#ofc the answer is obvious

[the-curious-curer]

Random rant: English fandoms especially is a weird place, on one hand you have people cheering for series romanticizing serial killers (Dahmer) and incest (House of Dragon) but on the other, people shipping gay teenage boys from anime get called out for “misogyny” and “ped0philia” and so on.

[mondstalgia]

"Please re-enact your 'coffee, tea or me' video"

[khr-doodling]

tfw the person you love with all your being loses the round and is killed in front of your eyes

[danothan]

i think above all else, i tie my aro identity to my autism. like sometimes i wonder if i’m aro just bc i’m autistic, and ykw that’s totally fine for me lol

and while we’re at it, that might be the case for my gender too. being non-binary is quite literally rejecting the binary, and being aro basically subscribes you to relationship anarchy, which also inherently rejects societal norms

that’s so peculiar to me now looking back on myself as a child. i knew romance and gender weren’t fake, but they definitely didn’t feel real lol. i wonder if other queer ppl felt this early on too, and if being neurodivergent makes a difference

i remember being incredibly frustrated every time gender was brought up with validity. “boys and girls” was like saying “cats and dogs.” it’s a phrase to communicate an idea, but we all know they’re not the only ones. romance didn’t rly frustrate me so much as it felt like participating in a game. it was fun choosing ppl to have a crush on, until i was on the receiving end. like, we’re still playing, right?

ppl always say autism means you don’t get social cues, but i don’t think i was misunderstanding anything. i think i was just questioning their value

[camellcat]

CAMPBELL BAIN??? TRANS???? YES OR NO??

YES I ANSWER YES!!!

I think about that one post that said campbell had t-boy swag literally all the time it plays on repeat in my head I've simply never heard truer words

[gncrezan]

“I wouldn’t ask you to drop everything and return if I didn’t believe in it. The future of the Order, our history, our ways—everything may depend on it. Please come. —Cenric. P.S. I hope you are well.”  |  “The Spire has fallen. The survivors have dispersed into the wilderness for now. If your former master lives, I do not know where he has gone. Cenric was quite aggrieved when you did not return for the summit, but now I am sure he is relieved.”

thinking about the rhys + cenric dynamic and i am so unwell

[dreamcrow]

I need some Hot Crow Takes on what was the worst example of Villain Decay throughout ToA. also on what Leonora Janeth uses in her hair

send me a meta prompt (currently closed); thank you for the ask!

the arcane and esoteric mysteries of janeth's haircare regimen are beyond my humble (straight-haired) supposings. but for the villain decay? oh, morgana, hands down. 

gunmar is spooky, but a bit of a ham. for most of trollhunters, he’s also relatively distant. bular is a lot closer, and much more of an immediate threat, but he’s always ultimately subordinate (either to stricklander or his father) and he does, in the end, get got by a teenager. angor is initially presented as terrifying, and rightly so, but even if he becomes sympathetic he’s always formidable; stricklander starts out pretty nefarious (especially if you think about some of the implications of e.g. feeding bular a human security guard) but is of course, in proper gdt fashion, domesticated by wuv. obviously i have niche side blorbo brain fungus re: the arcane order but it's hard to assess their actual "villain decay" without having to think about That Film. at any rate, i don't think they're actually the worst example in toa: despite a concept/design that fucks so absolutely severely, once they get on screen, they're not actually built up all that much (or...well). it takes them less than the space of an episode (22 minutes) to go from "dread, ancient terrors that even merlin is afraid of" to "merlin shooing away them, the green knight, and their evil floating skull castle with less effort than he usually spares to criticize douxie." but that's another post.

morgana, though. part of what made her such a compelling villain was how little arthur figured in trollhunters. the existence of merlin implies the existence of arthur, of course, but in trollhunters arthur isn't there at all. instead, we get the negative space of him: his right hand (merlin) and the anti-arthur (morgana). obviously this is partly her role in arthuriana proper, but it also strikes me as pretty deliberate here: merlin's liege vs. merlin's student (and that liege's sister); humanity's last best hope vs. the queen of the otherworld; the king under the mountain vs. the witch under arcadia. i was not very tuned into morgana when i first got into trollhunters, but looking back over the series for this ask, the parallels are so obvious. and so tight! i wouldn't be surprised if some of this was even deliberate.

