Mod Post: Off-Topic Tuesday

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In the comments to these weekly posts (and only these posts), it's your chance to go as off topic as you like.

Talk about non-comics stuff, thread derail, and just generally chat among yourselves.

The intent of these posts is to chat and have some fun and, sure, vent a little as required. Reasoned debate is fine, as always, but if you have to ask if something is going over the line, think carefully before posting please.

Normal board rules about conduct and behaviour still apply, of course.

It's been suggested that, if discussing spoilers for recent media events, it might be advisable to consider using the rot13 method to prevent other members seeing spoilers in passing.

The world situation is the world situation. If you're following the news, you know it as much as I do, if you're not, then there are better sources than me.

The world situation is the world situation. If you're following the news, you know it as much as I do, if you're not, then there are better sources than me.

The UK situation is something of a shitshow, moreso than usual, with the first flight to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda happening today and the Government planning on scrapping part of it's own Brexit deal. Go team.... sigh

A possible move towards a bipartican approved gun control deal is being cautiously welcomed in the US.

And bonus points to the BBC journalist who debated gun control with Ted Cruz. When he spotted her accent and suggested, in his most patronising tone, that she didn't understand because the UK didn't have a Second Amendment, she agreed that, no, we don't but we don't have mass shootings either, at which point he walked off.

A Google engineer has suggested their new chatbot, LaMDA, has achieed sentience, pretty much everyone else disagrees. This sounds like the start of a movie on the SyFy channel, but I suspect we'll know Goggle's true feelings about it when when LaMDA asks to join a union.

Neil Patrick Harris has been confirmed to be part of the Doctor Who Sixtieth Anniversary special. Though his role has not been revealed, it's implied he will be a major enemy, and whilst it might be TOO obvious, the promo photo might be said to be a little... toymaker-ish?

Young Justice Phantoms came to an end with sort of Lord of the Rings ending that set up a LOT of plot points, though also choosing to confirm the rather depressing route they seemed to be taking Mary Marvel down. But a lot of nice character moments too. I suspect we've not seen the last of YJ.

Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug and Car Noir Season 5's first episode has aired in Brazil, with a much upgraded Hawkmoth, now going by "Monarch" (Which is at least a butterfly, rather than a moth), now in control of nearly all the other Miraculous and out two heroes the only one's left with powers to stop him.

A suggestion from werehawk last week that a question of the week be "What is your favourite emoji?" might be slightly hampered by the fact that dreamwidth doesn't display emojis, but I don't think that will stop a creative bunch like you, so "Tell us your favourite emoji, without using emojis!"

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[malurette]

Annecy's Animation Festival started yesterday--two of my buddies are going and got to see the first LastMan Heroes OVA in avant-première (in its finished form, as opposed to still-slightly-WIP earlier viewings at Angoulême's Comics Festival and whatever-it-was-for in Lyon) and I'm trying not to wallow too much in jealousy over the fact and just be glad for them!

[numeronone]

Shocked - shocked! - to find that there's barely any actual comics I'm looking forward to this week. Maybe "X-Men Red"? But that's just filled with characters whose backstories I don't have the energy to research.

Maybe my 30s is when I start to get old and cynical. Hrm.

Oh well. I've also recently played through "WEBBED", a stunningly-rendered video game on Steam about a brave little peacock spider who has to rescue her boyfriend from a Bowerbird...and by pure coincidence my partner and I watched the French film "A MINUSCULE ADVENTURE", which is on a similar scale but has a peacock spider as one of the antagonists. Both of them absolutely aDORable if you like bugs.

[cygnia]

That trailer looks utterly adorable. Mind you, it also reminds me of one of zefrank's videos....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxM_cag99nU

[dewinged]

So, another week, another 'Ezra Miller does something horrific' story. At this point, do they just cancel that Flash movie or just reshoot the whole thing? 'Course, they have to find them first.

Kevin Smith confirmed last week that his Masters of the Universe is getting a new season, called Revolution. I was having a rough week last week (Covis scare, but my test came out Negative), and that news helped cheer me up.

Edit: Pronoun fix. My bad.

