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geekpopnews · 1 year ago
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3 livros perfeitos para ler nos dias quentes
Transforme o calor em histórias envolventes! Descubra os 3 livros perfeitos para ler nos dias quentes.
Com as temperaturas elevadas e o sol radiante marcando presença, desfrutar do calorão ganha um toque especial ao mergulharmos em 3 livros leves e revigorantes. Deste modo, nos momentos em que os termômetros estão lá em cima, a escolha certa de livro pode fazer toda a diferença. Então, resolvi escolher três histórias que, como uma brisa suave, proporcionam uma fuga deliciosa para aqueles que…
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ffverr · 7 months ago
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Happy lesbian visibility week to our favorite lesbian mutants!
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badger-with-a-boa · 6 months ago
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Happy Pride Month to them
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amageish · 1 year ago
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Thinking way too hard about the queer possibilities of X-Men ‘97
When X-Men ‘97 was first announced, I’ll admit I was kind of ambivelent to the entire project... It felt very nostalgia-focused and was just less interesting to me then an all-new X-Men cartoon that could do its own thing without being burdened with established canon...
...and then I listened to the X-Men 60 Uncanny Years event earlier this year and hearing the executive producer of the series discuss what the X-Men meant to him as a kid as a gay black man in Florida basically changed my mind about the entire project. Now I’m excited for it!
The X-Men are so fucking queer. Even ignoring the ways that the mutant metaphor have been used to discuss queer issues before queer issues could be discussed textually, Marvel’s merry mutants just have... so many queer members and even more when you expand the list to include sub-textual and intended queerness.
So, with all that in mind, I did a little thinking and decided to take some guesses about who could make for queer representation in '97... Let’s dive in!
Part One: The Comic Canon Gays
Let’s start with the characters who are explicitly no-subtext-required queer in the comic books themselves. These are a few of the characters Marvel uses in Pride events and generally parades around every June.
Northstar
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Jean-Paul Beaubier may seem like the vanilla ice cream of this rainbow sundae, but there’s far more going on with this character then the “Marvel’s first explicitly gay superhero” title that he is so often boiled down to. A French-Canadian superstar athlete, he’s lived never being entirely sure if his skiing career success was a result of his talent or his mutant abilities.
While his depiction in X-Men The Animated Series just had him be painfully French-Canadian with an on-the-nose accent and French exclamations, there’s a mean catty gay under the surface that is just waiting to be unleashed. They could also adapt his famous wedding arc, wherein he married his husband Kyle Jinadu...
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Also he hates cops, so y’know... Maybe Marvel did nail the queer experience on their first try?
Iceman
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Bobby Drake is arguably the most famous queer character at Marvel. A member of the original five X-Men, he was famously confirmed as gay when his teenage self was transported to the present and, with some unsolicited help from a teenage Jean Grey, questioned why his older self remaining closeted, even in a world that was (comparatively at least) accepting of queer desire.
In the original show, he showed unrequited interest in Polaris, as he had in the comics before his coming-out. This reboot could potentially give a more grounded and less fantastical take on coming-out then what he had in the comics... or maybe time travel will be involved again - who knows really!
Prodigy
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David Allyene, aka Prodigy, is one of the most notable bi men at Marvel with one of the most distinctive coming-out stories. His mutant powers cause him to instantly learn things that other people know, hence the name Prodigy, and, through his powers, he also learned his own sexuality. How’s that for a crazy journey of self-discovery.
Prodigy is a newer character who did not appear in the original animated series at all, so there’s no continuity concerns there...
Mystique and Destiny
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Destiny, also known as Irene Adler, met her lover Mystique when he was presenting as male and operating as a consulting detective in Victorian London.
Yeah uh. This is implying what you think it is.
The two of them have been lovers for centuries now, though both took other partners at different points during their relationship. Their love is something special though and together they raised Rogue as a child - as well as maybe sired Nightcrawler together? That was once intended to be Nightcrawler’s origin, but it was famously scrapped due to Marvel editorial not wanting to depict a child that is a product of a queer relationship at the time... but now this November a new comic will explore the “true” origin of Nightcrawler, so maybe Mystique/Destiny having a biological child is back on the table!
Mystique was, of course, in the original series. I’m not sure the actual odds of her relationship with Irene being acknowledged in ‘97 - partially just because I imagine Marvel would be concerned about backlash to queer villains... but also they’re adorable and good to me so I’d like them!
