[gender-nightvale]

Tis the season we retell the story of threatening a rich man with his own death in order to get him to pay his employees livable wages and not horde money.

Never lose the holiday spirit.

[therealklt]

He’s correct and he should say it.

[therealklt]

I’ve been trying to ignore the comments on this post for days, but we’re going on 10k notes, now, and I’ve had a bit too much MCU Stans Being Willfully Ignorant And Purposely Misinterpreting Quotes this morning, so let’s take a crack at this.

First of all, it’s not an attack on genre films, generally. It’s not even an attack on a genre of film, specifically. He didn’t speak about “superhero movies” as a whole, like Ridley Scott or James Cameron have in the recent past (although, let’s face it, the genre is synonymous with Marvel at the moment, anyway). He expressly targeted Marvel films; the MCU in particular. Gee, I wonder why.

He also didn’t say that they were “bad”, he called them theme parks. You read that superficially and assumed that he meant, “Things that are fun” but what he actually meant was, “Things that are built with the soul purpose of funneling people into seats to be optimally profitable.” 

It’s very amusing to me that you folks will log on Tumblr to hem and haw about late stage capitalism, but then leap at the chance to defend your favorite Mickey Mouse production from the scary old man who’s been trying his best to make good films for 50yrs. What good, respectable consumers!

Lastly, he refers to cinema as “human beings trying to convey emotional, and psychological experiences to other human beings,” and you guys all either went, 1) “Cinema just means it’s a movie played in a theater, hurr hurr hurr,” 2) “Thor almost cried one time when he planet blow up,” or 3) “That’s pretentious! Everything is art! My cheerios are art!” and again this is missing the point. 

When you watch a Marvel film, a writer didn’t decide that he had something interesting to say about Frog Man and pen a script, and then a director didn’t get to take said script and produce a work through their own artistic lens. A boardroom full of people in suits sat around and decided which licensed properties they already owned the rights to would be most profitable, and how it would fit into the conveyor belt of content they’d already pre-designed, and then they controlled every single aspect of that production, down to tone and color grading. And if you don’t believe that, ask Edgar Wright.

Martin Scorsese gave you guys an incredibly milquetoast, obvious criticism of movies you slurp down, and it made you all fume, but what you should be mad about is that you’re forced to consume fast food art when you could, just as easily, be getting filet mignon with the same genre and character roster.

Everyone likes to bring up Black Panther, but can you imagine a world where the incredibly talented Ryan Coogler hadn’t been handcuffed by a corporation. Can you imagine the movie that could have been? 

[therealklt]

If you’re in the notes talking about Scorsese being "old school white Hollywood", or implying in any way that your favorite Mickey Mouse comic-book production is lesser of sin, you must be punch drunk on the Kool-Aid.

As if the vast majority of Marvel Studios filmography, over 20 movies since 2009, haven’t been predominantly about white men and their white male drama. As if Isaac Perlmutter, who was in charge of Marvel Studios until very recently, hadn’t refused to pay Terrence Howard comparably to Robert Downey Jr., and then simply recast him with Don Cheadle for Iron Man 2 because “all black people look alike.” As if they didn’t choose to adapt a character steeped in orientalism and yet refused to cast more than one Asian actor who played second fiddle to the white hero. As if it didn’t take them nearly 10yrs to produce a movie with a black protagonist who wasn’t a white man's sidekick, let alone a black woman with more than one scene or two speaking lines. As if, after buying your fervent loyalty off the labor of Ryan Coogler and his cast, they didn’t immediately relegate Wakanda to cannon fodder in two separate alien attack setpieces. Marvel is suddenly the epitome of diversity, now?

This is new school white Hollywood, folks.

Meanwhile, how many of you are out here writing Moonlight fan fiction? Where were you when A Wrinkle In Time came out? How many of you watched Fast Color, or saw BlacKkKlansman or The Last Black Man In San Francisco? What’s your favorite Ryan Coogler film that doesn’t have an ugly CGI fight scene at the end? How often do you post headcanons about Jordan Peele’s work?

Hell, are any of you even watching Raising Dion on Netflix, which is essentially offered to you for free? On that note, did you support The Get Down, or did you contribute to its cancellation by watching Stranger Things instead?

