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Elodie Vidal
@elodievidal.bsky.social
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French-born, US-educated UK dweller. Bruja, bajita. Books, X-Men comics, yoga and random thoughts.
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Also, I asked @marcusto.bsky.social to draw me #Forge and #Sage looking like partners in crime, and now I own the nerdy duo of my dreams.

#XMen #XForce #ComicBookArt #MarvelComics
Sage and Forge in their X-Force uniforms, one arm over the other's shoulder and fist-bumping. They're both smiling a small smile, looking straight ahead like they're posing for a photo. The piece is signed by Marcus To, in the lower right corner of the image.
September 20, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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If you don't fancy #Forge yet, get ready to start because LOOK AT THIS (my commission from @marcusto.bsky.social) 💙 🛠️

#XMen #XForce #ComicBookArt #MarvelComics
Black-and-white drawing of Forge. He's wearing a jacket over a shirt and bolo tie, and dressy trousers with a big belt buckle. His hair is tied back into a half ponytail and it flies gently behind him in an imaginary breeze. A loose strand falls by the side of his face. Make no mistake: he's hot. With the rolled up sleeves, the closed metal fist and the stern expression, the overall feel of the piece is ROOAARRRRRR. Marcus To's signature is in the lower right corner of the image.
September 20, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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I'm sorry, Emma who?

(From Emma Frost #2, art by Andrea Di Vito.)

#XSpoilers #XMen #Sage #Tessa
Tessa lounging on a sofa in her Hellfire Club attire - that's a corset with open lacing at the front, long gloves and high boots. Also presumably something that passes for panties, although they're not visible here and all you can see is THIGH and HIP. She's also wearing a long cloak attached with a golden chain around her neck, with the collar raised. Her eyebrow is cocked and there's a smirk on her lips, so she looks eeeeviiil. There's a chess set on a table in front of her. Oh, and Sebastian Shaw is doing some combat training in the background, but who cares. I've cropped his head off.
July 24, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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Magical realism meets Americana in GennaRose Nethercott's Fifty Beasts To Break Your Heart, conjuring modern folklore, mundane monsters and bewitching fables.

What a wonderful book-friend.
A paperback copy of Fifty Beasts To Break Your Heart on a soft pink knitted blanket. The cover is off-white, with the title in the centre and a tree branch running up the left side and across. On the bottom left, a wolf looks up at a goat woman in a dress on the middle right. Below her is a pink carnation with a skull where its pistil should be.
July 16, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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Someone has stolen my work chair. And I don't exactly trust him to write my newsletters.
A black cat sitting on a chair facing a desk, where an open laptop awaits. He's looking at the camera, as if saying, "What?"
May 9, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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I don't game, but I sure am staring at this Forge design by @minagami.bsky.social for #MarvelRivals. So cool.

#Xmen
A seriously badass rendition of Forge, resting a big gun on his shoulder and looking like he means business. He's wearing a brown fringe jacket over an unzipped uniform that shows his pecs, covered in scars. He wears a patterned headband, a feather earring, and dog tags around his neck. There's a mechanical eagle flying above his shoulder in the background.
May 1, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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My last reaction post about Thorne's #X-Force. I'll miss writing down my impressions in a frenzy of excitement each month.

www.tumblr.com/stormandforg...

#XSpoilers #XForce #XMen
Panel from X-Force #10: Forge holding the Analog (a cosmic globe that glows in his hand) and looking at it with a somber expression. "Yes. It's...all clear", he says.
April 24, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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Yup, Marcus To does have a gift for making unconscious people look like Disney princesses 💜

#XForce #X-Force
Captain Britain, Forge and Askani lying unconscious on the ground, looking like beautiful angels. They've just been knocked out by a villain (Forge is wearing a big metal suit) but somehow they all have peaceful expressions on their faces. Betsy's on her side with her long hair fanned out around her like a bug purple halo. Not a tangle in sight. Forge's ponytail has also landed in an aesthetically pleasing position next to his head. Sage lying unconscious on her back. You know this isn't a lovely nap because she's in uniform with a metal contraption in the shape of wings attached to her back, but she looks peaceful and angelic. Head leaning to one side, mouth slightly open, one hand next to her face and the other on her hip.
April 17, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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'Will you let me sleep? I had to get up at 5 to jump on your bladder this morning.'
A black cat lounging luxuriously on a sofa. His body is stretched out, with one front paw tucked and another reaching ahead of him. He's twisting his head back towards the camera, looking at you with a single sleepy eye.
April 7, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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I must be mad, reading this after working so hard to escape the book industry. But all the same, it made me laugh, in mirth and in recognition, and it taught me an awful lot as well.

Warning: might tempt you to read Jilly Cooper.

@oneworldbooks.bsky.social
Paperback edition of Blurb Your Enthusiasm by Louise Willder held up in my hand, with my desk in the background. Cover design: bright red with the title in white, followed by the image of a small open book upside down with a mouse hiding under it (only the nose and tail stick out). Below is the long subtitle, "A cracking compendium of book blurbs, writing tips, literary folklore and publishing secrets" and review quotes.
April 3, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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Current sexuality: Sage.

