Because I’m still bitter, I calculated Steve’s screen time divided by the total minutes of each of his movies.
The First Avenger:
The Winter Soldier:
Civil War:
He lost about 20% of his screen time in Civil War, his third and possibly last movie, to favour iron man and a story that had no significance to Captain America. I will never be over this.
Marvel owes me a third Cap movie
I still want a Cap movie the civil war plot was so fucking useless and annoying and had 0 to do with anything else in-universe except that Tony still didn’t wanna call Steve in IW. That’s it.
Can we have a Harry Potter AU where Regulus Black is the Death Eater spy turned potions master instead of Snape?
I can’t believe I only JUST realized all the comedy potential that is Sirius showing up to kill Peter 3rd year and finding his supposedly evil brother working at Hogwarts and having civil conversations with Remus about Harry’s grades
Please let this be after a full year of awkwardness of Regulus working with his evil brother’s ex
Sirius and Regulus are both convinced they’re the good brother
haven’t had a benadryl for like 15 years took two to stop my allergies from making me itchy and ended up sleeping like three solid hours before work. i got knocked OUT
you know what really, really fucking bugs me sometimes?..
in russian, we have this amazing word. it denotes a state of relationship that’s closer than “acquaintance” and not as powerful as “friend.” basically, most relationships you will ever form. amazing.
english has this word too. Which is great. In theory.
HOWEVER, because this word was used as a form of address by communists, the english versionof it lost its original connotation completely. it’s never used anymore. left to rust on the pages of history books.
And the result???
THE RESULT IS THAT EVERYONE I KNOW CALLS EVERYONE THEY KNOW A FRIEND. every friendly acquaintance they make. and before you know it, they’re doing crazy favours for those “friends,” they’re hanging out with those “friends” all the time, sacrificing things for them, not because they like them all that much but because they’re Friends and That’s What Friends Do.
TL; DR –
If you’ve got a ton of these shitty fake friends?.. Blame the Cold War. I mean, sure, you know these people better than plain acquaintances, but like… they’re not your friends. And you won’t ever admit it to them OR to yourself.
Because there’s no way you will ever call them “comrades.”
Gretchen: On the International Space Station, you have astronauts from the US and from other English speaking countries and you have cosmonauts from Russia. And obviously it’s very important to get your communication right if you’re on a tiny metal box circling the Earth or going somewhere. You don’t want to have a miscommunication there because you could end up floating in space in the wrong way. And so one of the things that they do on the ISS – so first of all every astronaut and cosmonaut needs to be bilingual in English and Russian because those are the languages of space.
Lauren: Yep. Wait, the language of space are English and Russian? I’m sorry, I just said ‘yep’ and I didn’t really think about it, so that’s a fact is it?
Gretchen: I mean, pretty much, yeah, if you go on astronaut training recruitment forums, which I have gone on to research this episode…
Lauren: You’re got to have a backup job, Gretchen.
Gretchen: I don’t think I’m going to become an astronaut, but I would like to do astronaut linguistics. And one of the things these forums say, is, you need to know stuff about math and engineering and, like, how to fly planes and so on. But they also say, you either have to arrive knowing English and Russian or they put you through an intensive language training course.
But then when they’re up in space, one of the things that they do is have the English native speakers speak Russian and the Russian speakers speak English. Because the idea is, if you speak your native language, maybe you’re speaking too fast or maybe you’re not sure if the other person’s really understanding you. Whereas if you both speak the language you’re not as fluent in, then you arrive at a level where both people can be sure that the other person’s understanding. And by now, there’s kind of this hybrid English-Russian language that’s developed. Not a full-fledged language but kind of a-
Lauren: Space Creole!
Gretchen: Yeah, a Space Pidgin that the astronauts use to speak with each other! I don’t know if anyone’s written a grammar of it, but I really want to see a grammar of Space Pidgin.
shied away from the Ultimate Power Move of putting the original little people back in the film
cut “grantaire put that bottle down!” bc he knew aaron’s enjolras would’ve slapped the bottle right out of his hands and he couldn’t deal with that raw power
added suddenly but didn’t add a jarringly long song at the beginning in which the bishop tells us his views on window tax
thanks for coming to my ted talk.
his idea of a power move is putting a santa sex scene in and removing everything we could’ve had instead.
Also the way he cut grantaire’s solo in drink with me just left me speechless
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