Carla loved her son unconditionally but she was always a strong disciplinarian. Her willingness to adopt Mikasa and love her as her own also wins points. But for me Carla is “Best Parent in the Series” because of her behavior just prior to her death.
Over and over she begs Eren and Mikasa to flee to safety. Repeatedly they refuse. When Hannes appears and finally complies, she bravely smiles and thanks him.
The last words Mikasa and Eren hear from Carla are ones of strength. She reaches towards them shouts, “Eren, Mikasa, Survive!!”. It’s a final parting gift to them. She didn’t want them to have regrets.
But Carla was still human and at this moment, terrified and alone. When the children are out of earshot, she breaks down. She covers her mouth as she says her last desperate whispered plea–words she doesn’t want to say slip out anyway.
“In my opinion, the best thing you can do is to find a person who loves you for exactly what you are. Good mood, bad mood, ugly, pretty, handsome, what have you … That’s the kind of person that’s worth sticking with.”
-I’ve been waiting for this movie since 6th grade, so I’m…worried.
-Is that Judi Dench’s voice? Why does it have such a weird filter?
-The Fowl Manor design is really quite lovely! Love the cupola!
-Who the fuck is that? Where the fuck is that? I’m assuming it’s Holly, but like. Weird.
-Some of the CGI, mostly of the “Haven City Express,” looks really bad.
-This is my son now. Sweet boy.
-Okay so remember in the book, after Artemis says that the sprite’s healing process is gonna be really nasty?
What the fuck is this supposed to be?
-I can deal with the hair on Butler, but the eyes in combination with it are freaking me out.
-Tell me this isn’t the Neutrino 2000. It looks like a toy periscope.
-This part is just weird to me. Not sure why. But I’m assuming this is Root dealing with Ark Sool’s bullshit. Regardless, that hair looks kinda weird on Dench.
-I know I said that this boy is now my son, and I do love him, but the way he’s walking in this shot makes him look like a 4th-grader trying to look cool in a short film he’s making on his dad’s iPad.
-I’m disappointed by the lack of Holly. I’d have loved a shot of her threatening Artemis after her escape from her cell in Fowl Manor.
-Kenneth Branagh seems to have a real fetish for slow-mo, huh? This trailer isn’t even 2 minutes long and he uses it at least three times. It kinda makes the movie look like it was made in like, 2005.
-I get that this is a teaser trailer, but if you don’t know anything about the books, this will tell you nothing about what the movie is about. And I’m assuming most people haven’t read the books. They’re popular, sure, but not like Harry Potter. Most people I talk to have never heard of the series, and if they have, they’ve never read it. “12-year-old evil genius kidnaps a fairy and holds her for ransom” is a hell of a logline. But what I get out of this trailer is “Someone…underground. What does this boy want? Is that an angel?” This could be any YA science fiction film.
-I don’t know. I guess I’m not thrilled with it. Don’t get me wrong, I’m still gonna see it. I really do want it to be good. I’m just nervous, is all. I don’t want it to be another Percy Jackson.
If you can’t find a place on your blog for Patrick Stewart in a bathtub dressed like a lobster, then your blog probably doesn’t deserve such majesty anyway.
It has returned to my dash and I cannot fight the compulsion to reblog…
the patrick lobster appears only once in a thousand years, reblog for good luck
the DA didn’t make the case for the crime and i went into the deliberation room knowing that. i also knew a half-dozen white orange county folks might not see it that way. the defendant was latino, there was a gang charge in addition to robbery.
sure enough, as we went around the table to give our first impressions, the white ladies used language around “gut instinct” and “he shouldn’t be hanging out with bad people” and the like. others were undecided because there was so much unreliable testimony.
they got to me and i flatly said “i have reasonable doubts.” i stated some of my reasoning and heads started to nod. the next 3 jurors to talk after me were hispanic. they stated that they understood why this might be confusing, and then gave some personal perspectives about growing up in disadvantage neighborhoods, how not everyone is a gangster just because they live there. one white lady said “well, you know, they should really move if that’s the case.”
the discussion opened up and it went right to gangs, right to how the defendant shouldn’t be hanging out with gang members. everyone had an opinion about how the defendant looked, or talked, or that he was drinking a 40 just before the robbery, or that he was related to a gang member. they went right to that.
but that’s not what we were supposed to decide on. we were there for a robbery as the primary charge. a robbery that i very clearly felt the state had not be able to pin on this guy.
