#this is obvious

[not-so-superheroine]

El - Pha - Ba

L Frank Baum

[to-the-batcomputer]

having just watched 8 xmen movies, and that's the extent of my wolverine knowledge, i can say without a doubt that he has, does, and will fuck lots of men.... other people too. he fucks. general statement.

[diary-of-a-loser-boy]

I’m also bored guess who

@justagremlinoncaffeine

[vimbry-moved]

[spiribia]

a lot of stories treat romance like it makes the relationship between two characters self explanatory and to be honest it doesn’t

[so-i-did-this-thing]

The evolution of (trans) man.

(Well, this one, anyway.)

Age 9: "Tomboy"

Age 15: Strictly enforced femininity

Age 30: Hitting the mental limits of being closeted all his life and about to crash HARD

Age 47: Fifteen years now since starting transition. Far more good days than bad, no regrets.

The world may be full of uncertainty and danger, but I resolve to continue to find joy in who I am. Be joyful to be kind to yourself and be joyful to spite the bastards who would tear us apart.

[liriowrites]

🌹

Gentlemen, I come to place in your hands the wife and the family of your sovereign; do not suffer those who have been united in Heaven to be put asunder on Earth.

–a speech written by Marie Antoinette on July 17, 1789. Louis XVI had traveled to Paris after the fall of the Bastille and she believed he would be taken prisoner there; if he was held captive, she intended to travel to Paris with her family and remain with him.

[lejardindeschats]

if sinners (2025) taught me anything, it's that it IS actually always about race.

you can be oppressed, and still promote and maintain the very same systems of oppression onto other marginalized people. being oppressed in one dimension doesn't allow you to be exempt from oppressing in other dimensions. the "villain" of the movie, remmick, being from the time period of the english colonization of ireland, all the while wanting to take a piece of sammie's own culture from him, use him for it. and this plot point coming after remmick witnesses the significance of sammie's playing within his culture, for his ancestors and how it would shape Black culture in the future.

even in today's society, ive noticed that people treat Black people like a commodity. our worth is only as much as other people decide it to be, and that's usually dependent on how much the oppressor can take from us. for example, the controversy of"internet slang" and how it is blatantly just AAVE with a bad disguise on

do you listen to Black musicians? do you watch Black movies? do you engage with Black creators? do you defend the racist tendencies you notice in your friends, in your family, or do you stay silent? do you listen when Black people tell you you've said or done something racist? do you actually care about not being racist, or do you just not want to look like you're racist?

i just think people have a very specific take on what racism is, and that if they're not committing KKK-levels of violence on people, then they're not racist. or if you've experienced oppression in one form, you cannot possibly be engaging with oppression in another form. but the ways in which we interact with other people and the world will always be through the lens of race, because that is simply what it means for oppression to be systemic, especially in the US and our current political climate

anyway 10/10 movie. highly recommend

[kiryuing]

[sennamaticart]

Blue Moon

[redstonedust]

you get to cut one basic need out of your life. you can still CHOOSE to partake in them and they will feel as good and refreshing as normal, but going without will no longer affect you negatively.

[legalandnotease]

Oh Steve understands.

He understands perfectly. He's spent his life dealing with men like Tony.

Redskull. Zola. Hitler.

Men who cannot tell the difference between protection and destruction.

Men who mistake their own lust for power, domination and control with good.

Tony has always been an authoritarian convinced that "might is right" just like them. Right from his first movie, where he said that the way to win was to have the biggest weapon. Then into Iron Man II in which he compared himself to a nuclear deterrent.

Tony's megalomania just morphed into an obsesssion with alien invasion.

Then he became the "I will protect you whether you want it or not" man (because others are not human to him. They are objects..posesssions). His is the mindset of the dictator and the abuser. He will harm you and say he is helping you. He might even believe it.

The man who believed in "peace at any cost" - and was indifferent to that cost. It is no surprise, really that Tony repeated the slogan used by the British Prime Minister infamous for appeasing Hilter in this very movie.

Not surprise that Ultron calls him "father" and shares his ideology. Ultron is Tony. Taken to the logical endpoint of his beliefs. In the name of "protecting the world" Tony will wipe out entire countries, make everyone give up thier freedom", and expect them to thank him at the end.

Where have we heard that before? Freedom for security. Oh yes, HYDRA's foundational principle. Also not a surprise. Pierce used Tony's weapons and like him, said he was protecting the world.

If Steve levelled up with Tony, he might just have to punch him in disgust, becasuse he represents everything Steve hates. Arrogance. Hubris. Bullies. Authoritarians. Nazis. Men who use thier abuse their power to harm the weak and powerless.

Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015) dir. Thanos Joss Whedon

[meattforbrains]

The diner scene made me physically ill and rip my hair out and punch holes in my wall and

[sarahcmarie]

At some point when Jason and Dick are hanging out Dick goes on a rant about how as Nightwing he can’t lose it like red hood can and how he is sick of everything and how he is angry and how he would love to be able to lose it like red hood does every night just once

About a week later when Dick got back to his apartment after work there was a red hood suit crafted specifically for Dicks measurements with a note saying

“Go nuts Dickhead”

Now he should NOT do this it was a bad idea…but Jason is out of town for a couple of days and he wouldn’t want the ally left unprotected

Bruce was very confused when he saw his son who was supposed to be out of town blow up a warehouse

He was even more confused when said son looked like he had lost some of his bulky muscle it wasn’t super obvious but he was Batman and that was not red hood

He was gonna go stop the fake red hood when cass put a hand on his arm and said that he needed this and to let him have his fun

Dick blew shit up didnt hold his punch’s got to say the things he wanted to say but couldn’t cause they were to mean as Nightwing

Jason and Dick never discuss this but when ever Jason’s outa town he always makes sure that the red hood suit is on his brothers bed

[karmelarts]

so much of the horror genre is informed by the metaphor of queer/transness as monstrousness. especially emphasizing the amount of horror that depends on the audience's repulsion at seeing a human body changing into a new, other body. I Saw the TV Glow is about the horror of NOT transitioning. the horror of static. the horror of looking into yourself and being terrified of what you see. the horror of seeing who you are and choosing to do nothing about it. the horror of looking away. and by god is it terrifying.