A Place For My Thoughts

I'm an artist/illustrator. I'm pretty much a down to earth person for the most part though my imagination is up in the clouds. 😉😊

[gusdeservedbetter]

You know what isn't a crime, but definitely should be one? The casual mischaracterization of Sentry in fan content. I'm so done😭

1. I hate how he's often depicted as cruel, he's not, look at him, fucking look? And when Ava asks about the hair dye, what does he do? He looks to Val for an answer, he's constantly fidgeting, trying to find an out for the bunch of misfits who previously helped him in the vault.

2. I hate how people try to turn it into a Marc Spector, Steven Grant and Jake Lockley situation when it's. Like. Not?? This is such a disservice to both Moon Knight and The Sentry, and real people who relate to the two characters' (very distinct very different) mental health issues. Bob doesn't have DID, if anything, the movie leans towards him being bipolar. Sentry is Bob, the guy literally tells Yelena in the vault that he has high highs and low lows, the high is Sentry, the low is the Void, that's it. Bob is both Sentry and The Void. What's so hard to understand? It's the mania (Sentry), followed by depression (Void) then he forgets. That's how Bob describes it in the first act of the film, that's how it happens in the third act.

3. This is not a contradiction to point 1, but Sentry is unhinged. He is awkward and somehow soft spoken? But he is unhinged, and invincible, and fucking terrifying. I'm tired of the stoic depictions in fics like🙂‍↔️ idc if you wanna write fics for comic Sentry, just don't tag them as mcu stuff. (WHO AM I KIDDING COMIC SENTRY IS FUCKING SCARYYY STOP THE BABYFICATION)

4. He is not evil (the fact that we have to spell this out... media literacy is truly dead huh), no shit the Thunderbolts* will be scared of him, of course they will be– he kicked the ever-living shit out of them. But he's not malicious, he doesn't use unnecessary force. Call it condescending, but he's going easy on them, toying with them, and deals arguably softer blows to Yelena, John and Ava, the trio he already met at the vault (because he's the same person, yk? jesus)

5. Prespective is a thing, the team wasn't there to see Sentry tell Val he doesn't want to kill them (they're no threat to him), it's the root cause of their disagreement, it leads to the New York Blackout TM, but we, the audience, were. So tell me why the fuck do I see stuff with this guy terrorizing that team for no reason? 😭 bfr guys.

6. So what? So while I can buy you showing me Ava or John or Alexei or Bucky or Yelena being fearful of the Sentry, or Val (hahaha eat shit Val), I simply can't get behind him actually being a threat to them, on purpose and beyond swatting them like flies, because hi hello have you seen the movie? Yeah.

7. Have I mentioned Sentry is unhinged? Yeah. Yeah. We got glimpses of it with Val before Mel pressed the kill switch but!! Sentry!! Is!! Unhinged!!

8. Find a middle ground, he doesn't have to be uwu or straight up satan or stoic as a rock, he is Bob in mania, so that's inherently Bob with high levels of energy and a higher self esteem (more like a GODLY EGO) and impulsivness and dillusions of grandeur (except they're not dellusions anymore? So rip), so do with that what you will.

Fingers crossed for more in-character Sentry content, at least the Sentry depicted by Lewis Pullman, who put his all into this performance but whose character is still somehow misunderstood? Anyways.

Thanks for coming to my TED Talk.

[crancisfrozier]

Taika + his favorite hobby (napping)

Bonus:

[risetherivermoon]

me standing outside the clinic at 6am in the rain holding a jar of pickles above my head like a teenager with a boombox

[celluloidbroomcloset]

Ed: Jack is actually very sensitive.

Live Stede reaction:

[imstillalexcomic]

This isn’t really meant to be a comic trashing my dad.

I do truly appreciate his commitment to education.  I do truly have a soft spot for his style of humor, which certainly influenced the development of my own.  I appreciate how he had this VHS-C camera that he was always bringing out and would let me use, sparking my love for movies and starting me on a path that led to me going to film school.

