#also robert deserves to be hyped up

[siempre-bucky]

If possible, could we please do "B feeling shy in swimwear and A hyping them up" for our man Bob Floyd? But can Bob be "B" because we know he would be hesitant to take his shirt off, as seen with the beach scene and he just deserves a partner/reader who's like "nah you're hot as hell, take it off"

Bob Floyd x Reader

Summary: You know Bob's reserved, his favorite yellow shirt was his comfort source at the beach, but you just want to see his beautiful body underneath it. So naturally, you pin him to the side of the Jeep and tell him he's hot.

a/n: thank you so much for requesting this! I loved being able to do both sides of this prompt! Also, Bob has one of those slutty little waists people have been talking about and I will not be taking any criticism at this time.

It was unrealistically less crowded at the beach on a Saturday afternoon. “Can’t believe we get to park in the front row,” you marveled as Bob pulled into the parking lot, the palm trees lining the street blowing gently in the breeze. 

“Breathe it in, baby, this will never be happening again,” Bob joked from the diver's seat, using his free hand to slide his aviators up the bridge of his nose. You tapped his thigh as he put it in park, your eyes scanning for the rest of the squadron. Most of them were already warming up near the water, two footballs being thrown across the sand. 

The two of you hopped out and opened the back doors to grab your things. You took off your Navy shirt and readjusted your sports bra and high-waisted shorts, humming in delight as the warm sun hit your skin. Your eyes looked over at your husband and how he triple-checked the items in your bag and even quadruple checking for the sunscreen. “Ready?” he asked, his thin lips forming a small smile. 

You weren’t ready until Bob took off his comfort beach t-shirt. You ignored his question and shut the door before walking over to him and placing your hand on the side of the door. He watched as you eyed him up and down, “Are you?” you asked in return. 

He nodded simply, “Yeah?” 

You shook your head, “You still have your shirt on, Bobby,” you pouted, leaning against the door. 

“I know,” he said with a nervous chuckle, “I’ll get less burnt that way.” 

You knew that you married the reserved one, the one who only let his true feelings show when he was alone with you. He’d rarely shown his body to anyone else, hell, he even swims with his shirt on. You understood his character and knew very well he looked good in that shirt. You rarely ever asked him to step outside his comfort zone, but there was just something about today that really made you want to see his body. Always a shame he kept it so hidden, he looked like a God in your eyes. Robert Floyd was breathtakingly beautiful. 

“Bobby,” you said his name with a slight rasp in your voice and through his transitioning lenses, he could see how your pupils were getting wider with lust. 

“Darlin’,” he countered, taking a step back, and his back collided with the cloth seat. You sauntered forward and put your hands on the sides of his waist, gently squeezing to feel the muscles he had there. 

Your face was close enough to count the little freckles that were kissed onto his face, beautiful blue eyes staring back at yours. “Why won't you take it off?” you asked, a question you never really asked directly. Bob took his hands and placed them underneath your forearms, his fingertips stroking your skin. 

Bob turned to look at the guys on the beach through the space between the open door and the body of the Jeep, Hangman and Coyote were doing pushups in the sand, their glistening biceps on full display. “I don’t- I don't look like them. I’m not ashamed of how I look but I know I’m not up to standard,” he told you, his eyes avoiding your glare until you used your thumb and pointer finger to grab his chin and made him look at you. 

“To whose standard, Bob?” you questioned, slotting yourself between his legs. 

He cocked his head, “I don-” 

“I married you, Bob. You are the most handsome man I have ever seen… and can I tell you something?” You dragged your fingers down his neck, ghosting over his Adam's apple and all the way down his torso. Your lips hovered his slightly parted ones, you could even see the rosy blush on his cheeks. 

“W-what?” he croaked. 

“You’re hot, Lieutenant,” you mumbled with a desperate whine. Your hands slid underneath his shirt and let your nails rake down his goosebump-ridden skin. “You are so fucking hot,” you growled before crashing your lips into his. 

Bob’s eyes opened wide in surprise but they slowly closed while he put his hand on the back of your neck to pull you closer. “Is that how you really feel, baby?” he panted as he pulled you away. You bit your bottom lip and nodded. He moved his arms and quickly took off his shirt before the rational side of his brain could take over, tossing it onto the seat. 

You took the opportunity and looked at his toned torso: his biceps were well defined and he had that beautiful line down the valley of his defined pecs. “You’re not flexing are you?” you purred. Bob grinned and shook his head. 

“I can if you want me to,” he chuckled. 

You tsked and shook your head, “If you did we might as well go back to bed.” He laughed as you wiggled your eyebrows, intertwining your fingers and grabbing his backpack with his free hand. 

Once you got to the edge of the sand Bob stopped and gently squeezed your hand to get your attention. “Will you say what you told me again?” he asked as he motioned to his chest. 

You giggled and put your chin on his shoulder, looking up at him lovingly. “You’re hot as fuck, Lieutenant Floyd.” 

He smiled brightly and kissed your forehead, “Thank you, baby.”

#bob floyd #bob floyd x reader #bob floyd x you #bob floyd x fem!reader #bob floyd fanfic #bob floyd blurb #top gun #top gun maverick #siempre buckys blurb night #bob floyd imagine

[sugdenlovesdingle]

The hype building up again for maybe Robert coming back made me do a rewatch of some of my fave robron bits, and i forgot how much I loved (most of)'the reunion episode!

More specifically how thirsty that Mike guy was for Robert, can def relate 😆

Kinda wish they'd gotten together for a bit, he deserved an sweet, short term kind of thing before getting back with Aaron (maybe Mike could have moved back to Ireland? Or he was rebounding from an ex as well?).

