Strong Women · Strange Worlds June 17th Reading!

For the first time, I'll be reading with Strong Women-Strange Worlds! I'm doing a Third Thursday Quick Reads event on Thursday, June 17, at 5:00pm EST. So I recommend a cocktail or pleasant beverage! 

You can now register for the event here!

Looking at the current line-up, which is subject to change, I'll be reading alongside Elaine Isaak and C.S.E. Cooney (both of whom I have prior reading experience and are lovely people to boot) as well as Ingrid Kallick, Elle Ire, and MB Austin. The emcee will be the eminent Sarah Smith!

Their next reading is this Friday at noon and features Barbara Ann Wright, Gloria Oliver, Sarah Jean Horwitz (who I met at a convention a while back), Patricia Correll, Jane C. Esther, and Carol Berg. Please join them if you can.

Updates to register for the event will be available here. You can also sign up for their mailing list to receive information about upcoming events.

Requiem for Spooky Season: A Mega Round-Up of Fiction, Theater, YouTube, Game Writing, and Things I've Been Doing

October is in the rearview mirror, now, but for me, spooky season is forever.

On November 24th, Wicked Women: An Anthology of New England Horror Writers dropped. It was edited by Trisha J. Wooldridge and Scott T. Goudsward with a cover by Lynne Hansen. The writers in it, among many, include Jane Yolen, Hillary Monahan, and myself. I'm ecstatic to be in such company.

I wrote the short story that was accepted to the collection, "Eyes Like Silver Dollars," some years ago. It was wonderful to edit it under the guidance of Trisha Wooldridge. I spoke about it at length with her as well as fellow writers Lola J. Clemente and Christine Lajewski, and the cover artist, Lynne Hansen, for the Wicked Women panel we recorded for Salem Horror Fest 2020.

You can find the specific "Wicked Women" panel here and other programming here! 

Please take a look. It was an absolute pleasure to be a part of this online convention, especially during the isolation of the pandemic.

If that's not enough for you, I did a reading for the fest, as well! 

It's actually from the beginning of "Bobbie and Her Father," my other short story published this year.

This story has garnered some delightful praise, which you bet I'm linking here for my own edification:

The father in the thought-provoking “Bobbie and Her Father” by Gillian Daniels is a modern Victor Frankenstein, and Bobbie is his creation. [...] [O]ne is left pondering many of the themes of Mary Wollstonecraft’s original: the consequences of one’s actions, the ramifications of playing god and/or trying to conquer mortality, and the fact that monsters are not born monsters.

- Paula Guran, Locus Magazine

The story is by turns heartbreaking and frightening, and while it is not without its death and gore, at its heart, it is a story of monstrous loneliness rather than monstrous rage.

- A.C. Wise, Shiny Shorts: Monster Summer 

The horror here builds nicely.

- Sam Tomaino, SFRevu

Oh my gosh. THIS STORY. It is a wrenching, horror-ifically funny, and devastating take on Frankenstein, all set in modern-day suburbia, and featuring the regular kinds of people that probably maybe live on any given street. Daniels's story twists and turns through unsettling scifi, to horror and dark comedy, into something that is almost (but only almost) heartwarming.

- Maria Haskins, My Sci-Fi, Fantasy & Horror Short Fiction Roundup - August 2020 

 

Thank you. I'm so moved. I was so nervous when The Dark Magazine agreed to publish this story, but I should have realized the audience for it was there and waiting.

Speaking of readings, the YouTube channel TheDevilsInterval did a reading of my short story, "Older Sister." It was originally published in The Dawnline RPG with Voidspiral Entertainment in 2018. 

The narration is amazing. You should totally check out his channel and the other stories he's read and produced.

Last but far from least, I wrote a piece of theater/teleplay which premiered in October. It's called, "Let Slip the Dogs of RAWR XD" for our Catalyze Open House. It was a crash course in learning how to edit video, too, which was enormous fun.

Sienna is Kitty Drexel, an actress and my editor over at The New England Theatre Geek. Shawn is played by the excellent Joshua Berkowitz-Geller and Baby, the dog, is the esteemed Jenny Gutbezahl.

I wrote this with Catalyze Playwriting Group, which we premiered in the Catalyze Open House which I helped design, another learning experience that was fascinating and rewarding. 

