#to revisit

[these-dark-truths]

the only straight relationships i want in media are the hozier ones (i will worship my girlfriend like the sun and the moon and the ocean and the land itself bc i love her so much it hurts and she is my everything even in the event that she’s abusive) and the shayfer james ones (we are both so broken and frankly not very good people fuck this let’s burn the world to the ground and rule the criminal underground to subvert capitalism)

[poisonheadcrabsalesman]

Cursed (joke) ship idea: Linda/Miller

Liller, if you will. Or Millinda.

I love a good rarepair, and these two under-characterized Spartans have opposite personalities and nearly incompatible communication styles. I love it.

The easy route is making Miller Linda's shaking purse dog, but that's too simple. It could be fun, but it ignores all the other problems these two have. It takes a belt sander to their other facets about how they can make each other worse.

Linda is quiet, incredibly skilled, and fiercely loyal. She's also a super under-socialized S-II. Miller is a kind of whiny, smart S-IV who's building confidence at his job but he exists in the "we have to spell things out for you" halo media.

Borrowing an initial meeting from @bloodgulchblog's speeddating au, the Infinity has a speed-dating event. People who would not usually talk meet at a table for 3 minutes. They leave. Miller now has a S-II haunting him because of miscommunication/ she adopts the ones she likes. S-IIs engaging in a light-hearted speed-dating event with the focus and rigor of an active mission would be so so funny.

Miller is the guy in the chair feeding her intel on exercises and missions, that's new and helpful. Point for Miller. Linda is observant, works well under pressure (I wish she got more personality than being zen and loyal), and would take Miller's intel seriously. Point for Linda. Miller can be worn down to agree with the most insane plans if they're the only viable option, Linda is a S-II, all their plans are insane. Point for Miller.

It wouldn't be a straightforward relationship. Spartan Courting could be insane. Affection showed differently. Looking out for each other, sharing food, Linda ominously t-posing just outside render distance. Miller gets a single thank you or good job and he's amazed. The Handler/Sniper dynamic of trusting the calls and evac. You need to know how the other will react and will trust you to get the job done. Needing to know they will pull you out of the fire and bring you home. Linda camping out for hours to get a shot but she lets the funny guy she found in on the radio.

[azzondalamiq]

C'nbulea Kett: See, I told you we could stop the Ghost Train with just the two of us! I'll take that 100k now.

Azzon Dalamiq: Uh-huh… So what was it exactly you said at the Black Cat match we saw last week? CK: That we could st-… wait

AD: That's right, you said that we could suplex the Ghost Train… SHIRKING TO YOU! CK: Ugh, it's always details with you… FINE, PROVOKING!!

[Merry Starlight @thatoldstandby!! Here's our two blorbos being tank idiots (together again)...thank you also for helping with the dialogue since we're both still figuring our little guys out!!] [Also huge shoutout and thank you to @angelinecarax for helping me get set up and teaching me some basic gposing stuff!! I had a lot of fun doing this one and I'm excited to learn more!!!]

[dathen]

Something that strikes me about Mina’s letter to Lucy today is how, as responsible and go-getter as it is, she sees Lucy as a confidante and a respite from having to bottle everything up. She complains about work and wishes they could hang out in person so Mina can be FULLY honest with her.

I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air.

She’s yearning for that openness that only being with Lucy can bring.

[writeforfandoms]

I just wanted to let you know that I love all of your fics, I first found your writing through the CoD fandom but you singlehandedly made me interested in Halo again. I never realized how much lore the games/books/tv show have since I was pretty young when the first few games were coming out, but your writing made me want to revisit them and its given me brain rot. so thanks for that <3

Friend, I held on to this for a long time. Because this has meant the world to me. I've been having a very busy time in RL and I haven't written anything in weeks. But this? This message? Every time I came back to read it I smiled and felt much better about everything. This means so much to me, it really does. I can't thank you enough for your timing and your kindness. I hope you've been well and you're having a wonderful day. 💖

[julymp4]

nonexhaustive list of iwtv s2 predictions

three way kiss (loumandstat OR dubai trio)

devils minion sex scene breaks containment and some conservative nut tweets abt it (which leads to s3 announcement)

louis and madeleine argue over claudia's wellbeing at some point (lou loses)

someone will be put on a leash (theatre de vamp segment?)

loumand knuckle/hand kiss (will def happen 100% dont even second guess it)

[all-thestories-aretrue]

I am TAKING NOTES about that Wynn, Britta, Neil conversation in 89. I will need to relisten to that for reasons But boy. Britta wanting Pendragon. How fraught. I am living for the inner turmoil she has 😈😈😈

Neil AND Wynn talking about their own experiences and their candid views on Pendragon. Deep deep character insights. My favorite.

I will now take all that info, extrapolate it, and twist it for my own sick fanon purposes.

[enigmaticdiary]

misc

sorry to the person i vagued🙏🏾

[poisonheadcrabsalesman]

I should strive to put more of the sci-fi nonsense in the longform palmer lasky thing because I think it'd be interesting to have Lasky react to his new coworkers as having tracking devices, experimental organs, and microchips tracking their vitals at all times embedded in their bodies.

Palmer eating her Spartan Meal designed by nutritionists and scientists while Lasky attempts small talk and he learns Too Much because she was a Helljumper and a marine and now a Spartan, TMI is something they train into you when they pick you for command. She thinks it's bonding and he's trying and failing to eat his own lunch now.

[o0kawaii0o]

M-miss nami sir...

