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spectralarchers · 4 years

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You know, as much as SuperWhoLock gets mocked now, I really think that being a part of that Fandom - and any crossover Fandom, really - taught an important lessons to those taking part of it: That all the headcanons, all the ships, all the plots and popular tumblr theories would never become canon, because, duh, crossover.

In this day and age where ‘it’ll never be canon!’ is something I see crossing my dash every now and then, I sit and think about how I adored Pondlock (Sherlock Holmes x Amy Pond) and how the hivemind of the fandom managed to make that a Thing, even though the characters would never meet. The fanart was amazing, the fics where great. And nobody got mad about their respective romances in their respective shows. (Well, some people did, but the majority didn’t).

Same thing with my first OTP, Martin Crieff (Cabin Pressure) x Molly Hooper (Sherlock), where I created content (how and why I started making gifsets! because there was no gifs for them!) and although it wasn’t exactly SuperWhoLock, it was still somewhere on the way, because it was a widely distributed headcanon that Martin Crieff was an illegitimate Holmes brother. It was so much fun, because it was literally puzzling pieces of an intricate web together, except it was on a Fandom-scale, and it was so amazing to see all those people doing the same things because the crossovers had such an appeal to everyone.

Messing with two or more Fandoms in creative works was such a carefree way to try out how Fandom worked, and it always happened in respect to the source material. I think the demon Crowley in Supernatural was one of the closest things we got to an actual crossover, since Mark Sheppard appeared both on Doctor Who and Supernatural and people took that opportunity and ran with it.

Then Skyfall (2012) and Avengers (2012) happened and the fandom went ballistic with it: SuperWhoAvengeBondLock was the funniest crossover I have ever seen and it produced such great content, sometimes I find myself missing the insaneness that was the summer of 2012, even though I am not active neither in the Supernatural, Doctor Who or Sherlock fandoms anymore. Addition: @peoniequeen mentioned the “Rise of the Brave Tangled Dragons” crossover (Rise of the Guardians meets Brave meets Tangled meets How To Train Your Dragon) in their tags on this post, and that crossover was so LIT as well! Creators were so skilled! It was incredible to watch become a thing!

It just taught me that things can cross into each other. Either full on, crossover style like that New Girl/Brooklyn 99 crossover episode, or just namedrop, reference other things with Easter Eggs. Isla Nublar from Jurassic World exists in my fandom MCU, just as HYDRA (MCU)/SPECTRE and Janus (James Bond)/the Syndicate (Mission Impossible) are the same organisation and it’s so damn fun.

I think this it’s why my Brooklyn 99/Marvel gifsets are so damn popular too.

We should bring back fandom crossovers to the mainstream fandom experience. I know there’s still that little part of fandom that never stopped writing them (I am still writing those things!), but like. Bring it back to the forefront of Fandom.

I’m not talking about the ‘What if the Avengers all had dæmons’ or “what if they’re wizards in the HP universe’ sense of the crossover, but just.

Imagine the absurdity of possibilities: there’s an almost canon universe where Tony Stark’s head of security, Happy Hogan, dated Monica Geller (Jon Favreau played Monica’s millionaire boyfriend who takes her to Rome for a date and later wants to become a UFC fighter in season 3)? The crew of Ocean’s 11 accidentally bumping into the Leverage crew while performing a con/heist? Miranda Priestly (Devil Wears Prada) is Effie Trinket’s (Hunger Games) mom?! That popular headcanon that circulated a couple of years ago that Agent K (Men in Black) is Phil Coulson’s (MCU) father?

Go batshit. Want to write a story where the main characters from your favorite TV-shows meet-up? Go for it! There’s these two characters from separate shows that would be a cute couple? What’s stopping you?!

Nothing is!

