Two kinds of profs
you want my hot take for the evening? people who dont like complainers just havent been exposed to good complaining, and will never know if they themselves have an inborn talent for the art of kvetching
good complaining is some combination of a) funny, b) animated and theatrical, c) insightful re: human foibles, d) inquiry into social trends and norms.it must ALWAYS involve at least a small degree of self awareness, and is often used to build camaraderie and maintain relationships.
source: im jewish
I remember when right-wingers were super upset about Canada supposedly blocking Fox News’ airing in favor of Al Jazeera. I mean, it’s really an interesting comparison. One is a disreputable propaganda outlet catering to a dangerous minority of violent extremists, and the other is Al Jazeera.
When people tell me, “Trust your gut! Follow your intuition!” Like, bitch, I have anxiety. My “gut” is usually telling me that everyone hates me and that I’m going to die. I can’t trust what that motherfucker tells me.
When are we going to stop pretending girls don’t have hair on their boobs, between their boobs, around their nips, on their ass, on their upper lip, between their brows, on their cheeks, etc?
On their belly, on their toes, on their back, literally everywhere men grow hair
humans grow hair everywhere except on the palms of their hands and soles of their feet. this hair can rank from light blond and soft to dark and wiry, regardless of sex or gender of the person. shaving all of it is a mess and plucking it hurts like hell. humans are just animals with less thick fur. you wouldn’t shame a female animal for having as much fur as a male one, so stop doing that with humans.
reminder to my fellow trans girls freaking out about having hair there
This fantasy that women are hairless except their eyebrows and long head hair is so bizarre. Yes, gents, it’s there.
Also, just FWI because this also annoys me: not all natural blondes have carpet that matches the drapes. That’s not a thing you can use as some kind of honestly test. You know, like how blond men often have darker beards? It’s like that.
Women have hair. It’s everywhere. It’s as weird and varied as men’s hair.
you know a joke that never EVER gets old is when a character says smth like “I will NOT go to [place] and that is FINAL” and then it cuts to them in that place I eat that shit up every single time
Equally good variant: when the character says smth like “what’s the worse that could happen?” and it cuts to a scene where it’s so much worse than what they imagined
One funny thing about Thor: Ragnarok as a Marvel movie: It does suggest that sometimes you can be ruled by an evil overlord who, eh, is mostly fine?
Loki: Everyone on Asgard is happy! Look, just ask them!
And, for once, he’s not lying: Everyone *is* happy. At worst, he just banished some people (Sif, Odin) and has been a bit inept.
Most of the time Loki just sits around writing bad self-aggrandizing fan fiction and getting local actors to act it out.
Nor does Grandmaster seem particularly cruel or tyrannical. And the planet is chaotic, but still largely fine.
It’s a very troubling moral issue.
(Let me know if I got anything incorrect—kinda new to the marvel fandom, thnx ✌🏽)
The Grandmaster literally melted people who he didn’t like and put people in the ring to get torn limb from limb by the Hulk. He also liked to sell sentient beings like objects and/or collect them, also like objects.
Not the mention that it’s really the city he lives in that’s just a bit of a weird/futuristic Vegas. The glimpse we got of the rest of the planet was a bunch of desperate, hungry people reduced to ferality and cannibalism due to their dire poverty and lack of infrastructure.
So yeah, you’re completely valid about Loki—but just because the Grandmaster is played by a hapless and utterly ridiculous Jeff Goldblum, it doesn’t make him or his society less horrific.
If anything, it brings about larger issues of trusting apparently “silly”, “benign”, and “relatable” leaders without ever bothering to check on the effectiveness and consequences of their rule. It faces us with the lack of accountability for such personalities, showing how dangerous it is to “look the other way” just cuz the guy is a bit dopey.
I apologize for the rant, no disrespect and I see your point, and hell I probably misunderstood something, but Loki and Grandmaster did two completely different things with the societies under their rule and the planet Sakaar is anything but fine.
Not to mention how afraid Loki himself got when he was on the wrong end of the Grandmaster’s ‘favor’, and how easily he could be upset, as shown later when he mentions a public execution for Valkyrie/Loki when it was discovered that Thor escaped from the arena, with his ‘champion’, aka the Hulk, in tow. Loki was also afraid of angering the Grandmaster when Thor arrived on the planet, and was clearly shown as uncomfortable when Grandmaster alluded to anything sexual/explicit happening between them, even in front of Thor. His own brother, y’all. So, yeah, just because a bad ruler is played by a good/beloved actor, doesn’t mean that they’re not a bad ruler, still.
(For further examples, see ‘prisoners with jobs’ when referring to other, sentient beings he had captured and forced to fight, the execution stated above, and the way he gets his ‘fighters’, and so on and so forth.
A fair point.
Weak Trope: Having a character’s driving motivation be REVENGE up until the last second when they pull the “revenge won’t bring my wife/sister/town/three-eared dog back” and leave the bastard they’ve been hunting down alive.
Strong Trope: Hello! My Name! Is Inigo Montoya! You Killed My Father! Prepare! TO! DIE! *corners count rugen* Beg for your life *slashes cheek* Offer me anything I want in the world! *slashes other cheek* I WANT MY FATHER BACK, YOU SON OF A BITCH. *stabs count rugen to death*
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