#except I have evidence

[formerheroeswhoquittoolate]

why I'm unhappy with secret invasion: an accidental essay that turned out WAY more aggressive than I wanted it to (sorry about that)

I'm furious about how Secret Invasion is going. It feels like Marvel just went ahead with a Samuel L. Jackson vanity project, but and it's barely interesting and it's fucking with canon characterization. And it's fucking Secret Invasion! This could be meaningful! But instead it feels like it's trying to redo what TFATWS already did and did better. We already HAD a show about a global terrorist movement and the evils of white privilege, and it was actually really good, so what is this show supposed to be again? Oh. I see. It's different because Nick Fury is in it. Gotcha.

Oh, and [spoilers for ep 1 and 2]

They killed Maria Hill in the first episode. Not only did they kill her (which is bad enough from this studio, considering they've also killed Gamora, Natasha, and Wanda), but they fridged her. And not even kind-of-fridged, like with the aforementioned characters, where the death was required and mostly reasonable by in-universe circumstances, even if it was an easy out. No. Maria was literally, actually, to-the-letter fridged. They even confirm that in the dialogue of the second episode. Fury actually says that Gravik killed her to hurt him. She didn't have to die -- hell, if she wasn't going to be relevant to the rest of the show, she didn't even need to be in it in the first place! (More on that in a minute.)

And the thing is. The thing is. I would be so much happier with the show if the roles were reversed. Canon Fury is all "I still believe in heroes! There's good in people! Befriend the aliens!" He's a badass spymaster, yeah, sure, but he's also pretty optimistic about people. And then there's Maria Hill.

[Image description: Maria Hill, saying "Best advice you'll ever get from me, a dedicated law enforcement officer, to you, an amateur looking to go pro: 'Assume everyone is a broken, nightmare, garbage person and then be pleasantly surprised if it ends up not the case.' It'll save you a lifetime of disappointments."] [Image credits: Bendis and Pichelli's Spider-Man #12 (2017)]

That seems to have carried over into the MCU fairly well. And to see her? Struggling to fulfill Fury's goal after his death, operating without her mentor for the first time, trying to figure out how to reconcile his faith in the Skrulls with her natural instinct that everyone is lying all the time? To see her actually doing the work, speaking to the security committee and telling them to piss off, because Fury was in Moscow to do a hero's work and he died a hero, no further questions? To see her, the character who has long been reduced to the sidekick of male characters with a much shorter stint in Marvel's canon, fully come into her own as the protagonist of this series? It would have been perfect. We could have actually gotten a show full of espionage and intrigue instead of a hamfisted... racism metaphor? I'm not even sure at this point. This could have actually been something besides a Samuel L. Jackson vanity project. I know I said that already, but I am going to say it again. This show is here so Jackson can look cool and badass and also be a funny old man. And I wouldn't care if they weren't reducing every other meaningful character in the series to a Skrull, a corpse, or a realpolitik adversary. Like, fuck this false advertising. Maria Hill, Everett Ross, and Rhodey were all in the trailer like they were going to be relevant. As if this was going to be an interesting web of an ensemble cast. Instead, it's the Nick Fury show with a few redeeming scenes from the terrifyingly cheery British spymaster lady.

It's almost like Marvel knew no one would want to watch the show if they just straight-up said it was going to be all Nick Fury. And I haven't even started on the bullshit that was the train conversation (a whole monologue about sitting in the colored section on trains and then straight-up telling Talos there's not enough room for his people on the train? Was I the only one thrown off by that?) or the dialogue between him and Rhodey in the bar ("even when I'm out, I'm in.") or the Skrull wife reveal (which felt like it wanted to be some big important twist but it also had exactly zero setup) or... whatever is happening with Talos and Gaea. The next episode comes out in two days, and I'm still crossing my fingers that a miracle of plot will happen and it will get better. But it's going to take a miracle.

#marvel #mcu #secret invasion #nick fury #maria hill #skrulls #marvel cinematic universe #talos #everett ross #james rhodes #comics #fridging #rant post #except I have evidence #so it's really more of an essay

[ahsoka-in-a-hood]

I'm always a bit surprised when I see hate for Shaak Ti based on her "Republic property" line like it's some kind of slam dunk statement of her views... have you guys seriously never had to speak someone else's language before? I'm not even trying to comment on her motives or beliefs here- but whether you read her as advocating for Fives or not, if she was 100% unambiguously advocating for Fives there that would still have been the right thing to say to the Kaminoans to get custody of him.

