Tony Stark: Tears
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Tony Stark: Tears
I am going to state my opinions on Star Wars: I'm Jedi critical, but NOT anti Jedi (I don't think they deserved their fate) or pro Sith. The reason I won't write posts that criticize Siths is because...they're pretty obviously fucking evil and I don't have to. They're literally heavily Nazi-coded and I'm autistic...do the math
The funny thing to me about the Star Wars sequels is the problem I was only able to properly realise after watching Andor, Rogue One, and re-watching the original trilogy: The First Order is not scary. Even when they have the Resistance backed into a corner, they are laughably, stupidly childish. Hux is a blithering man-child who constantly gets thrown about (literally), Kylo is an angsty teenager (to be clear, I think that wasn't a bad direction for him), and Snoke is a vague, barely explained shadow on the wall. Every instance of "Palpatine" either made me groan or laugh out loud. They are not intimidating, they are not frightening, they are not sadistic, they are just there. They just wear black and have big ships and come with a repackaged Vader theme. The closest they got to reaching the intimidation factor of The Empire was either in Episode VII with the first appearance of Kylo and his Stormtroopers, or in Episode VIII where they're slowly chasing down the Resistance, and even then they fall short. I know I can't expect the level of beautifully horrific and meticulous villainy that we got from them in Andor, but come on. I was nine years old when I saw The Force Awakens in theatres and I was more scared of the bounty hunting groups chasing Han than I was the main antagonists. Just so disappointing, especially after the masterpiece that was Andor.
In contrast to popular opinion on my dash, I don't want to see Gi-hun sad, devastated, broken down, crying, begging, etc in S3.
I mean, I know it's gonna happen.
But what I want for Gi-hun is hugs from people who love him, success at burning the games to the ground and dancing on their ashes, peace and contentment at finally completing a momumental task and getting to rest without nightmares for the first time in years, and a reason to smile with the kind of genuine heartfelt happiness he hasn't shown since the first few episodes of S1.
He has already suffered so much, I know he's gonna suffer more, but all I want is for him to know how it feels to reach the end of the pain and the loss and the fighting not because he's given up or given in or died, but because he finally won and gets to be happy.
Genuienly I can't get behind all the Squid Game promotion stuff Netflix does. It's kinda gross to me. All the Squid Game events in different cities where you get to play the games and people go around taking pictures with the pink guards and idk posing sexually or calling them 'daddy' and don't even get me started on Squid Game The Challenge. Like no hate to the people taking part in this, they're just having fun but I just don't think this is cool. I don't think seeing kids costumes of players and pink guards is cool. I don't think recreating a show in real live and taking out the bad parts, the parts that are there to send a message is cool and fun. I know a lot of shows have serious themes and I'm not against fandom for Squid Game at all and I also think having fun with the show in fandom without always bringing up its serious messages is totally okay (I do that too) and I also think that Netflix can of course promote a very popular show. But I think once it gets to a point where Netflix makes it silly and cutesy is when it has to stop. Netflix going around different citys and putting up the Red Light, Green Light doll and having random people on the street play the game is just... For what? For promotion? For money?? Of course it's for money but I think it's kind of so gross. Nothing else is irl promoted as much as Squid Game is. I don't see nearly as many events for Bridgerton or Stranger Things. But Netflix RECREATED this show about Horrible Things happening to people, who don't know how to help themselves anymore stuck in a system that is actively working Against them, with real live people stuck in similar situations. For Entertainment. And you know who gets the most money out of it?? Netflix!! A show about poor people taking huge risks to get a better and livable life and in the end Netflix is still the one making all of this money off of it. And they're squeezing every last bit they can out of this show. And it's so disgusting to me. Again I'm not blaming people who take part in this, who go to those events. I just think Netflix shouldn't be making these events in the first place
I think I’ve seen enough of it to want to address it: Pro-Sith and Autonomy
I’ve done my rounds around this fandom, and I think I’ve seen enough of the Pro-Jedi/Jedi-critical/Pro-Sith discourse to still be quite baffled by Pro-Sith arguments. And no, although there certainly is an intersection of the Jedi-critical and Pro-Sith camps, their theses are distinct. While the Jedi-critical usually brings up the mishandling of Anakin Skywalker, the Clone Wars and the clones, and the Jedi’s alleged failure to address grave problems in galactic society, the Pro-Sith crowd is less bothered with the Jedi, instead, they forward an argument that they are for the Sith because the order (or the philosophy) promotes agency and autonomy.
And that’s the point where I raise my eyebrow a bit too high.
The Sith philosophy offers autonomy over your body, destiny, morality, and ethics, however, it also promotes megalomania. Besides championing struggle, strength, and the triumph of willpower, there is also encouragement toward seeing yourself as this innately special individual. It’s not meritocratic. It’s (social) Darwinist. It is Might Makes Right. The Sith sports autonomy, only there's a catch: they disregard others’ agency. They don’t hold on to Live and Let Live. It is not a freedom philosophy but a perpetuation of oppression by an elite with the flimsiest excuse to rule over others by the standard of 21st-century liberal democratic thinking. People like Palpatine are not outliers, and the Empire is not a misrepresentation of the order’s values. They are perfect expressions.
Seeing this reality, I would rethink it thrice before choosing to be Pro-Sith if I were a part of this crowd. Especially since the Sith philosophy so closely resembles real-life harmful ways of thinking with the sense of personal and—to a lesser degree, surprisingly—communal superiority, the glorification of power and violence, and the belief that a self-perceived genius or power-giving peculiarity gives one carte blanche to shape the world and to toy with people despite their rights, needs, and feelings.
