#but this one is for history and legend

[regulusrules]

sometimes it's a bit embarrassing really to be a merlin fan irl. was in a museum yesterday in luxembourg displaying the history of europe, and before anyone could notice, there was a very undignified shriek erupting from me in the middle of the place as I saw this

[talkativelock]

I love the main three Arcane couples cuz it's like

first there's JayVik. and they went "Let's do Madoka Magica, but make it Joy instead of Bittersweet and also about combating internalized ableism." and I'm already climbing the walls like a creature

and then there's TimeBomb. and these insane people went "I think we should doom the straights, let's doom the straights. how about he can control time to a certain extent but not enough to save her from herself and the past so he loses her anyway but not before realizing how good they could have been together. oh and she will never really get the chance to find out." and i'm already crying in the club

and then there's fucking CaitVi god fucking bless. these glorious bastards literally went "the lesbians? yeah they get to have the crazy life-affirming sex in the poorly thought out location at a point of high emotional tension, and they also get to have the happily ever after in the nice house where they verbally confirm to the audience that they are going to be staying together." and I'm already cheering in the stadium

[english-history-trip]

[aquanutart]

[coreytaylr]

100% legit totally real facts about the historical stede bonnet

no the title is not a lie these are really REAL bc believe it or not, somehow the show made our stede MORE competent than the real one

sources: Real Pirates podcast (ep1, ep2, ep3, ep4, ep5), Dirty Sexy History podcast (with jeremy moss, bonnet's biographer, who LOVES the show, and said it changed his perspective on bonnet's and blackbeard's relationship PLUS he has the stedesrevenge handle on twt)

the library on the revenge was a real thing. the man really did that.

running away from his family to be a pirate

paying a salary to his crew

SHOWING UP IN NASSAU IN FRILLY GENTLEMANLY CLOTHES AND A POWDERED WIG

before bonnet's capture, he ran his ship aground and that's how the english caught up with him BUT the two english ships also ran aground (😭), so they fought each other with their flintlock pistols from behind their ships (until the tides turned and dislodged the english ships first. rip)

adopted an alias when he started pirating so people wouldn't know it was him but he raided ships near Barbados (where he's from), so that didnt turn out well. his solution? burning every ship from Barbados

he only succeeded in his early days bc merchant ships knew they would get off easier if they surrendered

ATTACKED A WARSHIP that whooped his ass so bad he almost died. the remaining crew steered the ship to Nassau where he met blackbeard

blackbeard stole the revenge from him but "allowed" him to stay on BB's ship (either as a guest or as a prisoner, it's not clear, but he def wasn't a crew member bc he didn't have any chores)

he was seen on deck running around in his gowns 😭😭

BB eventually reinstated him as the captain of the revenge and they sailed together for a while

"there is a 4 month period where stede and blackbeard kind of disappeared and no one really knows what they were doing" 👀

BB allowed bonnet to raid on his own which lead to him getting his ass beat by the Protestant Caesar. BB then proceeded to HUNT DOWN THE PROTESTANT CAESAR while flying the RED FLAG (which meant no mercy to anyone on board)

bonnet would raid ships and take what provisions he needed and give the other ship what he didn't need (essentially the library raiding scene lmaoo)

BB betrayed bonnet by raiding his ship and marooning his crew while bonnet was off getting a pardon

SO BONNET SWORE REVENGE AGAINST BB who was at the time, the most feared pirate

this led to him adopting another alias - "he also changes his name, at the time he goes by captain edward's. which is really interesting, I don't know if that's an homage to, you know, edward teach, but.. captain edward's with an "s", that's as if he's.. a possession of captain edward" ONCE AGAIN 👀👀👀👀

HE ESCAPED PRISON BY DRESSING AS A WOMAN

after escaping, he was promised a sloop by some rando. when the rando didnt deliver, bonnet "WROTE HIM A STRONGLY WORDED LETTER REPRIMANDING THE MAN"

that letter led to him being recaptured 😭😭

he was hanged while holding a bouquet of wilted flowers

[peachy-scars]

haha bro I think the glory and legacy that overshadows your actual achievements is shadowing over on me too lol .

[bakanokiwami]

TOP 10 CARTOON/COMIC/GRAPHIC NOVEL FANDOMS ON AO3 BASED ON NUMBER OF FANWORKS,SINGLE CATEGORY TAG ONLY VERSION (2009-2022)

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To make these bar chart race, all series titles in the Cartoons/Comics/Graphic Novels category on November 29 (or the closest date to it) of every year were copy-pasted from Wayback Machine to Google Sheets, rearranged according to number of fanworks, manually filtered for fandoms belonging in only one category, and then inputted to Flourish to turn into a bar chart race.

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Please refer to this post for more bar chart races.

