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I'm in this picture and don't like it

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Me: "Y'all do realize Telemachus is 20 years old in canon, right?"

Fandom: "No he baby, my baby! *draws him as 5' clean-faced cherub with puppy eyes*

Me: "Well he is precious."

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Never seen "Wish," Probably not going to BUT I rewrote it based on concept arts and ideas I've seen

Starboy falls in love with Asha but while he's on Earth, wishes can't be granted, and the evil couple want his magic for themselves (draining people's wishes just isn't enough anymore). To keep greedy humans from exploiting his powers and to fulfill his duties, he sadly goes back to the heavens but not before giving Asha a wand with his magic in it (the same wand Cinderella's Fairy Godmother uses) so she can grant wishes herself. Asha puts the evil couple in a magic mirror forever (Snow White) cuz they siphoned Starboy to the point of death(hence his return to the stars). Maybe Asha, in time, becomes the Enchantress who curses the Beast. Eventually, she dies and becomes the "second star to the right and straight on till morning" so she'll always be with Starboy

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what are we doing to the crow?

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Question: If Sanji's a chainsmoker, then how the hell does he properly taste or smell the food he cooks?

Answer: His Germa 66 genes are constantly repairing his sense of taste and smell.

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We keep comparing Luffy to Bugs Bunny but he also embodies another entity that defies order

Gear 5 is basically Luffy throwing all the rules of logic and laws of physics out the window, which is EXACTLY what cartoons do, but you know who else rejects the laws of reality? Eldritch abominations. Lovecraftian horrors. Many times, we are told that Strawhat Luffy will destroy the world or ruin the order of things, which is bad (as long as you're not a slave, oppressed, or disenfranchised). We have seen him upend nations before, but the state of those countries made the hard reset Luffy brings a godsend (see what I did there). To the world government, Luffy is basically Cthulhu, someone they thought long-dead but was actually just sleeping and now he's awake and spreading chaos through the world.

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I saw this comic years ago and then couldn't find it again. Now I've found it

Jaime Hernandez

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What the "D" stands for in each name

Gol "Destined" Roger

Rocks "Dastardly" Xebec

Monkey "Dutiful" Garp

Monkey "Defiant" Dragon

Monkey "Didn't hear no bell" Luffy

Portgas "Daddy issues" Ace

Portgas "Determined" Rouge

Trafalgar "Doctor" Water Law

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My anxious ass would be imagining all sorts of awful scenarios

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A Quiet Place: disability at the end of the world (I am still reeling from this movie)

Ok so like many apocalypses ignore what happens to the disabled or infirm during apocalypses and just have the main cast all healthy and able-bodied. Even FUCKING World War Z(where sick people were left alone by the infected) just ignored that aspect. Yes, someone will get temporarily sick/wounded or pregnant but I mean a lifelong handicap. A Quiet Place had a deaf girl in a world where making sound gets you killed. However, the sign language her family learned for her sake allowed them to communicate and bond in a silent world.

Now on to Day One. When Eric finds out Sam needs meds to handle the pain caused by her terminal illness, he doesn't ditch her. He doesn't go "you're an invalid, you're weak, I'm abandoning you to increase my own chances at survival." So many apocalypses push the Darwinian idea of "survival of the fittest" but the unique nature of the Quiet Place means that it doesn't matter how strong or ruthless you are if you don't know how to shut the fuck up. Later, when Sam is left incapacitated in the church from her pain, this would've been a prime time for a lesser writer to have Eric leave Sam a little note saying "Sorry, but you're dying so I'm outie bye" but nope! guy risks his life to make sure she gets her meds, comforts her, lifts her spirits when she's at the end of the world, her life, and just wants to experience the simply joy of a pizza.

On to Eric. Once again, a lesser film would make him a coward or unlikable. He's a white-collar worker (a bloodsucking lawyer-in-training) who couldn't build a fire or survive the rugged wilderness but they're in the city so food is everywhere just be quiet getting it. He just survived drowning in the flooding subway but goes back down cuz his new friend wants her maybe-last meal to be from her favorite place. Sam is not a liability to him. She's not a burden but a person trying to maneuver through disaster in her own way just like him. Some anthropologist somewhere said that civilization didn't really start until people started looking after each other, when healed bones were found cuz that meant someone cared for this person while they were weak. In the end, Eric's empathy & kindness secured his own survival.

