#as his wife and as his ally

[wizzard890]

Then I looked to the North and behold! Five beasts stood there. One was like a dog, fiery but not burning. One was like a yellow lion, another was like a pale horse, another was like a black pig. But the last was like a grey wolf. 

- Hildegard von Bingen, 1163 AD

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Bastian - The Second Son

It is the moment of Creation. The Lord God reigns in Heaven. Beneath him are stars and seraphs, the grace of gravity and the dance of the planets. These bodies know their place. 

It is 1348. King Philip IV reigns in France. Beneath him are barons and dukes, counts and knights. These worthies know their place. 

It is November of that darkening year. The Duke of Burgundy, lord of the most powerful noble house in the realm, has three sons. 

His oldest, ill and pious, knows his place. 

His youngest, free of responsibility, delights in his. 

(but the last)

(but the last was like)

The other is Bastian. Second son, rival to no one, notable to a point, rendered a contingency by dint of his conception. Not passed over, for who passes over a second? Present. Reliable. Seething.

Imprisoned by the chain of order, from father to king to the One who set the stars in motion, Bastian sees his shackles, and the heat from his skin threatens to melt them into slag. He is more. A vibrating, black-curdled, hungry certainty: so much more than this.

--

(There are high, locked gates in many worlds. There are strange and secret peoples trapped within. One has a golden crown in her hand. She sees a man -- second son, seeded with the end -- who may prove worthy of it.)

(She sees a way out.)

--

Bastian knows his place. And he will break the back of the cosmos to rise above it.

#introducing.......my new PC for heretic #he is my literal favorite kind of character: slightly sweaty - seething - overweening - full of hubris and with bad impulse control #he has been here for two sessions and I would not die for him only because I bet he'll make so many other people do that #god he is sickened by his state in life and then he found his way into the Wood #into the clutches of a heretical fairy house #where he was known for a traitor #where he met a fairy lady whose burning eyes matched his own #and when he fled #(in the company of a fell-touched murnau knight; a wild girl whose freedom rankles; an english deserter; and his worshipful squire) #he took the fairy lady - bellefleur - with him #as his wife and as his ally #she knows the story of the emperor wolf - of He Who Divided The Sun - the ender of the last history #and so Bastian reaches for his destiny #(rancidly and unpleasantly as he does EVERYTHING) #(guys it's Bastian o clock over here now I hope you're ready) #heretic

[sirtotallynotatimetraveler]

Quick, mostly everyone's asleep! Here's my sexuality headcanons that no one asked for

Any other characters I don't really have any set ideas haha.

#pizza tower #my art #pizza tower fanart #peppino spaghetti #the noise #noisette #pepperman #pizzahead #the vigilante #mr stick #gustavo #pizza tower gustavo #am i the only one who thinks gustavo would be the guy to have a son and tough strong girl boss wife #and also be a stong ally for his lgbtq+ friends? #just me? #ok #noise is the type of guy to say that men are hot but not be attracted to them in any sort of way #bros got NO toxic masculinity #hes toxic but not that way

[skyloftian-nutcase]

TotK DLC idea!

The screen is black. You don’t hear anything for a long time. Then, faintly, in the distance, you can hear it.

Link. Link. Open your eyes.

While the line echoes familiarity, the voice does not.

Or. Well. It does. Because while it isn’t Zelda, it’s a familiar man’s voice speaking gently, so gently you almost don’t recognize it because there’s no way he ever spoke like this in the main game.

But he is now. And instead of a golden light being the first image you see before the screen shows Link awakening… you see gloom floating in the air. The image cuts to a Hylian waking up who… doesn’t look like Link from TotK?? He’s different, still small in stature, with slightly tanner skin, platinum light blonde hair, and red eyes. But… something’s wrong with his forehead. There’s a weird line on it.

This new character you apparently are gonna be playing in the DLC blearily blinks his eyes open, clearly groggy and too weak to really move. But then that line on his forehead moves a hair, it splits apart, and you realize it’s a freaking eye, red and yellow and it’s like the ones on gloom hands and oh gosh what the hell is it doing on his forehead—

Link realizes something is off and his eyes blow wide, his hands reach for his forehead and he screams in agony and terror, only for someone to scoop him into a hug to soothe him.