Just something to prove to Robert that not all of his relationships would end because of him doing something bad?

Looking back, a lot is kind of shrugged off (as it's a soap) and gets 'resolved' really quickly. And I liked Mike more than Alex so wish he'd been around longer 😆

Yeah I've said it before - i LOVED the reunion ep but I wouldn't have hated Robert "moving on" from Aaron (as if he could ever) with Mike - and pushing the big reunion back a little.

it would also have shut up the "he's Aaron-sexual" (not bisexual or whatever else people have called him but only gay for Aaron) people and shown them that yes Aaron is his soulmate but he's not "only gay for Aaron" - he's bisexual, he likes both.

But yes, something uncomplicated short n sweet, with a guy who saw him in a club and just thought he was cute - nothing more, nothing less.

Who knows, maybe WHEN he comes back, he can have a fling with a randomer while he and aaron are in denial they still love each other.

#Anonymous #robron #emmerdale

[whumper-at-heart]

RDJ GOT NOMINATED FOR OSCARS

Lets goooooooo

IM SO HYPED UP

I mean , this was expected, but still..

He totally deserves this.

I am already daydreaming abt him going up to the stage and taking the award.

AHHHHHH ROBERT DOWNEY JR. DESERVES AN OSCAR .

He got the golden globe . He got the critics choice. Can he get the ultimate one?

Im super happy for him. Also ,

OPPENHEIMER GOT 13 NOMINATIONS !!!!

Also expected , but im super happy. Rooting for them.

#robert downey junior #robert downey jr #rdj #oppenheimer #oscar 2024 #nominations #oscar nominations

[yasminewestbank]

all movie asks answers from the ask meme post bc it was fun

Your favorite movie released this year DIDNT WATCH ANY 2023 MOVIES YET.. CRIES

A movie you think is underrated - obliged to say An Elephant Sitting Still by hu bo bc i can never find it in dvd stores and i unfortunately honestly dont know if i will find a screening of it in a cinema available to me ever again but i dream of it

A movie you think is overrated - going to put two, one new and one classic. first one is parasite. im bitter abt this movie bc it was advertised like crazy and the reviews were so hyping and then i went and it was average. its not a bad movie but not only doesnt deserve the hype the hype ruined it for me bc if i went with the proper expectations i wouldnt have gotten so disappointed. a classic is alphaville of godard... obviously its a good movie and im sure it was groundbreaking at the time but by now the story doesnt feel as sophisticated bc this genre of story is at this point.. i wouldnt say overdone bc its still a great genre but its not fresh or suprising by now without making it more complex. this movie felt like a blueprint to the 1984 book soviet dystopia genre so it didnt keep up with the times. many classic movies are still exciting and fresh just like when they came out including other movies of godard but this isn't one of them. but i can also see how it was probably one of godard's top commercial movies, bc it was easier to digest and more basic than his other work

A movie you like but wouldn't recommend - stalker of tarkovsky and tarkovsky movies in general bc i think it would probs be boring to most ppl (its slow and not much plot) + tarkovsky movies r slow and the kind of movies u have to watch in the movie theater

A movie musical you like - annette of leox carax. and its not only a good movie the music is so good too

A horror movie you like - audition by takashi miike . love japanese violence

A sci-fi movie you like - high life by claire denis. AND it has robert pattinson in it!!!!!!!111 and hes amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A fantasy movie you like

A movie in your native language you like - Life According to Agfa by Assi Dayan. one of the only good israeli movies that exist bc i didnt see so far any good, worthwhile or complex israeli movie besides this one (not including documentaries).

A foreign-language movie you like - (i put a bunch already so ill do one in a language i didnt put yet) tori and lokita by the dardenne brothers. takes place in belgium in french about a young refugee woman and a refugee child from africa who pose as brother and sister. this is going to destroy you but its such a good movie i cant recommend it enough but i still cant recover

A movie you wish you could un-watch - the disney secretariat movie. it was so bad oh my god it was so fucking bad im in pain. i want disney to give me back the braincells i lost. this actor horse deserves so much better

A performance you think is underrated - Vicenç Altaió (yeah had to google this one) in story of my death by albert serra. his acting was insane. probably one of the best acting perfomances ive ever seen, specifically the toilet scene stuck with me. so it's a period movie about casanova. there a scene in the movie that all of it is just him taking a shit. and of course it sounds goofy but it was actually a really human and sensitive depiction and his acting was so natural i completely forgot i was watching a movie. he really made this scene what it is. and tbh i think even from those other photos u can see what i mean on him

A performance you think is overrated

A movie made better by the ending - only thing that comes up in my mind is barton fink of joel coen.. i can barely remember this movie bc i watched it years ago but (spoilers) i can just remember there was a twist in the middle that flipped the whole movie on its head and it was super enjoyable. besides this i cant think of anything

A movie ruined by the ending - the holy mountain of jodorowsky... at the time i watched it i was so disappointed by the ending it was so anticlimactic. i think he thought he did something but it just didnt work. (might be spoilers) same vibes when a story pulls "and then he found out it was all a dream". like.. in this case it just didnt feel fitting it was disappointing. but i watched it years ago so i wonder if i would feel the same now

