#this is the dumbest comic i've ever made i think

[avelera]

I am never going to be over what the movies did with Steve and Tony's dynamic, because- listen, listen. The reason Civil War was (supposed to, it was kind of a hot mess) hit so hard in the comics was that these two were *best friends* and had been for decades of comic time. In the movies, they never are friends, so Civil War is just two colleagues who never really got on, and not the devastating tearing apart of a long-established friendship group.

Dude I literally burst out into like... outraged, furious laughter in the theater when Tony said, "I thought I was your friend?" because, umm, footage not fucking found?

I completely get and respect the comic readers here for whom Steve & Tony and Steve/Tony were, in fact, the best of friends! But the MCU never ever actually showed it.

To cram that line, which felt lifted from the comics, into the MCU was genuinely laughable. How could Tony possibly think he compares to what we've seen of Steve and Bucky's relationship, since childhood even if you don't ship them, as the only person Steve has left from his entire life pre-WWII? How could Tony possibly think he compares except through the lens of a galaxy sized ego and being totally self-involved to the exclusion of all else? How could any work colleague, since that's what they are at best when not outright antagonists to each other in the MCU, think they'd compare to a childhood friend in danger, that Tony is actively putting in danger? Who Tony is blaming for the death of his father despite the fact they've got piles of evidence that Bucky was a mind-controlled prisoner of war being actively tortured at the time?

It's literally staggering, it beggars belief that this line was uttered. And wildly enough, it's not even my least favorite line in Civil War. (That one goes to Vision's stupid fucking comment about how strength invites challenge, basically victim-blaming the superheroes for having villains, which only possibly makes any sense if you ignore Thor, the greater galaxy, all of the infinity stones, and basically every other part of the MCU timeline before Steve Rogers got the serum, Christ that line makes me mad.

Oh, and the line about Tony just handwaving signing the accords because their lawyers can fix it later as the most boneheaded line of insane privilege I've ever heard. Kids, never fucking sign something just because you can supposedly fix it later, christ it's the dumbest thing I've ever heard.)

ANYWAY, I have major beef with Civil War's logic. It never should have happened where it did in the MCU. Cap 3 should have been dedicated to its original plot before they found out RDJ was staying on in the MCU and they had the pieces to make Civil War (the original was the hunt for Bucky and an examination of Captain America's legacy through the lens of Bucky killing off the pretenders the US government set up to be him over the years, and I still weep that we never got it) But I do honestly, deeply, have sympathy for comic fans and why they're mad about the Steve and Tony friendship never actually appearing on screen in any meaningful way.

Civil War shouldn't have happened then. Civil War is a plot you run now, when you've got the rights to the X-Men and too many damn characters running amok. Civil War would be perfect now for pairing down some of the ballooning MCU nonsense. The cast was literally not big enough circa Cap 3 to make Civil War. And I'm eternally bitter that they pivoted away from the smaller-scale Cap-centric movie we should have had and instead made another Avengers movie in its name.

#maggie rambles #captain america #mcu meta #mcu

[ketterdamskaelishprince]

theo stop scaring the students (idk if this is even possible)

ok so in regards to this post i made yesterday i thought i would just like add to it.

going to once again state i literally have no clue what i'm talking about everything i talk about i say with like 99.999% uncertainty and i'm always open to being wrong and having conversations about characters and stuff like that's my JAM.

anyways, i have only two real possible like things to back me up on this:

the fact that it looks like a dear skull. in the comics we learn that theo loved to hunt and he would often bring home venison for lenore and it ends up being her deathwish meal. i also looked up a deer skull for this and guys as somebody who hates bones i did this for you all

i want to say the picture below looks like it's horse hair that's overgrown, or i want to say it's like bits of bark from a tree. either support my idea.

see the way that looks makes me immediately think of the way he died. since we all know he died by basically having a tree fall on him in a storm.

my only question is how did he get out here? because, being honest and this will not be poetic in the slightest, bro looks a bit deranged. and we know that theo, when he was at nevermore, was the top student.

which then just makes me wonder if he went rogue/he did something that fucked up his place in the spotlight and he was booted out and look he's here. i suggest all of these things not out of thinking i'm correct but because i literally have no clue.

with episode 100 coming out literally tomorrow, this could be the dumbest thing i've ever posted because i could have my theory shot down immediately. and if it is, i'm going to laugh. and if it isn't– i might just like, i dunno, crawl into the fetal position and wonder how i was correct.

i never get things like this right.

#theo nevermore #theo stop scaring your sister!! #nevermore webtoon #nevermore webcomic #nevermore #lenore collect your brother he's doing his cosplay dead deer stuff again #is this why he chases them down #“dear sister of mine!” and it's just random growls #best family reunion ever #ex wife and brother meet irl!

[becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys]

Doctor Who, but Chronologically: 41

Well. Holy shit.

It's 1955, and hot on the heels of the incredibly socially important episode about Partition, we get one of the greatest episodes this show has ever produced: Rosa, co-written by Malorie Blackman.

(Funnily enough, once again, this dumbest of watch orders has triumphed - this close to Demons in the Punjab, you feel emotionally prepped for Rosa. "Ah yes," you think. "A much-needed and blindingly important historical episode that educates white British people in race relations. One of the functions of Doctor Who."

You still aren't ready.)

I mean this without hyperbole: of every episode, book, comic, radio show, and everything else Doctor Who has ever produced or had a hand in, this one makes you feel the imminent danger to the companions the most, and on a level that none other ever has. We get Whittaker, Ryan, Yaz and Graham back as they all go to Montgomery Alabama, the day before Rosa Parks stages her sit-in protest, and sweet Christ on a stick they do not pull their punches in making every single white person into a raging cunt of epic proportions. They do not shy away from stressing that Ryan could be lynched at literally any time and it would be legally sanctioned. They are not coy about citing the real-life murder of Emmett Till - murdered for daring to speak to a white woman - within seven minutes of the opening credits, after a white man physically assaults Ryan and snarls that he will have him "swinging from a tree with a rope for a kerchief, boy".

It is visceral and shocking and completely out of the normal tone of this show. Part way through, Ryan chooses to go off alone because his spine is apparently made of fecking titanium, and I honestly don't think I relaxed for the rest of the episode (although it leads to a fantastic scene of him meeting the leaders of the civil rights movement, including Martin Luther King Jr, and I really mean that it is FANTASTIC). I've watched companions be menaced by everything from statues to large pepper pots to fucking Bertie Botts; I've seen them trapped in drifting spaceships, partially turned into birds and fish, stuck in the Blitz, slaughtered in the Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve, melted, possessed, infected, mutilated, and threatened with compulsory roller derby membership. I have seen it all and then some. Some I have seen in more than one iteration.

This is the only episode where I have been genuinely frightened for one. I've aged, Tumblrs. 73, I am now. Wizened.

Anyway. You know the story of Rosa Parks sitting on the bus and refusing to give her seat to white people. This episode does cover that, but it does so through the medium of an awful time travelling neo-Nazi, complete with Richard Spencer haircut, who has been released from intergalactic prison Stormfront Stormcage and decided to use a vortex manipulator like Captain Jack's to come to 1955 and stop the Montgomery Bus Boycott from happening. There's a nasty scene where he tells Ryan he's doing it to stop Ryan's "kind" from "rising above their station", so when I say he's a neo-Nazi, I am not pissing about, and nor was this show. (Ryan shoots him with a time gun in the end that sends him to a prehistoric past trololol enjoy that, conservative, you people love The Past)

The TARDIS team spend the episode trying to nudge history back into place so the protest can happen. It's genius, really - super simple sci-fi plot, so the focus can be on the social issues. There's a beautiful conversation between Ryan and Yaz about the way they both still face racism in the present day, and the way Ryan has to constantly police his emotions and faces police discrimination even now; but, also about the nature of social change, and the importance of looking forwards and fighting the good fight. There's also a great scene when they first get on a bus - Ryan is forced to sit at the back, but Yaz doesn't know where to sit. The driver lets her on at the front, but she's not white - so which box do they want her in? "Does 'coloured' just mean black in the 1950s?" she asks, having been accused twice of being 'Mexican'. It's a subtle performance, but the indecision of it - guessing if she's endangering herself or not - is shown to be genuinely distressing.

