The God Damn Hat On the Bed

Fic; Don't Fear the Reaper

twbasketcase — Wed, 02 May 2012 03:59:47 GMT

Characters: Josh Foley (Elixir), Kevin Ford (Wither)
Genre: Angst, drama, gen, pre-slash
Word count: 4,134
Canon Point: Post-Necrosha
Rating: R for violence, death, and gore.
Summary: After being left behind on Genosha, Elixir starts a personal journey and mission to redeem himself for all the bad things he's done.

Other notes: This was written as a prequel for an RP I'm currently involved in, but it stands alone enough that I figured why not post it as a fic? Enjoy!

(All our times have come/Here but now they're gone/Seasons don't fear the reaper nor do the wind, the sun or the rain..we can be like they are/Come on baby...don't fear the reaper)

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Quick Fic

twbasketcase — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 05:10:31 GMT

Following in the footsteps of my dear dianoetic, I've started a 50 sentence writing challenge last night. Just some brief little ideas that I may use as prompts later.

Featured Character: Warren Worthington III
Pairings: Angel/Psylocke, Angel/Candy Southern, Angel/Dazzler, Angel/Iceman, and Angel/Jean Grey
Ratings: Nothing over R
Warnings: Spoilers for Uncanny X-Force #18 in one of them

#01 – Motion

#02 – Cool [616 verse; X-Men: First Class]
“You son of a bitch!” Warren shouted, flying out of the bathroom ass naked and sopping wet to chase after a cackling Bobby Drake, who was feeling more than victorious at having been successful in freezing Warren out of the shower for the third time that week.

#03 – Young [Gen]
He was a lucky boy with the blessing of privilege and an easy life, and yet he was always so lonely in that great big house without a soul to play with and no one to keep him company but a wild imagination that dreamed of him someday flying away to a better, happier place.

#04 - Last

#05 – Wrong [616; Gen]
It didn’t matter that Scott had to say about it, Warren wasn’t going to be convinced that the Danger Room shouldn’t be used for post-date activities with the ladies.

#06 - Gentle

#07 - One

#08 - Thousand

#09 - King

#10 – Learn [616; reference to Uncanny X-Men #159, Mutant Massacre, and X-Men #74]
Even with the ability to see in the dark and kill someone from several feet away, Warren could still never learn to get over his fear of the sewers.

#11 - Blur

#12 – Wait

#13 – Change [AU; implied Jean/Warren]
She returned to an instant wall of pressure and expectations, people whispering about who she’d choose between Scott and Logan and how or if she’d save the mutant race, and Jean couldn’t be gladder to turn right around and leave again, taking a chance on the one who got away long ago.

#14 - Command

#15 - Hold

#16 – Need [Gen]
Was it ironic or just cruel that the guy who couldn’t stand being on the ground for more than a few minutes was trapped in his damn office working all day?

#17 – Vision [AU; one sided Bobby/Warren]
After years and years of failed relationships and new team attempts, only one person in his life stuck by him and followed him each time, and Bobby was silently bitter that Warren, with his superhuman vision, still could not see what was standing right in front of his face all this time.

#18 – Attention [AU; Bobby/Warren]
As Bobby ran his hands up and across Warren’s chest, he couldn’t help but be extra attentive of the way Bobby’s skin was so easily able to make him shiver.

#19 – Soul [Archangel & Psylocke: Crimson Dawn]
The fact that he’d given up such an important part of himself for her was not at all something that unnerved him because he’d do it, for her, until there was nothing left to give.

#20 - Picture

#21 - Fool

#22 – Mad [Gen]
It may have seemed incredibly mundane, but nothing made Warren angrier than those bastards who came in and swiped his win in the last five seconds of an online auction.

#23 - Child

#24 - Now

#25 - Shadow

#26 – Goodbye [Uncanny X-Force #18; Angel/Psylocke]
It was his time to leave this world and he knew it, the only thing keeping him from going utterly mad with despair and panic was the fact that Betsy was standing above his broken body and there with him to let him into their mindlink just one more time to go to their safe place together.

#27 – Hide [RP ‘verse; Warren & Gert]
“You know, there’s really not a point in scrambling to close your browser every time I walk in here,” Gert announced as she stepped into the office to file away her reports, barely giving the trying-to-look-innocent Warren a second glance, “next time try clearing your browser history, moron.”

#28 – Fortune [Gen]
Sometimes Warren actually caught himself thinking up offhanded comments that he could make so that people wouldn’t be so inclined to hate him on principle.

