#they're unbearable

[nitsaart]

Watching grian's eight hour long world tour, currently on joel's section

Grian looked at joel's mail and there was shulker box of gravel and I kid you not. I rewind to make sure it was that, and i remembered little clip I saw with scar and etho, when scar was trying to sell etho more gravel? Just sell etho gravel? I'm not sure, but etho was REALLY hard to sell gravel to him, and scar was going through hermits who etho might gift that gravel until he got to joel, and etho fumbled like instantly? 😭 he was bought so fast with buying joel some gravel as a gift, god did it actually happen

I'm gonna cry. I'm about to cry, literally. I'm so normal about them

And like. The footage was taken month or two ago, so? 😭😭😭 no I cannot. It's killing my brain trying to think about it, help me

[seattledaytwo]

Happy Sunday, I offer you some fluff of my favorite girls!! <3

[stalinqrad]

uni labour club people drink detergent challenge

[onionninjasstuff]

something something future leo dies early and mikey takes on the role of cj's main mentor. something something mikey-centric movie. idk what his arc would be abt BUT I HAVE AN ITCH THAT NEEDS TO BE SCRATCHED

[etherealnoir]

The divestors pretending that white men are the answer to terrible dating experiences have very obviously never spoken to a white man. The ugly rich ones you see on Twitter who are married to thin black women in bad wigs are 1) Annoying and 2) Few and far between.

[dreamyluigi]

some doodles based on this fic by @roscolate ;w; because holy shit this tore me apart, my heart ached then exploded it's so good

[ashleyslorens]

AARON TVEIT & JOJO LEVESQUE Curtain call for Moulin Rouge! The Musical (July 23, 2024) 📸 Avery Brunkus

[thatgoddamngingerundercut]

‘Butter’ Jacket Shoot Sketch Day Three - RM, j-hope, Jimin, and V

[the-random-tyler]

End of stormblood (It didn't stick and he got kicked out soon after)

[pearlcaddy]

LOCKWOOD & CO. 1.06

[crimeoflove]

is Hannibal sitting with his legs crossed just him being his zesty self, or is Hannibal sitting with his legs crossed him being his zesty self and having improper thoughts about Will Graham?

image from @zippersrus on pinterest

[impmansloot]

While personally the way the game presents non-binary people is not the way I would do it—I wouldn't go so far as use this terminology in a fantasy setting, but it's also NOT unplausible—I WILL defend it with my life. Including a non-binary character who hasn't figured themself out before being presented to the audience will always be jarring in this political climate, I doubt you can present it in a "delicate" way that wouldn't be "too much in your face."

[assim-eu-sou]

I've just started season 4 and this is the conclusion I've arrived at.

[meadowsofmay]

so, i am one film in of my the hobbit re-watch and it's interesting how they portrayed each dwarf visually. there's quite an amount of fighting which showcases us the way they act: who's the fighter and who's the carer, who's the leader and who's the follower, who's the mind and who's the brutal force. but — their appearance does tell a huge part of the untold story about who they are and what are their roles in the company.

while re-watching 'an unexpected journey' i had an opportunity to pay closer attention to fili and kili:

and if i still didn't know a single thing about them aside basics and was asked «who's going to be the next king?», i'd say fili without hesitation, based only on the visual.

fili is put together. he might even seem to be somewhat arrogant with his facial expressions. and visual implications of him being the mature one are in his braids, his still growing beard but already braided mustache.

in comparison to kili — fili has a little bit of the weight that the age brings on him.

one of the reasons why we might sympathise alot with kili is because kili feels young. his appearance screams that he is the youngest: long unbraided/barely braided hair and those bangs, strands of hair over his face in a way to make it look rounder and cuter. we see kili act impulsively, him being all over the place with attachement and trust, him being childishly loud and stupidly brave. and his appearance really makes sense of that.

the relationships between durin's are also quite interesting to look at:

the thing with fili is not just him being the oldest of the brothers, for also because he is prepared/taught to be mature one. we hear it quickly in action during the departure from laketown but richard also said in the appendices that thorin prepares fili to be the next to the throne. and i think, he used the word «groomed» which might mean that they're at the beginning of the process that is not exactly wanted by one of the sides. hence, why i am using «prepared/taught to» — fili is still young and dumb at times but he is ahead of kili on the ride of growing up. because he has to. he is, again, more put together but he has alot of weaponry that he carries on him in order to be prepared for any sort of fight. he learns skills and hence the reason he still has huge assignment of blades to chose from.

fili is also less confrontational with thorin. kill is really open and honest about his feelings towards thorin's actions, for example in the scenes where thorin is unfair to bilbo. seems like kili really did get attached to the hobbit and was not shy to be judgemental.

also desperate for he is still young and doesn't really understand the meaning of calculated decisions and compromises.

fili usually keeps to the side, be it because he observes, has less confrontational character or just knows not to interfere when thorin gets moody. when kili jokes on bilbo — fili just plays along. when thorin starts to berate them it's kili who's ashamed but fili is just there. he is so done with thorin, it seems, he doesn't have it in him to react.

observing kili's behavior we can say that kili looks up to thorin in a more sincere, childish way. thorin is the hero of his childhood dreams, for he is the dwarf who took up on the role of his father while juggling all of his other duties. kili wants to impress thorin, wants to be good for him too, it shows in a way he jumps into fights hot-headed. and he is often ashamed when he disappoints him.

fili, on the other hand, just does what thorin says because he knows thorin will want of him exactly that. he learned a lot from and of thorin, he knows how to operate under his command. in a way, he might start to see thorin more as a leader rather than a father figure.

