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Remember when a civilization based its entire structure on a Gangster "bible"? Yeah, I needed two or more episodes with that concept. I've been teasing it on my ig already, stay tunned for the following weeks cause I'm preparing something kinda important 👀

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3 years later

I got the Top 4.47% on this English Vocabulary test

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Kirk in the Wrath of Khan: I have never faced death like this. (Right after spock died)

Bro. Bro. The woman you supposedly loved died in The City on the Edge of Forever. Gary Mitchell who was your long time friend died because YOU had to kill him.

Do you even know how many ensigns died on that 5 year mission???

Literally it's >difficult< to not see k/s

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at the risk of sounding like a raving lunatic, i think one of my favorite trekkie memes/posts is that one where someone comments on a screenshot of tos and asks if sulu is texting, because it PERFECTLY encapsulates star trek's strange little place at the intersection of pop culture and the tech world:

like listen... 55+ years ago a bunch of actors had to use a mix of existing habits and wild imagination to come up with what they felt would be believable movements and muscle-memory for someone using completely unbelievable tech a few hundred years in the future. like tv had less than ten channels and the screen was a foot across, and they had to go "ok how would someone who's used to a tiny wireless gadget with a screen hold it and use it? how would they talk to a computer? how would the computer sound when she talked back?"

and over half a century later our own tech has surpassed the clunky retrofuture gizmos in so many ways, no doubt inspired by it, that now someone two decades into the 21st century sees an actor in the 60s holding some tiny rectangular plastic prop in both hands and immediately recognizes it as "oh, sulu's texting!" now THAT is a called shot. hell, that's putting your money on a roulette wheel in a casino that hasn't been built yet. i LOVE it. it's so star trek. sulu is absolutely texting.

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I will never get over the fact that project hail mary is a story about a guy who goes from having no one - no family, no close friends, no one he has to tell when he gets forced onto an aircraft carrier in the middle of the ocean for several years, no one to mourn him when he is forced into a suicide mission, and perhaps most significantly, no one he is prepared to die for, to having one person who he is prepared to die for again and again and again.

You had to go lightyears across space to a different solar system and learn a new language you can't even speak unaided to find the platonic love of your life but when you did you burnt and starved and hurt for them without hesitation. Ryland Grace saves the world, but more importantly, he finds something bigger than himself to believe in and it's loving a lil alien crab dude.

Wonderful.

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The Martian (2015)

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project hail mary said "we would be ecstatic to find out that there's other intelligent life out there, so why wouldn't they be just as happy to find out about us?" and then proceeded to write an entire thesis on how the inherent nature of sentient beings is to forge friendships, to not be alone, to protect each other at all costs. i'm inconsolable

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Stanley Snyder has the funniest character concept in Dr Stone:

He's a special ops soldier. He's a marine. He's a sniper. He's a pilot. He's somehow in his twenties.

He's the world's greatest marksman. He can fly a plane and shoot a machine gun at the same time. He looks like a supermodel, lipstick and mascara included.

The protagonists spent three volumes just running away from him. He turned the most overpowered character in the series into Swiss-cheese. The only way to stop him is to petrify the entire planet.

He's a queer-coded villain. It's the least problematic thing about him. He slaughtered the entire main cast. At the end of the series they give him a medal.

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Gonna check out!

Do you have any favorite marvey fics you could Rec? Just started getting into it and would love to hear what you think are the best

Hi, new friend! Welcome to the fandom!

I made a rec list about a year ago that I still stand by, so I'd start by checking that out here. If you're looking for fandom classics, pretty much anything by Closer is a good bet; my personal favorites are 5U175 and Fair Enough, but you can't really go wrong with any of them that strike your fancy.

A couple of fics that I didn't mention in the original list but which I would also recommend are Lit Up by phreakycat (Mike has synesthesia, which is explored in a really interesting way) and The Touch by FrivolousSuits (not quite a soulmate AU, but like...soulmate AU-adjacent).

This fandom is full of talented and prolific authors, so I'm sure you'll be able to find tons of stuff you'll like!

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2x24 - The Ultimate Computer

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The Taco Bell part 😂🌮

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Goncharov is the ratatouille musical all over again

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The thing about Goncharov (1973) that makes me go absolutely feral, is the way it so clearly evokes the sense of an ending and the melancholia of knowing that your world is changing irrevokably and there is nothing you can do about it. Goncharov’s entire life has been violence, from his hitman past to the movie canon present in the Neapolitan mafia. However, it is violence according to clearly defined rules: jobs, targets, money. Offer him a non-violent existence and he wouldn’t know what to do with it. But now all that has been destabilised. Goncharov has people he cares about (Katya, Andrey, Ilya), and the violence he has surrounded himself with so comfortably all his life, has become a threat to his relationship with those people. There is no way for him to go on the way he used to, and there is no place for an old school Soviet mafia hitman in ordinary society, and ultimately all he is left with is the fundamental hollowness of an existence where everything that matters is the next job and the endless cycle of violence.

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I’ll stop goncharov posting soon but can I just say how fascinating it is to me that the genre we picked was cold war mafia movie? because if you had asked the internet a month ago what kind of film tumblr would invent, if tumblr were to invent a film, the answers would have been way more woke. a queer coming of age romance or a sexy heist with a super diverse cast or live action infinity train or whatever.

instead, the hive mind, the collective, latched on to something with much narrower boundaries, with stricter rules. no cold war mafia movie would have “good gay rep” or “a happy ending”, like you might expect tumblr to want. we want, we made, something rife with hidden truths, deception and manipulation, suppressed and sublimated emotions. it’s a movie rife with symbolism and suggestion, a text that needs to be unpicked and puzzled over, not one that spoonfeeds us a morally pure protagonist.

the website famous for our shithouse reading comprehension made this complex metatext about methods of interpreting an ambiguous artwork and that’s given me more hope for humanity than I’ve gotten from the internet in a long goddamn time