I am a princess. All girls are.

EMMA. 2020 | dir. Autumn de Wilde

#i promise it’s not a porn (x)

#pacific rim more like TERRIFIC RIM (x)

#this has been and continues to be The Best  #i mean i get if you wanna go platonic bros (ok that’s a lie - i will TRY to get that but like give me time)  #but this is such a thing  #i mean I think what i’m enjoying most about these two is that they get the cutesy infatilised moments when people can be all ‘aww sweaters’  #and you can take it to a piggy backrides and hairbraiding place sure  #and that reads perfectly believable and in character  #while happening at the SAME TIME as this nonsense  #this completely unambiguous 'this would go to a non-pants place if they were alone’ thing  #and those two concepts don’t kind of eclipse the other  #so there’s less danger of mako appearing hypersexualised bc she ALSO gets cute cardigan moments in her room  #and it allows this kind of thing to happen without it being in a genre vaccuum of stereotypes  #you need both character moments and both character dynamics in order for it not to get grotesque  #like both characterisations ARE stereotypes sure but allowing time for BOTH takes it to a place where they both seem more real  #and where a 'sexy sparring’ scene is pretty much a standard in exploitation genres it would be that if this happened in isolation  #but allowing mako a lead-in to this scene and picking up later re: her reactions turns this from  #bowchikawowow same old routine for the same old audience and makes it OH SHIT THEY LIKE EACH OTHER AND WANT TO BANG (x)

hope is a skill

hope is a weapon you are trained to wield

favourite additions

star wars au: padme joins the dark side with anakin.

#i can never stop thinking about just how…EFFICIENT this would have been #like benevolent empress padme amidala #who gets SO MUCH SHIT DONE #let’s the individual planets rule themselves how they see fit #keep all their culture and customs #with just…a few specifications #mandatory literacy standards #welfare programs #enviromental standards #an end to slavery #Everywhere #basically everything she COULDN’T do for the Republic #but now can do effortlessly #because of her evil half-Force husband #who will back up ANYTHING she says

howl pendragon + tags on my gifs

I say, jolly good show, chaps. And did I panic? I think not.

#the comic relief who is genuinely comic  #and who makes the ‘incompetent bufoon’ trope actually work as an endearing quality as originally intended  #well played movie - well played  #john hannah  #WHAT A FOX

#but! BUT!!!#THE GREAT THING ABOUT JONATHAN#IS HE’S NOT INCOMPETENT#he can read ancient Egyptian albeit not as well as his baby sister#he clearly has an interest in archaeology if only for treasure-related reasons#he had to go through intensive schooling to get the sort of permit required#to even have digs of his own#WHICH HE CLEARLY DOES#on a dig down in Thebes#he says and Evie believes him#Jonathan reads from the Book of the Living and he’s an excellent shot with a rifle and is clearly a boxer#Jonathan is SO COMPETENT and SO IMPORTANT#while simultaneously being plucky comic relief without JUST being plucky comic relief#u get me?

Jonathan, like Phryne Fisher, clearly hasn’t taken anything seriously since 1918.

And, I would suspect, for similar reasons.

^^^This. Jonathan being in World War I makes total sense. It’s almost impossible for him not to have been. Given his age and background, he probably volunteered in 1914.  

Of course he’s going to not take anything seriously. Of course he can shoot. The drinking, the skittishness, the recklessness, the sense of ‘keeping your head down’, the scepticism about traditional heroism….

The one with more actual experience of death, carnage and fighting is Jonathan. Not Rick. Not Ardeth Bey. Jonathan.

When Rick says ‘I’ve had worse (situation/odds)’ and Jonathan replies “ Me too”. That’s probably true. 

Drop The Mummy into the real world context and that’s a character who’s going to have seen a lot of his school friends die, along with the myths and tales of heroism they were raised on. Sort of makes the line where Evie’s scolding him for drinking/messing about a lot darker…

Evie: Have you no respect for the dead? Jonathan: Of course I do, but sometimes I’d rather like to join them.

