Looking at the world with an expression of mingled incredulity and mortification (⊙_◎)
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Chapters: 3/? Fandom: Deadpool (Movieverse), Wolverine (Movies), X-Men (Movieverse) Rating: Not Rated Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Logan | Worst Wolverine (Deadpool Movies)/Wade Wilson, Logan | Worst Wolverine (Deadpool Movies) & Wade Wilson Characters: Logan | Worst Wolverine (Deadpool Movies), Blind Al (Deadpool), Dogpool | Mary Puppins (Deadpool Movies), Wade Wilson, Dopinder (Marvel), Colossus (Deadpool), Negasonic Teenage Warhead, Yukio (Deadpool Movies), Laura (Deadpool Movies) Additional Tags: slowburn, Post-Movie: Deadpool 3: Deadpool & Wolverine (2024), Grumpy Logan | Worst Wolverine (Deadpool Movies), deadpool and wolverine slowly realizing their feelings for each other Series: Part 1 of Deadpool x Wolverine Summary:
A difficult conversation, and catching a tiger. And a lot of sighing, apparently.
jesus fuck, this article
Chapters: 2/? Fandom: Deadpool (Movieverse), Wolverine (Movies), X-Men (Movieverse) Rating: Not Rated Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Logan | Worst Wolverine (Deadpool Movies)/Wade Wilson, Logan | Worst Wolverine (Deadpool Movies) & Wade Wilson Characters: Logan | Worst Wolverine (Deadpool Movies), Blind Al (Deadpool), Dogpool | Mary Puppins (Deadpool Movies), Wade Wilson, Dopinder (Marvel), Colossus (Deadpool) Additional Tags: slowburn, Post-Movie: Deadpool 3: Deadpool & Wolverine (2024), Grumpy Logan | Worst Wolverine (Deadpool Movies), deadpool and wolverine slowly realizing their feelings for each other Series: Part 1 of Deadpool x Wolverine Summary:
A battle with a sentinel and a grand romantic idiotic gesture. Also, sniffing cocaine in a couch.
Chapters: 1/? Fandom: Deadpool (Movieverse), Wolverine (Movies), X-Men (Movieverse) Rating: Not Rated Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Logan | Worst Wolverine (Deadpool Movies)/Wade Wilson, Logan | Worst Wolverine (Deadpool Movies) & Wade Wilson Characters: Logan | Worst Wolverine (Deadpool Movies), Blind Al (Deadpool), Dogpool | Mary Puppins (Deadpool Movies), Wade Wilson, Dopinder (Marvel), Colossus (Deadpool) Additional Tags: slowburn, Post-Movie: Deadpool 3: Deadpool & Wolverine (2024), Grumpy Logan | Worst Wolverine (Deadpool Movies), deadpool and wolverine slowly realizing their feelings for each other Series: Part 1 of Deadpool x Wolverine Summary:
Though Logan and Wade stopped the world from ending, that doesn't mean they also solved all their problems within this saved world. Beginning directly after the end of Deadpool & Wolverine (2024), this fic explores how the two idiots adjust into the world: Wolverine still needs to cope with acceptance of his guilt and trauma, while Deadpool still needs to accept the end of his relationship with Vanessa, and through it all, they have to come to terms with what they really feel for each other, but how tf!?
~Terry Pratchett, Wings (1990)
It's been rattling around my head recently that Discworld is almost anti-whimsy, and I mean that in a good way.
Whimsy, as I define it, is when something magical is put in just to wow the reader. A magic thing that doesn't really effect the story, but its fantastical. Pots cleaning themselves? Moving paintings? A fantastical creature used as set dressing? A spell that does something cool but we'll never hear about it again? What do they mean? Why are they there? Doesn't matter, we're moving on.
But Discworld always applies Logic to these things.
e.g. The old idea of all dwarfs having beards? Ha ha, even the women have beards. How silly.
But that means all dwarfs are men. But there are female dwarfs, right? Are they happy being men? What if you gave one the chance not to be a man? Oh, sure, they'd still have the beard, the helmet, the axe, those are cultural, but what if a dwarf wanted to be a woman? How would other dwarfs react? Would there be biting insults? Snide remarks? Jealousy from other female dwarfs trapped in their society? What if the Low King were a woman? What then?
