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thinking david corenswet is hot is the most embarrassing reputation ruining annoying thing I could have done tbh like ohhh my god really? tall big muscles dark hair and blue eyes kind man is hot? god fucking really. are you fucking stupid I hate myself. oh you think superman is hot? fucking superman? groundbreaking type shit going on here oh my god he’s tall should we tell everyone he’s tall and his jaw is nice wow she thinks the attractive man is attractive. you and everyone else. is pizza your favorite food too. fuck you. everyone look at her she thinks SUPERMAN is hot boundaries are really being pushed over here should we get her a medal because she thinks Mr Smile is easy on the eyes. “hear me out” and it’s a fucking marching band. should we call people magazine. vanilla. I DISGUST myself. summer blockbuster. I should be killed

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Do any of y'all write rant posts or comments only to delete what you wrote? Because once you write out your frustrations, be them justified or not, you read what you wrote and say; this offers nothing but negativity. Even if your argument is right. You know it's better to leave it be? Just me?

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So I want to talk a bit more about Johnny racing after Shalla-Bal scene in the New Fantastic Four movie.

I want to focus on Johnny Storm's love for space. Because I get Johnny's love for space. I never want to go to space. Truthfully, it just exists to me. So how do I get it?

I adore and love the ocean. Dying in the ocean does not frighten me. I want to die at sea. If I do live long enough and am healthy enough I want to steal a boat and ride it out to sea and disappear.

Everything about the ocean fascinates me. The water itself, how the current comes in and goes or how it can drag you far below into a deep ravine, or the many sea creatures that live below.

Johnny is likely the same way. We're not as smart as Richard's, but we love to learn anything about our favorite field. Johnny would've found out and learned how to speak Shalla-Bal language even if it came out of an ugly alien guy called Tazerface. Because he loves space. He likely poured into it late at night just in love with the language.

How it was so different from anything on Earth. So unique. In the best ways possible. Learning the language from the most breath taking woman in the universe? Johnny, in his mind, thought he hit the jackpot.

There's the compassionate side of why Johnny did what he did with Shalla-Bal. I am very well aware of such. It's beautiful and I gushed a bit about it already in my review of the film.

Still Johnny is an astronaut who loves being an astronaut just as much as he loves women. There is and always will be a childish part of him who loves space like a little boy would.

Our first true love wasn't a person but a place. A place where we don't belong yet we dare to venture. Not because we seek answers; we would love to find them—but because we simply love to see what is there. We're adventurous at heart.

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Y'all I caught up on Batman: Wayne's Family Adventures once again and it has only gotten better and better. I adore this comic! My boy Tim gosh dang Drake-Wayne is getting the recognition and love he deserves! He's getting character development too! He isn't stagnant no more! I love how they're allowing Tim to step up and become the leader he was always meant to be.

I love how my girls, Cass, Stephanie, and Barbs have girl talks over their insecurities! I love how they help comfort each other! The comic is so good! I love seeing Damian and Jon's friendship again (curse you D.C. for taking away my demon brat best friend).

Love seeing Batman grow.

Sure the comic can be ooc but I love it for what it is. It has heart. The writers love and understand the characters.

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Anybody else got like,, rlly random connections to famous ppl?? Like my older brothers were friends w Jennifer Lawrence when they were like 12 and I just found out I’m friends w the cousin of the girl who voiced honey lemon in big hero six like, idk what I’m supposed to do with either of these tid bits I feel like I was supposed to live my life in ignorance of them

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Review and thoughts on Fantastic Four: First Steps

I just got out of the theater and I am very shocked at how much I liked Shalla-Bal as the Silver Surfer. I'm a massive Norrin Radd fan. He is in my top 5 favorite characters in all of superhero comics. Has one of my top two favorite comic books of all time. (Silver Surfer Requiem and All-Star Superman both tie and rank number #1. I can't pick a favorite between them.) I wasn't initially a fan of the character switch when I first heard the news. However, I told myself that I was going to give the film the benefit of the doubt and went in with an open mind. I am very glad that I did because I really enjoyed her in the movie even with how little we saw her. She was perfect in every scene.

