#to be safe!

[tac-bat]

god this fucking freak /pos updated him from my old design while also taking inspo from the princess and the dragon route :3 OH and his wings are clipped if it wasn't clear!!

[poorly-drawn-monhun]

Origami crane looking ahh

[stagefoureddiediaz]

Also I’m super interested in the fact that this golf outfit fits buck perfectly - unlike all his other outfits that we’ve seen - plying into my buck is scheming for his fam theory - he is being true to himself and ultimately supporting his fam!!

An aside; He looks so good here that I’m not sure I’m going to survive seeing him in motion - the still is taking me out!

[ofwndrlnd]

fuck it we ball, teyvat exists in twst because why not - incoming spoilers for the natlan archon quest.

because xiuhcoatl replaces the traveler in this version of natlan's AQ - she has canonically died twice.

her first death was during her first expedition to the night kingdom in natlan - both her and kachina fell. while kachina's ancient name couldn't be found, mavuika was able to recover xiuhcoatl's. however, she volunteered to stay behind, refusing to leave kachina - a fellow member of the children of echoes - behind, especially considering kachina was still a child compared to the other champions who went with them.

her second death was during her second, and final, expedition to the night kingdom after mavuika expelled gosoythoth from the surface realm. gosoythoth took the form of her predecessor - her "father", the first xiuhcoatl - and overwhelmed her in combat. if anything, she had mavuika to thank. not just for keeping her alive and restoring both of their lives' flames, but for also proving that she was given the ancient name imani for a reason - to be a symbol of, and to bring, faith to the people of natlan.

but xiuhcoatl would never tell her peers that she's experienced death twice over, nor would she tell them in-depth of the horrors of the war against the abyss that her eyes had seen. the last thing she wants is for them to worry about her should she die a third time.

[jaqobis]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: The Wheel of Time (TV) Rating: Not Rated Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Rand al'Thor/Egwene al'Vere Characters: Egwene al'Vere, Rand al'Thor Summary:

"You've never come to see me alone," he observes, meeting her eyes.

Rand is unhurt, but she still knows him too well. However he affects composure, the long, silent hours in the dark have wrought their effects in him. The unbreakable barrier between him and the Source, its own torture to a channeler. The loss of his freedom.

A might-have-been, sometime after the events of season 2.

[seeinganewlight]

this episode was everything that i wanted it to be. the wait for game night was absolutely worth it

[wishfulsketching]

Silco and his terror of a daughter

[sidecast-text]

hey americans there is a recall on testosterone gel because they found benzene in it! please check the lot numbers on your batches, benzene is really not something you want to be rubbing into your skin, also you might be eligible for compensation because this is just insane what the fuck

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[meowthiroth]

bored now. here's some old art of my fursona

[foolfortune]

[vilea777]

sorry i cant hang out i forgot how to mimic human like behaviour

[anghraine]

I got a comment a few days ago (which I'm too lazy to dig up, sorry, esp since its argument is made so frequently) about how Faramir's rejection of the Ring vs Boromir's fall is basically insignificant because he(Faramir) was around it for a brief time while Boromir had to resist it for a protracted period. I've seen that point made a lot, but I'm not convinced tbh.

For one, even if you only consider in-story details, it typically ignores the increasing strength of the Ring over time as it approaches Mount Doom. Faramir didn't have to face a protracted temptation, but he did have to face a more powerful one than Boromir ever did. How the length of time vs intensity compares is pretty debatable, but it's a factor.

But the dismissal of the contrast also just seems a plain resistant reading that ignores (or denies) the treatment of the two incidents by the overall narrative. You can do that (and probably should at certain points), but I think it's important to be upfront about it. The narrative of LOTR pretty blatantly treats Boromir's and Faramir's differing responses as indicative of their underlying characters and not simply a difference in length of exposure etc.

I don't think this is an indictment of Boromir's overall character; he's definitely a heroic person in general (much as Isildur was—the Ring's warping of heroic characters is a major aspect of its function and tragedy). But to argue that Boromir's fall has nothing to do with real flaws the Ring was able to exploit or that Faramir's rejection says nothing significant seems such a rejection of the narrative treatment that I'm just—nah.

And I am a Faramir stan, so my opinion might be suspect, but I do like Boromir a lot. And his fall to the Ring and reclamation of himself after make him much more interesting to me, personally and thematically, than he would otherwise be. Denying its significance to the function of his character and what the book is saying about attitudes to war etc is just ... blah.

Also, this is more headcanon, but I think it's important that in terms of the writing process, Tolkien came up with Faramir after Boromir's fall. Boromir's account at the Council revealing that the vision/riddle came first to Faramir and more often, with the clear suggestion that Faramir was the primary intended recipient and Boromir an acceptable replacement in the long run, was very deliberate. If there's no meaningful difference in the Ring's effect on them, then the reason for the preference for Faramir and active incorporation of him into the dream account becomes a bit baffling.

But the thing is, not just considering Faramir's rejection of the Ring but his overall character, I do think he would have been more suited to the stealth and grinding strain of the Ring than Boromir.

(Yeah, there are some plot complications w/ the alternate scenario, but I think those are pretty easy to overcome and far from an "all would be DOOMED, the dream-sender must have really intended for Boromir to be the one in the Fellowship" scenario.)

Basically, they are very different people, and in the canon scenario, the Ring reveals these differences in ways that are actually important to their characterizations and the concerns of the novel.

[sca-nerd]

My friends who have never experienced flooding, and who are about to deal with it from this storm, please remember:

1. NO. YOU CANNOT MAKE IT THROUGH THAT WATER ON THE ROAD. I DON'T CARE WHAT YOU'RE DRIVING. TURN. AROUND.

2. DO NOT GO WADING THROUGH THE WATER. EVEN IF YOU JUST WANT TO SEE HOW DEEP IT IS. THAT. WATER. IS. CONTAMINATED.

3. IT IS CALLED FLASH FLOODING FOR A REASON. THE WATER RISES AND SURGES IN A FLASH. STAY. HOME.

4. If you're at risk of flooding, raise up any of your belongings now. Put the legs of tall things in buckets. Know where your important documents are.

5. Stay safe.

[cafeyote]

me and gang at the haunted house

[favroitecrime]

captured from an ambulance. captured. from an ambulance. do not stop speaking about palestine please