#it’s done and I am victorious

[tacosaysroar]

VICTORY IS MINE

[megpricephotography]

Beach Boy! Barney, jumping for joy during a trip to the beach in July of 2012.

[deadqueernoldor]

Thinking thoughts about those from Cuivienen and how they later treated the Valar, especially after Cuivienen was destroyed.

I imagine a foundation of sorrow and a layer of betrayal and pettiness. They had promised safety. And how did it turn out? Kin of Tata and Tatie their first leaders, slain in Valinor by the Dark Hunter from which the Valar promised protection in Valinor.

And then, the War of Wrath comes and with it the destruction of Cuivienen.

If any of those were re-embodied in Aman, I wonder if they make it a point to always turn their back to Valar and Maiar. I wonder if they only speak in the tongue they had first devised all those millennia ago and spoke in Cuivienen before time and different kindreds changed the tongue, not Sindarin or Quenya from the Great Journey's time or later. I wonder if they sing songs in their ancient tongue, songs about the beauty and unsullied health of Cuivienen every time any of the Ainur are near.

I wonder if the Valar feel any shame when those who they once looked upon in wonder and love gaze back at them with indifference or disgust.

[athanoraa]

the babygirliest jojo villain ever

headcanon #1 : he has freckles but he hides them with makeup to be less recognisable because no WAY the freckles magically disappear when Diavolo fronts

headcanon #2 : when he activates King Crimson his eyes reflect the world his "crimson court" is set in, so his eyes just turn into mini galaxies when he's in his skipped time realm

[goldkirk]

I’ve been mentally lying on the ground in a forest glade being SO fucking Normal about Gandalf calling Frodo Bronwe athan harthad, Endurance Beyond Hope

[starbuck]

FIVE monologues to write

[powdermelonkeg]

Typed 1.4k words for Answer the Call in one hour. All hail me.

[sobeautifullyobsessed]

Proof that I'm a forever ride-or-die MCU Stephen Strange Stan ~

My first thought when learning of the return of RDJ to the MCU was: WHAT ABOUT DOCTOR STRANGE??? Isn't he closely tied to Doom as adversaries in the comics? Why wasn't he mentioned in connection to Avengers: Doomsday? Has Feige/et al, decided Stephen has no further value to the MCU?

Second thought? FU Feige/Waldron/et al.

[sweet-beezus]

Oh shit there's a pest on your dash!! Lemme get that for you

[anghraine]

I was just thinking of how fun it is when female characters are allowed to really viscerally enjoy power.

I'm thinking especially of cases when the character's power doesn't come from some MacGuffin, or a malevolent, psychologically damaging power like the Dark Side, or even an external source at all. I just really like the trope of female characters who are powerful because they're both talented and have put work into refining talent into skill, and who clearly enjoy using their very legitimate skill for their own ends, whatever the ends may be.

I was thinking of examples, and the first ones to come to mind were Korra and Kuvira from Legend of Korra, who I love both individually and as a ship. But part of the reason I enjoy both characters so much, hero and villain, is how much they enjoy being world-class benders.

Lots of people in that show are rightly confident about their power or abilities. But there's confidence and then there's the sheer enjoyment they have at being powerful benders who can and will wipe the earth with their foes, and it's just super enjoyable in this specific way I don't often see.

[napping-sapphic]

temperature finally below 100 for the first time in two days!!!

[neonganymede]

I finished making the pirozhki !!!!

[anachronic-cobra]

Writing Woes

Me: damn this is a great story idea :) I'm really enjoying writing this idea out! The potential character dynamics, psychology, and dichotomy of love vs hate vs indifference are very compelling to me!

Me ten minutes later: ...is this the plot of fucking Death Note

A fairly average man comes into a great power, without a word and without a reason.  Surely if this power has come to him, it becomes his duty to use it to better the world, yes?  He will not reveal his part in creating that betterment, of course.  He needs no thanks for doing the right thing, and people's opinions can be fickle.  He is careful.

But still he wonders, why? Why did this power come to him, of all people? Why is someone trying so hard to stop him? If he has the power to change the world for the better, surely it's because he's special.  He was chosen for this.  Anyone disagreeing with his choices are going against destiny!  That faceless man, the nameless one who keeps him cornered, parroting lies in his garbled voice to turn the people against him, he was no better than a demon playing at humanity!

It's pride, that's what it is.  They wanted to keep him from bettering the world because it would mean admitting their faults.  Can't they see how much better things are getting?  They'll all be better if we just... dig out the weeds.

The governments want to stop him, the police, the media, but look at their own actions!  Surely they shouldn't judge his actions as terrible.  Such hypocrisy in such widespread positions of power, the whole system needed uprooting!  This was it. This was his purpose - to weed out the evils of the world and make the world just again.

They could call him a monster, a murderer, they could say he was "playing God"... what did they know?  If God existed, He surely didn't care for the world as much as him!  God was just as bad as the rest!

But every day, more and more people are understanding my vision.  They want to see the world peace I will ensure.  Every day they make their pleas for justice, and I hear them.  The righteous love me as I love them, and I must reward their devotion.

Still, that one man still stands in the way of my future.  Every step I take towards a perfect world, he is only a step behind, dragging me back by the neck.  Who is he?  The things he says, undermining me, condemning me.  And they are listening.

I despise him.

I will weed him out, too.

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Hate is not the enemy of love, but its lover.  Entwined within each is devotion; the desire to follow another to the ends of the earth, for better or for worse.  The enemy of devotion is indifference.  When one's thoughts of another stir no emotion, this is the death of love.

Given this, what is hate but an act of worship? The devout destroy themselves from within to follow the path of the self-styled God, with hatred, with fear, with lust, with defeat.  But what is God when devotion dies and all that remains are frail facsimiles of love?  When it is God's turn to die, it will die pathetic and unknown.

[musical-chick-13]

*gritting my teeth and yelling at myself in the mirror* EVEN IF YOU WRITE IT AND IT'S BAD, AT LEAST IT WILL EXIST THAT'S BETTER THAN THE IDEA GOING UNREALIZED BECAUSE NO ONE ELSE IS GOING TO FUCKING WRITE THIS

[bundlebrent]

It’s amazing how many things I can get done on a day where I don’t have a headache

[age-of-moonknight]

“Solve for X: Part 2 (of 3),” Strange Academy: Moon Knight (Vol. 1/2023), #1.

Writer: Carlos Hernandez; Penciler and Inker: Julian Shaw; Colorist: Edgar Delgado; Letterer: Clayton Cowles