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#gossip girl#jenny humphrey#double standards#memes#but when I do it it鈥檚 cute#justice for Jenny#I know she left because#taylor momsen#wanted to be a musician#but the fact that her dad was like#oh this random teen wants to kick my daughter#out of the city ok#dan humphrey#was the biggest villain#meme#saltburn
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someone sent me a request to draw jenny YES!!!!! ill do that this evening oh my god im so excited
im gonna push my "jen and kyle are adoptive siblings and never dated" propaganda until i die. peace and love 馃挌
#it literally isnt real to me that they dated#i think it felt really forced and once again just used misogyny and women to further kyle's narrative#the cheating thing was so stupid too like. why did they do that with her#idk.#JUSTICE FOR JENNY#she's fun and silly and pretty and deserves as much respect as a lantern as kyle does!!!!
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Another 10 covers for November that kick ass!
#poison ivy#jenny frison#Nightwing#dick grayson#arsenal#roy harper#edwin galmon#birds of prey#Black Canary#barbara gordon#leonardo romero#serg acu帽a#green lantern#simone di meo#justice league#dc trinity#superman#batman#wonder woman#andy kubert#chris samnee#batman and robin#dan mora#damian wayne#hal jordan
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I want what they have
#niko dead boy detectives#justice for niko sasaki#niko sasaki is a style icon#niko is a style icon#niko and crystal#niko and edwin#justice for niko#niko sasaki#cat king x edwin#edwin x cat king#edwin and cat king#aziraphale and edwin#charles and edwin#dead boy detectives edwin#edwin and charles#edwin payne#edwin dead boy detectives#edwin x Niko#I love edwin and niko#i love them#besties#dead boy detectives edit#dead boy detectives charles#jenny dead boy detectives#dead boy detectives season 1#dead boy detective badge#dead boy detective agency#dead boys#dead boy detectives
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I'm not sure how to articulate it, but I am obsessed w Giles/Willow and Buffy/Jenny being direct mirrors of each other and yet they all refuse to accept it. Giles wishes he could see himself in Buffy, bc yk that's his kid. But in actuality the two of them aren't all that similar, (aside from being gay for their arch nemesis). Buffy, as the kid forced into a destiny she doesn't want, is so much more like Jenny Calendar, which Lord knows is a fact Buffy is very uncomfortable with.
And then there's Willow wanting to see herself in her favourite teacher (Jenny Calendar) but actually being pretty much a direct mirror to Giles. To Ripper. While Giles is so adamant they are nothing alike, so there is no need to monitor what Willow is getting up to in regard to magic. Until the moment she drags her best friend back from heaven and tries to end the world and Giles is forced to acknowledge that Willow is the true successor to his legacy. (Gay and maybe sometimes evil)
(This makes Buffy and Willow a direct parallel to Jenny and Giles. Which could mean nothing.)
#willow rosenberg#buffy summers#rupert giles#jenny calendar#btvs#Buffy and Jenny as parallels is one of my favourite things but I can't do it justice if I try to explain myself#but there are so many good analyses on it#summersberg#i keep saying i don't ship it and yet here i am
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My Thoughts on Jenny Nicholson and the Star Wars Hotel
I watched Jenny Nicholson's four-hour "The Spectacular Failure of the Star Wars Hotel" video essay that YouTube showed me recently but which till now I couldn't bring myself to construct a day around. She's in great form here, and I'm pleased to say I go back as a fan of her work all the way to her Friendship Is Witchcraft days. (Blows my mind that she voiced all Mane Six characters, and others, so well.)
Anyway, long story short, Disney built a Star Wars hotel at Disneyworld in 2022 that was themed as a voyage on a spaceship, then proceeded to charge thousands of dollars per person per night, the most expensive publicly-available Disney theme park hotel experience by miles and miles, and then closed the hotel in 2023 after having spent hundreds of millions of dollars. Jenny went into the experience as a member of the core target demographic and spent four hours talking about all the ways it was an underwhelming or outright disappointing experience.
Her video reminded me of Hasbro's own misadventures in corporate greed with Magic: The Gathering, which has suffered in recent years from price increases, disengagement from the fan community, and a huge proliferation of product spam鈥攊.e. more products overall, more ways to buy a given product (e.g., the proliferation of different boxes, which eventually killed the original draft booster box that had powered Magic for 30 years), and more variants of individual cards within and between products.