A trilogy/franchise you like cant think of anything

A movie you never get tired of talking about - drive my car by ryusuke hamaguchi. its fun to talk abt this movie bc even tho there are a lot of themes and details that make it what it is, its not too complex to not be able to grasp and pinpoint them. so its complex enough to be a good movie but not too complex to not be able to talk abt it, both abt the good and bad things (bc there r also choices the director made that i dont like). and there's also so much to talk abt that stems from this movie not only in the movie itself but also what it shows abt japanese cinema, contemporary japanese cinema/this generation of japanese directors versus the previous generations. also i love this director in general i recc all his movies

A movie you never wanna hear about again - if i hear one more thing abt any marvel movie im going to kill myself

A movie you look forward to watching (could be an upcoming release or not) - aki karutismaki's fallen leaves that came out this year

A movie you think looks beautiful - red desert of antonioni. i adore the aesthetic of this movie. tbh its probably my favorite movie visuals wise. i just cant stop adding photos from google bc i love everything slkfdsflsfgds

A director you think is underrated - tbh hard to think of anyone.. i think any director i like got some kind of recognition, and if i think ok which one doesnt get mainstream recognition it would be basically most of them. so im trying to think.. who do i rlly think doesnt get recognition. maybe the crown should go to the photographer petra collins who actually directed the first season of euphoria before sam levinson kicked her out and claimed he did it and stole all her work

A director you think is overrated - HITCHCOCK!!!!!!! HES NOT THAT GOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HES TRULY NOT THAT GOOD!!!!!!!!!!! I COULD PULL UP 10 DIRECTORS FROM HIS TIME AND BEFORE HIM THAT ARE SO MUCH BETTER THAN HE IS THAT ARENT AS HYPED UP. godard and kurosawa made movies so much better and decades before him so the reason hes hyped cant even be that what he made was groundbreaking for the time. hitchcock is MID

An animated movie you like - the cowboy bebop movie... its so fun and satisfying to watch i watched it so many times dsfdf

A silent movie you like cant think of anything

Your favorite movie - possession by andrej zulawski. im speechless abt it. dont read a summery go into this blind. its such an insane experience (sin look my fav movie is a polish movie)

Your least favorite movie i dont rlly have one i have a whole bunch of movies i dont like but i dont have THE hated movie

[glassautomaton]

Top 5 scp men?

You'll find this list is weighted pretty heavily towards anomalies than staff members. I tend to not actually care all that much about staff/senior staff, for a few reasons, but I probably won't get into them here. Anywho, this list isn't in any particular order.

SCP-2800, Cactusman, the Spiked Menace. I'm a fan of characters that keep getting back up to get the shit kicked out of them, and Daniel, the poor guy, fits the bill. His 'powers' are also plainly pathetic, but even so, he keeps trucking on, even with his internal struggles. Generally, it's those two tropes that endear me to him, and the rare win he gets in his article is nice.

SCP-4051, even if he is a bootlicker. Deepwell isn't for everyone, obviously, and while I tend to not like the articles in it, Rainer's story was something that stuck with me. It's the 'emotionally abusive Foundation' trope done very well, and Rainer is the perfect mark for it.

Dr. Robert Scranton, of SCP-3001 fame. Yes, this is one of the most positively received articles on the wiki, and the debate over what deserved the 3000 spot aside, this article is generally worth the hype. It was one of the first things I'd read that made me cry when I read it (though the first would be Flowers for Algernon when I read it on a whim in grade school when I had nothing else to do in study hall). Some of Robert's lines in this stuck with my far longer than any other character on the wiki.

Skunkboy, from Clef's GOC tale series. I know you asked for SCP men but I'll be real, not many come to mind that I feel all that strongly about. Though the series isn't the most tightly-written thing on the wiki, I still enjoy it and feel like Sparkplug deserves to be in more articles. I like Skunkboy's more brotherly relationship with Spider, and while he's the comic relief of the group, it never gets grating. You may remember him as the guy who got flashbanged and then repeatedly kicked in the balls by Iris.

Probably Aleksander Foxx. I wasn't too fond of him in the original Resurrection run until Calm, where he's a huge dork who sees twenty-somethings the same way he sees his elementary schooler daughter. An incredibly dangerous assassin who really doesn't feel bad about killing or anything but is just concerned about his daughter's college fund and making his coworkers like him is a fun character.

#scp #asks

[the-birth-of-art]

In a fever of indirectness I once referred to Steely Dan as the Grateful Dead of bad vibes. The perfect tag, really--not only was it impossible to know exactly what it meant, it was even impossible to tell whether it was complimentary. Because Steely Dan resists hype in favor of less comfortable versions of the truth, it deserves such ambiguity. What the band is up to is so elusive that a year later, having absorbed (or is it penetrated?) their disenchanted boogie over hundreds of hours of listening pleasure, I still can't think of a better hook. And however much Steely Dan deserves ambiguity, it also deserves a hook.

—Robert Christgau, What Kind of a Best Rock and Roll Band in the World Is This?, Village Voice, April 21, 1975

#steely dan #robert christgau

[bookaddict24-7]

REVIEWS OF THE WEEK!

EVERY WEEK I WILL POST VARIOUS REVIEWS I’VE WRITTEN SO FAR IN 2024. YOU CAN CHECK OUT MY GOODREADS FOR MORE UP-TO-DATE REVIEWS HERE.

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82. Mile High by Liz Tomforde--⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

MILE HIGH is the epitome of those romance books where they're a million hours long (in audiobook format) and even though everything seems like it's going well, there are still 10+ hours left in the book. My anxiety had a field day with that one and even though I was terrified, I really wanted to see these two get the happy ending they deserved.