And suddenly you realize why that voice was eerily familiar.

It’s Ganondorf. He resurrected you from the era of the Imprisoning War. You, who have a history with him and his family. You, who he wants to protect, who he views as his kid, who he calls a prince and says he’ll keep you safe by controlling your body with his dark magic if he has to.

Welcome to Tears of the Kingdom: Hero’s Shadow.

You have to play a long gone Hero who was resurrected. Ganondorf, who is still recovering his strength in preparation for killing the current Hero, tasks you with finding your betrothed, his daughter, as well as his wife. They’re buried somewhere in the Depths like you were. He wants you to find their burial sites so he can use his secret stone to resurrect them like he did you, and control them as well. Which is doubly bad when you realize his wife was the original Sage of Lightning. He gives you free reign to wander once you go through a tutorial (he tests you to see if you’ve recovered enough strength), because he knows you love wandering and collecting things. Your own personal objective, however, is trying to help Hyrule from the Depths, to break free from Ganondorf’s control, because Link would rather set himself on fire than let Ganondorf resurrect and control the love of his life and his mother-in-law. Your best hope is to find shards of the shattered Master Sword to try and stab the eye on Dark Link’s forehead and break the control Ganondorf has on you. Until you can, though, the monsters are your allies, you can teleport across the Depths by manifesting out of the gloom created by gloom hands (just like what Phantom Ganon does), and the world below is your oyster. If you get too close to sword shards when gloom hands are nearby, Ganondorf can see your attempt and immediately takes control of your body, and no matter what button you press Link just walks back to Ganondorf’s location and stays there until you get a chance to try again.

You start with three hearts, all empty looking like when gloom hurts you, and if you get injured they just shatter. Whenever they all shatter, you respawn at Ganondorf’s location because his gloom hands came and rescued you from dying. The only way you can get more hearts is by collecting poes and offering them to the statues in the Depths. You can communicate with the spirits of soldiers, who may give you combat tips or info about the area. If you gain enough of Ganondorf’s trust, he’ll let you command monsters, and he might even let you wander the Surface (under his supervision) during a blood moon.

You learn of Link’s and Ganondorf’s history through discovering ancient relics/texts that trigger memories. This connection between you and Ganondorf stems back to time before the war, well over ten thousand years ago. Link was engaged to Ganondorf’s daughter, but during the Imprisoning War the family fought against the demon king. Ganondorf did love his family, but he loved power more. Link sacrificed himself, letting himself get mortally wounded to save Rauru from a killing blow. Gan held him as he died, and it allowed Link to both beg him to stop and stab him in the heart with a light shard. The shard didn’t kill him, but it was what Rauru connected with when he hit him in the chest, allowing him to seal Ganondorf away. Ganondorf still wants the world, but his love for his family is still present, though now twisted, so he thinks he can control Link and everyone else with his dark magic in order to keep them safe and in line. Once the threat of the current Hero is eliminated, the world will be his, and his family will be safe. As such, he treats you, Link, the player, like a stubborn child, reeling you in, but does so in a horrific way, torturing Link by controlling him.

You have to break free of this and stop him, and the only hope you have is the distant call of a sword spirit…

#tears of the kingdom #totk #I think it would be pretty neat to play someone who is “allies” with the bad guy #but you still have the objective of stopping evil #But you have to manipulate Ganondorf and work around his watch #So you get to play double agent #And possibly see a more complex Ganondorf #Like the dude is still being evil; he’s using his love for Link as an excuse to control him #He does care about him but he’s expressing it in the worst way #and he wants to do the same to his wife and daughter #So still a bad guy but a far more interesting one #One day you’re on the Surface with him and you see the Light Dragon and you’re not sure who it is #Because Link died before Zelda ate the secret stone #But Link can kind of guess #And Ganondorf almost noticed her so Link has to hug him or say something to get his attention #You have to manipulate Gan as best you can #idk how it would end #Like once you break free what do you do #But the idea tickled my mind so I wanted to write it down #Yes I’m just playing with my Imprisoning War blorbos #no I don’t care #legend of zelda #skye time travels through the queue #hero of shadow

