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It wasn’t until the “Avengers” actors filmed the iconic moment where the camera spins around the superheroes as they prepare to fight that Johansson realized there was great potential in the comic book team-up film.

That's a paraphrase of her quote, but I went with that because it expresses what she was saying better.

With that handled, I gotta say that the scene they're talking about still hits me.

The first time I saw or, I cried happy, blissful tears. I had goosebumps. I still get goosebumps, and there's times it still brings a tear to my eye.

I don't know if I can express how awesome that moment is. Yeah, the iron man, cap and thor movies had been incredible too. But there was something special about all of that buildup coming together, with all those characters that I liked or loved being there for real, not in animation.

Yeah, I know there was plenty of CGI, but there's a difference. It isn't the same as a cartoon, it just isn't.

It's a top ten movie moment for me. Top three if I'm being honest, though picking any of those as better than the others isn't possible for me.

It was fucking magic

Labels are not currently 100% fixed, there's still some blurry edges around the newer terms, and older ones are shifting. Sometimes they shift faster than a given person can track.

With that disclaimer, it's possible that would fall under the bi or pan sexual labels. Depending on who you ask, that can be and/or instead of just or.

Bi covers it well, because it's an attraction to both men and women, and doesn't specify how they present.

You could fall into the omnisexual rather than pan or bi, as omni is generally considered to be for people that do care about gender, but without a specific preference; while pan generally indicates a lack of concern about gender at all.

However, there is also gynosexuality. Thing is it gets used in two different ways, only one of which fits your description. One usage is really close; an attraction to people that present as feminine. But, the other usage is that you're attracted to women, which includes anyone that identifies as a woman, but wouldn't include those that identify as men, while expressing traditionally feminine presentation. So there's a degree of conflict there, making it difficult to express one's sexuality with that label in discussions about attraction.

Not that picking a label really defines you or limits you. They're essentially just there to make matchmaking easier, and for general discussion.

Close enough for the casual kind of community this tends to be, imo

Sorry, but I had to down vote this as a popular opinion.

While the enjoyment of less enunciated and clear vocals has expanded over the years, wanting clear, easy to understand vocals is the norm.

Now, I happen to dislike what gets called "cursive" singing, particularly when it comes along with unnecessarily exaggerated vowels and outright wrong vowel sounds, so I feel you on how annoying it is with the current trend of it. It has, as you noted, had previous spurts of popularity, and even the jazz era version grates on me.

What's crazy is that I listen to a good amount of death and other metal that's often less intelligible, to an unfamiliar ear, but once you get past the unfamiliarity it's less annoying than the "cursive" singing. It's better enunciated most of the time because it has to be, or you can't produce the growls and screams at all.

So, yeah. I share your peeve about it, but it's actually a pretty common opinion to share, overall.

I have managed to restrain myself from doing that, but I always regret it

Much like voracious readers that consume words quickly, hobbits are smaller, with a higher metabolism than humans, lime many small mammals.

Their ravenous reputation is simply sizeism keeping the little people down. Hobbits without second breakfast suffer from malnourishment and eventual crashes as their blood glucose levels become dangerously low.

Being real though, saying that a dictator isn't effectively a monarch is sophistry.

Well, everyone on lemmy is just me talking to myself ;)

Any time this comes up, it's always cool how many people have shared a similar experience. It also always makes me wish there was research into how this kind of dream happens, that so many people have experienced it. The fact that so many people do seems to me that there's something about humans, as a species, that makes it possible, beyond just the ability/need to dream in general.

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I hereby volunteer to slide inside of anyone in need of an inner old man. I swear I will only urge you to the best foods, and plushest seating available.

How would you get rid of them?

All the constitutional monarchies started as just monarchies. Every step between those days and what's around now have been gradual, and usually very stable.

If you want to completely sever royals from government, it isn't as simple as snapping fingers. Some of them, you'd have to unmake the constitution and rebuild it from the ground up. And that isn't something that everyone in those countries wants, so you'd have to get people on board and willing to deal with the transition instability.

Undoing all the baby steps from "King Bob, first of his name, absolute ruler" to "king Fred, he's kind of a figurehead, but kinda has a minor role too" is, in the cases I'm aware of, a damn hard one to unwind. Each movement comes along with other laws and decisions that would have to be untangled to sever the ties.