#fandom #morning thoughts because i had a worker come check my radiators at 7 am #i dreamt of pondlock tonight for the first time in like. 7 years. and i got nostalgic #shut up christine #i'm writing a marvel vs scooby doo story and i know for a fact that the only reason i'm comfortable doing that #is because i spent my first formative fandom years deep in superwholock #and it was so liberating #THERE ARE NO MORE RULES! because the fandom's limits were only its own!#wanted to bring in the 'james bond is a time-lord because he regenerates' headcanon? WELCOME WELCOME WELCOME #man the doctor who 50th anniversary coinciding with skyfall along with the london olympics AND the first avengers movie #what a time to be in fandom #it was so glorious

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petcerparker · 6 years

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☀︎+ the fact that spider-gwen is gonna be in the new spider-verse movie, just bc my name is gwen and i think it's funny lmao plus i am so excited to get to see her in a movie!! ☾ + my fave marvel character is peter parker, duh how can u not love that fuckin nerd?? legit every moment he is on screen is a Good One but i think my fave scene of his is in homecoming when he lifts himself out of the rubble bc i like Cried. but anyway!! congrats on the milestone, you are wonderful!!!

every bit of this ask is Relatable

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weekendwarriorblog · 5 years

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CAPTAIN MARVEL: ED’s Very Important Thoughts on Marvel’s Latest (Possible Minor Spoilers!)

So I’m going to try a bit of a two-fold experiment here. The first part of the experiment is whether I can set aside a few personal grudges against those involved with making this movie (which I won’t get into right now) to write a fair and balanced review. I think I can do it.

Caveat: I wasn’t too happy about the seat/theater in which I saw the movie. Normally I’d go for IMAX but that screening didn’t start until after 8pm, and the seat I reserved ended up being further back then I liked and also was too far to the side so part of the screen was blocked. The sound wasn’t too great either, definitely not loud enough, but hey, I’ll do my best.

The other caveat is that I’m only going to write this review for an hour, and once that hour is up, I’m done talking about Captain Marvel, other than in terms of box office or other aspects for my day job at The Beat. To make this easier, I’m gonna break this down into a few categories, borrowing from one of my old colleagues at ComingSoon.net, Mr. Scott Chitwood.

I’m not going to talk too much about the plot, because that’s probably wherein lies the most spoilers for the movie, because even if you think you know the general story and how some of the characters play into it, there are quite a few nice surprises.

The movie starts on Hala, homeworld of the Kree, where Brie Larson’s “Vers” is training with her Commander, played by Jude Law. They go on a mission to stop a Skrull invasion of a small defenseless planet, and in the battle, Vers is captured, her mind is played with and she gets transported to earth circa 1995 where she runs into S.H.I.E.L.D. agents Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) and his new recruit Phil Coulson (Clark Gregg). The Skrulls, led by Ben Mendelsohn’s Talos, are right on her tail, looking for some sort of hyperdrive, but Vers is haunted by implanted memories, and she wants to find answers, taking her and Fury to Pegasus.

What I Liked:

Brie Larson was a wise pick for Carol Danvers/ Captain Marvel. She’s a damn good actor and she brings her all to a character who is highly complicated in terms of emotions and backstory. My personal issues with Larson have nothing to do with the character or her abilities as an actor, but her decision to be a Social Justice Warrior and make a big deal about using her celebrity to constitute change… without really know what she’s talking about. I’m sure that in a few years from now, when she’s a little older and maybe learns a bit more about the business side of things, she’ll understand why what she’s been doing is actually angering people who would support her, especially if and when she decides to move further into directing. Don’t get me wrong. I think she’s entitled to speak her opinion, as is every woman, but you can’t go after men, especially those who have been the ones whose fandom have helped Marvel get to where it’s at. Anyone who was surprised by the fanboy reaction, just doesn’t have a clue how the internet works.

I loved seeing the Kree and Skrull brought to the screen finally, and for the most part, the movie used them well to set-up future conflicts between the Kree and Skrull in other MCU films.

Similarly, I’ve been a fan of Ben Mendelsohn for a long time and I could say the same for Jude Law, so their casting in the movie was definitely going to be primary reasons for me to want to see this. Mendelsohn is great in a role that allows him to play in creature make-up but also for him to play with a few other roles including playing Fury’s S.H.I.E.L.D. supervisor who looks surprisingly like… Ben Mendelsohn. There’s a lot more to his Skrull Talos than I expected going in, and I owe a lot of that to him reuniting with his Mississippi Grind directors, as he was fantastic in that movie as well.

Directors Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck do quite an amazing job when you consider that they’ve mainly been working in the realm of independent film and have never had such an enormous CG-heavy movie with such a big budget. Granted, at this point, Marvel Studios has its team of designers and CG people who basically do the job they do, but that also added up to one of my issues, which you can read below.

Many others have raved about the cat Goose, who Nick Fury quickly bonds with while infiltrating Pegasus, and Goose frequently does steal scenes from the human actors. There’s also a lot more to Goose than you may think, and that’s another fun surprise of the film.

