[looking at people younger than me] you have your whole life ahead of you [looking at people older than me] you have your whole life ahead of you [looking at myself] its over
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[looking at people younger than me] you have your whole life ahead of you [looking at people older than me] you have your whole life ahead of you [looking at myself] its over
If youâre still on windows 10 itâs there as well. Tho itâs under Devices>typing>typing insights.
âI can kill everything⊠and I need him to stop me.â
Batman (2016) #49
Always remember that DC went out of their way for absolutely no reason to clarify that Batman canonically does not go down on women (catwoman) which inadvertently begged the question if he goes down on men and theyâve been very silent about that.
Saw this post by @sketchp00ch and it reminded me of this clip of Joker:
Context for those who havenât played the game; Here Joker has shot Gordon in the knees after using him as bait for Batman.
The pause he takes after laughing + the split second vacant look in his eyes + the line delivery where his voice is absent of the typical flamboyance.
Itâs like another one of those moments where the Jokers insanity is called into question by the narrative because he acts so impulsively and violently at certain times where youâre thinking yeah this is the joker of course heâs crazy and doing his whole âtesting Batmanâ thing but then thereâs the whole mob boss side of Joker that requires actual calculated effort and due diligence, and thatâs too delicate of a position to be in for the argument of his âinsanityâ being random and uncontrollable.
That pause is a moment of ambiguous clarity and I love the implications that heâs either not insane and completely aware of his actions and indifferent to their consequences or completely insane and overcome by his mental illness where a glimpse of his sanity comes out before being suppressed. (in this game, different iterations have their own suggestions for his insanity).
Either way, something something we need more moments of the joker just taking a pause amidst the havoc heâs wreaking.
A lot of fanfic writers and readers arenât ready to admit that the ONLY difference between the OC/Character and Reader/Character tag is the extent of depth and description given to the insert character.
To be a true batman fan you must simultaneously believe that batman is a middle aged man loser with mental issues, an eldritch monstrosity who is human in all the long suffering torturous wrong ways, and an cunt-serving diva with a face card so lethal it's a partial reason for inter-galaxy peace.
âIf you feel his[Thaedus] weakness harms the empire, take action.â
âPerhaps I am mistaken.â
Something something Thragg is overly attached to Argallâs skull because itâs a reminder of when he hesitantly extended mercy to Thaedus which ultimately led to Argalls assassination. Thereâs the implication of Thragg feeling guilt that underlines the sense of responsibility he has towards his people.
The age gap between Thragg and Nolan isnât appreciated enough.
[+ scene analysis]
Mind you, Nolan hadnât even been born yet when Thragg had already been established as Grand Regent for who knows how long before his birth.
Nolan had just turned 18 Viltrumite years old (whatever that even is) by the time he was infected with the scourge virus. At the same time weâre shown Thragg and Kregg alongside the other higher up Viltrumites trying to mitigate the effects of the damage the scourge is doing.
Not to mention the time Nolan spent working on expanding the Viltrumite occupation as he illustrated in his Novels. I mean chalk it up to character design if you want but itâs worth wondering how much time would have passed for him to start looking like this;
PLUS how long did it take for him to be assigned the mission to go to Earth? He looks visibly older courtesy of the change in his hair;
And we know itâs not an editing mistake because the show was pretty consistent with what Nolan looked like when he met Debbie;
(In the comics he doesnât even have the age indicator of whitening hair)
So rewatching the scene with Thragg and Nolan trying to ânegotiateâ feels so bizarre because the way Thragg starts it off so amicably with âItâs been too long Nolanâ you would think they had been working side by side but thatâs his Boss, worse, thatâs the almost carmic being heâs been brainwashed to worship, the walking apex of his species, and the symbol of everything he believed in.
But Nolan scoffs it off.
The dialogue afterwards is so telling:
N: What do you want Thragg
T: Simply to talk to an old friend.
N: Since when do we talk.
T: Weâve always talked. Some simply chose not to listen.
N: Then Talk.
Their dialogue feels so detached from the supposed shared experience Thragg seems to be recalling to, and itâs clear that Thragg isnât really referring to a time where he and Nolan were literally talking to each other one on one because of his follow up use of the plural term âsomeâ, but rather the times he would talk AT him along with all the other Viltrumites conditioned to obey him.
Note the emphasis of Thragg holding out his hand to Nolan. Itâs a gesture the show clearly wants us to pay attention to since we get THREE different angles of it;
It feels so coercive and condescending when speculating the amount of time that would have passed since their last meeting which arguably wouldnât have been face to face even if Nolan was regarded highly amongst Viltrumites.
(I argue Nolan only appeared on Thraggs radar when he started working against the Empire, after his capture on Thraxa and since there were so few Viltrumites left.
Otherwise Nolan wouldâve been treated like the other disposable soldiers. Just a means to expand Viltrum until heâs not deemed strong enough via being killed in combat. As is the Viltrumite code of conduct.)
