en garde, motherfucker

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[tiktoks-for-dead-pope]

[reddesart]

inferior copy

[faestorian]

"came back wrong" you could not come back wrong even if you tried. you've changed, beyond recognition, but while my eyes may not know you, my heart still does. i love you.

[vanta-bat]

father & son 001

[cutecipher]

having a hard time finding new music online so ive taken to sniffing the ground outside for signs of music

[tackminyard]

affirmations for my printer:

you are not out of paper

you have so much paper

it’s okay to function as intended

you are not out of ink

i just refilled that cartridge last month

you can connect to that computer you’re supposed to connect to

you’re allowed to print things

[nevertheless-moving]

so when i was a kid a read this story where a boy gets turned into a mouse by evil witches. at the end (spoilers) him and his beloved grandmother manage to slaughter all the witches but they do NOT manage to turn him back to a human child. he stays a mouse. the grandmother rebuilds her home to be mouse accessible. and they discuss the fact that he's aging like a mouse, so he probably only has a few years to live; but it's ok, because the grandmother confesses that she ALSO only has a few years to live and they both agree that they wouldn't want to live without the other. So everything is alright then, and they're happy, and that's the end of the story. it's probably been over two decades since i read it and quite frankly i am still processing the intertwining concepts of love and mortality but anyway that's not my point. my point is that Rocky did not die of acute radiation sickness because he spent enough time shielded by astrophage that his body was able to handle the damage, but holy shit does he have every type of cancer. he didn't die entering grace's atmosphere but all of his organs caught fire. I repeat — his internal organs caught fire. he spent several decades in a low gravity environment. Do you know what human bodies do in low gravity? it's not good man. 20% muscle loss in two weeks. 1% bone density loss every month. Maybe carapaces and low organic matter would handle the change better, but idk, it might actually be worse.

anyway my point is, actually, i do think that Rocky and Grace would get to grow old together.

[nevertheless-moving]

i know i'm op but op the idea of Grace arriving at Erid on the verge of death, recovering, and then living a long and full (maybe not especially healthy) life, vs Rocky arriving home a trimphant hero, a miraculous survivor of a thousand calamaties only to at long last have to pay the toll, dying tragically young, I'm.

Rocky and Grace jokingly comparing the pros and cons of bipedal vs pentapedal joint pain. Rocky wearing the xenonite exo-suit because it actually helps keep his carapace from collapsing to the ground. Grace affectionately bumping his cane against it in morse code because of course their stupid ernglish pidgin isn't enough; now that everyone know english they also need a secret language that's just for them.

Grace in his motorized bubble scooter touring the city. Naturally, Rocky's going to keep him company by riding in the stupid sidecar, how would he explain everything if he was walking beside him? And of course Rocky's telling people to repeat things and his voice is weirdly pitchy, Grace is there and human hearing is awful. It would be rude to talk normally.

Rocky pulling out the old hamster ball and curling up inside. And he knows, he knows its bad posture, but right now it hurts less. Grace curled up around him, the exterior of the ball a carefully calibrated 39 C. They are both hiding from well meaning physical therapists. Whispering doesn't actually do anything in that regard, but Rocky finds whispering hilarious for some reason (Eridian equiv of helium infused squeaky voice).

Gravity as Erid's love for them, a painful embrace they wouldn't trade for anything.

They get to grow old together. It's not enough time, but its so much more than they thought they would have; it's surprisingly easy to be okay with it. It's a tragedy from every angle except perhaps the inside.

[ajhasmademistakes]

#whatever you do don't think about adrien ok#adrien got him back. They got to see him again. There's 23 other mates who can't say the same#i think there's a world with pebbles and an affectionate blobby uncle#but in this one the infertility is the first warning that he's maybe not okay#(of course rocky avoided mentioning the chronic pain - he'd been living with most of it for decades at this point)#(and for the first year or 2 he's dead serious about getting Every doctor to work on Grace. Like at first you think hes being hyperbolic#But theres a solid period where rocky is genuinely indignant at the concept of any doctor anywhere working on someone who isn't grace#Yes he knows other people need doctors too.#but also did you consider that they can fucking wait question???)#Anyway#In the end#In the end rocky falls asleep with grace watching. a few hours go by. and then a few more.#and then grace figures rocky won't mind if he rests his eyes for just a minute.#and neither of them have to mourn.

