#althea x ryan

[lesbianmaxevans]

Althea & Ryan || Shifu

[Image Description: Six stacked gifs from Kung Fu.

Criminal: Sorry, boss said no witnesses. Althea squeals before she kicks him, and the man falls to the ground. Ryan runs over to Althea, and punches the guy as he’s about to stand up, knocking him out. Ryan: Ow! Althea: That was amazing! Ryan: What about you? That kick? Come on! She hasn’t taught me that yet. Althea: I’m a little more flexible.]

[alphawolfice1989]

Kung Fu ( 2021 ) couples of season 3

Nicky and henry

Ryan and Sebastian

Althea  and Dennis

Mei-Li and Jin

Evan and Nadia

[theamazingcaptdeadpool]

What is one dream your muse has had that they still remember now? (nightmare or good is up to you!) when your muse was younger, what was their biggest goal/dream? Who are three people closes to your muse, how did your muse meet them? What is your muses biggest fears?

"A lot of my childhood is centered around the army and Captain America. I wanted to be the best I could for my father, until I realised I could never be good enough. And of course, I learned who he really was - and then chased more realistic goals. Captain America always remained my hero, and I've had the pleasure to get to know him quite well." Wade gave a sad, wry smile. He'd take five seconds with Steve over his entire childhood any day. "My dream as a kid was to fight alongside Cap at some point. Stupid, maybe. But I figured if I excelled in the army I could get to do that..." he rubbed the back of his neck, clearly embarrassed. "I used to dream that someone would find me - see me - and take me away. The person of the dream would change, more often than not it was Steve..." he almost whispered the last part. "But it would always be a sort of rescue. A better life."

Wade fell silent for a little moment. You reading this Thanos? I can do silence!

"I know a lot of people, but I don't keep them all that close. I think... I think I sometimes overcompensate. Try to hard. I want to be accepted and adored, and I love attention - but I know I'm a lot to handle, so I'll..." he scoffed and rubbed thighs. "I'll try and pull away... For their sake."

There's a lot of canon comic answers here. Wolverine. Peter Parker. Hawkeye. Shiklah. Ellie. Then there's the movie answers. Blind Al. Dopinder. Weasel. Vanessa... And I'm having a hard time picking. Wade sighed. I'm not going to go with Peter, because we shun Spideypool. I'm not going with Wolverine either, because on this blog, we never actually met him. Not to mention; we're not close. Heh.

"Blind Al is close. Althea. We have to be, given that we live together. In the comics I was hired to assasinate her - in the movie I met her whilst doing laundry. Yeah. Don't ask me how Ryan fucked that up. Anyway, let's go with the movie version, that's the one people seem to know and adore, and besides - it's PG-13. Which this blog is all about."

"There's Colossus, who... oh god. This is complicated. It involves Thor. Doctor Doom. Venom. A new suit. A love affair with the Wasp (sorry Evangeline Lilly) and Colossus dying - then me ressurecting him." Wade would have gotten confused by his own words if he hadn't been there to experience it. Heimdall would have seen it; but his mun? Yeah... Wade cleared his throat before he continued. "In the movies! I met him through the X-Men. He's the guy who always believe in me, and try to make me seem better than I am. Everything my father didn't. He's... nothing short of amazing. A Russian wonder. Really. He's also super duper hot. But... shh..."

"And you know... I have to mention Nathan Summers. Cable. In the comics we met because I fucked up. Then I tried to kill him... We both got injected with a virus that was part of a terrorist thing. God. We ended up sharing dna and had some crazy teleportation adventures. It was this hate/love thing that turned into a friendship... I'd die for that man, if I could. In the movie we met because a kid fucked up. Cable saved my life and at the same time removed his only chance of going back to see his family... After having fixed the timeline."

But that's all canon...

"On this blog, the people off the top of my head are Steve, who's aside from when he kicked my ribs in has been nothing but attractive kind. Bucky who always have been friendly, open and accepting even when I steal borrow his knives and break into his appartment - and Clint. My bestest lover pal. I also run his fanclub. Let me know if you're interested in a membership..."

Wade knew he'd trailed off. He looked at the questions again and sighed deeply...

"My biggest fears... You know." He rubbed the back of his neck before he let his hands drop. "According to Ryan Reynolds - it's cows. It's really not. My biggest fear is not being able to die, ever. I don't think I'm meant to deal with this world for eternity. And it's ironic, really. I got cancer and would have died, but tried to cure it through Weapons-K, and through that and Thanos got "blessed" with immortality." he made air quotationmarks. "Recently I've seemed to upset cosmic powers though, so maybe they can get me sorted." Wade winked, hoping they were watching, listening or whatever their deal was - and where stronger than Thanos so they could reverse his curse. "Like a wise man once sang; Who wants to live forever. Am I right?" Wade inhaled deeply and mouthed a wow. "Got dark fast there, pal. I'm sorry. Thanks for the questions though." He patted their shoulder and pulled them in for a hug. "When I'm done with you - I'm going after all my friends and giving them a hug."

