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idk i just feel like "it is more acceptable and in fact encouraged to mock anything enjoyed primarily by women" and "being enjoyed primarily by women does not make thing feminist and righteous" are thoughts that can and should coexist

tarragonthedragon

oh and also "even if the thing is bad your criticism of it can come from a place of patronising misogyny"

slingerapen

cats know keyboard shortcuts even microsoft doesnt know about

spidey-webs

There seem to be a lot of people who don’t understand why Lobo was in the movie, so I’m just gonna say it: Lobo is who Kara is at risk of becoming.

Kara is at a crossroads, and one road leads towards Clark and one leads to Lobo. Or rather, one path leads to embracing the responsibility of the life and powers her parents gave her, and the other is continuing to drink her life away, not caring about anything or anyone but her and hers.

Lobo is immensely powerful, and the last of his planet. Just like Kara. And when we meet him, he’s passed out drunk in a bar, oblivious and uncaring of violence and exploitation around him. Just like Kara was trying to be when she first met Ruthye.

Lobo is Kara’s future if she gives up on trying to be good. Drunkenly stumbling through the galaxy not helping anyone or anything and only caring about herself. Maybe not mindlessly cruel, but not kind or good or caring of the pain of the people around her.

It’s why they both get Ruthye’s spiel, it’s why Lobo’s whole introduction mirrors what Kara was just doing demanding to know about the Brigands, it’s why they’re both “the ditz from the bar”, it’s why they both have the gag with the space suit collar.

It’s why Lobo crops up each time Ruthye and Kara are faced with choices, sometimes acting as a devil on their shoulders, sometimes just a big lurking ominous warning of their bleak future if they make the wrong choices. It’s why Lobo says “let Ruthye have her revenge”, uncaring of how the violence might haunt Ruthye for the rest of her life. He’s a big constant reminder why Kara cannot let this thirteen year old girl be consumed by violence, and of who her parents didn’t want her to be.

Lobo is Kara’s foil and shadow.

I don’t think the movie always executed this well, it could have been done better, but I don’t think it was subtle either. The parallels between Kara and Lobo are right there in every scene and always highlight the choices Kara makes to be kind, and I do wish people would take the time to actually think about them before writing Lobo’s presence off.

#supergirl

stealingpotatoes

do you ever think about how much of the original trilogy artoo spent silently watching the drama go down with popcorn

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anthraxofeffervescence

The core conceit of Lord of the Rings is pretty funny. You are a twenty three year old in a suburb of Maine. The little bracelet in your grandpa’s attic has an inscription on it that is the password to the world’s entire nuclear arsenal. It is up to you to walk to the only hydraulic press in the world, located in Arizona, before the FBI finds the bracelet, kills you, and enslaves the suburb of Maine you currently live in

anthraxofeffervescence

Also the 90-year old hobo that your grandpa beat in a rap battle for possession of the bracelet while hiding from the Romanian secret police really loved the bracelet because it was coated in small amounts of LSD and tried to hunt and kill your grandpa to get it back. He was then apprehended by the FBI and instantly gave them your grandpa’s address. Seal Team Six is about to break down your door and shoot you, says your local congressman who can also do cool magic tricks

bloodyraven1001

There's a guy in NY who MIGHT be capable of destroying the codes but won't coz he simply wants to spend time with his wife. So it's up to your grandpa's old friend in rural Ohio to get you the friends capable of finishing the task.

ariaste

And we must not, at any point, remember the existence of aircraft and ask aloud why we can't just fly to Arizona

crazy-pages

The aircraft are all under the command of the Australian government, which has declared that the nuclear arsenals are not their problem and that no aircraft will help anyone out with that problem. Your grandfather did fly with the bracelet one time, but he only got away with that because no one involved knew what the bracelet was and it would have been a huge deal if anyone had realized what was up. If you charter a flight towards the world's only hydraulic press, the Australians will know and throw lightning at the plane.

kandoros

You can't fly to Arizona because the FBI has a massive radar installation located right next to the hydraulic press, and part way through the story Seal Team Six gets upgraded to also being fighter pilots.

haughtyraban

“there’s an ai tool for that” okay ?? there’s probably an ed sheeran song for it too who gives a fuck

#fuck ai

monthisobsessed

morning

#project hail mary #ryland grace #rocky the eridian #eva stratt #phm movie

parhelion-studio

Rocky: Patron Saint of ~🎶🎵 🎶🎵 🎶~

#rocky the eridian #phm fanart #rocky phm #project hail mary

sizzlingsandwichperfection-blog

one of my central ambitions for the next twenty years of my life is to know less about The Discourse.

sizzlingsandwichperfection-blog

Like I don't want to have an opinion on the Super Mario Galaxy movie.

sizzlingsandwichperfection-blog

My prayer is this: Dear God, free from all thoughts of the Paul Brothers.

insomniac-arrest

one of the underrated lessons from lotr's Aragorn is to avoid responsibility for as long as humanly possible, possibly in the woods, possibly without showering, until the small folk need you or whatever

#lotr #aragorn

tlc3628

HC that Cinder purposely never learns how to pilot a ship and Thorne never takes the Rampion to be serviced by anyone except Cinder because it’s this unspoken understanding that if Cinder ever needs a pilot outside the royal fleet he’ll be there and if Thorne ever needs a mechanic she’ll be there.

So while she absolutely could learn very easily, she always turns down Scarlett and Jacin when they offer to teach her and while other mechanics and shops may be more convenient, Thorne waves off anyone who points that out. It’s just a fact of their friendship. They’re partners in crime (literally, or least they were) and though they won’t admit it to anyone else or each other it’s just a fact that Thorne flies and Cinder is the Rampion’s mechanic.

And of course they both are secretly very touched and it means a lot to them that the other has reserved that place in their life for them.

spherical-empirical

1000%. Perfect, no notes

impossiblesuitcase

I agree. Plus, at least part of this is already canon. In Something Old, Something New, Cress mentions that she told Thorne to take the Rampion to a mechanic in Dublin, and he says he already has a mechanic and gets Cinder to look at it.

#tlc #the lunar chronicles #linh cinder #carswell thorne