I knew there was a lot of hype around MILE HIGH. In fact, I had convinced myself that I would probably not like it because sometimes hyped up things are just not for me. But I was very happy to find that I actually really, really enjoyed this. The chemistry between these two characters pulled me in, and their mature way of going through life together (save for a couple of instances) made me want to stay. Also, holy, that spice? Jaysus.

There's some pretty great conversations in this about self-worth and how we view ourselves and our bodies. Being someone who has always had a messy relationship with my body, this book was almost healing? The way the MMC talks to the FMC and helps her grow into a more genuinely confident woman was empowering. Even though he was that person who is really good at giving at advice but has a harder time retaining said advice for himself, this only made him more relatable as a person.

I loved the side characters and I'm salty that I didn't read their story before meeting them in this one. I also really loved how supportive they all were.

I enjoyed a lot of things about this book and save for some of the decisions made and admittedly, the length of the book, this was such a great and sexy read. I'm glad I gave it a shot! Now I need the sequel.

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83. My Love Mix-Up! Vol. 3 by Wataru Hinekure (Writer) , Aruko (Illustrator) , Jan Cash (Translator)--⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Okay, this was FREAKING CUTE. This volume had me kicking my feet in bed like an excited child. I'm so excited to see more of this relationship as it develops!

But I also loved seeing the best friends finally be more honest with each other. I'm excited, as well, to see that one relationship grow and change.

There was more honesty in this volume and more silly hijinks.

I can't say too much because spoilers LOL but I really liked how the characters were being called out for being scared to admit how they were feeling. I think everyone worked off each other really well.

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84. Under Currents by Nora Roberts--⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

UNDER CURRENTS started a bit differently than the past suspense books I've read by Nora Roberts and I think it was different mainly because it was from the POV of a MMC. It was also something that I could tell had some seriously dark undertones. And this book was DARK in that it dealt with a lot of physical abuse. It's not the darkest I've read, but it was still a bit surprising to see--which isn't a bad thing, it was almost slightly refreshing after I read a few of Robert's books.

I also liked that while this did have its similar formulaic outline as Roberts's past suspenseful romance novels, it deviated in some instances. That kept me on my toes, even though I could still kind of guess where the story was going.

What I will comment on is the fact that there was so much random kissing others on their lips? Like, not couples. Just like, an old ex gf who is married kissing her childhood dance date on the lips "lightly" as a platonic thing, or the FMC kissing a teen boy in "thanks" "lightly" on the lips. LOL why was there so much random light kissing on others' lips? It was weird LOL.

Anyway, another fun romantic suspense novel! Will hopefully pick up another Roberts book in the near future!

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85. Cherry Magic! Thirty Years of Virginity Can Make You a Wizard?! by Yuu Toyota--⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Okay, I really enjoyed CHERRY MAGIC! even if it gave me severe secondhand embarrassment LOL. I was screeching and giggling as I read the dirty thoughts going through the love interest's mind. I especially related to how the MC notices how different thoughts can be from the look on a person's face. It's so easy to hide what you're thinking because your brain and the privacy of your thoughts is that one part of you that truly belongs to you.

I like this concept and I'm excited to see how these two characters get on. Have I already ordered the next three volumes? Maybe...

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86. Ready or Not by Cara Bastone--⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

READY OR NOT was so much more than I was anticipating. I already loved this trope, but the way Cara Bastone explored this topic and the relationships surrounding the protagonist and her friends and love interest was done so well.

While this was definitely about the pregnancy the MC experiencing from the very beginning of the book, READY OR NOT was more about the characters and how all relationships have various levels to them. Also, how a pregnant woman is sometimes viewed by society--especially one that doesn't fit to the societal norm of how a pregnant woman should present herself and her "situation".

I know that some might view some of the situations as idealistic, I mean this is a fiction novel--the characters get to have idealistic outcomes sometimes. I loved the level of communication between everyone, the MC's level of maturity but also self-awareness. I loved her over-the-top energy levels and how she herself had some pretty big character growth moments.

I also listened to the audiobook of READY OR NOT and phew, that narrator was GREAT. She fully committed to the role and gave the MC so much personality. Also, the smuttier scenes will have you blushing. There weren't a lot of those, but the ones we got were definitely worth the wait after the building of anticipation.

This was just such a pleasant read and I think it's one of those drama-free books that will leave many readers happy and surprised.

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Have you read these books? What were your thoughts?

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Happy reading!

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[empress-of-snark]

mid-year reading tag 2023

(copying @televinita cause it seemed like fun)

1. best book you’ve read so far this year

Probably Daisy Jones and the Six (Taylor Jenkins Reid). No, I still haven’t watched the Amazon series cause frankly, the book was exhausting and I wasn’t sure if I wanted to watch the whole story play out all over again, but I’ll get to it one day.

The book was really good, though! Ignored it for a long time because of the hype, but it was deserved.

2. best sequel you’ve read so far this year

I’ve only read two sequels so far, but I’ll go with Thunderhead (Neal Shusterman), sequel to Scythe. I wasn’t quite invested enough in the series to be very upset that my library doesn’t have a copy of the third (and final) book, but I enjoyed it.

3. new release you haven’t read yet

There’s apparently a book called A Song of Sin and Salvation (L. H. Blake) that came out last month and is quite literally published Hellcheer fanfiction (good girl x bad boy, set in the 80’s, music-focused, even the cover art looks like them lmao). Obviously I need to get my hands on it immediately.

4. most anticipated release for the second half of the year

Definitely the new Cormoran Strike book, The Running Grave (Robert Galbraith), which comes out in September (and hell yes I’ve already pre-ordered it). Was not expecting another installment only a year after the last one, but I’ve been addicted to this series since I started it last year, so I am not complaining!

