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theharellan · 6 years

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RP POSITIVITY MEME

DAY 14: FREE DAY!

so this whole week i’ve kept myself from mentioning joly when possible. i promo joly on my dash every day. my very existence is a joly promo. it was mostly a way to make sure that i gave other people attention, and also b/c i saw the last day was a free day and wanted to use it to write about how much i love joly’s characters.

if it weren’t for joly i doubt i’d still be here. that’s not to say that i didn’t love rping solas beyond what i have with joly, but after my hiatus it was the desire to rp with joly again that really brought me back. and i’m so thankful for that b/c it’s allowed me to meet ppl like merc and lisa and kae, ppl who either weren’t around or i didn’t know before. also just when i was having a rough time last year and whenever i’ve had a rough time since then joly’s been there for me. they’re a really special person, who deserves even more kind words written about them than their characters do. but if i keep going i’ll probably make myself cry.

suffice to say if you like my blog, then you have joly to thank. not just for me being here, but how their ocs have shaped my solas. i cannot recommend joly’s blogs enough. they don’t have as much time as they did to write, but it doesn’t make them any less dedicated to their characters as someone who posts a dozen things a day.

before i get to their actual blogs, i want to talk about the npcs or characters that no longer have rp blogs.

first, deshanna. i’ve loved how they made a mother who is flawed and sympathetic, and who i don’t feel 100% good about solas disliking her in modern. it’s my secret desire to be able to rp in a thread where she’s npc’d one day, either in modern or batb. next, layne. what a piece of shit. i don’t know TOO much about layne, and i’m in this position where i want to know more but also i dread it. hoping one day solas and mio can shank him. and then, june. june had a blog (and may again one day??) and he was a fuckin hermit mamma’s boy that was too boring for fen to want to have anything to do with. joly’s recently been toying with some ideas for his character that i think only strengthen what they have, and i’m excited.

@ancientimpudence -

mio is petty. mio is mean. mio is stand-offish. mio is loyal. mio is driven. mio is honest. i love mio.

if you want a character who is flawed and not always nice, you’ll love mio. they’re a really good example of how you can make a character not always be a very pleasant person, but still get plenty of rp mileage off of them and develop meaningful relationships. how two characters’ relationship can somehow be incredibly deep and yet broken. i love what joly and i have built for mio and solas, two ancient friends who aren’t always the best friends.

i could really talk about about their relationship. solas goes through a period where he becomes very empathetic and in-tune with the problems of everyone around him, but mio’s somehow always escape him. i love the gap, and i love how it’s both not his fault b/c mio hides how they feel, but also he needs to do better by them. i love how mio wants what’s best for solas and their cause, while simultaneously suggesting things that actually wouldn’t be best for solas, because mio isn’t omnipotent and is also, to an extent, still trying to keep solas as he was.

i love how mio doesn’t like ian but is still there to help him. i love how mio expresses themself in ways not everyone understands. i love how modern mio has purse dogs and brings vher food b/c they spent all weekend playing the sims.

and vher / mio?? one of those ships that just kinda happened. one of the best things about talking to joly about characters is how often two just kinda cling to one another. vher is aro and can’t return the romantic feelings mio feels for them (and open enough to be accepting when mio finds romantic love elsewhere) but they still care for mio so much. everything about mio that i listed above, even the petty and vain stuff, vher loves. also sometims vher decides they wanna kiss mio and i can only imagine what it does to the poor child.

basically, what i’m getting at here is, joly lets mio be flawed but also shows how those flaws can still lead to positive interactions. joly lets mio be unadmirable at times, but still likeable and lovable. joly introduced some extra diversity in background to the rebellion and i’m eternally thankful tbh.

@betterthanmaps -

harding is one of those characters everyone adores, and so it makes sense that joly, one of the most adorable ppl on the planet, chose to write her. i love seeing characters with stable and normal backstories. harding is just such a steady influence, and i’ve loved seeing her contrasted with the sad backstories most canons and ocs possess. which i wanna be clear isn’t a criticism of sad backstories! i merely mean that it’s also nice seeing variety. not everyone has had a past that has made them cruel or kind, some people were raised by caring parents and lived simple lives until they heard the call to adventure. those people are just as interesting and worthy of telling stories about.

joly’s harding reminds me somewhat of tolkien’s hobbits, i suppose, now that i’m writing this out. and they’re some of my fave characters in literature. only w/ harding we also get fun dragon age dwarfy lore-- someone who is as un-dwarfy as varric but not quite so loud about it and we get actual queer representation.

