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I'm not watching ROP (Amazon boycott where I can, although AWS is half the internet so) so I'm only following distantly, but THANK YOU for you Aragorn and kingship post. It's one thing where even if I can buy into the high fantasy narrative of kingship by rights, I can never forget its real-life implications. I know the last book is literally named The Return of the King, but it's really worth questioning it and not forget that Gondor was actually fine without a king for generations.
Honestly, I can respect an Amazon media boycott when it's not blatantly about fandom shit more than anything else. So more power to you on that.
With regard to the post, thanks, and no problem! Tolkien walks a narrow and complicated path with Aragorn and kingship in LOTR, which is part of the reason it doesn't bother me more. But I can't deny that it does bother me, and all the more because Tolkien is so insistent on the Stewards' virtues and competence (very much including Denethor's) right up to the last ... two days? of their 969-year reign. In a way, that only makes the royalist reasoning more pronounced.
It took awhile for me to figure out why deposing a long-standing dynasty and instituting a different one for reasons of blood bothers me so much more than having dynastic rule in the first place. But yeah, "we're going to keep having basically autocratic rule because we always have" requires a very different sort of buy-in than actively changing a long-established government to the same sort of government but with a different guy in charge for legalistic primogeniture reasons.
Aragorn is only able to get away with this because of his personal qualities, heroism, popularity, etc, but he's only in the running at all because of firmly royalist (and patriarchal) rationales, and you have to accept those at some level for the mystique to work. And there are reasons that some of us can't do it!
#i'm biased as a faramir fan—but in terms of /capability/ there really doesn't seem to be any reason to replace him#so the rationale is fundamentally blood based#but then tolkien also insists that the stewards are elrosian and related to the house of anárion#so even the heredity argument is really a patrilineal primogeniture argument#which is extremely prosaic at the end of the day despite being cloaked in royal mystique#long ago i compared aragorn to (shakespeare's) henry v—who i like a lot#i also like aragorn in some ways!#but the mythologizing of what are fundamentally political maneuvers feels really similar to me#and i like hal better because the mythologizing is so clear and i don't feel like he really expects me to care about french inheritance law#(he= shakespeare)#but tolkien does want me to care about the seniority and supremacy of aragorn's bloodline and i don't#mannn just realized i wrote a story about basically this exact issue#in high school. huh.#anon replies#respuestas#legendarium blogging#legendarium fanwank#aragorn critical#anghraine rants
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You know, I think when they finally start to slip into being more romantic, it won't be a huge conversation in that very moment. They'll have that later.
I think it'll be a moment like this, post-confession and Charles developing a crush on Edwin over a few episodes.
I think it'll be no words, maybe no thoughts, just feelings.
Charles lightly grabbing Edwin's arm as they're walking to get his attention, as they've done many times before. Only this time, instead of dropping his hand fully away, he hesitantly drops it closer by, accidentally brushing Edwin's fingers. They both get that little electrical nervous system hum reaction. Without thinking about it, Charles impulsively finds that his hand has reflexively settled into holding Edwin's. It feels right, and he doesn't want to let it go.
Edwin wants to sputter "Charles--" but the name never leaves his lips. He is speechless, his heart beating in the closing space between their palms.
They keep walking together, hand-in-hand, looking forward, rather than at each other. Flustered, confused, mutually pleased.
Maybe they can get away with holding hands more often. It doesn't have to mean anything, right?
#text post#payneland#dead boy detectives#dbda#they're really first love in high school is my best friend crush huh#hands#fluff#oh moment#edwin payne#charles rowland#fanfic fodder#to draw
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so is anyone else still in a state of disbelief that taylor sang mary’s song for the first time in 16 years and mashed it up with so high school and everything has changed as a love letter to travis, or is it just me?
#taylor swift#ttpd#the tortured poets department#so high school#mary’s song#red#everything has changed#the eras tour#travis kelce#like that really happened huh#*
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I have your art in my new sketchbook!!!!!
