#iredeemable

[blackblooms]

Irredeamable is out!

Go and give it a try this weekend, it's fun, it's short, and it's free!

[artbyblastweave]

My working theory, backed up by nothing, is that Mark Millar, as a trained controversy-sniffing hound, got into the habit of incorporating lots of gay characters as the site of very deliberate edgy transgressiveness, knowing exactly how offensive any given beat was, and while that familiarity with the very concept of gay people often panned out in, say, the sexual-violence-by-way-of-looney-tunes stuff with Apollo and Midnighter in his leg of The Authority, or the schoolyard-homophobia of stuff like Wanted, it also panned out in much more palatable and occasionally even interesting stuff like Gladiator in Super Crooks and Blue Bolt in Jupiter's Circle. By contrast Irredeemable feels like it was written competently and with a greater sense of emotional and moral gravity, but from within a much culturally straighter idiom, basically at the tail end of when a character being gay was a plot twist rather than a character trait. And as a result the narrative is so busy patting itself on the back for remembering the existence of homosexuality long enough to really dig into the idea that Lex Luthor does All That out of a misprocessed romantic attraction to Superman, that it doesn't have the tools necessary to notice or care that it's reproducing the exact homophobic/transphobic bullshit of Buffalo Bill without anything to balance or mitigate it

If you'd told me a few years ago that in the final analysis Mark Millar's superhero deconstruction magnum opus would come across as less actively homophobic than Mark Waid's I probably would not have believed you

[alaskan-wallflower]

i hated dallas winston until the musical came out.

[sleepyconfusedpotato]

I'm in a hellhole that is the God of War Heimdall fics

[mongeese]

Seen a bunch of people rescinding their Kipperlilly Copperkettle support after this episode so I would just like to say: I'm still on her side I love evil angry women

[pinkmoondoll9shihtzu]

in oublic when i walk thru someoens second hand cigarette smoke i take a big whiff like mmmmm delichious dont mind if i do. but when i have to walk thru someons wretched ass cotton candy vape cloud i find myself wishing violvence upon them

[chunkecheeks]

girl i'm so tired of frozen hate. i'm so tired of frozen hate. can we get over our 2013 liking frozen is cringe phases collectively and acknowledge that the movie is enjoyable and perhaps even means something to some people. like it's not a perfect film by far there's multiple things i would change about it but it's NOT a bad movie and frankly you probably need to rewatch it without your biases that have been built up by the jaded opinions of the internet over the years

[roboraindrop]

If I had a nickel for every Mother Mother song I associate with Grima, I'd have three nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it's happened thrice.

[lesbianjarvan]

There's something really funny about seeing people go "This character is unforgivably evil!!!" about a fictional 12 year old

[blackblooms]

The stepping stone, an irredeamable post mortem

A big challenge when making any creative product is being overwhelmed by the sheer amount of ideas you want to express. It can be very difficult to decide what will be part of the first story and what will have to remain unknown. Irredeamable was a particularly difficult case as i wasn`t only trying to make a cohesive world for the game itself, but the first building block of a greater setting that require its own lot of setups. In such conditions, everything felt important and it took a lot of restraint to cut things down until only a tease of the true scope remained. Overall, it was a huge mess to work out, but I'm happy with the result and i feel a lot more free and focused in the pursuit of my future projects now that the foundation has been set up to build upon and i can use the previous reveals to do a lot of foreshadowing with very little.

[artbyblastweave]

I've read Mark Waid's Empire.

Not to be the "getting very Boss Baby vibes from this", but it is kinda interesting that Golgoth took over the Earth by holding two of the three aces that Worm's Cauldron did - teleportation and powers from a pill (or a vial).

And the only force capable of mounting a proper resistance against him holds the last ace - precognition.

I do think that a very ground-level hornets nest to swing at in cape deconstructions is the question of "If these silver-age supertechnologies aren't an obvious I-win button against the standing world order, why not." And in Empire, the answer is, well, they are. Ditto with Cauldron.

[altruistic-meme]

do i dare write the post looking at and trying to explain Queen Kristina's behavior? probably. i swear im trying to be less annoying about it but also like. i do what I want.

[br1ghtestlight]

me and like three other ppl on ao3 singlehandedly trying to make jimmy pesto into a good father despite all canon evidence

[fraternum-momentum]

The art of Kian looks like it should be an official Danganronpa CG (this is a compliment!)

QIEBJQBEJWE NO WAYING dr used to be one of my inspos for rendering actually !!!! but but if he were in dr he would be the ultimate chemist and he would totally be a murderer perhaps the first guy to kill bc he only cares about himself and is vv impatient :3

[clairekeegan]

I can never hate emerald fennell bc she put robert mitchum night of the hunter preacher scene in promising young woman to parallel her being a preacher-type character and that's the kind of annoying shit I and the true detective writers would do.

[astralleywright]

would kill myself before tagging the actual post with fandom shit but. this is essentially the perspective ppl want the hells to take re: any nuances in the ideology associated with the ruby vanguard and its membership