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Ngl i've had it in my mind for a while but specifically last night I could not stop thinking about making a (maga)zine.
Like i was apart of my study association editorial team and i kinda loved it and I'd really like to work on something like that again. And now i'm just thinking of creating a fandom space zine where people could send in their fics or art or write think pieces or other articles or essays about fandom related stuff.
And i know it would be wayyy to much work and a logistical nightmare, and that's if anyone would even participate and/or be interested in reading it which i doubt, but i can't stop thinking about it because i just really want to *do something* like that again and urgggghh
#zine#rant#it might also be fun to have like editorial team meetings if people wanted to join in#come up with themes for issues#and help each other edit written work#can you see the vision#anyway its just an idea
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jane immediately recognising that her confidence in rochester is dead after the whole attic wife thing gets revealed ā indeed, all throughout their engagement, noticing little red flags about his behaviour, which she wilfully ignores even as the more sensible part of her knows that she needs some form of financial independence, that rochester treating her the way he treated celine varens isnāt going to bode well for their marriage at allā¦ā¦.
iām just saying. sheās young, but sheās not stupid. thereās a reason they canāt be together until janeās inherited her fortune and rochester has been humbled by the loss of his financial status and physical ability ā indeed, until rochester wholeheartedly embraces a christianity close to janeās own, which doesnāt resemble the hypocrisy of brocklehurst or the puritan self-denial of st. john.
#rae (re)reads jane eyre#jane eyre#otp: lightning tree#i understand the pop culture joke of jane finding out he had an attic wife and marrying him anyway#but it irritates me more than a little because She Did Not Do That. she found out about the attic wife and got the fuck out of there.#literally ran away in the middle of the night#also i get why people donāt play up the christian themes as much but they are such a MAJOR part of the book come ON#they have no issue with brocklhurst or st john but as soon as itās jane or rochester their faith and spiritual journeys are just.#never mentioned.#itās called thematic resolution guys#you donāt have to agree with the politics of it but itās integral to the plot of the book
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Everyone arguing about Stannis, JonCon, Jaime, god forbid Jorah being the 1000th commander of the NWā¦.when it will be Jon again š
#btw this is not stannerism like i do have legitimate reasons why i think it will be jon at the end#i think an interesting part of jonās politiking as LC is him realizing how deep the rot is in the watch#he spends an entire book - agot - realizing that he institution he spent his childhood idolizing is not so glorious#he spends the next book directly confronting the issues that come with being a good man ( helping gilly#and being a true man to the watch and starting to notice the cracks in the system#and then asos is like the turning point you know?#adwd is him trying to fix the watch from within but failing imo because as i said the rot is far deeper#it doesnt matter how many people you replace the watch needs an overhaul - a complete uprooting to the core#which is why i dont like theories of him being a passive bystander as the watch crumbles#its just too narratively juicy if he takes a part in the destruction of the watch coz yknow some things need to be cleansed w/ fire n blood#a nice lil parallel to dany and what shell be doing in the east throughout winds#i like him as the 1000th lc because its a nice round number and thats a bit silly but its also signifying a renewal#Its a blank slate which is essential to jon because he does have a vision for the watch and the wildings!#and he can start from the ground up - and like one of the most underrated themes in jonās arc is nation building#ive said before that i think the show kinda got it rightā¦.like weāll see a weird mesh of lc of the nw and kbtw as jonās endgame#I wont get into that nowā¦.but i know a lot of jon stans dont want him back at the wall because it seems needlessly cyclical and i get it#and i get that the watch isnt the most glorious place to beā¦but i really do think its meant to be a vehicle to explore themes of rebirth#and renewal which appear in jonās arc -think of jonās messianic framing and the watch being his ānew earthā after all is said and done#not so much a place of punishment but a place to find new meaning and exist beyond many societal frameworks#for the cripples bastards and broken thingsā¦.anywayyyyy lmaoo#asoiaf#jon snow
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This finale was WILD
