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#it’s strange to thing back and realise this incredibly charged scene was their introduction #no flash backs #no explanations #no descriptions #no ‘well as you know’ exposition #it’s just 2 very very subtle actors with decade of experience and a very spare very short scene #but you KNOW #you KNOW IMMEDIATELY #you know a) these two have oceans of history between them #b) they hold diametrically opposed viewpoints #c) they have probably tried to kill each other at some point #d) they retain enough loyalty to an earlier version of their friendship that they talk amiably about that fact #e) you know shits going to hit the fan as a result of their opposition but you know they cannot do otherwise #and f) they both regret it in a way #THISE SCENE GOES FOR ABOUT 25 SECONDS #you get a cast iron sense of their dynamic with no backstory AT ALL (harrietvane)

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I KIND OF JUST REALIZED THAT JESSIE FROM TEAM ROCKET FORMS A FUCKING R WITH HER HAIR AND BODY

WHY DID IT TAKE ME OVER 10 YEARS TO REALIZE THIS

xviistars

JAMES YOU LITTLE SHIT NOT YOU TOO

wonderfulandterriblethings

I never realized this until you pointed it out

angryqueershakespeare-blog

holy fucking shit

i-restuff

they love doing this btw, here’s a small compilation

symbiote-spideypool

peter and wade are fighting side by side and when peter runs out of web fluid, he grabs a gun off wade’s belt and wade has this transcendent moment of i’m going to watch spiderman shoot my gun at a real live bad guy

but peter just fucking throws it at a bad guy’s face and knocks him out cold

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The impact causes the gun to go off and shoot wade in the dick. Spider man spends the next several minutes frantically apologizing while cable laughs his ass off for the first time in years.

brendaonao3

Pretty sure I’ve read this comic

qualitydoggo

@wishem please omg just a quick doodle or something even

wishem

I am sorry Cable looks like that

mistermustachio

Don’t you dare apologize for perfection.

katsen13

Ok this is literally at least the third time I’ve reblogged this but I don’t care. It’s too funny.

what-even-is-thiss

Bad guy uwu

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catgirlforeskin

It’s funny to me how with games like Rimworld, players will try to make the most evil colony possible and it’ll be like “yeah we run entirely on prison labor and when they die we skin them and turn them into hats” but it’s a very juvenile sense of evil that’s you’d expect to see in the margins of a middle school notebook

but when Cities: Skylines players want to do evil it’ll be “I built an urban freeway interchange and parking lots in accordance with real Texas zoning laws” and every comment is something like “this looks like Houston’s 290/10/160 interchange, I drive on it for work and dream about blowing it up every single day” or “you’re a real sick fuck you know that? Also good job with your frontage roads!”

endspire

I Do Not Control the Speed at Which Lobster Die 🦞

kaban-bang

I follow this Road to El Dorado fan group on facebook and the admins recently banned a meme template due overuse. So naturally the community got creative and started working around ways to post it.

that-catholic-shinobi

AHHH

arcenergy

VINNY’S SCREAM ASGSDGBSDFVG

coughmanz

bighonkinqueeniesbadbadbackstory

There is something magical about every layer of this…

Her last words being “All of my dreams have come true”

The discordant flute that plays throughout.

The fact that out of all the unhanded takedowns it chose the most glorious, randomly.

The moment of silence as vinny’s brain short circuts.

And then…

OOOOOUUUUUAAAAAGGGH!!!!!

planetafiyu

Source.

picsthatmakeyougohmm

hmmm

adoubtifitbeus

I recently learned that the Star-Spangled Banner flag (as in, the flag flown over Fort McHenry that inspired the Francis Scott Key poem) has fifteen stripes instead of thirteen, because the tradition at the time was to increase the number of stripes along with the number of stars as more states joined the union.

I assume this tradition ended because of cowardice. I've prepared several options to revive the tradition:

The most direct approach. Looks vaguely pink from a distance.

