I had to figure out comparative Raimi-verse and Webb-verse character strength for a fic once and found out that this scene:
has absolutely bonkers implications (and is also physically impossible).
For reference, the thing that's attached to the other end of that cable he's holding is a pre-2010 Roosevelt Tramway car. It weighs 18,300 pounds, or 9.16 tons, when empty, and it is currently loaded (though I'll be ignoring the weight of the passengers in this post for the sake of easier math). That is an absolutely insane amount of weight to hold one-handed, and he's not bracing or shifting his weight to counter it at all.
This means that Norman is much, much stronger than the 800% increase in strength promised by the performance enhancers. I don't know exactly how the ratios translate, but if Norman can hold 9 tons without effort in one hand, he can probably bench press two or three times that. Eight times the current unequipped bench press record is 6,256 pounds, or 3.12 tons, roughly a third of the weight he is currently supporting. And Peter is capable of beating Norman hand-to-hand, which requires a rough parity in strength. Therefore, Peter is also absolutely insanely strong. They're both closer to Thor's weight class than to Captain America's.
So much for the overanalysis of what this single shot means for Norman and Peter's abilities. Here's where we get to what makes the scene impossible: weight ratios. Norman is not sticky, like Peter. He does not have foot clamps on the bridge like he does on his glider. There is no physical way that a 180-190 pound dude, however inhumanly strong, can hold that much weight without skidding right off of the bridge into freefall. By all rights, this should not be a shot of the Green Goblin standing menacingly over Peter Parker, it should be a shot of a green blur getting yanked off the side of the Queensboro Bridge by the force generated by 9.15 tons of falling metal, and that absolutely cracks me up laughing.
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Cover and pages 1-9 of ‘Târgoviște: a Castlevania fan-comic’
What if Trevor was passing through Târgoviște and saved Lisa from being burned at the stake?
A 22 page fan comic.
I miss these two…
You know what I can't stop thinking about?
How long did Hawkmoth intend on leaving his face in her palm? Like, she obviously pulled away first. GABE, HOW LONG WERE YOU PLANNING ON SOAKING IN THE LOVING WARMTH OF HER TOUCH !?
Sometimes I like to tell myself that he was surprised at how fast she pulled away.
When we look at it frame by frame:
You can clearly see that he
a) has his eyes closed the whole time. An indicator of being in the moment and sternly concentrating on it
b) even though Mayura is pulling away and forces him to loosen his hold on her, his head remains in the same position
(Don't get me started on how he continues to hold her even though she signalled that she could stand on her own. And her hand above his heart better be some serious foreshadowing)
Nathalie, darling, I love you. But do you even know what chance you might have missed there!? He MELTED into you! Unconsciously starved of physical attention and you pull away so soon 🙃
Elphaba not realizing the witch hat wasn't actually a good hat, and just wearing it because Galinda told her to one time when they were teenagers
Haven't spoke to her for like two years? Gotta wear the hat anyway.
Haven't seen anyone else wear smth like that? Probably just wear it anyway, she's good at that kinda stuff.
Galinda hates you? Well she doesn't hate the hat, stick that on.
I agree. I love Hordak, but can accept that he did terrible things and should help rebuild what he destroyed - eg. assist with Beast Island like in canon.
What I cannot stand is when people let Catra get off scott-free because of her trauma, only to damn Hordak for the same reasons! If Hordak goes free, then of course so does Catra - that’s fair. But if Catra is immediately accepted into the rebellion with only a couple of glares, but Hordak supposedly deserves to burn in Etherian Hell, you have a case of favouritism.
I don’t even hate Catra! I can enjoy her quips and believe her to be fun. But I do draw the line at calling her a ‘girlboss’ when she exploits his disabilities while she manipulates him. While this is typical villain behaviour, no one seems to be able to critique her actions while liking her - she’s a traumatised child (unless she’s being hot, in which case she’s most certainly an adult), incapable of intentionally causing harm, no matter how gleefully she does it.
The fact that the writers take Hordak’s trauma and give it to Catra to illustrate its horrific consequences - which Catra fans will use to enable her - while condemning Hordak, is so very frustrating.
It is a bizarre way to view the show, considering how similar the two characters are.
Starting from now on, everytime someone says they can’t forgive Hordak and his background is no excuse, I will be like
“Oh so you think Catra has to suffer for her crimes too, right?”
Or even “Oh so you must want Catra to apologize for the things she said while chipped, right?”
Because I still can’t believe there are people in the fandom who completely excuse Catra’s actions but the moment Hordak does the same thing he has to suffer and doesn’t deserve redemption.
I love this shoot so much. They’re all so majestic
UV Special 'MALICE MIZER FILE', pages 205-207
Had to reblog this entire interaction because it’s so funny. As someone who didn’t mind the whole Frozen thing - although was admittedly a bit tired of it by the time Merida rolled around, and very sick of it when the whole Aladdin thing happened - I find it very funny how ridiculous the show was in hindsight.
