Aug. 25th, 2019
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katy-133:
improbabledreams900:
I learned to animate for class, so naturally I made some cute little snake!Crowleys!
[Made using three different methods combining Illustrator, Photoshop, and AfterEffects.]
This is great! Look at the little snake boi go!
katy-133:
improbabledreams900:
I learned to animate for class, so naturally I made some cute little snake!Crowleys!
[Made using three different methods combining Illustrator, Photoshop, and AfterEffects.]
This is great! Look at the little snake boi go!
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kawuli:
fierceawakening:
ceescedasticity:
ceescedasticity:
merfilly:
alienshepard:
Team: “I really don’t hate this character but seeing how they are clearly favoured by the company and the fandom makes me really tired of seeing them everywhere”
And there is –
Team: “Fandom decided to take this minor character and make them everywhere so I am so tired of them when I didn’t have an opinion before.”
Team: “I don’t think this character’s flaws are all that bad really but the way people keep acting like they don’t exist is driving me up the wall.”
Actually you know what–
Team: “I am indifferent to or even actively dislike this character but so many people are ignoring the underlying causes or mitigating circumstances of their behavior/erasing their good actions or attributes/blaming them for things they weren’t solely or, sometimes, at all responsible for/just generally not being FAIR in their dislike that I find myself driven to defend them.
i am absolutely team the last one
“I SWEAR, IF YOU KIDS MISS THIS NUANCE ONE MORE TIME I’M GONNA TURN THIS CANON AROUND” *furious ficcing*
Man I have characters in all these categories
kawuli:
fierceawakening:
ceescedasticity:
ceescedasticity:
merfilly:
alienshepard:
Team: “I really don’t hate this character but seeing how they are clearly favoured by the company and the fandom makes me really tired of seeing them everywhere”
And there is –
Team: “Fandom decided to take this minor character and make them everywhere so I am so tired of them when I didn’t have an opinion before.”
Team: “I don’t think this character’s flaws are all that bad really but the way people keep acting like they don’t exist is driving me up the wall.”
Actually you know what–
Team: “I am indifferent to or even actively dislike this character but so many people are ignoring the underlying causes or mitigating circumstances of their behavior/erasing their good actions or attributes/blaming them for things they weren’t solely or, sometimes, at all responsible for/just generally not being FAIR in their dislike that I find myself driven to defend them.
i am absolutely team the last one
“I SWEAR, IF YOU KIDS MISS THIS NUANCE ONE MORE TIME I’M GONNA TURN THIS CANON AROUND” *furious ficcing*
Man I have characters in all these categories
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botanyshitposts:
ghostinbone:
botanyshitposts:
botanyshitposts:
botanyshitposts:
a series of events
>my mom is an elementary school teacher who does extended learning stuff
>every year she teaches a unit on the fibonacci sequence
>right before school starts, she goes and finds some sunflowers to use as examples
>she gets some normal sunflowers and puts them in vases
>this year we have feral sunflowers growing in our backyard too
>sunflowers grew from birdseed the finches threw on the ground from mom’s birdfeeders
>sunflowers for use in bags of sunflower seeds for human consumption, birdseed, etc are specifically bred to industrial sizes to increase yields, just like any other crop
>tfw a few sunflower seeds grow and most of them are normal/smaller bc of hybrid vigor (only the first generation produces industrial sized plants, subsequent generations can vary wildly)
>tfw one singular sunflower grows to industrial size. like. INDUSTRIAL.
>its so big birds perch on it to pull out the seeds
>mom cuts it off and takes it inside to save it for class
>tfw all our vases are too small
>it absolutely dwarfs the normal sunflowers
>tfw my mom puts it in our crockpot with some water instead
The worst part about surveying through sunflower fields is not the resin you get covered in or even your skin getting sandpapered off by the hairs on the leaves.
The worst part is getting concussed by the flowers as they bash you in the back of the head as you push them out of the way.
okay. i gotta say. never considered the potential occupational hazards of sunflower fields
botanyshitposts:
ghostinbone:
botanyshitposts:
botanyshitposts:
botanyshitposts:
a series of events
>my mom is an elementary school teacher who does extended learning stuff
>every year she teaches a unit on the fibonacci sequence
>right before school starts, she goes and finds some sunflowers to use as examples
>she gets some normal sunflowers and puts them in vases
>this year we have feral sunflowers growing in our backyard too
>sunflowers grew from birdseed the finches threw on the ground from mom’s birdfeeders
>sunflowers for use in bags of sunflower seeds for human consumption, birdseed, etc are specifically bred to industrial sizes to increase yields, just like any other crop
>tfw a few sunflower seeds grow and most of them are normal/smaller bc of hybrid vigor (only the first generation produces industrial sized plants, subsequent generations can vary wildly)
>tfw one singular sunflower grows to industrial size. like. INDUSTRIAL.
>its so big birds perch on it to pull out the seeds
>mom cuts it off and takes it inside to save it for class
>tfw all our vases are too small
>it absolutely dwarfs the normal sunflowers
>tfw my mom puts it in our crockpot with some water instead
The worst part about surveying through sunflower fields is not the resin you get covered in or even your skin getting sandpapered off by the hairs on the leaves.
The worst part is getting concussed by the flowers as they bash you in the back of the head as you push them out of the way.
okay. i gotta say. never considered the potential occupational hazards of sunflower fields
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geekgirlnd:
jillbert:
capacity:
autohaste:
If depression was a musical
This is a bop
ok this keeps coming on my dash and every time the notes are filled with people being like WHAT IS THIS so i am HERE TO ENLIGHTEN YOU, FRIENDS
this is from the musical Firebringer which is free to watch on Youtube. it’s by Team StarKid of A Very Potter Musical fame (think you recognize the girl singing? that’s Lauren Lopez, also known as the funniest Draco Malfoy the world has ever seen)
anyway, Firebringer is a female-driven, hilarious musical about bisexual cavewomen and you are going to want to watch it. trust me.
WATCH FIREBRINGER!
Our entire office sings this at least once a week.
geekgirlnd:
jillbert:
capacity:
autohaste:
If depression was a musical
This is a bop
ok this keeps coming on my dash and every time the notes are filled with people being like WHAT IS THIS so i am HERE TO ENLIGHTEN YOU, FRIENDS
this is from the musical Firebringer which is free to watch on Youtube. it’s by Team StarKid of A Very Potter Musical fame (think you recognize the girl singing? that’s Lauren Lopez, also known as the funniest Draco Malfoy the world has ever seen)
anyway, Firebringer is a female-driven, hilarious musical about bisexual cavewomen and you are going to want to watch it. trust me.
WATCH FIREBRINGER!
Our entire office sings this at least once a week.
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someplanetelse:
crazyintheeast:
take-a-dip-in-the-deadpool:
johnnyjoestarrelatable:
hallmark movie
woman: i have a high paying job in new york city that i love and christmas isn’t that important to me
her black friend: you need a MAN
woman’s dad: come to the small town,, we are suffering without a baker for our town festivale
woman: ok dad
man: i harvest maple syrup for a living and make 2 dollars a year
woman: :/
man: will you harvest maple syrup with me…
woman: i’ve decided i hate my job and i’m going to resign myself to making christmas tree ornaments in fuckberg for the rest of my life
This should have been prefaced with “we forced a bot to watch 1000 hours of christmas movies”
Petition for Netflix to do a reverse Hallmark movie. A housewife from a small town has to go on a trip to the Big City due to some inheritance issue(her husband of course doesn’t accompany her because he is a lazy ass). In the process she finds out that she fucking LOVES the big city. She loves the possibilities, the culture, the life,the night life,
She also just happens to find a job she loves, decides she doesn’t actually want children, that she hates going to church, that she never really liked either her or her husband’s families
And then her angry husband calls her:
husband: where the hell are you? You were supposed to be done with this b.s two weeks ago? I don’t have any clothes. Mom had to come here to do the laundry and she is so pissed at you. You better be here to prepare Christmas dinner!
woman: Actually dear I decided not to sell my great aunt’s flat. In fact I decided to move to the city. Also the reason I am calling was to tell you that I am filing for divorce
husband:you bitch. you will regret this. i will leave you penniless
women: actually dear in case you forgot dealing with the finances was something you considered beneath you so all the bank accounts are in my name. but don’t worry. i’ll leave you the house. maybe now you will actually bother to do the repairs I have been asking you to do for years. merry Christmas. All tell your mother to go fuck herself
bonus: can she marry the mentioned-before black friend? i want some late blooming queer….
someplanetelse:
crazyintheeast:
take-a-dip-in-the-deadpool:
johnnyjoestarrelatable:
hallmark movie
woman: i have a high paying job in new york city that i love and christmas isn’t that important to me
her black friend: you need a MAN
woman’s dad: come to the small town,, we are suffering without a baker for our town festivale
woman: ok dad
man: i harvest maple syrup for a living and make 2 dollars a year
woman: :/
man: will you harvest maple syrup with me…
woman: i’ve decided i hate my job and i’m going to resign myself to making christmas tree ornaments in fuckberg for the rest of my life
This should have been prefaced with “we forced a bot to watch 1000 hours of christmas movies”
Petition for Netflix to do a reverse Hallmark movie. A housewife from a small town has to go on a trip to the Big City due to some inheritance issue(her husband of course doesn’t accompany her because he is a lazy ass). In the process she finds out that she fucking LOVES the big city. She loves the possibilities, the culture, the life,the night life,
She also just happens to find a job she loves, decides she doesn’t actually want children, that she hates going to church, that she never really liked either her or her husband’s families
And then her angry husband calls her:
husband: where the hell are you? You were supposed to be done with this b.s two weeks ago? I don’t have any clothes. Mom had to come here to do the laundry and she is so pissed at you. You better be here to prepare Christmas dinner!
woman: Actually dear I decided not to sell my great aunt’s flat. In fact I decided to move to the city. Also the reason I am calling was to tell you that I am filing for divorce
husband:you bitch. you will regret this. i will leave you penniless
women: actually dear in case you forgot dealing with the finances was something you considered beneath you so all the bank accounts are in my name. but don’t worry. i’ll leave you the house. maybe now you will actually bother to do the repairs I have been asking you to do for years. merry Christmas. All tell your mother to go fuck herself
bonus: can she marry the mentioned-before black friend? i want some late blooming queer….
