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“Stories you read when you’re the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you’ll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit.”

— Neil Gaiman, M Is For Magic. 

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I have no illusions about my looks. I think my face is funny.

                    Funny Face (1957) dir. Stanley Donen

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To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before (2018)

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Compilation of my AVATAR fanart collection! AVATAR and THE LEGEND OF KORRA

Hope that you like!!

BTW you can also follow me on instagram as marcelperezmassegu !!

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From Hate to Love in record time (with a little help from Clark)

It seems to me a lot of people think that Diana Prince and Bruce Wayne having an argument in Justice League movie is proof that they are a bad match. Well … they are kind of used to start this way, neither Diana, nor Bruce, would start “impressed” by the other … not all romances start like a “teenager crush” … and the “teenager crush” is seldom of the long lasting kind … How many of you are still with their very “first love” ? not so much I guess … it often takes some experience and time to find the perfect partner.

There is this Trinity comic that I liked a lot. I think it goes back to 2003. I am not sure of that but judging by the “DC Comics” logo it has to be somewhere between 1976 and 2005.

The comics starts with Superman saving the day and meeting Bruce Wayne. They are not exactly BFFs but they know each others secret identities for some time.

Wonder Woman seeks to meet Superman for the first time because she thinks he may be responsible for a nuclear explosion near Themiscyra. Of course he isn’t, but he is amazed by the magnificent woman that he compares to Lois. As you can imagine he is charmed, who wouldn’t be ? She finds him awesome as well of course, so muscular, so large, so powerful, so heroic … So they start to work together showing off to each other how awesome they are … and some suicide bomber blasts later … the “Boy Scout” effect takes place… “such a Man”.

They fight together and again Superman shows his incredible power in front of her by taking the blow of another nuke while protecting her… That really starts like a strong “SuperWonder” story, poor Lois … Joking !, Supes only loves Lois it is written in his Kryptonian DNA and we know how resilient this DNA is …  the only lead remaining after the nukes detonation is “Gotham”, so Superman takes her to a “Friend” … 

Batman was just in the middle of an Interrogation and Diana just steps in and uses her lasso without asking … bad idea …  as usual, Bats already has a file on her, what a surprise, so he isn’t really that “charmed” … being his usual ice cold brooding dark self and Diana in noble warrior princess mode … lets just say it didn’t look like there was a lot of “WonderBat” to start with …

Of course they despise each other quickly and Superman has to run(fly) after Bruce to talk to him alone. By chance, Diana discovers the hiding place of Ras Al Guhl who’s the “bad mastermind” of the story. But Wonder Woman gets beaten down to a bloody pulp by Bizarro finding out her limits of power. Waking up in chains and in bad shape, she knows she is gonna die, her skull crushed by the powerful creature and prays for Hera.

While Superman saves the day somewhere else, Batman follows his own lead with a fully prepared utility belt. He takes out a dangerous amazon rebel (Artemis), Ras’s henchmen and blinds severely Bizarro making him flee just before the creature had a chance to kill Wonder Woman. He frees her and she follows him. He is cold and Infuriating as always but she wants to help. He saves Gotham and she saves him but she needs to dive in the Lazarus pit to avoid death.

After her revival, she kind of gets crazy and runs away, returning to Themiscyra. Superman and Batman follow her there but split up as soon as the Island is in sight. Batman gets unsettled from the magical beauty of this place and ends up in front of the most wonderful bathing beauty he ever saw : Diana. After collecting his data on her before they even met, I think he was already “charmed” by Diana pure soul (and they already saved each others lives) but now he is helplessly hooked …

Completely out of his mind in this magical paradise, his kisses her… without asking first …

Bad Idea … but I can understand the poor guy, when you think you’re in paradise it is hard to stay cool … they say if women show off more than 40% skin men’s brain switches to “primitive reptilian brain” and Diana pretty much shows 95% or more … my bossy girlfriend (turned wife) would no doubt make fun of me and say that my own reptilian brain IQ is definitely not higher than the one of Bruce Wayne here. XD … she may be right but she doesn’t really complain.

