#oimoi-op

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It's just so fucking weird??? like Frollo's misogyny is. a core part of his character in every version of the story. why do ppl think a violent misogynist abusing his power and utilizing institutional misogyny and racism against a woman (who was a teenage girl in the original!!) whose soul crime is existing is sexy WHY WOULD THEY MAKE THE VIOLENT MISOGYNIST A TRANS WOMAN??? how could the author not see any problems here?!?!

RIGHT?? I cannot do this anymore. I'm passing away

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oimoi-op said: At the rate they’re deaging Constantine he’ll be appearing in team-ups with Beast Boy and Raven by the next Crisis

Heh, truer words were never spoken :D  They might want to put the brakes on it before he and Klarion become peers!

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1, 2, 23, and 51?

1. How has DC/Marvel/publishing company wronged you, specifically?

Getting me attached to their characters written in the 60s thru early 80s and then never doing anything with those comic eras ever again :( also by making everyone have straight hair and be nice to each other.

2. What character death for the sake of drama was the worst?

Everything that happened in Avengers: Dissassembled it was literally just bc Bendis thought that would shock people and I'm over it. It did shock me Brian. Over how shockingly poor the script was.

3. If you could erase one comic book from canon, what would it be?

SO MANY............ House of M and Byrne's Avengers West Coast are on the top of my list I think though. Did SO much damage she's never recovered from bc X-Fans don't know what they're talking about.... but also like. most of Ultimates tbh and Tom King's Vision. There's just too many to count

51. Who’s the most misunderstood character?

HENRY HANK PYM. Like okay I get why people don't like him and I respect that! It's a lot to get past and some people just can't. But like it or not moments like that are conventions of the genre especially back then! Ben Grimm hit Reed across the floor. Logan hit Jean. Daredevil hit Black Widow. Maddy Pryor hit Cyclops. Peter Parker hit MJ WHILE SHE WAS PREGANT. BATMAN HAS HIT HIS KIDS SO MANY FUCKING TIMES!!! It's NOT unique to Hank Pym's comic book history and I despise that he more than any of these characters gets remembered for it the most. He can not move past it in the eyes of writers and fans and beyond him being one of the few canonically neurodivergent comic characters who's consistently been shown that way since that arc I can't see why. It does genuinely feel targeted bc the only other character that gets similar treatment is Reed from CBR and we all know about his ND-ness. It just is so frustrating that despite so many efforts of Mark Waid, George Perez, Kurt Busiek, Sam Humphries, hell even Dan Slott to try and give a bit more sympathy and understanding with his obvious mental health issues despite the ways it was portrayed and to try and have him move on past it that Roy Thomas still gets the last say in fandom's mind. Roy Thomas doesn't even want the last say! It's so frustrating.

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So much for all the nice comments the fic was getting lol

Another victim of the Kung Pow Syndicate.

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Do you wanna see what my dog did to my squishmallow?

My god... we are witnessing unpredictable sleepiness levels

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You're probably sick of hearing about the tradwife but I can't get over how she gave a list of made-up reasons why she's been called racist and then admitted that her "closed" pagan practice is the white supremacist "folk" shit, like how can you be THAT stupid on lmao

I really cannot believe this. She's claiming that she's not racist and neither is her vaguely-defined practice, but the only "closed Norse practice" that exists in America is the so-called "closed practice" of whites-only Norse paganism. I don't think I need to explain what's awful about that.

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(okay first off thank you for pointing me in the direction of these readings bc I absolutely adore Elliot) I think Irons does a fine job, but it felt "off" to me, more like a performance than a confession. It sounds too rehearsed and drawn out in too many places, like there was one section where he sped up and I wish he had done that a bit more. He has a lovely voice, but that was about where engagement began and ended for me. Hopkins reads waaaay too quickly at the beginning (whereas I actually liked that Irons was slower there) but overall he sounds like a lonely man admitting to his insecurities, and I think that fits the poem better. Tbh I'm not the biggest fan of either reading but yeah I would take Hopkins over Irons.

I haven't found a reading that I think is "perfect" yet, but I think that Hopkins captures that feeling of coming to terms with your own mortality and shortcomings not with a bang, but a whimper. Jeremy Irons almost reads it as though he's reading MacBeth's "Out, out, brief candle" soliloquy. Ironically, Hopkins' "lack" of gravitas and drama makes his reading more accurate.