I got a ban warning on Facebook just now. A food truck we like is changing menus and I wrote "We will miss the tacos, but family and health come first. Look forward to your new menu!"
Facebook says if I say anything like that again, I will be suspended.
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Gail Simone 
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Award-winning writer of comics and animation, consultant, producer. Works for DC, Marvel, WB, many many more. Repped by Ari Lubet, alubet@3arts.com
Could It Be A Bear?Born July 29Joined August 2008
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It turns out that my cousin who works at Arby’s used to be an expert in constitutional law, then he was a noted scholar in gerrymandering, then he somehow acquired vast knowledge about immunology and virology, and now danged if he doesn’t know everything about federal warrants.
When Bill Murray and Chevy Chase got into a physical fight during Chase’s return to SNL as a guest host, Bill Murray pointed at Chase and yelled, ‘MEDIUM TALENT,’ and I think that might be the most brutal insult in history.
No Wilde quote, no rap diss track compares.
She sure as hell is not. We see in BATGIRL that she (in canon) comes to the assistance of a transgender activist, and I know because I wrote the goddamn story. twitter.com/urfaveradfem/s
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Raise your hand if you support trans rights.
Shout it.
Don't let the awful people think they're winning.
THE WORLD HEARING ABOUT TRUMP: ...huh.
THE WORLD HEARING SOMEONE HIT RICK MORANIS: Godammit, NO! What kind of just god allows this? My fortune for the bounty! Destroy the foul creature who punched the angels’ chosen one! LET NO ONE REST ‘TIL HE IS SAFE!
I was a huge JKR fan and cried a little the day she followed me.
My sister and I would go rent a nice hotel room and read the books each time a new one came out.
Now I wish I’d never had the damn things in my house.
Question of the day:
Have you ever specifically bought something as an adult because you weren’t allowed to have it as a kid, for expense or other reasons? Particularly toys, music, clothes, books, etc.
Me watching Bake-off: You fool! You can’t dip the walnut whirl in the tempered chocolate, you have to drizzle over the top to achieve the characteristic wobble of the coffee ganache, Parisian cafe-style!
Me baking at home: I forgot to put apples in the apple pie
I am not going to be able to speak about this this morning, I can see that.
But under the persona, Stan Lee was a real human being. I met him three times and three times he told me something literally life-changing.
I hope everyone knows, he cared about us. That was no act.
Okay, little experiment. If you identify as female (or non-binary), raise your hand if you have ever been accused of or questioned as being a 'fake nerd girl.'
#Fakenerdgirl
Your avatar is literally a comic character I saved from cancellation.
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ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS FOR GIRLFRIEND MUST KEEP TRIM MUST LOVE ANIME WILL NOT WORK OUTSIDE THE HOME DOESN’T LEAVE THE HOUSE WITHOUT PERMISSION DOESN’T HAVE SKANKY FRIENDS MUST DRESS SEXY AT ALL TIMES NO UNNATURAL HAIR COLORS
Dear, I WROTE Wonder Woman, and I can tell you we've been saying this for years, and it goes all the way back to her origins. Nice try.
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Baby, I've been reading comics since BEFORE you were born. Wonder Woman is not gay. Shoo dear.
Dear Hostile Internet Oddballs,
I do not owe you a moment of my time. If I choose to laugh with friends rather than answer your hot take nonsnense, trust me, I am doing us both a favor.
Have a nice night.
Disney went from Steamboat Willie to Fantasia in twelve years.
The Beatles went from Please Please Me to the White Album in five years.
Art is SUPPOSED to evolve.
Your childhood memory is a good thing. Trying to freeze art to match it is not.
I say again. Marvel has done an amazing job casting their lead actors for film.
But I think Iman Vellani might be their single best casting choice ever.
She stole the new trailer entirely.
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Someone sent me a post about how when I wrote Thor, I made the bad guy misogynist and it was so un-subtle and how it was obvious I hated men because the villain in this story was a guy and was so loathsome.
I have never written Thor.
HOLY SHIT YOU GUYS!
SOME PEOPLE FOUND MEANING AND COMFORT IN A WELL-WRITTEN LINE FROM AN EXCELLENT TV SHOW!
WHAT A BUNCH OF ASSHOLES!
I see people say they have tried D&D expecting a Critical Role-like experience, and I have to say, most games are not going to be quite so posh.
Have some rowdy fun with a group of friends, be bold, be boisterous, you will have a great time. Don't compare yourself to anyone!