Whaaaa!! I'm so glad! My little boy is Somewhere Else (tm)
#occudo's art#jonathan sims#it's really crazy to see that#you have a pice of something I made#although we have never met#sorry if it's too much but I feel like#I would have given you my lame handmade stickers#back in high school#if we had gone together#the internet is such a crazy thing sometimes#huh#stickers#redbubble
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It's that time of the year again!
Time to celebrate my favorite show and my favorite boys'birthday!
To celebrate, i wanted to draw an old drawing i was very proud of back in the day
(Which you can check right here!)
Happy birthday boys! And happy birthday Gravity Falls!
#gravity falls#stanley pines#stanford pines#gravity falls fanart#redraw#man three years really went by huh?#in 2020 i was graduating from High School!#and now#three years later#i have a job#a boyfriend whom i love very much#and a few exams away before graduation (in Uni this time!)#so yeah! good shit!#how much three years can go
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so have you heard about the ride kamens app game? seems like it's gonna be a twisted wonderland like game with all the riders being hot anime guys now, and it's also gonna be written by yuya takahashi and produced by naomi takebe (apparently it was in development before geats), with designs by the person who did sk8 the infinity, so take that for what you will
have you ever gotten the feeling that a piece of media came into existence just to appeal to you specifically, or
(brb preregistering immediately)
(as far as I can tell you play as an agent who maintains a secret superhero base for riders in the basement of the rider-themed cafe that you run with your butler, and there's some other plot stuff going on but honestly I'm way past sold at this point, this sounds amazing)
#ride kamens#joseimuke games are serious business#show us the henshin forms!!!!#time to overanalyze those silhouettes in the teaser and embarrass myself by not being able to figure out who anyone is#there is 100% a gaim at least#there's one i've convinced myself is w based on almost nothing#and this is assuming they're all main riders too which is probably not true#god i SHOULD recognize more but my mind is blanking super hard and i keep second-guessing myself#(i-is that kiva maybe? den-o? I CAN'T TELL)#i don't think there's a fourze though. the cowardice.#man this is officially a Thing™ now huh#like how in the 2010s monster high kicked off a trend of 'characters' high-school age kids wearing fabulous shoes'#now we have 'ensemble cast of glossy-haired anime boys loosely based on your favorite characters'#this is absolutely not a complaint. i want more and i want them to get even SILLIER.#(i enjoy the sanrio one as well although it seems to be more of a music video thing? i am. a little unclear on it)#god i'm just so pleased that this exists
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Mdzs modern AU where teen Lan Wangji keeps voice recordings of himself confessing his love to Wei Wuxian, but never sends them. Wwx runs away from home & disappears for 13 years and Lwj searches for him while recording all his feelings. Maybe he keeps all of these recordings in an old MP3 player or something idk, and just, abandons it in his old house when his family moves into a new big one. And maybe one day coincidentally Wwx moves into the same house, finds the player and finds out that his first love, has been loving him back all these years, and maybe in some of the recordings, Lwj talks about how he has been writing a song for him, and that he has already decided the name of it, and in the last one, he hums the song, but doesn't say the name of it. And Wwx frantically searches for Lwj everywhere and when he finally finds him, after 13 years, the first thing he says to Lwj when he sees him,
"You didn't tell me the name of the song"
And Lwj just, freezes, not yet comprehending anything that's happening, except the fact that the love of his life is standing right in front of him and asking him a question about something he could never know unless a miracle happened, but somehow uttering the word,
"Wangxian."
The rest is history.
#mdzs#mdzs au#modern au#mdzs modern au#wangxian#lan wangji#wei wuxuan#lan zhan#wei ying#teen wangxian#high school sweethearts#pining lan wangji#mdzs lan wangji#mdzs wei wuxian#wangxian really consumed my life huh#mo dao su zhi#grandmaster of demonic cultivation#fan fic#fanfic#mdzs fanfiction#fanfiction#I've been crying over this for weeks
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me: finish the last 3k or so words of love is a ruthless game
my brain: KANEJ MODERN AU!! KAZ EATING CANDY FLOSS!!
me: KAZ EATING CANDY FLOSS!!!
