King of Trash.

"they identify as animals" thats nice, sharon

"no but they actually think they are animals" theres a war going on, sharon

Barbossa is the most exasperated character in any scene he's in, unless he's winning. then he's the smuggest son of a bitch on screen (he literally returns from the dead smugly eating an apple). but majority of the time, he's 'why am I the only adult here'. man rolls his eyes so much I half-expected him to turn straight to the camera.

when Will asks Elizabeth to marry him while they are fighting Davy Jones' crew, stuck in a maelstrom, and trapped in the final battle, the first word out of her mouth is "Barbossa!". she then continues by asking Barbossa to marry them, but for a split second Will's face goes like 'Barbossa? Barbossa?? I didn't even know he was on the map of this convoluted love quadrangle!'

when they're in Singapore and Sao Feng threatens the spy he found and Will, Elizabeth, and Barbossa all look at each other to confirm that none of them have snuck in a spy they forgot to tell the others about, before shrugging and telling Sao Feng to go ahead and kill him.

Barbossa's eyes just getting wide and wider the more weapons Elizabeth pulls out of her clothes. c'mon man, let a woman have her toys!

rewatching really gives you the full picture of how many people are scheming at any given time and how each person's schemes intersect with the others, even if they're nominally on the same side. everyone also gets So Upset when their scheme is foiled, accidentally or intentionally, by someone else's scheme, as though they themselves aren't scheming at that very moment.

Barbossa's iron balls. I'm sorry, this is the funniest dick joke in the trilogy that defines how many dick jokes Disney can stick in a movie before it stops being PG-13. Jack's reaction really says it all.

Fandom Problem #14,969:

To be honest, I'm getting pretty freaking sick about hearing "but-but my ESCAPISM!!🥺" and "I just want to play with my digital dollies!!🥺" when people are just outright refusing to acknowledge that the very politically charged media the claim to be such big fans of does in fact include political themes.

I just think back to simpsons.

You are not mentally prepared or stable enough to always care about every little issue, bias, and political thing that crops up. You need to BREATHE and forcing other people not to is insulting, tiring some, and annoying.

Like...this isn't an either/or situation anyway, you can understand the themes of an art piece while also just having silly fun with it, and in any case, policing people's imagination is insanely rude, and forcing people to engage politically with everything all the time leads to activist burnout, which is really just more suffering in the world for no reason.

I think it would’ve been a better decision to have the characters learn about it after Ikutsuki’s death when Fuuka is going through his things or maybe a bit before Chidori’s escape/death to give further context as to how her and Strega’s perspective developed. I think that gives SEES time to digest that information and grapple with it. After all, Mitsuru and other members of SEES are having their resolve tested about continuing to fight against the dark hour, maybe add in the complicated question of its right to do that when so much of how they are able to fight in Tartarus came from unwilling sacrifices. Make SEES develop a more complicated view on Strega even if they ultimately still oppose them. Just my two cents but I think the reveal should’ve been sooner!

So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”

Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.