Despite this, I’ll never complain about more Enchanted Forest Rumple - he’s so much more fun than regular Rumple, and the writers hadn’t given up on him in the same way that they had Mr Gold. I love his silly impish mannerisms, the way he cackles, his weird crimped hair and ‘disco lizard’ appearance. I also prefer Enchanted forest Rumbelle, because it wasn’t so toxic, and Belle (despite being his servant) seemed to be closer to an equal. If I were Belle, I would be so mad that the fun, mischievous man I fell in love with had been replaced with a boring guy who is sneaky but in a not fun way. Maybe I’m just looking at the enchanted forest with rose tinted glasses, but eh.
"the disneyfication of ouat ruined the show". i hear you. i wholeheartedly agree with you. but consider that if it had been ANY less disneyfied by even a fraction, we would have been met with the very awful plotline that is rumpelstiltskin being the troll that anna's parents went to when elsa hit her with the ice magic and kristoff consequently would have been raised by rumpelstiltskin as a weird pseudo-son replacement of baelfire
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Highly emotional about Skug's reaction to the empty world in Theatre Of Shadows.
Like. This is a man who has spent hundreds of years stripped bare like an exposed nerve to sensory input. He can't close his eyes. He can't put his fingers in his ears. He can't sleep. He's "learned to" sort-of sleep by meditating, but he has no way to fully turn off to the world around him.
He's also massively ADHD-coded, a condition associated with sensory processing issues - specifically, hypersensitivity to sensory stimuli, leading to sensory overload.
Add to that, that Necromancers all seem to have a heightened sort of sensory perception - they can all sense the echoes of negative emotions like fear, despair and misery. At a certain power level - which Melancholia reaches in DB - their entire way of processing sensory stimuli, the way they see the world, changes.
Skug is a natural Necromancer. He developed his abilities long before he joined the Temple as Lord Vile, and Vile very quickly outpaced the most advanced teacher they had for him. So he's probably had very little - if any - training in how to deal with those added sensitivities or tune them out. As a dead person commanding death magic - and someone so powerful he can use highly unstable Necromancy without his channelling object - he's probably more sensitive to these things than your average Necromancer.
So in Vile, you have an immensely traumatised torture survivor who's lost all human ways to cope with his pain (he can't comfort eat, he can't get drunk, he can't lose himself in sex, he can't sleep, he's lost his loved ones, he has no way of recovering at all), who's also already hypersensitive to how bright and noisy and Too Much the world is, and now has no way of disconnecting from all that stress, while his senses have been dialled up to 11.
So? Those random, pointless little solo expeditions into dead universes? Were actually probably a desperate man's last resort in trying to decompress, to find somewhere he could get some fucking peace and quiet. Somewhere to just make all the lights and the noise and the emotions that aren't his go away, to make it stop. The only outlet he had, to escape a world that was still hurting him. The only place he could relax.
Anyway vile needs rainymood.com and a lie down in a nice dark room thanks for coming to my ted talk
Tomura Shigaraki doesn't just use newspapers to check for hero news. I think he also does the daily crossword puzzles religiously.
He's pretty good at them in general, but of course there are occasional times he gets stuck and reads the clues out loud. Kurogiri will offer his own insights and guesses, or even just be a soundboard to bounce ideas off of.
Shigaraki: The edge of a path...
Kurogiri: A sidewalk, perhaps?
Shigaraki: No, it doesn't work with 15 down...
It's a bit of an unconscious bonding session for them, but even then it's mostly a solitary activity for Shigaraki.
As more people join the League, frequent the bar at all hours of the day - including Shigaraki's crossword hour - the more of a group activity it becomes.
Toga and Twice lean over his shoulders and throw their best (ridiculous) guesses or heckles his way. Although, Toga as a teenager is able to point out some of the more ultra-modern pop culture references that go a bit over even Shigaraki's head. Twice knows a lot about sports teams and old syndicated tv shows.
Compress also usually takes a peak, he's actually pretty helpful though, especially with the theater and classical literature clues. Although he's a bit show-boaty about it.
Spinner, sitting at the bar right next to Shigaraki, is also pretty good, but very self-conscious about his guesses. Usually just mutters his answers under his breath and gets really embarrassed when they're correct and the rest of the League praises him for it.
Dabi of course gripes about it all being a waste of time...
...all while piping in to solve that one 13 letter word that's had them all stumped for the last twenty minutes.
Shigaraki insists at first that they're all being way too loud, they're all too obnoxious, he misses when he was able to do these puzzles alone in peace.
But slowly, as the days pass, he stops complaining. Stops working on them at whatever open hour he desires, and starts waiting until the bar is full to turn to the games page.