#this just seems like such an obvious thing to me #and i guess it bugs me because there's a lot of focus on people saying the right things and not enough on people doing things #you know in general. on planet earth. #and this is so clearly a place where virtue signalling on Shaak's part would have been 100% useless. The Kaminoans do not care. #she's lawyering. it's such a basic thing. #i don't really want to go into the thornyness of jedi-clone relations right now or what the council did and did not do for and to them. #i know i'm basically a pro jedi blog but I don't think it's perfectly rosy either but i'm tired #so i should probably leave well enough alone #but i felt like griping about this one specific thing #which is not evidence of anything except rules-lawyering #shaak ti

[evankinard]

they way bi buck and accidentally baby acquisition buck are now equally plausible theories to me like 1) bi buck has the everything about buck going for it but 2) baby acquisition has the underlying theme of buck's relationship with parenthood from the last season and start of this season going for it also with buck and eddie the way they are this season it would most definitely basically end up with them coparenting this one too and both roads lead to buddie canon

#except then i would also have girldad buck booyah #tumblr user captainragtag how could you do this to me #i know a lot of people would be upset but has anyone considered that EYE would be happy #this is just a thought tho no other evidence so im just adding to the random delusional spec bag #evan buckley #weewoo brainrot #eddie diaz #buddie #911 abc

[thebrainrotsreal]

Thinking about de-aged Bruce via magical shenanigans being a bit of a menace. He will bite you if given the chance, and will draw blood. Slippery as an eel to catch. Don't even think you can corner him in his own home, he knows every single secret room and deep tunnel in the manor. Your eyes are scratch-able to him. Try telling he's the future and he's demanding you tell him who killed his parents. Can't tell him? Alright then, you're lying. He would've found out by now if this really the future.

#bruce wayne #bruce wayne fanart #young bruce wayne #fanart #dc fanart #the brainrotsreal's art tag ✧˖°:*♡ #procreate art #digital art #mf doesn't cut his bangs!!! (his father used to do that for him) #i like to think martha encouraged him to be doubtful and suspicious BUT always have evidence before he draws any conclusions #sneaking around galas and parroting back to his mom and she's like oh? how interesting and what does this imply bruce? #he's around 12-13 in this art :3 #bruce being de-aged in such a fascinating concept to me because they way bruce is mortal and untouchable at the same time #but young him is a different beast entirely and so painfully human because of it #he's just as feral as the robins except alfred is way more lenient just not as trained #but then it's like because he's not trained you don't WHAT he'll do he's got like 0 self preservation instincts and is a 100 or nothing

[blueskittlesart]

i think ur a crypto terf

i am transgender

#like there's nothing i can say except you are wrong. i vigilantly block every terf in my notifications #and im honestly not sure what i have done to make you think this way but. im not. #im a nonbinary lesbian. i literally transitioned in high school. i have been vocal about being trans on this blog #this sites hatemail game is insane or whatever but this is genuinely a serious accusation to make and i would appreciate it if you would no #go around accusing trans people of being terfs without evidence. please #asks

[ambrosiagourmet]

I’m gonna be honest I don’t understand why Shuro/Toshiro gets as much hate as he does. I can understand why people don’t like him or are put off by a few specific things in particular (not being honest w Laios, his double standard w Falin, and the Izutsumi stuff), but some stuff definitely goes beyond general disinterest or dislike.

