Re: Hey, I got a question...

(Anonymous) 2015-07-25 04:10 am (UTC)(link)
is selling sex for money NOT considered prostitution now?

Re: billy clubs!

(Anonymous) 2015-07-25 04:12 am (UTC)(link)
You're referring only to the comics tho right?

Re: Unpopular fandom opinions

(Anonymous) 2015-07-25 04:17 am (UTC)(link)
Making partner is particularly difficult for women. They actually are kind of expected to be like that. It doesn't mean they have to be cruel all the time, but it helps. It helps to dress for success and never show weakness, even if it means inherently contradicting yourself and everything you believe in.

(My roommate, who doesn't even work in a law firm but works in NYC, was recently bugged about her teeth not being white enough for the executives on the board)

Re: Hey, I got a question...

(Anonymous) 2015-07-25 04:20 am (UTC)(link)
Technically it is "sex work" but many prostitutes don't care for the term "sex worker." Also, officially, it is "solicitation" (in terms of what will appear as the charge if they are arrested.

Also strippers at not sex workers/prostitutes unless they have two jobs, and they will get super mad if you call them sex workers if they are not also prostitutes.

Re: Hey, I got a question...

(Anonymous) 2015-07-25 04:21 am (UTC)(link)
There's actually a documentary on Netflix called Client 9 which discusses sex work in New York via discussing the Elliot Spitzer case. It's not a great documentary (I gave up on it) but it has a lot of information on female prostitution in NYC.

Re: Unpopular fandom opinions

(Anonymous) 2015-07-25 04:27 am (UTC)(link)
oh no i'm not saying it is!! and like, idk, a cutthroat female lawyer type isn't inherently bad it's just that her first appearance made me react in the same way i react to people like her irl -- that she might be funny or put together but she's still guilty of being a racist crapsack.

Re: Unpopular fandom opinions

(Anonymous) 2015-07-25 04:57 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah there was that.

Re: Frank Castle/The Punisher: Things to Read

(Anonymous) 2015-07-25 05:03 am (UTC)(link)
NAYRT

but the only time I know of is in the AU comic, Powerless. Matt is Frank's defense attorney, and he ends up killed by Fisk (who framed Frank) as retribution for proving Frank's innocence.

Re: Frank Castle/The Punisher: Things to Read

(Anonymous) 2015-07-25 06:48 am (UTC)(link)
I can think of two titles off the top of my head. OMG, this meme is making me go back and look at/scan old comics (yay). These are going to list spoilers so caveat lector:

I'm going to condense this as much as possible, but in Powerless, Matt is defending Frank against a murder charge for killing Owlsley. Frank is in Rikers (I think there's a reserved seat for Frank there), but Matt's sure Frank is innocent and in spite of Frank not helping Matt AT ALL, Matt is dogged about seeing justice served. He believes Fisk, the Kingpin, killed Leland. SPOILER: HE'S RIGHT. But Frank confessed to the crime because he'd lost all hope and figured one way or another he was about to die. Matt's brave (and dumb) enough to put Wilson Fisk on the witness stand in court while fighting for Frank's freedom and Fisk pretty much destroys Matt's life for it. Eventually Matt comes back around to fight for Frank's freedom again, wins it, Frank is released, him and Matt talk on the phone about second chances, and Frank admits how inspiring Matt has been to him. And then Fisk shows up at Matt's home and kills him up close and personal for being a stubborn little shit. And even though Matt was smart enough to know that he was probably about to die and called the police, Fisk got away with the murder. At least until the next day during a press conference where Frank showed up to put a bullet in Wilson's Fisk head, killing him. 'Consider yourself punished.' And then Frank takes red roses to Matt's grave. :(

The second one is a little harder to define. The Punisher Kills the Marvel Universe is a What If title, and I'd say you can safely ignore most of the story, but I will say it was stupidly popular. The emotional bookends of the story revolves around Frank and Matt being childhood friends and Frank rescuing Matt from neighbourhood bullies. They grow apart, they go their separate ways, and when they meet up again Matt has to remind Frank who he is. Frank doesn't know Matt is Daredevil.

