#he's a smol bean

[iluvhollands]

A video I took at the Madrid PreParty of Bojan playing with mics :3

[because-its-eurovision]

KOHTI UMK:TA: Käärijä 

[katajainen]

So I looked up the WETA height chart for the Hobbit movies, For Writing Reasons, and was struck by the fact that Fíli, actually, is a Smol Bean.

I mean, look at him in comparison:

And because that's empathetically NOT the impression the movies give off (as evidenced by all the fics that cast him as the tall one in any ship - and yes, guilty as charged!), the headcanon part of my brain immediately fired off…

WHAT IF Kíli got all the Durin height genes while Fíli takes more after their father, and at least half of all the leathers and furs and weapon-bristling swagger is actually "I'm Standing Taller Through Sheer Force of Bravado Dammit" because deep down, he is insecure about his height (not in small part due to hero-worshipping taller-than-life figures like Thorin and Dwalin) and tries to compensate for it by simply taking up more space.

(Cue for any possible Significant Other to realise how much smaller he appears when out of armour and asleep/unconscious/sick/dead.)

[amenti-aardwolf]

I still suck at art but look, I tried to draw Astro Boy. (The 2009 version... I liked that movie and you can't stop me. >:3)

So I guess here you go! I know it's not great and the eyes are WAY too big because I got over excited about them, but hey, I'm trying to improve on my people skills. (I mean drawing people, not interacting with them. Though I need to improve on that, too. 😅)

[lennies-blog]

Have you seen this?? 😭💕 It's little Mick!

[pickle-and-beans]

Throwback to when Beans was just a smol potat 🥹

[robinsleeping]

Smol bean. Tiny child. Squishy baby. Angy kitty

[c2-eh]

find one difference

[nighthaunting]

I know we’re all just clowning here on tumblr dot com but I do think the perception of Morgott as like, ultra-religious and sort of blindly following the Golden Order despite their hatred of Omens is a really contextless reading of his situation.

If we read the description of his great rune it says:

That the Omen King was born of the golden lineage, and that he was indeed the Lord of Leyndell.

Morgott was the rightful ruler of Leyndell, Omen or not that was his golden city full of people who would revile him if they knew of his true origin.

I think his motives are less someone who’s tricked themselves into believing in something that hates him and more someone who’s wanted a place where he belongs for so long that now that there’s finally a place that he provably has a right to he’s never leaving.

Morgott isn’t deluded about what the Golden Order is or he’d never have invented the Veiled Monarch. Even the lines about his becoming the Erdtree’s protector don’t really indicate he had a particularly faith-based reason for doing so, but rather that he found that he came to love the Erdtree despite not knowing love.

Morgott is the gothic heroine who just inherited a big cursed estate but he wants a place that’s his own so bad he moves into the haunted house anyway and starts loving the architecture despite it being full of ghosts that hate him.

Morgott who led the Night’s Cavalry to hunt Tarnished, and beat the shit out of Rahdan, and launched the Seige of Mt. Gelmir and prosecuted the bloodiest and most costly war in the Shattering is not a guy who is getting his blind fundamentalist on, he’s a guy who’s decided that he’ll pile up a mountain of corpses before he lets anyone take away or threaten his place and is willing to be extremely proactive about defending it.

Editing to add:

And see the thing is, I think there’s even more nuance to it than just Morgott finally having a scrap of something to call his own and being willing to defend it with all his might!

In hindsight, I actually think Morgott had a better idea than anyone what the Tarnished would eventually have to do to get to the Elden Throne.

His dialogue as he’s dying makes it clear he’s known about the thorns blocking the way into the Elden Throne and been considering every way anyone might get through them.

In his dialogue as Margit in Stormveil, he says very specifically “the flame of ambition” and speaks of snuffing that flame.

I think Morgott realized that the only way a Tarnished could get into the Elden Throne would be to burn the Erdtree, and not only has he come to love this fixture of the haunted house he chooses to live in, but he knows that burning the Erdtree would destroy the place he calls his own.

