#and also bitching about the snow

[beck-nightengale]

Decided to redo my old "road to Ark' travel montage sequence from my Enderal roleplay series because I could and I wanted to. I'm much happier with it now so I uploaded the textless version. Weeee.

[la-pheacienne]

George Martin, 2013: "In a very basic level winter is coming for all of us. I think that’s one of the things that art is concerned with: the awareness of our own mortality. “Valar morghulis” – “All men must die”. That shadow lies over our world and will until medical science gives us all immortality… but I don’t think it makes it necessarily a pessimistic world. Not any more pessimistic than the real world we live in. We’re here for a short time and we should be conscious of our own mortality, but the important thing is that love, compassion and empathy with other human beings is still possible. Laughter is still possible! Even laughter in the face of death… The struggle to make the world a better place… We have things like war, murder and rape… horrible things that still exist, but we don’t have to accept them, we can fight the good fight. The fight to eliminate those things.There is darkness in the world, but I don’t think we necessarily need to give way to despair. One of the great things that Tolkien says in Lord of The Rings is “despair is the ultimate crime”. That’s the ultimate failing of Denethor, the Steward of Gondor, that he despairs of ever being able to defeat Sauron. We should not despair. We should not go gentle into that good night".

JRR Tolkien, 1962 : "One reviewer once said, this is a jolly jolly book, all the right boys come home [...]- this isn't true of course, he can't have read the story. [...] Human stories are practically always about one thing, really, aren't they? Death. The inevitability of death. . . . . . (He quotes Simone de Beauvoir) 'There is no such thing as a natural death. Nothing that ever happens to man is natural, since his presence calls the whole world into question. All men must die, but for every man his death is an accident, and even if he knows it he would sense to it an unjustifiable violation.' Well, you may agree with the words or not, but those are the key spring of The Lord Of The Rings".

"Lotr is all rainbows and unicorns and Asoiaf is nihilistic and grimdark". Wrong, and wrong. In all its hope and radiance, lotr often gets very dark, and despite all the death and suffering, the hopeful moments in asoiaf shine bright. The meeting point of these two is this: having hope while in despair, and even better, refusing to give up because you have to go on despite not having any hope left.

[jjadmanii]

i love that the hunger games is getting the appreciation it deserves but boi some of these takes are truly making me question ppl’s media literacy because ???

[triple-pupil]

YES

Y E S

GIVE LOVE TO THIS MOVIE, THIS PIECE OF ANIMATED HORROR IS PERFECT FOR A CHRISTMAS NIGHT OF SCAWY.

FUCK YOU ALL/j, I LOVE THIS MOVIE, GIVE THIS MOVIE SOME LOVE NOW.

[pallanophblargh]

Just an unimpressed looking Qiara portrait to channel my current mood. This month do be getting me feeling like that.

It’s hard to render an imaginary creature realistically, but I tried!

[sejarcus-archive]

Sejanus is like Chappell Roan in the sense that he was only ever meant to be loved by queer people, but it got out of hand, and now there’s way too many cishets who don’t get him, expressing opinions about him.

Sejanus I’m sorry that your character keeps getting absolutely murdered and turned into everything you’re not, just cause a bunch of straight girls wanna fuck the actor who played you in that horrible adaptation, and keep projecting their fantasies onto you, and aside from how bad that is, they won’t even admit the objective truth that the actor was actually a terrible pick for you and he doesn’t fit you at all

[multi-lefaiye]

been extremely stressed and overwhelmed today due to a variety of shit mostly out of my control all piling up at the same time, but we stay sillyyyyyyyy

[bizlybebo]

where the hell is the snow it’s been two years of this

[blazethecheeto]

if they don't want us to see frost and mark's 'relationship' (it's in air quotes because whatever the fuck they have i refuse to call a relationship) as a joke, then they need to stop treating it like a joke in canon.

the time skips are appalling, genuinely, like how did we go from frost not giving a shit about this man to her crawling head over heels and crying over him and NO in between. there was never an in-between checkpoint for their storyline, it was all or nothing and i have no idea what's going on anymore, it's the INCONSISTENCY for me. i'm on 8x07 rn and the last time we saw mark, he made her vulnerable and believed this could be real, almost kissed her, then jumped out a fucking window.

she was mad for literally half a season.

let's just say i was a huge "frostblaine" fan. the last time i saw them was in 7x15 where they had their only serious moment in their whole story, only for it to be a lie. now, maybe i would want to see one episode where they AT LEAST reconcile and apologize?? instead of hearing about it after the fact?? nope, the next time we see them they're skydiving and singing karaoke and making out like their kiss wasn't a huge build-up for nothing. i'm so with caitlin on how quickly and weirdly their relationship progressed.

