Friend: but you're just like a twitter shitposter. How do you design all these special gadgets and stuff Me: I have no agency other than to occupy the negative space delineated by your need for plot devices to solve your problem du jour. And be unthreateningly socially awkward.
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Me: besides do you even really KNOW I shitpost on twitter Friend: ...what Me: Like you've been INFORMED that I'm in the business of shitposting but when's the last time you ever really saw any of my posts—much less those of them that are shit Friend: ... Me: it's illusory
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I'm not even the superhero's original science friend, at first it was this crew-cutted ex-Navy silver fox who was stern and straightforward but with a loving heart He got butterflied out of existence as a result of a crossover event the superhero was only marginally involved in
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Friend: Pen, this is bad. We got a metahuman dying of an unstable mutation and the only man who knows how to synthesize the vaccine has been kidnapped Me: ugh fine I'll whip up a vaccine for you Friend: ...since when do you do that Me: just since your dedicated med guy poofed
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Replying to @Nymphomachy
The nerdy guy on Flash went from being just "good with computers" to making and maintaining all their equipment to somehow having the power to create portals to the dreamtime
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Replying to @arthur_affect
Yeah in the typical vein of CW Nerd Escalation, within four seasons I'd wind up becoming Inque or something
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Replying to @Nymphomachy
Of course you'd be a less sexy more "grounded" version of the character and it'd be all controversial
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Replying to @arthur_affect
Also I'd never actually wind up fighting Batwoman to the point of fans saying a perfectly good Batverse villain got hijacked for no reason only for the writers to suddenly whip it out in a crossover years after anyone even remembered I was Inque
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Replying to @Nymphomachy @arthur_affect
Ignorance Tangent: Inque fights Batwoman? I only know her from her Batman Beyond appearance.
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Replying to @Shjade @arthur_affect
She doesn't, but the CWverse loves to just do "close enough" transplants, like Supergirl straight up did For the Man Who Has Everything but as a Kara plot instead of a Clark one
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The angry fanboys talk a lot about CW "feminizing" the classic comics even though them doing Supergirl and Batwoman instead of Superman and Batman is 100% the fault of WB not wanting anyone stepping on their movies
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