In re CA:CW, tangentially

[kaberett]

Strong Female Protagonist, which I've recced before and will rec again, is a webcomic that has consistently thought hard about definition, regulation and registration of super-powered humans, and about morality and ethics and how to make good choices. It doesn't have answers; it does have compassion. I like it a lot.

(... this is not exactly a CA:CW hate blog, but I do think it's sort of tragic that a freak meteorite destroyed the Marvel studios after GotG was released, so they never got a chance to fulfill the potential of the storylines they'd set up up to that point. But hey, your blue-eyed boys is canon.)

eta I take it back, this is a Civil War hate blog, I had not at that point seen this (trigger warning, I seriously cannot work out how to words things beyond that in ways that aren't ~~a spoiler~~, but please do note that I distinguish between "content note" for "bad things happen" and "trigger warning" for "this is handled abhorrently")

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[cxcvi]

a freak meteorite destroyed the Marvel studios

Wait... what?

[alexseanchai]

The Matrix doesn't have sequels, either.

[silveradept]

And the end of Season 3 of RWBY is in quantum flux.

[alexseanchai]

Oh, hey, have you read thingswithwings's Known Associates?

[kaberett]

No I had not; thanks for the rec!

[alexseanchai]

\o/

[kaberett]

(I have now gone oh-it's-that-one; I've downloaded it for ereading purposes, but may or may not bounce off it because it isn't ybeb...)

[alexseanchai]

Nod, nod. Entirely fair. :)

[jedusaur]

I don't know what "ybeb" means, but I wasn't a huge fan of that fic because (spoilers) a. all the awesome queer OCs that made me love them in the first part broke my heart when Steve woke up and they were dead (some from AIDS), and b. the emotional arc between Steve and Bucky doesn't come to anything even vaguely resembling a satisfying conclusion. There's just no post-WS Bucky at all. The thing is practically endless and still managed to leave me feeling like it needed another 40k to actually be done.

[kaberett]

Ha, thank you for the heads-up -- if when I try it I start bouncing off it I will just go with that rather than feeling faintly guilty <3

(ybeb is your blue-eyed boys, which I adore and will not shut up about and which is the entire reason I care about the MCU at all.)

[davidgillon]

Seconding the recommendation for SFP. The most recent story arc basically takes place in a philosphy lecture, and our heroine struggles when the new prof (half-loved, half-hated by the fanbase) challenges her perception of what is right. Absolutely fantastic story-telling.

[kaberett]

NTS: further discussion on the actual horror and on CW more generally.

[davidgillon]

Reads threads, eyes roll so hard it hurts.....

WTF, MCU writers! You ask the big moral questions of the characters who have agency, not the ones who were powerless puppets.

[sasha_feather]

I am with you on the hating on Civil War. for sure.

[untonuggan]

well that spoiler confirms my decision not to see this movie, because I was basically going to go for Bucky

[untonuggan]

ALSO it's complete bullshit because Natasha used to work for "the enemy" too

ALSO what about shit Banner does when he hulks out

ALSO what about Howard Stark and his death machines

ALSO what about Tony Stark and his terrible decisions (tm) *coughultroncoughultron*

ALSO you're telling me everything Nick Fury does is legit and doesn't deserve punishment?

I call bullshit

[whisper]

Yes to all of this so much.

Given that the treatment-of-Bucky stuff in 2 was triggery for me, and if this is how the writers treat him.. Yeah, I have absolutely no interest now/active-distance from ever seeing this even casually.

[kaberett]

I see that you do not have the brain/time for the comment threads rn, but if you do want the validation of other folk yelling about all this stuff in great detail at any point, know that it exists <333

[kaberett]

HAHAHAHA YEAH

I'm glad this was useful information. I have... kind of been doing the rounds of telling people to whom I think it's directly relevant "do NOT see this movie, do NOT NOT NOT, it is a TERRIBLE IDEA", becauuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuse yeah.

[maramcreates]

I'm so late to this party, it's not even funny....

Anyway, this is all I was intending to add to the conversation (a wonderful legacy courtesy of US congressional witch-hunts for vice and a comics industry that had little in the way of backbone and conviction): CCA.

Look familiar?

[kaberett]

Haaaaa, yes.