#reposting from discord

[crowsinmystarship]

They missed an opportunity to canonize the Spock helmet.

[fullscoreshenanigans]

reread chapter 10 and can you believe

[snail-drop]

boy with no name (it's anders as a young apprentice in ferelden's circle and he's planning his 3rd escape attempt)

i have a lot of feelings about his name being an act of noncompliance which then serves to define his character. we never get his birth name and honestly that's sick as hell.

some pals are replaying the DA series and i've joined them (in the middle of da2 currently), you'll see more from me lmao

[sweetparty]

are there any pink and black pixels?

[nowwithgaypheromones]

the scrolling through rlmblr experience

[suzannahnatters]

Many people have asked me why I say THE RINGS OF POWER is far more faithful to the spirit of Tolkien’s work than the Peter Jackson films. Let me explain. No, there is too much. Let me sum up.

(Warning: if you deeply love the Jackson movies, feel free not to read this. I’ve been meditating on this for 20+ years. You are not going to argue me out of any of it.)

FIRST – Jackson is, how shall we put it, not sufficiently familiar with Tolkien or his influences. He repeatedly and stubbornly made mistakes both large and small. Tolkien was a master of medieval military tactics. Jackson... is not. Every military decision taken by the characters in Jackson’s TWO TOWERS is pure stupidity. In Jackson’s RETURN OF THE KING, Aragorn casually beheads the Mouth of Sauron, which is a war crime, since the Mouth is Sauron’s ambassador. Jackson’s Eowyn tries to flirt with Aragorn by cooking him stew, even though she is a noblewoman from the warrior class who was raised to act as a civil and military leader in a medieval-coded society where cooking is not intrinsically linked to femininity. Jackson’s Theoden, grieving over the death of his son, utters the words “No parent should have to grieve the death of their child,” which is the kind of sentiment only imaginable in a society where infant mortality and death in battle is a good deal rarer than among the Anglo-Saxon Cossacks during the War of the Rings. Jackson’s Dwarf women are reduced to a punchline; Tolkien’s were miners, craftspeople and adventurers in their own right.

I won’t go on. BUT I COULD.

SECOND – One problem that by itself ought to have disqualified Jackson from adapting Tolkien, is that he is incapable of depicting or even understanding goodness the way Tolkien does. This deeply pervades all Jackson’s films. Jackson’s idea of goodness is ethereal, anaemic, and ineffective before gross and creepy evil. His Elves are not the vivid, passionate, hearty warriors Tolkien wrote: they pluck mistily at harps and feed on spinach. (TROP has Galadriel scaling frozen cliffs and Elrond splitting boulders. That’s FAR more like it).

Tolkien insisted on the concept of Faerie as being foundational to his work. This is a difficult concept to explain. It meant the beauty and glory of Valinor, yes. But it also meant an element of otherworldly, yet immanent, beauty and glory in Middle Earth itself. This is a good summary:

“Faerie may be roughly translated as Magic, but not the vulgar magic of the magician; it is rather magic "of a particular mood and power," and it does not have its end in itself but in its operations. Among these operations are "the satisfaction of certain primordial human desires" such as the desire "to survey the depths of space and time" and the desire "to hold communion with other living things."” (Source: https://www.ewtn.com/.../tolkien-and-the-fairy-story-4094)

When Lewis said of THE LORD OF THE RINGS, “here are beauties that pierce like swords”, that’s that he meant. Peter Jackson had no sense of Faerie. When, at the end of his trilogy, he has his characters get on a ship to go to the Undying Lands, he makes it a metaphor for death. Death! Tollkien’s Valinor isn’t the afterlife; it’s the earthly paradise of his world. Jackson cannot imagine an earthly or material locus of goodness.

