#does not have a good ring to it

[shadesofmauve]

The first watch mess was arguing about gendered terms for asari when Junior Flight Officer Bo Huan showed up for what, for them, must be a very late night snack.

"I'm just saying," Kaur was (just) saying, "obviously the asari don't gender their words, so it seems like early translators made some big leaps with what we consider 'asari' terms."

Joker caught Huan's eye, held up a finger, and whispered, "Wait for it..."

They didn't have to wait long. With XO Nguyen's stern presence keeping everyone in line, Shepard was able to put her metaphorical feet up and join the fun — and she did relish telling people about being called an anthropocentric bag of dicks. She saw her opportunity as soon as Joker had, and Huan laughed in surprise at both the insult and Joker's apparent precognition.

When they'd stopped, they shook their head, grinning. "We do hang on to way too much gendered shit," they said.

"Well, you don't."

"Yes, but that's a lot of responsibility I have to carry for the rest of you."

"You wanna know some real historical shit?" Joker said. He leaned closer to Huan, grinning in anticipation, "That I will never say in front of Shepard?"

Huan looked a little leery, like this was either going to be good or they were going to have to entirely re-calibrate their idea of him as a person, and they weren't sure which, but they leaned in.

"Back, like, 200 years ago," Joker said, subtly indicating Shepard where she sat, smiling at her crew like a benevolent monarch, "They called the ship's captain the 'Old Man of the Boat.'"

Huan almost choked.

"I know!" Joker said, gleefully. "She'd kill me."

"Violence in the mess hall!" Huan said. "Pilot found stabbed with butter-knife."

"Oh, she has a better knife on her, bet your last credit, but it doesn't matter. She wouldn't even have to get up. It'd be the Death Glare, right from there." Joker squinted his eyes comically. "Boom, phhzzzzt! I wouldn't stand a chance." He rolled his eyes back and pantomimed his own demise.

Across the room, Shepard noticed his antics. Her forehead wrinkled, but she smiled bemusedly, glad they were enjoying themselves.

[largemandrill]

I made another one

[almondpiglet]

just fooling around at the speed of sound... found a cool brush to play with...

[rosefires20]

My brainrot today is thinking about just how incredible for a character Eowyn is.

Genuinely. The series might not have many female characters but the ones we do get go so fucking hard.

To me, Eowyn is literally the definition of defining being a woman for oneself. She rejects the roles she is given despite acknlowdging the importance and its mostly because she knows part of the reason is that she is a woman.

The reason why she is obsessed with Aragorn isn't because she loves him but because she wants what he has. She wants the freedom and courage and bravery that Aragorn has at every turn. She literally has multiple conversations during the Two Towers about how what she fears most is a cage. All this girl wants is the freedom to be and not be forced into a role. The best thing is that she literally gets that.

The segment of Return of the King about Eowyn and Faramir is literally about her piecing together what she truly wants. She doesn't want Aragorn. She wants freedom and the ability to choose. Faramir does nothing but encourage that in her. Their love story is literally one of the healthiest love stories I've seen in a long time because at the heart of it, their love is a place to return home to for both parties. Both go off to lead and help their people for a considerable amount of time before returning to each other but that does not diminish their bond. Even Faramir, I believe, falls in love with her bravery and dedication to her loved ones. The reason she went to Pelenor Fields and Gondor with the troops of Rohan was because she had things she wanted to fight for. She wanted to fight for herself, her people, and her loved ones. She is the one who protects Theoden after he is killed so that his body gets the treatment it deserves. She encourages Merry and helps him go to the battle because she sees her struggle in Merry. They feel helpless standing around when there are things to be doing.

Let's also not forget the fact that she was around Grima Wormtounge just as much as the King was. She was exposed to the same poison and awful words that eroded the king. It's even implied that her care for him is part of the reason why Theoden was savable when Gandalf showed up. She had the same power and bravery as everyone else even if she didn't see it in herself.

Then at the end of the day, SHE decides where she wants to go and what path she wants to walk. She walked the path of a warrior. The path of a princess/ruler. The path of a caretaker. But in the end she decides which elements truly mean something to her outside of gender definitions. That is what makes her character so incredible to me. In this she literally kills one of the biggest enemies in that battle with such a badass line.

[xy-is-i]

Just thinking about Dick freaking out over losing his title of best uncle to Jason.

Dick showing up to take Lian out and give Roy a break only to hear she's having a fun day with Jason

Dick walking into the room with the toy he knows Lian really wanted, only to find out Jason got it for her first.

Dick showing up to game night at Roy's only to find Jason already there.

Just Dick getting increasingly frustrated and his rival Jason having no clue well the the rest watch on in humor and exasperation. Roy finds the who thing hilarious.

Picturing it all coming to a head when Dick is babysitting Lian and she shows him a new photo they put up. Dick all dejectivly being like, "look, it's you and your favorite uncle."

