#they're really incredible live

[cuntvonkrolock]

i need to see simple plan live again they were so fucking awesome

[oloreandil]

as a chronically ill person with asthenia and particular ways of speaking, i've always felt uncomfortable with how Frodo is treated as a weakling and a wimp by so many lotr fans. not only does it ignore how insanely heavy the weight of his burden is (regardless of how constantly the narrative and characters repeat it in like. extremely plain terms), but it often leads to ableist comments of "well other characters were in pain too and they dealt with it better, AND without whining all the time :/"

however, listening to the audiobook, i'm only now realising why i don't like the treatment of Sam's deference to Frodo and their interactions during their quest. yes, you can absolutely do a class analysis of their relationship (Frodo is his "master" in the aristocratic sense of the term, and the narrative treats is as a quality that he "knows his place" - subservience). yes, Frodo sometimes lashes out at Sam unjustly (which is treated as bad by the narrative, again very plainly)

but, and i cannot stress this enough, having a Sam by your side as a disabled person on any kind of adventure is literally the only way to stay alive. Sam notices his health fluctuations, is on the lookout for ring-symptoms that Frodo may not even have noticed yet, makes sure that Frodo has the accommodation he needs to be in as little pain as possible as they live through the great evils of their time... Frodo relies heavily on Sam's support. like any disabled person on a year-long march would need to. especially when your condition keeps worsening

it feels so incredibly loving and revolutionary that, in Rivendell, when he sees Frodo awake for the first time since Elrond healed him of the Morgul blade, Sam takes Frodo's left hand in his and shyly says he's glad it's warm again. i don't think Frodo knew how cold it'd gone, or thought anyone else had noticed, and indeed the narration moves on quickly. but those moments are constant and deeply touching. it's hard to articulate just how accurate Frodo's journey is to my own disabled journey, and how profound it is that Sam's care is foundational to saving the world

[cryptidplays]

Wow, it sure has been a Monday!

Anyhow, in today's video I play The Kid at the Back (It is restricted, so click the link below the image of the thumbnail)

(For anyone wondering why this is sooooo late, please read the tags)

Video Link Here

[moonchild-in-blue]

Anyways. Shout out to the Vesselettes because they're doing a FENOMENAL job and I don't see enough appreciation for my girlies.

The live version of Ascensionism sounds beautifully gorgeous. When they come in and do that harmony after "diamonds in the trees, pentagrams in the night sky" ??

Yeah. I am legitimately ascending.

[the-magpie-archives]

I love blogging about tma as a Londoner because the majority of the fandom don't live here so I could say the most insane bullshit ever and it'd be really hard to disprove...

Anyways Breekon and Hope delivered my amazon package today how fucked up is that?

[cuntwrap--supreme]

I've been doing a lot of grocery delivery in the country lately, so I ordered myself a nice bumper sticker so I fit in with everyone else's stuff :)

I've seen a lot of these lately, but they were all of a pride flag I don't recognize. Not sure which gender/sexuality has the red and white stripes with the blue with white stars in the corner, but I guess it's an ok design. The rainbow is the traditional LGBT flag, though, so I feel it symbolizes the collective queer community a little better and will be a little more noticeable/recognizable than niche flags, like this stars and stripes guy.

[citnamora]

Growing up is realizing you don't hate shipping, you just really wish the execution of it was less amatonormative

[butchsophiewalten]

Man this is so random but this theory is stuck in my head and I wanna see how other people feel about it because I don't see people talk about it a lot (I have no clue if the link will go through properly since I've never put a link in a ask box)

https://www.tumblr.com/art-w0rm/667910993425350656/theory-time

Oh god not this theory again. I really truly try not to be mean to people for no good reason on this blog, but this theory is literally one of the stupidest fucking things I've ever seen in my entire life. I don't talk about this theory because to me it's like the walten files theory equivalent of that tubby custard mechanically separated chicken post.

Most of the time I genuinely don't even consider it worthy of my time, because it's nonsense, but this is a very nicely worded ask, and I really don't mean to dedicate any of the vitriol I hold towards this theory to You, poor anonymous person, so I will deconstruct it. I will go through the theory point-by-point and deconstruct why I disagree with it.

First up, this:

Showbear is not a character in The Walten Files anymore. Showbear was fully retconned and is never going to appear in the series again. He was effectively just a cameo of ThunderingStatic's (one of Martin's friends) OC, but when The Walten Files blew up and people started assuming Showbear was Martin's character, Static decided to withdraw his character from the series and focus putting him in other projects.

