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this is also how I reply to them.
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This is fascinating for two reasons.
1. They haven’t actually apologised for anything. She’s pre-emptively rejecting an apology that they have no intention of giving.
2. Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson are extremely well-liked. A lot of people are more attached to them in their roles as they are to the actual characters in the books.
What does JK Rowling gain by coming out with this?
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Things learned from a single reading of Vanilla's Operator Record, as spoken by Slug Speaker Vanilla:
Slugs are not picky eaters (meats, veggies, obsidian, etc.)
No hard upper limit on growth, if living in an Originium rich environment
Though the normal size for slugs seems to be small, from palm sized to perhaps a small pet animal
Slugs vary greatly according to diet and environment
They can be controlled by Casters
Slugs are normally skittish, running from humans and not being particularly aggressive
Its nearly impossible to get Oripathy from a Slug bite or attack
Originium Slugs, despite having originium in their outer shell, contain none in their body
No records of slugs naturally getting Oripathy
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are there any spidey comic recs you have for joy mercado? i don't really know much about her but she seems cool
I love Joy Mercado. I'd say I wish she'd make a big comeback but given the state of Spider-Man comics, it's probably better if she doesn't. (Bring back Peter's work wife in a different, better world.)
Here's a very basic list of recommended issues for her, but tbh she's not in a lot of comics altogether. You can check out the full list of her appearances here at the Marvel Comics Reading Order.
My recommendations:
Moon Knight #30: A rec with a bit of a caveat. This is Joy's first appearance, and I think it's interesting from that perspective, but it's not a comic I love. I think the character doesn't really shine until she's brought into the Spider-Man cast. (This is her only Moon Knight appearance, iirc.)
Spectacular Spider-Man Annual #5: This is Joy's first appearance in a Spider-Man comic and her first meeting with Peter.
Mark Beachum, the artist, didn't draw a ton for Spider-Man, but I'm in love with the work he did. His body language really goes a long way to establishing Joy as a character right off the bat. The banter between her and Peter is really fun, too.
Spectacular Spider-Man #111: This is part of Secret Wars II, and not required reading for Joy (generally I don't like dropping people in the middle of bigger crossover stories), but she goes dancing with Peter and he flirts with her and it's cute. If he's not married they should let him be a slut again.
Spectacular Spider-Man #112: Peter and Joy kiss under the mistletoe. Honestly I love this issue in general, it's one of my favorite Marvel Christmas stories.
Also how great is that fluffy light blue coat? Beachum's on art again and he's got some really fun MJ and Felicia pinup art in this one, too. (It is very cheesecake, just as a warning. I know not everyone's into that.)
Spectacular Spider-Man #113: I always find this issue super interesting, because it's obviously a take on the Bernie Goetz case, except like, if Bernie Goetz had been a boarder at Aunt May's house. (At this point in canon Aunt May was running a boarding home for senior citizens, which was pretty fun.) It's like, not subtle -- the character's name is Ernie for crying out loud. Anyway, when Kate Cushing, who I also miss dearly, and Joy find out that Ernie is staying at Aunt May's house, they send Peter in to get the story.
Joy's also in Spectacular Spider-Man #115, which is an issue I really like, but I think her involvement is mostly just sitting there looking cute at Kate's desk.
Missing in Action (Web of Spider-Man #16-17, Amazing Spider-Man #279, Web of Spider-Man #18): Peter and Joy go out on a job together, only for Peter to mysteriously go missing. Fun art on this one!
Web of Spider-Man #19-23 also has some Joy content. I haven't reread this stretch in a while, though, so I'm spotty on the details.
(Web of Spider-Man #20) Let him be a slut again!
Amazing Spider-Man #314: Joy's in this very briefly when newly married Peter and MJ are kicked out of their apartment at Christmas.
There's a lot of minor and background appearances past this point, which are fun and which you can find on the linked CMRO page at the top of this reclist, but Joy kind of eventually takes a backseat to Betty in the work wife position. And obviously I love Peter and Betty, but he and Joy had some really fun chemistry and her cutthroat reporter bit was always a lot of fun. I miss a lot of the Bugle's lesser known female characters, like Angela Yin and Kate Cushing.
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The thing about writing trans characters is that it is 100% guaranteed that at least a few trans people are going to be unhappy with whatever you write — not necessarily through any fault of your own, though that is certainly a possibility, but because there is such a dearth of trans representation in general.
Trans people are hungry and we’ve mostly been getting by on crumbs. I’m not saying that there are NO media with trans characters, but you have to admit that there are not a lot of really good things to read/watch/consume that have trans characters (and this is without getting into the question of whether or not those characters or the media they’re presented in cater to your particular tastes!)
^ This is usually the real problem. Certain genres and mediums have it worse, too! Think about how expensive it is to make movies or TV shows and how many people you have to get approval from and how many people need to be hired and paid to make one that makes it to cable, streaming services, or theaters, as an example.
Books and comics give us more to choose from in part because the barrier to pushing one out into the world is lower, though still not as much as I would like.
Personally, I want to make a TV show, but I can’t. So, I’m making the story into a comic that could maybe get adapted someday. This brings us close to my point:
Two of the protagonists (and many more of the side characters) in my current project are canonically trans. To some people, these two will be refreshing / the representation that they have been waiting to see for AGES. Those people will feel like they are being presented with a feast. To others, it will feel like being handed an empty plate and told to eat up. Those people are not wrong and I will not take it personally. The way that my writing makes them feel will be extremely real and undeniably valid.
What I want fellow writers to understand is that these feelings are not always going to be the fault of the individual author of the individual project that inspired these feelings (with the caveat that it does kind of suck when a new fictional trans person turns out to be exactly like all the other crumbs we’ve been forced to call a feast.) The people you make angry by breaking away from the norm could simply be mad because they’re used to feeling seen rather than because you've done something terrible.
People will be angry if a trans character is conventionally attractive or if they aren’t. They’ll be angry if you make the character pre-everything, non-op, HRT only, 10 years into a “do everything” transition, fat, thin, tall, short, etc. They’ll be angry if you make the character gay, straight, bi, pan, aro, ace -- I could keep going, but I won’t.
My point is that while you should definitely take the reasoning behind the anger your work may inspire into consideration and you should ABSOLUTELY remain critical of your own work if you want it to be the best it could possibly be...
You also have to be aware that you CANNOT please everyone, especially not with a single trans character in isolation, and you should not work yourself half to death trying to meet some imaginary guidelines of what “good” representation is, because it doesn’t exist.
"Good representation" means something different to everyone.
Also, someone already made basically what I was trying to express in this post but better and also in a single image:
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Arknights x Dungeon Meshi collab PV
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I love how the instant anyone shows Maximus trust, he confesses to them immediately. He shows his identity to Thaddeus after the branding. Lucy proposes to him and he confesses 10 seconds later. Dane tells him the truth of their injury and he tells them about Lucy.
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