#Trilogy of the Company

[dark-imagine-robots]

"A Statue Carved In Their Likeness. Arms Reaching Out. Like a Child's." "A Half-Living Thing Grows Outside Camp." -Gemini Home Entertainment

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Spoopy Chad Gemini doesn't belong to me, images used as a collage are from their latest video.

[ask-ufpapyrus]

For my Prompt WillSongTober

2. The Song With Five Names

What we are is what we are not

אֶהְיֶה אֲשֶׁר אֶהְיֶה

( Hebrew for: I am that I am)

What myths must make us man?

What is "is?" What is not? What is what?

What's up, party people?

What? What, I wonder? Why I'm not "whatever."

What the fuck? 'Cause

The guy at bottom belongs to @dark-imagine-robots

[petersthree]

A FREE AND INDEPENDENT SMOSH PRESENTS... @lgbtqcreators bingo: poster design

[whiteladyofithilien]

If they were gonna insert a female character into the Hobbit films that wasn't in the book it should have been Dis and no one can change my mind about this

[bilbosversion]

and isn’t it just so ⊹ ࣪ ˖ pretty to think .˚ ₊ ⊹

all along there was some / invisible string

tying you to me? ⠂⠄⠄⠂⠁⠁⠂⠄⠄⠂⠁⠁⠂⠄⠄⠂ ⠂⠄⠄⠂⠂⠄⠄⠂⠁⠁⠂⠄⠄

invisible string — taylor swift

[aleksanderscult]

Live footage of Alina every time she saw the Darkling through the tether:

[oakenshieldk]

They both had the same stupid neuron. All they had to do was look at each other and with their eyes they said "Are you thinking the same as me?" Poor Balin.

[i-dont-know-anything-anymore]

The Hobbit + Text Posts

[ironmandeficiency]

a night or so ago, i mentioned a list of interesting book details from the hobbit that would be good touches to fanfic. i didn’t expect the amount of interaction i got from it, so here it is!

here’s the link!

[albatris]

I worry book one's plot is too boring / basic / whatever But I hope the characters are interesting and strong enough to carry people's interest anyway

[dark-imagine-robots]

More of these two. The Medic and Pyro husbands!! . . . Zeref Medic belongs to @ask-ufpapyrus Dark Pyro belongs to me

[ask-ufpapyrus]

For my Prompt WillSongTober…

1. Outliars and Hyppocrates: Fun Fact About Apples

I am the shadows cast aside by gallows, and you the red-hot sky

And if you're believers, then why would you grieve for the dead instead of a devil that you never prayed for?

[thecoffeelorian]

4/19/2024

Hello again, everyone...

Just a few small notes before we begin--first, it would seem that Tumblr slightly updated its tagging system in that we can no longer make a list of people in one big block, so from now on, I'll have to start adding people in little rows of 5 so that this site doesn't end up not alerting anybody.

Second, in case only a few people saw the announcement, @vaporglaive is hoping to go to Dragoncon next year, but in order to get there, they just might need some help getting commissions as far as creating artwork goes. So! If you're interested, please check out the link below:

And now...so I don't spend too much time off-topic, here are my picks for this week, and I hope that you'll like and reblog them like you would any other artist/writer. Thanks in advance!

The Bad Batch Fanart

Tech and Phee by @bri75672

Crosshair goes to 79's by @doodlingfoolishness

Phee Genoa by @im-yotsu

The Bad Batch Fanfiction

Under Sun And Shade by @doodlingfoolishness

The Quiet Part by @the-little-moment

The Clone Wars Fanart

Untitled by @skywalkerrtno

Battle Buddies by @depomera

The Original Trilogy Fanart

Luke <3 by @aveliney

The Tinies by @silvereddaye

The Original Trilogy Fanfiction

Patchwork by @jedi-order-apologist

Other Star Wars Fanworks

Fulcrum by @frumpybutsupersmart

And so, in order to support all our writers and artists, please check out the links I included above, like, comment, and reblog as you would with anyone else.

