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Marvel Movies ranked by if there are trains in them

Iron Man- 0/10. No trains. 

The Incredible Hulk- 1/10. No trains, but a verbal reference to the subway.

Iron Man 2- -100/10. No trains, negative 100 points for a cameo by train-hater Elon Musk

Thor- 0/10. No trains in space :(

Captain America: The First Avenger- 7/10. Cool train heist scene, and monorails go by at the World’s Fair

The Avengers- 3/10. A freight train goes by at the beginning. Cap tells the police to get people into the subway, giving hope for more train content that goes unfulfilled. The only scene of Cap riding the subway was deleted.

Iron Man 3- 0/10. No trains.

Thor: The Dark World- 10/10 THOR RIDES THE TRAIN

Captain America: The Winter Soldier- 0/10. No trains.

Guardians of the Galaxy- 0/10. Still no trains in space :(

Avengers: Age of Ultron- 6/10. Okay action scene involving stopping a train. 

Ant-Man- 9/10. Fight scene involving Thomas the Tank Engine!!!!

Captain America: Civil War- 1/10. Cap and Sharon meet next to high-speed rail tracks but no trains go by. 

Doctor Strange- 6/10. Subways go flying by in the mirror dimension!

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2- 0/10. Still no trains in space :(

Spiderman: Homecoming- 10/10! Peter “Numtot” Parker rides on the train several times and also crashes a car for good measure

Thor: Ragnarok: 0/10. Someone better get some trains in space real soon 

Black Panther: 7/10. Cool Wakandan tram goes down the street, and the finale involves a vibranium train!

Avengers: Infinity War: 6/10. Cap emerges from behind a moving train!!

Ant-Man and the Wasp: 0/10. No trains.

Captain Marvel: 11/10 THERE ARE TRAINS IN SPACE!!! TRAINS IN SPACE!!! THERE ARE FINALLY TRAINS IN SPACE!!!! also she rides a train on earth too!!! Carol Danvers: queen of public transportation and my heart

Avengers: Endgame: 0/10. No trains.

Be careful with your honey, my friends! <3

“Being curious is better than being smart. Being motivated and curious counts for more than being smart because it leads to action. Being smart will never deliver results on its own because it doesn’t get you to act. It is desire, not intelligence, that prompts behavior.”

— James Clear, Atomic Habits

Anyone else constantly on edge because we are in the final stages of late capitalism and these next couple of decades are gonna be make or break for the western world, and this just happens to coincide with the part of my life where I’m supposed to make something of myself :/

when simone de beauvoir said “i’m reliving it, neutralizing it, and transforming it into an inoffensive past that i can keep in my heart without either disowning it or suffering from it. that’s not easy. it’s at once painful and poetic.”

People say, don’t give up on your dreams. But sometimes that’s unavoidable. Life throws you the equivalent of an Olympic sharpshooter losing their hands in a tragic beer pong accident every once in a while, and you can’t change that. And sometimes, you just find out your dreams weren’t all that good of an idea in the first place. My dream was always to work in academia and teach medieval literature, and even if everything had gone one hundred percent right for the last decade, I probably still wouldn’t be doing that right now. The job market is… tough in the humanities. It is tougher still if you are interested in something as deeply unfashionable as Old English. But even if that wasn’t the case–well, life comes at you with a sharp knife and it can peel your dreams away one by one, and leave a lot of raw flesh behind.

I am stubborn by nature. I don’t like to give up on the things I want. And just because your future isn’t shaped how you’d like it to be doesn’t mean you have to surrender it forever. What I am struggling to learn, to really internalize, is that there is a big, big difference between giving up on your dreams and giving up on your values. Just because you can’t be an astronaut doesn’t mean you can’t be an astronomer. Just because you can’t fight dragons doesn’t mean you can’t save lives. Identifying what values your aspirations fulfill, and figuring out other ways of achieving that fulfillment is really important.

I’m struggling a lot right now with understanding who I am and what I really want my life to look like. It feels a lot like failure. What I value hasn’t changed, though. I have not surrendered that, and I never will. Perhaps that just means that, when it comes, success will look a little different than I thought it would when I was younger.

when i was a teenager it felt very revolutionary to be cruel to myself. like some kind of slow passive protest against how much everything hurt. i starved myself of sleep and food and tenderness because it felt right. it felt sharp and angry and radical and i wanted to be those things. adulthood is the realisation that the world is already working to cut into you well before you learn how to do it yourself. caring for yourself and others is the real protest

No. 442

A new geometric design every day

Pen ink on a leaf 🍃 zooming through a puddle

The ink-mixed water behind the leaf has a lower surface tension than the water in front of it. While this gradient tries to equalize (Marangoni effect), the different adhesive forces around the leaf pull it along. (Source)

Mimas and Prometheus

Image Credit: NASA / JPL / Cassini-ISS / Justin Cowart