NORTHSTARFAN: re X-Tremists #2 : OMFG, LEAH!!! I am so emotionally compromised right now! I must know... was Don Marquis' "the lesson of the moth" part of the inspiration for the confessions between Betsy and Fred?!
YESS OMFG GOOD EYE!!!!! (here’s the poem if anyone wants to read it!)
LW: There’s a few poetry references in X-tremists #2 (Betsy’s issue) that aren’t really meant to look like references, but retrospectively take on extra meaning when X-tremists #3 (Fred’s issue) comes out in April because that’s when we get a better glimpse at how he’s a big poetry fan already. (It’s not supposed to be anything that takes away from what’s actually happening either way, just an extra layer down there for whoever can see it–there’s a lot of this kind of, idk, we’ll call it “lensing” happening in X-tremists.) Betsy’s fixating on the moths flying like they’re broken bc she’s missing the part of her mind that remembers Angel, and Fred’s fixating on her fixating on the moths because he’s a gentle giant, uwu poetry softy who adores Betsy.