Please also like and reblog this latest installment so that these links can be spread around to as many other fans as possible, just in case not all of them can tune in at the same time. Thank you, good morning, and good luck.

No pressure tags: @littlefeatherr @smw-on-kamino @sharpasanaro @yeehawgeek @callsign-denmark

@chefobiwankenobi @ilovemedia @gun-roswell @melymigo @groguandthebadbatch

@ankossss @jedi-princess-kestis @skellymom @here-comes-the-moose @trixie2023

@theosb0rnway @saphiranishimurashan @ray-rook @serinzatravel-blog @called-me-vicky

@dinosaurs-and-fanfiction and anybody else who might be on the lookout for new and interesting works around the fandom. Have a good morning, and don't stop creating.

[whiteladyofithilien]

Tolkien said Fili is the youngest

Tolkien SAID Fili is the YOUNGEST

TOLKIEN SAID FILI IS THE YOUNGEST!

So wtf were you smoking Peter Jackson!

[oliveris-tired]

No matter how many times I watch it, 'The Hobbit' trilogy always leaves me a changed man

[aleksanderscult]

my favorite interpretation of him is as a man who WANTS that companionship and love but. He’s been burned so many times before, falling in love with people he outlived due to war and his slower aging. So he can’t allow himself to be hurt like that again. Deep inside his little black heart he would love to be equals with Alina but unfortunately years of trauma and pain have left him entirely unable to exist in a relationship that doesn’t have a power imbalance in his favor. He doesn’t know how to let go of his want for power even in his relationships anymore. And now that he needs Alina for his Grand Schemes, well he definitely can’t fall in love with her without potentially fucking up his plan, right? He needs her to do many very specific things and he can’t be blinded by Real Emotion that might make him change his mind so instead he keeps her at arms length while making her THINK her feelings are requited and he pulls her strings to get her to do what he needs so that his centuries of living will have paid off. And deep deep down the man he used to be yearns to have built something real with her, to have companionship who won’t die in the blink of an eye, someone who understands this Otherness he experiences, an equal. If only the man he’d become could stand to let go of the reins in any relationship for more than like. Thirty seconds. Lol

⚠️TW!: sexual abuse and sexual assault! mentioned at some point⚠️

Yup. You get it, anon!

My favorite interpretation of him is as a man who WANTS that companionship and love but he’s been burned so many times before, falling in love with people he outlived due to war and his slower aging. So he can’t allow himself to be hurt like that again.

I completely agree to all of this!

What antis seem unable to understand is that the Darkling is human most of all. Not a villain, not a hero, not a Grisha but a human being with human emotions and needs. In fact, I find him the most human character in the Grisha trilogy. We all want love and companionship. None of us likes the feeling of loneliness (it's one thing to want to be alone and another to be lonely) and the Darkling is no different in this aspect. He wants to love and be loved. He wants someone to keep him company forever, to not abandon him because of betrayal, death, age or mortality. He doesn't want to be alone. For centuries he suffered from it and was desperate to find someone to fill this void. Alina was this person. She ticked (most of) the boxes for him.

(just a small pause to say that we can also see evidence of his desire to feel and live human things in RoW:

(He might considered otkazat'sya beneath him, but the feeling of humanity was something surprisingly pleasant for him. And he seeked Alina out to feel this way again. Even though he denied it:)

(A part of him wanted something simple. Peace and calm and a girl that loved him and he loved her at his side.)

If I could describe the Darkling's need for someone to join him and be with him, for Alina to come to him and love him, I would use this passage from the book "City of Heavenly Fire":

“Imagine if you were the last Shadowhunter left on earth (in this case let's use the term "the last Grisha of your kind"), imagine if all your family and friends were dead, imagine if there were no one left who even believed in what you were. Imagine if you were on the earth in a billion, billion years, after the sun had scorched away all the life, and you were crying out from inside yourself for just one single living creature to still draw breath alongside you, but there was nothing, only rivers of fire and ashes. Imagine being that lonely. And then imagine there was only one way to fix it. Then imagine what you would do to make that thing happen.”

