But Nick Spencer throws a Nazi HYDRA fuck party for himself, ruins an icon of tolerance and a Jewish character who is a concentration camp survivor and they’re organizing marketing events around it.
In case it was unclear how much Marvel apparently hates women, Jews and other minorities, here ya go.
Dick Grayson is Rromani. Making him into a genocidal fascist is not only an insult to his character but to the Rroma. This is in no way acceptable. It is antiziganist and incredibly disrespectful on so many levels.
He is one of, if not the most, iconic Rromani characters and him being made a fascist follows the decision by marvel to have Wanda Maximoff, a rromani woman, join hydra, a nazi organization. These are blatantly antiziganist and follow a dangerous trend in recent media that threatens the safety of minorities. We are being demonized and being made to be the perpetrators of fascism, of genocide, of Nazism. I have had enough and it is time the creators knew this. Fascism is not a joke, a simple plot device. It is what leads to genocide. To the deaths of millions and it is not to be taken lightly. These stories, arcs, whatever you want to call them, are normalizing fascism. This is incredibly dangerous and dc and marvel need to hear this message.
if you are gadje please reblog this. The Rroma will not stand for this. Neither should you.
this handsome-ass motherfucker is george gordon lord byron, romantic poet, ladies’ man, lords’ man, greek national hero, and all-around beautiful fuckup. yes, he’s dead. yes, he’s wearing a laurel wreath. yes, those bedsheets are artfully draped as fuck. don’t question it. this shit happens.
in january of 1816, byron’s wife left him, mostly because he was pretty terrible to her. a former lover of byron’s, lady caroline lamb, decided that this was a fabulous opportunity to ruin his life. (lady caroline lamb was… a lot like byron, actually. she liked to dress up as a dude, which byron found sexy as fuck, and be scandalous, which byron… also found sexy as fuck. after she and byron broke up, she made a huge bonfire in the english countryside, in which she burnt portraits of byron and things he had given her. then she had local village girls dance around said bonfire, singing a song of her own composition. contrary to popular belief, this song was not “we are never ever getting back together”.)
byron had told ms. lamb quite a lot of things he shouldn’t have; the most pertinent were that a) he was getting it on with a fuckload of dudes and b) he was also getting it on with his own half-sister, augusta. caroline lamb, being caroline lamb, told byron’s newly estranged wife. at which point the sodomy and incest made it into the divorce papers. at which point the entirety of england was suddenly talking about it.
soooooo amidst a cloud of scandal byron swanned off to switzerland with a cute young doctor (though not before throwing a goodbye party of viking proportions, which actually involved a cup made out of a real human skull that he had found on his grounds) and settled in a gorgeous house by a lake to do some artful lounging.
while byron had been sleeping with everyone in sight, percy shelley and mary godwin had been having troubles of their own. mary’s dad was a leftist radical, but wasn’t a big fan of his political followers (i.e., percy) coming around to sleep with his daughter. percy and mary did not give a fuck, and proceeded to make out on mary’s mother’s grave. this is literally true.
unfortunately, percy was already married, so he and mary proceeded to fuck off to switzerland with mary’s stepsister claire clairmont, whereupon they got their own house by the lake and decided to make friends with their new neighbor.
so, among byron, his doctor, percy, mary, and claire— well, mary and claire were not sleeping together, and i’m pretty sure the doctor was only sleeping with byron? but. apart from that.
other interesting events of those months were mary shelley inventing science fiction, byron hypnotizing the doctor into jumping off a balcony, and the doctor and byron sort of accidentally co-inventing what would become dracula.
it was a hell of a summer.
anyway, byron proceeded to get claire pregnant, and percy’s first wife died, and the doctor got pissy about being generally left out of everything fun and went back to england, and everyone sort of wandered over to italy and almost got arrested a few times, and then byron stole his baby from claire and stuck it in a convent, where it died.
then percy got caught in the middle of a storm and died, dramatically, and they burnt his body on the beach. mary got to keep his heart, which remained unburnt. they found its remains among her belongings when she died at the ripe old age of 53. it was very romantic. capital r.
and then byron decided it would be a great idea to help liberate greece from the turks, so he went to greece and got stuck in the middle of a fucking swamp doing literally nothing except giving people money and being sexy in order to get other english people to give greece money. and then he caught some fucking swamp disease, and his doctors were terrible, upon which he died.
there’s more— byron’s fake gay autobiographical poem, percy’s fondness for explosives, mary’s sassy feminist mother— but this has gotten long enough. i sure hope it’s been helpful, though!
mary’s sassy feminist mother? mary motherfucking wollstonecraft. nbd tho!
also ada lovelace is the spawn of lord byron so yeah there’s that too
HOW THE FUCK DID I NOT KNOW THAT ADA LOVELACE WAS BYRON’S DAUGHTER? LIKE, HOW IS IT POSSIBLE THAT I HAD NEVER LEARNED THAT? Dude, this whole family is amazeballs and should be canonized in an 8-part HBO miniseries called “BYRON RUINS EVERYTHING BUT SOMEHOW YOU DON’T CARE”.