Bunbee went OFF, Nagisa and Honoka are literally throwing fists with global warming (and they will win, woohoo~! āļø), NozoCoco got šMARRIEDš
And Milk abolished royalty šš
#got a review coming up but this spin-off really proved something here#it's not that a series like Precure can't talk about relevant issues or be progressive in its themes or content#but the main series is just too limited by its target audience which is why they seldom leave the formula they're so used to#once you get rid of that tho you get an amazing spin-off like this#this is the 'MORE PRECURE' we actually need#otona precure
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the disparity in kudos between a skk fic and a fic for literally any other bsd characters/ship :/
#like okay i get it skk is the most popular bsd ship by a longshot#but it does kinda suck that my skk fics will always end up being more popular than literally anything else i write for bsd#when i have way better fics tbh#okay i'm unleashing this from my drafts lol#like i get it kudos/hits/bookmarks counts aren't telling of how good a fic is#but out of my last five fics. my skk one has ONE HUNDRED kudos more than the next most kudos#and idk it also sucks that i know my skk is better than 90% of the fandom but. even my skk fics get significantly less kudos/etc#than big writers in the fandom who AREN'T EVEN GOOD#or are like. mid at best#i know in theory that the bsd fandom doesn't care about characterization but like. not only do they encourage bad characterization#it feels like sometimes they're actively against good characterization#even in j.jk and a.tla where there are major issues with bad characterization#more people seem to at least appreciate the good characterization. (even if they aren't good at it themselves.)#but i swear to god no one in the bsd fandom cares about anything besides whether dazai and chuuya are kissing. it begins and ends there.#it never ceases to amaze me (derogatory) how a fandom where the source media draws So Much inspiration from classic literature#can somehow have NEGATIVE media literacy skills#why don't you guys take a break from your edgy dazai x softboy chuuya fics and you fems.kk with dazai in skimpy clothes and your#beast chuuya sobbing and killing himself over dazai's death#and go read some of the books by the actual authors. and then write me an essay about the themes that has nothing to do with shipping.#and THEN you can come back to the fandom.#listen i love skk but oh my god sometimes the fandom makes me hate them.#anyway one of these days i'm going to get anon hate for complaining about the bsd fandom so much but that's fine#at least i know there are characters in the show besides dazai and chuuya. and when i do write skk AT LEAST I DO IT RIGHT.#hello grace here
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i am never not thinking about freeza trying to win vegeta's loyalty back by offering him goku's kill shot and when vegeta's like 'eh pass sorry' he really says 'fine how bout this and a promotion'
that will never not be the funniest thing to me
#between that and vegeta's 'so much for the 'my dears'' in the namek saga like askldjlaskj he was so obviously freeza's favorite#like freeza's favorite dog to be sure but freeza favorite none the less#i am also constantly thinking about how it seems/seemed to me that toriyama was setting freeza up for a redemption arc by making beerus#do all the things freeza did but with complete moral neutrality#and then showing us more of freeza's personality and insecurities#and even in z reminding us that freeza also did not have a say in what he did with his life he was also isolated and appointed to a mafia#and has no real friends or family just a legion of what Vegeta calls sycophants#and i am so so so curious about what the plan with that was because of db's overarching themes of redemption#and highlighting that vegeta's biggest issue with freeza (in the manga) is that he destroyed his planet -- and then having beerus reveal#to vegeta that he gave freeza the greenlight for it and vegeta still working with beerus afterwards even though he's furious to learn that#and like all of that combined with freeza being like 'hey i know i murdered you but come work with me again' and geets being like#'lol damn that's actually a really good deal but unfortunately i have to beat the brakes off you for personal reasons'#just makes me very Chinhands about where that was going for freeza's character arc#i used to hAte freeza growing up but 1) Again he is much better in the manga and 2) Super really decided to flesh him out more which is fun
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The issue sometimes with writing Durge accurate to the game is that there are many, many things suggested and inferred by the text. Or sometimes outright stated. So then you acknowledge them, tag them under a ship be safe... and then people have assumptions, understandably, of how you feel about that content.