THIS is how I imagine the Darkling's desperation to gain Alina. His last hope for love and companionship.

He has been hurt hundreds of times in the past. The lovers he had, the people he fell in love were dying in front of his eyes from their mortality. Others couldn't understand his powers, couldn't fathom him as a person (because I bet almost all, if not all, his lovers were otkazat'sya). So at some point, he just gave up. Gave up on love and stopped having relationships. He wouldn't be hurt again, he wouldn't allow it.

Deep inside his little black heart he would love to be equals with Alina but unfortunately years of trauma and pain have left him entirely unable to exist in a relationship that doesn’t have a power imbalance in his favor. He doesn’t know how to let go of his want for power even in his relationships anymore.

"his little black heart" that sounded so cute 🥺🫶😭

And, yes, I agree that deep inside (veeery deeply though) he wanted to be equals with Alina because on one hand it seemed right to him, logically and strategically (she had the power of light, he had the power of darkness. They were both immortal and she had a strong spirit). But years had already passed where he had the control in all things. Okay, not all. He couldn't stop Kings and Queens from making stupid or unspeakable things (and yes I'm alluding Genya's sexual assault from the King here). But he had a habit that he couldn't break. "Old habits die hard" fits here. He couldn't put aside his need for domination and just say "Yeah sure do whatever you want in this relationship, Alina! Peace and love!🥰✌️". No, he would still want to have the upper hand in their relationship and their rule.

And now that he needs Alina for his Grand Schemes, well he definitely can’t fall in love with her without potentially fucking up his plan, right? He needs her to do many very specific things and he can’t be blinded by Real Emotion that might make him change his mind so instead he keeps her at arms length while making her THINK her feelings are requited and he pulls her strings to get her to do what he needs so that his centuries of living will have paid off.

Yup. He didn't want to fall in love with her. Just to manipulate her. But the problem is that we don't choose when to fall in love and who. It just happens. And that fucked him up emotionally.

1) Because he hadn't felt that emotion in years.

2) Because it wasn't part of his plans, just like you said.

He literally panicked and didn't know what to do and he certainly didn't know how to express it in a healthy manner.

Alina's constant rejection and rebellion against him (+ her love for Mal and her choosing only him) made him go feral and do impulsive things. Made him fuck up his well-thought-out plans. So, in the end, he really is a person that sometimes let his emotions rule his mind unwillingly.

About him making her think that her emotions are requited, it's a complicated matter. In R&R he confirmed that he seduced her (if you call that seduction) as part of his manipulation.

But I think he also played himself back then at S&B. He tried to appease her worries at that time and in S&B it seemed genuine. Honestly, for me, it still does. But, according to him (and Bardugo) he did it to feel more bound to him, more loyal.

BUT! I think that in the meantime he played himself and caught feelings.

Like "He he I'm gonna make her feel good for herself 😈......shit.....now I feel something for her. FUCK!!"

But he would never admit that to Alina. Not in a verbal way anyway. Because when he gave her his name it was a type of love confession (GIVING HER HIS HEART, HELLO??).

I kinda agree that he wanted to make her feel that her feelings were requited but he also must have been like "but let's not tell her that I also caught feelings👀👀".

He wanted to fulfill his plans, yes. But he also fell in love with her in the process and everything went DOWNHILL FOR HIM.

And deep deep down the man he used to be yearns to have built something real with her, to have companionship who won’t die in the blink of an eye, someone who understands this Otherness he experiences, an equal. If only the man he’d become could stand to let go of the reins in any relationship for more than like. Thirty seconds. Lol

Hard agree to all of this too.

Just like I said, he didn't know how to live a life without controlling it and everyone in it.