#elle rambles

[maroonpascal]

I NEED HIM I NEED HIM I NEED HIM

[thatfriendlyanon]

disclaimer: these options are based on responses i've heard different people give; they do not necessarily reflect my own personal beliefs

*if you feel comfortable doing so, i would love to hear what passages support your opinion!

please do not use this post for debate. i am genuinely curious what different people's opinions on this idea are. please keep this post friendly, informative, and simply a space to listen and share.

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[sophiebaek]

I’m so interested to see if the show will explore how Eloise feels about her most favorite brother falling in love and leaving her side. He’s her safe space within their family and she’s gotta feel so bittersweet about finally seeing him get his happy ending, but also sad knowing they won’t be in a similar life phase anymore.

[elles-home]

you know how every so often you see posts circulating about a prophesized guy that runs away from the prophecy? that’s monkey d luffy

he isn’t even acknowledging it could be him. as far as he cares, all that’s really at hand here is that his peak form looks like this god guy. that’s it though. luffy’s not a god so like? really cool you guys are religious and bless your faith but that’s not him

and not to be the guy that says “that’s what makes him a good chosen one” because yeah kinda? like let’s look at existing prophecies about luffy specifically. the one about him destroying fishman island

luffy will leave that country in fire and ash and im doing so we know he is fulfilling some of the interpretations of the religious text: the destroyer who lays waste to all

and now i am heading into fanon spaces, people predict the destroying is a side effect of his liberation. ever since the prophecy of luffy destroying fishman island has been made, the fandom has theorized he will lift the people of fishman island above water. the great big ship in fishman island is there for a reason. and again, in doing so, he is fulfilling those theorized about him again, about the whole “the hero who appeared to save the world from disaster.”

i think the texts about nika is befitting of a god. what does a god care about the temporary destruction of a land if it is a means to achieving their goal of saving and liberating a people. a god knows people are resilient. a god will see through their vision and wont mind being branded as evil for doing so. a god knows best

and not to say luffy is a god because i am of the firm camp that luffy isnt nika reincarnated but he is the chosen one as in it has been prophesized someone like him would come and he is here and he isnt joyboy reincarnated either, as in the guy who is joyboy, but also again, he (luffy) is the chosen one for joy boy as well (i particularly subscribe to saiga tiberius runner on tiktok who theorizes that joyboy is a title rather than a name and is therefore one that is bestowed upon luffy as the liberator. which i think fits the whole someone will come 800 years later that will take the world by storm and his laughter will ring as he saves people. i like “joyboy” being a title more than a guy that luffy is reincarnated into)

anyway luffy being joyboy makes me happy because he does it because he wants to. he is kind because he wants to because someone fed him and he needs to be kind to them and he doesnt care if in being kind to them he is disrupting everything else (thinking about dressrosa right now) because nothing is more important to him than the selfish need to repay the debt

i may be repeating myself now but i adore luffy being exactly what is prophesized of him not because of a prophecy but because of who he is as a person down to his soul. because luffy isnt doing this because this was what was prophecised, he would be doing this regardless of set into motion 800 years ago, he would be doing this anyway because he wants to

regardless of a prophecy, luffy will be liberating because thats who he is. a boy that loves freedom and being free

luffy is freedom and liberation. and to him, its just a coincidence this god nika and this guy joyboy was too

[dreamissy]

What fucks me up about the Cazador fight is that in the end he is just some guy, a vampire sure, but just some guy.

Astarion’s stories build him up to be an inhumanly strong monster, his fear painting the picture of someone strong and terrifying. But once you get to him, Cazador is almost underwhelmingly plain and his entire fight isn’t the nightmare that you would have anticipated.

Sure, he has a few good spells but he spends most of the fight hiding behind his servants and turning himself into mist. A few well placed arrows and a few spells of your own and he goes down without barely any fight. It’s his servants that make the fight complicated.

Cazador himself is not a threat to your party. It’s those that he controls that are the danger and that’s why he lost as easily as he did. Because he couldn’t fathom that Astarion, someone he deemed his creation, someone he forced to do his abhorrent biddings for years, was part of what made Cazador so powerful.

Cazador without his “creations” is just a man.

Astarion without his “creator” is a man who’s loved.

[exiledelle]

in honor of recent monster hunter wilds news, i have something to say, rant incoming with not a lot of effort and not really any real character analysis or anything, just random thoughts in no particular order: monhun world handler was good actually, and i dont get why shes so overhated.

i can absolutely see some frustrations with her, my biggest issue is more with the game than with her, and thats the constant "hey dont forget to do the main quest" every single time you return to base (handler is NOT the only one who does this, dont put all the blame on her), but it upsets me that what everyone typically seems to complain about with her is everything thats NOT an issue.

- "shes ugly/fat" no shes not, shes just not Extra Cutesy

- "she eats too much" her love of food is a character trait, youre mad at a character in a silly video game for having a silly personality.

