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Gail Simone 💙💛

@GailSimone

17 days

Hey! This is where I’ll be at #FreeComicBookDay ! Come say hi and get the Marvel X-Men/Blood Hunt book signed!

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Gail Simone 💙💛

@GailSimone

2 years

I got a ban warning on Facebook just now. A food truck we like is changing menus and I wrote "We will miss the tacos, but family and health come first. Look forward to your new menu!" Facebook says if I say anything like that again, I will be suspended. ANYTHING LIKE WHAT

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@GailSimone

2 years

It turns out that my cousin who works at Arby’s used to be an expert in constitutional law, then he was a noted scholar in gerrymandering, then he somehow acquired vast knowledge about immunology and virology, and now danged if he doesn’t know everything about federal warrants.

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3 years

When Bill Murray and Chevy Chase got into a physical fight during Chase’s return to SNL as a guest host, Bill Murray pointed at Chase and yelled, ‘MEDIUM TALENT,’ and I think that might be the most brutal insult in history. No Wilde quote, no rap diss track compares.

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@GailSimone

5 years

The Punisher would be a lot prettier if he smiled more.

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@GailSimone

4 years

She sure as hell is not. We see in BATGIRL that she (in canon) comes to the assistance of a transgender activist, and I know because I wrote the goddamn story.

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@GailSimone

2 years

Raise your hand if you support trans rights. Shout it. Don't let the awful people think they're winning.

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@GailSimone

1 year

I was a huge JKR fan and cried a little the day she followed me. My sister and I would go rent a nice hotel room and read the books each time a new one came out. Now I wish I’d never had the damn things in my house.

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Gail Simone 💙💛

@GailSimone

4 years

THE WORLD HEARING ABOUT TRUMP: ...huh. THE WORLD HEARING SOMEONE HIT RICK MORANIS: Godammit, NO! What kind of just god allows this? My fortune for the bounty! Destroy the foul creature who punched the angels’ chosen one! LET NO ONE REST ‘TIL HE IS SAFE!

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@GailSimone

4 years

Question of the day: Have you ever specifically bought something as an adult because you weren’t allowed to have it as a kid, for expense or other reasons? Particularly toys, music, clothes, books, etc.

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3 years

Me watching Bake-off: You fool! You can’t dip the walnut whirl in the tempered chocolate, you have to drizzle over the top to achieve the characteristic wobble of the coffee ganache, Parisian cafe-style! Me baking at home: I forgot to put apples in the apple pie

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@GailSimone

5 years

I am not going to be able to speak about this this morning, I can see that. But under the persona, Stan Lee was a real human being. I met him three times and three times he told me something literally life-changing. I hope everyone knows, he cared about us. That was no act.

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@GailSimone

2 years

Your avatar is literally a comic character I saved from cancellation.

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@DjuricTine

2 years

Manga after seeing your work:

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Gail Simone 💙💛

@GailSimone

5 years

Okay, little experiment. If you identify as female (or non-binary), raise your hand if you have ever been accused of or questioned as being a 'fake nerd girl.' #Fakenerdgirl

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@GailSimone

1 year

I say again. Marvel has done an amazing job casting their lead actors for film. But I think Iman Vellani might be their single best casting choice ever. She stole the new trailer entirely.

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Gail Simone 💙💛

@GailSimone

4 years

ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS FOR GIRLFRIEND MUST KEEP TRIM MUST LOVE ANIME WILL NOT WORK OUTSIDE THE HOME DOESN’T LEAVE THE HOUSE WITHOUT PERMISSION DOESN’T HAVE SKANKY FRIENDS MUST DRESS SEXY AT ALL TIMES NO UNNATURAL HAIR COLORS

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Gail Simone 💙💛

@GailSimone

3 years

Disney went from Steamboat Willie to Fantasia in twelve years. The Beatles went from Please Please Me to the White Album in five years. Art is SUPPOSED to evolve. Your childhood memory is a good thing. Trying to freeze art to match it is not.