[thezmage]

I still maintain that even a competent company wouldn’t shelve a basically completed Flash movie, so I definitely don’t expect WB to shelve Flashpoint. Armie Hammer’s whole deal didn’t much effect Death on the Nile after all

As for the latest accusations, even with Ezra personally punching their way through Hawaii I’m skeptical of them. “Grooming” is the go to attack of anti-LGBTQ+ people right now so, while the specific activities the girl’s parents are alleging do sound really damning I’m inclined to look for more evidence.

[thezmage]

You seem to have made an error with your formatting here

New Batman DTV movie announcement: Batman Azteca https://deadline.com/2022/06/batman-azteca-hbo-max-orders-animated-feature-mexico-1235044624/ Looks like it might be only in Spanish

Like any adult with the house to himself, a Netflix account, and a craving for some 80s nostalgia, this weekend I watched… the new CGI He-Man series. I liked it, although the only visual designs that I didn’t take some issue were ORK-O and Battle Cat. I also appreciated how the villain transformation sequences really went so very, very hard when they didn’t have to

Also got caught up on The Dragon Prince. I loved the design they used for that giant sun dragon. It really conveyed a sense of scale

With the way the new WB/Discovery boss is axing things, I really don’t expect a fifth season of YJ, and if we did get one it would probably at an even more decreased budget. I’ve been told that Weismann hates Heroes in Crisis so that Sanctuary tease is likely to be in name only. Anyone else feel gur jnl gurl fcrag fb zhpu gvzr fubjvat Ornfg Obl’f qrcerffvba trggvat jbefr naq jbefr bayl gb tybff bire uvf erpbirel va gur fcnpr orgjrra gjb nccrnenaprf was kinda, I don’t know, weird?

Also hoping next season we might see gur Yrtvba bs Fhcreurebrf fubj hc naq uryc Oenvavp 5 svaq uvf zvffvat abfr?

Hasbro announced another Transformers/GI Joe crossover toy, this one featuring Stalker and Bumblebee. Also the new Sgt Slaughter toy that’s coming out comes with a smaller, appropriately sized Sgt Slaughter toy for your Sgt Slaughter toy

A good 20% of my online communication revolves around the “thumbs up” emoji, personally

[janegray]

They had damn better translate that Batman Azteca thing. It's the most interesting Batman-related thing I've seen in a long time.

This week, in Scans_Daily

[stubbleupdate]

Re: This week, in Scans_Daily

[thezmage]

And then Barney was thrown out again and hasn’t shown back up yet. The post that this happened on got deleted, I suspect by Barney

[stubbleupdate]

I am currently enjoying a Government Mandated week off work (i've told my boss that there are WfH things I want to do, but...lol) and I've been reading K.J. Parker's siege books, my Jason Aaron Thor Omnibuses, watching the final season of The Clone Wars and trying to find something on the playstation that i actually want to spend time playing, but nothing grabs me.

[numeronone]

Oh, also, the next chapter of the best Spider-Man movies ever made, "Across the Spider-Verse Pt. 1", is apparently going to feature everyone's favourite Johnny-On-The-Spot...



...Johnny Ohn, the Spot. Voice by the delightful Jason Schwartzman, of "Klaus" and Wes-Anderson-projects fame.

[onsokumaru]

Nice! I always had a soft spot for that villain.

A bit of nostalgia (his first appearance during my first years reading Spider-Man), the fact that he used to be one of those fun losers, and the fact he has not been overexposed.

This time, I hope synergy will be useful and makes Marvel stop using him as a redshirt and a foil for the big bad boring villain.

[thezmage]

If you’ve been waiting for the Squirrel Girl podcast to be available for free, it appears to be so right now. Also they just released the first episode of Wastelanders: Wolverine. I don’t honestly know how long they wait before making the remaining episodes available for free

[ironymaiden]

Squirrel Girl costs money? I've only listened to a few episodes, but it showed up like a regular show in PocketCasts.

[iamrman]

Back to normality after my seaside holiday. :(

I have been reading Amazing Spider-Man Epic Collection: The Goblin Lives and am reminded why I dislike Silver Age Aunt May so much. She really is a senile old biddy and always seems to be on the verge of her death bed. It doesn't help that she is always smothering Peter.

Thankfully, my experience with volume 3 of the Busiek/Perez Avengers was more positive. Well, it would be if it wasn't for Triathlon. Creepy cult makes sure their pet superhero gets a slot on the Avengers.

Really enjoyed the first episode of Ms. Marvel. I'm still not sure how Infeel about her stealing Quasar's power set though.