All those good things about him were real.

But so was the colossal amount of damage he caused.

If you happen to be a parent and are reading this right now, I’m going to ask that you consider this suggestion from a childless thirty-six year old:

You need to consider how you communicate with your child, and how communication doesn’t just mean the words that you use.

You’re telling your kids something with the foods you eat, the activities you engage in, etc…

…you communicate to your children with the media you consume.

The rhetoric against the trans community wasn’t as much in the spotlight when I was growing up, but every time my dad turned on the radio, he’d have my sister and I listen to the likes of Rush Limbaugh, or Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, etc…  One of the topics that’d come up frequently was queer people. 

Issues about Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, gay marriage, gay boy scouts…

The “gays” were an issue.  More than an issue really, they were a problem.  If someone was queer, these radio hosts were quick to villainize; “this teacher is going to turn their students gay,” “this troop leader is going to abuse his scouts,” you don’t want your kid to end up like that, do you?”

My dad would listen to these folks non-stop and nod along in agreement, all the while his extremely queer and aware of it child was sitting right behind him, listening to how she was some kind of monster.

So I hid. 

There could be no sharing about aspects of myself.  My parents would be listening to 770am or Fox News all the time.  If I share that I was queer, I’d be finished.  How couldn’t that be the case?  Every day they chose to listen to people that hate me, so they hate people like me. 

So I can’t let them know me.  I won’t let them know me.

Even though they never said that they hated queer people with their own words, they told me that they hated queer people every day with the media they chose, and in turn forced me to consume.

So again, if there are any parents reading this right now, consider my words.  Hate is a choice you make, and hate can be communicated with more than just words.

If for no other reason, you never know if that kid in the back seat is listening, listening to how you hate them.

[ofmd-ann]

via David Jenkins Instagram

[jadeseadragon]

@_merilver_

[edwardteachswombtattoo]

Stede: (sweating suspiciously) "Um, Ed..."

Ed: "Yeah?"

Stede: "You're scared of horses, right?"

Ed: ....

Ed: "Stede, is there a fucking horse outside? Is there a horse?"

Stede: (quietly) "Well there's not NOT a--"

Ed: "A horse. Outside."

Stede: ".....maybe...?"

Ed: "Stede."

Stede: ...

Stede: ...

Stede: "He looked very friendly..."

Ed: "Oh well if the horse looked fucking friendly."

Stede: "He followed me home!"

Ed: "The HORSE followed you..???"

Stede: "You get to keep all your strays!!"

Ed: "Cats don't kick people to death, Stede! You know what kicks people to death? Horses!"

Stede: (quietly) "I named him James."

Ed: "The horse????"

Stede: "He looked like a James."

Ed (realizing he is now in horse hell and there is no getting out): "So we have a horse."

Stede: "We have a horse!"

They have a horse.

[soapbubbles511]

Sorry, I was temporarily distracted by whatever's going on here

[coreytaylr]

100% legit totally real facts about the historical stede bonnet

no the title is not a lie these are really REAL bc believe it or not, somehow the show made our stede MORE competent than the real one

sources: Real Pirates podcast (ep1, ep2, ep3, ep4, ep5), Dirty Sexy History podcast (with jeremy moss, bonnet's biographer, who LOVES the show, and said it changed his perspective on bonnet's and blackbeard's relationship PLUS he has the stedesrevenge handle on twt)

the library on the revenge was a real thing. the man really did that.

running away from his family to be a pirate

paying a salary to his crew

SHOWING UP IN NASSAU IN FRILLY GENTLEMANLY CLOTHES AND A POWDERED WIG

before bonnet's capture, he ran his ship aground and that's how the english caught up with him BUT the two english ships also ran aground (😭), so they fought each other with their flintlock pistols from behind their ships (until the tides turned and dislodged the english ships first. rip)

adopted an alias when he started pirating so people wouldn't know it was him but he raided ships near Barbados (where he's from), so that didnt turn out well. his solution? burning every ship from Barbados

he only succeeded in his early days bc merchant ships knew they would get off easier if they surrendered