[sillyguy-supreme]

the heks as a family are so interesting to me especially when you compare them to the dizznees (under a read more bc it got long lmao).

for example, timkin and vika are aware of the unfairness of the matchmaking system, but rather than fighting the system that keeps them apart, they instead make it seem like they follow the system, rigging it in their favor and then maintaining the status quo. this is especially interesting when you look at vika’s treatment of kesler in the first book. despite being ready to marry a talentless man, she still sees kesler as below her. in fact, she even calls dex a bad match in the first book even though stina would not be that much different from dex if not for timkin having a brother in law at the matchmaking offices.

stina is also interesting in this regard, because she has never had her worldview challenged in the series. despite her own parents literally bribing the system to marry, stina constantly holds the status of dex’s parents above his head. and throughout the series, she never challenges her views on the match system. she never apologizes to dex for being actively bigoted to him. she just. stops being mean to that group specifically. when she and dex begin to work for the council, she just stops being mean to him. when she works with sophie, she does not face any of her views on the elven world, she just cooperates with the group. in fact, in the ninth book, she shows distaste for rayni’s parents rigging the system in their favor, despite her own parents literally doing the same thing. she knows her father is coiffe and expresses to sophie that she wants sophie to save the gnomes, but outside of that, she does not ever tackle her flawed views.

in conclusion: what do the heks stand for? what does the status quo hold for them?

#one could argue that timkin being in the black swan cancels out whatever is going on with his wife and kid #but until the series kicked off the black swan was a fairly quiet group. no visible signs of the movement #and now the black swan is allied with the council #so even now there’s not much challenge to the status quo from the black swan #kotlc #stina heks #timkin heks #vika heks #keeper of the lost cities

[levii0th0n]

i have, by no will of my own, become a Burn fan. and a burn/scarlet fan. not because they’d actually be good or healthy for each other, but because the idea of that dynamic- the idea of Scarlet already having been queen for ten years prior to oasis’s death, the idea of Burn immediately allying with a SkyWing queen after her sisters declared war, the idea of them being interwoven for twenty years whilst a war of succession raged on around them- is so GREAT

very much a midnight rant here, but man!!

I would LOVE to explore Burn’s relationship with Oasis too. The books imply (especially in TBN prologue & Six-Claws’ winglet) that Burn was her mother’s favorite. And the fact that Burn expanded an entire fucking palace to create a central memorial for her mother is so!!! Like she definitely had a fucked up relationship with Oasis. Like considering Oasis had been so obsessive over heirs and had been so afraid of her daughters it would be difficult for there to be any actual relationship in the SandWing Royal Family. But there was some kind of bond between Oasis and Burn, whether because Oasis didn’t truly fear Burn- not because Burn wasn’t a danger, but because Burn was honorable- or because she genuinely cared, just a little, about one of her daughters.

And the fact Scarlet was a queen during this! The thought that Scarlet and the SkyWings could have been minor allies in the years prior to Oasis’s death (which would make sense in the fact that Burn’s first ally was the Sky Kingdom, because she would be in the best position to utilize the Sand Kingdom’s original allies before the succession crisis)

like I can’t stop thinking about a twenty-one y/o Burn being her mother’s not-so-subtle chosen heir and attending diplomatic meetings and Scarlet, a fresh queen with such a dramatic flair, meeting.

#wings of fire #wof #burn wings of fire #princess burn #scarlet wings of fire #queen scarlet #ex-queen scarlet #burnlet (?) #burnlet #scarlet and burn are a bloody duo and i love them #wings of fire rambling #uh oh! another ramble! forgive me dearies #seriously just IMAGINE princess burn fawning over scarlet when they first meet @ a diplomatic meeting #like i imagine burn to be incredibly unhealthy with her fawning #thirty years of them being crazy together #canyon is just off to the side eating orange slices #dont mind him #he probably doesnt even notice his wife and her ally being all lovey dovey murdertown #levii0th0n ramble

[mixelation]

