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+++ female | german | old enough | slasher | fangirl | feminist | music lover | blogger of random shit | writer +++ Anonymous asks stay off for various reasons, one being the hostile nature of anons on tumblr for which I have neither the time nor the patience. I'm sorry if you're just shy but I promise I won't bite if you ask me something with your name attached. I'm luthien82 on AO3 and used to be on LJ under the same name.

[captain-acab]

dnd item: an enchanted hot tub that compels its occupants to confront each other over any grievance they have been holding onto

it’s called a j’accusi

[nukaswift]

Choose your fighter

[littorella]

@wewritevictuuri Autoteles Day 4: the Arts

“I want to dance with you, Viktor.”

And how can Viktor say no?

Read @stammiviktor‘s royalty fairlytale On Your Every Word

[knightinironarmor]

the “tony stark hogwarts house” debate is as fun as it is neverending but also consider: tony stark, a squib. utterly rejected by his dad. resorts to developing technology to make up for the wizarding conveniences he can’t get with a wand. tech wands and other wizarding accessibility devices for squibs everywhere. funds protection programs for homeless and rejected squib & muggleborn children. consider pro-squib inclusion activist tony stark

[knightinironarmor]

here’s this in honor of september 1st

[lovelyirony]

this makes so much sense with his story as well?? like howard would probably have some amazing tech with the wizarding world, but Tony made it better. They said he couldn’t do it because he was a squib, but Tony just grins and says that stupid quote that all wizards and witches have come to hate: “Magic is just science you don’t understand yet.” He creates technology that can make things float, and he created a flying car without an enchantment, so ha Justin, suck on it. 

No acceptance to Hogwarts? No problem. He doesn’t necessarily care, because from what Steve says, the sorting hat would take ages for Tony. He goes to regular school and gets a degree in just about everything. He combines it with the wizarding world. For the first time in ages, squibs are finally getting a good name. 

He’s known as the man to go to. He sets up houses for fearful children who have been rejected because they show no magic ability, or something else. He is fierce, showing up to Ministry of Magic meetings in a sharply tailored suit. (Always American-made, just to piss them off a bit.) He and his friend Rhodey make sure that the people they have get good futures. 

They get into fields like physics and travel and all sorts of other fields because they think differently. They still have the influence of the wizarding world, no matter how much some of the wizarding world doesn’t want them to. They create a better future for all involved. And, as much as Tony always says it wasn’t him, they all know it was. (that’s why he finally gets his own chocolate frog card. he cries, and then realizes he’s the first squib to be on one.) 

[knightinironarmor]

anyway, i just found out that in one of the early drafts of iron man, howard stark was going to be alive as the cold and ruthless industrialist who would be THE ANTAGONIST OF THE MOVIE, THE GUY WHO TRIES TO KILL TONY like if this doesn’t tell you anything about the sort of space that character occupies in the concept of mcu iron man then idk what will

[knightinironarmor]

at some point, they also intended to hold out on obadiah stane and only present him as a villain in the second movie after spending the first parading as tony’s friend and mentor, so fucking imagine the nightmare scenario where tony’s own father tries to murder him in one movie and then the trusted friend who helped him through becoming iron man, also tries to murder him after using their closeness and tony’s vulnerability to his advantage

[tienriu]

… I can see why Marvel changed their minds on doing this because it is a fascinating character arc with really complex villains.  Given Iron Man was the first of the Marvel movies to make it big - laying the ground work for Thor, Captain America and Avengers - I can understand why they decided to go for a simpler narrative: the princess in the tower saves herself from the dragon with the dragon.

But man, can you imagine?

Movie 1: the man who sends Tony to his death is Howard, his father.  This man then takes the things that Tony built out of blood and bone to escape, and builds a new weapon he intends to use to make a new fortune and start a global arms race.

