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[bihet-meanie-deactivated2023071]

Ok but like the fact that people dont think marvel killing nat and gamora was fridging bc they were "well rounded"

Like the most of nat personally was angst over *GASP* not being able to have kids. Well the only think we know about gamora is she is the daughter of thanos and she is an assassin.

And i hate when people (men esp) say "well gamora DID come back" no. She didnt. Gamora came back pre meeting the guardians and this gamora is still an assassin.

Marvel also completely erased nat's history. In the comics she is the same age as cap (as in born in the same era) and had connects to bucky and cap

Gamora was still just a sacrifice for Thanos to throw away for the stone. Nat did not go through any reasonable character growth at all throughout the duration of the movies. This is the perfect fit for its definition. If it weren’t fridging, they wouldn’t have died.

[theotheristhedoctor]

Ok minor detail but ...

So I noticed in A:TLA, and it’s carried over in LoK, that Airbenders always seem to have an advantage in a fight. And at first, it felt like plot armour, particularly in A:TLA.

But when Aang fought Bumi, he lost most of that advantage. And I realised that this wasn’t just plot armour. Someone had sat and worked it out: nobody has had to fight Airbenders for generations. 

None of the other nations have had to train to face them, or practised sparring with them, or anything. Apart from Bumi, no bender in the show has ever even met an airbender before Aang comes along. And in LoK, for the most part people still haven’t. We never see fights between those who have (for e.g. we never see Tenzin and Lin fight); when Korra and Tenzin use airbending, its a unique fighting style that people aren’t trained to manage.

It’s a really small detail, and it fundamentally works to give the heroes an advantage (and make up for Aang’s young age and lack of combat experience), but I love how it’s an advantage in combat for completely logical reasons.

The detail in these shows is amazing. 

[sindri42]

You can see the same principle in play whenever somebody fights somebody who uses a completely unfamiliar style. Combustion benders and lavabenders aren’t straight up more powerful, but they’re pretty much always something you haven’t dealt with which presents unique challenges. That red lotus lady with no arms is just a perfectly ordinary waterbender, but using forms and styles nobody else has seen before. Jet routinely smacks around benders and soldiers, but loses hard to the first person he met who had actually studied diverse styles of swordplay. When Toph invents metalbending, nobody can deal with that, but seventy years later the counters are pretty well known among people who might have to fight the cops.

And it’s why Azula, a genius prodigy who has thought long and hard about how to counter every kind of magic and martial arts out there, keeps getting messed up by a kid with a boomerang.

[ninjaotta]

it’s also a detail from the second ever episode

aang straight up says to the fire nation guards on zuko’s ship “you’ve probably never fought an airbender before”, because he in-universe figures out that, if what everyone around him is saying is true, and airbenders have been extinct for a century (or at least have gone to ground enough to make people think that) then he is a totally unknown figure in anyone’s calculations

this has been brought up before but it’s also one of the reasons why hama is so thrown in her fight with katara - waterbending is about energy exchange, keeping things flowing, throwing your opponent’s power back at them and we see katara and hama do this in their fight. however, when katara is faced with a powerful blast from hama, she stands her ground and blows it apart:

[image ID: a gif of katara in the puppetmaster. she is a teenage girl with dark skin and hair and blue eyes, wearing a red outfit. she turns and throws her hand out, stopping a blast of water and turning it into a huge shield. the background is a dark forest. end image ID]

why do i bring this up?

because it’s a move - and a mindset - influenced by earthbending, which hama has never faced (she went from the south pole, to prison, to the fire nation). it’s an indication not only of katara’s skill and power, but also how she’s learned from her travels, and from toph

[toughtink]

one of my favorite details of atla is how the main characters’ fighting styles adapt as they take on new enemies and make new friends with other bending styles. iroh straight up tells zuko about how he developed a technique for redirecting lightning by studying waterbenders, but if you watch closely especially in the last season, there’s a lot of this sort of thing happening unspoken with the gaang, using the bending forms of other elements like katara does above. it really shows the strength in differences and diversity coming up against a fascist regime that wants everyone to conform.

[jeniferprince]

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[possesseth-by-fire]

Hogfather (2006), dir. Vadim Jean

It’s Hogswatch (equivalent to Christmas) on the Discworld and the Hogfather has gone missing, requiring Death to take his place while his granddaughter Susan endeavors to find out what has happened.

