Making of a Vanguard

When Rogue was introduced in the comics, she was a 40-something aged woman, who was a villain. It was weird for me to see her as a kid in X-Men.

But Anna Paquin is in her 40s now. I want to see:

Her fly.

Her punch stuff. Specifically at least one robot.

Fight Carol Danvers (Captain Marvel 3? Like, let's say the two universes are fighting and the MCU wins. You could have a end credit of Rogue absorbing Captain Marvel's powers to get revenge?)

Say weird aphorisms

Interact with Remy (Channing Tatum is age-appropriate, just sayin')*

Give her all the money and make it happen.

We’ve got her being referred to as ‘child’ and ‘young woman’.

I’ll agree that her art doesn’t look young, but no one really does.

/blows dust off Hey y'all. I'm returning to the old ways. I'm sick of everything lol

If you live in California, call your senators and tell them to oppose the internet age-gating law.

you have zevran, a bisexual man written by a gay man. he uses his sexuality as a weapon to both seduce and distract his enemies, but also as a way to cope with his fear of attachment. this is. obviously a tired trope about bisexuals, but bear with me here.

zevran is incredibly open about his sexuality in a very down to earth and honest way. a female warden romancing him cannot do so without also accepting that he is interested in men as well. he tells her, up front, he's slept with men. he likes the company of men. this does not negate his affection towards her or vice versa, but he will not be made to feel ashamed or uncomfortable about his attraction for the sake of someone who won't accept them as part of who he is.

one game later. you have anders. a bisexual man written by a straight woman. his bisexuality is locked behind a romanced male hawke who is. well. clearly. also queer. a female hawke has no knowledge of anders being interested in men, and the only point in which past relationships are alluded to anders vaguely speaks as though he's never had one before. his writer openly said this was to avoid alienating the female player. bisexual men are gross. women don't find it attractive when bisexual men sleep with other men. you cannot have a bisexual man who is open about his sexuality with a heterosexual woman, she might get insecure and thus the player would be offended.

and thats just the queer men. leliana, written by a straight person, has entire portions of her romance arbitrarily cut out entirely from a female warden. a female warden literally cannot flirt with her unless she flirts first. half of leliana's romance banter is locked behind a male warden. there's no external acknowledgement of a warden that romances both her and alistair in the same way that there is for a warden that romanced her and morrigan, because well duh! alistair can only be romanced by women. why would a woman romance leliana?

and then there's da2. the game where a male hawke can have a cute discussion about being into men with anders. where a male hawke can feel insecure about fenris leaving him because what if he isnt actually interested in men? the game where there was a gay man behind the scenes likely advocating for a better portrayal for queer men. but no queer women. isabela's romance with a femhawke gets almost no recognition as a fxf relationship outside of an EXTRAORDINARILY uncomfortable "lets have some girl fun 😜" merrill's romance with a femhawke gets weirdly rewritten into this. very. very odd semifreudian idol worship thing. a hawke that slept with isabela but moved on to merrill gets banter where its implied isabela actually still has feelings for them and is heartbroken that theyve moved on. a hawke that slept with isabela but moved onto anders/fenris gets "get over yourselves i did them too." because why would two women genuinely be interested in each other outside of sex when they have men?

Keep your messaging simple:

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Trump removed food safety standards his first term and now we have recalls every few weeks

Trump cut the subsidies for the solar farms under construction so now electricity costs more

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I was also in a car accident on Feb 6. I’m fine (bruised and shaken up but nothing major), but the bill for the emergency room is likely to be Gross.

So uh anything helps including reblogging and beseeching the universe to be nice to me for my birthday.

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People really act as if marginalized people did not grow up in the same society as they did and therefore do not experience the same pitfalls. They act like we have some sort of shield that prohibits us from absorbing and internalizing certain rhetoric and ideals because they're harmful to us. But fact is, a lot of us do internalize those things. We have no choice. Prejudice and bigotry in regards to us is everywhere. It's normalized. We're different merely because we took the time to unlearn a lot of it and still are.

Because we're human. And that's what a lot of people miss. There's a dehumanizing aspect to this. That's why they expect our emotional labor and expect us to available to them 24/7. That's why they blame us for their ignorance. That's why they get mad at us when we put up boundaries. Because to them we're not supposed to have those. We're here for them and them only. Tools to be discarded at will.

And people ignore this aspect of it all because it doesn't fit their narrative or stops their excuses dead in their tracks. That "they did it so why can't you" logic disappears really quickly. It has to because we're the thing in question. It can't be because we realized something was wrong or because we worked hard. It has to be innate. It has to be something they can't ever grasp.

But we hardly have few examples of marginalized people with regressive beliefs. They exist. Of course they do. How does one explain them or why they think the way that they do? Answer: they don't. They ignore them until they can be utilized for their goals. Which is the crux of the issue. Again: we're something that doesn't exist outside of them and something to be used at will.