Thanks for understanding and hopefully I didn’t mess up anywhere! 🙏

[kastillia]

[phoenixcatch7]

The more I think about it the more confused I am by the very brief appearance the triforce makes in botw (and then nothing at all in totk?). Like, it should have evaporated calamity ganon on the spot, it should have overpowered him completely. If zelda had his triforce piece, if he didn't have the Power piece to resist like in tp. He should have gone poof.

Did she accidentally use her wish early? Pure hearted don't break the triforce by wishing on it, it didn't save link, it didn't defeat ganon. Did it break? Where did the pieces go? I can't remember if she actually had a triforce mark on her hand?

Totk having the triforce be in pieces above the clouds would have been so cool...

I'm not considering aoc canon for this but also?? What's zeldas magic and what's the triforce? Did -

Did she just wish for the power to save link? To defend him and protect the kingdom? Is THAT why she suddenly became so insanely strong??

Wait I think I'm onto something here. Zelda carrying the triforce without realising and only having the strength to wish upon it in her darkest hour, but being unaware and untrained, the triforce lost to faintest myth over eons, instead of wishing for ganon to be destroyed and the kingdom restored like every other purposeful use in other games, she instead simply wished to be able to save link, to not be powerless, not be helpless.

And the triforce granted it. Which is why that's the only time it appeared in botk.

[hyacinthsdiamonds]

No more points for the fastest lap? Just say you hate drivers 1 being lil shits and stealing fastest a point from their competitors, and 2 doing their job and driving fast

[bokettochild]

Fanon Sky and Legend:

Sky is the sweetheart sleepyhead who loves Hylia because she is his beloved

Legend is the grouchy guy who hates the goddesses and resents the fact that he's been on so many adventures

The Blood of Heroes' History Sky and Legend

Sky is a very tired knight trying to accustom his people to the surface, is plagued by visions and unable to sleep, hates Hylia with a passion for making him and his Zelda into little puppets to do her whim, and is so messed up by Impa's comments

Legend is a well seasoned adventurer who's not ever really considered the reality of a life without adventures, and who befriended and rescues goddesses all the time, he's got his own hobbies on the side during his adventures, and generally is content with his life as is (apart from losing those he loves all the time)

[mourn-and-watch]

so if solas sees himself in the inquisitor because of how they were made a leader, a prophet and a symbol by people who followed them, just as fen'harel had been made a leader and a saviour for by the freed elven slaves, will he see himself in rook because they're left alone against the threat they can't possibly defeat without singlehandedly making decisions that will impact the world in unknown ways, just as fen'harel had been left alone against evanuris with no other option but to create the veil

[bloodstainsontengensfloor]

ARCANE FINALE SPOILERS ⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️

The First time Vi reached for Powder

The last time Vi reached for her

[minimallycreative]

a list of media i like for when people ask what i'm into

Books

The Hunger Games

Red, White, and Royal Blue

The Song of Achilles

Pride and Prejudice

What If It's Us and Here's To Us

The Truly Devious Series

The Secret History

If We Were Villains

The Handmaids Tale

The Magnolia Palace and The Lions On Fifth Street

A Good Girls Guide To Murder

If This Gets Out

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

Circe

One Last Stop

King Lear

TV Shows

Brooklyn 99

ATLA

TLOK

Young Royals (I haven't finished the third season because I know i'll cry and I haven't had the strength)

Good Omens

The Dragon Prince

She-Ra, the reboot

Call The Midwife

Dead Boy Detectives

Sweet Magnolias

School Spirits

Music

Paris Paloma

Hozier

Florence + The Machine

Ramblewood

Stevie Howie

Twenty One Pilots

Fall Out Boys

Ashnikko

Halsey

Miranda Lambert

Carrie Underwood

Erin Kinsey

Sleep Token

Conan Gray

[that-butch-archivist]

as a baby butch i really appreciate your blog,, i feel so lost sometimes esp as a black butch as i haven't seen many sources on other studs,, so just having these lists is really awesome :)

Hey, thanks so much for reaching out, lovely to hear from you! I'm glad the lists are helping you, honestly that's everything I could have hoped for. Unfortunately, I have also found that it's strangely difficult to find material on black butches and studs ... but I am on the hunt nevertheless! As of the past two weeks a few more black lesbian anthologies have arrived and I have a few more lined up that I hope to procure soon--all this to say that I hope to present more material to you that suits your interests in the days & weeks to come. I hope we both can find good stuff for you. :)

(Which, speaking of ... if ANYONE out there happens to know where the treasure trove of black butches & stud lore is, I would happily trade my best cheesecake and/or cookie recipes for this knowledge. I can also provide manual labor and cleaning services.)

[listen-to-the-inner-walrus]

Top 10 stickers that are impossible to explain when you open them in front of family members who don't use tumblr.