I dunno I just don’t think any of his misunderstandings, miscommunications, or assumptions are THAT much worse than the misunderstandings, miscommunications, or misunderstandings of the rest of the cast…

#the main exception being the Izutsumi/slave thing but it’s also the thing I see sited the least so 🤷 #the story is like entirely built on the idea of people with different backgrounds cultures & hangups #coming together and misunderstanding each other & figuring it out #and he’s very much at the center of some of those themes & ideas #so it feels weird to me to hate him for that fact #also unless I see evidence of him actually being pushy or rude to Falin: dude it’s not illegal to propose to someone #yeah he has a double standard it’s the Sometimes People Have Double Standards manga

[chronurgy]

might be alone in this, but I actually prefer essek being totally correct about the luxon not being a god more than any other theory. there's something so delicious in knowing you've proved evethying you'd always striven to prove, and then realizing that what you did to get there wasn't worth it. that you shouldn't have done it. to be totally vindicated, and have it not matter. to claim the title of the world's bestest, most smartest, rightest boy and realize it doesn't mean a damn thing

#essek thelyss #critical role #cr2 #love to think of essek finding out he was right thanks to some of the assembly's research and then having to admit it still isn't worth it #that he still regrets what he did #that it was still wrong #also would love to see him provide the evidence to the dynasty and watch it not change a damn thing #watch them either vanish the evidence or just ignore it entirely #I just think both of those things would be baller character moments for him #just absolutely fascinating to imagine #how do you deal when you prove it's all a lie and nothing changes? except your homeland maybe declaring you a heretic? #would just loooove to see how he copes #yes he's my blorbo yes I want to put him in the blender

[prince-liest]

shrimp often arch their backs and use their hind legs to clean their swimmerets, which they normally use to swim! pregnant shrimp like the larger female in the back also carry their eggs in their abdomen and use their swimmerets to fan water through the eggs, thus oxygenating them. these two will not stop breeding, even though amano shrimp are not actually able to successfully reproduce in fresh water. I suppose it means they're happy and healthy in their environment!

#fishblr #aquariums #planted tank #shrimp #amano shrimp #personal #petblogging #so I actually am not 100% sure if they're boning because she only got berried like RIGHT after I added the second shrimp #which seems really fast and I know for sure that crayfish can store semen for a VERY long time (many months) #but I haven't found evidence online that shrimp can do it to except some people saying they probably cannot #so I'm tentatively assuming they're boning #shrimp love #low key named them he xuan and shi qingxuan in my mind and no he xuan is NOT the male #he xuan is the giant menace that's been established in the tank since basically its inception #anyway these were some really good shots of amano shrimp self-grooming considering all I have is my phone camera

[little-fandom-dump]

i know nothing about hazbin hotel (except my roommate’s partner got me to watch the first two eps, which i really enjoyed) BUT i have a gut feeling that alastor is a HIT with the transmasc community

#source: i am trans ftm and i love this funky lil guy #i also think there must be an overlap between tma fans who love fuck hands mcmike (affectionate) and alastor from hazbin #i don’t have any evidence for this except Vibes #sorry hazbin fans if i am Wrong #hazbin hotel #hazbin alastor

[meowmeowmessi]

#'you don't win no silver/you only lose the gold' #been thinking abt these two a lot lately. especially on account of mbappe's latest (fond!) reminiscences abt their time together at psg #i do think they have a lot of parallels which are very funny to me personally #both won everything there is to win at a very young age (pessi with barça and mbappe with france) #except for that one (1) trophy that keeps eluding them (wc for messi ucl for mbappe) #also both stuck in shit clubs (which they have to carry + are accused of being the 'dictators' of) (lol) making disastrous career choices #not to mention they both have their parents as their agent (which is. well) #and now they've both lost in a wc final ! #their dynamic is very interesting to me and i WISH the environment at psg would've allowed for messi to stay longer #like. not to be delusional and read too much into things #but i do think it's very dramatic that messi's first goal for psg was assisted by mbappe #what i'm saying is destiny was cooking smth with these two. but evidently psg administration and the ultras had other ideas sigh

[ctrl-lupin]

#this one doesn't have a caption #i took this picture as evidence of lupin's slav squat #except i didn't fucking include his feet in the picture #you can still kinda see from the angle of his ankles that his feet must be flat on the ground #so it's likely he was raised in japan or by japanese people rather than in france #yes i am the kind of insane nerd who tries to analyse a character's place of origin/upbringing by the way they squat #(for the record: slavs and east-asian folks tend to squat with their heels touching the ground) #(whereas westerners squat with their heels in the air) #lupin iii #twcfm #The Woman Called Fujiko Mine #takeshi koike

