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owen-wilson-appreciation-club · 3 years

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I’ve had this in my drafts for several weeks. I don’t see anyone saying this, so I guess I should:

Owen Wilson didn’t become hot just because of the grey hair. He “became” hot because it was a role you guys finally took him seriously in.

Let me explain:

I’ve been seeing a lot of people on Tumblr saying “Oh my god! Didn’t see the Owen crush coming!”

What’s even worse, is that people, those same people, openly say “I hated him with blond hair but now? He’s so hot!”

Tastes are subjective. It’s completely fine if you prefer grey haired Owen to blond Owen. But saying he was ugly before (which mind you, he isn’t) is just plain rude.

If I came up to you and said “You looked better when (part of you) was different” you’d be upset, wouldn’t you? You’d be upset.

There is a reason Owen isn’t on social media, because of shit like this. It’s one thing to not be a fan of his work, but to say he’s bad, and then appreciate it only after Loki? Blasphemous.

Sure, he’s leaned more towards comedy films, and I agree he should go more into drama. But there will always be some bitch out there who demotes him no matter what he does.

Sure, some of his roles are more “childlike” and comedic, but that’s not an issue. That’s what he likes and he’s made a name for himself. But saying those roles can’t be taken seriously is actually pathetic. Saying he’s only good in one role is pathetic.

I created this blog purely as a joke. I thought, what the hell, since my other blog was shadowbanned, and Tumblr won’t unban it, no matter how many emails I send, I’ll make a whole blog to appreciation Owen, posting pictures, memes and reblogging content about him.

This blog became a hell of a lot more popular than I anticipated. I actually got asks for the first time on this blog. I’d never gotten an ask before. Crazy.

I don’t mind it. I actually really like spreading positivity about him. After seeing the absolute shit show that is Twitter, and the sylki stans calling him a dead beat dad, I’ve been more motivated than ever to keep this up.

I’ll never shame any of you for preferring Owen with grey hair. However, I will shame you for saying he is attractive only with grey hair. He is actually really talented, and honestly, really beautiful. Make jokes all you want about how much you want to get railed by him after the Esquire interview (myself included) but he really is pretty.

I request you watch his work in any Wes Anderson film. He’s able to show off his range there, and the films are really good as standalone films regardless of him being there.

The reason I say this is because he isn’t just some blond himbo who can be stupid with Vince Vaughn. He isn’t just some blond model with Ben Stiller. He has some excellent roles, and was even nominated for an academy award for his screenplay with Wes Anderson.

The fact that some of you place all his value purely in his looks and his personal life is absolutely disgusting. The fact that some of you see Owen as Mobius and nothing else is awful. The fact you put value on him in one role is rude.

I know I won’t get any benefits from posting this rant. I know that. I just get so frustrated seeing some of you say “Wow I thought he was ugly but daaamn that grey hair makes me wish he’d breed me.”

I’ll reiterate: If I told you you were ugly until you changed a part of yourself, and that I wouldn’t like you otherwise, you’d be upset too. So please, let’s keep it respectful across all platforms, yeah?

Another thing I’d like to mention: Why disclaim you finding Owen attractive?

I don’t see anyone disclaiming finding Tom Hiddleston attractive. Why is that?

Are you scared someone is going to judge you? On Tumblr?

So what if you think he’s hot? So what? The fact I even have to bring this up just annoys the hell out of me.

I’ll wrap this up:

To those of you who have been appreciating his work from before Loki:

Thank you.

To those of you who have been making gifs of him from his older films:

Thank you.

For those of you who share the opinion that he’s beautiful no matter what:

Thank you.

To those of you who just think he’s hot with grey hair and think he’s valuable only in the Loki series:

Go fuck yourself.

#owen wilson #mobius #mobius m mobius #vent #loki series #Loki show #hall of fame

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calzona-ga · 3 years

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Since 2005, Shondaland has produced groundbreaking television. And over the course of 17 seasons, Grey’s Anatomy has made more than its fair share of bold choices. From the killing off of Patrick Dempsey’s beloved McDreamy to the still-controversial ghost-sex story line, the ABC series has seen, and done, it all. But perhaps no episode was riskier than turning the popular medical drama into a musical for “Song Beneath the Song,” the infamous season-7 hour in which a pregnant Callie (Sara Ramirez) gets badly injured in a car accident and, while her fellow doctors work to save her life, sees her hallucinatory self burst into song — with the rest of the characters quickly following suit.

Coming from the mind of series creator Shonda Rhimes, a vocal fan of both Broadway shows and TV musicals like Buffy’s “Once More, With Feeling,” the Grey’s musical episode was a monumental moment for the show and for television. Many viewers praised its audacity and swooned over the vocal chops of stars like Ramirez and Chandra Wilson.

“Song Beneath the Song” made for one of the most memorable hours of television, earning strong ratings and leading the soundtrack, particularly Ramirez’s show-stopping rendition of Brandi Carlile’s “The Story,” to Billboard success. A decade later, its impact is still growing, thanks in part to the countless teenage Grey’s fans who’ve only recently discovered the series via Netflix. Like the show itself, the musical has become an indelible part of TV history — and so, 10 years after its premiere in March 2011, we spoke to the episode’s cast and crew to get the story of how it came to be.

Featuring thoughts from Rhimes; writers, producers, and co-showrunners Tony Phelan and Joan Rater; and actors Wilson, Kevin McKidd, Jessica Capshaw, Kim Raver, and Eric Dane, this is the oral history of “Song Beneath the Song.”

Finding the Inspiration

Inspired by a 2008 benefit concert in which several stars of Grey’s and its spinoff show Private Practice performed songs to support out-of-work Hollywood workers during the 2007-2008 writers’ strike, Rhimes decided to turn her long-held desire to make a Grey’s musical episode into a reality.

Rhimes (series creator and writer): I remember thinking to myself at a certain point, I have this sort of murderers’ row of Broadway people. Like, Chandra had been on Broadway and singing; obviously, Sara Ramirez had won a Tony on Broadway [for Best Featured Actress in a Musical, in 2005], which is how I first met her; and then I knew that Kevin could sing. There were so many people in the show with beautiful voices. ... It felt like it was leaning in that direction in a good way.

Rater (writer, producer, and co-showrunner): The first iteration for, like, two days when we first started batting around the idea was that we would write original music. It was all gonna be original music. And then we quickly realized that a) who’s gonna write that music?, and b) no, it doesn’t feel like the right thing. And then Shonda, I think a day or two later, came in with the idea that we would use these iconic songs.

Wilson (Dr. Miranda Bailey): But the studio wasn’t quite on board with this whole idea.

Convincing a Skeptical Network

After coming up with the episode’s plot and deciding that the characters would sing classic songs from the Grey’s soundtrack, like Snow Patrol’s “Chasing Cars” and the Fray’s “How to Save a Life,” Rhimes pitched the idea to the network — but, in a surprising first, she was told that they were going to pass.

Rhimes: By that point, I wasn’t getting notes on anything; nobody was saying no to me about anything. So it was really bizarre to me that there was all this resistance to doing a musical episode. And I remember somebody at the network saying, “Can’t you just do one of your love-triangle thingies again?” And I thought, my head’s gonna explode, because the show is not a bunch of “love-triangle thingies.” You guys have missed the point entirely. I felt like, no, every year of the show is a completely different show, and this year the show has a musical episode. And that’s the story.

