This is old but it’s still funny

i feel like james cameron thinking anyone wants four avatar sequels is a state of being that could only be experienced by a man

Laverne Cox and Jamie Clayton attend Netflix’s Emmy After Party at NeueHouse on September 17, 2017 in Los Angeles, California.

No offense, but all you nice people who have been going on and on about how much you loved Wonder Woman (2017) and how you can’t get enough Amazons had better show up to movie theaters on October 13 to support Professor Marston & the Wonder Women, a beautiful queer love story about Wonder Woman’s creators written and directed by Angela Robinson, a QWOC. You know I can’t help but notice a distinct lack of buzz for this film on this website despite it seemingly being right in Tumblr’s wheelhouse.

anyways, jj abrams, for all his flaws still:

• loves Finn, heavily supported John Boyega’s casting despite Kathleen Kennedy’s protests.

• rewrote Poe Dameron’s entire arch when Oscar Isaac asked him to, with full knowledge that Isaac was tired of being killed off in every single movie he was cast in.

• gave Finn a full storyline of character development, created a protagonist that was flawed but gave the viewer every reason to cheer him on

• doesn’t support r/ylo. doesn’t fucking understand it

• knows when to call up ewan mcgregor, would probably do it again

Vote 👏🏼 in 👏🏼 the 👏🏼 2018 👏🏼 Midterm 👏🏼 Elections 👏🏼

SERIOUSLY

If you vote in Democrats, they’ll be able to block Trump’s policies

It’s not just that they’ll be able to block Drumpf’s policies for the (hopefully only) remaining two years: the entire House of Representatives is up for re-election in 2018. Whoever wins the House in 2018 will still control it in 2020, when we have our next census. This means we voting districts will get to be redrawn and if Republicans retain control of the House in 2020, they will make gerrymandering even worse than it is now, which already favors them.

But the odds are severely in favor of Republicans for 2018. The election is ridiculously lopsided: 23 Democrat seats and both (there are only 2) Independent seats (who Caucus with Dems) will be up for the taking compared to only 8 Republican seats. Not to mention midterm election turnout is always far less than POTUS elections and Republicans consistently turn out for midterms while non-Republicans fail to show up worse than they normally do.

It gets worse. This is the Senate race in 2018:

All of the states in bold were awarded to Drumpf, 11 of which are currently held by Democrats. Republicans hold a 52 seat majority right now. If they can maintain the 8 seats they have to defend, they only need 8 Democrat and/or Independent seats to have a 60 seat supermajority and the power to pass basically anything they want under Trump for two years.

If you think it’s catastrophic now (and it is), imagine Drumpf and the Republicans with a 60 seat supermajority for two years plus a Republican House with the power to redistrict in 2020.

And that is why organizing now is critical. Getting people to run against every GOP House Member and tying every action by Trump to them. Make the 2018 elections ALL ABOUT TRUMP. This is also about taking back Governor’s Mansions. 

It is NOT impossible, but it requires effort. 2018 elections efforts SHOULD ALREADY BE UNDERWAY!

@ all my american followers

Important note: States redistrict. Not Congress. So, while it’s important to keep Trump from making gains it’s also crazy important to work on state legislature races.

ALL OF THIS

Just to add: PLEASE double check your polling place guys (i cannot stress how important it is that you vote at your correct polling place, too many votes are getting thrown out for bs reasons)! Assembly/Election districts were redrawn recently, the only reason I even found out my polling place was changed IS BECAUSE I WORK AS A POLL WORKER, THEY *HAD* TO TELL ME, otherwise I wouldnt have thought to double check! theyre pulling all kinds of shit this year kiddos, be extra vigilant

local elections matter because all of the bs the executive branch is pulling right now will be unenforcable at the local level if we have the right people in office. my attorney general is ready to sue to protect dreamers, and that’s just this week. is your city council working to stop corruption at the local level (aka people that 45 can’t pay to do what he wants)? is your mayor going to commit to running a sanctuary city (i.e. not using the police force to funnel people into the deportation pipeline)? does your town have a sheriff committed to police accountability? to having a force trained in de-escalation tactics, to community-based approaches? the federal government can do a lot, but it would be a mistake to overlook the power of your local government. not only are they the ones that are directly responsible for enforcing (or defying) executive orders in a lot of cases, but you have WAY MORE ACCESS to them. they’ve responded to my letters personally (instead of a form ‘thank you’ once in a while), they return my calls, they hold public forums where i’ve asked questions, their offices are within walking distance- heck, during campaign season they’re literally standing by my bus stop. your taxes pay their salaries, you employ them. help them work for you, or show them the door if they’re not right for the job.

Report: Trevorrow’s ego torpedoed his shot at Star Wars

Vulture reports on why Colin Trevorrow left Episode IX – per “speculation from a ranking Hollywood movie insider with direct knowledge of the productions on both The Book of Henry and Jurassic World” – that the director’s ego might have gotten in the way. Basically – do not mess with Kathleen Kennedy.

