#king rian

[miaiminnis]

that mona lisa smile 🧅

[reylogirlie]

Snoke was never fucking with Rey to hurt her; it was to hurt Kylo/Ben.

Snoke isn’t an idiot; he’s been in the guy’s head since birth, he knows him. He knows Ben Solo remains deep down and knows he’s fallen in love with Rey (so does Hux, I have a fic on that but another story-) so he’s doing it to punish him. He’s disappointed in him for making a mockery of the First Order so he’s torturing him in the most hurtful way he knows how.

Rian confirmed Kylo/Ben was planning to kill Snoke after the hand hold scene, but here is what really fucking broke him;

He couldn’t bare to see Rey hurt the way he did all those years. His normal, his typical day was something so damn awfully horrible and disturbing that he could bare it happening to himself but couldn’t watch her take a minor sample for five minutes.

Worse part is Kylo/Ben can’t let Snoke know his plan and he can read his mind so he’s trying to think that he wants her dead and hates her when in reality he’s hurting immensely. I don’t know how I didn’t pick up on this in sixth grade-

[playitandmakeitsincere]

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A year ago today, I got off a plane and thought, “Man, I really spend a lot of time drinking—or at the very least, thinking about when/how I can drink next.” I decided to taper it back, and quickly realized: if I could’ve moderated, I would’ve moderated.

With the support of my beautiful fiancée, family, and friends, today marks ONE YEAR of no booze. I’ve had sips, the oft “let me try that,” but not a single full drink. I couldn’t have done it without their support, as well as that of my band and peers I look up to in my industry who were vocal about their own journeys.

That’s why I’m writing this—not as a “YOU SHOULDN’T DRINK” message (I’m not that guy, and I don’t believe it’s the path for everyone), but for folks like me, it’s undeniably the right choice. So if you’re thinking about it but worried you won’t have a life without it, I’m here after a full year, and I’m happier, more joy-filled, content, clear-eyed, focused, and more in love than ever. Love you all. I appreciate the support—even, and maybe especially, in the form of jokes and ribbing.

Cheers to another year.

[sapphire-mage]

[tampire]

Kim Kaphwan VS Ryuji Yamazaki

[jessread-s]

✩⚔️🏰Series Review:

⋆ Adventure and suspense ⋆ Political intrigue ⋆ Romance ⋆ Multiple pov

What started out as a twist on Robin Hood turned into an action-packed, high-stakes adventure with brooding pirates, power-hungry consuls, and warring kingdoms that I could not put down. With each book in the series, I grew closer to Kemmerer’s characters and further immersed myself in the world they inhabited. All the tears I shed were worth it in the end and I look forward to reading Kemmerer’s next project. 

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[dougielombax]

Here comes another one.

Parallels

Or

Seeing Patterns in Things that Aren’t There

Part 27

Memories and the Endurance Thereof.

1. “No one’s ever really gone.” - Luke Skywalker. Star Wars: The Last Jedi. (2017)

2. “No one is gone forever”. - Alex/Mister Manticore/Various others - The Monument Mythos, the Nixonverse, The House in the Ocean. (2020-present)

Kind of explains itself.

Luke reassures Leia of this much.

“No one’s ever really gone.” (Made all the more tragically poignant by Carrie Fisher’s death a year before the film released)

And he later returns from the dead as a spirit along with his sister, as have many other characters in Star Wars such as Obi-Wan, Yoda, Qui-Gon, Cere Junda, etc.

And in a more sinister use of the same expression, Palpatine (somehow) returns through a combination of genetic fuckery and Sith sorcery.

In Mister Manticore’s works, The House in the Ocean was deleted before eventually returning as part of the Nixonverse.

Alex coined the phrase following the deletion and return of The House in the Ocean, which he created to come to terms with the passing of his father.

Many elements, characters and themes from prior deleted works have also recently returned in Alex’s more recent works.

For instance, the Crescent King returning in THiTO and the Nixonverse (and the Perfect Youniverse), J. Robert Oppenheimer’s brief cameo in the third series of the Monument Mythos following the deletion of the Trinity Desk Project, etc.

Make of this what you will.

[gayboyrocklee]

Love posting my Spotify receipts for the month bc you can always tell when I’ve had smth big to write for one of my classes bc the one Jash song (Dream (Outro from Calamity)) will make the receipt. I did not end up a Jashinator but I do like having a song I can rely on to make me write things.

[seb-the-nerd]

donuts (and donut holes that are actually donuts), then onions (made of glass), what's next for knives out 3? apples? oranges? ...peaches? ......eggplants?

