Eons of Enlightenment

Name's Julian. Pro-equality. Nerdfighter. Noted pokemon-apologist. Aspiring writer. Rumored to be Batman. Cannot comment on those rumors.

[skullpanda]

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Jeezus, I should get myself to a library...

[fencorrea]

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Are these real? I mean, I know the movies are real.  But I haven't seen any of these shots ever.  And is Hawkeye going to be the show that Whedon said he'd develop? Please let these be real.

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Invincible by James Harren

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Coooooool...

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Amanda Conner - Power Girl

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With the new 52 really picking up steam, i'd kinda like a team who is as good as Jay Palmiotti and Amada Conner were to pick up Power Girl.

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Hey guys, look! It's the movie YOU NEVER EVER ASKED FOR OR WANTED TO EXIST!

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My lawlz can't be contained.

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a shooting star is actually someone driving off rainbow road

[ruinedchildhood]

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Oh, God, I remember I did this once and it was the coolest thing ever.

[danhacker]

Chick-fil-A Got Caught Pretending to Be a Teenage Girl on Facebook 

So apparently in a half-assed attempt to maintain their company’s shitty public image, Chick-fil-A  is now having their PR team members pose as fake people on Facebook to talk positively about their bigoted company. This all comes in response to Chick-fil-A’s COO admitted to being anti-gay,  which caused the Jim Henson Company to pull their toys from Chick-fil-A’s kids meals. In retaliation Chick-fil-A claimed the toys were pulled because of a “possible safety issue” (even though there are no safety issues filed to this day) because its a total fucking lie. This lie is something they are propagating with fake Facebook accounts of Chick-fil-a sympathizes. Not only was the company called out about creating fake user accounts on their own Facebook page, but they were revealed to be using stock photo images for their fake user accounts too. 

I would hate for people to lose their jobs in this economy, but my gut feeling towards Chick-fil-A right now is that it needs to burn to the ground. What a sleazy company. And if memory serves me, isn’t lying something Christians are not supposed to do?

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“Thou shalt not bear false witness” is actually one of the Ten Commandments (“Thou shalt keep marriage between one man and one women” isn’t on the list at all.)

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In which Chick-Fil-A has the worst PR campaign.

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oh my god

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Chick-Fil-A: NOT GOOD AT THE INTERNET.

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Damn, how embarrassing. And I actually like the food at Chick-Fil-A...

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I was lied to today by a stamp.

[thekilljoy-sarah]

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THIS PART WAS DUMB AND NOW IT’S IN GIF FORM.

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NO. IT WASN’T.

The last thing I wanted was an entire second movie where Peter just gazed at her longingly every scene woefully unable to be with her because he’s Spider-man.  Now it’s out of the way, they can be together in the next movie and we can get a better story than super hero/teenage love frustrations. Yay!

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I GUESS, BUT IF YOU’RE GONNA HAVE THIS SORT OF FAKE TENSION IN THE MOVIE ONLY TO RESOLVE IT FIVE MINUTES LATER, WHY BOTHER HAVING IT AT ALL.

We already have Peter really worried about protecting his secret identity, by the end of the movie, you really don’t need Captain Dennis Leary making this sort of “promise” to Peter.  That type of struggle about him trusting his loved ones to be part of his life should come from within.  Peter has enough angst to fill four helicarriers, having Captain Stacy be like, “hey, people could really hurt my daughter if they knew you were dating her so don’t do that ever” is kinda redundant, and unnecessarily tacked on to the end of this movie and also immediately resolved and it all CULMINATES IN THIS DUMB LINE.

ALSO THE LIZARD HAD NO MOTIVATION TO BE A BAD GUY ONCE HE WAS THE LIZARD, OTHER THAN HIM BEING KUHRAYZHEEEE.  AND I KINDA WISH PETER HAD KEPT A MAKESHIFT SPIDER MAN OUT FOR THE WHOLE MOVIE, LIKE WHAT THE HECK.

But all the emma stone and peter parker parts are cute and I want to live in them forever, and the gradual build to superheroness was neat and skateboarding is cool, Peter should’ve figured out the lizard thing sooner, but whateves, overall I liked this movie more than I disliked it BUT IT HAS PROBLEMS, YO.

