Avengers: Infinity War aka The Bachelor: Tony Stark Edition
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Avengers: Infinity War aka The Bachelor: Tony Stark Edition
11/02/17
The author of the story, Kevin Kwan, reportedly felt pressure to whitewash his characters. EW writes that “during one early meeting with one potential producer who wanted to adapt the novel, Kwan says he was even asked to reimagine his protagonist as a white woman. “I was like, ‘Well, you’ve missed the point completely,’ ” he recalls. “I said, ‘No, thank you.’
”Ultimately, the movie may be about Asian people, but its themes are universal. [ Jon M.] Chu says that “it’s just such a beautiful story, to show an Asian-American immigrant going back to Asia and finding the things that overlap and connect us all, things like family, things like love.”
why does he NEED to defend his all ASIAN cast for a movie called crazy rich ASIANS. What idiot was like “ok I know it says asian but how about Scandinavians?”
You know what amuses me about fandom reactions is this: Fandom, on Tony in general: oh look he's such a great character, he hides so much underneath a confident exterior, and much of the time he looks fine when he's really not. // Fandom, after Spiderman movie: oh look, turns out Tony is perfectly fine after CW, so all those fics writing about him upset about the break up of the Avengers are missing the mark, because see, he looks just fine!
It is interesting, because I honestly walked out of Spiderman: Homecoming thinking Tony was absolutely not fine at all. At least, that was how I could explain his decisions in that movie. A “fine” person does not do the things Tony was doing, so I really headcanon him as sort of in a state of desperation at what he is facing, almost single-handedly in his mind at this point. Otherwise, I’m not sure what to think of a lot of the choices he made. Plus, the movie explicitly tells us Tony isn’t fine with his whole trip to India to center himself. I don’t know, just because he looks good, doesn’t mean he is emotionally okay, though I think he was doing his best to try to handle overwhelming circumstances.
Just a reminder: when the war was over and the clean-up battles still needed to be fought, Reed went to New York and T'Challa to Wakanda. Tony went to Steve.
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You ever see a picture that just sums up an entire character and personality in one image
If Thor is “Point Break,” what do we think Steve’s quinjet sign-on would be?
Oh, 2008 Iron Man movie, how I love thee. Let me count the ways:
Tony Stark’s ridiculously floppy hair he has to slick back for work, because like any good comics hero, he always has That One Rakish Lock Of Hair ™. Whoever styled Downey obviously knew what they were doing.
Relatedly, Paltrow actually ginger as Pepper. I love the strawberry-blonde look from later movies, too, but it’s so bright and pretty here.
JARVIS. Just… JARVIS.
The soundtrack. It’s one of the most distinctive and enjoyably electric-guitar-heavy soundtracks I’ve heard. I love how it mostly goes for modern-ish synths and ambient stuff, and also nods to classic rock, classic metal in particular. (The drums are incredibly John Bonham, and one of the main refrains is so close to “Kashmir” by Led Zeppelin that I’m pleasantly surprised someone didn’t try to sue Ramin Djawadi.) Makes perfect sense for a futurist who works in tech at the cutting edge, but does it listening to stuff like 90s metal and AC/DC and wearing Black Sabbath shirts. Also, it means that when the full orchestral pomp kicks in, it’s even more affecting for how unusual it is.
“The bad guys won’t even want to come out of their caves.” Sure, it’s an offhand joke, but there’s a kernel of truth to it. It shows how damnably naive he is about some things, even as he pretends not to be. (”There’s a line, we don’t cross it.”)
The fact that he tells Yinsen, “Thank you for saving me.” A little thing, but important, especially contrasted to “What have you done to me?” at the start of their acquaintanceship.
The American Cheeseburger
The way it shows that good is something you have to do, not just something you are. We get to see pretty much every step of him becoming Iron Man, and it’s shown to be damn hard work. We get to see him exhausted and scruffy and injured, and his test flight nearly kills him, but he keeps going.
And we see the intricacies of what he’s doing. God, I love how much attention has been paid to the tech. The sequences when you get to see all the hydraulics and the soldering, so on… That’s just lovely prop and animation work. (Yes, I’m just here for the tech porn. How did you know?)
“I shouldn’t be alive, unless it was for a reason.”
A lovely Pepper/Tony dynamic that’s so different from the comics in all the best ways. “You’re the most qualified, capable person I know” is said with earnest admiration.
Though “Proof That Tony Stark Has A Heart” could be straight from the comics - again, in all the best ways.
How quiet Tony is. It’s more pronounced after Afghanistan, but even before, when he’s not playing up the snark, he’s soft-spoken, introspective and receptive, constantly trying to put people at ease. Sure, he can be arrogant and do dumb things (keeping Rhodey waiting three damn hours? Really, Stark?) and he’s obviously very used to his privilege, but it’s an interesting contrast and a nice piece of characterisation that’s very in line with 616. We get to see that less in other movies, but it’s always there.
The arc reactor. A beautiful piece of in-universe engineering and prop design, and a really lovely poetic device that makes perfect sense with the arcs and motifs from the comics even though it was an MCU invention.
The fact that someone clearly went, “The workshop is important to him and probably where he spends most of his time” and worked to add little touches: the coffee machine, the models, the spare parts, the bits and pieces of a life dotted around. It feels very lived-in and like they actually thought about his character, rather than like they went for generic “harsh and futuristic = cool”.
Oh and: Tony Stark rides bikes, apparently. I needed to know that.
That Audi.
And that damn water feature. Apparently the epitome of cool is having your own little waterfall. I miss that waterfall; I’m so sad we lost it when the mansion got trashed.
How easy an entry point it is, and how it stands perfectly well on its own as just… a really good movie, regardless of the rest of the MCU or the comics. I’d never picked up an Iron Man comic before I saw this, and I fell utterly in love with the universe, the characters and the themes anyway.
The little, realistic touches like the goatee starting to grow out and the motor oil marks.
“The truth is… I am Iron Man.”
You forgot two very important things on this list. #1: Dum-E. #2: U. The simple fact that Dum-E was his MIT creation and they’re both still puttering about his workshop and he adoringly chastises them like children is pure gold. However I do appreciate this list a lot and I will now be watching IM1 again tomorrow because of it so thank you for writing it.
Legal issues with the Tolkien Estate aside, you couldn’t remake LOTR anyway. Why? Because of the theme music. Yeah. Like what are you going to do? “Yes, we need a score that lives up to Howard Shore’s Lord of The Rings, or is at least cool enough to, y’know, do it’s own thing.” Like, you can’t. You just straight up can’t. Go ahead and remake Star Wars with different music why don’t you. You’re hearing the Fellowship theme in your head right now, aren’t you? You know you are. It’s that powerful. What can you do? Nothing. That’s it. That’s Lord of The Rings. Goodbye.
tumblr needs to be shut down for like 90 days so some of y'all can experience literally anything other than this garbage dump. it might help.
this isn’t so much of a “go outside you lifeless nerds” post as it is a “please stop putting yourself into stressful situations arguing over worthless minutae on purpose because of this websites toxic subcultures and enjoy what the normal outside world has to offer”
but also go outside you fuckin nerds
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This is important content cuz it touches on one of the more overlooked aspects of the recent altright encroachment: a lot of it is about doing it “for the lulz”. Making traditionally marginalized groups angry or reactive is a form of entertainment for some, and the fact that happens to work towards reclaiming white male supremacy for them is more of a secondary bonus. That’s what makes it so difficult to logically or “correctly” combat it; the most forward face isn’t an ideology or philosophy, so to speak, but rather a form of indulgence. It’s not a grand mission, it’s a game they play.
This is so fucking accurate.
There was an NPR segment on Bannon and how he noticed that angry gamers managed to get gaming companies to do what they want through mob anger - he managed an MMO gold farm that got shut down because of it. He essentially saw this force of angry nerds that had yet to be tapped and harnessed. And guess who was a huge part of GamerGate? Milo Yiannopolus of Breitbart. I highly recommend listening to the whole half an hour interview.
https://www.npr.org/2017/07/18/537885042/inside-the-shakespearean-irony-of-trump-and-bannons-relationship
Okay but did Loki really spend his entire time as Odin just building statues of himself and hiring Matt Damon to play him
Snax the cat in burrito form
Pro tip for adulting: being late isn’t a death sentence for 95% of things. All you gotta do is call the moment you realize you’re gonna be late, apologize, and then give another small apology when you get there. The thing people really don’t like about lateness is that it seems like the other person doesn’t value their time, and since calling shows that you value their time, that leaves only the mild inconvenience of waiting a bit for them to deal with
this is 100% true. Calling ahead to let them know you’ll be late is 100000x better than just showing up late without any notice. Everyone has been late before so most of the time they’ll understand being late. Just don’t make a habit of it
The individual strips had melted together into a single ring. Stark allowed time for it to cool and, once he was satisfied it was ready, he lifted the ring out of the mold with a pair of tweezers.
“What are you building?”
“The ring of power,” said Stark. “Just wait until you see me start carving the elvish lettering on it. As soon as it cools, I slip this puppy on my finger, turn invisible, and walk right out.”
-Iron Man Movie Novelization
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