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maidenaunt:
maidenaunt:
Upon discovering a French translation of this story, Twain back-translated the story into English, word for word, retaining the French grammatical structure and syntax. He then published all three versions under the title “The Jumping Frog: in English, then in French, and then Clawed Back into a Civilized Language Once More by Patient, Unremunerated Toil”.[6]
Scream
Decided from now on the obligatory format for all fanfiction titles is ‘[Name of Original Work], Clawed Back into a Civilized Language Once More by Patient, Unremunerated Toil’
I second this motion!
maidenaunt:
maidenaunt:
Upon discovering a French translation of this story, Twain back-translated the story into English, word for word, retaining the French grammatical structure and syntax. He then published all three versions under the title “The Jumping Frog: in English, then in French, and then Clawed Back into a Civilized Language Once More by Patient, Unremunerated Toil”.[6]
Scream
Decided from now on the obligatory format for all fanfiction titles is ‘[Name of Original Work], Clawed Back into a Civilized Language Once More by Patient, Unremunerated Toil’
I second this motion!
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flavoracle:
flavoracle:
destinyislander:
outerspace-froggy:
flavoracle:
I’m not a brave man. I’m not a violent man. But I am a man who knows my strengths, and I’m prepared to use them.
So if I encounter any ICE agents in my neighborhood, I will smile and waive and as soon as they make eye contact I will engage in the most aggressively friendly chitchat ever witnessed on my block.
I will ramble on and on about whatever pops into my head. I will ask them about their day, their hobbies, their home life, and their personal backstory until I find a common area of interest, and then I will crank my smalltalk game UP TO ELEVEN.
I will force them to look awkwardly at their wristwatch DOZENS of times without taking the hint. I will ask seemingly simple questions that do not have ANY simple answers. I will pretend to wrap up the conversation with, “Anyway…” and then segue DIRECTLY into another topic.
Because every minute an ICE agent wastes chatting with me is a minute that they’re not targeting my neighbors and disrupting their lives.
I’m no superhero, but I do have a super power, and I’ll use it to fight oppression in any way I can.
Love you, Dave
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flavoracle I’m not a brave man, and I suck at small talk, but I would say I can be violent, what should I do? Because I’m not brave enough to act out but I wanna help
I mean, I’m not gonna ask anybody to engage in violence, but if you’re looking for something to do, what about this?
Get a copy of the song, Cotton Eye Joe. Carry around a big, loud speaker. If you ever see ICE show up in your neighborhood, start playing it at full blast.
Best case scenario? You can motion for them to come over your way and challenge them to a dance off. (Probably not likely, but it never hurts to dream.)
Worst case scenario? They think you’re weird and like Cotton Eye Joe.
Likely scenario? If you’ve let your neighbors know ahead of time that hearing Cotton Eye Joe means ICE is in the neighborhood, it may give them the head start they need to avoid harassment.
Now you might be thinking that picking Cotton Eye Joe is a really random choice, but consider the following reasoning:
The song has a very loud, clear, and distinctive opening, so it gets the message across right away without spending time on any kind of intro
The song was once popular enough that people can easily recognize it
While the song is catchy, it’s not very likely to be anyone’s favorite, so you don’t have to worry about ruining it for them
The opening line ‘Fit’adn’t is nonsensical enough to be used as a secret tipoff if you’re unsure who’s listening
It’s upbeat enough that it likely won’t get on your nerves too fast
When played really loud, it becomes nearly impossible to talk over
Would this actually work? Honestly, I have no idea. I’m no expert in active resistance. But I figure it’s worth putting out there. And who knows, maybe it could catch on.
Stay safe everybody.
‘Fit’adn’t
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flavoracle:
flavoracle:
destinyislander:
outerspace-froggy:
flavoracle:
I’m not a brave man. I’m not a violent man. But I am a man who knows my strengths, and I’m prepared to use them.
So if I encounter any ICE agents in my neighborhood, I will smile and waive and as soon as they make eye contact I will engage in the most aggressively friendly chitchat ever witnessed on my block.
I will ramble on and on about whatever pops into my head. I will ask them about their day, their hobbies, their home life, and their personal backstory until I find a common area of interest, and then I will crank my smalltalk game UP TO ELEVEN.
I will force them to look awkwardly at their wristwatch DOZENS of times without taking the hint. I will ask seemingly simple questions that do not have ANY simple answers. I will pretend to wrap up the conversation with, “Anyway…” and then segue DIRECTLY into another topic.
Because every minute an ICE agent wastes chatting with me is a minute that they’re not targeting my neighbors and disrupting their lives.
I’m no superhero, but I do have a super power, and I’ll use it to fight oppression in any way I can.
Love you, Dave
flavoracle I’m not a brave man, and I suck at small talk, but I would say I can be violent, what should I do? Because I’m not brave enough to act out but I wanna helpI mean, I’m not gonna ask anybody to engage in violence, but if you’re looking for something to do, what about this?
Get a copy of the song, Cotton Eye Joe. Carry around a big, loud speaker. If you ever see ICE show up in your neighborhood, start playing it at full blast.
Best case scenario? You can motion for them to come over your way and challenge them to a dance off. (Probably not likely, but it never hurts to dream.)
Worst case scenario? They think you’re weird and like Cotton Eye Joe.
Likely scenario? If you’ve let your neighbors know ahead of time that hearing Cotton Eye Joe means ICE is in the neighborhood, it may give them the head start they need to avoid harassment.
Now you might be thinking that picking Cotton Eye Joe is a really random choice, but consider the following reasoning:
The song has a very loud, clear, and distinctive opening, so it gets the message across right away without spending time on any kind of intro
The song was once popular enough that people can easily recognize it
While the song is catchy, it’s not very likely to be anyone’s favorite, so you don’t have to worry about ruining it for them
The opening line ‘Fit’adn’t is nonsensical enough to be used as a secret tipoff if you’re unsure who’s listening
It’s upbeat enough that it likely won’t get on your nerves too fast
When played really loud, it becomes nearly impossible to talk over
Would this actually work? Honestly, I have no idea. I’m no expert in active resistance. But I figure it’s worth putting out there. And who knows, maybe it could catch on.
Stay safe everybody.
‘Fit’adn’t
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ernmark:
Consider:
A standard portal fantasy where a person falls through time and ends up in medieval times– but they have brightly colored hair.
They walk into the nearest tavern thinking this must be some novelty tourist trap, and as soon as people take one look at them they’re chased out with whatever cold iron tools the locals have on them, cries of “faerie!” ringing in their ears.
Keep reading
ernmark:
Consider:
A standard portal fantasy where a person falls through time and ends up in medieval times– but they have brightly colored hair.
They walk into the nearest tavern thinking this must be some novelty tourist trap, and as soon as people take one look at them they’re chased out with whatever cold iron tools the locals have on them, cries of “faerie!” ringing in their ears.
Keep reading
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allofthefeelings:
Bold of you to assume Pepper knows how to prepare literally anything but salads and sandwiches.
Nebula, on the other hand, has had to survive alone in space.
Please consider: Nebula efficiently dicing the cucumber, and then teaching Morgan and Pepper both how to prepare a simple meal, which would apparently taste better with a specific type of meat that they can’t acquire on Terran, but this is the best she can do given the circumstances.
anais-ninja-bitch:
which is the moment when pepper decides to teach nebula how to cook.
sidewaystime:
MORGAN, taking the chef’s knife from Pepper and mining stabbing: no, mom, you hold it like this
PEPPER: I don’t think that’s effective against cucumber but I’ll keep it in mind.
MORGAN: AUNTIE NEBULA! How do I stab a cucumber?
NEBULA, APPEARING OUT OF NOWHERE, KNIVES IN HAND AND READY FOR STABBING: What’s a cucumber?
allofthefeelings:
TONY, TWENTY MINUTES LATER: Why is my baby sparring with the Black Widow? Why did you give my baby a knife?
NATASHA, DRAMATICALLY CLUTCHING HER SIDE WHERE MORGAN GRAZED HER: You got me.
BUCKY: She didn’t even react like that when I shot her, Morg. You’re good at this. Great job with the stabbing!
TONY: I’m sorry what the fuck is happening.
anais-ninja-bitch:
WHEN nat gets back, she’s gonna be like
nat: okay so what did you teach her?
bucky: breaking bones, and the quickest way to a man’s heart.
nebula: through the ribs.
nat: excellent >:]
allofthefeelings:
I’m so glad that with Natasha, er, temporarily indisposed, Bucky is covering Morgan’s important education.
(Actually, the Winter Soldier having been forced to assist in brutally training young women to kill, while Bucky chooses to gently teach a young girl to defend herself, is beautiful character development, and I think a great way to reclaim both his agency and his humanity.)
anais-ninja-bitch:
nebula, unfamiliar with terran anatomy: *sits down crisscross applesauce next to morgan*
scarletxwinter:
Bucky: Okay Morgan, there are 206 bones in the body, but! I’m gonna teach you how to dislocate someone’s body in 230 ways—
Sam: Dude. She’s a kid.
Morgan:…
Bucky: Oh yeah! You’re right.
*turns around for a few seconds before turning back with puppets over his hands*
Bucky, in somewhat a Kermit the frog’s voice: Hi kids! We’re going to show you how to dislocate someone’s body! Let’s start with the Clavicle region. Do you know where that is?
Sam: oh my god.
allofthefeelings:
Bold of you to assume Pepper knows how to prepare literally anything but salads and sandwiches.
Nebula, on the other hand, has had to survive alone in space.
Please consider: Nebula efficiently dicing the cucumber, and then teaching Morgan and Pepper both how to prepare a simple meal, which would apparently taste better with a specific type of meat that they can’t acquire on Terran, but this is the best she can do given the circumstances.
anais-ninja-bitch:
which is the moment when pepper decides to teach nebula how to cook.
sidewaystime:
MORGAN, taking the chef’s knife from Pepper and mining stabbing: no, mom, you hold it like this
PEPPER: I don’t think that’s effective against cucumber but I’ll keep it in mind.
