Intrigue!! - Blog Posts
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GOD, WHY DID I HAVE TO TRIM THE COMIC, TUMBLR, WHY CAN'T I POST IT WHOLE WITH SMOOTH TRANSITIONS?😔🥀
We can say that this is the beginning of the story / a short backstory. If you have any questions about "What is this thing they tied Robert up with?" It's just a mesh, a sturdy mesh.I needed to come up with at least some way to capture him¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
(Guys, can you tell me where else I can post this comic, besides tumblr and deviantart? (so that I don't have to trim it))
Half Past Danger, Long Past time
Half Past Danger Issue #1 - Review by Emmet O'Brien Torn from every cliffhanger comic strip, blessed with the same breathless energy as a matinee serial and full of dynamic energy, Stephen Mooney's Half Past Danger is an absolute delight and easily one of the most fun comics being put out at the moment. It's the province of pulp to throw element after element at you and for any thrill seeking heart a comic that packs in retro hi-jinx, femme fatales and "War is (Prehistoric) Hell" asides will charm a particular sort of reader. Comics can be so dour and psychological these days, deconstructing but not celebrating. Now I must admit, my own particular sensibilities run alongside this tonal tornado as a kid weaned on, Indiana Jones, Tintin, The Phantom, Ka-Zar, Doc Savage and their ilk and despite a resolutely Irish hero in HPD's Tommy Flynn the DNA is easy to isolate as being of a very American flavoured action story. It's the Irish aspect that adds a little extra spice to this brew of disparate action tropes. The story of an Army Squad coming face to face with dinosaurs while on patrol on an isolated Japanese Island, the book is fast paced and dangerous, a tricky thing to establish legitimate peril while having a tongue very much in its cheek but it succeeds with roguish aplomb. If anything almost too much happens, Flynn finds himself traumatised after the Jurassic jaunt and is drowning his sorrows in New York when he is approached by two mysterious British military types, one being a Steve Rogers-esque bruiser while the other is an alluring dame. Pitched at a hyper real level with Mooney's art at its current apex (we can only imagine the more settled he becomes in this world, the even more vibrant the art will become) this is the sort of comic I have been waiting for, for a very long time. Beautifully punched up with Jordie Bellaire's superlative colouring skills, further adding a timeless old world sheen, one can get lost in the tones and textures of the mad-cap world Flynn has to navigate through. With just enough intrigue to hook but not overwhelm and spectacle aplenty, this is derring-do, daringly done right. Keep up to date with Half Past Danger and the talented Stephen Mooney through his site. http://www.halfpastdanger.com/
Whispers in shadows, Crimson stains on silk and skin, Fates intertwined here. 🔫
On Portals and Trees...
So, the general consensus I’ve found concerning lore with trees and portals concerns faefolk! This made a lot of sense to me actually, as I’ve always associated this concept with the fae. There are more natural structures (like faerie rings) that once a mortal steps into or passes through, they are thus thrusted into another realm unlike our own. I found in a post on the internet that “an entrance to the faerie lands can be found at the trunk of a tree.” With that, many people often leave offerings to the fae at their favorite trees, usually an oak or hawthorn tree. Hawthorn trees are especially important to the Celts and the lore concerning fae folk. (I may make a post about this later because it was interesting). I also found other folklore of odd structures made from trees, and people claiming they are portals to the devil and whatnot. Nonetheless, people are seemingly fascinated but fearful of these structures, and consider them portals into other realms and a nexus of supernatural occurrences. Trees in a span of mythology and humanity are hubs of knowledge and creation, so the origin of these myths and folklore are not unusual.
Sources; https://www.paganspath.com/meta/faeries.htm
https://backpackerverse.com/heres-why-locals-call-the-devils-tree-a-portal-to-hell/
Xena and Gabrielle with LUMA AI
AI is getting scarier, I can literally make my own scenes now or at least alter them. These were made using the new Luma AI video generator. With the first clip, you can notice weird hand movements but the second clip is even creepier the movements more natural (lowkey I kinda enjoyed making these). I can only imagine what can be done in a few months from now with updates.
A quick summary, in the first clip xena and Gabrielle reunite in the spiritual world similar to how it actually happens in the show but it doesn't cut off. and you get to see more of them embracing and kissing, In the second clip, xena is filled with glee that she gets to marry Gabrielle and Gabrielle apologizes to xena for marrying Perdicus.