I fucking hate texas I hate that abortions are more restricted than the guns that cause preventable mass shootings at schools and churches and Walmart and and and and it just goes on like this… it’s “protect the children” “what about the children” until the children are murdered in their elementary school and then it all “thoughts and prayers” “there’s nothing we can do” “don’t bring up gun control now it’s disrespectful to the victims” but I bet all 14 children and that 1 teacher would still be alive if we had any sort of gun laws
the real “problem with political correctness” is not that it’s considered offensive to use slurs, but that there are now many “progressive” environments where saying the right things is more important than doing the right thing. it’s why it’s so easy for abusers to gain traction in leftist circles (they learn the right words quickly and employ them to frame their own behavior as progressive); it’s why so much potential activist energy gets poured into fighting about language; it’s why moderate liberals didn’t believe fer/guson had a problem until the police emails with actual racist language were leaked. (you can do racist things, you just can’t SAY racist things.) i don’t have a neat conclusion here but a related point is that i’m so much happier since i started focusing on like, being a good kind caring person instead of trying to remove the word “crazy” from the vocabulary of everyone in my family
I rewatched Captain America: The Winter Soldier recently, and I remembered a good part of movies and tv shows is making sure the home sets reflect the characters. A lot of thought goes into the decorating and props of a character’s home in order to seem believable and make the scene work. What this means for me is that whatever is in Sam Wilson’s DC house/apartment is canon information about Sam in the MCU, and I thought I would compile and share with you all what I found in case there are any other fic writers and such who would love to use this information. So here goes:
✨Canon Information and Interests about Sam Wilson✨
He doesn’t refrigerate his mustard. I mean, you don’t technically have to refrigerate mustard, but it is recommended in order for it to last long/taste as good. So what can we gather from this? Sam is a mustard heathen. He doesn’t care about the flavor at all. He’s a mad man who eats so much mustard he doesn’t need to refrigerate it because the bottle won’t last long in his house. I can only imagine he puts mustard or barbecue sauce on everything.
Sam has a baseball trophy. So sometime ago, maybe in high school or college, he used to play baseball. Apparently he was pretty good too, or at least proud of his playing, if he has a trophy sitting on a shelf in his kitchen. Is this why he’s so good at throwing the shield? Or he could have also been playing baseball with his fellow Air Force members. Do you think he tried to get the Avengers to form a company baseball team?
Also I don’t have it pictured, but you can see an example of one in a screenshot three below, Sam also has several golf balls sitting around his apartment. Now either Sam just likes to fiddle with golf balls or he also likes to play golf (just like Mackie). So if you want to write about Sam being a sports person, he canonically plays baseball and golf.
He likes wine. Maybe loves wine. As we can see in this shot, he has a fancy wine rack hanging on his wall. Yes, it’s just wood, but who would go through that much effort to hang a wine rack instead of getting one to set on a counter or something (just my personal thoughts). I feel hanging the wine rack is supposed to show off his wine collection, because he loves his wine.
Also in his dining room, he has a huge bowl/vase full of wine corks. Again, I feel only wine fanatics would do something like that, because when I’m done with wine I just recycle and call it a day. Conclusion, Sam loves wine.
Sam loves music. I know we figured that with his whole Marvin Gaye obsession (understandable). But I really need to point out how much he loves music. His entire table is filled with stacks on stacks of CD’s (and also that golf ball I was telling you about). At least 30 CD’s. Not only that he also owns a record player. Not only that but he has several speakers.
At least four small speakers scattered throughout his kitchen and dining room, and also one very large speaker in his dining room. The man not only loves music, he makes sure he can listen to it well wherever he is in his house. That takes dedication.
Other small things I wanted to point out:
He likes the smell of coconut.
He keeps a 50 lb (?) dumbbell on his kitchen counter. wtf Sam
He likes Cookie Crisp cereal. Now one could argue this is for his nephew Cass when he visits (who is probably like what 3ish when the events of CA:TWS take place? i’m not good with guessing child ages), but I like to fully believe Sam digs Cookie Crisp cereal.
I’d say this is an anomaly but seriously roos are sometimes nosy and just need to be in your business, OR they will fight you if you look at them funny. I love them, they’re great, but they make little sense.
The fucking horror I felt in my soul of the 3 seconds it took to try to and work out what the fuck this animal was
Yk something that lowkey really bugs me? I hate how often when people talk about Steven Universe in terms of LGBTQ rep, there’s always this stupid ‘I know, but’ angle to it. Quite frankly, I don’t give a shit about the stuff other people don’t like about its writing (hell, quite frankly there are plenty of things that are arguably better regarded which I find less compelling or worse written). It was a series with not just one or two but literally dozens of queer characters, and told a story about self-acceptance and fighting against bigoted systems of power that spoke to me and a lot of people, one which didn’t pretend prejudice and abuse don’t exist like some shows with LGBTQ rep like to. And it did it before almost any other kid’s shows even touched the subject- you wouldn’t have stuff like She-Ra or TOH without it and their showrunners have basically said as much. It deserves to be treated as the jewel in the crown of Gay Cartoons and not just some also-ran.
