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Someone just said Chris Pratt as Green Arrow and I hate Chris Pratt but holy shit.

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actually if I was doing a Trinity polycule/Superwonderbat fic, I’d be so fucking evil. I’d make it super casual, but also so subtly co-dependent, that the physical intimacy and emotional intimacy don’t even click to them until Clark starts getting serious with Lois and she finds out what they do and (rightfully) puts her foot down.

and then Clark tries to stay away from them Like That. just Superman, in meetings or briefings, and Clark when they’re shooting the shit, but never Kal in Diana’s lap again, when she runs her fingers through his curls. never pressed so tightly to Bruce’s chest he’s worried about his rib integrity. it’s all gone, all at once.

that’s how they find out how codependent/toxic/whatever they are. when they try to stop.

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I think it’s interesting that it’s kind of a trope that girls with short hair don’t care about their looks when typically girls with short hair — whether that be a bob, pixie, etc — are a lot more intentional about their hair than girls whose haircut is literally just “I hope I don’t get split ends.” Not to mention how high maintenance maintaining a short haircut is, considering how fast hair grows.

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Need you guys to know I am soooo anti generative AI. In case that wasn't clear. It's bad for the environment, unethical, theft, and will never be as freaky as me. It is inferior in every way

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haymitch: love is love <3

clerk carmine: yeah, but not your love. get AWAY from my niece.

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If they find a way around putting Grover in a wedding dress RIGHT AFTER the atla reboot refused to put Sokka in a Kyoshi warrior uniform I’m gonna riot.

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It physically pains me to know that Percy holding up the sky is probably going to end up just being bad cgi

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this edit is sooooo gooood 🔱

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# well I think it's safe to say it's mutual

PERCY JACKSON AND THE OLYMPIANS EP 1.05

bonus EPISODE 1.08

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Also what about Clarisse and Chris? She nursed him back to health after he went insane in the Labyrinth just like Dionysus and Ariadne.

yeah silena and clarisse were a parallel in tlo for achilles and patroclus, but what about silena and beckendorf? he waited for her in elysium until she could get there and loved her anyways like penelope waited and loved odysseus

i will die on this representation hill

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Kate Kane has the best secret id cause everyone is like “ah, yes, the femme lesbian with beautiful dyed red hair and anger issues” but secretly she’s a butch lesbian with short blonde hair and anger issues.

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identity reveals are always fun

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My favorite thing in film production is when they need to make a character look sick so they just… don’t put them in makeup. Like that’s it. Maybe some dark circles under their eyes if they must.

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“You think if Percy wasn’t worth it she’d be single and waiting around for the likes of you? No! She’d be dating me! Thank you! Goodbye!”

it’s funny because piper may give percy a hard time, and she definitely teases annabeth for dating him and calls him a doofus. but i just know that if it came down to it, piper would be one of the loudest defenders of their relationship. like if a guy ever thinks he’s better for annabeth than percy, i know damn well piper’s gonna put him in his fucking place.

because piper knows without a doubt in her mind that nobody will love and take care of annabeth the way percy does.

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This situation that Buck and Eddie have is something I like to call The Bachelor Effect. The writers don’t want the characters to be taken and in committed relationships for too long, because they’re meant to be the desirable bachelors. This means that they give them tons of love interests, one or two girlfriends a season, perhaps, but none of them have any depth and it’s obvious from the moment you see them they won’t be sticking around. In 9-1-1, every major character is a first responder, so it’s clear that every girlfriend who isn’t one (which is all of them except maybe Taylor) aren’t going to last. This has the exception of Lucy, who, while being a first responder, we know isn’t going to stick because she drives a romantic wedge into the dynamic of the group and is clearly just a sexy plot device (which also serves to help break up Taylor and Buck).

The Bachelor Effect is also a big part of Bruce Wayne’s playboy shtick, because there are a lot of dudebros who think letting him settle down would ruin his character, to the point where the run when he married Selina Kyle was actually an Elseworld (meaning it wasn’t part of the canon universe).

The Bachelor Effect, despite the intentions of the writers, actually leaves more room for the fandom to assume those characters are bisexual or gay, because it excentuates the way the character may center his life more around his male friends than his female girlfriends.

It just kills me when writers create franchises where like 95% of the speaking roles are male, then get morally offended that all of the popular ships are gay. It’s like, what did they expect?

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Scarecrow: *evil laughter*

Robin: Congratulations on taking over the US healthcare system, doctor.

Scarecrow: All it took was a little elbow grease, and a comically large space laser.

Robin: So what’s your plan now?

Scarecrow: I’ll do what I do best: I’m going to make it evil! I’ll start by squeezing cash out of the chronically sick by charging exorbitant prices for their medicine. Diabetics will have to pay me a hundred - no - two hundred dollars for their insulin! *more evil laughter*

Robin: They… already do that.

Scarecrow: What?

Robin: Insulin already costs at least that much.

Scarecrow: Really? Two hundred dollars?

Batman: It’s closer to three hundred.

Scarecrow: Wow, okay. Diabolical. Guess the US beat me to the punch there.

Robin: They certainly beat you to punching diabetics.

Scarecrow: It’s fine. I have plenty of other great, evil ideas. Next, I’ll make treatment impossible to access by ensuring the hospitals are understaffed. And I’ll do this by limiting the number of people who are even allowed to become doctors! *even more evil laughter*

Robin: They do that, too.

Scarecrow: What? There’s no way.

Robin: Do you remember having to do a residency to become a doctor?

Scarecrow: Well, I’m not a medical doctor, exactly. I have a PhD in women’s studies…

Robin: Women’s studies?

Scarecrow: Being an evil dictator doesn’t exclude me from being a feminist, Boy Wonder.

Robin: Right… Well, you have to complete a residency at a hospital to become a physician. But the funds for hiring residents are provided by the US government. So the number of available resident programs (thus doctors) is decided by the Congress’ budget.

Scarecrow: So not only did they only do my evil thing, they did it in a more sinister and more subtle way.

Robin: Basically.

Scarecrow: I’m not sure if I should be proud of my country or disgusted by it.

Robin: Maybe both.

Scarecrow: Seems as though I’ll have to do something truly despicable to defeat the US government. In that case, I’ll make sure that the only people who can even afford healthcare are the ones who work for companies that benefit my economic interests!

Batman: That’s called insurance.

Scarecrow: Uhh, and I’ll let the hospitals deny treatment entirely to those who don’t have the correct insurance!

Robin: …

Scarecrow: No!

Robin: Yep.

Scarecrow: Oh my god.

Batman: You have some tough competition.

Scarecrow: They’ve already done every evil thing. Next, you’re going to tell me the hospitals are straight up racist.

Robin: Funny you should say that. According to recent research -

Scarecrow: Stop! I don’t wanna know! Ugh, all this information is making me feel like I’m gonna have a heart attack!

Robin: Should I call an ambulance?

Scarecrow: No, it’ll cost too much! Screw this, I can’t be more cartoonishly evil than the United States healthcare system. And I am literally a villain!

Robin: So what will you do?

Scarecrow: I’m just gonna take over something pure and free of corruption. Like uh, US educational system!

Batman: Oh, boy.

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Finnick wearing basically nothing for his parade outfit becomes 10x funnier when you remember Mags was his district partner. Wonder how they made that work.