I’m so sick of the drama in Marvel like I seriously would do anything for a Domestic Avengers book ok I’d read about them picking up their dry cleaning and vacuuming the living room over them fighting each other ANY DAY
Bonus, when Steve is upset he vacuums the living room shirtless.
[Captain America #231, 1979.]
What’s really interesting to me is that some of the titles which were heartily embraced by newer fans to comics (I’m thinking specifically of Hawkguy, Ms Marvel, Squirrel Girl, and KSD’s run on Avengers Assemble here) spend a lot of time on the day-to-day lives of superheros and virtually no time on them having fights with each other, unless they’re the kind of friendly bets that actual friends make.
And the panels that show up on Tumblr- which is not a representative sampling of comics fandom overall but is certainly a look into one part of it- are almost entirely ones that are about superheroes as people rather than as murderbot soldiers for good. It’s not about “could this dude beat up this other dude,” but rather about the humans beneath the superhuman mask.
Like. Do they see this connective thread? They must, right? I need to believe they do.
It has been HIGHLY requested for me to do a full, in-depth guide or post about my bullet journal.. so here it is! I’m new to my bullet journal as well, so I’m sure as I go I’ll learn more and more about it and figure out little things that work for me, but for right now, here’s what I do!
As I said before, my “style” for this bullet journal was inspired by another studyblr: staticsandstationary. The top banners and such are all from her styled bullet journal. They looked fairly simple and I thought that they would work perfectly for me as well! I will list all of the materials that I use at the end of this post, and if you have questions as to where the stickers are from, just send me a message and I will try and link you right to it!
I’m going to go through it with you section-by-section, so I hope this is helpful! I plan on doing a video on this next week as well, if that’s something you guys are interested in.
Photo 1: Legend and Index
When you first open my bullet journal, this is what you see! On the left is my legend. This includes all of the different types of bullets I have and what they mean, and then a few color variations for personal things and work things. When it comes to school work, I use different colors for different subjects, but I plan on creating separate legends on a page at the beginning of each semester.
On the right side is the beginning of my index. This is something I keep going throughout the use of my bullet journal. Every time I enter into a new month, I put the page numbers for the end of the previous month and the beginning of the new month. It seems silly, but the further you get into your journal, the much more convenient it will be to have in order to find certain pages.
Photo 2: April Monthly View and Expenses
On the left is April’s monthly view. I go down the line and put the numbers for the date as well as the first letter of the day of the week. It helps me keep track of things at a glance. This month only has beginning at the 15th, because that’s when I started my bullet journal. I used different colors for different courses (this was around finals time). I didn’t include those in my legend because they were the same colors I’d been coordinating with all semester, so I knew them by heart and didn’t feel the need to include them. Pink still accounts for my personal tasks and events and orange is work-related things.
On the right begins the expenses. This is for the month of April only. I sort all of my expenses per month because I find that it makes it much easier to flip to your most recent expenses. I don’t have a key for the colors in this either.. but oh well. For these, I have three different colors: green, blue, and orange. Green means that it was a reasonable and unavoidable expense (groceries, gasoline, etc.). Blue means that it was a fairly reasonable expense but not 100% necessary. It’s my in-betweeny. Orange means that it could have been avoided (fast food, impulse buys, etc.). I created a chart where I put the item on the left and the price on the right.
Photo 3: May Monthly View and Expenses
Here is May’s monthly view and expense page. Yes, I skipped past some pages for April’s daily calendar. I will show you those for May.
Photo 4: May Monthly Spread
Here is the first weekly spread for the month of May. I create these to-do lists as I go, usually the night before. As you can see on Friday, when I go shopping, I include the shopping list of the things that I purchased on a post-it note and I leave it on that particular day. This way, I can keep track of when I bought certain items.
This is also when I started incorporating my stickers (:
Photo 5: May Monthly Spread
Here is another weekly spread.
Photo 6: May Monthly Spread and June Monthly View
Here begins the monthly view for June. Yes, I planned ahead for you guys to kind of give a better example. This monthly spread obviously doesn’t have a lot going on yet. As I go through the month, I’ll add things to the monthly view. I don’t keep everything in the monthly view, obviously. Just large events or things tI need to remember at a broader glance.
Again, if you have any questions as to where any of the stickers are from, don’t hesitate to message me!
