IT HAPPENED

WE FUCKING WON

All or nothing duo strikes again

Marvel characters: This is Gwenpool, she’s an unstable, deluded girl who genuinely believes that she comes from another reality where we’re all comic book characters. Obviously, that’s too ridiculous to even consider, so she must be crazy. No, we can’t explain how she knows so much about everyone, nor how she seems to bend reality to her will. She must just be a powerful mutant. Oh now she’s saying that she recently made herself a mutant through something called a “retcon.” Sigh. Poor, confused young woman. We hope she gets the help she needs.

Very generally speaking, when you see a black man in a piece of media, be it tv show, movie, video game, etc. there’s something you often see a lot of writers do. To go against the stereotype of black men (and black people in general) being dumb and lazy, you’ll see this black male character being smart and an achiever. 

Hyper-individualist cultures go, “Your emotions are your personal responsibility. Don’t burden others. Regulate privately. Maintain functionality. If you’re upset, process it offstage so the machine keeps moving.” Meanwhile certain collectivist or harmony-focused frameworks go, “Your emotions disrupt group cohesion. Don’t create discomfort. Don’t impose disharmony. Transcend or contain your reactions for the sake of the whole.”

thats just human nature tho. Making a group uncomfortable rightfully or not by having the wrong emotion or not being able to bring something useful to the group gets shutdown hard.

Hyper-individualist cultures go, “Your emotions are your personal responsibility. Don’t burden others. Regulate privately. Maintain functionality. If you’re upset, process it offstage so the machine keeps moving.” Meanwhile certain collectivist or harmony-focused frameworks go, “Your emotions disrupt group cohesion. Don’t create discomfort. Don’t impose disharmony. Transcend or contain your reactions for the sake of the whole.”