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Me: I don't know. I just don't think there's much comedic potential to the idea of a "pizza samurai"
PIzza Samurai, entering physical existence due to the sheer willpower which I still spend thinking about him: I will defeat you with my New York Style martial arts Pepperōnin, also real now: Prepare to get sliced
you are only alowed in my room if u love me
An obsidian mirror found at Catalhoyuk, 8,000 years old
“get the fries, you’ll need the energy in the coming days”
Cmon man
begging tumblr poll tournament runners to properly seed their brackets
randomizing matchups leads to the two strongest/most popular options against each other in the first round. seeding the bracket lets you knock out noncontenders early and allows for both dramatic upsets AND a naturally building sense of tension and fulfilling climax. i know this isn’t the sports website but please. take a page from the sports handbook. seed your bracket. please
it doesn’t even have to be metrically sound it can literally just be vibes based. oh the locked tomb trends a lot so it shouldn’t be paired with arcane which also trends a lot. many people have seen and love avatar the last airbender so it would be a good first round match for this niche children’s cartoon that’s been out of syndication since the 80s. literally just feel it out and follow ur heart. it’s better than randomization and will save you a headache in the long run i promise. seed ur brackets!!!!
I love how My Adventures With Superman addresses the "Why doesn't Superman kill?" question by pointing out how utterly ridiculous that is. He doesn't want to kill, he doesn't even want to fight, he just wants to pull cats out of trees and help kids find their parents and everyone else is jumping him. He breaks down crying at the thought that he might be here to kill people, why would you even suggest that? You monster, look at him, why would you make him sad?
Yeah, part of it is that Clark is a giant teddy bear as a person, but the biggest part of it is that people just don't want to kill other people. It's a horrible and traumatic thing to take someone's life and it's not something you do if you can avoid it, and part of the reason Superman goes out there is that he's powerful and durable enough that he doesn't have to kill someone else to end the fight.
The new Odyssey adaptation has inevitably gotten people talking about a Muppet version of it, and they’re frequently suggesting Kermit as Odysseus, Miss Piggy as Penelope.
I’m sorry but that’s thinking way too small, hear me out:
We need to have Miss Piggy as Odysseus, and Kermit as Penelope.
Think about it… who’s the more fickle, prideful, warlike one in that relationship? Who is absolutely ready to go ham, at a moment’s notice?
It ain’t Kermit
"Who stabbed you in the eye, Polyphemus?" "Moi! Moi stabbed me!" "He stabbed himself. Sad."
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where's that masterpost of quotes that have no right going as hard as they do. I'd like to submit "Protagonism is best left to teens and the insane"
my controversial opinion is I don’t think Zuko was confused by “my first girlfriend turned into the moon”
he was there during siege of the North. he infiltrated the spirit oasis. he has an uncle who studies spirits and the spirit world. he watched the sky go dark then the moon suddenly reappear like everyone else in the entire world did. and most importantly he watched zhao get eaten by a giant godzilla fish spirit.
his entire life since he saw that beam of blue-white light in the south pole has been ‘this day has already been so goddamn weird’
The only really new information was that that was Sokka’s girlfriend
Important opinion in the tags that I need to have be part of the post:
Also, Iroh was there? He literally watched Sokka make out with the moon spirit. And you want to tell me that a romantic sap like him would not have immediately told Zuko about this romantic tragedy? Please, Zuko has known about this for ages, he just knows that this is not an acceptable situation in which to say “yeah, I know.”
Sokka: “My girlfriend turned into the moon.”
Zuko: “I know.” “Yes.” “She sure did.” “Uh huh.” “Tell me something new.” “Are we still talking about that?” “That’s rough, buddy.”
[image: tags by samwisethebold: #it’s not that he doesn’t get what sokka means #it’s that how on earth do you respond to that]
When you put it like that, this is actually a legendary display of tact on Zuko’s part
so what if I sucked his dick. his knuckles were split and bloody from defending my safety and my honour what else was I supposed to do
*slides this across the table* you're going to want to read this
There are Experiences behind this sign
World's Finest
Art by by Andrew Day
I see my mother She's at the window She's letting down her long black hair She won't let me in there
The Clone Sage Killed Spider-Man, and Marvel Comics let it.
Having just now finished the entire original run of The Amazing Spider-Man. I think I have pinpointed the moment. The exact INSTANT that Spider-Man as a story, an evolving tale about Peter Parker and his grappling with great power and great responsibility, his loves and loses, his valleys and triumphs. Died.
And here it is
Because make no mistake, for the first three decades of this comic. I saw it. I saw why Peter Parker became and has remained one of the most famous and beloved fictional characters in the world. Starting out as a kid who thinks the whole world is easily understood, only to get kicked in the stomach by life when it reaches its dirty fingers into his peace and pulls it apart. Having to pick himself up after trauma, battle to find what responsibility even IS in a world that only gets more complicated and untrustworthy as you get older. Having to find the people that matter, having to find the places to draw his lines in the sand.
