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thephenotype Ā· 5 months ago
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thebloodyhand-98 Ā· 7 months ago
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lime-bucket Ā· 4 months ago
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Hello, I hope you and your family are well. Can you please help me recycle the post on my account? šŸŒŗ And help rescue my family from the war in Gaza? šŸ™šŸ™
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kittyprincessofcats Ā· 10 months ago
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Important about countries pulling funding from UNRWA:
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Ayyy, Germany deciding International Holocaust Remembrance Day was the perfect date to start directly violating the Genocide convetion again!
@my fellow Germans: This better make you furious. Seriously, I'm not joking around or making excuses for your silence anymore. This should infuriate you. Your protests against the AfD and other right-wingers aren't worth shit if you don't speak out about this. Your "Never Again" means nothing if you stay silent when Germany literally does it again.
@everyone else: It's not just Germany (I'm just adressing them separately because I've got a bone to pick with my own country and their complicity right now), a lot of countries cut funding to UNRWA yesterday because of an accusation by Israel that 12 members of UNRWA's staff were involved in the 7th October attacks. So check whether your country also cut funding to UNRWA and if they did - get furious, protest, call your reps, etc.
Seriously, think about this for just a second: A LITERAL DAY after the ICJ ordered that Israel must let more humanitarian aid into Gaza, most western countries cut off aid to the organisation delivering humanitarian aid to Gaza. Because of unverified claims by Israel, all of these governments are willing to cut off funding of help to all Palestinians in Gaza immediately (which is also a war crime by the way - Collective Punishment - all of our governments are now literally commiting a war crime themselves), but a genocide accusation against Israel that the ICJ has accepted and deemed "plausible" isn't enough to stop those countries from still delivering weapons to Israel. HOW FUCKED UP IS THAT? Israel can just claim something and all of these governments will act and even go against the ICJ's orders to help them kill more Palestinians, but the ICJ's orders themselves aren't enough to make any government stop helping to kill Palestinians.
When you all call & write to your reps, mention this! Demand that your governments resume funding UNRWA and mention the ICJ's ruling (in particular the provision to let more humanitarian aid into Gaza) to back up why!
And also:
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Yeah, what she^ said. This is 100% Israel's revenge for their defeat in court.
(Does anyone know whether them doubling down harder now and asking other countries to cut off funding for humantarian aid can at least be used as more evidence by South Africa in the genocide case now? If the ICJ finds in a month that Israel hasn't done enough to abide by their orders, will there be any consequences? Can they issue another preliminary ruling?)
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rebel-girl-queen-of-my-world Ā· 1 month ago
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klutzymaiden123 Ā· 2 years ago
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Can you share some of the theories you received?
There's definitely been a mix regarding both Arnold's relationship with Helga and his overrall role in general. A lot of people have theorisied that he's already aware, on some level, that she's tied up in this superhero mess and that's why he's so insistent on getting her to open up.
Some people predict, or otherwise hope, that he may take up a role similar to Tuxedo Mask, where he can develop his own powers and swoop in to both save Helga and aid her.
And a lot of people are hoping that his feelings have already become romantic for Helga. This one I'll speak more freely on because honestly, it's completely up to the reader how they wish to interpret it. Obviously, reading from Helga's perspective taints things cause she's definitely the type to downplay her affect on people, especially someone she regards as highly as Arnold.
So, it's definitely possible that his feelings are shifting or have already shifted. I've said before that, in the drafts, his feelings come across as more platonic with possible hints to a subconscious romantic interest, but when I write the actual chapters, his actions are more overtly romantic in nature. Of course, Arnold is the type to sometimes forget boundaries, especially with someone like Helga who is all about boundaries, so his actions can still be intended as platonic but come across as so affectionate that they're misinterpretated as romantic.
I myself actually go back and forth on the nature of his feelings towards Helga; I planned on having them develop much later in the story but the more I write, the more romantic they can be seen. So, again, it's completely up to the reader, if they see it as more platonic or romantic, it's up to them because they're both very complicated people who sometimes can exist outside of my control.
What I will say is that even if Arnold's feelings are romantic, that's not why he's approaching Helga. Yes, Arnold is a total romantic but that's not the fundamental reason why he would approach someone. Arnold's a total fixer and if he thinks one of his friendsā€”or hell, anyone that matters to him, regardless if they're already friends or notā€”is upset, he'll do anything he can to help fix their problems. There's obviously toxic aspects to this mentality, but that's his biggest trait, his humantarianism.
So, regardless of the nature of his feelings towards Helga, he's not putting in such effort to show her that he cares because of romance. He's doing it because he genuinely cares for her and even if it's completely platonic, he would still be doing the same thing. Where that leaves his feelings, totally up to you, but romance doesn't motivate Arnold to be a kind person, he just is a kind person.
But yeah, on everything else, I can't go into explicit details on what will happen because I want to build to it, but he will be having his role expanded. He won't be sitting on the sidelines the entire story, he will get a more active role, but in the meantime, I'm just focusing on getting the gang together before revisiting the rest of everyone.
Thanks for asking! šŸ’™
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popculturebuffet Ā· 4 years ago
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New X-Men Xtrospective Part 2: Germ Free Generation (Annual, #117-120)
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Hello all you happy mutants! And welcome back to my look one of my faviorite runs of one of my faviorite super teams by one of my faviorite comic book writers!
