Christmas as a celebration has been through many changes throughout history. It has absorbed aspects of other winter celebrations over the years, and many accuse it of now being nothing more than crass commercialism ( Read more... )

ANNIHILATION DAY, PLUS 11
VERGE SYSTEM 001 THE RUINS OF THE XANDARIAN CLUSTER
THE FORMER HOME PLANET TO THE NOVA CORPS
THE ORIENTA SHARD

||Attention. It is critical that you pay attention.||

||There is no one left alive except you||You have sustained physical injury. It is also likely that you are psychologically disoriented by shock ( Read more... )

ANNIHILATION DAY, PLUS 7
VERGE SYSTEM 001 XANDAR CLUSTER
HOME PLANET TO THE NOVA CORPS
THE XANDARIAN SPACEPORTThere were announcements going on everywhere in the spaceport. With all the different species it was like the Star Wars-cantina-meets-JFK-International-Airport, and on a day when the latter was bogged down with a snow storm with all the ( Read more... )

"Life is like a movie, if you've sat through more than half of it and its sucked every second so far, it probably isn't gonna get great right at the end and make it all worthwhile. None should blame you for walking out early."

--Doug Stanhope

( Cut for potentially triggery Suicidal mental processes. Do not click if that's a bad place to go for you, mentally. )

Dinner is at a sushi restaurant where the dress code is casual, but the prices and guest list are not. Good looking, half naked people handle the food and copious drink orders. John hasn't spoiled a woman in a good long time. Sure he dates, but...Well, he has another nightlife now he's going to ignore in favor of getting happily drunk, hearing a ( Read more... )

This month...had not been his best month.

( Mainly 'cause he'd gotten canned again. )

He'd heard about things, of course. The Warriors were pretty tight knit, after all, and it was only a matter of time before someone called him and Angelica ( Read more... )

Mist still surrounds the crashed remains of the quinjet, but that is the least of the Avengers' problems. Seven super powered warriors and countless guards surround the heroes, and overseeing the action is Superia herself.

"Take them down!" she orders. "Dead or alive!"

The last charge has been set ( Read more... )

Micky thought about picking up her phone and calling Rich.  He was her friend, and more, he was her teammate.  She should be able to talk to him, right?  And not have it be all.. suspicious ( Read more... )