#Structural Rings

[kapilasteel]

How Super Rings Enhance RCC Frameworks

TMT steel and TMT rod prices have become two key considerations in construction planning. As structural strength and cost-efficiency dominate industry conversations, one critical element is beginning to stand out—Super Rings.

Understanding Super Rings: The Backbone of RCC Integrity

Super Rings play a vital function in improving the electricity and reliability of Reinforced Cement Concrete (RCC) frameworks. These rings, made from immoderate-grade TMT metal, make certain a stable connection between a number of the vertical and horizontal bars in the framework. This not only enhances load distribution but also provides additional support to the overall structure.

Why Super Rings Deserve a Spot in Every RCC Blueprint

Structures bear harsh conditions—warmth, moisture, weight, and time. The strategic use of Super Rings enhances the sturdiness of RCC additives by using securing joints more tightly. Unlike traditional links or ties, these rings prevent bar displacement and reduce the risk of shear failure, a common problem in high-load zones.

How TMT Steel Shapes the Performance of Super Rings

The effectiveness of Super Rings lies in the material used to fabricate them. TMT metal, recognized for its flexibility and tensile power, brings unrivaled overall performance while molded into reinforcement earrings. This synergy between material and design forms the backbone of highly resilient RCC structures.

Evaluating the TMT Rod Price in Long-Term Construction Planning

Every builder keeps an eye on the TMT rod price, but focusing solely on cost can lead to compromises. Integrating Super Rings may add a slight increase to the upfront investment, but it drastically reduces future repair and reinforcement costs. This makes them a value-driven choice for structural integrity and budget control.

From Skepticism to Consideration: The Shift in Construction Norms

Engineers and architects once overlooked reinforcement rings. Today, they are realizing how Super Rings outperform traditional binding methods. The difference is visible not just in technical reports but also in the lifespan and stability of completed projects. Case studies and field tests continue to validate the decision to adopt them.

Design That Thinks Ahead: The Smart Geometry of Super Rings

The precision geometry of Super Rings provides uniform spacing between rebars, improving concrete flow during casting and ensuring better compaction. This leads to crack-free surfaces and extended life cycles—benefits that far outweigh a slightly higher TMT rod price.

Planting the Seed of Decision: Why Choose Super Rings?

It’s no longer a question of "Why use them?" but "Why aren’t they already in use everywhere?" For any builder serious about long-lasting structures, the choice is clear. With TMT steel and Super Ring integration, structural strength and cost-efficiency don’t have to be trade-offs—they work together.

Whether the goal is a residential high-rise or a commercial complex, Super Rings offer the peace of mind that every joint is reinforced to perfection. The small investment made today becomes a fortress for tomorrow.

Conclusion

Smart construction is about using the right elements in the right way. Super Rings, backed by strong TMT steel and strategic engineering, offer just that. They aren’t just accessories to an RCC framework—they’re essential components of a safe, cost-effective, and durable future.

FAQs

1. Are Super Rings suitable for all types of RCC projects? Yes, they’re adaptable to residential, commercial, and industrial constructions.

2. How does the TMT rod price affect the decision to use Super Rings? While they slightly impact the upfront cost, they reduce long-term structural repair expenses.

3. Can Super Rings be used with different grades of TMT steel? Yes, though optimal results come from higher-grade TMT steel.

4. Do Super Rings help with earthquake resistance? Absolutely. Their strong binding reduces bar slippage, improving seismic performance.

5. How are Super Rings installed? They are factory-made for accuracy and are easily fitted during rebar placement.

[srjsteel]

How Construction Rings Strengthened Krupasindhu Commercial Complex – A Case Study

When the Krupasindhu team envisioned their twelve-floor commercial complex in the heart of Maharashtra, one problem loomed large—structural reliability under constant commercial load. Weak foundational systems often haunt developers like bad design haunts good architecture. In this case, the solution came down to a trio of engineering reinforcements: construction rings, hot rolled coil, and bar dowel systems—all critical in keeping the structure rock-solid.

The Risks of Underestimating Structural Load

Commercial buildings face unpredictable stress from high footfall, machinery, and shifting loads. Without the right reinforcement strategy, even the best architectural design falters. Poor quality materials or old-school rebar alignment can't hold up against dynamic movement or expansion-contraction cycles.

This is why choosing high-durability components like construction rings isn’t optional—it’s foundational.