#29 - Safe

#30 – Ghost

#31 - Book

#32 - Eye

#33 - Never

#34 – Sing [RP ‘verse; Angel/Dazzler]
She’d been face to face with Galactus, been abducted, killed, and stranded on Mojoworld, but if there was one thing that the Dazzler was especially not prepared for, it was waking up each morning to another terrible rendition of Goldfrapp’s ‘Ooh La La’ while Warren showered.

#35 – Sudden [AU; Bobby/Warren]
Funny how a pathetically dateless Friday night (admittedly spent ogling your best friend’s pretty boy face during Die Hard II) could end with him on top of you with his tongue in your mouth.

#36 - Stop

#37 - Time

#38 – Wash [RP ‘verse; Dazzler/Angel]
It was almost embarrassing how much he loved it when she washed his wings for him, and that was exactly why he could never really brush off that blush it brought to his face every time.

#39 - Torn

#40 – History [616; implied Warren/Candy]
He still grieves and visits her grave often, sure to see that it’s heavily honoured and decorated and left looking every bit as beautiful as he remembers her to be.

#41 – Power [Gen]
He was around people who could control the weather, read minds, lift thousands of pounds, and who were considered the most powerful in the universe, and yet Warren would still never trade his wings for any other power in the world.

#42 - Bother

#43 - God

#44 - Wall

#45 – Naked [Gen; reference to Uncanny X-Men #440 and Uncanny X-Force #19]
There was something insanely enjoyable about being able to fly, yes, but never did he get a rush like he did when he was leaving his clothes behind and taking the risk of being caught, especially when there was beautiful company soaring along with him.

#46 - Drive

#47 - Harm

#48 – Precious

#49 - Hunger

#50 - Believe

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twbasketcase — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 04:58:28 GMT

Hello Dreamwidth!

I will be jumping ship here and leaving LJ behind. It's strange to do since I've been on LJ for several years (sadly, am even a permanent account owner) but I think I've had just about enough of the crap and the DDoS attacks and downtime and lack of cooperation on the staff's part. Ah well. Change can be good.

Feel free to friend me here on Dreamwidth if you have an account! I'd like to find everyone else who has jumped ship too.

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twbasketcase — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 20:05:24 GMT

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Mississippi Personhood Amendment

twbasketcase — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 17:39:28 GMT

Originally posted by gabrielleabelle at Mississippi Personhood Amendment

Okay, so I don't usually do this, but this is an issue near and dear to me and this is getting ~~very little~~ no attention in the mainstream media.

Mississippi is voting on November 8th on whether to pass Amendment 26, the "Personhood Amendment". This amendment would grant fertilized eggs and fetuses personhood status.

Putting aside the contentious issue of abortion, this would effectively outlaw birth control and criminalize women who have miscarriages. This is not a good thing.

Jackson Women's Health Organization is the only place women can get abortions in the entire state, and they are trying to launch a grassroots movement against this amendment. This doesn't just apply to Mississippi, though, as Personhood USA, the group that introduced this amendment, is trying to introduce identical amendments in all 50 states.

What's more, in Mississippi, this amendment is expected to pass. It even has Mississippi Democrats, including the Attorney General, Jim Hood, backing it.

The reason I'm posting this here is because I made a meager donation to the Jackson Women's Health Organization this morning, and I received a personal email back hours later - on a Sunday - thanking me and noting that I'm one of the first "outside" people to contribute.

So if you sometimes pass on political action because you figure that enough other people will do something to make a difference, make an exception on this one. My RSS reader is near silent on this amendment. I only found out about it through a feminist blog. The mainstream media is not reporting on it.

If there is ever a time to donate or send a letter in protest, this would be it.

What to do?

- Read up on it. Wake Up, Mississippi is the home of the grassroots effort to fight this amendment. Daily Kos also has a thorough story on it.

- If you can afford it, you can donate at the site's link.

- You can contact the Democratic National Committee to see why more of our representatives aren't speaking out against this.

- Like this Facebook page to help spread awareness.

Friends List Cut

twbasketcase — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 19:15:41 GMT

Hey everyone! I just removed about 70 or so people from my flist. I removed people if I have lost touch, didn't even recognize your name, or we just never spoke after the initial friending. IF we are still in touch and you think that I may have removed you on accident DEAR GOD PLEASE TELL ME SO THAT I CAN FIX THAT. I am not angry with anyone, so it'd truly be a mistake! LMAO

Also, if you just want to be re-added for any other reason then I suppose you can let me know here!

twbasketcase — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 15:53:53 GMT

Did a friends cut and removed a small amount of people that I've lost touch with. I will more than likely be doing a larger one this weekend, so if you'd like to stay on (or I just removed you and you don't want to be removed) please let me know here.

twbasketcase — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 01:04:54 GMT

So apparently I have a tumblr now. I am twbasketcase there if anyone would like to be friends? I don't have much there just yet, but I want to see more on the site! Also, if you have any recs for good fan blogs to follow, list them here so I can check them out!

