#a really melancholic thing.

[unvergangliche]

thinking about how the demon king specifically targeted the elves first for their magic, how elves were the first to possess the means to oppose his armies through their craft of magic and how it originally was only an 'elven' thing, and how the elves were the first to point blankly, be wiped out save for very scarce amounts. there are no longer any elf villages in fri.eren's universe, at least, not so far in the 120+ chapters in the manga we've only seen fri.eren, kraft, and se.rie. i think that makes a lot of sense, actually .

friere.n's drive to kill demons marking her as the most effective at killing demons in history, 'the slayer' and in a sense, of monsters in general, albeit she isn't a melee range fighter like say, hi.mmel or stark or eisen , it would be extremely unlikely and borderline improbable for her to meet her fallen race. if anything, it's sad because fri.eren says without much emotion how they are 'dying' and 'going extinct' and she doesn't even really know where any are.

so we have an essentially immortal being not only dealing with the 'extinction' of her loved ones through mortal death , but also the extinction of her people, something she knows all too well in her early centuries when the demon king targeted her village, her enclave of elven community, and wiped them out save herself, who killed the general sent to slaughter them. so for fri.eren's party that travels, people blatantly gaping at her like that merchant she helped? makes total sense. it would take a miracle and a blue moon to see an elf, and it's probably a miracle in itself that even three exist.

the tragedy is in that, the flow of time and the acceptance that magic is no longer limited to the elves but all humans, is something fri.eren, like flamme, fully embraces, but i can't imagine she doesn't feel some hidden, unreadable sorrow about it. after all, she laments to her master that she wasn't strong enough to protect her people from dying. so if you see fri.eren in threads, not just because she's the legendary mage who killed the demon king . . . it's also because she's a literal elf, and you just don't see that anymore. she and serie, kraft....they're a dying breed of an age passing into something new: humanity.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Happy Birthday to Fallen London; My favourite British people beefing it with bats simulator.

[smalltownduck]

currently rewatching The Office and couldn't help but feel a bit bad for those few mlvn shippers who still think Every Breath You Take is a romantic/meant-to-root-for-this-ship song

context under read more/if you want to avoid spoilers:

jim, the guy who sees the girl in the pink coat (Pam) leave with the other dude (her former fiancé), has been pinning for his best friend for years, but she was engaged to somebody else. he took a chance and confessed, but she rejected him bc the whole thing was v messy. prior to this scene, pam's been the one hopelessly pinning for jim this time around, bc now he's trying (and failing) to get over her with a new reationship. thinking he has really moved on, pam kind of takes his fiancé back (for like, one episode though)

[unclewaynemunson]

Share your clarkson song recs with me please!

Edit: NOT clarkson as in kelly clarkson but clarkson as in wayne munson x scott clarke lmao sorry for the confusion 😭

[tanicus-caesareth]

guarana drama, damage control

[deardoomedworld]

They say friends don't destroy one another / What do they know about friends?

A Püha ja õudne lõhn playlist about loss, obsession, and nostalgia eating the world.

[velvetvexations]

There are a lot of things that suck about JKR and Harry Potter in retrospect, but while everyone knows by now about the goblins being disgustingly weird Jewish stereotypes I don't think I've seen anyone else express is that when I was younger I found the alternative moral framework of goblins to be interesting and inspired me to think a lot more about "blue-and-orange morality". Now that kinna thing is something I'm really big on in both my own work and in the works of others, but it really sucks having that original inspiration soured by not only the general awfulness the franchise has come to exude, but also that element in particular being one of the most blatantly gross things about it since it boils down to "fantasy Jews be greedy, am I right?".

[teamfortresstwo]

In a life swap AU rather than just a role swap I think it would be sooo fucked up if Patroclus swapped with Theseus and Achilles with Asterius

[bougainvillea-and-saltwater]

😔

[unapologeticallytheworst]

Guys it's okay for an ending to be sad.

[icharchivist]

was refreshing myself on some old myth for a bit and i read the french and english wiki page for the Charybdis' mythos, and i'm noticing something that i don't know if it's just the wiki being inaccurate or an actual difference (from the linguistic page it seems to be an actual difference) but

In English there's this expression about choosing between two equally bad horrible situations by saying "choosing between Scylla and Charybdis"

But in French the expression is "to fall from Charybdis to Scylla" and instead of a choice it's about managing to get out of a horrible situation only to get thrown into an even worse situation (the equivalent of the English's expression ""falling out of the frying pan into the fire")

if i believe the linguistic page there was a bit of borrowing around and technically both expressions are used in both language, but you're more likely to find the first one in English and the second one in French (very likely because Victor Hugo popularized "to fall from Charybdis to Scylla" with Les Misérables) (does not mean it started in French the origin of the expression is still Greek anyway, just talking about why the saying is more popular in French with weirdos like me)

idk i think it's cool on a sort of metatextual perspective that English People saw this myth and when "oof imagine picking between those two" while French people just chugged a bottle of wine and went "And it's a BINGO and LIFE SUCKS and it NEVER GETS EASIER you get BOTH OF THEM BABEYYY"

[circlesroundthemoon]

diska just ended????

[fujouppy]

watched whitepine 1. i think i want to gather all my thoughts on part 1 before moving on to the next installments but oh wow im excited to see where this story goes

[cool-person-yey]

sorry to anyone that has ever recommended me anything and sorry to everyone I've ever promised I was going to create something I just get on a completely catatonic state where I cant do anything even if I want to im just living so like wait a little bit. ill probably cook a pizza to feel better. two maybe. let's be real I'll make it once then spend the rest of the week making it again.

[britneyshakespeare]

i finished the merry wives of windsor today btw. 4 shakespeare plays left to go

[leijonzzz]

I LOVE SUIKODEN SOOOO FUCKING MUCH