#occuring glass

[i3utterflyeffect]

also. unfortunately alan immediately discovers that yellow is blind

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#pitch's art #tommy's stickmen tag #“chosen are there stick optometrists” “is that REALLY what you're worried about right now” “...good point” #stick alan #stick!alan #ava #ava/m #animator vs animation #animation vs animator #ava yellow #yellow doesn't really ever see glasses in person other than on humans so it never rlly occured to them to ask for a pair lol #ava alan becker #c!alan

[yourfavouritefighter]

pssst i actually made art and posted it promptly??? it’s a miracle! anyways take a spoiler for my dead man walking au!

#he sleep #but where? #and who is #HE #wait #shit how do i tag this #im tagging as jekyll becuase its jekylls body #and the person in it is up for debate #tag who you think it is guys! #but this scene will eventually occur #hopefully? #the glass scientists #tgs #henry jekyll #tgs jekyll #tgs henry jekyll #the glass scientists jekyll #tgs au #dead man walking au #fighterdraws

[didoofcarthage]

Cameo portrait of Emperor Claudius, in modern mount, perhaps cut after his triumph over Britain in A.D. 44

Roman, Imperial Period, A.D. 43-45

sardonyx with glass backing

Royal Collection Trust (acquired by King Charles I when Prince of Wales)

#cameo #portrait #Ancient Rome #Emperor Claudius #Claudius #Roman emperor #Roman #Imperial Period #Julio-Claudian Dynasty #Julio-Claudian Period #sardonyx #glass #carving #sculpture #ancient art #Royal Collection Trust #The victory over Britain was in AD 43 but the triumph occurred in AD 44 #It's confusing that those words are synonyms in English!

[sercj]

Alright, I'm finally typing it out. Gather around, all, for the tale of the time my friends and I kidnapped a blueberry and drug them into the Vault of Glass.

Once upon a time, I used to have friends I would play Destiny 2 with regularly. None of them that feature in this story still do, to my knowledge, but at the time we were pretty cracked on the PvE side of things. At the time, we were raiding semi-regularly (when schedules lined up), and as Vault of Glass had just been added to D2 recently, it was our raid of choice that one, fateful evening.

We, like any sane PC player, were using Discord for comms, and so I had hopped into the channel to wait, and headed to the Cosmodrome for my favorite time-killing passtime - blueberry watching. For those of you unfamiliar, blueberries is an affectionate term for new destiny players, named after the color of the low rarity gear they end up decked out in, blue. The Cosmodrome, being the first public area a New Light ends up in, is often a place where you can see adorable new players getting the hang of things.

At this time, the voice channel began to fill up, and one of my compatriots joined my fireteam. We initiated some hug emotes with a blueberry and were just all-in-all chilling when we got word that one member of our team would be unable to join us. Then someone (I forget who) suggested 'hey, what if we took this blueberry along with us?'. It was a patently absurd option - we had no communication with them. Their mishmash of blue armor and crappy weapons would clearly be outclassed by the raid, leaving them unable to damage enemies and likely to die instantly if any of the vex even looked in their direction. But we started to plan a bit - really, we could do every encounter with just 5 people. We'd have to protect the blueberry, but that could be done, theoretically.

I think, in the end, we came to the conclusion that we'd try it, but they weren't likely to stick through it. After all, we weren't (and never did) using the in-game VC, or text chat. The two of us hanging out with them in the Cosmodrome sent a fireteam invite. And the blueberry accepted. So we joined the rest of the team in orbit, and launched Vault of Glass.

I could go into our specific strategies for each encounter, but for the most part it was pretty same-y. We'd use emotes and shooting to get the blueberry into a defensible position, then 5-man the encounter. And somehow, this worked. I have taught many, many people many raids in my time (including many people from this friend group!), and I have never seen someone pick up so quickly on what we needed them to do. With no actual words passing! An absolute, biggest-brained legend of a guardian.

We did get this guy all the way to Aetheon. And with some tricks (and good RNG), we were able to even defeat Aetheon. With some random blueberry nobody knew, or talked to! Unfortunately, they didn't get Mythoclast (can you imagine, though!), but they did celebrate with us with their default dance emote, and we all went our seperate ways. Nobody friended them, we just re-released them into the Cosmodrome like they hadn't just helped us save all of time or whatever the point of Vault of Glass is.

