“genitalia associated with cis women are harshly stigmatized and policed as part of misogyny, which can lead to violence” and “not all women have vaginas and not everyone with a vagina is a woman” and “trans peoples’ bodies are harshly stigmatized and policed as part of transphobia, which can lead to violence” are not mutually exclusive factsx and in fact all of these things are very much interlinked, and should not be used as gotchas! against each other
Yeah it’s cool to pretend you hate this site despite logging in via oxygen mask every day like a coward but I’m gonna miss this site when it tanks. Never have I interacted with a piece of media that is this entertaining and outrageous. It’s historical.
Tumblr’s polarity is truly only outmatched by Twitter to me. There are amazing and creative people here and then there are demons and scoundrels and the insane amount of micro-societies created by both would make any sociologist have a field day. You are always two degrees of separation away from mind-blowing confusion if you click any link on your dashboard. The constant stimulation…is terrifying.
as a kid i always thought gotham was in michigan because i thought it was a midwestern city like chicago, and there was always shit going down at the pier or in abandoned factories and if michigan has anything it’s a lot of piers and abandoned factories. anyway turns out it’s probably in jersey.
other good reasons for gotham to be in michigan:
one of the most heavily forested states in the country with 20 million acres of forests oh my god poison ivy would be so powerful the second she got outside city limits fuck
there’s 20 million acres of this and she’s got plant powers no wonder they want her on lockdown
there are more than 6,000 shipwrecks in the great lakes how many supervillain origin stories is that good for
“63 commercial ports handled 173 million tons of cargo in 2006″ aka holy shit that is a lot of opportunities for boatcrimes
mr freeze has a pretty tragic origin story but if you had to put up with michigan winters and then some motherfucker showed up freezing the town outside of freezing season you would have no mercy
MOTHERFUCKER I JUST PUT MY SNOWBLOWER IN STORAGE DO I LOOK LIKE I NEED THIS SHIT RIGHT NOW
imagine batman giving someone directions by pointing to his hand
“we believe killer croc is somewhere around here” he says pointing to the tip of his thumb
good fucking luck finding stats on abandoned buildings in michigan but holy shit are there a lot of them, no wonder they’re always having fights in abandoned factories and empty warehouses
“kitty why are you including that map of the railroads like it’s relevant” because when you’re trying to sleep and you hear a train in the distance it’s fucking spooky okay
i have no evidence that traincrime is an issue for batman i’m just saying the ambiance is there
i can’t wait till i’m 45 and they start putting 2009-2012 pop hits on the “classic” radio station. i’m gonna embarrass my teenage daughter by fucking blasting Party Rock Anthem on our way to school
this whole damn webcomic it’s like she’s being punished for wanting to be with her friends. she didn’t even get to be with her grandpa that long before he got murdered [which she though was suicide, and being a kid, jade thought it was her fault].
she was finally about to meet dream-john after waiting her whole life? prospit destroyed and she died saving him before he woke up. her dream-self apparently gets to be with a group of friends in the afterlife? nope too bad she’s revived as jadesprite and COMPLETELY distraught at being back ‘in the game’ saying she wants to go back and be with her friends. she then loses her only irl friend, becquerel, from the prototyping.
finally meets dave? ends up accidentally killing him almost immediately and feels incredibly guilty about it. about to get a genuinely nice thank you from karkat and have him tell her how amazing she is? she fucking dies again before she can hear it.
then act 6 happens and we see… almost nothing about jade. apparently she had a train-wreck of a relationship with davesprite for a few months off-screen. and then the A6I3 games happen and LOOK we get to see all our favorites! oh WAIT, jade’s not there! in fact, we don’t even have a talksprite for jade!
then they finally arrive in the new session and she gets to meet everyon- no wait, nevermind! GRIMBARK! then she is forced to be horrible to them and dies. new timeline happens on the condition that JADE takes on all of their suffering [like she hasn’t suffered enough already]. typheus was vague about that at first but once john got to the new session we saw that the “one closest to him” that was to suffer was his sister.
so now we have this new timeline, [s] cascade happens, yay jade gets to see john and davesprite!! who quickly die in the explosion of lowas, THAT JADE THOUGHT SHE WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR. she didn’t know that typheus destroyed the planet. she was the one who shrunk them down and had control over the planets. she thought it was a horrible accident and she would have felt solely responsible for it.
so now she has 3 years travelling alone in a void [which is known for having mostly empty dream bubbles, which means not even many interactions with ghosts] and only lizards and a couple sprites [who she has had no former association with] to keep her company. she gets depressed and can’t even tend to her plants anymore. gardenGnostic can’t even bring herself to garden.
3 years of isolation and depression and she arrives in the new session, and gets immediately taken over by condy again, and just as quickly she’s knocked unconscious. and she gets to meet some new people so maybe things are looking better for her? maybe she’s finally going to get to spend time with her friends and get some dialogue-heavy heart-to-heart convos with them, you know, like everyone else is getting?
or not….
ok well at least after the battle and endgame stuff she’ll have to wake up, and maybe we’ll get some dialogue then right? and she’ll do something epic in the fight when she wakes up, it’ll work out and she has a good chance at EVENTUALLY being happy right?
OR NOT…
jade has never intentionally done anything to hurt anyone. and yet she seems to be eternally punished and used by paradox space. her only purpose at this point seems to be being treated like a tool because she’s so overpowered. she just exists to be a powerful chess piece whose sole purpose is to take on the suffering of a doomed timeline. she’s not allowed to be a person or have her own life. she’s just getting dragged along by fate and losing more and more pieces of herself along the way.
this is the most unfair thing in this whole comic in my opinion. and honestly, with everything that has happened and CONTINUES to happen to jade, i can see why jadesprite would rather be dead than play this game.
just moving along like everyone else 