#The Torch

[soracities]

Marie Nizet, from “The Torch,” Belgian Women Poets: An Anthology, edited and trans. Renée Linkhorn and Judy Cochran (ID in ALT)

[imagionationstation]

*watching The Fantastic Four* (2005)

Dad: (Referencing the Torch) “I don’t get how anyone can like movie jerks.”

Me: “He’s not a jerk???”

Brother: “You heard him insulting them, right?”

Me: “He’s teasing affectionately???”

Other bro: “He’s being a jerk.”

Me: “You guys literally say the same stuff???”

Brother: “We’ve never said any of this!”

Me: “Because no one we know is a giant rock monster???”

Other broski: “You know what we mean!”

This naïve outlook of smart-mouthed/fiery tempered people act like themselves around people they know so clearly they must be jerks drives me nuts. There’s a clear friendship. There’s obvious little brother pushes buttons for attention vibes. Torch teases and pokes the bear- but he also shuts his mouth when he realizes that making comments about The Thing weighing down the elevator would genuinely upset The Thing.

This is why most Raphaels- ESPECIALLY 2012Raph- get such a bad rap. People can’t seem to look past the negatives and see the caring, protective, affectionate, if not insanely reckless, person underneath.

Who cares if Torch drew away a heat-seeking missile to save The Thing and Invisible Girl? Who cares if Raphael wouldn’t hesitate to risk his life for any of his brothers?

They made a few mean comments! Permanent jerk stamp it is!

[robinnygrenart]

2023-08-09 v 2024-01-11

Redrew Human Torch in another attempt to master Fire as well as re-shadowed the rest of the group to match the slightly updated art-style in a more interesting contrasty style.

[tomoleary]

Alex Ross - The Torch #4 (2010)

Source

[toro-raymond]

Tfw comic book shenanigans happen to you and you want them to Quit Happening

[tma-thoughts]

Alright everybody

[mischievous-thunder]

It's him, Johnny. Logan himself is the source. He tried to get out of the Void that way and failed.

[forwardtofather]

(I'd send to him due to the car visual)

[syn-odics]

74 swans by bell x1

[grickle14]

Hi ho! The torch bearer!

[blue-creations28]

how are they so G E N D E R -

[soracities]

I am a dancing flame, A forlorn brasier, a torch that burns alone.

Marie Nizet, from “The Torch,” Belgian Women Poets: An Anthology, (ed. and trans. Renée Linkhorn and Judy Cochran)

[landoslastnerve]

"You're in the void. Think of it as purgatory. Reed called it a metaphysical junkyard where anything useless goes before it gets annihilated forever and where the TVA sends people that don't play nice with the rest of the multiverse."

DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE dir. Shawn Levy (2024)

[littlepawz]

“When she applied to run in the Boston Marathon in 1966 they rejected her saying: “Women are not physiologically able to run a marathon, and we can’t take the liability.” Then exactly 50 years ago today, on the day of the marathon, Bobbi Gibb hid in the bushes and waited for the race to begin. When about half of the runners had gone past she jumped in. She wore her brother’s Bermuda shorts, a pair of boy’s sneakers, a bathing suit, and a sweatshirt. As she took off into the swarm of runners, Gibb started to feel overheated, but she didn’t remove her hoodie. “I knew if they saw me, they were going to try to stop me,” she said. “I even thought I might be arrested.” It didn’t take long for male runners in Gibb’s vicinity to realize that she was not another man. Gibb expected them to shoulder her off the road, or call out to the police. Instead, the other runners told her that if anyone tried to interfere with her race, they would put a stop to it. Finally feeling secure and assured, Gibb took off her sweatshirt. As soon as it became clear that there was a woman running in the marathon, the crowd erupted—not with anger or righteousness, but with pure joy, she recalled. Men cheered. Women cried. By the time she reached Wellesley College, the news of her run had spread, and the female students were waiting for her, jumping and screaming. The governor of Massachusetts met her at the finish line and shook her hand. The first woman to ever run the marathon had finished in the top third.”

[i-am-not-a-who-i-am-a-what]

so who else is screaming about everything we learned today

[toro-raymond]

Anyway I’m going through another re-read of the Torch miniseries and I just always love how Justified Toro’s anger feels. Like Vision is telling him to move on and he just, doesn’t want to accept things and move forward and create a new future because he Had a life and he doesn’t want a new one he wants one back.

And he’s angry at everything but he’s not really angry at Ann or anyone else for moving on cause he can’t be so he just turns that anger towards the one thing that he can be angry towards, The Thinker. And he gets in over his head but it’s not like, the Wrong thing for him to do in the way a lot of comics would present trying to get revenge as being bad

And then Jim is back but he’s not the same, and then he re-learns!!! His humanity!! His kindness!!! from the people around him!!!! And just as much as Jim is the spark for Toro’s powers, Toro is the spark for Jim’s emotions and I’m just

very emotional every time I read this