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Algae - any/all @algae-x.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Is that Baron Zemo way in the back?

Algae - any/all @algae-x.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Instead of trying to awkwardly crowbar Jason Todd into BTAS' chronology, they should have made a post-Joker Tim Drake the DCAU Red Hood. That would have had a lot more emotional resonance.

DCAU Bats giving Red Hood the stink eye.

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Algae - any/all @algae-x.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"Mr Scarface took actions I did not intend," Arnold Wesker admits after latest outrage.

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Algae - any/all @algae-x.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I think it's funny that the Marvel Family, Black Adam and Sabbac each receive the assorted powers of several deities or archdevils while Ibac gets the combined assholery of four dead assholes.

Terror of Ivan the Terrible
Cunning of Cesare Borgia
Fierceness of Attila the Hun
Cruelty of Caligula

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Algae - any/all @algae-x.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Every time Mary Marvel uses her powers, Wonder Woman's mom turns into a wet noodle.

Mary Marvel standing next to a list of all her powers including "the Strength of Hippolyta, Queen of the Amazons".

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Algae - any/all @algae-x.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

What does a porn game need with a nude mod?

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Algae - any/all @algae-x.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

All right wing media now is just this meme.

RIGHT-WING MEDIA: This fucking sucks actually.

ANTIFA PUNK ROCKER: *Literal coolest thing ever*

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Algae - any/all @algae-x.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Remember when half of YouTube tried to gaslight us into thinking Brie Larson wasn't hot?

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Algae - any/all @algae-x.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Random thought that both made me chuckle and feel super old... The Young Justice version of Vandal Savage was biologically 44 when he was hit by the meteorite that made him immortal. Which means by Current Year, he'll have to start passing himself off as a Millennial.

Vandar Adg rocking the latest fashions of Spring 48,000 BCE

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Algae - any/all @algae-x.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

FUN FACT: When little Algae first saw DCAU Darkseid's debut apperenance at the very end of Superman TAS' "Tools of the Trade", not really knowing anything about wider DC lore, I immediately assumed he was supposed to be the actual Devil.

Darkseid looking particularly Miltonesque, silhouetted by the fires of Apokolips.

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Algae - any/all @algae-x.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

If you ever feel down on yourself, just remember that Arishem the Judge thinks you're doing alright.

Arishem, a two-mile-tall armored space god, giving you the thumbs up.

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Algae - any/all @algae-x.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

LOKI: Come join my companywide mega crossover event! APOCALYPSE: No, that's dumb! You're dumb!

APOCALYPSE: Others?

LOKI: The X-Men! Cyclops, leader of X-Factor and the young New Mutants who will soon to Midgard from... Elsewhere! They too have ofttimes annoyed me and mine. Defeat them... destroy them... and in doing so thou wilst prove thyself worthy to join me.

A: Your so-called Acts of Vengeance is already a failure.

L: No! I have caused the Avengers anguish. They have felt pain/ I would have destroyed them had not my servants, my so-called master villains continued to pursue their own petty interests in place of mine and have thus been humiliated.

A: No wonder the humans have ceased to worship you, Loki! How little you understand the human heart! Humans are not immortal and have little enough time to accomplish their own goals. Humans are not the weaklings you take them for. Each, be he hero or villain, is dying from the day he is born. Each breath... each effort... is an act of courage against inevitable doom... such courage we immortals only dream of.

-X-Factor Volume 1 issue 50

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Algae - any/all @algae-x.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

If you're not sure that what an LLM does is qualitatively different from actual human thought, then you don't actually understand how either work.

This is a very strong objection which I need to think about, but I guess it comes down to whether you think machine learning is completely qualitatively different from what a human mind does or not. And I’m not sure.

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Algae - any/all @algae-x.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Great Scott, man! You only had nine fucking eps!

ComicBook Clique

❌️Beau DeMayo has revealed more details about his original plans for Season 2 of X-Men ’97, claiming the story was later reworked because it was considered too complicated.

According to DeMayo, his original opening would have followed three interconnected timelines across the first three episodes:

• The origins of Apocalypse and his obsession with Ship
• A present-day world where the X-Men never existed
• A future where Cable is ordered by the Askani to kill Apocalypse, despite Scott and Jean trying to stop him

DeMayo also says his version would have continued the story's setup surrounding the Phoenix, with the reveal that its emergence in Episode 10 was not accidental.

His larger Season 2 arc would have seen Professor Xavier increasingly militarize the X-Men, eventually revealing that Onslaught had been manipulating Xavier and influencing his decisions.

The season finale would have revealed Onslaught's control, with the X-Men realizing what had happened and returning to their classic '90s costumes as they joined forces with the Avengers, X-Factor and X-Force.

