This is a collection of my posts from X, my main social and the first place I post everything. You’ll find video game guides, comics, fiction, my writing and author updates, and other topics I cover.
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· Comics / Marvel / X-Men
Power Pack is one of the groups dearest to my heart as a comic reader. Especially their dynamic with Franklin, the adventures they went on, and their dynamic with their mother. It's one of the most refreshing Marvel teams out there and one...
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Uncanny X-Men #205, “Wounded Wolf,” gives Katie a very different encounter with Wolverine. Chris Claremont and Barry Windsor-Smith put them together in a snowstorm while Logan is being hunted by Lady Deathstrike and the men accompanying her...
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Katie Power is the youngest, and her original ability is probably the one that makes the contrast between age and danger easiest to see. As Energizer, she can break matter down, absorb the released energy and discharge it in powerful bursts...
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Jack Power begins as Mass Master, with control over his density. He can spread himself out into a cloudlike form or compress himself down into a very small, dense body. Those are two very different-looking results from the same basic abilit...
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Julie Power’s original ability is acceleration, most visibly expressed through her flight and the colored trail she leaves behind. Lightspeed is a wonderfully direct name for a child flying through the sky with a rainbow following her. Ther...
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Alex Power is the oldest of the four, which puts him in the position of trying to lead people who already know exactly how to get on his nerves. That is a different arrangement from assembling a group of strangers and hoping they learn to t...
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Power Pack needs a place in this series because the X-Men’s world reaches a lot further than the people wearing an X. Alex, Julie, Jack and Katie Power are a family of young superheroes who cross paths with the mutant books, and their age c...
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SCP-089: Tophet SCP-089 is a particularly ugly moral trap, so a warning before going any further: this entry involves child sacrifice. The discussion here stays away from the graphic details, but the premise itself is harsh. It's an ancient...
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SCP-088: The Lizard King SCP-088 is a good example of why putting something in a museum case and deciding it looks dead would be a terrible approach to handling an SCP. The thing looks mummified. It has reptilian features, it's roughly six...
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All right here's a little update. I'm working on a new batch of small open-source projects, making some other edits to some existing products or projects, and pushing some of those out tonight. I got a really long way in Kingdom Come: Deliv...
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SCP-087: The Stairwell SCP-087 gets a lot out of something as ordinary as walking downstairs. There isn't a complicated object you need explained before the situation makes sense. You open a door, find a dark staircase, and hear what sounds...
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SCP-086: The Office of Dr. [REDACTED] There is something wonderfully unpleasant about an SCP that turns ordinary office equipment into a body. SCP-086 looks like the contents of an old office, but those objects are biological parts of one o...
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SCP-085: Hand-drawn Cassy Cassy is one of those SCPs where the experiment sounds fascinating and the treatment of the person it creates makes me increasingly uncomfortable. SCP-085 started as a drawing made with SCP-067, the Artist's Pen. P...
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SCP-084: Static Tower SCP-084 makes a radio tower on the horizon feel like a particularly cruel thing to look at. You have a landmark. You have a direction. Everything about that should mean you can work out where you are and make some prog...
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SCP-083: An Abandoned Row Home The first thing I want to know about SCP-083 is who decided the front door gets to lead to a different house than the window. Because that is a ridiculous little distinction to build an anomaly around, and it...
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Archive Integrity Batch Checker v1.3.0 is out. You can now have a batch check return a failure when it finds damaged archives, incomplete verification or warnings, rather than having to spot those in the report yourself. You still get the f...
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Book Annotation Extractor v1.3.0 is out. If the same highlight shows up in a few places, you can now keep all of those locations and source details in the export. The usual deduplicated output is still there too. https://t.co/UKABToDIAP
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ScreenCard v1.5.0 is out. Search now has previous and next pages, so you can keep looking through results without starting over. If a request fails, the results you already had stay visible. https://t.co/afXtzEw7TO
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Andrew Chord belongs in this thread, but under a different label from the young costumed members. He is part of the New Warriors' support structure and brings military experience into their operations. Treating him as just another founding...
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Silhouette is part of the New Warriors' Kings of Pain cast, but she should not be quietly added to the original six just to make the roster simpler. Teams grow, and a later presence does not need to become a founding appearance in order to...
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