#scott does suck

[immoralfag]

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#scott pilgrim #scott pilgram vs the world #scott pilgram takes off #spto #hilarious thing to say #scott does suck

[safyresky]

I refuse to believe Scott has a sister. That man REEKS of only child energy. REEKS.

#dani speaks #i have OTHER THOUGHTS ABOUT LAST WEEK'S EPISODE #more at 10 #but i have been thinking about this all day #he has a SISTER??? #NO WAY HE DOES! NO WAY! #REEKS OF ONLY CHILD ENERGY. REEKS! #derogatory btw. not to be confused with only child energy affectionate #i know plenty of only child people who are so fucking cool #and plenty who have HELLA scott vibes. they #. how do you say. SUCK #the santa clause #the santa clauses #tscs

[johnnyhatesducks]

Dwight took this photo

#michael scott #michael gary scott #michael scott fanart #the office #the office us #the office fanart #steve carell #salesman does his work liying on bed like schoolgirl #i lovee him #he sucks but i love him #he has loser energy #my art 👽

[widevibratobitch]

Red Pill Misogyny But Make It Funny: The Opera my beloved <333

#wanted to post the 'dammi un bacio mio tesoro' part but this spotify recording doesnt separate it from the rest of the finale booo #anyway. to me the message of this opera is 'MONOGAMY SUCKS and a little incest in your polycule never hurt nobody' #the racism is the least of this opera's problems cause unlike in zauberflöte this one does it in a very hmmm #michael scott-ish way?? #as in. 'these characters think doing a goofy cosplay of another culture is the funniest shit ever but are also explicitly stupid as fuck' #yes i know. cool motive - still racism. #our local opera house changed the 'valacchi' to 'polacchi' tho and that was the funniest shit ever to me lol #now in my perfect cosi fan tutte production that lives in my head they are dress up as the Polish nobility in the baroque era #cause my god did those mfs look goofy lol #anyway. to me all four of them fuck in the end so its cool. despina pegs don alfonso too. #così fan tutte #the music in this opera is fucking sublime tho #and im so fucking mad mozart died before he managed to go further in this direction and explore a little more #the ensembles. my GOD the ensembles #mozart #opera tag #cosi fan tutte

[boo-cool-robot]

guy who’s terrible at sucking dick but he had a bad childhood, but you don’t have to grade on a curve to avoid making him sad because he’s used to critique as a normalized part of his life and would thank you for the feedback, but not in a healthy way (which makes YOU sad) 

#version of lrb that you CAN tag with scott summers #I do think scott gets better at sucking dick! many things happen in his life. #to the x men then! who do not die the old fashioned way #scott summers does not have a nice day #nsft text

[shredsandpatches]

probably shouldn't be reading about Doctor Faustus and religious trauma at 1 am but here's some good quotes: the top one is from top from Mark James Richard Scott, "'That’s hard': Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus and the Trauma of Reprobation" (Early Theatre 23.2, 9-20) and the bottom one is from David Bevington's intro to the play in the Norton Anthology of Renaissance Drama.

#doctor faustus #hot faust summer #i studied the play with bevington as a spiritually struggling 22-year-old #his empathetic approach to it was really meaningful to me #the scott article basically argues #marlowe's play seems to be set in a calvinist universe but from the perspective that that sucks #and that maybe some people just being left out of salvation makes sense from the perspective of god #but makes no sense at all on the ground #so the other point is that the play offered people an opportunity to sort of confront their own doubts in a safe environment #marlowe's faustus doesn't really do much that's all that bad in terms of his interactions with the world #it's entirely about his lack of faith #he doesn't have it because he was never given the capacity for it #(contends this piece anyway) #like he's absolutely an arrogant shit with a juvenile sense of humor but #his desire for power is much more expansive than the things he actually does with it when he has it #he does not create the level of collateral damage that goethe's does #and the feeling of 'what if my emptiness and lack of faith is a sign that god has rejected me before i was even born' is sheer horror #and one i have experienced #anyway i get you johann buddy

[kewlgayroommate]

when I tell you they make me weak in the knees.

#scott going through it and wallace is like shh bby im making bacon #its feels bad right now but trust after this bacon made with all my love for you its gonna bet better #but seriously i love that he just is there to try and help him cheer up #and he's so honest and straight forward about it #'everything does not suck' the little things really do matter #musings. // i need another drink for this

[orchidbreezefc]

thats not even the worst part of spto. it has fuckin. gideon/julie.

lmao what on earth. if you'd asked me to guess what the other half of this notification said, this is not what i would have come up with

i don't actually hate it on principle though?? that actually sounds potentially REALLY funny to me. your indication is that it sucks though so maybe i'll dislike the execution. either way like. who thought this was necessary. lmaoooooo

#i'll report back #im seeing about watching w a friend so #spto spoilers // #scott pilgrim // #like does she have him whipped. because that would be absolutely hilarious #just julie like yeah ive got this lame boyfriend he sucks but he's really eager to please so it's whatever #and then the boyfriend is Gideon Fucking Graves #i think that's the best case. or he's trying to make her one of his nendo figurines and she's like. no #maybe a bst unstoppable sleazebag immovable bitch situation #equals in being insufferable human beings and just having this battle of wills #it's possible i could accept them just being bitches at everyone else together but that does sound kinda lame

[arg0t]

why does kim just like, not matter in takes off., her epilogue scene is the video store closing down thats barely even tangentially anything.

