Finally watch Glass Onion last night and I haven't seen any posts about the moment that, to me, showed how truly stupid Miles Bron was. (Spoilers if you're slow like me.)
Duke shows him that article, right? and he recognises it as a threat, but his idiot brain skips over the most obvious out--they all think Andi is with them? On the island? So why didn't they just find her and go 'hey the internet thinks you're dead lol weird right?'
But noooo we're gonna jump straight to another murder. And then he's gotta go kill the chick that was supposed to already be dead, whom he just killed over being already dead, but she's not dead, so that's a problem and totally doesn't absolve him of the first attempt at all so he's gotta make sure he's extra guilty.
After finally watching the barbie movie I think this whose situation with the Mattel wanting to make more movies from their products is hilariously tone deaf, like did yall watch the movie and think you were in a good light?
Like yall werent that big of a bad but at best you were shown as blundering idiots who only care about money. At worst you are actively and vocally saying you care more about the greed and will only accept change when it makes you money, otherwise you are perfectly happy to force women into boxes to keep the flow of your money going. Like you are not good, no one wants uno the movie and we can all see that instead of acting different you choose to double down on the worst factors we've all known were in them
I love the dramatic, triumphant reveal that wolverine and deadpool survived the time ripper, mainly because i'm 1000% sure wade heard paradox monologuing™️ and was like "nonono hold on we have to wait for the Right Moment" and logan, who is 7 different kinds of exhausted at this point, was like "....yeah ok lol"
which leads to 2 grown ass men hiding behind a corner just waiting to ruin this british man's afternoon? logan really went from “i'll kill u with my teeth” to “yea sure i'll commit to your stupid bit” in like 2 days, honestly what a lad
"Scrooge said that he would see him—yes, indeed he did. He went the whole length of the expression, and said that he would see him in that extremity first."
- Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
[Toon x Mobster] Only he can make him laugh like that...
Jack Desmond is the silly guy. Gavriel Huffman is the scary guy. They come from different worlds that has contrasting genres, one more cartoonishly comedic and the other much dramatically darker.
It's kind of a running gag that Sir Huffman is unable to laugh without looking absolutely wicked. Both in the cartoon world and his own world.
That doesn't stop Jack from being completely smitten with him though, his voice is the most mind-melting thing he's ever had the pleasure to hear
something. about. the horror of being sent on an impossible (death) quest and obligations and hospitality politics. the trauma of not having a home, and then the trauma of being in a house that becomes actively hostile to you, one that would swallow you whole and spit out your bones if you step out of line. all of this is conditional, your existence continues to be something men want gone.
it's about going back as far as I can with the perseus narrative because there's always a version of a myth that exists behind the one that survives. the missing pieces are clearly defined, but the oldest recorded version of it isn't there! and there's probably something older before that!! but it's doomed to forever be an unfilled space, clearly defined by an outline of something that was there and continues to be there in it's absence.
and love. it's also about love. even when you had nothing, you had love.
on the opposite side of the spectrum, this is Not About Ovid Or Roman-Renaissance Reception, Depictions And Discourses On The Perseus Narrative.
edit: to add to the above, while it's not about Ovid, because I'm specifically trying to peel things back to the oldest version of this story, Ovid is fine. alterations on the Perseus myth that give more attention Medusa predate Ovid by several centuries. this comic is also not about those, either! there are many versions of this story from the ancient world. there is not one singular True or Better version, they're all saying something.
Perseus, Daniel Ogden
Anthology of Classical Myth: Primary Sources in Translation, edited & translated by Stephen M Trzaskoma, R. Scott Smith, Stephen Brunet
okay i was rewatching into the spider-verse after watching across the spider-verse and noticed something during the scene where miles meets his universe's peter for the first time.
peter's spider senses are red and blue, the classic spiderman colors
but miles's are purple and green... like another version of miles i can think of 👀
I didn't get him (and I need to save my keys for Silver's birthday, sob) so I looked up his groovy, and I'm not over how incredibly dramatic and epic and cool it looks in direct contrast to the absolutely ridiculous context. just look at that dynamic action and his majestic sparkling tears and keep in mind that this is pretty much right after a bunch of characters have been dance battling for his soul.
and then even the actual moment of the groovy is just like
this is NOT a negative in the slightest, I love it all, this truly was an incredible update in so many ways