So throughout the story, Frank is doing his Punisher thing, except this time he's blaming all the heroes for the 'collateral damage' of his family being dead. Matt is his lawyer (Matt does this so many times I've lost count) and tries to help and Frank's not listening. DD keeps hearing news of Frank killing heroes, and I mean he kills EVERYONE, one after the other, and Matt keeps trying to stop him as his lawyer every time Frank goes back to court. Frank never listens, he tells Matt to give up on him and Matt refuses. Matt wears the devilsuit and goes after the Punisher thinking maybe he can stop him as Daredevil. He catches up to Frank in Hell's Kitchen, back where Frank used to defend Matt from bullies when they were kids. They fight, they argue, DD thinks he's finally talking sense to the Punisher, but no, Frank takes the lull as an in and stabs Matt through the heart. Because Matt's just another hero. As Matt lays dying he pulls off his hornhead mask revealing he's Daredevil. Frank is horrified and, of course, Matt dies right there in front of him. And Frank pulls out his pistol and kills himself, ending the story. So, yeah, depressing, but can I just point out one thing? Have you ever seen the iconic picture of Bullseye killing Elektra with her own sai and it's all the way through her body and tenting the back of her shirt? I thought it was kind of unintentionally amusing they used a similar pose for Frank delivering the killing blow to Matt:

http://41.media.tumblr.com/6cef01bd9676c71844a73e824245a127/tumblr_inline_nryywkz94s1qbwzba_500.jpg
http://40.media.tumblr.com/feb79ae8ea066958dd861ce7a7173aae/tumblr_inline_nryyx2JaIb1qbwzba_500.jpg

*Aside, Matt has also died defending Kaine Parker, Peter Parker's mountain-sized evil clone. One panel they're fighting each other and the next Matt is trying to use his little body to shield Kaine from a hailstorm of bullets. And this is why Matt will break your heart eventually, because he'll try to protect everyone, even if they don't deserve it.

http://40.media.tumblr.com/6462906a3ecc147a49cb7f6167b64bae/tumblr_inline_ns166rlSnS1qbwzba_500.jpg
http://40.media.tumblr.com/9822ede52a574d9e8f4a06bed25b9b8a/tumblr_inline_ns166a92lP1qbwzba_500.jpg
http://40.media.tumblr.com/5c9802f625a85cc29a49f868549d9c28/tumblr_inline_ns167dhbg61qbwzba_500.jpg

Re: ITT: daredevil 17 HYPERVENTILATES SPOILERS

(Anonymous) 2015-07-25 07:09 am (UTC)(link)
I had zero idea Julia Carpenter was a character who'd turned up before so my reaction was pretty much DAMMMN GIRL too

Re: ITT: daredevil 17 HYPERVENTILATES SPOILERS

(Anonymous) 2015-07-25 07:18 am (UTC)(link)
I DIDN'T KNOW SHE WAS SPIDER-WOMAN EITHER I mean. wow. now that I'm looking at the marvel wiki on her I'm just like, oh my god, did I actually think this woman was in distress? holy shit.

Re: ITT: daredevil 17 HYPERVENTILATES SPOILERS

(Anonymous) 2015-07-25 07:22 am (UTC)(link)
just ordered it and am rocking myself back and forth, Maaaaaatt

(but DAMN GIRL did not know she was Spider-Woman before. damn.)

Re: Unpopular fandom opinions

(Anonymous) 2015-07-25 08:06 am (UTC)(link)
I thought it was fine until he told her she didn't have a soul - then I burst out laughing because...really??

Re: ITT: daredevil 17 HYPERVENTILATES SPOILERS

(Anonymous) 2015-07-25 09:36 am (UTC)(link)
above anon: my EXACT reaction. she definitely doesn't need Matt to rescue her.

on that note, seeing she's handling things perfectly fine, he should probably be leaving real soon to go rescue some other people that really do need help *coughcough*.

Re: ITT: daredevil 17 HYPERVENTILATES SPOILERS

(Anonymous) 2015-07-25 11:12 am (UTC)(link)
ngl, a tiny little part of me actually kind of cheered like, hell yeah get yourself out of distress and get yourself out of there

cough. get your priorities in order, Matt. that being said, considering the first page, he probably does do that. it probably won't end well. oh god.

Re: billy clubs!

(Anonymous) 2015-07-25 03:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, in the comics, though it's hard to tell whether the OP meant they're reading fic from the comics or MCU fic.

Re: Hey, I got a question...

(Anonymous) 2015-07-25 03:20 pm (UTC)(link)
the word "prostitute" is, from everyone I've read or listened to, not the word want to be called.

people still sell sex for money, they just don't like calling it prostitution, because that's the kind of slur that gets people up in arms.

(and see, there's another anon saying that "prostitute" is the accepted word and "full service sex worker" is a rude term for what people do, so obviously this is a very individual-industry-specific sort of situation.)

...like, other anons know people who are uncomfortable with their stripping/camming being labeled sex work? and i know people who do those jobs and call it sex work. so. sorry, original anon! this is basically a big, complicated, sort of controversial kind of work.)

Re: Interview with John Patrick Hayden (Jack Murdock)

(Anonymous) 2015-07-25 03:20 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't think Defenders podcast is an official Marvel podcast, I'm not sure. But they were discussing Jack as Bullseye as an option, just kicking around the idea because of the cards.

