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…and 2017 is cancelled.

I keep trying to cancel 2017 but somehow I’m still subscribed and it won’t even let me change the channel to an alternate timeline

uugh. And i’m still feeling unreasonably bummed because I was using Justice League as my motivation to make it through the second half of the year, and I got my worst fears realized. At this point there’ll be some bullshit connected to Tolkien/Silm and/or The Force Awakens will have all the plot and character developments I fear including idk, that Snoke is actually Admiral Thrawn.

Expanded universe ask game for fanfic writers!

question-meme:

Send in a fic and a number and I’ll tell you:

1. How another character would fit into this universe.

2. One secret the PoV character doesn’t know.

3. One moment that happened before the main events.

4. What will things be like for the characters 1 year after the main events.

5. What will things be like for the characters 10 years after the main events.

6. What will things be like for the characters 50 years after the main events.

7. What is the (unshared) opinion of one of the non-main characters re: the events of the fic.

8. What advice would the main characters parents or parental figures give them if they were aware of the situation.

9. What a non-PoV character is thinking in a certain scene.

10. What part of the main story will a certain character remember most in the future.

widewonderworld:

Was Ray Fisher cast as Cyborg for his voice alone because like?? he has the calmest, smoothest, most beautiful speaking voice ever?? Like I realize that’s a weird thing to focus on in a very nuanced performance about a man who is alienated from his own body, but a big part of Cyborg’s conflicts (as I understand it) is about his own foreignness – he doesn’t look like anybody, he can’t do what other people do for good or ill, and while his cybernetic body can do a lot of amazing things, it can’t be pushed to a higher limit the same way an organic body can. 

But this is all in contrast to how comforting Vic’s voice is? Like if I’m in distress and all of a sudden this weird robot man drops out of the sky with a scary-looking red light coming out of his chest in the DCEU world of genociding aliens and clown criminals, I’m about to have a heart attack on top of the panic attack I’m already having. But then Ray Fisher’s voice tells me it’s going to be okay and do I know if anybody else needs rescuing nearby, suddenly I realize there’s a hero in all that and I’m going to get out of this fine. 

I just really love Ray Fisher okay?

Man of Steel IS Hopeful

hcourageous:

Look, I’m going to put an end to the idea that for a movie or a story to be hopeful, it has to be light and fluffy.

This is blatantly just not a factual idea. Sure, of course you can prefer a certain type of presentation in your storytelling, that’s FAIR, but saying a movie you like isn’t hopeful because it presents it in a different way isn’t right.

Hope isn’t about laughs, it’s not about everyone smiling all the times and it’s not meant to be easy either. Hope is hard, it’s really hard, and having hope in the middle of dark times can be almost excruciating, to cling to the idea that there could be something good coming when everything seems so dark.

AND THAT is the main narrative of Man of Steel, which remains consistent throughout the film. The film has it’s flaws, but this isn’t one of them. And to be fair, the movie itself isn’t even that dark. There’s a lot of really lovely moments between Clark and everyone he interacts with, showing his kindness and openness, and his need to do good.

Man of Steel touches down on the idea that humans have the ability to strive towards not just greatness but goodness. Like when Perry White and Steve Lombard stayed with Jenny, through certain death. That is goodness. That is hopeful. That is a mirror of what humanity could be. That is Colonel Hardy sacrificing his life for the world, “a good death” he says to Faora. It’s Clark choosing to save a family, choosing to become the last of his kind, choosing innocence over destruction.

Man of Steel is hopeful.

aqxa:

I don’t want to post spoilers, but there was a moment in the opening credits of Justice League that had me in tears. I’m not even exaggerating. I just want to say thank you to Zack Snyder for including that in there. As a Muslim women, I will cherish that moment and feeling I had in seat for the rest of my life. Thank you.

Gah, now I’m really thinking about that “Batman comics with the serial numbers filed off” as a series of short snippets and Thingol getting his yearly stash of comics imported from Númenor and it’s the Under the Hood arc, and he’s so excited that Jason is back – he knows it’s him- and he’s reading and projecting Túrin and Beren onto Jason because of course he is, screaming that the son needs to come home and see that he should forgive his father who loves him still even if can’t express it well (Bruce’s overprotective nature, sacrifices his relationships with his family because protecting Gotham is most important, Batman is Thingol) and the father should stop being an ass because the Valar sent your daughter back and kill the damn Joker and then the ending and Thingol screams about it to Melian.

which tolkien character liked which dc movie?

Oh damn, hmmm. I think Wonder Woman’s character going from her stand-alone to BvS and JL would be very popular with Galadriel and survivors from the Third Age. Actually WW would be a popular movie for Beleriand, that leaving paradise with optimism about defeating evil only to face the fact that the real world isn’t black and white but to have faith in goodness and try anyways and that she does defeat Morgoth Ares. That would be cathartic. Man of Steel, with its central message of an orphan boy sent to be fostered in a new place for his safety, the outsider looking for his people, trying to defend the home he knows, who is inexperienced because of youth…like damn, I want to show Túrin that movie and promise him there’s a happy ending. Tuor too. I think Tuor and Idril would make in-jokes comparing themselves to Lois and Clark. Then the self-sacrifice in BvS, he would understand that and to show him the funeral scenes and Bruce’s speech. I think Finrod would love them all, and Beren and Lúthien. And the Valar. Maybe Thorin and the other dwarves too.

Suicide Squad is a funny one, because the premise is people thought of as irredeemable by society are being manipulated as tools but those in power, and yet the squad is able to find fellowship in each other and do the right thing in spite of the world. If the Tolkien characters can look pass the punk rock sensibilities, modern craziness, and the gray morality of the protagonist characters, I think they could like it. I remember Túrin redeeming the outlaws, so I think there’s a chance. Maybe Beleg loves it? 

I have that idea about Batman in general starting among the Balar refugees – widely popular at the start of the Second Age. 

Green Lantern: the Animated Series is beautiful space adventures of Space Dad and Space Uncle babysitting their AI daughter and helping Angry Space Zuko work through his beautiful redemption arc and then the later two have this star-crossed lovers and not sure why but I can see some Third Age people (Elrond) loving it. Elrond and his brother are huge DC Shills.

Thingol loves and hates Under the Red Hood because of how Bruce doesn’t reconcile with his son and Jason doesn’t come home.

Aquaman is going to be widely popular. Ironically not just the Teleri- there are some Noldor princes, not naming names, that get a kick out of Arthur stopping Orm and gaining the kingship.

The central conceit of DC is Godly Powerful beings trying to be human, and the movies that reflect that (BvS especially in my opinion) would be very popular with the Ainur. Gandalf understands their hope.

I feel that ‘ultimate edition when’ SO HARD. Like, if you go back and watch the original Justice League trailer, most of the scenes shown aren’t even in the actual movie. It’s ridiculous how much they cut out.

catie-does-things:

Yeah, with BVS there was a lot taken out but the theatrical cut of the film still reflected how the movie was presented in the trailers. With Justice League it really feels like the trailers were for a different movie.