can you believe south korea impeached their corrupt president through the sheer force of peaceful civilian protests and elected a new guy who, less than a year later, is successfully negotiating peace with the north? can you believe it’s possible for a democracy to work like that? must be nice
One time, my little brother suddenly contracted a weird skin rash on his leg. It got so bad, my mom had to take him to a doctor to have it checked on. But even after being given medication, it got so much worse that puss started coming out and it just looked like it was literally decaying. This was during the time we spent a whole year in my late grandma’s house who lived in a rural fishing village. One of our neighbors told my mom they knew a witch who might be able to help. She didn’t really believe in witchcraft but she thought she might as well try.
The witch arrived, she was a pleasant old lady who was holding a plant in her hand for some reason (she probably found some neat wild plants on the way to our house), burned some incense, took a quick look at my brother’s leg and told my mom he caught the interest of a water spirit. Apparently, water spirits can be really curious and would take fancy on people who are “strangers in their territory”.
My mom remembered, my brother liked to play in this weird old spring near our house (I say weird and old because it looked kind of like a stone bath tub filled to the brim with moss, the water would come from a hole between one of the rocks and it would overflow into the ground where it drains into another hole. The water was always so cold and clean so you could use the water to bathe in or drink directly from the tub. Though I never did that because I was always afraid something would pull me from the thick moss) This isn’t an exact image but it looked kinda like this (with past me in a bowl cut to scale)
The witch said, she needed to take a stone where the culprit might be residing in, boil it in water and use the water to clean the rash. My mom was only like “Why the hell not, I’m desparate.” and went to the spring, picked up a stone and did exactly as the witch directed. Maybe my mom was exaggerating when she told it to me years later but apparently, soon afterwards before the day even ended, the blisters dried up and fell off leaving smooth, normal skin. I guess the water spirit finally lost interest in him lol. Since then we always teased him about that one time a water spirit took a fancy on him.
In all fairness, it’s possible last time Thor had to speak English on a frequent basis was in the 16th century, but then he’s spent some time here and he has Updated His Language Pack™ now
Hasn’t he not been speaking English the whole time and Allspeak has just been translating for him? So he’d say “if you keep fucking with me I’m gonna yeet you outta here” and it would come out “do I look to be in a gaming mood?”
This is what he was really saying all along, Heimdall just upgraded Allspeak
Okay so there’s always been one thing about Spider-man that has always bothered me, and it has nothing to do with the character.
It’s about his room.
In Captain America: Civil War, Peter’s room is not much to look at. It’s got a twin bed, a crappy desk and a computer that Peter had to scrounge out of a dumpster. He’s middle class, and his aunt has to pay New York rent, so it’s understandable.
But look at his room in Homecoming.
Look at all the stuff he has. The twin bed has been replaced by a nice bunk bed, the crappy desk is now new, and his computer went from a relic to top of the line. Not to mention all of the new stuff he has. His room used to just be blank walls, but now it’s a teenager’s dream.
There’s no way in a period of what is only a few months that his family would be able to have enough money to pay for even half of this.
I had always thought this was a continuity error, but then I had a revelation.
Who has enough money to pay for this? What man would buy a whole new room for a kid that he learns has been dumpster diving to get a decent computer?
Tony. Freaking. Stark.
He’s not the most emotional person. Tony’s own father was distant and strict, so Tony has no idea to show any kind of affection in the paternal sense.
But if he knows one thing, it’s money. He’s got it, a lot of it, and he’d be damned before he’d let a kid smart enough to design his own web slingers work on an Apple 2 computer left over from the 1970s.
If you think that Tony doesn’t care about Peter, then you would be dead wrong.