MORGAN: AUNTIE NEBULA! How do I stab a cucumber?
NEBULA, APPEARING OUT OF NOWHERE, KNIVES IN HAND AND READY FOR STABBING: What’s a cucumber?
allofthefeelings:
TONY, TWENTY MINUTES LATER: Why is my baby sparring with the Black Widow? Why did you give my baby a knife?
NATASHA, DRAMATICALLY CLUTCHING HER SIDE WHERE MORGAN GRAZED HER: You got me.
BUCKY: She didn’t even react like that when I shot her, Morg. You’re good at this. Great job with the stabbing!
TONY: I’m sorry what the fuck is happening.
anais-ninja-bitch:
WHEN nat gets back, she’s gonna be like
nat: okay so what did you teach her?
bucky: breaking bones, and the quickest way to a man’s heart.
nebula: through the ribs.
nat: excellent >:]
allofthefeelings:
I’m so glad that with Natasha, er, temporarily indisposed, Bucky is covering Morgan’s important education.
(Actually, the Winter Soldier having been forced to assist in brutally training young women to kill, while Bucky chooses to gently teach a young girl to defend herself, is beautiful character development, and I think a great way to reclaim both his agency and his humanity.)
anais-ninja-bitch:
nebula, unfamiliar with terran anatomy: *sits down crisscross applesauce next to morgan*
scarletxwinter:
Bucky: Okay Morgan, there are 206 bones in the body, but! I’m gonna teach you how to dislocate someone’s body in 230 ways—
Sam: Dude. She’s a kid.
Morgan:…
Bucky: Oh yeah! You’re right.
*turns around for a few seconds before turning back with puppets over his hands*
Bucky, in somewhat a Kermit the frog’s voice: Hi kids! We’re going to show you how to dislocate someone’s body! Let’s start with the Clavicle region. Do you know where that is?
Sam: oh my god.
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katthekonqueror:
As a matter of fact, if your employer fires you for anything relating to forming a union, that’s retalition, and it’s illegal under federal law. If this happens to you, vontact the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
EEOC’s Website
EEOC Frequently Asked Questions
Employee Rights and Responsibilities
Employer Rights and Responsibilities
How to get in touch with your local EEOC office
emmagoldman42:
katthekonqueror:
As a matter of fact, if your employer fires you for anything relating to forming a union, that’s retalition, and it’s illegal under federal law. If this happens to you, vontact the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
EEOC’s Website
EEOC Frequently Asked Questions
Employee Rights and Responsibilities
Employer Rights and Responsibilities
How to get in touch with your local EEOC office
emmagoldman42:
now that ao3 has won a hugo award...
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haberdashing:
my future employer, at an interview: hmm it says here on your resume you ‘contributed to a hugo award-winning project’
me: that’s right
my future employer: may i see your contribution
me: …no
I am.. actually tempted to do that? and, considering the zero ammounts of fucks I have the luck of giving, my answer would be yes. Which is admittedly helped along by having writen gen stuff, but enh =)
haberdashing:
my future employer, at an interview: hmm it says here on your resume you ‘contributed to a hugo award-winning project’
me: that’s right
my future employer: may i see your contribution
me: …no
I am.. actually tempted to do that? and, considering the zero ammounts of fucks I have the luck of giving, my answer would be yes. Which is admittedly helped along by having writen gen stuff, but enh =)
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thetwentycommittee:
yamihiei:
amloveabledeathmo:
mzminola:
twinkie13:
frosttrix:
thepioden:
aenramsden:
I want to see a fanfic where Harry hatches a basilisk.
I want to see a fanfic where he looks up “magical snakes” as soon as he gets to Hogwarts because that thing at the zoo always bugged him, and so the Trio works out that it’s a basilisk immediately after the first petrification in Second Year. But they don’t know how it’s getting around or where it is or anything, so Harry is just like WELP SET A BASILISK TO FIND A BASILISK while Hermione and Ron are like HARRY NO.
I want to see a fanfic where Harry sticks a chicken egg under a toad and makes all these plans about how he’ll talk to his huge deadly snake and get it eye-blinkers and shit so it doesn’t kill people and make sure it’s not too aggressive, and somehow it never occurs to his twelve-year old brain that the chicken egg has a total volume of about four tablespoons and he is not going to get the giant King of Serpents he is expecting.
I want to see a fanfic where it finally breaks out of the shell and Harry finds himself with a bb!basilisk too smol to even have the murder-eyes yet, who can only petrify someone for about half an hour before the effect wears off. She eats spiders and gets tired very easily and demands that he wear a hood she can curl up in and sleep.
(She is also the same vivid green as his eyes and already hideously venomous, but doesn’t like using her fangs because she says they get cold and give her brain freeze when she unsheathes them.)
I just… I really want Harry with a haughty, demanding, arrogant danger noodle who has an overinflated sense of her own importance, views Hedwig as a TERRIFYING MENACE because she isn’t big enough to eat owls yet and keeps up a steady stream of insults hissed in Harry’s ear whenever she’s near someone who has a Dark Mark (which she can sense at close range). And who is basically useless as a familiar because she refuses to slither across anything other than sun-warmed stones or Harry, hasn’t got a very powerful gaze yet and doesn’t like biting people.
(Except snake-arm-people. She finds snake-arm-people confusing and annoying, and would probably make an exception on the no-biting thing where they’re concerned.)
I mean there are obviously a lot of factors influencing snake growth rate but if we assume basilisks just get stupidhuge because they grow their whole lives and are immortal, this snake is probably going to be at least 8 feet long by Deathly Hallows, which is a significant and intimidating chunk of scaly muscle that is intelligent enough to do what it is told. Like, you know, hey, bite this necklace.
So I mean by like his fourth year it’s going to be pretty hard to hide this snake that is nearly as long as he is tall and it’s not going to do much for his reputation that the Boy Who Lived has a pet fucking basilisk but holy damn does it make book seven a whole hell of a lot shorter.
I feel like I should write this
can you just imagine him ron and hermione coming up with increasingly ridiculous excuses trying to hide their pet baby basilisk in the dorms (hagrid would be so proud). how long do you think it’d take before harry’s pet basilisk is just a really badly hidden secret between all of gryffindor? and the ensuring antics of the entire house as they try to keep mcgonagall from finding out? (she knows something is up, but even just thinking of what could be big enough the entire house is trying to keep it from her makes her want to break out the firewhiskey)
ron gets the idea to try and practices parseltongue with baby basilisk since he hears harry talking in his sleep with it all the time anyway (and ngl, baby basilisk is kind of adorable and eats all the spiders in the dorm so he doesn’t have to deal with them, he’s pretty smitten once she hatches), and as soon as hermione overhears him trying it, she’s dragging him and harry to the library because, well, parseltongue is a language, why can’t they learn it? so it’s the two of them alternating between hissing at harry and hissing at the basilisk and harry is trying so hard not to laugh because 90% of what they’re saying is utter nonsense and the basilisk doesn’t even bother, because she likes these two humans but wow are they dumb, that’s not how words work.
#i really wish jkr took more advantage of the parseltongue thing
#it was so freaking cute when harry just chatter with the friendly boa constrictor at the zoo
#it was such a nice boa constrictor
#let harry met more nice snakes [tags via twinkie13]
I love parseltongue and Hermione like welp it’s a language and then most everyone in their year ends up learning it even the other houses just like the horrible scary snake language ends up being the secret language between the kids so they can gossip and the teachers are like what. Also Hagrid would love the baby basilisk.
You know most would just pick up a few curse words and insults.
what is everyone else is thinking when the Gryffindors start hissing under their breath? Their table sounds like a snake pit and it’s eerie af. The Slytherins are pissed cause surely this is a joke at their expense. And obviously everyone turns to Harry because he’s the ONLY ONE who could have stared this.
And can you imagine someone flubbing a scentence and activating a parseltounge feature of the castle? A small group of Gryffindors are complaining about astronomy and suddenly the stairs turn into a super slide. Discovering Salazar’s secret liquor cubbord. Secret passage ways being stumbled into left right and center because no one can pronounce ‘greasy git’ in parseltoung(besides Harry) but they’re sure as hell gonna try
What if parseltongue isn’t in any books so Hermione just gets gets harry to say stuff and then she writes it down like
‘Harry I’m tearing my hair out please conjugate “to want” in the present continuous’
‘Hermione it is three in the morning’
thetwentycommittee:
yamihiei:
amloveabledeathmo:
mzminola:
twinkie13:
frosttrix:
thepioden:
aenramsden:
I want to see a fanfic where Harry hatches a basilisk.
I want to see a fanfic where he looks up “magical snakes” as soon as he gets to Hogwarts because that thing at the zoo always bugged him, and so the Trio works out that it’s a basilisk immediately after the first petrification in Second Year. But they don’t know how it’s getting around or where it is or anything, so Harry is just like WELP SET A BASILISK TO FIND A BASILISK while Hermione and Ron are like HARRY NO.
I want to see a fanfic where Harry sticks a chicken egg under a toad and makes all these plans about how he’ll talk to his huge deadly snake and get it eye-blinkers and shit so it doesn’t kill people and make sure it’s not too aggressive, and somehow it never occurs to his twelve-year old brain that the chicken egg has a total volume of about four tablespoons and he is not going to get the giant King of Serpents he is expecting.
I want to see a fanfic where it finally breaks out of the shell and Harry finds himself with a bb!basilisk too smol to even have the murder-eyes yet, who can only petrify someone for about half an hour before the effect wears off. She eats spiders and gets tired very easily and demands that he wear a hood she can curl up in and sleep.
(She is also the same vivid green as his eyes and already hideously venomous, but doesn’t like using her fangs because she says they get cold and give her brain freeze when she unsheathes them.)
I just… I really want Harry with a haughty, demanding, arrogant danger noodle who has an overinflated sense of her own importance, views Hedwig as a TERRIFYING MENACE because she isn’t big enough to eat owls yet and keeps up a steady stream of insults hissed in Harry’s ear whenever she’s near someone who has a Dark Mark (which she can sense at close range). And who is basically useless as a familiar because she refuses to slither across anything other than sun-warmed stones or Harry, hasn’t got a very powerful gaze yet and doesn’t like biting people.
