#'ONE YEAR AFTER I LEFT'

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Burning Rotten Bridges

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[dandelion-roots]

[ID: a series of drawings featuring Riz Gukgak from D20 Fantasy High. In the first, Pok holds Riz's shoulders in heaven as says, smiling, when you work until the dead of night, your friends know you do it because you love them. In the second, Riz is having a group hug with his party and the text reads, but is it really love that drives you, Riz Gukgak... In the next, a desperate, pleading Riz clutches the shoulder of an indifferent, faceless person and the text continues, ...or is it fear? In the fourth, Riz is younger and digging through crystals with bleeding hands; the text reads, what use are you when you can no longer dig. In the fifth, Kalina, shrouded in darkness with only her eyes glowing, reaches towards the camera with a smile; the text reads, when you're too scared to think. Sixth, Riz is filling out Fig and Kristen's papers under the light of a lamp, serious and tired; the text reads, when you're too tired to work. Seventh, Riz is lying in bed, eyes hidden behind hair, hand on his father's picture; the text reads, too sad to keep the mood up. Eighth, Baron stares into the camera; the text reads, too lonely, too insecure, too weird. Ninth, Baron is holding a defeated Riz by the throat; the text reads, to keep moving? Tenth, Riz is standing in the distance, holding his briefcase, and behind him is a football/soccer ball; the text reads, what use is a ball that can no longer roll? The last drawing just says none in brackets on a dark background. End ID]

[bruhstation]

*Breaks into your house to stare wistfully out the window* Do you ever think that CTHenry is, at least by some perceptions, a corpse being kept alive by gold dust and the whimsy of a goddess whose motives are unknown? I do. *Puffs on bubble pipe* Anyway. I'm still holding out hope for a happy ending for our Miserable Train Gays. Iram gentlemen. Have a good day 💗

out of sight, out of mind

[temeyes]

soap and his hair

[anmechokola]

I know it's been ten long long years, but the way Sabo mirrored both Ace and Luffy in Dressrosa still kills me, ok

(chapters 589 and 735)

The backshots, looking up at the sky, talking to a brother they think is dead, asking to be watched over, to be witnessed, to see them realizing the dream they all had

(chapters 159 and 794)

And then asking their little brother's crew to watch over him, to care for him in their absence, the only brother they have left. The precious younger brother that gave each of them a reason to keep living in the absence of the other, you know?

(chapters 589 and 794)

We all saw how Luffy saved Ace from being that sad, angry little boy who would have been even worse now that he had lost Sabo, the other sad angry little boy who knew him like no other. And then Sabo thanks Luffy for being alive and not leaving him alone in a world where he lost both his brothers before he even remembered them

[fatehbaz]

weekly navel-gazing update: this week is most consequential event in long time. keyword search: "scared" "is it ok to be scared" "beaten and tortured by the ogre"

[duckwnoeyes]

People who claim Willow and Xander are bad friends are half right, but they also ignore the crucial part of their characters, which is that they. do. not. leave. And it’s because they do not budge that there are no two better friends for Buffy ‘abandonment issues’ Summers.

I definitely want to talk about this more, but I just think it is so important that Buffy, who is terrified of everyone leaving her, is surrounded by two idiots who refuse to leave the horror movie even when they really really should.

Like yeah, Cordy, Oz and Giles objectively have Buffy’s back more often - but they all leave!!! Even if it is for a perfectly valid reason (Cordy and Oz), Willow and Xander would never dream of jumping ship. At their core they’re still the first people who see Buffy and decide, actually, she doesn’t have to be alone, and she won’t be alone. And that is so important!!!

They cling to Buffy like a limpet because they centre their identities around her. And like okay, unhealthy much, but Buffy was ridiculously lucky to find these two immediately, bc no sane person is staying for 7 years in constant life or death situations. Not even Giles. Who, btw, is getting paid.

It makes it kind of hilarious that Buffy is so scared of her friends leaving her that she didn’t consider that they wouldn’t let her leave. Codependency so strong not even dying gets her out of it.

[missescalientee]

The past JD ex's who got back together with him club. I feel like they'd have a lot to talk about

Freesia is @zivazivc

[suzannahnatters]

Many people have asked me why I say THE RINGS OF POWER is far more faithful to the spirit of Tolkien’s work than the Peter Jackson films. Let me explain. No, there is too much. Let me sum up.

