#Book the First: A New World

[suntails]

blessed be the night

#my friend sent me the song 'hijo de la luna' and said it's silver-core and ive been looping it for 3 days. i um. im normal #its got this haunting energy to it thats so GOOD. the moon wants a kid and silver is that kid babey. reminds me of ell's fic hollow moon... #but yea SOLAR ECLIPSE PIECE BABEY!!!! the sun from his origins and the moon as his new home. freshly silver hair like the blocking moon #decided i wasnt gonna do lineart for this so instead i did the worlds cleanest sketch ever and u cant fuckign tell the difference. i #its giving me this strange dystopian vibe that im not like. im not MAD at it but it wasnt intentional? i dunno GHVJBDK art be weird sometim #twst #twisted wonderland #twst silver #silver vanrouge #ch 7 spoilers #book 7 spoilers #suntails #tumblr gets it first again YYYIPPEEEEEEEE

[twilight-zoned-out]

"Seven years ago we all went through the flames; and the happiness of some of us since then is, we think, well worth the pain we endured."

Although Dracula was published in 1897, some think that it takes place in 1893 because of the way the days and dates used line up. If that's the case, Jonathan Harker's epilogue, seven years later, would have been added around 1900. A new era bubbling with new change and new conventions. The story ends with Jonathan looking ahead to a new century filled with the unknown and being able to look on the past, despite its darkness, "without despair."

#dracula #dracula daily #November 7 #thanks to anon who mentioned 'new woman' term didn't get officially coined until 1894 #but at the same time certain technology mentioned in the book didn't get its stride until the early 1890s #by publication it ends near the end of the century either way #but ending exactly on 1900 would be an extra nice touch #Jonathan harker #mina harker #1893 was also the year that electricity was displayed on a large scale for the first time at the Colombian Exposition in Chicago #also known as the “World's Fair” #bram stoker #quincey morris #jack seward #abraham van helsing #arthur godalming #the emphasis on modern methods and technology and unconventional characters throughout and then ending with the beginning of a new era #dracula analysis #dracula thoughts #one of those things where you wonder if it was intentional or just worked out really well #twilight-zoned-out #did not keep up with drac daily very well this year #but congratulations to those who did

[electricmaimer]

"i dont care if people who havent read the books get spoiled for the show" <- words of a person i now want to bite and yell at

#BE FUCKING NICE #A LOT OF THEM ARE CHILDREN??? THEY EITHER HAVENT GOTTEN AROUND TO READING THE BOOKS BECAUSE THEY DIDNT HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO YET #OR #ADDITIONALLY IT IS 2023. THE WORLD IS DIFFERENT AND MEDIA IS BEING ADAPTED FOR NEW GENERATIONS #TRY HOLDING SOME WONDER AND JOY IN YOUR HEART AND THINK ABOUT HOWW FUN IT IS TO EXPERIENCE A STORY FOR THE FIRST TIME #STOP SPOILING SHIT ON PURPOSE IT MAKES ME WANT TO COMMIT CRIMES❤️ #literally dont be a spiteful dick and stop ruining things for fun or because you want to gatekeep and have a superiority complex #fuck uou i would personally give ANYTHING to get to experience this story for the first time again #and watching people ruin in in real time for people experiencing it for the firdt time. i hate you #ypure all extremely selfish and shortsighted for doing this whole 'yeah but the books have been out for forever.. :/' bs #absolutely giving yourself away as a fucking clown with no ability to gain anything positive from shared joy. get well soon #percy jackon and the olympians #percy jackson #pjo show #percy jackson show #pjo tv show #eeanpost #ALSO THE FUCKING AUDACITY FOR THE FANBASE OF A BOOK SERIES ABOUT KIDS STRUGGLING WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES TO YELL AT PEOPLE FOR NOTREADING #DO YOU FUCKING HEAR YPURSELVES ???? WHAT THE FUCK??? THE STORY IS MORE ACCESSIBLE NOW. THAT IS A GOOD THING. HTJSJJTJFJG

[cimerran-714]

Okay, so as the fandom likes to claim that Harry/Hermione wouldn't work because Harry himself says that he likes her as a sister, I thought I'll make a post about that. After all, it's something we hear from his mouth, right? It's supposed to be the "smoking gun" evidence.

