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something i have always found really weird is when english texts italicize words from other languages.

i remember reading a book as a kid and the author continually italicizing the word tamales

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Wake up, Alex Krokus

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CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER (2011)

#damn stop putting marvel on my dash people #i might end up loving it again #and i would feel conflicted about that

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my personal headcanon for return of the jedi, regardless of whatever supplemental material might say, is that luke's plan to rescue han is too wild for leia to have actually been in on it. like i can see luke planning every other weird ass part but what the fuck was the leia involved leg of that plan? and my resolution is luke described his overdramatic plan involving storing his light saber inside of r2d2 and then gifting r2d2 to jabba and leia was like "what the fuck, why can't we just be normal" and then she went off with chewie, easily infiltrated the palace, thawed han, and the only flaw in her plan was that she forgot she's a woman in an 80s scifi movie

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“Dogs don’t know what they look like. Dogs don’t even know what size they are. No doubt it’s our fault, for breeding them into such weird shapes and sizes. My brother’s dachshund, standing tall at eight inches, would attack a Great Dane in the full conviction that she could tear it apart. When a little dog is assaulting its ankles the big dog often stands there looking confused — “Should I eat it? Will it eat me? I am bigger than it, aren’t I?” But then the Great Dane will come and try to sit in your lap and mash you flat, under the impression that it is a Peke-a-poo… Cats know exactly where they begin and end. When they walk slowly out the door that you are holding open for them, and pause, leaving their tail just an inch or two inside the door, they know it. They know you have to keep holding the door open. That is why their tail is there. It is a cat’s way of maintaining a relationship. Housecats know that they are small, and that it matters. When a cat meets a threatening dog and can’t make either a horizontal or a vertical escape, it’ll suddenly triple its size, inflating itself into a sort of weird fur blowfish, and it may work, because the dog gets confused again — “I thought that was a cat. Aren’t I bigger than cats? Will it eat me?” … A lot of us humans are like dogs: we really don’t know what size we are, how we’re shaped, what we look like. The most extreme example of this ignorance must be the people who design the seats on airplanes. At the other extreme, the people who have the most accurate, vivid sense of their own appearance may be dancers. What dancers look like is, after all, what they do.”

— Ursula Le Guin, in The Wave in the Mind (via fortooate)

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I just love The Mummy (1999) so much like I've always felt it was a masterpiece, I was never able to pinpoint the exact reason but I think I got it in my last rewatch: every single character is extremely competent in a very concrete, punctual and once-in-a-lifetime helpful skillset, and then they're ABSOLUTE DISASTERS on literally EVERY OTHER ASPECT of their lives. Evy can read and Sherlock her way through literally any egyptian riddle like she was born for it, but PLEASE, DO NOT, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCE, leave ANY sharp objects, unstable structures or even-remotely inflamable objects ANYWHERE near her she WILL find a way to unleash HELL IN HER SLEEP. Rick can smash-parkour-swordfight his way out of any scenario but he has to have ALL neurons completely focused on the ONE (1) task at hand and if he gets out-DudeBroed he loses all his hit points his health meter goes red and he surprise-resets like a forced Windows update (see following scene for reference)

And don't even get me STARTED on Jonathan. This absolute gem of a man really is willing to let his sister drag him to hell and back with only mild complaining and will stop her human sacrifice ritual while the priest is mid-swing with an "hey Evy look we found the book!" with the same energy as if he was proudly announcing he found his long-lost car keys behind the couch but we DON'T blame him because he correctly spent his one braincell on THIS scene that changed the history of cinema forever:

In conclusion everyone is so very capable and so very pathetic at the same time and thus we have no choice but to stan

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picture this, i give you a glass bottle and tell you to open it, but bottle openers are forbidden, how do you do it?

#position it against a radiator and smack the top #or desk #shelf #worksurface #choosing based on sturdiness (won't break when I whack it) #right-angledness (no point hitting against a desk with a curved edge) #and willingness to damage it (I am likely going to chip any paint or wood on the object) #i am experienced at House Party in Poorly Maintained Student House

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would you still love me if i was a worm?

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MCU movies & tv shows as of Early May 2024*

FILMS

Phase 1 Films

Iron Man

The Incredible Hulk

Iron Man 2

Thor

Captain America: The First Avenger

The Avengers

Phase 2 Films

Iron Man 3

Thor: The Dark World

Captain America: The Winter Soldier

Guardians of the Galaxy

Avengers: Age of Ultron

Ant-Man

Phase 3 Films

Captain America: Civil War

Doctor Strange

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2

Spider-Man: Homecoming

Thor: Ragnarok

Black Panther

Avengers: Infinity War

Ant-Man and the Wasp

Captain Marvel

Avengers: Endgame

Spider-Man: Far From Home

Phase 4 Films

Black Widow

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

Eternals

Spider-Man: No Way Home

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness

Thor: Love and Thunder

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

Phase 5 Films

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3

The Marvels

SHOWS

Marvel Studios (disney+)

Phase 4 Shows & Specials

Wandavision

The Falcon and the Winter Soldier

Loki (phases 4&5)

What If...? (phases 4&5)

Hawkeye

Moon Knight

Ms. Marvel

She-Hulk: Attourney at Law

Werewolf by Night

The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special

Phase 5 Shows

Secret Invasion

Echo

Marvel Television (abc, netflix, hulu, freeform)

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

Agent Carter

Daredevil

Jessica Jones

Luke Cage

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Slingshot

Iron Fist

The Defenders

Inhumans

The Punisher

Runaways

Cloak & Dagger

Helstrom

Marvel One-Shots (direct-to-video movies)

The Consultant

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Thor's Hammer

Item 47

Agent Carter (short film)

All Hail the King

*I personally haven't followed the MCU closely in years so I had to look through several Wikipedia articles to compile this list. I tried to make this list thorough, but if I missed anything let me know.

#43 I think #but made up with a few shorts #specials #or shows where i've watched one season of the series #depending on how exactly you count #i used to be a big marvel fan

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"Listen," one guard said, "I know we have only just met-"

"No," the other guard said, "we've worked together for years!"

"-but you can trust me when I say-"

"I can't, you have the curse that's opposite from mine!"

"I don't care for you at all."

"Well, I… oh… I love you too."

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my headcanon for why the universe keeps churning out new versions of the 10th doctor when he regenerates is because he was created when nine absorbed the time vortex and it subtly fractured the web of time around him (and specifically, around the moment of his regeneration). the times he's supposed to regenerate but just splits off a new version of himself and goes on existing, or when his same face shows back up when it shouldn't, that's the timeline stuttering over him like a needle caught in a record scratch

#ooh sure i can believe this #doctor who #anything that makes 9 more important in doctor who i will believe #the poor man's whole deal was his double genocide and then we get told that it wasn't him and it didn't happen #;'(

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If its more than one of these, vote the one that was strongest and/or lasted the longest.

I wanted to be a marine illustrator !! Like for textbooks n stuff

#i find it funny that 'sport' isn't on the list #so many kids want to be a famous footballer or racing driver or whatever #i mean i never did yknow i was a huge nerd #but still

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borrowing from the past: — Third Doctor

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Some polling station worker got to deliver the dunk of a lifetime today.

#british politics