- "she gets into trouble a lot" you are the hunter and her teammate. your job is to attack the monsters. its not her fault that shes trying to do her job and research the field. she could be smarter about it, yea, but no one has any problem when the exact same could be said about felynes since i think monhun 1. this is not a serious franchise, and characters will be a little goofy when it comes to monsters

- "well what about the deviljho" that is entirely not her fault, the questline makes a massive deal over this

- "she stole my hug from the cat" your palico is just as happy to see her as they are to see you, shes simply the one who crouched down to return a hug, not the hunter

you dont have to like her obviously, but i dont think she deserves to be treated like the scum of the earth for such small reasoning

anyway rant over, im excited for wilds, im excited to see what almas like, i just wish worlds handler wasnt being burned at the stake over it for little to no reason

i would like to do other things on this blog than just talk into the void tbh, i probably will someday, theres just some thoughts like this that i get a bit too passionate about and cant help wanting to toss into the wind and hope it reaches some people

[sacredhyacinth]

sometimes to balance out your story you need 10 angst animatics and then one Gacha screenshot

[theevelyngrant]

all i want to experience is to get high and be fucked at the same time and i'm just giggling and moaning

[98luck]

The way I’m riding this man’s shoe

[exyrpf]

being a single dad is all fun and games until it's mother's day and people are saying happy mother's day to a fucking mother that hasn't done jack shit to raise her child

like no, i am NOT his mom but fuck everything if she's been a damn mom to him. i'm out here being his mom AND dad and she thinks she has any right to call herself his MOTHER? to pat herself on the back for being a MOM?

FUCK YOU, you call him once a week (if that)(usually twice a month) for maybe 30 minutes at most. you give me less than £200 a month for child support and have no fucking idea what goes on with him outside of that. you don't go to his chemo or his therapy or calm him down after meltdowns or learn barely visible cues to stop him from getting upset or wake up at 3 am because he's being sick all over his room. you don't know any of his friends names or his favourite class or attend parent/teacher meetings or volunteer for field trips.

i taught this kid how to fucking read and how to write his name and what has she done? NOTHING. fucking NOTHING.

she carried him for 9 months and then gave birth to him, but she is not his fucking mom

[maroonpascal]

Category is: Pedro Pascal’s characters covered in blood

[thatfriendlyanon]

happy tiny joys tuesday what’re some of your joys

[ellesdoodles]

What actually kills me is the quiver in Aelwyn’s voice and the choice of words when she talks back to her father.

“She’s just a baby. She’s still so young”

Because those are the words of an older sister that never really had the chance to protect her sibling no matter how much she would have wanted to. The words of someone that is so suddenly aware of the absurdity of the situation and.

Someone who is looking at their sister and seeing the child that her parents refuse to see. And her voice is breaking as she tries to stand up for Adaine for the first time and as she fails to protect her once again.

Adaine and Aelwyn are just kids, they’re still so young. And it breaks my heart.

[elles-home]

trying to appear very nonchalant to my one piece friend about my one piece hyperfixation when he for sure has seen me be extremely chalant about it is soo funny

me: and so this guy (on twitter) starts arguing with me about luffy like i’m fucking dumb just bc i have a jungkook pfp

him: no way

me: all i did was be silly and comment on a fanart that luffy will live forever AND THIS GUY STARTS MANSPLAINING ONE PIECE TO ME. BECAUSE I HAVE A JUNGKOOK PFP!

him, trying not to laugh: no way

me: it was very silly. luffy isn’t gonna die like let me compliment the cute art and let’s move on

him, who has seen me in tears because i’ve read “luffy’s gonna die” theories: buddy i don’t think this is a non serious issue for you

me: …

me: i need you to shut up now

[dreamissy]

My favourite thing about the dark urge run is that when you tell everyone in camp about your dark fantasies they’re all like „yeeeaaah, we all are a little angry every once in a while! Just don’t think about it!“

Astarion on the other hand looks at you once and goes „Ooooh you’re fucked up fucked up! Great! Let’s get you through this! Don’t kill me plssss“

[choikanghuening]

i wasn't sure if I should talk about the whole soobin and txt situation, but lemme contribute with my two pennies on this subject

first things first, I'm new to kpop -so forgive me if im talking shit- and one of weirdest shit to me is how hectic their schedule is.

txt released 3 mini albums this year, besides their solo projects (ggum, workout zzang, academy reincarnation, hyuka wants to start a band and my bias bias), their world tour and lots of appearances on TV shows, fashion shows and soundtracks, comebacks etcetera blah blah blah, we all know this and that's not exactly the point

im bringing this up because i just can't normalize all of this. The guys simply won't stop working. Whenever we see news about txt, it's never something like "they're taking a break now bc they'll rest a bit" no, it's always a new project, a new song, a new apparition, a new something and ofc health problems

in, idk, 5 months? beomgyu, kai and now soobin had health problems, and we may add yeonjun here, my man was extremely overworked while preparing his mixtape, also taehyun had his wisdom tooth out and 3 days later was performing on weverse con, besides other things.

im not gonna dwell on this and say that the industry is getting more and more competitive (no shit Sherlock, welcome to the capitalism), but people are not talking about how toxic and even deadly this is. we've seen enough of artists getting burnt out - at best, let's not even talk about the worst scenarios - and things still haven't changed.

ive been around for some years now and ive seen what happened with lots of artists (i think the most recent one was Liam Payne and I'm still traumatised by everything, I was a huge directioner) and nothing ever changed and I've had enough of this situation.

they are rich and famous, yeah, but they also need your empathy, cause they're humans, just like you and me.

we, as fans and as consumers, need to rethink our consumption of entertainment. we need to talk about this, to take some action, to pressure the companies: they MUST take care of their artists.

"oh, but that's capitalism, it's how it works" oh, fuck you. this needs to stop, all this exploitation of artists, who can't even date in public (!!!!!), they only work, work, work

this pattern really needs to change and if it'll take us fans to make some noise, we sure will not only scream but also put fire on everything

i really hope yeonjun, kai, taehyun, beomgyu and specially soobin are fine and will have time to rest and get better. i love their work, their art, but i love them as people even more ("oh, but you don't even know them in person"-fuck you). so im just praying they'll be fine.

sorry for any mistakes, im honestly so worried and absolutely pissed rn im not even thinking straight.