(Duke getting woken up early [two in the morning])
Duke: Wait, why is this an all hands on deck thing?
Batman, on comms: A man by the name of Lord Death-Man has escaped custody and needs to be apprehended. He killed every hero in Japan before coming here, and poses the same threat here.
Duke:
Duke: You're serious, right?
Batman, over comms: Excuse me?
Duke: You trained all of us. Some of us, me and Claire, have powers. You are richer than God himself. How is he a threat?
Batman:
Batman, still on comms: He killed superheroes.
Red Hood, behind Batman on comms: Japanese heroes are pretty weak! Duke has a point! He's no match!
Spoiler, from farther away (on comms): Jay! Stop hurting people with the truth!
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2024 reads / storygraph
Those Beyond The Wall
sequel/companion to The Space Between Worlds, set a decade later
character-focused sci-fi set in an area divided in two, the rich protected city on one side and everyone else in the post-apocalyptic desert
follows a woman who works under the Emperor in Ashtown, keeping the peace
when mangled bodies start showing up with seemingly no murderer, she’s tasked with finding the cause, and finds out that it’s the result of corruption spanning both cities and multiple worlds
explores oppression and messy revolution, police violence and apartheid
bi & polyamorous MC
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That new Fallout TV show reminded me why I avoid a lot of video game fandoms lol.
Dick jokes in my Fallout? Please ignore the porn star quest line in FO2 or the variety of crude sex jokes in every single game.
Anti-war, anti-fascist, anti-nationalist, and anti-capitalist rhetoric? Well, there's surely no thinly veiled satire in the first... all of the games (other than 3, probably) that deals with the inherent absurdity of capitalism in the face of nuclear war, touching on such topics as genocide, human experimentation, isolationism, and tribalism.
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Not that I'm trying to trash on Helluva Boss or Vivziepop, but it's kind of weird that people have criticized the show for focusing more on the characters who are men than those who are women, and at first she said there were going to be more episodes that centered on the women characters, but she's since backtracked it and said she intends this show to be more focused on the men and Hazbin Hotel to be more focused on the women.
And that in itself wouldn't bother me, except even the pilot for Hazbin Hotel arguably focuses more on Angeldust and Alastor than Vaggie or even Charlie.
Obviously Hazbin's not out yet, so I can't really make any definitive statements about it. And as frustrating as the lack of development for the women characters in Helluva Boss might be for me, it is unfortunately quite uncommon to find shows that give any substantial development to their women characters, so I can hardly single out Vivziepop for this. However, it's hard for me to not think that there might be some internal bias there that Vivzie might not be fully aware of.
Which, again, wouldn't be unique to her, nor would it be a fatal flaw, but it is extremely weird how unwilling people in her fanbase are in reckoning with that, and how much she herself is blind to it.
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Did Bill not come to terms with his feelings for Dipper until he was forced to in Confessing It, or was it earlier in the series (even if he would never admit it)? Sorry if this is sorta implied, I’m not amazing with subtext. Rereading atm and I was curious lol
Actually, Bill (sort of) came to terms with having fallen for Dipper well before Dipper got his feelings sorted.
It's in Faking It chapter 15:
[Bill] glances up at Dipper. “You…. are the single worst thing that has ever happened to me. And I don’t say that lightly, you got no idea how old I am."
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almost every horror anthology sadly has one segment i just do not like at all. that is the nature of anthology films
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