#StopExecutionsInIran
well multiverse of madness sure was a film that was made !
Dr Strange into the Multiverse of Madness
So I watched the movie and... I have some thoughts. Mostly negative ones since I haven't really been a huge fan of Marvel anyway but I still found some of the movies to be enjoyable.
For a start, the whole thing feels like a frat boy learned a new word and is repeating it mindlessly. Like, okay Marvel, we get it, you discovered the concept of the Multiverse. And now in the next decade so many movies will probably revolve around that concept that it's honestly gonna become a headache. But to be honest this is the least of this movie's problems.
Moving on from the fact that we won't be rid of the multiverse concept for at least a decade in any movie. To me it felt like Dr Strange: Into the Multiverse was way too heavily inspired by Inception. Like borderline plagiarism imo, especially when it comes to the visuals. I mean, it's my fault I expected an ounce of originality from a superhero movie but come on, with the technology that exist nowadays when it comes to visuals and special effects in movies, they could have at least made an effort to not rip off Inception - from the poster to the visuals it was pretty much 1:1. I understand drawing inspiration from a movie/director you admire but that should not stop you from making something original and good.
And while we're on the topic of visuals and special effects and CGI etc, that movie barely had anything aside from those things. And again, I realise that it's a superhero movie and it is all about the special effects but would it fucking kill them to have *some* meaningful dialogue between the characters? Everything that was said, everything that happened was extremely underwhelming and predictable. Especially the last ~20 minutes of the movie where the dialogue was so flat and cheesy that it makes you wonder whether it's satirical and making fun of how predictable movies have become or if they're being for real with the banality of it. And to clarify, even if it is satirical, if that does not become clear to the audience that means the idea flopped.
Honestly, because of the excessive amount of special effects the movie felt way too fast paced to the point where I actually found myself thinking 'Am I supposed to care about any of these new characters?' Take America for example, she was introduced way too quickly, given no backstory and barely any purpose. Strange's character felt extremely two dimensional - like he had absolutely no personality whatsoever. In the first movie he did have a personality - he was cocky, snarky, sarcastic and here he was just your basic superhero. You could put anyone else in his place and the movie wouldn't change a bit. Sure, they tried to save that with a few snarky remarks but they felt forced and kind of... fell flat. And I am honestly not even going to criticise Cumberbatch because he is a brilliant actor. It's just that he wasn't really given much to work with.
And don't even get me started on the AU avengers x illuminati bullshit. Like what the fuck lmaooooooo. When you get to the illuminati plotline unironically is when you've not only hit rock bottom but gotten the shovel and started digging down more. That part of the movie genuinely made me wanna leave the theater and go home istg.
And now I really wanna get to the part that genuinely bothers me the most - the character of Wanda Maximoff/the Scarlet Witch. I will begin by saying that I don't feel like she was given enough screen time in previous MCU movies to justify the decision to make a separate show for her but go off I guess. Despite feeling like she doesn't have enough backstory either I watched the show. It isn't my favourite but I liked it, it was good. Wanda is someone who has lost everything and everyone she loves - her psychotic break is justified and actually understandable to the point that I was actively rooting for her both in the show and in the movie though for different reasons. In the show they managed to showcase her insanity in a chilling and captivating way and they had the opportunity to make her so much more terrifying in the movie. She had the potential to be an actually horrifying villain but, like all Marvel villains, they turned her into barely an inconvenience.
At the beginning we find out that Wanda wants to kill America, a child, for personal reasons. And if you don't know the personal reasons your like okay damn she's really gone crazy. They hype her up so much and make her out to be this terrifying villain but... at the end they still defeated her fairly easily? I am in general frustrated with Marvel because their female characters reaaaallly lack any depth. But I am genuinely angry cause it looked like they were adequately developing Wanda. They had started shaping her into this great villain and then... her motivation to kill a child was because she wanted to go to an AU and be a mother to her kids? The reason this frustrates me is because she would have been so much more scary if she just wanted to kill and be evil just because - she's lost everything and everyone she loves so she has nothing left to loose; might as well do whatever the fuck. But noooo the *female* villain's aspiration is to be a mom, to be with her kids. That's why she is gonna kill another kid. If the villain was a dude would they give such a lame excuse? Not to mention how she suddenly decided to do the right thing and stop being evil at the end. She saw one example of what devastation her actions would cause to her children in another universe and... she suddenly gives up what she had fought for the entire movie and just... collapsed the Scarlet Witch's temple on herself? That isn't very believable lmaoooo. And we have two options here a) they did actually kill her off in this pathetic fucking way or b) they did not kill her off and she will keep appearing but is gonna be good or at least morally grey or something? And I honestly don't know which one of these options is worse.