Not an impossible task, but a long, difficult, and expensive one. Yeah, you get enough people on board, throw a revolution, and you bypass all that, but then you've got to rebuild anyway, which means you'll be building the new government in baby steps with compromises and concessions and political expediency. With no guarantee of something better at all. It could end up better, but it could end up with a nation in collapse.

Again, if enough people want it, and accept that risk, it could happen.

But most people want stability. Very little gives the sensation of stability like hundreds of years of the same family being in place. Sure, you get assholes and idiots among them, but you have the constitution and the actual government to keep it in check. Another fifty years down the road, it changes faces and life goes on.

Well, on my end, idgaf. As long as Google's dick is in the pie, I ain't fucking with it. It's bad enough they're into everything already, I have no interest in adding to it by being limited to their one app that allows rcs.

Nah, he's always gone beyond weird. Even back before the band got famous, he was a major asshole to people and abusive. If you can find people that were in the scene back then, it wasn't even secret; some of the early fans were proud if he did something shitty to them.

Yup. It's very easy indeed.

Pirate the fuck out of their stuff, enjoy, repeat.

Edit: the exception is when the the fuckery is in the music/art.

If all else fails, chicken diapers exist. More work day to day, but less messy

I remember a bunch over the years that I can still close my eyes and replay, so this is a harder question than it may seem on the surface.

The actual most unforgettable is a recurring nightmare that I'm not willing to talk about because fuck that.

But number two was a doozie. Heh.

Back in high school, I had one of those bonkers dreams that fucked me up bad for a while.

In the dream, I met a girl, fell in love, had kids and grandkids, grew old together. And I'm not talking about just those events and nothing else. There were entire days taking place, from waking up to going to bed in the dream. Entire birthday parties, vacations together, sitting on swings and swinging while holding hands and watching the kids play.

I lived an entire fucking life in a dream.

And I woke up from that still a fucking kid. And I immediately started crying because my family were gone, my dream family. I lost them just as sure as if they'd died. It was both beautiful and horrifying.

It fucked me up. Not that I wasn't already pretty damn fucked up, what with PTSD already kicking my ass at that age. But that dream was brutal. Well, waking up from it was, the dream itself was amazing.

I've told the story of this many times online because retelling it tends to take the sting out of it a little more each time.

Not that I haven't had a great deal of joy in real life, I have. And I'm happier with my wife and kid now than I ever was in the dream, plus it's real. But that dream has sometimes made it difficult to be fully present in a relationship in the past. It was one of those things where knowing that the person I was with wasn't the right one made it easier to end things before they went bad. But the fact that I would have to constantly compare reality to the dream meant that I could never be certain how much was a genuine incompatibility and how much was holding reality up to the lens of a dream.

But the older I got, the less that factored into things. Now, it's more of a pleasant memory than a bad one. The dream has lost its sting from being only a dream, and reality is better in terms of having a fulfilling and real partner.

I swear, people posting about me all over the place!

Also, I would legit do that if I had chicks.

Luckily, she did okay with pad training. She isn't perfect, but she makes sure her feet are on a pad before letting go. Since she's only inside in the evening and night, she's not running around as much as she does during the day, so we can make sure there's a pad available no matter where she is with us.

It took about two months to get to that point though, and I suspect if she had been much older when we got her, it wouldn't have worked out. It helps that she's fairly prissy as well; even outside, she won't poop near her food and water, which I've never seen a chicken care about. She also won't poop in her nesting box (not that she's in there long, she's never gone broody at all).

I'm convinced chickens dream. They exhibit the same kind of involuntary twitches and wing flaps that are too akin to a dog running in its sleep to not see them as the same thing.

But chickens are also light sleepers. They'll bump each other and do little trills and whistles to each other. So I'm not sure what exactly she was doing; dreaming or just reacting to tiny movements I was making while breathing.

Ngl, I'd definitely cut off clothing rather than disturb her in her sleep lol. I'm getting a reputation for being the crazy chicken guy because I talk about them so often, but I love these damn birds.

I keep wanting to record our pet hen doing her dream movements and sounds, but there's not enough light in her indoor "coop", so it ends up just being sounds. It's freaking adorable though. She'll take little naps on the arm of the couch, and do it there sometimes, but she gets woken up too easy to get a good recording of it.

Oh, and I think if you edit your title to remove the censored letters, you might get a better reaction to the post.