God, fuck, this is such a good episode. It's absurdly good. They fit so much in 42 minutes, while still making it a Doctor Who episode and yet not shirking on any of the fundamental issues. And the writing is still deftly done - there's a dry humour that they intersperse throughout as a palate cleanser that never undoes the impact of the social stuff, like some stupid MCU LOL NOT REALLY bit of obnoxious bathos; instead it's a foil for the serious stuff, making it that bit more impactful. And! A rare Sexy Lamp Test pass for all three companions! That does not often happen in Chibnell's run, so shout out there.

Anyway. ANYWAY. I could honestly write a whole scene by scene breakdown of this episode complete with citations and explain in exquisite detail how much I love it, punctuated with "We laughed at this bit, and then cried at this bit, and threw shoes at the screen at this bit" but uhhhh, that is not the point of this project. So I shall stop.

Plot threads! Any answers? Not really. A few things we've seen before though, like the vortex manipulator, that was fun.

And apparently there's a big prison called Stormcage that puts anti-violence implants into its inmates' heads before release! That's fun. Good to know that policy.

“She” (an unknown person) is returning (perhaps River returned as Missy. Maybe Me? Maybe Clara???!)

There is something on Donna’s back

An entire planet, Pyrovilia, just… disappeared, somehow. (Maybe because the TARDIS is exploding??? Saturnine was also lost, and that WAS because of the TARDIS exploding. The lion man’s planet was also lost but he was a bit of a knob about it if I’m honest. The Thijarian planet was destroyed by some sort of impact)

Amy is maybe dead (she’s not)

The Doctor has been cubed (he’s out, but how?)

River is possibly blown up  (unless she’s Missy. Nope: she is definitely not blown up)

The TARDIS has blown up  (It’s fine now. Except it’s sort of melting now because it’s corrupted, but it’s fine again)

The universe appears to have ended  (the universe is back again)

The Doctor has employed(?) Nardole

(And Nardole was “reassembled???” Nardole had glass nipples and invisible hair?? WHAT THE FUCK IS HE)

There’s a vault in the TARDIS and it contains Missy but we don’t know why (sometimes she knocks for the bants)

There’s an immortal Viking girl now. Her name is Me and she’s now looking after the people the Doctor abandons

Why was Rory entirely unconcerned by the entire world suddenly going silent when that is Not Normal and should have been, at the very least, extremely disconcerting?

What did the Doctor do to Queen Lizzie One?

Why is Amy seeing a one-eyed woman in a vanishing window? (She’s with the Silents, but we don’t know why Amy saw her)

Why is Amy’s pregnancy inconclusive? (Maybe because the baby had Time Lord DNA?)

Who is Sarah-Jane Smith?

How is the Doctor Bill’s teacher and why/where does he have an office?

What is going on with the Cyber War and the Cyberium???

What happened with the Other Cyber War?

What happened with the Third War that deleted the void?

Why does Rose seem particularly important?

What order do these Doctors go in? (Eccleston, Tennant, uncertain, Smith, Capaldi, Whittaker)

Which companion just… forgot the Doctor, and how?

Yaz and Vinder are about to die as Mori/Mwri/Muuri

There is a Lupari shield around Earth.

What’s a Time War?

What’s the Rift?

What’s Bad Wolf?

In which war did the Doctor become a war criminal, and how?

Who is the Master?

Why has Amy forgotten Rory? How did she forget a Dalek invasion?

Is Rory plastic or not?

Why is the Doctor sulking on a cloud?

How exactly does the Doctor have a cloud?

What exactly happened with Strax to, uh, tame him?

Which friend killed Strax?

Which friend brought Strax back?

Where did this lesbian lizard and human couple come from?

What happened with Clara as Souffle Girl and the Daleks?

How does Clara actually join?

Why so many Claras?

Why is Missy apparently in robo-heaven?

Why is probably!Missy pushing Clara and the Doctor together?

What is Trensilor and what happened there?

Who is Handles?

The Doctor is about to be dissolved by a beautiful geode man

The universe is being crushed by the Flux

Will the Doctor open the fobwatch?

Sontarans are invading Earth again

Who is Kate?

Who is Osgood? Another name of Clara’s again?

The fuck is the deal with the Grand Serpent

Does Martha get to go to an ice cream planet with 12-fingered massage aliens?

How did the Doctor forget Clara?

Who is Bill’s puddle girlfriend Heather?

How did Nardole die?

When does Bill get Cyberman-ed and die?

When does the Doctor shrink and enter a Dalek called Rusty?

Whittaker is falling to her death rn

Was that ring relevant?

Does anyone know the Doctor’s name?

When did Yaz talk to Dan about fancying the Doctor?

When did Dan talk to the Doctor about fancying Yaz?

What’s happening with the bees?

What happened with Donna’s ex and a giant spider?

What war wiped out the Daleks, and is it one of the ones already mentioned?

What did the Doctor mean when he said “The (Daleks) always live, while I lose everything?”

If Dalek Caan is the last Dalek left why are there more now?

How did the rest of the Time Lords die?

How and why did Amy melt?

What’s the question that will make silence fall?

Why do the Silents… want silence to fall?

How and why are Silents at war with the Doctor when he… hasn’t even heard of them?

How does Hitler get out of the cupboard?

What’s the significance of fish fingers and custard?

Why does the Doctor feel guilt about Rose, Martha and Donna?

What happened with the space whale?

When does Rory defend Amy for 2000 years?

How does the Doctor survive River

How does he erase himself from history

Did Captain Jack lose his memories to the same people as the Doctor? What did he lose?

When did the Doctor send the Daleks into a void to save the universe?

What’s with the weird crack in the wall and is it affecting memories?

Why do Amy and Rory think the Doctor is dead?

Is Matt Smith’s Doctor a tree racist?

#doctor whom #and yet we are continuing

[giulliadella]

Hellraiser: the Toll is dumb AF

You freaks liked my review of The Scarlet Gospels, so I'm here to deliver this short review of another garbage Hellraiser novel while I'm procrastinating with studying for the finals. Spoilers for the entire thing (and some funny fanart) below:

Hellraiser: the Toll is a novella written by Mark E. Miller that serves as a passage between The Hellbound Hearts/Hellraiser movie and The Scarlet Gospels. It sucks harder than a black hole.

Short summary (5 sentences)

Kirsty Cotton is a depressed fucked up person that is running from place to place because she's scared of "The Cold Man" which is a nickname she gave to Pinhead. She gets a letter from some random theology professor and decides to go visit The Devil's Island in French Guiana where she's told the Cenobite would wait for her. She goes to a hotel kept by an old lady and a butler named Walter, the old lady is skinned alive and the butler tries to kill Kirsty, but she smacks his face with a hammer and kills him. Then she enters the jungle prison on the Devil's Island and meets Pinhead, they chat, then argue, then start a fight which ends by Kirsty smashing his face with a hammer and taking out one of his nails. She returns home and keeps the nail in a jar on her night stand.