(Warning: if you deeply love the Jackson movies, feel free not to read this. I’ve been meditating on this for 20+ years. You are not going to argue me out of any of it.)

FIRST – Jackson is, how shall we put it, not sufficiently familiar with Tolkien or his influences. He repeatedly and stubbornly made mistakes both large and small. Tolkien was a master of medieval military tactics. Jackson... is not. Every military decision taken by the characters in Jackson’s TWO TOWERS is pure stupidity. In Jackson’s RETURN OF THE KING, Aragorn casually beheads the Mouth of Sauron, which is a war crime, since the Mouth is Sauron’s ambassador. Jackson’s Eowyn tries to flirt with Aragorn by cooking him stew, even though she is a noblewoman from the warrior class who was raised to act as a civil and military leader in a medieval-coded society where cooking is not intrinsically linked to femininity. Jackson’s Theoden, grieving over the death of his son, utters the words “No parent should have to grieve the death of their child,” which is the kind of sentiment only imaginable in a society where infant mortality and death in battle is a good deal rarer than among the Anglo-Saxon Cossacks during the War of the Rings. Jackson’s Dwarf women are reduced to a punchline; Tolkien’s were miners, craftspeople and adventurers in their own right.

I won’t go on. BUT I COULD.

SECOND – One problem that by itself ought to have disqualified Jackson from adapting Tolkien, is that he is incapable of depicting or even understanding goodness the way Tolkien does. This deeply pervades all Jackson’s films. Jackson’s idea of goodness is ethereal, anaemic, and ineffective before gross and creepy evil. His Elves are not the vivid, passionate, hearty warriors Tolkien wrote: they pluck mistily at harps and feed on spinach. (TROP has Galadriel scaling frozen cliffs and Elrond splitting boulders. That’s FAR more like it).

Tolkien insisted on the concept of Faerie as being foundational to his work. This is a difficult concept to explain. It meant the beauty and glory of Valinor, yes. But it also meant an element of otherworldly, yet immanent, beauty and glory in Middle Earth itself. This is a good summary:

“Faerie may be roughly translated as Magic, but not the vulgar magic of the magician; it is rather magic "of a particular mood and power," and it does not have its end in itself but in its operations. Among these operations are "the satisfaction of certain primordial human desires" such as the desire "to survey the depths of space and time" and the desire "to hold communion with other living things."” (Source: https://www.ewtn.com/.../tolkien-and-the-fairy-story-4094)

When Lewis said of THE LORD OF THE RINGS, “here are beauties that pierce like swords”, that’s that he meant. Peter Jackson had no sense of Faerie. When, at the end of his trilogy, he has his characters get on a ship to go to the Undying Lands, he makes it a metaphor for death. Death! Tollkien’s Valinor isn’t the afterlife; it’s the earthly paradise of his world. Jackson cannot imagine an earthly or material locus of goodness.

This affects many of his narrative decisions. In the book Faramir resists the temptation of the Ring handily. Jackson’s Faramir succumbs to the power of the Ring and has to be scared straight. Jackson justified this by saying that Faramir needed to fall to the Ring’s temptation so that it remained an effective narrative threat. Basically, having failed to grasp the importance of Tolkien’s vision of powerful and present goodness and beauty in the first place, Jackson believed he needed to further degrade it for the sake of the story.

Obviously, THE RINGS OF POWER isn’t perfect, and still has plenty of time to betray its early promise. However, so far its showrunners appear to have a far better grasp of Faerie, beauty, and goodness than Jackson ever did. Its vision of Valinor is ineffably beautiful while still home to flawed living people. Its Elves are noble, ceremonious, dignified, warm, and grave. It is also actively pursuing Tolkien’s original themes. Elanor has a discussion of Providence that contains intentional echoes of “The Shadow of the Past” in LOTR, but there are also meditations on art and mortality that show an attempt to engage with themes Tolkien himself said were foundational to his entire work (Letter #131). These themes may yet be mishandled: but THE RINGS OF POWER has clearly at least READ the assignment. (Jackson’s films, by comparison, did dumb stuff like having Theoden, who in the books is simply dealing with depression, be literally possessed by Saruman and in need of exorcism “because exorcism is a Catholic thing and Tolkien was a Catholic, lol!”)

