Girl sitting in waiting room, wearing a Loki hoodie, guy next to her wearing a Captain America shirt, me sitting next to him, somehow not wearing a Captain America shirt.
Guy (to girl): “You like Loki, huh?”
Girl: “Yeah!”
Guy: “What’s your favorite Loki story?”
Girl (With immediate excitement): “Well I mostly know him from the movies but I’ve been reading this ‘Loki: Agent of Asgard’ comic and I really-”
Guy (interrupting): “Pfft. the movies! I fucking knew it. Fucking fake girl.”
The girl, caught off guard by the sudden hostility, is silenced, for the moment.
Me (to Guy): “I see you’re wearing a Cap shirt. Do you know who created him?”
Guy (With delicious arrogance): “Stan Lee.”
Me: “Joe Simon and Jack Kirby you fucking fake geek boy.”
Girl and receptionist both laugh at him. My name is called and I go in to my appointment. End Scene.
AHHH I saw this anon right when it was sent and I was like ooh I’ll have to give them a good response and then. Forgot.
I really love the Rogue One movie as it is, there’s a great depth and tragedy with that whole tale unfolding in the span of two-ish hours. But there’s always the craving for more, and honestly I wouldn’t mind prequels? We basically have a firm grasp on Jyn’s backstory, as we get what’s important in the movie and Catalyst and Rebel Rising fill in the details and the rest is up to fanfiction, but just… Cassian. Bodhi. You could do a whole film on each of them.
Bodhi…. Bodhi’s life is the life of any member of the diaspora. The film opens to a not idyllic but comparatively peaceful (loud and bright and colourful, but peaceful) world, heavy with faith and layers and layers of ancient history. So many languages, cultures, small conflicts and great architecture, so much history. You stand at the heart of Jedha and at once feel like a tiny pinprick in the ocean of the Force, a small insignificant point in the grand sprawl of galactic history. But you also feel at home, loved. These people are kind, the children playing football in the alleys call you older brother when they ask you to pass the ball back to them. Sure, there are pickpockets and tricksters looking to swipe credits from starry-eyed offworld tourists, but this is life. Jedha is Life itself.
Bodhi is born into a loving family. Three faces peer into his cradle: his mother, father, older sister. And then the barrage of aunts and uncles and grandparents coming to gift treats and trinkets and blessings. His life is gold and brown and red and orange and yellow; warm even in the cold, well fed even while experiencing no great Coruscanti luxury. His father sinks in and out of the picture. War is brewing, the Force has a metallic taste to it, but it’s like the clouds on a sunny day. Offering shade, almost. Something that can be ignored.
Yes, Avril Lavigne, you can make it more obvious. You literally told me nothing about these two people except their genders and presumingly their young age. They could both be gay, or not even into each other. They could be two complete strangers. They could be living on different continents, or in different time periods. You gotta be more specific.
It’s the fact she then carries on to describe them as “he was a punk, she did ballet” and then says “what more can I say?” and it’s like you still haven’t actually told us anything ffs Avril.
He was a 17th century english prostitute, she danced in the Perm Theater Ballet in Russia in 1893
Wow way to use an archaic meaning of the word ‘punk’ for historical accuracy.
Venom’s talk about being considered a loser on his planet, his quick fondness for Eddie, his pleasant surprise when Eddie first called them “we,” and his sudden switching of sides all lead me to conclude that like in the comics, movie!Venom is a big romantic sap that wanted a fairytale symbiosis with a perfect host and all the other reind- Klyntar can’t even deal with his nonsense.
No wonder Riot was so keen on finding him and getting him back on Plan Let’s Get Ready to Invade These Assholes. It’d been six months since he’d seen Venom, and he just knows that without supervision that fucking jackass has gone and fallen in love with the first son of a bitch that didn’t die on him and talked to him halfway decently and now he’s not gonna want to conquer the planet.
And sure enough, he’s not even surprised when Venom turns up all traitorous and married. He gives him one, fleeting chance to get in the fucking rocket, you lunatic, and then he’s just gonna fucking eat him. He’s tired of this, Venom. Absolutely done with this shit.
Riot: GODDAMMIT, VENOM, YOU ALWAYS DO THIS. LOOK AT HIM. YOUR TASTE IS GETTING WORSE.
