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Wait tho pls tell me non british people have also seen this advert bc it’s amazing and very important to me

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New teaching strategy no fun only strict and don't let them get up from their seats and never show weakness.

Fuck around and find out babies!!!

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So school started yesterday( I'm a teacher). There were 5 students present out of the 25. I teach grade 5. The child asked me how old I was and I deflected. The lil shit said I didn't want them to know because I was in my thirties and unmarried.

I'm TWENTY SEVEN. Wtf.

I didn't expect to be burnt in first day of school

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When I was a teenager I loved reading those fics where all the Avengers or superheroes lived together and had movie night, book club and shit.

But now I can't even tolerate such fics. 7 Adults living together and loving it. I'd throw myself off a third story building if I had to share a roof with 6 people even if they are my best friend. It's shit, I can't imagine or enjoy from fics like that anymore.

Maybe I'm just picky nowadays

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Ok now I can't unsee it.

That was just an ordinary disney movie for me. Now, the only thing I can see is the mouse's version of Beth, Benny and Harry, from The Queen's Gambit

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Well done. I have never really thought about the wife, the slut & the virgin trope of fl in the media before. It's quite convenient how most films fall into that category.

Ok, another hot take about The Queen's Gambit:

It's a known trope in movies or series with a male protagonist to put his love interests into the stereotypical, exaggerated categories of a 'mother', often represented by a dutiful wife, a 'slut', who is attractive and independent, and a 'virgin', who often isn't an actual virgin, but represents childlike innocence and is sexually unavailable. A combination of all three is then found in The One, a perfect, albeit unrealistic, woman.

In 'The Queen's Gambit', where Beth assumes the role of the leading man as I discussed earlier, Harry, Benny, and Townes assume the three female roles for Beth on a very surface level. These characters are men, yet exhibit the typical characteristics. However, they still have enough complexity to escape the confines of the trope, still drawing interesting contrasts between each of them without falling into banality.

Harry, the 'mother' or dutiful wife, as Beth's love interests is more of a steady companion than a riveting affair, he wants to nurture her, help. He doesn't say as much as he would like to, is submissive and rather quiet, almost boring, but loves her and worries about her. He worries about her too much to look at her destroying herself. He believes himself to be too weak, is too passive to fight. Now, as 'dutiful wife' he would just bear it until she herself decides to ditch him, but it's not what Harry started as, it's not his full character. In his first game with Beth he showed himself as a stereotypical male baffoon, which, when he chooses to leave her later, despite still having feeling for her, an act as similar to a divorce as giving up a game, proves rather to be an exaggerated display of his inherent pride. It's not cowardice, it becomes a virtue when he realizes the truth that Beth doesn't love him romantically and that he has no future in professional chess playing. To take a step back from this, defeated in what he cared about most, and still go forward his own way with a job and studies is a form of gentle bravery and keeping face. He is proud enough to not let himself be ridiculed, is proud of his life choices. It's obvious when he talks with Beth in the school parking lot. He cannot be reduced just to his role in Beth's life.

Then Benny, as the 'slut', has a long history of affairs. He is shown at first as cocky, overconfident and fully aware of the effect he has on people. Women warn Beth about him, but she cannot resist him. His role is exactly the role of the 'slut' in a male-led movie, where the main character falls for a dangerous skillful seductress. And just like it often goes, the main character is the one to become the 'slut's' weakness. Benny lets Beth have him eventually, when she dominates over him in chess and matches him in her cockiness. It's her conquest. It would be the moment in which the slut turns into a repenting converted sinner, having been defeated at her own game. Except Beth's triumph is short-lived, because Benny has more to him than just being her conquest. It doesn't change his values, his core personality. Chess are the most important to him. It's a shock to see him as unapologetic as he was before and a difficult realization for Beth that her conquest didn't force Benny into submission. This would still fall into 'slut's' behavior if not for the fact that Benny just genuinely wants Beth to succeed beyond winning (with) him. He genuinely cares about her and has feelings for her that don't disappear even when she decides to leave him. He's in love, but it doesn't turn him into somebody he's not. When he calls her later it's clear he has sensitivity and vulnerability to him, but it's not a dramatic change, it must have been something he already had, and that's why Cleo, even though she must have been infatuated with him and rejected, cannot hate him. He's sympathetic despite his flaws.

And Townes. The 'virgin'. He's charming and treats Beth with unusual respect, compared to other men, when they first meet. He seems perfect with how he doesn’t impose himself on her, how he is friendly, but keeps distance that makes her feel comfortable. He seems honest, innocent, Beth idealizes him. This by itself doesn't make him the 'virgin' for Beth, but combined with his status of being in a relationship with a man does (it's heavily, but tastefully implied). He breaks out of the mold the easiest, because of his behavior in the hotel room and his conversation with Beth in the last episode. He isn't as pure as he initially seemed, weirdly attracted to Beth in a way that made him keep the truth about his relationship from her in a situation that could have turned more erotic if he hasn't been caught. He lead her on, confused with his feelings that he later identified as fondness for a beautiful talented friend. Losing her trust and a chance for friendship hurt him, but he only has himself to blame. He's flawed. Him calling other men he knew cared about Beth for help was his way of redeeming himself.

