#-incentive to stay

[rainingmbappe]

It boggles my mind how much wisdom you can gain from reading, yet people don't take advantage of it. It's the free gift to humanity, and yet we chose the ones that take more than they give. It's wild.

[icantalk710]

Very glad my team gets the option to work from home for quarter-end week 😌☕🥐

[tongues--and--teeth]

Post-War Golden Cheese and Dark Cacao my beloveds <3

[skitskatdacat63]

What if I cried.

[skunkes]

This is already in my pinned but I need to make an official post I can use over and over again

this is my Everything main blog, if u dont wanna see cheye talking or reblogging but still wanna see his stuff

🌈I have an art archive blog here!🌈

[dollopheadedmerlin]

Heyy I don't usually do this but please keep an eye out for this blog

They've been harassing people on the Merlin subreddit, going as far as to make alternative accounts and DMing members.

And they are here on tumblr and I have confirmation that it is the same person, and they continue to harass people on here through DMs

So please be sure to block them or just be aware that they're going after people for no reason and to not boost their posts. I'm not bothered by this kinda stuff directed at me but if their behavior on reddit is any indicator, please just take this heads up and take care of yourself if you're sensitive to this sort of harassment.

It's been a peaceful run in the Merlin community, especially compared to some other fandoms, I'd like us to keep on taking care of each other and not let someone like this come spoil our love for the show or keep people away from posting their fun art, ideas, and headcanons.

[anorexic-autist]

one day i can live on my own and have beautiful meal preps in glass containers and a standing desk with a treadmill and wake up at 6am to go lift weights and do boxing class every single day and it will be beautiful fr

[nandermoenthusiast]

i dont think i will ever be over nandor tying guillermos cape with such care and focus. that moment its possibly my favourite from the finale NANDOR ACTS OF SERVICE GUY MAKES ME WANNA CLIMB A WALL and the way hes putting guillermo on equal ground now makes my heart grow 3 sizes

and to be honest i dont think they can go back to where they were before. for anyone whos worried. like yeah he told him “now clean up the body” after he reverted back to human but to me that was more like nandors brain going like. “i cooked now you clean”. he went through such a tremendous amount of work to help guillermo. he had the empathy to recognise the problem. he thought it through concocted a plan. he got the robes and the candles and he painted and hung those banners. he held a fakeass ceremony with all their friends and elders so it looked official. he then also comforted guillermo when he couldnt do it and staked derek himself without a second thought. so maybe its was more of a. i pulled you out of a very hairy situation. can you take care of the body now? (also it IS gonna be hard to let go of certain habits so maybe some comments like this are gonna slip out next season, but that is just because they are useless and in guillermos absence the house fucking imploded in one year lmao… maybe guillermo is gonna teach them how to take care of it themselves next season so they can split the workload and cute shenanigans will ensue)

i just dont think it was mean spirited on nandors part tbh. LAZLO even offered to help. i dont think that was just to have him in the next scene i dont think an unusual detail like that could be just for convenience. i do FULLY believe they are gonna all be on equal grounds next season. and thats gonna be so fucking delicious to me specifically

[ooc-themis-cattails]

With all due respect, o sagacious guardian, I am literally a cat.

[bo0tleg]

MY FRIENDS REACTION TO THE TOP GUN (1986) REACTION POST

In case you don't know what I'm talking about: I made a post a while ago of gems my friend said whilst watching Top Gun (1986) for the first time. I showed her the post, and she created even more gems about Top Gun derived from what she said originally! I'd suggest you read the other post, because some are references to prior gems. Enjoy!

"TOM CRUISE IS OLD, HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO KNOW WHAT HE LOOKS LIKE?"

"I said that? Jesus, I have the memory of a fish." (About: "Did he really need to be in his underwear for this conversation?")

"I DID COMMENT ON THE VOLLEYBALL SCENE!" "I distinctly remember laughing about you not saying anything." "I said 'Ah yes, the hetero scene that actually looks really gay.' Because it does. How the fuck are you gonna play sports looking like a hot piece of ass without looking gay? You're not supposed to be hot! Especially in volleyball. Why did they choose volleyball to make them look hot? You're supposed to slap that fucking ball, not be like 'hahaha look at me, I'm so dainty and pretty.' THAT'S GAY!"

