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IronMan2! Black Widow but with her hair tied back
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PEGGY CARTER Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)
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Source: facebook.com
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Lobmeyr champagne bowl, ca. 1900
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What a fucking dork. Yeah, but he's our dork.
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It’s about the aesthetic
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911 is a comedy actually
they’re the same picture
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It never once occurred to me during the original run of Leverage (or during the first season of Redemption) that Eliot’s parents were Black, but as soon as they get to the reveal in “The Fractured Job,” both Spouse and I were like OH. THAT MAKES PERFECT SENSE.
(I would like to expand more on WHY it makes sense, but I need to organize my thoughts and I’m tired. But it really, really does.)
And Keith David was such a perfect choice to play Billy Spencer. The degree to which he and Kane were able to mirror each other’s body language and gestures was slightly uncanny and really helped to sell the reconciliation after 30 years of estrangement and the fact that they still loved each other in spite of it all.
I loved the backstory of WHY Spencer Sr. didn’t want Eliot to join the military, and that the institutional racism behind him being denied the Medal of Honor was explicitly called out.
Also loved how Hardison is clearly having one of the best days of his life at finding out about Eliot’s parents, and how much Billy and Breanna bonded. I’d be so happy to see him turn up again in S3.
Perfect episode, and one of my all-time favorites.
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a choir calling out major tech corporations and brands for their involvement in the Congo genocide.
there are ethical ways to collect the resources we need.
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buck + facial expressions ↳ 7.03 - capsized
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9-1-1 ▸ 4.03 future tense || 5.13 fear-o-phobia ↳ chris calling buck
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Anonymous asked:
I don't understand why you want to see more Ramon and Eddie. How is he different than the Buckley Parents?? It's so weird.
i've struggled about answering this ask because it's so stupid that it's hard to come up with a serious response but i'm going to try i guess
ramon wasn't a good dad for eddie growing up, that's true. it's all in the text. what is also in the text is that he's willing to try and change. the comparison between him and the buckleys is lowkey offensive because the buckleys have very much tried to smooth things over with their old tricks (buying buck shit like that couch, showing up and caring only when he puts himself in danger). even buck himself let go of the idea of the love he had always wanted from them which was the whole point of the coma dream. he let it go. he knows they're not going to change and that his real family is maddie and the people they love, not his parents that will never love him the way he needed them to as a child
ramon and eddie have a COMPLETELY different relationship. there's a whole lot of hurt and unresolved trauma there, too, but there's also love there which is pretty obvious when you watch their s6 scenes, and that's more than could ever be said about the buckley parents. ramon TRIES. we see him reach out and LISTEN to eddie. we see him genuinely moved and regretful. we see him present in eddie's life even when they're apart. we see eddie willingly reach out to him.
i want that explored and i want to see eddie and his mother's relationship explored, too.
so yeah, the buckley parents and ramon are nothing alike. the buckleys are bad people AND bad parents. ramon is a father who made mistakes but is willing to work on the relationship with his adult son whom he clearly loves very much. that's how they're different
ALL of this is so important!!! @barbiediaz thank you. ramon’s absence is the product of his love, in a way. the buckleys’ absence was a conscious choice they made for themselves.
