#so many good cgis

[anonymouslyangsty]

Fuck. Ace though he was a coward till the end, but he died a fucking hero right there. He put himself on the line and tried to take out MonoTv even if he was terrified. He pushed for his own execution to try to save Levi's life. Fuck. That coward sure can be brave when it comes down to the final hour.

[shijiujun]

Gorgeous CGI in Monster Hunting!!!

— Love Game in Eastern Fantasy 永夜星河 (2024) | EP. 01

[deathsmallcaps]

Captain America: Brave New World (CABNW) analysis

This movie is all about themes of rehabilitation, hope, and not allowing your past to define your future.

Sam is redefining the mantle of the shield, and reclaiming his independence. Since reaching adulthood, he has worked as part of the military, or in a major team, and always besides super powered people (not that he was the only regular human in the Avengers, but you know). And now Sam gets to herald a new age of modern values of rehabilitation.

Steve was also a man of hope, but he (as a white man) fought the Other: fascists and aliens. AKA, unredeemables (in the short term) and nonhumans. He was from WWII; while the full truth of the matter is that the USA did not join the war out of altruism and a wish to save oppressed peoples, I personally feel glad that the USA was able to help out in those matters. I feel our part in the war was justified when it came to stopping multiple genocides. Many people also feel this way, and hold WWII up as this bastion of ‘justified’ wars. Many feel it’s okay that Americans went to Germany and Japan and started killing people, because they were doing it first.

Same thing with alien invasion storylines. I love Steve, but the only person he is MCU-canonically pursuing rehabilitation for is Bucky. He has different values as both a survivor of WWII, a witness to the explosive growth of fascism in the early 1900s, and a white man. Sure, Steve grew up disabled and Irish(-American) in the early 1900s, but he was also a blue eyed blond haired American man who shows no trace of an Irish identity on screen. Steve is a hopeful, principled and angry man.

Meanwhile, Sam grew up being othered as a Black child and then man, joined a war that was never justifiable (never confirmed what war he was in but no war the USA has perpetuated in the 2000s, if not even earlier, has been justifiable), and then continually had to be an examplar wherever he went. Except for possibly War Machine (I’m not sure where he fits in), Sam was the ONLY Avenger of Color. Ever. (And the only one from a more rural area)

And yet Sam always chooses hope and kindness. He has it rough - as the only Avenger of Color, he had to always choose others needs over his own. He and Isaiah Bradley (another person restored by Sam’s rehabilitative justice <3) discuss the weight of that. Bradley points out time and time again that Sam doesn’t owe the world his kindness, his willingness to be a hero, his health and well-being. After all, Bradley got fucked over for doing the right thing, a Steve-type thing, in a Black body. But Sam decides to push on anyway.

I’m not saying Sam isn’t angry. He deserves to feel angry, he has as much right to the emotion as any other human being. But every single goddamn time he can, he chooses to be kind. He chooses to believe that people can find worth again. And that takes a strength of will that is frankly insane. PLUS he does it without a consistently optimized body.

And he chooses to be kind to Ross, of all people. Ross, who is clearly trying to be a changed man in the events of the film - but still a man who imprisons innocents and whose first instinct is to pick fights with nations who own nuclear weapons.

But Sam still reaches out to him. Still helps Ross meet Betty while Ross is in prison. Is the better man, every goddamn time.

Hell, they even represent what changes Sam could herald for the fate of the United States, and even the world, visually. In Ross’s panic as the Red Hulk, he destroys the White House*, a symbol built by slave labor. And under Sam’s tenure as Captain America, it will be rebuilt - along with what a hopefully better United States of America.

I love Sam Wilson, and I am SO excited to see his future as Captain America.

*and possibly also the Washington Memorial? I know he goes by but the detail slipped my mind. It also was built with slave labor. Some might quibble and try to claim that the obelisk was built by skilled stonemasons, but many many many enslaved people were extremely skilled laborers. So there is a huge chance that the stonemasons were enslaved. And even if they used completely white/free Black stonemasons, the quarried stone was mined by enslaved people. So yes, it was built by slave labor.

(Also I think it’s cool that Sam’s getting his own villains like Serpent and Leila Taylor made an appearance? She was basically his only canon love interest EVER**, and she hasn’t appeared since the 1970s. I think it’s still possible that he might be given a male LI or they just never pursue that angle of the character, but at least she and Sam have a relationship built on at least some respect and personal chemistry. Unlike Steven and Sharon.

Personally I’m more of a fan of Samsteve or even SamJoaquin than SamBucky, but that’s just mostly because while he’s grown on me in the last few years, I’m not really a Bucky fan. Samsteve probably won’t happen because of the stupid time travel thing (though who’s to say they didn’t at least have a fling? Plz?) but SamJoaquin could happen! I wasn’t sold on Joaquin right away - his sunny personality was tripping my betrayal alarms in my movie expectations brain - but I am glad to be wrong. I’m excited to see him as Falcon again once he heals up!