#i love or hate scott pilgrim takes off #its really good and it sucks #and it has really great insight of characters and does rampant bad stupid decisions #its really pretty and theres parts that are done super lazy too

[wellnoe]

rachel is like: you are married and you have retired (and these things are linked), and therefore you have no say in what people do or do not wear as costumes bc you are not on the team. and maddy thinks this is right and makes sense and scott still very much wants to have input on how jean’s memory is treated and used, which i think is where he’s coming at this from.

#it ties into the whole thing where i think scott feels expected to like. move on completely and stop being attached to jean's memory #which is where you also get stuff like x-factor 1 where he and maddy talk about how he still has dreams about jean. which yknow. #that sucks for them i guess #w.me #i also think scott does not like the idea that him being married is linked to him retiring. he still wants to be here.

[seawitchkaraoke]

very quietly whispering: i am glad dream is quitting mcc

#like i am sure he's a totally normal nice dude or whatever #but everytime he was in the event scott trended on twitter afterwards and got death threads and all that so............. #plus the whole complaining about ppl cheating and then blatantly cheating himself #and then still complaining that the event was unfair bc his cheating backfired and he actually did worse than he would have without it #i.... i don't like him i think he and his fans are kinda toxic and i like the atmosphere surrounding the mccs he's not in a lot more #so i am not sad to see him go #does suck for his fans who enjoyed watching his povs though of course #mcc

[haunt4haunt]

i am still obsessed with the superhero dichotomy my lovely sister theo came up. all superheroes are either guys who rock or guys who suck (guy being gender neutral here of course).

the best example to give while explaining this is batman and superman. batman is a guy who sucks, while superman is a guy who rocks. some characters have arcs where they go from one to the other (spider-man is often a guy who sucks who has to become a guy who rocks in order to save the day), while others remain static with a few exceptions sprinkled in over the years. it’s my favorite thing in the world it really is

#i love categories i love. sorting shit. i love lists. #matt is an easy one. won’t even say it. i go back and forth with scott though #like he does kind of suck but he rocks… To Me…

[antvnger]

Aaaw bummer. I’m sorry, Anon. Have you taken something like a muscle relaxer or something? Try to get some rest too when you can. Having your back hurt can make everything harder to do than it really is.

I hope you feel better soon, Anon.

#ask scott lang #scott lang #ant-man #anon asks #ooh that really does suck #feel better soon #ant man #antman

[theheightofdishonor]

i want so badly to write meta about the beast of gavaudan and the how the whole beast/mason thing compares to previous seasons like jackson in s2 and void stiles and berserker scott but s5b is inarguably my weakest point of the entire show. Even during my rewatch, i didn't watch all of it because valack and the beast's origins are both soo boring that i skipped everything to do with them. Also unlike s3 and s5a, i very very rarely rewatch 5b so i can't even conjure the necessary information off the top of my head. all of which is so annoying.

like i could do soo much with mason. the corruption of goodness aspect and scott, the reveal unfolding almost exactly like void stiles which of itself is somewhat similar to jackson,actually i have so much to say on how jackson is brought out of his, for lack of a better word,possession vs mason, ooh comparisons between mason, jackson and scott trying to escape peter's control in s1, the aspect of violation and recovery (which i'd want to use scott as a comparison but he got NOTHING after the berserker which is so fucking unfair when stiles got 2 goddamn seasons of a gorgeously built self destruction arc after the nogitsune [admittidly scott also gets a gorgeous 2 seasons worth of character struggles out of the nogitsune but it wasn't HIS possession so i'm disregarding it--really though s4 scott as a product of s3 trauma is done so well sometimes, almost makes the nonsensical portions worth it] ) so instead stiles's post nogitsune arc would work ig.

i'm almost tempted to actually write half that up in proper posts anyway but even if nobody else knew i was talking out of my ass with only the vaguest recollections of the season to back it up, I'd know and it'd bug me for the rest of eternity.

#s5b sucks ass #literally least favourite season #BUT MASON #a fun thing about teen wolf is that it really does force it's main cast to struggle with their respective powers so much #control of self is such a huge thing #that you can really compare any one character to each other #malia vs scott for example #or malia vs kira #the unknowing/unwilling possession thing is also very often used #and it's great fun #especially so when its mason love of my life light of my soul most gorgeous thing on screen #mason hewitt #teen wolf #meta #but in a go back to way #beast of gavaudan #idc why im tagging that when im unlikely to search for it but on the off chance i remember to spell it

[crypto-botany]

Smajor summoning a storm to cause ~10 players to dc so they have an excuse to restart ace race because Dream won (in color!!!)