I HAVE SO MANY FEELINGS RIGHT NOW

*record scratch*

Wait a minute. Why is it being assumed that Rick and Ardeth wouldn’t have fought in WWI, as well? Johnathan isn’t that much older than any of them–in fact, there is a good chance that he, Rick, and Ardeth are all of an age. Just because Johnathan’s hair is thinning doesn’t mean he’s a decade older.

It was a LOT easier to lie about your age back in the day. So much easier.

Johnathan is the soldier who fought in WWI and became disillusionsed with pretty much everything except wanting to live (most of the time) and live well–and where is the shame in that? He would have seen some of the darkest shit humanity has to offer, and he kept going. And the thing is, though, archaeological digs at that time were DANGEROUS. Not from curses (usually) but from assholes who would turn up with guns to try and steal anything you discovered. Johnathan never really STOPPED having to deal with dangerous pricks, it was just less dangerous than death raining down from the sky in bomb, bullet, and mustard gas form all the time.

Rick grew up in Egypt as an orphan. What paperwork? He joined the French Foreign Legion, which fought in World War I in some seriously critical battles on the Western Front in Europe. Rick is the soldier who quickly grew disillusioned with everything, but he didn’t know how to stop being a soldier. Johnathan had a career and schooling to fall back on. Rick had guns, the talent of not dying easily, and not much else. When the army finally left him behind because he was literally the only survivor of his last FFL battle, he literally didn’t know what to do. At all. “Looking for a good time” was code for “Please someone give me a fucking purpose.”

Ardeth grew up in the desert. He probably never enlisted…but if you think his people didn’t fight against invading forces during WWI, think again: that region of North Africa was swarming with soldiers on both sides, and they alll tried to claim everything they stumbled over even while in the midst of fighting each other. Ardeth spent his entire life fighting to protect what belonged to him, what belonged to his people, and trying to keep assholes from stealing things that didn’t belong to anyone (for good reason). By the time the war was over, Ardeth was disillisioned in everyone except his own people, and seriously fucking done with stupid idiots who stole in the name of archaeology. He is completely (justifiably) resigned to the worst when Rick the Magic Survivalist returns to Hamunaptra.

This has been another episode of “Actual History adding context and depth to character behavior”

I love when “The Mummy” fandom comes out to play. But it’s even better when the history side of tumblr is also in “The Mummy” fandom.

Every time this post comes around I am compelled to watch The Mummy again.

There is an explicitly nihilistic ‘old soldier’ in the movie too, just to drive home the point.

Winston: “Is it dangerous?”

Rick: “Well, you probably won’t live through it.”

Winston: “By Jove, do you think so?”

That “old soldier” is one element which jars with me. YMMV, of course.

“The Mummy” is set in 1926, so Winston is far too old to have been a pilot in WWI (actor Bernard Fox was 72 at time of filming). He should have been a “young soldier” or more correctly, “young airman” of about Rick or Jonathan’s age.

The script was also a wee bit confused about what he served in…

The British air arm was the Royal Flying Corps (RFC) until 1918, when it became the Royal Air Force (RAF).

His survivor’s guilt and heavy drinking is spot on, though: average aircrew life expectancy was between ten days and three weeks. In “Bloody April” (1917) when superior new German aircraft were introduced before the Allies had anything to match them, average life expectancy dropped to about two days. The RFC lost almost 250 planes during that month, the Imperial German Air Service lost just over 60…

WWI pilots didn’t have parachutes until 1918, and even then Allied pilots NEVER had them: the top brass, who of course didn’t fly, considered they would “impair a pilot’s nerve” to continue fighting.

Pilots who saw combat soon saw the results of that policy when a plane caught fire (gasoline, linen and canvas in a 120 mph draft makes a great barbecue). No parachute left three options: a long jump, a slow roast or the service pistol carried “in case of being forced down in enemy territory”. Seeing that happen, and the thought of experiencing it personally, would make anyone hit the bottle.