For those of you just joining us.. itā€™s been a while. I did the first instalment of this retrospective back in early January as a present to my friend for christmas, as he had never read E is for Extinctoin and what with this run being vital to the current, utterly brilliant Krakoa era of X-Men. But with both Black History Month and Valentineā€™s day, February had no real room for this one and march ended up being just as crammed with me doing essentially the entire della arc of ducktales in one month. I didnā€™t mean for this retrospective to get pushed so far back, but since I gave up doing weekly coverage of Final Space I had some room on the schedule so this retrospective is back with a vengance with two entries this month and hopefully at least one a month afterword to keep it at a decent clip.Ā 
Last time I covered the background of this run and didnā€™t really find much for the issues after, so I wonā€™t have to spend as much time on background.Ā 
So since iā€™ts been a few months, a refresher is probably in order
PREVIOUSLY, ON X-MEN:Ā  Our merry mutants enterted a marvelous new era. As Charles redidciated to the dream with new equipment and a new uniforms our hero encounter a new villian: The Mysterious Cassandra Nova, a powerful telepath who used an uwitting patsy from the trask family and a defucnt sentinel factory to slaughter the mutant nation of Genosha, killing 16 million mutants in the most horrific act of genocide against mutants ever known. And the fact there has been more than one genocide against mutant kind MIGHT, just MIGHT be the reason they blackmailed for peace with life saving drugs instead of helping willingly and freely in the current comics. Just maybe.Ā 
Cassandra was captured by the X-Men soon after but escaped and nearly got a hold of Cerebra only to be stopped thanks to a combination of former enemy, genoshan resident at the time of the genocide, and that bitch Emma Frost who snapped her neck and Charles himself who uncharacteristically shot Cassandra in the head. That night Charles took a bold step over that would change the X-Men forever and told the world on live tv:
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While all of this was going on we got caught up on the teamā€™s personal struggles, currently consisting of Cyclops, Jean Grey, Beast and Wolverine with Emma joining as of the issue weā€™re about to cover. Beast is grappling with a secondary mutation that makes him look like Aslan, the jesus of narnia and all lions. Meanwhile Scott and Jean are grappling with their non existant sex life as Cyclops possesion by Apocalypse shortly before this story has severely rattled him and caused him to close himself off emotionally.Ā 
So thatā€™s where we pick up. Our heroes are now no longer hiden saftely in the shadows from a world that hates and fear them but are out front and center with the world watching. And weā€™ll see both how that helps their cause and how it puts them directly in the cross hairs under the cut.Ā  Content Warning: This review discusses Transphobia and a scene involving a school shooting. If either of these are a trigger for you or something you do not want to read aboutĀ  please skip this part of the retrospective for your own well being. Thank you and have a lovely day.Ā 
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The Man From Room X:
We have three stories today: an annual that introduces our final team member and the main villians of our next arc, a one off that moves the main plot for the first 12 issues along, and a three part arc about said villains.Ā  Before we get into the Annual, I have to talk about itā€™s weird gimmick: The issue is entirely sideways. I donā€™t mean itā€™s bad though some parts are problematic I mean when bought itā€™d be on itā€™s side and in my trade I have to flip the whole thing over on itā€™s side to read it. Itā€™s just a .. weird choice. Not the weirdest thing about this issue somehow but not unexpected from Grant as they like to play with the formula.Ā 
We open in said Room X, a location in China where a mutant named Xorn is kept and showed off to a mysterious group of dickweeds in suits representingĀ ā€œMr. Sublimeā€.Ā  His jailer, General Aao Jun,, shows him off as most bad guys would : By undoing his helmet and thus disntegrating two innocent children just by looking at them. Sublime says they have a deal.Ā 
Meanwhile also in China the X-Men are there for a funeral and Emma and Scott trade insulting questions back in forth: She mocks him about his lack of sex with Jean lately and he brings up her criminal past. As for why Emmaā€™s still with the x-men.. itā€™s out of pragmatisim. WIth Genosha gone, the x-men are the saftest faction to throw in with.Ā 
As for why the X-Men are in China, Charles has rapidly expanded his operations now heā€™s public by setting up X-Corps, a multinational humantarian aid organization dedicated to helping mutants in need wherever they sprout up. Heā€™s set up offices in Hong Kong, Amsterdam, Mumbai and Melborne.Ā 
Heā€™s also half assed it, at least for the Hong Kong office and only gave them two employees: Domino, who those of you not as familiar with the comics may remember from deadpool and Risque.. who I honestly had never heard of before New X-Men and frequently forget existed. I just looked her up for the first time and sheā€™s a minor mutant who was an associate of X-Force and Warpathā€™s love intrest. She could compress matter causing it to implode. My assumption here is that Morrison simply picked a minor mutant at random for the job.Ā 
