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[laurajameskinney]

As the number one Laura Kinny fan what do you think of her relationship with Remy vs her relationship with akihiro as her two older brother figures in her life. I think they have a really interesting contrast especially since Laura first meets Akihiro in the comic where Remy is mentoring her. Also sorry for mass rebloging your stuff.

Laura and Akihiro met twice before Collision, in the original Utopia arc (which isn't really important for their relationship other than being the first time they encounter each other), and then in the second story of the Wolverine Goes to Hell oneshot, which sets up the events of Collision.

(Road to Hell)

That being said, I actually primarily tend to interpret Remy as more of a paternal figure to Laura-- or at least, I think it's reasonable to infer that the person he considers his relationship with her to be most comparable to, in terms of what he's doing, is Logan. And the thing is, I think Logan agrees with this assessment!

(X-23 #12)

In this scene, I think "doing what I couldn't" refers to two things-- the earlier scene where Laura is dosed with trigger scent and Remy is able to bring her out of it, and then also just like. Parenting Laura in general. This also lines up with the scene from issue 10, where Remy essentially calls Logan out for his parenting in regards to Laura versus his parenting in regards to Jubilee.

(X-23 #10)

And then, later on, when Laura was in a coma for three days after the Captain Universe arc, Logan isn't the one camping out in the Baxter building to make sure she's alright-- Remy is. When Laura decides not to go to the Jean Grey School, she stays at one of Remy's safehouses.

That ended up being a lot about Remy and not very much about Akihiro, but all that is to say that I don't have much of an opinion on Remy versus Akihiro as Laura's brothers/brother-figures, because I don't think Remy is a fraternal figure to Laura.

I know a lot of people do interpret Remy as more of a brother figure to Laura, and there's obviously nothing wrong with that. We read the same comics-- it's a valid interpretation of the text. I'm not trying to say that anybody is wrong for thinking that, or else shit on anybody. It's just not the interpretation that I, personally, find most interesting.

But to at least sort of answer your question, I think Laura is probably more relaxed around Remy in a way that she isn't with Akihiro, because she doesn't feel the need to corral or keep an eye on Remy the way she does with Akihiro.

I think there's probably some small resentment towards Akihiro for that, also, because she doesn't like the fact that she can't trust him around other people. This is worsened by the fact that Akihiro, through a combination of knowing Laura very well and just being aware of what he's like as a person, definitely knows about that and depending on his mood might either play to that or call her out for it. At his worst he'd probably accuse her of trying to control him, which given their histories is very loaded.

Regardless of the specifics of how you interpret their relationships, I think Remy is much more aware that he is the adult with Laura and tries to actually act the part, whereas Akihiro has never meaningfully acted as the adult in the room with anyone, but especially not Laura. This results in Remy being an overall safer and more stable adult presence in Laura's life that she's really not getting anywhere else.

[wellnoe]

Since your in a Maddy mood and I'm always up to talk about Maddy what do you think of scott's marriage with Maddy arguably being his most at peace happy times (see x-men/Alpha flight) but at that time Maddy arguably having the least agency. Not arguing that Maddy did not love Scott but at this point Mr Sinister had set up most everything in her life.

[id in ALT]

i think the fact that maddy's marriage with scott is something she ultimately has little control over is one of her big tragedies!

i (maybe predictably) disagree with the take that scott's marriage with maddy is his most at peace happy time. while you can argue that, i think he's clearly a jerk to her at various points throughout his relationship with her, from questioning whether she's jean to thinking she'll take care of the baby to his various x-men based hang-ups. i think their whole relationship is worth looking at here, and not just the married portions, bc things progress relatively quickly and last for a relatively short time compared to some of his other relationships. in total i think their relationship has a lot of ups and downs, with one of the main tension points being scott's continued connection to the x-men. sometimes they're very sweet!! i like them a lot! but i also like them bc i think their marriage is pretty much doomed.

you're right that scott becomes a big jerk around trial of magneto. "Who Will Lead Them?" is scott in one of his jerkiest moments, and he's not great in the lead-up either (not calling maddy, for example) but i personally still enjoy it, and i don't think its too discordant a characterization from earlier issues. who will lead them is, in addition to a big scott/maddy fight, an issue about scott's feelings about leaving the x-men, being abandoned by xavier, and the x-men changing beyond his recognition. it makes sense to me that he sucks in that context.