Like I feel like we were lead to believe that Wanda is too far gone in her insanity so for her to be presented as so evil and scary the entire movie for her to be like 'oops sorry lemme fix stuff real quick' in the last five minutes just felt so fabricated and unnatural? Like it broke the entire flow of the movie and there was no true character development. Which is genuinely sad because despite Wanda being the 'evil' one she was still the most likeable character in the movie. She was still pretty two dimensional but at least she had some shading. Until the end of the movie, that is. I dunno, it's just mind blowing to me how we got this pretty cool show showing Wanda spiraling and then an entire movie hyping her up as this strong villain/strongest magic possessing character and then have the ending of the movie be so underwhelming and anticlimactic.
And then as a post credit scene teasing the next Dr Strange movie... I was genuinely like seriously? You made this shitty ass movie and you have the audacity to advertise the next one?
Overall I went to watch Dr Strange into the multiverse without any expectations and I still walked out of the theater pretty fucking disappointed. Imo this movie feels like a filler episode in some tv show, and a bad filler at that. I genuinely feel like this it does not contribute anything to the MCU whatsoever. For all I care it could have never existed. But you know... I get it... Disney bought Marvel and you gotta do what you gotta do for the greedy mouse. Still, Marvel and all its actors are complete sell-outs imo. Ang again, it's unrealistic to have high expectations for a superhero movie but this one didn't even meet the bare minimum in my eyes. Overall, I'd say it was really not worth the money to go see Dr Strange into the multiverse in the theater. Now excuse me while i go bleach my brain with Inception.
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Tower Hamlets Cemetery
The last of the “Magnificent Seven” garden cemeteries of London, Tower Hamlets Cemetery was opened in 1841 by the City of London and Tower Hamlets Cemetery Company. The cemetery was a popular burial place for those living in the East End; being one of the poorer areas of London, many of the plots were public graves – owned by the company and used to bury those who could not afford to buy a plot. It is estimated that within 10 years of opening, 80% of burials were in public graves, some reportedly 40 feet deep and containing 30 bodies.
By the late 19th Century, the cemetery was already in a state of overgrown neglect; little was done to manage the space, and during the Second World War it was hit during five bombing raids, leading to the demolition of the Anglican and Dissenters chapels, and shrapnel damage to some of the graves. Despite the neglect and damage, burials continued until 1966, when the Greater London Council took over ownership.
Largely unsuccessful attempts were made to clear and maintain the cemetery; the Friends of Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park formed in 1990, concerned over the increasing state of disrepair. In 2000 the area was declared a nature reserve, and today is an inner urban green space, feeling like a natural woodland with tombstones and memorials rising out of the greenery.
In part due its location, Tower Hamlets does not have residents on the same level of note of some of the other “Magnificent Seven”. However, there are many impressive and colourful local characters from the 19th Century, including Dr Rees Ralph Llewellyn (who performed the autopsy on the first victim of Jack the Ripper), Charles Brown (owner of a pub-cum-museum), Alfred Linnel (an activist trampled by a police horse during a demonstration in Trafalgar Square) and Charles Jamrach (owner of Jamrach’s Animal Emporium, a shop that sold ostriches, camels, lions and tigers – one of which famously escaped and almost ate a small boy).
Anonymous asked:
hey I’m in the same boat as you, don’t go to college just to go to college. It’s so much money+stress and you can always go later if you really do want to study something but please don’t force yourself. You recognize how stupid society is with its standards and limitations, so why follow them? Fuck it. You’ll find your way. I promise what’s meant for you will not pass you by. Let yourself be and see where it takes you, at least you won’t regret not trying to follow your soul urge. I wish you all the best💛
Hey anon!
I know this reply is long overdue but i look at tumblr like once a year. but i did just see this and i feel like giving you an update =)
I ended up going to uni. i've been in the netherlands for a couple of months now and i am studying English Language and Culture. i am enjoying my studies though i am not 100% sure that that's my destiny or whatever. sadly a gap year was not an option for me because of multiple reasons but that's okay. i will figure myself out eventually.
I hope you're doing well too!