I know the answers to these questions. I’ve been in the tags. Let’s not even talk about works by artists of other ethnic backgrounds. You’ll only watch Guillermo Del Toro’s movies if Tom Hiddleston is in it, or someone has sex with a fish.

You don’t want diverse media, what you want is your cape and to eat it, too. But you’ll gladly prop up the multitrillion dollar entertainment monopoly for doing the barest of minimums if the morality pageantry bolsters your false wokeness.

Coppola was wrong; Marvel films aren’t despicable. Its fans are.

[lycanium]

I love the gif because there’s an incredible number of mistakes crammed into just a couple of seconds. 

1. how the hole starts in the wall but it keeps moving forward

2. then magically heals itself

3. the triceratops walks right through the wall

4. the table blinking before the dinosaurs appear

5. both tables disappear

6. so suddenly appear again as they are toppling over

7. two people clipping into running without any transition 

8. the table outline hides a man’s legs but there is no table

9. the triceratops horns aren’t white in the second clip

10. tables changing both color and material in the second clip

11. a carnivorous dinosaur’s first instinct is to go and eat a whole plate with salad

[ajani]

I miss traditional 2D animation… 3D CGI doesn’t get you masterworks like this

[catchymemes]

[comradesaucegay]

every year around christmas me and my grandma play this fun family game called “maybe you want to put jesus in your room instead, sweetie? :)”. now, it’s important to note that the jesus referred to in our game is not actually the real jesus christ, but instead a wooden figure i made in 2011 that has an uncanny resemblance to the lord and savior himself

so what happens is that i place jesus in our living room, and my grandma smiles and asks me if i don’t want to decorate my room with him instead. i ask her in return if she thinks my jesus figure is ugly (which he is), but she reassures me that this is not the case. however, a couple of days later jesus mysteriously disappears from our living room, and appear in my room instead

now, the real jesus christ might have been able to perform a miracle like this, but please remember that the jesus in our story is only a figure made out of wood. he can not move on his own, so i think we can safely say that my grandma is the prime suspect here

the first year i would often confront my grandma about this, but she would always make up an excuse and never straight up tell me she moved him because he’s so ugly it’s an embarrassment to the family

eventually i grew tired of her lies, so now we only move jesus around in silence. one second he’s in the living room, the next he’s back in my room. in a way i think this adds an extra element of excitement to the holiday season, because you never know for sure when jesus is going to be moved again

[comradesaucegay]

and so it begins..

[voxiferous-deactivated20171119]

i was not fucking ready for this photograph

[itsnotvinebutitsfine]

| Being a hostess at a restaurant

[unyanizedcatboys]

[webcomicname]

[black-to-the-bones-deactivated2]

He was an activist who inspired millions to fight for their rights. He knew what was wrong with our country and risked his life to help his people achieve equality.  In the society where black were treated like animal he did everything possible to change this. His brave soul, his will and courage changed the history of America , changed the people. He made us believe we can win this war. He payed for it with his life. He will always be remembered.

[alwaysbewoke]

this should be reblogged everyday just so people can know that black rage is always justified. always.

[soufcakmistress]

All true

[everythingsecondhand]

Native Tongue, by Suzette Haden Elgin (Women’s Press, 1985).

From a charity shop in Nottingham.

[slugradio-blog]

i was trying to make a gif but then i combined it with the other one i was working on by mistake and this was the result

[swishersposts]

artists fuck better because we turn sex into art, masterpieces, mattresses become canvases where we can paint our love to someone with bodies.

[zsnes]

its like, impossible to come up with anything funnier than the experience of seeing this post

[targuzzler-deactivated20180224]

pharoahs fuck better because they ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh put the pussy in a scarmophogoghs

[labambinafantasma-deactivated20]

If you’re European, in a couple of weeks you will be denied any and all access to fandom contents on Tumblr and everywhere else on the internet. Here’s why.

On June, 20th the JURI of European Parliament approved of the articles 11 and 13 of the new Copyright Law. These articles are also known as the “Link Tax” and the “Censorship Machines” articles.

Articles 13 in particular forces every internet platform to filter all the contents we upload online, ending once and for all the fandom culture. Which means you won’t be able to upload any type of fandom works like fan arts, fan fictions, gif sets from your favourite films and series, edits, because it’s all copyrighted material. And you won’t also be able to share, enjoy or download other’s contents, because the use of links will be completely restricted.

