I had to go back and check because I had a feeling but
Computer... Enhance
My suspicions were confirmed
THAT'S what was filling me with dread this entire time. They not only had the guy who made one of the best horror shorts I've ever seen as a silly character, but as a consultant because they decided they ALSO wanted to do some fucking scary VHS timeloop stuff.
once in college my friend asked me to come along on a date she wasn’t comfortable with because she knew that I would step in and ruin the mood on purpose if she gave me the signal that she wanted out
I came along, it was awkward, she gave the signal, and I immediately dumped a glass of ice water over my head and said “oh no looks like you have to drive me home immediately to prevent hypothermia” but then she and her bad date thought this was so startling and funny that it broke the tension and got them talking. and then I had to sit around for the rest of their date dripping water and shivering because she decided she was enjoying herself.
Watching X-Men: First Class Deleted Scenes is so funny to me because half of the deleted scenes are of Moira and Charles flirting meaning that the editors watched the entire movie and then decided to cut basically all the scenes of the main “couple” flirting and yet saw Charles and Erik being gay and obviously in love and were just like yes we are absolutely keeping these in the movies, no doubt about it, yes we are even including a scene where they go (on a date) and sit on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial by themselves playing chess with Charles staring at Erik talking while sitting like that for like 10 seconds because cinema
DC Twitter must have been INSANE when it got out that Superboy’s dads were Superman and Lex Luthor. Holy shit. The memes. The ship wars. The homophobes. The mpreg jokes. People would have lost their fucking minds. Lex Luthor releases a statement like “he’s a clone of me and Superman no birth was involved” and people are like KINDA GAY OF YOU TO HAVE A SON WITH ANOTHER MAN, LUTHOR. Lexcorp’s PR team locks themselves in a conference room and refuses to come out for love or money.