[weekinethereum]

January 18, 2019

Ethereum News and Links

Constantinople postponed

The day before the scheduled Constantinople upgrade fork, ChainSecurity found that EIP1283 potentially allowed deployed contracts to be vulnerable to a re-entrancy attack. There was no bug in the EIP per se, but it broke an implied invariant for a small but then-indeterminate amount of deployed code. Hence, out of an abundance of caution but with limited time for the community to come to consensus, Constantinople was successfully postponed.

A full post-action report by Trail of Bits, ChainSecurity, and Eveem. They proffer a different alternative to 1283 - refund difference of intended cost of writes. Magicians thread on 1283 alternatives and thread on invariants.

New ConstantiNOPE client releases by which the fork was avoided (update if you haven’t): Geth, Parity (stable) and beta, Trinity, Nethermind, Pantheon, Ethereum on ARM

Constantinople is set for block 7280000, around Feb 27. EIP1283 is not included.

Layer 1

[eth1] Ethereum State Rent Proof of Concept

[eth2] Ben Edgington: exploring Eth2.0 design goals

[eth2]  James Prestwich: An engineer’s guide to eth2. See also Vitalik’s annotations.

[eth2] Latest Eth2.0 implementers call. agenda to follow along

[eth2] What’s New in Eth2

[eth2] Prysmatic dev update

[eth2] Lighthouse dev update

[eth2] Lodestar dev update

[eth2] Dean Eigenmann and Eric Tu are implementing the Beacon Chain in Swift

[eth2.x] What CBCifying the beacon chain would look like

[eth2.x] Bitwise LMD GHOST: an efficient CBC Casper fork choice rule

Swarm v0.3.9

Layer 2

OmiseGo Plasma update

Encumberments as a common mechanism in sharding and L2

Plasma snapp-1-bit

Aragon’s Voting Relay Protocol for optimistic vote counting

Connext dev update

Loredana Cirstea on building CryptoBotWars on Raiden

Stuff for developers

0x dev tools suite: compiler, tracer, code coverage measurer, and gas profiler

Trail of Bits’ Slither v0.5.0 static analyzer

Panvala’s first token grant applications

A flow chart analyzing the potential EIP1283 attack

Using the Truebit file system

Rust bindings for the Solidity compiler

Python REST api for JSON-RPC Infura calls

On efficient Eth addresses to eek out gas savings

Automatic authentication signatures for web3

Mintable’s SDK to generate ERC-721s

Piñata on IPFS economics. And an SDK for pinning on IPFS with Piñata

Web3 yeet wraps most common web3js operations for one line use

draft of code for ENS permanent registrar

Live on mainnet

Augur interface Veil launches on mainnet

STK payment channels live on mainnet

Urbit Address Space live on mainnet. You may find the Urbit Primer useful

Ecosystem

The Year in Ethereum 2018. #longreads

Andrew Keys’ 2019 predictions

New ENS manager

Parity Fether v0.2 beta light-client based wallet

Austin Griffith: onboarding new users with Burner Wallet point of sale

New Etherscan beta site

Enterprise

Quorum v2.2.1 and Tessera v0.8

Oaken Innovations’ toll road transactions pilot

Governance and Standards

Latest core devs call. Agenda to follow along.

List of Aragon proposals up for a vote on the 24th.

2019: the year of the DAO?

Kristy-Leigh Minehan on ProgPoW tradeoffs between Nvidia and AMD

ERC1710: URL format for web3 browsers

ERC1700: non-exhaustible token

ERC1702: generalized account versioningscheme

ERC1707: version byte prefix for account versioning

Application layer

0x roadmap: ZEIPs. Also a new look 0xTracker.

Understanding the risk/reward of providing Uniswap liquidity

Ari Juels on Chainlink and TownCrier

Brave’s opt-in ads paying 70% to user are live in their dev release. I tried it - slightly unexpected, but I like it.

Monetha’s decentralized reputation framework

Ryan Yi on Augur’s dispute resolution mechanism and US Congressional elections

Gnosis to prime the liquidity pump for DutchX with some DAI/ETH orders

Althea beta release “to dynamically route, buy, and sell bandwidth” with Eth

Maker to completely rebuild Oasis and will remove OasisDex and Oasis.direct frontends on Jan31

Interviews, Podcasts, Videos, Talks

Multiparty Computations episode of Zero Knowledge

Andrew Keys talks ConsenSys 2.0 on Decentralize This

Decentralized Data Now call. Formerly open source block explorers

Andy Bromberg on the Smartest Contract

Settle’s Scott Lewis on Into the Ether

Tokens / Business / Regulation

Status app store curation mechanism

Brooklyn Project: the state of regulation in 2019

Continuous Organizations 1.0

de la Rouviere: Moloch DAO and collapsing the firm

General

Implementing secp256k1 on Secure Scuttlebutt (SSB) to create cross-platform Ethereum-Scuttlebutt applications