and the thing is: trollhunters has enough space as a series that its antagonists don't really have to pull their punches. morgana was nasty in trollhunters. pale lady, baba yaga, eldritch queen, mother of monsters—holy shit, right? and she's creepy, too: all muttering whispers and dread ancient magic! she takes angor’s soul, and then his free will. she taunts stricklander while possessing the body of one of his students (while threatening the permanent exile of two more to the depression dimension), and then in the guise of the human he's in love with. speaking to her faithful children—who only exist through morally dubious, unpleasant processes, for which she is implied to be responsible—via institutional heirloom phonograph! she's so much more connected to the shadow realm, here, probably the most compelling justification for reading shadow magic as dangerous. she's the big bad behind angor and gunmar (while playing them both against each other). she absolutely feels evenly paired with merlin, and (rightly) kicks his ass through most of the battle of the eternal night. she's evil but charismatic and even despite all that still a little human: when she taunts jim for not knowing merlin used her hand for the amulet, it isn't without a shadow of what must have been an ancient hurt.

and then. wizards. jesus christ (tired ben affleck smoking dot jpg)

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[mossflower]

loki season two has me screaming crying throwing up trying not to get dragged back into the mcu trenches

[youaremysunshine-court]

One thing I don't understand is, in the second logbook the writer says that the terris prophecies had changed to fit Alendi long before Rashek took the power from the well of ascension, then it changes again to fit Vin in hoa. So when Sazed is comparing notes with the kandra, wouldn't they both have the wrong prophecies?

[tottmnt]

List 5 things that makes you happy!

my cat!

helping plan my brother’s wedding

collecting/listening to my records

my creative writing class

spiderverse

thank you for this ask, you’re so nice!!

[lavenoon]

*Sets off a stink bomb in your inbox*

-turns out to be floral scented-

so i need you to know that in my notifs, the big text didn't show, so this was what I woke up to:

and I scrolled so long to make sense of it, thinking there was another ask I missed or something, until I finally clicked on the ask and saw its full form

thank you for the room freshener though, it's been smelling like garlic and salmon after recent cooking adventures

[chronicbeans]

Heyo! Not your average post, but I wanna make this at the request/approval of my good ol'pal, @bottombrovince! They've been having some GI problems recently (like really bad tbh), and are a bit scared to go to the doctor. I've told them I'll go with them if they go, but they are still a bit anxious. I really care about them, and it's been going on for long enough that they have thought it was normal for all these years (they are a grown adult btw). So, we are both making polls! I wanna make mine to show how many people care enough to want them to go, lol. Theirs is explaining a separate issue that they have also been having. We're going to reblog each other's posts too for more exposure.

If you want to show love and support in the comments that will be appreciated. I plan to read them out to give them support. They have a fear of doctors and haven't seen a medical doctor in years due to their fear, so... They kinda need it! Pls and thank you! Love y'all! 💕

(Little edition: They said I could say it is possibly Celiac and/or IBS. They haven't gone but they know both run in their family)

[maiteo]

Umm since when did u find palhinha cute 👀

oh me n João go way back!

[t4tbedehopmar]

[lunaetis]

actually. hem hem. miss lumine can we get your feelings on a certain acting grand sage.

─「蛍」─  " my feelings ? about alhaitham ? " the question came a bit of a surprise, but the OUTLANDER still considered it seriously despite not knowing why the sudden curiosity. " i think he's reliable. most people don't really understand him, or misunderstand him. his words can sometimes be rather sharp and blunt, but i don't think he means anything bad by it. at least that's what i thought. " she tucked a finger under her chin, tilting her head in thoughts. what else ...

                " something about him makes me feel really safe around. i feel like i could let my guard down with him. being next to him gives me a sense of calmness, and ... belonging. does that make sense ? " it did, for her. after all, she was a traveler, she didn't feel like she belonged ANYWHERE. so it was a big deal for her to find a sense of sanctuary, not in a place, but in someone. there was a small pause, as though she was contemplating if she should say the next word, and then — she smiled. softly, warmly.

                " being around him makes me happy. " i adore him dearly so.