My apartment building has coin-op laundry in the basement, and on the shelf where people store detergent there are also just enough quarters to start one load in the washer. This is the collective "oh shit I forgot my quarters" bank that anyone can borrow from to start laundry without having to climb all the way back up the goddamn stairs first. These quarters have been steadily used and replaced for multiple years now, and every time I see them I think about how upon such small foundations rests all of human society.
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'Desert hermit Ben Kenobi develops a reputation as a crazy wizard because he keeps talking to thin air.'
No. This is Tatooine, talking to yourself is hardly the weirdest thing they've seen. Ben Kenobi, however, keeps having full on fucking screaming rows with thin air and seemingly gets replies back, which is decidedly a step up.
(They've managed to piece together that a major point of contention is the acquisition and raising of a child? Clearly Ben is a wizard that had a bitter divorce with a desert spirit and is working through a custody dispute)
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Anyone else disgusted and traumatized over the last moments we get to see Ben? Confused. Mutated beyond all reason. Without his family, and turned into a monster like he’s been thought of his whole life. Remember the timid little boy who was forced to kill a whole room of bank robbers and came out covered in blood, disassociating and wanting to go home? Yeah so he dies and then dies again and loses all memory of his family and loses the other family he has and then rejects the other one and turns into a monstocity that kills them all and it turns out he never got to be happy again and he was just there to murder people when the plot needed and be a vessel to suffer and die pointlessly
And “this was supposed to be ben’s season” when he doesn’t even get to say goodbye. He barely even has a place in the season at all.
“This is a happy ending”
Are you out of your mind??
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What happened to the other 36 children that were born on October 1st 1989?
Why is Reginald Hargreeves an alien?
Why did Abigail say "Thanks for protecting me on the moon" to Luther?
Why was Jennifer inside a squid?
What happened to Sloane when all the others got to another timeline?
Without the comics, there are still so many questions left unanswered in the umbrella academy show itself.. and it's driving me crazyyy
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i love when a character is a ghost but in a tragic way instead of a scary way. i love when a character has been dead from the beginning but is still holding on to stay in the narrative. i love when a character could choose to resent the living but ends up loving them instead. i love when a character drives the story but isn’t quite there enough to be at the center of it. i love when the ghosts are the protectors instead of the ones causing the harm. i love when a character is at the heart of the story because depending on where you began it, no matter how you told it, the story is about the ghost who struggled to keep their humanity
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a comic about paul rudd
TG: you only want to show john "i love you, man" because paul rudd is in it
CG: OK. FIRST OF ALL, NO I DON'T. IT'S A BEAUTIFUL FUCKING STORY AND I THINK ANYONE WHO GIVES A SINGLE CRAP ABOUT BROMANCE MOVIES SHOULD WATCH IT. IT'S PROBABLY REQUIRED VIEWING FOR THE GENRE. SECOND--
TG: yeah well--
CG: COME ON, YOU LIKED IT.
TG: whether or not i thought the bromance was good is totally independent from the fact that nobody rewatches a movie that many times without their eyes glazing over at the pastry platter of freshly baked mancakes on display
TG: ive seen the way you look at him
TG: i know whats behind those eyes and its carnal
CG: YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND ANYTHING ABOUT ME OR PAUL RUDD.
TG: paul rudd is a 5 at best and you know it
CG: YOU KEEP HIS NAME OUT OF YOUR IGNORANCE GASH
CG: EVEN IF I WAS OGLING AT HIS QUOTE-ENQUOTE "MANCAKES", WHICH I WASN'T JUST SO WE'RE PERFECTLY FUCKING CLEAR, THAT WOULD BE COMPLETELY GODDAMN JUSTIFIED. PAUL RUDD IS A RUGGEDLY HANDSOME, DOWN TO EARTH, OBTAINABLE YOUNG MAN. PERFECTLY SUITABLE. I DON'T SEE WHAT'S WRONG WITH SETTING THE BAR ON A REASONABLE RUNG FOR MYSELF.
CG: AND BY THE WAY, THAT IS REALLY RICH COMING FROM THE GUY WHO STAYS UP TIL 3 IN THE FUCKING MORNING WATCHING TONY HAWK COMPILATIONS.
TG: alright mediocre romcom protags are fair game but tony hawk is sacred goddamn ground you cannot touch him on a conceptual level
CG: HE COULD BLEND INTO AN EMPTY ROOM AND YOU KNOW IT.
TG: alright you wanna tussle lets throw hands
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This was definitely my favourite moment in season 2. Because as much as you hate Ben’s character, you’re urging him to take that step forward. You’re thinking, come on, just walk in. There’s so many others like you. You know there’s a community that could accept him and help him accept himself, if only he could just reach out. But he doesn’t. And, no matter how much you dislike him, it breaks your heart a little to see him walk away.
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