Now, combining their strengths would make an ideal man, so only together they become what Beth needs, as shown in the last episode with them providing support. The polyamorous side of me ships Beth in this polycule. Yet, for a monogamist, neither of these men is a suitable partner for life due to their various shortcomings and that's why Beth can only have them as friends. The trope is subverted one last time with how she never finds The One, but accepts herself as a full independent individual.

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Films are supposed to be social commentary of a social period how incredibly telling is that a poc character is being erased.

Unpopular opinion, but I think the actors involved in Thunderbolts* shouldn't get a free pass from us regarding their involvement in Marvel's marketing of the film.

Yes, yes, I know, they're under contract, etc. etc., but ultimately? They do still have a choice. And they are choosing, repeatedly, to side with Marvel's deliberate erasure of Sam Wilson.

This new poster?

You know, the one where they put Steve's shadow under Walker's? This is the last straw for me.

Don't tell me everyone in the film made fun of Walker for sucking at being Captain America. Don't tell me that the 'New Avengers' are supposed to be a joke and the headlines and satirical images in the credits sequence were supposed to establish that. I don't care what happened in the film, Marvel has leaned hard into the narrative in the real world that this 'team' are the next gen Avengers, the heirs to the OG six. Don't tell me they're supposed to be illegitimate and 'everyone knows Sam has the real Avengers' when everything Marvel's done in the past week has presented them as the real Avengers.

Their marketing campaign is doing real, measurable harm to Sam Wilson as a character (and Anthony Mackie by extension). I don't care if this is all somehow going to be magically fixed in Doomsday (and I don't trust that it will be), that will not erase the damage that is being done right now. And I don't think it's unfair to criticize the actors for just standing by and letting it happen.

Thing is, a lot of garbage is happening right now because a lot of people are just standing by and letting it happen. Choosing to do nothing is still a choice.

Yes, if the actors publicly spoke out and said they were uncomfortable with the marketing, that they didn't like how it sidelined and ignored Sam Wilson, that they did not want to be part of a publicity campaign that was enabling (and, let's face it, full on encouraging) racist comments, there might well be consequences.

Guess what? There are news articles every day about people losing their jobs because they refused to ignore what was happening, because they spoke up, even though they knew there would be consequences.

Bill Owens, the executive producer of 60 Minutes, resigned once he was no longer able to 'make independent decisions based on what was right for 60 Minutes, right for the audience'.

Ann Telnaes, an editorial cartoonist at the Washington Post, resigned in January after her editors refused to publish her cartoon (rough cut below, from her Substack), writing 'As an editorial cartoonist, my job is to hold powerful people and institutions accountable. For the first time, my editor prevented me from doing that critical job.' (She just won a Pulitzer, btw.)

'It's just a movie,' you tell me. 'It's no big deal,' you tell me. 'This has nothing to do with US politics,' you tell me.

See the Mouse genuflecting in that rough draft of Telnaes' cartoon?

Of course it's connected.

We are at a point in history where if you are in a position to do so safely, and you do not speak up, if you do not protest, if you do not actively resist, you are complicit. There is no such thing anymore as 'not being political' because if you use 'not being political' to ignore everything that is happening, that is a political choice.

So, no, I don't think it's too much to ask that the actors take a good hard look at themselves in the mirror and find the courage to speak up, even if that's going to upset tptb at Marvel and Disney.

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You know what Sam wilson needs to do. Get a rebound. Maybe a handsome salt and pepper guy or gal and they need to be photographed somewhere and it goes viral. Maybe Ava or Yelena sees it and goes

Yelena: *whistles* cap got game. Wow 😳

Bucky: *stares*

Yelena: *shows the picture of some guy/gal kissing his cheek* Hot.

Bucky: *stares some more and abruptly leave the room*

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I'm so excited

I cant wait for that part of the fandom who are now cooking the best fanfiction about Baku and Baekjin

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Why is nobody writing fanfiction for this wonderful manhwa.

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Don't have any high hope for them.

can the marvel fandom start treating poc characters better genuinely wtf

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I absolutely understand

Once again getting an influx of followers so: fuck jkr and fuck harry potter, you cannot interact with those books/movies/whatever the fuck in a positive way without benefitting her

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Never in my life have I cried more than when I read this one sambucky fic with unrequited bucky/steve

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reblog if you're gay, not gay, slightly gay, or if you just want to launch donald trump into a dying star

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This is like seeing the destiel confession scene again

What do you mean Sambucky "crumbs"???

For over 5 years, Sambucky shippers built a whole fandom out of these these interactions in Captain America: Civil War

and these interactions in Avengers: Endgame

Bucky saying I love you to Sam is not "crumbs"!

It's a major developement.

I don't think anyone in the Sambucky fandom would have imagined we could even have this. This is amazing.