Marvel really made a huge mistake with not making a Black Widow movie sooner. If they had just made it back when the fans wanted, in 2013, it probably would’ve made a decent amount of money and been really popular on here for awhile
But now they’ve waited too long and the fans have noticed all the problematic aspects of how Black Widow is written, along with how shitty a person Scarlet Johansen is, that people don’t give a shit that she finally does have a movie coming out
Chances are now that it’s gonna flop and all the movie executives are going to smoke their giant cigars in their big offices and say “Well, looks like big budget movies with female leads don’t sell, just like we thought, let’s never try to make a big budget female led movie ever again” and pat themselves on the back for their ingenuity when it’s their own damn fault (Along with Scarjo being a shitty person)
They need to recast the role
Thing is…
…they could.
Think about it: BW is a spy, whose face is now plastered all over the media. Her espionage career–arguably her major contribution to the team–is over. So now she has to either:
Get plastic surgery, or (my favorite)
Utilize a series of elaborate disguises for each scene. We never see OG Widow again, instead seeing her portrayed by Lucy Liu, Halle Berry (in a white wig, of course), Gal Gadot, Rosario Dawson (for a fun Daredevil crossover mix up), and Judi Dench.
We leave the theatre wondering if we’ve ever seen the real Natasha Romanov.
Instead of inmates being able to receive donated books in the mail from family members and community groups, inmates at three New York prisons now have to purchase books selected by six, state-approved vendors. And the selection is limited. And expensive, activists say.
And about a quarter of the titles are coloring books.
According to the Department of Corrections and Community Supervision, the directive is in an effort to restrict contraband from entering the prison “through a more controlled inmate package program.”
Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s office has made the point that inmates still have access to prison libraries, but some say it’s not enough. “The problem with prison libraries is that [the prisons] control who has access to them,” said Amy Peterson with NYC Books Through Bars. “So people who are in solitary confinement don’t have access to prison libraries.”
Peterson’s group has been mailing books to prisoners all over the country for nearly two decades, with a focus on New York. “We get letters from people saying they had to borrow a stamp in order to write to us. So if these people can’t even afford postage, we don’t know how they’re going to be able to afford buying books from a vendor,” she said.
Over the past several days, inmate advocates pointed out that the vendors combined offered only five romance novels, 14 religious texts, 24 drawing or coloring books, 21 puzzle books, 11 how-to books, one dictionary, and one thesaurus.
“No books that help people learn to overcome addictions or learn how to improve as parents. No Jane Austen, Ernest Hemingway, Maya Angelou, or other literature that helps people connect with what it means to be human. No texts that help provide skills essential to finding and maintaining work after release from prison. No books about health, about history, about almost anything inside or outside the prison walls,” advocacy group Books Behind Bars complained in a letter to the governor.
I don’t know if you’ve heard about Tumblr’s recent change denying PC users the ability to edit posts made by app via web browser, but it’s rolled out for me.
Here’s the thing: I’m physically disabled. I have chronic pain in my fingers, wrist and right shoulder. To be able to blog at all, I rely on both PC and my iPad. I put posts in my draft folder by scrolling Tumblr on my iPad (as I cannot use a mouse for very long because of thumb/shoulder pain) and I tag posts on PC (as I cannot type on my iPad for very long because of shoulder pain–a traditional keyboard is more accessible for me). I do not have the ability to edit and tag posts via iPad. To be able to add to posts in a text discussion is also impossible for me, as I cannot type more than a couple of lines at best on my iPad the way I can on a keyboard.
(Nor do I live in a space where it safe to use voice to text, and it doesn’t work well with my tendency to use long words and speak quickly. It’s okay for short and casual communication, but I could never compose long posts, often using community-specific terminology, using it.)
To say I’m beyond upset is about the understatement of the year. It’s stopped me, completely, from being able to interact with the majority of other people’s posts–because most of them are made by app.
If this isn’t rolled back, I will not be able to run this blog the way I currently am. I have no money with which to buy keyboards or accessories that work with my iPad (and even then I still won’t know if they’ll work as comfortably for me as my current ergonomic/curved PC keyboard, so I could be spending money I don’t have on accessories that don’t work or even worsen my pain). None.Zero.
I would really, really appreciate it if you could protest this. Write to Tumblr. Complain. Even reblog this post. Do something to get this talked about. If this doesn’t change, I won’t be able to reblog other people’s content on this blog. I won’t be able to engage with or add to other people’s posts. This blog will have to either become a tiny imitation of what it was or run entirely without tags (so I can just send things straight to queue from iPad) because I do not have the spoons to tag and reblog posts via the iOS app when it causes me so much more pain than just using my PC ergonomic keyboard. That, though, will still deny me the ability to add to other people’s posts, because if I don’t have the spoons to tag via iOS, I don’t have them for text additions.
(And yes, if I run this blog without tags, it won’t be safe for all followers, and that isn’t acceptable.)
The core feature of Tumblr–being able to reblog and add to other people’s content–will be entirely locked out for me, all because I’m a disabled blogger unable to do everything via app.
Please make a big thing about this. Please get everyone talking and protesting. Please. I am incredibly distressed by the fact that the features I have been using and enjoying for years will no longer be accessible to me.
Me while sipping tea and watching netflix in my pikachu onesie: everything is better in a pikachu onesie
Bestie, for some reason NOT wearing a pikachu onesie: are you sure
Kya, canonically a lesbian, tells Korra and Asami about same-sex relationships and coming out in the four nations. We also find out that Kyoshi was bi!
My aesthetic is seeing my bisexual icons, Korra and Asami, discussing LGBT issues while the sky is painted the colors of the Bi Pride Flag behind them.
Can we talk about the fact that canonically James Rhodes wears dress pants, with a belt, and casual polo tees under his War Machine* armor? Like. This highly decorated Air Force Colonel in a multimillion dollar heavily weaponized armor went looking for a dangerous terrorist in dress pants and a casual tee. 10/10 confirmed Tony Stank is not the only dork flying around in a metal suit in the MCU.
*Fuck the Iron Patriot. It doesn’t exist.
Someone at base: Colonel Rhodes! We have an urgent mission for you in Pakistan! Suit up!
Rhodey, chillin in his office eating cheetos with his feet up on his desk wearing his sunday flip flops on a friday: fUCK!
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