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This scene is so funny, cause there’s so much going on

“They want my dog!”

“THERE’S NO NEED TO ALART THE AUTHORITIES!!-“ *steals the phone* “everything’s under control. 😊”

Meanwhile jumba is having a whole car thrown at him in the background.

“Oh good, my dog found the chainsaw.” Said with the kinda exasperation no child should have 😭

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Honestly, although Cobra lacks warmth and tact and should have done better to understand them as people, you can totally see why he's emotionally switched off for Nani and focused entirely on Lilo and her welfare if you see things from his POV and pretend you know nothing about how Lilo and Nani really are.

You're the guy who gets called in when nothing else has worked and a kids welfare is seriously on the line. Not a great job, but you care enough about kids to do it.

The first meeting you have with the caretaker of your current child is her kicking your car and calling you a pejorative (she totally would have said something stronger than 'stupid head' if it hadn't been Disney) because she's running home where she's left that child alone. You arrive and she's locked out and yelling threats at the child, but quickly pretends she hasn't been when she's being watched.

There's crap everywhere outside and inside the home. The stove is on and overflowing and noxious. The child clearly has a script rehearsed and the moment she does off script the guardian hushes her up. The child is clearly not socially well adjusted, which doesn't seem to be being worked on and has resulted in her fighting and biting (there's no way he didn't later learn about that) other children not to mention the 'voodoo'.

Then the guardian loses her job and they weren't doing financially great before (can't even afford a real doll for Lilo) and when you go to check up on that and see she's job hunting right away oh yeah, that's totally an alien. Ok, that's not your job any more and you know aliens can integrate just fine but this one is violent and the kid is attached to it, it's another safety risk, but you give them all further chances to show Lilo is going to be ok because you do still believe it can be done.

Except she's frequently wandering around alone, the alien almost kills her at some point and she's left alone whilst the house is being attacked (by more aliens whilst more dangerous stuff happens!) and is on fire.

Like yeah, that's all he's seen and it sure looks like Lilo is not safe with Nani (at least see the moment) at all.

And yet at the end he accepts that Nani will have the support she needs now and keep doing her best and Lilo will be safe, so he keeps them together because that's also part of his job and becomes another part of the support system. But oh boy, did it look terrible there for a long while.

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already having a labor law violations section in your wiki is crazy

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You wanna know what really bothers me about Jumba being turned from a redeemed antagonist to an irredeemable villain? Besides the lack of faith in the audiences ability to understand narrative nuance it shows?

It’s that the excuse is stupid and would have a far better solution.

Because the excuse they use is that the films original major antagonistic force Gantu wouldn’t work in 3D. Either due to sizing issues or budgetary stuff.

So they made Jumba an irredeemable villain (something even gantu wasn’t) to fill a role that was no one was there to fill. Except there was a cheaper character that could fill that role.

Literally just introduce dr hamsterviel a little bit earlier than he was in the original franchise!

Everything they were trying to awkwardly staple onto Jumba would work significantly better on him. He the only straight up villainous force in the original lilo and stitch series!

And he’s significantly easier to animate than gantu. He’s small and simple with no complex shapes or features. Which not only makes him easy to animate but also for the liver actors to act against!

If the writers cared so little about characterisation that they were comfortable retconning an entire characters personality and motivation?

Then they’d be perfectly comfortable messing with continuity to introduce the antagonist they clearly want earlier.

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In depth Lilo & Stitch headcanon about public perception of the aliens:

Kokaua Town is aware there's Something going on with Jumba, Pleakley, and the experiments. Not aware that they're aliens yet, but some of these weird dogs speak like people! (Reuben, Slick, Heckler, Nosy).

Due to Jumba's... public Jumba-ness... people might have pieced together the whole "illegal genetic experiment" thing. Like, oh yeah, this weird man definitely did some illegal shit with animal genes. Maybe they think he's hiding out from the law and that's why he moved in with the Pelekais so quickly.

Nosy goes "they're aliens!" to the Jamesons, and the Jamesons probably end up thinking that Nosy meant illegal aliens- as in, people who immigrated illegally, and in this case for Jumba to hide from the law in his home country. Which is obviously Russia, based on his accent.

Maybe the moms in the PTA look at Pleakley with pity because it can't be easy having to uproot your entire life to move to another country because your husband is on the run from the law. Her weird mannerisms and confusion about everything? "Oh, she's just foreign."

Pleakley's gone out in public in male outfits sometimes, disguised as a human man. In the Christmas episode, he even goes out without a wig. So she's definitely visibly queer. But I doubt anyone brings it up. There might be some gossip behind her back, but to her face, everyone treats her as whatever gender she's going as today.

If Pleakley ever slips up and refers to Jumba as her roommate instead of her husband, well, of course they're not legally married. Gay marriage isn't legal in Russia, and it wasn't legal in Hawaii until 2013, about a decade after the series takes place. And Pleakley is visibly queer. So... yeah, makes sense.

The Pelekais are native Hawaiian, so it's clear Jumba and Pleakley aren't biologically related to them. Due to Stitch's obvious status as one of the experiments, however, it's generally assumed the two met the Pelekais through Lilo's genetically modified dog being Jumba's creation. Which is true, except Stitch isn't actually a modified dog, and Jumba isn't actually a Russian immigrant.

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I cannot believe that Oda drew Shanks with no clothes on with water dripping down his face talking about how he just wanted to live life with Buggy as carefree pirates...during pride month nonetheless

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What I think is really fun about Billy Batson is that for everyone else, their superhero identity is their biggest secret. For Billy, his biggest secret is not that he's Captain Marvel, but that Captain Marvel is him.