Because I flailed and fangirled all day...

twbasketcase — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 04:49:50 GMT

COMICS: Misc, Uncanny X-Force [Archangel, Psylocke, Deadpool, Wolverine, Fantomex, Apocalypse] **Spoilers**
MOVIES: Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Shining, Clockwork Orange, Se7en, RHPS, Fear & Loathing, Misc
TV SHOWS:: I Love Lucy, He-Man, 80's and 90's Cartoons.
MUSIC: Freddy Mercury, Cyndi Lauper
STOCK: Animals, Models (**SOME NSFW**), Shoes, Misc

teasers:

Over here at shattermydisco

RICTOR/SHATTERSTAR STUFF

twbasketcase — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 02:28:16 GMT

I'll be shutting down Shattering the Earth in seven (7) days. Sorry to have to do this, but I can't afford to keep it running anymore. I'm a poor college student and I won't even be able to update it again anyways. :(

Thought I'd give people a head's up so that they can save any fics/links and stuff.

baby's first icon post

twbasketcase — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 03:41:47 GMT

Hell yeah I made icons. There are random ones under the cut, and X-Men ones under the cut. They are just bases, though, so don't be all OMG CONTRAST TEXTURE COLOUR BRIGHT LIGHT DARK whatsit on me. :P

67 Random [Macros, MSPaint drawings, 90s, NSFW pictures, and lolcats]
84 X-Men Promo Pics [X-Men, New X-Men, New X-Force, X-Villains, and Generation Hope]

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Enjoy!

ANIMALS!

twbasketcase — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 05:32:49 GMT

So I promised Jess some pictures of my pets. I was going to edit all these, but my camera somehow turned out REALLY amazing looking pictures, so I want to leave them as is. Click the links below if you want to see. :)

Albino Leopard Geckos - Nameless because all three look the exact same.
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Fancy Bearded Dragon "Toby"
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Retarded Puppies "Cody" (GSD/Border Collie) and "Pepper" (Black Lab/something ugly)
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Tropical Fish - Brackish water, live plants, bad algae. LMAO
Just one

Ball Python - "Lucy In The Sky"
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Ball Python - "Betsy"
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Pueblan Milk Snake - "Jerky"
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A VIDEO!!

Jungle Carpet Python - "Star"
ANOTHER VIDEO!!

Green Parakeet - "Skittles"
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Pacman Frog - "Chubby"
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Fatass retard cat - "Kitty" I hate her.
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AND I THINK THAT IS IT. At least, I don't think I'm missing anyone that I still own. LMAO. Hope you enjoyed!

twbasketcase — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 05:32:31 GMT

Hi! Is anyone interested in making me some Mystique icons? I have pics! A BUNCH HERE and there are some more HERE!

If anyone could do some--even just a couple--I would love you forever :3

DAZZLER CHARACTER ANALYSIS RECENT ONE-SHOT REVIEW

twbasketcase — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 01:09:17 GMT

HEAVY SPOILERS BELOW!!

To begin, I want to say that I am a HUGE fan of Dazzler. She's one of those Marvel characters that almost all comic fans know of, but don't really know or have had the privilege to see at her best. Hell, a lot of people don't even know that she was one of the very first mutants (the first, after Namor) to have her own ongoing solo series. Said solo last for 42 issues spanning over the earliest part of the 1980's. The story picked up just after her debut during the Phoenix Saga in Uncanny X-Men.

Back in those days, and despite being a mutant, Alison Blaire's character wasn't strictly associated with the X-Men or tied to Marvel's mutant teams in any way. While she did dabble with the team and a few of its select characters during this time, she was a very widespread MU character--having ties with the X-Clan (who she was invited to join twice, and declined), the Fantastic Four, the Avengers (whom she was also invited to come join), the Heroes for Hire, and Spider-Man. Not only were many of these heroes her allies and friends, but she got a taste of each of their rogue galleries, too, having fought everyone from the Enchantress, to Doom, to Galactus, to Doc Ock, and even the Brotherhood of Mutants.

Even her love life was a bit of a whirlwind. It included regular old human men (a doctor, a lawyer, and a Hollywood movie director), as well as some of the MU's hottest heroes: Qa-Sar, The Human Torch, and Angel and Beast of the X-Men.

