Official Checkmate Historian

You can call me Mab or Mabu. She/her, 26 years old, french pansexual. I post about whatever I like whether its shows, video games or specific music videos (Alien Stage). Especially if there's gays in it.

[sonacava]

let me hear the sound of your heart!!

[whencartoonsruletheworld]

"we cut the nobody scene from the odyssey" "we cut the religious trauma and parental abuse from carrie" i'm starting to think that studios barely funding original films is starting to have an effect where directors make up a story and then slap an IP on it in order to sell. or maybe some bitches just can't read anymore idk it's one or the other

[storynerd121]

so I just watched the odyssey movie....

and I made this within 5 minutes of returning. so I think that sums up my thoughts on it. (though im willing to rant more if ppl want it. cause I have COMPLAINTS)

[destiel-news-channel]

[Image ID: The Destiel confession meme edited so that Dean answers 'They cut Nobody from the Odyssey movie!' to Cas 'I love you'. /End ID]

i mean sure, Nobody is perfect, but what were they even thinking

[maidslime]

Ok like. Imagine life without ads. You wake up, check your messages across a variety of apps, no ads. You get up and put on the tv while you prep your breakfast, no ads. Maybe you drive somewhere and switch on the radio, no ads. Maybe you drive a long distance, yet somehow, not a single billboard on your path. You pick up a newspaper or magazine to pass the time, no advertisements only articles. You turn on your game console, the home screen is just about your games, no ads to buy more. You open a streaming app, you don't pay extra for no ads, there's just no ads ever.

Think about how much of your time is spent looking at ads. "Download ublock" yeah I know, I have. But that doesn't change that the world is covered with endless advertising. Imagine never seeing that again. How much better our lives would be.

[animentality]

[poppyseed-art]

[houndmother]

many of you just. genuinely don’t believe that people can grow and change.

[houndmother]

this is about the death penalty and its also about call out posts about people who have already apologized for things they did a long time ago and it’s also about using ‘toxic’ or ‘abuser’ as if its an immutable class of person, and its also about any other circumstance with permanent consequences or wherein you assume someone is still the same person they were.

[anythings-a-sweet-if-you-eat-it]

boring take from real 21st century idiots: bdsm is bad because it's basically torture

interesting take from a fictional 14th century monk: torture is bad because it's basically sex

[ohholydyke]

Shoutout to the nun who had other nuns tie her up and pour hot wax on her as she confessed her sins

[amorphousgenderlesscryptid]

I'm sure that's true, but something tells me googling "nun tied up by other nuns" "hot wax" "confessing sins" will likely get what you might call rather un-academic results

[mossy-cobble]

crazy how i find myself thinking i've got a handle on it all finally and then i see the ways that other people tangle their lives together so easily and live so easily together with their friends and i feel like that girl at the top of the stairs painting by norman rockwell

[mossy-cobble]

i'll always be here

[murder-kill]

sua understands power as restraint, dependency, and the dissolution of personal boundaries; that is to say, she undergoes then enacts enmeshment as counterpart to mizi's physical violence.

first, she takes away mizi's independence by inviting her into her home. (to her, relation is enough of a reason - there is no need to repay her if she is considered family).

second, she takes away mizi's identity by projecting the image of innocence onto her. mizi correctly catches on that this reduces her to a pet: a plaything of sua's, lacking agency and dependent on her. again, mizi understands power as physical violence - she offers to just be abused physically rather than mentally as repayment. however, sua want to be hit instead. this way she numbs her own pain, and blurs the boundaries between them physically. this way they become dependent on each other.

lastly, she takes away mizi's sight. finally seeing eye to eye, the boundaries between them are gone: if they understand each other completely, if two become one, then their will is the same. mizi doesn't have to prove she understands, nor needs to physically express any consent - there is no reason to say no.

[raccoon-lettuce2]

wow

[maburito]

Vivinos really saw people calling Mizisua boring compared to Ivantill coz they weren't toxic enough and went "Oh yeah? *toxify your yuri" and i love them for it

[spin-the-wheel-polls]

You are an adventurer in a generic fantasy world and you use this weapon!

Do you like it?

YES!!!!!

yes

Eh it's okay

No

NO!!!!!!!

Remaining time: 19 hours 4 minutes

[headspace-hotel]

my brother dragged me into watching the second tom holland spider-man movie and genuinely what the fuck was that

[headspace-hotel]

the last MCU movie I watched was captain america: the winter soldier so ive got actual whiplash from how Ass this movie was

first of all. So many of the scenes are obviously just the actors projected in front of a green screen. Even for mundane scenes! It looks weird and bad. I genuinely don't think the actors were actually physically together on the same set for most of the movie. During a bunch of the scenes it just switches from "screen showing one character" to "screen showing other character" like their parts are being filmed completely separately and spliced together for the film.

