#caves are neat

[tathrin]

Hey, so do you ever stop to think about how the premise of Lord of the Rings being an in-universe book written by some of the characters who lived through that story means that they decided what parts and perspectives to use to tell that story...?

And when our authors weren't there to experience the events themselves, they have to rely on what they're told about them by the characters who were there, right...?

Okay so stop and think about the Glittering Caves.

We never actually go to the caves in the narrative. Tolkien LOVES describing nature and natural beauty, but we don't actually see the caves described "by him" the way we do other places. Obviously Gimli's words are Tolkien's, yes; but we only see the caves filtered through his words about them, after the fact.

When Gimli and Éomer and the other Rohirrim take refuge there, the narrative doesn't follow them. Obviously from a narrative standpoint this is to keep the focus narrow, and not to interrupt the battle-sequence with a long ode to the beauty of the caves, and to create tension in the reader who doesn't know if these characters are okay or not. Which all makes sense!

But think about it in terms of the book that was written in Middle-earth by the folk living there. Why DON'T we get to have a direct experience of those caves? Gimli obviously related several other parts of the story that none of the Hobbits were there to witness to them, and which were written into the books as Direct Events Happening In The Narrative (think of the Paths of the Dead scene, for one of the more visceral moments!). So why not the Glittering Caves?

Was it because they wanted to keep that narrative focus and tension, and so they didn't include his perspective on that part of the battle? Perhaps, that's certainly a possibility to consider.

But also consider: when we do hear about the Glittering Caves, what we hear is Gimli telling Legolas about the Glittering Caves. THAT is the part of that event that is considered of importance to include in the book: not Gimli's actual experience when he was in them, but rather the part where he relates that experience TO Legolas.

And I kind of just THOUGHT about that today.

And went HUH.

[robo-dino-puppy]

horizon forbidden west | riverhymn

[inexplicably-spookified]

fucking bnuuy background friday

[un-pearable]

i think ninjago fans need to rewatch s3e7 every once in a while. to keep them humble and remind them of the wonders of an early 2010s lego that didn’t give a shit

[crebbyhermit]

aoilight enjoyers come get your food

[casual-praxis]

I don’t know if or when I’ll finish this but the pose turned out pretty good, so I figured I’d toss this into the void while I’m here.

I had the idea of Red holding a boom slime from Slime Rancher, and then I realized those things explode like, every couple seconds. He’s probably fine, just a little crispy (originally his smile looked a lot more pained and I struggled so hard to smooth it out).

I’m starting to think Red might be my new muse. It’s been a while since I’ve had one of those for drawing. Very exciting.

Usually I have my line width jotted down somewhere since my phone doesn’t have pressure sensitivity, but this time I just went with the flow. Whatever happened happened. It’s nicer that way I should do it more often.

[quinndreamsoftravel]

Natural Bridge Park

[not-thenauts]

Entering Octonauts Catalogue . . .

3:32 am, April 6, 2024;

Dashi : “Captain! Captain!”

Captain Barnacles : “Yes, Dashi?”

Dashi : “We found it. We found out what was behind that cave and…”

Captain Barnacles : “Did something happen?”

Dashi : “You’ll have to look at the footage yourself, Captain.”

Captain Barnacles : “Oh… my…”

Dashi : “It’s absolutely stunning— monumental even! This is going to change everything!”

Captain Barnacles : “Faster than you can say crunchy-bunchy-however you say it- carrots!”

Tweak : “Hey, that’s my line!”

Exempted from catalogue.

[19catsncounting]

What if one of the reasons Lucifer cast a jaundiced eye at humanity was because humans get an afterlife in Heaven and angels Don't?

