Sassycostumegirl

Thanos, the Great Liar: Part 2

Hey, Thanos, your plan is to genocide exactly half of intelligent life in the universe so that they can all thrive and live in happiness and prosperity, right?

Yeah, I thought so.

But there’s someone who went against your plan and betrayed your ideals from the very beginning, someone very, very close to you. It ain’t the Avengers. It certainly ain’t your stepdaughters. Wanna know who it is?

It’s you.

Yes, you. You went against your own plan from its very beginning. What? You don’t think so? Then I guess I’ll have to introduce - or reintroduce - you to a mutual acquaintance.

This is Eitri the Dwarf, King of Nidavellir. Not that he can be king anymore, what with you killing all his subjects and mangling his hands.

Eitri here can tell us more about the real you in ten minutes than you can in your entire effing screentime. Just listen to him talk to Thor.

“Three hundred Dwarves lived on this ring. I thought if I did what he asked, they’d be safe. I made what he wanted: a device capable of harnessing the power of the stones. And he killed everyone anyway. All except me. ‘Your life is yours’, he said. 'But your hands… Your hands are mine alone.’ ”

There were three hundred Dwarves on Nidavellir. After you left, only one remains. If you even had an inkling of determination to follow your plan, you would have left 150 of them alive, but you didn’t. Maybe you think 300÷2=1, in which case you need to get some basic fucking math education. Or maybe you were scared that they would make another weapon, one that could (gasp) even kill you! Because why wouldn’t they want to kill you when you finish slaughtering half of them? Then you ruined Eitri’s hands so even he couldn’t build another mighty weapon. Because you were scared of them. You were scared of their retribution.

Oh, and another thing. Look behind Eitri. Notice how it’s completely dark? That’s because you extinguished the Forge - the instrument of the Dwarves’ work and pretty much the reason of their existence - just so you could be sure nobody could ever wield a weapon as mighty as yours and challenge you.

This is why you are the greatest betrayer of your own plan, Thanos. You went against your own ideals the moment you killed the 151th Dwarf. Not only did you kill much more than half of the Dwarves, you destroyed their way of life and ensured that they would never thrive again. I’ve mentioned earlier that you lied to your stepdaughter about her home planet, but you also lied to yourself. Your 'plan’ was never a real thing, just a mask to hide your true intentions of becoming the most powerful being in the universe. You see yourself as a revolutionary, but you’re not even close to being one. You’re a maniac. That’s all you are: a genocidal maniac, and nothing more.

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sassycostumegirl

2 years ago

gonna start listing off streams that i refuse to believe actually happened/weren’t complete and utter fever dreams:

that one irl stream where tommy and tubbo had random people try and catch them in a park in the middle of nottingham and they found one pretty bloke and a bunch of stoners

when tommy played among us with the sidemen, wilbur and tubbo, for a video, didn’t tell them he was streaming the entire time, spent the entire time defending philza minecraft’s honour, got KSI to tweet something along the lines of “philza suck ya mum”, to which phil responded by saying his name sounded like an STD, before ending stream and raiding phil, who had been quite peacefully draining an ocean monument the whole time, and completely derailing his stream

that one irl stream fundy did where he just woke up in a forest, practiced archery, attempted to make a pizza from scratch without most of the key ingredients, called phil for help and ended because phil accidentally came up with a ghost story that bore striking resemblance to something that actually happened in the forest and all parties were scared out of their minds

the SBI monopoly stream. i will go to my grave not knowing whether the whole bit with wilbur’s office’s firewall was staged or not, but i choose to believe it wasn’t for the sake of my own enjoyment. the stream just kept escalating as they went through the steam library.

that one ranboo stream where him and tubbo were helping phil hollow out the basement, and phil and tubbo spent a good hour trying to get ranboo to order delivery. people gifted hundreds of subs to ranboo anonymously in an attempt to hit a subgoal which ranboo kept shifting in order to avoid doing it, 500 of which may or may not have come from tubbo himself

connor’s house party on the dsmp. i watched this entire thing live from multiple perspectives and i could not tell you what the fuck was occurring. also the fact that this was like the 3rd most recent time schlatt’s played on the smp feels illegal

irl drunkcast. the costumes, the alcohol, the everything. this stream was a blessing and most of the people involved probably have very little memory of it

feel free to add on, these are just a few that stuck out to me

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sassycostumegirl

2 years ago

the funniest part of my appendix removal experience was being wheeled down to the operating room and as we were going my nerves were everywhere so i half-jokingly asked the nurse taking me if she still had her appendix bc i felt not normal for getting mine out on top of having the jitters about being cut open so i was trying to fill the silence and she just.. looked mildly offended while being like “uhhhh. yeah. of course i do” like…. my bad i guess

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sassycostumegirl

6 years ago

Okay… I’m going to rant about one of my colleagues and his reaction to Captain Marvel…

So please… watch out for spoilers and don’t read this if you haven’t watched the movie, and watch out also for some idiotic man… but I’m so pissed I have to let it out somewhere, and I’m sorry, it has fallen upon you all. Feel free to ignore.

So, my collegue went to see Captain Marvel this weekend too. And he is the perfect definition of evil… (honestly, he was okay before but now I’m so mad at him…).

So basically, we talked about the movie at lunch, and there was several things that bothered him. But I will spare you the details, and get to the point.