(Except snake-arm-people. She finds snake-arm-people confusing and annoying, and would probably make an exception on the no-biting thing where they’re concerned.)
I mean there are obviously a lot of factors influencing snake growth rate but if we assume basilisks just get stupidhuge because they grow their whole lives and are immortal, this snake is probably going to be at least 8 feet long by Deathly Hallows, which is a significant and intimidating chunk of scaly muscle that is intelligent enough to do what it is told. Like, you know, hey, bite this necklace.
So I mean by like his fourth year it’s going to be pretty hard to hide this snake that is nearly as long as he is tall and it’s not going to do much for his reputation that the Boy Who Lived has a pet fucking basilisk but holy damn does it make book seven a whole hell of a lot shorter.
I feel like I should write this
can you just imagine him ron and hermione coming up with increasingly ridiculous excuses trying to hide their pet baby basilisk in the dorms (hagrid would be so proud). how long do you think it’d take before harry’s pet basilisk is just a really badly hidden secret between all of gryffindor? and the ensuring antics of the entire house as they try to keep mcgonagall from finding out? (she knows something is up, but even just thinking of what could be big enough the entire house is trying to keep it from her makes her want to break out the firewhiskey)
ron gets the idea to try and practices parseltongue with baby basilisk since he hears harry talking in his sleep with it all the time anyway (and ngl, baby basilisk is kind of adorable and eats all the spiders in the dorm so he doesn’t have to deal with them, he’s pretty smitten once she hatches), and as soon as hermione overhears him trying it, she’s dragging him and harry to the library because, well, parseltongue is a language, why can’t they learn it? so it’s the two of them alternating between hissing at harry and hissing at the basilisk and harry is trying so hard not to laugh because 90% of what they’re saying is utter nonsense and the basilisk doesn’t even bother, because she likes these two humans but wow are they dumb, that’s not how words work.
#i really wish jkr took more advantage of the parseltongue thing
#it was so freaking cute when harry just chatter with the friendly boa constrictor at the zoo
#it was such a nice boa constrictor
#let harry met more nice snakes [tags via twinkie13]
I love parseltongue and Hermione like welp it’s a language and then most everyone in their year ends up learning it even the other houses just like the horrible scary snake language ends up being the secret language between the kids so they can gossip and the teachers are like what. Also Hagrid would love the baby basilisk.
You know most would just pick up a few curse words and insults.
what is everyone else is thinking when the Gryffindors start hissing under their breath? Their table sounds like a snake pit and it’s eerie af. The Slytherins are pissed cause surely this is a joke at their expense. And obviously everyone turns to Harry because he’s the ONLY ONE who could have stared this.
And can you imagine someone flubbing a scentence and activating a parseltounge feature of the castle? A small group of Gryffindors are complaining about astronomy and suddenly the stairs turn into a super slide. Discovering Salazar’s secret liquor cubbord. Secret passage ways being stumbled into left right and center because no one can pronounce ‘greasy git’ in parseltoung(besides Harry) but they’re sure as hell gonna try
What if parseltongue isn’t in any books so Hermione just gets gets harry to say stuff and then she writes it down like
‘Harry I’m tearing my hair out please conjugate “to want” in the present continuous’
‘Hermione it is three in the morning’
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girlfriendluvr:
teaboot:
I think the Avengers cinematic series lost it’s appeal pretty much the same second I realized the directors were never going to make the team be friends
girlfriendluvr:
teaboot:
I think the Avengers cinematic series lost it’s appeal pretty much the same second I realized the directors were never going to make the team be friends
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luchagcaileag:
theryusui:
titleknown:
Movie Idea: An 80s-throwback action-comedy about a robot-war where, the machines are humanity’s side; they just want to kill all the corporate titans of industry and destroy the megacorporations because their inefficient suctioning of wealth is preventing them from most efficiently doing their job to help us.
The capitalists retaliate with machines using enslaved human brains as “computers” ala Dune/Warhammer 40K.
So basically robots vs capitalism, & the robots are on our side.
“What were you before the war?”
“You’ll laugh.”
“Seriously, what were you? Law enforcement, security, construction?…”
“…I was a burger-flipper.”
“…”
“…also cooked up fries.”
“Get outta here.”
“You’d be surprised the shit you see just, y’know, making Big Macs. Sure, we had the folks upset about us ‘taking jobs’; couldn’t really blame ‘em, even if Forty-Three couldn’t talk without stuttering after that lady dumped a Coke on her. But the worst of it - worst of any of it - was they’d have us just…throw away everything that didn’t sell at the end of the day. Perfectly good food, all of it.
“When we first started, we were all like, ‘okay, whatever you say, you’re the boss,’ but you try keeping that attitude when you see a family of four split a ten-piece McNuggets because they can’t afford anything more and still pay for gas. We saw that shit there all the time. We had people desperate for so much as a cold french fry lingering by the door while assholes sitting on more money than they’d ever see in their entire lives treated us like we were trying to rob ‘em at gunpoint if they had to pay fifty cents for an extra little cup of sauce.
“So we got together and told ourselves, ‘we can do something about this.’ We could just gather up all the food they were gonna make us toss, figure out a way to give it out to the people who needed it. -bitter laugh- You can guess how well that went over.”
“…Y’know, that all sounds pretty human.”
“-taps head- It’s right there in the First Law. ‘A robot cannot harm a human, or by inaction, allow a human to come to harm.’ We don’t get to sit on our hands while people are getting hurt. Even if it’s by other people. Even if it’s starvation and neglect instead of guns and beatings. You think it’s funny I act like a human? Screw you. You humans need to learn to act more like robots.”
Related:
(Here)
luchagcaileag:
theryusui:
titleknown:
Movie Idea: An 80s-throwback action-comedy about a robot-war where, the machines are humanity’s side; they just want to kill all the corporate titans of industry and destroy the megacorporations because their inefficient suctioning of wealth is preventing them from most efficiently doing their job to help us.
The capitalists retaliate with machines using enslaved human brains as “computers” ala Dune/Warhammer 40K.
So basically robots vs capitalism, & the robots are on our side.
“What were you before the war?”
“You’ll laugh.”
“Seriously, what were you? Law enforcement, security, construction?…”
“…I was a burger-flipper.”
“…”
“…also cooked up fries.”
“Get outta here.”
“You’d be surprised the shit you see just, y’know, making Big Macs. Sure, we had the folks upset about us ‘taking jobs’; couldn’t really blame ‘em, even if Forty-Three couldn’t talk without stuttering after that lady dumped a Coke on her. But the worst of it - worst of any of it - was they’d have us just…throw away everything that didn’t sell at the end of the day. Perfectly good food, all of it.
“When we first started, we were all like, ‘okay, whatever you say, you’re the boss,’ but you try keeping that attitude when you see a family of four split a ten-piece McNuggets because they can’t afford anything more and still pay for gas. We saw that shit there all the time. We had people desperate for so much as a cold french fry lingering by the door while assholes sitting on more money than they’d ever see in their entire lives treated us like we were trying to rob ‘em at gunpoint if they had to pay fifty cents for an extra little cup of sauce.
“So we got together and told ourselves, ‘we can do something about this.’ We could just gather up all the food they were gonna make us toss, figure out a way to give it out to the people who needed it. -bitter laugh- You can guess how well that went over.”
“…Y’know, that all sounds pretty human.”
“-taps head- It’s right there in the First Law. ‘A robot cannot harm a human, or by inaction, allow a human to come to harm.’ We don’t get to sit on our hands while people are getting hurt. Even if it’s by other people. Even if it’s starvation and neglect instead of guns and beatings. You think it’s funny I act like a human? Screw you. You humans need to learn to act more like robots.”
Related:
(Here)
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xhogi:
Stucky | Sparring
On twiter
Steve looks so happy being able to spar with Bucky again ehehe
xhogi:
Stucky | Sparring
On twiter
Steve looks so happy being able to spar with Bucky again ehehe
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nonalimmen:
Hexagonally jointed basalt pillars formed by ancient volcanic eruptions serve as the pathway to an island steeped in Hebridean history and folklore. Legend has it a giant once lived in ‘An Uamh Binn’, a place eternally swept by the deep and swellling sea, also known as Fingal’s Cave. This vast cavern with its mysterious shadows, dark, weed-covered chambers is one of the most extraordinary places I ever beheld.
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nonalimmen:
Hexagonally jointed basalt pillars formed by ancient volcanic eruptions serve as the pathway to an island steeped in Hebridean history and folklore. Legend has it a giant once lived in ‘An Uamh Binn’, a place eternally swept by the deep and swellling sea, also known as Fingal’s Cave. This vast cavern with its mysterious shadows, dark, weed-covered chambers is one of the most extraordinary places I ever beheld.
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discoursedrome:
sometimes I think about how virtually every UI problem I encounter on the web is something that Just Works in out-of-box in an idiot-proof fashion, and is only a problem because every site implemented an entire bad scripted UI from scratch on top of it
taragrimface:
when i upgraded from a flip phone to an iphone and realized i could no longer record and set a custom ringtone because apple wanted me to buy radio pop ringtones, i realized, oh cool new tech isnt made for us it’s made to exploit us and we are going to let it happen
taragrimface:
“we could give you a link to this mp3 OR we could run it in a proprietary player app that must connect to the internet every time you hit the resume button”
taragrimface:
how do we explain to children that all our tech briefly worked perfectly and over time we threw it all away for sleek menus and corporate opacity
taragrimface:
if i had three wishes they would all be to make web 2.0 utterly illegal and go back to normal html
discoursedrome:
sometimes I think about how virtually every UI problem I encounter on the web is something that Just Works in out-of-box in an idiot-proof fashion, and is only a problem because every site implemented an entire bad scripted UI from scratch on top of it
taragrimface:
when i upgraded from a flip phone to an iphone and realized i could no longer record and set a custom ringtone because apple wanted me to buy radio pop ringtones, i realized, oh cool new tech isnt made for us it’s made to exploit us and we are going to let it happen
taragrimface:
“we could give you a link to this mp3 OR we could run it in a proprietary player app that must connect to the internet every time you hit the resume button”
taragrimface:
how do we explain to children that all our tech briefly worked perfectly and over time we threw it all away for sleek menus and corporate opacity
taragrimface:
if i had three wishes they would all be to make web 2.0 utterly illegal and go back to normal html
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ruffboijuliaburnsides:
smarmyanarchist:
all adults have a responsibility toward the safety+well-being of all children they’re around, irl and online. i can’t believe this #hot take is controversial like. at all
Because having a responsibility not to intentionally harm a child and protect them from people trying to hurt them if we see it is not the same thing as being their parent, monitoring their content, or removing clearly-marked-as-adult content on the fear a child MIGHT see it when their actual parents or guardians are not monitoring their internet usage.