Pratchett always had this tenacity to follow a whimsical idea until it was ground down in its own grim reality. It's like those old conversations about what would really happen if Superman caught you falling from a high building. You'd smash on his arms because you're still hitting something indestructible at terminal velocity. But the comics would never show that.
Pratchett shows that.
Introduces a werewolf? She has a constant identity crisis and feels like a dog sometimes, between human and wolf, and she's discriminated against in places for being undead. A conman running a bank? Forces everyone to realise how useless gold really is in a scathing indictment of economics. Death becomes Santa? But WHY DOES THE LITTLE MATCH GIRL NEED TO DIE? WHY THE UNFAIRNESS IN THE WORLD? WHY?
What can the harvest hope for, if not the care of the Reaper Man?
It's what sets these stories apart from so many others. Magic is never the solution, reality is usually the solution. And little is introduced without Pratchett delving the idea to its depths, sooner or later.
I'd just like to say sorry for the ask before about woke culture. It was quite wrong and inappropriate and Sorry for anything it caused.
My deepest apologies.
*rubs temples*
I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt here, because you are on my blog, so you can't possibly be that awful. In which case I'm going to assume you're young, and that the majority of what you said in your ask was likely things you've overheard other people say, rather than your own thoughts. This would make sense as the points you were making were very disjointed.
Because of this, I'm going to try and do my best to counter the views you've been exposed to.
Pride isn't lovely and it isn't about acceptance. Lots of people, even people who attend Pride, don't know this. Pride began as a riot, a protest - a single voice that multiplied rapidly and said "enough." And if it is loud, it is because we were silenced for years. If it is too much, it is because we have lived our lives being told we were not good enough. We will continue to protest and shout until our kindred in every country around the world is free - there are places where it is okay to kill someone for being gay, and even in so-called 'tolerant' spaces there are kids who believe they would be better off dead than living their life authentically. And until that's no longer true, we will continue to be vibrant and visible - not because we want you to know who's in our bed but because we want the youth of tomorrow to know there's a future worth holding on for, that it can and does get better.
And as for being 'woke' - the definition of woke means being awake, being aware. To be anti-woke means you are making a choice not to be inclusive of others perspectives and experiences. It baffles me how anybody considers 'woke' to be a bad thing.
The inclusion of more LGBTQ+, female, non-white, disabled and neurodivergent people in film, TV and other media is nothing more than a long-overdue correction that more accurately reflects the world we live in. Personally, my entire friendship group is some flavour of queer or ND, so a show like Heartstopper reflects that almost exactly. A show featuring an all-black cast will reflect somebody's experience and life exactly. Just because this media doesn't reflect your exact experience does not mean it is unrealistic.
And I'd like you to consider what it might be like for a black gay woman as a young girl, never seeing themselves represented in any mainstream media, anywhere. What does that tell you, subconsciously, if you never see anybody that looks like you or feels like you? It tells you that you, too, should be hidden away. That you don't deserve to be seen, or to be heard. That you don't get to contribute, to take a seat at the table.
Representation matters. And if you can't see that, then I can guarantee that you are most likely cis and white and have seen yourself in every aspect of media since you were a wee baby. And if you watch a piece of media and are irritated or put off by the fact you can't relate because they're all queer - imagine what its been like for those of us who've waited decades to watch a show where we finally can relate.
Some links to help you educate yourself a little further are below and I hope I haven't wasted 45 minutes of my evening here. I have faith that you want to do better and be a better ally, or you wouldn't be here.
Love to you, and sorry I wasn't more patient before. I'm gay and tired, tired of fighting just to be heard.
Me seeing the new Superman content we’ve been getting and realizing that we’re finally healing from the “Evil Superman” era:
I was in line at Aldi and this girl with two toddlers in front of me had her card declined and she looked so fucking sad and said “let me call my husband real quick” and it was only 18 dollars, so I just paid for it, and she was very sweet and then as she walked off, the lady behind me said `”You know that was probably a scam, right?” and like, even if it was, like what a sad fucking scam, right? 18 dollars at the Aldi. If you’re “scamming” me for some Tyson chicken and apple juice and cauliflower, then just take my fucking money.
