this might be a dumb thing to get worked up over and this text post ended up being WAY to long for a topic this stupid, but americans deciding to make a movie about eurovision, having it be written and directed by americans, casting an american and a canadian actor to play the lead roles of two icelandic musicians and having a few british actors as “european representation” and having them play russian and icelandic people is… so symbolic for how americans see other cultures.
I’ve seen americans (tumblr bloggers and celebrities) be passive aggressive about america not being in eurovision and acting like its specifically excluding them… despite there being multiple other continents who dont participate in esc.
and so these people see this phenomenon that many europeans seem to be passionate about and they see that they are not a part of it and then they get the idea that hey! this could be a movie! and who better to produce this movie than us americans. because we’re just better at that.
NOBODY ASKED FOR A EUROVISION MOVIE. MUCH LESS A EUROVISION MOVIE PRODUCED BY AMERICANS STARRING WILL FERRELL AS AN ICELANDIC PERSON.
This isn’t cultural appropriation in the sense of taking an idea from a marginalised community and passing it off as your own (although europe is not entirely “white/privileged” and includes many marginalised, ignored and looked down upon nations and ethnicities), but its still (white) americans thinking they get to make money off of a thing that wasnt their idea and that doesnt include them.
Yes, this is not a grave transgression, but it once again shows that americans think theyre better at telling stories than the people in these stories.
You could have had this movie written by a european. you could have cast actual icelandic singers. you could have used this opportunity to put the spotlight on more marginalised groups in europe. but you chose to have it all be done by americans. because you’re just better at it right?
I always found it a bit odd. Hilarious, but it raised too many questions. When did Steve make these? Why did Steve make these? How did he manage to be so cheesy and overly sincere knowing how much crap he would get from the other Avengers for it?
Well, today my sister told me her headcanon. Picture the scene. Steve leans on the back of a chair, as above. Peter immediately launches into ‘So, you got detention…’. Cap blinks. Peter awkwardly tries to explain. It turns out Cap has no idea what videos he means, and neither do any of the other Avengers.
So they get in touch with the company who made them, and they swear blind that it was really the real Captain America, and that it all his idea. That he came in and said how much he wanted to help the youth of today.And the Avengers all lose it because someone is running around doing an unbelievably good impression of Captain America, they could have destroyed his reputation, they could have infiltrated the Avengers; and instead all they are apparently using it for is to make silly, embarrassing videos.
It’s completely baffling. Who could possibly be behind it all?
A mystery.
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Sharp Zero: (teen, various) Our story starts off with a short indie rock musician who incidentally finds himself in the company of young scientists. Some incredibly stupid mistakes occur at the lab that give him super-human abilities that will lead him to encounter the mysterious vigilante known as the Red Shift.
Ambrosia: (teen, various) An angel and a human take a road trip fueled by revenge.
Insomnia: (mature, m/m) This is the story of how several people’s lives intertwine at the nightclub ‘Insomnia’. Let’s see what the nightlife will bring them.
RomeoXJulien: (mature, m/m) In Verona, California, Julien’s family runs a Renaissance Festival on the beautiful Hacienda del Capulet property. In San Francisco Romeo is having a dull summer at home. What happens when these two meet?
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Thank you for your meta about that poor excuse of an episode... can we just chuck it into the trashcan and replace it with The Stone Rose?
Now let’s not get ahead of ourselves. Are you trying to tell me that we’d rather replace Rose as the annoying nagging wife with Rose as the goddess statue the Doctor SCULPTED by HAND? So rather than:
“Always wait five and a half hours!”
We want
“Rose Tyler, I’m lost without her”
Or perhaps instead of
“You sound like your mother”
You’d want
Mickey stood up and yelled “You should have taken better care of her!”
The Doctor shouted back “I know!”
or
“We have a date to keep”
which confirms all our beliefs that the Doctor only intended to take Rose out on dates. He didn’t want her to be impressed by the universe he wanted her to be impressed by him.
or how
The Doctor’s anger made him a match for any man.