I absolutely recommend clicking through to find the many Easter eggs my fellow playwrights and I hid throughout. One is a Twine game I made in the basement!

This is all to say, I've been busy and doing my best to take care. 

I hope you're taking care, too.

Speculative Boston Rides Again

Courtesy of  Speculative Boston and WGBH, here's a video of me discussing fiction with eminent authors, Nina MacLaughlin, Sonya Taaffe, and C.S.E. Cooney at Trident Booksellers.

It was a lovely evening. I know Sonya and Claire separately from genre conventions and Boston gatherings. They are luminous, wonderful people to know. I met Nina for the first time that day and she was a wonderful addition to the readings and the discussion. I was also happy to be a part of a full house with a deeply engaged, thoughtful audience.

Maybe the shelter-in-place/quarantine is getting to me, but this night was SO GOOD. I'm so pleased Andrea Martinez Corbin continues to give me the opportunity to host some fine, talented people.

Punchin' Nazis with Art

I'm so damn excited to have THREE of my poems in not just a zine with comic artists, but the zine, Cartoon Punk: Artists Against Fascism.

What an enormously satisfying project to take part in.

The 2016 election and all the near-constant pounding of awful news afterward has altered much of what I write and how I write it. I'm still a writer of genre--fantasy, sci-fi, and horror--but my poetry has taken a slant toward the political. 

When I heard that Lily Hoyda and Rosa Lee Monroe were putting together a collection of comics and essays against anti-semitism, racism, feminism, and, yes, fascism, I queried to see if they were accepting poems. 

It seemed unlikely but I figured I should at least try. While I have doodled autobio comics about my political frustrations, I didn't have much I considered polished enough for an illustrated submission to a zine with professional artists. So I thought, "Ha, maybe they'd want a poem or whatever."

They took three: "The Hero John Wayne," "The Boston Holocaust Memorial Vigil," and "Anyway, Here's a Poem About the Internet," the last of which is probably my favorite title that I've ever come up with for a poem.

My hope is I can find more places to publish my political poetry, short stories, and maybe even my sketches.

So if you want to support artists against fascism, you can order it here. Punch Nazis with art.

Arisia Schedule 2017

Yay! Arisia is THIS WEEKEND and I'm on four panels, three of which I'm moderating. Looking forward to seeing friends and absorbing energy for a new year!

Come and say hi!

In Praise of Unlikeable Characters Marina 1 Literature Sat 1:00 PM 01:15

Gillian Daniels (m), Maya Garcia, Lorrie Kim, Ken Schneyer, Sonya Taaffe
Description Bring us your curmudgeons, your cantankerous jerks, your deliberately unlikeable characters of all genders without which the plot might not move so smoothly. Someone's got to do the dirty work, after all. Let's talk about our favorite unlikeable characters in genre fiction, and the purposes they serve.

Queering Up Canon Marina 3 Fan Interest Sun 1:00 PM 1:15
Gillian Daniels (m), Lee C. Hillman (Gwendolyn Grace), Konner Jebb, Cassandra Lease

Description Much fanfic has a large interest in QUILTBAG themes. Maybe your fic involves making characters of the same gender fall in love with each other, having a character established as cis turn out to be trans, or asking if Sherlock has never shown any interest in a "proper" Victorian marriage because he's asexual. Can fanfic writing and QUILTBAG activism potentially intersect? What does it mean that fans of works with cis, straight characters are looking for more variety in the fiction they consume?

Sexuality and the Superheroine Adams Comics Sun 7:00 PM 01:15 

Juliet Kahn (m), Gillian Daniels, Ed Fuqua, Alisa Kwitney Sheckley, Maddy Myers
Description A lot of the debate around female characters in comics centers around their sexuality—case in point, Harley Quinn in Suicide Squad. It’s a contentious issue: can these characters truly have agency? What does it mean for a female character created and written by men to “own” her sexuality? Is there a difference between “empowered” fishnets and “degrading” ones, in the context of superhero comics? Can a fictional character be slut-shamed? Let's tackle these questions and more!

Short Sharp Shocks Hale Literature Mon 1:00 PM 01:15 

Gillian Daniels (m), Andrea Corbin, Morgan Crooks, MJ Cunniff, Keffy R.M. Kehril
Description Simply put, you can do things in short fiction that you can't do anywhere else. Experiments that only hold up for a few thousand words, twists that would fall flat at greater length, intense playfulness with form and function, unrelenting emotional intensity, and more. Let's talk about the best short fiction of today and what makes it great.

