#it's never been less effective

[sesamenom]

Hunting of the Dragon

What if the Arkenstone really was a Silmaril? (very late, but inspired by arofili's @funwithfanon prompts from last march!)

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Galadriel, Celeborn, and Thranduil are the only people on the right side of the mountains that a) have fought a dragon (mostly in the war of wrath) b) remember the Hunting of the Wolf and c) are mentally stable enough to be trusted around a silmaril (more or less)

so of course they end up having to fight silmaril-raged smaug. (he sat on it and now it's stuck to his bald spot)

since the sindar don't have metal armor galadriel is the only tank, and therefore the person on dragon-stabbing duty.

celeborn is the spearman in charge of keeping smaug from escaping or mauling someone else (and also making sure the silmaril doesn't fall on galadriels head, because at that point it definitely would still burn her)

thranduil is supposed to be doing air control to keep smaug from flying up and torching everyone, but he decided it would be a great idea to jump-dive at the dragon's head.

(version with fire because i couldnt decide which one i liked better)

#silm #silmarillion #lotr #lord of the rings #the hobbit #galadriel #celeborn #thranduil #smaug #elrond would have also been volunteered for dragon-stabbing if only he lived less than a year of travel west of the lonely mountain #daeron is probably in the area but he has never fought a dragon and also would probably have a nauglamir-trauma breakdown #of all of them galadriel is probably the most used to dealing with the silmaril light since she basically has a silmaril for hair #celeborn and thranduil lived in doriath for long enough to at least know what to expect #the dwarves are currently too scattered to be of much help (unless thrain wants to pull an azaghal) #unfortunatley smaug has wings; less respect than glaurung; and far less things to distract him #so a mid battle funeral would be rather ill advised #galadriel is reckless enough to dive at smaugs face #but she is also experienced enough at dragons to know that stabbing it is generally more effective

[baby-xemnas]

a breed of guy

(they couldnt be more different)

#ill love gin forever...best boy...if noone got him i got him #law can keep winning his popularity contests #my art #gin one piece #law #one piece #add: looking at refs (my own old art lol) and smiling cuz gin's nose have been broken many times #hes had so many broken bones that healed in less than optimal conditions #law is so well kept its not even fair to compare #i love thinking about gin as very sick guy. i so rarely do this but that is him to me. #remember i said i dont want law to keep spots on his skin? #well thats absolutely different for gin to me he is gonna suffer from effects of that poisoning for the rest of his life #he never had proper care #he is just broken all over from a real shitty life he lived. but hes the most stubborn beat up dog there is #he's never gonna die no matter how much blood he coughs up and scares the shit out of sanji with it #im using my personal familiarity with lung issues and blasting them on gin #i never do this fr. he's very special

[buckttommy]

I don't think 9-1-1 is in the business of killing off mains but I get the feeling something catastrophic is coming Buck's way and it's not going to be the car incident

#Time is a central theme that unites and binds Buck and Eddie but it is a theme that has been attributed to Eddie for the most part via #dialogue/context/circumstance/etc. #But last night Lev specifically mentions the concept of time in relation to happiness; not to Eddie this time but to Buck #in a way that simply cannot be mistrued or extrapolated or taken to mean or be associated with anyone else #Kind of makes me wonder about Buck's mental/emotional trajectory as well. Last season he clung to Taylor because he was afraid #of being left again. Understandable since he lost three key people in his life within a matter of months. #But they came back. And then Taylor was gone. And Buck's not clinging anymore but he's not happy either #so why the connection between Buck and Time? It's been so effectively established but why establish it at all? #Does he feel like Taylor was his last chance at the life he wanted? Wife. Kids. Happiness #(or at least some approximation of it) #That would put Lev's words into an even greater perspective: how he had this Thing that Buck actively desires and craves and it still #wasn't enough. #This thing that leaves Buck wondering 'if he had it all and it wasn't enough what will be enough?' #The question is: does he have the time to figure it out? #Because Buck might feel like *his* time js running out in the same way all human beings feel like there is never enough time #to heal the way they want to heal / achieve what they want to achieve / be who they want to be... #But Buck is a character trapped within a narrative he has no choice but to dance to #and that narrative is feeling so. Damning these days. #He feels like he doesn't have time but I'm willing to bet he has even less time than he thinks he has.

