Andrew Wheeler on JLQ and DC Pride / transcript via Bleeding Cool
DC editorial pushed me to pitch JLQ and then blackballed me when they decided JLQ was bad publicity. They call it pride. I call it exploitation.
Extrano. Midnighter and Apollo. Batwoman. DC has a long list of queer milestones that it was embarrassed to acknowledge in their own time. Throw JLQ on the pile. What does "DC Pride" mean, exactly?
They never tell you you're out, because they think the vague hope that they might still call you will keep you from speaking out. And they're right, usually. And it's that hope that breaks you down.
I know, I'm burning bridges, but my secret gift is that there is nothing holding me here, so there's nothing anyone can do anymore. I have no parents, no kids, no dog. I can roll over and die any time I want to, and there have been many times since DC Pride that I've wanted to.
Here's my manifesto: If you're a major publisher and you're putting out a "diversity anthology", those creators should reasonably be able to expect that you are committed to working with them. Otherwise, what is the point?
If you can't put a "diversity" book together with creators you're actually working with; you're not actually supporting creators of that identity, you're exploiting them.
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MAJOR SPOILER ALERT FOR MLC!!
So.... are we gonna talk about how Jiao Liqiao and Li Xiangyi are cousins or...
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Thinking about DC Pride 2021 part 3 aka everything else that made me smile
Batwoman getting to kiss three separate women on a single page of her solo story
Pied Piper my beloved getting a solo story
This splash page of Constatine
Midnighter and his hubbie Apollo
Jess Chambers and Andy Curry (bonus Reflek because her character design bops)
Aqualad and the meer existence of JLQ
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Valentine Colasante and Jérémy-Loup Quer in Nureyev’s production of La Bayadère
ph. Julien Benhamou
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Il Poco C40 è ufficiale con processore JLQ Technology
Il Poco C40 doveva essere presentato ufficialmente il 16 Giungo, tra qualche settimana in pratica, ma l’azienda, almeno per il mercato vietnamita, ha deciso di portarsi avanti e presentarlo già. Ovviamente si tratta di un entry-level composta da un display da 6.71 pollici IPS LCD con risoluzione HD+. La fotocamera frontale è da 5 megapixel, mentre sulla scocca posteriore c’è una fotocamera…
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someone shared some pages from the mlc design book on xiaohongshu, and so we now have canon present-day ages for some of the characters!
li lianhua: 29
fang duobing: 20
di feisheng: 32
qiao wanmian: 27
jiao liqiao: 27
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Di Feisheng Wardrobe
I remembered this is the outfit he's wearing when he saved Jiao Liqiao. That kinda lowkey looking cape gave off a strong prince vibes who's about to save a damsel in distress princess. 🤴👑💕
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Despite his capture after the attack on Di Fortress, Di Feisheng is finally, blessedly free of the karmic bugs. Free to hold Li Lianhua close.
Jiao Liqiao has other plans, and holds Li Lianhua’s wellbeing hostage. Di Feisheng decides that freedom is precious, but he would do anything to keep Li Lianhua breathing. He would even marry Jiao Liqiao.
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My biggest problem with the Booster Conglomerate thing is they introduced the cool matching jackets only for booster to be drawn wearing it ONCE during his whole time with the group
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I've been thinking a lot that mlc is a fairly symbolically-told story but that doesn't mean it's not fun to think about in-universe explanations for some of the stuff that's not realistically shown to us.
idk how zhan yunfei knew fdb had yangzhouman but it's exceptionally funny if he just assumed correctly, which, as one of like three people with both common sense and a gaydar in the show, is not impossible.
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