Latest Posts by axsdeo - Page 10
For Boop-Badges Collectors
Rough estimate: It's possible to reach 1000 boops in less than 2 hours (took me 1:30h), if you got some people to spam it to.
If you are a blog where people can spam boop's to, reblog this.
X-Men is about civil rights. If you didn’t get that, you didn’t get X-Men.
Black Panther is about civil rights. If you didn’t get that, you didn’t get Black Panther.
Captain America literally fought Nazis. He is the embodiment of fighting the alt-right. If you didn’t get that, you didn’t get Captain America.
The Empire in Star Wars is fascist. The Rebel alliance are Anti-Fascist. If you didn’t get that, you didn’t get Star Wars.
The Punisher isn’t meant to be a role model for police or armed forces. So much so that the writers of The Punisher made him actively speak out against it in a comic. If you didn’t get that, you didn’t get The Punisher.
Deadpool is queer. He’s pansexual. Fact. If you didn’t get that you didn’t get Deadpool.
Star Trek is about equality for all genders, races and sexualities. As early as the mid-60s it was taking a pro-choice stance and defending women’s right to choose. One of its clearest themes is accepting different cultures and appearances and working together for peace. (It’s also anti-capitalist and pro-vegan). If you didn’t get that, you didn’t get Star Trek.
Superman and Supergirl (and a whole host of other superheroes) are immigrants. The stance of those comics is pro-immigration and pro-equality and acceptance. If you didn’t get that, you didn’t get Superman or Supergirl.
Stan Lee said “Racism and bigotry are among the deadliest social ills plaguing the world today.” If you’re bigoted or racist, you didn’t get any of the characters Stan Lee created.
The stories we grew up with all taught us to value other people and cultures and to treasure the differences between us. Only villains were xenophobic, or sexist, or racist, or totalitarian. I can’t understand how anyone can have missed that.
If you’re upset that there’s a black Spider-Man, or a black Captain America, or a female Thor, or that Ms Marvel is Muslim, or that Captain Marvel was pro-feminism, or any of the other things right wing “fans” say is “stealing their childhood” - you never got it in the first place. The things you claim are now “pandering to the lefties” were never on your side to begin with.
If you consider yourself a fan of these things, but you still think the LGBTQ+ community is too “in your face”, or have a problem with Black Lives Matter, or want to “take the country back from immigrants”, then you’re not really a fan at all.
Geek culture isn’t suddenly left wing... it always was. You just grew up to be intolerant. You became the villain in the stories you used to love.
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Kenny Boyle - Actor and Playwright
07 June 2020
Many people are scared of insects, but you know what's scarier than insects...?
No insects
Well out of the blue I just remembered today the time I accidentally joined the cast of a production of The Princess Bride….in the middle of the production.
zany to me how these um actually nihilists like to pretend that "um actually love/friendship/cooperation/kindness isn't real bc we evolved that way to benefit ourselves as a species..." um YES? that's also where tool use comes from? that's where cooking comes from? am i supposed to think social bonds & tool use & cooking aren't "real" because they evolved over time instead of appearing fully formed from the ether?
sorry u can't enjoy things. im a superior being twirling a fork in my bowl of delicious noodles whilst staring in adoration at the world
I think the Hunger Games series sits in a similar literary position to The Lord of the Rings, as a piece of literature (by a Catholic author) that sparked a whole new subgenre and then gets blamed for flaws that exist in the copycat books and aren’t actually part of the original.
Like, despite what parodies might say, Katniss is nowhere near the stereotypical “unqualified teenager chosen to lead a rebellion for no good reason”. The entire point is that she’s not leading the rebellion. She’s a traumatized teenager who has emotional reactions to the horrors in her society, and is constantly being reined in by more experienced adults who have to tell her, “No, this is not how you fight the government, you are going to get people killed.” She’s not the upstart teenager showing the brainless adults what to do–she’s a teenager being manipulated by smarter and more experienced adults. She has no power in the rebellion except as a useful piece of propaganda, and the entire trilogy is her straining against that role. It’s much more realistic and far more nuanced than anyone who dismisses it as “stereotypical YA dystopian” gives it credit for.
And the misconceptions don’t end there. The Hunger Games has no “stereotypical YA love triangle”–yes, there are two potential love interests, but the romance is so not the point. There’s a war going on! Katniss has more important things to worry about than boys! The romance was never about her choosing between two hot boys–it’s about choosing between two diametrically opposed worldviews. Will she choose anger and war, or compassion and peace? Of course a trilogy filled with the horrors of war ends with her marriage to the peace-loving Peeta. Unlike some of the YA dystopian copycats, the romance here is part of the message, not just something to pacify readers who expect “hot love triangles” in their YA.
The worldbuilding in the Hunger Games trilogy is simplistic and not realistic, but unlike some of her imitators, Collins does this because she has something to say, not because she’s cobbling together a grim and gritty dystopia that’s “similar to the Hunger Games”. The worldbuilding has an allegorical function, kept simple so we can see beyond it to what Collins is really saying–and it’s nothing so comforting as “we need to fight the evil people who are ruining society”. The Capitol’s not just the powerful, greedy bad guys–the Capitol is us, First World America, living in luxury while we ignore the problems of the rest of the world, and thinking of other nations largely in terms of what resources we can get from them. This simplistic world is a sparsely set stage that lets us explore the larger themes about exploitation and war and the horrors people will commit for the sake of their bread and circuses, meant to make us think deeper about what separates a hero from a villain.
