'Mid conversation I ran out of people energy, and I won’t be able to keep speaking constructively. I need to leave now or I will explode' script: “Hey, I’m sorry, but it’s getting late, and I should really be going. It’s been really lovely speaking to you; we have to get together again sometime soon. But I really need to head out. I’ll talk to you later?”

‘Your opinions are bad and you should feel bad about them, but I have some reason to not tell you that. instead i want out as fast as possible from this conversation and/or to reroute it IMMEDIATELY’: “I can see why you’d think that, yeah. I get what you’re saying, but, you know, I don’t really know this topic well enough to talk about it, you know? What about [tangential, barely related thing that is safe to talk about that they also care about]?” Wait a few minutes, nod and mmhmm at some stuff, and then check your phone and go “Oh, no, it’s getting pretty late. I have to run, but I’ll talk to you later, alright?” (This one is very useful when your unfortunately unavoidable but incredibly prejudiced grandparents come around and your parents will be mad if you start screaming arguments with them over the Thanksgiving table, especially if you can reroute them into a topic of conversation that other people care about rather than running away wholesale.)

‘you are so fucking annoying. never speak to me again’ or other variants of ‘fuck off’ that you dont want to just say that way to someone you know because that is fucking mean. basically a friendship breakup script: “Listen, I think you’re a great person, and I don’t want you to take this the wrong way because it’s really not personal, but I think you and I are very different people, with very different interests.  That’s not a bad thing, but I don’t think that you would enjoy spending much time with me, and vice versa. I wish you the best, but I’d rather we just stay acquaintances, alright?” (Don’t do this unless you absolutely mean it, but it’s good to know what to say when you mean it.)

Team work

ODIN is Asgard’s justice system.

Odin didn’t punish Loki for the deaths he caused on Earth, but his DISOBEDIENCE, for not falling into line like Thor did, for trying to rule Earth without Odin’s permission, for attacking a planet that is under Thor’s (and therefor Odin’s) “protection”.

Loki’s crime wasn’t murder. It was rebellion. Rebelling against Odin, wanting to be Odin.

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About the writers: yes, we see this double standard all the time.

No one knows how many Frost giants and Fire giants Thor killed, as long as he was doing it “for the right reasons”, it doesn’t matter. (Apparently getting violent over being called princess is a right reason???)

Wanda (and Pietro) were the Bad Guys™, but now their crimes are being down played cause they switched to the Hero™ side of things.

Bucky is the only one who could get away with it, seeing he was brainwashed and controlled by Hydra to do the killing. Why doesn’t Loki get the same pass, knowing he was brainwashed, tortured and played by Thanos? Right, Loki is a Bad Guy™, we are not supposed to feel for him, or validate his pain as we did for Bucky. (And you can see this clearly in the differences between Steve’s treatment of Bucky and Thor’s treatment of Loki.)

Odin didn’t sentenced Loki because of the number of humans he had killed. He didn’t care about them. That was just an excuse. Odin sentenced Loki to solitary confinement for 4000 years because Loki dared to question him, disobey him. Loki wasn’t under Odin’s control anymore. There was no more use of him. So Odin imprisoned him.

He managed to “attack” the realm under duress and while being watched and after being tortured and he still manipulated events to ensure possibly the lowest death count while giving the battle the illusion of a convincing plan. 

He announced his hostile presence and intent clearly. He put no effort into concealing his location. He let himself get captured for no reason other than to cause his only opponents to squabble. He sat down and watched Thor and Tony and Cap hash things out. He attacked the one location personal to an avenger and prominent enough for plenty to be alerted of the portal and flashy enough to be explained by the big ego he was showing off. Loki literally told Tony “that was the plan” when he was told he got The Avengers against him.

And yet no one looked back at that and found anything strange about the attack.

I get mad when antis or Loki’s fake fans say we Loki stans act like he is innocent puppy when we defend him.

We dont.

We arent saying he hasnt done anything bad. We are saying that he has done the same amount (or even less amount) of bad things than (some) heroes,but only his mistakes and wrongdoings are constantly being reminded, meanwhile what heroes did is forgotten or,to be exact,not talked about at all.

The double standards pisses us off.

And because its majority of audience that dont see all of this,it just goes to show how, how do i put this so certain people dont get offended, how NOT VERY SMART audience is. They blindly accept the narrative Marvel is showing them and never question anything.