#Sage #XForce #X-Force #XSpoilers
Horizontal panel of Sage in a black catsuit, holding a duffel bag over her shoulder. She's right in the center of the panel, looking straight at the reader from behind her red goggles, her messy hair framing her face. Both her gloves and the background are a cold blue, giving the image a cyberpunk feel. Sage in a black catsuit and carrying a duffel bag on her shoulder. She's saying coordinates out loud as she teleports by pushing a button on her belt. Sage, wearing a black catsuit, leaps off the sides of two adjacent buildings like a ninja, landing in a superhero pose at the bottom.
March 21, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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My #XMen origin story: my dad, who read the comic as a kid and an adult, began taping the animated series for me. Watching it I fell in love with Storm. Then my dad let me borrow X-Men #20 (I felt so grown up!). Soon he was the one borrowing comics from me.
Storm in the 90s X-Men animated series. The cover of X-Men #10 (1993).
March 17, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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The preview for #XForce 9 is out!

My (never fully sane) thoughts: www.tumblr.com/stormandforg...

#XSpoilers #XMen
Page 1 of the preview. At the Aerie, Sage and Xavier talk telepathically. He's on the run with an unknown person and needs "extraction". She agrees to send Kestrel to help. Page 2 of the preview. In Estrella, X-Force are fighting Rampage. Forge reminds the team that he's just a distraction though, so Betsy turns to the real source of the problem: La Diabla, who's still looking on the scene from a distance with Colossus. Page 3 of the preview. Leaping into the air, Betsy raises her sword towards La Diabla, only to be repelled by a huge magical sigil. Betsy collapses to the ground and Forge flies to her rescue. As he and La Diabla face off, narration goes back to Sage, who's talking to Kestrel. He confirms that he's "secured the package".
March 13, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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This adorable fluff blanket just drooled his smelly food onto my expensive yoga mat. He's lucky he's cute.
A black cat sleeping on his side on a light-coloured knitted blanket. He has a fluffly coat that shines in the artificial light. Judging from the denim trouser leg visible in the background, there's a human sitting next to the cat, but who cares? The cat doesn't.
March 13, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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Haha, sorry for my weird request! Here are a couple of references - only the top part of the hair is tied back. (It's not high either, just tied back). Does that make sense?

If it's too much of a pain don't worry about it, he can have his hair down too 😊
March 10, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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Yay I just treated myself to a lovely #XForce commission by @marcusto.bsky.social 🥰
Gif of an animated alligator dancing, with the words 'happy dance' at the bottom. The aligator is upright on its back legs and has its elbows up. It smiles as it side bounces across the screen.
March 9, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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When they've cancelled your favourite comic, you just finished what is possibly your favourite book ever and reading is a sore subject right now...

PENNY DREADFULS TO THE RESCUE

@pennystressful.bsky.social @britishlibrary.bsky.social #Horror #BookSky
A copy of the book Penny Bloods, edited by Nicole C. Dittmer, photographed face out on a shelf with other books behind it. It's an orange hardback with red foil finish on the cover.
February 26, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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My raw reactions to #X-Force 8 are out. It's mainly me gushing about Sage and how we're all her bitches now.

tinyurl.com/XForce8RawRe...

#XForce #XSpoilers
Cover of X-Force #8, showing Forge, Colossus and Tank fighting.
February 19, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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Forehead love is the best.

#XMen #XSpoilers #Psylocke
Greycrow and Psylocke touching foreheads tenderly.
February 14, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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My two favourite idiots for #ValentinesDay. The world is a shitty place right now, but love, romantic and otherwise, is still going strong. It must.
#XMen #Ororo #Forge
Cover of Uncanny X-Men 289, showing Storm and Forge kissing in an embrace.
February 14, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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Almost 350 classes completed at my beloved #yoga studio.

I know I should be proud of my commitment, but all I feel is frustration that I'm still unable to do crow pose after all this. Also wheel. Also most inversions.

I know, I know. That's not what yoga is about. But still.
Screenshot from my yoga booking app, with text that reads: "Past bookings: 347 classes attended".
January 23, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Oh my God the language in this. I'm only 2 pages in and I'm OBSESSED.

Cassandra Khaw, where have you been my whole life?

#BookSky #Horror @titanbooks.bsky.social
A copy of "The Salt Grows Heavy" by Cassandra Khaw on a desk. The cover design is a close-up on a woman whose face is made of sharp teeth. She seems to be under water, her flowy blue hair floating around her head.
January 16, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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My Raw Reactions to #XForce 7 are up, if you're interested in that sort of thing.

Forge-heavy, as usual!

www.tumblr.com/stormandforg...

#XSpoilers
The cover of X-Force issue 7, featuring Betsy Braddock slicing the air with her sword, revealing the likeness of her teammates.
January 4, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Concerning scenes outside my house today.

It looks barely worn. Size 5. Anyone seen its twin?

#InsideNumber9
A lone black boot abandoned on an empty road.
January 3, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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Ye olde Christmas #BookHaul, aka a pile of books I plan on reading this year but probably will not.
A stack of books on a desk. From top to bottom: Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart by Gennarose Nethercott, The Taiga Syndrome by Cristina Rivera Garza, First You Write a Sentence by Joe Moran, Bad Cree by Jessica Johns, Blurb Your Enthusiasm by Louise Willder and Fearsome Fairies (British Library collection).
December 30, 2024 at 11:36 AM