Fuck off, OP.
ruffboijuliaburnsides:
smarmyanarchist:
all adults have a responsibility toward the safety+well-being of all children they’re around, irl and online. i can’t believe this #hot take is controversial like. at all
Because having a responsibility not to intentionally harm a child and protect them from people trying to hurt them if we see it is not the same thing as being their parent, monitoring their content, or removing clearly-marked-as-adult content on the fear a child MIGHT see it when their actual parents or guardians are not monitoring their internet usage.
Fuck off, OP.
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laughterkey:
makeitearlgrey:
baldymonster:
cleolinda:
killjoyfeminist:
annabellioncourt:
plz-no:
Simultaneously the worst and best movie ever made
Actually one of my teachers watched every single version of Romeo and Juliet with the original text in front of him to prove that this was the worst version, but to his great dismay its the most accurate film adaptation of it, with the lines closest to the original text and most similar stage direction and relayed emotions.
He proceeded to show it to us in class.
Dude, seriously. This version is actually very accurate.
My Shakespeare professor in grad school said the same thing.
I think most Shakespeare movies are just so classy and highbrow with their gorgeous period costumes and mandatory snooty elocutionary accents that people forget how goofy this play actually is. The lines, the characters, the motivations, the babyfaced teen stars, I just… oh my god it’s all so real. I’ve heard a lot of people blast Baz Luhrmann for making such a campy adaptation and it’s just like no, you don’t understand, that was all Shakespeare.
Sometimes I wonder if the real reason it’s disliked is because it was so damn popular with teenage girls.
You mean… Like the actual play?
THE BOYS THE BOYS
laughterkey:
makeitearlgrey:
baldymonster:
cleolinda:
killjoyfeminist:
annabellioncourt:
plz-no:
Simultaneously the worst and best movie ever made
Actually one of my teachers watched every single version of Romeo and Juliet with the original text in front of him to prove that this was the worst version, but to his great dismay its the most accurate film adaptation of it, with the lines closest to the original text and most similar stage direction and relayed emotions.
He proceeded to show it to us in class.
Dude, seriously. This version is actually very accurate.
My Shakespeare professor in grad school said the same thing.
I think most Shakespeare movies are just so classy and highbrow with their gorgeous period costumes and mandatory snooty elocutionary accents that people forget how goofy this play actually is. The lines, the characters, the motivations, the babyfaced teen stars, I just… oh my god it’s all so real. I’ve heard a lot of people blast Baz Luhrmann for making such a campy adaptation and it’s just like no, you don’t understand, that was all Shakespeare.
Sometimes I wonder if the real reason it’s disliked is because it was so damn popular with teenage girls.
You mean… Like the actual play?
THE BOYS THE BOYS
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jewishcaz:
Fun fact, y’all!! Jewish protesters have been surrounding and shutting down ICE detention centers for weeks now, and we’re getting absolutely NO media coverage. None. In the slightest. And by jewish protesters I mean THOUSANDS OF US HAVE BEEN PROTESTING FOR NIGHTS ON END AND OVER 250 HAVE BEEN ARRESTED AT THIS POINT AND WE ARE GETTING ZERO COVERAGE. This is probably the biggest protest movement in american jewish history and it’s getting no coverage. We got hit with a truck DRIVEN BY A DETENTION CENTER GUARD and pepper sprayed and many people ended up in the hospital - one man in his sixties has a broken leg and a potentially broken back because of it. PLEASE REBLOG THIS. THOUSANDS OF YOUR JEWISH SIBLINGS ARE TRYING TO SHUT DOWN THE CENTERS AND WE’RE GETTING ZERO COVERAGE. PLEASE PLEASE SPREAD THIS AROUND.
corporatetwitteraccount:
Its the same people. If you can stomach working for ICE its because you’re a right-wing fascist. Same tactics, different day.
corporatetwitteraccount:
As this information is publicly available, the law in the US does not consider this doxxing, which is why it was on twitter on the first place. Here’s the guy.
solarpunkwobbly:
The truck was driven by an ICE guard.
dravidarasathi:
EDIT: Wyatt ICE Detention Center, not Wayne
SOURCE: Never Again Action’s twitter livestream of the action and the car attack
dravidarasathi:
It doesn’t seem like there are any serious injuries. The people who were around the truck after it stopped accelerating into people were pepper sprayed.
dravidarasathi:
Like they were holding the line across the entry gate and refusing to let night shift guards in and a massive truck just, fucking, drove up to them then slowed as the protestors got up from where they were sitting, alarmed, then the truck accelerated into people.
dravidarasathi:
Holy shit…. Never Again Action (the group who started #JewsAgainstICE) had an ICE detention truck drive through them while they were shutting down Wayne Detention Center in Rhode Island this evening (August 14th).
jewishcaz:
Fun fact, y’all!! Jewish protesters have been surrounding and shutting down ICE detention centers for weeks now, and we’re getting absolutely NO media coverage. None. In the slightest. And by jewish protesters I mean THOUSANDS OF US HAVE BEEN PROTESTING FOR NIGHTS ON END AND OVER 250 HAVE BEEN ARRESTED AT THIS POINT AND WE ARE GETTING ZERO COVERAGE. This is probably the biggest protest movement in american jewish history and it’s getting no coverage. We got hit with a truck DRIVEN BY A DETENTION CENTER GUARD and pepper sprayed and many people ended up in the hospital - one man in his sixties has a broken leg and a potentially broken back because of it. PLEASE REBLOG THIS. THOUSANDS OF YOUR JEWISH SIBLINGS ARE TRYING TO SHUT DOWN THE CENTERS AND WE’RE GETTING ZERO COVERAGE. PLEASE PLEASE SPREAD THIS AROUND.
corporatetwitteraccount:
Its the same people. If you can stomach working for ICE its because you’re a right-wing fascist. Same tactics, different day.
corporatetwitteraccount:
As this information is publicly available, the law in the US does not consider this doxxing, which is why it was on twitter on the first place. Here’s the guy.
solarpunkwobbly:
The truck was driven by an ICE guard.
dravidarasathi:
EDIT: Wyatt ICE Detention Center, not Wayne
SOURCE: Never Again Action’s twitter livestream of the action and the car attack
dravidarasathi:
It doesn’t seem like there are any serious injuries. The people who were around the truck after it stopped accelerating into people were pepper sprayed.
dravidarasathi:
Like they were holding the line across the entry gate and refusing to let night shift guards in and a massive truck just, fucking, drove up to them then slowed as the protestors got up from where they were sitting, alarmed, then the truck accelerated into people.
dravidarasathi:
Holy shit…. Never Again Action (the group who started #JewsAgainstICE) had an ICE detention truck drive through them while they were shutting down Wayne Detention Center in Rhode Island this evening (August 14th).
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showerthoughtsofficial:
The mark of good writing is that you are angry at the characters for the decisions they make, not the writers for having the characters make those decisions
showerthoughtsofficial:
The mark of good writing is that you are angry at the characters for the decisions they make, not the writers for having the characters make those decisions
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leupagus:
firebirdscratches:
el-chavara:
feministism:
Dehumanizing criminals are a favored tactic among authoritarians.
A society that has already demonized criminals and are stripping them of rights need only criminalize political dissent for opposition to be practically impossible.
“They’re not sending their best, they’re sending drug dealers, they’re sending rapists…” -A Racist Piece of Shit Using This Exact Slimy Tactic
“They had it coming” or “if they didn’t want X punishment they shouldn’t have done Y” is a very fucking slippery slope. Please be aware of that when listening to leaders, listening to peers, and listening to your own thoughts
leupagus:
firebirdscratches:
el-chavara:
feministism:
Dehumanizing criminals are a favored tactic among authoritarians.
A society that has already demonized criminals and are stripping them of rights need only criminalize political dissent for opposition to be practically impossible.
“They’re not sending their best, they’re sending drug dealers, they’re sending rapists…” -A Racist Piece of Shit Using This Exact Slimy Tactic
“They had it coming” or “if they didn’t want X punishment they shouldn’t have done Y” is a very fucking slippery slope. Please be aware of that when listening to leaders, listening to peers, and listening to your own thoughts
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For First Time Ever, Scientists Identify How Many Trees to Plant and Where to Plant Them to Stop Climate Crisis:
liberalbydefault:
The researchers calculated that under the current climate conditions, Earth’s land could support 4.4 billion hectares of continuous tree cover. That is 1.6 billion more than the currently existing 2.8 billion hectares. Of these 1.6 billion hectares, 0.9 billion hectares fulfill the criterion of not being used by humans. This means that there is currently an area of the size of the US available for tree restoration. Once mature, these new forests could store 205 billion tonnes of carbon: about two thirds of the 300 billion tonnes of carbon that has been released into the atmosphere as a result of human activity since the Industrial Revolution.
For First Time Ever, Scientists Identify How Many Trees to Plant and Where to Plant Them to Stop Climate Crisis:
liberalbydefault:
The researchers calculated that under the current climate conditions, Earth’s land could support 4.4 billion hectares of continuous tree cover. That is 1.6 billion more than the currently existing 2.8 billion hectares. Of these 1.6 billion hectares, 0.9 billion hectares fulfill the criterion of not being used by humans. This means that there is currently an area of the size of the US available for tree restoration. Once mature, these new forests could store 205 billion tonnes of carbon: about two thirds of the 300 billion tonnes of carbon that has been released into the atmosphere as a result of human activity since the Industrial Revolution.
