#why are we fighting cause i think Venom is gay and you don't

[shinpikurage]

I think it's completely reasonable that you get sad because a friend hates a character/something that you love, but having fights or ending a friendship over that?? Just accept that you had your friend aren't the same person and move on

[beepbeeprichiellc]

Okay, so I don't know how to say this in English cause it's not my first language. Anyway, since you love angst ( you're the Reddie angst queen ) can you write an au where Richie is convicted of murder with a life sentence(?), but he's not really guilty and Eddie heartbroken saying goodbye to him?

Angst queen! I love it, I should wear a crown made from my followers tears!! You are so sweet anon, and impeccable at English, especially if it isn’t your first language. Very impressed. :)

“Tell me about your relationship with Mr. Tozier.”

The court room was silent, the prosecution standing beforehim in his primped and pressed suit that was overpriced for his cheap grin. Hepaced the room, demanding attention form those who dared sit in on the gruesometrial. The jury ate him up, practically eating out of the palm of his handmaking the defense sweat. Eddie glanced up at his lover, catching his terrifiedgaze. He had been warned that he might be called, being one closest to the defendant,but that was before the case was iron clad, before the mountain of evidence. Itwas all going downhill, and they were unprepared for the rocky bottom.

With a deep breathe he answered. “I’ve known Richie myentire life, ever since we were ten.”

“So you’re friends?” The lawyer pressed, making a circler motionwith his hand that made Eddie want to rip it from his body.

“Yes.” He replied, “We have also been seeing each other forsix months.”

There was an accumulation of gasps from the people in theroom, hushed whispers melting into the thick air. The prosecutor raised a brow,his mouth turning into a scowl. “I did not realize that your relationship wasromantic, are you suggesting that Richie Records Tozier, notorious ladies’ manis in fact gay?”

“Bisexual.” Eddie corrected.

“And you are bisexual as well?”

Eddie shook, licking his chapped lips. “No. I’m gay but I’mnot sure why that’s relevant.”

“Well it’s relevant because six months ago a femaleprostitute was found in Mr. Toziers home, her head bashed in. How do you expectus to believe this ‘relationship’ when he was still sleeping around?” The jurymuttered under their breaths, the reminder of the dead bringing up variousreactions to the 12 members.

Again, Eddie looked up to Richie, his eyes pleading forthings that Eddie wasn’t sure he could give. “Richie hasn’t slept with anothersince we have been together. We are platonic.”

“Platonic?” The word was like venom dripping form the lawyer’slips, his annoying devious smile dancing on his face. “Oh come on Mr. Kaspbrak,surly a well-educated man like yourself knows that someone as famous as defendantwould never settle. I do not mean to offend, but look at yourself. The womanwho have come forward, admitting to their sexual relations with Mr. Tozier havebeen models, performers, drop dead beautiful while you sit here looking likelast weeks-“

“Objection, this is irrelevant your honor and quite franklyinsulting!” The defence hissed, slamming his hands on the table.

“Sustained.” The judge muttered, waving off the outburst. Lookingback to the prosecution she muttered, “Get to your point please.”

The lawyer scoffed, “My point is, if you are naive enough tobelieve that Mr. Tozier had promised you a platonic relationship, is it not possiblethat he was unfaithful? That he kept up the charade to keep you, all the whilepaying the victim for sexual favors?”

Eddie bit his lip, unwanted tears welding up in his eyes. Heswallowed his emotions, forcing them back down into their rightful cage, and throwingaway the key. “No.” He choked, feeling his own words suffocate him. “I haveknown Richie my entire life, have loved him since I was thirteen. There is nouniverse, no possible scenario where he would cheat on me.”

“Is that so?” The prosecution hissed, leaning into the standas he snarled. “You think that highly of yourself?”

“I think that highly of Richie.” Eddie nipped, bearing histeeth.

There was a chuckle for the despicable man, his face turninginto one of amusement. “You may think highly of him but that does not mean heis worth your praise.”

There was a mummer from the defending bench, Richie’s eyes coveringin confusion as the prosecution pulled a black handbook from somewhere undertheir desk. “I would like to submit new evidence, your honor.” He smiled atEddie, causing the small man’s skin to crawl. “I hold here, the victims littleblack book where she kept a very detailed list of her clients. Dates, phonenumbers, preferred sexual acts.”