@spiritualjourneys -

i adore spirits? i do not adore how the fandom treats spirits. things like treating human cole as superior to spirit cole, rather than a person making different choices, both paths making them happy, even if one is for reasons we can’t all understand. pinning everything wrong with anders in da2 on justice. assuming lord woolsey, an innocent spirit-ram who has done nothing but help, has always been a rage demon (even tho the ways in which he has been shown to help the family that adopted him aren’t typical rage-related qualities) but ANYWAY.

the point is, spirits are given something of a raw deal by the fandom and are almost always judged by their ability to conform to human standards. joly’s spirit multi is fuckin fantastic and making spirits different and complex and alien, while also familiar and very much people rather than set pieces in the stories of others. though all of them started out as npcs created by either joly (love, sincerity), myself (joy), or bioware (wisdom) it took joly no time at all to establish their stories. love and joy especially...

what i appreciate about love is the path they took to get where they are. how they weren’t always love, how they focus upon a specific kind of love, how they can’t always see when love is best working past. though i’ve only just started rping peace, i’m in love (get it) with the dynamic the two of them have formed. how they balance one another out and keep one another from straying too far into their own interests, and thereby corrupting themselves. it’s a dynamic that i wasn’t expecting at all when i made peace as an au to my zenyatta blog, but i think that’s the amazing thing about writing with joly. something falls into place and then it grabs you and the idea just won’t let go.

and as for joy, it’s probably the least developed of the spirits, having no form that’s recognisably alive nevermind a person. but it demonstrates well, i think, how “humanity” in elvhenan wasn’t defined by shape. when solas says he dislikes when people see him as just a pair of pointed ears, and that he doesn’t necessarily identify much with modern elves, the idea is expressing multiple things. one of them, i think, is that being an elf sometimes meant being a physical body with pointed ears, but sometimes you could just be bubbles and you’d still be considered a valid member of elvhen society. joy doesn’t exist as we do. joy forgets, joy prefers to never touch the earth, and it exists in a state of cycles to keep itself from becoming something like despair. joly depicts the beauty and the drawbacks of existing in this state and i’m just??? so glad they decided to write joy. b/c they do it more justice than i ever could.

@paragoninexile -

tam’s new blog isn’t fully set up but i wanna talk about her anyway. tam is a good hero and a good person, and in many ways sort of made to be a hero. when i found out about tam i was rly excited simply b/c she was very much like my warden, only with so much more care and thought put into her that now she’s basically replaced my canon warden in my heart.

i think my favourite thing about tam is how much of a front she puts up for everyone. crowning bhelen, even if it meant the death of another father figure. recruiting loghain, even if it meant losing her friend or possibly lover. it shows that even neutral good heroes still have to make decisions that could be considered ruthlessly practical. bhelen is not necessarily the better choice morally, especially not as an aeducan (especially especially not as an aeducan who doesn’t kill trian). i imagine tam knows that crowning him will have dire consequences not just for harrowmont, but the entire harrowmont line. she does it anyway, not because she wants to, but because for orzammar it’s the best choice.

i’ve loved finally having a chance to write one of my fave dragon age ships: gorim/aeducan. i have a weakness for ships who have been together since they were only young, and the progression they take in the au is so good?? being able to find freedom for their love in a life that is literally killing tamar, and the reason they only get 12 or so happy years together rather than 50. but tam is so good that i’m honestly proud to be able to give her those twelve years with gorim. one day i’m gonna make joly hurt w/ thoughts about the kid gorim adopts after tam dies and who he tells them all about. 8)

@cadashsmash -

cadri i think was the first joly character i interacted with, though i believe i remember ian from way way back when i tried rping merrill and couldn’t quite get a foothold like i did with solas and thora.

i’m in love with dwarves u all should know this, so ofc i’m in love with cadri. i love how rough around the edges she is, how she tries to do the right thing, and how doing so can lead to some messed up shit like killing abelas. the work joly’s done with reaver lore is perfect, working with how dirty and raw the specialisation is without making it too hardcore for an inquisitor to ever hope to specialise in it (stop assuming all reavers are cannibals fandom smh). one of my fave threads on thora continues to be the post-battle thread where both are recovering from the drawbacks of their own specialisations and clash because of them. it’s just a really unique idea that is what makes writing with joly so... rounded? like i’m never just writing one thing with joly. they push me as a writer in the best possible way.

overall cadri is just a rly excellent character who, like tam and harding, do credit to dwarves that the series doesn’t always. i’ve loved exploring how differently her and thora react to their position in life, i’ve loved seeing cadri’s anger or indifference towards dwarven society. it’s so valid and realistic and good. i’ve loved exploring the specific ways in which she bucks the presumptions solas has about dwarves, how even in universes where she’s not inquisitor her individuality is still nothing he expects from her kind and how she changes him anyway. i also will always be fond of this being their friendship song.

cadri: hey solas, what d’you call a flower before it opens? solas: a bud. cadri: I LOVE IT WHEN YOU CALL ME BUD. solas: UGHH.

