Wholeheartedly approve. We have a joke in our apartment that our household is one step beyond “the people who are willing to take the spider outside” and are instead “the people who don’t even care there’s a spider there, or rather do care, but only in the sense that we call each other over to coo at it”

On the whole I am mostly familiar with spiders, but did grow up with scorpions around for a bit of the time my family lived in Arizona. At the time I was pretty scared of them, but I think nowadays we’d get along much better (although still at a more respectful distance than I go for with spiders....). I also owe them some credit for one of my personal sci-comm successes, which was taking the black light we had out for an event at the museum and showing kids -- and some of my coworkers! -- how you could use it on preserved scorpions we have in our little naturalist’s corner. Everyone loses it a little over the fluorescence, which I think is so funny because I do personally think it’s cool, but I’m familiar with the trick because growing up, my dad used to use a UV light to do a little “monsters under the bed” type check for me and my middle sister when we were going to sleep in the summer to prove there weren’t any scorpions in our bedroom! (Which, when I tell that to all the nice, extremely midwestern visitors the museum gets, earns me a look like I grew up on another planet. But I love doing scicomm through storytelling!)

Oooh, love this idea!

Dani’s parents don’t turn into the demon bear or whatever. They’re fine, Dani love them and they love Dani.

However, Dani’s struggle with her powers when they develop still cause problems for her. I wouldn’t take that away, just because it’s pretty amazing how far she comes in terms of control and development of her abilities, and it’s pretty common for mutants to have issues with their powers when first manifesting.

One day Pat Roberts (the asshole from New Mutants #41, which btw I would definitely also do major rewrites to obviously,) keeps harassing her, and she ends up using her powers on him in public, which leads to a bunch of kids starting racist rumours about how she’ll put curses on them. Dani was already a pretty secluded kid, and this makes it harder. Her parents try to put a stop to it, but it still really gets to Dani.

Her parents figure Dani could really benefit from some time away from the town, so they suggest she spend the summer with her grandfather in hopes of getting some peace and to get her confidence back.

Dani and her grandfather get really close, and she ends up loving being in the mountains with him. He also teaches her to not let other people tell her who she is. So her grandfather is still an important part of her backstory, and still a source of inspiration for her.

She doesn’t have a pet mountain lion lmfao. Ridge-Runner is just her grandfather’s dog that takes a fast liking to Dani.

Xavier is not Dani’s father’s “blood brother” LMFAO. Her family has no intention of sending her to Xavier’s, he just shows up and gives his sales pitch on a day her parents are visiting. He brings Rahne and Karma with him to help, but her parents and grandfather still say they have concerns about sending their daughter to a far away boarding school, and promise Dani they wouldn’t send her if she doesn’t want to go. She doesn’t, so they tell Xavier thanks but no thanks.

Except before Xavier leaves, the Hellfire Club shows up having followed him to Colorado. Black Eagle tries to talk them out of conflict, and they kill him. After the ensuing fight, Dani is obviously infuriated and grief stricken, and also blames Xavier for putting her family in danger by leading the Hellfire Club to them. But she wants to get vengeance, despite her parents’ attempts to talk her down, and agrees to go with Xavier for the real goal of confronting Pierce.

And so the rest of the plot of the New Mutants graphic novel ensues, with Dani in the end deciding to stay with the New Mutants to learn how to control her powers better, and because she thinks that maybe if she'll have better luck making friends with other mutants. However, she still has big issues with Xavier, which is a set up for the building conflict between the two.

This isn’t in relation to her backstory, but I would also obviously give her a different outfit. Of course she should totally keep her signature boots, but there’s no reason for her to dress like she’s in Disney’s Pocahontas. (Thank god she gets regular civ clothes for the rest of the series.) Like, just put her in something like this:

dazz has been stated by Galactus to have power without limit and to be the best converter of sound to light in the universe!!! galactus said that!!!! omega level dazzler 2020!!!

not a dumb question at all dw!

xuyen = su-win (this is kinda hard to explain but here is a video of someone pronouncing it)

kieu = kew; pronounced the the same way you would say “queue”

"things turning into other things" always weirded me the fuck out and i had nightmares from them (magic school bus and my "waking up as a girl" fantasies were excluded from this)

i think last weeks said "so ended the 9th life of moira x"