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Roughly 6 months in and the US is already at the ‘full blown concentration camps’ stage.

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How I painted Star Shower~ I really love painting transparent materials, there's just something so fun about the way light reflects and refracts ✨

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Finally watched KPop Demon Hunters after everyone told me my 2019 and 2023 blue tiger looks like the one from the show…

I've come a long way in my art journey

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Quote of the day

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getting fired from my position as the emperor’s food tester because I keep taking too large of bites

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My Chemical Romance in 2007 and My Chemical Romance in 2025

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hey, guys. my dog is going to need another surgery. he’s already had two, and we were really only expecting one. the cost is adding up. if anyone would like to make any kind of donation, that would be so so appreciated. don’t feel pressured though.

venmo: kaelin-hanrattie

paypal: kaelin hanrattie

edit: even a reblog would help <3

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"Maybe I'll kill that reporter who does all your interviews. Maybe I'll kill Clark Kent."

This is the most important line in the movie. I'm 100% serious. It tells you everything you need to know about Lex Luthor's character. It shows the audience that, despite being almost omnicognizant from the get-go, Luthor clearly has no fucking idea who Superman is, only what he does.

I've never seen anyone go from All-Knowing Evil to Absolute Fucking Loser so fast. In fifteen words he went from unstoppable criminal powerhouse to flailing manchild moron. He gave his Evil Dictator demonstration and then turned around, dropped his pants and showed his entire ass. He proclaimed his manifesto of unrelenting ego, turned around, slipped on a banana peel and landed on a whoopie cushion.

And he was so mired in his own sense of superiority that he never even knew it.

Lex Luthor, folks. Ten out of ten, no notes.

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clark kent saying things like golly and gosh? clark kent saving dogs and squirrels? clark kent drinking coco? cunty lex luthor? cunty lois lane? dc you are so back.

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Things I’m obsessed with after coming out of the Superman 2025 film:

- our introduction to this superman being him getting dragged across the tundra on his face by his dog

- green lantern’s use of the ‘big blue’ nickname

- Perry white and the daily planet core group not gaf about the mandatory evacuation and going over their newest story nonchalantly as people flee around them

- the rasp in David’s voice when he yelled the “People Were Going To DIE—“ line

- Lex Luther being pushed to TEARS at the end due to the intensity of his hatred for Superman

- the scene where Superman rising out of the dust and debris to make sure the lady got away okay (the visuals combined with the musical score gave me actual goosebumps)

- the clone reveal (I.e. the subtle nod to a Connor Kent storyline in the future hopefully and how this superman is going to deal with it)

- Lois’s apartment, just in general - also the fact that we got to see her apartment and not Clark’s

- just, everything time mr. Terrific was on screen to be honest but ESPECIALLY his ‘I’m goddamn Mr. Terrific” line

- the scene with the three kids holding up the flag, goosebumps again instantly

- the choice to make pa Kent and Clark’s relationship be the emotionally charged dynamic (we love to see male vulnerability not used as the butt of a joke)

- the score during the moment of eye contact between Lois and Metamorpho after they escape the pocket universe

- jimmy’s rizz factor being the technical reason they won the battle in the end

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Damian: Father

Bruce, working on a case: I'm busy go ask Dick

Damian: Richard I-

Dick trying to pull Tim out of a cupboard: Sorry, can't right now, go ask your Father

Damian: But he's the one that told me to ask you!

Dick now trying to pry a jar of cookies out of Tim's grubby little hands: Go ask Jason then

Damian: *angry grumbling*

Dick and Bruce standing in front of a burning building: why.

Damian: Todd said it was okay

Jason: Hehe yeah i did

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i think the reason superman 2025 felt so comicbook-y is not just because of the color grading, or the willingness to be optimistic and silly, or the worldbuilding/characters who did not get extensive build up/explanation, but because it feels like an episode of a story we're in the middle of. most cape comics don't need to rehash character origins and introductions (although many often do). you can just be thrown into superman being able to call up his friends, and aliens and metas and dimensional rifts already being par for course, and lois already knowing who clark is and them being in a relationship.

there's a brand of superhero movie we're now familiar with, which sets out to have each arc of a larger story/character/world play out at the same pace at the same time-- the origin of the superhero and their journey to heroism is mirrored in their romantic relationships origin, establishment, culmination, is mirrored in the villain's origin, establishment, culmination, is mirrored in the worldbuilding's origin, establishment, culmination, etc etc etc. there's story sense in this structure, and it can be incredibly satisfying when done well! but when it's the mandate of the story rather than in service of it, it can get stale, nonsensical, unsatisfying.

i like the potency of origin stories as much as the next person, but my enjoyment of cape comics has always been what you can do with the decades of lore, not the lore itself. i want to read comics where there are characters i've never met before but the mc already has a relationship with, who pop in for coffee and advice and pop out again, or who show up to help even if it isn't their fight. i want all of the threads of wordbuilding to come together in fun or interesting ways, even if it gets a little silly, as long as the stakes are real. i want to see relationships at all stages, not just beginning. i want to get a sense that there is History and Story here, and to not always be on the ground level of its creation.

superman 2025 has character arcs, relationship arcs, arcs about heroes finding their purpose, etc. but they aren't all tied in time/place/pacing to one another, and i think that's Great. i feel like i got a full story, a satisfying outcome to most if not all questions, and a good end point. but i'm left knowing stuff happened before and will happen after this movie. and that more than anything else Feels like what a legendary character like superman should be in popular culture, a character who isn't actually known best for his beginning but for his endurance.