#i know there are more things as always

[rainintheevening]

Little things I've picked up from watching the Prince Caspian movie nearly a dozen times:

-The Telmarine aesthetic is all sharp points and dark wood and silver. Also hawks in arms of the chairs and in the crossbows. It all feels... dangerously elegant. Like bared daggers rather than bared teeth.

-The way it starts with Caspian hiding in his wardrobe!

-Caspian fights in the melee with a sword and dagger. Both in the attack on Miraz's castle and at the How. When he's fighting on foot, he uses his dagger in his off hand.

-The throneroom at the Telmarine castle is so small compared to the one at Cair Paravel. It's clearly designed for Humans only, and not very many at a time. (This also supports my belief that Caspian's coronation was held in the open field outside the town.)

-In the last stages of the battle outside the How, before the trees show up, Peter, Edmund, Caspian, and others all range themselves around Susan to keep a space clear for her to shoot, since she's not armed for close combat. Small detail, but I love the acknowledgement of her ability and it's limitations.

-Also when Susan hugs Peter, and she hugs his injured shoulder and he gasps, and she says 'sorry' and he says 'it's alright'... such a tiny realistic moment.

-What really hits Peter from what the White Witch says is, "You know you can't do this alone." And Peter lowers his sword, personally I think in a kind of despair, not because he would follow her, or give her what she wants, but just because he knows she's right, and he feels so very lost in that moment. That's my idea, but I definitely don't think it's coincidence that that is when Edmund strikes, and the ice crumbles away to reveal Edmund and behind him, Aslan’s face. Because Peter isn't alone. He's just been acting like he is. (Eventually will expand on this with a Seasons scene.)

-Peter actually disarms Caspian really easily in their first meeting. It's only letting his emotions get the better of him in going for the kill that leads to his mighty swing that gets Rhindon stuck in the tree.

-Love how they include the little piper and drum in the mouse procession with the wounded Reepicheep!

-In the opening pursuit of Caspian, when he rides into the river and Glozelle's men follow, they immediately get into trouble, and I love that little implication that the river doesn't like the others.

-ALSO the moment when Trumpkin sees Rhindon's hilt, and really properly looks at the four, the way the focus changes to make it look like the sky and the water and the stones shift and bend around the Pevensies!!!!

[druid-for-hire]

[image id: a four-page comic. it is titled "immortality” after the poem by clare harner (more popularly known as “do not stand at my grave and weep”). the first page shows paleontologists digging up fossils at a dig. it reads, “do not stand at my grave and weep. i am not there. i do not sleep.” page two features several prehistoric creatures living in the wild. not featured but notable, each have modern descendants: horses, cetaceans, horsetail plants, and crocodilians. it reads, “i am a thousand winds that blow. i am the diamond glints on snow. i am the sunlight on ripened grain. i am the gentle autumn rain.” the third page shows archaeopteryx in the treetops and the skies, then a modern museum-goer reading the placard on a fossil display. it reads, “when you awaken in the morning’s hush, i am the swift uplifting rush, of quiet birds in circled flight. i am the soft stars that shine at night. do not stand at my grave and cry.” the fourth page shows a chicken in a field. it reads, “i am not there. i did not die” / end id]

a comic i made in about 15 hours for my school’s comic anthology. the theme was “evolution”

[chloesimaginationthings]

The FNAF Vanessas meet their younger selves..

[pangur-and-grim]

oh. I think my fears about Chiefcake passing from old age were more on point than I realized. she's acting very weak right now.

and it's late on a friday, when all the rabbit-specific vets have closed. I'll call around anyway to see if at home euthanasia is an option tonight.

[collgeruledzebra]

the thing about trying to recommend fiction podcasts to someone who isn't familiar with them is that not only are so so many genres represented but also the level of production can fall anywhere from "basically an audiobook" to "major motion picture minus the pictures"

[time-to-write-and-suffer]

I love how on Tumblr, "media literacy" has become "Um, just because someone writes about this doesn't mean they're endorsing this. I hate all these media puritans ruining everything."

