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I need a Thunderbolts* Breakfast club au so bad.

We even got the perfect stand in for vice principal Vernon

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✨girls against god (x)✨

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The cowards of twitter are afraid to admit that Batman represents love

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Annie: There are legends of people born with the gift of making music so true, it can pierce the veil between life and death; conjuring spirits from the past...and the future. In ancient Ireland, they were called Filí. In Choctaw land, they called them Fire Keepers. And in West Africa, they were called Griots. This gift can bring healing to their communities. But it also...attracts evil....

Sinners (2025)

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I am begging everyone who has ever bemoaned about Hollywood only making sequels and IP movies to go see Sinners in theaters. It has the creative team behind Black Panther working on it and their talent shines through in the cinematography, music, costuming, EVERYTHING. It's a completely original screenplay written by Ryan Coogler and if you want to support original movies, go see it in theaters.

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Rest in peace Toni Morrison. You would’ve ADORED sinners

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Y'all... I fear Sambucky divorce may be even more complicated than we initially thought.

I was thinking about how hard it must be for Sam to feel like he can't trust Bucky anymore. He became Captain America and went through that journey with Bucky at his side. He told him about reassembling the Avengers.

Then that press conference happens and Valentina tells the world that she has been secretly rebuilding the Avengers for years... and there's Bucky on that team.

A team that was rebuilt by the U.S. government's Director of the CIA. The very thing that Sam and Steve had been adament about the Avengers not becoming. So, of course he sued for copywrite of the name.

But... it also must be so hard for Bucky to feel like he can't trust Sam.

He can't explain how they're not actually working for the U.S. government without explaining the leverage they have over Valentina....

He can't explain without giving up Bob.

He'd have to tell Sam that Bob was the sentry, the result of Val's human experimentation, and that's the leverage they have over her that makes them an independent team.

I think Bucky knows, that just like Steve, Sam wouldn't be happy with using that as leverage. He would want Valentina to go to prison for what she's done.

But to go to prison, she would have to be impeached. There would need to be an investigation and a trial. To send the Director of the CIA to federal prison, the evidence would need to be public.

They'd have to tell the whole world about Bob. Subject him to the distrust and fear of the public when they find out that he was the Void.

To regain Sam's trust, Bucky would have to break Bob's.

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Thunderbolts art compilation

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Was thinking about how Mouthwashing deliberately uses its retro-futurism aesthetic to highlight the nihilism inherent to its setting. I love reto-futurism, I love seeing flying cars that still play cassette tapes, but usually that is couched in amused hindsight. Look how they thought the future would look, isn't that charming?

In Mouthwashing, we see a flavor of retro-futurism that is explicitly hostile. Ship navigational screens that are monochrome. Passwords for essential functions hidden behind UV scanners. Food dispensers require flipping through a recipe book to use. When you have to cut back some of the fire foam, you don't get some high tech laser or saw, you get a classic fireman's axe. The message that the crew is being laid off is delivered by fax machine. There's not even any tech that allows you to communicate with someone on the other side of the ship, all the conversations have to happen person to person. There is next to no technology that eases the burden of the crew. It is a future where innovation is nakedly obsessed with serving corporate interests at the expense of all others.

This becomes increasingly apparent when you think about the eponymous cargo of the Tulpar. Yes, the game is quick to point out the absurdity of a spaceship loaded with nothing but mouthwash. But that acknowledgement actually buries the greater absurdity: that this is a universe where interplanetary travel is possible, and we are still bottling mouthwash with single-use plastics.

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Drew this while my friends were being too loud in the VC

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EVERYONE SHUT THE FUCK UP SCIENTISTS AT THE SCHMIDT OCEAN INSTITUTE HAVE FOOTAGE OF A LIVE COLOSSAL SQUID FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

🦑‼️🦑‼️🦑‼️🦑‼️🦑‼️🦑

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what is your eye color. what is your favorite color. what is the color that appears most frequently in your wardrobe. what color is your favorite blanket. what color is your water bottle.