This clique of what would nowadays basically be a bunch of mall goths are ultimately responsible for some of the most influential works of speculative fiction, on top of being the forebears of the first computer programmer.
There’s a reason Ada’s mom didn’t want her associating with poets.
Also check out this really amazing kid’s mystery (with slightly smudged timeline but the author explains it all in the afterward including the ridiculous entanglement of relationships)!
My local comic shop is staffed by a black man and a gay woman so no, they won’t be dressing up as Hydra vermin to try and promote the garbage that the disgusting sub-human dog-fuckers who run Marvel Comics are trying to promote
Also, because they don’t give a shit about promoting Marvel’s piece of shit comics, especially their utterly worthless “Event” trash
Oh my god WHAT
Marvel apparently looked at the disgusting marketing campaign that piece of garbage “Man in the High Castle” show did and thought “Yeah that looks like a good idea” and just kind of
Didn’t notice the part where all normal people were disgusted and appalled by it
How fucking tone deaf do you have to be to run a promotional campaign encouraging people to dress up as fictional nazis in today’s political climate where white supremacists and real life nazis are in a resurgence and the country is divided.
Related? Yes. A good idea? FUCK NO..
Like
Actual real life Nazis are now making “Fan art” using Nazi Cap as a propaganda image
Marvel has a presence on social media, there is no way they are ignorant of this at this point
Their response?
“Hey everyone!
Dress up as nazis to promote our shitty event comic!”
Like
Sorry but there is no excuse for this bullshit…Marvel KNOWS how this is making actual real world people who had their families or people like them be victims of the horrors of Nazi germany feel…we’ve literally sent letters, tweets and messages TO MARVEL about this making it clear how horrible, offensive and disgusting this is
This isn’t just a mistake…this is Marvel NOT CARING
I’m beginning to wonder if there aren’t a few nazis inside Marvel itself…
One of their executives donated a million dollars to Trump’s campaign
So the answer to that question is yes
You know perhaps instead of aiming complaints at Marvel, we should be aiming them at Disney.
Something tells me they might care a bit more about their reputation being tarnished by this pro-Nazi bullshit, and they DO hold Marvel’s leash now…
There really needs to be an organized letter writing campaign to their parent company.
Voting with your dollars is good, but ineffective if they don’t understand why, explicitly, they’re losing money.
Remember: free speech means this shit can’t be suppressed by the government. Disney coming down on Marvel like a fucking hammer would be capitalism functioning as intended.
If Spencer et al want to publish their ugly garbage on AO3 instead, that would be just fine by me. I support trash fiction. I don’t support enabling white supremacy financially. They have a right publish, not to be compensated for it. Nobody owes them a nickel.
Give these fuckers what Milkfed Yakofuckerface got: the door hitting their asses on the way out with a terminated contract.
Yes, this! Complaining to Marvel when their head is Ike Perlmutter, a vile old man who supports Trump, is worthless. Write to DISNEY, include examples of the alt right, Nazis, KKK, etc., photoshopping Captain America into a Nazi, and tell them that this is not suitable to children and it needs to stop.
Also? Boycott ANYTHING with Hydra Cap in it, on it, or whatever. Boycotting Marvel as a whole hurts Squirrel Girl and Ms. Marvel and other books that are not part of this. Tell Marvel that this is EXPLICITLY about Hydra Cap, and that the boycott will end when Tom Brevoort and Nick Spencer are fired.
This is a great idea – I’m looking up how to contact Disney right now!
Edited to add:
Boost the hell out of this. Nazi propaganda has no place in a decent society.
Reblogging this for the following, to make it more accessible to those who can’t use the image:
Disney Corporate Office Address
Walt Disney Company 500 S. Buena Vista St. Burbank, CA 91521
Executives: CEO: Robert A. Iger CFO: James A. Rasulo COO: Alan N. Braverman
Also: A clarification on my own above comment-
The transposition of Moldbread Yankeedoodle with Milkfed was a sneering pejorative likening him to a pampered veal calf prepared for conspicuous consumption, not to in any way link his unworthy and vile ass with the excellent indie comic brand founded by DeConnick, Fraction, and Zdarsky.
(I forgot that was the name of their label, tbh. That’s on me.)
so u mean to tell me that Disney got Captain America 2’ed????
Steel Phoenix Studios 
