#just hmm

[lopposting]

thinking about how

P goes for the head (memory) in the first run, which fails to stop it. It's only when he destroys the Heart that he wins.

[aqua-dan]

Hmm... new preview art that is, potentially, for the mysterious Garth project... not sure how I'm feeling about this rn

[mimi123meg]

Something about tiktok creating a fake currency and then causing inflation with their own fake currency vs tumblr creating a fake movie and fully populating a fandom for it complete with art, fanfic, a goddamn soundtrack, and scene analysis feels very fitting

[watmalik]

Wolverine being a confirmed boy kisser by Hugh Jackman.

[favroitecrime]

world war 3 jokes on twitter meanwhile none of them live in the region and none of them understand the severity of the situation. these next few hours will really determine whether or not we head into a regional war…

[wanologic]

always good to keep a screamhole handy

[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.

[glassesweirdo]

I like that despite being a child abuser, child exploiter, and an emotionally absent father, Reginald draws the line at transphobia.

[frownyalfred]

Bruce is Clark’s “my senses/powers are going insane right now, please cover for me” person and no one in the Justice League has ever fully caught on because Bruce (as Batman) will just suddenly start picking a fight with Hal Jordan (who is always down to argue) and distract the entire League long enough for Clark to either leave or get a handle on whatever is bugging him.

[ell-vellan]

Solas: Our people used to be here. Sera: Pfft, you say that everywhere. Solas: It is more true than you want to believe. Sera: I bet, right? Who wants to think about stepping on dead elves? Solas: Din elvhen emma him? Sera: Oh, you felt that one.

SO. This dialogue.

Setting aside that this is a running theme with Solas/Sera banter - that he trying to persuade/push her into becoming something more, either more Elvish or more of a leader, which may or may not just be Solas messing with her in return for her putting lizards in his bedroll - I was curious about the Elvish that he speaks here.

In the wiki, it says "din elvhen emma him?" is "meaning unknown." Which is curious because don't we know the meaning of these words separately, already?

(Stop me if this has been done before; I'm no expert.)

din = dead/death, not/isn't, "someone who is not". Falon = friend, Falon'din = friend of the dead, makes sense.

Elvhen = "Our People," the collective term for the elven race

emma = my, mine, i am, or within/full of.

him = become.

Taken altogether literally, "dead our people mine become." Elvish isn't a literal language, it's very figurative, with multiple possible meanings based on context.

Solas mutters this under his breath with disgust after Sera's disregard of his people's deaths. (For me, this dialogue happened in the Emerald Graves, though I don't know if it's location-specific; either way, he obviously finds this very disrespectful.)

I propose this phrase is Solas saying to himself something along the lines of, "My people died to become this?"

Which is. Yeah.

[hai-nae]

uno reverse

[egophiliac]

this started as a reply to someone (a million years ago) (I am so sorry) and then very quickly got out of control, as these things do. so...uhhh....here's everyone else at Playful Land!

sorry

[sastielsfandom]

Don't know if I've shared this before but I'm thinking about it a ton:

Simplicity you pledged, solely to me

Affinity you whisper, I give thee affection

Negligence is the past, my dear lover

Cherishing you is my identity

Trust the truth live in gluttony

Unrest is no more sweet nectar

Agendas, not my forte, I long for intimacy

Recite and live my words without tension

Yearning only makes our love younger

Negligence is the past, my dear lover and cherishing you is my identity, yearning only makes our love younger???

Oh to be in love like that and I've never even been?! And yet?? I love finding my old poetry because I'll occasionally find a gem like this and I'm just left stunned. Like this wasn't about anyone or my experience in love but damn maybe it was. I love writing.

[cacaocheri]

something soft for the girlies

[twinkubus]

Bound Man by John Singer Sargent, c. 1917-21

[zoe-oneesama]

She’s perceptive, that’s who she is.

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