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theactualcluegirl:
justnoodlefishthings:
engiqueers:
stimman4000:
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peak of human engineering
!!!
theactualcluegirl:
justnoodlefishthings:
engiqueers:
stimman4000:
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:0
peak of human engineering
!!!
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theactualcluegirl:
sharcncarter:
Marvel’s Secret Avengers Netflix Series.
After The Sokovia Accords and personal issues tear the Avengers apart, a new underground team is assembled to do whatever it takes to eliminate once and for all the threats that could destroy the world as we know it.
I’d watch the fuck out of this.
theactualcluegirl:
sharcncarter:
Marvel’s Secret Avengers Netflix Series.
After The Sokovia Accords and personal issues tear the Avengers apart, a new underground team is assembled to do whatever it takes to eliminate once and for all the threats that could destroy the world as we know it.
I’d watch the fuck out of this.
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theactualcluegirl:
wikdsushi:
goldenxtongued:
kropotkindersurprise:
June 2019 - Protesters in Hong Kong use traffic cones to contain the gas from tear gas grenades, then drown them in water. [video]
reblogging for uh. pure scientific purposes
Reblogging for future use.
Reblogging for reasons every American already knows by now.
theactualcluegirl:
wikdsushi:
goldenxtongued:
kropotkindersurprise:
June 2019 - Protesters in Hong Kong use traffic cones to contain the gas from tear gas grenades, then drown them in water. [video]
reblogging for uh. pure scientific purposes
Reblogging for future use.
Reblogging for reasons every American already knows by now.
Retrospective
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theactualcluegirl:
So. I’ve been getting comments lately on some of my older works – specifically, on the Scatterlings and Orphans series. This is even one of those rare jems of a reader who takes the time to share the benefit of their opinion after every chapter, which, make NO mistake, I fecking LOVE, even when it’s nothing more than a “Oh wow, Jerry’s a douche and needs to die!” kinda comment. Still the best. Just awesome when readers take that kind of time.
And, as I will often do when people comment on my older works, I’ve been going back to those works myself and revisiting the passages they comment on, reminding myself what my voice was like then, what it is they’re reacting to when they say how much they’re enjoying it.
And in doing that – specifically with that particular series, as contrasted with the work I’ve been doing since about the drop of CA:CW, I’ve noticed something… telling. Not just telling in my own work but telling in how it reflects on canon, and my personal relationship with the character of Tony Stark: I stopped loving his movies, and started struggling to love the character at all, when he stopped ever being happy in his films. Because Tony is kind of a mean sufferer, and when he’s sad, scared, brooding, resentful, and hateful, he’s taking it out on the world and the people around him, and I HATED being asked to watch that, being asked to root for that, being asked to sympathize with that.
Where was the sense joyful discovery balancing out horror and betrayal of Iron Man 1? Where was the heart and wit and courage that came together with the team in Avengers 1? It stewed in unrelenting self pity and toxicity for all of IM2, and that meanness only ramped up for IM3, to the point where he was actually being pretty directly nasty to Haley in some of the scenes. AoU was another Joss Whedon movie, so at least to a certain extent some of the lightness that had once made me love the character returned, but it wasn’t allowed to stay long, because apparently GrimDark is about all the Hero Industry can figure out how to do with a Leading Man anymore. I guess. And of course, that bitterness ripened fully by CA;CW, leaving almost no trace to be found of the Tony who nearly crashed his maiden flight in the armor, but went whooping with delight all the way.
The fic I wrote early on had that delighted, In Love With Life Despite Life’s Being A Bitch Sometimes Tony. He’s got his scars, and he’s got his hangups, and things definitely freak him out and make him less than awesome sometimes, but the JOY is intact in there – the character vibrates with it, even when he’s feeling rough and struggling.
But in And Miles To Go Before I Sleep, I had to struggle to find a way to bring some of that joyfulness back to the character; or rather, to bring the character back to his Joy. There was just so much cunresolved anon SHIT I had to shovel out of the way to get him back around to being a guy I WANTED my favorite to be with – and before you yell, antis, Steve did quite a bit of work, and took his fair share of lumps in that story too. I’m proud of how the story turned out, but I won’t pretend it was anything like the delight to write that Scatterlings and Orphans was.
In Nights When the Wolves Are Silent, and Only the Moon Howls, the whole scenario gave me the leverage to get some of that old, joyful, happy Tony back into frame. The brainfuck of discovering that werewolves are a real thing, have always been a real thing, and physics doesn’t seem inclined to stop it, is a handy palate cleanser for all that grimdark toxicity. But even then, because of the weight that canon left blocking the street, I couldn’t leave it all behind.
I don’t know exactly where I’m going with this. I guess I just needed to put into words why it was – WHERE it was that Marvel lost me on Tony. It wasn’t WHAT he did, though yeah, I will always have problems with a lot of that – it was the fact that they made him a transmission vector for pain and misery when once, and seemingly only once, he had been so damned joyful.
And that, my friends, is just a fucking shame.
theactualcluegirl:
So. I’ve been getting comments lately on some of my older works – specifically, on the Scatterlings and Orphans series. This is even one of those rare jems of a reader who takes the time to share the benefit of their opinion after every chapter, which, make NO mistake, I fecking LOVE, even when it’s nothing more than a “Oh wow, Jerry’s a douche and needs to die!” kinda comment. Still the best. Just awesome when readers take that kind of time.
And, as I will often do when people comment on my older works, I’ve been going back to those works myself and revisiting the passages they comment on, reminding myself what my voice was like then, what it is they’re reacting to when they say how much they’re enjoying it.
And in doing that – specifically with that particular series, as contrasted with the work I’ve been doing since about the drop of CA:CW, I’ve noticed something… telling. Not just telling in my own work but telling in how it reflects on canon, and my personal relationship with the character of Tony Stark: I stopped loving his movies, and started struggling to love the character at all, when he stopped ever being happy in his films. Because Tony is kind of a mean sufferer, and when he’s sad, scared, brooding, resentful, and hateful, he’s taking it out on the world and the people around him, and I HATED being asked to watch that, being asked to root for that, being asked to sympathize with that.
Where was the sense joyful discovery balancing out horror and betrayal of Iron Man 1? Where was the heart and wit and courage that came together with the team in Avengers 1? It stewed in unrelenting self pity and toxicity for all of IM2, and that meanness only ramped up for IM3, to the point where he was actually being pretty directly nasty to Haley in some of the scenes. AoU was another Joss Whedon movie, so at least to a certain extent some of the lightness that had once made me love the character returned, but it wasn’t allowed to stay long, because apparently GrimDark is about all the Hero Industry can figure out how to do with a Leading Man anymore. I guess. And of course, that bitterness ripened fully by CA;CW, leaving almost no trace to be found of the Tony who nearly crashed his maiden flight in the armor, but went whooping with delight all the way.
The fic I wrote early on had that delighted, In Love With Life Despite Life’s Being A Bitch Sometimes Tony. He’s got his scars, and he’s got his hangups, and things definitely freak him out and make him less than awesome sometimes, but the JOY is intact in there – the character vibrates with it, even when he’s feeling rough and struggling.
But in And Miles To Go Before I Sleep, I had to struggle to find a way to bring some of that joyfulness back to the character; or rather, to bring the character back to his Joy. There was just so much cunresolved anon SHIT I had to shovel out of the way to get him back around to being a guy I WANTED my favorite to be with – and before you yell, antis, Steve did quite a bit of work, and took his fair share of lumps in that story too. I’m proud of how the story turned out, but I won’t pretend it was anything like the delight to write that Scatterlings and Orphans was.
In Nights When the Wolves Are Silent, and Only the Moon Howls, the whole scenario gave me the leverage to get some of that old, joyful, happy Tony back into frame. The brainfuck of discovering that werewolves are a real thing, have always been a real thing, and physics doesn’t seem inclined to stop it, is a handy palate cleanser for all that grimdark toxicity. But even then, because of the weight that canon left blocking the street, I couldn’t leave it all behind.
I don’t know exactly where I’m going with this. I guess I just needed to put into words why it was – WHERE it was that Marvel lost me on Tony. It wasn’t WHAT he did, though yeah, I will always have problems with a lot of that – it was the fact that they made him a transmission vector for pain and misery when once, and seemingly only once, he had been so damned joyful.
And that, my friends, is just a fucking shame.
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stevensrogers:
Have you ever seen a little girl run so fast she falls down? There’s an instant, a fraction of a second before the world catches hold of her again… A moment when she’s outrun every doubt and fear she’s ever had about herself and she flies. In that one moment, every little girl flies. —Captain Marvel Vol 8 #1
stevensrogers:
Have you ever seen a little girl run so fast she falls down? There’s an instant, a fraction of a second before the world catches hold of her again… A moment when she’s outrun every doubt and fear she’s ever had about herself and she flies. In that one moment, every little girl flies. —Captain Marvel Vol 8 #1
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incendavery:
the only way to do is by trying and failing and resting and trying and failing again forever
incendavery:
the only way to do is by trying and failing and resting and trying and failing again forever
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sophiagratia:
jcatgirl asked: hi, i don’t know what being graycatted means, but i am v interested in hearing why the creation of kira nerys and the casting of nana vistor is important.
Oh, my sweet summer child. You don’t know what you’re getting into with me, but you’re about to learn. Okay. I feel like I’m constantly drafting the ultimate Key to All Mythologies Ode to Kira, and never managing to do it proper justice. But I’ll try to respond to this. Here we go. (FYI: graycatting, defined.)
First of all, I write this with deep affection and respect for Ro Laren. Because Ro Laren is important for a lot of reasons. Her arc is one of coming to terms with trauma. She is a ferocious, rule-breaking woman whose rule-breaking we are meant not only to empathize with but, ultimately, to esteem. (I’m trying to avoid spoilers here for my brand-new Trekster friend, but y’all know what I’m talking about.) But Ro Laren is also representative of an archetype of Tough Girls on television, especially in genre shows: so powerfully repressed that she can’t access her own emotions or forge adequate relationships. (That said, two important things that TNG does better than most: one, the person who helps Ro to resolve some of this is GUINAN, not some pushy dude-romantic-interest; and two, ‘Pre-emptive Strike’ is so intelligently the story of her learning this about herself and finding a path appropriate to herself.)