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@GailSimone

4 years

Someone sent me a post about how when I wrote Thor, I made the bad guy misogynist and it was so un-subtle and how it was obvious I hated men because the villain in this story was a guy and was so loathsome. I have never written Thor.

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Gail Simone 💙💛

@GailSimone

8 years

Dear, I WROTE Wonder Woman, and I can tell you we've been saying this for years, and it goes all the way back to her origins. Nice try.

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@BearingTruth

8 years

@ShanBarnsley @CR @GailSimone @ruckawriter Baby, I've been reading comics since BEFORE you were born. Wonder Woman is not gay. Shoo dear.

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Gail Simone 💙💛

@GailSimone

6 years

Dear Hostile Internet Oddballs, I do not owe you a moment of my time. If I choose to laugh with friends rather than answer your hot take nonsnense, trust me, I am doing us both a favor. Have a nice night.

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@GailSimone

3 years

HOLY SHIT YOU GUYS! SOME PEOPLE FOUND MEANING AND COMFORT IN A WELL-WRITTEN LINE FROM AN EXCELLENT TV SHOW! WHAT A BUNCH OF ASSHOLES!

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Gail Simone 💙💛

@GailSimone

2 years

Kenobi is great, don’t listen to weirdos.

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Gail Simone 💙💛

@GailSimone

4 years

I see people say they have tried D&D expecting a Critical Role-like experience, and I have to say, most games are not going to be quite so posh. Have some rowdy fun with a group of friends, be bold, be boisterous, you will have a great time. Don't compare yourself to anyone!

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@GailSimone

2 years

Let me tell you a sad truth. If you'd gone to high school with Peter Parker, you'd have quietly hated him.

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Gail Simone 💙💛

@GailSimone

1 year

Sometimes I just realize that my favorite villain from my favorite comic series of all time was in a big budget movie that I also loved and I think, holy crap, that one thing still makes me happy to even consider Thanks, @JamesGunn

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Gail Simone 💙💛

@GailSimone

6 months

This whole Captain Marvel in the movie thing is just so weird. She's not joyless, she's just not a wise-cracking smartass like all the others including Doctor Strange. She's a STOIC. If she was a dude, no one would even hesitate at her attitude. I find it fun and refreshing.

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Gail Simone 💙💛

@GailSimone

4 years

I am walking around changed now. My name is Gail Simone. I am a critter.

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Gail Simone 💙💛

@GailSimone

3 years

I like when you say you enjoyed something and a bunch of helpful experts tell you that didn’t.

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Gail Simone 💙💛

@GailSimone

2 months

Today is @Dwayne_McDuffie 's birthday. He would have been 62 today, if he hadn't passed unexpectedly one day after his 49th birthday. To me, and most everyone who knew him, Dwayne was a light we all orbited in someway. There are many great creators. Dwayne was a giant. 1/

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@GailSimone

3 years

I worked with three massive video game franchises in the past couple years where women working on them each individually told me their bosses were shocked and unprepared for the number of women and girls buying their games. Some expressed disbelief rather than delight.

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41% of PlayStation console ownership is now women and girls, that’s huge! #PS5 #PS4

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Gail Simone 💙💛

@GailSimone

3 years

This is the most underrated Spidey villain performance.

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Gail Simone 💙💛

@GailSimone

3 years

Okay, my challenge of the day. I want you to brag about yourself for one tweet. No humblebragging, no apologizing, no including your faults at all. For some, this is a breeze, some have never done it even once. Please use hashtag #MyBrag and say something great about you.

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Gail Simone 💙💛

@GailSimone

8 months

Folks. Bane is a strategic genius. She-Hulk is a brilliant lawyer. Harley Quinn is a highly educated psychologist. Poison Ivy is a brilliant botanist and biochemist. I could go on. When you write these characters as one-dimensional and unintelligent, you're doing it wrong.

