#best movies of the decade

[jasontoddenthusiastt]

Honorary appreciation post for this mentally exhausted sweetheart.

#i am utterly in love #beautiful traumatized fictional man #my beloved #he’s the bestest boy #he’s full of heart #so many more expectations he feels he has to live up to because he’s just too young for all of this #he’s being pulled in all directions #but he is TRYING his best #they fumbled so hard with this movie #it was supposed to be about him but the entire thing was another propaganda piece #about how he’s going down the wrong path by straying from Batman’s morals #a decade of no animated Jason content since utrh there’s so much more they should’ve done with him #not counting yj cuz he barely made an appearance #jason todd #dc #death in the family (2020) #ditf #my post #stills #favs

[bonefall]

so was ashfur just like sitting up in starclan plotting his really good dishonor titles while he watched people live their lives or is he just. lowkey a really excellent namer. actually how taboo would it be for a leader to have a friend of theirs come up with names bc the friend is better at it. that would be so funny

It's actually not taboo at all for someone else to come up with the name, as long as the leader makes it official! In fact, every leader probably has a couple of cats of high status (deputy, patrol head) that they run names by.

If the leader has fully outsourced it may be a bit insulting, like, "oh so you don't want to do your sacred duty??" But kept quiet or done respectfully, that's totally allowed. The leader simply has the holy authority to set the names.

(I like keeping name "rules" loose because I try to stress that names are very personal and dependant on the leader. A Star who knows they are uncreative and has someone they can trust to do this with them? That's a wonderful way to show something meaningful about the character and the way they rule!)

I can see Blackstar doing this with Russetfur.

Anyway... yeah, Ashfur is lowkey just a really creative person. His skill with his absolutely SCATHING Dishonor Titles is that he is FILLED with spite. He looks for something that will HURT his victim and crafts a name around it.

And he doesn't need a ton of "prep time." He came up with Clearface on the spot. She started calling him out on wanting punishments for people who had already paid for their crimes or done nothing wrong, and his gaze was clear and almost considerate, as if he was thinking about her words.

In truth, her little speech was all the time he needed to come up with something that would emotionally obliterate her on the spot.

Not that it was hard to find it for Blossomfall. She oozes insecurity, in his mind. The way she leans on her family. How she does nothing alone. Betrayed her Clan twice, ay? Ha. That isn't the action of someone truly self-assured.

Twigbranch was also easy. She's always apologizing. Eager to please, suggestible. Ashfur has heard she can stand up for herself, yes, so simply plant a seed in her mind. Make her think she's stupid, tell her to pay attention to her claws, and she will make them fumble all on her own.

And that was important for breaking some of the coalition between her and Alderheart. All the cats who are close with the Cleric's den are troublesome. So it's important-- construct a Blasphemy problem. Or, bring attention to it, really.

BB!Ashfur DOES believe in what he's doing. This isn't JUST incel entitlement like canon! Incel entitlement is part of it, but secondary. He really believes that the Clans have strayed from the righteous path.

Openly challenging a leader, defying the will of StarClan, all this inability to prove their honor in battle... he'll fix it. And he means it. These cats are becoming unruly heathens and he will snap them back into line.

Squilf is a bonus, really. The minute it's between her and his wider goals, his goals will win out.

#BB!TBC #Better bones au #BB!Ashfur is pretty Frollo-esque lmao #The parts of him that people tend to forget in favor of how he goes after Esmerelda #How he's been like. Killing minorities for decades and smashed a mother's head on steps and tried to drown a baby #Anyway go watch Hunchback again. One of the best disney movies actually

[genericpuff]

Genuinely curious as to if you asked permission to use Rachel’s characters and she said yes or if you just decided Lore Olympus is popular enough to make a fan comic of and are hoping you don’t receive a cease and desist? Can anyone create a remake comic of original content and just change what you don’t like about it and it’s considered legal if you say the characters belong to the original creator? There is plenty of disappointing media out there that could be remade. I understand you cannot use their characters for profit so is just posting it ok?

