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Natalia Tena as...Old Woman Laura?

Reports are circulating that Natalia Tena will be appearing in Deadpool & Wolverine as an older variant of X-23. The same sources are also citing multiple insider reports that Dafne Keen will indeed be reprising her role in the film (though there has yet to be any official confirmation from Dafne herself, or anyone else connected to the production).

Tena and Dafne previously appeared together in Daf's very first acting credit, the science fiction series The Visitors, which also featured Keen's father. Tena herself played the mother of Dafne's character in the series. The two do bear a resemblance, so it would seem to be a good match.

My own bit of speculation: Perhaps she's not playing Laura herself, but Sarah Kinney.

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The four stages of becoming a birder:

🪹Nestling Phase: You start with a casual interest, peeking out of your cozy comfort zone to notice the birds around you.

🐤Fledgling Feats: You spread your wings, equipped with binoculars and guidebooks, ready to explore new habitats and spot diverse species.

🐦‍⬛Perching Proficiency: Your skills sharpen as you learn to identify birds by their calls, habits, and plumage, and feel a sense of accomplishment with each new sighting.

🦅Masterful Migration: Finally, you soar confidently, traversing landscapes near and far, sharing your passion with others. In the end, the true joy of birding lies in the journey itself—every chirp, flutter, and waddle along the way.

Happy National Go Birding Day!

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FINALLY

🧑🏿‍🔬🧪

A POST-TRUTH

CRIME DOCUMENTARY

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Hello, Mr. Gaiman.

What do you think of Netflix reapetedly cancelling actual good fantasy shows and mass produce another dumb pieces of garbage with poorly written characters and a weak plot without any message which either nobody watches or a bunch of people watch and conclude they're worthless anyway. They clearly don't care about fine cinematography. I wouldn't want that to happen to any of your shows, don't you fear it?

Kind regards, have a great time.

Not really. You make the best thing you can, hope it finds its audience, and keep going. Worry about things you can affect, not things you can't.

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being a cass fan is 100% believing that the cass story in Detective Comics #1084 is setting up for a cass solo (please DC)

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studio trigger understood the assignment. i would let her wreck me.

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*Sees a thoroughly rusted Cybertruck abandoned by the side of the road*

Me: "Wow, how far in the future did we go?"

My time-traveller friend: "About two weeks."

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you wouldn’t last an hour in the asylum where they raised me

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Welp!

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Apparently, cops are more fragile than white women in their minds.

The police beat down a white woman and charged her with battery of the police officer.

Nigga what?

They treating white women like niggas now.

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A weird middle ground in this is the Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha series.

Which thematically is a Mecha show, complete with a space federation, but instead of giant robots, it's intelligent devices and magic.

Generally speaking I'm not really a fan of the trope where it turns out that something previously established as being magical turns out to have a science fiction explanation instead.

For example, like how in Ben 10, I believe a character in one season thought that they were learning magic, only for in another for them to learn that it's actually more like a mutant power resulting from them being related to aliens somewhere.

Similarly, as HP Lovecraft's work shifted from fantasy-horror to dark science fiction, things that previously described as being magic (the Dreams of the Witch House, for example) were later reframed as people accessing a kind of math or science that enabled them to bend space-time. The Necronomicon becomes less of an evil spell book, per se, and more a reference book about aliens and their abilities as interpreted by an old timey person who couldn't conceptualise such things.

I don't know, I think that it cheapens it somehow?

I'm somewhat more ambivalent over the Clarke's Law idea (where any sufficiently advanced technology is distinguishable from science), as depending on how it is used it can still act as a overlapping with actual fantasy still. For example, the way magic (and how specifically wizards study/use it) in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series is informed from his time as a press officer for a nuclear power station. Magic is treated in a similar manner to radiation and the like, but still operates AS magic would do.

Interestingly, the manga/anime Dungeon Meshi also puts a tone of worldbuilding into both the ecosystems of magical dungeons as well as the physics of magic itself (the biology of magical creatures, how the energy that powers magic is theorised to come from an alternate dimension "where infinity exists" etc.). It's emphatically still a fantasy setting, tropes and all, but it uses a form of science to explain how magical stuff works while maintaining that it's still all magic, if you get me?