Episode-by-episode, all of the pieces setting up the relationship between Quentin and Eliot, and Quentin and the Monster. No fancy out-of-context editing, no extra music or lingering shots, just the actual show as it aired. It was one of the most beautiful, complicated pieces of writing I’ve ever seen. Quentin loved the Monster’s face while the person he loved was trapped. This was such a well-executed plot, as we watched Quentin spiral into depression as he couldn’t save Eliot. It seemed to be setting up such an incredible reunion; we couldn’t wait!
For the first 10 episodes of the season, this plot thread was so clear. And then… no payoff. Nothing.
It’s been 3 months and I’m still upset. I don’t understand why you would write this incredible story and just drop it. I made this video in part to see if I had mis-remembered. Was I projecting things into the story that weren’t there?
No.
I’ll never understand this.
Absolutely spot-on. And this doesn’t even address Eliot’s horrifyingseries ending… Ugh. I get upset even considering it.
Happy new year to everyone, but especially to the love of my life aka Javier Fernandez aka the biggest blessing that ever happened to the sport and the whole universe.
maybe this is just because I love spoilers and finding out spoilers, up to and including skipping to the end of a book to know the ending before I get there, but I think the cultural handwringing over spoilers is a mistake.
like, I think most people agree that forbidding actors from so much as knowing what project they’re working on or knowing anything other than their own lines is deranged and excessive. I also think that at this point most people have thoroughly gotten over the allure of ~sHoCkInG tWiStS~ (because anyone having any correct fan theory is a threat to writerly integrity or something).
but like, genuinely: it is okay to learn information about a work before you consume it. it’s okay to know the ending before you consume it! it’s okay to know the entire plot synopsis before you consume it! only very rarely is the existence of a particular plot point what makes the story memorable or interesting. what makes a story memorable or interesting is how you get there. I want to say “it’s the journey, not the destination” is too cliché of a way to put it, but really, truly, that’s what it is.
I knew everyone died at the end of Rogue One well before going in, but I still cried for a solid fifteen minutes at the end because I got emotionally attached to the characters. I know that the team in Leverage is always going to defeat their mark every episode, but what I care about is what new con they use or what heist they pull to make that happen. everyone knows what happens at the end of orpheus and eurydice, but Hadestown is still an incredibly popular musical because of the way the story is told.
a shocking twist only works once. if the writers are good at their jobs, I should be able to know exactly what happens in the story and still feel emotions about it anyway when I see it.
First off: I bloody love your writing. (Thank you!)
Second: ok, so, consider a whumpee who appears to be an absolute arsehole to their team, suddenly putting themselves in harms way for their sake. Be it bodily intercession or a good ol’ fashioned take-me-instead-of-them. This leads to the teams realisation of “oh shit we’ve misjudged them”. *cue rescue + comfort*
I remember back in the Dark Ages (2019) when the first Sonic Movie trailer came out, and everythng was on fire. I was one of the few people unironically defending Gremlin Sonic.
Despite its glaring flaws, I still think the design had its moments, and was not nearly as horrible as everyone said it was. Some tweaks would have been enough to make Gremlin Sonic good, but of course, what we ended up getting was the best care scenario.
Earlier I was kind of annoyed at this, but now….I’m fine with it. It’s just a joke, not really disrespectful towards anyone. Despite everything, I’m somewhat happy to see him again?
I think a lot about how we as a culture have turned “forever” into the only acceptable definition of success.
Like… if you open a coffee shop and run it for a while and it makes you happy but then stuff gets too expensive and stressful and you want to do something else so you close it, it’s a “failed” business. If you write a book or two, then decide that you don’t actually want to keep doing that, you’re a “failed” writer. If you marry someone, and that marriage is good for a while, and then stops working and you get divorced, it’s a “failed” marriage.
The only acceptable “win condition” is “you keep doing that thing forever”. A friendship that lasts for a few years but then its time is done and you move on is considered less valuable or not a “real” friendship. A hobby that you do for a while and then are done with is a “phase” - or, alternatively, a “pity” that you don’t do that thing any more. A fandom is “dying” because people have had a lot of fun with it but are now moving on to other things.
I just think that something can be good, and also end, and that thing was still good. And it’s okay to be sad that it ended, too. But the idea that anything that ends is automatically less than this hypothetical eternal state of success… I don’t think that’s doing us any good at all.
