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The Abomination (Tim Roth) may have a bigger future in Phase 4 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe than fans realized. Marvel already announced that Abomination and his alter ego, Emil Blonsky, was cast in She-Hulk on Disney+. However, the gamma-powered monster’s surprise appearance in Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings indicates the Abomination will have an even greater presence in the MCU than first thought.

Abomination has only made one MCU appearance in 2008’s The Incredible Hulk but the massive brute has the distinction of being the second supervillain in the MCU after Jeff Bridges’ Obediah Stane/Iron Monger in Iron Man. Abomination’s human side, Emil Blonsky, was a British Royal Marine working for General Thaddeus Ross (William Hurt). Ross enhanced Blonsky with the Super Soldier Serum but he was still no match for the Hulk (Edward Norton). Blonsky then infused himself with Bruce Banner’s gamma-irradiated blood, which mutated Blonsky into the creature dubbed the Abomination. However, the Hulk defeated Abomination in Harlem and escaped capture. The Abomination was apprehended and held in cryo-stasis within S.H.I.E.L.D.’s Alaska facility called the Vault. That was the last time fans saw the Abomination, although he was mentioned in the Marvel One-Shot titled The Consultant. The World Security Council intended to release Blonsky so he could be part of the Avengers but that plan was foiled in favor of the Hulk joining the Avengers instead.

Related: The Avengers: What If The Abomination Had Been Recruited

Shang-Chi shows the Abomination cage fighting against Doctor Strange’s Wong (Benedict Wong), Doctor Strange’s partner as part of Xialing’s underground fight club. In the MCU timeline, it’s been about 15 years since Abomination was last seen in Phase 1 and while he was left in the cryo-prison The Vault, he’s now in the Raft, as briefly shown when Wong takes him back in the wake of their fight. How that change of location happened is unclear, but since Tim Roth is also reprising Blonsky and Abomination in She-Hulk, it may be revealed when he eventually meets Banner’s cousin, Jennifer Walters (Tatiana Maslany), and play what’s been described as “a significant role” in the show. The Abomination was also, of course, a major league villain who possesses Hulk-levels of power, making him “a 30-megaton nuke” on the loose, in Secretary of State Ross’ verbiage.

As surprised as fans were to learn the Abomination will appear in Shang-Chi, Tim Roth may have been equally astonished to have been contacted by Marvel after so many years. There were initial plans to include the Abomination in Avengers: Age of Ultron but those obviously never came to fruition. In a 2017 Reddit AMA, Roth was asked if he will ever return to the MCU and he replied, “I don’t think Marvel will ever use me again, but it would be fun.” Because of the Hulk’s complicated film rights, which are owned by Universal Pictures, there are no more Hulk solo movies on the horizon. The advent of She-Hulk Disney+ TV show allows Mark Ruffalo’s Hulk/Bruce Banner to continue playing major supporting roles in other MCU properties and it opened the door for Tim Roth’s long-awaited comeback as the Abomination.

Whether the Abomination will further appear in the MCU is unclear, but there are questions off the back of how Wong interacts with the hulking monster. That seems to suggest that Wong has been training him and that the pair have an established camaraderie, rather than being enemies. Following on from the Phase One plan to bring him in as an Avenger, Abomination could potentially be a possibility for the next iteration of the Earth’s Mightiest Heroes in Avengers 5 and he could also be recruited by Contessa Valentina Allegra de Fontaine (Julia Louis Dreyfuss) to join the new team she recruited U.S. Agent John Walker (Wyatt Russell) for in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier. Since there’s a relationship with Wong already, some fans speculate that Abomination could possibly impact Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. Either way, the Abomination is on the verge of a major comeback after sitting out MCU Phases 2 and 3.

Next: Shang-Chi: What Worked & What Didn’t

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honestlyhufflepuff · 5 years ago

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In the Great Connie Drought of 2020, let us hearken back to some S1 Connverse with “Open Book”

Re-watch reactions:

How long was Connie sitting there waiting for Steven to finish a 917 page book to ask him everything he thought about it? No pressure, Steven.

Oh man, she has her rants and theories ready to GO. You know this girl has a fandom blog. She’s such a passionate little nerd and I love it.

Wow, so even back then Steven is swallowing his own feelings to make someone else happy. He’d rather Connie have the ending she wants than admit he loved the one already there. My heart. TT__TT

Cosplay idea: Steven in his cute lil’ falcon outfit. I need to make it.

The costume shop is called “Sew & Sew Tailor?” Are you kidding me? Steven’s brain is 96% bad puns.

Steven’s idea of a rebellious ending was to sell turkey legs without a permit. You wholesome little idiot.

Steven: What should we do about em, huh?

Room Connie: What do you think we should do?

Steven (flustered): C-come on! I’m really trying here...I don’t know...I just wanted to do this for you!

EVEN BACK IN S1 STEVEN GOT STRESSED OUT WHEN PEOPLE MADE HIM MAKE TOO MANY CHOICES BASED ON HIS OWN DESIRES. KILL ME NOW.

Room Connie: I know what you really want. I know how you really feel...I know you like her, and I know you want her to like you, too.

Steven: No, don’t listen!

Room Connie: That’s why you can’t tell her the truth, but you WANT to! You want to tell her!

Steven: NO!

That moment when your nightmare-bride-dream version of your crush tells your crush that you like her. #relatable

Can we just appreciate how badass Connie is in this ep? Homegirl did not even hesitate to slice her doppelgänger in half to defend Steven. It didn’t even seem to phase her.

I was so happy when they found the spell to make him human!

Oh, Steven...Connie believes he likes the ending just because he’s a romantic, but it’s also because he wants to know what it’s like to just be a human being. The true fantasy ending for him.

Do you think I’m a bad person for liking the ending?

He...he thought Connie would see him as a bad person because he liked the ending of a book? Ugh, why do I keep seeing his self worth issues everywhere now with SUF hindsight vision??

A lot of people thought this ep was foreshadowing for Steven and Connie getting married, but it could just as easily be the opposite. The marriage imagery was only with the Connie that the room created. That was the Connie he projected in his mind, and that he rejected in place of the real one. He had no interest in playing out a fantasy, or in forcing Connie to like the idea of marriage. In the end, Steven and the real Connie agree to disagree on the book, leaving the room as friends and having a healthy discourse about their varying opinions. This might be the same trajectory their lives take, and an explanation for why we haven’t seen Connie in a while. It’s possible that as they mature, they may come to agree to disagree on their wants and priorities in life, and naturally grow apart because of that.

#su meta #lizzywrites #lizzy rants #su rewatch #open book #falcon steven #suf vision is 2020 #connverse

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atrophiedcompassion · 5 years ago

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having watched TROS for the second (and final) time in the cinema, here’s my full spoiler abundant review, also with comments on the nonalogy as a whole.

the movie works a lot better aka is more enjoyable the second time. we know what’s happening and i could relax and enjoy even the dumb moments and allow myself to feel, to be washed into the music and just feel my good feelings towards the finale.

the plot is still dumb as rocks, with the new old villain, resurrected. who not only is back but is giving our heroes a chance to find him before all shit breaks loose. why is the emperor so fucking arrogant?? why did TROS/JJ keep arguably the worst plot from TLL namely the race against a certain but exact time to do something to save the day?

the rey as palpatine still makes no sense. why did the jedi (in particular obi wan) call to her when she has the first force vision back on takodana if rey’s a palp?? JJ truly pisses on his very own movie isn’t he? and the emperor himself, he wants rey dead, twice he tells this verbatim to KR and then comments the rey killing plot was foiled to commander pryde...but then he actually welcomes her with open arms? or did he foresee his new death by rey should she reach exogol still alive? why should this death stick? ugghghgh.

the movie moves at record pace, no time to grieve, no time to catch your breath. the falcon/poe does impossible feats. the trio is united only to trail rey, finn in particular acting like a puppy. the only scene with finn that had any weight and developed his character was the scene with jannah when they’re fixing the falcon. BUT even then...i thought it was fine for the Force to guide finn out of his servitude. but maybe let the other former stormtroopers have some fuxking free will. not the force guiding them. there were so many moments when finn could’ve inspired former fellow stormtroopers to put down their weapons, but no. the spy could’ve been a stormtrooper, not the ridiculous hux doing things out of spite...

the worst scene in the movie? rey going on a fucking stroll on pasaana to meet kylo ren’s ship...and before that, the knights of ren literally posturing on a rock. i laughed out loud in the cinema it was so utterly ridiculous.

it’s all fucking plains, the fucking audience could see rey advancing through ochi’s ship screens. but somehow chewbacca gets captured and there’s a second transporter. the whole scene plays just so we can set up rey’s sith lightning abilities..?? fucking hell.

c3po’s sacrifice works for me. it’s the first moment of the rewatch where i got truly emotional and shed actual tears. and it’s not really cheapened by his memory being restored, since Finn actually mentions r2 might have a backup which 3po dismisses in his usual fashion. so 3po actually believed he was going to be fully erased. and that’s what matters. i found the 3po humour almost on par with the OT, although sometimes poe’s wayyy too aggressive with him. (i mean, poe loves droids, or at least his droid bb8, but is awfully dismissive of both 3po and D-O, just to fill in the han role i guess? it’s overdone)

the fight on the destroyer/kimiji is ok, again rey with the aggressive stance and the reveal is....nothing. rey has NO fucking reaction. she like scrunches her nose a little. she was just told the JJ equivalent to luke finding out vader’s his dad and rey’s just like. oh okay. bummer.

she should’ve fucking jumped like luke did. and maybe be retrieved on the falcon somehow. she should’ve expressed some pain. but no. rey’s just as calm as before. maybe even calmer, now that she knows the whole truth.

the death star sequence. dumb as hell to imagine the dagger has coordinates to the fucking wreckage of DS2??!??! who made it and when??!?!??! but let’s not overthink this. you get force powered rey making the ride with the skimmer and finding herself attacked by dark!rey..and then kylo come by and apparently knows this? because he tells her that now she’s tainted and can’t go back to leia either??!