The Krupasindhu Challenge: Going Taller, Safer

Located in a high-traffic zone, the Krupasindhu Commercial Complex needed reinforcement that wouldn’t just meet code—it had to exceed it. The building’s central spine, meant to hold elevators, HVAC systems, and multiple floor loads, demanded a solution that could distribute stress evenly across vertical columns and beam junctions.

This is where SRJ Steel’s construction rings entered the blueprint.

Construction Rings: The Silent Strengtheners

Think of construction rings as the ligaments in a building’s skeleton. They bridge joints and columns, ensuring the entire frame moves as one, not in isolated shivers. In the Krupasindhu project, these rings provided:

Enhanced shear resistance in beam-column junctions

Balanced tensile strength for vertical load bearing

Reduced risk of crack propagation under thermal expansion

More importantly, their precision fit meant faster installation with minimal on-site modification.

Hot Rolled Coil: The Backbone of Flexibility

Let’s talk material quality. The hot rolled coil used in these construction rings wasn’t just any generic steel. SRJ Steel sourced coils known for:

High ductility, allowing structural elements to flex without snapping

Uniform surface finish, which makes welding seamless

Consistent grain structure, ensuring load distribution under varying temperatures

These properties gave the Krupasindhu team the confidence to go taller without compromising lateral stability.

Bar Dowel Placement: Anchoring the Load

A structure is only as strong as its weakest transition. For Krupasindhu, this meant focusing on the slab-to-column transitions and expansion joints.

That’s where bar dowels came into play.

These dowels were strategically placed to:

Absorb and distribute floor load stresses

Prevent slab lifting or separation

Allow controlled movement between concrete sections

They essentially allowed the structure to “breathe” without breaking.

Why the Trio Worked: Harmony in Reinforcement

One part doesn't solve the puzzle. It’s the combination of precision-engineered construction rings, hot rolled coil, and bar dowel systems that made Krupasindhu’s build seamless. Each component played its part in:

Increasing seismic resistance

Speeding up construction timelines

Reducing long-term maintenance costs

That synergy helped SRJ Steel deliver more than just material—it delivered peace of mind.

Lessons from Krupasindhu: Building Beyond the Blueprint

Krupasindhu Commercial Complex stands today not just as another real estate addition—but as a case study in how smart material choices lead to safer, more resilient builds.

And this isn’t just about skyscrapers. Whether it's mid-rise housing, hospitals, or industrial parks, incorporating construction rings, hot rolled coils, and bar dowel connections can mean the difference between mediocre and masterpiece.

Looking Ahead: Smarter Steel, Smarter Structures

Projects like Krupasindhu didn’t cut corners—and it shows. As more developers focus on longevity and structural integrity, the demand for tested reinforcements is rising.

Reinforcement that holds firm when pressure rises? That’s what SRJ Steel’s materials delivered.

Projects like Krupasindhu trust advanced reinforcement solutions—shouldn’t yours?

[overthinkinglotr]

The Two Towers film is actually really impressive for how it feels like a cohesive story despite being about three groups of characters whose plotlines almost never intersect during the film’s runtime (Frodo/sam, Merry/Pippin, and Aragorn/Legolas/Gimli.)

Because the Fellowship almost never interacts with each other during the main plot, the filmmakers instead had to connect the plotlines thematically. Frodo/Sam never actually talk to Aragorn, but their plotlines mirror each other.

The Two Towers film is structured so that each splinter group of the Fellowship ultimately struggles with the same goal: they need to convince a despairing grief-stricken ally to aid in the war against Sauron. Theoden, Treebeard, and Faramir are all people who have suffered some great loss in the past wars. As a result, they are all set in their ways out of grief, and refuse to listen to the Fellowship’s advice or agree with their plans. (Until the very end.)

This is also where the films depart a lot from the source material. The two towers was probably the biggest adaptational challenge of the entire series, because the original book is split into two parts that focus on the POV of two different groups of characters (A Three Hunters book, and a Sam/Frodo book) — and then ends on a horrible cliffhanger. This works in the books but would not have worked on film at all.

The filmmakers’ attempts to build a Structured Film Story led to them emphasizing the idea of the Fellowship recruiting reluctant allies, and emphasizing the thematic idea of people being trapped within grief and stasis. Elrond predicts that the worst fate for Arwen would be to “linger on, in darkness and in doubt,” permanently frozen in grief; and this is the state we find most of the new characters in. Film!Theoden is portrayed as far more hesitant and grief-stricken than he was in the book, film!Treebeard is more reluctant and afraid of what war means for the Forest, and film!Faramir is more overwhelmed by the pressure to be like Boromir… and all three of them are overall far more heavily swayed by the Fellowship’s presence. (Though I still have beef with the way Faramir’s plotline was handled—XD) Because they needed to build out a structure that could work on film, they found this thematic throughline and really emphasized it.