McKidd (Dr. Owen Hunt): Tony, Joan, and Shonda basically said to us, “We are trying to convince Disney to give us actual money to do this musical episode, and we feel like we want to do a show-and-tell to show them what this musical episode could be. Are you guys willing to give your time to help us create this show-and-tell?” And we were like, “Yeah, of course.”

Wilson: So we gave them a concert. Sara, Kevin McKidd, and I, along with musicians, got together, and we performed this script that Shonda and Tony Phelan put together. Shonda did the narrating. And we went through what the entire episode would be, based on those iconic songs.

McKidd: I remember Sandra Oh came to the concert for the execs just to be moral support for us. And she became like our groupie — she would stand and cheer and whoop and holler in between all the songs.

Phelan (writer, producer, director, and co-showrunner): Once [the executives] saw it, and saw it could work, then they gave us the okay to do it.

Rhimes: I still feel like they thought we were crazy. But you couldn’t deny the talent in the room.

Getting the Cast on Board

Once the episode was greenlit, the team began the task of persuading a cast full of non-singers to simultaneously sing, act, and — in some cases — dance on screen.

Wilson: The offer was put out on the table from the beginning from Shonda — anybody that’s not interested in singing, you’re not required; you don’t have to do it.

Rater: I think Sandra from the beginning was like, nope.

Rhimes: She looked at me — it was her very deadpan face — and she was like, “I’m not singing.” And I was like, okay! If that’s not your thing, that is not your thing — that’s completely okay. And it didn’t feel like she was afraid to sing or push past this barrier. It felt like Cristina Yang doesn’t sing. And that made sense to me.

Rater: Ellen [Pompeo] has a great voice. She could’ve done more. ... Ellen was very gracious about, like, “I’ll doo-wop in the back; don’t worry about me. Let’s hear Chandra, let’s hear Sara, this is theirs.”

Capshaw (Dr. Arizona Robbins): In addition to Sara having this powerhouse voice, she was always very generous about others and never made anyone feel smaller because of her giant power. But singing with her was like, “Aw, man [laughs], how about you get this one? You got this leg of the race.”

Wilson: Probably the most frightened person was Kim Raver, bless her heart.

Raver (Dr. Teddy Altman): It was super-exciting and terrifying at the same time. We all love singing, but unless you’re Sara Ramirez or Chandra Wilson.

Dane (Dr. Mark Sloan): I don’t fancy myself a singer, so I said, “Shonda, in this particular episode, I want the least amount of lines.”

Rhimes: Eric Dane surprised me, because his voice had this lovely quality to it that was really nice.

Dane: I set her up for a catastrophe, so she had very low expectations.

Starting Rehearsals

For months leading up to the episode, the cast embarked on a grueling series of rehearsals and voice lessons, adding hours onto their already long daily schedules.

Capshaw: I had just had a baby, and I was really taking my life one day at a time. I knew it was going to be a big episode, but, timeliness-wise, it was a tough time. I think I was still breast-feeding.

Phelan: Usually in the writers’ room, you’ve got maybe six-to-eight weeks from the time you come up with an idea to the time that it’s shot. This we needed almost the entire season to plan for.

Raver: It was like riding a bike but then adding, like, six more wheels to it, and you had to kind of figure it out.

Capshaw: We were all bringing our A games. In normal days, it feels like there’s a familiarity, you can feel a little more casual, a little more off-the-cuff, but there was nothing off-the-cuff about this. It was all very high stakes because it was life or death, literally.

There were some silver linings, though.

Dane: We had these little earbuds in our ears, I guess like how you film musicals, so you can sync what you’re mouthing with the music in your ear. And so I went to the sound operator and said, “I can buy one of these earbuds, right? And I can create a content-receiver pack and connect it to an iPod and pipe music into this too theoretically, yes?” And he said, “Yeah, you could do that if you want to.” So I said, “So when I’m performing surgery in later episodes on this show, and I don’t have very many lines, theoretically I could be listening to music, and nobody would know?” And he said, “Yeah, theoretically, that would work.” So I had one made, and I shot many episodes in the surgical theater, sometimes with lines, listening to music, many times.

Filming the Episode

“Song Beneath the Song” revolved largely around the seriousness of Callie’s condition, but there were also some light moments, including a sexy, dance-filled take on “Running on Sunshine” featuring several of the show’s couples.

Capshaw: When Sara and I are in the car in the clouds — oh my god, I’ve never felt so goofy in my life [laughs].

Raver: Scott Foley [who played Teddy’s love interest Henry] and I had so much fun working together. He’s so funny, and so choreographing that dance singing number was really fun.

Wilson: Debbie Allen sent in Eartha Robinson, one of her choreographers from the Debbie Allen Dance Academy, who I knew from Fame, the television series. So this is who was coming in, teaching us how to twirl. And I was like, oh my god, I’m on Fame!

Early in the episode, McKidd’s Owen sing-shouts at his crew of doctors to “calm down” — a moment that, years later, became a widely shared meme for its over-the-top nature.

McKidd: In the scene, I think it was Kate Walsh — she’s brilliant; she’s a prankster — and Patrick and Eric Dane. And they were all arguing. And I’m sitting there and [the cameras] push in on me and I go, “Calm down.” And they couldn’t keep a straight face. Every time we did a take, they just would fall over laughing. And they were on camera giving me the eye line, and I had to sing this song seriously with those two actors just doubled over, like sidesplitting. It just tickled their funny bones so much. That was one of the hardest acting days of my life [laughs].

Capshaw: For sure, many, many, many shots were taken at Kevin McKidd for his “calm down” [laughs]. ... He really took on the rock-&-roll part of it.

McKidd: My daughter, who’s big on Twitter, she said that “calm down” thing’s like a serious meme thing now, which I guess is an honor. I don’t know.

The biggest moment of the hour came at the end, when Ramirez, a Tony winner for Spamalot, sang “The Story” as Callie fought for her life.

Phelan: When Sara came to Grey’s, she had this idea that she absolutely wanted to be known as an actress not a singer. And so for her first couple seasons on the show, she kind of left that side of her behind. Then, here was Shonda and I coming to her and saying, “No, we want to re-engage that part of you and put it on the show.” And so I think that she got nervous about that ... but to hear that amazing, magical voice come out of her ... that was the moment that was going to be able to sustain the music [of the whole episode].

Rhimes: When she sings “The Story,” I mean — I wrote the episode; I know what’s gonna happen. I’ve seen it a thousand times. It has nothing to do with me. But I always tear up a little bit because of her extraordinary voice and extraordinary performance.

Wilson: What a showcase it was for Sara Ramirez. I’m so glad that she got to share that part of herself with our audiences.

Reading Those Reviews

On March 31, 2011, the episode aired. While it garnered strong ratings, viewers’ reactions to “Song Beneath the Song” were mixed.

McKidd: I think we all went into it with our eyes open, and we knew there was gonna be mixed reviews. Because some people are gonna love it, and some people aren’t. But that shouldn’t stop people from taking a few risks in what we do, you know?

Rater: I remember being shocked that there were people who didn’t like it. I was like, come on!

Capshaw: It didn’t feel like [the reviews] were gonna affect anything either way. It wasn’t gonna be like, “Oh my gosh, that was too silly, and I’m never watching Grey’s again.” It had already found its place in people’s hearts.

Rhimes: I learned very quickly [on Grey’s] that if you’re gonna believe the good things people say about you, you have to believe the bad things people say. So there’s no point in paying attention to any of it. ... Nobody’s gonna like everything that you do.

