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#getting emotional in this chili's
ageofgeek · 2 years
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I've been thinking about tolkien lately, and i know this must've happened to many fathers and mothers across europe in the 1940s, but
do you ever think about how tolkien was sent to fight in a pointless, brutal, terrible war, from which only he and one of his friends returned? a war that promised young british men that they would find glory, only to find death and trauma and suffering? and when he returned, stricken with trench fever, he told his children stories of the adventures of a humble hobbit - a simple tale, that maybe purposefully didn't reflect just how awful his own "adventure" was.
And then just 20 years later, those children, his children who had heard those stories of a humble hobbit, got sent to fight in another brutal, devastating war, and he had to watch them go without him, knowing what they would go through because it had happened to him.
and this time, after that second war was over, and his sons had returned to him safely, he wrote another tale. This one not as simple. This one not for children, but for the grown men and soldiers his sons had been forced to become. This one centered the brutalities of war but also the hope of friendship and love.
i just. do you ever think about john ronald reuel tolkien???
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citricacidprince · 6 months
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Thinking about Psychonauts and how much I love the Aquato family once again
They mean the world to me your honor
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#They are a strange little family with so many issues and generational trauma and YET they still LOVE EACHOTHER#DO YOU KNOW HOW IMPORTANT THAT IS TO ME???#Nona; Augustus; Donatella; Dion; Frazie; Rasputin; Mirtala; Queepie-#I love you all and I owe you my life#DION AND DONATELLA ESPECIALLY; Y’ALL GET SO MUCH HATE FOR HAVING UNDERSTANDABLE NEGATIVE EMOTIONS AND IT DRIVES ME UP THE WALL :(#Aquatos get behind me; I’ll protect you from the people who think you abuse Raz and should just get adopted by Sasha and Milla#that’s a bad take and they should feel bad. like; he can still see Sasha and Milla and alternate parental figures; that’s fine-#But Raz; CANONICALLY; would NEVER give up his family; EVER#That boy would force everyone to have a heart on heart with him until everything is better because he DOES that in the GAME#When you talk to you family in Psychonauts 2 you can tell how much he loves them and how much they love him; even if it’s strained at the-#moment from how stressful the past THREE DAYS have been#YES EVEN DION AND DONATELLA#They love Raz so much!!! They’re both just going through it™️ atm and need time to clear their head: remember; everything that has happened-#has been in the span of 3 DAYS and their whole lives have been completely flipped upside down#I think they’re allowed to be upset; in fact; it would be weird if they weren’t#sorry this is word garbage I just love that family so much it makes me wanna drink paint#prince rambles in this chilies tonight#aquato family#psychonauts aquatos#psychonauts 2#psychonauts
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revrads · 11 months
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I keep forgetting to post this here so here it is
Found out Kate Miller-Heidke voiced Chili’s mum in the new Bluey episode! She represented Australia in the Eurovision 2019 so here’s a Eurovision reference! Last time I drew Hatari was like 4 years ago so here’s a redraw of that iconic photo lmao
Also, the episode aired on the same day as Eurovision this year! :)
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to-the-all-blue · 5 months
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Don't mind me I'm just thinking about how - besides with his mom who he barely saw - Sanji was never taught that love is freely given. The people who care for him are people on the other side of a transaction to him; he pays them back in some way. He works on the Orbit, he pays back a debt on the Baratie, he is The Cook on the crew. He gives something so that he can receive care in return. When he wasn't "good enough" as a child he learned that has to be able to provide something to receive the love he always yearned for.
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I return to the ancestors
I walked along a local reenactment
A pioneer heritage site
I happen to walk by the spinners
Weavers and creators of yarn
They're selling spindles
And wool
And fibers
I buy one
I go home
I feel the weight of my ancestors hands guiding me
As I begin to spin my first yarn
A craft long forgotten but an ancient foremothers chore
My last name means shepherd
Maybe it's in my blood, maybe my grandmother's are guiding me
Either way my hands itch for more
I join the group.
They offer me a broken spinning wheel if I think I can fix it.
I do.
My friends and I fix it
And yet again I feel the hands of maybe a more recent foremother guiding my own hands,
Centuries of tradition guiding the present.
My hands still itch for more.
A walking wheel sits in the cabin
Years it has been untouched.
We fix it, my great great great grandmother's hands guide me as I walk back into my family's place of history
It's not enough.
I learn to forage and soon there is a pot boiling over the fire
Walnuts and woad and weld and false indigo and berries bubble with white homespun yarn floating in the pots
I hand it off to a weaver who teaches me in turn, guided by the hands of both our great heritage of mothers
How wonderful it is to guide history to life again with my own hands
Guided by a long line of grandmothers
How wonderful is it to have this connection
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shitpostingkats · 1 year
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I just had to pause the episode I was watching and just like. Think about the Crimson Dragon.
Goodwin and Roman and Iliaster try to make it destiny, try to make it birthright, a forgone conclusion that the signers are who they are.
But it’s not.
It’s about love.
Jack and Yusei got their marks when they started to reconcile, when Yusei chose to love in spite of how he’s been hurt and reach out to reforge a connection. Yusei loves the world and Jack loves his family.
Akiza wasn’t fully a signer for the longest time, sure, the mark was there, but long inert in power. It didn’t glow, she wasn’t claimed by the dragon, until she relearned to love herself.
Crow got his when he stood up to his hero, when he sacrificed himself for his city and his kids, when he said “You don’t love the people who look up to you enough. I will.”
Luna doesn’t remember she’s a signer but she’s chosen by the dragon, she’s it’s protector. Luna is a signer because she loves the spirits, because she loves things, creatures, that are alien.
It’s why there can be more than five signers. It’s why Leo can become who he does and it doesn’t matter, he’s not breaking any rules or undermining destiny. That was a lie fabricated by the generation before them. Goodwin tried to quantify the signers; to make them few and easy to control. To make them think there was a hard cap on love. But that isn’t how this works. There’s no limit.
Love is not a finite resource.
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sage-nebula · 1 year
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Sonic (the character) is not hard to understand & he doesn't have some deep hidden secret self . . . I think people overthink him a lot.
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tinknevertalks · 11 months
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It just struck me, as I got out of the shower, that in ten-fifteen years time, some teenagers are going to be doing their Music GCSEs (or whatever the group of exams will be called then). They'll remember the first time they heard that specific bit of classical music...
... And the episode of Bluey it was in. 😂🥰
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gay-otlc · 2 years
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There's going to be a Tiergan/Prentice wedding in Stellarlune, I just got a call from Shannon.
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leahcee · 5 months
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the poll I just RBd made me realize it’s so weird to think that by my age (23) my mom had TWO kids! A 3 year old and a two month old like… she was so wild for that
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Did that thing where I laid in bed for a nice cry and now I’m thinking evil thoughts (Ladybug being less golden retriever and a lot more fucked up and holding one of the Twins hostage and slitting their throat in front of the other) 
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ok reworked a big chunk of my cover letter and then ran out of steam (I have slept… so badly all week) but I’m feeling positive about it. I really don’t want to spend a ton of time obsessing over it so I’m going to try to finish it tomorrow after my morning meetings. I have an annoying work meeting first thing (about the situation I rage-cried about earlier today) but then I get to follow it up with a meeting with my all-time fave student. those calls always leave me feeling sooo happy and energized so I should be in a great headspace for finishing the letter. I ideally want to submit tomorrow but if I feel the materials aren’t quite there for whatever reason I’ll allow myself the weekend to tinker. I am qualified for this job! and pretty sure I would greatly enjoy literally every aspect of it!! cross your fingers for me!!!
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woobifiedvillain · 11 months
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I found a clinic that says they take Medicaid that *theoretically* has dentists and therapy/psych providers?? I cannot call until Monday but I'm making pasta and putting good vibes out into the universe.
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crunchycrystals · 7 months
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thinking ab the viria how far we've come animatic again because like. truly look how far we've come
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god it was a good idea to restock myself on this high-caf tea. it is a godsend to have a proper source of caffeine that doesn't make me jittery, nor would i have to drink two or three times as much for my proper dose, nor is it a roll of the dice whether it'll make me gag so hard i have to add ice cream and tons of creamer to cover up the taste.
finally having some disposable fuckin income to last me a while has been one of the few bright spots in this awful, awful goddamn year, and it legit makes me emotional to be able to afford--and stock up on--some things that are a bit on the expensive side but will improve my quality of life immensely.
[parent death talk under the cut cw]
it especially makes me emotional because i first discovered this tea when i was out of caffeine supplies in the weeks after my mom's death, living alone in the house where it happened--a few dozen yards from the room itself at most, 95% of the time, and that far only when holed up in my room. i get the impression it was a treat she had stashed away and never got the chance to have most of; and it made me feel closer to her to have it as medicine and comfort on those long, dark nights with my sleep schedule turned around and the footsteps of ghosts in my house, with jenny nicholson videos running in the background through to the sunrise.
among the many deep, dark lows of this year, those weeks were one of the worst and best parts of it, all at the same time, and it's a relief to be able to have this again. it makes me feel that little bit better about... everything. it's what she would have wanted.
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sortarapunzel · 1 year
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clawing at the walls every time i come across a new sansûkh song. this time maybe by half alive
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