Finding love, and happiness, and peace, and GROWTH as the world throws him blow after blow. It's inspired. It's dynamic. It keeps you guessing. The best soap opera ever written as we see this young man and the people he loves drag every ounce of happiness they can find out of hell with their teeth.
And then. They chickened out.
The fanboyism seeped in. The nostalgia seeped in. You bet your ASS the misogyny seeped in. Suddenly writers saw Mary Jane not as an asset to storytelling, as a partner and confidante who could carry her own emotions. But as a wet blanket nag that got in the way of Peter's adventuring. The idea of his science career stumbled and shattered over and over again. May Parker finally having to move on, one more price exacted from Peter in a world he could not control was raised from the dead so that Peter could nestle right back in under her shadow like a man refusing to move out his parents' basement.
Writers took Peter Parker, a character who had never grown moss, who had never stayed in the same place for 3 issues in a row. And they nailed his feet to the floor. More than that they started to DRAG him backwards. Never to roam far from the Daily Bugle, from his Aunt May's house, from the terrible dirge of being a go nowhere, do nothing Spider-Man. Ben Reilly, a character whose story salvaged from the Clone Saga would have given Spider-Man his own Nightwing. A perfect COMPLIMENT to Peter's story to give an outlet to all those adolescent "dreams" was buried so that they could enforce the status quo on Peter instead because so long as nothing CHANGES then no one in the writer's chair could POSSIBLY get spooked by having to imagine what a stable man with a family, a heart and a brain might do in Peter's shoes.
And now the cycle is never ending. A skipping record that no one dares to reset. Every six months they retcon, they reboot, they rob, they bring characters back just to traumatize and brutalize them because Peter Parker is never allowed a moment's peace. The baptisms of fire that unlocked the gates into the next steps of his journey being replaced by a purgatory where the suffering remains but all possible gates are closed, locked and barred.
I saw it. I saw what we could have had. I can't even IMAGINE where we could be standing now, 30 years on if the next steps had continued to come. But I saw its outline, like a shadow against the dawn. I saw the light in front of us, felt it graze our fingertips. And then saw it snatched from us by creators and businessmen too cowardly to rock the boat out of the muddy rut we can all see it sinking in.
Maybe one day someone will break that chain. Put the wedding band back on his finger and the baby girl back in his arms.
As of this moment. I'd have choked if I was still holding my breath.
Let's hope the next story we read from the House of Ideas has a happier ending.
I don't think I could have put it any better. There's real, genuine forward movement for much of Peter's life. He graduates high school, he goes to college, he moves out of Aunt May's house, he makes new friends and puts high school grudges behind him, he graduates college, he starts graduate school, he dates and has all kinds of relationships with their ups and downs, he experiences near bottom of the barrel poverty, he experiences moments of sweet success, he gets married, he loses people, he finds a brother, and he weathers all manner of tragedies, and more.
And then they decide that Peter is no longer allowed to grow any further. That the secret to Spider-Man's success as a property is that, as a character, he can never be allowed to be successful or happy. That he must constantly be letting everyone else in his life down.
As someone who's dipped in and out of Spider-Man over the years, I'll say that he does have some moments in the intervening years, but One More Day, when Quesada finally wins out in his goal to fully drag Pete back (after both a separation from and a false death of MJ), is the real end of him. But it might as well have been a slow lingering death and now they're propping his zombie corpse up.
Because Peter is great. He's all of us. He's the little guy who knows he's probably gonna get his ass kicked, but can't look away if he knows he can do something, no matter the personal cost to himself. He's the guy, like so many of us, with so much potential, but just can't catch a break. He's the guy who's found a grove in life, even if it wasn't what people expected of him.
Peter's no longer someone to identify with.
He's just sad.
And that's the real tragedy of it all.
I will never not take it as a personal insult that Quesada didn't think comic fans could identify with a man GROWING in life.
*packing my suitcase for a 3 day trip* hm, but what if I need my terracotta warriors..
Emily Wilson has inadvertently created a fascinating new way to categorize basically any visual media ever made
"all you ever do is complain" that's not true. I also resent.
and love..........
Although there were a good deal of things I enjoyed about the new Avatar movie, the biggest reason I didn't love it as much as I wanted to because it passed up so many opportunities to develop its characters, and Sokka is the one I think who got done the dirtiest.
Like, come on, people! One of the main antagonists is a RADICAL GROUP OF NON-BENDERS! You don't think the only non-bender member of the Gaang (excluding Suki) would have something to say about what they're doing and how he feels about their cause?! Wouldn't he perhaps be at odds with the benders in the Gaang, probably because he feels more sympathetic about them due to being a nonbender himself and due to how he's been treated, like in the scene above?
And on top of that, wouldn't it have made for compelling conflict if Tagah offered to give him airbending with the staff and his friends and family debated what to do with Tagah's offer? And wouldn't it have made for a very heartwarming message if he chose not to give up being a non-bender because he's proud of it (just as I wouldn't want to give up being autistic)?
What do you think?
