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[new] Luke Thompson and Claudia Jessie in a clip for the new Bridgerton Valentine’s Day Event with Luke Thompson, Yerin Ha and Golda Rosheuvel

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https://netflixtudum.brandlive.com/Bridgerton-Fan-Celebration/en

Article:

https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/bridgerton-season-4-valentines-event-luke-thompson-yerin-ha-1236280090/

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HANNAH DODD and CLAUDIA JESSIE — behind the scenes of Bridgerton S4

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Some things never change 😂

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Storm Éowyn is coming! Stay safe UK friends ❤️

But also....

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What’s your core memory of watching the Lord of the Rings films for the first time because I will never forget how my extremely South Asian dad — during the emotionally climatic scene where Arwen is riding to the Havens and sees a vision of her son — paused, pointed, and said “Mashallah, Sister Arwen has accepted the hijab, alhamdulillah, praise be to god” and giggled for a good five minutes 😭

last time i shared this in a uni tolkien club someone called him a misogynistic fundamentalist because irl tolkien clubs are fucking deranged so please let me clarify that he was, in fact, joking.

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Your slashed line about the Tolkien group at your school calling your dad a fundamentalist for the Arwen joke reminded me of how the LotR club in my college (mid 2000s) had a dress code to “abide by Tolkien’s views on modesty” and I once had an argument with the president for calling Pippin a terrorist for the fireworks theft. Enjoy this fact.

sorry the president called pippin a WHAT NOW? 😭

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mercy seems like a long shot here, so my prayer for inauguration day 2025: may they be incompetent. may they just be really bad at implementation. may their egos choke their effectiveness. may they drown themselves week by week with infighting and selfish posturing. may they be easily distracted. may the very governors and senators and agencies and religious leaders that the new administration expects to be friendly force endless stalemates to preserve their own power. may every delay turn into a three ring blame circus so chaotic that no one remembers what they were doing. may the good and necessary parts of government be too boring to draw attention and keep running quietly in the background. may the next four years be full of sound and fury and signify nothing.

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I love how in disney cartoons when a prince is like "father I have met a mysterious forest woman and she is the love of my life and I cannot possibly marry who you wish me to" the king is always like "No!!!!! you can't fall in love with a forest woman!!!!!! you must marry a princess!!!!!" instead of what a king would have said in real life, which is "why are you telling me about the forest woman. this has no impact whatsoever on your marriage to the princess. we all have a forest woman. it's 1183 and we're barbarians"

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Two bracelets from tomb of Tutankhamun

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Eomer and Eowyn

Eomer is the big bro of all time, but what was his feelings like for Eowyn when she was born (Eomer only being about three at the time)? Did he adore her straight away, or was it only as they got older, and Eowyn was able to play with Eomer that he warmed up to her? Did he wish he had a brother instead and try to keep her out of his games, and it was only when they lost their parents that they got super close?

Would love to hear your answers and your reasonings in the comments!

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Protect me, Maria. Don't let this siren cast her spell ♫ Don't let her fire sear my flesh and bone ♪ Destroy Esmeralda! And let her taste the fires of hell ♫ Or else let her be mine and mine alone ♪

The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996). Dir. Gary Trousdale & Kirk Wise.

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Here's one more for the plot bunnies I do not (currently*) have time for.

This one is inspired by a post I saw on tumblr, but I can't remember where it was or who it was by - so if anyone can help me out in identifying the source of this idea, please let me know.

The premise hinges on two tropes: everybody lives/nobody dies, and the Florence Nightingale effect (the caregiver to love interest pipeline, which I already have ample experience with by writing Frodo and Marigold).

Imagine this. Théoden wakes up after the Battle of Pelennor fields, his body nearly broken, and discovers he is in the Houses of Healing in Minas Tirith. Almost immediately, he wishes he could have died, but then he is accosted by the ministrations of the world's most talkative and most down to earth woman, Ioreth. She is one of the most senior staff at the Houses of Healing, but on account of him being king, she is assigned to be his personal attendant. At first, Théoden is deeply annoyed by her incessant talk and her infectious, nearly toxic positivity. (Canonically, I feel like Théoden is a deep pessimist - does anyone else think so?) But as time goes by, love blossoms and the King of Rohan begins to heal, and when the time comes to return home, he asks her to follow him as his consort.

As a bonus, in this AU Éomer still takes the throne soon after the war, as some of Théoden's injuries render him disabled to the point of no longer feeling comfortable ruling. However, Théoden gets to enjoy a well-deserved retirement with his beloved at his side, he is an indispensable help to Éomer as he grows accustomed to his new role, he gets to meet Lothíriel and Faramir and really likes them, and he eventually gets to see his great nieces and nephews. Isn't that nice?

*Every day, though, I dream of retiring and becoming a full time author - one who devotes a substantial part of her time to fanfiction. But alas, that is a long way off.

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Treasure Planet + colors abound

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i grow rows and rows of roses, flor de mayo, by the mile...

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no but NOT ONLY does the Dracula novel explicitly show that the men's well-intentioned but extremely sexist decision to exclude mina because she is a woman makes her more afraid and unhappy and also puts her at risk BUT ALSO it shows that after they realize their mistake and start including her again she is actually noticeably happier, despite the dire circumstances, less worried AND she is able to meaningfully contribute to their efforts as a valuable member of the group, thus making them all stronger

it's so striking. many of the characters display very typical attitudes for the time that the book was written but the narrative...kinda doesn't. yes it was written in the 1890s so it's still dated by modern standards, but it makes a very conscious effort to question a lot of traditionalist attitudes and views that would have been prevalent at the time. like, the male characters all think that it makes sense that a woman's nerves would be too sensitive to participate in a vampire hunting mission...but the narrative does not validate this and in fact shows them to be wrong. and only when they change their behavior are they able to succeed.

Also notable that Jonathan is the first one to be able to injure the Count, and is ultimately the one who kills him. And he is the least traditionally masculine and most gender nonconforming of the male characters.

tldr lowkey in the books dracula was defeated with the powers friendship feminism and gender nonconformity and I think we should talk about that more

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i grew up in a small rural town where there was one dentist, which i went to from around age 5 whenever my parents had the right insurance/money/time to get me there. anyway when i'm like 20 or so i started having minor issues with my wisdom teeth coming in, but not so severe that this place can't extract them.

so i go in for that and i'm sitting there in the chair and the assistant comes in looking at some paperwork and says "so you've been coming here for a while right?" and i am like "oh yeah since i was a little kid" and she replies "yeah, i thought so, there's one note on your file and it's 'patient likes dinosaurs and bugs'"