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I made up a creature. Right now it's detailed in this Google doc. Once I get a decent computer I'll get it looking less like it was made in the early 2000s lol.
Anyway they are called Anilineko. Mine is made of paint and her name is Sige. You can see her in the doc as the example and her sketch is provided but she got a minor change in the final version. ;)
If you do make your own, link this post. There are recommended tags to use in the doc. Have fun with them. I'd really like to see what you come up with.
Anilineko (Ah-ni-line-ko) The Anilineko or children of Aniline are said to have been born of a blessing from Aniline the goddess of craftwo
I'm putting the content of this under a read more just incase I miss a tag. I don't want to spoil shit for people. GO WATCH THE NEW EPISODE IF YOU CAN!
Not gonna lie, after watching so much of Nikhil I was expecting an Arcade thing but the Danger Room becoming "sentient" more or less was...sure. I remember that being a thing.
The episode being a Lorna spotlight was a change but I do wish it didn't come down to Chuck deciding to quite literally project her father onto her. I'm hoping she gets a chance to be herself without her story revolving around a man, like it did here and in the og show.
Speaking of which, Havok is....idk but I really wanted something with him and Scott cause they are brothers and it's never addressed. Does he even care his brother isn't dead? OR is he too much of a boy scout right now?
More of Bishop is good seeing him struggle to relate to what amounts as privilege of learning in a classroom versus the streets. There did seem something between him and Lorna, I'm hoping a good power pairing.
Storm giving Bishop a power up is something but why couldn't she help the kid? I like that she's the headmistress, let the woman teach. I do wonder what she'll do when she learns what happened to Remy.
Speaking of our beloved Cajun, Pocky (yes that's what I'm calling him lol) finally did the thing we've been waiting for since the teaser last season. The man is back and he's Death. The transformation was horrific with only silhouettes. The way his cards changed into tarot cards was absolutely amazing. The Queen of Hearts becoming the Lovers, a card that looked like it had him and Rogue on it was just perfect. Remy's eyes are the same at first I thought the sclera had turned read and irises black but nope. His teaser looked like a palette swap and I hope they do something else too but either way I'm glad he's back.
Someone did a read on the cards from a tarot standpoint but I couldn't repeat it if I tried. Someone else pointed out the symbolism on the cards and THAT I can talk about.
Card one: Death: Your traditional Grim Reaper design holding 3 cards and a scythe. So the 3 cards obviously alluding to Remy's card gimmick and the fact that tarot readings are traditionally 3 cards. Death carries a scythe sure, but Remy also uses a bo staff. I suspect this was the Ace of Spades as the Ace of Spades is traditionally associated with death.
Card two: The Tower: Traditional tower imagery (look it up if you need to see it). This one is less obvious but someone kindly pointed out that X-Corp is a Tower. That's really all there is for that one.
Card three: The Lovers: This card shows two figures resembling Remy and Rogue. Someone pointed out a skeleton but I couldn't see it. But this card formerly being the Queen of Hearts, a card Remy associates with Rogue and is the card Pocky dug out of the rubble. The same Card we see Rogue with in the teaser for the season.
Love appears to be a theme among this season actually. Different types of love, not just romantic/sexual (rose). Familial love in Rogue and Kurt (though I'd have like to see more with them), in Scott, Jean and Cable, in even Lorna trying to deal with her father's legacy. There is rose love too, in Morph and Wolverine (not reciprocated), it seems Charles and Erik even (thought that could be a qpr and not rose), and yes in Rogue mourning Remy.
I think this season will play with the idea that love saves people. The sad thing with Morph not being loved enough by Wolverine (which was a stupid decision on the part of the writers) sets up for Rogue's love of Remy saving him. The only question is how? How will this work? We were reminded she could do it by Angel, whose evil she took into herself and dealt with his traumas.
Actually let's talk about how each episode can tie back to Remy. (forgive lack of titles on some)
Episode 1- The Future: We don't see Remy but the end alludes to Pocky going back to revive him.
Episode 2- The Present: Again we don't see him, but we do see his casket (it's not a coffin people); Further this is where we get the remind that Rogue can reverse the brainwashing.