The Sith and their claim of freedom-seeking is not a bother to me if only that “freedom” means not trampling over others, especially those supposed lesser beings.
"Fellow Senators, friends, colleagues, allies, adversaries. I stand before you this morning with a heavy heart. I’ve spent my life in this chamber. I came here as a child. And as I look around now, I realize I have almost no memories that pre-date my arrival and few bonds of affection that cleave so tightly. Through these many years, I believe I have served my constituents honorably and upheld our code of conduct. This chamber is a cauldron of opinions and we’ve certainly all had our patience and tempers tested in pursuit of our ideals. Disagree as we might, I am hopeful that those of you who know me will vouch for my credibility in the days to come. I stand this morning with a difficult message. I believe we are in crisis. The distance between what is said and what is known to be true has become an abyss. Of all the things at risk, the loss of an objective reality is perhaps the most dangerous. The death of truth is the ultimate victory of evil. When truth leaves us, when we let it slip away, when it is ripped from our hands, we become vulnerable to the appetite of whatever monster screams the loudest. This Chamber’s hold on the truth was finally lost on the Ghorman Plaza. What took place yesterday… what happened yesterday on Ghorman was unprovoked genocide! Yes! Genocide! And that truth has been exiled from this chamber! And the monster screaming the loudest? The monster we’ve helped create? The monster who will come for us all soon enough is Emperor Palpatine!"
- Senator Mon Mothma of Chandrilla, denouncing the Ghorman Massacre and Emperor Palpatine during her final speech as a member of the Galactic Senate.
Being ‘human’ is THE most overrated experience on the planet; 10/10 would NOT do this shit EVER again.
i may have underestimated how devastating it would be to watch valentina de Whatever prancing about the carcass of avengers tower with her corrupt little marketing ploy of a post-avengers superteam agenda. you!!! shitting on tony stark’s legacy like this!!!!! HE LOVED HIS TEAM HE ADAPTED THE TOWER FOR HIS FRIENDS HE POURED HIS SOUL INTO THE AVENGERS!!!!!! GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!! HE’S TURNING IN HIS GRAVE
He does not look okay anymore
Please let me hug him please
Please please please please please I’m feeling real feelings of distress let me hug him
i’m literally crying over gi hun rn. i’m so serious, i love him so much and i need him to be okay.
DIRECTOR HWANG WHAT ARE YOU DOINGGG TO HIM. REF DO SOMETHING
Luthen throughout the entire wedding:
I feel weird because there’s so much happening in the MCU rn and the avengers aren’t there anymore. Like what do you mean there’s no more Steve Rogers ? Where’s Natasha ? What’s gonna happen to Clint ? and Bruce ? And Thor who’s gonna be so alone ?
I can’t believe Reed Richards is never gonna meet Tony Stark because he’s dead.
They’re dead and nothing happened.
Like we had two avengers movies before civil war, before they just broke up and everything started falling apart.
Two movies, it’s nothing.
We saw them as friends, as a family, as a team for one movie. A single movie.
It’s not enough. It was nothing. So much potential and they’re just gone.
Don’t get me wrong, I love marvel movies, still do. I love our Captain America, I love Yelena and I think she’s going to be an amazing black widow and ofc I love Riri Williams and I loved her for years but I miss my avengers, I miss how different and fun and sad they were. I miss my team and I wish we had more of them.
I’ll stick to fanfiction and reread comics ofc but it’ll never be the same.
I wish they did more. I wish they were the found family we needed and I’m forever disappointed that they weren’t.
It ended too fast.
I’m watching the Thunderbolts trailer and the tower is empty. There’s no one there anymore as if they were never there before.
It breaks my heart it truly does.
I miss them, they deserved to be a family more than anything ❤️
s2 Gihun + reacting to death
Gi-hun in S2 isn't trying to stop the games because he values himself so little that he's willing to trade his life away just for the chance to save a single stranger.
Gi-hun in S2 is trying to stop the games because he values himself enough to believe that he is capable of making a positive difference in the world. He values himself enough to believe that he is capable of helping other people who are most in need of help. He values himself enough to believe that he is capable of fighting for a cause that matters to him enough to be worth dying for, if that's what it comes down to.
That's why the revelation that made Gi-hun turn around at the airport was,
"I'm not a horse. I'm a person."
Gi-hun believes in the value of people. He believes that people have agency, that they matter, and that at least some of them care about helping other people in need and will do so when they can whether or not it gets them anything in return.
It was precisely his recognition that he is a person, too, that gave him the strength to recognize that he, too, has agency and power that he can use to help other people in need. He has the agency to make his life mean something of value to himself.
If he doesn't succeed? Then at least he knows that other people might at least be inspired and/or empowered enough by what he was able to accomplish that they'll keep fighting to help after he can't anymore. That is valuable, to him, too. That is an outcome that would mean his death wasn't meaningless, either.
(Though there's plenty of evidence that Gi-hun doesn't want to die. He's fighting for something that he is ready to die for, which is a lot more meaningful when his life means something to himself, as well.)
Gi-hun values himself because he is a person, and he values people. You can't ask Gi-hun to stop valuing other people without asking him not to value himsef.
(Which is, incidentally, In-ho's goal in breaking Gi-hun.)
Jung Woo-sung and Lee Jung-Jae in Hunt (2022) dir. Lee Jung-Jae
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“What country is this about?”
“Yes.”