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[lumadreamland]

365 days of ouat ladies: day 244

[irregularjohnnywiggins]

Geoff Johns does not get Wonder Woman, or at the very least he did better with her later, but Infinite Crisis is really the tipping point of him not getting the character at all! "She's not human! She can't relate to humans! She's some kind of mystical clay goddess person who's not a person and tries too hard to be perfBLAUGH!" As a reminder, canonically Wonder Woman has lost her powers multiple times, worked at a fast food joint, and did not think the work was beneath her, served as a political ambassador, wrote a popular book, frikkin' blinded herself to defeat the previously mentioned Medusa, then went through Hades, not to recover her eyesight, but to restore a child who had been turned to stone by that Medusa! The idea that she "can't relate to people" assumes that Wonder Woman has not undergone any character development since she first left Themyscira! And what the hell does "relating to people" have to do with her murdering Maxwell Lord?! Given what happened in that situation, I'm willing to bet that quite a few ordinary people would have snapped Lord's neck just as quickly as she did! Probably kicked him in the balls a few times for fun first! If it was just the murder, that would be fine, a controversial action, but the story keeps harping on her "not being human" thing, as if this is a fundamental flaw of the character or something, and it's utter bullcrap! To be human is to care for people, to love people, to help people, and the only person who could do that better than Wonder Woman is Superman. But they wouldn't compare, because being a good person is not a competition!

Linkara absolutely tearing apart the idea that Diana is unrelatable in his review of Infinite Crisis

[yourfavisaferalscientist]

Dr. Linksano from Atop The Fourth Wall is a feral scientist

Requested by anonymous

[paulsebert]

Neutro Has No Brain!

1I haven’t been on this blog much lately as I’ve been kind of stressed out thinking (or perhaps overthinking) about the upcoming midterm election. So I thought I’d tell a bit of a happy story since @atopfourthwall recently celebrated its 10th anniversary.  The story of Neutro.

You see back in the 1950s and early 60s Dell comics was one of the biggest players in the American comic market thanks to it’s wealth of licensed books. At one point they had the Disney, Warner Brothers, and MGM licenses all at the same time and their weekly Four Color Comics anthology was the highest selling comic in the world. They also had a few of their own original properties most notably Turok. Then in 1963 Dell’s publishing partner Western Printing (publisher of the popular Little Golden Books) split off from from Dell to start their own comics company Gold Key and took almost all of the licenses with them & Turok to boot. Dell was forced to create their own original intellectual properties to survive and tried it’s hands at Superheroes. The most successful of these was Brain Boy who actually got a revival of sorts by Dark Horse a few years ago. Neutro on the other hand would be forgotten. Well almost forgotten. Kitchen Sink Press featured it in their “Worst Comics Awards” mini-series and Canadian cartoonist Greg Hyland would feature Neutro as a running gag in his superhero parody Lethargic Lad (which now continues as a web comic.)  I became aware of the book through “Oddball Comics” a history/review column that Captain Carrot creator Scott Shaw used to have on Comic Book Resources and after spotting a copy of it for $12 on Ebay I decided to order a copy to read for myself.  That book sat on my shelf for about five years.  Then in 2008 I discovered a new comic review series on Channel Awesome.  I was somewhat familiar with Linkara’s work having read his text reviews and being aware of him through the forum on Superdickery.  I contacted him asking if I can donate some books.   Neutro being one of a handful I sent in.  A total of three  books I sent in over the years were actually turned into reviews. The other two being Strange Adventures #136 and Brute Force #1 (thought I may not have been the first one to send him a copy of that.)  Of course at the time I had no idea that we’d be watching his reviews 10 years later, or that Neutro would end up part of an increasingly complex mythology within the show.

So congratulations to Lewis and here’s hoping he keeps up the work for another 10 years.  I like to think I played a small role in the success of the show.

[kaijuguy19]

With the news of Spider-Man One More Day being reversed showing up....

I do hope this won’t mean that the good stuff we did get out of the post One More Day years like Silk for example will vanish from existence and never happened because that would be honestly throwing the baby out with the bath water. I know this is great news for Spider Man fans and I imagine Linkara especially is happy to hear about that but I don’t want to see a character like Cindy Moon AKA Silk that I've grown to like a lot gotten rid of as a result.

I could be overreacting a little and this could be in the end like DC’s Rebirth where while it’s a return to form of the original set up a lot of the new stuff/characters still happened and if that’s the case here that’s awesome. :) 

[thatchickwiththegifs]

Batman: The Official Movie Adaptation - AT4W/Nostalgia Critic

[qwanderer]

Hey, so you may have noticed the addition of a Ko-Fi button to my blog descriptions, both on @irenewendywode and @qwanderer.