Is it any wonder he’s so proactively trying to stop any Tarnished from even approaching Leyndell in the first place, when in his eyes it wouldn’t be unreasonable to view a sufficiently powerful Tarnished as a direct threat to the piece of the Lands Between that he’s carved out for himself?

[smallidarityfan]

smallidarity highschool au

came up with this au like actually 2 years ago where it's mainly empires 2 smallidarity centric, with Jimmy as a student council member and Joel as an honours student who doesn't like the way Jimmy runs things around the school.

As payback for the regulations Jimmy put up that Joel thought was stupid, Joel does these elaborate 'The Office' style pranks on Jimmy (specifically) while Jimmy retaliates by trying his best to dig up dirt on Joel. This banter goes on for a while— however Joel ends up doing the pranks less as a statement, and instead more just to see how Jimmy would react... with his comical, cartoony villain yells, and... weirdly cute face....? (YAOI YAOI YAOI YAOI)

very very old au drawings below:

from July 2023

😭😭 joel does NOT look like a highschooler here 😭😭😭😭 (i also wanted to draw angst in the first two ig idk a year later it's pretty cringe [i am still cringe]) (also partially inspired by when I read "Go for it, Nakamura!" and the mc reminded me of joel for no actual reason. or maybe i was just thinking about that manga while drawing smallidarity. idk)

from November 2022:

I think these doodles were genuinely the first instance of me converting from being against mcyt shipping to for shipping LMAOO

[chickenoptyrx]

*sittin up projecting onto the baby blorbo when I should be sleeping*

[artsyannierose]

WHY IS NOBODY TALKING ABT HOW ANGEL PULLED HIS PHONE AND GLASSES FROM HIS CHEST FLOOF IN EP 4😭 Him hiding things in his chest floof is canon

Sooooo can he fit Husk in there? Asking for scientific reasons…

Ok but it all honest that’s such a silly thing to do and such and ANGEL thing to do i love it about him

Yeah he really just…pulled it outta there huh

Husk is NOT having his bs

[deadpanwalking]

you may have addressed this in the past, but i am pretty sure i'm too dumb to read james joyce. how do you improve your reading comprehension? i'd like to move beyond the nyt bestseller list, but going from stephen king to faulkner seems like a steep jump.

Nobody is too dumb to read a book, but plenty of people have been conditioned into perpetual incuriosity.  The only way to improve reading comprehension is by reading outside of your comfort zone, which necessarily means letting go of the notion that the relationship between an artist and their audience is adversarial, and that a challenging work of art is booby-trapped with mean tricks designed to make you feel bad.

What do you do when you run into a word or concept that you don't immediately understand in the wild? You don't (I fervently hope) drop what you're reading like a hot potato—you keep reading to see if there’s clarification, and if there's none, you find a reliable source that gives you the definition, context, and examples, then circle back. What do you do when you're watching a movie you haven't seen before and the camera lingers on a random detail, or a character makes an inexplicable choice? Unless you are my dad, you give the story a chance to play out before asking what the deuce is going on. 

Faulkner and Joyce aren't cyphers, which is why their short fiction is a standard in the public high school English curriculum, and As I Lay Dying and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man are frequently assigned to juniors and seniors in AP classes—but even their denser writing is more accessible now than it's ever been. Over the past century, so many people have loved them enough to devote their lives to studying their work—and they’ve passed the savings down to you. They’ve written annotations that explain literary, historical, and biographical context and that's aligned with the pagination of the books, they’ve integrated hyperlinks into the hypertext.

There's exactly one (1) acceptable excuse not to read Faulkner or Joyce: not wanting to read Faulkner or Joyce.  You don't even need to give them a chance—millions of people (among them, many prolific and intelligent readers) have and will continue to live rich, meaningful lives after deciding that a particular book or author is simply not a priority, even if the author is famous and the book highly recommended by several friends who wear glasses.

If you can parse this passage from Pet Sematary, you can parse just about anything Joyce throws at you:

[mahpotatoequeen]

ezran's tiny little hands

just comparing the size of Callum and Ezran's hands and it's making me emotional

[guardian-angle22]

[bird-likes-to-fandom]

infantilization of Ricky Potts my beloathed