#what an awesome and slightly unhinged badass

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Hola this is my first req

Might I request hcs for Hobie and Miles (separately) x male reader who is a fellow super hero with a mutation in his jaw that gave him a snake bite?(sharp teeth, unhinging jaw, venom)

Despite how scary reader can look he is very kind and courteous (and head over heels for his spider boy) and Hobie and Miles help him get over his insecurities about smiling around others

Fluffy and romantic pls (sorry if it too specific lol)

Thank you and keep being awesome

😎🫶 - Crax

hobie and miles with snake mutated boyfriends !

welcome back crax lmao, the request slapped dw, you nailed it !

AND IM SO SORRY for keeping you waiting, shit kept going on in my life

separate, established relationships

warnings: hobie brown ?

pairing: hobie brown x male!reader, miles morales x male!reader

requests: refer to the masterlist please !

★⋆ ⋆☆⋆ ☠︎︎ ⋆☆⋆⋆★✧

you wanna know how many fucks hobie gives about the mutation ? zero

in like the most respectful but effortlessly cool way

mutations are nothing new to him, man fights mutants on the daily

just views it as an extension of yourself, it’s apart of who you are

if you can accept that, he’s happy

would absolutely be a hype man if not though, he don’t fuck w insecurity

one thing i think he’d reference a lot ? medusa, because of that one sticker on his guitar

maybe he’s a huge greek mythology guy and thinks that your mutation is a sign for this and that- like that one comment he made about metaphors for capitalism, i think he liked to analyse things like an english student

with your unhinging jaw and venomous bite he liked to say some absurd stuff like “just goes to show how independence and self sufficiency can overcome the norms regardless of [politics]” hinting at that while you may have some unconventionally appreciated features, you’re able to rise above it and be a hero like a badass

so that being said, he thinks your smile alone is dope and can represent so much more if you want it to

if you wear a mask or something to cover it up, he’ll never insist on taking it off unless you’re comfortable, it’s not his place to dictate what you wear

he may however make a comment or two about it

“hope you’re not wearin’ tha’ to cover up them teeth of yours” ur teeth are so cool

if you’re insecure about how like exposed ur teeth are when you smile, Hobie gets into the habit of pulling his cheek back w his finger when smiling (at the appropriate times) just to show there’s nothin to be afraid of

sticks his tongue out too for funsies, ESPECIALLY if you’ve got a forked tongue

it’s a true shame getting ur tongue split is illegal in the UK, he’d love to match

at the end of the day when alls said and done, if you can’t bring yourself to feel comfortable in your own skin while you’re out and about, he’ll make it clear that he doesn’t care about your unhinging jaw or teeth or venom in private, cause that’s where it counts in his head

he thinks you look badass and really doesn’t think you should pay attention to what other people think anyway, under any circumstances

but especially when you go out there together and make a genuine difference in the world as heroes, even if you don’t call yourselves that

has once cracked a joke along the lines of “my boyfriend will bite you” and it was actually a threat, in the most loving way

miles

he might be like- a bit surprised the first time meeting you, maybe have some slightly insensitive questions but he means no offence

he just can’t keep his mouth shut sometimes

i think he’s a tiny bit afraid at first but warms up quickly, miles doesn’t seem like a snake guy and i can see him being the associating anything with everything kinda guy

definitely felt guilty for that one now ur boyfriends

massive fan of drawing you and your snake-ness, you look so funky in his style

really likes being heroes together :]

took a double take the first time he saw your jaw unhinge but now he seems jealous at times

after having a super serious conversation about it he immediately says something so off handed that it completely cuts whatever tension there might have been

makes an excellent point that you could swallow a burber whole, he thinks that’s an accomplishment fs

“you can eat a burger in one, that’s skill.” he’s so sure of himself while saying that

there’s something very terrifying but reassuring and endearing about you having such a dangerous mouth with you ur venom and such, used some strange ass logic like “he COULD kill me, but he won’t”

so when you are comfortable just being urself and not covering up your smile, he honestly feels really grateful and trusted

mans never gonna break that trust, he’s never gonna hurt you

ur polite asf too so he doesn’t even second guess introducing you to his parents, doesn’t think things along the lines of “gonna introduce my snake boyfriend” it’s more like “he’s so polite this is an easy win”

IF YOU SMILE HE SMILES, that’s all i’m sayin

therefore, you should smile more and not go out of your way to hide it

he won’t really say anything if you actively choose to in public, you might catch him lookin a bit sympathetic from the corner of your eye if he notices you purposely doing it

it’s not his place to say a thing, but he’d really appreciate it if you got out of that habit, and he’s happy to help

like he might busy your hands just so you don’t subconsciously cover your mouth, that kinda things

he could do this by holding them or whatever

please don’t be embarrassed of urself, you are so so handsome

★⋆ ⋆☆⋆ ☠︎︎ ⋆☆⋆⋆★✧

sorry it’s not insanely romantic ?? i cant really see these boys being like that so i kinda struggled a bit w that

sorry if this is just not great overall i’ve been out of it shshshs

[tightjeansjavi]

oh shiiit!! That was awesome!! I’m so glad you’re not shying away from violence and all that because that was fucking badass!! Gwen is so cool and I love that we’re seeing that!

