Aromantic Assassins

1) Ace's Dream:
What the fuck was going on here? There were only Pups, and no Wardens on the lift. But someone was walking out onto the lift. Someone in the flimsy cloth the breeders and the milkers wore. Something had changed.
Ace watched the lift coming down, praying to his mother’s God with half-remembered words.
He recognized the breeders on the lift before they got down too close, thank Immortan. It gave him time to call Axel to him.
“Get me something of Bolt’s,” he said.
“Ahead of ya, Ace,” Axel said, and handed him Bolt’s favorite salvage from the Mall. It was pretty shine, Ace had always thought, the little bit of cloth with pictures of green things on it.
“You not gonna keep it?” Ace asked. Axel was owed something of Bolt’s, too.
“I got my own things,” Axel said. “Ningura’s owed somthin’.”
“Yep,” Ace said, and got out of the car. “Dao Vu,” he called, “Ningura.” He stopped. What did one say to a couple of breeders standing on the lift?

2)Suddenly Sam/Steve:
Someone had screamed. That was the last thing Steve remembered clearly. Now, the world was full of frightened soldiers, his soldiers, and fallen enemies. He was growling, and he wasn’t sure he could stop. His Sentinel was hurt, he could feel the pain rattling through the air.
“Call medics,” he growled, or tried to. Bucky wasn’t there to translate for him, and he wasn’t sure he’d gotten the words all the way out. He couldn’t focus. Not with his Sentinel zoning out on the pain. Steve settled into a crouch beside his Sentinel. He swept his gaze around the area, searching for further threats.
“You got them all, man,” one of Steve’s soldiers said, “You take care of Sam, and we’ll keep watch.”

3)Something Leverage:
Hardison grumbles absently about how Eliot’s in the way, but he slings an arm around Eliot’s shoulders and mouses with his other hand. Eliot watches him move little bright shapes on the screen. He hasn’t seen this game before. He’s beginning to catch the rules when Parker brings out dinner. She runs her fingers through his hair and settles herself on his other side. Eliot sighs.
“Shall we kill them?” Parker asks, in that horribly everyday way she has. Hardison, normally a voice of reason, only hums noncommittally. Eliot thinks about it. About no-one living having to deal with those people again. About not having to be afraid of their next counterattack. About knowing that he’d killed them. And, God knows, he would be the one to kill them. He won’t let the others do it.
“Nah,” he says, almost - almost sounding normal. “Let’s just destroy everything they love.”

Mad Max Fury Road – fictional arm amputee “Imperator Furiosa” played by Charlize Theron [review] This article, written by an arm amputee, discusses the issues with the way Furiosa represents arm amputees. For those of you who don't have spoons to read it (it's pretty intense) I summarize and respond to what I considered crucial points.

1. Charlize Theron is not an amputee.
   
   
   
   • This is true.
     
   • This is a problem.
     
   • Disabled actors exist, and should be hired to play disabled characters.
     
   
   
2. The prosthetic Furiosa uses throughout the film is really poorly designed as an actual prosthetic. It's heavy, complicated, has lots of extra parts and shouldn't even work.
   
   
   
   • This is a problem.
     
   • This wouldn't have happened if they had hired an amputee to play Furiosa, or at least consult on design.
     
   • Accurately portraying prosthetics would probably make people who wear real prosthetics happy.
     
   
   
3. In the final scene when Max walks away, Furiosa's stump gets more and more obvious.
   The author of the article reads this as Max deciding that Furiosa is not an appropriate relationship partner because she is disabled.
   
   
   
   • This is a problem.
     
   • Given how deliberate the directing usually is in this movie, the fact that this reading is so easy means that the director either didn't think about how people with this disability would read this scene, or deliberately put in that interpretation.
     
   • I personally don't think that Max and Furiosa not staying together is a problem.
     
   • Still, the implication that Max left because Furiosa is disabled is really distressing.