I got to watch Creed III last night with a dear friend and Thank The Lord For Shirtless MBJ again...
Then Johnathan Majors played Damian “Dame/Diamond” Anderson like...oh my goodness gracious. He played him as the most brilliant, compelling, terrifying, heartbreaking villain that’s just grabbed and hooked me straight through the screen.
I haven’t been this invested and Shooketh by a villain since Heath Ledger’s Joker.
And I’m not sure if I’m going to add to this, but Damian most terrified not just when he was showing his rip-roar, intensely-violent (”He’s not just fighting-he’s hurting people.”), unorthodox boxing style.
No, he terrified me most every time his eyes watered and he looked like he was about to cry...which was almost every time he was on screen. And those tear-filled eyes were nearly always accompanied by a shaky smile.
You just felt like he was going to collapse in on himself and all that anger, rage, desperation, trauma, and hurt were just going to spill out past the screen and swallow you up in its all-encompassing, engrossing wave and you won’t be able to do anything but feel what Dame feels too.
But you still can’t look away.
@afro-elf Your boy really truly is an Ah-Mazing actor. Woooow...
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Cycle of violence makes me so sad
The relationship scarecrow had with Luz, batman and scarecrows parallel in origin, how absolutely broken he was at the end...where is my dancing hroo hraa man...
Also tapping into Bruce's fear of being close with others and forming relationships was nice given every other fear toxin was like ORPHAN! ORPHAN!!!
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the way some people are so invested in the idea that men don’t actively benefit from patriarchy is so fucking annoying I swear to god
right?? who do they think this was all for??
like. do they think it occurred on a vacuum? organically? because ~~nature said so? have they bought into some conspiracy theory about how It Was Actually Women's Fault All Along? the answer ofc is that they probably haven't thought about it AT ALL lol. they just love men and love coddling men and excusing them for anything and everything.
ofc the patriarchy benefits men! they wouldn't fight for it so hard if it didn't! have you see how men act when one of their own, even one they previously hated for XYZ reasons, abuses a woman? I envy their gender solidarity so fucking much sometimes lmfao.
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Jonathan Majors really didn't have to dig deep to play Kang huh? Perfect casting. Narcissistic, manipulative, self-indulgent tyrant.
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aziraphale from good omens :)
Bahahahaha! Oh my.
Okay, for the sake of sportsmanship, let's be as fair as we can and give Dracula every fighting chance.
The first big question is holiness - Aziraphale is undoubtedly very very holy. But he's an angel of God, not literally God, and that makes a difference. If we take the demons of Good Omens as a test case, we can see that they share some traditional weaknesses with vampires, the most prominent one being Holy Water - (although NB Dracula never interacts with Holy Water in novel, just as none of the demons in Good Omens, book or series, never interact with the Host). It seems reasonable to presume that Crowley for instance would have a bad time with a crucifix. So we can perhaps say that the two are repulsed by the divine in much the same way. But. No one would ever suggest that Crowley cannot physically touch Aziraphale. Right? Apart from it being demonstrably untrue, whole pillars of fandom would collapse. It's a non-starter. So Aziraphale is not prima facie the kind of divine that is repulsive to the demoniac... except perhaps aesthetically.
The next thing to get out of way is that Aziraphale is not strictly speaking the kind of thing that can die. But he can be discorporated, and the waiting list on bodies is such a bother, so I am going to say that if his physical body gets destroyed by any means that counts as not surviving Castle Dracula, though I love the idea of him possessing people later in the novel (I'm thinking either Renfield or Van Helsing, because Renfield is basically a medium already and like real weird about angels, and Van Helsing has that one scene where Jonathan is like .... so I'm like 90% sure he was possessed and speaking with literal divine authority just then. Weird.) The question then becomes what it takes it discorporate an angel and whether Dracula in fact possesses those means. The one thing that actually accomplishes it in universe is that summoning circle, which is a pretty extreme example. BUT if we include actual biblical canon in our angelology, then, while while that doesn't bring us any closer to what, if anything, can kill an angel, we do at least have examples of angels being beaten in fistfights. So, for the purposes of this exercise, Aziraphale can in principle be killed, and he can also in principle be beaten in a fistfight.
It might make some difference if we are talking about the Book or the Series. Book!Aziraphale is a little bit more of a bastard, a little less naive, a little less distractactable, and (as is Crowley) a whole lot more terrifyingly competent than his televised counterpart.
...okay enough of this. Aziraphale outclasses Dracula so hard it's not even funny. Angels and Demons are set up to be evenly matched because they are fundamentally the same type of thing and that's the whole point - but Dracula isn't that type of Demon. He's a human person who's mildly demoniac because he majored in it in college. It's very impressive to other humans, sure, but like, the ravings of his solicitor aside, he's really not on the level of actual Demons of the Pit. And the things that humans are better at - creativity, growth, love - he's traded for vampirism. He's got the disadvantages of both without really the advantages of either.
Aziraphale's fatal flaw, if you want to call it that, is that he really likes humans. He would be delighted by Dracula's cooking and by his library. He would never stand for the baby eating. He would he more insufferable about the paprika than our baby lawyer. But he's also had 6000 years of learning to be unassuming and letting people underestimate him, and perfecting the Reverse Customer Service voice. He would do that Disapproving Bookseller thing and make Dracula uncomfortable in his own home. He's not the kind of thing that can be hypnotized. He's not going to waste time looking for the key, the doors will just open for him when he tells them to. And if all else fails he has wings, he can literally just leave whenever.
So um, yes. Aziraphale can survive Castle Dracula. And he will probably mess with Dracula non-trivially while he's there.
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