#personally I believe that the redo was fair and justified. it affected such a large number of players that the results would´ve been skewed #especially in a game like ace race where losing just a few seconds can put you down a number of places (like fruit) #dream has a right to be frustrated at redoing the game. but from what ive watched from his vod he doesnt let it go #and he doesnt understand (or care to understand) the reasoning behind the decision. #as someone who´s really competative and also has a hard time letting losses go I somewhat sympathize with him #but his behaviour still leaves a sour taste in my mouth. the ´jokes´ during hitw. picking at the mods. ect #(although I will say I thought his ´technical difficulties´ was funny. i love mcc shenanigans) #it sucked watching scott´s pov where he makes a joke about being called slurs no matter which decision he made #and realizing that he actually really does have to go through this #(i know that dream is not directly responsible for his audience´s reactions. #but i think he needs to understand that a group of them will act on what he says. and because his fanbase is large so is that group) #i try to avoid twitter every mcc because everything has become so polarized. especially around dream. like buildmart... #(which is a whole other post in itself) #sorry this turned into a rant lol

[demilypyro]

So I've seen a few too many people on twitter talking about The Kiss Scene from the new Scott Pilgrim anime. People saying it's fetishistic and indulgent, people calling it male gazey, etc. And while the kiss itself is certainly a bit exaggerated, I felt like writing a bit about why I disagree, and why context is important, like it always is. But it basically turned into an extended analysis on the metatextual treatment of Roxie Richter. So bear with me. It's a long post.

What really matters about this scene is not the kiss itself, but what precedes it. Not even just the fight scene just before it, but what precedes the whole anime series, really. And that's the Scott Pilgrim comic book, and the live action movie. Because in both, Roxie is a punchline.

She's a joke. Her character starts and ends with "one of the exes is actually a girl, I bet you didn't expect that." Jokes are made about Ramona's latent bisexuality, the movie especially treating it as funny and absurd, and her validity as a romantic interest is entirely written off by Ramona as being "just a phase." There's a fight scene, she's defeated by a man giving her an orgasm which implicitly calls her sexuality into question (come on), and the movie just moves on. It sucks. It really, really sucks.

The comic fares a little better. It never veers into outright homophobia like the movie does, and while the line about Ramona having gone through a phase remains, Roxie actually gets one over on Scott when Ramona briefly gets back with Roxie. But Roxie is still only barely a character. Like all the other evil exes, she's just a stepping stone towards the male protagonist's development. She barely even gets any screentime before she's defeated by Scott's "power of love." But Roxie stands out, since she's the only villain who is queer, or at least had been confirmed queer at that point (hi Todd). In a series that champions multiple gay men in the supporting cast, the single undeniable lesbian in the story is a villain. She's labeled as evil, made fun of, pushed aside in favor of the men, and then discarded. Her screentime was never about her, or her feelings for Ramona. It was about the straight, male protagonist needing to overcome her. And that was Roxie Richter. An unfortunate victim of the 2010s.

Fast forward to current year, and the new anime series is announced. Everybody sits down to watch the new series expecting another retelling of the same story, and.... hang on, that straight male protagonist I mentioned just died in the first episode. And now it's humanizing the villains from the original story. And there's Roxie, introduced alongside the other evil exes in the second episode, and she's being played entirely straight, without a punchline in sight. No jokes are made about her gender, no questions are made of her validity as one of Ramona's romantic interests. The narrative considers her important. In one episode, she already gets more respect than she did in either of the previous iterations of Scott Pilgrim. And this isn't even her focus episode yet... which happens to be the very next one.

The anime series goes to great lengths to flesh out the original story's villains and to have Ramona reconcile with them. And I don't think it's a coincidence that Roxie gets to go first. While Matthew Patel gets his development in episode 2, Roxie is the first to directly confront Ramona, now our main protagonist. This is notable too because it's the only time the exes are encountered out of order. Roxie is supposed to be number 4, but she's first in line, and later on you realize that she's the only one who's out of sequence. She's the one who sets the precedent for the villains being redeemed. She's the most important character for Ramona to reconcile with.

What follows is probably the most extensive, elaborate 1 on 1 fight scene in the whole show. Roxie fights like a wounded animal, her motions are desperate and pained. Ramona can only barely fight back against her onslaught. Different set-pieces fly by at breakneck speed as Roxie relentlessly lays her feelings at Ramona's feet through her attacks and her distraught shouts. And unlike the comic or the movie, Ramona acknowledges them, and sincerely apologizes. And the two end up just laying there, exhausted, reminiscing about when they were together.

Only after this, after all of this, does the kiss scene happen. Roxie has been vindicated, she has reconciled with the person who hurt her, the narrative has deemed that her anger is justified and has redeemed her character. And she gets her victory lap by making the nearest other hot girl question her heterosexuality, sharing a sloppy kiss with her as the music triumphantly crescendos.

It's... a little self-congratulatory, honestly. But it's good. It's redemption for a character who had been mistreated for over a decade. And she punctuates the moment by being very, very gay where everyone can see it, no men anywhere in sight. Because this is her moment. And then she leaves the plot, on her own accord this time, while humming the hampster dance. What a legend. How could anything be wrong with this.

#scott pilgrim #spto #scott pilgrim takes off #roxie richter #roxanne richter #scott pilgrim spoilers #spto spoilers