Ex-BitTorrent employee Simon Morris on lessons for crypto from BitTorrent (link to part 1 of 4)

CBInsights: how blockchain could disrupt insurance

Shapeshift on 2018 law enforcement requests

Profile of DuckDuckGo and founder Gabe Weinberg

Gitcoin planning on experimenting with Liberal Radicalism with its grants

Dates of Note

Upcoming dates of note (new in bold):

Jan 23 - Infura Project ID prioritization

Jan 24 - List of things for Aragon vote, including on funding original AragonOne team

Jan 25 - Graph Day (San Francisco)

Jan 29-30 - AraCon (Berlin)

Jan 30 - Feb 1 - Stanford Blockchain Conference

Jan 31 - GörliCon (Berlin)

Jan 31 - Maker to remove OasisDEX and Oasis.direct frontends

Feb 7-8 - Melonport’s M1 conf (Zug)

Feb 7 - 0x and Coinlist virtual hackathon ends

Feb 15-17 - ETHDenver hackathon (ETHGlobal)

Feb 27 - Constantinople (block 7280000)

Mar 4 - Ethereum Magicians (Paris)

Mar 5-7 - EthCC (Paris)

Mar 8-10 - ETHParis (ETHGlobal)

Mar 8-10 - EthUToronto

Mar 22 - Zero Knowledge Summit 0x03 (Berlin)

Mar 27 - Infura end of legacy key support

April 8-14 - Edcon hackathon and conference (Sydney)

Apr 19-21 - ETHCapetown (ETHGlobal)

May 10-11 - Ethereal (NYC)

May 17 - Deadline to accept proposals for Instanbul upgrade fork

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[nightcoremoon]

So I finally watched Deadpool 2. long post. very... very... very long.

back in 2009 my then 7 year old sister really got into avatar the last airbender and I hadn't really watched it but I had to share the tv with my four sisters and honestly between the kids television and disney sitcoms it was a breath of fresh air, and for a year and a half we would wait for reruns of episodes we hadn't seen yet. avatar was the show that got me into fandoms. alas, time passed and by the time korra was playing we'd moved to a different house and lost cable tv because the stepfather refused to pay child support and we were on a one parent income. we didn't really do anything together anymore either because I was in high school now. but then she got super into comic books. and I mean SUPER into them. especially harley quinn and deadpool. so when they announced the first movie and suicide squad we had both collectively lost our shit in excitement. alas, mom said she wasn't allowed to watch it since it was rated R and she was only 14. so one late february afternoon I was gonna take her out to see a movie. I told mom we were going to go see zoolander 2. in the car, I looked at her and said

we're not watching zoolander

and she screamed

and we watched deadpool

AND IT WAS FUCKING AWESOME

anyway more time passed and I heard that a second one was coming out and I wanted to do the same thing but that didn't happen and I lost my chance to see it in the theater. and then as I got enraptured in transitioning and working and a whole bunch of other stuff I just never got around to it. I did watch all of the supporting videos and trailers and stuff though. anyways, my sister (yes the same one) just rented it on dvd from a video store and watched it with her boyfriend today (actually yesterday but shut up), so I just sat down to watch it after work and

It

Was

...

a little disappointing at first, don't get me wrong. there were a lot of plot contrivances and I LOATHE fridge stuffing. I literally made a joke, "if she dies I'm gonna be mad" and then BOOM she fucking died and I was so pissed off I almost just turned it off. but I decided fuck it might as well watch the whole thing. it was a huge step forward from a technical perspective and all of the cinematography was on point and I could tell david pulled his a-game and did so much better than tim did (sorry tim, I love mass effect 2 and scott pilgrim if it's any consolation) and felt so much more fluid of an action movie considering the man did john fucking wick. of course ryan was fantastic too, as he always is. everyone was great: rena, tj, karan, leslie, BRI AND KUTSUNA-SAN, zazie, and stef's voice plus the cgi crew. also I always love terry crews, bill skarsgard, matt damon, alan tudyk, and the two seconds that brad pitt was on screen, even if their appearances were for comedic effect. I wasn't really sold on julian though but he's a newcomer on the scene and he did pretty well for all intents and purposes. I could tell which scenes were filmed first thought but this isn't a scathing attack on a child's acting abilities. I'm just angry that the actual plot for getting to the end was so weak, that they're aware and had ryan lampshade the fuck out of it, and the last half hour was such a trip.

okay so first of all how in the FUCK did sergei figure out who deadpool's secret identity was, track down wade wilson's apartment, get a hit crew together, and make his way downtown in the amount of time it took dopinder to drive wade home, wade and vanessa to bang, and them to start watching a movie? oh yeah sure there's nothing saying that their talk about his daddy issues was the same day let alone the same hour as the previous scene except for the simple fact that there was no fucking indication that any time had passed. either way, someone fucked up, and it was for the sole purpose of fridging ness to cause wade manpain. although frankly the only thing I hate worse than killing off the previous waifu for the next is breaking them up for zero reason whatsoever from out of nowhere (or doing both: if you do both then you're no better than paul blart mall cop 2 and that movie is a steaming blight on humanity that's only saved by perfectly syncing to pink floyd's dark side of the moon album). and to be fair THEY ACTUALLY USED THAT AS A PLOT ELEMENT AND MADE ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL AND HAUNTING SCENES I HAVE EVER SEEN IN A MOVIE. and also a hilarious one. so that sucked at first but then redeemed itself later. I'm still a little salty that he killed francis for nothing. MORE ON KILLING LATER.

