David Yost/Billy/Blue was my favorite Ranger in MMPR, and while I’m a little bummed he isn’t going to make a cameo, I also support his decision. Homophobia isn’t OK, even if it happened 20 years ago. Being a “pain in the ass” isn’t a reason to sling bigoted insults, especially if you’re a professional company. I understand fans feel jilted, but would you really want to go back to a place with people who made you feel like crap (that’s mostly a rhetorical question)?
I feel like there’s another thing I want to say, but I’m just gonna leave it at that. I just wanted to get my opinion on the whole thing out there even though nobody asked.
I love Xena. There’s something so charming about the show that has made me completely addicted for years. :)
I don’t know whether it’s Xena’s total bad ass-ery, her amazing costumes or even her frickin’ amazing battle cry but I just simply adore her. <3 No one can compete with Xena in my eyes! She’s the bomb!
She is full of fabulous!
The costumes don’t hurt. ;)
Lucy Flawlesss made my childhood.
I need posters of these shots……
I’m going to assume she’s surfing in that first one because that is a fun mental image.
My Legacy Morpher arrived yesterday and let’s be honest here… who could resist posing with it?
P.s.: here’s the only picture of me you’ll ever see on Tumblr.
Just wondering what goes into your decision to purchase a comic at a comics store? For this question, I am only talking about buying a comic off the rack at the comics shop, please.
How important is:
The cover?
The artwork?
The writer’s name?
The publisher?
The genre?
The lead character (s)?
Whether or not the story is an ‘event’ comic?
Cover: Very - if it’s not eye catching, I probably won’t pick it up to look at it.
Artwork: I’m more about story than art, but I still know what I like and what I don’t. On a scale of 1-5 I’d put art solidly at a 3; I’ve never really picked up a book based purely on art, but I have dropped a book because of it.
Writer: I follow writers, so that’s pretty important for me. Today I picked up Kieron Gillen’s “Uber” mostly because Gillen is writing it (and also because it sounds interesting), for example.
Publisher: Meh, I don’t really care. I just grab whatever seems most interesting to me regardless of publisher. That said, most of what I grab off the rack at a shop tends to be independent publishers (lots of IDW, Dynamite and Image).
Genre: Pretty important. Like with art, I know what I like and what I don’t. Combining genres tends to get a “buy” out of me, too (detective/horror, western/sci-fi, etc).
Characters: I have to like the lead characters or I’m not going to get into the book. And being well-written helps. They can be total dicks with very few redeeming qualities, but as long as those redeeming qualities are well thought- and fleshed-out, I can get behind it.
“Event” books: I actually try to avoid a lot of event books nowadays. I did pick up all of Death of the Family, but I’m not picking up everything from this First Lantern event going on in the GL books (I do read GL and the GL universe is one of my favorites). I’m also not picking up Harbinger for the Harbinger Wars event from Valiant even though I read Bloodshot (I did get #1 just to see, though).
Now with actual content! Hopefully. Tumblr borked the ‘read more’ link the first time, and I didn’t notice because it was queued. Again, nothing revolutionary here, just looking at how cropping off the head was used differently in Birds of Prey than Captain Marvel.
EDIT: Fuck it, the ‘read…
Yikes. You do get that there was a storytelling reason for many of those shots, right? Canary’s face isn’t shown because the reader is not supposed to see that she still has pure white contact lenses in. It’s a reveal, so her face can’t be shown. Additionally, a couple panels are from the banker’s point of view, they are meant to show what HE is looking at, which is her legs. I appreciate the idea of this post, but removing context and ignoring deliberate statements ABOUT the de-personification that the actual characters are experiencing in story make the whole hing come across as misguided at best. Lord knows, looking back at some early bop as I did recently for a seminar on gender, there’s more objectification than I remember. But reducing it to numbers, including panels that intentionally comment on the male gaze, that’s just weird. What is the point, even? Besides, not every shot where the face isn’t shown is objectification, that’s an absurd premise. I ask for panels that focus away from the face routinely. A good point is lost here by lack of context. Edited to add: I hate the random formatting of tumblr sometimes. Also, please do NOT post mean anon posts at the OP. I am sure they meant well, AND it is true that objectification continues to be a real problem in comics, including comics I ave written.
The reason at least one of those Captain Marvel panels had Cap cut off with only her companion’s face in the panel is because the focus was on her companion who was talking (sorry, I can’t remember her name even though I’ve read that issue).
I agree with Gail here - sometimes it’s done for dramatic purposes (the Captain Marvel ones in particular), sometimes it’s to hide something from the reader, which naturally would mean we’re looking at some other part of the character’s body.
It’s like a movie/tv show, and they do an extreme close-up of a part of the body that isn’t the face. Or when they pull focus to a different character and keep the other person partially out of frame. Sometimes it’s like that or for artistic purposes and not objectification. This isn’t to say objectification isn’t a thing that happens because it is, I just don’t think that’s the case in the panels provided here.
30 Day GW2 Challenge Day 16 - What do you listen to while playing?
I listen to a few bands while playing and don’t really have a set playlist… unless I’m on one of my norns (of which I have 3). Then it’s Viking folk metal time! So either Einherjer, or one (or more) of the following: Korpiklaani, Moonsorrow, Tyr and Finntroll.
Normally I’d have posted Clash of the Elder, but this song seems fitting for a norn.
30 Day GW2 Challenge Day 15 - Your favorite fractal.
I have no idea what this one is called and I’ve only played it once, but I thought it was one of the funnest fractals ever.
GW2 30 Day Challenge Day 14 - When did you start playing?
At launch, and during the BWEs for folks who pre-purchased. The above screenshot is my Ranger, Sigrid’s, playtime.
Oh hi there. My name is Meghan and this here Tumblr is littered with super sentai, superheroes, martial arts, video games, and whatever other fandoms/things I'm into.
