#wish-tar

[killervelveteenrabbit]

The Beyonder is that “friend” who can’t stop making offensive jokes or playing mean-spirited pranks on people and who responds to criticism with “You’re too sensitive, why are you so triggered, no one has a sense of humor anymore”, etc. And then they can’t figure out why no one wants to hang out and everyone blocked them.

There is an explanation, if not an excuse, for the Beyonder’s actions: he genuinely doesn’t know any better. He came here to study humanity, and he barely understands human food, let alone human emotions. Furthermore, he doesn’t get that actions have consequences since his powers usually let him wriggle out of responsibility for the damage he causes.

I think the Beyonder genuinely wants to be Lunella’s friend, if only because he considers her one of the few entities who’s on his level. But again, he plays too much. He can’t even do Lunella a simple kindness like getting her back home without turning it into a joke… one she doesn’t appreciate.

As of the end of the “Wish-tar” ep, it looks like Beyonder’s burned that bridge. Lunella realizes she’s hurt his feelings and she feels badly about it. But can you blame her for sending him away?

I wonder if whatever entity sent the Beyonder to Earth intended for a disappointment like this to be part of his “research”, to have the experience of breaking something he can’t immediately fix.

[caspi-snz]

HSR 2.7 SPOILERSS

Guys. I can't believe they offscreened the S/unday sneeze. I may just make a comic about it lmao

DOES THIS MEAN HE SNEEZES IN SINGLES OR DID HE ALREADY ABSORB THE OTHER S/UNDAYS IDK MAN IM STILL PROCESSING IT

[markantonys]

in s2 aviendha witnessed perrin effortlessly get dain bornhald wrapped around his little finger, so in s3 while trying to deal with her rand situation she’s gonna be like “i wish perrin aybara were here, he knows how to talk to men”

[dancerinthestorm]

Four episodes into „Rings of Power“ and I’m having serious doubts whether I’ll ever be strong enough to finish two seasons (let alone more).

Seriously, people! How do you do it? Meeting all these wonderful characters just to live in abject fear of what might happen to them or with the soul-crushing certainty of what will happen.

Aaaaaah!

…

(I know, I know... if you can't stand the heat of your favorite characters being gruesomely yet poetically murdered every now and then get out of the Tolkien fandom... 😂😭)

[isilwhore]

Elros Tar-Minyatur

[clove-pinks]

The Yankee Tar, 1850 print.

Virginian Alfred M. Lorrain, on regional differences between American sailors circa 1810:

Having spent several years in acquiring a knowledge of seamanship, under promising circumstances I went out second mate of a brig owned in Boston. The captain and the crew, with the exception of myself, were all New England men. I soon saw a great difference between them and Southern sailors. The sailors employed in the South are generally citizens of the world, with few local attachments — their home, if they have any, upon the sea. The Yankee crew is often an association of neighbors, having abiding habitations on the land, and sympathies clinging around institutions on shore; and their voyages are more like speculative enterprises than an unconditional lifetime business. They will talk about deacons and sextons, and never forget thanksgiving day, but distinguish it by large batches of sweetcake, and plenty of codfish. Each man must have a suit of long clothes to go ashore in. The Southern sailor glories in his sea-rigging. There is more familiarity between the officers and men on board our Northern ships than would be tolerated South.

— from Lorrain's autobiography, The Helm, the Sword, and the Cross.

[firebirdmaximus]

My Best and Worst Films of 2023

So yeah it probably seems a bit weird that I'm posting my best/worst films of 2023 list in 2025, well there's a reason for that.

Since for my 2020 list I had managed to cover both theatrical and streaming releases, I had planed on doing the same from then on. Unfortunately due to a combination of procrastination and me finally managing to get a job after donkey's years of searching, I've fallen a bit behind on streaming. But it was starting to get a bit ridiculous so I've decided to say fuck it and post rough versions of my 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 lists with only the theatrical releases so far, and I'll just add the streaming ones on in italic as I try and catch up over the year.

Hopefully I'll have the lists done by the end of the year. Hopefully.

So anyway in 2023, I saw 70 new theatrical releases (which ones - along with any streaming releases - can be found on my Letterboxd page: ‎(letterboxd.com/firebirdmaximus/list/2023-releases/), sixteen more than the previous year (firebirdmaximus.tumblr.com/post/776951623718207488/the-best-and-worst-films-of-2022).

And once again a note to non-UK viewers, as with previous years, since I’m English and live in England and subsequently watch films at cinemas in England, this list will be going by UK release dates so If you see a film on the list that you swore was from 2022 it was probably not released here until 2023, contrarywise If your surprised that a particular movie from this year is not on the list it might not have been released here til 2024.

If you see a streaming film here on my list and it's not in italics, that means it probably got a limited theatrical release somewhere in my area and that's how I saw it.

Best Films: * Missing * Rye Lane

Runner Up Best Films: * A Haunting in Venice * Barbie * Elemental * Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.3 * Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse * Wish

Honorary Mentions: * Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania * Are You There God? It's Me Margaret * Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom * Beau is Afraid * Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves * Godzilla Minus One * Haunted Mansion * Joy Ride * Nimona * Puss in Boots: The Last Wish * Raging Grace * Rebel Moon Part One: A Child of Fire * Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem * The Blackening * The Creator * The Flash * The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes * The Little Mermaid * The Whale * Wonka

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The Meh: * Anyone But You * Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny * Fingernails * Rally Road Racers * Tar ------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Worst Films: * Retribution * The Lesson

[dailyshidou]

Day 26, Shidou and his wife as Acanthe :)

[lightgaswaterelectricityrent]

the north carolina accent basically works for jason isaacs because sometimes he just says something britishly but you're also like well...ok

[j0jorocity]

Eating pizza and watching interstellar on a school night lowk a mood

[ikeameatballspoisonedme]

Showed my Monster Hunter addicted bf Tar and he was baffled

[artigas]

i won't really know until sunday what my students thought about today's lesson but i taught my last duchess for the first time ever today and my god, today's classes fucking ruled, dude. i had students grimacing this morning when i did my usual check in ("how'd we like this assignment?") and by the end of class, even some of the quietest students were raising their hands multiple times to break the poem down in detail. fuck yeah, dude!!

[batsinurbelfrey]

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[s-cullayy]

Personally, though I enjoyed Barbie, I wouldn't put margot robbie in for a best actress nomination compared to other performances I saw this past year. THAT SAID, for ryan gosling and the ken song to get a nom and you're not going to give barbie herself one......don't like that

[the-blathermouth]

HOLY SHIT ITS A HER!

[yewstronaut]

*insert bat emoji here*