Now. It seems clear to me that the pilot of DS9 was written with Forbes’ (very brilliant) portrayal of Ro in mind. If you’re familiar with Ro, when you first meet Kira, gesticulating and shouting in Sisko’s office, Nana Visitor can come off as an incompetent ham. What the hell is this woman doing, I thought, the first time I saw ‘Emissary.’ Where’s Ro Laren? I miss Ro Laren. This lady’s overselling it, throwing a fit instead of seething at a low burn like she’s supposed to.
Because the pilot was written for Ro Laren, but Nana Visitor was already playing Kira Nerys. I have no way of knowing what went on in the minds of DS9’s writers and directors, or between them and Nana, in those early days. But I would be willing to bet cold hard latinum that they saw her explode into a role that had been written for repression and bitterness, and crafted the character to follow accordingly.
And that gift of Nana’s for a controlled performance of wild, complicated, sometimes self-contradicting emotion is what makes Kira Nerys as important as she is.
And Kira Nerys is important because she breaks the mold in which Ro Laren is stuck. Kira Nerys is a Tough Girl who shoots first and asks questions later, who’s all instinct, all impulse, and who is also entirely, availably emotional. And that part of her, the part of her that’s all feeling, is seen by the other characters and by the frame of the show as her strength. ‘Her presence,’ as Terry Farrell put it, ‘is her strength.’ You just do not see that on TV, that combination of toughness with feeling. (The sole other example I can think of is late-series Gabrielle of Xena: Warrior Princess.)
She also gets to have powerful, healthy relationships. Lots of them. Friends and mentors and lovers and co-workers and mentees, with whom she lives and learns. The key example, I think, is the evolution of her relationship with Sisko over the course of the first season. Sisko sees just how volatile she is, just how impulsive, and he trusts and respects her for it. Even when he knows she’s wrong – and she often is, those early days – he lets her play it out, whatever it is, lets her learn on her own terms, and never forces her hand. (Again, trying to avoid even minor spoilers, but see my ‘soph rewatches ds9’ tag for some recent installments in my incoherent thoughts on this.)
She is a survivor of trauma, not a captive to it. This is the most important thing about Kira, and the rarest thing in women on television. No matter how much she loses – and she loses so much, over and over – she continues to grow, to be in feeling and in relationship in ways that allow her to grow, to survive in the fullest sense of the term.
And I think it’s all down to that explosiveness of Nana Visitor’s in the pilot. She took the frame she’d been given, and she broke it open into something new and revolutionary. I have never really been one to fangirl actors, but Nana Visitor is the one I truly want to meet in real life, if only to say: ‘Thank you. You made it possible for me to stop apologizing for being intense and emotional.’ I think she made that possible for a lot of women. I can’t begin to measure the value of that.
sophiagratia:
jcatgirl asked: hi, i don’t know what being graycatted means, but i am v interested in hearing why the creation of kira nerys and the casting of nana vistor is important.
Oh, my sweet summer child. You don’t know what you’re getting into with me, but you’re about to learn. Okay. I feel like I’m constantly drafting the ultimate Key to All Mythologies Ode to Kira, and never managing to do it proper justice. But I’ll try to respond to this. Here we go. (FYI: graycatting, defined.)
First of all, I write this with deep affection and respect for Ro Laren. Because Ro Laren is important for a lot of reasons. Her arc is one of coming to terms with trauma. She is a ferocious, rule-breaking woman whose rule-breaking we are meant not only to empathize with but, ultimately, to esteem. (I’m trying to avoid spoilers here for my brand-new Trekster friend, but y’all know what I’m talking about.) But Ro Laren is also representative of an archetype of Tough Girls on television, especially in genre shows: so powerfully repressed that she can’t access her own emotions or forge adequate relationships. (That said, two important things that TNG does better than most: one, the person who helps Ro to resolve some of this is GUINAN, not some pushy dude-romantic-interest; and two, ‘Pre-emptive Strike’ is so intelligently the story of her learning this about herself and finding a path appropriate to herself.)
Now. It seems clear to me that the pilot of DS9 was written with Forbes’ (very brilliant) portrayal of Ro in mind. If you’re familiar with Ro, when you first meet Kira, gesticulating and shouting in Sisko’s office, Nana Visitor can come off as an incompetent ham. What the hell is this woman doing, I thought, the first time I saw ‘Emissary.’ Where’s Ro Laren? I miss Ro Laren. This lady’s overselling it, throwing a fit instead of seething at a low burn like she’s supposed to.
Because the pilot was written for Ro Laren, but Nana Visitor was already playing Kira Nerys. I have no way of knowing what went on in the minds of DS9’s writers and directors, or between them and Nana, in those early days. But I would be willing to bet cold hard latinum that they saw her explode into a role that had been written for repression and bitterness, and crafted the character to follow accordingly.
And that gift of Nana’s for a controlled performance of wild, complicated, sometimes self-contradicting emotion is what makes Kira Nerys as important as she is.
And Kira Nerys is important because she breaks the mold in which Ro Laren is stuck. Kira Nerys is a Tough Girl who shoots first and asks questions later, who’s all instinct, all impulse, and who is also entirely, availably emotional. And that part of her, the part of her that’s all feeling, is seen by the other characters and by the frame of the show as her strength. ‘Her presence,’ as Terry Farrell put it, ‘is her strength.’ You just do not see that on TV, that combination of toughness with feeling. (The sole other example I can think of is late-series Gabrielle of Xena: Warrior Princess.)
She also gets to have powerful, healthy relationships. Lots of them. Friends and mentors and lovers and co-workers and mentees, with whom she lives and learns. The key example, I think, is the evolution of her relationship with Sisko over the course of the first season. Sisko sees just how volatile she is, just how impulsive, and he trusts and respects her for it. Even when he knows she’s wrong – and she often is, those early days – he lets her play it out, whatever it is, lets her learn on her own terms, and never forces her hand. (Again, trying to avoid even minor spoilers, but see my ‘soph rewatches ds9’ tag for some recent installments in my incoherent thoughts on this.)
She is a survivor of trauma, not a captive to it. This is the most important thing about Kira, and the rarest thing in women on television. No matter how much she loses – and she loses so much, over and over – she continues to grow, to be in feeling and in relationship in ways that allow her to grow, to survive in the fullest sense of the term.
And I think it’s all down to that explosiveness of Nana Visitor’s in the pilot. She took the frame she’d been given, and she broke it open into something new and revolutionary. I have never really been one to fangirl actors, but Nana Visitor is the one I truly want to meet in real life, if only to say: ‘Thank you. You made it possible for me to stop apologizing for being intense and emotional.’ I think she made that possible for a lot of women. I can’t begin to measure the value of that.
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puddingbat:
hyelin:
stimman4000:
.
translation of what he’s saying in case anyone cares:
hello everyone, I am a traditional craftsman from Yixing in Jiangsu province. My ancestral home is Zishahu and growing up and listening/watching my father I have learnt this craft, now playing with dirt/mud has become my job as an adult as well. Even though my work is very dirty and tiring, traditional culture needs the new generation to continue its legacy and help it grow ever larger. In the future I hope that I will try to update/help traditional culture grow. Even your smallest compliments are the greatest support for me. Thank you.
(note: he’s speaking in a very formal/flowery manner that’s incredibly hard to convey into English but this is the essence of what he’s saying)
(double note: what he’s making is a traditional Chinese clay teapot, with this kind of clay specifically from Zishahu. they’re a key part of Chinese tea culture more so in the south than north and can be worth millions. this kind of craftsmanship dates back to the 10th century and is generally regarded as the precursor of porcelain)
Exquisite.
puddingbat:
hyelin:
stimman4000:
.
translation of what he’s saying in case anyone cares:
hello everyone, I am a traditional craftsman from Yixing in Jiangsu province. My ancestral home is Zishahu and growing up and listening/watching my father I have learnt this craft, now playing with dirt/mud has become my job as an adult as well. Even though my work is very dirty and tiring, traditional culture needs the new generation to continue its legacy and help it grow ever larger. In the future I hope that I will try to update/help traditional culture grow. Even your smallest compliments are the greatest support for me. Thank you.
(note: he’s speaking in a very formal/flowery manner that’s incredibly hard to convey into English but this is the essence of what he’s saying)
(double note: what he’s making is a traditional Chinese clay teapot, with this kind of clay specifically from Zishahu. they’re a key part of Chinese tea culture more so in the south than north and can be worth millions. this kind of craftsmanship dates back to the 10th century and is generally regarded as the precursor of porcelain)
Exquisite.
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elodieunderglass:
datkarkatass:
the-stars-descend:
the-stars-descend:
You’re living, you occupy space, and you have mass.
You know what that means?
You matter
this is the most inspirational pun i have ever seen
take your reblog and get out of here
elodieunderglass:
datkarkatass:
the-stars-descend:
the-stars-descend:
You’re living, you occupy space, and you have mass.
You know what that means?
You matter
this is the most inspirational pun i have ever seen
take your reblog and get out of here
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seussian:
#Please use fan fiction responsibly#do not read while operating heavy machinery#side effects for fanfiction include:#difficulty distinguishing fanon from canon#spontanious smushing of names#inability to read fluff in public without making goofy faces#death of feels#and is a gateway to further fannish involvement#ask your doctor if you are already taking fanvids or meta#not suitable for those prone to shipwars
THOSE TAGS!!
seussian:
#Please use fan fiction responsibly#do not read while operating heavy machinery#side effects for fanfiction include:#difficulty distinguishing fanon from canon#spontanious smushing of names#inability to read fluff in public without making goofy faces#death of feels#and is a gateway to further fannish involvement#ask your doctor if you are already taking fanvids or meta#not suitable for those prone to shipwars
THOSE TAGS!!
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theactualcluegirl:
Ok guys, I get that we’re definitely mad at Feighe, and the producers (and the writers, and the directors) for the way they treated our favorites in these last few movies, BUT I need to point out something else here; someone with MASSIVE influence over what goes into – and stays in – these films: someone who can actually go to a huge production company like Marvel and say “Okay, but these characters who brought down a government agency? We know people like them, and so you can’t just get rid of them, but let’s focus on Other People from here on in, okay?” and have Marvel/Disney kinda just nod its head.