Captain Britain and Askani
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Betsy Braddock and Rachel Summers are two incredibly complicated characters to summarize. Rachel is the time-displaced daughter of Scott and Jean from a hypothetical alternate feature, while Betsy Braddock spent like 30 years of her publication history trapped in the body of Kwannon, a Japanese assassin. While these two characters are some of Marvel’s most actively in-your-face unquestionably queer characters - the last Betsy story had a surprising amount of implied sex for only five issues - they’ve never really had a chance to shine in a multimedia way (well, at least not with Betsy in her own body and not being merged with Kwannon).
In the original show, Rachel cameoed briefly as a prisoner of Apocalypse while Pyslocke appeared without being named - assumedly they didn’t want to bother explaining the body-swap storyline. Personally, if they were to be in the show, I’d suggest that Betsy should be introduced as having inherited her brother’s title of Captain Britain, with Pyslocke of the original show being revealed to have been Kwannon in her own body all along...
Part Two: The New Mutants
There’s so many queer New Mutants that I’m just giving them their own category here... plus, with Sunspot being in the main cast, I wouldn’t be surprised if the rest of the time got (Sun)spotlighted as well!
Note that the sapphics of the first generation of New Mutants can also be mixed and matched when it comes to shipping. I present them based on the pairings that are currently canon/teased in the present comics, but Dani/Xuan, Xuan/Kitty, Kitty/Rahcel, etc. are all valid too and could be within the cards for the show.
Karma & Galura
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The first explicit lesbian of the X-Men line, Xuân Cao Mạnh is a refugee of the Vietnam Boat Crisis, a thing which makes no sense when you consider that she is still canonically like 20-something years old in 2023. Her coming-out was a much lower-key affair then Jean-Paul’s, with her friends just casually running into her at the Exploding Person festival (i.e., Burning Man) with a shaved pink haircut and already travelling with her two “girlfriends”.
After the musical festival, she proceeded to fall in love with her roommate Kitty Pryde and then her co-worker Dani Moonstar, both of which were never (textually) requited. Recently, she’s started dating the winged mutant Galura and finally gotten to do stuff like “kiss a woman on-panel regularly” after two decades of being a lesbian denied a girlfriend...
She has cameoed in X-Men ‘92-related media with a design that is truly terrible IMO, but I think she could be rebooted and appear in this series in her full glory... especially after the New Mutants movie left her out entirely!
Mirage and Wolfsbane
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Introduced in the original New Mutants run, Dani Moonstar and Rahne Sinclair share a unique telepathic connection, helpfully described as them being “soul-mates.” The Comic Book Code prohibited depictions of queer people, but uh. This first run is incredibly not subtle, even as Rahne nominally has interest her male teammate Cannonball.
Unfortunately, post-Claremont, their relationship was more or less abandoned for a few decades (coinciding with a massive downward spiral in Rahne content in general) climaxing with Rahne being killed off entirely in an allegory for transphobic violence... Thankfully, she recovered from her death and has recently been written by a non-binary author and now a trans author, both of whom have leaned back into the idea that these “soul-mates” may, in fact, have romantic feelings for each other.
Oh, also they were explicitly gay in the movie. So. Good for them for that!
Magik and Shadowkat
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Another classic pair of X-Men “roommates,” Illyana Rasputina and Kate Pryde are another Claremont-created “soul-mate” duo - albeit without the telepathic bond. After decades of queer-coding, both were able to do queer-adjacent things explicitly for the first time in the Krakoa era, with Illyana asking a group of people of various gender presentations to make out with her and Kate kissing a tattoo artist who looks suspiciously like her bestie on-panel.
Pryde famously lost the spot of “Teen X-Men PoV character” to Jubilee in the show, but maybe X-Men ‘97 could give her a second chance... plus Illyana is one of the most popular X-Men characters not given a full spotlight in the original show, in spite of her more or less being an A-list X-Men in 2023. I don’t know if Marvel is brave enough to make this one canon, but I do think these two are two of the most obviously missing characters from the ‘97 line-up.
Escapade
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Shela Sexton, aka Escapade, is a transgender sapphic who debuted in Marvel Pride last year and has since then had a starring role in the most recent New Mutants series. She has the incredibly unique power of the ability to “steal” things from people - including everything from stealing physical objects like their wallet to stealing abstract concepts like their emotional or physical state. Her character also generally has embodied the intersectional approach to mutant identity which has become more and more prevalent in the modern era - her mutant identity and trans identity are both important to her character, but neither are allegories for the other.
