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Celegorm

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guy unable to get boat. 4627 dead 8364 injured

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Vader trying to kill Luke in the Death Star trench: i’ve never met you in my life. you bastard. you fiend. stop this at once

Vader all through Empire Strikes Back: Where Is My Allegiance From Luke??? Where Is My Loyalty And Filial Trust That I Crave So Dearly. You Are A Cruel And Unjust Child And I Am Going To Scream

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guards! read me my bedtime yaoi

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i love the interpretations of jaster mereel. hes a nerd. hes a jock. he has elaborate plans to break into the jedi archives but theres an evil witch who lives there and she has the spell gun. he wrote the supercommando codex which has evolved from "how to be a hired mercenary without being a raging dickhead" to the very base standards of mando society. he has a man with a hate boner for him and you will see his scathing peer review personally and preferably full of holes. he has a pacifist sect trying to blow him up with their minds. he has his best friend trying to actually blow him up but keeps looney tooning his way into failure every time. hes the most aesexual whore to ever whore. he keeps bringing home ankle biters. he was a cop who killed another cop because that cop was crooked and well if no one else was going to fix it then he will permanently. he probably has a doctorate for every past mand'alor regime. hes eaten things that werent meant to be eaten because he read it in a book once. he probably has an entire library of random trivia in his brain and will tell you one without prompt. hes adhd. hes the epitome of that meme with the dog gazing worryingly at a mini pineapple. hes been banned from 14 sectors because he knew law loopholes before they could even loop. his enemies want him both carnally and dead. his friends want him to stop hiding in the rafters at night reading in the dark so all they see is the light reflecting off his eyes like a cat when they pan their flashlights up and scaring the newbies. he would be classified as a cryptid if he wasnt on the mandalore sectors most eligible bachelor list. he probably has cake under that armor.

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Fëanor

I live

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"Percy didn't think much of fates and prophecies, but he did believe in one thing: Annabeth and he were supposed to be together."

smoustart on insta

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I really wish we could get a scene where Percy reaches his breaking point and uses all his abilities at once. I want to see a proper earthquake. I want to see what he can do with his control over storms. Like, I want to see him move mountains - literally move mountains - to take care of business. Maybe the world is about to end. Maybe Annabeth is in danger. Maybe Estelle is in danger. Maybe his own children are in danger. There are several things that could make him so angry and scared that his limits shatter.

Children of Poseidon, even demigods, are often referred to as monsters. Because like the sea, they are brutal and merciless. And Poseidon has implied that Percy has surpassed every hero he’s ever seen, even hercules, when it comes to his capabilities and determination. Leo and Hazel have said you can physically feel and see his power, even if he’s not doing anything. I want to see Percy really tap into the godly part of him. I want him to send his enemies running for their mommies. And I want to read it from someone else’s point of view. Someone who can describe what it really looks and feels like.

Becasue imagine the most frightening, intimidating man you’ve even seen - his wolffish glare, embodied by his sharp features, frightening enough to paralyze you in fear - flying straight towards you on an angry black pegasus. Hundreds of other angry pegasi fan out on either side of him, looking like something out of a mythical nightmare. Then a dark, gigantic wave spanning several miles, taller than mountains, rises behind him. It’s towering over the valleys and hills, casting a shadow over the land, and coming right towards you, ready to demolish and drown every semblance of your existence. Then all of a sudden the entire sky is dark and the air is cold, and the storm hits you with unforgiving force. The brutal winds and sharp cold rain is so strong that you can barely stand. The booming cracks of thunder make your ears ring, and the blinding bolts of lightning light up the sky like electricity is at war with itself. And now… now the entire earth is shaking. The ground is rumbling beneath you so violently that every part of your body is painfully trembling, your teeth chattering and eyes bouncing. The earth around you is splitting into wide chasms, boulders tumbling and tress falling. Oh also a fucking volcano just blew up. It’s suddenly hard to breath as rock and dirt rain down on you, and you’re about to be burned and buried by miles worth of molten ash. Pompeii part 2, brought to you by Perseus Jackson.

Only this is 10x worse, because every natural element is out for your complete and utter destruction.

Because Percy controls all of that. And if he hits his breaking point, there’s no telling what he could do if he set his mind to it.

