#movie: the intervention

[lovingnatashalyonne]

anybody know where we can watch that interview from awhile ago, I think it was called bedtime stories with natasha lyonne and clea duvall? I can't find it anywhere anymore ☹️

[noxcheshire]

Still in love with the neglected reader trope, but make it unexpected in that Reader was actually breaking the fourth wall by CREATING those written tropes with the batfam narrative in their ao3 account.

They are happily typing away as another tragic chapter is released.

Sitting in their comfy chair that baba had bought them recently, tucked in with the fluffiest blankets that Dick had purchased, and hair pulled back by a cute kitty-shaped scrunchie that Damian had picked out for them. The picture perfect civilian sibling pampered and adored.

So why, Tim wondered as he stared at his phone’s screen to see a new batfam x neglected! Self Insert, why were you so swift in these chapters and one shots?!

And why were they so sad?

Couldn’t you write something cuter?

Nicer?

Why was it so dark and tear jerking?

Seriously — in what universe would the Wayne’s ever treat their littlest sibling/child in such a way?!

Sure their vigilante persona’s were propped up as some ‘found family’ situation, but it still hurt to ever imagine causing such heart ache to you.

Maybe… he should bring this up to Bruce.

[brethilach]

I'm kinda scared to post this but it feels really bad being an actual schizophrenic person and looking at how people treat Thorin and talk about his "goldsickness" as if it's a moral failing. It hurts especially when people say or imply that his (psychosis-induced) actions wouldn't or shouldn't be forgiven by any of his family, friends, or his people and he wouldn't be accepted as King even if/when they discovered he only acted the way he did because he was just... y'know. mentally ill. Temporarily, at that! Because it was caused by a factor that can be permanently removed (the Arkenstone, I mean. It's painfully clear that the Arkenstone was the cause of it in the movies' canon)

"Oh, maybe his SICKNESS was caused by a magic jewel that is clearly cursed somehow, but it was still HIS fault that he was INSANE (never mind that he was actively delusional and hallucinating). He still loved and trusted Bilbo in the throes of his MADNESS, so it MUST have been a true reflection of his SELFISH DESIRE and GREED." This is how some of you sound.

It's even worse when people do the same thing to Frodo (even though both the book and movies depict him having delusions and hallucinations/visions akin to hallucinations, on top of all the other horrific things happening to him). "haha Frodo almost dies a dozen times and everyone else does all the heavy lifting just for him to STILL fail at the end. Sam was the TRUE hero of the story because Frodo was a useless whiny sad-sack and would have accomplished NOTHING without him" fuck you fuck you fuck you

I don't know where else to go with this. It just makes me question how some of you would treat me if you met me or knew what I experience on a day to day basis. It feels bad

[zee-rambles]

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Put the tranquilizer down, Donnie.

(Bit of a palate cleanser before what comes next…)

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Sonic Movie Universe prediction: Robotnik is an orphan because of GUN

I think what was supposed to be, tonally, a silly throwaway line is actually winding up to punch us in the face later.

Bear with me.

I barely remember the first movie since it was so long since I watched it, but aside from one, maybe two, of the comic universes, this line is the first time we have ever gotten anything at all about Ivo Robotnik's personal backstory. And it's that he's an orphan. In a story series that explicitly sets him up with a human identity- none of that Eggman stuff as his identity, not even a whisper of the name until it's a silly insult Sonic throws out later- this movie bothers to give him a Normal Human Society Firstname Lastname and a job.

(Okay, so Robotnik isn't exactly a normal human surname. But it's established canon that is the family name so. Suspension of disbelief.)

A series that we know will later delve, at least a little, into the story of Professor Gerald Robotnik WHO IVO APPARENTLY, ACTUALLY, DEFINITELY KNEW IN THIS CONTINUITY, AS HE HAS A SPECIFIC GRANDPA NAME FOR HIM AND NEARLY CRIES.

The original line was a ridiculous rebuttal to Tom during the fight in the house during the first movie. "Rub that in my orphan face," he says in response to Tom sharing a detail of his childhood during Silly Action Scene Banter. While there is a sort of tension there since the movie universe makes no bones about Sonic being an actual child and he is confirmed to be an alien, thus making the danger present of government capture and experimentation very real and kind of horrific, the scene as it plays out isn't overly out of character for something you'd expect in a Sonic movie. And although Robotnik is the threat here, he plays a large part in also keeping the scene lighthearted because of how utterly he fails to respond like a normal human being to literally anything. The comment about being an orphan at least makes sense based on what Tom said, but it's still weirdly personal and, therefore, kind of inappropriate to say. Like dude back up you're trying to kill a child why are you sharing your trauma with me that's uncomfortable.

