DC Sidekick Age References

With the drop of the new Fantastic Beasts trailer, let's take a moment to remember that JKR:

1. is unequivocally a TERF + openly supports and allies herself with other TERFs

2. uses her massive wealth and platform to fight against trans rights, such that an anti-trans republican senator has cited her controversial essay to block voting on the Equality Act , and

3. has retained so much control over the HP franchise that giving her money (through movie tickets, book sales, official merch, etc) actively enables and contributes to the platform she uses to target vulnerable people

i mean, there’s typecasting

and then there’s playing a version of cinderella’s stepsister four times

four

separate

productions

Percy probably thought he was fukcing safe. He got through four births unscathed with happy bouncy little quarter elves and then BAM

sweet baby tiefling. delight of his heart. wanderer of catacombs. When she was born a lot of money changed hands because everyone fucking knew it would happen eventually. Vex collected 100 gold and used it for the nursery.

A royal family

i saw a post a while ago expressing negative emotions about my own private idaho not having a happy ending (noting that iirc i think op acknowledged understanding that there was a reason for that and i am not attacking op either way, and this isn't really about Them in particular but a broader statement about how the movie is received and talked about) and i have been chewing on my thoughts for a while and i feel like in a sense river phoenix was very correct to express annoyance with people classifying it as a "gay film" (he said something along the lines of "you wouldnt say (x movie i forget) is a movie about heterosexual oil rig workers") and though the characters' sexualities are a more than incidental part of the film i feel the way people often zero in on the queerness of the narrative and relationship between the protagonists at the expense of the movie's portrayal of say, sex work, homelessness, and disability as well as how heavily the movie thematically revolves around class constitutes a kind of erasure. (of course a lot of this is a byproduct of the time period the movie was made and even the circumstances of today, the media coverage wasn't ever going to see past the fact one of the protagonists was explicitly Not Straight.)

the fact that though the movie portrays scott as genuinely suffering under the cards he was dealt, he has options that mike and the rest of the homeless characters do not, and the fact he returns to his upper class life at the end of the movie is very much central to the narrative and the politics of the film. i think to define the movie around the ambiguous relationship between scott and mike does the movie a huge disservice tbf, not that it isn't important

A non-exhaustive list of things that the Mighty Nein will now need to explain to Molly:

‘Nott’ the goblin having always been Veth the halfling

Veth being married with a child

Fjord’s accent change

Fjord’s patron change

Who Caduceus is

Who Essek is

What the dodecahedron they carried around for a month was

‘You know how when the war broke out, you immediately wanted us to not get involved in any way whatsoever? About that…’

Why Yasha’s wings and hair are different

The Gentleman is Jester’s dad

Fjord and Jester are dating now

Caleb and Essek are ‘It’s complicated’-ing now

Beau is a secret agent

Jester’s god is actually an archfey (and a weasel, sometimes)

How different his friends are now. They’re not the self-interested assholes they once were, and it’s so much to do with him. He made one remark about leaving things better, and they took that and turned it into a rallying cry, made it a mission. It inspired them, it steeled them. They became people who stopped a war and prevented the awakening of an evil god. They touched so many lives and finally saved the world. They’re not what he remembers. They’re brighter and braver and kinder and so, so much stronger

‘We definitely told our two new members about the time you put egg on your dick, and we gave them absolutely zero context.’

these tags are so funnyyyy

“Its predictable if it's Grant,”

ANYWAY please consider the narrative implications of Rose (the one who never knew grant when he was alive, the baby of the family) being the one to find her ressurected brother at the LOA (an organization her father refuses to be apart of for a variety of reasons) who looks at her and sees her with Slade’s eyes and hair and in his old name, his old costume, has his baby brother’s number saved under her emergency contacts. While she looks at him and sees a dead man who she hardly knows but wants to, has only heard stories from Joey, knows next to nothing about how he died and she’s expected to fight him? Is expected to win?? It would just really fuck them both up.

And wouldn’t that be more narratively compelling than some random new kid showing up in deathstroke’s colors?? A clone with problems?? A brainwashed hero?? Like yeah it might be a little predictable but so what??

Like, let him beat up Damian (or get beat up whatever the story is doing IDC) then let him get dragged home by Rose to his mother and brother who are alive! Set up for him to run into Slade who would absolutely cry seeing his son back alive. If Respawn is just some random new character in a run that's already introducing a lot literally why though lmao??

whisper of the heart (1995) dir. yoshifumi kondō