[phoenixcatch7]

Love how every zelda has a special interest and that special interest saves the world.

#Like whether it's piracy or history of light magic or ninjas or technology or art zelda ALWAYS gets super interested in the one thing #That'll save her and the kingdom down the line. Like oot zelda 100% idolised impa and demanded to be taught shiekah techniques #And disguise only for those skills to become vital during the 7 years link was gone. #Tp zelda had the most knowledge of light magic it's history and applications and spirits by FAR and all of those enabled her to save midna #And summon light arrows #If ww zelda was sitting pretty on an island instead of roaming the seas with a loyal crew and several cannons link would have been screwed. #If botw zelda had been allowed to pursue her fascination with shiekah tech or even science as a whole who knows what they might have manage #Ganon might not have been able to take them over at all. She might have learned to channel her power through artifacts or learned to mimic #The energy flow of the shiekah magic which is directly derived from hylia/the tf of wisdom! She wouldn't have been stranded at the mountain #When ganon attacked if she hadn't been forced up there on her birthday. She could have outfitted the champions with better weapons that #Would have been more effective against the blights. She might have unlocked the slate or the shrines. She would have been more confident #And thus less abrasive with link. They would have been able to bond sooner and faster. Link would have been more relaxed and ready. #The shiekah might have been able to rework teleportation instead of 106 years late. #I am salty about rhoam banning her. It never would have worked out well. #Never keep a zelda from her special interest okay!!!! #Like as soon as she and link got to do whatever they wanted the problem got solved within a few months. #Never tell a link to behave or a zelda she can't research #loz #legend of zelda #tears of the kingdom #Totk #loz totk #loz tears of the kingdom #Botw #loz botw #breath of the wild #Zelda #princess zelda #loz zelda #loz link

[jessiesjaded]

random picture dump :)

#cat update: theyre good #clancy update: he just ate roast chicken so hes also good #jess update: Im good #im happier rn than anytime since 2020 i think #still up and down but way less up and down- if that makes sense? #its nice its good- its autumn now and i always look forward to winter #suffice to say: i hope you guys are well too #i saw in an email i have messages on discord but last time i attempted to log in it wouldnt allow me so... if you msged there and i never #responded its bc i cant get in to respond and tbh #i think discord was maybe terrible for my mental health #which is a little sad bc that was the main way i talked to people but also... idk #jury is currently out on that front we'll see maybe i'll download it again #but regardless i miss you but im well and i hope youre well and i hope one day coming back wont feel so daunting #relationships are hard arent they? i hate things changing and ending more than anything else in the world #side effect of my dad dying when i was little i think #but the main thing thats been making me feel guilty and uneasy lately is feeling guilt about disappearing from people so again! #im trying and we'll see ! #yeah :)

[secretsimpleness]

I've got problems with whomever designed Thane's fingers. Thane, Shepard / Mass Effect 2 (c) Bioware

Anyone remember that poll I posted in July? I shall share the results:

I did manage to produce two comics during my summer holiday but both were for Dragon Age, haha ha.... So there were delays for our second winner. But here it is! Thanks to those who voted :)

#thane krios #commander shepard #mass effect #mass effect fanart #comic #bioware #thane #shepard #custom shepard #dough scraper #never do I crave a dough scraper as much as when I look at thane's fingers. do people know about dough scrapers? whatever. #why do the fingers have to stick together? just give him one less finger if it's so damn important. #regarding the poll: sucks for everyone not voting for pathfinder as that game probably has the biggest backlog rn. #I don't know why I find that so funny. it just makes me giggle thinking about it. #anyway so I have been sick. I actually thought I would escape my summer sickness this year but alas. it arrived. #and at the worst possible time. every year my town holds this large and free culture festival and I was really looking forward to it - #but then the fever rolled in. I am still so upset. I'm crying over the spilled milk here. betrayal of the year. #it's fine. there will be more chances etc.

[wild-at-mind]

Not to talk about MRA-lite spaces again but I'm going to need everyone to understand that in these spaces, the subtext of 'men don't get to talk about their problems' is ALWAYS 'and it is women's fault!'