Endlessly confused plot

I honestly can't tell what universe does this book describe. It's a mashup of "The Hellbound Heart" and Hellraiser movie, but the second movie is not cannon, which is very weird. The author basically picked and chose whatever random thing he liked and made a senseless mashup. One of the worst things about it is the same fucking issue with the Boom! comics and that is that Kirsty hates Pinhead because he "killed her father and ruined her family". Which is pure bullshit from every angle. In "The Hellbound Heart", Cenobites only killed Frank and Julia and let her go. In Hellraiser, they also killed Frank and Julia and she barely escaped. Her father was killed by FUCKING FRANK. Pinhead didn't ruin Kirsty's family, Frank did. I don't think that Kirsty would hold any ill intent towards the Cenobites, in fact, in Hellraiser 2 she objectively doesn't. She wanted to save them for fuck's sake. And they all gave their lives for her. I really have no idea why would she have any reasons to hate Pinhead, but oh well.

Pinhead acts like a whiny little child

Seriously, what the fuck is with these books and assassination of Pinhead's character? Why the FUCK is he depicted as narcissistic, misogynistic motherfucker, when he couldn't be further from it? Also, why does he use his fists to fight Kirsty when he can summon chains with hooks by will and also has like 12 butchering knives hanging from his belt? The worst part is probably the dialogue, especially when he says "Jesus wept", like, come on, that's the dumbest thing I've ever read. Does the motherfucker who wrote this think that Frank and Pinhead have any parallels? Because if he does, he needs a hit on his head with a hammer, just to reset his brain.

Hell is shit - literally

The description of Hell in this book is even dumber than in Scarlet Gospels. It says that the floor in Hell is made of shit. And there's a hole and people in Hell worship the hole and throw babies in it. Like, what the fuck. Also, I fucking hate the fact that he described Cenobites as foul smelling. Do your research, motherfucker, they smell like vanilla! There is some stench of rot beneath, but nobody in the entire franchise never had the urge to vomit when they were close to the Cenobites, so it can't be strong. I don't know how did the author of this garbage come to the idea that Cenobites smell like shit and that Hell is made of shit, but it's literally like how a 13 year old would describe it. I don't know what is the reason, but maybe, just maybe, straight men have much different interpretation of what Cenobites are compared to queer women like myself.

Stuff I liked

There was one scene where a demon was running in the rain screaming FUCK!FUCK!FUCK!FUCK!FUCK!FUCK!FUCK! until he was struck by lightning. I laughed my ass off with that.

The fact that Kirsty kept the nail she knocked out of Pinhead's face by her bedside was so cute. Like, this book has some shipping, but it fucking sucks. Mostly because both Pinhead and Kirsty are very much out of character. But keeping the nail was definitely in character for her lol.

Overall, this entire book could be summed up by this illustration:

The Toll sucks. It doesn't suck as much as Scarlet Gospels, and, thank Goddess, it's only 40 pages long. But it still sucks. It ruins both Pinhead and Kirsty and their relationship and it's definitely not worth your time. If you want good stories about the Hell Priest and his human crush, go to AO3, there are many of superior quality.

#hellraiser #book review #rant #fanart #pinhead #kirsty cotton

[elfdragon12]

What I enjoyed in More Than Meets the Eye/Lost Light:

The illustration if Swerve's loneliness (it's quite visceral for me, to watch him be sociable, for Ultra Magnus to assume he has all these friends, only to be all alone)

The Scavengers (they hit that sweet spot of "loveable jerks" whose hearts aren't quite gold but work things out their own way)

The arc between Cyclonus and Tailgate* (The development is well paced, with good emotional beats*, I want to see them together by the end)

The arc between Cyclonus and Whirl (Another relationship that's paced well and the conclusion feels earned)

The moon vacation (It's nice to see these characters who've been hurt so much get a chance to be away from people who make them worse and a story involving Prowl that acknowledges how traumatized and damaged he's been and he gets to hear an apology from someone who manipulated his body without consent)

Cerebros (such a wonderful and wholesome boy that just tries to help people and it's a crime he's largely ignored by this fandom)

The rivalry between Overlord and Tarn (I could have a whole comic book full of nothing but Overlord roasting Tarn and I would love every page)

Misfire and Swerve's insta-friendship (being audibly goofy on main provides echolocation for the like-minded, I love it)

Skids and Nautica's friendship** (the dancing and everything really made such a good connection)

What I actively do not enjoy:

The pacing of the full story (jumps way too much, overuses starting in media res and then backtracking to explain, spends a lot of time forming problems but little or sometimes no time for resolution. I think this may be in part JRo's history in prose and fanfic where he gets all the time in the world to set up problems and make characters go through all sorts of bad times and take his time with resolution. This is not the case when writing comics for a franchise)

Chromedome (I know he's really popular and some folks put CDRW on a pedestal as the first canon queer ship, but he's a legitimately awful person and partner. The way he treated the alternate Rewind is right out of yandere fanfic, his use of mnemosurgery played a huge part in the original Rewind's death, and he was Trepan's apprentice, willingly becoming a mnemosurgeon even after learning what they do. An offscreen discussion with Rewind suddenly having a change of heart and being lovey-dovey doesn't make me feel better. Rewind wasn't a perfect partner either, but Yikes™️. I hate him)

Megatron's redemption arc (really, he's just running away from the consequences of his actions to have a second chance at leading a rebellion and being happy. Why don't we ask the millions of people the blue flowers represented what they think about that--oh wait, they're dead. Because of him)

Related, how everyone who doesn't like Megatron is villainized (I'll say it: the mutiny was justified. It really was. Optimus was stupid to put Megatron in a leadership position on that ship when no one there had any reason to not hate him. Tarn was right when chastising him, as much as I hate to say it)

The general handling of mental health (Trailcutter is forced into sobriety by body modification and then immediately killed off, Chromedome's mass of issues and "we talked about it", Red Alert and Fort Max are "fixed" offscreen and then written off the ship, and both Rewind's traumas are largely ignored in favor for being Chromedome's cute little boyfriend, for examples)

How often the audience is informed of details instead of shown or how things are solved offscreen (a good example being Skids and Swerve being best friends--how often do we actually see them hang out? Almost never. This is largely because of the vast number of major characters, so there's poor balancing)

How character death rarely has any impact (Mirage's death is a "blink and miss it", Ten's death isn't brought up again, Nightbeat is only brought up by Rung--this is also one of the dumbest deaths I've ever read, Swerve doesn't mourn Skids and Nautica gets her grief erased**, Trailcutter's death only matters when Rodimus is faced with past Trailcutter, and so on--they were largely there to up the stakes rather than to have actual consequence to the story)

Mederi (it was... Just a mess. The whole of the narrative was to bring us here?)

The double endings (the narrative flow got confusing here and, honestly, I didn't find either satisfactory)

*The multiple times characters are brought back from the dead, especially Tailgate (a quantum leap, remaking them with science-magic, and "a wizard did it"! The Tailgate one was especially frustrating as a reader because it felt super cheap to be taken back by his death and go through Cyclonus's grief, getting a touching yet bittersweet reunion, and then a weirdly omnipotent 8 ball just.... Brought a new Tailgate from a different reality. Is the Magnificence actually a Dragon Ball?)

**The way Nautica's grief is handled (very "have your cake and eat it too". You can't have it be a problem that she wants to have her grief manually erased, have that erased, do the whole "friendship matters!", and then brush off the friendship between her and Skids as if it meant nothing)

Ultimately, there are things I liked, but it's so hyped up that, in the end, I felt misled by the fandom. I was frustrated by many of the events. Perhaps JRo is really good at prose (you can't make me read Eugenesis. From what I've heard of it, it is not the kind of story I would enjoy), but I don't think writing comics is really his wheelhouse. He set things up and resolved them poorly. At least some of it is due to the nature of the American comics industry. I also felt like he could have spent more time researching how to write therapy effectively.

