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It’s really hard to talk about how disappointing X-Men 97 S2 was without sounding like a Beau DeMayo apologist. I’m not defending DeMayo in any way shape or form by pointing out how messy this season was.
I don’t blame Marvel/Disney for wanting to distance themselves from DeMayo, but this season was doomed from the start because they still had to use his story outline despite the blatant rewrites and edits. So there was no way this season wasn’t going to come out unscathed.
It’s clear that DeMayo wanted to build up to an Age of Apocalypse season, but after he got fired the current writers were brought in to steer the ship away from any future ideas he had planned.
And look, I’m not going to sit here and say I’m not disappointed that we’re not going to get an AOA season, AOA is one of those stories that shouldn’t have worked as well as it did in the comics and it kind of sucks that we’re most likely not going to get a proper animated series take on that arc anytime soon.
It’s really sad to admit that the only thing I liked about this season was Magneto's death, as it was the only scene that comes close to matching the quality of the first season.
Everything else about this season really annoyed me.
Character motivations are either nonexistent or change at the drop of a hat, various plot points are set up and are forgotten about or ignored, Scott and Jean keep getting less and less screen time with each passing episode, Polaris gets treated as the show’s next breakout character despite not doing anything remarkable to earn that honor, the awful MCU style dialogue and Creed being a Donald Trump stand in. Because fuck forbid modern writers write a racist/bigoted character who isn’t a thinly veiled stand in for Donald Trump.
Oh, and the Mystique reveal would have been more meaningful if it turned out she was impersonating Val throughout the entire season, but that would have been clever, so the writers decided to do an MCU post credits scene instead.
Gosh, this season was such a fucking mess.
Sometime, somewhere
so we're just not supposed to read into them pairing morph and logan together when they paired up all the other couples together right
real situations they put peter parker into #grateful
doodles of 🔥🔥KURT WAGNER🔥🔥 specifically from CNWrites fanfiction “weapon by name” which has me by the throat currently
this is how I see him:3 in my head he has less control of his tail and finds it a little harder to stop from emoting with it. also pupils.. like a cat.. he can’t force them to keep from dilating or constricting so his pupils often give away his fear (or other emotions but he wasn’t feeling much of anything was he now)
ASPCA AU Masterpost
Those of @cnwolf-brainrot's wonderful Weapon By Name discord have been humoring my ASPCA thread for over two weeks now. I figured it might be good to make a masterpost on here as well.
The basic gist of the AU:
Mystique is less discerning where she drops off her attacker at the beginning of Weapon By Name. Thus, Kurt finds himself at an ASPCA. Things proceed from there.
Initial Intake
Intake Part 1, Intake Part 2, Intake Part 3, First Checkup, Instructions Unclear and/or Intake Part 4, Irene Enters The Scene
Handling (Ordering here is extremely nebulous)
Getting Sleep, Brush Breakthrough, Upsetti Spaghetti, Harness, Equipment Rules, Princess Jellybean 1 (Silly Cat Lingo Edition), Crush Cage, Thoughts About Sensations
Handling (Bite Force Test):
Bite Force Test 1, Bite Force Test Aftermath Part 1, Bite Force Test Aftermath Part 2
Handling (Continued, still nebulous order)
Freak Out 1, Why Blankets, Tail Injection Test, Princess Jellybean and The Food Test, Help To Feet, Petting Flop 1, Petting Flop 2, Listening, New Facility Reflections, MRI Fun Time, MRI Fun Time Aftermath, Catnip Hints, Paralyzed By Fear
Handling (Terr(y)or series)
Terr(y)or, Terr(y)or Bath, Terr(y)or Exhaustion, Terr(y)or Aftermath, Muzzle Training
Handling (Continued, still nebulous order)
Sleep Reassurance, Nightmare Help (Sleep Reassurance Follow Up), Kris Cuddle 1, Good Boy Bath, Cuddle Freeze, Symbiotic Relationships, Holiday Gift, DNA Delay
Ending Options:
Oh Shit, This is a Child
Option 1, Prompt 1, Good Person
Nail Clipping
X-Men
X-Men On the Scene 1, Good With Animals
Mutant Sellers
A Conversation, Representative Appraisal, This One's Different, New Cub Introduction Aftermath, Thoughts On The New Kid, Clipping Wings, Playtime and Pecking Order, Breaking Food Thievery, Happy Fireplace, What's My Name, Warm Ecstasy, Playdate Attempt 1, Playdate Attempt 1 Part 2, New Leash, Startling Introduction, Nice Afternoon, Unexpected Reunion, Unexpected Camaraderie, Expected Separation, Boarding Fear, Discussions Of Logistics
Optional/Unknown canonicacy:
Tube Time 1, Rhetoric Conversation, Orientation Speech (Uncommentated), Orientation Speech (Commentated)
Rahne Conversation 1, Rahne Conversation 2, Rahne Encounter
Notes:
Not everything from the Discord will be transferred since not everything is transferable (generally not long enough, not mine, connected to things which aren't mine, etc).
