#on the road revisited

[celine-song]

Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) dir. George Miller

[corruptimles]

MikuAllWeeku Day 6: No Straight Roads

[pleasantbirdsand]

they are Cars

[ruporas]

“It’s about time you gave me one hell of a show!”

[near-dareis-mai]

Something interesting to me that I think fails to be taken into account of the criticism "the Dragon Reborn can be more than one person or any gender" plotline in the show is that I feel most of the critics seem to mistakenly assume that the show is presenting it as a fact that the Prophecies of the Dragon are flawed, and that the show is presenting Moiraine's personal ideas of the Dragon as ironclad fact.

When, in fact, if you watch Episode 6 closely, what you're actually getting is an argument between two diametrically opposed points of view a) Moiraine, who thinks the Tower prophecies might be innacurate, and who therefore thinks they need to cast a wider net for who the Dragon Reborn is and b) Siuan, who thinks the Tower's prophecies are accurate, and who therefore thinks that they should be narrowing the candidates down according to who prophecy says the Dragon Reborn should be.

So you've got a) Moiraine, who's travelled all through the Westlands, and heard a hundred stories about the Dragon from a hundred different villages, taking the argument that the prophecies of the White Tower can be fallible and that some other prophecy out there might be the one they're looking for. It's natural for her to take this argument, because twenty years of being outside of the Tower and hearing differing stories is naturally going to shape her mind to be skeptical that the Tower is the only authority in this, or that the Tower holds the only right set of prophecies. It makes total sense for Moiraine to put forward this argument.

And then you've got b) Siuan, who's stayed in the Tower, who leads the Tower, who knows first hand the rigorous fact and information storage protocols of the Tower, taking the argument that the Tower's set of the Prophecies of the Dragon are accurate, and that they should stick to identifying the Dragon Reborn using them. It's natural for Siuan to take this argument, because the White Tower is pretty much the only institution to make it out of the chaotic post-Breaking period intact, and from the start the Aes Sedai have shown a vested interest in ACCURATELY preserving information, to the point where the Tar Valon library has a copy of every single book in existence. It makes total sense for Siuan to put forward this argument that the Tower's prophecies will be accurate in a way that no word-of-mouth prophecies passed down through generations in some out-of-the-way village would be.

But, at the end of the day, that's just what they are: arguments. The show presents both Moiraine and Siuan's arguments neutrally, and with equal weight: it doesn't actually take a side. It doesn't actually say that Moiraine is right. It doesn't actually say Siuan is right. Instead, it lets them present opposing arguments for tracking down the identify of the Dragon Reborn, and then the plot moves right along without establishing either one as right just yet.

And the kicker is, by the end of the series, THEY'RE BOTH GONNA BE RIGHT.

Siuan is going to be right, because yes the Tower's prophecies ARE going to turn out to be the most accurate of the prophecies in all the Westlands that Moiraine has travelled to. ALL the Tower prophecies are going to come true, even if the Aes Sedai haven't interpreted them correctly.

And Moiraine is going to be right because there ARE going to be other people with accurate prophecies that will come to light: the Aiel and the Sea Folk. The Sea Folk prophecies of the Coramoor and the Aiel prophecies of the Car'a'carn are going to come to light, and they're going to be just as right as the prophecies of the Tower.

It's just… as a book-first fan myself who watched the show later, I have no idea how we book fans can be mad about this one, and I simply don't understand the criticism that this was a short-lived plot point with little value going forward. The show can only have created this argument if the show-runner has full knowledge of how the book series wraps up, a long-running thread that can only be proven in multiple seasons, rather than just a one-season mystery box. And they've even taken care to set up the opposing ends of the argument be Moiraine and Siuan, the two people who first started the quest together, the two people who first head Gitara's prophecy of the Dragon being reborn. In Season 1, they've set up an almost metaphysical argument between Moiraine and Siuan that can only truly be answered in Season 8 after the Last Battle, at the end of the age of prophecies.

Additionally, they're also foreshadowing an argument that's going to happen between Rand and Tuon near the very end of the series: what do you do when two sets of supposedly infallible prophecies seem to clash, as the Westlands and Seanchan prophecies seem to clash, re: the Dragon kneeling to the Crystal Throne?

What part about this shows a lack of forethought, of not thinking through implications? To me, it shows the opposite. It shows that they're thinking through implications so deeply that they've set up this overarching near-metaphysical argument in Season 1 that can only be truly resolved in the final season of the final episode of the show.

