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My Sun.

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I can't believe they threw away all the male gaze present in Ciri's design from Witcher 3 for the sake of creating THE MOST SAPPHIC ASS BUFF MOMMY.

I am truly moved.

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rio, forever barred from motherhood because a mother brings life, not death. mothers nurture, they don't destroy. so her only taste of a makeshift motherhood becomes prolonging nicky’s life from a distance, haunting the shadows, never seen, never close.

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this kara and this lena let me tell you—

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men who never cared about felicia's character outside of using her for their nasty p0rn fantasies getting upset because she has a gf in spiderman 2 is hilarious. she has been bisexual for sooo long, anyone who knows the bare minimum about the character knows this.

anyway, i'm so glad to see her being openly bisexual in other medias. i love her character and i hope we get more content of her everywhere <3

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SUPERCORP + wooooosh

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I just know the Catco employees spilled the absolute HOTTEST tea in the break room when they saw Kara and Lena on their little lunch dates. I JUST KNOW.

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This is Lena. Lena loves her personal space.

This is Kara.

Kara also loves Lena’s personal space.

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The funny thing is that in your traditional Superman story, Lois Lane is enamoured with big strong heroic Superman and wouldn't give mild-mannered reporter Clark Kent a second glance.

Then in Supergirl you have Lena Luthor, who's like "I need that reporter carnally (oh and there's also a superhero around that's cool)"

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thinking about Emma Frost again. let's imagine for a second X-Men matters and my opinion must be shared.

When I was a kid I really respected and liked Professor X. I thought his stances on issues were calm and reasonable and I thought his efforts were, while ultimately fruitless, the best ones in the fictional conversation about inclusivity and race and all that. this is a subtle reference to the fact I only watched the cartoon and the movies as a kid.

When I grew older and learned English I started engaging with the comics and realized that oh, turns out the adaptations are superficial at best and fladerizing at worst, and there's a lot more to Charles than Being Correct. He's actually in fact a scathing critique of control and flawed leaders of good faith ideals, and how you're supposed to grow over those who created the words you use to free yourself from tyranny. Professor X is a jerk, Magneto was right, all that.

But over time I realized how much that erases Emma Frost, villain turned voice of reason extraordinaire.

Emma starts her tenure in X-Men as Claremont's personification of everything that is bad with high society, accosted by Sebastian Shaw, which is that but male. Emma is genuinely awful when Claremont writes her; a GOOD awful, on purpose, but she's not supposed to be relatable. She has her own mutant school, her own team of mutants, her own answer to Cerebro. She's the most genuine Evil Xavier we get for a full two decades. and she's great at it! Even if the hellfire club almost always truces with the X-Men for the sake of fighting a more important battle, there's no question that you're not supposed to root for Emma.

And then in the 90s something changes, Claremont goes away for a second, other people approach the character, and the question becomes, why are we treating her like evil Xavier? She's building community. She's giving a voice to the disenfranchised. She's training them and she's caring for them and at no point is she asking of them things they actively disagree with, which can't be said of Charles. And so starts the process most every X-Men villain goes through: humanization, complexity, redemption. And fuck does Emma redeem herself.

Ten years into not being a caricature of high class, Emma has accrued a tragic backstory, several positive projects in canon, renown as a genius, positive relationships to several characters, and a main team spot in a highly acclaimed, influential run as of New X-Men. A whole new generation of readers introduced to Emma, new powers, new MO, new everything. Other characters are changing drastically, usually backwards, to accompany the movie's success -- Magneto is evil again, Jean goes back to being the Phoenix, Charles is a lot more like Captain Picard. But Emma? Emma gets to keep going. She changes things wherever she goes.

She hooks up with Cyclops, her daughters become their new Cerebro, she becomes the new heavy-hitter, the Hellfire Club becomes more Shaw and Shinobi's deal than hers... obviously, this isn't consistent. She's got low points and moments that don't agree to her new character. But this woman, who started as commentary on how the rich will destroy you for fun, is now a key positive portion of the world because at some point in time, she had a point -- Charles *isn't* the end-all-be-all of the matter of teaching young mutants, Erik *isn't* the best way forward as far as mutant armadas go, there *is* nuance to their dualistic conversation, the dichotomy is only enforced because they're loud, but she can be louder, she can be louder than any of them--

And then Krakoa hits. Yes, there's a full ten years of bad X-Men stories, many of them including Emma, at least one of them including Emma genociding a few Inhumans. But then Krakoa hits, and every character gets a new project.

