I can tell that the misogynists really are running from She-Hulk because the #Madisynn tag is full of love for a fun character and not complaints.
It's refreshing but also strange.
I suppose it could also be that people who hate the characters on shallow grounds are unlikely to spell her name right.
I think a big part of the winning formula behind #Madisynn is that she was written with genuine affection, not someone who's putting her in the story to be annoying, to wink with the audience at "Ugh, don't you just hate it when a chick..."
And while we aren't really seeing Madisynn's story, we know that she's the hero of it. By the time she opened a portal to Kamar-Taj, she had navigated the multiversal planes well enough to get back to her own world, safely. (Plus or minus an infernal pact.)
And she's genuinely happy to see Wong, the nice guy who gave her a ride home, listened to her vent about Donny and Jake, and who was genuinely concerned about her. That guy's a friend!
And she zeroes in on their common interests (alcohol and prestige cable drama.)
For Wong's part, he's angry at the correct party over her intrusion into his sanctum, and his exasperation with her is not about the circumstances she was put into or the way she lives her life, but her innocent spoiling of a show he's invested in but very late to the party for.
And we know that she is not the most clueless and self-absorbed person Wong deals with, and while she doesn't treat him as the Sorcerer Supreme, she treats him like a person and a peer, which is something his apprentice Steve is still learning.
My headcanon is that the demons she encountered helped put her on a path that would lead her to Wong because they're annoyed by Donny Blaze's intrusions into their realms and wanted to tip the Sorcerer Supreme into doing something about him without giving away their own hand.
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Nobody thinks memeing the queen's death is "doing the work".
It's not practicing politics.
It's living them. People are being authentic to their values, whether those values are anti-colonialism, anti-monarchist, republicanism (in the non-US sense), or just "LOL, whatever".
And contrary to how Ben Judah might read that tweet, when I say people are living their politics and being authentic to their values, I'm not claiming that something of any great material import is being accomplished here. It's day to day stuff, on a very unusual day.
Here's the thing about signaling, about gestures of any kind: they aren't likely to change the world, but they are an indicator of where the world is. A windsock can't make the wind go the way you want it to, but will give you a sense of how close to the right direction, how hard
I am the exact opposite of this, in that the back of my mouth is like the exhaust port on the Death Star that just sucks in whatever gets close, so I have to actively work to keep something as small as candy corn in my mouth to chew it.
People are often horrified on (justified) safety/health reasons to learn I swallow my pills without water, but the fact is I can't keep them in my mouth to take a sip and they're less likely to get stuck or leave residue in my esophagus if I actively glug them.
I also have a hyperactive salivary gland so I'm never actually "dry swallowing" anything, for anyone still concerned.
Another thought about this week's episode: the Wong stories in #SheHulkAttorneyAtLaw are doing a good job of illustrating just how much the legal system in the MCU is not prepared to deal with things like the open existence of magic.
This was something I had wondered about, along the same lines as trying to adapt Civil War in a version of the MCU without decades of history of open superhuman activity and hundreds of characters. The She-Hulk solo books focused on superhuman law are in a very different world.
We know from stuff here and there going back to the first Thor movie that the history of magic on earth is old and from more recent things (especially the inclusion of family magical histories/traditions turning out to be real in multiple MCU properties) that it's continuous.
Knowing this changed how I see the game, and games in general.
As an adult, even a disabled adult, I have had a tendency to scoff at games that rely on piling up random chances to determine a winner with minimal input from the players.
But Candyland is a game in which participation does not require much effort, either mental or physical, and everybody who is playing is still playing. You can invest in the results and watch them unfold. There's back and forth, ups and downs. It's a horse race and a story.
The game board is designed to be visually interesting narratively evocative. It has both character, and characters. The regions of the board can suggest things to an imaginative player, but there's no lore to read and no special mechanics to learn.
A lot has happened (or one thing happened a lot) but I still have four redeemable US Kindle copies for mutuals in the US of @jolantru's Water Into Wine, DM if interested, first-come, first-serve.
Unclaimed codes will be posted for public consumption in the US Eastern evening.