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Influenced from a young age by greats like David Bowie, Boom likes to add a little bit of glam to everything she does, from playing the ukulele to writing novels. When she’s not turning out stories about witchcraft and werewolves, she is a staff writer for ScienceFiction.com. You can find her other musings at LovingTheAlien.net

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As many of you know, Gertrude Yorkes is probably one of my favorite Marvel characters of all time. And as many of you also know, I am strongly in favor of the nuanced representation of overweight people in media.

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