#but THAT SCENE

[oifaaa]

I can not stress enough that the scene where Percy sends Medusas head to the gods is literally what made me fall in love with Percy as a character bc think about it hes just started his first quest, he's in more danger then he's ever been in his whole life, knowing almost every monster and God is currently out to get him personally, and the most important person in his life has been kidnapped by the god of the dead - so what does he do? He chooses to actively makes the situation worse by sending a middle finger right to the gods bc yeah fuck the gods

[honourablejester]

I was watching a video on top battlefield moments from science fiction, and I was delighted to see included the moment from the Babylon 5 episode ‘Severed Dreams’ where Ambassador Delenn of the Minbari shows up to the Battle of Babylon 5 to invite the enemy Earth Alliance ships to run the fuck away. Because yes. That moment is always a correct choice.

“This is Ambassador Delenn, of the Minbari. Babylon 5 is under our protection. Withdraw, or be destroyed.”

“Negative! We have authority here. Do not force us to engage your ships!”

“Why not? Only one human captain has ever survived battle with a Minbari fleet. He is behind me. You are in front of me. If you value your lives, be somewhere else.”

Followed by the EA ships proving that they did, indeed, value their lives. Heh.

With no context whatsoever, this moment is still boss as hell. One lady shows up with three cruisers and a dinky little White Star warship, and she makes the opposing side, which two seconds ago had the station and all its exhausted defenders dead to rights, literally run away. She says go and they do. Immediately, no questions asked. And she implies why, she implies that Minbari are people humans just don’t want to fight, but if you don’t have context, it might not be clear to you the scale of what she’s talking about.

Which is that, fifteen years ago, Ambassador Delenn of the Minbari, in her fury and grief over what she saw as the murder of her mentor, cast the deciding vote that lead to the Earth-Minbari war, which is a nice thing to call what was essentially a genocidal religious crusade on behalf of the Minbari to completely annihilate the human race. And they damn near succeeded. She regretted her decision almost immediately, but by the time she managed to halt what she’d started, it was during the Battle of the Line. The final annihilation of Earth itself. Earth, humanity, fought them for every inch of space in between, but they lost every single fight. All the way to Earth. No one, except Sheridan, the man behind her, survived battle with the Minbari. And Sheridan, it has to be said, basically cheated, to almost war crime levels, by using a distress call to lure a Minbari ship into a nuclear minefield. That was the only victory humanity eked out. The Minbari just steamrolled them, an implacable tide of annihilation that literally nothing they had could stop. The Earth-Minbari War was not stopped by anything humanity did, it was stopped by Delenn herself showing the Council of Nine that humans had Minbari souls (aka that humans and Minbari could reincarnate as each other, making them in religious terms the same species), granting the Council a religious ground to halt the war. Humanity was, essentially, annihilated by Delenn’s fury, and saved by her compassion, and there was nothing they could do to influence either of them.

That, in this moment, is what just appeared on this battlefield. Embodied in this woman. A fifteen year shadow of the end of their race. The Battle of the Line is etched in every human memory in this setting, the moment when they evacuated their homeworld, evacuated Earth, while every fighting ship they possessed died in orbit trying to delay, not stop, just delay, the implacable tide of the Minbari onslaught.

When Delenn shows up and, in cold, quiet fury, says ‘withdraw or be destroyed’, she fucking means it, and there is not a single human being in this galaxy (or, to be fair, anyone else either) who doesn’t believe her. The Minbari have proved it. You can piss off anyone else in the galaxy you like, you can fight gods, but you do not, ever, piss off the Minbari. Especially not this Minbari.

Because she’s learned since then. She has seen the horrors of war, she has felt the almost incomprehensible stain of blood on her hands, she has fought to stop what she started and realised how infinitely more difficult it is, and she has learned. So if she goes to war now, it is with full knowledge of the cost and the consequence. If you tip her over that line, woe betide you. Because it means she’s decided that your death is worth whatever she can’t stop in the aftermath, and if your death is worth that much, then there’s nothing in this galaxy that will prevent it.

God, but Delenn was such an absolute tour de force of a character. This quiet, gentle, soft-spoken woman whose fury had destroyed races and whose compassion had saved the galaxy. She’s not even warrior caste, she’s religious caste. She’s not, technically speaking, a fighter. But hers is the voice that starts and ends wars, and she has never once flinched from personally standing in the face of annihilation to do so.

If she told you to stop being silly and go home before something bad happened, I promise you, you would listen too. Heh.

(Also yes, I’m aware I’ve posted pretty much exactly this several times before, but literally every time I rewatch that scene it brings this wave of giddy awe and wild ferociousness back. Literally. It’s a scene that makes you want to fist-fight god, and a scene that makes you think you could maybe win too. If Delenn is behind you, then even if you don’t win, you will mess them the fuck up in the process. She’s inspiring that way. Heh).

[snirtsnirkarts]

Hi so I’m watching Elementary for the first time ever we’ve almost finished season one, my dad and I.

HELLO WHY WAS IS HE SUCH A GOOD ACTOR WE JUST FINISHED EPISODE 22 HELP HOW COME I KNEW THIS WAS GONNA HAPPEN BUT HIS ACTING REALLY FUCKING TOOK MY DAMN BREATH AWAY I WAS AS SHOOK AS HE WAS.

