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the earth adorned in a phosphorescent crown of light, as supercharged plasma spewed from the sun smashes into the planet’s magnetosphere, exciting our atmosphere at the poles and generating up to a million megawatts of power in the process. photos by reid weisman and roscosmos from the international space station, which passes over the earth’s poles every ninety minutes.
Woahhh -Emily
So you know how Tom and Chris often complain about how hot it gets in their costumes… Here’s a win-win solution
Canadian artist Shane Wilson transforms massive moose antlers into magnificent works of sculpture inspired by his natural surroundings in northern Ontario. Using ethically sourced antlers, horns, and skulls from native animals, Wilson painstakingly carves beautifully detailed scenes from the Canadian wilderness as well as intricate geometric, organic, and traditional patterns. His skill and care can turn a huge pair of solid moose antlers into branches covered in perching birds, a forest or mountain scene, a complex maze of Celtic knotwork, or even a dreamy interpretation of the Aurora borealis (bottom image).
Head over to Shane Wilson’s website to check out more of his stunning antler carvings.
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JAW DROPS.
you honestly expect me to believe that natasha fucking romanoff got thrown into a cell and didn’t find a way to break herself out and she had to wait for a man to rescue her??
Thank you.
SHE DID FIND A WAY.
SHE CREATED A RADIO FROM SCRATCH
AND SHOWED THEM WHERE ULTRON’S BASE WAS
AND SAVED THE WORLD
like. there’s championing women in film, and then there’s flat out erasing what the women actually did in said film, for fuck’s sake fandom.She didn’t wait to be rescued. She brought the fight to her.
Well, it starts with a need for verisimilitude, a desire for there to be a sense of real-world consequences to these fairy stories. That’s a function to a certain degree of age, where you can’t accept the same level of unreality as an eight-year-old can. Additionally, there’s still that sense, especially as one grows older, that all of this stuff is silly, stupid, kid’s stuff. And yet, you love it, and you want other people to respect it–and so you want it more and more to be “serious”, to play by real-world rules. So that it doesn’t embarrass you.
Years ago, when I was just a fan, I once wrote a thing called “The Most Realistic Batman Story Ever”, which amounted to this: Batman, from the rooftop across the street, sees a jewelry store being robbed. So he casts his batline in order to swing down to the attack. Then, having failed to secure it, he reels it back up, resets, and throws it again. And again, and again. Finally, after a dozen attempts, he gets it to catch, and swings down to the jewelry store, surprising the thieves by crashing through the plate glass front window. His body is cut to ribbons–seconds before the startled gunmen pull their guns wildly and shoot him dead.
That’s a very didactic and cynical sort of exercise, even though it’s cynicism about cynicism. But there’s a nugget of truth to it. That’s not the story we want. Even the most realistic-skewing fan doesn’t really want realism, what they really want is verisimilitude–emotional truth, the feeling that the events taking place are of import to the characters, and the imparting of an emotional experience onto the reader. That’s what we consume stories for.
WATCHMEN is rightly considered one of the most realistic and thoroughly thought-through comic books ever created. And it’s full of absolute nonsense that would never work. Hell, its whole ending is predicated on an absurd twist that’s right out of a comic book. To me, though, that’s not a flaw in WATCHMEN, that’s one of the things that makes it great. Because while it spends a lot of time deconstructing a number of the tropes of the super hero genre, it spends just as much time reveling in them.
Golden Age Apollo and Midnighter by Brendan Tobin
From CBR’s The Line it is Drawn
THOR CHARACTER MODELS
Art by Russell DautermanDid these as I was starting work on the book. The costumes for Thor and Odinson were designed before I came on board (by the great Esad Ribic), but here’s my take on them.
UPDATE: Re-upped with more models!
Here are new designs I did for Odin, Freyja, Jane, Malekith, the Light Elves, and Karnilla. Also included are my model sheets for Heimdall, Roz, and the Dark Elves (those three are mostly pre-existing designs with a few tweaks).
For Karnilla and Malekith, I incorporated some of the more iconic elements from their Walt Simonson looks. The Light Elves are a combo of 17th Century dress, flower motifs, and general elfness.
I NEEEED this team post-Secret Wars, just add Loki and it will be completely perfect.
and pixie
Okay, I guess she can come, too. :p
Actually thinking on this some more, I also want Elsa Bloodstone and Blade. they are not magic users but they travel in the same circles, and they may need some people who just beat shit up, so it’s cool.
This is Harley Quinn herself admitting that her relationship with the Joker was abusive.
Do not romanticize the relationship between Harley Quinn and the Joker.
I’m just gonna bold the important part of this post, because the amount of people I know who ship this is disturbing.
as mentioned in these previous posts, kilauea, a flat broad shield volcano, has erupted continuously from its pu’u o’o vent since 1983, growing the island by about 42 acres a year as its basaltic lava flow oozes at a speed of fifteen yards an hour into the ocean. photos by tom kuali.
a-force #1 (2015): “it’s this world where the marvel heroines are leaders in their own civilization. […] there are men—there are heroes there. you’ll see familiar faces and favorites, but the heroines are in charge, by majority. it’s just this is how their world evolved. they were competent. they were clever and they were the ones in charge because of their skills and they were the best fit for these roles and demands of their world.” (comixology)
WORDS by MARGUERITE BENNETT, G. WILLOW WILSON, ART by JORGE MOLINA