The pilot of this German aircraft is having a very bad day final few minutes…

Also, in WWI the only oil that didn’t thicken at altitude was castor oil - it’s where the “Castrol” oil company’s name originated - so aircraft engines were lubricated with that. Breathing the vapour had the same laxative effect as swallowing the stuff, so aircrew fought diarrhoea as well as enemy aircraft, trying to stun their insides with enormous amounts of booze. US ace Eddie Rickenbacker swore by cherry brandy. Pints of it.

Funny thing is that Winston could have been Biggles - not the silly subject of Monty Python skits, but the original character from WWI air-combat stories written for late-adolescents, before they were revised for children with the removal of serious adult elements like alcohol abuse and PTSD.

Biggles in those early stories was like many real-life WWI pilots, a chain-smoking, heavy-drinking young man of about 20, living on his nerves and skating along the edge of a breakdown, whose principal talents were killing the enemy, not being killed himself, and not letting the deaths of his squadron mates affect him. He wasn’t as good at that last one as he thought he was.

Left to right: Major James McCudden, VC, DSO & Bar, MC & Bar, MM, killed in action July 1918, aged 23. Lieutenant Arthur Rhys-Davids DSO, MC & Bar, killed in action October 1917, aged 20. Captain Albert Ball, VC, DSO & Two Bars, MC, killed in action April 1917, aged 20.

The unrevised stories suggest Biggles might well have turned out like Winston. By the time of “The Mummy” he’d have been about 27-28, and looking like this pilot painted by J.C. Leyendecker.

At a guess, that age casting didn’t happen because a young alcoholic pilot with haunted eyes and a death-wish wasn’t as automatically funny as an old alcoholic pilot with a pompous accent and a death-wish, and would have the wrong “tone” for the movie.

I think it says something about the American movie audience of the time. The Mummy was released in 1999. Bush’s disastrous Iraq War wouldn’t start for another couple of years. Americans were used to allowing veterans of WW2 and the Korean War their traumas, but veterans of every conflict since then were treated like their trauma was either unimportant, a joke, or attention seeking. You only have to look at how often “Nam flashbacks” were treated as a punchline, or how the “agent orange” business of the Gulf War was disregard by the rest of society. (It was a concerted propaganda effort by the people in power, of course, both so they could continue justifying imperialist wars and so they wouldn’t have to take care of returning veterans, but that’s a different discussion.)

American audience wouldn’t have known what to think about a young traumatized, alcoholic pilot. It didn’t fit the narrative of old heroes that they had been fed since the end of WW2.

This fandom conversation just gets better every time it makes the rounds.

I agree with the probable motivations for age adjustment of the character. Balancing the worldbuilding and the way the audience will most likely relate at the time any given story hits the public eye seems astoundingly challenging.

Its a little unsettling how 1999 feels a world away right now.

I should do a Mummy homage art at some point…

Winston I believe is a case of the character being much younger than the actor - I can easily see him being in his fifties. And while today fifty is not seen as an “end of life” age and it seems preposterous for a 70 year old (even one who looks as damned decent as Bernard Fox) to play one, for the time period it fits perfectly. This “youthful fifty” is a relatively modern invention, and it definitely was a very different matter before the postwar (II) prosperity (for a very stark example compare Hartnell’s 1st Doctor with Capaldi’s 12th - both actors were roughly the same age during their tenures).  The RFC did have officers born in the 1860′s and later, so while it would have be career military, including air corps (which fits Winston to a T, including his old soldier persona) it is believable that he was an older First World War veteran.  If he was serving for a large enough period before the name change, then yes, it would explain the word salad, especially as an older soldier well used to working under the RFC moniker.   I suspect Ardeth very likely at least peripherally was involved with TE Lawrence’s shenanigans - you can’t tell me the Meiji weren’t keeping a bloody close eye on the Great Arab Revolt, especially since the whiteboy involved was a goddamn archaeologist who had previously been digging around an Egyptian necropolis…

@deadcatwithaflamethrower more history about The Mummy!

