Wait, what?

well with the news of Billy being driven to attempt suicide, i’m glad that i told the guy at my LCS that Young Avengers might not be the best title to put with the all ages comics

marchionessofblackadder:

corseque:

actually shocked into LAUGHING OUT LOUD at Charming instantly punching Hook in the face by way of greeting

“If he tries anything, I’ll shoot him in the face.”

WHY AM I SUDDENLY LIKING PRINCE CHARMING

#he is so done with this magic bullshit #he just wants a farm

(via eggplantcrusader)

Marissa Sammy on Star Trek: Into Whiteness.

perfect commentary which parallels what Rawles was saying earlier about the possibility of Moriarty being a person of color: 

• “…The actual issue is that black people aren’t often allowed to play full and complete characters, and an antagonist who isn’t unintelligent, thuggish cannon fodder is just as much of a rarity for black men as the stubbly hero who saves the world or wtfever. “
• “…The stereotype in no way intersects with brilliant geniuses who choose to step outside of the boundaries of society in order to exercise their intellect while having no concern for lesser beings.
  
  Or to break it down further: the problematic stereotype regarding black people is that of being, in essence, subhuman. Characters of the Moriarty (and Holmes) archetype are rooted in being superhuman.”

You see? It’s more complicated than “people of color get typecast as villains.”

Black people get typecast as an extremely specific type of villain - they’re thugs, brutish and animalistic. South Asian actors are similarly typecast as scary oppressive (usually coded Muslim) terrorists.

But when your villain is of the superhuman archetype? When they’re brooding antiheroes, when they’re nuanced, when they’re multi-faceted?

They’re white.

(And check out this post on the glorification of white criminality in shows like Dexter, Breaking Bad, Weeds, Boardwalk Empire, The Sopranos, etc.)

(via failedblackwoman)

shine-on-you-crazy-dolphin:

bunnybotbaby:

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that’s a very common theory and most fans take it to be canon at this point, but nothing’s been confirmed. also some people think it wasn’t a case of rape, but that the two characters were secretly in love the whole time and couldn’t be together legitimately.

musicalchaos07:

This has been a Kaldur’ahm Appreciation post

(via electrophilic)

The season finale for the Walking Dead really highlighted what was wrong with this entire season. Things need to get done, but the characters don’t want to do them. And then when things actually happen it feels anticlimatic.

And the characters seem to have the flimsiest motivations yet. Like the Governor is a BAD man who does BAD things but why does he do this? Why does he kill people who don’t try to threaten Woodbury? Why did he condone Merle kidnapping Glenn and Maggie and their torture? The only thing I can think is that he does these things because he’s “crazy” and that’s a real shitty excuse there.

Why don’t Rick and the others just leave the prison? It’s been suggested multiple times by many different characters but they just refuse for no real satisfying reason. I understand that they don’t really want to go back out on the road and having to deal with the problems that come from that, but the prison isn’t all that safe. There’s a huge part of it where the walls have just crumbled and walkers/other people can just walk in and reach the area that Rick and Co. are staying. It’s by Woodbury which has been proven to be dangerous. Why does he even believe for a second that the Governor would let them all live in peace if they hand over Michonne? The Governor has proven to be violent and he was the one starting the aggression by kidnapping Glenn and Maggie. 

Andrea doesn’t want anyone to die. That’s all well and good, but people will die regardless if the guy who’s been shown to be less than stable is still in power. The Governor lies to people, he’s lied to her. He’s outright aggressive to people Andrea has known for longer than she’s known him. I’ve defended Andrea a lot this season, but I don’t like the way she’s been handled. I don’t like that they made her willfully blind to the things around her until it was too late. I don’t like that they made her feel weak and stupid because they didn’t bother actually telling us her motivations until she’s dying. We see Andrea having some sort of internal struggle, but without knowing what that struggle is we don’t know if she just wants to believe everything is fine or if she is too weak willed to do what needs to be done. 

