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Non writing related content appreciated by @the-writers-wrench PFP by @birdy-the-artist

[skifflestar]

Good morning, Phineas and Ferb fandom! I’m new here and I look forward to the next 104 days with this community #[ ]">

Enjoy my Stacy and Perry texting comic and have an awesome weekend ☀️

[powerfulwizard]

Joe Russo when Tony Stark said “billionaire, playboy, philanthropist” in the first avengers

[powerfulwizard]

[karpad]

so far, I have quotes from the russos on how they think Cap is old fashioned and needed to go, how black widow was damaged and needed to “complete herself” how tony “needs to go.” they clearly don’t care for thor or ant man, thinking them idiots. They don’t seem to respect Falcon or War machine (I wonder why) so who DO they like?

Why were they given control over a movie franchise where they hate all the characters?

[powerfulwizard]

Completely agree. Here are the quotes they’re referencing btw

[dark-angel-be-thirsty-af-deacti]

This really freaking annoys me. If you’re in charge of a movie franchise then it is your job to embrace every character, to help them grow and overcome their differences. But no, NO! These asshats kill off every single character that they hate and are acting like complete babies just because they don’t like them. If you don’t like them so much then fuck off! Go and work on something else! Just stop ruining the MCU!!!

[powerfulwizard]

They both literally just hated everyone. Here is another quote I haven’t heard a lot of people mention either

[powerfulwizard]

Loki: h-

Joe Russo:

[wet-raccoon]

this is so funny tho

[biofomission]

Oh they hated everyone that explains why the movies are like that

[rose---child]

No wonder the mcu feels like a slightly better Michael bay franchise

[kaladork]

On the bright side, knowing the directors actively hated half the characters they were working with leaves me feeling 0% hesitant to ignore every single bullshit character move they made! 😜

[ford-ye-fiji]

I don’t know why people do this… for example they did it with Star Trek and jj abrams…

[fairy-anon-godmother]

Look, I have my differences with the LOTR movies, but you can see in every frame the sheer overwhelming love for the story that went into those movies. On genuinely every level. Every person involved with the production of those movies loved what they were doing and were working passionately, and it shows. 

The disregard that leaks through parts of the MCU, two of the new Star Trek movies, and the new Star Wars trilogy really is baffling to me. So many people love these franchises and would have lovingly poured their heart and soul into them. And filmmakers who just didn’t care were handed these films?? Imagine what we could have gotten if actual fans had been allowed to make these movies. 

Oh wait, I don’t have to imagine. People who love these franchises and these characters put their tiny amounts of free time and overwhelming effort into producing fanfiction and fanart for these characters every day. I could go on AO3 right now and in half a dozen clicks get sweeping, beautiful, poetic treatises on the human condition written through these ‘Verses. Vast arrays of adventures starring these characters, and the characters themselves would be lovingly adored by their writers. I could enjoy content made by people who care. 

These directors and producers don’t deserve to be handed these franchises and they don’t deserve the paychecks they receive for half-assing their way through them. Not when fans produce outstanding content every day for free, just out of passion alone. This is ridiculous, can Hollywood please start putting people who actually care about the characters in charge of the movies? Please? I promise I’ll go back to buying movie tickets if I think the characters will be treated fairly by their narratives. 

[sewickedthread]

That explains why, despite my incredible geekiness, I’ve been meh about seeing these movies. The contempt showed.

[lady-byleth]

I’m not even a fan of the mcu but I’m fucking livid right now

[emmaubler]

Three beloved franchises (Star Trek, Star Wars, MCU) thrown into the hands of directors who clearly did not respect their source material/characters. Cut to current day, and where are all three of those franchises now? Dead in the water, dead in the water, and drowning so fast the Russos have to bring Robert Downey Jr and Captain America back in a desperate attempt to stay afloat. And these are just the biggest examples–the landscape is filled with the expensive corpses of reboots, remakes, and revivals made by those with indifference or contempt for the originals. The moral of the story is: Hire people who love the thing you’re trying to adapt instead of people who see a beloved property and think it’s their chance to “subvert expectations” and “make it their own.”

[artemisiasea]

[prokopetz]

Live-action comedy short film about a wildlife researcher's repeated, increasingly cartoonish failed attempts to tag members of a particular rare species for study, and their burgeoning paranoia that it's the same specific bird every time. There is no explicit textual confirmation whether they're correct.

[prokopetz]

You can really tell which people in the notes have worked with birds.