Theoden’s grief over the death of his son makes him refuse the Fellowship’s advice to reach out to his allies or ride out against Saruman’s forces; Treebeard’s grief over the waning of the forest makes him decide that “he is on nobody’s side because nobody is on his side,” and Faramir’s grief over the death of Boromir makes him unwilling to try a solution that isn’t “what he believes Boromir would have done.”

These characters all start the film in a state of hopelessness and stasis and avoidance; then they’re ultimately forced to confront the source of their grief, and end the film by aiding the Fellowship.

This is also connected to the journey that all the Fellowship members need to go on. Frodo and Sam are forced to confront the grief at the idea that Frodo is being consumed by the Ring; Merry and Pippin have to face that “there won’t be a Shire” after Sauron’s victory; and Aragorn’s relationship with the people of Rohan forces him to confront his own fears about becoming a king and leading people to their death.

The plotlines are also really well connected through the use of music— like the Last March of the Ents leitmotif being used for Theoden’s choice to ride out against the Uruk-Hai, emphasizing the parallel between the way both characters have hesitated to “ride out and meet” the source of their grief.

And then Sam’s final speech, where a variation on the Shire leitmotif — (a version of the same variation that played in the end of Fellowship of the Ring)— becomes the final moment that ties all the disparate plot threads together. The film is centered on characters being overwhelmed by grief, and entering a state of numbness or stasis where they cut themselves off from the world. When this happens to Frodo, Sam encourages him to believes that there is still goodness in the world that’s worth fighting for— a culmination of all the ideas that have been built up throughout the past three hours.

Despite its flaws the film feels so cohesive, and the end of the film feels like such a satisfying resolution? Which is easy to take for granted because like, there were so many different moving pieces, and without a really clear thematic focus the film could’ve easily ended up falling apart.

[kira-kui-n]

study rooted in. Science

[starleska]

it is so funny to me that in the second episode of each of his seasons, the Fifteenth Doctor has been tied up by a member of the Pantheon of Discord in some fun 'rope' related to their powers...and this isn't the first time a villain has done this to the Doctor full stop!! RTD, your The End of Time is showing 😳

[starry-bi-sky]

DPXDC CFAU Headcanon: Ghostspeak Edition

Ghosts in the Infinite Realms who saw Jason and Danny together called them "luzdra", a term in ghost speak that directly translates into the words "shared soul". It's literal definition is; "two ghosts with a bond so deep that it was as if they had split their souls in half and given one to the other", but in general it just means two ghosts with a profound, indescribable bond.

Luzdrus is the singular form of the word, and refers to only one ghost in the bond. While "luzdra" is plural and either refers to both of them together, or the relationship as a whole. It depends on the context of the conversation and who they're saying it to.

There is no romantic, platonic, or familial connotation behind the word. It just means "someone who shares a deep bond with someone" and can be between anyone.

It also does not mean soulmate, and if you say that you'll be corrected. Soulmates implies that their bond was destined by the universe, luzdra are two people who developed and built that bond themselves. It's a relationship forged between two (or more) people.

Some of Danny's rogues -- like Kitty and Johnny, who might've seen the two together and are possibly luzdra themselves -- still call him 'luzdrus' even after Jason's disappearance from the Zone. Danny doesn't know how to feel about it.

[jackawful]

love that the main emotional through-line of severance is the narrative slapping the main character around going "YOU CANNOT DISSOCIATE YOUR WAY OUT OF GRIEF YOU HAVE TO ACTUALLY FEEL IT DUMBASS"

[anghraine]

Hi! Can you explain what really the power of foresight was with Faramir? I read the books earlier this year and I don't really quite understand it. He could predict the future? Like he would see it in his dreams? But how did he found out from Gollum that he was taking frodo and sam to cirith ungol and that he had committed murder before?

No problem, it's one of my favorite topics!

The concise explanation: I think Faramir's foresight/aftersight in terms of visions is a largely separate "power" from his ability to bring his strength of mind and will to bear on other people and animals, and to resist outside influence. The visions seem more a matter of broad sensitivity, something Faramir doesn't appear to have much if any control over. The second power is (in our terms) essentially a form of direct telepathy, limited in some ways but still very powerful, and I think this second ability is what Faramir is using with Gollum.