[landfilloftrash]

afternoon ponderings

#my art #Ace Attorney #Gregory Edgeworth #Manfred von Karma #blueberrypancakes #for my brain to be able to see any sort of romance I have to just. Draw them in situations. Put those lawyers in a situation. #Plantonic and/or silly situations but situations nonetheless ! Anyways— #ok small ramblings time w/ headcanons #von karma paces to help him think- despite his leg- and tends to talk himself through things that happened (based on evidence and testimony #edgeworth switches between bouncing his leg and flipping through books unseeing trying to connect dots without 100% thinking about it-- #letting it sit in his head as he turns it about subconsciously. most times it works- sometimes he just Has to talk through it with someone #and that someone is the one pacing due to his own case at the moment; and so! they talk. case talk small talk. talk! #they aren’t on the same case 4 this art— they’ve have been pinging ideas off each other and complaining about various things for hours now #bc if they were on the Same case they would NOT be this close in proximity except on the crime scene. #absolutely FIENDISHLY protective of their respective evidence. it's a game it's a dance it's a fight and gregory won't stop until he wins #and even then he would never stop; however they aren't on the same case so! they hang out and chat like civilized people. and argue (aff) #rea rambles in the tags #rea’s trash

[compacflt]

do you ever think about/write about how maverick threw goose’s dog tags into the ocean? the letterboxd reviews have me thinking again.

yeah that was literally one of the first little things august 2022 me petulantly retconned . fuck that . he kept one.

in my (and many other ppls) opinion those weren’t mavs to throw away they should’ve stayed with carole

and (i try not to talk about this as much as possible but) it suggests Something about mav & goose’s relationship that the filmmakers thought his dog tags should go to mav instead of to Goose’s wife (though i acknowledge and appreciate the usefulness of the visual metaphor of him saying goodbye to goose at the end of TG) (though that visual metaphor was rendered completely moot by the whole of TGM showing that mav HASNT moved on from goose and only moves on once he has the chance to save roosters life [which is why i retconned it])

ALSO? i am sure I’m not the first person to talk about this? But, to add a second layer of confusion & analysis, uh, the dogtags mav throws into the ocean aren’t goose’s.

I’m reading “metcalf, mike” from the backside. Those are VIPER’s dogtags. for some reason.

now i choose to believe that’s a props issue… someone grabbed the wrong set of tags & they were like ehhh no one will notice… script supervisor not doing their fucking job… so i choose to believe the filmmakers MEANT goose’s dogtags & it doesn’t change the end of the movie for me.

But im interested to hear from you—does that change/add anything to anyone’s analysis to know that mav threw VIPER’s tags into the ocean? there are a lot of really weird implications that come from taking what is probably a props fuck-up at face value!!! (Viper giving mav his tags [weird], viper being mav’s surrogate dad figure, thereby this scene becomes about mav saying goodbye to his FATHER finally,.. etc.)

#i am saying nothing #about mav and goose #except all the other times i have said mav & goose are romantic lovers coded #not brave enough to commit to it so i am not committing to it #because poor Carole but #🫢 #when in chapter 6 i wrote Carole telling Ice ‘Pete is a selfish son of a gun’ i was partially referring to the dog tags thing #more evidence for my thesis that original top gun maverick is thoughtless and not a great or likable guy #It’s always Carole getting fucked over here in every possible universe it’s always her on the chopping block. #pete maverick mitchell #nick goose bradshaw #top gun #top gun meta #mike viper metcalf #ive worked as a script sup on some amateur film projects (like gotten paid to do it) this is the kind of stuff you DONTT!!!! want to do. #continuity!! details!!! these things fucking matter!!! #someday someone will watch your project and obsessively analyze it for gay fanfic purposes and your continuity errors will throw them off! #me when tom cruise hands: 🤤

[vylanka]

when jess was making mcd season 1 she at some point realized that laurance was becoming a legitimate love interest and went "oh god no, i can't have my fictional love interest be ginger" and had to quickly come up with a way to retcon his hair color, and that's why he became a brunette with blue eyes halfway through

#i have no evidence for this except that it would be very funny #minecraft diaries #laurance zvahl #aphmau

[mindshelter]

