#small blessings

[smallblessingscomic]

Stopping by for some housekeeping today because I was made aware that the other site hosting Small Blessings no longer worked (thank you, that person)!

I've now uploaded Small Blessings to NamiComi for continued easy access right here at this link!

Thanks for (still) reading! :)

[maevevervain]

THANK GOD Mr. Marathon and Malchemical are not a couple!! 😬

[nicoyarobin]

[gnomebutch]

at least I don’t vape

[riggedtrap]

being in other fandom spaces just makes me appreciate the saw fandom more for its relative lack of dramatics

[skodasforge]

Not to bring back bad memories but this kinda feels like Q all over again. Both suicidal men who eventually found love and friendship and a family and a purpose in life only to for sacrificing their lives for their friends. It's been years, and I'm still not over Quentin's death.

I’m actually glad someone made this comparison because I do find a stark contrast between the way the two deaths were handled on a narrative and Mets level.

Q’s death is intentionally a last ditch effort to save his friends that kills him and Bobby gets exposed to the contagion through no fault of his own, he never has to make the decision to die the way Q does. As he says to Athena “I’m not choosing to go, no amount of hope was going to change the math.”

Athena gets to say goodbye. Something Eliot never got, in fact Bobby tells her he doesn’t want her to see the final moments and she says she wants every moment she has left. There’s a very different way the two romantic relationships get treated at the end, because Eliot was still unconscious when Q died, after a season of Q desperately trying to save him. In The Magicians Eliot gets told Q loved him several episodes after the fact by Q’s other ex, but Bobby and Athena had 5 years of marriage and their final moments are them telling each other how much they love each other, how Athena saved his life.

I do get people taking issue with the “borrowed time” line because it does kinda suck but I also think it more fits with how Bobby probably sees his life in LA (“his penance”) than Q openly musing to Penny that maybe he just found a creative way to kill himself.

From a meta perspective, Tim talks about how this decision was about raising the stakes and telling new stories and everyone involved is honoring and celebrating Peter Krause. Compare that to Gamble and McNamara patting themselves on the backs for the daring decision to kill off “the white guy” while ignoring the way Q’s death very much played into the trope of burying your gays. I remember McNamara talking about how they didn’t have any interest in writing Q and Eliot as a happy couple (to his credit The Magicians has no happy couples so that tracks) and that was the part that hurt me the most.

Ultimately though both hurt I do think Bobby’s death is actually being handled well and I will be able to keep watching 911 in a way I was not able to with The Magicians.

[yaknowlikenyah]

I may be as sick as a dog but at least my manager continues to get 1 star reviews specifically mentioning her

[lost-in-golden-light]

The Duffers fucked up Stranger Things but at least Vine’s coming back