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A Rant (tw- mentions of cnc, sa, kinks, information about how these chronically online people need to get off the internet and actually learn about the culture surrounding kinks, and kink-shaming):
Yes, this. im glad someone said this. only point that i somewhat agree with is that one shouldn't participate in sexual acts until the age of 18. that is a fair point however teenagers are horny and hormonal and they're gonna fuck regardless and i think the best way to go about this is adequate sexual education, including appropriate education about kinks. i should also add that people under the age of 18/19 SHOULD NOT be dating anyone over 18/19 or, as a matter of fact, anyone that's more than a year/year and a half older than them (and obviously everything should be consensual no matter what). idfc that they're telling you you're mature for your age or whatever, you're still a literal child and they're just grooming you. and all that is coming from a 20 year old person.
a couple years ago i thought people that were 18 and older were so mature and shit. no we are NOT. we are just literal children with more responsibilities, ability to make money and absolutely no supervision. that is a recipe for a disaster. educate yourselves adequately kids, if you are having sex always use contraception, if you have many different partners test yourself for std/sti regularly and always have a plan about what to do if it comes to an unwanted pregnancy. it is not the end of the world if it happens, you do have options but you need to know what those options are and you need to talk about this with your partner(s) as well. stay safe.
An unsolicited rant about fuck all
I am annoyed and will be ranting and anyone who needs to rant about the randomest shit feel free to do so as well
first of fucking all i hate how cynical and bitter people have become. it's absolutely insane and baffling to me seeing people throwing around slurs as if they're candy when they disagree on someone else's eye colour. when the everloving fuck did we start gatekeeping eye colours??? get a grip yall.
second of fucking all what the fuck is up with the bitching about trigger warnings??? and i have mainly seen this on tiktok but it is genuinely infuriating and i feel like people need to hear this. the rest of the world is not responsible for your trigger warnings. when i see a video of someone preparing a nice meal i don't need to find out about every eating disorder under the sun right there and then. everyone has got triggers and trauma. but if yours is so bad that you can't go through tiktok or whatever other social media without demanding trigger warnings you need to go to therapy and figure out some better coping mechanisms, get off social media and get help because the rest of the world is not going to shape itself around your preferred needs. It's just not going to happen. Yall need to accept that the rest of the world doesn't give a flying fuck about your trigger warnings. you have the responsibility to take care of your own mental health, figure out healthy ways to cope with your triggers and move on. And im not talking about trigger warnings relating to flashing light for example. there are valid trigger warnings. but a dude carving wood or cutting a pencil or cutting a carrot or w/e putting a trigger warning for a knife? come on. asking for a trigger warning when you see someone's scars, be it from self-harm or not is also just plain stupid. unless it's for gore or flashing lights, other people aren't your trigger warnings and they are not responsible for your trauma and the way you deal with it. you know who is responsible for that though? you are. get a grip and go to therapy. and if you can't go to therapy do an internet and find healthy ways to cope. and if that doesn't fucking work get off social media for a day or two and touch some grass, smell a flower. cause if you can't cope with your triggers when you're seeing them through the screen of your phone or whatever how the fuck do you manage to be a functional human when you're outside? cause i haven't experienced people on the street shouting 'trigger warning: _____' left and right.
thanks for coming to my useless rant. feel free to add urs and go get your covid vaccine if you haven't done that yet
The fact that I don't just go absolutely mental and set a car on fire is honestly a miracle of life
Existential dread
I hate the question “What are you planning on doing after you graduate?”.
How am I supposed to people that i utterly despise the value people put into those pathetic papers that we trade for various goods? How do I explain that money is pointless and I hate that our lives basically revolve around it? How do I explain that I am only applying to universities because I feel like that is what is expected of me? And if I don’t do it I will be made to feel like I am significantly inferiour. And I am aware this will happen because I have seen it and I continue to see it everyday. I do not give a single fuck about working a regular job. I do not want a regular fucking job. I want freedom. I don’t really have dreams related to anything acdameical. How do I convey to people that my deepest desire is to literally open a hut on top of a goddamn mountain. Make it all cozy and warm, greet hitchhikers all day every day, cook for them, listen to their stories and write them down and possibly publish them, live there with my future husband and raise my children there. How do I say that I disagree with the stupid mold people have made and expect everyone to fit in? And when somebody doesn’t they get shunned. I hate it with all of my heart and soul. Fuck it. And fuck society.
I just want to be free. I want freedom in its true form, not the pretend freedom we think we have.
HOW TO SHAKESPEARE
HERE’S THE LATEST SERIES OF THINGS. THIS IS YOUR SHAKESPEARE STARTER KIT. IF YOU PARSE THROUGH THESE A LITTLE BIT YOU’LL BE ABLE TO UNDERSTAND A LOT BETTER OR AT LEAST BULLSHIT YOUR WAY THROUGH YOUR CLASS A LOT MORE CONVINCINGLY.
