#supporting the cast

[anyataylorjoys]

"You better take care of my cat. Don't rub his belly. He doesn't like that. And don't feed him too much, he'll get fat."

SCHNITZEL and NICO as FRODO A Quiet Place: Day One (2024) dir. Michael Sarnoski

[anna-scribbles]

emma dupain cheng on the brain😽🎀

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[pvtpunsart]

Splinter with the full beard is handsome and really isn't that why we create art

[bathroom-sand]

paramount and spyglass are trying so hard right now to save face because jenna ortega rightfully left the scream franchise after they fired melissa for supprting palestine. nobody is dumb enough to believe the excuse that it’s a scheduling conflict hours after rumors she was trying to get out of her contract cause she was pissed. i’m very thankful that jenna is risking her career and using her position to do the right thing. she’s been outspoken about palestine for years now. i hope this begins a trend of zionist losing money for their support and complacency with an active genocide

[robinavxtch]

the father, the son and the holy spirit

[ppeuppeuppeu]

this was honestly so frickin HOT

[drawsmaddy]

[ID: A digital illustration of Tsukishiro Yukito and Kinomoto Toya from Card Captor Sakura. It's night-time and they're sat together on the roof of Yukito's house. Yuki is resting his head against Toya's shoulder and Toya has his arm around Yuki. Yukito is saying "I don't really have any grandparents, do I? I never did. I still miss them." End description.]

"My grandparents are still so in love, they're always going on trips together"

[birdofcauthon14]

You know, with reflection, I would be genuinely impressed with the writing and subversion of expectations if it turns out that traumatized, cynical, definitely slightly unhinged Jack "listens to the police scanner for fun" Abbott turns out to be a better teacher than Robby and Langdon. Cause like, he's a vet and a former combat medic who knows how to do a field tracheotomy while being directly shelled by Literal Fucking Bombs, and nothing fazes him now, and as a result - as we saw with Santos - he knows how to balance the very necessary poles of "don't fucking do that again" with "but it's still good you saved the patient's life" in a way that Robby and definitely Langdon do not.

I bet you anything he's the weird, wise uncle of the emergency department, and people thrive for it.

[avoidthings]

Imagine watching 2+ hours of a Black ass film that venerates the history and innovation of Black Americans in Reconstruction (correction) under Jim Crow in Mississippi then thinking, “Yes, let me write and edit extensively (and damn near exclusively) for the white male antagonist.”

Couldn’t be me!

[meep-meep-richie]

it´s them

[siggiedraws]

just saw this amazing video that delves into sonic's characterization and narrative role and I LOVE IT?

a must-watch for anyone remotely interested in what makes sonic storytelling so special!

[mysterycitrus]

where are the supporting casts in batman fic. why is everyone just hanging out at the manor. why are the only leaguers mentioned clark and diana and maaaaaybe ollie if his parenting is getting slammed. where is everyone. why does no one have any friends. why do the friends they do have no rich inner lives outside of batangst. is gotham city trapped under the gd simpsons movie dome. dick grayson blink twice if ur being held hostage

[fantastic-nonsense]

just once I would like a man's critique of "why Wonder Woman doesn't sell" to come from someone who has actually read Wonder Woman comics and has the capability to actually identify the correct problems

[thejakeformerlyknownasprince]

Now I have to ask- WHY do you hate Pacific Rim?

Okay, fair warning, this is about as bitter and salty and small-minded as day-old caviar. But. My bitter, salty (probably fishy) opinion:

Pacific Rim is only a good movie because it's a well-written story about robots punching monsters.

That's it. That's all there is to the movie.

I started out merely disappointed by Pacific Rim. We went gaga for the preview materials that promised these unique well-rounded character pairs and trios with these idiosyncratic robots from all these different Pacific nations... And then the movie itself is about some bland white American guy who pilots a robot named a racial slur, the second most fleshed-out team is bland white Australian guys, and the Chinese team is there, kind of, in the background, but don't worry they're going to die first. The "character-driven story" turned out to be "various characters take turns punching aliens" but, sure, whatever, I love the MCU so why not.

The day I went from "Pacific Rim is overrated" to "Pacific Rim is the worst thing that has ever happened to human civilization, I'm extremely normal about this" was the day I saw a Tumblr post suggesting we replace the Bechdel test with the Mako Mori test. Because Mako Mori has her own plot and doesn't kiss North Carolina at the end, making her a whole new type of feminist icon.

To which I was like:

We are talking about the same movie here, right? The Pacific Rim that can't even pass the Bechdel test? The Pacific Rim that's all about might-makes-right, the Pacific Rim that has ONE speaking role for ONE female character in its (from IMDB) 50-person cast? The Pacific Rim that repeatedly puts its only female character in danger and has her rescued by first Idris Elba then North Carolina? THAT Pacific Rim?

Is there a different Mako Mori I haven't met? Because the one I've seen a) has a character arc driven by deciding whether to obey her father or follow her heart, which is as inoffensive and stale as an unblessed communion wafer, b) does nothing that Ellen Ripley didn't do 30 years earlier, but with about 5% of the character depth Ripley got, and c) stands there in silence looking sad as two men punch each other over the question of her virtue.

Any post assuming this movie invented the idea of "small Asian woman kicks monster ass" needs to learn its damn history. Especially the ones acting like her being physically small is somehow a feminist bonus. There's something embarrassingly ahistorical about the whole thing.

And look. I get how we got here. I know how easily Tumblr backs you into a rhetorical corner of "calling a story Good can never mean merely 'enjoyable'; calling a story Good must mean 'virtuous'". Until next thing you know you're arguing that actually, shipping Obi-Wan/Darth Vader is a net good for all of society, because gay divorced middle-aged tyrants who use supplemental oxygen and murdered their exes in a custody dispute over the one kid (out of two) they actually care about deserve to see themselves in sci fi too! You only end up in that corner because half the time you're arguing against someone who says that shipping Obi-Wan/Darth Vader is literally the same thing as supporting father-son incest, so your real reasons for shipping them (1. foe yay, 2. old man yaoi) seem wildly insufficient.

Much of what I see about Pacific Rim seems neck-deep in the "it's not allowed to be a Good Movie unless it single-handedly dismantles the patriarchy" fallacy. There's nothing progressive about shipping two dudes best known for chopping off each other's body parts with laser swords. And there's nothing progressive about a movie having its only female character hug the male protagonist at the end instead of kissing him. You're allowed to like a thing just because it's well-made, without acting like a bog-standard normatively-broey action flick somehow invented a new form of feminism. Anyway, "Pacific Rim is a perfectly fine movie" is the hill I will die upon, heretical though it may be.

[one-hit-boy-wonder]

I love love love fics where billy is adopted by the bats but some people really act like he’s just a random kid that can be just scooped up and saved rather than a character with very deep connections to Fawcett.

[rochenn]

Star Wars being full of Cassette Futurism even to this day is one of my favorite things ever, but there's not enough indoor smoking to REALLY sell the vibe