Episode 3&4- The Past: I'm putting these together as they are a two parter. Anyway Kandra aka the External makes an appearance in both. What makes this Remy related? Kandra's only appearence in the OG show was X-Ternally Yours, an episode about Remy's past that ends with "I am not thief or assassin. I am an X-man and I'm never coming back" after he told Kandra to take Belladonna's powers but not her life (For more info see my post about her.)
Episode 5: Weapon X, Lies, and DVDs (yes I did remember this one); This one is a bit harder because really the only thing I can say is the idea that love can be used to pull someone out of a rage or something similar. It's a bit flimsy, sure, but given the prominence of the Queen of Hearts and the Lovers, I'm sure the idea is important. It also features a transformation from which someone must be saved. Alternatively, the Brood sort of appeared in the og show having turned Cody, Rogue's first bf, into a monster. This episode also showed Remy's love for Rogue showing up to her asking if she'd not rather have "the real thing" in reference to love and adventure. (Ok not as hard lol)
Episode 6: Danger.exe; Aside from the stuff above, we also return to Genosha where he died and see Lorna destroy Danger in much the same way Remy destroyed the Sentinel Kaiju.
So the next are gonna be my predictions:
Episode 7- seems like the Savage Land will make an appearance or reference. Not hard to tie that to Rogue and Remy, it's were they had their first actual kiss. They were powerless and captured by Sinister, it's also were he told her he loved her.
Episode 8- Dead Man's Hand; so the actual hand is aces and 8's but this is clearly going to involve Deathbit.
Episode 9- I'm assuming our finally will defeat Pocky and possibly return Remy to "normal" but if they follow the Phoenix route, he'll likely come back somewhere else possibly without memory possibly with hella guilt. (my bet's on guilt cause that man will feel it all).
ALSO: I wish Disney would make those cards for real cause I need them.
OK so that was a lot. If you read it all, thanks I guess.
If i see one more horny art of Grace I am actually going to spontaneously combust. Why can people not let aroaces be aroace.
"Aroaces can still date/have sex!!" Is objectively true but people have started using it to erase aroaces who DON'T want romance and sex. Like, you know, Ryland Grace, in the original source material.
If you do that shit I'm assuming you're aphobic full stop. It's erasure plain and simple. Why must everybody everywhere have sex for you to find them interesting??
You would all be shitting bricks if every fandom in existance consistently took canon exclusivly same-sex attracted characters and made them straight, and continuously demonized and shouted down anybody who pointed out that this was even remotely harmful.
You do not get a "get out of bigotry free" pass to do the same to canon aspec characters.
You should in fact feel bad about doing that, because you are upholding bigotry, on purpose.
If a character is canonically asexual and repulsed by sex, do not make them allosexual or sex-favorable.
If a character is canonically aromantic and repulsed by romance, do not make them alloromantic and romance favorable.
If a character is canonically aroace and repulsed by all forms of relationships, don't make that character allo squared and relationship-favorable.
And if you're going to respond to this by saying you actually think it's totally fine and not at all rooted in systemic bigotry for straight people to make gay characters straight to justify you and your friends erasing canon aspec character's orientations ... Just admit you are not interested in tearing down the systems that oppress Queer people in any way.
And no, you don't get a free pass to do this just because you are also aspec.
Throwing the rest of us under the bus so you can apeal to patriarchy, amatanormativity, and compulsory sexuality, does in fact make you a bigot.
If you can only respect Queer people if they have the exact experiences and identity as you do, then you don't actually fucking respect Queer people.
It doesn't matter what your identity is, you should be fucking cheering from the rooftops every time there is a new canon character with a Queer identity, instead of immediately defaulting to making that character more palatable to you, and to our patriarchal, amatanormative, sex-compulsory society.
Oh and don't you dare fucking act like there's some real "stigma" in fandom for people who ship canon a spec character as though they were allos squared, like that's not the literal fucking default for every fandom in existence, like the minority of us who are actually pointing out how this is harmful aren't silenced and demonized at every fucking opportunity.
