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Superpowers

In the distant past, when humanity was first evolving, an advanced race of aliens visited Earth and studied humanity. This race discovered something fascinating within a fraction of humanity’s genetic code: The Metagene. The Metagene allowed humanity, when under great stress, to develop superhuman abilities to survive. It was rare, but those with it could do great things. The aliens took some of them, and launched a breeding program to refine this gene. Over successive generations, the Inhumans were created, whose Metagene could be consistently triggered with the Terrigen mists, and only the Terrigen Mists.

As Human civilization progress, the Metagene experienced a mutation. This mutation lowered the threshold of trauma needed for the Metagene to trigger until the point that mundane puberty was sufficient to activate it. This mutated gene was dubbed the X-Gene. The mutants who possessed the X-Gene suffered under severe discrimination for many years, but as time passed, they grew to be the majority of the population. Over the years, there have been many names for these powers and their users. Mutants, Evos. Nexts, etc. By the era of All Might, the popular vernacular was “Quirk”.

Some attempted to manually trigger the Metagene. During World War II, a scientist by name of Abraham Erskine developed a serum that, alongside a specific radiological treatment, could transform even a sickly man into a man at the peak of human ability, in all fields the best a human could be without being outright Superhuman. Notably, the process performed by Project Rebirth worked on people who lacked a Metagene. This Project Rebirth produced Captain America, but shortly after his creation, Erskine was assassinated by a nazi scientist, and his notes were stolen. However, while his notes contained the formula for the Super Soldier Serum, it did not contain anything about the radiological treatment, and thus it was impossible to replicate Captain America. They didn’t stop trying however. With their continued research, they uncovered the Metagene, and switched focus from replicating the Super Soldier serum, to improving it. Making a serum capable of triggering the Metagene. They did not succeed at this during the war, however after it ended, the scientists in charge of the project were given pardons as part of project paper clip. This allowed Compound V to be developed, a substance that could grant Superpowers. The catch was that it had to be administered during Childhood, as adults would be driven mad by it.

Additionally, a number of humans were secretly given something called a Corona Pollentia by a predatory interstellar entity, which connects them to continent sized shards. Whose with Corona Pollentia are capable of undergoing trigger events, and developing Superpowers. These trigger events are often Traumatic, and afterwards the Shards subtly poke their bears into conflict, in order to gather data for the Entities. Those with activated Corona Pollentia are known as Parahumans. And due to human ignorance of their origin, they severely complicate research into superpowers. And most in the Public aren’t really aware of the difference between Metahumans and Parahumans

I gonna call Kaine Parker “Skittles” for from now on.

The Ukrainian letter of solidarity with Palestine, in part, reads:

“We, Ukrainian researchers, artists, political and labour activists, and members of civil society stand in solidarity with the people of Palestine who for 75 years have been subjected to and resisted Israeli military occupation, separation, settler colonial violence, ethnic cleansing, land dispossession and apartheid. We write this letter as people to people.

Our solidarity comes from a place of anger at the injustice, and a place of deep pain of knowing the devastating impacts of occupation, shelling of civil infrastructure, and humanitarian blockade from experiences in our homeland. Parts of Ukraine have been occupied since 2014, and the international community failed to stop Russian aggression then, ignoring the imperial and colonial nature of the armed violence, which consequently escalated on February 24, 2022.

Aware of the pragmatic geopolitical reasoning behind Ukraine's decision to echo Western allies, on whom we are dependent for our survival, we see the current support of Israel and dismissing Palestinian right to self-determination as contradictory to Ukraine's own commitment to human rights and fight for our land and freedom. We as Ukrainians should stand in solidarity not with the oppressors, but with those who experience and resist the oppression.

We strongly object to equating of Western military aid to Ukraine and Israel by some politicians. Ukraine doesn't occupy the territories of other people; instead, it fights against the Russian occupation, and therefore international assistance serves a just cause and the protection of international law. Israel has occupied and annexed Palestinian and Syrian territories, and Western aid to it confirms an unjust order and demonstrates double standards in relation to international law.”

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I didn't like Falcon and The Winter Soldier myself. For a number of reasons. This article explains some of them: www*forbes*com/sites/erikkain/2021/04/27/the-falcon-and-the-winter-soldier-review-biggest-problems-preachy-politics-captain-america/

Thank you for sending me THIS article. The author neatly summarizes most of problems. Most, because I would also add the fact that TFATWS retcons some stuff from previous MCU movies, the timelines of some stuff just don't make sense and Sam and Bucky are sometimes OOC. And I hope that Sharon is a skrull, because otherwise her character doesn't make sense.

The biggest problem with MCU now is that they have a world that had a giganctic global crisis after 50% of the population wanished. Probably famines in some regions, wars in others, maybe even a few countries stopped existing at all. And five years later, when things started normalising, the population of the whole wolrd doubles in one day. There is no food for these people, no jobs and no place to live. Probably new wars because of it. Generally a very interesting settings for a story, but instead this show ignores all of this and hammers to the audience a message that.... racism is bad. And we should "do better". What exactly that means we will not know because the answer is too complicated, and Disney just wants simple stories with familiar faces. They sell better.

I've been seeing a lot of posts insulting the people who are critical of of how TFATWS dealt with Bucky's trauma, claiming that we "want him to suffer". In reality the only reason the MCU wants us to believe he's healed (despite not doing the work) is that they can't be bothered to properly deal with it and just want to 'move on'.

Watching ep1 of TFATWS (because I'm a masochist) and I swear when Raynor and Bucky are discussing the amends and she says "So, you did it all right, but it didn’t help with the nightmares" I can't help but facepalm myself so hard.

Of course it doesn't help with the nightmares you doofus, it's making them worse.

First you tell Bucky he has to make amends, basically telling him he's responsible for the WS murders and aggravating his guilt. Then you make him go after corrupt people who have achieved some form of power thanks to Hydra and you make him approach them, face them, tell them his name and if that wasn't bad enough he has to reassure them that he's no longer the Winter Soldier and "they're part of his efforts to make amends".

I'm going to say this again: you're making him tell these people who benefited from Hydra and abused the power Hydra gave them that he's no longer the WS and he's just trying to be good this time.

Basically he's reliving his trauma, he's reassured everything he did was his fault, you're not addressing his mental state at all and you just want him to follow 3 stupid steps so he can prove to be the little obedient soldier you want him to be. And fuck his mental health, I guess.

I'm sure many people have talked about this already but I needed to vent. I swear that line gets on my damn nerves.

a helpful slideshow created by my friend @the-celestial-bitch and her sister who can no longer access her blog from her country and has asked me to post in her stead instead

this is what she said:

this is a direct response to all the people whose reaction to what’s happening in iran is a calling them islamophobic and blocking them, furthering the oppression they’re experiencing by the government’s hands. please read this, and repost it on Twitter or Instagram and stop the misinformation from spreading