@dalishfreckles -

it’s really hard to not write a post just about ian, honestly. all of joly’s characters are special to me, but i won’t deny ian is my favourite and has a very important place in my heart. if i were to truthfully answer those top 5 fave characters questions, ian would be on there no question.

as someone who goes through some of the same struggles as ian, he’s inspirational. seeing him struggle to keep surviving, to keep loving, to keep helping even when everything inside him is screaming to stop. i love seeing him make mistakes, honest ones or ones born of anxiety. b/c anxiety is more than just hating yourself or having trouble talking to people, although that is very real. sometimes anxiety can cause you to project some really terrible things onto people, things that aren’t really fair to them.

when i see ian doing things like... projecting his own feelings of worthlessness onto solas, assuming he must think the same rather than giving solas a chance to explain? it’s realistic, and it’s not good. it’s trying to pull people into the same destructive game you do to yourself. it’s also realistic, esp since in the thread i’m referring to solas fucked up and has shit to apologise for. idk, it’s just really comforting to see ian pull the same shit that i do, but knowing he’s still a good person and that i love him is an act of self love.

ian’s an important character for so many reasons, that i could probably write a 20 page thesis on him and his development / how much he means to me. i’m proud of him so much. i’m proud when he finds the strength to tease solas, i’m proud when he stands up for himself, even when he’s standing up against the people he loves. especially when, tbh. how as he grows he can see inara’s faults but doesn’t hate her for them, and tries to help her, when he’s under no obligation to. how he still tries to connect with solas after solas coldly brushes him off the first time ian admonishes him. and i love how joly shows it’s not easy. none of it is. and that ian has to keep choosing to be good, it makes everything he does that much more meaningful.

finally, ian isn’t a hero, necessarily. he’s not the sort of person people tell stories about, which is one reason i love the solas/ian pairing so much. it’s really all about the person for solas, and ian is just so much about what solas loves about people. it’s not always about battles and heroes, sometimes it’s just about a person who has the patience and love in them to make a tree grow in the middle of a desert alienage. sometimes the most wonderful things about people are the little, radical things they do for themselves and those they love rather than how they change the world.

this has gotten to be very long, and probably rambling, but to be fair to me this is like two weeks of joly-positivity i’ve been holding in.

i’ll probably be doing one more free day tomorrow, even if today is the last day, just to do a v general positive post for those i follow. but i wanted to take at least one day to credit the person who has inspired me with their words and characters. like. this was just their characters? i didn’t even get a chance to go into the ways joly’s prose shines, how it’s descriptive and yet never difficult to comprehend. how many different types of plots they’re here for.

but to make a long story short, joly is an incredibly talented writer. i’ve said this before, but i can look back on things i’ve written years ago with joly and still like what i wrote (as well as what they wrote but that should go w/o saying), which is a rare feeling, simply b/c joly lets me access the best writer in me. we often here in the rpc use “muse” as a shorthand for “character we write that inspires us” and i’ve found it a difficult word to rly use-- simply b/c joly and their characters are as much my muses as my own characters. at least in the sense that thinking about them inspires me to write.

tl;dr- pls follow and write with joly. b/c the only thing i love as much as writing with joly is reading what they write with other people.

#[ sure do hate this tumblr glitch ]#( positivity )#dalishfreckles #( ooc )#rpc positivity week

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yaz-the-spaz · 7 years

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Let’s play a game called looking at things objectively (and not with 1D/Ziam/Larry goggles on)

I get that a lot of people are angry at/resentful of the beards and a lot of the time I am too but it's important to remember that Perrie's story is very different from most of the other beards, who came into things most likely of their own accord and on their own terms, and not as young and naive teenagers forced into signing a contract by the same shitty manipulative people from the same shitty manipulative tv show preying on desperate kids that 1D was

Just for fun let’s go through all the big things that people in this fandom criticize Perrie for (putting the rest under the jump cause this got hella long):

#1) She’s “extra” and an attention whore

Reminder: Perrie was under the same contract with Modest/Syco the entire time she and Zayn were together and therefore obligated (just like Zayn was) to participate in stunts

Said stunts were NOT her idea; she was repeatedly photoshopped and also directed and told where to stand and how to look, etc. for photo-ops just like Zayn was (This Is Us premiere video anyone?)

