Complaining abt Suicide Squad yet again but the fact that they have Waller exposing the alien community to space racist attacks and talking abt how she got to her position through deceit and being a terrible person and stuff is just. Ahsfiwueh JUST SAY YOU DONT KNOW WALLER.
Anyways literally the 3rd mission of the Squad ever (and the first framed as smth Waller picked and not orders from above) was the Squad discrediting and stopping a rogue vigilante who was only arresting POC and funneling white people into white supremacy groups (of which he was the most prominent member) in SUICIDE SQUAD #4. and it's explicitly framed as this mission being personal for Waller that she's hiding from the government bc its illegal like. Guys. Please why are we having her incite (space bc comics) racist attacks now
Also the whole "Amanda got her position through deceit and being a terrible person" NO. she KEPT her position through being shitty and playing complicated political games!!! She wasn't always that way like there is a difference and it is IMPORTANT ppl PLEASEEEE. In Secret Origins #14 we learn Amanda's backstory and she used to be a normal, caring person! Like even after she entered into working in government and politics she wasn't automatically morally bankrupt like please people. She was originally given control of the Squad by Reagan (*sigh* 80s comics...) to distract and get rid of her because she was so successful at pushing progressive social policy in Congress. Acting like she's this static pillar of evil is such a waste of her character and so fucking uninteresting and disrespectful to her arc it drives me MAD.
Like I am NOT saying Waller is all sunshine and rainbows, she fucking SUCKS (said w love <3) but like there's a human being there. It's a progression, she has a character arc like please, DC, please!!! They've fucked up Waller so bad and made her so opaque and uninteresting she can't even be the protagonist of her own story for fucks sake!
Like I don't know how many times I have to scream it until DC hears me or remembers but WALLER IS THE MAIN CHARACTER OF SUICIDE SQUAD. ITS HER BOOK. yet right now she's a cutout to be used as the villain wherever the writers please. Even in her book we get none of her perspective really displayed, no exploration of her thoughts with any kind of understanding of the role she traditionally has played and was made to play in the story.
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the narrator's little speech to his boss about shooting up the office feels so much different nowadays than when it was first written which i think is really interesting. obviously gun violence has always existed in america and his speech in particular meshes well with going postal, which was common in the mid 80s, but with Columbine only occuring the year the movie was released and the speech itself being written into the book that was published in 1996 — it's certainly a different air, compared to now. school shootings specifically have become incredibly common, turning what would have at the time of writing been a reference and development from other workplace killings into essentially an extremely juvenile subject. it creates a different interpretation. it characterizes the scene and the character differently. looking back on it is morbidly interesting, seeing the cultural associations with mass shootings change — and what stays the same, as well (white male, warnings ignored). because the action and reaction desired from this scene is relatively similar it's easy to miss that the tone of it definitely inherently has changed through the years.
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Bro I just realised why I dislike so much fantasy media, especially the stuff that tries to be darker and moe mature, but love JRR ‘50 pages about a broken sword’ Tolkein. Bro it’s the human connections. It’s the friendships. I cared so much about all the characters and their relationships that it made the world-building meaningful. Bro
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The Dark Urge-typical r@pe/noncon mention (not positive) but one thing about me is I can't do an afab durge playthrough because it makes all the weird bhaalspawn breeding cattle shit from the cut epilogues/canon refuse-bhaal epilogue simply too fucked up for me. It's one thing to be like. Puppeted into fucking a gnoll or a relative it's another to also be forced to carry and birth its mutant/inc3st child.
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