Yes, anyone can, because it's called fanfiction lmao Obviously in my case the term "fan" is being used loosely here as at this point it's more like "foe"fiction LMAO but the same principles apply. Unless I try to claim LO is my own creation or make a profit off Rekindled, I should be in the clear. If legal action was taken against me then it would set a precedent against all forms of fanfiction, rewrite, redraw, etc. content around LO which are all essentially doing the same thing Rekindled is doing. I think people tend to view Rekindled as somewhat of an "exception" that's vulnerable to legal action because it's an actual weekly comic put into practice in the same playing field as LO (though they're on massively different bases obviously LOL), but there's not much more separating it from the LO redraw accounts or even the genuine fan accounts that have learned how to draw in Rachel's style (and use it to make their own LO self-inserts and whatnot). I had the time and resources and experience to do what I do through Rekindled, but every redraw, rewrite, fanfiction, etc. account are making the exact same statement I am, whether intentionally or not - "I do/don't like the canon, but/so here's what I think it would be like if it went like this".

There is definitely plenty of media out there that could be remade, and a lot of them are by the fanfiction writers out there who are filling that niche within their respective fandoms. LO is the one I want to do because it's the one that interests me and compels me the most to rewrite.

Not to mention, it's already a bold statement in and of itself to say that I'm "using Rachel's characters", a statement that likely wouldn't hold up in court LMAO Her "characters" are literally just stylized self-insert versions of public domain figures. She did not write The Hymn to Demeter. She did not create Hades, or Persephone, or Hecate, or any of the other characters she writes about. She does not own an entire religion or its deities. The only thing that she really "owns" is the licensing rights to the name "Lore Olympus", and while the style of LO is very unique and identifiable, you can't trademark/copyright a style because that uproots the entire foundation of what art is (ironically no one has had an original idea SINCE the Greeks, we all just learn and adapt our styles based on other artists that we get inspired by and learn from).

Shit, there are series completely unrelated to LO that get harassed or otherwise warned that they could cross into "legal territory" with LO just because they're Greek myth comics. Punderworld, Theia Mania, H x P Ficlets, all of these are comics that also tackle the H x P myth, and while they aren't attempting to do the same thing as Rekindled (as they exist on their own terms) it's really disappointing when I see people talk about these comics purely through the scope of Lore Olympus as if LO invented Greek myth. If WT/Rachel tried to pull rank over the story's "characters", they'd be picking a fight with every other Greek myth comic, book, movie, etc. and they oughta know that's not a fight they're gonna win lol

So everything beyond LO's branding is, in and of itself, fanfiction. Rekindled is just another level deeper by being fanfiction of a fanfiction. As long as I'm not profiting off Lore Olympus' namesake or distributing my work with the misconception that I created LO, it's legally fine. Morally, I'm sure it doesn't exactly make me a saint to do it, it definitely took a lot of hubris for me to say "yeah I don't like how you wrote your story enough that I felt the need to rewrite it completely" and I wouldn't blame anyone for thinking doing so is icky. There are certain lines I won't cross - I don't use the general LO hashtags because my content is very critical and my work isn't really for the fans, I don't encourage anyone to "show Rachel" what I do here because none of what I do here is obligated to be seen by her (and I know it wouldn't be in her best interest to see it anyways, she's literally said that she doesn't like criticism so why tf would I wanna show her a comic that exists to criticize her work lol), and I'm not planning on posting it to Webtoons because that's Rachel's territory. I don't want to overstep both in the legal sense and in the moral one. I think it's more than enough for me to just post my stuff here for the people who are seeking it, and not profit off it or directly affiliate it with LO/Rachel beyond crediting.

All that said, in a moral and legal sense, what I'm doing is literally the basis of fanfiction, and I wouldn't be going to such lengths and spending this much time every week putting out episodes every week if I never cared about LO and how it made us all feel, even if some of us don't love it as much as we used to.