(actually upon reflection maybe wade didn't hide his secret identity at all so it's perfectly reasonable that sergei just went after him but that would awaken a whole swathe of problems like why the fuck are wade and ness livin in the middle of the city full of crime and shit??? and more on that later)

dopinder killing his rival in love. come on now, that's just unrealistic. dopinder is too fucking incompetent to successfully murder anyone who isn't a pedophile. MORE ON THAT LATER.

the suicide. I can understand going out with a bang but are we supposed to believe that wade bought all those barrels, wheeled them in, and arranged them all and never once thought "well gee maybe I'm overreacting a little bit"? okay, he was depressed and not thinking clearly, but he was constantly getting drunk, doing coke, and god knows what else. he somehow didn't have the clarity to not kill himself but had just enough to arrange such an extravagant death? yeah yeah I get it, rule of funny and cool, and I can forgive it because it's deadpool, but god damn it that's really lazy (AND GODDAMN IT THEY EVEN ACKNOWLEDGE IT TOO. ITS LIKE THE ROYAL RAT AUTHORITY BONFIRE HERE). it's also indicative that weasel and colossus and dopinder are just bad or at least distant friends. and at least althea has an excuse being that she can't see. but as for the other two? bruh he is suicidal and unstable as hell. the last thing he needs is SPACE. but well maybe he hid it well, like kurt cobain, robin williams, chris cornell, chester bennington, okay writing this sentence maybe that actually does make sense. fuck.

negasonic thought that wade "flamboyant pansexual" wilson was lesbophobic? what? I understand it was for a joke but like come on now. surely she'd know that wade legitimately wanted to fuck colossus but wouldn't because he loved vanessa. lesbian gaydar works well, okay? then again the writers are not lesbians so I mean they can't be faulted for not grasping the raw power lesbians exude. (and if there's canonical evidence negasonic is actually bi, the same rule applies because wlw solidarity and stuff). and that's more than made up with the interactions between wade and yukio. whom I love and would die for. she's delightful and I hope she gets plenty of screentime in DP3. (also lmao 'pinkie pie from my little pony'. the real pink pony would be proud)

now, I get that this is purely because of license issues and budget constraints but THE WHOLE CONCEPT OF THE X MEN COEXISTING WITH THE PEDOPHILE HOME AND THE ICE BOX IN THE SAME UNIVERSE IS SO FUCKING ASININE. even if I made concessions for everyone being dead despite the timeline being fucked up the ass without lube, and admitting to never having watched literally any x men movie past X3 and yes that means I've not seen origins, japan arc [wait shit yukio's in that WTF SONY], first class, days of future past, apocalypse, or logan so I'm not an expert on the field but like. FUCK. I know there's jurisdiction, things change, erik is away and charles is dead (I think) and logan is dead (I know), and there's six whole movies I'm lost on, but jesus christ, none of that segment had any work done to make sure it was logical. so here we're supposed to believe that colossus and negasonic took wade as a trainee in the X Jet to Allegorical Racist/Homophobic And Literal Pedophile Central to... do what, exactly? What was the fucking plan? Because it sure as fuck looks like the plan was to distract him enough to force the Devil May Cry (sorry but I see DMC I either think of the rap duo or the game series) to haul him off to fucking prison to the fucking nth power. Colossus who seems to be the head honcho and sole decision maker of the X Men just stood by and watched until bullets started flying. Was he recruiting? Was he the damage control? Was he the cheap plot moving device whose sole reason for showing up at Essex was to punch Wade out before he killed headmaster touchykids allowing for the hamfisted climax? Clearly if we were to derive any conclusion from this circlejerk we have to assume that not only Colossus but the entirety of the XMansion just don't give a fuck anymore, or that it isn't important to make sense because hey this is a Deadpool movie so fuck you for using logic. Excuse the shit out of me for being confused as to what the fuck actually happened, because if Colossus is willing to let Wade get thrown into prison for killing a pedophile but he's not gonna TAKE ACTUAL LEGAL ACTION AGAINST ESSEX HOUSE FOR TORTURING MUTANT CHILDREN FOR DECADES (Domino admitted to it being the same when she was a kid), either it's just a Public Relations nightmare to not let the Run-DMC haul him off, Essex is a legal powerhouse on the same level as the Westboro Baptist Cult with lawyers up the ass, or they changed a lot of shit from the trailers and cobbled together what they could from what remained (which is the most likely suspect because Bedlam and Shatterstar had scenes in the trailer where they were not dead and were actually fighting with Wade and Domino). Regardless, the scene however dumb and nonsensical was necessary I guess, and established Russell/Firefist as a character. I'm still gonna be pissed about that in particular but HOLY SHIT is that stupid. But that's not all that's stupid. More on that later.