ATTACKED A WARSHIP that whooped his ass so bad he almost died. the remaining crew steered the ship to Nassau where he met blackbeard

blackbeard stole the revenge from him but "allowed" him to stay on BB's ship (either as a guest or as a prisoner, it's not clear, but he def wasn't a crew member bc he didn't have any chores)

he was seen on deck running around in his gowns 😭😭

BB eventually reinstated him as the captain of the revenge and they sailed together for a while

"there is a 4 month period where stede and blackbeard kind of disappeared and no one really knows what they were doing" 👀

BB allowed bonnet to raid on his own which lead to him getting his ass beat by the Protestant Caesar. BB then proceeded to HUNT DOWN THE PROTESTANT CAESAR while flying the RED FLAG (which meant no mercy to anyone on board)

bonnet would raid ships and take what provisions he needed and give the other ship what he didn't need (essentially the library raiding scene lmaoo)

BB betrayed bonnet by raiding his ship and marooning his crew while bonnet was off getting a pardon

SO BONNET SWORE REVENGE AGAINST BB who was at the time, the most feared pirate

this led to him adopting another alias - "he also changes his name, at the time he goes by captain edward's. which is really interesting, I don't know if that's an homage to, you know, edward teach, but.. captain edward's with an "s", that's as if he's.. a possession of captain edward" ONCE AGAIN 👀👀👀👀

HE ESCAPED PRISON BY DRESSING AS A WOMAN

after escaping, he was promised a sloop by some rando. when the rando didnt deliver, bonnet "WROTE HIM A STRONGLY WORDED LETTER REPRIMANDING THE MAN"

that letter led to him being recaptured 😭😭

he was hanged while holding a bouquet of wilted flowers

[celluloidbroomcloset]

I do love that Stede Bonnet is unhinged. Like, legitimately an absolute freak, a danger to himself and others (mostly others). Wildly off-kilter man menacing the entire structure of both English and pirate society.

Who will talk someone into lighting themselves on fire for being mean to his boyfriend.

Who will not be content with just pushing a man off the plank, but will CHUCK A FIDDLE AT HIS HEAD.

Who will put on an all white suit, walk into a deeply dangerous dive bar, declare his presence in a fucking pun, and tell the man who tried to kill him not a day ago that he doesn't care what his name is.

Who will return to the same dive bar again and again, ask for a job there, and then rob the owner.

Who will stand in the middle of a violent raid and tell his clerk to take notes properly.

Who will run across a beach in the middle of a major battle to make out with his boyfriend.

Who looked at Blackbeard and went "that's him, that's the love of my life."

Like...dude is out of his fucking mind.

[zizicat]

I just wanted a gifset of all three… (x,x,x)

[00bread]

Interview with the Demon (2023)

[heartnosekid]

danah___art on ig

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[starwarsheritageposts]

star wars heritage post

[ellathoompson]

It’s the anniversary of the Steven Universe Future finale! I won’t ever be able to return what this show has done for me and I can’t thank the Crewniverse and this community enough for forever changing my life!!! ⭐️💖

[typicalopposite]

Ok sooo… I haven’t seen this personally (thank god, I’m apparently on the chill side of fandom) but apparently there are people who don’t like the kiss scene.

So like… have y’all never had a first kiss before? And ok let’s put it out there, it’s not their literal first kiss (Stede’s was likely his wife and Ed’s was who knows) but it’s the first that really truly mattered

For example when I got with my husband we had been friends since sixth grade. He wasn’t my first kiss but he was my most important one… I was so nervous, you know what I did??? I covered his eyes and freaking head butted him with my lips… then ran.

First kisses aren’t like what’s (usually) depicted on TV they are awkward and quick and simple and…. The best one of them all… because of all those things.

This ☝️ is like the BEST depiction of a first kiss for someone who is finally kissing their person! I love it sooo much :)