I wish she could’ve killed him but I guess we still need him *sigh* hahaha

And Gwen and Joel sneaking kisses during this??? Aaaaah! It’s so fucking cute. They’re just fucking perfect!

And I love that you’re including things like body hair in this! So cool!!! And that Joel doesn’t give a shit about stuff like that bc he’s a man.. I’m swooning lmao

I looooove it!!! Thank you!!!

The part where Gwen tortures Robert and gets her revenge was a last minute idea because I was like hmmm what can I add in here to tie the chapter up? I actually wrote that part out before the rest of the chapter bc it was literally living rent free in my head 😭

I loved that Joel was just in the background and he let her do her thing. Which, let’s be real, was pretty TERRIFYING. Miss girl was calm the entire time, she didn’t yell she just knew exactly what she needed to do. I just know Joel was slightly terrified of her in those moments because she was entirely unhinged. I think he was also secretly proud and thinking, ‘that’s my girl fuck yeah <3’

Ahh yes the kisses in between! The I got you, you got me and the things get tight, we split? Ugh. They’re honestly just too perfect and work so well together in that environment. That’s literally why I had Robert say “You guys fuckin Bonnie and Clyde now?” nah they’re Gwen & Joel! Get with the program!

I originally had him going down on her planned for the last chapter but it didn’t fit in so I was like let’s throw it in right here! Nahh he doesn’t give a shit about those things and I love him for that. He talked her through it, reassured her and then showed her just what he meant 🫠

When he openly says to her “Yeah, well you got me feelin pretty pussy drunk. Coulda kept goin but I didn’t wanna overwhelm ya.” I SCREAMED?? Plus the consent and him letting her know that she is safe and he has her, once again?? Men aren’t built like this and I wish they were bc I would absolutely be FOLDING

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First Kill - a (very subjective) review:

Let me preface this by saying that I am probably not quite the target audience age wise, but even if I acknlowledge that some of the teen angst is meant to be, there’s still plenty plots and writing that was done pretty cheaply imo, even for a show that was mainly produced for teens/young adults.

- Was it the writing? Was it the acting? I am not sure, but for some reason the chemistry between Jul and Cal was just...lacking, a lot of the time. But I will give the actresses the benefit of the doubt and say it was mostly due to the writing or maybe they just made a mistake when they cast two actresses who were well above the age they were gonna portray on the show (will Hollywood ever learn not to do this? The short answer is No. The slightly longer answer is that they did this on purpose because of the unexpectedly sexual scenes throughout the season)

- The amount of plot holes, man. I can’t even list them here, because...dude. This is what happens when you take a short story and don’t properly develop it for a whole show. Then again, it’s teen angst and the plot probably wasn’t the focus, but still. If there ever is a second season, this is gonna be a wild ride

- There’s vampires. Fine. Let’s just bring in every other mythical character we can think of, okay? Not okay. For real. You lost me at zombies, sorry not sorry.

- I will not hold it against the producers or writers but this Romeo and Juliet trope needs to be done with. Please.

- Both sides keep blaming the other side for stuff they started and just?!? It gets pretty darn tiring by the final episode of season one

- A snake? Inside daddy dearest’s chest? Seriously? No explanation? Sure, fine, let’s roll with that...I guess.

- Bro just unhinged his jaw to eat grandma? Okay, that was freaking funny, as long as you don’t overthink what’s happening

- Not ONCE do we learn how exactly people get turned into vampires. Which- fine, okay. But from what we have seen it’s the same act as them feeding and killing people, so - what’s the difference here? How do they control that power? Anyone?

- Jul clearly doesn’t know how this shit works. How would she, if not even the writers know? And Cal still blames her for turning her brother? Your vampire girlfriend clearly did not expect this to happen, because no one ever taught her the different between feeding and turning someone into a freaking vampire

- Cal being upset is fine, truly, but calling Jul a monster and shit? After all the “maybe not all monsters are the same” talk the whole season? That seems like a bit of a stretch, even if she’s upset and angry. I truly hope they resolve that if there’s ever a second season

- the visual effects were crap at a lot of points, sometimes it’s as plain as that

But also:

- Aubin Wise single-handedly carried that show on her shoulders. Seriously, give that woman an award for that level of acting skills

- Also, Talia and Oliver are the only two people with common sense on that show? They’re awesome and deserve more spotlight

- Seriously though, I’m here for Oliver fucking shit up and he’s the kind of villain we deserve

- Talia and Margot - need I say more? Let’s be real, this story should have been about them to begin with

- The vampire origin story was actually good? Like? I can get on board with this and in general I support the snake being part of the plot - unless she’s in someone’s freaking chest

- Solid soundtrack choices were made - thanks for that

Long story short: it’s probably enjoyable for younger audiences and entertaining for “older” audiences if you can overlook the clichés and plot holes, but mostly worth it for a) badass and hot mums and b) the openly insane but sane brother who is ready to fight the matriarchy, hey ya!