I have no idea how well the mainstream audience understood her character. (Ignoring that one annoying crowd crying Woke). Because of how quickly they breeze through her "backstory". I do prefer how short and sweet it was. I've read and seen Norrin Radd's backstory so many times I know it by heart. I personally do not need another in-depth retelling. The brief retelling we received in the film was enough for myself. I am not sure if others feel the same.

I did ultimately fall in love with the decision they made of having Shalla-Bal in the film. The dynamic between Shalla-Bal and Johnny is beautiful and bittersweet. I truly prefer her to Norrin Radd for this movie. The emotions the two show each other is different compared to Norrin with Richard or any of the other characters. This is a beautiful alternate retelling of this story. We get to see a new dynamic which offers new twists for the story. All of which I love.

The family dynamics between the six; yes I am including Herbie as part of the family, is fantastic. The movie gives everyone an equal amount of time to shine and no one in the family outshines the other. I only have one minor nitpick and I wish Ben had a bit more to his own arc explored a bit more in this movie. The movie nails the fantastic four family dynamic. Which is simply a 1960s sci-fi family living together with superpowers. It's fun, colorful, the humor feels as if it came straight from the comics, and loving. Like a family should be.

The set and prop design of the film are beautiful. It feels lived in and alive. The costumes and clothing design for this film are perfect. I love Ben in his fedora. (I will admit I am biased I love 1960s fashion and design). Sue is stunting in all her outfits. Ben too. Ben adorable.

Truthfully, I am happily surprised by how much I enjoyed this movie. It has actually made me a bit excited to see Doomsday. Maybe Doomsday will be a good movie. Now I'm hopefully Marvel will deliver with Doomsday. (Please Marvel do not comment on RDJ being Iron Man and if so briefly and only once. Doom is another of my all time favorite comic character.)

Spoiler Review Below

There is not much to say about the beginning of the film. It's a great. They introduction to the core characters of this film which is the family in a short but to the point intro. A cartoon, a talk show, a documentary, and a World Summit. The pacing of the film is amazing. It doesn't feel rushed or too slow. There's no moment that lingers too long or feels like it's trying to race to point B.

Johnny is perfect in this movie. He is a great uncle and brother to his family. His humour was a bit toned down, which I am grateful for. Johnny does have a very lethal sassy side. If it wasn't toned down it would have clashed with the movie tones.

Richard is more like his sixties counterpart. My personal favorite version. He is his nerdy over worried self who gets in his own head too much. Reminds me of my brother. He worries so much because he cares deeply. He doesn't always have an answer. He thinks of the worst ideas. He thinks of the best. He just thinks.

Ben is the average everyday kindhearted Joe who loves his local bakery and is just trying to do good. He's a bit gruff but underneath all that rock is a sweetheart. Y'all know the type. I would've loved to seen more of his own story arc in this movie and truthfully that's the only nitpick I have with this movie.

Sue was my personal favorite character in the movie. She is the glue that holds everyone together. Like glue she is sturdy. She stands by her beliefs and her goals to protect her family and her home. She is kind and caring to everyone she meets. She wants to create understanding between everyone. She is not naive and will throw you if you hurt anyone or shield you if you need protection. She's a mama bear.

Shalla-Bal is Norrin Rad (the main Silver Surfer) wife in the comics and likely the movie but we had no confirmation. She is phenomenal in this movie. Powerful, detached, and carries a deep loneliness and sorrow. Similar to the original.

When she arrives on Earth and delivers her beautiful tragic message, she is somewhat detached yet has kindness and warmth when speaking to Johnny. She can see a reflection of herself in Johnny. That love and need to fiercely protect the world and family you love. Which ironically only Johnny can see his own reflection when looking at her. (It's such a beautiful scene, I believe it's my favorite scene in the whole movie. It's such a shame because everyone I seen online has been bashing it.)

Johnny in this film reminds me a lot of my own brother. How they're both are so smart yet most would overlook their intelligence due to their more humorous nature. How Johnny figured out how to decipher her language and teach himself how to talk to her in her tongue all by himself in just a few months. Johnny has such a deep well of compassion for Shalla-Bal throughout the story. One day Johnny you will find your alien wife. Just give it time.