Now, perhaps this was a returning player, or someone on a new alt, who already kinda or entirely knew what was going on. But there's no real way of knowing, and it's just as (if not more) likely that this was a brand new player. Can you imagine what kind of a 'first experience' that new player had with the game? How puzzlingly odd to begin with, developing into concern as the activity we brought them to was clearly beyond them, to the 'fuck it we ball' attitude to stick with it all the way through. A true champion.

And imagine the lore perspective too. Fresh guardian, still got gravesoil in their armor, hasn't been to the tower yet, and they get scooped up into the Vault of Glass? Battle Aetheon? AND WIN!? The reaction from Shaw, or hell, the Vanguard as a whole would be amazing. Our guardians getting reprimanded for taking some fresh new light and dragging them through such a crazy difficult experience they weren't prepared for. Fun stuff to think about.

I wonder how that player is doing now. If they still play, how this particular experience flavored their perception of the game and its community. I know the community at large can be extremely toxic (and worse), but I still strive to embody the community impression we made on that day. Patience and Understanding, being goofy and silly about it, inclusive and kind. Dunno, maybe that's just me being sappy about a fun memory with friends gone by.

#destiny 2 #d2 #vault of glass #aetheon #story #long #i hope this tale brightens one persons day #the original occurence was a very fun night #i miss having people i loved to play destiny 2 with #now i just have to lfg everything #which is okay about 60% of the time #genuinely enjoyable maybe 10% #and the remainder is just bad #and that's AFTER screening lfg posts for ones that seem more chill #pro tip: if it says 'KWTD' skip that shit #buggest thing the new system lacks is a definite warning label like that #anyhow i'm just rambling now #shoutout to all the blueberries #i love you guys

[maxsix]

#jeon wonwoo #wonwoo #seungcheol #scoups #seventeen #maxsixgif #some happy ww today #his smile is like the nuclear fusion that occurs in the sun #i deliberately did not crop sc out of the middle gif #bc look at his face #the fondness he has #the relationship he has with his members is so fcking beautiful tbh #he always has this look on his face #wonwoo in glasses #i need to make that a tag

[fleshadept]

while the criticism of glass onion being a bourgeois art piece hegemonically negotiating hatred of the 1% into standard discourse is understandable, i think it's important to remember that rian johnson and daniel craig and whoever you want to criticise for making "performative" art about the systemic ways in which the ultrawealthy maintain power and specifically marginalize women of color are far closer in wealth to the average american than they ever will be to elon musk or any billionaire. daniel craig's net worth is $8 million dollars. his WHOLE net worth. you have to multiply that by 19,500 to get anywhere near elon musk's net worth of $156,000,000,000. and that's after he's lost $100bn this YEAR.

it's true that people shouldn't count watching movies as activism and definitely shouldn't see media produced by huge corporations as praxis, but that doesn't mean what political standpoints they do contain lack value or are disingenuous. the human mind is literally incapable of conceptualizing numbers after a certain point, so it's easy to think of hollywood rich and billionaire rich as similar, because both kinds of people live lives that most of us could barely dream of with privileges and access to resources that we will never have. but the difference between a millionaire and a billionaire is the difference between being able to make a movie starring daniel craig and being able to bankroll dozens of politicians and buy one of the largest social media websites used by millions of people daily on a whim

as "rich people bad" movies go, glass onion deals with it REALLY well. the scene at the end when helen destroys miles's house demonstrates a very nuanced understanding of how billionaires maintain power; blanc recognizes and tells helen that even though they found the truth, they can't do anything legally because miles burned their only physical evidence and the courts will unequivocally side with the billionaire. again. so in lieu of any justice system that will work, helen starts breaking shit. but miles doesn't even care that much, because what's a dozen million dollar glass art pieces to a man who accrues that in interest every minute? even when everyone else joins in, he doesn't care. it's annoying, but it doesn't mean anything. so the other "disruptors" stop after they've gotten their minimal catharsis, having done no real damage to his reputation or, frankly, their reliance on him.

helen burning the mona lisa to take him down, and that being presented as the best option, is really significant. as movies go, taking the stance of "destroying priceless art and private property is not only justified and moral but effective in the face of a system that gives you no other option for justice" is pretty damn rare.

