#Though maybe that doesn't count

[ashilean]

NIDHIKI, toa Mangai of air (2/11)

Perched high on the terraces of Le-Metru, Nidhiki watches matoran toil by day and keeps a keen eye for trouble at night. They wear the great Volitak and wield their air scythe with ease and efficiency--their time in the city having shaped them into a more cunning toa than they ever were in their homeland. As the years go on, though, they can't help but feel this work is starting to get a bit dull...

Nidhiki is one of my favourites. While I tend to favour the brighter colours in the LEGO palette--especially when it comes to toa--the dark green is so attractive.

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 105

 A cult summons the ghost king. Except they don’t. Instead they get these tiny white-haired triplets of toddlers blinking at the summoning circle looking confused. 

 They’ve gotten the ghost princes and princess instead. 

 The very young princes and princess who are none too pleased and going to cause problems on purpose for both rogues and heroes alike. As godlings de-aged into their ghost age are like to do. 

 Meanwhile in the Realms, Pariah is staring down at where his trio of ghost toddlers that Clockwork had handed him when he had first woken up and was still groggy just disappeared from. He looks over at Fright Knight, his dearest brother, who looks just as shocked. 

 Clockwork is going to kill them both if they don’t get the kids back now. 

[kira-loves0905]

"I never loved you on accident."

it's the way his hands caressed your face, wiping your building tears as you kneeled before him. the weapon discarded from your hands as it instead grip his wrists. your voice echoing a desperate wail for him to stay. in the place now devoid from wanderers, your cries were loud and clear.

"most accidents are undesirable happenings– and that is far from what I feel about you."

he manages to focus your attention back on him. the shaky digits gently nudging your cheek, pulling you closer by the chin.

"look at me," Zayne says softly, "I'm here. you'll be okay."

such lies.

you see the way his skin crawls with ice. his stuttering breath right by your face— letting you feel the wisps of cold that was slowly consuming him whole.

"Zayne-"

"I'll find you." he cuts you off, not unkind. but rather to distract himself of the pain he never wants you to see. "and when I do, I swear this won't happen again."

he gnaws his lip as he saw more salt drip down your face. it dampens his fingers like a warm bathe to his heart, a burning fire that aches to heal any part of him that hurts.

"I'm sorry." he tries to pull away his numb hands, the curse now up to his wrists. but as always, you were a stubborn one. still leaning to his touch as if it doesn't make you instinctively flinch away from its temperature.

it was too late for him to pull back now, his frosted fingers stuck to your skin like glue. the sheer cold altering your tears to the beautiful patterns of snow.

"...Zayne..?"

you dared to look up at his face, heart coming to a stop. now frozen by time, in front of you was the man who only wanted to love. to yearn for your presence. to be with you as much as timed allowed.

yet here he is, by the curse he was forever doomed to have— stripping you away from him again and again.

maybe if you cried harder, the ice encasing him whole will melt away from your desperate love.

[the-crooked-library]

I liked how in Nosferatu it’s shown that Ellen not only leaves Thomas behind, lets him go, but she effectively remarries, by dressing up in wedding gown and pledging herself to Orlok and then consumating their sort of marriage. Orlok came before Thomas as Ellen’s dark suitor and Ellen ended up in the end with Orlok, not Thomas. Lilacs as running theme also support it because they are associated with Orlok so even when Ellen was marrying Thomas with lilacs on her head she was involving Orlok into her marriage.

Yes, the lilacs!.. God, the lilacs. She wore them throughout the film, on her dresses, in her hair, as a scent - they're such a prominent motif, and it's very clear that she was never able to let go of her occult nature entirely, despite her very best efforts to conform. The way Orlok reacts to the scent of them in the locket is so telling, too!.. It must've felt like a secret note, passed in code - my first love, I've never forgotten you. Come to me. The hesitation, the slight trembling in his hands as he holds it. The way he keeps it without question, the way he can't resist opening it just to catch the scent - again, again, again. There is something so vulnerable about their connection, on either side.