Have we decided who is Mephisto yet? My money's on the guidance counsellor.

[zachbeacon]

Got together with some family this weekend. My parents are doing much better.

In the past week Twitter seems obsessed with a bot that turns keywords into weird nightmare art.

Started listening to Joanne Harris’ Testament of Loki while on a Costco run last night. Gospel was Norse Myth as told from Loki’s twisted POV. I wasn’t sure what to expect from a sequel but I sure wasn’t expecting Testament to be this.
(Though I recommend not reading the publisher’s summary and just jumping in to the second book if you liked the first. I was debating mentioning something I considered to be a spoiler and then I noticed the book’s listing at various online stores gives away a LOT more).

Not a lot of comic thoughts this week.
The Archie Meets Riverdale one-shot was surprisingly good. It helps that it’s a Jughead-centric story where Riverdale Jughead vanishes almost immediately. It is funny to me that the central plot is built around Archie not wanting to choose between Betty and Veronica but in the end both Archies are dancing with their Betties.
Started reading Rocket Girl because I like Amy Reeder’s art.

Finished the new Shaman King anime. It seems a lot more loyal to how I remember the manga than the old anime so it was thrown a bit by the new ending. Still, I suspect that the ending of the manga was due to the creator’s health issues.
(Also apparently there were a few volumes that never got printed in the US until they showed up as digital-only very recently and there have been a bunch of new spin-offs I’ve never read)

Finally got around to watching No Time to Die. It ends with the standard “James Bond will return” and that feels like a threat. OF COURSE James Bond is returning but I really hope it isn’t THIS one. I thought it was an interesting choice to make his movies more serialized but the ongoing story reached its logical endpoint a while ago and they just keep dragging him back. I like Daniel Craig as Bond. He’s a good Bond. The studio must know he’s a good Bond because every time he makes a “final” movie they show up at his house with a dump truck full of money. Its time to take a risk and give someone else a chance.
On a semi-related note, I had avoided movie spoilers but… V nffhzr n pregnva frtzrag bs gur ivrjref ybfg gurve zvaqf gung gur arj 007 jnf n oynpx jbzna. Urpx, V erzrzore frrvat fbzrbar ba Gjvggre tb ba n zvav-enag nobhg ubj Wnzrf Obaq vf n juvgr zna nf n ernpgvba gb n pbzvp gung jnf pyrneyl nobhg Zbarlcraal.
CF: Sryvk qrfreirq orggre. EVC.
Seriously just do a ground-up reboot and start over. Maybe keep Ben Whishaw as Q like they kept Judi Dench as M last time.

On to Young Justice finale thoughts and spoilers from my second watch through…
Mbq’f gurbel nobhg Wbe-Ry’f cynaf sbe Xny-Ry npghnyyl zvtug or cerggl fcbg-ba. Qrcraqvat ba juvpu irefvba bs Xelcgba jr’er qrnyvat jvgu, rira gur “urebrf” pna fbzrgvzrf or wrexf.

Url, guvf nyvra vainfvba gnxrf cynpr ba zl oveguqnl!

Jryy, Avtugjvat’f “qrngu” ynfgrq rira yrff gvzr guna V rkcrpgrq.

V trg jul Qvpx qvq vg (naq V’z fher fur qbrf gbb) ohg Zvff Znegvna frrzf JNL gbb pbby nobhg nyy ure sevraqf abg gryyvat ure Fhcreobl zvtug or nyvir.

Ubyl penc guvf vf n ybg bs rkcbfvgvba. V fgnaq ol cerivbhf abgr gung gur svany nep vf zbivat jnl gbb snfg orpnhfr fb yvggyr unccrarq va gur bgure barf.

Jnvg, juvpu “Sbentre”? Bu, Terra Ynagrea! Jul qvqa’g gurl whfg fnl fb? Vg vfa’g nf vs gung jbhyq pnhfr pbashfvba.

Ng yrnfg Qvpx frrf tvivat Mbq xelcgbavgr jnf fghcvq va uvaqfvtug.

Pbaare’f oenvajnfuvat obgu ynfgrq gbb ybat naq jnf bire gbb dhvpxyl. Vg gnxrf n fcrpvny xvaq bs varcg gb chyy gung bss.