I think she’s probably too new to be added to the X-Men ‘97 cast pragmatically, but maybe they could have snuck in a cameo at the last minute? Idk. I figured I’d include her on the list.
Part Three: Let’s Get Wild!
Okay. Fuck it. Let’s talk about some comic book justifications that could be used to queer up the actual main cast from the original classic X-Men The Animated Series.
Jubilee
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Jubilation Lee, the teen PoV lead of the X-Men, has been written as queer a handful of times, but never explicitly in 616. Most notably, she was gay in an AU Runaways story (written by N.D. Stevenson), where she dated a bisexual version of Pixie as well as an ice-powered sapphic named Frostbite. Monet also had a crush on her in the X-Men ‘92 animation-inspired comic book series. In terms of 616 content, her relationship with Laura Kinney has often been read in a sapphic way, especially in Liu’s X-23 series where Laura notably breaks up with her boyfriend only for Jubilee to be waiting back at her apartment to go out with her.
Storm
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Ororo Munroe, aka Storm, famously has had a subtextual Sapphic fling with the bundle of chaos that is Yukio. They two met for the first time when Ororo went to Japan and their time together was almost immediately followed by her famous punk Storm era, which is very queer when you consider that context. Yukio was also later made explicitly queer in Fox’s Deadpool 2 movie, though the movie character doesn’t share much of the personality and thrill-seeking antics of her comic book counterpart...
Storm is the central protagonist of the original Claremont Uncanny X-Men and will be central to the ‘97 series as well. It’d be really bold to confirm her as queer, but I’d say this is the kind of move that would be worth it if they want this to stand out among X-Men adaptations.
Wolverine, Phoenix, and Cyclops
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Finally, Jean Grey, Scott Summers, and Logan were implied to have been in a poly relationship throughout most of the Krakoa era - though they have fallen on hard times recently in the run-up to Fall of X.
I’ll be blunt: I don’t think there’s a chance in hell that Marvel corporate would approve this being textual... but I’m willing to be proven wrong, I guess!
WHEW. Okay. That’s my list. This is nowhere near definitive of course - I didn’t discuss Shatterstar’s bisexuality, Deadpool’s pansexuality, Gwenpool’s aroace identity, et al - but also basically every X-Men character is either textually queer or could be justified as being queer based on comic book lore. This entire brand has a queer poly energy that even the straightest writers weren’t able to fully shake off of it... so, while this is my list, they could really do anything they wanted (and that Mickey Mouse lets them do, at least)... We’ll see what happens!
[PS: In light of the strike and the general shitty way that megacorporations in entertainment have been treating their workers for years now, I’d be remissed if I made this post and didn’t encourage people to consider donating to the Entertainment Community Fund as well!]
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thena0315 · 1 year ago
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The Original Chicago Med Main Cast
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Season 4: Sarah left
Season 5: Connor left
Season 6: Natalie and April left
Season 8: Ethan and Will left
Maggie, Sharon and Charles are all that remains of the main OGs
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leclaired · 2 years ago
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for inevitable farewells
1) jose rizal / encarnacion alzona & isidro escare abeto 2) munir alawi 3) jack kerouac 4) richard siken 5) paweł franik 6) taylor swift 7) rachel ward 8) sanober khan 9) robert adams 10) anne sexton
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duranduratulsa · 4 months ago
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Kicking off my 90's Fest Movie 🎬 🎞 🎥 🎦 📽 marathon...Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991) on glorious vintage VHS 📼! #Movie #movies #horror #anightmareonelmstreet #freddysdead #freddysdeadthefinalnightmare #wescraven #RIPWesCraven #freddy #freddykrueger #robertenglund #lisazane #YaphetKotto #rickydeanlogan #BreckinMeyer #lezliedeane #ShonGreenblatt #alicecooper #JohnnyDepp #RoseanneBarr #TomArnold #elinordonahue #tobesexton #matthewfaison #cassandrarachelfriel #robertshaye #vintage #VHS #90s #durandurantulsas4thannual90sfest #90sfest
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masoncarr2244 · 1 year ago
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rogloptimist · 3 months ago
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hey primoz so how does it feel to always be so close?
