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.
4,845 posts.
· Comics / Marvel / X-Men
JEAN GREY: COMING BACK TO A LIFE THAT MOVED ON Jean's return is the reason this team can exist, but there is a whole problem sitting behind the reunion. Other people have lived through things involving her name and her appearance that she d...
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CYCLOPS: LEADING X-FACTOR WITH HIS LIFE ALREADY COMPLICATED Scott Summers comes into this reunion with responsibilities that go well beyond putting the original team back together. He's married to Madelyne Pryor, they have a baby, and then...
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X-TEAM SPOTLIGHT: THE ORIGINAL X-FACTOR The original five X-Men came back together in X-Factor in 1986. Cyclops, Jean Grey, Beast, Angel and Iceman. Same people who started it all, with a lot of history between them by this point. The premi...
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A little more context on why I'm doing this SCP series. As an author and writer, I take a lot of inspiration from other forms of fiction. I already knew quite a bit about SCP, but taking the time to research each one more deeply has been gi...
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SCP-015: Pipe Nightmare Imagine finding more than 190 kilometres of plumbing packed into a warehouse. That's SCP-015: pipes, boilers, vents, and other equipment that apparently grow while unobserved. The network attempts to spread into surr...
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SCP-014: The Concrete Man Robert Chetford was admitted to an asylum in 1915 after saying he had been cursed to live forever and was slowly turning into concrete. When the Foundation becomes involved, he still looks about thirty. He doesn't...
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SCP-013: Blue Lady SCP-013 is a collection of 242 cigarettes, commonly marked with the handwritten words “Blue Lady.” Smoking one changes the person's perception of their own appearance. They begin seeing an unfamiliar woman in their reflec...
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SCP-012: A Bad Composition This one is unfinished sheet music, and reading it can be fatal. The composition is called “On Mount Golgotha.” It was recovered from a tomb in northern Italy. What initially looked like dark red ink turned out to...
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SCP-011: The Civil War Memorial So, this one starts with a statue shooting birds because they keep landing on it and crapping on it. SCP-011 is a granite Civil War memorial in Woodstock, Vermont. The soldier moves and fires a stone musket w...
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Spirit Nation 3.1 is live. I went back through the mobile layout because there were quite a few things that looked fine on desktop but weren’t working well on a phone. This update fixes content running off the screen, long titles that weren...
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Just got some news about Absolute Batman. The most recent issue is going to be the last one. It ends at number 25 for the year and then they'll pick back up next year with number 26. I almost am caught up with Absolute but I have probably a...
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I’ve also released a few smaller fixes across four existing projects. Workflow Sentry 1.4.1, Numbered List Repairer 1.3.1 and Browser Session Export Privacy Scrubber 1.3.4 now handle closed output pipes without throwing an extra shutdown ex...
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Unintentional Phrase Echo Finder is now Gold, with version 1.1.1 available. It looks for repeated multiword phrases in prose and shows where they occur so you can review them in context. You can adjust the thresholds and allow specific phra...
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Blurb Length Adapter has reached Gold. Version 1.1.1 is available now. It keeps the blurb variants you supply together and checks them against your own word and character limits. That can help when you need different lengths for book descri...
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Controller Mapping Card Maker is now Gold on the Forge. Version 1.1.2 is ready. You supply your controller mappings, and it turns them into reference cards you can print or keep on your phone. You can separate mappings into named contexts a...
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Short-Story Collection Mapper is now Gold, with version 1.1.2 available. This one compares collections using story lists you supply in CSV files. It shows which stories overlap and which are exclusive to each collection. If you’ve ever look...
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I’ve moved Game Settings Snapshot Comparator to Gold on the Forge. Version 1.1.2 is available now. You give it two saved settings files, and it shows what changed. It supports JSON, INI/CFG and key-value settings, including changes in value...
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Tonight I've been back to reading the X-Men chronology again. I worked through the items that I wanted to on the New Warriors. That went pretty well. I accidentally skipped ahead further than I expected because I got into the Child's Play s...
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Post 7 of 7 MENTOR: CHARLES XAVIER Charles Xavier begins Marvel Graphic Novel #4 (1982) believing the X-Men are dead. Accepting new students means returning to work that now carries the memory of an apparent, devastating failure. Moira brin...
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Post 6 of 7 DANI MOONSTAR: PSYCHE Dani Moonstar arrives with strong ideas about what she will and will not surrender. In Marvel Graphic Novel #4 (1982), the young Cheyenne mutant can draw out frightening images from people’s minds. Her psyc...
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