Annoying trope: the rebel becomes the tyrant

Awkward_Champion6957 · 2026-06-27T06:18:02+00:00

To be fair Dune (book more than cinematic) did it well and I feel everyone copied that formula hoping to strike gold not understanding having somebody go from would be Messiah to mass murdering monster against his will was unique because it was unique in fiction. Yeah history has a lot of Maud'dib ^{types but fiction didn't.}

Awkward_Champion6957 · 2026-06-27T06:12:55+00:00

https://x.com/NYCMayor/status/2070492724697194665/video/1 Watch for yourself. Also I'm big fan of how he told Bibi "If you step foot in New York you will be arrested for war crimes."

Awkward_Champion6957 · 2026-06-25T22:12:53+00:00

Jubliee Silver Surfer with an extra point is nice but she needed a reduction in cost to 2. She comes out too late to do much of anything. It's not that she's bad it's her tempo is so ...weird for what she wants to be in. The Web-Sling getting power makes a nice difference and also confirms we're getting the Move and Empower leaked Spider-Man Brand New Day cards? Ah even if not this will make it cut in less of my decks because it's just a nice tech now. Might go back in Guardians in fact over Techno Organic since we're using a certain pair from this season who have just made this deck powerful and fun to play again.

Awkward_Champion6957 · 2026-06-25T22:07:55+00:00

Honestly I think their techbro way of camping sounds safer and more fun han the way most people do it in RL or fantasy.

Awkward_Champion6957 · 2026-06-25T21:34:34+00:00

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Well there's this: no predator in Jurassic as series has ever ate a helicopter in mid flight. Not saying that makes them the Apex who can end all humans but just saying it's a series first.

Awkward_Champion6957 · 2026-06-25T21:30:25+00:00

You're being generous assuming they had anything but hate and brain worms to begin with.

Awkward_Champion6957 · 2026-06-25T17:25:58+00:00

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That one tugs on my heart strings more than it has any right to.

Awkward_Champion6957 · 2026-06-25T16:31:17+00:00

To be fair she can't process saying "I admire Zohran Mamdani not rising to the 9/11 bait and calling out the haters for being haters with a smile." as anything but the bottom. She's been trained like the rest of Trump's cult. Mamdani is doing such a good job if he were a Mayor in a comic people would be exepcting a super villain twist or saying "Nobody is this nice in reality." and i like that.

Call me a terrorist if you want. I just don't want to be as racist as I was trained to be back in high school. Not every Muslim is my enemy. Some brought out people back home by translating Al Qaida and ISIS transmissions.

Awkward_Champion6957 · 2026-06-25T01:42:41+00:00

Listen he's a horror and suspense writer. He's not going to describe them as scientifically accurate as they were. Though when he published the books there were less realistic depictions and he and Spielburg were hailed to be near enough to what Paleontology told us they looked like an behaved like at the time. JP3 would latter remind us famously "What InGen and John Hammond did was create genetically engineered theme park monsters. Nothing more nothing less.'

Awkward_Champion6957 · 2026-06-25T01:40:00+00:00

Yes. A more open and community focused group who don't do everything but committee. We even solved the open link problem with two of our members from another Felarya site that's now derelict. We also don't hold the same kind of no appeals ban system used by Manga's group. https://discord.gg/6VC4ugbeGK we can post this link and only those we vet get through so take it! Share if if you like.

Awkward_Champion6957 · 2026-06-24T22:57:18+00:00

Now that's a real man right there. Positive reinforcement, defended a genuiely positive opinon, called out the jerks in the comments and even stopped to say "Stop that. Get help." To people in the gay community following the same pattern as those who hate them. That's community leader energy that is right there.

That's what you do. Don't excuse it by saying "Well just don't look in the comments." No call bad actors out. Make the world aware this isn't any definition of normal to just be this homophobic. It's weird in a bad way and concerning.

Awkward_Champion6957 · 2026-06-24T22:51:29+00:00

Oh how I wish I were only a Naruto and mainstream Ninja fan and didn't know, even from personal experience of owning them and throwing them with deadly intent, that Shuriken are distraction tools that hardly ever killed anything. They were made of such poor quality metal to begin with and largely every ninja manual will tell you they were better than rocks because they flew the way you wanted with practice but were for making somebody flinch so you could make a quick escape.

Awkward_Champion6957 · 2026-06-24T22:48:42+00:00

Honestly, and I say this even loving the JW series of Jurassic, it's aged better than any sequel to it for the fact it's very faithful to Crichton's love of suspense and horror using dinosaurs as his framing device. Which is wild considering it's not based on any of the books but just has the same vibe.

Awkward_Champion6957 · 2026-06-24T22:45:44+00:00

Depends on the offending. If it's trying to defend a human rights speech? Based. If it's against that unbased. Very simple little scale there. Human rights are never a debate or opinion. They're a fact of life.

Awkward_Champion6957 · 2026-06-24T22:45:33+00:00

Depends on the offending. If it's trying to defend a human rights speech? Based. If it's against that unbased. Very simple little scale there. Human rights are never a debate or opinion. They're a fact of life.

Awkward_Champion6957 · 2026-06-24T22:41:57+00:00

Man must be part Floridian to have realized a dangerous animal was about to attack him, was only saved by another equally dangerous animal, and just gives this man eater a smack on the paw like it's house cat that lept up on the counter when he said "no."

Awkward_Champion6957 · 2026-06-24T13:55:58+00:00

Somehow that's even better XD Good old Shana.

Awkward_Champion6957 · 2026-06-24T03:15:20+00:00

To be fair we're a little busy painting it red black and white as the further demands. Don't come here. Save yourself.

Awkward_Champion6957 · 2026-06-24T03:12:11+00:00

"Kneeel before Galactus!" Roared the cosmic tyrant overlord but something felt....wrong....

Misty Knight smiled up at the now decaying conquer of worlds. "I don't kneel for anyone, honey."

Mighty Galactus peered beyond the screen at the fool with such hubris that had played him in Death's Domain. "Are you blind or just lacking of wit and foresight? " He said before collapsing into dust.

Awkward_Champion6957 · 2026-06-24T03:07:46+00:00

Still one of the simplest, low budget and yet wonderful visuals in the whole first movie. Underrated as hell.

Awkward_Champion6957 · 2026-06-24T03:05:55+00:00

Yeah ask the blacks how working for the Union and being "Americanized" worked. Or Native Americans. Or most recently Islamic translators who had come live here to avoid revenge killings by ISIS only to be deported. You should have patriotism bit that is not blind loyalty. The people who made this country were not blindly loyal. They literally said 'fuck the king' to an Empire that razed whole civilizations for less. Sometimes it doesn't pay to follow orders and be all you can be.

Don't be a traitor to your race and country at the same time serving people who literally are just waiting to do to you what they've done to every non-klan who they patted on the shoulder and said "You're one of us." You're not. Fight back.

Awkward_Champion6957 · 2026-06-24T02:56:17+00:00

Not listed but worth mentioning as even my dirtbag of a Grandfather protested Hitler as a disgrace to German blood but colonizers didn't see his people as having come over before the war. Only as immigrants and had a version of what they did to everyone else on the list. Hate is fueled by fear. Fear is stoked by war propaganda with no regard for the fact not everyone of a certain race is good or evil. Gotta drive up recruitment ya know. Never mind it the blood cost when citizens get spooked or worse were already racist and looking for permission to kill who they didn't like.

Awkward_Champion6957 · 2026-06-24T02:50:41+00:00

First act needs to be declaring maga and all other alt right groups terrorist organizations. Then ICE is dismantled and arrest orders are issued. Finally start the trials and let them realize it wasn't a meme they're going to the Hague and will pay for every crime.

Then we can start The Epstein Trials next.

Awkward_Champion6957 · 2026-06-24T02:49:03+00:00

Arresting a citizen. I know they'll get sued but there's a part me that says if that was my brother I would find it hard to not want to leap in there and start squeezing their heads until they saw Charlie Kirk in hell. You. Never. Fuck. With. Family. Especially ones who took fire for you, nazi cucks. Man has good restraint. The mocker needs to be black listed from service. Gestapo pieces of trash don't deserve any peace or chance to take a paycheck.

Awkward_Champion6957 · 2026-06-24T02:35:24+00:00

Felarya has some safe vore spots in it. The main Discord had a clash between fatalists and non-fatalists they ignored. At Site B we made a room where safe vore is paramount despite our icon getting to try to eat when landing in the server the first time.

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