#we stan Dale in this household

[laufxsons]

Inspired by this prompt on Tiktok, have Gale and Dale of Waterdeep. (credit on Tiktok: @k6doubledip)

[the-humble-knight]

[ID: The heart locket gif. The left side has a picture of Dale, and the right side text just says Dale.]

[meteor752]

Barduil AU, where since Sigrid wants to be a healer or something(And also a future queen) and Bain a knight, Tilda wants to be an archer like her step-brother.

But she does not want to e trained by her Da’, no she wants to be trained like an elf! Because elves are cool!

Thranduil isn’t too much for the idea because she is just a kid and Legolas first started with archery when he was like three hundred and Tilda is twelve, but Bard’s cool with it because he trusts Legolas to make sure she is safe.

This in turn also making Legolas and Tilda really close and she having a much better relationship with him than Sigrid and Bain, since they’re mostly in Dale while she’s in Mirkwood.

When she gets a little older though, like maybe twenty or something, she is insisting on enlisting in the elven army and Legolas is just shoot I may have gone too far abort ABORT!

But she doesn’t fucking budge because I’m going to be a soldier whether you like it or not try to fucking stop me Las!!!

She is though having a tough time, as she’s not an elf but a human (Are they called humans, or just men?? Because she’s not exactly a man. Are they just called women??? Hardcore LOTR fan, please answer me), so whoever is training the recruits is giving her a really tough time.

That is also maybe because Legolas told whoever is training them (Maybe it’s like Tauriel who fucking knows. Someone probably knows, but NOT ME) to try to make her quit because war is dangerous and Tilda is pretty fucking cool and nice and he just enjoys having a sister alright?!

But Tilda gets through the training and is now an official soldier in the army (This probably takes like decades in reality since elves are immortal, but let’s just say that it took a few years. A special case or something, idk), and then pretty much immediately quit because no one takes her fucking seriously and treats her as anything less than a fragile human princess. 

Let’s pretend that Bard and gang are of Númenorian blood, therefor ages slower, because I want to play around with this a little more.

So she is offered to go to the council with Legolas, but declines cuz why bother, and then immediately regrets her decision because if she did follow then she would have been apart of the fellowship and actually DO SOMETHING EXCITING.

After a few months however, she receives a message from Sigrid that got a message from Legolas about the Battle of the Pelennor Fields, and she’s just hell yeah action!! 

So yeah, she goes there, slaps Legolas because how dare you go on an adventure without me, meets her step-brother's new boyfriend and dwarf friend and some other people and the off to war!!

After that is over and she was scolded a lot by her parents, she realized just how freeing it was to actually be out in the wild.

So she does that for the rest of her life, just riding around through the woods with her elk because come on, she saw Thrandruil ride one during the battle of the five armies and how could you not want one, just living every day like it comes.

And that’s the Barduil AU of Tilda the elven archer

AU Masterpost

[allykat4416]

oh boy some opinions

Because I literally ditched this site for months on end and didn’t post trip reports past May, here’s some Thots. Legend has it if you post this on Instagram, all the 13-year-old Cedar Point fanboys will crawl out of your phone screen and cry at you for going against the groupthink

Kingda Ka, Six Flags Great Adventure: I like going Fast. I like really really good launches. And boy howdy, did I love Kingda Ka. It was my first strata, the first coaster me and Casie rode together, my first Six Flags credit, and I love it so much for it. There’s not much to the ride; you go very high and very quick, and then it’s over. But it’s an adrenaline rush from hell and I can’t get enough of it. (Also, sue me, but the airtime hill actually makes me prefer this over TTD.) 

El Toro, Six Flags Great Adventure: *unintelligible garbled words* good bull. good boy. deserving of all the praises. kicks so much ass and looks good doing it. we love you, toro. shine on, you funky little matador. 

Bizarro, Six Flags Great Adventure: Oh look, it’s my favorite floorless. I really do like this ride. I think Dominator actually has a bit better of a layout, but the props and how the ride interacts with them are what pushes Biz to the top spot for me. (Plus, this blog is a Fuch Barrel and Clipped Horse appreciation zone.) This was the first coaster @pupu-platter, @popsican, and I rode together, so it definitely has that going for it too.  

