honestly this is why Assassins Creed cosplayers are my favourite cosplayers because you’re never sure when one of them is gonna just bust out the parkour but you know at least one of them in a group can do it.
Are you sure they are not Actual Assassins?
modern day Assassins dress as historical assassin to blend in a crowd of cosplayers and #remain_undetected
none of the people even turned when he did that, too, so I’m convinced we’re either living in a simulation or that was an actual assassin
tbh im kinda glad that a lot of the realistic pokemon in the detective pikachu trailer are high key teetering on the edge of uncanny valley because like.. these are fantasy creatures that sort of talk and shoot fucking electricity and vines and fire and psychic energy out their eyeballs, they SHOULD look weird and alien. psyduck is a pokemon defined by the fact that it is experiencing an unending headache that motherfucker better look like he has seen the rise and fall of civilization itself. mr mime is literally like three brain cells away from being straight up human the sight of one should make me uncomfortable.
basically what im saying is we have been spoon-fed woobified anime pokemon for too long. put the monster back in pocket monsters.
“There was one day, actually, where I ran amok in a lunch break and I stole the [Captain America] shield and the [Thor] hammer. We were in these underground tunnels in Cleveland; I literally had the shield in my hand and was holding the hammer aloft in my arm. I sent pictures to Chris [Evans] and Chris [Hemsworth] and was like, ‘Guys, I’m not giving them back.‘”
-Tom Hiddleston to Access Hollywood, while filming Avengers
and this wasn’t publicized. to the degree that i, a human who tries to stay abreast of at least local news, knew nothing about it until my father mentioned it over dinner today.
so like. it would be cool if we spread that information around too maybe.
oh, I can absolutely answer that for you. this isn’t a secret, it’s just not something that tends to draw much attention, because we’re a tiny state that isn’t overly important very often, politically speaking. here’s the breakdown:
1) so like, plain old every day transmisogyny is no doubt a big part of it, to the tune of “did you also know that christine could barely raise enough money to run a tv ad?” so that’s for sure an aspect here. BUT…
2) vermont really likes electing republican governors. like, historically, in gubernatorial elections, we were a solidly red state for a long time, and now it pretty much flip-flops, BECAUSE…
3) vermont tends to be very…personal? i guess? about politics? so if, say, democratic governor peter shumlin, circa 2016, has been left holding the bag on a broken healthcare marketplace that iirc wasn’t done right by the contractors the state hired?? to the tune of like several hundred million dollars of fixing required? people are going to 100% be feeling like the entire party is responsible for all the evil in the world because there are only a little more than half a million people in this tiny, tiny state and we’re all petty assholes. even those of us who vote reliably democrat. so the state as a whole was pretty primed to vote republican. and ALSO…
4) this republican in general is a cunning man. he’s distanced himself from the tangerine menace. he focuses on local issues. he’s left-leaning on things like gun control and LGBTQ+ rights. many of these things appeal to a broad swathe of vermonters, even the otherwise liberal ones. but he’s also your classic fiscal conservative, and taxes here are real damn high. so basically his policies are broadly appealing on paper, even though he’s actively the worst. so that’s how we ended up with phil motherfucking scott in the first place, and THEN…
5) vermont almost never votes out an incumbent governor. for a value of “almost never” that is equivalent to “the last time we voted out an incumbent was in the 1960s.” so now that we’ve gotten ourselves stuck in this mess, we’re pretty well stuck.