the uniquely tumblr experience of starting to see a username around that's always attached to takes that piss you off a bit but ignoring it until you learn what their @ used to be three blogs seven urls and six years ago and you have a visceral oh it's that fucker reaction
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another on my list of favorite things about stede is that he's catty and bitchy and incredibly passive aggressive! this one i have so many thoughts about because i love that stede is incredibly flawed as a person; his cattiness and passive aggression are both a plus and a minus, as so many excellent character traits should be.
stede understands the aristocratic social settings of his time, his place - he may not be able to win them, but he understands them, he knows how to move in that world, he's just never been the person who could be liked and popular - but he UNDERSTANDS that world. He understands passive aggression and wields it like a master, sword and shield, aggressor and defender and sometimes coward, and like, as someone who hates passive aggression, i DO love when stede is being bitchy and catty because it's him having some backbone - i even love when he's doing it to the wrong people, because it shows where he stands and the room he has to grow.
when stede makes that fabulously bitchy little "trouble in paradise" remark, he knows that he's remarking on the underlying tension in ed and izzy's dynamic. when he's masterfully playing those french assholes, he's manipulating the social setting to his advantage, for his ends. even in episode 8, when he passive aggressively says that oh he's fine with his furniture being destroyed - he knows what he's doing! he's catty and bitchy and he's not naive and foolish and unable to understand communication, unable to converse. stede is often emotionally withholding and he doesn't necessarily understand himself or let others easily perceive him, but he's actually pretty good at the subtext. he lives in the subtext, communicates in it.
even in that bitchy moment to mary, where he says he forgives her for sleeping with doug - which he's not sincere about, he's passive aggressive there as he's been about other things throughout that episode (though even if it was sincere it would be gross and patronizing because you don't get to feel upset about that stede! you're the one who walked out!) - i both love and hate it. love it because god that's stede alright once again wielding passive aggression like a master, hate it because stede, buddy, pal, this is not a case where you're owed an apology, actually, this is not episode 8 where you want to say you hated that thing (and you're right to hate that thing) but you don't want to directly ask. this is the inverse of that, where you're upset about something to someone you don't have a right to be upset about -
but it's still good to see? because even if he's fucking it up, at least he's USING HIS WORDS. poorly, sure, but they aren't locked in his head.
and yes obviously i was with mary when she tried to kill him and glad when she failed. but also. it was a wonderfully bitchy little moment.
i hope that in season 2 we see more of catty and bitchy stede, but that its directed at the right people. i want to see him bitchy at izzy. i want to see him bitchy at pirates that disrespect him. i want to see him humble the english with passive aggression.
i want to see him wield his power for my own entertainment.
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MCU stans when the MCU whitewashes a character: the MCU isn’t the comics. Stop acting like the MCU is supposed to be the comics.
MCU stans when the MCU calls itself 616: The MCU is literally an adaptation of the comics it is the same universe and can call itself 616.
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Who tf is this clown?!
I'm not usually bothered enough by website changes to take action, but I could not abide by that creepy little pirate clown plaguing my dashboard uninvited. It's not so much the eerie presence that bothers me, but the intrusiveness of this ad campaign. That being said, I put in a little effort and found a way to massively improve that immovable eyesore by messing with the image url through the "inspect image" option.
The Doctor disapproves of your ham-fisted advertising, @staff
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Always interesting people talk about Miles and his universe in the context of Spiderverse movie, without talking about the complete Disaster his timeline is (1610/Ultimates).
Somewhere, Reed Richards/The Maker is genecrafting an army of Superhumans to Take Over The World, And He Will Win.
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