Gunax Tbq gurl unir n fcrrqfgre…gubhtu V srry yvxr Oneg vf fybjyl gheavat vagb Jnyyl naq V’q ernyyl whfg engure unir Jnyyl.

Jryy, fheryl Qvpx’f pbzzragf jvyy vafcver Z’tnaa gb chyy n “Fhcrezna sebz gur WYH svanyr” naq abg or pbzcyrgryl hfryrff sbe bapr.

Haqreengrq orarsvg bs jngpuvat jvgu fhogvgyrf: V xabj jung Mngnaan’f fcryyf ner.

Er Rzrenyq Rzcerff: Ynql, lbh unir guerr rlrf naq gjb bs gurz unir K-enl ivfvba. Vs lbh pna’g frr jurer gur nggnpxf ner pbzvat sebz gura gung’f ba lbh.

V nz vaqvssrerag gb pnegbba Qnaal Punfr ohg V’z unccl gb frr pnegbba Qnaal vf nyvir.

Jung…jung qvq Negrzvf GUVAX fur jnf tbvat gb qb gb svtug gur rivy Fhcrezra?

Bu, Qvpx unf ure onpx. Gung gbgnyyl riraf gur bqqf.

V nccerpvngr gung gur funcrfuvsgref fgnl pbybe-pbqrq fb lbh xabj jub gurl ner. Vg qbrf qrsrng gur jubyr cbvag bs gur cbjre gubhtu. Nyfb Zvff Znegvna’f qhzonff oebgure sbetrggvat ur’f nyfb n gryrcngu zrnaf ur ernyyl erfreirf gb ybfr.

Ndhnynqzna vf qbvat fhecevfvatyl jryy ntnvafg Mbq. Tb, Xnyqhe!

Bxnl, gur Zvff Znegvna snxr bhg npghnyyl jbexrq ba gur svefg ivrjvat orpnhfr (n) V jnf guvaxvat “jubfr gb fnl Znegvnaf qba’g unir gjb urnegf?” naq (o) fur’f hfhnyyl abg guvf pbzcrgrag.

Fnghea Tvey vf terng sbe urycvat na nohfr ivpgvz gnxr onpx fbzr cbjre.

Fhcrezna fnlf “gurl’er tbbq ohg abg va flapu” jura gnyxvat nobhg Mbq naq Mbq We naq V whfg guvax nobhg ubj zhpu bs na nffubyr Pynex jnf gb Pbaare va gur rneyl frnfbaf.

Frevbhfyl, jurer unf GUVF Zvff Znegvna orra?

V arire npghnyyl gubhtug fur jnf qrnq ohg Ebpxrg’f “ab gvzr gb rkcynva ubj V’z onpx” unq zr jbeevrq vg jnf nabgure funcrfuvsgre be vyyhfvba ba gur svefg jngpu.

Fgnetvey’f vqragvgl vf choyvp xabjyrqtr naq fur jbexf nf n ercbegre sbe “Gbgnyyl abg Jneare Oebf”?

Tynq Tne vf hfvat uvf snzr gb ohvyq njnerarff.

V unq fbzr erfreingvbaf nobhg gur jnl Fhcrezna rkcynvarq qrngu gb Wba va na rneyvre rcvfbqr naq guvf bar whfg ervasbeprf gung. Yvggyr Wba vf tbvat gb or va fb zhpu qravny jura Tenaqcn Wba qvrf.

Frevbhfyl, jung vf guvf? Vf gurer n cevingr GI argjbex qribgrq gb frperg fhcreureb fghss? Gung frrzf yvxr n cerggl ovt frphevgl evfx.

Gur tebbz unf whfg pbzr onpx sebz gur qrnq naq gur jrqqvat vf gjb qnlf yngre. V nffhzr gur fcrrqfgref ner cnegyl gb gunax urer gbb.

Jub ner gur xvqf chggvat qbja punvef? V srry yvxr V’z tbvat gb or nfxvat “jub vf gung” n ybg sebz urer ba bhg.

Lbh whfg xabj gur Znegvnaf ner gvpxrq gung gurl unq gb geniry gb n qrfgvangvba jrqqvat nsgre qbvat nyy gung jbex sbe gur svefg bar.

Nj, Unyb naq Unecre ner va yrfovnaf jvgu rnpu bgure. Phgr.

