I watched it! The whole thing! It was very stressful. Boys, driving tests, making college decisions, BLECH! And if that wasn’t enough, disappointing your parents the WORST THING EVER. But yes, a great show, an easy watch, and lots of fun easter eggs for Hindi film fans.
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Thinky Post: Why So Many ABCD Teenage Female Stories in American Popular Culture All of a Sudden?
Another thinky post! I’m spoiling y’all! Someday I may actually review a movie again and it will be too much joy to handle.
Continue readingDCIB Book Club: Ms Marvel Vol. 3 “Crushed”, Chapter 4, Sexual Assault, Self-Blame, The Gift of Fear
Oh boy, another great chapter to talk about! Where we start getting into the really fun sexual assault metaphor which manages to give the emotional lesson, without being scary and explicit.
Continue readingDCIB Book Club: Ms Marvel Vol. 3 “Crushed”, Chapter 3
Oh, this is SUCH a good chapter! It has a reasonable explanation for why immigrant parents want their children to marry within their culture, it has a subtle chauvinism contrasted with apparent chauvinism, and it has a teenage girl being so stupid you want to reach through the pages and shake her, but also you understand.
Continue readingDCIB Book Club: Ms Marvel Vol 3 “Crushed”, Chapter 2!
I had a stressful terrible wonderful weekend (moving is HARD y’all! Even when you are moving to your dream place), so I forgot to put up this post on Sunday. And no one noticed, which makes me think it is still just me and Emily and Emily is too nice to complain.
Continue readingDCIB Book Club: This Sunday 7/4, Ms Marvel Vol 3 “Crushed” Chapter 2/Chapter 13, AMITABH BACHCHAN!!!
Yes, an Amitabh Bachchan reference in an American Marvel comic!!!! How can you not want to read this?
Continue readingDCIB Book Club: First Chapter of Ms Marvel Vol. 3 “Crushed”!
Woot! Comic books!!!! I am on SUCH a comic book kick right now. They are the perfect thing to read when life is crazy and you can’t focus. And Ms Marvel is, like, THE BEST.
Continue readingDCIB Book Club Returns! With My Favorite Volume of Ms Marvel
I considered doing a straight through read through, but that’s a lot to as of folks both in time and money. So instead, JUST MY FAVORITE VOLUME. Volume 3, “Crushed”, ASIN B00WUNKR4O, Amazon link below. It is also probably available to you through the “Hoopla” library app.
Continue readingQuestion: Is Anyone Interested in Doing a Ms Marvel ReadAlong With Me?
I just plowed through the first 10 volumes of collected Ms Marvel strips, covering 2014-2019, in like two days. They are sooooooooooooo good, and there is so much to discuss. I’m trying to figure out how to best discuss them here, and I think some form a readalong would be the way to do it, but only if there is interest.
Continue readingSaturday Small Talk: Chat Away While I Do Lake Things!!!!
Happy Saturday! I am trying to fill it with a million lake activities to keep me going after I return to the hot boring city. oh, and also, SHAHRUKH TWEET ALERT!!!!
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