what the hell are we supposed to do now??

19 | she/her | here since 2015 | sapphic

[gorillageek27]

Daddyphatsnaps dropped a banger.

[teamfortresstwo]

I’m sorry but it is downright hilarious to have this scene play out with only four viltrumites . Just does not have the same oomph if it isn’t an entire remaining nation and just the fucking . Failure quartet .

[softichill]

I think abt this tiktok all the time

[thesadcyborg9million]

Diversity hire bryson ur absolutely slaying

[byjove]

watching massive franchises bomb at the box office while Backrooms has made $212 million on a $10 million initial budget has brought me hope for the future of cinema

[byjove]

audiences do NOT want Star Wars slop, audiences want a movie made by a guy who really wanted to make a movie

[tehamelie]

I'm looking at you specifically here, Star War

[byjove]

They’ll give us everything but what we want (the Lando movie)

[lizardsfromspace]

Out of control Edwardian youths refuse to clap at production of Peter Pan, force distraught J.M Barrie to pull out rarely seen "Tinkerbell Fucking Dies" ending

[julianova44]

You probably know this but shitpost ruining fun fact for anybody who doesn’t:

When the play first was performed, JM Barrie et al were so concerned this might happen that they instructed the orchestra to drop their instruments and clap at this point, just in case

[lizardsfromspace]

I did not know this and I'm grateful for being informed

[sisaloofafump]

Peter Pan edited by Anne Hiebert Alton (2011)

(sorry to interrupt joke post but) this is true!

Children not clapping did happen too, (and some were even expected to have hissed, which was later written into the 1928 playscript and 1911 novel). But my all time favourite anecdote about it is from Pauline Chase (who played Peter)'s intro to Peter Pan's Post Bag 1909:

Children love to clap their hands at the play because then they feel that they are really part of it, and you can see them holding their hands poised ready to seize an opportunity. Their great chance is when I ask them to clap their hands if they believe in fairies, and so save Tink's life. But they are very wrathful if any one claps who has the reputation of being a cynic, and once there was quite an uproar in the front row of the dress circle because of a girl who clapped. Those about her pulled down her arms angrily. "How dare you clap," they cried, "when you know you don't believe in fairies!" There was one dreadfully hard-hearted little boy who came to the theatre not to clap. That was his object for coming, and he came round "behind" to tell me so in the middle of the play. His teeth were firm set. "I won't clap," he said doggedly; "I'm not going to clap." And when the time came he didn't clap; above the clapping of all the others I could hear him shouting from a box, "Peter, I'm not clapping."

(Tink was revived each time anyway)

[byjove]

The funniest part of A New Hope is that Luke Skywalker is a 19 year old who has not locked in yet and plays with toys and sleeps in his childhood bedroom at his aunt and uncle’s house and Leia Organa is a 19 year old with a mission to save the galaxy from fascism. Luke has never left his hometown, Leia just watched her planet be blown up. He’s peeved his uncle is asking him to do his chores, she’s imprisoned for resisting the government. You relate to them both but they’re on complete opposite sides of the 19 year old life stage spectrum.

[slinky-cat]

Also Luke is clearly very lonely after his crush and best friend, Biggs, went away to college

[byjove]

Yes! Some people have misinterpreted this as me insinuating Luke is a wimp but he’s just in a very transitional life phase that is focused on growing and maturing. His friends are growing up and moving on, he’s anxious to join them but isn’t quite ready. He has ambition and goals but he just isn’t in a place where he is able to pursue those goals, he is immature and that isn’t a bad thing. 19 year olds SHOULD be able to ponder their place in the world and which direction they want their life to take. Leia has been in the public eye her entire life, she is a princess, she has been primed for greatness and she has been shouldered with so much responsibility. Luke is just his aunt and uncle’s nephew, they love him and don’t want him to leave, he’s trying to decide what to do.

[byjove]

He’s like a Midwest farm boy who is dreaming of the big city and she is like an old money New England heiress who has been told since birth she will follow her father’s career path into politics and has been sent to the most competitive schools and enrolled in the most rigorous extracurriculars.

[yourlocalquietkid]

Luke is the protagonist at the start of a coming-of-age plotline while Leia is in the 3rd season finale of her failed revolution plan when A New Hope takes place and you can fight me on this.

[byjove]

and Han Solo owes a slug drug money

[depsidase]

[trust-and-jump]

we'd be much more fucked up... I wouldn't survive and certainly I wouldn't be saying to my dad all those things about "I'll stop you" and "what if they resist" and I definitely would not be able to say "I'd still have you".

