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I love how people in kdramas catch a fever after even looking at rain. They have the constitutions of frail Victorian children.

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❤️

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He is DELIGHTFUL

pathetic wet men collection (3/?)

#love between fairy and devil

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LOTR’s concept artists designed the films as a “journey back in time”

So (according to the concept art book) as the Fellowship travels deeper into Middle Earth, the places they pass through become inspired by progressively older periods of history. The farther along you are in the story, the more ancient the design influences

We begin in The Shire: which feels so familiar because, with its tea-kettles and cozy fireplaces, it’s inspired by the relatively recent era of rural England in the 1800s

But when we leave Hobbiton, we also leave that familiar 1800s-England aesthetic behind and start going farther back in time. 

Bree is based on late 1600s English architecture

Rohan is even farther back, based on old  anglo-saxon era architecture (400s-700s? ce)

Gondor is way back, and no longer the familiar English or Anglo-Saxon: its design comes from classical Greek and Roman architecture

And far far FAR back is Mordor. It’s a land of tents and huts: prehistoric, primitive, primeval. Cavemen times

And the heart of Mordor is a barren lifeless hellscape of volcanic rock…like a relic from the ages when the world was still being formed,  and life didn’t yet exist

And then they finally reach Mount Doom, which one artist described as 

“where the ring was made, which represents, in a sense, the moment of creation itself”

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I think the key to celebrities who survive Tumblr is that they understand we’re not here to follow them, they’re here to hang out with us. 

We’re here building a fort out of scraps of stuff we found in a dumpster and if Ryan Reynolds would like to sit down in the mud and contribute, he is welcome to. But the fort comes first. Neil Gaiman found an old couch cushion. Wil Wheaton has a cool rock. Sometimes Taylor Swift shows up to say how nice the fort looks. That’s the way of things. 

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i need feminism because when jesus does a magic trick it’s a goddamn miracle but when a woman does a magic trick she gets burned at the stake

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you just KNOW that if Bella had idk, worn eyeshadow? edward would have been like “oh, i can’t read the WHORE’S mind. that’s weird. anyways” and the book would have ended right there.

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sick of teeth being so high maintenance. you don’t see any other bones requiring so much care and upkeep they literally just do their job and don’t threaten to rot and fall out of your body?? grow up

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nothing like stepping outside while the seasons are changing and suddenly feeling a change in the weather that knocks you back in time by several years

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"𝘐 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘱𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘺 𝘢 𝘣𝘪𝘳𝘥 𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴."

- 𝘊𝘭𝘢𝘶𝘥𝘦 𝘔𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘵

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we (sebastian) stan our new Shang-Chi

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Thinking about them (Mergwen)

How happy Merlin is when he's around Gwen :

Look at him. boy is fucking GIDDY

I've seen (very correct) posts talking about how important Lancelot and Gwaine were to Merlin coping, but I think Gwen was too in a different way.

Because although she didn't know about his magic and therefore he always had to hide part of himself around her, he could pretend around her, the good kind of pretend.

Becuase theres's no pressure aournd her; there's no incredible power to be worthy of and no duty to perform above what anyone would do to save their friend. There's no one putting him on a pedestal. He could pretend he really was just a normal teenager who got roped into being Arthur's servant and lives a normal life, maybe having the odd adventure or solving a mystery or two with his best friend, but no great destiny, just life. he can be himself around her, a different kind of 'himself' that he loses more and more of as time goes on: he can be dorky and mischievous and soft and playful and forget about his burden for a while.

Bear in mind Gwen's only the second friend he's ever had and he thinks she's the coolest person ever (whch ofc she is)

Just look at him!

He's so happy to learn about armour from his bff!!

Then she gives him a FLOWER?! Fucking stellar

Gwen's the same:

Sometimes i think about how it had been a year since Elyan had left home and Leon's a knight now so he can't exactly hang out much and however good friends she is with Morgana she's still a noble and Gwen's still her servant. Then this boy shows up and the first thing she sees him do is stand up to a bully and he's funny and brave and tells ridiculously tall tales but above all he is kind

And they're there for each other when things are bad and they save each other when things are really bad.