5. biggest disappointment

Gotta be A Discovery of Witches (Deborah Harkness). I was expecting a spooky supernatural mystery but misjudged how much of the story would be devoted to the romance. It’s basically Twilight but with slightly more plot. Not bad really, just disappointing.

6. biggest surprise

Honestly, this hasn’t been a stellar book year for me so far. I guess that’s a surprise in and of itself? Hope it picks up in the next six months.

7. favorite new author (debut or new to you)

A lot of the authors I’ve read this year have been ones I’m familiar with, but Daisy Jones was my first from Taylor Jenkins Reid. I know she also wrote The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, which I’ve also heard great things about. I’ll definitely give that one a try when I get the chance!

8. newest fictional crush/newest favorite character

I dunno if I would go so far as to call them crushes, but I did love James from Longbourn (Jo Baker) and Moist von Lipwig from Going Postal (Terry Pratchett). Very different characters, but they were both great leading men.

9. book that made you cry

The Five People You Meet in Heaven (Mitch Albom). My best friend recommended it to me ages ago, and I finally read it (in one sitting) and got extremely choked up at the end.

10. book that made you happy

Going Postal was a great reminder of how much I love Terry Pratchett. While the prospect of reading his entire Discworld series is a little daunting, I’ve very much enjoyed the two that I have read (plus Good Omens, of course).

I’ve definitely enjoyed some of the books I’ve read this year, but a lot of them have just been a bit lackluster. Hopefully the second half of the year will be better!

#personal #it’s not that I haven’t enjoyed the books I’ve read so far #just that they’ve been a little boring

[bibiundtinaundzombies]

my asoiaf brainrot is probably more multifaceted than the entire rest of my personality because i’ll write you a deeply emotionally invested paragraph about cersei’s victimhood under patriarchal influence and about how all her actions are essentially her desperately clawing at whatever power she can leverage against people with even less control than her in an attempt to make herself feel like she has some sort of agency, and how everything that she does comes down to tywin’s and robert’s abuse and how even her relationship with jaime is her trying to assert some sort of control over her own life, defiance for the sake of defiance so to speak, and i will bring up her perceived repressed bisexuality and pour my whole soul into explaining how neither cersei as a character nor lena headey as an actress deserved what dumb and dumber turned her into

but i also mumble “get hype” to myself every time i see rory mccan, hafthor julius björnsson or a chicken.

#cersei lannister #cersei #cersei brainrot #pro cersei lannister #i love cersei lannister can you tell #queen cersei #cersei deserved better #cleganebowl #get hype cleganebowl #chicken

[georgiapeach30513]

I watched the first half of Oppenheimer last night and…IDK if you seen it or know what happened, but so far nobody is giving me anything remotely Oscar worthy. Maybe when I finish I’ll have a different opinion but I sometimes feel these Oscar bait movies really get overly blown and it’s starting to show more and more. Just my opinion but movies and acting are seriously a subjective art form so yeah.

I’m usually a Chris nolan fan but I really think cillian and especially RDJ are being overhyped.

RDJ…a supporting Oscar nom? I personally enjoy Robert as a person/personality and I think he’s very witty and charming, but I really don’t know where this is coming from because so far, he acts exactly the same he always acts. Why are people constantly hyping this man’s acting up?

(Also I think the constant hyping him up is putting unfair comparisons on the other OG marvel avengers.)

I haven’t watched Oppenheimer, but I do intend to.

RDJ is an excellent actor, and sometimes you have the legacy of your career to back up a campaign. I haven’t seen this movie so I can’t talk about his performance. But I have seen enough of his work, he deserves the accolades he gets.

This is also an Oscar baiting movie. They knew what they were going for when they made it.

[animation-is-my-jam]

Doctor two brain ships? Like all of themn? Or another question, which characters you DONT like shipping with ? you chose

Even though the rat man does give me fatigue sometimes, I still think he's great and his dynamics with other characters makes him really fun. For his ships, or if you're asking what ships I like with DTB--then yeah I can say.

-Like I said before on my top Otps, I'm very fond of him and Professor Robert Tubing. Tubing in general deserved more and I have a lot of headcanons/character writing for him, during that process I played with the little idea of him and Steven being ex-friends or colleagues. And with that very little interact DTB and Tubing had in "Cat and mouse game" I was like... but what if. So then I proceeded to go insane coming up with these ideas about Tubing and Two Brains having this wild ass dynamic and of course boats of angst. If Tubing was used more he literally would have been DTB's foil and I'm a sucker for that in shipping. Also yeah I did the ultimate cringe thing and created fan kids of them for an AU. I could go really on how much I love these two and how it sparks me to engage with Two Brains content. Plus giving Tubing what he truly deserves.

As for other DTB ships, I like them and think they're pretty good too. While they're not at the status of top ships for me, I respect them.

-I always appreciated Provoclone and it's kinda grew on me, but a bit hard for me to see Beatrice not as either sapphic or aromatic personally. Still cute!

-Butcher and DTB is really funny. Someone pointed out how they have a really (one is super affectionate and the other doesn't reciprocate or is too hesitant). DTB really likes Butcher but our meat man is all “y'all hear something?” with him, it's great. This one is kinda underrated, like most Butcher ships-- but again not for me personally, but I respect it's uniqueness if this is the dynamic to go for.

