#his work is magnificent

[thinwhitedoc]

SHERLOCK | Martin Freeman as John Watson

[hunxi-after-hours]

bai liu: if I met my younger self in a scenario, I simply would not kill him bai liu: instead I would lie, cheat, exploit, and emotionally manipulate my younger self into working for me bai liu: it's called profit maximization 👍

[robiinurheart33]

Horror movie 141 headcanons

Price: can handle anything. On the rare occasion he gets jump scared he just grumbles and gets embarrassed that he got caught off guard.

Ghost: doesn’t really join them to watch horror movies. He can get uncomfortable with the imagery and sound effects but it depends on the movie itself. He’s more in tuned with comedy/horror movies and never gets jumpscared.

Soap: only watches horror movies when Gaz invites him to. Jumps semi-occasionally but he’s the type to talk during the movie and piss everyone off. If there’s guns in the movie, he’s definitely going to complain about how inaccurate it is.

Gaz: horror movie veteran. The one who invites everyone to come together and watch it. Same as Soap, gets jumped semi-occasionally. He loves the thrill of watching a horror movie, especially psychological horror. When the timing lines up just right and all of 141 is able to watch together is when he enjoys it the most.

[narniansteel]

Oh God what if they make Rabadash hot

[redxluna]

I've always found it interesting that, apparently, for some people the show's efforts to sanitize Mustafa into perfection actually worked against them in people still using the writing to point out flaws of his unintentionally included by the show that made them dislike him.

In this most recent re-watch, the one to stand out to me regarding that so far is how Mustafa, after learning that Ibrahim cheated on Hatice, basically lets him off with a pat on the back and a sort of, "Hey, my aunt's real 'sensitive', you know? So don't do that again, buddy."

If this is truly meant to be the most gallant and noble out of all the şehzades, then why is it so easy for him to wave off harm done to his aunt? Not to mention, we're later treated to Mustafa, after Ibrahim's downfall, swearing that Ibrahim could never have betrayed his father...as if the man hadn't openly been exposed for betraying another dynasty member he was meant to be loyal to in recent memory.

[fourswords]

i'm absolutely convinced that red actually could have taken on shadow and vaati and ganon all by himself and won if he REALLY applied himself but the reason he didn't is because he just wanted to have some shits and giggles and fun times with the others

[poetglasses]

Sometimes I just think about how Wolfric and Honora married because Wolfric ended the battles in the North and made peace with the seven clan leaders (by literally telling them they couldn't defeat him lol) without shedding blood.

Like, Honora literally refused his proposal unless he could end the wars without spilling another drop of blood aND IF HE WANTED TO HE WOULD--

BUT, he also told them that if they declared sworn loyalty to him and proclaimed him as King, he'd make the seven clan leaders his great lords and ladies, and would ensure the peace between houses by betrothing his magical children to the heirs of each house.

And when Wolfric told Honora about his promise, she had a horrible feeling about it and we all know how that went so...

[herbofgraceandpeace]

Thoughts on season two of the bear so far: Carmy needs to bloom where he’s been planted.

[chiropteracupola]

for the palette asks: brendan and isaiah in ‘flesh’?

And I know that you mean so well / But I am not a vessel for your good intent...

[lifeinacartoon]

Sorry, not sorry. Appreciating Gary Barlow's arms day, today! Because I don't feel they get enough appreciation on this app lol.

[hecksupremechips]

Ehehe I like this 🥰

[mishkakagehishka]

Man whatever this user is an Eichi apologist fuck y'all

[fragmentedblade]

No but even beyond the heathcliffean air of his story as a kid, Nelly scene and revenge fantasies included, and even beyond the identification of the self with the craft, the entire concept of Yingxing is so good.

The glimpse we get of the relationship he has with his master has so much potential. What it says about him, what it says about everyone around them, what it says about the kid.

The fact that already as a child Yingxing was vindictive, as he will be as Blade.

