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The power of body language and arbitrary but stable gender associations

Some days I’m like ♂.. Then some days I’m like ♀

First, this is exactly why I don’t get upset when new versions of charcters or stories don’t look like ones I’ll like; the ones I do are still there. At worst it means there won’t be new official stuff in the vein I like for a while.

That said, yeah, its hard to sympathize when the majority of stories are still about white males and framing it as ‘losing’ characters to someone else. Are you really using the demographics of characters to keep score? And objecting at moves to let other people tell new stories? And not even trying to relate to character slightly different from you? When groot and rocket connected with so many people, that sort of thing still mystifies me.

During the “Being Non-Compliant” panel it was said "our toys won't be taken away". But isn't that already happening? We lost Thor. We lost Cap. Sooner or later Miles will replace Peter. Avengers goes all female. I mean, it feels like all my favorites are being slowly chipped away and replaced. What comics am I supposed to read soon?

Your toys aren’t being taken away, your mom just told you that you have to share them and now you don’t want them anymore because they have cooties on them. 

I dunno man, you might actually have to try relating to a character that doesn’t look like you at some point. And you happen to be part of the one group that has really not in recent memory been called upon to do that. So you’ll excuse me if I don’t feel all that bad for you? 

Look, I made a gif of this most awesome wizard at the Leaky Cauldron!

Is is just me or would this make like, a great movie?

Like, not only do you have the traveling the world, and hunting down the hidden monsters in fantastic locations, but you have to stake them out. This is pre-photography so the world is all wild and you have that rustic gear, but beyond that, those books always have multiple images and a whole entry. This cousin’s not just finding the the thing, but setting up camp, talking to locals, and studying its habits...without getting eaten by the damn things. 

Course, just the spectacle isn’t enough; you need a conflict, a story but this isn’t the person fighting monsters; its about uncovering knowledge and discovery and seeing beautiful dangerous things and passing on the experience to others.

So you could go with the standard protege story with some shmuck stumbles across something and nearly gets eaten, but is saved by the chronicler at the last moment and they escape in a thrilling chase. Then they’re village is ravaged, so they tag along on the next couple expeditions and learn to track and draw, and read through the volume thats being written. And they have the whole discussion about how these are monsters and the family is just going to use this information to hunt them, but the thats not who the chronicler is; they know it may be used to destroy the creatures, but they get to see them and understand them and appreciate them. Learn things no one has, see things no one has, expand human knowledge. Thats what keeps them going.

And can have the dramatic finale, where the original chronicler sacrifices themself so the apprentice with the book can escape and make sure the book doesn’t get lost, and they take up the mantle, cause *they understand now* and *it needs to be done* and such.

And awesome monsters!

How do monster hunters in movies always have really well illustrated books about the things they hunt?

They’re a secret family organization trained from a young age-

All except that weird cousin, who went to art school? 

“will will smith smith?” is a grammatically correct sentence

john cage’s 4’33” is fucking silence

someone put a copyright on the absence of sound

and then disabled the audio of a video

of the absence of sound

what a time to be alive

yup this is exactly the sort of content people need on their dash.

I'm just hoping for a job without a predefined end date :-p

By which I mean I’m right there with you; some stability and security would be nice considering my own insecurities.

man, I can’t wait for the day I no longer feel like my job security is tied to view counts

The only video you need to watch in order to get into the Christmas spirit. [x] 

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