to the other point: the idea that chris claremont did not initially conceive of maddy as a clone doesn't particularly matter to me. personally, i think maddy is framed as jean or jean-like so frequently in so many different ways that the idea that something is NOT up with her becomes bizarre. she's identical to jean, something immediately apparent to everyone when they first meet her. she jokes about reading minds, her wedding issue has mastermind placing her in the role of jean grey, she was in a fiery plane crash the day that phoenix died! if she's just a normal woman scott is happily married to that refuses to pay all of that off and is very boring to me (and also i don't think claremont could expect it NOT to be paid off, setting up all that in the realm of superhero comics, where future writers will continue the story). she may not have been initially conceived of as a clone, but she had to have SOME connection to jean to justify all the coincidences building up around her.

all that is not to rag on your investment in claremont's intentions, but to explain my own ambivalence. basically i think whether claremont wanted to make her a clone or not, from the start he wrote a story where that turned out to be a surprisingly natural and compelling reveal. and that trumps whatever he initially intended for me.

also: thank you!! i'm glad you like my compositions

[brw]

What kind of acting do you think Simon does I always imagine him in like a supernatural TV show like Buffy or in classic action flicks but in the most recent Avengers Academy it looked like he was in a fantasy show.

Historically Simon has seemed to be primarily employed in B and C tier Hollywood action films, although the first film he was ever in (sans the Mr Muscles kids TV show bit) was a spaghetti Western from Avengers #207. His big acting break was playing the villain in Arkon IV, acting across an early 80s Arnold Schwarzenegger, a role he lands in WCA v2 #6. The vibe of it is very sword-and-sorcery, Conan the Barbarian style, which was probably what the Avengers Academy film was referencing.

Simon also starred in the film Damage Control, with THE Marlon Brando and Shelly Long of all people??? from the hit marvel comic that everyone knows and loves, Damage Control v3 #3. Simon shows his entire bare booty ass in this comic, which is the most notable thing about the issue.

Beach Volleyball Bros 2 was mentioned in X-Force v6 #50, which when I heard it, I envisioned a terrible Baywatch (2017) rip-off, but it could really be anoying.

Simon was ALSO hired to star in an adaption of Macbeth, during Wonder Man v2. There's a few different films that he's brought on to work on during the course of this series, and Simon seems to struggle with being typecast in action-slop roles, which, given everything we listed so far, is not far off the mark.

Towards the 2000s with the gradual shift in media culture and what was popular, Simon gets numerous offers in different comics to be in reality TV shows. I don't think he accepts any of them, except for Wonder Man v3 where he's shooting a reality show to rehabiliate a villain lady?? I don't know, it's a truly awful comic so I rarely count it in Simon discussions.

Simon's also offered another action-role in War of the Realms: Journey into Mystery, which he also rejects because he's a pacifist at this stage in his life.

(also in this series, Simon mentions a love for Westerns which is a cute tie-in to his first ever proper role!)

And finally, it's not comics but Simon is yet again in films that appear to be terrible c-tier action flicks in the M.O.D.O.K. show, from his appearance in episode 7. Sorry for the quality, but it is called "BRUTE FORCE 2: KANGARUDE AWAKENING" and has him with some animatronic canine? I don't know what this is, but it's something.

Anyway, so yeah, he's mosly been in bad action films, but I could see him segwaying into one of those kind of supernatural TV shows, or something CW inspired, like The Vampire Diaries or Riverdale. He does have it in him to do something a little more classy I think, but only if he/writers lent a little harder into him having a 1940s-50s Hollywood sensibility. They should give him a screwball comedy, not these action films, they aren't enriching enough for him.

[caffeinatedcarny]

WOOOO i have alot of work ahead of me now aha,, I'm thinking i'll call this au the Modern!AU Design from here!

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Please do not use or repost without my explicit consent<3

[teacupchimera]

for this year's junicorn project, I've decided to draw unicorns whose flowers' colors and placement correspond to various pride flags! this pan pride unicorn is a bay, and has 'raspberry charm' peonies, buttercups, and himalayan blue poppies :D

please reblog if you enjoy! <3

[hungry-skeleton]

New pride designs for my redbubble!! Happy pride month everyone! 🌈

Gay • lesbian • bi • pan • ace • aro • trans • enby • fluid • intersex

PLEASE REBLOG!

[archie-the-menace]

This year’s Pride Designs are up on Redbubble ready to purchase! I decided to drop these a little early so they have time to ship before June, plus Redbubble has free shipping on stickers right now!

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If you or someone you adore is pan you can find some really cute gift ideas in my shops!

You can scroll through my Redbubble, Teepublic, and Threadless to find these!

