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eveli, honey, i love you, but i swom to jom the moment you step into a room the writing immediately gets 500% dumber.
Romeo + Juliet (1996) Trivia: Shakespeare described Tybalt swordsmanship as “showy”. To transform this into flamboyant gunplay, John Leguizamo worked with choreographer John ‘Cha Cha’ O'Connell to create a flamenco-inspired style.
This is the new gender John Leguizamo invented that one time in case anyone was curious
I'm confused. Wasn't Dick training Rose from the original Nightwing run not the new 52?
he had the arc in grayson's run where slade tried to force him to take her under his wing, but he wasn't the one who originally trained her. she'd already been around for years by their time together, and even then, that whole plotline really only seemed to last like… maybe a couple weeks
he had absolutely nothing to do with her when she was first introduced, and just really didn't play much of a role in her story overall--especially not at first
when she was originally introduced, she was sent to the titans, where roy was the leader, and dick wasn't even on the team. roy was the one who took her in
(The New Titans #126)
this team didn't get to stay together long, but she stuck with him and was carried over into the Titans book, where she was working as lian's nanny and was seemingly living with him (or living in the tower because of him, at the very least)
(Titans #31)
roy was one of the most significant people in her life, especially early on, whereas she and dick barely ever interacted. even in the arc where she was "training" with dick, she was talking about roy because she pretty much only knew dick as "that dude roy used to hang out with"
(Nightwing (1996) #112)
but! this has now all been erased in favor of replacing everything with basically a remixed version of those few issues from grayson's run where everything revolves around dick. now, instead of sending her to the titans, as soon as slade found out about rose, he just took her straight to dick
(Deathstroke (2016) #19)
dick is now the first (and seemingly pretty much only) hero she really knew. instead of actual friends, she just had… dick. and slade (yikes)
i don't know if it was an intentional parallel, but the one part where dick's actually interacting with her kinda mirrors the original titans' "training exercise" scene, and comparing the two is... honestly kinda depressing lol
(The New Titans #126)
(Deathstroke (2016) #3)
originally, she was with a bunch of people who were there because they wanted to be, actually liked and cared about her, enjoyed being around her, and trusted each other enough to not even bother hiding their identities
now, she's alone in the woods with a dude who's only there because he's forced to be (and also slade perched in a tree like a gargoyle), who won't relax and just let her have fun for even a second (because, again, he doesn't even really want to be there), and who doesn't trust her enough to let her know who he is (also maybe most offensive of all is her crush on kyle being changed to dick, too... they retconned her good taste 😭)
so yes! it was a thing in Nightwing, but it was just one arc, and he had next to nothing to do with her before that. now, those few issues have been made… basically her entire backstory, and a lot of her relationships have been erased to give dick more of a role
“What If Miles Morales Was Thor?” sounds like the easiest concept to make cool and fun
how did they fumble it so hard by making it the most racist thing I have seen in comics in YEARS? And that’s saying a lot
you can’t make this up (non-black author ofc)
playing pokemon legends arceus, and watching kait play (since she’s farther along than me), and we finally come across the character “Melli”
-__-
ah, i see. that specifically japanese trope of transmisogyny, homophobia, and plain ol’ regular misogyny. thanks. thanks japan.
honestly i was giving this game way too much benefit of a doubt, waiting with baited breath for pronoun usage on this character, hoping that hey maybe this explicitly feminine flamboyant character who acts catty and jealous of the player getting close to an attractive dude character, this Melli who is modelled in game with a noticeably ‘male’ npc game type body, MAYBE they’ll use she/her pronouns. Because if she did, then it would avoid the whole japan-flavoured ‘gay men (and by extension of implications, trans women) are EVIL and weird and just get in the way and are always jealous and catty and terrible. look how WEIRD this person is’ trope (ie: it wouldn’t be the specific trope, and instead would be something new with its own baggage to unpack. It wouldn’t be this lazy homophobic, transmisogynist and misogynist-in-general age-old tired harmful archtype.
but no. we don’t. melli is he. he is a him. and of course he’s also an idiot. AND he specializes in poison type pokemon. DO YOU GET IT.
the only way to make things worse is if they had him specialize in fairy type pokemon.
um, a 17 yr old BRIDE?
A CHILD?
HEY, HEY SAY YES TO THE DRESS? UM. I DON’T CARE IF THAT’S NOT ILLEGAL IN ATLANTA, THAT’S FUCKED. CAN YOU STOP THAT?
but no, everyone just raises eyebrows and nothing else, meanwhile fuckin cps should be called.
Logan: aren't you tired of being nice ? Don't you just wanna go ape shit ??
Scott: yes.
