Foolish: they’re comparing me to Einstein
Cellbit: oh! like that guy from Oppenheimer, right?
Jaiden: wait, I thought Oppenheimer was the guy from Oppenheimer
Foolish (?): Oppenheimer’s in Oppenheimer?
Cellbit: yeah
Jaiden: yeah, I think so
Cellbit: …they had sex
Foolish (?): Oppenheimer and Einstein?!
Cellbit: yeah, sorry, spoilers
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so uhhhh men's stomachs, amiright?
[ID: Digital art of Guzma from Pokemon Sun and Moon. He is drawn twice sleepily stretching as if he's just gotten out of bed, and wearing only a pair of sweatpants. Guzma is a young mid-20's man with short wavy hair, a bit of stomach paunch and some pectoral body fat, with a wide-ish line of body hair running down from the top of his chest to the waistband of his pants. In the first pose, he is leaning back slightly, arms raised and bent to reach behind his back, yawning widely with his eyes closed. In the second, he is reaching high up into the air with one hand while learning over to the side slightly, with his other arm bent with his elbow sticking straight out and his fist closed beside his face, once again yawning widely with his eyes closed. A couple bubbles with a popped one are doodled beside each face to symbolise sleepy yawning. End ID.]
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i just love how we all went 'those two men fucked :)' re harvey knowing about bruce being batman and turner not knowing shit. and the whole 'i'm basically his uncle' thing. uhhuh. gay
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Can we take a moment to appreciate how many hats SWK manages to keep crammed on his head in lmk?
That man was doomed by the narrative, is mourned by the narrative, is and was haunted by the narrative AND is haunting the narrative, all at the same time! And lmk isn’t his story, and he doesn’t think of it as his story, and he doesn’t want it to be his story, but it’s also exactly his story, just a little to the left, and he is trying to remove himself from this new story, but also can't escape it because this isn't his story but also it is, and he's taking steps to ensure this don’t end up like his story, and is accidentally contributing to problems that are making it like his story all over again as a result. What a character!
To quote Anne Carson,
"To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing".
I think, strangely enough, most characters in Lego Monkie Kid are living past the end of their myth (jttw). You have Wukong who is the only original pilgrim still alive and around, you have Tang, Mei, Pigsy, and Sandy who are all reincarnations of the pilgrims (supposedly), and then you have all the antagonists who try and continue their stories in their own way. DBK was freed from under the mountain, almost killing his wife and son in his continued pursuit of world domination. LBD escaped her prison early, continuing her plan for a perfect world which ended in her defeat, her end. Spider Queen refused to accept the end of her empire, and ultimately was killed by LBD for it. Azure Lion had been sealed in the scroll, and after being released immediately tried to continue his rebellion, his hubris, martyrdom, and refusal to change becoming his downfall.
I think in Wukong's own way, he does something similar—falling into old habits and becoming his own undoing. His search for the samadhi fire was exactly what Macaque was upset about in the 4x11 argument:
"You're the one always running off! Searching for more power, or more sources of immortality: you're the one who wouldn't quit while we were ahead!"
MK earlier in the special makes the point "Why didn't he just stop, right here? He was already so much stronger than anyone ever needed to be." to which Macaque replies, "Wukong didn't think so, he always thought he had to be stronger—more immortal." And that's what he does in s2 isn't it? He still isn't strong enough. He can't defeat LBD, so he has to go find the power that will make him strong enough to do just that—and Wukong finds the samadhi fire. Which in turn leaves MK behind, and has him relive his life's story again.
Like, this dude is CRAZZZYYYY
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truly exhausted of “”feminist”” films that don’t even really say anything revolutionary or even explore basic issues in depth and instead rely on 2013 tumblr esque dialogue to make a movie that feels hollow and removed from any subtlety or nuance because it’s too busy throwing basic statements at you like a hand grenade and almost play into these ideas of strawmen and make characters feel less like people and more like caricatures. but then because the film is so heavily based on this idea of being “”feminist”” any criticism is written off as just “hating women” because apparently film criticism dies whenever the movie is supposedly some feminist piece of art. a movie being by women and about women doesn’t inherently make it good and if all you’re doing is providing a more sanitised version of a movie that was made ten, twenty, fifty years ago then your stories are not only bland but also unoriginal.
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