Hasbro and Disney are very similar in the economic space they operate in, and also utilize similar business strategies. Disney is essentially the S-tier megacorporation to Hasbro's B-tier, and we have seen many of the same corporate trends play out in both companies.
When it comes to Disney theme parks, they have massively increased ticket prices over the years, well beyond the rate of inflation, and have also implemented advance-scheduling systems for faster access to rides that has made the process of exploring a Disney theme park much less spontaneous and a lot more regimented and stressful.
Disney realized, years ago, that their limited number of theme parks鈥攖hey only really have two, not counting the various sub-parks: Disneyland on the West Coast and Disneyworld on the East Coast鈥攖ogether with Disney's entrenched status as a cultural icon with lots of goodwill and brand recognition among the public, are vastly underserving public demand, allowing them to inflate the price of a single trip almost arbitrarily, well into the four digits鈥攐r even the five-digits if you're taking the family and spending several days.
The Star Wars hotel was Disney's "Magic 30": a product so ludicrously expensive as to incur immediate and universal condemnation by their own fans. It's clear to me what Disney was doing: They'd happily turned the conventional price knob up and up and up for years. Now they wanted to experiment with a fundamentally more expensive product class, basically five to ten times more expensive. They wanted to see if the market could support it. Because the growing disparity of wealth in America, together with America's obscene wealth as a nation relative to the rest of the world, means that it's definitely possible: There are definitely millions of people out there who could book a stay at the Star Wars hotel if they wanted to. And Disney was like "Let's see if they will."
And you know what? I think it could have succeeded. Because there really is an obscene excess of wealth in this country, even though most of us don't have any access to it. And we are a culture whose zeitgeist is ever ravenous for the next big, flashy experience.
But instead the venture failed spectacularly. Why? Because such reckless corporate greed is, itself, usually a sign of deep organizational rot and incompetency among the board and executive leadership. In other words, their hotel failed for the same reason they tried building it in the first place: Disney has grown stupid.
The way it failed, going by Jenny's video, is down to two independent reasons:
An outrageous degree of "penny-wise, pound foolish" thinking;
A fundamental failure to anticipate the comfort and pleasure of the guest.
The former is the more obvious of the two, and what really stood out to me as emblematic of it in this whole boondoggle were two simple thing: 1) The hotel rooms didn't have complimentary Disney+; and 2) the free loaner umbrellas for hotel guests visiting the Star Wars Land in Disneyworld were either so worn-out or so shoddy to begin with that, unless it was a big coincidence, both Jenny's and Jenny's sister's umbrella failed while in use. This was in the context of Disneyworld's most expensive customer experience ever, by a lot, and Disney was nickel-and-diming them. Jenny's video goes into a great depth of detail on the dozens if not hundreds of corners they cut; it was basically everything but the food. The result was an antagonistic relationship between Disney and their hotel guests where almost everything interesting cost more money (usually a lot more money) while almost everything included in the main ticket price was of cheap quality or stingy in its allotment. Every aspect of the whole process, from the scammy vibes of booking a room in the first place, to the pathetic after-care for customers who reported a problem after their stay, was likely to leave a sour taste in the customer's mouth.
When you're paying the most expensive prices in the history of a product category, you really just need to be given an up-front price that includes all or nearly all of it. You'll know what you're in for, and you can make an informed decision, and then it's really just down to the host to provide an experience and level of service that matches those high dollar outlays. But instead, as Jenny pointed out, it's like you're dealing with Spirit Airlines, where you're gonna pay a fee for literally everything beyond sitting your body quietly on the airplane.
Mind-boggling hubris. Disney needs to be broken up for the monopoly that it is, and this is just one more example of how convinced of their own inevitability and supremacy Disney has become.
The other main failure on Disney's part is the subtler one.
Jenny focused on how the Star Wars themed choose-your-own-adventure game, which was at the heart of the hotels' central conceit of "live your own personal Star Wars story," was irreparably dysfunctional. Not only was the app, through which most of the "experience" was conveyed, horribly designed; and not only were the tasks delivered through this app mostly busywork to anyone other than young children, consisting of little more than walking around and scanning inanimate objects; but the storyline's entry points and decision points were completely impenetrable through reasonable means, to the point of seeming arbitrary. Jenny proactively tried and failed to get into her preferred storyline; then tried and failed to get into any storyline; then was automatically sorted into one the next morning; and ultimately ended up having only one (dubiously) interactive story experience over the whole weekend.
