im tired of this new era of disney movies where they realized other countries exist and are going to capitalize on them. diversity win! the usamerican company who owns the market is making movies about your country now! the only people working on it are yanquis or maybe someone who was born in your country but moved to the us bc they had the privilege to do so. no actual support to your country’s movie industry. i dont want encanto i want movies made in clombia by colombians with 0 involvement from yanqui capitalist conglomerates
Peggy’s The Futility of War was sick as fuck actually like hell yeah
Yeah but that battle was a triumphant victory.
Three of the six men in the original photo never left Iwo Jima. One of the three survivors, Ira Hayes, became an alcoholic after the war and died in 1955 after a drunken altercation. He was hated by the mainstream US for being Native American and likely spent the last ten years of his life in emotional agony with no mental health resources to help him find peace again. Fuck your triumph. Fuck war. Fuck your hero worship.
I have two tabs open. one is tumblr. I am 160 posts back on my dashboard - I have made it back to the place I left off the night before.
satisfied, I open the second tab to pull up a post-avengers fanfic. everyone lives together in stark tower - each of them has their own floor. for no explained reason, loki shares thor’s. no one questions that he has not been arrested. the team has friday evening movie nights. at breakfast, thor eats all of tony’s pop tarts.
I am content.
to all the people saying this was an embarrassing time: I am 34 full years old and reading/writing these fics brought me so much joy and rereading them still does. embarrassment is a construct, cringe culture is dead, and the found family trope saves lives.
#they were not as cringey as the actual mcu movies are now (via @nostalgiaiscool)
nobody looks unhinged quite like hayden, like he’s so pretty but his kubrick stare is terrifying. he’s got the face of an angel and when his expression contorts with pure vicious loathing, it’s awful. the casting for anakin was so perfect it makes me feel feral. every time he loses his goddamn mind on camera i feel such glee. nobody could’ve done it better imho
re-reading Lore Olympus and while YES Thanatos does mention nepotism with Persephone getting a job in the underworld, I find it so fucking hilarious that lo antis like to blame Hades for this when it was literally Hera who gave her an order to get a job in the underworld. And sure it looks like nepotism to Thanatos who doesn’t know whats really going on, but its very clear that Hera only did it to set Hades and Persephone up. she literally said she was doing it “as a test” of their relationship. Hades was VERY against Persephone getting job in the underworld and didn’t think he would lose to her at chess, albeit an unconventional way of getting a job. And meanwhile, Persephone only made that deal out of fear of what Hera would do to her/think of her. So quit picking favorites here just because y'all like your problematic milfs so much.
I think I’ve done a pretty good job so far of not responding to any Guy/Thomas points that make me feel personally defensive–I’ve tried to avoid knee-jerk reactions and only respond publicly if I can feel objective to some extent. But I have to say this:
Regardless of whether Julian Fellowes thinks above-average wealth is necessary to a happy life, fans preferring Guy/Thomas to Barris is not an endorsement of that belief. We don’t think Thomas needs to be rich to be happy. We don’t think Richard is a worse romantic candidate because he’s working class, as evidenced by the fact that virtually all of us shipped Thomas with other working class characters before Guy showed up and many of us still do. To say that it’s an inherent, unfortunate aspect of our ship that we need to deal with–either to defend or reject–is just bonkers. We like the characters. We think they’re cute. That’s all.
And also… so what if I enjoy the idea of Thomas being rich? So what if I want to take a break from working my two part-time underpaid jobs, paying too much rent in an apartment I share with three roommates, worrying endlessly about inflation and when my student loans come due again, to imagine that my blorbo can live in a house that’s been completely paid for and take luxurious vacations with a man who showers him with gifts? That’s a completely normal and morally neutral way to engage with escapist media and I don’t feel the slightest bit guilty for it.
first they phased out the 22 episode season then they phased out the 13 episode season and now they’re phasing out the 10 episode season like can you guys go watch fucking movies or something and stop trying to “tighten” television
We need to go back to more episodes because shows can’t be action or drama all the time, there needs to be breathing room for both the audience and the characters. There need to be good filler episodes where the characters get to just have fun and develop outside of the main story. Side quests and downtime are important to storytelling. We need to see the characters be regular people with regular problems in between the big stuff.
like when you call all wlw couples “lesbian” you’re erasing bi women in those relationships. lesbianism isn’t a blanket term for all wlw relationships, it’s a sexuality. sapphic is such a good word, it’s an excellent umbrella term for all wlw/nblw and it’d be great if everyone could use it more and normalize it
Sometimes I feel like the only person who thinks daylight warriors are one of THE smartest ideas Skyclan has ever had, it’s honestly ingenious! Warriors you can count on to ALWAYS be well fed without even touching the fresh kill pile in the harshest of leafbares? Warriors who get the much more effective twoleg treatment like shots? Like Millie having shots was a HUGE deal in one of the books because it protected her from greencough! Could you imagine an entire battalion of warriors and even a medicine cat apprentice that no matter the disease can support the rest of the clan and protect the borders with no fear? That’s huge! That’s useful!
Some people/cats complain that it means they are at half strength at night, but I think that’s very glass half empty of them, I say if you account for the clan without the daylight warriors first then you’re DOUBLE AS STRONG during the day! Plus by completely getting rid of it you run the fact that a lot of daylight warriors may not stay! Any cat that leaves permanently because you got rid of daylight warriors is one less hunter, one less fighter, and I can’t imagine a majority of them would stay! Most of them clearly love their twolegs with how they keep collars and names, all that would happen by stopping it would be you lose a good chunk of your clan at once and make it harder for other cats to join!
If there are issues then similar to the medicine cat have some specific daylight warrior rules! Like have it in the code that daylight warriors eat last as they know they will always be fed and thus must make sure the entire clan is fed before they can eat the fresh kill the clan needs or something! A daylight warrior must help the apprentices with tasks if more help is needed due to the fact that know they have less responsibilities! Make them responsible for keeping up with twoleg place news and have to help collect herbs from it! While it may have needed some refinement because it was so new the base concept is sound and makes for a safer clan and more interesting stories!
itafushi is tragic but not in the same way that satosugu is, like so many claim. cause satosugu never communicated so they only knew how they felt about each other and their stances when it was too late. but itafushi literally can’t help but yell out how they feel about each other to the world and themselves CONSTANTLY, and I just think that’s neat