DeMayo claims the finale would have culminated with Onslaught stealing Ship from Apocalypse and unleashing it on Washington, D.C. during Graydon Creed's inauguration.

He also alleges that his disagreements with members of the production over comic-accurate terminology and ideas contributed to the “difficult to work with” reputation he says followed him.

It's an ambitious version of Season 2, and if DeMayo's account is accurate, it sounds like the original plan was heading toward a very different and much larger storyline.

Which version of Season 2 would you rather have seen?

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Algae - any/all @algae-x.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Now that X-Men '97 is behind us, never forget that Louise Simonson, original creator of Apocalypse, established them as genderfluid as far back as 1987.

“As long as man has existed, I, Apocalypse, have stalked among them. I have had other names but wherever there was cruelty and death, there was my face worshipped. There were men tested. There civilizations flourished and then fell!

In ancient Egypt, they called me Set… god of death, of storms and famine… brother-slayer… himself undying. In Persia, I was Sauru, prince of demons, lord of anarchy and tyranny. The Aztecs called me Huitzilopochtli… god of war and bloody sacrifice. In India, I was four-armed Kali-Ma, the Black Mother, sword-wielding, draped in snakes, girdles in skulls. Always I brought growth, judgement, destruction. As it was before, so will it be again.”

- X-Factor Vol 1 24

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Algae - any/all @algae-x.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

The hyperfixation is upon me once more...

HeroForge model of Set, Egyptian god of storms and chaos, as syncretized with the Greek Typhon.

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Algae - any/all @algae-x.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

What if we kissed atop the Serekh of King Khasekhemwy?

Hieroglyph representing Khasekhemwy, last king of the Second Egyptian Dynasty topped by the falcon of Horus and the 'Set-Animal' in a surprisingly... cozy position.

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Algae - any/all @algae-x.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Mythological Hot Take: As divine bisexual bad boys go, Set is WAY more interesting than Loki.

This is brilliant (Loki)

But I like this (Set)

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Algae - any/all @algae-x.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Thoth-Amon stands before his god.

Thoth-Amon, evil arch-wizard from Robert E. Howard's Conan stories, standing before the shadowy form of Set, Kemetic God of Chaos. No AI was used in the production of this image, just a good ol' fashioned BG remover.

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Algae - any/all @algae-x.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

😊👽POST AN ALIEN WHOS NOT AN ALIEN👽😀

A Voth from Star Trek: Voyager, who despite living on the other side of the galaxy is actually an evolved Hadrosaur, meaning he's technically an Earthling.

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Algae - any/all @algae-x.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Historically accurate Odysseus:

Peep in Mycenean armour looking like a bronze barrel.

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Algae - any/all @algae-x.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I mean, there's a big philosophical distinction between "God" as the Infinite Transcendent Source of All Being and "gods" as a particular class of beings inhabiting and overseeing certain aspects of the natural world. 1/3

OP: Can I ask a question? How come, in a universe where Thor and Hercules are public and well-established heroes but Jesus remains entirely absent, there aren't more pagan converts? I mean, I think Rick&Morty had it right with the giant heads. If people knew which gods were real, they'd worship those.

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Algae - any/all @algae-x.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

My fav is the way Star Trek treats Padds. Like, what are you even doing here, JL?

Jean-Luc Picard with a stack of electronic padds on his desk.

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Algae - any/all @algae-x.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

That Ho Over There in Hermopolis

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Algae - any/all @algae-x.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Post a random picture or else everything will go bad in July.

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Algae - any/all @algae-x.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Counterpoint: Over 80% of Americans are somekinda theist. Believing you can build anykinda viable political movement W/O including religious folks in your coalition is pure Magical Thinking.

OP: Religion is superstitious hogwash and has no place in politics, especially of the Left. You're either hedging your bets on the World to Come or fighting for this one. DSA may be a "big yurt" but this horseshit is simply embarrassing.

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Algae - any/all @algae-x.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Last night, I dreamed the Gorn from Star Trek guest-starred on Coronation Street.

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Algae - any/all @algae-x.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

And don't even get me started on Control or Vadic. In conclusion: "the Federation needs Section 31 to survive" is in-universe propaganda from an incompetent fascist death-cult trying to justify its own existence. 5/5

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Algae - any/all @algae-x.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

They infect the Great Link with a genocide virus which not only has no material effect on the Dominion War but only drives the Salome Jen Founder to basically attempt interstellar murder-suicide. 4/5

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Algae - any/all @algae-x.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

They engage in convoluted nonsense to replace a pro-Fed Romulan senator with a slightly more pro-Fed Romulan. 3/5

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Algae - any/all @algae-x.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

They try to recruit Bashir, exposing their centuries old secret cabal. He tells them to fuck off. 2/5

Bashir being menaced by some S31 jackboots.

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