Difficult Discussions...and well ship wars...

1. I may or may not live to regret this - but I decided to train to become a small group facilitator for my church - to facilitate difficult conversations about Gaza. They've hired an expert in this, a transman, to train facilitators and host the discussions. I listened to the transman's sermons? He's good.
( ruminating over it )

2. I was also right about the new X-men editor, Brevort entering into a fight he can't win.
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Also loved this, and kind of wish the Buffy writers and various soap writers had the guts to say the same thing:

Han

Tom, fans don't want the marriage of Scott and Jean. The vast majority of fans want her away of Scott. I hate the way that Scott was out of character in krakoa sharin his wife with his rival. And the way that she was with Scot and Logan and the same time. this writing is embarrassing for any woman.

Tom

I tell you, Han, I’m always skeptical when anybody tells me that the “vast majority of fans” wants. Because I don’t know that anybody is in a better vantage point to be able to determine that than we are. I will absolutely concede that some fans feel as you say, and they may be all of the fans in your immediate circle, certainly. But that isn’t all fans, not even close. So I appreciate your point of view, but I’m still going to have my guys tell the stories that they want to tell."

I love that quote. So true. I really wish television writers could say this.

I really like the new editor in chief of the X-men.

And I continue to be entertained by the editor dealing with fans...after declaring there was no romantic relationship between Wolverine and Jean on the page. (There was, however, he is correct that it was kind of a blink and you missed it moment. Various writers flirted with it, as did various artists, but it never quite took - because it did not work.

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