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Tbh one of the best character development moments in the new Superman was when Superman turned his back on the giant monster to check that the people in the office that got torched were ok.

Because the first rule of combat, the hand to hand rule you learn as a white belt in taekwondo, or as a lightsaber fighter in stage combat, or in actual life or death combat training is NEVER turn your back on your attacker. Turning your back can get you killed and Superman cared more about those people than himself.

It’s a perfect moment.

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“you think everything and everyone is beautiful”

“maybe that’s the real punk rock”

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See part of the reason I could never be a severed employee is that one of my favorite parts of the work day is bursting into my house Without actually greeting my roommate and telling him all the work gossip.

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What

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I don’t condone what the Magicians did with Q on a narrative level but you have to admit that ending your love triangle by killing the center character is objectively hilarious.

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I’m of the firm belief that if you are an actor playing a pivotal main character on a show, who wants to leave before the show’s official ending, it is your job to at least come back and cameo in the finale.

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I could make a hall of the mountain king video with just the screenshots my mother is sending me.

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new who peaked when it had christopher eccleston look the last living dalek dead in the eyestalk & tell it to kill itself, only for the response to be "you would make a good dalek" there is absolutely no topping that.

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Fully to sound like an obnoxious American. We should try having an American show runner on doctor who. My argument, the most consistently written/produced/released portion of superwholock was the one that took place in Kansas.

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I think one of the actual big issues with this era of Doctor Who is that there are literally no stakes. They spend whole seasons building up to one big bad guy only for him to get defeated by some poorly set out Chekovs gun in under a minute while the companion gets pushed out of the way for no reason. There’s no internal struggle or debate over whether the doctor should be killing this monster, no time spent actually coming up with a game plan. No side plot about the companion trying to help to their own detriment. It’s the fiction writing equivalent of that thing where a kid plays gun in rock paper scissors.

And the thing is? I know that RTD could pull together a great 2 part finale with a big reveal at the end of part 1 that goes straight into a regeneration at the end of part 2. And I know that because he did it with Christopher Eccleston and it is still one of the best season finales in the show.

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Concept: a hear me out cake, but instead it’s me suggesting new showrunners for Doctor Who.

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Look I’m just saying if the Best Doctor said the only reason he would ever come back is if they canned your ass then maybe doctor who should can your ass.

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You know for a Doctor Who era so hell bent on milking every last bit of nostalgia you think the 15th doctor would have fought a Dalek by now.

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My details were so wrong but somebody did point me in the correct direction! It was a Nightwing comic!

Ok Batman fans. I’m on the hunt for a comic that I saw on tumblr years ago (maybe fan made) where one of the robins (I think it was either Damian or Tim) fights a neo-Nazi and ends up tying him upside down outside of a Jewish neighborhood and leaving him to suffer the consequences. There was a lot of talk about being strong in one’s convictions.

I mostly need proof that this wasn’t a fever dream I had.

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A Thought

Any analysis of Superman and Captain America should involve two main points. 1) They are every bit the caricature of honest goodness that they are said to be. And  2) BEING a a caricature of honest goodness means not just fighting obvious villainy, but raging against institutional injustice, even when it comes from “Legitimate” sources.  There is a difference, however. The Kent’s raised Clark with a strong moral compass, but also good sense. He’s very aware that, as Superman, anything he does comes with a tinge of Threat. He’s keenly aware that with the power he wields, the only way he can continue to operate is by appearing completely nonthreatening to the status quo. Unless he is preventing immediate, obvious harm, he has to be very careful with his intervention. He’ll see a city councilman skimming funds from schools, a factory illegally disposing of waste, or Cops inflating their quotas with bogus charges, and he’ll be outraged. But, Superman can’t do anything about those things. If he intervenes, people won’t see Superman protecting civilians from police abuse, they’ll see Superman Threatening A Cop. If Superman expresses any opinions besides the most milquetoast “Be Kind To One Another” stuff, it gets spun into “Scary Indestructible Alien Man Wants To Take Over The World”. So, Superman takes all that rage, every injustice and abuse he sees, and those that he cannot solve as Superman, he gives to Clark Kent.  And behind the “Aw Shucks’ Kansas Farmboy affect, Clark Kent is RUTHLESS. He will pick apart your life and nail you sins the sky for all to see.  Like, everybody knows about Lois Lane, and she’s objectively the better journalist, but people always underestimate Clark. Those that remember anything about him usually think of him as harmless, the guy who comes to collect the statements your media people prepared, so you’re caught off-guard when the fangs come out. A Clark Kent interview goes like this: First Question: Hello Police Chief Smith. So, how did you get involved in law enforcement? Second Question:  What are the key values that drive your police department?  Third Question: On September 14th, you called your officers together and told them to, and I quote “ Pull over every [racial slur] you can find out there. If they let you search, say you smell weed and bring them in. If they don’t, bring ‘em in for refusing to cooperate. Just get those [expletive deleted] in cuffs and paying fines, or else start looking for a new job”. Would you say this policy of deliberately targeting racial minorities is in line with the values you described earlier?”  And Clark Kent doesn’t stop after he gets his headline. It might end up on Page 3, but he’ll keep the story going until your career is torn to shreds and staked outside as a warning to others.  And then it’s back to human-interest stories and the feel-good beat until he selects his next target.  Superman is forced to overlook things, but he IS looking, and he won’t forget, and just because he’s not throwing you into the sun, doesn’t mean he intends to spare you.  Steve Rogers on the other hand will interrupt an interview to kick the shit out of a crooked real estate developer for driving people out of their homes. When arrested he’ll say “I’m sorry, how about we just chalk up the next time I save the world as community service”. 

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 @camsthisky and I yelled for literal hours last night about these two

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One day, Clark is bored at work so he messages Bruce saying as much, hoping they could talk for a bit to help pass the time.

What he did not expect was for Bruce to tweet ‘ostriches arn’t real’.

The office becomes alive with activity. Perry marches over and tells Clark to write an article about how one of the richest men in the world does not believe a bird exists.

The interview?

Clark Kent: “Would you care to elaborate on what you meant about not believing ostriches exist?”

Bruce Wayne: “No.”

Others then ask Bruce what his thoughts on other birds are. Penguins? Real. Flamingos? Not real. Pigeons? Some are, some arn’t. It depends.

On the upside Clark’s afternoon became a whole lot less boring. On the downside there is now a Twitter account called ‘BirdsBruceWThinksArntReal’.