He got on his computer and he wrote an entire freaking paper about why superheroes are the shit.
What have you done do you even know sir do you even know.
hint:
IT’S A REALLY GOOD FUCKING PAPER
THIS THIS THIS!!! ALL OF THIS!
ALL THE FEELS for the Science Bros:
science bros.
There are no words to describe my feelings about this relationship. But I’m going to try.
First of all, their parallels. Both geniuses, top of their field. Both suffered an accident that physically changed them, forever, and not in a wholesome Spider-Man kind of way. Both try to do what they can to help others despite their own issues; Banner heals people, Tony works on developing clean energy. And both struggle, in their own way, with duality; Tony and Iron Man, Bruce and the Hulk. Two identities, one body. Only difference is Iron Man’s bad side is Tony.
I mentioned somewhere that Tony sees a bit of himself in Banner because they both have a monster inside them that they can’t control, a creature that springs fully formed from the id, the base impulses and the nasty stuff at the back of the mind. Bruce’s is a giant green rage monster. Tony’s trashed a party in Iron Man 2. Banner has a control over his that Tony hasn’t quite achieved yet; don’t think I didn’t notice Tony pouring himself a whiskey when confronting Loki. Tony is envious, fascinated, and most of all, impressed by Bruce’s control.
So he doesn’t walk on eggshells around Bruce like the others, because that’s not what Bruce needs. Tony sees Bruce’s restraint, sees the quiet, brilliant man making self-deprecating jokes in the corner of the room, sees the way people look at him like he’s going to snap any second, and thinks “nope”. Tony does what no-one else aboard that Helicarrier does. He trusts him. He makes jokes and jabs him and teases him and above all, treats him exactly how he would treat anyone else— he has a great regard for Bruce’s brilliance, and tells him so, but he doesn’t try to ignore the Hulk in the room. When he says “wow, you’ve really got a handle on this, haven’t you?” he’s not saying “gosh, it’s incredible you haven’t snapped yet and killed everyone on board” he’s saying “I know you have a handle on this, you wouldn’t be here if you didn’t, so I’m gonna poke you with this sharp object to prove it”. And you can see Bruce relax, and smile, and trust him back.
But then Tony goes even further, and invites Bruce to come to his R&D department. I’m pretty sure the two of them drive off together in Tony’s car at the end of the movie to do just that. And, okay, sure, Bruce is smart, but Tony’s tech is his baby. How many people get invitations to come and see his work? He invites Bruce because he recognises his brilliance, yes, but there’s another reason. He’s inviting Bruce to come down and work with him after this is over. He’s giving Bruce something to do next, a purpose, an alternative to disappearing into the ether to be alone with his monster. Tony knows from experience that being alone with your issues doesn’t end well, so for what’s only the third time in his life he extends the hand of friendship to a guy he’s known barely an hour.
And then, he tells Bruce to let the beast loose. Not just because they need him to fight, but because it will help him. If Bruce can take this thing that he sees as a curse and turn it into a gift, well, that’s going to lift him out of a very dark place. I’m not saying Tony knew about Bruce’s attempted suicide, but I think he had a suspicion that Bruce had been, in his words, “low”. So he encourages Bruce to take all that crap and pain and the Other Guy and use him to help people; after all, that’s what he did.
And it pays off. Nobody— nobody— thinks Bruce is going to turn up for that final battle. You can see the look on Natasha and Steve’s faces when Tony asks if Bruce turned up yet. They’ve counted Bruce out. Guy’s a mess, right? He’s too volatile. Doesn’t play well with others. He could never work as part of a team. No-one thinks he’ll come through when it matters. Except Tony. He has faith in him, and that faith is rewarded. It’s no wonder the Hulk is the one to catch Tony. Tony’s the one who helped let him out. He’s just returning the favor.
This is quite possibly my favorite moment from all of Sherlock. I’ve watched the end of A Study In Pink a ridiculous number of times.
The look on Sherlock’s face when he sees John standing there and it clicks. John trying to act nonchalant, as if he wasn’t involved at all. The intensity with which Sherlock watches John as he asks if he’s all right. The way they both kind of acknowledge the gravity of what just happened and then sidestep it with a joke. The encounter with Mycroft that highlights just how alone Sherlock has been. And then the pair of them, walking off into the night.
I didn’t realize at first that the main events of this episode take place in one day. It was just yesterday that these men met for the first time. It was only this afternoon that John moved in to the flat on Baker Street. Tonight he has killed a man to save Sherlock’s life. It has been a pretty intense few hours. Now they’re walking together bickering amicably like friends who have known each other for years.
And then this look, just a shared smile between these two lonely, damaged men. Maybe because tonight is so much better than just a few short hours ago, when John woke up from his nightmares alone and limped off to therapy to remark that nothing ever happened to him, and when Sherlock was more accustomed to people telling him to piss off than to being told he is extraordinary, when neither of them could imagine anyone wanting them for a flatmate, let alone a friend.