All we have to do, however, is to look at the situation more closely.

*rubs hands together*.

First of all, you can say one thing and mean another. As canon shippers claim that there's evidence of Romione before book 4 which are NOT romantic in nature (as in you don't have to actually say that you like someone, as Romione shippers bring up things like Hermione noticing Ron's face closely in the first book, etc), we can apply the same principle to Harmony. There's a whole lot of textual evidence that Harry finds her attractive.

“After you left,” he said in a low voice, grateful for the fact that Ron’s face was hidden, “she cried for a week. Probably longer, only she didn’t want me to see. There were loads of nights when we never even spoke to each other. With you gone..."

Two things to note here:

Harry's apparently grateful that Ron's face is hidden when he makes this statement, which should make us wonder how truthful he's being.

The emphasis on the "nights" is interesting. We do know that they were actively discussing the location of the Horcruxes, from an early chapter, despite being sad initially that Ron had left. But of course Harry cannot tell him that. He had just returned, and so he makes it sound as if they hardly spoke to each other after Ron had left. That's a lie.

Like I said, we have to look at the context. They had moved on without Ron, and part of the reason Harry says that is probably to make him feel better now that he's back.

And lastly, Harry even considered Ginny as his sister initially. Have a look at this:

They had lived, had they not, like brother and sister all summer, playing Quidditch, teasing Ron, and having a laugh about Bill and Phlegm?

Yes, Harry's rationalizing it to himself, but he's doing that by thinking back to how he essentially considered Ginny as his sister while they were at The Burrow.

So, no, it's not a slam-dunk argument when canon shippers bring it up, even though it certainly looks like that on the surface.

#harmony #harry x hermione #harmione #harry potter series #harry x ginny #deathly hallows #harry potter books #harry potter fandom #harry potter #hp fandom #harry james potter #new books #books and reading #books #wizarding families #first wizarding war #wizarding world #shipping dynamics #hp meta #books & libraries #booksbooksbooks

[tinynavajoreads]

Hi!

Asking because you’re a librarian: I read 1491 and liked it; what other nonfiction books would you recommend on precolonial Indigenous civilizations in the Americas, especially on civilizations other than the famous (Aztec, Mayan, Inca) ones? I was especially interested in the parts on Amazonian civilizations.

Hello! I'm hopefully living up to my librarian title with these titles!

Indians Before Columbus; Twenty Thousand Years of North American History Revealed by Archeology by Paul S. Martin

Fair Gods and Stone Faces by Constance Irwin

America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization by Graham Hancock

The First Americans: The Pleistocene Colonization of the New World edited by Nina G. Jablonski

Daily Life in Pre-Columbian Native America by Clarissa W. Confer

This is only a handful of what I was able to find, but there is plenty more if you'd like those as well. Hope you find something you like in this list and happy reading!

#reading recommendations #librarian #native american #Indians Before Columbus #Fair Gods and Stone Faces #America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization #The First Americans: The Pleistocene Colonization of the New World #Daily Life in Pre-Columbian Native America #reading #books #booklr #book talk

[deadpresidents]

can you recommend a book about the end of world war one

There are SO many that it kind of depends on what exactly you're interested in reading about: the story of the Armistice and actual end of the war; the negotiations that led to the Treaty of Versailles; an overview of how the world tried to start putting itself back together (and how so much of that "reconstruction" ended up leading to World War II less than 20 years later and many of the conflicts around the world since 1918), and so on. I'll try to give you a suggestion for each of those aspects of the end of the First World War.

