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mysterieuxclairdelune · 2 years

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Who got you crying like that???

Reading this and realising I'll never find rl Charlie Lastra who says things like this just to stop me from crying...

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bluestation · 3 months

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i found you in the future

#robin #HAPPY BIRTHDAY LOVE.................#a TINY bit late but pls forgive me #egghead spoilers #isn't it so romantic that she learned about ohara's survival on the island of the future .............#one piece #some added commentary: the little white bits can be seen as bubbles of air escaping the books #to symbolize that the lives poured into them continue to breathe on #and also the ashes of ohara thrown into the sea #so the water around robin holds death life knowledge and flowers #(callback in a way to the 'scattered in the sea are the world's grief / the world's secrets' line from my last robi drawinf)#ah and also her tears! which contain those multitudes as well #good things lay in wait 4 ohara :#'-)))

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whiteladyofithilien · 3 months

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I think my main reason for shipping Caranthir and Haleth is because we need at least one inter-race Tolkien couple where the human is a woman. Like all three canon human-elven pairings it's always the fabulous fae elven beauty and the heroic dude and I'm like... What about a mighty elf-lord and his badass human lady? Hmm? I need this to be a thing and Haleth/Caranthir is the only ship I know of that has that dynamic going for it plus of the middle three sons of Feanor Caranthir is the only one NOT part of the attacks on Luthien... therefore he's the best of those 3

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fullscoreshenanigans · 1 month

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(The Promised Neverland Art Book World)

Ah yes, one of my favorite genres of baby full score trio pictures: Isabella being openly affectionate toward Emma and Norman in front of Ray while being hands off with him.

(Chapter 2 | Chapter 37 | Chapter 165 | Chapter 170 | Chapter 177)

#and by favorite I mean “I am in physical agony. I am violently sobbing. I am eating the dry wall.”#Isabella before Ray's sixth birthday: man what is up with this kid he's more prickly than a porcupine (not even touching on his hair)#Isabella on January 15‚ 2040: ah.#The Promised Neverland #Yakusoku no Neverland #TPN #YnN #The Promised Neverland Art Book World #FSS Chatter #Full Score Trio #TPN Isabella #TPN Emma #TPN Norman #TPN Ray #Isabella and Ray's Incredibly Fraught and Complicated Relationship Tag #Pre-Canon #Introduction Arc #TPN 002 #Escape Arc #TPN 037 #Return to Grace Field Arc #TPN 165 #TPN 170 #TPN 177 #also with Norman's stark black & white morality this is why his reaction to Isabella's betrayal is so volatile #and why I think it's a shame his relationship with her gets the least amount of focus #especially when you think of their conversation on the way to the gate #“Hey‚ Mom‚ are you happy?” / “Yes. Yes‚ I am. After all‚ I was able to meet you.”#absolutely fucking wrecks me every time #the layers. 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭 𝘢 𝘺 𝘦 𝘳 𝘴.

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emmafallsinlove · 9 months

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imagine nyc!rory and stars hollow!jess au……..

#what if jess was born and raised in stars hollow and liz left so he stayed with luke. he is just a simple town boy who loves books #and everyone in town just LOVES him! he is an angel #and lorelai escaped to nyc at 16 with baby!rory #but nyc got expensive and rory has been trying to get into this school in hartford #so lorelai renting that apartment in the nearby town……#goes to her parents asks for a loan to pay for chilton……#just. the possibilities of 32 lorelai being NEW in town with 16 years old rory :’)#and no one likes rory but jess DOES #head full of thoughts #jess x rory #rory gilmore #jess mariano #gilmore girls #or speaks now

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ruegarding · 5 months

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the siren scene in som lives in my head rent-free. like here is this kid and her fatal flaw is hubris and what do the sirens show her? what does she want? well, she wants to build a better world...where her family loves her. she refuses to accept the loss and believes that she can fix her broken family. she can do it. she'll make her parents proud and she can make them love her. she knows better than you, so stop trying to tell her luke is gone. she can reach him. she can fix what no one else can. she can build a better world. she'll make them see her. she can fix it.