The really long version:

In my opinion, Faramir (or Denethor, Aragorn, etc) doesn't necessarily read thoughts like a book, particularly not with a mind as resistant as Gollum's. Faramir describes Gollum's mind in particular as dark and closed, it seems unusually so—

"There are locked doors and closed windows in your mind, and dark rooms behind them," said Faramir.

Still, Gollum is unable to entirely block Faramir's abilities. In LOTR, it does not seem that Gollum can fully block powerful mental abilities such as Faramir's, though his toughness and hostility does limit what Faramir can see. (Unfinished Tales, incidentally, suggests iirc that Denethor's combination of "great mental powers" and his right to use the Anor-stone allowed him to telepathically get the better of Saruman through their palantíri, a similar but greater feat.) I imagine that this is roughly similar to, but scaled down from, Galadriel's telepathic inquiries of even someone as reluctant to have her in his mind as Boromir, given that Faramir is able to still see some things in Gollum's mind, if with more difficulty than usual.

(WRT Boromir ... ngl, if I was the human buffer between Denethor and Faramir, I would also not be thrilled about sudden telepathic intrusions from basically anyone, much less someone I had little reason to trust.)

Disclaimer: a few years after LOTR's publication, Tolkien tried to systematize how this vague mystical telepathy stuff really works. One idea he had among many, iirc, was that no unwilling person's mind could be "read" the ways that Gollum's is throughout LOTR. IMO that can't really be reconciled w/ numerous significant interactions in LOTR where resistance to mental intrusion or domination is clearly variable between individuals and affected by personal qualities like strength of will, basic resilience, the effort put into opposition, supernatural powers, etc. And these attempts at resistance are unsuccessful or only partially successful on many occasions in LOTR (the Mouth of Sauron, for one example, is a Númenórean sorcerer in the book who can't really contend with Aragorn on a telepathic level). So I, personally, tend to avoid using the terminology and rationales from that later systematized explanation when discussing LOTR. And in general, I think Tolkien's later attempts to convert the mystical, mysterious wonder of Middle-earth into something more "hard magic" or even scientific was a failed idea on a par with Teleporno. Others differ!

In any case, when Gollum "unwillingly" looks at Faramir while being questioned, the creepy light drains from his eyes and he shrinks back while Faramir concludes he's being honest on that specific occasion. Gollum experiences physical pain when he does try to lie to Faramir—

"It is called Cirith Ungol." Gollum hissed sharply and began muttering to himself. "Is not that its name?" said Faramir turning to him. "No!" said Gollum, and then he squealed, as if something had stabbed him.

I don't think this is a deliberate punishment from Faramir—that wouldn't be like him at all—and I don't think it's the Ring, but simply a natural consequence of what Faramir is. Later, Gandalf says of Faramir's father:

"He can perceive, if he bends his will thither, much of what is passing in the minds of men ... It is difficult to deceive him, and dangerous to try."

So, IMO, Faramir's quick realization that Gollum is a murderer doesn't come from any vision of the future or past involving Gollum—that is, it's not a deduction from some event he's seen. Faramir does not literally foresee Gollum's trick at Cirith Ungol. His warning would be more specific in that case, I think. What he sees seems to be less detailed but more direct and, well, mystical. Faramir likely doesn't know who exactly Gollum murdered or why or what any of the circumstances were. Rather, Gollum's murderousness and malice are visible conditions of his soul to Faramir's sight. Faramir doesn't foresee the particulars of Gollum's betrayal—but he can see in Gollum's mind that he is keeping something back. Faramir says of Gollum:

"I do not think you are holden to go to Cirith Ungol, of which he has told you less than he knows. That much I perceived clearly in his mind."

Meanwhile, in a letter written shortly before the publication of LOTR, Tolkien said of Faramir's ancestors:

They became thus in appearance, and even in powers of mind, hardly distinguishable from the Elves

So these abilities aren't that strange in that context. Faramir by chance (or "chance") is, like his father, almost purely an ancient Númenórean type despite living millennia after the destruction of Númenor (that destruction is the main reason "Númenóreanness" is fading throughout the age Faramir lives in). Even less ultra-Númenórean members of Denethor's family are still consistently inheriting characteristics from their distant ancestor Elros, Elrond's brother, while Faramir and Denethor independently strike Sam and Pippin as peculiarly akin to Gandalf, a literal Maia like their ancestress Melian:

“Ah well, sir,” said Sam, “you [Faramir] said my master had an elvish air; and that was good and true. But I can say this: you have an air too, sir, that reminds me of, of—well, Gandalf, of wizards.”

