don't mind me: i'm ji won lee (right_hereguys) wrote in theinvincibles, @ 2015-08-08 13:19:00 |
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META MEDIA: August 7th GUARDIAN: CAPES: Reality TV fodder which once again feeds up propaganda pigswill for the populace ...The danger of the series is that, like most reality shows, it entrenches it the viewer’s mind the binary between good and evil, operative and rogue, and the perception that superpowered individuals are either one or the other, with little to no room for divergence between either extreme. An online petition against a similar series in the UK [link] has reached 15,000 signatures... THE TOAST: How Metahumans can help feminism During the London Blitz, babies were more likely to be born boys than girls. The scientific explanation for this was due to the stress levels of expectant mothers, nature perceived this as children being born into a harsher life and therefore sought to address the imbalance by creating stronger and more durable males. However, in a world where a twelve year old girl can balance a Cadillac on her fingertip and a senator’s daughter can wade through a wall of bullets, perhaps our entrenched ideas need to be shifted... NATIONAL ENQUIRER: Did El Chapo escape using metahuman powers? [ty loren for the suggestion] There has been the usual accusations of corrupt officials paid to look the other way, but the escape of drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman from a Mexican jail may have a more Occam’s Razor style explanation. How is it that footage has yet to emerge of the deluxe one mile long tunnel which didn’t materialise out of nowhere? Or did it? “Usage of supernatural abilities would have assisted his escape significantly,” says our source. “Either burrowing or some kind of ability that would manipulate surveillance footage so that construction of the tunnel could not be recorded.” A $ 5 million reward for information leading to the whereabouts of El Chapo has been offered as US authorities continue to work with their Mexican counterparts... THE GLOBE: Does Anna Wintour have Fur Affinity? Vogue editor-in-chief raises the ire once again of animal rights activists with her outerwear choices... GQ: How To Get An Operative-Worthy Body [I shit you not. They are riffing on us!] ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Agent Banks: Will Agent Larter get her own show? As the studio pads out its time to keep the movie franchise juggernaut rolling, we reveal that Kayleigh Bywell, player of warm yet pithy Brit Agent Carly “Copper” Larter who featured in the latest installment as a key player in the Cold War flashback scenes, has signed an additional deal with parent studio Disney. “She believes in the system,” explains Bywell, “yet realising that her mother was a Meta has opened her eyes to its flaws, and I think that she’s more willing than Banks to work outside of its parameters, which is an interesting dynamic to explore…” YOUTUBE: The Nostalgia Critic “We were spotting metahumans in animated films before Moms Against Masks…” [cuts to clip of Nostalgia Critic wearing a wig and brandishing a rolling pin while shouting “don’t save lives in my neighborhood freaks and get off my lawn!”] “Here is a list of our Top Ten Super Powers in Disney Films, starting with Rapunzel and her prehensile hair…” The Rush Limbaugh Show: “Harry the Friendly Neighborhood Pyrokinetic (You’ll Get On With Him Like a House On Fire)” [Parody song featuring such lines as “but just be careful not to earn his ire // or pour him a stiff drink because you’re flammable and he’s not // if you flirt with him then it might get too hot…”] OOC: I will be putting these up every Friday, unless something big is going down. This one was late-ish because internet issues. If you want to make suggestions of future stories, there's a dropbox here. |