#i've missed her

[raayllum]

History demands that you—History demands nothing! 🏳️‍⚧️

[grandmaster-anne]

12 July 2024 Princess Anne visits the Riding for the Disabled Association (RDA) National Championships at Hartpury University and Hartpury College.

[wanderingaldecaldo]

new streetkid outfit by veegee soon™️

Goooooood Morning, Night City!

[dragon-susceptible]

TDP Rewatch S2 E1: A Secret and a Spark

Resuming rewatch on my new TDP sideblog! I'll likely reblog this to my original blog for visibility though, so people who have been keeping up with my posts can find it.

This episode doesn't have an intro voice right away, it just cuts to Amaya at the Breach. I love that she glares at the wall and it stops spitting steam. This woman can literally intimidate a volcano.

There's no way she or the horse would be okay in the heat with the sheer proximity to that much lava, this show runs on the same suspension of disbelief that has dwarves and orcs just building metal grates over lava flows and using that for light in World of Warcraft.

And this is the first time we see elves properly in person other than Moonshadow elves! Sunfire soldiers challenging Amaya at the Breach. The two that lead the assault have metal guards in front of their horns, while the third just has rings. They all seem to wear rings behind the guards, to be fair, that seems to be a very very common Sunfire ornamentation. It does interest me that one of the soldiers who comes at Amaya has hair as white as a Moonshadow elf, though she doesn't appear to be particularly old.

I appreciate that this is a kids' show the same way ATLA was a kids' show. They let things happen offscreen, leave it implied, deal with things in ways that kids can handle, but they also don't shy away from the fact that this is a war. Amaya is a general. Those three elves that attacked her are very much dead, she threw them into lava flow and we heard them sizzle. Janai's heatbeing mode isn't something all Sunfire elves can do, and it's unclear if that would even save her from outright lava anyway.

Knowing these two get married a few years in the future makes this a fascinating confrontation.

I also appreciate the lore that the magic on a Sunforge blade just holds the blade at its own melting point. Amaya's sword has a lower melting point than Janai's, so she cut through it. Her shield doesn't, so Janai just pushed her along the wall when she went to cut through it. Does this make scientific sense? Absolutely not. But I like that there's some kind of limit, the mechanic isn't just "oh these can cut through anything".

Viren just comes into meetings yelling these days, huh?

You know, I really appreciated Councilman Saleer at first. In his introduction he was the one telling Viren to calm down, that maybe vengeance was all the elves wanted and things would settle down, that they should wait to act. Dude what happened?

He just straight up makes up a report from Amaya, says she's reported a massing of elves at the Breach. There isn't one and she's made no such report. How did he expect that to go? Like, that's. It won't take much to fuck that up for you, Viren, because it's just an outright lie.

God I hate this guy. Off again with the ranting about humanity potentially facing extinction. Wtf is he talking about. The whole point of the Breach is that even if the dragons wanted to do that, it's too resource-intensive.

The first season took a week, and by the end of it, Rayla couldn't use her let hand hardly at all. Two days later she's recovered enough to have full usage again.

The WoW nerd in the artists and designers is SUPER clear in this episode, between the lava at the Breach and all of the old Moonshadow architecture at the Nexus. Some of this stuff is just practically lifted wholesale from Darnassus or Suramar, the Ancient Kal'dorei Empire.

Oho, this is interesting, check out the designs of the first souls summoned by Lujanne's Historia Viventum spell.

The two in the lead are just straight up Skor and Andromeda's silhouettes, and the elf behind Andromeda looks like Ram. None of them resemble Callisto, though.

One of the shades that looks like Andromeda is the one playing the illusory harp.

So yes, in the old days, Moonshadow elves could and did open the portal between life and death. Given their reverence for honor and completion of their quests, I would imagine this was done to provide closure for the dead and those who were left behind. Death would be nothing to fear if you knew, for a fact, where your soul went afterward, and that you and those you loved weren't completely lost when they died.

That would be incredibly traumatic to lose. I can't begin to imagine the generational suffering and cultural decimation that would have been, to truly have direct contact with your ancestors and to have that simply torn away. No wonder they leave a guardian at the Nexus.

I appreciate Lujanne casually saying she doesn't kill people, she just drives them insane. Her method of protection is just "no one will ever believe you when you go back down :3"

Viren's pause at Harrow's door doesn't strike me as grief, honestly. Dude, you could have done more to help than just fucking stand there, and let your children risk their lives for someone you wanted dead. Though it does intrigue me that it's been over a week now and none of the arrows have been removed from the king's door. The place hasn't been cleaned up.