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My ranking of this week’s episodes and my reasons:

“Whatever Happened to Donald Duck?!”-It was a Donald-centric episode, so it already had a leg up on the other episodes. We got to see Donald go into dad mode, in badass mode, AND an AWESOME FUSION of both. We got a peek into how Donald’s mind works and just how much he cares about his family. He goes to therapy to be a better parent and the show doesn’t make it a joke. They portray it as a good and mature thing to do. Plus the Dewey/Webby stuff was great (Phooey Duck lives). This episode is my favorite episode of season 2 as of now.

“A Nightmare on Killmotor Hill!”-I love seeing the different dynamics between the characters and this episode was chocked FULL of them! Seeing all the kids together was SO MUCH FUN! Really hoping for more of that next season. The seamless balance between comedy and horror worked really well. Magica was HORRIFYING! Seeing her unhinged at the end was equal parts funny and terrifying. I’m happy that Lena is on the road to realizing she’s her own person. It was neat to get a peek into the mindsets of each kid and I hope the show explores that more. We deserve more Phooey.

“Happy Birthday, Doofus Drake!”-Another episode filled with character dynamics. I like when Louie gets paired off with one of the adult characters because he’s looking for someone to be his role model and believe in him. It was fun to have two con-artists team up for a big score. BOYD IS BABY AND MUST BE PROTECTED! The Huey/Della stuff was great as well. Huey inherited the family temper, he’s just better at hiding it. Launchpad’s cameo was great. And the end with Goldie, so sweet. She really connected with Louie, even if she’s not ready to admit it.

“The Golden Armory of Cornelis Coot!”-I wasn’t really looking forward to this episode to begin with, so it was off to a bad start. The stuff with the kids were some of the better parts of the episodes, but it felt too similar to not only “Irrational Treasure” but “Daytrip of Doom” from season 1. I would have prefered the episode just being Della and the kids because the stuff with her and Launchpad was weak. Both felt slightly out of character. Launchpad felt too ditzy/wacky and Della felt almost too...competent? That’s not the right word but I can’t figure out what word I want. She’s usually not that careful when she does things. Their plot should have been it’s own episode because there is a lot that could be touched on. Plus Della interacting with the kids is the more interesting stuff right now.

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How Marvel is Redefining the Future of the X-Men

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Jonathan Hickman and crew are blazing a bright trail for Marvel's X-Men with House of X and Powers of X.

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Jonathan Hickman, Pepe Larraz, RB Silva, Marte Gracia, and the rest of the team are now two issues into House of X and Powers of X, the intertwining X-Men event comics meant to reset the marvelous mutants, and in four issues over one month, they've managed to change everything we know about the X-Men. This isn't hyperbole: the changes that were made in House of X #2 altered everything we knew about the past of the X-Men, and the additional information we got in Powers of X #2 changed at least two potential futures and may have further tweaked the past. We are one third of the way done with the event, and already these are the most ambitious, most entertaining X-Men comics in a decade. 

WARNING: This article contains EXTENSIVE spoilers about the first issues of House of X and Powers of X. STOP READING NOW if you haven’t read both comics.

I. The Theme

They're not kidding about this 10 thing. First, Powers of X literally goes through exponentially greater powers of ten on a timescale (starting at year 1, jumping to year 10, year 100 and year 1000). So of course Moira X would be the tenth Moira Kinross.

House of X #2 made one of the most head-spinning retcons in X-Men history. This is a flatly absurd statement to make about a comic family where the title character faked his own death for shits and giggles more than once, but Jonathan Hickman will see your "actually Jean Grey's real body was in a cocoon at the bottom of Jamaica Bay," and raise you "in Moira MacTaggert's ninth life she chose to help Apocalypse ascend to godhood."

A brief summary of this massive, massive retcon: Moira Kinross lived a happy, long life full of family and died at the age of 74. When she died, she immediately woke up in the womb with all the knowledge she had gained in her previous life. She tried living through her life again with that additional knowledge, but it didn't work, and when Charles Xavier outed himself as a mutant on television, she felt that was the answer she had been looking for, and promptly died in a plane crash on her way to meet him. She woke up again in the womb, with an additional lifetime of memories, and proceeded to devise a cure to her mutant ability of reincarnation. Unfortunately, Mystique and Destiny didn't care for the potential outcomes of having a mutant cure out and available in the world, so they burned her and her cure in her lab, but not before warning Moira to help mutants, to never attempt to make a cure again lest they find her and kill her again, and telling her that she only has ten or eleven lives in total.

