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Star Trek The Next Generation S4E5 Remember Me | "Maybe there's something wrong with the universe."

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starting a collection of sped up star trek gifs

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anyways, manifesting:

galadriel x sauron mind-bond is expanded and explored

galadriel is dealing with the side effects of morgoth's crown wound

galadriel x sauron's push-pull dynamic is extreme

galadriel has powers and is powerful and her addiction and desire for power is explored

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QUEEN OF TASTE

MORFYDD CLARK answering what her favorite tv show is experiencing acute Black Sails brain rot at Cannes International Series Festival 2023.

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hey fellas is it gay if he offers you wine, red as a blood moon, and on that dark and nameless peak you drink it, you drink it all?

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LOTR as dril tweets part 6

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Elrond and Durin "went on a walk" before dinner

Incorrect Christmas dinner in Lindon

The Rings of Power S1.E5 Partings

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most critics of heroine x villain ships are unknowingly performative, recycling patriarchal ideas of female goodness without ever questioning the cage. it is a masterclass in devastating subservience disguised as feminist critique. you can mute all the faux-progressive language about romanticising toxic relationships, and their arguments would still reek of gut-churning fear and conformity. i feel bad for them. truly. but punishing other women for stepping outside the rigid lines of acceptable womanhood is dystopian. fandoms are not surveillance states. no woman needs permission to enjoy the transgressive. no woman needs to beg forgiveness for enjoying her favourite stories.

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Actually, the more I think of it the more I'm convinced that if I lived in Sauron's world, I would probably be the worst villain you ever saw. Not only I would join him, not only I'd say "yeah sure share your powers with me, let's make great things together", but the man would have to constantly keep me in check and would regularly take aspirins because boy would I make his head hurt, wrecking havocs everywhere.

He would think Morgoth was a soft puppy compared to me. We'd be constantly fight because I'd call him a pussy for doing so little with so much! And I'd never let him do something as stupid as putting almost all his power in one object let me tell you. Or actually I would, and I would steal the ring and keep it for myself 😈

All that to say, don't make presumptions about people (women) you don't know on the Internet, just because they find a villain hot and ship him with the good girl. We don't all want to fix the villains or save the world. We're not all good.

PS: this is NOT related to a post that was recently published here. I already responded to that one, and I know it was not meant to sound condescending like that. Also I don't sub-reblog or whatever it's called when people diss other people's takes in their back thinking they won't see it. It's just a general snarky observation based on the fact that women are constantly being lectured about liking cool evil male characters, while when men do it it's cricket.

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haladriel s3 manifesting:

the mind-bond between sauron x galadriel expanded and explored.

more context and history for "he gropes ever to see me" and "my heart has greatly desired this".

more great haladriel quotes such as "ours was no chance meeting" and "bind it to my very being" and "brought to its knees to worship the light of its queen".

galadriel tempted by power/darkness/sauron. succumbing to the darkness at least for a bit.

galadriel's inner conflict between her hunger for power and wisdom.

galadriel growing into a great leader + witch!galadriel.

sauron teaching galadriel how to be a cunning leader and a powerful witch while she is trying to stab him <3 i need my secretary!sauron x girlboss!galadriel fix.

no wasting of charlie and miv's chemistry! more hot and horny haladriel interactions!

sauron touching galadriel's hair.

galadriel calling sauron by his original name mairon.

haladriel kiss? 🥺 (i guess if there is the kiss it's going to be in their last interaction tho)

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THANK GODDDDDD

Galadriel going to the light... for now

This is such a relief and a sign of good direction of the next season. After the general post-season press and especially the producers' House Of R interview, everything was pointing to Galadriel resolving her inner battle with darkness. That would be a disservice to the character, because as many have explained, it's the most interesting part of her and what makes her into a full, flawed, unapologetic heroine. The fact that the creators suggest there will be some push and pull in her journey to the light -no pun intended- delights me!

Full interview [x]

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fascism is rising globally and you're engaging in stan wars over a fictional ship?! couldn't be me!

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Galadriel's micro smile when she said 'And you, my king'

Sauron's micro smile when she put a blade to his throat :

And you expect me to be normal about them? Really?

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me & my mutuals when we're on the villain loving capital of the internet ( [tumblr] ) and some loser dweeb says that shipping enemies to lovers is "glorifying abuse":

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Sauron + 🥵💦

The Rings of Power (2022-)

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the white dress and that corny ending scene are the worst things this series has done outside of the "Southlands Mordor" graphic

i know i have talked about this already, but there is not much else to talk about at this point and i still can't get over how much ick s2's finale gives me when it comes to galadriel's storyline.

everyone except for sauron invalidated galadriel's trauma and treated her like a burden in s1, then they shamed and humiliated her in s2. and it all could have had a good narrative reason... if it hadn't led to a really sexist conclusion.

the whole narrative of the good guy who slut-shamed her "fixing" her, resulting in her putting down the sword and putting on the dress instead? yikes...

i love galadriel's characterization in trop. she is a perfect blend of feminine + masculine. saying this could get me crucified but i think she is much more queer-coded than sauron is; in a way that i can see her being nonbinary-coded. she is gender-nonconforming! she is abrasive and proud and a leader!

and this makes the insinuation of that ending all the more painful - from being this authentic, complex character to being... a tradwife to be.

she did not actually turn into a tradwife ofc. now that would be a real blasphemy against tolkien, lol. as galadriel was always a leader first and foremost, never defined as a wife/mother. but narratively, it felt like that was what happened.

some people will say that it's her transformation, that she must learn not to rely on her sword, yada yada. and sure, it can be a character development. BUT! in what direction? they have to be very careful with this direction if they don't want it to come off as a regressive and bio-essentialist "embrace your inner divine feminine, woman" conservative propaganda. it can be done if they lean into "the witch galadriel" arc.

and man, it's somewhat a similar case to killing eve. one reviewer of ke's finale said that women live their lives told to sit still, be accommodating, be self-sacrificial, and there comes a point in their lives where they have to decide if they are going to conform to all that even if it's inauthentic to who they are. villanelle recognized eve's darkness (which really was her authentic self) and wanted to nourish it. so the framing of eve "surviving" villanelle and being cleansed of her "darkness" felt wrong to many.

in many ways, that's how trop s2 finale felt to me. it's so interesting how haladriel's dynamic turned out subtextually. sauron saw galadriel's trauma, her darkness and yet he alone saw galadriel's greatness in her authenticity, and offered her authority - something that all others stripped her off of. yes, he stabbed her (and villanelle shot eve, btw), but told her that he would make her into an overlord of the universe at the same time, lmao.

worst of all, it doesn't make sense legendarium wise - galadriel is going to continue being a leader; yeah, she is not going to be as abrasive, but she will grow into a stone cold bitch (affectionate) instead; she is going to have a push-pull dynamic with sauron till he evaporates. so what was all that supposed to mean? i do believe they catered to the whiny "make galadriel tradwife again" crowd, and maybe inserted a mormon propaganda where it's the most misogynistic in its' message.

anyways, i still have my fingers crossed that they redeem the story direction in s3 by dismissing the undertones of s2 finale. or else it would really leave a sour taste in my mouth.