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Gail Simone 💙💛

@GailSimone

24 days

Universal truth: transphobia is trash.

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Gail Simone 💙💛

@GailSimone

4 years

Solo is a damn good Star Wars movie.

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Gail Simone 💙💛

@GailSimone

5 years

This is actually outstanding.

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Gail Simone 💙💛

@GailSimone

1 year

On our trip back home we kept having the same nice thing happen to us several times. At first we thought, ‘oh how nice!’ Now I am realizing that it probably means something not very nice at all. A short thread. 1/

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Gail Simone 💙💛

@GailSimone

5 years

Raise your hand if you would like to see me and @stjepansejic do a Wonder Woman/Lara Croft crossover story. :) @dccomics @DarkHorseComics

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@GailSimone

5 years

Charles Schulz gets it spot on, 1970.

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Gail Simone 💙💛

@GailSimone

2 years

This is a real thing. Squeeeeeeee! I have been DYING TO TELL YOU GUYS.

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Gail Simone 💙💛

@GailSimone

3 years

Animal Crossing just banned Trump from the Turnip Exchange.

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@GailSimone

1 year

Okay, here is a theory that has some holes in it, but here we go. One of my biggest complaints about modern superhero stories is, especially from some newer writers, that they have downplayed the role of non-powered, relatable background characters. 1/

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Gail Simone 💙💛

@GailSimone

4 years

I do not like TERFs.

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@GailSimone

2 years

I was so excited when JKR started following me. Now I'm sorry I ever spent a penny buying her books.

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Gail Simone 💙💛

@GailSimone

1 year

I heard that when @matthewmercer was a waiter at a small bistro it took him three hours to describe the specials.

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@GailSimone

10 months

Bigots ruin every fucking thing.

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Gail Simone 💙💛

@GailSimone

5 years

Never trust anyone who doesn't like Weird Al.

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Gail Simone 💙💛

@GailSimone

5 months

THE CUTE

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Gail Simone 💙💛

@GailSimone

3 years

Today I woke up and realized that in the last month or so, two A-list film directors reached out to me separately because they want to work with me. THEN I remembered that I used to cut hair for a living. What happened. I DON'T KNOW. :)

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Gail Simone 💙💛

@GailSimone

3 years

Aw, thank you to @jamesgunn for graciously including me in the 'thank you' credits at the end of Suicide Squad. That doesn't always happen!

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Gail Simone 💙💛

@GailSimone

4 years

There are several writing ‘rules’ that are horseshit and I hate them. Here are a few. Add others if you like! WRITE WHAT YOU KNOW The worst. I say, know more. Write things you have to learn. Get help as needed. Bring your experience, yes. But write with bigger horizons.

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Gail Simone 💙💛

@GailSimone

4 years

I think Batman’s codpiece should be adorned with the pearls recovered from the alley floor.

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Gail Simone 💙💛

@GailSimone

4 years

This is one of the most underrated performances in any comic book film, don't argue with me about this. In a great movie, it would have been legendary. This performance alone wipes the floor with most Marvel movie villains.

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Gail Simone 💙💛

@GailSimone

3 years

Counter-argument: no, it doesn’t.

IndieWire

@IndieWire

3 years

After six episodes, #WandaVision still feels far too much like an inflated feature film that just keeps dragging out its story via inconvenient weekly installments. Here's why:

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Gail Simone 💙💛

@GailSimone

4 years

I am not worried about JKR’s feelings. She’s surrounded by wealth, love and adoration that most people can’t imagine, and has shown herself willing to threaten legal action against people who point out the harm in her actions. She’s not the victim.

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Gail Simone 💙💛

@GailSimone

1 year

Even if true (which I have no idea), this seems like a poor way to treat the people who worked on this film.

