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You guys really need to understand the difference between "fanon interpretation" and "canon fact" ya know, it's getting annoying

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Vivian on magazine cover edit.

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Avery Morgan from gay boat show cool drawing

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Nina Simone and Nicky by Carol Friedman 1993

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The show with the two abortion storylines is The Pitt

Hey thanks for this!!! You're here because of the ask I recently answered on here.

I'll try to watch the show soon and catch up with the fandom reaction.

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Horny, Anti-Woke GOP Defends Sydney Sweeney Amid Denim Ad Backlash | The...

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You know, you almost forget how bad of fucking creep-ass weirdos people are becoming, and then you get knocked upside the head with another reminder that fuckers are really falling back on "any sexual interest or activity that doesn't exclusively involve a singular fucker to whom one is married is a sign of a depraved mind".

Like, no, the mass murderer did not mass murder because he went to a brothel a few times and was involved in a community that didn't shun casual sex, he mass murdered because he was because he wanted to stamp his name on history and refused to admit that people avoided him because he was very blatantly a future murderer.

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Disney Settles Lawsuit From Gina Carano Over ‘Mandalorian’ Firing

Disney Settles Lawsuit From Gina Carano Over ‘Mandalorian’ Firing https://share.google/u2SQQrf0FcGiY4TCi

Reminder to everyone that carano deserves to rot unemployed and forgotten. I refuse to watch anything she's in.

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This is how I know kkkathleen Kennedy or whoever the fuck is in charge hates black women:

There's this cash grab but no acolyte season 2.

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Peacemaker pilot recap and breakdown

I know the second season is almost here but I'm gonna try to do a review for every episode anyways lol.

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"It took five, ten, fifteen years for me to agree."

August 24, 2025 marks the 15th anniversary of the release of Mockingjay and thus the same length of time that it took for Katniss and Peeta to decide to have their first child.

In celebration of both of these, we're hosting a Toast Babies Week from August 24-30. This is a week encouraged to share fanart, fanfiction, meta, moodboards, fanvideos, headcanons, podfic, and whatever else you want to create about the Everlark family.

We have seven (optional) prompts, all taken from/inspired by the meadow lullaby. You absolutely do not need to do all of them or even follow these, it's just for prompting. What's important is that you do what interests you. But for those who are interested, here are the prompts:

August 24: Deep in the meadow August 25: Safe and warm August 26: Guarded from harm August 27: Dreams are sweet August 28: Hidden far away August 29: I love you August 30: The sun will rise

You can also reblog and share any previous creations around the toast babies and Everlark. Use #toast babies week in order for your work to be found and shared.

We will also be creating a collection on ao3 for anyone to share their fanwork to for this event. And remember, ao3 is not just fanfiction, so feel free to upload whatever else you create!

And don't forget to check out our Where Every Child Can Be Safe fundraiser!

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Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein Gets Theatrical Release Before Netflix Premiere | Cosmic Book News

Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein Gets Theatrical Release Before Netflix Premiere | Cosmic Book News https://share.google/CkNQsIA5hortMOgWv

How much you want to bet it's only gonna be in big cities like NYC Chicago and Los Angeles? 🫠

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PLEASE READ

Please read this:

Please help Muhammad's little sister. She is currently very sick and has a high fever. Please donate to him and his family so they can help this little girl feel better from her fever/stomach ache. RT and share when you see this. PLEASE DO NOT SKIP.

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I got to help this amazing couple at work. It was just pure chance, but I was who they walked up to. They said they wanted jewelry cleaned and that they had a hold they wanted to check on.

Let me set the stage. They were a couple in their fifties or so, he was wearing motorcycle leathers, he had skulls rings, tattoos; he was bristly and unshaven. She was dressed to the nines, full length dress, platinum blonde, $500 shoes, nails, all of it. The cognitive dissonance looking from one to the other was staggering.

She thought she needed to get her ring cut off, but I walked her through the best way to see if we could salvage it and we were able to get it off. I put it into the shop to be sized up, and then we got to work.

He handed me a solid gold pendant he’d been given from a mobster that was Jesus’ face with rubies for eyes and a ruby and diamond crown of thorns. (Dear god why didn’t they use any stone but rubies for the eyes?) And then they had me get their hold from the back. It was about 5k worth of diamonds in her ring, and an even thousand for his. It was for their 30th anniversary.

They left smiling and happy.

Today I had to call her and tell her that her ring couldn’t be sized up without destroying it, and that I’d have to specially order his ring in his size or we’d destroy that too. It’s a nerve wracking call to make, people can get so angry about bumps in the road.

But she just laughed and called me a dear. She came in bringing a small bottle of champagne for me and my girlfriend and we picked out a different ring to house her diamond. She radiated charisma and charm the whole time.

After a while she realized she didn’t have her car keys. She went outside to check on where she’d left them. After investigating she blithely came back in and asked for a step ladder so she could get through her sun roof as it turned out she’d locked her keys in the car. I loaned her one then she went and heisted her way headfirst into her own car while wearing a sundress. It was fucking hilarious and amazing.

While we were shopping afterward she was all sunshine, bubbles, and shoe recommendations. She told me that had brunch coming up with a frenemy and she needed her new ring to really hold its own.

Near the end she got quieter. She looked at me and told me she had almost gotten divorced from her rakish biker man. That she had filled out papers and everything. A new paramour had literally bought her a god damn house. But she realized she was still madly in love with him, and they had to make it work. And she told me they had to have a lot of talks, and communicate, that they’d allowed themselves to drift apart and that they made a choice to come back together.

