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Tonight is the social group again
the one I can get to but not home from
or to be precise would have to either leave a 2 hour group 45 minutes early, wait an hour and a half for a bus after 9pm, or spend £30 on a taxi home for.

... I'm actually still trying to talk myself into going because I haven't been anywhere for a really long time.



But if I wait a couple months I think I can get to ones later in the year, so probably I should save the money and just wait here.

... yes having a social life in a couple months sounds grand...

*sigh*

This is why I'm moving to Norwich.

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am rewatching x-men first class.
I don't tend to, for a mixture of reasons.
Charles and Eric get a whole story that makes sense and get to show off their powers and get to be... well, different kinds of arse, really, but in ways where you can see why, and then it ends with tragedy and I get full of feels.
But everyone else gets badly short changed by this story. They're treated very poorly. Darwin especially, if by definition he adapts to survive, he should survive. Plus I know Emma Frost is going to dress like Emma Frost, but (a) it could at least fit better and (b) multiple scenes in strip clubs where all the women dress like that? :eyeroll: And then there's all the running around screaming from characters who don't actually get a moment of awesome.
So it's the same old pattern. We learn more about, see more of, and get a more sympathetic view of, evil white men, than we do of any category of women or people of colour.

I'm pretty epically tired of that.

and I'm assured the film is worse in that way than the comics. comics do not set a high bar.

it's wearying.

It's all very well to say this is what the fanfic is for, and indeed I've spent more time with the fic, but still... mainstream media needs to just do better.

X-Men: Days of Future Past

Watch White Men Save the World
(again)
By trying to kill a woman and then magnanimously giving her free will!

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So, I can see why that film is fun to watch for some people.

It's proper tragedy of everyone being themselves really persistently, with just that glimmer of hope to keep us around. It's full of feels. Charles & Eric, as ever, only really make sense as Charles/Eric, to the point it feels like cowardice when they're not out. And I'm sure that ending is a really handy get out of jail free card for the franchise.

I just am really tired of the same old predictable flaws.

I'm going to go hang out in fanfic land if I go near the X movies any time soon at all.