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@DiscussingFilm

1 year

Peter Safran says ‘BATGIRL’ “was not releasable. I actually think that David Zaslav and the team made a very bold and courageous decision to cancel it because it would have hurt DC.” See the full DCU slate:

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Gail Simone 💙💛

@GailSimone

6 days

This bit of comics movie casting is as good as any Avenger and if you disagree, you are wrong.

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Gail Simone 💙💛

@GailSimone

9 months

A failed screenwriter says what, Ben?

No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen

@NoLieWithBTC

9 months

. @BenShapiro : “My prediction: [Barbie] is just absolutely going to fall off a cliff after [week one]. The repeat business on this movie is going to be nonexistent.”

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Gail Simone 💙💛

@GailSimone

6 years

A couple years ago, a very nice young girl was being bullied for wearing a feminist t-shirt in a photo. I offered her words of support. Today, in São Paulo, she proudly handed me a graphic novel she wrote. I love comics.

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Gail Simone 💙💛

@GailSimone

4 years

I think there's a generational thing going on with the Birds of Prey movie. A certain older group of mostly straight guys keep repeating how the women in the film are not sexy. Meanwhile, I've been all over the world and younger people are DYING to see this movie.

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Gail Simone 💙💛

@GailSimone

4 years

Okay, I am about to tell a bit of a story. You're going to want to be prepared for this, fair warning.

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Gail Simone 💙💛

@GailSimone

3 years

I just realized that Bewitched is all about cocaine. She twitches her nose and magic happens and also she’s paranoid about people snooping around trying to uncover her secret and when one sugar daddy is no good anymore she just gets another and acts like nothing happened.

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@GailSimone

1 year

Dear trans people, you are human and beautiful and valid and these horrible people are none of those things. They blame you because they’re empty inside.

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Gail Simone 💙💛

@GailSimone

3 years

Damn, I knew I liked Lucy Lawless.

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Gail Simone 💙💛

@GailSimone

5 years

Here’s a thing, even if you don’t care about comics. @billmaher saw a mass of people grieving and thought, ‘Hey, how can I make this about me?’ Probably all anyone needs to know, really.

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Gail Simone 💙💛

@GailSimone

5 months

Not a drag queen, not trans.

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5 months

Ohio catholic priest, Michael Zacharias, has been sentenced to life in prison for sex trafficking children & adults.

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@GailSimone

7 years

I am not writing any more comics without LGBTQ and poc characters, period. It's weird we have to even make that declaration.

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@GailSimone

6 months

GARY GYGAX: Women don't want to play D&D, every woman who played in one of my games quit after like the fifth time I threw a rock at her head, I think they're brains are different or something, like squirrely somehow otherwise they would like me so much, just wow.

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@GailSimone

2 years

Okay, I loved the Eternals. I am not that familiar with the comic, I’ll admit it. But I loved the film. Lovely characters, avoidance of the usual formulas, and lush visuals. I understand not everyone agrees.but I loved it. LOVED. IT.

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Gail Simone 💙💛

@GailSimone

6 years

I’m sorry, but the best X-man is Nightcrawler.

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@GailSimone

5 years

This is the future SJWs want.

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@GailSimone

5 years

Remember when we were kids and the adults warned us that watching garbage tv would rot our brains? They’re now all watching Fox News nine hours a day.

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@GailSimone

1 year

Dear @JamesGunn . CALL ME, PLEASE. :)

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1 year

Agreed. Working on it.

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@GailSimone

4 years

As one of Batgirl's longest-running writers, I would totally endorse @karengillan as Batgirl. She'd kill as Barbara. Put Cass in there, too!

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Gail Simone 💙💛

@GailSimone

3 years

ENOUGH WITH THE FUCKING TRANSPHOBIA, PLEASE.

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@GailSimone

2 years

He died doing what he loved, falling off of Nakatomi Plaza.