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The Blue Velvet Gown by Linda Friesen

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Things Percy Jackson remembers in Son of Neptune:

Annabeth exists

I met Annabeth at a camp

Annabeth and I kiss sometimes

Fuck Ares

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also before we accuse Tolkien of being morally simplistic and overly black and white in his storytelling, maybe consider that a truly just war - a war where all the fighting and the loss meant something, where the victors won and it could be uncomplicatedly celebrated and the state of the world was actively improved, was… how do I put this?

something of an escapist fantasy for a guy who watched his friends die in the Great War and who survived the Somme aka “Pointless Bullshit: This Time With Chemical Weapons”??

JRR Tolkien was not a perfect man and I don’t want anyone to think I’m arguing that, but this basic criticism of his works annoys me to no end because 1. they do know he wasn’t trying to apply real-world moral complexity to his stories for a reason, right? and 2. despite this, he was DEEPLY uncomfortable with portraying the orcs as a faceless mass of sadistic bad things with no redeeming qualities

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the movie really undersells the fact that frodo spent half a year planning to make his departure from the shire as inconspicuous as possible and merry and pippin and sam saw him doing that, figured out he was leaving the shire and that it had something to do with bilbo’s ring, and then spent nearly as long preparing to go with him. icons

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The Silmarils and the swan-ships

When Fëanor refuses to relinquish the Silmarils to Yavanna, he says, ‘This thing I will not do of free will. But if the Valar will constrain me, then shall I know indeed that Melkor is of their kindred.’ Part of the irony is that neither Fëanor nor the Valar know that the Silmarils have already been stolen by Melkor—but even worse, Fëanor later does to the Teleri exactly what he feared the Valar would do to him: take his most prized possessions from him by force and destroy them. Fëanor says of the Silmarils, ‘never again shall I make their like,��� and Olwë says of the swan-ships, ‘these are to us as are the gems of the Noldor: the work of our hearts, whose like we shall not make again.’ Fëanor stole, and destroyed, their equivalent of the Silmarils!

Breaking the Silmarils would have at least achieved something good—rekindling the Two Trees before it was too late—which makes it significant that, despite the urgency of saving the Trees, the Valar did not intend to take the Silmarils by force. Whereas Fëanor did take the ships by force, after Olwë refused to lend them to him, and the Noldor killed many of the Teleri in the process. Finally, burning the ships was an act of cruel and wanton destruction.

And so Fëanor is as much a villain to the Teleri as Morgoth is to the Noldor. The slaughter of the Teleri in the First Kinslaying parallels the murders that Melkor committed during the Darkening of Valinor, as the theft of the ships parallels the theft of the Silmarils. Fëanor of course hated Morgoth; he gave him the very name. But Fëanor not only believed Morgoth’s lies, and repeated those lies, his actions also ended up echoing those of his enemy.

When Melkor killed the Two Trees, ‘their sap poured forth as it were their blood, and was spilled upon the ground.’ His slaying of Finwë ‘spilled the first blood in the Blessed Realm.’ Similar wording appears in the Doom of Mandos: ‘Ye have spilled the blood of your kindred unrighteously…’ and in the Lays of Beleriand: ‘the oath unbreakable; blood thereafter / it spilled like a sea…’

In addition, the word ‘rape’ is used to describe both the theft of the Silmarils and of the swan-ships, and it appears nowhere else in the Silmarillion but these two instances. When Fëanor gave his speech to the Noldor in Tirion, ‘he was distraught with grief for the slaying of his father, and with anguish for the rape of the Silmarils.’ In the War of Wrath few of the Teleri were willing to fight alongside the Noldor, ‘for they remembered the slaying at the Swan-haven, and the rape of their ships.’

I will never be over it! The tragic irony! The narrative symmetry of it all! The way Fëanor prized his own crafts above all else, but destroyed the priceless works of others. The way the murder of Finwë and the theft of the Silmarils led Fëanor to declare war on Morgoth, only to have him follow in Morgoth’s footsteps and commit the same acts of violence—not even against his enemy, but against the innocent. The way Fëanor and his sons, despite swearing the Oath in order to exact vengeance against Morgoth, end up becoming more like him.

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"Scrooge said that he would see him—yes, indeed he did. He went the whole length of the expression, and said that he would see him in that extremity first." - Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

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the Council plays bingo with the Jinn-Kenobi mission reports

they recycled the same cards for Kenobi-Skywalker reports, and later Skywalker-Tano debriefings