#no rhyme either

[passingloves]

gave me my first sweet taste of nectar

then took it away

and im still here a year later

though it seems like a day to me

and a decade to you

did you ever really feel it?

was any of it real?

was i even your friend?

was i just something to play with?

why didn't you try?

am i that easy to forget?

[heph]

Unstoppable Force VS Immovable Object

[taee]

alexa play like crazy by jimin

[thegroundhogdidit]

all i'm saying is that if hannibal had been set in santa barbara he would've gone to jail before the end of s1 and it would've had nothing to do with shawn actually. gus would've smelled that the meat he served wasn't normal and IMMEDIATELY guessed cannibalism. like no hesitation. hannibal would try to distract them by diagnosing shawn with daddy issues but santabarbaratown has already happened so it does nothing

[laurasimonsdaughter]

I'm musing on how most riddles in folktales really do not behave like what we consider riddles today. Because they usually fall into one of these categories:

● A cryptic question referring to something that actually happened and only the asker could know the answer to. Like in the Grimms' "The Riddle", where a prince asks a princess this: "What killed none, and yet killed twelve." The answer is a particular raven, which ingested poisoned meat and was then cooked into soup, eaten by twelve robbers who immediately died from it. (This is also called a "neck riddle" because it often shows up in stories where winning the riddle contest saves the protagonist's neck.)

● A cryptic question that has a metaphorical answer, but which could technically have many correct answers, not just one. Like the riddles posed in the ballad "Riddles Wisely Expounded", one of which is "What is louder than the horn?" with the answer "Thunder is louder than the horn."

● An apparently "impossible task" instead of a question. Like in Joseph Jacobs' "The Clever Lass" in which the king orders a clever farmer's daughter to "come to him clothed, yet unclothed, neither walking, nor driving, nor riding, neither in shadow nor in sun." So she undresses and wraps herself in her long hair, attaches a net to the tail of a hose and lets herself be dragged to the castle while holding a sieve over her head to shield her from the sun. (This type of contradiction riddle even shows up in the Mabinogi.)

Of course it matters what role the riddles play in the tale. Usually it's not about the riddle at all, it's just about the protagonist proving how clever and/or witty they are. And in case of the neck riddles, the audience usually also knows the answer, because they know what happened to the protagonist earlier in the story, so the audience gets the pleasure of being smarter than the antagonist.

In the originally Persian tale "Turandot" cryptic questions with (I would say) multiple answers are mixed with something that feels more like a riddle with one "proper answer". For example: "What mother resides on earth, who swallows all her children." The answer is: "The sea, she swallows every stream and river that has ever sprung from her." But I feel like whenever I encounter a "classic" riddle with one proper answer, that usually rhymes, it's either from Greek Mythology (boy did they love a riddling verse), or it a modern riddle added in the retelling...

[swinging-stars-from-satellites]

Palindr(amatic)

this poem is backwards

here are our factors:

if my head is screwed on the wrong way —

if the stories all sound the same —

if I first adjusted my aim

would it matter

if this trouble I first circumvent

if nothing exists but what's dreamt —

if the start is the end ���

you could never tell that I lack words

if this poem is backwards

~ xoxo, Love yoU (either way)

[spop-romanticizes-abuse]

it legit makes me laugh when people make excuses for catra opening the portal like “she just wanted to be with adora 🥺” or “she just wanted shadow weaver’s validation” you think the millions of people who almost got killed care about that?

this is what happens when you act like your entire fictional universe revolves around one character or one ship. putting aside the fact that nothing can justify what catra did, let’s just imagine that she DID have a valid reason to open the portal.. why would the people of etheria be expected to know and understand her motives? they don’t know anything about her background or her upbringing or her relationship with adora.

why do fans act like everyone in this universe knows everything about catra and would immediately forgive her because she had a tragic past? to most of these people, she’s just another person working for the horde. it doesn’t matter what her motives are, all that matters is that she nearly killed everyone.

[raayllum]

They're so sick for this

& was gonna originally leave it in the tags but then I liked it so why not:

I do think this parallel helps contextualize why Claudia's offer is there in the narrative beyond just characterization "she knows this is a loss the boys have experienced, and there is possible room to convince them," or beyond "I doubt they're going to bring Harrow back fully (if at all) so why tease it" and well: I think this parallel is exactly why.