[wrathoftiamat]

JUPITER TRANSCRIPTS – SESSION ONE

PRE PERFORMANCE

Caprice corners Jupiter backstage before the big performance.

CAPRICE: I need you to put on an act tonight. JUPITER: You need me to put on an act every night. CAPRICE: A better act tonight. JUPITER: Typically when you want a performer to put on a better act you ask them earlier than 20 minutes before the show when they're still sewing their fucking costume. CAPRICE, glaring: That's too bad; you have to get it together. JUPITER: I'll get it together then.

Caprice leaves, Jupiter flips him off as he goes, which Foxglove sees.

FOXGLOVE: Put them down. JUPITER: They're already down, I have to finish sewing. FOXGLOVE: They're putting you after the displacer beast act. JUPITER: Fine. [BEAT] Why is this such a big fucking deal? FOXGLOVE: Word has it we're meeting some of Caprice's happy group, someone that's important.

She gives Jupiter an awkward shoulder pat and leaves.

POST PERFORMANCE

After the show and Jupiter's excellent performance, Caprice returns to him enraged.

CAPRICE: You UPSTAGED my acts. JUPITER: Okay, do you remember when you came in here asking me to be better than normal? CAPRICE: Better than normal does not mean making me look bad. JUPITER: How did I make you look bad when your special guest was delighted to see me? CAPRICE: They remember you. JUPITER: It's a carnival. You can't erase everyone's memories with overpriced candy.

Caprice's temper continues to flare until Foxglove cuts in.

FOXGLOVE: Are you going to get mad at him for doing too good of a job? CAPRICE: We'll talk about this later.

OUTSIDE CONVO

Jupiter is attempting to eavesdrop on the conversation of a group of mostly fey after the carnival. The Faerie Dragon notices him.

DASHA: Oh you're the… you. JUPITER: The acrobatist, yes. My apologies, I was just passing by. I didn't mean to stop. DASHA: Not at all, it's good to have an inquisitive mind. Come closer.

Jupiter steps closer.

DASHA: Where did someone like you learn tricks like that? JUPITER: Years of practice. DASHA: Surely not from your ringmaster who is a clown. JUPITER: No, he has other talents. I learned from others in the trade and I was also just a naturally bendy child. DASHA, enthralled: Really, you're not formally trained? JUPITER: No, I do my own routines and sew my own costumes. DASHA: That's fascinating, I commend you for picking up that kind of still. JUPITER: I have been at this for a very long time. DASHA: You can call me Dasha. JUPITER, BOWING: Enivyre. DASHA: Interesting. Enivyre. you have done so much with your name and you have entertained me so greatly for the night. Can I have your name? It wouldn't be for nothing. JUPITER: If I gave you my name, what would I use? DASHA: You'd figure something out. JUPITER: May I ask what you would do with it? DASHA: I haven't decided yet, I just like it. JUPITER: Why not. I'm not doing much with it, you can have it. DASHA: Thank you. In return, for also just a beautiful night, you're going to meet someone very soon. Somebody, well, she's going to change your life. Hold on just a little bit longer and take some time picking a new name. JUPITER: How will I know that I've found this person? DASHA: Oh she will hit you like a bolt of lightning. [BEAT]. Also, just in the future, just for reference, someone by the name of Silvergleam will be very important to you one day. JUPITER: But that's not the woman I'm going to meet. DASHA: Oh no, this is someone else. JUPITER: Okay, I will do my best to remember all of this. DASHA: Your best is very good. JUPITER: A lot of practice.

Dasha passes Jupiter a small parcel.

JUPITER: Oh, we're not allowed to accept tips. DASHA, with a wink: Oh, it's fine, I'm just leaving that on the ground. BAHAMUT: I gave that to you. JUPITER: Do you want this back? BAHAMUT: It's not mine anymore, you can have this.

When Jupiter looks up, the fey are gone.

JUPITER: Do they do this a lot to you? BAHAMUT: They do this quite a bit. JUPITER: Forgive me for speaking so casually to an honored guest– BAHAMUT: Oh, I'm not from the feywild. JUPITER: You should tell those guys off sometime for leaving you next to me and my pile of garbage. BAHAMUT: That's just how they are. JUPITER: Great. Do you know Silvergleam? BAHAMUT: I have no idea. JUPITER: Well, it was nice to meet you and I hope you enjoyed the show. BAHAMUT: I had a lovely time, I hope you have a good night.

