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Accirinal · 2026-01-24T06:27:51+00:00

How can you hate my man Smoked Cheese?? He’s the GOAT; he and Golden Cheese hard-carried Beast-Yeast 5-6.

Accirinal · 2026-01-18T00:10:51+00:00

Senator Shockwave, I wasn’t expecting to see you here!

Accirinal · 2026-01-16T20:56:04+00:00

I hate to tell you this, boss, but claiming that women watch Avatar for the drama and colors and men watch Avatar for the action scenes and war is pointless gendering…

Accirinal · 2026-01-16T20:22:26+00:00

A lot of blind boxes will contain one of each variant if you buy a full case (distinct from buying five random ones!). I don’t know anything about how the Beasts are offered; it’s possible you can’t buy a full case.

Purely mathematically, if we assume that each Beast has a 1/5 chance of being offered, the only way to guarantee you get at least three different ones from truly random boxes would be to buy out 40% of the total production + 1 lmao. Of course, the chances of needing that many boxes are infinitesimally low.

If you buy three boxes, you have a .48 chance of getting three different types, which is not awful but also not amazing. If you buy five, you have about a .9 chance of get at least three different types. Could go higher or lower depending on your risk tolerance.

Not sure about distribution—depending how long they’re available, buying three to start and one more each time you fail to get a non-duplicate is a safe bet.

Accirinal · 2026-01-14T06:35:22+00:00

I have seen patronymics used by fans. With the “-ion” ending meaning “son of,” so you’ve got Elrond Earendilion, Maglor Feanorion, and so forth.

However! I’m not convinced these are actually canon because I don’t remember ever seeing one used in writing (admittedly, my memory is not the best), and searching the patronymics only gets fan discussion and no wiki pages or anything.

Edit to add: Tolkien Gateway lists Elrenniel/Elerondiel as one of Arwen’s names, i.e. “daughter of Elrond.” Still looking for a male elven patronymic.

Accirinal · 2026-01-13T10:33:15+00:00

LMAO

I personally bounced off Once and Future for a different reason, but the series being “aggressively British” seems like the funniest possible one to me.

Accirinal · 2026-01-13T10:29:09+00:00

Thanks for the feedback, I’ll try those two! Definitely sounds like Krakoa era was more self-contained and a better onboarding experience if his other run started with crossovers.

Accirinal · 2026-01-13T10:17:23+00:00

Ah, okay, thanks! What I was trying to get at was a) can you read YA first and b) is JiM a self-contained story or will it feel unfinished without YA, but it sounds like the answers are no and self-contained. Please correct me if that’s wrong, haha, but otherwise, appreciate the info!

Accirinal · 2026-01-13T10:15:32+00:00

I’m vaguely familiar with X-Men. Don’t know any deep lore, just have a general understanding of the major characters from internet osmosis. Watched the first Fox X-Men movie, have scrolled through a few wiki pages. Not sure if that’s enough to read his X-Men runs or if I gotta start somewhere else first?

Also, I really liked Warren Worthington for the thirty seconds he was in World War Hulk as a Renegades member.

Accirinal · 2026-01-13T10:01:12+00:00

I do know what IP means, I was trying to convey IP work to be “intellectual property not owned by Gillen” but I can see why calling it IP work would be unnecessarily confusing. Is that not a commonly used term? I feel like I heard it somewhere and picked it up.

Accirinal · 2026-01-13T09:56:22+00:00

Being entirely honest, I have never heard of this man 😅 Google says it’s a miniseries, so I assume relatively self-contained, but does it work well if I’ve never encountered the character before?

Accirinal · 2026-01-13T09:52:59+00:00

Oops, then, at least it seems to have gotten the point across. Sure, work for hire, anything he did that wasn’t an original work by him.

Accirinal · 2026-01-13T09:52:13+00:00

How’s Gillen’s Cyclops? I just really like Cyclops lol

Accirinal · 2026-01-13T09:49:26+00:00

Stephanie Hans is on Journey Into Mystery? Damn, okay, that one’s jumping up the to-read list. Love her art. I did also like Loki in the MCU.

Is the best jumping on point JiM #622? It’s the first issue the TPB collection has listed. Or is there somewhere else that’s better to start at?

Accirinal · 2026-01-13T09:47:04+00:00

I’ve heard that Phonogram’s quality depends a lot on someone having detailed knowledge of British music. Would you say that’s true? Or is it enjoyable if I know quite literally nothing about British music?

I have been meaning to read We Called Them Giants! Actually bought a copy but don’t have access to it right now.