Every time you erase a canon aspec character's identity to make them more allo and thus more palatable to our society that fucking hates aspec people, you are upholding the bigoted status quo, and you don't get to pretend you are the victim when people tell you this is bigoted.
You know what. You aren't worth my time. Next time you march into someone's ask box, don't act like some high and mighty saint when you are batting for a character who attempted mass murder or was seen in season 1 of 97 killing the entire planet by removing its magnetic field.
Funny how nobody cared about what magneto did until xmen 97 used him to split up romy, donât you think?
The hell you mean by that? Every time they use X-men they use Magneto. He's practically the only X-men villain anyone knows at this point. And speaking of breaking up Romy let's talk about how gross the wrtiers were to age Rogue up just so Mags didn't look like a creep despite grooming her? (I'm not holding that on the character cause damn is it so out of character from the og series.)
I just don't like the fact that Magneto has been treated like some paragon of good when his first appearence in the og cartoon was an attempt to start a war with nukes! It took Storm and Xavier to shut them down. The writers had the prime opportunity to have him be a mentor figure but instead used him to fall back on old habits and create a triangle we didn't need.
I cried for Remy because he was a good man. I didn't cry for Erik because time and again he's been selfish. IN this show he has at least 3 children and he still decided the planet wasn't worth anything. He was willing to kill his kids instead of going after the asshole responsible for the attack on Genosha.
I may not agree with how she did it, but at least Rogue went after the people responsible for what happened instead of killing innocent people.
Werenât you the one celebrating magnetoâs death
I didn't celebrate his death. I just don't feel bad for him dying there's a difference. But don't go to someone's blog saying they said shit without evidence especially since I've never shared or made a post with those words.
I don't feel bad for a man who just last season was willing to commit genocide on the entire human race (which is what shutting off the Earth's magnetic field would do by the way). His pulse probably killed millions- non mutants and mutants alike. It hard to feel sorry for him after that. Hard to feel bad for someone who willingly stranded others in the past because he wanted to play hero.
the post about people shifting to âaroace is a spectrumâ when it comes to Ryland Grace is SO TRUEEEE. AUGH
it almost feels like people initially accepted the ânon-partnering aroace Ryland Graceâ headcanon just because they thought he COULDNâT be shipped with anyone else (i.e. the sapient space rock alien who already had a partner, or the woman who sent him to space against his will in the first place)
but then they all saw Bloodymary and went âWAIT what if this OTHER HUMAN from a completely different space movie was ALSO there and they were in LOVE and DATING and MADE OUT with each otherâ and itâs just. hey so what happened. what about us.
it sucks too because before that, this was the first time iâve seen such a widely accepted aroace headcanon- and i was OVERJOYED. i felt SO represented and seen. and suddenly itâs all gone. like everyone just moved on when the âbetterâ option presented itself :/
(to clarify: i genuinely have no qualms against partnering aroace folks, Iron Lung itself (i havenât even seen it lol), or crackshipping across fandoms - i just hate that it became the new norm so fast, and the non-partnering aroace headcanon got practically erased đ)
It wouldnât be so unbearable if all the shipping stuff wasnât also in the aroace grace tags. Sometimes I scroll through aroace grace tags and see âthis post has filtered tags: #bloodymary,â âthis post has filtered tags: #bloodymary,â âthis post has filtered tags: #strattland,â âthis post has filtered tags: #bloodymary,â âthis post has filtered tags: #grocky,â âthis post has filtered tags: #bloodymary,â âthis post has filtered tags: #bloodymary,â âthis post has filtered tags: #bloodymary,â âthis post has filtered tags: #grockyâŠâ with like maybe three other posts in that mix.
And I know some of those are probably QPR, but thatâs still a type of partnering, and still feels a bit like itâs overshadowing a huge, important part of the story, and it feels discouraging.
And every time I discuss this, I get yelled at for harassing people when IM LITERALLY JUST NOTING AN ALLONORMATIVE TREND AND POLITELY ASKING PEOPLE TO CONSIDER THEIR INTERNAL BIASES.
hello allo member of fandom. before you is an aspec character. your challenge is to not put them into a ship which defies, erases, or ignores their aspec identity.
having failed that challenge, your next challenge is to not defend said ship with the phrases âaros can still dateâ, âaces can still have sexâ, related phrases, or derivatives thereof.
