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Blessed concept:

Angus and Detective Pikachu team up

#YES #detective pikachu #taz

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Mewtwo: The father you’ve been searching for has been with you all along.

Tim:

#detective pikachu #detective pikachu spoilers

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I was reading this article that was complaining about people should be more focused on bringing characters that were originally conceived as POC to the screen than on recasting white characters as POC.

Which I actually agree with.

But in the same article the writer complained (I’m paraphrasing) “If you cast a black guy as Tony Stark, no one will think of him as Tony Stark, they’ll always think of him as Black Tony Stark.”

I have to point out a big flaw in that logic:

Children.

Everyone in the older generation thinks of Obama as “the black president.” You know who doesn’t think of Obama as “the black president”? 10 year olds. Obama is the only president they can remember. He got elected when they were two.

There are children who listen to Fall Out Boys’ “Centuries” and don’t know they borrowed the opening riff from Suzanne Vega’s “Tom’s Diner.” As far as they’re concerned, that’s Fall Out Boy’s riff.

There are children who don’t remember that The Rock was Dwayne Johnson’s wrestling name.

My favorite version of A Christmas Carol is The Muppet Christmas Carol. I don’t care how Bob Cratchit was written in the original story because as far as I’m concerned, the real Bob Cratchit is a bright green frog puppet that’s my canon you can’t stop me.

There are a dozen incarnations of every possible comic book character. And every vigilante superhero we read about today is based on the original vigilante superhero – The Scarlet Pimpernel. There is no real version, there is only your favorite version. Every version that isn’t your favorite is going to feel fake to you.

But it’s going to feel real to someone.

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Haven’t y’all read the post where the little girl doesn’t want to watch the original Annie because “Annie is supposed to be black”?

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Also wasn’t Fury white in the original comics? Is there a fan alive who would dare tell Samuel L. Jackson that he’s the “black Fury”?

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I wonder when exactly it was that Star Trek stopped being perceived as light, fluffy, not-really-legitimate sci fi that ~housewives~ liked and started being seen as serious nerd business that girls had to keep their gross cooties off.

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Also when did the Beatles start to be remembered as rock legends rather than a silly boy band teenaged girls liked?

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When men decided they liked them.

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this is seriously exactly how it happened. Women were actually the first rock and roll ‘critics’ because they would write in to women’s papers and magazines to share and discuss what their kids were listening to when men still thought it was trashy teeny bopper music. once it became a lucrative, mainstream genre men shoved women out of the space. Men also tend to be gatekeepers once they move into formerly female spaces - early trek fandom was incredibly open and inclusive; women would set up fan get togethers in their own houses to discuss the show or invite the actors to visit before conventions became a thing, and then were huge in organizing the first conventions - but now the stereotype of a trekkie is a nerdy white dude who scoffs derisively at casual fans and newbies with his encyclopedic and pedantic knowledge of trek

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I propose we call this “mentrification”

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YES

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MENTRIFICATION that’s genius

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by the way every single man i’ve ever explained this to is completely boggled to hear about it. they genuinely don’t fucking know. they’re always like ‘okay name a field this happened in’ and you’re like ‘beer. writing novels. gynecology. computers.’ and they’re completely fucking distraught. men didn’t invent beer???? men didn’t invent everything?

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We can also witness the reverse happening, where women move into a space and suddenly it is deemed weak or unimportant. Some examples are teaching, nursing, and psychology.

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…and any kind of clerical work.

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detective pikachu plothole: there’s a scene where an eevee evolves into flareon while a narrator says pokemon evolve into best versions of themselves, this is false because flareon is the worst eeveelution

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When they keep asking you to make Top 10 Cutest Pokemon listicles

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YALL KNOW SOMETHING AWESOME!

THE MEWTWO IN DETECTIVE PIKACHU IS THE SAME MEWTWO AS THE ONE FROM THE FIRST MOVIE!

AND IN THE MOVIE THE DOCTOR SAID IT HAPPENED 20 YEARS AGO! DO YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS!?

THEY’RE ADULTS IN THEIR 30′S IN THE MOVIE CANON!

SO IF THEY EVER BRING IN ASH, MISTY, AND BROCK WHO WOULD YOU CAST TO PLAY THE OG TRIO AS ADULTS!?

ASH FINALLY AGED!

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Full House with Jaime Lannister

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Black Panther 2 (dir. Ryan Coogler)

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just saw an interview where Michael B. Jordan was asked why he crossed in front of the closing doors (see him in that last gif). Danai really went for that dip and both she and Lupita, who were both wearing stilettos, ending up on their asses on the ground, so Michael is running over to help them. :)