The jury gasped, their gaze fixated on the book that wasencased in an evidence bag. Eddie’s heart sank, his eyes looking straight athis boyfriend, whose face turned white. It couldn’t be true, he thought, hismind pleading, he loves me. Right?

“October 16th, three nights before the murder,Richie Tozier is listed as enlisting the assistance of the victim, requestingsome pretty lavished favors. Tell me Mr. Kaspbrak, how long were you in Chicagofor your business convention.”

“Ten days.” Eddie replied though his clenched teeth.

“Ten days, so within two days, your platonic boyfriend waspaying a prostitute for her services. Not very faithful if you ask me.” The sleazybeing even dared to fake a sympathetic look, reaching out to pat Eddie’sshoulder, making him flinch in disgust. “You deserve better Mr. Kaspbrak. I’msorry you loved such a horrible man.”

“Richie is not a horrible man.” He choked, “I don’t carewhat that book says, I know the truth.”

“The truth is, Mr. Tozier is a lying, cheating bastard andif I have anything do with it, he will be put away for a long time so that hecan’t hurt anyone as pure and innocent as yourself ever again.” Looking over tothe jury, he nodded adjusting his Prada tie. “The prosecution rests.”

After being excused, Eddie walked out of the court room,making it only three steps before breaking down. It was there that Stan foundhim, telling him how sorry he was. Sorry. If there was anyone to be sorry forit was Richie, his life and freedom in the hands of people who now saw him asunfaithful as any scum on the street.

“I’m going to lose him.” Eddie whispered, leaning into hisfriends touch. “This can’t be happening, I can’t stand to lose him Stan. Notlike this.”

“It’s not over till the jury sings. Have a little faith.” Hereplied gently into his ear. “Just pray that someone is looking out for ourtrashmouth.”

The jury left to deliberate half an hour ago, allowing sometime to contemplate the verdict. Eddie watched Richie talk with his lawyer, hisface twisting in a mixture of disgust and distressed. Their hushed voice carriedto where he sat with the other losers, their own conversation lagging. Hewatched the man he loved whimper and wither into nothing, looking just asafraid as he did back in Derry. This entire thing was one long set up, that waswhat Eddie had decided. There was just no other explanation.

“Eddie.” Richie breathed from the other side of the railing,finally noticing the well-dressed doctor. Tears trailing down his perfect face.“I’m so sorry you had to do that baby, but you have to believe me. None of thatwas true, I have been faithful. I swear on my life.”

“I believe you.” Eddie confessed, standing from his seat tomove closer. “I just, I don’t understand how your name ended up in that leader.None of it makes any sense.”

“I don’t know.” He whispered, leaning in closer. “This looksso bad, I think I’m going to jail Eds. For good.”

Eddie shook his head, fighting to stay strong. “You areinnocent Rich, you didn’t kill that woman.”

“That doesn’t matter. If the jury feels like I did, and ohgod they sure look like they hate my guts, then I’m done for.” He replied, whippingat his eyes. “I’m dead in the water.”

“We will figure it out.” Eddie whimpered, fidgeting underhis finest suit. “Even if this turns bad, I will never stop fighting for you. Ilove you Richie, I swear I’ll find a way.”

Richie sobbed, his eyes holding pain for his lover. “I loveyou too Eds.”

“Please rise for the jury’s deliberation.” The judge’s voicecommanded, breaking apart the two as the focus was shifted. “On the case ofRichard Tozier vs the state of California, what do you find the defendant?”

Eddie felt his heart pound against his ribcage, painfullycreating a cadence for you man’s voice. The speaker of the jurors stood up, adjustinghis well-dressed attire and clearing his throat. It was an eternity, althoughit truly only a few seconds, the time eating away at Eddie’s sanity. Theoverweight man said, in a sharp and knowing tone. “We find the defendant guiltyon all counts.”

The world slowed, the cheers of the prosecution swallowed bythe earths lagging spin. Eddie watched as Richie crashed back down into his seat,a painful cry ripping though him as he buried his face into his palms. It tookall he had not to reach over and touch his lover, not to pull Richie into hisarms and sweep him away to a better place. He wished they could run to a worldthat was honest and kind, one where the truth was plain as day, where peoplewho didn’t deserve to suffer didn’t.

