#movie not bad. don't think about it

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Movie Night (Clip of the scene here)

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[silusvesuius]

snow queen dallas as just an extension of elsa dallas. All that crystal meth and sadness entrenched in his system turned him....Blue ❄💎

[mollysunder]

Sky and Viktor's relationship is such a horror movie to me. You've got a man who was frustrated by the limitations placed on his life that were out of his control, like his class, mobility, and general health. Despite everything, he manages to rise beyond his station and avoid being an assistant for the rest of his life.

Then you've got a woman from the same background who admires him and all that he's accomplished in spite of the similar class based prejudices they faced all the while she's his assistant. She works up the courage to take leap of faith and reach out to him with her own research to show what's possible if they worked together as equals. And then he gets her killed!

Sky's death isn't the end of it because while it affects Viktor it is in no way meaningful to Sky's life or value as a person whatsoever. Even the pendant he wears in her memory is based on the design of her notebook, but that was just her notebook's cover, she probably bought it from a store and the design itself is probably mass produced. Why not use Sky's signature that was in her letter and in the notebook, the thing part if the notebook with real value?

Then Sky's brought back in s2 and she really only exists to be Viktor's assistant again, who he kills, again! But this time it's different because this time Viktor's making a conscious decision to look Sky in the eye and kill her... to prove he's changed.

In the middle of all this, in no way has Sky's death been mourned by her family or anyone else who could have known her. Jayce wasn't affected by the reveal, he didn't think it was important to tell Heimerdinger, or anyone who knew her. Nothing about her life, death, or disappearance has spurred any emotional reaction or even curiosity about what happened to her.

Sky's new life was also extremely isolated because she became further tied to him (in some ways you could say she was defined by him). Viktor never mentioned Sky to anyone in the material plane during his commune arc, so she only exists to him and she has no way to communicate with others, she's just there for Viktor's sake.

Then in the finale we learn this all a part of a big time loop where Viktor actively set the wheels in motion to have him and Jayce create hextech together, but if everything follows as is, that means Sky is violently killed in those timelines too. That means Viktor weighed the costs and decided over and over and over again that Sky was expendable enough to let her die for his plan to work eventually. How is that not murder at this point?

What's worse is that post-finale Sky's humanity is a point of dispute amongst the fandom, the VAs, and the writers themselves. Sky's the hexcore manipulating Viktor. No, Sky's a manifestion of Viktor's guilt. No, she's actually supposed to represent his humanity/conscious made physical. And in none of these arguments do they discuss Sky as a person, she's just an object meant to serve Viktor both in the narrative sense and literal sense as his assistant.

The most absolutely maddening part is that with Viktor's new bio on the League site, not only have most traces of Viktor had been scrubbed by Piltover's archive, but Sky's life has been completely wiped. Her death was implied to have been swept under the rug, and only described as the "loss of life" consequence from his Hexcore experiment.

Viktor was afraid of dying a senseless death (created by the conditions Piltover condemned his birth to) in obscurity and then he turned it into Sky's destiny.

[sofiaherzen]

MEG RYAN and HUGH JACKMAN in KATE & LEOPOLD (2001) dir. james mangold

[hunnam]

Myles O'Brien Evil Laugh (1986) // dir. Dominick Brascia

[sparrowlucero]

I thiiiiink I can decipher the "white male pookie" anon? It's rancid, though. Option one: your Star Wars post rubbed up against a discourse leviathan. It goes like this: There are a faction of fans who liked the Rian Johnson movie, but criticize its sequels for basically abandoning a lot of the plot hooks and themes it laid out. Then there are a faction of fans who prefer the sequels, because they focused on the popular Rey/Kylo Ren ship (Reylo). The ship itself is a controversial topic. One of its worst defenses is "a lot of women like it; therefore, criticizing it and/or criticizing sequels is misogynist and women-hating". The anon is doing some absurd leaps in logic. sparrowlucero liked the Rian Johnson movie -> sparrowlucero disliked the sequels -> sparrowlucero opposes reylo -> sparrowlucero hates women and loves the white male director (rian johnson) The only other idea I have is that they're resurrecting the old Steven Moffat nonsense, but it boils down to the same thing. it's equating 'fandom' with 'women' and saying that by disagreeing with fandom takes, you're siding with the director over women. Either way, the anon's probably not worth your time.

i feel like i should clarify to that anon, for posterity, that this is the extent of my understanding of "reylo"

[lolathelooptyloop]

the fact that whitney peak is a gorgeous woman of color, a lesser known actress, her face shape is sort of similar to rachel zegler's, AND we already know that she is SUCH A CUTIE with red hair SUZANNE COLLINS I KNEW I COULD TRUST YOUUUUUU

[bixels]

I'm not getting into The Giving Tree discourse...

[bigmoon-is-bigwife]

Ros is always so paranoid that people are plotting to kill her. She mentions it constantly after any interaction with Pili and/or Bad. And the sad part is she isn't even wrong half the time! They want her ass dead!

She sounds insane when every now and then she goes "I think they're plotting! They want to kill me!" But it is in fact true. It really does bring up the question 'Is it paranoia if they're actually out to kill you?'

[jicklet]

Elemental (2023)

[sergle]

tonight I watched Return To Oz, for the second time in my beautiful life, and girl this is a HORROR MOVIE for children

[bowenoke]

I hate the way you can still default to being an idiot about yourself when you would never encourage other people to do something. "don't go to work sick!" I say, dripping snot and dizzy enough to get seasick lying down, "you'll only infect your coworkers!" as I shakily pack my lunch I won't eat because I have no appetite

[rouge-fauna]

[morninkim]

As a show of good faith toward the remaining Decepticons at the beginning of a new, united Cybertron, newly appointed Senators Bumblebee and Soundwave allowed Shatter and Dropkick to enlist into Autobot City's Defense Team.

These two turned out to be... not the best choices.

The city may have fallen to Insurgent Decepticon occupation had it not been for young recruits Hot Rod and Arcee's accidental interception of Shatter's communication with the fugitive Starscream.

To replace the errant Defense Team members, Springer and Blurr were reassigned from Iacon to Autobot City in their stead.

[disastergenius]

if anything, I think Louella and Lou Lou being white is more to do with the fact that they didn't want to look like a Rue expy/(perceived) copycat. Obviously if you've read the book, Louella/Lou Lou does parallel Rue as a little girl that the lead character is tasked with taking care of and has a tragic death at the hands of the uncaring Capitol. But largely that's where the similarities end. But I think if you've only seen the movies, it would be very easy to look at the new SOTR movie and see it as an attempt to copy something with previous success by drawing on nostalgia rather than make an interesting story (and the Rue and Katniss scenes are very loved from the original Hunger Games movie). This obviously doesn't hold up if you read the books, and if they adapt it well from SOTR, then it will be obvious Louella/Lou Lou aren't Rue either, but this is going based on first pass (this is not a good argument but it is likely).

i don't love that Louella and Lou Lou are going to be white in the SOTR movie, but i think it's a case of movie continuity (which sucks because they blatantly ignored the implications of many of the main book cast being POC/POC-coded) since so many people have pointed out the actress for Louella looks like Jennifer Lawrence

[sivdoodles]

Another quick thing between requests. I liked the design @melodymelancholyart has for River Styxx and kept thinking about it so i wanted to doodle her quick sorry

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