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★ 007 + text posts ★ {Pt. 1: James}

BONUS:

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guys i can’t believe i have to say this again

DO 👏 NOT 👏 GO 👏 GENTLE 👏 INTO 👏 THAT 👏 GOOD 👏 NIGHT 👏

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"They're all variants."

Cool, where's our TVA!Stark, you fucking cowards?

TVA!Tones just like "wtf who is this clown, i have spreadsheets to do."

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Consider buying me a coffee!

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tony: i dont go down on women but i expect them to suck my dick and thats how KINGS live

thor a feminist:

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the thing all sherlock holmes adaptations get wrong is making the guy an irredeemable asshole who treats everyone like shit . not only is it not reflective of the original stories they miss that “nice, smart, well mannered dude who snorts coke when he needs to think” is possibly the funniest character ever devised 

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Stephen: dear vishanti, I cannot read–

Stephen: for slender Aphrodite has overcome me with longing for a man

Wong: Jesus Christ you do NOT need to be that dramatic

Stephen: it’s not a need it’s a ✨want✨

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Tony: drinking coffee with anxiety is like Russian roulette

Tony: I’m awake but at what cost?

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Robot rock

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Stephen: I wanted to marry someone hotter than me but sadly... I’m the hottest person alive

Stephen: so I married someone smarter than me instead

Tony: love you too, honey

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Some comic Stephen studies from two of my more favourite designs

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Stephen: I’m so broke that the other night at a gala with Tony I carried around my laptop charger and pretended it was a fancy bag and I don’t know if that’s the worst thing because people totally bought it, I even got compliments

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As much as I want to celebrate and cheer the Dora Milaje for kicking some stupid asses, the main takeaway from this episode that is unavoidably somber is seeing the shield covered in the blood of someone who was trying to fight for a unified world, who begged for mercy, and who was not responsible for the crime he was murdered for. I want to point out that this visual representation of the shield being misused is only the most explicit depiction of the conflicting nature of that symbol that most people of color have been dealing with for as long as that shield has existed.

Sam refused the shield for many reasons but Mackie has been arguing that part of it is bc it is unimaginably difficult for a black man to represent a nation that has not stood for the black man.

Sarah says, very clearly, that she cannot care about the mascot of a country that doesn't care about her world.

The shield, in many ways, represents America, and America has, historically, systematically and violently oppressed people of color, which makes it very hard for those people of color to claim that symbol, because to them, it is the visual representation of their oppression, and the systems that inhibit their lives.

To people of color, that shield has always had some blood on it, because America as an institution has actively harmed people of color.

And this goes beyond America and the American people, as you can see by the fact that this extra-judicial killing of a member of the Flag Smashers occurs outside of the United States. As someone from a country where uncountable numbers of people have been killed as collateral damage of US-drone strikes, amongst other things, that shield also represents the imperialist military complex that America has and enforces on the world. The shield represents America and America has spilled a lot of blood on foreign soil, a significant amount of it more innocent than the Flag Smasher Walker killed.

TL;DR: Episode 4 may be the first time we are seeing blood physically on the shield for the first time, but for American people of color, and those belonging to nations harmed by American imperialism, that shield has had blood on it for a long time, because it represents America, and for aforementioned groups, America has fronted suffering.

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Sex doesn’t make us whole.

HAPPY INTERNATIONAL ASEXUALITY DAY!

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I went to my first poker night yesterday and spontaneously decided I was going to play the entire night chewing on a toothpick with an accent like a detective in a film noir. Kept calling the other players "kid" and "son", talking about how life had dealt us all a hand and we had to learn to either fold or lie about it. About halfway through one of the players left to use the washroom and came back with a suit on top and pajama pants on the bottom. We were playing with Spongebob cards. All our bets were placed in nasty banana candy

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#the real ones (insp.)

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