#I LOVE THEM (but at what cost)

[idliketobeatree]

if I had a nickel for each time a kiss from two exceedingly miscommunicating bastards resulted in me yelling, horrified, "NO NOT LIKE THAT" I'd have two nickels. which isn't a lot, but it's weird and insane that it happened within 2 months

[chaossmagic]

Every part of my body feels like it's been pummelled by Mike Tyson at least five times, and I'm getting hot and cold flashes like I'm a 40-something in the perimenopause.

Not. Fun.

(Someone send me some nice messages in my inbox to entertain me, please?)

[akanemnon]

I don't like this place. It's turning everyone edgy and sad.

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[spellbird]

"Illumination Legend of Zelda isn't real, it can't hurt you!"

Illumination Link:

[radiosoverture]

[fumifooms]

Chilchuck analysis speedrun: As a hardworking half-foot who grew up poor and discriminated against and had his gullibility taken advantage of multiple times in his early adventuring days, Chilchuck thinks optimism is a dangerous flaw. He’s stressed and strict all the time because his job is noticing details like traps that could get everyone killed before anyone knows it, he takes the lives of everyone to be on his shoulders, and with the way he speaks about it that probably partly reflects how he felt about taking it upon himself to provide for his family too. His life’s always been pretty centered around work and has become even moreso now that his wife left and everyone is independent, and due to past events he’s very iffy with bonding with coworkers. He thinks feelings and job are a disaster mix. Like with his wife or with parties hiring him as sacrifice, being open or having good faith is vulnerability which can get you hurt, so he processes and shows all his stress as anger instead of worry. Doing strict dieting probably isn’t helping the irritability what with hunger, and on top of being a hunger suppressant alcohol might be the main stress reliever he has.

His grey hairs are so earned

[chinchillion]

[gunsatthaphan]

"I will let you know."

[anguishmacgyver]

[haze-of-hyperfixations]

a concept. to consider. what if. what if there was a Remember Them reprise after the Thunder Saga. "We are not to let them die in vain" except he's the only one left so it's "I am not to let them die in vain." and there's no backing chorus of his men. because. they're all dead.

and the line takes on a whole new meaning now that he's the one who chose to let them die.

(not in vain. it can't have been in vain, it can't have been for nothing. i have to see her. i have to see her, because if i don't make it home, those men died for nothing. the ends always justify the means. i can justify anything as long as it ends with Penelope and Telemachus both in my arms again. but if it doesn't-

but it will. it will. it has to.)

and our- ... -and my comrades will not die in vain...

[elizabethzoopzoop986]

I hate this fucking manga how am I supposed to have a life and write essays about shit when I sit down start to think and all that comes to mind is some gay little toilet freaks istg it’s a hard knock life

[bitchthefuck1]

The thing about Francesca is that it isn't just saying "loving you is worth any punishment," it's saying "a punishment that keeps me with you is no punishment at all." It's not that you can brave a hurricane if it's the cost of loving someone, it's that standing in a hurricane for eternity with the person you love is still an eternity with the person you love, and how could you be happy with anything else?

[redrobin-detective]

So I've been listening to my two favorite songs from Hadestown, Wait For Me (Reprise) and Road to Hell (Reprise), on loop for a few days. And on my 400th listen something occurred to me.

Orpheus was writing his song to "make spring come again". He wanted to "fix what's wrong, take what's broken and make it whole." His entire purpose was to write "a song so beautiful it brings the whole world back into tune." (From Come Home with Me).

And he did. Using his love for Eurydice, he was able to finish his song, his masterpiece. But the cost of his dedication to his music meant his love went hungry and went to Hadestown for food and shelter.

He hoped his love and his music would be strong enough to save her, a task we know was ultimately futile but we still sing about it because maybe one day it will be different but also... He did make spring come again. He helped Hades be more secure in his love for Persephone so she could stay on Earth long enough for their to BE a spring. He did take a broken, strained marriage and help them communicate, make them whole. He did bring the whole world back into tune when he sang their song and another pair of distanced lovers began to dance after so long of arguing.

Everyone else got their happy ending but him and Eurydice.

He did not fail, he just not could not imagine that his song didn't have room for his own happiness. It's a reminder that for every triumph there is tragedy, every repaired relationship there is a breakup and that while it may be spring somewhere, somewhere else it is winter. I don't know, that idea of mixed blessing tragedies in the story intrigued me. Because someone's worst day may be someone's best. And that is why we must always sing these songs, to remember on the bright days and to get us through the darkness and to know, someday, spring will come again.

[messangerforthestars]

“We need more morally gray characters” you guys can barely handle topaz and jade.

[the-woman-upstairs]

Sol’s irrepressible desire for a child overriding all rational thought, sending him into an emotional spiral that leads to death and destruction, only for him to lose the child anyway is a tragedy of the highest order and the kind of compelling story I like to see in general, but especially in Star Wars.

[my-shields-are-down]

When I see this moment from the finale (gif by @livelovecaliforniadreams ), I see it very differently than the majority of the fandom.

That group is so focused on a smiling, happy, laughing Lucy. Which yes, we’ve missed her. I’ve missed her too.

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Most clips of this scene end here - and don’t show the entire moment.

All I see are the last 2 seconds of this scene - Tim’s face. FOCUS ON THE END OF THE GIF.

Watch how the shot has Lucy in focus, and she gets blurry, while Tim starts blurry and gets clear when the cameraman changes the perspective of the shot.

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This is not a happy man. Tim is very much NOT HAPPY. He’s sad, grieving, guilty and feeling shame. He’s still punishing himself, thinking he doesn’t deserve her.

It’s really hitting home how much he’s lost, by losing her. You can see reality and that ache for her come crashing in. Eric played this so brilliantly. (he’s got this same sad look on his face when they get into that elevator).

“But now it’s over, the moment has gone, I followed my head not my heart, I know I was wrong.” Cutting Crew, 1986 (I Just Died in Your Arms)