#BUT THE MOVIE WAS SO FUCKING AMAZING

[veraverorum]

I get it, I get it. Post your old fics on AO3 'cause I checked out the stat of the Slam Dunk fics and now 20 years of English fandom are reduced to so little

[ilovemesomevincentprice]

The Muppets interview Vincent Price on the Johnny Carson Show (1979)

[theforgottengreatpoem]

Who are you? The Dragon Thief? Drago Bludvist?

[s1mpl3sp0ng3]

i was really excited for the minecraft movie for the first five seconds of the trailer with those gorgeous sweeping landscape shots

and. then the badly greenscreened humans showed up

[f4ggydog]

I watched the substance last night and by god do I recommend it because it showcases exactly what the beauty/aging industry is: horrific and unnatural

[hercarisntyours]

pain

[an-albino-pinetree]

:)

Carnival AU belongs to @sm-baby !

[fantastic-mr-corvid]

u know wot im gonna talk about attack the block. its a movie made cause the director was fed up of seeing 'hoodie horror' and charecters like Moses[played by John Boyega in his first acting credit], black kids who got involved in bad stuff/expelled from school beeing shorthand for 'pure evil'

he went around interviewing kids to get the language right and meet people like moses. heres the full quote: "We did find some who were quite similar to Moses, who’d been excluded from school or got involved with bad stuff. And they’re not monsters. They’re very empathic, and when you spend a bit of time with them they’re normal and sweet, enthusiastic and bright. But they’ve just been cornered a bit by life, and I think that often the way they’re portrayed doesn’t help with that. Culturally, it makes the problem worse, not better." from an artical in the list

its fun its heartbreking its political its alien designs are awsome and it shows people and community with love that are so often treated like shit when portrayed.

[mysteryfeesh]

Merry yaoi to all who celebrate (I binged the first three twilight movies and I’m still mad that there wasn’t any body exploration between these two)

[dumb-fuck-in-1mil-fandoms]

Just watched the tf movie, and i gotta say its so FUCKING BEAUTIFUL, complete VISUAL MASTERPEICE! you can really just FEEL all the LOVE and PASSION put into it! It really FEELS like it was made by fans for fans, i had a friend with me whos not a transformers nerd and she said she really enjoyed it to, it made it really easy for her to understand the lore and plot, we where gushing about it all the way untill i droped her off at her house! The visuals where SO STUNNING! ugh, and the paralells, the symbolisim! It was so good! Oh my god! PLEASE ITS SO GOOD GO WATCH IT RIGHT NOW.

And incase anyone was wondering, i did ofc bring some figures

As whirl couldnt sit he was banished to the empty cupholder next to me (no one sat there its fine)

Someone pleaseeee rant with me about the awesome symbolisim, and paralells in the movie. Its so good i physicly cannot shut up about it.

[userscully]

they put drugs in challengers. i would watch it in theatres a third time if it wasn’t financially irresponsible

[denerturee]

What is this type of dynamic called?

[lab-gr0wn-lambs]

She married this guy

[kennethbrangh]

KOJI YAKUSHO in Shall We Dance? (1996)

[tightjeansjavi]

Reentering my marvel era feels so free and refreshing 😌 thank u Deadpool & Wolverine

thank u Honda odyssey—you really do fuck

thank u dogpool

thank u Hugh Jackman

thank u Ryan Reynolds

thank u Hugh Jackman’s buttery, baked to perfection abs

thank u like a prayer - choir version

thank u multiverse

[psychomusic]

so. I've been reading some posts on the jedi order tag AND i won't talk about my opinion on "are jedi good or bad discourse" BUT i wanna point out some lore to everyone who's complaining about the jedi taking kids into their order: (in the EU) it wasn't always like this.

if you take swtor era (more than 3000 years before the prequels) there were many jedi who joined at an older age. like, for example there was a guy who broke his engagement to become one. most jedi remember their families because they were old enough when they decided to go.

THEN in darth bane's book trilogy (circa 1000 yesrs before the prequels) there is a passage where two sith lords are talking about taking bane, already an adult, to study at korriban. one doubted him because he was too old, ans the other told him he sounded like a jedi, and that ONE DAY jedi will have to accept only kids into their ranks if they really want to find "pure" people that can learn their lessons quicker.

one day!! so it wasn't always like that!! the ongoing wars with the sith, who corrupted and killed many of them, had pressured them into taking always younger people into their ranks.

also, consider a thing that this video explains super well: training to become a jedi is not like exercising, because there is a transformative lesson at the end of the training that changes everything. you can't just do as much as you can, but not finish.

the transformative lesson, as the video explains, is that through the force, everything is the same - from rocks and ships to life and death. at the end of the training you have to understand this fundamental truth.

yoda says "you have to unlearn what you have learned". during times where they were constantly killed off or corrupted by the dark side (and if you haven't learned this lesson you are more susceptible to this corrupting), younger people were taken in to actually finish their training (a training that was ultimately about being a good person AND that you could leave at any point if you weren't sold on that, too)

(remember that for the sith failure = death. like. that was the alternative for force sensitive kids. it's not like sith had any moral problem with taking kids away without consent. sith don't have moral problems: they believe that them being stronger in the force means they can do whatever they want as long as their strong enough to go and do it. there are MANY passages in many different star wars stories, even in different mediums, that say this out loud)

AND (this is more of a critical thought than just stating the lore) the fact that they started doing it out of necessity doesn't mean it's 100% good BUT you know. the whole set up of the prequels is that we're starting off the story in a period of crisis and decadence all around. most of the systems of the times were about to fall. OF COURSE they had problems. if they didn't, we wouldn't have the story to begin with.

that doesn't automatically mean jedi = bad and sith are better, tho. you wouldn't take the last, chaotic and decadent period to jugde something, would you? it's like deciding that the athenian democracy sucked because people at the times of Demosthenes failed at recognizing the new schemes in which the world was evolving into, and still believed that their city would be important as it had been in the previous century. They just didn't fucking expect the Macedons would conquer half the world known and more, and have the subsequent political power. Still, their experiences in the 5th century with democracy were very good, even better than ours on many fronts, if you contextualize a little. the jedi had flaws, and most importantly, they didn't fucking know the future and everything that ever happened, ever, so they made mistakes. that doesn't automatically make the system ill, or bad, or not-working. systems can have setbacks when the world changes. (just like athenian democracy had one when they lost the empire that was funding the democracy. they even had a tyranny for a while and then fixed the problems. that doesn't diminish retrospectively their democracy)