#no I did not much care to

[sagiow]

tagged by: @combat-librarian, @tortoisesshells, @undisclosed-serendipity and @tough-n-dumb. Thank you all!

last song: must’ve been Calm Down or that Sam Smith song on the weekly Top 40 we listened to on the radio yesterday afternoon (why am I still getting tagged on music things? I’m just embarassing myself).

currently watching: Mainly the weather forecast because I’m off this week and my kids have baseball tournaments and I have no idea how any of this will go between the rain and the forest fire smoke alerts. Look at the sky in the Old Port yesterday:

TV-wise, I’m between shows right now. The last one I watched was season 2 of Girls5Eva which I cannot recommend strongly enough to my fellow Millenials. Next one is probably The Great ?

currently reading: The Toss of a Lemon by Padma Viswanathan. I’ve probably been reading it for half a year because the fanfics my fellow The English fans write are all novel length (and I’m STILL not caught up with @combat-librarian’s latest).

current obsession:  Too overwhelmed to be obsessed. June has been a massive stress fest of trying not to forget anything school (I swear, they had some special event every other day), work, or baseball-related, while effusively cursing myself for not managing to finish anything writing-wise, even though I’ve had multiple half-baked chapters in limbo ever since finishing Acikskatakusiir. But now school is finally over, I’m off work for this holiday week, and I’m getting the hang of juggling multiple teams, so hopefully I’ll be able to edit a decent chapter or two out of the 12K words written. Or not, and they’ll all stay in WIP Land for another month, and maybe another two after that, all the way until Fall and I get my evenings and brain back.

tagging @divinecomedienne, @fericita-s, @jomiddlemarch, @theimprobable1, @laiqualaurelote, @broadwaybaggins​ and anyone else who wants to play!

[artkaninchenbau]

A h-heartfelt reunion..?

Bonus

[egophiliac]

bring your son to work day

[kcrabb88]

It's truly wild to me how many people out there don't understand that the Star Wars prequels are a tragedy or how tragedies work.

Posts like "these are the Jedi failed movies" truly just make me shake my head. They're actually the "fascism wears a smile until it strikes you down and then it's too late" movies. They're the "the senate became corrupt and clapped in the face of genocide" movies. They're the "make people scared enough of war until they accept authoritarianism" movies. They're the "fear and possessiveness will tear you up on the inside" movies. The Jedi were the heroes of lore, people loved and looked up to them, looked to them for safety, and then too much got put on their shoulders on purpose by Palpatine, and also by a senate that didn't want to act (not you Padme and Bail and Mon, you're perfect). They were drafted and used and scapegoated, which is, you know, a tenet of the vast majority of authoritarian governments (Hitler and Stalin, for instance, might be on different ends of the political spectrum, but they sure both did scapegoat specific groups and commit mass murder, just differently).

When some people say "these movies are about the fall of the Jedi" what they mean is "the Jedi failed" but that's not what "the fall of the Jedi means." It means they were wiped the fuck OUT. Like, Jesus, in Rogue One Tarkin is talking about burning out the final MEMORY of the Jedi by blowing up the holy city in Jedha. Palpatine had to get rid of the Jedi because to get rid of the Jedi was to get rid of the final people standing in his way after he had already worn them out. His intention was not only to kill them, but to alter the galaxy's entire perception of them. To rip away hope. People are always looking for the Jedi to be Bad or nitpick their mistakes (because while other people are allowed to make mistakes, the Jedi never are). Palpatine made himself look like a benevolent grandpa who would keep everyone safe. And that, more than anything, is what gave him SO much power. He stole the narrative.

It's just like. Of course WE know what was going to happen! We know from watching the OT that the PT can only end in tragedy. But the characters don't know that! They don't have all the info! That's how a tragic story structure works. We see it coming and they can't.

Anyway. The Jedi are laser-sword wielding monks with psychic powers who just wanted to do what they could to help. The world would be better if more folks remembered that.

[lemonbubble]

seeing that "achievement unlocked, survived tumblr porn ban" post being reblogged by people who LITERALLY RETURNED FROM TWITTER AFTER HEARING THE NEWS

YOU did not "survive the porn ban", you ran away!! you abandoned your blog for twitter, and now you come crawling back and act like you've been here the entire time????? THIS IS STOLEN VALOR

[noodles-and-tea]

So what if Fiddleford ruffled past!Stanley's hair covering his eyes, causing him to resemble Tate (imagine the angst)

Dude he misses his kid so much :((((

[megueggu]

pet her! for @pup_hime ✨

[zendayacolemann]

RHAENYRA TARGARYEN and JACAERYS VELARYON House of the Dragon: Season Two

[gunstellations]

safety first! 🏍️🏍️

[bunnieswithknives]

AU based off Nature except I kept thinking about it too hard. Dales not a good dad, but its such an easy problem for him to throw money at, and what do you do when a part is damaged? Well, you replace it.

Basically an AU where Dev gets to experience medical trauma and realizes much sooner how much his dad doesn't love him

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Kiss Kiss Fallen Tree!

[First] Prev <–-> Next

[gigamuffinsofie]

the ghostbusters

[aq2003]

the way hamlet acts in act 5 scene 1 juuuust clicked to me. like my impression was "smh my head he is so toxic, he did NOT love ophelia as much as laertes did, what is wrong with him" but actually i think the thing that sets him off isn't just laertes' display of grief, it's also how everyone takes it seriously. everyone treats ophelia's funeral like a funeral and is sympathetic to laertes and understanding of his desire to jump in a grave with her etc but these same people around hamlet expected him to celebrate his uncle's coronation and move on from his father's death at the same time. in that moment hamlet sees laertes as similar to the actor narrating priam's death in act 2 scene 2 and it makes him SO mad (and he regrets it later in act 5 scene 2 which is after he realizes laertes' emotions are as real as his own. probably why he calls him "brother" as well)

[shepscapades]

Not quite

[tommystummy]

The amount of distance they closed is insane. Like Tommy was allllll the way in the dining room and those two moved together so fluidly that that it wasn’t until the piano started playing that we noticed how close they were to each other. Poetic Cinema

[heartorbit]

catch us if you can! ☆