It all started because he thought Carol didn’t have such a great evolution through the movie, and that she was pretty much perfect at the beginning and still perfect at the end (which was not something wrong to say, only debatable, and I tried to debate with him on the matter, which is where it got out of hand).

So, I explained to him that there was actually a development of the character, as she started as a soldier forced to obey orders and control her emotions to a hero who listens to her heart and accepts herself fully instead of trying to fill up the case that had been created for her. But most importantly, it was all about emancipation : as a woman who had been told all her life that she couldn’t do this, and that, and that she should be more like this or like that, and then as a warrior to whom, once more, people dictated how she should be, the moment she controlled fully her powers was when she rose above it all and was merely herself, without all this toxic talk and pressure that had prevented her to live up to what she had always been capable of. And that was when she became a hero.

And here is when he pissed me off.

Because he was like :‘It’s a little exagerated to see it like that. She wasn’t always brainwashed and controlled.’

So I rose up to that and reminded him all the flashbacks where since childhood people tried to mold her into what a girl should be for society.

To what he replied: 'Hey, it’s a movie, it’s not that bad in real life, especially today. It was worth at the time the movie took place but today it’s not like that.’

To which I replied an aghast : 'Yes, it’s still like that. You just don’t know it’s still like that cause you’re a man, and you were not confronted to this problem, but trust me, as a woman, I can tell you that it’s still relevent.’

And if I already wanted to slap him with his previous answer, I wanted to punch him with the next remark:

'Now, I’m sorry, but you’re wrong, it’s not what happens anymore.“

Like… the guy had the audacity to tell ME, a woman, that he knew better than ME how women are treated.

He then started to give me a thousand arguments about how there was actually 0 sexism in our society and that on the contrary, it was harder for men than for women.

I tried to fight back, and I’m sorry to have to admit that I lost it at one point and merely walked away before I would lose my job for punching a colleague. I wish I could say that I made him change his mind, but he was too stubborn and got me too angry for me to do that.

And he calls himself a feminist.

And I realized today that this kind of guy is a dangerous enemy for us, who wraps it all with sugar, and doesn’t see women as inferiors as such (at least that’s what he pretends), but will do whatever he can to stop any progress in our favour because he will find that it’s not 'fair for men’.

He did have the audacity to tell me that the fact that women are on average less paid than men was not true and a mere manipulation of numbers… we had a movement at my workplace for Women’s International Day, and were encouraged to leave our workplace at 15h40 instead of 17h30 because after that hour we are not paid, if we compare ourselves to men (I couldn’t leave that early because of my experiments, but I did leave earlier than usual). Like… it happened at your workplace. We received emails about it. And you are denying it?!?! On which planet are you living man?!?

Oh, I almost forgot that beautiful moment where, when I talked about the flashbacks and that they were examples of all these things she had been denied or mocked about because she was a woman, he clearly didn’t get the point of the movie, because he was like: 'well, she does fail everytime…’

No, man, she doesn’t fail, she GETS UP AGAIN. And that’s why she’s a hero even before her fists can throw energy. Because she fights against it all. And that is also an example that shows that EVERYTHING is more difficult for us, because of this behaviour men have towards us. He obviously didn’t agree with that explanation (I wasn’t surprised at that point).

Now, one last bit that pissed me off so much too was that he didn’t like the fact that she was so powerful. He was like :'what about Thor and the rest of the superheroes then?’

So I replied with an earnest: 'well, they’re still there. And they’re still great. And they still have powers. She’s just BETTER than them all. It doesn’t mean that they’re individually less powerful, she’s just MORE powerful than them all.’

He was very grumpy about this explanation, and was comparing her to Thor. And he was basically saying that the rest of the heroes would be useless with a character so powerful. To which I answered with a simple example :

Thor is the GOD of Thunder. He is more powerful than Hawkeye or Captain America, for example. (He did agree to that).

Now, Thor is MUCH MORE powerful than the rest of them, let’s be honest. I gave him some examples of his powers and he gladly agreed that he was stronger than Steve, for example. I then asked him if he thought that Steve was useless and not interesting. And he said no. I asked him if he thought that because Thor existed, the Captain was made uninteresting. And he said no.

So I brought upon him the truth: Carol is merely to Thor what Thor is to Steve. They are all interesting characters and they are all useful in different ways, one is simply more powerful than the other.

Even with this flawless logic I couldn’t bring him to realize that he was just not accepting it because she was a woman… (and it was clearly the case, trust me, it was actually the problem here).

I also told him that Thor would be the first fangirling over Carol and her powers as the example of anti-toxic-masculinity that he is. And he wasn’t convinced here again (clearly, he doesn’t understand the characters at al…)

So… sorry for the long rant but I am still pissed at him. And he is just such a dangerous guy in the end because he acts like he’s all for equality between men and women and everything, but as soon as one is stronger than a bunch of men, it’s the end of his world. And he is one of the sneaky ones who seem to be okay at first but will then slow down everything we try to improve. So fight the sneaky ones too, ladies. We need to bring these ones down too.

On the other hand, a friend of mine is a huge fan and he has spent the weekend repeating how Carol was amazing and it was awesome to finally have a superhero movie led by a woman that filled the theater with some real feminism the right way. And he too can’t wait to see Thor fangirling over Carol. He is one of the good ones, and I love him a lot.

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