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I guess I'd rather have that sort of tension resolved quickly, than stretching it out over the next movie, because, well that whole spiel from the captain is part of the Stacy legacy. Even when Stacy dies in the comics he still gives Peter the same speech. And it was an even better moment because when Gwen bites it later on (SPOILERS), he has to deal with that he broke the Captain's promise. So he didn't just let himself down, he let down someone who trusted him with what was most precious to him. IT'S CALLED FORESHADOWING, DANIEL.

But yeah, hopefully in the next movie we can FINALLY see a villain who doesn't have a voice in their head and can blame all their problems on their experiments gone wrong...

ButIwasAbleToForgiveThatBecauseIt'sTheLizardAndThat'sTheWayit'sAlwaysbeenIntheComics. SORRY.

[thekilljoy-sarah]

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THIS PART WAS DUMB AND NOW IT’S IN GIF FORM.

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NO. IT WASN'T.

The last thing I wanted was an entire second movie where Peter just gazed at her longingly every scene woefully unable to be with her because he's Spider-man.  Now it's out of the way, they can be together in the next movie and we can get a better story than super hero/teenage love frustrations. Yay!

[flyingzombiesharks]

Fucking Capullo.

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Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo are the best team to work on Batman in years.

[ceylans]

I always say, if Walter White had a superpower, it wouldn’t be his intellect. He’s got all of that and those are wonderful tools in his toolbox, but Walt’s main superpower is his ability to lie. I think he’s the greatest liar on the planet, and the guy he lies to most consistently and with the most success is himself. This is a guy who rationalizes some of the worst behavior we’ve ever seen on television, and he does it by continually telling himself this very simple story. “I do what I do for my family. I’m a man. Sometimes a man has to go out and get his hands dirty and work hard.” But if he does it for the good of his family, if he does it to keep food on the table and to keep them whole, then it’s all right. I think that’s really where Walt’s head is at. If you sat him down and said, “You’re a monster. You don’t need this money. What are you doing? You’re destroying you’re family,” he would look at you with bewilderment. He wouldn’t follow what you’re saying. To that end, this is why this guy interests me so much. We all know people who rationalize. In fact, we have all as human beings rationalized questionable behavior — for most of us, nothing ever nearly as questionable as cooking crystal meth, but we’ve all had moments in our lives where we’ve taken a morally questionable shortcut or we’ve mistreated somebody in some way that we felt okay in doing because we rationalized certain behaviors. We’ve all had those moments we’re not that proud of. But in the moment, we say, “Well, nobody’s looking. I’ll go ahead and do this thing because, what the hell. I’m sticking it to the man,” whatever the case may be. I think Walt is that level of somewhat self-destructive rationalization. I think he’s a fascinating character, and I think he is a warning to us.

Vince Gilligan discussing Walter White [x] (via billywilder)

To me, perhaps the most interesting thing about Breaking Bad is not how the creators of the show make Walt such an unsympathetic (though wholly fascinating character), but how often I hear about audiences justifying his lies and horrible actions for him. So rarely do people want to sympathize with Skylar for calling Walt on his reprehensible actions, but if Walt has to kill someone to keep his operation alums, well that's just what he's GOTY do right?

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John Darnielle’s long running songwriting project The Mountain Goats will release their 15th studio album Transcendental Youth on October 2nd via Merge Records. According to the press release, the album will feature a full horn section, which sounds pretty exciting....

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I AM SMILING UNCONTROLLABLY GUIZE!

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Wow, betcha didn't know Batman was doing his best Jesus impression in this movie!

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Spider-Man and Spider-Man by Steve Murray/Chip Zdarsky

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Tobey Tobey look at Tobey.

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Ha ha Tobey's all, "I can be Amazing too!" Note: Best Spider-man movie yet. A lot of fun, got a ton of the little things right, and it had such great character interaction, that was worth going through that cheesy crane scene (hey at least it wasn't as bad as that forced, post 9-11, citizens-of-new-york-unite-against-the-green-goblin scene from Spider-man 1 right?)

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Spider-Man // Miles Morales

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Gotta catch up on Ultimate Spider-man.