#tbd#it's what's in there!#if you're building a fic around themes it'll likely come up#but this is also the issue with half writing fun stuff that's just fun and sexy to me#and then stuff which explores themes I find difficult and are important to me#and like a casual reader is never going to know which is which on just skimming are they
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and like sidenote if i can make a post with a target audience of zero. i feel like fhsy was to d20 what aa3 was to ace attorney but aa3 pulled it off better for reasons i cannot explain
#it is. the amatonormativity#^ guy who was REALLY pissed about the sandra lynn stuff#like yknow that bit in the first ep where brennan is like 'oh this drama is going down' and so like the pcs investigate it#probs bcos they think itll like kick off their new quest#and then it turns out to be like. petty romantic drama.#thats kind of a microcosm of the entire season for me#not to say there werent parts i liked (looks at the picture of baron i printed out and hung on my wall)#(and most of the leviathan stuff was brilliant and ayda is a role model for me)#but its all so tied up in the rest of that shit that i dont rlly wanna rewatch it the way ive rewatched fy 6+ times#likening this to aa3 bcos of the rlly noticeable uptick in romantic content in it compared to the rest of the trilogy#like prior to that all that rlly comes to mind is like. 2-3 and pearl's shipping shenanigans and larry existing#but in aa3 both mia and phoenix have past lovers who play big parts#theres a married couple theres tigre and viola (who sidenote i ENTIRELY missed as romantic my first playthru. i am dense)#there's the business with fawles#like it felt like romance played a large part in every case in aa3#where even when it came up in 1 + 2 it was usually ancillary (2-3 excepted but like. ppl regard that case as a fluke in most regards)#you COULD argue that maggey and adrian also inject some romantic presence in the story#but idk it just doesnt feel as central or prevalent as in aa3#like i saw a post abt adrian and celeste being cousins in the aa anime being not just the sailor moon 'best cousins' thing#but like. reinforcing the themes of familiar devotion as aa2's core. and that was rlly foundational to my understanding of the game#even tho its a change that comes from an adaptation#whereas you Couldnt make that change in aa3 without it changing A Lot of shit#where was i going with this. shrug.#the zelda and tracker relationship drama was entirely manufactured as punishing the pcs for not centering npcs#whose relationship issues were ancillary to the overarching plot they were focused on and which hadnt rlly been brought up beforehand#'why didnt gorgug call zelda :/' do u want zac to pause the kalina mystery to roleplay good relationship communication with the dm??#like its one thing looking at sy as a narrative but looking at it as a ttrpg campaign with limited time and a need to split character focus#i dont see what it did for the story besides give gorgug something to angst abt. didnt rlly feel like there was character growth or an arc#sigh. MANDATORY DISCLAIMER its been at least a year since i watched sy and longer before that since ive played aa3#but at the time my feelings were strong and have only calcified. romance as a theme in something not generally abt romance
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Hereās my semi-brief thoughts on the new Avatar show. Spoilers below:
My biggest gripe with the new show is that itās a prime example of the death of media literacy. SO much of the story has been dedicated to justā¦info-dumping lore and basically having to say out loud whoās good and whoās bad and how you should feel about each character. It was cool to hear Gran-Gran say the intro of the OG show but she did it as a major exposition bomb. One of MANY especially in the first few episodes. ATLAās heart is itās world-building and the relationships between itās characters, and those things went hand in hand as the OG show progressed. The characters learned from each other and grew as people, and the new show just feels deeply bland and shallow. The characters have been stripped of so many of their most human traits because it makes them seem like bad people, and it needs to be shoved in your face that theyāre the good guys, so they canāt possibly have flaws. Sokka canāt be a huge misogynist, Katara canāt be angry and impulsive, Aang canāt be childish, etc. Hell, even Zuko seems to have been dumbed down at the cost of making Iroh seem like the better character, and donāt even get me started on what theyāve done to him. In season one weāre supposed to hate Zuko, so that his redemption arc is all the more compelling. Taking time this early to force out that āheās a good guy donāt worry!ā speaks very poorly to the writing, among other things. Overall it just feels very weak, and like the writers felt the need to spell everything out for audiences. The show starting in the past, while interesting to see and setting the mood quick, it was thematically so absurd and set me up to be disappointed. Aang should never have known about the war and the Fire Nation invasion before he went in the ice, itās part of what bonds him to Katara in the first place! She teaches him what happened and tries to help him through the emotions of that realization. He comes to terms on his own that heās the last of his people, he doesnāt have some old lady throw it in his face in a crowd. Listen, thereās some things about this show I actually enjoyed, and it certainly couldāve been worse. But God, Iām not a fan. I hate to say it, but Iām hoping Netflix stays true to themselves and cancels it after this season.