The fierce love Johnny has for Franklin is beautiful. How he time and time again gives himself up for Franklin without a second thought. No one knows this either only him and Shalla-bal know. The film is very relatable for myself. How I would do anything to protect your family. Which this family core characters demonstrate time and time again.

When Sue pushed herself to save her son and her home it was such a beautiful moment. People calling Sue and Shalla-Bal woke can go fuck themselves on a cactus. It has been stated a numerous amount of times in the comics that Sue is in fact the strongest member of the team. Also if it was Norris Rad who pushed Johnny out of the way no one would be saying crap about what he did... They still would be for Sue because they're sexist pigs... Ignoring my mini rant over sexist bigots I loved how the film shows how powerful a mother's love is. She said she would move heaven and earth and by the heavens she did! It was such a beautiful powerful scene. When Sue died I did started crying. I knew she wasn't going to stay dead but I just imagine seeing my own younger brother there on the ground. I couldn't do it. I was so heartbroken for everyone but especially Johnny. I only ever saw my brother in a neck brace and I remember how terrible I felt. Sue is his last blood relative besides his nephew Franklin. Then when he flew down close to her yet distant because of the terror of losing a sibling. How maybe if you distant yourself you can escape the reality of it all. How he asked Richard if she was breathing, because she got to be breathing right, she's okay. She got to be okay. UGh- that moment it reminded me of when I heard that my own brother had a seizure. The shell shock of it. Followed by Richard breaking down trying to save his wife because he can't lose her. The tears. The CPR. All of it was gut punching. The last kiss too. Pedro once again making me cry with his acting. The bastard! Only for Franklin to start crying. I can't do babies crying like that! I adore children too much! I just want to love and protect them all. How dare you marvel! Using all your evil tricks to make me cry. So yes I very much enjoyed the movie.

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Heimdall: sorry it took so long to open the bifrost, Loki froze me in ice

Thor: he froze you in ice? Why??

Heimdall: because I swung Hǫfuð at him

Thor: 😨 you mean in warning, right? You meant to hit him with the flat of it. You swung it at him in a non lethal manner, yes?

Heimdall: ah no I swung the blade at his neck

Thor: what

Heimdall: Loki had just relieved me of duty and my citizenship! I thought you would be pleased, I was being loyal to you

Thor: so you… 😤 out of loyalty to me, tried to hack my little brother in two 

Heimdall: well yes… 

Thor: 😡 You thought that I’d be grateful for your loyalty after you killed my brother??

Heimdall: he obviously meant to ruin Asgard! He was being really sus!

Thor: *to the warriors 4* And you knew of this??

Warriors 4: what? No! We just agreed to the treason part not the killing! At most we thought Heimdall might get a few good hits in but that’s all!

Thor: by the Norns 😰 no wonder Loki is going mad

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Jane: I bet Loki is this horrible person who acts angry and yells all the time and is just evil in general.

Loki: *reading a book and drinking tea* Why hello there! I heard you like astronomy and figuring out science and magic as well!

Jane:

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Gotham City Sirens Unfit For Orbit #4 (2025)

written by Leah Williams art by Haining & Alex Guimaraes

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Action Comics #33 - “The Lumber Millionaire’s Will” (1941)

written by Jerry Siegel art by Jack Burnley

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conversations overheard through the batkid com lines pt 2

*Damian and Jason, four hours into a stakeout*

Damian: Jay, hand me the mango pieces.

Jason: *plastic crinkling* ayyy, I’m Jason again!

Damian: *snorts*

Jason: what was with that, by the way? I just showed up in Gotham and found you referring to everyone like they’re your professor. Like, that’s not a ‘you’ thing, I don’t know why you started doing that.

*audible chewing noises*

Damian: do you want the genuine honest answer?

Jason: please god do tell

Damian: so- and you aren’t allowed to laugh. but when I first came to Gotham and I showed up at the manor, father obviously had to give me a tour of the place, right?

Jason: yeah.

