#i keep coming back to this

[everythingroyalty]

i can't even put into words how truly psychopathic it is that william let his cancer-stricken wife take the fall for a botched photoshop job she so obviously had nothing to do with

[et-in-arkadia]

reading a history of american writers and i can’t stop thinking about how william faulkner became commercially viable because his publishers paid the 1931 equivalent of nearly $10k to be featured on depression-era booktok

[y-rhywbeth2]

Something that makes Durge's myriad of possible physical appearances even more confusing to me (as in they can be literally anything):

Bhaal doesn't care at all about physical appearance, insofar as I can tell. He prefers to be perceived only as acts of death and murder - preferably you will never see him at all. You only see the brutal murder scenes and mutilated corpses of your companions left for you to find with the circle of tears painted in their blood on the wall to let you know he was there. Also he seems to have it in for horses because he can't resist killing them. He never manifests in any fashion at all if he can help it; temples at a minimum and out of sight; the religious garb of his followers hides their faces and unique identifying features...

in the Time of Troubles he paid no attention whatsoever to what kind of mortals he hijacked as avatars. He just grabbed them, ran them into the ground, stabbed some people with the broken bones towards the end, then jumped to the next one. I imagine he doesn't actually see mortal bodies as anything but sinewy sacks of fluid: deaths that haven't happened yet.

So imagining Bhaal trying to actually design a creature with an appearance... it was probably an interesting experience considering Bhaal simply does not seem to care about this nonsense. His concept of beauty involves a dead lump of meat that's been severed from life in a creative fashion, his aesthetics are going to be... hmm.

1. So option one: Copy-pasting his original mortal form makes the most sense to me if Bhaal chose their appearance himself, although that would lock Durge into human, which isn't the case... unless Durge actually modified themselves with magic sometime between birth and getting amnesia and they were born an (presumably amab) human. 2. Did he recycle the appearance of one of his previous Bhaalspawn? Except that doesn't work because they can be dragonborn, since none of those were available until well after his death... 3. Maybe Bhaal didn't design them. Did he just send the butlers out to do some surveys and sketch some concept art? Did the Deathstalkers vote on the finalised appearances and traits? Did he just cut off a chunk of his flesh and pass it to his servants: 'Here, make this into a person shape and pass it off to some randos to raise.' Hmm... Was it like a Dawn Summers thing, where Durge is actually just a portion of Bhaal's divine energy retconned into existence by Bhaalist monks and slotted into a family in the shape of their child so they just combined the genetic material of the parents for the physical form? Because I do like the idea of being able to draw on that concept. ('What am I? Am I real? Am I anything??') And it explains why Durge is kind of a walking retcon.

[shaynetopp-me]

[charlidos]

Lost but together

(In glorious HD!)

I keep thinking of how Viggo said in that interview about being lost in the woods: "I just want to show you where you've never been. I just want to show you this beautiful rainforest". Doesn't that sound terribly romantic? It's like he wanted to give Orlando this precious gift. Viggo had obviously been to this amazing spot before, immediately thought of Orlando, wanting to share this gem with him. Viggo has said a lot how he liked getting away on his own while filming, to get some Viggo-time. But apparently, this time, being alone wasn't enough. There's something so awfully lovely about this sentiment.

And here are some new-for-me tidbits from Viggo concerning this "lost in the rainforest with I-don't-know-who/alone/a friend/oh turns out he was with Orlando" story.

I liked especially getting lost on the west coast (south island) rainforest and stumbling through/fishing/sleeping and swimming in parts of Mt Aspiring, Fiordland, the mountains of Canterbury, the northland coast etc… Sometimes, particularly on the south island, I was reminded of Argentina and Patagonia in particular, and Chile. --- I took pictures of this incredible land. I once got lost in the forest - it was getting darker and darker, I thought I knew where the path to the coast was, but with no daylight I got lost and wandered around for two days. Of course I was stupid enough not to take a torch with me. The only light I had was the flash on my camera. I used it as a lamp and inadvertently took some excellent, unusual photos.

First, seems getting lost in the rainforest with Orlando was one of Viggo's favourite moments in NZ. A beautiful place, beautiful company, what's not to love? It really turned into a magical moment for them.

I love that he also particularly mentions "Canterbury". Of course, NZ is riddled with places named after British towns etc, but it's just one of those "coincidences" that Viggo just happens to mention a place with the same name as Orlando's birthplace.