Eleventh Month, Eleventh Day, Eleventh Hour: Armistice Day, 1918: World War I and Its Violent Climax by Joseph E. Persico (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) is an excellent look at the military aspect of the end of the war.

Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World by Margaret MacMillan (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) is probably the best book about the diplomatic negotiations following the end of the war which, among other things, led to the Treaty of Versailles, carved new boundaries and created new territories in vast parts of the world which led to decades of conflicts that are still being fought today, punished Germany so harshly that it led to the rise of Hitler and the Nazis, and much more.

The Vanquished: Why the First World War Failed to End by Robert Gerwarth (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) is the story of the brutal consequences of the war and diplomatic blunders of the victors which ultimately resulted in scores of governments falling, empires collapsing, dynasties going extinct, economic chaos -- and the aftermath of those disasters.

But my highest recommendation is Charles Emmerson's book Crucible: The Long End of the Great War and the Birth of a New World, 1917-1924 (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO), which was published in 2019 and is, without a doubt, the absolute best book I've read in the past 10 years. It's on the short-list of best books I've EVER read. Crucible touches on all the aspects of the end of the war that I mentioned, but does so through the stories of individual people -- mostly notable people, but in a much different manner than normal biographies or history books. It's actually kind of hard to explain the book because it's so original in the amazing way that Emmerson writes, but I don't simply recommend Crucible for someone wanting to read about the end of World War I; I think everyone should check it out. I give a lot of book suggestions, but I don't exaggerate when it comes to praising a book to this extent. It's remarkable and as I've said before, I'm always frustrated that I can't read it for the first time all over again.

#History #Books #Book Suggestions #Book Recommendations #World War I #End of World War I #Paris 1919 #Margaret MacMillan #The Vanquished #Robert Gerwarth #Crucible #Crucible: The Long End of the Great War and the Birth of a New World #Charles Emmerson #Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World #WWI #First World War #Great War #World War I Books #The Vanquished: Why the First World War Failed to End

[lollytea]

How do I say, without coming across as a jaded miserable little bitch who likes raining on everybody's parade, that the PJO Disney plus adaption is nostalgia bait, in the same way that their live action remakes are

#it'll probably be good #it sounds like its gonna be a pretty faithful adaption #im not denying that #but #20-30 something year old you ARE being pandered to by the Walt Disney Corporation #its fine to be excited for it. just so long as we are all aware of whats happening #also we gotta stop acting like mr riordan is some underdog in this situation #hes written one of the most successful teen lit series of all time #and in disney's current quirky girl phase of grasping hold of anything that already has a following #of COURSE they snatched this shit up #''Percy Jackson. A Disneyplus original.'' #do you have any idea just how much theyre salivating to have their name attached to this series? #(tbf the books were owned by disney too. but a streaming service makes their link to the franchise all the more evident) #anyway. maybe i sometimes get a little bitter when i think about all the original projects in production that were abruptly cancelled #usually because of the current fear to take risks and put something new into the world #and then i remember adaptions like are going ahead #there is no risk associated the pjo series. the first few books are relatively squeaky clean for a teenage audience #this is a comfortable direction for them to go in #''but but but theres gay people in it'' hush. disney is not afraid of captilizing on the gay experience #also im pretty sure the gay people dont show up until like. 8 books in #thats 8 seasons #can you imagine #''guys we need to keep giving this show our support so we can eventually get solanjello (or whatever its called)'' #ooooh theyre quite evil. very interesting #even tho like. dont worry you'll get your gay people eventually. you'll get all your book adaptions. you'll get all those seasons. #this franchise is disneys new pet #you can smell it #the hype. the cast announcements. the promotion #LIN MANUEL MIRANDA??? #theyre going to squeeze every last drop of engagement they can get out of it

[waffietato]

No actually though while I'm on a roll ranting about the funny monke show

THIS FUCKING SCENE IN PARTICULAR GETS ME SO BAD. I THINK ABOUT THIS SCENE SO OFTEN

The timing of MK's words and what we see on screen.

