#excellent points

[sherlock-is-ace]

I love being called "close minded" because I fear what the ai generated crap that is fed to us from everywhere is doing to the human mind and because I don't like j fuck rowling, as a trans man may i add...

[raccoonfallsharder]

I think Rocket's actually smarter than Tony in the sense that Tony has a bunch of super advanced tools. Sure a good amount of them he probably invented but we also know he steals inventions. He stole Quentin's hologram tech, who knows what else he didn't make. Tony has notepads and things to write stuff down, to visualise what he's doing, to keep track of equations. Rocket needs none of that, I've never seen him write down anything, it appears he can just do quantum mechanics in his head. Really the only Deus ex Machina tech Tony made that we see is the Arc Reactor. Rocket as you said regularly builds shit he's probably never conceived of before in minutes.

YESSSSSSS

all of this

great points, great points

i know iw/endgame were meant to serve a specific purpose of wrapping up the og avengers storylines but im like…. you all were like “how do make time machine?” and didn’t immediately call the guy who probably has to do regular maintenance (with unique upgrades) to make his spaceships survive literal jumps through the space/time continuum??

(everyone talks about the bowie’s ridiculous ship design but i headcanon that the mechanics of it generate a way of either condensing information or creating an “information shield” that allow for less wear-and-tear AND/OR outright danger of improper reconstitution through the jump-points if we assume they operate through mechanics similar to current theories on teleportation? has there been any canonical talk of how jump points work?)

anyway tony’s like. fine. i guess. but rocket was an underutilized resource, constantly & repeatedly & vocally underestimated & underappreciated by the avengers. possibly because of classism, or possibly because they continually are like (insert snooty condescending voice) “he eats trash! he’s a raccoon!”

[go-ldy]

That is very true and fair. Bughead would be morally opposed to holding an exotic animal captive. But what if it was like, an injured platypus that couldn't survive by itself in the wild? That happens sometimes...

A VERY GOOD POINT, ANON. Yes, I could see Bughead taking in an injured platypus and also, assuming that this was part of some nefarious plot to target and eradicate or hurt platypus, investigating the shit out of what was going on and eventually bringing the platypus murderer to justice for animal abuse.

[vanimeldes]

Do you think that Riceman would have been a better character if the narrative (s/jm) didn't treat him as perfect and holly? I think if mess treated him as the morally grey/antihero he was on the first book, and didn't white washed/excused all his established characteristics, I think I would've liked him better. Is her lack of honesty and her view of protagonist=good guy, and no sarah. Rh/sand is not a good guy. Stop trying.

Totally agree. I do believe that SJ/M's first intention was to write Rice as a morally grey character, therefore his straight up bad questionable deeds in book 1. But then, she did with him what she had done with Alien, namely she feared that her fans might not like her faves if they are not 100% good, so she just justified whatever twisted thing Alien and Rice ever did and constricted the narrative and the opinions of the other characters in such a way, that Alien and Rice must be right and just and noble no matter what.

The total assassination of Rice and Tom's characters and the constant praise for Rice is what killed that book for me. It felt as if mess forgot what she wrote in the first book, and she she remembered, she pulled her favourite motive: "I only did what I did to protect you!!111" even though what Rice did should never be excused and/or romanticized.

So, yes, he would have been a lot better if he had just kept his characterization from book 1 and SJ/M hadn't turned him into a love interest, or if she still wanted to go on this route, she should have explicitly stated that the Failsand romance is not healthy and feminist and a model by any means, but something twisted and problematic, rooted in obsessive lust rather than in true love, but both parties are aware of this and agree with this.

[failureofmylife]

Thread here

[cuethetommo]

People love to read into things. Yes, Louis said he doesn't enjoy writing metaphorical songs. Yes, Harry writes metaphorical songs. D'y'all know who else writes metaphorical songs? Liam fucking Gallagher, the guy Louis has had a boner for for the past three months. He is incapable of writing a straightforward lyric. So maybe stop being bitchy, anons, and looking for things to get upset about and idk, do something more productive with your lives? Watching the grass grow is a good start.

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