#Transformers #IDW1 #Praise #But also #criticism #more than meets the eye #Lost Light

[dumbestthingiveeverheard]

Dumbest Thing I've Ever Heard: 7/24/2023

Fifth Place: Elon Musk

I'm sure most people saw that Elon Musk has changed Twitter's name from Twitter--one of the most recognizable names on the internet--to "X" the twenty-fourth letter of the alphabet. What exactly caused Musk to think this was a good idea is currently up for debate, but many are calling it another misstep--because it so obviously is.

To give everyone an idea of just how nonsensical this is from a business standpoint: Imagine if McDonald's woke up one day and decided to change its name from the highly well known one they've had since their founding, to "P." Just the letter P, nothing else.

Fourth Place: Ben Shapiro

I would like to thank Matthew Gertz on the platform now known as "X" for compiling these four images which I think perfectly sum up the disconnect between how conservatives think America works and how it actually works.

Third Place: Matt Walsh

Xing--which I assume is what we will now call tweeting--today, Matt had the following to say about feminism:

Anyway, here's Matt back in March:

So the owning of other human beings as property has been a net benefit to civilization, but not giving women the right to vote, open bank accounts on their own, work outside the home, and be able to report both sexual harassment and rape. Mockery--and possibly revealing information about how Matt views the world--aside: What does it even mean for a movement or ideology to kill a person? What possible metric could you be using to justify such a statement?

Second Place: Paul Gosar

Media Matters reported today that Gosar previously used his official newsletter to promote USSA News, a website which has engaged in Holocaust Denial. Postings from the website include:

USSA News on July 22 posted: “David Cole, a Jew, explores Auschwitz and debunks the claims that it was an industrial death camp – still on youtube for now but as more countries outlaw questioning the ‘holocaust’, it is uploaded here in case it is removed to censor inconvenient evidence.” 

USSA News on July 21 posted: “Making Adolf Hitler into a Jewish-controlled agent is quite a brilliant plot by International Jewry to divert newcomers away from learning the true history & background of National Socialism (Slavery).  Don’t be fooled! … Stand up for Hitler and National Socialism (Slavery)!!” The piece then promoted content on Renegade Tribune, a neo-Nazi site. 

USSA News on July 20 posted an article from the antisemitic site Unz Review attacking Jewish people, which begins by stating: “Untrue stories exist at each end of Jewish history’s three thousand years – fictional, fabricated and of immense magnitude.” It then claimed: “Towards the end of the 20th century as belief in the origin stories was fading away, the Holohoax morphed into a fearsome modern religion, in which belief is compulsory.” 

USSA News on July 17 lionized Hitler by writing that “the Kalergi Plan consists of the genocide of white people through miscegenation and mass immigration of non-whites to Europe. … Hitler was aware of Kalergi’s plan and did everything in his power to prevent it. Like Gobineau, Hitler considered the Aryan race to be the noblest, the best armed for the struggle for existence, the most beautiful, the most energetic, and the one with the greatest amount of creative genius. What this race lost by mixing it was not compensated by what the others gained by ennoblement.” 

I decided to check the website myself, and just today I found an article with the headline "God Is An Anti-Semite" which begins by showing this cartoon.

For those curious, that comic was made by a man named Farstar, here's some information about him according to a Wordpress blog sharing his name:

Farstar88 is a Fascist artist from South Africa who specialises in political cartoons as well as comics in order to provide a much needed narrative that is ruthlessly suppressed and excluded from mainstream consciousness. In a world of political correctness gone completely insane, telling a contrary story even if it is more than sufficiently backed up by facts, is considered an act of aggression and the victims apparently are those whose feelings get hurt when they can’t have their way.

You know, Paul Gosar hasn't really been subtle with his authoritarian leanings over the past few years, this is the man who buddies around with known fascist Nick Fuentes remember, but at some point you have to wonder--why doesn't he just come out and admit it? These aren't people with shaky pasts that you have to dig real deep to find information on, that bit about Farstar--I learned that in about three minutes through Google. At this point, one has to wonder what he has to loose by just loudly declaring that he is, in fact, a fascist--especially given everybody already knows that by this point.

Winner: Ron DeSantis

Speaking of fascists, DeSantis's campaign gave another shout out to its fascist supporters over the weekend through a staffer retweeting a campaign ad with this image of DeSantis superimposed over a fascist symbol.

Again, one has to even wonder why they try to hide it anymore.

Ron DeSantis, you've done the dumbest thing I've ever heard.

#elon musk #ben shapiro #matt walsh #paul gosar #ron desantis

[sparrtington]

This is literally the dumbest question but I'm kind of a new Marvel fan (only took the plunge in July).

Is there any content where Fandral actually has like character development? Like I'm curious why so many people ship him and Loki and who he he as a character because I don't think I've ever seen him say more than one or two lines of dialouge at a time. Is there a comic where we get to see more of him, or is it just kind of like a fandom-made ship?

I'm only really into the movie universe cause the comics are sort of daunting. However I am...PRETTY CERTAIN that FandralxLoki is a fan made ship. Collectively they talk to or near each other for all of less than 1 minute I'm pretty sure L O L.

#they literally never interact #definitely a niche thing i suppose...but at least it isnt crossing into the boundry of kind of ships

[amazing-spiderling]

So for the two ask games: 3,12, 17, 21, 36, 49 for murderdock and 4, 9, 13, 23, 27, 31, 35, 44 for Gwen, then 🧭, ♻️, 🤔, ❤️!

I think I already answered all of those WIP asks (and honestly, I don't have that many going at a time) so I'll answer the character asks!

MURDERDOCK:

3. Obscure headcanon

The Hand tried to diversify their portfolio by breaking into the entertainment industry, starting in Japan with musical groups. Matt had a short-lived stint as a solo artist but the project was eventually scrapped. He still misses it sometimes. Nobody knows about this until Foggy finds a beat up CD case in used music store one day and spends a full minute gawking at the familiar brooding face on the cover.

12. Crack headcanon

I just think it would be funny if he was a vegetarian. I don't even know that I consider this a headcanon, it would just be funny if the guy going around murdering people with his sword cane ate a lot of tofu.

17. Quotes, songs, poems, etc. that I associate with them

I've made a few playlists over the years, but a song I haven't had a chance to put on one yet is "Promiseland" by Mika

21. Drink of choice (not just alcoholic)

Robbi Rodriguez has art of him with a martini glass on his IG and I decided it was an appletini not because he likes the flavor but because he's committed to the bit. In the privacy of his own home, I see him as an unsweetened hot green tea kind of guy

36. Their favorite season

Winter. There's less people around, the snow helps muffle the sound and things smell less when they're cold.

49. Favorite toy as a child

Gwen Stacy (65 I presume)

4. Favorite line

"But if the only way I can help is with my fists -- then I've already lost. I have to try a different way. I have to know I tried."

9. Scene that first made me love (or hate) the character

I read Spider-Verse before it was cool (JKJK I mean before the first movie because I was deep in my Spider-Man era) and there's a part in the story where a lot of the main Spider-People split up into pairs to go and visit other universes to recruit more heroes/ ward off the Inheritors etc. Gwen ends up in a world where Peter Parker has become the Goblin, going down a path not too dissimilar from her own Peter's. This Peter also ends up dying in her arms, but she shows a great deal of compassion and understanding towards him and I think that was the moment that really made me want to check out her series. (Which had been written at the time I read that comic, but didn't exist when it had been written, which I think speaks to how good of a job that one scene did at developing a character who had literally just been invented.)

