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@mycroftrh / mycroftrh.tumblr.com

Mycroft Tumblruser is a queer+genderqueer trans man, who has been an active participant on the microblogging site “Tumblr” since 2011/2012. His age is best described as "grown-ass man". Ze has over 40 blogs, but MycroftRH is the center of zir social media and blogging presence. It primarily features superheroes and Star Wars, but also covers a wide variety of other media and non-fictional topics ranging from Terry Pratchett and Diana Wynne Jones to #academiaproblems. For the record, Mycroft is his actual name predating BBC Sherlock by a solid decade, and ze is tired of getting "of course this take comes from someone with a sherlock url" comments, though they are very funny.
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mycroftrh

It is so wild to me that there was a whole entire X-Men movie completely focused around a lesbian relationship, both as the focus of the plot and as the emotional core, a lesbian relationship between two lesbian superheroes who lesbian kiss and lesbian shower together, on-lesbian-screen

And somehow that seems to gone over absolutely everyone’s radar.

Disney gets all the headlines every time they have another First Gay Character but there was a WHOLEASS XMEN MOVIE that was wholeass about mutant lesbians who mutant lesbian kiss on mutant lesbian screen

That the director and writers and actors fought for years to finally get released, eventually putting all of their careers on the line to basically blackmail the Mouse by joining together to go on the public record saying “the reason they’re refusing to release our movie even though it was finished years ago is that when Disney took control from Fox they decided a movie focused around a lesbian relationship was “too adult”; so. if they decide to not release it ever - now you know why”

And somehow no one seems to have noticed?????

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mycroftrh

I am pinning this post because I have decided it is my absolute top priority, on this decade old blog with many tens of thousands of posts, to spread New Mutants supremacy

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gffa

So, uh. Kon settling into the newly rebooted universe, no one knows who he is, he didn't exist in this universe, this version of Clark has no idea who the hell he is, but they know he came from another universe, and they're trying to help him--and then they go to the Kent farm and Ma and Pa recognize him, they don't know how, but oh that's Conner and you know what? Yeah, I'm not ashamed to admit that sometimes comics make me cry real tears because, this boy who everyone forgot, who had to fight so hard to find any scrap of himself and where he wanted to belong in this family, had lost all of it--except he hadn't. They remembered him. Ma looked at him and touched his face and said, "Conner!" It's not raining on my face, I am absolutely crying real tears because for once the universe was kind to Kon-El.

Boy heroically puts horse conditioner in princess’s hair without a moment’s hesitation

I’ve never seen so much discourse about horse-and-people hair products but please know that your comments have absolutely made my day

Cyclops gets such a rough deal man. imagine having brain damage that caused you to uncontrollably shoot laser blasts out of your eyeballs destroying everything in sight that you had to worry about literally 24/7 and also you had to supervise teenagers throwing cars at each other because your father figure and his ex are taking leftist infighting to the streets and also on top of that whenever you show any amount of concern over this situation people are like "jeez what a buzzkill. loosen up control freak. why can't you be all chill and cool like wolverine" meanwhile wolverine is having his amygdala forcibly removed by the us military for the third time this month

Let's not forget you're in some sort of polyamorous relationship with Wolverine and your wife, your son is older than you are, and you have so many alternate reality children that most days you can't remember how many there are.

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sarkywoman

And your son’s dating Deadpool.

And your son's dating Deadpool.

I couldn’t figure out what any of this had to do with Polyphemus until I got to “Wolverine” and my entire worldview shifted

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mycroftrh

Absolutely superb Beaste spotted on Etruscan food jar

The Etruscan Gobbler

The Big Bad Wolf

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lucypl

Seems this was a common way to draw lions in Etruria.

Behold The Tomb of the Roaring Lions!

Tomb of the Roaring Lions and vase of Narce-painter, both painted by the same person, the Narce-painter who worked ar Veii, southern Etruria.

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mycroftrh

For the record, this is not the vase known to be painted by the Narce-painter. It’s a random piece in a university’s on-campus art museum that’s labeled only as “Etruscan food jar”. It does, however, look amazingly similar to the work of the Narce-painter, to the point that I’m considering contacting the museum and going “hey did you know?”

(At last check current belief was that the Narce-painter had not actually done the frescoes in the Tomb of the Roaring Lions, but just inspired the artist who did, but that’s I believe somewhat debated.)

Oliver: I knew you two couldn’t stay mad at each other.

Dick: Oh yeah. We’re closer than ever.

*Dick and Roy hold up their hands and they are both handcuffed together*

Bruce: You wanna tell me how this happened?

Roy: Well, Wally thought-

Bruce: Oh man, I wish that boy would stop doing that.