Megamuscle885-blog - I May Be Dumb

The beat that always stuck with me in regards to Uber and Leet was when Taylor mentions that they beat up sex workers on livestream while LARPing Grand Theft Auto. Uber and Leet get a lot of mentions before they actually show up, and the drumbeat is that they're pathetic, they're fodder, "as incompetent as supervillains can be while staying out of jail." Leet is the butt of a rom-com gag where Brian gives Taylor pointers on how to choke a man out more effectively. But they made money by beating up sex workers on livestream. That's a non-negligible number of potentially ruined lives! That's not softball fun-and-games! It's like textbook misogynistic violence against the marginalized! It's awful!

The narrative doesn't really dwell on this, because it's told almost exclusively from the perspective of people who have the firepower necessary to get away with treating Uber and Leet like jokes. But I think that it's a useful reminder that if you aren't one of the initiated, so to speak, then an encounter with the C-list, D-list, Z-list supervillain can be life-altering if not life-ending. The dumbest listicle-fodder DC or Marvel villain you've ever heard of has probably ruined at least one person's life over their handful of appearances, if not more. And it's an early indictment of the broad concept of the unwritten rules as advanced by Lisa, where she calls out Uber and Leet as the textbook example of villains kept in circulation because they're "amusing but harmless." This is within parameters? This doesn't merit heroes and villains putting aside their differences to clean house of problematic elements? Of course it doesn't. Both examples that Lisa gives of that dynamic in 3.6 involve a cape transgressing against another cape.

@lakesbian doing heavy work to dismantle the Cut Strings side of Wormblr.

so i blinked & accidentally wrote 2.4k words of alec analysis, content warning for extended discussion of child sexual abuse

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as a wormblr member with a nikaido pfp i feel like i should tell you i just finished reading dorohedoro and i have either went into a catatonic state and am hallcucinating tumblr right now or i reached enlightenment

Oh man it's been so long since I thought about Dorohedoro. I feel like there should be more people who love Dorohedoro on tumblr and especially wormblr. Despite my pfp, my actual favorite character is Noi, then Nikaido, then Kaiman. Shin gets a close 3rd. Poor Ebisu, poor Fujita.

I really recommend it to everyone following me or whomst stumbles through the tags. It's a bit gorey though, be warned. Shin's power is cutting people up without killing them, so that should give you an idea of what you're getting into.

Really happy to see this at my local library

Anyone else stare at their mutuals like 👀👀👀👀 “please dm me. You seem so cool and I wanna be friends. “