#like that..that was certainly a choice

[soyooluzz]

Live action things

[ghost-bxrd]

Prompt:

It’s not that Jason forgot, per se.

But between smuggling a toddler out of the League of Assassins, trekking halfway across the world, and finding a suitable hiding place that’s also child friendly… well, it kind of slipped his mind that he’s supposed to be… dead.

Something that comes back to bite him in the ass when he takes Dami out for some ice cream and just so happens to run into non other than Brucie-fucking-Wayne

[toasty-broski]

Is this a safe space to say that “casifer”? gave me the ick? The acting choices that were made gave me second hand embarrassment and I had to skip all of his scenes. Like I genuinely could not do ittt. Guys, it was so bad like can we be real for a second here?

[markscherz]

Do you have a favourite rain toad? I love them. They're so round and look grumpy even though they aren't.

Did you know that there are arboreal rainfrogs‽

[src]

Meet the genus Callulina, from the rainforests of Tanzania and Kenya

[src]

Who said you had to be lithe to take to the trees?

[src]

You may not like it, but this is what Peak Performance looks like.

[martianbugsbunny]

Me when Benton straight-up calls Carter "good boy" during a trauma

[bastardofharrenhal]

every time someone uses those excuses of sansa being too southern, not being northern enough, having the tully look, hating the north or having her direwolf killed as a reason as to why she sucks or shouldnt be a ruler an angel loses its wings

[queerofthedagger]

one of my hotter takes remains that i genuinely think if you're so uncomfortable with certain subject matters that you feel the need to ban them you just should not be modding fests. like i can't stop you and you can do whatever you want forever but also i will 1. not participate or promote it if you paid me money, and 2. be a judgmental little cunt about it the entire time. grow up

[transfemme-shelterdog]

A story in one image:

[constantvariations]

I cannot stop thinking about the complexities surrounding Feyre and Tamlin's relationship at the beginning of ACoMaF. I find it such a shame that it gets boiled down to "Tamlin was abusive"

I'm going to tackle that first, actually, because, despite having a lot of parallels, I don't think that's right. What Tamlin did was misguided and harmful, but it's missing too many elements of abuse for me to consider it such

Obligatory link to Lundy Bancroft's Why Does He Do That? Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men

Abuse is a pattern of behavior that enforces a parasitic power imbalance. There is obvious benefit for someone to abuse their partner, namely free emotional, physical, and/or sexual labor; and the reason the victim is most often a woman is because we live in a patriarchal society that views women as commodities. These men internalize the message of their biological superiority and seek to establish a natural order of female subservience through any means necessary

That is not what Tamlin is doing. When Tamlin overrides Feyre's wishes to go to the village or follow him into dangerous territory, it's not because he wants to make her submit to his power. His reasoning is perfectly clear in every move he makes: keep Feyre safe no matter what. To do that, he has to make Prythian safe. The human lands aren't a refuge for her anymore now that she's Fae, so Prythian is her only home

Given that there are a lot of people that want her dead for breaking Amarantha's curse or could want to use her for her newfound powers, Tamlin's rejections to her desires to roam make sense. They hurt, but he's not doing it out of malice. Even Feyre understands it at times before the narrative makes her forget again

Tamlin isn't oblivious to this, either, nor to the many mistakes he makes along the way - a trait that is not shared by abusers as they will justify each and every one of their actions until the cows come home. They do not try to get better or make amends. Instead, they love bomb via gifts or sweet, romantic gestures in order to make themselves feel better about "losing control"

Abusers don't lose control, though. They may make it look like they explode out of nowhere or react badly to their partner's "provocations", but these are excuses. They know what they're doing, even if only subconsciously, which is why they need layers and layers of justifications. And they'll always snap right into their role as the grounded, loving spouse the moment someone walks into the room

In that infamous scene, Tamlin genuinely does lose control. When Feyre tells Tamlin she feels he is drowning her, Tamlin's body shuts down ("Nothing in those eyes, that face") but his magic reacts to his impending panic attack by eviscerating the study. This is different to his reaction after Rhysand took Feyre from the wedding

And then [I] noticed the study walls—the claw marks raked down them. All over them. And the table they’d been using … that was new. “You trashed the study.” “I trashed half the house," [Tamlin] said.

One was a deliberate destruction of the study, the other an uncontrollable reaction to stress. In fact, Feyre has a similar episode several chapters later where she wraps herself in darkness and melts Tamlin's mother's ring by accident. She hadn't even known if she'd hurt someone in the process or not. Magic reacts to negative emotions quite often in the series, as Rhysand also has a bad reaction to Feyre bringing up his treatment of her UtM (though, he controlled himself right as Mor showed up. Which could mean nothing)

Tamlin hadn't meant to hurt Feyre. Not once in either of the books has he physically turned his rage towards her, nor has he ever intentionally intimidated her with his superior strength and abilities. I don't think he even raised his voice at her. All of Feyre's fear of him in TaR came from their bad first impressions and his being a Fae, not him showing signs of being an abuser

