#kinda meta

[marshbevvie]

There isn’t a difference.

We probably actually would make a fake college, and they probably would live in a cursed town. Just cuz.

Look, I LOVE comparing fictional characters to us, okay? And movie costumes inspire my fashion and stuff. Would anyone watch a movie about Derry? Could be cool.

[minaa-munch]

Do you really think Kakashi should have been made Jonin? He was very young right?

"..."

Fair point. But given that Konoha represented the Land of Fire's militia, age was hardly worth noting as a concern. The village churned out soldiers after all. Kakashi was incredibly gifted and had all the skills befitting a Jōnin - from battle tact to ninjutsu. He was quite similar to Minato, in that sense. On that note, I believe his promotion was also during war times (ironically, also similar to Minato's) so it was probably a necessity.

But that doesn't change the fact that he wasn't ready - and that too, not because of his age, per se. Kakashi was a deeply traumatized and emotionally stunted individual. Where he definitely had the skillset of a Jōnin, he lacked the foresight and the emotional maturity of one.

So yes, Kakashi was rightfully promoted to the rank -- was it the ideal scenario? No. Did they have other options? Probably not.

[ask-walter-and-vince]

A commissioned piece by @/Zyxxs2 on twitter and their hunky oc, Deep comforting Wallace at prom! Really enjoyed working on this headcanon!

[otp-holic]

This has been on my mind for a long time...

Steve having a flashback to the past during a half of a second as The Winter Soldier turns. In that blink of an eye he can see Bucky as it was (as he remembers him), before The Winter Soldier looks at him with Bucky's eyes. Steve is now in an impossible present; all the foundations of what he knows and what he feels, shattered.

And we know how it goes after that.

But also, from Bucky's character point of view? How he is hidden in there below the surface, dormant because of the words but condemned to “wake up” and remember it all as if it was indeed him behind the wheel? I cannot. i just cannot.

In reality he’s still barely more than a child sent to war who deserves better, who deserves total recognition of his lack of agency, who deserves total recognition of his trauma,... who deserves Steve, too.

Thanks for coming to my stream of consciousness Ted Talk: This went really fast from my traumatizing head-canon to Bucky!Avenging, tbh.

Anyway, sorry for the heartbreak and for the quality... War!Bucky video source is horrible, but i needed it done.

[spocksgotemotions]

Come here. Let me tell you a story.

Once there was a Leader, a walking tragedy of a man. He felt far too deeply for his own good as a man in a position of leadership. But he was almost always able to set aside his feelings when called for. The tragedies manifested in an attempt to do better than before. Save more people, treat them with more kindness, love more deeply but with more caution.

And of course one day he meets a Scientist. One with not too few tragedies of his own. A man who was said to be humorless. To be heartless. It wasn’t true, of course, it never is when people say that. But he let people believe what they wanted.

And of course when they were thrown together, they found they suited each other. Though they seemed very different on the outside, they had much more in common than they had differences. The tragedies didn‘t seem to be so bad when they were together.

And one day, a tragedy occurred as they so often do. And the Leader dies at the hands of the Scientist, driven mad with an illness he found he couldn’t stop. What terrible grief! What guilt. The illness fades with his dear friend and he is left alone like he had been before. And when the Leader is revived well… what joy! What bliss.

They fall apart and come back together, pass through several more tragedies along the way and this time the Scientist dies. He sacrifices himself, leaving the Leader with words promising eternal friendship, even as he stops breathing. What terrible grief! What noble sacrifice. And when the Scientist is revived, it is only fair that his first word is the Leader’s name. It is only fair that the Leader greets him with the smile the Scientist had given years ago. What joy! What bliss. To find such perfect parallels in another is certainly a form of love.

[girddlepatchilles]

May El Calamawy would be a great Evie Carnahan if there was ever reboot of the Mummy movies. 

Seriously, I would love to see actually!Egyptian Carnahan siblings who embrace both sides of their heritage. Give me Evie, Jonathan and Ardeth gossiping in Arabic while Rick just stands there and doesn’t understand! Give me Jonathan who fought with the Egyptian Expeditionary Force and resisted being sent to the Western Front because he wanted to fight for his home! Give me Evie who wants to prove to the Benbridge Scholars that she’s good enough because this is her her heritage and history that she’s talking about! Give me Jonathan and Evie with Egyptian relatives who worry about them!

Give me actually!Egyptian Carnahan siblings because that one line in the Mummy about Evie’s mum lives rent free in my brain.

[yogsothott]

Relistening to wtnv has got me wondering whether the full impact of the unreality in it is lessened or enhanced by the fact that the real US is already kinda unreal to me. It's the place u see in movies n series n all the brands referenced as common knowledge in every media in history and a million memes, I only know from media and memes and the inevitable Americanization of anyone spending too much time online. "Arby's" was no more real to me than "big Rico's pizza" when I first listened 10 years ago, and if anything the more mysterious of the two bc the throaway mention didn't include what it's supposed to serve unlike big Rico.

While the show has heaps of its signature blend of the mundane with absurd comical horror that you can't miss over little cultural details, there's this funny little fuzzy line where the feral dogs commiting gang violence or the feral librarians just don't sound that much more absurd than a significant amount of apparently real things I've learned about the US against my will throughout my life. Also the totalitarian dystopia aspects and the occasional satirical insensitivity over stuff like colonialism still doesn't feel absurd, even more so this days, but this bums me out too much.

[oh-warizoro]

VEGAPUNK VEGAPUNK VEGAPUNK

When the new wanted posters for the SH’s came out, I joked about the Franky poster situation, and pointed out that it would be funny if Oda-sensei was pulling a “Sanji” with Franky and Vegapunk

Then, we find out the new World Government PX weapons - Seraphim - which were clearly made by Vegapunk, and seem to connect to the lunarians, King’s race (which is an open plotline).

And now, ch 1060, we’re presented with Jewelry Bonney. While she’s not officially connected with Vegapunk, she does have a connection to Kuma and the World Government 

Plus they found her in a Winter Island region, same as Vegapunk’s home island.

Coincidence??? Maybe ....... But  I’m starting to think Oda-sensei is setting things up to finally answer some questions about Vegapunk.