Given the leaks turned confirmation of the power change for Kamala Khan in the upcoming Disney+ show, I figured I’d gift this to my Kamala Khan fam upset with the changes being done to Kamala’s origins.
Been watching the discussion from the side and I can’t help but notice how quick people are dismiss legitimate concerns with all these changes and frankly it’s annoying.
I am afraid to ask but what they change about her powers?
It’s been confirmed that rather than the elasticity powers she has in the comics, the show is going to change it to Kamala being able to making Energy Constructs:
This coincides with an earlier leak/rumor which revealed that not only would Kamala’s powers be changed, but the actual source of the powers would also be completely changed. Rather than being turned into an Inhuman through the terrigen mist, Kamala would instead find a family amulet that gives her “Djinn” powers.
…that’s racist
There is so many things wrong with this because like there is this lack of awareness. Correct me if I am wrong, but aren’t Jinn considered demons in the Koran? And the idea that they mix and matched Kamala with her actual fucking sidekick Amulet is baffling.
What’s described is literally his power and it comes from a family heirloom. And before you say, “how come that’s not racist but when Kamala does it, it is?” Because what Fadi aka Amulet does is explicitly noted that his power is considered taboo in his culture.
But that’s not Kamala’s story.
This is like absurd.
There’s also the fact that Kamala having a power change means that she cannot morph into Carol in her origin story. Which means her entire arc about realizing that she does not need to be some white, blonde haired, blue-eyed woman to be a hero. Her entire story of self-acceptance and overcoming internalized racism is gone.
Kamala is having a power change and it’s likely being done so that she can match and/or better compliment Carol, because Kamala’s very specially not pretty looking polymorph powers don’t vibe with the white woman aesthetics. It’s not just a change in her power set, it’s a fundamental change in her origin and who she is as a character. And this change to the Pakistani-Muslim’s character is being done to better center a white woman who is the current poster child for USAF in cinema.
Fuck, and I mean this with all my heart, the MCU.
If this turns out to be true (which I don’t doubt because fuck the MCU), then FUCK THE MCU.
So on the Castlevania twitter they announced that they’ll be showing the first episode of castlevania season 2 early… for people who donate blood (to Dracula’s army of Vampires of course). Details can be found here, it’s at the LA Film school, if you’ve recently donated and therefore can’t donate again, show up anyway and they can hook you up with the episode.
goshbut like we spent hundreds of years looking up at the stars and wondering “is there anybody out there” and hoping and guessing and imagining
because we as a species were so lonely and we wanted friends so bad, we wanted to meet other species and we wanted to talk to them and we wanted to learn from them and to stop being the only people in the universe
and we started realizing that things were maybe not going so good for us– we got scared that we were going to blow each other up, we got scared that we were going to break our planet permanently, we got scared that in a hundred years we were all going to be dead and gone and even if there were other people out there, we’d never get to meet them
and then
we built robots?
and we gave them names and we gave them brains made out of silicon and we pretended they were people and we told them hey you wanna go exploring, and of course they did, because we had made them in our own image
and maybe in a hundred years we won’t be around any more, maybe yeah the planet will be a mess and we’ll all be dead, and if other people come from the stars we won’t be around to meet them and say hi! how are you! we’re people, too! you’re not alone any more!, maybe we’ll be gone
but we built robots, who have beat-up hulls and metal brains, and who have names; and if the other people come and say, who were these people? what were they like?
the robots can say, when they made us, they called us discovery; they called us curiosity; they called us explorer; they called us spirit. they must have thought that was important.
The opening scene of the original 1986 transformers movie is the most perfect depiction of cosmic horror i have ever seen in animation tbh. In the beginning the movie takes its time to show us this buzzling alien society where people are just living their normal everyday lives only for all of this is to be abruptly shattered when unicron devours the planet and all of its inhabitants with it. All the while the audience gets a disturbingly intimate look at his inner workings. We get to see exactly what happens to those poor souls he eats and how they literally fuel him. Billions people and the culture they had created were nothing but a little snack to this behemoth and it didn’t even satiate his hunger because he pretty much immediately moves on to his next meal
TO THE PERSON THAT TAGGED MY NUDES AS “HOMESTUCK” SO THEIR SISTER WOULDNT SEE, I JUST WANNA SAY THAT’S THE NIRJDKNVSIJDKFVNCM FUNNIEST THING I’VE SEEN ALL MORNING THANK U
