Mk1 Incorrect Quotes Pt. 6:

Whats a “blorbo”? Asking as a non-English speaker user.

BEWARE, long “EPIC: The Musical” rant ahead, [Spoilers] for the Thunder Saga:

I'm surprised nobody has said this, but in Scylla's song she's not talking about Odysseus, about how she and Ody are the same monsters. She's talking about Eurylochus.

Im surprised by how many people think she's talking about Ody since the beginning, but she doesn't talk about him until the last moment, after he's already offered six of her men as an offering for her to let the rest leave in peace

When Scylla says, "you hide a reason for shame", it's just when Eury says that he has a secret he can't keep any longer, one that's been eating him form the shame and guilt When Eurylochus says "I opened the windbag while you were asleep", the animatic focuses on Ody as Scylla says

"leaving them feeling betrayed", because Ody felt betrayed that his best friend, his second in command would betray him in such a way, would be the reason why he couldn't reach his home sooner

"Breaking the bonds that you've made" again with Ody's silence, how he was mentally preparing and planning to make Eurylochus part of the sacrifices, as that was the final straw for him to become ruthless and "a monster"

"There is no price we won't pay", with Eurylochus begging for forgiveness, not because he actually is sorry, but to try and get into his captain's good side because he knows he fucked up. By that moment, he no longer trusted Ody, and I'm sure he didn't felt any actual remorse But he had to get on the man’s good side because 1. He had almost committed a mutiny (I think) when he tried to make Ody abandon their men in Circe’s island. And 2. Because Odysseus was still his captain and King. Who would want to be on their king’s bad side?

It's not until Odysseus tells Eury to light up six torches (six men to sacrifice) that Scylla is actually talking about him. And it's not till the final verse ("We are the same, you an I") that Ody actually admits he's become like Scylla.

Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

This is the first time I’ve ever posted an actual drawing of mine (if I post drawings again, it’ll probably be in paper tho).

Anyways, my man Liu Kang deserves more love. He’s also been rotting my brain, so the parasites in me decided that I should sketch him a bit. (The line art didn’t convinced me, so it’ll just stay as sketch for now)

Not me scrolling through the Conclave tag only to see no one talk about the deliberate positioning and framing of the women in this movie.

Pulling up this movie I completely expected to only encounter Sister Agnes as the one woman we see in the trailer, the conclave a space that has been kept from the female members of the church. Now, color me surprised when I started the movie and most of the establishing shots we got were focused on all the women working in the Vatican.

And it is such a deliberate choice, it does the film a disservice not to talk about it.

Because while Cardinal Lawrence is having his fifteenth breakdown during sequestering and Bellini finds the ambitious asshole within himself, Ray does all the leg work, and Bel---- we see the women work.

We see the kitchens, we see them cook, we see them stand aside. Most of the time when the Cardinals are conspiring it is the women who interrupt because they are busy working, walking, running errands.

And there is power in that.

I think it is very deliberate how often (and with such lingering gaze) the camera shows us the lives of the other half - partially to connect to the wider themes of the movie, on how Bellini asks for women to get more power but never thanks them, and how Benitez stumps them all by thanking the women preparing their meals when asked to say the prayer (considering his own probably tumultuous relationship to gender within the church).

But it also stands in direct opposition to a long tradition in story telling: servants don't exist. How often the heroes of a regency romance are "alone" because the two hand maidens and three maids don't really count.

Conclave doesn't do that.

It doesn't let us look away.

Between all the petty drama, the politics, and the real life consequences of the conclave, we never stop looking at the people doing all the work.

Yes, we follow the ups and downs of Lawrence and Co, but in doing so the movie reminds us again and again of the women working the kitchen.

And that was just such a powerful artistic choice in a movie about a famously misogynistic church... I loved it. And I had to talk about it.

Wait, then what does it mean to “rotate” them? I mean, I know what rotate means, but how do you rotate a character? What even is rotating a character?!

Imma start doing incorrect quotes with MK11 and MK1 characters

Everyone: “How are you our creator?”

Liu Kang: Hands over a disc of MK11 and a PS4 “Johnny, you play. Everyone else, observe.”

I can totally see Shang Tsung (the MK1 one, not Evil!Titan Tsung) doing this to Liu Kang the moment he finds out about him and Titan Kitana. Not because he’s gay, not because he definitely did not want to kiss the God of Fire, but simply to annoy him.

To leave him questioning every single time that he’s with Titan Kitana if she’s just Shang Tsung in disguise. And slowly seeing Liu Kang loose his mind whenever he starts overthinking every single of Kitana’s actions.

I really like this one actually

how do two chinese farmboys from rural china know english. like let's assume the common language between the MK cast is english (barring outworld but it doesnt matter i bet there's some translation magic handwaved.) if we follow this train of thought it becomes entirely, hilariously possible that kung lao, wanting to bust outta fengjian and leave for the world, was like

kung lao: im going to learn english

raiden: why??

kung lao: youre going to learn it with me, we need it for when we leave this place

raiden: hold on now. what are y

kung lao, tapping away: im downloading duolingo onto your phone and i have subbed torrents of the big bang theory we're in this together brother. bazinga

Tiktok has pissed me off,

MK is not a minor.

If your only legitimate argument about plumsynoodles or Peachynoodles is the power dynamic than I’m sorry to say then any fucking ship with Sun Wukong needs to be highly criticised because he is an over thousand year old God who heaven itself fears as equals. Anything with that monkey is a complete power imbalance.

Macaque and Sun themselves would have an unhealthy power dynamic as a ship because there’s cannon evidence that Monkey King has both physically and mentally dominated and beaten Macaque, if not to death then severely enough to cause flash backs and hallucinations in combat. Monkey King by your logic should have no healthy happy ship because he fundamentally outpowers anyone especially mortal in every fucking sense of the word.

Macaque literally worked with the being who caused the most harming fear in SWK and your gonna act like their just happily gonna cuddle after they’ve screamed each other to sleep?

The imbalance of power between Sun Wukong and any character is literally what separates him from everyone else, and it’s MK’s ignoring and uncaring of that power that’s allowed him to talk to and reach both SWK and Macaque on emotional levels

The power dynamic is a weak defence when everyone fucking recognises it and makes it a factor in a lot of relational focus I’ve seen from MK x SWK content

“Sure all the subtext and cannon evidence leads me to understand mk isn’t a minor but I’m gonna ignore that to push my opinion” If your going to pick and chose what to ignore so can everyone else