This affects many of his narrative decisions. In the book Faramir resists the temptation of the Ring handily. Jackson’s Faramir succumbs to the power of the Ring and has to be scared straight. Jackson justified this by saying that Faramir needed to fall to the Ring’s temptation so that it remained an effective narrative threat. Basically, having failed to grasp the importance of Tolkien’s vision of powerful and present goodness and beauty in the first place, Jackson believed he needed to further degrade it for the sake of the story.

Obviously, THE RINGS OF POWER isn’t perfect, and still has plenty of time to betray its early promise. However, so far its showrunners appear to have a far better grasp of Faerie, beauty, and goodness than Jackson ever did. Its vision of Valinor is ineffably beautiful while still home to flawed living people. Its Elves are noble, ceremonious, dignified, warm, and grave. It is also actively pursuing Tolkien’s original themes. Elanor has a discussion of Providence that contains intentional echoes of “The Shadow of the Past” in LOTR, but there are also meditations on art and mortality that show an attempt to engage with themes Tolkien himself said were foundational to his entire work (Letter #131). These themes may yet be mishandled: but THE RINGS OF POWER has clearly at least READ the assignment. (Jackson’s films, by comparison, did dumb stuff like having Theoden, who in the books is simply dealing with depression, be literally possessed by Saruman and in need of exorcism “because exorcism is a Catholic thing and Tolkien was a Catholic, lol!”)

Jackson didn’t completely obscure the beauty and goodness of Tolkien, and I’m aware that THE RINGS OF POWER could not have happened without his pioneering and often sacrificial work in adapting the story to screen. I don’t want to discount the things that are good about his intentions, his work, and his love for the source material. But watching THE RINGS OF POWER was the moment when 20 years of frustration boiled over as I realised that, contrary to what I’d always told myself, it WAS possible to do Tolkien more justice than this. So far, I’m very pleased, and I’ll be waiting for future seasons with bated breath.

[side-quest-girl]

What if we reframed LG's actions as a desperate person doing, albeit to an extreme (and in an unhealthy way), what we have seen him and CXS do for so many others-- an attempt to process grief and regrets while visiting, but not altering, the past.

What if he took it too far, and dived too deep. What if he went in with the surface intention of never breaking his own rules (even the 12 hour one), even if deep down he probably knew it was a bad idea. Too raw, too personal, too addicting. Too soon. And what if he's gone through every picture like a mad man, going earlier and earlier, trying, not to save CXS (he knows he can't, shouldn't), but to extend his time with him as much as he can. 12 hours at a time.

But then, he gets to the last photo. The earliest. The day they met and LG's final chance to be with CXS as himself. And it's... too much. The little restraint LG has had with all the previous photos, back when he knew there were more pictures, more memories, to lose himself into, disappears. The dam breaks, and he lets himself drown. Lets himself go. Decides, even if overstaying his welcome means disappearing into the waves of time, forever drowning and trapped and unable to return to the present, that's okay. Because he doesn't have a present to return to. Not really, not one he can live in.

And so, he stays. Overstays the 12 hours and feels the last remnant he has of his CXS, the gold in his eyes, drain away. But that's okay, because to his slight surprise he doesn't drain away with it, and he now has something so much better than a remnant with him. CXS himself. One who doesn't remember him, remember them, sure. But a CXS that's alive and happy and that LG can finally have for more than 12 hours again.

...

And still, he broke one rule. He overstayed his dive. But he still remembers the other, more important one. Carved into his soul from all the times he and CXS had repeated it, he knows. Past or future, let them be.

And he will. He tries (and fails) to put the inevitable future out of his mind, and focuses on maintaining the past, step by step. And it kills him to do it, but he does. Because how can he not? The past must be preserved. Their future (their damned, heartbreaking future) must be preserved.

But then...

Despite doing everything in his power to keep things the same...

Things change.

LG knows it's his fault. The little missteps here and there have had a cascading effect (at least, he thinks that's the case... it's not like there's another meddling time traveler, is there?) and now everything is spiraling from fate's destined path. He's screwed up so much now. He could, should leave now and pray things return to how they were before, that time repairs itself from all his changes, somehow. But it's not just the small things. Nodes have changed. You can't turn back from that. And... oh, right, he can't go back now anyways. The gold is gone from him now, and he's trapped. And it's a terrifying feeling.... everything is changing from how it should be, and LG can't escape all the glaring reminders of just how badly he messed up, but...