[kissablelips-desireslure-vol3]

RIDING DIRTY

Directed By: Alex Roman

Featuring: Travis Stevens with Cameron Parks

©️ HELIX STUDIOS ENTERTAINMENT

[nientedal]

Digitized this older piece! And I am super pleased with it. Especially with the lighting off Megamind's gun and from the spotlight. Double-especially with Metro Man's Prepared For Murder face. Defs open it in a new tab if you can, tumblr's resolution is [loud donkey noise].

This was art I did for @buginateacup's fic Run, which is SO GOOD and not very long at all, so go read it.

[thatonecrookedsmile]

I decided to re-read the bendy books because it's been a while since I read them.

[blueskyheadleft010]

I’m alive ya’ll!

But the storm system knocked out internet to the entire town and cell service is extremely spotty still.

So if I haven’t responded much this week that’s what’s going on in my neck of the woods ✨👌

[outeremissary]

Tagged by @arendaes on this fairy doll maker. I've skipped the last few of these doll makers because I just do not tend to have the kind of really high femme character in play that works on them without feeling really uncanny to me, but I figured I'd give this one an attempt and see how well I could recreate my BG1/2 character's old 2018 design (doodled on scrap paper at work here with a sad attempt at shitty wizard dart).

Not too far off...?

Not tagging folks on this one- forgive me, I'm just not sure who's best for something so specific ^^;; If you want to do it etc.

[mickidona]

Revisited an old El Dorado au.. nice open ended polyam potential with these three 👀

[themascarasnakeuniverse]

Mission back to university.

When I first went to university I was hoping to find my tribe. Having felt like a fish out of water for many years I was convinced that when I went away I would find new friends, maybe find a girlfriend and make lifelong connections. Of course, these things do not come easily, if at all to a person with Aspergers (which was then undisgnosed. In fact, I had never heard the word before and knew next to nothing about autism.). I was more alone than ever and left after two years with feelings of being excluded, rejected and having wasted two years.

My first year was spent in the house of a local landlady and her daughter. She realised quite quickly that I was not an easy or particularly pleasant person to have around and made her displeasure clear. I also had a weekend job where I now know I was taken advantage of. I was not valued and my confidence was really low. Looking back it was obvious my colleagues where laughing at me behind my back. I was kept on because I could do the dirty jobs and they did not have to pay me much. This was before minimum wage and when I opened my first pay packet I had been given two pounds an hour!

I came to study in this small town because I wanted to do a HND in Social Care. At the time I genuinely believed I was incapable of getting a “proper” degree. The first place I looked at was a town around forty minutes from my home village. When I went to visit I did not like the place at all and chose to study in another shitty small town, this one one hundred and fifty miles away. Peers where going to bigger cities and more prestigious institutions. But I convinced myself that I was happy studying there. It was only later that I realised that the life lessons I learned where harsh and could have been learned in much nicer surroundings.

Looking back I felt limited and trapped. Every student is skint and I felt this quite acutely. My parents paid my rent and gave me one hundred pounds a month. I was luckier than most and did not get a student loan. However, the overdraft I accumulated was a financial reality for years to come.

For years I wanted to go back to this shitty town on my own steam. To drive there and back in one day. To revisit the ghosts and bad memories with the freedom I did not have when I was there the first time.

When I typed the two destinations into route finder on the AA website I realised I could be there in two and a half hours. The introverted part of me loves long car journeys alone. I was behind on my podcasts and the journey to and from my old university town would give me more than enough time to catch up. I opened my diary and chose a day where I was off work. I wrote “leave free” under the date. I was going on an road trip. On my own. Hopefully to lay ghosts and bad memories to rest. If not I would at least enjoy the trip.

[mistrustmusic]

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[walkedlegacy-closed]

send me 🕯️to hear my character's inner thoughts about your character. @lvebug

"andie's . . . legit sunshine incarnate. she's always so happy . . . how is she always so happy? i'll probably never learn her secret , must be nice to just be so bright all the time. she's a hard worker , and i'm so happy she's my friend and part of my team."

[vnynv]

ulysses is honestly basically a metal gear rising character

[breadtheft1796]

still thinking about yoongi practicing 'merry christmas, mr. lawrence' and then playing it for ryuichi sakamoto. what a moment. i am sobbing.