Jackson didn’t completely obscure the beauty and goodness of Tolkien, and I’m aware that THE RINGS OF POWER could not have happened without his pioneering and often sacrificial work in adapting the story to screen. I don’t want to discount the things that are good about his intentions, his work, and his love for the source material. But watching THE RINGS OF POWER was the moment when 20 years of frustration boiled over as I realised that, contrary to what I’d always told myself, it WAS possible to do Tolkien more justice than this. So far, I’m very pleased, and I’ll be waiting for future seasons with bated breath.

[kindaasrikal]

There are two very important things i put noticed in the last episode of season 3 part 1. One of which i have already talked about but want to show with some visual images now.

One, Morro’s soul is not only golden, it quite literally bursts into gold when Thunderfang ate his soul.

I’m telling you his soul his different to any random ones YOU JUST CAN’T SEE IT IN THE PICTURES I TOOK I SWEAR

I know it’s very likely I’m probably being biased towards Morro and looking for something that isn’t there, but i have been deprived for YEARS i have a right to make him special in my head

But again some of the reason I actually think his soul seems different is because if you look closely at better quality images rather than the messy ones i took on my laptop, the random souls seem more tear drop shaped and a brighter yellow compared to Morro that has a more orange tinge around it. And the most obvious reason, the difference between the sizes, Morro’s soul a similar size to Lloyd’s rather than any other random soul.

Anyways, second thing i think we need to talk about

WHY DID THE FORBIDDEN FIVES SOUL GO BACK INSIDE THUNDERFANG??? WHY DID HE OPEN HIS MOUTH AND EAT THEM AGAIN??? ARE THEY DEAD??

I’m sorry but as much as i loved the characterisation of the five, i hated the way they were written story wise. They just seemed a bit lame compared to everything we were told about them, so hopefully this means they’ve got some more stuff going on story wise that makes them as intimidating as they were said to be.

And also, doesn’t that mean the five, some souleaters, and Morro are the only souls trapped within Thunderfang now? Well isn’t that definitely a group.

[menlove]

every time I find out more about the beatle divorce the more I'm convinced paul mccartney actually has the patience of a goddamn saint bc I would have burned the building down and started swinging folding chairs at their heads and I'm not remotely exaggerating

[sysig]

Reverberations, configurations (Patreon)

[crispyliza]

Happy mother's day to all the eldest sisters btw

[bet-on-me-13]

Idea: Garp forced Luffy into a short Internship as a Marine Cadet. Luffy took that personally.

The basic idea is that when Luffy was 12, Garp took him from Dawn and forced him to take a 3 Year internship as a Cadet at an East Blue Marine Base. It was supposed to be a chance for Luffy to let go of his "stupid pirate dream" and finally become a Marine like he was always meant to be.

In reality, it only took a week before the Marines at the base were on their Hands and Knees begging Garp to take him back.

Garp refused, and Luffy was stuck at that Marine Base for the full 3 Years. When he got back at 15, just in time to see Ace off on his journey, he just said "That was annoying." And started talking about what he would do as a Pirate in 2 years.

When he finally becomes a real Pirate, his old Marine Base sees that he is due for a Bounty and convinces their higher ups that he needs a much higher Bounty since he spent 3 years as a Marine Cadet and knows all their protocols. They really wanted to get back at him.

When Luffy gets his Poster, he is instead ecstatic at getting a 50 Million Beri Bounty ad his first Bounty.

[wishing-well-art]

The one thing about Arcane season 2 that I'm still a little bit mad about is that Vi and Jinx never really talked. They had a total of 2 conversations in season 1, one where they got interrupted and Jinx was never able to tell Vi what happened in the 7 years Vi was in prison, and the second where Vi still had no clue what was going on. But that's fine, miscommunication that befalls tragedy, it's intentional, and character-wise Jinx wasn't in that kind of headspace for that to happen. But then season 2 rolls around and at no point in season 2 did they sit down and talk about what went wrong, why they made the decisions they did, and try to understand each other. We never even got a loud fight where they unloaded all the negative feelings they had towards each other, or a quiet painful confession that they felt like failures towards each other. They had so much down time that we should've seen all that, the fight in the mines and the talk in the commune should've been that, but they only barely skimmed the surface. Did Vi even find out about Jinx being injected with shimmer? Did Jinx ever find out why Vi left her that night? No, they didn't, and that's just such a shame.

[zigzap]

op x pkmn - monkey d luffy ☀️