#mary does things

[ewwww-what]

Ugh. Literally just let her go home???

[unashamedly-enthusiastic]

Visited a cathedral today with the toddler

It was very odd that somewhere so deeply linked to my childhood is completely foreign to her

'so this is a church, people are quiet here, like a library'

'people have lit these candles as prayers'

'prayers are... prayers are where you wish and hope for something you really want'

'that's actually a very famous lady and a baby'

'look the baby grew up into that man there, lots of people think he was important'

'...no he's not really having a good time is he'

'not because he was naughty'

'ah no the lady wasn't naughty either'

[caught-a-dragonfly]

Red Alert

[seizethegay420]

[pinkiepilum]

Silly me 💕💕

[spaghetti-machete]

just finished fantasy high junior year. relate to mary ann skuttle painfully as someone who had no sense of fashion a hyperfixation and a flat affect as a teenager. you can't tell me she isn't three years away from having a gender crisis

[azuremist]

Callie having her headpiece from her childhood… The same suitcase and bag from Splatoon 1’s Finalfest art, with them “arriving” at their destination together this time, instead of leaving Inkopolis and parting ways… Marie even having the same jacket from that Finalfest art…!!!! Ouhhhh what if I cried 🥹

[girlkisser25]

[unsuredreamer]

soooo, I'm watching "Are you afraid of the dark?" and at this point i think I'm sealed because WHY AM I GIGGLING EVERYTIME I SEE MALIA ON THE SCREEN?????

[darkshrimpemotions]

The way people hate on the Mary arc of later seasons like "why did Dean have to lose his image of his mom" that was the POINT. Like??? That image he had of his mom was never real! Nobody is that perfect, least of all a traumatized hunter kid who was orphaned at 19 and made a desperate deal to save at least ONE person she lost so she wouldn't be completely alone in the world. The Mary Dean knew and idolized was a fiction cobbled together from grief and a four-year-old's hazy memories. She wasn't real!

And the loss of her is where it all started. All Dean's trauma. All of his hangups and issues and fears began the night Mary died. And to some extent I don't think healing was possible until he fully grappled with the fact that his mom was just a PERSON. Not a saint on a pedestal he should worship and sacrifice everything for and could never live up to.

Like!!! Sooooo many of Dean's Issues started with her death and the way John turned her into a martyred saint to justify his actions. Dean was mourning for a woman who didn't even exist and an idea of a perfect life he never would have had! His "perfect mom?" Their "perfect family?" Never. Existed. That's literally the point. He was never going to be able to love any life he could have if he was always comparing it to some impossible idea of perfection that was never even possible.

Sorry but Amara was right, he needed that false idol to be shattered.

[cerealboxlore]

Hello world, I've had a cursed late night thought! Do you want to hear it? Of course you do, you have no choice :D

Y'all remember that one comic panel of Mary Marvel eating bullets like they were nothing? The Marvel Family are immune and resistant to so many things that they can eat bullets and have no consequences from eating poisons, too. Bizarre to the world, but very fun to them, I assume! I think Billy as Captain Marvel has also eaten bullets before, and bitten non edible materials in the past just for funsies. But what about Freddy?

What cursed thing can he eat to intimidate an enemy?

Kryptonite.

Let the boy eat Kryptonite with a crunch and munch like it was a rock candy 🍬

Let an enemy mistake him for a Kryptonian and use Kryptonite against him with a smug smile on their face, only to be beyond horrified when they see the blue Marvel chomp the green glowing rock like it was nothing.

Bonus points if Freddy even scares Billy and Mary with this because who in their right mind would willingly eat Kryptonite as their first plan of action??

[ghostlygunk]

sometimes i remember that ib fan twitter user tht was diehard insisting abt how mary did nothing wrong in the story and how garry was apparently in the wrong

[andithil]

Yeah, flick it. (ooh) How's that? (ow, ooh) How's that? (*moans*) Six inches of silver (arghh) in your scapula. (uhn~) Ooh, it's inside, lovely and deep that is... ... .. .

[magicartthings]

drew some weird cog guys

[anghraine]

In addition to the I'm Guessing Tolkien Had Some Hang-Ups About Pregnancy post, I also ran over some interesting but even more unrelated factoids in The Nature of Middle-earth that even I couldn't justify including in the main ramble.

So I made a separate post about those, which includes my favorite:

Arwen would have been even more exhausting for Celebrían to bear than a pair of twins because: Arwen was a "special child" of great powers and beauty The beauty I got from LOTR, but—without being dismissive about the banner—I really wish we had a clearer sense of Arwen's unique stature in her own right in LOTR. She's presented so much in terms of Elrond and Lúthien and occasionally Galadriel and Celeborn, but Elladan and Elrohir are Elrond's children and Galadriel's grandchildren just as much as she is. Yet here she's clearly framed as special and powerful in a way they are not and which drew so much from Celebrían's (and possibly Elrond's) spiritual reserves that they couldn't have any more children. That seems like a big deal! Tell me more! Epilogue: he did not tell us more

[luck-of-the-drawings]

OH ARTHUR BENNETT.. such a gorgeous and intriguing character. terribly burdened by a GRUESOME set of crimes, his light suffocated by a HEAVY century of GUILT. so tragic, so dark and broody, and yet PAINFULLY awkward in any social setting ever