Martin talked about this on Twitter forever ago, but I wouldn't be able to find that tweet now. But here's a bit from the interview he did with KnowYourMeme back in 2021 where he talks about it:

Now this:

This is just stupid to me? Like a complete logical incongruity? I barely even know how describe what is dumb about this because I can't even fathom how anyone draws this conclusion from this information. How is it strange for a man to say 'if my wife isn't home by the time she said she was going to be, let me know, in case something happened.'????? Why would Rosemary be out cheating on her husband with her fucking daughter with her??? If Rosemary was cheating on her husband why would her whole life collapse when he went missing? If Rosemary was cheating on her husband why would she show up at the restaurant every day after he disappeared asking if anyone had seen him and hoping to find him alive??? Why would she make paintings of herself and him together after he disappeared????? What the fuck are you talking about?

Ok now this:

Whatever. This is maybe the most coherent part of the theory, to me. I definitely agree that Sha evokes a 'wolf in sheep's clothing' sort of aesthetic, but I do remember Martin saying something in a Twitter Q&A at one point about how that wasn't actually intentional, and that Bon was the character he actually meant to seem unusually predatory. I looked for a while and couldn't find a screenshot of that, but I did find this one where he says the thing about Bon:

So whatever. take that with a grain of salt.

I don't even know what to say. here. Whatever. sure she was rolling in the hay

yeah Rosemary is asking if she's still beautiful because she cheated on her husband and not because she was chopped up and stuffed inside a big animatronic sheep. I think this is correct and is the True Deep Lore.of the walten files. I'm sure this doesn't have anything to do with the recurring motif of the double-meaning behind the word Beautiful either.

I don't know why it's weird that the lost lingering spirit of a mother would be calling out to her only living child. I Don't know why that needs additional explanation involving this batshit infidelity conspiracy theory.

Sha's chest is also ripped out

So is Banny's, honestly? Just a little less?

ok now this:

I guess I can't disprove this except that I think this is dumb. I think this is a really incredibly stupid logical leap to make. Y'know I really meant to go into this levelheadedly and very calmly go through every point and talk about why I think it's Decisively Disagreeable or whatever but I can't. I really can't. I just cannot keep my patience with this sort of thing.

You'd think if there was an infidelity aspect here it would've been lampshaded in some respect, at all, in the old /sophiewalten findjackwalten page text. Where it's literally Sophie talking to Jenny about what she remembers about her family.

Especially if the idea is that Sophie is meant to have been there. You'd think something like that would have come up here. Not 'she was nice and a good mom until my dad disappeared and her mental health started getting worse'

[fellsilver]

I'm still on this tangent. There's also the fact that Mys.tra's Chosen literally cannot be happy in a relationship unless she wills it. I understand the whole "relationships can't prosper unless god ordains it" etc etc, but that's not how things work in this setting. People CAN be happy without a god ordaining it. Not all things happen by a deity's will. This is another instance of Mys.tra claiming control of her Chosen's lives. I 100% understand why she does it, but it's still a difficult reality. One of the hundred sacrifices you make when you become a Chosen that no one can prepare you for and that you won't understand the burden of til it's too late.

[shiroselia]

Play 13 Sentinels I am no longer asking

[rapidhighway]

Hnngg

[thefabelmans2022]

well that's just not true at all is it.

[inamindfarfaraway]

A Series of Unfortunate Events crossover AU with The Incredibles where the Baudelaires are a family of supers. Bertrand and Beatrice used to be a superhero team, albeit with murky pasts. Syndrome, their former biggest fan, lures them to Nomanisan Island and kills them with the Omnidroid, then has it declared a tragic accident. Their three children are now orphans. Hiding their powers is more important than ever. People who know tend to be less sympathetic and more suspicious and the National Super Agency is inclined to put the quietness of their lives above the quality of them. Good thing that their totally legitimate relative Buddy Pine is around to foster them right away! He’s a brilliant inventor with a billion-dollar company! He even loves superheroes and offers to train the kids in his advanced facility! What could possibly go wrong?

Fourteen-year-old Violet can generate and control electricity. However, she’s inexperienced at doing so in visible, direct ways. Manipulating currents through materials and inside machines or even her own nervous system (stimulating her muscles to keep herself awake, focused or move with more energy, for example) is easier for her. She gets more comfortable producing raw electricity over time, especially when she needs to protect her siblings. She could control other people’s nervous systems, but doesn’t want to. All technology fascinates her. To complement her intuitive mastery of electronics, she has great skill in mechanical engineering and the resourcefulness to invent equipment out of whatever is available. Being a living battery only enhances what she can create. Since extended use of her power raises her hair with static electricity, she wears her hair securely braided and tied with a ribbon.