I'm sad to inform you that knowing when and whether an author is endorsing something, implying something, saying something, is also part of media literacy. Knowing when they are doing this and when they're not is part of media literacy. Assuming that no author has ever endorsed a bad thing is how you fall for proper gander. It's not media literacy to always assume that nobody ever has agreed with the morally reprehensible ideas in their work.

Sometimes, authors are endorsing something, and you need to be aware when that happens, and you also need to be aware when you're doing it as an author. All media isn't horny dubcon fanfic where you and the author know it's problematic IRL but you get off to it in the privacy of your brain. Sometimes very smart people can convince you of something that'll hurt others in the real world. Sometimes very dumb people will romanticize something without realizing they're doing it and you'll be caught up in it without realizing that you are.

Being aware of this is also media literacy. Being aware of the narrative tools used to affect your thinking is media literacy. Deciding on your own whether you agree with an author or not is media literacy. Enjoying characters doing bad things and allowing authors to create flawed or cruel characters for the sake of a story is perfectly fine, but it is not the same as being media literate. Being smug about how you never think an author has bad intentions tells me you're edgy, not that you're media literate. You can't use one rule to apply to all media. That's not how media literacy works. Sorry! Sorry! Sorry! Aheem heem. Anyway.

[notbrucewayne48]

"aphobia doesn't exist"

bitch literally not that long ago an aroace youtuber animator was insulted by almost half of its community for being it

[mythicalcoolkid]

You don't wish your disability was worse or more visible, you wish your disability was taken seriously. Please stop confusing the two, I guarantee you would not get the support you need JUST by being more severe or more visible. Please listen to visibly disabled people when we tell you it isn't better on our side

[hollytree33]

Hi so I might’ve made a painting of my Inquisitor while trying to mimic Solas’s style so I can pretend he made it

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

I know those eyes.

[First] Prev <–-> Next

[forgettable-au]

Sans do you ever feel that something might be missing?

Maybe he felt like that at some point, maybe for a long time. In the present, I think he's made some kind of peace with it.

Also, I really like the ask blog format, but I don't really mean this to be an ask blog.

So when writing questions, try to refer them to me instead of the characters. That way, they don't have to break the fourth wall lmao. I really wanted to answer this one tho

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[technically-human]

Part two of the reverse verse is here! The reverse boys meet the original boys. They're not really getting along as well as I had hoped...

Again, this was a commission for @i-am-as-normal-as-you-are and they asked for angst/funny vibes... I think it's mostly just angst though. Oh, well...

Part one

[shadowbends]

Looking through your Ao3 bookmarks and seeing that little “This has been deleted, sorry!” is like finding a gravestone, but the writing’s too worn down to read what it was standing for anymore.

What were you, Bookmark #336... What stories did you tell? Which words were it that once left a mark on my soul?  *touches my laptop screen like it’s text from an ancient ruin*

Cowabummer. 

[chloesimaginationthings]

Elizabeth Afton bets on losing dogs in FNAF..

[sykloni]

Dannymay 2023

15. Full Hazmat AU & 23. Rogue Gallery

[ducktracy]

there are a lot of evil people in the world and a lot of darkness in the world and so it’s very important for me to stress that now more than ever is the time to spread kindness and compassion. combat the evil by not only not partaking in it, but actively refuting it. destroy the notion that being compassionate or generous or kind to someone is uncool or embarrassing or even scary. be the change you want to see. start a chain reaction. positivity only breeds more positivity. do an act of kindness for someone so that that person who is too afraid to do it themselves can see you, realize that they’re not alone, and perhaps sheepishly follow your example. and then the next person who is too afraid but sees that person can do the same. when bad news comes out about bad people or horrible atrocities in the world it’s such an easy impulse to despair, and obviously it’s important to feel what you need to feel. grieve. be angry. be sorrowful. be empathetic. but dust off your pants and get up and be a part of a chain reaction that, no matter how small the scale, and spread compassion and love and care. all the reasons why you might not—“it’s hard! it’s scary! people will make fun of me! it’s useless because there’s too much evil!” are all grade A arguments as to why you should. you have no idea how many people you could inspire to do the same. even if it doesn’t get you anyway far, you can at least say you have the nobility of trying. please choose love and please choose life. you are worth loving and you are worth inspiring others to love