credits under cut
not strong enough - boygenius // primoz roglic - stage 4, tour de france 2020 // primoz roglic and tadej pogacar - podium ceremony, tour de france 2020 // we were young - fortesa latifi // remco evenepoel, primoz roglic get tour de france taste at paris-nice - afp report (flobikes) // primoz roglic - podium ceremony, vuelta a espana 2021 // jonas vingegaard, sepp kuss, primoz roglic - vuelta a espana 2023 // paris-nice | watch: primoz roglic’s bad luck returns to haunt slovenian star - in the bunch // the miseltoe murders - mark romel // primoz roglic - podium ceremony, giro d‘italia 2023 // primoz roglic - stage 16, vuelta a espana 2022 // the tour de france dream is dead: primoz roglic’s curse of crashes - rachel jary // roglic abandons vuelta after stage 16 crash - road bike action magazine // primoz roglic - podium ceremony, adriatico 2023 // primoz roglic - stage 20, tour de france 2020 // a self portrait in letters - anne sexton
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charismaofobedience · 1 year ago
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- on a fabricated, fake divinity and godhood // nagisa ran
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1. hello charlotte ep2 requiem aeternam deo, etherane / 2. between two worlds, mili / 3. shiv, rachel mckibbens / 4. glimmer the seventh apparition, gustav arantes + helen, george seferis + years, sylvia plath + the pages of day and night, adonis / 5. enstars secret service, akira, tl. by @.hyenahunt / 6. tumblr post by noquietrevolution, now a deleted account / 7. hello charlotte ep2 requiem aeternam deo, etherane / 8. assimilation, cj gong + blue horses, mary oliver + the god fit, anne carson + the civil war, anne sexton + grit, silas denver melvin / 9. the egg and the chicken, clarice lispector / 10. hello charlotte ep2 requiem aeternam deo, etherane
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tepkunset · 8 months ago
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List of Canon Queer Marvel Characters:
(with at least 10 appearances as of current date - no randos included)
Aaron Fischer
Aikku Jokinen
Akihiro
Alani Ryan
Aldrif Odinsdottir
America Chavez
Aneka
Annabelle Riggs
Avril Kincaid
Ayo
Benji Deeds
Betsy Braddock
Billy Kaplan
Bobby Drake
Brandon Sharpe
Brian Falsworth
Brunnhilde
Carl Valentino
Carmen Cruz
Cessily Kincaid
Christian Frost
Cullen Bloodstone
David Alleyne
Elle Diwa
Ellie Phimister
Felicia Hardy
Gwen Poole
Heather Douglas
Heather Tucker
Hercules
Hiroim
Ian Soo
Irene Adler
Jake Oh
Jean-Paul Beaubier
Jean-Paul Duchamp
Jennifer Kale
Jerry Sledge
Johnny Clay
Jonas Greymalkin
Jovana
Julie Power
Julio Richter
Jumbo Carnation
Karolina Dean
Ken Shiga
Korg
Kyle Jinadu
Loki Laufeyson
Martha Johansson
Miguel Santos
Morgan Red
Nadia Van Dyne
Nathaniel Carver
Nico Minnoru
Noh-Varr
Phyla-Vell
Rachel Summers
Raven Darkholme
Roger Aubrey
Roxy Washington
Rūna
Sera
Shatterstar
Shela Sexton
Simon Lasker
Solem
Sybil Dvorak
Teddy Altman
Theresa Burke
Tommy Shepherd
Toni Ho
Val Ventura
Victoria Hand
Viktor Borkowski
Viv Vision
Wade Wilson
Xavin
Xuân Cao Mạnh
Zoe Zimmer
And yet Marvel Voices: Pride only ever features like, five of the same characters every time.
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marivelsblog1503 · 7 months ago
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🚑 Parte I: ¿Hasta dónde hemos llegado? 🩺
Con: 557 palabras en total. Anterior: || Índice: || Siguiente: Los personajes que conoceremos en esta historia, a partir de ahora. © Todos los derechos reservados.