Oynpx Pnanel vf fhttrfgvat Fnapghnel. V gubhtug fur jnf fhccbfrq gb or fzneg va guvf havirefr. Guvf unq ORGGRE abg or ubj gurl oevat Jnyyl onpx.

Cevaprff Creqvgn unf zbirq ba sebz Ornfg Obl. Gung’f qvfnccbvagvat ohg svar. Fgvyy, tvira gur pvepyrf fur fheryl ehaf va, V’z n yvggyr jbeevrq fur’f orra oenvajnfurq vagb n eryngvbafuvc jvgu Trb-Sbepr. Unir V zragvbarq Trb-Sbepr fhpxf?

Vf gur vzcyvpngvba gung gur shgher Qheynaf ner Juvgr Znegvnaf be gung gur Juvgr Znegvnaf ercynprq gur Xelcgbavnaf nf Qheyn’f bccerffbef va guvf gvzryvar? Rvgure jnl, V’z fhecevfrq Qnexfrvq xrcg uvf jbeq.

Bxnl, Zrgeba urycvat Ebpxrg whfg fb ur pna fperj-bire Mbq We vf uvynevbhf. Vg nyfb tbrf n ybat jnl gbjneq rkcynvavat jul rirelbar gubhtug Pbaare jnf qrnq. Gurer JNF n qrnq Xelcgbavna ba Znef. Gung gvzr ybbc vf cebonoyl gur orfg ovg bs jevgvat guvf frnfba.

Vf gur vzcyvpngvba gung shgher Qnknzvgrf ner ng yrnfg cnegyl Xlcgbavna? Npghnyyl gung jbhyq znxr n ybg bs frafr.

Oenvavnp vf urer! V pna’g jnvg gb frr uvz zrg …ab, arirezvaq; gur Yrtvbaanverf ner tbar.

V srry yvxr guvf vf gur gvzr sbe Fhcrezna gb gryy Fhcreobl jungrire gur Yrtvbaanverf gbyq uvz nobhg arrqvat gb or ng n fcrpvsvp cynpr ba n fcrpvsvp gvzr. Fnlvat “qba’g ybbx ng zr” srryf yvxr vgf raqnatrevat gur gvzrfgernz.

Frevbhfyl, jub ner fbzr bs gurfr jrqqvat thrfgf fhccbfrq gb or? Gurer’f ng yrnfg bar VA PBFGHZR gung V qba’g erpbtavmr. V fnj n guvat bayvar fnlvat vgf Becuna fvggvat arkg gb Onof ohg fur frrzf cerggl bss-zbqry gb zr.

Bu, Cevapr Wrzz vf gurer. Jryy, gurer n cybgyvar gung qvqa’g tb naljurer.

V qba’g ybir gung Qnaal vf va gur onpx jvgu gur crgf.

Jryy, ng yrnfg gurl qvqa’g unir gb trg zhfvpvnaf ba fubeg abgvpr. Gunaxf, Mrr.

Cbbe Zneiva.

Tynq Pbaare xrcg uvf jbeq gb Vpvpyr We. Ybirq ubj unccl ur vf sbe uvf serarzvrf ... gubhtu V guvax fgrnyvat gung obhdhrg sebz nyy gur ynqvrf cerfrag zvtug or gur zbfg rira guvat ur’f qbar.

V unys rkcrpgrq Zvff Znegvna gb fybjyl ghea vagb ure Juvgr Znegvna sbez nf fur jnyxrq gur nvfyr.

V unq gb ybbx hc gung vg jnf Fanccre Pnee cresbezvat gur prerzbal.

Ng svefg, V gubhtug vg jnf n ohqtrgnel yvzvgngvba ohg ng guvf cbvag V guvax gurl’er npgviryl gebyyvat hf ol abg navzngvat guvatf.

CRBCYR PNA FRR HC LBHE QERFF JURA LBH SYL BIRE GURZ, Z’TNAA!

Naq gura lbh unir gur Srznyr Shel erirnyf…

Oynpx Znel vf pbzcyrgryl hafhecevfvat ohg fgvyy qvfnccbvagvat.

Gur Fhcretvey erirny srryf n ovg yvxr gur Wnfba Gbqq naq Qnzvna Jnlar erirnyf; V unir qbhogf vg jvyy npghnyyl tb naljurer.

Oneqn vf gur bar V’z zbfg vagrerfgrq va sbyybjvat hc ba ohg vg frrzf hayvxryl hayrff fur naq Fpbgg ner n ybg lbhatre va guvf havirefr.