#she believes she can escape the line of the prophecy and brings all her friends on a quest where someone is doomed #she believes she can save the kid she loves from the great prophecy that everyone believes he'll die in #she can challenge the world and the fates and she can fix everything #anyway i miss when annabeth was allowed to have flaws #my annabeth is deeply flawed and delusional idk who ur competent wise annabeth is #annabeth chase #percy jackon and the olympians #pjo hoo toa #pjo books #fatal flaws #annabeth #min talks pjo

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fromtheseventhhell · 7 months

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Arya watched them die and did nothing. What good did it do you to be brave? One of the women picked for questioning had tried to be brave, but she had died screaming like all the rest. There were no brave people on that march, only scared and hungry ones. (Arya VI, ACOK)

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The night she was caught, the Lannister men had been nameless strangers with faces as alike as their nasal helms, but she'd come to know them all. You had to know who was lazy and who was cruel, who was smart and who was stupid. You had to learn that even though the one they called Shitmouth had the foulest tongue she'd ever heard, he'd give you an extra piece of bread if you asked, while jolly old Chiswyck and soft-spoken Raff would just give you the back of their hand. (Arya VI, ACOK)

Arya: *restrains herself from acting out when captured by the Mountain and his men because she knows fighting back/being brave wouldn't accomplish anything*

Arya: *takes note of the temperments of several Lannister guards so that she can learn how to navigate around their behavior*

Fandom: Arya is a feral idiot with no self-control uwu 🤗

#arya stark #asoiaf #a song of ice and fire #this is really just a small portion of her intelligence and self-control and yet...people can't stand the idea of Arya being more than #the brawn to somebody's brains. They literally can't handle her being her own character or not comparing her to somebody else #mind you this is all on top of how calculated she us when helping with the coup and planning her escape from harrenhal #none of these takes are even judging her based on the books it's all about her in comparison to [x] character...usually Sansa #Ned's /Sun and Moon/ quote has had a terrible impact on this fandom and their perception of the Stark sisters #Arya HAS to be the /wild + reckless/ counterpart to Sansa's cool + collected/ side lol and it's such a joke #even if you thought Arya was reckless for defending Mycah which is debatable she's gone through so much since then #and she would've been dead several times over if she was really as rash and impulsive as fandom wanted her to be #why people can't comprehend both sisters sharing qualities I don't know but it's hilarious considering this fandom's #/don't pit the Stark sisters against each other/ attitude...guess that only counts when it comes to propping up Sansa #at what point can we start calling this out for the misogyny it is?#fandom nonsense

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skyisgreen-grassisblue · 10 days

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aghhh i’ve been thinking about the httyd books again and how Absolutely Insane they are…. i ADORE watching people react to them because there’s this one point in the series where everything just feels different. and they don’t give you time to process what on earth happened before launching you head first full speed into one of the best pieces of literature i think i’ve ever read

#i think the point in the series where something ‘changes’ is when we first meet excellinor #as soon as her presence is felt theres just something looming over the rest of the events #that feeling is more prominent when we meet furious too #for the rest of the book theres just something There. something isnt quite right bc what the fuck did we just read #and then all the books following that are DIFFERENT and book 9 (i cant remember if this is there for the other books)#has a warning at the beginning??? like. hey. shit has changed.#and btw these books do an Amazing job at describing fear #the scene with hiccup in the tree trying to escape the witch is chilling #the audiobooks only enhance it #httyd books #how to train your dragon #how to break a dragon's heart #also im making a post ab this later but this was all inspired bc i read the little short side books #and i was really startled when i finished how to train your viking - a mostly light hearted book #and then went into the day of the dreader and it casually informed us that everyone on berk was slowly starving to death WHAT???#its been so long since ive experienced that kind of whiplash from these books it had me a little :’)

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moghedien · 7 months

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I'm like, actively not looking forward to the next episode because I know what's gonna happen but let me just say

I have not seen a single show only fully grasp the situation that Egwene is in right now and the sheer hopelessness and horror the situation. I am kinda looking forward to seeing them figure that out

#I think its fine that they don't fully get it I will say #because the next episode is so clearly gonna make people get it based on the teaser alone #so I think the way information is trickling in is affective for the most part #but not seeing people understand how fucked Egwene is is sure something #people being like 'oh she's gonna escape. oh she might get roughed up a bit but she'll probably learn stuff from them to use against them'#like yall #yall really don't get the sheer torture my girl Egwene is about to go through or the the fact that escaping on her own is literally impossi #and the fact that the only people who can help her now will very easily be put in the exact same situation the second they're caught #its FUCKED in here #wheel of time #wot on prime #wot show spoilers #wot book spoilers #egwene al'vere

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nymphilily · 17 days

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"The Knight Of Dawn being a near exact copy of Silver is lazy!" You absolutely think the curtains are just blue, don't you?

