#overcoming the odds

[filosofablogger]

Women's History Month -- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Back at the beginning of March, I vowed to write several posts throughout Women’s History month honouring some of the women who have contributed so much to this nation … to the world.  But, due to the onslaught of political crises as well as my own health issues, I have really let the ball drop on this one.  Y’know … Black History Month, Women’s History Month and Pride Month have all been removed…

[pwurrz]

the trauma these two share of hitting absolute rock bottom, being stripped of their powers, having their minds almost completely broken by two individuals who made them question their entire lives, identities, beliefs and even their very existence and worth using extensive mental and emotional manipulation + putting the lives of their dearest friends in vital danger..

only to pick themselves back up using nothing but sheer fucking willpower, overcome the impossible odds of their situation, and not only defeat their enemies but simultaneously prove to them why they deserve to be the owner of their ‘stolen power’ because they are the very embodiment of what their soul jams’ represent-

is something that can be so personal, actually

[suckishima]

aaaaaaaAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH

[sybaritick]

the human-xenos relations in rogue trader are truly so bad for me

[fruityumbrella]

bsky is fun ig but it truly is like walking into an irl party where you dont Really know anyone and everyone already has their own little circles, like maybe this is just the "little kid who never Quite fit in at school" in me but even though my mutuals on there are really nice i cant spend more than 10 mins on that app without feeling bad

[randomness-is-my-order]

the reverse-nurturing urge to put angst ridden, narratively downtrodden characters through even more angst and even more emotionally challenging scenarios so they could hit absolute rock bottom and climb their way uphill without fear of failure and understand just how awesome they are and show everyone else the very same like no babe, i do NOT wanna give them cookies and blankets; how about a walk through metaphorical lava instead????

[enterstellars]

y’all think i’m annoying about the martian rn but just you wait until project Hail Mary releases and then it’s over for y’all

[copia]

Hell's Orbit 🔞 — 5k, terzo/mist, jerk-off instruction, mutual masturbation, too much ghoul lore, second in a series but you don't have to read the first — more tags on ao3

“It has been a Jurassic Park kind of scenario up until now. We want more, we head to the basement and dust off the ceremonial knife. You, dear, have only just got here. I do not think that little Ghouls is what we need right now. Can’t be having babies around this place,” he clarified. “Yet.” The first Ghoulette heralds a new age for interspecies relations in the Clergy, but arrives with a fresh set of challenges. Terzo steps up to the job.

for ghostober by @kroas-adtam — day 2: jerking off instruction; day 9: voice kink

[evecallum]

I’ve always found it super interesting that when Callum is encased in stone in the opening he doesn’t shed a tear, unlike Viren in the opening or Avizandum in the show.

Avizandum and Viren both have significant regrets. Avizandum fears for his mate and his egg as well as the fate of Xadia. While we know he reveled in squashing the ants (humans) I can’t help but think he genuinely was concerned for Xadia and the impact humans invading could have on the land. Ultimately of course, he reaches for Zym, the newly laid egg, and Zubeia…his family, before he is turned to stone.

Viren on the other hand is without a kingdom (a king) and frankly without a true lease on life. He has 30 days to live and must free Aaravos, the reviled Startouch elf, to extend his life.

So why does Viren cry a single tear before he is encased in stone, while Callum does not?

Because one will have great regret when they fully realize they have fallen into Aaravos’s hands, and one will not.

We see clearly from s5 that Viren is repentant and regretful about his actions and the path he has set Claudia on. My guess from the teaser is that he will try to appeal to Ezran to save his daughter from Aaravos, but unbeknownst to him, Callum and Rayla have set off with Aaravos’s prison. By this point it is out of Ezran’s hands on what to do.

Meanwhile we have Callum who is bursting with self-doubt, and untold resentment and love for Rayla. But as we see in the teaser (*cough* screencap where Callum touches Rayla’s chin *cough*) there clearly will be a reckoning between Callum and Rayla regarding their relationship. This leads me to believe that not only will Callum reconcile with Rayla but that he’ll also reconcile the situation with Rayla’s parenteral figures by freeing them from the coins. (Personally I’m a huge fam of Callum using dark magic to do so but its still very possible he’ll utilize the quasar diamonds/corona to do so.) All this to say, once Callum succumbs to Aaravos’s control, he will have no regrets. For whatever reason, he will think those close to him, whether Ezran, Rayla or Amaya, are in good hands and that regardless of his absence will be fine without him.

[realbeefman]

my most crazed borderline-stupid house theory is that. house didn’t survive the fire in the finale. james wilson simply lost his homosexual mind when the love of his life and soulmate died. when house left him alone in those final days of his life when he needed him more than ever. everybody was confused by wilson talking about a phone ringing during the funeral because there WASN’T a phone ringing. wilson just fully went off the deep end and lived out his final days in delusional gay bliss with hallucination-house

[sipping-ambrosia-wine]

i wanted to weigh bad faith readings vs how clumsy the writing in Weapons Factory actually was to make people dislike luminara so much and. wow. she literally falls to her knees and despairs when she thinks barriss is dead.

[zeravmeta]

wringing and tying myself into knots over how this is mashs one and only smile in all of mashle

[pianokantzart]

Oh my god

This comic

Oh my god

This whole last scene specifically is just

Oh my god

It's hitting so many whumperfly buttons

Oh my god

*chef's kiss*

Oh my god

AND A HAPPY ENDING TOO?!

Oh my god

YOU ARE THE BEST

Aaawe, shucks

Thank you so much

[giddlygoat]

just remebered that the super mario bros movie released the day before me and twin bro’s bday so we watched it to celebrate. and i am not normal about that

[puppyjpeg]

😑

[heepthecheep]

The Guardians of Ga'Hoole's various plots are already wild, but The Wolves of the Beyond is just... bizarre