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philosopherking1887:

philosopherking1887:

philosopherking1887:

philosopherking1887:

philosopherking1887:

philosopherking1887:

Oh hey, I thought I recognized Summer Glau as the prima ballerina in that one episode of “Angel.” (Which I started watching again, illegally, because I ran out of “Brooklyn Nine-Nine.”)

Her Russian accent is terrible.

I’m really amused by the fact that a hamburger statue came to life to spout prophecies.

I’m also horrified that Lilah ordered a 30-year-old Scotch with ice cubes.

Alexis Denisof’s English accent is *way* better than James Marsters’. I haven’t noticed any trap/bath split violations.

I have gotten fuck-all done today and I can’t stop watching “Angel”

The Pylean word for “the vigil of the bereaved” is “shiv-roth.” Sounds an awful lot like sitting shiva. The writer of the episode is named David Goodman and the director is David Grossman, so…

Some demon doing a fake English accent said “ass” instead of “arse.”

iamanartichoke:

juliabohemian:

There is something about first Thor film that struck me as rather odd, upon my first viewing. Although I admittedly didn’t ponder it too much upon further viewing. And that was the fact that Thor had

Mjölnir

. Thor has been gifted this amazing tool that was forged inside a dying star. The entire narrative revolves around his worthiness of possessing it.

His brother, Loki, has no such tool, and is subject to no such measurement of worthiness. Why? Why would you give one son this amazing thing and then give the other nothing even comparable to at least imply a superficial sort of equality between them? I find it baffling that this could be the case and Loki’s parents would be completely unaware that he might feel slighted in some way. Certainly the public would think of him as less, if he saw him being treated as such by his own family. They might even feel validated in their dislike or distrust of him, if they observed him being treated differently by his own parents.

Yes, Loki had his magic. But that was a craft that he had to work long and hard to perfect. It wasn’t a magic artifact that was just placed in his hands.

“This is my son, Thor! I have gifted him a magical hammer!”

“Who is that other kid?”

“Oh, that’s just Loki. His job is to stand next to Thor.”

“This is my son, Thor! I have gifted him a magical hammer!”

“Who is that other kid?”

“Oh, that’s just Loki. His job is to stand next to Thor.”

Damn. 

elle woods is autistic

thequeerwithoutfear:

  • singleminded and incredibly dedicated to whatever it is she’s focused on at the time (gets into and then goes to law school to get back warner, even though it breaks with everything she’s done in her life up until that point)
  • incredibly knowledgeable about her chosen point of interest (”it’s impossible to use half-loop top stitching on low-viscosity rayon”)
  • relies on routine and an established set of coping mechanisms (manicures; tries to schedule social events to maintain some sort of consistency) 
  • struggles with social cues (for instance, the way she delivers her introduction when she first arrives at school, the way she interacts with warner)
  • is incredibly smart (got a 179 on the LSATs) but struggles in school — has difficulty keeping track of her assignments (first day in stromwell’s class), has difficulty answering questions on the spot in class (”do they always do that? put you on the spot like that?”)
  • struggles with codeswitching in different environments (with her friends in LA, in the classroom, with the other harvard students, in court, etc)
    • when she does try to institute a change like this, she does it overly dramatically; she over-plays it — see: the outfit she wears for her first day of classes 
    • that line also — ”i totally look the part!” — that idea that what she wears, says, and does are largely performative (maybe also she’s trying to pass?)
    • uses overly formal or informal language; language inappropriate to the context (”and i am fully amenable to that discussion” when warner is breaking up with her; the ‘valley girl’ language she uses at harvard)
  • has difficulty identifying sarcasm and mocking (the costume party)
  • is set up in the narrative as out of place in her social environment 
  • the narrative about elle ultimately winning the case because she uses her existing skills, knowledge base, and passion rather than What She Learned In Law School ™ is also, like, a really strong neurodiversity narrative   
  • i love her and i only care about autistic characters, so she must be autistic

“you can’t save me from this.” for thor & loki?

zombiecheetah:

Somewhere on the Statesman in the land of Infinity War was a Fever Dream…

It had been the seventh time that evening. 

Seven times now where Thor heard screaming from next door, seven times now where had Thor shaken his brother, a sweating, shaking mess awake. 

After realizing each time he wasn’t being subjected to whatever horrors his dreams held, Loki always did his best to attempt to string together a composure. 

“I’m fine.”

“I thought you were good at lying, brother,” Thor replied as he sat down on his bed next to his very annoyed looking adopted sibling, “Unfortunately, your dreams are betraying you. Loudly.” 

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dailymarvelheroes:

“So, I’ve known about that scene for two years.[…] My whole journey through making Thor: Ragnarok — I knew this was coming. By the end of Thor: Ragnarok, Loki has been accepted as Thor’s brother again. When I came to shoot the scene in Infinity War, I think it’s very powerful he calls himself an Odinson, and that closes the whole journey of Loki and what he can do. It [Loki’s death] set the stakes up emotionally. It takes the stakes up dramatically.”  

— Tom Hiddleston

“that closes the whole journey of Loki and what he can do”

Only because Marvel artificially made that the close: made the telos of Loki’s existence consist in dissolving his being into Thor’s; made him a function of Thor, a cog or a symbol in Thor’s journey rather than a person in his own right. He was a person up through TDW. Hiddleston gave him a depth and roundness few of the heroes possess. Marvel decided that wasn’t what they wanted from Loki.

Interviews like this really make it sound like his death in IW was final.

ms-cellanies:

typhlonectes:

The Malabar Giant Squirrel (Ratufa indica), aka Indian Giant Squirrel, is a huge motherfucker, with a body length of up to 14 inches and a tail length of up to 2 ft.

They are important seed dispersers in a variety of Indian forest types, and are well known for smacking the taste out of your mouth for looking at them the wrong way. Keep they name out of your mouth if you know whats good for you. They ride wild boar into battle, and favor the spiked club as a weapon.

photographs: AtlasObscura and Amara Bharathy

I want to know MORE!  We have Fox squirrels in Florida but we’ve devastated (aka developed) most of their natural habitat so they aren’t as common as they once were.  Their body length ranges from 16 – 29 inches and their tails are from 7 to 14 inches long.  I once saw one on a tree trunk in the late 60s.  Stunning!

https://www.arkive.org/eastern-fox-squirrel/sciurus-niger/