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Jan 1

twenty-twenty-two in incomplete, optimistic review.

It’s been a year. Some cool things have happened (got a proper job, one of my best friends got married, my wife and friends and my dog and cat nieces are all very neat, I read good books and saw good media) and some shitty things have happened (the end of Roe v. Wade, had Covid, spent a lot of time hunting for said proper job, my cat nephew left us, I smashed up my car, yet another one of my beloved female characters got massively fucked over) and mostly in-between things have happened.

Paper Girls

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twenty-twenty-two in incomplete, optimistic review.
twenty-twenty-two in incomplete, optimistic review.
Paper Girls

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Dec 27, 2022

a definitive ranking of mcu projects in 2022

So I know it’s been a while. Sorry. I started a new full-time job and we have been dealing with a bunch of miscellaneous real-life things, and also I’ve been working on updating my Marvel name compendiums to include every character on the wiki, not just on the first page of search results; that laborious project is finally complete (and I will probably do more names in similar style, but so far the winners are John variants with 1034 total and Charles variants with 25 live-action showings).

Mcu

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a definitive ranking of mcu projects in 2022
a definitive ranking of mcu projects in 2022
Mcu

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Oct 3, 2022

don’t worry darling is every bit as messy as you thought.

Don’t Worry Darling has been surrounded by drama and controversy since it first showed up on the 2019 Black List. Olivia Wilde’s sophomore film involved a great deal of (alleged) casting drama, as well as an (alleged) on-set relationship between director Wilde and her replacement male star Harry Styles, a…

Dont Worry Darling

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don’t worry darling is every bit as messy as you thought.
don’t worry darling is every bit as messy as you thought.
Dont Worry Darling

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Aug 19, 2022

marvel loves to reuse names (part 2)

Yeah, I’m doing part 2 already. This just interests me. Once again: I’m going through name popularity lists in the US (where Marvel is published), this time at the #2 and #3 spots (which will be grouped together), from 1939 (when Marvel Comics started) to 2021, and seeing how many Marvel characters have those names (or popular variants) on… the first page of search results on the Marvel wiki (or if I remember other ones).

Marvel Comics

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marvel loves to reuse names (part 2)
marvel loves to reuse names (part 2)
Marvel Comics

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Aug 9, 2022

marvel loves to reuse names (part 1)

Marvel Comics burst onto the scene in 1939, and since then, they’ve been recycling names. …

Marvel Comics

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marvel loves to reuse names (part 1)
marvel loves to reuse names (part 1)
Marvel Comics

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Aug 2, 2022

an anecdote

So drift partner and I were on the phone with my parents the other night, and my dad was telling a story about a woman my grandma knows from her retirement community. I’ve heard stories about this lady before, and she sounds like a character. Very gossipy, very much not someone you want to share secrets with, very in-your-face. This can obviously be a problem, but she sounds like a relatively harmless old woman.

Autism

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an anecdote
an anecdote
Autism

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Jul 28, 2022

a very opinionated tier list of female characters’ deaths in the mcu

Spoilers, obviously. So we didn’t get to see Thor: Love and Thunder opening weekend, since we were sick, but drift partner found out about the end and we weren’t thrilled. There was some comics-canonical basis for what goes down, but it didn’t strike our fancy. We are Jane Foster defenders (and adamant Jane/Thor shippers) for life. (We also weren’t pleased that the “Valkyrie finds a queen” subplot disappeared, but that’s not what this is about.)

Marvel Cinematic Universe

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a very opinionated tier list of female characters’ deaths in the mcu
a very opinionated tier list of female characters’ deaths in the mcu
Marvel Cinematic Universe

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Jun 21, 2022

the unfortunate failings of netflix’s first kill

Despite being thirtysomethings, drift partner and I have a pretty high tolerance for young adult literature and the equivalent cinematic media; furthermore, we are both queer women. We have with at least vague aspirations of crafting stories that appeal to other queer women (including young adults), and as I’m sure…

First Kill

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the unfortunate failings of netflix’s first kill
the unfortunate failings of netflix’s first kill
First Kill

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Jun 15, 2022

how to bring beloved marvel tv characters to the prime mcu

So there’s been a lot of discussion and speculation about how and if characters from the pre-Disney+ Marvel TV shows will be integrated into the greater MCU. We the audience kind of thought, at least at first, that they were part of the greater MCU, but the advent of Disney+ made it pretty clear that they weren’t. I wrote a piece for CBR about why that would be a bad decision almost a year ago, before any pre-D+ TV characters had made the switch over; I also think the points made in this more recent piece of mine about Laura Barton, Bobbi Morse, and the Mockingbird role make some important parts.

Marvel Cinematic Universe

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how to bring beloved marvel tv characters to the prime mcu
how to bring beloved marvel tv characters to the prime mcu
Marvel Cinematic Universe

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May 31, 2022

the less-inherent progressiveness of my little pony (tales)

A little while back, we talked about the cartoon My Little Pony ‘n Friends, specifically its storytelling and also its surprisingly forward-thinking themes. All well and good! We both still prefer ‘n Friends (G1) — the plots are generally more interesting and it skews a little bit less young (it’s…

My Little Pony

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the less-inherent progressiveness of my little pony (tales)
the less-inherent progressiveness of my little pony (tales)
My Little Pony

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