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Stefbug ([personal profile] stefbug) wrote2007-08-15 02:23 pm

w000000000000t!!

We found it.

We found my notebook.

I could scream with joy. Several months worth of character notes, and they were hidden under several issues of Cable & Deadpool.

Thank whoever is listening that I found them.
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[personal profile] midnightvoyager 2007-08-23 08:01 pm (UTC)(link)
See, that would be a well-written Cyc. I always saw him as having a sense of humor so dry that it still surprises people every time he makes a joke. I could get to like that.

[identity profile] stefflebug.livejournal.com 2007-08-23 08:03 pm (UTC)(link)
I think that's a little bit like they're trying to write him in Astonishing, although they only succeeded in one issue.

I tend to go for that sort of Cyke if I'm writing fanfic with him in it, now that I'm out of my loathing him phase, although I've not got any with him that way completed yet.
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[personal profile] midnightvoyager 2007-08-23 08:07 pm (UTC)(link)
I loathed him until I realized it was just the crap characterization I was seeing at that time. Heh.

[identity profile] stefflebug.livejournal.com 2007-08-23 08:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Ditto. I used to hate the fact that he was such a stuck-up boyscout who would blindly follow Chuck's dream no matter what. Then, like you, I realised that most of that was crap characterisation and he could be such a good character if he was given the room to grow a little.

Saying that, in the upcoming Messiah CompleX crossover they're saying that he's going to get the chance to be the leader he was always meant to be, so maybe we'll see him written a little better there.

And he managed the dry joking thing in X-Men #202, even if it was just to Emma.
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[personal profile] midnightvoyager 2007-08-23 08:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, that'd be my problem there. Emma is like a rotten fruit. Put her in with anything else and it starts to rot as well. She seems to exist just to be overly bitchy, act like she's sooo awesome, and be liek sooo beautiful and near naked. Cyc, dear, you can do so much better than that...

*headdesk. kathud*

They like finding new ways to use that X, huh? I've literally been spending my time as far away from the X-books as possible since this mess, so I have no idea of anything that happened. I think when she started -running the school- was the last coffin nail there.

But... I still have Deadpool and Spider-man scans frames to cheer me up.

[identity profile] stefflebug.livejournal.com 2007-08-23 08:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Yep, they're finding new and unimaginative ways to use the X every day. It does kinda make one want to headdesk until it all goes away.

One of the funniest things about Emma is that she's supposedly a therapist. How, when all she seems to think about is herself?

I find I only like her when she is dealing with the children that she teaches, since there seems to be a whole different side to her there.

Deadpool is enough to cheer anyone up. If I'm having a bad day I break out the Deadpool. I especially like his rendition of the Shatner voice. Must... Use... Shatner voice... to get... somewhere... else...
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[personal profile] midnightvoyager 2007-08-23 08:22 pm (UTC)(link)
God, Emma as a therapist would screw up so many kids...

When she's with kids she teaches, sometimes, it seems like she's totally a different character. It just doesn't... mesh in right.

And Deadpool is instant cheer. He's like humanoid ice cream!

[identity profile] stefflebug.livejournal.com 2007-08-23 08:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Yup.

And she does sex therapy. She tried with Remy and Rogue. It was... ... ... interesting is the best word I can come up with.

I think the problem is that too many writers are trying to keep her as the bitchy white queen, which is all good except she isn't the white queen anymore, and any growth (the whole kids things) then doesn't fit because it's followed almost immediatly by the bitchyness.

Personally I read it like she's hiding how much she cares for the kids because she doesn't want to be vulnerable at all (fits in with her past). It's the only was I can stand her as a 'hero'.

Deadpool is humanoid chocolate, he even melted like it once :lol:
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[personal profile] midnightvoyager 2007-08-23 08:46 pm (UTC)(link)
...

I think you just killed my brain. Sex... ther... *dies*

[identity profile] stefflebug.livejournal.com 2007-08-23 08:47 pm (UTC)(link)
*giggle*

Ooops... my bad.

Hug?
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[personal profile] midnightvoyager 2007-08-23 08:52 pm (UTC)(link)
...ooo, pretty Gambit. *distracted by the shiny, thus saving her brain*

[identity profile] stefflebug.livejournal.com 2007-08-23 08:57 pm (UTC)(link)
I have a whole website of pretty Gambit, it's what always manages to save my brain. That is when the updates to it aren't breaking my brain.

*stares at shiny bumblebee* I really need to go and see that before they stop showing it.
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[personal profile] midnightvoyager 2007-08-23 08:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Transformers and Stardust both are SO worth seeing.

And Bumblebee is far cuter than a large, killer, sentient robot war-hero has any right to be.

His doors fold back like wings. And they -FLUTTER-!

[identity profile] stefflebug.livejournal.com 2007-08-23 09:06 pm (UTC)(link)
I really want to see Stardust, but it doesn't come out over here until Novemeber/December time. Which is so very annoying.

I'm probably going to go and see Transformers on Saturday if they're still showing it, since Kaz has to work :(

The flutter. How cool is that :)
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[personal profile] midnightvoyager 2007-08-23 09:08 pm (UTC)(link)
He just looks so... so... cuddly!

And Stardust is hilarious. It's even better than the book. Neil Gaiman essentially went "I wish I did ____" and did all of that in the movie.

[identity profile] stefflebug.livejournal.com 2007-08-23 09:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Cuddly?

I guess a huge kiler robot can be considered cuddly by some o_0

I'm waiting with baited breath for Stardust. I've heard nothing but good reviews for it and I've always loved Gaiman's stuff.

Have you seen Mirrormask?
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[personal profile] midnightvoyager 2007-08-23 09:24 pm (UTC)(link)
You... you have to see it to get it. He just is cute and cuddly. It's inexplicable. I've read some of the movie back-story-ish stuff... He led a group that helped hold off Megatron until the Allspark thingie could be shot off the planet. He literally stood face to face with Megatron and others just to hold them back.

...

And he's SO DAMN CUTE! He has an expression with shiny sad puppy eyes that could melt Antarctica.

Ahem. No, I haven't seen Mirrormask before. But Stardust... so worth seeing. I'm gonna try to see it again Saturday.

[identity profile] stefflebug.livejournal.com 2007-08-23 09:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Ok, I'll go see it. It's definitly showing on Saturday, so I'll go and see it then.

He was always my fave in the old cartoon I have to admit. Such a brave little toaster... erm, yeah.

Mirrormask is also worth seeing. It's another Gaiman film, and incrediably surreal.

Stardust was on my list of films to see when I saw the trailer before watching Hairspray. Love that film too.
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[personal profile] midnightvoyager 2007-08-23 11:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Then I have done my duty to spread the "awwwcute". *bows*