Let me tell you a sad truth. If you'd gone to high school with Peter Parker, you'd have quietly hated him.
I like when you say you enjoyed something and a bunch of helpful experts tell you that didn’t.
I am walking around changed now.
My name is Gail Simone.
I am a critter.
I worked with three massive video game franchises in the past couple years where women working on them each individually told me their bosses were shocked and unprepared for the number of women and girls buying their games. Some expressed disbelief rather than delight.
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41% of PlayStation console ownership is now women and girls, that’s huge! #PS5 #PS4
Sometimes I just realize that my favorite villain from my favorite comic series of all time was in a big budget movie that I also loved and I think, holy crap, that one thing still makes me happy to even consider
Thanks,
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This is actually outstanding.
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Okay, my challenge of the day.
I want you to brag about yourself for one tweet. No humblebragging, no apologizing, no including your faults at all.
For some, this is a breeze, some have never done it even once.
Please use hashtag #MyBrag and say something great about you.
Raise your hand if you would like to see me and do a Wonder Woman/Lara Croft crossover story. :)
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I was so excited when JKR started following me.
Now I'm sorry I ever spent a penny buying her books.
Today I woke up and realized that in the last month or so, two A-list film directors reached out to me separately because they want to work with me.
THEN I remembered that I used to cut hair for a living.
What happened.
I DON'T KNOW.
:)
On our trip back home we kept having the same nice thing happen to us several times.
At first we thought, ‘oh how nice!’
Now I am realizing that it probably means something not very nice at all.
A short thread.
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This is one of the most underrated performances in any comic book film, don't argue with me about this. In a great movie, it would have been legendary. This performance alone wipes the floor with most Marvel movie villains.
There are several writing ‘rules’ that are horseshit and I hate them.
Here are a few. Add others if you like!
WRITE WHAT YOU KNOW
The worst. I say, know more. Write things you have to learn. Get help as needed. Bring your experience, yes. But write with bigger horizons.
This is a real thing.
Squeeeeeeee!
I have been DYING TO TELL YOU GUYS.
I think Batman’s codpiece should be adorned with the pearls recovered from the alley floor.
Aw, thank you to for graciously including me in the 'thank you' credits at the end of Suicide Squad. That doesn't always happen!
I am not writing any more comics without LGBTQ and poc characters, period. It's weird we have to even make that declaration.
Counter-argument: no, it doesn’t.
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After six episodes, #WandaVision still feels far too much like an inflated feature film that just keeps dragging out its story via inconvenient weekly installments. Here's why: bit.ly/3aeX2TL
A couple years ago, a very nice young girl was being bullied for wearing a feminist t-shirt in a photo. I offered her words of support.
Today, in São Paulo, she proudly handed me a graphic novel she wrote.
I love comics.
I am not worried about JKR’s feelings. She’s surrounded by wealth, love and adoration that most people can’t imagine, and has shown herself willing to threaten legal action against people who point out the harm in her actions.
She’s not the victim.
I heard that when was a waiter at a small bistro it took him three hours to describe the specials.
Okay, here is a theory that has some holes in it, but here we go.
One of my biggest complaints about modern superhero stories is, especially from some newer writers, that they have downplayed the role of non-powered, relatable background characters.
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Bigots ruin every fucking thing.
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Idris Elba says the #JamesBond reports were a 'huge compliment' but then racist fans turned him off from playing 007
"They made the whole thing disgusting and off-putting because it became about race. It became about nonsense and I got the brunt of it"
I think there's a generational thing going on with the Birds of Prey movie. A certain older group of mostly straight guys keep repeating how the women in the film are not sexy.
Meanwhile, I've been all over the world and younger people are DYING to see this movie.
Here’s a thing, even if you don’t care about comics.
saw a mass of people grieving and thought, ‘Hey, how can I make this about me?’
Probably all anyone needs to know, really.
I just realized that Bewitched is all about cocaine.
She twitches her nose and magic happens and also she’s paranoid about people snooping around trying to uncover her secret and when one sugar daddy is no good anymore she just gets another and acts like nothing happened.
Okay, I am about to tell a bit of a story.
You're going to want to be prepared for this, fair warning.
Remember when we were kids and the adults warned us that watching garbage tv would rot our brains?
They’re now all watching Fox News nine hours a day.
My favorite type of hero is not the unbeatable guy. Bar none, any gender, any universe, it’s the person who gets the crap kicked out of them, and somehow gets back up.
Give me a hero who says they’re not done yet.
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This is bitter news. We were lucky to have him.
Untold millions of lives made better by stories.