Also did you notice how often (including comics) Mark zones out? It started in s1 after the first Flaxan invasion and it keeps happening. "Are you in there?"

Also Mark doesn't remember shit after Eve "dying" in the first Conquest battle and he doesn't remember killing Conquest in the second battle. Also he doesn't have control over his own life at all, because of everything he experienced, and many times he lashes out are there because he tries to gain this control back, and most of his big decisions don't feel like the right thing. His autonomy is taken away from him. He never feels like he gets a say in this, things happening to him. He can't find the inner strength because of it, because of that lack of control. And he genuinely can't protect himself because of the trauma, parental violence, everything he endured. He really can't protect himself. He doesn't, his autonomy is violated, his guilt is part of his brain, by now, he won't protect himself, he can only act when he's reminded other lifes are at stake. He doesn't act on himself being hurt. And one of the only times Mark protects himself (after Cecil sends Reanimen) everyone looks at Mark in horror. Not that Mark was completely in the right, that's not the point. But he protected himself this one time and how was it perceived..

More than anything, the lesson Nolan taught Mark in Chicago was not "you are not them, you will always endure, they are insects" but "It's your fault, Mark". That life changing event taught Mark that everything, all the death, all the destruction is his fault. "That was your fault." after the building poisoned Mark's mind for the rest of his life. Nolan said that, after the building Mark collapsed unintentionally, and Mark just bowed his head, accepting it as the truth, this belief settling in his bones.

Through the whole story (including most of the comics, except for the ending) it feels like he's constantly drowning. Sometimes he tries to swim, sometimes he floats at the surface trying not to struggle against the current (fleeing Earth after Robot started his evil things), but in the end, he's still drowning. All the time.

I saw some people complaining about Mark not taking all matters in his own hands, or complaining about Mark being too passive, reacting instead of acting, being submissive, push-over etc. But I know people like that who ARE like that because of the stuff they've been through. They mostly don't even realise that they are acting this way because they were hurt in the past. Oh, and what about some people out there who get into abusive relationships after barely getting alive from the last abusive relationship they got into? That are vulnerable to people who would take advantage of them? Would you be confused about why a person with a poorly heal broken leg is more prone to trip and fall and re-traumatize? That's Mark. He's never fully healed, never truly looked after (Cecil only did it when it was serving his purposes and would manipulate Mark at any opportunity, Debbie for two seasons had many things to be fucked up about herself, Oliver is a child, Eve for the most part except maybe season three had her own problems, Amber was hurt by relationship with Mark herself and couldn't provide anything but distraction from superhero bullshit, William is just a bro and doesn't really have access to Mark, Nolan is Nolan (no comments)...) Always getting punched in the places that already hurt. Poking the bruises. tearing the wounds. kicking the broken bones.

All of that... is why he fucks up, why he can't protect himself, why he jumps into danger, why he is drowning all the time, why he can't gain control, why he feels he's letting everyone down, all the time. And yes someone could say he's whiny. But man he is so much stronger than I ever will be. He *lives*. He's also mostly functional. After everything. I could never.

[purplish-pen]

Sad but defiantly still alive Mark.

[depsidase]

[tieflingkisser]

[helenvaughans]

[zitasaurusrex]

[roseoilz]

translucent fabric sculptures by korean artist do ho suh

[thememedaddy]

[xytrax666]

Woman Viltrumites

[creepycombo]

Love to imagine Viltrumites would have a Victorian child eating a Dorito reaction to most American fast food.

They’d indulge because it’s delicious but then get the worst indigestion of their life.

Kregg had an easier time adjusting to alcohol and cigarettes.

[creepycombo]

I want to see Viltrumites after they conform to earth still struggling with their violent nature and the lives they lived before.

I want something like Lucan absolutely splattering a guy that was getting in his face, not even on purpose, it’s just what happens when a Viltrumite retaliates.

He runs and ends up at Kregg’s place and behaves for a moment like they’re both still on a mission and confides in him that he was indiscreet.

He speaks rigidly, calls Kregg general, and awaits a further order. It’s like killing the man caused something in him to revert back to how he was almost on an instinct. A defence mechanism?

and Kregg just kinda has to tell him that he’s not his general anymore…

[stuckinapril]

I think part of getting better is complete ego death. Like you’re not above setting a timer for 5 minutes and focusing on a task. You’re not above doing a very simple 3 minute workout to start. You’re not above reading for 10 minutes a day when you first get out of your reading slump, even if you used to read for hours. You’re not above starting slow and then building up to where you want to be/where you once were. What you are above is total inertia. Doing something really is better than doing nothing. Radically accept where you are, radically accept your limits, and go from there. Don’t let your ego get in the way.