She talked about how the tightly-regimented and incredibly full schedule was so mentally and physically draining that on the final night she fled her dinner table fearing she would vomit and had to stand in her hotel room staring at herself in the mirror for a while, to understand her illness (which turned out to be stress-induced exhaustion) and center herself.
She talked about how she didn't get to see a much-coveted music show during dinner on her first night because she was seated behind a giant column.
Really, these things are manifestations of the larger and more fundamental failure on Disney's part to anticipate the comfort and pleasure of the guest, as I put it.
As I was watching her video, two thoughts came to me in this vein:
First was that this whole experience really needed to be "playtested," as we might say in Magic. I mean, I'm sure there nominally was, but whatever playtesting they did was completely ineffective. Good playtesting would have brought most of these issues to light.
Second was that the Disney of today has completely lost touch with the namesake of their industry: hospitality. This would never have happened at a new luxury resort by an established world-class hotelier a century ago. Because they understood the basics. Little things, like hot towels.
I could tell just from Jenny's video that this whole hotel was decided from the top-down by soulless, disconnected corporate suits who blatantly disregarded whatever good suggestions I'm sure the Imagineers庐 came up with. For the failures to be as expansive and ubiquitous as Jenny's video documented, no doubt the institutional rot extends down at least as far as the project manager level, if not down to individual Imagineers庐 and beyond, but there have to be at least some good ones, and clearly they were overruled early and often. Whenever Disney's leadership was faced with a decision between anticipating the comfort and pleasure of the guest, and saving a couple bucks on a guest who was literally laying out several thousands of dollars to be there, leadership chose the latter.
They were so arrogant that they believed, without noticing or questioning it (unless Disney's leadership is in fact cartoon evil), that they would tell the customer what constitutes a good experience, and the customer would pay top dollar for it. And so you get a guest experience where customers who are actively trying to pick a given storyline can't get any storyline and are later seated for the dinner show behind a giant fucking column.
It's sad, and we should all be glad that their hotel failed. Not that Disney is likely to learn the right lessons from their failure, but the long-term solution here is for leisure dollars to be directed toward other companies. For the several thousand bucks that Jenny paid, she could have had a true luxury vacation in most parts of the world鈥攁nd for longer than two nights.
One thing that I noticed during the four hours of her video was that Disney, or at least the people in charge of developing this hotel, didn't seem to understand what constitutes an enjoyable story experience. I am forgiving of the low level of complexity in the various puzzles, since the public is famously stupid plus a lot of these guests are going to be children. But there was so little imagination in the actual plot beats: Chewie sneaks in, gets arrested, and busts out. You get to help some Resistance fighters smuggle their luggage. Like, it's insipid. I mean, ultimately, most pop storytelling is insipid, but what I mean is that the dressings were insipid too. Dressing a story up is what makes stories great, at least at the mainstream level. There was no pomp and flourish; no clever interweaving; no electric events that put people on the edge of their seats. Just walking around on your phone for two days scanning crates and occasionally being in the same room while somebody busts Chewie out of the clink鈥攁ssuming you even make it to the story events in time, since they often fired early.
The whole thing smacks of rule by committee, too many cooks, and suits suits suits all the way down.
I think it's a sign of the times that this is happening. We are once again in Robber-Baron territory in this land. The big corporations and the oligarchs who run them have become so obscenely rich and so utterly disconnected from ordinary life, and their corporate cultures have become so masturbatory and so officious, that they are increasingly creating products for idealized, phantom audiences. They increasingly don't understand real people or real life.
And we can and should bring the weight of the government down on them, more to break up monopolies and allow new and established competitors to seriously challenge them than to actively punish these companies for making money, but even more so we just need to spend our dollars elsewhere. I mean, I'm speaking hypothetically here; I am poor so none of this even applies to me in the first place.
Hence why, even after inflation, this is still just my two cents.
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Just announced: DC is relaunching Justice Society of America with a new JSA ongoing (by Jeff Lemire and Diego Olortegui) as part of the 'All In' intiative.