How do the other countries react to the Iwa massacre? Does anyone even know about it or do they try to hide the fact that they lost 50% of their ninja force? Does the Akatsuki step in to grant some fun help in exchange for more political clout :)))

LMAO i literally didn't think that far ahead because it's not "canon" to reborn au; it was just me exploring a scenario. but given how i've been characterizing them, iwa would attempt to hide it. but they've lost a shit load on manpower in one go, so people will notice the sudden reduction in missions and them abruptly pulling field agents and stuff like that, and eventually they're going to connect it to the konoha team, especially given tori just straight up told the kiri team what happened to kushina. so i think the rumor mill is INSANE. everyone's reputation goes bananas

i think if tori hadn't told kiri that iwa made a move on kushina, the other nations would freak out because it would kind of look like konoha did something insane to another village for no reason. but i think the rumor mill concluding it was in retaliation to iwa doing something dumb AF would make the other villages feels safer lmao. not safe enough that konoha doesn't get blacklisted from a chunin exams for a few years, but.... meh. what are their clients going to do, NOT hire the village capable of infiltrating and knocking iwa off the map?

there might be a risk of another nation trying to overthrown iwa once it's clear they've been weakened, so ame is paying close attention because they've dubbed themselves the ninja cops. so yes iwa might suddenly find themselves asking for some favors :)

#i do like the idea of ame being like 'well WE'RE not afraid of konoha' and then accidentally becoming allies bc minato likes them #they weren't TRYING to be FRIENDLY they were trying to be INTIMIDATING #the fact that nagato and kushina are cousins also helps although it was NOT planned and nagato didn't even really like. think about it #ame: we're going to be a major village now and you're going to refer to our leader as a kage and we are hosting chunin exams #konoha: rad we have a back up of examinees #konoha: also do you want to rub iwa's face into the dirt by being publicly friendly and familial with the hokage & his wife? #ame: well our goal was kind of to rub your face into the dirt too but #ame: this.... works.......? #(konan & nagato have told yahiko about the reincarnation thing and prevented his death. they consider him equal to them) #(the official on paper ame leader/would-be amekage is yahiko bc he's the friendlier more charismatic face but they share leadership) #reborn au

[stabbingandorbeingstabbed]

tragic! this faggot finally has an opportunity to go to the fun out of town gay bar and the weather is so weird she can't figure out how to serve cunt in a god honoring way

#we are driving an hour out of our way to go to a bar called the back door how fun is that #the first and only time i went there was with my ally oder brother and his wife and i was so charmed by it i think abt it like weekly #it would be an average gay dive in any big city but its hands down the coolest place in indiana. if u are a faggot

[thesherrinfordfacility]

the fact that graham linehan had the balls to take on david tennant in the first place is hilarious by itself, but the fact he directed his transphobic bullshit to a dt fan account by mistake is absolutely hysterical

#the fact that linehans wife left him over his transphobic rhetoric is similarly funny #im not saying he deserved it but i am saying that gods timing is always right #david tennant #not the ally the trans community necessarily expected but the ally it deserve💓✨ #im fucking on one today #for once? not actually good omens

[goatpaste]

forever thinking about the person who commented on one of my youtube videos about feeling sad i erased Joshu from the video (video was not about Joshu it was about Kira, Josefumi and Gappy. And i honestly didnt even exclude him with purpose i just kinda forgot straight up)

and when someone sarcastically replied 'who will think of the mysoynist' they just replied 'well they thought of Jobin'

like..

#LET ME BE CLEAR NOT AN OPEN INVITATION TO GO FIND AND HARASS THEM BECAUSE IV BEEN HONESTLY JUST THINKING OF REMOVING THEIR COMMENT #but their just so jarring like.. #Jobin the character whos some of his shining character traits was REALLY LOVING HIS WIFE #and having this secret horrific bond with his mother because they were each other closest allies in the world #vs joshu who tries to sexually assult both yasuho and his own mother...

