It's always this sense of hopelessness
The skills I have or lack thereof
Everything is less than good enough
Longing for a sense of creativity
Insecure in myself and my abilities
As though in the self there is a rift
An endless void, a bottomless abyss
A wounded heart, a bisecting scar down the middle
No medicine known to man can heal this
Innately disconnected at the seams
Though life is never like my dreams
For I am but the stepping stone
An aid to others but not the self
Painfully fearful of an impending death
However you will not go alone
I am with you when you walk in the dark
The prison, barring nothing than your heart
I shall carry your burdens on my back
Able to mend what has been cracked
I shall never deny you a path to me
For nowhere else will you find a love so free
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2023 The Year of Women and Fridging
2023 was an incredible year for women in film. Between Beyonce and Taylor’s concert movies, Barbie and 1 single woman getting nominated for best director at the Oscars there was a lot to celebrate. But just like with anything the universe seeks balance and in 2023 we nerds also experienced something on page and screen that we should have evolved out of decades ago. In the year of Barbie we had not 1, but 2 incidents of fridging in the comic book universe. Both came from Marvel and both are inexcusable. I would love to celebrate how far representation in this field has come, really I would. But I can not do that if we are still making the same mistakes. I am not going to celebrate that there is now less sexual assault in comics. I am not going to celebrate that fridging is less common. I am not going to celebrate that women are infantilized less often in comics. I will not celebrate less. Not in 2024 when every grown person on the planet should know better. I will not be celebrating less. I will celebrate when women are ALWAYS treated like human beings, fictional or not.
By Alexandrea Callaghan4 days ago in Geeks
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