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Superman (2025) + Letterboxd reviews

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just saw the new Superman and yknow what I keep thinking about?.. when he’s fighting Luthor’s diversion in Metropolis, Clark is making every effort to isolate it to a relatively open space (the park). damages are at a minimum. but that takes time, it’s not efficient enough, so then the corporate-funded Justice Gang shows up - and oops, suddenly buildings are being swept off their foundations, civilians in direct line of fire, the city core is getting ripped apart. he’s scrambling to save children, squirrels, people caught in the red zone while the others are more interested in punching the big monster. the story makes it absolutely clear that corporations don’t care about life or harm reduction, and in a world in which superheroes are already normalized, this kindness is what sets Superman apart

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Vague Superman spoilers ahead but what does it say about movies lately that I was genuinely surprised that they beat the bad guys without some big catch or sacrifice. Like sure there little things and emotional ramifications but at the end of the day they won.

Lex even tried to do the whole “force the hero to make an impossible choice” thing and it didn’t work because Superman asked his friends for help!

Anyway I’m just obsessed with the theme of “Good can win. It may be hard and it may seem hopeless at times but with love and friendship and a radical determination to save as many people as you possibly can, good can win.”

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Only one person died. Only one singular person. In a superhero movie! The type that love to throw around casualty counts like it’s all a big game, waving off 70 people being killed in a handful of days like it’s no big deal, yet only ONE PERSON died.

And he was mourned. Superman cried for him—this stranger who gave him free falafel and, while facing death, told him that he still believed in him. Metamorpho, this cold-seeming man who is being actively blackmailed to do this, breaking down and taking the risk to believe in Superman, too, because seeing someone murdered right in front of him is devastating enough to take the risk. The newspapers run a front page article talking about how they’re going to memorialize him.

The stakes didn’t have to involve real actual loss of life. The threat of it was enough to convey the severity of the situation. Because human life is that important. All life is that important, at least to Superman who goes out of his way to save dogs and squirrels.

(Hawkgirl does kill SHEIN Netanyahu but genocidal dictators don’t count as human beings lol.)

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Superman (2025) + Text posts

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clark kent saying things like golly and gosh? clark kent saving dogs and squirrels? clark kent drinking coco? cunty lex luthor? cunty lois lane? dc you are so back.

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"Maybe I'll kill that reporter who does all your interviews. Maybe I'll kill Clark Kent."

This is the most important line in the movie. I'm 100% serious. It tells you everything you need to know about Lex Luthor's character. It shows the audience that, despite being almost omnicognizant from the get-go, Luthor clearly has no fucking idea who Superman is, only what he does.

I've never seen anyone go from All-Knowing Evil to Absolute Fucking Loser so fast. In fifteen words he went from unstoppable criminal powerhouse to flailing manchild moron. He gave his Evil Dictator demonstration and then turned around, dropped his pants and showed his entire ass. He proclaimed his manifesto of unrelenting ego, turned around, slipped on a banana peel and landed on a whoopie cushion.

And he was so mired in his own sense of superiority that he never even knew it.

Lex Luthor, folks. Ten out of ten, no notes.

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Ok, imagine you're comic accurate Clark Kent and you're a working-class immigrant raised on a farm. You grow up and dedicate your life to helping people while being a total malewife to your Pulitzer prize winner girlfriend. You're despised and targeted by an unethical, megalomaniacal billionaire who thinks his intellect and his power and his wealth entitles him to your inherent abilities and the adoration you've earned through years of nonstop altruism. YOU WERE CREATED BY TWO JEWISH MEN IN THE 1930S

And then people complain about a movie about you being too woke

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clark shouting "people were going to DIE" in the face of the "think of the consequences of your actions" argument is so fucking important to me bc it really IS that simple you can't look at a genocide and just twiddler your thumbs bc you're a afraid of the consequences ESPECIALLY when you can do something about it and THATS WHAT CLARK DID. WITHOUT HESITATION. WITHOUT CONSIDERING HOW IT COULD HURT HIM. bc hes a good person and in his brain its really just people were going to die so i had to step in bc what else would it be. superman i love you i love you i love you

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So wait are livestock guardian dogs to their flocks like… Clark Kent among the residents of Smallville? He’s been here since he was a baby, we all know him, and he’s… generally one-of-us shaped, uh, approximately. And then when something goes wrong he suddenly leaps into action and does some terrifying impossible shit none of us could do. And then comes back home and settles in like nothing happened and he’s one of us again.

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Does anyone have fic recs that are like this PLEASE 😭😭😭

[Non-video format] They like each other but they’re afraid

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More like Tim is afraid of their friendship changing and unsure if he wants to explore his sexual identity while Kon doesn’t want anything to make them drift apart, afraid of losing Tim

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This took forever, omg, I didn’t know how I would want to do the line Art and you could sorta tell that I got lazy in the end

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happy birthday tim drake i hope you the most aging-up ever ♡

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200% on the Kickstarter already? Amazing!!!