Nitro, Six Flags Great Adventure: Fun fun fun fun fun. That’s all I can think of when I think about this ride. Honestly, it’s my favorite B&M hyper that I’ve ridden so far. It’s something I’ll always have to hit when I go to the park, with both hands all the way up and my feet kicked straight out.

The Dark Knight, Six Flags Great Adventure: Alex summed it up best by saying “it’s a WILD MOUSE.” Like another indoor coaster at the park, I’d do with a group of my friends, but not alone. I do like the little black-light section you go through, though. It’s aesthetic.

Batman, Six Flags Great Adventure: I like any B&M invert by nature, so it’s not a bad ride. But I’m actually feeling like this is my least favorite inverted. Which again, doesn’t make it a bad ride because I like all of the inverts I’ve been on. It just didn’t leave a really lasting impression on me. It’s better in the back, which is really weird because all the other ones are much better up front.

Skull Mountain, Six Flags Great Adventure: What a janky, stupid ride. I love it. I wouldn’t go out of my way to ride it, but if the lines are low, I definitely want to give it a lap, provided I’m with friends. I think it’d probably be a lot less fun by yourself.

Joker, Six Flags Great Adventure: Ehhhh… I don’t really like this ride. It’s a fun novelty experience, and I’d rather see that than a Vekoma boomerang getting cloned everywhere, but I rode it, didn’t like it, and won’t do another one more than likely. Pretty setting, though!

Runaway Mine Train, Six Flags Great Adventure: It’s a mine train, so it’s inoffensive fun. But it’s a Six Flags mine train so it’s janky as all hell and that somehow makes it so much better. I can’t help but laugh when I think about this ride, and I have no idea why. 

Superman- Ultimate Flight, Six Flags Great Adventure: It’s okay, I guess. I like it more than either of the Vekoma flying coasters I’ve ridden, but I’m just not really a fan of the flying type. I really hope I’ll enjoy Tatsu and Manta more because this just doesn’t impress me much.

Green Lantern, Six Flags Great Adventure: Yuck. By virtue of just being a sheer horrible ride, this was my least favorite of 2018. I’m not calling for it to be torn down, but no tears will be shed for when this thing bites the dust.

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Twister, Knoebel’s: Fun ride, can’t complain about it. Greatly outclassed by its neighbor, but at any other park, it would shine like the diamond it is. I like ya, Twister. You’re a cool fella, and someone I’d definitely have to see every time I visit the park lest it feel incomplete.

Black Diamond, Knoebel’s: What a dopey little ride. It’s fun with friends, and I feel like I say that a whole lot through this. The spinning tunnel that gives you the illusion of an inversion is a really cool touch, and it’s very pretty. (It looked kind of pink, even though it’s supposed to be a furnace. Or maybe Hell. I’m not really sure.)

Impulse, Knoebel’s: Little Fahrenheit Lite. (Fahrenlite… I’ll see myself out.) I’ve only gotten to ride it once due to time constraints, and I definitely plan on riding again whenever I’m back at Knoebel’s. It’s very short, but sometimes a ride doesn’t need to go on forever to be good. While I prefer the wooden coasters in the park, I really do like this one! 

Phoenix, Knoebel’s: I phucking love my Texan mom. I will throw hands for this phucking ride. Yeah, I do like Toro and Voyage a bit more, but dammit if I wasn’t over the phuckening moon when this thing won the Golden Ticket this year. This shit has more intense airtime than certain other coasters that I’ll be putting on blast later. Phoenix is raw fun, and if you don’t get standing airtime on some of those drops, man, you aren’t living. We stan quite a few ginger lesbian coaster legends in this household, and I’m happy as hell to put Phoenix on that list. God, I love this ride so much.

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Talon, Dorney Park: You’re cool. I didn’t expect you to be that cool. I think I slightly prefer this over Afterburn (slightly, of course.) Maybe I just got some really great rides on it that day, but I enjoyed Talon a whole lot more than I anticipated...and I went in expecting it to be in the top of the heap of Dorney for me because I’m a sucker for B&M inverts. Still not better than Geist though, imo. 

Steel Force, Dorney Park: Hello, competent Maggie. (okay, I really like Magnum, all jokes aside. Great rides this year.) I do prefer the trains on this though. I’m a sucker for speed. Magnum 1-3 > this, but only in 1-3. (Or 6-1. Magnum’s pretty awesome there too.) I’m happy we doubled-up on rides on this before the rain made us leave.

