#and i kinda love it

[binkywinky]

Fury looking people dead in their face, telling them he doesn't know where Carol is or how to reach her; all the while knowing he has a direct line of communication to her that he can and has used whenever he wants.

[a-random-insomniac]

You can’t hurt me. I’ve watched Dead Poets Society like 100 times and I regularly stalk the Neil Perry tag

[cursedlegacies]

harry potter: hogwarts mystery characters    →    nymphadora tonks

[a-round-of-robyns]

at a small local cinema listening to wtnv waiting for r+j (1996) to start

i’m the only person here, in my little corner seat

the vibes are immaculate

[theracoonisinasawtrap]

oh god can you tell I like Specs????? + one (1) Sanrio Adam

[transingthoseformers]

Also, speaking of Barn Husbands again!

☆Take☆

[arthaven-hina]

after 'truisms'

[adumbshitbutler]

ok but all i’m saying is that andrew was made from the same code as frankie so really it would only make sense that if she developed a crush on cole he would develop one too is all i’m saying is ALL i’m saying

[ssahotchnerr]

Just here to say, how dare you torment my emotional mind with that cover photo 😭😭😭

AHHH i’m sorry 😭🫂💞 i was feeling angsty and that was just the result

[youngheartstopper]

Okay, that season 3 announcement was ridiculous. Who decided that.

[tezuka-brainrot]

I miss Epsilon a lot I want them back

Ahh Epsilon..my favourite single mother.

[hansoeii]

It was affection.

[a-random-insomniac]

Bisexual Lily Evans is amazing but Lesbian Lily Evans has a special place in my heart.

[lucdoodle]

thought that one Alastor scene would look cool in comic lettering, so i drew this

[aotearoa20]

this is so very 'do not go to the elves for counsel for they will say both yes and no' of you op and i for one respect it

does the Oath of Feanor work as a magical compulsion, or does it have magical properties, and are its consequences real?

yes, because the magic of Arda is also based on words of power, and it would be dissatisfying and limiting to assume that somehow that power doesn't work in this specific instance. no, because even if Feanor is the one speaking, not even his power could bend the fate of elves to that extent. yes, because the fate of any one people can be bent, delayed, or weirdly modified until an oath is fulfilled; in LOTR, the ghosts of the path of the dead prove it. no, because Manwe and Varda would not feel bound to enforce an oath of death with them as witnesses, and it goes against the rules of oathing. yes, because the enforcer is Eru, they just stand as witnesses and do not have the power to release the swearers as Eru would. no, because we don't even know if Eru accepted that oath. yes, because if the oath was invalid from the start, it would be beyond callous of Manwe and Varda not to inform the swearers and allow the consequences of the oath to happen. no, because a magical compulsion would remove or to an extent at least lessen responsibility of actions taken in its pursuit. yes, because the author of the story acknowledges a certain "will" of the oath by making it wake or sleep with active verbs. no, because even swearing without additional magic on top can feel like a compulsion to do things or to keep going that otherwise would not exist or not be felt by a given swearer. yes, because no matter what the everlasting darkness is or does, it can be real independently from any other prior compulsion to act; in other words, there may not be a magical property to the oath, but its called consequences for the swearers are very real. no, because there's several slightly different versions of the oath across the texts, and it's impossible to do a literal, word for word reading of its lines if it's possible to recite it slightly differently at a given time. yes, because the only valid version is the original pronounced by Feanor in Tirion, you can't wiggle out of that one. no, because who's to say that was recorded correctly, it's far too poetic for a sudden decision. yes, because who's to say that Feanor couldn't whip out all that via improvisation, I bet he could. yes, because other characters beyond the sons of Feanor treat the oath as something absolutely serious and real, and that includes Finrod in speaking to Andreth, when he says that Eru's name is not called upon even in jest, as well as Melian, when pointing out the strong forces awakened by involving that power. no, because neither of them can talk to Eru anyway. yes, because it's narratively more satisfying to imagine characters morally struggle against something that is eventually unbreakable and unavoidable like in any good tragedy. no, because it's narratively more satisfying to imagine characters do it to themselves and compromise with who they are out of family loyalty. yes, because the curse of Mandos actively turns it against the swearers into a betraying force, a consequence that wouldn't otherwise be a given, that is, nothing says that everything they start well would have finished badly and that the oath would have led them to defeat, and if it weren't magical before Mandos' addition, it is now. no, because Amrod's death in a draft would prove it breakable through his (admittedly only guessed) desire to turn back. yes, because he still died in the process, aka the everlasting darkness claimed him for being an oathbreaker. no, because how is it possible that it's simultaneously unbreakable and broken. yes, because the fate of arda and that of elves is inscribed within the eternal paradox of everything being predicted and everything being free will, and that will never be solved, neither regarding the fate of the elves nor the oath of Feanor. no, because the oath is a narrative device. yes, because the oath is a narrative device. three hundred more lines.

hope this helps. hope it doesn't. your pick.

[perfectlyripeclementine]

calling my lover "mine" but not in the way that my toothbrush or notebook are mine, mine in the way my neighborhood is mine, and also everybody else's, "mine" like mine to tend to, mine to care for, mine to love. "mine" not like possession but devotion.