“Hey guys let’s invent a whole ass Klingon/Elvish/etc language for this fictional world.”
People: *learns everything about it*
“Hey guys let’s keep this indigenous language alive that was actually used by real people.”
People: *crickets*
u know what i miss? all the bro posts
bro one *over the phone*: bro i miss those bro posts
bro two: not as much as i miss your eyes bro
bro one: bro
I don’t know how to casually play video games. It’s either I’m not interested or I play for 16 hrs straight and forget to eat.
I have a couple mobile games where I’m mostly only doing stuff during events, and the rest of the time I do the bare minimum. Everything else is me getting absorbed for nearly the entire game and then never playing it again.
cast fat people in normal roles that do not revolve around being fat/ridiculed, I dare you
and stop removing/slimming fat characters when you make movie adaptations
@the people who are angry that Freddie Mercury dies at the end of Bohemian Rhapsody, good. you should be angry. this is your history. this is what people like us went through, not that long ago. use that anger to fight harder.
and don’t blame the people who made the movie, because this is the truth. he lived, and he was brilliant and good, and he died because the government was cruel and didn’t care about people like him. I’m sorry. you can’t change the past, and it would be disrespectful to the memory of him to try. yes, it’s fucked up.
don’t let it happen again.
I’m not going to tag this with #spoilers because it’s not a fucking spoiler. it’s a real person, who lived and died, and it’s really fucking fucked up that you want to erase the life of a real goddamn person so that you can have a happy ending.
I’m just going to say some things I find extremely important insofar as Polaris/Lorna Dane, and moving toward a better future for her.
Acting like everything Marvel does with/to Polaris is perfect and they can do no wrong is a mistake. Burying things they’ve done wrong is a mistake. Making excuses for Marvel’s mistakes is a mistake. Leaving out details that make Marvel look bad is a mistake.
If there is no necessary critical voice, Marvel will have no feedback to inform them how to treat the character well. They will have no incentive to include her in stories. They will have no reason to write her as a meaningful character in her own right.
If all Marvel hears is “Every single thing you do with Lorna is perfect and you can do no wrong,” then the message Marvel hears is that they’ve done enough with her. That they are now free to use her as a prop for other characters, then throw her into limbo when she isn’t needed to make other characters like Havok look better.
The message they will get from not being critical when necessary is that her fandom is easily placated. Not committed. Free to dismiss. And then they’ll view Lorna’s value the same way.
As a Polaris fan, I want better for her. I’ve seen how Marvel has historically seen and treated her. I think a company like Marvel can and should be able to do better going forward. Especially when I’ve seen what they can do for countless other characters. Especially for Havok, at her expense. So I will insist on better for Lorna.
The company has, in fact, done several great things for her in the past decade – after I discovered for myself, in 2009, that she exists. Origin story. Leadership. Playable game appearances. It would be a lie of omission to not acknowledge Marvel took these steps and that they were good things for her.
But they’re also things that were long overdue in my eyes. They’re worth praise, but they’re also just Marvel catching up.
Other fans may truly believe Marvel’s done enough. Others may know Marvel hasn’t, but think being nice will bring change. I don’t see either approach working. And I’ll stick with the way I see things until Marvel gives me good reason to think they’re committed enough to good use and treatment of her on their own to not need such an approach.
Just want to thank you guys for including Polaris! Despite being one of the firsts to join after the O5, she sadly gets often overlooked. It’s really great seeing her among her fellow X-Men again. :D
Of course. I think we were all interested in her, but I will take full credit for forcing it. 😀
Polaris is not really “overlooked”. She has been in many different books and affiliations. She’s not always with the xmen because she’s also an xfactor or Starjammers or you name it.
There are times when she’s with her father. She just not kissing xmen arse like the rest of them do.Besides, she just want to live a normal live. But when they need help she’s there. She was spectacular in xmen blue where she ended up leading a team of her own for the fifth times?
There are a lot of things I could say about Blue. I’m refraining from most of them.
Lorna actually is overlooked. Constantly. For decades.
She was in limbo for two years from 2015 to 2017.
Before 2015, she wasn’t in any X-Men events for nearly a decade.
On Blue, she didn’t get to interact with teen Jean or teen Iceman at all – the two characters she had the best connection with when she joined the O5 back when she was created.
When Marvel celebrated the X-Men franchise’s 50th anniversary in 2013, Lorna wasn’t on any of the covers that were made to be combined. Other characters were, including Havok, but not Lorna.
And then her father. Full confirmation that Magneto is her father took a decade. Austen gave issues in the 00s where Lorna said she found lab results proving it, but then Marvel did nothing for about 10 years before finally letting Magneto confirm it Five Miles South of the Universe.
It took 43 years for Lorna to get her origin story told when other characters get theirs in less than a year. It took 45 years for Lorna to lead a team of her own – not simply fill in for a leader that’s missing. She didn’t get her first video game playable appearance until 2013.
The above are all great steps forward for her, and good on Marvel, but how long it took for them to happen compared to other characters can’t really be ignored.
Also, “wanting to live a normal life” was something Marvel writers at the time put on her as an excuse for benching her while they focused on other characters they wanted to write more. And it was a bad one, because they could’ve said she was off fighting for mutant rights or helping people elsewhere.
Lorna’s history of use as a character has strayed heavily from her roots and original intent. She was introduced as the badass second female X-Men member to join. She got reduced to minor supporting character to be used to promote the stories of everyone except her. Hence why it took 43 years for Marvel to finally tell her origin story.
And that’s all I have to say at the moment.
salarta 