#miranda worth

[thesouppond]

I'm so normal about these blorbos

[scrion7]

Duality

Miranda looked at the notification and tried to be happy about leaving all of the reminders of him behind. “Transfer Request: Accepted. Meet Transport to Research Team 1 at 11:00.” 

Research Team 1?

Pilot!Miranda AU

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[seluneclerics]

been avoiding talking about the future love interests i have planned for alcina & donna because i don’t wanna spoil the rest of “more the fool me (the unwise lord)” but i feel like we’re far enough in that i just can’t hold it back anymore. more the fool is far from done just yet but i do want to at least give you guys a tiny teaser into my future long fics for my other RE ladies.

Donna Beneviento - “the stars we’ve grown”

Multi-chapter longfic, in the same universe as “more the fool me (the unwise lord)”

Set in the year 2004, you are Yang Meiling. Born into a prestigious clan in your homeland of Taiwan, you’ve always felt out of place amongst your family and friends due to your inability to conform. The night before you were set to claim your inheritance, you decide on flee to Romania in hopes of starting life anew as a gardener.

It is only when you arrive at Lady Beneviento’s door do you realize something is terribly wrong here.

Alcina Dimitrescu - “do you understand? (my heart can’t beat again)”

Multi-chapter longfic, in the same universe as “more the fool me (the unwise lord)”

Born and raised in Brazil, you are Adriana Downs. Charismatic and bold, you are a photographer and architectural historian that hopes to revive your career in the art world by capturing photos of abandoned grand structures. The first stop on your list? Castle Dimitrescu. In the year 2007, you travel to Romania to fulfill your dream, camera in hand.

Unfortunately for you however, the residents of the castle don’t take too kindly to your intrusion.

more the fool me (the unwise lord) - Mother Miranda/Alcina Dimitrescu/Donna Beneviento

the stars we’ve grown - Donna Beneviento

do you understand? (my heart can’t beat again) - Alcina Dimitrescu

ever the fool (a wiser whitaker) - Mother Miranda

This is the official order of my “tale of the three” series over on AO3! I’m so excited to share these stories with you all, buckle the fuck up! Lots of hurt/comfort, angst, fluff, smut, death, and more coming your way.

I won’t be giving a description for ever the fool, as it would contain direct and heavy spoilers for more the fool.

[end0r4]

Zelda Spellman, Chilling Adventures of Sabrina | Chapter 𝟛𝟞 : At the Mountains of Madness

[meteors-lotr]

So was anyone gonna tell me that we’re getting an animated lord of the rings movie about Rohan, or was I just going to find out about that when checking the upcoming movies for my local cinema

[q33rwitch]

DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH TIME IVE SPENT ON A SINGULAR SIDE PROFILE REFERENCE THAT IM STILL NOT HAPPY WITH

[livelovecaliforniadreams]

#Finally His Girlfriend

[notsosecretlyalesbian]

Reaching for the Moon (2013) dir. Bruno Barreto

The Shampoo by Elizabeth Bishop

The still explosions on the rocks, the lichens, grow by spreading, gray, concentric shocks. They have arranged to meet the rings around the moon, although within our memories they have not changed.

And since the heavens will attend as long on us, you've been, dear friend, precipitate and pragmatical; and look what happens. For Time is nothing if not amenable.

The shooting stars in your black hair in bright formation are flocking where, so straight, so soon? --Come, let me wash it in this big tin basin, battered and shiny like the moon.

[captainrufflebanger]

Oh how I've missed drawing her moldy ass...

[biwitchedart]

“Hermes should be played by a different person”

“Hermes shouldn’t be played by Lin Manuel Miranda”

Fools, we all have the opportunity to be the funniest motherfuckers alive and y’all are squandering it

[thesouppond]

Low effort elevator meme

Audio Credit: kevinthomase3va32 - Instagram

[bitch-we-have-a-hulk]

🥰

[prezs]

finally drew my shepard.. his name is noa and he grew up with the tenth street reds but joined the alliance to better himself and his life.

it's a shame cerberus didn't have a tattoo artist on hand when stitching shep back together. sad! well, guess dying by burning up in a planet's atmosphere is one way to get a free tattoo removal.

[horsetailcurlers2]

watching grey’s anatomy for the first time after only watching private practice: another long and obnoxious stream of my thoughts while watching (season TEN, bc i’m gonna keep doing these until someone tells me to stop)

-i guess we’re all just getting electrocuted now

-okay i never really got the mcdreamy thing to be honest but watching that man juggle…. yeah i get it

-changed my mind again he’s a stupid idiot

-cristina was really harsh but i think meredith is very much misunderstanding her point

-super random but is it weird that i kind of hate derek and meredith’s house? don’t get me wrong it’s objectively very nice but the vibes upset me. too many windows

-i adore halloween episodes. this is so fun. the musical score is insane.

-lots and lots of guest actors on this show have also been in mad men. maybe i’ll make a spreadsheet.

-a fork!!!!

-i like the OCD storyline it seems like they’re trying to do with bailey. at least so far. it’s the most interesting storyline she’s had in a while.

-arizona is kind of treating that resident girl horribly imo

-okay now meredith is just being purposefully obstinate with this whole christina situation

-so i guess we’re all just mouth kissing residents on the mouth now, huh?

-oh no i sense murphy might start to go a little off the rails

-there’s too much happening all at once! first of all, idk that i buy the chemistry between april and jackson enough for all the hoopla to make sense. second of all, i thought murphy would’ve been the one to go off the deep end. i totally should’ve foreseen ross having a breakdown. they’ve been sprinkling seeds. third of all, regarding obama just calling up derek…… okay i guess.