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«— La vida es muy cruel, las personas pueden cambiar, algunas permanecen igual. —»
«— El dolor y la perdida son difíciles de olvidar, por más que lo intentes, nada puede reparar la grieta de un corazón, incluyendo la mente. —»
«— Algunos dicen que las pérdidas pueden ayudarnos a superarnos, pero, ¿Qué pasa si no es cierto?, ¿Qué pasa si solo te encierras en ese dolor? —»
«— Estás sufriendo y nadie lo nota, lloras en silencio y nadie te consuela, esta bien querer ser fuerte para no preocupar a las personas que amas, pero recuerda que ellos siguen en tu vida. —»
«— No te alejes de ellos, sigue adelante. —»
«— Ponte de pie y sigue luchando. —»
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Cast:
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|| Lilan Bowden como Dina Boden. ||
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«— Chicago es mi hogar y no importa lo que otros digan, yo sé que soy una buena capitana para mi equipo en la 61, pero también una doctora. —»
|| Brian Tee como Ethan Choi. ||
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«— Soy un veterano de la marina, seguí los mismos pasos que mi padre, sin embargo tengo recuerdos dolorosos de aquellos días y eso, las pesadillas me siguen atormentando. —»
|| Anna Kendrick como Carol Boden. ||
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«— Esto es muy sencillo, yo te cubro y tú a mí, me cuidas todo el tiempo y ahora es mi turno de hacerlo contigo, estoy preocupada por ti y no quiero que te pase nada, no quiero perderte. —»
|| Eamonn Walker como Wallace Boden. ||
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«— Aun recuerdo aquella noche como si hubiera pasado un día, y sin importar los riesgos, las volvería a salvar, me importa muy poco lo que digan, ambas son mis hijas. —»
|| Melissa Ponzio como Donna Robbins de Boden. ||
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«— Aunque no las sostuve entre mis brazos cuando eran unas bebes, las tendré a ambas aquí conmigo, porque ustedes también son mis hijas, nada va a cambiar eso. —»
|| Sophia Bush como Erin Lindsay. ||
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«— Atrapamos al maldito que provocó todo esto, sé lo que siente encerrarte en tu propio dolor y te culpas por no estar con aquella persona que tanto amaste, pero no te preocupes, ellos ya no estarán sufriendo ahora. —»
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Cast de los demás personajes:
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🚒 Chicago Fire. 🔥
|| David Eigen como Christopher Herman. ||
|| Robyn Coffin como Cindy Herman. ||
|| Christian Stolte como Randall “Mouch” McHolland. ||
|| Taylor Kinny como Kelly Severide. ||
|| Jesse Spencer como Matthew “Matt” Casey. ||
|| Monica Raymund como Gabriela “Gaby” Dawson. ||
|| Lauren German como Leslie Shay. ||
|| Kara Killmer como Sylvie Brett. ||
|| Joe Minoso como Joe Cruz. ||
|| Yuri Sardarov como Brian “Otis” Zvoecek. ||
|| Charlie Barnett como Peter Mills. ||
|| Randy Flager como Harold Capp. ||
|| Dushon Monique como Connie. ||
🚓 Chicago P.D. 🚔
|| Jason Beghe como Hank Voight. ||
|| Jon Seda como Antonio Dawson. ||
|| Jesse Lee Soffer como Jay Halstead. ||
|| Archie Kao como Sheldon Jin. ||
|| Elias Koteas como Alvin Olinsky. ||
|| Patrick Flueger como Adam Ruzek. ||
|| Laroyce Hawkins como Kevin Atwater. ||
|| Mariana Squerciati como Kim Burguess. ||
🚑 Chicago Med. 🩺
|| S. Epatha Merkerson como Sharon Goodwin. ||
|| Oliver Platt como Daniel Charles. ||
|| Marlyne Barrett como Maggie Lockwood. ||
|| Torrey DeVitto como Natalie Manning. ||
|| Nick Gehlfuss como Will Halstead. ||
|| Yaya DaCosta como April Sexton. ||
|| Roland Buck como Noah Sexton. ||
|| Colin Donnell como Connor Rhodes. ||
|| Rachel DiPilo como Sarah Reese. ||
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Playlist de esta primera parte:
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|| Arcade de Duncan Laurence. ||
|| Could Have Been Me versión Halsey. ||
|| Fight Song de Rachel Platten. ||
|| I’ts Time de Imagine Dragons. ||
Anterior: || Índice: || Siguiente:
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queer-xmen-tournament · 2 years ago
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Where this blog goes next
For a really long time, I've been wanting to create a fanmade X-Men team composed of exclusively queer mutants- and now, I figured since I already have this blog, why not let tumblr decide?
So what I've done, is created 7 spots on the team, based on each characters power and skill set, and grouped a bunch of characters together for a singular poll for each spot. Before the polls go out, I'm going to make a little propaganda post for each person in the group, to make sure everybody knows who is who, and why they should vote for them!