But yeah naturally with only two mutants charged with, according to dominoĀ ā€œAll of asiaā€ went horribly and the x-men are there for Risqueā€™s funeral and to find out what happened. Unsuprisingly itā€™s tied into our cold open: Risque had found evidence of a mutant trafficking operation and died fighting them off and Dom is naturally f eeling in over her head since said operation involves the chinese goverment, who according to her exccute most mutants at birth and John Sublime and his cult.Ā 
We soon see a press confrence from this asshole and find out what his deal is: Sublime is the head of the U-Men, a group that belivies they are aĀ ā€œthird speciesā€ of mutants trapped in human bodies that deserve to have the surgery to make them into mutants, and thus wear weird suits until the world is pure and allows them to have surgery for it.Ā 
Yeahhhh this.. this is really fucking uncomfortable and is going to be present throughout todayā€™s piece so letā€™s just go ahead and rip that band-aid off:Ā  The U-Men come off as HIGHLY transphobic. They use terms similar to trans people call themselves trans species and are trapped inside a body they donā€™t belong in. Itā€™s VERY uncomfortable to read as a result and something that hadnā€™t really sunk into till thsi reading but once it had.. oh god does this not age well.Ā 
The one thing that keeps this from runing the run and Grant Morrison as a whole for me.. is that I do not think for one second it was intentional. Grant themself is genderqueer, nonbinary and a cross dresser. None of this means they CANā€™T be prejudice, being Queer does not magically make you immune to being prejudiced. But before this Grant had the genderqueer sentient street Danny the Street over in doom patrol and a trans main character in his book the invisibles, Lord Fanny. And given New X-Menā€™s biggest flaw as a whole is clumsy early 2000ā€²s unforutnate implications such as a good chunk of the things about Cyclops affair with Emma, weā€™ll get to that at the right time, Angel in the next arc and Dust, who was introduced as from afganastan wearing an outfit not seen in the country and speaking a language not spoken in the country. Grant didnā€™t make these mistakes TWICE, itā€™s why I still have respect for them, and this wonā€™t be the first or last comic iā€™ve forgiven for being stupid for itā€™s time. But I will still call Grant out when I see it. Just because I respect an author just because they changed my life does not mean I wonā€™t call them out when they fuck up. And if they prove to be truly vile, have harmed someone or what have you I will cut them the fuck out of my life. Iā€™ve done it with JK Rowling, Warren Ellis, Brad Jones and Joss Whedon. I would do it with Grant if I truly belivied they were transphobic and instead didnā€™t just write something very stupid without thinking the metaphor through 20 years ago.Ā 
So anyway back to the comic book bollocks as Wolvie and Dominio prepare for an infiltration and flirt a bunch. We also find out Jun is a mutant himself with a power only Grant could dream up: his skin, hair and what have you that falls off him turns into a naked golem for a bit before expiring. And if you hadnā€™t read this issue before reading this review, yes that actually happened. While the first arc had a BIT of Grantā€™s trademark batshit insanity, the series REALLY starts to pick it up from here: This issue has a mutant with functioning star for a head, a poorly thought out bucnh of sci fi new age organ theives, and a general whose power isĀ ā€œmakes naked clones out of his dandruffā€. Oh and his fondest wish?
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I just... I donā€™t know how to respond to that. I donā€™t know how you respond to an old manā€™s weird murder fetish that he tells a somehow even creepier cult leader while said cult leader is paying him to buy a star man, and their both surronded by the creepy old guyā€™s skin golems that weirdly look like mudokons. Look iā€™veĀ  read Grantā€™s entire utterly bonkers run on doom patrol. Iā€™ve seen a man who looks like a question mark use a bicycle that makes everyone high like their on LSD for president. And THIS is what breaks me.Ā 
So while.. THIS is going on, Dom and Wolverine plan to do it all night long on the professorā€™s credit card, no really he gives all his professors carte blanch to use school fun, and inflitrate, Dom through the elvator this horrorshow just took place in and Wolvie james bond style. Also I gotta say I REALLY love how Morrison writes Domino. Sheā€™s wittiy, entertaining and her power is as awesome as always, super luck if you didnā€™t know. Itā€™s a real shame he didnā€™t add her to the team: She wasnā€™t on any other x-teams, with X-Force having been rebranded into X-Statix by this point. She wouldā€™ve been a fun addition to the cast.Ā 
Naturally wolverine is found out.. but that was the entire plan, for him to serve as a distraction then cut his way to domino while she steals something from the vault. As for the rest of the X-Men, Cyclops, Beast and Emma are all downstairs in the parking garage and find a secret entrance. Jean is not on this trip and thatā€™s a major plot point for this run. This is where Risque died.. and it only getā€™s worse when Hank goes inside, finding a bug like child, basically htink a giant caterpillar but with tons of human arms inttead of legs with her wings cut off.Ā 
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Thankfully as Logan and Dom escape above, the U-Men are dumb enough to storm down bellow.. and while they incapacitate beast with some launched tiny knives, designed to incapcicate but leave them in tact for harvest, Emma beats the shit out of them and get the info out as only she can....