#also just as some food for thought and because i couldn't find a place to fit it in the post #sonic mania ended up being one of the best games in the sonic franchise in over a decade and it was made by a sonic fangame dev #a lot of shakespeare's most beloved plays were also 'stolen' from other works #and don't get me started on the screenwriting industry #many of the books they adapt into film are completely rewritten from weaker source material or material that just won't work in movie form #obviously sometimes it's for worse and not better #but rewriting works you're dissatisfied with is an age old tradition IMO #fifty shades of grey exists and it was literally twilight fanfiction when it started LMAO #innovation is found in fandoms #i could just be haphazardly defending myself tho LOL maybe i'm just an asshole #lore olympus critical #lo critical #anti lore olympus #antiloreolympus #ask me anything #ama #anon ama #anon ask me anything #lore rekindled #lore rekindled comic #lore rekindled ama

[burnt-scone]

GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY V3 SPOILERS

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Not going into too much details btw

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Okay, so Rocket is such an empathetic character.

When everyone else would judge Nebula in V2 and Peter in V3, he kinda just silently supported them. He understood their pain, more than any of them knew yet.

It's so sad, too, because these other two characters were loud about their pain, made sure everyone knew about it. Yet he just silently suffered with his past.

(Also, yes I know ppl judging Quill weren't really judging but worried about him)

#gotg v3 #Guardians of The Galaxy volume 3 #gotg v3 spoilers #spoilers #rocket raccoon #nebula #peter quill #marvel #honestly probably the best marvel movie this decade. #james gunn the hero we need

[lesbianwithchainsaws]

"Do you have any horror movie recommendations?" I am asking for your hand in marriage

#im sure I've said it before and i will continue saying it; i LOVE when people ask me for horror recs #making a whole list based off their specific requests and going through every horror film I've watched to figure out if it'd fit? #absolutely the best way to spend time #i love talking about horror. i love when people give me horror recs and i love giving others horror recs #i love talking to people about some obscure horror from decades ago. i love watching not super known movies with people #aaaaaaaa #horror

[we-will-swallow-your-soul]

#horror movie poll #what's your favorite decade #may the best decade win #brought to you by ghostface

[szamsson]

Just a warning bc it’s starting to make the rounds:

All Of Us Strangers will literally remove your heart and STOMP all over it then pretend to leave only to double back and throw it over a fence for good measure

And you’ll fkn love every second of it

#all of us strangers #probably the best movie I’ve seen in a decade #but also most heartbreaking

[stormxpadme]

This series is everything the X-Men-movies could have been if they'd not fucked up from X3 on. I'm in ugly tears here. JFC.

#x men #everything after x2 didn't happen sue me #x men original timeline movies #x men movies #scott summers #they just get everything right #x men 97 #comics who #forget that shit they've been fucking up for decades #this cartoon takes the best of all verses #and puts it in half an hour #ugh fuck i'm crying #i mean sure we still got the fucking love triangle #because of course we do #but i can live with those few scenes

[officialbabayaga]

IT HAS EVERYTHING:

a retcon so breathtakingly insane that it transcends the concepts of "good" and "bad"

the most sinister remix of gasolina by daddy yankee conceivable

jason momoa playing a villain with all the nuance and gravitas of an extra in The Birdcage (1996)

the vatican gets blown up a little bit

a "celebrity" cameo so awkward that it could melt the faces off of those with delicate constitutions

john "i'm not a 'regular' uncle i'm a 'cool' uncle" cena (accidentally reveals his crush on marky mark to a 10-year old)

genuinely incredible explosion and fire graphics

michelle rodriguez and charlize theron get weird together in antarctica

rita moreno is there

#zoe stuff #hi so this is the best f&f movie in a decade at least and i can't believe i have to wait until 2025 for the next one #i want them to make these movies forever i want vin diesel hobbling to the charger with a walker #roman's blind by fast & furious 23 but he just calls himself the ray charles of racing and makes tej open the lambo door for him #f&f

