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Shun x Lana - 1x10  

#this show got plenty of things wrong #but them......... #it got them Very Right #origin #shun kenzaki #lana pierce #lana x shun

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not writing, not not writing, but a secret third thing

#(it's crying)

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the people of DC are beautiful

#this passes the vibe check #politics #get fucked you orange fucker

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make me choose ♡ @abelas asked: the last of us or mass effect

The created will always rebel against their creators.

#best game #mass effect #me2

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some popular things that everyone likes are actually really good and some are actually really bad and the only way you can know is whether or not *I* like it

#the real litmus test was the niche trope obsessions we made along the way #fandom #i'm the same

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#yeah........ #baldur's gate #bg3 #astarion

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if you want to revitalize your relationship with tumblr just abandon it and go be exclusively on twitter for a year and that year is 2020. like choosing to shut yourself in a dark box scrambling your own brain with a cobbler's awl for 18 hours a day. nightmare slide projector of apocalyptic "news" flickering unstoppably past your eyeballs until your blood is so thick with stress hormones that you're essentially circulating pure meth, and the resulting derangement makes you think it is your Responsibility To Post because of Awareness. not here, baby! i love to scroll for an hour and see nothing but gifs from obscure early-'00s luca marinelli movies. oh, sure, you apparently can't put the word "butt" in the tags anymore, but that's barely a blip on the radar of ridiculous social media platform choices. this is the garden of fucking eden to me now

#yeah #tumblr

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#d... daddy #elder scrolls #the people tagging this 'emo thranduil' are so valid

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i understand the point of being like “be critical with everything you consume” but man sometimes i just wanna consume things without a single thought in my brain. arent yall tired

#big mood #i'm the same

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I thought I almost lost you there. For a moment there, you did.

#formative influences #evie x rick #the mummy #they truly set the bar for what a Power Couple™ was tbh

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is op actually preventing you from having fun or are you just a bit too defensive over your interests & habits to the point where a stranger in their own space joking or talking about not liking something comes across as a personal attack

#[upside down smiley face] #tumblr #fandom

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Y’all see that shit??? Who the fuck was that? A wife???

#i'mma kiss her SO HARD #da4 #qunari wife

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“what will they call you when this is over?”

a fucking simp, solas. that’s what they’ll call me.

#well this is a post that didn't fucking miss #dragon age #solas

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new solas content dropped today i--

#the concept art with him and the wolf??? 💦💦💦 #Exquisíte #14/10-- would let him [redacted] me #dragon age #solas #text post #suddenly i'm inspired to finish my trespasser-end-credits-inspired solavellan fic #hmmmmmmmm #HMMMMMMMMMMMMM

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But each Star Wars film reflects the religious mores of its time in a different way. Thus, you have J. J. Abrams’s films which slavishly mimic the original Star Wars as if it were a sacred text, a glossy fundamentalism that waters down what it seeks to elevate. Abrams recycles A New Hope in The Force Awakens, reducing the Force into a light-vs-dark magic trick. All sense of moral dimension or transcendent spirituality is missing — the Force is power you use to get what you want. It’s the Prosperity Gospel of movies. His characters behave the same way when they encounter iconic characters or objects from the original series — with worshipful awe. And his characters never really face true temptation or moral peril. And then, Rian Johnson’s big idea was: “what if everything you knew about Star Wars was wrong?” Which is fine as a critique, but not as a motivating ethos. The Last Jedi immediately dismisses talismans or relics of the past, tossing Anakin Skywalker’s lightsaber over a cliff, smashing the Darth Vader-esque helmet of Kylo Ren, setting ablaze an old Jedi shrine, and unceremoniously chopping in half the Empe — I mean, uh, Snoke (though it couldn’t quite kill the past, as evidenced by a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it scene of Rey saving the actual sacred texts). Johnson’s take faithfully reflects the corrupt Jedi of the prequels while disregarding the hope of the original series. The film goes on about the spiritual importance of doubt and lacking faith or something, as if that were a deep insight. There you have them: the televangelist and the exvangelical, offering shallow interpretations of the original text which either coddle the emotions of the audience or insult them for loving the original in the first place.

“Dave Filoni’s The Clone Wars Unlocked the Secret to Star Wars“ is blowing my mind right now  (via hauntedfalcon)

#this is a deliciously spicy take #star wars #tfa #tlj

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#the post-trespasser scene we deserved tbh #that 3rd gif took me tf OUT #hey siri how do i make this canon #dragon age #solas #solavellan

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“i do not dream of labor” yes u do. labor is fulfilling. u dream of a world where ur labor isnt exploited and its that or starvation. i guarantee u dream of labor. labor is a necessity and in and of itself is a good thing.

#it is good and right to take joy in meaningful projects #divorce your relationship with 'working' from the burdens of capitalism #capitalism #labor #social commentary #thinking about how our current systems *literally* work people to death sends me into a frothing rage #we were never meant to exist this way