Previous reports claimed script issues were at the source of the split.

Something that’s fascinated me about the whole “why can’t Kathleen Kennedy keep a man [director]???” discourse is how few people seem to realize that Kennedy’s behavior is, in fact, something we should see more of, not less. Because what she is reacting to is a widespread problem that has, until now, gone unchecked: the problem of asshole directors.

Kennedy is in an unprecedented position in Hollywood for a woman. She is in control of the entirety of the Star Wars franchise—what movies are made, what stories are told, what merchandise is sold—and she is the final authority. Disney will no doubt replace her the minute the franchise stumbles, but the past two movies have gotten good reviews and staggering box office numbers and The Last Jedi looks to be just as successful, so she is, for now, in one of the safest spots in Hollywood. The last female executive with that kind of power was probably Lucille Ball.

Which means that if you are part of the franchise, you answer to Kennedy and moreover you have to play by her rules. The stories have to get her buy-in, the actors have to get her approval, and the directors have to behave the way she expects them to. And it’s very apparent that Gareth Edwards, Josh, Trank, Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, and now Colin Treverrow have all fallen short of those expectations in one way or another. (You may say to yourself “wait a minute, Gareth Edwards wasn’t fired!” To which I will reply, “lol.”)

Now, nothing hugely out of the ordinary has been reported in re: Edwards or Trank or Lord & Miller or Trevorrow’s antics — mostly it’s been stuff like “ego” or unprofessional behavior or whatnot. But that’s exactly my point: white male directors are, for the first time, being fired over things that they should have been getting fired for years ago.

Hollywood is far too enamored of the genius auteur trope (and Kennedy is no exception, hence why she hired these dudes in the first place) and indulges the most horrifying behavior from the men it deems “visionary.” Woody Allen, Roman Polanski, Mel Gibson, Sean Penn, Johnny Depp, David O. Russell: men with long and ugly histories are venerated without a second thought, so much so that the ones who are merely outrageous don’t even ping the radar. Rupert Sanders has an affair with Kristen Stewart and gets her booted out of the sequel to “Snow White” (when Stewart played the title character); Jennifer Lawrence tears her diaphragm hyperventilating while filming Darren Aronofsky’s latest whatever-the-fuck thing “mother” is gonna turn out to be; Lars Von Trier…continues to be himself. None of it raises an eyebrow (with the exception of the Sanders/Stewart fling, but that’s because people blamed Stewart, who was 21, for seducing Sanders, who was 40) and all of those men have very successful careers. Being an asshole is perfectly acceptable — everywhere else but Star Wars.

On Star Wars, Kennedy is holding the directors she hires to a very basic standard of professionalism and none of them are able to handle it; and for the first time in their lives, they’re actually suffering the consequences. Bad scripts are thrown out and writers replaced; bad dailies and reports of cast unhappiness get directors the boot. It’s astonishing — but it shouldn’t be. There’s no indication that Kennedy is too demanding or that her standards are too high; but there’s every indication that these dudes have been getting away with absolute murder on their other sets. 

The real question then, the one that nobody’s asked yet and probably never will, isn’t “why is Kathleen Kennedy firing these guys,” but rather, “Why do any of these guys have a career in the first place?”

You don’t have to choose.  You’re a Greyjoy–and you’re a Stark.

Zendaya’s speech at Teen Choice Awards 2017

a really important thread

anyway the part where farrier is repeating “collins” over and over was NOT in the script………o k a y

tom hardy, back at it again with the improved lines in nolan films that makes things gayer

Captain America knows what’s good.

STAY WOKE

This is the Captain America we need in 2017.

Let’s hear Cap’s entire speech:

“Listen to me– all of you out there! You were told by this man– your hero– that America is the greatest country in the world! He told you that Americans were the greatest people– that America could be refined like silver, could have the impurities hammered out of it, and shine more brightly! He went on about how precious America was – how you needed to make sure it remained great! And he told you anything was justified to preserve that great treasure, that pearl of great price that is America!

“Well, I say America is nothing! Without its ideals– its commitment to the freedom of all men, America is a piece of trash! A nation is nothing! A flag is a piece of cloth! I fought Adolf Hitler not because America was great, but because it was fragile! I knew that liberty could be snuffed out here as in Nazi Germany! As a people, we were no different than them! When I returned, I saw that you nearly did turn American into nothing! And the only reason you’re not less then nothing– is that it’s still possible for you to bring freedom back to America!”

–Captain America, “What If (Captain America Were Not Revived Until Today)?” Volume 1 #44 (Peter Gillis, writer), April 1984 

Wow. This was undoubtedly aimed at Ronald Reagan, but it’s like he was talking about Trump and Republicans. Note that he’s calling out the use of fear of “the other” and blind nationalism. 

This is the Captain America the world actually needs right now

I wonder how it feels for Nick Spencer, who likes to think his writing is so very topical, that a comic from over twenty years ago has a more relevant and important take on Steve Rogers than anything he’s written about the character in his entire time working at Marvel