What I Didn’t Like:

I can understand why it was important to include the young girl version of Monica Rambeau in the story to set up possibly having Photon in a future MCU movie, but man, I’m so not into Disney’s decision to keep forcing kids into these movies. I had the same issue with Shane Black’s Iron Man 3 -- still my least favorite MCU movie -- and at least Akira and Azari Akbar, who played the younger Monica, were better than the kid teamed with Downey for that movie.

I just didn’t get the point of Annette Bening’s character at all, and I didn’t think she brought much to the story at all. Sure, I can understand her place in the story but she was given the name of a character that I thought was played by Jude Law, and it just made things confusing

That brings us to the overuse of nostalgia to keep showing how the movie takes place in the ‘90s. Boden and Fleck absolutely go overboard with it, not just showing locations like a Blockbuster Video or making references but every song is from the ‘90s and not all of them work for the film. I had the same issue with last year’s Bumblebee, because while I loved the music in the ‘80s and ‘90s, I felt that both movies were deliberately trying to win points by using popular songs. For instance, having a scene with Bening dancing to Nirvana’s “Come As You Are” served little purpose, and the use of No Doubt’s “Just A Girl” during one of Captain Marvel’s fights was so obvious that it hurt the scene more than helped. I feel like things like this will have to be blamed on what James Gunn did in the Guardians of the Galaxy movies, but in those cases, he found really interesting and often

The opening scenes in Hala and the other planet basically looked like so many other Marvel movies as well. Those scenes could have just as easily been in one of the Thor or Guardians of the Galaxy movies, and it makes me feel like Marvel’s design and art team is starting to get burnt out. Marvel really needs to make a few movies that look vastly different from what we’ve seen before, because at this point, the criticism that all of Marvel’s movies look the same is starting to be very true.

Most of the visual FX were decent, but seeing a younger Samuel Jackson/Nick Fury was a bit disconcerting at first since CG is used to make him look younger for the entire film. Also, the Skrulls, whether they’re created using make-up or CG or a combination of both, look a little cheesy compared to, say, Josh Brolin’s Thanos. Stuff like that really takes away from things like Mendelsohn’s performance when he’s in Skrull form.

I was pretty excited that Lee Pace’s Ronan the Accuser and Djimon Hounsou’s Korath from Guardians of the Galaxy were included in the story, but they had so little to do and added so little to the story, same with Gemma Chan’s Minerva.

I also didn’t need to be hit over the head with the movie’s Social Justice Warrior agenda about how women can do anything and that they shouldn’t be underestimated. DUH. See, kids, us grown-ups have known that for many, many decades, and we certainly don’t need a Marvel movie to teach us important life lessons, thank you very much. This just adds to my feelings like these MCU movies are trying to drive home messages rather than just be escapist entertainment.

What I Was Ambivalent About But Feel It’s Worth Mentioning Anyway:

It was really hard to tell if the humor in the movie worked, because there was a guy near me, who was just laughing so hard and loud at every single line regardless of how funny or not it was. Oddly, I had this exact same problem when I saw Bumblebee, too, and it’s why I often refer to fanboys as “rubes” because they will laugh at just about everything.

I also didn’t feel the sound was decent enough in my screening to have an opinion on the score, which is usually a big deal for me.

Something I Loved (That Might Be Considered a Minor Spoiler) But That Kept Me from Hating the Movie:

One of the initial issues I had with the idea of making a Captain Marvel movie was that I didn’t think even Marvel Studios could create an origin story out of the mangled mess that is the character in the comics. I mean, there was another Captain Marvel aka Mar-Vell who had Nega-Bands that let him change into this perennial Marvel sidekick named Rick Jones, and Ms. Marvel’s origins came out of air force pilot Carol Danvers getting a blood transfusion from Mar-Vell. She then went on to a number of different guises and monikers over the years, and I knew that there was no way to cover everything.

That said, I was really impressed with how the filmmakers broke away from the comics in a big way and to the point where there lots of twists and surprises in terms of which characters were good and which were bad. In other words, more than any other MCU movie, Captain Marvel plays with the grey area between good and evil which exists in the real world. That’s something that just isn’t done very much in this day and age, especially in movies, so delivering so many surprises was my favorite thing about the movie.