***

Today, I attended the Day of Denial hosted by 350 Massachusetts. It was a short demonstration asking the governor to take further action on climate change. 

I made up a list of resolutions that I expect to stick to with varying degrees of success this year, but the one I take the most seriously right now is continuing to protest.

This is Real. This is What We Do Next.

Here's a list of organizations you can support:

- Union of Concerned Scientists

- The Climate Reality Project

- The Sierra Club

- Sacred Stone Legal Defense Fund

- ACLU

- The Human Rights Campaign

- YWCA

- RAINN

- The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline

Here are some petitions you can sign:

- Kids vs. U.S. Government & Big Oil: Adopt A Climate Recovery Plan Now

- Electoral College: Secretary Clinton WON THE POPULAR VOTE and should be President. 

- ACLU: I am ready, willing, and able to fight like hell to protect the Constitution and defend freedom for everyone in this country.

We have work to do. It is a new world. 

The election results fill me with trepidation at best and a fear of multiple, catastrophic, national and international incidents at worst. There is a moment each day that I wake up where I am relieved and happy until I remember what has happened and where we live now. I am grieving.

I don't think it's the right time to over-react, but it is the right time to take action. A wave of hate crimes has already broken out. Street harassment has been reported en masse. This is not right but it is real. It is happening.

We don't know what will happen next. There's been much speculation and little confirmation. 

We must take responsibility for the coming years. We must stand and fight for the people and things that have become so much more vulnerable.

Write to your representatives. Call. Find them here.

Otherwise, in this time of helplessness, in the hope that our greatest fears will not be realized, I urge you to reach out. Affirm your friendship and love for the people in your life who are important. Take care of your mental health.

If you volunteer, keep up the momentum through November, December, 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020. If you donate, keep your eye on what we can do next to help. If you read articles and watch the news, don't give into panic. 

Organize. Push. Next time an important election happens (looking at you, mid-term elections), vote.

Stay passionate. Stay loving. Don't burn out, burn bright.

If you make art, keep making it. It won't help by itself, no, but it is a welcome thing in difficult times.

I love you. Even if you voted for the candidate I didn't support, I want you to live in the best possible world. I will fight for you, all of us. I hope you'll consider doing the same.

Mentee Seeks Novel Mentor!

This is it! My bio for Pitch Wars!

Let me give it to you.

What's this?

Brenda Drake, a YA author, started the annual contest, PitchWars. In it, publishing professionals (authors and editors) kindly give over their valuable personal time to mentor to writers seeking representation for their manuscript.

One of the things you can do to get ready is write a bio per Lana Pattinson's #PimpMyBio.

So I am doing that.

Right now.

About Me

I'm originally from Cleveland (home of god child, Lebron James) and have been living in Boston since 2011.

I moved there after doing the six week, intensive, fantasy and science fiction writing workshop, Clarion. It made me more connected to the writing community than I have ever been before.

I have published short fiction and poetry in pro and semi-pro writing magazine markets!

Strong female characters are awesome. Dynamic female characters from different backgrounds, perspectives, and modes of strength in a narrative where none of them are The One Girl are even better.

I like to babysit people's cats and house plants when they're away.

I'm bi and like to write queer and LGBTQA+ (QUILTBAG?) characters.

I have a podcast with a friend where we yell about superhero movies!

I've been a panelist at Readercon, Boskone, and Arisia to talk about Doctor Who, anime, myth, fairy tales, fanfic Mary-Sues, Outlander, Harry Potter, comic books, Marvel movies, and many, many other things.

I've worked in academic publishing.

I dislike soda and love homemade smoothies.

My friends at my writing group, BSPEC, including Emily Strong, got me interested in doing this!

About My Book

High school freshman Elsie saves the life of a magical boy exiled from Faerie.

This is great. He's also Puck, King Oberon's powerful servant. Now, due to Faerie law, he becomes bound to her every whim until he can repay the favor. 

At first, Puck’s impulsive magic and companionship opens up Elsie’s world. This includes having her face conflicted, romantic feelings toward childhood friend, Pollyanna. 