More history, and @fluffmugger pointing out that the “Youthful Fifty” years of age is SO VERY NEW, GUYS.

Example: Alec Guiness, in 1975, filmed his role with Harrison, Mark, Carrie, & Co. at the tender age of 57. In today’s terms of fifties, he looks like he’s in his late 70s to early 80s.

Peter Cushing, same year, same film: age 62, looked like a healthy and well-groomed modern era mid-to-late 80s.

Casting Bernard Fox was actually spot-on. The Mummy might’ve gone for comedy, but they didn’t fuck around when it came to acknowledging that all of these characters were PTSD-riddled from at least one major war, and also completely fucking nuts.

If I ever don’t reblog this it’s because I died

#the meet-cute to which all other meet-cute’s aspire  #danielle applies high-velocity apple to suspected horse-thief  #she’s furious! he’s cranky! he’s royal! she’s ‘oh shit’ contrite! he bribes her and bounces!: ROMANCE

#why can’t we just have movies full of our favorite tropes all the time#played completely in earnest and without any sarcasm#LET’S GET US SOME MORE FAKE MARRIED#LET’S GET US SOME MORE ‘THERE’S ONLY ONE BED’#LET’S GET US SOME MORE FOUND FAMILY FOR LONELY PROTAGONISTS#LET’S GET US SOME MORE HEART STOPPING ROMANCE ( @takiki16 )

#another for fucking real#I’m absolutely sure it was teach Anakin something#like letting go of his feelings about slavery#because the jedi seem to be as into the technique of flooding as fucking cesar milan is#for those of you who don’t know:#flooding is as pleasant (and effective pfft) as it sounds#it’s not just exposing a person or animal to a phobia/trigger/negative experience that frightens or angers or otherwise severely affects#but throwing them into it and forcing them to stay in it/experience it/deal with it until they stop fighting it and reacting to it#usually the victim of this extremely harmful and denounced psychological technique stops not because they’ve seen that the thing cannot#harm them anymore but because they’ve psychologically cracked and submitted entirely to the fear/disgust/pain etc#they’re now too damaged to even react to the stimuli and/or situation and/or memory not healed or cured or better in any fucking way.#But they won’t react negatively anymore!#Until they do.#And it’s nasty and violent every time.#So yes totally a Jedi technique I’m sure.(via) 

I’m still wondering if making Anakin part of the Jabba mission wasn’t the biggest dick move of the two. Yes the mission to Zigerria was more traumatic, but at least the purpose of the mission is ostensibly to do what Anakin became a Jedi for, to free slaves. 

With Jabba they’re making him complicit in an alliance with slavers, with the same slavers that held him and his people in bondage. I can’t imagine how much that would have fucked him up.  

Good point, especially since Anakin actually says that exact same thing during the mission.

Honestly, the whole movie is basically a test to see how compliant Anakin can be in the face of things he finds objectionable. Anakin doesn’t want a padawan. Let’s see if we can force him into taking one against his will. Anakin doesn’t think we should ally with hutts and slavers. Let’s make him personally cement the alliance by telling him it’s for the Greater Good. The last, I suspect, was arranged by Sheev to see how far he could bend Anakin’s moral compass and also set up the whole ‘the Jedi are evil’ mentality, but the first was pure Yoda.

Crap I can’t remember exactly what happened. I distinctly remember Palpatine pushing for the alliance when others (can’t remember f it was the Jedi, senators or both) were reluctant, and I can’t remember if he was the one who suggested to send Obi-Wan and Anakin on that mission. 

But in any case, the Council did agree he was a good choice because I remember one of them saying something along the line of his prior experience with the Hutts could be useful (which made me swear at my screen).

And it is totally part of where the Jedi walked right in Palpatine’s hand. They spent 13 years teaching Anakin he should obey order over listening to his own moral compass because it was “for the greater good”. I guess it never occurred to them it might be turned against them one day.

