Jeremy Brett was dying, and knew he was dying, in the last handful of episodes he filmed. According to his coworkers, near the end, he sank deeper and deeper into the character; being Sherlock Holmes seemed to be the only thing that gave him comfort.
I read the books before I ever saw a film version, and you’d be hard-pressed to find an actor as Holmes I don’t like, but Jeremy Brett was my first, and he will always be my Holmes.
an·ti·he·ro also an·ti-he·ro
n. pl. an·ti·he·roes also an·ti-he·roesA main character in a dramatic or narrative work who is characterized by a lack of traditional heroic qualities, such as idealism or courage.
you. in my bed. now.
Other People’s Makeup Use: None Of Your Business – Ozy Frantz’s Blog (via brute-reason)
This is the same with fashion.
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Tony doesn’t do emotion well. He does public emotion not at all and Coulson’s death affects him. Hurts him on a raw level and he’s not sure what to do with that. You can see him as Fury tells him about Phil’s death, struggling so hard to process it all. He’s fighting to keep his expression neutral, his breathing is uneven and his hands are fidgeting almost without him knowing. He won’t fall apart and most definitely not in front of anyone. So he leaves.
Steve is looking down at the cards through all this but he flinches when Tony leaves. Then he follows him. He follows the man he was just fighting with. Even after the scepter stops glowing, these two are still at each other’s throats, but Steve still follows him. And Tony, who rarely says what he means in an emotional situation and never to someone he doesn’t know, or apparently like, doesn’t shut him out. His body language is open and responsive and he listens to what Steve is saying.
This is why these two are so closely bonded. Their friendship/brotherhood/romance (insert your favorite label here…I prefer to apply all of those terms. Steve and Tony’s relationship is multi-leveled and deeply complex) is so intrinsic and organic that neither can explain it but both feel it. This is why their story is so alluring. They need and reach out for each other right from the beginning. They orbit each other like planets. Neither knowing why but both feeling the deep and abiding need of it.
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It is not a ‘divorce’. It is more than bk’s 1-7 and it is not foreplay for fan fiction:
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There is a reason the tag line for Marvel’s Civil War is “Whose Side Are You On?” War, be it between the peoples of opposing landmasses on a map, countrymen of the same nation or factions within a community is an act where it takes two entities to create chaos.
Tony Stark is not the villain in Marvel’s Civil War. He didn’t cause the disaster and loss of life in Stamford any more than he created or signed into law the SHRA. He was as much a pawn in the game of politics as anyone else. What he did do is what many men before him have done when faced with odds calculated to be overwhelming, he evaluated his options and acted on them. What many people forget is that Tony is a futurist. He maps and sees the future. As a businessman of high caliber he has his ear to the political ground. He saw and heard about this bill months before it hit the mainstream media. He knew it would pass, nothing and no-one could stop it. The only thing he could do was get on top of it and try and steer it’s path.
He knew, absolutely that his choice would tear his family apart but he did it anyway to protect them. He did what he has done his whole life, he threw himself in the path of the oncoming train to keep those he loved safe. What he couldn’t have foreseen was the losing of the one man he holds the most dear to the other side. BUT….he held to his belief and saw his ideals through. Don’t tell me that Tony lost nothing. That Peter moved to the other side but that Tony suffered no loss of life. That just shows me you really haven’t read anything other than the core books. He loses Happy to this war.
Why then does that make him a villain and yet when Cap does the exact same thing he is a hero? Why is it okay for Steve to refuse to listen, to hold fast to his ideology but for that to make Tony an (quote from post in tags) ‘asshole’ or even worse ‘a traitor’? Many of these posts that I see are written by people who have only read the core seven books. The Civil War event is incredibly vast. Not reading the other books is completely your choice, but to post so stridently when you have only read CW 1-7 and none of the others is to do a disservice to the event and the fandom.
By leaping in with CW bk 1 you have no idea where Tony’s head is prior to Stamford. By not reading Front Line you have no clue what is going on underground with Namor and his crew or Ulrich and why he is so intent on following Parker. Or how and why Ulrich and Sally Floyd, in a brilliant allegory of the mindset of America, come to change their opinions and sides so radically. Nor are you able to see fully the impressive and superior way Marvel and their team tied the entire event to the political climate and emotional levels of post September 11, America. Quite simply: Patriot Act=SHRA. (Reference)
Both Tony and Steve have moments of absolute betrayal of their conscience in this war. Tony and Thor springs vividly to mind. Steve shooting first and refusing to listen at all on the helicarrier and purposely bring down that plane also occur. But no-one can convince me that the ultimate betrayal isn’t Steve refusing, completely refusing to listen to Tony. Then when he agrees, when Tony goes to shake his hand, Cap, while Tony is on a battlefield, disables the Iron Man armor, knowing that it is Tony’s only protection.
Tony while in the suit can take Captain America but he doesn’t. He doesn’t want to fight with this man, he just wants to protect him. To Tony, Captain America is the symbol of everything good and just and pure in this world. A purity that Tony himself feels he can no longer claim as his own. Even when he is on his back (still in the suit, still in control of the repulsors) he simply lays there and commands Steve to ‘just end it’. Their meeting in the mansion only illustrates the level to which their mistrust has fallen. Neither of them shows up in street clothes. Neither no longer trusts the other to the point where they expect they other to strike.
