So my friends asked me to put my heart-of-LAX-country Maryland upbringing to good use and translate Chad L’s dialogue from OMGCP 4.6.
Here’s the original dialogue: “Five on the beef. Brush the fuckin’ NARP goss and nip ched all season, bro. Ripped.”
Here’s my rough translation: “Pause the feud for a sec. Don’t listen to the non-athletic regular person gossip and continue getting the D all season [this could be referring to Bitty and Jack’s relationship or to SMH having a winning season], bro.”
And a more polished version: “Real talk, all beef aside. Screw the haters who think what you do is easy and frivolous and keeping winning on the ice and sleeping with your hot bf, bro. You are/it is awesome/badass.”
Some notes:
NARP: Non-athletic regular person
Nip Ched: I think this can have two meanings. Someone who ‘nips ched’ can be someone who slays or dominates on the field (or ice, in this case), but I think it can also refer to someone who sleeps with or dates hot girls. If someone does both, it’s the epitome of LAX cool. Well, they probably need to have flow and lettuce, too, but still.
Basically, Chad L is expressing mad respect for Bitty using what’s usually no-homo bro code. And I think that’s beautiful.
Thanks to all the LAX players who tried to cheat off my tests in middle and high school, and to my brother, a varsity LAX goalie. Little did I know that his speeches about “Broseidon, King of the Brocean” would come in handy one day. Love you, kid.
“There’s people who think it’s very similar to the Black Widow story,” Lawrence told Screen Rant. “This is not pulled from BW, this is pulled from Red Sparrow. You know, it’s just like written by a guy who was in the CIA. It’s like, his references are coming from a very very different place from that. But there’ll always be that. People like to put things in boxes, and I think is a really unique film. This is a thriller, it’s not action, again it’s not gadgety. It’s a hard-R. There’s violence, it’s a bit perverse, it’s suspenseful, a lot of intrigue. It’s a very different kind of spy film.”
“it’s just like written by a guy who was in the CIA. (…) his references are coming from a very very different place from that
” bc russia didn’t have trained spies??? same shit different country
This is a thriller, it’s not action
so is bw in the comics and even in the movies there’s little ~blockbuster action~ she’s a part of bc her character just doesn’t lend itself to that since she can’t blow anyone up bc she has no superpowers
it’s not gadgety
neither is………… bw……………… she uses guns or batons which is just a damn stick……… and sometimes her gauntlets which aren’t even as gadgety in the comics anyway like whedon made in aou with the damn light up stuff that nobody liked
It’s a hard-R
yes bc a young woman brainwashed and abused into working for a government isn’t a ~hard-r~ just bc disney won’t let any sex in their movies
There’s violence
welcome to comic books
it’s a bit perverse
“Killing people is easy. Making them suffer is an art.” - natasha romanoff
it’s suspenseful, a lot of intrigue
so is every spy story ever including bw?
Okay has anyone actually read the book this is based on? Because the book is… kind of bad. It’s equal parts Putin fanfiction, f/f sex scenes written for straight dudes, and some weird almost-feminist (if you squint) ending.
I could write a whole essay on this book, but suffice it to say that there were many, many vivd descriptions of Putin’s glistening muscles and gleaming eyes. There’s a scene where he intimidates a spy chief by summoning him to his personal gym where he lifts, threatens and stares at him.
Am I the only one that’s a just a tiny bit pissed off that this is still an issue?
The Original Series wasn’t even in the general VICINITY of fucking around yo
How many shows these days would do this, and do it this way? These days, it would be all, “Ohh, we have to be sensitive and show the nuances of each side” and try not to make either side seem wrong. It wouldn’t be clearly spelled out, “pro-choice is right, if you’re against it you’re the bad guys.”
Jim Kirk is not here for your anti-birth-control, anti-choice, pro-death-penalty BS
James Tiberius Kirk was written and portrayed as a feminist and I will fight anyone who says otherwise.
Yep. That episode is exactly what you think it is: pro-birth control, pro-population control, pro-choice, and pro-women’s right to choose. And yes, Kirk, the supposed playboy of the spaceways, is in favor of all of the above.
It was written and aired in 1969.
It probably couldn’t air today.
THINK ABOUT THAT.
Also LMAO at all the sad whiny geek boys who are like “I miss the GOOD OLD DAYS of SCI-FI when it wasn’t all about SOCIAL ISSUES and instead it was just about MEN HAVING FUN IN SPACE. Like Star Trek! Star Trek wouldn’t put up with all this SOCIAL JUSTICE FEMINISM IN SCI FI bullshit!” And meanwhile I’m just over here like “…did you actually watch the show?”
It’s also important to bear in mind that the Original Series had a predominantly female fanbase, and during its initial run, was widely mocked and dismissed by mainstream (i.e., male) science fiction fans as being fake sci-fi for girls. It’s difficult to overstate the influence women had on the franchise in its early days; most of the early Star Trek conventions were organised by and for women, and indeed, those same organisers were primarily responsible for the massive letter-writing campaign that prevented the show from being cancelled after the 1968 season. Without that campaign, the episode pictured in this post would never have been made.
The popular image of James Kirk as a sleazy womaniser is part of a conscious effort to erase that history and render the franchise’s roots palatable to the misogynistic geekboys of the modern SF/F fandom.
And a gentle reminder that TOS was a Desilu production, which its board of directors voted to cancel after the second pilot due to cost concerns, a vote that Chairman Lucille Ball overruled. There is no Star Trek without Lucille Ball.