WHAT THE FUCKKKK does JJ not know how the fucking force works??? i mean was it a fucking inside joke when han says that’s not how the force works in TFA??? uughghghgh. i know TROS is trying its best to almost completely retcon TLJ, but the way the Force was described there, like a balance, decay from where new life spawns, THAT WAS A GOOD THING FFS!!!!

no, JJ thinks that jedi are all pure beings and sith are dark brooding monsters and if a jedi or equivalent has even the faintest connection to the dark side, they’re fucking done!!!!!! (when the FUCKING OT SAYS THE FUCKING OPPOSITE, even a shred of goodness can help you get back to the light)

and if that was SUPPOSED to be KR’s way of getting rey to join him on his fieldtrip to exogol...my god he’s fucking dumb as hell. rey’s resisted his offer every fucking time (altho during the force call on pasaana he tells her he will turn her and she says we’ll see. she didn’t say no lmao), why would she fucking say yeah sure now? just because she had a fucking vision of dark herself??!?!?

still, dark!rey is fucking hot and i will probably cosplay her sometimes soon.

then comes the kylo - rey fight on the death star wreckage, where she attacks him, she’s aggressive, and is bested. and he’s about to kill her (even though he told her he has other plans, LOL) and then leia calls. or her call to her son finally reaches him (no more voicemail) and he falters, drops the saber and is impaled by rey.......who also senses leia’s passing.

and we have ben again and the scene with han solo plays and it’s pretty fucking emotional. but i wish he had said father and not dad. dad feels unearned. father would’ve worked best, especially for such a serious, stoic char like ben, dad is far too playful. i would’ve wanted a moment more of ben mourning his mother too, but the movie’s gotta be done in 30 mins so we have no time for allowing emotional moments to sink in. note: finn & poe are in such a rush to get to leia they don’t even have time to wait a sec to be told properly that she’s fucking dead. fuck you movie.

the scenes with luke are good. of course, luke backtracks all of his development in TLJ (because fuck you that’s why) and apparently everyone knew she was a palpatine but they still trained her because fuck logic? this is just like the PT where they end up training anakin because they made a promise to a dead guy. lmao. and how convenient is that there’s another lightsaber, otherwise how would rey make an x at the end to (presumably) end palpatine?? hmmm. i said the jedi leia scene/flashback worked for me the first time i saw it, but in hindsight, the scene and motivation really takes a steaming dump on leia’s character, a mother afraid of her son and unwilling to help him. fuck you JJ. we never needed leia wielding a lightsaber. we only wanted leia using the force in some way that felt organic to her character. (sidestep: up until attack of the clones? when yoda first uses a lightsaber, i assumed he was enlightened and didn’t need actual weapons to wield the force. well, i hoped leia could be like that enlightened master yoda. but like all bad things in the SW universe, she ended up being as awful as puppet yoda with a toothpick lightsaber, cause how would we know she’s a jedi otherwise????)

so. because she refused kylo, and ended up alone on exogol and with the resistance trapped there, she’s actually considering palpatine’s offer??! and realises she has maybe another option when she senses ben’s there too??! then why the fuck didn’t they go together??!?! oh wait. i forgot she wanted to exile herself on ach-to LMAO.

and still. the whole palpatine plot train-wreck could’ve still worked had they actually used the pretty cool concept of Force Dyad for something good. i mean, KR tells this to rey on the destroyer. but apparently palp can’t do the math and is surprised when he takes a sip of their life essences??! like what the actual fuck, why isn’t palpatine aware of this?? if he (+plagueis) made vader and then he conceived his son. and then vader had leia and leia had ben and palp’s son had rey........why is KR able to put this together and not the FREAKING MASTER PUPPETEER of the whole fucking galaxy??!?!

anyway. back to the force dyad. we have awsome ben solo and rey reunited. ready to fight palps. but no. he freezes them and sucks the life force out of them. maybe the power of the force dyad of light users could be harmful to a sith?!??! maybe the power of a force dyad would help ben & rey resist palp?! maybe the power of a force dyad could be used to defeat palp?

but no. we get ben solo thrown into a pit so that palp and rey could reenact whitney houston’s hit

or, even worse, the year’s most anticipated battle of one liners: endgame. yeah, it was cool to hear all the jedi clamouring for rey, but this could’ve still worked as the jedi finally supporting ben skywalker organa solo for fucking once in the guy’s lifetime.

but no. JJ said fuck ben solo. he’s only good to give the life back to rey, then he can fuck off. i am not a reylo and i am not too bothered by ben’s death, as much as i am by his misuse. i mean, in such movies, we never really have to deal with reformed bad guys making amends. vader died, and so in a way, ben dying too and not having to be courtmartialled is actually convenient.

i have read some analysis where ben & rey being happy together is the undoing of anakin’s sad demise and brings peace to the skywalker line rather than pain and despair and that’s a valid premise, but realistically, ben’s death makes sense. they’d never be happy together in a hut somewhere, because ben still has to pay for a lot of damage. BUT his death is nothing but the crippling of the skywalker line, after a palp had defeated the palps. his death has little meaning in the story. them being a force dyad has little meaning, apart from powering palps back to his rots appearance. lmao

and finally, the death of ben is never mourned, never acknowledged. no-one is even told on screen about his return to the light (maybe maz felt it, when leia’s body vanished...) and his deeds. that kinda sucks. because luke took a moment to have a ceremony for vader, the force ghosts came through. here...we get nothing.

and then rey buries the anakin saber and leia’s saber on tatooine in sand no less (we need a sketch of anakin loudly complaining to rey about this)... and instead of finally accepting herself as being sufficient, she tacks on the legacy name. well done JJ.

(that was me when the credits rolled).

now, i love the OT more than life itself and the films give us meta to fill libraries. they are not perfect movies, but they are good, they tell a wonderful story with amazing characters and i will never stop loving them.

then the PT is made of really bad movies that now, in the light of TROS, surprisingly still come together as a trilogy far better than the ST lmao.

i still believe that the PT undermines and ruins Vader’s redemption in ROTS, because now you know exactly what he did (reminder: killed 30 children) and it’s hard to swallow. in the end, he dies to save his son and takes down the big bad so we can accept that he gains redemption in luke’s eyes alone and not necessarily in the audience’s. but ben solo didn’t even get that. he got thrown into a pit and crawled out only to give rey life lol.

anyway, TFA was okay at first, but i always had a huge gripe, aka the misuse of Leia and the complete silence on her being a Force user. like don’t even need ligthsaber fights from her, just gimme something explicit of her using the Force. she could’ve at the very fucking least sensed KR when he swoops in and abducts Rey on Takodana. but no. JJ fridged Leia from the get go, because he had no clue what to do with her. and then he fucked her character completely with what he believed was the flashback the fans wanted....UFHGHGHGH

JJ also and truly fridged Luke, because he had no idea what to do with Luke and the whole Force legacy either. he wanted to write a fun Han Solo adventure and by gods he did.

so, Luke. the guy vanishes the opening crawl tells us. he wasn’t abducted, so he must’ve exiled himself. people hating TLJ’s so called character assassination when it comes to Luke should point fingers at the real culprit, JJ. how could Luke do such a thing and run away (like JJ wrote him do) if he hadn’t done something significantly wrong?? it had to be FUCKING HORRIBLE. and so it is. because what Luke did was horrible and it set up for the fall to the dark side of poor, conflicted, manipulated and unloved Ben Solo. but had it not been THIS awful, then Luke’s self imposed exile, shame and guilt wouldn’t have made any fucking sense. so, TLJ haters, think again WHO was the person who wrote Luke running away for 10 years and allowing all that shit to happen?? it wasn’t Rian Johnson, that’s for sure. he merely justified the absence in a way that made sense plot-wise and actually character-wise too.