[nikkoliferous]

hawkeye: dude I cant believe you manipulated my mind like that it was uncool and we can probably never be friends

loki: I apologise for my actions and understand if you don’t trust me or want to be ‘friends’ but just to clarify the mind stone was also manipulating me when that happened

hawkeye:

hawkeye, putting his arm around loki and understanding because hawkeye is a chill guy: well why didn’t ya say so! lets go get some coffee together - I know a place

[lokismidgardmistress]

This.

Loki never got this. From anyone. Not even Thor.

No forgiveness. No acknowledging he was influenced by mind stone. Nothing.

He just died. Stripped off all powers and skills.

And no funeral.

[nikkoliferous]

Loki has died three times and didn’t get a funeral for ANY of them

[worstloki]

Clint would light the candle on a cupcake and start reciting funeral rites while Loki sits across him at the cafe unable to complain because he was the one who brought that little fact up

[evilkitten3]

au where somehow barton finds loki after svartalfheim

clint: you motherfucker i’m gonna kill you so dead

loki: ok but first can you help me find out how my mom died? thor wouldn’t tell me anything and the only reason i even know she’s dead is bc some guard decided to let me know while i was in solitary

clint: what’d you do to get sentenced to solitary?

loki: no solitary was the sentence. forever.

clint: jesus what the fuck kind of trial did you have?

loki: trial?

*smash cut*

clint, bursting into his own home: LAURA WE HAVE A NEW KID LET ME EXPLAIN BEFORE YOU FREAK OUT

[prokopetz]

Concept: fairy tale where the wicked step-parent (who is of course also some sort of warlock) transforms the princess into a swan, as one does, but rather than running off to mope around in a lake and be beautifully tragic, the princess decides to stick around the palace and cause problems on purpose.

[alarajrogers]

It is a beautiful day in the palace, and you are a horrible swan princess.

[kyraneko]

Task 1: You are being kept in a lake on the palace grounds. Encourage the other nobles enjoying these same palace grounds to let your captor know that this was a bad idea.

Task 2: You are now being kept in the dungeons. While a situation much more befitting your status and abilities, it’s cramping your style a bit by preventing you from biting your captor in the ass. Break out of the dungeon, making it unfit for use as a dungeon on your way out.

Task 3: You have escaped into the kitchens, and the servants are preparing a feast for the ball tonight. You don’t think there needs to be a feast tonight, do you?

Task 4: You have gotten upstairs to where the bedchambers are; there are many guests staying here, and they all have so many lovely things. Back when you were a princess you often wished to shred uncomfortable dresses, throw pinchy shoes down the privy, and borrow jewels that weren’t your own. Have fun now.

Task 5: You’ve found your captor’s secret chambers with all his magic stuff. Somewhere in here is a spell that will let you change from swan to human at will. While you’re finding that, there’s a whole lot of other stuff here that could be fucked up, with entertaining results.

Task 6: Your captor is holding a ball where your beloved is going to be stolen from you. You don’t see any reason for this ball to proceed as planned, do you? Look at all the pretty candles and all this nice flammable shit, for starters. Also, bite your captor in the ass.

Bonus: The ballroom is filled with people of all appearances, races, shapes, sizes, types. Nobody is identified except the wicked sorcerer. You can choose anyone to be your beloved, and declaring your love to them will open the royal wedding end scene.

Double Bonus: If somebody objects at your wedding, you can turn into a swan and melee-fight their ass right there in the aisle. You can then turn human again and strut your ass back to your beloved, who is in utter awe of your shapeshifting and ass-kicking abilities alike.

[leaving-earth]

[6qubed]

best callback in star trek best one everyone else shut up

[greymatter13]

Hardison: “You know, Fermi’s paradox says that it’s improbable for other life forms to exist.”

Eliot: “Yeah? Well, Drake’s equation shows that orbiting around the hundred billion stars in our galaxy there’s up to ten thousand planets with technological civilization. [smiles at Hardison who gives him a surprised look] You never know when you might have to fight an alien.”

–Leverage (The First Contact Job, S5E3)

[bethanyactually]

“I’ll tell you, the Stargate, I wish you had it because there’s a lost shot, one we could not do. When we bring the team back together at the beginning of Season Two, we had little moments of what everybody said what they did during the break and Eliot’s was going to be ‘What did you do?’ and we were gonna flash to the Stargate with him in the gear: ‘All right, but this is the last time.’ And then flash back and him going ‘No…’ But the Stargate was broken! It was thrown away.” 

–John Rogers to Dean Devlin, DVD commentary for “The Last Dam Job” 

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[letsstealsomethiefjuice]

Listen. LISTEN. You can pry “Eliot was on a gate team” from my cold dead little hands for a whole list of reasons but mainly because nothing would be more hysterical then watching Hardison trying to understand Eliot working at Cheyenne Mountain. Know why?