#my time in the MRA-lite saltmines returns to me yet again whenever i see the transandrophobia side of tumblr #look- it's just the same stuff ok? Or maybe i'm just biased because it triggers me the fucking same no matter who is saying it #also please note i'm saying MRA-lite and not MRA- I understand that MRA usually has connotations of violence for people #MRA-lite is nothing like that it's just a load of talking about men's issues but without any of the context #the very important context that you need to place the issues into wider society and its effect on everyone and not just men #these spaces may not be violent but they are quite pointless and the conversations never ever go anywhere #and it's been the same like 5 conversations for the past 15 years and no doubt much longer but that's as far back as i go with it #every time someone discovers the 5 or so men's issue they act like they just converted to a religion or something #and bring it up in everything. I was like that too at like 21 i promise i get it! but now i look back and CRINGE #and i am a guy now! ok? I get it that a lot of people are transmasc doing this i get why! but..... #i just wish it was less of a Thing. and i genuinely find it triggering. #because i do fucking care ok? i have academic books about some of the 5 or so men's issues on my bookshelf! #because actually there are people writing these books and they do care! #i had someone a while ago saying it was 'sad' to see a trans man talk like i do on this so i explained where i'm coming from #and they never came back so i will never know if they saw my point of view and that kind of sucked #hopefully that won't happen again- i really don't like arguing with other transmasc people (i like discussions though) #anyway i'll stop rambling now

[kyuala]

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#tmi but i've been trying to consume less fanfiction so i dont always resort to escapism and fantasy when real life gets tough but #it's so fucking hard #like i feel so alone w no one to talk to rn and everything is so hard and im having family trouble and the past few weeks have been awful #and allllll i wanna do is read and fantasize abt how ppl from the other side of the world who dont even know i exist would comfort me #or distract myself w other scenarios that will literally never happen n all it does is feed into my discontentment when real life is a bitch #and inevitably fails to match imagination #not only that but it also has a real effect on my real life relationships (or attempts at them) and i know i cant keep going like this #but as someone who's been an avid fanfiction reader for over a decade.... yea it's hard 🤡 #this is not a pity party or a cry for help btw i just wanted to get this out and needed to dump it somewhere #feel free to ignore it! or not idk! do what u want #mari.txt #personal #tw negative

[presumenothing]

watching the last 10 eps of mlc with the novel still rattling around in your head is truly just an extended experience in alternating between *chinhands* and (overwhelmingly) *head in hands*

#on the one hand i finally have context for various posts #on the other hand it is truly just. *gesturing wildly* why was this necessary. like i get diff formats etc etc but also. Why #legit hats off to cheng yi's portrayal he is the main thing selling it to me here but also.. #surely there has to have been some less 狗血 way to spice it up for screen???? #anyway congrats to sgd's wholeass existence and plotline for singlehandedly winning the Changes I Really Don't Care For At All list #with the fun secondary effect (probably) of pushing lxy's portrayal into legit 傲慢 territory in service of that narrative like #i desperately need a slower reread but novel!lxy never to my recall does the whole 没有李相夷不行 thing but welp #here we are and. once again with feeling. why #(necessary clarification that i don't dislike the drama per se it's probably better treated fairly as its own thing but also #every now and then you see the bones of the novel poking through – albeit rendered slightly hypocritical in the sense that drama!llh is #very much not zen and understandably so given this backstory edition – and thus the copious head in hands-ing) #*strums guitar while yelling into the void.mp3* #ramble tag #mysterious lotus casebook #edit to add: DISSONANT the damn word i wanted was dissonant

[batz]

neurologist says my optic nerves are fine/same as last few appointments but still tells me to start taking 12 diamox a day and tells me to get out before i can ask why . also diamox like. cannot fix an issue involving my veins. but idk im not doctor so whatever

im 100% not taking 12 pills a day tho thatd hurt me. past few appointments hes just been rlly wanting me to have more diamox even tho he keeps saying im in remission but he wont answer when i ask why i need the meds then

