#poor cad

[c-kiddo]

was listening on my walk to ep30 . obsessed with caduceus talking at fjord about roots and asking if hes eaten a carrot before wow thats nice :-) carrots are good 🥕

[scarletkaoru]

Aviendha: dont worry Rand. Since we dont have permission to get married, its not pre-marital sex

Rand: that is not how this works At All

[kakushimiko]

VOX MACHINA IDEAS THAT I PROBABLY WON'T WRITE, LOG 04

(I meant it when I say that 99% of my ideas gravitate around Percy, not that any of you are complaining anyway lmao)

Au where Percy, after being rescued by the fishermen when he escaped, manages to convince them to take him to Wildemount to contact the other branch of de Rolos in the other continent, but after some incidents with pirates/slavers and other tribulations, Percy gets lost and ends up in the Blooming Grove with Caduceus (maybe some god was watching over him for once?), he warmly welcomes Percy, happy to finally have some company after being so lonely for years.

Percy stays with Caduceus for like a year, taking his time to heal both physical and mentally, Caduceus teaches him about nature and how dead doesn’t have to be such a sad thing, while Percy teaches Caduceus about technology and how to do some fixing in the grove. They become very close, like brothers/platonic soulmates. Caduceus maybe even teaches Percy some of his peculiar healing magic? Percy may even start to learn some of the Wildmother lessons?

When Orthax comes to try to make a deal/possess Percy, Caduceus is not taking any shit from a fucking smoke demon stalking his little bro, that demon is not going to undo all his hard work so he exorcizes Orthax so hard that not even a speak of ash is left in the Grove.

Eventually a sign is given to Percy in the form of a dream that it is time to leave the Grove. After some sad days preparing for the trip, Percy and Caduceus say goodbye, promising that they will see each other again one day.

VM finds a slightly different Percy, less brooding, and more eccentric lol, kind of obsess with the beauty of the “dark side” of nature (as a coping mechanism) thanks to Caduceus teachings , like nature that handles the decay part of the life cycle, such as fungi and such, which would prompt even more BFF moments with Keyleth, but also make him hate the Briarwoods even more since vampires and necromancers go againts the natural cycle of life and death.

Percy is a little more trusting and emotional open to the team earlier on. He would still have some anger issues, but he’s seeking justice for his family and people instead of destructive revenge.

(I know, I know, Percy is OOC here, but I see a Percy that got to properly heal from his trauma and not be influenced by a literal demon would behave like he does when they went to the Feywild, a young man with shiny eyes, fascinated with the mysteries of the world again, and totally info dumping about his hyperfixations to his friends, more emotionally in tune with himself and not just repressing his emotions until he explodes in rage... most of the time, and I think it would be interesting to see how VM would interact with a mentally stable but still eccentric Percy)

TL,DR Caduceus gives Percy the therapy he always so desperately needed.

...

(also, to be honest, I started writing this one, but I stopped because I don't know how to write Caduceus, so far I just watched some of the more popular segments of him, but I don't want to start C2 until I finish with VM, so I need to read a few dozens of fics of him until I understand his personality, but I'm leaving the idea here because I would like to read au fics of Percy&Caduceus having adventures and how other authors would imagine how their dynamics could work)

[unmarked-credits]

Poor Isaac though, seriously. Losing all three of your parents in uniquely horrible and traumatic ways before you even hit eight.

I really hope that was the worst it ever got for him. I hope he's okay.

[wolveria]

Isaac at Bane (or Isaac at Niro, it could go either way)

[pastel-kaleesh]

This is what happens when I'm bored

Here's a gleepy and glorpy bounty hunter

[marietheran-archived]

reading AITAs to do with abortion is so painful because the question will be "Am I in the wrong for pressuring my 16yo daughter to get an abortion?" and the answers will all be "No, of course no one can expect you not to burden the girl with this for the rest of her life because you feel her child will be a burden on you" and "Tell her horror stories about pregnancy and being a single mother; that'll frighten her into compliance 😊💖😚"

[dougielombax]

Parallels

Or

Seeing Patterns in Things That Aren’t There

Part 51.