"I'd never abandon her when she needs me"

When MK says this, the shot is focused on Wukong, as he listens in and starts to glance back at Macaque.

LIKE WE KNOW. WE K N O W WUKONG ABANDONED MACAQUE. Those two have SOME shit going on in their past. Macaque needed Wukong, and he left him (either intentionally or unintentionally) and that left Macaque bitter and sad, and that bitterness was prolly left to rot after hundreds of years (not to mention that whatever happened between them got worse and worse and. Yknow jttw. Wukong ends up killing him.)

BUT WHAT GETS ME IS THE NEXT PART AFTERWARDS.

"We're heroes, it's what we do!"

Macaque and Wukong have ALWAYS been compared to the sun and moon. Like, canonically. Wukong calls Macaque his shadow, Macaque compares him to light-- they're opposites.

When MK talks about them being heroes, it's focused on Macaque because- well, he's NOT a hero. Not to himself, anyway. And this is brought up again and again; during his shadow plays, he specifically refers to Wukong (and MK) as "the hero". And they are! But Macaque doesn't see himself like that-- he refers to himself as "the Warrior". He doesn't feel like a hero. And this is brought up again in the s3 specials. "I'm not a hero, bud-" and "then be a warrior".

He's so used to living in everyone's shadows and being at the bottom of the barrel-- he's got a "worse version of Wukong's powers" (in Wukong's own words), he's revived by LBD only to be forced to do her dirty work, he's punished when he doesn't fall in line with her- he loses no matter what.

AND LBD SAYS IT HERSELF.

As soon as Macaque was given the chance (or, a "breath of new life") he tries to fuck off and do his own thing! He tries to stay far away from everything else.

But he doesn't get to.

He's threatened and shoved down into the dirt again and again and again and it's no wonder he was so desperate in s3e8-10. He tries to freak Tang out, tries to compare them to each other, but it backfires. LBD immediately tries to off him, but he desperately screams at her about a weapon MK and the others are planning to use- he doesn't care that he's giving her information, he just doesn't want to DIE. He begs MK and everyone else to stand down, that he just wants to take the Samadhi Fire and leave. He sounds just so DONE with it all during that scene. And when Tang does finish the ritual and the Samadhi Fire is reawakened-- what does it do?

It gets rid of LBD's hold on Macaque. He's no longer being trapped in crystal.

And he says, all happy, "it worked!"

You see the same thing in s3e8. After Tang tells him "don't you see the Samadhi Fire is our only way of helping humanity?"

Macaque tells him, "the Samadhi Fire is MY only chance at getting far away from the Lady Bone Demon"

He never wanted to help her. All he wanted to do was get away from her. He never intended to give her the Samadhi Fire, the rings-- nothing.

He's selfish, and honestly, who can blame him? Given everything we know about him, he owes everyone here nothing. He doesn't want to help them, he doesn't want to help or listen to WUKONG, who (again, either intentionally or unintentionally) abandoned him and later killed him, he doesn't even want to rlly hurt MK that much ("stand down, or I will PUT you down" implies that he doesn't want to fight him if he doesn't have to, but at this point he's so desperate for his own survival that he will if MK won't get out of his way).

Macaque doesn't see himself as a hero because he can't identify himself with that kind of title.

Just.

This scene, man. There's so much behind it.

#Lmk #Lego monkie kid #Monkie Kid #I think there's the often characterization that Macaque is just an asshole and finds joy in fucking with them and that's just... #Not how I see it #I think? #Like. #Hm. #I'll avoid talking about jttw until I actually get the books and read them but for now #LBD revealed to us in s3 that Mac's only alive bc she brought him back in order to help her uj #Perfect the world or whatever #Nonsense like that #And then went off about 'with the first breath of a new life he reveled against fate' #The moment he got to live on his own he immediately looked off from her and abandoned ship #Ig the first thing on his mind was to get back at Wukong? #Which like. Fair ig. Given what we know about their backstory he definitely resents him #Adding that I think the Fanon idea/what the show might be hitting towards for the two of them is so dramatic but #But the original Canon. #Was just. #Macaque fucking around and finding out

[chaoticvictorianspirit]

I'm so for real right now, I'd absolutely nail being stuck in a time loop. it's my desired state of being actually.

