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Essential Avengers: West Coast Avengers #35: The VOICE of DOOM

August, 1988

The man who would be DOOM!

Wait so Doom would be Doom? Why isn’t he Doom right now? Isn’t Doom primarily known for being Doom? What’s the deeeeeeal?

-flips ahead- Ah ha. Well then that’s wrong on two levels. Another lying cover smh.

Anyway.

What have the West Coast Avengers been up to?

Lots of drama.

Remember the time that Mockingbird manslaughtered a cowboy during cowboy times for drugging her into being his girlfriend? Phantom Rider remembers because he was that cowboy. And now he’s trying to ruin her life. Afraid that her teammates and husband would sympathize if Mockingbird came clean about what happened to her, Phantom Rider told Hawkeye, Wonder Man, and Tigra before she could. They believe this random cowbody and are mad at her for doing a murder.

Mockingbird did tell Scarlet Witch, the Vision, the Wasp, Dr Pym, and Moon Knight and they were sympathetic.

Oh yeah, Scarlet Witch, the Vision, and the Wasp are here.

The other half of the drama is Hank Pym drama. He heard a rumor on the net that his dead wife was not dead and the West Coast Avengers plus the Wasp flew out to Hungary to investigate. Turns out it was a ruuuuuuse by Quicksilver who is in one of his asshole phases again. He also teamed up with a bunch of Hank’s old enemies who captured the Avengers.

Thanks in part to Phantom Rider, the Avengers break out of the super jail and escape Hungary. But Tigra forgot to put on the anti-get-shot-down defenses so the Quinjet gets shot down and they crash in Latveria.

Home of Doom.

And that’s why Doom is on the cover.

And that’s why Doom is watching Hawkeye and Mockingbird sleep.

See, it all comes together.

If bats had Tumblr:

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insane when you eat nectar and then get a bug in your mouth. like how does benefit either of us

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nutrience.

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pissing the entire time while feeding on blood is your body giving you an s rank

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anyone else sick of the moths jamming their echolocation

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lmao git gud

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IKIKIKIKIKIKIK

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how tf do i remember where all these fruit trees are but not who i hooked up with last breeding season

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how the hell do you guys eat bugs all year but live where it snows all winter. like do you just leave

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we just leave.

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some of us hibernate! :) during hibernation we go "torpid" which means our metabolism just slows down a lot so we don't need to go out and eat every night

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we just leave.

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what the fuck do frog-eating bats even eat. i hope you guys are having fun tho

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name threw you for a loop huh

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The whole Reddit thing is an especially striking example of corporate brain rot because, like, they managed to build their entire business model on the back of exploiting vast quantities of unpaid volunteer labour, and successfully convinced the entire Internet that this is a normal state of affairs. How do you fuck that up? How do you convince yourself that instituting a de facto demand for your very nearly 100% volunteer workforce to pay you for the ability to use the tools that are required to do their job is anything other than cutting your own throat?

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Like, do they just not grasp the fundamentals of their own business model? Do they not realise that they're a for-profit business in the unimaginably envious position of employing a largely volunteer workforce? That's the only place I can imagine the idea coming from of going to people who doing the work of employees for free and saying "actually, you should pay us for the privilege of working for us".

suicide squad 3 scene where someone asks why harley is in jail this time and it’s just a cut to bruce the hyena at a tea party with rpatz bruce wayne duck taped to a chair opposite of him. harley; I figured kidnapping a big wig like bruce wayne would a caught bats attention but I got dropkicked by a butler instead

rick flag (back from the dead bc I say so): didn’t your ex hold up a bank for like twelve hours once and threaten to kill bruce wayne but the bat never showed?

bloodsport: actually, I don’t think batman’s ever saved wayne and the man’s been in at least six hostage situations. tad strange honestly

harley: omg I can’t believe we never noticed before

harley: batman HATES bruce wayne

I say this with genuine love: I love this rash of small time internet creators starting the most unlistenable tabletop roleplaying podcasts you've ever heard. It feels like a companion to how every group of 20somethings in the 1990s used to have a shitty garage band. We need more of that shit.

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One can only spend so long watching the big name actual-plays studiously pretend that they're not workshopping the hell out of their character concepts and major plot points and that the professional voice actor GM's clever monologues aren't 100% rehearsed before it starts to feel strangely refreshing to listen to a group try to wring a coherent narrative out of a group of player characters who barely occupy the same genre and a pre-written scenario that the GM is clearly reading for the first time as they're running it.

Vivaldi on his deathbed in 1741: please, put it into my will that the first movement of my Spring concerto can only be used to indicate fancy settings in cartoons or as hold music for the absolute worst call centres.

Vivaldi's lawyer: Antonio what the FUCK does this mean

The trope where a character overhears something out of context and assumes the worst is usually annoying and bad but I really think it works well in Shrek

We, the audience, know that Fiona is talking about herself but, regardless, she’s calling herself these terrible things because she is an ogre. If Fiona is these things because she is is an ogre what does that make Shrek?

If Fiona says no one could love her because she is an ogre, she is saying that Shrek is also unloveable whether she wants to or not.

Imo the scene is a really good portrayal of how when you talk poorly of yourself or others for having a trait, you’re also talking about every other person who shares that trait; even if you love them or think what you’re saying doesn’t apply to them.

Not going to lie, I saw the word “Shrek” and never expected this to be a deep post.

On the being deep about Shrek website?

The funniest thing in the world to me is when people write mermaids that are bothered by humans eating fish. Like do you think fish don’t eat each other? The ocean is full of little freaks that will eat whatever or whoever the fuck will fit in their mouths. If the mermaids haven’t been eating fish this whole time what do you think they’ve been eating? If the answer is humans, that doesn’t make it any less funny. They’ll eat the species that looks like the top half of them but won’t eat a species that looks like the bottom half? Peak comedy.