don’t have anything in common with me anymore, and are bored by the things i post
feel obligated by whatever personal reason you may have to keep following me, even if literally any of those above things apply
this applies to mutuals as well. your dash should be your happy place, so no hard feelings and i wish you the best in life
I’m adding here that I don’t actually check my followers list ever - I only ever check the number if I’ve had a rash of new follows - so if you’ve got any anxiety about offending me, don’t worry, because I literally won’t see. Your dash is your safe and happy spot, and if my content doesn’t jive with what you want to see…that’s fine with me.
sometimes u go on google searching for a reference image and you just find something that is totally not what you are looking for but is better than anything u could have ever dreamed
piggybunny12 asked: Can you say more about why you consider Erik to be broken/a monster?
Yes I can. Now, first and foremost: I really like the character of Erik Lensherr/Magneto/Max Eisenhardt/Magnus/other stuff (I’m going to go with Erik since that’s the name he usually uses), I’ve really liked his character in a writerly ‘look how interesting this shit is’ since I was a tiny wee critter who had mostly only read the weird 60′s comics with the ridiculous costumes and over-the-top dialog and batshit plotlines. I was raised Jewish until I converted and part of my family is Romani, so the Holocaust-survivor-decides-he’s-done-with-humanity thing rang pretty true because I was raised to have immense respect and grief for the event in question. So…like…none of this reflects on that, and in fact I’d say most of this is why I like his character so much. Also I’m a comics nerd at heart, so this may be pretty hit/miss on movie canon.
All right, so, here’s the thing about Erik as a truly broken person. Ever since I was little, Magneto struck me as a deeply, thoroughly traumatized individual, which, obviously, is true. He survived the Holocaust as a child, which…like, that is enough to really fuck someone up, on a permanent and severe level. In addition to the prejudice and prosecution related to his Jewish faith/heritage (have I covered my aggravation with the movies not dealing with that? it’s real), he’s been dealt a pretty awful hand on the subject of being a mutant, and been persecuted for that up to and including the murder of his wife and daughter. So…like…he is a seriously traumatized person, it’s just totally beyond debate. He has been treated as inhuman, as less than human, for almost his entire life–is it any wonder that he started making the declaration himself that he’s not human? (Let’s be real, the division between ‘homo sapiens’ and ‘homo superior’ is almost certainly a lot blurrier than Erik makes it out to be.) I’d say no, it’s actually pretty textbook psychology, it’s real, that’s part of the reason he’s such a compelling character.
And the other thing about Erik is that he’s scared. He is clearly terrified of humanity, no matter how much he might grandstand about how superior he is and how tiny they are to him. He is an animal in a trap, that’s how he sees himself, and he reacts like one. He lashes out, he tries to hurt humanity before they can hurt him. I’m of the opinion that quite a few supervillains exist out of terror, but Magneto is probably the best example I’ve ever encountered.
Like, is his trauma and terror at all an excuse for the shit he pulls? No. It’s a cool motive, but he still makes regular and alarmingly effective attempts at mass murder. People break, it’s what we do, and what dictates who we are is where we go from there, how we deal with the experience of being broken. And that’s where Erik gets really interesting.
Because listen, just. Listen. Hear me out here.
Erik Lensherr is not good at being a villain and I will tell you why. I don’t mean that as “poor misunderstood baby just doesn’t know how to deal” or anything, like, look, Magneto has tried to commit genocide more than once, I have no illusions. I like his character, but…um, he knows what he’s doing. When I say he’s not good at being a villain, I mean exactly that. Monstrous, yes, Magneto is excellent at being monstrous, anyone who has a reputation for indiscriminate murder is a monster. Cruel, dangerous, antagonistic–yeah.
But when Magneto believes he’s killed a mutant child, Kitty Pyde, with his own hands, he unravels spectacularly. She’s an X-Man who was trying to stop him, who has shown readiness to die or kill him if it’s necessary to save lives and protect her teammates, and let me tell you something: someone who was good at being a villain would have dropped her body and carried on with his rampage. There are plenty of excellent villains who face the X-Men, whether because they’re too far gone to have a conscience (Dark Phoenix arc) or because they never had one to begin with (Apocalypse arc) or because they’re aliens (like…this is a theme), and they move right the fuck on from killing people. But Erik sends a massive jolt of electricity through Kitty and believes he’s killed her–a thirteen-year-old girl, not much older than his daughter, who was trying to save her friends–and he comes fucking unglued. Like. Storm finds him holding Kitty and crying. That…that’s not the act of a villain.
