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When you have your traps all set and that good cologne on and you’ve bought a new cape and had the henchpeople polish all the blinkie lights and monitors in your evil lair but you’re just not sure your Diabolical Plan is good enough…

What if he doesn’t show??

Well, I guess you’re gonna have to go out and GET him, then. Don’t waste a good look sitting at home waiting. Go get that man. Poor bastard probably got lost, you know how heroes are.

#LMFAWIDWJDJS #this issue.. the most valid #each panel is unique in its own hilarity #ONE SIDE PEASANTS #victor von doom #q

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can i interest u in a box of friend??

#AHHHHGGGH CUTE #q

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‘Lament for Icarus’ - Herbert James Draper // ‘British lads hit each other with a chair’

#wow #art #q

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#bassett hound princess #st vincent #annie clark #q

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Most Memorable Dresses: Diahann Carroll’s show-stopping pink gown with a sparkling translucent overlay at the 41st Annual Academy Awards in Los Angeles, California 1969.

#oh QUEEN #diahann carroll #will i ever not be bitter she and paul newman weren’t a thing in paris blues!!!! the answer is never #fashion #q

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Traincat really covered the full breadth of the dynamic and how I also perceive it and emotionally compromised me in the process (REALLY RUDE) — I guess if I had to add anything when it comes to Doom’s feelings about Reed, I’d say the leitmotif of Doom feeling connected to Reed by way of their intelligence, especially when he’s typically so bereft of connection is especially notable. Like, Traincat mentioned this at length for good reason — he constantly denies himself real meaningful human relationships to help perpetuate that cold persona.

From the armor to the robot duplicates, it’s a canon constant that he puts REAL effort into building the cult of personality of Doom and neglects Victor, the man. So when Doom invokes Reed again and again as his TRUE peer, when his relationship with him IS a remnant of his past prior to donning that mantle, calls him the only person who understands him pretty consistently throughout canon, ESPECIALLY when he’s pretty much an island of a human being by painstaking design... I mean, it stands out starkly within the context of that lonely life.

(Supervillain Team Up // Secret Wars (1984) // FF: Heroes Reborn/Volume 2)

Especially when in recent years, like Traincat said, it’s through Reed’s family that he finds sincere belonging. His adopted son, Kristoff! Valeria Richards, who Jonathan Hickman described during his run as one of the few things he sincerely cares for, alongside the literal country he rules over.

Appealing to feelings and his better nature and his potential are typically Reed’s modus operandi, “I know you, you’re like me, you could be a better man,” while Doom also tends to reach out, but in a different, interesting, stunted way that speaks to his classic temperament: “I know you, you’re like me, you could be just as cruel.”

(Fantastic Four #552)

Again, a bit of an ideological tug of war. Doom’s POV is ultimately untrue because it’s blatantly apparent, even IN many stories where Reed shows shades of Doom, that his love for his family and the kindness and concern he shows for his fellow man are what define him:

(Fantastic Four Vs. X-Men #3-4)

But the fact that Doom reaches out with this same “I know you like I know myself” rationale that Reed uses on him from an opposite end, even if oftentimes with the intent to harm, is so interesting to me! Because obviously it’s hard for him to reach out by way of authentic emotions, like, this is the guy who literally encased himself in armor to distance himself from emotion itself, who’s known to use people and keep them at arm’s length, never giving most of them an inch, but drawing a bridge between them by way of being twin intellects, of “innately KNOWING each other” is something Doom does regularly and I think there’s real power and meaning to it for him.

It’s one of the rare instances he aligns himself with a person, implies that REED know him well when the guards his own person and thoughts so intensely. As in the most recent Secret Wars, he asks “can’t you admit that I’ve done good here?” He craves REED’S opinion when the only person whose opinion he typically holds in such regard is himself. There’s intimacy in that.

Mim would you describe Doom’s obsession with Reed as one of those “villains who’s in love with the hero and does elaborate thing to get his attention” things. Because from the outside looking it that’s how it looks to me, but then again idk anything about Doom so wjavsjbdbd. Is Doom secretly I love with Reed????? I gotta know????

Oh yeah, I mean I personally headcanon that Doom’s obsession of Reed stems from some form of love/admiration. However it’s far more complicated than that imo, because in a way Doom believes that if it weren’t for Reed he would not have become Doom. This isn’t very true because even if Reed wasn’t there Victor would have still gone through with his experiment and attempted to save his mother from hell. 

I have to say that I have not read as many Fantastic Four comics but I do know that @traincat and @rizahmad know far more about every interaction that Doom has with Reed, but I do think that Victor would not hate Reed so much if he at one point hadn’t loved him in some way.

#me reading traincat’s meta like #HMMM THIS IS TOO MUCH and i’m sad #lies down and emotes for 72 hours #she’s right but should she say it?? for the sake of my mental health??? REALLY? #is this at all intelligible i’m sorry i’m bone dead tired but i am always Feeling 24/7/365 #queued

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Alright. Let’s be serious then. Okay.  What’s your answer? I don’t have an answer.

THE DARK KNIGHT (2008) dir. Christopher Nolan 

#i love nothing in the world so well as you IS THAT NOT STRANGE!!!!! #harvey dent #and his back up dancers i guess #bruce wayne #rachel dawes #tdk #dc #q

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all you guys are like ‘fake dating au’ and ‘roommate au!!!’ and im just here intellectually superior with my ‘au where the characters have to go on a long dangerous journey with one character supposed to protect the other but they can’t stand each other at first and constantly bicker and butt heads but then as their journey continues they’re constantly having to save each other and they learn more and more about each other and they have self reflection in the quieter moments of their journey and maybe at one point they’re under a lot of stress and exhausted and they’re sitting at a campfire together and maybe they need to warm up in a cave and maybe one of the characters was wounded so the other is patching them up and there’s a sudden yearning for intimacy and they have an explosive moment of realization and make love while scared it’ll be the only time they ever can’

#yeah i in fact know exactly #q

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Freaky Friday (2003) dir. Mark Waters

#this is like my favorite scene in the whole movie #the very genre of comedy peaked here #freaky friday #q

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That look.

#OH THEM!!!!!!! #nikolaj coster waldau #gwendoline christie

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The face of a woman who didn’t think she’d win an Emmy so she didn’t prepare anything and then she won and now has to go on stage.

#my beautiful murdercat #jodie comer

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literally can't stop thinking about this

#father son and the holy jar jar #q

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me, doing anything: this is for my female ancestors

#q

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Bill: Listen, dude, I’ll always take care of you through this most unparalleled journey that is our lives

Ted: But babe, it’s a most totally non-triumphant task

Bill: Not to me, dude. Not if it’s you

#screams #q

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024 - Ocean Master

#orm marius #kris anka #few character types are more entertaining slash heartwrenching than the misbehaved idiot goofball clown bad boy little brother #q

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Dude what? She tied you to the kitchen chair? Broke your throne & cut your hair? From your lips she drew the..? Broooo

#q

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which john are u today???

#love u #john boyega #q