#without immediately dying

[nonbinary-octopus]

my dream last night was mentally tagged as "based on a movie you've seen!" and I was like "I wish that was true, because then I could rewatch it!" and so my dream doubled down on that, and after going through the whole story (which, I do appreciate that I got to see the whole story, it was very neat!), the dream shifted to 'awake' me looking the movie up on my phone to prove that it was real.

I couldn't remember the title, so I googled "audrey hempburn sleeping beauty" because it was a sleeping beauty retelling (presumably), and the lead actress was Anne Hathaway, misrecognized as Audrey Hepburn*

and of course, since I was dreaming, found the movie! I don't remember the title anymore, but I think it had both the words Love and Power in it. Also, the movie was based on a book! With a similar but slightly different title.

So I went and found the book, which I just so happened to have on hand, and started rereading the story. Also it turns out that it was the first book in a series of like five.

aaand then the dream got distracted with other stuff

* ironically, turns out irl that sleeping beauty from the disney animated film was based on Audrey Hepburn. I did not know this before this morning seeing what would happen if I actually did this search

[aerialworms-art]

Lifespans.

(ID under cut)

[Image ID: A three-way venn diagram floating against a starfield. The circles are coloured; one yellow, one light blue, one a darker shade of blue. The yellow is the smallest, the two blue ones over double its size, with the darker blue the biggest. The yellow is half covered by the two blue circles, while it takes up a small amount of the two blues. The centre overlap between all three is labelled "the precious few years we three were together".

There is very little overlap between the yellow and the darker blue without the lighter blue.

The work is signed 'aerialworms'./End ID]

[doux-amer]

[ghost-bxrd]

Is Jason struggling hard trying to deal with envy that Tim has taken his family, his place in the court, his dragon? Of course, but at the end of the day Tim never owed Jason’s memory any respect or loyalty. But the egg he stayed up late whispering his hopes and notions of friendship and happiness and protection, patient and gentle for years, despite everyone telling him it was a lost cause. His egg –now a dragon– has forsaken the only person to dedicate themself wholeheartedly to its safekeeping. So Jason might eventually get to a point of understanding and tolerance with Tim but the little dragon must have felt him off in the distance and given up on him. It is the only way the pieces fit together. How can Jason accept that? He never faltered in his belief in his egg but as soon as he seemed weak it discarded him for someone easier to love.

It certainly seems that way to Jason, yeah :/

(Jason has no way of knowing that Robin hatched only a few weeks after his perceived death, and that the little dragon was inconsolable for many months to the point of near starvation, and that Dick and Bruce were so wrung out about Robin’s impending loss that Tim snuck into the dragon caves to try and coax the baby dragon to eat something, and that Robin didn’t just latch onto the first best person he saw, no, Robin felt that Tim came the closest to Jason’s kindness and uplifting spirits for the first time in months….)

[himejoshiangels]

obsessed w how bitter and upset duke is w Bruce in this arc. and he has every right to be! he knew Bruce almost personally at that point, and his parents were joker gassed in a recreation of the wayne murders in an effort to get to batman. they were collateral damage and duke had been suffering pretty much alone as a result. his whole ideology is that robin doesn't need batman but on a more personal scale, you can see why he thinks that! when he needed Bruce he wasn't there, when he needed batman he wasn't there either. And he'll fret like he didn't care like it didn't matter but it DID

Ik I talk abt this panel often but that's bcs KTZZZZ ITS SO CRUCIAL TO DUKES CHARACTER!! He becomes completely self reliant, isolates himself he can't wait on batman to save the city, can't wait on batman to find his parents or wait on batman to save him, he's all he could rely on, and that self-reliance later grew into an almost cynical worldview. it's why his whole "emphasis on the word 'we'" thing at the we of WAR meant so much. he had hope in not just his own beliefs but in others' as well.

ANDDD it's why his and bruce's dynamic drives me up a wall but that's another post for another time..

[lemonsweet]

I'm not kidding when I say my "theory" (not really much of a theory bc this is implied to be true) abt the humans in pokemon not being fully human/all have a little bit of pokemon in them makes like 90% of lore and the weird stuff in pokemon make more sense

[andaniellight]

You may be cool but you'll never be as cool let alone cooler than this Sky Kid who dove into the glaring red spotlight to distract the Krill targeting another dying Sky Kid trying so hard to get away from it while rapidly losing lights, like, ever.... I can guarantee you

[cillyscribbles]

i miss good old fashioned national beef. my usual nemeses are unavailable for the holiday season thus i kindly request a polish person come argue with me over cold borscht. you try to kill me with a kielbasa, i do the same with a beet. we can do this in vilnius for old times' sake or i can come to warsaw so you have home field advantage. but watch out,

i'll also take @saulutekaipbabasake. i'm sure we can come up with SOMETHING lithuanian stole from spanish and vice versa. it's also been a while since i physically attacked you and i think i'm going through withdrawal

[godsholyhat]

The more I think about it the more I want to write my Theresa-in-KCD2 fic. Specifically so I can write Theresa stuck in Maleshov with Hans as his 'serving boy' (everyone can tell she's a woman but no one knows what to do with it so she stays as is). They'd be on the brink of murdering each other on the second day :-)

[moonlit-imagines]

im gonna be so honest with you guys

i am not enjoying daredevil born again

spoilers in tags

[carriecarriecatgirl]

thinking about marv as an angel again. "ask yourself if that corpse of a slut is worth dying for." YES !!!! SHE DID HIM A KINDNESS!!!!!! do you have any idea what that means to an angel like him??? he's spent his whole life fighting for what he's got, fighting those who are mindlessly cruel, protecting those weaker than him. and this woman, on the run and scared out of her wits, did him a KINDNESS. OFC HES GONNA GO ON A RAMPAGE TO AVENGE HER. he failed her once, so it's his duty to at least bring her peace.

[kncrowder88]

Ima stop timelining because I now have another Olivia line that's gonna haunt me.

[pawbeanies]

nooo puppy its ok. its ok that you were practicing driving and all of a sudden it started raining really hard so you tried to pull over n you were on like a not busy country road and you almost hit a ditch and freaked out and started crying. its ok. you made it home safe you are so good at driving

[pinacoladamatata]

"if you fancy Astarion, you might want to consider therapy. He's so damaged I must have him! Enjoy the fantasy and then call a therapist. It's a two step thing and it's very important you do both." - Amelia Tyler what do your narrator eyes see? 😂😂😂

[beatusdymphna]

I need to get my red hair streaks back again or I’ll perish

[likeabxrdinflight]

full offense to kazuki takahashi (RIP king) but why did you make it SO OBVIOUS that atem wanted to stay

like there's nothing subtext about this he WANTED TO STAY