But not everything’s lost yet. There’s another round of voting scheduled for the early days of July.

What you can do now to save our internet, is to share these informations with all of your family members and friends, and to ask to your MEP (the members of the European Parliament from your country) to vote NO at the next round, to vote against articles 11 and 13.

Here you can find more news and all the details to contact your MEP:

https://saveyourinternet.eu

Also, sign and share this petition:

https://www.change.org/p/european-parliament-stop-the-censorship-machinery-save-the-internet?recruiter=50668942&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=psf_combo_share_initial

We have just a couple of weeks to stop this complete madness, don’t let them dictating the way we enjoy our internet.

#SaveYourInternet now!

[theconqueeror]

It’s funny how y'all will reblog any and all US things but when whole Europe might lose access to internet then everything is quiet.

[mmmmmmmilo]

Are you fucking serious? Is this really happening? I’m European and I didn’t know a single thing about this

[labambinafantasma-deactivated20]

Here you have

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:52016PC0593

https://creativecommons.org/2018/06/20/european-parliaments-legal-affairs-committee-gives-green-light-to-harmful-link-tax-and-pervasive-platform-censorship/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=twitterfacebook&utm_content=JURI-vote-june-20

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/article-13-european-parliament-internet-censorship-copyright-a8408531.html?amp&__twitter_impression=true

https://amp.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jun/20/eu-votes-for-copyright-law-that-would-make-internet-a-tool-for-control?__twitter_impression=true

http://www.wired.co.uk/article/eu-meme-war-article-13-regulation

Also ao3 has spoken out about this

https://archiveofourown.org/admin_posts/10637

[umbrxlla-acxdxmy]

PLEASE help share this as someone who lives in Europe I don’t want to see the internet change forever

[facts-i-just-made-up]

Facts about word contractions? Where did such a thing come from? Who decided "cannot" can be "can't"?

Nobody knows who made the decision, but it is notable that many contractions once used are not used anymore. These include:

H’ere (Hi There)

Th’eat (That’s neat)

Se’sons (See Simpsons?)

Li’n’ation (License and Registration)

Wa’mr’ne (Want more wine?)

Why’bl’m’s (Why did you reblog my nudes?)

M’ven’tis’k (My venereal disease tests are back)

Spr’g’giddr’b’Sco’tr (Spielberg is a good director but Scorsese better understands the issues that effect modern cinema’s portrayals of crime and redemption)

H’dar’m’fr’c’ttal’tya’gn’be’vis‘slp’n’aa’vi’pl’s’rem’ish’d’sl (Hello darkness my old friend I’ve come to talk with you again because a vision softly creeping left its seeds while I was sleeping and the vision that was planted in my brain still remains within the sound of silence in restless dreams I walked alone narrow streets of cobblestone beneath the halo of a street lamp I turned my collar to the cold and damp when my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light that split the night and touched the sound of silence and in the naked light I saw ten thousand people, maybe more people talking without speaking people hearing without listening people writing songs that voices never share and no one dared disturb the sound of silence fools said I you do not know silence like a cancer grows hear my words that I might teach you take my arms that I might reach you but my words like silent raindrops fell and echoed in the wells of silence and the people bowed and prayed to the neon god they made and the sign flashed out its warning in the words that it was forming and the sign said the words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenement halls and whispered in the sounds of silence)

[bryanchuckbrennan]

When I tell you I snorted!

[nyanbinyuri]

legolas:

gimli:

aragorn:

gandalf:

[speakforthepits]

Its always good to know what to do when your baby is in danger.

[x423h]

This could save lives

[vulcan-science]

I had to do this twice for my dog and it saved his life. Please reblog.

[swirltuber-deactivated20191108]

some of y’all bout to be real mad at me but it must be said….marvel stans are the new superwholock fandom

[i-like-to-think-that-im-cool]

Y’all really can’t let people just enjoy things huh?

Idc if it’s cringey or whatever, stop acting like you’re better than other people cuz you criticize what they like, marvel doesn’t have to make perfect movies for people to enjoy it, they’re allowed to like marvel movies even if they’re not always the best, it costs zero dollars to just shut your mouth and stop making fun of people for liking something you don’t

[swirltuber-deactivated20191108]

See what I mean?

[mittenfoot]

[suicideracoon]