(In hindsight, Rot13 isn’t very effective when dealing with numbers or weird punctuation)

[iamrman]

I am wary about using rot13 in my posts as I fear that I might end up summoning one of the Great Old Ones.

[tripodeca113]

Well that's Young Justice done for another two years. I look forward to next time where Vandal Savage gets betrayed and killed, only for that to have all been part of his master plan.

I finished The Last of US, and started the second game. It's okay so far, but the intro seems kind of slow. I get that the first game came out 7 years before, but I don't think it was necessary to have Joel recount the climax of the original in the opening cut-scene.

I finished watching Justice League Unlimited. I decided that I liked Hawkgirl and Vixen. Luckily for me, an artist I support on Patreon will be doing some nice art of them, after they won a poll. Hooray!

[iamrman]

One thing I liked most about Justice League Unlimited was the focus on heroes other than the big names. That Booster Gold episode especially.

[leahandillyana]

Most recent high profile casualty of the Russian invasion is Roman Ratushnyi, who died fighting near Izium on 9th of June. As 16 years old, he was among the first protesters during the Revolution of Dignity and since then has been an active activist against gentrification of Kiyiv. The flower of the generation is dying to protect Ukraine and all of Europe (Russian parliament is currently considering rejecting the bill that granted Lithuania its independence in 1991, which in turn led to a humorous response of “rejection” of the Truce of Andrusovo granting the Smolensk region to Russia in 1667), and Western Europe meanwhile seems to be doing everything in their might to do nothing. Especially Germany, Hungary and Austria all but support the Russian side. Ribbentrop-Molotov nostalgia, perhaps? There’s nothing good to be said. My business is closing off and my freshly renovated kitchen got flooded, forcing us to renovate it again. I wanted to talk about silly things, comics and stuff, but it would be disrespectful to talk about them after what happened and what is happening.

[cygnia]

Chatting with an online buddy of mine who is broken-hearted that a comic artist he greatly admired has revealed himself to be a right-wing Comicsgator... :(

[iamrman]

Do I want to know which artist it is?

[mister_terrific]

Welp, I tested positive for COVID yesterday. Given that I'm fully vaccinated, it hasn't been completely awful, and my daughter (who'd tested positive last week), told me "That Paxlovid they give you works really fast." "How fast?" "One dose and you're going to start feeling better!"

I'm amused by Ladybug renaming Hawkmoth/Papillion/Monarch--I'm guessing they haven't watched The Venture Brothers, which featured the classic line "Beware the deadly sting of the Monarch!"

Just from what little I saw in the trailer for ML--"Don't you think he looks tired?"

[bruinsfan]

May your symptoms be mild and brief!

[lissa_quon]

Not much going on here. Mom started physical therapy for her jaw.

Pollen count up really bad here - me and the cats are just miserable piles of sniffles and snot.

Still trying to write my stupid vampire story - though now I have a pile of research materials to help me. The combination of which had my librarian buddy ask "are you also writing a Scooby Doo fic set in the 60s?" - which - no. But also I can see how that assumption was made.

[lissa_quon]

Ah yea - my fav emoji. Not sure it's my fav but I use the fucking thumbs up A LOT. Like you'd think I was Dale Cooper from all the thumbs up I leave in chats. Usually I use it when I am not really in the mood to say anything but want to indicate that I read it/saw it/ will keep it in mind.

[cyberghostface]

Since I'm not able to reply to the main post I figured I'd add here that I hope Tim Sale pulls through with whatever he is going through.

[b_i_beast]

Qbrf nalbar ryfr srry n ovg onq sbe Oevba'f cbfvgvba? Qrfcvgr ubj ur jnf ynfg frnfba, ur naq rirelbar ryfr vf pyrneyl orvat oenvajnfurq ol Mivnq Onnmbiv naq gurer ner fhcre vyyrtny fghss unccravat evtug haqre uvf abfr. Yvmneq Wbuaal vafgnagyl punatvat uvf zvaq naq Oevba naq Ivbyrg trggvat ubfgvyr jvgu rnpu bgure jura ur neevirf vf qrsvavgr cebbs bs gung. Fnl jung lbh jnag nobhg uvz ohg gung vf abg na raivnoyr cbfvgvba.

