn’t have the guilt of knowing he failed because the pressure from the prophecy is very one sided *coughcough*causemerlinnevertoldhim*coughcough*
Anyways, that’s enough rambling from me about this. I’ll probably share some snippets of writing next because there are some fantastic scenes coming together in the draft so stay tuned! ;D
#bbc merlin#merlin#arthur pendragon#mordred#flipping the coin#my drabbles#arthurian mythology will always be my jam#you can tear this au from my cold dead hands but it will live on#merthur#for the Merlin not wanting Mordred as a stepson joke the last Mordred he knew turned on them to join Morgana#as far as Merlin is concerned they’re the same person#he’ll come around eventually once Arthur fills him in on everything#btw Arthur’s son Mordred is unaware of all of this#he’s having to process his dad - who has never really been interested in anybody for any reason - is completely besotted with some guy#once he learns this ‘some guy’ used to be his father’s servant it does not make things better#but by then he’ll have learned enough that it does clear things up#he’s actually a big fan of Merlin#he just wasn’t prepared for love sick puppy dog Arthur 24/7 now that Merlin’s back
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The culture and relationships in Bionicle are so fascinating because they don't age as humans, yet still "grow" through divine will.
Matoran are not children and Turaga are not old, however they still hold authority over them, as the Turaga aged through will of god and life experience they gained as Toa.
It's funny coming back to Metru Nui and Turaga Dume is still there alive and well, because thinking as a human, and perceiving him as an old man in the Toa Metru saga, you'd expect him to be long dead but like. These creatures are not mortal. He and the other Turaga, who used to be Matorans that looked to him for guidance, are now of the same status and regard each other as such.
It's so bittersweet how on Mata Nui, the Turaga all remember all the Matoran as the friends, acquaintances, or rivals that they used to be, while the Matoran have none of those memories. For a millennium, they didn’t know that their elders and leaders used to be their friends and equals.
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#ongoing saga of the millennium falcon vs flyboys
+ chewie, literally one movie ago
#swedit#starwarsedit#filmedit#starwarsblr#swsource#starwarsfilms#disneysw#dailydisneysource#usersophie#star wars#the rise of skywalker#poe dameron#chewbacca#flashing gif#nym.gifs#chewie ily u hypocritical flyboy
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i know i posted a snippet already today but. the horror in this rewrite fucks severely and i need to share this latest bit ft. autumn, who has stayed willfully ignorant and avoidant of Plot for the last two books only for it to catch up to her now in the worst way possible
Transcript in Alt <3
#snip#writeblr#writing excerpt#original fiction#the millennium saga#goddess-touched#writing liveblog 2.12.24#<- just in case
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First Viking settlement in North America dated to exactly 1000 years ago
Felled trees and cosmic rays reveal when L’Anse aux Meadows was occupied
The first permanent settlement of Vikings in North America—a seaside outpost in Newfoundland known as L’Anse aux Meadows—has tantalized archaeologists for more than 60 years. Now, scientists at last have a precise date for the site: Tree rings show a Viking ax felled trees on the North American continent exactly 1000 years ago, in 1021 C.E. The result is a star example of a relatively new dating method using a spike in solar radiation that left its mark in tree rings around the world.
“The precision is astounding,” says Rachel Wood, a radiocarbon scientist at the Australian National University who wasn’t involved in the new study. “The idea to use these short-term sharp fluctuations in radiocarbon … has been around for a few years, but it is great to see it actually being used to date an important archaeological site.”
The Vinland sagas, a pair of Icelandic texts written in the 13th century, describe the Norse explorer Leif Erikson’s expeditions to a land referred to as Vinland. Although the texts contain their fair share of embellishment, most historians agree the sagas show Vikings sailed southwest from Greenland and reached the North American continent sometime at the turn of the millennium. The discovery of a Viking-era archaeological site in 1960 featuring the remains of distinctive Norse-style buildings, a bronze cloak pin, iron nails, and other Viking artifacts bolstered such evidence...
Read more: https://www.science.org/content/article/first-viking-settlement-north-america-dated-exactly-1000-years-ago
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Progressing through Orson Scott Card's Ender Saga. Currently up to "Children Of The Mind", and good fucking lord these chapters with Wang-mu and 'Peter' are such an utterly fucking atrocious trainwreck.
Can anyone in the Ender's Game fandom explain this to me please??
Why are these characters in the Sixth fucking Millennium A.D. talking about "Asians", "Europeans", and "Americans"; and their identities thereof, as if those are even REMOTELY meaningful categories of culture to the peoples of a humanity that have been spreading out into and colonising outer space for over three thousand years?????