He [Denethor] turned his dark eyes on Gandalf, and now Pippin saw a likeness between the two, and he felt the strain between them, almost as if he saw a line of smouldering fire drawn from eye to eye, that might suddenly burst into flame.

Meanwhile, Faramir's mother's family is believed to be part Elvish, a belief immediately confirmed when Legolas meets Faramir's maternal uncle:

At length they came to the Prince Imrahil, and Legolas looked at him and bowed low; for he saw that here indeed was one who had elven-blood in his veins. "Hail, lord!" he [Legolas] said. "It is long since the people of Nimrodel left the woodlands of Lórien, and yet still one may see that not all sailed from Amroth’s haven west over water."

In addition to that, Faramir's men believe he's under some specific personal blessing or charm as well as the Númenórean/Elvish/Maia throwback qualities. It's also mentioned by different groups of soldiers that Faramir can exercise some power of command over animals as well as people. Beregond describes Faramir getting his horse to run towards five Nazgûl in real time:

"They will make the Gate. No! the horses are running mad. Look! the men are thrown; they are running on foot. No, one is still up, but he rides back to the others. That will be the Captain [Faramir]: he can master both beasts and men."

Then, during the later retreat of Faramir's men across the Pelennor:

At last, less than a mile from the City, a more ordered mass of men came into view, marching not running, still holding together. The watchers held their breath. "Faramir must be there," they said. "He can govern man and beast."

Tolkien said of the ancient Númenóreans:

But nearly all women could ride horses, treating them honourably, and housing them more nobly than any other of their domestic animals. The stables of a great man were often as large and as fair to look upon as his own house. Both men and women rode horses for pleasure … and in ceremony of state both men and women of rank, even queens, would ride, on horseback amid their escorts or retinues … The Númenóreans trained their horses to hear and understand calls (by voice or whistling) from great distances; and also, where there was great love between men or women and their favorite steeds, they could (or so it is said in ancient tales) summon them at need by their thought alone. So it was also with their dogs.

Likely the same Númenórean abilities were used for evil by Queen Berúthiel against her cats. In an interview with Daphne Castell, Tolkien said:

She [Berúthiel] was one of these people who loathe cats, but cats will jump on them and follow them about—you know how sometimes they pursue people who hate them? I have a friend like that. I’m afraid she took to torturing them for amusement, but she kept some and used them—trained them to go on evil errands by night, to spy on her enemies or terrify them.

The more formal version of the Berúthiel lore recurs in Unfinished Tales:

She had nine black cats and one white, her slaves, with whom she conversed, or read their memories, setting them to discover all the dark secrets of Gondor, so that she knew those things "that men wish most to keep hidden," setting the white cat to spy upon the black, and tormenting them.

Faramir, by contrast, has a strong aversion to harming/killing animals for any reason other than genuine need, but apparently quite similar basic abilities. He typically uses these abilities to try to compassionately understand other people or gather necessary information, rather than for domination or provoking fear. Even so, Faramir does seem to use his mental powers pretty much all the time with no attempt to conceal what he's doing—he says some pretty outlandish things to Frodo and Sam as if they're very ordinary, but it doesn't seem that most people he knows can do all these things. This stuff is ordinary to him because it flows out of his fundamental being, not because it's common.

It's not clear how much fine control he has, interestingly. This is more headcanon perhaps, but I don't feel like it's completely under his control, even while it's much more controlled than things like Faramir's vision of Boromir's funeral boat, his frequent, repeated dreams of Númenor's destruction, the Ring riddle dream he received multiple times, or even his suspiciously specific "guess" of what passed between Galadriel and Boromir in Lothlórien. Yet his more everyday mental powers do seem to involve some measure of deliberate effort in a lot of the instances we see, given the differing degrees of difficulty and strain we see with the powers he and Denethor exhibit more frequently and consistently.

This is is also interesting wrt Éowyn, because Tolkien describes Faramir's perception of her as "clear sight" (which I suspect is just Tolkien's preferred parlance for "clairvoyance"). Faramir perceives a lot more of what's going on with Éowyn than I think he had materially observable evidence for—but does not see everything that's going on with her by any means. He seems to understand basically everything about her feelings for Aragorn, more than Éowyn herself does, but does not know if she loves him [Faramir].

