#genius man he was a genius!

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Ooh, you want to know what happens at the gay bar run by ex-pirates, ooh...You'll just have to read Tiger Tiger to find out...

(Inspired by this Disco Elysium comic)

[annoyingboing]

what in the rom com did i just watch

[gatoburr0]

omg it¿s him but human no way I love him

[chiliadicorum]

I'm way too hyper about this. it really can't be overstated how frickin powerful the Valar are and while their mistakes are few, every time they made a mistake there were catastrophic consequences.

I've said it before and I'll say it again that Melkor was a genius in his campaign against the Valar. Yes the Valar could've gone themselves to Beleriand, could've taken direct epic action, could've fought and defeated Melkor but they would've had to destroy Arda to do it. which was a big no no

And Melkor knew it. He imbued himself in Arda, intentionally poured so much of himself into the very planet for two reasons, and one of them was bc he KNEW that if the Valar wanted to fully defeat him, they would have to destroy Arda and every living thing in it. By both containing his action to the world and infusing it with his spirit if you will, he was using Arda and all Elves, Men, and every living creature as a shield against them. I can just see him from Angband goading them, waiting for them to respond to him (this is an old dance of theirs), making things worse and worse, come at me Manwe I dare you to. Their war before was on a galactic level, can you imagine it contained to a single continent on one puny planet?? (Melkor could, that was the point, making the home of the Third Theme his focal point bc it was the best way to screw with the Valar, that and other reasons. He could've left the planet when free from Angainor but didn't which is significant imo. Arda was the location for his goals, but in his state it was also the safest place for him to be). I mean it was really a win-win for Melkor when you think about it. Either the Valar attack him and destroy everything dear to them, destroy Life, or they don't attack for fear of that and he gets to execute his own looooong-conceived plans of domination

Where do you think Sauron got his idea for the One Ring from? Directly inspired by Melkor (and one of the bigger proofs of Sauron's admiration for him). Why did he do the same thing as Melkor? Because it worked. He witnessed personally how it worked.

He did the same thing, albeit on a much smaller scale, a simple ring. Doing it with such a tiny object was also genius precisely bc it was simple, boring-looking, was easy to hide and overlook. Hidden in plain sight. But it was also the bad part of the plan because he chose to pour his Self into an object that would have no consequence being destroyed (it was just a metal after all. a precious metal hehe) It made the difference between Elrond saying "the ring must be destroyed" vs "the ring can't be destroyed". Sauron's plan was genius too except for that one hiccup, that the Ring itself in its original form had no value. Unlike Arda.

"the Valar's inactivity is largely due to their being just too powerful for contained, precise action" That's such an apt way to put it. I've long thought of the Valar's inaction in Arda as a transformed, reduced action, not a lack thereof. They had to find another way, a new way to combat evil now that there were millions of innocent living things caught in the middle of it. And sometimes, that did mean doing nothing for what seemed like forever bc they had to figure out what to do. I love that bc it's one of the things that proves to me that their war with Melkor since the dawn of time was so frickin difficult, that trying to outsmart Melkor wasn't easy and never happened immediately. And you're right, when they did respond in the First Age, when the host of Maiar finally arrived to fight, even though they fought at the Elves' level if you will, reducing the effect of their powers to what was probably the absolute minimum, Beleriand was still destroyed.

The Valar were set as Guardians over Arda and were tasked with protecting all the Children living in it and their wellbeing (not to mention all the precious life and animals that they created). And Melkor knew how to shove that right back in their faces.

I AGREE WITH YOU SO MUCH ON THE VALAR'S INACTIVENESS, like even their well-intentioned decisions had consequences but unlike the elves and to an extent, the other beings in arda, the valars can't just go and do stupid shit (that'll potentially end in a disaster) and then cry about it by making a shit song when like it'll have such dire consequences on arda itself. I always thought that's why the valars were so inactive or took too long to move.

Indeed, I think the Valar's inactivity is largely due to their being just too powerful for contained, precise action. There's a reason why the Valar did not participate in the War of Wrath themselves (I'd bet a lot of money that Tulkas in particular sulked a lot about this); even without them present, Beleriand ended up destroyed. I shudder to think what would have happened, had the Valar fought in the war too.

This is also one of the most interesting aspects of the Valar's collective character growth throughout the Ages imo. They go from extreme action (fighting Morgoth directly pre-the awakening of the Elves) to extreme inaction (withdrawing behind the Pelóri until they send their armies to Middle Earth to defeat Morgoth once and for all) to a kind of middle ground (sending the Istari to organise the fight against Sauron).

[downbaddetective]

"He's calling the spirits of darkness... I saw him do this once before when a girl dumped him."

Might I present a one Mr. Charles Rowland! Very pleased with how he came out. One more down, many more to go!

[megamindsupremacy]

You know, our natural assumption is that Peter Parker is just SO genius and crafty that at age 16 he developed a web formula in his high school chem class that even twenty years later teams of scientists can’t replicate with millions of dollars in supplies and equipment but like. No offense to Peter but no 16 year old in a high school chem lab could outsmart 20 years worth of technological process+the greatest chemists of their generation+millions of dollars in funding. My theory is that Peter’s formula is so basic (but ingenious!), using such shitty supplies and equipment, that no scientist worth their degree would even consider trying to replicate the formula with his methods. He accidentally took the Glass Onion route to outsmarting these guys which was “just go dumber” and it’s worked for literal decades

[aesthetic-bbyg]

“STOP TRYING TO FUCK THAT CLOWN”

WELL HOW ABOUT YOU MAKE ME🙄🙄

[the-cat-and-the-birdie]

HC the only reason Miguel gave Hobie a watch in the first place is because he genuinely doesn't know what Punk is

Miguel most likely thinks Punk is just some really old Boomer style that Hobie is WAY too into.

