If you're wondering where on the internet I am these days, it is over at my X-Men and Avengers tumblrs, posting about the comics I'm reading every day. It's pretty cool, because sometimes people reblog and say interesting things, and sometimes they send me asks and I get to talk about these comics I love.

And then, sometimes, people say stuff that ( Read more... )

Why in the world would you fancast Erik Lehnsherr as an SS officer? Like, what possibly could be going through your mind to think this was a good idea?? This is just disgusting ( Read more... )

I finished watching the X-Men animated series today! No more cheesy awesome 90s toons for me, alas. The last episode was pretty magical from a Magneto/Xavier perspective though. Mags drops everything to go help Charles! I also like how the other storyline about the mutant riots was just dropped completely in favor of showing Mags saving his one and ( Read more... )

Let's talk about Magneto ( Read more... )

Let's play this game, since I've been taking advantage of everyone available to write me X-Men fic.

Tell me about a story I haven't written, and I'll give you between one to three (or more) sentences from that story.Or! Talk to me about comics! I'm just starting the ones that came out in 1997. I've already read six years' worth of comics, and it's ( Read more... )

Why am I watching the Republican national security debate? Almost everything they say makes me want to claw my face off in frustration. The way they twist facts to their own ends and don't even get called out on it is so distressing and disgusting. Also, the outright racism expressed by some of these people (I'm looking at you, Santorum) is ( Read more... )

( Spoilers for tonight's Community and Parks&Rec. )

Dear comics artists: this is (roughly) what a spine looks like. If some person's back is forming a right angle, IT IS BROKEN.

Also, boobs? I mean, I know you like to think they're perky and round all the time, but sometimes, they flop around! They fall to the sides when a person is lying down! They moveI know, I know, I am the latest to comics ( Read more... )

So I started reading X-Men, vol 2 issue #1 (started in 1991), and man, I don't understand how people can keep up with comcis. Actually, scratch that, I get how you keep up with them. I don't really get how you get INTO them. This shit is HARD ( Read more... )

( Spoilers for tonight's Community. )