Another good example would be the fact that, more than once, Erik has been presented with a golden opportunity to just…do nothing and let Charles Xavier die. Like, he would be completely able to say “Sorry, I have to go grocery shopping” (presumably he has to go grocery shopping) and not have to lift a finger to have Charles, the primary hindrance to his plans, out of his hair. And yet he doesn’t. Erik is a deeply, deeply fucked up man, and sincerely monstrous (see previous re: attempted genocide), but he needs a Villainy for Dummies book. I’m sure the Marvel multiverse has a few going cheap.
Aaaaand yeah. Those are my feelings about Erik Lensherr/Magneto as a villain, as a monster, and as a man.
Ghostbusters made $46 million on their opening weekend.
You know who else made $46 million opening weekend? Jurassic Park.
Women aren’t the problem. They’re the solution.
keep reblogging this, straight white men can’t accept the fact an all-female cast of comedians made a successful movie
You may like the movie but do no not come here and lie to me that this movie was a financial it. Because as far as I’m concerned. It wasn’t.
Like many in our country, you seem to have an aversion to math. Luckily, I’m a producer. So let me explain something to you.
The new Ghostbusters cost $144 million to make. That was their budget. (It was actually green-lit for $154 million, but they came in under budget – always good for a studio whose concern is upfront costs, especially Sony who is trying to slash the cost of new films, and especially good for the viability of getting a sequel or franchise made. Wink wink.)
For it to be a financial hit, it would have to not just make all that money back, but go into profit. Simple enough principle.
As of August 2, Ghostbusters has grossed $109.6 million in America, and $51.7 million in other territories.
109.6 million + 51.7 million = a worldwide total of $161.3 million.
They made their money back. They’ve gone into profit. It’s a hit. Not a colossal hit, but a hit. (And this is without video on demand, streaming, DVD or Blu-Ray sales, and other options factored in, which will only keep the profits rolling.) It took them less than a month to get there, and on top of that, they came in so hot from the start that there will likely be a new franchise built from it.
And even if the initial post is totally wrong about its figures, as many of the notes point out, its basic point is still intact: it was a hit, on a par with many classic movie blockbusters like Jurassic Park.
I will close with what has frequently become my catchphrase on Facebook in the current political climate: “You don’t have to like it. You just have to DEAL WITH IT.”
I tried to argue that Ophelia resonated because Shakespeare had made an extraordinary discovery in writing her, though I had trouble articulating the nature of that discovery. I didn’t want to admit that it could be something as simple as recognizing that emotionally unstable teenage girls are human beings. …
When Ophelia appears onstage in Act IV, scene V, singing little songs and handing out imaginary flowers, she temporarily upsets the entire power dynamic of the Elsinore court. When I picture that scene, I always imagine Gertrude, Claudius, Laertes, and Horatio sharing a stunned look, all of them thinking the same thing: “We fucked up. We fucked up bad.” It might be the only moment of group self-awareness in the whole play. Not even the grossest old Victorian dinosaur of a critic tries to pretend that Ophelia is making a big deal out of nothing. Her madness and death is plainly the direct result of the alternating tyranny and neglect of the men in her life. She’s proof that adolescent girls don’t just go out of their minds for the fun of it. They’re driven there by people in their lives who should have known better.
reblog if you’ve ever written a fanfic just to spite the existence of another fanfic somebody else wrote
Funny story. Robin McKinley once wrote an entire book like that. Her novel was The Blue Sword, and it was in response to the horror that is The Sheik by Edith Hull (trigger warnings for rape, stockholm syndrome, and virulent racism). McKinley stated that it took her about 6 months to draft The Blue Sword, which was at that point the fastest she had ever written a novel.
Don’t ever let anyone tell you that fury can’t sustain you through a giant artistic fuck you.
I have heard that “Lord of the Flies” was written in response to a book with some English public school boys getting stranded and having just a jolly very civilized time. I feel much better about that book knowing it’s supposed to be not a indictment of human nature but a commentary on English public school boys.
That book was The Coral Island, FWIW. It’s basically about rich English boys getting stranded on an island and having a jolly good time while fending off cannibalism and rape from “savages”. William Golding read the book repeatedly as a boy, but disagreed with it as an adult, and apparently stated that the Lord of the Flies grew out of the “rotted compost” of his memories of the text.
The other things The Coral Island inspired were Peter Pan and Treasure Island, which just goes to show sometimes the fanfic outlives the original.
