Occasionally inspired. Inevitably absurd.

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[thiscoldheart]

#he still got it

BRANDY NORWOOD and PAOLO MONTALBAN as Queen Cinderella and King Charming

Descendants: The Rise of Red (2024)

[soldierboys]

SUPERMAN (2025) dir. James Gunn

[katzell]

Can I be emotional about this beautiful gif set for a moment. It’s drawing attention to a couple of the central tensions of the film and to some very justifiable concerns Lois was struggling with in that opening interview and how they are resolved.

Lois knows Clarke. She knows Superman. She’s spent a lot of time with both of them. She sees the decency and love and care he has for the world around him; but Lois Lane, investigative journalist, can’t trust that. Clark and Kal-El wield immense power and are working outside of established rules and norms.

Clark, though he isn’t thinking of it that way, is using his position at Metropolis’ paper of record to build a case for an agent that doesn’t really have any checks and balances on his power. As Luther illustrates, public opinion is one of the few ways to push against Superman’s ability to act as he pleases. And Clark is breaking so many journalistic ethics in reporting these stories. Lois is right to find that concerning.

Meanwhile Superman is intervening in the politics of other nations. He’s saving lives, but also there is a long long history of powerful nations intervening in other nation’s internal affairs for their own ends. Superman wasn’t elected. Where does his right to legitimate force come from when he’s not even from this planet?

Who is this person? Where do his ethics come from? Is he honest or is he just very very convincing? How can Lois even make an objective assessment when he is that handsome, and makes her feel so special?

And Clark won’t tell her where he learned to be human. She knows where he was born. But who raised someone so powerful? How was that accomplished? It’s the one thing she doesn’t know. She’s definitely seen his HR file, but Smallville sounds like a fabrication. It can’t be real.

And then when she meets the Kents she finally knows. They are grounded, honest, hard working people with an immense capacity to love. And that is what allows her to finally let her guard down and trust him.

Meeting the Kents allows Lois to meet Clark on his own terms. He’s been arguing for humanistic ethics the entire time: but without the Kents Clark is an intergalactic, unelected policeman telling people what is moral. With them, he’s just another person doing his best and dedicating himself to a life of service.

Anyway, I love them.

[hawnks]

30+ year old women are the backbone of this website

[drbased]

reblog if you're literally 30+

[luminouslumity]

[phosphorus-noodles]

Reblog to let your followers know that despite your current obsession your previous obsessions still exist and are simply lying dormant until they awaken and strike again

[yesokayiknow]

thirteen: hey just popped in to tell you you're tearing apart reality btw. you're gonna destroy the world and also us

fifteen, not taking in a single word: god so true bestie i DO miss being blonde

[ofgeography]

there is something i want to talk about, but don't know how to do it responsibly, because it is a contagion.

human beings are, fundamentally, empathetic beings. i do not mean gentle, i do not mean understanding, i do not even mean good, i mean empathetic. i mean that we are psychologically built to take things into ourselves.

yes even people who are selfish. yes, even people who are cruel. yes. we see human faces in inanimate objects. we bond with robots and ships and blankets. and when we see suffering, we eat it. we cannot help but eat it. this is not always digested as sympathy or even as kindness. it may be chewed into further cruelty. but we do eat it. we have no choice.

i loved somebody. recently i knew him less well than i had known him before. recently everybody knew him less well. i think he barely knew himself. it is hard to know what the threads are that bind us to each other, because they're constantly being cut and retied, cut and retied, cut and retied. when you pull one out entirely, the whole thing comes unraveled. one vanished thread undoes the rug.

somebody was loved, and now the house is delicate with grief. somebody felt alone, and now the rest of us do. there is no repairing the wound it leaves. you can only step around it and try not to fall in. hope someone is nearby with a ladder if you do.

that is why i say it is a contagion. this isn't a riddle; it's fear. i want to talk about this and i'm afraid to, because i know it will get eaten and i do not want the words to rot.

let me try it this way: even if it is the only thing you ever do, please stay.

[anxeious]

[itberice]

[suchplausibilities]

[itberice]

[supertaliart]

Happy Star Wars Day! Here’s my other Skywalker Twins comic all in one post!

[portraitoftheoddity]

I don't need someone to match my freak; I need someone to complement my freak. Accentuate and accent my freak. Plus, we gotta diversify our freak portfolio here -- combine our efforts to cover the greatest amount of freakage instead of seeking freak redundancy.

[acabspocky]

So I'm instead of finding someone whose freakquency matches yours, find someone whose freakquency harmonizes with yours...?

Am I getting this right?

[portraitoftheoddity]

Perfect addition to the post, 10/10.

[metalgeara-10ciiscorpionhmcs]

I love seeing list memes where someone makes a "le cool people vs le cringe" and they obviously skew it so they barely scrape by into the cool kids club

[metalgeara-10ciiscorpionhmcs]

You just KNOW this dudes 5'11"

[inbabylontheywept]

I'm 5'11, but in most casual conversations I'll say I'm 5'9. I do this purely for the chaos that it creates. Because everyone assumes that men only exaggerate their height up, it makes me look like the only person honestly describing their height and thus knocks at least 2 inches off everyone else's description. The panic that the 6'1 guys feel at the thought of being described as 5'11 is hard to understate. I have had people run back to their cars to grab tape measures. If I could get away with describing myself as 4'6 I would.

[loth-catgirl]

you are the diametrical opposite of the aforementioned guy. you are a demigod walking among mortals

[squeakadeeks]

bro doesnt even have the jennies (certain je ne sais quois)

[21chrysanthemums]

[in-sufficientdata]

[endreal]

I wonder how many people learned this was a thing they could do by seeing the sign

[briearesea]

Well I for one just learned that. Thanks for the tip!

[deep-green-existentialist]

When I was landscaping I referred to this as "pirating a plant" since the original is still there but now I have a clone growing in my house and if that clone is successful I can prop it out to other people, like "seeding" but you know, no seeds just clones.

[fluffyvoidspirit]

This is your sign to start pirating plants

[depsidase]

[theotherwesley]

He was as tall as he was tall, and his eyes were the color they were. To describe his hair one would say that he had some. His face had all the features you'd expect, and none of the ones you wouldn't. "There he is," people would often say of him, but only when he was there. And they were right.

[teaboot]

Douglas Adams ass type sexyman