The cover story for the Stargate Program was that it was doing deep space telemetry for NORAD. Please imagine Hardison trying to wrap his brain around Eliot spending what, four years?, doing deep space telemetry. And Eliot just shrugs because

“I can’t have a hobby, Hardison, is that what your saying? That’s just stereotyping, man, that’s wrong.” He keeps it up until they’re actually in the gate room and then he slaps Hardison on the back and grins.

“I’m just messing with you man, I was fighting aliens. Come meet Teal’c, bet he’ll let Parker climb him like a rock wall, it’s fun.”

[headspace-hotel]

idea: scene with two characters eagerly stripping each other clearly about to bone, but they keep getting interrupted by finding carefully concealed weapons in each other’s clothing, so they keep just unholstering, revealing and unstrapping increasingly ludicrous amounts of hidden guns and knives as the clothes come off, and it’s lowkey killing the mood a little

[findingfeather]

Alternatively: it's not killing the mood at all but it's totally making both of them giggle like they're twelve and possibly get lowkey competitive in a subconscious way about who has the most to drop.

[beyondthisdarkhouse]

The more that I think of it the more I'm seeing the incredible intimacy of letting someone know where you keep your backup knife.

Like my god, the trust involved in letting someone undress you and learn your secrets instead of popping into the bathroom to change where they can't see and hiding all your weapons under the sink

[headspace-hotel]

...Oh

[brainsforbabyjesus]

second alternative: you go to hide all your weapons under the sink but there’s already a bunch of weapons hidden underneath the sink.

awkward

[tyrannosaurus-trainwreck]

It’s not that there’s already a bunch of weapons hidden underneath the sink that makes it awkward so much as that there’s so many weapons hidden underneath the sink that they fall out of the cabinet with the unmistakable sound of a knife-alanche, and then the other person comes in like “I can explain!” and you’re just dead-ass standing there with your own armload of weapons like “I can also explain.”

[fenrislorsrai]

Married version is shoving your hand in your partner’s clothes when you’re out of weapons because you KNOW where their spare is.  Or wearing a weapon in a spot you can’t draw from yourself because its now spare storage for your spouse’s weapons.

[justlookatthosesausages]

Every single one of you is a genius

[gospelofme]

I WANT HER TO SLAP ME WITH A LIGHTSABER!!!!

[deadcatwithaflamethrower]

holy fucking shiny, yo

[trek-tracks]

What if Jim and Bones accidentally skip forward seven levels of friendship at the Academy through a combination of codependency and peril and forget that they actually don’t know everything about each other six months in…

Jim: Yeah, when I was on Tarsus, we -

Bones: Excuse me, when you were on WHERE

Jim: did we not have this conversation 

Bones: no we fucking well did not

Jim: whoops

Five minutes later

Bones: I can’t believe you were on Tarsus because your family sent you there. I would never send my daughter to- 

Jim: YOU HAVE A DAUGHTER? 

Bones: oh we missed that too didn’t we

Five minutes later

Jim: I can’t believe this! Do we actually know anything about each other? Is your name even Bones? 

Bones: …you know it’s not, right?

[arealtrashact]

The first Lost Boy

[jaycee-penny-art]

oh shiiiiit you right

[mewwitch]

[crystalleena-deactivated2022101]

OOOOOOHHHHHHH I LOVE THIS

[aughtpunk]

huh I wonder what this art is for oH FUCK

[mapelie]

HOW COME THERE’S NO STORY ABOUT THIS YET

[roolsilver]

Bruh, this is canon? In the original, Peter was the only one who never aged. He murdered the lost boys when they got too close to adulthood. Hook’s whole crew is likely escaped lost boys. That’s why they hate Peter.

[frauchun-racun-deactivated20220]

see, now, this is a villain disney movie that could possibly be done right.

[hobbitsdoitbetter]

I think it might be based on this very good, creepy book which will change the way you look at this story forever…

[spartanlocke]

Love this post but I want to add that, though “he kills them” is a very popular theory, in the original novel - J.M. Barrie's Peter and Wendy - it’s simply stated that Peter “thins out” the Lost Boys when they grow up, but gives no elaboration to how. People simply assume he kills them because the same paragraph mentions Lost Boys being killed on the island (y’know, the island with murderous mermaids and pirates and other very not-safe-for-children things.)

Though the second Peter Pan play (based off Barrie’s original) says the Lost Boys are banished when they grow up. It seems there are many theories as to what happens to the Lost Boys, but Barrie himself wanted to keep it either secret, or up for interpretation. 

