"Steve says he's retired. He's not retired. He still keeps an eye on his old neighborhood. And when he sees a problem...well...he knows every hero in the city. He might not be doing the fighting himself, but the problems get solved." ~ Daredevil (2016) #4
Yeah, I kind of agree with you. I think they should have had him pass the Captain America mantle to Sam and have him get a new identity.
its almost as if the best most in character and comic accurate choice was staring them straight in the eyes and marvel still managed to miss it
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Play for Today: The Flipside of Dominick Hide (BBC, 1980)
"Complacent with your mission, Dominick? Amusing, the history of transport. We've made a modicum of progress: trips are regulated to microseconds, punctuality taken for granted."
"Yes."
"Why then were you two minutes late on your double return? Machine fault?"
"No. I'm sorry."
"I accept apology. Reason?"
"It was raining. Rain slows everything. I saw an old woman knocked down and I was checking how long before help reached her. The medi-car was blocked in progress, I think she died."
"So?"
"I thought it might be interesting."
"People are not your conspectus, Dominick. If you wish to study people, watch old films."
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i dont know why i find louise and her classmates playing kickball so cute but i love these screenshots?? they're all playing together and louise cheers for rudy when he kicks the ball and he asks for no bouncy please <3
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Tfw a scene hits you with such force and clarity, it's absolutely like a religious vision
When Astarion gets up in the middle of the night to handle the twins so they will be quiet and let Mercy sleep, Mercy sneaks off to the undercity ruins. Theyre gone for hours hunting any Bhaalists who are trying to maintain the ruins, slaughtering the Bhaalists, and then going to the altar to yell directly at Bhaal, only to be met with silence. Mercy screaming that he couldn't take anything else from them. They'd make damn sure of it. Just never saying "You took everything you wanted from me, but you cannot have the twins." And it's a threat. One that isn't answered.
Then returning to a fretting Astarion (bc they're both still unlearning their codependency)
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I hope you don't mind the influx of GG/Dorothy asks you've gotten because I really love your takes and your fics really touch upon a more vulnerable part of Dorothy that I feel was rarely fully explored but was very much present. I was watching recently an ep where Dorothy says she thought her father didn't like her or love her and Sophia cracked that he always talked her up ... to try and sell her to gypsies. Dorothy says "do you know how much that hurts me when you say things like that?". It's one of those lines that's never really followed up on or given a big moment but it stays with me.
Not at all!! I love hearing from you! <3 (and if you ever feel up to it, feel free to send me a dm as well! I'd love to hear more of your thoughts!)
Thank you so much :') I started writing Golden Girls fics precisely for that reason: Dorothy's vulnerability is left so underexplored in the show, even in the moments that (in my opinion, anyway!) presented the perfect opportunity to delve a little deeper into her feelings. I had to give her a moment to shine haha.
That line is the perfect example of what I'm talking about, actually! They throw in those really poignant lines or moments (or even just looks, at times) that hint at so much going on beneath the surface, but it's never expanded on. The only emotional moments she does get, that are fully followed up on, are those relating to Stan -- and even there I feel like a lot is glossed over (often by Dorothy herself, first and foremost).
I could probably write an essay on this but I'll spare you, but I think Sophia's often treated much the same -- if slightly differently -- in the show! And I mean, considering she raised Dorothy, I'm pretty sure she inadvertently ended up teaching Dorothy that covering up your vulnerability is the only way to deal with it. Sophia covers her feelings with quips and jokes, Dorothy does it through dismissal.
And because both of their methods for covering up are very convenient for a sitcom (I can drag Blanche into this as well, by the way. But I promised not to write an essay) it's *so easy* for the narrative to just. go along with their own dismissal of their feelings. Have Sophia distract from her feelings with a funny joke, and the audience is on the floor. Have Dorothy dismiss her feelings with a Look, and there's another opening for someone else to keep up the pace and move the scene along into lighter territory.
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Adventures Of My Theatre Kid Garbage Brain; Spanish Class Edition
So I currently have a Spanish class for gen-ed requirements, and on the way to class/while waiting for class to start I was listening to music, as you do, and a bit before class started America from West Side Story played, not particularly notable, I was just playing my Spotify liked songs on shuffle, and several other songs played after it, whatever
Except the text we're currently working with in class is a poem called Nuyorican Tales, so class started and within minutes America popped into my mind because of some line or something that was said, I don't remember what specifically and ended up stuck in my head the rest of the discussion. So constant battle of "I think I'll go back to San Juan, I know a boa-hey, focus, pay attention to class. ......Puerto Rico, you lovely islan-dammit!" Because as my title says, I'm a theatre kid and my brain is a piece of shit that won't let me actually focus
So while that's going on in my head, my professor changes the tab she has pulled up on the screen, and what does she pull up?
https://youtu.be/hoQEddtFN3Q?si=QP4X8XXP5VSjRthM
(Side tangent I don't know why i never got around to watching the 2021 WSS. I watched the original shortly before the 2021 one came out to prepare and then never got around to seeing when it did come out, and I really need to watch it, their choreo is cool!)
Yeah so I burst out laughing, loud, in the middle of class and then just had to be like "sorry, sorry, that song has been stuck in my head for like the past ten minutes sorry" while trying to stifle my laughs because that's disrupting the class dangit!
This has been adventures of my theatre kid garbage brain, we'll see what stupid thing it does to torment me next time
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Whumptober Day 27
Scars
Character: Jay
Prompts: scars, "let me see"
Length: 478
I posted this to the wrong acct and it took me like 5 hours to notice, but enjoy some very short post -skybound angst bc my Tumblr feed called it to me
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