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Canada (pt.1) →
“Also ‘Fuck Fury’? Awkward! Could you imagine the morning-after conversation? Do you think he sleeps in his eye-patch, because I reckon I would totally be okay-“
“Just get your ass up here, Wade.”
okay shauna and jo we need to come up with a zombie survival plan
I’m just glad we live in a Southern state where ammunition is plentiful okay?
And then like we have to figure out if these are the decaying kind of zombies or the rage monster kind of zombies. Because I feel pretty good about survival if they’re the decaying kind since you just need to wait until their legs fall off.
And I feel like I can outrun/outsmart the decaying kind.
But the fast moving rage-y kind that want vengeance for turning into zombies? I’m just drinking a bunch of diet coke and downing a tube of Mentos.
So lets hope that it’s the Incredibly Unlikely Decaying Kind and we just run them over with a Hummer.
Actually, cars would be really bad to travel in during the apocalypse (any kind) because if there’s a catatstrophic apocalyptic even that kills a significant number of the population, the entire electrical grid would be knocked out in 24 hours (5 days if we’re lucky and workers do some fancy override stuff so it goes on autopilot for a while). No power = no power to start the fuel pumps at a gas station.
So wherever we hold up has to be within the range of a fuel tank.
(Which, going by this information, the four characters in Zombieland aren’t the last people left. There has to be workers in all of the electrical plants on the west coast US.)
This is why we need to get a hold of some bikes. The movies always forget about bikes.
AND YOU BIKE PEOPLE FORGET ABOUT PEOPLE LIKE ME WHO AREN’T VERY STRONG AND CAN’T PEDAL VERY FAST.
lessons learned from the stand: in the event of the zombie apocalypse, a) learn to siphon gas from other cars/lawnmowers/the tanks of gas you’ll find sometimes in the yards of garages of people who have lawnmowers and b) teach yourself to ride a motorcycle, which’ll go longer on less fuel.
…it’s possible i think about this more than i should
My plan when I lived up north was to head to the near-by horse farm and liberate some horses for my travel needs. I knew how to ride and they don’t run out of gas like motor vehicles do. And worse comes to worse you can always eat them.
Cyp fails at Tumblr
>:D Also, I have learned how to scroll.SINCE WHEN ARE YOU ON TUMBLR
AND FOLLOWING ME
GDI CYP /follows
LOLOLOLOL I’ve been on tumblr for idk like a year or so? I can’t be arsed to figure out most of the culture so I don’t post much.
My 11-year-old cousin Cole saw the Avengers. He’s a total bro and he loves superheroes (I think his favorite is Spiderman).
Anyway
He said his favorite part of the movie is when Coulson shoots Loki with the big gun thing
I got a little choked up but asked him why
He said “because he wasn’t a superhero but he was still a superhero”
Meet Sisi. She was bred in Toyohashi (Japan) and measures 42 cm - tail excluded!
Hope this is a motivation for people to get their goldfish out of that bowl.
Okay, now that I finally have a spare moment, I can do a rec post of The Middleman and all of my ~feelings~ for it.
(I apologize in advance for any typos, because I am typing with two less fingers because of a - non-serious - X-acto knife injury.)
The Middleman shares its premise with a lot of other shows such as Torchwood, Fringe and Warehouse 13: a (secret-ish) organization keeping humanity safe and hopefully blissfully ignorant of supernatural terrors. I would say that The Middleman - with only 12 episodes of a preemptively cancelled single season - blows them all out of the water, and is now among my Top 5 favorite television shows ever.
The basic plot is: The “Middleman” is an individual who keeps the world safe from a myriad of esoteric threats - like zombie piranhas, cursed tuba players and alien dictators masquerading as a boy band. He or she works for an organization so secret that even he/she doesn’t know what is it. Their motto is “fighting evil so you don’t have to.” Like James Bond, the “Middleman” is a title handed down from predecessor to replacement. (For all the vagueness around the organization, the show has a lot of well-developed mythology around it.)
What makes it so awesome? It’s hilarious and clever and totally made for nerds: references are made to everything from Ghostbusters to the punk band The Zombies, while at the same time not making it super-obvious that there are references. If you don’t get them, it’s still totally enjoyable, but getting the references is like the cherry on top of a sundae. And, even though it has completely ridiculous monster/villain-of-the-week plots, it has what I think a lot of other similar shows miss: HEART.
