Okay, so like to any real people hiding behind blank and empty blogs, I'm going to block and report you as spam.
I'm sorry, but if you can't make the bare minimum effort to show us that you're not just another bot in this current epidemic, then it's your own fault.
Another #paleostream sketch
Tupuxuara, resting in a tree, awakening from the flashlight of an inconsiderate time traveler.
How rude
Thanks! I think azhdarchoids are very much underutilized for their potential horror aspects
when her boobs boob so boobily that you suffer from parkinsons
official boob post
Like to clarify this isn’t just as a ‘looks cluttered’ thing ( which tbh it does ) but I know when something just isn’t working with my brain and I’m genuinely having trouble with it feeling like way too much—idk if it’s just me, or if the new layout somehow is genuinely the claustrophobic type of overstimulating, but I’d like to see if anyone else is affected
oh seems very suspicious to see the barbie movie tumblr pop up on my dash after the strike. maybe it was made before, but I’m actually seeing it now
remember:
there’s no boycott on going to see new media
but there is a promotional blackout
don’t do the studio’s marketing work for them
I just checked their archive. They created it Today, July 17th.
prior to the strike they did not have an official tumblr lmaoooo
don’t reblog their shit
Reminder also, though, that the promotional blackout only officially applies to SAG-AFTRA members, Influencers working under the SAG-AFTRA agreement, and Influencers who may want to work under the SAG-AFTRA agreement in the future. If you are not being paid to promote the film as an influencer or paid to promote other things as an influencer so that “organic” promotion may appear to be sponsored, and are not a member of SAG-AFTRA, you are not included in the promotional blackout and any lack of interaction with official social media is up to you.
Also reminder that even if you decide not to interact with official social media in solidarity, there has been no request by the union for consumers to boycott the content made prior to the strike, and that would in fact be the opposite of helpful at this point, so if you want to go see the Barbie movie or w/e, you should absolutely do so.
government: que es su madre single mom: esta aqui government: bueno, y que es su padre
single mom: **YO**
The cultural reason is super interesting!!!!! the canon reason is that Jefferson's dad was a bad person and he didn't want his son having the same legacy (last name)
Did I mishear it in the new film or Jeff took his wife's surname?
I'm sure I heard "Captain Morales".
I genuinely hope I didn't come over like that, and my sincere apologies to Mirensiart and others if I did.
I likewise found the cutural explanation of Mile's surname fascinating as it was not something I was aware of previously (Also I wasn't paying attention to Mile's Dad's surname, truth be told)
The later discussion about Jeff changing his surname to Rio's surname between movies is pretty much a separate point, I think, but if it derailed he earlier discussion, sorry.
Oh no, you didn't, and I didn't mean to imply that.
It just tickles me that they gave this big interesting cultural explanation that's ultimately wrong.
government: que es su madre single mom: esta aqui government: bueno, y que es su padre
single mom: **YO**
The cultural reason is super interesting!!!!! the canon reason is that Jefferson's dad was a bad person and he didn't want his son having the same legacy (last name)
Did I mishear it in the new film or Jeff took his wife's surname?
I'm sure I heard "Captain Morales".
wish i had a bit going where whenever i said "the prophecy" like three of my friends would repeat "the prophecy" in different tones while squinting into the distance and rubbing their chins like sages deep in thought. i would also do this for them, im a team player
okay, so, be me, 27 years old at the time, an adult by any definition in the world
be me at the los angeles zoo, one of my very favorite places in the world, because i love animals. i am immedietly 8 years old when presented with a little creature. i can’t help it.
okay, wait, go back. we must establish two things for this to hit right
first:
the year before, i’d gone to the san diego zoo with my aunt and grandma and! they let you feed giraffes there!!
how wonderful a world and how wonderful a life, where for $10 I can hand feed a giant creature three crispy biscuits. i go “i am feeding the giraffes right now” and go in line to buy the biscuits and return moments later triumphant, 3 biscuits in my grasp
“oh good!” my grandmother says, “one for each of us!”
“yes,” i say, despondent, “one for each of us.”
i wanted to feed all three to the giraffes myself but since i am an actual adult and not a child i do not say this and share the biscuits
second:
my friend group echoes. a lot
someone tells a story and ends it with “and that’s what happened!” and the rest of us will repeat “and that’s what happened!”
often in unison. and it’s constant, all the time, even to little stuff. often said in the tone of “they don’t even have dental”
ok, so we’re back at the los angeles zoo. they have opened the giraffe feeding
i am not going to be thwarted again
my two friends (K and M) get in line to feed them and i go to buy the biscuits. i return with nine biscuits because i am going to give the giraffes three biscuits myself and i do not want to hear a word of protest. i am being fair. i am being equitable. i am sharing. no one can judge me
“wow!” says K. “that’s a lot of biscuits!”
