ifeeltheneedtheneed2read
She/her. Books, Memes & Movies, sometimes all at once.
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Propaganda Machine
One thing I think about all the time is the sheer scale of propaganda out in the world right now.
Consider for a moment, Henry IV of Castille. He was the brother of Isabella of Castille, who became Queen after his death, and it was because of her that Christopher Columbus set out on his voyage for India. We know SO MUCH about Isabella and Ferdinand and the conquest of the Americas but we know so little about Henry IV. And yes, that's in part because he didn't do as much and wasn't as significant, but it's also because during his rule, his position as monarch was tenuous. He had a lot of detractors and people vying for his throne. These detractors put out huge amounts of propaganda, about him and his daughter, and because there's so much nonsense to wade through to pick out even a sliver of truth, we know barely anything about his reign.
If Historians can be largely clueless as to what happened 500 years ago, in a time where there was no social media or internet, and there were highly limited mediums through which to spread propaganda and misinformation, how screwed does that make us now?
Surely it'll be hundreds of times more difficult to ascertain what happened when there are thousands of contradicting tweets, videos and articles surrounding every issue. It's unspeakably horrible to imagine that 600 years from now, Historians might look back and believe the words of Anti-Vaxxers, or take everything Trump and his supporters say as gospel. I'm not saying they will, because Historians are super smart, and a big part of the discipline is taking sources with a grain of salt, but I think it's a legitimate concern, that we're going to lose the lessons we could've learnt from our present, because it's so bogged down in bullshit.
Please welcome your new favourite ship dynamic:
Deranged x Also deranged but hiding it better
why are people still simping for kylo ren when he looks like someone chucked a dark-sider in warm water to de-thaw and left him there too long
My parents r now so invested in the quest to get Taylor Swift eras tickets that if we don’t end up succeeding my house will be looking very Shakespearean. Tragic stylez
To counteract my previous repost of a vaguely anti tony post. Tony Stark you're still great!
i am iron man
M*A*S*H
My parents told me to go and watch this, so I was initially very very skeptical, because they told me Crocodile Dundee was gonna be good and that is a whole separate disaster.
But it's...so good.
Most of the jokes have aged so well and it is eerily clever how quickly it can transition from laugh out loud funny to bawling my eyes out sad.
I love all the characters so much (Except Frank. Hello Frank) And it was made in the 70s. But there are still elements of it that are progressive today, and the themes and ideas about war are pretty timeless.
None of my friends are watching it, and the MASH community on Tumblr is frighteningly small. I'm really hoping someone wants to yell about it with me.
I thought this was such an interesting post and I think it's always good to hear both sides of the story when it comes to both Tony Stark and Peter Parker. Because they're flawed characters. That's the point of them. We wouldn't like watching them if they were perfect and made good calls all the time.
I totally agree with your point about the MCU trying to backpedal and make Peter a hero of the people instead of some kind of untouchable hero on a pedestal. Because people love Spider-Man because he could be them. He could be anyone. And he doesn't walk away on Queens. He's happy just helping people. Not saving the universe. And every time there's a scene with ordinary people supporting spiderman, my heart absolutely melts.
But I'm not sure Homecoming was a total disaster. I haven't watched it in a while, so correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought it was very human, and very normal of Peter to have big ambitions and dreams and chase the kind of glamorous, super, shiny, lifestyle Tony was offering. Because that was what he thought success was. That's what he thought being a hero was. As humankind, we are kind of collectively enthralled by the lives of the uber-powerful.
The reason I quite enjoyed Spider-Man Homecoming was because Peter realized that success as a superhero wasn't about flashy suits. He realized that the lifestyle he was chasing wasn't what he wanted. He realized all the fancy stuff doesn't make you a good hero or a good person. It just makes him miserable and anxious. And if we look at Tony, that's kind of what happens to him in a lot of the time. He's pretty miserable from the lavish lifestyle, and ultimately recognizes that it is because of it that he is all alone. "You're a man that has everything and nothing."
I think Spider-Man homecoming was about him coming back to his roots in a way, and rejecting the billionaire superhero stuff Tony has. And I enjoyed Peter and Tony's relationship, not necessarily in a father-son kind of way, just because I think in the end, Tony was the one who was inspired by Peter. Which I don't think he is by any other character.
Overall, I think it's great that we have these kind of posts on tumblr because they're so thoughtful! I loved some of the ideas put forward in this post.
Also I'm sorry this is so long, it was originally going to be a comment but I had too many thoughts.
mcu peter sucks, im sorry
in terms of the spider-men/women/pigs, i don’t really have a favourite. however, i do have a LEAST favourite, and that is the MCU Peter Parker portrayed by Tom Holland.
The integrity of Spider-Man comes from that fact that he is a working-class hero, fights for the little guy, and his origin story.
and all that was destroyed once the MCU got involved.
why did they not use his origin story? does oscorp exist? harry osborn?? what?? who tf is ned? why does he have powers? why does this movie suck so much? Why are there zero stakes?