Cable's motivations are grief. His hypocrisy is understandable. Killing kids is wrong so I'm gonna kill a kid so he doesn't kill other kids. Why doesn't Russel deserve life? Because he's a mutant? Wow, Thanos is racist AND mutant-phobic! In all seriousness though, all Cable had to do was nothing to prevent his family's death. If he had stayed in the future, nobody would have broken Russel out so there would be no way in hell he'd have killed the headmaster let alone everyone else he did. Although according to the laws of time travel, the timeline Cable came from was the timeline that he went back in time and did everything exactly the way it happened up until Wade took that bullet for Russel. Because that's the moment the teddy bear lost its bloodstain. Because literally not a goddamn thing changed the course of history up until that exact moment, THAT IS THE EXACT FUCKING MOMENT IT BUTTERFLY EFFECTED ITS WAY TO HELL AND BACK. Cable's dead family is a direct result of him going back in time to kill Russel to save them and failing miserably. And god I love time travel paradoxes UGH I JUST LOVE THEM SO MUCH. We have to assume Cable failed and that's why he succeeded. THATS SO FUCKING STUPID.

And you know what else is stupid? Wade made it back to New York after breaking out of DMC. How is that stupid? Well, first of all, the facility wasn't looking for THEIR MOST DANGEROUS INMATE. Black Tom said it himself, Wade is the toughest cunt in there. Although Juggernaut is way more powerful but whatever. More on that later. Anyway, the facility got the riot back on lockdown despite Cable decimating most of the staff, and got everyone in line enough to get them to start convoying to the more secure location. Did they see that Wade was missing and decide "hey, fuck it, what can the literally most unkillable man in the world with the most enormous boner for revenge in the universe POSSIBLY do to us who forced him to slowly die of cancer all over again in a hell prison???" Fucking stupid. Even dumber is the actual X Men themselves not giving a shit that there was an attack on the ice box which is apparently Mike Pence's wet dream, not lifting a finger to so much as offer assistance TO ENSURE THE SAFETY AND REHABILITATION OF ALL OF THE MUTANT INMATES, or even so much as being like "hey guys is Wade doing okay dying from cancer in your Guantanamo Bay?". And dumber still than that is Colossus deciding that Wade deserves to slowly die of cancer since he killed a pedophile who abused a kid so bad he used his powers for destruction and murder and evil and eventually became one of the most deadly sociopathic murderers in the fucked up future world, rationalizing it because Wade broke the rules of being an X-man by killing, even though Wade didn't wanna be an X-man in the first place. Colossus dragged Wade from his suicide directly to the X manor to get his body healed, forced him along to a mission he didn't wanna be a part of, and then punished him for killing a pedophile by forcing him to die slowly from the cancer while getting the shit kicked out of him by convicts. AND THEN WADE APOLOGIZED TO COLOSSUS? ARE YOU FUCKING FOR REAL HERE? WADE WAS SUICIDAL AND COLOSSUS FORCED HIM INTO PRISON. Bad friend, 0/10.

Seriously, a queer military vet with ptsd and a fucked up past replete with daddy issues who developed cancer and was then tortured by a shadow organization went on a revenge spree followed by a murder spree as a mercenary, and expressed that he's a violent psychopath who won't hesitate to murder sex traffickers or pedophiles or people who threaten his girl, and watched said girl (the only good thing in his fucked up life) die right in his arms immediately after his life was about to go in a good direction and start a family and probably give up all of the murder business and just be the best dad in the world and give a good life to someone to make up for the one he never got himself, did a cocaine bender, and literally committed suicide. But his godforsaken mutation wouldn't let him die, so he couldn't even see his Vanessa again. He clearly has severe clinical depression and needed a FUCKING MENTAL HOSPITAL STAY, not being shoved into a planless feeble attempt to get him to join the Xmen (using him for an extra hand for missions), and he was allowed to BRING THE GUNS, and he was confronted with a physically and sexually abused CHILD with mutant powers he probably didn't ask for that ruined his life and got him sent to Essex, a BIG KNOWN HOTSPOT FOR PEDOPHILES, and he has a big problem with sex criminals (oh yeah and the girl he loved so much he killed himself when she died? sex worker with a life full of being sexually assaulted herself. let alone the fact that wade has been sexually assaulted as well). You take a queer, mentally ill, suffering man and push him past his breaking point, and let him bring guns to a pedophile nest, HE IS GOING TO KILL THE PEDOPHILES. Colossus is a fucking cunt in this situation in every single conceivable fashion. He dragged Wade out of the frying pan, and out of the fire, and into the fucking woodchipper, before stepping on him. The situation is so far behind fucked up that I don't even think the crew fully grasp the full gravity of the situation described. But I digress.

