i’ll say it til the cows come home but as undeniably strange as the star wars prequels are, george lucas’ direction with anakin was downright fucking inspired. people were waiting for whatever badass backstory lucas was sure to give them, awaiting a naturally intimidating actor with rogueish charm to be cast, waiting for this masterpiece of badass villainy or whatever, and george lucas is like no, no, i’ve got you. and then he finds the one man on the planet who looked babier than baby mark hamill and says, “his main personality trait will be being weird and awkward, secondary personality trait loving his wife, tertiary personality trait being incredibly good at murder, and all of these traits will do battle on the silver screen for three movies until they all win in possibly the worst way.” that fucking rules. george lucas could’ve done anything with darth vader and he willingly, enthusiastically chose mentally unstable college student who is somehow married but his only friend is his kind-of dad. that fucking rules, top down, that’s fucking exquisite. if you don’t think that premise is inherently entertaining you’ve got no taste

George bassically said, I will give you the story of Darth Vader who was bassically a babe in the woods the moment he gets to Coruscant, a former slave with trauma who is also extremely good at war and murder since he was a 9 year old while also being emotionally vulnerable who after being separated from his loving mother is raised by a sarcastic and reppresed monk and the literal personification of evil in the whole star wars universel, he loves both of them, ah and also Anakin is destined to kill them by fate and tragedy. ¡Enjoy!

something about substances so strong they can only be cut by that same substance (like diamond) gets to me. the self-fulfilling prophecy of it. you can armor yourself against any and all outside threats, but you're still beholden to your own nature.

*walks over to my board titled "is the desire to self-destruct innate or a learned behaviour?" and places another tally mark in the 'innate' column*

What I’d give for one of the Cinderella remakes to go into how when you’re in an isolated and abusive situation, sometimes you need to be saved and you’re not weak if you can’t escape by yourself

I’ve never been a fan of bad faith reinterpretations of fairy tales, especially ones which flatten the originals into “princesses is saved by a prince and nothing else”, to then go #girlboss. The princess can save herself because she’s a strong female character! (Implying if you’re in a bad situation, it’s because you’re not strong enough to get out)

Also the concept of the Prince over the course of like… a couple hours hanging out with Cinderella  going from ‘Haha nice I really like you’ to ‘oh fuck i can tell from context clues alone that your home situation is FUCKED UP’   it’s good shit   ‘I have just met you but ON GOD I’m gonna get you out of there beautiful mystery woman’   cinderella  makes desperately yelling into the night ‘how can I find you again!??!’ when she’s taking off that much more poignant really

He’s been trained to read the room. To read the context clues. To read politics and scheming and planning and people. He’s a Prince, it’s either that or accidentally drink poison by age 15. And he reads her and …

She’s impossibly wealthy. The dress isn’t a fabric he can recognize, but it’s beaded with cut diamonds, faintly milky opals that shimmer with a rainbow, little pale aquamarines, and somewhere are little bells gently ringing with each step - he’s a Prince and he can’t afford to dress like that. The slippers ring too … there is nothing like that crafted by the hands of humans. That’s fairy stuff. She has an in with them that eclipses royal politics. She is powerful in the Old Ways.

All this wraps around the poorest woman he’s ever seen in his entire life, and he’s seen some very, very, poor people in his time.

Poor in money, but poor in “oh you poor thing!” as well. This is someone who has been robbed blind. This is someone who carried themselves waiting for the lash, for a browbeating, for harsh, cruel, abrupt, punishment.

He expects her to be haughty, or hard, or meek or… something else… but she’s just nice. She’s just … nice.

The rigid posture comes out of his back, his tongue unsticks. She’s like sitting by the embers of a low, calm, fire. He feels warmed and rested simply speaking to her. He wonders if it’s magic, and it might be, but if it is it is magic that is her own.

And that terrifies him, because he’s trained to see these things and he knows someone with a cruel hand is waiting to douse her, and snuff her, and beat the last glimmer out of her shining eyes - eyes that put that dress to shame and and and and… she’s gone.

Oh god, she’s gone. It will be all over her sweet, kind, warm face that she transgressed and … oh god they’ll kill her, whoever they are. This will embarrass them and if there’s anything he knows, it’s that you don’t humiliate someone who has power over you and walk away unscathed.

And all he has is a fairy slipper that will only ever fit her foot (it’s not merely shoe size, it’s a kind of spiritual fit as well), and the vain hope that he can keep such a bright light from burning out. It doesn’t even touch his heart that what he’s feeling is a kind of pure philia, not until it enraptures him soul to bones, all at once. Oh god, oh no, oh shit… he’s reached well above his station, but…he can try to be good and worthy.

The way he sees it, sometimes even the strongest people can be brought low and need just… a little help. She had enough in her to do whatever she had to do to free herself of those evil relations if she had to, but she shouldn’t have to. There’s no glory in blood. Sometimes it’s okay for the ending to be happily ever after.