on repeated viewing, TFA isn’t that good, it’s a rehash of ANH and the stakes are never as good as the original movies. we all kinda know the heroes will save the day

TLJ, i liked, but the canto bight plot really falls flat. this is where RJ did some char assassinations: Poe. Poe is the cocky pilot who singlehandedly destroys the Resistance’s arsenal LMAO. and next scene he turns into sexist macho asshole trope itself, with his immediate and unfounded disdain of Holdo and her plans to keep our heroes safe. so he concocts a harebrained plan that doesn’t work. maybe it was intended as a refreshing look over this trope of barely a plan of the heroes always coming to fruition at the very last second, but the way it’s presented, it somehow really undermines all the characters involved, including newcomer Rose. at the start a breath of fresh air in the age of mindless heroics, the voice of reason, soon enough she too is pulled apart and becomes a sudden love interest...?? she is then reduced to a side’s side char in TROS, but she has space buns, so that’s cool right? that’s what SW is all about, women in space buns. fuck!

and yet, TLJ handled Luke, Leia, KR and Rey wonderfully and laid down some great ideas, Rey having no lineage, the Force Bond between her and KR, the catalyst for KR’s fall to the dark side, the little good in him, as sensed by both Leia and Rey...and set up a finale where, i believed and hoped, KR would be the main villain.

with the trailer spelling the probable return of palpatine, i kinda lost faith in TROS before it even hit the theaters. in fact, my faith in the movie was shot the moment JJ was brought on board.

we had a new villain, another race against time to save the day, and our heroes tell us again and again that it’s fine to share the burden, that they are not alone, that there are more good guys than bad - and when the ARMY OF PEOPLE came to exogol, it’s a wonderful scene. it works for me and it did both times. i know it’s awful that no-one came to leia’s call on crait, but here lando picks up (when lando says hello there, it’s not only panties that drop) half the galaxy, but somehow it still made me well up.

but, despite this very explicit message, our heroine fights alone. she faces palps alone and almost makes a bad decision, is alone in her final battle, is alone at the end. how truly horrible. instead of having ben and rey defeat palps together, rey has to do it alone, out of faux-feminism. it’s sickening. it’s stupid. and that’s not star wars and the star wars message. luke was not alone at the end, he was with friends, with family.

but she’s from a bad bloodline and she should die childless. ughhh. totally not hopeful, totally not satisfying message to have for the finale of the skywalker saga.

#tros #the rise of skywalker #full review

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theliterateape · 3 years ago

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The Regret Soup of Temper Lost and Reason Found

by Don Hall

Despite the ongoing parade of grown people acting like angry children in 2021 America, I'd like to hope that with age comes some modicum of temperance.

As I sit in the desert sun smoking Captain Black Cherry pipe tobacco and sipping on a Modelo, I drift into that perilous territory of regretful nostalgia. I remember those many times when, in an effort to exert control of a situation, I lost my ever-loving shit and resembled nothing less than a random Wal Mart customer throwing a tantrum at an insult or request to follow the rules in place.

It's a bit embarrassing to think of the occasions in my youth (and, in some cases, well beyond what any normal standard of youth could entail) when I lost control, screaming and thumping and doing my damnedest to intimidate someone enough to simply have them acquiesce to my demands. Tantrum-throwing is an art-form and I was a master at it.

The times they be a changing.

I'm no longer angry. I mean, pretty much at all. Either I wised up, find myself lacking the energy to become outraged, or am truly embracing my More Spock, Less Kirk mantra. Whichever the case the rage has all but subsided completely. That's good for me because so many others are in full-on battle mode at the drop of a hat and these days that can equal serious injury or death.

About 30 murders nationwide have been attributed to incidents that started with road rage. More than 12,500 injuries to driver violence, out of 10,000 car accidents since 2007. Of the deaths related to road rage, most have been considered deliberate murders.

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Anger, frustration, and other mental stress can trigger abnormal heart rhythms that may lead to sudden death, new research shows. In the first study of its kind, a group of researchers has demonstrated that mental stress alone can provoke these dangerous heart rhythms.

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Although anger can be channelled constructively, it seems clear that aggressive behaviour can compound. Aggressive actions most often increase the likelihood of further aggression, and enacted aggression does not reduce aggressive impulses.

Violence and aggression beyond a mild degree almost always involve additional factors. A tendency towards impulsivity and keeping company with delinquent peers are risk factors.

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When I see a woman screaming at a convenience store employee because he refuses to sell her a case of Miller Lite until she puts on a mask, I start to judge. And then I remember that time when members of an improv group I was in decided to complain about the lack of audience to a point that I threw a bar stool across the room.

When I watch a video of a man so angry that the McDonald's he goes to consistently puts onions on his "made-to-order" hamburger that he starts pulling cash registers off the counter and smashing them, I think What a fucking asshole. Then I recall that one time when I jumped on top of the hood of a Subaru because he was banging into the back of my car in his own moment of pique due to my shitty parking.

When I hear about Frederick Joseph routinely provoking white people with his camera and charges of racism (including a woman putting her feet up on a plane and a drunk woman telling him to 'stay in his hood') I think that the only difference between him and the people he films is who is doing the filming. The idea that Joseph has never lost his temper in public would indicate a level of maturity that his ongoing obsession with garnering social status by instigating incidents does not support.

"Say it one more time and I'll kick your ass!"

The nerds were a little drunk on wine coolers and false bravado so I knew there would be no such ass-kicking in the near future. Having been a few bar fights in my day, I knew the louder the bark, the less vicious the bite.

It was an odd thing to get so ginned up about.

I had been invited to a party by a theater friend. I wanted to get out, thought I might meet a girl, and the prospect of free booze was always a winning strategy for me in those days.

The party was full-on nerd. There was a party-wide game of Vampire going on. Cosplay Nosferatu everywhere, pretending be the sexy creatures of the night in clothing that was perhaps a bit too tight and made many of the dudes in tow look like overstuffed sausages with capes and slicked back hair.

The thing I said that got me in trouble came when I encountered three incels arguing the merits of Star Wars. I love Star Wars but I'm not speaking in Wookie any time soon. At one point in the heated discussion over the feasibility of the Millennium Falcon to go into hyper-drive with a broken something one of the nerds looks at me. "You joining in or just lurking?"

"Oh. Just listening. When it comes to Star Wars, I think I was Lucas's audience of choice. I was twelve years old when it hit the theaters and the whole franchise is just a space opera written for twelve year olds."

It was as if I had shat right there in their punch bowl.

There was no parking lot melee. The thing that perplexes me is how angry the subject matter spun everyone up. Sure, it's a movie that has crossed cultural boundaries and inspired billions to "use the Force," a tale of heroism at a time when we desperately need heroes, a milestone. But it's just a movie, right?

You'll discover that losing your temper is just that—a loss.

We've been this angry as a nation before. We've been this divided. The margins of society have been at war this aggressively many times. 1984. 1968. 1933. This partisan divide we all bemoan as if the failure of democracy is at hand is overstated and old hat. What's different is the speed and frequency at which we communicate this sense of cultural outrage. What's new is a series of social media algorithms designed to push the outrage to the front over anything else.

These algorithms intentionally exaggerate the reasons for the anger. The media, in a complete paralysis on how to deal with Twitter, reports news that 10,000 retweeted some hyperbole about police racism or vaccine authoritarianism as if 10,000 was a serious number. So we spend more of our time dwelling on our frustration and our anger sits ready, at a moment's notice, to explode.

Like a section of society bracing for a fight all the time, spurred on by our smartphones, we lose our shit more often without a single thought to what the expression of that anger will actually accomplish. All practicality is tossed out the window in order to exact revenge upon the microaggression or the guy who cut you off in traffic.

When my mother—a kind and loving soul, the type of person who goes out of her way to show generosity to anyone in need—expresses that she hates Donald Trump or any supporter of him, I am alarmed. Hatehas never been in her vocabulary but she says it without a thought these days. When ordinary people routinely use social media to wish rape, mayhem, and death on strangers they encounter online with the same casual nature one might merely flip someone off, we're in trouble.

Limit Your Presence on Every Social Media Platform

Sure, I was a belligerent manchild in my earlier days without the internet but I can also say without contradiction that worst threat I ever threw out in those spewing babyman incidents was an ass-whopping. No guns. No threats of lethal violence. No wishes of rape. No desire to get someone fired.

Add the secret sauce of hour by hour contact with assholes is not the desirable behavior. We already know that Instagram fucks up young girls, that TikTok is more addictive than sugar, that Faceborg is more like a hostile foreign nation than a communication platform.

It's unreasonable to get you to eliminate these outlets because they’re ingrained at this point but you can moderate your presence.

Stop Doomscrolling

We already know how fucking skewed and biased almost all media is today so give them less of your attention. Less swimming in the putrid pond of how awful the world is and more time focusing on what's right in front of you.