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From there, Moira begins an iterative process of figuring out the best way forward for mutants. First she marries Charles and helps him establish the X-Men, but they're eventually all killed by Sentinels. Then she finds Charles 10 years early and helps him establish a separatist mutant colony, but they're all killed by Sentinels. Then she goes badass commando and kills every Trask she can find, but Sentinels are created anyway and she's killed by a stray Mastermold.  So she convinces Magneto to attack early, but he's killed by the heroes of that world and she dies trying to break out of jail. The ninth time through, she wakes Apocalypse early and helps him ascend to his maximum power, and they go to war with the Sentinels. And the tenth time through brings us, presumably, to House of X.

This is a massive, massive change to existing continuity that asks as many questions - what happened in the unaccounted for life 6? why would she enter an abusive relationship with Joe MacTaggart in life 10? - as it answers (Moira is no longer the only human to contract the Legacy Virus).

II. The Art

Pepe Larraz on House of X and RB Silva on Powers of X  continue to astonish with their linework, but my god, Marte Gracia's colors are staggering. It's unfair to single anyone out, because these are arguably the best looking superhero books on stands right now, but Gracia is doing tremendous work (and we fawned over Larraz and Silva last time, but holy shit look at Destiny's mask and tell me Larraz isn't due some awards).

These two books are basically telling four stories; one in each of the four time periods. Each is a vastly different setting with a different tone and different coloring needs. Gracia maintains the distinctions between the four with different palates, and uses different effects for each. He also does a great job of getting out of the line art's way when it's needed - Larraz is a little chunkier and muddier with his blacks, which really adds to the tone of some of the scenes in HoX, while Silva is a little bit bubblier and cartoony, which is perfect for adding incongruous menace to Nimrod. Gracia combines with the other artists to make an X-Book that sings better than any X-Men comic since Jerome Opena and Dean White on Uncanny X-Force.

We are in a golden age of comics coloring. The perfection of digital coloring technology has both opened the doors to a lot more potential colorists, and given those at the top of their game more tools to use when telling the story than they had when coloring was more analog, and that means there are a lot of people doing incredible work. Gracia's work on House of X and Powers of X show that he belongs in the same conversation with the Dave Stewarts and Jordie Bellaires of the world.

III. The Marvel Universe Matters Again

For a very long time, the X-Men books have been siloed off from the rest of the broader Marvel Universe. This has been to the detriment of both the X-Men and the rest of Marvel. That shared universe feeling is part of the reason most of us got into superhero comics in the first place. If we wanted to read a story about a group of kids with powers, there are any number of places we could go for that. It's the fact that the X-Men resonate within a larger shared superhero universe that helped lend these stories some meaning.

That feeling is back, and the beauty is that the creative team is doing it entirely through offhand references. The fact that Powers of X's textual explanation borrows heavily from Annihilation: Conquest isn't material to the progress of the story, but for longtime fans it's a sign that these stories matter, and for new fans it's a thread to tug at to find more stories to love. Cyclops showing genuine affection for Ben Grimm is an awesome metacommentary on how the Fox properties were treated at Marvel, but it's also a link between all of these stories happening. X-Men comics haven't felt like they mattered like this in a long time.

IV. Everything X is New Again

X-Men comics haven't been this effectively rooted in their own continuity for some time either. These two comics are absolutely jammed with classic X-Men nods and love from all over the time period. The promotional material flagged four distinct eras it would call back to - Giant Sized X-Men #1, the '90s launch of volume 2, Age of Apocalypse, and the Grant Morrison run - and while we're getting plenty of those, we're also getting everything else. There's a surprising amount of '90s X-Men, too, from well beyond the launch of volume 2. That is perhaps required when you're doing this much work with classic '90s villains like Apocalypse and Sinister, who weren't entirely fleshed out until The Twelve and the Gambit ongoing series respectively, but it's still fun and surprising to see that era rehabilitated here. And the X^3 era's focus on the Phalanx hearkens back to a lot of X-Men continuity that is firmly mid-90s.

Magneto is also a pathway for a lot of Silver/Bronze Age cusp continuity. We spend a lot of time in Octopusheim, his island base from the dawn of Uncanny X-Men that he then used as a vacation getaway for the New Mutants when he ran the school, and the gorgeous flashback above from Powers of X #2 is chockablock with classic callbacks. 

And every aspect of X-Men life is touched. Obviously their genetic inheiritance is the crux, but the preponderance of crazy X-adjacent space name drops like the Shi'ar and Phalanx and Technarchy shows that everything counts and nothing is off limits.

V. Hickman's Mastery of Villains

There were very few outright villains in Jonathan Hickman's older Marvel work. Really only two that I can think of: Thanos in Infinity and The Maker, Ultimate Reed Richards. There were plenty of villanous characters, but while Namor and Dr. Doom are assholes, they at least had an argument to make. But whether they were bad guys or bad guys making compelling points, Hickman wrote them beautifully. This is happening again here.