it's true that if glass onion or other high budget films actually tangibly threatened the system in any way they would never get funded or see the light of day. but the cool thing about stories, and about art, is that you can't predict the effects they have on people. anti-billionaire bourgeois art isn't direct action, it isn't activism, and it isn't even important politically, but that doesn't mean it has no effect on the discourse whatsoever and can't be important to how people see the 1%

#glass onion #AGAIN. movies are NOT praxis. they are not activism. but i feel like when people bring up the frankfurt school/gramsci arguments #of hegemonic negotiation via movies presenting political viewpoints #WHICH IS VERY IMPORTANT AND A VERY REAL PROCESS #people also tend to use those arguments to discount the value art can have in general #there's this one quote from a jewish partisan who survived the first wave of nazis invading lithuania and organized sabotage #and subversive groups against the invaders that was like. 'had the invasion not occurred i would have been a poet' #which is such a succinct way of saying that art is useful broadly up to a point but after that point you have to pick up a gun #anyway i'm rambling. cricket enters the chat to discuss hegemonic negotiation #cricket chirps #glass onion spoilers

[unproduciblesmackdown]

why did he do this (rhetorical) (profoundly affected)

#obviously referenced from start to finish. half second shots that kill #you go ''i was already Changed by the mere socked glasses flip / kick gifs. i'm ready'' but you are actually collapsed on the ground #raising my hand as one of the handful of randos who stood up suddenly these past few months like why yes i Will watch your films then #and also as [guy lecturing & emphatically pointing to laptop] i have to do everything myself the undereye coloring is a distinctive trait #fashion icon shit around here also i'm not kidding in the least #i want well another pair of glasses for one & graphic tees short shorts a fanny pack a calculator(?) buttonsy digital watch i completely do #also again with the adhd these flashbacks were beautiful. inspiring. revelatory. profound (cont.) #it's also occurring to me that i've watched a couple movies for the first time recently and it was like. man cmon #one horror one that was like. I Said Man Cmon. another non horror one that was just like an unending shrug #all the more appreciation like yeah hey a horror movie and also just a movie where it's like yes i'm completely along for the ride wahoo yay #raising my third hand as a correct opinions about media haver #corned beef #it #no time to be coy i was here three and greater than three years ago. and just nowadays; evidently: #reddie #online listicle video voice The Couple Of Dozen V Varied Moments From The IT Movies That Drew Blood (Mine) #whoever came up with this sequence i'm kissing on the mouth like my god. again: profound #the power of the rileable using their end of things as their plausible deniability. like oh god i hope he thinks i'm cool. ok asshole Enough #being the guy Just Standing There like fellas the boy you're in love with very insistently did this wyd (only caring abt literature) #adding a 50% pink overlay like it comes time to make these coloring choices & i put on a vivacious song to inspire having fun / being myself #great choice imo. now to slide right under that midnight est wire

[6-2-aestheticsofhate]

wanted to get a good screenshot of my special little guy

#'hank is dead in the foreground' this isnt abt him #JOKE JOKE JOKE JOKE i love hank #i just realized how sad it is that the first time i occured to me to tak a screenshot of this that its on. this level #actually wait is this the first time the gabe stained glass shows up? #cant remember #went through all the levels before this rushing. idk why. instinct i guess #fuck i need to p rank this <- has p-ranked all but 3 levels and two of those are prime sanctums

[giddlygoat]

i went to some vintage and thrift shops today looking for a leather bomber jacket for my launchpad mcquack cosplay. i didn’t find the right jacket, but i did stumble upon these collectible mickey glasses!! i love weird collectible glasses SO much, so these were an instant buy.

also spotted a straight up scrooge jacket at my favorite vintage place LAWL, but it’s too small for me so i left it for someone else.

here’s the items i ended up getting:

spotted this INCREDIBLE shirt at my vintage place. the material is really nice and i adore the colors and patterns. i will definitely be wearing this one to work a lot.

i’m pretty sure this one is a scout’s uniform? the shirt is made of a durable and stiff material and i really like it. the white fastens on the shoulders are too cute! i also nabbed that handkerchief today.

this cropped jacket is REALLY rad. it’s hard to tell because i couldn’t get a good picture in my tiny house but the crop is pretty severe and baggy. it’s actually a size too small on me, so fastening the cuffs are out of the question with my fat wrists, but i absolutely love the way it looks on me. it also kind of gives me della duck vibes.