And in the 2nd quote, Viggo claims he was lost (all alone this time, poor chap) for TWO DAYS! Good lord. Well, fine, if they went out on their seemingly impromptu hike at lunchtime one day and were back at lunch the next, I guess that could be maybe counted as two days? Nevermind that it was only 14 hours... Two days should be perhaps at least more than 24 hours, you'd think. Still, they were out there for a LONG time. Just the two of them. Lost, but together.

Oh, how I love this fairytale. I wish someone would ask Orlando about his experience one day. We should prepare a carefully worded question which he could answer without forcing him to mention Viggo, unless he want to. Obviously, it made a lasting impression on Viggo, an experienced guy. So I can imagine it must have been the same for Orlando. Life changing, terrifying, romantic and just... wonderful.

(I'm trying to find the magazine where it was revealed that it was Orlando who was Viggo's companion on this adventure. I've been looking everywhere, but can't find a scan, all old sources are gone. Does anyone reading this have it? It's from the Austrian mag Skip das kinomagazin, April 2005.)

[iscariotapologist]

Thomas Merton

[emberglowfox]

ohhh to be able to design my own clothes

[accidentallyatekneecaps]

Guys I think Im trans what do I do

[infinityinakiss]

You look around this hospital, you see the doctors. All men, swaggering in and out of the rooms really fast.

"I'm important. I have a pen in my pocket. I look at a chart. Hmm, good chart. I sign the chart. I am God, and God can't hang around. God has to be in the gallbladder wing in five. "

But spend a few days in the hospital, and you start to notice the nurses. The nurses never rush out of your room. They just clean out the bedpans, draw the blood, insert the suppositories. They don't get to sign a chart. They don't even get a pen. But they hold you when you cry.

So, what does this mean? Are women more important than God?

Hmm.

What if we discover one day that we were always the ones in charge?

Just, no one told us.

I don't know. I don't know what I'm saying. I just...don't want this man to die.

Mrs. Maisel, "How Do You Get to Carnegie Hall?"

[sokayisaidiot]

Ezrabine/sabezra stuff I guess

They're needs to be built up to whatever relationship they will pursue. From the next episode forward. This should decide what happens.

They would need to start showing feelings and giving CLEAR HINTS to make people aware of the status of their relationship.

They did have a starting point to built up from sabine centering everything from her life about ezra. Wearing his clothes, living in his place, only thinking of him when the galaxy is at stake, having his lightsaber.

Let me tell you something. I have two older brothers. If one of them dies, I would not do those things. Because when you have siblings and one leaves your life, you remember them, honor them or do something in their memory, but you do not base your life around them.

Like sabine does not do it with her family. Her apparently dead family. Her brother is dead for all we know, and she does not do those things for him. Or her parents. Or Kanan in that matter. Never with what she does with Ezra

They put an extremely hard emphasis on ezra. Like she had her whole rebels arc centered around her personality and past with her family in rebels. Now she is centered around ezra

Either they start putting out clear signs or we can just look at Dave pasta filoni over there and question his choices

[withinycu]

Melanie Lynskey as Anne of Cleves tho

[xxx-cat-xxx]

Tony doesn't really show anger the way most people do. He doesn't shout or scream or snap. It comes in controlled outbursts, like one punch through glass, or in harsh, fast quips. He always settles easy enough. It's what endears her to him. She hates angry men.

But there's an undercurrent simmering under his skin like electricity. He needs to break something, she thinks, something that's not his own, vulnerable body. Maybe she would offer sex, something to take out his energy, but not now, not when his shoulder is busted and he's barely sitting up straight.

Rec of the Day: jus post bellum by romanoff

[whiskers-scribbles]

If fate is real then I have a bone to pick with it because for some reason it convinced me to delete Tumblr at some point in the late 2010s only for me to come back after trying out Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and Reddit to realize just how much I was missing out on.

The absolute nonsense that is this site. It’s so good.

[tinyshinysylveon]

y’all i was really going to make something out of this but then life happened asdfghjkl on top of that, new episodes are out aaa

Depending on y’alls answer, I’ll more than likely make something _(:3 」∠)_

[pbnmj]

THE NOIR-HOBIE INTERACTIONS THAT I MADE UP IN MY MIND ARE VERY REAL TO ME. SONY PLEASE PICK UP WHAT I’M PUTTING DOWN!!!