When and how did this become acceptable and a flex?? And of course she said there’s nothing to be worried about because it was ~consensual~
I’m not being snarky or funny when I say this. This resulted in brain damage. We’re looking at non-fatal strangulation, where her blood flow was cut off so strongly and for so long, that the vessels that carry blood to her eyes and face ruptured and we’re looking at the results of internal bleeding. Losing consciousness by itself indicates serious neurological effects from this traumatic injury.
Tiktok is a platform primarily aimed at children and young adults. She almost died. Even if she genuinely asked for and wanted this, it doesn’t make it ethical to glorify extreme self-harm on a youth-based social media app. The people who used to glorify this stuff used to post it to 18+ fetish sites and it’s become so normalized that children are looking at this and at other pornsick adults commenting about how ~sexy~ it is and developing a warped view of the world and women’s place in it. It’s unconscionable.
music should always be a space to just purely feel whether it’s joy or sadness or hope, I’m glad in the face of this pain there is a celebration reminding us all what music means
i can’t vibe with anyone who thinks icarus was an ignorant idiot for flying too close to the sun. “oh i’d never do that i would have remembered my father’s warning and been fine”. do you seriously think that after years of imprisonment, feeling the sun on your face and the open air beneath your wings, you would be able to focus on anything but the joy of being alive and free? do you actually think that if you were given the opportunity to go where nobody has never been before, you wouldn’t want to push it to the limit? to dare to be the first to try what no one else has ever even thought possible? do you honestly think you’re too good for your own human nature? look me in the eyes and tell me if i strapped a pair of wings to your back that could take you wherever you wanted to go whenever you pleased that you’d be careful and sensible about it. you are not better than icarus just because you have the benefit of his example.
so im unsure if ponk meant the “13 pillars of salt” line to be a biblical reference, but either way, i think its a really good analogy for ponk’s relationship with sam, and their character as a whole. the “pillar of salt” refers to the story of lot, in which lot and his family are warned by an angel to leave their city before god destroys it. while fleeing, lot’s wife looks back, is turned into a pillar of salt, and is consumed along with the city.
ive always liked the slaughterhouse-five interpretation of this story, which is that lot’s wife was so attached to the city that she looks back instead of choosing to be saved. and i think that is a flaw of ponk’s character: they are constantly coming back to the past. they still love sam despite being hurt by him, they rebuild their lemon trees after they’re continuously destroyed, they’re the only smp member to be tied to reincarnation. ponk has the compulsion to look back. they know doing so will only hurt, but they look back anyway, because they are so very human.
There’s a scene in Vendetta that I’ve been wanting to talk about because I just couldn’t stop thinking about it. So here we go.
It’s when Chris, Leon, and Patricio were ambushed by Arias’s men, and Diego started unloading that humongous machine gun on them.
I couldn’t help but notice Chris’s reaction here.
I think we can agree that in that kind of situation, you wouldn’t have the time to plan your action. You’d act based on your instinct/reflex.
Apparently, Chris’s instinct/reflex was to grab the closest person there and try to get them to safety.
That person happened to be Patricio. It’s worth noting that by that point, Chris had heard from Leon that Patricio wasn’t exactly a good guy. According to Leon, Patricio was the one who betrayed him and made him lose his whole unit in the beginning of the movie.
Yet, despite knowing all that, Chris still tried to get him to duck for cover. He didn’t discriminate who to save. For him, Patricio was just a civilian, another human being, and Chris just cared.
He got Patricio behind one of the pillars for cover, while he himself just crouched over him, putting himself in danger. He’s willing to sacrifice his own safety for the sake of others’ (This reminds me of how he threw himself to save his comrade from Iluzija in RE6).
And it doesn’t end there. This is what happened next.
(Unfortunately, I had to make this particular gif in black and white because it’d exceed Tumblr gif size limit otherwise, but I hope it’s clear enough to see.)
After he got Patricio behind cover, the next thing he did was to make sure that the other person who happened to be there, Leon, was safe as well.
Look at that gif. Chris looked up to check if Leon was alright. Only after he confirmed that Leon was okay did he proceed to look at their attacker to assess the situation. It’s always other people’s safety first.
So, yeah. What I’m trying to show you is that Chris is such a selfless character who always just wants to save and help people. I don’t think it’s even because he wants to, it’s just in his nature, his instinct.He’s just a genuinely good person. And ‘good’ is definitely an understatement when talking about his character.
If the mcu wants to hint at Laura Barton being Mockingbird then they owe us a big ol’ divorce movie, im talking Marriage story, The social network kind of shit, Hawkeye: Working Out Joint Custody coming to theatres near you kind of shit, it was still useless for him to have kids but at least I could maybe start to forgive them for their stupid clint characterization
THIS! Season 2 please!
AGREED. (Even though Agents of Shield already has a Mockingbird and it’s decidedly not Linda Cardellini…)
In my opinion, they should have had the Hawkeye show start out with Laura and Clint already divorced. It would allow for the Matt Fraction story beats to play out so much easier. Like, Clint could have moved to New York after the divorce because he’s feeling all ~types of ways~ about losing both Natasha and the Avengers. He could eventually have bought the entire apartment building, which would help bring in the Tracksuit Mafia (and Fisk in a MUCH more natural way). That action would have given us more insight into how Clint is always looking out for the little guy, but thinking about the bigger picture. It would make more sense why he stays there while his kids go back to Laura. it would give us some more emotional opportunity for Clint to be mourning an inevitable Christmas alone and then boom here comes Kate with her extreme optimism and inspiration about how life isn’t that bad or whatever.
And then we would have gotten the instability between Laura and Clint that would have actually acknowledged the comics a liiiitle bit more.
But alas…
How does it feel to be so very correct about everything?