-on the ‘who tf is ned’ point, to clarify, i know who he is. ned leeds, the abusive husband of betty brant. then they make this OOC Ned date this OOC Betty. Huh?
where did ben go? why is stark here? why does he like stark? why didn’t he make his own suit?
why is he everything spider-man is not?
the writers obviously noticed the problem, because in nwh, they rapidly back-pedaled to him being poor, making his own suits, and not having a billionaire on speed-dial to bail him out of his problems despite the billionaire still being a manipulative jackass and treating him like shit, while representing everything he stands against.
also, i did NOT like the idea of ‘mj’ being a collective spider-man gf term and just changing up the name. zendaya could’ve been mary-jane watson. michelle jones just…
i don’t even care about the fact she’s not a comic character - it’s just the fact they made her mj instead? when mary-jane is mj? idk i just didn’t like that. there are SO many comic characters he could’ve fallen in love with. it didn’t need to be this oc mj. i know people hate sam raimi mj, but she was still cool with sexist writing. comic mary-jane is such a badass. why did they not replicate that? why not ask zendaya to play original mary-jane? ‘cus she’s not white? that shit ain’t a ‘homage’ to the og mj, it’s just awful.
irondad as a concept needs to die already. please. im so done. peter is manipulated and ignored - CONSTANTLY - by Tony. that’s not acting like a father, it’s acting like a jackass. and he HAS parental figure - aunt May. and he had a father figure - uncle Ben. irondad is creepy and reeks of grooming.
plus, they stole a bunch of concepts (for nwh too, but im not specifically talking about that) from miles morales and itsv. they copied the spider-men meeting each other, and copied miles’ personality for mcu peter. and somehow, miles is STILL more likeable. i miss the days when you could scroll through the peter parker tag without seeing tom holland and r*bert d*wney jr.
but also, literally every other spider-man would’ve been team cap. plus, andrew also said so. they’re working-class heroes. to argue against that is to be wrong. i don’t blame tom!peter for being manipulated and blackmailed. i blame the writers for being assholes, and most importantly, robert downey jr for his 15 million dollar profit off of 8 minutes of mediocre (at best) acting. -(also, saying - he’s such a good actor, he’s tony in real life! - literally makes him a bad actor with no range. someone reviewed dolittle, saying that it was so bad that it seemed like rdj was trying to sabotage his own movie. and i agree.) peter was manipulated and misinformed into being team tony. there is no variation of spider-man that would EVER be team iron-man. unless they’re fckign crazy.
also, tom holland said that if peter parker could bring anyone back from the dead, it would be tony st*rk. no btich.
also howard stark was really hot i just feel like saying that
tobey’s and andrew’s are actually ACCURATE spider-men, and the mcu needs to take notes.
this quickly turned into a tony hate post, but he is the root of mcu peter’s main issues, so.
anyways, stan miles morales
a true icon.
Me: *picking up an old book because I feel obliged to read the classics*
Old book: Have some R A C I S M
Me: hold on-
Old book: How bout some ye olde S E X I S M
Me: what no-
Old book: Sprinkle in some hOmOpHoBiA
*Puts down old book*
The other day I met a guy and his opening line was "So, what do you think of Andrew Tate?" and without pausing to even let me speak, he ploughed on forward with "Because I reckon I agree with him about 20%."
My response was "Just to warn you, you sound like a little like a douche." And he gets REAL mad.
The feeling when you lose an argument because you were so shocked you couldn't sound coherent and you spend the next 10 years thinking about that. This was not that.
"Hitler supported free health care and in the 40s was going around telling everyone to stop smoking. Do you support Hitler 20%?"
Oh my lord.
Look, after a hard separation, I am very much okay with the fact that Keeper of The Lost Cities is not that good of a book, and falling off the bandwagon ends is sad, but objectively not my fault.
But like- I can't stop thinking about it.
Elvin babies come out talking. So like... do you prepare talking points?
Baby Jolie: Hello Father
Grady *panicking*: What's your favourite colour?
Baby Jolie *deadpan*: Rebellion
since the old version of this post was flagged for 'adult content'...
reblog this post if your account is a trans safe space or owned by a trans person!
along with that, reblog if your account is a non-binary spectrum safe space or owned by someone on the enby spectrum!
Belle, Yellow, you know who he is IRONMAN and Winter
everybody should reblog this with the only personality assessment that matters: your favorite disney princess, fav color, fav super hero, fav season
This is late but Happy Ides of March everyone!
Gorgeous
not mine, found on pinterest
Ye Olde Contraception
Me: …
Ye Olde Doc: …
Me: sir keep your herbs away from my hoo-ha
To whoever invented the pineapple freddo frogs;
you suck
and I hope the next time you go to the cinema a child is crinkling a wrapper really loudly in an important and quiet scene.
Christmas is fun because life is normal but now I have the added stress of buying presents I’m not sure people will like and all of a sudden I no longer like Mariah Carey.