The third option, which tends to be more rare, is the idea that something scientific turns out to have a magical explanation rather than the reverse. So, for example, in the Rivers of London novel Foxglove Summer, protagonist and trainee wizard Peter Grant ends up in part of the UK which tends to have a lot of UFO sightings (rural Herefordshire)... only for it to turn out that the alien sightings and abductions area actually caused by elves very similar to those from the Discworld novels (who exist in a pocket dimension that can only access other worlds at certain times of the year).

This is, itself, an inversion on the theory among UFO enthusiasts that stories about fairies and such in folklore were more primitive folk describing UFO encounters, with it turning out that it was ALWAYS fairies, it's just folks' frame of reference changed for the more "logical" scientific explanation (aliens) instead. This was itself referenced within the Discworld novels themselves, with the coming of the elves being forecast with a sudden spike in crop-circle activity (a phenomena claim is caused by aliens, rather than bored rural folk making Art).

I don't know, it basically comes down to how it's done in all honesty. Personally I like it when Science and magic are defined as two separate things, but I can appreciate when people use science as a way to help conceptualise how magic works in-universe? Such as the time in the comic Planetary where a character uses simplified computer analogies to describe the physics of magic to someone.

Reality has a form of operating system, and magic is the means to manipulate it to the user's own ends via a specific method or sequence of actions.

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365 Marvel Comics Paper Cut-Out SuperHeroes - One Hero, Every Day, All Year…

April 26th - Squirrel Girl

Doreen Green, the young, unbeatable heroine known as Squirrel Girl, was born with physical enhancements and abnormalities similar to those often found in Mutants.  These features include enhanced strength, durability, agility and a large, semi-prehensile tail.  Doreen additionally possesses the ability to speak to and understand the language of members of the Sciuridae family of rodents (basically any type of squirrel).  

Doreen discovered the full extent of her abilities in her late childhood.  She helped to save a squirrel from a neighborhood dog and the squirrel (who went by the name ‘Monkey Joe’) suggested to Doreen that she should use her special abilities to become a super hero.   It struck Doreen as a terrific idea and hence the Unbeatable Squirrel Girl was born.  

Doreen spent the next handful of years honing her skills.  She created a costume for herself and, at the age of fourteen, sought out Iron Man and presented herself as an ideal candidate to join the Mighty Avengers.  Iron Man was not exactly impressed by a hero possessing the powers of a squirrel, yet his mind was changed when young Doreen used her guile and abilities to defeat Dr. Doom (not a DoomBot, the real Doctor Doom; it happened and Doom has never gotten over this embarrassing defeat).  As impressed as Iron Man was over Squirrel Girl’s feat, he still chose not to invite her to join the Avengers, stating that she was too young.

Squirrel Girl would not be deterred, she continued on as a super hero and ended up joining the Great Lakes chapter of The Avengers.  The young heroine would go on to have numerous adventures, both as part of the Great Lakes Avengers and on her own.  Sadly, her constant companion, Monkey Joe, perished at the hands of a villain.  Doreen has since taken on a new sidekick, an intrepid squirrel named Tippy Toe who has remained her partner ever since.  

Later, Squirrel Girl joined the New Avengers, acting as a nanny and bodyguard to Luke Cage and Jessica Jones’ infant daughter, Danielle.  Having earned her high school equivalency certificate, Doreen applied and was accepted to Empire State University where she has studied computer programing.  

Doreen and Tippy Toe continued their heroic exploits while at college, having made terrific friends with her new roommate, Nancy Whitehead, as well as fellow college student/superheroes Chipmunk Hunk and Koi Boy.  She’s also had adventures as a member of the latest iteration of The Secret Warriors and additionally served for a brief time as a part of The USAvengers squad.      

Although her super powers are impressive, what has truly made Squirrel Girl so formidable has been her positive attitude, sunny demeanor and her openness to new ideas and perspectives in resolving a conflict.  Frequently she is able to navigate around actually having to battle a villain by simply talking to them, even befriending them.  It’s proven a remarkably effective approach that has helped her save the day on countless occasions.  She is just unbeatable.

The heroine first appeared in the pages of Marvel Super-Heroes Vol. 2 #8 (1991).

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Hi there do you think you can draw Cass in pajamas or just comfy clothes? She deserves it

I can, and she does :)

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Let’s go to Raven’s room now! Cozy, huh?

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Hanging out in Starfire’s room 💜🥰😭

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Girl’s night! All right!

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Detective Comics #1084