#i could talk for hours about my issues with this#and i know a lot of people will be upset cause they like it#yes it can be fun and camp but itās trying so hard to be gritty itās embarrassing#for a kidās show atla was incredibly nuanced and carried heavy themes and could still be portrayed lightly#this is just trying too hard and still coming up far short#i need to keep talking about this so if you also hated it please dm me#i have so many thoughts#netflix atla#avatar the last airbender
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assigning a character the highest honour like *adds go home by julien baker to their playlist*
#and by honour i mean pointing at them like TRAUMATISED! TRAUMATISED! TRAUMATISED!#like yeah relating to this song is a red flag actually. yeah it's one of the most personal songs in the world to me#and i actively am not allowed to listen to it some days bc it makes me significantly worse#even if im in a GOOD mood because of the layers upon layers of emotions ive associated with it#yeah i literally wont even blorbo post to this song even if it's accurate to a character because it's so personal#so they have to be REALLY FUCKING SPECIAL AND FUCKED IN THE HEAD to get this honour. enter touya#i made him a playlist im going crazy like yeah actually of course i was always gonna be weird about him#like he's got fire themes. he's got body horror. he just wanted to be good. he's ethel cain coded. he's georgia coded#he's got mommy AND daddy AND sibling issues. he's the only other character ive let even come close to mary on a cross#he's a waiting room girlie. he's an archer girlie. im tearing my hair the fuck out of my scalp#why does the first character ive latched onto this hard since CHUUYA have to be from mha of all things#like that's embarassing for me im embarassed to be here. and yet#touya todoroki#the thing that makes me sick about touya is yes the abuse he went through via his quirk and his dad etc etc#but also bc sekota peak happened when he was 13 right? and he's 24 now? that's 11 years unaccounted for#like ik it's confirmed his burns put him in a coma for 3 years and all for one and the dr guy just stapled his stubborn self together#which is something else i will YELL MY HEAD OFF ABOUT WHAT THE FUCKKKKK HE WAS A CHILD STOP IT STOP IT STOP IT#but im pretty sure it's confirmed that after 3 years he goes off again on his own? which still leaves him as a teenager?#like he straight up burns himself alive at 13 wakes up at 16 and reappears at 24 with dyed hair and piercings and a bad attitude#and im not supposed to wonder? or get upset? like i absolutely am leaning into the 'he was on the streets' angle bc i hate myself#and that's devastating and also what alternative is there logically like he has NOTHING#no home no money no name that he can feasibly use not even an appearance that will warrant anything but more cruelty#so youve got this child on the streets with injuries that absolutely cause insane amounts of pain daily he's literally STAPLED together#and he's completely alone and the only thing getting him through is this growing hatred and rage#like id set all my plans around killing the guy that put me there too actually just to fucking get me out of bed in the morning#I CANNOT STOP THINKING ABOUT HIM. WHERE WAS HE FOR THE PAST DECADE. HORIKOSHI PLEASE#I WANNA GO HOME IM SICK THERES MORE WHISKEY THAN BLOOD IN MY VEINS MORE TAR THAN AIR IN MY LUNGS#PIERCE MY SKIN NEEDLES TO WORN OUT RAGS THE FOLDS IN MY ARMS THE SICKENING BLACK AND I HAVENT BEEN TAKING MY MEDS#I KNOW MY BODY IS JUST DIRTY CLOTHES IM TIRED OF WASHING MY HANDS GOD I WANT TO GO HOME
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istg if i develop a minecraft fixation. man.
