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I'm just here for the food.
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Reblogged silentmagi
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You want to know why Inigo Montoya remains such an iconic and beloved character even 35 years after the Princess Bride came out?

It’s because he’s one of the few characters in fiction who has a story where he has dedicated his life to revenge, his whole motivation is about getting revenge….and he gets it! and then he isn’t empty or despairing! he doesn’t regret it! he’s totally satisfied!

because so many stories about revenge or rage are about characters “seeing the futility of their actions” or learning “their desire for revenge has only made them the monsters they hated” FUCK THAT.

Inigo Montoya kills the man who kills his father, is allowed to live in the narrative after and be happy about it and it is so satisfying. it’s fantastic. it’s iconic.

let more characters rage against the world, bring it down with bloodied hands, and let them be FUCKING RIGHT about it. Let them celebrate their success with sharp grins, and let them live happy, full lives where they always remain proud/fulfilled for what they’ve done

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Another thing that set Inigo Montoya apart from other characters with vengeance arcs is that Inigo’s vengeance drove him but it didn’t consume him. He was wronged and wanted - needed that injustice to be corrected - but his vengeance was focused. Rather than taking his pain out on the whole world, Inigo was a charming, pleasant, good-humored person that treated everyone respectfully, even folks he was fighting. He even asks politely to people he meets about any extra digits they may have.

Would a bitter, angry, vengeance-consumed man swear on the life of his father and help a guy he was planning to duel, then give him time to catch his breath? Would he hand his sword over to his future opponent to lovingly show off his late-father’s skill as a swordmaker?

“You seem a decent fellow. I hate to kill you.”

I think part of what makes Inigo so iconic and beloved is because while vengeance was his story, it wasn’t who he was, so when he achieved his vengeance it was less an emptiness and more of a satisfaction, a story completed, a wrong made right, and a man suddenly baffled at the possibilities before him, not sure what his next story would be.

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Reblogged afanofmanyhats
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There is one historic achievement we can attribute to Donald Trump.

Japan, South Korea, and China are cooperating in joint economic retaliation for the Tariffs.

The three biggest haters in Asia, guys with red hot ancestral beef... And Trump convinced them all to work together, because they collectively hate him more.

We're living in bizarro world.

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Reblogged silentmagi
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can't believe I heard "dare to be stupid" for the first time through watching a reaction to the original transformers movie, thinking 'what the hell, is that devo', and somehow getting an even more baffling answer

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at one point I was thinking 'that sounds like eric idle, but there's no way eric idle is there'. well you're not gonna believe this

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for some reason, Leonard Nimoy is there

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Reblogged doubleca5t
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nothing funnier to me than when AI does math wrong. like I get why it happens, it's a language model that's treating the numbers you feed it as words rather than integers and then giving you an answer based on how those words typically appear in a block of text instead of actually performing a calculation. but the one thing computers are genuinely incredible at. you fucked up a perfectly good calculator is what you did, look at it it's got hallucinations

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Reblogged sir-adamus
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the most aggravating fans are the ones that become huge fans of a villainous character but just can’t handle the fact that the villainous character does villainous things and instead said fans invent a million assbackwards headcanons about how the villain is TOTALLY not a villain at all and is some tragic blob where nothing is their fault even up to and including murder and genocide

i am just so baffled by this

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Reblogged silentmagi
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comicgeekscomicgeek asked:

So I’ve been looking over the members of the JSA, the All-Star Squadron, and other teams of the era, and I have to say I’m kind of fascinated by how many of them are just some guy in a costume, no powers, and maybe not even a real gimmick like the Sandman. Guys like the Atom, the Manhunter with the dog, the Whip, and personal favorite, Wildcat.

What do you think lead to the rise of this, and why don’t we really see it anymore? Outside of, say, the Gotham crew or the Arrows.

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dcdreamblog answered:

It was the very specific economic and social conditions of the day. In essence, the criminal activity of the Roaring 20s and the Great Depression hit the American lower class like a bomb. The Roaring 20s are remembered fondly by American culture but, as with any boom associated with the stock market and the business class, the growth was often left at the expense of the have-nots. Especially with the prohibition speakeasy making crime rampant and open.

Add to that the hard crash of the Great Depression, crime burrowed in, corruption endemic as mafia rackets became an everyday burden for millions of Americans from coast to coast. With the legend of the Crimson Avenger and The Sandman spreading through the yellow journalism of the day, taking on everyone from the Mob to the Klan it was like all that bubbling pressure in the tank suddenly had an escape hatch.

People who had been pushed to their limits by a system pressing down on them, their loved ones, their livelihoods, they did the only thing that was seemingly having a real, honest to god effect on the ground.

They hit the streets and left the Mob bleeding like a stuck pig in the aftermath.

(Aftermath of the Sandman and The Atom breaking up a booze, drug and gun running shipment. Metropolis, 1940)

Words cannot describe how sharply organized crime retracted between 1938 and 1950. There were thoughts at the time that the institution might have been fully killed off by the hard shock of the Mystery Men era.

Metropolis, Gotham, Calvin City, even small towns Seguro in New Mexico had criminals flinching over their own shadows. The heroes would appear at random, strike like lightning and then vanish back into the mist before the sun came up. They could never be bribed, any attempt to kill them blew up in the mob's face, and as more time passed they became frighteningly organized.

Once the JSA and the Squadron were founded in earnest, your average mugger, rum runner or pimp laid REAL low.

The shortest answer to your question: These people saw their homes and communities suffering and, like any more powerful hero, saw a method to stop it. They took the risks, they painted the target on themselves, turns out they were right.

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Reblogged silentmagi
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I love how here on tumblr dot website we regularly cast the greatest curse we can muster on each other by pointing our long creepy fingers and intoning "10,000 notes" in a voice that carries the winds of the mountain with it.

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I might have made an error here

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#I made a post like this once#But I have like three active followers#And I repeatedly encouraged them to fucking do it#And that took the fun out of it for them
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Reblogged quietsphere
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My body is already an inhospitable environment, there’s no way a friggin baby would be able to survive in it

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Also babies can’t even fight, how would they fare in battle against my inner demons?

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sand tiger sharks

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on it, boss lady

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one smooth shark, coming up

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they were already smooth, impossible to make them smoother

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What if we believed in ourselves? What if we used 1 billion lions and every pokemon to sand that shark?

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