Are we all angry at Lanque Bombyx for being a fucking slut, because as an avowed slut, pls chill with the SWERFing y’all.
Let my boy
FUCK
Are we all angry at Lanque Bombyx for being a fucking slut, because as an avowed slut, pls chill with the SWERFing y’all.
Let my boy
FUCK
No seriously, y'all, this is the last discourse I’ll ever get to have on tumblr. Someone please explain to me what the fuck is happening here.
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a-fragile-sort-of-anarchy answered:
I just think his art is bad and pretentious, and every biography I’ve ever read about him kinda solidifies my opinion that he’s the idiot mayor of Dick City.
Still, iconography and new Americana are fascinating, and I appreciate his role as a cultural figure.
at the end of act 7, hussie split like the unova dragons into truth, griffin mcelroy, and ideals, toby fox, and cohen edenfield and hiveswap is the horrid kyurem husk left behind
Unfortunate! I love it.
mood ring contact lenses
this reads like a shit post but honestly this slaps
white barclays make me sad and not angry cuz i know it would be unreasonable to be mad since most ppl dont know that Sasquatch is an indigenous legend and that by extension barclay should be indigenous but idk how to get that knowledge out there : /
op, i feel you so hard. the white barclay thing is something i’ve been ?? about since the start of amnesty. i’m a fan of griffin moving away from including indigenous beings as “cryptids” and of him explicitly saying it would be irresponsible to attribute all our world’s lore to sylvans (ep. 8) because it gets away from the cultural appropriation of our stories that a lot of other media properties have no qualms about.
i’m
ililiwiskwew (cree), but i grew up on the west coast and you see this with sasquatch stories in particular a lot here, especially in the tourism industry. tourist traps, tv shows, stuffed animals, and whole “bigfoot spotting” excursion experiences are set up by settlers who capitalize on indigenous stories. it’s classic colonial exploitation. settlers repackage culture and sell it for a profit, commodifying it to the point where a lot of people reblogging op’s post have said they never knew sasquatch
(b’gwus/sásq'ets)
was indigenous to begin with.
so yeah, the least y’all can do is let barclay be indigenous because he 100% is.
Okay, but what if not all mutations (a la X-Men) are actually helpful? The powers supposedly come from an evolutionary mutation, after all, and some of those hit dead ends - not everyone ends up ‘the fittest.’
And what if this is actually the explanation for Peter Parker’s extraordinarily bad luck? He actually is a mutant, but he has a terrible power that only causes him pain and grief, and the only reason he’s still alive is because he got those spider powers. And no one’s figured it out because they’re distracted by the spider powers and don’t notice that the luck is literally unnaturally bad.
I was talking to my sister about this, and she put forth the suggestion of Peter getting a mutant power suppressant collar put on him and I just… that would be amazing? Like, no one knows where Peter’s powers came from for the most part, we’re got all these mutants running around, it wouldn’t be a stretch for some anti-mutant jerk to just assume that he’s a mutant, catch Peter, and toss him in with all the other mutants they’ve captured for whatever purpose.
Cue Peter announcing to the rest of the captives “Don’t worry, guys, I’m not actually a mutant - my powers still work just fine!” and breaking everyone out. Except, as they get farther and farther into the escape, Peter starts getting more and more concerned because. Nothing is going wrong? At all? This has been shockingly easy? Everything’s going according to plan? What? By the time they’re out the door, Peter’s started actively trying to distance himself from the rest of the group and be annoying and unlikeable, because this is too long without something going wrong, someone’s going to die if this keeps up.
But no one dies. They get back to the X-mansion with minor fuss, Professor X runs some tests because Peter’s freaking out and it turns out, oh, you actually were a mutant, your power is just the worst power ever.
Peter: “Soooo… what I’m getting out of this is, if I keep wearing this collar, I won’t have such constant crappy luck?”
Professor X: “Well ideally it would be best if you learned more about your power now that you’re aware of it and-”
Peter: “Sorry, just remembered that you wouldn’t let me join your super-team so I don’t have to listen to you byeeeeeee~!!!”