[wedarkacademia]

- Evelyn Waugh, from Brideshead Revisited (1945)

[randomwordzard]

@whoareyoueventhough

oh the poetry of punks and their patches. this one is for the band that got me through 9th grade, this one’s is a matching one i didn’t realize the first boy i loved kept on his vest when we didn’t talk for years, this is a piece of lace i found on the ground, this is the backside of one of the first ones i made, this one my brother made me, this is a precious memory, this is a shared commitment, this is my heart on my sleeve. this is my soul that i wear around this is a tapestry of the ppl i’ve loved.

[divinediva]

remember as a kid thinking Monster House was so beautiful because that was his wife and he couldn’t leave her…

[inspectorspacetimerevisited]

Because of the fact that BTV rarely repeated episodes during the Classic Era,

most Inspectators filled their need to revisit the Inspector’s adventures by reading the novelisations, which often included added details that were cut from the serials when they originally aired.

[meow--wows]

BECOME AS GODS

[elamarth-calmagol]

I also love Glorfindel :)

I have heard, though, that bells on a horse are just a common courtesy? Not that Ringwraits need courtesy. But horses are way quieter than cars, and you typically don't want to sneak up on people with a giant animal. So bells were common.

Personally, I like the idea that he was wearing bells so that the Ringwraiths would hear him coming and flee. The fancy headstall with gems and a feather was just to show off. I bet his hair was down, too.

Actuallu, despite people's drawings, I haven't found any evidence that Glorfindel was armed or wearing armor during that journey. I suspect he knew full well the wraiths would never fight him directly (I think the Witch-King believes he's the one who is fated to destroy him).

I've mentioned this in passing in this post, but this is hands down my favourite line in The Fellowship of the Ring. The line speaks volumes about Glorfindel, and yet the details are easily missed by a first-time reader travelling along with Frodo and friends, and that's because not once does Glorfindel explain how significant his words and actions were. Yet there is so much to unpack! It is only left to us to appreciate them after learning more about this world.

“There are few even in Rivendell that can ride openly against the Nine…”

Again, Glorfindel only mentioned this in passing and did not explain, but the reason for this is because the only ones Rivendell would send to ride openly against the Nazgûl were special members of the Eldar: the Calaquendi, old Elves from Valinor and who have seen the light of the Two Trees. Gandalf later explains that these Elves “live at once in both worlds, and against both the Seen and Unseen they have great power”. The Nazgûl, as we learn, were wraiths that reside only in the Unseen world, and so to anyone else, they were invisible.

We know there were very few Calaquendi remaining in Middle-earth by the Third Age, and most of them reside in Rivendell. But even among them, likely only the warriors could be sent to go after the Nagzûl, chief of Sauron's servants. This early, we get a clue that Frodo and company have met someone extraordinary.

“It was my lot to take the Road…”

By “Road”, Glorfindel meant The Great East-West Road, an ancient road that cuts across Eriador from the Grey Havens to Rivendell and the Misty Mountains. This would have been the most perilous of the roads because it would have been the most obvious path passing through the Shire. Later, during the Council of Elrond, it would be mentioned that Sauron would be expecting the Ring to go from the Shire either to the Grey Havens or to Rivendell, both routes reached primarily via the Road.

It was to be expected therefore that this is the one path most guarded by the Enemy. Again, Glorfindel only mentions his task securing the Road in passing, but the fact that he got the most obvious and thus most perilous path speaks volumes of his ability and position in Rivendell. Only a few deemed able to ride openly against the Nine were sent out, and out of them, Glorfindel was the one sent to secure the most dangerous route. Let's sit with that thought for a moment.

"I came to the Bridge of Mitheithel, and left a token there, nigh on seven days ago."

The Bridge of Mitheitel, or The Last Bridge, is the only way to cross the great River Hoarwell (Mitheitel) from Weathertop to Rivendell. Aragorn, as much as he could, avoided the Road, himself knowing the dangers possibly waiting for them there. Later though he tells the Hobbits, "I am afraid we must go back to the Road here for a while, [for we] have now come to the River Hoarwell... There is no way over it below its sources in the Ettenmoors, except by the Last Bridge on which the Road crosses."

Aragorn and the Hobbits therefore went to the Bridge dreading to encounter the Nazgûl, only to find it safe. Instead, Aragorn finds an elf-stone in the middle of the bridge, which gives him hope. We now learn that it was Glorfindel who left it there, for he has secured the Bridge, likely knowing how important it was to do so because unlike all other paths, this was the one path that Frodo and company would inevitably need to take. If the Enemy wanted to lay an ambush, they would have done so at the Bridge; strategically Glorfindel understood this, and coming after them at the Bridge was exactly what the company needed from him for them to stay safe.

“Three of the servants of Sauron were upon the Bridge, but they withdrew and I pursued them westward. I came also upon two others, but they turned away southward.”

Here once again is Glorfindel describing something incredible in the simplest of ways: the Nazgûl actually flee from him! Thus far in the book, the Nazgûl were the first source of terror for Frodo's company as well as for us, the readers, yet here Glorfindel was riding about with bells on his horse, not even trying to hide at all. He is the one hunting the Nazgûl and not the other way around, this was made very clear.

Glorfindel has been my favourite character from the start. He got me from their first meeting because he gave the Hobbits a sense of safety, even though they and we perhaps do not yet fully appreciate who he was and what he was capable of. As we read through the rest of the books, and even beyond through The Silmarillion, The Fall of Gondolin, The Peoples of Middle-earth and all these other books that share his history, I only learned to love him all the more. Years later, having read all these other books, I still sometimes just sit in awe thinking back on this first encounter in this first book, in the Fellowship of the Ring, about how Frodo and his friends met this seemingly humble Elf, who in actuality was literally an Elf of legend. Yet apparently one would not think it, encountering Glorfindel on the road.