I still love the X-Men even though they make me cry all the time
Okay I've been doing a lot with Shatterstar lately and can I just say that he reminds me a lot of Starfire? Down to the foot-shorter love interest with an unfortunate tendency towards mullets. I guess that's probably why I write him as a bit sillier than is to be expected, but I think that secretly he is a lot sillier than people expect. Sometimes I get my fandom wires crossed, though. See also: Renee Montoya and Sam Vimes.
Speaking of X-things lately I've been loving them soooo much. Can we talk about that? Also Kitty Pryde needs to get the fuck back here already and Jubilee too. Basically though I really want to explore how it actually runs as a school. I mean I went to a nontraditional boarding school for a year and besides I work at an overnight camp, so I think it'd be really interesting to look at that aspect. Like, I've decided that if Julian has parents, they're totally the annoying kind who call the office like four times a day to complain about stuff, and also that they have Storm doing the parent calls and stuff because she's patient and Emma can't be having with that sort of thing. Plus if you put Scott on the phone he'd probably just cry. Poor Scott I swear to god. Also Bobby probably gets stuck doing paperwork whenever they go off to go fight sentinels/aliens in a dystopian future, and he always complains and they're like shut up you love it. Sometimes Jean-Paul brings him muffins because they are TOTALLY IN LOVE and also Bobby really really likes muffins I guess. I've also decided that Bobby Drake: Superhero Accountant needs to be a reality, because you know he'd be all smug about finally being better at people at something, even if it's something sucky like taxes, which is why he became an accountant in the first place. Speaking of which, I think I read somewhere that Gambit has siblings, wouldn't it be great if one of them was an investment banker? And the rest were like exactly like Gambit, except some of them are girls and some of them are musicians. I also decided that he's really popular back in New Orleans, like a local hero, and in fact they just love the X-Men down there. Pretty much anywhere a big name X-Man comes from is just obsessed with them, especially minority X-Men. Everybody likes to see someone representing, am I right? Like, the North Shore, for example. It's where I'm from and everyone gets super excited when they find out Kitty's from there. I also figure that traditionally liberal groups (especially minority groups) would be way more pro-mutant than we've seen them depicted. I mean, they might be mildly separatist but I think that'd be more about kids learning how to control their powers which I would think the mutant community's totally okay with considering that's basically what Xavier's is. I think in my head X-Men is like 60% SOCIAL ISSUES and like, the first mutant senator and pro-mutant ad campaigns and running this crazy boarding school and 40% nonstop party wacky extended family hijinks. Which, I don't know where I got that idea from since in reality it's like 60% ANGST and DEATH and 40% HUGE CROSSOVER FIGHTING EVENTS but honestly I think it's preferable. I don't know if it'd sell but a lot of that's due to marketing and distribution. I know lots of non-fans who are more interested in the conventions of the genre would like this sort of thing, and it'd be a good way to get more sophisticated readers interested in the X-books again. Plus there'd be lots of wacky fun and nobody would get raped or brutalized! Honestly I think it's the best of both worlds. Like, I'd want to read a book where Bobby has to do everyone's taxes, even though some people never got around to applying for residency and some people can't remember how long they've been residents (AHEM LOGAN--it is my personal belief he came over because the mounties were too tough and also booze and hookers, and nothing Daniel Way says can convince me otherwise. Also, who doesn't like the idea of Wolverine hanging out with General Grant? Speaking of, I think he was pretty much an abolitionist while Victor only joined up with the Union because all those Westpoint dicks in the Confederacy were too prissy), and personally I don't think there needs to be a fight in that issue. Like, did you read this month's MA Spiderman where Emma Frost basically runs around New York being fabulous and the only fight was staged? By her? So good! I honestly don't understand why more people aren't buying this kind of stuff. Marketing and distribution, I tell you. Bane of my existence!
Oh well. Shit it's 5:00 AM and I have plans tomorrow. Better get to sleep or I'll be sorry!
Speaking of X-things lately I've been loving them soooo much. Can we talk about that? Also Kitty Pryde needs to get the fuck back here already and Jubilee too. Basically though I really want to explore how it actually runs as a school. I mean I went to a nontraditional boarding school for a year and besides I work at an overnight camp, so I think it'd be really interesting to look at that aspect. Like, I've decided that if Julian has parents, they're totally the annoying kind who call the office like four times a day to complain about stuff, and also that they have Storm doing the parent calls and stuff because she's patient and Emma can't be having with that sort of thing. Plus if you put Scott on the phone he'd probably just cry. Poor Scott I swear to god. Also Bobby probably gets stuck doing paperwork whenever they go off to go fight sentinels/aliens in a dystopian future, and he always complains and they're like shut up you love it. Sometimes Jean-Paul brings him muffins because they are TOTALLY IN LOVE and also Bobby really really likes muffins I guess. I've also decided that Bobby Drake: Superhero Accountant needs to be a reality, because you know he'd be all smug about finally being better at people at something, even if it's something sucky like taxes, which is why he became an accountant in the first place. Speaking of which, I think I read somewhere that Gambit has siblings, wouldn't it be great if one of them was an investment banker? And the rest were like exactly like Gambit, except some of them are girls and some of them are musicians. I also decided that he's really popular back in New Orleans, like a local hero, and in fact they just love the X-Men down there. Pretty much anywhere a big name X-Man comes from is just obsessed with them, especially minority X-Men. Everybody likes to see someone representing, am I right? Like, the North Shore, for example. It's where I'm from and everyone gets super excited when they find out Kitty's from there. I also figure that traditionally liberal groups (especially minority groups) would be way more pro-mutant than we've seen them depicted. I mean, they might be mildly separatist but I think that'd be more about kids learning how to control their powers which I would think the mutant community's totally okay with considering that's basically what Xavier's is. I think in my head X-Men is like 60% SOCIAL ISSUES and like, the first mutant senator and pro-mutant ad campaigns and running this crazy boarding school and 40% nonstop party wacky extended family hijinks. Which, I don't know where I got that idea from since in reality it's like 60% ANGST and DEATH and 40% HUGE CROSSOVER FIGHTING EVENTS but honestly I think it's preferable. I don't know if it'd sell but a lot of that's due to marketing and distribution. I know lots of non-fans who are more interested in the conventions of the genre would like this sort of thing, and it'd be a good way to get more sophisticated readers interested in the X-books again. Plus there'd be lots of wacky fun and nobody would get raped or brutalized! Honestly I think it's the best of both worlds. Like, I'd want to read a book where Bobby has to do everyone's taxes, even though some people never got around to applying for residency and some people can't remember how long they've been residents (AHEM LOGAN--it is my personal belief he came over because the mounties were too tough and also booze and hookers, and nothing Daniel Way says can convince me otherwise. Also, who doesn't like the idea of Wolverine hanging out with General Grant? Speaking of, I think he was pretty much an abolitionist while Victor only joined up with the Union because all those Westpoint dicks in the Confederacy were too prissy), and personally I don't think there needs to be a fight in that issue. Like, did you read this month's MA Spiderman where Emma Frost basically runs around New York being fabulous and the only fight was staged? By her? So good! I honestly don't understand why more people aren't buying this kind of stuff. Marketing and distribution, I tell you. Bane of my existence!
Oh well. Shit it's 5:00 AM and I have plans tomorrow. Better get to sleep or I'll be sorry!