#gear diary #thrift haul #I LOVE THRIFT AND VINTAGE SHOPS SM 💪🌈🌟💖💖💖 #no id #fashion #i hope to start blogging more thrift / fashion stuff on here bc it occurred to me that No One knows how cool my wardrobe is #i’ve been collecting cool garments for years and have a scary arsenal of suspenders bow ties and decorative specs at my disposal LAWL #hopefully i can show them all off in time <3 #vintage fashion #mickey mouse #donald duck #daisy duck #goofy #collectible glasses #OH that’s another thing i have GOT to show you guys my number1 grad smurf mug. ITS SO FUNNY #maybe i’ll make a post with my favorite mugs and glasses soon

[isan0rt]

Oh boy look at the time. -checks a reoccurring calendar notification that says 'cry in the club about Xehanort and his abandonment complex'-

#i don't know why this occurs i just periodically get sad about Xehanort again #not a sentence i thought I'd ever write if you asked me a few years ago but like this has been my life for the last year and a half #just periodically getting deeply sad about Xehanort #the sad du jour is about Xehanort aggressively clinging to how being the Child of Destiny means he's totally not unwanted #even if his mom did give him up and his dream friends aren't even really his friends #and maybe his real friends will also reject him if he's insufficiently dogmatic about light and darkness #surely it doesn't matter he's the Child of Destiny he's not UNWANTED perish the thought #and anyway he totally doesn't care even if he IS unwanted. Totally. Totally not hung up on what Baldr said at all. #IT'S FINE. I'M FINE. I'M SO NORMAL ABOUT IT. #khml needs to come out so i stop chewing glass about this [it will probably also make me chew glass]

[seleniaflower]

Mob Psycho 100 Season 1 Ending (Refrain Boy) / Season 3 Ending (Cobalt)

#mob psycho 100 #mp100 #shigeo kageyama #reigen arataka #mp100 s3 #Miyo Sato #been slowly working on this gifset since I first saw the season 3 ending theme! #the endings are all so gorgeous and I adore the parallels #my gifs #Paint-on-Glass #the re-occurring moments in the show where scenes shift from sepia or grayscale to beautiful colour......perfection #I will never get over how artistic this show is!!!

[thenothing17]

this has been sitting in my folders for a while now so i figured I'd finally post it

#there is no context for this #i kinda just drew this without any kind of plan #i don't think murder has occurred yet #but it may #theoretically #the glass scientists #jekyll and hyde #tw blood

[satans-knitwear]

Get comfy ✨

Treat me ~ Tip me

#Roleplays occuring in class today and i nearly threw up on camera. Noped so hard out of there 😂😂😂 #Very much looking forward to picking up my new glasses next week. Im gonna need them if this leaning and working thing pans out! #A v cute and soft look last night. Nothing special #I do have a matching set on today tho so we may get to that later ✨ #satans knitwear #Alt pinup #Cosy vibes #bi girl #uk girl #cheeky #high waisted pants #High waisted lingerie #Crop top

[transingthoseformers]

SG IDW Post War: after the war Megatron, due to a combination of feeling out of place on a post war Cybertron and due to the returning neutrals making him feel like too polarizing a figure, gets a shape with some of the other Decepticons, leaves Cybertron in Starscream and Soundwave's hands, and leaves to likely never return.

Space adventure time? That may or may not include collecting unanticipated members?

#maccadam #transformers #transformers shattered glass #transformers idw #cool that cybertron is in sg Starscream and Soundwave's capable hands_ i feel like cool things will occur there #I've read plenty of fics where Optimus did this but it'd be interesting with sg Megatron

[orionis13]

I was so blinded by my hatred for asterion i did not realize i have his exact hair this is so sick and twisted i need to change this immediately

#HOW DO I KEEP DOING THIS TO MYSELF #genuinely did not occur to me till i did my hair this morning and saw it without my glasses and was like 🧍 #anyway dying it for halloween for sure now <3 #this is slash lh bg people dont come for me pls

[tanoraqui]

inspired by Jailbird by @jaz-the-bard. I like it very much! But I can’t shake this vision of an alternate option for Maglor in the Battle of the Black Gate...

[ao3]

The Lords of the West were fully surrounded. Aragorn, Eomer, and the others barely had time to position their banners before the orcs advanced, jeering and clashing swords on shields as they came. The great Easterling oliphants bellowed. Out of the shrouding darkness over Mordor flew the Nazgúl, with their shrill shrieks that stole all hope.

Maglor set his hands once more to the harp Elrond's sons had brought south with them, which had survived dragonfire, Úmaiar, the end of a world and two Ages after that, and raised his voice and his Music in reply.

He did not Sing the Black Gates down (though he could have; they were strong but shatterable, to his keen eye). He did not Sing in direct counter to the Ringwraiths and their flying terrorbeasts.

He Sang the refrains which had once guarded Lothlann's wide plains and the battle cries which had once swept before the great Host of Eastern Beleriand faster and farther than the greatest arrow. He sang fear into the hearts of the enemy and courage into the hearts of his allies.

He Sang of the unstoppable valor and might of the House of Fëanor as it could have been, should have been, never was—still alight with the glory of Aman yet all the lessons hard-learned in Beleriand in the dauntless determination of their steps and the savage skill of their arms.

The army of darkened Men swept in from the north and Ambarussar darted and leapt through them with utter unpredictability, until you saw that no matter how far apart, they moved as one. Amrod shot how crossbow while Amras reloaded; Amras ran up an oliphant's tusk and took a gouging knife to its eye while Amrod stole a horse and hacked through its hamstrings.

Orcs came like a black flood from east and west. On one flank, Curufin wielded a slim duelist's blade that moved like lightning and an endless stream of knives, for blocking and throwing. Every one found their perfect mark. Celebrimbor stood back to back with his father, with his great two-hander and three shining rings upon his fingers. Sauron's creatures burned before they touched him.

Caranthir met the other flood with the eclectic, deadly style he'd created himself, with moves from dwarves and men as well as every kind of elf. He fought with twin short-swords and brutal efficiency.

Trolls roared and wargs howled. Celegorm leapt toward his favorite foes with not just Treelight in his eyes, but the extra shine of one beloved of a Vala. In his right hand he wielded his great war-spear and at his left came Huan Lúthiendil, greatest of Oromë's Hounds.

Maedhros fought one-handed toward the Black Gate itself, the only irreconcilable fact—but Maedhros had never truly fought one-handed. The shield strapped to his right arm smashed into an orc's face as his sword swept another through the belly. His copper curls were the streaming banner under which East Beleriand had united time and time again, and he was alight with a flame that Dagor Bragollach itself had never matched.

And Maglor himself moved among them, of course. One hand on his battle-harp and one on his blade, and Song on his lips. It is said that the great elven-bards of old could conjure images with their song, and here one was one of the greatest. He poured millennia of bitter grief and unexpected hope into his memories of what had never been, and they did more than dance to his Song—they fought. Curufin's knives and the twins' arrows both flickered and faded after they found their marks, but they left blood and torn flesh when they did. Two of the Nazgúl dove for Huan, recognizing their master's ancient foe; with a savage trill of notes, he and Celegorm beheaded the first beast and the second ghost. Caranthir shoulder-checked a falling troll so that it toppled sideways rather than forward onto young Pippin.

...and there Maglor stopped, in summoning the House of Fëanor to the field. Let them fight in the following of Aragorn son of Arathorn, Isildur's heir and Elros's!

Still, he was nearly exhausted by the time the Eagles came, and the dark tower began to shake.

#ficlet #maglor #lotr #lord of the rings #my fic #house of feanor #maglor: [mean girls valentines delivery voice] ...and none for dad. bye! #it occurs to me as i post this that i'm extremely sure the inspiring fic does NOT include a harp which elrond has been keeping in a glass ca #*case for the past 4000 years or so; that that is purely my own headcanon #and also in the fic elrond wouldn't know to send it south bc he doesn't know maglor is there #...but ngl that strained my credulity in the ficso listen we're just working with a slight au of the au ok #the POINT is what if you know and miss your brothers (and nephew) so much that you can conjure tehm as DEADLY MUSICAL HOLOGRAMS #FIGHTING FOR A TRULY GOOD CAUSE AS THEY NEVER GOT THE CHANCE TO DO