And he makes it home in time for supper and life just gets better. Though Peter keeps getting surprised by stuff. Ex:
Peter: Wow, I haven’t stepped in gum in, like, a week. Weird.
MJ: That’s… actually pretty normal for most people?
Peter: What, seriously? Wild.
(snorts) A+ additional content, can’t stop picturing Peter somehow acquiring more of those suppressant collars, so he can learn how they work and build either build himself a new one if the first one he gets breaks or stream-line the design to make it more comfortable and less obvious to wear, because he is high-key Not Going Back To That.
It would also be interesting to see peoples’ reactions to that sort of thing, especially if this is in one of those universes where normal people know at least vaguely about the suppressant collars, not so much from a superheroing standpoint (he can always wear the thing under his costume and just say “yeah, trying a new look”) but from people in school.
‘cause I can see that covering a wide spectrum of reactions, from the people who have no idea what it is and think it’s just some new ‘look’ to the people who do know and approve (because that’s the ‘responsible’ thing for a mutant to do) to the people who think it is high-key disgusting that he’s wearing that thing for various reasons (either under the impression that he’s being played by the system or forced to wear it (I’m not saying MJ is ready to cut someone when she first sees it, but hoo boy, I’m not saying she isn’t, either)). If even a small fraction of the school knows about those collars, wearing it in public means he’s basically come out as being a mutant, and that news will travel fast, it’s high school.
The thing is, though? It’s also happening in a situation where Peter’s supernatually bad luck isn’t in play, and it’d be really interesting to see this play out in a situation where the worst-case-scenario isn’t automatically the most likely.
Also it’s canon that mutant suppression collars cause terrible headaches, so Peter could potentially solve that problem
Oooh, yeah! And if he can’t do it on his own, it’s also canon that he knows a magical surgeon who could potentially help him figure it out!
Peter: EYYYY, DOCTOR STRANGE! My favorite doctor-type person! Help me figure out how to make these stop causing migranes so I never have to take it off again, pretty please? I’m not quite sure which bit of me head it’s causing to hurt.
Dr. Strange: (is so shocked that someone’s asking after his medical knowledge as opposed to his magical knowledge that he’s halfway through a consultation before he realizes what he’s doing)
Non-mutants starting to wear mutation-suppression collars as a sort of protective-coloration display.
Because seriously, imagine if you could just put on this thing and it would tell everyone that 1) you have powers of some unknown varietal that -might- make you quite dangerous, and 2) you may or may not have compunctions on taking off the collar and whipping some serious ass if people are unpleasant to you.
Other non-mutants wearing them as a solidarity display.
Still other non-mutants wearing them because Shiny.
All of a sudden you can’t tell SHIT about who’s a mutant or not besides 1) if they’re wearing a collar they may or may not be a mutant and may or may not be willing and able to unlock it themselves, and 2) if they’re not wearing a collar they may be either a non-mutant or a mutant with a nonvisible mutation.
Also collars that pretend to be mutant-suppressant collars but actually don’t do shit.
Some Brotherhood type makes a series of portraits of mutants doing mutant things with collars on as a “you can’t shackle me” type display.
Annnd we’re back to the previous status quo except mutants are slightly more cool now and half of everybody has a new favorite fashion accessory.
Is now a bad time to mention I actually don’t hate this site? I hate the owners. Hate the staff. Hate the incompetence of whoever is in charge here.
But I love the site, love the format, love my mutuals, my followers and all of the amazing content creators here. I don’t know what I’ll replace this with if anything.
What will *always* get me the most is that if the site’s staff and owners had actually utilized the tools already available and improved them instead of just trying to make new tools and get harsh and terrible with rules (and yet not getting rid of the actual problems ever) this would have been such a good site.
The tagging system was so good for both like sub-commentary and filtering
Oversized Linty~ owo
A little about her: as a half-angel, she has a halo that is constantly supplying celestial energy. Except her body doesn’t consume nearly as much as a full angel’s would, so it builds up and starts to manifest as growth! o_o If she doesn’t offload the energy, she’ll keep growing~! It’s clearly been a while for her here~ >w<
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