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I'm reading some of the Peter Milligan x-men run and Lorna dating Bobby is so fucking funny. Your ex hates being happy and your new man is gay, girl at this point just give up and start dating women.

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Learning about music history really makes me miss how those two worlds found common ground and freindly(or more) company with each other. There is something so beautiful about subcultures coming together like that. And honestly I think that the reason we don't see it as much anymore is directly related to rock not being the main pop genre anymore.

Now I'm gonna think about New York in the 70s and get all wistful

why were so many britpop artists singing about poppers

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One thing I’ve realized about the Batman Villains tierlist through reading Gail Simone’s Birds of Prey run is that Lady Shiva actually deserves a tier of her own that is higher than S tier, because she is absolutely not a Batman villain. She is the GREATEST FIGHTER IN THE DC UNIVERSE! THAT IS NOT A BATMAN VILLAIN, THAT IS AN INDOMITABLE FIXTURE OF THE UNIVERSE!

I’m honestly hesitant to put her in ANY rogues gallery for the same reason. And her character isn’t intrinsically tied to Batman like a lot of his other villains are. Like she’s Cassandra Cain’s mom but that is the extent of her ties to the batman side of dc.

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Birds of Prey issue 75 has two stories and one of them has to play damage control both literally for the loss of the Clocktower but also figuratively for why the hell would Barbara Gordon do that? The answer is whoever was writing Batman at the time had her do it while Batman was fighting Black Mask in the Clock Tower. I can only imagine how infuriating the decision was, and judging by Simone's writing in this issue I'm almost certain it was made without consulting her at all. The first three pages are wordless, Oracle, Black Canary, and Huntress all have nothing to say as they watch in silent vigil the remains of the Clock Tower being contained by the Fire Department. Then the obligatory page where Simone has to explain why the character she's been writing made such a rash, out of character decision: because she was worried about Bruce.

If it makes you upset that's cause it was meant to. It's purposefully falling into the trope of a woman character making a sacrifice to aid the leading man. Not just that, but Simone takes it a step further by having Barbara make herself the damsel in distress. It reads as "oh this is what you meant by making the character I've been writing do that. So I'm just going to say that out loud so it's clear to everyone else."

Then after the obligatory damage control flashback we get the Birds of Prey all together, Huntress and Black Canary are comforting their leader, teammate, and friend. Here's where Simone twists the knife a bit more, having Barbara talk about the things we don't see when things like this happen in comics. What the characters really lose when they make sacrifices like this: old costumes, family photos, a place to sleep. Memories that are now without their talismans for recall. Now these exist only in the mind and in the past.

And then one more page of group healing and it's back to work. Simone doesn't waste time or pages cleaning up the mess another writer made with her character. She uses exactly as much as she needs while also making those moments linger. She wants you to know how this makes her characters, and herself feel, but she isn't going to give the other writer the satisfaction of making the entire story a reaction issue.

It's really a testament to how much Gail Simone cares about the agency of women both on and off the panel.

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I think my favorite part of the magnus archives is its expanse. In these statements we are collecting people, each story gives us a new little character to think about. And they're all connected, by this institution, by a shared experience with fear, by the tapes etc. There's such an expanse, and so many different perspectives. I need to find another horror anthology series that gives me that.

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i buzzed on sapporo i wanna jerk off to my monsterfucker comic anthology but my roommate is here

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Finals are dire but at least I wanna keep living, I really am doing so much better than last year

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I need to find something else to do with my time I think. I think I just feel empty cause I spend a lot of time on social media and it doesn't feel like I'm actually doing anything to help with anything even when I like repost fundraisers or information that people will need for the next four years. I think I need to just like, go down the list of things I enjoy doing or things assignments I need to get done and like see how that goes

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I HAVE TO FUCKING GO TO CLASS AFTER THAT I DON'T GET TO LIKE READ SOMETHING BETTER I JUST HAVE TO GO TO CLASS WITH THE LAST THING IN MY MIND BEING FUCKING BATMAN LIFE AFTER DEATH WHAT A FUCKING WASTE OF MY TIME

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For every Christian Ward and Jill Thompson there's a Tony S. Daniel to show that just because you draw comics well doesn't automatically make you good at writing them.

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Important info for new drivers!!!

Your turn signal works as a subscription based service, the first 30 signals are free but after that you have to pay $50 per signal, so avoid using your turn signal if possible!

But!!! You can also get free money from your car by honking your horn, which can balance out turn signal debt.

Happy driving! :3

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I no longer want to see events. Also Firestorm should have a new ongoing

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i really wish the US had a voting system where you get multiple choices. So that if your first choice doesn't win your vote can count toward your second choice. Like I really think more people would feel better voting and there would be less animosity between liberal democrats and actual leftists cause there would be something in place that makes voting third party more of a viable option. Liberal democrats fucking haaaate leftists when we vote third party and leftists generally hate liberal democrats for being part of the problem.

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nothing makes you feel more hopeless and unwanted like job hunting

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Really why I find the mass social media rush to AI so disheartening is because these companies are making it so easy for people to just be stolen from. And they make it so hard for their users to say "hey I actually don't want my work stolen." And I know this is just like one more link in the already centuries long chain of people with money stealing from those without/with little money but it's just. so fucking sad. It's always sad when its ideas and art that's also being stolen.

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Anne Hathaway is so pretty I love women so much