-Grilled cheese is good too. The Chuck's mom's not home episode really solidified their potential and wow that truly was one of the gayest. But also sometimes they appear to be at each other's throats too. They got a little animosity but will kiss each other vibe. Again not for me, but dang their name is good

- That's the more notable ones I can think of, I know there's also a boat load of other miscellaneous DTB ships that I'm missing but I think for me they all fall into "this is a neat idea" camp and nothing much else unfortunately. There's also the very rare but also hype idea of Headcanoning DTB as a flirt Aro--which I think is really cool and actually could be true if you want to stick to his characterization in canon.

As for characters (singular characters) I don't like shipping? Idk if that's just in general or something else..but I'll go with the first one bc I like painting targets on my back. (Disclaimer this isn't me saying I don't ship these characters with others bc it's problematic or whatever, it's just preference or HCs).

- Violet. Yeah I know kill me. But there's a good reason. Even though I appreciate like every Violet ship and think they're all cute in their own right... I'm sorry but to me this girl is Aroace. I know as someone who likes to follow canon interactions to justify ships, I should be all over Sciolet, Vibecky, Scoobecklet, but idk they're all cute, but I always imagined that after a certain time Violet would be great avenue to explore her being super affectionate and friendly to the point others might construe as romantic but nope she's just like that :) and that's perfectly fine.

- Same with Rex. To me they're aromatic, and not because he's an unfamiliar with things like emotions and acts almost robotic with his mannerisms with human culture bc he's alien, it's more like Rex does understand and they wouldn't say no to a date or partner, he just doesn't prefer it.

- I mentioned on the DTB ships that Beatrice (LRW) also follows into this category. I love her, she's my perfect blend of fail woman by day and girlboss by night, she deserves no one and nobody deserves her. Or sapphic but still prefers not to be in anything committed.

- Tim and Sally. Sorry but they're inseparable and probably too monogamous to shipped with others, even in a polycule.

- Ms. Power. Yeah I know I technically have a Pla//sma rope fankid, but to be fair I never said they were together. For me it's not a matter of HC with this one, I just don't really vibe with much of Powers ships, like I think girlie just wants to be alone nor do I think she would be a good partner if we're being honest. Like I'm iffy on even giving her a redemption arc since I like her so much as an antagonist. And even with evil partner ships I'm like eh. To me I think the only love she really needs is herself...both in a narcissistic way and to do something about that underlying self esteem she probably has.

#wordgirl #doctor two brains #wordgirl fandom #dr. two brains

[denimbex1986]

'Like the brilliant scientist it takes as its subject, Oppenheimer arrives at a crucial moment in history. At a time when almost every big-budget Hollywood movie (including its opening weekend rival, Barbie) is drawn from corporate intellectual property, Oppenheimer is an unapologetically brainy movie with great actors playing real people, a true story with important details many viewers will be learning for the first time, and which, despite its roots in reality, feels massive and worthy of director Christopher Nolan's beloved IMAX screen.

As the title makes clear, this movie is about J. Robert Oppenheimer, the "father of the atomic bomb." For most of the three-hour runtime, Nolan places the viewer inside Oppenheimer's prodigious brain. We see the world as this theoretical physicist did, meaning the action is often interrupted by incredible visions of subatomic particles and cosmic fire. Yet Oppenheimer also has aspects of a memory play, or at least an exhaustive biography cut up and shuffled around. Even more than Nolan's previous film, Tenet, Oppenheimer flits about in time, effortlessly moving in and out of different events that took place across several decades, drawing connections that are logical but far from linear.

Embodying the man at the center of this universe, the constant in this shifting sea of science and history, is therefore no easy task — but Cillian Murphy rises to the challenge with an absolutely absorbing performance. Murphy has been working with Nolan for years, often in key supporting roles such as the villainous Scarecrow in Batman Begins and the primary target of Inception's dream heist. But the actor has proved his leading-man bona fides elsewhere (most recently in the long-running Netflix crime series Peaky Blinders) and finally brings that side of his skillset home to Nolan. No question, the close-ups on Murphy's face as Oppenheimer thinks through the 20th century's thorniest problems are as compelling as the film's atomic explosions, and as deserving of the biggest screen possible.

But just as Oppenheimer, for all his world-historical genius, could only accomplish his great feat because he was surrounded by many other brilliant thinkers, so is Murphy supported by a galaxy of top-notch actors. Matt Damon brings his movie-star charisma to General Leslie Groves, the military head of the Manhattan Project whose gruff charms obscures his ulterior motives.

Robert Downey Jr. plays Lewis Strauss, Oppenheimer's rival for control over postwar nuclear policy, and uses his own considerable acting powers to carve out a sizable portion of the film for himself. Strauss' strategy meetings amidst contentious 1959 Senate hearings over his cabinet nomination are the only scenes not set from Oppenheimer's direct perspective, signified both by their black-and-white color grading and Downey's domination of the screen. Downey was one of the most popular and influential American movie stars of the 2010s, but through some mixture of pandemic-era delays and post-Marvel malaise, it's been years since we've seen him in top form. Watching Downey give such a meaty big-screen performance again is not an opportunity to be squandered — especially considering the meta resonance of Downey and Nolan, who each played foundational roles in the rise of the modern superhero blockbuster, collaborating on a film about an inventor feeling ambivalent about his great creation.

Other standouts from Oppenheimer's deep bench include David Krumholtz, following up his recent heartbreaking Broadway performance in Tom Stoppard's Leopoldstadt with a key turn here as physicist Isidor Isaac Rabi. Krumholtz brings an important sense of Jewish experience to a movie whose protagonist (a Jewish person, played by an Irish actor) is constantly talking about the need to build the atomic bomb before the Nazis do. Rabi is more skeptical: "I don't want decades of physics to culminate in a bomb."

