{"id":60578,"date":"2026-06-27T14:02:34","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T18:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=60578"},"modified":"2026-06-27T14:02:34","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T18:02:34","slug":"ive-enjoyed-the-conversation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=60578","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ve Enjoyed the Conversation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The family just got back from the beach. I enjoyed my time but&#8230; you know&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/ahh-noo.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-60579\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/ahh-noo.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"407\" height=\"498\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So, I&#8217;m glad to be back but I&#8217;m exhausted. I had a really good time reading your conversations about the MCU. I&#8217;m glad people understand where I&#8217;m coming from. There&#8217;s a lot of MCU zealots online so it was a genuine concern.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m wiped out. Long car ride after fun but exhausting trip. So in leiu of an article, I have another question. What would it take for you to have genuine interest in returning to the MCU?<\/p>\n<p>For me it would be a massive slowdown of product followed by a solid integration of the X-Men. I know that whole thing is still in licensing hell but I can&#8217;t see me having any real interest otherwise. For me, that comes from a fondness for X-Men over all other Marvel product and I could see a proper combo work great. Just give me Wolverine x Venom. Please.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The family just got back from the beach. I enjoyed my time but&#8230; you know&#8230; So, I&#8217;m glad to be back but I&#8217;m exhausted. I had a really good time reading your conversations about the MCU. I&#8217;m glad people understand where I&#8217;m coming from. There&#8217;s a lot of MCU zealots online so it was a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[640],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethanirl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60578"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60583,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60578\/revisions\/60583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}