Memento Mori

I'm never going to stop thinking about how May's murderer, who killed her in front of Peter only a few hours ago, was goading Peter into killing him, actively encouraging his violence, the Green Goblin wanted to revel in corrupting Spider-Man, and all it took was a Look for Peter to come back to himself and decide to save Norman instead, no words, no begging, no pleading, no repeated attempts to reason with him or escape from him, just one blocked swing and a Look.

And there's still people who think he'd want to "give team cap a piece of his mind", or would've still been on Tony's team had he not been kidnapped, blackmailed and lied to about why he was there.

Peter could not be more Steve coded if he tried and we had five movies trying to shove "Peter is Tony's mini-me" down our throats just because Peter's a genius. One trait shared with Tony does not make him like him, he's Iron Man's antithesis by the end of NWH. I'll be so mad if Spider-Man 4 is another of the same, or even worse acts like May's loss isn't as big of a deal to Peter as that man.

I, for one, really appreciated the fact that No Way Home leaned more into *Aunt May's* influence over Peter than anything to do with T*ny Stark. She is the one who teaches him about the reasponsibilites of power. She is the one who influences him to do good, no matter the cost and put others first. Oh they tried to put the incipient IM influence there with Happy but he's hardly really in the movie.

May is the one who is really the driving force, and she's wonderful because is *her* morality that Peter follows. Even that scene where Peter fights Green Goblin really shows this, like you say.

Tony tried to murder Bucky in "revenge" for his parents and as a means of hurting Steve. Despite the fact that his father was an absolute ass. And unlike Peter, who is a mere teenager, Tony was already an adult when his parents died: he'd also had 25 years to come to terms with their death by the time of CA: CW.

Peter hadn't even had *one day*: yet all it took for him to choose a better path was Peter 2 blocking a swing, and ... the influence of both their *Aunt May* figures. Within seconds, instead of killing Peter 1 chooses not to kill, and nobody has to disable his suit to stop him.

Furthermore, Zemo made his plans clear in CW. Tony knew what he was doing, but upon realizing Zemo was manipulating him, instead of putting aside his differences with Steve and Bucky for the good- he chose to act on his desire for violence. Peter 1, on the other hand, when it came to it chose to listen to the voice of his conscience and his moral compass.

The fundamental difference for me is that for T*ny it was about himself: he wanted to punish Cap for "taking someone from him". Whereas with Peter... it was about others. He used mercy to get rid of Goblin and bring back Norman Osborn. Not violence. He did what May would have wanted him to do: heal all the villains and send them home. Including her killer.

Tony would just have killed them, and would never have allowed Strange to do the spell which made everyone forget him.

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People who don’t want to read The Martian in case the science is too complicated should be informed that it contains the lines “The best way to store the ingredients of water is to make them be water”, “It is of course dangerous to set off an explosive device on a spacecraft”, and “If I cut a hole in the wall of the hab, the air won’t stay inside any more”.

I love this fucking book

“I’ve said the words kilowatt-hours-per-sol so many times they’ve lost all meaning so I’m going to call them pirate-ninjas.

“So I need to generate nine hundred pirate-ninjas…”

there’s an entire chapter dedicated to him wondering how the cubs are doing while he’s stuck on mars, dying

I like the part where the guys on Earth are like “He thinks we all gave up on him, and that he’s completely alone. I wonder what he’s thinking about right now.” And he’s like “How come Aquaman can control whales?”

“ As with most of life’s problems, this one can be solved by a box of pure radiation. “

“Actually, I was the very lowest ranked member of the crew. I would only be “in command” if I were the only remaining person.”

Two pages later… “What do you know? I’m in command”

“Me: “This is obviously a clog. How about I take it apart and check the internal tubing?” NASA: (after five hours of deliberation) “No. You’ll fuck it up and die.” So I took it apart.

And my personal favorite :” Also, I have duct tape. Ordinary duct tape, like you buy at a hardware store. Turns out even NASA can’t improve on duct tape. Yes, of course duct tape works in a near-vacuum. Duct tape works anywhere. Duct tape is magic and should be worshiped.”

NO WAY

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I once worked on a phone campaign to disallow the trees around your crater from being cut down...

I am deeply deeply in love with you 💙 Thanks so much for your conservation effort!

It’s the small things we all do together that can make a big difference! 💙💙💙💙 And you’ve done it!!!

People just gotta know what Crater Lake and Wizard Island looks like

What in the Skyrim

been there several times. And yeah, Skyrim feels super duper Oregon in a lot of ways.

We gonna talk about Crater Lake, and Wizard Island and not mention the Old Man of the Lake?

The Old Man of the Lake is a log that floats around the lake. It is somewhat strange in that it floats vertically. It's roughly 30 feet tall, with only about 5 or so feet sticking out above the surface of the water. It was first 'offically' recorded in the early 20th century, though there are oral reports of it as far back as 1896 (and likely earlier still given the cultural importance of Crater Lake to the Klamath tribe of that area.

The Old Man should have rotted away long ago or at the very least become waterlogged and sank into the water fully, but nope. Over a hundred years, and there is this log still in the water just floating.

So y'know how I said the fact that it floats vertically was 'somewhat strange'? Let's get into some actual strange territory regarding the Old Man. It moves. Against the wind. It has been recorded moving in paths that do not make sense, never getting stuck on the shore of Wizard Island, nor the area of shore around the lake. Now that's strange.

So now let's get freaky: The free-floating Old Man posed a hazard to boats since it moves, and only a small portion of it was above water. (though personal boats are no longer allowed on the lake) Anyway, in 1988 a team was using a small submersible to explore the lake. The scientist figured it'd be a good idea to moor the Old Man near the coast of Wizard Island out of their way, for safety. So they tied some rope to it, to move the Old Man. As soon as they did so, the clear blue skies of a warm August day turned dark. The wind kicked up, bad, and it started to rain, then hail, then snow in the span of a few minutes...again in August. Now snow in that area is common, but not in the summer months. It gets super warm in that area in summer (like 70 to 90 degrees on average) So the scientists decided to nope the fuck out of the water, because of this freak storm. They unmoored the Old Man, preparing to get the fuck out of dodge of this summer snowstorm. As soon as the rope loosened and was in the water, as quickly as the storm had come on them, the darkened skies cleared and it was once more a fine sunny summer day.

As a kid, I spent my summers with my family who lives like... 40 some odd miles from Crater Lake National Park so I had this knowledge just kinda buried in my head somewhere.

I excitedly added a thing about the old man before I checked the notes so now I'm gonna reblog this great story instead but here is the old man!!!

"The Old Man floats vertically through the lake on a calm day"

"THE OLD MAN FLOATS. VERTICALLY. THROUGH THE LAKE ON A CALM DAY"

!!!!!!!!!!

Finally

Cryptobotany

VEEP (2012 - 2019) S04E10 | Election Night

Scooping him

Sebastian Stan and Nick Mathews Political Animals 1.02 "Second Time Around"

Same hun

SEBASTIAN STAN as BUCKY BARNES THUNDERBOLTS*

This fan identified the food Bucky kept in his apartment. 

Bucky are you ok?

This is the info I’ve been waiting for!

They’re soulmates but one of them is infact trying to choke the other to death with the red string of fate tying them together

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