Damian: and they wanted to do a DNA test to check that my mother wasn’t pulling a fast one by claiming my birthright, so the first place he showed me was the cave, which was also where Tim was.

Jason: *hums*

Damian: and you know that place- the first time you went to the cave, it was wild, right?

Jason: oh, like walking into the tardis for the first time. insane.

Damian: exactly. all high-tech and shit, and I’d just come from the desert compound I’d spent my entire life in- like, my first time going into the kitchen at the manor I saw Alfred loading the dishwasher and my first thought was ‘oh my god what the fuck kind of machine is that-‘

Jason: *abrupt cackle*

Damian: -so the fucking cave for the first time? as a little desert-boy ten year old? I was a little distracted,

Jason, chuckling slightly: ok, fair,

Damian: and so I’m zoned the fuck out, looking around this cave and not paying attention to anything father’s saying, and then I finally tune back in just to hear the words ‘-ackson drake’ while he like, tries to introduce me to Tim.

Jason: *slowly starts laughing again*

Damian, raising his voice to be heard over Jason’s increasing beats of laughter: -and so I’m fucking standing there, ten years old, no clue what this kid’s first name is, and everybody’s looking at me like I’m supposed to be the one fucking talking right now, and ALL I can think of is my mother, who before she shipped me off to Gotham completely alone kept fucking telling me ‘Damian you have to be strong and show that you deserve to be the Batman’s blood son. show no weakness and take the mantle you were born to have; show no fucking hesitance.’, so I’M panicking,

Jason, still cackling: *a clap* NO I DO- I DO REMEMBER, LIKE, BACK IN THE LEAGUE-, holy shit back in the league when your only coping mechanism for not knowing the fuck was going on around you, was literally just to pretend you knew what the fuck was going on around you and bullshit till you make it,

Damian: WELL IT WAS LIKE THE ONLY FUCKING THING MY MOTHER TAUGHT ME-

Jason, through tears: -that’s why I didn’t say shit when I came back to Gotham and found you fucking, doing all this blood son bullshit! You started calling me Todd and speaking in old english and I was just like ‘bless him he’s terrified, just leave him be’

Damian: *cackles* and I did- I did appreciate you going along with it, because back when this happened I panicked and just started calling Tim ‘Drake’ because I was too embarrassed to ask him for his first name, and then by the time I heard somebody else call him Tim in passing, everybody had just assumed this was a thing I did. and I was too socially awkward to clear it up and switch back, so I just had to stick to Drake.

Jason: *wheeze* a-and Grayson?

Damian: well at first I just went along with the surname thing out of awkwardness, but then I’d gone too deep and I had no way out- AND THEN- and then Batman fucking died-

Jason: *wheeze*

Damian: -and I went from being parented by the gymnastics version of the dark lord to being gentle-parented by fucking Nightwing-

Jason, choking: holy- holy shit-

Damian: do you know what it’s like to go from *gruff voice* ‘Damian we don’t fucking kill, give me the katana or I’ll put you in Arkham’ to *high pitched, sweet voice* ‘oh hey Dames, obviously I can’t stop you from killing but I really would appreciate it if we discussed all our options and came to a mature decision together on what’s best in this scenario-‘

Jason: *crying, silent wheezes*

Damian: so DURING all this I’m trying to subtly switch back to using peoples actual names, except it fucking backfired because people just assumed I was calling Richard Richard because we had that special parental mentor bond, and Tim had pissed off to- whatever he was doing in the desert for six months- getting a hysterectomy or whatever the fuck happened-

Jason, amused: hysterectomy- he lost a spleen, Dames

Damian: well whatever happened he wasn’t AROUND for me to shift to calling him Tim! and when father was back I’d made no progress and was back to square one, except this time I was stuck calling one brother Richard and the other Drake!

Jason, still laughing: and this is where I came in?

Damian: I felt BAD! I’d already taken Robin from the guy, I didn’t want him to feel like he was lesser of a brother to me than Richard. So I demoted you to Todd so he wouldn’t feel alone.

Jason: very thoughtful.

Jason: we should probably get you a therapist, dude. I think everybody forgets that when you showed up you were literally just a very confused immigrant child with no experience of normal social interaction apart from me at the league.

