#yelling at the bookshelf

[unremarkablelunacy]

Among the characters I like in The Goblin Emperor, Deret Beshelar especially amuses me. Maya is pretty perceptive about personalities and intentions, so when he initially made the wrong assumption about Beshelar, I assumed the same thing.

The truth, though, is that Beshelar is perfectly suited to be the well-starched governess of a 10-year-old prince or princess, yet his job completely frustrates his need to mother-hen his charge. You can't reprimand the emperor.

So Beshelar has to stand behind Maya and heat up like a teakettle, hissing out steam when he just can't contain himself anymore.

"Serenity! You cannot! What of....What of your bedchamber? You cannot appear before a woman in only your nightshirt!"

That would be appallingly improper! *clutches pearls*

I am dying.... What are you gonna do when he gets married, Beshelar?

He's officially just a bodyguard, but he's determined to protect Maya from alllll the things.

[thebumblecee]

So @mooshkat did the coolest thing ever and continues to be the best and sent me our baby for if I’m going down, I’m taking you with me as a HARD COPY and it’s so fucking beautiful 😭😭😭😭 with art by me and the lovely @birdclowns as well in side

I’m so 🥺 rn

[pyrriax]

oh! some writing that probably won't ever be really part of something. but i think its worth sharing :) was intended to be the beginning & end note of a fic. consider this me sharing my plot bunnies with the world

Destruction is such a small thing, and it starts like this: Zam sits alone in a room far too big for how small he feels, and he gnaws his nails to the bed. Signs line the walls from floor to ceiling, highlighting one thing with certainty. That he is, fundamentally and irrevocably, screwed. And maybe, if he'd had the foresight to write them uglier, make them even more visceral, reflect more than they already do that he is sick, then this would be easier. Make it impossible to ignore how they're written in blood, vibrant and metallic, only furthering the truth of his sickness. But instead, it's more like flowers on a grave. Poppies and dandelions, war and stubbornness. Best left rotting, rotting, rotting, in place of true remorse.

Destruction is a big thing in a small world, and it always seems to end like this: Mapicc kneels over the twisted body of somebody he once considered a friend, someone he'd cared for once upon a time. But now, all he feels is nauseating hatred. And maybe that's how this was always supposed to go, it was always supposed to end with him clawing off the muzzle and sinking his teeth into what he used to love. Perhaps love is too strong a word to describe this kind of hunger. Perhaps that's all it really is, just hunger, something so often animal and unwelcome. Something he understand with vibrant clarity and no doubts left behind, no matter how weak it makes him to give into it like this. It's the snow left stained gold and crimson in the wake of their fighting, just beginning to melt as the spring finally takes hold. Change is sure to come, and it will be brilliant, it'll be violent, it'll be completely and utterly horrific. Just as it always has been, just as it always will be. With trampled flowers on unfilled graves and the rising sun on the horizon.

[poorlydrawneridan]

FUCKKKKKK

[wanderingmind867]

I have a plan to help me with my Christmas List, Me and my dad renewed his library card (although he forgot to renew mine), and i'm planning to pick some books out from the local public library. Specifically, I'm mostly going for the Rick Riordan Presents books, and Rick Riordan's novel Daughter of the Deep. Then I'll skim them and see if they seem to be up my alley. If they are, I'll add them to my Christmas list. If not, then I guess at least I'll know they're not for me? Either way, I'm pretty much all set for books on my Christmas List now. All I might want to pad my list out with is video games and dvds, now. So I just need to think of some of those now. sigh...

In doing this, I also realized my public libraries website has changed a lot over the years. The last time I used it was probably five years ago. And wow, it's really changed a lot over the years. It looks nice, but it certainly felt harder to navigate than the old website. Maybe that's just the nostalgia and reminisce talking, but it's true. It felt harder to navigate, so let's just hope I actually did put all the books on hold.

This post got no attention whatsoever yesterday. Zero notes. And since this whole christmas list thing is mildly important to me, and plus the fact that i'm frequently the type of person who seems to need validation that i'm being heard, to the point where I always get paranoid my dad isn't paying attention to me, i'm just going to reblog this again. And probably keep reblogging it until it gets at least one note.