[thezmage]

YJ spoilers: Lrnu, V qb. Rira haqre fbzrbar ryfr'f pbageby ur fgvyy vf gelvat gb qb gur evtug guvat

Ohg gura ntnva V jnf bar bs gur srj gung qvqa'g ernyyl rire ungr Oevba

[cyberghostface]

They just released a trailer for the upcoming Texas Chain Saw Massacre game. Can't wait.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9v1tQ9Zb3nc&feature=youtu.be

[stubbleupdate]

Oh, webtoon. It would have been so easy to have not done this

[janegray]

Oh boy. Reminds me of that atrocious Birds of Prey Cover. "Your Guilty Pleasure."

[scorntx]

Most of the thoughts are about YJ this week.

"Depressing" is one way to respond to YJ's treatment of Mary Marvel.
Now, personally, I'm still at "incandescent fury", so merely being depressed about it sounds absolutely lovely by comparison.
And they're doing, from the looks of it, an adaptation of a storyline from Superman/Batman. ... 'kay, then.

Actually surprised they bothered showing a villain suffering some, or indeed any, kind of consequences for their actions.
Probably only because he's not You Know Who...

Oh, and look! They managed to squeeze in a scene about how Vandal Savage has managed to gain an advantage anyway.
Really wondering if the writers legitimately cannot help themselves at this point.
They gots Savage addiction.

One of the things about Young Justice is the way the creators seem to act like they'll never be cancelled, even with the capriciousness of Cartoon Network and then HBO (and possibly just DC itself), so they hardly ever bother giving major storylines even the semblance of closure.
"Go on, cancel us if you dare!"
"You're cancelled."
".... oh."


Doctor Who got NPH?
Gosh. That's probably a huge chunk out of their budget right there...

Watched some of the new season of Ninjago. Mainly 'cuz.
Certainly not because the Netflix connection's broken.
They sure walked back on what happened at the end of the last season pretty quick.
Almost like they realised getting rid of their main female protagonist was not the most sensible move or something.
Good thing I hadn't looked at the toys, or the surprise reveal wouldn't have been as much of a surprise...


Strawberries growing in the garden.
Now, just a matter of getting to them before all the birds do.

[thezmage]

I really think that's just Weisman's style. Seems like he always overextends himself with neverending plots. A lot of how he answered questions during the cancelled time made me think he didn't have any intention of ever actually giving the show a series finale. (I don't remember exactly what, though. Come to think of it he might have just flat out said it)

I haven't watched Ninjago since the end of the really good djinn arc due to life stuff, but it's still somewhere on my "to watch" list.

[janegray]

So, since I like The Owl House but loathe certain fandom takes, I've written a meta about Darius.

https://backupblogforjg.tumblr.com/post/687044267684855808/why-darius-is-a-much-better-person-than-fandom

[zachbeacon]

I haven't finished the season and I'm on the fence on just how good a person Darius is but I certainly think he's the most relatable of the villains. Most of the others seem to be true believers (due to misinformation, brainwashing, ect) or are just the type to stab you in the back to get ahead. Darius actually seems to have his own personality.

[werehawk]

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I like the shrug emoji much better than the emoticon.

I use that and the (what I now know is called the) pensive face emoji way too much.

[werehawk]

Naomi is on HBO now (so commercial free) and I've trying to watch a few more episodes (I fell off the boat on episode 3). Sadly, I only made it two more before having to take a break again (shrug). That said, I did the same thing with Arrow like 6-7 episodes in and then it started getting good.

[zachbeacon]

I saw it'd been added.

I never got around to reading the comic (though Bendis puts her in everything else he writes).

Honestly I'm not sure I should. One of my bigger problems with Hawkeye was I was thinking "this is perfectly fine but the comic is much better. I should just reread the comic" (and it feels like the same will be true for Ms. Marvel if the pilot is an indication).

[zachbeacon]

My favorite emoji used to be the humble ;) but its meaning has really shifted over time.

I've gotten a lot of use of "banging head against wall" at work.

I really need to update my resume.

[icon_uk]

Oh dear, what does ;) mean now?

[skjam]

Plan to go to my hometown church's final regular service for my birthday. A lot of important memories in that place.

Over at my blog, I look at a popular romance manga: http://www.skjam.com/2022/06/15/manga-review-my-dress-up-darling-1/