There are events which have been written multiple times. This is not a mistake, I just like writing these scenes.
If any of these scenes contradict each other, that's okay. I'm just doing this for fun. Sometimes I ignore things I wrote before for one reason or another. This means you get to pick and choose too.
The timeline is loose. I've ordered it as best I can, but these aren't written in chronological order so it's hard to organize. Things may be retconned.
Most ending options are not compatible with one another (eg. anything below one bold ending section is not compatible with that below another bold ending section)
This may not be maintained.
General Content Warnings:
Dehumanization, manhandling, restraints, some illness, injury, non-consensual drug use (sedation)
Yuuji when asked "What did you do in your domain?"
Yu: Talked.... just talked.
* Not mine video*
Everyone except me is wrong about The Character
And my beloved mutual who fills a sort of "scheming advisor" role in my opinions about The Character
Sukuna is like if a pillow princess needed to be beaten into pieces first
As if Joanne couldn't get any shittier, she misgendered and insulted a woman who called for support, all because the woman had PCOS/PMOS and "didn't sound feminine enough."
Fuck her.
Your shitty children's series isn't more important than people's lives.
The Victorian Era was shite compared to now obsiously but also titty piercings were popular everyone was on heroin and they thought bad sex made your kids ugly so the zeitgeist must have been wild
I wish I could remember the source, but I once read a sociologist's take that the Victorian era was a complete abberation of human development. It was uniquely weird, never existed before, will likely never exist again.
I wonder how much of that was on the back of the industrial revolution. Maybe humanity had a similar "weird" moment in the Fertile Crescent when we figured out farming.
But yeah. Victorians were an odd bunch. Delightfully contradictory.
I feel like the wild combination of Suddenly Having So Much New Technology We Barely Understand and Suddenly Using So Much New Technology We Barely Understand *May* have resulted in such new and novel situations as:
The baby will stop crying if I give it cocaine
My entire face is covered in arsenic
How Wonderful That I Can Buy Guns And Heroin At The Same Store! I Certainly Hope My Lead Poisoning Does Not Lead To Bouts Of Distemper And Irrational Thinking
There Are Bare Electrified Wires Running Through My House And My Technicolor Dress Is Highly Combustible, Which I Do Not Know Yet
My son, Lead Poisoning Georg,, shall someday inherit my gun powder and lead paint empire,,
NEW! Magical Miracle Substance! Asbestos! WILL NOT catch fire! CANNOT catch fire! YOU WILL NOT die! (From fire)
Impress Your Guests And In-Laws With The Tastiest Bright White Bread Chalk And Wood Shavings Can Produce
NEW! Baby feeding bottles! NEW! Glass baby feeding bottles! How do you clean them??? That isn't important stop asking questions. NEW!
If Heroin And Lead And Cocaine And Arsenic And Typhoid And Tuberculosis And Radiation And Ungrounded Wires And Lead And Chalk And Arsenic And Working In The Coal Mine Are Bad For Me, Then How Am I Moving So Fuckingn Fast
@teaboot this maybe applies to modern times as well
Surely 500mg of caffeine will be good for me and help me function
The torment nexus glowing rectangle must be engaged with at all times
Look at all the profit to be made! This will surely grow forever.
Ignore the crowd begging for rational behavior, you dont want FOMO do you?
Money Georg, who has all the money in the world, is surely going to fix things
Wildly increased access to knowledge of things will not result in any cultural changes or upending of power structures
What do you mean there is a revolution in XYZ
Buy vapes! Use Ozempic! These novel things will have no negative health effects and will not be wildly popularized to the point of causing health crises
What do you mean the climate change we've been warned about for 60 years is real. I thought that was a torment nexus delusion
^^^^^^^^
(I am aware I had a few historical points wrong there) but YES
I feel like that's *exactly* why new technology and ideas in younger generations always seems so scary while our present, boring technology seems so safe
we don't know the long term effects of ANY of it yet, but whatever bad things our parents raised US with, at the very least we aren't dead! Who KNOWS how this newfangled whatchamacallit might kill us.
NOW! To consume this bag of plastic particulate my parents gave me and assured me was fine and has not yet killed me
(I am aware I
had a few historical
points wrong there) but YES
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
People legitimately think there was no criticism of the Harry Potter series before her TERF/soft holocaust denier era and I'm sorry to tell you but people were criticizing the Cho Chang banking goblins werewolf-AIDS metaphor elf emancipation is silly series years before Joanne's public turn to transmisogynistic chauvinism.