But he has a dark sense of humor. His mischief turns increasingly dangerous and Elsie must find a way to break the bond in case people are hurt, even though she and Puck have started to become friends.

Unfortunately, Puck has enlisted the help of Queen Mab to break the bond, and she's a powerful ally with no sense of scale.

Puck is a young adult suburban fantasy recasting the characters from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. It's looking for a good mentor and a good home.

Why Pick Me

I'm ready for a mentor!  After critiquing, re-writing, and re-structuring my novel over the course of years, the only piece missing is an industry professional to show me the light!

I've been taking constructive criticism since middle school, where I participated in the school's official writing club, Power of the Pen. Yes, that's the name.

I'm a hard worker ready to make enormous revisions!

And I just need to find the person to help!

Some of My Favorite Things

Books: Among Others by Jo Walton, Tithe by Holly Black, The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman, The Diary of a Teenage Girl: An Account in Words and Pictures by Phoebe Gloeckner, My Happy Life by Lydia Millet, Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card, One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez, Swordspoint by Ellen Kushner, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling

Movies and TV shows: Guardians of the Galaxy, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Princess Mononoke, Tokyo Godfathers, Back to the Future, Parks and Recreation

Thank you and best of luck to all mentors, mentees, and participants!

New Year Fortunes and Arisia Schedule 2016

For New Years Eve, I watched Star Wars: The Force Awakens and enjoyed reading Tarot cards with friends. I'm hoping to start things off right.

Also, the Arisia schedule is up for 2016! Hurray!

Here are the panels I'm on. Hope to see you there!

Supergods: Superheroes as Modern Pantheon Alcott (Comics) Fri 8:30 PM
Description Superheroes come from the sky, with impossible powers and indelible promises. They show us the light in our darkest moments, and remind us of how we would prefer to be treated. Is it so wrong to imagine them as Gods? In this panel, we'll explore the idea of the Superhero as a modern interpretation of deities.
Mehitbel Glenhaber, Ed Fuqua, Joey Peters, Alex Jarvis (m)

Steven Universe: We'll Always Find a Way Burroughs (Media) Sun 11:30 AM
Description Rebecca Sugar's STEVEN UNIVERSE has been a breakout hit for Cartoon Network. The first series on the network created by a woman, it tells powerful, funny, and moving stories in tiny doses, and has dealt uncompromisingly with issues around gender, childhood, and family in ways both unexpected and delightful. It's also telling a great long-form adventure story. We'll talk about all elements of this show in a panel that, like the show itself, will appeal to fans of all ages.
Max Gladstone, Cody Mattes, Juliet Kahn, Cassandra Lease (m)

Marvel Cinematic and TV Universe, 2016 Edition Marina 3 (Media) Sun 1:00 PM
Description The last year has seen two movies (AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON and ANT-MAN), and seasons of four TV series (AGENTS OF SHIELD, AGENT CARTER, DAREDEVIL, and JESSICA JONES). What's the current state of the MCU? How is progressing creatively? Is it still cohesive? Do all of the shows and movies still work well together, or are there cracks starting to show where things are being forced? We'll have our annual review of all that's good and in need of improvement, as well as looking ahead to 2016's movies.
Sarah Weintraub, Gordon Linzner, Ed Fuqua, Bob Chipman (m)

Speculative Poetry is Awesome Marina 2 (Literature) Mon 11:30 AM
Description Over the past decade, speculative poetry has increasingly turned toward the mythic, personal, and powerful in subject matter, with venues such as Strange Horizons, Mythic Delirium, Stone Telling, and Liminality showcasing a new generation of poets who’ve redefined what this type of writing can do. Come discuss what's new and wonderful in the world of speculative poetry!
Shira Lipkin, A.J. Odasso, Julia Rios (m), MJ Cunniff

Gravity Falls Marina 4 (Media) Mon 1:00 PM
Description Over the last two years, *Gravity Falls* has moved beyond its initial goof setup and developed an incredibly layered mythology, all while still providing some emotional character development and a pair of genuinely loving siblings whose differences help the plot. Now that the mysteries and threats have increased, how is the show holding up? We'll discuss our favorite fan theories, the end-of-episode codes, and more.
James Hailer (m), David G. Shaw, A.J. Odasso, Trisha Wooldridge

[SPOILERS for Age of Ultron and Mad Max: Fury Road] You Belong Here, Too

YEAH, YOU DID THIS 
AS A KID, TOO.

