#i mean HONESTLY

[ashstfu]

[cockroachesunite]

[hobermallowed]

Lestat…talking to Louis…via Armand…

[anghraine]

In addition to the I'm Guessing Tolkien Had Some Hang-Ups About Pregnancy post, I also ran over some interesting but even more unrelated factoids in The Nature of Middle-earth that even I couldn't justify including in the main ramble.

So I made a separate post about those, which includes my favorite:

Arwen would have been even more exhausting for Celebrían to bear than a pair of twins because: Arwen was a "special child" of great powers and beauty The beauty I got from LOTR, but—without being dismissive about the banner—I really wish we had a clearer sense of Arwen's unique stature in her own right in LOTR. She's presented so much in terms of Elrond and Lúthien and occasionally Galadriel and Celeborn, but Elladan and Elrohir are Elrond's children and Galadriel's grandchildren just as much as she is. Yet here she's clearly framed as special and powerful in a way they are not and which drew so much from Celebrían's (and possibly Elrond's) spiritual reserves that they couldn't have any more children. That seems like a big deal! Tell me more! Epilogue: he did not tell us more

[david-tennant-in-chairs]

SPROING

Bonus hair ruffles gif because yum:

[shootingstarpilot]

i would have been done with this chapter a month ago if these two idiots could stop being so disgustingly in love for TWO MINUTES-

[unconvenchinal-charm-reactivated]

You guys know he’s not ACTUALLY Hitler right?

It’s important to me that you know that.

[choices-binglebonkus]

They finally implemented the 10 diamond ads per day instead of 100. Looks like I’m just not going to make diamond choices anymore lol

[poisonedfate]

the thing is, THE THING IS, that above it all was the love that merlin and arthur had for each other. no matter if you think it's platonic, romantic, some kind of fusion between the two, who cares, because it was love in its purest form. yeah, their fates were intertwined, destiny and all, and, yes, loyalty is loyalty even without your heart on your sleeve, and, yes dying for each other really wasn't unseen in those corners of the universe. but they didn't have to do it for love. they could've stuck with the destiny or the loyalty. they could've stuck with caring just enough. but did they? no. love in its purest form is a choice you actively make. and they kept making that choice over and over and over again, despite the fact that they needed each other either way. and yeah, maybe it was doomed. maybe exactly that was the nail in their coffin, but could they have done it any other way, even if they knew it all?

[whatabarb]

Penelope: *angry* You are so aggravating! You promised that you would help me!

Colin: Yes, but you do not listen to me, you do whatever you want, you chase men that do not deserve you! Woman, you vex me!

Penelope: *realising something* Oh, I see what you are doing, Colin.

Colin: *stuttering* Y-you do?

Penelope: Yes, now I can see clearly.

Colin: *slightly blushing* I was not aware that you have taken notice.

Penelope: *sighing* Of course I have taken notice! You are too obvious!

Colin: *his eyes wander along the room* Uh. Well. I- I mean... In that case I think I owe you an explanation.

They look at each other for a few seconds and then they burst out at the same time:

Penelope: You want me to become a spinster!

Colin: I want to marry you!

Penelope: What?!

Colin: What?!

[flowersforfrancis]

Chaotic academia is just dark academia the adhd edition.

[theirondragonrants]

Aemond "they made fun of me" Targaryen, they could never make me like you

[mermaids-ate-my-dinner]

*my durge going down*

Astarion: "Noooooo! My sweet, bloodthirsty friend!"

Yes, this is real dialogue 😅

[seagreenstardust]

[bricheese-zip]

okay i had to rummage around and find the password to this old account to get this out there because i thought too hard about this dumb little block game and now i need to get this out there. if this is well known now (idk i haven't been on tumblr in years, who knows what's been happening) then oh well, i'm a fool. still wanna put my thoughts out there tho

so all throughout Eps 5-8 of Season 1 of MCSM we get hints here and there for us to put together that Soren was an old builder. yeah i know, old news, whatever. but in Season 2 Ep 4, we find one of Soren's books in Fred's house after we win the trivia contest (or lose and break in, whatever) called "The Brave Little Enderman" or something like that, right? as Jesse reads it, it seems pretty amateur for a "great author" like Soren, and also, how the hell did Fred even get his hands on it in the first place?

Well thinking about it further, in S1Ep5, Ivor mentions that the Old Builders existed even before the Order of the Stone (go figure), but then someone else (i think Jesse as one of the dialogue options) says they didn't know there WAS anything before the Order. This implies the people and history of this world, as well as the world itself, is very new.

This actually lines up with my thoughts, as I think Fred (and possibly Romeo and Xara idk) met Soren and the other Old Builders before the Underneath and the Sunshine Institute got bedrocked, and gave them access to the Command Block in the first place, with Soren giving Fred one of his first ever books he wrote as thanks.

Then after the events of Fred dying, Xara losing her powers and Romeo bedrocking everything and creating the new current world, Soren moved in from the Old Builder's world as one of the first people to live there. He then assembled the order, and the story pretty much goes on from there.

I thought way too hard about this and it only took, what, several dozen rewatches of playthroughs for it to finally click in my brain what happened? I care about this game way too much lmao

idk if @stirpicus still responds to questions and theories, but if he gives this a read and puts in his two cents (whether its confirming or not, i understand he likes to keep things cryptic so fans have fun interpreting things their own way) i honestly wouldn't complain

thank you for coming to my TEDTalk.

[medlilove]

The Chernobyl series lacked realism by not having even one scientist and/or politician having a full blown panic attack at some point during the relief efforts.