Endless people who learned responsibility from Spider-man, acceptance from the X-men, self-forgiveness from the Hulk.
Stan Lee put better heroes in our vision.
Forever the Man.
As one of Batgirl's longest-running writers, I would totally endorse as Batgirl.
She'd kill as Barbara.
Put Cass in there, too!
STEPPENWOLF GILLETTE MACH SEVEN WITH COOLING GEL STRIP FOR SENSITIVE SKIN
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Zack Snyder releases a shiny new look at Steppenwolf from his cut of #JusticeLeague
(via @ZackSnyder | Vero)
Dear trans people, you are human and beautiful and valid and these horrible people are none of those things.
They blame you because they’re empty inside.
Okay, I loved the Eternals.
I am not that familiar with the comic, I’ll admit it.
But I loved the film. Lovely characters, avoidance of the usual formulas, and lush visuals.
I understand not everyone agrees.but I loved it.
LOVED.
IT.
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Even if true (which I have no idea), this seems like a poor way to treat the people who worked on this film.
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Peter Safran says ‘BATGIRL’ “was not releasable. I actually think that David Zaslav and the team made a very bold and courageous decision to cancel it because it would have hurt DC.”
See the full DCU slate: bit.ly/DCUSlate
A princess in the movies, in real life a queen.
You made millions of girls think we could do anything.
Thank you, Carrie Fisher.
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I actually think about this often.
Chase was cruel and horrible to his cast mates, he comes back to host as a movie star, and the new guy says THAT.
A million, billion times worse than saying, ‘NO talent.’
After the fire, the fire still burns.
It changes Batman if he is actually going out at night with the potential to kill people. One thing is crime prevention, saving innocents, the next is executions without trial.
I don’t care if it seems naive to some, that is a fundamental difference in what we root for.
I am sorry but this Batman thing might never ever ever ever not be hilarious.
I have an idea for a D&D book that needs to happen, for real.
A style and fashion guide for adventurers.
Like Elle for Orcs.
I'm serious, though.
I think this.
Right now, the most underrated character at DC Comics is Poison Ivy.
When she is given a proper spotlight, she steals every scene. Readers love her.
Why she doesn't get the treatment of Catwoman and Harley, I have no idea.
We watched a couple Marvel movies for a thing, and holy crap, Black Widow’s arc sucks.
Be mad if you like, but I’m with .
Superman and Batman don’t kill.
Don’t bother sending samples, I’ve read those stories and they are either out of context, out of continuity, or out of character.
They both have a code, it makes them what they are.
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Agreed. Working on it. twitter.com/sennaverse/sta…
Okay, we clearly need a #ComicsHateNazis tag. Please fill this tag with comics heroes beating up Nazis.
Funny thing, but in my early days in comics, people who were kind of proto-gaters used to always try to insult me by bringing up my background as a hairdresser.
It never worked, I was proud of being good at that job. Being a hairdresser is badass. And you get to help people.
Sorry we accidentally took over Comics, everyone! *
*Not actually sorry.
Remember when you were a complete SJW but got rejected, so flip flopped overnight to attract a new, dumber audience?
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Don't you have some comic books to ruin? twitter.com/GailSimone/sta…
So we randomly watched two original series Twilight Zone episodes and the first was about the danger of forgetting how evil Nazis are and the second was about two women dying of climate change and now I’m depressed. 1961.
The person who revived Deadpool when his book was about to be cancelled? twitter.com/AltairIbnLaA7/
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Deadpool was near cancellation when I took it over. We raised the sales AND critical and fan reaction was nearly 100% positive.
Marvel cancelled and renamed Deadpool and Cable not for sales, but because they were mad at the co-creator of both, Rob Liefeld.
Otherwise, sure! twitter.com/SPlKEvevo/stat
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This is my one page strip for ’s great HEY AMATEUR book. Fun. Art by the wonderful
Truthfully, in all the cons I have been to, I never once heard a good word about one of these two actors. Not going to say which, but the other one was beloved and also played Xena. twitter.com/Cryptoterra/st
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Before seeing BLACK ADAM, we stopped for sandwiches at a Subway. The young counter guy was nice, was excited to see it, too, and we quickly realized he thought it was a Marvel movie.
And it made me wonder how many people don't know or care if these movies are Marvel or DC.
I don’t know why people love Green Lantern so much when all he is is a big 3D printer.
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All I'm saying is, give the ladies a little eye candy. I don't think I should have to support a show that clearly hates half its audience by not showing a little more butt cleavage.