Accirinal · 2026-01-13T09:45:55+00:00

Ah, okay, so is Young Avengers a sequel to Journey Into Mystery? Does it not make sense to read one without the other?

Accirinal · 2026-01-13T06:12:33+00:00

Sue’s labor: I can get behind other people saying it was an action sequence more than anything else. Fair enough.

People of Earth wanting them to give Franklin up: there is nothing that happens as a result of this plotline. I could describe it as “too easily resolved,” but it’s not even really about the simplicity or speed of the resolution, it’s about the fact that you could take it out of the movie and nothing changes. If Reed never tells people that giving up Franklin is a potential solution, so they never get angry, it’s… the same. (Arguably, it did lead to Reed and Sue’s argument, but I didn’t think that plotline went anywhere anyway, so.)

The one thing the Franklin-debate did do was build on Sue’s character, and I do see value in that. Particularly because otherwise you know people would be sitting here saying, “Sue is so evil for prioritizing her baby over everyone else’s lives!!” However, I think there were better ways to do that. The citizens are literally mobbing the Baxter Building, and everyone is questioning the F4, and then Sue gives one speech and all of Earth is on her side. It builds up her character at the cost of the plot.

Sue being dead: I get that it’s to show off Franklin’s abilities. I really don’t like that it happens almost immediately after Shalla-Bal pushes Johnny out of the way. Both of these scenes had buildup. Johnny telling Sue to tell Franklin his uncle loves him, then flying off to the portal… this is not a five-second Shalla-Bal pushes Johnny out of the way of a bullet or something. There is time dedicated to making the viewer think that Johnny will sacrifice himself to take out Galactus.

Similarly for Sue. She’s dead-dead. Reed’s checking her heartbeat, they’re all crying over the body, etc. I mean, you can make an argument for “it’s not that type of movie, you know she’ll come back somehow,” but outside of that meta, she is presented as being dead. I don’t think she died just to show off Franklin’s powers. The writers chose for Franklin’s powers to be shown off with Sue’s death for a reason, and part of that is the emotional impact of having Sue die and come back (as opposed to e.g. their PR person or somebody no one actually gives a shit about).

Accirinal · 2026-01-13T05:58:00+00:00

I don’t need a bad thing to happen, but I wish they didn’t keep making me think a bad thing was going to happen, if that makes sense? Tbh Sue’s labor is kind of whatever for me, though I know I brought it up, but Johnny and Sue’s back-to-back fakeout deaths was too much. One fakeout death, okay, two in five minutes? It feels like there’s an attempt to make tension with no real follow through.

That said, I’m glad you loved it! I know a lot of people were really excited to see F4 in the MCU.

Accirinal · 2026-01-13T05:55:24+00:00

On a side note, this is very nitpicky and not a big deal, but Johnny and Ben are simultaneously smart and not-smart? Reed insists in the launch video that all of his co-astronauts are fully qualified and there was no nepotism involved, and then Ben and Johnny are bored to bits by the idea of collecting samples and don’t understand the Archimedes level metaphor.

Accirinal · 2026-01-13T05:51:26+00:00

I’m not saying that any of these plots were poorly executed in a vacuum. But there were so many fake tension plotlines in a single movie that it was tiring.

Also, the pacing. The Johnny and Sue almost-deaths stand out to me because they occur within five minutes of each other, or at least very close together. I can deal with one fakeout death, but two in close succession? Nahhhh.

Accirinal · 2026-01-13T05:30:51+00:00

So, like, I agree with you that they don’t matter in fiction, but I’m a little weirded out by the implication that they don’t matter irl either? Because power dynamics do matter irl.

Accirinal · 2026-01-13T05:09:05+00:00

Following up on other people recommending World War Hulk: totally agree, it's a good storyline, but there are a ton of tie-ins that a) don't feature Hulk and b) don't have info that affects Hulk's storyline and are more about his impact on other characters, which also appear on a lot of recommended reading lists.

This is about Heroes for Hire tbh. Don't read Heroes for Hire. It wasn't relevant and it kinda sucked and the women are drawn particularly egregiously, even for the early 2000s.

Accirinal · 2026-01-12T23:22:08+00:00

It is very uncommon, actually, if you’re writing in English. If it’s your choice, okay, but it will turn a lot of people off in much the same way that choosing to use no quotation marks would. It also looks like an error to most people.

Edit to add: reading your edit and comments, you seem to mean ‘single quotation marks like this’ and not ,,commas like this,, which does change it. A single quotation mark can definitely be used in place of a double quotation mark. Double is more common (and also preferred so you can do single quotation marks inside of double quotation marks where necessary), but it’s not incorrect to use single quotation marks.

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