But as the bailiff pulled Richie to his feet, slapping apair of cuffs on his wrists, he realized that there was no such world. Therewas only one, and right now the love of his life was being sentenced to a crimehe did not commit. Tears fell from Eddie’s eyes, his heart ripping into piecewhile watching the accused be dragged towards a back door.

“Richie!” He cried, pressing himself onto the railing. “Richie!”

The trashmouth looked back for a split second before thedoor slammed in his face cutting the two off from each other. Eddie sat down onthe bench, his body trembling uncontrollably. Someone called his name, a friendmaybe, but feel on deaf ears as he just sat there, staring at where Richie hadjust been. In a matter of months, his world had been turned upside down, leavinghim in a heap on the courtroom floor.

Exactly six months before he was saying his goodbyes toRichie at the airport, planting playful kisses along his neck and cheek. If hehad known then that would have been the last time they were able to touch, ableto speak sweet things to one another, he would have stayed. Would have blownoff the business conference to stay at his lover’s side. But as he had boardedthe plane, an uneasy feeling had settled in his stomach making him sick. God,Eddie wished he had listened to his gut, maybe then he could have saved Richie.Maybe none of this would have happened.

But it did.

And now they were a broken set.

[maneaterwithtail]

The politics are the cough. the disease is flooding to chase the trend of personal brand building. Events and confusing communities and arguably the arrangement of the direct market itself. No simplicity and lots of expense with shakeup one after the other.

And some transparently business or out of story disrupting existing (in humans versus mutants)

Starting Marvel, as an example, is harder than figuring out where to come in on the Fate series. I mention this because Comics are often compared to manga and yet however convoluted in silly may get for the most part you buy one collection, or let's not kid ourselves pirate, or wait until an animated adaptation comes out realize that it's pretty much faithful, go back to the core comic and so long as you start from the beginning you can follow to the end. Even if it's based off of a visual novel chances are everything will progress from beginning to end. It's usually when that models messed up with that something becomes destructive and difficult to follow or deal.

Unlike with manga where if you're having trouble following where to start with, like the Fate series, you can at least enjoy the latest Nasu verse offering. especially if you can turn your brain off and just engage with one example. Or if you don't want to deal with that you can just go to an entirely different property from a similar publisher that scratches a similar itch.

Like the premise of America Chavez buts I think she did it wrong? Well it's not like you can just switch over to Champions because that's a mess as well along with Miles Morales Spider-Man and ms. Marvel or spider woman.

it's expensive, patchy, filled with all sorts of weird continuity that you end up having to buy just to start. As such only the dedicated fanbase could possibly tolerate it but that also is exclusive in the sense that it's so to them with a history that it feels kind of off-putting.

I like the comicsgate comics I have heard of. I can also understand why we try to move away from that. Such as very obvious p*** tracing. And so on. Yes supposed diversity has basically led to a similar story of we're here now we're going to f*** the status quo too strongly relating to the audience or the author's pandering.

But it's not just they're going to have a trans person in an announcement. Which is a pretty major character trait I imagine that they want to talk about that or include it in the announcement.

the discontinuity does not help you build upsetting characters characterization and Circumstance. This is what I mean you're following themes story and events building to something then a new author will come in and he or she will wreck all that up so that they can go in an entirely different direction. Okay maybe you don't like the homosexual overtones of Eddie Brock and Venom. Maybe you want to stick it to all the slash shippers on Tumblr. But they've been the people who been following the comic and there's been a multi-year build up with sleeper, Eddie Brock and Venom's son.

going no now Eddy has a son he doesn't know about. oh and he was in the car that killed a child and him and Venom hate each other? Basically says f*** that other story we're going back to this story because I liked it better when I was young and I like it this way. And this kind of hostility is constant with every Changing of the Guard which can happen almost every two to three years. This keeps happening right when things are starting to get good or conclusion is reached. this undermines any death any major event or twist especially when it's in the headlines as if it's going to be meaningful

we can't even engaged in the illusion that someone has a plan charting something out when it feels like it's always fly by the seat of the pants the slightest whim can blow off the direction. We know in our conscious nothing that happens matters or at the very least when things end and we don't move on to something else then realize that there was a change but it seems seamless. Or at the very least it's a damn good seem that makes a very likeable and unique and distinct quilt. Again comparing and contrasting with manga

basically constantly ragging on the Politics as if that's what's causing the problem as opposed to Poor practices is off. yeah the customer service is definitely a no-go. But let's not kid ourselves Fanboys started it