#my supernatural spiritual guardian or whatnot would show up around day 100 of the loop like “are you okay?? you were supposed to learn a #valuable life lesson and figure out the way to break the loop months ago“ and I'd probably just be sitting there reading book n73 from my #ever growing Unread Pile Of Shame or watching a video on how to pick up leatherwork or learning a new language like Nah Man Thanks #But I'm Good Actually. I'm rested for the first time in years. the world is predictable and every new day doesn't bring with it a new #set of fresh atrocities and problems. contrary to what you'd expect I haven't yet unlocked all the possible npc dialogue options (I can #finally be as weird as possible in human interactions and see how people respond without fearing the social repercussions). like I'm not #staying in there forever but a nice two year vacation sounds bloody amazing... #what even is this post? idk I'm Tired and Grumpy I should not be expected to Make Sense

[in-tua-deep]

man i have really been thinking about worldbuilding and exposition in books recently

when i was like, i don’t know, twelve-ish, I picked up this book about a teenage girl in a spy school. and i absolutely fell in love with it - I thought it was incredibly neat how the book just seemed to drop me into the middle of the story, even starting in the girl’s second year. in fact, the main character frequently referenced events from her first year (falling in love with a civilian, things ending badly, finding secret passageways, losing her mother’s trust etc.) 

and I actually really enjoyed the fact that the character had a rich and vibrant life outside of what i had read and that the book didn’t go out of its way to explain her past in flashbacks or anything. i understood the main takeaways and why she was reacting to things based on what i gleaned, and more than that i understood the growth of the character, why she was cautious in certain places but reckless in others, etc and i felt smarter for not being handed the answer on a silver platter

anyway it wasn’t until i finished the book and realized there was a sequel that i looked it up and found out that. in fact. i had started with the second book in the series.

oops.

#i will say i genuinely read the sequels and NEVER went back and read the first book #it genuinely felt like i understood the takeaways from reading the second book #it almost felt like i would be doing cammie a disservice by going backwards and undoing the progress she had made #anyway i just remember thinking about how cool it was that the author didn't go out of their way to explain exactly what happened #and yet i was able to understand what happened just by her reactions to this new guy #the oh. OH. of realizing she hadn't fallen in love with a civilian so much as fallen in love with the idea of civilian life #her life being made much more difficult from the loss of trust by her mother and teachers #kind of want to go back and reread it but i feel like reading ur childhood books again sets you up for disappointment #probably not the masterpiece i remember reading #but man it made so much sense bc of COURSE cammie wouldn't just like. give me info about how the world worked. her mum was headmaster. #ofc she knew how the spy world worked smh #so when they were like FUCK the secret passageways we used to sneak out are blocked off bc we got caught last year #we need to figure out either a) another way out of the school unseen or b) find more secret passageways #and i was like !!! yeah! of course! that makes total sense and adds an obstacle for the main character to get though! #and now i also know that cammie a) was sneaking out to see her boyfriend which means it was b) a secret worth hiding for some reason #idk that second book was the only bitch i respect

[jessedylanfaden]

“A certain amount of self-deception

Is necessary to retain one’s sanity”

~Vampire: The Masquerade Second Edition (1992)

#writing a tabletop for my first time #i love my group #my desk gives me such pleasure #vtm #vtm2e #vtm 2e #vampire #vampire the masquerade #world of darkness #kindred #camarilla #tremere #malkavian #new orleans by night #new york by night #books books books

[terpia]

What’s up with Fear and Hunger? You’re the second person I’ve seen blogging about it and I’m curious. It’s a video game - is it difficult or scary?

It's both!