This is only including people who are out as queer in universe, so even though Gabby has been implied to be queer, and Kate has been confirmed to be bi, neither of them are really "out" in their respective universes yet, so they couldn't really be on the team yet.
Here are the groups:
The Psychic
Captain Britain | Betsy Braddock
Askani | Rachel Summers
Negasonic Teenage Warhead | Ellie Phimister
Leo Eng
Alef Chernekhov
The Powerhouse
Iceman | Bobby Drake
Rictor | Julio Richter
Pyro | Simon Lasker
Tempo | Heather Tucker
Good Arson | Rex Ridley
Theia
Kappa | Megan Ogawa
Christopher O'Leary
The Shapeshifter
Mystique | Raven Darkholme
Gimmick | Carmen Cruz
Morph | Benjamin Deeds
Jessie Drake
Faceshopper | Soph
The Warrior
Shatterstar | Gaveedra Seven
Fang | Akihiro
Anole | Victor Borkowski
Mercury | Cessily Kincaid
Jonas Graymalkin
Bling! | Roxy Washington
Madin
Bouncer | Renata Da Lima
The Gimmick
Escapade | Shela Sexton
Loa | Alani Ryan
Aphelion | Reed
Darkveil | Darnell Wade
Jumbo Carnation
Brutha Nature | Jacob Williams
Morgan Red
Monica Sellers
Hector Pullman
The Flyer
Northstar | Jean-Paul Beaubier
Pixie | Megan Gwynn
Galura | Elle Diwa
Aura Charles
Michael Diwa
Liana
The Additional Psionic
Karma | Xuân Cao Mạnh
Destiny | Irene Adler
Prodigy | David Alleyne
Somnus | Carl Valentino
Hindsight | Nathaniel Carver
Pity Girl | Nora Kuang
Christian Frost
Bad Guy | Gabe
Alice Campbell
I hope to start posting these on Monday!
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badger-with-a-boa · 7 months ago
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For lesbian visibility week, here are my favorite women kissers 🧡🤍🩷
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rachelspoetrycorner · 2 years ago
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How It Is (1976) by Maxine Kumin
Trigger warning: mention of suicide
In Episode 113, Rachel brings a poem about loss, specifically her friend, Anne Sexton, who died by suicide.
Rachel: I really love the confessional poets but have been hesitant to talk about them on this show, because again, a lot of dark material.
But Maxine Kumin's poem isn't morose, particularly. Y'know? It's more a recognition of what it's like to be present in this time after you've lost somebody. And in kind of how your connection to them continues, and how... I don't know, how you're forever changed by that. Uh, and I just felt like that poem was so beautiful, and so vivid, to me. Like, I could picture everything; I could picture that blazer.
One thing (and it's probably the thing) that makes me love Rachel's Poetry Corner so much is its wonderful delight by life's simple pleasures; those bigger or smaller things that inevitably cross all of our paths at least once in our lifetimes. That's why The Corner feels so cozy and welcoming, and familiar.
Yet, mixed with all those everyday life occurrences, with all those ordinary experiences we've become so acquainted with, there are also accidents, mistakes, hurting, and leaving, and death. It's painful to recognize that these are also part of our lives, and that they happen every day.
So I really appreciate when Rachel makes the risky decision to bring poems like this one; because, at face value, they could seem out of place, or that they don't fit the "wonderful vibe" we got going on here. But they do, they really do.
It's as if Rachel took the time to remind us, with a lot of care, that "Hey. Life? That's just How It Is."
If you’d like to hear more, you can do so here: Field of Necromancy, from 29:50 - 35:49
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unhingedandunwell · 2 years ago
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A love that isn’t ours
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? / Clare Elsaesser Falling • Dry the River Weights & Measures / ? / Sylvia Plath / ? / Sue Zhao / Richard Silken Crush • ? / Duncan Laurence Arcade / ? • Lizzy McAlpine Lady in Blue / Fleabag S2E6 / Nicole Homer Underbelly / ? • Orla Gartland Between my Teeth / Clare Elsaesser My Love • Julien Baker Conversation Piece / Pat the Bunny I’m Not a Good Person / Franz Kafka Letters to Milena / Mike Hoolboom • boygenius Bite the Hand / ? • Mitski A Pearl / Rachel McKibbens / ? /Fumi Nakamura, The Noise Must Become Music • Anne Sexton / The Amazing Devil Elsa’s Song / ? • Lisa Schroeder / ?
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