Twelve-year-old Klaus has extrasensory perception which, based on his highly verbal thought process as an avid bookworm, is attuned to words. He can hear people’s thoughts, but needs to concentrate to search for information below the surface, filter through the vast swathes of irrelevant and interpret the nonverbal thoughts and emotions mixed in. So it’s often like reading an extremely dense book full of words you don’t know. But he can figure those unknowns out through his keen reasoning. He can also mentally sense the presence of physical text nearby, read it even if he can’t see it and scan a space for specific words, for example to find a certain book in a library. Between this and his photographic memory, he’s a fantastic researcher. His eyes glow faintly the harder he pushes his powers. His glasses help to disguise that on top of correcting his vision, refracting the light, so that quirk will only expose him if they’re lost or broken.

One-year-old Sunny has an invulnerable digestive system that can process anything with no ill effects. Glass, poison, fire. Her teeth are superhumanly durable and sharp. But while nothing along the tube from her jaw to her rear end will bleed, burn or break, the rest of her can, therefore she should still be careful how she ingests hazardous things. And just because she can eat and drink everything, doesn’t mean she likes every taste and texture. She actually has a refined palette and prodigious culinary talents.

[skyward-floored]

(If you’re still taking incredibles au prompts) Since we have the first time twilight became a wolf, what about the first time legend went invisible? Poor time and malon must have been so stressed!

Hehe, boy were they. And this time Sky and Warriors get in on the panic too! Everybody was just generally very stressed all around lol.

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“Warriors, don’t leave your bag by the door. Time’ll trip over it if it stays there and he’ll be back soon.”

Warriors blinked at Malon's request, and wordlessly moved his backpack away from the doorstep, Sky slipping out of his shoes next to him. Malon watched the two of them take off their coats and set their muddy shoes aside, and sighed to herself.

They’d both been so quiet lately.

“Wars, would you mind bringing Legend down here? He was fussing a minute ago,” she asked, and Warriors nodded, grabbing his backpack to put away and trailing up the stairs. Sky joined Malon in the kitchen where she’d started to work on dinner, and sat down with a sleepy yawn, head resting on his arms.

“How was school?” Malon asked with a smile, and Sky shrugged as he stretched his wings out with a sigh.

“Okay. Sun’s sick so she stayed home. Probably better she wasn’t there anyway, Groose was being a jerk.”

“How so?” Malon asked suspiciously, but Sky just shrugged.

Malon gave him a look, but he didn’t reply, even when she raised an eyebrow in his direction. She thought she saw him wince a little when he stretched his arm out, but decided she wouldn’t push for now.

“Wars is taking his sweet time,” she noticed after a couple minutes of nothing but the sounds of her cooking. “Would you mind checking on him? Maybe see if Twilight is finished napping too.”

“Sure thing,” Sky answered, and slipped past her out of the room, folding up his wings as he went.

Malon heard the thumps of him going up the stairs, and then the creak of the floor as Sky entered the room where the cradle was. There was a long period of silence, and Malon got distracted with her cooking again, chopping up some vegetables for soup.

But it couldn’t have been more than a few minutes before two pairs of footsteps tromped back down the stairs, and Time’s two teenage brothers ran into the kitchen, looking distressed.

“Malon he’s not in there, we can’t find him anywhere—” Sky said breathlessly, and Malon turned to look at the two, taking in their frantic expressions.

“What are you talking about?” she asked confusedly, and Sky swallowed, and caught his breath.

“We... we can’t find Legend,” he said in a small voice.

Malon stared.

“What do you mean you can’t find him?” she asked, her heart starting to thud. “He should be in his cradle, he was napping in there not half an hour ago!”

“We know, I just... he’s not there anymore,” Warriors said, fidgeting nervously. “And we looked all over the room Malon, we... I don’t know where he could be.”

Malon felt the blood drain out of her face.

“Well where could he have gone?” she asked, just barely keeping the panic out of her voice, and Warriors and Sky exchanged worried looks.

Right at that moment the front door opened and Time came inside, his expression rather lost in thought. He looked up when he noticed them all standing in the doorway though, and picked up on the tense atmosphere, eyes flickering just a bit.

“What’s going on?” he asked sharply, and Warriors quickly explained.

“It’s like he just disappeared, there's no sign of him!” Sky said, wings flapping. “We looked all over, but he wasn’t anywhere we looked, bunny or not.”

“And Twilight’s still in his room, but Legend just... he’s not there,” Warriors added.

Time’s face creased, and Malon watched him think a moment, a hand on his chin. He was about to speak when a thought suddenly occurred to Malon and she gasped, catching his attention.