#Y'all are free to call me crazy BUT #If Yana went out of her way to design KoD to be an exact replica of his son when that isn't the case for ANY OTHER Parent-Child Pair #Don't you think that was intentional?#If they are the only odd pair out don't you think that means something? Or are the curtain's just blue to you?#TKoD is an antithesis to Silver. He is everything Silver could/would have been had he not been put to sleep and adopted by Lilia #THAT is why TKoD is Silver but with longer blonder hair. Because he's supposed to be an undesirable outcome for Silver #A dog forever chained to his master's side without the courage to act on his own sense of what's right and wrong #Only when he isn't under the eyes of those he owes his life to and hold that above his head the does TKoD do what he knows is right #He lets Lilia escape with Malleus during his fight with Meleanor. In the middle of battle he gives the innocence a chance for life #And he's only allowed to do so because Henrik isn't there to interfere. Because for once he can act on his own morals and help someone #So when we see the Knight of Dawn next to Silver we aren't supposed to see a father and his son #We're supposed to see what Silver COULD have been had he not been raised by Lilia. Had he been raised to be a tool instead of an individual #A right his biological father was never able to obtain for himself #I guess this is the hill I'm dying on now. Yippee #TWST Knight of Dawn #The Knight of Dawn #TWST Silver #Silver Vanrouge #Twisted Wonderland Spoilers #TWST Spoilers #TWST Book 7 Spoilers #Twisted Wonderland Book 7 Spoilers #Twisted Wonderland

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marzipanandminutiae · 6 months

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What gothic lit was hill house based on??

...The Haunting of Hill House

the novel

by Shirley Jackson

from 1959

oh no. do people not know that it was a book first?

(I'm not mad at you; you're one of Today's Lucky 10,000. but I am going to slash Mike Flanagan's tires)

#ask #anon #the haunting of hill house #I hate Flanagan so much goddamnit #the book is about a bunch of unrelated strangers spending the summer at a haunted house #as part of a parapsychologist's experiment to prove the haunting #Nell is a 32-year-old woman who spent her entire life caring for her (now dead) mother and now lives with her horrible sister #until she borrows the car and escapes to Hill House #Theo is a free-spirited psychic art dealer #they have a sexually-tinged love-hate relationship and it's glorious

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mysterieuxclairdelune · 2 years

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That feeling when you're walking home after a long tiring day and you suddenly remember that you have an unfinished book waiting for you at your nightstand and you just start walking faster so you can get home soon and get all cozy and snuggled up in your bed and start reading again>>>

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thewingedwolf · 10 months

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luther: the golden child

diego: the mastermind

allison: the peace keeper

klaus: the clown / mascot

five: the rebel / truth teller

ben: the lost child

viktor: the scapegoat

is this something i think this is something

#the umbrella academy #rani makes text posts no one will read #hargreeves siblings #ben being the lost child is kind of forced bc he’s dead but i find it interesting even then #bc ben was unique in the family for already hating being a superhero and his powers due to the horror of them. and however it is he died #it had to be horrific bc viktor doesn’t write about it in his book bc five doesn’t know what happened. and before he died ben’s unique self #awareness seems to have meant they all loved him in a normal way only for his death to poison those bonds completely #so through no decision of his own this very sullen and cranky child has to become a self sacrificing wallflower bc the only way he gets to #even exist is if he takes care of klaus and tries to sober him up. his big moment is sacrificing himself for his siblings! they can’t ever #escape the abuse that reginald heaped onto them!! even in death they’re playing roles reginald forced them into #and sparrow ben is clearly so used to being the manipulator so he’s thrown when his family dies and sloane refuses to be manipulated anymore #and he winds up kind of lost child esque accidentally *anyway* - ignored and repressing his feelings and unable to connect emotionally #also before anyone says diego is too stupid to be the mastermind google ‘the mastermind dysfunctional family role’ it doesn’t require you to #not be a himbo only to be willing to be cruel & as they all say in s1 diego never knows when to stop #pogo is an adult enabler. grace has a weird function bc the umbrella kids love her and diego is convinced she killed reginald bc of abuse #five seems similarly attached to her (makes sense given delores) but the others see her more as an enabler which is INTERESTING #i’m gonna stop rambling now

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hekateinhell · 9 months

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Dear God, help me. Where are my nameless saints? Where are the angels with their feathered wings to carry me down into hell? When they do come, are they the last beautiful thing that you see? As you go down into the lake of fire, can you still follow their progress heavenward? Can you hope for one last glimpse of their golden trumpets, and their upturned faces reflecting the radiance of the face of God? What do I know of heaven?