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In 2017, American film researchers recovered “Something Good – Negro Kiss,” a short film depicting a playful kiss between a Black couple which had not seen the light of day for more than a century. A long-forgotten artifact from the earliest years of American film, the sweet, humanizing vignette, produced by the Selig Polyscope Company, makes a startling contrast to the overwhelmingly racist and blackface-ridden contempory portrayals of African Americans. Four years later in 2021, archivists in Norway, halfway across the world, identified a sister short in their collections—an extended alternate cut which reveals more of Chicago stage performers Gertie Brown and Saint Suttle’s vaudeville-like routine, a theatrical, hot-and-cold romantic dynamic between two lovers which parodies the popular and controversial short “The Kiss” (1896). Both films, which had previously been lost, were known from entries in old motion picture catalogs but had been assumed to be era-typical, anti-Black “race films” until their rediscovery in the 21st century. Together with its more famous sibling, which has since been inducted into the Library of Congress’ National Film Registry, this alternate version of “Something Good” represents the first-known instance of Black intimacy ever captured on-screen.

SOMETHING GOOD [Alternate Version] (1898) Directed by William Selig

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Bruce has a strict 'no metas/powers (except duke) allowed in Gotham' policy in place but it has a clause, BYOR (Bring Your Own Robin)

No one is allowed entry untill and unless they can produce their very own certified robin-shaped identity card

Whenever someone with even a hint of supernatural powers in them arrives at Gotham, they're first met with Bruce standing at the city border with a notepad in hand

Bruce: State your name and purpose.

Kon: Kon-el, here to hangout!

Bruce: Your Robin?

Kon, flourishing Tim from behind him: Ta-Da!

Tim, waves: Hey Bruce

Bruce: Approved, you may enter

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Bruce: Name and purpose?

Hal: Here to investigate a case, Hal Jordan

Bruce: Your Robin?

Hal: I.... don't have one?

Bruce: Denied

Hal: What?! But-

Bruce: Denied.

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Bruce: Yes, Wally, where's your robin?

Wally: Oh shit lemme just- *zaps away and returns with Dick, who was in the midst of brushing his teeth, in a bridal carry*- Here!

Bruce, grumbling a little: Fine. Approved.

Dick: You gotta stop using me as a key already, man

Wally: Blame Bruce.

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Bruce: Name and purpose?

Clark: Clark Kent, here for our monthly barbecue

Bruce: Robin?

Clark, producing an actual robin bird: Does this count?

Bruce:.....yes

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Lucy Gray should be proud to know she haunted that evil man every damn day of his fucking miserable life

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What do y’all think you’re playing at?

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My wife and I have a little game we play called "Speaking From Ignorance."

To play Speaking From Ignorance, all you need is a phone with a voice recorder, and another person who knows considerably more or considerably less about a topic than you do. The topic can be anything: from "how to bake a quiche" to "what happens in the Peter Jackson Hobbit movies" to "who is Florence Pugh" to "how does the traveling salesman problem work." All that matters is that one of you has a firm grasp on the material, and one of you absolutely the fuck does not.

Then the person who knows about the topic turns on the recorder, and says to the person who knows barely anything: "Hey - tell me everything you think you know about [X]."

The speaker is then not allowed to ask any questions. Nor is the expert allowed to volunteer any information. The expert is allowed to pipe up with a faintly incredulous "Oh--really? Do you--do you think so?" from time to time, but for the most part, the expert's job is just to sit there and make encouraging sounds while the speaker digs their own grave.

This is never not funny.

The reason you record it is because, very often, the first thing the speaker wants to do after finishing the recording is find out how you actually make a quiche, or whatever. Then you both get to go back and listen to how wrong they were.

We have a small library now of Speaking From Ignorance recordings, and I'm going to be listening to them until I'm eighty.