Here’s the sitch: things are getting somewhat tight. I want to make this clear, it is in no way urgent. Mel (@roseapprentice) and I have a great safety net in our large and supportive family. Our parents will be covering our rent for the next year, and I’ve still got a bit of a buffer in savings that should cover food and other essentials for a while if necessary. We’re both making a little money, although my hours at my day job are very irregular.

So this is a “please give me your money if you have nothing better to do with it” situation. That is, 1) if you appreciate my content and can afford to contribute to its continued existence and think that is a good use of your money, or 2) if you are literally rich and feel like supporting me just because.

So you can buy me a coffee if you want

or support me by buying my first novel, The Red Glade Peacemakers, and reviewing it on Amazon

or support our household by following my sisters’ blog, @avertingtheflamewars, and donating to their paypal or supporting them on Patreon when they get that up and running

My second book, Tabitha, will be coming out in August. It’s an easier and lighter read, and I’ll have pros on my side marketing-wise, so I’m hoping it gets us a lot closer to being in the black.

If things get tighter, or if people express interest, I may start taking ficlet prompts in exchange for a coffee or two. 

okay thanks for reading! *hugs*

[transboyurameshi-blog]

Comfort

[ I swear to god I didn’t intend this to come across shippy, just kinda platonic intimacy ]

Linkara pushed away from his desk in agitation, pushing his glasses off his face when he heard the door open and a southern lilt fill the room. “I come in peace and I have booze and ch-” without even looking up linkara spoke.

“If you say chicken strips I’m going to actually kill you.” The ringing laugh he got in response making him smile.

“Chicken nuggets from McDonald’s, they fix everything. ” Chuckling tiredly, linkara spun his desk chair around to face Jaeris.

“You are granted access, can’t guarantee I’m good company right now though.” Shrugging and setting down the supplies Jaeris peeled off his trench coat.

“Since when have you ever been?” smirking at the responding affronted scoff. “Seriously though, Margaret tells me you’re leaning on the dickhead side of things again. ” Linkara jumped looking at the gun strapped to his waist.

“Margaret spoke to you?” Nodding Jaeris crouched near his chair and tapped the gun.

“Didn’t you wonder why Margaret never fought me? Because of my magic we connected and she saw in my head. I’m the only magic user you really know she’s had contact with so she reached out to me.” He stood up, braid flicking with his movement as he started pouring them both drinks.

Linkara pouted flicking his gun softly “Not like you couldn’t just talk to me, brat.” He spoke lightly and with no malice, he could swear he heard the distant sound of a raspberry being blown at him. Laughing he stood up to move to the couch, Jaeris following his lead with the drinks and food.

“Question is why do you care?” Jaeris rolled his eyes, putting his glass down and thumping Linkaras forehead with the heel of his palm, ignoring his indignant yelp as he started talking.

“Despite your best efforts to be a raging dick, we are friends. I don’t actually want you to loose your magic to your anger.” Linkara, shook his head, teeth worrying his lower lip before taking a long swig of his drink.

“That’s just it, it’s not the corruption like when we met, I really feel this way. I can’t trust anyone, hell I’m thinking of five different ways I could disarm you if need be.” He admitted, arms flailing in exasperation. Jaeris looked thoughtful for a moment before taking his gun and handing it to linkara, being met with confusion.

“I wanna try something, but I need you to trust me, my gun will respond to you so the second you feel threatened go ahead and fire.” Linkara stared at him in shock and dully nodded his consent, not sure what else to say. He watched with careful eyes as Jaeris peeled off his gloves and moved a long fingered, calloused hand to Linkaras forehead.

Suddenly Linkara was consumed by a warmth, prodding at his mind. For a moment he pushed it away, but realizing what was happening he opened parts of his mind and the warmth, almost seemed to pulse in thanks of his trust. Pushing forward, moving across only the parts it was allowed. Linkara watched with worry as Jaeris’ closed eyes tightened and his brow creased, frown deepening.

Suddenly, almost too soon, the warmth was gone and was replaced by Jaeris arms tightly hugging him close. Biting back his snarky remark, Linkara returned the hug with a sigh.

“There’s something wrong in my head, huh?” He felt the blonde nod his head buried against his shoulder. Pulling back, Jaeris kept his hands on Linkaras shoulders as he spoke softly.

“You’ve had so much happen, in such a sort time and never got yourself help or let yourself adjust. Something used that weakness and got in your head.” as he spoke Linkara could feel his own tears falling.

“I don’t want this, I don’t want to distrust my family.” He spoke in a broken whisper, feeling Jaeris lean back against the couch and pull him with him, clutching him to his chest as some kind of healing aura surrounded them both.

“Sleep, I’m gonna try to help.”

It was like the permission was all he needed, and Linkara was out for the first time in three days.