saying “credits to the gif makers” is not crediting gifs btw. even on a slow laptop you can send links to the post of the gifs to yourself in a personal discord server, (i used to do this), and add them once youve made the stimboard. i believe you can credit on mobile too with tumblrs new update
A large part of the identity of mutants in the Marvel universe is the fact that they represent minorities, and therefore, face a certain level of bigotry and prosecution. Now that the X-Men are set to join the MCU, why would the general public have a distain or dislike of mutants, considering other superpowered characters are treated like heroes, like The Avengers? I have a proposition.
I think that the concept of mutant hatred being politicised makes a lot of sense.
I think that governments and people in power preferring superpowered beings that they can control, and therefore branding anybody outside of that, especially people without a platform, the way that most mutants are portrayed as more or less everyday people rather than kings, billionaires, gods, etc. is a good and easy target for them to weaponise the public’s perception into anti-mutant, pro-government, pro-military propaganda.
The foundation’s already there with The Sokovia Accords, with various governments being much more in favour of controlling superpowered individuals rather than letting any of them freely act of their own individual or group accords. Mutants can simply be a face for that general sentiment to be perpetuated through propaganda. Yay War Machine, yay Captain America. Characters who have already been proven to have saved the world in large, well-known conflicts like what happened in Avengers: Endgame already have a certain level of public goodwill that governments would find hard to fight against, but newer, or lesser-known, or everyday mutants don’t have that same level of goodwill, nor influence, nor power (theoretically), that characters like The Avengers already have, and so could much easier be marketed as threats to the everyday public.
Also, seeing as not every mutant has powers that would largely benefit most governments, but there’s also some that could be weaponised dramatically, it’s believable that various governments would want to deter mutant goodwill as propaganda against other governments potentially using them, while also giving excuses not to put mutant-positive propositions forward themselves because mutants aren’t always powerfully useful for self-serving politicians and governments. If it doesn’t directly and selfishly help them personally, then they aren’t going to support it, and instead weaponise that disregard in an attempt to further their own agendas.
“Mutants are too variable to be trusted, or more accurately, used.”.
Tatiana Maslany wearing a shirt that says ‘SUPPORT TRANS FUTURES’ on it to promote She-Hulk for Marvel Studios and Disney, and therefore forcing them to have that on their social medias for the world to see, including who knows how many queer kids and their guardians, is fucking awesome and I thank her for that.
Randomly thinking about how in Year 10 in my high school, my English teacher, who I think was the head of the English department at our school, decided to give every student in our class new names, and only referred to us by those new names for pretty much that entire year, and that apparently she claimed to do that with all of her classes but I had never heard of that before? Like surely if a teacher is re-assigning peoples names for every single class that she taught each year, people would talk about that more? She literally refused to call us by our own actual names and would only refer to us by the names that she gave us, which she said were often inspired by classic literature, although we didn’t read any of the books that she apparently got that inspiration from. It wasn’t instant, either, like for some people it took weeks for her to assign them a name. Anyway the name that she assigned me was Tatiana and apparently it means queen or something, and my friend got assigned the name Regina, and everybody made fun of it because of Mean Girls and called her Regina George but her actual birth name is Ashleigh.
Buffy Summers, and various other strong hand-to-hand fighters in Buffy The Vampire Slayer, wearing lots of leather jackets and leather pants not only because it looks cool and sexy, but also because out of all of the commonly available fabrics nowadays, and especially in the late 90’s and early ‘00’s, leather’s not a bad choice in regards to body armour. Especially if you’re not doing Spider-Man style quick-changes, and wearing it as clothes even when not fighting or patrolling, particularly if you hang out and often end up fighting in or around a nightclub, like The Bronze. Also, it looks cool.
People in the U.S.A. constantly having to fight for the right to acknowledge diversity and bigotry in various settings, particularly school settings, is wild on many levels, and some of the arguments from conservatives are absolutely ridiculous.
I was just reminded of the fact that in Year 6, my class and I read a book about a refugee girl actively fleeing her home country with her family, hiding from people who could kill her, travelling by boat to Australia and being detained for months, hearing about other refugee’s suicides and contemplating how that felt from a kid’s perspective, and trying and waiting to be allowed to live freely. It’s a beautiful book. We, a group of roughly 11-12 year olds, were prescribed to read and discuss.
Granted, I am Australian, and that Primary School that I went to is in Sydney. I know that there have been attempts, sometimes successful, at censoring what kids are taught about here in Australia too, and many other places around the world besides the U.S.A. , for example this year (2022) there have already been multiple attempts by a single school in Queensland to force students, staff, and parents and guardians of students to sign a contract that says that that school can expel or fire anybody for displaying gender-nonconformity, “homosexual acts”, or for being transgender. By no means am I trying to imply that bigoted policies, legislature, or practices are only located in 1 place.
What I am saying, is that as somebody who was in a Primary School where we actively discussed topics that some people may shy away from discussing with young people, I can say that I genuinely think that reading that book and discussing it and the real-world things that real people have to live through, made for a much more empathetic, compassionate, emotionally-intelligent, and educated group of kids, who definitely would benefit from that experience.
Providing an educational, open-minded, and compassionate space for young people to explore new and potentially uncomfortable or controversial things is extremely important and beneficial. Part of school-based education is emotional, and teaching about compassion, empathy, and respect for yourself and other people, and other points of view and experiences, is a part of that.
god 33 arrests at line 3 today. and so many of the people there are barely 21. they’re literally fighting for our lives because we’ll have nothing without water not a goddamn thing
this wasn’t supposed to be reblogged but since we’re here I encourage everyone to visit stopline3.org and learn about everything that’s going on because the situation is awful. it explains everything, answers most questions and tells you how to take action.
find out how you can support water protectors here:
Emma Langevin reacting to Sykkuno drawing them and their Long Furby son, Rodeo. They also talk about LGBTQIA+ identities,CORPSE HusbandandKarl Jacobs, “Mommy Milkers”, and their physical health.
Emma Langevin trying to choke CORPSE Husband for about 7 minutes, and then immediately letting IronMouse go free in a Friday The 13th Game. Emma’s P.O.V. for that whole video.
My goal is to make a post to which John Green replies with something ridiculous, then a bunch of people reblog it with his comment not realizing it’s him, then someone notices and says “is that John Green?” “That was John Green”
