Hapless Daydreamer

Y’know, it strikes me that the whole “not every story is about you, but that doesn’t mean you can’t like it” thing is really no different a principle to liking birthday cake. As in: even if it’s not your birthday, you can still enjoy a slice or three - the more the merrier, even! It just means the actual party is for someone else, and even if the cake’s not your favourite flavour, you should be happy the birthday person is having a good time – but if they’re upset with the cake, then explaining why they’re wrong is probably a dick move.

And everyone deserves to have a choice of cake on their birthday, right? Which means that more variety is definitely better than less! I mean, I personally think carrot cake is a literal crime, but that doesn’t mean I’m going to bewail the state of the cake-making industry if it suddenly comes into vogue, and I’m sure as hell not going to boycott any bakery that sells it. So long as I can still buy some white chocolate caramel cheesecake, the fact that it might not be winning as many prizes as it was five years ago isn’t the same as having it smashed from my trembling hands by a bunch of rabid confectionery purists. 

The team is barely that at this point. In fact, mere minutes before, Tony has listed the team and their skills, and didn’t include himself. And yet this man, the same one who said he ‘doesn’t play well with others’. The same man who was told by another man on the fledgling team that he ‘better stop playing at being a hero’. The one person on the team, who if you take away his suit, has no protection, no formal training, is willing to stand there and give his team time to gather. In front of a vengeful and murdering God who he knows could crush him. With no protection.

Tony is willing to stand there and barely even flinches when Loki threatens him. He doesn’t raise his hands to protect himself. He doesn’t duck or weave. He doesn’t call the suit, even though he is now wearing the bracelets to do so. Instead, he stands completely still as yet another man leans in and threatens the very thing that keeps Tony alive. The arc reactor.

He must have images screaming internally at him of another man who reached in and pulled life from his chest and left him to die on his workshop floor. But Tony stands utterly still. His only movement being the rapid rising and falling of his chest as he sucks in shallow breaths. To give his team, a team of people who he has literally just met, whom he has no clue if they have his back, time. Because he knows they need him to. Because he knows it is right.

And then, in less than an hours time Tony; at a single barked, ‘Stark’ from Fury, will fly a nuclear missile into space on a certain suicide mission. With no doubts and no questions asked. Because his team needs him to.

But in this moment, sans suit, with no immediate back up and with memories of other situations possibly strangling his breath and lying like dead ash in his throat, Tony, shows that he is indeed willing to ‘lay down on the wire’ and do what he has to to save lives. He proves once again that no matter what is said or thought about him he, Tony Stark, and not the suit, is indeed, very much a hero.

Tony Stark is a hero, no question about it. 

EDIT #1 FOR CLARITY AND DETAIL 

tl;dr: we need Minako and Zoisite, send help

7 MAR 2016 ~

these openings are for a MUSH (text-based realtime RPG). WE CAN TOTALLY TEACH YOU HOW IF YOU HAVE NOT DONE THIS BEFORE it does not have to be scary! nobody bites. we love newbies. the end result of RPing with us generally looks like present-tense turn-taking damn-good fanfic, for reference.

details can be acquired by PMing me because there are people who don’t like it when I have fun and I don’t want to be open season target girl.

we are finishing D-Point next weekend and will be starting a bit of downtime before the next arc, which is a perfect time to catch up. 

RIGHT NOW I am looking for, broadly, two characters who have established on-game histories we can help you adapt:

Sailor Venus who loves and supports her Princess and her girls, and is open to having been involved in some way with Kunzite in SilMil, which does not necessarily mean a ship with Kunzite now. (ships player-negotiable)

Zoisite,  male/genderfluid and post-redemption, who loves and supports his Prince and his brothers, and is into the idea of Endy-and-Shitennou friendships and shenanigans and possibly hugpiles (again, any ships negotiable with players)

our cast is fucking all-star. the canon our BSSM cast is based on is a mishmash of versions and additions but the Silver Millennium is pretty solidly manga/Crystal with a bunch of negotiable detail-changes, i mean like, this is group fanfic; individual characters may draw more from classic or may have merged classic/manga/crystal/myu in some beautiful way. 

