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I was as shocked as everyone when I found out that Fatiha is 44
But what do you MEAN Jason is 52??
And what DO YOU MEAN STEVIE IS 37???
Maybe I'm just bad at estimating ages, but I would've guessed that Fatiha and Stevie are like 30 tops and that Jason is a little older than Matthew, so like mid 40's😭
what generation do you fall into?
silent gen (1928-1945)
baby boomer (1946-1964)
gen x (1965-1980)
gen y/millennial (1981-1996)
gen z/iGen (1997-2010)
gen alpha (2010-2024)
(This post is brought to you by the fact that tumblr are, hilariously, claiming that 50% of current users are gen z, and i wanna see how accurate claim that is.)
Shout out to the 0.3% of silent genners
The way people insist on depicting Dean as a blond and Cas with nearly black hair is so funny to me.
Because not only do both of these men have brown hair, but it's also pretty much the exact same color.
Is this like an instance of the Mandela effect
The way people insist on depicting Dean as a blond and Cas with nearly black hair is so funny to me.
Because not only do both of these men have brown hair, but it's also pretty much the exact same color.
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Foggy Nelson is haunting the narrative like a dead wife in an indie film
@oh-tobeafrog thank you for inspiring me with this galaxy brain take on my two favorite marvel heroes :)
original post here
SPIDER-MAN 2 (2004) dir. Sam Raimi SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME (2021) dir. Jon Watts
Matt Murdock and Frank Castle — a relationship summary
Holy Trinity of hug shaped insane men
the Star Wars universe is great because you read enough you eventually find out things like the fact that the Stormtrooper whose armor Luke stole in Episode IV was gay and in an affair with fucking Grand Moff Tarkin, which is a completely canonical fact that I am not making up.
this is him, by the way. His name is TK-421, and he is the star of the short story “Of MSE-6 And Men”. He owns a mouse droid and is in an affair with a superior officer, who turns out to Tarkin.
The next time you watch a New Hope, keep in mind Luke is wearing the armor of a man who knew Tarkin sexually. The armor Luke is wearing when he says the iconic line “I’m Luke Skywalker, I’m here to rescue you” has more than likely been on the floor of Tarkin’s bedroom.
since I’m getting naysayers about this again!
The actual officer whom the trooper is in a relationship goes unspecified within the book, and isn’t listed as Tarkin specifically
However.
The officer is described as; wearing a grey suit, continuously bragging about the strength of the Death Star, and having the highest level of clearance aboard the Death Star, which is how he is able to send secret messages to TK-421
At one point the officer says he won’t be interrogating Princess Leia because Darth Vader will be doing it, meaning he’s definitely high enough in the chain of command to know that about Vader
At one point the officer jokes he just gave an “explosive” demonstration. The story takes place right around the time Alderaan is blown up.
According to someone on Reddit, the Audible version of the story uses Tarkin’s voice for the officer in question
It’s Tarkin.
I have this book and the Audible version and can confirm that nearly every word of this is true (note: the voice is, like, obviously not Peter Cushing, but it’s… pretty clearly Tarkin) except! There is one note here that is ABSOLUTELY incorrect.
That armor has never been on the floor of Tarkin’s bedroom. He is very proud of his carpet and the armor goes on the chair by his bed.
Note: the country hick accent thing is because this is their first in-person meeting and TK-421 thinks Tarkin will be into that.
You guys are never gonna believe this but the author was a marine biologist
There are many benefits to being a marine biologist
When your movie is about Cats is so bad the original writer buys a DOG
This is gonna be the hottest take I’ve written in a long while, so here we go:
“Falcon and the Winter Soldier” was the more conservative-leaning show when compared to “The Punisher”
It feels weird writing that out since, at the surface level, it feels like it should be the other way around. Remember back in 2017 when there was a lot of pushback on the Punisher TV series because it was seen as right-wing propaganda? A lot of people just saw “ex-military guy with machine gun” and immediately made the connection to the alt-right movement. It didn’t help that the alt-right loved the Punisher symbolism, especially the military and police.
Meanwhile, there’s “Falcon and the Winter Soldier”, which technically should’ve been the more anti-conservative series. MCU Steve Rogers was set up as being anti-authoritarian and we were getting a black Captain America, something that closed-minded people would classify as “woke-pandering”.
But if you go past that and actually look at both series’ content, it feels like there’s a clear divide between what people are seeing at the surface level versus what actually happens in the shows.