It doesn’t even matter if Howard had intentionally wanted to kill Tony or his capture was accidental and subsequent refusal to pay ransom was company policy or a US government decision.  The point would be Tony actively rebelling against what he sees as his father’s interest in profit over ethics.   And in all this, there’s Obadiah Stane, supporting Tony despite having been Howard’s right hand man for years.  There’s Uncle Obadiah helping Tony recover.  There’s Stane, helping Tony fight and then kill Howard next to Pepper and Coulson.

End credits - Tony announcing he is Iron Man and that Stark Industries will be ceasing weapons development, with Obadiah Stane standing by him, acting CEO as the company mourns the death of its founder, Howard Stark.

And then, Movie 2 - Tony facing death from heavy metal poisoning and desperately trying to find a cure.  And there is Obadiah Stane, nudging Tony to indulge his worse impulses (and accelerate the poisoning) as a distraction while he takes the reigns of Stark Industries and re-starts the weapons division.

Tony’s realisation that Obadiah Stane has betrayed him - is, in effect, actively working towards Tony dying as the easiest way for Stane to take over Stark Industries - is all the more emotionally devastating to the audience because we spent an entire movie and 2 years assuming he was one of the heroes.  We’ve seen Tony call him ‘Uncle Obie’ repeatedly.  We’ve heard the childhood stories - we’ve seen a man, portrayed as a hero, care about Tony at some of his lowest moments.

And now, here’s this same man, destroying everything Tony has tried to do.  Worse, this man doesn’t care that Tony is preparing to die, that everything Tony is doing is towards a legacy, to make sure that the Stark name won’t be remembered for death and selling weapons on the black market.

And Tony is helpless - he’s dying, he can’t stop Stane, he’s cut off from his company and the world think he’s having a nervous breakdown.

On a side note, two years separate Iron Man I and Iron Man II - at Monaco Tony remarks that the event is his first vacation in two years.  Given metal poisoning and technology development, Tony probably found out he was going to die from the arc reactor in his chest fairly soon after the end of Iron Man I and then began working to make sure Stark Industries would have a future without him.  Tony had a long time to know he was living on borrowed time is what I’m saying.

Anyway, there’s Tony, betrayed by the man who helped him kill his father.  There’s Tony, stretching out his life by days and months only if he stops using the arc reactor to power the Iron Man.  There’s Tony - helpless and caught.  And into this comes Nick Fury and Howard Stark’s research notes.

And here’s Tony watching a video of the man who sent him to his death.  A video filmed literal decades ago and talking to him.  Here’s Tony being saved by his father and the man who tried to kill him.

What a mind fuck those two movies would have been.  How complex and weird and ridiculously human both those villains would have been.  How utterly impossible to tell the story well in 5 hours split over 2 movies, 2 years apart.

But wow can you imagine how well Robert Downey Junior would have done portraying a man betrayed twice and saved twice by the same two men?

Can you imagine how much more screwed up we’d all be when we watched Tony find out about Steve Rogers. 

Because you see, that would be the moment Tony realises (or at least believes) that his father wanted the Iron Man technology probably because it would have allowed deeper, more thorough deep water exploration in search of a body. 

Think of a Tony who looks at Captain America and fights with Captain America  and follows Captain America while believing that his father chose Steve over his own son - over and over again, all the way to the end - rather than the [handwave Loki’s magic staff] deux ex machina of the Avengers.   

Anyway in the right script writer’s hands, it would have been amazing is what I’m saying. 

But probably not suitable for children.

[writertobridge-deactivated20230]

Saw this on Twitter and wanted to share.

[catchymemes]

People messing with their textbook mini DUMP

[garden-of-succulents]

My problem is really that I need a narrative arc for Ransom and Holster that isn’t “they’re pining (they think) unrequitedly for each other” because that is just Not Working for me right now.

