Anyone else getting real fuckin fed up with this guy
to expand on this: as rescue teams were racing to save those kids and their coach, elon musk decided to use the crisis as a PR stunt.
he tweeted about how he was going to send his engineers to Thailand in order to look like a hero. he threw out ludicrous rescue ideas, including a 3 mile long tube and a small submarine, neither of which had a chance in hell of working.
the diver being discussed here is Vern Unsworth. he’s a 63-year-old British caver who lives near and has extensive knowledge of the Tham Luang cave system.
Unsworth is the reason the boys were found: he used his knowledge of the caves and deductive reasoning to pinpoint where he thought the team would be. when rescuers followed his directions, they found the boys only 200 meters away.
Unsworth also called in the British divers who would go on to first locate the team. he didn’t know these boys, but he remained outside of thebTham Luang cave system for the full 17 days in order to assist in their rescue anyway.
he has since rightfully called out Musk for trying to exploit the situation for attention and explained why Musk’s suggestions would never have even worked. Musk responded by throwing a tantrum and, based on literally NOTHING, calling Unsworth a pedophile.
Marvel really made a huge mistake with not making a Black Widow movie sooner. If they had just made it back when the fans wanted, in 2013, it probably would’ve made a decent amount of money and been really popular on here for awhile
But now they’ve waited too long and the fans have noticed all the problematic aspects of how Black Widow is written, along with how shitty a person Scarlet Johansen is, that people don’t give a shit that she finally does have a movie coming out
Chances are now that it’s gonna flop and all the movie executives are going to smoke their giant cigars in their big offices and say “Well, looks like big budget movies with female leads don’t sell, just like we thought, let’s never try to make a big budget female led movie ever again” and pat themselves on the back for their ingenuity when it’s their own damn fault (Along with Scarjo being a shitty person)
They need to recast the role
Thing is…
…they could.
Think about it: BW is a spy, whose face is now plastered all over the media. Her espionage career–arguably her major contribution to the team–is over. So now she has to either:
Get plastic surgery, or (my favorite)
Utilize a series of elaborate disguises for each scene. We never see OG Widow again, instead seeing her portrayed by Lucy Liu, Halle Berry (in a white wig, of course), Gal Gadot, Rosario Dawson (for a fun Daredevil crossover mix up), and Judi Dench.
We leave the theatre wondering if we’ve ever seen the real Natasha Romanov.
“bisexual can mean youre into the opposite gender and nonbinary people bc that’s two gender and bi means two”!!! is the same shit as “bisexual is transphobic because it excludes nonbinary people bc bi means two!!!”
you people are so fucking hyperfocused on the latin meaning of bi instead of just the historical context and actual common meaning of bisexual in LGBT circles basically meaning that you’re attracted to any gender lmao.
How come Ryan Reynolds can go around pretty much pretending he’s Deadpool all the time and Marvel come out with the movie and no one makes fun of it, and thinks it’s great but Jared Leto does some crazy stuff to try and get in character for a role he’s super excited about and having fun and it becomes a meme and he’s trying to be “edgy”?
Because Ryan Reynolds didn’t send his co-stars used condoms and dead animals.
Jared Leto is a rapist that probably has a lot to do with it too
More prosaically, Reynolds isn’t the first actor to play Deadpool following an Oscar-winning performance the psychological intensity of which was almost certainly a contributing factor in the star’s death.
And where Reynolds is playing it for comedy, Leto (or at least the marketing around Suicide Squad) very much is trying to be ‘edgy’.
Plus Mark Hamill is still playing the Joker, and being very normal while doing so.
I do feel like it should be said that Ledger wasn’t even working on Batman when he died. It was a different project entirely, and his overdose was likely accidental carelessness owing to multiple doctors in different cities or areas prescribing him different medications that shouldn’t have been taken together, because if you’re rich enough you can wander into a doctor’s office and go “I have X issue, nothing I’m doing is managing it properly, give me something for it”, and they’ll just take your word for it. So Health Ledger’s death probably has only a little bit to do with Dark Knight (or not at all) and a LOT more to do with his well-known issues with anxiety and depression, which he’d admittedly struggled with long before Batman. The people who worked with him on Batman have never said much about him seeming “disturbed” or otherwise bothered by the role out of character, and was even one of the nicer and more upbeat people on set. The only people who have implied that the Joker pushed him toward a mental breakdown were people writing speculative articles, fans who wanted a satisfying reason for his death, and… Jack Nicholson, who was already bitter before Ledger died that he didn’t call Nicholson for advice on how to play the character, because Nicholson owns the Joker, apparently.
So Leto is capitalizing on this “it’ll make you KUH-RAZY” thing that isn’t actually a thing (because, like storywonker said, Hamill’s been doing it forever and a day with a much more manic persona for the character and is fine) and is passively perpetuating a lie about a man who, in life, was an intensely private person. Leto is trying to out-Joker Ledger by being an unprofessional dipshit who harasses his coworkers when his competition isn’t even alive. Assnugget.
Also, Ryan Reynolds understands how humor works. How he plays up Deadpool is entirely comedic. It’s good-natured and laugh-with-me (and laugh-AT-me) rather than inviting an audience to laugh at other people once he’s purposely made them uncomfortable. Leto sent someone a dead rat; Reynolds told some jokes with a few kids dressed as X-Men who were in on it. Leto is trying to ~comment on society~ with his ~edginess~ in one of those “isn’t it hilarious that people have POSITIVE FEELINGS ABOUT ANYTHING ahahaha”; Reynolds shitposts on Twitter.
People DO make fun of Ryan Reynolds. The difference is that Reynolds is in on YOUR JOKE because he started it, so it’s in good fun even if you genuinely dislike him. Leto is mistaking unfunny miscondect for quirk and edge. People are making fun of Leto because Leto isn’t in on the joke that is his behavior, so he won’t – and can’t – roll with it and make it genuinely entertaining like Reynolds does.
Unpopular opinion that shouldn’t be unpopular: anti-bullying programs in school that don’t address the root causes of bullying – which are almost invariably larger forms of bigotry and oppression like racism, ableism and homophobia – are completely useless and ultimately futile.
kids get bullied, frequently, because they’re “weird”. but it just so happens that the traits society calls “weird” are overwhelmingly related to poverty, minority religion or ethnicity, neurodivergence, non-straight sexuality, and gender non conformance.
posting this here because elon tried to back out of calling the man who died saving those boys in a cave a pedophile who deserved dying because he didnt get to show off his submarine
backup blog in case tumblr explodes 