They tried to give Seasmoke a random white man as a rider and that dragon took it as a personal offense and went and found the most attractive living offspring of Corlys that it could
“sweetest” when they’re known to Jewish fans as that weirdo who voiced Anne Frank in a film capitalizing on her memory that was made by a zionist in 2021 is wild
will never forgive y’all for bullying emily carey off of this app! they were the sweetest to the hotd fandom, always interacted with us and now they’re not on the app anymore cuz y’all couldn’t separate fiction from reality!!!
@wlwspoiler
Makes me think of those weirdos who would proudly claim Bruce and Dick being shipped together “used to make headlines” and the headlines in question were claiming Bruce was representative of the stereotype that gay men are predatory 😭
One of my favorite things about Jason Todd is that from the outside he looks like the dream Tumblr bad boy but anyone who dated him for that would leave the relationship like 3 days later pissed as fuck about false advertising
@jasonsmomager
They saw the Lego movie and decided that that was Joker’s personality across the board instead of being a singular iteration of the character meant for kids 😭
I feel so bad for Captain America fans because there are extremely well-written and nuanced stories with those characters and they knew from the beginning that the odds of those stories being properly adapted and treated with respect were nonexistent with the military involvement
I don’t know how to break this to you but Billy Kaplan’s Jewishness has always and will always come before his status as a queer character considering his surname is literally Kaplan
@oofouchoww
It’s such a choice to give Billy a darker skin tone here when supporting the casting of a white boy as him and comparing the character to a white boy lmao??
Saying “some people” when you mean Jews who are understandably upset a character who is Jewish before he is queer is being played by a gentile is crazy
Great time to remind everyone that Marvel is on the boycott list and that includes the comics. Bit odd to be using an image of a Palestinian woman protesting the genocide of her people as a reaction pic as a whole.
How do you guys think the British person who made the Hillary Clinton fanzine back in 2016 because they very openly found her attractive is doing right now
You’d think the concept of comphet is easy to understand but you haven’t seen the way fans react to “I think they may be a lesbian” when an unlabeled character has had past relationships with men
You are not a fan of the character if you don’t respect his Jewishness and want for it to be represented the way it should be. How are you going to call yourself Wiccan Updates when you view a core aspect of his character as optional.
Billy Kaplan will still exist in the comics. He will exist in the MCU. Heck, he'll exist soon in Marvel Snap. I'll still keep you updated on him across all media as I always have. If you prefer one or the other that's ok. If you are excited for both, that's ok too.
I was going to be like “you guys aren’t interacting with real haters” and then remembered that people who openly dislike authors after they’ve been outed as bigots aren’t haters but normal people
Marvel Studios was founded by Avi Arad, an Israeli-American who served in the IDF, and continues to produce films for the company. The only thing that surprises me here is that Sabra didn’t make an appearance sooner.
Yes to May! But Oscar has made a career out of taking roles for Jewish people and that extends to… producing and starring in a film about Mossad. The national intelligence agency of Israel. Oscar played Peter Malkin, a secret agent who was part of the first wave of Israelis.
anyway.... look at Palestinian-Egyptian actress May Calamawy, who plays Leyla El-Faouly aka the scarlet scarab, wearing a keffiyeh alongside Oscar Isaac. You should all follow her on instagram, she's been posting abt her people's genocide.
I hope every Heartstopper fan defending a gentile being cast as a Jewish character is having their favorite series and “safe space” actively ruined for them by the criticism because that’s the exact experience Jewish people have every time we’re miscast.
They’re trying to get around being on the boycott list by feeding into fancast rumors without realizing the only people responding positively to this are the Heartstopper fans.
Reminder not to share that Hulk comic in response to the Sabra casting because the comic takes the “it’s because of religion” and “why can’t you guys just share” approach to an ongoing genocide
How many times to actual Jewish people have to tell you guys that SJM is a zionist regardless of whatever mental gymnastics you’ve decided to do to claim she isn’t
@tempdandelion
@lanabooks13
@readbycandie
I understand her grandma has supported/supports the Israel's army but when she said she is pro-Israel, though? And from when is the interview? I know Jews feel connection with that Wall, and yet they are not zionists, they just appreaciate their tradition and belief.
Everyone has their own reasoning for not wanting characters like Batman to enter the public domain and mine is that I know how fucking weird some of you are about Bruce Wayne and his adopted kids
Because designers believed the leotard look was outdated based on the reactions to 1997’s Batman & Robin. The obvious marketing choice was to give him pants. This is a normal thing that happens in the realm of character design.
Some people have experience with and knowledge of religion beyond what you encountered from the particularly loud bigots in your local area.
The sooner you understand this, the better.
Billy Kaplan I’m sorry you’re being played by someone who can never understand what it’s like to be in your shoes and there’s now a stain on your character that meant so much to your queer Jewish fanbase
Take that emoji out of your name when you’re so eager to overlook someone being a zionist and playing a key role in the US aiding in genocide for the sake of… whatever you want to call this. Politicians are not your friends.
hmm so basically
trump: homophobic, racist, misogynistic, good for the economy tho
kamala: woman, poc, has fought for lgbt+ rights, has helped put away child sexual assaulters, has fought for freedom against gun violence, has expanded postpartum care through medicaid, etc.
Glad Jason Bearimy Todd was so well-received, for anyone asking I got him from BearMix on Etsy, but it would appear that they’ve closed down since I bought the few that I have. You can still see their expansive catalogue on their Instagram, @/bearmixshop !
We’re comparing proud Jew Jacob Kurtzberg being drafted during WWII and suffering frostbite so bad that they initially wanted to amputate both of his legs to Tom King willingly taking a break from comics to plan the invasion of Iraq and then quitting to write his debut novel…?