Which brings me to the obvious point of that line- it's not just to make the scene funny, it's to show us how set apart from other humans Robotnik is. This is a man who has no idea how to interact with anyone, like, absolutely nobody, and every single scene he's in reminds us of this, including this one.

Now that the third movie has explicitly drawn a line between Shadow's backstory and themes of pain and loss, and we see Gerald Robotnik weeping over what I think is Maria's body in the aftermath of the murder (jesus that's dark) I have to connect a few dots of my own.

The first movie had another piece of foreshadowing they threw at us, this one way more obvious: at the end of the first movie, a government agent is sent to speak with the Wachowski couple. He tells them that Ivo Robotnik has been thoroughly erased from existence. As far as any documentation of him ever existing on Planet Earth, there is none. He hasn't merely disappeared- it's like he never was.

If they did this to Ivo after this catastrophe it's not a stretch to think they did the same with Professor Gerald. Hell, I thought that after movie number one. "That has to come up later- we have a character the government explicitly turns on in this series. Like, as a major plot point. The defining moment in several characters' stories. No way does their ability to erase someone not come up later."

But now I think they went a step further.

They've already murdered a little girl and broken an old man in their efforts to contain the genius they were frightened of.

Personally, I don't think it's a stretch to think that Ivo Robotnik, very young himself at the time most likely, is an orphan because GUN decided to eradicate the entire family line in an effort to prevent anyone like Gerald Robotnik from ever existing again.

Except. The son survived. Well shit. Uh. Stick him in an orphanage and keep an eye on him, I guess.

And where does he end up as a adult? A branch of the government. Where they can keep an eye on him.

(More than that, if they did erase Gerald, Ivo clearly remembers him... so Ivo may have joined them specifically to look for traces of the grandfather he knows existed and who doesn't seem to have any records proving that whatsoever. But that's Ivo's motivations and we're talking about GUN's, so, moving on.)

It's likely based on his sheer intellect, assuming Ivo wasn't embellishing too heavily, that he didn't have to grow for very long before that brilliance was obvious. Though the government's decision to let him live was strategic, weighing the gamble of assassination with the gamble of him inheriting the genius and deciding that risking him having the same genius as his grandfather was better than trying to kill him at this point, the gambit ultimately failed. Even though he was more than likely still only a child, they'd let him live too long. In just a few short years he quickly became a very real threat to the government- as in, if given a reason, he could be a very real threat. And nothing Ivo does is ever subtle or quiet, so his genius was probably very loud, and there was likely lots of attention, making an assassination impossible, because if there would be too many questions before, there would be an insurmountable amount if he died or disappeared now.

So, since they couldn't kill him, they continued to keep an eye on him and took him on at the government when he was old enough with the intention of keeping their enemies closer. Except all of their caution still wasn't enough and he went rogue the first time he was presented with the opportunity to grab at power they didn't already have, power capable of things beyond their wildest imaginations- a monster of their own making.

Ivo, who never asked for what happened to him, very likely a victim of circumstances he had no hope of ever controlling, who responded to this trauma by making his choice that power mattered more than anything- more than morals, more than hurting people who are just like he was once. That shaping his own world after all the horrors he planned to do in pursuit of that may finally, finally "be enough."

(Be enough for what, exactly, Ivo. You never did explain that. "Who knows? Maybe that will be enough." Elaborate.)

Whether he knew the truth about why he had suffered or not, Robotnik made his choices. He stood at that crossroads that demanded he make a choice about what kind of person he was going to be in the face of all the pain and loss, and he made his choice. This movie is about Shadow making his.

If this movie really wants to beat us all to death it won't just draw comparisons between Sonic and Shadow, but Shadow and Ivo Robotnik.

(If this movie wants to exorcize our souls after we're dead, if it intends to be a trilogy and not make more movies in following the original vision for Sonic Adventure 2, it'll place Ivo at a new crossroads, and this time, he'll make a different choice.)

(Especially since Professor Gerald, in a much worse state of madness and malice than Ivo, who the movie is setting up specifically as someone Ivo loves, admires, and almost certainly misses, probably won't.)