“A scam” people are fucking wild.
pushing daisies is really a show like no other. the plot is about death and murder, but the themes are about love and beauty in the mundane. its a surreal & absurd & comical fairytale… and also a crime show. it’s sweet & beautiful & almost reminds you of childhood movies, until you get hit with some double entendre out of left field lol. the sets & backdrops somehow contain the bright colours that only existed when you were a kid. the concept is amazing & unique, and will make you ugly cry while thinking about the meaning of life. it’s so gorgeous.
Writing, Neil Gaiman, and Kon Satoshi
I almost gave up writing altogether after reading Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman.
I didn’t read it as it was coming out in comics, but later, when it was published in collected volumes.
It was too perfect. Too complete. It seemed like it had sprung fully-formed from Gaiman’s head, and he had to spend years waiting for artists to catch up.
It was overwhelming. Unattainable.
I wasn’t reading the book’s post-scripts, though, because I wanted to avoid potential spoilers. I wanted to experience the material, not the author dissecting it.
I did read them on a second pass. There’s a story on Dream Country, the third volume, about a writer keeping a muse captive so she can give him ideas. It’s a piece with characters that tie into Morpheus’ past and who will come up again, woven into the larger narrative. The book also contains a post-script on how the story came about, where Gaiman states it was at first about a succubus, before moving on to talk about his process for working with the artist.
My eyes kept moving forward, brain storing words from the original script, but my consciousness had taken a step back.
Wait, back up, what was that character again? Who? Calliope. Originally a succubus, replies brain, let me keep going here.
Yes, stupid me. I had assumed Sandman had been gestating inside Gaiman from the start, waiting for an opportunity for the entire story to burst out. He didn’t transcribe a long epic he had already come up with. He wasn’t born with the tale. He worked at it for years, sometimes throwing away material and replacing it with things that fit better. Like a normal human being.
I keep making the same mistake. I wrote about a similar mental bug when talking about Kon Satoshi and Dream Fossil.
We only see the finished product. We don’t see the author sitting down at the typewriting and bleeding.
It’s all work. Some people have more potential and have it easier, others have to work harder at it, but in the end it’s only work. If you want a chance to get better at it, you should treat it as such.
how do you know when a story is worth it?
You don't ever know. You just have to believe.
this is so mean but sometimes i see published writing and suddenly no longer feel insecure about my own writing ability. like well okay that got published so im guessing i dont have much to worry about
- Terry Pratchett, 2001 Carnegie Medal Award Speech (from A Slip of the Keyboard)
“so I believe in a universe that doesn't care and people who do”
this game is so full of love..!!
Tiffany couldn't quite work out how Miss Level got paid. Certainly the basket she carried filled up more than it emptied. They'd walk past a cottage and a woman would come scurrying out with a fresh-baked loaf or a jar of pickles, even though Miss Level hadn't stopped there. But they'd spend an hour somewhere else, stitching up the leg of a farmer who'd been careless with an axe, and get a cup of tea and a stale biscuit.
It didn't seem fair.
“Oh, it evens out,” said Miss Level, as they walked on through the woods.
“You do what you can. People give what they can, when they can. Old Slapwick there, with the leg, he's as mean as a cat, but there'll be a big cut of beef on my doorstep before the week's end, you can bet on it. His wife will see to it. And pretty soon people will be killing their pigs for the winter, and I'll get more brawn, ham, bacon and sausages turning up than a family could eat in a year.”
“You do? What do you do with all that food?”
“Store it,” said Miss Level.
“But you-”
“I store it in other people. It's amazing what you can store in other people.” Miss Level laughed at Tiffany's expression. “I mean, I take what I don't need round to those who don't have a pig, or who're going through a bad patch, or who don't have anyone to remember them.”
“But that means they'll owe you a favour!”
“Right! And so it just keeps on going round. It all works out.”
“I bet some people are too mean to pay-”
“Not pay,” said Miss Level, severely. “A witch never expects payment and never asks for it and just hopes she never needs to. But, sadly, you are right.”
“And then what happens?"
“What do you mean?”
“You stop helping them, do you?”
“Oh, no,” said Miss Level, genuinely shocked. “You can't not help people just because they're stupid or forgetful or unpleasant. Everyone's poor round here. If I don't help them, who will?”
"A Hat full of Sky" - Terry Pratchett