So now, as they walk away from this night that has brought them inevitably closer, they share a moment of just being glad to be together, no longer alone: “Sherlock Holmes…and Doctor Watson.”
And this is precisely why I love QI, Alan Davies, and David Mitchell.
What am I doing with my life?
Although, you know what, if that porpoise is so damn glorious, shouldn’t it be made of gold or something? Glow and be shiny? Have a sceptre? Be wearing fabulous sparkly robes? What makes this porpoise a glorious one? /wordnerd
Feeling tremendously geeky today.
Decided I’d rather have one nice Loki action figure than crappy cheaper Thor and Loki.
Spent ages comparing. Fell in love with the Walmart Exclusive 6” model, as it’s much more accurate to his movie costume and stuff than Marvel Select Loki. It even resembles Tom, and his cape and helmet are removable!
However, it’s entirely sold out in stores. One tense eBay battle later, however, which I triumphantly won in the last few seconds, I am now the proud owner of Loki, Walmart Exclusive Edition, for only slightly more than I wanted to pay (but it’s Loki!).
Plus, he’s around the same size as my beloved Faramir action figure, so they can hang out and discuss how much older brothers sometimes suck. Possibly Faramir could give him some life pointers about how to deal with your dad hating you without going off the deep end.
god, tony stark and his COMPLICATED BEHAVIORAL REWARDS SYSTEM, OH MAN
okay, i promise that one day i will learn to control the tony feelings, but the thing is, i have been trying to put my finger on this one for such a looooong time. because, see, tony stark is weird about stuff, isn’t he? and i don’t mean like, the existential version of stuff, i don’t mean “stuff” in the most general sense (although, let’s be honest, TONY STARK: WEIRD ABOUT STUFF is true in pretty much every context)—i am talking PHYSICAL stuff, INANIMATE stuff, i am talking stuff that a person can possess. i am talking things. i am talking tony in IM springing a lavish personal plane party on rhodey, clearly both because he felt like it and to prove that he could; i am talking tony in IM2 giving pepper the company out of the blue, clearly both because he knew she was the best choice for CEO (UGH PEPPER I LOVE YOU) and because he genuinely wanted her to have it. i am talking tony at the middle of the avengers offering to fly coulson to portland, i am talking tony at the end of the avengers with plans pulled up to build everyone on the team their own FLOOR—you see what i am saying here. tony stark expresses a considerable amount of emotion through gestures like this, and that in and of itself shouldn’t be enough to give me pause. i mean, canonically extraordinarily wealthy emotionally repressed genius expresses affection with cash? it’s not a stretch. fine. done.
ONLY THE THING IS, it’s…really so much more complicated than that, because there is also the shit in the above gifs, and there’s the thing he has about being handed things (seen in IM2 and in the avengers), and it really came together for me during that scene with bruce and the blueberries. because the thing is that quirks, no matter how random they are, COME from somewhere—even if you don’t remember the impetus of an unusual behavior, you did, at some point, learn to do it/find comfort in it/become dependent on it/get so used to it that you hardly notice it. that’s just how quirks work. and if you’re tony stark, and you put a valuation on everything because that’s been literally your entire life experience, there’s a certain amount of implied cost/benefit analysis that has to go into the way you look at emotional interactions, right?
so look at what this shit says about the way tony looks at himself. people who tony doesn’t completely, 100% trust emotionally (this is why pepper is the exception) can’t even hand him things, because on some level tony associates the exchange of physical goods with the exchange of emotional response, and he won’t be capable of giving it; people who have showed tony affection or friendship deserve these lavish, over-the-top gifts, because putting up with tony is such a struggle. and tony himself? well, for surviving a kidnapping and the insertion of car battery, and then an arc reactor, in his chest, he has earned an american cheeseburger. for fighting off an invading army and making the sacrifice move neither he nor steve believed he would, he has earned himself some shawarma. because that is totally what he’s doing, when you really think about it—tony stark doles out physical rewards for behavior, without even noticing it, and the best he ever honestly thinks he deserves is something delicious when the carnage is over.
and this is what makes that blueberry scene with bruce (shut up i know calling it the blueberry scene is ridiculous, I KNOW IT IS IN FACT A SCENE ABOUT THE AVENGERS NOT TRUSTING NICK FURY, i can’t help that i look at the world through stark-tinted glasses) so interesting, in that it’s that behavior-reward system on a much smaller scale. first bruce is offered the blueberries, clearly as a reward for making a point that supported tony’s argument; then steve, clearly as a TEST, is offered those same blueberries along with tony’s admitting to hacking the SHIELD system. and it’s when steve doesn’t even acknowledge the offer that tony goes from “hey look I’m trying to explain this to you and get you onboard” to “who’s in a spangly outfit and not of use?” because he’s got all these emotional cues tangled up with all these physical ones and always has, and because on some level this is just how he does relating to human beings, because stuff is so much easier and everything always has a price and just, augh, tony.
Thisssss.