-NOW human resources chooses to actually involve themselves in this tomfoolery??

-the way that everyone in this show treats getting married like it’s just a fun thing to do on the weekend is driving me nuts. bc duh, jackson and april!!!!! duh you should have talked about how you want to raise your kids before you jumped into this!!

-“it’s not as if i’m insensitive to deaf culture or anything. i just think [something that is completely insensitive to deaf culture]”- jackson avery

-amelia!!! (side note i never noticed this but the shepherd sibling casting is so good. they have like the exact same eyes)

-BURKE?????

-i forgot how much this man pisses me off bc he’s comparatively much better than owen

-this scene is so interesting and part of me really wants cristina to take burke’s offer but i’m so distracted by the slow dad rock cover of “like a virgin” that they’re playing in the background. wild choice

-i will miss yang terribly but i think this is the right choice for her character

-“don’t let what he wants eclipse what you need. he is very dreamy but he is not the sun. you are.” !!!!!!!!!!!! sobbing

[tele-mesmerism]

book ranting under cut for the bonkers racist quote. also sorry im assuming no one gives a fuck about the devil wears prada spoilers in 2024

decided to bring the devil wears prada down to a 2☆ just bc i think 1 line is gonna bother me forever it was so fucking awful. mcs bestie talking about how this new guy is so cool and smart and perfect so far and "has a more nuanced take on israeli politics than 'just nuke em'" like wow what an evil line to just throw in there. i dont care that shes saying this guys not like the others it was meant to be humorous and i doubt this guys take is idk. still not fucked up. considering the author even wrote that.

[kitkatt0430]

I hate the suicide portrayal in Titanic. People act like that movie is above criticism, but it actually has many flaws.

Titanic is definitely one of those movies that is super mired in nostalgia that I do agree that it gets a bit over-romanticized in people's memories over how good it really is. I'm honestly not sure how much I even like the movie, though it's one I'll rewatch from time to time for reasons that are as much about what the movie represents for me personally - the people I've watched it with in the past - as for the plot and place it still holds in pop culture.

The movie's handling of suicide is... honestly not that bad. There are plenty of flaws in the movie - admittedly my go-to criticisms are with how that door could have easily supported Rose and Jack and Rose dropping that necklace into the ocean instead of giving one last middle finger to her former fiance by using it for a charity auction to support a food pantry or something that specifically benefits the poor. But there is definitely a lot of things about the film worth nitpicking and I can understand why it's handling of the topic of suicide will rub a lot of people the wrong way.

So from a narrative point of view, suicide as a plot device is always going to be a very controversial choice. Real life suicides are mired in mental health issues and for those who have any kind of experience with it - either having attempted suicide or known those who have or people who have lost loved ones to suicide or even just experienced suicidal ideation without actually making any attempts - there is no such thing as a universal experience. And because of this, even the most well researched depiction of suicide in fiction is going to run smack into the wall that is competing access needs.

Titanic is certainly no different. But as a narrative device, Rose's suicide attempt where she meets Jack is meant as a parallel to her choice after surviving the Titanic's destruction to metaphorically let her old self die and be reborn as someone new. The person Rose is as the start of the movie is depressed and suicidal. Her mother is forcing her into a marriage she desperately does not want and is verbally abusive towards her. Her fiance also shows shades of verbal abuse and viewing Rose not as a person but as a shiny trinket he can show off, with no more consideration given to her agency as a person than he would give an inanimate object like the Heart of the Ocean diamond. Unable to see a way out, it does make sense that Rose would be suicidal.

Historically, there have been plenty of men and women who when forced into a situation like Rose's, see no way out except through death. And Rose's situation at that point is a pretty textbook representation of people who feel trapped by their friends and family in an abusive situation that's primed to only grow worse. Not everyone would handle her situation the way she attempts to, but it's not exactly unheard of either.

So Jack saves Rose literally from suicide. And it's not uncommon for people committing suicide to change their mind like Rose does, so her realizing because of Jack that actually no she doesn't want to drown doesn't detract from the movie's depiction of the suicide attempt. Often suicide is referred to as a cry for help and it really is - in the case of Rose's fictional suicide attempt, she's essentially begging for someone to validate her feelings and give her new options. Because even though she'd rather die than let things continue as they are, she doesn't actually want to be dead.

And that's where Jack essentially saves her again. He doesn't handle everything perfectly by any means, but he shows Rose that she does have more options than she knows. The reason she is able to shed her old life - to let Rose Bukater die and start living as Rose Dawson - is because Jack helps her find strength inside herself she didn't know was there.

From a narrative perspective, it's definitely not badly done and one of the more decently handled suicide in historical fiction plots I've seen.

Rose's suicide attempt isn't the only was suicide is addressed in the movie, though. And they're all pretty decently rooted in actual history. From Rose's attempt to escape an unwanted marriage through death, to the suicides committed during the Titanic's slow sinking, to the reference of the suicides that happened when Wall Street's crash heralded the start of the Great Depression, these are all things we can find examples of in actual historical accounts of the time.

I wouldn't call the Titanic movie the best fictional accounting of the Titanic I've ever seen. If I could find my old copy of the Dear America diary set on the Titanic, I'd cheerfully pick that over the movie hands down. And if I never see a copy of the book Amanda/Miranda again it'll be too soon. Truly there are worse depictions than that movie and Amanda/Miranda is definitely one of them.

(For the curious - Amanda/Miranda on Goodreads)

But having said all of that, I really don't expect to change your mind or how you feel about the movie's use of suicide. It's something that has rubbed me the wrong way in the past too and will no doubt do so again in the future. It's just one of those topics that's never going to be handled in a way that satisfies everyone or even the same person from one viewing to the next.