truly the best tags i have seen in a while coming from @buddieblr
#also coming in here with a latino lens and yes it’s shitty the way ramon treated eddie but it’s also a product of the culture#the machismo in latino families is suffocating. ramon didn’t raise eddie the way he did out of abuse. out of grief. he raised eddie the way#he was raised. it’s a cycle of emotional GENERATIONAL trauma that’s incredibly difficult to break.#the buckleys were neglectful they were abusive they genuinely did not care for buck after he failed to save daniel#ramon loved eddie. he LOVES eddie. eddie is his son and within the absurdly sexist culture of latino communties#that means SO MUCH. ramon was raising eddie to be a ‘macho man’. to be masculine and strong in a way HE was taught is masculine and strong#ramon’s shitty parenting is a product of his culture. and that’s not an excuse by any means but he was doing what he thought was right#i’m willing to bet all the funny anecdotes he has of eddie are the same exact anecdotes his father has of him#the buckleys did not care for buck. buck turned to self harm and suicidal ideation to get their attention.#and ramon is TRYING. ramon sees the trauma he inflicted on eddie and he sees how much hurt he caused and he doesn’t want that.#because hurting eddie was genuinely NEVER his intention. he wasn’t raising eddie the way he did out of malice. he did it because he did not#know better. the buckleys knew better. and we know this because maddie had a different set of parents from buck.#buck didn’t do what he was born to do. buck couldn’t save daniel. buck - to his parents - has been a failure since birth#eddie’s the oldest boy in a mexican family. all the hurt and trauma and pain were inflicted because ramon wanted him to succeed.#success in MANY latino families when you’re a guy means toxic masculinity. means suppressing your emotions.#and it’s not RIGHT obviously not. so much in our community needs to be better. needs to do better.#but i have to give ramon a bit more grace here too. he was raising eddie the best way he knew how to. with the standards he was taught were#correct. but he loves eddie enough to want to do better by him. because eddie is his son and he - even with their difficulties - will ALWAYS#be family.#rant over but it drives me fucking crazy when people try to compare them like they’re equally awful#they’re not. at all.
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You know the Grimm version of Snow White makes more sense than most versions if only because in that version Snow White was like 7 years old.
Like imagine you find a 7 year old in the woods and she’s like my mom is gonna kill me because I’m prettier than her and she’s not kidding. You know this queen is that sort of person. So you and your roommates adopt the kid and tell her don’t talk to strangers. And she keeps talking to strangers and getting poison combs stuck in her hair and whatnot.
Like yeah that’s kinda stupid but also she’s seven. She likes apples.
Also imagine it from the hunter’s perspective. The queen tells you this bitch is prettier than me I need you to take her out in the woods and kill her. And then you see who you’re supposed to kill and it’s a 2nd grader. Like how are you supposed to react to that sort of situation? Kill a human child? No. Because you’re not a brainless evil minion you’re just some guy dealing with a cartoonishly evil monarch. Of course you let her go.
Bad look for the Prince of course. Even if she did age while she was in that glass case. He saw a dead woman and just decided to keep her. And once she stopped being dead he was like we’re married now
He did cause the evil queen to dance to death in red hot shoes though. That was kinda cool.
With the acknowledgement that I'm grasping at straws, is it ever directly confirmed that the Prince wasn't also 7?
See, I think that still works.
You are the guardsman assigned to protect the eight-year-old Prince. You are currently in the middle of the forest because he absolutely had his heart set on "going hunting", and the royal second-grader should definitely not be traipsing around the woods on his own. You let him go a little on ahead and he comes running back talking about how there's a dead girl in the clearing and there's no-one else around and he wants to take her home because she's really pretty, Hans, and she's all alone!
You let him drag you to said clearing and okay, that is one angelic-looking dead child alright, and on the one hand the quality of her clothes and the craftsmanship on the coffin (who builds a see-through coffin?) speak to potential Consequences if you simply carry her off, but also for the amount of vines that have grown on the coffin she looks extraordinarily un-decayed, so you should probably get the court alchemist's opinion on that, and there's no way he's going to come all the way out here in his embroidered velvet curly-shoes. And also this kid is technically assigned by God as your natural superior, or something.
So fine. You hoist the coffin onto your shoulder (it's not like the Prince can do it. He's eight.) and head back toward the castle, Prince chattering blithely all the way. And then you turn your ankle on a rock and suddenly there's a thump and a cough and a lot of shouting from inside the coffin and you have now become a key player in a tense political incident with the next kingdom over.
You should probably ask for a raise.
WAIT NO THIS IS GLORIOUS