this is an excellent time to talk about my home alone sequel idea
its 25 years later. a group of men track kevin down to an american-style suburban house deep in the jungles of cambodia. they stagger into his office, bruised and covered in feathers.
“you’re a hard man to find mccalister”
“not hard enough”
jump cut. a military officer is talking to a cia spook.
“you don’t understand. he’s the best. i saw him take apart a taliban kill team with nothing but the contents of a hardware store and a box of toy cars.”
cut to afgan desert. adult kevin in modern military gear presses a detonator. several cuts show a rube goldburg device launching paint cans into startled assassins via planks of wood.
cut back to dark office.
“he’s dangerous. unstable.” the spook says
intercut of a man trying to sneak up on maccalister when he steps on a rollar skate and falls down some stairs. there’s punji stakes at the bottom.
“that’s why he’s the best.”
lights cigar
cut back to officer talking to kevin
“your country needs you.”
“i needed my country, and it wasn’t there for me. why should i be there for her?”
cut to shady military black ops in the jungle, vietnam war style. kevin, in tiger strip special
forces camo, watches a helicopter take off and fly away. cut to inside.
the team, weary, sits in dejected silence, when one of them suddenly
bolts upright.
“MACCALISTER!”
cut back
“we need you for one last job. we’ve assembled an elite team.”
zoom on kevin’s face
“no. i work… alone.”
HOME ALONE 3
cut to man strapped to chair in dark room. kevin is in the background, fetching something. he circles around him, rubbing his hands together.
“you’re going to tell me what i want to know.”
“fuck you.” the man spits.
kevin claps his hands to either side of the man’s face. He screams.
COMING THIS CHRISTMAS
kevin watches a city burn. a man points a gun at the back of his head.
“no fancy traps to protect you here. what you got to say to that, maccalister?”
kevin whirls, disarms him, and kicks him off a balcony.
Stop reducing native issues to “they had their land taken”.
Our sisters are still murdered and missing.
Our children go hungry and cold.
Our elders can’t afford health care.
Our parents suffer from untreated mental illness and have addictions because they self medicate.
And thats not even on the reservations. Thats just in farming communities of the Lumbee. And we are doing well by comparison to other groups.
Stop reducing us to stolen land and erasing our real struggles.
Natives have the highest suicide rates. Natives have the most unsafe school conditions. 75% of sex trafficking victims in Canada are First Nations. Natives are the most likely to be shot by police according to some studies and just as likely to be shot as black brothers and sisters according to others. Half of the homes on reservations in the US are legally deemed “uninhabitable” despite families and children living in them. Non native people can still commit crimes against us and not even be tried under native law, usually meaning not at all. Reservations flood often, they are stricken with drought. Most urban native kids carry the weight of being the only native their classmates and other townspeople will ever know. There are no college classes for us or about us. We are struggling, y'all. We have had our land, languages, and family ripped from us, it’s more than just history, it’s 500+ years of ongoing genocide.
or literally uncountable other scenarios. the truth is, male pride today is so inflated and builds on so many lies that it would be laughable - hadn’t it been for the fact that these things affect women’s lives every day. these jokes mean that white women earn 78 cents to a white man’s dollar. they mean that women can be ridiculed even for the things they haven’t done. they mean that women, as a gender, are assigned less worth even in the fields where they succeed. they mean that women, as a gender, are devalued and disrespected in every aspect of their professional and private lives.
And this isn’t even taking things like bullying, barely-edible school lunches, peer pressure, etc. into account. School can be the worst kind of hell. It was my hell. Hell to me would be being stuck in high school for eternity.
WOW I RLLY WANNA START HIGH SCHOOL IN A FEW HOURS NOW
Whoops it's still one of my favorite quotes though tbh like especially if you think about it how many times does Tony legit refer to himself and Iron Man as one no matter what universe? Generally there's a disassociation. As if Tony Stark the man could never be as gallant and good as Iron Man as if he were to act like they were one he'd taint Iron Man. Even in that comic with Carol he says "Iron Man stops bad things" as if Tony isn't good enough to say he and Iron Man are one and the same
and honestly no matter what happens and despite any faults anyone can possibly concoct, extremis is still one of my fave modern arcs exactly because it summarizes that dissociation + tony’s desire to end it, and be iron man, a desire that's visceral enough to land him on a bed undergoing an experimental procedure that will biologically fuse him to the armor oh my god
the progression that goes from this
to this
and then finally this after the extremis procedure
just like, masterfully depicts everything about that conflict, the fucking gut-wrenching irony of the fact that tony’s single road to possible self-esteem so far has been to chain himself to the armor like the thing is intrinsically valuable in ways he he himself, the person, isn’t
oh my god the fucking ironies in this story
“i went from being a man trapped in an iron suit to being a man freed by it” he says a few issues before he literally fuses his body and consciousness to the suit
forget tony stark/other people dynamics for a moment tbh because tony stark/himself/his tech is like the most intensely dysfunctional threesome that has ever existed
concept: tony stark, at peace. his friends, co-workers, and acquaintances don’t constantly blame him for things that are out of his hands or question him at every turn, and instead support his decisions and give him a network that allow him to make healthier choices. the media doesn’t demonize or villainize him. he is allowed to be The Best He Can Be and feels like he is finally doing Enough.