Examine the Pragmatics of Losing Your Temper

You'll discover that losing your temper is just that—a loss. And you will lose far more than your temper in the equation. Practice patience rather than a need for vengeance. Be less judgmental and more understanding.

If that all sounds a bit too kumbaya, try this—grow the fuck up. As a former raging shitass, a recovering rage-aholic, I had to grow up and become more rational and less emotional. If a hardcore RageBaby like myself can grow up, so can you and you’ll regret less in life if you start now.

Yes. I'm saying to suppress some of your emotions. At least in the Wal Mart or a nerd party.

#anger

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enkelimagnus · 3 years ago

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Struggle

Bucky Barnes Gen, 1280 words, rated T for Hydra shit

Jewish Bucky Barnes, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier: Episode 2 The Star-Spangled Man

Bucky waits to be released from a Baltimore PD holding cell, and has some thoughts and feelings about it all.

TW: mention of Racism, dehumanization

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Part 18 of Making a Home - the Jewish Bucky series

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They put flimsy cuffs on his wrists, as if he couldn’t break them with a single, tensing motions of both his enhanced muscles and the vibranium prosthetic. Sometimes, he wonders why Wakanda allowed him to keep the arm, when it’s such an incredible weapon, and makes him so much more efficient in the field.

He’s trained well, but he’s always less efficient without an arm.

He’s sitting on the cot of a custody cell. The cuffs are still on, for some reason. Perhaps his file still bears the ‘Dangerous’ mention. If it does, those cuffs are useless and ridiculous. He could break out. There were dozens of exit routes and escape plans forming in his head from the second they said ‘I’m sorry Mr Barnes, you’re under arrest’.

He didn’t take any of them, nor is he going to take the ones he can see now. He doesn’t want to fight. He’s tired of it.

He hasn’t resisted arrest since Berlin, since he stopped running entirely on instinct.

When they came for him after Stark’s funeral, after Steve left, at the Stark Eco-Compound, when they put those heavy supersoldier-resistant cuffs on him, he didn’t resist. He didn’t even try to.

Sam stood up for him, of course he did. He told those people ‘the guy’s a hero, you can’t do that’. Even Shuri looked at her brother, wondering if they should intervene. T’Challa looked at her back. She didn’t move. He was thankful.

He didn’t want whatever remained of the broken promise of family that called themselves Avengers to fight over his freedom again.

Besides, he isn’t a hero. He’s a murderer. He participated in the assassination of a president of the United States. He should have been on death row, rather than anywhere else. But they just put him in the Raft for a month, only visited by the Stark lawyers in their pressed suits, who never looked him in the eyes.

That presidential pardon was a surprise and honestly, he has no idea what possessed Ellis to pardon him. Some sentimentalism about him being a member of the Greatest Generation, a World War II vet, a Prisoner of War? Whatever it was, sometimes he questions the president’s sanity.

Sam spoke at his trial too, gave testimony about the things Bucky did, about the Triskelion battle. There’s dozens of fatalities he caused directly on that specific occasion, but Sam kept going on about how this wasn’t him, that he’d been brainwashed, that it wasn’t who Bucky really was.

Sam and his optimism. Sometimes, Bucky thinks it’s naivety, but after what he saw today, he knows it’s not. It’s strength. The kind of strength Bucky doesn’t have anymore, because he’d rather roll over and submit than fight. But not Sam.

Sam’s still fighting, even if there’s no clear war. Sam’s always fighting. Bucky doesn’t really get why he would. Fighting makes things harder. Fighting makes it hurt more when they break you. It’s not worth it.

Sam’s been through enough, why won’t he just… stop that senseless struggle?

He already gave up on the shield, and that part of the fight.

Steve trusted Sam to continue the fight, and he gave that up, but he won’t give up the part of the struggle that just makes his life difficult. It’s like he’s picking his battles, but he isn’t picking the right ones.

Bucky doesn’t get it. He just doesn’t. Earlier with those cops, the obvious racism in the way they looked at a black man they didn’t recognize without a fancy suit, it could only go down badly if Sam didn’t announce himself as who he was. But he hadn’t. He’d fought. It had been Bucky who’d told them who he was.

Bucky would have done anything to avoid any sort of aggression from the cops. He just doesn’t get why Sam would put himself through that.

It takes hours for them to come get him from the holding cell, to take the flimsy cuffs off of his wrists, to start walking him back to the waiting area of the Baltimore PD precinct. Two of them accompany him down the corridors that feel and smell like despair and violence. He wants out, so desperately. He’d do anything to get out, to be back in his house, alone, free. Left alone, finally. Trying to live a normal life.

He guesses that’s why he never told Steve, or anyone, about Isaiah. Not only was it not his story to tell, but he didn’t think Isaiah would enjoy being dissected by the media, the think-pieces, the government. The guy had already been dehumanized enough.

Bucky’s intimately aware of that, and the worst was that Isaiah was abused by the very people that were supposed to protect him. At least Bucky’s torture was at the hands of Hydra, generally regarded as villainous.

Bucky shouldn’t have brought Sam there. He shouldn’t have walked into that house and asked to see this man. He shouldn’t have known where he lived. He should have left the man alone, because he obviously wanted to be left alone.

He knows Sam will be waiting for him outside. He probably managed to get the cops to release him, when, by all accounts, Bucky should be on an express flight back to the Raft right now.

Because he guesses Sam would fight for him, even if Bucky told him not to. Why won’t he choose the right fight? Why didn’t he take that shield? Bucky can feel the anger bubbling back up in his throat.

Steve thought Sam was the right leader, the right fighter, but Bucky doesn’t know if it’s true. And if it isn’t true… Steve is supposed to be good at knowing what’s in a person’s heart.

They come to the end of the corridor and towards the waiting room. Sam’s there. But so are Dr Raynor and John Walker. The fucker’s smiling, in his Captain America uniform, with that shield on his back. If Bucky was closer to him, he’d grab it from its harness. But he isn’t.

“He's too valuable of an asset to have tied up. So, just do whatever you got to do with him, then send him off to me.”

Asset . The word crawls into Bucky’s mind and settles there. He feels his blood run cold suddenly, his eyes sticking to Walker like glue because he said that word. What does he know?

Is he Hydra? Or maybe he’s just… like so many others, who though they aren’t Hydra, still don’t see a person when they look at Bucky. They see a tool. Maybe that’s it. Walker sees him as the missing piece to his Captain America cosplay. He’s got the shield. Now he needs the sidekick. Bucky. Not James, not Barnes. Bucky . The tool, the piece of the set, Cap’s Bucky. Condescending piece of shit.

Do what you got to do and send him off to me. It’s not the first time he hears these words either. Those were words that said ‘do as you wish, but he’s got to be functional for me to use later’. Those are words that mean pain, humiliation and worse things.

There’s nowhere around for him to puke. He swallows the bile that’s rising in his throat and keeps his face a mask of closed-off animosity.

Walker walks out and Bucky’s eyes linger on the door for a few seconds before Dr Raynor snaps him back to focus.

Condition of your release session.

The leash clicks back on the ring of his metaphorical collar. Can’t let the dog forget he doesn’t run free. For the past few hours, out there with Sam, Bucky let himself forget.

#bucky barnes #jewish bucky barnes #fic #mine #fatws

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courage-a-word-of-justice · 7 years ago

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The debuts for the winter season keep coming, but we’re almost at the end of them with this post.

Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card 1

Note I don’t have any prior experience with Cardcaptor Sakura aside from 1 volume of manga and watching the show in passing while other people were watching it, plus knowing about a few spoilers and the show’s reputation as a seminal magical show show…then in more recent days, I finished 2 episodes of it (in fact as of the day I’m typing this, I finished episide 2 today!).

This OP makes Sakura look like later-stage Sailor Moon, and I think that’s the point.

Where did the bear in Syaoran’s hand go when Sakura hugged him?

Eriol! I don’t really know much about him, and I knew I should’ve known about him before starting this, but…it was a bit of a shock to see a character I technically haven’t seen the debut of with my own eyes.

I get the feeling these are the “two bears” from the prologue OVA…

Emails! In the world of Cardcaptor Sakura! Wow, I feel old…and I didn’t even grow up with her.

Hot dang! Gimme dat bishie (Yue)! I knew he was coming, but…I still don’t really know how he came to be!

Wow, this Yamazaki kid spouts such rubbish! I’m looking forward to seeing him in the main series now.

It’s pretty obvious I need to watch the original before understanding this fully, so I’m putting it on hold.

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I’m here for my Ume and Nishiyama. I’m not particularly good at dealing with kids, especially younger kids, but this doesn’t make me run for the hills either.

Ryuichi involves the kanji for “dragon” and Kotaro has the kanji for “tiger”.

That man with the hat is so not sketchy…

I’ve never heard of NAS before (but I have heard of NAZ through Idolish7).

That joke Saikawa told actually worked! These shows may all be middling this winter, but I’d be happy with even some of them on my docket. I’ve been pleasantly surprised more often than not that I haven’t found “stinker of the season” yet.

