#which is interesting

[firelise]

Sand: alone, minding his business... Ray: not on my watch Only Friends (2023)

[girafeduvexin]

Fifty shades of green.

[wanderingmind867]

For once, I think the Greek and Roman gods are equally matched. Dionysus and Bacchus both seem pretty likeable. Bacchus definitely has it easier, though. Dionysus is separated from his wife, stuck babysitting a bunch of immature teenagers all year. I don't know how he does it. I'd have probably snapped and screamed at one of the kids long ago.

By comparison, Bacchus is living the high life. He isn't stuck at Camp Jupiter like Dionysus is stuck at Camp Half-Blood. He's free to roam, enjoy himself, and if he has a wife (i'm not sure if there is a roman form of ariadne), he's surely free to spend more time with her.

[mazzystar24]

If anyone is wondering what Buck’s “like sea monkeys” comment is about:

Sea monkeys are the advertising name for brine shrimp which were sold basically as a sorta toy where you get three pooches (one of the eggs, one of nutrients, one of dye) and you pour it in and then you get these weird looking creatures

But the reason for bucks comment is that sea monkeys are actually an artificial breed made from hybridisation and they hatch from eggs that can remain dormant for years until exposed to water

So yeah Eddie😌like sea monkeys😌

Let the man cook next time🫡

[blood-orange-juice]

About Childe and his weird ethics.

He reminds me of what I know of real world medieval knights. Chivalry was a thing only applied to equals.

There was no glory in harming noncombatants and generally you would want to avoid that, but if you absolutely needed to sack a city (or take a city hostage to lure out its patron deity) then no one would blame you.

There was a lot of scheming too.

There's certain irony in wanting to be a fairytale knight and becoming a real one instead.

[uglypastels]

I've started dreaming about meeting and falling in love with random guys again so i guess my fucking brain is going into fanfic withdrawal once more

[the-crimson]

(Characters not ccs and not negative just an observation XD)

I find this so interesting because this is the second time Forever has accused bbh of a crime with zero evidence then proceeded to treat him as guilty and punish him for it.

First with the furniture in which it makes ZERO sense for bbh to steal it when all that would do is make everyone on the island want to outlaw furniture theft even more - plus he has an alibi as Tallulah/Chayann’s room was untouched and bbh has access. It was such an obvious frame. Forever to this day believes that Bad is guilty (I think? Either that or he’s just being petty about previous theft)

Now with the gun and Bad also has an alibi! Foolish literally broke into the vault and posted a picture of himself in the vault with the suitcases. He could have unlocked Forever’s case and taken the gun and that is 100% something Foolish would do! He stole two of the suitcases it’s 100% plausible he could have stolen the gun before bbh ever even had the suitcase. The fact that Forever immediately accuses bad even tho there is a much more viable (if equally innocent) culprit is telling

It’s both interesting with which the speed and resoluteness Forever blames Bad and the fact that… bbh doesn’t do these kinds of pranks.

Bad will steal valuable items from people then give it back after ten minutes of taunting. Hell steal a piece of furniture or two every once in a while but never steals in bulk and has resisted important pieces of furniture many times - looking at you blue chair in front of Max’s house. His pranks are harmless and if it does unintended harm, he’ll repay the victim ten fold.

The magma cube prank didn’t do any irreparable harm and mostly just gave everyone a heart attack and a moment of annoyance before either killing it or capturing it again. When he tormented Bagi with the cube, he upgraded her frying pan with op enchantments as compensation.

The fact that Forever doubles down on bbh being guilty for the furniture and the gun just goes to show how little he actually knows Bad. He thinks he knows Bad enough to tell these are his pranks but he’s just proving how little he actually knows him and it’s so interesting to me

(Edit: I’ve been informed that forever doesn’t actually think bad stole the furniture or has his gun but that kinda makes it worse cuz Forever treats bad like he’s guilty anyway when he knows he’s not XD never change Forever, keep feeding us the drama u little rapscallion)

[elswing]

we finally have information on the new elf characters! quality is a bit poor but oh well. selina lo's character is named rían and calam lynch plays a cartographer named camnir. they're both connected to elrond's storyline

the article is here!

[smilesrobotlover]

Gosh I LOVE how soft Linebeck gets towards the end he’s so sweet

[from-the-coffee-shop-in-edoras]

So I’ve been thinking a lot lately about Éowyn’s “I won’t be left to burn in the house” speech, and here’s another interesting (I think) line of thought to come from there…

Éowyn goes to battle in Gondor over the objections of her king and father figure because she sees his directive as wrong and unjust. In doing so, she avoids the possible fate of being burned to death alongside the families and other non-combatants of Rohan. Faramir does the opposite — he obeys a directive from his steward and father figure to go to battle in Osgiliath even though he clearly also sees it as wrong and unwise. And the result for him is also almost the opposite, in that he very nearly does get burned to death alongside his non-combatant family member.