I can straight up say that if you had a book that was straight up gay. like it starred the gay couple that once was Rescued by Captain America including his childhood hero And they were joined by the gender-bending exiled courtesan. you know those girls that always hang around in the background of Thor comics and everybody talks about winching and all that stuff? What if we actually focus on one of them and we threw in some mythological deviant queerness with the idea that men who practiced a certain form of Witchcraft had to be ladies. Now in practice this often meant anything from cross-dressing to performing ceremonies with a freaking dildo. But this is Comics so instead I can just go with the idea that after he uses magic so much he can turn or does turn into a lady. At first it's inadvertent but then he Masters the power so much that can transform into any lady. So he can go from weak little nerdy witch man to a Vanir (super durable pretty strong) or she giant.

It gets even more so when apparently he can change not just to a generic woman but any specific one. so he can literally clone an individual lady alive or dead. If she's dead you can act as a vessel for her soul so effectively while he might be booted deep within he can resurrect anyone's female loved one. Until changes back. The Twist is that while he won a beauty contest to be one of Odin's many many side pieces due to the politics and sociology of the time and the setup Odin didn't like admitting that they were both men or equals. Now the crossdressing courtesan isnt necessarily the nicest person. In fact the number one thing that characterizes him is that he hates the alpha male warrior culture or at least what he perceives of the negatives of it of Asgard. But that doesn't necessarily mean that he provides a good alternative. This will be a total retcon. not only would this make Odin effectively bisexual -although it's long since established that it seems like he's banged about so much he has had a child with everyone but his wife- but the idea that Loki and Thor grew up exposed to this weird gender-bending courtesan who tried to compete with the affections of their Queen Mother just so that that way he could get ahead and hated showing the absolute loyalty and Devotion to Asgard seeking glory in battle and death as opposed to conniving Gatling favor and trolling for booty while having to serve drinks for the Warriors that came by and were celebrated in the castle Hall.

Probably make up all sorts of relationships with other lesser-known Danny's that haven't been as much part of Marvel Thor but are important or at least well-known for the tradition. I would also shamelessly ripoff @gumon and her take on Norse mythology. With giants that just naturally produce children whether male or female. anyway ignoring all the continuity just so I could bring in the mythology that I want I would have it so that he was ultimately exiled because he got set up on a failure assignment. He got assigned to the Blue Mountain the traveling planet or set of rocks now that was the home of one of the Warriors Three the blue guy well the guy who wears blue and looks kind of like Angus Khan

The entire point of this is to get a different eye view of the Marvel Universe. What was it like to be one of those disposable pin-up girls. What is the gay population in gay culture and gay people been doing and light of the world that's been invaded from the ground been in a Perpetual fight with remnants of terrorists from World War II. And of course how they've been in for you property and making their lives and how are they responding to the fact that New York finally recognizes their marriage and of course life in the Twilight years as a gay couple that's constantly facing mortality. Also with the usual hey I'm an immortal mystical being who's having to relearn how to be human after having lived a life with a God's but neither being loyal to them nor a particular loyal to my own people. Along with the issues of the shapeshifter gender Dynamics and identity and all other sort of things. Pretty damn gay book. But I read it

Kids like imitating what they see so ripping the idea that someone's going to take some of the more iconic X-Men looks and style themselves after them when they know that their mutant doesn't seem wrong. I like the idea that we're going to open with someone who manages an online community for mutants. I like the idea of Trailblazer I like the ladies thick and I like the fact that she has a more utility power that she's going to have to work with and around hopefully being clever though that backpack does run the risk of becoming the Omnitrix and having the solution for every problem that you need.

Basically I like the children of the atom a bit more than the whole lineup of the new Warriors. I think people really should give the characters a chance so if you're turned off by yet another set of incest siblings in Marvel ya no problem or argument here.