I was just about to say how funny it would be if Thor and Peter Quill got together - it was just a random thought I had when I checked the tag for Love & Thunder trending on Twitter - and then I watched the trailer for the movie, and I was like “My faith in Taika Waititi was not wasted”, because he seriously teased that ship as a possibility.
For real, I could suffer Chris Pratt The Bigot one more time if his ass was totally wrecked by Thor on screen. Just saying.
He will be remembered as “this guy who was fucked by Thor” till the end of time and his carrier would be forever marked, so nothing he will say or do will ever change it, and he will suffer from the inability to erase that. This is a level of petty I am willing to commit myself to if it fucks Chris Pratt’s life. There is seriously not a better way to destroy a bigot than tie him to the thing he hates the most forever, to the point that he is known only for that thing and nothing else.
I know I’ve mentioned something similar to this before, but I had another shower thought today about our dearly departed Queen and had to write it:
Daenerys is the only person who fought for the good of the people.
No one else in the entire story even comes close to attempting to make the common people’s lives better, or thinks of them at all really.
Sure, Jon’s fight in wanting to save people from the army of the dead is important.
But Jon’s fight also saves his own skin. If the army of the dead come, he’s dead too.
Dany’s fight against slavers and nobles does not affect her if she were to just peace-out and give it up. She’d still be a Targaryen. She’d still have a claim to the throne. She’d still be a Queen.
She doesn’t need to help the people she helps throughout the story. Yet she does it anyway.
This is why the ending to Game of Thrones is doubly frustrating because the audience has never seen anyone else fight for the kind of people Dany was fighting for… so we’re just left with the same broken system and the same awful hacks who kept the wheel spinning.
Thinking about how perfect the song “I’m Still Standing” by Elton John is in reference to the character of Will. Like specifically toward the end of the series, after coming out alive from all of the events.
Not only is it a symbol of survivorship, but the fact that it’s by Elton also feels extremely right to me.
Rich is being able to go get a personal pan pizza at Pizza Hut because it’s just the right size and you like the pizza, and then being able to casually leave your server a $20 tip just because they brought you your pizza and you appreciated it.
Too often it takes me years removed to come back to photos of myself and feel I looked fine let alone sometimes even actually pretty. But this is one where that came instantly. Not saying there aren’t ways I could improve on how I look…like makeup or toning up or better lighting…but I just don’t care. I mean I know I’m not flawless but I’m okay with my flaws and don’t feel the urge to cover them all up like I did in the past. I see the progress in being more comfortable in my own skin, and that seems a good start at least.