#i had a dream about that ONE perabeth high school au i read years ago and like a completely normal person i went#huh#let's make this kanej#kanej#the fic will absolutely feature kaz eating candy floss btw#six of crows#kaz brekker#inej ghafa
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geto meme batch bc i love one man <3 + this week’s episode broke me like a sad flimsy piñata
#SO HOW ABT EP5 HUH…………#my favorite ep this season for SURE but also……… dare i say it……. my fave jjk episode overall? I DARE#i saw some ppl say they didnt like the art direction and i dont get that at ALLLL but u do u ig.#every single scene was just insanely good i lost it every 5 seconds like. mappa. i would give u my everything#but WHEWWWW WHEN HE THREW THE MIC?????? obsessed.#yuki carried also <33333 they did her so good!! and SHOKOOOOO MY BELOVED#im a lil sad we didnt get the iconic lighter scene but i cant be disappointed when they made shoko and geto look THAT good#anyways <3 i love suguru geto.#i love his goofy silly emotionally repressed high school friend group#AND i love his goofy silly morally dubious clown family <3 wish we got to see more of em!!#but more than anything i love papa geto and his daughters. mappa made the headpat even cuter somehow i shed actual tears. THOSE R HIS KIDS#geto is so mommy coded im sorry. im sorry for telling the truth#jujutsu kaisen#jjk#suguru geto#geto#jujutsu kaisen memes#jjk memes#satoru gojo#shoko ieiri#haibara yu#mimiko hasaba#nanako hasaba#miguel#larue#manami suda#kenjaku#yuta okkutsu#sashisu#satosugu
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the biggest advantage of making a ref for AU vee's humansona is that now i have a face to put to the amnesia timeline "SAY ONE WORD ABOUT MY SISTER AND I'LL RIP YOUR DICK OFF" bit. it's one thing to Say that vee is very nice popular and sunshine incarnate, but it's another to actually See her cheerful smile n go, "oh, WOW. wow. i do NOT want to see you angry."
#toh#princess luz au#princess luz au amnesia timeline#vee noceda#vee playing the quieter more adjusted version of luz in the canon show#and then in this particular AU timeline you get luz as vee's deeply befuckened sister#everyone in high school having known vee First and then meeting luz#and as a member of the student body you can't even go 'huh. theyre sisters?? whats wrong with her??' because#YOU KNOW WHAT IS WRONG WITH HER. IT WAS IN THE NEWS FOR WEEEEEKSSSS#compels me.
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The thirsting over Logan Sargeant has me in a chokehold.
This man is literally your typical garden-variety frat boy, and it tickles me to no end that my European F1 besties are throwing heart eyes at him.
You are not immune to the US fratboy propaganda
#google is fratboy one word or two (split conclusion)#I can name at least six people who look EXACTLY like him from my graduating high school class#idk he is funny though so maybe yall are thirsting over than instead#I’ve been sent two tiktok edits of him from my dear British friends and babes… that is a man who’s got illegitimate tickets to watershed#EVERY college quart back looks like him#huh?!#logan sargeant#f1
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this is super random and unprompted but.... one of my fondest memories is when i was in high school and became super unwell from a PE class, my friends literally had to drag me to the infirmary. it was also a class right before lunchtime, so they bought food from the cafeteria for me. and when i couldn't eat any of it, they bought me hot tea with extra sugar and stayed with me throughout recess to make sure i was ok.
i miss them.
#rin rambles#ok maybe it's not that unprompted i just rewatched the whole kinich-mualani-kachina friendship moments in the aq and i was reminded of them#they were also the group of people who took notice of my interest in guitar and bought me one on my birthday#i love them all to this day#it's just sad that everyone went their different ways after high school and we're all so out of touch............#i miss them dearly. Truly.#treasure your friends#school is the easiest place to make friends i feel.#it just gets harder from there imo. making friends in uni is harder and in workplace is even harder#or maybe my ability to befriend people just diminishes over the years. who knows#either way i feel like making connections when you get older is harder because there are parts of you that has been molded and scarred and-#-maybe even broken beyond repair. And so trying to find someone who clicks well is just that much difficult.#oh dear. grandma is musing again huh. ignore this old woman hahah
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Sugita Tomokazu tosses a ball around with 2 of his friends while they're discussing. something.