[pfdiva]

[louvao]

Well... to bad Fives

[margindoodles2407]

Again, not my post but I also quote THIS every day

[crazy-brazilian]

[m00nxtal]

[redstonedust]

problem with tv shows today is i think a lot of them want to be movies. 90 minute episodes with full cgi and a plot so streamlined theres no time for filler is not a tv show to me. tv shows need a low budget so they can afford to send the characters on weird detours to flesh out the universe. its healthy. its good for the ecosystem. you need a show wiki writers and tv tropes cataloguers can sink their teeth into.

[tzikeh]

More examples of the WORST mansplaining here.

[useyourblinker]

This might be my favorite

[lotsofcatsandcheapwine]

This is mine

[stockyardsyndrome]

[darkandstormyranger]

finally some relatable content on ig

[m0unta1ndude]

dr who’s on first, doctor strange is on second and doctor house is on third. theres no way theyre getting through a single inning

[four-rabbits-in-a-trenchcoat]

so who’s on first?

[you-say-that-so-often]

That’s right 👍🏻

[four-rabbits-in-a-trenchcoat]

that’s strange

[you-say-that-so-often]

No, he’s on second.

[four-rabbits-in-a-trenchcoat]

Well how’s he on second if he’s on first?

[you-say-that-so-often]

No no no, House is on third. Second base is Strange.

[supreme-leader-stoat]

Well this whole darn thing is strange but what I’m asking is who’s on first?

[cplus902]

Naturally.

[supreme-leader-stoat]

Who?

[tornadointhetundra]

Naturally.

[supreme-leader-stoat]

So Naturally is the first baseman?

[tornadointhetundra]

No. The first baseman is Who.

[supreme-leader-stoat]

Well I don’t know that so how’s about you tell me?

[tornadointhetundra]

House is on Third.

[supreme-leader-stoat]

I’m not asking you about third base I’m asking you about first base.

[tornadointhetundra]

Who’s on first!

[supreme-leader-stoat]

This is horrible

[tornadointhetundra]

Dr Horrible is the pitcher, not first base

[supreme-leader-stoat]

That’s not what I’m asking about! No!

[wrenchinator-central]

Dr No is in the outfield, but let’s not worry about them right now.

[worldheritagepostorganization]

World Heritage Post

[greater-than-the-sword]

I need to live on a hill again

[c3rvida3]

The last time I played Puck, the director was a huge freak about not letting us wear shoes on stage because it would "ruin the look", but we all kept eating shit, and instead of just letting us wear skintone dance shoes or something with grip, motherfucker poured Pepsi on the floor so it'd be sticky and we had to schlorp around. I fucking hate you, David.

[saltykingsalty]

Why couldn't this have been a one time I dreamt

[c3rvida3]

Coking the stage (mopping it with diluted soda so it's a little sticky) is a legitimate low-budget tactic for slick floors, but he just poured so much Pepsi on the floors that for about a whole week, it was audible.

Maybe the course of true love would run a little fucking smoother if we didn't have to ford your Pepsi river, DAVID.

[spontaneous-avocado]

I would just quit. Fuck people like that. It's easy to walk away

[c3rvida3]

No it's not. Didn't you read the post? There was dried Pepsi everywhere.

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[mearchy]

Mandalorians needing to communicate in basic or the local language because linguistic drift is so severe they can't understand each other's dialects of Mando'a. Mandalorians engaging in the time honored tradition of ferociously arguing about whose dialect is "purest" and closest to the original because most ancient historical records were lost in the Dral'han, and therefore the answer is unverifiable. Mando'a words being so deeply integrated into dozens of completely different local languages on the worlds the Mandalorians once conquered that nobody there even remembers anymore that they're borrowed. Mandalorians visiting those worlds all these thousands of years later being really surprised and confused that they can't understand anything else but understand These Specific Words and Phrases perfectly. Many thoguhts.

[marmota-b]

This headcanon makes, overall, much more sense than the claim Mando'a had very little linguistic drift. You're telling me the language of a culture that absorbed many different cultures remained unchanged? Have you ever looked closely at, um, Englishes?!

[wolverina2002]

The mando'a core world scholars claim to have "no linguistic drift" is actually the academic 'dialect' which is used to write papers and essays. Mandalorian scholars get into fist-fight every conference on whether or not to update the spelling of one word. The grammar is engraved in steel. Because otherwise, the exchange within the mandalorian academic community would break down completely, forget about translation their shit into other languages.

Sincerely, a german who would commit actual murder if some arse wrote their paper in a local dialect I´d have to parse before understanding what they´re actually saying.

[im-da-bronx]

Academic Mando’a is their version of Ecclesiastical Latin

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[moringmark]

[eliasfio]

yor fashion

inspired by tnewties on twitter ;o