Like, right now where I'm up to, Wang-mu and 'Peter' are having their first little conversation with Ainmaina Hikari, and Wang-mu is breezily bullshitting about Ancient Egypt/China/Mesopotamia or whatever
And, like, those ancient cultures are as far-removed from me, the reader, as China/Japan/America are from Wang-mu/Hikari/'Peter'!
If you were to squint hard enough, yeah, it could be said that my distant ancestors came from the Roman Empire, but, fuck no there is no way in heaven or hell that the culture of those 3500-years-ago ancestors and their neighbourly relations with other cultures and peoples has ANY kind of bearing on my life or cultural outlooks.
Like, I'm not gunna give the side-eye to some random stranger I meet whose culture mores seem different to mine and start waxing poetic about "oh he's just like that because he's a Carthaginian. 🙄😒 You all know what Carthaginians are like amirite?? "
(I guess 'Peter' is technically an American—or a 'cloned' caricature of one, at least—so he gets a pass on this)
The Doyleist explanation is that Orson Scott Card simply didn't have the sci-fi chops to imbue his creation with coherence; he's just trying to tell a story here and doesn't have the Tolkienian level of galaxy-brain required to convincingly pull off the 3000+ years of history and sociology experienced by his humanity across its umpteen number of colony worlds, so he's just sticking to what he knew and is hand-waving away the shockingly breathtaking levels of cultural stagnation his humanity has wallowed in.
But what's the Watsonian explanation for that cultural stagnation?? Is there a Watsonian explanation??
(also, what's with Miro's latent homophobia?? Is he Like That because of Card's own intense homophobia shining through, or is it simply because Miro grew up on The Catholic Planet?)
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Have you got any recs or a reading guide for steel ?
lornahs's guide for him & his dcuguide chronology collect most of his appearances. and i'm still not quite finished making my way through post-crisis superman comics, so if anyone with more expertise would like to add on, please do, but so far, these are my personal favorite recs for him:
The Death & Return of Superman
Steel (1994) (i love this book, but it is violently 90s in a way that definitely won't be to everyone's tastes. might recommend skipping it at first and then coming back later when you're already invested in the character)
the Trial of Superman arc:
Superman (1987) #106
Adventures of Superman #529
Outsiders (1991) #24
Action Comics #716
Superman: The Man of Steel #51
Superman (1987) #107
Steel (1994) #22
Adventures of Superman #530
Superman: The Man of Tomorrow #3
Action Comics #717
Superman: The Man of Steel #52
Superman (1987) #108
Adventures of Superman #531
Steel (1994) #23
Showcase '96 #1 - 2
The Millennium Giants
JLA Secret Files #2
he becomes a member of the justice league and is in JLA (1997) #19 - 41, but he's mostly just kinda... there. it's been a while since i read this book, so if anyone's got a fresher memory, please correct me if i'm wrong, but i don't remember him ever getting much of a focus in this book. it's fun to see him in the justice league for sure, and i do recommend reading it, but i can't say i really consider it essential reading for him specifically
Team Superman Secret Files & Origins
Superman: The Man of Steel #95 - 97
Superman: The Man of Steel #98 (part of the Superman Y2K arc)
Metropolis Secret Files & Origins
Superman: The Man of Steel #99 - 101
the Critical Condition arc:
Superman (1987) #158
Adventures of Superman #580
Superman: The Man of Steel #102
Action Comics #767
Superman: Emperor Joker
Superman: The Man of Steel #106 - 110, #112, #114
Our Worlds at War was also a pretty important event for him, but i really can't justify recommending that you read the whole massive thing if you're only interested in him. he only shows up in a few issues (which may be a little confusing without the context of what's happening in the entire event, but it's fine):
Action Comics #594
Superman: The Man of Steel #116 - 117
Superman: The Man of Steel #118, #120, #122 - 125
Superman: The Man of Steel #130, #131 (part of the Ending Battle arc)
Superman: The Man of Steel
Superman vs Darkseid: Apokolips Now!
the Strange New Visitor arc:
Action Comics #811
Adventures of Superman #624
Superman (1987) #201
he featured fairly often in in 52 & Infinity Inc (2007), but i haven't actually gotten around to reading either one of those yet beyond skimming a few random issues, so i can't really give any specific recs there
Superman #685 - 687, #689 - 690, #695 (part of the New Krypton Saga)
Superman: War of the Supermen (also part of New Krypton)
Reign of the Doomsdays
aaaand that brings us to the end of the preboot universe. i think he was a fairly major player in the n52 superman comics, but i haven't gotten around to them, either. the only post-reboot comic i can really recommend (and i do strongly recommend it because it's an all time fave for me) is Superwoman (2016)
beyond that, i believe he's a semi-regularly occurring character in the current superman titles & that there's a Steelworks book out there somewhere. but i've kinda lost interest in current comics for the time being, so that's all i can really say about that!