"I'm only stating the obvious, these people should already know this."

"Iceman is the gayest in the entire movie."

"No! Actually, it's his plane buddy. His plane buddy is the gayest." "... Mind telling me why?" "He always says that he has a hard on."

"OH MY GOD THEY COULD BE EXES! It's not possible he always has a hard on. I KNOW IT'S AN EXPRESSION IN THE UNITED STATES BUT IT'S NOT POSSIBLE. They've definitely hooked up. Not in the movie, I think it was before he met Maverick, but there's no doubt."

"You wouldn't say that you have a hard on to just anyone."

"And I didn't even look anything up, I just watched the movie."

"I don't think it's possible to surpass the gayness in Top Gun."

(Upon being informed that Slider was not, in fact, the one with the hard on) "HE'S NOT? Oh, then it has nothing to do with Iceman. But I still think that they (Hollywolf) had something, that's the dynamic that I got the gay vibe from."

"I bet both of the actors are blond, or whatever." (shakes head) "I don't give a shit."

"It's not my fault the NPC's look like the protagonist!"

(Scrolling through the Icemav tag on tumblr) "There's a lot of fanart. A lot of fanart of them making out."

"Only the superiors aren't gay in this movie."

"Making out in a corner, having a fling with the best friend, there's definitely one of those somewhere in the middle."

"Oh look! More fanart of them making out."

"Even the handsome guy that seems like a protagonist but is actually an NPC looks gay! He has that gay vibe, I don't know." (Reminder: This a reference to the phrase "He's to handsome to be a rando!" This man had like 2 minutes of screen time on the Enterprise at the start of the movie, and a little at the end during the Layton Rescue. 2 min might be an exaggeration.)

BONUS: Reaction to Quentin Tarantino discussing Top Gun in "Sleep With Me" (1994)

(Silence for 30 seconds) "I... agree with everything he said... but I'm in shock."

I never... thought a straight man would say so much gay shit in three minutes.... but he's right."

"That part where he says about the girl, Maverick's chick, dressing up like a guy, I hadn't noticed. He's a genius."

"When he says 'STARFIGHT! STARFIGHT!' I don't know if he was crazy, high or hallucinating."

"Them screaming 'STARFIGHT! STARFIGHT!' looked like they were on crack. And they were just talking about a movie."

"If a military movie ever happens to be openly gay, it'll become a whore house."

"And the worst part is that he convinced the dude! My guy just watched Top Gun for fun..."

EXTRAS (The original language all of the phrases were said in was Portuguese. I had to translate all of them. You're welcome.):

"How am I going to translate 'Puteiro'?" "Aren't there any prostitutes in the United States?" (I went with "Whore House")

"How am I going to translate 'se pegaram'?" "There's a word for it in English, I forgot it.... eeeehhhh" "Hooked up?" "I meant to say that they fucked, but sure." "'Hooked up' can mean sex." "It can? Great, use that then!"

"How many phrases are there? I'm scared. I don't remember the atrocities I said."

My friend, who fueled this entire post: @annonimouslesbian

[compacflt]

tbh it's all speculation and every source says that they HOPE cruise will return. considering cruise just announced he's moving to warner bros i think they're doing damage control and really hope they can do it because he's their cash cow. until cruise himself confirms it i don't believe it.

yeah im with you on this, a lot of people have been saying this which is good.

I actually believe a top gun 3 will never be made because you CANNOT reasonably convince people the f-35 is a bad plane for two movies in a row. So they have to use the f-35, but tom cruise will never agree to make the movie because there are no two-seater f-35s so they'd have to use CGI lol

*I wanna stress I'm not like Anti-topgun3... im just anti- creative bankruptcy for the sake of a profit incentive... which a lot of Hollywood seems to be engaging in these days. endless sequels & prequels to profit off people's nostalgia for inarguably better movies of the past.

