blue gumball son of a bitch

please, please, please remember that this "hating transmascs" and "kill all TMEs" bullshit is just a few edgy weirdos on the internet who enjoy saying inflammatory things for shock value.

transfems are not your enemy, and YES, you do actually need to unlearn transmisogyny. Not because you're transmasc, but because we live in a transmisogynistic society.

transfems are not a hivemind, there's no broader transfem consensus that transmascs are Evil Privileged Abusers, but the small group of people who think that way WANT you to believe that they are representative of trans women everywhere. they're super not. they really are just a handful of angsty people online looking for someone to pick on.

all trans people have more commonalities than differences. there aren't two distinct species of trans people from two different planets, there are just trans people with a wide diversity of experiences and walks of life. we are all affected by the same systems of oppression.

Shout out to fanfic writers who write short fanfics.

Shout out to fanfic writers who don’t write often.

Okay now I need an explanation on why the Reynolds have an unnamed cat eating on the table/counter that doesn't appear anywhere else in the rest of the comic (I flipped through the whole 2005 series and that cat is only in that panel hzvsshvsjsgsjs) Like, it's not even the same cat Void has.

Scout is there -and I'm genuinely glad Paul remembered about him- but also Scout wasn't even mentioned in the 2005 series, and I can't help but wonder why. And while seeing the other heroes and "friends" remembering Bob is lovely and sad on a surface level, everything comes off as less genuine and very naive given how Bendis completely ignored and erased all of Bob's relationships with them (fuck u Bendis). My favourite thing about the comic is Thor visiting Bob's mom, that scene is beautiful, especially because it was Thor who had to kill Bob and he feels guilty about it. Then we have that mention of Bob's thing with Rogue which is awkwardly random and quite distasteful imo, glad we all agree on this.

But overall it's a collection of characters pouring out their love for Bob and expressing their failures as friends, remembering adventures we never really saw, and trying to make him a hero again... I can't help but wonder if Jenkins felt like he himself failed at giving Sentry a proper space and connections with a true meaning in the Marvel universe (while he only got used as a villain and Osborn's sidekick for years) and this was his last attempt at giving Robert some love. Iirc this was a time when he was already distancing himself from Marvel and in burnout. The burnout is evident I fear.

I still wonder what Reed read in the diary. Guess we'll never know.