Individually the core book doesn’t even begin to scratch the surface of the depths of misery and confusion that both men experience at the loss of each other. Nor does it even begin to explore the sheer epic scale of disorientation the rest of the team, the other superheroes and the watching world feels as they see the relationship of these two men, men they love and admire; men who would die for each other, devolve so completely that they are trying to kill each other.
Taking away the superficiality of shipping Tony and Steve as lovers, these men are inextricably tied to each other. They are soul mates, best friends, family where they have both lost so much. They are brothers. Without each other they are empty, dark mirrors of what they can be and without them to lead, the whole the team is incomplete. The tragedy of Civil War on a universe level is the devolution of a society. The tearing down of a curtain to reveal an uncertain future. On a personal level it is the loss of friendship and love and the ultimate price paid.
There is a reason that Tony is the first person Steve goes to when he wants to reform the Avengers. They need each other. Gravitate to each other and orbit each other with a depth of love and commitment rarely seen even in fiction. Steve is the team’s moral compass and leader, Tony is it’s heart and soul. Morality without heart is propaganda and leadership without a soul is a dictatorship.
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ALL OF THIS: THANK YOU
Just a reminder:
When Prophet Muhammad (sallahu alayhi wa sallam) was travelling on the road with his cousin, Al-Fadl ibn Abbas, a woman stopped him to ask him a question. The woman was very beautiful, and Al-Fadl couldn’t help but stare at her.
Seeing this, Prophet Muhammad reached out his hand and turned his cousin’s face away.
He didn’t tell the woman to cover her face.
He didn’t tell her to change her clothing.
He didn’t tell her that her appearance was too tempting or indecent.
He averted his cousin’s impolite stare.
i think everytime an angry fan post shows up on my dash, i feel more and more compelled to draw slash even tho I don’t even ship them…
what’s this about respect for the creators and blah blah when these people don’t even respect the fan artists drawing what they like and feel entitled to reblog or express their rude and unwarranted opinion on ‘shit’ like this and feel ‘personally attacked/offended’ by a drawing.
Personally, I feel offended and attacked when someone devalues my artwork to ‘fandom shit’ and myself to a ‘fangirl that ruins everything’.remember when we were 9 years old and our batman figurines were married to barbies and sometimes had flings with GI Joe and frat parties with ninja turtles but still managed to be cool and fight crime on the side? i mean it didn’t matter then what we interpreted, why does it matter now? are relationships and sexual preference that critical to how cool/badass a superhero is…
superheroes are icons, and if people want to interpret them in ways that make them feel closer to home, who is anyone to say otherwise…
excuse my rant
This subject is old but I have never answered it in its entirety. And even with this post it will remain incomplete.
The question why I would LET Willow cut her hair. First the LET must be challenged. This is a world where women,girls are constantly reminded that they don’t belong to themselves; that their bodies are not their own, nor their power or self determination. I made a promise to endow my little girl with the power to always know that her body, spirit and her mind are HER domain. Willow cut her hair because her beauty, her value, her worth is not measured by the length of her hair. It’s also a statement that claims that even little girls have the RIGHT to own themselves and should not be a slave to even their mother’s deepest insecurities, hopes and desires. Even little girls should not be a slave to the preconceived ideas of what a culture believes a little girl should be.
More to come. Another day.
"Jada Pinkett Smith on women, girls, & Willow’s ability to own herself
via Necole Bitchie
*so relevant*
(via lati-negros)
AAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAAAAA
Now to work on making ALL THE REST OF THEM just as uncomfortable.
i’m team “i don’t care who the fuck tops as long as the fanfic is good”
who’s with me
I have seen so many posts declaring that if Iron Man 3 is about Extremis people are going to be ‘really upset’ or ‘walk out of the theater’. (I don’t want to call out any particular posts, just go cruise the #extremis tag, you’ll see them). This makes zero sense to me many on so many levels. First, Robert himself has more than heavily hinted that it involves that arc. Why on earth would the man lie about a movie he’s staring in and trying to promote? Second, and more importantly, if you are an Iron Man fan you know that this is the next logical step for the movies to make. Extremis is what evolves Tony from ‘billionaire Tony Stark’ in a metal suit to a ‘superhero’. Extremis is what gives Tony his ”powers.
The storyline explains so much about his thought process, the state of his psychological being and explains just how much physical pain the man is in on a daily basis. I swear people forget that. Taking away the fact that he is walking around with what amounts to a bomb in his chest, a device where the term ‘reasonable safe distance’ doesn’t apply, he has a hunk of metal (the reactor housing) embedded in him. The last time he could take a deep breath was right before the missile exploded next to him in the desert. To implant the housing, Yinsen had to cut away his sternum and rearrange internal organs, lungs, ribs etc. How can people think that doesn’t hurt him constantly? Extremis heals him. It is such a vital part of Tony’s story. This is the last movie, to not do the Extremis line would be a major disservice to the character. And to touch on what is apparently another hot spot in the tags, Maya Hansen has to be in it. She is an intricate part of the Extremis story. And yes, she has a prior romantic attachment to Tony.