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Nimrod is a delight. He plays as brilliant, weirdly funny, and just slightly unhinged, which goes against type for a blocky murder robot. But his power and design and openness to flat murder make him a little bit terrifying as well. Meanwhile, Magneto is tremendous. "I do. I decide." is right next to "I. Doom." in the face of the Beyonder's destruction of the multiverse as PERFECT lines from ambiguous bad people. Destiny's entire interaction with Moira in HoX #2 is on the same level. Menace, authority, understanding, and purpose all in the briefest of dialogue.

VI. The Greatest Cyclops of All Time

This is going to sound weird, but I don't want to be friends with this Cyclops. I want to be his coworker.

I want to be set to a task with him. I want us to decide who's going to take care of what. And then I want to be completely and utterly certain that the stuff I'm not working on is going to be taken care of correctly and quickly, and then we can go grab a beer when it's done.

This is perfect writing of a character who's been done dirty for the better part of the last 15 years. Good Cyclops should be competence porn. He's the guy who can bank an optic blast off of two walls and knock out the bad guy, the one Captain America takes tactical advice from. I look at him and I see a viable politician with appeal outside the mutant community, but for a decade and a half events have conspired to push him into reactionary terrorism before he was killed off panel. His return in the last wave of X-books is promising from what I've read so far (I'm on Unlimited time, so I'm six months behind), but he was off the board or playing a different game for a long time. He's back now and he's better than any Cyclops I've ever read.

VII. Elegant Infodumps

The infodump graphics that abound in Hickman comics have turned some people off to his work in the past. Designer Tom Muller and the subject matter are, I think, combining to change that. Also, the droplets of information hidden on these pages make them really worthwhile to pour over.

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There has been an enormous amount of information conveyed in these first four issues. Resetting of timelines, additional potential futures, massive character retcons, a core mystery, new factions introduced. All of them used Muller's infographics to help further the story, but they're presented in a clear, logical way that both furthers the story and deepens the mystery. Here's a perfect example: the timelines at the end of HoX #2 require two page turns. Being the broken completist that I am, I wanted to see all of the timelines lined up, and when I found a copy of the images attached online, I clicked away immediately because it didn't work in my brain. It was laid out the right way for the page turns, but not necessarily from end to end. Someone also very generously put the timeline data laid side to side in a google spreadsheet that was, to me, fundamentally unreadable, and I have spent enormous parts of my life staring at and creating unreadable spreadsheets. It is a testament to Muller's skill as a communicator that he found the best way to convey this information on the page.

It also helped that he dropped a huge hint about Moira 9's timeline as an OS build caption at the bottom of the mutant race summary graphic in PoX #1.

VIII. Mastery of the Form

As consumer products, these books are just about perfect.

To be completely honest, $5 is pretty expensive for a comic. Even with an added page count, a LOT of books now are breezy, decompressed reads that are done in ten minutes. Not these. Setting aside that they're designed for rereading, these are incredibly dense stories that are perfectly balanced between using the art and the words to tell them, that reward deep readings and rereadings in a way a lot of other comics don't. I'm not saying I want my entire stack of books to be like this, but these are good purchases.

They also manage the information flow perfectly for a weekly story. Consider: week 1, House of X #1 lays out the new status quo for humans, Magneto, the X-Men and the robot adversaries. A week later, Powers of X #1 builds two potential futures and sets up a retcon while furthering week 1's story and layering in mystery that rolls back onto the first issue. A week after that, we get hit with a massive retcon that changes all of X-Men history and totally recontextualizes the first two issues along with building out ten potential alternate timelines. And then this week, more gaps in that story get filled in and more mystery gets layered on. A month delay between any of these would be interminable. A week is just right, and considering the quality we're getting, it's also ridiculous from a production perspective. This is high quality work.

IX. #XSpoilers

I've been reading comics for a while, and I think the last time any comics hit like this was probably Flashpoint. EVERYBODY is talking about this book. It's selling like gangbusters, but it's also the first time since I started using the internet that people were universally and uncritically happy with a comic. 

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Honestly, these books are just so much fun to experience. Rushing to read them right when they come out, then spending hours arguing about the possible interpretations and new plot lines, it's a reminder of what it was like to first get into comics. I'm loath to be the old white dude shouting at the kids that this is how comics should be, but it is nice to have everyone on generally the same page and having fun reading them again. Even if the guy who owns Marvel has spent the last three years trying to rob the VA.

X. I Don't Own Enough Corkboard and Yarn

An enormous part of that fun is the baseless, incorrect and often ridiculous speculation. Last time, I argued that X^1 Xavier is actually Sinister in disguise. While the trashy glam geneticist remains conspicuous by his absence, I'm drifting away from that idea a little bit, only because it feels like he's being accounted for. My big speculation this week is around the various lives of Moira and how they relate to the PoX timeline.

-X^3 is Moira 6.

-X^2 is Moira 9.

-X^1 is Moira 10 and the 616.

-X^0 is Moira 11.

I'm very confident about the X^2 timeline belonging to Moira 9 after PoX #2 showed that Apocalypse is leading the future mutants. There's still one unaccounted for mutant on Asteroid K, so that could easily be her.