Damian: oh I was like, 60% into an anxiety attack consistently for the first two years I was in the city.

Jason: *snorts*

Damian: the first time I was left alone with Tim we were in the kitchen and he said ‘do you want wifi?’ and, y’no, coming from the league, barely any tech and the only normality was the concept of fighting to the death over everything, MY instinctual ten-year-old thought was ‘oh shit, wifi must be slang for brawl here, we’re about to fight’-

Jason: *laughter* you’re fucking kidding

Damian: -so I’m like, so be it, and I say ‘come on then’ and get ready to start punching, only for him to turn around and grab a piece of card stuck to the fridge and hold it out to me,

Jason: *cackles*

Damian: and he goes ‘here’s the password so you can connect, I’m assuming you have a phone or something’-which I fucking didn’t by the way, my mother gave me a shitty flip-phone to call her in emergencies but it didn’t use wifi-, and he’s holding it out to me and I had to like, subtly shift my posture out of the defensive position I’d been in-,

Jason, delirious from laughter: this is the fucking best. thing.

Damian: -and I take it from him, and he gives me this weird look like he has no idea how to communicate with me, and I was just like ‘shit I might have to kill this one, it’s the only way to get out of this interaction’.

Jason: *wheeze* if we go through the timeline, every murder attempt on Tim’s life has just been an occasion where you’ve felt socially awkward and didn’t see any other way out of conversation,

Damian: pretty much, yeah. I should have been on xanax for those first few years.

Jason: stories from your first years in Gotham are my favourite thing in the world.

*a few silent beats*

Tim: are you telling me I’ve been stuck as Drake for YEARS all because Damian’s fucking scared of social interaction?!

*crashing sound*

Jason: HOLY FUCK-

Damian: OH MY GOD I FORGOT WE WERE CONNECTED TO THE MAIN LINE-

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I'm just going to leave this here

just out of curiosity…

Personally I’m leaning more towards defying gravity, but I want to hear y’all’s thoughts too :)

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My store director was trying to implant this stupid survey and it's important to us a year ago. No one in the whole store cared. Even if the big bosses showed up we wouldn't have cared. We all nod our heads and fed them what they want to hear for the day. Said big wigs will head out and we go back to doing what we were doing before they showed up. It's meaningless to us. People like myself know that the big bosses either won't fire us because they can't find anyone better or we don't care about being fired. I'm in both camps.

Every place I know in my city is also having trouble hiring middle managers. No one wants to be one. The pay is terrible and especially for all the crap you have to deal with. Terrible employees who don't care about anything, (which is completely fair they're not paid enough to give a crap,) and managers above you expecting the manager to be able to lead said people. The upper heads also expect managers to do the impossible and do the work of multiple people. They cut hours and expect the same results and better profit margins.

Really wish that corporations' surveys would make more sense. The average person probably doesn't rate 5 stars or whatever when doing the survey at the end of a Walmart self checkout or wherever they are because 5/5 would be perfect service. Any incorrect price label, any aisle that isn't perfectly organized, any issue with the app and it isn't a perfect service anymore. Lots of people put 4/5 because the service wasn't perfect but it wasn't bad. In most things 4/5 isn't bad! I think that most people giving 4/5s are doing so because they think that's reasonable. Unfortunately corporations don't agree. Only a 5/5 is acceptable to corporations. Which makes no sense to me. So yeah. Remember to always give 5/5 on surveys unless there genuinely is an issue.

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~ Robert’s been a little depressed ~

Found family my beloved

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Ava: So what’s for dinner? John: I can’t tell you, it’s a soup-prise! Ava: … Ava: Is it soup? John: I soup-pose it could be! *winks* Ava: Please, enough with the soup puns! John: Wow, you’re soup-per mean. Ava: STOP! *one hour later* Ava: It’s fucking tacos?!?!?!

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Incorrect Quotes

Thunderbolts*

Ava: can you name three things considered Lesbian Culture?

John: Subarus, power tools..

John: and staying really close friends with your ex that you had a horrible, horrible, breakup with