#that's my read anyway

[thefudge]

I think Arwen and Aragorn is what Galadriel hoped her and Halbrand would be (really its just me watching aragorn\halbrand tiktok and seeing that Arwen\sauron anon)

ohh yes, i can see that. but i also think galadriel secretly (veeery secretly) liked the fact that halbrand, right from the start, was a little more devious, a little more slant. she might tell herself that a human/elf bond is the sweet dream she lost, but she knows deep down that she was drawn to halbrand because he could be more than the average man and because, with him at her side, they could both achieve great things beyond mortal limits ("i felt it too" etc etc.). that is part of the temptation for her. whereas, arwen did not have those ambitions or desires regarding aragorn.

[icouldhyperfixatehim]

It's terribly annoying that Manaow or whatever her name decides to have sex with anything that moves as soon as something doesn't go the way she wants it to. I didn't think they'd go through with the actual cheating :/

i vibe w the frustration in a general way, but i have a very different read on the whole thing. i mean since the series started to now with manaow in her second year, she's had a total of 2 hook ups and 1 committed gf, so even with the most unforgiving read of that, she's had three sexual encounters in like two years, which hardly feels like her having sex with "anything that moves".

of the two hook ups - she and luktarn were both down (if a little careless of luktarn's heart) and manaow was single then. this second one i'll be interested to see how the show plays it. innocent little nong belle with a crush tries to kiss manaow at the bar when manaow is literally passed out, and then later when manaow (still drunk as a skunk) makes a pass at her - thinking out loud that belle is gyoza - follows through on the sex under this false impression. it's a huge ick from me, and if belle and gyoza were male love interests, i don't think people would be so quick to call manaow a cheater.

[bookwyrminspiration]

I can behave normally around books

[kiryuing]

[unsung-idiot]

don't show him modern technology; it won't end well

bonus under the cut:

[keirahknightley]

Crimson Peak (2015) 🎬 Guillermo del Toro

+ IMDb trivia

[gibbearish]

love when ppl defend the aggressive monetization of the internet with "what, do you just expect it to be free and them not make a profit???" like. yeah that would be really nice actually i would love that:)! thanks for asking

[bisclavaret]

a day late to my 6 years on t anniversary ✨🏳️‍⚧️ a short comic about looking back

[inkskinned]

this is just my opinion but i think any good media needs obsession behind it. it needs passion, the kind of passion that's no longer "gentle scented candle" and is now "oh shit the house caught on fire". it needs a creator that's biting the floorboards and gnawing the story off their skin. creators are supposed to be wild animals. they are supposed to want to tell a story with the ferocity of eating a good stone fruit while standing over the sink. the same protective, strange instinct as being 7 and making mud potions in pink teacups: you gotta get weird with it.

good media needs unhinged, googling-at-midnight kind of energy. it needs "what kind of seams are invented on this planet" energy and "im just gonna trust the audience to roll with me about this" energy. it needs one person (at least) screaming into the void with so much drive and energy that it forces the story to be real.

sometimes people are baffled when fanfic has some stunning jaw-dropping tattoo-it-on-you lines. and i'm like - well, i don't go here, but that makes sense to me. of fucking course people who have this amount of passion are going to create something good. they moved from a place of genuine love and enjoyment.

so yeah, duh! saturday cartoons have banger lines. random street art is sometimes the most precious heart-wrenching shit you've ever seen. someone singing on tiktok ends up creating your next favorite song. youtubers are giving us 5 hours of carefully researched content. all of this is the impossible equation to latestage capitalism. like, you can't force something to be good. AI cannot make it good. no amount of focus-group testing or market research. what makes a story worth listening to is that someone cares so much about telling it - through dance, art, music, whatever it takes - that they are just a little unhinged about it.

one time my friend told me he stayed up all night researching how many ways there are to peel an orange. he wrote me a poem that made me cry on public transportation. the love came through it like pith, you know? the words all came apart in my hands. it tasted like breakfast.

[cryptocism]

"just as I did, in 1983."

you'd never know my favourite parts of the show are the fucked up insane bits when my first instinct is to draw the cheesiest thing imaginable

[blorbosinmyheadcentral]

Supervised Machine Learning

[katsinspats]

Thematically appropriate comic for Make a Terrible Comic Day!!

I saw the original post this morning and it made me get out of bed to make something, so thank u Pseudonym Jones mission accomplished

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Penelope's final gambit, you will always be famous, no matter the subtext.

[soaked-doors]

when it rains, it pours

[lotus-pear]

SIGHHHH BSD REREAD…................I MISS THEM SO MUCH :(((

[valtsv]