uncomfortably freudian

Hello, Jo here. This is a blog with mostly heavy sprinkles of Hannibal, LOTR, social justice, and sometimes anime. I also run the Spicy Will Graham twitter. This blog can be unsafe for work and I blog a lot about mental health, so consider blacklisting...

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my queue has officially run out, and my new blog can be found at literalhobbit.

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Best vintage memes: O rly owl, numa numa, hampsterdance, caramelldansen, sparta remixes (the peak of this one was definitely “no, this is patrick), weegee, cdi zelda, over 9000, and, of course, longcat

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its incredible that these are now vintage memes

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The U.S. Government Stopped a Minimum Wage Increase in Haiti (read more)

According to Wikileaks:

"In 2009, the Haitian parliament unanimously passed a measure that would hike the Haitian minimum wage to $5 a day.

Yet much as the United States government mobilized to protect Big Oil’s profits a few years earlier, American diplomats immediately protested the hike in wages.”

(photo source)

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Reblogging for anyone who doesn’t know about this yet. This should be front page news. This should warrant resignations of diplomatic corps and executive office officials. We should be in the streets to support Haitians.

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just remember who was the boss of all these diplomats when Hillary Clinton runs for president on the “success” of her tenure as secretary of state

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bilbo + shushing

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gandalf: yeah so thorin gave bilbo this mithril shirt worth three times as much as the shire

gimli: OMG THAT'S SO ROMANTIC

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v-day is coming up and young love is beautiful

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Did a watercolor of one of my favorite Sunny scenes. Definitely not white trash.

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I’M SO SORRY. 

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Yeahhhh I’m remaking, mutuals can ask for my new url if they want

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Actually anyone can ask for the new url, I’ll be on this blog until my queue empties and then I’m moving out permanently

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Linguistic diversity in Africa

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notice in particular how so many languages do not following ‘national bounderies’, cos most african countries where directly implanted from the areas of colonial powers with no consideration to any ethnic, religious or linguistic background.

still people see civil wars or unstability in africa as some sort of endemic within itself rather than the leftovers of torn apart history

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does anyone else want to talk about the significance of aragorn looking upon the argonath in the fellowship with this sense of wonder and weight and hope.

while thorin standing aside the likeness of his grandfather/erebor’s equivalent of the argonath is filled with this sense of refusal and fear and defiance. 

this moment is so crucial to the differences in their characters and i think it beautifully displays why one rises and one falls. 

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I am honestly so supportive of young women and girls who don’t want to present themselves as sexual, whether they’re asexual, sex-repulsed, politically celibate, women who don’t want to feel or be sexy, or women who just don’t want to discuss it. I’m supportive whether this is...

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Do y’all know how striking this scene in an action movie was to me? Main lead, who is young and gorgeous and the whitest of whites, oversteps his bounds. He touches a commanding officer. In any other action movie the dressing down would not be this severe (Elba’s adlibbing on this is terrifying…forget kaijus, Raleigh looks more scared by him than anything that crawls out of the breach and half the audience squirmed in chastened sympathy because WOW). And the thing is, Raleigh is right. His initial argument that Stacker is holding back Mako is for all intents and purposes, the correct assessment. He’s RIGHT. But he isn’t in a position to tell that to a commanding officer, especially the way he does. So Stacker puts him back in his place. Raleigh KNOWS he went out of line the minute he touched Stacker and rather than argue or shout “you know I’m right” or storm off or IGNORE a commanding officer like any other action movie would have the hero do, Raleigh backs down. Stacker doesn’t even let him get away with just the nod and choked back frustration, he makes him VERBALLY back down as well. There is no question who is in charge here. Raleigh is obviously angry and frustrated and still riding the testosterone high of kicking Chuck’s face, but he FREAKIN’ BACKS DOWN LIKE ANYONE WITH SENSE IN THE MILITARY WOULD. It’s always baffled me that main rodeo cowboy hero of every movie can just walk all over rank and command and not pay for it because he’s “special”. Raleigh only sort of does this once (and remember, his argument is valid) and he’s immediately reminded that’s not what he’s there for. And he KNOWS because he never complains about it, never goes off and stews about how unfair Stacker is, never holds it against Stacker later. He knows he crossed a line and he belly crawls back across it because it’s all about respect and he overstepped.This is something 9 out of 10 action movies wouldn’t address.