“Time you don’t think— could someone have taken him?” she breathed, her heart skipping a beat at the thought.

They’d made so many enemies over the years, her and Time and the boys... could someone have somehow found out their identities? Realized they were supers? Followed them home and... and taken their son?

Time put an arm around her as she spoke, giving her a reassuring look. She could see the fear that appeared on his face though, and she squeezed his hand when it ended up in hers.

“You would have noticed, there’s no way anyone could have gotten in here without us seeing,” Warriors argued, and he looked around the house. “They would’ve made a mess or something, and the room looks just like it did this morning. And besides... wouldn’t they have taken Twilight as well?”

Malon and Time exchanged looks, and though the possibility of Legend being kidnapped still made Malon’s heart race with fear, she could see the sense in Warriors’ words.

“You’re right,” Time said with a slow exhale. “He must be here somewhere. Could he have hopped out of his crib?”

“We already looked all around the room, there wasn’t any sign of him,” Sky said in a quiet voice.

Time hummed thoughtfully to himself, arm still around Malon.

“We’ll go look again, in case you missed something,” he decided, already walking up the stairs. “And if we still can’t find him, we’ll... go from there. You boys check around the hallway, maybe he somehow got out there."

Malon nodded and followed him, dinner forgotten as Sky and Warriors trailed behind her.

“Twilight is good at sniffing things out,” Sky said almost to himself. “I wonder if we should wake him up and see if he could help.”

“I think he’s too good at sniffing things out,” Warriors grumbled. “He keeps finding my shoes and chewing them up.”

“It’s a good thought Sky, we’ll see,” Malon said with a smile she tried to keep from being strained.

They all reached the room where Legend’s cradle was, and sure enough, the bed was completely empty. Malon bit her lip, then joined the others in searching, checking every nook and cranny of the room while the boys checked the hall.

Legend had escaped his bed once before, turning into a rabbit and leaping over the edge onto the rug. But since then Time had raised the edge, and they’d made sure it was too tall for Legend to escape from.

And yet, here they were.

The longer Malon searched with no sign of Legend, the more frantic she found herself getting, and she could tell Time was getting the same way, his movements swifter than strictly necessary.

“Wait. Do you hear that?”

The boys poked their heads in the doorway and went quiet at Time's sudden words, and Malon strained her ears, intently listening.

And then a squeaking sound came from the crib.

They all turned as one to face it, and Malon quickly crossed the room and looked inside, but it remained just as empty as it had when she’d looked earlier. She felt her heart sink again, and shook her head at Time’s look, lowering her head.

Then the sheet moved.

Malon startled, and after only a moment’s hesitation, reached her hand towards where she was certain there hadn’t been a crease in the sheets before now.

Could it be..?

Something soft brushed her fingertips as Malon carefully felt forward, and despite how there was absolutely nothing for her fingers to be touching, there was something under her hand.

“I think... I think he’s here,” she said in a dumbfounded voice, feeling around and finding two soft ears she was rather familiar with. Time came up next to her, Sky and Warriors peering over his shoulders, and Malon pulled her husband’s hand down to where she could feel fur.

As Time’s hand rested on the invisible fur though, there was another squeaking sound, and a tiny pink rabbit shimmered into view, sitting happily in the crib. Everyone let out a sigh of relief at the sight, and Malon immediately gathered Legend into her arms, her frantic heartbeat finally slowing.

“Invisibility?” Sky said in disbelief, looking down at Legend, and Time nodded, looking equally astonished and exhausted.

“It looks like it.”

“Or rather, doesn’t look like it,” Warriors commented with a relieved smile, and Sky thwacked him with a wing.

“Sometimes babies have more than one power when they’re small, I suppose we shouldn’t be too surprised,” Time hummed, brushing a relieved hand over Legend’s fur.

“So is he going to keep the bunny thing, or the invisibility?” Sky asked curiously, and Time shrugged as Legend popped back into a hylian again, giggling as Malon held him close.

“I hope he drops the invisibility, otherwise we’re going to spend an awful lot of time trying to find him,” Warriors commented dryly.

"I can't help but agree with you on that," Time sighed as he looked down at Legend, and the baby giggled again, almost like he knew that he'd caused some trouble.

Malon just sighed, and smiled as she held him close.

[gaminegay]

I am buying an expensive painting of my grandmas farms' mountain view I just want her to remember it before she dies

[sunshineram]

what a stunning before and after lol (august 8th-29th)

my moms mother of thousands(that was outside‚ potted) got bad root rot, so i snipped it to try and save it! it obviously worked- i swear this is the same plant LMAO look at all those plantlets!!!