[ballroomnotoriety]

hello we set up a camera to watch the cats while away and tonight it showed a bunch of orbs in the kitten room so i googled it and google said it's either dust or fragments of lost souls so i was like hmm let's go with dust and immediately afterwards the camera sent me a Person Alert From The Kitten Room so our house is just haunted i guess.

[rasangan-raspberry]

I am trying to draw some gay shit! why must this beast yell at me?! Everyday she must wake up at 3:30, and if my sister is not home this beast makes it my problem!

[malusienki]

my back hurts.

[lildoodlecat]

Buying books is cool and fun!!

Finding room on the shelf for them, however..

I think.. it may be time to move dn angel...

But where

I guess there is always.. on top of it ... Time to move tokunaga?

[unremarkablelunacy]

On the authenticity of movie Faramir

Faramir is one of my favorite characters in the Lord of the Rings. So, when I first saw The Two Towers, I remember being outraged when he appears to claim the Ring. In the books, he stands out for his steadfast determination not to do so, and for helping Frodo and Sam once he learns about the Quest. Jackson's Faramir seemed like a critical misunderstanding of Tolkien's.

More recently, I realized that this isn't the case. We can probably blame the cutting of some of Faramir's scenes for the fact that his character arc isn't as thoroughly sketched, but there are a few key lines that do, in fact, show us the truth. First, in a voice-over, Galadriel tells Elrond/the audience that "the young captain of Gondor has but to extend his hand, take the Ring for his own--and the world will fall."

When we reach the critical scene, and Faramir confronts Frodo about the Ring, he faces the temptation to claim it. And it is here, as in the book, that Faramir passes the test--not later in Osgiliath, where he decides to release Frodo and company (he passes a different test there). Faramir doesn't claim it for himself, as Boromir did ("It could be mine. It should be mine. Give it to me!). Instead, he says, "the Ring will go to Gondor."

...He says he's claiming it for Gondor, which makes sense: both he and his brother are devoted to protecting the kingdom and its people. However, I think Faramir is misleading himself here, because he doesn't truly believe that the Ring will save Gondor*. Boromir did--but both he and Faramir are basing that belief on Denethor's assertions.

This leads into the real struggle for Faramir's character: how his actions right now will affect his relationship with his father. The issue is much clearer in the flashback of Osgiliath. Denethor tasks Boromir with the journey to Rivendell (I will refrain from enumerating book/movie differences here--I'd like to, but I'll restrain myself), and when both his sons protest, he shuts them down. "I trust this mission only to your brother," he says. "The one who will not fail me." He implies that Faramir is worthless to him because he is less capable (he isn't), and less devoted to his father's wishes.

Denethor is partly correct: Faramir will not put his father's orders above his own moral standards, or before the well-being of Gondor. However, he deeply desires his father's regard. He struggles to choose between them until the danger of the Ring is made quite clear. In the movie, Sam angrily reveals that Boromir died because "he tried to take the Ring from Frodo, after swearing an oath to protect him; he tried to kill him! The Ring drove your brother mad!" Almost immediately after this, Frodo starts acting possessed, nearly gets nabbed by the Nazgûl, and almost kills Sam.

Faramir witnesses all of this. He hears how the Ring warped his noble, stalwart brother into a murderous traitor, and gets a bonus demonstration! After that, he (and we) can picture the Ring in the hands of Denethor. Considering Denethor's character, it's terrifying to imagine how his actions in the Return of the King would be compounded by the One Ring.

It's clear now that the Ring absolutely must not go to Gondor. After saving Frodo, Faramir makes what, for him, was the more difficult choice: to countermand his father's will. He lets the Ring go. When the consequences are highlighted--his father may demand his life in forfeit--he accepts them (with a little hesitation...though I think 'my father, who is ill-tempered and likely insane now, may literally kill me for not doing what he wanted' is grounds for queasiness from anyone). Once his goals are set and his mind is made up, he stands steadfast by his decisions.