Everyone else? Fucked if their loved ones find out. Fucked if their enemies find out. Billy? Fucked if his coworkers find out.

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DPxDC Prompt #20

Danny and Tim are married. (Sacrificial Bride, Meddling Ancients, Tax Benefits, etc.; exact details are dealer's choice.)

The Bats do not know Tim is married. They find because Tim gets grievously injured. High on pain, blood loss, and/or the good drugs; he turns to the nearest Bat and slurs out, "Don't tell my husband."

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"these researchers published a paper on something that literally any of us could have told you 🙄" ok well my supervisors wont let me write something in my thesis unless I can back it up with a citation so maybe it's a good thing that they're amplifying your voice to the scientific community in a way that prevents people from writing off your experiences as annecdotal evidence

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Captain Marvel can't be a member of the Justice League because he has a LOT of shit to deal with in his first years as the champion of magic after so many centuries without one.

So when Superman asks this new hero, who only appears in Fawcett or in world-ending situations, if he wants to join him, he's met with a big, polite "Oh, no thanks."

But Captain Marvel and the League keep bumping into each other.

Zatanna does a spell that the League requested, and Marvel just "POFF" appears and says something like "Guys, I can't let you do this. It's a scale 12 spell, it could cause a rupture in the fabric of this universe. Here, let me redo this for you, sorry, I just need to make sure, okay?"

And someone says "YOU CAN'T DO THAT" and the magic users explain that, yes, yes he can. he is the new champion of magic and he is in fact responsible for keeping magic in its rightful place, making sure it doesn't go ruining the interdimensional worlds or universes, and that this IS his role in magical society and no one in that room can really take away his authority in matters related to magic. They can try, but the chances of success are very low.

So Captain Marvel takes care of it.

Like, are they on a mission to retrieve a magical artifact? Marvel will show up, grab it, and leave because he needs to put it in the rock so it doesn't cause more trouble.

Are they dealing with a cult that's probably going to summon a demon or something? Marvel will probably be there to banish the demon, close the portal, and reprimand Constantine, because why not?

The magical villain that Marvel saw the League having trouble with? Well, just a little finger shock should do the trick to help them take the villain away.

Got a problem with a God? Marvel is there.

Are the portals opening? Captain is in charge.

Have goblins invaded Gotham? Are fairies loose in Metropolis? Are there talking snowmen in Central City? No problem, Captain Marvel is ur guy.

After a while, JL is dying to have him on their team. Or at least let him keep a communicator in case they need to call for help. Because, well, this guy IS super powerful, a HUGE nerd about magical things, and it's MUCH better to have him on their side than not.

But he always refuses, because taking care of all the problems related to magic and Fawcett's stuff is already too much, hes just like 8-9 years old, give him a break.

Yeah but of course one day, after a long day, Superman goes back to Fawcett to ask about it for the thousandth time, and he's so tired of this subject that he just waves his hand and says: "Okay, okay, give me a year to make magical society at least more stable so they can keep going without me present all the time, then I'll go with you, okay?"

And Superman is beaming with happiness, he agrees, leaves, and Billy goes to sleep that night dead of exhaustion on his little couch on the rock of eternity, wondering HOW he's going to make magical society stable after CENTURIES of instability. in. one. year.

That's future billy problem tho, not billy of the present. that being said, time for the champion's nap

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«i believe there is another world waiting for us. a better world. and i'll be waiting for you there.»

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still obsessed with Buggy, a normal kid (minus a tendency to fall to pieces, literally and metaphorically) being raised on a boat full of abosolute monsters of men, and constantly comparing himself to a freaking CELESTIAL DRAGON child with absolute insane haki aptitude

like

no wonder he has an inferiority complex as wide as Doflamingo is tall

no wonder his first instinct in sticky situations is to beg, run, or hide - facing the sort of enemies that would clash with the Oro Jackson, it was probably all he could do!

I love the idea that Shanks remembers their childhood as genuinely delightful, up to Rogers' execution! Whereas Buggy remembers the good times, and longs for them, but also has so much baggage of the 'I almost died every day' and 'I am so sick of being the weakest link and a target who everyone has to protect' and 'I was never good enough to stand alongside the rest of you' and 'why did you all even lie and claim to love me when I was nothing compared to you' variety

(no one was lying, bugs. but he can't believe it.)

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I can't rn

Please let them have a happy ending priri plis 😭😭

UPDATE:

I wrote something

In another life ( Shanks to Buggy )

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Forever mourning the fact that they filmed the scene of Peeta putting out Katniss when she was on fire in Mockingjay Part 2 but it just didn't make the final cut.

It was never confirmed in the book it was Peeta who put her out, but Katniss notes Peeta has burn scars so that means he must have gotten closer than she thought.

What if he got those scars by running into the fire to put her out?

This scene paired with the one of him stopping her from ingesting the night lock pill further solidifies to me that Peeta was still protecting Katniss even if he didn't know why.

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Texts From Superheroes

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When I came out into society, I was fifteen. I already knew that the role I was condemned to—namely, to keep quiet and do what I was told, gave me the perfect opportunity to listen and observe. Not to what people told me, which naturally was of no interest, but to whatever it was they were trying to hide. I practiced detachment. I learned how to look cheerful, while under the table, I stuck a fork into the back of my hand. I became… A virtuoso of deceit. It wasn’t pleasure I was after, it was knowledge. I consulted the strictest moralist to learn how to appear. Philosophers to find out what to think. And novelists to see what I could get away with. And in the end, I distilled everything to one wonderfully simple principle: Win or die.

DANGEROUS LIAISONS 1988 | scr. Christopher Hampton

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