NO SHIPS GUARANTEED but any ships negotiable (CANON OR NON-CANON) with current players of other characters

explanations, logs of prior RP/on-game histories, and application available on request.

as an added bonus you will get to RP with @luna-whiskers and me :D

We don’t need to have jobs

Like seriously you’re assuming that modern capitalism is a given for a future technologically-advanced society

You don’t even need to go full socialist literally just tax companies for the money that they used to be paying employees (and then some because be real tax on wealthy individuals and corporations is always too low) and pay that back to the population as guaranteed basic income

fuck it, i’m just asking here. 

7 MAR 2016

these are for a MUSH (text-based realtime RPG). details can be acquired by PM because there are people who don’t like it when I have fun and I don’t want to be open season.

we are finishing D-Point next weekend and will be starting a bit of downtime before the next arc, which is a perfect time to catch up. 

i’m looking for, broadly:

1) a Minako who is open to having been involved with Kunzite in silmil, but that doesn’t mean a ship with Kunzite now (though it could)

2) a boy Zoisite who is manga-focused and who is into the idea of Endy-and-Shitennou shenanigans and hugpiles 

NO SHIPS GUARANTEED. 

“If a Cat mutates from Radiation, will they suddenly have 18 Half-Lives? Because that would be Rad.”

First of all, I apologize for this post being a bit late. I was JUST ABOUT to upload it when the internet at my house cut out. This should not have been a surprise, given all the various technical difficulties in the US yesterday…

Anyways… today’s comic deals with one of the more interesting topics in contemporary Shakespeare studies: Original Pronunciation!

O.P. and the amazing ways in which it has been reconstructed, deserve a lot more space than six stick-figure comic panels, but hey, barbarically reducing things of great literary and scholarly merit to their bare bones is kind of my “thing”. At the very least, now you know that when Hamlet tries to rhyme “move” and “love”, it’s not actually him pretending to be mad.

The super-linguist in question is David Crystal, whose praises I repeatedly sung. In his O.P. endeavors he has been ably assisted by his son, Ben Crystal, an actor who, armed with Shakespeare’s O.P., can make the prologue of Romeo and Juliet sound sexier and more piratical than you could have ever imagined. If you don’t believe, just take a listen:

Seriously. That’s gorgeous. Here’s a longer video, featuring Papa Crystal and Ben at the Globe:

It’s easy to get snobbish about Shakespeare and to believe it works only when performed in the elegantly trained received pronunciation of an Ian McKellen or a Benedict Cumberbatch. But, as the Crystals point out, received pronunciation is even further away from Shakespeare’s original accent than American are from it.

Passion in Practice - Theatre company founded by Ben Crystal, does awesome OP productions. Or at least I assume they’re awesome, but they haven’t come on tour to Michigan yet. What’s up with that, Ben?

Fucking stoked.

Sanders came out of Super Tuesday - a conglomerate of conservative states voting at once - with ~33% of the delegates.

Thirty-three percent.

The media is going to ignore this, they’re going to call Hillary “the winner.” What they won’t tell you is that it doesn’t matter how many states you win, it matters how many delegates you’ve earned.

It matters that among conservative states, 33% of the delegates went to Sanders - the more progressive candidate. Over a quarter of the delegates. And in states like Oklahoma? Sanders got ~53% of the vote. Over half. Oklahoma. I’m excited to see the upcoming states turn out - more liberal states.

Every vote counts. Every vote matters.

If someone sounds disheartened by Super Tuesday, realign them to the reality of the situation. Inform them what’s really going on, don’t rely on the media to inform them - the media has been working against us from the get go.

We’re making it happen, we should be proud of ourselves and keep the momentum going. We’re making extraordinary things happen.

- Punk Gone Political