Venom: HE GAVE ME TATER TOTS AND CALLED US “WE” AND “BUDDY.” WE KISSED IN THE FOREST UNDER THE MOONLIGHT. WE WILL HAVE SEVEN CHILDREN.
Riot: VENOM, DROP THAT THING RIGHT NOW, I WON’T TELL YOU AGAIN. HE SMELLS LIKE SWEAT AND FAILURE.
And, as a result, I think we are telling more interesting stories than we would have been if we had just kept everything going the same way. – Michael Schur (x)
un mensajito para la gente que se opone a las identidades diversas
El lenguaje inclusivo es de lo más estúpidx que pueda existir, amigues. JAJAAJAJAJAAJAJAJAJA
sí, una estupidez completa
RESPECTING OTHERS’ IDENTITIES IS FREE
a little message for those who oppose diverse identities
(some troll replies): Inclusive language is one of the stupidest things that could exist, amigues, hahahaha.
(Linguistic note: Amigues is a gender-inclusive way to say “friends”. They also use a gender-neutral X in the word for “stupid,” and I’m pretty sure it’s not even used correctly, but I’m not a native speaker.)
(another troll adds): Yes, a complete stupidity.
Campoalxóchitl: Hello, everyone who says that mentioning feminine and masculine while speaking is unnecessary, remember that Hermila Galindo was not allowed to serve in Congress because the law said it was the right of the MexicanOs to be eligible, and that didn’t include women. If it’s not named, it doesn’t exist.
(Linguistic note: in Spanish, plurals with an O can be read as either all-gender, or only male.)
US peeps! Do you have a plan for Tuesday? Know where your polling place is, and how you’ll get there? Know when you’re going? Pick a time and treat it like a super important appointment (BECAUSE IT IS) and allow for lines and delays. Maybe there won’t be, maybe you’ll breeze right in, vote, and breeze out with your I VOTED sticker, but build in the time anyway.
If you’re voting on an electronic machine, DOUBLE CHECK YOUR BALLOT BEFORE YOU SUBMIT IT. I’m hearing that some systems uncheck things, or change straight ticket D to straight ticket R if you hit particular buttons before screens load all the way (isn’t that interesting) so be sure that doesn’t happen to you. Me, I always choose paper, but I don’t know if that’s an option everywhere.
Whatever you do, VOTE! It may seem a small and insignificant thing, and the trashfire we’re facing so much bigger than anything you can do, but do whatever you can, even so. Each of us doing small things–it adds up. Snowflakes and avalanches, right? And voting isn’t as small and insignificant as it seems, or the fuckers wouldn’t be working so hard to stop so many people from doing it.
Reblogging for US friends, and because the note about the e-voting machines needs to be publicised.
– Boromir and Legolas couldn’t understand anything Sam said for about a week. (Sam: *finishes what he’s saying and leaves* Legolas: did you understand that Boromir: it had the tone of being friendly)
(Gimli does better w Shiretalk bcos dwarves historically have had a lot of contact with the Shire)
– Frodo picked up a Buckland accent while he was living there after his parents died. He mostly lost it again after moving back to Hobbiton but sometimes it comes out when he’s talking to Merry. Sometimes they slip into broad Buckland dialect & no-one can understand them except Gandalf & Pippin
– Pippin occasionally slips into broad Tookland dialect when he’s stressed out or angry and half the Fellowship straight up thinks he’s speaking a different language
– Westron is not Legolas’s first language and his vocabulary is both a) patchy and b) based on several thousand years of contact with Westron speakers so not all of what he knows is, up to date
– Merry & Pippin did best of the non-elvish speakers in Lorien through a combination of mime and just not giving a damn
– If Aragorn ever had a consistent accent he lost it a long time ago
– Gandalf is the only person who can consistently understand everyone else
FORGOT ONE
– by the time he gets to Minas Tirith Sam has figured out how to speak ‘standard’ Westron and could make himself understood if he wanted to, he just doesn’t care to.
‘I spent all those weeks making sense of their talk, they can make sense of mine’ ‘sam you’re making things so unnecessarily difficult for yourself’ ‘it’s the principle of the thing mr frodo’
Rebellions are built on hope 