I don’t have a whole thesis about what that means or anything, though I think it probably hits in a number of interesting ways on things like the different levels of deference given to monarchical power in Rohan v Gondor, the gender dynamics involved in expectations of compliance with authority, how your life experience influences what fate you would come to see as worse than death, Tolkien’s larger themes about the peril of “just following orders”, and, of course, the underlying parallels of suffering between Éowyn and Faramir that make them particularly well suited to understand each other.

Anyway (*Marge Simpson voice*), I just think it’s neat. And hat tip to the Queer Lodgings podcast, where they talked about some of this in their most recent episode about why Farawyn is a queer relationship.

[everything-is-as-it-was]

Dan's american accent we will always love you

[avnasace]

corlys trying to name baela heir to driftmark is interesting, it shows his mindset i think, because considering baela is betrothed to jace, she wouldnt be able to be heir to driftmark even if she wanted to.

now that corlys has lost both his wife, brother and his own legitimate children, and lukes death left him without an heir, i wonder if him scrambling to pass driftmark to baela is suicidal ideation? i might be wrong but it almost looked like he was standing where they put the velaryons to rest? it would be easy to think he was grieving his family, also most likely thinking about how rhaenys wont ever join him and their children in the sea, but i also think it must have been him wanting to give up and join them early.

i do also love that rhaenyra told baela that she sees rhaenys in her, again proven by baelas "i am fire and blood" line and her talking about dying a dragonriders death like her mother and grandmother. i havent read the books but hopefully this means she might have given him some hope and reminded corlys why he sided with rhaenyra in the first place. which was because of rhaenys' words and his love for her and his grandaughters.

[southside-zorua]

Never hatched a leucistic mon before so this little fella was quite the surprise. And yes I did commit the cardinal sin of disturbing her slumber by taking this picture

[khaopybara]

Phim and Alan sit at same table !! 🥲

anon, why would you do this to me?

but seriously, even though phim and pang were together for a considerable less number of years if compared to alanwen, phim and alan do feel like two peas in a pod now that you mention it.

two people who are so attached to the idea of their lover and the life they would have together but they can't have it, one because one of the parts felt out of love with them, and the other because one of the parts just never let go of the idea of having something with someone else. it's just so sad.

hopefully they'll have the means to heal and get together with their respective little balls of sunshine.

[m00neroni]

insisting this much on how remus and sirius actually hated each other and they were forced to cohabitate might be a reach but go off I guess

[thosewildcharms]

i truly do believe richonne would have found each other in every universe. If the apocalypse didn’t happen they would fall in love and in every variation of space and time they would have found one and other

yeah, you know. as much as i've been joking about how ~five pizzas and a wedding ring~ proved that they'd fall in love in every universe, i do actually think there's support for it. if nothing else certainly there is an element of fate/destiny in how they met, and met again after the prison fell. and if anything, the ones who live leaned into that even further. michonne saying she knew rick was alive, despite all evidence to the contrary because she could "feel" him - and being right about it - is soulmates 101, and as @danaredbeard pointed out in a genius reblog, rick felt a similar connection. and if THAT wasn't enough, there was that time michonne just so happened to gain a new bff on her hero's journey who was a self taught expert in explosives, and said bff just SO HAPPENED to shoot down rick's helicopter that JUST SO HAPPENED to be flying right over them almost immediately after both rick and michonne had finally given up on ever seeing each other again. and not only was rick miraculously unharmed, but instead the missile targeted the person sitting directly next to him who also happened to be the guy who was holding rick hostage in the CRM by threatening michonne's life. like, this doesn't just feel like an invisible string tying them together. it feels like the universe insistently shoving these two people together over and over and over again.

all of that being said, i will say i don't think that if the zombie apocalypse hadn't happened it would have happened as easily as five pizzas and a wedding ring. the rick and michonne we met in twd 1x01 and the flashback in 4x09 respectively were living two very different lives and were very different people and michonne in particular seemed pretty content with her life and partner. these two would not have locked eyes in the middle of a crowded room and fallen in insta!love, given their circumstances at the time. BUT. i always felt watching twd that the universe was like, fuck it, if a zombie apocalypse had to happen to get these two people in front of each other so be it. and now after watching towl, i firmly believe if it wasn't that, something else would have sent these two people careening towards each other under the exact right circumstances. so to that end YEAH. i agree. soulmates.