Cosmic Pastries

Besides this, the reboot show Stampede erased her existence entirely and replaced her with an old jaded man who was used as an exposition machine. There was more misogyny done here to Meryl, where she was portrayed as a prissy brat from high society who couldn't protect herself. The director of the show stated directly in an interview that the reason he erased Milly and replaced her with a man was because he thought a tiny woman like Meryl would otherwise die immediately in this universe (keep in mind that Meryl in the manga and 98 anime carried 50 guns with her and in this reboot carried none and had zero means of defense).

Milly only gets added in the second season of the reboot, Stargaze, where she is relegated to being the designated driver, a ditzy airhead and semi-exposition machine, zero personality beyond the mentioned qualities, and is dumbed down beyond measure with zero relevance to the plot. All of her emotional intelligence and awareness is erased. Her key moments involve her being silly, doubting Meryl who mentions being doubted by the entire reporting industry for her beliefs (keeping in mind Milly in the 98 anime and original manga was always 100% on Meryl's side). The show also had her excuse abusive parental neglect when her original counterpart has canonically punched and beaten up someone for just talking disrespectfully to their family when they were looking out for him. She gets several moments where she is shipping the main two guys and teasing them about it, acting as the "fandom's eye" for selling the BL ship. She throws a weird "I didn't think you would allow us to join" to the main character, which feels weirdly roundabout misogynist because this sort of line of thought didn't really exist in the original and even if it did, it has zero context or relevance in this adaptation because Milly barely had more than a single interaction with the main character by that point in this adaptation. Basically, it feels like they completely erased her relevance to the main character group because three of them had a full season to bond with each other while she got shoehorned into this one without any actual inclusion besides being the joke generator. Additionally, all of the "bonding" and closeness that she "develops" with Meryl in this adaptation is done offscreen and we are only "told" that they have been together for a full year and can now read each other's minds. It's excessively and disappointingly hollow. Further to that, remember the big jaded man who replaced Milly in the first season? He died in that season, and somehow Milly is used as a sort of stand in for him so that Meryl can remember she had a mentor and lost him, and now has a reason to fight and protect Milly. Again, this is all with only being told, not shown, that Milly is important to Meryl. We see no actual development. Milly herself gets zero character development in the entire season because the directors didn't care. She gets one cool scene where she expositions about the nature of the creatures on their planet, and somehow it becomes Meryl's idea on how to solve their current problem, not Milly's, because Milly doesn't think, she just cheerleads. Also I need you to understand that her most prominent moment in the fandom is a brainless joke the show made of Milly suggesting they raid the enemy's base and it's a sequence of Milly and Meryl shouting "HUH?" at each other four times in a vacuum while the guys are fighting. Oh this is another thing, Milly has a super strong weapon that she only uses in episode 1 and maaaaaaaybe episode 9 or 10. She and Meryl could have been part of the battles but the director decided no. Meanwhile in the manga and 98 anime Milly saves Meryl multiple times, and they both save the protagonist several times as well. This doesn't exist in this adaptation.

TLDR; Milly Thompson was already treated by some people in fandom as a ditzy airhead, and then the directors of the reboot decided to be extra misogynist and a) write her off of season one and b) give her zero relevance or character or any sort of depth or development in season two, and this has severely impacted how people in fandom see her and portray her, further expanding the misogyny and character assassination she underwent.

It's National Rock and Roll Day!

Thought I'd draw some Hopeless Savages to celebrate the occasion!

Here you see the Zero and the Dusted Bunnies, enjoying that touring band life to the fullest.

HOPELESS SAVAGES: BREAK written by @jenvanmeter . Drawn by me . And published by @onipress. It's a good book. They're fun kids. You should read it. With loud music.

req'd by @urlocalllama

BOOOM! :)

i haven't seen anything about this on my dashboard, so i wanted to share. ICE gestapo killed another human being on tuesday. he leaves behind three sons and his wife, who he has spent the last 35 years building a life with

there is a gofundme supported by the league of united latin american citizens set up to help with funeral costs, legal fees, and supporting his family moving forward.