tony stark’s youtube channel but it’s just him complaining about the avengers’ fashion sense
“seriously guys if yall gonna live off of my money at least dress better”
It all starts with Clint Barton. Of course it does. The man couldn’t dress himself if Coco Chanel was his personal adviser. She’d probably give up after five minutes. That’s what Pepper did after she tried to convince Clint to give up his old shoes.
But that’s Clint. That’s fine. But then Tony notices everyone else. Steve, with the ill-fitting pants and shirts that yes, are good to look at, but come on. Tony will only let Steve visit the president in uncomfortably tight pants at least once.
Then he notices that when she’s not on mission, Natasha has only a sampling of an idea of what she likes. A lot of loose things, but a lot of it doesn’t fit well. Tony stares at the sweatshirt she drowns in and just sighs. The joy of being the only fashionable one.
Thor doesn’t care enough, and Bruce also doesn’t.
“I don’t want people to see me, so why bother?” Bruce asks with a shrug. (Tony still doesn’t know how Thor looks at Bruce like he’s got stars around his head when he’s in a really bad graphic tee he got from the bargain bin for ninety-nine cents, but whatever.)
So he starts a YouTube channel after seeing a Met Gala roast. He knows if Wintour hadn’t banned him from them for saying that “Iron Man could be on staff for all of the mistaken invitations” they’d be so much more on-theme.
It starts out small, actually. Just a side project of Tony walking around his lab and ranting about “how can Clint wear THAT. That monstrosity. God, he looks so bad. WHy is he like this.”
But the video that blows up is the one that features Steve. (Naturally.)
Tony rants for fifteen minutes about how Steve has the sense of “a fruit fly in front of a swatter” and brings up multiple outfit choices that he had had to convince Steve out of.
And then.
The line.
It’s iconic. It’s wonderful. It’s absolutely used in pop culture afterwards.
“If they’re going to live off my money, they might as well dress better,” Tony had muttered. He’d forgotten to cut it, and Friday and Jarvis had both agreed to leave it in. (Tony hates kind of that Friday is learning from her big brother, she could be so much better behaved.)
But regardless, it blows up. There are shirts, there are celebrities reacting, and more than a few dirty looks from his fellow teammates. Tony shrugs.
Aziraphale in the paintball scene, though. I mean, seriously, y’all
Look
at
this
absolute
nerd
Especially that last gif! This is an angel that is literally thousands of years old, he helped create the motherfuckin’ universe, and he is p o u t i n g at Crowley over some paint on his jacket that he could EASILY remove himself.
But wait! There’s more!
Not only has Aziraphale already shown Crowley the stain, but Crowley has already circled him to assess the damage for himself.
And yet, after saying, “Well, I would always know the stain was there,” with that little pout, he turns to show Crowley the stain again.
And then! AND THEN!!
He gives Crowley this look.
Do you see the little raise of his eyebrows??? LOOK AGAIN
He could very easily get rid of this stain himself, but he is doing E V E R Y T H I N G in his power to get Crowley to do it for him.
“I could do this myself,” he’s saying, “but I’d rather you do it. You can do it better than me, can’t you? Please? Please, won’t you???”
The funniest part about this, fam, is that we all know Crowley needs very little prompting to actually indulge Aziraphale’s whims. He’s incredibly indulgent, anyways, we see ample evidence of that in Hard Times.
But this…I think (?) this is the first time that we see Aziraphale actively seeking out and trying to manipulate his way into getting one of those acts of service that Crowley so does like to give to him.
Like, sure, back during the Shakespeare scene, Aziraphale gives Crowley that very hopeful, “oh, WILL YOU?” look when Shakespeare mentions needing a miracle for Hamlet, but that is so different from this.
This is Aziraphale KNOWING that Crowley indulges and using that knowledge for his personal gain.
AND CROWLEY GIVES IT TO HIM. HE JUST. DOES.
That is the face of a spoiled angel that has gotten exactly what he wanted–a certain demon’s love and attention.
And that look Crowley gives him is just as devastating to me as Aziraphale’s sunshine smile over getting what he wanted.
That is a look of UTTER INDULGENCE.
He absolutely knows he’s been played but is happy to let it happen, because there is nothing quite as satisfying as indulging Aziraphale.
That is a look that says, “You’re so obvious, angel, and it’s adorable.”
He’s made his angel happy, what the fuck does he care?
Anita Sarkeesian (previously)
is a brilliant media theorist and critic whose Feminist
Frequency/Tropes vs. Women in Video Games projects revolutionized the
way we talk about gender and games – and also made her a target for a
virulent misogynist hate-machine of harassing manbabies who threatened
her life, doxed her, and did everything they could to intimidate her
into silence.
Polygon’s 9,000 word profile of Sarkeesian contains a lot of color about
her personality and approach (which is great stuff – Sarkeesian is a
fun and interesting person in real life as well as on-screen), but where
it gets really good is in describing how Sarkeesian led a massive
change in the way that games companies approach games, with “great women
characters” appearing in “The Last of Us, Assassin’s Creed Odyssey,
Dragon Age: Inquisition,The Walking Dead, Battlefield 5, Dishonored 2,
Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice, Horizon Zero Dawn, and Overwatch”
Sarkeesian’s academic training is a combination of feminist theory and
media studies, which made her the perfect person to bridge between the
insidery, jargon-heavy world of gender studies and a popular, easily
digested way of thinking through these issues for games practicioners;
Polygon’s Colin Campbell calls it “a toolkit that developers could use,
to lever themselves out of the box they’d made for themselves.”
