#into adulthood & the sort of aimlessness that leaves you with regardless of competency was Genuinely Compelling | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

blisterthigh · 4 months ago

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do you ever think about the people who mailed in letters for the first x-force and cable runs about badly wanting to see more of domino because she was unsympathetic and cold and competent. and then that first solo dropped and she sounded like this and this seems to be what 70% of the people writing her have been going off of to this day

#TXT #and then the rest of the solos since have repeatedly insisted on having a man there to talk down to her about something she's done #professionally for decades while sounding and being made more and more young and incompetent and ditzy #the 2003 one isn't As bad i like that one the best & really do like some parts of it. but christ that's a low bar #^if you were to show me the first issue of that comic and told me it was a prequel from her youth i would've believed you. Nightmare #i realize these comics are deeply allergic to letting women be let alone stay older than 35 at absolute maximum but good god man #her background as an angry experiment kid and the only woman on a team of men with minimal knowledge of her own past + mutation until well #into adulthood & the sort of aimlessness that leaves you with regardless of competency was Genuinely Compelling #but i guess ''what if she Was just lazy and stupid and all of her skills were dumb luck all along'' was better. apparently. Whatever #older comics tried to refer to her as some sort of mother figure to x-force despite being the least maternal person on earth and newer ones #(the newest solos anyway) seem to insist that that was her Boyfriend's Thing Actually and What's An X-Force Again even though she led it fo #a significant time and co-led it for longer #whatever happened to 'you never were one for silk lace and soft carpeting...'#i can't even 'at least she's gay now' about this. she is to Me #domino

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