He Couldn’t see the Forest for the Trees

Also known as

The Felling of the Trees

Or

The Trees Strike Back

1. “Of course, it is likely enough, my friends,' he said slowly, 'likely enough that we are going to our doom: the last march of the Ents. But if we stayed home and did nothing, doom would find us anyway, sooner or later.” - Treebeard

- The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (1954).

J. R. R. Tolkien.

(Art by Matt Ferguson)

(I was going to use some screenshots from the film adaptation but I couldn’t find any in good enough quality)

Kind of speaks for itself.

Treebeard and the Ents awaken from their long sleep with Merry and Pippin at their side to see the forest of Fangorn being razed by Saruman’s army of orcs and Uruk-Hai to fuel his war machine.

And after much deliberation, as his forces are away attacking Helm’s Deep, Treebeard and the Ents decide to launch an attack on Isengard when Saruman least expects it.

Kicking his ass and razing his infernal war factory to the ground in the process.

2. “Alder, pre-eminent in lineage, attacked in the beginning;

Willow and rowan were late to the army;

Thorny plum was greedy for slaughter

...

Fir trees to the fore, ruler in battles;

Ash performed excellently before monarchs;

Elm because of its ferocity did not budge a foot:

it would strike in the middle, on the flanks, and in the end.

...

Swift and mighty oak: before him trembled heaven and earth;

Fierce enemy of warriors, his name in wax tablets.'”

etc.

- Cad Goddeu (The Battle of the Trees). 14th Century. Attributed to Taliesin.

(From the Book of Taliesin. A 14th century manuscript containing a collection of poems in Middle Welsh. A folio of which is depicted above)

(Passages from this poem were also translated into Sanskrit and used by John Williams for the Duel of the Fates in his score to the Star Wars prequels)

Kind of speaks for itself.

One cannot help but wonder.

Given Tolkien’s fondness for Celtic mythology and his love of the Welsh language, did he perhaps know of the Cad Goddeu and/or the Book of Taliesin, and could it have inspired the creation of the Ents and their role in The Lord of the Rings?

(Although the circumstances are a bit different. The Ents were always fully sentient beings, while the trees in the Cad Goddeu are enchanted by Gwydion.)

Now it is known that their actions were also his means of throwing shade at William Shakespeare due to his personal disappointment concerning a similar scene in Macbeth but more cannot be said of such matters beyond this.

Regardless, I felt that it was worth pointing out.

Make of this what you will.

[diggilooo]

Oh no the rotw vote cost went from 0.99 USD to €0.99?

[c-kiddo]

got to the scene (ep 118, cr2 rewatch) in which jes and fjord first kiss and i forgot it happened and i need to go back in time and explode everyone telling me how toxic it was bc of shipping discourse because it was so fucking cute i felt like this

[athousandsuns2010]

i love you hatsune miku

[softgothbabe]

My new kitty's name is Spooky btw 🥺🥰

[exeunknown]

I had this stupid idea and I made it, originally wanted to add a third panel where Ethan’s shoves the glasses back in Scott’s face but decided not to since it was basically just padding

Also I changed Ethan’s nose and improved his hair so now he actually looks like himself

Going to draw the other characters too I promise idk why I’ve been only drawing these two

[confetti-critter]

The night is young and I am free to do whatever my heart desires but unfortunately I have once again found myself trapped in the Time Prison and so I

[cipheral]

I think tumblr people would try and eat me alive if I ever admitted how expensive some of my clothes are. You dont want to hear how expensive my boots were. You dont wanna know how expensive the lehenga i got for xmas was. Hell don't look at how expensive my cosplay stuff was. Im below poverty line. I just choose to spend spare money in places that I either have already invested in (cosplay), or on things that are important (durable boots)

[impossible-rat-babies]

nghhhhshdhdhd I’m almost to the aitascope with my trusts