Possessed, Dorney Park: It’s a short, fun ride. While I do prefer Wicked Twister, this is still a lot of fun for me. I love the little, punchy launches these things have. (If there’s one thing I learned about my tastes this year, it’s that I’m a sucker for a good launch.) 

Hydra- The Revenge, Dorney Park: You’re cool. You’re not “I’m waiting more than 20 minutes for you” cool. It’s a gorgeous ride, really, but it’s probably my least favorite in the park that I did in May. It’s not a bad ride, of course, but it pales in comparison to Dominator and Biz. I’d be willing to ride it again whenever I go back though, so again, it’s not awful by any means! I like everything at Dorney, frankly. 

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Anaconda, Kings Dominion: Oh, it ain’t that good. Oh, the other aquatic serpent themed Arrow looper around an hour down the road stomps it. But Anaconda wasn’t as terrible as I was led to believe it was going to be. Maybe I braced for it accordingly. Maybe people are a bunch of pansies. I probably won’t go on it again, but it’s really not that awful.

Dominator, Kings Dominion: What a fun ride. That’s all I can say. It’s a fun ride that never fails to make me smile, and it’s a ride I consider a must-do whenever I’m at KD. I love that giant loop so much.

Flight of Fear, Kings Dominion: Jesus Christ, I like this ride more than I think I expected to. It’s a whippy, fun ride that I never leave without a huge grin on my face. I hate that the lines can get as crummy as they can, but it’s worth waiting for, I think.

Rebel Yell/Racer75, Kings Dominion: It’s alright. It was actually a lot smoother than Racer at KI (which is weird, because Racer North looks to be in much better condition than its eastern counterpart) and I think I do prefer it over the Ohio set of twins. It’s worth at least one lap on per visit.

Intimidator 305, Kings Dominion: step on me step on me step on me step on me step on me step on me step on me step on me step on me step on me step on me step on me step on me step on me step on me step on me step on me step on me step on me step on me step on me step on me step on me step on me step on me step on me step on me step on me step on me step on me step on me step on me step on me step on me step on me step on me step on m-OKAY YEAH. This is my favorite new credit this year. Shattered my expectations. What a fucking amazing ride. While I didn’t gray out the first time I rode it in May, when I went back in October I nearly blacked out. It’s so intense that I couldn’t keep my arms up without them feeling hurt. It was so worth the 3 and a half hour drive, and you can guarantee when the park reopens in March, I’ll gladly make the haul to marathon it. 91/10, would raise hell and praise Dale again.

Twisted Timbers, Kings Dominion: Dammit, I hated your name from day one but you are a funky-ass little ride that I will STAN. I’m torn whether this or Wicked is my second-fav RMC (falling behind, of course, my girl LRod.) I’m in love with the barrel roll drop...and the “airtime alley”...and the dorky ass tractor in the queue...and the lack of pacing issues...and the inversions only being in there when its necessary...and generally just being a fun ride with lots of nice ejector. Fuck. I love Twisted Timbers. I love my yee-yee ass husband.  

Grizzly, Kings Dominion: I don’t get the hate towards this ride. It’s like a boneless Beast. Yeah, it’s a tad on the rougher side, but it’s a wooden coaster built in the 80s. What were you expecting? I like Grizz a lot, and I see why my buddy Nathan would sing its praises whenever we talked about Dominion. Grizzly is just pure fun, and in a beautiful setting. I love the station. 

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Carolina Goldrusher, Carowinds: It’s a mine train, so it kind of just is what it is. But Carowinds’ lineup is admittedly kind of bad after AB and Fury (and 232 if they haven’t trimmed it to the point it feels like another ride that I like a helluva lot less than Tiny Tim), so this ends up being one of the more tolerable rides there. God, I can’t wait for Copperhead.

Goats on the Roof’s Mountain Coaster: It’s on RCDB, so I guess it’s a credit. Fun enough, but I still prefer the bobsled buddy just up the road. I had more fun listening to my mom and sister’s reactions to it though. I bet it would be really pretty to ride at night. 

