#but very keen differences

[hellsbroadcaster]

Thinking of giving Break a hazbin verse but I gotta tho k about it.

[aprilblossomgirl]

You know, you’ve been with me since the day I had no one until now, when I see my Everest. I’m not climbing it alone. You’re climbing it with me.

Only Boo! (2024) Episode 9

[pharawee]

"I want that guy, Air, to disappear from this world!"

—7 DAYS BEFORE VALENTINE · Episode 1

[swordsonnet]

sorry but saying that the accessibility needs of mentally disabled people are just preferences or about "comfort" is blatantly incorrect. if i can't enter a building because the bright lights and loud noises would send me into a meltdown, then i can't enter the building, and that's not less important than me not being able to enter a building because it's not wheelchair accessible. if you genuinely think that mentally disabled people aren't really struggling, and that it's okay to mock their very real concerns, then that just shows that you've been refusing to listen to their experiences. do better or shut the fuck up.

[cantsayidont]

November 2023. I've long since accepted that solo Power Girl stories are probably always going to be dreadful, and the dreary first issue of the new POWER GIRL book by Leah Williams (following on her equally dreary POWER GIRL SPECIAL, which at least had Marguerite Sauvage) suggests that that's not going to change any time soon. Some creative highlights of this bold new direction for Power Girl:

A stupid name-change. Rather than calling Power Girl "Kara," which is of course her actual name, or "Karen Starr," the name she's been using since 1977, she's now called "Paige," an arbitrary suggestion from the "Super-Family" so they won't confuse her with their real cousin, the one they care about. Come on.

Still more insufferable gay-baiting. The New 52 WORLDS' FINEST series with Power Girl and the Huntress was relentless in this regard, and of course anything involving Harley Quinn is always on beyond zebra. This time, Power Girl is gal-palling it up with former Teen Titan Lilith Clay (now calling herself Omen). If you just flipped through these books without reading closely, you would assume Kara and Lilith were girlfriends — they live together and walk around holding hands, and they share some kind of astral-psychic bond — but rather than finally committing to Power Girl actually being gay, there are various wink-wink-nudge-nudge ass-covering asides to assure us that "Paige" and Lilith are totes no-homo besties. Come on.

More screwing around with her powers. DC has been through this repeatedly with Power Girl: de-powering her, changing her powers, trying to give her weird magical abilities that aren't part of the standard Kryptonian power set, rinse, repeat. This time, Power Girl has been made over as "a rookie psychic" with a reality-shattering "astral-punching" ability obviously stolen, quite shamelessly, from Marvel heroine America Chávez — who, if you aren't familiar, is a reality-punching, super-strong lesbian from a utopian all-lesbian parallel dimension. So … Power Girl is now a totes no-homo DC knockoff of America? Come on!

Then, there's the cumbersome yellow explanatory caption box:

Does this mean EVERY version of Kara must now have been sent to Earth "to look after her younger cousin"? That was not part of Supergirl's pre-Crisis history, and it certainly wasn't part of Power Girl's! At the risk of being a joyless feminist buzzkill, defining DC's most powerful superheroines in terms of their erstwhile caregiving role for a younger male relative (in the face of the near-extinction of their world and people, yet) is a really bad look. I hate it!

How much of this should be blamed on Williams and how much is editorially imposed is hard to say — DC has always struggled to find anything to do with Power Girl, or even ways to portray her that don't just come down to "What if Supergirl were kind of mean and really stacked, with a more confusing origin?" — but it certainly isn't good.

[fictionadventurer]

All the tour groups in Springfield should be very proud of me for how well I refrained from sharing all my fascinating Lincoln facts.

[doccywhomst]

Just so you know, protestors were not protesting outside a jewish restaurant (Goldies) because the restaurant was Jewish, they were protesting because that restaurant was directly raising funds (over a hundred thousand dollars) for israel's IOF, and at least three pro-palestinian employees were fired after wearing pro-palestine pins on their work uniforms.

oh that makes sense!! yep, definitely NOT okay to fire people over that, that’s supremely messed up! all the same, chanting “you can’t hide” while surrounding a Jewish-owned business is…. hmm. can’t quite put my thumb on it

[hella1975]

some people really still treat drugs like it's a fun little thing and im trying SO hard not to get mad about it

[narsh-potatoes]

DOES ANYONE ELSE WANT TO BITE OFF HEADS WITH ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[sportscorrespondent]

Chomparison (charles comparison)

[widowshill]

i have something crazy to say about elizabeth's cotbp hair design but. hear me out.

[simonghostrileys]

really debating if i should make just one long set for my ghibli + flowers set or if i should break it into two sets mmm 🤔

[myriadsystem]

@fangpoint tagged me to share 5 songs ive been enjoying lately! Thanks! So these are the vibes of the moment for moi:

And ill give an honourable mention here because the vocals in this track are transportive

If youd like to share some songs too feel free to participate! @dunkindoenuts @tsami @honourablefool @marvcrawley @ratlingrun @sigatos

[kirjavas]

when i have previously criticised the portrayal of lyra in his dark materials, it has nothing to do with dafne keen’s performance. i think she was an excellent choice for the role (despite the fact that i probably never would have thought of her) and i genuinely feel sorry that she didn’t get more of book lyra to work with. it seems to be the case that the writing or direction has softened lyra’s character, because from what i’ve seen dafne easily captured the spirit of a feral young girl in the films logan and ana. in hdm it is clear that she is an extremely talented actor, which is the main reason i still like the version of lyra she portrays.

the show is taking lyra on a slightly different journey to the books and i also respect that from an adaptation standpoint

[blujayonthewing]

reflecting on how all of my other DMs have gone above and beyond to lovingly weave my and my friends' backstory elements into the larger worldbuilding of the campaign by contrast to all of the ways Elyss' DM has gone out of his way to suppress or excise any influences her family may have ever had on anything and I'm genuinely near tears over it

[lunaetis]

the change eden adapted due to the triggering events in penacony reminds me a little of lumine in inazuma. we see the way lumine hardened when she arrived in inazuma due to the experience she had prior. later on, however, lumine found it in herself to open up again as the story progressed very much thanks to the people she met. i do hope that once the ordeal in penacony is over, that eden would have the chance to learn to place her trust in people again. another thing is that, i do believe that lumine has higher tolerance for emotionally stressful situations because she had been alive for a long long time, while eden's mentality is similar to that of a child after being awakened in a blank state. lumine had gone through many things, i believe she had seen wars, bloodshed, and had killed before. her mental stability is much stronger than eden who was still learning and developing developing through experience and meetings.