The comedy for this show’s really on point, although the overall design is a tad lackluster.

K-Kamitani?! Apparently Ume-chan’s character is Hayato Kamitani, so that’s how Ume got involved, so to speak. This sudden intro of 4 kids works on a story scale, but not in a way any person can process without pausing the video (or getting individual intros later).

Well, there are those individual intros I was asking for. Spoke too soon.

It’s actually kinda sad and quite telling how independent Kotaro is. (I still find it extremely hilarous Nishiyama – whose first name is Kotaro - didn’t voice Kotaro, although from a practical standpoint I understand why.)

Usaida has such bedroom eyes, it’s hard to ignore (because they make him look like En)! Dangit, I want my En back!

This brings back memories. My mum used to deal with kids all the time, and of course I was in the background for some of the shenanigans.

Dragon puppet symbolism, eh? (see the dotpoint a bit back about Ryuichi’s name)

As soon as this guy (who kinda looks like something out of Haikyuu) started demanding Taka come with him, I screamed. That character doesn’t seem very Ume, but…uh, it’s Ume. Gotta deal with it. Now that I listen to their voices properly though, Ume does have a “big bro” voice and Nishiyama a “earnest young man” voice.

Oh dear. Taka’s imprinted on me already, and I don’t even like boys that age.

I haven’t felt a genuine sense of danger from any of these winter shows until this one, so it seems like it’s one of the strongest debuts. Then again, CCS was my frontrunner before this and YuruCamp the second best, so I guess I can’t talk, eh?

Gah, I feel like I wanna cry now. That is a strong premiere!

I have a real problem with how anime tears come out in globs. Then again, I’m too much of a crybaby, as my notes can attest…so I guess no arguing here.

Should it be “Chairman” or “Chairwoman”???

Tsundere grandma. Now there’s something I thought I’d never think in my life…

Oh, I didn’t realise earlier but Taka = “hawk” and Hayato = “falcon man”. Animal jingoism at its finest!

Whoo, that was a real nice debut. I thought I was too old for this stuff, but it’s a keeper!

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It’s a good thing I chose to cover episodes 1 – 2 so I won’t have to do them now.

I didn’t notice Nagi getting all huggy there with everyone in range (the first time, at least).

In case you don’t know from all the other idol shows, the centre is the one in centre stage. They’re often seen as the leader, so it’s a very important position.

This song can’t be anything but Monster Generation! Woohoo!

Wow, I haven’t seen one of those “watch from a distance” things in a while. Makes me nostalgic.

“Ichi” would probably refer to Iori, right? (He has the kanji for “one” in his name.)

Wowee, Nagi’s entendre…is really thick. Like pudding.

I agree, brothers can be so strange…

“…spoil me sometimes.” - Laying on the entendre thicker than custard here, Iori!

These boys are so into their Magical Kokona. I want in now.

Tamaki really is an En-chan…En-chan! Come back! (But why does Tamaki have no socks???)

These ED outfits are so elaborate! Ooh! Imagine a gender-swapped cosplay of them, that’s be great!

Who’s that on the edge of the ED video though? (You can see something hopping up and down.)

Zoku Touken Ranbu Hanamaru 1

Can we please just call this “Hanamaru 2” like Crunchyroll? “Zoku” just refers to a continuation…anyways, I got Hanamaru season 1 done last year while dealing with Katsugeki, so…here I come, sword boys!

Didn’t Hanamaru get a dub, by the way? Why would you dub this? For me to criticise it? The Touken Ranbu fanbase is kinda small…

W-Wait, did they just write Yams out of this season? Yams is the protag (if not a protag) here! What did Ichiki do now to deserve this???

It was getting too hard to jump through the proxies to play Touken Ranbu as of late, so I deleted my DMM account. Even still, the sword boys have multiplied since I left! Yikes!

Wow, unexpected 1st person bit there, Kashuu/Masuda. I thought I told the industry to stop doing that…

Exposition wave…I don’t need this wave, but I guess anime-only fans might. Carry on, Heshikiri.

So this multiple Konnosuke thing wasn’t a Katsugeki-only gag? Oh dear, my head’s spinning…

I don’t think I noticed, but Kashuu uses a brush (and not a specialty brush provided in the lid of nail polish). Probably because in Touken Ranbu, plastic isn’t much of a concept…

I still appreciate how Kashuu was this Saniwa’s starter. Makes me feel warm and fuzzy for my own TR days…

Photos are a nice way to recap. After all, 1 picture speaks 1000 words.

Wow, Shishiou’s a real chibi compared to these tachi. But Shishiou’s a tachi too…

Dang, I’m jealous. These bros were around when I was a TR player, and I missed ‘em! Dang Kebishii drops!

So that thing really is a nue. I could never see it on Shishiou’s card, y’know.

Hmm…considering the bros are new swords, the Saniwa’s strategy is to level up them up using the younger bro as leader (remember, the leader gets more experience). I see…

A “pincer attack” is a V shape, so the description fits the Crane Wings formation…

I can’t say I wasn’t impressed by Akashi just then. Come to think of it, he didn’t have any battles in Hanamaru’s 1st season.

A double attack suits a pair like this, of course!

Oh my gosh, they even got two dfferent voice actors for the Konnosukes! LOL!

Hanamaru’s EDs kept changing and it seems like they’ll continue to change, eh? This one looks quite spiffy.

The style of this ED doesn’t look like Hanamaru at all. It was probably done by the original illustrator for the swords.

It’s a great return to form for Hanamaru! I’m sold!

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Another day, another long title…plus this show I would’ve passed on, if not for that resolution…

Michiko Yokote is on a lot of shows I watch. I don’t really know what her influence is, but it seems she’s genuinely competent at what she does.

So…uh, Gendo pose anyone?

I think the teacher is the best part of this. I’ve been a bit of Tonari no Seki-kun, and the pull of that is the sheer ludicrousness of what Seki does with his stuff. However, there didn’t seem to be any intervention aside from Yokoi (I think that was her name)…

Nishikata’s reactions are just way too easy to read…

Well, that was okay, but it’s definitely a show to binge all at once. On to the “on hold” pile it goes.

Wait, but they missed a segment (the 100 yen segment). Gotta skip forward…

I didn’t get any laughs out of that show at all, but it’s still a decent school SoL.

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I have absolutely no experience with this manga, mind you…aside from seeing this tiny mummy on Comico…

Wow, if the mummy can fit in his shoe…how big is it?

The translation of “ready” is surprisingly ganbaru, and there’s a “but” mentioned in the Japanese title missing from the English. Also, “ready” has sexual connotations I’d rather not pair with a tiny mummy…I’d say the translation of the episode title should be something more along the lines of “White, Round, Small, Very Wimpy But [Also] Tries Its Hardest” (“It” being the mummy and not Pennywise…).

Is Dracula even public domain right now? (Does anyone care about the intellectual property of a classic vampire novel anyway? Because I sure don’t.)

Can we please start making jokes about how Sora’s daddy got him a mummy? It may seem childish, but I’m tempted to now.

This mummy is so adorable, I think it even beat out the kids from Gakuen Babysitters! Geesh, I’m spoilt this season! It completely set off my moe senses, and I don’t even have any!

It imprinted on him! Oh wow!

The mummy doesn’t even have a mouth…how can it spit things-oh wait. That’s the joke, isn’t it?

Come to think of it, crybaby characters ae few and far between. However, between this and Devilman…er, Crybaby…they’ve suddenly become popular…I guess?

It’s like a harem, only it’s between a dog and a mummy. Why I never…

One of the best things about anime is that you can learn about other cultures through the things included offhandedly…like that molokhiya thing that Sora mentioned. Apparently it’s a Jewish vegetable of some sort.

Do mummies get jet lag too? I was just thinking how Comico stories, with their full colour and yet simple design (to allow for downward scrolling and intake by the eyes) are perfect for anime.

I listened to the show with volume for once…because Tazuki seems to be the guy voiced by Keisuke Koumoto…and I think I was on the money there. Plus, Sora’s VA really sells the delivery of jokes (although he seems to be voiced by a woman…?)!

Yamanba…like Yamanbagiri’s namesake. The mountain hag, right?

Yep, I was right on the money with Tazuki being Koumoto. Kamitani Tazuki, it seems his name is…

This dance ending’s kind of cute, too. It’s a keeper!

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(looks at title just above this dotpoint) C’mon. There’s no way I’m going to repeat “Death March to the Parallel World Rhapsody” over and over again for at least 11 or 12 episodes…by the way, I’m here because I was reading a KonoSuba novel and saw an ad for this, just in time for the anime…

“SADA”, my butt…

I love how they almost replicated Windows 8 in this show. Or is it 7, or 10? They don’t show the taskbar, which is the main visual difference between 8 and 10, but either way the Windows replication without being sued is really something…

This OP’s gonna make me dizzy someday…

Classes, eh? So that means Suzuki’s working with an OOP language. Plus you can see Cortana on the computer as the mention of classes goes by, meaning that person’s on Windows 10.