Bahamut awkwardly walks into the woods to avoid betraying his station.

MEETING WITH RIAN

Jupiter is meeting with his boss, Rian Nightshade. She has instructed him to find Jenna Silvergleam.

RIAN: She uses her real name because she's very hard to find. She should be around Greenrest and if she's not, you have full permission to wring her tiny little neck. She has information she's promised me. Information about "those guys." JUPITER: Oh, that's happening now? Are you sure I can't put in my time off for now. [BEAT]. Alright, I'll do your grunt work then. RIAN: Thanks! I appreciate it! JUPITER: You better give me an extra week of pto. I'm saving up for property. I'm going to become a property owner in Waterdeep of all places. RIAN: Why. JUPITER: Because you keep complaining that my cabin in the woods is too hard to find when you need me for things. If you pay me enough, I'll find an apartment in Waterdeep. I'll just use it as a storage unit. RIAN: Then it won't be a house then, will it. JUPITER: I'll be there sometimes. RIAN: Go to Greenrest. JUPITER: I guess. RIAN: Stop complaining about your job I've graciously hired you into. JUPITER: No, it's my legal right as an employee. RIAN: Next you'll be talking about a union or something.

[lousolversons]

Daniel Craig as Benoit Blanc in KNIVES OUT (2019), Dir. Rian Johnson

[reylogirlie]

do you heard duel of the fates by Colin Trevorrow

Yes I did! For those who don’t know, Duel Of Fates was a very early draft of TROS which was rejected. Here’s my thoughts:

This is coming from a girl who HATES TROS. Like not even “I like all SW movies just some more than others” like it’s actually one of my least favorite movies ever.

I don’t think Duel Of Fates would’ve been any better. I like that they kept Rey as a nobody and didn’t do that forced Skywalker bullshit (I love Rey but even I don’t like the Skywalker thing) but that’s about it.

Frankly, the Knights of Ren killing Rey’s parents for a mission would’ve been a lame twist, Rose and Finn having force sensitive children would’ve been weird, (I’m not against FinnxRose, I just don’t think it would’ve been a great route) and just. Ughhhh I feel like this final movie was doomed no matter what.

They should’ve let Rian come back and fire Kathleen, then it would’ve been fine. And no, I’m not saying this just bc I’m a bitter Reylo, I genuinely think Rian does good work and I don’t get TLJ hate. (I’m legit watching it as I type this.)

[sarahjtv]

Between Elon Musk being publicly humiliated for his stupidity and ego since buying Twitter, and Andrew Tate getting arrested because he was dumb enough to reveal his location via a pizza box, Glass Onion came out at the perfect time.

[aste-ri-sm]

|| There's still a good bit of December left but I think that Coraline Au drawing is my favourite thing I've drawn all year actually so on it goes!!

[haroldjaffe]

Hahaha this would be so much fun! Reminds me a bit of the Marvel short 'Come at the King,' which features the surviving villains from Iron Man 2 and 3 in prison together (albeit not interacting with each other)

Petition for Rian Johnson to release a 10 minute short film where Ransom Drysdale and Miles Bron are cellmates, because Miles "I only spent 10 seconds planning each of my murders" Bron and Ransom "my murder plan was so smart and elaborate it could have been in one of my grandpa's novels" Drysdale would drive each other ABSOLUTELY MAD and I would enjoy the fuck out of every second

[jessread-s]

I was on the edge of my seat with tissues on hand at all times!

“Destroy the Day” follows Corrick, Tessa, and Harristan as they find their way back to each other to save the Kingdom of Kandala before time runs out.

I really enjoyed the beginning and end of this book! Kemmerer creates characters that are impossible not to grow attached to, so I was happy to jump back in with Tessa, Corrick, and Harristan after being without them for so long. Their points-of-view allow the reader to explore the Kingdom of Ostriary while still remaining connected to the happenings in the Kingdom of Kandala. As always, Kemmerer’s detailed imagery and thoughtful world-building effectively immerse the reader in new environments and old.  

Sadly, the middle is where this book fell flat for me. Tessa and Corrick spend a majority of the book apart and Kemmerer relies on other storylines to advance the plot forward—storylines that I just did not find captivating and made the story feel longer than necessary. Once Tessa and Corrick actually reunite, I was underwhelmed by their romance and I expected more since I was deprived of it for most of the book.

Still, saying goodbye to this series was hard and the ending made me so emotional. I bawled like a baby for a solid chapter or two, but I couldn’t be happier with how Kemmerer left things!

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