#he is weak man

[l2bbocsstuff]

From: Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail 2024

Donald Trump is going to the Super Bowl. Not because he cares about football, or even understands it beyond “big men smash into each other,” but because he simply cannot bear to be left out of something important. This is a man who would crash a child’s birthday party just to cut the cake himself and then complain that the kid didn’t thank him enough.

And this Super Bowl? Oh, it’s extra personal.

The Kansas City Chiefs are playing against the Philadelphia Eagles—a team Trump has loathed ever since they collectively shrugged at his White House invitation after their 2018 Super Bowl win. To make matters worse, Taylor Swift will be there too, shining like the goddamn North Star in a stadium full of people who actually like her. Which is more than can be said for Trump, whose biggest fans show up either under court order or because they got lost looking for the Monster Truck rally.

Trump hates Taylor Swift. Not just because she endorsed Kamala Harris, but because she is everything he wants to be: beloved, wildly successful, and actually good at what she does. She has the power to sway elections just by existing—whereas Trump has to scream into a golden toilet at 3 a.m. to even get Fox News to notice him anymore.

And now, he has to sit there, rotting in his own bitterness, while the cameras pan to Taylor every time Travis Kelce does something cool on the field. He’ll be trapped in his luxury suite like a bloated orange Dracula, forced to watch as America showers attention on someone who didn’t have to pay hush money to get there.

Let’s talk about the Eagles.

Philadelphia is the one city in America that hates Trump more than New York. They booed Santa Claus. They threw batteries at a guy dressed as the Easter Bunny. If Trump so much as steps within city limits, the Liberty Bell itself will crack even further out of sheer disgust. He disinvited the Eagles from the White House in 2018, pretending it was his choice, but the reality was clear: they were never going to show up to begin with. That level of rejection still haunts him. And now, if the Eagles win, he’ll have to sit through another moment of their triumph, looking like a guy who just got his golf course repossessed.

But if the Chiefs win? Oh, buddy. That means Swift—his sworn mortal enemy, the woman who has everything he desperately wants—will be front and center in the biggest celebration of the year. And Trump will be left watching, powerless, as she hugs Kelce, laughs, and reminds America why she’s an actual icon while he’s just some old man yelling at clouds.

There is no outcome where Trump walks away from this night happy. If the Eagles win, he’ll melt down about how the NFL is rigged against him, as if Roger Goodell personally kneecapped Patrick Mahomes. If the Chiefs win, he’ll have to pretend Taylor Swift doesn’t exist, while America collectively watches her dance in the skybox like the deity she is. Either way, he will spend the night drowning in his own irrelevance.

By the time he’s back on Truth Social, the meltdown will be historic. He’ll claim the refs were in on it. He’ll accuse Swift of being a deep-state plant. He’ll insist the cheers were actually for him, and that the “fake news” just edited the footage.

But none of it will matter.

Because when the confetti falls, the cameras will be on Taylor. On the Eagles. On Mahomes. On literally anyone but him.

And that, more than anything else, is Trump’s worst nightmare: a world that moves on without him.

[ozumii-fucking-wizard]

Oh, my foolish wizard...lean your weight on me.

[mischievous-thunder]

Bonus:

They're flirting and also starting a fight

[linktoo-doodles]

i'll strangle you or i'll kiss you on the mouth

[akiiame-blog]

Super Mario is supposed to be this powerful figure to the Mushroom Kingdom, this beacon of hope with little to no weaknesses. With everything on his shoulders, he has to keep going.

Or else he'd let them all down.

[antomatkoen]

cheeky bastard soap at it again 🙄

[dollopole]

Let’s take into consideration:

Arthur would rather waste precious time before an important council meeting to run around the entire castle and search for Merlin, who, in his very honest opinion is the worst servant of the entire kingdom or that he had ever known, than to call literally anyone else to help him dress (as if there wouldn’t be anyone ready to assist Arthur, their king, with clothes);

Arthur, and therefore Agravaine (which makes it all the more hilarious) knows every single place where Merlin could be, at that precise moment, or during that day in general; (EDIT: As someone pointed out in the comments, everyone and Agravaine included knows who is the “dollophead”)

The guards nod to Agravaine without asking anything, which only means that it is canon that everyone in Camelot knows Merlin by name; EDIT: It also means that the guards deal with this on a daily basis. They must be tired.

The aforementioned point implies that everyone knows how Merlin looks like, that also means Merlin is known to never leave Arthur’s side, even during council meetings;

Arthur is running around the castle in what today we would call a pyjama, just because Merlin didn’t wake him up with, “Rise and Shine”. And he’s barefoot. That’s right. The king of Camelot, everyone, has just walked barefoot in Merlin’s chambers, in the armoury, where other knights probably are, and in the bloody stables (yes, the ones where the horses and their dungs both are), without boots on, just to look for Merlin;

Arthur is more distressed in this scene than in the one where Morgana declares war in season five. He’s fretting like a mother hen. Not only he is without breath, which means he was just coming back from his checking around, but he is red in the face and almost yelling in desperation. “Does he expect me to dress myself?!” Because apparently, Arthur literally cannot do anything without Merlin by his side. The way he says, “No sign of him” to Agravaine is so endearing, and he shouldn’t be this adorable. Unfair, Arthur. Really unfair.