Moira 6's timeline is noticably missing from the timeline at the back of HoX #2, but each new life flows from its predecessor - Moira 5 gets Charles to wall off the X-Men after watching them die in a Sentinel attack, while Moira 9 goes to Apocalypse after Magneto can't fix things. So what happens to Moira 6 to make her spend her next life hunting down Trasks? 

She makes herself a Sentinel and lives through the Ascension. 

If Moira 6 doesn't involve a Nimrod, then the first time she'd experience on would be in her ninth life, so it would make no sense for her to have the X-Men hunting down information about Nimrod's emergence there for use in a future timeline. It makes a kind of sense for her to experience these Sentinel ends to her previous two lives, then to go all the way to the end of what the robots want to find out what she's up against.

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I have no evidence to support X^0 and X^1 being different trips through besides a gut feeling. X-Men continuity would be SO much more complicated if Moira, Charles, and Eric all knew what was coming and the intervening thousand issues of X- and X-adjacent comics happened. And we've seen a timeline where minor changes lead to mostly the same outcomes - Moira 4 lived through the original 5, the Giant-Sized globetrotting team, and A vs. X while married to Charles, so Moira 11 can have Charles and Magneto working together from the jump and the rest of Marvel continuity unfold the same way.

Either way, it's extremely complicated and a blast to argue about.

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The Mosley Review: Baby Driver

There are very few directors that I get excited for when I hear or see their name attached to a film. I especially get extremely excited when it is an original idea written and directed by said director. Well Edgar Wright is one of those names and every time I see his name I know what style of storytelling and visual fun I'm about to witness on the big screen. This film is by far the very definition of a well seasoned director showing that he still keeps us on the edge of own seats and keeps our hearts full with emotion. Right from the start the film is pure brilliance and imaginative fun. I love heist films and the stories of how complicated the robbery can be and when the cops show up and then the car chase begins, that's when all the adrenaline kicks in with all the amazing turns, spin outs and shortcuts and that is all here. The film doesn't try to make itself out to be the most drawn out overly planned out heist film, but instead sticks to the crew members and focuses on the driver and tells a pretty good love story that felt natural and heartwarming.

Ansel Elgort was outstanding and charming as Baby. He convinced me that he was a world class driver and he nailed looking and being cool behind the wheel. From time to time I think he struggles a bit with the characters' southern accent and it was slightly distracting. Lily James was excellent as Debra and the chemistry between her and Baby was perfect. Kevin Spacey is always a class act and as the brains of the operations, Doc, he was great. Jon Hamm was cool and fun as Buddy and his lady in the film Darling, played by Eiza González, was on par with Hamm and they were great together. Jon Bernthal never stops being intense and awesome and as Griff, he nothing short of that here. Jamie Foxx rounds out the cast as Bats and he was more psycho, unhinged and just oozing with villainy.

As you know this film has been praised for its soundtrack and how it's the driving force of the film and well, it truly is figuratively and sometimes literally. The soundtrack was truly bonkers on how badass it was and how it was brilliantly paced with Edgar Wright's editing style that was subtle and above all perfectly with the beat of almost all the songs. The subtle sound edits and cuts that happen on beat with the songs was just awesome and I don't think any director could’ve done it better. The car chases and vehicle work was just truly amazing and it is the best on screen driving you'll see all year hands down. Bullet, Ronin, Gone in 60 Seconds, Jack Reacher and even Need For Speed are some films that feature some of my favorite car chases and this film nearly defeats them all on how amazing the sequences are in this film. Writer/Director Edgar Wright has done it yet again and he has easily made one the best original films of the year. See this film NOW!!!!

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Jill Mikkelson

Jill is a vocalist, guitarist and promoter who has been involved in the underground/extreme music scenes in the UK and Canada for over 15 years. Her recent bands include Dysteria and hate fuck, and she currently works as in-house promoter for The Unicorn, Camden. She’s one of the organisers of Chimpyfest and Equal Fest, and makes sure her booking policy is representative. Thanks Jill!

Here she discusses internalised misogyny, effective activism as a privileged white feminist, and maintaining hope in the face of global catastrophes...

Check out the latest Dysteria album here:- https://dysteria.bandcamp.com

Photo credit Natalie Wetenhall, copyright 2017.

Are you aware of the ‘male gaze’ while performing, and does this influence any of your behaviours? I.e. the clothes you choose to perform in, the way you move your body, the things you write about.

JM I feel like I’ve always been acutely aware of this, before I’d even heard the term ‘male gaze’ or even the term ‘feminism’. You grow up reading magazines or watching television telling you “how to look cute for your crush,” giving you blanket generalizations of what guys supposedly like, listening to ruthless criticisms of women’s appearances, etc. and it adds up. Growing up in alternative rock/punk/metal amplifies that. You end up hanging around mostly boys/men at these shows and I remember the general message being very critical of women. I remember the general message being that if a woman was dressed in anything other than a t-shirt and jeans she was obviously vying for male attention, she wasn’t there for the music. No hesitation with “nice tits though!” immediately afterwards. I internalised a lot of this misogyny and looked at women through that lens as well. Girls are brought up being told we’re in competition with one another, so when I saw girls wearing an outfit I wouldn’t feel comfortable in I’d jump to the same dismissive, nasty conclusions.  I was not going to be ‘the object’, I was going to be the equal. Performing the ‘cool girl’, essentially.