However, despite all of her romances, pursuers, friendships and adventures, Alison's key character focus was her singing career. There were established and legitimate reasons as to why she'd turned down the X-Men and the Avengers, and those consisted of the fact that she wanted to live her life having fun and doing what she loved, and not putting her life on the line all the time. Alison had great control over her very powerful abilities, so she never had any problems hiding her identity from the public. She was a very real character who opted to stay in touch with her roots, and very often struggled with the fact that she was a mutant who wanted to live a normal life. This was a constant theme in her solo throughout the entire duration of its run, and also very thoroughly fleshed out her backstory, history, and family life. It was during this run that she finally met her long lost sister, Lois London, and the two were able to develop a brief and friendly sisterly bond. All-in-all, Alison Blaire was portrayed as a very strong, outspoken, fun, and casual character with a big back bone and an even bigger heart. Her dreams and personal life came before everything, and no matter how close she got to people or how tough her adventures became, she never let them drag her down or stop her from pursuing her singing (as well as her acting and modeling).

Even when Alison's solo series came near its end, Marvel blessed her with a graphic novel (Dazzler: The Movie) in which she was finally publicly outed as a mutant. Alison's personal life and successes finally clashed with her mutant status, and the public fully turned on her for the first time. Despite some of the supporting characters being real trashy, the novel itself was a very good outlook on Alison's level of self respect, her self image, and just how much her career and dreams meant to her.

Shortly after the release of the graphic novel, Alison starred in a limited series with Beast of the X-Men, showing some of the fallout and just how much the damage of her career and her powers affected her. Alison didn't take it well. This was why she'd chose to go into hiding at this time--at least playing as a backup singer and keyboardist in a band allowed for her to still get a taste of the limelight she loved, and Alison didn't give it up even when getting tangled up with the New Mutants and the Beyonder.

So what happened to this character? Why was her love for performing and standing up for herself and being her own hero pushed to the back burner? The moment Chris Claremont got his hands on her for the X-Men's Outback stint, almost all of these qualities about her character were lost. Suddenly Alison became a stuck up primadonna whose only concern was her looks and attention. She suddenly became the team 'newb' who had no idea how to use her powers properly. She covered up, hung up the mic for good, and was resorted to being a piece of arm candy for the X-Men's newest member: the mulleted man-child alien, Longshot. Longshot's powers were luck based and some part of his genetics forced women to be in love with him. All of that self respect that Alison had built up and thrived off of in the years of her solo series was destroyed so that she could be replaced with a catty, jealous, drop-everything type of girl for her new "boyfriend". Worse even, was the fact that her relationship with Longshot was forced on readers from the start with no real build-up; even Claremont didn't outwardly say they were 'dating' until some fan complained about it in one of the issue's letters pages.

Was it lazy writing? Was it an actual effect of Longshot's powers that made Alison change so drastically? Pages from one certain 80's crossover seem to suggest that Longshot's abilities had a subconscious way of him getting what he wanted, so it was certainly a possibility. Even his return to Jim Lee's pages following the Outback's trip through the Siege Perilous indicated as such; when Alison lost her memories and didn't have any recognition of Longshot, the alien just had to turn on his charm and kiss her in order to make her follow him to his home world and help him there. A vulnerable woman with no memories of her time spent with the X-Men taken advantage of? There really wasn't any build up to suggest otherwise, especially since this was that critical point in Alison's life where she turned her back on everything she once was. Not only did she give up her life, her friends, her family, her career, but her freedom, too. With just one twinkle of the eye, Dazzler was no more and trapped in limbo to fade into obscurity for years.

Admittedly, it was during these years that I got my first exposure to the Dazzler through X-Men: The Animated Series. Like most, I never got the exposure to what her character had originally been built and established as, so I only ever saw her through the eyes of a curiously interested Longshot "fan". For years, as someone who was more exposed and knowledgeable of him, I saw Dazzler as the perfect partner for him. She didn't mind that he was an alien and helped him free his planet. Cool, right? Eh, not really. It eventually came off as more of a trapped partner situation than anything after educating myself.

Thankfully, too, Scott Lobdell seemed to have the same idea. He axed the "pregnancy" by having Dazzler miscarry, and brought her back to the X-Men fold a few years later during the 'Eve of Destruction' arc, which had Longshot presumably killed off. More hardened and just a little bitter now, Alison dropped the superhero gig again (FINALLY!!) and went back to trying to make a name for herself in the club circuit. Just like in the good old days of being widespread amongst the MU, Alison was popping up and being referenced all over. With references and cameo appearances, the classic disco Dazzler popped up in books like Deadpool, Runaways, Marvel Knights, X-23, and others. Mojoworld and Longshot were behind her, and she could finally get back to her roots and be herself again. Right? Right?

