#don't comment spoilers please

[lost-in-men-of-letters-bunker]

I kept seeing it all over booktok and as a fantasy lover I've had friends try to convince me to read it for a while and I finally caved and I read A Court of Thorns and Rose and I flew through that first book so fast and I'm currently reading A Court of Mist and Fury now. I've been roped into another fandom and I'm not mad about it. 🤣

[nimuello]

my poor pookies you deserved better 💔

[otterlyart]

Link...you must find me.

[buglaur]

fireworks show 🎆

material preview version is very cute also :)

i struggled with the lighting on this one so badly, but it turned out alright in the end.

i actually started it last year for new years 2023 but never got around to finishing it, hence no progress pictures this time sadly lol. i do have a very low-res, first draft, test gif though

stills 🥳

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Smell Check [Easy: Failure]

MDZS Disco Elysium AU part 1 (part 2 - part 3)

[wanderingibon]

first draft / initial concept for my rook! (he/they), debating on a name still but I know for sure that they're a mournwatcher, mage, 30 or so, and have this aloof / intimidating aura which keeps others from approaching them- when in fact he's just awkward doesn't know how to hold conversations with others

[ofthebrownajah]

Me: The show hasn't done enough discussion of the Breaking

Also me: actually I don't remember when the books get into this either

[asmilinghopelessromantic]

Took Eloise 2 seasons to figure out who LW is

Took Cressida like 2 weeks (not exactly)

Eloise:

[eugenoid]

I just started watching The Terror and I find it extremely funny that the kind and attentive surgeon is called Mr Goodsir, the first guy to get mauled by the bear is called Lieutenant GORE, and the prominent gay character is called Mr. Hickey (I love him btw, as well as Henry Goodsir, they are my 2 faves)

Am I reaching or is this an intentional joke? I mean, come on.

[drrav3nb]

Take It How You Want It

Synopsis: After killing Moon Sang-guk, Dong-soo becomes conflicted on his decision, the act of murder weighing on his mind. So he goes to Do-young's house to seek solace, but Do-young has other plans in mind.

Read the fic here

[arsenicflame]

my most bitter proposal for a season 2 fix it is that the crew refuses to let ed back on the boat (as they should) so stede throws a tantrum and ultimatums that if ed stays so will he but the crew just take him up on that.

they make their inn in the wreckage of anne + marys house and the crew goes off and continues to have fun hijinks with izzy as the ship parent

[wistfulwatcher]

i've sat with the episode for two days now, and i'm still just genuinely so disappointed and bewildered by lottie's suggestion that they sacrifice one of the survivors. as presented, lottie's reasoning for the need to offer one of them to the wilderness is because they're all struggling as adults. just struggling, not facing any real and true dangers like the threat of starvation they were facing in the wilderness. she wants one of them to die - the very thing she wanted to prevent natalie from doing A WEEK AGO! - so that the other 5 survivors' lives get a little happier.

sacrificing one of them so they can all eat in the wilderness makes sense. it's an ugly and brutal choice, but it's understandable. lottie's plan is not. and the thing is, they did have an opportunity in this episode to justify lottie's 2021 suggestion, and they just...didn't. because, presumably, the reason for lottie making the suggestion in 2021 falls under the reason the ritual began in 1997. but we didn't get to see that ritual discussion.

understanding their motivation for the sacrifice is crucial. it's been crucial for the past two seasons, it's been what we were building to, and it's the bedrock of their new religion. we know they needed to eat, and that the sacrifice was a practical one. but how did they decide that one life was worth more than another? that a group of lives were more valuable than one? philosophy nerd misty was in that room; did she explain the different schools of thought? did they decide that the overall health of the group was more important than a single life? did they decide that the group as an entity needed to survive? and what does "survive" mean? physical satiation? emotional stability, making a choice they could all live with? did they discuss their possible future selves? the idea of happiness, since that's essentially what lottie is pitching in 2021?

lottie's whole pitch is that they need to do this - LITERALLY DIE - to survive, so that is exactly what they needed to define in the ritual discussion for this episode to make sense. and they didn't.

[fategoflatass]

Just reached DunMeshi's "WHAT" section in the manga ✨

[yeti-zeus]

I feel like people are going to be really annoying about Izzys death despite the fact that makes the most narrative sense for his character... the show has literally built up to this to the point people predicted it constantly. like yeah he was an interesting character but of everyone in the show I do NOT understand the obsession. They needed to show the stakes and pain are real and as sad as it was honestly thank fuck it wasn't anyone else.

also again the narrative parallels! izzy and ed hurt each other time and time again with their codependent personas and neither was prepared to release that on their own, ed needed one more wakeup call to truly shed blackbeard as a facade, and stede needed to see how harmful piracy can be to those directly around him.

characters are plot devices and catalysts sometimes and izzy was a fantastic one but this was the perfect place for his story to end please y'all don't yell at the writers for this lmao

[carmen-berzattos]

Last night I watched the first 3 episodes of The Bear Season 3 and I'd love to say something very intelligent about the episodes, but honestly all I can think of is that I'm really, really glad that this show exists

[thunderboltfire]

"there are some people over there" Girls, I don't think they're people. Not anymore.