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My little brother made this for a Christmas card competition at school, the theme was “symbol of hope”, but according to one of his teachers Rocky Balboa “is not a symbol of hope” and disqualified him, which is ridiculous. I’m posting it here so it can get the appreciation it deserves.

Rocky is absolutely a symbol of hope, as are the unicorn and the phoenix. Frankly this is suppression of art simply because she doesn’t like my brother and I will not stand for that.

#look at my brothers christmas card it’s incredible #rocky movie #rocky balboa #christmas

My mum wanted to watch Project Hail Mary with us for her birthday and now I keep hearing clicking sounds coming from dark hallways as my dad attempts to learn echolocation

#project hail mary #echolocation #eridians #phm eridians

captain-astors

(Insert indie rock song of your choice here.)

#jono starsmore #chamber #generation x #xmen #fanart

corsairesix

my boy Chamber?

#chamber #jono starsmore #xmen #generation x #magic the gathering

It’s fathers day but my dad talked over the very end of Pan’s Labyrinth yesterday when I was watching it for the first time ever and totally ruined the mood, and it was kind of my last straw regarding him talking over important emotional scenes in things I’m watching and putting down things that I enjoy, so I’m still pissed off at him and it’s possible I will remain this way for several months

Absolutely incredible movie, 5 stars, I wasn’t expecting it to essentially be a tragic war movie but I still loved it, just don’t watch it with your immature father who can’t handle anything emotional and is personally offended by the concept of subtitles

#happy father’s day I guess #pan’s labyrinth #pans labyrinth

severalmoremutants

Lmaooo Jono really said ‘Emma Frost was my teacher for like 3 years, this isn’t shit Martinique’

#it is very funny to me tho that he is just. a terrible telepath #like he could be good at it and he’s like nah i’d rather be sad and listen to morrisey in my room #<- I feel like being emma’s student for 3 years is exactly why he doesn’t want to be a good telepath #she is constantly going through it getting dragged into people’s dreams and subconsciously mind controlling people etc #he doesn’t even want to be in his own head never mind anyone elses #when he lost his powers and got them back he didn’t tell anyone for like 2 days just so he wouldn’t have to use them #jono starsmore #chamber #generation x #xmen

zinnie-zoloft

I think the headcanon that Jono fakes his accent is stupid (and lowkey classist) because why tf would his inner voice be cockney if he wasn’t, but I do find the concept of him and Emma immediately clocking each other as posers and silently agreeing never to mention it fucking hilarious

zinnie-zoloft

Y’know what? If his real accent is Glaswegian because he grew up there like in the novels and he’s faking sounding English I will accept it

#my issue is that people want him to be some rich kid pretending to be poor for like… street cred or something #well that’s my main issue the fact he communicates by projecting his clearly cockney inner voice is still a problem #jono starsmore #chamber #generation x #xmen #emma frost #white queen

#jono starsmore #jonothon starsmore #chamber #emma frost #white queen #generation x #xmen

I hate marvel movie synergy for the most part but resolving the differences between movie and comic negasonic by saying “actually she’s a reality warping godlike being with constantly changing powers” is objectively pretty fucking cool

#way more interesting than just being a regular precog/psychic #eloise phimister #ellie phimister #negasonic teenage warhead

People have some very mixed opinions about Dead Man’s Wire, personally I liked it and I disagree with most of the basic criticisms I’ve seen, but one thing I can’t get over is the casting of Bill Skarsgård and Dacre Montgomery to play two guys who in real life were fat, balding, middle aged men

Let actors be ugly again I’m begging you, why do you need conventionally attractive people to play a lunatic and a scummy businessman?

#dead man’s wire #dead mans wire #gus van sant #bill skarsgård #bill skargard #dacre montgomery

dateamonster

level 1: the lost boys is gay af

level 2: the lost boys follows a not uncommon horror movie trend where monstrous and villainous characters are associated with alt fashion or other counter-culture signifiers, which may also call to mind an association with queerness as it exists in conflict with cishet cultural norms. this, intentionally or unintentionally, helps to position queerness as an evil threat to the status quo in the minds of viewers. while a lot of queer people end up seeing themselves in these characters in a positive way, its inappropriate to talk about how cool gay vampires are without at least acknowledging the implications of this in relation to the long history of queer-coded villains in film.

level 3: the lost boys is actually all a clever subversion of the aforementioned trope; while on the surface michael is positioned as the classic disaffected youth, child of divorce (this and him being in the care of a single mother helping to introduce the idea that his vampirism ie latent homosexuality starts with this initial failure to uphold conservative family values), falling in with the wrong crowd who corrupt him and creates a rift between him and his family, the twist of the movie reveals that the vampire gang exists under the authority of the head vampire who himself has all the signifiers of the wholesome middle class all-american dad figure. this recontextualizes the queer-coding of the vampires from a gang of wild subversives to a group of kids who, like michael, were most likely struggling with some sort of instability in their home lives and were groomed into vampirehood by their sire, the symbol of the father they perhaps lacked. the precious but fragile unity that exists among these outsiders cannot survive, not because a more normative family structure has some special thing they lack, but because they are chasing an idea of family that despite their counter-cultural leanings hasnt been meaningfully disentangled from patriarchy, as embodied by their literal patriarch.

level 4: the lost boys is gay affffff

#ooooohhhh this is good analysis #joel schumacher knew what the fuck he was doing #the lost boys #movie analysis #media analysis

One thing I will never forgive stranger things fandom for is completely flooding the tags of unrelated fandoms because the duffers have a hard on for movie references and ST fans overtag everything they post

I don’t want to see a million posts about Max Mayfield whenever I search for Mad Max, that nickname comes up like once in the entirety of ST, just tag her actual fucking name and leave the Mad Max tag for the actual movie franchise

The dead boy detectives fandom went with the acronym “DBDA” to avoid flooding the tags of the dead by daylight fandom who had been using the acronym DBD for far longer, other fandoms need to learn from that

#stranger things #stranger things fandom #max mayfield #mad max #fandom etiquette #tumblr etiquette #fandom

tragedyposting

Thinking of working on my semi-abandoned Chamber (Generation X/X-Men) origin fic The Changingman while I do my laundry today + could use some encouragement if anyone feels so inclined. Maybe I'll crank out another chapter or two before he makes his x-men 97 debut in July.

zinnie-zoloft

PLEASE write more chapters that fic is keeping me alive

#you could write over 100 chapters and I would read every single one #it could take decades and I’d still be patiently waiting for updates #I will consume any and all chamber content and I am thankful for every single piece of it #jono starsmore #chamber #the changingman #fanfiction