13. Dumbest thing they’ve ever done

Not dumbest in that it was a conscious decision she made, but her complete misreading of the emotions of her friends (Peter's obvious crush on her, MJ's annoyance at Gwen's missing Peter's crush on her, MJ's jealousy and motivation for creating the band in general) sort of stretches the limit of general obliviousness, especially since she CAN read people when she's trying to.

23. If they were a scented candle, what would they smell like?

Backstage sweat and like... raspberry body spray from the drugstore

27. Their guilty pleasure

I'm low-key obsessed with Dollar Dog and I love that for Gwen. I wouldn't say she felt guilty about it before it became a hipster nightclub but she sure does now. I hope it fell out of fashion and Mr. Alby got to run it again.

31. If the had a tumblr what would it look like?

She stayed up late one night picking out some cool colors, hot pink, purple, something very chillwave, and like a very heavily filtered landscape photo of the city to go at the top- she posted semi-regularly for a month and a half and then forgot about it.

35. Their idea of a perfect day

She gets to sleep through most of it, but wakes up and finds out that her dad has invited her over for brunch and she's got time to make it and pick up juice on the way.

44. Their happiest memory

Probably something like a middle school holiday spent with her parents and the Parker family. Before things got complicated. She understands now that the roots of her larger problems were always there, but she can appreciate the comfort her innocence afforded her back then.

#thanks for the ask!

[the-firebird69]

What a great weekend Tommy f ring around time to get everybody screw down with everyone bothered them took stuff and got caught it was a real cream puffs and f** made all sorts of dumb jokes harass everybody started harassing her son get his ass kicked my tons of people in US went around as Mr sinister for a while is making four off it looks like a jackass and a bum when he left Comic-Con everyone was booing him and shining him cuz he beat someone up inside I said that's not what it's all about mister because it is with us and you'll find out and said we found out we're blowing your bases up they don't care what cream it says maybe we do so it's the timing thing so they tried to capture him and he's going around them and they're moving in on him he's just sprinting it's going like 80 miles an hour nope 30 no he was going about 15 to 18 which is faster than they were but just barely it just enough juice to get to his vehicle and leave so the idiots playing it close and he looks weaker but he's not. She said try again and try pulling the cards away from him to look at them so they tried doing they can't so I see what it is all sudden it's a huge deal his clothes are getting arrested and interrogated because of what they're saying they're going around saying stuff and the foreigners are going to invade and we're going to get crust between both and his people would be in a problem yes this is a huge deal for him he's getting screwed in his people and nobody gives a s*** especially Tommy f yeah just lean on me you f****** fart Tommy f what a loser Jesus come down here then no go to hell oh you already did so we're at war with them now Max's says most are CA answer's but we put out actually PBS and on Trump

And we said we put apbs on the max because we did you keep doing this number on them and screwing around with them using all these excuses and they're going to get screwed by the foreigners Tommy f and the retards it's the dumbest thing I've ever seen him do but they keep doing it so we're taking advantage of it just sit there and make fun of it and laugh at him and screw around with what he's doing we're doing it to you now it's a huge hole in your attitude.

Going after you now and we're going to make sure that you don't leave without knowing that you're losing

Several things are happening we went after the shadow dome in Europe we have all of them in except one 400 we went after the shadow dome and norly Denmark Sweden Iceland and the ocean sea up there and it is ours except for one 400 there Lock stock and barrel for real even Iceland I know they don't have a base there anymore and the tunnels don't go up there because it's too cold everything freezes in the tunnels.. your son is wise to this he says you think they would do it because when you're bored into it the Earth is frozen so it's holding itself up and it sort of is but if it cracks cuz you heat the tunnel it collapses on you in big chunks so his wise but we did figure out the problem and having a few times and stop doing it he said that makes sense too cuz that's what happens cuz he finds its way to the weakest spot through the technique we don't heat it up and that's what we're doing we also in case it properly warms up a little bit not much. Bluetooth 400s will fall today we're all focusing on them at least one $800 in Russia and several hundreds in the caucuses two 200s in the Middle East and I'm going to make a run at the caucuses in Middle East because we need the Mediterranean in the Sahara is in and we are working on all of them all the time we just need to focus on them more so and some of them come in without us focusing

We had several come in from the oceans there were several 400 surrounding each of the 700s out there and there are eight of them and it's down to around 200 each except for the southeast Atlantic which has three. You're a slew of fifties still in the Norway Denmark Sweden Icelandic ocean area we're going after those quite steadily there's one 500 underneath Britain and they're going to use that in their War and Russia will use the 800

We're doing prep work there and we're doing prep work here and yes to make safe are they really going to do they can't see it

We have all of them in Brazil we have all of them in Africa we have most of them in Mexico there are three 200s outstanding and he's requesting where we should concentrate now and I'm saying Europe because that will soon be a war zone. The Icelandic area for the same reason. Russian for the same reason and yes Mexico is going to be a war zone very soon so that we wait and use it for that or we get rid of it now and he says now would be nice which one's going to happen first and you should tell us well we have the harvest your queen and black ships and we have the question about Russia any question about China I would assume and that's correct in South America by the way in South America comes up through there every so often and they do and that's an issue whereas in Russia they don't go through Europe that much and the issue is in the Ukraine which is to the South and Europe might stand up for them but it's not a reason for Russia to open a second front or for Britain to rampage through Europe to go after Russia because of the Mediterranean so our senior logic and it's true however the east coast is falling first and we know you're aware of that you're thinking it but if the East Coast falls they go after those that are making it fall which is really Russia and China they're the ones who are mostly at the blockade no it's Europe oh shoot then that's got to be what we focus on even though they're going through Mexico so we're going to focus on both and you're right we need help and we need Asia excuse me all of Asia to help South America and Mexico all hours of course to clear that out and all of mine that are in those areas that are available I'm calling right now because they're going to trample through there with a 3-200s at this time as the blockade comes down to three more times and a miracle fire and it really is indicative of that area and two Tutangus points it out and should be our Battle cry and we agree with that our son said that last part... It's a sounding math but it's very true you're going to be using heavy and we can't afford it and a lot of it and yes he says in California there are big weapons manufacturers in Texas and the Southwest is always been known for it matter fact that you take a lot of stuff from Mexico to make it so you fighting over that as well and those are right in the way as well as the California one but that's up north but then again that would be a Jeopardy because of Russia and when the South eats up the north though so there's one near Utah which is heating up and he's going to heat it up shortly tomorrow and the mail sucks we're going to heat it up ourselves now and then there is the East Coast Europe Europe in the Arctic zone and Russia all which I priority in the caucuses the Middle East and the Mediterranean are going to continuously be going on but not as hard and here and the Gulf it is a priority and it's very crazy but we're not allowed to do it because of circumstances as well as Florida and Georgia and Pennsylvania

It's a plan and I'm going to execute it and put together formal orders initially and Hera is please he said he's a little busybody today I got to him.

We're returning the moment

Thor Freya

[fishtrouts]

When you can't eat 50 baguettes 😤

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#this is the dumbest comic i've ever made i think #comic #dragon #dragons #dragon comic #digital art #art #comics #dragon art #stupid garbage dragons #someone mentioned that I remind them of pet-foolery so i tried something different

[twiststreet]

Luckily(?), I was peak 90s-teen-cynicism when The Invisibles started, so Morrison's countercultural BS always made me cringe. But it's pretty funny that he starts writing Green frickin Lantern as a cop exactly as BLM/defund-the-police starts up. Must suck to look at Moore, keeping cred thru eg Providence & Sinerama, and Millar OTOH making mad $ thru pandering IP-generation, and the best you can do is Klaus and Happy. As William S Burroughs says, "old fool sold his soul for a strapon" - Jones

Ooof, a new blog post out today, so more of the dumb-dumb parade today on that Twitter. But I liked the early Morrison-- even if it was BS, for me, the "Morrison was so full of shit, eager to grab at the chance to be a loyal company man for toxic people" full reveal was dismaying, but it wasn’t the whole ballgame.  And Morrison wasn't unusual in that regard-- people my generation were uniformly obedient little bitches to abusers, here's to you Warren Ellis Forum, etc.  So on some level, fuck it. I'm not some entirely moral actor either, I'm no monk or vegan or whatever living on a mountain anyways, so whatever.