Wrong.

Chris Claremont got his hands on the poor broad again and, in typical Claremont fashion, ignored all of her appearances since he'd last gotten his hands on her, and reduced her back to the primadonna (but now butchy warrior type from hanging out with Longshot so much). Her career was put back on hold since she was so 'washed up' all of a sudden, and he plucked her up to be put into his new Excalibur team. Of course, this run served as nothing but a way for him to convolute her backstory even more (resurrection factor anyone?), gave her another bad attitude problem, and eventually reunited her with Longshot (whom she all of a sudden became suicidal for? I mean REALLY. She's lost him two? Three times now? She never tried to off herself before! Typical Claremont dramatics).

Thankfully, Matt Fraction, Ed Brubaker, and Mike Carey all had plans to incorporate Dazzler back with the X-Men while simultaneously pursuing her musical career in San Francisco. She re-joined with the team during the Secret Invasion special, and helped out with a few select missions. However, despite having gotten her footing back in the music scene, she didn't get much in terms of character development until the Necrosha crossover started. Back from Ali's past was her sister, Lois. For long time Dazzler fans, this was exciting as hell. For newer and more unexposed readers, however, this left a lot more questions than answers. Being part of the former group, however, I was ecstatic to learn that the pair had gotten their own double sized ones-hot to finally sort things out and get them into the open. This, my friends, brings me to last week's

Right off of the heels of Necrosha, we find our heroine in a club, leaving us with a little bit of an idea as to where she stood with her music right then. Due to the recent events of the Dark Avengers/Utopia crossover, Alison's career is tanked and she's not at all pleased about it. However, the fact that her sister has shown up and been looking for her is more important right then. Unfortunately for Ali, Lois skips on the meeting and has her drugged up and brought to Arcade's Murderworld, where the two killers set out to have some fun with poor Dazzler.

Not the least bit frightened, Alison gets into the classic Dazzler uniform and rollerskates, like instructed, and puts on a show for her captors. Murderworld is set up much like a full arena-sized Dazzler concert, and in the stands are her robot enemies. Who shows up here is a huge blast back from Dazzler's earliest years--Screaming Mimi, Hellfire!Emma Frost, Brotherhood!Rogue, Klaw, Galactus, Enchantress, and Doom. Jim McCann does a great job writing Alison's narrative here, as we see just what kind of insight she has on her classic appearance (acknowledging that rollerskates are out of date, Rogue had bad hair, and just how damn insane she as to have dealt with all of these people so casually back in her solo days).

There really are a lot of great throwback moments, too, as a lot of her history is referenced. Alison makes a jab at her old pink hair 'do; a song she wrote for her mother back in her solo was used as a way to get under her skin (lyrics and all); and a lot of great power feats we haven't seen in awhile, including: holograms; eye lasers; levitation and flying; hard light constructs; movement of people/objects via surrounding them by light; and even the long forgotten weakness Dazzler has when her sound is cut off.

Once revealed that it was Lois who had hired Arcade, we get a lot of great and forgotten insight on Alison's personal life (including a very conveniently placed narrative about her very bad past decisions over Longshot's image), her relationship with Lois, why she'd left Lois behind way back in Dazzler #28, her murdering Klaw, and how badly she'd felt about giving into the mutant label. All of this is a bit overwhelming for Dazzler, obviously, but she manages to keep her cool despite the fact that she's freaking out on the inside. Her and Lois exchange the words they've been waiting to exchange, and they have an emotional fight that ends with Dazzler laying her sister out with one punch. Lois is knocked out and drugged by paramedics, and from there Alison is left with some decisions to make.

Where does she stand right now? What does she want? What's the priority? Alison doesn't want to make the same mistake that caused Lois to go off the deep end in the first place, and acknowledges the fact tat Utopia is a place for all mutants. Dazzler is willing to risk everything to bring Lois back there to get her some help, despite past fights and grievances. It doesn't matter what her team says, Lois is Alison's first priority. Alison also realises then that all this time she thought she'd been missing heroics and fame and her career...but this whole experience teaches her that she wants her respect back. Her self respect, mostly, and she's done caring about what everyone else expects from her. Ali Blaire is her own woman again.

