Anyone else annoyed that Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver seem to be absent from most promotions for Avengers: Age of Ultron?

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peppermonster:

therealsongbirddiamondback:

I mean, they released personalized posters recently, and Vision, Ultron, even Hulkbuster got one, but not them.

They each have one lego. No posters, promo art, action figures, and are not included in the funko pops or any toy play sets. But they share one magazine cover with the rest of the team. -_-“

I’m not upset or annoyed, because I’m mainly a Polaris fan and Marvel kinda screwed over the present interest-by-association I would’ve had in their Marvel film versions with the forced family retcon. But I will say that I’m surprised. They went to the trouble of ruining an awesome family in the comics, and Marvel’s not even doing much with the film versions of them to make up for the asshattery?

I might not talk a lot about my health, because I don’t think it is all that interesting and is mostly depressing, but I friendly reminder that I am disabled and live in chronic pain and am having a…

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So as you see my pictures for this katsucon rolling in, keep in mind that I am one of /many/ people who are suffering and suffer all the time from invisible illnesses and /don’t/ put ourselves out…

I don’t know much about your health problems or what can be done for them, but I hope the pain is at the very least bearable and I wish it wasn’t there at all. Also, friendly reminder that I’m glad you exist. 🙂

I might not talk a lot about my health, because I don’t think it is all that interesting and is mostly depressing, but I friendly reminder that I am disabled and live in chronic pain and am having a…

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imahyperlover:

welcome to the gaming pissbaby community heres the exit

Kitana’s my favorite Mortal Kombat character. I liked the skimpy costumes she had, and the boobs and cleavage of MK9.

I’m perfectly content with, and even proud of, Netherrealm for the current designs.

Kitana is a character who is not defined by being sexual and having big boobs. She’s a character defined by her princess/assassin background. What she has here is not only a perfectly acceptable change for her, it’s actually a change that makes sense for her as a character. As royalty, she would want to have an air of class. As an assassin, she would want clothing that lends itself well to combat, and quick maneuvers. The costumes of MK10 accomplish that well.

It would be a different story if showing off her body was a key element to who Kitana is as a character, but that’s not who she is. This change is good and fitting for her, and no amount of bitching from guys who don’t appreciate Kitana the actual character will change that.

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mockingsilence:

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dorkly:

Female Fantasy III

Perfecto.

perfect

May they be forever alone for their elitist douche-baggery.

I was recently interviewing the woman who founded Her Universe and we were talking specifically about women and geekdom. I asked about the rise of girls in geek culture and she very accurately corrected me: There is no “rise” of geek girls. We’ve always been here. Girls are just as nerdy as dudes are. Ladies have always been interested in sci fi and fantasy and video games – we just don’t talk about it a lot because men are assholes. 

Reblogging for all of the above, but it’s especially the last comment that made me hit the button to share.

Very true. Most of the (non-porn, but even some porn) fanfic writers I’ve come across are women, and on top of it, women that were gamers all their lives.

A lot of asshole guys out there want to believe that women hated video games and only suddenly decided to get into them recently because games are “cool” now and a massive Hollywood-rivaling business. That’s not the case, what really happened is that the industry marketed specifically toward boys and boys alone, so boys got the impression that video games were something girls would ostracize them for.

Ultimately, the industry and women within it are suffering from a bullshit marketing angle that a lot of shitty guys took as a fact of life. It really shows how dangerous a marketer can be if they say and do the wrong thing just to make a buck.

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fattysaid:

First there was hardly any coverage of the Chapel Hill shootings and now that there is, a number of major media outlets are trying to pass this off as a “dispute over a parking space.” Stop trying to twist the facts: this was a sickening Islamophobic attack. This was a hate crime. 

Two things to address.

1) I haven’t watched the media approach much on this, but I can definitely see the media trying to play up the parking space bit exclusively because they think it makes the hate crime seem “bizarre” enough to garner ratings. As shitty as it sounds, the networks may assume that people will just tune it out if they don’t throw in the parking space element.

2) I think most people realize there’s no way in hell this wasn’t a hate crime. Nobody murders someone else over a parking space. Even if that was the “reason,” it didn’t happen all by its lonesome, it happened because of other elements to the issue.

The silver lining hope I have here is that maybe, just maybe, the “parking space” bullshit will get some people who normally wouldn’t think of Islamophobia and attacks like this to rethink their stance and put more thought into the discrimination many Muslim people experience.