But with Morrison, there was a point where the work hit a decline-- I'd put it at around New X-Men, because I think when you do a work that ends on "we've done enough old things, it's time for something new", you look like an ass if you follow that with fucking All-Annotations Batman, personally-- and it was precisely around the same time Morrison started shucking and jiving extra-loud about "it's so important that you're reading Superman-- Superman is all that keeps goth girls from falling on your head from great heights--he's like scaffolding for Goths-- I heart my employers." I came across Supergods online and was glancing through it before the Substack announcement, and telling friends like "this is the dumbest shit I've ever seen" so the current excitement over the venture capital blog posts leave me... about as alienated as everything else online that isn't from the 5 hot people whose opinions I actually care about, haha, whoops.

I should mute their name to avoid all that noise, because it's mostly people I think are dumb and tasteless reacting way-too-excitedly to boring sentiments that Morrison has droned on repetitively about for years, but you know: I want to know if Morrison dies or something, so I can race to be the first to text message that they’re dead to friends, and thereby win the Competition that is this life.

But I think philosophically, I think comics are sort of at their best when they're outward looking, and capturing / creating aesthetics, and stealing bits and pieces of culture and pinning it to their jackets. (Sure, there's Copra but I can justify Copra as resurrecting / reconsidering what was at the time a dead aesthetic...). Those are the kinds of comics I like seeing or knowing about anyways, whereas the late-era Morrison became entirely insular-- it became an old person, in a room, knowing too much about DC comics. Working with Tony Daniel ooooof. All sad! Everything about that is sad! And that mirrored the kinds of absolutely useless dorks that I saw responding most to that work (viewed at my least generous at least)-- a fanbase that became so oblivious to the outside world that they watched the Berganza Era of DC do Watchmen sequels mutely, happily, without any real objections other than, you know, some irritated tweets or whatever, at best. A happy marriage of the unethical and the unethical, nestled in the warm glow of describing themselves as "utopian" *jerk off hand gesture*...

And you know, the people reacting to Morrison and responding to the Same Exact Ad Copy Morrison has Sold for Years again today... I think those people all just get off more on Pontificating about Superman than... actually reading about Superman? Because the numbers are the numbers, and the numbers say they read Batman instead, and you look at the Batman movie they're about to put out, after market testing, etc., and there's nothing shiny, happy, utopian or optimistic about it. But who cares? What does it really matter? These are too imperfect containers for any greater desire for meaning...

(Tangent: Or I know a big thing for me has been seeing Wes Anderson's career progress because he's made these fantastical movies, one after another, but without doing explicit fantasies for the most part, in live action at least-- but just by actually finding the world an interesting place worthy of wrapping fables around. Superman's a fantasy that leads you to... more Superman? Superman merchandise? not dating?, but a fantasy about the New Yorker can lead you into the world... or at least New York, which I suspect contains parts of the world within it somewhere, for people rich enough to afford it).

Especially because Superman being a dick has a history to it that's entirely valid-- he was the Ultimate Dad (before he had to star in tiresome comics where people called him Clark or whatever)(whichi s still better than "the cat and the bat" ... the fuck is that shit???) and like... an Ultimate Dad that's a little spooky because you can't understand what he's thinking, because you're a child and not yourself a Dad let alone an Ultimate Dad... that's cool, that's a cool thing for a story to be about. I mean, sure, it's mostly done badly anymore, but so is everything. It's hard for things to be good!

And I just don't really need to hear how important it all is. Do I have a lot of beliefs on the Wrong Ways to Do Superman? Sure, I've thought way too much about this shit, too, haha, I have opinions coming out of my ears-- it's massively unattractive. But I just don't think any of it's very important, is the thing-- I don't think those stupid Injustice games hurt anybody, say, even if it's not my thing. I like entertainment precisely because it's not important, because we create space for the frivolous in the otherwise pretty tragic circumstances of a limited human lifetime. But Morrison's insistence that any of this means something, it must mean something, it must be important if they've wasted their life on it, really just increased in volume just as the work itself became more empty, more insular, more for losers being like "oh want to know what issue of Action Comics from 1953 Morrison is referencing? I know the answer because I don't go on dates!"

Or I don't know-- I know I had a very strong negative reaction after Trump got elected to people clutching Harry Potter books to their bosum, before JK Rowling went full British celeb TERF anyways-- it all just seems intensely deranged to me, that people's fantasies about people and goodness and Our Bright Future Together should be given any great weight, as the greater narratives binding people together disintegrate in front of our eyes. It seems worse than decadent.

But... you know, different strokes. Superman's lovely, and there are still people who really, really care about that stuff, who I think are also in their way often quite lovable, the way Americans are often so lovable in simple humble sorta-dumb pursuits, baseball and county fair fried food and rock songs about the road being a hard place for rockers but groupies making it tolerable, all the dumb little things that actually make this place worth caring about. But the whole enterprise of convincing those people that there's some Greater Nobler Thing going on or Some Vaguely Defined Bad Guys Out There Who Will Ruin the Thing You Love just seems distasteful to me, I guess. It seems like marketing, and who. fucking. cares. about. marketing. (Especially as you see people on twitter reacting by like "calling out" Zack Snyder or whoever-- not my favorite filmmaker, but a fun himbo whose Krypton I think was visually interesting, at a minimum, or like other certified bangers besides Snyder...).

I don't know. I haven't really addressed what you're saying hahahaha and my lunch break is over, but this is a topic I could just go on and on and on about, again, entirely unattractively-- this is the music I want out of my head anymore, and a big reason I don't really want to read this shit anymore, I want new sounds, and I really only care about the opinion of 5 hot people on the internet anymore who aren't into this dumb shit. Sooooo so yeah, maybe I should mute Morrison’s name, after all, I don't know. I just want to win at texting my friends bad news. It's all I have anymore.

Anyways, in summation, Eddie Campbell ethered Morrison's whole worldview in a sentence years ago...

#worst hobby or worstest hobby? #tumblr throws away my answers to questions lately so this will eat itself eventually is the nice thing

[the-dreaming-city]

stable

pairing: felwinter/reader

word count: 982

warnings: none (lmk if i missed any)

note: Sorry that I haven't posted at all for a LONG time. I've had no ideas to write until recently. For now, enjoy this kind of poorly written and not beta-read Felwinter x Reader fic. Reader's dialogue/thoughts are in pink. Felwinter's thoughts/dialogue are in red. Felspring's thoughts/dialogue are in green.

Felwinter isn’t sure where this mess began.

Maybe it was when he first saw you in the library. You were dazed, just as he was, looking around frantically at your surroundings. But you were beautiful. And when he met your eyes, his chest felt tight. Whatever Exo equivalent to a throat he had was so tight he couldn’t speak. He was almost sure he couldn’t breathe. Not that he needed to. He was so enraptured by you that you were the only thing he could focus on and he couldn’t hear the drone shouting at him to run and then-

Then the evacuation alarm went off, and he didn’t think before he grabbed your arm and ran as fast as he possibly could out of the building. Then it all came crashing down into ash. You both looked at each other. Your gazes were locked in silence for what seemed like an eternity. Then you broke it with a breathless, “Wow.”