There’s this persistent idea within the fandom that she was complicit in stunts just because she appeared to be more willing/like she was putting in more of an effort than Zayn. I want to stress that appearing more believable doesn’t mean that she was more willing - just because someone seems to be playing along well doesn't mean they're a willing participant. I think a lot of this type of thinking stems from people directing their misguided anger over the situation at her (as opposed to at Syco/mgmt where it should be) - again I wanna stress this was a situation that she had no more control over than Zayn did. Just because she was better at selling it than Zayn sometimes doesn’t mean she necessarily liked it anymore than he did

I also want to point out that she had her share of times where it was clear she was putting on a fake smile and/or wasn’t interested/happy which people often miss because they’re not as familiar with Perrie or her expressions as they are with Zayn’s, or they just don’t bother to look into it at all

For example let’s compare these smiles here with these smiles here which to me look pretty forced (interestingly enough these are some of the few that Zayn actually looks quite convincing in lol)

There’s also this idea that she started out less than enthused/willing about the the situation but became more complicit in it with time, which again I think stems from the same thinking as above with the misguiding anger/blame. But based on what I’ve seen I would argue that she was no more willing at the end of it than she was in the beginning either

If you look at videos of her talking about the engagement she honestly seemed just as apathetic and 100% done as Zayn did most of the time when she answered and even more recently both she and the other girls consistently tried to swerve on the Zerrie break-up questions whenever they were brought up (also wanna point out how she looks pretty much the exact opposite of broken up over the end of her relationship in that second vid lmao). That's not the behavior of someone who's all of a sudden willing to participate. The only difference is it just doesn't get highlighted because a lot of the fandom doesn't pay attention to her since they see her as the villain (and feel the need to demonize her just for being involved even though it wasn’t her choice)

For example in this video she seems extremely sarcastic and apathetic almost the entire time she’s talking about the "wedding” - not at all the attitude you’d expect from a supposedly excited bride-to-be

And then there’s this gem where again she seems super apathetic while immediately shutting down any questions about it and interestingly the interviewer seems to imply the topic might have even gotten blacklisted (I wonder why? Could it be because mgmt knew she wasn’t “selling it” very well either???)

#2) She uses Zayn’s fame to her advantage

Reminder: Perrie was subject to the same manipulative bullshit the boys of 1D were, she was coached on what to say and how to say it to push a certain image and angle (and also just as likely as the boys to have had her words twisted and taken out of context)

Bringing up Zayn in an interview is not reflective of Perrie using his fame to her advantage (as a lot of people on here like to argue), that is her team/mgmt forcing her to say certain things (sometimes even in a certain way) that they can then use to their advantage while simultaneously creating a certain image of her in people's minds (for example, as the innocent victim [previous years] or the bitter ex who can't let go [more recently])

Sound familiar? That’s because it’s a tried and true PR tactic and an especially tried and true Modest/Syco tactic. We’ve seen it happen with the boys over and over again yet with Perrie it gets dismissed as her “looking for attention” or “using his fame for her own advantage” as opposed to her being told/made to say these things to push the official narrative, which is what it actually is

#3) She’s racist (and dumb)

This is probably the main/biggest reason a lot of people have for hating her and on the surface it’s understandable but let’s break down the evidence shall we?

Most people cite the time she called Zayn and his family Indian in this totally verifiable and trustworthy magazine (can you hear me rolling my eyes?)

First off one of the biggest things we always reiterate in this fandom is DO NOT TRUST PRINT VERSIONS OF THE BOYS. So why then would we accept something that “print” Perrie has said in one random print interview as 100% Bonafide Certifiable Truth™??? Four words: Confirmation Bias and Double Standards. Perrie, as far as I know, has never referred to Zayn or his family as Indian in any other video interviews, performances, or on social media (or even in any other print interview for that matter). It was literally just the one time and on some shady ass news site no less - which leads me to believe that either the “interviewer” fucked up or someone in mgmt fucked up as far as coming up with a decent quote - and people jumped all over it because it confirmed what they wanted to believe, that Perrie is somehow the Devil Incarnate™ for being involved in something she again had no choice over and most likely didn’t even say out of her own mouth

As for the cultural appropriation allegations, I wanna make it clear I don’t condone that shit and as far as this whole post goes I do want to point out that I am a POC and the absolute last person to defend white people when it comes to their racist shit (check my #racism, #black lives matter, and #black excellence tags if you don’t believe me) so don’t even try to come at me with any “stop defending the racist little white girl” bs

However, I do want to point how fishy it is that even after being called out for cultural appropriation multiple times her team continues to style her (clothes, hair, make-up) in traditional non-white styles (dread locks, indian and native american-like make-up and clothes, etc.) for promo and music videos knowing full-well, I’m sure, the reaction it’s going to provoke, which is why I think it’s important to bring up something we saw with 1D

