Believe it or not, I’m trying to help you. These are serious charges. Attempted murder.
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on a scale of father to daughter, how good are you at stopping bullets?
*provides mic for dropping*
Okay. Post that shouldn’t be necessary but apparently is, after seeing some of the Asks sent to Cullen Bunn.
Do not harass creators. Do not harass Cullen Bunn.
I’ve complained a lot and loudly about writing and treatment of characters by various creators, but that is much, much different from sending direct messages to a creator.
When you send a message directly to the creator, you’re not just talking to other fans and other consumers and letting loose with your feelings. You’re not making a post because you have strong feelings and you need an outlet. When you send a message directly to a creator, you’re opening a line of direct communication. You’re starting up a discussion with them.
In offline terms, airing your grievances in a public space to any who might hear is just you expressing your thoughts and feelings. Going to where the person lives, knocking on their door and insulting them to their face is being a harassing asshole.
Sending a direct message to a creator full of insults and personal attacks is like going to their home for the express purpose of doing the same. Don’t do it. It’s wrong.
If you don’t mind, I would like to see more Polaris and less Storm. We already know about the lame ass storm and we don’t need another lame ass storm nor her past story. We need Polaris past story. We need Polaris in the spotlight.
“Lame-ass” is my take away here, right? Also, I’m pretty sure “Lame-ass” needs a hyphen.
Adding this as a sort of open letter response to the anon that will probably never see it.
There is nothing wrong with Blood Storm. If Bunn wants to focus on her and cares more about her than Polaris, that’s perfectly fine. He’s the writer and a person. He can like what he likes and not like what he doesn’t like. Calling the character “lame ass” is disrespectful to anyone who might like the character, too.
Also, X-Men Blue isn’t about Polaris. The spotlight is supposed to be on the teen O5. Sure, a book where Lorna was in the spotlight would be excellent, but that’s not what X-Men Blue is.
That said.
I do have a complaint in that Blood Storm got the sort of support and in-depth character exploration that Polaris should have received in X-Men Blue #9 and never did. And never will.
This is not a “Blood Storm should’ve gotten worse” take. That line of thinking is awful. This is a “Polaris should’ve received better” take. Personal monologue, flashback panels, exploration into character nature and philosophy, those are all things we should’ve seen for Polaris in X-Men Blue #9. Instead, we got text/speech bubbles and other characters talking about how important it is that Lorna has relationships with two men, as if she’s worthless if those two men don’t exist.
So in sum.
Blood Storm is a perfectly fine character. There are bound to be people out there who like her. Don’t knock her for lack of personal interest, and don’t act like they’re rivals for panel space, because they’re not. If Bunn likes her, Bunn has every right to write her as much as he wants. He’s the writer.
But, if Bunn isn’t really interested in Polaris for anything more than writing about the men in her life, then he shouldn’t write Lorna. I appreciate that Bunn helped to repair Lorna’s father-daughter relationship with Magneto that was severed in X-Factor, and that’s enough if that’s the furthest things get. Better to not write her than to write her without trying to understand her as her own character. I don’t want Bunn forcing himself to do something if he doesn’t want to do it. None of us will walk away from that happy.
Lorna in the season preview
Believe me: If I wanted those cops dead, they’d be dead.
Lorna Dane (via cluelessrebel1988)
The Gifted icons!
Gifted hasn’t even aired its first episode yet and I’m already dealing with fucknuts trying to say Polaris shouldn’t have mental issues and trauma as integral to her on the show and explored. According to them, it’s a “stereotype” and consumers supposedly can’t tell the difference between mental illness and “being crazy.”
If I seem unreasonable, I think I have good reason for it. I’m pissed. That aspect of Lorna’s character, and all the struggles she’s endured, mean a hell of a lot to me. The idea that it should be removed from her character is very insulting to me.
EDIT: And then I look back on this guy’s posts and find one from September 23rd where he tries to argue there’s no reason for her to get a solo comic book because, according to him, “she is defined essentially by her relationships” and that means she doesn’t have enough to offer for a solo book.
This is what I’ve been saying about people who pretend to be fans but really aren’t. Claims to be a Polaris fan, but then also says she shouldn’t get a solo book cause she has nothing outside her relationships, while also saying she should lose her trauma and mental issues as part of her character.
Totally agree! What’s so bad about mental illnesses anyway? You all can deal with a character having colds or even harder diseases but when it comes to mental illnesses it’s always a big no.
Yes, Lorna is mentally ill. I mean… look at what she’s been through! On the show she has faced a similar destiny. It would be surprising if she remained steady.
Also… to me (a sick person myself) it means a lot to see my favourite character portrayed correctly with ALL aspects.
Exactly. All the things she’s been through, how it’s affected her, how she deals with her mental issues, all of it means so much and especially these days. It pisses me off when I see suggestions that mental illness is something to be cut from her character as if it somehow devalues her. I want to see her. I want that representation. I don’t want to lose her to people who think it should be removed because they don’t understand or respect that part of her.
salarta 