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THE REVENGERS: A fan-made spec script for the pilot episode of a Revengers TV show, taking place directly after Thor: Ragnarok.
All 48 pages can be found here!
Episode 2: “Something Goddamn Big”
Episode 3: “Frickin’ Nuclear”
Episode 4: “What Could Go Wrong?”
Episode 5: “Last of the Valkyries”
Episode 6: “Calling on a Friend”
pro tip you can just grab a bunch of random parts from dumpsters and hardware stores and computer stores and just attach them together haphazardly and then put it in your suitcase and take it to the airport and get arrested pretty much 100% of the time
back on the market which means my friends are trying to set me up with typhoid victims
it's so wild being in a career field where most people are like, extremely passionate about what they do to the point of it being a liiiiittle bit toxic, because like, don't get me wrong, i am passionate about it. i love science and cancer research and i especially love teaching it. but i just had a very dear friend in the group chat saying she might be getting married next year and how it might be inconvenient timing for all of us to fly across the country with the way our jobs are, and she totally gets it if any of us can't make it because - and i'm quoting her here - "work and life come first!" darling. light of my life. one of my favorite people on this earth to get shitfaced with. you are severely estimating my hatred of work culture. idgaf if i'm one single experiment away from a nature paper. if i can't reasonably convince my boss i need to take off i'll just lie and say i'm sick. nothing on god's green earth will keep me from skipping work for any and all reasons. i'll play hookie just because it's kind of nice outside. don't play with me
Listen: what this means is that in honor of Tim Curry and Dolly Parton we have to be gaudier and kinder than ever before. That’s what the world needs most of all. Get out there and be yourself.
hey can you reblog and tell me what’s the happiest you’ve ever felt while watching a sporting event?
Chris Long, Big Gulp Cup, 2026 Oil on cradled wood panel, 6 x 6 in
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all tumbrlinas come from a common ancestor
do you guys ever like forget you’re interested in something until you start engaging with it again and you go “oh wait i’m like crazy crazy about this yeah”
truer words have never been spoken
stay fat and sexy, people in my phone 🫶🏻🫶🏻
everybody read something today. just go do it. one page, one passage, one word of a book is cool. get paper in your hands and put its words in your brain
read and don’t be embarrassed how fast or slow or however you do it. for dolly
I am once again thinking about first nations Logan Wolverine. Everyone think about first nations Wolverine with me
Loving the number of people who aren't even xmen fans interacting with this post. I'm taking your hands we're thinking about first nations Wolverine together. You don't have to know what I'm talking about you know our friend Logan he's indigenous
Returning to this post to talk about it more. Let's get into it. I've said this before but I'm saying it again. Isn't it thematically delicious and makes his backstory like 10x more fucked up. His whole thing about like... trying to remember who he is or where he came from. The government experimenting on him. The level of dehumanization. And so on and so forth... also just vibes lowkey he reminds me of my northern ndn friends. You understand
Logan loves being cold as fuck in the middle of nowhere with his truck. Touching a deer. I know what he is
I see the people are thinking about our friend Logan again let's all think about our friend Logan. He's Indigenous
Was talking to a coworker today who explained that her grandfather was like Snow White “but Californian. And an old man.” in that the creatures of the forest would follow him around and presumably duet with him.
“When he died the ravens sat in the trees outside for a week, watching. Taking turns. A horde of raccoons tried to break into the house every night, tearing at the siding. Eventually they gave up, but it was unsettling.”
“Aww. They were checking on him!” I said, like a normal person. Internally, I thought “Maybe you could do the thing you do with dead pets, where you show them to the living pets so the living pet understands they’re gone. But I guess if you did that to a bunch of scavenging species, they’d be like “Well, that’s very sad but he IS food now.” So what you’d need, for human sensibilities, is some sort of transparent corpse barrier. Like a see-through coffin oh that’s what the dwarves were doing! You’ve stopped paying attention to this conversation about the loss of a beloved family member you gotta phase back in.”
oh that's what the dwarves were doing
letting my mind wander on the drive home as i do and i could not stop thinking about a hyper-realistic android in a romantic relationship with a human, and like, okay, he's not programmed for anything approximating human sexual pleasure, so everyone just kind of assumes this is a purely sexless relationship. but as it turns out even though he's not able to get any specific physical pleasure out of it, she sure is, and by god does that man (1) love his wife and (2) have such an all-consuming insatiable need to please that he might as well be getting off on it too. and maybe he sort of is, just not in a way we can understand. like he made her orgasm for the first time and to him it was like what he imagines snorting cocaine must be like for a human with the proper receptors in their nervous system to process it. absolute euphoria. babe have you recovered yet please say yes we have to do that again immediately
I'm finding it immensely helpful to read books about AI, because my past grumblings of "it's bad for the environment" really pale in comparison to what I'm learning.
But im not finding it easier to talk about AI with the people in my life who use it. The evils are both enormous and complex. I cannot, on the spot and in casual conversation, recite the colonial and political history that led to entire towns in Chile being devastated by AI data centers. It is unseemly to bring up how many women have had miscarriages because of lack of access to drinking water worsened by data center usage in places like Uruguay. How racist surveillance of the public in South Africa has been used as training data for AI companies. How AI companies would not limit their use of drinking water even during Arizona's most severe drought in history. How this whole paragraph isn't even scratching the surface of what is evil about AI companies.
It's actually so much harder now to articulate my absolute hatred or to know how to approach these conversations.
EDIT: So far this year I've read, in order of quality/relevance:
Empire of AI by Karen Hao
More Everything Forever by Adam Becker
Enshittification by Cory Doctorow
More Than Words by John Warner
planning to read these next:
Data Empire by Roopika Risam; not sure how specifically AI-focused it will be
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
Pollution Is Colonialism
It's been important for me to learn about AI companies more deeply because I see a lot of AI critics ask questions that reveal that they don't really understand what's going on in basic ways, and that makes me nervous about whether we're all going to be able to organize against it.
Example: In response to an article about Sam Altman asking Congress to regulate AI, I saw a lot of comments like, "What, even HE doesn't think his own company can get its shit together?! He's that desperate for outside help?"
And that's not what's going on. Sam Altman talks to Congress because he's directing the conversation around AI concerns. He wants laws passed that make it harder for other companies, especially Chinese companies, to compete with OpenAI. He wants us all to be worried about theoretical future AI models triggering apocalyptic scifi scenarios because that kind of panic distracts us from tackling the problems that are actually happening now, like extreme surveillance, water shortages, destruction of land, and abuse of workers.
Anyway, even if you hate AI—especially if you hate AI—it's important to learn about what's happening.
