sorry OP of that post and I find the Andy Weir "my art is not political" actively and actually funny. he's JUST incorrect! he's simply wrong! I put on The Martian on a whim the other night and sent my friend this screenshot
STEM bros not understanding what politics even is lol
it drives me fucking INSANE when i was reading phm like every other page i was going "and what story do YOU think you're writing here, mr weir????"
i think part of the reason i'm so freaking bonkers about it is that he does write actually good and politically interesting stories. usually when i hear people make comments like that i expect more of a "oh i don't see race" >looks inside >racism sort of thing so when it's actually good it's simply baffling. how did you write something so smart and nuanced and not realize what you were doing
I am fairly certain Martha's hypocrisy is the point. Another point about this: she clearly disapproves of swearing, taking the Lord's name, and vulgarity.... Except whoreophobic language, which she comfortably uses herself. It's another early flag. But of course her relationship with Samson is totally different and all these harlot whores could never understand etc etc.
yes dw i understood the point with her i just found her kinda flat as a character chndjfjf but that has been the case for me with everyone except jud and blanc in this movie and im honestly not complaining bc i did not care to hear what else those brainwashed churchpeople had to say
"You have no idea, do you?" Karkat was giving him one of those patient, resigned looks.
There was no way he fucking knew. Dave tilted his head, totally guileless and innocent. "Like, generally, or?"
Crooking a finger, Karkat guided Dave to the other side of the room, where there was a mirror hanging over the cabinet were the coats were hung up. Karkat directed Dave, coaxing him to stand in front of it.
And oh, Karkat knew. Because Dave saw, rising out from the collar of his shirt, a ghostly flame of vivid cobalt blue. It ran like a flush up along the column of his neck and cast over his right cheek before throwing flakes and specks up to flirt with Dave's eye, like sparks of fire tossed over the apple of his cheek. It was a bold swatch painted along him, completely unmistakeable."
All The World is Earth and Water
By: @callmearcturus
Y'all when I say this fic is cozy? This fic is COZY. Such a good re-read for early Spring
I was going to say this was a manifestation of all the nipple forward anons I got today but honestly it’s specifically for the one anon that said they hated nipples
If this was a ploy it worked if it wasn’t well I’m driven by spite so we all win the single most kissable Dirk I’ve ever drawn
The storytelling and writing in Dead Money is peak but to get to it you have to overcome the worst level design in Obsidian history
HONESTLY!!! i don't know whether it's horrible or brilliant that those fatal radio alarms are so well-hidden - like am i STUPID or is this just Stupidly Difficult? we'll never know
some fun fanart of @callmearcturus absolutely amazing work “So we don’t kill the ones we love” - have been reading it on my commutes and boy oh boy has it kept me sane 🫡
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the
Organization for Transformative Works
@callmearcturus replied to your post “well I have. watched the Borderlands movie.”:
oh g-d. wh.... how. um. anything?
It was bad. Like adaptation issues aside (which were also bad), this was just a badly made movie. The characterization fell flat. The pacing was all off. Nothing had weight. The final boss fight confrontation felt like it went on for 8234343 years.
And as for an adaption — well it was a movie made under the shadow of Handsome Jack, you know?
Spoilers for anyone who minds underneath the cut. TL;DR this movie isn't worth it.
So the plot of this movie mashes together BL1 and BL2 in ways that don't, imo, serve the narrative at all. Tiny Tina gets the Angel treatment, with her father, Dekayrios (sp? the internet doesn't even care about his first name) Atlas having cloned her with Eridian blood. Atlas is a bargain-basement Handsome Jack who attempts none of the humor and at best a quarter of the menace. He slow claps twice.
Lilith is the pov character and nothing about Sirens is mentioned until about 95% of the way through the movie. Cate Blanchett is all right at being Lilith but her wig is bad. Kevin Hart is simply unconvincing at being Roland. Moxxie was physically hard to watch. Claptrap fell flat. Krieg was probably the best realization and he was wearing a mask the whole time. The actors are clearly phoning it in and honestly who can blame them.
There were some fun little details in the background — mostly the names of corporations and gun manufacturers. The Atlas tech was good. And at least there were tentacles in the vault, eventually. Someone got that detail right.
But when I say this was made underneath the shadow of Handsome Jack — like it's hard to revisit this series and not think of him, you know? So it's like they took pieces from each story line and said "close enough" and it really, really, wasn't.