Just in case you want to ignore the spoiler warning I will say it's not really that major but if you want to go in uninformed heed the warning.
Also I'll be talking about an ep from the og 90s show so if you haven't seen that then uh....spoilers for that too I guess.
Ok. So you decided to join my conversation. Sorry to tell you it's not something most people are going to give a damn about but I want to talk about a character we saw in these episodes. A character we've met before, in the future/present day-- The External.
Yeah, remember her? No? Am I the only one who loves her only appearence in the og 90s show? Probably not but it's my favorite epsiode because it's all about Remy's past....sort of.
So if you don't remember The External was the one who pitted the Assassins and the Thieves against each other. In present day, that is the past in the og show, she requested a tithe from both guilds. The day was approaching and the Assassins kidnapped Bobby (Henry), Remy's brother and swapped the tithe for a fake when they traded Bobby's freedom for Remy's.
The X-Men show up to help Remy blah blah blah fighting. The External shows up to accept the tithe and almost punishes the Thieves for their fraud until Jean forces her to see the truth at which point she accepts the Thieves's tithe and gives them a choice- Bobby tries to have all the Assassins killed but Remy asks only that Belladonna (oh yeah she's in charge of the Assassins and was trying to toute Remy as her husband because they were supposed to be wed but Remy left I guess that part is unclear why. Just this version they never married) lose her powers but not her life.
SO Why give a rundown of that episode? Because Rama-tut/Kang directly refered to her as External. She is told her part will soon begin. Is it a coincidence that this woman so closely tied to Remy's past was introduced now? I have a feeling she's important.
OH and the og ep (Exteternally Yours) ends with Remy telling Belladonna "I not Thief or Assassin. I am an X-man and I ain't never comin back." I feel like that is important too. He's an X-Man and that's something he'll need to remember.
<<Extra: if I forgot a spoiler tag please let me know and I'll try to add it.>>
If you think depicting a character as a sex-repulsed asexual inherently infantilizes them, thatâs aphobic.
If you think depicting a character as a sex-averse asexual inherently infantilizes them, thatâs aphobic.
If you think depicting a character as a nonpartnering asexual inherently infantilizes them, thatâs aphobic.
If you think depicting a character as a black-stripe asexual inherently infantilizes them, thatâs aphobic.
If you think depicting a character who is any of those types of asexual inherently makes them inhuman, robotic, heartless, evil, monstrous, or a bad stereotype, thatâs aphobic.
If you think depicting a character as sex-favorable means they canât be asexual, thatâs aphobic.
If you think depicting a character as partnering means they canât be asexual, thatâs aphobic,
If you think depicting a character as someone who has had or enjoyed sex means they canât be asexual, thatâs aphobic.
If you think depicting a character as someone who has experienced or does experience a little bit of sexual attraction means they canât be asexual, thatâs aphobic.
If you think depicting a character as a romance-repulsed aromantic inherently infantilizes them, thatâs aphobic.
If you think depicting a character as a romance-averse aromantic inherently infantilizes them, thatâs aphobic.
If you think depicting a character as a nonpartnering aromantic inherently infantilizes them, thatâs aphobic.
If you think depicting a character as a green-stripe aromantic inherently infantilizes them, thatâs aphobic.
If you think depicting a character who is any of those types of aromantic inherently makes them inhuman, robotic, heartless, evil, monstrous, or a bad stereotype, thatâs aphobic.
If you think depicting a character as romance-favorable means they canât be aromantic, thatâs aphobic.
If you think depicting a character as partnering means they canât be aromantic, thatâs aphobic.
If you think depicting a character as someone who has had or enjoyed a romantic relationship means they canât be aromantic, thatâs aphobic.
If you think depicting a character as someone who has experienced or does experience a little bit of romantic attraction means they canât be aromantic, thatâs aphobic.
And all of this applies to every other aspec identity as well.
