that soldier in Vietnam writing to his congressman because his m16 didn’t go bang when he was about to assassinate his commanding officer makes me proud to be an american
if i lived in the wild west i would be kicked by a horse and the sharp edge of the hoof would give me a deep wound and i would die of necrotizing fasciitis at age 17
if i lived in medieval times i would be kicked by a horse and lose my balance and crush my skull on a large rock and die of brain trauma at age 17
but i live in the computer age and im immortal babey!!!!!!!!!!!!
hey robin wanna stand next to this horse for a second
boy do i ever!!
good! this horse is your friend and will never harm you 🙂
god March for Our Lives discourse is like a fucking minefield of bad politics and galaxy brain takes. i got called a conspiracy theorist for saying that the movement and its policy proposals are spearheaded by adults using kids as figureheads when that should be glaringly obvious to anyone who has talked to/been a high schooler
see this is literally exactly what im talking about. nobody is saying kids can’t have political opinions; we’re saying that a nationwide movement with multiple simultaneous protests, legislation proposals, and celebrity appearances cannot be organized by a bunch of high schoolers. this is real life, not the Jimmy Neutron movie; adults absolutely had a hand in every single step of this process (do you really think their parents would let them send a fucking legal proposal off without having an adult look it over?) and saying that those adults shaped the politics of the movement isnt a conspiracy theory so much as a reasonable conclusion
and even if we say for the sake of argument that all of the proposals put forth were drafted entirely by the high schoolers – so what? yes, they survived a traumatic mass shooting, but that doesnt mean that their proposals for giving cops the right to rifle through mentally ill ppl’s medical history at will and increasing cop presence in schools (fucking lol) are any less heinous or exempt from criticism. BLM was a social movement for years and somehow managed to not tweet shit like this:
we can simultaneously feel bad for these kids for surviving a school shooting while also criticizing their political views that are being railroaded along without any critical review beyond “omg those poor kids, let’s give them what they want”
person: [about to shoot me]
me: wait wait hold on a sec
person: NO I’M GONNA KILL YOU
me: I KNOW BRUH ok just hold on [grabs phone] just gimme one sec okay okay okay [looks through music, presses play]
person: is this…. mmm whatcha say?
me: shoot me now. i’m ready. i’m at peace.
I mean, given the state of the US justice system, “protected like the right to a fair trial” isn’t a fate I’d wish upon any constitutional right…
In other words, I do think the right to bear arms should be protected, but not that it should be unlimited (or in the same maximalist category as freedom of expression), and reasonable restrictions on deadly weapons alarm me a whole lot less than the wholesale sabotage of due-process rights. OTOH, “reasonable restrictions” often are neither reasonable nor particularly effective in practice.
Romeo + Juliet (1996) truly has everything…heavy religious imagery…young leo…90s fashion…a brief drag scene….neon lights…those iconic angel wings
guns labeled “sword”
being better than anything shakespeare ever produced
i dislike the implication that shakespeare wouldn’t have done the exact same thing if he were alive in the 90′s
Fun fact, the guns being labelled “sword” is not just them being Extra™.
Most of the guns being used by the main characters are modified Taurus PT99 pistols, the different types of which are often named after specific types of knives and swords, thus enabling them to not have to change the Shakespearean dialogue, but to also manage that specific visual pun.
So Shakespeare would have absolutely been 100% all over that shit.
For example, Tybalt’s gun is a modified 9mm “Rapier” (from the Taurus PT99 Series ‘R’) and is actually one of my favorite visual aesthetics of quite probably any weapon in movie history to date.
While everyone else seems to be using a much more heavier and “powerful” version of pistol, his is sleek and light in frame, making it much easier for him to fight the way that he does. Which is undoubtedly Extra™ in comparison to everyone else, but also intended to mimic the dueling stance of actual rapier swordsmen of the time who relied on speed rather than brute force. They were Gentlemen after all. If you were going to cut someone down you ought to do it with some finesse.
If you look closely at his hand you’ll notice that with the exception of his middle finger on the trigger, he’s actually holding it the way one would a sword hilt. He’s also got the poise of a honed duelist.
This is someone who has been brought up with a very strong sense of Family Honor, and is expected to fight to defend it, but not as a common foot soldier (who carry “longswords” which are modified shotguns in the film), but as a Gentleman.
A gentleman who suddenly finds himself having to fight in the streets with people carrying “daggers”.
Like Mercutio’s modified pistol, which while beautiful and (importantly thematic) transparent in its function, is also heavy and cumbersome in comparison to Tybalt’s rapier, which also has a much further range, something he also makes better use of with the addition of a quick release mount for a c-scope, which allows him to either be slow and accurate, or to forgo accuracy for speed during say, a one on one duel vs a street brawl.
Which means even if he can’t make as many quickfire short range movements as Mercutio can, he’s still going to fucking obliterate him with the practiced ease of someone who has been training for duels their entire life.
Not to mention just how fucking ornate this thing is. Look at it. What an extra little sob, I love it. I love the whole movie. It’s an excellent adaptation and I’ll bite my thumb at anyone who says otherwise.
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