“the cult provides,” i say generously, handing over their share, because what is a friend group if not a small cult
and then, automatically, in unison, like they have so many times before and thinking nothing of what exactly they’re saying, M and K reply, “the cult provides”
two different people in line turn to stare at us while we all blink at each other and then M nervously shouts, “we are definitely not in a cult!” which sounds like something someone who is in a cult might say
and ever since it’s been a running bit where one person says “the cult ____” and everyone echoes it as seriously as possible, no matter where we are or who we’re around
which is to say, OP, that you could be living the dream if your friends weren’t cowards
Pls reblog if u vote :)
I was so dedicated to this meme that I went on the embalming fluid website to figure out the names of the chemicals that were too blurred to read
I swear to god can this era of DC let us have some consistent lineups for TEN SECONDS.
This wasn’t limited just to Titans but this series definitely had it the worst...there was basically zero editorial coherence at this time at DC so writers would literally not be told what other writers were doing, what characters were doing what in what books...so you had characters joining a team and then leaving it three issues later because a writer in another book had sent them to space or killed them off or had them join a different team altogether
And of course in the case of the Titans, this was around the time DC decided it just really really loved killing off as many members of the team as possible, to the point there was legit a cover with the caption “ANOTHER Titan dies!” as if even the writers knew it had become beyond a joke by now O.O
One thing I've noticed and posted about is that the editing in this era is dogshit across the board. The editors, in their constant rush to dictate story progression and mandate shock character deaths have failed to actually...you know...EDIT any of the things that are happening. Leading to everything from characters spinning on a dime in issues published the exact same month to just really dumbass continuity and art mistakes that it should be their job to catch.
This was also around the time DC was doing its most evil event
C O U N T D O W N
A series that lasted a horrible year and yet continued to mess with the DCU for years after it ended because of how badly it and its awful awful tie-ins fucked with characters
And Countdown ALSO had god awful editing!
But it gave us Superboy Prime saying “I’LL KILL YOU TO DEATH!!!”
And an entire subplot that was only there so that people could be homophobic to a gay man
Truly it will be remembered for years to come as a comic that was published by DC Comics and when people think back on it they’ll say “That was a comic book that DC comics published”
Didn;t some of the New Gods die multiple times in different books?
They absolutely did O.O
Also the “Mystery” of who was killing the New Gods was a whole thing...until the identity of the killer was revealed with zero fanfare in a random scene in a book that wasn’t even named as a Countdown tie in
Insert the “GREAT CONTINUITY!” meme from Atop the Fourth Wall here
Oh, and it was turning a C list hero into a villain because fucking why not. We don't need a large cast of loveable heroes. We need A-Listers and edgy villains! ...why don't people read comics anymore?
I'll always feel bad for McKeever during this era. The dude could do no wrong at Marvel but it didn't translate to sales. So he goes to DC gets a high profile run on Teen Titans and a co-writer gig on a mega-crossover and editorial fucking broke him. Like just destroyed him. Like "I never want to write comics again" bad...
With the infamous "Who is Wonderdog" story he did exactly what the editors wanted, everyone HATED it, and blamed him not the editors.
Countdown was the lead in to the New 52 relaunch, right?
Which means it was the follow-up to 52, showcasing that DC didn't understand why 52 was so successful and critically praised, and just demanded to continue to profit off the gimmick for another year.
As evidenced by the next several years, there was a lot they didn't understand about 52's success.
Not quite. We had several years after Countdown came out in 2007 of mostly horrible bullshit *cough, cough* Cry for Justice. (I will confess I enjoyed Final Crisis despite it's many flaws but Morrison can only do so much.) Where shit got so bad people were BEGGING DC editorial to do something. And that something was Flashpoint/The New 52. To paraphrase Wizard Magazine's summery of end of The Clone Saga "It was like being kicked in the nuts so you wouldn't notice the bleeding head wound."
Funny thing, I remember many things from 52. I remember it's where I really fell in love with The Question. I remember the mix up of characters that normally wouldn't ever meet was delightfully insane. I normally hate Grant Morrison, but quite enjoyed him here where he wasn't ruining X-Men or Batman.
But if I read Countdown, I have absolutely no memory of it, or anything that happened. I even forgot it was a thing, until now. But I do remember that even at the time it was universally panned.
Good writing leaves you with memories to treasure about character you loved and character you came to love. BAD writing just leaves you with a bad taste in your mouth from when it slapped you across the face.
