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Where is everybody? José Manuel Ballester

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“The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” from The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949)

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Seven Sentences Whenever

thanks to @emyn-arnens and @from-the-coffee-shop-in-edoras! Sorry about the delay.

Here's something from the Bridgerton/Lord of the Rings fic I've got going on.

‘Well my Lord, your nephew will be no discredit to you, to be sure,’ Lady Danbury said, with a dry smile. ‘He is handsome.’ ‘I am gratified you find me so, Lady Danbury,’ Eomer said. ‘I know from my uncle’s reports that such a commendation from you is to be welcomed.’ ‘That said, you will have to eradicate that fearsome beast clinging to your face,’ she said, referring to the not insubstantial beard that was a carry over from Eomer’s days at sea. ‘It is not the fashion in town for gentlemen to go abroad with such scruff. The ladies of the ton will be quite terrified to look upon you.’ ‘We are behind fashions in the North,’ Theoden said, ‘but I do not believe times have changed so much as that for marriage minded misses to be put off a man with wealth and future title for dread of a beard.’ ‘Oh,’ Eomer said jovially, ‘am I to find a wife then, Uncle?’ ‘It is always good to be on your guard for promising prospects,’ Theoden said.

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“The shield Maiden” and Éowyn inspired painting.

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Natalia Goncharova (1881 - 1962) (designer), Costume for a squid, c. 1916

For the Ballets Russes' production of "Sadko."

Silk, lamé, wire, paint

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MISS CONGENIALITY (2000) dir. Donald Petrie

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Fun exercise you can do with literally any piece of narrative media: Imagine the ominously insightful monologues Rod Serling would deliver at the beginning and end of it.

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"What do you fear, lady?" he asked.

"A cage," she said. "To stay behind bars, until use and old age accept them, and all chance of doing great deeds is gone beyond recall or desire.”

― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King ('The Passing of the Grey Company')

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Periodic rent-lowering-gunshots:

Fiction is not reality.

You can enjoy things in fiction that would be awful in the real world. Like playing a murderhobo in a game! In the real world, being or supporting a murderer-thief would be pretty damn awful, while in the game it's just good fun. Same with anything else you choose to do with the pixels on the screen, like kinks that don't affect anyone real, so they're okay in fiction, but would be pretty damn bad in real life.

No one else is responsible for your online experience. They are required not to harass you, but they are not and never will be obligated to not post about ships, kinks, or tropes you dislike just to avoid you seeing them. It's up to you to blacklist words or phrases, block tags, or even block users as needed to avoid seeing content that upsets you.

No one can force you to read anything against your consent. Any content you don't like seeing can be instantly avoided by closing out of the offending post/fic.

You are not owed an online experience free of discomfort.

Nothing that happens in your imagination can ever make you a bad person. Words you write or read about fictional characters will never make you a bad person.

The claim that media consumption influences real-life behavior is intellectually dishonest and serves only to excuse the behavior of real offenders.

Fiction is a safe way to explore horrifying or confusing concepts. Therapists agree that fiction, even (or especially) about taboo topics is a good coping mechanism, especially, but not exclusively, for trauma survivors. Fiction is to adults what play therapy is to children. This doesn't stop being true if the work in question is of a sexual nature.

Sex isn't an inherently worse or better motivation than anything else. A work written to create feelings of arousal isn't dirty, shameful, or in any way less pure than works written to entertain, provoke moral questions, or for other reasons. And worth noting is that multiple purposes can exist in the same story, especially fanfiction.

You aren't entitled to an explanation for why someone reads, writes, or otherwise enjoys certain works, kinks, tropes, ships, etc.

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if not friend why friend sha—

never mind

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the reason "robot racism" is often a really stupid metaphor is the same reason that like. discrimination against demons or vampires or whatever doesn't work, is because there's often a pretty justified reasons humans are scared of vampires or robots or whatever, in a way that doesn't apply to real life minorities, like a fantasy author will be like "the reason vampires are discriminated against is because most of them and kill and eat people for fun and pleasure, and so humans respond by trying to kill them, isn't that so sad" and like no that's a perfectly fine reason to not trust vampires i think.