The one on the left messes up the toss and it flies off, cutting their conversation short.
#sugita tomokazu#daily lives of high school boys#danshi koukousei no nichijou#sakamoto desu ga#havent you heard im sakamoto#robihachi#i first saw this scene in sakamoto. and a while ago i saw it in nichibros.#and now that i saw it in rbhc i was like. what the fuck is going on. whats with these scenes. what does it mean.#why is sugita always there. is this originally a gintama joke or something. this cant be a coincidence.#i checked but all 3 dont seem to share studios. licensors or producers. huh.#i mean some but not all 3 do. rbhc seems to be the outlier here.#tedpost#bears hears
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i imagine seven really has nothing to do with it, she was just there for moral support (who was also trying to stop her gf from going to jail) but said gf doesn't have any morals so here they are
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@infamous-if
below's the tweet btw
#infamous fanart#seven lawless#mc: niki#my art#also i hc (?????) that niki has a criminal record of stealing a kinder joy egg from a convenience store when she was in high school#(she didn't get it in the end)#watch her write a song about it#ngl this looks like a band concept introduction in a late night show for an interview or something#still trying to convince myself im a greignmancer after all this#anyways#hehe i did it#'lawless' huh?
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rules: put your music library on shuffle, then list the first five songs that come up in a poll to let people vote for their favourite!
tagged by @lovely-english-rose <3
uhhh for tagging @mihamihachu @saralancelot @birdbrainrot @strawberryking
#keetext#of all the evillious songs... my least favorite sinner 😔#realizing this is just a crystallization of my high school music experience. huh.
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More animation frame screenshots whoop whoop! I swear it’s almost comedic how he’s managed to hijack my YouTube channel and gain me a baffling amount of new subscribers from OUT OF NOWHERE WHA- someone needs to stop him before this happens again I’m scared /j. It’s been fun watching the numbers increase in real time if not a tad overwhelming, but thankfully it mostly makes me feel appreciative more than anything else. Hopefully it’s made people laugh or helped inspired others <3
I would have talked myself out of sharing it otherwise…so glad I made the right decision with posting there. Took a leap of faith and now I feel validated for doing so. I just hope that I’m doing the characters justice even if adding my own unique spin on it. Plus gotta take a step back and remind myself that viewership isn’t what makes the world go round. Wouldn’t want the numbers getting to my head this early on and intervening with my creative visions jksjskp! I get easily influenced sometimes so finding a healthy balance for it is key :))
In meantime enjoy the facial doodles I love drawing expressions hehe
#yeah so funny enough might have just had another character growth moment here with myself YIPEEE#turns out I was the one holding myself back for so long#which honestly shouldn’t be a suprise for me but here we are <<#but I felt conditioned to suppress my interests from others and can’t even pinpoint why that was? Or how it started?#it’s just been something I’ve grown to struggle with throughout middle school & high school#think I internalized being a people pleaser and acting the role of who others perceived me to be?#NO CLUE we don’t got enough time for a therapy session *throws it all out the window*#point being that FINALLY I’ve broken out of that cycle#and with the success of the animation I’m finally realizing ‘HUH wait it’s actally a good thing to share nerdy fanart?’#because I labeled myself as an exception who couldn’t be allowed to do that#moral of story: anxiety messes with you and limits your creative freedom#you just need to stop caring about how others will react and GO FOR IT!! Because in reality you won’t be ridiculed for doing so#it’s just that we are so self critical and one of our biggest fans/haters all at once#but sharing fanart is perfectly acceptable and fun to do. Don’t limit yourself from doing something you want to <3#wip frames#wip animation frames#hplonesome art
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