Forever couple goals!!!! 😍

“they can say whatever the hell they want I don’t care I’ll say ‘fuck you’”

“did you just flip the bird at us?”

“I did flip the bird, yeah”

“but did you flip it at US?”

“yo bruh if this starts a fight how easily can I get out of trouble”

“not very”

“So like I flipped the bird but it TOTALLY wasn’t at you”

let’s just appreciate that this is a conversation that actually literally happens in one of the greatest plays in the english language

I forgot I made a couple of mini vine compilations when they announced the end of vine

i don’t know how vine so perfectly encapsulated the best of humanity but that was a weird time

Dozens of NYC Subway riders, fresh off a Robyn concert, singing “Dancing On My Own” while waiting for the E train. (Video by Triszh Hermogenes) 

I’m reblogging this again because the absolute joy in this video is something I haven’t seen in such a long time that I’d forgotten this aspect of humanity.

This video made me burst into tears. Sometimes? We’re not bad. 

Endgame was a mistake

I’ve now seen endgame twice. I’ve had over a week to think about it and see what people are saying and my conclusion is: Screw Marvel. 

It’s not our fault Marvel wrote by committee. It’s not our fault that too many people had their hand in the decision making and screwed it all up. It’s not our fault they all bought into the theory that there was nothing more important than surprising the audience.

And that’s actually the biggest mistake and where it all went wrong. The quest for surprise twists and shocking moments was so enticing that everything else suffered. Actors didn’t get to see scripts, false scenes were shot, characters made crazy decisions so no one would expect it. The whole thing went off the rails and much like the Titanic, the behemoth was too big and unwieldy to stop before disaster struck.

And Endgame is a disaster. 

Jeff Winger doesn’t die in Community. Michael Bluth doesn’t die on Arrested Development. It wouldn’t make sense. The genre is a comedy and there are tropes and conventions one must stick to. 

What are the conventions of a superhero movie? There is a hero. He is beset by obstacles. He overcomes obstacles and saves the day. There’s a nice summary in Lie to Me, an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer where Giles reassures Buffy that, “The good guys are always stalwart and true, the bad guys are easily distinguishable by their pointy horns or black hats, and we always defeat them and save the day! No one ever dies, and everybody lives happily ever after.” 

And I’m going to completely leave alone the fact that it’s Joss Whedon. That’s a whole other rant someone else can deal with. 

So, who lived Happily Ever After in our superhero movie? After the battle was fought who got their reward? As far as I can tell, no one. They couldn’t get a reward because the desire to shock and have an unexpected outcome overrode story considerations. 

Thor wanted to be a worthy king. He was sent to Earth to learn and grow, to become worthy of kingship. How did it end? He decided he couldn’t hack it and gave up the throne even though his world and most of his people are now dead. The issue of Thor’s PTSD being mocked for laughs is a separate issue but actually buttresses my argument that no character arc mattered because the surprise was everything. 

Hawkeye lost his family and became a mass murderer. His reward is getting his family back but he is now burdened with his past. Living with what he did is not a reward. Hawkeye as a murderer is, I guess, surprising, even if it is tired and uninteresting.

Natasha wanted to atone for the bad she had done and become worthy of love and family. Her relationship with Hawkeye and Steve, in particular, show her making the right decisions and living as a better person. Her reward? Dead. And again, we have a separate issue of fridging. The side by side comparison of her death and Gamora’s is truly nasty. Additionally, the lack of mourning, of recognition for her sacrifice is disgraceful. And surprising! 

The number of pages I could write about Steve and what happened to his character would rival the Mueller Report. Steve was a man out of time who adapted and found family, who could get up when the odds were against him. Returning to the past negates his arc. But it was a surprise.

Peggy lived a life and had children. He wouldn’t insert himself into that. It’s the sort of thing Loki would do, not Captain America. The fact that Peggy would shoot anyone who tried to reduce her down to a trophy is apparently irrelevant. The fact that she found love with a disabled WW2 vet proving that the handicapped are worthy of love is apparently irrelevant too. Those character arcs were thrown out so we could be surprised that Steve went back to the past. 

As a woman with children, I can tell you there is no way I’d swap them out for some guy no matter how good his biceps (or ass) were. He and Sam searched for Bucky for two years and he just left him. Scott, Wanda, Hawkeye and Nat broke their word, violated laws and betrayed their friends for him and he left them to try to rebuild a ruined world alone. He told Bucky he was with him to the End of the Line in two different movies! The sentence literally means he will stick around. 

Cap didn’t stick around. Surprise!

Hulk is an odd one. His conflict has been making peace with the monster inside him. The surprise twist was that he did that. Off screen. And maybe that was a happy ending? But, he seemed like a bit of a jerk. He wasn’t kind like Bruce (Scott will grow who cares if he’s a baby.) and he found the Hulk’s actions to be gratuitous and shameful. He was essentially a new character.  The old one was eliminated for the surprise.  

And then there is Tony. Tony didn’t start out a hero. He made the ultimate sacrifice for the world. His reward is death, leaving a widow and a child fatherless. Surprise! Bizarrely enough, his character was also thrown away for this movie. He actually wasn’t much of a hero. He was willing to get people back so long as he kept his daughter. Half the universe for one kid. The chaos and misery he allowed to occur in order to keep Morgan not heroic. When one decides the world can burn for one person (you know, trading lives) than the character isn’t a hero. Does that count as a surprise?

And these poor actors who get told by children and adults that they look up to their characters and that they’ve gotten through struggles because of how they identified with the characters, what about them? They go to Children’s Hospitals to give hope. Endgame was an utterly hopeless movie where even the people who won lost. Surprise, the actors lost too!

Everyone deserved better and the sooner we all accept the movie for the miscalculation it was, the happier we will all be. 

What I think is funny/don’t get is that all the anti-Endgame complaints are the same as what they did in Rangarok, but everybody thinks that shit was okay then. Actually, people went fuckin’ nuts for it, shouting how great it was.

Character development and canon (from the MCU or comics) was willfully and deliberately abandoned, with near zero interest in the source material, with TW saying himself, “I ignored the source material and even the first two films." He basically gave zero fucks and ended/cut off any character developing moment with a joke. Example: Asgard literally is destroyed and instead of a poignant moment- moment interrupted by a joke. And everyone thought this movie was genius then. They’re still praising it.

But in Endgame, they got it all wrong. Really? Everybody sees a train wreck, but not where it dereailed?

Don’t waste your energy @ing me. Won’t change my opinion like mine probably won’t change yours. It’s okay to be disappointed. I’m just saying, why didn’t anyone care when they purposefully made everything so OOC then?

Fucking dropped him…

Levels of Tumblr (Marvel Edition)

1 follower = Clint Barton

10-49 followers = Pietro Maximoff

50-99 followers = Matt Murdock

100-349 followers = Bucky Barnes

350-500 followers = Peggy Carter

501-799 followers =  Natasha Romanoff

800- 4,999 followers = Steve Rogers

5000+ followers = Tony Stark

Maybe someday I’ll get to be Steve. But Nat’s okay for now.

Come what may, I will love you until my dying day. Moulin Rouge! (2001) Dir. Baz Luhrmann