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Granted she couldā€™ve just turned back to normal and used her telepathy.. but what fun would that be? Plus they have blockers and you know CUT UP A FUCKING CHILD. SO yeah fuck them, let emma have her fun.Ā 
Thanks to her they find out the U-Men are a front for illegal organ harvest, and while they canā€™t prove sublimes attached Emma suggests killing him.Ā  Good idea but Scott suggests the lighter approach and we find out what Dom stole, a key, something Emma can psychcially scan. She warns it might take her a bit to get something.. only to be flooded instantly and we find out who the man in the box was. Shen Xorn... iā€™ll let emma tell you more herself.Ā 
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Itā€™s stuff like this why, despite some serious flaws like the U-Men debacle and some stuff to come, some I mentioned above other thatā€™s just with the plot that i love this run. Morrison just gets how to really tell an x-men story and the real tragedy of being a mutant. That just for being diffrent, you get shut out, or in this case thrown into a box when you couldā€™ve and shouldā€™ve been something more. As emma turns herself to diamond to deal with the psychic backlash, Beast has some solemn words to share.Ā 
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That night Scott rests in his bedroom while presumibly hearing some truly horrific and sexy things next door while talking to jean before clocking out.. only for Emma to head in in a sexy dress with champagne. What happened? Well we wonā€™t know for sure for most of the run.Ā 
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The next day the U-Men prepare to load and we get some scrap of what the idea was supposed to be: John talks to Ao Jun about his procedures. We see wings crudely sewen to his back and his throat implaants hurtingĀ ā€œBut one day I will flyā€. THe IDEA is their supposed to be lunatics, people who envy mutantkind but donā€™t actually respect their culture or their sense of personhood. Itā€™s not the worst idea and had Grant not used trans termnology for htis, it wouldā€™ve been a great one. I think he INTENDED for them to be coopting the idea of being trans and what not to maks their true intentions.. which is problematic due to debates like the ones on bathrooms where a lot of transphobic asshats make the bad faith argument a bunch of people are going to pretend to be trans to assault people.Ā 
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Weā€™re.. we;ā€™re not even to the main storyarc yet.Ā 
But things soon go wrong as Xornā€™s starhead starts to collapse into a black hole, with no solution as the x-men took the key to his helmet.. and assault the compound. Turns out the star collapse thing is Junā€™s revenge on humanity for lockig him down here and he gets his neck snapped.Ā  Scott has a solution though.. and itā€™s stuff like this why I fucking love Scott Summers and get annoyed when people call himĀ ā€œboringā€: He realizes Xorn is comitting sucicide.. so heā€™s going to talk him out of it. Not just for everyone else but he deserves to live. And while Emma points out only logan among htem knows chinese and she canā€™t get through to Xornsā€™ head due to the way his brain works, Scott has a simple workaround: Use the nearest chineses speaker to teach Scott chinese. So.. with that he talks to Xorn.Ā 
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And that my friend is Scott Summers. A man who faced with powerful man whose given up, whose lost all hope... convinces him he can still go on. That livingā€™s better than dying.. and that it does get better. The issue closes with Xorn basking in the sunlight for the first time in decades while Domino sweats having an extremley powerful unknown mutant out in the world. Scottā€™s already thought of that.. and signed him up with the x-men. Granted it wonā€™t be until our next article that he actually fully joins the team, but wā€™ell get to that next time.Ā 
This issue is great... while the U-Men stuff is pretty bad and isnā€™t going to get better, the tale of xorn is excitiong, Aao Jun is an intresting antagonist and the sideways gimmick suprisingly works. So now weā€™ve finshed our apitizer letā€™s get on to the main course.Ā 
Danger Rooms:
We open in well.. the Danger Room with Beast training a new student.Ā 
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This is Beak. Beak is my faviorite character Morrison came up with and one of my faviorite X-Characters. Beak is a bird like boy who can fly, itā€™s just a struggle and due to looking diffrent and not having the most impressive power has very low self esteem. Itā€™s also part of something Morrison took a concerted effort to do: introduce more mutants with genuinely odd apperances and drawbacks. Like we saw with Ugly John last time and Aao Jun in the previous issue, Morriosn really likes adding weird mutants but he also uses it to give a genuine downside to being one. While this isnā€™t NEW to x-men, Morriosn upped the scale and number of characters like this with weird powers and apperances. We see a bunch of human passing ones too but the backgrounds just jammed with all sorts of unique designs and students. Itā€™s also the point where the school became far more crowded like the movies, a good call on my part both to help those coming in from the movies, and to help sell the mutant baby boom going on. After all it wouldnā€™t make sense if the school was just about 5-7 students and a bunch of grown adults doing superhero stuff like usual would it.
But we get to see that Hank is a good teacher, as he reminds the boy that heā€™s getting better and wonā€™t be an x-man overnight, and worries about him to the professor, wanting the boy not to slip through the cracks, figuratively, and not to feel like an outcast.. especaily here. But Hank dosenā€™t feel blue for long, metaphorically he was blue long before he became the lion minus the witch and the wardrobe, as he has a date to night.. and so does Charles.Ā 
Or rather he did.. his girlfriend trish, a long time love intrest of his and a reporter.. breaks up with him. Over voice mail. While in washington. And the reasons she gives are not great
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Yes Hankā€™s transformation is radical.. but not only was it not his choice... sheā€™s being a coward, sending the message itā€™s okay to dump someone because hteir a mutant or because they happen tobe diffrent and that efffects your career. Again itā€™s moments like this that make the run soar over the more awkward bits.Ā 
Meanwhile Loganā€™s off doing logan stuff, i.e. gazing at a deer. Wow. Jean followed him. Both notice a space ship: Despite recently outing himself as a mutant, leading to an increased number of students and a bunch of rioting morons at the gates, Charles has decided NOWā€™S a good time to take a vacation to the Shiar empire. As for why Jeanā€™s really out here, her marriage to Scott isnā€™t doing so good and while Logan encourages her to stay itā€™s just not that simple: Her telekenisis is coming back, stronger than ever. She feels the most alive sheā€™s been while heā€™s shutting her out and feeling his deadest. She tries to turn to logan for comfort but he shuts her down. Just wait two decades jean... heā€™ll open up to a threesome. In all seriousness though having Jean try and come onto Logan .. will backfire slightly on later storylines. But weā€™ll get to that eventually.Ā 
In the basement Hank is studying Cassandra or rather a virtual version of her since her body is naturally in storage. And heā€™s found out something disturbing: Sheā€™s Charles Genetic Twin.. oh and it gets way worse. The Professorā€™s weird behavior? Barely staffing the hong kong office, leaving suddenly with rioters t the gates, outing himself? About that...
