#couple rings set

[aroaceleovaldez]

i think the thing i'm most disappointed about with riordanverse fandom now versus like 2014 is not only has the fandom not gotten any less racist or queerphobic or ableist (in fact in some regards its gotten worse!) but now it's just boring too. like there's no fandom infrastructure anymore - the community these days is almost entirely source material-driven - and you deviate from canon even slightly people get weird about it. whatever happened to the post-HoO fanon boom. the fandom needs to get weirder again. and self-sufficient. and less offensive.

[sillylotrpolls]

Today's poll is inspired by @roselightfairy, who got me thinking about Legolas' (lack of) prominent friendships with the Fellowship aside from Gimli.

[faunandfloraas]

skz merch designed by the members, in age order.

[fullmoonfireball]

i don’t even know if pebble-gifting is a common Metadede trope anymore

context/quick penguin infodump under the cut bc i realized most people aren’t mentally ill about penguins and got rambly

pebble-gifting only occurs in penguin species who make their nests out of pebbles... which is pretty much exclusively the Brushtail family of penguins- Adélies, Gentoos, and Chinstraps. this behaviour isn’t really courtship related, but there can be a bonding aspect to it regardless. fairy penguins in particular don’t partake in this, because they live in warm climates (being native to Australia and New Zealand) and thus use grass in their subterranean nests.

[emblazons]

I still can’t believe there are people who think that Will “I’m not gonna fall in love, just kidding I am in love already but I think I’ve been rejected so let’s rip off the bandaid” Byers isn’t going to get what he wants…in a show whose whole premise started with his abduction and is, by it’s creators own repeated admission, both going to focus on him the final season + about championing the underdog and the outcast.

It really is that simple, because once you know what the Duffers value...even if you haven’t dug that far into the show, it’s obvious where the “it started with Will, it will end with Will” is taking us based on tropes alone, if you listen to anything The Duffers say about their themes and narrative goals.

You don't even need color coding or parallels to other media to sort through it, because outside of any "but it was the 80s" commentary or "they would never break up the flagship couple" talk...Byler is literally just the logical thematic conclusion for Will's arc as the full embodiment of the outcasted, childlike AND the underdog, even if you don't like what they did to get our characters there.

Like? Will is literally the boy who represents the duffers love of being a “child at heart” and taking things you adored from your youth into being a grown up (see: their entire mf show being based on DnD and the media they loved as kids) on top of being a queer, poor, and regularly disrepected character.

He is the textbook representation of the outcast and underdog energy The Duffers love, to the point where you could hardly fit more "marginalized and imperfect" checkboxes into him without making him poc...and yet people actually believe he is going to be rejected not because there is no setup, or because there is no precedence for the storyline but solely because his love interest (who also has a non-conformity storyline and who is already making heart eyes at him) is currently dating a girl...and it would be "realistic" for him to get rejected? ☠️

Not to mention...I haven't even touched on how byler resolves Mike's own thematic issues and it already makes the most sense? Like?

How do you miss the most obvious plot twist setup in history not because its not blatantly set up, but because you’re homophobic? It really does have to be the blindness of heteronormativity thats driving most of this, because if you were a media literate homophobe, you would be screaming at the Duffers for doing it, not denying it’s happening at all. But ☕️

[carefulfears]

mulder and diana literally have the most intense divorced energy anyone could ever have...they have the chemistry of two people who've been married for decades and maybe don't wanna be married anymore, maybe aren't married anymore, but once you're married you're grandfathered in. you're always married. haven't touched each other in years, go most days not even considering the other, but owe each other something, and aren't sure of what it is. diana lies and lies and lies to his face, and then dies to save him. she feels entitled to him, she knows what's best for him, what's his is theirs. always. she was there when he got it. she helped him build it. (she tells him herself: "don't forget that"). so much of what she does appears as she's trying to establish a claim over him, but she doesn't have to try. she just is. she's irreproachable. you don't talk about the wife. (and you don't talk to her, as scully and diana arguing is met only with mulder's impatient, "scully...scully...scully.")

any time she comes up in conversation, his friends are uncomfortable. i love the way byers goes "well....yeah?" when scully asks if he knows diana. he says it like he's surprised that scully didn't know about her. when scully won't stop pressing mulder about diana in one son, all three of the boys tense up. the camera keeps going to their reactions. (you don't talk about the wife. they were there. "i always wondered why they split up.")

scully says "special agent diana fowley" as though maybe if she had one more title to throw in, she would disappear. diana says "fox" like she has something to prove. mulder says "diana" like it communicates everything he doesn't say. and in a way, it does. the first time scully heard him call agent fowley "diana," she knew.

[yourdailyjormy]

More "learning to do icons" practice. I like this one a lot more than the equivalent for Faramir, to the extent that I might go back and try to fix Faramir's laughing one. but this one does also actually feel like the Same Person as the other icon I did, even if it's got a bit of stylistic drift. like, if I saw the two together

I would at least be like "yes these are clearly the same guy and done by the same artist" even if I don't think they're quite a set yet.

[kathrynmjaneway]

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[slimeciclecock]

slimariana are so funny because they'll have canon sex 6 times on 4 separate occasions and they'll be dressed differently each time

[wildlyfreemoon]

gojo buys his partner matching couples clothing

[anythingbyadriannelenker]

japanese breakfast dressed as lord of the rings characters for halloween and it was AMAZING. like full commitment to the bit, including elaborate costuming, stage theming, and the fucking "what about second breakfast?" scene playing before the encore.

[wedding-engagement-rings]

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[frigidlyauthorial]

someone stop me from rewatching the first two seasons of cw the flash it’s getting scary out here

[wintaerbaer]

Twds jace: how did you end up cheating on oc? Weren’t you thinking on marrying her?

"I had thought about it, sure. But she never seemed to have two feet fully in the relationship so I never actually made any move for it." He sighs. "The cheating happened after a stressful day of work. We were supposed to grab take-out afterwards and watch a movie, have a nice night in together. But then Taehyung stubbed his toe or some bullshit, and suddenly she had to rain check and go over there instead." A shake of his head as his mouth slants into a frown. "At the end of the day, she wasn't there and my coworker was. We went out for drinks and...yeah..." He shrugs. "I feel bad, but it is what it is."

[maddisandy]

something something still writing my curse of strahd fic. having to find ways to make it more difficult since theyre coming in from being level 13 post game

[sunsage]

(It's not a bad financial decision if I have money to afford it, right)