UML.

By the way, Satou is a fairly common name in Japan…at least to my knowledge. But Suzuki is a pretty common one, too, hence the mistake.

The client? Unless Suzuki is referring to the client as in the program, it could also mean the client as in the person/group who wants the game made. Considering what he says though involving a call, it’s probably the latter.

That’s the second show with a lost kid in the first episode. It seems a bit trite, don’tcha think?

According to his phone map (flip phone!), he’s in Akihabara.

FFL…eh? Google says there are multiple Final Fantasy games for Android, meaning I’ve probably thinking of Fire Emblem Fates (which doesn’t match), and there’s no such thing as Final Fantasy 50 (L in Roman numerals) yet.

That’s the second time they mentioned work/daily life being a death march. Can we not???

Come to think of it, Suzuki looks like Nobuaki (King’s Game), which doesn’t bode well for either show.

Apparently you can get Facebook Messenger for Windows 10, which I didn’t know…

“…being a corporate slave.”

C’mon! This ain’t the Animatrix, but still, if you’re trying to make stuff look technological, at least make it look a bit better.

Third time they’ve mentioned “death march”.

It might just be Houseki no Kuni’s fault, but this CGI is really janky.

Welllll…at least it looks like a game.

Welllllllll…at least they knew where to put their money for some sakuga…

This running through fields scene is either a homage to Every Anime Opening ever, or Pokémon. I distinctly remember it being in Emerald’s opening animation, at least.

Dude, if you want to look for a wyvern, do it from the ground where you won’t get injured, dumb Satoo.

Does this look a lot like Berserk (2016) with all its CGI knights…or is that just me?

Zena…? I might be showing how old I am with this (or how much I scour the internet), but…by any chance, do you mean this gal instead?

I think I’ve had enough of this flip for now, so I’m putting it on hold.

#simulcast commentary #gakuen babysitters #zoku touken ranbu hanamaru #touken ranbu #touken ranbu hanamaru #miira no kaikata #how to keep a mummy #death march to the parallel world rhapsody #cardcaptor sakura #cardcaptor sakura: clear card-hen #karakai jouzu no takagi-san #teasing master takagi #idolish7 #school babysitters #Chesarka watches Gakuen Babysitters #Chesarka watches Hanamaru #Chesarka watches Idolish7

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junker-town · 5 years ago

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6 winners from Week 12 of the NFL season

Photo by Timothy T Ludwig/Getty Images

The Bills old man/young man tailback combo might be the balancing act they need for the playoffs.

Week 12 didn’t offer much in terms of playoff-caliber matchups. It did, however, offer plenty of instances of good teams playing poorly and bad teams leveling up.

The Seahawks gave the Eagles roughly 20 different chances to keep pace in Philadelphia before their eventual win. The Saints let the Panthers stick around thanks to dumb mistakes and stupid penalties before kicking a game-winning field goal as time expired. The Patriots’ offense looked every bit as non-threatening in a win over the Cowboys as it did last week against the Eagles.

Meanwhile, Washington and the Bengals, two teams that had one win between them, each held halftime leads. Washington even went on to win!

Sunday’s winners, of course, weren’t limited to teams that slumped to uninspiring wins or beat a Matthew Stafford-less Lions team. Here are the six players and teams who got their share of triumph in Week 12.

It wasn’t ...

Not considered: the Raiders, whose playoff hopes have been upended by the ... Jets?

Wait, that can’t be right.

No, huh, here it is. Jets 34, Raiders 3. Oakland opened the game with a field goal and then watched the Jets cascade over them like lava sliding down a mountainside. Things got so bad that the Raiders threw human white flag Mike Glennon into the lineup with more than 16 minutes left in the game. Glennon, true to form, fumbled on each of his first two series.

Derek Carr, who’d come into the week as a low-key MVP candidate, finished with just 127 passing yards and a pick-six, netting -3 points for Oakland. Glennon’s five drives gained a grand total of 32 yards. Everything was a mess for the Raiders.

On the other hand, Sunday’s beating was a cathartic moment for long-suffering Jets fans. Sam Darnold powered up with 315 passing yards and two touchdowns. Prized offseason acquisition Le’Veon Bell averaged 6.4 yards every time he heard his number called. A defense that ranked 24th in the league in points allowed stifled a team with a winning record to a long field goal.

So, good day if you’re a Jets fan. A season-changing, optimism-crushing one if you’re pulling for the Raiders.

Now on to ...

Week 12’s actual winners

6. Tyler Boyd, Cincinnati’s silver lining

Boyd was a 1,000-yard receiver in 14 games in 2018, but his impact with a winless Bengals team had been muted this fall. He’d had just 192 receiving yards in his last five games, including a one-catch, zero-yard performance in a loss to the Raiders that forced him to express his displeasure with Cincinnati’s toothless offense to the press.

First-year head coach Zac Taylor and rookie quarterback Ryan Finley were listening. On Sunday, they made it a priority to get Boyd opportunities early in the game. He responded with a pair of plays that almost single-handedly willed the Bengals to a touchdown.

First he showed off some Spider-Man hands (well, hand) on a 47-yard gain:

OH BOYD! Tyler Boyd with the unreal one-handed grab! #PITvsCIN @boutdat_23 : CBS : NFL app // Yahoo Sports app Watch free on mobile: https://t.co/YLI9jW8U5W pic.twitter.com/lfEakj1lzr

— NFL (@NFL) November 24, 2019

Then he finished the drive one play later for Cincinnati’s only touchdown of the afternoon.

Spike that #BigLevels | #SeizeTheDEY pic.twitter.com/UL23JlYdaY

— Cincinnati Bengals (@Bengals) November 24, 2019

The Bengals still lost to the Steelers, 16-10, but Boyd led all receivers with five catches for 101 yards. The fourth-year pro showed he can be the team’s top wide receiver as Cincinnati hurtles toward an A.J. Green-less future and a complete rebuild. Unfortunately, that likely means spending the next four seasons in southwest Ohio, which might not be especially ... prosperous from a win/loss standpoint.

5. Dwayne Haskins, winning NFL quarterback

It wasn’t pretty, but Haskins quarterbacked Washington to a win. With the roster currently constructed as owner Dan Snyder’s tribute to the films of David Lynch, that’s an accomplishment.

The rookie only completed 13 of his 29 attempts and failed to throw a touchdown pass for the second time in his three NFL starts. He came up big when his team needed him the most, however. He pushed Washington 33 yards in the game’s final minute to set up Dustin Hopkins’ game-winning field goal. His 17-yard completion to fellow first-year player Terry McLaurin on third-and-5 helped give fans at FedEx Field a reason to go home rather than grit their way through overtime.

Haskins, in his most relatable moment of the afternoon, was possibly too eager to get the hell off the field. Case Keenum had to take over kneeldown duties at the end of the game because the rookie was too busy taking selfies with some of the intrepid few who’d shelled out upwards of $6 to purchase tickets.

Dwayne Haskins takes a selfie with fans while Case Keenum has to do the victory formation pic.twitter.com/Y76AL2cquF

— CJ Fogler (@cjzer0) November 24, 2019

Haskins would like nothing more than to ignore the on-field action at a Washington game in favor of having fun with people he likes. Same, Dwayne.

Same.

4. Tevita Tuli’aki’ono Tuipulotu Mosese Va’hae Fehoko Faletau Vea, touchdown machine

Vita Vea, possessor of the amazing name copied-and-pasted above (I wouldn’t dare try to type it from memory) had never scored an NFL touchdown before Sunday. This made sense, since he’s a 347-pound defensive tackle who’d played only three offensive snaps in his career before Week 12.

As such, the Falcons wouldn’t expect him to be a red zone threat. That’s exactly what Tampa Bay head coach Bruce Arians was hoping.

THIS IS NOT A DRILL VITA VEA HAS HAULED IN HIS FIRST CAREER TOUCHDOWN pic.twitter.com/UXlButlO9H

— Tampa Bay Buccaneers (@Buccaneers) November 24, 2019

Vea, lined up at fullback, slipped past the line scrimmage untouched and caught an easy lob from Jameis Winston to send his team into the locker room with a 19-10 advantage. It was also the heaviest touchdown in league history.

This goal-line wizardry helped offset what had threatened to be another awful Winston outing. The mercurial quarterback threw interceptions in two of his first three drives. With the burly lineman getting into the mix, Winston went on to finish his day with three touchdowns, 313 passing yards, and a stellar 11.2 yards per pass. Of course, it wasn’t just Vea’s single yard of offense that did the trick. Chris Godwin’s seven catches for 184 yards and two touchdowns was probably just as valuable in a 35-22 win that kept the Bucs’ playoff hopes alive for another week.

There's a reason they don't call him Chris Regularguywin.

