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I tend to prefer to be alone, just about anybody would be irritating.
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There's a pineapple cream cake my mother used to make, basically it's just white cake with a mixture of cream cheese and lemon frosting mixed with pineapple on top. It's great.
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A U-turn.
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Ooh, I can't watch that one out here. But it's probably just what they thought looked cool.
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He has a strange view of anatomy, and is one of the artists responsible for the hated 90s trend of ultramuscular huge dudes with every muscle defined (even when no muscle exists), waifish barbie women with massive boobs, elongated thighs, pouty lips, doe eyes and eyesearingly skimpy costumes, and big big guns.
Also, he can't draw feet. -
Flash is Wally West, no one else dammit.
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Y'know, I've never read or watched Sailor Moon but it would definitely be an interesting thing to do. We've never discussed it, though.
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Everybody has numerous role models, I'm pretty much a mixture of my father, mother, aunts, sister and various storybook characters. I'd have to say the most direct influence on my behavior has been my mother and sister, and I tend to consciously emulate my father and my aunt.
If you're more interested in a famous role model, when I was in elementary school I found a biography of Amelia Earheart in the library. I read it a few times and don't remember a lot of details, but there's a very clear episode involving a sled and another one where she reacts to her father telling her she can't do something (for the first time.) It's a grade biography, so it was probably mostly fiction, but that mixture of fact and fiction turned out to be one of the women who shaped my personality.
As for my What Would ____ Do? character... I love reading Sir Gawain and Wonder Woman, but I'd sooner be Morgan or Medusa. And right now people are rolling their eyes going "Must you pay up the Dragon image ALL the time?" but the truth is that the powerful women who got their way without compromising their lives in our folklore tend to be the bad guys.
See, I'm actually a soft-bellied nice person by nature. I worry, double check things, and find it harder to lie than to blurt out the truth. Being the White Knight follower of orders is fairly easy. Being conciliatory and retreating is my natural reaction in face to face interactions.
That's all well and good when your job is mediator. My job isn't, I gravitate towards technical or administrative work and I am so married to government service I can't imagine a civilian life. In my life, if I want to make sure the right thing is done and that things are done right, I have to be the bad guy. I have to be forceful. I have to be a loud, pushy woman. I have to come off as a monster or a witch.
Ultimately, I've found the best way for me to go through life is not to be afraid someone will see you as the bad guy. I take a lot from the stories of
Dame Ragnell, Medusa, and Morgan le Fay in particular. You have a woman who became a monster, pushed her way back into society and married the best man on the planet for it; a woman who became a monster, withdrew from society and was murdered for it; and a woman who left society to gleefully play the role of a monster but still attended her brother's funeral at the end. Of the three, I intend to be the lone woman at the end of the story who outlasts the whole court but I see behavior worth copying from each of these so-called bad guys. -
One horse-sized duck, because it's easier to get away from a single animaly and if I get a lucky shot I might hurt or kill it in my defense. 50 duck-sized horses would overrun me and surround me.
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No. I understand the symbolism he was going for, but I think it's a step too far for me and it's just necessary right now. She's not usually fighting street-level thugs and spies, she's usually fighting gods and dragons and super-powered bad guys like Circe, Cheetah, Dr. Psycho, Clea, Giganta, Max Lord and of course the Rotating Physical Powerhouse Opposite Number of the Run. Villains like Cale and Dr. Poison who don't have powers are still pretty formidable through their trickery. She doesn't need the fatal weakness to have a compelling story.
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It varies, but I've read Hound of the Baskervilles a couple dozen times.
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Her primary weapon is a rope. Her underlying themes are about being free of unjust societal constraints on gender. Her enemies tend to be obsessed with dominance and control. I don't think any writer should go out of their way to create contrived bondage situations, but it's not exactly a symbolism that's gone away or really can go away.
And even though the wrong artist can make it so exploitative and there will always be readers who never look past the shallowest interpretation possible and they drive me crazy, I wouldn't voluntarily lose the lasso or drop the convention altogether. For one, the lasso is a symbolic feminine weapon, a weapon of restraint rather than death that should never be traded in for sword or shield alone. Doing so would surrender the idea of Wonder Woman as a balanced character and turn her over to her warrior side completely.
And secondly because fighting for your own self-determination against the forces and people who want to control you is one of the underlying themes of Wonder Woman. Sophomoric insistence that the bondage in Wonder Woman is solely about sexual titillation doesn't change how powerful a metaphor it is on a higher level. We could do with a little more restraint on from the artists, though. -
There was some sort of teenager boot camp where I grew up run by the state police, and my parents sent me there along with my unruly brother. I forget my age, but I went ahead and decided on it there.
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Oh that's beautiful, especially comparing the accomplishments of All-Star Batman and All-Star Superman. I've watched Linkara, but I hadn't checked back recently enough to see that.
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Depends on which post. Anything over two weeks I have on moderation (spam commenters), but I get an email in those cases.
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I don't think it's very mysterious. She's either straight or bisexual. Thing about Diana is that she has the absolute minimum possible self-denial to begin with, and she's from a culture where lesbianism is the norm (It's no longer subtext as of the Perez era, and even pre-Crisis there was an awful lot more handwringing over her falling for a MAN as opposed to "well, that's natural, first one she's ever seen") so all she's ever seen growing up are female-female relationships, and when she was younger she probably expected to fall in love with a woman. Since they got rid of Steve they've still had her acknowledge physical attractions to Superman, Trevor Barnes, Rama, and Batman. She doesn't lie to herself, and even if she did she'd be lying in the opposite direction there.
A female love interest, though, is not off the table. She's still got chemistry with women, she's from a culture where same-sex relationships are natural, and she wouldn't deny herself the chance to act on an attraction like this. It's possible she's more drawn to men right now because they're uncharted territory and she's an explorer /adventurer type of personality. But the attraction to both is probably there, I read her as bisexual.
My personal favorite for her, though, is still Steve Trevor. He's the love interest custom-designed for her at her creation and as many changes as she's had she is still the Golden Age girl at heart, that can't be shaken with retcons or Crises. Eventually, this guy has to come back. Also, as a reconciliation between the warring genders is at the heart of Wonder Woman, I favor a full-time male love interest (because for fucking serious, Diana courting a macho military guy who respects her power is a much better Amazons Forgive Men storyline than Hippolyta dating a rapist). -
Circe, Ares, and Dr. Psycho. I think of these three, Dr. Psycho translates the best to television but I do think Circe and Ares are workable. Hell, as mythic characters they require less backstory. I also wouldn't pass up on Cheetah (Barbara Minerva version) for a TV villain, or Clea. But if I did a TV show I'd play up the myth and finding lost places (Marston dedicated a lot of time to exploring lost mythic places) and use myth and legend for a lot of the adventures.
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I'm terrible, I most prefer Lipton black tea because that's what I grew up on. When I get coffee I go for the stuff at Burger King, which is the best available onbase.
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I'd advise you to read "The Science of Discworld", where they talk about how our brains are giant pattern-finding machines that are built and refined by creating narratives.
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Not interested anymore. About.. seven or eight years ago I dropped my boyfriend because I was only really halfway involved in the relationship. I wanted to do some thinking and while was thinking I found I was a lot more comfortable without worrying about a relationship.
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