so the academy is reviewing whether or not to remove Will Smith’s award and here are some interesting tweets about that :)
#Poor Garou
mentally I’m here
I can see them do that. But singing & dancing to “Oh No!” instead.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7TKWCJj5Ik
Did anyone ask for human!Overlord burlesque with "Toxic Love" as the intended music?
Every anti John Walker post makes me realize that there is no objective reason to hate John Walker, only subjective, and that's fine. It's only when people start making up shit to hate him for (like he abuses Olivia, or he's a racist, or a psychopath, comparing him to Homelander or Peacemaker 🙄). That's my biggest problem with antis.
I understand if people dislike him because they can't let go of Steve Rogers just yet. (I mean I was the same way at first, but it was Sam and Bucky's unreasonable stubbornness that changed my mind). You don't have to like him, you don't have to be a fan, but if you have to create and warp existing context to extreme and stupidly wrong lengths in order to justify your hatred of this character WHILE supporting actual childish and unhelpful behaviour from Sam and Bucky, then of course you're gonna have people disagree with you under your anti posts. It's not because we're "pressed", it's because you're wrong but you're still trying to pass it off as fact.
As the saying goes: If you wanna hate a character, at least hate them correctly
In the distant past, when humanity was first evolving, an advanced race of aliens visited Earth and studied humanity. This race discovered something fascinating within a fraction of humanity’s genetic code: The Metagene. The Metagene allowed humanity, when under great stress, to develop superhuman abilities to survive. It was rare, but those with it could do great things. The aliens took some of them, and launched a breeding program to refine this gene. Over successive generations, the Inhumans were created, whose Metagene could be consistently triggered with the Terrigen mists, and only the Terrigen Mists.
As Human civilization progress, the Metagene experienced a mutation. This mutation lowered the threshold of trauma needed for the Metagene to trigger until the point that mundane puberty was sufficient to activate it. This mutated gene was dubbed the X-Gene. The mutants who possessed the X-Gene suffered under severe discrimination for many years, but as time passed, they grew to be the majority of the population. Over the years, there have been many names for these powers and their users. Mutants, Evos. Nexts, etc. By the era of All Might, the popular vernacular was “Quirk”.
Some attempted to manually trigger the Metagene. During World War II, a scientist by name of Abraham Erskine developed a serum that, alongside a specific radiological treatment, could transform even a sickly man into a man at the peak of human ability, in all fields the best a human could be without being outright Superhuman. Notably, the process performed by Project Rebirth worked on people who lacked a Metagene. This Project Rebirth produced Captain America, but shortly after his creation, Erskine was assassinated by a nazi scientist, and his notes were stolen. However, while his notes contained the formula for the Super Soldier Serum, it did not contain anything about the radiological treatment, and thus it was impossible to replicate Captain America. They didn’t stop trying however. With their continued research, they uncovered the Metagene, and switched focus from replicating the Super Soldier serum, to improving it. Making a serum capable of triggering the Metagene. They did not succeed at this during the war, however after it ended, the scientists in charge of the project were given pardons as part of project paper clip. This allowed Compound V to be developed, a substance that could grant Superpowers. The catch was that it had to be administered during Childhood, as adults would be driven mad by it.
Additionally, a number of humans were secretly given something called a Corona Pollentia by a predatory interstellar entity, which connects them to continent sized shards. Whose with Corona Pollentia are capable of undergoing trigger events, and developing Superpowers. These trigger events are often Traumatic, and afterwards the Shards subtly poke their bears into conflict, in order to gather data for the Entities. Those with activated Corona Pollentia are known as Parahumans. And due to human ignorance of their origin, they severely complicate research into superpowers. And most in the Public aren’t really aware of the difference between Metahumans and Parahumans
Always check your surroundings before forcing your friends to chat with the Akuma DJ.
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The Ukrainian letter of solidarity with Palestine, in part, reads:
“We, Ukrainian researchers, artists, political and labour activists, and members of civil society stand in solidarity with the people of Palestine who for 75 years have been subjected to and resisted Israeli military occupation, separation, settler colonial violence, ethnic cleansing, land dispossession and apartheid. We write this letter as people to people.
Our solidarity comes from a place of anger at the injustice, and a place of deep pain of knowing the devastating impacts of occupation, shelling of civil infrastructure, and humanitarian blockade from experiences in our homeland. Parts of Ukraine have been occupied since 2014, and the international community failed to stop Russian aggression then, ignoring the imperial and colonial nature of the armed violence, which consequently escalated on February 24, 2022.
Aware of the pragmatic geopolitical reasoning behind Ukraine's decision to echo Western allies, on whom we are dependent for our survival, we see the current support of Israel and dismissing Palestinian right to self-determination as contradictory to Ukraine's own commitment to human rights and fight for our land and freedom. We as Ukrainians should stand in solidarity not with the oppressors, but with those who experience and resist the oppression.
We strongly object to equating of Western military aid to Ukraine and Israel by some politicians. Ukraine doesn't occupy the territories of other people; instead, it fights against the Russian occupation, and therefore international assistance serves a just cause and the protection of international law. Israel has occupied and annexed Palestinian and Syrian territories, and Western aid to it confirms an unjust order and demonstrates double standards in relation to international law.”