#grand 🙃🙃

[possum-tooth]

[pucksandpower]

How it started (after Charles spun out in FP1) …

… and how it’s going 🫣

[thebramblewood]

livin' like angels, livin' like devils

[krasivaa]

A poem by Prince Vladimir Pavlovich Paley in French, written on 29th June 1913 in Oranien Hof, Kreuznach, signed with "Bodya" and, as it says, ordered by his father, Grand Duke Pavel Alexandrovich on his name day. While the poem itself is in French, date, place & signature are in Russian. I already translated that part, so here is the poem:

A day among many others,

A little liver, a little enthusiasm

Like that, flour rounded off this quatrain

Our little sorrows and yours....

[sadlittlepotatobean]

I’ve just spent 80-billion-thousand-gazillion(?) hours working on a Percy Jackson/Disney Character(s) family tree, and am now trying to convince myself not to add in the characters from Ever After High as well (because it’s already a cluster fuck, and if I add in EAH I’m going to throw myself off of the 600th floor of the Empire State Building but I still think it would amusing🙃🥲)

[kitocrystal]

THE TEASERSJEJDJFHR

[ive-fallen-and-i-cannot-get-up]

miller study cuz i love this man

[dark-t1des]

A routine cleaning job goes wrong when you end up at the trailer of a certain lovable trash panda.

Trevor Philips x You!

[charles-pitlane]

It's quite emotional 🥲

[overlyinvestedinlife]

[mysandwichgiver]

Here's an un-paywalled New York Times article about Fulton County DA Fani Willis' investigation. My neighbor George is featured!

[1ore]

anyway when i bought the "keep mars red" bumper sticker from mare internum i didn't think it would turn from funnie dystopian vision of speculative fiction to an actual political statement so soon. help!

[wookieejamcrew]

how best to articulate my thoughts on the grand inquisitor leaning into the fear he instills by existing as pau’an around humans

well

ancillary material suggests most species have reflexive fearful reactions to pau’ans predatory uh physiognomy, their facial features. in ways, i’m sure a pau’an far flung from "home" may internalize that incidental fear as a responsibility to combat humans’ discomfort: be friendly, be demure, don’t smile too toothy. 

interestingly, the grand inquisitor dialed up his “scarier" traits after turning to the dark side i.e. bloody up his tears (from well-done to rare), bear his teeth

i’m of the belief that a full turn to the dark side is not unlike a stopper in a bottle being uncorked, and its innards being all the insecurities and shame a force sensitive couldn’t master. 

thus this

then this

a simple reading of this would be: oh i'm the monster? i'll be the monster, i'll SO be the monster. but that is tired, because it is simple and easy. my wired take is that, in the spirit of his self-imposed isolation ("can the inquisitors and i help?" girl, that's you), he distances himself in a way in which he is perceived to be not only unapproachable, but is the subject of envy. finally he is powerful because people are afraid, because he is feared in the age of the empire where power and fear are what make the imperial ideal. he two-fold detaches himself from human scorn while reveling in their longing for what he has: their fear (and he is unafraid to ham that up with ink and scenery chewing)

it's what makes moments like tarkin bossing him around and brendol bickering with him in public contrast so potently with scenes like above and below

because there are people who can call his bluff, can see the vulnerability of the emperor's grand inquisitor is his responsibility to serve, as is a jedi's, or a pau'an's, forever flanked by human eyes

[loveinstreams]

anyways. It’s was the castle’s only flower. all that grows there and ivy and nettles. It was the only flower.

[waterme-stories]

BTW, sorry to be so chronically online lately

I've been going through it, lads. And Tumblr and Discord are slightly more healthy escapes than numbing myself with mobile games, because at least they're social (albeit virtual), and the dopamine hits are more spontaneous.

Or at least that's what I tell myself.

Anyway, my queue is only growing and I'm insta-reblogging a lot more stuff than usual, (and let's not even talk about that divorced-tournament lol), but I'll go outside and touch some grass soon.

Time heals all wounds. And it's summer, and I should get out and do stuff with my IRL friends (and I will. swearsies). And then I'll chill the fuck out on here and go back to my usual ~5-10 reblogs a day.

[newlyy]

I’m in such a bad place el em ay oh, I feel like shit because of this cyst, but I’m really really anxious about the upcoming surgery to remove it, so I’m just like. Afraid to act, afraid to do nothing.