Some fanart for an absolutely wonderful MMFR fanfiction: Midwife Rising by ImRobin, featuring a Wretched midwife clawing her way up through the ranks of the Citadel in the aftermath of the Fury Road and everybody’s favorite trash lizard.
i am a serious fan who makes serious gifs of serious source material
I don’t understand how I can not ship it and still want them to kiss here. I blame Nicholas Hoult. I’ve noticed he’s often photographed looking at people, male and female, like he’s about to kiss them or he’s thinking about kissing them.
Also, I just realized that Nux not taking his eyes off Slit for a millisecond like that may mean that Slit has a history of fighting dirty and attacking people when their backs are returned or they thought a fight was over.
Josh “Slit” Helman did a brief AMA today. He offers a few Fury Road insights, like that his wallowing on the Interceptor hood was improvised and that he loves George, who is a “teddy bear,” but almost all of his replies are pretty comical, Max-related or otherwise.
Well I am glad I stayed up til half one AGAIN to see this cross my dash. Slit, u asshole :D
Colleague: You really should wear more colors–like cute, bright colors. You’d look really cute. And maybe even a skirt. That’s it! I challenge you to wear a skirt!
Me: … Witness me spitting a mouthful of I Don’t Care into this engine and riding out.
Yo fandom, talk to me about Slit and Nux now. Not Sux, I mean, just what’s going on in the film. Because I can’t figure Slit out.
What are Slit’s priorities? What does he even care about?
-he takes Nux’s wheel. Dick move?
-did you even see the look on his face? He’s determined. He walks past Nux twice. DICK MOVE but perhaps also something more.
-ah, but I guess he thinks Nux is dead meat. Like he could sit there and pretend like he can do something but what’s the point? No feels among warboys.
-he looks pretty happy that Nux turns out to have fight left. He had to be convinced, but he gives up the wheel and now he’s pumped that they’re going together.
-Ergo, he cares more about his driver than about his ride.
Or maybe he would have preferred that all along because it works better that way. Is it that if the car hadn’t gone, Slit wouldn’t have had a vehicle to ride to battle at all? Probably not true since he was on the Interceptor soon after. But maybe that car’s lancer got killed so stroke of luck for Slit.
Who would have taken Nux’s car if neither Slit nor Nux had grabbed the wheel?
Further:
– “Mediocre, Morsov!” Can you be more of an asshole, Slit? Do you even believe in this cult or are you just out there to have fun? You did a pretty respectful V8 at the altar and at Joe just then, so maybe you’re just a dick to your fellow warboys because you need to feel superior. Like that’s your idea of a ‘joke’, maybe? Disrespecting a witnessing?
-Also what exactly is the idea with ‘Decapito’? What’s the point here, Slit? Destroying a perfectly good bloodbag?
Moving on:
-Slit is still alive after the storm, but Nux doesn’t even stop to say hi. Dick move?
– “I got his boot, take me!” No wonder he’s jealous now. But he sounds so pathetic. By now the film consistently tells us ‘dislike this guy, he is rude and annoying’.
Finally:
-Slit on the Interceptor. “You filth, you traitored him”. Seems emotional enough for when you’ve just seen your war buddy defect.
-Except he doesn’t seem to be particularly hurt? This is not personal at all for Slit?
-Huh?
-He’s just trying to show off like some creep and he’s very happy to see Nux fail.
-He is HAVING FUN. I know that’s the warboy style but we’ve been set up to see warboys as people and to notice a tight partnership between Slit and Nux, so where’s the resolution?
-So…religious fanaticism (traitors don’t deserve a second’s thought), drugs, or Slit u asshole?
-Someone pointed out that he doesn’t ask for a witness, doesn’t spray chrome, he just gets in between the two trucks. He tries to take out Max like THAT is personal. Coincidence? Misreading of Slit’s facial expression? Which is really not at all like what Morsov or Nux looked like when they were getting ready to die?
-Was that necessary, really? Was that a proper kamicrazy death or was that a waste of resources?
-Or a miscalculation?
-Slit u asshole?
-Slit is this your way of being pissed off at Nux?
-Slit are you putting extra crazy in the kamicrazy?
-Actually I am starting to get huffy about this bit because it would have been much prettier for an arc if Nux had been climbing out of the engine just then. He emerges seconds later to give Max a boost.
(or possibly all of these are just editing choices that served the main storyline better but create unfortunate assumptions about how the boys behaved. For those inclined to give a damn. Ahem.)
Obligatory gif:
It boggles my mind that there is SO MUCH MOVIE that Slit (Slit!) has room to be this complex and interesting.
Please tell me what you think about the moment in the gif above.
so nobody talks about how when Morsov jumps, every warboy in the vicinity loses their fucking shit
so i concluded from this scene that when a warboy dies the one who witnessed him has to shout “WITNESSED” and its kind of like a “AAYYYYYY YOU DONE GOOD YOU FUCKING ASSHOLE” and i mean of course you have to point at him bc you’re letting everyone know that this fucker over here is exploding himself to walhalla like fuckin’ A man i saw that shit you sure as hell gonna know i witnessed that shit firsthand goddamn it
slit laughing is basically just him saying “HA HA HA” loudly
my response to this post was basically just me laughing and saying “WTF” at the same time
when he really gets going his over-enunciated hahaha’s trail off into the kind of laughter where his voice hitches and then goes up an octave and amplifies by double
Next time you’re sad, picture Josh practicing that in the mirror and then ending up actually laughing until he starts crying
modern AU where Nux is a college student with a pet lizard named Slit
It’s literally a lizard that he keeps in a terrarium and a heat lamp and its name is Slit
I saw Fury Road again today. This was in a better theater in 3D; I figured I should give that a try even though I’m a curmudgeon who usually avoids it.
It was so worth it. :-)
Besides the visuals, I was able to hear things I hadn’t heard the first two times. Like this: After the lancer on the war rig’s fuel pod chromes himself and shouts “witness me!” before leaping onto the Buzzard vehicle, you hear a chorus of war boys shouting “witness!” in response to his sacrifice. But there’s also one shout of “mediocre!”
Which was hilarious, but so perfect. Because in the hyper-masculine war boy culture, there’s always going to be That One Guy.
