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30 Days of Legend of the Seeker 

Day 07 - Favorite Male

Darken Rahl

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Never thought I’d want to fight an entire house before...

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u can tell who the ancients of tumblr are bc they’re the ones not posting anything abt where to find them if this site collapses…we know this site isnt going anywhere….the apocalypse couldnt stop this garbage…..it has the cybernetic code of a cockroach

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when things are good but the depression strikes back

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Tom Payne in a Kraken commercial

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Daryl Dixon & Paul “Jesus” Rovia so far

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# mood

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I just got to the part of Campaign 1 in Critical Role where Percy kisses Vex and everyone’s face journey is incredible 

The DM

The brother

The receiver

The friend ready for deets

The jelly one

IRL husband/#1 Perc’halia shipper

The instigator

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you have been visited by the seven magic dragon balls your biggest wish will be granted but only if you reblog

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Hey fun fact the people 28 and over on this website actually do KNOW that the average age skews much lower so like, reminding us is pretty pointless?

More to the point, as much as you guys are way better at identifying and calling out misogyny than I was at your age, a lot of people are really terrible at picking up on one particular kind of misogyny, and that is the creepy upper age limit for space and existence you’re setting for women in your communities.

This may not be easy to instantly identify because it’s not really ageism across the board, for example, this idea that fandom has an upper age limit is not something that effects a lot of men in fandom. Women, on the other hand, are apparently expected to re-direct their fan obsession, fixation, or hobby to things like crafting, child-rearing, and housekeeping just as soon as they become a mom or reach that “typical mom” age. Adult fangirls are “immature” and “need to grow up,” while adult fanboys are literally just a fact of life, as if we both haven’t always been there.

Whenever you question a woman’s right to this space because of her age or parental status, you are reinforcing a stereotype that has effects that reach beyond that one situation. The expectation, for example, that 40 year old men be catered to when writing comics, but that characters of interest to 40 year old women are obsolete or unprofitable.

When actresses over 30 are written out of their franchises or written exclusively in villain/mother/crone roles, this not only furthers the impression that women over 30 have no interest in these franchises, but actually causes women over 30 to disengage with these franchises as a self fulfilling prophecy. A sudden loss of representation can be a real buzzkill, as many of you already know too well.

Women over 30 are often sexual and a lot of us get fan crushes or thirst at the exact same rate as younger people do, but you’re not going to hear about it because every one of us has been shamed at one point or another for expressing desire for age-appropriate fictional characters that was totally acceptable when we were five years younger. Add to that dissonance the fact that A LOT of you are fixated on and thirsting after characters that are actually closer to OUR age if not our age exactly.

Hell, we transfer directly from EVERYONE wanting to hear about our desires and attractions to people being equally disgusted. This is pretty dissonant on a website stuffed full of explicitly sexual material, and it’s especially difficult and heartbreaking for the 30+ year olds who JUST CAME OUT and get an extra level of taboo on top of what is most likely a heaping dose of internalized homophobia.

And I know it’s coming so I’m just going to head it off at the pass, this OBVIOUSLY does not mean that you need to engage in any overtly sexual topic with an older person if that discomfits you, and it doesn’t even mean you need to INTERACT with us, because well, you don’t HAVE to interact with anyone on this website if you don’t want to.

But realize what you’re doing when your reaction to the desire of a 30 year old woman to a 30 year old fictional character is revulsion or a suggestion that she is over-sharing. Notice your shock when you realize that older women inhabit the fandom and recognize that that shock has nothing to do with those women.

Pay attention to the double standard that allows you to embrace rude bigoted 50 year old male comic creators/collectors and equally feel like there’s something wrong or stunted about a woman into the same things. Think about it because that stuff will sneak up on you, and you are probably pretty sure that you’re not going to turn 28 and magically drop all your interests, because no one should expect you to.

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Bucky made a compromise and drowned Clint’s phone

(It’s inspired from a vine)

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I think it had something to do with her eldest deciding he really liked playing with the very fabric of curses. Then the next one liked chasing around the garden gnomes in order to “study” them a the mere age of 3 (we aren’t even going to speak about the creatures he brought home after he started at Hogwarts...) Maayyyyybe it was the twins who were pranking their family form the moment they could walk. Or maybe it was the fact that her husband tended to get lost in his thoughts about muggles and their fascinating world that he sometimes wanders into dangerous areas. Or, you know, forgets to eat/sleep/drink water/not walk into a room within the department of mysteries because he’s trying to figure out what a rubber ducky’s purpose is and maybe the Unspeakables have an idea.

