#im genuinely curious about this one i have a character who's a jewish witch but im also aware of the usual stance on magic in the bible

[thegroundhogdidit]

hi i have a question going out to the jewish population of tumblr, what would your stance be on a practicing jewish character who also practices magic as a secular witch, in a world where magic is the norm?

[mattelektras]

Hey what are your favourite + least fav x men characters and why im curious i love seeing ur thoughts (also, to make it easier hopefully???, i mean specifically X-Men you do not need to include like the 100+ teams connected to them like new mutants or Excalibur etc)

tbh these are just from. everywhere. a lot of my favs are xforce and sub teams. just mutants in general really

least favs

xavier. hes just a dick like. objectively. hes got no business mentoring young kids with the way he went about treating young scott and young jean. also mr i would never invade someone's thoughts without there permission. and then he DID

beast. just kinda boring like. we get it youre smart and patronizing and blue and furry, what else is there. kurt is the only blue man

havok. i dont like. hate him. i just think he should be made fun of more. mr all lives matter avengers stan. bully him more

deadpool because i hate that some people think he’s a mutant n it irritates me idk

brian braddock sorry betsy ur brother is dull as all fuck. he barely has anything to do w mutants as a whole and it’s like why do we even claim him as one when he ran around calling himself captain britain for so long like. cringe, sir braddock

favs:

storm. like objectively i think if anyone doesnt favour ororo in some kind of way then theyre insane. she has a lot of wonder woman isms in that a lot of people see her as this. ethereal above reproach goddess but shes ironically a very human character. like just the little facts that shes into botany and is claustrophobic etc. and the fact that everyone loves her is because shes a good person, not because she’s beautiful or powerful or perfect in anyway. like she’s loved because she’s earned it and she deserves it. she’s a good friend and a GREAT leader without needing to physically be in charge. shes very open and loving and loyal but is also someone u really only get one chance with?? she has a much smaller circle of incredibly close friends than people would think. idk i love that shes allowed to be both kind and flawed AND hugely powerful

domino. ive gone on about how i love neena a lot before so i wont bore u but she is. genuinely one of my favourite characters of all time from anywhere. she has a persona that she puts up but there's so much in her backstory that no one would expect if theyd only read recent domino stuff. like she really shines in her solos more than anywhere else i cant stress that enough

magneto. if i had to like. objectively pick a best character ever i think it would be magneto. i think superhero comics are best when they SAY something. like not to be all We Live In a Society but if youre not making some kind of commentary on the real world with your good vs evil media concept then what are you doing. and we all know the mutant metaphor doesnt hold up like. ever. but its as close as it gets with magneto because his fictional mutanthood is linked w his real jewishness and its never like. a replacement or one or the other. and one fuels his activism in the other? idk im not sure how to phrase it but i think he embodies what being a MUTANT is about, in universe, not what being an xmen is about. hes so REGAL and smart and so powerful just in the way he carries himself, even when he was depowered. they simply do not make characters like magneto other than magneto. and YES the dilfery of it all

kwannon. i love where her story is going and how much attention theyre giving her since the body divorce. just that shes being allowed to be bitter and resentful of betsy about having years of her life stolen. her learning how to be her own self again and what's her own. also i like betsy just fine but my first intro to ~~~psylocke was the betsy/kwannon mash up and like. for ME. with what i like in characters??? pretty much all of what i liked was kwannon's. the assassin stuff, the sword stuff, her brutality and harder attitude. like u all know my taste in female characters and shes IT. and theres a lot of potential in exploring her backstory

wolverine. unfortunately. i love a little weasel man. He Is My Dad. i think he has such a rich variation of relationships with other people whether it be as a rivalry, romance, friendship, parent etc etc. this bitch contains multitudes!!! i think he as a character has so much bought to him by the other characters around him. likes YES he is a grmupy old man who probably hasnt showered today but hes a very loving person despite everything

angel. this might seem like a wild pick for me but. the concept of a rich pretty boy with seemingly everything going for him being turned into this monstrous apocalyptic razor bird with varying self control is SO GOOD TO ME IDK IDK. like hes very gentle and atypical for a male character in a lot of ways and i enjoy that a lot??? just the contrast of it all. i think there should be more horrific pretty boys

monet. forever obsessed wither attitude and her confidence even when so much of her story is wrapped up in people stealing her identity and the betrayal in that and being controlled by others physically w the penance stuff like. shes been through all of that and is STILL probably one of the most sure of themselves characters out there. her yes i AM the shit actually, better than you attitude, not afraid to be a bitch superiority. ladies i think we should all be more like monet as a rule. her powers just being that shes pretty much better than everyone at everything. also shes just funny as fuck

im allowed to say this because shes in x books on the regular now but selene. i think shes so fuckin cool and maybe this is the wannabe goth death witch from my teenage years possessing my body right now but i LOVE an insanely powerful woman. shes like 20000 years old, shes physically incapable of dying, shes the FIRST mutant and has a very rich backstory. shes a great villain but i think now shes more vaguely xmen aligned with the krakoa situation theres huge amounts of potential with her to be on heroic teams as the untrustworthy but begrudgingly helps out kind of addition. with everyone being like. remember that time you resurrected half of us as zombies and traumatised us all for life and she’s just like. god don’t you people ever move on

[patchworktail]

excuse my ignorance, but what is there to dislike so much about Joss Whedon? Im asking as a fairly "new" dc comics fan who isnt that deep into the whole comic book world yet but im genuinely curious, not trying to defend him if he's truly a bad choice or soemthing...

OH he’s actually not done much in DC yet (or anything at all? I’m unsure), there’s just a lot of hate for him for stuff he’s done with his work on other movies (most notably Marvel movies such as Avengers 1+2, which is why no one wants him anywhere near DC superhero movies). While I’m no expert and I’m forgetting a lot, probably, he’s just basically your classic white self-proclaimed “feminist” man who thinks he’s amazing but makes horrible choices ESPECIALLY when dealing with female characters, and he’s also made other terrible choices and is kind of a douche. For me, what I clearly remember as when I started hating him was when I saw Age of Ultron, in which he shoved Black Widow with Hulk just bc he wanted her to have a love interest in that movie, made her call herself a monster because she couldn’t physically have kids (which is so incredibly insulting to both the character, women who can’t have children and women who choose not to), and if I’m recalling correctly he changed Quick Silver and Scarlet Witch’s entire story so that 1) they were no longer Jewish and 2) they WILLINGLY UNDERWENT EXPERIMENTATION BY A NAZI GROUP (Hydra) WHICH IS JUST???? LIKE???? NOT GOOD???????

I’m sure if you ask around/dig a little you can find plenty of other examples - he’s basically just a class example of a white dude masquerading as some amazing feminist hero while in reality he’s literally SO FUCKING BAD at writing female characters and he’s probably going to erase everything that makes Barbara Gordon, Barbara Gordon (her disability, her being a feminist, her intelligence) and also I don’t doubt he’ll probably try to shove her at a guy and make that a big part of the movie. I’m super upset about it, and I just really wish he’d keep his grubby hands off actual good characters I care about (and DC in general lol - stick to Marvel, please, you already ruined some of their movies). Also, to further show he’s a class A douche, there’s literal proof that he’s liked tweets like this one: https://twitter.com/DavidRutz/status/847495247957577728 (I genuinely just went and scrolled down and found it very fast in his likes. Really, Joss?)

Again, I’m not really an expert in this! I tend to stay away from him+his stuff but I’m sure if you ask around/research a bit you can find other examples of why no one likes him or wants this to happen!! (+ if I got anything wrong anyone can feel free to correct me or add on, haha)