“you go blank inside” babygirl. you are dissociating

the abuse that hal suffered at martin jordan’s hands (and words) are. pretty indispensable to understanding hal’s time as a GL leading up to becoming parallax... hal became part of the corps pre-conditioned and primed for easy indoctrination. despite recognizing martin’s behaviour as abusive, and hoping to never become like him, compliance at one’s own expense was all hal knew. it was what felt safe, what felt familiar, and made up that last tendril of sanity—the universe couldn’t be that cruel, and a parent wouldn’t be so hateful for no reason. there must be something hal can fix—can compromise—to be accepted. if only hal could have given martin what he wanted, whatever that may have been. if, if, if. 

fealty won’t earn you happiness—only survival. 

when that illusion finally crumbles—when the realization that decades of loyalty to the corps and to the long-deceased father has reaped zero reward—so does the remainder of hal’s belief system. 

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1. dc comics presents: green lantern (2004)

Willpower. Absolute concentration. Split second timing. Where does that come from?

Instead it’s all feed in more trim and if you’re still nose-down, put your feet in the stirrups and blow the canopy before you red out. You do what you do. You go blank inside.

2. back issue #80, on Green Lantern

Fearless people tend to be cocksure of their actions and tend not to question anything, including authority. I recall a number of John Broome[-written] stories where Hal was totally (and happily) subservient to the Guardians of the Universe. 

3. zero hour: crisis in time (1994) #0

I used to be the errand boy for the Guardians of the Universe. It was a thankless job. I knew that. I had never asked for anything. 

The one time I did, I was denied. It dawned on my just how unfair the universe really was…

4. green lantern (1990) #63

Your rules. Your rules kept me from any happiness. I served the corps more faithfully than anyone, and my loyalty got me nothing. 

5. dc comics presents: green lantern (2004)

Like what you learn at the end of someone’s arm. You learn to go blank. 

Like maybe things with him would change if could just give him what he wants. If you would just take it like a man. But nothing ever did change. He just kept calling you a loser. And if he ever had a warmer opinion, you never heard about it. You took that like a man, too. 

6. back issue #80, on Green Lantern

I always believe it is very hard for people to actually change their personalities. So the best Hal could do was reach a happy medium, intellectually realizing he should be feeling differently about a situation, but emotionally having trouble doing so.

7. dc comics presents: green lantern (2004)

I don’t think I can do this anymore. “Fearless.” It’s all a crock.

8. green lantern (1990) #50

9. dc comics presents: green lantern (2004)

You go blank inside. 

Maybe sometimes that’s all that stands between this thing on my finger and the hot green end of everything. 

#i have NO idea if this makes any sense at all but. yeah. hal's character arc makes me crazy actually #hal jordan #martin jordan #dc #green lantern #comic blogging #another day of pretending the parallax parasite retcon doesn't exist because this is infinitely more compelling #and a perfect conduit to provide commentary on anti-authoritarianism through characters like kyle #instead of. you know. the green lantern corps as space cops #anyway. yeah. hal is extremely traumatized and evidently got zero support for it for decades. tfw you're in your forties and #your inner child believes that there was something wrong with YOU and that if you just behaved RIGHT and became what your dad wanted #he wouldn't have hated your guts #resentment was already brewing but emerald twilight was really all about the realization that all that self-hatred and blame #was being misdirected #and now it has nowhere to go except everywhere. it's spilling out. overflowing. the world is wrong and hal can fix it! #i'll make everything better! everyone gets to be happy but not in this SHITSTAIN universe #just you guys wait and see #you'll understand eventually. you all will. just like i did.

[void-pitcher]

beanix has some fae level bullshitting skills down to the never lying (except for the bit)

#i can find exactly zero instances of beanix lying except to fuck with apollo in aa4 #‘the forged ace’ beanix never said it WASNT forged #in fact he even straight up told apollo for zero reason #‘it was to get apollo on his side for the jurist system and prove to him the faults of needing decisive evidence’ ya but he didn’t have to #be that fucking dramatic #‘lies of omission’ doesn’t count as perjury #and like. he still gets apollo to believe he forged the diary page solely through implying a bunch of bullshit #he says all this contradictory stuff but once u align it with the truth all of it holds up #he uses ppl’s assumptions to wield the truth as effectively as someone might wield a lie #terrifying man. i love him more than life itself #apollo justice ace attorney #ace attorney #aa4 #beanix