— Taylor Jenkins (@TJenkinsTampa) November 24, 2019

3. Dennis Kelly, who gave us our second O-lineman beer chugging celebration in as many weeks

Last Sunday, Quenton Nelson showed the world his keg stand skills after scoring a touchdown that ultimately was called back. In Week 12, it was Kelly who taught viewers proper shotgunning technique after the tackle found the end zone for the Titans.

Open up the cooler for the boys! #JAXvsTEN#BudLightCelly | @budlight pic.twitter.com/5DmJtbFq0s

— Tennessee Titans (@Titans) November 24, 2019

Between Vea and Kelly, NFL fans were gifted 668 pounds of touchdown catches over the course of two plays. If the league keeps this up, we may have to co-opt the Piesman Trophy for the pros.

2. The Bosa brothers, who are apparently the key to beating Aaron Rodgers

The 2019 Packers vs. teams with a Bosa brother: 0-2

The 2019 Packers vs. everyone else: 8-1

Back in Week 9, Joey Bosa helped make Rodgers’ life hell with 1.5 of the Chargers’ three sacks that day. Los Angeles shot out for a surprising 26-11 win on the West Coast that reduced the Green Bay offense into a sputtering Bengals cosplay. In Week 12, Nick Bosa had one sack as the San Francisco defense got to Rodgers five times in a surprising 37-8 reckoning a few hours north of LA.

Bosa was part of a 49ers pass rush that kept Rodgers dancing in the pocket all evening. San Francisco limited the two-time MVP’s damage with a consistent pass rush and a big dose of trust in its secondary. Rodgers never found a rhythm downfield because his wideouts failed to get behind the Niners’ blanketing coverage. Even the improvised scrambling plays on which the veteran has built his legend were limited to short gains rather than long bombs.

As a result, he played at a level that can only be accurately described by one made-up but entirely accurate word: Bortles-ian.

The Niners made Rodgers look like an overwhelmed rookie rather than a savvy veteran. The Packers QB finished with an average of 3.2 yards per attempt — the lowest number he’s ever had in his 169 regular season starts in Green Bay. Jimmy Garoppolo, on the other hand, finished his day with 12.7 yards per attempt and 18.1 yards per completion,

Everyone else in the playoff picture should be taking notes — and trying to figure out how to lure a Bosa to their lineup in the near future.

1. The Bills’ legend-rookie run game

The Bills’ most dangerous weapon may be a multifaceted running attack led by one of the greatest tailbacks of all time and a teammate 14 years younger than him. Devin Singletary, the pride of the Florida Atlantic University Fightin’ Kiffins, notched the first 100+ yard rushing day of his career against the Broncos, springing for 106 yards on 21 carries. While that was a big accomplishment, he was overshadowed by someone who did less on the field.

That’s because Frank Gore’s 15-carry, 65-yard performance was enough to move him ahead of Barry Sanders on the league’s all-time rushing list. The 36-year-old now ranks behind only Emmitt Smith and Walter Payton with 15,289 yards in the course of a 15-year career.

The moment @FrankGore passed @BarrySanders to move into third on the all-time rushing yards list. pic.twitter.com/avxZ7TQlMy

— NFL (@NFL) November 24, 2019

The pair was part of a unit that ran for 244 yards against a defense that ranked seventh in the league in rushing defense until Week 12. That opened up the Denver defense enough for Josh Allen to throw for 185 yards and two touchdowns in a game that was never really in question.

So how did Gore handle this accolade? With the grace and veteran presence he’s become known for in his decade-plus in the NFL:

As we were talking to Devin Singletary he was asked a lot of questions about playing with Frank Gore. When Gore heard the questions he stood up and said “ask him about his first 100-yard game, that’s a big accomplishment” #Bills @WKBW

— Matthew Bové (@Matt_Bove) November 24, 2019

And later by thanking every offensive lineman who’d ever blocked for him. Awesome. It’s no wonder NFL legends came together to congratulate him after Sunday’s big accomplishment.

Congratulations to an all-time great from these all-time greats.@FrankGore | #FootballisFamily pic.twitter.com/iFLoJg2n9n

— Buffalo Bills (@BuffaloBills) November 24, 2019

Buffalo is now 8-3 with games against the Cowboys, Ravens, Steelers, Patriots, and Jets remaining. This could be the first 10-win Bills team of the millennium. It will likely be Gore’s first trip to the postseason since 2013.

The Bills still have plenty of flaws, but with a dominant defense and chain-moving running game, they’ve got the look of an old-school playoff squad.

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thebigreylotheory · 7 years ago

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Checking In, Checking Out

Ah, so much news to shovel through. ‘Hoth been busy. I feel like we need a State-of-the-Reylo update, but I know good and well this will end up being a hodge podge of Star Wars goodness in general. Been distracted. My house needs more work than the Millennium Falcon. I don’t know how to fix hyper drives, I mean, air conditioners…the room I picked for my office varies between Jakku and Mustafar. That and I got volunteered to be the Luigi to my plumber’s Mario.

Things I’m excited about:

Chosen One, Choosing One, Choose-y One Ren – *jaw drop* Ren, I knew you were special, but goodness me…

Well, only time will tell if this is heavy-handed literal prophecy-ish or more like Luke being a biased teacher, kinda like having a favorite pet.

I choose you Pika-Rey! Wait. Wasn’t there a game where you…you...bred.the.lil.critters?

Obi-wan Movie – Alright, Alright, McConaughey, no, that should be McGregor. Oh Ewan, crush-of-my-90s-tween-heart, please come back. And, I’m just saying, if ole Obi happens to be somebody’s grandpa, I just loved him in “Down With Love,” “A Life Less Ordinary,” and “Moulin Rouge!” I know you know cause we still sing to his version of “Your Song.”

Otherwise, I guess it could be a really entertaining film about perfect landings. Ninja warrior, anyone?

Bookie Wookies – New books to add to the SW shelf tribe!

Dragon*Con – Ah, the sun, the moon aligns and I can go this year! I have Jedi Rey cosplay planned, unless it turns out to be super humid during the weekend and I abandon all plans for comfort until Halloween. Caps, believe it or not, will probably be going as Lukey-Pooh. He keeps cutting his hair, so unmasked Kylo Ren isn’t feasible. I’m already Ms. Magoo, so if he wore a helmet we’d be in trouble. Hmm, if it rains I guess he can be Rainy-Day-Luke.

Force Friday – I won’t be doing much forcing-Friday cause of said convention. My Target isn’t open at midnight. Might have to call on bounty hunter brother Revan/Devan.

Things I’m worried about:

Yoda movie – I, personally, like my Yoda ‘Empire Strikes Back’ style. I like him on Dagobah being an eccentric lil’ wise dude just hanging out around his house (I have a model of his house I painted…need to get Revan/Devan to find this, too). If this movie is not about that, I probably won’t like it. So, I mean, unless the ‘Stranger Things’ cast crash lands on Dagobah and Yoda has to help them, so far, thanks but no thanks. I’d rather see a Darth Vader movie.

Lost photo – So you know that photo I made from Shutterfly of me-Rey-Howard-the-Duck and Caps-Kylo-Bluto-Ren? Well, Shutterfly lost it in the mail…I really, really hope its in Hangar 51 with the Ark of the Covenant and the Roswell remains.

Otherwise, it best be scaring crows away from someone’s garden. Enjoy your Reylo-esque corn people!

Surgery – I don’t know when, just that it’s going to happen. Either I’ll be more sporadic or so bored I binge Reylo-the-cupcakes-out-of-Interwebs. Mmm, Reylo cupcakes…

Kinda like this Reylo cookie I found:

Two halves of the dark and the light…and all guilty pleasure.

#stateofthereylo #reylo #reylo trash #star wars humor #bad photoshop #dragoncon #the last jedi #my star wars diary

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deductionfreak · 8 years ago

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Got tagged by @aroma-rhineford-cosplay and @notobsessed27, so I’ll do both their questions there

1. Always post the rules. 2. Answer the questions given by the person who tagged you. 3. Write 11 questions on your own. 4. Tag 11 people.

(under cut)

Aroma’s first

1 - What’s a weird talent that you have? (wiggling your ears, double-jointedness, etc.)

I don’t think I have any, but I used to be able to bend my body a lot, especially like a ‘pretzel’, back when I was younger and more flexible. I can easily stand from sitting in a crosslegged position without using my arms, though, as well as sit in a ‘butterfly’ position with all of my legs touching the floor. Doubt it counts hahaha

2 - Do you stick to any superstitions? (i.e. throwing salt over your shoulder, lucky charms, etc.)

Not really, no

3 - What’s an object in your room that has a weird story behind it?

Uh...good question. I don’t think I have any with a weird backstory, but Your Mileage May Vary

4 - What’s the one song that you always go back to listening?

At the moment, it’s A Beautiful Song.

5 - Favorite soda flavor?

I had to quit drinking soda because it makes my intestines swell, but I really liked the apple ones like Manzanita Sol.

6 - What type of phone do you have?

