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"The horrors persist but so do libraries, books, iced coffee, sunsets, trees, the word 'fuck', the moon and the sea."

I think the deep misunderstanding from the fandom of robby's unconscious bias towards men, and *certain* fandom groups (at times, deliberate) mischaracterisation of it to paint it as intentionally malicious and overt misogyny, is genuinely one of the things I'm saddest about after season 2.

you've taken a very carefully written character- shown to be deeply, deeply good, and deeply relatable to the medical community, and based your entire view of him on an unconscious element of his personality, instead of accepting that good people have flaws. robby's bias (and it's storyline in s1) is meant to be a thing where you go "oh yes, even very competent, very kind men will have this bias often, due to the structure of society. he's written this way because he's realistic. his bias isn't good, but it doesn't de facto make him a bad person."

it's *not* meant to be something that you cling to to discredit his failing mental health, his overt and intentional goodness and his care for others. it's *not* meant to be something that you hunt through every scene looking for- because it's not there in every scene, or even whole batches of episodes. it doesn't inform every choice he makes and it's not present every time he talks to women- it's not even present *most* of the time. you're *not* supposed to hate him.

it's meant to be an occasional callback to the realities of society and how that impacts the behaviour of people who are (as far as they've thought about it) considering themselves feminist. because robby most likely *does* consider himself this way. he absolutely believes in equality and feminism, and he will stick up for women when he sees they're treated poorly (eg, the scene with the male paramedics). he just also doesn't notice the underlying bias he acts on at times.

the inclusion of his bias is meant to do the same thing as every other bias shown in the show that good characters have. mckays unconscious weight bias, langdons gender bias, ogilvies bias against drug users... all there to show good people carry these things, that no one is perfect, and we should look at our actions towards others.

the fandoms reaction to robbys bias being to wish for his characters death, rather than to understand the intended use as a realistic flaw, is frankly appalling. I will always mourn the interesting, nuanced conversations we *could* have had.

rylandsgrace

It has this innate potential for something emotional. How do relationships evolve, including ones that start with hatred?

Marvel Studios: Assembled - The Making Of Deadpool & Wolverine (2024)

whiskeyandcigarsmoke

I love them, Poolverine forever

akmongs

i crocheted the prorev kiss

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manic-pixie-fever-dream

I'm so glad we didn't get the wide-angle naked writhing bodies shot for the Paris love making scene. Much as I'd like to see skin(of these men esp), focusing on close-up shots, their facial expressions and emotions made the scene so much more than a run-of-the-mill sex scene.

I haven't seen this done much in hetero sex scenes and I'm glad they did it here. The long shots actually make a sex scene look very clinical and impersonal. This one was borderline voyeuristic... like... The viewer is intruding into a very personal and intimate moment of the couple, which is what making love is.

- Matthew Michael Lopez

I can't praise enough Matthew Lopez, Robbie Taylor Hunt, Taylor Zakhar Perez and Nicholas Galitzine for their commitment to this scene.

sc00ps-ahoy

its kinda weird watching something with canonically gay characters when im used to having to make them gay myself.

ikarakie

sherlock holmes as a concept is so gay. ooohhhh look at me im some fucking guy solving murders with my bestest and only friend in the whole wide world! get a grip

thekidsfromyestergay

It's impossible to talk about MCRs impact without also discussing queerness. Btw

thekidsfromyestergay

This isn't any kind of "truthing" or theorising about personal identity, it's simply what they do and what they always have done. For years they have gone out of their way to link themselves with queerness, either politically or as simple shows of support. Openly reclaiming derogatory terms, explicitly discussing supporting gay and transgender fans, literally kissing on stage- these are all acts of queerness used to signal to queer fans that we're here, we see you, we're in this with you. And I hate that branding them as a queer band is now so frowned upon as if it means anything about their individual identities, as if it's wrong to even discuss the ways they have deliberately and explicitly connected with queerness, when it's arguably a central part of their popularity and appeal.

thekidsfromyestergay

They have always been aligned with queerness. It isn't a new thing.

destrya

They were like, “Hey, we’re looking for another guitarist, would you wanna join?” and I was like, “Definitely, you’re my favorite band!”

tomshiddles

Pedro Pascal - The Mandalorian Disney Gallery: Making of Season 2

pedro-pedrito-pascalito

god he is gorgeous.

pedrohub

#Javi Gutierrez I will die for you

spicyvampire

I frankly barely pay attention to celebrities and their businesses cuz anyways i'm poor but the fact that Lizzo just launched gender affirming shapewear with her official shapewear brand in the climate of every politicians going back 50 years on lgbt+ rights and especially trans people's rights in the country that she lives is just, I have no words ngl

spicyvampire

Like I know a bunch of people (me included) that would love to try gender affirming shape wear but they are either impossible to find irl, would out u if you went into an irl store or u not sure of the quality u gonna get from a random website so u never end up buying any, and now u have a known celebrity normalizing these shapewears on her very public platform, like even if u never end up buying lizzo's specifically, the implication of this existing alone

phoenixkaptain

Din Djarin and Luke Skywalker are both two men who get progressively scarier the more you watch them.