Re: Unpopular fandom opinions

(Anonymous) 2015-07-25 03:33 pm (UTC)(link)
*nods nods* I agree. They set up really strong parallels between Matt and Fisk, but the thing of it is it falls apart really fast when you dig down. It's all surface, and they're both capable of doing terrible things, but they're capable of doing terrible things for different reasons and with different targets. Matt's named after a gift of god archangel, that's not an accident on the writer's part, and in the bible the angels weren't nice creatures with fluffy white wings, they were warriors who burned with righteous rage. Sorry, I'm getting off tangent, but yes, I agree with you. Wilson is there to be brilliant and to counterpoint Matt and also to red herring the audience a little and I think it worked. I thought he was a fantastic villain, and I would have been crushed if Matt had been shown going against a moustache twirler I WILL GET YOU, DAREDEVIL Fisk, that would have sucked. This option is so much better.

Re: Unpopular fandom opinions

(Anonymous) 2015-07-25 04:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Yessss, I think Matt's hyperaware of people, and how base people can be, maybe especially when they try to hide it. I fully believe his blindness (compounded by how physically attractive he is) is a siren song to the depraved because they [think they] can abuse him in some way. It's so easy to see on the show the way they highlighted his emotional weakness (children/old people/sexually-targeted women) as his Achilles, not just because they were victims, but because he's too close to that label in oh so many ways. It feels like subtext to me the way he's overly emotional when faced with helplessness. Being drunk and out of control would equate to him either losing his shit and doing too much damage on a criminal, or [reverting back to] being a victim himself because his faculties are down. I look at his reactions on the screen and can only imagine he's had it both ways. Ehh, I'm not sure if I'm making sense...

I'm really looking forward to learning more about Foggy's issues and why he drinks so damn much, and why it's a knee-jerk reaction. Show spent so much time exposing every one of Matt's (and Fisk's) raw nerves that we were a little shortchanged on getting everybody else's dirty laundry out into the open.

Re: ITT: daredevil 17 HYPERVENTILATES SPOILERS

(Anonymous) 2015-07-25 04:34 pm (UTC)(link)
SA

considering last time?? well isn't the word i'd use either anon. g-d's sake matt. i really want to know where that first page of matt and ikari comes in the issue, i.e does he know about foggy and kirsten and if so is this a no-holds barred vengeance battle? suppose it's only four days till we find out

Matt/Frank: How plausible is it really?

(Anonymous) 2015-07-25 05:02 pm (UTC)(link)
So, I've been reading some Punisher comics, and despite what the meme would have us believe, it seems like him and Matt having a romantic and/or sexual relationship would be really hard to pull off while keeping them both somewhat in character.

For one thing, Frank Castle doesn't seem to be interested in romance. He's slept with people a few times over the years, but given his origin story, it seems pretty unlikely that he would want to get involved in anything serious. (Except apparently he and Elektra have a thing, wtf is that?) Now, add to that the fact that he seems to think of Matt/Daredevil as a naive idiot and a hindrance, and it's really hard for me to imagine that he'd ever actually try to start something there.

Then there's Matt's side of the issue. Matt's serious, fundamental problems with Frank's methods would seem to preclude any interest in furthering their relationship beyond what's absolutely necessary for both of their jobs. (I imagine it would be difficult for Matt to be around somebody who always smells like gunsmoke and blood.) Probably the only way I could see Matt actually letting Frank in a little would be if Frank swore not to kill anyone, which would a) make him a lot less interesting and b) would never last.

The only times in the comics I've read so far where it seems like a real close relationship could develop between them is in AUs where Frank only knows Matt as his lawyer, most obviously in the AU Powerless. The thing about that series is that Matt actually gets to work trying to redeem Frank before he becomes the Punisher, before he actually murders anybody. And that's maybe the only way I can see Matt/Frank happening: if Frank never becomes the Punisher.

But... but... I really want to ship it! Please anons, help me see how it could work.

Re: Matt/Frank: How plausible is it really?

(Anonymous) 2015-07-25 06:01 pm (UTC)(link)
hatesex

Hey, it’s time for another round of Why the Hell Did I Choose to Write Hospital!Fic? ^^

(Anonymous) 2015-07-25 06:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Has anyone ever had the experience of needing an NG (nasogastric) tube? If so, what was it like? Was it the kind where it removed the contents of the stomach, or to receive nutrition/medicine? Did you feel hungry all the time? Was it uncomfortable? What were you allowed to eat while it was in?

Re: Unpopular fandom opinions

(Anonymous) 2015-07-25 06:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I do kind of find it likely that Matt has been victimized before (even excluding Stick, because what that fucker did was straight-up abuse). He was a young, poor, disabled and traumatized kid who had, after Jack died, basically no adult who gave a damn about him--which makes him a prime target for all kinds of bad people. The fact that the thing that set him off in the first case was child sexual abuse, and that he bypassed threatening the guy to straight-up beat him half to death is...very telling.