Phelan: I know there are a lot of people who don’t like it, who felt like it bent the show too much, but it’s season 7 of a show, and if you’re not taking big swings when you’re on season 7 on a show, something’s wrong.

Creating a Legacy

Despite the critical reactions, the episode has developed something of a cult following over the years, thanks to live benefits and TikTok memes. A decade later, its creators all look back fondly on the hour and its impact.

Wilson: [The cast] watched it together, and I remember feeling like, wow, look at what we did!

Capshaw: When we showed up to do that benefit concert, I remember coming out onstage ... and being completely, completely overwhelmed with the people that responded to Arizona in that episode, and to the love story between Callie and Arizona.

Phelan: As a director, it was the biggest challenge of my career to do that, and it’s one of the things that I’m most proud of.

Raver: I’ll be in my car singing along, or at work if we’re in the hair-and-makeup trailer and we’re listening to [the soundtrack], it’s just an immediate flashback. It kind of feels like yesterday.

Wilson: The soundtrack is on my playlist on my phone [laughs]. So I will pop that thing out in a minute, because it’s just absolute happy memories.

Rater: If I’m cooking, that is what I put on. That’s what I tell Alexa to play for me.

Rhimes: I feel like that episode just always reminds me of having so much fun. That was what was really great. We had so much fun. And how much do you get to say that about just being at work?

Dane: As a cast, contrary to what some of the entertainment media might have speculated, we were all very close. We all spent a lot of time together, and a lot of that stuff felt really real to us. It was easy to access because of how we felt about each other off screen.

Raver: I just remember it being such an incredible experience, being able to work with all these incredibly talented actors and creators.

Rhimes: It’s right in my top 10 of episodes we’ve ever done.

Dane: I don’t particularly want to do it again, but I’m glad I did it.

#grey's anatomy #7x18 #jessica capshaw #eric dane #chandra wilson #shonda rhimes #kevin mckidd #kim raver #tony phelan #Joan Rater

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lonelyghosts-stuff · 3 years

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Loki Tumblr Posts Masterlist

I have made so many Loki posts I figured I might as well make a masterlist because making organized things like this is fun for me.

This Masterlist includes some reblogs

There's no real point to this

Analyses/Rants/General Comments

(MCU) Loki Laufeyson/Odinson Character History and Analysis

Ugh Thanks a Lot "Gagnarok"

TVA Stripping Loki-Good? Bad? (Maybe a little of both?)

Loki Show Expectation Anxiety

Coping With Expectation Anxiety

Look at this shmuck calling me a fake Loki fan for not liking Ragnarok

Loki-Character Analysis (and Rant lol)

Why ppl say Loki smash dumb or toxic ppl???

Loki is so caring of Thor's love, Jane Foster

Loki | Behind the Scenes (2021)

Loki Show Promos

OfficialLoki Instagram Promo for Loki on Disney+

Loki Series TikTok Promo

OMG HE HAS A TURTLENECK

LOOK AT HIS TURTLENECK!!!

Good? Bad? Bit of both!

You Still Need to See Loki in a Turtleneck

"Loki - you're in a lot of trouble."

"COME AND GET ME!" Loki on Disney+ Hotspot clip

Marvel Infinite Disney+ Reel

Tom Hiddleston Breaks Down a Decade of Loki's Most Memorable Scenes in Preparation for 'Loki'

Tom Hiddleston: Loki in 30 Seconds

Miss Minutes 'Loki' TV Spot Clip-SHIRTLESS LOKI

Marvel Studios' Loki | Official Trailer | Disney+

Loki Art Posters

Behind the Scenes and Other Content

Thor (2011) Deleted Scenes

Loki VS Valkyries Fight Scene

Loki | Behind the Scenes (2021)

Memes and Fan Content

Loki Turned Into a Piece of Paper?

Tom Hiddleston is Given Executive Producer and the First thing he does is...

Loki Trailer Screenshot Memes

My Little Baby, Off to Destroy People

Considering Using My College Fund to Buy Loki Costume Pieces

You hurted Loki!? Oh. Oh! Jail for Mobius! Jail for Mobius for for One Thousand Years!!

Loki is played by a 40 year old man but he's baby

Distracted Boyfriend Meme but it's Tom Hiddleston/Loki With the Tesseract

Shirtless Loki is EVERYWHERE

It is Wednesdays my Loki Lovers-Wednesdays are the new Fridays

Loki's Just Vacuuming Stark Tower

What SHOULD Have Happened After Infinity War

Thor May be the God of Thunder, but Thunder Always Comes After Lightning--KACHOW!

Thor and Loki: Remember Me

Loki Has Kidnapped Tom Hiddleston Confirmed

Amazing Thor Ragnarok Reimagined Comic!

Loki Through the Movies

I'll Obey You Any Day, Loki

Loki Being Chill While Chaos Ensues Around Him

Introducing Thor and Loki to the Class in a Presentation About Norse Mythology

Loki Just Really Needs a Hug

Loki Gets Blamed for Everything When He's Just Getting Dragged Along

Loki in 'Avengers Assemble'

My Tumblr Officially Became a 'Loki Stan Account'

Desperate Attempt at Drawing Loki-Not so good

Loki has the same knife in the trailer as he used to try and stab purple grape man

Steve Roger is at fault for Loki going to space jail

Tom Hiddleston as Loki for 10 Years

Loki 1st Trailer Music

@sserpente fixed the MCU

Loki's "funeral"

Loki deserved comfort after learning of his true parentage

Loki and Wanda causing chaos while Stephen Strange knows he has to clean it up after

Thor and Loki are "smart"

Loki GIFs

Jotunn Loki is Tiny Giant

Look at his emotion; my poor baby

"COME AND GET ME!"

Loki is scared cuz a man just got melted in front of him for not showing his ticket

Mean Lady Takes Loki's Knives

Loki's Got a Point About Thor...

Tony Stark and Loki: "We have a Hulk."

"He's doing great!"-'Loki' Series

"Wednesdays are the new Fridays"

"HE'S NOT MY FATHER!"---"I, Loki, prince of Asgard... Odinson..."

Loki and Nebula Parallels

Thor and Loki Being a Duo in Thor Ragnarok

Loki Using Magic

Tom Hiddleston as Loki in the MCU

"We protect the proper flow of time. I want you to help us fix it." 'Loki' (2021)

Loki kicking all the booty in the 'Loki' trailers

Loki tryna help Thor in Ragnarok

"Come on... what'd you expect?"

Sylvie(?) and Loki

More 'Loki' Trailer GIFs

Loki Chillin' While Mount Vesuvius is Erupting

"I'm terribly sorry. Must be a very painful memory."

Thor: The Dark World | Loki's Coronation (Deleted Scene)

Thor and Loki transformation | Thor: Ragnarok

Thor: Ragnarok | Loki Flipping Knives

Thor: Ragnarok | Loki's Fabulous Hari Flip

Loki is a polite "evil" god

Loki Has Telekinesis!!!

Tom Hiddleston Very Animatedly Summarizes the Past Ten Years of Loki in 30 Seconds

Speculation/Headcanons/Interviews/Articles

Loki and Thor Headcanon

Wants for the Loki Series

Loki Showing Vulnerability in the Trailers

My Sweet Baby Boy Needs a Hug

Michael Waldron Interview and Comments

The Warriors 3 and Loki in Thor (2011)

Tom Hiddleston Gushing Over Owen Wilson and His Role in 'Loki'

Teletubbies Listed as Inspiration for 'Loki'???

