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Agree like its biggest weakness was the pacing which we can blame tlj for jj had to smush 2 movies into one. But it’s a good popcorn muncher palpy and exogol were cool af and lando had one of the best lines in the movie

THE MATCHMAKER HAS DETERMINED YOUR PERFECT MATCH IS:

Magnus!

that’s bullshit, I’m hearing a lot of people say that it’s actually making things harder to see and hurting their eyes. and it’s ugly. like so sooooo ugly.

thanks for the faux-progressive wokeness, @staff you could have like offered a dark blue option for the subset of the visually impaired who benefit from higher contrast, but no, all of us have to suffer from that ugly dark blue.

Mistletoe Tea: A Christmas Short by CaptainDog

blush; what was your stuffed animal as a child?

i had a corduroy bear that i LOVED when i was little, but then i lost him! i was only 5, and i was inconsolable. i didn’t eat and i barely slept without him :( they weren’t being made anymore at the time, so there was no real way to replace him!!! my dad had a friend at the local newspaper, and she published an article called “FIVE YEAR OLD GIRL SEARCHING FOR LOST BEAR”. a teacher who was planning on retiring that year sent a letter saying that she had a corduroy bear in her classroom that she could give me. i went to meet her, and she gave me the bear, and i still have him!! he turned out to be so much more special than the one i lost. 

breeze; most precious childhood memory?

i don’t remember my childhood very well, but i have a very special memory of falling into my grandmother’s fish pond. she told me not to get too close and i did, and i fell. to this day, i still joke that she pushed me in to teach me a lesson, but i know that she didn’t. 

butterfly; dream destination?

oh to travel to the royal palace of caserta in my great-grandfather’s home town in italy... where the first naboo scenes were filmed... and then to lake como where the lake scenes were filmed....

waaaaahh thank you... i AM a big goober who is depressed as shit, but i also DO say i love you all the time.....ansel i LOVE you uwu 

i was wrong about the mask being wakandan--it’s actually stated in the movie that it’s igbo, so that’s on me. however, it does seem like a derailment to argue that he was appropriating the mask and would probably throw it away later. we don’t know what he did with it later. yes, he threw his colleagues under the bus, but they were not important to him. (obviously that makes him a dick but that’s not the POINT.) what’s important to him is CULTURE, and reclamation. he makes it very clear that he feels robbed of his birthright, both the wakandan throne, as well as a feeling of belonging. he felt isolated and robbed because of the racist, imperialist society that he grew up in. SO arguably the mask would mean more to him than klaue because it symbolized him taking back something that he feels was stolen from him. 

however, the fact that the mask is igbo also has a lot of importance and symbolism that makes the scene more meaningful. @littleirishani​ sent me a really great response that i’m gonna quote here: 

“I looked into where Killmonger’s mask is from and it’s actually from the Igbo people (real people) and it’s used to show that slavery is continuing. It strengthens his words in the museum about stealing and slavery because the Igbo people were a part of the slave trade. They’re known for rebelling one day on a ship, and after they killed the captain they realized they couldn’t go back home, so they committed suicide. (Which is similar to Killmonger’s last statement in the movie.)

I think that they used something real in that scene instead of making up a Wakandan artifact to make it more... believable? Like these are things that you would actually see in a museum, and these are actual issues that are extremely important, so maybe they wanted to be closer to home.” 

obviously i think coogler’s intention was to show him as an antagonist, but when you look at him from a writing/archetype perspective, he’s just NOT a “super villain” like green goblin or riddler, that are campy and not made to be taken seriously. he’s made to be taken VERY seriously and i would argue that he’s written as a byronic hero because he displays all of the following characteristics: