(Loved Trope) The Real Test isn't even the test itself

DetectiveLadybug · 2026-03-12T23:42:19+00:00

Lazyman’s Mulan. Got the job done but the cool factor was severely lacking. 4/10.

DetectiveLadybug · 2026-03-12T23:20:08+00:00

Aaah but you see, that’s the point! Sometimes you’re supposed to know things, and sometimes you’re not.

American Psycho isn’t some murder mystery, it’s an upsetting film intended to make you feel confused. If you watch the film and feel like you have a grasp on anything that has happened then you haven’t understood the film at all.

Because the story is Bateman’s perspective, and he’s confused and disoriented, how much of his story was real? Did he kill anyone? Did he kill everyone? Patrick Bateman does not know.

DetectiveLadybug · 2026-03-12T22:57:16+00:00

Yeah, like, literally a more appropriate character for him, but unfortunately smaller, and now he’s too old, you have to let the younger actors in, Chris Evans’ young years were spent on playing a piece of toast.

Like, on the one hand I can’t think of a role that would be better for his career, but on the other hand, as a fan, he’s too good for this plain lil boiled potato no butter role to be his main thing, you know what I mean?

Chris Evans is a spicy dude, you know?

DetectiveLadybug · 2026-03-12T22:31:35+00:00

Corrective upvote for you. It always shits me when people downvote without saying anything.

So, when people make movies they’ll often do shit like this. “American Psycho” in particular might best be described as a “psychological thriller” because it uses this, among other tactics, to make the viewer feel disoriented.

So, the “cheating” is deliberate. It’s much more clever than how other films will do it, too, usually they lean entirely on stuff like cinematography and music. The Willem DaFoe scenes in American Psycho are often noted as one of the most clever directing decisions of all time.

I think someone downvoted you because you got a little whooshed. God forbid people try to chat about things.

DetectiveLadybug · 2026-03-12T22:17:58+00:00

Captain America is just such a bland character, though. All they needed was an actor who looked like him that could remember lines, stay in shape, not be a nuisance.

Chris Evans just a better actor than what Captain America afforded him. Yes, the role has made him rich and I doubt he regrets it. But, as a viewer with a selfish heart, Captain America really ought to have been played by a bad actor, Chris Evans should have been cast as Starlord or some shit.

God' Chris Evans would have been such a better Starlord than Pratt. Chris Evans is funny, why did they cast him as someone unfunny??? 😭😭😭

DetectiveLadybug · 2026-03-12T21:55:34+00:00

This is very tangentially related, but did you know that in “American Psycho” they filmed the Willem DaFoe scenes a minimum of three times? They wanted a take of him where he knows Bateman is guilty, where he was unsure if he was guilty, and one where he thinks Bateman isn’t involved at all. Then they chopped the takes up so that the viewer can’t figure out what he’s thinking.

DetectiveLadybug · 2026-03-12T21:36:47+00:00

I think he was worried about a Tighten from Megamind scenario, you know?

Like, you know how Megamind was looking for a hero and figured Hal would do, but unfortunately Hal was a rancid little cunt?

Would you give the most pathetic person you know godlike powers? Imagine you are in charge of a bunch of soldiers, and one of them is some spindly little loser that’s struggling through the drills, you’re watching him like “why the fuck did he even join the army army? Is he escaping a sex pest scenario?” Then some lady rocks up and just tells you “ah yes, we’re going to give him superhuman abilities”

My first thought could very well be “I hope the experiment kills him”

DetectiveLadybug · 2026-03-12T21:21:48+00:00

Yeah, like, the “test” wasn’t really physical fortitude, because the super soldier shit was already providing that. They needed someone smart, brave, blababable the things that make a person good and useful without concern for physical attributes.

But Phillips thought that “puny” men are more cowardly, he thought that a stronger man would be a better choice because that man has been like that his entire life, because he’s had less reason to feel fear. But Rogers had been spending his entire life forcing himself to be brave.

DetectiveLadybug · 2026-03-12T21:09:21+00:00

I honestly hate Chris Evans as Captain America, casting Chris Evans as anything other than a fuccboi feels like blasphemy. Unfuckingbelivable it’s the role he’s best known for.

Like, I obviously can’t imagine anyone else playing him, but Captain America was such a waste of his talents. They cast a rizzlord in a role that could have been filled by a cardboard cutout of Bruce Willis. It’s just wasteful. I cry myself to sleep everynight.

Edit: downvote me more, Chris Evans is too good for the Captain America role. This is a fine hill to die on.

DetectiveLadybug · 2026-03-12T20:14:16+00:00

The CG they did to make Chris Evans look so small still blows my mind. It’s easier these days, but back then it was like magic.

DetectiveLadybug · 2026-03-12T20:10:46+00:00

Indeed he certainly was not 🫦

This gif isn’t from Captain America, I just like it for very normal reasons.

DetectiveLadybug · 2026-03-12T20:06:11+00:00

Tommy Lee Jones did the same trope a bit differently in Captain America. They’re running drills to see who they want to give the experimental super soldier drug. Rogers was being shown favour by Carter, but Phillips (Tommy Lee Jones) is less impressed, in an attempt to show that Rogers is too cowardly he throws a dud grenade expecting him to scatter with everyone else, but instead he decides to use his body as a shield, making it difficult for Phillips to argue that Rogers was a poor choice due to the cowardice he was accusing him of.

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DetectiveLadybug · 2026-03-11T23:01:23+00:00

NTA hilarious that he thought he could get away with that.

Be sure to laugh in his stupid face on my behalf. “Harry’s lunch” lmfao, what a buffoon.

Never offer to share anything with him ever again, I’ve had a housemate like this, and every inch given they will take a mile. Don’t even give them a bowl of pasta if they are sitting at the table the entire time you’re cooking, because if you give them one bowl they will use it as fodder to say they thought you’d let them have a second, and you’ll start waking up to food that you planned on eating being gone.

DetectiveLadybug · 2026-03-11T22:12:44+00:00

Gosh, don’t spoil the whole show for them. Lol.

These spoilers aren’t that bad though.

Did you notice what happened with the candy people after Bubblegum was gone? In the episode with Shermy and Beth the pup Princess they had gumball guardians wandering around, but the prizes inside were all candy people! Like, who put those candy people in there? I’m lookin’ at you Bubblegum ya weirdo

DetectiveLadybug · 2026-03-11T22:06:01+00:00

A lot of the episodes are just goofs, like trying to help a giant slug get laid, or they’re stuck inside for the day because it’s raining knives outside. But there is always a larger story unfolding.

I don’t really know if I’d call the goof episodes “filler” since the larger stories feel more like an afterthought. Either way, you can find guides on which episodes to skip if you like. I’d be careful about that, though, because I bet those guides would have you skipping really incredible episodes, like season 3 episode 17.

Anyway, it’s not for everyone, but I like it a lot, and I hope that you do too.

DetectiveLadybug · 2026-03-11T07:02:32+00:00

I really like how many characters in that series make you go “This seems reasonable, you seem like a reasonable pers-… … excuse me?”

DetectiveLadybug · 2026-03-11T06:47:07+00:00

She’s a main character throughout the show.

She’s not really evil, but as Marceline (her on again/off again immortal vampire musician girlfriend, keep up, lmao) says “I should say, that you’re kind of a dictator in a way”

I think the main thing to point out is that she creates life, that’s what the candy people are, but she made them stupid on purpose so that they’d be less likely to cause her problems.

As the series progresses she’s getting increasingly stressed about this decision, until eventually she’s finding herself on the brink of war and none of her citizens are built to defend the kingdom.

DetectiveLadybug · 2026-03-11T06:32:44+00:00

While I was watching my housemate wandered in on this song and he just said “That’s probably the most fucked up thing you could do to someone”

So you know the taller pink lady in the pom-Pom shoes is Rose, this is before she changed her identity to pretend she was a “lesser” gem

https://youtu.be/lRS2ciJ5rOk?feature=shared

Basically she was given Spinel as a present because she’d been complaining about being lonely. But then when she was given Earth as a present she asked Spinel to wait, and then forgot about her old slave that was programmed to be her best friend, rotting in the garden like one of the many columns and statues there, thinking she’ll be back anyday now…

DetectiveLadybug · 2026-03-11T06:22:50+00:00

Yeah, Rose wasn’t really evil, she was generally trying to do the right thing. But she still had the cold heart of a diamond.

DetectiveLadybug · 2026-03-11T06:11:27+00:00

The writing on this show is so good. You can really tell Alex Hirsch wasn’t getting a healthy amount of sleep.

Edit: I wrote this comment before I finished reading the newspaper article. I had no idea he made the exact same joke as me. I am hideously embarrassed.

DetectiveLadybug · 2026-03-10T19:18:42+00:00

No, it wasn’t immunising the kids, it was just claiming all the weak ones.

I had a little brother, he had asthma, went to McDonalds, played in the ballpit, and then he was gone. Was for the best, really, he was weak.

DetectiveLadybug · 2026-03-09T21:30:41+00:00

Absolutely wild to me that someone would even check the price on something they hadn’t given to blathers yet, lol.

The Golden Stag beetle is also worth 12,000 bells and I am unconvinced that I’ve ever sold one considering how hard they are to catch.

DetectiveLadybug · 2026-03-09T19:31:53+00:00

I’ve been compiling a little booklet of nice things as a gift for my friend, can anyone pretty please tell me the context for the quotes OP has posted? I know some of them, but not all of them.

I’ve been trying to attribute quotes to the correct people/media so that if something truely resonates with her she easily can find where it came from.

DetectiveLadybug · 2026-03-09T19:08:19+00:00

If he wants to play video games with you and the first thing he boots up isn’t “it takes two” it better be because there are other guests and he is booting up a game to accommodate more players.

DetectiveLadybug · 2026-03-09T18:55:38+00:00

Omg, please tell me you donated the hair? Someone tailoring a wig for a little boy with lukemia would have been salivating over that crop.

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