Cyclops? Seeing the world move on in ways he might not approve of. Wolverine? Being happy, and realizing he means to fight to keep it going. Erik? Charles? Apocalypse?? Seeing how strong their "dreams" are when they compromise, and realizing oh, I am willing to do *anything* to keep this going, quite literally anything, there is no crime predicted by man or god that would be beyond my reach if it meant paradise would not be lost.

Emma? Emma keeps doing what she's been doing from the word go. Keep it fabulous. Keep the children safe. Don't fall for the lies. At some point someone will invade your privacy and try to take everything away from you. Your job is not to simply destroy them. Your job is to showcase to them how this too was accounted for.

Emma, alongside her planning, her alliances, her leading of the resistance, her unfathomable internal strength and her willingness to see the world for what it is, won the war for Krakoa. Charles wanted things to stay the way they were, Erik wanted things to be the way he dreamed they could be, Apocalypse wanted things to impress him.

Emma wanted them to be safe and sound. Emma wanted the children to be safe. And when Krakoa rose and left, now fully developed and having outgrown her as well, she picked herself back up and went to train a new generation.

There's always children to keep safe. There's always a new generation. The work is never finished.

Yes, the O5 have their own version of Xavier's dream fulfilled, but Emma is the only one who managed to keep herself genuine while evolving. In a room with religious zealots, war criminals, villains and ancients evils, Emma could always look at Kitty Pryde and think to herself, look at what we're doing, my friend. Look at what we have to work with. We're not saving them from themselves, we're saving everyone they're willing to sacrifice.

I wish those adaptations would make Emma Frost sound like she does to me. She's not just a third option to the Professor X-Magneto dichotomy. She's a person asking why is this a dichotomy in the first place. She's too busy actually caring about people to bother with the bickering.

For the children, they said when they wanted her to join their little utopia. For the children, she sighed back, realizing that if she didn't say it, quite literally no one else would.

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Emma snooping on Scott and Maddie's psychic affair: This is boring. Stop being so angsty and rip each other's clothes off. Jean: WHAT THE FUCKING IS GOING ON HERE?! Emma: Oooh, now it's getting good.

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Sometimes sexual attraction defies all explanation. For example, I will never know why I have no attraction toward Jean Grey, but am deeply attracted to Madelyn Pryor. And I'm not even talking hot goth queen Madelyn Pryor (although that's obviously a huge appeal), I'm talking about pre-discovery actual person Madelyn Pryor. Like she is the earth beneath my feet and the wind beneath my wings, and yet if I took one look in Jean Grey's eyes I would suddenly become a believer in exorcism.

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Smash or pass tier list, take this as you will

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god. the thing about the Academy X Hellions. is that they're all kinda bitches. but they would do ANYTHING for each other. They're such a tight knit group of friends, they're in sync w each other in fights, and they would die for each other. and its SO especially evident in the way they're nearly always winning over the New Mutants because they get along so much better than them. Like the New Mutants are ALWAYS having drama and bitching at each other and cant decide whos going to lead them. but the Hellions are so fucking in sync and they work together so well that they get shit done!!

And also the way they're somehow more accepting of people with differences than the other team is. Like they put on kind of a lowkey bully front, but the way they accepted Kevin as one of their own immediately when the rest of the school was scared of him. The way they're all so accommodating for Sooraya and respectful and understanding of their cultural difference from her.

And Julian is 100% the reason they're like this. He's an INCREDIBLE leader because he cares so much for his friends. Hes an amazing strategist and an incredibly powerful telekinetic. He puts on this rude, macho front but on the inside hes got a heart of gold. He KNOWS how to lead his team and how to motivate them to fight the best they can. And his team in turn would do anything for him! They recognize the incredible leader he is and are SO proud of him, and of the rest of their team, because they know what they've got going is amazing.

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I wonder if Katie knows a literal Olympic athlete is a supercorp enjoyer and how she would feel about it