God didn't stop making crazy bloodthirsty primordial creatures after the Leviathans and angels and hellhounds and even Lucifer feared the Shedim for an implicit reason, so the odds are pretty decent that at least one angel was killed between the creation of the angels and the Garden of Eden, and the angels probably had to be like "...Where Thee Fuck is Death Taking Our Brother Steveniel" and God ~Mysteriously~ said "Don't worry about it :)" (because The Empty is never really mentioned until it's shown and when Castiel dies or kills other angels it's not "They're resting now" but "They're Fucking Annihilated") but then at some point in the human evolutionary tree they get souls (Supernatural explicitly denying the Adam and Eve creation myth with the "big plans for that fish" line but still having a Garden of Eden is fascinating and messy in this way but I personally think there were more than just two homo sapiens in the Garden and one of them might've dropped dead because the original plan for humanity and how much divinity or purity was defiled or lost is So Very Debatable) and those souls get to go to Heaven and Lucifer??? Is just supposed to be Chill about it???

Like, even if Lucifer thinks that they'll just Never Die, there's a Decent Chance that if they do, God's just gonna wave goodbye as Death carries them off to that Mysterious Somewhere beyond creation and God and... Yeah I don't think I'd be super enthused if I knew that if I tripped over my own feet on accident, my weird uncle would just carry me off the face of the earth Forever and my dad, my entire world, would just Let That Happen. All while my snotty nosed toddler sibling gets to stumble around and gets picked up and cooed over every time they fall.

(And then Lucifer dies and God brings them back and gives them the mission of fucking over the Winchesters and Boy That's Pretty Embarassing I Guess Dad Does Love Me Haha Jk I Was A Lil Crazy Back in Middle School 🤪 )

[brandnewwave]

happy birthday to me. self indulgent doodle time

[cinnamon-flame]

Here are some Swoobats that I drew to reset my mind. I honestly love these guys so much and I want to spread the Swoobat love.

[itspileofgoodthings]

when @awake-my-oceans said that I got stuck because of understandable very deep hurt but then I got unstuck and it was just like “look at her go”

[psilliguykai]

Eh, while I’m sharing sculpture assignments I figured I might as well share my first one too! This was from earlier in the year, just never got around to posting it.

Ignore that “facial structures appear to vary widely” thing that’s. Not how animals work lol. They just have some variation and my half-asleep brain phrased that kinda incorrectly I think. Pretty sure I exaggerated the contour lines in that section too uhhh oops

Anyways I had a lot of fun with this project, I like the result, and it got a 100% !! Yippee :D so thankfully my hours of bending wire and the pain in my fingers weren’t for nothing lol

I really like olms. Really strange little creatures. Very neat.

[plasky]

I think it would be neat if Blixer was pictured as either older or something old brought back to life

[jadeazora]

As an aside to Pokemon Altair, I do think Wallace and Steven have aspects to their characters that makes them fit into the villain role pretty well (even tho they're still good people and wouldn't be evil of their own volition.)

With Wallace, it's mostly the bombastic personality and stage presence, really always makes a villain more fun to watch and interesting when they've got that charismatic side to them.

Steven is genuinely a pretty nice guy, but does have a bit more of a merciless side to him that even Wallace notes. He'll do what he has to do in order to protect his interests. There's also that time in the anime where he showed up when Team Flare's plan was kicking off, presumably having headed to Lysandre Labs to put a stop to Lysandre himself, and had his Mega Metagross attack Mable and her Weavile directly (they barely avoided it and were sent flying in its wake), with its Meteor Mash blowing up the building behind her.

It's a shame that's where being an older hack comes in (it dates back to 2010), since while they were pretty creative with the changes they made and how they handled the storyline basically having the same plot progression as Emerald's in spite of it being a sequel, I feel they could've done a little more with them and Nemea, the evil Legendary that's responsible for their turn (it would be cool to see a more modernized remake with an enhanced story, but I don't think anyone would bother enough):

[boyheros]

I looooove that design element where like. A character has extremelyyyy light irises so if their face is in any amount of shadow you can draw their irises as brighter than the eye white. idk it's just so cool.