I am so happy that Percy is a criminal in live action as well. Does it serve anything to the plot? Doubtful. It does, however, serve in building Percy's reputation as a goddamn MENACE and I'm here for it

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Heartbreaking: an author you despise just did something based

FANTASIA (1940)

Moss Drapes from Trees in Ethereal Photographs of England’s Forests by Neil Burnell

i don’t think you understand how obsessed i am with the concept of the forest as a mythic concept... like... don’t even know how to describe this... But like the forest has been this terrifying concept for centuries. It’s a dark, unknown place filled with dangerous creatures. Like honestly terrifying. Yet it’s almost always the place Heroes have to journey into in mythic stories. It just... it scratches some itch in my brain and i love it.  ALSO THE OCEAN IT’S THE SAME THING BUT WATER the ocean was literally untamable thousands of years ago. People were subject to it’s whims. No wonder they associated with a god who was quick to anger and unpredictable. 

ever since dracula daily started I've had to take at least a moment per week to let it sink in how far we've come. it's one of those moments.

so how 'bout that trailer, huh?

if i had to pick a vilgante city to be in, i’d rather it be star city over gotham because not only do the bats have awful villians, the entire damn city gets involved in their family drama. imagine ur trying to sleep and fucking batman and red hood are screaming on the roof about the joker. or like one of the robins is having temper tantrum. or fucking batman is making out with a rogue. the arrows at least arent completely nocturnal. 

I don’t think the avengers should have known spiderman’s identity! I think peter parker should have been a twenty nine year old with a masters in biophysics and a doctorate in biochemistry who works for the daily bugle and used to be an intern/research assistant for bruce banner! I think spiderman should have swung in at the last minute for a huge battle and gone “you called?” to which nick fury would have replied “yah. four years ago”! I think adult peter would have been a fresher take than iron man jr! honestly the potential of cynical and jaded and above all caring and empathetic peter parker! imagine spiderman walking around the avengers compound with his mask on while wearing pajamas !

‘u mean peter b parker’ I mean adult spiderman! a spiderman who knows the ropes and who has already been thru an origin story or two! who snarks and is a bit hurt by the world but also annoyingly optimistic! who, as a practicing vigilante of over a decade, is yesterdays news compared to the fancy new heroes! who knows more about the avengers than they’ll ever know about him, despite tony’s tech and best efforts! who is confident and a lil bitter but will never turn his back on his city bc it’s his responsibility! who still struggles to pays his bills and hold his life together but stills gets up everyday and gets the job done! that’s what I mean

No but this is the only take ever. It’s perfect. I’m mad that it’s not what we got. Also if people be like “why didn’t he show up to help in all the other movies”. It’s because Spider-Man takes care of smaller level things, at least at that point in his career. 

Krakoa fic I'm not going to write

Emma Frost has already been congratulated on conquering the planet. That's a thing. It's canon. So it got me to thinking...

First scene: Magneto and Xavier have a tiff over something stupid. Doesn't matter what it is. Just dumb not-boyfriends arguing over some dumbass thing or another.

Then Amora the Enchantress shows up quite suddenly. Because she wants to marry Magneto. Because, you know, he's the best-known of the Krakoan leadership and she has thus decided that *he* has conquered the planet. Magneto is therefore worthy of her time.

Magneto agrees, mostly to piss Xavier off.

Various Marvel characters cameo to react to this announcement. Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch both agree that their new stepmom-to-be is "disturbingly hot," which is incredibly awkward.

Blah, blah. There's a lot of Amora demanding attention and Magneto giving it to her in an obvious bid to make Xavier jealous. It's all very obnoxious.

Blah, blah. Wedding planning is a nightmare. Amora announces to Magneto that they should kill Polaris. Because Amora demands to be the only one in green at the wedding. Magneto refuses and insults her. She casually backhands him, which crushes his skull. Because she's an Asgardian goddess with super-strength and he's a Squishy Wizard (warning for TV Tropes link!).

The wedding is off. Amora flounces back to Asgard in a huff. Krakoa enters into discussion about whether or not to bump Magneto to the top of the resurrection list or let him wait a bit as punishment for being obnoxious because it's bad form to jump the line (again).

hallmark movie au where adrien is a prince and in a political engagement with kagami, and marinette is a famous and successful designer, and kagami is a fan of her work and hires her to make the wedding dress, then marinette and adrien meet and catch feelings, and kagami notices and does a little scheming to get them together and also to get herself out of a marriage she isn’t super excited for

just once, to draw a parallel between Peter and his love of listening to music while he uses his powers, I think we should have gotten an “Erik using metallokinesis” scene set to classical music

@fouralignments these tags!! Yes!

I’m just imagining Peter discovering he’s got metallokinesis but he doesn’t tell anyone at first. Raven and Jean are the first to find out (on accident; Peter started levitating a fork at breakfast, not thinking anything of it until Raven freaked out) and they encourage him to talk to Erik but he doesn’t. After a year or two he gets pretty good at his version of metallokinesis, which is a lot more free-form and playful than how his dad controls metal, but he feels confident enough in his abilities to start using this power on missions. The xmen promise not to say anything, but somehow word gets out anyway and Erik finds out, which leads to the big Dadneto reveal once Erik questions how Peter could have that as a secondary mutation. That then leads to father-son training sessions, where Peter turns on music and Erik helps him perfect his control and aim. Erik’s a bit confused/worried about what he thinks is a lack of care in Peter’s usage of metallokinesis (since he’s much more spontaneous), but he soon learns that Peter just doesn’t do things as strictly as he does, and the fluidity of his powers is actually just as calculated and can be an asset. Peter breaks into Hank’s lab before one training session and shows up with a vial of mercury, and Erik initially scolds him a little for taking a toxic metal, but with both of them having metallokinesis they never have to worry about touching the metal and can make it float around like water in the air. Peter ends up loving how it feels to control liquid metal, which is more chaotic and hard to control so it feels like a challenge, while Erik prefers solid metals because they do more immediate damage in a fight.

I am now taking this idea and headcanoning that Peter starts to carry around a few vials of mercury on his belt during missions and uses it like how people waterbend in ATLA.