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-Elton John, Your Song

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SOUND ON.

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blood, gore and men moaning

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the thing that I love about James Fucking Flint is that I believe him

he starts giving a speech about how we’re going to destroy the entire british empire and end colonialism once and for all and we’re going to start a new self-governing society outside of the constraints of imperialism and I believe him

I have several centuries of hindsight on my side, but I still listen to this man in 1715 saying he’s going to end the british empire and I think yes you will! 

and of course, Flint’s ability to rouse and rally people to his cause, to talk them around to his side, recurs over and over throughout. to a point that elevates him near godhood. but you never think, oh that’s not realistic. you never think, why are they listening to him. you never think, yeah okay but if they just acted rationally then—

because you. sitting on your couch. in the 21st century. even with the full knowledge of history and also the plot of black sails because you’ve seen it before. 

you hear flint start talking. and you believe him too. you believe he can do it. you believe he’s going to do it. this time. this time, surely he must. 

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Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 dir. James Gunn | 2023

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i love media where characters are (violently) obsessed with each other and never kiss or have sex. this definitely has nothing to do with me being aroace

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i've posted about this before but do you think that a younger viago heard about a bastard prince of ferelden roughly the same age as him being plucked out of a secretive organization and unexpectedly placed on the throne and went a little crazy over it

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i can't fucking take this foreshadowing and these parallels anymore !!!!

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that scene where john's talking to lemar's family, and lemar's mom holds him like he's her son too. that breaks me so much.

she says that lemar talked about him often. that lemar was proud of him when he became captain america. that she was too. how far back did the two of them go? they served in the military together, did they go to school together? were they on the football team together, in detention together, even further back, did they grow up together? if john's home was devoid of love, did he use doing his homework with lemar as an excuse to go to his house instead of going home? did his mom make sure john was fed, shake her head with fond disapproval as she watched john and lemar take turns on lemar's new ps1, did she let him sleep over if he claimed it was too dark for him to go back home, even if it was a bright summer afternoon? was lemar the best man at john and olivia's wedding? was his mom invited too? when she looks at him, does she see captain america, does she see a murderer, or does she just see her son's best friend, the playful blond he brought home from school and bragged about for the rest of his life, the boy she personally watched grow up?

in that scene, when john says "i'm sorry", you can tell he doesn't mean "i'm sorry for your loss", but rather "i'm sorry i failed you both"

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Guys?

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Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

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Emily Brontë, from "Wuthering Heights," originally published in 1847

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Was anybody gonna tell me that Wuthering Heights is a fucking banger????

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I got into DA late and binged your cullen/hawke

Ty bro 🫡🫡🫡🫡i needed to read it

I'm happy to hear that!!

You're so welcome 🫡🫡🥰

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selfish man who only ever thought about himself discovers what it's like to love and to be loved, doesn't know how to handle it and therefore he does the one thing he knows how to do best: act selfishly. this will cost him: everything.

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words used to mean things

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i’m going to hold your hands when i say this and i am only going to be kind about it once: ai does not belong in fandom spaces, ever. not in writing, not in art, not in video, not at all. it does not matter how bad you want to see your favourite characters kiss, or how much you need a bit of help finishing a chapter, or whatever.

make friends with artists. commission somebody. learn to draw yourself. ask for a beta read. try a writing partnership. fandom spaces are communities, so engage with them! it is about the journey and the fact that we all love something enough to create and build together about that thing.

spending 30 seconds to kill a tree and get an AI to push out some soulless empty piece of “content” is antithetical to the entire point of being engaged with fandom, and if you’ve taken to doing this you should really reconsider if you belong in these spaces with the rest of us.