- BRIEF BIO
- FOLIO VS. QUARTO
- TYPES OF PLAYS
- AUTHORSHIP AND DUBIOUSNESS
- THE LANGUAGE OF SHAKESPEARE
- HOW TO READ THIS SHIT
- HOW TO CLOSE READ THIS SHIT
- WHAT THE FUCK IS IAMBIC PENTAMETER? (BONUS CLEAN VERSION)
- HOW THE FUCK IS IT A SHAKESPEAREAN SONNET?
- VERSE VS. PROSE
- USING VERSE AND PROSE
- HOW TO: THOU/THEE/THY/THINE/YE
- HOW TO USE -ETH/-EST
IF YOU WANT MORE INFO OR NEED CLARIFICATION LEMME KNOW. ALSO TELL ME IF YOU WANT A CLEAN VERSION OF A POST OR GRAPHIC TO USE AS AN EDUCATIONAL TYPE THING. YOU CAN FIND ALL OF THESE POSTS TAGGED ‘GENERAL’ &/OR ‘HOW TO’
UPDATED TO INCLUDE SOME NICE NEW STUFF LIKE USING PROPER CONJUGATION WITH THOU AND WHEN PROSE AND VERSE HAPPEN!
GONNA CONTINUE TO BE WEIRDLY OPTIMISTIC/ EVANGELICAL ABOUT EVERYONE MAKING IT THROUGH SHAKESPEARE
“This is your daily, friendly reminder to use commas instead of periods during the dialogue of your story,” she said with a smile.
“Unless you are following the dialogue with an action and not a dialogue tag.” He took a deep breath and sat back down after making the clarifying statement.
evildorito
“However,” she added, shifting in her seat, “it’s appropriate to use a comma if there’s action in the middle of a sentence.”
“True.” She glanced at the others. “You can also end with a period if you include an action between two separate statements.”
Things I didn’t know
“And–” she waved a pen as though to underline her statement–“if you’re interrupting a sentence with an action, you need to type two hyphens to make an en-dash.”
jawnwats
You guys have no idea how many students in my advanced fiction workshop didn’t know any of this when writing their stories.
Okay, but someone please explain question marks when followed by a dialogue tag. How do?
“The speech tag is still part of the previous sentence,” she explained, ‘so it isn’t capitalised.“
“What do you mean?” he asked. “But there’s a full stop as part of the question mark!”
She nodded gravely. “I know!” she said. “A lot of people find this confusing. But the speech tag belongs to the line of dialogue, it’s still part of the sentence, so it’s wrong to capitalise it.”
She reblogged the post again, because she had recently read far too many potentially enjoyable stories marred by poor dialogue punctuation.
jaskierist
I’ve only seen this post in screenshots till now..
NOICE. Can’t wait to use this
“There are two more ways"—she pointed to the blackboard—“to punctuate interruptions. One is with the em dashes outside the quotations marks to indicate continuous speech. The action occurs at the same time as speech. The other—” she sipped from a glass of water “—is em dashes within the quotation marks to indicate interrupted speech.”
A MESSAGE FROM THE THE TEAM + FIXED MASTERPOST OF MERLIN 6: KINGDOM COME EPISODES
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
This Christmas marks five years since the finale of BBC’s Merlin aired, and this spring will mark three years since we created this account and posted the first episode of our sixth season to share with Merlin fans around the world. Still we continue to receive messages of gratitude and praise for the scripts, and we are humbled as ever by the effect it has had. It is fans like you who keep the magic alive.
It has come to our attention that some of the links on our blog have not be working for everyone. Here is a redo of our masterpost for those who have had trouble with the first. The anniversary of Merlin’s finale seems an appropriate time to pass these scripts around again for those who would love to re-experience the adventure, or those who have not joined in on the journey.
IMPORTANT: On our youtube account, we have edited and uploaded soundtracks to accompany your reading of the script. Soundtracks will be indicated by the red numbers in brackets that appear at various points in the text (example: [1] means play soundtrack #1 on the episode playlist). We strongly recommend using this prepared playlist while you read, as it helps to complete the experience of watching a real episode on TV (really, it makes all the difference in the world!). Everyone’s reading pace will be different, but we did our best to time each track to the pace of each scene.