Remember how they planned out down to the exact colors how each boy would be dressed to push a certain image? There’s no doubt in my mind that there’s a similar theme at play here

Her team knows it will rile people up and get their attention on Perrie and LM and as the saying goes “no press is bad press” which by extension makes me suspect of the culturally appropriating things she’s done outside of music-related events, on social media for example. Were they really her idea/something she did on her own and decided to post or were they stunts used to push a larger narrative of Perrie as the “dumb racist blonde?” We’ll probably never know but given how we’ve seen seen clothing styles and especially social media posts being used to push official narratives (like Liam and Louis being homophobic) in the past, I have to admit I’m skeptical of it being all on her, especially considering the fact that I’ve never seen/heard her say anything racist out of her own mouth (although feel free to correct me if there’s proof otherwise) and that if she did I have a feeling Leigh or Jade would likely immediately call her out on it. And as we’ve learned with the boys when projected images of a person don’t match up with the things they actually do and say in real life that’s when thing start to get sketchy

In conclusion I think it’s time we stop acting like Perrie and LM haven’t had to deal with some of the same shit as 1D over the years

All ll I’m doing is taking the same exact logic we’ve used in analyzing the boys and the shit we’ve seen happen to them and applying it to Perrie and LM who, having been under the same mgmt and label, were and still are subject to much of the same bs

#perrie #zayn #beards #bearding #zerrie #ziam #zerrie was fake #ziam is real #lm #little mix #1d #comparisons #parallels #similarities #masterpost #long post #little mix and 1d #little mix vs 1d

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gomustanggirl16 · 7 years

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OMG! I saw Homecoming last night and OMG!!!!!

The Marvel Gods have blessed us with this movie!!! I wasn’t disappointed once! Not once! And I’m going to tell you why, just under the cut because MAJOR SPOILERS UNDER THE CUT! But for those of you who also have seen it too please I would love to hear from you! I’m totally in for fan girling or whatever because this movie is awesome!

OMG!!! Where to begin?

So like first off the movie was so on point with Spider-Man in the comics, at least according to my bro, he’s the more comic nerd out of the two of us.

It was so awkward and funny and tear jerking it’s not even funny. I almost cried during this film it was so perfect! Tom Holland did an amazing job playing Peter and Ned made a perfect “Guy in the Chair”. Zendaya’s character wasn’t in it as much as I would like to see, but they without a doubt left it so that by the next movie her character will be broadened on in my opinion, but what we did see of her was hysterical! She still had a little feminine bite to her, but in a calm laid back “I don’t give a shit” attitude that was perfect for her in my opinion. May, God bless May Parker. While again we didn’t see much of May, her character was so involved still. You can see how much she loves Peter and cares for him-and how much the rest of Queens loves her-she was the steady beat in the back of Peter’s mind.

Oh! We see him two months after CW, and he’s board and helping solve petty crime, like bike thieves but when he can’t find the owner he leaves a note. The rest of Queens loves both Peter and Spider-Man and let me tell you the kids a smartass it’s amazing!

This movie had more dirty jokes than I was prepared for and it had me laughing the entire time! While simultaneously wanting to punch the mean kid. They kept calling him Penis Parker. LEAVE THE PRECIOUS BABY ALONE! And among other things that have a lot to do with May. She gets hit on a lot in this movie and she doesn’t even notice a majority of the time until Peter says something.

The relationship between Peter and Ned is what we all should strive for. While Ned is 100% in on Peter being Spider-Man he still hesitates to turn off Peter’s training wheels protocol. Reminding him he still is a kid and well Ned was right, because it got Peter into trouble and we meet Karen! Who is like a combo of JARVIS and FRIDAY but with an American accent and Peter lets it slip about his crush on Liz and she’s trying to get him to confess his feelings throughout the movie and it’s hysterical! He also has a “Baby Monitor” in his suit and God bless Tony. Seriously.

Let’s talk Happy’s part in the movie. You can tell he’s not thrilled with babysitting duty and it kinda irked me till the end of the movie. But we see him come to really appreciate the kid after he practically saves Happy’s ass because he screwed up on Moving Day. Also Tony sold Avengers Tower.

Liz btw was great in this. You see while she clearly admires Spider-Man she has a thing for Peter. and it’s great. But more of that later.

Tony! OMG! We all saw the part where he takes the suit away, but what we don’t hear is Tony say “God I sound like my dad.” So clearly Howard did have some good parenting moments. Then after D.C. Tony calls Peter to congratulate him on saving those kids. Because his dad never told him he was proud and he wanted to make sure Peter knew Tony was proud of him, but it was so fatherly that I almost cried! He cares about what happens to Peter and it really makes the movie.