So this gesture feels like Thragg is trying to placate Nolan as if heâs some irrational runaway child, âcome home Nolan, come home and all will be forgivenâ, even the repetition of âcome homeâ is chant-like, perhaps Thragg is attempting to gage if thereâs a part of Nolan that is still susceptible to being groomed back into the Viltrumite Ideology.
The obvious framing of Nolan looking up at Thragg not only reveals their former dynamic as subject and regent, but also shows Thraggs active attempt to reassert those roles.
This only further emphasises their age difference because it makes Thragg seem so out of touch and deeply deluded in his mentality. I mean itâs so on the nose, a younger open minded dude vs a close-minded old man.
For all the sentiments about Thragg being a cool headed, callous, and calculated Villain, he sure seems to fit the stereotypically crazed, easily rattled, and overly defensive paranoid old ruler archetype. All of which this scene subtly hints to with him briefly losing his composure
âViltrum is NOT a tomb!â
Alongside being so far gone he repeatedly disregards Nolanâs efforts to reason with him.
Compare this frame with the one below, before their fight begins;
They are both level and in frame as itâs finally made clear to Thragg that Nolan can no longer be persuaded or rather manipulated into joining him.
I put ânegotiateâ in quotation marks for a reason because that scene isnât actually depicting two men negotiating a volatile situation instead itâs akin to a young man trying to convince a really elderly one that he has made and is continuing to make a deranged mistake of trying to keep up the facade of Viltrumites being unstoppable.
Neither of them are operating from a place where the other can begin to consider reasonable which could only come from such vastly different experiences in life hence them having such a GIGANTIC age gap.
This is going to be Thragg with the first Viltrumite to come back gay for their debrief:
please please please please reblog if youâre a writer and have at some point felt like your writing is getting worse. I need to know if Iâm the only one whoâs struggling with these thoughts
this is a common phenomenon. the better you get, the more you recognize flaws. the good thing is you can strive to get better. but the bad thing is that you see nothing but flaws. you are actually getting better, but your editing/critical brain is getting tuned up and can see more things to improve. someone post the graph, I can't find it
nvm I found it myself:
"art" can mean any creative endeavor and it definitely applies to writing.
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TW: Rape mention
Since neither the show or the comics explain why Thaedus rebelled against the Viltrum empire beyond him being against their âevilâ and âtyrannicalâ ways (and according to Thragg he came back from an unspecified planet and started to talk about âmercyâ) then I propose my headcanon that Thaedus is the first âqueerâ Viltrumite.
Queer as we know is an umbrella term that means not conforming to the heteronormative beliefs and attitudes of a society. SoâŠ
I mean queer as in, relative to Viltrumite society becauseâŠ
Viltrumites pick their âmatesâ based on a claiming system where a stronger one picks who they get to reproduce with, in other words they rape each other, and itâs purely for reproductive purposes because we know they donât have intimate relationships and theyâre ONLY form of connection with each other comes from respecting strength which translates to their violence and brutality so a Viltrumite not wanting to engage in that worship of strength and brutality is what then?
Their procedural and violent way of looking at reproduction is their equivalent of performing heteronormativity so a Viltrumite like Thaedus who is critical and repulsed by the overall violence perpetuated through Viltrumite occupation is arguable their equivalent of being queer.
PlusâŠ
I just feel like the entire concept of a queer Viltrumite shatters their entire identity as a species because of how obviously patriarchal it is, (and as we know patriarchy exists to reinforce harmful heteronormative ideas) I mean yes their space fascists and Kirkman made them diverse so the story doesnât have to tackle White Supremacy but their whole hyper masculine existence canât be separated from patriarchal and heteronormative ideology because thatâs literally what created these ideas in the first place.
I get that power-scaling fictional characters against each other is fun yet I canât help but feel the irony of it when it comes to the characters in Invincible, particularly between Viltrumites, since one of the core ideas that the show explores is about how physical strength is not the supreme mode of expression and survival.
The Will To Change by Bell Hooks fucked me up good
Actually most of words we use for sex are violent, not just fuck. My Marriage and Family professor pointed this out during my freshmen year of college and itâs stayed with me. Think about itâŠ. bang, screw, hit it, pound, smash, rail, plow, pound, like our entire culture has tried to remove the concept of intimacy and vulnerability and emotion from sex by associating violent words with the action. The power of language on culture, perspective, and overall mindset is so incredible. We gotta be more careful and respectful of that.
Interestingly enough, the one term I can think of that isnât violent, make love, is ridiculed in pop culture instead of used to create intimacy when talking about sex. I never considered that before. This whole post is food for thought.
Reblogging again for ^^this comment. Iâd been thinking the same thing. You can say you had sex or fucked or banged but if you say you âmade loveâ then youâre mocked as a naive, overly-romantic, teenage girl virgin or some other sexist bullshit.Â
I wonder what euphemisms are in other languages. I only know a few, but not well enough to write about them.
Mr âI was a Med student 2 weeks agoâ is going to get absolutely pulverised by the time his surgery rotation is done.
âI hurt my backâ - s1x10
Other Orthopedic surgeons: *Listening to classical or pop music whilst performing surgery*
Meanwhile Dr Park: