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That could be focused on a single character, in backstory-building-ways or in following-thoughts-during-canon-events ways or in any other way of focusing on a single character,
or through characters' relationships and the way those are affected by/affect/interact with the characters' Judaism,
or through worldbuilding institution stuff, or, etc. This isn't an exhaustive list, just, thoughts of ways.

It's BEEN A WHILE, chevre! Look, in my defense, I'm bad at doing things. Let's make up for it with a double-header.

This'll be looking at Marvel Rising: Battle Of The Bands and Marvel Rising: Operation Shuri. Despite their themes of communication, neither of them featured ALL that much smartphone usage, and a few places that struck me as notable exceptions. Also, the phone colors are still shifting, but seem to be less so, which lets us keep our sense of how much they care about the phones in particular. (But gosh DARN give me back Squirrel Girl's green phone! She looked good with it!)

(Also, unrelatedly, I LOVE their casual-hero outfits in Operation Shuri. Ghost Spider's GOGGLES?? GREAT.)

Battle Of The Bands, thematically, picks up where Chasing Ghosts left off -- with Gwen's individualist-insistance-on-compartmentalizing and lack of communication. It specifically uses her cellphone as the meeting-point, the place where she tries to keep all her separate lives organized and distinct, and it is through that that the separate lives intersect and interrupt each other. (As opposed to, for example, showing it like Mrs. Doubtfire did, with the character having two commitments at th

And lastly. of course. #BringBackSquirrelGirlsGreenSmartphone2020 . I'm fine with most of the other changes, I guess, but DANGIT.

Playing With Fire came out a few days ago (and it was GREAT), and I've already got it jotted down, but let's pace this out. It'll go up... probably when the next few episodes get announced and given dates. Something to tide us over while we wait in anticipation to find out who America Chavez is in lesbians for.

FRICK this was much longer, but then I lost it in a browser crash so y'all get this, sorry. Oh yeah, spoilers (although Marvel Rising really runs on the strength of its characters (and a little bit pacing/editing/cutting/stuff), not its plot).

Marvel Rising is a series, so we'll probably be seeing more of it (Heart Of Iron drops April 3rd), and I'll be keeping an eye out. And even if, as was pointed out in the video that inspired me to look for this, not that much in the mainline Live Action Marvel movies, cell phones do appear at least a bit in Spiderverse, and probably elsewhere.

I'll also probably, at some point soon, toss out a post with some actual thoughts generalizing off of this list. But in the meantime, feel free to give your own thoughts in the comments if you have any!

(I've been trending towards using Dreamwidth for my mostly-indepedent-rants-especially-fandom-rants, so let's lean in to that.)
(Also this isn't a full-length or fully-developed rant. Think of it as a vort, or a squib.)

A first point, To be clear -- as is evidenced from the title, my actually-holding-a-position of "stop acting like they're the saME" is sourced primarily from The View From Saturday, and not, like, actually reading the books and coming on my own to the conclusion that "they're clearly different and it's doing a disservice to them". I've found quite a few points where I realize that I'd be intolerably hipster if I was more assertive. This is one of those.

Wonderland is about nonsense that comes from authority figures,
whereas Looking Glass is about nonsense that comes from rules.

Hence why we see The Duchess ("I speak severely to my boy, // I beat him when he sneezes; // For he can thoroughly enjoy // The pepper when he pleases!"),
the White Rabbit ("Oh! the Duchess, the Duchess! Oh! won't she be savage if I've kept her waiting!"),
and the King and Queen Of Hearts ("Off with her head!") in Wonderland,

but Humpty Dumpty ("When I use a word, ... it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less."),
the White Knight ("Everybody that hears me sing it—either it brings the tears into their eyes, or else—’ ‘Or else what?’ said Alice, for the Knight had made a sudden pause. ‘Or else it doesn’t, you know."),
and Tweedledee and Tweedledum ("That's logic!") through the Looking Glass.

And why Wonderland ends with Alice refusing to behave as a witness in a Royal Trial presided by the King and Queen Of Hearts,
while Looking Glass ends with Alice refusing to behave as a hostess of a dinner party attended by the Red and White Queens.

On the structural level as well -- while I'll admit I can't find a clear way to shoe-horn in Wonderland's "she walked around looking for new stuff" into this framework, you can't deny that Looking Glass's famous overarching-chess-puzzle is extremely "logic"-colored.

There's probably more I could pull for this -- and definitely evidence against it, but this seems to at least get the point across.
 

Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll : https://www.gutenberg.org/files/28885/28885-h/28885-h.htm
Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There, Lewis Carroll : https://www.gutenberg.org/files/12/12-h/12-h.htm
"Looking glass chess, through a bird's eyes", smodjface : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgPqvnPjtic

Yeah, I (finally) got around to watching and finishing it.

I know I'm, like, a couple months late -- I took my time, as one OUGHT to for 90% of TV series, darn Netflix and their policy of "let's dump whole seasons all at once like unwanted litters"* -- but, like.

First of all -- it was, of course, very fun, and great to see them actually, like, thinking about their audience's experience re. gender, race, etc. seriously, and all that.

But that said. Let's get into the politics of technology.
Mostly 'cause, like, it's really WEIRD?

[ Some spoilers ahead for, obviously, She-Ra, but also some Nimona gets touched on with a warning before it ]

LIKE AN UNSOLICITED COMMENT

EXCEPT FOR THE FACT THAT SHE LITERALLY ENDED HER POST "What else would you like to see?"

WHAT IF I WAS RUDE??
AND/OR INVASIVE????

... okay yeah it was probably fine.

... We'll see IF I use this, and HOW, but, well, I might as well do at least ONE thing with it.

..
... one thing, besides following a few people to preserve something from Tumblr, and also picking a garishly fonted purple theme okay I should probably change that yeah fine.