I was obviously just hanging on her every word. I was walking her to the back to pay by that point and she hugged me, thanked me, and then turned her smile back on. Without missing a beat she turned and instantly overwhelmed my customer service rep by telling him she’d gotten in through the sunroof of her car without flashing anyone.

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Since your commentary about how much the more recent dystopic and imperialist versions of Krypton are just basing their worldbuilding in colonialist thinking and views on other cultures, i have been thinking about how much this is true to the larger way the comics have always used orientalist shorthands to build their space stuff and how this just goes unnoticed or not aclnowledged by most writers and fans.

Many of the classic recurring dc alien characters and species, are just awful asian stereotypes, there's the Khunds who have originated in the Legion of Super-Heroes comics and existed for decades only as a sort of generic east foreign menace, like a sci-fi Soviet Union rival potency to the Legion's United Planets sci-fi US/West but ethinically coded as a mongolic warrior race and there are the dominators, also from Legion and later sprawling to the overall dc universe, who have just a disgustingly yellow peril based appearance, they are even literally yellow. Of course there's Superman villain Mongul who's name already says it clearly, and is also literally yellow. Ah, and the absolute cape comics classic of the exotic non-white woman who rapes a white man is also echoed by the character of Stealth from L.E.G.I.O.N. comics (the Legion of Super-Heroes ancestors in our present day), who is again a yellow alien who's race in the text explicitly has a monstruous, murderous, uncontrollable sexuality who compels her to commit sexual assault against Vril Dox II, Brainiac's son, technically green-skined but blonde and clearly thought of as white. That's a lot and most if not all of this has never been properly adressed or changed in dc canon. The dominators are still everywhere with their racial caricature appearances and nobody thinks twice about it. Of so many retcons, reboots and reinventions those stereotypes are truly a constant in canon, the Legion of Super-Heroes is always being made again in a new fresh take but the Khunds and the Dominators are solidly kept the same.

Anyway, sorry for any problems with the english, it's a language i have contact with mostly through media like comics and the internet (your blog being one of the things here on tumblr helping me learn it, i really dig your long texts, that Ma'alefa'ak restrospective was a delight, i hope you go through with continuing it) and sorry for the long text but it's just that i have been reading a lot of Legion and space dc comics in general recently with your criticism in mind and i think the effects of colonialism in the depictions of those fictional cultures and societies just needed to be brought up and called atention, this is my first ask i ever sent to you or anyone else here on tumblr because this is somenthing that i saw i had a real necessity of saiyng and contributing to the debate.

In building depictions of aliens the writers have the opportunity to come up with anything and let their imagination run wild, but they consistently ended up just reproducing very explicit racist tropes and iconography. Like you said before in discussions about Superman, the white american imagination is astoundingly limited and uninsterested in ever truly going beyond its comfort zone, with all the attempts to renew and diversify, it always comes back to roughly the same picture where it matters the most.

In a final note i just want to thank you for your criticism, it peeves some people but it's something we're severely lacking and needing, you do a really great and inspiring work!

Can I just say that this is a fantastic use of taking my metas and criticisms, then applying it to other stories I haven't touched! While also truly understanding how these comics are a reflection of larger systemic biases. Also your english is fantastic and I'm humbled that my blog posts help you out in that regard, haha. Ma'alefa'ak rambles are out here helping people with english, that's wonderful.

While I haven't read the LEGION comics, I am generally familiar with them and am nodding at your assessment. Alien invader characters in the american context largely came from the fear of immigrants but especially the influx of Asian migrants moving into the US. The idea that these foreign people are now wearing american clothes, assimilating into american customs, and marrying into american citizens? It manifests in fiction sometimes subtly through alien invader shapeshifter characters- other times it's just yellow peril aliens that are transparent racial stereotypes. And after a post-911 fear of terrorist world? A world growing more self-aware of the atrocities of colonialism? Alien invasions are sneaking their way back into our fiction, many times uninterrogated. Rebooted and reimagined, but their original racist context remain unchallenged.

There's this excellent quote from an article about Orcs and fantasy racism: "If you find a way to scrub an explicit signifier from a racist expression, but keep the expression intact, you preserve the racist dynamic without the explicit identification."

And that's where stepping back and looking at the culture of American comics as a whole is important. Fandom criticism can't just hyper focus on the many times women of color characters are depicted as perpetrators of assault on white (or white coded) men and deem them despicable villains. Step back, and see the whole xenophobic and racist context with which these women exist in.

Thank you so, so much for bringing this into the discussion! And I will absolutely be continuing the Ma'alefa'ak essay (I had a technical fiasco with my research notes but that's been sorted! Now if only netflix would get the last season of YJa so it's less of a hassle for me to watch lol)! I'm very honored that you sent in your thoughts into this discussion, especially since it's going to be very pertinent talking points once I open up discussions on the latest Superman movie.

Exactly! And when these limited white-imagination depictions of alien worlds go uncriticized, we're just letting these depictions continue to exist, unchallenged. So when it comes to our media criticism space, these biases are necessary to dissect, interrogate, and discuss.

Thank you once more! It's discussions like these that make the occasional annoyed fanboy worth it, lol! Many times I'm having enlightened criticism and analysis from people who are fans of the things I'm criticizing, so I'm truly thankful when people maturely join in on discussion with whatever comic or media they want to bring into the discussion.