so… being the loud mouth that i sometimes am… i interrupted and said “let’s all turn to page 14 in the jury instructions and go through what would make the charge ‘guilty’, line by line, and see where we all stand.”
sure enough, when we focused on the actual charge, and the facts actually required for someone to be found guilty, most in the room agreed it wasn’t there. well, except for two white ladies.
so i, also a white lady, helped to walk them through the list. when “gut instinct” or “it’s a bad neighborhood” came up, i kindly pointed out that those are not facts of the case. when i requested that they use the facts of the case to provide reasoning for their position, they both quietly agreed there weren’t any.
and that’s how, in about an hour, we came to a unanimous decision of ‘not guilty’.
i don’t have experience with the court system. and i don’t watch court room based tv dramas. so i was really a blank slate to all this.
i was taken aback at the very clear inherent bias that some jurors displayed, and all the while realizing they didn’t think of themselves as bias. but i was also taken aback by how focusing on the process, the rules, and the facts quickly squashed that line of reasoning.
this has buoyed me a bit, in light of the actions of the aclu over the muslim ban. but it also feels so fragile. so very fragile.
And this is exactly why I have never tried to get out of jury duty. We need clear thinking, intelligent people on juries. I get so frustrated with people I know who are always looking for a way out of serving.
somebody offer this hero a cape
Fellow whites. THIS IS WHAT WE SHOULD BE DOING.
Which means -get yourselfs on juries-. Don’t skip jury duty. Don’t skip don’t skip don’t try to sneak out of it, get on that jury, and make sure you are keeping all the other white people in line.
taika: here’s this neat symbolism of thor being sent down the same path of his father, shown by losing his eye and having the eyepatch, but instead he chose to be a better man than his father was. also his hammer gets destroyed because he never really needed it, it was just a channel for his powers, and he’s far more powerful without it.
russo brothers: ……………………………….. okay heres a robot eye and an axe
Know what I want more of in my fiction? “Nice Guy” villains. “Incel” villains. Villains who exhibit the most toxic aspects of current masculinity and culture and are shamed for it.
Like Tighten from Megamind.
I know it’s years old but this movie is still the best, especially because of the characterization of their villain. He receives a dozen soft no’s from Roxanne (the Lois Lane archetype), it’s suggested he’s been getting them for years, and he still pursues her even to the point of endangering her life. When he finally understands that her “no” is final, he throws a superpowered shit fit and tries to kill her and her actual love interest (Megamind) and televises it in a ploy to get sympathy (”a reminder of the night she ferociously ripped out my heart”). He has no concept of boundaries or consent, and it is shown for the vile behavior that it is.
And the thing is? I can’t remember another villain like him? Not anywhere. You could make an argument that Snape is a Nice Guy, but the narrative doesn’t criticize the behavior. To the contrary, his eternal love obsession with Lily is praised. Every character who comes even close to Tighten, ends up praised by the end. And I’m sick of it.
I was talking with @bitchfromtheseventhhell about how Jon is hyperaware of social status and acts accordingly, even at the Wall. This rings especially true in his relationships with women. With women of higher or stronger social status than him, Jon is respectful, defers to them, and doesn’t presume to rule them. This is true for his relationships with Catelyn, Val, Selyse, Alys, Sansa, Arya and even Ygritte who despite being a wildling, had known her in context where she wielded significant social power over him (Jon was the outsider who had to prove himself; Ygritte was trusted by the wildlings without question). He tends to offer them terms that benefits them and doesn’t step on their toes. In other words, he doesn’t try to rule them. In Ygritte’s case, he does ultimately “betray” her, after being forced into a relationship with her for the sake of his survival, but it’s an action that haunts him after.
In fact, there’s really only one prominent female character in Jon’s story that is of a lower social standing than him, and that’s Gilly post her flight from Craster.
“On Helen’s form, which was filled out with assistance from
officials, there is a checked box next to a line that says, “I withdraw
my previous request for a Flores bond hearing.” Beneath that line, the
five-year-old signed her name in wobbly letters.”
What the Trump administration is doing to these thousands of children is morally repulsive. We have to stop it.
Here’s an excerpt from a New Yorker feature
on Helen, “a smart, cheerful five-year-old girl” seeking asylum from
Honduras. She ends up in court, separated from her parents. The
organization helping her is lupenet.org, and you should support their work.
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