The cutest thing about Bitty bringing a blazer for poor hopelessly informally dressed Chowder isn’t necessarily that he did it, but that in all likelihood he bought a blazer in Chowder’s exact size for that express purpose
Also do you think Nursey would take Chowder and Dex on increasingly fancy dates bc he and Dex are amazed at how casually underdressed Chowder always is and they wanna see how far they can take it before getting turned away at the door
Chowder probably doesn’t see anything wrong with what he’s doing. Not because he’s a kid but because he’s Californian. Dress codes on the West Coast are usually pretty lax. While people do dress up for places and evenings out, it’s usually not as strict as fancier places out East.
Plus Chowder is from the Bay Area, the cities who could practically write “No collective fucks were given. I will wear my turtleneck in June to this place and you won’t do a thing. Because you do not give a fuck either.” Is Chowder pushing even that standard a little? Sure. Is he doing to troll his friends? Maybe a little.
love everything about this. the girls making fun of the boys, the endless dumb fun the boys are having, its pure
This is what boys will be boys was always supposed to mean
Nursey: Holster wants one of us to pick Whiskey up from the LAX house
Chowder: I’ll go!
Nursey: It’s too dangerous there, I’ll go
Dex: I can go
Chowder: Alright! Let’s all go together, holding hands tightly
I will end… with a little scene that took place in the last months of peace. They were the most terrible months of my life, for, helplessly and hopelessly, one watched the inevitable approach of war. One of the most horrible things at that time was to listen on the wireless to the speeches of Hitler—the savage and insane ravings of a vindictive underdog who suddenly saw himself to be all-powerful. We were in Rodmell during the late summer of 1939, and I used to listen to those ranting, raving speeches. One afternoon I was planting in the orchard under an apple-tree iris reticulata, those lovely violet flowers… Suddenly I heard Virginia’s voice calling to me from the sitting room window: “Hitler is making a speech.” I shouted back, “I shan’t come. I’m planting iris and they will be flowering long after he is dead.” Last March, twenty-one years after Hitler committed suicide in the bunker, a few of those violet flowers still flowered under the apple-tree in the orchard.
His friends seemed to have treated it in with a sort of don’t ask don’t tell kind of attitude. Like, Karkat’s blood color is wrong and mutant in troll society, but they didn’t want to hurt Karkat because of it, in anyway. Even beyond the obvious killing reaction that many could assume his friends wouldn’t do, none of them did anything at all, like demand he step down from being the leader or something. They didn’t try to change anything at all.
By the same token, though, they didn’t really comfort him about it. Besides Terezi, none of his friends talked about his blood to Karkat directly. No words of comfort, no ‘I don’t want to kill you’ or anything. It was like, as long as Karkat didn’t bring it up and kept hiding behind grey, nobody else wanted to bring it up and mess up whatever tenuous social order they had going.
Of course, a major factor in how this was handled probably had to do with how everyone found out. Karkat didn’t tell anyone his blood color directly, and kept pretending no one knew. The other trolls presumably found out by seeing dead alternate Karkats in dream bubbles during or immediately after the game. So not only was the timing really inconvenient (most of them weren’t going to bring something like blood color up in the middle of the apocalypse), but they didn’t actually see alpha Karkat bleeding. There was no defining moment of ‘hey Karkat’s bleeding, I can see his blood right there, guess I can’t just ignore it.’ They could ignore it, and they did.
I want to know what Karkat’s friends would have done if they found out some other way, like if Karkat told them (would he ever tell someone by choice) or if they saw him bleeding in person.
“These nominations come just days after Marvel’s Vice President of Sales, David Gabriel, went out of his way to blame Marvel’s lagging sales on comics—like Black Panther and Ms. Marvel—starring people of color and women. Suffice it to say that the optics of this whole thing don’t reflect well on the publisher, but the Hugo nominations send a telling message to Marvel about just how the public actually feels about its “diverse books.”
In his presentation to the Marvel Retailer Summit, Gabriel said that he and other executives heard from retailers that readers weren’t interested in change, despite the company’s many “fresh, new, exciting ideas.”
“What we heard was that people didn’t want any more diversity,” Gabriel said. “We saw the sales of any character that was diverse, any character that was new, our female characters, anything that was not a core Marvel character, people were turning their nose up against,”
While it’s true that Marvel’s sales have been steadily declining for some time now, the drop has been seen across its entire portfolio, not just with titles starring leads who aren’t straight, white men. Both Black Panther and Ms. Marvel have regularly charted as New York Times best sellers over the past few years and that isn’t by accident. It’s because of interest from communities of fans (like the body that makes up the Hugo Awards voting committee) who make the effort to critically analyze the titles despite the fact that Marvel doesn’t do the best of jobs when it comes to promoting them effectively.
Writing for The Guardian, JA Micheline correctly notes that while Marvel may have a handful of progressive characters, it doesn’t go out of its way to let new potential readers know about them in a meaningful way.
“Marvel seems to outright misunderstand capitalism when it largely limits its marketing efforts to comic-book shops – spaces that have historically been unwelcoming to marginalised people,” Micheline argues. “[I]t largely presents white male heroes to the public via its cinematic universe, then makes public comments that outright concede that its main interest is selling comics to white men.”
Johnston says [sales] numbers are off by about 15% on average, and notes that they don’t include digital or international sales, or the potential for sales in the bookstore market (which is high for many of these titles), and that the numbers aren’t even inaccurate consistently, making it difficult to compare them month to month.
So.
1) Marvel doesn’t count digital sales.
2) Marvel doesn’t count international sales.
3) Marvel doesn’t count comics that are sold as trades in book stores or online.
4) Marvel only counts monthly issues of physical comics sold in stores.
And that’s really not where they’re getting most of their sales from any longer.
Not to mention that:
5) Comic book sales in general have been slumping for a while–at least if you only look at the monthly sales of physical comics sold in stores.
6) Most of Marvel’s money now comes from its movies, not its comics.
7) Oh, and the potential readers who refuse to buy Marvel comics during the run of Secret Empire (i.e., the one with Hydra Cap)? That’s probably not helping sales, either.
But sure, Marvel. It couldn’t be that your business model is outdated, that the types of sales have changed, that your sales figures are wildly inaccurate, that monthly purchases of physical comics are just not as affordable for customers as they used to be in the 1980s and 1990s (especially since the cost keeps going up), or that some potential customers have been boycotting your comics for a year.
No. Clearly all of your problems stem from diversity. Because that way, you don’t need to change your way of doing business or your attitudes.
Marvel blaming diversity for their lack of sales when in actual fact a LACK of diversity, a lack of PROMOTION of the diversity they do have and the fact that as storytellers and salesmen they are doing a SHITTY JOB at marketing their comics to the people who would be interested in them and writing some truly GARBAGE stories (Like the Civil War II crap or this Secret Empire nonsense) that puts people off bothering to buy them
Because that way they can use this scapegoating bullshit as an excuse to fill their comics with yet more heteronormative shit featutring yet more utterly tedious cishet characters, most of whom are all white
wait wtf they don’t count digital sales or trades
jfc
like how many different kinds of abhorrent and incompetent can they be
Right?
It’s 2017
SO MANY SALES come from digital sales and trade sales
just moving along like everyone else 