I think that's why their consummation is so tender sdksjgdjh

[autumnrory]

it's hilarious that people say rory never received criticism until mitchum it's like okay idk why y'all think criticism in school doesn't count but that very much did happen for her multiple times before that point and it's like. of course she hadn't received criticism wrt her career at that point because why would she have?? (though i guess it depends if you consider writing for the yale daily news to be school or career-related because she received criticism of her work there too and she got better lol that's like a whole arc where she writes a boring story and then follows her gut to the life and death brigade and doyle approves but people love to ignore canon when talking about rory)

but it's just like okay you can argue she hadn't been criticized as a journalist, sure, but 1. mitchum wasn't criticizing, he was outright saying she can't do it and 2. what else was she supposed to be doing as an intern i mean HONESTLY she wasn't being assigned stories or anything, she was doing what she was supposed to while seeing how a newspaper works. that's what internships are for, they're supposed to teach you, and he certainly never gave her any advice or mentorship which is what HE was supposed to do

it's just so annoying when people say she proved him right by giving up like. she had always had this dream and never had reason to believe it couldn't happen. it's what she always planned for, no one told her it wasn't realistic, not because they "coddled" her, but because anyone who knew rory, knew how driven she was, and that if she wants something, she will put in the work to get there. there might be struggles, roadblocks, she might doubt herself, but she always gets back on track. which is the whole thing like. sorry how did she prove him right? because she was temporarily set back after he essentially crushed her lifelong dream AND REMEMBER SHE'S 20 YEARS OLD I MEAN CHRIST of course she's vulnerable to a guy who's been in this for decades telling her, someone who's barely an adult, that she doesn't have what it takes to achieve her dreams. but anyway like, how do you say that when she did in fact follow through with her dream?? people point at her dropping out of yale like "see!! he's right!! she can't do it!! she's not special!!" and it's like yeah okay she lost a semester, went back, fit two years into a year and a half, graduated on time and immediately got a job working on the campaign trail LIKE the whole point was realizing he was wrong about her and everything that followed in the next two seasons proves that

[agalychnisspranneusroseus]

Honestly in my head I’m always obsessed with thinking about Sasha Waybright as my personal favorite Mean girl in a long while. I mean she’s like a different type of mean girl from Amity or a Pacifica Northwest.

Sasha is such a wonderful character I love her so much. I love her as a villain, as a hero... my savior, my downfall I love the depth of her messed up behavior, I love how so many of the terrible things she does, she does them out of her messed up idea of love, I love how she keeps so many of her mean girl traits after her redemption while becoming so soft as well. I love how we get these two entirely different versions of the same character while she still feels always very much like her. I never got the idea that I was watching an entirely different character. I love how obvious it is that she loves her girls, even at her worst moments.

[dancing-lex]

A very fundamental thing about me is that NO media moves me to tears. I am stoic and nothing can touch me and I rarely cry about real life tbh. But the hinterland doctrine keeps ripping my heart out over and over and over again and maybe it's just a side effect of the emotional turmoil but um. I have officially cried real tears over this fic

[fadewalking]

it's sad to see so many people get anon hate recently

as someone who has gotten heaps of it in my time on this site, my only advice is to do your best to not take anything so seriously. Maybe easier said than done, but it takes a certified goofball to send anonymous hate to begin with. So who cares what they have to say? Make them look silly, rage bait them, insult their mothers. It's free engagement (if only tumblr worked that way).

At the end of the day, nothing is that serious. Like to send anon hate over. Don't give them what they want, which is upsetting you. Call them out for being the goobers they are.

[livinces2]

Elf community of Middle Earth be like: "You're only 2000 years old? Oh, sweetie, you're just a baby!"

[m-for-now]

Something that I feel like I should emphasize again about my type of shipping is that I care so much more for the dynamic and depth of a relationship than wether it's romantic or platonic or queer-platonic or some other kind of connection.

Give me the actual interactions and parallels and dynamic and i'm in

[skrunksthatwunk]

how do i tell my roommate that her cat repeatedly pissing on and destroying my things is something that people usually offer to clean or replace or apologize for instead of shrugging off

[sysig]

Cure for whatever ails ya (Patreon)

[selfinflictedgunshotwound]

trying to finish reading dungeon meshi now that it's done and just seeing everyone in the comments talking about ships. gun to my head

[front-facing-pokemon]

[light-wrath-paradise]

Mark (both of them) Severance is the opposite of Roman Roy Succession because Roman fumbled every single bad bitch in existence while actively intending not to, whereas Mark literally just exists and a cluster forms around him. This cluster features hits such as:

Woman whose very existence is synonymous with hell and whose hobbies include exploitation and envy.

Dead wife who is not dead at all but actually might be after all. Yeah sorry she's dead^2 now.

A midwife(? I'm sorry I keep forgetting details) of your sister, no problems here, a nice and understanding- aaaand you fumbled this one.

The employee who is also the boss but not really but she's never getting out of hell nor can she ever separate hell from being a certain part of her and despite a rocky start she's actually a fun and assertive person but she's never gonna make it, how can you make it when you are your own worst enemy?

Possibly the fanatical GILF who is so obsessed she lives next door. Inconclusive.

[becausebuckley]

i have six semi-written active wips and it might not be possible to finish them all before my 911 fandom anniversary (may 23) but i am certainly going to give it my best shot