Its an advanced butterfly bandaid.

product invented -> problem with capitalist hellscape mildly circumvented -> americans celebrate because its incredibly good that this product exists -> non-americans telling us we’re dumbasses for? being happy theres a tiny little workaround for our shitty system? acting like we’re stupid for looking forward to a product that fixes an 800 dollar problem for a fraction of the cost?

Are you into tarot? I like tarot enough that I will get a reading if there is a cool tarot card reader at a party, and I think I have a couple tarot decks i have received as gifts, but I have never really gotten into using them on myself but MAYBE THIS CUTE TAROT CARD TABLE ONLINE HAS CHANGED EVERYTHING FOR TAROT AND ME??!!! Wow do i love tarot cards now??? I think i do! I am really enjoying this little tarot platform called Moonlight that launched recently. The lady who started it has run some neat online community projects in the past so I have been rooting for them from afar, and it's so good.

Anyway If you click on "Try a Free Tarot Room" start a room, it has a little built in card deck with all the spreads and a guide thingy and you can just do a reading for yourself! or invite one of your friends on and hang out and do readings with each other for free! or book with a professional tarot card reader if you want a whole experience! Get Tarot Lessons even! Looks like they will be expanding to be selling more artist decks in the future too. We love a virtual goods art marketplace!

First, does The X-Men take place in a boarding school milieu? It feels like a simple yes/no question, but it doesn’t have a straightforward answer; in a lot of X-Men media, the school premise is background for conventional superhero-team shenanigans, and even when the focus is on the school, the plots tends to concern the personal lives of the faculty and staff more than the academic careers of the students. However, there’s at least some X-Men media where you can make a strong case that the boarding school milieu is a central device.

Secondly, are the X-Men, in any sense, wizards? The word “wizard” is doing a lot of heavy lifting here, and most of the obvious objections turn up a lot of weird edge cases; e.g., “they’re not wizards because their powers have a science-fictional justification” (so do those of many characters who are explicitly identified as wizards, particularly in older media where the lines between fantasy and sci-fi aren’t quite so bright) or “they’re not wizards because they’re born that way” (being a wizard is often depicted as being at least partly hereditary, sometimes to the extent that “wizard” is effectively a distinct species).

Thirdly and most critically, however, we have to ask: does X-Men media participate in the wizard-school drama as a genre? Remember, genres aren’t just checklists of tropes – they’re authors in dialogue, borrowing from and responding to and criticising each other. To what meaningful extent does X-Men media engage with that dialogue? This is the really fun part, because we have to drill down to the level of what individual storylines are doing to answer it; some X-Men stories clearly wouldn’t know fantasy literature from a hole in the ground, while others have richer creative influences.

you need to make your keyboard more fucked up tbh

Fuck with me.