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[ SECRET POST #4434 ]

⌈ Secret Post #4434 ⌋

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[The Good Place]

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[Taskmaster]

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[The Umbrella Academy, "We Only See Each Other at Weddings and Funerals"]

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[Criminal Minds S04E15, "Zoe's Reprise"]

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[FBI (2018)]

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[Cameron Britton playing Ed Kemper in Mindhunter]

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I ... actually agree with this, though I winced a bit because it's blunter than I would have phrased it. It is fairly clear in IM1/IM2 particularly that Tony grew up a) with an ideal of patriotic bloodshed, given Howard's WWII experiences and worship of Cap, plus his own involvement in the military/arms business from childhood up, and b) without any direct experience of actual bloodshed himself. So he's perfectly fine with some vague nebulous idea of people, even civilians, dying by his weapons somewhere foreign in what he'd consider legitimate wars, right up until he has to watch somebody get blown up by one right beside him. Then he gets tortured himself, giving him a much broader and more in-depth appreciation for pain and mutilation and long-term disability resulting from weapon injuries. Then he realises that his fellow prisoner, the man helping him and keeping him alive, had family die essentially by Tony's oblivious hands, and helped him anyway. And then he learns that Obie's been selling things under the table willy-nilly without his knowledge, and the idea of a 'legitimate war' gets shot out from under him as well (though I think it's to his credit that he'd already shut down weapons by then, that even before he learned about Obie the experience of violence alone was enough to convince him that even 'legitimate' wars weren't enough of an excuse).

So ... yeah. The thing he didn't know was that Obie was selling his weapons to terrorist organisations, which he did take badly. He probably did know, intellectually, that civilians were dying by his weapons all along. It just didn't really mean anything until he had to witness it personally. Which was why everything about Yinsen struck him as hard as it did, and why he's spent his whole life since that moment trying to make up for it.

I assume it's a form of arrogance combined with denial. The people who do it think they're good to go, and they don't see the need to doubt their own judgment even though yeah, their judgment is impaired. Then you have the people who have a legit drinking problem and they're in denial about it... so therefore they're NOT that drunk because then it'd mean admitting they have a problem.

Glad your sister is all right.

I think "willful ignorance" is basically on the level with "knew it but was in denial". You don't have to be a genius to understand that if you manufacture weapons, they're going to be used in war, and that war has collateral damage in the form of civilians. Denial is not the same thing as "didn't know".

HDU.

Unico in the Island of Magic.

I watched it again as an adult and had to chuckle. It was definitely a lot darker when I was a wee one (though the puppet abuse was still kind of sad).

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There is a dissonance between the way that Tony Stark is portrayed in the film, and the way that the US military is known to work in the real world (and presumably works in the movie as well; there's no particular reason to suppose that it's any different). It's a genuine tension, a thematic/political contradiction, and I don't think it can really be resolved just by saying whether or not it's canon.

I've been working on going through ALL THE BOXES of things that I just sort of moved with and haven't really touched in six years. So far my bedroom is almost reorganized and tidy, and I have a huge pile of things to go to goodwill.

Once the bedroom is tidy I will expand out into the living room and kitchen.

the Your Movie Sucks guy on youtube is awesome

I love clementines, but I have to limit myself to the 6 clementine bags. Otherwise I eat them all and it kind of fucks with my body chemistry.

Me too. Mine are Jake and Leela. :]

I probably will, but I don't really care.

I remember it! Patrick McGoohan was great in it and it's got a cat heroine, what's not to love?

I found some of my old floppy disks while cleaning today, but obviously I no longer have a desktop that has a floppy disk drive (though my desktop does still run on VISTA because I'ma lazy ho), but is there an attachment or something I can use to see what's on them? A couple of the labels say 'word docs' and as a writer it's killing me not to know what's on them.

Fern Gully. Or Rescuers Down Under. Is RDU Disney? I have no idea.

I don't think so. The only person I'd even consider for it is the piece of shit who assaulted me, and while I've definitely had some revenge fantasies, I'm too soft to go through with it. I'm the kind of person who gets home from a drunken party and starts worrying that I might have offended or annoyed someone in some way.

I believe Rescuers and Rescuers Down Under are both Disney.

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I was just reading a thread on Twitter that started off as "Unintentional Fridge Horror" but sort of mutated into Woker Than Thou
Someone expressed the opinion that Sarastro, in Mozart's The Magic Flute, is a creepy cult leader and kidnapper (true, insofar as it goes) and furthermore, that the Queen of the Night should have won (what).
No.
The story is quite sexist, and certainly has, just, so much background racism; but no.
The Queen of the Night not only promises her daughter to the first handsome prince to stroll along, but once she is reunited with her daughter she tries to force said daughter to murder her dad. When she is refused, she threatens to disown her kid. Later, she knowingly promises that same daughter to a would-be rapist.

Maybe, just m a y b e, Sarastro had good reason for the whole 'parental abduction' deal!

Obviously Klaus.

I'm glad! Haven't watched it myself, but I always enjoy media (sometimes the one I expect the least) that surprisingly helps me grow in my faith or in other ways :)

name and complain

Just in general when characterization is changed so a character can be shoved into specific stereotypes/roles/etc. I prefer it when the characters are recognizably the one I'm actually here to read about.

When every single character involved in the story is in a relationship, and either all of them are straight or all of them are gay. I prefer more variety.

When authors make everything revolve around their favorite characters (or historical figure). That character is perfect and loved by everyone, and anyone who doesn't love them is evil. And any possible romantic competition is also evil and completely unsympathetic in every way.

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