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A suddenly news related throwback today from Robert!

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania review

Director:

Peyton Reed

Main cast:

Paul Rudd, Evangeline Lily, Jonathon Majors, Kathryn Newton, Michael Douglas, Michelle Pfieffer, Corey Stoll, William Jackson Harper, Katy O’Brian, David Dalmachian and Bill Murray.

Runtime: 125 minutes.

Does it pass the Bechdel test? Yes

Basic Plot:

Enjoying newfound fame after the events of Avengers: Endgame, Scott Lang, Hope Van Dyne and their family get trapped in the Quantum Realm. Desperate to escape with his family, Scott Lang makes a deal with the Kang the Conqueror.

Overall thoughts:

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania is a great start to Phase 5 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The special effects, acting and storyline are superb. In particular, Jonathon Major continues to shine in his role as Kang the Conqueror as well as his variants. The Quantum Realm heavily draws on the Star Wars and Dune franchises in terms of style to create a breathtaking setting. While Quantumania is a great film, some of the cast have come under fire for confirmed and alleged actions outside the MCU. Evangeline Lily has been criticized for having some anti-lockdown views during the Covid-19 lockdowns in Canada. Michael Douglas and Bill Murray have been accused of inappropriate behavior in past roles. Despite these controversies, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania is still an enjoyable adventure of a film.

Overall rating: 4 out of 5 stars.

So... I guess the Thanus plan would have worked

BL Prompts - Chapter 45 Links

Prompt from Anonymous: For a change it's ZiGang who's jealous & insecure, when Boxiang carelessly starts spending more and more time with an old childhood friend, even cancelling on plans and finally even forgetting a whole date with him. #happyend please! https://archiveofourown.org/works/46255276/chapters/130175002

Prompt from GaryQ90: Gen Y BL threesome Thanu and Padbok are in a friendly competition in Wayu's eoom on who can make Wayu come the most and make wayu scream (in a good way) and Wayu just find this…oddingly arousing to say the least. Also them marking Wayu as theirs only. Thanks! https://archiveofourown.org/works/46207009/chapters/130111105

Prompt from Lexborn: Hi! A prompt for The director who buys me dinner where we don't get the bittersweet ending and Dong baek dodged the stab and successfully stopped the attacker, saving them both. Of course a happy ending where after 300 years, they're finally together and Director Min finally getting his happy ending. Can be fluffy or sexy up to you. https://archiveofourown.org/works/46231810/chapters/130236220

Prompt from Stormborn_88: An aftermath of what happened with Anna's stalker. They just moved on like nothing major happened (at leats it looked like that without the subs). Anyway… rambling. The prompt therefore being: Kiyoi has some PTSD after what happend to him with that stalker, but also bc of what happened to Hira. So they talk about what happened to them while Hira is the sweet, caring boyfriend he always is with Kiyoi around (srsly him switching between crazy psycho towards the stalker and sweetly talking to Kiyoi was irritatingly cute). So, did I make it on time this round!? https://archiveofourown.org/works/46179736/chapters/130305421

Prompt from AquaM: Hi. Can we try a Killer and Healer Omegaverse where Yue Lou's rut gets triggered unexpectedly? I'll leave the rest of the details to you. NSFW would work. https://archiveofourown.org/works/46279000/chapters/130372072

ah yes, 2am - the perfect time to rewatch Gen Y in its entirety

If the intrusive thoughts won I’d be the youngest person a true crime video has been about

REAL !

Gen y & gen y 2 war flashbacks intensify

i see @reaperkaneki​ say something is fucked up and my immediate response is

Kalaippuli S Thanu's Exclusive Interview About Rajinikanth and how much he has supported the Kollywood film industry and the people who worked with them and much more things are shared here...

https://youtu.be/wKfTswqmIss

thanky that was relly weird but still fitting, i might dress up and learn the dance

தளபதி விஜய்யின் காமன் டிபி வீடியோவை வெளியிட்ட பிரபல தயாரிப்பாளர்!

தளபதி விஜய்யின் காமன் டிபி வீடியோவை வெளியிட்ட பிரபல தயாரிப்பாளர்!

விஜய்யின் பிறந்தநாள் கொண்டாட்டத்துக்காக்க காமன் டிபி வெளியிட்ட தயாரிப்பாளர்! தளபதி விஜய்யின் பிறந்தநாளை முன்னிட்டு ஒவ்வொரு ஆண்டும் ஜூன் 22 ஆம் தேதி அவரது ரசிகர்களால் மிக விமர்சையாக கொண்டாடப்படும் என்பதும் இந்தக் கொண்டாட்டம் ஒரு வாரத்திற்கு முன்பே காமன் டிபியை வெளியிட்டு ரசிகர்கள் கோலாகலமாக கொண்டாடி வருவார்கள் என்பதையும் ஒவ்வொரு ஆண்டும் பார்க்கிறோம். இந்நிலையில் நாளை தளபதி விஜய்யின் பிறந்தநாள்…

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Okay, Time for that belated Shrinking Rae post-

In the comics, Shrinking Ray's "arc" (bearing in mind an extremely liberal definition of that term, they had exactly one scene showcasing this) was that he was implied to be developing an inferiority complex; he's not necessarily incompetent, but he's out of his niche, his clever shrinking-based plans kept getting upstaged by brute-force solutions from the more conventionally powerful heroes like Invincible. He's the scrawny, nerdy little guy with the joke powers, he never gets a win, and in most fights he literally isn't visible. In the fight with the Lizard League his death is framed as pathetic and ineffectual- there's one or two panels between "I'll make you pay!" and getting eaten alive by Komodo. All of this is doing a couple of things- it's emphasizing that again, this is in fact a story and setting where superheroes sometimes just die really badly with limited fanfare- a thing that IIRC hadn't happened since the original Guardians team wipe in issue 7. Second, it's an indicator that the new Guardians are structurally kind of on the ropes. They're heavily staffed by second stringers, they exact second they have to split their forces they suffer a 66 percent casualty rate, and that's with backing from two capes who aren't actually part of the team. Grim! Anyway, when they do the adaptation Shrinking Ray becomes Shrinking Rae, because they want to tweak the gender balance of the cast and the pun is too good to pass up. But I think that there was a reasonable reluctance to transfer the "arc" from the comics one-to-one, because to be blunt, "Ineffectual Nebbish Glasses-wearer who whines a lot and dies pathetically," paired with absolutely nothing else, is gonna read as misogynistic if the character is a woman now. So in the adaptation Rae is markedly more competent. We're introduced to her taking down a much larger opponent by fucking around inside his ear canal, which becomes a favored trick of hers. There are traces of the self-esteem thing- the visual gag where she physically shrinks about a foot when getting chewed out in the briefing- but the overall throughline isn't "look at this loser who somehow ended up on the guardians." In the Lizard League fight, she doesn't get eaten- she's deliberately trying to execute a Thanus maneuver and just fucks it up, seconds after successfully killing a different villain the same way. And there's a second where it looks like it might work, too, before hope is cruelly yanked away. Which makes for a markedly cooler death scene- but who died? What was actually going on with her? Anything? In some sense she's cooler, but it's kind of an undifferentiated cool. She had what, Six lines? Seven? On balance I think Rae is still doing her fundamental job in the story, which is to pad the Guardians roster for a while and have someone who actually dies and stays dead as a result of the Lizard League fight- but I think they definitely missed an opportunity to give her some more texture than her comic counterpart had. Part of me thinks that the show would have been a good place to go even harder on Shrinking Rae being in over her head, but in a considered way, to emphasize that the Guardians aren't well managed- maybe tie it into the tensions between Robot and Immortal regarding sustainable team management practices. Part of me thinks you should go the other way, that if you're gonna do away with the idea she's underwhelming you should blow up her role, have her actually say and do some things that affect the story or the team dynamic in any noticeable way, because as it stands she's kind of visibly siloed as the designated mauve shirt. I'm definitely of one mind that this showcases something I suspected was gonna bite the show in the ass, which is that they're (laudably) diversifying a secondary and tertiary cast whose main role in the source material is often to die badly or fade out of focus.

For this poll, unhinged does not necessarily mean bad. So things that might be unhinged that happened in a show, but were manipulative, toxic, abusive, etc. did not get included.