Also, notice that every time we see Tony with food in the MCU there is some emotional tie to it. He rewards himself with food (cheeseburger, donuts, shawarma) after traumatic experiences; he brings Pepper strawberries when he attempts to confess his feelings; he offers Bruce and Steve blueberries when courting their allegiance/friendship. Also I think it’s HUGELY telling that he invites all the Avengers along for shawarma instead of wandering off to get it alone. Tony’s big on the grand gestures, sure, but when he’s trying to make a big emotional play? he does it with food.
Hmm. Does alcohol count as food, then? This makes his offering Loki a drink much more interesting, instead of just amusing.
Nothing makes you feel more mature than standing in Toys R Us being angry and muttering “But I don’t want Secret Strike Loki, I want the marginally less hideous Cosmic Spear Loki! Why don’t you have Cosmic Spear Loki?”
Of course, technically what I want is, say, Hot Toys Loki, but I don’t happen to have $220 lying around, or even $20 for Marvel Select Loki. Well, I do have $20, but I want both Loki and Thor, so small ugly action figures are the only option in my price range. The 3.75” Thors aren’t so bad and even vaguely resemble Chris Hemsworth. All of the 3.75” Lokis are terrible.
I’m such a dork.
My life is like editing an html code because I have no idea what I’m doing and I feel like the rest of the world does and once in a while I do something right and I have no idea how I did it but I just go with it
Was he married?
#it just really gets to me how tony will go out of his way to hide his kindness #he offers the most extravagant things like it’s nbd #”i’ll fly you to portland pfft whatevs” #he jokes that phil’s first name is ”agent” and yet #he knows about the cellist #and wants phil to have a love life #and offers to fly him wherever so he can have it #and then pretends he’s not sure when steve asks him #because god forbid anyone finds out that tony stark gives a shit
((I think my soul just died.))
Tom describes “how he does it” (x)
the last gif just breaks my heart completely
why tom why
he looks as if he’s going to cry in the last one… and now I am
No stop guys
Thought it might fun to have a look in the Les Mis tag now that the trailer’s out.
NOT.
I mean, yeah, there are loads of people excited about the trailer and that makes me happy. But so many people are so MEAN.
Yeah, I’ve said all this before. Just saying it one more time, and I’ll try to stop filling my blog up with me ranting.
The Les Mis fandom just makes me so mad. WHY is everyone in this fandom convinced that they and they alone are the sole arbiters of who can sing and who can act and who ruins things? No one can just say “Oh, I didn’t care for [actor] as [character],” and then maybe explain nicely why they feel that way. They have to be so hateful about it. And if you disagree with their opinion, you’re wrong, you have no taste, and how dare you call yourself a fan?
No one in the Avengers fandom feels the need to make posts saying “What dumbass decided to put Scarlett Johansson in this movie? Now I’ll just be distracted by her stupid hideous face. Way to ruin the movie, Hollywood.”
No one watched the Harry Potter trailers and said “I’m not trying to be dramatic, but this just kills me. I refuse to remain positive about the children’s book genocide that is being committed by Hollywood.”
(Those are actual slightly modified quotes from people’s Les Mis posts.)
At least not that I’ve seen, or at least not so many people, and so hatefully. I love fandom, and I love Tumblr, because I don’t know many people in real life who are fans of the things I love. Fandom is supposed to be about celebrating the things you love with other people who love the same thing. It’s supposed to be fun.
And to the person who said this (and some people who expressed similar sentiments on YouTube and the IMDB boards):
i bet that a bunch of people are going to suddenly become Les Mis fans because of the movie trailer/movie itself.
I swear, if that happens I will be so angry.
Just…shut up. Seriously. If people become fans of Les Miserables for any reason—from the trailer, from a school play, because of Susan Boyle, because they’ll watch any movie Anne Hathaway is in, because they saw it on PBS one Sunday when they were bored (that’s me!), even if it’s because (*gasp*) they liked Nick Jonas in the 25th—THAT’S A GOOD THING. You do NOT get to say who’s a “real” fan and who’s not or who “deserves” to be a fan. More people to join in celebrating a wonderful, beautiful show and book and movie is a good thing. Always.
…Oh wait, I forgot. We’re not here to celebrate Les Mis. We’re here to insult each other’s opinions and decide who’s worthy of being a fan or not. Right.
Les Miserables is basically my favorite thing in the entire world. I have my favorite actors and songs and versions, but I jump up and down with delight anytime I see any version of it. I am just SO THRILLED they’re even making a movie of it. I may not love every single thing about the movie, but it would take a lot for me to say it was ruined, especially based on 90 seconds of footage including one single vocal performance of part of one song.
Some things may not be done precisely the way I would like to see them done, or the way I expect them to be done, but I’ll try to be open minded and enjoy it anyway because it’s Les Mis and it’s my favorite thing ever. The only thing that ruins Les Mis for me is the fans who make fun of me or judge me or insult because of the my opinions.
For heaven’s sake, people, I’d say this about any fandom who acted this way, but Les Mis is a story about love and compassion, a wonderful, uplifting, beautiful story. Why do we have to ruin it for each other?
And because once again, it’s the perfect opportunity…