Basically, Captain Marvel ends up somewhere in the range of the first Ant-Man movie in my book, although I’ve already been liking the movie more as I’ve thought about it, so it might get another viewing very soon. I definitely liked the characters in the movie more than I did the ones in Black Panther, and I think Carol Danvers/Captain Marvel is going to be more than a worthy addition to the Avengers. I wish her introduction to the MCU was handled a bit better, but in my mind, Captain Marvel does the job it was meant to do, and I can understand how some people might like it more than others.

Rating: 7/10

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magickalsimplicity · 7 years

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Introduction to Magick

Magick is the Science and Art of causing Change to occur in conformity with Will. — Aleister Crowley1 Magick is the art of causing changes in consciousness in conformity with the Will “– Dion Fortune We will confine ourselves to an extension of a well-known definition by Aleister Crowley and state that, “Magic is the Science and Art of causing Change, on a material as well as a spiritual level, to occur in conformity with Will by altered states of consciousness. — Frater U.: D.:, Secrets of Western Sex Magic A magical act may be defined as causing reality to conform to will. — Phil Hine, “Undoing Yourself with Chaos Magic,” Rebels and Devils Magick is just the art of changing the focus of consciousness at will. — Robert Anton Wilson, The Earth Will Shake Sorcery: the systematic cultivation of enhanced consciousness or non-ordinary awareness & its deployment in the world of deeds & objects to bring about desired results. — Hakim Bey, T.A.Z. Real magick is not merely an assortment of skills and techniques. It’s more like an open minded attitude, a blend of interest and dedication, which allows each honest mage to observe, to learn, to adapt, and to invent unique ways of changing identity and reality from within. — Jan Fries, Visual Magick Magic is a set of techniques and approaches which can be used to extend the limits of Achievable Reality. Our sense of Achievable Reality is the limitations which we believe bind us into a narrow range of actions and successes – what we believe to be possible for us at any one time. In this context, the purpose of magic is to simultaneously explore those boundaries and attempt to push them back – to widen the ‘sphere’ of possible action. — Phil Hine, Condensed Chaos Magic is the Highest, most Absolute, and most Divine Knowledge of Natural Philosophy, advanced in its works and wonderful operations by a right understanding of the inward and occult virtue of things; so that true Agents being applied to proper Patients, strange and admirable effects will thereby be produced. Whence magicians are profound and diligent searchers into Nature; they, because of their skill, know how to anticipate an effect, the which to the vulgar shall seem to be a miracle. — The Goetia of the Lemegeton of King Solomon. Courage is the criterion of belief. To back one horse and fancy another means willing one thing and believing another. Magic (faith) is simply a means of unifying Desire and Belief. The subconscious mind is employed to create your belief and unite it to a real desire. — Austin Osman Spare, Two Tracts on Cartomancy Causing change by directing energy with one’s will. — Kerr Cuhulain, Full Contact Magick Everything works by magick; science represents a small domain of magick where coincidences have a relatively high probability of occurrence. Half of the skills in magick consist of identifying probabilities worth enhancing… Magick will not free itself from occultism until we have strangled the last astrologer with the guts of the last spiritual master. — Peter Carroll, PsyberMagick: Advanced Ideas in Chaos Magick Magic is not necromanteia – a raising of dead material substances endowed with an imagined life – but a psychological branch of science, dealing with the sympathetic effects of stones, drugs, herbs, and living substances upon the imaginative and reflective faculties – and leading to ever new glimpses of the world of wonders around us, ranking it in due order of phenomena and illustrating the beneficence of The Great Architect of the Universe. — Kenneth R. H. Mackenzie The change in situations or events in accordance with one’s will, which would, using normally accepted methods, be unchangeable. — Anton Szandor LaVey, The Satanic Bible Magic is the socially unauthorized use of the will and imagination to partake in the powers of the universe. — S. Jason Black & Christopher S. Hyatt, Pacts With the Devil: A Chronicle of Sex, Blasphemy and Liberation The true practice of magic depends on the legitimacy of the individual human will. The magician wills something to occur which under ordinary circumstances would not occur, and thereby demonstrates the reality of his or her own individuality. Magicians make the world dance according to their tunes, religionists seek to find the tune of the world and have it teach them how to dance. — Crystal Dawn and Stephen Flowers, Carnal Alchemy Unless a man be born a magician, and God have destined him even from his birth to the