Tom Hiddleston aka Loki Watches Marvel Movies as a Fan in Theaters

Fanfic

Specter Fanfic Synopsis/Idea

Specter Fanfic Masterlist

#this took over an hour and it shouldn't have #Loki #Loki Laufeyson #Loki Odinson #Marvel #Marvel Cinematic Universe #MCU #Disney #Disney Plus #Disney+#Loki Series #Loki Show #Loki on Disney+#Loki Disney+#Tom Hiddleston #Memes #Marvel Memes #MCU Memes

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tempestaurora · 3 years

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okay so i finally caught up with loki and here are my (spoilery) thoughts:

is it selfcest or is it that meme about fucking your own clone

i still care bare minimum about this show like it really hasn’t grabbed me

i guessed about the time lords or whatever the fuck they’re called like i guessed that from the start

sif! my baby! i love you!

the after credit scene................... excited about kid loki and my potential young avengers movie/tv show

when mobius got pruned or whatever i immediately went, oh pruning doesn’t kill them then huh because they’re not writing out owen wilson in episode 4

that’s it that’s all my thoughts

#loki #loki spoilers #loki tv #lokitv #talk #marvel

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emptymasks · 3 years

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The thing with Mobius is. I feel like whenever Owen Wilson is in a movie I’ve always seen bits of him and not the character it’s always been, oh that’s Owen Wilson. He’s just been playing someone but always Owen Wilson. He’s just been playing Owen Wilson. But with Mobius I don’t see Own Wilson. I actually see a different person I see Mobius. A fully fleshed out character that is very enjoyable. And who’s not just Owen Wilson. He’s truly lost himself in it and I love that.

I wish I could feel this but I've literally only ever watched one movie with Owen Wilson in and that was only last year, not counting watching Night at the Museum as a child because I don't remember it very well. So while I'm very aware of the meme-like status with people doing impressions and Zoolander, I'm not aware of how good his ability as an actor is.

That being said, I know my Dad watched the trailers and asked me who that was and when I said Owen Wilson he couldn't believe it.

From the trailers I honestly didn't think I was going to like Mobius, but now I love him and want to hug him.

#mobius m mobius #loki series #owen wilson #answeredasks #loki series spoilers #loki tv #loki spoilers

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sugarhillpark · 3 years

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I was tagged by @pyrchance. Thanks Pyr and I’ll try to repay you for these ask tags by getting a more Pretty. Odd. looking cake one day. 💕

1. why did you choose your url?

I didn’t wanna pick something for one fandom because I jump around (turned out to be wise). I ended up going with a variation on one of my favourite childhood haunts near my grandparents’ house that wasn’t too identifying because both place names are varied (the actual place name was taken anyway).

2. any side blogs? if you have them, name them and why you have them.

Nup. Maybe one day. Right now I like being impressed by the commitment of anyone who follows me to putting up with all the reblogged pictures that have absolutely fuck all to do with what they wanted from me.

3. how long have you been on tumblr?

I had two other tumblrs in my twenties but with I think possibly years long gaps between them? The first one was in my mid twenties sometime? Probably? So like anything up to 8 years on and off. Feeling very (Owen Wilson voice) ��wow’ now.

4. do you have a queue tag?

No but I have OCD and organise pictures in a way that probably only makes sense to me.

5. why did you start your blog in the first place?

I wanted to get back into writing fanfic and fandom because I was struggling with original work and missed the engagement in these spaces. And honestly the thirst posts and memes.

6. why did you choose your icon/pfp?

It’s a sketch one of my favourite people @tinylittletext did for me of a little scorpion with a bleeding heart flower, two things I freaking love! Very enamoured with this lil guy and will probably get some variation of this tattooed on me eventually.

7. why did you choose your header?

Uh yeah I still haven’t got to that yet.

8. how many mutuals do you have?

I haven’t counted and I’m not gonna but I love you guys.

9. how many followers do you have?

Under 100 (look, I’m a new to the fandom freak who isn’t very intriguing and I love that about me)

10. how many people do you follow?

Also under 100 because I tend to compulsively try to scroll through my entire dash most of the time but I’m working on it.

11. have you ever made a shitpost?

Uh I’m not sure how you grade shitposts but if I haven’t I aspire to?

12. how often do you use tumblr each day?

Plenty. I lose track. Probably scrolling 3-5 times depending on what I’m up to that day.

13. did you ever fight/argument with another blog once? who won?

Not on this tumblr baby. On an old tumblr some 1975 fandom people I guess tried to start drama with me when my fic got more popular than theirs but I just wanted to sit in my corner and not mess with that so it was just kind of them complaining within their small clique. It was still a bummer and made me lose interest in that fanfic and fandom though so I guess they won? Bandom has been pretty sweet so far because it’s such a huge fandom space I think people are less neurotic and territorial about stuff like fanfic and followers.

14. how do you feel about "you need to reblog this" posts?

Hard nope.

15. do you like tag games?

Yep, even if I always feel kind of like the kid being given like a cookie by the cool kids and I have zero fun lunchbox stuff to trade because all my mutuals who actually like doing these have usually already been tagged. 😅

16. do you like ask games?

Ditto.

17. which of your mutuals do you think is tumblr famous?

Tumblr famous sounds dark I’m not gonna drag my mutuals into that.

18. do you have a crush on a mutual?

I have writing crushes on @throwupsparkles and @pyrchance those guys are amazing. I have all these BBB fics to read as well so I’ll probably get more writing crushes mutual and otherwise. Also obviously have a huge fucking crush on Tiny, she’s aware. 😚

Tagging @theyellowgrassgrows and @miss-bethany and please anyone who wants to do this say I tagged you and go nuts.

#tag games #ask games

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kazauro · 4 years

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✨𝙾𝚆𝙴𝙽 𝚆𝙸𝙻𝚂𝙾𝙽 𝙱𝙸𝙾𝙶𝚁𝙰𝙿𝙷𝚈✨

✈︎𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙻𝚎𝚐𝚎𝚗𝚍𝚊𝚛𝚢 𝙲𝚘𝚞𝚗𝚝𝚛𝚢 𝙳𝚞𝚍𝚎 𝚆𝚎 𝚊𝚕𝚕 𝙰𝚍𝚘𝚛𝚎𝚍, 𝙼𝚛. 𝙾𝚠𝚎𝚗 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚜𝚘𝚗.🎟️

✍︎𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚌𝚑𝚎𝚍, 𝚊𝚛𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚐𝚎𝚍 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚍𝚘𝚗𝚎

𝚋𝚢 𝙰𝚜𝚑𝚕𝚎𝚢 𝚅𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚊. ☕︎

☏︎

Owen Cunningham Wilson, famously known as Owen Wilson with his wide sense-of-humor and quirky personality evident in his roles, he is an American actor, producer, also an songwriter, but of course, a comedian. He was born at Dallas, Texas, as obvious in his strong country accent. Living for 52 years now as a '68 liner, born in November, 18, and a Scorpio. He's updated net worth as of 2020 is $70 Million, he's still a great and legendary idol in the industry, also with his also famous brother Luke Wilson, Owen is one of the most known actors and most recognized faces in Hollywood.

♫︎

Owen Wilson may be famous, but his growth and popularity started when he starred in the films like, "The Royal Tenenbaums" in 2001, "The Wedding Crashers" in 2005, his role in "Zoolanders" with his good friend and co-star Ben Stiller, and him starring in a bunch of movies with the famous star Jackie Chan. Owen debuted in 1996 with the film "Bottlerocket".

Yet his success and him being a legend of course did not just revolved in those films. Owen was the one who dubbed in the famous kid animation, "Cars", he was the voice of Lightning Mcqueen who's the main character in the animation. Feww of his successful films and movies he starred and lead at are "The Night at the Museum", "The Internship", "Behind Enemy Lines", "Anaconda", and many more.

♕︎

Owen Wilson was and still very famous for his "wow". He is so famous for saying that word that he makes about $1,324 a word and probably makes around $140k a movie with just his "wow"s. If his" wow"s are compiled, a 10 hour video will still won't be enough, people had already made his "wow" a meme and a famous reaction.

✞︎

Despite being a celebrity/actor and a legend, he is still a normal person just like everyone else, after all, he is still a human being with feelings, emotions and experiences. In his new days of being an actor, in 2002, he had his former girlfriend Sheryl Crow. Although, had to separate, in 2007, Owen have agone through such obstacle and the separation rumored to be its reason, although false or not, it doesnot matter because it's way too personal and we can never have a say about it.

In 2007, Owen has attempted su1c1de and was diagnosed with depression. Because of this happening, he had to withdraw from his supposedly role in the film "Tropical Thunder" whose produced by his good friend and co-star, Ben Stiller. Also with this happening, he had to be more wary and had developed a trauma in doing interviews.

♔︎

Owen has his first son in 2011 with his ex-girlfriend Jade Duell, when they relationship ended in the same year. Owen then had his second son with Cindy Lindvquist in 2014. On the other hand, Owen had his third child with his another ex-partner in 2018. Unfortunately, Owen has never met his daughter according to his recent ex-partner. Although, even after having 4 partners already and 3 children, Owen was still never married.

☺︎︎

(I chose Owen Wilson as the person I'd make a biograohy because I, personally, really like and adore him. I also believe his humor is very peculiar and his own being is amazing. I am a huge fan and I love him so much)

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#owen wilson #biography #autobiografia #biografia #wow #Blog #autobiography

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true-bean · 4 years

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Weird shit I’ve heard high schoolers say/do

Yesterday was my official last day of high school and since the beginning of my freshman year I have been writing down the weird shit I hear high schoolers say and sometimes do. My friends are all still in high school but I just feel like I should end this in my senior year but they better stop sayin weird shit. Also the list ended up being too got damn long so it’s gonna be a strange post anyway here we go

"My dad spent 7 days in jail and I'm pretty sure he's gay now"

"She took my dress and cut it into a lesbian dress"

"My mom called the police on a hobo that lives in the woods between my house and food city"

"Were you there when he stuck tampons up his nose on the bus?"

"Ah it's crooked!" "Just like my sexuality"

"I told my wrestling team that I'm a lesbian so they won't flirt with me"

"I forgot that pennies aren't see-through"

*stacking books* "we gotta build trumps wall"

*taking down the books* "we gotta destroy trumps wall"

*student runs out and slams door followed by a student entering the class* "someone salty?"

"Its mostly just trump and president Obama and Vice President Biden because I love Biden memes"

"Troye Sivan is my god, he's my gay god"

"She gorgeous, angel birthed!"

Just has a fucking bitcoin fidget spinner spinning on his laptop

"I am a really aggressive note taker"

"You should see how many pens i have" - "name three" - "blue, red, and black" - "fair enough"

"Boy I hope Dylan gets here so I'll have someone to get lit with"

"Just pretend to be a lesbian for a day"

"Nothing like drinking cheese juice"

"My uterus hurts so fucking bad"

*over intercom* "Come watch me break mr. Brinkmans ankles"

*holds up connect 4* "I'm gonna kill somebody"

"I just told you I have a fucking orthodontist appointment"

"It's not my fault that you have a boney ass"

“I hate happy people”

“I don’t want the fish to get high”

“GOTTA SUCK IN THAT FIRE”

“Shut up we lost our streak!”

“How the fuck do left handed people survive?”

“I like growing boys”

“I’m going to sit on one of you”

“Okay boner buddy”

“Hey, straight people are so gay”

“You could say bubbles in German and it sounds like a hate crime”

“It is an allergic relaxation”

“Can we listen to monster while we’re in the ditch?”

*laughing* “I’m getting bullied by gays for being gay”

*from hallway* “Isabelle I need you!” - “you’re gay!”

“Yeah I didn’t reach that and now I feel like a failure”

“No Brittany that’s cannabalism”

“I just walked in there like yeet”

“Dillion you want a black baby?”

“We can watch shrek my twin brother”

“Oh my heck”

“Control your yeet”

*drawing a skull* “the eyes are uneven because that’s how I’m feeling”

“Can I big mood this?”

“Well I’m the aggressive note taker so”

“Quick Kaitlyn before the bell rings, does my hair smell like strawberries?” - “It smells like hair”

“Some mother truckin eggs”

“Jamie you yeeted it, this isn’t the time for yeeting that was a good yeet though”

*talking about laptop* “I like to ignore it until it dies so I can show dominance”

“Arms length bitch!”

“Why do I have popsicle sticks?” - “the real question is why wouldn’t you have popsicle sticks”

“What do you want?” - “death” - “from McDonald’s”

“If I can’t be straight in real life I can’t be straight in disc golf”

Just straight up sticks grass up another persons nose

“How do you feel about the word shit pickle?”

“A chrysalis is like a crunchy salty gusher”

“Let’s yeet our way to the band room”

*looking at hands* “I have turd fingers”

“I understand that you’re angry but put the cap on, be human”

“That grass taste pretty good”

“Beep beep I want death”

“These are pride flags you fucking demon”

“The gender neutral bathroom is the nicest bathroom I have lied on the floor of”

“It’s oof o’clock”

“I straight up yeeted my way down five steps”

“Listen I’m gonna use my tongue as my straw”

Presenting: “Lincoln’s biggest competition in the erection- aw shit-“

“Alex I don’t think I’m gay enough I should do cocaine”

“Oh my ass was just watering”

“You have an eyelash on your glasses” - “it makes me more threatening”

“It’s like slam poetry but it’s scary”

Happily, “Look at them flies die”

“I don’t like fingers”

“I was too savage for the soda”

“I have a breakdown over Owen Wilson’s nose at least once a day”

“You seagull the door”

“Are you claiming my ass”

“Great pace!” - “not really I wanna die”

“MY EYEBROWS ARE GONNA WASH OFF!”

“Anyone who invented running hated children”

“I’m going full on lesbian I don’t like guys anymore”

“It’s just a whole mess of just sadness”

“I’m gonna fuck the moon”

“That Oreo had sand in it” - “yeah no shit. We’re at the beach alex, everything has sand in it, including your ass”

“Polluting? Don’t you mean some dolphin will get sick shades”

“It’s an uwu day”

“That purple hat holds a curse, a moist, moist curse”

“It’s 5:04 you dingus”

“His hair looks like a lollipop dropped on the carpet”

“Are you uwu or are you uwoke?”

“I’ll give you hamlet for one cocaine”

“I’ll burn you with this corndog”

“I lowkey hate my life”

“And they tried to yeet him out of existence”

“I shouldn’t have heyawd”

“Alex. Why are you a failure?”

