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.
4,845 posts are available here. Each entry keeps the original wording and links back to X.
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· Comics / Marvel / X-Men
Roberto da Costa brings enormous energy to the New Mutants, both in combat and in the way he deals with his friends. He can be competitive, proud, affectionate and quick to react. Those qualities are all present during Magneto’s time as hea...
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Dani Moonstar is one of the people who makes this class feel like a team with a mind of its own. She is outspoken, competitive and willing to challenge authority. Putting Magneto in charge does not erase any of that, and it certainly does n...
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Sam Guthrie has already earned responsibility among the New Mutants when Magneto becomes their teacher. That puts him in an uncomfortable position. He has to keep functioning as a co-leader while deciding how much confidence to place in the...
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The New Mutants coming home to find Magneto running Xavier’s school is a huge change before anybody even enters the Danger Room. These kids know his reputation. Some have fought him. Now the person responsible for their education and safety...
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SCP-072: The Foot of the Bed SCP-072 gives that childhood fear about leaving your feet outside the blanket a very specific set of rules. It appears in an infected bed when someone reaches REM sleep with a foot exposed. A long, shadowy hand...
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SCP-071: Degenerative Metamorphic Entity SCP-071 changes into whatever its observer desires sexually. A one-way mirror or live camera doesn't prevent it. The Foundation has to watch footage on a delay of at least sixty seconds. That detail...
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Workwise I did some more cleanup on some of those GitHub open-source projects that I had gold-starred in my own systems. I still have a handful of those that I'm working on and I'm about to overhaul some of the bigger ones and try to get th...
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Currently I've been running errands most of today so I haven't really had a chance to do much. I got to get caught up on client work and then I did get some of my writing done. I've got two stories, one poem, and one short story that are bo...
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Xavier remains the teacher during this roster window. That distinction is worth keeping visible, because these issues end before the next phase of the school begins. He belongs here as the adult responsible for the students, rather than as...
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Warlock first appears in #18, before his arrival among the students develops into a full encounter in #21. He brings a completely different visual language into the book: a techno-organic body that can stretch, reshape itself and refuse to...
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Doug Ramsey is around the edges of this world before he becomes a New Mutant. He first appears in #13 as a friend of Kitty's, with an aptitude for languages and computers that doesn't announce itself through an explosion or a change of shap...
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Illyana Rasputin has already lived through things her classmates can barely imagine when she joins the New Mutants in #14. She looks like another teenager at the school. Her connection to Limbo makes that surface description painfully incom...
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Amara Aquilla arrives with a whole society behind her. Nova Roma has customs, hierarchies and assumptions that make Xavier's school look unfamiliar before anybody even starts explaining the Danger Room. The South American adventure beginnin...
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Karma's place in this era begins with an absence. She is one of the original New Mutants, but she is missing before the #8–34 expansion window starts. Her disappearance belongs to the earlier #6–7 sequence, and the rest of the class spends...
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Dani Moonstar's powers make other people's fears visible. During the Demon Bear story, the fear that threatens the class is her own. By this point she shares leadership with Sam, and her forceful personality has become part of the team's ev...
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Rahne Sinclair can turn into a wolf, but the harder transformation is learning to believe there is nothing shameful about being herself. Her upbringing has left her frightened of her own impulses. At Xavier's school she has friends, space t...
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Roberto da Costa carries himself like someone who expects to be noticed. He has confidence, a temper and enough physical strength to make both difficult to ignore. The growing class gives him more people to impress, argue with and occasiona...
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Sam Guthrie is becoming the person other students expect to stay steady, which is a difficult job when he is still learning how to stay steady himself. Karma's disappearance leaves a gap in the class, and Sam shares the leadership burden wi...
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The New Mutants have barely settled into being a class when the shape of that class starts changing. Karma is missing. Sam and Dani have more responsibility. Then a trip to South America brings them into Nova Roma, where Amara Aquilla's ide...
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These dates are worth keeping together because the Rogue and Rachel years can otherwise look much more settled in a roster list than they are on the page. Rogue enters the team in Uncanny X-Men #171 in 1983. Rachel reaches the present-day c...
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