The Mashpotatoe Queen

dj, cue the jock jams, please

yuri divorce temple

we never got to hear his story.

RIZ GUKGAK: ON AROMANTICISM, ASEXUALITY, INHUMANESS, AND LOVE UNRELENTING

Someone needs to do an analysis on the way the Kung Fu Panda movies use old-fashioned vs. modern language ("Panda we meet at last"/"Hey how's it going") and old-fashioned vs. modern settings (forbidden-city-esque palaces/modern-ish Chinese restaurant) to indicate class differences in their characters, and how those class differences create underlying tensions and misunderstandings.

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the writers of the lightning thief musical just clearly Get so much abt the books..the fact that luke and percy’s stories are paralleled to the point where luke reprises percy’s “i want” song in the end before he runs.. the fact that when thalia turns into a tree the special effects are literally just annabeth and luke standing behind her with their arms outstretched to form the branches bc a part of them was left with her…the fact that sally has consistently been played by a black woman since day ONE,, they’re deep in the text and i appreciate it

i forgot the fact that in bring on the monsters silena and luke sing “we’ll make em listen to us, we’ll make em listen” like BITCH!! we barely even see silena in this musical and don’t even touch that storyline and YET!!!

the fact that luke has the very first line and introduces us to the world of gods so OF COURSE we trust him from the very beginning, the fact that the entire cast is double cast so when a hooded figure appears at kronos’ side in percy’s dream who happens to sound exactly like luke we don’t think twice about it, the creators of this musical understand the complexity of luke’s entire role in the story so well and they take full advantage of the medium they’re working in to bring the audience to luke’s side without them suspecting a thing it’s brilliant it’s breathtaking THIS is drama

Jenny George

The fossil is not the animal.

The fossil is not the bones of the animal.

The fossil is the stone's memory of the bones of the animal.

And that's a poetry older than words.

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i was rewatching atla as usual and here's something i noticed.

the actual symbols of the 4 elements have their own differences symbolizing how each of the bendings work; water (freedom within the flow of the water), earth (complete control of freedom/discipline), air (full freedom) and fire (freedom within the fire flames)

the swirl, something that each one has, means the freedom of being able to bend, saying that even with their differences they are all connected and are the same.

then we see the symbol that the fire nation uses since the war stared (this is just a guess idk if the fire nation used that symbol before the war, but it feels right to say they did not)

they don't use their element's symbol, they make their own bc they don't want the significance of their actual symbol.

it has no swirl, no freedom and also it differentiates itself from the other nations, not wanting to say that they all are the same. not only that but it's way neater, implying that the fire nation itself is neater or "better" than the rest of the nations.

there's also something really cool I noticed. when iroh teaches zuko fire bending and he's explaining the 4 elements, he uses the "real" fire symbol :)

idk if I'm making this up or if it's canon or if im missing something but i love worlbuilding and trying to find small details

I like how Wally had to change costumes after joining the team. His suit was just not practical in any sense of the word. Batman took one look at it and redesigned the entire thing.

Obviously they added the stealth tech (because the suit is bright yellow and red) but they also added knee pads, shoulder pads, elbow pads, padding on the thighs and calves, ventilation slits on his chest, a zipper on his cowl, storage compartments in his gloves (to hold energy bars) and high tech goggles with night vision. They also got rid of the lightning bolts he had on his hips.

It's pretty obvious that the left version of the suit was made and designed by Barry to be Flashy (pun intended) and aerodynamic but not much else. The second Batman was technically responsible for this kid he outfitted him with an entirely new tactical outfit.

Wally is the only one this happens to. Batman added stealth tech to everyone else's outfits as well but he didn't change their outfits. Kaldur has the same outfit before and after joining the team. Wally was the odd one out. Which is fair. He was in neon yellow spandex.

That's why Wally sticks out here the most. The rest of his family just wears spandex or jeans and a shirt. They have zero tactical gear whatsoever.

Even Bart, after being on the team, only gets stealth tech added and nothing else.

Wally has compartments because he needs to refuel. They others don't. Wally has tactical goggles for recon missions. The other speedsters don't do recon.

The other speedsters don't wear padding because they don't get hit. They don't need any protection. Their main tactic is to throw a punch and be out of range before their target even registers it.

Wally isn't fast enough to do that so he had to actually learn how to fight. He also learned acrobatics to avoid being hit. He is surprisingly flippy when you watch him in fights.

One of his main tactics is to physically ram into people at top speeds. His go to move is to use himself as a human cannonball.

It's very apparent that he doesn't operate like the other speedsters. His suit and fighting technique are so remarkably different than what the other speedsters have and do. You can tell that he's had to make up for his slower speed by supplementing any training he got from Barry with the training he got from Batman and Black Canary. Barry taught him to control his speed but he didn't teach him how to fight.

Even Bart, who literally had the same training and also had stealth tech added to his suit, doesn't do any of this. At most Bart has rubber grips on his gloves and tactical goggles and that's it. Zero padding, zero armor. It's all just aerodynamics.

His fighting technique is just "hit things at superspeed and dodge". Sometimes it's "run really fast in a circle". He's clearly been trained in a different way because of his speed.

Things I had never considered about Alderaan’s destruction until this very moment: this Things I was not prepared to start bawling over at midnight: also this, holy shit

this is the most painful panel in star wars comics