I like how this one emphasizes how much more America there is now than there used to be.

I think plaid fits nicely, too. As a bonus, a lot of existing tablecloths could be converted to this design with just the addition of the canton.

Honestly, I just spent too much time making this one not to post it.

bemusedlybespectacled

hey folks, I’m gonna introduce you to two very important fandom terms and they are watsonian and doylist

they come (obviously) from the sherlock holmes fandom, and they are two different ways of explaining something in a story. say I’m a fan and I notice that, in the original books, watson’s war wound is sometimes in his leg and sometimes in his shoulder. the watsonian explanation is how watson (that is, a person within the story) might explain it; the doylist explanation is how sir arthur conan doyle (a person in real life) would have explained it.

sherlock explains the migrating war wound by making the shoulder wound real and the limp psychosomatic. the guy ritchie films explain it by having the leg wound sustained in battle before the events of the film and the shoulder wound happen onscreen. the doylist explanation, of course, is that acd forgot where the wound was.

this is very important when we’re discussing stuff like headcanons and word-of-god. I see this when people offer watsonian explanations for something, and then a doylist will say something like “it’s just because the author wrote it that way,” and I see it when a person is criticizing bad writing/storytelling (for example, the fact that quiet in metal gear solid v is running around the whole game in a bikini and ripped tights) and someone comes back with “but there’s an in-story reason why that happens!” (that reason being she breathes through her skin).

there’s nothing wrong with either explanation, and really I think you need both to understand and analyze a text. a person coming up with a watsonian explanation has likely not forgotten that the author had real-life reasons for writing something that way, and a person with a doylist interpretation is likely not ignoring the in-universe justification for that thing.

but it’s very difficult (and imo often useless, though there are exceptions) to try to argue one kind of explanation with the other kind. wetblanketing someone’s headcanon with “or it could just be bad writing” is obnoxious; dismissing someone’s criticism with “but have you considered this in-universe explanation” is ignoring the point of the criticism. understanding where someone is coming from is important when making an argument; acting like your argument is better because you’re being doylist when they’re being watsonian or vice versa is not.

bemusedlybespectacled

it’s been 5 million years but this thing still gets notes with like “can someone explain this to me in a shorter, easier way” so here it is:

watsonian: the enchantress cursed the eleven-year-old prince from beauty and the beast and all of his servants because fairies don’t understand why humans would think that’s insane and unfair. I am using in-universe evidence to explain why the character might think or act a certain way, as if belle and the prince and the enchantress are real people.

doylist: the writers didn’t realize that the prince would have been eleven when he was cursed until it was too late to change it, and the servants are also cursed because talking furniture is funny and allows for unique character design. I am explaining this plot point based on an outside knowledge of how writing works and how writers think.

lordsmaf

I like how like… with every new piece of Star Wars media that paints Tatooine as more and more of a shithole where everyone is a murderous crimelord the funnier it gets that Luke Skywalker just grew up on this planet completely normal. Like I’m envisioning a normal day at Tosche Station where a cyborg biker and a Twi'lek prostitute are stabbing each other over a bag of spice and then it just pans over to this fresh-faced nancy boy sitting at a table sipping on his blue milk going “oh golly, I sure do love power converters!”

neurotypical-karen

Ok listen. Listen to me. Sometimes rural towns are just like that. I know someone who shot his cousin because they were playing with live ammo in their backyard and he never went to court. One time a guy who was driving my friend to school said “watch this” and snorted cocaine off of the steering wheel as he was turning a corner. And at the same time you will graduate alongside people who are completely innocent and have no idea shit went down. You will meet 17-year-olds who still don’t know how pregnancy works. This is one of the most realistic decisions in Star Wars

aspiringwarriorlibrarian

Luke thought his father was a navigator on a spice freighter, brought a rifle out to the desert with him in case he ran into the Sand People, and immediately got to wiping 3p0 and R2 of any identifying features because he knew the Jawas stole them. Luke knew damn well what kind of planet he lived on, but since he wasn’t personally involved in it crime was just another boring chore.

arielsojourner

Luke: I want to join the Rebellion.