The pure shock and joy he feels when Lian tells him he wrong and her favorite uncle is "you uncle Dickie, duh!"

The door opening and Lian shouting "Papa!" As dick turns to excitedly tell Roy what Lian said only to see it's Jason who's holding Lian.

Dick just bluescreening.

[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.

[warningsine]

GIRLS5EVA • Summer Dutkowsky

[sysig]

Puts the “plates” in “Fellplates” (Patreon)

[justagaycryptid]

Other People: Oh haha what if Morgott had more leonine features (typically drawing parallels between Morgott and his father Godfrey)

My Furry Ass: Yes What If

[starleska]

*muttering under my breath* tinted shades, why is it always the tinted shades...😳❄️

[uncanny-tranny]

What I think is so important to learning how to truly appreciate life is learning how to appreciate the creatures and things we've categorized as "disgusting" or "gross."

When I learned to appreciate wasps, I realized how much they just... don't really care about anything, and they're not trying to be an asshole because they're uniquely cruel. If they have any wants, it is to live. Why would I punish that when I also want to live?

This isn't to say you need to fall in love with the creepy crawlies that stalk this world or to love what you cannot, but to recognize that in their arrangement of atoms, they are trying to persevere, and in the end... aren't we all?

[katyspersonal]

me: I do not really understand the hardcore insistence of some Mohg fans/simps that he could not or must not have done any sexual-incestous crime! Not only it is a reasonable version, but also extremely interesting and intriguing to explore how not all victims of oppressive system are good people! Soulsborne is super fitting for fucked up themes and characters, any Mohg is valid and fun including the darkest you can get, right? Extremely messed-up interpretations of Mohg don't THREATEN other fans in any way shape or form!

fandom clowns: *passively-aggressively shun Mohg fans from the circles, attack Fromsoft for """homophobia""" (wtf), confuse acknowledging the event with enjoying the event, will label Mohg fans as insensitive or danger to real SO/incest victims, fear Mohg as an awful scary taboo to bring up in memes compilations or fanart that could obliterate all fun despite him being part of the canon, demand blacklisting anything about him in their clown Discord servers thus making lore chats weird, shame or block people with flattering interpretations for MeDiA iLiTeRaCy uwu, treat hating Mohg as a moral act rather than personal stance and generally cause a lot of hostility in the fandom, ALL because whereas seeing Mohg's SO as canon they then got mad at this canon instead of either swallowing it or move onto another videogame free of this theme*

me:

me: Nevermind, this fandom is chronically incapable of handling the dark themes and think the fandom owes them sanitised experience.

[nanawaffles]

Okay so I get people being like "oh it's nice of the Tolkien estate to protect Tolkien's rights" but also you guys do realize part of why rings of power has so many flaws is because they weren't sold much of the rights, and the Tolkien estate has a habit of suing people, right? Like the silmarillion rights aren't up for sale. Which boggles my mind because they were out shopping for a buyer but Christopher literally only sold a timeline to Amazon for $250million. Amazon is working with a skeleton. This skeleton to be exact:

They seem to have bought maybe a little of the first age or perhaps the trademarks to certain names (that's another thing, a lot of the names that Tolkien wrote are trademarked by the estate so they can't even be used without explicit permission and royalties)

In short, yes they're protecting his books. But part of protection, in my opinion, is giving enough rights to make a really good adaptation. Like they went shopping for someone to buy the rights, aaand then sold them that. I'm sorry I'm actually a tiny bit peeved because what on earth was anyone supposed to do with that? Oh by the way if you didn't notice there's no Celeborn and there's no Celebrian, y'know the two we've been complaining about this last season. They probably bought rights to use his name, which is likely trademarked hence why they only say it once. So yeah. I'm done now.

[ahollowgrave]

a bit ago i told myself i wouldn't ship prudence and odette (idk why I guess I hate fun) but the truth is odette looooooooooooooooooooooooves a mean woman and prudence/odette feels like poking a bruise and i'm very into it !!!!

(also I think they look!!! so good together!!!) this is only in the WoL/Scion AU (and others) because 1) they have to be forced together to become anything they are not women who would willingly spend time with each other (at first)(But not in a like enemies to lovers kinda way you know??? they don't care enough to be enemies)(it's more like reluctant coworkers to ??????)

2) RP wise I always have more fun writing slow burn romances with other people than playing barbies on my own, but i have really been enjoying playing barbies on my own with these two.................

3) in RP Odette is dating Pru's boss and so Pru is like 'fuck this noise i'm out' she does not get close to her bosses lovers (except when she needs a ride thanks captain) and truly they just would not understand one another in this setting !!! (also pru is lowkey with ibant but if you say anything about this she will cause harm with great purpose)

[softpine]

[evergreen-endo]

worlds most irritating couple somebody separate them STAT !!!!!