#GODDDDD#Remembered all the fuxking. aol the fucking storytelling potential int hsi gameeee!!!!!#WHO wanna make a beautiful horror themed world w me. i will find out how to mod pe minecrqft. imagien the resource packs. fuck.....#LUKE. YOU MUST INAGINE THE ABSOLUTE GOLDMINE MINECRAFT IS FOR ME SPECIFICALLY. THE STORYTELLING GUY. GUY OBSESSED N CHRONICALLY COMING UP W#STORIES N LIRE. VS THE ULTIMATE SANDBOX GAME. LIKE U SEE IT RIGHT U UNDERSTAND MY FUCING MENTAL ISSUES RIGHT. HELLO#im already adding minecraft lore references n insps 2 wt. its joever. im infifinished
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i think the failure of the yellowjackets approach and (to an extent, because it absolutely doesn't land perfectly all the time) success of the umbrella academy approach to the "teens in life-changing danger must reconnect all grown up" plot is that yellowjackets contains very grounded concepts treated with almost TOO much *oomph* and TUA contains very elaborate concepts that it treats elaborately. with yellowjackets whenever there's ten different chaotically overlapping plots i just get annoyed that they can't stick with one or two, settle down and really stew in them, whereas when there's ten different chaotically overlapping plots on the bad sibling show im like yeah comic book. that's exactly where you're supposed to be . but no that's not it actually. still thinking out loud. it's that yellowjackets sometimes deviates from its central question which is 'how do we live the rest of our lives with Who We Became Out There' to do other stuff that doesn't connect well and comes off over-the-top because it's disconnected. but TUA's central question is 'how do we live the rest of our lives with Who We Became Because Of Dad' and absolutely every single poor decision they make or relationship they bungle or disaster they fail to avert comes right back to that question no matter how wacky a path it takes to get there
#thinking about this because of my Idea#which is a little bit 'teens in lifechanging circumstances all grown up' . so i was combing through examples i know of the theme#and thinking about what i like and dont like about each of them#the thing is that if the plot is 'you fuck each other up and save each other's lives and alter each other forever' is that like...#once you have that element that element becomes the driving force.#yj sometimes gets too into its present-day intrigue in ways that DONT tie strongly enough back to the crash . they sometimes spin out weird#like the adam plot which was only very tangentially to do with shauna's issues#or the walter plot which was just sillygoofy misty times and honestly a waste of elijah wood tbh#but really far mroe than yj or tua or anything else the idea is animorphs-inspired#not in the aliens and space battles and all-out totally unsubtle war novel facets. but just. the question i think might open up my idea#from 'here are some characters' to 'here's why they're even in the same story'. is:#when your protags are thirteen-year-olds irreparably damaging each other in order to save a world that doesn't know they're even doing so.#and THEN THEY GROW UP. every single thing that happens to them comes back to that
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So my therapist recommended I try listening to different color noises (like brown noise, pink noise, white noise, ect, ect) instead of an audible book before going to bed to see if that would help my nightmares at all and I tried it last night...
I was really excited because I'd only heard of white noise before and I was really curious what the others would sound like but I forgot if my brain doesn't have something specific to concentrate on, it just becomes a horror show. It felt like I was just having a constant panic attack, which is not ideal for sleep. I'm going to try again just to see if getting used to it helps but uhm, I don't think this method is for me.
#living with ptsd#disability#pretty sure its not the PTSD tho#its just like#an issue ive had for a long time#if my brain doesn't have like#a current theme#its going to start running THE most fucked up shit#and telling me things that aren't true#whereas if i have something to concentrate on#those thoughts only come sometimes#and are easier to ignore#most of the time#punkstyle
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I know this goes against what everyone has been saying, but I think that Eddie starting to date again and getting a (presumed) girlfriend was the plan from the start of season 6...
#my post#Eddie diaz#911 meta#maybe idk if it really counts as meta#but look#a lot of the themes and issues that each character is going to deal with during the course of the season are set up in the first episode#that comes full circle at the end#for example see Maddie and Chimney talking about kids at the start of S3 and then revealing that she is pregnant at the end of it#and I can make a post about that if people want#but talking about Shannon so openly again indicates to me that having him truly move on and date again was always the plan#:/
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But I also want new Megas and Protomen :(
RIGHT?!?!
