#distilled from their love

[ramon-tikaram-love]

–I love you. –I know. –I mean it.

Ramon Tikaram as Charon Stephen Dillane as Prometheus Kaos (2024–)

[makalauriels]

Some people: Meh, nothing much happens this episode. Me, a sobbing mess: Tom Bombadil and Goldberry's voice and Rorimas Burrows who longed for Sûzat and Ents holding hands with Entwives and Theo hugging Arondir and Elen síla lúmenn' omentielvo and

[playablekairi]

why were you digging? what did you bury? before those hands pulled me from the earth

[shorthaltsjester]

being a huge fan of tlou but also like. thinking that certain stories are built for certain mediums. like the entire theme of tlou2 is grounded and fresh because it’s a railroad/story video game that still affords you mechanical choices in how you navigate the world. i just don’t have a lot of confidence that presenting that story in a tv show with the minimal adjustments that they did in s1 will be fulfilling or compelling in any comparable way. because with tlou1 some of the like. beauty of that story was simply that it was such an emotive story contained in the medium of video games. and some of that was retained just by hitting similar or expanded emotional beats in the show, like the episodes that expanded on the life of the characters and the realities of that world. but truly so much of tlou2 emotional depth and ‘why does this story matter’ rests in the fact that’s it’s your hands on the controller, continually choosing to go forward in the story and have hope that it will work out in your-as-ellie-or-abby-or-somehow-booth’s favour. and you simply cannot get that in a non-interactive medium like television. like i do think tlou2 is a good story but it’s a good story because of the investment required by the player to keep pressing buttons and keep returning and to feel the adrenaline like responses of high intensity moments and be jarringly shifted into backstories that only increase the frustration. in general i’ve been thinking a lot about cross-medium adaptation and on the one hand i am glad that season 1 makes the story of the last of us more accessible to people who wouldn’t pick up a video game but it’s also like. maybe instead we can destigmatize video games as this inaccessible and dangerous medium a bit more instead of just . implicitly agreeing . like no maybe your mom won’t pick up a video game controller and play the last of us . but maybe you can play the game in the living room. sometimes the mediums that stories are told in aren’t just important but are actually foundational parts of how the information of a story is conveyed and that’s not only okay but is fucking fantastic. we should be happy actually that there are so many ways to collect a bunch of themes and ideas and put them together and hold them out to someone else and say “won’t you consider this with me. won’t you feel these emotions and care about these characters with me.”

[dollypopup]

just. . .do y'all remember when Polin actually loved each other in our fandom? do you remember when our posts were about how sweet they were together? when it was about how they were on one another's teams? when it was story after story and post after post of polin against the world? of 'I like you' 'I like you too'? of 'Is life meant to be this happy?' 'I think so'? Do you remember when we were all about how much Colin loved Penelope and Penelope loved Colin? When the biggest narrative was that they saw one another, made one another brave, brought out the best in each other? When the mirror was more than just a sex scene and was also a metaphor for what they saw in each other and how they reflected one another? When they were kind to each other? When we were kind to them as characters? When they were encouraging? When they were affectionate and loving and tenderhearted and messy and silly and loving with one another? When Penelope chose Colin at every turn and Colin chose her?

Where is it? Where is the love for our couple? Be honest, wanting Colin to grovel and suffer isn't for Polin fans. It's for Pen stans. Because us Colin fans are shown time and time and time again that it's okay to call a character we love an idiot, want him egregiously punished or humiliated, to see nothing good in his character at all. So who else is it meant for? I miss when we cared about them. I miss when there was a place we could go that was about their romance and tenderness. I miss when it wasn't just straight up hating on him, or us obsessed with Penelope getting with other characters, or thinking he's less than.

We have one of the *best* Male Love Leads in the entire series. And if you don't think that way. . .I just don't understand why you claim to ship this ship. We have an amazing pairing. A wonderful couple. A couple who cares about each other, a couple who builds one another up, a couple that are friends, a couple that has passion and happiness and so much potential.

Do you remember our gifsets gushing about how much he cared for her? Do you remember our metas about how they could bloom and flourish around one another? When we looked at how Colin was hypervisible but ultimately unheard and how Penelope was invisible but the loudest voice in the ton and sighed about how they fit so well with one another? Do you remember when Penelope was proud to have Colin as a partner and he showed her off at every turn? Do you remember when it wasn't a scorecard? When it wasn't about suffering and was about tenderness? Do you remember when they LOVED each other in our fandom? Do you remember when we loved them?

I remember.

And I miss it. I miss it so much.