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@GailSimone

3 years

STEPPENWOLF GILLETTE MACH SEVEN WITH COOLING GEL STRIP FOR SENSITIVE SKIN

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3 years

Zack Snyder releases a shiny new look at Steppenwolf from his cut of #JusticeLeague (via @ZackSnyder | Vero)

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@GailSimone

5 years

My favorite type of hero is not the unbeatable guy. Bar none, any gender, any universe, it’s the person who gets the crap kicked out of them, and somehow gets back up. Give me a hero who says they’re not done yet.

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@GailSimone

5 years

This is bitter news. We were lucky to have him. Untold millions of lives made better by stories. Endless people who learned responsibility from Spider-man, acceptance from the X-men, self-forgiveness from the Hulk. Stan Lee put better heroes in our vision. Forever the Man.

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@GailSimone

6 months

Okay, so yesterday, @rocketspouse and I went out to lunch at our favorite local Mexican restaurant. I've been working like A LOT and didn't feel like cooking. So, we sit down, we're having a nice lunch, only one other person in the place, a retired gentleman. 1/

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@GailSimone

3 years

One of the problems is that Batman can’t move his neck.

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@GailSimone

3 years

This is a solid gag.

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@GailSimone

2 years

We watched a couple Marvel movies for a thing, and holy crap, Black Widow’s arc sucks.

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3 years

I have an idea for a D&D book that needs to happen, for real. A style and fashion guide for adventurers. Like Elle for Orcs. I'm serious, though. @Wizards_DnD

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@GailSimone

3 years

I actually think about this often. Chase was cruel and horrible to his cast mates, he comes back to host as a movie star, and the new guy says THAT. A million, billion times worse than saying, ‘NO talent.’ After the fire, the fire still burns.

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@GailSimone

2 months

"Children." You can say "Children."

The Associated Press

@AP

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BREAKING: Health officials say more than 12,300 Palestinian minors have been killed in Israel's war on Hamas in Gaza

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@GailSimone

3 years

I am sorry but this Batman thing might never ever ever ever not be hilarious.

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@GailSimone

2 years

Deadpool was near cancellation when I took it over. We raised the sales AND critical and fan reaction was nearly 100% positive. Marvel cancelled and renamed Deadpool and Cable not for sales, but because they were mad at the co-creator of both, Rob Liefeld. Otherwise, sure!

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@GailSimone

4 years

Movie you hate that everyone else loves: The Breakfast Club.

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@GailSimone

2 months

Just a reminder that Ian Miles Cheong was an ostensibly left-wing loudmouth blowhard and it wasn't paying so in a single day, he completely switched to being a right-wing loudmouth blowhard because the grift was better.

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@GailSimone

2 years

Before seeing BLACK ADAM, we stopped for sandwiches at a Subway. The young counter guy was nice, was excited to see it, too, and we quickly realized he thought it was a Marvel movie. And it made me wonder how many people don't know or care if these movies are Marvel or DC.

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3 years

Be mad if you like, but I’m with @danslott . Superman and Batman don’t kill. Don’t bother sending samples, I’ve read those stories and they are either out of context, out of continuity, or out of character. They both have a code, it makes them what they are.

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@GailSimone

4 years

Ok Doomer.

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@GailSimone

4 years

I think this. Right now, the most underrated character at DC Comics is Poison Ivy. When she is given a proper spotlight, she steals every scene. Readers love her. Why she doesn't get the treatment of Catwoman and Harley, I have no idea.

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@GailSimone

9 months

Everyone acting surprised when TERFS get scope creep.

THE SCORE was Delivered!

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It appears the leopard has eaten a face

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@GailSimone

3 years

The actor playing John Walker is doing a hell of a job.

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@GailSimone

3 months

I don’t dislike the Star Wars sequels at all, I find them pretty antertaining and they did a lot right. My objection is the things they set up and completely squandered. Chief among them is Finn, whose story could have been an absolute banger. 1/

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@GailSimone

4 years

It still bugs me when people don't get Superman. It just does.

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@GailSimone

7 years

A princess in the movies, in real life a queen. You made millions of girls think we could do anything. Thank you, Carrie Fisher.

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