Like, Luke in A New Hope was baby af. He was a child. Even in the Empire Strikes Back, what a little guy. A tiny fellow.

Then boom, Return of the Jedi, and Luke is smiling and like “Tell these Ewoks that you are their God and that if they do not release us, you will be Angered…” He is in all black, he is missing a hand, he has gone off the rails conpletely. He’s like “How will I tell Leia that we’re siblings? …Oh! I know! Riddles!” Luke Skywalker gets struck by Force Lightning like nine times and still gets up and drags his dad’s lifeless body out. There were moments one might look at him and think, “no, ur wrong, he still babie” but you are the wrong one! He goes into Jabba’s Palace and straight up stands there smiling and threatening him the whole time. He’s standing on a plank over the Sarlacc and he’s still like “So this is how you’d like to play :)” Luke straight up snapped, he got spooky by the end of the og trilogy.

Din Djarin, straight off the back, is kind of intimidating. He is a man in full armour who hunts people and freezes them in carbonite and appears behind their shoulders when they least expect it. But, after Grogu shows up, you probably think “this man is weak to this baby, he will become soft” but no! The opposite happens!

I’m talking about episode 6. The Prisoner. I have wanted desperately to talk about this for days, but have only just found the words to do so. Let me explain.

Din Djarin is filmed and edited like a horror movie villain. Like a supernatural force of evil who stalks his prey. Straight up like a slasher villain out of the eighties. There’s hints of this beforehand, what with Din appearing behind a guy in the very first episode, and the fact that he has been shot point blank (many times) but no matter how many times he falls, he always gets back up. Okay, that’s all fine and good.

But episode 6 goes beyond that. He stalks a bunch if assholes through flickering red lights. He splits them up, he takes them out one by one, and the last person standing manages to get out, thinks they’ve escaped, only to die (technically) at Din’s hand anyway. He is straight up a horror movie villain I don’t know how else to explain it, he is a horror movie villain.

Don’t take this the wrong way. Being spooky and intimidating isn’t a bad thing, especially not in Star Wars! Luke Skywalker and his ability to say terrible things while smiling, Din Djarin and his predilection for appearing right behind someone, these ar egood things. I like these things a lot. I love these. I love that Luke is the cutest little scary fella in the galaxy. I love that Din is the most awkward little scary fella in the galaxy. I think it’s great.

Why do I bring this up?

Well, for one, I have been trying to word my view on Din Djarin for days now. I love this man, I have to mock him or I’ll feel incomplete. And I think it’s a disservice to pretend that Luke isn’t a person who most people in the Star Wars universe think about and shiver. Don’t get me wrong, I love sunshine boy Luke, but he isn’t really like that, at least not by this point in the series. He just strikes me as the type of person to say incredibly dark, deranged things with a blank face, then smile at cute kittens. Luke is messed up, and we should talk about it more because it’s very interesting to explore the various ways he’s messed up.

But for another, I am a big fan of Din and Luke being buddies who go absolutely anywhere and scare the shit out of people. A Mandalorian next to a Jedi Knight? Two people who eat Storm Troopers for breakfast?? Can you imagine how much the fragments of the Empire that are still left are quaking??? Those two would go absolutelu anywhere and the anyone on planet who ever sided with the Empire would give themselves up or run, immediately.

Like, Din singlehandedly took out that whole troop on Nevarro. All by himself, he shot out all of the Storm Troopers and everyone inside and I like to think there are whispered stories about him similar to the ones about the Boogeyman.

Now, I know Luke didn’t actually kill the Emperor and Darth Vader, but does anyone in universe know that? Or does everyone think that Luke not only blew up the Death Star, but he also murdered the two head honchos and came out completely unscathed? Luke is definitely a boogeyman.

I don’t know. Something about two terrifying men walking into a bar full of Imperials only to walk out five minutes later of a bar full of dead Imperials just really fills me with joy. Something about the mental image I have of Storm Troopers fearfully sharing increasingly terrifying stories about these two makes me happy. I like bad people being scared shitless, all right? Sue me.