“What?” The exo had responded.

“What the hell is happening? Where am I? Who am I?” You questioned rapidly.

"No clue." He said.

"Okay... Well, what's your name?"

“This... drone,” he says, flicking its shell, "Told me that it's Felwinter."

“Hello, Felwinter. I’m... I don't really know."

"What kind of name is that?"

Felwinter thinks for a long moment, his optics flickering in concentration. He scans his knowledge banks multiple times, looking for something—anything.

"How about... [Name]?"

You pause for a moment, pondering it.

"Okay. [Name] it is."

Then you smile, and Felwinter was sure that if he had the biology to experience it, he would be breathless.

The drone ran a diagnostic on his systems.

Stable.

Or maybe, he thinks, it was when you were both next to each other, huddled up close to a fire he made in an abandoned warehouse.

“Hey.” Felwinter says softly. "Wanna hear a joke?"

"Sure." You say, rubbing your hands together.

"How did the Traveler get it's name?"

“I don't know, how?”

“Because it never dribbles”

Yo go silent, and he turns to look at you, and you were looking back, with a comically large grin on your lips. Just like when he first saw you, he was nothing short of winded. He could feel the LEDs in his optics get brighter, and it felt like the hammer of that one Golden Age superhero that you told him about was pressing down right on his chest. (He thinks his name was Thor? Or maybe that was the hammer’s name.) The And then he noticed you hadn’t responded, and Felwinter was expecting an eye-roll or something, like you usually respond.

Then you laugh, and it’s the most lovely sound he’s ever heard.

“That might be the dumbest, yet funniest, thing I've ever heard you say!"

Felspring, He thinks as he chuckles as your response. Run a diagnostic.

There's nothing wrong with you! You're just-

Just run it.

Once again,

Stable.

Or maybe it’s just starting. Maybe the true beginning of this whole mess is now when you both just threw Lord Castor off the side of this mountain.

“So that’s it, huh? He’s not coming back anytime soon?” You ask, almost hopefully.

“Probably. He looks pretty dead from up here.” Felwinter says, looking down at a small red stain on the ground below. “We should prob-”

“Take off your helmet.” You interrupt, taking off your own.

“What?”

“Take off your helmet.”

“Why?”

“Just do it.”

So he does. He presses the release triggers on the underside of his helmet and slowly pulls it off, holding it at his hip and breathing in the crisp winter air. The Exo hears your boots crunch the snow on the ground as you approach his side. Before he can process it, you’re so close that it looks like you’re about to kiss him. But that would be stupid, right? It’s not like he WANTS that to happen. I mean how would that even-

You cup his jaw and gently press your lips against his mouth plates.

He freezes.

And he’s half sure that he’s fallen for you so hard that he can’t get back up.

Felwinter is so stunned and confused and so many other things he can’t explain. His mind is going 1000 miles a second and he can’t figure out what he wants to do. Your lips are so soft and warm that he’s pretty sure he’s going to overheat-

Then you pull away.

“I’m-I’m sorry, I don’t know what I was thinking, I-” You begin to apologize.

Again, just like every other moment in his life, Felwinter doesn’t think and crashes his lips(?) into yours again, grabbing at your hips to pull you in even closer. He thinks that the force was harder than the crack of his shotgun against Castor’s ghost, but you don’t seem to mind as you lightly moan and cup his jaw again. This time, he REALLY can’t breathe, whether he needs it or not. But his chest doesn’t feel tight, and the only thoughts in his mind are those of you.

You pull away for air with a smile bigger than the entire Sol System on your face, and Felwinter wants it to stay that way forever. You drop your head into his shoulder. You begin to laugh.

“What? What’s so funny?” Felwinter asks, lightly laughing himself.

“Nothing, nothing. It’s just-” You sigh dreamily and place a small kiss on his jaw. “I think I’m in love with you.”

...

Felspring. Please run a diagnostic.

You’re fine, Felwinter. Nothing is wrong.

Just run it.

Fine.

And it comes back the same as all the other scans.

Stable.

#destiny 2 #destiny 2 x reader #destiny x reader #lord felwinter #destiny #lord felwinter x reader #felwinter x reader #fluff #felspring #reader #felwinter is kind of a simp #dark age #destiny 2 fanfiction #bungie #x reader #rarepair #love confessions #destiny exo #destiny rasputin #warmind #siddhartha golem #felwinter peak #iron lords

[danny-chase]

ok need to know (haven't read rhato): Is rhato 2011 legit the worst comic you've ever read? what is the worst comic you've ever read

*this got really long so warning for incoming rant*

It might be a tie for Robin 1993, because Tim is so freaking boring the entire time. He literally is so boring and I'm at the point where the art is so bad the panels are incomprehensible. The best three issues of the comic are where the main character isn't the title character which i think says so much

Like no offense to Tim stans but he comes off like a "nice guy" tm, he literally watches his girlfriend sleep from the rafters, he cheats on his girlfriend and I'm supposed to like him? He yells at his alcoholic roommate and that magically cures him? I find Tim so unlikable he's literally just a "nice guy" and the narrative doesn't recognize that or treat any of his behavior as problamatic, and it's literally just a reflection of Dixon's political beliefs.

It's saving grace is that I can actually follow Dixon's writing whereas Lobdell is incomprehensible, and Dixon gave Dick and Tim bonding moments, which despite everything else being awful, was cute. Idk who picked up Tim's run but the issues after were so wordy i wanted to poke my eyes out and then the art got so bad i can't look at it after that.

I read three issues of Pirds of Prey rebirth and that's also in the running because it was the dumbest thing I've ever seen in my life and it is literally a crime that they gave up disabled babs for babsgirl

Batman and Robin Eternal is also on this list because dear lord, i read it the first time and hadn't read Batgirl 2000 yet, but they completely destroyed Cass's characterization and obliterated any hopes to recover her character because now fans like the new character (which rhato 2011 did to Roy). AND LITERALLY THERE WAS NO POINT SYNDER WANTED TO INTRODUCE CASS BUT NO DIDIO WAS LIKE SHE'S BANNED BECAUSE GOD FORBID WE HAVE STRONG FEMALE LEGACY CHARACTERS

Also all of the guys characters were so flat it's not hard to see where the 1 dimensional view of the characters Robins draws upon is coming from. Literally you describe each character in that comic with one word.

Hmm what else should i shit on

The jasonbabs scenes in Batman eternal were so freaking cursed, i read Nightwing #93 and dear lord was that bad, I read the Mirage storyline too. And the 1 year later stuff (Brothers in Blood was funny bad) but that whole comic absolutely made Dick a playboy and i hate it so much (give me back demi Dick Grayson DC i know you have him somewhere)

Nightwing 1996 wasn't much better than Robin 1993, but at least i wasn't bored out of my mind the entire time because the pacing was halfway decent and Dick came off as likeable, despite the abysmal content

Titans 1999 had a plot line where they tried fostering children together and they thought one girl was autistic but it turned out there was a man from another dimension living in her head that made her appear autistic and i... WHAT????