Yes, the Punisher features an ex-military guy who uses guns because he wants to take the law into his own hands. But the show also features:
1) The military industrial complex as the main villain of season 1 and Christian extremism as the main villain of season 2
2) The whole show was centered on criticism of the Iraq War/War on Terror and how the military treats its veterans. In fact, the criticism wasn’t even subtle since the main plot of season 1 was about how the corrupt CIA officer used the Iraq War for his own corrupt goals. Just switch out “drugs” with “oil” in the plot and you’ll get a good chunk of the anti-Bush criticisms during his presidency. (EDIT: I know he served in Afghanistan as well, I just wanted to focus on Iraq)
3) The secondary villain of season 1 was a far-right domestic terrorist (they even called him out as a terrorist). The secondary villain of season 2 was an Aryan Brotherhood white supremacist.
4) When you think about it, the Punisher only exists because he’s anti-U.S. government. He feels that the systems of America have failed the people by letting criminals and corruption run rampant, so he’s taking matters into his own hands. I’m just saying, it’s weird to characterize the Punisher as a conservative-friendly character when the character is basically saying, “Fuck America and all of its corruption”.
Now, let’s take a look at “Falcon and the Winter Soldier”:
1) Very pro-U.S. military. I mean, that’s a given since Sam and Bucky served in the military, but there’s a clear sense of jingoism throughout the series. Especially the opening fight scene.
2) Tried to redeem John Walker at the end (or at least, tried to show that he’s not that bad of a guy). Remember, Walker is supposed to be the dark, far-right version of Captain America. They deliberately changed that for the show for…reasons. It’s like Marvel was skittish to actually portray John like how he is in the comics. Or at least, they were skittish to portray a version of Captain America as a villain.
3) Despite all the bad things America did, the series’ ending message was that we could do better as a nation. That even though our history is unclean, we can do better because that’s what America does. Just saying, the show’s message that America is still awesome even with its flaws and wrongdoing feels like a conservative talking point.
4) The villains are anti-government anarchists that want a world without borders. Unlike Walker, they don’t get a chance at redemption. Out of all the Captain America villains that the series could’ve gone with, they went with the explicitly left-wing one.
5) Probably the most anti-American moment in the series would be Isaiah Bradley’s story since that was a direct criticism of the U.S. military. But everything turns out okay because Sam put Isaiah’s statue in the museum. No one is held accountable because that would mean the U.S. government would have to face accountability and we can’t have that in our patriotic TV series.
Okay, I’ll stop there. Just as a disclaimer, I’m not trying to change anyone’s minds about these shows, nor am I trying to say you should like or hate them. I just wanted to discuss how these shows and characters are perceived by the fandom.
I think that the Punisher show extensively took material from Garth Ennis’ Punisher Max runs, which notably go extensively into how most American wars are fought for the purposes of making a profit for a narrow select few while the poor are funneled into the military industrial complex as fuel. In contrast to many other Punisher series’, the villains there are predominantly corrupt US generals, corporate people who deliberately damage an entire state’s infrastructure for profit, CIA teams who get up to stuff like smuggling drugs and nudging people towards extremist behaviour to justify their own budgets.
Notably for a character that was born of the national hysteria to the perceived crime wave in the late 1970s (one fueled primarily by classism, racism and cut backs to social services by folks like Reagan), Punisher Max’s Frank Castle doesn’t really fight that many actual… you know… street level criminals like gangsters and so on. They do exist (such as one especially destructive Mafia dude who appeared twice and the titular Slavers, whom where inspired by Ennis reading up on human trafficking and wanting something truly horrible to happen to the people responsible), but in terms of the actual arc villains they’re predominantly the War for Profit guys.
This was something which apparently rubbed fellow Punisher writer Chuck Dixon (notably for being a long-time conservative) who in one interview seemed greatly annoyed that Frank in his tv shows WASN’T killing purely gangsters, muggers and such.
The ironic thing is that Ed Brubaker, the writer upon whose run the Winter Soldier originates, is also a left-leaning creator judging from his past work, and while his politics wasn’t really a thing in his Captain America run (it could figure in, it’s been ages since I read it) it’s enough of a thing that Disney’s decision to apply it’s milquetoast centrism to the character is noticeable the same way, say, Disney′s decision to reject Star Wars: Episode 8′s message about the toxic nature of nostalgia (both as it feeds into fascism and how it feeds into the franchise’s own fandom) in favour of a speedrun of familiar stuff from the original trilogy in Episode 9 was highly notable.
As we unfortunately get closer to the release of Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts, I'm here to remind you that it doesn't matter whether or not JK Rowling appears in it, anything under the Harry Potter trademark belongs to her and she will make money off of it.
If you're old enough to feel nostalgic for the first Harry Potter movie, you're old enough to figure out how torrents work.
“There has been discussion after Martin Scorsese made this point about an opposition between ‘cinema’ and Marvel movies. As somebody who is making both Marvel movies and—maybe not movies with Martin Scorsese, I don’t think you’ve worked with him—this kind of arthouse films or ‘serious cinema’, how do you look at this opposition? And have you followed this debate?”
STELLAN ON MARTIN SCORSESE & MARVEL Göteborg Film Festival, January 2020
Good explanation.