[blue-ravens]

#for ally who deesrves far more credit for all her work in getting charles railed his wife and his boyfriend on a constant basis #'asexual in a bisexual way' uh huh mmhmm hell yeah yes let's GO #charles emerson winchester iii #mash 4077 #m*a*s*h #winchester wednesday #blue's post #charlie memerson #mash #otp: blueberry pancakes #otp: and their sons #swamprat polycule apologism

[tanadrin]

went back and listened to the episodes on david bokovoy's personal experience with religion, and man, it's funny just how different the stuff that people twig on in their experience of faith is--for bokovoy, even as a scholar of biblical criticism, it really isn't the truth claims of the LDS church that were ever a problem for him. like his academic career definitely primed him to move from a more orthodox, small-c conservative theology to a more expansive one (and he remains a pretty spiritual guy in general from the sound of it), but the thing that really started to fuck him up was the church's insistence on beating the anti-gay-marriage drum, starting with proposition 8, and culminating in the 2015 declaration about the children of gay parents not being welcome in the church unless they denounced them.

and it's a little infuriating to listen to him talk about how he feels about the LDS church after all of that--this whole "the leadership are good people deep down, i just disagree with them on this." like, come on, dude. i get that you're a straight guy whose experiences with mormonism have been generally very positive, but you are also self-aware enough to talk with compassion about LGBT people, about the experience of having a gay daughter, about the way in which people raised in Mormonism who are gay or even just a little bit nonconformist in some aspect of their life can have a really brutal time of it, and yet you cling to this idea of the organization as having some noble core, some inherently good quality that is only failing in its ultimate expression. he even talks about the experience of watching a movie that dramatizes the way different faith leaders came together during the civil rights movement, and having a moment of acute discomfort remembering that at the same time the leadership of the LDS church was still racist as hell in its teachings and policy

like, you should not be afraid to admit that the LDS church fucking sucks! it's always fucking sucked! most organized religion fucking sucks, and the organized religion that doesn't fucking suck has mostly gotten there by virtue of progressives splintering off and forming organizations that retain only a general flavor of the awful bullshit they grew up with and none of the core dogmas. i don't know of a human organization from the beginning of time that rigidly patrols boundaries of identity politics and creates structures of authority based on spirituality that didn't rapidly collapse into tyranny, a grift, or both, except the ones that were already that from the beginning.

and this, i suppose, is my disappointment with even the very open-minded progressives that John Dehlin interviews, which is that they want to redeem an organization that i think is fundamentally unredeemable. no particular shade to mormonism here--I think the Catholic church is also fundamentally unredeemable. hell, if i knew more about tibetan buddhism, i'd probably think that whole hierarchy was fundamentally unredeemable as well. the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints cannot become progressive on LGBT issues and honestly pursue truth and cease to misrepresent its history and spend its money on helping the poor and needy instead of conservative political campaigns and exploiting eighteen year olds to do morally questionable missionary work in third world countries without ceasing to be the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, and its leadership knows this. for the exact same reason the Roman Catholic church can't go "lol you know what, our bad, this Pope guy isn't all that he's cracked up to be" and remain the Roman Catholic church.

i mean ultimately bokovoy doesn't go to church anymore; he says that the 2015 declaration was kind of the straw that broke the camel's back, and even if it was revoked tomorrow, it's not like he'd start going back. i assume he's not tithing anymore either. and he seems like a generally very gentle soul who wants to see the best in people, and i don't want to get on his case too much about that, because i admire that. but man, i think it's kind of disappointing to watch someone as apparently smart and compassionate as he is work himself into knots to excuse the behavior of the leadership of an organization like that when the simplest explanation is just that these people are assholes on a fundamental level and always have been.

#there is a very funny moment he describes #where he and his wife came out of a movie where one of the previews beforehand was brokeback mountain #and his wife said something very generically of the form “it's awful when people who love each other can't be together” #and he recalls being viscerally upset that hollywood's gay agenda had gotten to her #like christ how do you go from thinking the gay agenda is a real thing that exists in the world #to being a socially progressive staunch lgbt ally #and can we bottle this and disperse it via airplane over the rest of utah

[tricoufamily]

the villareal's butler, lawrence fakhoury, and driver, dan freeman

#lawrence is a very old friend of jacques's they're allies he brought him with them to spain #he offered to take dan but dan was like uhhh i have a wife and grandkids i don't want to move 3000 miles away #and jacques was like oh yeah people have lives outside of me. not lawrence though! #he's like a failalfred #he tries to take care of the kids but hugo's incapable of talking to people luna treats their staff like furniture max is 'YOURE NOT MY DAD #he does care for them though. in his own way. he's very gruff and stern and serious but that's the good shit #i should have given him a spot on the character page i hadn't made his sim yet and grown to love him. i guess there's still time #ts4 #ts4 cas #this is the fall: extras #lawrence #dan

[pocketramblr]

Time and the Deity

I am thinking of a land saved by a little boy, that saved a little boy.

