unassuming audience plant

I saw a post in the My Adventures with Superman tag claiming that Lois "finally" has a character. I really like the show and it's version of Lois too, but I want to make this clear: Lois Lane has been around for over 80 years and she's always been a distinct, dynamic character with a lot going for her, every bit as admirable as Superman. This isn't a new thing!

Like any character Lois has had some bad adaptations, but she's been a great character from the beginning, and I wanted to show off some panels from comics over the years so anyone new to Superman lore can see why she's a beloved character and the MAWS portrayal is building on that, not starting from scratch.

Lois in the golden age comics (1939 through the 1940's) was shown to be a career-driven woman who didn't take shit from anyone. This was an era where a lot of women were entering the workforce because men were serving in WWII and there was excitement and change in the air, and Lois was meant to be a reflection of that. She fought against the sexism of her boss sticking her with the advice and gossip columns because she was a woman, and she was go-getting reporter out to get a real story. From the beginning she was fearless (sometimes reckless), driven, and had no patience for Clark Kent's (feigned) cowardice (and was always full of sick burns). She never let anyone push her around.

And she's been pretty consistently like this her entire run as a character. Of course, there were some bad writers, and there was a time in the 50s when all female characters had to be marriage obsessed (Lois wasn't the only one hit with this, Wonder Woman was too), but she reverted back to her firebrand self in the 60's and 70's, and when the 80's came along, characters started getting more filled in backstories, including her- this was where we started seeing stuff about her home life, her childhood moving around as a military brat, and her troubled relationship with her father and sister. She had an interior life, inner conflict- and she still kicked ass and always got the last word in. As someone invested in journalism, she is THE coolest fictional journalist to me.

This was also when comics started focusing on Clark being who Superman WAS rather than a pure act, and we got to see their relationship really grow and Lois fall for Clark, not Superman. So here, have some panels of Lois being great and see the scope of her own personality.

Lois also has lots fun little quirks and hobbies comics readers know about- she takes her coffee a certain way, she doesn't cook much because she's so on the go (so Clark is the one who cooks in the fam), she likes to sit on Clark's desk when they're talking (this happens in other Superman media too), she REALLY likes monster trucks and Clark REALLY doesn't but will support her anyway:

Also, she's always seen through to who Clark really is:

Anyway. Have more of my favorite Lois panels because I have a lot:

Oh LOVE this

There going to be a lot of underground areas. In one of them I managed to find a new Pikmin call "Ice Pikmin". When Ice Pikmin attack they can freeze the monster or objects. Also I managed to find our crew member.

Me: :D

My Girlfriend: babe no ice puns

Me: booooooo

That's rather "cold" of her to deny you a set up for puns

She will change her mind when she hears how cool my puns are :D

I am begging you... chill.

Lois’s weirdness strategy: “I’m going to be the best at what I do. Little by little, my weirdness is going to slip through. It’s inevitable that everyone is going to find out that I’m a giant freak but if I play my cards right, by that time they’ll all be too impressed by my sick skills to care.

Jimmy’s weirdness strategy: “I’m going to live my life at a constant 10 on the weirdness scale and all of you are just going to have deal with that.”

Clark’s weirdness strategy: “please don’t notice, please don’t notice, please don’t notice. NOBODY LOOK AT ME!”

I just saw someone say the words "jokingly gaslight" this might be a good time to reintroduce the internet to the terms "lying" or perhaps "pranking" or even just "joking" on it's own

Okay, say it with me guys…

If you are giving someone wrong information in the hopes that they'll believe that it's true, then that's lying.

If you are giving someone wrong information under the assumption that they'll ultimately realise that it's false, and that they will find this funny, then that's joking.

If you are giving someone wrong information in the hopes that they'll believe that it's true and that their response will be funny, then that's a prank.

If you are giving someone wrong information in the hopes that they will notice the differences between your presentation of reality and their perception of it, and come to doubt their ability to judge what is and is not real, then that's gaslighting.

now dont leave this in the tags

If you are giving someone wrong information and you assume they will know it is wrong, in hopes that they will play along, then that’s a bit.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has called on his state’s Board of Administration to explore legal action against Bud Light’s parent company, Anheuser-Busch (AB InBev), under the guise that a stock devaluation resulting from conservative boycotts against the brand is affecting Florida’s pension fund. 

Earlier this year, conservatives had a full meltdown over a 45-second Instagram video touting a partnership between Bud Light and transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney. Kid Rock purchased cases to shoot in his backyard, country singer Travis Tritt said he’d removed Anheuser-Busch products from his tour’s hospitality rider, conservative influencers accused the beer company of lacing their product with estrogen. The hysteria resulted in widespread boycotts, and Anheuser-Busch’s stock value dropped 20 percent. It is worth knowing that while the company’s stock price is still lagging, the devaluation from the backlash does not even represent a year-to-date low. 

