True my heart wrenching and thought provoking
This is how the golden age of piracy ended.
Does anyone remember that chart that showed all of the word counts of all the chapters Wildbow has written
Minecraft should completely rework villages. They're not hominids anymore, they're animate bipedal constructs made from clay or bronze wandering the ancient overgrown ruins of their former farming hamlets. The villagers are gardening robots, still tilling their fields after untold centuries of disrepair.
I had a talk with the guys at work about the sheer amount of superhero media available right now, and one of them came up with the idea of "Post-Marvel".
I like a lot of the MCU, but after all this time it's become repetitive. They give a somewhat grounded depiction, but it's still played pretty straight.
What draws me in now isn't superheroes played straight. It's superheroes deconstructed, new concepts explored, not the massive franchise-building heavyweights that have been around for decades.
Worm is set in a world where powers develop after traumatic experience. Naturally, there are way more villains than heroes, and the main character ends up becoming a villain just because she was that desperate for friends.
The Boys is a scathing critique of corporations and celebrity worship. The heroes work for money, so they get merchandising deals, ad campaigns, and good enough PR and Legal that they can literally get away with murder.
Invincible is more loving, but it doesn't shy away from showing how brutal things can get when superpowers are in the mix.
Dreadnought is a great book that shows a lot of nuance in the morals, and the sequel Sovereign is very vocal about how mainstream media rarely accept minorities unless its something they can catch a ride off.
I still love superheroes. I just want something besides Marvel.
If Yakko Wakko and Dot were SCP's theyd be classified as keter
Not because they're going to cause an end of the world scenario and end humanity itself
But simply because they're masters of escape and the foundation would just not be able to keep them in a place they didnt want to stay in.
praise be the Saint Electric
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