#I have been ROBBED

[tehcherrya]

"... I don't know what's going to happen."

Merry & Pippin // Cigarette Duet (Instrumental) by Princess Chelsea

If someone would let me talk their ears off about how sad these two make me sometimes, I am willing to welcome them with open arms. Pippin is the youngest of three sisters, and Merry is an only child. To each other they have been the brothers that they have never had. Pippin had followed Merry through all walks of life, and Merry has happily guided. Smoking, drinking, laughing, stealing, causing mischief, but underneath it all, he took care of Pippin.

Pippin expected Merry to come with him when they separated. Merry couldn't bear to say goodbye but he watched Shadowfax until Pippin disappeared. Watching his brother ride away.

Merry, perhaps knew that he might not ever see Pippin again, that either of them might fall victim to the peril's that wait ahead for them. He should be mad at Pippin's foolishness, that he got himself into this mess. Yet he would have hated if the last time he saw Pippin to be any moment that wasn't that of love, so he said nothing of the sort. Nor could he find it within himself to say to Pippin that it is the end. He felt his heart bleeding with despair, but couldn't put it upon himself to let Pippin feel it too. Merry's heart ached with Pippin's last desperate cry.

As Merry fell under the Black Breath, he was convinced he was going to die. That he would never see Pippin nor the Shire ever again. Even when Pippin did find him, in his sickness he assured himself that Pippin was there to only put Merry in a grave.

Pippin might be a fool. But he'd be damned if he let his cousin, his brother slip off... with leaving Pippin out of all of the new adventures within the silver glass. There is still love yet to be shared.

[halfthebrain]

Screaming, crying, throwing up. They could have been something!!!

[rotisseries]

was just informed of the differences between chapter 88 bsd manga and chapter 88 bsd anime 😐

[oraclebell17]

FALLEN BANNER

NO FALLEN SHEZ?????

*THROWS PHONE ON GROUND*

....*picks it back up for fallen anankos*

[osinthewhite]

I have a question to the Kaiji fandom: WHY did y'all decide to create the most amazing, detailed, breathtaking art for this show and WHY for the love of everything holy am I just discovering it NOW?!

[lover-by-taylor-swift]

where the fuck is let’s go (battle)?????

[i-wear-the-cheese]

Economy so bad the bank holiday weekend was hit by shrinkflation

[umilily]

also deeply upset to learn that the whole "mouse" bit in the climax is in fact not about tsukasa being piloted by one under his crown like in ratatouille.

[1-small-world]

I wanted to give my own two cents, so I went down a little rabbit hole investigating the matter in Old High German and stumbled upon some learning material for it, so here is my (slightly simplified and badly translated) research:

If you're using adjectives in a "generalising manner", you put the adjective first: in hohan berg (a high mountain), or nioman sentit niowan wîn in alte belgi (no one puts young wine in old skins)

But if you're trying to specify, you put the adjective after the noun: fater almahticun (father almighty), or a not further specified blind man (...gisah man blintan) (note that this is accusative case)

these also use different declinations. And, according to the article, definite and indefinite articles have a similar function (which they took up after the declinations became less pronounced over time)

And, looking at the Very Important Specific concepts and events Tolkien did this for, ... I think whatever language he modelled it after might've had a similar concept!

Link to the pdf I took this from (in German, unfortunately)

What's with Tolkien and the "noun adjective"?

Flame Imperishable. Darkness Everlasting. (yep, opposites) I know those terms also occur with the morlam word order, but sometimes like this.

This isn't the normal English, is it? So, what is it? "I can, because I wrote the dictionary"? Archaic? something else?

[chiptrillino-art]

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sooo... @ranilla-bean wrote a fic The Iconoclast beta read by @faux-fires but before rana and i got to talk lots about sout eats asian clothing and khmer cuture and... i stat down... drew the first one... and the other two. enojoy?

[strawlessandbraless]

Jensen Ackles saw this early script draft and made the choice that Dean would NOT make Cas feel bad for hugging him after the angel thought him dead

In fact, he let Dean be fully embraced by Cas, let him melt into the hug with a soft smile. Dean got to proudly Introduce his angel to Mary without shame or embarrassment, and that’s beautiful

[strawnger]

steddie au where eddie thinks they're just hooking up because steve never treats him like all his previous girlfriends, but steve thinks they're dating and the relationship is only different because it's Gay. he's just trying to follow eddie's lead without making a fool of himself (he keeps buying gifts and flowers then shoving them into the back of his closet because he doesn't want eddie to think he's "treating him like a girl")

[starlight-bread-blog]

"Zuko would take a lightning for anyone–"

But it was Katara that he chose to invite.

"Zuko would take a lightning for anyone–"

But Azula knew to aim at Katara.

"Zuko would take a lightning for anyone–"

But the scene was romamtically coded.

"Zuko would take a lightning for anyone–"

But Katara needed to get to heal him.

"Zuko would take a lightning for anyone–"

But it was Katara who was with him in season finales.

