Mandrake {A-}

A Story by Abishai100

Diary notation(s) of why a magician-avatar inspires ideations of the 'chess' of sportsmanship and the 'illusion(s)' of human race empires.

A diary about why I find great storytelling inspiration(s) from the iconic comic book hero Mandrake the Magician. Enjoy,

DISCLAIMER: The images used int his diary-mosaic reflect no claims/views of any bodies/organization represented and are meant only to serve as 'reflection(s)' of personal ideations of society journals.

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Why do I love sports? It's because it reminds me of competition-chess and the 'stalemate' of war created by control(s) in arena-intelligence creating stars and gifts and energy and simple media-accessed human Earth design(s). It's why I collect sports-cards, and I like all sports-cards.

My name's Amlan Satan, and I like comic books and my favorite avatar is Mandrake the Magician, and I like casting special cyber-illusions on social-media re-presentative of human race competition-chess, and the stalemate-diagrams worthy of politics-intelligence, since sports reminds us why Gladiators create arena-imagery for control(s) in ethics and talent and prowess and fury. I post my Selfies on social-media to see who's interested in chat(s) about sports-teams excellence and treasures of the 'chess' of Western-world execution(s).

"Mr. Brown, a good magician never reveals his secrets" (Mandrake the Magician).

The 'chess' of media-broadcast sports is all about the magic of social access to the imagination of competition-access, and Mandrake the Magician reminds us why we find everyday magic about the 'super' stars and athletes we find on TV today, broadcast to youngsters, creating 'illusions' of immortality, worthy of the arts/education, and definitely symbolic of Western civilization. It's magic.

I used to be part of a chess-club in school and then was an avid-fan of social-media chess-networks/windows (e.g., Facebook-chess) and learned about the 'magic' of drawing stalemate-chess (tie/draw/no-win decision) against a 'plethora' of 'faceless' opponents using windows with alias-avatars to create net-exchange(s) for ideations on the global grid-electricity! This is the answer to terrorism.

I remember cheering for the Notre Dame Fighting-Irish college-football rivalry with Penn State Nittany-Lions team which produced those timeless matchups against the two celebrity-coaches (Lou Holtz and Joe Paterno). Isn't this why we want to get past the 'darkness' of 9/11, friends?

Of course, the sad truth of Earth is that terror/fear is 'qualities' of the human race which we find comfort to forget with the 'art(s)' of great graphic-media re-presenting imagery regarding adventure, fighting, survival, and monsters/aliens. The human race cares about fitness/adaptation, and we need art to get over the 'science(s)' of war.

To that end, I decided to 'draw' a special Mandrake illusion inspired 'Selfie' Elf-avatar (Yale) which would re-present why I like using the 'art(s)' of social-media (e.g., Facebook-chess) to use competition lyrics/dance to transcend the darkness of terrorism. This avatar, with a saber that releases magic bead-orbs of infinite energy, offers the illusion(s) of timeless 'chess' that help us get over the worst face of species-woe(s) --- evil.

MOM: Why don't you bake one of your 'famous' shrimp-quiche dishes (for your nieces!) this Thanksgiving, Satan?
ME: That sounds like something Mandrake the Magician would consider 'quite' an excellent 'chess' maneuver for religion.

MOM: Good.

I've loved chess all my life. I have a fantasy that I'd defend the human race against an alien invasion by drawing an 'excellence' stalemate-chess against an invader (alien!) Martian monarch to yield/warrant a 'perfect' sovereignty-diplomacy accord for deep-ocean abyss exile/residency for the invaders with no future dangerous contact above sea-level with humans. This chess-achievement would be one for the books, and it would remind me why I love the Orlando Magic, the Duke Blue Devils, the Penn State Nittany-Lions, Facebook-chess, and of course, evolution-cinema (wow).