For starters, there's the sheer difference in presentation that help to contrast and compare Callum and Claudia as characters. More importantly for next season, I think, is that it ties together Claudia wanting to save her father is what led to her working with Aaravos in the first place versus Callum wanting to free Rayla's parents likely being something that is just going to put him further on Aaravos' dark path of destiny for him, if not outright lead to disaster. The road to ruin is paved with good intentions, after all - even if he's being selfless about it because it's not even for himself or one of his direct loved ones, but purely by proxy

[innocet]

I don’t think they have even the concept of fiction on gallifrey. I think all narrative is history to them

[beedreamscape]

I'm sorry, but I would not be having that conversation with Ludinus. Molaesmyr is evidence enough this man doesn't give a fuck what kind of chaos he havocs.

He destroyed and corrupted a whole city! Habitants are to this day serving as half-flesh trees! Monsters beyond imagination and evil spirits roam the land! WHAT DO YOU THINK HE'LL DO TO EXANDRIA?

I'm not even talking Predathos, he's his own creature thing, I'm talking about the psychopathic grandpa that doesn't give a fuck about anyone or anything that's trying to pilot this plan. I don't trust a man who doesn't love anyone.

[anneapocalypse]

"Why didn't the Orlesian Wardens try harder to get into Ferelden?" Senior Warden Riordan did not sneak across the border alone, try to negotiate opening the border at what he thought was a good-faith parley only to be imprisoned and tortured, still manage to bust himself out as soon as he saw an opportunity, make contact with the remaining Fereldan Wardens, fight with them in the final battle despite being unable to get the rest of the Wardens in, and die giving them a fighting chance to kill the Archdemon for us to say that the Wardens all gave up on Ferelden.

[lunakataaahhh-1228]

LMAO WHEN DID I MAKE THIS?!

If this isn’t what it felt like to fight ORT then idk what is

[purplecyborgnewt]

♫ Happiness suddenly Knocked upon my door. Are you here? Here - for me? Is this really so? Snow would fall, rain would drizzle, Sun would rise at dawn… All those years, all those years - What took you so long?! ♫

Ivan Vasilievich Changes Profession (1973)

[episims]

Household: Rhymes

During the last round, the triplets reached adulthood and had no idea what to do then. Luckily for them, Lydia and Ash weren't rushing them out of the house.

Lydia especially only seemed relieved to have the family together for a while longer. She gifted Daphne a flower-arranging table so that Daphne would have something to do for the time being.

Since then, Elise's boyfriend Tristan left for university, leaving Elise heartbroken for being apart. And, without her sisters knowing, Amelia applied for the leftover seat at the university, even though she was told it's unlikely for someone with as low grades to get a scholarship.

[cacw]

i really lost all hope for wc fans back in 2021 when they killed off TBC's only female protagonist while making her last dying thoughts be about the potential family she could have had with her boyfriend and people loved it because it was "different" as if they haven't been killing off women to give their partners manpain for over 20 years now

[littleplantfreak]

'tis the season for cleaning !

You and Umemiya both find yourselves a whole week with nothing to do (absolutely zilch). So...you both reckon on a very needed deep cleaning of the house. What do you and Umemiya tackle first? The living room? The entrance? The bathroom? What trinkets will the two of you find and reminisce over? An old movie ticket receipt? Some polaroids? Baby photos?

[It's time for a break! Cleaning is taxing! What will the two of you have to replenish and keep your energy levels up for the day? Snacks? Fruits? Any drinks?]

The bags are tied and the bins are full -> a successful cleaning session! Aren't you feeling a bit tired? Now it's end the day...what will you and Umemiya do to wind down? A relaxing bath....or maybe a hearty dinner?

I just wanna hear you yap Mari.........*hides*

awwwww Mino ILY!!! I'll yap whenever u want me to abt whatever :0 but yapping about ume has always been like...the funnest :3c

First of all....a whole week with nothing to do?? I'd cry in relief first tbh. I do imagine I'd be laying on the couch and see the dust under the tv stand or something and immediately just...activate cleaning mode. Living room is the easiest but also the most distracting stuff is in there cause that's where we keep the scrapbooks/photo albums. Once I get a hold of those it's so over it takes like an hour to get back on track because we're both going over every picture as if we weren't both there for half of them.

We'd find a lot of stuff in my miscellaneous boxes (if i dont know where to put something it goes in there) and Ume's wondering why I have so many spare buttons. Only cause I keep them if either of us buy new clothes and they come with them and it's like...what if we DO need them??? we wont Especially if it's from a coat or smth Ume's really fond of? Kept in the box/drawer for eternity.

hmm what are we eating...I'm a handful of shredded cheese from the fridge kind of girl but I assume he makes me eat actual food, whether it's fruit from the counter or a granola bar OTL I'm making tea for sure, but he drinks water.

After all that we'd probably be exhausted so I'm calling for take out rather than dirtying the just-cleaned kitchen and further after I think we're both just curling up on the bed to watch a movie till we pass out (which only takes about 5 mins)