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Cassandra tourtures Hank with the possiblity heā€™s devovling and then tries to mind controlli him into cleaning himself with his diploma when Beak enters. The good news is this allows hank to shake off her control and tackle her, showing off why hank mccoy is fucking awesome in the process.Ā 
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That is the Hank McCoy I know, love.. and miss dearly. The one weā€™ll probably never get back sadly after what others did and what Percyā€™s had to do to reconclie with all they did.Ā 
Unfortunately beak being around means cassandra can force him to beat beast into a coma with his bat. She plans to tear Charles dream down around him and make him watch.. and cryptically says he tried to kill her. She then cheerfully leaves Jean in charge.. and talks about just how much damage one could do with an entire interstellar empire in the wrong hands....
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This issue is also excellent and sets up the next two arcs nicely while giving us a nice peak in hankā€™s head. Great stuff. The artist also hid the word sex in a lot of the images see if you can find them.Ā 
Germ Free Generation Issue 1:Ā 
So now we get into our main story for today. This story and the one before it were drawn by Ethan Van Sciver whose a talented artist.. but also highly contrversial for being a conservative. I myself.. donā€™t know what heā€™s said or did, though calling himselfĀ ā€œCanceld Superstarā€™ on twitter really isnā€™t a good sign. So I really canā€™t comment on it but I also know someone would mention it if I didnā€™t bring it up and if you know what he did please enlighten me.Ā 
So we open with a school shooter who also scooped out a guys eyes and is part of the U-Men. He get shot by the swat team while making his speech> itā€™s an effective opening but one thatā€™s become more uncomfortable to read with each passing day due to school shootings going up and up in number. And mass shootings in general and I... I need a second. I need something to relax me
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Thank you Stoopy. Your doing Oddā€™s Work.Ā 
So the news reports on this and we soon see how Jean watches the news.. by using Cerebra to read the minds of every person on the planet. Neat. Everyoneā€™s talking about them. We also get a hint for later as we hear on the suicide of one martha johanson who wrote the note in her own blood. Sheā€™ll be important later.... and I mean that both in the context of this retrospective and for the fact sheā€™ll go on to be part of x-men in perpetuity.Ā 
This is also where another great concept of Morrisonā€™s pops up: Mutant culture. After all mutants are a minority, they should have their own culture. Itā€™s something Hickmanā€™s era has taken and ran with, but itā€™s a damn good idea and one that it shoudlnā€™t of taken almost 20 years for someone else to use given Decimation was undone way back around 2012 in Avengers Vs X-Men, aka that event half hte articles on the mcu around the fox sale used as either their image for the article or asked about happneing. And yes that is a pet peeve of mine: while I do think like Civil War AVX could use a movie version to make it better, I donā€™t think itā€™s an event that could be done right away and would have to be almost entirely redone anyway given the context for AvX is entirely couched in decimation i.e. something NO ONE wants in any x-adaptation.Ā 
So it turns out while watching the news in a next level way Jean is also talking to Logan.Ā ā€œStay out of my personal fantasiesā€. Yeah I .. I donā€™t think your ready for a hairy canadian dry humping a transformer.. specifically killbison. And yes.. that is an actual transformer and why yes, I have been waiting to bring him up.Ā 
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And he is , and I am not making any of this up, part of a group of decpticons known as the breastforce. Your life is better for knowing that and you are welcome.Ā 
Anyway as youā€™d imagine a genocidal old woman in her brothersā€™ body leaving the X-Men to fend for themselves after having a teenager bludgeon one into a coma after publicly outing them with a rabid bunch of bigoted morons at the gates has not gone great. Henry is still out and despite the short staffing Jean needs logan to stay where he is as heā€™s close to an emerging mutant and within range to go get her.Ā 
Emma of course has never been so fucking irate in her whole life and is plotting various forms of psychic tourture with the help of her proteges the Stepford Cucokoo, 5 teenage mutants who functoin best as a unit and are easily some of MOrrisonā€™s most prominent additions to the x-cast. Unlike a lot of the x-kids, theyā€™ve been featured prominently in every era of x-men after this including the current one.Ā 
Jean decides for a lessĀ ā€œMake them hate us even moreā€ approach, but no less pissed off, opening the gates and going out directly to chew out the assembled bigoted morons, pointing out the ones carryingĀ ā€œMutants Go Home!ā€ signs are especailly dumb as this IS her home. And while she dosenā€™t point this part out, itā€™ the same for all of them: most of the mutants are either adults who choose to live here, teenagers who along with their parents choose to live here, or in the majority teens who have no where else to go due to either being abandoned by their families or it being way to dangerous for said families for them to stay due to bigoted assholes like the ones holding mutants go home signs.Ā 