Yeah, there's so much destruction of property in the room. That fight with Runaan and Skor lasted for a while after Pip/Harrow was shot.

It took more effort for Viren to step on Harrow's fallen shoulder plate than it would have to step around it. That was deliberate.

This fucker really goes and just sits down in Harrow's bed and fondles the painting of Harrow's family as if he has some kind of right to Harrow's person. This invasive motherfucker.

I love that Rayla talks to herself. And also Moonshadow elves' ears move! She just perked hers up to listen in this scene. I love that so much.

YEET the baby dragon! The poor ten year olds both panicking about it made me giggle so much.

I think it's neat that Lujanne's cape kind of evokes the wings of a moth.

The Crow Master looks almost just like one of my friends and it makes me laugh every time he comes up. This friend does not watch the show but whenever I do I message him with a screenshot like "I saw you again today." We'll see what he says.

Katolis using crows instead of pigeons to send messages is an interesting choice. Also the Crow Master has reminded me how neat it is that they included nail polish in this show. A lot of medieval or pseudo-medieval shows and movies refuse to use things like that for fear of seeming anachronistic, but the first historical evidence of nail color is from 5k+ years ago (there's debate about whether it should take its origins from the nail stains in China or the slightly earlier practice of using henna in India, but henna was used for more than just nail art. Henna stains can also be used as tattoos, and the TDP writers actually have mentioned the elf tattoos are a magical version of it that lasts much longer). People have been finding ways to stain our nails different colors for a ridiculously long time.

The poor Crow Master. Viren just outright threatens to kill him if he doesn't send the letters.

Customers. The same in every universe.

Lujanne's a terrible teacher. I do hope we get Arc 3 just because I want to see more of Callum's interactions with Ethari and Runaan, since both of them are mages who are decent teachers.

It hits that Harrow's smiling in his painting with Sarai and the boys, but he wasn't in his coronation painting with Viren.

[awesomefroggy]

Guy guys guys guys I get to run the highest stakes boss fight I've ever run tonight and at the end!! I get my Little Bird back!!! The party gets to curbstomp Marbus and then I (we) get an Amala back!!

[pit--rat]

I imagine every good dnd campaign needs a dramatic outfit change at some point

[kymal]

pike... :') i love you

[zimms]

rereading omgcp on webtoon like it's live posting again......

[snowwgravve]

korean cafe video and drawing noelle holiday will surely fix me

[wisteriaphyte]

Everything begins and ends at the exactly right time and place.

[bloody-bara]

Look who I drew for the first time in years~

[steelthroat]

I found my favorite red gel pen after 2 months... my teacher (whom I've never in my entire life caught in the act of writing) had it -_-

Ffs brother, I thought I was the idiot for losing it, but it turns out you know how to write, apparently. I'm not mad, I'm surprised.

[binch-i-might-be]

I am going to rewatch brooklyn99. as god intended

[mandycantdecide]

so mandycantdecide is back, babyyyyyy <3

[supernaturalkickparty]

Rosa!!!!!!!!!!

[boltscutter]

starter.               camille weaver and berkam sahin.

new  york  was  a  new  experience  for  camille  .  for  so  long  she'd  found  herself  surrounded  by  backwoods  morons  whose  most  exciting  feat  was  growing  the  biggest  pumpkin  for  the  county  fair  ,  hopping  from  place  to  place  in  her  earlier  years  to  pull  the  wool  over  the  eyes  of  all  who  came  into  contact  with  her  .  the  last  place  had  been  different  ,  of  course  .  she'd  met  people  who'd  finally  sparked  something  in  her  again  ,  something  alive  and  on  fire  ,  but  it  felt  like  it  was  hungry  . infiltrating  the  upper  echelons  of  the  social  scene  had  been  laughably  easy  .  she  was  beautiful  ,  dominant  and  alluring  ,  and  these  people  loved  shiny  things  that  fluttered  their  eyelashes  .  but  they  kept  speaking  about  one  person  ,  one  name  that  kept  echoing  through  the  group  she  was  sat  with  in  the  vip  section  of  this  club  .  she  was  in  the  centre  being  pawed  over  ,  drinks  practically  overflowing  on  their  table  ,  and  yet  her  eyes  were  fixed  on  the  figure  that  had  finally  arrived  .  the  one  who  seemed  to  strike  a  strange  feeling  of  both  fear  and  jealousy  in  most  of  these  faceless  people  . ❛  berkam  . ❜  she  smiled  , somehow both nonchalantly and arrogantly .   ❛  i've  heard  so  much  about  you  .  ❜