31 Days Of What The Fuck Month Is This Again?

It’s finally the last day of May, which I’m perfectly happy about.

Seriously, I spent the entire month failing to write the correct date and I dunno, it was just a weird month.



I have hopes for June, though.

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I read this month’s Avengers + X-men because Jessica Drew, and it answered something I’ve been wondering, which was how Jessica’s pheromones affected (presumably heterosexual) women? Answer: by making other women dislike her. (I would strongly argue that there is also a psychological element at work with that, e.g. as in women who consciously or unconsciously believe that other women are competition react particularly badly to Jess because we’ve seen her have positive relationships with Kitty Pryde, Natasha Romanoff, CAROL DANVERS and sort-of Bobbi Morse.)

But Jess! My baby! Why is everything so hard for you?

Learning that makes me SO glad for the epic friendship between Jess and Carol, which is just so epically supportive and awesome. AND it makes me ship Carol/Jess even harder, because Jess COULDN’T make Carol want her, which is always a plus when you have a character who can manipulate emotions like that. There is always the question of whether or not the other person in the relationship was manipulated into being in it.

Basically Carol +/ Jess = AWESOMENESS.

I Am A Blank Paper On Which You & Your Magic Wrote A Girl

I had to check out Deathless about six times from the library, but I finally finished it.

It’s amazingly well-written… but that’s about all I can say. The best parts have already been excerpted and passed around the internet. Deathless is all about the language; I couldn’t really connect with the characters.

Also, another example of a book (partially) set during the Seige of Leningrad where I love the language and am interested in the place but I can’t connect to the characters.