So yeah…I know no one asked but I just wanted say that, because “Peter Pan murders the Lost Boys” is a theory I’ve seen thrown around a lot without correction. It’s an interesting take, and certainly one I can see Peter doing, but it’s not canon.

[altmode]

[xenosaurus]

Story concept: an orphanage/group home for chosen ones whose families were killed by ~destiny~

[xenosaurus]

It’s run by a chosen heroine whose adventure was 2 decades ago and the sweet team-mom healer from her team, who she has since married.

[xenosaurus]

It’s mostly trope comedy with moments of real emotion, here are some ideas for kids:

—two teenaged boys who WERE barreling towards a tragic rivalry that ends in one of them falling to darkness… until one of them confessed that he was just trying to show off because he has a crush on the other one. They’re now dating and the comedy comes from the universe CONSTANTLY trying to get them to fight and failing.

—an eight year old who keeps tattling on the demons who are whispering to her and then getting into sibling fights with them

—a brooding, edgy fire-wielding boy and a brooding, edgy fire-wielding girl who can’t figure out which mystical signs belong to who

—like six kids named Hope who go by names like “Pink Hope”, “Hope the second” and “I’ve been told I’m not allowed to shorten my name to ‘Ho’ so I will now be going by Dick just to spite them”

[xenosaurus]

IDK if I’m going to write this but it’s fun to worldbuild so here’s some more!

The two fire kids have a big age gap, with the girl being 10 and the boy being 17. They spend so much time together trying to untangle their destinies that they wind up developing a brother-sister relationship. The girl is one of the Hopes and the boy’s name is Fox, which results in the following exchange being commonplace.

A: so then Hope—

B: which Hope?

A: oh, baby fox.

[xenosaurus]

Oh, character consolidation idea: Fox is also one of the boys who dodged a fatal rivalry, obviously being the ‘tempted to the dark side’ half of the equation. His full name is Foxglove, and his boyfriend’s name is Raven. Raven is the one to confess and Fox was so shocked he needed to sit down for like 5 minutes to re-evaluate his entire perspective on reality.

[xenosaurus]

Fox is the EPITOME of “oh shit, I didn’t hate him, I was just gay.”

Fox two years ago: Whenever he laughs I get all sweaty and agitated, and that stupid ‘oh look at me I’m so handsome’ grin is so obnoxious it bothers me for hours after I have talk to the guy! God, Raven’s the worst.

Fox now: yeah, turns out the only thing I hated about Raven is that he wasn’t kissing me right that second

[xenosaurus]

The owner’s wife is a subversion on the “cute, sweet, gentle healer love interest who dies in act 2” trope, and her name is Maribelle. She’s just under five feet tall and built like somebody replaced all her bones with toothpicks— she’s TINY.

She is also, as the villain discovered in spectacularly violent fashion when he kidnapped her, the most dangerous member of the party by far.

Because she ISN’T a cleric and she wasn’t using light magic at all. She uses raw magic, which is a rare talent for humans because it’s hard to control and tends to destroy the weirder before their enemies. Maribelle’s love for her friends was LITERALLY the source of her healing magic, because she uses her emotions to shape her spells.

On the other side of that, the emotions associated with trapping her and threatening to kill her girlfriend? She WRECKED him and took the whole hideout down in the process.

[xenosaurus]

OKAY I named the woman who runs the place, her name is Summer!

A lot of people just know her as “the farner’s daughter” because her particular journey of heroics started with a prophecy that said a farmer’s eldest daughter would bring about the death of the tyrannical king. Which, uh, she did, except that it was Maribelle who killed the guy in Summer’s defense.

[hairasuntouchedaspartoftheamazon]

I love this so much

[a-l-ias]

Gaaah!!!

[jasmancer]

Doctor Who AU where the companions unionize and Donna and Martha start a YouTube channel

[enma-eden]

Okay, am I the only who reads a bombass crossover fanfic but don't know one or two of the fandom and just search for the mentioned characters and when I see that they are HOT🔥 AF and then I read the plot synopsis and then I just go ahead and read it and somehow understand what is going on.

Or am I just weird?

[fanonical]

katara: so i’m a waterbender

katara: which apparently includes being able to turn water to ice, and also to bend sweat and blood

katara: my question is - can i bend any liquid, or does that liquid have to have a high water component?

toph: so we’re testing which one of us can bend liquid mercury

sokka: and i’m taking bets!

[flameo-hotman]

This feels like a YouTube intro for Sokka’s science based YouTube channel Science with Sokka