[conkreetmonkey]

I wanna make a Conky ref and lore sheet/bio, I'm really growing attached to that goober

[clove-pinks]

I'm so obsessed with Fort Meigs, and I wonder how many of my mutuals know how it's pronounced.

It's "Meggs" (written phonetically), rhymes with legs. That's how (most) War of 1812 historians and enthusiasts say it, and that's how the locals pronounce it. I remember one video from a Kentucky historical society pronounced it like "Miggs," but maybe that's the Kentucky accent.

Head Quarters Camp Meigs April 22nd 1813

Genl Orders

The Guards will in future when relieved be conducted to the outside of the Camp and under the direction of the Officer of the day will discharge the loads in their Guns at a Mark— The best shot will receive a quart of whiskey the second best a pint upon the Order of the Officer of the day—

— Orderly Book of Cushing's Company, Fort Meigs (Ed. by Harlow Lindsey, The Ohio Historical Society)

[ratwars]

I was going to change my description and the gif on my desktop theme and got completely distracted listening to Ohgr for the past hour basically. Super enjoyable but not helpful.

[vaguely-concerned]

blue getting zero an arm (+ helmet and body armor??? a sword?????) made out of beskar to give him an edge fighting against force users/lightsabers..........

(cortosis weave might be more doable, honestly, but it lacks that edge of delicious cultural specificity blue normally dodges so ably haha. giving your partner beskar for their armor sounds like some traditional mando wedding gift bullshit and that's exactly the kind of unhinged romantic I suspect blue could be once unleashed. beskar seems to have been extremely tightly regulated and restricted by the empire during the time this would be relevant, but also blue works there, has no principles, and knows hacking better than any of his comparatively boomer colleagues... I believe in him I think he could've pulled off this completely bonkers move of a romantic gesture if inspiration struck him. also very funny way of him losing his job and having to join the rebels if he gets caught)

sorry. sorry I can't hear anything or anyone over the mental image of zero in full splendid knight gear. terrifying loyal right hand man knight (who's a DJ and space mario kart champion in his spare time), standing next to his Little Dude/bitch-boy-liege-lord-but-only-in-a-kinky-sense/partner, who looks like nature set out, through trial and error and millions of years of evolution, to produce a being optimally shaped to be shoved into lockers. (and you could certainly try but also: aforementioned loyal right hand ruthless killer & karter currently chuckling over funny cat videos.) I am so right for this I think

[silverysongs]

i feel like people (on my dash) aren't talking about so long, london and it's the song that means the most to me. like I full-on wept in my car today listening to it

[impossible-rat-babies]

love the gameplay trailer bc the lady is like: “could you have held fast that which is dear? without sacrifice?” and my brain just jump cuts to eyrie family guy death pose at the end of EW

[welcometoteyvat]

ohhhhh gaming we're really in it now

[gena-rowlands]

the way i couldn't even take a scrap of joy out of the flashback date scene because i couldn't stop thinking about how i feel like the writers are speaking through penelope. think about it. "i find it very hard to have a conversation with you when i'm not dunking on you". after those first few episodes where luke was pivotal in getting penelope back on the team what have his storylines been? during those interactions the most memorable moments are penelope 'dunking' on him. think about luke's character in general. what unique storylines have they given him during his five seasons on the show? i genuinely don't see this interaction as anything other than the writers admitting they see luke as a side-character whose sole purpose is to bounce off other characters for funny moments. and i'm so angry and i hate this reboot and i hate the writers and i hate it all!!!

[thedreadvampy]

I have potted out 3/5 of my seedling trays and oh boy oh man. I may be running out of windowsill.

let's hope they live longer this year

Sooooo we have 6 cherry tomato bushes, 5 scotch bonnets and 6 numex twilight (which is a multicoloured-fruiting mini chilli bush that I have yet to successfully get to maturity but if I do it'll be so cute, it's got yellow and red and purple fruits all jumbled in together).

then on the kitchen windowsill still in the potting trays (....takeaway boxes) I've got some ghost peppers (germinated but still too small to pot out) and some habaneros (planted more recently bc I forgot I had the seed so hopefully will see some shoots in the next couple of weeks). plus some peas because the FUCKING pigeons have dug up the last 4 sets I planned outside so we're going to try indoor germination.

I also broke up the crowded pot of basil I got for 28p in the clearance fridge like a month ago bc it's dying off and split it across 2 bigger pots, and planted a sweetpea kit mum gave me. so all in all a productive time.

[kringelorde]

irrespective of the quality of anybody in these bands, why the FUCK do deathcrush, darkness descends, and south of heaven have some of THE meanest fucking opening riffs in (extreme) metal

[reco-obsessed]

seeing how much spam reblogging i can do to this reko account before they realize im also insane about her and block me