#quadrell

[thepetulantcat]

„Wir, alles teurer gemacht? Liebesgrüße nach Moskau. Die müssen Sie aber senden. Sie haben die Kontakte."

~ Robert Habeck zu Alice Weidel

[doe-prince]

I like Polku! Do they have any larger story attached to them? Or are they just a guy

Polku (meaning 'the act of stomping/pedaling', can also be read as 'trail') was originally a rp character I made for the same universe as Loiva in 2019, but I never got to use him. I'm sucker for monochrome designs so I still kept him around, briefly renamed him Loisto (splendor), and sometimes used him for more personal artworks since I don't have a sona or anything to directly represent me. I guess Polku, Doe Prince and Chrome Child are the most 'me' in my art!

These days he's pretty genderless. Just an unsure puppy.

[alterugdalf]

Merz kritisiert im Quadrell die Zusammenarbeit mit den NGOs in Afghanistan, da sie "den Grünen nahestehen". Ganz abgesehen davon, dass das eine haltlose Behauptung ist: Das ist derselbe Friedrich Merz, der unlängst erklärte: Das Richtige wird nicht dadurch falsch, dass der Falsche zustimmt.

Aber da ging es ja um eine Zusammenarbeit mit Faschisten. Das ist in seiner Welt anscheinend besser als eine Zusammenarbeit mit Grünen.

[lettheladylead]

quadrell

Minima the beloved... also Adélia

Adelia De Spell first because she’s super easy: she’s been in one comic and never mentioned in any other comic ever lol

Thank you to @myrskytuuli for doing a lil scanlation of the comic way back when (link) (part 2 link) so that’s a lot less work for me. What do we know about Adelia? She’s Magica’s cousin who made a decision to stop being a witch and be a fairy instead. It’s funny to know that’s a decision someone can just make. Will Matilda or Minima make the same decision? You never know

We also learned that the process of going from a witch to a fairy involves many trials, the last of which is trying to convert another witch into becoming a fairy. Very specific. Part of me thinks Adelia made that up ‘cause she wanted to hang out with her cousin Magica but who knows.

Anyway that’s all we know. She’s trusting and a little airheaded, but the fact that she was born a witch and gave it up as an adult is interesting. It’d be nice to see her again. Also here’s some fun images/dialogue and then I’ll get to Minima under the cut:

cute

“everybody knows, bitch”

magica’s physical age fluctuates depending on the author but its fun to wonder if she’s immortal or not

anyway MINIMA TIME! Minima De Spell:

Minima is interesting. She was created specifically for DuckTales 1987, but then they never got to include her in the show, just in the one DT87 comic. But it’s funny ‘cause Magica had a number of young nieces and nephews that they could’ve used instead of making up a new one, but (shrug)

I think Minima might be the only DuckTales cartoon creation that was notable enough to become canon in the comics?? Don’t quote me on that tho

I’ll start with her DT87 comic appearance even though it has zero relevance to her characterization in the regular comics. Minima doesn’t seem to be very close to Magica, only staying with her temporarily while her mother (a sister/sister-in-law/cousin/fellow witch of Magica’s?) is busy. She befriends Webby and then tries to use Webby to get Scrooge’s dime, but then realizes she likes Webby too much to do it. It’s very cute, reminds me of Weblena.

(hanging out on a playground jungle gym is also reminding me of weblena lol)

(sorry for the bad quality pics i just took them with my phone ‘cause i can’t find the digital copy i thought i had of this comic)

Overall, here Minima is loyal to Webby and doesn’t care much about Magica’s life goal. She gets bullied by her peers and has magic powers but they’re not super powerful.

THENNNNNN four years after that was published, Minima made her first Topolino appearance! Funny enough, her original comic was never translated into Italian, so this was her first appearance in Italy. Also the first appearance of Magica’s not-fiancé and her granny’s apprentice, Rosolio Rhododendron. 

There was a couple of comics between 1995 and 2002 where Minima/Granny De Spell/Rosolio showed up and caused mayhem for Magica, but Minima’s presence in them is...minimal. She likes Ratface and she plays pranks and is a very silly kid. Also kind of a bit sadistic towards the poor bird. More interesting than that, Magica apparently put a spell on Granny/Minima/Rosolio where they’re trapped in some magic dimension for 77 days at a time and can only come out every 33 hours (in this screencap it says 333 but later they say 33). They’re doing really well despite this.

Oh hey look she’s in the little witches version of the Woodchucks! Junior Witchhex Guidebook...cute. I guess there’s a lot of magic things going on in that other dimension she’s spent several years of her life in

very philosophical child

well that’s it for officially translated comics. I was able to find 1 out of Minima’s 3 other appearances...

Here she’s just telling Magica to stop playing videogames so much

One of the other appearances is something to do with Halloween and it includes April May and June so I’d love to find it but I really struggle to get my hands on stuff from the Netherlands lol

anyway so that’s Minima! She definitely likes to torment poor Ratface but she’s also very good at magic and she’s barely experienced any of the human world since she’s mostly trapped in a magic dimension all the time

[modmad]

on a scale of one to ten how grateful are you for the fact that most of Melody's body is covered by grass/leaves/whatever right now

100 but I did plan it from the start so I don’t feel ANY GUILT HAHAHA

[soup-du-silence]

*bangs pots and pans* HAPPY BIRTHDAY @quadrell!!!!!!!

[jen-iii]

re: jettreno's ask-- After Dewey makes that proposal they all collectively call that language "verbal keysmashing" cause the actual name is stupid complicated (and only Lena can actually pronounce it), and at some point the whole fam is out on an adventure to some shadow-themed temple and there's a door that requires someone to speak it, so one of the kids nods to Lena and says "keysmash" and she starts talking in it and meanwhile Scrooge is watching this, like. What? What. The fu ck,, .

Scrooge: “What in blazes- What sort of language is this?? In all my years I have NEVER seen anything like it!

Dewey, scrambling up to try to ‘read’ it: ‘It looks like- OH! OH IT’S KEYSMASH!!! GUYS GUYS LOOKLOOKLOOK IT’S KEYSMASH!!”

*cue all the children scrambling over to come see before yelling ‘Keysmash’ like the seagulls in Finding Nemo*

Webby: “Lena get over here an speak your keysmash!!”

Lena: “Alright alright, geez, now lets see here..GFDHJSJSHDJFKLSAJJSKLCADCJAJHDCJAKSBHAJLDKCJASL!”

*door opens*

HDLW: “YAY!”

Scrooge:

[jettreno]

Re. The post where you said Lena was a great and terrible liar my thoughts immediately went to the beginning of TOBoSM where she's caught looming over Scrooge with a fucking dagger and it looks so much worse than what she's actually doing and she's just like "uhhhhhhhhhhh" for a solid minute. She's either good at cleaning her tracks or fucking abysmal at it and it's so funny

obviously her unending “uhhhhhhh” leading into her “what were YOU doing there” after being caught literally poised over scrooge’s sleeping body with a dagger is the best one but here are my other favorites of her “oh no i did not prepare for this” moments (under a read more bc with the pictures it gets long):

jaw$ #1:

jaw$ #2:

other bin of scrooge mcduck: