Musings of Forgotten Lands

Gorgeous stunning beautiful knock-out divine move Alex I'm stealing your girl

ALEX GET YOUR HEAD IN THE GAME BEFORE I SMACK YOU

Large spreads like this are my kryptonite when needing to crop for tumblr eugh

Yeah she cooked you here man there's no arguing with this

She's 100% right here he's gotta stop making himself the center of the universe for everyone's issues

And these people need to get a smack in the mouth

Takes a lot for Lorna to lose her temper but once she does....you can really see the family traits coming out in her whoops. This escalates real fast

She also becomes oblivious to what's going on around her because she's tunnel-visioned on the source of her anger

I think she miiiiiight just be secretly enjoying this

👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

Anyone who ignores Lorna's sympathetic and compassionate nature isn't somebody you can trust

Exhibitionist has 2 meanings and comic writers looooove to conflate the two together for some reason. What they're trying to get at is the first meaning which is "someone who behaves in an extravagant way to attract attention" but what the wording here comes off as is "anyone wearing 'provocative' clothing is a pervert". Tiring for many reasons

He looks so ridiculous I would also give me brother endless shit if I saw him in something like this

Awww he came around to it <3 His original blue-and-white will forever be his best costume to me though

Huh I think my hair is the same length as hers currently. Not nearly as thick anymore though 😔I'm jealous

Points for trying Lorna; some people simply can't be reasoned with

You people would all be dead dozens of times over without her around to catch you huh

Lucky for me one of my closest friends has bipolar disorder and when I described Lorna's symptoms to her she informed me that Lorna has Bipolar 2 Disorder which is different to Type 1. I bring this up only because you can see it affecting her here. Generally whenever someone describes Lorna or Pietro as being 'unstable' that's the comic version of pointing out their mental illnesses. Which is not a good way of handling that whatsoever but here we are

This annual succeeds very well at summarising everyones history and I am again laughing at "mistaken as Magneto's daughter" bit since we all know she's got some BIG wakeup calls coming in her future lolol

As someone who has done the house of cards thing before: I feel Pietro on a personal level here

Unfortunately we're gonna be dealing with this outfit on her now which is sssssso fun. Love that.

Rahne hitting on Jamie and him running to Lorna for help because he knows Rahne would never if there wasn't something else going on with her is quite funny. We're about to get really weird with her though

And the anti-mutant microaggressions on this Genosha visit begin

Annnnd here's where we get weird as fuck about Rahne. I really couldn't tell you why he decided to go this direction with her but it's Here now so...

YKNOW WHAT I'LL TAKE IT LETS GO MUTUAL VENTING CATHARSIS IT WAS SORELY NEEDED (Rahne is 16 to add some context for her lore)

Scott Lobdell took over as writer and went "fine I'LL address Lorna's issues since nobody else will" and thank god for that

Peter David left Scott Lobdell a huge mess to deal with and honestly Lobdell handled it about as well as anyone could've hoped to. This is a great moment between them is what I'm saying

My problem here is pretty simple: every other person on this team gets a proper real serious therapy session where their issues and problems are given due respect (including, surprisingly, Pietro's). But what does Lorna get? Dismissal and jokes. It fucking SUCKS seeing her get treated as if her feelings are silly when she's such an "intellectual woman". Fuck off

To make it worse we get Whatever The Fuck This Is. No not her emotions going all over the place rapidfire leading to her doing a dramatic shift in character but the "therapist's" reponse to it

HOLY SHIT POLARIS THAT'S A FATALITY

Writing 和風細雨 (he2feng1xi4yu3; gentle breeze and light rain) with a cat's tail on a water-writing mat.

Water-writing mats turn black when wet and return to their original colour once dry, so they are often used to practise calligraphy with water. The black colour allows you to see your writing clearly, and the mat can be reused as soon as the writing dries and disappears.

This is a 10/10 arc for me and I highly recommend it but since we're only focusing on the Lorna side of things weeeelll a lot will be missing. Anyone up for Emotions

If it works it works I will not argue with the results

She lasted less than 5 seconds against the three of them that's what we in the business call overkill lmaoooo

One of her ongoing struggles is dealing with both her own and other people's high expectations of her. It's a big reason why, when she's having an episode, her lows are low and her anger is Yikes

THAT'S HER FERAL WEREWOLF GIRL HANDS OFF SAURON

Yeah so when Rahne goes all angry wolf like this she uh can't always tell who is friend or foe hence why she tends to avoid doing this very often

YAY SHE GETS TO SAVE ALEX THIS TIME

Oof. Genosha's a bit of a heavy subject rn Alex that place currently is noooot known for being mutant-friendly and you are very naive if you think that can change just by getting rid of a few government problems. The average citizen still exists my guy

God he's such a show-off isn't he. Hey Jamie snap out of it you do not want to fall for Pietro and get in the middle of all his unresolved issues rn

YOU TWO STILL HAVEN'T TALKED ABOUT YOUR RELATIONSHIP STATUS!? LORNA GET IT TOGETHER HOW IS PIETRO DOING BETTER AT THIS THAN YOU

Yknow what hey at least your assailant was nice enough to punch you after getting your attention and not before. Chivalry

She just clocked in the face once I don't think it's that serious compared to the other stuff she's been through

There's a lot of evidence to support that Rahne is a closeted lesbian and the biggest proof I can show you rn is this dream she has at the start of #80. What's that about Rahne

Annnnd we begin to see my ~problem~ with Peter David: he does not treat Lorna's mental health issues as seriously as he does the others on the team. Lorna has an eating disorder during this run. You'll see as we progress that his take on her problems are...well. And that's not touching on her (as of the moment) undiagnosed bipolar disorder

Rahne going from being envious of Lorna bc of her crush on Alex to worriedly fussing about her health is the development we're here for

Pietro judging Guido's huge appetite as if he himself doesn't need to eat a crapton of food to keep his energies up 🙄honestly Pietro have some class

"Infernal container of arterial corruption" I'm cryingggg somebody please show this man all that food vids of americans putting unholy amounts of cheese on everything he would lose his MIND

I do love Lorna and Alex's jackets. A really nice twist on the classic yellow and blue uniforms

Anyway the plot of this one is they're tracking down a villain named Spiral [she shows up a lot if you read the Mojo storylines] buuuuut I want to focus on Lorna being a great first-responder. No seriously if she wasn't stuck on superhero teams all the time she'd be an excellent hero for disaster relief

I know it's just drawn this way for dramatic effect but I like to think Lorna's hair being all floaty is because of her powers

QUICKIE—

The program Rahne destroyed here is one that can supposedly 'determinethe likelihood that an unborn child be a mutant' and a guy called Tucker believed himself capable of isolating the mutant gene and getting rid of it should the fetus' parents want him to

And our crew was sent to save him from being murdered by the mutant liberation front which Rahne was not interested in doing if they weren't also going to tell Tucker he was doing bad shit. That's why Lorna is shocked at Rahne showing up to help her above ^

Regardless Rahne is justified in doing this

And then we end on this which is :') ah. It would be discovered later that Luna - Pietro's daughter - does indeed possess powers but neither he nor Crystal is aware of that yet

My reaction seeing her beauty and muscle here:

Talk about getting pulled in two directions--AAAA PIETRO SAVING LORNA 💜💜💜💜

Rahne's issue is that she killed someone </3 it happens. Hhhh Lorna so good though ;; trying her best to reach out to her

Sam and Rahne are old friends and used to be on a team together. Sam is convinced that Rahne has been brainwashed or something by X-Factor because he can't fathom why else she'd be choosing to stay with them instead of joining him and their other friends with Cable which leads to...well...this

Please learn how to lie Lorna like thanks for sticking with Rahne and listening to her but jesus you cannot come up with good excuses to save your life

Gorgeous, smart, strong, capable, down for a laugh, she's the whole damn package

She looks like Val's gf here lol

Never let Jamie watch Finding Nemo you know those seagulls would become the worst vocal stim for him

Teehee she struggles with this now but in future she'll see these feats as a cakewalk

Have not said it yet but as a fellow thick eyebrow haver I feel so seen when women in comics have big brows

A sweet sibling moment that is ruined by the weight joke. Sighs

It's so unfair for you to look this pretty even when distressed. What the fuck

He's so annoying <- affectionate

Tried deflecting the arrows with magnetic waves and when that doesn't work--

--UNO REVERSE BITCH

If anyone fucks up Guido's crafts I'll be on the news

FWUFF

If you don't like Guido you're wrong

Yeah you're all screwed

Adoring this ongoing bit where Lorna learns the proper usage of Guido's 'blork' insult

Tough macho leader doesn't suit you Alex and the sooner your accept that the better

Nyyeeaaahhhhh that was when he didn't have his brains about him thoooo

Right!? I love her hair too Hulk it's dazzling