#dc comics#jsa#justice society of america#infinity inc#green lantern#alan scott#the flash#jay garrick#hawkman#carter hall#doctor fate#khalid nassour#ted grant#wildcat#hourman#rick tyler#jade#jennie-lynn hayden#obsidian#todd rice#dr. mid-nite#beth chapel#yolanda montez#jesse quick#jesse chambers#jakeem thunder#kendra saunders#hawkgirl#sanderson hawkins#news
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ZATANNA BRING DOWN THE HOUSE #2 (OF 5) CVRS from ARIEL DIAZ & JENNY FRISON 馃槏馃槏
#ZATANNA#jenny frison#dc comics#dark justice league#ariel diaz#Comics#comic book art#comic girls#gotham#magician#magic show
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the girls are fightinggggggggggggg
#todd rice#obsidian#jennifer lynn hayden#jennie lynn hayden#jade#infinity inc#jsa#justice society of america#dc comics
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most painful thing about their relationship is that bart really was a stonecold cunt at first, to no fault of his own bc he didn't really understand the concept of family OR community outside of the very rudimentary 'i have dead parents and a gramma.' the fact that jenni understood and tried to get him to like her bc she knew he didn't really understand love/loss/family/community hit hard because yeah.... he DIDN'T understand these things, bc he was alone his entire existence, and his socialization process started with max and the manchester folks because wally could NOT deal with a someone who was the speed demon equivalent of a feral bobcat. but he DID start to learn. he did start to understand that there was more to just the speed he was born with. people matter...... having a cousin who got stranded matters. learning to love and care for that cousin matters. but like everything else, bart's needs and desires were NOT what mattered. to think that this boy grew up to become a man who could run through a crumbling universe to reunite his friends.... and found kon el, the lost boy and bring him back to world where he could find and have a home, even though bart himself was still, in spirit, alone since he'd died during flashpoint. the grief, the inherent LONELINESS he consistently experiences, and yet he didn't let it break him. that's real growth, baybey. bart allen, the man that you are
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tired of batfamily meets jl... what abt flashfamily meets jl...!! go throw in the mention of time travel!! dimension travel!! literally anything!!!
"and this is my grandkid bart allen (and throw in jenni if ur feeling brave enough) from the future!! he's chronologically like three"
the flashfamily turns in my mind all the time
#cloudchat#flashfam#flash family#batfam#justice league#dc#dcu#sorry batfam ily but i love flashfam more </333#theres not enough content abt them!!#bart allen#jenni ognats#actually PLEASE talk about jenni#throw in don and dawn too#literally just throw all them in#u guys can do it for batfam do it for flashfam
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Jenny Sparks #3 by Tom King and Jeff Spokes. Cover by Spokes. Variant cover by Christian Ward. Out in October.
"The Justice League arrives on the scene to save the day, but will they listen to Jenny as she warns them this is a threat like no other? Could the heroes be outmatched by the might of Captain Atom in his quest for divinity? Let the games begin!"
#jenny sparks#captain atom#jla#justice league#dc comics#dc black label#tom king#jeff spokes#christian ward#variant cover#comics
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JSA (Volume #2) #2 (Jeff Lemire variant cover)
#jsa#justice society of america#hourman II#rick tyler#sand#sandy hawkins#jade#jenny lynn hayden#obsidian#todd rice#jesse quick#jesse chambers#wildcat II#yolanda montez#dr midnite II#beth chapel#thunderbolt#jakeem thunder#legacy heroes#variant covers#jeff lemire#dc comics#comics#2020s comics
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Jenny Sparks 6 (2025) by Tom King & Jeff Spokes
Cover:聽Jeff Spokes
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she鈥檇 eat up the met gala
#dead boy detectives esther#dead boy detectives season 1#dead boy detectives charles#niko dead boy detectives#dead boy detectives edwin#jenny dead boy detectives#dead boy detective badge#dead boy detective agency#dead boy detectives#dead boys#justice for niko sasaki#niko is a style icon#niko sasaki is a style icon#edwin x niko#i love edwin and niko#niko and edwin#niko and crystal#justice for niko#niko sasaki#niko sasaki is my queen#she鈥檚 so cute#she ate#she would eat up the met#look out Doja Cat Niko Sasaki is coming for u#style icon#queen#hot#she鈥檚 so cutesie patootsie#dead boys detectives#dead boy detective fanart
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