#i mean jesus christ

[cordycepspog]

Things that absolutely fucked my shit up this episode, an incomprehensible list:

- Ellie liked the smell of Frank’s sleeping bag

- Joel still wearing Frank’s shirt

- Joel staying up all night to guard while Ellie slept

- “They’re not gonna hit you. Look at me, they’re not gonna hit you.”

- “Mom! Mom! Mom!”

- The way the doctor gave the lines “I delivered you. I held you in my hands.” and “I’m your doctor” so simply when asked for reasons why he shouldn’t be killed

- Ellie’s smile when Joel tried to tug the gun from her hand

- The way Joel bumbled his way through trying to make sure Ellie was okay, and ask if she wanted to talk about it after she shot Bryan

- All of the superhero drawings on the wall that Sam drew of him and Henry

- The mask that Sam had drawn on his face

Something about how everyone is undeniably human, and how unafraid they are of not shying away from that.

[alcorian]

for a kids franchise, transformers is just... so fucking bleak. their planet is dead. their species is dying. they've been fighting this stupid fucking war for 4 million years and they destroyed everything over it. their planet can no longer support life. their species is dying out as, without the Well, they can no longer reproduce. the few that are left are scattered to the stars as lonely sentinels. its only a matter of time before the current generation dies out and cybertronian life, history, art, love, knowledge, everything is gone. and yet... and YET... they continue to accelerate their own demise by fighting this STUPID FUCKING WAR. they're a species, a people consumed by war. they let their own hatred and violence destroy themselves.

transformers is a tragedy.

[shirkers2018dirsanditan]

Jesus enough of this already. it is genuinely so ugly to me the way people who are supposedly victims’ advocates have now wholeheartedly embraced this deeply reductive view on any kind of consequence for men who harm women by arguing that most women don’t actually want any kind of consequence for these men because they just love them so much and don’t want to hurt them ESPECIALLY racialized men who are the only people impacted by police violence. and that last part is so ugly because it plays into the idea that black women should not seek help when being abused out of racial solidarity. it downplays the real reasons why DV victims don’t report and why they may ask to drop charges or recant. it also entirely obscures the way mandatory arrest laws and the cj system often end up targeting and criminalizing DV victims at a higher rate than perpetrators by, again, making men the center of the conversation and even turning them into the victim by reframing from the real harm they’ve committed to hypothetical harm they might experience from police or prisons. women’s organizations are so fucking shameful. they are just addicted to constantly betraying women

[stanchett]

thinking of her today 🖤

[lobstermobster-95]

Wanderer’s Rest

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It had been an uncharacteristically peaceful first day’s travel toward Xadia. The weather had been fair, they’d kept up a steady stream of pleasant conversation and – Callum had to hand it to Barius – they’d started things off with a satisfying breakfast.

It had all put Callum into an inexorably good mood.

After all, there was an undeniably strong air of sentimentality surrounding this trip. He and Rayla were retracing those first life-altering, world-saving steps they’d taken together two years ago.

To say they had been through a lot in those years was a comically gross understatement, especially since she’d come back. There had been more days than not that Callum had thought their relationship beyond saving. He’d been too broken, too fundamentally shattered by her abandonment to ever consider letting her back into his heart.

Then, there’d been Umber Tor, and the thought of Rayla dying before he ever got the chance to laugh with her again, or make her smile and roll her eyes at him again, to tell her he loved her again; it had set the flame in his chest alight once more.

So ever since then, they’d been working on it. Slowly, over several days, they began to talk – really talk – about the whole thing. It had been liberating for Callum to finally unload the crushing weight her departure had left him with, and Rayla listened. Then, when it was her turn, she’d given him two things: the first being an apology that had left them both crying openly while they laid side-by-side on the stone floor of Callum’s room; and the other had been a solemn vow to never cause him that much pain again.

They weren’t back to where they’d left off that night at the moon nexus, but they felt like…friends again, and Callum was ecstatic.

“We covered a lot of distance today,” Rayla said to him in a familiar tone that again reminded him of their first journey. That was her “Nighttime Rayla” voice. He’d heard it many times directed toward him and Ezran to let them know it was time to bunk down for the night.

“Time to rest, so we can do it all over again tomorrow,” she continued, making Callum smile.

Some things didn’t change.

But one thing that had certainly changed since the last time they’d made this trip was the status of the border. The scar Viren had left behind at the Breech had had unexpected diplomatic side effects. For the first time in a thousand years, there was a bridge open between Xadia and the human kingdoms. While it was still tentative and mostly discrete, this had opened the door to travel between the two lands.

That increase in travel had subsequently led to a greater demand for lodging along major travel routes, like the one they just so happened to be using, and Callum hoped what was ahead would be a welcomed surprise.

“Right,” he answered. “But why sleep in the grass, when we could sleep in class?” He raised his arms in coy emphasis.

Rayla responded with a curious quirk of her brow and Callum’s smile grew. “There’s a nice cozy inn just ahead,” he gestured up the road and Rayla’s eyes followed.

Together they spotted the Wanderer’s Rest Inn – a cottage that looked like it must have been lifted from the dictionary beneath the very word “cozy.” Its façade was crisscrossed by widely spaced wood framing with little vines of ivy creeping up like ladders. The thatch roof was steep but sturdy and surrounded a large stone chimney. The cottage itself was nestled on a picturesque hillside that caught the warm orange light of the sunset perfectly.

[kaaragen]

I stayed up late to watch the Ahsoka finale; so bear in mind that sleep deprivation may be affecting my analysis. But my thought after watching it:

Shut it down. Fire everybody involved. On future projects too. Give it to Charles Soule and the comic book team, because my God they seem to be the only people working on Star Wars who know what a plot and fucking character arc is supposed to look like

[gamergirl929]

There's only one player that Lianne Sanderson talks good about, and it's herself.

[i-have-boobs-so-dean-doesnt]

You have no fucking idea how terrifying it is to find a worm in your bed the day after litening to MAG 22 like bro

[thefirstcomingofwispcherry]

absolutely obsessed with how David Tennant kisses women and men like he's trying to steal their life force

[dorkybooktrash]

The amount of times I think about this scene on a daily basis is alarming

[skull-pun]

It was never a matter of IF there was going to be a conspiracy theory about the Baltimore bridge collapse and Mothman, but WHEN there was going to be a conspiracy theory about the Baltimore bridge collapse and Mothman.

[i-literally-cant-with-this]

Fffffffuhhhhhh. They're also missing a few possible positions. But I get it. Amazon has an image to uphold.

[yikes077]

Sorry, I’m supposed to keep things clean, get normal sleep, do school work, feed myself, exercise, talk to people, AND kill spiders??? That’s just too many things my man.

[breadedsinner]

With so much going on in the world I want to be like, “not now, worsening game development climate!”

[archrries]

So at what point do I just accept the fact that I'm living in a 500k word slowburn??? Cause the pacing is terrible but very emotional and no matter how fast I go through feelings, neither of us can get to "we love eachother"????? I mean seriously, he calls me MOON and I call him STAR. NICKNAMES, PEOPLE, NICKNAMES. I just went through like 8 stages of idek what in 2 hours. What is going on with the plot? Who's writing this?? Can I please have a ferris wheel kiss when we go to six flags next week???? Or do you need to leave your ao3 readers on a cliffhanger HUH?? MAKE UP YOUR MIND, AUTHOR. AND ALSO STOP MAKING US GAZE INTO EACHOTHERS EYES BUT NEVER KISS. ITS CLICHÈ.