this is fantastic to me because it’s EU canon that ballistic weapons like these are a bitch to handle with a lightsaber, because if you try to block them like blaster bolts the metal slugs just melt and keep on coming
like probably you could stop them with the Force if you’d drilled that reflex but you won’t have, you’ve drilled blocking
so this would actually be a potentially workable, if unorthodox, option for a jedi up against a sith lord who had them spiritually outgunned
You want some serious old fart advice? Never, ever lend your friends more money than you think you can lose permanently. I don’t fucking care if they say they’ll pay you back. I don’t care how small the amount is. Write that shit off as gone in your mind. It will eat at you forever if you don’t.
Some people say the same thing about family, but I think it applies more to friends. Family is (usually) held together by obligations the way friends aren’t. And money is a huge stressor in all kinds of relationships, not just romantic.
I’m not saying this to bum you out. I’m telling you because this is not something you want to learn on your own. Because it fucking sucks to realize it’s one reason you’re no longer friends, whether you were necessarily aware of it or not.
I generally go one step further: I do not lend friends money at all. I will give you what I can afford to give, and I ask you to pay forward what you can when you can, give to someone else who needs it. This policy has really served me well. When I’m giving money, I never have to worry if I’ll get it back – I won’t! It’s a gift! No stress!
new metric for media literacy for film bros is if they understand the barbie movie.
the kens are first presented as accessories to their barbies and it’s pointed out loud that they don’t even have places to stay in barbieland. one of the barbies straight up asks “wait, where do the kens stay?”. they’re just arm candy made to look pretty and cool while the barbies run their world.
but that’s fucked up!!! the film presents it as fucked up! that’s why ken screams “YOU FAILED ME!” and why he is insecure in the first place because he wanted to be respected and seen as a person, not someone who only exists in relation to someone else. should he have done what he did? no!!! that’s why it’s part of the conflict! the root of both of their breakdowns was in their society in that the barbies are supposed to be perfect and the kens exist in relation to them! it’s barbie and ken. he was a footnote. that’s why barbie apologizes to him in the end and tells him he can be himself. she doesn’t have to exist by some set of rules and neither does he! it’s barbie and it’s ken! sure, the resolution to the whole barbieland issue wasn’t perfect, BUT KEN’S WHOLE ARC IS ABOUT HOW THEIR WORLD FAILED MEN. WHAT DO YOU MEAN THIS MOVIE WAS ‘WOMEN GOOD MAN BAD’. WHAT ABOUT THE NUANCE
The scene I’ve always found most viscerally disturbing is Ax and Marco on the Normandy beach on D-Day (MM3). It’s the soldiers rushing the beach in waves, “Like cattle going down the chute to the slaughtering floor. But, of course, cattle don’t know what’s corning. Humans do… And they still came.” It’s the way Marco sees every murdered soldier “Like Jake. Cassie and I had sworn to protect him. But there’d never even been a chance.” It’s Ax being awed by the simple act of the medic being killed “while trying to save a man he must have known was doomed.”
The two coldest and most aloof Animorphs are reduced to “crying, sobbing” and “digging in the sand” at their inability to make sense of the battle. It’s Ax desperately wanting this to be Visser Four’s fault, because surely this can’t be the way history is supposed to happen. By the time Rachel is dropping grenades, we understand her sheer desperation to make it stop, regardless of the cost.
That said, maybe I find that one so impactful because it’s a real event. My grandfather fought in that war, my distant cousins died in that war. I don’t have the same visceral fear of turning into a spider that I get from “Bullets entered organs by neat, round holes and came out in a shredded mess… One second they were scared and brave and alive. The next second they were dead.”
Anyway, everyone’s mileage may vary, and if someone else has a different contender then toss it out there.
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To me it’s the climax of MM2 When they decide not to destroy the meteor. Because the metor would never have hit earth anyway if it weren’t for the animorphs interference. So humans were never supposed to exist. They could have put history back on its natural course by destroying it, but they let it hit to ensure their own existence. It’s entirely self serving and I might even go so far as to argue it’s genocide. That was the most fucked up thing they did to me
That moment is Animorphs as fuck. It gets me every time that Jake invokes hospitality when he argues with Tobias — that’s such a Classical ethic, that the people who open their home and share their food with you deserve a level of respect greater than friendship. Jake’s right, and Tobias is kinda right, and every choice is wrong.
Nora. Marco saves his dad from infestation, and when his dad says “what about your stepmom”, Marco says “She was probably already infested when she met you, she seduced you because of your job.” And we know that’s a lie, the Animorphs had checked her out from the beginning. But Marco wanted to save his dad. And it was easier to get him out if he had no reason to go back. And easier to handle him if he grieves fast. So he killed that relationship as efficiently as he could and moved on to other goals.
Thing is, I don’t think Marco hates Nora. They conflict, but I think he does actually like her. But she doesn’t matter to him. His parents, the team, the planet? Those matter. He’ll die for them. Nora, some kid at school, an infant? Marco will feed those to Visser 3 in a second if it buys the Animorphs an advantage.
The end of The Test always messes me up.
Cassie doesn’t want to hurt anyone, so she opts out of a mission. Since blowing up the yerk pool would hurt some of their allies as well she’s against it and she warns Mr Tidwell so he can warn any Yerk Peace Movement members….only to find out that most of them will be at the pool when it explodes. Desperate and now on a short timeline Cassie, peace loving Cassie, Cassie who doesn’t want to hurt anyone, rushes to the pumping station and slaughters everyone inside to save the rest of the Animorphs and the YPM.
Which is bad enough, but this isn’t a book Cassie narrates so we don’t see any of this.
What we see is Cassie, sitting at the controls of the station, sobbing ane surrounded by bodies that have been maimed by a wolf and no comfort can reach her.
I can never remember whay actually happens after that (aside from the explination of what happened) but that image has been haunting me since the year 2000.
Imagine being the only person alive who can say this
buzz aldrin and neil armstrong liked to do a thing where they’d tell unfunny jokes at parties about being on the moon and when people were confused they’d go “guess you had to have been there”
