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bedlamsbard · 1 year

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the thing that makes me crazy about the “Avengers...assemble” line in Endgame (and later the “on this spot the Avengers first assembled” plaque in Hawkeye) is that it has literally zero context or meaning in the MCU, because it’s a comics line! it’s a comics line that they didn’t transfer over to the MCU! it is never previously uttered in a single Marvel movie! (AoU specifically makes the crack of ending the movie before Steve can say it.) It was used in the marketing for The Avengers (which is Avengers Assemble in some countries, though not the U.S.), but it is never used by a single character in the actual movies, so it has no significance in-universe. which also means it has no significance for audience members who aren’t aware it’s a comics thing. if you don’t have any context for it, it’s a pretty nonsensical battle cry! gah.

#that's not how this works #that's not how any of this works #why am I only putting my unhinged ranting on tumblr instead of the actual thoughtful meta I usually do on twitter #bedlam watches the mcu #someone ask me about howard or peggy

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ultramarine316 · 3 months

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Not voting because neither party is good enough is a lot like when Americans who were mad that France declined to help us invade Iraq went out and bought French wine just so that they could film themselves dumping it down a sewer drain, in that they are both really fucking stupid things to do.

#politics #american politics #voting #not voting #that's counterproductive #you have misunderstood the incentives at play #that's not how a boycott works #that's not how any of this works

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jasonsthunderthighs · 10 months

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This happened a few days ago, but I'm still pissed off bout it.

I've told this to a few people and they didn't think I was over exaggeratin even though I feel like an absolute fuckin asshole cause of it.

My roommate, for the third time, has barged into my room WITHOUT knockin to see if I'm in there.

One time, I understand that it can be a mistake.

Second time, ok, dude, what the fuck? (I was also asleep durin this time as well as the first time cause of depression)

Third time, NOW it's just gettin really, really annoyin.

I could've been naked, changin or whatever and she'd could've seen me in a vulnerable position of distress cause of my bipolar. (Which, at THAT point, DON'T fuckin try to talk to me cause of it.)

I told her this after the third time to fuckin KNOCK BEFORE ENTERIN ANYONE'S ROOM.

She HATED it when her siblings did that to her, WHY do that to me?

Her reasonin?

“I wanted to know if you were home.”

THAT'S NO FUCKIN REASON TO GO INTO MY DAMN ROOM WITHOUT KNOCKIN

I lock my door now when I'm home and I shouldn't be doin that.

We're fuckin adults (she's 24 bout to be 25 in October and I'm goin to be 26 next month) and it should be fuckin courtesy to knock before enterin or even text me (which yes, I said in the upper paragraph that I don't want to be talk to if I'm goin through a mental breakdown or I just don't want to talk at all, but my point STILL fuckin stands.) OR AT LEAST SOMETHIN TO NOT TREAT ME LIKE THIS WHEN I SHOULDN'T BE FUCKIN LOCKIN MY DOOR AT NIGHT CAUSE SHE MIGHT BARGE IN AGAIN.

I don't know anymore. I'm just goin on and on again with my rant. I'm just fuckin tired.

#THEN SHE SAID THAT IT'S BEST TO MOVE IN DIFFERENT PLACES WHEN I CAN'T AFFORD TO LIVE BY MYSELF #AND I HAVE SO MUCH MORE SHIT TO MOVE THAN SHE FUCKIN DOES #SHE FUCKIN TOLD ME THAT SHE WAS HOPIN I'D MAKE FRIENDS SO I CAN MOVE IN WITH ‘EM TO MAKE IT EASIER FOR ME #THAT'S NOT HOW THIS WORKS #THAT'S NOT HOW ANY OF THIS WORKS #I TOLD HER THAT TOO #UGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH #sorry for the rant in the tags #sorry for the long ramble #rant #G rants #Long post #Not DC #Not DC related #personal #personal post #I need to shut up #shut up G #fuck my life

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seaalgae · 5 months

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not to again have an opinion on the latest talking point but like. the hays code? is that the thing fanfiction writers are scared of now? the film code that fell out of favor in the early 60s and was replaced a couple years before fucking woodstock?

#ramblerambleramble #i would buy into all these 'know your history' type arguments more #if it wasn't near guaranteed that anyone saying it was using it in bad faith #that's not knowing history that's making up a boogeyman #sorry but the kids who don't yet have media literacy aren't actually agents of a film rating system #least of all one that was probably shelved before their parents were even born #that's not how any of this works

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crazycatsiren · 1 year

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And this just in today, folks.

If you mention women you're being transphobic. If you talk about issues that affect women (which apply to you personally) you're being transphobic.

The word "women" is now transphobic apparently, y'all.

#performative activism #social justice #that's not how any of this works #radfems do not even fucking think about touching this #intersectional feminism #misogyny

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cleverthylacine · 1 year

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I swear some people do not understand the difference between “not forbidden” and “mandatory”.

There’s a post going around about the Harkness Test.

The Harkness Test (named after Jack Harkness, natch) is a series of questions to help you figure out whether it is possible to have ethical, consensual sex with a member of another species.

Basically, for interspecies sex to be ethical, the following criteria have to be met:

1) All parties concerned must be sapient--capable of thinking the question through. I am not sure “of human intelligence” is the right wording because humans vary widely in intelligence, and many people with intellectual disabilities enjoy sex--but everyone has to be smart enough to know and understand what’s going on and the risks they might be taking.

2) All parties must be able to communicate with each other, so that they can give affirmative consent and revoke consent if they want to stop.

3) All parties must be adults.

(I would also add personally that for consent to be freely given, neither party should be holding the other party captive: all parties must be able to take their stuff and go home without penalty because otherwise that’s ‘consent’ under duress, which isn’t consent.)

If these criteria are met, all parties are willing, they all know what they’re doing, and they have the ability to revoke consent and/or safeword if needed. No bestiality (that’s fucking someone who is not of human intelligence), no child molestation, just consenting adults.

Anyhow, several people in the discussion believe that Scooby-Doo, or Perry the Platypus, would pass the Harkness test, because they don’t talk like humans do, but they are capable of clear communication regarding their emotional state and willingness to continue with the activity.

I do not really know enough about Scooby-Doo to have an informed opinion. I think you’d have to understand how Perry does communicate for it to be ethical with Perry, and that you’d have to be able to understand it well enough to understand that you are being asked to stop when your brain is flooded with sex chemicals. But probably some people do. I’m not attracted to Perry.

Or Scooby-Doo.

I don’t think anyone in that conversation actually wants to fuck Scooby-Doo, except for the one person who actually said they want to fuck Scooby-Doo, which may or may not have been a case of “taking the piss”.

But suddenly all these people started complaining that we were calling them puritans or antis or whatever for...

not wanting to fuck Scooby-Doo.

Brain go splodey.

The #1 rule of consent is to not make people do things you know they don’t want to do. It would not be ethical for Scooby-Doo to fuck you if you don’t want to fuck Scooby-Doo, and my guess is that most of the people who are reading this do not want to fuck Scooby-Doo. (If you do, you do you, and do Scooby-Doo--I don’t care. That is not my circus and you are not my flying monkeys.)

Where does this come from?

When did we lose the distinction between “permissible”, “encouraged” and “obligatory?”

Most of us are not sexually attracted to everyone we know who is of an acceptable age, species or gender presentation. I am pansexual but there are plenty of people I don’t want to fuck. Nobody HAS to fuck anyone.

#everything not forbidden is compulsory -- no #that's WRONG #that's not how this works #that's not how any of this works #do not fuck people that you do not want to fuck #because nobody will be happy!

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ikari-shinsei · 11 months

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