[worldwright]

movie yapper scale (HOME movies we're not being public menaces)

0- NO talking during movie NONE. i will kill you

1- a couple comments but keep it short. no pausing

2- frequently points out little stuff ("ooh cool shirt", "are they stupid")

3- i will pause occasionally to have brief discussions about the movie

4- frequently discussing movie stuff. might talk over dialogue occasionally

5- it's just nonstop. can't enjoy the film if im not engaging with it!!

depends on who im watching with / depends on the movie

not a movie watcher

Voting ended onJul 26

[lichposting]

I’m really enamored with the dynamic of two characters who work perfectly in tandem, like pacific rim drift compatible level, but they don’t like each other. It’s not even as strong an emotion as hate it’s just a very neutral-negative dislike, but they still act in perfect concert and their individual abilities are fully complementary

[lichposting]

[iridescenttttttt]

AUGUHHHHH NO ONE UNDERSGANDS HOW IMPOEFANT IT IS TO ME THAT TOSHINORI GETS TO GROW OLD AND RETIRE AND FINALLY FINALLY FINALLY BE GENUINELY HAPPY WITH HIS LIFE.

LIKE OK IVE SEEN HIM GENUINELY HAPPY BEFOFD BUT HE WAS BY NO MEANS HAPPY OR SATISFIED WITH HIS LIFE OR THE WAY HE WAS LIVING AND A GOOD PORTION OF THE TIME HE WAS ON SCREEN IT WAS OF HIM STRESSING OUT. NOW LOOK AT HIM. HES HAPPY AND HES OLD AND HES RETIRED AND HE HAS SMILE LINES. HE HAS SMILE LINES!!!!!!

and. AND HE SURVIVED. AGAINST ALL ODDS. AGAINST A DEVASTATING INJURY AGAINST A LITERAL PROPHECY STATING HE WOULD DIE AGAINST THE TYPICAL ‘MENTOR DIES’ TROPE AGAINST SO SO SO SO MANY FIGHTS AGAINST EVERY SINGLE THING HE SURVIVED. AND HE CHOSE TO DO THAT AND HE DID IT HES HAPPY HE CHOSE TO LIVE AND HE GETS TO BE HAPPY NOW.

I could genuinely talk for AGES about how important it is that he didn’t die. It’s such a massive thing about his character that he diverts the audience’s and other people’s expectations of him and what’s going to happen to him. From the very beginning where we first meet him and we learn he’s an emaciated depressed skeletal figure when we were introduced to him at the strongest hero to ever live who’s always smiling no matter what. When we learn he started quirkless and every single other thing that NO ONE would expect about All Might the former #1 pro hero!!!

Then there’s every single time something happens that gives us red flags saying ‘oh. He’s definitely going to die soon.’ (His injury, Nighteye’s prophecy, he even hints to it himself at some point in an episode where he says that he isn’t going to be here long enough to see Midoriya become a hero!!! AND THERES SO MUCH MORE.) only for it to be proven to us that the FUTURE THAT NIGHTEYE SEES CAAAN BE CHANGED! Only for him to turn around and PROMISE Deku that he was going to live.

soo much of his character is about subverting expectations and no one does it quite like he does. I could go on and on about this there’s so much more it’s so important to me. No matter how many horrible things happen to you no matter how you look no matter how inevitable it seems that this terrible thing is going to happen it doesn’t matter because even if everyone expects you to be this amazing person who can do anything you don’t have to be able to do everything!!! And that doesn’t make you useless!!! It makes you human!!

no matter how inevitable it seems for this terrible thing to happen you’re the one who can take it into your own hands and change it because it’s your life!!! And that is what Toshinori’s character is about! Everyone is human in their own right everyone has the ability to do anything even if you, yourself, expect to end up miserable and sad or even dead, you might surprise yourself because there is always ALWAYS a future where you can be happy, where you take the ending expected and crush it in your hands to create your own ending. A better ending for yourself. No matter what happens to you no matter your disabilities happiness is within reach for everyone, even if it takes eight years to get there.

And he does literally crush the ending card in his hands.

does any of this make sense of is it all the inane ramblings of a madman. I’m genuinely insane over Toshinori I think.