Which leads us to Utopia. We see a heated argument between Alison and Cyclops. Despite this being a pretty consistent portrayal of recent Cyclops and his cold, militant attitude, this really did showcase a lot of old school Alison, too. She rightfully points out that Magneto and Emma were given second chances, and that more than one X-Man has had psychotic siblings who needed help. Scott blows her off and tells Ali that Lois is a lost cause and that she'd hurt Emma too much during Necrosha to be worthy of the X-Men's help. Thankfully, Psylocke (Alison's closest friend) offers to induce Lois into a coma and spend a few weeks trying to help mentally rehabilitate her. Alison is very grateful for this, and appreciates that Betsy is the only mutant willing to set aside differences and help someone who needs it. Alison was all heart and passion here, and not at all afraid to stand up for what she believes in.

Finally, the third part of the story wrapped up all of the loose ends that Alison had left hanging from her mother's abandonment. Back in her solo series, Alison hadn't seen her mother for many years before Angel had helped her relocate her family. Despite being happy to meet her again, it was implied that Alison still held a lot of resentment toward her mother. This was definitely the case shown here, as Alison now was faced with the responsibility to call her mother and tell her what had happened with Lois. We get to see what Alison really wanted to say to her mother through quick glimpses in her mind, and then parallel panels of what she settled on saying instead. While Alison retained that calm, strong outer appearance, she was again freaking out on the inside and cursing her mother for ever having abandoned her daughters. It was a very emotional, and well thought out epilogue that did an excellent job of tying up those loose ends. We get to see Alison step up and take responsibility for her sister and what'd she done to upset her, and in the end we see Lois remaining on Utopia in her catatonic state to be taken care of by Dazz from here on out.

Having seen so many of her dangling plot points and old quirks picked up here again was very refreshing. There were no Mojoworld attachments, no mention of Longshot, no wallflower type panels that she's been receiving in Uncanny--just raw power, passion, heart, and soul. All of the things that made Dazzler a success to begin with back in the 80's.

Following this one-shot, of course, we see Alison taking part in Second Coming with the Hellbound team in a three-part mini series. Thankfully, because of this, we know that she will continue to play a part in the X-Teams for the time being. I can only hope now that this one shot and display of powers will open up the eyes of the other current creative teams so that they can realise and understand just what kind of potential this character carries for them. I, for one, will be holding out hope that we can see more of THIS Dazzler...campy catchphrases and and all.

REST IN PEACE

twbasketcase — Sun, 16 May 2010 23:54:40 GMT

Metal lost a fucking LEGEND today. I first got into Ronnie James when I hit my big Black Sabbath phase when I was 13. Of course, I ended up being a much bigger fan of his solo years (especially since Ozzy!Sabbath was my favourite era of BS). Holy Diver was a song my friends/band used to listen to back in the day when we'd drink 40oz bottles of Old English malt liquor on the porch ON REPEAT. We'd be fourteen/fifteen years old and sitting on the front porch and totally into it. That song will always remind me of those days and just jamming out like little shitheads to feel better when we were too pissed off.

Which was a lot.

It's funny, now that I think about it, how much metal we use to listen to when we were so faithfully devoted to the punk scene. There used to be all sorts of funny 'rivalries' between punks and metalheads back in the 80s and as little kids (in my generation) some thought these things had to be FOLLOWED in order to be 'in' with the scene (which was just...hilarious when you think of the irony).

Those were the days. Ronnie James, man, you will be missed! I'm having a drink in your honour!

Updates & FList Cut

twbasketcase — Sat, 08 May 2010 17:34:28 GMT

Ahoy.

First off the bat, I've done a rather large friends cut. I cut a lot of people I lost touch with, people I obviously didn't get along with, people who I friended forever ago and never got friended back, and people I just flat out had no idea who they were. LMFAO. Sorry that we lost touch, no hard feelings, etc. Take care!

Secondly, I got like six emails last night. Six. From people who were asking what's happening to http://www.shatteringtheearth.com. FYI - I let the bill run out. It went unpaid because my credit card got stolen and to be perfectly honest, I wasn't going to renew it at all. But the emails kind of swayed me a little, so I put a new credit card number on there and it should be back up in a few days.

I guess it just got me thinking that I put a LOT of work into the site, and despite falling out of love with what's been done to the characters and even more so with the fandom, I still love their history and what they used to be. It's unfortunate that one of them had to adopt another character's personality to finally become appreciated--and for that I will never respect that aspect of the character. I can't. But I still love how he WAS. I also can't fathom people loving him just because he is gay. That sort of thing always disgusted me about fandom, and how spikes of popularity happen whenever buttsex is included. Give me a fucking break. /rant. I have had faith for many years in those characters and what they were and what I loved about them, and I guess having that so drastically changed has been a bit of an obstacle in keeping the site up.

