Rise Up, Oh Heart, For There is Another Battle to Win

Anonymous asked: So there's a TV show about the Animorphs... Is that a things that's acknowledged in this fandom or is it Not A Thing We Talk About Shut The Hell Up?

I know there are some people who acknowledge it, but I got through literally a quarter of the first episode before I concluded that I was being unnecessarily cruel to myself and since then I have happily pretended that it does not exist while dreaming about the animated series I want to get someday.

Oh NO! MARCO!!! ANd MArco’s MUM?! Jesus Christ

IT’S SO TERRIBLE AND SO PAINFUL AND I LOVE IT DEARLY

*slams fist on table* Holy crap do I love this thing with Marco’s family. Also is it bad that I found the line about his mother being On Yeerk mothership funny? This is seriously juvenile humour.. and yet

Oh no trust me I too laugh at that joke every time.  I’m also always hysterically amused by the recurring joke of “Hey, Rachel, open this door” Rachel, in morph: *breaks down the door*

Like, I’m a huge fan of that terrible joke, it will never not be funny to me.

now I’m just thinking about Steve Rogers, 21st century pain in the ass

shamwowxl:

Wandering around New York City PISSED because there are all of these empty luxury apartments in a city with such a high homeless population. He just starts tearing down doors and ushering people inside (and then repairing the doors because whoops he did not think that through)

Every time a reporter tries to ask Natasha who does her hair he interrupts her snarky response with I DO

Getting dragged into tv interviews and getting weird questions he’s not really qualified to answer until finally someone asks him what he thinks the founding fathers would have to say about net neutrality and he just says “I don’t give a fuck what they’ve have to say” before this impassioned speech about freedom and information equality that everyone is too afraid to interrupt

Literally dropping everything to show up in Ferguson. Like, thanks police department for all your hard work but you can go home now because the people have spoken and they’d like you all to retire early Captain America’s got this covered

He does not tell the Avengers

He does not tell Fury

He leaves a note for Bucky but like it’s really vague “ttyl gotta go school some haters” and Bucky has no idea what that’s supposed to mean because Steve basically COLLECTS HATERS LIKE THEY’RE POKEMON

Speaking of haters remember that time in Iron Man 3 where Tony gave out his home address and basically told a terrorist to come find him? That’s not good enough for Steve. Nope. He adopts one of those army dogs with the titanium teeth and just starts jumping out of planes and knocking on doors like “hello have you accepted Steven Grant Rogers as your ass-kicking savior?” like this is a weekly occurrence. Arms dealers, the leaders of drug cartels, human traffickers, he just keeps finding things to get pissed about.

Because he doesn’t like bullies. 

Like everyone in the tower sits him down and they have an intervention for him and he promises to find his chill

Starts doing Sesame Street appearances and everything seems normal

And then he disappears on a rampage and resurfaces on the news standing at the protest lines of an abortion clinic escorting women inside and covering their faces with his shield

He probably comes across Coulson at one point and he’s not even surprised he’s just like accepted the fact that nobody stays dead anymore like he’s honestly expecting to punch real hitler in the real face one of these days

(via cthulhu-with-a-fez)

hungrylikethewolfie:

After quite a bit of thought, I believe I’ve finally put my finger on what it is I love about Eliot’s running “it’s a very distinctive ____” gag, and I think it’s largely down to how Christian Kane delivers the line every time.  It’s a potentially ambiguous line, by which I mean that it has the potential to work equally well in two opposite ways.  The first–and the one that you’d be most likely to expect out of this sort of character archetype–is a sort of smug superiority.  “It’s a very distinctive haircut.  If you’d bothered to pay attention,” the line would seem to say, “you would understand that.”  The sort of line that says one thing but means another, says “this difference is easy to spot and understand” but means “of course you didn’t recognize the difference, only I, with my superior experience, intellect, and understanding, could do so.”  False modesty at its peak.

But instead, the line always comes off as almost … defensive?  “It’s a very distinctive watch,” said with a snap and a scowl.  It isn’t weird that he knows this.  Everybody knows this, he is just like everybody else, why are you still looking at him like that this is COMMON KNOWLEDGE IT’S NOT WEIRD, OKAY?  It’s dismissive–not of the person he’s speaking to, but of the idea that he’s just done anything remarkable. 

Because that’s Eliot Spencer’s self-image in a nutshell, isn’t it?  He doesn’t have any skills that couldn’t be achieved by hard work and a refusal to give up.  “I can take the punishment; it’s what I do,” he says, and if you watch him fight, it’s true; he’s not always the best, he doesn’t necessarily dodge every hit or land every one of his perfectly, but he doesn’t.  Fucking.  Go down.  (”Anybody wanna do what I do?  I get punched and kicked.”  Self-describing his place on the team, it’s still about taking punishment rather than doling it out, despite the opportunity to accentuate the unique skill-set he brings to the team.)  “Sometimes I crush it, sometimes it’s crap,” he tells Parker about his cooking, because it’s a skill he’s still honing, one he’s still adjusting as he goes.

I just love that the show had this opportunity to give us a running gag about a character with a stunning amount of practical knowledge, and chose to use it to create a more sympathetic character.

(via renew-leverage)