“In fact, during the audition with Chris Evans, the script says, “Spidey flips into scene,” and Tom goes, “Oh, should I do that?” Evans is like, [sarcastically] “Oh, yeah. Yeah, you just flip into the scene kid. No, you just walk in.” He does it. A standing flip, jump, flip, land. Even Chris Evans was like, “What…what happened?” - Kevin Feige, producer and President of Marvel
You hire Spider-Man and you fucking got Spider-Man.
Happy Halloween!!
Eat lots of candy and stuff!!!
I see this one like every year and I still dont know the characters involved but I love it, it’s not Halloween without the pumpkin dragons
So remember that one time, when an already-injured Kelly-087 took several direct blasts from a Hunter pair’s fuel rod cannons in order to protect Doctor Halsey and the rest of the UNSC personnel that were with her and the other Spartans?
“Kelly moved before anyone; she was a blur of motion and stepped in front of Dr. Halsey…The blinding bright-green fuel rods struck the Spartans’ shields and splashed over their chests.”
And then remember how John-117 - instead of readying his own weapon and returning fire, regrouping his team, or moving to protect the the two most strategically important people in their party - put himself in a completely prone and vulnerable position (while also having no shields left), in order to protect his best friend?
“Kelly lay at his feet. Her armor smouldered and hydrostatic gel boiled from the emergency release vent along her left side. A thousand more shots rang out from the gallery, and John instinctively crouched to cover his fallen comrade. He braced for the inevitable burning energy impact.”
Because I do.
“He had to get her to safety.”
…I think about this a lot.
Spartan-117 & Spartan-087
“The Master Chief suddenly became alert as a number of enemy contacts appeared on his motion tracker. In a flash of movement Kelly drew her pistol as John raised his own weapon. They wordlessly moved to stand back-to-back, catching sight of the Elites as the aliens deactivated their active camouflage. A few Grunts were following behind them, plasma pistols charged and ready.
“What’s the plan, Chief?” Kelly muttered over their private COM channel.
“I’m open to suggestions,” John replied as he assessed the enemies surrounding them.
“Well, we could always try shooting our way out. Mix things up a little,” Kelly said wryly as she leaned slightly to the left.
After years of being partners, John read her movements easily and knew exactly what was going to happen next. “I’ve got your back,” he said, and his finger tightened on the trigger of his rifle…”
The Silver Swan, built by John Joseph Merlin and James Cox, 1773.
Source: Mechanical Marvels, Clockwork Dreams (BBC)
oh wow, the “water” is an illusion created by spinning glass rods.
wooooooooooah
*Spinning glass rods for the swan robot of 1773AD
I don’t get why people hate immigrants so much… Like they’re literally just… People… From another location….
My partner is an immigrant from the UK and still holds his citizenship. At a recent event, an acquaintance talked about how many “immigrants” get jobs over “Canadians” and they shouldn’t allowed to be management (which my partner is). My partner reaches across the table and goes “Hi, immigrant here!” and she goes “Oh I didn’t mean immigrants like you…” And you can so tell they just mean “brown people” or “Asian people” but they pretend it’s about jobs and shit.
That’s the same with my family. We were war immigrants from the soviet union and now live in Germany. Now the syrians are here because they also have war, and people keep asking me why I’m defending them so mercilessly. And when I tell them that my family (that is still alive) has gone through the same bullshit. But they insist that both scenarios are completely different. They’re not different, you’re just racist.
Immigrant is just a dog whistle for People of Color.
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