Literally the only Weasley kid that Molly didn’t have to worry about was Percy and even that idiot decided to stick himself right at the center of Voldy HQ for like a year before he realized where exactly he was.

like what was molly’s thought process when she added ‘mortal peril’ to the clock of where all the weasleys were

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I 100% agree with everything above. Well, almost 100%. Though it’s not really disagreement, but more of another perspective that I wanted to throw out there for discussion. 

I don’t know for certain whether the showing of the slaughter of 1/2 of the Asgardians (as well as Gamora’s people) was just an element of Dark™being laced into the movie. I think it was subtle show of what kind of character, and ultimately villain, that Thanos is. Throughout the entire movie we hear Thanos preaching about his plan, this necessity to purge half of the citizens of the universe in order to save it in it’s entirety. We see him show emotions like regret, compassion, sympathy, even sorrow. He seems to be so troubled that he has to do this terrible thing in order to do one majorly great thing (saving the universe). Then, while he does show these emotions with Gamora’s people, it doesn’t quite fit with the act after knowing what his ultimate goal has been all along (and no... don’t mistake this for me actually thinking he really feels these things. I am 100% certain that Thanos can’t feel emotions and only imitates emotions so well that he probably believes he actually feels these things...uuuugh resisting separate rant about the soul stone)

If Thanos’s ultimate goal was to gather the stones and use them to wipe out half of the universe, why did he bother with going to planets and killing half the population? It could be argued that he was just piling on to the number that the stones would take out, therefore freeing up more ‘space’ for the universe, but that doesn’t quite add up either. After all, the larger the number the greater the percentage. If he had waited until he got all of the stones (and I suppose instead just kidnapped children to train into perfect little psychopaths instead) then those planets would have grown in population and thus would have had more of their population killed after The Snap. Though this is assuming that the total population of the universe was divided in half and not the population of every single planet divided in half separately.... Ow. My brain just hurt.

Even if The Snap divided populations by planet and not the universe as a whole. Preemptive slaughter still wouldn’t make much more sense, as the remaining population would end up being divided in half once more (and I’m not going to get into the massive rant I could about how Thanos actually started the destruction of the universe rather than what he said he wanted to do)...(also if The Snap went by planets then what about people who didn’t live on planets but stations/ships/etc...nevermind my brain hurts again). So, the first thing I could pin this on is on cruelty. Thanos is just straight up cruel and masking it with a f-ed up sense of honor and justice. But that also doesn’t feel right. 

Throughout the entire movie we get the focus on Thanos’s reasoning. Why he’s doing this terrible thing (thiiiiiiiings). And oddly, especially, how he feels about his honorable quest. Like a ton of the movie is Thanos telling us and the rest of the characters in the movie how he’s doing what must be done and why its so important. But then we get these glimpses of things that he’s done that don’t quite run parallel to the sermon he preaching. 

While these actions (and the entire movie tbh) can and are considered Dark™, I think they were also subtle (though honestly... not really subtle at all) glimpses of madness. 

So I guess not really another perspective, but an expansion of thought. I also feel like there’s more (like tons more) to expand upon here, but my brain hurts so. TAG YOU’RE IT. 

(and P.S. while a good giant chunk of the fandom seems to have said nay to the whole Death pleasing angle of Thanos’s character... I’m not convinced. But my brain... still hurting btw... works in mysterious ways and likes to connect dots that most others wouldn’t acknowledge. Woohoo!)

everyone: has probably gotten over infinity war

me: still thinking about how so many asgardian civilians were killed with so little regard and how a mass slaughter of refugees is really inappropriate in this political climate, and not to mention they already suffered through so much in the past few days (the destruction of their homeland, the deaths of those that couldn’t reach heimdall), and the optimism they held in making a new home on earth is completely destroyed

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The first sin. Misconception is that Eve was the first to sin when that’s not really all that true.

You see When God created everything and then Adam. He told him about the tree he said don’t eat of it.

God never told Eve.

When Eve was in the garden being tempted read that section you’ll find something interesting. Adam was right next to her and he didn’t say anything. He was using Eve as a Guinea pig.

Eve bit into the fruit nothing changed she handed it to Adam. And when he bit into it their eyes were opened.

So really the first sin was Man’s passive nature allowing something to happen he was told not to allow happen if he never ate their eyes may never have been opened but who knows.

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Just because this made me happy when I saw it, and we really need happy right now.

I bring you, the tale of Lord Taliesin.

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Caleb “Good call” Widogast

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Australian comedian Jim Jefferies points out the ridiculousness of American pro-gun arguments. x x