The core of the show is the interactions between the characters (who I will get to in a moment), and the development of those relationships. All of the wackiness and fighting aliens is really peripheral to that (but still totally awesome and enjoyable). What this helps do is, for all of the craziness that goes on, the show stays remarkably grounded, and you end up caring about the characters more than you probably originally thought you would. (And you end up loving EVERYONE by the end of it, and then the show PUNCHES YOU IN THE HEART.)
So! The characters! First up is Wendy “Dubbie” Watson, a Hispanic art school grad and big-time geek who gets recruited by the Middleman after keeping cool when a lab experiment at a temp job goes horribly wrong. Even though the show is called The Middleman, it’s really all Wendy’s story: her growth, her realizing what she wants out of life, her figuring out what makes her happy and how to get that. So, yes. Wacky sci-fi/comic show where the central protagonist is a geeky woman of color and pretty much all of the story serves to develop her character? YES. I can not stress how amazing Wendy is. She isn’t a “strong female character” in the traditional, problematic sense of “strong female character.” She has flaws: she can be inconsiderate, impatient, not willing to tell people what she thinks when she should. But all of these things serve her character development, and throughout the show you can actually see her working out these issues to become a better person and to make a happy, fulfilling life for herself. I think her portrayal on the show is much more realistic than 99% of other shows that feature a 20-something female protagonist, zombie fish notwithstanding.
Next up is her new employer-turned-mentor, the Middleman, a clean-cut, unnamed ex-Navy Seal who never swears, drinks four wholesome glasses of milk each day, is very awkward around women (except for Wendy), and could basically be best buds with Steve Rogers. He immediately sees potential in Wendy and takes her on, training her to be the next Middleman (or “Middlewoman”). He is completely dedicated to his job and serves as an excellent straight man to Wendy’s snark, occasional bewilderment and genre-saviness (though she never becomes cynical). It’s hilarious seeing him react to Wendy dealing with her real life problems like issues with her room mate or boyfriend troubles; he’s been cut off from “normal” life for so long, yet still retains a lot of wisdom and helps out Wendy a lot. They have one of the best mentor-student relationships I’ve seen in fiction. And he’s SO SUPPORTIVE of her - after a few early eps of not being 100% sure of her capabilities for the job (but, again, this is more of Wendy’s character development than anything) - and he’s so proud of her and ugh my heart forever.
Rounding out the main characters is Lacie, Wendy’s room mate and best friend, a fellow artist. Even though Wendy is training under the Middleman and they have an awesome relationship, the central relationship on the show is really between Wendy and Lacie. They are each others’ rocks: even though things don’t always go smoothly between them (such as Lacie initially having trouble accepting Wendy’s new high-demand job), they try hard to work out their problems and know that they are the most important people in the world to each other. AND EVERYBODY ELSE ON THE SHOW ACKNOWLEDGES THIS FACT. Even after Wendy gets a boyfriend, Lacie is still the central person in her life. Lacie also later on gets an extremely adorable crush on the Middleman (who she’s calls “Sexy Bossman” and “Pillow Lips” in lieu of not knowing his real name) that also PUNCHES YOU IN THE HEART.
Other amazing characters: Ida, the Middleman’s snarky android secretary; Tyler, Wendy’s awesomely supportive and equally geeky boyfriend; Noser, a struggling musician who lives in Wendy’s building and is JUST AWESOME; and Manservant Neville, who is of course played by Mark Sheppard, because Mark Sheppard is legally entitled to a role in every single sci-fi/fantasy show per the Mark Sheppard Permanent Employment Act of 2009. Also, there is a fashion company that serves as a halfway house for reformed succubi and and it basically the best thing ever. EVERYONE ON THE SHOW IS AWESOME even the villains-of-the-week you end up loving.
So, check it out! It’s only 12 episodes (the actors apparently did a script-reading at Comicon of the unmade 13th episode, which I need to track down), and the box-set is cheap (or you can find a torrent). It is completely charming and I had the biggest smile on my face when I finished it- though, of course, now I want MORE and am shaking my fist at ABC Family for cancelling this gem.
This is such an excellent rec post! Guys, I vote we all use this to rec The Middleman to everyone now—it’s super informative and gives a really good overview of the show, at least in my opinion.
I love this show so very hard.
And if you want some adorableness of Steve Rogers showing up at Art Crawl, read Captain America’s Art Crawl Adventure .