His self-consciousness about being a short life species, and how he is right to be self-conscious about it. How in such a short time, being so young, he's had to deal with enormous tragedy, so that he can even as a kid look the truth in the eye and admit it. Admit that he has to work harder, longer, more obsessively, and that still nonetheless there's little chance to get ever at the level of the long life species that look down on him and take him for granted. How he is able to overcome it.

It's incredible also in the context of Dan Feng. How both struggle with their identities and how they get new ones, but in totally opposite ways. Dan Feng is weighted down by what he is and what he can do, and wants to escape that fate, and dreams of a new life in which he can be something else; and Dan Heng is born. Yingxing takes pride in that which he can do, something he wasn't born into, something he had to work very hard to achieve, and that was the path to overcome the prejudices and undermining gazes he had to bear as a short life species. He crafts his place into the Xianzhou society and becomes the legendary Furnace Master. Even on a more personal level, one could argue this is his way of maneuvering his life, of expressing himself, this is how he deals with things; like his relationship with Jing Yuan having a turning point after giving him his weapon, or how he crafted that jade flask. And then he loses his ability to create and loses himself; he becomes Blade.

The fact that even as an adult, as an exceedingly arrogant craftsman, something of the shy self-conscious kid remains is both endearing and heartbreaking as well. In some ways we still see that in Blade.

We also see echoes of that personality in Mr. Xiao, who worked under him. And that alongside his craftsmanship, his ability to fix and create auromatons even though they are vanishing in the civilian landscape, live on through Mr. Xiao. And die alongside him, for Mr. Xiao too has become but a relic of another time.

The way the other stories of craftsmen enhance facets of Yingxing's is so good too. Mainly in the story of Master Ryan and Chengjie, with the insight we get of the struggles of short life species in the Xianzhou, especially those dedicated to a craft, and how hard it is for them to reach positions of prestige. It also poses the question of how we can transcend time, if it's possible at all, and how the sharing of knowledge, the passing down of skills, the shared loved, is one of the answers. This was all already significant before, but the information gains weight with the existence of Mr. Xiao. I'd argue there's echoes of Yingxing even in Master Gongshu. His love for his automatons, his sincere fondness for them, his pride on his job, his loyalty to his position and duties, the way he is both hard and stern as well as loving with his apprentices, and how he talks about short life species.

On a sort of ontological way, it's very interesting to see how Yingxing goes from craftsman to tool or weapon, from creator to creation, from subject to object. The potential in the context of Abundance/Destruction is also extremely intriguing, I think. He who created is unmade by a curse of Abundance. He who forged weapons now follows that path of destruction. There's so much going on with Yingxing conceptually around the cycles of death and rebirth, destruction and creation; it's so fitting that now Blade is stuck in such a cycle in the most literal way.

And it's so fitting too that, in all this context, given Yingxing's entire story, Blade's entire being, that which he made unmade him. That which he created and gave him so much pride was the weapon that killed him. And now he wields it himself, his tool of revenge while he follows the path to eternal and irrevocable death.

[a-hell-of-a-time-archive]

((More Andre thoughts while I form drabble/fic ideas:

Andrealphus has a private room that only he himself may enter. Inside is a wide variety of pristine, beautifully handcrafted statues. Some are miniatures while others are quite large. Andrealphus crafted each of them by his own hand, and nearly all of them either reflect past events in his life, or whatever mood he was in when they were made.

Making ice sculptures and figures is how he copes with stress and expresses the thoughts and emotions he cannot share with others (an has been trained since childhood to keep to himself). It is also a place where he can drop the arrogant, haughty, royal facade and lay everything bare, finding solace in the fact that this is his safe space and no one else's. Here in this space he is free to truly be himself and express whatever is on his mind, the good and the bad.

It's how he's kept himself sane from the pressures and bullshit of being a part of Hell's nobility.))

[bradleysbradshaws]

LRB: I love how Miles Teller got his face smashed-in in high school so that he could have these scars on his face which add to his rugged masculine appeal and make me want to bang him in the vagina even more in 2k24.

[bitegore]

:( i think i just accidentally boiled a spider to death