I mean, yeah, the Megas also have their takes on Skullman's theme ("Cracked Skulls"; inspired by MM4) and Chill Penguin's theme ("Chill XMas"; inspired by MMX), and I guess there's also one based on Storm Eagle's theme ("Rougmer Storm"; MMX), but I haven't listened to that one yet.
Like, I get that they have a good story arc to cover the first 3 classic games, but it would be so cool if they explored some of the themes of the following games, y'know? Or flesh out the MMX or other series music! Or hell, pick and choose some Robot Masters and make a new narrative, or like literally anything, please, people are starving over here! And it's not like they aren't still active. Don't get me wrong, I love their Castlevania stuff under the Belmonts label, but it would be nice to get Mega Man content outside of just remixes/remasters of their existing songs. Plus, they're still doing concerts, so like the audience is there for it!
And as for the Protomen, I hope that they actually end up releasing Act III at some point. Having listened to The Fight, it makes me crave it to an unhealthy degree. I love the grimdark kinda take on Mega Man that focuses more on the role that humanity takes in all of the conflict. I feel like that angle gets extremely neglected in Mega Man media.
Idk, as a fan, it's just kinda frustrating how neglected mega man gets. Like, it feels like the rare times whenever we do get content, it focuses on the first three or four games (if we're lucky), and then it just dies off! Or goes dormant for a decade or more. The franchise has so much creative potential that just isn't realized and it's so sad!
#hoping praying everyday for more#oh god and like just how foundational both bands have been for the creative efforts for the classic series#the archie comic even references The Megas a few times!! I GAVE YOU HAIR (ROBOTIC HAIR)#imagine the potential with a Bass focused narrative! or Quint! or Dr Cain!!#and Capcom themselves arent free from scorn here. if they encouraged more creative efforts a la the archie comic it could stimulate#even more interest in the series beyond just jumping and shooting. like that helps to build an evergreen fanbase#and i mean more than just XDiVE. like i find XDiVE charming yeah but like. Im not seeing the profits from being put back into mega man stuff#having friends that have gotten me back into transformers really makes me reflect on Mega Man. i get that transformers has toylines and MM#is more game focused and that def makes a difference but like. the amount of comic series and issues that help flesh out the transformers#universes. for MM we get like 55 issues for archie? 'indefinite hiatus'? bro we know the sonic stuff brought MM down with it just say 'dead'#let IDW take up the license and get Ian Flynn to come back. i know we likely wont get ArchieOCs like Tempo back but like#idk.... it hurts bc i know how good of a job the archie comics were. its hard to imagine a reboot that isnt basically identical in story to#archie. esp bc how much love was put into tying in with the side content like the hand held games. but surely something could be done#somehow it could be continued. find some kind of Genesis Wave-esque mcguffin to change the OCs out. retcon the sonic stuff out completely#i really dont want to see MM1āMM3 needing to be revisited *again*. its like a Dr.Wily/Sigma in their own right for how much it comes back#like thats prob what kills a lot of creative endeavors tbh. the themes and events are so foundational that theyre nigh inescapable#I'm just.... tired..#i have so much love for mega man and so many chains holding that love down
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If you redrew and posted half the panels from Jack Kirby's Forever People or Jimmy Olsen and claimed they were from modern comics conservatives would spend an hour lamenting how political comics have become.
#dc comics#dccomics#Jack Kirby#Kirby said āThe evil god's goons are Walt Disney. An Evangelical. And a billionaire media mogul and the heroes are hippies and beatniksā.#There's actual a lot of political analysis being done by Kirby about how fascism would come to the US through an Evangelical Christians her#And also a conversation about how any large theme park would have to involve the suffering of the working classes to hold up the facade.#Darkseid#Gordon Godfrey#Glorious Godfrey#Also that one Kamandi issue where Gorilla's use the Nixon Tapes as a sci-fi execution device.#New Gods#Forever People#I'm not saying that Morgan Edge is criticism being levied at Rupert Murdoch... but...#I am saying that this comic was released in the early 1970s after Murdoch had begun to gain traction and was expanding into the US.#My point is that every Jack Kirby comic is incredibly political because Kirby was political.#Kirby was a Jewish Artist who fought in WWII and you want to claim he had no political opinions?
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