#idk how to phrase this

[acesammy]

ok ngl i am an absolute sucker for a show leaning into the love that can be found in the imperfections of the people you care for, and how that can be taken as a broader statement about the nature of the art you engage with. Was arcane perfect? no, but there's beauty in the imperfections.

[dcvina-claires]

in the “he was just wylan van eck” scene, wylan says that he summoned all of the skills he learned from the crows. except kaz. with kaz he used the word studied instead

[okaypopopop]

shout out to @firenren, the poetry in motion took me out

going seventeen special etc – the butt discussion

[butterycroissant]

What do you guys do throughout the day to kinda feel more connected to your dr and like the universe ig? I try to look around me and feel that this is just one reality I'm in and my soul is experiencing this from my body but jts not tethered to it, but I don't really feel anytbing.

Is there any thoughts that you have or a mindset you've adopted that lets you be connected like that?

[w0nderland]

why am I suddenly so nostalgic for clowning on here especially before red tv/midnights announcement? like we were here every single week twisting ourselves into knots trying to figure out when the lead single was dropping but we also were fully aware we were clowning??? like I miss clowning and making up theories for the laughs knowing full well you’re wrong and taylor’s never gonna see it anyway

[puppppppppy]

horrible truth bomb dropped on my head 20 min ago

[dreamerdrop]

something about how garak and julian both lead with their worst foot forward as the first impression.

which is why The Wire works so well for them, because it’s both of them on full display in a way that forces them both to accept they either like each other at their most infuriating or they don’t. and turns out, they do like each other, even when they’re both being incredibly aggravating to each other.

julian contends with the reality that garak has likely killed and tortured countless innocent people, will likely never be truly honest with julian about anything ever, and that he can be incredibly venomous and cruel at his worst, and julian decides he still cares about garak and will still be his friend in the aftermath.

garak gets to see how impossibly stubborn and reckless julian can be, how frustratingly dedicated to his ideals of looking after other people he is, how utterly annoying julian can be when he’s got his mind set on something… and garak absolutely walks away deciding these are also julian’s best traits, even if garak thinks they might need tempering for julian’s own good.

they don’t actively consider each other proper friends until they have been forced to look at the parts of each other they might find most off-putting, and they both see that and go “… yeah, i still like him, even more now actually.”

idk there’s something about how they find themselves endeared to each other for the exact same traits that would normally drive others away. they fall in love with the whole picture right from the start. of course, julian can joke about garak having murdered people. he knew that from the word go and decided he liked garak anyway. of course, garak falls deeper in love with julian when he demonstrates his near-suicidal levels of dedication to protecting others, that determination was what sparked garak falling in love to start with.

and they can still dislike parts of that whole, garak definitely wishes julian would be more selfish (for the sake of self-preservation, mostly), and julian doesn’t exactly *approve* of garak doing morally reprehensible things, but… they knew exactly who they were falling in love with and went all in anyway.

something about falling in love with someone from their worst parts so that every time you have to reassess your view of them, it only makes them more lovable.

[maddie-w-draws]

tfw ur an angry little dog and ur human is in distress but it’s not funny this time because u didn’t cause it >:(

[royalarchivist]

Ramon: So opinions on [Bagi]?

Fit: She's legit, we can trust her. We can trust her.

Ramon: Would you rather a dad or a mom [for me?]

Fit: Uh- I- no one! No one. Let's- let's get over to Felps' Square, Ramon. [They head to the warp at Spawn, then Fit hesitates] Um, wait- Ramon. [He pauses, briefly looks at the camera, then says in a rush] If I had to choose between the two, it'd be a dad. Alright, let's go. Let's go, let's go.

[bikananjarrus]

thinking about how frodo probably had an idea of his fate (or at least that he might be forever changed by this experience, if he didn’t already think about how he might not be coming back) from the moment he said “what must i do” back in the shire after gandalf explains about the ring.

when he and sam see the elves in the forest, making their way to the docks to sail west, “never to return,” sam says “i don’t know why…it makes me sad.” And frodo doesn’t say anything. he’s the one telling sam that the elves will never return, and he just watches them silently.

and then in rivendell, sam is packing to go home, and frodo teases him saying that he thought sam wanted to see the elves more than anything else. which sam insists he does, he did. But now he’s ready to go. and frodo agrees: “i am ready to go home.” but his tone isn’t very convincing. and this is after teasing sam about wanting to cut their adventure short, about wanting to go home already. already i think frodo knows that even if/when they go home, he won’t be the same (physically, already, he’s changed because of the stab wound from the morgul blade).

and then the penultimate moment, seeing everyone fighting at the council over who will take the ring to mordor, and he knows. he knows he must be the one to take this burden on, even though, looking around at the other members of the council, he must surely be thinking he’s not the best person for the job. he’s not a warrior. he’s not a wizard. he’s not the most cunning or experienced person there. nevermind him being a small hobbit in a very large world against even larger foes.

he doesn’t even know how to start this journey. but he asked at the beginning of it all, what must i do. he accepted the responsibility with barely a second thought for himself. what must i do shifts to a i will do what i must. (“i know what I must do. it’s just that…i’m afraid to do it.”) i will do what i was tasked to do, what I volunteered to do, though i know i will not be the same by the end of it.

and so he says, “i will take the ring to mordor. though…i do not know the way.”

[toodle3316]

My goats 1633🙂‍↕️

[joonboree]

Bill Cipher gets a hangover and forgets how change mouth-eye to an eye-mouth. I had this comic is my head for ages I decided to draw it up on the bus just to see if I could get it out quickly. I thought it turned out pretty cool on the page so I kept the format.

I think Tumblr is the best place to post it because I get to put the images on top of each other.

[ohithankyou]

a face made to be fucked

[nirvanaida]

i don’t want to project anything onto the creators but i do find it super interesting that across the spiderverse is seems to be asking the question of “how does one write spiderman when there’s so much that’s already written for you?” there is an algorithm of how things are *supposed* to go so how can you reject that? how do you defy the Law that is what people are expecting? and we’re learning that the answer is and always has been Miles!!!

[falmerbrook]

I need an elder scrolls developer to get really into ecology/biology. I am unsatisfied. Someone needs to pull a tolkein-and-languages with the ecosystems of tamriel. please.

[dailytogachako]

In my head Toga fell in love first but Uraraka fell in love so much more