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Well, it’s a good thing that The Force Awakens…

Nah it was good. Don’t listen to Tumblr nonsense. It was great

Haven’t seen it yet. My concerns aren’t coming from tumblr but twitter, anyway. And the thing is, my ideal for The Last Jedi would be if Kylo Ren had at most, and I’m being generous, ten to fifteen minutes of screen-time. You talking to a PT, not OT, fan here. Anakin Skywalker fan. I proudly claim Attack of the Clones as my favorite Star Wars film. Also someone who disliked the vast majority of the EU (Legends). And who wasn’t impressed with 90% of TFA. So TLJ is working against a stacked deck with me is what I’m getting at.

 I want it to move away from TFA and the stuff that reminded me painfully of what I disliked in the EU. But there are choices I don’t want that would count as a move away from TFA, and I don’t know if all these non-spoiler backlash I’m hearing is for choices I wish for or yet more choices I will hate. I’m going to go watch TLJ because of a lingering fondness for Luke and because I fell in love with Finn. And I wish I was more confident that I’m not getting my heart broken.

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Not going to lie, I find it genuinely weird to contemplate anything where the Green Lantern character isn’t just an amusing ensemble member, much less the idea that there’s whole series or whatever about it. The whole Lantern-ring schtick always seemed really cheap and uninteresting to me compared to the more individualized powers/backstories of other superheroes.

Whereas honestly I find stories were Green Lantern is just another rando in the Justice League to be jarringly out-of-place. And that for me his backstory and powers only work when he has an entire corp (and competing or complementary corps) of similar powers, and the stories are about not him (or her) as a superhero, but as this psuedo-magic/science empowered police/interpol agent. That this isn’t a superhero vigilante gig but a day job. That he has to report to bosses, work with co-workers and partners, that there might be paperwork to fill out, etc… The SF spin on something familiar to make it extraordinary. Anything that makes the GL unique and therefore interesting enough to read about is either the full on space opera and space adventures, or the space cop stuff. When he’s just ensemble superhero dude with a piece of tech that provides morphable powers, at that point you can go grab Blue Beetle instead for something more interesting.

yavieriel replied to your post “One of my favorite posts is still when @crocordile gave me a birthday…”

hey I actually read a handful of DC stuff and couldn’t have told you anything about any Green Lanterns other than one of them being a in-universe comics artist resulting in lots of meta-jokes and also there being some setting where there’s like… a bunch of different-colored rings with different powers or something?

Kyle~

Yeah I’m only reading the Green Lantern stuff of the Rebirth Era so I haven’t got around to reading all those essential GL books that established the modern mythos and the various colored rings that is standard GL world-building. But I watched the animated series -which is some of the best DC animation in the last decade or two for storytelling- and despite being technically a separate setting does explain more half the lantern corps and various characters.

Kyle was a graphic designer, the lantern that was heavily shilled in the 90s until Hal came back with the revamp of the Lantern mythos, and Kyle did make shoujo and other comic media jokes. He’s also main human GL that I know the least about and certainly care the least about. Very similar to Tim Drake, but at least he doesn’t have all the underlying ugly classism and victim blaming that Tim embodies. Just… painfully late 90s. The root of the ‘stuffed in a fridge’. And a crab mask. So it’s not like you know much less than me in that particular case.

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One of my favorite posts is still when @crocordile…

I was just in it for Batman rescuing Superman from being tortured on Apokalipse

Well, that sort of happens in the animated JL movie, so yeah. DCEU version….ugh mixed to poor feelings about how so much of that film was executed. Well, the terrible reshoots and reworking of the script. But SuperBat fans who don’t mind MCU cheese could find many moments to cheer.

So yeah… ….”I don’t …not like you.”…. *rolls eyes*

We’ve already had the discussions of how I strongly dislike treating Clark and Bruce as archetypes instead of very human characters (and how that’s what appeals to you – we could not be diametrically opposed.) I won’t say SuperBat is my strongest NoTP in DC. Maybe into my list of the top five DC Comics NoTPs.  That relationship as something romantic or as a relationship weighing more than their personal canon strongest relationships ties -Lois and Robins respectively- is a very strong turn-off for me. The Superman story revolves around a few things and the romance with Lois Lane is probably the most central and the reason I am interested in his character, whereas it’s canon that Bruce Wayne would pick up a gun for Dick Grayson and argued against the destruction of the DC universe because of the goodness of Dick (and not Clark) – and anyways, I’m not here for Bruce really but for his children, especially his second son 😉 SuperBat feels like loosing all of these reasons to care about either character for something meh.