Vulture. Let me start off by saying it was not what I was expecting. He’s clearly doing this because he feels wronged and making and selling these weapons gives him income that he needs to support his family, but also as revenge. After his crew comes back to their base after getting into an altercation with Peter he takes a weapon off the work bench his buddy’s working on and shoots the guy and he dissolves into ash. He looks shocked and turns to his buddy saying “I thought this was the anti-gravity?” “No it’s over there.” He wasn’t intending on killing the guy that’s clear and it said something about his character. The guy he killed was the original Shocker. Then the guy he went with gets handed the torch so to speak and we meet the Shocker. His character has little screen time but it was made clear he’ll be back in the next instalment. More to come on the Vulture later.

Caps part in this film. OMG!!! Well first the principle is the grandson of a Howling Commando Morita you know the one from Fresno? But it’s hysterical because it’s the same actor. Anyways it explains the Cap videos and the gym teachers like “I’m pretty sure this guys an international fugitive now, but according to state law I have to show you this so…” So that solves that. BUT IN DETENTION! We see how in the previews Cap also has a detention video but by the time Peter’s left he’s giving the “So your body’s changing…” talk and I died! I literally died!

Okay now to the important part. This is after Peter gives back the suit and he asks Liz to the dance which me and my best friend, my mom my bro (the eldest) and his friend all look to my younger bro because he failed to ask the girl he likes to prom because he was convinced she doesn’t like him. Still is even after the girls brother said something to him after he asked. Like dude get it together. Well we see May getting excited and she’s helping him tie his tie and practice dancing and did I mention how much I love May Parker? Anyways she takes him and drops him off at Liz’s house and Peter walks up to the door and rings the bell and THE VULTURE! Yup he’s Liz’s DAD! I didn’t see that coming! And everyone was freaking out in the theater. And of course the Vulture has no idea Peter’s Spider-Man, but Peter knows he’s the Vulture and he’s panicking and their taking pictures and the Vultures trying to learn Peter’s name and he’s all smiles because he’s baby girls got a date and he’s like I like this Peter kid. And everyone’s dying in the theater and he’s like “I’m on my way out of town I’ll take you guys to the dance!” and Peter’s freaking out but they go and he’s sitting nervously in the back with Liz she’s on her phone and then she tells her dad Peter has an internship with Stark industries and Peter pales and tries brushing it off and tells her he lost it because he was trying to do too much at once, but it’s too late daddy dearest has already figured it out and he gives her a kiss goodbye and tells her he wants to give Peter the dad talk and she smiles tells Peter she’ll see him inside and he nods sweating. She leaves and Vulture pulls a gun and threatens him, asks if she knows which he doesn’t lie says she doesn’t which makes the man happy but of course we see him tell Peter if he does anything to break his family apart he’ll kill everyone he cares about. Well Peter goes inside and he’s scared out of his mind. See’s Liz and tells her he can’t and runs. Well Shocker finds him and they fight Ned gets involved and he tries getting ahold of Happy but Happy hangs up on him. Shit happens and Vulture buries Peter under a building. I had tears welling in my eyes at this point because we see him struggling to breath and he’s crying for help and you see blood and water and I look at my mom next to me like there’s blood! No, no, no! My eldest bro tells me excitedly that it’s from the comics that scene from the Spider-Man dies comic. It’s so heart wrenching, but we see him watch his reflection and then he hears Tony telling him “if he’s nothing without this suit…” and he gets out of it and goes to save the day. Long story short he brings down the plane and the Vulture is still trying to kill him and he spots a box of splinter bombs and goes to try and steeling them for a score instead and Peter sees his wings are about to blow and he’s yelling trying to warn the Vulture because no matter what he doesn’t want anyone to die and we see him explode and then Peter’s carrying him out of the fire and then leaves him and the weapons in a nice neat package for Happy.

Later we see him apologizing to Liz because of ditching her and her dad though she has no idea who Peter is and tells him its fine but she hopes he figures himself out. And then Happy and him have an awkward conversation in the bathroom before Happy tells him Tony wants to see him Upstate and we see the facility and Tony’s there and tells Peter’s he’s now an Avenger that is if he wants it. There’s a room next to Visions for him and a press conference waiting for him to suit up to meet the newest Avenger and Peter declines. Deciding he wants to be a kid a little while longer. Then he turns around and asks if this was a test to which Tony nods and Peter leaves and Happy’s like told you he was a good fit and then the doors open and a guys like their ready for you and there’s a shit tone of press and PEPPER!!!!! PEPPER WAS THERE!!!