Uncle Owen: What do you want to leave the planet for, huh? Treason here not good enough for you all of a sudden? We’ve got plenty of laws to violate right here.

Luke: I want to make a difference!

Uncle Owen: You can commit crime at home when your chores are done. No need to go anywhere else.

forcedintostarwars

At the age of 19 Padme Amidala was the queen of a planet and had already saved her people from total crisis

At the age of 19 Anakin Skywalker was married and a general in a galaxy wide war and was considered to be one of the most powerful Jedi in history

At the age of 19 Leia Organa was a senator in the imperial senate as well as a leader and spy for the Rebellion

At the age of 19 Luke was making vroom vroom noises with his toy planes

I love him so much

pianopadawan

Reblog if you empathize with Luke

stephendann

At Luke’s age of 19, Uncle Owen established the longest record of holding back the tidal forces of Skywalker bullshit, besting the previous record of 22 minutes set by Obi Wan Kenobi

taraljc

accurate.

elljayvee

Literally, Uncle Owen dies and Luke IMMEDIATELY gets into a bar fight (Obi-Wan beat his personal best, having lasted 25.3 minutes holding back Skywalkers this time), breaks into an Imperial facility & breaks out a prisoner, joins a gang, and destroys a space station, in, like, 3 days.

einarshadow

@deadcatwithaflamethrower

deadcatwithaflamethrower

Luke’s innocence, his firm belief that people can do better, can be better, comes from Tatooine and two natives to that happy little wasteland: Beru and Owen Lars.

As frustrated as Luke got with his uncle’s unwillingness to see him leave (with good reason; Beru rightly pointed out that Luke needed to be told asap), he loved them. They were his and he was theirs, and when the Empire took them away, Luke did what any native Tatooinian would do when confronted with injustice:

He went to war. Not for glory, not for personal gain. He went to avenge his family, and all the other families he’s discovering that the Empire fucked over. He saves the life of a complete stranger because he *can* and the risk doesn’t matter–their life is in danger, he can help, and Chewie is probably the one who told Han to get with the fucking program and save these kids.

Luke doesn’t blow up the Death Star because it’ll make him famous. He does it because he has no choice. They know the numbers. They know what will happen it they don’t make it stop.

Luke went to war the Tatooine way: your enemies might always tremble at the sound of your name, but your allies will remember every helping hand, every bit of protection, every single kindness.

Because Luke didn’t need an old Jedi to teach him what Shmi Skywalker taught to step-child and his wife. It isn’t the blaster that wins, but kindness and sacrifice.

gweiddiatecate

@deadcatwithaflamethrower ’s tags can’t get lost in the reblog because PREACH

deadcatwithaflamethrower

I love ESB Yoda but he needed so much fucking therapy.

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He wasn’t HOLDING BACK the bullshit.

He was just able to contain it to one planet.

It says something that it takes an Uber-Deadly Planet like Tatooine to contain a Skywalker…

After all, Luke goofed off in ways that killed lots of SKILLED people.

Like flying in Beggars Canyon, or shooting Womprats.

down-sizing-redux

“It takes a death world to contain a single Skywalker” is not a take I expected to see but honestly

carolinskyy

They’ve got this hell energy that ruins or ends the lives of everything it comes into contact with, but with a death world, that hell energy won’t change much.

petralemaitre

Skywalkers on Tatooine don’t need extra enrichment like they do in other places because the environment is designed to kill them. Leia was so understimulated on Alderaan that she joined the Rebel Alliance instead of running for student council.

blinkpen

so i saw some Fucked Up ice cream at the store today and against my better judgement i bought a bunch of them to try out of morbid curiosity. after i taste test them all, i will report back later with my findings.

(the espresso flavor is obviously pretty normal, i got that one be kind to myself and have something nice at the end of this experiment)

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