Well, that and how many internet news sites did STE get attention from last May & June? XD A lot. That's no reason to give up, I decided. So all of that history that I know and love will remain up, but I don't expect to be updating the site any time soon. I hope this helps, and do feel free to continue to enjoy what's still there.

That's all! I have a disgusting wedding to go to later, so I'll probably update again when I get home.

Peace.

twbasketcase — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 23:48:27 GMT

Stolen from everyone ever

▌ ask me anything you'd like! I'll try to answer to the best of my ability.

▌ keyword being 'try'. as truthfully as I can, too.

▌ anon enabled and ip isn't tracked.

twbasketcase — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 23:31:47 GMT

YEAH
BABY!

more stuffs

twbasketcase — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:20:57 GMT

I am participating in the holiday fic exchange at ricstar. Should be interesting. I haven't written fic in forever, so I figured why not.

- I am comfortable with any rating from G to NC-17
- My squicks tend to include the general stuff: mpreg; anything pertaining to bathroom play; sexual abuse; cheating (as in polygamy, adultery, etc etc); and fluffy bunny pet-name calling-- yes I'm seriously weird, I know. XD
- Otherwise, that's it. I'm generally open-minded other than that. Easy to please and all that jazz. ♥ ♥

I feel like I got shot repeatedly by a potato launcher. HIDEOUS. This'll be great for tomorrow when I have an hour and a half to get done an order big enough to feed 175 people with only one person helping me. Greeaaat. My boss is such a whore. He is uber late on the orders AGAIN so my order, in turn, is not even close to being started yet. It'll be great when I'm fucked over tomorrow and he gets on MY case about it because he hasn't done his job.

Yes. As you can see, my job hunt is going very badly.

So to feel better, I spent $80.00 on comics again today. OOOOOOOOOOPS. I love spending sprees at the LCS though. Seriously.

Archangel was so hardcore in X-Force this week. Shit son, the scene of him flipping up into the air and declaring all of the zombies inferior was just OHQJGBDLWQGF and then BLOOD EVERYWHERE AS DEATH GOES NUTS nryaaah. It was awesome. Can't wait to see him fight Blink.

Also, is anyone getting as ridiculously annoyed at Domino's attitude in this book as I am? Her little 'shoot first, do nothing else logically until later' shtick is getting SO TIRED. She never used to be like that, man, that woman was a pretty good tactician. IDK it just makes her come across as really pompous and obnoxious and doesn't really equate well with her former X-Force, solo, and Cable & Deadpool appearances. I don't like it.

BUT YES RISQUE, FERAL, RUSTY COLLINS, AND MOTHER FUCKIN' BANSHEE ARE BACK. And it was GLORIOUS <3333

Feeling a bit directionless as of late, and I'm having a great deal of problems with two of my muses (Shatterstar & Quicksilver). I'm really considering dropping them as they've been inactive and I'm just not having any fun playing with them anymore, I'll be honest. My other two muses keep me rather busy, so I'm fine with them, but. Yeah. Just not feeling the two anymore, I guess. I'll take a bit more time to think about it, but I doubt I'll be even attentive enough to do that with them. It's hard to balance that when I've got stuff going on at lightning speed with Sunspot and Archangel, and going no where with the others, you know?

I thought the fact that he came back in the comics and even canon-updating him would help. But. Alas, I lose my interests at the most ridiculous of times.

Blargh. :( I fail.

Anyhow, I think I'm done for now. I really, really need a proper sleep tonight. This is getting awful. Still having problems with the you-know-what because of you-know-who. And just. Yeah. Sleep, self? Thank you. ♥

Dystopian Futures Get!

twbasketcase — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 23:45:55 GMT

So capeandcowl has that whole Year 2020 alternate universe meme thing going on. And I was thinking of something small to add but it ended up turning into a fic, and then Ana caught on and we started working on SO MUCH CRAP. lmfao. So we've got RP-style fic writing going on at our musebox (took a few liberties here and there though) featuring Archangel, Quicksilver, Polaris, and Dazzler. Like all four of them together though. Random? I know, but that's just how it ended up. So yeah.

So here is our C&C: 2020 stuff. Unfinished for now but still long enough to get some reading out of it.

I also worked on my very first fanmix. Also C&C related and the theme is Angel/Dazzler.

That is here.

We are going to be doing more 2020 stuff, hopefully some X-Force shit as well as some more stuff from the characters listed above. If any other X-Force muns wanna do some 2020 RPing, you should let me know! I'll probably be tossing in my Sunspot account for fun, and maybe Ana can pull off some Warpath. That'll be at thefriskoteque

This damn meme is giving me so many damn plot bunnies that I am actually DISTRACTED from playing the actual game. Not good, self.