A member of the press asks if sheā€™s willing to talk to the media and she refutes most of his bullshit allegations: He asks if their building an army, she and Scott respond they are not and are simply educating mutants and protecting them. When he counters with the fact their living weapons and wearing uniforms... she counters with the fact sheā€™s wearing them to protect herself, rightfully, from people like her, and the x-men are an aid orginzation going where needed to protect the world and while asshole points out no one apointed them.. jean shuts him down by pointing out there are no mutants in goverment and a genocide just happened, so someone has to do the job. Another random asshole tries to pipe up withĀ ā€œGenosha declared war on usā€ and Emma senses this is just going to go round and round and round and simply presses the assembled mobā€™sĀ ā€œbliss buttonsā€ in their brains to knock them out. Non violent but honestly warranted: A dangerous part of bigoted assholes is theyā€™l bring up racist bullshit to try and couch it like an actual conversation. None of these complaints really hold water if you looked at the x-menā€™s history for more than 5 minutes. Yes Charles is training them to fight and yes hte ingial class was an army but every class since has only been trained for self defense: they still got into adventures and what not, but it was usually by their own choice or because they were thrust into them by circumstance. Xaviers is exactly what jean said and endudgling these morons, while good on paper, only makes them seem legit.Ā 
Jean retreats to the infirmary where sheā€™s on the verge of breaking down from the sheer weight of everything. Cyclops proves that despite not being the best husband right now... he still loves his wife, offering to go look into Sublime with Emma and hoping Hank wakes up. Turns out his mind for now is a big blank room.
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So she canā€™t get any info off his skull, and neither of the two think what happened with Beak adds up. Something is up here. Their also coming down with colds which will be important later. And just as important.. Magneto is becoming a symbol among people and merch sales with his image are on the rise.Ā  We then get this.Ā 
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So Jean is trying to be a supportive, honest wife, and while the questions incredibly insulting.. his answer is equally so. Spoilers, as mentioned we do get an answer long after this.. and they did not. So Jean is wrong to be suspcious, at this point, but is at least trying to be polite about it and gave him the benifit of the doubt.. and Scott basically said he slept with her without actually saying it despite not having to. You couldā€™ve saidĀ ā€œno we did not have sex, we simply talked all nightā€. Itā€™s not ENTIRELY better given the horrible state of their relationship right now, but itā€™s still better than HEAVILY implying he rocked her body to the break of dawn for no damn reason.Ā 
So we meet our next major addition to the cast Angel Salvador, an abused teen who is a mutant.. and whose abusive and molesting step dad beats her and throws her out over this. The sceneā€™s a bit overdone, coming off like an after school special.. but itā€™s what happens AFTER thatā€™s truly heartwrenching.Ā 
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A poor scared teenager clutching herself, finding herself homeless alone and desperatly wishing she wasnā€™t what she was. Itā€™s just a striking image and shows how well Grant uses the mutant metaphor. I could easily see myself in that position had my parents not been good peopl and had I come out far sooner as bi. The idea of desperatly hoping your not what you are simply becaus eof what hell it brings, despite all the joy it can bring too. . itā€™s heartbreaking to hear.Ā 
Naturally though things donā€™t get much better as the next morning the U-Men have found her, calling her a freak and successfully kidnapping her.. if only because while she uses acid spit to escape, she flies into a power line.Ā 
We then get Sublimes meeting with Emma and Scott and a BETTER use of teh u-men as while Grant made the horrible mistake of calling themĀ ā€œtranspeciesā€, seriously what the fuck were you thinking, the way sublime frames it here is a MUCH better, much less accidently bigoted concept.Ā 
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The idea isnā€™t bad: A group of humans jealous of the mutants powers, blatantly ignoring the horrible downsides and mountain of persecution that comes with being one. Grant just made the mistake of couching in in Trans metaphors, clearly trying to have the U-Men steal from Trans People too as a way to make themselves seem legit. And I say if you want superpowers.. fine.. wanting to be a superhero or a mutant is fine, the issue with the U-Men is their copoting a culture, trying to be part of mutantkind without having any of the drawbacks and by actively butchering them. Itā€™s why the concept HAS shown up elsewhere; itā€™s not TERRIBLE, Grant just made a bad creative choice thatā€™s only gotten worse as Transphobia has ramped up further and further.Ā 
Sublime denies it when our heroes bring up Hong Kong.. but naturally heā€™s simply just keeping them talking long enough to bring out his trump cards, an army of u-men and a brain in a jar he uses to incapacitate them.. and announces his plan to use the school as an organ farm for his third species.Ā 
Meanwhile Logan finds the U-Men in their truck preparing to rip angel apart.. and given he snikitā€™s soon after.. iā€™ts very clear whose REALLY about to get ripped apart.Ā 
Germ Free Generation Part 2:Ā 
Part two begins wth Sublime monologoging about how Mutantkind are just cattle to them and reveals the brain is marthaā€™s, her sucicide having been faked and her brain currently being controlled to use as a weapon.Ā 
So while Johnny monlogues we find out what happened with Wolverine last issue he didnā€™t cut up the guys yet as they fired their little flichete guns at him... it was about as useful and effective as youā€™d expect and the massacre you were expecting occurs. Though in a nice bit of reality the fact wolverineā€™s soaked in blood and just killed a bunch of blood shockingly does not make the already frighttend teen feel heā€™s safe and she spits acid on him. Logan pours some stuff on the acid, figuring rightly a black ops murder farmacy would have something to counteract it and tells her sheā€™s safe now .. and tells the guy behind him not to try it. Heā€™s stupid and does anyway and likely gets a claw to the head off panel.Ā 
They go to a diner to eat and find a local asshole who threatens them with a shot gun to leave once angel uses her power to digest and goes on a rant about how he snapped his own sonā€™s neck to prevent him being born a freak. Just.. fucking hell this arc is not good for my depression. We get some more angst from Angel and whiel her dialouge is not the best, iā€™ts a too bit mark millar flavored edgelordy for my taste and if I wanted that iā€™d go read Ultimates or Ultimate X-Me, her pain is real and Logan helps her through it.Ā 
