#which is interesting

[foxstens]

personally i really like that cat laila and jeremy don't handle jean's situation perfectly. why would they?

as far as we know the three of them are 'normal' in ways jean simply isn't. even if jeremy's backstory is on par with any of the foxes, it's still obvious that he lives in a very different world and has a different worldview

there's bound to be missteps, especially since the three of them are only college students woefully unprepared for a situation like this

if it blows up in their faces, good. presumably it will lead to conflict and then character development which will ultimately make things better for jean

[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.

[firelise]

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

[loneliestpeopleinnewport]

The New Kids on the Block, 2x03.

[eternalchaoschocolaterain]

This is so odd. I know JC has always been bad at writing relationships into the main story. But this feels like Merula is introducing the group to her girlfriend.

They would make an interesting couple though. Grump and Sunshine

[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.

[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

[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.

[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)

[transingthoseformers]

I'm always thinking about what happened to Dominus ambus.

so fucked, so much to work with

IT IS!!!!

Especially since, they didn't just kill him. Why didn't they just kill him, why did they go through the whole process of Domesticating him instead?? Especially considering how at this point Domestication was believed to be permanent, so in their minds they pretty much did leave him a dead mech walking.

I can't find their particular angle other than wanting to be excessively cruel for cruelty's sake

[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!

[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.

[ahsoka-in-a-hood]

Idk man, I wasn't especially worried about nuclear war three years ago, not really, but looking at the nuclear situation right now, I must admit, it's not great. It's not great.

[kukurubean]

I was going through my twitter data to find old tweets for smth and these were in the files so here's a very old before/after for you guys