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BELOVED: A ghost story

To this day, I still have no idea what Beloved truly is (even though that's the whole point of her character). Most people write her off as just the ghost of Sethe's daughter, but in actuality, it's way, way more complicated than that. Morrison said once that Beloved represented every beloved person lost during the middle passage or due to the violence of slavery. This shows very well in Beloved's characterization. Yes, her core person is Sethe's daughter but there's also a lot of vindictiveness in her being. At first, she's mentally just a little girl wanting the warmth of her mother but then she turns mean and cruel, upset at being mercy-killed. Beloved's obsession with sugar kinda baffled me, but I guess many of the spirits within her used to work sugar plantations in the West Indies and since they weren't allowed to partake in the crop they grew, they're demanding it now through Beloved.

For the sake of discussion, let's settle on Beloved being the manifestation of every person forced to endure the trauma of slavery. Beloved craves. They crave the life denied them and crave some kind of compensation. They're angry, upset, restless, vengeful. Ghosts are theorized to be imprints left by the living and Beloved is all the imprints of African slaves rolled into one. She demands love from Sethe, sex from Paul D, companionship from Denver. In the end, she becomes a void sucking away at Sethe, a reminder that the past is easy to get trapped in and haunted by.

My personal theory on Beloved is that when Paul D drove her spirit out the house, she went to the afterlife and came back with the thoughts and memories of the other black people she interacted with down there. This is why her personality shifts dramatically as the book progresses. She's a revenant, poltergeist, wraith, dybbuk. She doesn't haunt the white people who perpetuated slavery, but those affected by it on a personal level. She is the past & trauma incarnate.

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SPOILERS FOR A QUIET PLACE DAY ONE

This movie is lowkey a love story. The little meet-cute between Sam and Eric where he just follows her around cuz he's lost and wants to connect with someone. Dude is traumatized and far from home but still got rizz! He took her on a little "date" with pizza and performed a magic show for her. It was so adorable and sweet. Now, when I say love story, I don't explicitly mean romantic love. Yes, there's a touch of that, but it's deeper than that. Sam is dying of cancer, so she's disconnected herself from people and Eric is a stranger in a strange land. Two people who feel cut off and out of place but at the end of the world, they're CONNECTING. On a basic human level, they're touching in the quiet. Also, no one in the movie does sign language (makes sense cuz there's no convenient deaf daughter) but there is convenient rain so characters can talk without breaking the whole "one sound and you're dead" rule the first movie pushed.

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Scavengers Reign or "What happens when one man's ego fucks up everyone's day/week/life."

So like, Kamen, right? Like many guys, he wants the promotion cuz the promotion means his fiancee comes back and that means he's winning at the life thing. But he can't get that promotion if the cargo he's in charge of expires. So what's the harm in rerouting the ship when no one's looking? Doing so will only benefit him and no one else. It's just a harmless little shortcut near an unstable star and its planet full of unknown entities. Right?

I like that the show doesn't kill him off. Too many shows kill off the person who royally fucks up, but death is not repentance. It's oblivion and Kamen wanted that desperately. He wanted to forget what he did and just sink into the void. In the epilogue, he appears to be Ursula's assistant, helping her grow some plants and showing care to a little creature he previously would've killed. Instead of killing his ego, he tuned into his superego, his thoughtfulness for others, which would've saved DOZENS of lives if he did that 12 episodes ago but eh, hindsight's a bitch. I don't think the other passengers save Ursula and Azi know he wrecked them all but they don't need to know. Kamen's new conscience is a better punishment than any lynch mob.

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When Rictus 'sneaks' in to snatch Furiosa, I'm like "How the hell do the Wives not hear this giant, clunky man?" then it occurred to me that they're used to Immortan Joe's "conjugal visits", so they probably heard the heavy, male footsteps and just pretended they didn't, hoping it was someone else's turn to be bothered by Joe that night.

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As someone who grew up with the Jeff Goldblum of Independence Day, I never understood why that man was a heartthrob. After viewing Earth Girls Are Easy, I completely get it. Like gyat-damn, even in blue paint and fur, I wanted to fuck him. Also, is Val aware that the blue fur will grow back eventually so um, she's the grandma of monsterfuckers actually. A reverse Belle cuz she fell in love with her beast as a man and will now have to live with the beast version.