Just threaten to hurt Rose and the Doctor will WRECK YOU.
or how he HAD TO S A V E H E R and he did so by any means he could, EVEN using the SONIC SCREWDRIVER IN PUBLIC in Ancient Rome.
or how he tried to coax the truth out of her to see if she had ever nearly married someone because he needed one more reason to slaughter Jimmy.
or how he yells at Mickey for daring to imply Rose was ordinary.
OR HOW HE PAUSES BETWEEN “MY... FRIEND”????
OR
of course he couldn’t leave
WHEN HE SEES A STATUE THAT REMINDS HIM OF ROSE?
OR WHEN ROSE MAKES HIM A POUCH FOR HIS SONIC SCREWDRIVER for NO OTHER REASON THAN BECAUSE IT WAS AN ORDINARY DAY SHE WAS IN LOVE WITH HIM?
“Happy unbirthday!”
(So we now know they 100% used to hide from one another at markets to get each other silly gifts. the doctor 100% used to sneak off to learn how to write poetry so he could leave her poems of the taste of chips or how her dungarees were very becoming on her)
OR HOW HE WAS OVERCOME WITH GRIEF AND ANGER WHEN HE LOSES HER?
MAYBE NOW IS THE RIGHT TIME TO TALK ABOUT HOW HIS SOFT LIPS PRESSED AGAINST HERS IN A KISS OF GRATITUDE AND JOY. AND WHEN HE SEES HER AGAIN, WHEN HE’S HOLDING HER STEADY IN HIS ARMS AFTER KISSING HER, SAYS “HELLO!” SOFTLY WITH SHINING EYES.
ACTUALLY LET’S INSTEAD TALK ABOUT THE FACT THAT HE WENT BACK IN TIME TO HAVE MICHELANGELO TEACH HIM HOW TO SCULPT ROSE.
“The sculptor was so enamoured by your figure”
H E 👏🏻 W A S 👏🏻 T H E 👏🏻 S C U L P T O R 👏🏻. HE SPENT MONTHS AGONISING OVER HOW HE HADN’T GOT HER PINKIE FINGER JUST RIGHT. HOW HER EARS WERE SO DIFFICULT HE HAD TO ASK MICHELANGELO TO DO THEM. HOW HE COULDNT SCULPT HER THIGHS WITHOUT WANTING TO RUN HIS FINGERS OVER THEM. HOW MANY TIMES DO WE THINK THE DOCTOR LICKED THIS STATUE LIKE HE DOES EVERYTHING ELSE. LICKED HER NECK. LICKED HER CHEST. LICKED HER JAWLINE.
and then he SIGNED his NAME in GALLIFREYAN on her statue so that a part of him - his god damn NAME at that - was forever etched into Rose Tyler?!!!!111111?!?!?11
BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY OF ALL. THE ABSOLUTE BE ALL AND END ALL OF ALL CONFIRMATION THAT THE DOCTOR WAS UTTERLY AND PAINSTAKINGLY AND IRREVOCABLY IN LOVE WITH ROSE TYLER COMES FROM THE FACT THAT HE SAID, SO SOFTLY AND DISTRACTED BY HER GOD DAMN BEAUTY,
“I was inspired”
GIRL IN THE FIREPLACE?
Steve Rogers did, in fact, realize that something was off when he saw the outline of the woman’s odd bra (a push-up bra, he would later learn), but being an officer and a gentleman, he said that it was the game that gave the future away.
me, knowing full well yixing won’t be performing with exo at the closing ceremony of the olympics: what if yixing is performing with exo at the closing ceremony of the olympics
What did Ed O’Neil do in another life to build up the kind of karma that gets you Sophia Vergara and Dylan O’Brien cast as your love interests?
Here is the link!! After 6 seasons of our slow burn couple, we’re finally canon, and what a better way to celebrate it than winning TV’s Top Couple!
not gonna lie i’m pretty uncomfortable like all the time