A hero could literally wipe out the entire city without a reason and audience would spit out 100 things in their defence.

Loki,after being tortured by Thanos (and enduring,thing about his durability and strength) attacks NY brainwashed and blackmailed and influenced by the weapob he was given and he is threatened literally in front of audience in the pretty long scene and yet they still come up “he is evil and he just fooled you with charisma”.

Wintergatan - Marble Music Machine (2000 marbles)

Wouldn’t it?

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She’s technically a monster too. She might not look it at first glance and seems mostly human, but it isn’t deniable even despite her looks compared to the other monsters. 

But she realizes that she is still not like the rest of the monsters either and may not have entirely the same experiences as them, which is why she feels that she might not belong to or deserve to go to the support group. By sometimes passing as human, she feels she isn’t worthy of the space. 

The sad reality though is even though she’s mostly human in appearance, that tail she has undeniably would still cause her some struggle. Humans are still gonna look at that tail and think she’s a freak. There are probably still accommodations she needs because of the tail that she may still struggle to have access to. Even if it is just the tail, that tail is still enough to other her from humans and cause her problems and discrimination. 

She should get to belong in that support group even if she gets told she’s not monster “enough”. She still shares some of the same struggles as them that are caused by being a monster, and needs support. 

My husband used to yell when he got frustrated, but after I explained to him that I found it upsetting, he stopped yelling and started consciously working on asking for help before he got to that level of frustration.

When I’m upset over something, or just in a bad mood, I tend to withdraw. My husband explained to me that it makes him feel like I’m mad at him, so now when I need some space, I’ll tell him what I’m upset about, or that I’m in a bad mood for no particular reason, and I need to be alone for a little while.

Wait. That’s illegal 

1. will and elizabeth’s love story

2. elizabeth becoming pirate king

3. avoiding sexualizing elizabeth or the other female pirate characters in the first 3 films by allowing them to wear period-accurate pirate outfits that aren’t tailored to be revealing and impractical for ‘sex appeal’ just because they’re women

6. I run a corseting panel at cons and literally use Elizabeth’s lace-up scene as a video clip of what historical corseting was actually like, because the only thing they got wrong in this scene is that tightlacing wouldn’t be a thing for about another 200 years (and you couldn’t tightlace with the corset style Elizabeth is wearing anyway). It’s one of the most accurate corseting scenes I’ve ever seen.

7. Will’s hat.

8. That scene with all the pirates on the gallows where that little boy starts singing Hoist the Colours? Yeah, that’s fucking legendary. The rest of AWE was kind of a trash fire, but that scene gave me goosebumps.

9. There’s this great shot in the first one where they really drive home the class differences inherent in this time period by having the governor talking about progress and civilization to Elizabeth in their carriage, and then they cut to a shot outside the carriage where a beggar gets splashed by mud from the wheel. It’s a perfect way to underline that everything is not, in fact, a nice little upper-class fairytale, and to give some weight to Will’s storyline, because he has a lot more in common with that beggar than with the governor.

10. For its time, the CGI was fucking amazing.

11. And let’s not forget the work of the makeup department, which had to actually invent new ways of putting on makeup for this movie.

12. The governor’s death scene. Holy shit.

13. They could have gone with a Jack/Will/Elizabeth love triangle, but they didn’t. There are some hints Jack is in love (or at least in lust) with Elizabeth, but he recognizes that she loves Will, and that’s that.

2. They had a woman pirate right in the first film, when the tradition is to only show male ones (hell, the PotC ride at Disney had a wench auction scene until recently). And it was a female pirate of colour at that!

3. Elizabeth may not have known how to fight in the first film, but she wasn’t helpless either. Her first instinct was to fight, but she also had the brains to recognize when it was best to hide instead. Plus when given the chance she stabbed Barbosa that one time.

4. Elizabeth’s lack of fighting ability was not simply because she was a woman, it was clear it was due to her societal circumstances, since we saw other women of different socioeconomic backgrounds being able to fight (and when given the opportunity to learn Elizabeth took to fighting like a duck on water).

5. The Hoist the Colours scene where we see pirates of multiple ethnicities and their varying flags, reminding us that pirates came in all shapes and sizes and weren’t just white men.

6. One of the Pirate Lords being yet ANOTHER woman of colour. She may not have had much of a speaking role if memory serves, but even her presence is already a big deal.

Davy Jones CGI is legendary and a ton better than some of the stuff done today 😄

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