Just sticking pencils in his hair

“I’m starving I’m gonna eat my left arm”

“I wanna die myself”

#please #this has been cultivated over 3 years #i beg of you give it attention #I ALSO BEG OF YOU TO IGNORE SPELLING MISTAKES SOME OF THIS WAS DONE UNDER A DESK AND MOST OF IT I DIDNT CARE TO DOUBLE CHECK #welcome to the shitshow #high school #cursed #funny #public school #school #im gonna do reblogs with the rest of the list

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markcampbells · 4 years

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thirty questions

@the-blind-assassin-12 tagged me; thanks, Alyssa :) and tagging @malionnes because she’s one of the only ones who reads these all the way through.

Name/nickname: Tracy. I go by Trai because I always went by it in the Internet stranger-danger days (more adrogynous) and because I went through a period of being ~~unique~~ where I wanted to spell my name with an i instead. I dropped that, but Trai stuck with my middle and high school friends, though there’s only one of those left who calls me that regularly. I never insisted on it to my college friends so they all call me Tracy, though one of them and I call each other “twin” as a mutual endearment since our interests are extremely similar. If I’m introducing myself or referring to myself in an online context, like here on Tumblr, it’s pretty much always by Trai.

Gender: Female

Star sign: Capricorn. Which gets left out of astrology memes a lot, I feel like? Anyway.

Height: Uh, I always say 5′3″ and just assume that’s true, so... that.

Time: 1:55 PM

Birthday: January 3rd. So my 30th is coming up in 2021, aka Plague Year Part II.

Favorite bands: The Killers and Florence + the Machine. I should listen to more Tegan and Sara and Of Monsters and Men because I like particular albums of theirs but haven’t gone into their wider discographies.

Favorite solo artists: I’m regrettably not current on all these, but present and past favorites include Michelle Branch, Vanessa Carlton, Ingrid Michaelson, KT Tunstall, Jason Mraz, Alanis Morissette, Nelly Furtado, and Anna Nalick.

Song stuck in my head: Earlier I read a book title that had the word Yellow in it and ended up with “The Yellow Rose of Texas,” so that’s... not particularly helpful.

Last movie: The Prom. My movie watching has been extremely thin on the ground last year since my attention hasn’t been up for it. In recent months (going back to August) a handful of others I watched were Water Lilies, Kajillionaire, The Boys in the Band, and Howard.

Last show: Six Feet Under, which I’m watching for the first time. I’m almost at the end of Season 1 and I honestly love it. It isn’t really a surprise to me that I do--I like black comedy, I unfortunately had a lot of death in my family in my formative years so my mom and I have always had a sense of humor about that kind of thing (plus she grew up over a funeral home herself), and I was always interested in it knowing Michael C. Hall’s character and his partner were significant for gay representation on TV--but it is always a pleasant find to find a TV show you genuinely enjoy watching.

When did I create this blog: April 2nd, 2010. Back in my day we got the damn Tumbeasts error message AND WE HATED IT.

What do I post: Well, it used to be more consistent when I had more consistent interests, but now it’s kind of a mess. I used to love posting more about what I was reading, but haven’t done that much lately. Period drama/Jane Austen can be a strong presence, and in recent years my attachment to Star Trek has grown. Doom Patrol and Legends of Tomorrow during their seasons tend to be strong fixtures. Matt Bomer and Chris Pine show up when they’ve got projects going (David Tennant used to feature more in the old days but I’ve strayed from his fandom). Queer art and queer culture.

Last thing googled: “will ferrell owen wilson.” I went into the break room to wash my hands after the end of my shift and a movie was playing on MTV that I didn’t recognize from the off. I think it was Wedding Crashers, which I saw back when it came out and then never again, so I’m not sure. I tend to be curious about what movie is playing on TV if I don’t recognize it.

Other blogs: @pinesexualmckirk is where I’m attempting to put my more niche Star Trek posting (and is acting as a repository for the McKirk fanfics I want to read eventually). I have started literally two writing sideblogs that I convinced myself I was going to use someday (@ashes-and-silverware for original and @intellect-and-romance for fanfic) but never have because I keep being annoying on main, I guess? I don’t write fanfic anymore so the second one is probably a dead fish, but I always tell myself maybe someday I’ll get the original one going.

Do I get asks: Mostly from Cait, but I will always welcome more. Back in the old days I actually used to get an impressive amount of asks about Doctor Who and One Tree Hill.

Why I chose my url: Mark is my original character created in conjunction with Cait, and for a while we had our URLs paired as the couple. I kept mine because I like it sort of being a reference for just us, LOL. I used to be tutorgirlx3 and haley--james after Haley of One Tree Hill, but over time I felt as I drifted away from the show/fandom it wasn’t a great fit.

Following: 721. I try to cull occasionally, but haven’t in a while.

Followers: 1,927, and to be quite honest I do not deserve that many and I’m almost certain the vast majority of those are dead blogs. Those old days of Doctor Who and One Tree Hill built up my follower base in a way I never really deserved (I never posted all that much original content). A lot of people from those days aren’t around anymore, so that’s why I think a lot of the blogs are dead, but I appreciate the number regardless; thank you all.

Average hours of sleep: Probably around seven or eight. I really try to get that much when I can, partly because being a 4 AM shift worker means my sleep is weirder than everyone else’s and I feel like I need more of it.

Lucky number: 3

Instruments: I tried learning guitar for a while but to be honest I never had the discipline to practice it.

What am I wearing: Old Navy pajama shorts with cats playing with Christmas lights, and I’m trying to decide if I’m going to change my top. I have either a black Doom Patrol t-shirt or a purple tank top that says Reality Is For People Who Can’t Handle Victorian Feminist Literature that I wear around the house a lot.

Dream job: It used to be editor, but I no longer want to use my degree in that way because I’ve heard too many horror stories from people about working in publishing killing their desire to read for pleasure. At this point, with as many years in retail behind me as I have, literally anything with a desk would be fine with me.

Dream trip: England. I want to see all the literary houses and bookstores I didn’t get to see the first time around.

Favorite food: Sweet, brownies. Other than that, dill pickles, probably chicken tenders, and honestly I love steak and cheese chimichangas.

Nationality: American

Favorite song (at the moment): Some of the last few I’ve liked enough to buy have been “Someone You Loved” and “Before You Go” by Lewis Capaldi and “Diamonds” by Sam Smith. Eternally, it’s “The Chain” by Ingrid Michaelson.

Last book read: I reread Fun Home by Alison Bechdel, which is one of my favorites. My concentration has been really fucking suffering this year so me finishing anything is monumental, but currently I’m trying to get through (prepare yourselves): Who is Vera Kelly? by Rosalie Knecht, The Color Purple by Alice Walker, Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado, How to Write an Autobiographical Novel by Alexander Chee, and Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf. (Yes, I’m a disaster pan and every book on that list is queer.)

Top three fictional universes I’d like to live in: .Um, Star Trek if I could just be in the fun part and not the dangerous part. Something lowkey and queer and with a bookstore like Alison Bechdel’s Dykes to Watch Out For. Night Vale if I didn’t have to be an intern at the radio station.

#about me #thanks alyssa!

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ambitchousrobot · 6 years

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The Dumbest Review of Hollow Knight

I’ve decided to take it upon myself to give a review of Hollow Knight, despite the fact that I have never actually played Hallow Knight nor watched anyone play it. This review is based solely upon my interaction with the game from listening to my husband play it on the Switch while I was doing something else.

1. The Sound Effects are Hilariously Garbage

There’s something in the game that straight up sounds like that meme video of Owen Wilson going “wow! Wow! Wow. Wow.” over and over. I’m not joking.

There’s another thing that sounds like discount Yoda.

There’s a laughing boss guy that I want to punch in the face. If I have to hear his dumbass voice one more time I will feel compelled to commit acts of violence. Unfortunately the husbando is having problems with this fight and is having to retry it a lot. -_-

Apparently there are minions in this game? Because I had to put up with listening to that stupid minion speech for like 10 minutes. Absolute trash.

Seriously every “talking” character sounds like a stupid Sims character or a goddamn minion. Like I understand you didn’t want to pay voice actors that much but you could just have them not talk instead of being obnoxious.

2. There’s Way Too Much Screaming

There’s a shrill shriek like every 2 minutes. I’m trying to have a nice relaxing evening at home with my partner and I both sitting on the couch ignoring each other to play video games. Cut that shit out.

3. The Soundtrack is Aight

There’s not a ton of music in the game, but when it’s there it kind of slaps. I mean it’s no monster hunter, but it’s pretty legit.

4. The Difficulty Seems Satisfactory

Hubby doesn’t truly enjoy a video game unless he suffers while playing it. Don’t ask me to explain, I don’t understand it either. While he doesn’t shout at the game nearly as often as he does playing Darksouls, I think it’s often enough that he’s having a good time.

Final rating: 3/5

Hubs seems to be having a good time. And it could certainly be more obnoxious to listen to. (I’m looking at you, Super Hot and Getting Over It.) I recommend this game I’ve never played.

#review #game review #stupid #dumb #hollow knight #gaming #video games #humor

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aion-rsa · 3 years

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Loki Episode 6 Review: For All Time. Always.

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This review contains Marvel’s Loki episode 6 spoilers

Loki Episode 6

If you thought Marvel’s Disney+ shows were done with Contact homages after Monica Rambeau’s transformation sequence in WandaVision, you thought wrong. The Loki season finale, “For All Time. Always.” opened with another one. We heard iconic dialogue from other MCU films, including Vision’s “What is grief, if not love persevering?” – which went from a heartbreaking utterance to an instant meme earlier this year – as we pulled out from Earth and its blistering sun and outward toward the Citadel at the End of Time where Kang resides, but not before we were joined by the likes of Neil Armstrong, Greta Thunberg, and Nelson Mandela.

Finally, we heard Sylvie calling out to Loki: “Open your eyes!” She’d go on to say variations of the same plea throughout this episode.

“What makes a Loki a Loki?” Mischief? Lies? Revenge? Our Loki experienced a breakthrough when it came to these quirks and failings and seemed resolved to make better choices.

Sylvie? Yeah, not so much.

Sylvie only saw lies and felt revenge for her own pain and the suffering of myriad Variants as she sought the destruction of the TVA and, ultimately, the rebirth of the multiverse. I found myself just as much on her side as I was on Loki’s, and the creators of the show did a great job to get me there because Loki, Kang, and Sylvie all had valid points to make while arguing about whether to kickstart the infinite possibilities of the multiverse – once you open that box it’s not easy to close it existentially or narratively. But we knew a Multiverse of Madness was on the horizon, and that Sylvie was probably going to be the winner of this particular argument.

The Loki season finale reaped the benefits of getting most of its big action out of the way in the penultimate episode‘s battle against Alioth, and I felt no disappointment that “For All Time. Always.” had about half an hour of exposition in store. We started this thing by absorbing a ton of exposition and that’s how we were going to bloody finish it! This time, however, it was exposition I absolutely yearned for, and Jonathan Majors’ Kang was there to deliver it in spades as I hung on his every word.

How good was Majors as Kang, though? I found him to be an instantly terrific addition to the MCU, despite his villainous appearance being signposted for quite a while. In the Sacred Timeline, Kang at least appeared to be a thoughtful, clever, fairly amiable and quite casual man who chuckled his way through an inevitable and dangerous comeuppance (which he admittedly allowed to happen) but there are other versions of Kang out there now who aren’t quite so pleasant to deal with, and we’ll almost certainly be meeting at least one of them in the upcoming Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania. I suspect we may run into him again before that, but Majors has a unique chance to put in a completely different performance as Kang every time we see him.

It seemed fitting that when we finally met Kang he was eating an apple – a symbol for knowledge, immortality, temptation, the fall of man, and sin. Loki has played with all of these themes deftly throughout its run, and continued to do so in this episode. The Wizard of Oz and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory vibes were still running strong in the finale as Kang explained to Loki and Sylvie that he was tired and had decided that they were the perfect people to take over his majestic reign of the Sacred Timeline, and it all made for a definite improvement on The Matrix: Reloaded’s similar but legendarily confusing Architect encounter by actually making sense in a clear, effective, and adroit way.

It takes a lot to write Loki into a place where he plays a fairly innocent pawn in a chess game that he has no idea how to play, especially after we’ve seen him be several moves ahead in other MCU outings. But to have him be the voice of reason in that scenario was quite something, and Tom Hiddleston’s performance during the sequence where he struggled to avoid fighting Sylvie in order to express it was incredible. I may not have completely bought into the romance between Loki and Sylvie, but I did buy into the essential ways that they were too different to trust each other when push came to shove.

Kang managed to give Renslayer a bite of the apple before he met the end of Sylvie’s sword by passing on some key knowledge through Miss Minutes. Renslayer and Kang are heavily connected in the comics, even becoming romantically involved at several points, so we can probably expect to see them on screen together in the future now that she has ditched Mobius and the TVA and set out on her own quest. As Sylvie defied Loki, so Renslayer defied Mobius. But hey, that’s free will for ya baby.

I was pretty gutted to find out during the episode’s Planet of the Apes-esque cliffhanger that Mobius doesn’t remember Loki and that their friendship is now entirely one-sided, but I trust that these two will reconnect at some point. I can only assume that Owen Wilson will return for Season 2, and that assumption is just one thing keeping me happy right now as I bid goodbye to Loki for a while. I enjoyed watching every episode of this series, but I’m glad that in the Season 1 finale we not only got answers, but actually saw one of these Disney+ shows dare to impact the MCU in a major way, far beyond the kind of personal character and power development we saw with Wanda and Sam.

Yes, the multiverse has returned, and we have no idea what madness lies ahead, only that a war beyond our wildest nightmares with Kang at the center of it is coming. I couldn’t be more excited to find out what happens next or how Loki and the rest of the MCU denizens will play their parts as Phase 4 unravels.

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theliterateape · 4 years

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Encountering the Unicorn and Being Baffled By It

by Don Hall

I’ve never encountered someone with a third eye — like, a legitimate seeing/blinking eye in the center of their forehead — so I can’t say I know how I’d react.

I used to love the sideshows at state fairs and circuses. Two bits to see the “Flipper Boy,” “The Albino Woman,” and “Zambora - Girl/Gorilla.” I loved the freaks. Not to make fun of although I’m certain these poor souls were not living a life of dignified existence. I loved them. They had an outward manifestation of how I felt inside and I felt a bizarre kinship.

Once on Chicago’s Lakeshore Drive, in my Turquoise Geo Metro with my window down on one of the seven or eight nice days available in the year, I pulled off on Fullerton and looked to my left. There was a dude in the passenger seat of the car next to me with an Elephant Man arm. The arm was huge in proportion to his torso and the skin was bubbly but solid. It was awesome. “THAT IS AWESOME! LOOK AT THE DUDE’S ARM! SO COOL!”