[silentreigns]

Lewis Hamilton winning means the world to me like omg I'm still grinning like the win just happened 5 minutes ago

[raurquiz]

#Happybirthday @CobieSmulders #cobiesmulders #actress #mariahill #TheAvengers #CaptainAmerica #TheWinterSoldier #AgeofUltron #InfinityWar #Endgame #SpiderMan #FarFromHome #AgentsofSHIELD #WhatIf #SecretInvasion #HowIMetYourMother #TheLegoMovie #TheIntervention #JackReacher

[thesharktist]

Hey I can make headcanons, too

Movie!Vanessa's middle name is Michelle. Not only is it the "fem version" of Michael, but it's also where she totally could have gotten the last name "Shelley" from.

Just. Just think about it, I swear

[sapphire-weapon]

say what you will about vendetta, but it is the best RE movie (so far) simply because it gives us this moment

of leon staring blankly at rebecca because he’s literally too drunk to understand what’s being said to him

like. leon doing shots alone in his hotel room while on the phone with hunnigan at the end of damnation was pretty good, but this was just

next level

with chris pulling leon’s hand away from his glass, and leon defiantly pulling a flask out of his back pocket in response, because a professional drunk is always prepared

and i swear to god if death island doesn’t have leon literally stumbling out of something and hitting the floor, or like a scene with his head in a toilet, i’m gonna be so disappointed

edit: no wait i lied

the best part of vendetta is leon’s continuous cries for help and chris just not getting it

chris: so, what? you’re just gonna sit around here another week and do nothing? leon: i never make plans that far ahead

(at the end of the movie)

leon: (earnestly) chris... how long can we keep going on like this? chris: i don’t know. i never make plans that far ahead chris: (grins because he’s very proud of himself for what he thinks is a very clever callback joke) leon:  leon, internally: he doesn’t realize i say these things because i’m one bad day away from blowing my brains out in front of my bathroom mirror ha ha ha fuck i’m gonna kill myself aren’t i

[effulgent-girl]

the Barbie meme for Spuffy

[lottieurl]

nothing more jarring than seeing those tr*e d*tective posts like ok i am getting the impression you all want those men to fuck so bad you're willing to pretend one isn't just a yassified version of the other

[qprstobin]

Vickie loves fast times bet she is gonna love but I'm a cheerleader when it comes out

[gigamuffinsofie]

What's your all-time favorite Bob's Burgers episode? Like this is YOUR episode? (You can list multiple if you want!)

ohoho ive waited 9 YEARS for someone to ask me this!! pre honorable mentions to all the fandom favourites, they're considered that for a reason!! (love you Amelia and The Hauntening) !! i'm very fischoeder biased if you'll excuse me !!

9 years ago i'd probably list Wharf Horse/World Wharf II as my favourites and they're still pretty high up there but if I had to pick my number one NOW??

What a (April) Fool Believes, i love that episode and if you showed that to me when i was 15 i would not have survived the event. The turns this episode pulled on me is the closest you'll get me on a rollercoaster, i loved it, i needed that rush, i needed to hear "my dear bob".

The Oeder Games, rip to mr fischoeder he would have loved fortnite lets plays.

Escape from Which Island? what if i invited you to a secret island for my weird secret society meetup and we were both boys?? and there was an old man higher than a kite chasing us??

not really a favourite but honourable mention to Copa-Bob-Bana we needed an episode where Felix gets to be insane again, and honestly i'm starved for Calvin and Linda interacting with each other.

If i had to pick one episode that doesn't feed into my old man bias i'd pick Housetrap. The suspense is great, I like Teddy, Bob getting high on pain killers is great

[bloodsportified]

SUSIE BANNION IS SO POOKIE I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE I'M GONNA START GNAWING HOLES INTO THE WALLS

[dudja]

Classic #DrEvil #MikeMyers #AustinPowers #SethGreen #ScottEvil #FarmersMarket #Dads #dad #fathersonintervention

[scurvgirl]

I feel like I accidentally made a "tragic no matter how you spin it" character for Astarion. She's a light cleric - she doesn't want him to ascend and if he did, she'd honestly leave him, and never allow him to make her a spawn. She loves the sun and needs it and radiates it - if Astarion stays a spawn...he can't be with her. Oh the tragedy, it hits so good.

(this is not argument of ascension vs. spawn, this is commentary on MY character's specific situation and roleplaying choices, ok?)