Things weren't all bad from this point on.

The recruitment was funny and full of people. Dopinder's reaction at Peter was amazing and I love him. Domino was fucking phenomenal and I loved her. I knew that everyone else was dead from the moment I saw them, though, but I still loved them anyway. Brad. fucking. Pitt. Great action scene all around. Josh Brolin is just the baddest of asses. Murphy's law is supreme.

Juggernaut's reveal was well done. Still dumb but not quite "AHM THE JUGGANAUT BITCH" dumb. Cool dumb. And then he Megatron'd Wade which was even cooler. I thought Russell joining him was a little dumb but it was quite a callback. Although it begs the question: Wade knew it was foreshadowing something and he knew that Juggernaut existed but he just isn't omniscient and the inconsistency is driving me fucking bonkers. This isnt the Deadpool of the comics. This is the movie Deadpool. And while I do like it I can't say it's without flaws. That's ok but still annoying as fuck. And then more flaws.

It's stupid that Colossus would react the way he did when he learned Wade was back. Well if Colossus was moping about because an entire convoy of mutants literally fucking died except for Juggernaut (PROFESSOR X'S BROTHER IN THIS CHRONOLOGY) and Russell, that's even dumber. If he learned Wade was back at that moment then he's not even paying attention to anything considering Deadpool was out and about. Negasonic and Yukio didn't look too surprised to see him. Lazy writing, lampshades, whatever, blah blah who even fucking cares.

The heroes show up just in time. Shocking. But of course if they didn't it'd be a boring movie.

The action scene was FANTASTIC. It balanced four different fight scenes all at once. Why Jug didn't rip Cable in half like he did Wade I won't ask, maybe because he's half robot I guess idk. Still, Wade/Cable, Domino, and Colossus kicked ass, and Russell's advance to the headmaster was beastly. Julian's acting wasn't the best and neither was Eddie's but I got what they went for and HOLY SHIT THE SCENE IS SO CHILLING, especially for queer youth. Bryan Singer could only dream of that level of subtle analogues.

I thought it was dumb that Cable was all like "if Russell kills then he'll be an evil monster since killing is wrong" even though literally every one of the people there have killed several people that fucking day. Cable killed many, Wade killed many, Domino killed many. Granted they killed mostly pedophiles but they also killed a lot of DMC people & innocent civilians (accidentally). But again he was grieving so whatever.

Negasonic and Yukio had their moment too, I just wish there was more. But that's what the threequel is for. WE WANT MORE LESBIANS!

Wade has balls, I'll give him that. Where he kept that power nullifier I'll never know. [also... fuck that noise. they just have a collar that turns off mutant powers? ORORO WILL HAVE A FUCKIN ANEURYSM. and marie will have an orgasm. for once in her life. hahaha references]. But it was still a great scene. Russell is actually a really good character, if he is a bit Woobie, Destroyer Of Worlds. But I like that trope. Simon from Cry of Fear is one of my favorite characters in that respect; sympathetic even to the very end if he kills Purnell and Sophie (god that monologue is so haunting... "have fun cleaning my brains off the wall. FUCK YOU."). He's basically just a mini Wade but a mutant first. And it allowed Wade to have a defining character moment.

And what a moment. There's a quote that was said about The Princess Bride that I feel works here. It was about the Inigo fight with Rugen. "A comedy is only as strong as the moment when it stops being funny." And the moment when Inigo stabs Rugen, and says "I want my father back, you son of a bitch." is just permanently etched in my mind because the entire movie you watch with a smile up until right at that moment. And when Wade finally bites it, you think "oh, he'll just wake up again and make another joke" but he doesn't. He doesn't move again. He shows up on death's door. And you hear the acoustic version of Take On Me. And he walks through the fog door, and he's got his skin back. He did it, he's finally reunited with Vanessa. And Cable looks away, and you start to piece together where they're going with it, and he goes back, and you wonder wtf is this, and it returns to the present day and Wade digs in the wound AND PULLS OUT THE SKEE BALL TOKEN HOLY FUCKING SHITBALLS OH MY GOD THATS THE COOLEST SHIT IVE EVER SEEN IN MY LIFE JESUS CHRIST ON A STICK.

THE ENTIRE ENDING SCENE IS SO ICONIC.

And the whipped cream on top of the sundae is the headmaster getting creamed in the middle of his tirade. And then Dopinder's reaction is the cherry.

After that it kinda does the sappy ending which is fine for what it is. And then it brings in all the fourth wall breaking time travel shenanigans, drenching it in sap and Ryan Reynolds' brains.