"Zuko would take a lightning for anyone–"

But he needed to choose Katara over Azula.

"Zuko would take a lightning for anyone–"

But Shu needed to survive in this life.

"Zuko would take a lightning for anyone–"

But the writers deliberately chose Katara.

Inspired by @captain-konami-code 's "They were enemies"

[jenanigans1207]

What I wanted so badly was for Mary to learn about her boys from Cas. Like that night where Cas finds her when she can’t sleep and she expresses that she just doesn’t know anything about her sons since she missed so much?? All I wanted was for Cas to sit down with her at the table and just start telling her about them. Basic stuff at first: their favorite foods, their sleeping habits, the stuff he’s just observed by being their passenger for years.

And then I want him to say something totally Cas, like “Dean always wears more layers but that’s because his body naturally runs two degrees colder than Sam’s. But that’s normal for him and not indicative of any illness, so it’s nothing to worry about.”

And as they talk, it starts to get a little deeper, and Cas tells her more. He tells her about what she missed, about all the horrible things that happened to her sons and how they coped; how it changed them. And he tells her about Sam, he does, but really it ends up being all about Dean.

He’ll tell her about how Dean clenches his fists when he’s upset, even as he tries to keep his face impassive. About how Dean drums his fingers on the steering wheel when he’s anxious. He’ll tell her about Dean’s nightmares, about the ways he’s chosen to cope. He’ll tell her how to know when to approach Dean and when to give him space, how to gently acknowledge what he’s feeling without pushing him too far.

And with every word he says, Mary’s curious head tilt from when she’d seen them hug in reunion turns into a bone deep type of certainty. Because Cas is telling her things that only someone who paid special attention would notice. He’s telling her things that only someone very, very close to her son’s heart would know.

Cas will tell her the cliff notes of what they’ve been through; will tell her how the whole world looked to Dean and he rose to the occasion over and over again. He’ll tell her about Dean’s doubts in himself and then vehemently declare them as wrong and explain, at length, why. He will tell her about the people Dean has loved— the people who loved him like he was their own— and lost. He will tell her about Bobby, Ellen, Jody, Donna, and Charlie. He’ll tell her about Claire, too, and how Dean stepped up.

And the whole time, Mary will have this realization that oh, she may not have been around to guide and protect her sons, but there was always someone there to care for them and support them when they needed it. She will realize that she and John may have left them, but they were never alone.

But more than that, there was someone there for Dean. Someone picking Dean over and over again while Dean picked Sam, or the world, over himself. There was someone fighting for Dean when he wasn’t fighting for himself. There was someone who saw Dean, and loved him unconditionally.

Sitting across from her, at the asscrack of dawn, filling her in on all the things she missed was every mother’s dream: someone who loved her child with the kind of devotion that would break the world. And from the sounds of the stories she was being told, it did break the world. Someone whose love is entirely untainted and comes without any strings attached.

It’s so clear to her as she listens to Cas talk that Cas loves Dean with no expectations. That loving Dean is something he just does, like he doesn’t know how not to love Dean, like the possibility of not loving him never occurred to Cas. He loves Dean in a way that Mary knows can and will soothe Dean’s sharp edges and battered heart. He loves Dean in the kind of pure way that tells Mary that it will continue to endure and overcome everything without ever diminishing, even the littlest amount.

Mary, through tears, will tell Cas how she always told Dean that there were angels watching over him. And before Cas can make some comment about Dean being the Righteous Man and the interest of most of Heaven, she will place a hand over his and give him a motherly look that will convey all the things she’s not sure how to say— and the things she’s not sure Cas is ready to hear yet. And Cas will flush and look away, mumbling about how her son is very special to him.

And when she pulls him into a hug and murmurs thank yous into his shoulder, she will be comforted in the knowledge that her sons turned out to be wonderful men, and that they managed to stay together through everything. She will be comforted to know that no matter what happens, no matter her shortcomings as she tries to fill a role she never meant to leave, Sam will have Dean and Dean will have Cas.

And this time, when Cas tells her that she belongs here, she will believe him. And she will tell him that he belongs here, too.

And when Dean wakes up a few hours later and wanders in to find Mary and Cas still chatting over the table, he’ll be surprised— but pleased— to find Mary looking more at ease. He’ll be pleased when she gives him a warm hug and pats him on the cheek and tell him with all the sincerity that only a mother can muster that she’s glad that he met Castiel. And when Dean agrees, a little confused, Mary will just smile at him.

“I always said I’d like a third son.” She says, “so give him a reason to take our last name, won’t you?”

And Dean will splutter and turn fifteen shades of red as he steadfastly doesn’t look at Cas but mumbles something that suggests he’s not against the idea at all.

And Mary will laugh again and wink at an equally red Cas before heading towards the kitchen like “Cas said waffles are your favorite, so I hope you’re hungry!”

[cranberryjuicey]

eva and pw era kaz together would have been enough to put bibo in the ground permanently i think

[andromeddog]

bob requests 👍