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When Clark said “he’s not even a very good dog but he’s all alone and he’s probably scared so i have to go get him” I was so happy because someone in that writers room truly understands superman better than we’ve seen in a long time. This is the essence of superman - that every living being deserves kindness and empathy and love simply because they are alive. Clark is the kind of guy who’d cry when he got stung by a bee not because it hurt but because the bee died when it stung him and someone in the writers room knew that and made sure it came through.

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Been thinking about how the new Superman movie did a really good job of giving Clark interests beyond “Truth, Justice, and a Better Tomorrow.” He likes pop punk rock. His favorite meal is breakfast for dinner. Clark does a little dance when he gets the front cover byline. He likes to doom-scroll. Unclear if he’s a dog guy. His girlfriend makes him hot cocoa when he’s sad. So often Superman in film has zero personality beyond tortured alien that must guide humanity. Giving him these small details made the character feel so much more real. He really is just a guy doing his best.

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"It's a dog!"

"Yeah, he's not even a very good one. But he's out there alone, and probably scared."

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malcolm in the middle walked so that fleabag could run, hit post button

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Guys do you think she’s excited

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superman 2025 yap below ! i've seen it ! i loved it ! i'm discussing it below ! you've been warned !

one of my genuine favorite things about this movie, superman, 2025, was that james gunn let the unnamed(?) ex girlfriend of lex luthor have a happy ending.

if you haven't watched it but don't care anout the spoilers, basically lex luthor has a prison in a pocket dimension. lots of stuff in there, including Monkeys That Are All The Internet Trolls (very funny) and some testing facilities.

but the main thing is the cells.

this dimension is Full of glass cubes that house individual prisoners, ranging from people who are causing disturbances politically to the subject of this post- an ex girlfriend who started a hate blog about lex luthor when they broke up.

to my knowledge, she doesn't have a name. she is wearing this pink dress, she is sitting on the floor a lot, and she is directly next to superman's cell. that is why, when she sees superman planning his escape, she tries to rat him out. she calls for guards, she yells, she tells him to stop, she says "i want to be the one to get to write up a post about this!"

it's ridiculous. watching this, me and my brother were like, ohmigod what is she fucking doing holy shit that idiot-

of course, superman gets out, yadda yadda.

one of my favorite things about this film was the way it lingers. it hangs onto shots, it makes you really look at things. there is a fifteen minute long dialogue scene, and it's one of the greatest things ever. your attention is held, you are forced to sit and to think and to rest in whatever emotion is on the screen.

at the end of the movie, the day has been saved, and you see monkeys released into metropolis. you see people who were in the prison starting to walk free for the first time in who knows how long.

you see the woman, the ex girlfriend in the pink dress, run into the arms of her mother. the shot lingers on their hug for a moment. you watch. you observe. you sit with it.

i have never been happier to see something in a movie that i would never have considered had it not been there.

because like! most movies! she would have "gotten what she deserved," there would have been a throwaway gag about how she gets karmic reprecussions for being a snitch, right? and honestly! i would have laughed. if i am to be perfectly honest, i would not have really Thought about it, i would have written it off subconsciously and forgotten.

but it doesn't let you do that.

it shows you that she is just some ordinary woman, who was imprisoned and likely abused by her ex boyfriend with a power trip, and it shows you that she did something stupid by trying to tell on superman, and it shows you that she deserved to see her mother again anyways. it shows you that, yeah! she fucked up in a time of duress! she acted selfishly! and you (the viewer) only saw that, you only get to see her at likely her worst, and you would have laughed if she had paid for it, and maybe you should think about that. maybe you should linger on the thought that, hey, maybe we are human and fuck up sometimes. maybe we still deserve to hug our moms at the end of the movie.

i cried a lot during this film.

that shot really took it out of me.

the care, the dedication, the devotion that was required to think of that. it has been a long time since i saw a woman treated that well in media, of any kind, and i am being so sincere when i say that. a background woman who did something shitty got to live and to see her family and to be free again. she didn't even have a name, from what i remember, and she still got a happy ending. because she too is human. we are all just human and we all deserve so much grace, and kindness, and care and compassion and forgiveness.

and i could say so much more about this film but i have a feeling that, first of all, most of my thoughts will be explained countless times by everyone else. and that's good i want that i want people to linger on this movie the way this movie lingered on itself. but i also get the sense that, maybe, people won't have thought about this part. there's a chance that with how the world has been recently and forever, we might not catch something like a stranger who sucks a little getting to live happily. we may not catch the fact that this is unironically and fully genuinely one of the best ways i've seen a woman treated in superhero media full stop. and she was just in the background.

i dunno i just feel like it's. incredibly important. and worth recognition. and something i will remember for the rest of my life. and i wanted to share that.

please go watch this movie if you are able. support movie theaters if you can, comic book stores if you can, take care of your loved ones, be kind to your neighbors- even the grumpy or dickheaded ones- and offer your seat to strangers on the bus if you can. care about those that it is a little hard to give a shit about, that's all there is.

this life, the world we live in, the people around us, these things are all there is, and my god, i want to keep having it, i want people to get to keep having it. i want to feel hope again. i did after i saw this movie. i did after she got to hug her mom again.

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Superman isn't woke. You're just so evil that you see a man doing acts of kindness and you think it's a targeted political agenda

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ok note to self i gotta leave the house regularly so that i dont feel like im slowly transforming into an evil fucking shadow clone of myself

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The lion does not concern itself with the bank account balance when a little treat is calling

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currently staring autistically at the photos i still have on my phone for the zine post i wanna make... maybe soon......

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this august do whatever you want and stay up late

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sibling relationships are so strange... like i love you. you will never understand me in a way that matters. we are the same person in drastically different ways. we are sewn together. we don't talk. we are attached at the hip. you wish i was never born. can i call you. let's eat together. i forgive you. etc

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"I love you but you're doing wrong in a way I cannot condone" and "I hate you but you're being wronged in a way I cannot stomach" are top tier and I need more of them.

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do you guys know about scp 426 bc i swear it is my favorite thing on planet earth

like is that not so funny

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Snoopy of the Day

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🐭🌻Casually bumping some art I have on Inprnt

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