One of the first TV watching experiences I can remember is the art deco city against the blood red sky of Batman: The Animated Series (1992). A gift to my preschool boyfriend (he was my boyfriend by my decision, I remember, and probably not his) was a chewed Blowpop stick with the wrapper tied around the top like a cape. I claimed it was Batman. My mom opted to intervene regarding my homemade action figure.

My favorite characters in the show, however, included Catwoman, true to her morals (ie, protect cats, because cats were and are the best). I also knew she was tied to Batman in a complex almost-romance. It took a while for me to understand she was a villain. I remember a very passionate argument about it on the school bus when I was in kindergarten, later realizing my friend at the time only knew of Tim Burton's inferior (I felt) take on Selina Kyle.

I loved Joker's girlfriend and henchwoman, Harley Quinn (whose earnestness and accident-prone nature endeared herself to me), Poison Ivy (who was extremist, classy, and sexy without, apparently, being interested in men), and Detective Renee Montoya (who took no shit from anyone else on Gotham's corrupt police force and, I learned years later, went on to become The Question in the comics). I was a lot less interested in Barbara Gordon as Batgirl, who seemed bland and lacking in complexity.

Promo Image for Catwoman in

Batman: The Animated Series (1992-1995)

So it was a while before I realized superhero fiction was, by and large, marketed for boys. Due to Bruce Timm's sleek and PG-rated if same-ish designs of female characters for his Batman, it was longer before I realized most of the outfits of women were marketed for the gaze of heterosexual men.

Less vivid than the memory of trying to give trash to my preschool sweetheart or seeing the credits of Batman appear on-screen is my recollection of going into a comic book shop for the first time. I was with my Mom, I think, and I was met face to face with a collection of scantily clad posters complete with disproportionately large cleavage.

No one told me to leave the comic book shop. Of course not. I left anyway, though. I was a shy kid. There was a sense that this wasn't for me.

[SPOILERS for Avengers: Age of Ultron] The One, Exceptional Woman

Promo featuring Scarlett Johansson in Age of Ultron

Why Black Widow's Character Development in Age of Ultron is Sexist

1. It isn't.

2. See one.

Okay, yes, a female character becoming romantically attached, thinking about reproductive issues, or getting captured can absolutely all be sexist. In the context of just this film, though, I don't believe it is. Black Widow spends her screen time doing the things she's always done, fighting robots, maneuvering motorcycles and bulldozers, rescuing people, and being indispensable to the Avengers in and out of battle. She's funny, vulnerable, brave, has clearly spelled out desires and motivations, and is more fully realized as a character than in any of the previous Marvel films. Her characterization left me refreshed and hopeful.

Age of Ultron's Natasha also felt true to the information we have regarding her past and personality. Like Winter Soldier, she remains a character defined outside of her romantic interests...even if she has them. Her other primary relationships on display are platonic. A good chunk of her screen time is devoted to her kinship with Hawkeye and his family. Alyssa Rosenberg from the Washington Post has described this development as “more subversive, at least by the standards of contemporary filmmaking: Natasha and Clint are what they say they are, not soulmates in denial but the best of friends.”

And yes, I maintain the interpretation that the reason Natasha calls herself a monster in her conversation with Bruce is because she’s been trained to be a “killing machine,” not because she can’t have children. I understand why others have come to different conclusions as that scene has questionable editing if not outright bad juxtaposition. It is not, however, at the core of the conversation they're having, but ancillary to it. Even subtextually, they seem to be talking about isolation. Natasha is comparing her loss of autonomy to Bruce's. (Insert gif of black-clad ballerinas binding their hands behind their backs here.) As Katie Hasty writes, the scene isn’t about “lovers sussing out the logistics of family planning, but a woman mourning the loss of an option.”

Also, there's certainly an argument to be made that the damsel'ing trope is averted when Natasha contacts her team from the hideout and throws her rescuer into the pit so they can save the day together as Hulk and Widow. 

Boiling down Natasha Romanov to her romantic life and traumas is not just reductive as an interpretation but outright reactionary. 