It's actually a relief, deep down. Because the timeline is already unraveled, the future already undone. And now LG finally, finally has permission to do the one thing he could not justify doing in all the 12 hour dives before. LG can finally deliberately make changes. He no longer has to settle for letting himself drown in the unmovable tides of time, only to love and love and lose again, unable to do anything but watch and know. Now, LG can swim. He take take action.

Now, Lu Guang, can try to save Cheng Xiaoshi.

Because time has already changed. Nodes have already changed. There is no future to protect anymore. Just a person. Him.

[c13ar]

All of the Adelta scans from Vol. 113 of Cool-B!

The bottom Ooe chart is how much a character would help in a situation (specifically this one related to editing the magazine, but it says it can be generally applied to other hypothetical situations): the X axis is "Competent (left) Incompetent (right)" and the Y axis is "Helps (top) to Doesn't Help (bottom)"

[morhido]

*knocks gently* hey so can i push my "moving city is ecobrutalist" agenda real quick okay thank you

Okay okay SO ecobrutalism is a form of brutalism that attempts to rectify the adverse effects of brutalism (ugly and bad for the environment) by sticking a bunch of plants into the walls and windows HOWEVER this isn't sustainable in the longrun and only adds new problems as it tries to fix them.

The concrete of brutalism retains heat that will kill the plants. The plant roots can destroy buildings. It's like spraying perfume on dogshit and claiming that the dogshit has value now.

That's my vision for stewie's moving city, it's ugly and industrial with just enough greenery to keep people happy but not enough to be sustainable because he doesn't know enough about architecture vs urban planning to design a city proper. He claims to be helping by just disguising the existing problem. There is no war in ba sing se etc. etc. the moving city is not a safe little bubble, it is a constantly moving expanse of unsustainable land that threatens anything from the outside and keeps in anyone on the inside. A city is a city is a prison that will not survive the apocalypse no matter what stewie tries and yet he latches onto it like a lifeline. This city is his work, his masterpiece. His responsibility. His downfall.

[ppeasants]

thinking about hunter taking up landscape painting as an adult.

thinking about him taking it up as another creative outlet alongside palisman carving and sewing and calligraphy, as a way to share his appreciation for the damaged boiling isles, as a way to reclaim another love that belos stole away from him

because he definitely explored the isles a lot as a coven scout, as the golden guard. whether it was during recruitment campaigns or raids on more uncooperative settlements, he definitely saw the isles from literal head to toe

in my head, in the same way he fell in love with wild magic, he fell in love with the isles. no matter how often belos talked about the beauty of green trees and cold rain and fruit that didn't bite back, hunter found himself loving the red grass and bony trees and boiling waters

and years later, once he's come to terms with who he is and where he's come from, he finds himself falling in love with the boiling isles all over again. on his trips around gathering palistrom commissions and restoring broken villages and forests and just. living.

he finds a joy in the world around that he had to suppress because his uncle told him to, because it wasn't the human realm he belos promised to him, because it was the dirty realm of witches - even if he was never told that in as many words, he always felt the disdain in belos' mouth

and hunter paints landscapes of the snowy mountains of the knee, of the bustling markets of bonesborough, of the vertical forests of the left hand, of the calm waves of lake lacuna

in the same way that carving palisman for the ones he captured for belos, and sewing his wounds closed turned into sewing clothes, painting the demon realm is a way to reclaim the parts of his life that belos always controlled: his love of wild magic and of making and of his home

he paints to reclaim the world he was made to hate, the world that was almost destroyed, the world he found his love and joy and life in again

[dpwromcomfest]

Welcome to Deadpool and Wolverine Rom-Com Fest 2025!