I've tried to keep my criticism of TGM to a minimum on this blog bc it really is a good movie &I hate to be Such a Crank All the Time, but its exactly my criticism of TGM too. As a story, it literally just reuses the same themes and motifs of the first movie with a few character tweaks & modern-warfare set dressing. rebellious kid (only rooster goes slow and not fast) who got shut out of the Navy (which for recruiting propaganda purposes is the Most Desirable Place To Be) needs to connect with a father figure to get over the ghosts of his past and reach his full potential. okay. it's the same story. it's literally A New Hope versus The Force Awakens levels of "we've seen this all before."

like im racking my brain trying to figure out how they would possibly write a third movie with the available threads left to pick up... I hope tom cruise says "no thank you" and top gun 3 languishes in development hell because my only answer is "I think the story is gonna suck shit"

[pastelaspirations]

So, u h.

H O W. HOW, I ASK. ALL I DO IS POST ART ONCE IN A BLUE MOON AND MAKE REALLY CURSED REBLOGS. LIKE, I'M SO VERY GLAD YOU'RE HERE, BUT I CAN'T UNDERSTAND HOW OR WHY YOU'RE HERE-

I also like. Make really angsty, ungodly long fanfics that I do absolutely nothing to promote on this dumpster fire of a blog, but that's besides the point- ANYWAY. HAVE SOME REALLY SKETCHY DOODLES THAT I DID TO THANK YA MAD LADS ;_;

Thank ya, thank ya, you absolute mad lads. I will uh... continue to do what I do. Thank you for joining the ride, even though it's less of a ride and more that I found an abandoned theme park ride and decided to ride it as a prolonged death wish and you inexplicably strapped yourself in next to me with the moldy seatbelt-

[angstics]

At least the Bible is like you can’t kill yourself and you can’t give up and you have to be good to people to get to heaven (shit i picked up culturally is this even true. Can you do fuck all your whole life net zero impact and still go to heaven)

[loonybun]

I LOVE UR NEW BLOG LAYOUT 💥💥💥💥💥💥

anyway i have oc question :3 sort of like a part two to this question you asked me about how Anton would experiment on Aisling: how would Aisling react to all that? how would all those experiments effect him? what would he do and stuff?

AHHH THANK YOUUU 💖💖💖 I think at first he’d be pretty insistent on escaping, especially after any experimentation happens. He’s never really interacted with humans in a way that could cause him harm besides rosé but he also doesn’t view him as a human so this would be completely uncharted territory for him. He’d try to interact with Anton as minimally as possible, only really answering certain questions and trying to give evasive answers when he knows it’s something that will be used to hurt him later. During the actual experimentation, he’d probably have pretty frequent panic attacks. It’s invasive and wrong and he hates the way it all feels. He’d beg for it to stop even if begging would only make everything else worse.

I feel like a big turnaround point would be when he loses enough magic to the point he can’t hold his form anymore. That would sort of be when he realizes it’s hopeless. He’s stuck here and everything that happens is entirely out of control. As a last ditch effort he may try to bargain with Anton in order to figure out something just to make it all hurt a bit less. Like giving up his name in order for guaranteed sedatives or something along those lines. He’d completely lose any spark he had before of defiance.

^ this might be a bit different depending on whether dew is also there or not as we’ve sort of talked about before. he’d feel better if there was another person (especially dew) who he could talk to. It would take a lot longer for him to lose that spark, even after he’s been drained. He’d want to keep him as happy as he can under these circumstances. i feel like if things ever got really bad for dew he probably would use his abilities to sort of erase bits of that here and there which definitely wouldn’t be received well by either anton or dew if they found out but hey he’s trying to help :( why are you getting upset you’re the one who caused that pain im just trying to make it go away so he doesn’t break completely :(((

[dont-offend-the-bees]

Ugghhhhh I didn't bring a craft hobby with me aside from my sketchbook and I'm too headachey for writing so now I wanna eat my own hands

[musubiki]

does lime retire from the m34th post canon?

i think he would stay for the foreseeable future.,. (i dont like to think too far ahead because the notion of them getting older makes me unbelievably sad)

i have yet to flesh out the social atmosphere after the events of the final boss battle, but i imagine the m34th would be on at least slightly better terms with the witches (maybe), but in any case they have good benefits and a pension plan and dental and he actually kinda likes it there, so he would stay!!!