My dad told me recently that the most important public health workers are garbage collectors and janitors. So much of our health relies on a clean environment. These people do some of the most important work in society. If we learned in dirty public environments full of garbage, we’d all be sick. I cannot thank these people enough for the valuable work that they do.
Shout out to all garbage collectors, janitors and housekeepers!
Art was found by someone else on something called Mutant Genesis MUX (Lorna’s profile here), a role playing site. I couldn’t find a source with reverse image searches, so best I can assume is that perhaps someone drew or commissioned this specifically for the role playing site.
anywho. this is one of my favorite if not my favorite Phoenix art ever because it captures the pathos of the Phoenix; Jean’s face shows agony, she’s on her knees crumpled and screaming. This is not a woman who joyfully accepted new powers and uses them to taunt mere earthlings; this is a woman who at the brink of radiation death was absorbed by an alien deity from deep space that doesn’t know how to control its hunger and in the process ate an entire planet full of sentient people, winked out in an instant, while her human host was trapped screaming inside. This is the woman who forced her friends to kill her to keep the Phoenix from coming back because that much power could not be trusted and could not be controlled. The comic Phoenix Endsong has the magnificent quote from Jonathan Schell’s anti-nuclear work, “The Fate of the World,” where a character raises alarm upon seeing even a mere speck of the Phoenix force heading towards earth, because, “a fraction of infinity is still infinity.”
I might be a primarily Cherik and Polaris blog for my x-men shenanigans but the Phoenix storyline still creeps me out
salarta 