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This is carried through in really fucking interesting ways throughout the movie, actually.  You remember the scene where we get introduced to Stacker?  The Becket boys are joking with Tendo about his disaster of a love life, and it’s cute and fun and casual and dude shenanigans — and then it gets announced that the Marshal is on deck.  The camera happens to be on Tendo, and you see him — you see on-fucking-screen how his shoulders straighten and he sits up and his tone of voice changes and goes professional.  And you see it again, too, in the post-double event scene where people are in a joyous, packed crowd around Mako and Raleigh — and then Stacks shows up at the door, and a path fucking parts for him like he is smoking-hot Moses in a double-breasted suit.    

That’s presence, folks.  That’s charisma, and even more than that, it’s people respecting a natural fucking leader who has earned respect.  

It’s been pointed out that people disobey Stacker in PacRim all the fucking time.  You’ll note that it’s not something undertaken for shits and giggles, though.  Instead, it’s because they’ve made an evaluation in the field and disagree because they think it’ll cost lives — each time, it’s presented in a sympathetic light, and each time, the movie shows that their disobedience Does Not Get What The Disobedient Ones Want. Remember that Yancy and Raleigh disobey Stacker’s order to stay back, and Yancy gets dead (and it’s not clear that they actually manage to save the dudes on the ship).  Chuck and Herc disobey the order to stay back because they’re trying to save the other Jaeger pilots, which they not only fail to do, but they get hit with an EMP pulse from the kaiju.  If Mako and Raleigh don’t arrive when they do, both it would’ve been a long, long fall into water for two Aussie pilots, and the world would have been well and truly fucked.  

The movie underscores this with what I consider to be the goddamn climax of the whole thing.  I mean, what’s the biggest command that Stacker gives?  Like, the single biggest one?  

To me, it’s gotta be when he tells Mako (Mako! Specifically!) during Pitfall that she can do this. She can finish it.  And Mako does it, even though it clearly fucking costs her not to try and go to Striker’s aid, even though it isn’t phrased as an order.  Stacker knows he doesn’t have to phrase it that way, because he knows that he has been Mako’s fixed point since she was ten years old.  He knows that she knows what should happen.  And he knows that he is right.  And that Mako agrees, too, because again: fixed point for how many years now?  The command doesn’t need to be verbalized as such.  It doesn’t even need to be entirely articulated, because the Drift that Mako and Stacker share isn’t a physical one inside a Jaeger with a Pons mechanism.  Instead, it exists because Stacker and Mako found each other in the wreckage of Tokyo.  Stacker raised Mako, and they share the same value system and the same way of looking at the world and the same fierce pride and devotion and willingness to lay down personal attachments to other lives if it means saving the motherfucking world.  

That’s their Drift.  

So Stacker tells Mako that she can make this sacrifice — his life, for the world.  It’s a parallel to the situation that Yancy and Raleigh have to make in Alaska, with the fishermen versus the city of two million, and the one that Herc and Chuck have in Hong Kong, with the lives of their fellow Rangers versus one of the few great coastal cities left.  Yancy and Raleigh and Herc and Chuck choose to disobey, and each time, not only does it not get them what they want, but it’s got shitty consequences.

This time, instead of laying it down as an order, Stacker tells Mako that she can finish it.  She’ll always be able to find in him in their particular version of the Drift.  

And Mako obeys because she agrees with him.  

And they save the world.  

Let me emphasize that: the world gets saved without further loss of life because Mako and Raleigh follow Stacker’s directive to Mako. 

Stacker fucking Pentecost, everyone.  This fucking movie, everyone. 

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