There’s a reason these books became a literary phenomenon. There’s a reason that dozens upon dozens of authors attempted to imitate them. But these imitators can’t capture that same genius, largely because they’re trying to imitate the trappings of another book, and failing to capture the larger and more meaningful message underneath. Make a copy of a copy of a copy, and you’ll wind up with something far removed from the original masterpiece. But we shouldn’t make the mistake of blaming those flaws on the original work.
here’s transparent salamander hand for you guys to blap against things
Reblog if you also think Toph shouldn’t have been a cop.
I want to see how “unpopular” this opinion really is outside cop-worshipping Reddit.
Little knitted pigeon enjoying come crisps on the pavement…
colorblindness check! make sure you can see all of the shapes in the circles; if not, that might mean you've lost some of your ability to see color!
got told at lunch "you feel like Tumblr Incarnate" and i had to tell them i've been here for 13 years and counting. i was here three years before dashcon happened. i saw the mishapocalypse. i survived the gigapause. i've been here longer than the shoelaces post. i've been here since it was hipsters versus fandom and i played both sides extensively by overdoing the sepia filters on everything and making my own flashing galaxy gif edits for my fandom posts. i'm every tumblr. it's all in me
reblog if you’re gay and love broadway
I’ll never understand why anthropomorphic animal cartoons like Robin Hood and Zootopia will go to the trouble of creating character designs that are meant to be understood as “attractive” or even “sexy” to the human audience but explicitly avoid showing interspecies romances between anthropomorphic animals. Why is THAT weird but, like, trying to make rabbits recognizably sexy-coded to humans isn’t?
And the sacred knowledge was lost (how to put bombs away).
There's a little bonus under the cut ;)
This is what the comic originally was! 3 panels. 2 characters. That's it. But sometimes brain won't shut up
i got these knockoff boots online and instead of the brand name on the tag they have the name of an apparently nonexistent martin scorsese movie??? what the fuck
im trying to go to sleep but i cannotttttt stop thinking about this and laughing
Saw a post like this with negative outlook so I asked for it to be fixed
THIS IS THE BEST THING I HAVE EVER SEEN
You can only reblog this today.
Sooooo between @hey-adora and I, this is a thing now. We’ve come up with some interesting lore and some art, so hopefully we have something to share with you soon! (Vidow-focused, most likely, you know us, but all of them are there. Technically.)
When the whole party is down but your bard is up
The Alastor delusion on tiktok is actually bewildering, like this comment on a video about how sweet and fatherly Alastor is to Charlie
Oh yeah?
This guy?
This guy right here? He's the one singing about guiding her with pure intentions???
Oh this is the face of a man with no nefarious intent to you? An honest, well meaning, all around swell fella??? This is your non-manipulative guy??????
Heroes at Home (2020)
written by Zeb Wells art by Gurihiru
Business: Big Daddies of Helluva Hazbin
Lucifer: (squaring his shoulders as he stands outside his office/bedroom) Alright, Charlie. You know the drill. I have an important meeting today that might go through tomorrow. I'm trusting you to be a good girl while I'm gone.
Charlie: Daaaaaaad, I'm not a little girl anymore. I can manage myself and the hotel just fine. I did it before.
Lucifer: I know. I know. Just... want you to remember I love you more than anything. (Hugs Charlie and opens the door to his room) Off I go!
SLAM!!!
Vaggie: What was that all about?
Charlie: (sighs) Dad's been having an annual meeting with some of the princes of the other rings for a while now, and he always seems so depressed beforehand. This is the one he absolutely refuses to let me sit in on. (Deflates slightly) Honestly, it makes me a little worried.
Vaggie: (holds Charlie's hand) Hey, I'm sure everything is fine. Your dad is the King of Hell, after all. He can handle himself.
-Cut to the dark depths of Lucifer's bedroom. An apple themed calander is hanging on the wall with the day circled in thick, black marker and "Divorce Anniversary" written in the block-
Lucifer: (sitting on a plush, red love seat, wrapped in a cozy blanket, wearing apple pajamas with a face mask, and eating a bowl of Apple Jack's cereal pitifully as the glow of the TV illuminates the room)
TV: Ay! Why won't you love me, Alejandro?!
Lucifer: Preach it, sister. (Takes a bite of cereal as his phone rings, and he answers the video call)
Stolas: (in a similar situation only wearing a robe that's too big and eating Shooting Stars Lucky Charms) Gabriella is such a mood.
Lucifer: (through a mouth full of cereal) I know, right?! He doesn't deserve you, Gabriella! You can do so much better!
-Circus Fanfare plays-
Lucifer: Hold on, Stolas. I gotta patch someone in. (Presses a button)
Ozzy: (wearing a robe that's too small, wrapped in a blanket with his flame hair rolled in curlers, and eating Wheaties) Hey, guys! Still in the heartbreak phase?
Lucifer & Stolas: (nod with pitiful, kicked puppy eyes)
Ozzy: (puppy eyes as he wails with Lucifer and Stolas) Gabriella, no! Baby girl, he ain't worth your time!
as someone with a bachelor’s degree in english, i am inexpressibly tired of people telling me to get highly specific jobs that often require highly specific degrees. “just go write for a magazine!” you need a journalism degree for that. “just teach!” you need a teaching certificate, and also fuck you. “just go work at a tutoring place!” tutoring children with learning disabilities, which make up the majority of the clientele at those places, requires not only a teaching certificate but a specialized master’s degree. “just go work at a library!” you need a master’s degree in library science to be a librarian. it is actually a highly skilled and extremely competitive field. you don’t just “go work at a library,” you train for years in the vain hope that you will get one of handful of available jobs. “just go work at a library.” the nerve. the unmitigated gall. “just go work at a library.” ugh.