I'm guessing that it's more difficult to "see" this way when it's directly personal (one of the tragedies of his and Denethor's relationship is that their shared mental powers do not enable either to realize how much they love each other). But it also doesn't seem like he's trying to overcome Éowyn's mental resistance the way he was with Gollum, and possibly Frodo and Sam—he does handle it a bit differently when it's not a matter of critical military urgency. With Éowyn, he sees what his abilities make clear to him, is interested enough to seek out Merry (and also perceive more than Merry says, because Faramir has never been a normal person one day in his life) but doesn't seem to really push either of them.

So I tend to imagine that with someone like Faramir, Denethor, Aragorn etc, we're usually seeing a relatively passive, natural form of low-grade telepathy that simply derives from their fundamental nature and personalities (as we see in Faramir with Éowyn, possibly Faramir with Aragorn). That can be kicked up to more powerful, forceful telepathy via active exertion of the will (as described by Gandalf wrt Denethor's ability to "bend[] his will thither" to see what passes in others' minds, and seen with Faramir vs Gollum, Aragorn vs the Mouth of Sauron, more subtly Faramir vs Denethor). At a high point of strain this can be done very aggressively or defensively (Denethor vs Gandalf, Denethor vs Saruman, Denethor vs Sauron seriously is there a Maia that man won't fight, Faramir vs the Black Breath given his completely unique symptoms that Aragorn attributes to his "staunch will", possibly Aragorn vs the Black Breath in a healing capacity...).

Anyway, I hope these massive walls of text are helpful or interesting! Thanks for the ask :)

[normalaboutmediaa]

Oooh the God and Jesus parallels between Mark and Mark S. Bro I'm not even Christian anymore but hello??

You create a whole new being, not of sex or love or mortal coincidence. You create a whole new person from a piece of your own self, a virgin birth heralded by a young girl's faith- fully separate but still inextricable from you- a being whose only purpose is to bear the burden and wash the sins of the reality you created, who will inevitably have to die. And you tell him to sacrifice himself for the good of all. For the good of a woman he does not know, for the fall of a company he owes his life to, for better or worse.

What if that carpenter's son had resisted the nails driven through his palms? What if he had been willing and able to do everything except climb up on that cross? What if he didn't want to go with dignity into the night on the orders of a creator he can never know or see or touch but nonetheless has been told he is the same as?

Mark S cannot count on his resurrection. So he will not be a willing sacrifice.

[sweetmapple]

Super low res and unintentionally unsettleing Varré

[rafyki]

I think something that for me really sets aside Jack & Joker from other Thai dramas is its narrative structure. Thai dramas usually have a very simple narrative structure where things just keeps happening without a proper flow - I mean, something happens, it gets resolved, and then something new happen that keeps the story move; you know, all those little problems that aren't really all connected together (like, the main characters get together and then someone new appears that comes in between them; or it turns out that, idk, the family was homophobic all along, or that one of the characters actually had a complicated relationship with their family - things like these that are disconnected).

Maybe it's because Jack and Joker has a pretty solid and complicated plot, but something that I really love about it is the way everything that happens is connected, everything is a direct consequence of the characters' actions. It's like this since the first episode until the last one - the plot is brought forward by the characters' actions, everything they do has consequences on everything and everyone else. Like, Joke seeks Jack's forgiveness, so he wants to steal the ring for him, and he works with Tattoo and Hoy -> Tattoo steals the necklace which causes problems for everyone -> they need to steal the necklace back -> Jack meets Rose again, which causes everything else to happen, etc etc

Everything is connected. And I think it all comes back to one of the series' themes, which is that everything we do has consequence, that even if out intentions are good we can't predict what our actions will cause; that we live in a community and that we cannot think about ourselves only bc every time we do something that can end up influencing someone else's life. that we can't be selfish in a community.

[caput-medusae]

redditors have the slightest amount of media comprehension challenge (impossible)

the amount of people who still cannot grasp that the Stranger is Gandalf truly baffles me. they have given us every visual and narrative clue possible and nerd ass fanboys are crying in the comments that he’s definitely a Blue Wizard because the actor has not yet turned directly to the camera and said: “I, Daniel Weyman, am playing the character of Gandalf in Amazon’s The Rings of Power.”