Agatha Christie Appreciation Post
Can we all take a minute to remember back to 1926 when Agatha Christie went to a spa for a couple of days and the whole of England proceeded to fall into a state of chaos as it thought she'd gone missing.
She was the top story in all the newspapers.
The entire police force was looking for her.
And the real kicker is that her brother had told the police that she was at a spa and they'd just said 'nah can't be' and not bothered to check.
My Stranger Things SLug Baby Hypothesis
I don't know if anyone else thought this but I've just finished watching Season 1 of Stranger Things for the first time (I know I'm late to it but please no spoilers!!!) and did anyone else think that Will was going to get pregnant with slug things like that dude in Round the Twist did that one episode?
This cannot be a coincidence. In nine months Will is going to be the proud mother to an inter dimensional slug baby.
And on another note Round the Twist was...something. I remember loving it as a kid so I went back and watched a bunch of episodes on youtube and oh man. It's a lot.
Things I've always wondered about in Keeper of the Lost Cities: Part 2
ID Dates. Remember when there was that random conversation in the middle of Neverseen and Forkle was like 'Oh, you're not actually 13 you're 14 because in elf we start counting life at conception. Birthdays? tf are those, we have ID dates which have no actual purpose.' And at first I thought this was just a poorly executed move to narrow the age difference and speed up Sophie's dating life, but re-reading it, the implication is that elves are pro-life, because the argument for that is that life begins at conception. I'm not sure if it was inadvertent or not, but does this mean elves are anti abortion? And does this mean Shannon Messenger is pro-life too? IDK, not sure how I feel about this one.
How can they not notice Oralie is Sophie's biological mum if they have both of their DNA?
Everything about abilities manifesting. Average age is 12-15 right? Imagine if when you manifested your voice cracked. That would 100% make the book better.
Tam and Linh's hair dye. Namely where do I get this stuff. But also...it's molten silver. Surely it would just burn off their hair. Imagine them attempting to make their super powerful statement and ending up with a pile of burnt hair mixed with goopy silver and Linh trying not to laugh while Tam stews.
Doesn't this just feel exactly like something Charles would do.
"OH MY GOD JAKE there were these girls and they were SO COOL!" "Did I tell you about the time we used our mouths to-" "Charles we know." "One of them slapped me and I think I died and went to heaven."
I think one of the reasons the first wives club was so good was because it was about women supporting women. A lot of comedies pit women against each other and 90% of the time it's because they're fighting over guys. Mean Girls and Bride Wars and the like. High School Musical 2 is a prime example. But then there's these brilliant movies like Pitch Perfect and the First Wives club where it's about friendships and platonic love which are really brilliant. They're refreshing. I watched it and for a movie that was made in the 90s it has aged REALLY well. In the first wives club even though they're angry at the young women their husbands are dating, it's not made out to be their fault. It's more aimed at their husbands.
It is so funny. I think i cried laughing. Also kudos to them for having a lesbian character who was shown in such a positive light. I cannot believe this was made in the 90s. (I've mentioned this like three times I know) The mum is so supportive about the her daughter coming out and makes a huge effort to connect with her.
Things I've always wondered about in Keeper of the Lost Cities
Foxfire's school hours. It's well established that elves live across the globe, and with light leaping it's not hard to travel, but like, if they live all around the world, they all live in different time zones. So some kids would go to school when it's dark at home. How do they decide when? It's not talked about at all in the books and this annoys me a lot. Is there Elvin Standard Time?
I know that they make a big point in the books that they have no Human prejudices but I think that clearly they do. Everyone's a little weirded out by the fact that Sophie wears pAnTs and doesn't like dresses or glitter (which is scandalous and totally not common for millions of girls around the world) and clearly they don't have any boys who wear dresses or girls who shave their heads. All the girls and boys conform to stereotypically gendered forms of beauty. No muscular girls. No fat characters. No short boys. No feminine girls. No trans or gender neutral characters. What's up with that?
On that note it really feels like Shannon Messenger is becoming J K Rowling just a little. There are no openly gay or queer characters after eight and a half books so something smells a little funky there.
The crystal palaces. Where do they get all that crap from? There's a reason these are precious stones.
The nobility. Everyone acts like it's super exclusive but like, there has to be one mentor for each kid at Foxfire, because classes are individual, and there has to be hundreds of kids. So there's hundreds of nobility whose only job is to teach kids. Not even go on missions or emissary work or whatever.
This is just edition one everyone strap yourselves in.
*sheldon voice
Queen Elizabeth sleeps while I play bongos!!
every single channel is airing news of the queen's death except E4 which refuses to interrupt reruns of the big bang theory
“Oh Mr Sheffield!” - Fran Fine
dogs are the best guys i mean no one else in my life is that excited to see me when i come home.
actually no one in my life is that excited at all.
"A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing." - Oscar Wilde
But I read this fantastic article that pretty much said the opposite, so I'm torn between a 19th century gay romantic or a Scottish philosopher.