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[twilightangel-art]

Art of me and my partners for pride :>

The polyam flag was a custom one put together by our girlfriend

[instantfoxdonut]

he deserves to ride a unicorn

[vixdesl]

I have startrix brainrot atm

[laurajameskinney]

Thanks so much for replying to my ask. Remy and Laura's relationship is so special and I wish we got to see more of it. In genral I love when Remy is in a teacher/dad position out with Logan in with Remy (he can even cook). I really hope we get to see more of it in this new run since he is interacting with kids. Speaking of that how did you like the whole Remy teaching arc I found the part where mystique pretend to be a student and sleep with his weird but other than that I think it really showed how great Remy can be when you put him with kids. As always love your thoughts♥♥

Thanks :) I haven't actually read that arc, both because I've been off my Marvel game recently and I just haven't read for Remy other than incidentally. It's also Roxy's first appearance, though, so I really need to read it. I probably wouldn't have much to say about Remy that other people who are more familiar with the character haven't said at length, though.

I have been loosely keeping up with Uncanny, though I'm somewhat apprehensive (I don't generally love Simone as a writer), leaning somewhat positive. Plus the art is good to look at, and that's always a plus.

I'll read the Bizarre Love Triangle arc and then see if I have thoughts, though again because I'm mostly motivated to read it for Roxy it might have more to do with her.

[wellnoe]

Please I would love to know all your madelyne pryor thoughts. I love Maddy so much and I love your stuff so much I am salivating.

omg all my madelyne pryor thoughts...i feel like i've already posted all of them and now i just cycle through the same ones. she's incredible she's very sad her relationship with cable really gets to me (in certain stories!! have to qualify that big time).

a big part of why i love maddy is bc she's a clone. i love all the little weird things that tie her to jean, the little details that scott gets hung up on for a while. i love that as she gets closer to inferno she starts to look more and more like jean. really sad!! but also imo speaks to the ways in which what turns into this desperate grab at agency is in fact manufactured, is doomed as she's used by other parties.

i like to think of maddy-jean-phoenix as being complementary relationships. jean is jealous of phoenix, who took her life and her image and her relationship and poisoned everyone's idea of her, maddy is jealous of jean, who took her life and her image and her relationship and is the foundation of everyone's idea of her. they're very similar. and of course x-factor literalizes this a bit by giving jean both phoenix and maddy's memories.

springing off of that: i think there's also the question of how much of maddy's resemblance to jean is from sinister and how much is from phoenix. certainly it seems that she inherited phoenix's memories, which include all of jean's memories. so again ig there's that sense of similarity in the maddy-jean-phoenix relationship: jean rejects phoenix, maddy rejects jean, jean struggles with both maddy and phoenix. all three of them are intertwined.

this is actually something i'd like to see explored more? not maddy as phoenix host per se, but maddy as someone whose person is as inextricably tied to the phoenix as jean's is. she awoke with phoenix's dying memory!

oh also while i'm talking about things i want: one of my (many) dream minis/arcs (but realistically a mini) is a "team up" between maddy and scott. this will never happen, bc ideally this would be happening with some of her older characterization and hang-ups, but i just think maddy should get to use scott for her own mysterious ends and they should scream and fight about whether maddy was herself when she tried to kill their son :)

[jasontoddiefor]

I love seeing you lb reading webcomics and your recommendations are always on point, do you have any more? In return I give you two recs of my own The Affairs of the Other World Depend on the Corporate Slave which is an officeworker bl in another world it's amazing I love bo the leads and it has some intresting intruge to it and the other is I I Became The Male Lead's Adopted Daughter which has a great protagnist and the dad is hot. Sorry if you've read these alredy I love you work so much!!!

Ah thank you so much!!! I’m glad you like my little webcomic rambles. The genre is so rich and full of amazing ideas but sadly the fanbase is rather quiet? Sometimes it feels like I’m talking into the aether.

And yes! I’ve read I became the male lead’s adopted daughter! In fact the das made it into my PowerPoint

And I - in fact - own the BL one!

Both stories are great tho I gotta say I did NOT expect a sudden fuck or die subplot in this one.

Right now I’m a little obsessed with I planned to become a loyal sword - the only rofan I’ve found so far where I genuinely love all ML options. Also big fan of The Mafia Nanny and In The Doghouse which I’m realizing as I type this out, none of these webcomics share a genre lmao. I also binge read Be My Villain yesterday and it’s SUCH a funky BL.

Uuuh also Mystic Prince is fantastic, but I’m still in the middle of reading that one.

But is there anything specific you’re searching for? Any trope or genre?

[barb-animation-fan18]

After 3 whole days I finally finished my pride month art. I hope you all enjoy it. (unrelated note chapter 7 is coming later this month)

[stupidlysunny]

Happy Pride Month From Ruby!