“but it doesn’t happen that way in the books!” they sob. No one cares!! it literally does not matter!!! this is the middle earth cinematic universe for god’s sake! it’s middle earth-616! it’s different from the books just like the PJ trilogy were different from the books!! go outside!!!

And then worse than that, they whine and cry about it being a “mystery box” or a “guessing game” - brother it can’t be a mystery box because it’s not a mystery!!!!! they already told you who the character was in the first season!!! they expected you to have the two brain cells needed to figure it out from the obvious narrative clues!!!!

i know it’s my fault for being on reddit in the first place, but i am genuinely going to lose my mind!!!

[sillovain]

Trying to articulate how there is a "high vs. folk" religion dichotomy in the Land of Shadow. Its all about channeling spirits, but what spirits and to what end has a distinct pattern. Local ancestors vs. tumult of the heavens.

[superbat-lmao]

Damian would kill him if Jason ever told him this story.

He’d seen the kid bringing Titus in from a walk, a long scratch down the side of the dogs side. They were in a hurry for Damian to patch the injury and he overheard the brat asking Alfred if he could set up motion detectors for different types of animals. Like say, raccoons.

So Titus had a nasty run in with a raccoon and Jason had a jogged memory about something he hadn’t thought of in years.

He was avoiding the brat and the dog now because the image wouldn’t leave his head. Like a scratched record it kept playing behind his eyes, the needle trapped in one phrase of the song.

It had been 7 months into his stint living on the streets. He’d been testing out sleeping in warehouses and abandoned buildings, finally having the nerve to trespass vertically and inhabit the rafters.

He’d taken his belt and looped it around on of the supports he’d decided to sleep on. It wasn’t every protected, but it required you to walk across a narrow beam to reach him. Most adults would have lost their footing.

He’d woken up to loud shouts beneath him and nearly startled himself off the beam.

Below, there was a wire ring with dozens of shouting people surrounding it. There was movement in the middle and a row of cages in another section of the warehouse.

There was a distinct sound of barking.

Jason had unlatched his belt to go take a look at what was going on. Jimmy, one of the older kids, had told him about fighting rings. How you could make easy money doing dirty work, if you knew who to talk to about the fights. The hardest part was finding them since locations got moved so quickly.

When he’d approached one of the bookies, the man had laughed and told him to find Francis in the green jacket. He’d show him the ropes.

There weren’t very many people around the wire fence, but they were all closely packed together, so Jason had a hard time seeing what was happening. When he found Francis, he was given gruff directions and made sure to nod and keep up.

Jason hadn’t spent much time around animals. There was Señora Imelda’s cat in the apartment down the hall that he got a tamale for catching in the winter when it was too cold to let it stay outside. And he’d seen a couple of strays on the street before, but they were usually the type of animal you ran from, not pet.

So when the noise of the crowd surged suddenly and then broke like a wave, Francis was darting in front of him, grabbing the still standing mutt with a long stick that had a loop on its end.

Jason was told to grab the dog lying on its side.

He was quick to approach but his breath caught when he got a good look at the animal. It was covered in scratches and bite marks, missing an ear, and matted with blood. It was whining softly and staring up at Jason with unfocused eyes.

Francis kicked him to keep moving and Jason whispered an apology under his breath as he all but dragged the dog out of the pit.

Francis led him to a pile of unmoving bodies and Jason almost bolted right there. Easy money doing dirty work, said Jimmy’s voice in his ear and he dragged his burden to the small heap.

It looked like there had only been 3 matches so far, including the dog from the last one. And Jason could see at least 10 full cages off to one of the other sides of the pile.

He swallowed down bile.

Francis was already heading back to the action, but Jason couldn’t get the sound the dog was making out of his head. It was a soft whining followed by wet gasps. It made his chest tight.

Carefully, keeping his hands away from the dog’s mouth and open wounds, he gave it a soft scratch on its head like he’d seen a little girl in the park do to a chihuahua last June.

The dog blinked at him, brown eyes unfocused but moving.

Jason kept scratching its head, softly petting down its neck until its eyes stopped moving. He closed them and then went to go find Francis.

The next match, when he went to collect the fallen dog, it stared back with already vacant eyes.

Jason closed those too.

He made $40 that night and never sought out another animal fighting ring.

There was nothing easy about that kind of money.

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i'm gonna be the one insufferable bastard on this earth that liked everhood 2, huh

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unrelated to anything but god i love megastructures