Cupid Bow Mouth

Picked up via runpunkrun.

The Military Industrial Complex as commodified spectacle. Hey Ho is dark despite the pastel colors and the mellow brightness of the melody. It is, in fact, dark because of them. The juxtaposition of the lyrics with the melody overlaid with the film images encourage an uneasy awareness of how war is bought and sold in a perpetual cycle of generational brain washing. Images of heroism (and superheroism) are traded for currency and for bodies: kids who grow up wanting to be like The Avengers and who in the process are acting in service to warmongers and merchants who are most interested in the profitability of war.

The refrain is a killer, and the editing highlights its theme with chilling grace. Cap elided with Bruce gave me goosebumps.

Title: Hey Ho
Creator: thuvia ptarth
Fandom: MCU/Avengers
Summary: Sound out the trumpet noise

hey ho, so it goes, the point of sale, the puppet show
the merchant kings of war and woe have turned their hands to labor

Guys. Seriously.

Starships. Can it be more awesome?

Here is a proper rec:


Stay Awake by Laura Shapiro is a haunting, evocative contemplation of the pregnancy trope in sci-fi TV that considers the appropriation of female bodies and the act of "reproductive terrorism" (Shapiro). Suzanne Vega's spare acapella version of Stay Awake from Mary Poppins laid against clips from popular sci-fi TV creates a restrained and chilling commentary on the way this cliche enacts violence against the most traditional location of female identity. Our heroines are reduced to their most fundamental and gendered function, and attacked. Regardless of how bad ass they may be.

Author: laurashapiro
Vid: Stay Awake
Fandom: Multi

I find this rather charming. The back and forth, the intense glares. Oh, love.