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[artbyblastweave]

Okay, Time for that belated Shrinking Rae post-

In the comics, Shrinking Ray's "arc" (bearing in mind an extremely liberal definition of that term, they had exactly one scene showcasing this) was that he was implied to be developing an inferiority complex; he's not necessarily incompetent, but he's out of his niche, his clever shrinking-based plans kept getting upstaged by brute-force solutions from the more conventionally powerful heroes like Invincible. He's the scrawny, nerdy little guy with the joke powers, he never gets a win, and in most fights he literally isn't visible. In the fight with the Lizard League his death is framed as pathetic and ineffectual- there's one or two panels between "I'll make you pay!" and getting eaten alive by Komodo. All of this is doing a couple of things- it's emphasizing that again, this is in fact a story and setting where superheroes sometimes just die really badly with limited fanfare- a thing that IIRC hadn't happened since the original Guardians team wipe in issue 7. Second, it's an indicator that the new Guardians are structurally kind of on the ropes. They're heavily staffed by second stringers, they exact second they have to split their forces they suffer a 66 percent casualty rate, and that's with backing from two capes who aren't actually part of the team. Grim! Anyway, when they do the adaptation Shrinking Ray becomes Shrinking Rae, because they want to tweak the gender balance of the cast and the pun is too good to pass up. But I think that there was a reasonable reluctance to transfer the "arc" from the comics one-to-one, because to be blunt, "Ineffectual Nebbish Glasses-wearer who whines a lot and dies pathetically," paired with absolutely nothing else, is gonna read as misogynistic if the character is a woman now. So in the adaptation Rae is markedly more competent. We're introduced to her taking down a much larger opponent by fucking around inside his ear canal, which becomes a favored trick of hers. There are traces of the self-esteem thing- the visual gag where she physically shrinks about a foot when getting chewed out in the briefing- but the overall throughline isn't "look at this loser who somehow ended up on the guardians." In the Lizard League fight, she doesn't get eaten- she's deliberately trying to execute a Thanus maneuver and just fucks it up, seconds after successfully killing a different villain the same way. And there's a second where it looks like it might work, too, before hope is cruelly yanked away. Which makes for a markedly cooler death scene- but who died? What was actually going on with her? Anything? In some sense she's cooler, but it's kind of an undifferentiated cool. She had what, Six lines? Seven? On balance I think Rae is still doing her fundamental job in the story, which is to pad the Guardians roster for a while and have someone who actually dies and stays dead as a result of the Lizard League fight- but I think they definitely missed an opportunity to give her some more texture than her comic counterpart had. Part of me thinks that the show would have been a good place to go even harder on Shrinking Rae being in over her head, but in a considered way, to emphasize that the Guardians aren't well managed- maybe tie it into the tensions between Robot and Immortal regarding sustainable team management practices. Part of me thinks you should go the other way, that if you're gonna do away with the idea she's underwhelming you should blow up her role, have her actually say and do some things that affect the story or the team dynamic in any noticeable way, because as it stands she's kind of visibly siloed as the designated mauve shirt. I'm definitely of one mind that this showcases something I suspected was gonna bite the show in the ass, which is that they're (laudably) diversifying a secondary and tertiary cast whose main role in the source material is often to die badly or fade out of focus.

[slcknasty]

i watched re-animator the other day and unfortunately this weird little freak has captivated me

[sly-kitty]

Khloe Kapri & Laya Rae

[philsmeatylegss]

Charles being worried he’s going to end up like the people who hurt him because the people who hurt him were angry and he’s angry at the people who hurt him has a bit of a kick to it😃

[seveneyesoup]

my pronouns are he but not him bc i’ll never be him (cool-doug, at night)

[yeehawpurgatory]

VERY rough drawing of Arthur sitting by the campfire :>) a v nice warmup🎨🏕

[willbee-1]

Im back with more thoughts ab my silly little idea of Enderian being poly

"I could never chose to love another" - Isla and Perix

"Maybe one day I can learn to love you too" -Enderian

Simply bc Enderian not thinking she could love anyone

[dykefever]

all at once - a (very late) christmas r/s fic.

ao3

Sirius almost says, the marble on the tip of his tongue, about how he wants him so much it’s a permanent ache; a broken rib in his chest. How he just wants Remus there, beside him. He doesn’t understand why Remus will sit next to him on his bed, year after year, and look at him the way he does — something helpless and honest but maybe just a trick of the light — only to pull away from Sirius for weeks at a time, citing studying as an excuse and leaving Sirius helplessly alone; dog left out in the cold, waiting. He keeps waiting. He pretends he isn’t.

[blessedchaosgod]

I need to dissect some songs like a poem and hold the singer by their collars like "What did you mean?? What did you exactly mean by this by this line?? Who hurt you????"

[ya-boi-haru]

If I may offer🤲🏻

(CW?: Vocal distortion?)

[morguemaw]

Hi tubular tumblr have a Robbie i drew in Panty & Stocking style <333

[feralwetcat]

hey girl are you rae morningstar because go to sleep you gay disaster

YEAHH!!!1!1!1!1!!🔥🔥

[philsmeatylegss]

Dan and phil are that couple who lean against the railing and make out on the line for a roller coaster.

[organisedbirds]

"then perhaps you should have been a better father to him"

JAMES FLINT WHAT IN THE NAME OF ALL OF FUCK POSSESSED YOU?!!

[yakdee]

Guess I'll be chilling on my dash and in my tracking tag (thank u for tagging me guys) for the foreseeable future bc the main tags for 4M are insane right now and it's fucking with my post-series high lol