I was describing DFF to a friend from CQL fandom and she said New with Non sounded kind of like Huaisang with Mingjue, and it def clarified a lot for me about how I feel about both avenging brothers.
The ends don't justify the means, the cats and children and working class servants murdered along the way aren't erasable casualties in the name of a true justice, and these avengers are fundamentally unhinged, twisted, broken people, not righteous seekers of fairness in the world. But I love that both of them are driven by real desperation and are frantic and messy in how much they need to make their revenge happen at any cost; someone trying to burn the world down in their grief, and actually taking the good parts of the world and themselves down along with their target(s), adds so much texture and dimension to the narrative for me.
I love a justice story and an ethical revenge, but for example w/ The Glory, even though that's for me the best it's ever been done, we still have things like a woman being victim-blamed for her rape and drug addiction as narratively acceptable modes of vengeance. I find something freeing in a story that isn't about punishment and who deserves what, but just about the emotional depths people are driven to by loss and rage and the unfairness of a world with no accountability.
Sandman: It’s just so hard not getting to see my little girl
Otto, who stole some of Spidey’s DNA to combine with his to make a kid to use against him, lex luthor style, but Spidey just kidnapped the kid immediately when he found out and got Matt to cover him legally: I know exactly how you feel, Spiderman won’t even let me have visitations with my kid :(
Sandman:
Sandman: That is not the same thing, our situations are not comparable at all, it’s important to me that you know that
i fucking LOVE bugsnax and again i'm not much of a fan artist but the brainrot gripped me just long enough to allow me to produce some sketches of my favorite grumpuses
I've actually thought about it. He seems really charismatic in interviews, he seems to have passions for creative arts or being creative in general. He's not afraid to be goofy or dorky. He's got a cute dog. He's super talented. That's only naming a few.
It's my firm conviction that every time Maxwell sets foot on a station she gets the lowdown on AI social dynamics via the system readouts. After tracking down a power allocation anomaly and seeing that Hilbert's quarters are a brisk 55 degrees because heat is being diverted to the comms room she's like guys you will NEVER believe who the favorite is on this one.
I just wanna sit here, watch the sun come up. It occured to me that in all my time here, I've never done that. I wanna know what it looks like when it comes up over the horizon, so I can carry a picture of it in my head.
the way fiver just sort of thoughtfully watches the exarch walk off after he made some sideways references to the ironworks is so... good. thank you square for agreeing with me that this is the moment fiver starts to connect dots