And this season felt like just filler. I’d say it was worse in that regard than the last season because at least in season two I felt like everything was kind of building on itself until the eventual implosion at the end. Here there was some buildup and no real payoff. We know immediately that Woodbury is bad news. Michonne somehow knows this but it’s never explained why she does. Characters die, but most of them feel like they were just cannon fodder in the first place, Oscar and Axel as the most egregious examples. 

The finale was the worst for the fact that it doesn’t really feel like much happens and what does happen feels cheap and stupid. Confrontation between Rick and the Governor? An anti-climatic invasion of the prison where the Governor wasn’t even smart enough to leave someone with the cars to guard them and watch their backs. And then they go to Woodbury to finish it and the Governor isn’t even there. The Governor decides to go crazy and shoots everyone, so I guess now everyone at Woodbury knows he’s evil (why does he do this? why doesn’t anyone try to shoot HIM when he’s firing on his own people?). How about Andrea’s storyline, how does that end? Oh she gets a last battle with the nerd guy’s zombie that’s not even seen on screen and she kills herself because she got bitten. It’s a pretty far cry from Andrea from the last season finale where she was alone, fending off zombies for like 12 hours and running/fighting for her life. 

Basically, things happen but without real payoff. Characters have conflict that doesn’t really feel like much of a conflict because it’s either not explained well or the audience knows the characters aren’t going to do it. And nothing is resolved at the end. This season just felt horrible. It felt pointless. The things I liked were the things I already knew I was going to like, like Daryl and Michonne, and the things I didn’t like were either because they were horribly written (like the “there can only be one” crap with T-Dog, Oscar, and Tyreese) or because they didn’t seem to go anywhere. All I can say is that I really hope season 4 doesn’t continue in this same vein because I would refuse to watch it.

(Source: amywiliams, via eggplantcrusader)

One son returns from the grave as another enters it…
What a fitting ending this has become.

(via eri04)

slipstreamborne:

making your way in the world today takes everything you’ve got

mymichelle242:

owldee:

chuckle-voodoos:

missturdle:

OZAI ISN’T ZUKO’S FATHER WHICH COMPLETELY THROWS OUT ZUKO AS A LEGITIMATE HEIR TO THE THRONE AND THE ENTIRE ARC OF ZUKO HAVING TWO WARRING BLOODLINES INSIDE HIM TO HAVE TO CHOOSE BETWEEN AND ANYONE WHO TRIES TO PULL “WELL OZAI RAISED HIM” WITH ME GETS THE DUNGEON FOR 3948758456 YEARS BECAUSE OZAI WAS AN ABUSIVE FUCK AND IROH WAS ZUKO’S REAL FATHER IN ANY SENSE OF THE WORD THAT MATTERS AND MIKE AND BRYAN AND GENE YANG ARE IN A TIME OUT NOW THEY ARE GROUNDED FOREVER

THEY TRASHED ZUKO’S DEVELOPMENT AND HIS CHARACTER AND THE STRUGGLES HE WENT THROUGH BY MAKING HIM SOMEONE ELSE’S SON

LITERALLY HIS ENTIRE ARC WAS BASED OFF OF OZAI’S ABUSE AND NEGLECT TOWARDS HIM AND HIM BEING A CHILD WHO JUST WANTED HIS FATHER TO LOVE HIM

THIS IS THE WORST NARRATIVE BETRAYAL IN THE HISTORY OF BETRAYALS 

THIS IS SHITTIER THAN THE ENTIRETY OF THE LAST AIRBENDER MOVIE WHICH AT LEAST MADE ME LAUGH AT ITS STUPIDITY

I AM IN A RAGE

THIS IS PROBABLY MADDER ABOUT FICTIONAL COMICS CHARACTERS THAN I HAVE EVER BEEN

HOW DARE THEY.

FUCKING

FUUUUUUUUC<KINGNNGNNGGGGG

ARE YOU SHITTING ME

*long sigh*

OH MY GOB I WOULD RATHER HAVE THREE MORE SHYAMALAN MOVIES AND WATCH THEM FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE THAN HAVE THIS 

(Source: turdlewexler, via fourofthem)