and it might be for another post but we see fili get openly confrontational only in 'the desolation of smaug' and only because kili is in danger. no matter how important it is for thorin to raise a king out of him, fili is still going to put his brother first.

he protests:

first time is when thorin rushes everyone on the river bank while kili needs healer's attention because of his leg.

second time — when thorin wants fili to go with them to erebor and fili choses to stay in laketown with kili who's gotten worse. thorin needs fili there with them because he is the next in line. fili's priorities lie with his brother. and that's probably the most loud conflict fili had with thorin in the whole trilogy. that was the conflict of interests.

the most loud conflict kili had with thorin, though, is in 'the battle of the five armies' when he finally had enough of thorin hiding behind a wall while the rest are dying for them. he almost lost respect for thorin and that was his last attempt to bring him to his senses because this thorin was not his childhood hero, was not the person he looks up to and the matter at hand wasn't just his foul character. it was the conflict of morals.

and i find that beautiful.

[lotus-pear]

going to sleep now but do you want to know more is more possible that ivantill wasnt unrequired love, it was unrealized love (but you can interpret was you wish either way) its canon that Till loved Mizi more like an idea of the person she was, that he didnt truly knew her (like Sua did) and actually, have a "deep conection with ivan by them "collinding and having a deep love-hate attachment" and them there are the phrases that I send you "thank you for being the victim of my shallow emotions" by ivan (it was what he was thinking when he was killed) and damn HIS LOVE CERTAINLY ISNT SHALLOW but he treats like it is, in a way to protect himself probably, looking at the surface and also knowing what was underneath and then we have till's phrase abt "hate is easier than a word as vague as love" but love isnt the opposite of hate, they go hand by hand and atill doesnt want to admit to himself what he trully feels, what he could feel, bc love is incertain, it could leave you vulnerable, and he coudnt afford that for himself (also, note how it is hate in his phrase, and by the translation abt ivan and till relashionship was also "deep love-hate" prbly wasnt hate actually, or till just wanted to think it was)

the idea that ivantill isn't unrequited love but rather romantically one-sided with till harboring no romantic feelings but ultimately holding ivan dear regardless is canon BUT some part of me would like to think that till's feelings are unrealized like you said

till idolizes mizi and places her on a pedestal like a goddess, something out of his reach that he cannot touch bc it is holy and divine...something a normal boy like him could never hope to love, and it's precisely bc of that infatuation that he won't be able to love her

ivan on the other hand is an equal but ultimately someone who till cannot lover either because he forcefully puts up a barrier that lets him distance himself from people he could end up caring too much about

[beloved-child-of-the-house]

i stand with you in the face of a defensive misunderstanding of what critique is.

i think understanding what a critique actually is is a skill that increasingly is not taught. i remember going through freshman art courses feeling the frustration that all negative, nasty, unhelpful, and missed-the-point-entirely feedback is so commonly conflated with critique, and then critique gets a bad name because everyone remembers the time someone said their painting looked like an asshole (true story, altho now i think i would take it as a compliment) instead of the time a teacher or friend or classmate helped them uncover a hurtful bias or think of new ways to explore the same idea or how to connect it to related ideas or how to look up and understand other people's ideas on the same topic.

anyway i think you're great.

ahhh you're so kind to me!! i appreciate your support, and i think you are great also.

i have experience with giving and receiving critique as a student myself, and i think it was the best part of my degree! i majored in creative writing in college, and critique was just a generally accepted part of learning to become a writer. i don't even remember people being especially worried about receiving critique on their work. we had guidance on what kind of feedback was useful, but we were still at liberty to give it as we saw fit as like messy 19 year olds. the standard was that we gave it both written on printed copies of the work AND aloud in front of the whole class, and the writer receiving it was not permitted to speak during the critique. understanding how people are perceiving your work is important!

i don't have any particularly negative recollections of the critique process, although once in a high school writing class, the boys in the class told me that my male characters touched each other too gently and real boys are more rough with each other. in particular, they took issue with me writing that one boy nudged another. nudging is too soft. nudging is for girls. that was more than 20 years ago, and i still think about it sometimes because it was such an interesting perspective! i did not take their advice, though.

i should dig up that piece and see if it reads queer in any other ways. i think that's what they were getting at. (actually i once had a non-fiction class tell me i was in love with my roommate after reading an essay i wrote about her)(i did not listen to that advice either, but having 12 acquaintances tell you that you're gay in 2006 before you realize it yourself is Truly Something!)

i think people have conflated criticism and critique and think that being more openly analytical is the same thing as being negative. but analysis is so fun to me! analysis is why i joined fandom in the first place, and it's why i write fic! can we trust each other to be respectful and to speak in good faith even when we're not singing each other's praises? for me fandom would be better if we could.

oh i also want to clarify that i don't think it's impossible to demonstrate that you've thought deeply about a piece of fanwork while remaining completely positive. people do it all the time and do it very well!

i know i sometimes have tunnel vision wrt my own perspective. in a lot of situations, i wish it were more acceptable to be more direct, and i know people sometimes find the way i express myself to be kind of shocking. i know a lot of people like to be spoken to more indirectly than comes natural to me, and i don't mean to imply that my perspective is the only correct one or that there's no good reason to err on the side of gentleness/politeness in our responses to amateur art and writing. i just think that at a certain level of circumspection, it feels like we're all holding each other at arm's length.

i think for people who can't bear to feel exposed, making and sharing art is always going to be painful and difficult, and maybe too painful and difficult to enjoy the process unless they're sure of a soft landing. but like. the rewards of being loved only come after the mortifying ordeal of being known, right?