But it seems like DeSantis didn’t stop to consider that his state’s pension fund was invested in Anheuser-Busch when he publicly promoted the boycott. In April, the governor told right-wing influencer Benny Johnson that he would not be drinking Bud Light again, and called the backlash to the brand “righteous” 

On Thursday, DeSantis told Fox News that Anheuser-Busch had violated its “fiduciary duty” to shareholders when it partnered with Mulvaney. The governor said that the state had over $50 million invested in Anheuser-Busch and that the devaluation had hurt teachers and other pensioners. DeSantis hinted that his inquiry into Anheuser-Busch could lead to a “derivative lawsuit” against the company. 

[...]

DeSantis’ track record of combatting what he calls “woke” corporations — he rarely, if ever, defines what exactly that means — is not stellar. The governor has been embodied in a messy and bizarre legal battle with Disney after the company’s CEO expressed his opposition to anti-LGBTQ legislation in the state. The fallout of the dueling lawsuits between Florida and the Magic Kingdom has given DeSantis’ 2024 opponents an inroad to criticize the presidential hopeful as anti-business. 

If his track record with Disney is anything to go off of, facing off with Anheuser-Busch will likely end up another frivolous shitshow that produces more headaches than gains for the governor. But as his poll numbers tank and his campaign struggles to find its footing, maybe what he most wants right now is a little attention. 

Ron DeSantis is an example of what happens when someone who is obectively speaking a worthless nauseating piece of shit isn’t told their worthless often enough

Somehow despite any intellect, ability, worth or value or even the most superficial traits like good looks or charisma (Which he definitely doesn’t have, as anyone who has looked at his slack jawed face or heard his brainless word vomit attempts at human speech can confirm) this god forsaken repulsive example of one of God’s most awful mistakes seems to think that he has the right to tell actual people who deserve to exist what they can or cannot do

So I urge everyone: If you know someone who “Thinks” like Ronald McSantis....impress upon them every day that they are a worthless piece of shit and the world would have been a better place if their mother had the abortion

Prevent them from ever deluding themselves into thinking they should say anything in public other than perhaps an apology for inflicting their existence on the rest of the human race

This guy's an idiot. This is like shooting someone in the chest and then suing them for bleeding all over your nice carpet

So the story behind Jimmy becoming a giant turtle man are even dumber than I thought 

This is every day of Jimmy’s life, for ever O.O

Interesting implication that Jimmy's underpants are alive

I like the implication that everything on "Lower Decks" actually looks totally realistic, it's just that everyone is fucked up on Orion liquor all the time.

G O A L S

Just finished the episode and this was my EXACT takeaway

Super smash bros multiverse character vs KANG the conqueror

kang rolls up on final destination and is immediately SLAUGHTERED by olimar and pichu

Going to the gym and doing reps with the little five pound weights and dropping a 20 pound bar on my toe so I may one day become someone who can bridal carry

I get that

just like me fr

(via @necromancy-enthusiast)

So I take it we can expect Clark to be the cause, whether directly or indirectly, for Slade to lose an eye and Lex to lose his hair in this series, and somehow it will be the latter who holds the permanent grudge

Gd, please no.

Only time will tell

Why do I feel like this show is going to increase the Slade woobification factor by so many degrees… hate this man.

Considering they made him a pretty white haired anime boy, I think you are right to anticipate woobification. I think they’ll be doing it for almost all the villains, from what we’ve seen of these four episodes. I mean did you see Livewire?

They didn’t need to bring him into it, though… he’s not even a Superman villain…

Yeah I think most of Slade’s actual nemeses haven’t been born yet at this point in the timeline

Let alone most of his future girlfriends.

If I really wanted to cause some chaos and play with your feelings, I’d write a DC AU where I composited Lois Lane and Bruce Wayne 

...hang on I can work with this

So I take it we can expect Clark to be the cause, whether directly or indirectly, for Slade to lose an eye and Lex to lose his hair in this series, and somehow it will be the latter who holds the permanent grudge

it all happens in the same day, in the same incident

#involving Clark getting attacked in the bathroom and losing control of his kryptonian razor#deeply tragic event. doomed three people in Clark's life

He got startled the first time he ever tried the laser vision mirror shave trick

that's infinitely funnier than the vision I had of Clark trying to catch his electric razor while it bounces around the room, progressively shaving more and more of lex's head before embedding itself in slade's eye