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The Muppets Go Medieval would have gone HARD you can't deny that

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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder

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okay honestly i know a lot of people hate the night raid addition to the prince caspian movie and think it's super ooc for many characters, and/or that peter is being really reckless and stupid, but like. the more you think about it, the more sense it makes?

like i'm NOT saying mistakes weren't made (they were) and i'm not saying it was a foolproof plan (it wasn't; it was very risky and peter could and SHOULD have called it off when things started to go wrong) but i mean, think about it. if caspian had stuck the plan (which would have been much smarter than trying to break someone out of prison right away, like you're planning to take the castle anyway, do that and THEN break him out, and he won't be caught in the crossfire??) and/or if cornelius hadn't dropped the "miraz killed your father" bomb on caspian at the WORST possible time (thanks cornelius) they would have maintained the element of surprise, gotten the troops in position and gotten the gate open much quicker, and no one would have been prepared for the attack. i'm not saying they 100% could have won, but it was a very sound plan, and seeing as they went up against the witch in a fairly hopeless battle numbers-wise in the first movie it seems dumb to say it's like ooc or bad planning or whatever. it's a solid plan. it wasn't doomed; things just went wrong.

on top of that he and edmund are right that trying to dig in at the how might work in the short term, but it would never last. (the whole point after all is striking a balance between him and caspian, caution and recklessness, new and old.) and it's shitty that he's just dismissing lucy, but as much as i love lucy, it's not like she's offering any helpful suggestions past "trust aslan" at this point. because, like—this has happened before. this is not peter being like oh well aslan abandoned us and i don't want to rely on him. this is peter taking his experiences from the past, wherein aslan has left them to do battle before, and trusted them to handle it, where aslan was consistently absent from narnia, where they were good and wise kings and queens who could and DID handle this type of situation, and doing his best based on what he knows. yeah, his desire to prove himself due to everyone in england and in narnia belittling, dismissing, and doubting him due to his appearance is playing a part. it's pushing him to be more reckless than usual, more desperate to show he's still capable. but that's not to say he ISN'T capable, or that he never was. last time, they didn't wait on aslan. they went to war, and aslan appeared when they needed him. if he didn't, then they could do this on their own. it's not unreasonable of peter to assume it's up to them in the greater context of the movie.

idk man like i just think he gets knocked a lot for...being a complex character who makes mistakes?? for operating on the only knowledge and experience he has at his disposal? for not having lucy's level of faith, which absolutely no other character ever is shown to possess anyway??? like yeah he's being a bit of a bitch about it but i love him, bitchiness and all, and if i got back from spending the shittiest year of my life being stuck as a seventeen year old in the middle of a war i can't even fight after spending fifteen years as a capable, respected king, only to get back home to discover everything i love is in ruins and everyone i know is dead and my country has been invaded, destroyed, and colonized to the extent where i no longer recognize it, but even the people who are asking me to save it don't believe i can—i mean. i'd be a bitch about it too. you know.

tl;dr the night raid wasn't even that bad a plan cornelius just has awful timing and caspian tho i love him has no experience and his own issues to deal with. just like peter. u know.

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hammond B3 organ cistern by Gabrielle Calvocoressi

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Quote of the day

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why does everyone ask about weekend plans

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strict top/bottom takes in my fandom? in 2025?

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rewatching the hobbit. do you think thorin fell in love with bilbo upon first sight? like obviously he hated bilbo's guts initially, but also like. do we think he was secretly completely and totally endeared to him and his quirks and naivety and innocence??? like i think he saw him and was like "shit"

i don't think it was the same for bilbo. i think bilbo had first like an admiration crush on him. then he hated him for a bit (he didn't understand him. and obviously for a while thorin makes it REALLX FUCKING HARD BECAUSE HE IS BEING A BITCH). and then bilbo eventually grew to want to really know him. and started to appreciate him, fall in love.

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Be honest: Have you ever loved reading fanfiction for a pairing you don't actually know, without any intention to ever read or watch the actual source material?

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self discipline is so hard like. i know the sucker who's in charge...a pushover who hates authority and loves hedonism

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Frizzy hair is fun actually. it’s like a halo.

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i love in fantasy when its like “king galamir the mighty golden eagle and his most trusted advisor who would never betray him, gruelworm bloodeye the treacherous”

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hard at work being a little freak in my word doc again

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went to the library with the kids, came home rich with books. immediately sat down and read fantastic mr. fox out loud to them

may have scared them a little bit with my enthusiastic aggressive reading

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evan buckley + ADHD

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Do you think lemon/lemonade is an adequate name for a grey kitten

No. Name that fucker The Smoke .