Termina watched the stranger soothe the pains of another child gone, and gave him another song, another bit of magic. He acted to save. Termina's heroes were dead or dying, so the land gave them to the boy to strengthen him, to reforge a new living hero.

And he blossomed in this, collected such happiness, dragged the land back from the brink again and again and again, until he could save everyone. Until he and the land and the power shaped a deity, and did save everyone that had poured life into them.

And that deity is Termina too - it's people, their gratitude. Gratitude so divine it could cleanse a demon- or change a human into more.

But then the boy left Termina. And the deity is not known in Hyrule, not needed in Hyrule. The hero child isn't either.

Come back home, the god in mask calls. Come back to Termina. We need you. Why did you leave?

The child says nothing and ignores the call. He is looking for someone else. Someone that left him without a word.

But eventually, years later, he needs the god again- he puts the mask back on and draws a divine sword.

The enemies fall at his feet. And then his feet step over the bodies, moving back towards Termina. He cannot stop, he cannot turn the direction of home, the ranch, his wife and life there now- the god of Termina can move once more, and he is going back.

So the hero, no longer a child, cuts the godhood off him.

He can't put the mask back on, ever. If he does he will be whisked away to another world, and he won't come back. It's a beautiful world, Termina, one that he loves and is grateful to- but he chose to leave. After everything he has lost, he will not lose that too.

#lu time #ive been thinking about different interpretations of the fierce deity #and how Time 'fears the thing that killed (Majora) more' but still keeps the mask with him #how he 'can never put the mask back on or he won't be able to take it off' #but he did not destroy it #and in *lu canon* Time did not participate in the war of eras #(Wars's army allied with other kingdoms of their time instead) #so it's not like Time keeps FD around for gratitude of saving him and helping others in the war #he doesn't have the face marks when he proposes to Malon #i genuinely think it makes sense that he only put it on outside of Termina once #so... maybe FD just wanted to go home? #did he know time passed? was he aware of what his little champion was doing and growing up? #did he not know and was just trying to return them both home to Termina? had no idea what he was stealing away from the man? #or did he know and not care? because it doesn't matter Time's choices‚ he belongs with the people of termina instead? did he feel betrayed? #or simply think that Time would be able to neatly replace his wife with her Terminan counterpart? #lots of options! #linked universe #yeah sure why not main tag it

[brookheimer]

okay. i need to rewatch the episode probably but i think my current feeling is that i like most of it a lot (rome, ken, the siblings not getting ceo, etc), think the tom ceo makes sense from a logical/character perspective but not sure how i feel about it from a broader more thematic lens (altho i'm leaning towards fine with it), and am very mixed on shiv's ending because i think it's well-conceived and meaningful from a broader thematic lens (shiv becomes her mother, the cycle always repeats, etc) but doesn't quite make sense to me from a logical/character one -- it could've worked, it could've worked brilliantly, but it was far too rushed and forced. it makes sense as an ending for shiv, but not her next step. i'm largely talking about her decision to return to tom, not her decision to vote against kendall (which i think should've been executed better and given more space but can understand given her character, mostly). i'm fine with it as an ending for shiv, but what i'm struggling to stomach is the way it played out -- it didn't feel like a choice the shiv we know would've made. it's an ending that makes sense thematically and for her character arc, but not a decision that makes sense for her character at present. that's kinda where i'm at right now