Fear and Hunger is a survival horror game masking itself as an RPG. It kind of has a similar vibe to Pathologic, if you're familiar with it? Both games gained cult following due to how difficult and unforgiving they are, although to be honest, a lot of the difficulty in Fear and Hunger comes from not knowing what you're doing when you first start playing. That's very much on purpose - the game doesn't explain shit. As a result, you die a lot (especially if you try to play the game like a normal RPG), but each run helps you to gain a bit more knowledge of how the game, its world and the enemies operate, making each successive run slightly easier and more efficient.

The first game in the series is a dungeon crawler heavily inspired by Berserk, while the second game is a weird mix of a post-WWII setting, a battle royale premise, and eldritch horror (although that last one is also very much present in the first game). Both games are very brutal and come with a ton of content warnings, but they're also made in the RPGMaker, so you know. Personally, I found that due to the weird stylised look of RPGMaker games, the graphic violence never felt like too much, even if the acts being depicted were in themselves brutal/disturbing.

If you'd like to find out more and enjoy long video essays, I'd recommend Super Eyepatch Wolf's video on the game! It's what made me fall into a rabbit hole of watching playthroughs/videos about the lore of Fear and Hunger, which in turn really got me into the game's story and made me want to play it myself. I'm currently playing the second game in the series and having a lot of fun with it!

#the first game is also what made me finally start reading berserk #shock and surprise: berserk good! #personal #the lore is really what got me into fear and hunger #each character has their own compelling backstory #the world and the mythology of its many gods is fully realised #and the worldbuilding/storytelling is build into the mechanics of the game in such a way #that any new info you get feels precious and interesting and not like an info dump #the fact that reading books about the world in-game can often help you get better items and abilities #and that you only get these books at random and if you successfully win a coin toss #also helps with making the lore feel like it's central to the game/a reward and not only some neat background detail #fear and hunger

[kirbyddd]

barkbarkbark Riichi Book I's writing is like screeching chalkboard to my game designer's, translator's, and writer's ears all at once

it's got great concepts buried in there but it's in like the most anti-comprehension packaging conceivable

#what the hell is wrong with you #folks like you are the BANE of game designers everywhere #and game PLAYERS for that matter #THIS is the best strategy reference the English speaking world's got? #baddabingbaddaboom ladies and gentlemen #im about to make bank writing the West's first riichi primer that actually meets the standards of the modern analogue game industry #(which to be honest is abysmal right now the industry's in an insane 'text free' fad right now where every word is replaced with a symbol) #alright then im gonna set the new standard then #imma bout to do for Riichi Mahjong what i did for Ryuutama Traversées 🫸🤛 #and for all the dudes at unpub who know how to design incredible games but dont know how to write instructions #alright sorry I'll calm down #but seriously i am gonna start throwing together an actually quality-controlled guide #cause every english resource ive found so far has been like this... inconsistent and full of holes and omissions in explanations #chiba talks about the game's strategic immaturity in the west... well it's got an even bigger gap of educational immaturity #anyways.... I'll toss a bit of effort that way #we'll see how far i take it #I'll either make a few loose articles or a fully fledged book. no in between #god i dont have the energy to make another book when i dont even know if Traversées is ever gonna see the light of day #100% complete full color layout and everything. publishing limbo is real and it's every bit as stupid and unnecessary as you think. #(my case is much simpler than most though cause im only working with two small publishers rather than a big corp) #but still. damn #anyways im so tempted to throw some of my rulebook magic at riichi while it's got my interest #not like i need to write a strategy tome the game just needs a professional quality introduction #don't make me do it i absolutely will do it #i did it for ryuutama when no one wanted to give a decent publication-quality localization for the supplements #and by garriot i will do it for riichi mahjong too if no one gives me a quality guide. i aint afraid of a global high strategy game #<- manic #(im not manic im just extremely restless having not been able to do any solid design work in a while and this book is getting me riled up) #cause it's like “i could write such a more coherent rulebook and HAVE written a more coherent rulebook. so why don't i do it again?” #the Disease is why. but maybe I'll give it a shot anyways if i get a second wind (i guess im otakaze right now harharharhar)