For long moments I stood there, staring at the distant night-scape of pure clouds, and then back at the twinkling lights of the new hotels, flash of headlamps.

A lone mortal stood on the far sidewalk, staring in my direction, but perhaps he did not note my presence at all-a tiny figure on the lip of the great sea. Perhaps he was only looking towards the ocean as I had been looking, as if the shore were miraculous, as if the water could wash our souls clean.

Once the world was nothing but the sea; rain fell for a hundred million years! But now the cosmos crawls with monsters. ~ Lestat, TotBT

#tbh i love totbt because it's such a dark book like it's an excellent study on depression and grief #i believe anne said it was written during one of the worst depressive episodes of her life following the death of her father #towards the end where he's crying and begging gretchen not to be afraid of him destroys me #and this is the book where you really see lestat's hopelessness at ever being able to escape the evil that he believes is in his nature #he fulfills his own prophecy in turning david the way he (lestat) was turned #and the despair is so palpable #and then he just continues to spiral until PL #anne had a true gift for prose #vc #the vampire chronicles #lestat de lioncourt #quotes

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zombiesun · 1 year

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it frustrates me how people are so dismissive of the mental state of people born in isolated fundamentalist communities. like the brainwashing that happens from such a young age is unreal. your media, the people you engage with, your general relationship with the "outside world" is all filtered through the beliefs of your commune and religious leader. it took years for me to deprogram myself but before that I had a lot of incredibly fucked up beliefs and thought patterns based on the people who raised me. I'm a success story only because of my accidental exposure to people who challenged those perceptions. people need to have more empathy for people who weren't so lucky

#vin.text #one of the earliest examples of this is I went to a library program and befriended a muslim girl who talked to me about how 9/11 challenged #the safety of her family and the hate crimes she was exposed to #I was 11 and it radically shifted my understanding of the world #I also nannied for a muslim family for two years and was over there almost daily seeing how they lived and engaged with each other #but besides that ! my internet and books and movies and friends were all filtered #I'm a bizarre success story only by the grace of people around me who allowed me to expand my empathy and awareness #also the fact that I was gay and couldn't escape that #cult #fundie

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dani-luminae · 7 months

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What is your honest thoughts or opinions on Escape from the Isle of the Lost? That is if you read the book.

The entire book was completely pointless.

Like I can't even give it credit for introducing us to new characters because the only new character introduced was Celia and she's nowhere near in-character to the movies.

The only thing it did even slightly well was explain that VK Day was supposed to be a celebration of the Isle kids, getting them attention and encouraging them to apply with "look a whole holiday in your name!" (instead of the Core Four ego boost that it looked like in the movies) but even that wasn't well-done.

Mal has a scene identical to the D3 teaser... which she literally just strolls away from like its pointless. Girl your long-disappeared father's voice is speaking to you from a glowing light and you just walked away???????

The entire climax is that random "Under the Sea" short. NOT EVEN ANYTHING ORIGINAL.

In short, the book offers nothing. No new characters, no original plot, no stunning twists. Just retcons (where did Hadie go), nonsense plot, bad pacing, Uma being obsessed with Mal for no reason.

It was really just "here's a jumble of words with the Descendants name slapped on the front, now give us money to read this garbage" and it showed.

I had to make sure that I got a physical copy of the book, only to ensure that I didn't break my Kindle or my tablet when I threw it down the stairs.

#escape from the isle of the lost #disney descendants #descendants #descendants 3 #WHAT WAS THE POINT OF THIS BOOK AT ALL #like we get two lines that begin to allude to hades being mal's father and that still brings nothing to the plot #also escape!mal does not seem to really know/remember that hades is her dad at all so where did that come from

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