Merlin is more devoted to saving her than he is anyone else apart from Arthur. He's tried to take her place on the pyre twice before, and even in season 5 when everything's gone to hell (including apparently their relationship which hella sad but actually makes sense in my mind but that's another post) he still does not hesitate to run straight into a burning room to save her.

Because that's what he does, and she knows that more than anyone. Every time, when she was in jail, her brother was kidnapped, she was threatened with exile, he promises he'll fix it. And she never knows exactly how, but things always seem to turn out all right.

She gave up wondering how a long time ago. There a just a lot of things that are strange about Merlin, and that's how it is. I don't think she knew it was magic, because, like Gwaine, it would mean that she was the world's worst friend for not letting Merlin know she knew annd he was not alone. But when she finally out the pieces together she wasn't exactly surprised and she accepted him straight away.

I think after everything Merlin only came back for Gauis, but he stayed for Gwen; they grew back together and he stayed at at her side for the rest of her days.

I just

Mergwen y'all

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i thought, for a long time, that i had to keep my passions private.

he didn't like the poetry. it would fly around in the bedroom with us. little words like gnats; all caught up in a smokescreen. i was used to this kind of thing - i would only enjoy my own writing with a flinch. i would apologize. i know, there's nothing real about an internet poet.

my friends didn't like to read anything i liked. they didn't like my music. they didn't like the way i sang or how i laughed or how i'd dress. i told myself this is normal - we all have different passions, after all. one thing is sweet to me, too-sour to another.

i didn't know. i thought friends were just mean sometimes, and you couldn't expect them to be excited. i thought love happened only half in the sunlight. shy about anything i liked. for a long time the people i met all loved the word "myopic". they refused to do anything without promising it was ironic.

i didn't know. it seemed easier, you know? to just hide all of it. it felt pathetic, begging people please just watch this. please read this. please try this. you'll like it, i know it.

my sister bought me house plants for the holiday. she doesn't keep them, she just knows i like them. my friend recently collected a list of 50 books with lgbt+ characters in them, ones where nobody dies in the end. she says she keeps an eye out for them, because i mentioned once i'd been looking to expand my list. the other day my roommate made me fish tacos even though he hates fish - he said i know you're having a hard day, and these are one of your favorites.

people don't have to "get it". but the good ones will try, anyway. the good ones will get excited with you. they buy you the concert tickets even though they don't know any of the music. they know all the actors of the show even though they don't have time to watch it. they ask you questions about the game even though they've never even seen the loading screen. they are happy that you are happy, and enjoying something harmlessly. they are just proud you are trying. particularly something creative - it is a dark world. to make something is powerful, and should be celebrated.

she holds my hand. she knows literally nothing about dnd, but lets me chatter about my new campaign for literally three hours, endlessly. in return, she and i discuss this anatomy book she's reading. i don't know half the words but i love that she finds it exciting. life in the sun like - oh, this is flying.

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Love me. If it’s at all possible, please love me.   I think that wouldn’t be such a bad idea.

#i feel like i got everything i wanted out of life #doom at your service

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“You’re beautiful, but you’re empty…One couldn’t die for you. Of course, an ordinary passerby would think my rose looked just like you. But my rose, all on her own, is more important than all of you together, since she’s the one I’ve watered. Since she’s the one I put under glass, since she’s the one I sheltered behind the screen. Since she’s the one for whom I killed the caterpillars (except the two or three butterflies). Since she’s the one I listened to when she complained, or when she boasted, or even sometimes when she said nothing at all. Since she’s my rose.”

― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

DOOM AT YOUR SERVICE (2021)

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It’s 3 am and I’m calling and it’s me feeling like Rome and it’s you feeling like Paris; I am built on ruins and you’re built on promises of love. I want to talk to you about how I once held glory for the rest of me is ancient history. Remember when I burned for a day? I felt beautiful that day and I wish you have something to say to me tonight, my city of light. I wish you could answer the goddamn phone but then you’re probably sleeping, and I’m crying.

Juansen Dizon, My City of Light  (via juansendizon)

#I was built on ruins and you on promises of love #wow...