Also it’s better that people who served in the military write comics who are Anti-war than people who write comics who didn’t serve in the military that are pro-war. Take for example Jack Kirby VS John Bryne, and Tom King VS Mark Millar.
While we’re discussing the Marvel boycott (which does include comics), I’m seeing people dive into DC instead but I don’t think that’s advisable. It may not be on the list, but the upcoming Superman film alone has zionists in the cast.
You might as well stop reading comics as a whole because Jews built the industry from the ground up and your favorite characters and stories in the medium have like an 80% chance of being the pride and joy of a Jewish creative
Not-so-fun fact! Other survivors and I spoke about how much Kate’s story meant to us during a support group and recommended it to others there, who were excited to see her in the MCU.
Only for it to be deemed that our stories have to be changed for palatability.
“watch Moon Knight instead!” that’s still an MCU project, Oscar produced and starred in a film about an Israeli secret agent, and he starred in a miniseries directed by an Israeli director with an Israeli plotline.
Watch any of May Calamawy’s multitude of other projects instead.
dear billy kaplan, i am so sorry that i was not the casting director. if i was the casting director, you would have been jewish. given an actor who stands a chance at pronouncing yiddish and hebrew terms without a dialect coach.
Thinking about someone at a protest I went to who said things weren’t getting done as quickly as they should be despite the growing numbers in support of Palestine because there’s a chunk of supporters who operate not out of their love for Palestinians but their hatred for Jews.
Pretty sure this was just a very firm example of ableist parents blaming external forces for their child’s disability and Alys being the easiest target.
Quote from Larys Strong to Aegon
"I came screaming into the world in the bowels of one of Harren’s great towers. My lungs were strong but my foot so twisted that my father named it sorcery. Accusing a member of our household of casting maligned spells."
Alys made Larys.
My favorite thing about tweets like these is the implication that DC or Marvel would ever let their beloved properties truly enter public domain and wouldn’t immediately seek legal action against anyone who tried to use those characters without explicit permission
Superman is an inherently right-wing character and he would fight for truth, justice, and the American way against commie scum any day if he was written by any real writers who understood patriotism. But it's okay, he'll be public domain soon and I'll show you how it's done.
comictwt is so interesting because there are several moments where you’ll discover dozens of your otherwise very vocal mutuals (former after this, of course) who are against bigotry will follow accounts that openly hate Romani because they don’t view antiziganism as a dealbreaker
Most insane take I’ve seen during this mess has been the claim that they didn’t cast a Jewish actor to play Billy because it “would’ve sent the wrong idea” because Judaism =/= zionism aside, they’re releasing the trailer of the film with Sabra as a central character TODAY?
I’m going to choose to ignore that you’re equating Judaism and zionism for a second: you do not care about Palestinians if you only bring it up to dunk on others during online “discourse” and you need to work on your language surrounding it.
“genocidal enabler” are you twelve.
Gold star lesbianism being a disease aside, the idea that a character’s past relationships with very bluntly depicted predatory men should at all be classified as love and a genuine interest in men is ridiculous.
Someone, completely ignoring that Billy’s actor doesn’t know how to put on a kippah: He can gasp as effeminately and as gayly as he wants and wave his painted nails around in a tribute to those who came before us because someone shared a panel where he did a Sailor Moon reference
Gonna ask the people this: what takes do you have that you think are OBJECTIVELY right? Things that you would stand by, not just as your opinion, but as provable fact?
The reason why Rogue fans can’t meet in person is because there’d be over a dozen people with dyed bangs standing in the same area and normal people would think we were a cult
I can’t believe we’ve only had two Jewish actors playing Jewish characters in comic book adaptations and one is a zionist playing the monstrosity that is Sabra like the bar is on the floor and OH MY GOD ITS ANDREW GARFIELD WITH A STEEL CHAIR
How do you guys think the British person who made the Hillary Clinton fanzine back in 2016 because they very openly found her attractive is doing right now
People who aren’t Jewish shouldn’t be playing Jewish characters because it isn’t a matter of acting. You literally cannot “act” Jewish because it’s an ethnicity AND a religion, both of which Billy are. Do you not see the inherent problem here.
@RandomBookBoi
Yes, it is one of the reasons, but despite this, the hatred and humiliation is simply beyond my understanding.
Joe is an actor.
The meaning of the word actor=An actor is an artist who dramatically performs another character.
Being a TLOK fan when you’re a normal person is hard because ever since 2014 you’ve constantly been at risk of encountering someone who thinks Kuvira doesn’t qualify as a fascist because they think she’s hot
They should’ve been more polite, but please email your local bookstore instead. Or ask to speak with a manager immediately. I’m a bookseller and it puts us in a beyond awkward position when we aren’t even the ones who decide if we can carry your book.
I just went into a bookstore, bought a book, then asked “hey I’m a local author, would you be interested in carrying my book?” and the way she brushed me off SO QUICK, asked no questions, wouldn’t even make eye contact with me 😭😭
I hate it here because a Game of Thrones fan will be like “look how adorable these two are, they’re so in love” and then you’ll look the characters up and it’s the most convoluted court case you’ve ever witnessed
Maybe it’s because a lot of us weren’t old enough to vote at the time but that just makes it more important. People resolved not to vote in 2016 and look where that got us.
If you don’t want to vote for yourself, vote for the people who can’t.
No because I really could make an entire extended document about the military propaganda in American comics but I don’t have the heart nor the time to do so currently. I don’t think people realize just how deep it goes.
Designs of female characters in comics in the 80s and 90s will make you fall to your knees and scream at the heavens because they’re never going to look that good ever again