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let’s loom menacingly with mama

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Something I really liked about Mickey 17 was how human everyone was. Like, people stuttered and didn't always finish their thoughts, assholes live to be assholes another day, there were conflicting political opinions throughout the colonists, there were arguments on the loading docks about parking and people sharing food. It felt like those were real people, and it paid off at the end when there were multiple people working to get mister-wannabe-dictator to stop. Like! Yeah reasonable people Would try to bring these people to trial and work to communicate with aliens and vote to get rid of a body printer because these are People! It was just a nice touch, and also made sense for how Mickey is very much Not a hero, he's just a guy trying to live his life. Everyone's just trying to live their life, so everyone contributes to solving the problems.

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THAT SURE WAS A FUCKING RIDE HUH

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everyone watch mickey 17........ for my two shaylas.....

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some fandom disagreements are like "I see your point but I think this other aspect of the narrative is more significant," and some are like "I don't think you can read."

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it is so hard to imagine reeves superman not stepping up for conner

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Ms. Marvel: How the Science Fair issue explores themes of class and race

As intentionally fun and silly the science fair issue from G. Willow Wilson’s run on Ms. Marvel is, I do love how this issue touches upon themes of racial and classist discrimination within the U.S. educational system.

Like all other areas of America's privatized capitalistic society, the system is intentionally rigged to make it as hard as possible for POCs like Kamala & Miles and even lower-income white people like Bruno to have access to good college educations. This in-turn can sadly sometimes promote unhealthy competition and in-fighting between these minority groups, as we see between Kamala Khan & Miles Morales’ respective teams at the science fair.

Wilson also conveys these issues of systemic class disparity through the character of Josh Richardson, who’s upper-class white male privilege makes him oblivious of his partner’s Kamala & Bruno, who need scholarships in order to more easily get into good colleges and deal with student loan debt afterwards, whereas Josh presumably has wealthier parents to fall back on. Heck, Josh even later admits that he only joined their team simply just to impress his ex-girlfriend Zoe, just to further highlight the ignorance and entitlement that white privilege generates.

This actually reminded me of a historical monograph that I read for one of my Graduate School classes last year, White Metropolis: Race, Ethnicity, and Religion in Dallas, 1841-2001, which discusses the ways in which the politicians and businessmen of Dallas, TX actively sowed seeds of racial division and class conflict between the city's various minority groups throughout the city's history.

It's such a neat coincidence that both my academic work and comic reading touched on similar themes back-to-back! Also, while a bit on the nose, I love how Ganke's words here also foreshadow the then-upcoming conflict in Ms. Marvel’s Civil War II tie-ins, wherein Kamala is divided between the opposing factions of two of her superhero mentors, Captain Marvel & Iron Man respectively!

Overall, a really fun AND poignant done-&-one issue of Ms. Marvel! Plus it introduced us all to the epic gloriousness that is “Sky Shark!” Man do I love how unapologetically goofy superhero comics can be!

From Ms. Marvel (2015) #7 by G. Willow Wilson & Adrian Alphona.

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He's so epic guys

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give a man a tv show and he eats for a week. give a man an audio drama podcast and he eats for months, and then gets an addiction, and eats them forever

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Did you pray? (Cringetober day 1)

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a buncha silly little guys !!!

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doodles from insta + priest kurt from twt

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Kurt doodles

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god my wives look so beautiful …

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Another Kurt art dump. I'm not sorry :))

Still can't draw him consistently. Sad times. I think I'm in a weird stage with my art, just in general atm.

Finished these on Sept 9!

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me bringing my art to tumblr: