It occurs to me that part of why I ended up veering to X-Men and Marvel as opposed to DC is that my particular favorites don't tend to solo adventures, and the group is always fucked up enough, and everyone's an asshole enough to accommodate whatever resurrections you want.

I'm thinking about my kind of garbled statement about why I think Hal's return worked better than Barry's. (Even granting quibbles about characterization.) And I'm trying to see if I can articulate the idea in a clearer way.

I know I've said this before, but if Claremont truly wanted Madelyne to be Scott's happy ending spouse, then she should have looked like anyone but Jean. Because even if the romance was completely okay in every other respect (and honestly, there were other issues...) -

Ok. This is significantly less funny than the “Elon is more athletic than Lebron overall” lie. Though I guess calling a black athlete a “genetic freak” is pretty blatant.

I didn't figure out I was non-binary until my thirties, but in retrospect, I think there were signs. It's hard to prove a negative, but I do remember having the assumption that every immortal character (vampire, Highlander, Tolkien elf) would have spent some decades living as the opposite* gender.

If you see this, post a Comics cover you love.

Okay, I don't want to derail a post of actual substance, but that photo of ICE agents holding down that priest is the same kind of striking as the photo of Mangione being escorted down the city streets. It's a very "protagonist in chains" image.

I am begging America to not be stupid enough to embrace a racist and an antisemite because Donald Trump thinks she's a meanie. Just grab some popcorn and watch the Nazis fight.

Nothing like that "oh god please don't be a Nazi" feeling that you get when you start watching a new streamer/youtuber.

I'm suddenly reminded of an episode of Grimm, of all things. The monster of the week, so to speak, was a teenaged girl who was incredibly beautiful but would (reflexively) spit poison on people attracted to her. The episode had its issues, but one thing I really loved about it...

I remember watching "the Man Show" many years ago and really enjoying it. I thought it was a hilarious satire. Looking at where the hosts ended up, I get the impression that only one of them actually realized/meant it to be a satire.

A reminder that this anti-trans panic is 100% bullshit and exactly none of our country’s problems are related to someone expressing their gender identity and everyone who isn’t a hate-filled weirdo knows it.

I have mixed feelings about the Bechdel test, because while it was a joke, it can be helpful. It shouldn't be that hard to include multiple female characters and to give them a role that doesn't revolve around male characters. But as usual, internet folk overuse it to meaninglessness.

I read this thread for the puns. I was not disappointed.

I do wish that older folks would stop acting like it's some great crime that a younger person doesn't recognize a famous person from what we consider a "classic". Surprise! Younger people have different experiences than older people! Sometimes they even like DIFFERENT THINGS!

i'm still appalled people were making fun of her for this instead of being thoroughly charmed by what it says about the insanely cool and lengthy career wallace shawn has had

Tonight was a huge win for democracy & a major blow to Trump's authoritarian rule Voters chose Dem govs in VA & NJ, kept a Dem majority on PA’s top court, rejected an anti-voting measure in ME, chose an anti-Trump NYC mayor & are set to back fair maps in CA. Pro-democracy sweep.

I've seen the argument that we're too fixated on a single mayorial race, when there are a lot of important gubernatorial races going on. I sympathize to some extent, but that ignores that the reason we're so fixated on Mamdani is how his race exemplifies the flaws in our party leadership.

From the perspective of a "vote blue no matter who" voter, it's really fucking hard to defend my own stance when the Democratic leadership doesn't seem to practice what it preaches.

This is worse than the worst thing ever attributed to any “Bernie Bro”. The Democratic leader literally refusing to say WHETHER HE VOTED FOR THE DEMOCRAT.

My favorite internet controversy is still that weird dress. It's a complete nothing issue but so fun to argue about. And fascinating too. I still would love to read a scientific explanation about it.

I think my favorite ARR job quests are the carpenter ones where you quickly realize that the carpenter guildmaster is completely unhinged about that one guard captain, who seems calm and sane, but then you realize "no, this shit is reciprocal. They're so unhinged they're a rotating door."

Oh, my other rant about TV Tropes, because I'm petty today, is that I hate how the "Wild Mass Guessing" pages don't differentiate legitimate theories from silly crossover bullshit.

I think one of my bigger problems with tv tropes was that the creator/contributor bias was very obvious in certain entries. If a character was disliked by the fandom, then you'd never see them mentioned in any sympathetic entry even if they were actually a prime example of the trope.

As a "vote blue no matter who" person, I'd just like to say that yes, I would most likely vote even a terrible Democrat over a Republican. But it's early enough to actually pick a GOOD Democrat. We can make this easier for ourselves and NOT commit to a terrible choice!

I wish more people remembered silly 90s sci-fi fandoms beside me. Someone out there must understand my secret love for Earth: Final Conflict parent reveal fanfiction, and my endless lament that not a single one of them features a scene where Sandoval asks "why are you white?"

Possibly unpopular opinion, but I'm actually pretty glad the Ben Solo movie idea got dropped. No disrespect to Adam Driver, but I find the character pretty tedious and I'd have been far more interested in seeing one of the others get the spotlight instead.

There was a cybertruck at a local grocery store yesterday. I guess the store was doing some sort of "show off your fancy car" thing with a roped off area, a live music performance from some dude with a guitar and so on. I have no idea why it was happening, tbh.

Krakoa was an interesting idea but went on way too long for something so disconnected to everything that came before.

Had a ring pop for the first time in years and immediately ruined it for myself with the realization that it's basically just a candy pacifier. I realize for many people that probably would improve the experience, but alas, not one of my kinks.

Ironically, the whole mess turns out to have been the fault of the High Evolutionary, but he only did it to fuck with Sinister.

This is probably irrational but every time I see a WhatsApp commercial, I get more and more paranoid. About WhatsApp. "Even we can't see your messages." Um, okay, but what if you're lying? How exactly would I know? Do entrapment laws apply to Meta?

I find myself reminiscing about my first comic blog recently. I remember how hard I'd try to stay nice, reasonable and diplomatic whenever I'd find myself in a disagreement - no matter how bizarre or antagonistic their take was. I always thought maybe I could persuade them - or an observer.

I really have to stop reading clickbait article titles. Wait, you mean this adaptation of a popular comic book has "six awkward parallels" to a prior adaptation of the same popular comic book? I'm completely shocked by this! Exactly how many times have we seen Batman's origin story again?

Just saw a WeightWatchers commercial mention "access to prescription weight loss medications" and I'm weirded out. I've never put much stock in those diet programs, but I still remember when Ozempic was supposed to be for diabetics. When did weight loss drugs become so ubiquitous?

Naked Gun was surprisingly watchable. A lot of laugh out loud moments for me.

I think it should have been bigger news when they found out Adonis was a real person.

I just saw a clickbait article about the new Pride and Prejudice television series that called it a "reboot of the Keira Knightley film" and I kind of want to hit the writer many times with a nerf bat.

I'm realizing that tumblr is not the ideal place to read a lot of anime/manga meta, because a LOT of the rhetorical questions and complaints seem to boil down to "why does this follow the general genre conventions of its type?" and "why don't these characters react like Americans/Europeans?"

My biggest takeaway from having watched a shit ton of Naruto episodes twenty years after everyone else: it's kind of bizarre that Orochimaru is so obsessed with youth/immortality but never asks Jiraiya for his skin cream.

I will take a terrible Democrat over a Republican, sure. But there are actually quite a lot of GOOD Democrats out there. And I see no reason to pre-shackle us to a fuckhead when we've got other options.

The idea that Democrats "pushed too hard" on trans issues is just a zombie lie at this point. It never happened, but people have talked themselves into believing it without ever once being able to show a shred of evidence to support it It was *entirely* a push from the right, aided by the news media

I think I just failed a turing test. There was a captcha that said something like "pick which objects can fit inside other objects" and my brain wrenched itself. I might be a bot after all.

Tip for Democrats: If you welcome Nazis into your party you become a Nazi party. Not surprised that Ro Khanna, the self-proclaimed "congressman of silicon valley", is one of the ones ready to lick Musk's boots, that dude has never seen a tech billionaire he didn't like.

The enemy of my enemy still did two Nazi salutes.

I would just like to say before the inevitable "Musk isn't that bad" redemption tour that when I complain about "leftist purity tests", I'm talking about shit like calling Elizabeth Warren a Republican for her political position decades before taking office. I don't mean that fucking guy.

I feel like most of my followers know this but because I see a lot of cis folks who have a specific blind spot for it: This includes the theme park. I don't care if you want Butterbeer or want to get a wand or are already there so why not just walk in. It's all Her. Everything with the name is Her.

I feel like, in a weird way, Star Trek TNG is more of a period piece than any of the other Star Treks. In a way that makes it both really interesting but really hard to rewatch.

I don't like sauces or juices mixing (with exactly one, planned, exception.) I love pickled beets, but they get their own plate so they don't turn anything else pink.