#frank.txt #diamox doesnt even fix venous stenosis . its a diuretic that fixes like. pressure and water distribution n stuff #my jugular vein is too small and the blood flow sounds are simply Too Loud. its not effecting anything long term #but its causing migraines and nausea which is why ive been sleeping 24/7 . like my life has been sleeping. smoke. make coffee. read news #also i have never heard of someone taking 12 diamox a day. especially when im IN REMISSION #unfortunately its fatphobia. my neurologist is less concerned with my brain now and more concerned with making me smaller #which diamox already did and it was hell. #anyway im not going on 12 pills a day . that will just make me more sick. sticking with 4 and just seeing if it helps w Everything #the big thing is my optic nerves r still good at least. and my brain is too. its just my damn veins #theyre simply too small for my big blood... #fatphobia m #idk tagging that just in case #sorry minor venting abt medical shit. this disease is just annoying bc i do not feel like im in remission and i feel like they just #say that without knowing what it means #like theres no more damage and im basically all good but i still FEEL sick. like . idk its just Annoying #idk annoying is an understatement its distressing but i am learning 2 cope with it #just in a bad flare up or Sick Moment idk #long post #kinda idk #im FINE just mad

[demadogs]

finished 1899……..much to think about………

#it was a great cliffhanger and the cliffhanger makes me think i wouldve liked s2 more but alas she will never be born #it was good but it didnt have the chokehold that dark had on me #there were some parts where i just wasnt as interested #like dark fucking changed me as a human being i did not go a day without telling someone about it for like 2 months after s1 came out #honestly a little glad this one was less than that bc the cancelation wouldve destroyed me #it was pretty good they did cool effects but i think some of the story couldve been taken out #like the entire episode dedicated to overthrowing the captain #like ​thatd be fine in just a historical fiction drama but this is a show about a simulation and memory manipulation wheres the SCIFI!! #1899

[archi-pelago]

i feel like work has been making me way more hostile than usual and i cant tell if its bc my lungs are in shit shape, or because of how fuckin hot its getting, or because im just genuinely becoming irritated by retail

#archi wheezes #do i just feel bad or AM I bad #grumbled about how one of the ppl i work with never fuckin listens to me #and the only difference between me and everyone he listens to is im a girl working in a hardware store #and everyone got suuuper fuckin cagey #and now one of his buddies is hostile as shit #i wouldnt care but its about shit that directly effects wtf im doing on my shifts #with anyone else its “oh ok” but with me its “no no BUT” constantly #dude we are on the same level fucking get over yourself #on the other hand: i clock out at the end of the day!! i can just ignore this!! #but lately ive been doing less ignoring and more snapping

[thethingything]

so we've been looking into a bunch of stuff about ciprofloxacin and first of all we should absolutely not have been prescribed it. we have like 4 or 5 different contraindications.

second of all we were told we'd had it before and been fine but I can't actually find it on our medical records because I'm pretty sure the doctor said it was what we took in 2017 but our records say we were given something different. in that case I guess our medical issues suddenly getting really bad out of nowhere wasn't due to being floxed, but they definitely got worse after we got floxed in 2019.

third of all there are so fucking many stories of people taking it and experiencing severe, permanent side effects. like it'd be one thing if these were really rare effects or whatever but this medication is notorious for it and there have been lawsuits over it

#personal #thoughts #🍬 post #vent post #on the one hand the idea that our illnesses weren't initially triggered by a medication feels like a relief #because it feels less like it could have been avoided and if it was avoidable that'd probably feel a lot worse #but on the other hand I'm now really confused about the doctor telling us we'd taken it before and been fine #because there's no fucking trace of us having taken it before and we really shouldn't have been prescribed it #god this is a nightmare to navigate and like it sucks because we already knew it fucked us up when we took it in 2019 #but I think our amnesia did its thing and blocked it out to an extent so now we just kind of go ''oh yeah that's the med we refuse to take' #without really thinking about what it did to us but realising why it had those effects is kind of making it sink in #and I do not like that I'm once again having to figure out just how badly a medication fucked us up #while also dealing with trying to figure out if the doctor lied to us about being prescribed it before #because for the last 5 years we've been working under the assumption that it's what we took in 2017 but apparently not #and I feel kinda ridiculous because I ranted about it to our mum earlier and was like ''hey so this might have fucked us up'' #but no because by the sounds of it we never actually took it until 2019 so now I'm gonna have to explain that #and explain that the doctor probably just fucking told us we were fine with a drug we'd never actually been given before

[emma-d-klutz]

You know I really do not need Jeremiah Arkham to be Black Mask at any time ever. Someone’s gotta fill the niche of mental health professional who is 100% not a supervillain. A guy whose evildoing comes only as an example of what a psych ward can do to you if they just choose. 

