This is an archive of said liveblog, with all my tumblr posts put into one (long) DW instance. All times are set on Bangkok time, because that’s what I’m using at the time of crossposting and I don’t want to go through the effort of converting the time, even though I liveblogged this thing while in France, probably around midnight ish.

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YEAH MUTANT AND PROUD EXCEPT FOR THE PART WHERE THE TWO OF YOU HAVE LIKE 25MN OF CUMULATED BLUE TIME IN THE NEXT TWO FUCKING MOVIES

Crossposted from terresdebrume@dreamwidth

The fact that Raven’s suit is unzipped so she’s got a major cleavage keeps making me angry tbh ><

Crossposted from terresdebrume@dreamwidth

All this beautiful speech, so true and character-defining and brave and it’s all left into the dust-right now because Hank is an asshole, and later on because the franchise can’t and won’t handle a woman like Mystique

Crossposted from terresdebrume@dreamwidth

Okay wait-I never caught the line about Charles’ stepfather before oO

And the only stepfather I know of for Charles (brought to me through the filter of fandom) is Cain/Kurt Marko (one of them) who, in the comics, was an abusive dude iirc.
It’s just one line but that plus the (debatable) hints at Sharon Xavier not being a very present mother ( Read more... )

“Honestly Charles, I don’t know how you survived living in such hardship”

“Well it was a hardship suffered by me”

I remember when the movie first came out, there were interpretations of this saying that maybe this was a way to hint at a more difficult past for Charles, and while I did kind of adhere to that for a long time (and you can make a ( Read more... )

Raven and Hank are pretty good foils to each other too tbh. As in, when she sees Hank, she thinks he’s amazing because of his mutation, where Hank thinks she likes him despite his mutation.

Which on the whole is representative of the paths they end up chosing-Charles and the X-Men may not explicitely say they’re acceptable “despite” their ( Read more... )

When you think about it, Raven’s position at this point sucks a lot ore than the movie lets on tho. Like, sure, she’s not out on the streets or whatever but she’s hiding who she is all the time, her only friend (that we know of) can’t stand the thought of her being blue (I mean, the complete heel-face turn during the bathroom conversation is ( Read more... )

Fact: I would take an indie XMen movie with zero powers in it over the official franchise any day if they treated their characters like the politically engaged persons that they are/should be Crossposted from terresdebrume@dreamwidth

I’m actually super pissed about the de-radicalization of Mystique in the new movies tbh like. The main appeal of Mystique, to me, is how angry and in-your-face she is. I love that she saw how much people said “your skin makes you a freak” and she went “welp, time to stop wearing clothes forever then” because fuck the haters and I’m just so ( Read more... )