Back at the Mansion the U-Men are on their way to strike, whlie Jean unaware continues to buckle under the weight of all the shit sheā€™s had to deal with, feeling SOMETHING is making them weak with the colds and something worse is going on and thus tries going to Beakā€™s mind instead and gently helps talk him through it, showing her grace and empathy.. and in return finding out Charles was the one responsible. The alarms flair up and Jean tries calling the police now thatā€™s an option.. but it goes exactly how youā€™d expect.Ā 
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Also a second artist took over for this issue and the next Igor Kordey. Heā€™s fine, but not nearly as good as Quitely or Van Sciver and it shows. Meanwhile Beast awakens and heads for the body drawer with Cassandraā€™s body, and professorā€™s mind in it.Ā 
However Jeanā€™s finally had enough and got her second wind. Sheā€™s outgunned, outmanned and left to her own devices. And sheā€™s fucking fed up with it. She steels herself and assembles the students. This is obviously a last resort.. but some of them can defend themselves and their going to need to. But today they wonā€™t be learning.. theyā€™ll be teaching and as the U-Men call them defensless Jeans simply asksĀ ā€œAre you sure about that?ā€
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Germ Free Generation Part 3:
So we come to the finale of this arc. Angel is once again an ungreatful brat to logan and he opts to just leave her there if shā€™es going to be like that pointing out being a mutant sucks, itā€™s going to keep sucking.. and she needs to deal with it instead of lashing out at him and herself over it.Ā 
We get back to the U-Men, one of whom is utterly flabergasted they want to him to cut of Cyclops head... only for Emma to awaken.. and take back her regular form meaning she has her telepathy back. The only reason they were able to get her ealier is she was in diamond mode which is stronger but lacks that, a nice way to check and ballance her new powers. She quickly takes them out and disables Martha.Ā 
Back at the school we get one of Jeanā€™s definting moments for me and a true chance to show how badass she can be. Before this while Morrison wrote her well, and his versionā€™s still my favoirite, she didnā€™t really get to do much and was motly in the background. This arc has been her time in the limelight, having trouble grappling with all the stress of running this place by herself.. and emerging from it stronger, more capable and ready to kick some racist weirdo ass. She tries a few diffrent tactics first, having a mutant with a voice power project it to make them think their san invisible army and having the cuckoos fuck with their heads but when both fail, Jean REALLY gets to show off. Thier blade ammo gets turned into a cool looking 3 dimensioinal shape with her telekneisis, and in a cool moment and a wise use of something gross makes the only one of them with useable powers throw up, before issuing a badass boast, wreathed in flames all while she crumples their guns into uselessness. and tears open their suits.Ā 
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Bad ass.. and logan and Angel arrive just in time for the cecendo as hte u-men flee in terror
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The Phoenix has been Reborn. Jean Grey has risen from the ashes and returned to full power.Ā 
Meanwhile Sublime is pankcing.. and it gets worse when Emma shows up, fully enraged after all of this and has some words for him.Ā 
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Iconic. Emma prepares to drop him out of a building but Scott rightly tries to get her to back off, pointing out the pr nightmare itā€™d create and the fact that they have enough evidence ot shut him down. Martha however has other ideas and gets him to let go of his own accord, falling to his death.. but given heā€™d aranged a stunt for the press apparently this gives our heroes deniability and Martha her revenge.Ā 
So we end this three parter as Jean revels in her new power, and Beast returns with an announcment:
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Final Thoughts for Germ Free Generation:Ā  This arc is pretty good if forgetable. The struggle of Jean to run the school herself and her rising from the ashes of her own pain at the end with the power of the phoenix at the end is fantastic, finally both giving her a chance to shine.. and a worrying sign for her friends given what her phoenix force copy whose memories she has a copy of, long story, did is awesome. The other parts are okay and ehhhhhhhhh though. Scott and Emmaā€™s investigation into the u-men while having a really good climax, is pretty standard x-men stuff, and Wolverinā€™es trek with angel is just okay with Angel being highly intolerable during this arc, with Morrison trying a bit TOO hard to make her aĀ ā€œrealisticā€ teen instead coming off as horribly unplesant. Sheā€™s supposed to just be lashing out but comes off obnxious as a result. That said this arc does furhter a lot of Morrisons best idea and introduce more, and is a great setup for our next arc, which weā€™ll get to in two weeks. Soooo
Next Time On X-Men: We find out just what the hell Cassandra Nova is, what her plans are, and what happened with her and charles as our heroes come down with a cold as the might of the shiar empire bears down on them. Itā€™s IMperial in two weeks.Ā 
Next Time ON This BLog: Speaking of long Delayed Projects, I finally return to The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck as a young Scrooge starts his prospecting career, learning the ins and outs from a rich new mentor, and finding the price tag striking it rich comes with. Raid a copper hill with me tommorow.Ā 
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Coronavirus has claimed lives of 21 Filipinos in UAE, says envoy
Hjayceelyn M Quintana Philippine Ambassador to UAE Picture Credit score: Twitter
Dubai: Twenty one Filipinos in the UAE have handed away as a consequence of coronavirus (COVID-19), Philippine Ambassador to the UAE Hjayceelyn Quintana stated in a digital interview with Philippine officers on Wednesday.