Another Jewish critic of the supposedly anti-Nazi atomic bomb is Albert Einstein, whom Tom Conti plays with the levity of an old legend who has seen the world transformed by his greatest accomplishment (the theory of relativity) in a way he does not care for. By the time the film ends, Oppenheimer will understand how he feels. After all, the atomic bomb was ultimately not used to defeat the Nazis, but to incinerate Japanese civilians.

The Manhattan Project was mostly a boys' club, as many of Nolan's past movies have been. Of all the criticisms the highly-successful director has attracted throughout his career, the stickiest is that his female characters are often "dead wives," whose ghostly after-images serve merely as motivation for the male protagonists. But Emily Blunt's Kitty Oppenheimer is defiantly alive, in spite of the worldwide crises of the '30s and '40s. Far from the archetype of a "devoted wife," Kitty is not shy about expressing her frustrations with motherhood or her dissatisfaction with politics. Blunt is a great partner for Murphy in their scenes together: bringing him down to Earth when he's off in the clouds, reminding him to fight when he seems content to let history wash over him.

The other primary female character in the film, Jean Tatlock, is played by Florence Pugh. The rising star feels a bit out of place standing alongside her older and more experienced costars, but Pugh brings Oppenheimer a heaping helping of sex and politics — two sides of life that have often been missing from Nolan's earlier films. Tatlock was a committed communist, and attended several party meetings alongside Oppenheimer (who was disturbed by the rise of genocidal Nazism and wanted to support the anti-fascist Republicans in the Spanish Civil War).

The film's attention to political history contributes to its sense of timeliness. Here is a summer blockbuster whose characters vigorously discuss the importance of labor unions and anti-fascist organizing, arriving just as Hollywood's real-life unions are walking picket lines. (The stars even left the film's glitzy premiere as soon as the SAG-AFTRA strike began.) Though viewers might expect Oppenheimer to climax with the Trinity Test at Los Alamos (which is indeed spectacular), the film spends a final hour exploring the 1954 closed-door hearing where Oppenheimer's security clearance was revoked for his ties to communists. Standing in for the McCarthyite era at large, these scenes demonstrate how despite the Allied victory over the fascists, the use of Oppenheimer's atomic bomb empowered reactionaries at home to betray the very people who made their victory possible.

Content meets form here. Oppenheimer is full of heady topics like quantum mechanics and political history, which few viewers will consider themselves experts on. But the film explains these ideas in ways more creative than the exposition dumps of Inception or the just-roll-with-it chaos of Tenet. When Oppenheimer first meets Kitty, she asks him to explain quantum physics. He does so by saying that everything in existence is composed of individual atoms, strung together by forces that make matter seem solid to our eyes, even though it's essentially not. In their next scene, Kitty explains how her second husband was a union organizer who died fighting fascists in Spain. Her life, which seemed solid, was completely undone by a single tiny bullet. Oppenheimer gets to experience this firsthand in 1954, when people who he thought of as allies and friends betray him for their own personal gain.

The study of physics is bifurcated into two disciplines: theory (Oppenheimer's specialty) and practice (embodied by Josh Hartnett's Ernest Lawrence). Communism, too, is often divided into theory and practice. Though they may seem disparate, the many elements of Oppenheimer refract and reflect each other, like a bunch of atoms creating a chain reaction or a group of scientists building off each other's ideas to forge something new. Grade: A'

#Christopher Nolan #Oppenheimer #Cillian Murphy #Robert Downey Jr. #Lewis Strauss #Emily Blunt #Kitty #Matt Damon #Leslie Groves #Josh Hartnett #Ernest Lawrence #Tenet #Scarecrow #Batman Begins #Inception #Peaky Blinders #David Krumholtz #Isidor Isaac Rabi #Tom Conti #Albert Einstein #Jean Tatlock #Florence Pugh

[doccywhomst]

Me again (TimeFlight rant guy) since you mentioned it, I didn’t know that Closing Time was written by Gareth Roberts. Didn’t he die on a horse racing track? Idk. Speaking of bigots, I think JK Rowling deserves to lose everything and vanish. She’s already a sneering, patronising old harridan who’s forgotten what she came from. In addition to being a TERF, she’s also apparently talked shit about autistic people (like me), the nasty old cow. At least Tolkien wasn’t a bigot! And a better writer.

VERY TRUE - as far as i know, Roberts is still alive, unfortunately. but JKR is also my personal nemesis and i would eat her heart in the marketplace. my parents went to her new movie and tried to hype me up about it and i was just like

you couldn't fucking pay me to watch or read any of her intellectual property

[whumper-at-heart]

RDJ GOT NOMINATED FOR OSCARS

Lets goooooooo

IM SO HYPED UP

I mean , this was expected, but still..

He totally deserves this.

I am already daydreaming abt him going up to the stage and taking the award.

AHHHHHH ROBERT DOWNEY JR. DESERVES AN OSCAR .

He got the golden globe . He got the critics choice. Can he get the ultimate one?

Im super happy for him. Also ,

OPPENHEIMER GOT 13 NOMINATIONS !!!!

Also expected , but im super happy. Rooting for them.