Logan: what the fuck ? I'm going to go work for the government now.
finance minister: in order to fully beat covid for good, we all just have to cut things down to essentials for a few weeks ^u^
weeks.
weeks?!?
you have NO IDEA HOW VIRUSES WORK. try MONTHS at the MINIMUM. and that’s only if everything’s absolutely quarantined (moreso than we’ve ever done it) and every single person on the planet follows quarantine. AND, that’s just wishful fantasy thinking.
WEEKS. aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.
this is why you don’t lend any credence to people in non-medical positions spouting opinions and decisions about medical problems, CANADIAN NEWS.
im legit so heartbroken right now. Fuck you Aeria
time to say goodbye to the only good Bard class in anything ever.
legitimately.
the only bard class that actually was like ‘hey bards are supposed to be performers, right? musicians mostly?’ and ran with it.
the only bard class to set itself apart from other classes not by being a jack of all trades, but by being the musical fly in the ointment.
eden eternal bards were equipped with guitars as their weapon. all their attacks are magical music notes. Each party-boosting and enemy-dampening spell has its own unique little musical riff. The bards in this game also adhered to the kind of extreme versatility you’d expect in bard classes:
like mages, bards had at least one good aoe attack: but bards could cast it instantly, and it also had dot damage, lowers enemy defences, AND STACKS UP TO 3 TIMES. This one attack “burning metal” is exemplary of what eden bards had at their disposal
Everything about eden bards was fast, unlike the other healer classes, and unlike the magic damage classes. Bards had the basic good heals of all healer classes, but they also had quick-cast healing buffs that lasted longer than priests (the starter and main healer class), stacked, and affected entire parties at once.
Eden bards were good at being any sort of support class you could imagine (main healers, backup healers, debuffers, buffers, they did it ALL), but they were also a lot of fun and survivable enough to get you through solo play should you choose. Hell, I didn’t even play bard a lot (kait almost constantly played it so even though i was familiar with the class’s skills and stuff, her presence constantly made it clear how great the class was), sticking to trying to unlock warlock, running around as mage and illusionist and dabbling in engineer... but even I know how unique and viable the eden bards were.
and the fact that no other game has come close to the kinds of shit eden did with its bards (what i would argue is the root of what bards should be) is frustrating and mind-boggling.
Yeah, that’s a solution.
X-Men: Gold #1 - “Options!” (2014)
written by Len Wein art by Jorge Molina
Keep telling yourself that Logan….Scott could blast you from miles away. (God, I’m so glad that the stupid Schism is over. I hated this period in comics)
In the wise words of my brother-in-law the night he and our larp buddy got into a drunken argument outside the bar over who would win in a fight:
“Ok, pretend you’re coming at me with your claws.”
*makes motion of lifting glasses*
ugh YES. like, sure i think scott would hold back, but one of the quintessential things about scott that so many people forget is he’s full of contingency plans and he knows how to fight.
that second one is especially important and something so many people in and out of universe forget. He knows how big a target his power makes him, and he knows that he needs to cover for that with hand-to-hand combat abilities. And he’s gOOD AT IT.
I'm not saying this is the sexiest outfit Scott Summers has ever rocked, but I would wear this at Gay Pride and/or hit on the guy who wore this at Gay Pride. (Or the guy who wore this at the mall, or the DMV office...)
Those thighs could crack coconuts, Sir.
Uncanny X-Men #12 (2012)
written by Brian Michael Bendis art by Chris Bachalo, Tim Townsend, Mark Irwin, Jaime Mendoza, Victor Olazaba, Al Vey, & Marte Gracia
Character designs
i cant stop thinking about scott saying fuck the government and going to help the champions just because he knew that they needed help and he couldnt turn his back on them and him putting on his old champions suit just for old time’s sake and so they can still count him as an honorary member
it’s so good to see writers giving us the full undiluted cyclops experience again (even if it is just for a few panels in champions). it’s good to see the core aspects of his character that haven’t changed much over the 60+ years of xmen publication being shown in a positive light again.
Uncanny X-Men #19
how dare you hide these in the tags @flort-dbrorch , they’re great.
also, what a giant ‘fuck you’ to scott and jean’s relationship over the previous what... 40 yrs? what a giant ‘fuck you’ to the love and respect they had for each other in favour of painting jean as supportive of wolverine’s bullshit.
i have to stop myself before i go on a rant about the era and this event being reflective of the time with its doubling down of conservative ideals in america and the increasing power of white supremacists/the right-wing, marvel vilifying scott as their designated punching bag and the progressivism his characterizations over the years have implicitly been the consequence of.
okay i’ll stop now. just. jfkdaslfdsa. the avengers vs xmen and wolverine’s school of mutants boil my dingly dang blood.