Photo 7: June Expenses and June Weekly Spread
This is my most recent page. Obviously, June 1st is about a week off. I planned ahead here so I could show you what I have been doing. I got a few questions about planning ahead. What if you have tasks you know that you need to get done on a future date? What do you do to remember them? I actually haven’t mastered this yet. I still use my Lily Pulitzer agenda for that. I keep all of my to-do lists for future dates in there, and then when it’s time to fill out my bullet journal, I refer to it and go from there. for now, I’ve been planning on things that I need to do when I get back from Florida. Those things are in pencil on the bottom right (if you can see it!). I wanted to include that as a little tip. You can always use pencil or post-its and erase and remove them later!
I love how the cast sits back and lets the fans call Carver out on his shit. Like They just turn around and sit back like “Yes, my children. Be free. Drag him the way I cannot because he controls my paycheck.”
I’m not even in this fandom, but this is still super satisfying.
I love love LOVE how people like this say “we have to go where the story takes us.” No. The story is not sentient. The story does not have a will. The story is an artificial construct CREATED BY YOU AND CONTROLLED BY YOU.
It is fine if you start writing something and YOU, THE WRITER, realize that you want to do something different, or focus on a different character, or the plot evolves in a way that does not line up with your initial outline. You can CHOOSE to go in a different direction or focus on a different thing, but when your audience points out that your CHOICES are problematic and distasteful, you don’t get to say “The story made us do it!”
No. You did it. You chose to do it, you wrote it, you approved it, you filmed it and you aired it. And good for the cast for letting him squirm.
What I think is interesting about this, though, is that whereas Bob Singer, when asked a variant of the same question, was utterly straight-faced and serious and seemed to believe what he was saying, Jeremy Carver is stammering, clearly lacking the same conviction. The bit about “there’s so many ways to answer that” feels like it comes with the implied rider “but I’m not allowed to discuss them”, and given that he word for word defaults to Singer’s earlier answer –
the “we go where the story takes us” bit – I can’t help feeling that what Carver’s saying here is the party line, not his actual opinion.
And let’s not forget, it was Singer’s wife, Eugenie Ross-Lemming, who cowrote Dark Dynasty. Carver and Singer are both EPs, but Singer’s been in the role for far longer than Carver, and I’d lay money he has seniority in terms of decision-making. Given how many of the cast members and writers were up in arms about Charlie’s death – and even here, you’ve got every main actor physically turning their backs on Carver, siding with the audience, to say nothing of how many of them came out on social media against it – I think it’s pretty clear that there was a creative schism about going through with it, and that while Singer and Bucklemming were demonstrably pro, pretty much everyone else, possibly including Carver, was against it.
Which doesn’t absolve Carter in the slightest for having signed off on it; the actors are totally justified in letting him flounder here. But I do think it’s relevant to note that Supernatural has a broken creative base as well as a broken base fandom, and that if Singer – who’s clearly got a hell of a lot of pull over the show, given how long he’s been running it – hadn’t been pushing for Charlie’s death, if he’d been neutral or against it, then things probably would’ve been very different. If Singer hadn’t pushed for it, I don’t imagine that Carver would’ve done it on his own. However he justified it to himself at the time, he clearly knows it was a bad call, but is constrained in what he can say about how it happened.
It’s also worth comparing Misha’s reaction here to his reaction when Bob Singer answered the same question at this year’s Jibcon. Here’s Misha’s face when Singer starts talking:
That is the face of a man who knows he’s about to hear some bullshit and isn’t allowed to offer a contradictory opinion. And, true to form, Misha stays quiet while Singer talks, looking by turns bored, angry, awkward and frustrated, rubbing his arm and staring off into the distance – and when he does finally speak, which only happens after Singer is applauded, he mentions that death is seldom permanent on Supernatural, implying that Charlie might come back, adding a quick ‘no offence’ to Singer.
But when Carver is asked the question here, the reaction of the actors is instantaneous and, once Mark Sheppard starts laughing, unanimous: they all turn away, they all laugh, Jared interrupts Carver, who can barely speak without stammering, and the vibe is totally different. Even though the actors are holding Carver accountable by leaving him to answer solo, their behaviour also makes it clear that they know he doesn’t believe his own answer; that this is something he deserves to have to suffer through, but which is still a joke, albeit a bad one.
tl;dr: Carver is flustered because he knows killing Charlie was a bad move, but still has to own his part in it, even though he regrets it and was likely pushed into it by Singer; Singer, by contrast, was unflustered answering the same question at Jibcon because he believed then and still believes now that it was the right call, and that the death wasn’t problematic.
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