I assumed at first that it was because it had been filmed during covid, but nope! came out in 2019!

second, there were so many fucking references to other MCU movies that it was like product placement for their own franchise. it was genuinely grating

Third. Okay so. The plot of this movie is that tony stark, after he died, gave peter parker a pair of glasses that allow him to see messages and files being sent on other people's computers/phones and additionally give him the ability to call in drone strikes from satellites in space to shoot missiles at any person Peter wants when he just. says that he wants that.

And like I really do mean "when he says that he wants that." In the scene where he opens up the glasses and learns what they do, he misspeaks and labels a guy he is pissed off at as a "target," which calls in a drone strike that almost blows up his entire class. No "confirm," no "are you sure you want to kill everyone on this bus including yourself," just "okay :)"

The main conflict of the movie is incited when Peter doubts himself and his ability to be a superhero, and hands over control of the glasses to the bad guy.

But at the end of the movie, Peter gets the glasses back.

At no point, ever, is it hinted at or considered that maybe the power to kill any person you desire by just. summoning missiles to blow them up (collateral damage be damned) by saying the word is...bad? The fact that the glasses let him spy on the private conversations of others just by looking at them while they're using their phones is bad enough.

Spider-Man is just, not Spider-Man in this movie. He has an assistant to come pick him up in a private jet. He has technology to literally 3D print him a new suit. He has all this super advanced technology and is closer to being Iron Man than Spider-Man.

Also, Nick Fury is there for some fucking reason and he is like. guilt-tripping Peter about wanting to participate in a school trip instead of, being a fucking child soldier or something?

Like, Nick Fury very much talks to this sixteen year old boy like he's selfish and immature for not wanting to be Literally Kidnapped To Go Die Fighting Space Monsters. Fury's dialogue very much comes across like he's knowingly taking advantage of an immature boy's inflated sense of his own maturity and desire to be viewed as an adult, and he is definitely using guilt and emotional manipulation to control Peter. I know Fury is supposed to be a morally gray character, but that isn't morally gray, that is straight up evil. ???

Also the movie had this whole thing about Peter being Iron Man's successor/the next Iron Man, to the point that Iron Man is basically replacing the role that Uncle Ben played in Spider-Man's story, which is. What the fuck.

Genuinely what the fuck was that. Horrible. Why.

[headspace-hotel]

the plot of captain america: the winter soldier hinged entirely on how surveillance of people's private data and the use of military technology to "hold a gun to everyone on Earth" was part of a plan created by Nazis to wipe out anybody that opposed them.

Now, 5 years later, a 16 year old boy is given the power to do the exact same thing and it's fine?

Like? Is it suddenly fine to violate others' privacy and call drone strikes on people to kill them if you're a "hero?" The fuck do you think "hero" means?

The actual events of the story seem to set Tony Stark up as a horrible villain or at least a fucking idiot, but simultaneously the film treats him like he's fucking Jesus.

[headspace-hotel]

I knew i was going to have a bad time but I am actually genuinely pissed off at how bad this movie was.

its like. us military propaganda basically. meant to normalize spying and killer drones and stuff

and now peter parker isn't a regular broke kid anymore he gets handed everything he wants by a billionaire who makes military technology

tom holland spider-man doesn't even save people. He's not really even interested in like. Doing good.

i DID just watch tobey macguire spiderman and like. that's spider-man! the real one! he undergoes character growth, he really cares about the people he loves, he fucks up really bad and he has to learn to do better. he's a regular dorky guy who happens to have superpowers and he has to rise to the responsibilities that come with that. he shows real emotion. i HATE LOCKHEED MARTIN NEPO BABY FRAUD SPIDER MAN

[prettyaveragewhiteshark]

Still feels like a fever dream that someone made the odyssey, the Homeric epic, into a massive scale movie and they cast Matt Damon and Anne fucking Hathaway as Odysseus and Penelope. In an Ancient Greek epic. Two of the most iPhoned faced celebrities I can imagine. If I made a list of people who I will never take seriously in a movie that’s not set in 2010 or sooner, Matt Damon and Anne fucking Hathaway would be the first two names on it. And tom holland would be the third but they cast that twink as Nathan drake so I wouldn’t be surprised to see him in anything at this point. They’ll probably cast him as Gandalf or maybe Aragorn in the inevitable lord of the rings remake next.

[maemaybe]

I don't know who my intended audience is here, so whoever needs to hear this, I am begging you to learn to participate in conversations that are about things you aren't interested in.

Part of socializing and having friends is being a good listener even when you don't actually give a shit about the subject.

Your are hurting other people's feelings when you bluntly respond with "Anyway..." and then change the topic.

It can not always be about your preferred topic.

You are being rude. Yes, even if you are neurodivergent. You can be both autistic and rude.

[anarchopuppy]

"dont feed the trolls" is an even more important rule in an age where that troll is likely to be a chatbot trained on bad politics crawling tags specifically to waste ur time. do not engage