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A Marvel animated series about alternate universe versions of various characters and stories. Some of these were a lot of fun, like the first episode about a world where Peggy Carter becomes Captain America. Others were trite and OOC and seemed to exist mainly for the animators to have fun. Still, the animators obviously were having fun, even the dumbass episodes were fun to watch on a visual level.

The episodes start out as stand-alone stories, but the last two episodes tie everything together into a REALLY SILLY crossover story that solves everything with a bunch of nonsensical violence.

This show will have zero appeal to anyone not already invested in, and willing to put up with the flaws of, the MCU. If you're only interested in specific characters, you could just watch individual episodes, so I've done a summary of each below the cut.
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I'm very happy with my original works so they're above the cut!


Feathered Dinosaurs


Fire Pigs

I also drew a rather gory original picture I won't post a preview for.

( Yuri on Ice, Dragon Age, Lord of the Rings/The Hobbit, Hatoful Boyfriend, Rogue One, MCU and DC, Mass Effect/Homestuck )

Flight Rising Registration opens again April 14!

It continues to be fun and they're doing better with the bugs, the main issue is that you have to just accept the weird ups and downs (mainly downs) of the economy instead of expecting the devs to make sure your investments pay off eg I paid 150K treasure for a dragon whose babies now net me like 10K if I'm lucky. But they are all very pretty babies and that's what really matters :)

I did an Evangelion fusion recently (which I will link to next time I do a creative stuff post) and ever since I keep almost remembering some other story, I think something I was reading/watching around the same time as I saw this very interesting discussion about the anime. The memories are...non verbal or something, distinct but nothing I can put into words and they vanish again really quickly. Something about pretend heirs to a company maybe? Could it be Un Lun Dun?? It's been happening for over a day and is like something I can almost see out the corner of my eye, quite disconcerting.

Saw Captain America: The Winter Soldier and quite enjoyed it! A well made superhero movie with interesting characters, some mild social commentary, THREE named female characters and (EDIT) TWO black guys who get to be competent, lots of explosions. Don't think about it too hard, or expect it to focus too much on anyone who isn't Steve. It did however highlight my issues with the first Captain America movie: Steve himself is a perfectly well written "decent man in a less than decent world" character, but they wallow a bit too much in the lie that the past was a Simpler Time, that it was only after WWII that the US "lost it's way" morally/politically/in war etc. Yes, the US were absolutely the good guys in WWII but only because the Nazis were so terrible by comparison. The US military and government have always been morally shady, and to pretend otherwise is a massive insult to all the people they mistreated.