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Dedra realizing she is not exempt from hands-on male rage and violence, including intimate partner violence (even from someone like Syril who we know to be quite passive with her), just because she vastly outranks him socially and politically and usually wears the pants in the relationship???? her face when he put his hands around her throat and yells at her?? even with all that education and climbing the ranks and scheming and military rank, it still doesn't fucking matter in that moment, not in the slightest. she is completely at his mercy and you can see it in her eyes when she realizes her miscalculation and oversight in this situation. incredible.

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dedra really said "he is MY pathetic little sopping wet meow meow bootlicker, and you will stop giving him constant anxiety attacks or he's going no contact, am I crystal fucking clear"

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if bucky had been a woman, or the mcu had been less homophobic, steve rogers would've married that man. it's an entire three-movie series about saving bucky. loving bucky so much he'd cast the entire world aside for him. that devotion is canon. it's in the text. but noooooooooooo.

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so i've been re-watching mcu movies and i'm in HELL-

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veeeeery pleased to see that some fellow freaks (affectionate) on AO3 are also looking at bucky barnes and john walker in thunderbolts and saying "mmhm, toxic fucking + mutually haunted by the ghost of steve rogers/captain america"

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I used to be very nervous about leaving kudos on really out there fics but then I was like. fuck it. if someone I know gets to the bottom of the page and bothers to look at the kudos or comments and sees my username. what were YOU doing at the devil's sacrament-

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I finished the Project Hail Mary audiobook like an hour ago. I'd seen some commentary/complaints that the movie is a soft scifi, at least by comparison to the book, and I can see the case for that argument. However, I think those changes make sense and serve a solid purpose - the film values the emotional throughline of Grace's personal growth and interpersonal relationships (particularly his friendship with Rocky) more than the science competency porn.

I think the changes translate to a better film experience - the movie is already long and getting too bogged down in the details of the How vs the emotional beats of the Why would take away from the emotional impact. I can totally see why, especially if you read the book first, you'd be disappointed by those omissions. Cutting the detailed science competency porn has a significant impact on Grace's characterization, but some of that may just be Gosling's performance. He's a little goofier, a little dumber for the sake of some humor or speeding the plot along, but also he's so endearing and the core personality is similar enough that I don't mind it. I think Carl was a great addition and helped fill the void left by cutting all of Grace's interactions with various scientists on the project to decrease runtime and kept the film's focus on the relationships we form with others, particularly in the context of the end of the world.

Basically, I think the changes make sense for an adaptation to the film medium. That said, I'd LOVE to see ALLLLLL the cut material and science-y shit.

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ok, so, charlie kirk getting got by an even FARTHER right nick fuentes groyper is objectively the funniest outcome

charlie kirk wasn't alt-right and white supremacist enough for the groyper army. they had beef with him for not being extreme enough. unhinged, truly.