Now, what is sexist: Black Widow’s the only female character on the core team up until this point. "The one, exceptional woman as good as the men" has been built into the choices of the Marvel Cinematic Universe from the beginning. 

No Wasp is there as a founding member for the Avengers; this world, as far as we've seen, doesn't have Sue Storm and the Fantastic Four. Because of this, Black Widow has to be perfect and only flawed in minor ways because “what are you saying about your female fans otherwise?” She’s the potential cipher for every female fan. Her fertility is suddenly not about her, it's somehow about all women and their fertility.

This has been lopsided since day one, an issue of patriarchy coded into the DNA of just about every film the studio has produced. The apple has had a worm in it from the beginning.

She’s not the only female character, of course: there’s Wanda Maximoff, Maria Hill, Jane Foster, Pepper Potts, Laura Barton, and Dr. Helen Cho. They’re all enormously competent and aren’t given as much screen time (or, sometimes, any) and development as the protagonists of the films so far. It’s a problem the end of Age of Ultron tries to rectify by bringing in Scarlet Witch to the team.

It doesn't change that so far in the MCU, being female is a deviation from the default hero.

I know exactly why Black Widow’s characterization has received the heat it has, and the reason why has less to do with Natasha saying, “I was forcibly sterilized” than the fact there’s no Captain Marvel movie out yet and no plans to make films for She-Hulk, Squirrel Girl, or even an interesting, conflicted character like Phyla-Vell. In a market where female roles in action films are usually limited to romantic interests, Marvel Entertainment needs to do better as a company. We can afford to have super powered women expressing different interests, abilities, and desires, fight the conception of what the default hero is, and make more films with female protagonists. 

I remember attending San Diego Comic-Con 2011. There was a Marvel panel promoting a film I had just learned about called Avengers.

During a Q&A session, a woman came up to the mic and said something along the lines of, “We have movies for Iron Man, Hulk, and Thor. Are we going to get a film about Storm from the X-Men?”

I recall one of the panelists looking concerned when she asked this. Instead of saying Sony still had the rights to Storm, he said, “We have to concentrate on other characters first.”

That decision has come back in an ugly way. Placing importance on what the studio assumed would do well--popular and male heroes--has caused a very specific, critical reaction to a primary female character. Guardians of the Galaxy proved a film with virtually unknown properties can still endear audiences and make money.

This problem runs deep, certainly deeper than Black Widow’s personal life. It's a problem of patriarchy and assumed defaults. To the people who have felt betrayed by Age of Ultron's depiction of women, I think I know where your anger is coming from, but I also know where it should be directed.

tl;dr The system is broken. Natasha isn’t.

BLACK WIDOW: FEMINIST CHARACTER or A FAILURE TO FEMINISTS EVERYWHERE?? fuck's sake, with 2 or 3 more lead women this would be meaningless

— Noelle Stevenson (@Gingerhazing) May 6, 2015

Also:

THE JOSS WHEDON CONVERSATION MORE STRIKES HULK AS AN INTERSECTION OF IFFY SEMIOTICS AND ABSOLUTISM THAN THE OTHER STUFF.

— FILM CRIT HULK (@FilmCritHULK) May 4, 2015 

INCREDIBLY VALID CONVERSATIONS TO BE HAD ABOUT THOSE CHARACTERS AND WHAT WAS BEING SAID AND NOT, BUT THE ONE THING THEY WERE NOT WAS REDUCED

— FILM CRIT HULK (@FilmCritHULK) May 4, 2015

INSTEAD THEY FELT LIKE THEY OPENED UP, BECAME MORE VULNERABLE, ETC. AND YES YOU CAN TAKE THOSE MOMENTS OUT OF THE WHOLE AND THEY CAN READ

— FILM CRIT HULK (@FilmCritHULK) May 4, 2015

AS PROBLEMATIC, BUT TO HULK, IT WAS ALL PART OF A LARGER, DEEPER CHARACTER COMMENTARY / THEIR ROLE IN THE WORLD.

— FILM CRIT HULK (@FilmCritHULK) May 4, 2015

AND WHAT'S OKAY / NOT OKAY. AND WHETHER IT'S VALID. BUT A NUANCED THING IS GETTING REDUCED ON BOTH SIDES. AND HULK JUST WISHED WE DID BETTER

— FILM CRIT HULK (@FilmCritHULK) May 4, 2015