#after all the buildup

[sukibenders]

Aegon, Aemond, Helaena, and Daeron looking at Alicent after she washes her hands of a war, that she (and Otto) dragged them into, and the throne, that she (and Otto) forced them to grasp/fight over even though they obviously didn't want it, and goes off to live her best life while they are all still stuck in a cycle forced on to them without their input (obviously this is about the s2 final):

[fisheito]

@requiodile EXACTLY my thoughts !!!! rei's too old and tired and will probably have to clean the loads outa his butt for the next several hours. yakumo can carry HIMSELF back home after wreaking that kind of destruction

[daisyachain]

Genuinely the end of WoT feels like such a kick in the teeth. The women in the series whose arcs are independent from men get disappeared. The women whose arcs involve men are given side quests that feel peripheral or irrelevant to the plot. The most pivotal female character and the only one who has a continuous arc through the books to match the male trio…well. You Know.

[apollos-boyfriend]

i think it’d also be funny if missa becomes Extremely Worried that forever is actually going to steal philza and gesturing to forever like “LOOK at him. how i can i even COMPETE with a man like that. he’s the PERFECT specimen” as forever is pathetically groveling on the ground because phil rejected him for the 300th time that week

[maraschinotopped]

undertale yellow. clutches head in anguish.

[lunar-wandering]

thinking about the fact that MK was probably really REALLY close to going monkey mode during the shadowplay episode...

[michyeosseo]

Ano bang ginawa kong mali? [ t/n What have I done wrong? ]

Barbie Forteza and Julie Ann San Jose as KLAY & MARIA CLARA

MARIA CLARA AT IBARRA (2022-2023) 1.36

[sprooknooky]

I think what made the Spriggan 12 so great is they were around for a solid 100 chapters. Now enemies exist for 10 chapters and are beaten and never seen again. Like even if the 12 had barely any character they definitely had presence

[goldkirk]

If anyone remembers all the dental work I needed done uhhhhhhh three years ago and never went back and ran away forever…I’m finally going back to a dentist on Thursday to restart the process and face my deep and utter abiding terror. And I also scheduled my COVID and flu vaccines for a couple hours later. And my psych appointment to restart meds.

I figured get it all done in one day, have my miserable immune reaction on Friday that I seem to always get with Moderna COVID shots, and then flee directly into the weekend and never be a person again except when I’m on and off crying. It’s going to be so kind to future me to get these things done and I can do it no matter how much I feel like I am constantly about to Actually Physically Die.

[timdrake-yumm]

A Tim who has a little bottle of Lazarus water. The lid has one of those pipette dropper things attached to it like some of those medicine bottles do. I’m talking pre-Robin Tim too. He uses it on all the injuries he doesn’t want people asking about that he can’t cover up some other way. It’s used very sparingly so he still has it as Red Robin (though perhaps he got it refilled when he was with the LoA). Where did he get it from? Who knows, but since he only uses so little, the side effects are harder to recognize. His eyes use to be such an icy blue, but now they look kinda teal? Not nearly as much as Jason’s of course, and they don’t glow yet. And he’s accidentally given himself some kind of pit madness immunity/resistance (like you would do with poisons) so that if he were put all the way, completely immersed in a Lazarus pit, he’d be much more in control of his thoughts and actions than Jason was. Is he still crazy? Absolutely, no sane person tries to clone their best friend almost a hundred times, but once people learn of the Lazarus water (if they ever do) they can’t be sure if that’s just Tim or if the water has been effecting him that way.

[fictionadventurer]

People will often say, 'If you could be with Lincoln for dinner, what would you want to ask him? What would be the unanswered question?' And I know I should be asking him, 'OK, suppose you had not been killed, how would you have dealt with the South? How would you have dealt with Reconstruction and all the controversies that arose?' But I know that if I really had him for dinner one night, I would simply ask him, 'Tell me a story, Mr. Lincoln.' Because then I would see him coming alive. He laughed so hard when he told one of his funny stories, his eyes would twinkle. And then I'd know that the Lincoln I knew -- who was somehow able in the worst days of the war to dispel the anxiety of his Cabinet members by his humor and his life-affirming sense of storytelling -- then I’d know I would have seen him alive.

-Doris Kearns Goodwin, Presidential Episode 16

This was where I had to stop the Lincoln episode at the end of my commute, and as I pulled into the parking lot I said to myself, "Wow, that's lovely." A little schmaltzy, perhaps, but I think it gets to the core of why people study history. Sure, there's the intellectual impulse to analyze and understand events with the benefit of hindsight, but deep down, the heart of historical study is a desire to connect with people. To bridge the gulf of time and space and get to know people despite the fact that they lived in a completely different century.

History's not just dry lists of dates and names and theories. It's people. It's personalities. It's quirks and memories and stories. It's knowing that a historical figure isn't just a face on a monument, or a source of information, but a guy who can tell really funny stories. And I wanted to share this quote because it really understands the humanity of history in a way I rarely see expressed.

[meownotgood]

stupid ass wizard.......... I totally fucking lied about this being under 20k btw

[cloudbends]

WE GOT A CONFIRMATION

[folksy]

my surgery is next week and I’m just feeling like it’s unnecessary and that they’re taking advantage of me. especially as I’m paying all out of pocket. I’m like I have gum recession on my front teeth I’m worried about it I had bad oral hygiene last year because of my mental health I know the buildup ate at my gums I can tell because the gums are gone between some of my teeth and my bottom teeth look bigger. they’re like your teeth are looking bigger because your front teeth aren’t aligned and your bottom teeth want to meet your top teeth so they’re coming upwards and your frenulum is pulling down the gums in the front (what I’m getting surgery for)

[ladysqueakinpip]

not me lying wide awake at 5:30am on a sunday on my day off bc after almost a full year I finally FINALLY realized the implication of the end of remember them from the cyclops saga

[thatsparrow]

deeply late to the party on this one but jeeeeeeesus christ arcane episode 3