Updates and Other Random Things

twbasketcase — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 18:08:19 GMT

I spent the last 24 hours updating the site. Links and shit and dkghjrnfe *dead*

Okay so, it doesn't even seem like much but it was. Seriously.

Shattering the Earth

Updates include:
- Rictor Bio
- 'Star Bio
- New X-Factor Pics
- X-Factor Quotes
- A TON of new interviews and articles added to the 'Extras' page
- Appearances
- New avatars on the icons page!
- New fanfic added by Iambickilometer, Rivulet027, twbasketcase, and Michiru42
- AND WE FINALLY HAVE A GUEST BOOK. So leave me some spam if you would like. I love spam, okay? 8)

Also, russetm, I did not forget about you. And I linked that awesome site you gave me to my main page.

TO sixthdeadlysin: I would like that fanart still! Something hair or hair-touching related. I am so stupidly in love with hair care in this fandom. WHY. 8( If you do that, I will write you Ric/Star fic still, yes. Just give me a prompt. :)

Also, I know I got a bunch of new friends on here recently, so I will ask again: Is anyone interested in X-Men RPG? thexmenrp is up and is running now and we still need some more players/characters to add to our cast! It's a fairly slow paced game so you don't have to worry about it being time consuming! It's just for fun and for doing some writing with other people in the fandom. Very casual.

Our taken page is here! All you have to do is claim a character that is not already being played, make a journal for them, add friends, and get started. No apps, or anything.

I'm currently playing Angel, Magik, Shatterstar, and Quicksilver. We'd love a Strong Guy to complete our X-Factor cast, as well as a Wolverine, Colossus, Psylocke, Jean Grey, Rachel Grey, etc etc. So pop on over, if you'd like. (YOU JUST HAVE TO JOIN THE COMM FIRST ♥)

....and now to get to my 70,487 tags. 8(

ETA -

That's been a month since X-Factor #45 came out. You guys are awesome. ♥

twbasketcase — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 16:37:06 GMT

LMFAO

So Rob Liefeld commented on that article I found the other day.

OH MY GOD HE GOT OWNED.

~~I love the world today. ♥~~

FORGET IT I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON ANYMORE LMFAO

SPREAD IT AROUND LIKE WARMING LUBE

twbasketcase — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:44:05 GMT

Hey everyone!

Need another reason to hate Rob Liefeld?

Apparently he is a homophobic bigot!

I'm sure you can guess where all this is going. He specifically states that he cannot wait for the opportunity to 'undo' what Peter David did with Rictor and Shatterstar in X-Factor.

Click the link and take a look! Go to the forum linked inside and tell Liefeld to fucking shove it.

My website was also referenced again in here! A fan used it as a source to back up claims, and Rob said this:

Your opinion doesn’t change the fact that it sucks and its not a positive move in most fans’ eyes. And it’s all well and fine that you don’t respect a creator’s wishes or intent. I’m different like that.”

Ouchie.

here me squee, bitches

twbasketcase — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 21:43:06 GMT

So this day? Kinda awesome.

Actually, it started off kinda crappy. First I got to work and the sewage system backed up. I had to clean up SEWAGE FOR OVER AN HOUR. We called the plumbers and they just decided not to show up. This back up was the result of a sewer separation operation that's been going on in the street I work on for the last year. The city is doing nothing about all these accidents, and are telling us we have to take them to court if we want to contest them not paying the damages. WTF. So then the chick who is relieving me decides not to show up. GREEEEEAT. I almost had to work until 8pm, but I managed to sweet talk my ex girlfriend into working for me somehow. Probably cause I told her I loved her. OOPSIE.

That aside, I finally get home and see this on Peter David's blog. READ IT IF YOU WANNA KNOW WHAT'S COMING UP IN ISSUES OF X-FACTOR. This is all in regards to Rictor/Shatterstar and their man kiss.

I have to say, this made me DELIGHTED. Not only is it about fucking time, but I am so ready to see how he develops this. For reals. No surprises there, right?

Then I go on CBR and find an X-Factor preview page, and a link to a CBR article regarding comics' "newest" (and I use that term very loosely, amigos) gay superheroes. And what do I find on this article? All sorts of links/references/quotes to my site. WELL AWESOME. Add that to the recently added nods Gay League gave us! ♥

NOW WE HAVE HEAVY TRAFFIC TOO.

I am in such a fangirly mood right now. You guys have no idea. 8D

twbasketcase — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 07:43:38 GMT

Updated the site with images and all that good stuff.

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Thanks for all the hits, guys! :)

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