The tension of knowing he started out extremely dedicated and genuinely wanting to help people, seeing him victimized and bullied by rogues in his care until even the last shreds of professionalism that held place of his already run down empathy wear out, and despite being sympathetic to this hopeless state being nonetheless nauseatingly horrified when he turns to abusing his patients because in his position he can just do that and hypothetically could have chosen to do that over anything,

is way better to have in there to work with Batman’s exploratory themes of power, justice, corruption and institution, mental illness, and ‘Society’ ect ect

than just saying “and then he snapped too much so now he’s in a legacy costume and a straight jacket too.” 

No hate to my other villains who have lost their licenses. Some of those guys are some of my favorite rogues, and I love them dearly, but we need one uncostumed one. 

(Yes, I am arguing that something from a giant superhero franchise should not have another costumed villain because themes, as if costumed villains is not the whole genre. I am also the sort of person who gave up on No Game, No Life after reading more volumes than I’d care to admit, because I got sick of wading through the gross parts waiting for them to tackle the subjects of debilitating phobias, isolation, codependency, and family that I thought were promised to me before realizing that was never gonna happen. So. Take me however you will. Please pretend reblogs are disabled bc tumblr isnt giving me the option rn)

#jeremiah arkham #i went searching for stuff involving the character after watching the batman 2022 on a headcanon whim #and his shifting characterization and his place in the storyworld actually ended up meaning a lot more to me than I expected #but that's probably because i've been in a psych ward #and wilderness therapy #so i've seen some good and bad things #and i think it's very in line with Batman media #to be like 'hey even if we may sympathize with why you chose to abuse your power it's a systemic failure that you're just able to do that' #if he's black mask i think it idk cheapens the effect? #is it just me? am i wrong? does it not and that just paints me as dismissive? #like am i the one being biased by being like 'yeah i take his bad actions less seriouslywhen he's just another crazy costumed villain'? #i hope i don't sound like that #like you all get what i'm saying right? #this post may be so poorly formed that i did not articulate my point well at all but that's never stopped me from pressing post before #if anyone posts a rebuttle that takes me down. you're free to but i'm not going to respond because i dont want to collaborate on this one

[husband-steve-cortez]

I spend so much more time with confident me3 Kaidan that I sometimes almost forget his tragic backstory and how he sees himself after that.

Doesn't help that he doesn't get into it as deeply with mshep/if you aren't romanced. I'm not sure he even mentions how Rahna looks at him.

#even though it's always been heavily heavily a big part of the vibe that Kaidan starts seeing himself through Miles' rose tinted eyes #I never quite fit in that 'you make me feel human' line into Miles and Kaidan's relationship #because it *is* a line for Kaidan in mass effect 1. He's kind of past that in me3 #but nonetheless I do think being part of the Normandy crew in me1 certainly makes him feel like less of a freak and more like. Just Kaidan. #and then it's taken even further to Kaidan realizing he's also desirable. Perhaps even extremely desirable. #and in me3 when romanced I like the idea that he's a little high on that. And he's in love! Let's be slutty together. #having commander shepard be putty in your hands is something that can be so good for the ego

[thefinalwitness]

thinking about shtolaiha fencing lessons this fine 1:33am on a saturday..... u know how it is............

#i like to think they spar/teach each other their combat techniques both because they find it interesting (it's the nerdism) and because it #helps them work together in real combat better :) #y'shtola's blindness makes fencing or melee weapons in general less than ideal because even tho she can see the aether theres a significant #like. lag? afterimage? basically she “sees” people as being where they are longer than they were #so like. a less-than-a-second delay before the aether in that space fades and her vision tracks the moving target #this isn't so much of a problem when you're a black mage and all your spells have fuck-off huge areas of effect (even single-target ones! #have u seen how big those vfxes are!) but the finesse required when wielding a rapier makes it. a glaring issue. #she still likes to practice though. and conversely l'aiha has never been able to rely purely on magic so things like blm don't suit her #she has a lot of physical endurance and her magic IS powerful but she has to wield it in moderation in a fight. it's why when she loses the #ability TO use her magic at the end of 5.0 she takes so readily to magicless tanking. she's just strong!!! and mostly too nimble to get hit #a lot hehe. #yoshi talks