Talking to Philippine Presidential Communications Operations Workplace (PCOO) secretary Martin Andanar and PCOO undersecretary Rocky Ignacio in Manila, Quintana stated the knowledge was primarily based on the notification of deaths the Philippine missions in the UAE have obtained from the authorities.
Quintana stated 17 of the fatalities have been from Dubai, whereas 4 have been from Abu Dhabi.
In response to the Philippine Division of Overseas Affairs, a complete of 1,867 Filipinos worldwide have contracted COVID-19 as of Tuesday, There have been 214 deaths and 513 recoveries to date globally.
As of Wednesday, the UAE has registered a complete of 15,192 COVID instances, together with 3,153 whoā€™ve recovered from the illness. The UAE has maintained a low fatality charge.
In the course of the interview, Quintana reiterated her fixed reminder to her kababayans (compatriots) to look at the protocols set by the UAE authorities to forestall the unfold of coronavirus.
ā€œLet us be more cautious in following the precautionary measures and let us observed the guidelines so we will not get infected,ā€ Quintana stated in Filipino.
The Philippine ambassador additionally assured her countrymen of the Philippine authoritiesā€™s continued help.
She stated the Philippine Embassy in Abu Dhabi and the Philippine Consulate in Dubai are persevering with to course of the repatriation of stranded nationals, regardless of the momentary suspension of flights to the Philippines.
ā€œOnce the travel ban is lifted, we will be ready to continue with the repatriation,ā€ Quintana stated. A complete of 494 Filipinos have been repatriated because the begin of COVID-19 outbreak.
Filipinos grateful to the UAE
In the identical interview, Quintana additionally expressed the gratitude of Filipinos to the UAE, which she referred to as as a ā€œmodel of humantarian givingā€.
Earlier, the UAE authorities deployed seven metric tons of much-needed medical provides to Manila.
Quintana stated in a Fb put up: ā€œThis medical assistance in the time of COVID-19 is only the latest of numerous instances in which the UAE has come to the aid of the Filipino people.ā€
She recalled that in November 2013, the UAE donated US$10 million (Dh36.7 million) to victims of Hurricane Haiyan in the Philippines. She added earlier this 12 months, the UAEā€™s Emirates Purple Crescent (ERC) launched a marketing campaign with the Philippine Embassy to assist 200,000 displaced households affected by the Taal Volcano eruption.
Quintana stated:ā€œThe Philippines has proven, time and again, that the UAE is a genuine friend at crucial times and therefore our leaders and the Filipino people will always remember UAEā€™s gesture of kindness, generosity and humanity, especially at this time when all countries have their own challenges to overcome.ā€
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Another messed up thing is even with this being the one version where keith and allura don't have a romance he treats her better than her boyfriends lotor and lance. Lotor kept the altean colony from her. He also killed inocent alteans for their quintesences. Lance was overly possesive of allura plus the prize line was wrong and hurtful. Keith has provided confort to allura he has protected and saved allura. Even after her passing keith honors her memory better than her boyfriend lance. Keith transisted the blade of marmora into a humantarian organization providing aid where needed and keeping peace in the universe. Lance is living his simple life on the farm.
Voltron Season 8 has done so much damage to the franchiseā€¦
They had better make a new series, comic book, movie, or something to retcon this mess, otherwise the brand is cursed. The fans arenā€™t buying their merchandise, yet they keep making more of it.
The recent JDS and LM interview on AfterbuzzTV made a bad situation worse. Kill off Keith? Heā€™s supposed to be the main hero, but they never really understood that. Kill Hunk and replace him with Axca? Kill all of the Paladins? What were they thinking?!
And LM wasnā€™t sure if Chip and Pidge were brothers or cousins in the old seriesā€¦they were twins! šŸ˜” How can a showrunner not know this? She didnā€™t even watch the whole series. Unbelievable.
We have been lied to by the showrunners before, so how can we believe anything they say now? The whole thing seems to be a smokescreen. Instead of consoling the fans, they have just made us angrier. šŸ˜”
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