work, so that spirits do willingly come of their own accord – which doth happen to few – a man must use only of those things herein set down, or written in our other books of occult philosophy, as means to fix the mind upon the work to be done; for it is in the power of the mind itself that spirits do come and go, and magical works are done, and all things in nature are but as uses to induce the will to rest upon the point desired. — Cornelius Agrippa Magick is the art of belief. — ludrikos muttleyos, on chaoskaos I honestly can’t conceive of why anyone would want to ‘make’ magick into ‘anything’ […] [d]on’t attempt to put it into static terms. Use it an mutate it. At least I see people debating it, which assures me that the idea itself isn’t losing all of it’s transient nature. Part of the divine mystique that shrouds the essence of magick is the fact that it is unexplainable and undefinable – magick transcends reason, duh. Reason and time […] magick transcends LOGIC. (Discordianism, anyone? Fnord.) Logic, is also a workable paradigm, but not a necessity to understanding or comprehending a concept. There are plenty of things in life not worth explaining in words. There are plenty of ideas one can procure to realise through self-discovery and learning that no one can represent effectively with words – non-verbal uinderstanding. ‘Intuition’ and ‘gut’ comes to mind as being one of those things. Yes, apparently idiots -are- still trying to make magick into a science — but idiots are also trying to confine it as an ‘art’ as well. — triskele, on the zee-list Magic is the most useful too for bending the odds to our favour in an given circumstance, but does not go beyond the scope of being a tool concurrently aiding your mundane efforts. — Joshua Wetzel, The Paradigmal Pirate: Liber Lll And Liber Ventum Magick is the practice of imposing one’s will upon reality in order to create change. The changes created by magick can take place in the outside world, but the most potent changes occur inside the self – changing attitudes, expanding abilities, pushing accepted limits – all through the exercise of willpower. — Michelle Belanger, Psychic Dreamwalking: Explorations at the Edge of Self Magick…may be defined as the process of projecting psychic energy into physical reality where it can then take shape as a spirit. The higher spirits, such as angels, derive from superconsciousness, the oversoul in which the mind exists as a part, whereas the lower spirits, such as demons, derive from subconsciousness, the repressed fears and traumatic experiences of the practitioner. — Frater W.I.T., Enochian Initiation: A Thelemite’s Magical Journey into the Ultimate Transcendence Magic is a psychological art form not a belief system (unless, of course you consider the concept of ’cause and effect’ to be a belief system). — Lon Milo DuQuette, The Key to Solomon’s Key [R]eal magic is attuning your spirit and intention with the holon of the universe by gaining a deeper awareness of its parts. — Clea Danaan, Sacred Land Magic is a set of techniques (skills which you can develop) which allow you to create a change in the world around you and yourself by means that are not understood by scientists, religionists, or psychologists. — Nicholas Graham, The Four Powers Magick may be described as a system of communication, a language used exclusively between the conscious (the logical mind) and the subconscious (the thinking mind). During the dialogue, the magician’s objective is to use his logical mind to convince the thinking mind to reveal a method by which to directly access the superconsciousness, the higher mind…the Holy Guardian Angel. — Gerald del Campo, The Heretic’s Guide to Thelema Magick provides the tools to accomplish two things: First is to “know thyself” — to use techniques like journaling, meditation, ritual, and invocation to identify your personal strengths and successes – and thereby discover your true Will. The second is to use the same tools to accomplish your Will. — Richard Kaczynski, The Weiser Concise Guide to Aleister Crowley Magic is a science that differs from the so-called positive sciences due to the psychic and spiritual factors, which it implies just as well for the object as for the subject of the operative act. Magic is never either white or black; but it can be benefic or malefic, according to the purpose for which one makes use of it. Magic is a weapon, and like all weapons, one can make use of It for the good or ill of oneself or another – but because it is powerful, it is obviously dangerous in unskillful hands. — Maria de Naglowska, in the Preface to Paschal Beverly Randolph’s Magia Sexualis My definition of magic is that it’s a ritual or meditation that enables individuals to move along their spiritual path towards God. It’s the goal of all humans to find God and to be present with him. Magic is a gradual process and a development of one’s spiritual nature to become attuned to God. This movement toward God will continue to build in strength until the goal of reaching cosmic consciousness and oneness with God is finally attained in its fullest expression. — John DeSalvo, The Lost Art of Enochian Magic8

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