That force? Is the investors. Specifically, the Military investors, which we know damned well is hip deep in Hollywood, making sure its face is presented as shiny and keen to the up-coming generation of Soldiers.
In my opinion, THAT is why Civil War was filmed as it was, with the man fighting for civil liberties played out as the ultimate betrayer, and the man fighting for government control portrayed as the victim. Because the Powers That Pay said “hey, we’ll invest in this film, sure, but we have a few… Conditions…”
And, because say what you like about it, Disney is a business, it rolled over and told Feighe, M&M, and the Russos How It Was Going To Be. And How It Was Going To Be, was that the Iconoclast Hero would get a few nice scenes, but be taken out of all future storylines, and the Whistleblower Spy would get a similar treatment, but ultimately, they weren’t to be made more of than the Government Control Supporting Billionaire.
Because in the end, it all comes down to money. And the big money here, is in War.
thehollowprince:
Natasha Romanoff Deserved Better
Obviously, right?
There are several things I could point out with that title, but I’m only going to talk about one (others to follow), which is about the fact that Nat didn’t get any kind of funeral or memorial in ENDGAME while Stark got this big, over-the-top thing (naturally).
According to the writers and directors and whoever else, Natasha wasn’t given a big funeral because “she was a behind-the-scenes person”. All of her big work happened off the books, where as Tony was this big public figure that naturally would get a big memorial.
The only problem with that bullshit logic, is that Tony’s funeral wasn’t some big public spectacle. It was a private ceremony on his private property with the Avengers and Guardians in attendance (and that kid from IM3), that’s it. This wasn’t some big patriotic ceremony like when Superman died in BATMAN v. SUPERMAN. So why was he granted such a big funeral when Nat gor shafted (again)? (I know why, but I want an actual reason aside from Feige and co. worshiping RDJ)
What really exacerbates this whole issue is FAR FROM HOME.
Now, with Marvel’s bullshit privacy policy running rampant, with most of the actors not even knowing what’s going on, one could be willing to overlook this, but we know that Feige is in charge of everything, so that’s not the case here. Feige knew, with FFH coming out right after that there were those bullshit Iron Man memorials all over Europe, despite the fact that we’ve been shown that Eastern Europe doesn’t particularly like him. Ans completely ignoring the whole thing of “how would the world know?”
Seriously, how?
What happened at the Avengers compound was witnessed only by the Avengers and Thanos’ army, which is gone, so how did the rest of the world find out about it? Granted, I could see Tony using his (stolen) technology to post-mortem let the world know that he had saved it, because his ego’s just that big.
But, back to my main point. If they knew there were going to be all these ridiculous moments that once again made a Spiderman movie about Tony, why couldn’t they give us an actual memorial for Natasha?
theactualcluegirl:
Ok guys, I get that we’re definitely mad at Feighe, and the producers (and the writers, and the directors) for the way they treated our favorites in these last few movies, BUT I need to point out something else here; someone with MASSIVE influence over what goes into – and stays in – these films: someone who can actually go to a huge production company like Marvel and say “Okay, but these characters who brought down a government agency? We know people like them, and so you can’t just get rid of them, but let’s focus on Other People from here on in, okay?” and have Marvel/Disney kinda just nod its head.
That force? Is the investors. Specifically, the Military investors, which we know damned well is hip deep in Hollywood, making sure its face is presented as shiny and keen to the up-coming generation of Soldiers.
In my opinion, THAT is why Civil War was filmed as it was, with the man fighting for civil liberties played out as the ultimate betrayer, and the man fighting for government control portrayed as the victim. Because the Powers That Pay said “hey, we’ll invest in this film, sure, but we have a few… Conditions…”
And, because say what you like about it, Disney is a business, it rolled over and told Feighe, M&M, and the Russos How It Was Going To Be. And How It Was Going To Be, was that the Iconoclast Hero would get a few nice scenes, but be taken out of all future storylines, and the Whistleblower Spy would get a similar treatment, but ultimately, they weren’t to be made more of than the Government Control Supporting Billionaire.
Because in the end, it all comes down to money. And the big money here, is in War.
thehollowprince:
Natasha Romanoff Deserved Better
Obviously, right?
There are several things I could point out with that title, but I’m only going to talk about one (others to follow), which is about the fact that Nat didn’t get any kind of funeral or memorial in ENDGAME while Stark got this big, over-the-top thing (naturally).
According to the writers and directors and whoever else, Natasha wasn’t given a big funeral because “she was a behind-the-scenes person”. All of her big work happened off the books, where as Tony was this big public figure that naturally would get a big memorial.
The only problem with that bullshit logic, is that Tony’s funeral wasn’t some big public spectacle. It was a private ceremony on his private property with the Avengers and Guardians in attendance (and that kid from IM3), that’s it. This wasn’t some big patriotic ceremony like when Superman died in BATMAN v. SUPERMAN. So why was he granted such a big funeral when Nat gor shafted (again)? (I know why, but I want an actual reason aside from Feige and co. worshiping RDJ)
What really exacerbates this whole issue is FAR FROM HOME.
Now, with Marvel’s bullshit privacy policy running rampant, with most of the actors not even knowing what’s going on, one could be willing to overlook this, but we know that Feige is in charge of everything, so that’s not the case here. Feige knew, with FFH coming out right after that there were those bullshit Iron Man memorials all over Europe, despite the fact that we’ve been shown that Eastern Europe doesn’t particularly like him. Ans completely ignoring the whole thing of “how would the world know?”
Seriously, how?
What happened at the Avengers compound was witnessed only by the Avengers and Thanos’ army, which is gone, so how did the rest of the world find out about it? Granted, I could see Tony using his (stolen) technology to post-mortem let the world know that he had saved it, because his ego’s just that big.
But, back to my main point. If they knew there were going to be all these ridiculous moments that once again made a Spiderman movie about Tony, why couldn’t they give us an actual memorial for Natasha?
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captainlordauditor:
buckysbears:
mehofkirkwall:
anotherhawk:
mehofkirkwall:
classyshippingblog:
anotherhawk:
mehofkirkwall:
Someone invites Crowley over for shabbos after seeing him alone in the back row during service and he spends the next few decades making sure they get new shoes and gift baskets on the appropriate holidays.
“Yeah, that’s uncle Crowley. His granddad had dinner with our family once and now his family’s just like weird cousins. Always wears black; he’s either orthodox or his whole family’s been very goth for, like, ever” –one of the family’s kids at torah study
See, this is Excellent, but I also like “Yeah, that’s Uncle Crowley. He was at my grandfather’s father’s Bar Mitzvah. We’re pretty sure he’s immortal, but we’re deliberately Not Asking about it and it’s been driving him crazy since 1903.”
he’s got a whole backstory cooked up but *no one’s asking about it*
also i just had an image of Crowley at a seder and they’re at least three cups of wine in and they get to Had Gadyo and crowley who is definitely on his way to sloshed is just
“HEY I REMEMBER ZUZIM.”
“ok uncle crowley”
“why would someone sell a goat for two zuzim that’s not even enough for a cup of coffee”
“of course it isn’t uncle crowley”
this is very good.
Of course the family has questions. It’s been one of the most popular family arguments for generations, (and a couple of family members have got it right) but only when Crowley isn’t there. As soon as he’s there it would be rude and unwelcoming to bring the subject up, and whatever Crowley is he’s plainly in need of family. Besides, they might get answers and then the argument would be over.
Secondary favorite argument is what his friend Aziraphale is, when he brings the angel to dinner once or twice.
they get to the angel of death in chad gadya and crowley frowns and is like “nasty bugger. dont want to mess with him”
they invite eliyahu in and crowley’s like “oh sup dude” and starts a “””one sided””” conversation (the older kids think it’s for laughs and the younger kids are Convinced he’s really talking to a ghost)
“Uncle Crowley is immortal because he scared off the angel of death once three thousand years ago” is a legitimate side of the argument held by at least two people
captainlordauditor:
buckysbears:
mehofkirkwall:
anotherhawk:
mehofkirkwall:
classyshippingblog:
anotherhawk:
mehofkirkwall:
Someone invites Crowley over for shabbos after seeing him alone in the back row during service and he spends the next few decades making sure they get new shoes and gift baskets on the appropriate holidays.
“Yeah, that’s uncle Crowley. His granddad had dinner with our family once and now his family’s just like weird cousins. Always wears black; he’s either orthodox or his whole family’s been very goth for, like, ever” –one of the family’s kids at torah study
See, this is Excellent, but I also like “Yeah, that’s Uncle Crowley. He was at my grandfather’s father’s Bar Mitzvah. We’re pretty sure he’s immortal, but we’re deliberately Not Asking about it and it’s been driving him crazy since 1903.”
he’s got a whole backstory cooked up but *no one’s asking about it*
also i just had an image of Crowley at a seder and they’re at least three cups of wine in and they get to Had Gadyo and crowley who is definitely on his way to sloshed is just
“HEY I REMEMBER ZUZIM.”
“ok uncle crowley”
“why would someone sell a goat for two zuzim that’s not even enough for a cup of coffee”
“of course it isn’t uncle crowley”
this is very good.
Of course the family has questions. It’s been one of the most popular family arguments for generations, (and a couple of family members have got it right) but only when Crowley isn’t there. As soon as he’s there it would be rude and unwelcoming to bring the subject up, and whatever Crowley is he’s plainly in need of family. Besides, they might get answers and then the argument would be over.
Secondary favorite argument is what his friend Aziraphale is, when he brings the angel to dinner once or twice.
they get to the angel of death in chad gadya and crowley frowns and is like “nasty bugger. dont want to mess with him”
they invite eliyahu in and crowley’s like “oh sup dude” and starts a “””one sided””” conversation (the older kids think it’s for laughs and the younger kids are Convinced he’s really talking to a ghost)
“Uncle Crowley is immortal because he scared off the angel of death once three thousand years ago” is a legitimate side of the argument held by at least two people