[samwellgotyourback]

Holster and Ransom hook up casually one night in their first semester of freshman year, but aren’t prepared for how Right it feels. they have an awkward few days trying to avoid the subject but they can’t avoid the attraction, and start seeing each other. it gets pretty heavy pretty fast, and they’re both kind of scared of what’s happening. they meet up over winter break and come to their Agreement: A) they’re probably It for each other B) they’re both young and dumb and not ready for It to happen yet C) this is college, they want to explore sexuality and romance and have terrible stories about waking up handcuffed to streetlamps or what have you. So the deal is this. They keep their thing on hold until they graduate. If there’s still a spark - if it’s still It for them - then go for it. But they take the next few years to work out themselves, to grow as people, and to explore fully the limits of the human reproductive systems. They don’t pretend it’s not tough sometimes, seeing the other with someone else. And a couple of times the agreement has come close to breaking down - but they talk it out. They know they have a good thing here, and they’re not gonna let miscommunication ruin that for them. And buried within the meat of the Agreement is the Niagara clause. One place where it’s null and void - where they’re not Ransom and Holster, Hockey Bros, but Justin and Adam, disgustingly in love and so excited to get to the rest of their lives together.

[tiny-potatos]

*slams fist on the table* YES!!!!!!

OK all the other headcanons can go home. This one is perfect. All the angst with out the major servings of unrequited attraction. I mean there is angst but also…. HAPPINESS !!!!💓💓💓💓

[fourofthem]

au where the trojan war is a party menelaus throws to win back his girlfriend who left him for some douchebag and he ropes all his friends into helping him and wacky shenanigans happen and a running gag is that odysseus doesn’t even want to be there he’s got shit to do and at the end he gets stuck in traffic on the way home

[anoteinpink]

#IM LAUGHIN #in the middle of it achilles throws a fit #”MAN IVE BEEN DJING FOR 3 HOURS YOU TOLD ME ID ONLY HAVE TO DO IT FOR LIKE AN HOUR” #”achilles cmon do menelaus a solid your djing is totally putting helen in the mood” #”FUCK YOU TOO AG” #he mopes upstairs to make out with his boyfriend #in the middle of a really quick’n’dirty handie someone bursts in the room all #”THIS IS AN EMERGENCY WE’RE OUT OF VODKA” #achilles is like FUCK OFF ASSHOLES I CANT PLAY BEER PONG BUT AS SOON AS YOU NEED SOMEONE TO GO ON A BOOZE RUN ITS ME. OF COURSE #patroclus is like ”well you are the fastest driver” ”I DONT CARE IM NOT GOING” #patroclus ”FINE then i’ll take your car dont be a baby” #5 minutes after patroclus is out the door achilles is like ”shit i fucked up” and catches a taxi to the liquor store #to meet up with patroclus #they drink the vodka and have sex in achilles’ car and forget all about the party

[needlekind]

on the way home odysseus gets into a very minor fender bender that’s more like a fender bumper with some shit driver who is almost DEFINITELY high. and it’s all this guy’s fault but he won’t stop screaming about how he’s gonna fucking sue and odysseus just wants to go the fuck home and the guy goes “I’M FILING THE POLICE REPORT WHO ARE YOU” and odysseus is just so done that he says “nobody” and drives the fuck off and this completely tripping guy ends up screaming to the police at the side of the road at like three in the morning “NOBODY CRASHED INTO MY CAR!!!!!”

[christycorr]

majestic-beard:

#I’M FUCKING SCREAMING #THIS WOULD BE SO GOOD THO #ODYSSEUS’ GF PENELOPE IS STUCK AT ANOTHER PARTY #GETTING HIT ON BY DOUCHES FROM ANOTHER FRAT #BUT ODYSSEUS HAS TO LIKE FIND A NEW CAR AND TRIES TO BORROW ONE FROM THIS CHICK WHO GIVES HIM SOME FUCKIN LACED POT OR SOMETHING BC HE FEELS LIKE HE’S BEEN THERE FOREVER #AND MEANWHILE PENELOPE HAS BEEN FORCED TO SAY THAT SHE’LL GO HOME WITH WHOEVER CAN BEAT HER AT BEERPONG #ONLY SHE’S FUCKIN LEGENDARY #SUCKS TO SUCK THE ONLY PERSON WHO CAN BEAT HER IS ODYSSEUS #BUT HE HAS TO BE ON THE DL BC THIS FRAT HATES HIS GUTS #AND HE BEATS HER #AND SHE KNOWS IT’S HIM

[ghostienoah-deactivated20160206]

This was wild from start to finish.