Still stuck in DPW hell? Got a boner for rom-coms? Love to create Frankensteineqsue beauties for the world to see? Strap on, this might be the fest for you. Below is a list of rom-coms that can be claimed, starting now. The goal is to make a work for your claim that may be written content or a piece of art (both, if you're nasty) in the plot of that rom-com. Any medium of art and/or writing is allowed, but for fanfiction, there is a minimum requirement of 1500 words. This fest is any pairings (or no pairings at all <3 un-rom those coms) within in the DPW movieverse. If you want to participate, enter your contact details in this form and choose 5 of the prompts you’re interested in filling, starting with the first one being your most preferred. First come, first serve! Claims will close April 12th, and then you will have until June 30th to complete your work. On June 30th, we will start posting. There will be a few check-ins/reminders and a couple other points of contact before then, just so you don't forget or need to discuss participation. If you have any questions or concerns, contact this blog or @sleepwalk-living. You can also reach me on Discord @ andersontwerks, or join our Creator's Discord! Good luck, have fun!

Claims List:

13 Going on 30

Ella Enchanted

50 First Dates (claimed)

How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days

The Proposal (claimed)

Just Friends

Scott Pilgrim vs the World

Easy A

Kate and Leopold (claimed)

Overboard 

Notting Hill

When Harry Met Sally 

Sleepless in Seattle 

You’ve Got Mail (claimed)

The F Word/What If

Love Actually

The Kissing Booth 

Ticket to Paradise 

Holidate 

Marry Me

Friends With Benefits 

Grease (claimed)

The Princess Bride 

Enchanted (claimed)

Midnight in Paris 

Four Weddings and a Funeral 

The Parent Trap (claimed)

Princess Diaries (claimed)

Red White and Royal Blue (claimed)

About Time 

Crazy Stupid Love 

Runaway Bride 

Forgetting Sarah Marshall 

She’s The Man 

Pretty Woman (claimed)

Ghost

27 Dresses

Just My Luck (claimed)

Definitely Maybe

Hot Frosty (claimed)

(insert your choice here)

[hcunds]

calling all pervs: literate/novella, age gap smut please 🙏 (react if interested!! — ideas under the cut)

I only play older men, usually ones that are graying. if you don't like that, this call won't be for you. currently looking for mxf dynamics.

older male coach and his best athlete

pxrn mogul vs good girl (extra points for church-goin')

troubled txxn vs protective older man

virginity loss (tender + caring but painful)

dad's best friend and y/m

stepdad / daughter

captured - sl4ve - stockholm syndrome

themes & tropes - wanted

size differences

opposites attract

saviorism (older man saving younger woman)

paternal dynamics mixed into romance

innocent vs experienced

notes

x give me all those super girly feminine honeybun muses dammit! they deserve some love! x I heavily, heavily, heavily prefer to write against diverse fcs x discord or tumblr, your choice!

[starstruckodysseys]

for anyone wondering: i am in fact just sort of always like this

[grandvoyant]

Otherside Picnic is so good when it’s doing what it is good at…Just got to a bit in the third novel where Sorawo very casually drops something that sounds very traumatic for others, but is just something that she has accepted as true, and doesn’t care about talking about. She is more interested in talking about the direction it sent her in than the event itself.

Toriko stops her and hugs her and Sorawo can’t understand why she’s being given this sort of response at all, even if she’s otherwise desperate for Toriko’s affection, so it isn’t described in quite as needy or sweet a way as even the sorts of “she said I was pretty and it caused me to have a nuclear meltdown” moments of the first two novels.

The anime really robbed us by taking us away from the perspective of our damaged main character…That’s where all the depth is, in her handling of events.

Saving people begrudgingly and being annoyed with them and herself for going along with them, not wanting to make human connections despite being a deeply lonely person, that paradoxical desire she has to be close to Toriko in a hostile world because she feels it belongs only to her…Sorawo is such a good character!!!