I read the Rise of Arsenal and some of the story continued in Titans 2008 (which dear lord they draw Kory like she's missing ever internal organ) and oh my god it was so bad. There's an issue where they retcon everyone into hating Roy as children and it was so bad. Like seriously what was the point? AND LIAN DYING WAS SO FUCKING STUPID she was literally the bright spot in so many comics i refuse to forgive DC

Outsiders 2003 is just blatantly outdated and has racist sayings littered all over the place and Young Justice 98 treats Anita so racistly i can't it was so light hearted there was no need, Cissie and Cassie are straight up cruel to her for no reason, and then she uses "voodoo" magic and has to get naked -- whhhhhhhhhhyyyyyyyyyyyy

I also tried reading Morrisons Batman Incorporated 2011 to get context on Damian's death arc and oh my god it's the worst. Catwoman kept unironically saying meow in the most objectifying way possible and i had to meow meow my way out of there

I read Frank Millers Batman and Robin Allstar. A mistake. And I now know how bad Batman and Robin 2009 was to Talia (i didn't know anything about her from before Dixon era Talia - which isn't as bad as Morrison Talia, but is still pretty bad).

I'm sure there's more but i can't think of specific criticisms right now. I think Robin 1993 and RHATO 2011 are tied for worst place comics, because RHATO is so bad i literally can't understand it, and Robin is so bad i find it painful to read

*cries* I've read so many awful comics i can't even scale them on levels of bad anymore

#honestly I'm surprised how popular jason and tim are when their first title books are the worst comics ive ever read #why am i still a batfamily fan #just to suffer #asks #negativity #robin stephanie my beloved i would have preferred if Tim died in war games and the rest of the comic was about her #hopefully i don't get angry stans over this but literally i read comics to be a hater #I'm so annoying irl I've ranted to my friends about comics so many times lmfao #racism #where's that post about sending pipe bombs to comic writers houses again???

[teacup-tyrant]

SHADOW AND BONE REVIEW: EP 5

On this episode: Svengoolie's troupe of performers, 1870s ballgowns except not, terrible plans that aren't sneaky at all, Mr. Darcy Darkling, and I need to take a minute over this one particular moment or I may never recover.

- Why does the leader of this performance group remind me of Svengoolie??? He’s got the hair the hat and the mustache. Do you guys know him? Maybe this is just a Chicago thing.

- More disguises for Kaz, he must be enjoying all this so much

- A WILD DAVID APPEARS! Um he is lovely, he can stay.

- Wahhhhhh Kaz is in pain bc of his leg, this hurts me emotionally and physically. Let him rest. One day. One day in 10 years maybe he will allow himself a rest.

- Full disclosure, I don’t remember a whole lot from the S&B books (only read them 1.5 times) but I remember butter week! Butter week is a wonderful thing.

- Aww this little carnival looks fun, I want to go. Reminds me of the Renaissance Faire.

- So... you’re just gonna grab Alina and walk away with her? What are you on about Kaz, that's the dumbest plan I've ever heard. There’s got to be something more sneaky to this.

- Arken. Who tf are you even. What are you doing here. What is going on here. I don’t get this plan at all.

- AlinaAAaAa! I thought her and the Darkling's whole deal would be more uncomfortable to watch but it isn't too bad. Good. I’m glad. Ok she kissed HIM and I think that made the difference. Did it happen that way in the book? I don't even remember. It’s still kind of weird but not AS weird.

- Ahahaha Jesper you’re such a flirt ahahahaha omg. I feel like... they might be playing him TOO MUCH for comic relief *dodges bullets*

- "She’s SULI." YES THE TRUE ZOYA COMES OUT

- I’m trying to historically place these fete costumes but I just cannot right now, I will need to have a think on this later. They look kind of 1870s to me but the necklines are weird and the fabric is wrong, but hey this is fantasy so it can really be whatever it wants. The thing I DO like about the costumes is all the embroidery tho, especially on all the keftas. I was kinda meh on these hair ornaments but I really like Alina’s

- Ah yes, Mr Darcy Darkling enters the ballroom and sneers at all the peasants.

- Alina you look so pretty! The black fur in her collar is *CHEF KISS*

- No wait, Inej in her oprichniki uniform is superior. Sorry, only Inej supremacy here. And actually sorry to you too Darkling, but Kaz has surpassed you as the most moody, miserable one in the room. Kaz and the Darkling even being IN the same room is just... blowing my mind, I’m gonna need a second here.

- Alina’s light-bending was beautiful. But what got me, what really got me was, of course, Inej saying Sankta Alina. Obvi this didn’t happen in the books, BUT Inej seeing her saint made me almost tear up. Alina has always been a very important person to her and Amita played this beautifully, where are my tissues

- get outa here Dima hahahahahaa

- How do you know it’s the right stag? Well it’s like a 50 point stag for one, and it hasn’t been mounted on anyone’s wall yet so that in itself is pretty magical

- Sorry Mal, Alina is Darkling's gf now, don't you remember?

- Oh Kazzzzzz what have you done, you just handed Arken a death sentence. Sneaky! I knew that first “plan” was never going to work.

- Did he just say plan F ahahahahahabaha I’m dead. See, that was a funny, witty Kaz moment. I want more funny witty Kaz but like... there hasn’t really been downtime for it so it’s ok

- Whaaat Inej told him "don’t take chances." That was cute, I wasn’t prepared for that cuteness. How dare you

- Heyyyy who do you think you are, throwing knives like Inej?!

- Dude, I fucking love these brutal fights, they are amazing. Thank you for blessing us with an adult rating for all this delicious violence

- Darkling thinking he’s about to get laid right now ahahaha smh

- Man that poor guy, Kaz framed him. You are a bad man sometimes, Kaz. :( Well, it’s ok we knew what we were getting into with him. And that's just an unfortunate consequence of working with Kaz Brekker. Sometimes you get murdered.

- Madame Hooch is here to save you, Alina! Take the broomstick and fly away!

- Seriously though, Baghra needs to sell me on this part right here bc I found it very flat in the book and it didn’t sell me at all.

- “He chose a nobleman's name.” Yeah, you mean Count Kirigan? The one with the wine cellars and where Nikolai tests all his machines? I was wondering how they were going to explain that one. Kirigan already exists and he isn't the Darkling so uhhh?

- Alina don’t make him the master of the Amplifier Deathly Hallows!

- Ugh. Man idk, it still feels so sudden. When you just get a character to tell instead of show it’s not as impactful. It’s like well lemme give you a 3 minute lore dump of why everything you've seen over the last 4 episodes is a like, and suddenly you’re on the other side now. It still feels kind of that way. It's like Gandalf in Frodo's kitchen telling him he has the One Ring. But there were flashbacks in that one and it worked really well (bc LotR does everything well, let's be real.) This still doesn't work for me and I wanted more out of this scene, boohoo.

- Kaz in a church is so hilarious to me. He should have burst into flames like a vampire ahahaha

- Are you making fun of his limp, motherfucker?! Ohoho he’s gonna kill you good and proper now

- KAZ, you let him live you son of a bitch, why have you done this?! (for people complaining about Show Kaz being too soft, I'll let you have this one. Book Kaz would have killed him 100%)

- Oh my god.

- OH MY GOD.

- OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

- I’m sorry, I’m am short-circuiting.

- She killed him for YOU, Kaz. She who does not kill!

- "Look at me. Look at me!"

- I’m never going to recover from this.

- I'm really gonna need a second here.

- ...and it was in a CHURCH too of all places. A holy place!!! Especially for Inej! Her Saints were watching!

- Yeesh. Ok. Continuing.

- That was the sound of Darkling’s spurs jangling. YEEHAH. You can take spurs off, you know. They’re not built into your shoes. You fucking cowboy. (No I’m not one of you Free Reign people so don’t even think about it)

- ...how tall is Ben Barnes? He uses the intimidating height factor a lot. Wikipedia tells me 6’1. Ok ok I see you.

- LOL Jesper I feel the same way. All that plotting and Alina just waltzes out and hides in the trunk herself. Un fucking real. I love it. That was hilarious.

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