Ouch ! that did hurt ! … and not only the pride…

Clark was the smartest of both guys, … he was peeking from up in the sky, clever ;) … surely Bruce isn’t the only one who should rediscover his manners … the funny guy is nearly as fast as the Flash but didn’t stop Bruce … Clark, are you already a hardcore shipper ? or did you really want to get him killed ? … I love the Boy Scout when he is with Lois, he always is such a WonderBat fan.

After that, Batman returns to his usual Dark mood and all three have a little chat on a nearby Island. Finally after setting the next missions for him and Clark, Batman tells Diana that she can help in any way possible but she takes it the wrong way. She understands she misjudged the meaning of his words when he gives her back the magical lasso that he found back in Ras Al Guhl’s lair. Evidently she is upset and confused about Batman. She has “more or less” positive feelings about Batman (”more more or more less ?” well “probably more less !” after the bathing) but obviously Superman, for whom she feels great respect, seems to actually consider the man as his Friend. She needs to understand !

I think Superman is really awesome here. There is so much intelligence, wisdom and humility in these few words. “I often wonder if I were an ordinary man, would I show the same valor ?”. You have to admire the man. So much power but still able to question himself like that. I wish at least some of our politicians would be that good. Superman may be Batman’s “Beacon to the world”, but it looks like Batman is Superman’s “Beacon to the overpowered superheroes”.

That gives Diana the urgent need to rethink what she and her sisters really know and believe about men. I have no doubt that Diana is wise enough so that she would have figured it out all by herself but Superman helped to shorten the process. After talking to her mother about the amazonian rebel she goes to Wayne manor.

Now that she has seen Superman in action it is not hard to imagine how, with his all superpowers, he could have saved her and Gotham from the nuke and claws of Ras Al Guhl. She can imagine that Superman would still have got a hard time fighting Bizarro.

But then you have this Bruce Wayne, “Batman”, a mere human mortal man with absolutely no superpowers who finds Ras Al Guhl’s hiding place without the help of luck like herself or x-ray vision, takes down an highly trained amazon and a bunch of henchmen, hurts and drives away one of the most powerful creatures she’s ever met, a creature even the Champion and Princess of the immortal amazons couldn’t match in combat. This normal man doesn’t run away despite all his “weaknesses” but stands up against such danger, puts his life on the line for people who don’t even know his name and won’t ever be grateful to him for that. That man fights in the shadow, when Superman or herself shine in the sun and get the glory. Nonetheless he saves her, then saves the city … how can you not ask yourself the same question as Superman ? when you admire valor, truth, justice, selflessness, compassion, how can you not fall for a guy like that ?

She may have been raised on an Island with no men, but Diana is a smart girl, she knows a catch when she see’s one. And the magic of Themiscyra already showed her what Batman’s heart was set on. So when she returns to Bruce Wayne to find out where the last two nukes are … she can’t stop herself from adding :

If you remember the only time she actually hit him you know the only thing missing in this sentence to fill up the dots is the implied “If you kiss me”.

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"'It hurts, the pain, but ask yourself this, is love worth destroying yourself over? You have an amazing amount of love in your life.'"

Foster; The Story of Awkward by R. K. Ryals, page 167 (ebook)

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"Jude taught me what love was: to be willing to hold on to another person's pain. That's it."

The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly by Stephanie Oakes, page 329 (ebook)

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The moment Natalie Portman SNAPPED

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Since bat wings are just skin stretched between elongated finger bones, bats fly through the power of jazz hands.

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Plenty of you lovely book nerds already spotted it but now I can share my Six of Crows gang illustration for the @illumicrate Grisha Box! ✨ 

For those asking: it’s currently exclusive to Illumicrate but might be available in my shop in a few months, if I can sort it out :)

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im really not at all sorry

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“I wanted everyone to be able to relate to [Diana], not only women but also men, not only girls but also boys because at the end of the day you can’t empower women if you don’t educate men about [women’s empowerment]. As far as Diana concerns men and women are the same and I think that was a smart decision because once you don’t make a big deal out of it and then you just show how weird this is when people make a big deal out of it: ‘Oh you’re a woman so you can’t get in the Parliament, you’re a woman so you can’t vote’ and you’re like ‘What?!?’. Diana was the ‘what’ and I thought it was very refreshing and the smartest way to show that we should be equal, that we are equal. ”  – Gal Gadot