[planet4546b]

like leafpool is one of the very very few characters we see that like. actively chooses to be a medcat because she cares so much about it. like its not because of a prophecy or because starclan decides it she just wants to help people. and she cant even be a mother to her own kids that she loves until shes dead LEAFPOOOOOOOOOOOL. LEAFPOOL

#pers #warriors #miserable world. MISERABLE WORLD. #like everything that jappens to her that is so fucked up. and when she was a little baby she cared about it so muhc.... #i need to go reread just like the very first new prophecy book to give myself leafpaw shrimp emotions #THAT JAYFEATHER EXCLUSIVE CHAPTER WAS SO FUCKED UP IT IS NOT EVEN FUNNY

[bonbonbunny]

Who here has read The Invisible Library? 👀 I'm still in the beginning but it's CRAZY; there was just a steam-powered robot centipede attack in the middle of a city, but a heroic detective fought it off with an electro-sword (that was disguised as a cane up until that point), and when they were done (after some banter between the dastardly villain and the detective), everyone just sat back down to resume their dinner.

Plus, this was really funny:

😳

#plus when they first arrived in the world and the new guy said something out-of-place so the heroine was like 'Excuse him he's Canadian' #The Invisible Library #Invisible Library #books #diary post~

[s0fter-sin]

i hate the commercialisation of the avengers inside the mcu both bc i find it cringy and meta but also bc it narratively doesn’t make sense.

we spent ten years establishing that the avengers are a contentious presence, civil war was literally about people not trusting them bc of what/who they are and now it’s almost completely erased and everyone loves them now? and don’t even get me started on rogers the musical

the way clint reacts makes it seem like the writers are trying to say it’s in poor taste but it’s less bc it trivialises a literal alien invasion but bc clint misses natasha and it hurts him to see an interpretation of her. not bc people are singing and dancing about an event that got hundreds if not thousands of people killed. the closest american equivalent i can think of is 9/11. people can’t even joke about it without being torn apart and it happened over 20 years ago. the battle of new york happened 10 years ago in the current mcu, the snap happened maybe a year ago, you’re telling me everyone’s chill with a musical about one of the worst days of their lives?

“i can do this all day” being their tagline encapsulates everything i dislike about it. the only people steve said that to were nazis that were immediately killed, tony who would never talk about what happened in siberia and the 2012 version of steve says it to him. no one else would know that phrase and acting like it’s something he crowed from the rooftops is at best a plot hole and at worse, an indictment of how little care the writers are having for the new era of the mcu

#other than the odd thanos was right graffiti the public loves the avengers now #and that spits in the face of over 10 years of established development and world building #even scott writing a book and becoming a celebrity doesnt make sense with his character considering all he wanted was to be a good father #now he wants to be famous and get attention? #to the point of disregarding his daughter? the entire point of his character? #and tony and hulk and presumably the rest of them getting ice cream named after them after civil war? everyone hated you three minutes ago #i already hated professor hulk for killing the hulk then acting like they didnt but him signing things and dabbing during the blip? #why was he being treated like a celebrity? #he and the avengers failed and half the universe died as a result why would people like him after that? #the avengers bringing everyone back shouldve created an ‘it was the least you could do considering you failed the first time’ energy #it should be grudging gratitude not this worship thats happening #which makes the flag smashers even weaker when theyre the only ones not sucking up the avengers ass #of course they hate the new world order theyre villains not getting what they want duh #instead of it being a valid expression #everyone in the world is way too happy and chill with everything when Half Of Everything Was Dead a year ago #it just doesnt follow the careful realistic world building set up over the entire mcu #coming out of my cage and ive been doing just fine.txt #marvelous #talk meta to me #marvel #the avengers #the snap #meta #captain america #rogers the musical #endgame #mcu #phase 4 #phase four