When I was playing in my early twenties, I was very conscientious of not looking too ‘girly’ because I wanted to be ‘one of the dudes’, and I didn’t want anyone to think I was a schtick; “they got a girl singer so they could get more attention” is something I heard more than once. Now that I’m middle aged, I’m just mostly lazy and going for maximum comfort when it comes to clothes. I also no longer care about the approval of men, but I do think about how I take up space. I perform with the express intention of looking as intimidating and ugly as possible. If you’re commanding space in a way that women aren’t supposed to it’s generally seen as a bad thing: you’re an attention seeking bitch, you’re crazy, you’re scary, etc. Fuck that. I’m reclaiming that shit. It’s ugly music and subject matter. I am not a prop. I have something to say and you’re going to listen. That being said, if I’m playing guitar I can’t do much besides look at what I’m playing! In Dysteria we have a song that isn’t about women as objects of male pleasure per se, but that’s part of the bigger picture of living in a man’s world, and it’s about people like Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Emily Davidson, women driven to extremes in large part because of the way they were denigrated and dismissed by men.

What does your internal critic say and how do you overcome this?

JM My internal critic can be very cruel and going back to what I was saying about girls being taught to be in competition with one another, I think this is another hangover from the messages we receive from culture and media, the ones saying you’re never good enough. I think it also has to do with seeing women in music criticised much more harshly than men, and in a lot of ways, not seeing any women at all. There’s this expectation I put on myself to be perfect all the time because if I’m not at my best, I feel like I will be dismissed immediately. No second chances or having a bad day, just “oh, look, there’s gimmick girl and she sucks.” It’s not as bad as it was when I was younger, partly because in the 15 years since I started playing the number of women participating has exploded. I only knew of five other women in Canada in the early 2000’s in underground heavier bands. I say underground because Kittie was big at the time and that was pretty cool. I’m sure there were others kicking around but as the saying goes, “you can’t be what you can’t see.” I didn’t see other women around me being confident and self-assured and just fully raging. Now they’re everywhere and as cheesy as it may sound, it really does give me strength. Age has also helped – I think everyone becomes more comfortable in their own skin as they grow older, learn more, and watch the ‘fucks given’ meter plummet another 20 points below zero with every year that passes.

If you could tell your younger self something to encourage her, or something you wish she’d known, what would it be?

Practice self care. Don’t waste your time. Appreciate the process. Do not compare your life to others. You are not the centre of the world. Empathy first. Listen. Set goals. Work to achieve them. REPS REPS REPS.

Tell us about three women who inspire you.

JM Candice Kucsulain –  She’s the first woman I remember hearing do a “screaming” vocal or whatever you want to call it. Not like the punk rock yell, but a proper gruff, traditionally male bark. When I saw her, I thought “I can do this” so I’d sit around and scream along to records in my room until I felt confident enough to reply to a post looking for a singer on a message board (bless the early noughties.) It’s kinda funny ‘cos I only found out recently she’s become a competitive powerlifter, which is something else I’ve come to love, and now sixteen years later she’s giving me inspiration once again. The fact that seeing her made me feel like I could do what I wanted is also a big reason: I’m a huge believer in celebrating/fighting for women to be more represented in heavy music. It makes me sad to hear people say ‘positive discrimination is still discrimination’ as if we can just brush our currently woeful state of gender affairs under the carpet and with no effort at all somehow things will correct themselves. Every single freedom women now have was hard-fought for. Those in power don’t just give it up or make space. You have to demand it and take it. The women who have come before and are existing now in any male dominated sphere are important role models for how to get this done and should be/need to be lifted up/centred. Their stories are important! Representation matters!

Courtney Love – I realise a lot of people find her distasteful but I think it’s funny how attention craving, erratic behaviour, whatever, is seen as edgy and cool when dudes do it, but if a woman dares to enter this territory she’s an unhinged bitch! She was outspoken, went after what she wanted and got it, and people hate her for it. Not to say she didn’t have problems, or do some seriously fucked up shit, but coming into adolescence in the early nineties and finding solace in rock, she personified and made into music every angsty teenage feeling I had. It felt uglier than the rest of riotgrrl stuff going on, which I didn’t really get into and still don’t really dig. Whenever I was pissed off about anything I’d listen to ‘Live Through This’ on repeat. It was amazing to see this woman who did not give a fuck about what anyone thought about her and just made really powerful, yet vulnerable music. She was out there with all her faults. She was real. If I’d come across her at this point in my life I might not be so forgiving, but she was a huge deal to teenage Jill and a big reason I wanted to play music.