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Raven, Holiday World: My birth-year coaster! And what a great one to share it with. The setting is gorgeous on this ride, and because it plays with the terrain, its “hidden drop” is one of my favorite coaster moments. I see how this thing used to rack up the Tickets back in the late 90s.

Legend, Holiday World: This ride combines everything I love about Beast and MyTi, and for that, I adore it. The laterals are mental on this thing! The name is nothing short of fitting. Maybe the true Son of Beast was the really good coaster Holiday World built all along.

Thunderbird, Holiday World: Oh look, it’s my favorite wing! It does everything I like about Wild Eagle but better, playing hard with the terrain and being surprisingly forceful. The launch is nothing short of delicious. A class-act coaster for a class-act park. Well done, B&M. Well done, Koch family. And well done, Thunderbird, for being such a damn good boy. 

Howler, Holiday World: I rode it for the credit to ensure my 100th would be awesome, and that’s all my dignity will let me say about that.

Voyage, Holiday World: Utterly fucking fantastic, and my new favorite night ride. The laterals left me some very pretty bruises. (I also rode this with Koaster Kids lmao.) What a phenomenal ride. BEYOND well-done, Gravity Group. But what else can we expect from the people who made our new savior, Oscar’s Wacky Taxi?

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Thunderbolt, Six Flags New England: Similar to CG at Carowinds, it’s an old-ass wooden coaster that ends up being one of the better rides in the park by virtue of SFNE’s lineup dying in the water after WC and Supes. It was definitely my least favorite of the day, and I really only rode it to make my 90th credit special when we went back to Ohio. 

Wicked Cyclone, Six Flags New England: This ride cracked my phone protector and I think that tells you everything you need to know about Wicked Cyclone. While I had heard he wasn’t doing too hot this year overall, this ride was violent when we were there. I can’t wait to go back and see if that holds up, because if it does, I know I’m going to be thrown from my seat in the best ways possible yet again. 

Superman- The Ride, Six Flags New England: I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you. FUCK. I love this ride. While I do think 305 beats it out as my favorite new credit of 2018, it was close. This almost became my overall #1 for a hot moment, and if it gets some new trains, well...anything’s possible. I didn’t want to overhype the ride for myself, but I’d also been salivating over this ride for 5 years so. However, unlike other rides on this list that I will rightfully eviscerate, Superman lived up to every ounce of hype and then some. We stan 1 boy with clinical depression, and that boy is SFNE Supes. 

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Adventure Express, Kings Island: *breath in* It’s a mine train, so it is what it is. There’s a reason why what happens to this ride in the Project Shooting Star universe happens, and I hope he enjoys the rest of his afterlife circa 2003-ish knowing he died as a hero (kinda? at least ya tried), but I’m indifferent at best on this ride. Now that I have the credit, you won’t see me on it again.

Invertigo, Kings Island: Why was this not nearly as horrible as I thought it was going to be? It didn’t hurt at all. I may actually ride it again, honestly. (Okay, probably not, but.)

Firehawk, Kings Island: Eh, yeah, I was kind of sad to see it go, namely because I knew how much my friend Gabby liked it. I’m not a fan of the flying type coasters, but I will say this completely kicks the crap outta Nighthawk. Here’s to hoping whatever replaces it is awesome! (And I will laugh my ass off if it’s a giga dive.)

Backlot Stunt Coaster, Kings Island: You’re cool. You’re not “wait to see you more than 15 minutes” cool. I wanted to gray out on that helix so bad, but here we are.

Diamondback, Kings Island: What a good snake. This is what 232 should have been. It’s probably my second favorite B&M hypercoaster. I heavily dig the splashdown, and it’s always fun to try and touch it when you nyoom on through. I really enjoy this ride. Much love to my girl.

The Beast, Kings Island: WOW I SURE DO LOVE MY ALOCHOLIC MOM. What an icon. And the night rides, ugh!! So good. A classic, my favorite in the park, and I don’t think there’s ever gonna be anything quite like it ever again. Worth the drive to get there, and worth the waits when we had to stick it out. Phucking legendary. 

Mystic Timbers, Kings Island: Okay yes I still like Thunderhead the best BUT. God, I really love Mystic Timbers. It grew on me, even though that fuckin’ ugly-ass name never did. (God, they did this ride so dirty.) It’s a really great ride, and probably my second favorite in the park. I’m proud to say it’s my new lanyard. It’s fun, lots of good floater air, and while the shed can be disappointing to some, I think it’s a nice way to kill time on the brake run. Catch me screaming Bonnie Tyler in the shed. I love my big tiddy lumber business wife. 