Except that the Elephant Man didn’t really take too fondly to my enthusiasm. Joe and Jason shrunk in their seats and the car sped off as Joseph Merrick called out “Fuck you, man!”

To this day I feel shitty about it.

I comprehend the concept of a black Trump supporter. Ben Carson, Candace Owens, Stacy Hash. I mean, I understand that a black person of either wealth or conservative ideology might see something in it for them. There are race grifters on both sides of the partisan highway making fat cash on nothing but the color of their skin and some sort of “I’m black so I speak for black people” pulpit. The idea of a regular, run-of-the-mill black person who is a supporter of one of the most obviously bigoted presidents we’ve had since Woodrow Wilson is hard to conceive. Like a dude with a functioning third eye or a woman who can change (BEFORE YOUR VERY EYES) into a gorilla, I’m both fascinated and mortified.

Now, I know I’m not supposed to talk politics in the casino. It almost never goes well and gets in the way of their purpose: losing their money. The head sportswriter on our property and I are the only true liberals in the joint so he and I once in a while commiserate our disdain for the GOP, Moscow Mitch, and the Trump Dump.

He and I are in an in-depth discussion of my assertion that there is hope to be fostered. He is less optimistic. We talk about the work of Steven Pinker and of using the data available to mark progress rather than the lived experience of those victimized. Then the unicorn walks up to place a bet.

He’s a young black guy, maybe 25, wearing his mask.

“You know,” he interjects “if people look at me they make a lot of assumptions. I’m black but I don’t get the whole Black Lives Matter movement. I mean, Trump has done a lot of good. A lot. It wouldn’t matter what he did, CNN is gonna make it sound bad.”

Is that a...third eye? The words and the image are not...in...sync...

My mouth, known internationally as an unfiltered spew of whatever is in my head, wants to pop off with “WHAT?! Are you fucking STUPID? Trump is a menace. A monster! How can you, a young black man, POSSIBLY BE AGAINST BLACK LIVES MATTERING?” The cost of a decade of social media has my Twitter-brain engaged as a non-thinking weapon that I am compelled to unleash. I stop my mouth and focus on the fact that I am staring at an almost mythical creature. If he were the Flipper Boy, I’d have more curiosity and wonder. I cork the troll in my brain.

“That’s interesting. What good do you think Trump has done? Not to be combative but in my eyes I seriously cannot think of one thing.”

I look into his eyes. No animosity.

“He cut taxes. He is standing up to all the countries that have mooched off of the American military forever. I mean, I don’t really care who wins next month. I think they’re both the same. Not gonna change my life either way.”

All the information I have in my head from years of confirmation bias plus the stakes I see in this election collide with both my sense that an argument on the casino floor is verboten and the recognition that this guy is earnest and not looking for a fight. Years of writing about the need to control our kneejerk responses is key to a unified and functioning society slap me in the face like that Batman meme.

“I can see that. I don’t agree but I can see your logic. Maybe I don’t care for Trump and I like Biden because I wouldn’t want to sit down and eat a meal with Trump but I think a dinner with Biden would be a fine time.”

He laughs. “Yeah. Trump would hog the conversation and make the whole time about himself!”

“And he’d probably chew with his mouth open!”

“So you’re voting Biden, huh?”

“I am.”

“You don’t think he’s too old?”

“Well, Trump is seventy-four and Biden is seventy-seven so I think that point is moot. I think they’re both too old but the choice seems to me to be between that old man screaming at kids on his lawn and the old man who springs for all the kids to get ice cream when the truck rolls by.”

“The truck?”

“The ice cream truck.”

“Never heard of it.”

The sportswriter who has been silent, pipes up. “Don is a lot older than he appears.” We all three laugh. The unicorn places his bet. Pleasantries are exchanged as well as a fist bump. He moves to the bar.

I still don’t truly understand the idea of a young black American supporting Donald Trump. I do understand a disdain for #BLM as that movement shifted in the last year from advocating police reform to a wholesale push to eliminate police altogether and an academic orthodoxy of racial separation rather than unity.

On the other hand, I am a classic leftist who believes that the disease of our experiment is income inequality and the fight between Wall Street and Main Street rather than racial divisions, who believes in reparations but bristles at justified riots and looting, who does not embrace socialism whole cloth but looks for a healthy blend of socialism and regulated capitalism, who is seen by the Far Left as a racist Nazi and by the Far Right as a drooling libtard.

It occurs to me that I might be the freak after all.

#black trump supporter #sideshow freaks #political zambora #casino life

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@nowherebare lol it’s been a million years but i did this haha wow

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Answer the 11 random questions posted for you

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Let the person who tagged you know that you answered

11 QUESTIONS:

1. What is your favourite meme?

BODE (but i also Owen Wilson’s wow if that counts...)

2. What does your name mean? Do you like it?

officially i think it’s some spanish saint but my mum always told me it meant ‘girl of the wild’ which I like way more. my surname means young forest so it kinds fits with my mum’s definition heh.

3. Any ideas for a tattoo?

kinda stereotypical but it would be cool to get photorealistic flowers kinda blooming/winding around different parts of my body, as if they’re just growing straight from my skin... maybe a few lil crystals poking out here and there too...

4. What is your favourite verse of song/poem?

lol ok i’m like torori cheese but it’s from a poem brad wrote about our meeting...

“and when we met

you spoke in every single color all at once

you held me like a precious gem

and brushed away my dust

and i was vulnerable

but somehow you are effortless to trust

you wrap me up

and keep me safe

from nicks and dents and scuffs”

- little ships Bradly Brackenbury

5. Describe your favourite outfit!

hmm okay this is hard bc i have so many outfits i like. i guess my go to outfit is my pastel holly tea time dress with pink stockings, platform doc martens, leather jacket, various chokers, crystal necklace, pins and bows.

6. Describe a fond memory of yours!

i’m gonna have to say it was my first time seeing snow earlier this year. i got home around 7pm and wanted to go play in it but brad was already all cosy and snug and didn’t want to leave. I ended up convincing him though and we went to this tiny park down the street with a bottle of wine each and made a huge snowman and snow angels. Afterwards we had a snowball fight and wandered around the snow covered streets. It was so beautiful, the snow glowing and my love right next to me. Honestly it’s probably one of the happiest moments in my life.

7. Describe your earliest crush!

lol i had a crush on this boy in my class when i was six but i don’t remember much about it.

8. What is your dream future? What is your job? Where do you live?

me and my love run a late night LGBTQ+ art cafe in Seattle. we hold art shows and open mic nights and sell local zines and books and art from our community. the cafe will be filled with our home made comfort food and we’ll have enough spare time to work on our art- i’ll do illustration and brad can work on his raps. plus we’ll have a cat and some rats to keep us company in our little home.

9. When was the last time you laughed out loud, and why?

last night when we were watching cars 2 and brad said he wasn’t a nerd...

10. When was the last time you cried, and why?

also last night when my love said we were getting married in like, 5 weeks and i realised i’m getting married and cried because my love is so beautiful and somehow i’m happy when i thought i never deserved to be

11. How will you be kinder to yourself this year?

trying not to be angsty when i fail to lose weight or drink too much. i’m trying to go about taking care of my body in a healthier way. trying not to get frustrated at my progress in art...

anyway that is that so if u read this and feel like doin it pls do, i’m too lazy to tag ppl sorry...

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