Setting aside moral qualms in favor of the Greater Good of people in power is pretty much the Jedi way.  It’s not just Anakin who does it. In fact, Anakin is one of the few who occasionally manages to do the right thing in defiance of orders. See the Malevolence arc and the Geonosis arc for details. He just get increasingly brow-beaten into compliance over the course of the series until he fully submits himself to Palpatine’s authority in RotS.

Every single one of the Jedi makes moral compromise after moral compromise during the course of the war and it ultimately gets them all killed. It starts with Mace and the Council going along with Yoda’s plan hide that they didn’t know about the Clone Army from the Senate and just picks up steam from there. Depa overrides her objection to commanding an army. The entire council and Anakin agree to conceal what they know about the Clone Army. And it kills them. By not coming clean or really even investigating, they set themselves up to be killed in Order 66. And that’s not even getting into the small compromises, the times they looked the other way from injustice, or made an unsavory alliance, or any of the other things they did that helped the average citizen feel their deaths were justified.

Yup, ultimately, the Jedi Order fell not because Anakin turned but because they tied their own noose around their own neck. The Republic fell pretty much the same way, And the people at the top of both only realized the noose was a noose when it started strangling them.

Palpatine was very good at that, I bet he did the same thing to the Separatists. 

This doesn’t at all absolve anakin for what he did cuz he did a lotta shit but it really paints him as a pawn in the schemes of the Jedi and palpatine. Even though all the choices he made were set up he still chose to do them.

No one is denying Anakin made mistakes or that he is responsible for his actions. The point here is that even if Anakin hadn’t acted as he did, they were still doomed. Anakin was the weapon used to destroy the Jedi not the reason they were destroyed. The downfall of the Jedi started long before Anakin was even born. Palpatine had been manipulating the galaxy since he was young man. And he only succeeded because the Order was already broken due its own internal issues. He didn’t corrupt the Jedi Order. He used their corruption against them.

The failings of the Jedi Order are part of the reason Anakin fell. But Anakin is not the main reason why the Jedi were destroyed. As long as Palpatine was alive and in charge, the Jedi were doomed. If Anakin hadn’t been there, Palpatine would have used someone else to do his dirty work.

“LB wrote the Darkling as a charming, handsome, manipulative person to represent how men in power use their good looks and charm to abuse women and get free passes.”

“LB based the Darklina relationship on her abusive relationship.”

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I am going to be bluntly honest here. If you’re “woke” enough to criticize the Darkling’s behavior and talk about how LB created him a certain way to represent real life situations, then you should be damn fucking ready to criticize LB for creating that type of character in the Darkling in the first place.

She could have made this man apart of the royalty. Apart of the canonically abusive and vile monarchy. It would have been much more realistic if she had in fact done so. But instead she supports the abusive and oppressive regime. Instead she vilifies the revolutionary who is the only person to be fighting for his people’s rights in order to promote the status quo of the Lantsov reign and all the oppression that entails.

Antis are all ready and willing to talk about how abusive the Darkling is, but not a single one of them can handle the implications that come with such a fact.

Talk about how the Darkling is based on an abusive relationship all you want, but I have not yet seen a single Darkling anti acknowledge the fact that LB decided to incorporate that decision in the most insidious and harmful way possible. Not only has she followed the racist and damaging trope of the vilified revolutionary to a T, but she also trivializes real life persecution and oppression with the ignorant and uncaring ways she treats that narrative. 

LB could have made her villain a part of a different group. She could have made the Grisha privileged. She could have actually done some real research on not only real world persecution and marginalized communities, but also on how the vilified revolutionary trope is harmful and bigoted in a number of ways. And yet she didn’t.

She created a monster as the leader of a persecuted people. She made him subject to centuries upon centuries of generational trauma, of experiencing the constant abuse of his oppressors. She not only made a villain who’s goal was to free his people from oppression, but she doubled down on that by forcing him to live through that oppression and torture at the hands of the otkazat’sya for an eternity. She tortured this character with abuse and oppression and persecution. Made him live through the attempted genocide of his people for centuries. And then gave him the goal of freeing his people… and then she decided that he would be the villain.