#robert downey junior #robert downey jr #rdj #oppenheimer #oscar 2024 #nominations #oscar nominations

[tea-with-evan-and-me]

"Also Billie & Leslie showed up & they are just awful, Ryan got all the worst people in this. The guy that plays Emmas husband has no emotion & he makes the same face the whole ep, the only good actor is Denis, if only he had a bigger part"

To be honest, I still don't understand the hype surrounding Kim's performance, for those who thought it would be terrible the performance is acceptable, but for me it's far from being good, it's just that maybe compare to ER she is a great actress 😂 and I thought I was the only one who didn't like Billie's performance, every role she plays she looks like she's in pain. I'm sorry for Denis being in this trash, he's an incredible actor, he didn't deserve this.

i really think being scene partners with emma roberts elevates kim kardashian's performance. all i have had to do is watch the clips that pop up on twitter, and it's glaringly obvious. emma is not convincing, can't deliver he lines, has ridiculous facial expressions.. it's just not good. if you really want to understand why this is.. it's that kim kardashian playing the role she's playing is not a stretch for her. emma roberts playing anything other than a horrendous bitch IS a stretch for her.

[idontbeatgames]

In February, Leslie Grace spoke to Variety about everything surrounding the unfortunately canceled Batgirl project - shameless but I made a whole video about the canceled Batgirl movie and discussed why it shouldn't have been canceled, totally recommend checking that out. However, in that same interview with Variety, Leslie Grace mentioned the status of her relationship with DC Studios -- "I wish them the best on all the plans that they’ve got rolling out. They’ve got a lot of projects to handle, and it’s not an easy job." -- which sucked at the time since we all wanted DC Studios to work things out with her.

Fast forward to now, DC fans on Twitter have just pointed out that James Gunn has just recently started following Leslie Grace on Threads. Now, I don't want to get people's hope but with all of the recent casting news in Superman: Legacy, along with all of this talk about Superman: Legacy showcasing a very active and in-progress cinematic universe, it's hard to be the person that asks a very hype but hypothetical question.

Did James Gunn and DC Studios finally mend things over with Leslie Grace and somehow convinced her to play the role of the DCU's Batgirl?  If this is the case, thank god. The biggest misconception that people have when it comes to people wanting DC Studios to release the Batgirl film is that it's yet another drama filled movement where people are just yelling into the void about yet another minuscule problem that we should shut up about. While it's easy to write Batgirl off, and I'd understand if you did exactly that when it got canned, there's a reason it's frustrated so many people. It was a massive work of art that was near completion and it got canned for a fairly arbitrary reason. Historically, DC has always done well with Bat-centric or Gotham-centric projects. There was no reason for DC to truly write this film off in favor of releasing another film like Black Adam, which should've been a sequel film after Shazam 2 introduced both Black Adam's origin story and Black Adam as a villain from the perspective of Shazam. People love Gotham, people love Batman and more importantly, people would've appreciated the confirmed return of Michael Keaton far more than they did in The Flash, considering it seemed to like his return in that film was a very brief appearance that wasn't to overshadow Leslie's Batgirl. And as a massive fan of Keaton's Batman, though Robert Pattinson is my favorite Batman at the very moment, I think a brief appearance where Keaton's Batman comes into play as a massive motivator of Batgirl along with giving her an upgraded suit to help start the final act of the movie would've made Keaton's return feel far more meaningful.

Now, when it comes to actor's when they speak about wanting to be in a Marvel project or be in a DC project, I know it's easy to say that money talks and that actors just want to get paid to play roles but if you read that Variety interview, or have seen almost anything that Leslie Grace has had to say about Batgirl including real set photos, you could tell that she was truly passionate about Batgirl and her movie. Playing this character seemed like it meant so much to her and she truly seemed bummed out about losing this movie due to tax write-offs or because DC executives deemed it "unwatchable" and the DC fans like myself who have always been pro-release the Batgirl film, we're gonna have to give them their very deserved props. 

I think a lot of DC fans will agree me when I say that as a group, we're very vocal and tend to call out DC almost immediately when it comes to their terrible decisions. We also, though, are very loving and appreciative when DC gets things right. Whether you're pro-release the Batgirl film or anti-release the Batgirl film, you're gonna have to give James Gunn and DC Studios props if they managed to somehow mend that previously seemingly burnt bridge between them and Leslie Grace. Sure, at the very least, I know people will get hyped as most people continue to agree that Gunn has knocked it out with the recent castings for Superman: Legacy but it's definitely going to be time for us to give DC Studios credit if they mended that bridge. If this scenario is true, I only have one ask of Leslie Grace - please, for the sake of everyone's sanity, release some sort of statement discussing the mending of that relationship if this is the case. If this is the outcome you managed to get, the least I'd want you to do is tell us (the fans) that you're more than happy with the end result of whatever likely long discussions you had with DC Studios regarding the direction of Batgirl in the DCU. Let us know that because you're happy with that direction, it's time for us to stop pushing for the old film to be released and that it's time for us to move on from that as you're very happy with the plans DC Studios has for Batgirl. If there is any thing that the DC fandom needs with the many loose threads we've seen over the years, it's closure and the unfortunate cancelation of Batgirl is one of the few loose threads that could definitively be closed with a happy ending, assuming this is the case.

Until anything is made official, I'm going to lean on this is nothing more than a coincidence and since that's the case, I will always be pro-releasing the canceled Batgirl film. The minute we find out otherwise, I'll let it go as I'd be more than happy to see Leslie Grace get a happy ending despite the long and tumultuous journey she had to take to get Batgirl on the big screen.

#dc cinematic universe #dc comics #idontbeatgames #dccomics #dc extended universe #dc movies #dc multiverse #dc films #batgirl #leslie grace #james gunn #warner bros #wbd #dc studios #batgirl movie #dc universe #superman legacy #dcu #dceu fandom #dceu