Don’t mind the parts of Hush, or like the most recent Batman issue where their friendship and the closeness or strain of it and how they do fit complementary but opposing heroic types, that has Supes and Bats together. But I prefer canon stories that don’t depend on a closeness between them. Now Jonathon Kent and Damian having a book together and having their friendship as something central to their characters? No problem. Me like. Bring on the Super-sons.

But as said, a good portion of the fan reaction to recent JL movie was focusing on SuperBats stuff. *shrugs*

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One of my favorite posts is still when @crocordile…

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And god, I was so wrong, but also a little right about some things hahaha

It is such a delightful post. And the rating of the nice butts cracks me up because without prompting~

I’m still giddily proud of myself that I convinced you to watch Under the Red Hood, and that you did enjoy it.

Oh man, I started reading the Wheel of Time books a couple years ago and got bored partway through the fifth one, but I remember them being really fun (as long as I could ignore the frustrating amount of sexism and racism…) I should go back and try to read them all

Yeah, I will say, okay old white dude writing a series when the first book was published in 1990 – but if I compare it to its contemporary/a series with an author of a similar-ish age and background coming only a few years later (A Song of Ice and Fire), then its brand of sexism and racism is way less offensive to me. The fandom denying that Eqwene, Elayne, and Nynaeve weren’t as much a main character as Rand, Matt, and Perrin pissed me off more. Are there problems with the Seanchan? hell yes. But the core world-building where women had the magical and thus also a hefty among of major political and social power was such a matter-of-fact revelation for me as a young reader – it wasn’t artificial inflated sexism that so many fantasy worlds fall prey to. That there’s very few sexual assaults across this sprawling plot (though the double-standard of one is pretty bad), especially nowadays it’s soothing.

The fifth book is especially I’d say that turning point where it starts to become painful to read Rand’s plot line, and there’s definitely the weakest books coming down through 5…10, at least for some of the plot threads. It really is a series where if you like Perrin or Matt and Egwene or Nynaeve or some of the villains, you read for them and for the other side character plots, and you force your way through the others. God knows I was grimacing through Rand’s chapters for almost all of the series.

But also the series is just great for ‘why being the Chosen One sucks, Fun with Prophesies (for the readers to piece together, also in-universe the fun with plot and characterization pressures of characters trying to operate with prophesies)’ and ‘better nuanced world-building, how to do it’

I’m working my way through the wheel of time right now and I saw you liked nynaeve and I also like her. She’s my favorite character so far. is there a lot of wot fandom on tumblr or is it all on older forums?

*Face lights up like a X-mas Tree as I smile* Hello, anon, and welcome to Randland! Which book are you on?

To be honest, I don’t know what sites or fandoms are still active, but I can tell you that in the late 90s and early 2000s WoT was the fantasy series on the internet, and there was big forum sites debating the various fan theories and characters and dissecting the smallest cameos and use of chapter icons. ASOIAF wishes it was WoT fandom 😉 I only lurked, but the big one was Wotmania, now defunct. You can read about it here, plus more blog posts: The Thirteen Depository.

Also, there’s this old sprite web comic that I read every day in came out (the memories omg). It was stupid but fun. Spoilers for late end-game books and characters.  WoT Now?

As far as WoT fans on tumblr, they are out here! Some of the ASoIaF people are WoT veterans and it shows, and there are great fan-artists. Currently @queen-serena has neat art with nynaeve and others, if you haven’t found them yet. But as far as general fan interactions go, I play in a small section of the Silmarillion fandom and follow and reblog a lot of DC, so I’m not someone with the networking to hook you up. 😉 If you just want another person to talk WoT (accepting that it’s been a few years now since I read the last book – though trust me that I re-read all of Nynaeve’s chapters of the first eight or nine books multiple times in high school and college) and share impressions and feelings, my inbox is open and welcoming.

But seriously. I need to know if you have read past the fourth book. Fifth book can be the turning point for things like ‘do I like to read from the pov of the main character of this series?’