I freaked out and was shaking my moms arm whisper yelling I was so excited!!! And Tony’s like well I guess we need to figure out something to give them and he looks to Pepper and Happy’s just like "Yes I’ve been carrying this thing around for eight years.“ And he pulls out an ENGAGMENT RING from his pocket!!!!! And both Pepper and Tony look at each other and their smiling and you could tell Pepper’s been waiting for it and she walks back inside with Tony following and Happy tosses him the ring and I was freaking out!!!!! I’M SO HAPPY!!!!! THIS MOVIE MADE ME SO HAPPY!

Anyways okay I thought that was the end and I was perfectly happy with that then we see Peter calling his Aunt May when h e gets back and I get this sense of dread, but then we see the bag on his bed from Tony with his suit and he’s like yes! And he’s putting it on and takes his face mask off and you hear the door creak open and May’s standing in the door way and all you see is her go "WHAT THE FU-!" and the credits roll and everyone’s dying of laughter.

And then the after credits come and this is what really shocked me, was we see Vulture walking through the halls of the prison and he runs into Shocker who says that word on the street is Vulture knows who Spider-Man really is and asks if he wants in. Vulture then says "If I knew who he was, he’d already be dead.” So i’m really interested to see what Marvel does with those two characters and to see what Vulture has in store.

Also the after, after credits scene you see Cap once more pull a Dead Pool, saying “You know what makes a good soldier and man? Patients.” His Chris was coming out. There isn’t one. And that’s because it’s in the movie. Look at Ned’s shirts! He’s wearing an ant and a wasp several times in the movie.

Anyways that’s what I loved about this movie the most. It was so well put together!!!! Please feel free to message me with questions or if you just want to talk about the movie I’d love to!

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He began pounding me pretty fast and hard, so much so that he was smacking my clit with his body each time he entered me and it felt really good. My boobs were bouncing all over the place. He was holding my legs up and every muscle in his upper body (and I guess lower body!) was bulging. It was so incredibly sexy. I kacey ftv think he must have been squatting while doing that, since he was really too tall to line up with the edge of he bed. He started to get tired, and fell on top of me, embracing my entire body from head to toe as he slowed down his thrusts. This gave me an opportunity to feel his strong back and shoulder muscles, as he leaned down and began to suck my nipples. I arched my back towards him, moaning, and he pulled me close to him, rolling us both over so I was now on top. I sat up and started riding him hard. He was groping my boobs and bucking hard underneath me. I could tell by the look on his face that he was close, so I reached back with one hand and cupped his balls. I think he liked it, because the motion shifted completely to him fucking me, hard, even though I was on top. He started to grunt and I gave his balls a light tug as he exploded inside me for what seemed like a really long time. I collapsed on the bed beside him and we both just laid there catching our breath for a few minutes. He ran to the bathroom to get cleaned up, and when he came back I said to him "Well that was unexpected!" He laughed and said "Yeah, I wasn’t sure how you felt about what happened between us last time. I was trying to get a read on you when we went out for drinks, but you seemed kind of mad at me. Then when you marched into the hotel…well let me just say I have never wanted anything so bad in my entire life. I hope that was OK". I smiled and laughed and said "Yeah, that was OK. Next time, let’s skip the drinks though!

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THE SPORES AWAKEN - My Review of ALIEN: COVENANT (3 Stars)

Let me get this out of the way. I’m a shamelessly huge fan of ALIEN and its stellar sequel, ALIENS. When the first film came out, I begged my father to take me to see it, but he gave me a jaded response along the lines of, “Every story has already been told. I don’t want to see some dumb horror movie.” Now I know where I got my “Over It” attitude! Never one to give up, I pushed and pushed until he relented. Afterwards, he thanked me, calling it a rare masterpiece. I was working in Toronto when ALIENS came out, and I was so energized by the experience, it became the first time I ever bought another ticket immediately after to watch something again. Like many, I was disappointed by subsequent attempts, although I found bits of inspired magic in them, not counting the horrible AVP movies.

PROMETHEUS, Ridley Scott’s ALIEN prequel didn’t work for me because of huge logic gaps, a too-clean looking ship, and a ponderous origin story that I felt took away from its mystique while simultaneously piling on too many “but what about” questions. It didn’t help that Noomi Rapace paled when compared to Sigourney Weaver, despite the fact that her self-surgery scene worked like gangbusters. Seemingly having heard the collective cries of ALIEN-ites the world over, Scott seems to have partially course-corrected with ALIEN: COVENANT in equal parts exciting and baffling ways. I really liked watching it, but thinking about it afterwards brought back the “but what abouts” all over again.