#long shiv post talking ab this upcoming lol #bc so far i haven't seen like any shiv takes i've actually agreed with #it's either entirely anti ending or pro ending #whereas like. to me the ending works as an ending for the character. it's tragic dark devastating but it works and works well #but shiv making that choice does not make sense for where she is right now. it was rushed writing that forced an ending on her #that would be a satisfying ending but not a satisfying character choice and thus NOT a super satisfying ending #could've been EXTREMELY satisfying. but shiv wasn't there yet. her fatal flaw is blowing up good situations when she feels she's being #disrespected -- she's respect > power when it comes down to it #even tho she thinks she wants power more she NEEDS respect and is unable to stay quiet or make the smart choice in the face of disrespect #or men thinking they're superior etcetcetc. so her making a choice that allots her power (wife of CEO) but is the singular least respecting #outcome imaginable (meekly returning to your husband who betrayed you and stole the job you've been fighting for your entire life right out #of your grasp alongside your closest ally/flirt guyfriend who tapped him to do it explicitly to fuck you over because you're a pregnant #woman and thus inferior to the man who inseminated you -- and EVERYONE KNOWS ALL OF THIS! everyone knows you're the daughter of #the previous CEO and on two separate instances were meant to be CEO and now the weak man you married publicly betrayed you TWICE #but you still meekly return to him and place your hand in his and have his baby like the good pawn you are...) #that does not make sense for shiv. if we saw some development on the power > respect front or had a few more scenes or episodes developing #shiv as someone who would choose to become her mother (powerful and rich yet a disrespected pawn) over literally anything else #given her fundamental fear of being disrespected than maybe this would've made sense. it could be a great meaningful devastating ending #but it's one that just does not track for shiv as we know her right now. #ok tags got long as always sorry LOL i'm gonna write a longer thing explaining my hashtag thoughts bc i haven't seen much i agreed w on thi #front yet oops. ok bye 4 now tee hee #succession #succession spoilers #casey shut the fuck up about shiv roy

[fistfuloflightning]

“What is this?” Finrod examined the ring his wife had just slid onto his finger. His brows rose at the design. “…Snakes and flowers?” he asked. “Is this us?”

“What do you think? I’m not one for sentimentality. It’s just the symbol of your House.” Curufin’s flat voice was reassuring. She bent her head over his hand, fingers pointing out details as she explained. “—the eyes are those jewels Father gave you as a wedding gift you never knew what to do with, and the silver-mithril alloy for the base was—”

He watched her face as she spoke, more talkative than her wont, a rather delicate flush to her cheeks that most wouldn’t even notice. But he noticed. He always noticed.

Curufin stuttered to a halt when the ringed hand rose to cup her cheek. “Was this what you were working on for so long?” Finrod asked softly. “What you were acting so secretive about?”

Her lips pressed tight but her intense eyes belied the affection she had poured into this work of love.

“I will cherish it.” Finrod caught her chin and kissed her soundly. “It was a gift from you. Therefore, I will keep it with me always.”

#the silmarillion #curufinrod #finrod felagund #curufin #female curufin #my writing #my art #ever since I got into curufinrod it’s been my headcanon that curufin made the ring of barahir #also where I got their nicknames for each other from ‘snake’ and ‘flower/lotus’ #so this is literally just curufin being passive aggressive about showing her love 😉 #also gives another reason (like we need another) for that ring to bring bad news #when finrod gave barahir the ring he’d been separated from curufin long enough that he thought they weren’t ever going to reconcile #since it was a bittersweet memory of his ex wife and the only precious thing he had to give to a great ally and friend #but then curufin shows up at nargothrond and they get back together #BEREN shows up at nargothrond #curufin sees the ring she made for her husband (that he swore he’d never take off) #then shit hits the fan and the rest goes as in canon :/ #sooo…yeah #i love me some angst #tolkien art

[romanceyourdemons]

funniest change to characterization in adaptation i’ve ever seen is zhou yu and zhuge liang genuinely wanting to kill each other in romance of the three kingdoms, just full on roadrunner and wile e coyote shit, and then in red cliff (2008) john woo was like no actually that’s just how they flirt. trust me they played a really homoerotic duet i saw it myself

#zhou yu is like i think he would make a good ally and his wife is like oh is that what the kids are calling it these days #ryddles