[sapphicdalliances]

#the chilliad

[verylostpenguin]

Are you ever reading a super over long pretentious book and just think. Wow. This man. knows a lot of words. but concise. is not one of them.

[awordwasthebeginning]

@official-german-translationen

How I love that German has a rather long word for ‘car insurance’ but merely three letters for ‘existential despair and the meaninglessness of life’.

[snowyowlee]

@rocket-pool

[danger-jazz]

Scenes from Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. I made this for a weekly challenge that ended up as a two month challenge, but oh well, at least it’s done. I’ll make it a goal to draw all the books/movies in the future, but for now … dude, I’m tired. 

[infomics]

[floorwildcat]

Holy guacamole and cheddy cheese!

[anomalousdata]

“I mean, that’s not really that impres–JESUS FUCKING CHRIST.”

[pizzaotter]

JESUS FUCK

[queeranne]

This generation is so intelligent. They care about racism, feminism, ableism, and that’s such a positive mentality, but they need to leave room for forgiveness. Nobody is perfect and people are educating themselves at different paces. So be mindful.

Halsey for CR Fashion book (via mygayisshowing)

[huangh]

[fcoppola]

Death is only the beginning.

The Mummy (1999) dir. Stephen Sommers

[hayleymulch-art]

I don’t usually share this kind of thing, and I will delete it later. But this June 20th the EU want to pass Article 13 that will destroy fair use on the internet and will effect non-EU residents too. Goodbye to making money from fan art and livestreaming games and parody videos. No can do. Visit saveyourinternet.eu to very simply send a pre-written email to you MEPs. Please spread awareness as there’s not much time.

[keyblack-hl]

All you people who were afraid of Net Neutrality should be terrified of this.

C’mon, guys.

[amwritingmeta]

To all my fellow Europeans, please, get involved. Make your MEPs aware of your objections to this article. Spread the word to everyone you know and make them understand that this is something that might happen and that will affect them. 

[godshipsit]

I’d like to add that many people are saying that the Art. 13 is about fighting fake news, Russian bots, Nazis and whatsoever. 

It’s not about that, and that’s not the issue people have with the text.

The article is part of a COPYRIGHT DIRECTIVE the European Parliament has been trying to push since 2016. 

You can find there original text HERE, but it’s been going through many re-drafts. HERE you can find all the original EU texts, including the latest versions that are being discussed. 

As @transformativeworks posted HERE, it’s really difficult to foresee what this directive could mean for transformative works. Article 13 makes online content sharing service providers (like Tumblr) responsible for all the content users upload. It could easily force them to use preventive filtering programs to scan through uploaded content and block/take down content that (they find) infringes upon copyright and license agreements, since it calls for “appropriate and proportionate measures” from said providers, including “implementing effective technologies”. (from version 8 of the proposal draft you can find HERE).

It’s vague, isn’t it? You know what’s also vague in the EU? Fair use. Remember that the EU doesn’t have a formal doctrine on fair use. 

Send your representatives an email, tweet, or phone call before June 20 and EXPRESS YOUR CONCERN. If you still have doubts, ask for clarifications, ask them about our worries, they owe us!

As the Organization for Transformative Works suggested, contanct your MEPs, and let them know that:

Without safe harbors for user-generated content, Article 13 of the Copyright Directive would stifle free expression on the Internet. We don’t want mandatory filtering. Algorithms don’t understand limitations and exceptions to copyright like parody, public interest exceptions, fair use, or fair dealing, and we don’t want our non-infringing videos, website posts and art blocked because of a biased algorithm created by big corporations. We want the law to protect user-generated works, not harm them.

Some links:

saveyourinternet.eu 

https://changecopyright.org

Statement from 169 European Academics warning against the directive