**There was a werewolf princess lady? But she literally never came back. Which disappoints me because I thought she was funny (I read her issue) and really unique. She was human but had a device to specifically control werewolves? And they do exist in the MCU, thanks to Werewolf by Night…

I LOVED the dogfight scene. Great body work on Anthony Mackie’s part, interesting background, awesome moves (cutting through a plane with a wing? Punching and pulling a pilot out of their plane and letting the rest of it just fall?? Sam and Joaquin together???) and fucking BOMBSURFING

[akai-anna]

Round 7

Round: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8

[misterradio]

i think factory pomo will always be my sweetheart aesthetic i just love the geometric stylings. i always used factory pomo style clip art in school projects i thought it was suuuch a cool style.

looking thru that website... memphis jr is also great, kind of similar geometric style with brighter colours. i even used to have the toy used as the example image, and for some reason images of LSD:DE are used as an example lol

[animezinglife]

I really know nothing about Jojo Siwa post-Dance Moms, but all I can say is after witnessing whatever that video was, this is definitely her Miley Cyrus x foam finger moment.

[vaguely-concerned]

every day I think about the theoretical world where quinlan vos turned up to be grogu's jedi teacher instead of uncanny valley girl luke skywalker. it would be a better place to be I think

[weedle-testaburger]

remember that time the doctor accidentally revealed he's a werewolf furry

[theperksofbeingstupid]

crazy that you have the ability to create absolutely anything with the minecraft movie (much like with lego, where there's no "story" for you to follow) and yet. that's the best they could come up with. out of literally anything. it's a sandbox game, there is no limit.

[chappellrroan]

ok my ep 1 review is that it's gross and disgusting and gorey and i wish you were here so i could hide my face in your shoulder when they showed something gross and that guitar girl is so fucking hot and awesome and cute instantly fell in love with her i mean pink highlights space bun bass guitar black tee and shorts she's so girlfriend i am shipping her and the cig ballet arsonist girl who's probably a villain and a maniac when she was smoking on the balcony i was so transfixed on her lips lmao nazar nahi hat rahi thi she's really hot and pretty okay and so crazy and sadistic mwah i love her also her brother is sooooooo cute pls want to keep him in my pocket store him away safely such a hero kitne bravely he defended everyone fought the yucky zombie (ew ew) him and the girl they're perfect can't believe he risked his life to save a girl he met like 5 mins ago but yes i can bc omg she's a firefighter????? SO COOL can't wait to learn more about herbut then she'll probably die right cause she got bitten so i shouldn't get attached to her. yes okay that's it at the middle of the ep i was like chee ew ew im not watching this thinking of ways to break your heart say mujhse nahi dekha jaa raha but then maine big girl ki tarah khud ko samjha liya ki ivy imagine that this blood is rose sharbat okay they look the same and it's not real blood sab theek hai and also that maine life mein ek bhi zombie apocalypse jaisa show ya movie nahi dekha even when it was so popular like all of us are dead the end of the fcking world etc etc and so this is the perfect opportunity to tick something off the life bucket list tere liye dekh sakti hu. also inhone hopeful note pe end kar diya ep1

i am smiling ear to ear

[withered-rose-unbreakable-lotus]

When I was little I was obsessed with Lord of the Rings but after some age onwards I just didn't care no more. Now I watched some youtubers react to it and I'm surprised I still teared at Boromir's death. This is why I followed the arts. Even at times of great wars, the cinema and music on the radio helped with people's spirits, and to this day, music really helps with mental illness. Once a piece of media touches you, even if you grow out of it, it never leaves you. Back then Legolas, Boromir and Faramir were my favorite characters, and even though I feel no hype for this movie at all, seeing Boromir die for probably the millionth time, still brought tears to my eyes. I got a little emotional for Gandalf too but mostly cause one of the youtubers was crying and I'm unfortunately an empath so, when I see people cry, I tend to cry too even when I'm not sad, myself. However Boromir's death scene trully got to me because of what I experienced as a kid. It's crazy how strong of an impact a story can have on people. Thank you for this amazing work mr Tolkien and the just as amazing filmwork of yours, Peter Jackson.

[littlegoldfinchh]

Help i forgot children existed?

[ferdieinceladoncity]

girl help I just watched torchwood end of days

[awsok]

every person who has reblogged this should be legally obligated to watch this series:

[medicinemane]

The problem with a lot of body horror for me is it's just gross without being compelling

Like yeah you had that person tear their leg open and pull muscle away from bone in a way that's very uncomfortable... but I don't care. Or a lot of Hostel style horror for me it's just kinda... yeah... grossing me out isn't some kinda win

Cause it's not that I don't like body horror, I love Dead Space for instance which... kinda the core pillar of that is body horror if we're honest

Could be a matter of that that kind of body horror is more fantastic making it easier to digest, I will advance that as a theory, but personally I kinda think that it's more that they do something actually interesting with it

Like if I wanted to I could probably see a really fucked up leg wound (and worse) in looking online about this shitty world

Can't really find dead bodies contorted into killing machines though

So I kinda feel like it's my problem with a lot of horror, of that it's horrible in a mundane way where as I'm looking for some unfathomable secret out of horror

So there's a difference between some stabbing a person in the eye cause they're just a shitty person, and doing it to try and create a replica of an alien artifact that gives unlimited energy but also drives people crazy and then turns their bodies into horrible monstrosities

One is just way more interesting to me

[comradecowplant]

If I had shapeshifting powers like Odo I'd turn into an orangutan and teach other great apes sign language (but for real) and ignite Intelligent Super Ape Socialism