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it's important to talk about how pop psychology sucks ass. but that shouldn't distract you from also talking about how Serious, Official, Legitimate Psychology also sucks ass.

WHEN will dc give them the solo they deserve

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I dunno I'm aware I'm just a hater but I just really think it's deeply deeply concerning how people repeatedly refuse to engage with the reality of Chris Claremont being a deeply Zionist person, and his Zionist politics being extremely foundational to how he wrote both Magneto and Charles, and how that legacy reverberates into the mutant ethnostate concept. You cannot divorce Genosha, Utopia, Krakoa from the fact that Magneto, Max Eisenhardt, Erik Lehnsherr owes a very significant portion of his character to the Zionist Menachem Begin, and that was who Claremont based his Magneto on, and the only reason we even talk about Magneto today is because of the way Claremont retooled him. Kitty Pryde calls Genosha mutant Israel, and even in Krakoa compares Krakoa directly to Israel in a conversation with her Rabbi, and you want to pretend Zionism is not inherently linked to the mutant metaphor starting most majorly with Chris Claremont? It's embarrassing, frankly. All of American media has a Zionism problem, don't get me wrong, but it is a particularly prevalent issue in X-Men comics and I just completely detest how people react when you try to call this out or have a frank conversation of the reality of Claremont's contributions to the genre, and particularly to the character Magneto.

i always recommend 'how to hide an empire' by daniel immerwahr to usamericans as an intro to imperialism because of how it looks at the history of the us empire and its peripheries in a way that is pretty accessible to newcomers of the subject. if i recall correctly it touches on the history of us involvement in puerto rico, mexico, the philippines, the pacific islands incl hawaii, alaska, and chattel slavery as the construction of an internal colony, as well as on manifest destiny and indigenous genocide on the mainland. it provides a solid overview and you can choose to delve into further research from there

Every professional comic writer should have the same encyclopedic knowledge about their protagonist as my mutuals and I do. It’s really not that hard. All it takes is a 500 issue reading list and a dream.

take your time

Not having a traditional job or plans to get an education will have people asking you things like so what is the purpose of you staying alive?

they do tho

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i fucking love ben grimm. he's the character of all time. he's jewish. he's a new yorker. he's an astronaut. he's a street tough. he's a golem. he's the heart and soul of the fantastic four. he loves cigars, hoagies, and his sweet aunt petunia. he's best friends with she-hulk. he loves people. he wants to protect them, even when they're scared of him. he's always the last one to go down in a fight and the first one to get back up again. he can go toe to toe with the hulk. he sends a hanukkah letter to moon knight every year. a freaking elder of the universe realized that he'd never be able to beat him, never be able to actually break his spirit. and you know why? because he's the ever-lovin’ blue-eyed thing.