Cause like let's be real, he's from 2099 - he probably can't tell a punk from a greaser from a grunge person from an emo. To Miguel

He probably looks at Hobie the way WE look at Noir.

He probably can't even understand Hobie.

Pop Quiz!! If you met someone from like 1915 RIGHT NOW would you know if they had electricity and phones and photos and radios yet? Were they still using telegraphs? Could women vote yet??

I don't know!!!!!! Couldn't tell ya!!!!!!

Now apply that to Hobie and Miguel

The thought of Hobie being able to reverse engineer his watch didn't even pass his mind cause Miguel's most likely like 'When are you from? 1978? I'm surprised you even know what a computer is. Did you all even have electricity then? Cars? Don't look at me like that - I'm a geneticist not a historian, Brown.'

All he knows is that in Hobies world cars don't fly and therefore he is Ancient and Old™️

We all see Noir as like an old geezer regardless of age but no one ever suggests that how Miguel sees Hobie vjhoohchvoh

Like Miguel completely disregarding Hobie cause he's like 'Hobie? That Boomer? Sure. His generation can't even send an email without downloading a virus. What the hell is he going to do? Put my calculations on a CD-ROM? A floppy-disc?? Lyla, be realistic.'

SO REAL. Cause let's be honest HOW ELSE IS HOBIES STORING ALL HIS DATA 😭😭 He has no SD cards!! Only these!! Floppy Disks!!!

Thousands upon thousands of these

Like what other explanation is there 😭😭 HUH??? Why else would Miguel disregard him so hard!!

Everytime Hobie talks instead of being like 'this snotnose kid-' Miguel's more like 'sure like imma take pointers on how to run a society from a fucking Boomer yeah right I saw what you all did to the economy'

Hobie probably be playing punk music and to Miguel it sounds like old show tunes coming out a vintage tin radio

Hobies music is so old it's 'classical' now 😔

Miguel has absolutely no idea what punk is and tbh???? He doesn't fucking care. Why? Cause that's some old people shit.

[diaries-of-me]

yeah yeah yeah, he has beautiful eyes, but by golly does that smile make me feel warm and fuzzy 🥺

[neithrain]

daily reminder that dorian pavus is not only so skilled with magic that he helped create time travel with his mentor, but can also easily keep up with a literal elven god on the subject

[crowlixcx]

You see, I do have a gift for props. Well, a sort of natural dexterity.

[strewwwberry]

I need a binggeyuan fic where it's post bingge vs bingmei, and it's the classic bingge goes searching for a sqq of his own finds sy yada yada

BUT

First of all, Time in this world isn't lagged behind or something

And second of all, The ONLY and BIGGEST difference between the sqq sy and china sy is that china sy IS STILL ALIVE

and we know that shen yuan died early 20's I like to headcanon he's around 21-22 when he died, it was like 3 years before immortal alliance conference and I think bingmei spent 3 years in the abyss so sy would be 27-28 and then plant coma happens for 5 years so svsss sy is still in like 27-28 mentally but technically is around 32-33

Soooo

STILL ALIVE SY WOULD BE 33 ISH

NOT OLD AND LIKE PEOPLE CAN OBSESS FOR YEARS BUT IT WOULD BE SO FUNNY IF SY THINKS OF PIDW AS A PHASE

LIKE THAT WOULD BE AMAZING (and honestly pretty in character like obsessing over something until it's squeezed dry and then moving on, sounds pretty sy to me, at least in my headcanons lmao)

oh yeah and the bingge shows up like

"I want you, love me"

And sy, with eyebags, scruffy but in like a "messy bun" way (not bad scruffy like serving cunt scruffy), maybe he has a job coz his parents threatened to cut him off if he continues to just leech off them past 25,

Is just sat there, on his laptop probably reading another webnivel like

"Wtf, why did some xianxia demon style guy show up in my room, you remind me of that guy from a novel phase I had 🤔ᴴᴹᴹᴹ"

Better again if he's like half way there to realizing he's gay, maybe he goes around and if someone asks he's like "pretty sure I'm bisexual? Is that what it's called? Yeah? Yeah okay"

You know, 13 years of obsessing over sexy men on the internet and having a younger sister who's in the know, and the addition of 2 older brothers who his meimei definitely coerced into nagging at sy, will probably get at least a little cog going ykyk

So yeah I need it.

I'mma just a spiral into my corner about this

I can't write so I'm just drawing my shitty little drawings of my little scrubklys

[lunian]

UGH THEY ARE PRETTY *fights*

[ryemiffie]

Just a thought I had okay, just a thought I had!

Bill: Damn it Ford, it's like you bacame a whole new person when we broke up!

Ford: What?! We never "broke up"!

Bill: ..oh my amphibian in the sky, were you not breaking up with me? Was it just a regular arguement and I jumped to conclusions and you never really wanted to leave me??!

Ford: What? No! We never broke up cause we were never together!

Bill: Babe, that really hurts my feelings when you say stuff like that, if we're gonna make this work you need to start thinking before you speak.

Ford: ??

Ford: Don't call me babe! We're not together!

Bill: You never used to have a problem with me calling you babe before.

Ford: That's cause I thought you were doing it ironically!

Bill: Oh babe, that's such a classic you move.

Ford: Stop that!

[lon3rlife]

He’s so silly and unserious I love him

[pageofheartdj]

I will never get over that Leo got offended on Donnie’s behalf only XD