Michelle Ehrhardt

@chelleehrhardt.bsky.social

Tech & Games Expert. Bylines at Lifehacker, Gizmodo, Tom's Hardware, Out Magazine, Kill Screen. Games on Itch. She/Her.

Castlevania broke my brain so much as a kid that we would drive past the county courthouse and I would fantasize abt separating it into wings & placing loot & hiring scare actors & making the world’s most specific haunted house Konami hmu this would do gangbusters for exactly 5 ppl in Northeast IN

Oh my god, Green Lantern’s final issue before Crisis tie-ins is abt John Stewart—the architect—building a new planet for an alien who had lost his own. I’m gonna cry 🥹 Meanwhile, all Hal thought to do was beat that alien up (tbf he was abt to terraform Earth & kill all humans in the process but 🤷‍♀️)

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Through what feels like the first arc in After War Gundam X. Quickly rising through the ranks as far as AUs are concerned. A very natural mix of Zeta, Turn A (which it predates!), and Mad Max, with just a sprinkling of Wing. I love failson Quattro Brightjeena and his feral murder daughter.

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Reading John Stewart’s early GL appearances. Rly struck by this lil mini-arc for Hal. John gets the ring after Hal quits to be w/Carol. Then he kinda regrets quitting. Then the man who taught Hal how to pilot knocks him out to steal one last test flight, and dies. I.e. Hal needs to learn to let go.

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Honestly kinda surprised how many ppl stuck with Harry Potter even before JKR doubled down on bigotry. Subpar prose and unhinged worldbuilding of the early books aside, having been there at release, I thought we all kinda agreed books 6 and 7 were a fall-off even by those standards?

Cool Dr. Strange Cloak ✅ Magic fire ring ✅ Toxic Yaoi ✅ Loves trains ✅ Fought the Nazis ✅ 1st Gotham Superhero ✅ Daughter is green, son is purple ✅ Not a dog of the Guardians ✅ Stepped up for Kyle after Hal went full Parallax ✅ Alan Scott feels criminally underdiscussed in the “best Lantern” debate

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