I’m sorry. I don’t give a fuck anymore about the abusive relationship she allegedly based it on. If she didn’t want people to sympathize with her fucking villain, then she shouldn’t have made the Darkling the villain. Hands down. I have zero sympathy. She said I’m going to make an abusive villain, and then she made that villain into the most disgustingly bigoted trope imaginable. And she should be held accountable for that.

And she should never have put Grisha persecution into her story if she wasn’t willing to give it the time and attention and respect it deserves. Especially after she claims to have based it on Jewish persecution. Making the Darkling, who is based on Jewish persecution and who is apart of a persecuted minority in text, and who has suffered for centuries at the hands of his oppressors, into a power hungry revolutionary abuser hits about every harmful stereotype and perpetuates so many damaging ideas I couldn’t even begin to describe them all. And it blatantly gives in to just about every piece of government propaganda. Alina actively supports the monarchy. The goal is to put a Lantsov on the throne again at the cost of the Grisha. Nikolai is the epitome of the white savior.

I’m going to be bluntly honest. If LB wanted to tell a story about being wary of abusers, she should not have put that story in the Grishaverse. Or she shouldn’t have put it with the characters that she did. Or she should have actually made it a warning worth following, and not the blatant boot-licking propaganda it turned out to be. And that’s on her.

She based it on an abusive relationship? Fine. Then fandom should be acknowledging where she put the abuser and how she incorporated him into the world, and why it’s so fucking harmful in so many ways. I’m sick of antis ignoring the main premise of what Darkling fans have to say to twist it into abuse apology. Nobody’s fucking pushing aside the abuse, we’re saying it never should have happened in the first place, with a character like the Darkling and a world-state like the Grishaverse. The Darkling as a character should never have been created in the way that he was. Not unless it was managed tactfully, which LB didn’t even remotely succeed in doing.

#this is why the darkling is my character now #she took all his potential and dumped it down the drain in favor of forcing a prejudiced storyline on him #so she no longer deserves to have him #all characters that have been victim to the vilified revolutionary trope no longer belong to their writers #it is law  

#op this was VERY blunt #kind of mean #but like…true #and it really needs to be said #like you want to acknowledge that hes abusive? fine. then you need to acknowledge how that was incorporated into the narrative #you can’t cherry-pick your data #to support only what you think and not what is actually happening #this is a warning message about a real life thing? #well consider what the other warning message here is #in regards to the fact that the ‘bad guy’ is the revolutionary fighting for his people’s rights #and the good guys support the oppressive government #and how that is a warning in and of itself against fighting back against your oppressors and those who have persecuted your kind #lb had many messages #maybe antis should grow some reading comprehension and see all of them

tags by @greensaplinggrace

#rey’s irreverence and gall are the best parts about her#she couldn’t care LESS that it was the deified legend luke she was attacking#it’s her hurt and rage that made her act out like this#defending someone — her supposed enemy in all of this — who she learns is just as lonely and forgotten as she is#so she doesn’t care who he is#this is just rey letting out years of pent up resentment and hurt to someone who needs to face his cowardice and mistakes#no matter who that somebody might be

I have no heart! I feel no love… nor fear… nor joy… nor sorrow! I am… hollow. And I will live… forever.

Richard Roxburgh as Dracula in Van Helsing (2004)

Queen Victoria was a flesh and blood woman, with all the racism, xenophobia, and elitism that most women of her station possessed in nineteenth century England.  Just because she’s our main character doesn’t mean she always has to be painted in a good light; her flaws should be acknowledged, and the fundamental issue with this show is that Daisy is so desperate for us to like Victoria 24/7 that she never lets her be human.  And she’s dragged it out to the point that it’s offensive.