Arthur just yells, (and distressingly looks around) in hope that Merlin will come back to him, because he always does. *sounds of my heart breaking into millions of pieces*

And last but not least, Arthur shouts, “Last night!”, which means the actual reason he’s going around searching for Merlin, it’s because he’s worried his world will end without his quirky and clumsy servant by his side (and the love of his life). Merlin is currently out on a quest with Gwaine to look for Gaius, since he has been kidnapped, but the problem is that Arthur doesn’t know this. What he knows is that he has fought with Merlin the day before about Gaius in the council chambers, and believes Merlin is gone for good, this time, and solely for the fight they had. Arthur feels more than guilty that he can’t make it up to his best friend, the love of his life (Agravaine helped Morgana kidnap Gaius, and it explains the ending of the scene, where he understands where Merlin is.) Now Arthur is worried that his last words to Merlin were harsh. He had last seen him when he was done with his duties the night before, and then Merlin disappeared.

No wonder they deleted this scene.

[hinamie]

i fear i can never date a man bc none of them will ever be makoto tachibana

[felassan]

Dragon Age: The Veilguard concept art captioned "Corpse King", art by Matt Rhodes. [source] this is concept art/a beat board for The Necropolis/Nevarra. The file name says that it's King Markus Pentaghast.

[abyssconqueror]

listened to the do not disturb call again and it really hits me in the chest how sensitive sylus really is beneath all the bravado he has to display as the leader of onychinus

the way he responds when mc jokes abt it being a misdial after he asked if she called to celebrate finishing her workout… the way he just says “oh, i’ll hang up then” which on its own could be his way of messing with her but at least in eng he sounds legitimately a bit deflated abt it… and then “jokes” about how she didn’t check the weather before leaving but managed to turn on do not disturb and he tried to call her all afternoon (and mentions that she’s the only person who ever really calls him). and then it ends with him driving to pick her up and saying he’s not good at nursing sick patients, which to me is a callback to exclusive care when mc was being fussy and told him he sucked and he asked her to teach him

even in smaller ways like if you send the angy emoji and one of his responses is like “the reason you’re angry… it’s not because of me is it?”

it truly makes my chest ache how soft and considerate sylus is, and i’d say genuinely scared too, that he’ll do something to mess it up and end up back in a situation like that in the n109 zone, where she was disgusted by him. even if he knows the circumstances aren’t the same anymore, he also consistently points out that things can always change in the future

it’s just clear in his actions how much he cares abt and treasures his relationship w mc, and how the concept of her pulling away or being upset with him genuinely unnerves him

she was so right to tell him that he wears his heart on his sleeve at the lantern festival bc he really truly does

[blacklegsanjienthusiast]

the scene in wano when sanji calls out for robin asking her to help him means so much to me. this is a man whose father looked him in the eyes when he was just a child asking for help when he was hurt and asked him “why should i?”, a man who had it ingrained in him that he didn’t deserve help and when he asked for it wouldn’t come, a lesson learnt the hard way in that dungeon. needing help is a sign of weakness and the last thing he was allowed to be was weak. sanji allowing himself to ask for help when he needs it really is a testimony to how far he has come, both since his childhood and since whole cake island. he knows it isn’t weak to ask for help and he knows, with absolute certainty, that when he calls his crew will answer. he goes from a child whose pleas were ignored to a man whose family will be there for him in a heartbeat. and on robins end, the fact that sanji trusts her so whole heartedly means so much to her and god they mean so much to me as a duo

[outthewazoo]

Late obligatory Halloween art, though I was NOT late for partying and fumbling two bad bitches so let’s go 🤑🤑🤑 (I engaged them in riveting conversation and never asked for their socials 💪)

[bisexualchaosdemon]

Please tell me I'm not the only one still giggling about Jeremy hearing Jean say his name for the first time and "damn I'm gay"ing so hard he had to make sure he wasn't making Jean uncomfortable

[balrogballs]

I think one of the biggest achievements of the LotR costuming department is that no matter how beautiful Viggo Mortensen is, to this day I still get a waft of old ass sweat each time Aragorn appears onscreen 😋🤌

except in the council of elrond bit but that's just because movie elrond probably made him stand outside and hosed him off like a dog before he was allowed inside

[kabukiaku]

and what if i wanted omega to be baptized by terzo huh? what then? I'm so delusional for them.

bonus doodle:

omega wants in on the fun too! bless him.

[dollopole]

Oh, oh.

Yes.

My favourite “Merlin?” Very underrated moment, in my opinion.