A Samsung Grand Prime, it crashes a lot when I play Magikarp Jump/PokeGo/FEH but it came with my phone plan for free, so

7 - What weird tics or habits do you have?

picking at my skin probably

8 - What’s your go-to snack?

too many to list, but I guess gummy bears (panditas, in particular) or chocolate chip cookies will do

9 - What song motivates you the most?

Depends on what I’m trying to draw/portray tbh

10 - Do you have any hobbies that would be considered unconventional?

creating content, hahahahaha

11 - What was the first fictional character you fell in love with?

hmmmm I don’t think I’ve fallen in love with any, but the first one I really connected to was probably Billy/Blue Ranger from the first power rangers. Or Godzilla. I can’t remember which I saw first.

notobsessed’s next. If you preferred to be called something else, lmk!

1. If you could bring one of your favorite characters to life then who would it be?

None, holy shit. Could you imagine the disaster of willing Godzilla to life?

2. If you had to kill off one of your favorite characters who would it be?

Honestly, I don’t really see a point in killing a character off if it’s not for story, plot and progression value.

That said, if I was writing DetCo, chances are Shinichi would die. But just 50%.

3. What character annoys you the most?

Eisuke. Which wasn’t the case through most of his appearances until the very last part where he talked about Ran like an object. Ruined him for me. Characters that treat other characters like objects, especially men towards women, make me extremely uncomfortable. So any character like that annoys me.

4. Would you rather draw or read?

Depends on my mood, but at least drawing is easier than writing for me. Sometimes you really wanna just read a good piece tho... its a nice change of pace from creating content yourself.

5. What would you do if you woke up as your favorite character one day?

Fuck... fuck.

6. Pizza or Hot dog?

I can only have either when I really crave it so uh... either is fine, I think!

7. What book/show/movie/game would you recommend?

Nier Automata, Zootopia, A mysterious affair at Styles... any kirby or pokemon game, really. Uuuuh, I can’t think of any other at the moment, but if you really like platformers, most megaman games are good :>

8. Someone is fatally injured, what do you do?

Call an ambulance and perform first aid. I actually took some courses on that, but it’s still difficult, especially when no one will answer your calls for help. Its how one of my dogs died... I don’t think he could have been saved even if the vet had actually come :/ (although it was less of a fatal injury and more of a heart attack... similar problem, though)

9. Your favorite animal?

I really like snakes, crocodiles, aligators, sharks, hawks, falcons, orca, wolves and dogs... tigers are really cool too.

10. The beach or the mountains?

Either is awesome!

11. What character from anywhere do you think deserves more attention?

Donno

Uuuuh no idea who to tag, sorry! I also have a headache rn so I can’t think of any questions. I’m the worst to pass this sort of meme along to XD; sorry

#tag meme #long post #there's a death mention here

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ozhawkauthor · 8 years ago

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Happy Birthday, asdfsweets!

February 29 - "You and I would make attractive children" Steve/Daisy for @asdfsweets

(Note; @welovedaisyjohnson is a real Tumblr and I’m a co-mod)

After Sam Koenig telling her about the Quake fanfic online - she still shuddered at the ship name ‘Quack’, though - Daisy couldn’t stop thinking about it. One night when sleep eluded her, she found herself sitting up and reaching for her laptop. It had been a long time, but back in her cosplay days when she’d hung around Stark Tower hoping to catch a glimpse of one of the Avengers, fandom had been centred on Tumblr. She logged back in under her old user name and typed #quake into the search bar.

There were lots of reblogs of news stories, arguments back and forth about the Registration Act. She skimmed over them, paused on a beautifully-done digital sketch of her. Clicked through to the blog.

And hit paydirt.

It was a Quake fandom blog, all right, called welovedaisyjohnson, and there was fanart, fanmixes and fanfic everywhere she looked. Scrolling down with embarrassment squinching her nose at every post, she paused over a YouTube link.

‘CaptainQuake fanvid’ the description read. She hesitated only a moment before plugging in her earbuds and clicking.

“Evanescence?” she groaned aloud as the first notes of Bring Me To Life reached her ears. “Could you be any more cheesy?”

Despite the cheesy taste in music, she had to admit that the fanvid was incredibly well done. The footage of Steve was a bit better than that of her, more often captured by professional TV crews rather than cellphones or surveillance cameras. It had been excellently spliced together with superb timing. Really, it looked very much as though she and Captain America were allies, close friends… maybe even more.

Cheeks flaming, she still couldn’t keep herself from replaying the video from the start once it finished. And then she looked at the comments, found a link to a fanfic someone had written of the fanvid, and fell deep into the rabbit hole that was the Archive Of Our Own.

“You look tired, Daisy,” Jemma commented the following day. “Sleep all right?”

Her cheeks flamed again. “Fine,” she said shortly, turning away from Jemma. “No problems.”

The 90-chapter, epic slow-burn fic she hadn’t been able to finish before having to get out of bed and had downloaded to her phone felt as though it was burning a hole in her pocket. She was absolutely hooked by ShipsTakeFlight’s writing; whoever it was, was incredibly creative and also seemed to have a very good idea of what the Avengers, at least, actually got up to. At some point in the last six months they’d become a hardcore CaptainQuake shipper and now wrote nothing that didn’t have that ship in it.

Daisy thought she was being portrayed as a lot nicer than she actually was in person, but damn if ShipsTakeFlight didn’t write some amazingly clever stories. Awesome ways in which she and Steve could actually meet, and the most insanely hot sex scenes. She hadn’t got to the sex scenes in Captain’s Orders yet, and she was pretty sure that reading them in public would be a terrible idea, even if she could almost certainly get away with it by just tinkering with her phone. Her scarlet face and shortness of breath would be a dead giveaway. The fic was tagged for BDSM.

She was really hoping that it would be a quiet day, for once, and she would be able to finish early and retreat to her room. It seemed that she wasn’t about to get her wish, though, because Coulson came hurrying in and told her that Mace needed her in the Director’s office, stat.

“You’re not coming?” Daisy checked.

“Can’t,” Coulson grimaced, rubbed at the back of his head. “Go on.”

She headed off, wondering why Coulson ‘couldn’t’ be in a meeting that Mace needed her for. Arriving at the Director’s office, she entered through the open door and stopped dead at the sight of four Avengers standing with Mace.

Captain America, the Falcon, Ant-Man and the Scarlet Witch.

The phone in her pocket suddenly felt like a ton weight. Daisy felt her face turning crimson as she struggled to get a breath, struggled to smile and act normally as Mace started making introductions.

Wanda gave her a curious smile, cocking her head, and Daisy tried frantically to think about something, anything, other than the thoughts which wouldn’t leave the forefront of her mind. She shook hands with Wanda quickly, then Sam and Scott, who gushed something about being a big fan of hers, before finally turning to Steve, sure that her face was as red as a tomato.

“Nice to meet you,” she mumbled, unable to look up and meet his eyes. His hand, large and strong, closed around hers.

“It’s nice to meet you too, Agent Johnson.”

To her utter horror, Daisy heard Scott whisper “CaptainQuake is happening right in front of our eyes!” to Sam. Her fingers tightened unconsciously on Steve’s; there was a ringing in her ears and she almost thought she might pass out from sheer embarrassment.

“It’s just like that scene I wrote in Captain’s Orders where they’re too embarrassed to look at each other,” Sam whispered back.

The revelation that Sam Wilson was ShipsTakeFlight, hardcore CaptainQuake shipper, was just too much. Daisy turned to gape at him incredulously.

“Sam, dear God, will you stop it,” Steve said irritably. “You’re a worse matchmaker than Natasha.”

“She made those amazing fancasts of your children, though,” Sam said with an irrepressible grin. “I thought Summer Glau and Tyler Hoechlin were perfect choices.”

“I didn’t see those yet,” Daisy blurted before realizing she’d just confessed to having checked out CaptainQuake stuff online. Glancing nervously back at Steve, she found him chuckling and shaking his head.

“You and I would have really attractive children,” he said, the note in his voice distinctly apologetic, “but I’m afraid my friends are all really jumping the gun, since we’ve only just met.” There was a distinctly appreciative look in his eyes, though, and Daisy suddenly felt a little bit better.

“Well, think about it this way,” she said recklessly, “if we ever did get together, we’d have the perfect method to announce it. Hashtag CaptainQuake is canon!”

“We’d need video,” Sam butted in eagerly, “or everyone would think it was a manip.”

Mace was looking around them all with bemusement evident on his face. “Do you have any idea what they’re talking about?” he asked Wanda plaintively.

She gave him one of her patented mysterious smiles. “Trust me, Director Jeffery, you don’t want to know.” Taking a moment to look him up and down, taking in his height and broad shoulders, she mused “I wonder if you’re shipped with anyone yet?”

“ScarletPatriot?” Sam whispered to Scott, and the pair of them fist-bumped.

“I’d read the hell out of that!”

#CaptainQuake #birthday gift fics

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