honestly, maybe i would be less hateful about this ship if they even TRIED to give them a good love story. it's clear the writers forget about mark (like they forget about frost and caitlin) until they realize, oh yeah, frost has no plot this season so we need to make her only lines per episode about her boyfriend who ditched her! it makes me mad that they reduced her character to that in s8. she can provide so much more than just the edgy 'teenager' that talks about her boyfriend all the time.

i haven't watched the rest of the season and i heard it does get better for her plot wise, but i also know she fucking dies so ofc they would do that.

there has been no serious moment in this whole 'on-again off again' bullshit. it's literally 'oh mark has abs!!!!! guys i have such a silly girly crush on him haha oh he's evil i'm gonna be pouty for half a season- oh wait he's back!!!' they've been treated as the comic relief couple. even in armageddon, caitlin wasn't even there at the fucking party but oh! right, we forgot frost! she's...oh yeah, she's having sex with mark in the bathroom bc that suits her character and the only thing we care about :333

they treat them like a joke, so how do they expect us not to see it as just that?

[bybdolan]

the thing about reading urban fantasy is that the real world will always be more interesting to me than whatever the magical people got going on

[artcinemas]

why is fandom by consensus so weird when it comes to the black actors in that hotdog show....like do you even hear yourself 😭😭

[pastafossa]

'Blah blah you'll HATE your new city it's so COLD there so why would you LEAVE this lovely SMALL TOWN with milder WINTERS that we still BITCH ABOUT just you WAIT CAUSE YOU'LL REGRET THIS'

Summertime arrives.

'IT'S SO HOT I CAN'T GO OUT I HATE IT I'M MISERABLE I CAN'T ESCAPE THE HEAT'

[thetimelordbatgirl]

Look, we can call Snow White in EAH shit all we want, but at least she has braincells in comparison to everyone else when it comes to knowing its Evil Queen up to her usual shit when Raven's dragon is spelled to suddenly blow fire at random.

[yelenapines]

watched tbosas today. needless to say i am obsessed with the red uniform skirt and they should have been wearing those the whole movie. thank you.

[unnamed-proxy]

I love kidscove so much I just wish it wasn’t popularized by TSAMS where it’s the most boring and forced version of their dynamic ever conceived

[howthesleeplesswander]

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Kaeya may have underestimated how dangerous it would be to wander Inazuma on his own.

The storms and downpours weren't a problem. The nation ruled by the God of Wind also boasted its fair share of tempests, so the Captain was used to trekking through rain and mud. No, it was the wandering threats of the island nation that had caught him off guard.

Mondstadt was a relatively safe place. Even on his most eventful patrols, he'd only have to deal with hilichurls or treasure hoarders. Thus, he'd been drastically unprepared when a fully armored samurai rushed him in the middle of a raging storm, his wicked blade and silhouette nearly twice Kaeya's height illuminated by flashes of lightning.

The enemy's strength rivaled even the most brutish lawachurls that wandered the plains of Mondstadt; Kaeya deflected his blows, but the sheer force behind each left him staggering. Bursts from Kaeya's Vision illuminated the darkness. The rain gave him an edge, but the samurai's strength kept them evenly matched until—

A vicious strike wrenched Kaeya's arms and made him cry out. His sword dropped into the mud, and the samurai bashed his shoulder into his chest. One stumble on the slicked ground was all it took for Kaeya to fall prone on his back. A streak of lightning glinted off the blade plunging towards him. His eye squeezed shut and he braced himself...

But no pain ever came. A sudden weight pressed down on him and forced the air from his chest in a rush. His eye shot open as he sputtered, staring in dazed shock up at the face of the stranger whose body covered his own. Rain dripped from long white hair onto Kaeya's cheeks.

"Wh—" He didn't know which of the dozen questions whirling in his mind would've escaped if it had the chance. Who are you? What are you doing here? Why would you do that for someone you don't even know? But none of those thoughts could fully form before the deadly glimmer of steel flashed over the stranger's shoulder.

He'd already been hurt for Kaeya's sake. Whoever he was, Kaeya would protect him in return.

"Keep your head down!" he shouted over the roar of the rain. Icy blue light spilled through the mud caked over his Vision. One hand delved into silvery locks to draw the other's head safely into the crook of his shoulder, while the other swept through the air, permafrost crackling on his fingertips.

Ice burst from his palm and froze the rain just above them, propelling the resulting spray of frigid needles into the samurai's face with the force of gunfire. Their attacker cried out and stumbled backward, and Kaeya wasted no time. He scrambled up onto his elbows, his grip on the other sliding down to his arm to help support him as he sat up.

"Hey—can you stand?" A concerned sapphire scrutinized the stranger's face, trying to gauge the severity of his injury. His voice was soft, but urgent. "This isn't over yet."