[lostangelnights]

It's important to remember that the interview with the vampire cast was wrongfully forgotten. Like idk how you could watch the confessional scene and not immediately give jacob his flowers

[aashiqeddiediaz]

in the last episode of zard patton ka bunn today, meenu graduates medical school with the highest honors after having a hell of a time getting there and she’s brought back on stage to give a speech, but she runs and puts her medals around her father’s neck in front of her cohort. her father looks up at her with a proud grin and smile, dancing in his seat with excitement, and that scene punched me in the GUT.

i cried for a good 30 minutes over it because my dad is just as supportive of me and my dreams, to the lengths he goes for me and my sisters, including right now, where he’s driving 20+ hours to see all of us during a work trip since all three of us live in different states and he lives out of america.

there isn’t a wish i’ve had that he hasn’t supported or fulfilled when it was the right time and i just really…a girly is so emotional all the time over her dad 🥹

[nalyra-dreaming]

You reminded me of how horrified I was when I first saw that ep and Louis just left the baby on the FLOOR?! I forgot about it almost instantly, bc of the vampire drama otherwise, but how did Grace process that?! HOW WOULD YOU PROCESS THAT?! Did they ever talk about it again?! WTFFF. Like considering how this had to look to outsiders is INSANE.

Yeah, exactly, like...

Ok. so. AS A MOM. (I'm obviously biased, ahem)

(You know, the brainwaves between mothers and babies align when constantly close, so that sixth sense people sometimes talk about, that's real. And a mother does hear the tone of the crying very keenly. It's instinct, in large parts, that's nothing learned.)

But that is also why Grace is so disturbed when she hears the baby cry, because that tone... that tone signals distress.

She left the baby happily enough with Louis, no problem, you go, looks good. She fully trusted him.

And then she gets back... and not only is the baby distressed, it is laying on the floor, all alone, and her brother has fled.

Something has happened.

She doesn't know what it is, she very possibly cannot imagine either, but it isn't good. We're <10 years in, so the aging is not yet a real problem, imho, but Louis is obviously not coming by often, and there must be a lot of rumors by now, about the Azalea, and that townhouse.

At that moment, the trust is gone.

(I know that there was this post a while back re eating the baby, but ... Mama Du Lac would have gone after them with a torch if he actually ate the baby, imho. Grace right beside her. They knew where they lived.)

But the trust is bad enough, imho. Her (mortal) brother would have never. And she is right about that!

And I think a part of Louis knows that, too, and it is also a part of what hurts him here so deeply. And what widens the rift even more.

And I, personally, would have resented that change in my brother, and I think that simply is what happens here, too. Grace knows in that instance, that she has lost her brother. And so her behavior towards him changes, and her attitude in regards to his life (style). But that has nothing to do with homophobia.

[pantsaretherealheroes]

lmao edge of history trying to demonstrate jess and tasha's ride-or-die friendship by...having tasha watch the "you're my mission" "i'm with you till the end of the line" scene in winter soldier?? one of the most tragic romantic scenes in CINEMA?? bro unless you're suggesting something very unexpected I really doubt it

[fl3a-bag]

It’s their greatest invention as of yet

[jordanbolton]

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[everoutoftouch]

If you have Spotify reblog this and tag what your number one song on your “on repeat” playlist is.

[aquilaofarkham]

every autistic person watching this episode of dungeon meshi:

[swedenis-h]

Wife lovers till they die

[hansoeii]

only you.

[so-many-ocs]

[on the verge of having a complete breakdown] i need to make some kind of list or perhaps sort things into categories

[prompt-heaven]

a list of 100+ buildings to put in your fantasy town

academy

adventurer's guild

alchemist

apiary

apothecary

aquarium

armory

art gallery

bakery

bank

barber

barracks

bathhouse

blacksmith

boathouse

book store

bookbinder

botanical garden

brothel

butcher

carpenter

cartographer

casino

castle

cobbler

coffee shop

council chamber

court house

crypt for the noble family

dentist

distillery

docks

dovecot

dyer

embassy

farmer's market

fighting pit

fishmonger

fortune teller

gallows

gatehouse

general store

graveyard

greenhouses

guard post

guildhall

gymnasium

haberdashery

haunted house

hedge maze

herbalist

hospice

hospital

house for sale

inn

jail

jeweller

kindergarten

leatherworker

library

locksmith

mail courier

manor house

market

mayor's house

monastery

morgue

museum

music shop

observatory

orchard

orphanage

outhouse

paper maker

pawnshop

pet shop

potion shop

potter

printmaker

quest board

residence

restricted zone

sawmill

school

scribe

sewer entrance

sheriff's office

shrine

silversmith

spa

speakeasy

spice merchant

sports stadium

stables

street market

tailor

tannery

tavern

tax collector

tea house

temple

textile shop

theatre

thieves guild

thrift store

tinker's workshop

town crier post

town square

townhall

toy store

trinket shop

warehouse

watchtower

water mill

weaver

well

windmill

wishing well

wizard tower