I’ll start reading you again soon, I promise.

Love Meg.

I’m really excited for your upcoming appearance in Daken, and I hope it leads to another limited, if not ongoing title of your own.

Love Holly.

Dear Pyro,

Why do you have to be dead? It’s not fair, you were so cute.

From Catharine.

Thank you. <3

- Love Meg.

justaguywitharrows:

I enjoy your products. I give you my money. You genuinely improve the quality of my life. If it wasn’t for you, I wouldn’t have met at least half my friends. (Hell, I wouldn’t be dating my boyfriend if it wasn’t for you.) So this isn’t to say that I am not grateful and appreciative. 

But FUCK YOU. Seriously. No there are not “enough” LGBTQQIA characters out there. No you don’t need to seek out a special writer just to write special queer characters. You know why? BECAUSE THEY’RE NOT ANY DIFFERENT. It’s not that hard to write a character who has characteristics that you don’t! You write Tony Stark! How many of you are the third smartest man on the planet and so filthy rich you could have a swimming pool of money? Oh yeah. None of you. But you still seem to be able to write him just fine! How many of you have been frozen in a block of ice for decades and then then woken up to find yourself in a completely different time period and reclaimed the mantle of being the icon of the most powerful nation on the world? Right. None of you. But you seem to be okay writing Steve Rogers. So really, your excuses don’t fly. 

I know it takes research and a gentle hand to write a minority group. A lot of us are already hurting so much we’re bleeding freely. But that’s no excuse. You know what using that as an excuse is? Laziness. I have taught myself everything I know about experiences that aren’t mine by being patient, by listening, and be using the fucking internet. I’m not that special. You can do it too.

 Look, your comics would be more interesting if you had more diversity! Your comics would appeal to a wider demographic! You’d be helping usher in a new era of writing, so you could go ahead and pat yourselves on the back for that since you like that so much. 

And if you think it’s SO hard and you absolutely HAVE to have a person who knows more than you HIRE ONE. Don’t just sit there and cry about it.

Just stop friggin’ making excuses! If you’re not going to write about us, then just say it. Just outright say “no, we’re racist, homophobic, transphobic, ableist dochebags and we don’t actually care”. There, I said it. Now everybody can run around screaming and waving their arms because I called Marvel a bad word. But being any of those things doesn’t just mean you torch people or call them slurs. Ignoring the clamoring of countless fans, practically begging to see more [sensitively written] diversity applies too. Passivity doesn’t absolve you. (And at this point, there are enough of us that our voice is loud enough to be heard. I will eat my own foot if Marvel doesn’t know that there are fans who want characters who portray any number of marginalized identities.)

So really, fuck you. I love you, but you’ve hurt me too much.

And for the record, I would give my left kidney for a well-written trans superhero. 

sistervenom:

I really like how you wear your hair lately.  It’s all sexy pushed back.  I also think that that new scent you’re wearing is nice—or is that just your natural smell?  I can’t tell but it’s heavenly.  I do think you should come over to my lab and we can be bros.  We can watch The Notebook and cry in each other’s arms.  I think you are pretty when you cry.  Sometimes I wonder why you don’t cry lasers but that is research for another time.  Anyway, I really think we should hang out more.  I sprayed this letter with Clinique’s Happy because I know Jean used to wear it and it’ll make you cry and scream and you are so cute when you do that.

Love,

Nathanial “Sinister” Essex

XOXO

Submissions are very welcome, especially seeing as I’m running out of ideas…

angergirl:

Merry Christmas, all! Here’s Wanda and the boys. :3

Dear Wanda,

Your sons still love you, so please come back sane and stuff. You don’t reeeally want to marry Doom…

Love Holly.