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Okay, so after multiple attempts, I have successfully uploaded the AoA storyline for everyone. It has Legion Quest, in order, and then has the main AoA storyline in order, with the side stories, histories, and Blink miniseries stuffed in at the end. It comes with a reading order, but I figure it's easier to read the actual storyline, and then save the stuff that happened in the past of that world for later.
So here you are! ♥
Complete Age of Apocalypse
You need something to read the .cbr file extension, like CDisplay.
Which leads me to my latest comic fueled rant. You know, I've been reading these things since I was five, and I never realized I had anything to say about them! Silly me.
Upon reflection and further reading, I still greatly enjoy the Age of Apocalypse storyline. It was fun, I loved Scott, and Mister Sinster (and I'd completely forgotten that, but OMG SINISTER) and I loved Bishop (before they turned him into a jerk--and don't let me even go there. Maybe one of these days I'll write my Bishop rant.)
BUT.
It made me so fucking glad Jean Grey is dead. I didn't even remember how much of the universe centered on how much she loves Scott Summers versus the animal attraction she has with Wolverine, and I swear, if I had to read one more line about her 'mysterious' connection to AoA!Scott, or another mention of her soulmate, Logan, I honestly would've just deleted the entire thing and said 'fuck it,' because I DON'T CARE ABOUT JEAN GREY.
(Scott, though. Dude. I loved him even more than I remembered.)
Which brings me to another point: Jean Grey manages to piss me off in regards to my het OTP. After some background, I'll rant about why.
So, Scott Summers is awesome and sacrifices himself to save the world, loses six months and grows a personality. That's all very yay. But then, when he turns to his wife, Jean, for support, she's totes all, I can't handle the new you, and goes running straight into the arms of Logan. But then, Emma Frost, whom I've loved since her creation and was thrilled when she switched teams to teach Generation X, sees the gap and worms her way in, thereby taking advantage and having a mental affair with Scott. Now, as far as I'm aware, they never had mental sex, so I'm good, although it was totes an emotional affair, which I really think is worse in some cases.
Jean finds out, and they're all geared up to have a telepathic cat fight to put all other telepathic cat fights to shame, but then the Big Bad (aka... Magneto, I think, for this particular storyline) comes about, and they have to put everything on hold. Scott promises when they all get back, he'll make a decision between the two.
AND THEN JEAN GREY DIES.
AGAIN.
And at her grave site, after the funeral, Scott says that he can't do the X-Men anymore, that he's lost too many people, and he walks away.
Cue the next issue, which is 250 years in the future. Jean Grey wakes up from a 'Phoenix Egg' whatever that is, and finds out that hey, Scott leaving the X-Men was a bad idea, because everything goes to shit without him! \o/
And after a long, convoluted, what the hell is even going on kind of plot, Jean Grey reaches through time and goes back to that moment when Scott said 'no', and she told him to say 'yes.'
Cue the moment when Scott walked away. Instead of making his own legitimate choice, his own wife takes away his free will, his right to choose, and mind rapes him into choosing to stay with the X-Men and take Emma as his new girl Friday.
THIS MAKES ME SO ANGRY.
We never knew who he was going to choose, simply because the death of his wife caused him so much grief, all he wanted to do was go away and mourn. And Jean took away that right. Scott and Emma are my favorite canon het pairing, and always, every time I see them on the page together, I think that Scott didn't choose this, that Jean chose it for him, and it wasn't fair.
I honestly believe he would have chosen Jean and ended the thing that he had with Emma. Because that's who he is. But he wasn't given the chance to do that. His relationship, as awesome as it is, is non-consensual in its most basic form. If I want Jean Grey to come back, it is for one reason, and that's for her to confess what she did, remove the fucking futuristic brainwashing she did, and let him make a legitimate choice on his own.
Barring that, I hope she stays dead. They've been doing pretty good at that.
So here you are! ♥
Complete Age of Apocalypse
You need something to read the .cbr file extension, like CDisplay.
Which leads me to my latest comic fueled rant. You know, I've been reading these things since I was five, and I never realized I had anything to say about them! Silly me.
Upon reflection and further reading, I still greatly enjoy the Age of Apocalypse storyline. It was fun, I loved Scott, and Mister Sinster (and I'd completely forgotten that, but OMG SINISTER) and I loved Bishop (before they turned him into a jerk--and don't let me even go there. Maybe one of these days I'll write my Bishop rant.)
BUT.
It made me so fucking glad Jean Grey is dead. I didn't even remember how much of the universe centered on how much she loves Scott Summers versus the animal attraction she has with Wolverine, and I swear, if I had to read one more line about her 'mysterious' connection to AoA!Scott, or another mention of her soulmate, Logan, I honestly would've just deleted the entire thing and said 'fuck it,' because I DON'T CARE ABOUT JEAN GREY.
(Scott, though. Dude. I loved him even more than I remembered.)
Which brings me to another point: Jean Grey manages to piss me off in regards to my het OTP. After some background, I'll rant about why.
So, Scott Summers is awesome and sacrifices himself to save the world, loses six months and grows a personality. That's all very yay. But then, when he turns to his wife, Jean, for support, she's totes all, I can't handle the new you, and goes running straight into the arms of Logan. But then, Emma Frost, whom I've loved since her creation and was thrilled when she switched teams to teach Generation X, sees the gap and worms her way in, thereby taking advantage and having a mental affair with Scott. Now, as far as I'm aware, they never had mental sex, so I'm good, although it was totes an emotional affair, which I really think is worse in some cases.
Jean finds out, and they're all geared up to have a telepathic cat fight to put all other telepathic cat fights to shame, but then the Big Bad (aka... Magneto, I think, for this particular storyline) comes about, and they have to put everything on hold. Scott promises when they all get back, he'll make a decision between the two.
AND THEN JEAN GREY DIES.
AGAIN.
And at her grave site, after the funeral, Scott says that he can't do the X-Men anymore, that he's lost too many people, and he walks away.
Cue the next issue, which is 250 years in the future. Jean Grey wakes up from a 'Phoenix Egg' whatever that is, and finds out that hey, Scott leaving the X-Men was a bad idea, because everything goes to shit without him! \o/
And after a long, convoluted, what the hell is even going on kind of plot, Jean Grey reaches through time and goes back to that moment when Scott said 'no', and she told him to say 'yes.'
Cue the moment when Scott walked away. Instead of making his own legitimate choice, his own wife takes away his free will, his right to choose, and mind rapes him into choosing to stay with the X-Men and take Emma as his new girl Friday.
THIS MAKES ME SO ANGRY.
We never knew who he was going to choose, simply because the death of his wife caused him so much grief, all he wanted to do was go away and mourn. And Jean took away that right. Scott and Emma are my favorite canon het pairing, and always, every time I see them on the page together, I think that Scott didn't choose this, that Jean chose it for him, and it wasn't fair.
I honestly believe he would have chosen Jean and ended the thing that he had with Emma. Because that's who he is. But he wasn't given the chance to do that. His relationship, as awesome as it is, is non-consensual in its most basic form. If I want Jean Grey to come back, it is for one reason, and that's for her to confess what she did, remove the fucking futuristic brainwashing she did, and let him make a legitimate choice on his own.
Barring that, I hope she stays dead. They've been doing pretty good at that.
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God, it's like the writers don't have a single fucking CLUE what to do with Jean Grey. BUT THIS IS NOT ROMANTIC, FOLKS. THIS IS SKEEVY AND ALSO BULLSHIT.