Vortex, Kings Island: Eh, it’s aiight. It’s hard as frick to find the entrance for this if you don’t know where to go to. TN Tornado and Nessie spoiled me, but it certainly wasn’t as awful as Carolina Cyclone. I don’t really have that much to say about this ride, honestly. 

Flight of Fear, Kings Island: Can’t say much else that I didn’t say for KD. I think I prefer this one just a bit, but ugh, I love them both. What good dudes. Also, getting to see the spaghetti bowl was neat-o-rama.

Racer, Kings Island: From a purely ride standpoint, it’s aiight. A little on the rougher side, but that doesn’t terribly bother me. I know it’s a ride that means a lot to a lot of people. But there’s something about this ride to me that feels extremely weird and I have no earthly idea what the hell it is.

Bat, Kings Island: The ride itself is kind of just “meh.” Slightly less meh than Iron Dragon, but still pretty meh. But there’s something about this ride, and I don’t know if it’s that it feels like the Oregon Trail to get there and it’s eerily quiet down that way, or if it’s because you get too close for comfort with the cursed-ass SoB station, or what. But this ride feels very, very…. off.

Also, daily reminder that Five is Dead. 

Banshee, Kings Island: This ride is cute and you all can take several seats. No, it isn’t my favorite Inverted coaster. It honestly falls around #4 for me, middle of the pack. But dammit, this ride is still really good and I will fight whoever says it isn’t. It gets undeserved hate. I really like it, both to look at and to ride. (Seriously, this ride is nothing short of beautiful.) 

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Iron Dragon, Cedar Point: If you look up “Meh” in the dictionary, there’s a probably a picture of this ride. It’s got a very pretty setting, all things considered, and it’s not a bad ride. It’s just not one of my favorites. It makes me miss Big Bad Wolf like burning. 

Cedar Creek Mine Ride, Cedar Point: Again, it’s a mine ride so it is what it is. It’s kind of just there. It wouldn’t hurt my feelings if they got rid of it for an Infinity (a la Smiler) or GCI like rumors I’ve heard.

Blue Streak, Cedar Point: I’m not that crazy about this one, honestly. It’s fun for what it’s worth, but I’d rather be kickin’ it with her green neighbor. Like ID, it isn’t a bad ride, and I’d be more likely to ride this one again even though I have the credit already. I’m just not a huge fan.

Corkscrew, Cedar Point: I rode it once for the credit, and I probably won’t ride it again. But hey, at least it looks pretty.

Top Thrill Dragster, Cedar Point: Raw speed. Raw fun. If it’s open when you go, you gotta do it. Or try to. If she feels like being sociable. She usually doesn’t. Take everything I said about Ka and put it here. What a rush. (It’s also very fun to scream “I love you, bitch” at Millennium from the top.)

Gemini, Cedar Point: Real talk, this thing is fun as all hell. When I think of the phrase “ good, clean fun”, this is the coaster that pops into my head. I had a blast on this thing, and while there’s other stuff there I’d prefer to ride first that usually cuts my time to see Gem, I think it’s a solid ride.

Steel Vengeance, Cedar Point: I wanted to go easy on it and try to find the good when I went on it in May, lick the wounds of disappointment as it were. But after seeing the cult mentality this ride gets and getting an utterly garbage spin on it in August, fuck this ride and the horse it rode in on. Waste of space and the worst RMC I’ve done by far. Tell me why this thing felt like 232. Tell me why people unironically say “the ~*almighty*~ Steel Vengeance!” Tell me why people want you dead if this isn’t your #1. Such a piece of shit. I’m disappointed in you, Rocky Mountain Construction. I know you can do better than whatever the fuck this pathetic excuse of a coaster was.

Valravn, Cedar Point: Eh... sorry, guys, Griffon spoiled me. Without the vests, I think I would enjoy this a bit more. But as it stands, no thanks, I’m good. 

Rougarou, Cedar Point: Eh....sorry, guys. The first half is tons of fun! But the second half is too headbang-y even for my tastes. Swap restraints with Val, and I would like both of them a lot more.