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Challengers (2024)

Peter: FOR MY PERSONALITY!?

Harley: I can laugh you know

Peter: Well I've never heard you laugh

Tony: Kid. What the fuck?

Harley: we were literally talking about going to IKEA to get meatballs. Where the fuck did that come from?

Peter: am I wrong?

Meg: studying feminism theory or whatever in college, acting like she’s the one true friend to Marta in the family for the first half of the movie, who knows Marta’s mum is an undocumented immigrant, who ‘defends’ Marta/immigrants from the alt-right cousin and the racist family.

The second she realises that her upper-class white privilege is at risk and that to protect the same immigrants she seemed to care so much about she might have to lose a little of her advantage, she crawls right back to the powers that be and throws Marta’s family right under the racist bus.

here's some fun facts bc i love reading about neuroscience

- the brain LITERALLY cannot tell the difference between what is real and imagined. this is why self deprecating jokes are so harmful and positive affirmations actually work

- contrary to popular belief, your brain doesn't actually stop growing at 21. this used to be believed but has since been proven false. you can change the LITERAL NEURAL NETWORKS OF YOUR BRAIN at any age. (tho it is true that the younger you are the higher the neuroplasticity of the brain)

- hypnosis isn't mind control. IT'S YOUR BRAIN USING HYPNOSIS AS AN EXUSE TO LET GOT OF IT'S SUBCONCIOUS BELIEFS. your brain basically uses the hypnotist as a means to ignore your beliefs. for example, if you have a fear of snakes. it's very hard for your brain to get over that fear by itself, but when being hypnotized the brain basically lies to itself and uses the hypnotist as an excuse to get over the fear.

- pure thought. PURE THOUGHT by itself, can change the fucking hardwiring of your brain. if you run every day, your brain learns to accommodate this habit and make it easier for you to run. now if you sit and JUST visualized yourself running for a couple minutes every day, your brain will do the exact same fucking thing. the brain is like "oh they seem to be running a lot. lets makes that easier for them" and will change the hardwiring of the neural networks to accommodate.

But in a new book, one that nobody’s ever heard of, you need to establish the plot. You need to tell us about the world/city/village. You need a story hook. You need to actually say what the book is about and who your characters are.

“Coffeeshop romance” is not a character. You can tag an MCU fic “coffeeshop romance” because we already know that the character is Steve Rogers or Bucky or Tony, etc. We already know the characters and the world.

I love the complexity of the characters, I love the secondary characters being interesting, I love Sarah Michelle Geller as the principal, I love the acting in general.