#It makes me so angry when this happens.#Like is it your responsibility to tell 100% accurate detailed history no not quite#Is it your responsibility to tell history that accurately REFLECTS true history#Yes yes it is#And that does not involve glossing over the less pleasant aspects of a person just because they don’t fit with your image#People can be interesting to read/watch about and still be problematic#History is usually inherently problematic to modern eyes because times and ideas changes#But that doesn’t mean we should go around saying Henry VIII was never a abusive to his wives#Or that say American Presidents didn’t own slaves#This is what leads to people believing that people (particularly historical people of power) were amazing role models for today#Maybe they were good-ish role models for their time but that doesn’t mean we have to follow their every example to the mark#(And we probably shouldn’t lets be honest)#And for the love of God can bloggers and magazines stop acting like Queen Victoria was a prototype feminist#When she is literally recorded actively deriding the suffragettes#That got long…#History

@blackandbluemagpie, well said!!

Thank you, I got a bit away from myself, but my family were in some of the worst effected areas and England really fucked with the Irish, so when people try to say otherwise I get a bit… Well :L

stunning this line; this moment; this scene; this whole damn episode really but especially this line and elena’s face when she says it and stefan’s face when he hears it is there a more perfect summary of how stefan and elena operate within this relationsh?could there ever be a more perfect example of how stefan and elena operate within this relationship? there’s reality: the vampire brother and ex-girlfriend; elena’s role in some sacrifice ritual; the ever-present immortality issue but elena and stefan don’t like that reality; they’d rather create their own they’d rather go on double dates with caroline and mattthey’d rather sneak a ride on a ferris wheel and kiss at the very top they’d rather run away to a lake house and laugh and cook dinner and act like everything’s fine they’d rather pretend and they are so happy that they’ve found someone who not only allows them to do that but who does it with them this relationship is about self-delusion; it’s about pretense; it’s about both of these people pretending to be normal here in this scene stefan tries to bring up something that’s been hanging over them for months he tries to talk seriously about their future; about his immortality and elena’s mortality and what kind of future they want to haveand elena just. shuts. it. down. that is not a conversation she can have because she already knows it’s going to end in tears she knows they have no future; but she doesn’t want to talk about it as long as she doesn’t say it out loud then it doesn’t have to be real she can just be the normal girl in her normal boyfriend’s arms she’d rather just be here (via @ruthseriouslydothis)

- Patty Jenkins, Director of Wonder Woman

#I’m very ready for earnestness in films  #when even superhero films - which like mythology are made to show a Larger Than Life approach to motivation and reaction  #when even THOSE film have been stuck in a rut of smugness and mockery and distance  #better joke about how we’re wearing tights every 5 minutes! quick mock ourselves before everyone mocks us!  #when we’ve had that for a decade (say 15 years?) then I’m ready for earnestness  #give me my billy zane phantom  #give me my ‘my mother made it for me’ superman costume pride  #if you make a superhero movie afraid of being made fun of them are you sure you’re the right person to tell a Big Myth story?  #honestly go big or go home - and I mean emotional commitment  #which is a concept that has been stuck in ‘emotional commitment=grief’ for like everrrrrr  #there’s more than one big emotion my guys  #I’m just going to make coward chicken noises at the next superhero movie where the only Big Emotion on display is some dude’s grief and loss  #Bruce has that covered thnx - what else do you have?

#THE WAY SHE LOOKS AT HIM THOUGH  #LIKE HE’S AT ONCE HER SAVING GRACE AND HER FAVOURITE THING EVER  #THE WAY I LOOK AT ALL MY BABIES TBH  #LIKE OH YOU  #YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW PERFECT YOU ARE #HE’S HER GUY OK  #HE’S HER BEST FRIEND  #THE ONE SHE RUNS TO WHENEVER THINGS GO BAD  #BECAUSE SHE KNOWS HE’LL BE THERE TO HOLD HER HAND  #HE’D NEVER TURN AWAY WHEN SHE WAS IN NEED  #HE’D NEVER WISH HER ILL OR CAUSE HARM TO HER FAMILY BECAUSE HE’S MAD AT HER  #HE JUST LOVED HER FOR WHO SHE WAS  #HE LOVED HER SO MUCH  #BABIES YOU BREAK MY HEART