This was literally and figuratively “game changing” – Sarkeesian wields
“criticism so sharp that it cut the past from the future,” making a new
world of games, at real personal cost.
That cost is also an important part of the story: Sarkeesian’s harassers
were unspeakably vile and vicious, and throughout, Sarkeesian made a
point of never showing how it affected her, though it did (as it would
anyone who was subjected to it). But as Sarkeesian threw her energy into
guiding and comforting other women who’d been targeted for speaking
out, she learned that her stoicism had an unanticipated and unwelcome
side effect: “it hurt other women who were suffering because they might
be feeling like they needed to live up to the example I was putting out
there. So now when I talk about these issues, I think that there’s value
in being transparent and honest about the reality of who I am and where
I’m at.”
Sarkeesian has stopped doing YouTube videos – she still has an excellent podcast called Feminist Frequency Radio
– and she discusses how she feels YouTube’s moment has passed: “When I
go and speak at schools and colleges, students tell me they want to do
what I do. But you can’t do it on YouTube anymore…Digital video is a
really difficult place to navigate right now. I don’t think it has a
shelf life, as it stands.”
YEAH!!!!! Technically there’s that scene where Aziraphale is “calling” God but it really is framed that way–as a phone call, rather than a prayer, though it uses the surface level palms-together-eyes-closed posture of prayer.
As you say, Crowley’s the only one doing the shouting-at-the-ceiling variety of talking to God, which is the most prayerlike prayer you can make, IMO. I also have some half-formed theories that he has a more personal and intimate relationship with God than any other character in the show? For one thing, there’s the tone and wording of the one-sided conversation he has with her vs the two Aziraphale has (one when he’s phone-call “praying” and the “Where’s the flaming sword I gave you, Aziraphale?” scene). If English had retained its formal-vs-informal “you/thou” distinction, Aziraphale would be horrified to use anything else but You (formal) to God, whereas Crowley is clearly thouing it up all over the place (informal/familiar).
Also I feel like he thinks about her and her motives more actively than anyone else – he doesn’t just write it off as “ineffable”, he asks questions. He presses because he wants to UNDERSTAND, not just blindly accept.
You know how when writers have a favorite character, they love them so much that they put them through all manner of hell and torture, just to watch them shine? I think Crowley might be God’s favorite character.
More than 20,000 Christians have signed a petition calling for the cancellation of Good Omens, the television series adapted from Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman’s 1990 fantasy novel – unfortunately addressing their petition to Netflix when the series is made by Amazon Prime.
The six-part series was released last month, starring David Tennant as the demon Crowley and Michael Sheen as the angel Aziraphale, who collaborate to prevent the coming of the antichrist and an imminent apocalypse. Pratchett’s last request to Gaiman before he died was that he adapt the novel they wrote together; Gaiman wrote the screenplay andworked as showrunner on the BBC/Amazon co-production, which the Radio Times called “a devilishly funny love letter to the book”.
But Christians marshalled by the Return to Order campaign, an offshoot of the US Foundation for a Christian Civilisation, disagree. More than 20,000 supporters have signed a petition in which they say that Good Omens is “another step to make satanism appear normal, light and acceptable”, and “mocks God’s wisdom”. God, they complain, is “voiced by a woman” – Frances McDormand – the antichrist is a “normal kid” and, most importantly, “this type of video makes light of Truth, Error, Good and Evil, and destroys the barriers of horror that society still has for the devil”. They are calling on Netflix to cancel the show.
Gaiman responded to the petition on Twitter, writing: “I love that they are going to write to Netflix to try and get #GoodOmens cancelled. Says it all really. This is so beautiful … Promise me you won’t tell them?”
The publisher and science fiction critic Cheryl Morgan tweeted: “Miraculously God has already done it. Don’t tell them She put it on Amazon instead.”
Return to Order is based on the writings of the author John Horvat II. It “calls upon Americans to put principles into actions by working toward what is called an organic Christian society”. Another of its petitions in April called on Walmart to “stop selling Satanic products” following a 2018 protest against a “blasphemous ice cream chain called Sweet Jesus”.
You know who’s responsible for making them think it’s Netflix, right? Yeah? 😁🤣🤣
I JUST SNORTED RICE KRISPIES UP MY FUKGING NOSE THIS IS THE FUNNIEST THING I’VE SEEN ALL WEEK
I just realized, thanks to my 19 year old co worker saying “Oh shit you were playing WoW when Leeroy Jenkins happened?” that I am 45456486146441 years old in Computer Nerd.
AT LEAST I HAVE CHICKEN DAMMIT
TIMES UP, LETS DO THIS
I’m old enough to remember that it’s not about misogyny, rather it’s about ethics on videogame journalism
you know the other thing that I really enjoy about Good Omens? Despite being messy af and bad at talking about their feelings and using their words, Crowley and Aziraphale are just like… actual grown-ups. Like, their defining character traits are that that they would risk literally everything to avoid a change in their daily routine. They literally defy Heaven and face down Satan to stop the Apocalypse because after a long day they just want to unwind at home with their significant other and a nice glass of red. Like they are SO decidedly middle-aged that actual paradise to these two immortal beings of immense otherworldly power is an early dinner out with your sweetie at your favorite restaurant and then going DIRECTLY home to open a bottle of wine and throw on your favorite album. and honestly, hard same?
Hard, hard same. The same is like granite. The same is like diamonds. The same is an 11 on the Mohs scale