Considering that, I see now that movie!Faramir is much more true to Tolkien's Faramir than I originally gave him credit for.

As for the fallout in The Return of the King, book!Denethor doesn't actually command a pointless, suicidal charge from Faramir and his soldiers. He does hit him with the customary disdain and comparisons to Boromir, with the latter now colored by bitterness and grief (which appears in another deleted/extended edition scene, I think).

It's tragic how Denethor and his sons struggle to understand and support each other, and to manage their weighty obligations. Denethor's inflexibility and pride (exacerbated by Gondor's dire circumstances) leads one son to his destruction, and alienates the other. Thanks to Faramir, Denethor never obtains the Ring, but Sauron finds another way to undermine him (the palantír). He destroys himself in the end, and nearly takes his remaining son with him.

If you're especially fond of Faramir, Boromir, or Denethor (or if you too want to whack him energetically with a staff), I suggest having a look at the analyses of the characters by Megan N. Fontenot. She talks about how the characters evolved as Tolkien wrote the Lord of the Rings. For example, it seems that at one point, Boromir (and Gandalf) were the only Fellowship members who weren't hobbits (good luck with that)!

*In an extra/extended edition scene, while Faramir regards him uneasily, Frodo assures Faramir that "the Ring will not save Gondor--it has only the power to destroy." At that point, he's still undecided about taking the Ring to Gondor. In the book, however, Faramir asserts that he "would not take [Isildur's Bane], if it lay by the highway. Not were Minas Tirith falling in ruin and I alone could save her, so, using the weapon of the Dark Lord for her good and my glory." When he learns that the weapon Frodo carries is the Ring, he is briefly tempted, but knowing and respecting the inherent peril, he rejects it.

Book!Faramir is more secure in his own identity and values, and less tormented than movie!Faramir by his father's annoyance that he isn't an obedient tool.

[aliaoftheknives]

the buddha said part of the eightfold path is making stupid memes about him so i think its fine

[sheltershock]

Does anyone else have like seasonal hobbies? Because over the years you’ve picked up some hobbies, and then years later you pick it up again because you remember it was fun. And it is. But now you have another hobby to work on. But you already have like five on the pile, but now it’s six. And you just don’t have time to work on six hobbies consistently

[158cm]

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[wanderingmind867]

I have a plan to help me with my Christmas List, Me and my dad renewed his library card (although he forgot to renew mine), and i'm planning to pick some books out from the local public library. Specifically, I'm mostly going for the Rick Riordan Presents books, and Rick Riordan's novel Daughter of the Deep. Then I'll skim them and see if they seem to be up my alley. If they are, I'll add them to my Christmas list. If not, then I guess at least I'll know they're not for me? Either way, I'm pretty much all set for books on my Christmas List now. All I might want to pad my list out with is video games and dvds, now. So I just need to think of some of those now. sigh...

In doing this, I also realized my public libraries website has changed a lot over the years. The last time I used it was probably five years ago. And wow, it's really changed a lot over the years. It looks nice, but it certainly felt harder to navigate than the old website. Maybe that's just the nostalgia and reminisce talking, but it's true. It felt harder to navigate, so let's just hope I actually did put all the books on hold.

This post got no attention whatsoever yesterday. Zero notes. And since this whole christmas list thing is mildly important to me, and plus the fact that i'm frequently the type of person who seems to need validation that i'm being heard, to the point where I always get paranoid my dad isn't paying attention to me, i'm just going to reblog this again. And probably keep reblogging it until it gets at least one note.

[almostfoxglove]

I LOVE THEM YOUR HONOR OH MY GODDASADLKFDSLFKJLDSKF

blindfolded birthday

francisco "frankie" morales x ofc!reader | WITH NO STRINGS ATTACHED

summary: sometimes, it's necessary to blindfold him and use him.

kink warnings: blindfold, restraining frankie, cock/pussy pronouns, cock praise. 1 slice of unspoken feelings once again specifically to ruin @luxurychristmaspudding

READ ON AO3

**also i made a new banner because i was feeling creative and

[rasangan-raspberry]

this horrid beast will not let me draw yaoi!