[tinyferalbeing]

what a great day to be alive am I right ಥ⁠‿⁠ಥ👍🏻

#the brokeback mountain play is the best thing thats ever happened to us since the movie #almost 2 decades later #these images are insane to me #am i really seeing this rn?? #wAH ;0; #i don't even know how to describe these pictures theyre just simply so jack and ennis #to me its like seeing more moments of them 😭 #brokeback mountain #tiny goes feral

[sunnybugz]

the grief is inescapable but i can always rewatch but i'm a cheerleader !

#just had a sobbing breakdown about my best friends death (the four year anniversary is in six weeks) #but now i'm watching gay cinema (she would have LOVED this movie i think) #whattt i'm not still in the denial stage of grief after almost half a decade wdym !!!! i'm normal

[akkivee]

just had the very novel experience of getting into a new ship, fully aware it would be a rare pair, hopping on to ao3 to find a fic and being pleasantly surprised there’s a little over 500 for me to enjoy, setting the language to english, only for that count to dwindle down to 17 LOL

#this is vee speaking #ah yes the rare pair curse strikes yet again lmao #tho it being more popular overseas to the point even the fics are affected not just art!!!!!!! that’s a new one for me lmao #part of me thinks this is because it’s gotten a new wave with the movie since it’s so old and predates modern fandom by decades #tho genuinely that’s on me lol who gets into a sports anime and ships the mc with the best friend and not the rival LMAO

[seddair]

Briefly back from my (sort of?) hiatus to say holy shit, Oppenheimer genuinely blew my mind

#so i saw both barbie and oppenheimer the last couple days #while i really did enjoy barbie and found it really cute i didn’t *love* it #plot was kinda whatever and the whole message did sort feel like something i would have read on here when i first joined nearly a decade ago #ryan and margot were great though! #but oppenheimer……. #i don’t know if i’m gonna be able to think about anything else for the next week at least #what a fucking film #cillian and rdj were absolutely brilliant #i am genuinely fighting people if they both don’t win oscars #the last hour and a half was just captivating in every sense of the word #i don’t usually see a movie more than once in the theaters but i’m 100% making an exception here #christopher nolan you son of a bitch you did it again #the ending was so harrowing too #legit the best film i’ve seen in some time #anyway #i just saw it today and haven’t been able to stop thinking about it since #what a picture #oppenheimer #also #since i’ve been seeing this discourse everywhere mostly from people that haven’t even seen the film #this film is not in the slightest fucking pro-bomb or pro-military complex???? #it makes its stance on the bomb very fucking clear throughout and especially during the speech scene and the ending #i have no idea HOW anyone can come away from this film thinking that the atom bomb is a good thing or that oppenheimer was a good man #like did we see the same movie??? #anyway i’m just annoyed by this disingenuous discourse #media literacy is dead

[redflannelsheets]

For my birthday next week I secretly wanted a cake with an icing photo of Ryan Gosling as Ken with “I am Kenough” written on it, but since I’d feel a bit silly organizing such a cake for myself, I got a box of Dolly Parton’s Duncan Hines cake mix in banana and the complementary frosting in chocolate. I might just print a little picture of Ken and put it next to the cake when it’s cooled and frosted. (Damn it! i forgot to get vanilla frosting so I can write on it, OR sprinkles to decorate. This is what happens when you can’t bring yourself to ask a friend to arrange a cake for you.)

#I am an idiot child hurtling towards her mid-40s #at least I recognize it? #honestly ‘my name’s Ken (and so am i)’ is one of the best lyrics of this decade #didn’t really care for the Barbie movie overall but i sure did enjoy the Kens #Ryan Gosling is a national Canadian treasure #anyway who am i even talking to right now #byeeeeee