Serena Williams – I’m not sure why, but I felt like I should answer with someone who wasn’t a celebrity, but I just kept coming back to her, so fuck it. I love her! I know some people would argue about whether musicians and sports folk are deserving of the social reverence/monetary compensation, and of course the world would probably be a better place if all the lady scientists/activists/authors/etc. of the world got as much attention than the three I’ve chosen, but here we are. I shouldn’t apologise really. Anyways, as mentioned in regards to Candice, I’ve recently developed a love for athletics and as far as I’m concerned, she’s the queen of athletes. I don’t even like tennis but have the utmost respect for what it takes to excel at the game. You have to be at peak levels of physical and mental fitness in terms of strength, endurance, agility, everything. The amount of work that goes into achieving this is awe inspiring. She’s the most accomplished woman in any sport really, and she’s faced down all the brutal racism and sexism she’s had to endure throughout her career. She’s always stood her ground and had no qualms about telling people to shove it when she needed to. Strength of mind and body makes her the ultimate badass in my books. Inspiration in every way!

Ask yourself some questions and tell us the answers.

JM How do I pay it forward?

-- I ask myself this question every day. I have experienced a great deal of privilege in my life and know the process of figuring out how to best acknowledge and use these advantages in hopes of making the world a more just, or at least slightly brighter place, is a journey with no end. Getting ready to start a new chapter in my life, I’ve tried to keep this at the forefront of my goals and plans and I think I might have figured out a small part of how I can begin to do this in a meaningful way, using strengths I’m only just discovering. Getting old is awesome, by the way. Stay tuned.

JM How can I participate in the ongoing resistance to oppressive state and capitalist structures of racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, etc. most effectively?

-- “Activism is not about how many panel discussions you can do. It's about centering the stories and voices of people who are MOST affected.”  - I read this in an article by brittany t. oliver the other day about what needs to be done after the women’s marches and I think it really sums up the best mindset with which to move forward. I know a disproportionate amount of attention is given to white feminism, that solidarity is not enough and there are conversations where my opinion isn’t needed. I know the people who are leading social justice and have been putting in the work are the most marginalised. I know I need to listen and follow their lead but finding my place in helping to tip the power dynamics (building social, political and economic power for the oppressed) is something I am still trying to figure out. In the past I’ve done benefits, written songs, supported my union, blah blah blah, but I feel like those are lame cop-outs and know I can be doing more. That being said, I was listening to the Australian indigenous activist Gary Foley speak the other day, and as he said, “…all you can do is try and bring as many people with you.” I guess the fact that I’m asking myself this question at all is a start.

JM How do I maintain hope when all seems lost? What’s the point of even trying?

-- Aaaannnd another question I ask myself every day. I’m pretty sure everyone is feeling fairly hopeless these days when it comes to humanity in general. When you see governments, and what seems like most of the people around you, all looking at the short term, burrowing their heads in the sand, buying into lies peddled to maintain the status quo because it’s easier or because they don’t know any better, it’s seriously hard not to despair. So, I remind myself that most don’t have the privilege of giving up – it would literally mean death. I remind myself that even though there’s still a long way to go and that many women worldwide are still suffering, 100 years ago, I would have been considered some man’s property, so things can, and do change. I remind myself that there are millions and millions of people working tirelessly and lovingly every day to make the world around us even just a little bit better. I can’t honestly say I have hope all the time, I’m not sure anyone can, but I try to practice gratitude and really relish those moments when you can see beauty in others. Your brain is hard wired to remember negatives more than positives so hold the good ‘uns real close!

Share something with us.

JM I want everyone to put/keep the pressure on Justin Trudeau, the Prime Minister of Canada, and make him honour the 94 recommendations of the Truth and Reconciliation Committee like he said he would. If you don’t know what the TRC is or what the recommendations are please read about it here:-

http://www.trc.ca/websites/trcinstitution/index.php?p=3 

I want everyone to talk about justice for indigenous peoples and climate justice, keep it on their radar and get involved. It was great seeing so much support for Standing Rock but we need to keep listening to and amplifying their voices, and come up with realistic strategies to keep fighting. I stole this exact sentence from something I wrote for our record: it’s our responsibility to learn the truths of ‘nation building,’ to acknowledge its destructive legacy, to make space and listen to the stories and counter-narratives of survivors who continue to endure institutionalised racism and marginalisation, and to be allies in dismantling colonialism and imperialism.

“Decolonization is a lifelong struggle filled with uncertainty and risk taking.” - Paulette Regan, 'Unsettling the Settler Within.'

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community appreciation week 📚 day one - favorite character  

you’re afraid you won’t fit in. you’re afraid you’ll be alone. great news! you share that with all of us. so you’ll never be alone, and you’ll always fit in.

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i hate this. because the ‘you made a commitment’ lesson is totally valid. but it could have come without all the insults.

why is this made to be a joke?? why is annie’s abusive mother never taken as seriously as jeff’s shit dad?????

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ohh hoo hoo buddy.  she is C O M I N G for you