Borrowing so liberally from the ALIEN playbook, enough to bring back visions of how STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS is basically A NEW HOPE 2.0, Scott has a killer first hour in COVENANT. Ten years after the events of PROMETHEUS, a ship filled with 2000 cryo-sleeping colonists, a plethora of eggs, and a small crew made out of couples, embarks on a long journey to start a new life on a distant planet. A crisis with their ship wakes up the crew, leading to a decision to explore a signal coming from a closer and also habitable orb. I think it wouldn’t be spoiling anything to reveal that it’s a really bad call.

It’s exciting to see so many great actors such as Billy Crudup, Michael Fassbender, Katherine Waterston, Jussie Smollett, Amy Seimetz, Demián Bichir, Carmen Ejogo, and Danny McBride embodying the crew members, but John Logan and Dante Harper’s script gives most of them nothing to do. It’s a terrible shame, especially considering the deleted scene released online called THE LAST SUPPER ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkXgRlRao5I ) should have been in the movie, as it at least feels organic and gives us a chance to figure out the relationships. At a little over 2 hours, this film could have used a little more time and TLC in setting up its cast. Perhaps Scott wanted to get to the action sooner, a note James Cameron heeded in ALIENS when he jettisoned footage of Ripley missing her daughter’s entire life because the studio wanted to get those soldiers on that planet to kick Alien ass asap.

The brilliance of the first two ALIEN films is how effortlessly and naturally it presents its characters. The new film has the right actors and the right vibe, but they still don’t pop the way they should. Regardless, once they set down on the beautiful but creepy new planet, it doesn’t take long for all hell to break loose. Scott works wonders with a wheat field and the corridors of the drop ship to create a kinetic sense of dread and terror. None of it is particularly scary, but it at least has momentum and a fresh way or two of presenting the aliens. All of the body horror, grunting, flashing lights, steam and chains combine to give us a hyped-up version of ALIEN.

And then…..AND THEN…there’s a distinct point where the movie completely changes its course, and kills the excitement and thrills for what amounts to a deeper dive into PROMETHEUS’ lore. It’s not all bad, especially when Fassbender gets so many juicy moments in this section, but it becomes a movie at war with itself. I understand the dilemma Scott faced. He probably didn’t want to completely do an ALIEN reboot, especially when LIFE from earlier this year did a pretty good job of that, and he also didn’t want to repeat his missteps from PROMETHEUS. But, he also felt compelled to continue explaining the story of the Android, the human, and the Engineers.

Personally, I don’t care about the origin story. Knowing how the aliens came to exist takes away all of the mystery for me. If you enjoy such details, you’ll most likely feel a little more satisfied by COVENANT’s middle section. Scott has reported he has anywhere from 306 more prequels to make before the story catches up to ALIEN, and while I’ll happily watch them all and find his mankind vs. machines themes of value, they just don’t feel like ALIEN movies. In fact, I thought COVENANT would make a better prequel to TERMINATOR. It even has a “Come with me if you want to live” moment. Discuss.

The movie then suffers from tonal whiplash by jumping back into an action-filled mashup of ALIEN/ALIENS/ALIEN 3 (those distracting and unnecessary Alien POV shots), and even stealing lines straight out of Ripley’s mouth. Waterston does well with the little she’s given, but you can stick an actor in a tank top and have her hurl expletives at a monster, but it’s not gonna make her Ripley. I call her Ripple. Further, the CGI aliens aren’t anywhere near as scary as the heavily shadowed rubber suits from the original. Seeing them in the light of day, or in one ill-chosen moment, mimicking another character, took away their…ahem…bite. Oh, and there’s a ridiculously-placed shower scene that would have worked better in the first act. Here, like most of the kills, it plays out like a slasher movie moment and not the work of a master who once managed to turn a simple meal into one of the scariest, most suspenseful sequences in film history. He approaches this with a scene in a lab in COVENANT, with a palpable sense of panic and a new place for an alien to burst out of, but the poor, nameless victim doesn’t get the juice John Hurt got to play around with before his demise. Same goes for the rest of the meat on display in COVENANT.

So, we’re left with a fun ride, even though the rollercoaster gets stuck for a while at the top of a hill, and it has a twisty, diabolical conclusion that separates it from the rest of the franchise, so it’s not a total loss. Ridley Scott still knows how to make great film moments, and this time out, the ship is properly grungy. Had he stuck with the premise of the colonists’ plight, I’m sure I would complain that it’s just another reboot. I completely understand why he’s piling on this lore. It may make for a good story, albeit one filled with too many holes, but it’s not on brand with the pure horror of ALIEN. Oh well, I can always watch the first two on a loop. Despite the criticism, I’m so happy COVENANT exists. We all need a little dose of facehuggers, eggs, and Xenomorphs every now and then, right?

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