Tony has the ‘playboy’ name for a reason. His romantic/sex life doesn’t begin and end with Pepper. His loves/flings include Bethany, Sunset, Maria Hill for crying out loud as romantic interests as well. He was going to marry Rumiko. Think on that. Tony Stark loved someone enough that he went out, bought a ring and was going to sink to one knee to propose marriage. So, do I think there will be any love scenes with Maya and Tony in the movie? No. It’s not the way they are rolling in the MCU but I would assume there will be some pretty meaningful looks between the two.
Why would you not want to see a movie with an actor of the immense gift and talent that Robert has doing extreme justice to his character with the emotional intensity of a storyline that is Extremis? A character that he has lovingly crafted and made so totally his own. Just because it is too ‘heartbreaking’? Tony Stark is the personification of heartbreak. He is the tragic hero of our time. Or because a character in it ‘threatens your ship’? This makes no sense to me at all.
Also, just because they are doing Extremis doesn’t automatically mean they will do Civil War for Avengers. There are so many other interesting events and stories in the Avenger’s universe. Civil War, while epic and one of my personal favorites, isn’t the be all and all of Marvel events.
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And by that I mean the whole stupid, foolhardy concept. I’ve said before that if you really believe there’s a horde of attractive women faking interest in nerdy things just to get your attention, you have a massive case of unwarranted self-importance, and I still believe that. I also believe you’re incredible insecure, and threatened by some ‘enemy’ who is no such thing.
The world of comic books, sci-fi, videogames, all these things, is no longer a boy’s club with a “NO GIRLS ALLOWED” banner hanging on the door, and it never should have been (indeed, I suspect it never really WAS but for this very idea - girls aren’t REAL nerds, especially attractive ones! And then the internet came up and holy shit look, women came out in droves to discuss their interest in these things, going back to the 1980s and earlier like the rest of us). If you insist somehow that it should be, that you should act as some kind of gatekeeper - he is a real nerd, she is not - then quite frankly you are just one of the saddest specimens we have to offer. Many of us grew up being picked on for having a non-mainstream interest, and now that this interest is spreading you attack and snarl and demean and exclude instead of actually being happy that you have new people to share these wonderful interests with.
You complain about games being rehashes, comic book reboots that are just retreads, but actively keep out the new blood and perspectives that could actually offer something you haven’t seen or considered before.
You demean women who cosplay as attention seekers in skimpy outfits, ignoring that they didn’t create those outfits, WE did.
Who cares if someone’s exposure and love for The Avengers came from the movie, and not the comics first?
Who cares if someone plays Angry Birds more than Dark Souls? What, you never fucking played Tetris? Don’t give me that non-game crap.
Oh no, she watches Thor because he’s tall blonde and built like a brick shithouse and isn’t afraid to comment that the guy’s a stud and so’s his brother? Yeah, because you read Tarot: Witch of the Rose for the riveting storytelling and characterization, right?
Oh no, someone’s writing fanfic about Tony Stark and Steve Rogers buttfucking! What a demeaning thing to do to the characters, you say as browsing the pictures I’ve been hired to draw of the women of X-Men having a lesbian orgy.
At the core of it all, for some insane reason, you are so threatened by the presence of women in your interests that you insult, you cajole, you harrass, and you embarrass the rest of us who are just happy to share. You slam women who are attractive and cosplay as NOT REAL NERDS, THEY’RE PREYING ON US POOR WIDDLE MENZ! And when they’re not as attractive as you’d like, you slam them for not meeting your standards. Or you slam them for daring not to give you the time of day when you grope and harass and hit on them. And if you look like me while doing it, that’s even more hilariously hypocritical and out of touch with reality. She’s not there for YOU, bro.
She’s not there for you.
She’s not there for you.
Let that sink in, guys.
She’s not there for you.
She’s not dressing up for you.
She’s not interested in comics for you.
She’s not playing games for you.
She’s. Not. There. For. You.
You are not the center of the universe, you never were and you never SHOULD be. It’s time to share your toys, guys. It’s time to be more mature. It’s time to drop the entitled attitude that insists our standards and our standards alone should be met. You do not hold the keys to the kingdom, for the kingdom has no lock.
My friend Kat - a geek with a cool job making awesome videogames like NFS The Run and mad cosplay skills - said something on Twitter earlier that summed the whole Fake Geek Girl BS up perfectly;
“That’s just it- “fake geek girls” DO NOT EXIST. There are only WOMEN WITH VARYING LEVELS OF INTEREST IN DIFFERENT HOBBIES.”
Many of the women cosplaying at these conventions probably know more about the current state of comics than I do, but I’ll never be asked to prove my nerd cred if I roll up in a Superman tee - and I haven’t bought an issue since the New 52 launched.
Fucking afford them the same courtesy. Don’t be a douchebag.