The music is just OH MY GOD amazing. Yeah there's the pina colada song and skrillex and celine dion and ac/dc and enya and pat benatar and peter gabriel and cher and steve miller and for some reason diplo/french montana/lil pump but THOSE ARE ALL ACTUALLY REALLY GOOD OKAY???

The movie is chock full of amazing lines.

The fights are all really fluid and visceral.

The cinematography is always on point.

The plot formula is shaken up a little bit.

Several pedophiles die incredibly violently.

ITS A REALLY GREAT MOVIE, FOR REAL.

I'd literally say it's better than the first one.

All of the plot contrivances in the first half are negligible and are barely even problems unless you overanalyze them too much. Like I do.

And I also watched all of the extras... Celine Dion is such a good sport, really, and honestly kind of a dork and super endearing and I love her honestly and think she caught too much flak for being a) a woman b) popular c) in the worst 'romance' movie ever made tifuckintanic god I hate that movie so much despite loving kate winslett, leonardo dicaprio, and james cameron as much as I really loathe to admit it. And Ashes is a really good song.

And I never thought I'd say this but... Lil Pump has really nice flow. I really kinda hope he isn't the dead one. I despise French Montana but I love Sia and by extension Diplo (because LSD), and the song they did for the movie was... bad. But I'll probably be checking out Lil Pump soon.

And anyway the winter solstice mtv unplugged acoustic version of take on me? Beautiful.

I enjoyed this movie a lot, despite the nitpicks.

Thank you Canada. 🇨🇦

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 8.22

392 – Arbogast has Eugenius elected Western Roman Emperor. 851 – Battle of Jengland: Erispoe defeats Charles the Bald near the Breton town of Jengland. 1138 – Battle of the Standard between Scotland and England. 1485 – The Battle of Bosworth Field, the death of Richard III and the end of the House of Plantagenet. 1559 – Bartolomé Carranza, Spanish archbishop, is arrested for heresy. 1639 – Madras (now Chennai), India, is founded by the British East India Company on a sliver of land bought from local Nayak rulers. 1642 – Charles I raises his standard in Nottingham, which marks the beginning of the English Civil War. 1654 – Jacob Barsimson arrives in New Amsterdam. He is the first known Jewish immigrant to America. 1711 – Britain's Quebec Expedition loses eight ships and almost nine hundred soldiers, sailors and women to rocks at Pointe-aux-Anglais. 1717 – Spanish troops land on Sardinia. 1770 – James Cook names and lands on Possession Island, and claims the east coast of Australia for Britain as New South Wales. 1777 – British forces abandon the Siege of Fort Stanwix after hearing rumors of Continental Army reinforcements. 1780 – James Cook's ship HMS Resolution returns to England (Cook having been killed on Hawaii during the voyage). 1791 – Beginning of the Haitian Slave Revolution in Saint-Domingue, Haiti. 1798 – French troops land at Kilcummin, County Mayo, Ireland to aid the rebellion. 1827 – José de la Mar becomes President of Peru. 1831 – Nat Turner's slave rebellion commences just after midnight in Southampton County, Virginia, leading to the deaths of about 60 whites and approximately 250 blacks. 1846 – The Second Federal Republic of Mexico is established. 1849 – The first air raid in history. Austria launches pilotless balloons against the city of Venice. 1851 – The first America's Cup is won by the yacht America. 1864 – Twelve nations sign the First Geneva Convention. 1875 – The Treaty of Saint Petersburg between Japan and Russia is ratified, providing for the exchange of Sakhalin for the Kuril Islands. 1902 – Cadillac Motor Company is founded. 1902 – Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to make a public appearance in an automobile. 1910 – Korea is annexed by Japan with the signing of the Japan–Korea Treaty of 1910, beginning a period of Japanese rule of Korea that lasted until the end of World War II. 1922 – Michael Collins, Commander-in-chief of the Irish Free State Army, is shot dead in an ambush during the Irish Civil War. 1934 – Bill Woodfull of Australia becomes the only cricket captain to twice regain The Ashes. 1941 – World War II: German troops begin the Siege of Leningrad. 1944 – World War II: Holocaust of Kedros in Crete by German forces 1949 – The Queen Charlotte earthquake is Canada's strongest since the 1700 Cascadia earthquake 1950 – Althea Gibson becomes the first black competitor in international tennis. 1953 – The penal colony on Devil's Island is permanently closed. 1962 – The OAS attempts to assassinate French president Charles de Gaulle. 1963 – X-15 Flight 91 reaches the highest altitude of the X-15 program (107.96 km (67.08 mi) (354,200 feet)). 1966 – Labor movements NFWA and AWOC merge to become the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee (UFWOC), predecessor of the United Farm Workers. 1968 – Pope Paul VI arrives in Bogotá, Colombia. It is the first visit of a pope to Latin America. 1971 – J. Edgar Hoover and John Mitchell announce the arrest of 20 of the Camden 28. 1972 – Rhodesia is expelled by the IOC for its racist policies. 1973 – The Congress of Chile votes in favour of a resolution condemning President Salvador Allende's government and demands that he resign or else be unseated through force and new elections. 1978 – The Sandinista National Liberation Front (FLSN) occupies national palace in Nicaragua. 1978 – The District of Columbia Voting Rights Amendment is passed by the U.S. Congress. The proposed amendment would have provided the District of Columbia with full voting representation in the Congress, the Electoral College, and regarding amending the U.S. Constitution. The proposed amendment failed to be ratified by enough states (ratified by 16, needed 38) and so did not become part of the Constitution. 1985 – Manchester Air Disaster sees 55 people killed when a fire breaks out on a commercial aircraft at Manchester Airport. 1989 – Nolan Ryan strikes out Rickey Henderson to become the first Major League Baseball pitcher to record 5,000 strikeouts. 1992 – FBI sniper Lon Horiuchi shoots and kills Vicki Weaver during an 11-day siege at her home at Ruby Ridge, Idaho. 2003 – Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore is suspended after refusing to comply with a federal court order to remove a rock inscribed with the Ten Commandments from the lobby of the Alabama Supreme Court building. 2004 – Versions of The Scream and Madonna, two paintings by Edvard Munch, are stolen at gunpoint from a museum in Oslo, Norway. 2006 – Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise Flight 612 crashes near the Russian border over eastern Ukraine, killing all 170 people on board. 2007 – The Texas Rangers defeat the Baltimore Orioles 30–3, the most runs scored by a team in modern Major League Baseball history. The combined run total is also a Major League record. 2012 – Ethnic clashes over grazing rights for cattle in Kenya's Tana River District result in more than 52 deaths.