hope this helps & happy reading 💕
#long post#ask#anonymous#john henry irons#comic recs#yeehaw#red text = the ones that correspond to the arc mentioned above#i wanted to put a space btwn the bullets to make that more clear but i guess post formatting doesnt let u do that anymore (??)#and bold = issues he actually appears in#which is only relevant for the trial of superman one#i tried to just link to reading lists for the ones where i think reading the whole thing is worth it#but that's the only one i couldn't find a good one for#also with the death/return reading guide it links to a comment on article ! that was not a mistake#i think the comment did a better job of summing it up succinctly (and mb got a few things the person missed)#BUT the full article has context that's good too. specifically regarding the weirdass annual event#that happened smack in the middle of rots.. which is good to have#because i know that confused the hell out of me when i was first reading it lol
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Christmas words: Naughty & Nice
I don't like the idea of Santa's list of 'naughty' and 'nice' children, but parents have been using it as a way to provoke their children into preferred behaviour, and this categorisation of children has always been naughty v. nice or good v. bad. It's not just Santa, but a variety of Christmas season characters across Europe who have this binary approach to morality.
Naughty
In the late 1300s naughty meant what it looks like it should mean: naught-y, someone or something that had naught. From very early on it also had a sense of evil, no good, and harmful. Although it started as a strong negative, over the years the strength eroded, and then by the 1600s became applied to children and other mildly disobedient creatures. 'Naughty boy' trumps 'naughty girl' in Google's corpus, but both along with child' & 'children' are much more common than 'naughty man', showing this youthful slant that 'naughty' now has.
Google ngram view of the top 9 things that come after 'naughty' in the corpus. Words are: boy, girl, and, child, little, things, children, boys, man, world. See interactive view here.
Things get a bit awkward thanks to the sexy 1860s slang use of 'naughty', which has frankly ruined the collocation of naughty and nice for me forever.
Nice
If 'naughty' has been on a bit of an etymological journey, then 'nice' has been on a millennium-long epic quest. I somehow condensed this saga into 120 words for a By Lingo piece back in 2019:
For such a basic word, nice has a rollercoaster history that is, at times, anything but nice. If we begin with the Latin origins, we start with nescius ‘ignorant, unaware’ (literally ‘not-knowing’), French in the 1100s used nice for ‘careless, needy, stupid’, which is how it came into English in the 1300s. From there to came to mean ‘foolishness’ or ‘silliness’ and then made the jump around 1400s to meaning ‘fuss’ and ‘difficult to please’. By 1600 this had evolved to mean ‘refined; and ‘culture’, and by time we get to Jane Austin’s usage around 1800s it meant ‘respectable’ and ‘virtuous’. By the 1830s it meant ‘kind’ and ‘thoughtful’, which brings us to its current, anodyne meaning.
At Superlinguo, I celebrate the silly season with Christmasy words. The full list is here. If you’ve got a Christmas word you’re curious about, let me know!
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PLEASE reblog this one as far and wide as you can, I wanna hear from everybody I can about this one, it's particularly near and dear to my heart ...
#tumblr polls#what could have been#movies we never got#judge dredd#john carter#john carter of mars#dirk pitt#sahara movie#fincher's millennium trilogy#the girl with the dragon tattoo#ghostbusters 2016#the man from uncle#megamind#sky captain and the world of tomorrow#sky captain#king arthur legend of the sword#guy ritchie's king arthur#terminator dark fate
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Hello guys! You probably would wonder who I am, since I didn’t post here for more than… eternity and also mostly I posted here some Superhero stuff (arts and memes). As a reminder: I am Meooxie, digital painter and from now on I will post here my artworks ♥️
Unfortunately I stopped drawing superhero arts somehow, so it’s totally okay if you wouldn’t be comfortable following me anymore. But if you are interested in my works and my journey you are very well here! I am drawing some fanarts (random things mostly, like Disney princesses, Twilight Saga fan arts and some other media that I as a millennium like) and also my own characters and story.
Will be very grateful for any of your support + I am open for commissions!
Hope to be consistent here 🖤 (some artworks as banners ✨)
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