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can i just say that the disconnect between the published author community and the fanfic community is both the most entertaining shit i pay attention to and the most hilarious/depressing clusterfuck?

we're specifically talking about the romance author community here, obviously. as an avid reader of both published books and fanfic, as well as a fanfic author, i have a toe dipped in both worlds, though i will always e more loyal to the fanfic community than the romance community. (i trust this needs no elaboration as to why). honestly, at this point, a large part of the reason i even pay attention to the published romance authors is the sheer drama and entertainment.

it's like---there are fanfics getting published, right? i feel like every week i wake up and hear news of some new dramonie fic getting a facelift. i'm sure y'all here with me get what i mean, lol. they're popping up faster than pimples before a school dance.

now the published authors all act like fanfic is lower, right? they think fanfic doesn't count as real fiction, they view it as a copying of the original material, all that shit. us in the fanfic community unfortunately are well aware of the idiotic misconceptions. that we're just plagarizers, that it's little more than child's play, that we only have porn on ao3, shit like that. literally the most blatant misunderstanding of what fanfic stands for, so much so that it's honestly amazing how widely believed all that shit is.

then there's the added drama of the divides within the published author community regarding the dramonie itself. some stand against JKR, others don't, the usual.

now here comes the funny part---when an author publishes their dramonie fic and allows it to be branded as such, ANNOUNCES it to the community, there comes a divide. the other authors who either think, "you're validating JKR by publishing this" and the ones that don't care about it being JKR but care about it being fanfiction. as such, the options are literally "against JKR", "against fanfiction", and "doesn't give a shit". and the author community likes to think they're all high and mighty for this, when in reality us REAL fanfiction writers know:

the harry potter fic writers are divided into "support JKR" and "don't support JKR". the former are hated by the community at large, the community that is made up by a majority of queer people. the latter would never publish their fanfic and brand it as dramonie. as such, any author that does this is not a REAL fanfiction writer---so group two of the jugemental authors (the ones that are like "this is fanfiction. disgusting" are completely irrelevant. that's not a fanfiction author, y'all can have them. we don't want them any more. we probably should have been tipped off by the fact that they wrote a straight, cis, toxic ship anyway . . . "

lmfao it's just hilarious because the published authors are like "we've got to defend our honor. that person right there *points to dramonie author* writes FANFIC"

and meanwhile any real fanfic author knows: no one who writes dramonie with enough righteousness and confidence to PUBLISH IT is not a fanfiction writer in the first place. that's a type of bull-headedness that belongs SOLELY to y'all published authors, thank you very much. also, if you support JKR enough to brand your "book" as dramonie, then you were ejected from the community, not rasied to the higher title of "published authors"

essentially

published authors: we are superior

fanfic authors: have fun with that, looks boring over there.

published authors: we're going to defend ourselves against JKR

fanfic authors: we have been for the past twenty years

published authors: *angrily pointing at fellow author* that person wrote a fanfic

fanfic authors: rude. we don't claim that shitstain, quit using our name for such slander

published authors: we're better than you

fanfic authors: keep believing that, means we don't have to let in any more refugee readers

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idk i think what is interesting about astarion to me is the fact that you have a guy who started out an asshole (normal type) and then spent two hundred years in a very carefully and specifically crafted (by the writers of the game) Become A Terrible Person Or Die nexus. like it wasn’t just a Torment Nexus, he wasn’t just in hell, i feel like this is very important not to forget, he was in hell but it was specifically a hell designed to, over time, kill the empathy of anyone trapped in it, kill their brain’s ability to prioritize other peoples’ survival, to numb one’s conscience.

and then he gets yanked directly out of that nexus and despite that the fact that he spent, again, two hundred years in a situation that was sort of a rock tumbler for the human soul, there’s still a pebble left in there. and it’s a pebble that can be grown if placed in the right environment and provided with a support network.

so i think it becomes interesting because it really does i think force you to start thinking about the limits of free will even on as basic a level as the human personality. i think the fact that he becomes such a different character based on player choice, that his end morality is so hugely dependent on player choice, is uhhh. a big part of what the devs were going for probably.

it makes a lot of people really uncomfortable to acknowledge some bad people would be good people if literally nothing changed except they had a good support network and different circumstances. especially because it means the opposite is also true. which is even more uncomfortable.

you know that part in the beginning of fellowship of the ring where gandalf is talking about how gollum is ultimately only like that because of the ring and gandalf thinks his story is sad? astarion is kinda like if they sexualized gollum.