[hadesdarkness]

nick to carter: 'i don’t know which fork to kill myself with.’ althea to gigi: ‘pink wine makes me slutty.’ nick to gigi: ‘i’m like a mailman, except instead of mail, it’s hot sex that i deliver.’ charlotte to mariana: ‘i don’t mean to be laughing, but are you okay?’ odessa to ryan: ‘i think you need me too much.’

nick to carter: ‘i don’t know which fork to kill myself with.’ 

With a heavy sigh, Carter shook his head and popped the grape he’d been eyeing for the past few seconds into his mouth. The drama that went on during these brunch events was ridiculously petty and his brother’s comments usually didn’t make situations any better. “I don’t know, Nick. Why not just use all the forks? That will probably make the process of killing yourself go faster,” he said absentmindedly, reaching for his second glass of scotch. 

althea to gigi: ‘pink wine makes me slutty.’ 

“Just the pink wine?” Gigi replied with a smirk while grabbing a glass of wine for herself as well. “I’m sure white and red would have the same effect. Have you ever had a drink with my brother though?” she asked in reference to Carter who was across the room, arm in arm with Caroline. If there was one thing that she could always bond over with when it came to Althea it was their very intense dislike towards Caroline. “Just look at her…it’s so sad how hard she has to try to make it seem as if she isn’t trying at all. Pathetic.”

nick to gigi: ‘i’m like a mailman, except instead of mail, it’s hot sex that i deliver.’

Nick never failed to show up whenever there was some type of fun to be had. It was one of her favorite things about her brother; he always came through and today was no exception. “That’s my favorite kind of delivery,” Gigi smiled, taking his hand and pulling him with her towards her bed, not bothering to close the door behind them. She took a seat and wasted no time in undoing his belt and zipper, slipping her hand through the opening of his boxers. 

 charlotte to mariana: ‘i don’t mean to be laughing, but are you okay?’ 

This wasn’t anything new to Mariana; it was as if she was cursed or something. She couldn’t remember the last time she had a decent time with any guy that wasn’t Nick Langley. Then again, a decent time with Nick usually just consisted of sex which was always satisfying but there had to be someone out there that could hold her attention where sex wasn’t involved. “I’m fine,” she shrugged, taking her heels off before walking past her step-sister. “It’s not the first time I come home without the guy I left with. Laugh all you want, it’s really nothing to me.”

odessa to ryan: ‘i think you need me too much.’

Wherever this conversation was going, it wasn’t headed anywhere that seemed to be pleasant. They had been over it times before but they would always end up on square one. That’s how things always seemed to go for them despite the fact that they’d basically been in love with each other since high school. “Maybe,” Ryan exhaled unable to keep his eyes on her. He’d been the fool all this time anyway. He’s the one that should have just made the move instead of pretending like the feelings weren’t there; he shouldn’t have run off to New York and married someone that wasn’t her. “But, can you blame me?”

[lesbianmaxevans]

Althea & Ryan || Alias 

[Image Description: Three stacked gifs from Kung Fu.

Ryan: We’ve been working on your alias, Madeline Jung, proud CEO of Icarus Strategies. Althea: Icarus? Didn’t he burn to death? Ryan: No! His wings melted off, fell out of the sky, and drowned. Althea: I feel so much better.]