There were things to criticize of the series.
just watched a star trek episode about a planet that relied so heavily on it's computer system that they all forgot the basics of their own knowledge. and that allowed them to miss the fact that they were being posioned with radiation and nearly ending their civilization. because they couldn't use their own knowledge to figure things out. i bring this up for no reason in particular
aku in season 1 episode 3: we will meet in a time and place of my choosing!!! hoohooheehee and thennnn you will seee samurai!!!!!!!! >8}
aku, later: ,,,,im gonna be the most beautifulest gorgeous woman,,, 6'5,, skin the colour of new leaves,, lips redder than pomegranate seeds,,, figure of a goddess,, and we'll ride through the desert saving each other from danger and snuggling by the campfire while the crescent moon smiles upon us,,, and i'll say things like 'not the grateful kind, are you?~' and 'the night isn't for riding~' in a soft sultry voice but with a little edge to it like i've got a mysterious dark past,,,,, and the samurai will say oh! ikra! you are so tormented yet so brave about it! and he'll clasp me to his chest and murmur 絶対に守る with a fierce yet noble intensity,,, and then,,, we'll kiss,,,,
every day i think about ikra and wonder WHY he's a woman. like clearly aku fucking Knew What He Was Doing. he knew being a hot sexy aloof woman would work better in getting jack's trust so like. how far was he willing to take it. would he let jack go down on him should jack have felt that way about her. what's fascinating about ikra is that she PROVES aku knows how to act human. to have empathy and care for things, hell she even has a fondness for animals?? in the way she talks about the desert mice and calls the uklahs adorable, we see she has compassion, we even know this about how she literally copied jack's father's history with aku to gain his sympathy, because he KNEW what he did was fucked up and deeply effected jack. what's even more fascinating is that, every single night, he had the opportunity to kill jack. every night when jack went to sleep, he could have killed him, but he didn't. we know from the very moment she shows up that she's aku, it's made so obvious, but there is never a single moment i feel like ikra isn't being genuine with jack, where she's lying to him or being dishonest. there's never any scenes where we see a shady look on her face, or she speaks with any malice. it isn't until they find the jewel and the guardian exposes ikra that aku finally lets the act drop. and that is why this episode is so fucking interesting
That is not really what this was going for and more like based on why Aku choose to turn into a Woman/Ikra so its.. kinda off topic? (I've seen "big thread" but that is not what I want to focus on) I really did not expect Ikra to be Aku. I was hoping for it (because it would be some cool form of gender represantation), but I was very much telling myself that this couldn't be it. WHY would it be it. Not just that I did not expect the show to do this but it seemed so unbelievable, so unexpected to be Aku. Especially since it is an very early episode of viewers needing to get familiar with his character, which parallels very well with Jack's freshly new arrival in the future. Jack would not expect Aku to become a Woman. The way people think gendered is a big thing I believe Aku took advantage off in this setting. Him being a Shapeshifter already is a concept to wrap ones head around, the possibility to change ones gender (or Sex specifically here) is uncomprehensable to people (at least in that setting, I am focusing on JACK here mostly.) Of course Aku's behaviour as Ikra was WAY different and very interesting and I absolutely love that it proofs that Aku knows exactly how to be "human" or Nice and he simply chooses not to be (or more likely, can only bring himself to this as a form of acting) But I imagine Aku having become Ikra, having become a woman, as a strategic tool of deception for Jack. Knowing damn well that Jack would not assume it was him. His acting wasn't enough to make sure Jack wouldn't get it, he had to go full on immediatly and make it the hardest way possible for Jack to even assume it was him. Hence, he choose the most perfect disguise for someone who isn't familiar with how much he can even change form. I did not expect Aku to be so clever and threatening enough to go this way. Go hard, Queen ig. I expected him to be more.. silly.. (which he later in the show becomes but he will always be threatening,, gosh that CHARACTER DESIGN) He fooled Jack the same way he fooled me. Lmao
It’s so funny hearing other people’s reactions to this episode, I certainly got a laugh from it! As a kid it just seemed Obvious to me that he was Ikra you know, kid-me didn’t have any of the assumptions and expectations (specifically regarding gender and sexuality) that I have now, so growing up watching this episode, and things like Looney Tunes where half the gags are Bugs dressing up as a woman, just made me not see switching genders as this Big Thing.
Growing up and having seen the episode so many times now as an adult, and viewing it with the experiences I have now, are what made me wonder about things like this. Samurai Jack’s world building is so fascinating to me that I can’t help getting fixated on it and trying to work it out, especially in regards to Aku who is horrifying, shape shifting master of darkness. He doesn’t have any of the same preconceived notions about our societal norms, I mean hell he isn’t anything even remotely human! We’ve seen him reproduce (more or less) asexually and we know gender/sex is meaningless to him, and by all rights he shouldn’t have any real grasp on them, but he still was clever and crafty enough to USE it to his advantage anyway to fool Jack
All this to say, Ikra is easily in my top five Samurai Jack episodes lol