[runawaymarbles]

I always feel so cheated in stories when characters are walking around with this Big Guilt and then...you find out that the thing wasn't their fault at all. And not in a "they thought they did it but it turns out they were set up" way, or even a "accepting that just because they did A which caused B which caused C it doesn't mean C was their fault", way but where they finally lay out the sequence of events and it's clear that any thinking person would not connect them. Like, fucking commit!!! The character isn't LESS compelling if they actually did the thing! You can't have the haunted brooding meow meow who is...also completely blameless

[headspace-hotel]

my brother dragged me into watching the second tom holland spider-man movie and genuinely what the fuck was that

[headspace-hotel]

the last MCU movie I watched was captain america: the winter soldier so ive got actual whiplash from how Ass this movie was

first of all. So many of the scenes are obviously just the actors projected in front of a green screen. Even for mundane scenes! It looks weird and bad. I genuinely don't think the actors were actually physically together on the same set for most of the movie. During a bunch of the scenes it just switches from "screen showing one character" to "screen showing other character" like their parts are being filmed completely separately and spliced together for the film.

I assumed at first that it was because it had been filmed during covid, but nope! came out in 2019!

second, there were so many fucking references to other MCU movies that it was like product placement for their own franchise. it was genuinely grating

Third. Okay so. The plot of this movie is that tony stark, after he died, gave peter parker a pair of glasses that allow him to see messages and files being sent on other people's computers/phones and additionally give him the ability to call in drone strikes from satellites in space to shoot missiles at any person Peter wants when he just. says that he wants that.

And like I really do mean "when he says that he wants that." In the scene where he opens up the glasses and learns what they do, he misspeaks and labels a guy he is pissed off at as a "target," which calls in a drone strike that almost blows up his entire class. No "confirm," no "are you sure you want to kill everyone on this bus including yourself," just "okay :)"

The main conflict of the movie is incited when Peter doubts himself and his ability to be a superhero, and hands over control of the glasses to the bad guy.

But at the end of the movie, Peter gets the glasses back.

At no point, ever, is it hinted at or considered that maybe the power to kill any person you desire by just. summoning missiles to blow them up (collateral damage be damned) by saying the word is...bad? The fact that the glasses let him spy on the private conversations of others just by looking at them while they're using their phones is bad enough.

Spider-Man is just, not Spider-Man in this movie. He has an assistant to come pick him up in a private jet. He has technology to literally 3D print him a new suit. He has all this super advanced technology and is closer to being Iron Man than Spider-Man.

Also, Nick Fury is there for some fucking reason and he is like. guilt-tripping Peter about wanting to participate in a school trip instead of, being a fucking child soldier or something?

Like, Nick Fury very much talks to this sixteen year old boy like he's selfish and immature for not wanting to be Literally Kidnapped To Go Die Fighting Space Monsters. Fury's dialogue very much comes across like he's knowingly taking advantage of an immature boy's inflated sense of his own maturity and desire to be viewed as an adult, and he is definitely using guilt and emotional manipulation to control Peter. I know Fury is supposed to be a morally gray character, but that isn't morally gray, that is straight up evil. ???

Also the movie had this whole thing about Peter being Iron Man's successor/the next Iron Man, to the point that Iron Man is basically replacing the role that Uncle Ben played in Spider-Man's story, which is. What the fuck.

Genuinely what the fuck was that. Horrible. Why.

[headspace-hotel]

the plot of captain america: the winter soldier hinged entirely on how surveillance of people's private data and the use of military technology to "hold a gun to everyone on Earth" was part of a plan created by Nazis to wipe out anybody that opposed them.

Now, 5 years later, a 16 year old boy is given the power to do the exact same thing and it's fine?

Like? Is it suddenly fine to violate others' privacy and call drone strikes on people to kill them if you're a "hero?" The fuck do you think "hero" means?

The actual events of the story seem to set Tony Stark up as a horrible villain or at least a fucking idiot, but simultaneously the film treats him like he's fucking Jesus.

[victusinveritas]

[peptoabyssmaal]

[girl-blorbo-polls]

If you were handcuffed to your girl blorbo with magical unbreakable handcuffs for 24h, would you be okay with this?

I trust her, I’ll be fine

I trust her, but it’ll be a stressful 24h

It depends on what kind of day we’re having

This is gonna suck…

Other/nuance

Voting ended onJul 19

[lesbianswift]

FOOD DISCOURSE: reblog with ur opinions on guacamole, olives, mango, hummus, tomatoes, and cannolis

[sapropel]

Sometimes your bad coworker will be like "I can't do anything right & I ruin everything I touch :(" and you can't even comfort them because like damn. Yeah. You really can't do anything right and you do ruin everything you touch☝️

[sapropel]

HE'S GETTING FIRED. NEVER GIVE UP ON YOUR DREAMS!!!!!!!!!!

[kindlysirwolf]

opens my jaws real wide and does this to u