In my opinion, the key ingredient of abuse is isolation. This could be a total physical isolation, such as being in a remote location with few to no neighbors, or a social isolation, where your social circle comprises entirely of those who approve of and have been approved by your abuser. Either way, having no support system is critical for an abuser to keep his victim in line

With Feyre, this gets a little tricky because she isolates herself by nature. In her human life, her only real non-familial interactions were with merchants and Isaac Hale, her fuck buddy. And, let's be real, her relationship with her family wasn't that great either. After turning Fae, Feyre isolates herself due to her depression, and her only meaningful interactions are with select few people: Tamlin, Lucien, Alis, and Ianthe

To be fair, part of that lackluster social circle is due to seemingly all of Prythian treating her more as a symbol than a person, so let's turn to Tamlin's behavior. Does he embarrass her in front of people to make her dread social interactions? Does he forbid her from talking to her family or friends without his supervision? Does he grill her about any and everything she and another person have talked about?

Aside from the post-Night Court interrogations, Tamlin does none of those things. He introduces her to people - his friends and his entire court! - and gives her the space to be with others or to return to her room as needed. Feyre may be lonely in Spring, but she is not isolated

Frankly, I think most of the confusion can be summed up by the book itself:

Feyre: I don't want to marry a High Lord. I just want to marry [Tamlin]. Lucien: One doesn't exist without the other.

Tamlin's status as a High Lord is an insurmountable power gap between the two. He was chosen by magic itself to command the Court and everyone in it. That includes Feyre, no matter what shallow garbage Rhysand spouts. Being a subject to a lord does not automatically mean inferior, and Tamlin has proven many times throughout his reign that he does not see his subjects, be they native or refugee, as inferior. He does not see Feyre as inferior. However, Feyre is his responsibility, as both lord and lover, to protect from the threats he knows are coming for her. He already lost her once, and he's willing to do whatever is necessary to protect the one he loves, even if she hates him for it

So, I fully believe that Tamlin's actions were that of a man under a fuckton of stress from every direction and unresolved trauma rather than that of an abuser

[clotpolesonly]

ya know, we spend so much of the series in the POVs of 1) Ronan, who hates Declan, 2) Ronan's friends, who hate Declan because Ronan does and also routinely see Declan at his absolute worst when fighting with Ronan, and 3) Declan himself, who is a sopping wet miserable little man with self esteem issues and an incurable sense of alienation from others, that i genuinely forget most people like Declan more than Ronan

[doublechocolate]

absolute travesty that johnny wasn't there to squish, pinch and kiss those cheekies. look at him. he's got saddies

[son-of-avraham]

Jewish (convert) culture is getting together all your jewish books and hounding the new jew-by-choice at shul

[dykedvonte]

I think Curly being fired a long with the rest of the crew even with the recommendation still invokes he did not get what he wanted through that.

Curly was feeling unfulfilled at work and in his career, yes. He was considering quitting along with sticking it out cause it’s what he’s known and feel secure in, even if not satisfied. You think getting fired would be a great thing for him, that’s a part of Jimmy’s scathing thought process and twisting of the cock pit conversation. However, the most important aspect is that Curly got to make that final decision for himself.

Curly does not get to decide if he’s actually ready to take that step and branch out and it likely worsened whatever was spinning in his head into a spiral because now he has to think of what he’s gonna do. It can’t wait and I believe his misplaced idea of Curly in telling the crew was his way of not invoking the same feeling within them. For him to be able to sit on it for months while they couldn’t, it was not fair the same way it isn’t fair to assume he would wanted that as an excuse to leave piloting.

It’s good to note that no one really got to fully choose what they wanted to do. Just a whole lot of reactions…. And inactions.

[magiefish]

Maybe the real war games were the inevitable fan discourse we made along the way.

[mrentrapta]

This is such a late post but headcanoning Remmick as gay is so interesting to me because in that context it definitely would have made the message alot more critical of gay white people... or just gay people I can't lie it's not good

Specifically of them having a problem with racism and gentrification, doing it specifically(yall do , no shade)

it would also frame basically everything he said and was said about him in a different context, because they call him a devil multiple times. He is literally trying to forcefully Make everyone vampires and vampirism is very clearly a metaphor in this movie so I don't think it would be great if he really was , idk

Im not trying to make it seem lik4e im personally homophobic or that i have a problem with head canons now but like how did yall choose possibly the worst person to head canon as gay

And if for some reason you think he had romantic attraction towards Sammy that's actually really crazy ngl.

because that would imply that even though he is genuinely attracted to a black person, exploiting and taking their talent for his own was more important.

Or it would mean that he's attraction was soly based on Sammy's talent, that he had to tear down everything he had just to get it.

That is genuinely worse guy idk man it's not exactly the best way to interpret a movie about racism and oppression

[timethehobo]

Losing my mind over the golden age costume they gave Digger in KTJL, just had to doodle it. 😂💀

Getting secondhand embarrassment over the cape alt, why’d he tuck it into his belt. I like the stache, but I’m biased for facial hair in general. He fits muttonchops much better tho.