Summary of Merlin 6: Kingdom Come Fifteen hundred years after his death, the Once and Future King finally returns. But he finds himself confronted with a new world that is entirely unfamiliar. What’s more, centuries of waiting for Arthur’s return have rendered Merlin traumatized and struggling with inner demons. Aided – and opposed – by familiar faces from their past, the King and his trusted warlock must face a cabal of adversaries led by an ancient Judge who intends to undermine any attempts to fulfill Arthur’s final destiny. But how will they secure a promising future when history is fighting to repeat itself?
im very intelligent but im so fucking stupid but i know everything but i have never known whats going on a day in my life. no i won’t elaborate
I wish there was an app where you take a picture of what makeup you got and then it does a quick search and you can look at images of finished makeup looks (preferably not extremely complicated, more like for noobs) with tutorials how to do them but like with the shades you have and shit
That would be cool af imo
Family vs. art
(@lighthearted.writer on IG)
You know you want to be a writer, right?
Good. Don’t let a soul stop you.
There’s a lot more to being a writer than writing, and it’s important that you and your loved ones know that. If you’re struggling to somehow “convince” your parents that the job of being a writer is valid, then I recommend taking a step back first.
Consider why they say what they say. In some scenarios, writing really isn’t a stable job… when it’s left alone. Especially at first, you need to do something else on the side. Don’t put all your eggs in the same basket. Don’t set your heart on something that in all seriousness might not happen. Have more than one goal, more than one end goal. Still, don’t lose that sight.
Writing is important. The world needs it to spread ideas and opinions. There are many forms of writing. You can be a novelist. You can be a poet/songwriter. You can be a journalist. You can be a screenplay writer. You can be an editor. The list goes on. It’s neverending, and some of them are more rewarding than others. Choose what suits you.
The worst thing you can do is wait. Don’t wait to write. Don’t wait for someone to give you the “Okay, let’s go!” If you wait too long, you’ll be busy. You won’t have the time and then you’ll feel trapped. The last thing you want to do is trap yourself. At least try not to let yourself be the reason you miss your chance to be an artist.
If you want to be a writer, save yourself the later pressure in life and go for it. It might take a while, but, quite simply, you can do it. Do what you want.
If things are meant to be, they will be. Just because you don’t start out as a writer doesn’t mean you won’t end up as one.
Always you.
She asked me what I looked for in a partner and it caught me off guard. I drew a blank. Didn’t seem to remember. All I could think of, at last, were you though.
I told her.
Someone that’s longer than me, I guess. Long and thin. With a secure embrace. And they need to be like smart you know, with an intelligent mind. And an open one too. It has to be someone I can talk to. Without getting bored, bored out of my mind. Someone I can talk to, with similar interests without us being too similar. Opposites attract, you know. They must be able to talk about all and about nothing. Being able to sit and listen and thrive in silences, without it becoming awkward. They need to be kind. Have a big heart. They have to be there, be compassionate and empathetic. Kind eyes. Humor. They got to have humor. They have to be able to laugh. Most of all they have to be that one, that someone I can watch doing mundane things like making breakfast a Sunday morning and just know that they’ll be by my side, always. That someone that will stay. Because they want to stay. That someone who has a soul that resonates with mine.
Somewhere around here, I realize that I had been rambling. That everything just had tumbled out , out of my mouth before I could stop them, the words. And she watched me. She watched me with a knowing smile. You have already found them, haven’t you? She asked me.
And I just smiled. Bashfully. Because.
Maybe.
Maybe I had.
And that someone was You.
It was always You.
Your YA novel title is:
A (object closest to you on the left) of (last thing you spent money on) and (your current emotion)
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The Couch of Board Games and Tiredness.
Yep, that sounds about right.
Everybody on this site needs therapy.
mirrors-and-mirages
A Phone, A Tree of Life and Apathy
A teddy bear of noodles and sadness
A mood
“I’m silent sitting in my room, as tears run down. Thinking about the past, scared of the future. Feeling alone, wondering if it will ever change.”
— t.m.
An anxiety attack
wrings out the sun.
The world shakes into
a grey blur.
I can't find my
way home and I
forget if it
even exists.
I need to breathe but
I only
inhale broken clocks.
I apologize to
myself over and
over again with
no forgiveness.
I need help please
So here's what's going on... I'm in 10th grade now. After 12th I'll be going to university. The problem is I have absolutely no freaking idea what I'm going to study or do with my life. And I don't even know where to start looking. I know it has to be something that I like but... It sounds dumb but I don't even know what I like anymore. There are so many options and not enough time... I just feel so lost and I really don't know where to start... I don't know how to determine what I want and like to do... I just need help from someone. So if someone has any advice... Please message. Thanks :) <3