#things i think about often

[thelustybraavosimaid]

Tyrion Lannister and His Shadow

And with that he turned and sauntered back into the feast, whistling a tune. When he opened the door, the light from within threw his shadow clear across the yard, and for just a moment Tyrion Lannister stood tall as a king. (Jon I, AGoT)

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"Oh, I think that Lord Tyrion is quite a large man," Maester Aemon said from the far end of the table. He spoke softly, yet the high officers of the Night's Watch all fell quiet, the better to hear what the ancient had to say. "I think he is a giant come among us, here at the end of the world." (Tyrion III, AGoT)

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"Someone told me that the night is dark and full of terrors. What do you see in those flames?"

"Dragons," Moqorro said in the Common Tongue of Westeros. He spoke it very well, with hardly a trace of accent. No doubt that was one reason the high priest Benerro had chosen him to bring the faith of R'hllor to Daenerys Targaryen. "Dragons old and young, true and false, bright and dark. And you. A small man with a big shadow, snarling in the midst of all." (Tyrion VIII, ADwD)

#things i think about often #tyrion lannister #asoiaf

[chaotic-goodsir]

I have got to get more unhinged I have got to get kinder I have got to get less afraid I have got to get more vulnerable I have got to get worse

#things i think about often #and yet am still so scared by

[arctic-hands]

Anyone else with food allergies/intolerances ever worried about being in a disaster scenario (hurricane, war, displacement, etc) where you have to rely on other people (FEMA, charity workers, volunteer restaurants coming together out of the goodness of their hearts, etc) and then all the food being offered is stuff you can't eat, or is that just me?

#things i think about often #food allergies #food intolerance #to a lesser extent I'm worried about this just being plain food insecure #the last time i went to a soup kitchen i had to throw my bread away #because of food safety rules i couldn't return it or give it away #i felt like such an ass but i literally couldn't eat it #anyway was looking up emergency rations for the hell of it #it was a wiki walk from split pea soup to salt pork to hardtack to rations #and almost all of it has wheat #also i know of plumpy nut for malnutrition and that obvs has nuts #and powdered milk is a common distaster staple #p sure food allergies count as a disabilty so... #disabilty accomodations #or lack thereof

[grotesquehorse]

best friends brother trope is sooo much better than brothers best friend trope

#things i think about often #reading takes

[djarrex]

when Rex challenged a very large Wrecker by storming up to him and even having to look up at him !!! and threatened to crush him to smithereens

#king behavior #captain rex #things i think about often #i just 👁👄👁

[sylvies-kablooie]

i do unironically think the best artists of our generation are posting to get 20 notes and 3 reblogs btw. that fanfic with like 45 kudos is some of the best stuff ever written. those OCs you carry around have some of the richest backstories and worldbuilding someone has ever seen. please do not think that reaching only a few people when you post means your art isn't worth celebrating.

#i often wonder about how many things would be considered classic or high art had they only received the marketing #how many short films that were made for class could have been the most powerful thing you'd ever seen? if you'd seen them? #“you know the greatest films of all time were never made” etc etc #but like. these works of art ARE being made. it's just enjoyed by a smaller audience with equal impact though #i think about this one furry i used to follow on insta who had the coolest worldbuilding ever. it's been years. #thought prompted by that sketch of nimona from ten years ago that was just for a character design #posted to the creator's tumblr and now it's nominated for best animated feature film at the oscars #and by the genuine emotional reaction a fan comic made me feel. how much work had gone into it. how beautiful it was to me. #idk what to tag this but i hope whoever needs to hear it does #writing #writer #fandom #fandom culture #artist

[cemeterything]

i think it's so fun that "damn" is such a casual curse word now that it's basically become divorced completely from its original meaning. like oops i dropped my phone, time to invoke the wrath of god about it in the most mildly annoyed tone of voice imaginable.

#🐉 #even around people who dont like swearing you can often get away with it. which is crazy if you think about it. #to be clear i think this is a good thing! fuck cultural christianity lol

[afarcry5fromstraight]

With the price of sprinkles at HEB I could have so many soot sprites working for me.

#things i think about often #id pay them living wages 😭

[cl0uds3lf]

there's something deeply gut wrenching about reaching your favorite characters age. even more so when their stories are still going and they're still the same age because not that much time has passed for them.

i used to think they were so old and so brave and wanted to be just like them but now i read them again and the only thing i can think is that they are so young to be going through all of that.

it's silly but. dude. i have cried over this a couple of times. these stories have been my home and my safe place for so long yet im slowly outgrowing those that took care of me. maybe it's just some sort of extreme attachment from my part but. yk. ouch

#things i think about often #silly thoughts #becoming overly sad by the passing of time. #fictional characters mean so much to me #this applies to so many characters btw #the fandom jumping has left me sobbing cuz there's a lot more characters that this has happened with and it always fucking destroys me

[talesfromthecrypts]

I have adventured it and found nothing but sugar and violence.

Poor Things (2023) dir. Yorgos Lanthimos

#poor things #filmedit #useranimusvox #hericavyll #userlera #mygifs #rainbowedit #i think about her often

[altschmerzes]

gen fic appreciation post. i love you gen fic. i love you serious, plot-heavy gen fic. i love you funny, lighthearted gen fic. i love you angsty whump and h/c gen fic. i love you emotionally complex and intimate gen fic. i love you super long chaptered gen fic. i love you oneshot gen fic. i love you strictly canon adherent gen fic. i love you alternate universe gen fic. i love you crossover gen fic. i love you gen fic about queer identity and relationships. i love you found family gen fic. i love you gen fic.

(edited to add: by ‘gen fic’ this post is NOT referring to rating. it is referring to fic that is not about and does not prominently feature romance, regardless of rating.)

#gav gab #thinking abt the way people talk about gen fic today #and it's often so....... reductive even when they're trying to be complimentary #'gen fic often has so much more PLOT and REAL CONCRETE EVENTS' like sure i guess sometimes #but heavily emotional character relationship based gen fic also exists and deserves attention #it just feels like a reflection of the way people talk about aro people having 'so much more time to get things done' without romance yknow #anyways. gen fic is so many things and i love it.

[ejsuperstar]

Imagine you live in pelican town. The new farmer has been here a couple weeks now and seems to be settling in, except... He's picking the weirdest friend choices. Like sure it's not weird to befriend the local fisherman, especially when he has an interest in fishing himself, but you're pretty sure you've seen him rooting through the Saloon's garbage with the local homeless man. As well, he keeps harassing the poor guy who works at Joja even though you KNOW he doesn't want to be friends with him.

And since you're on the topic of weirdness, isn't it odd he seemingly runs everywhere at a full sprint? Or just... Eats entire raw fish while fishing for "energy reasons"...

...

Despite all that, it's too early to call him off putting or anything... He has been engaging in town traditions, and he's started helping out with the old community centre. He's probably like the rest of you. Someone with a few quirks, that will fit in with the valley great!

Surely he can't get any weirder... Right?

#been playing my new sdv save some more recently #i keep thinking about the whole “eldritch” farmer thing #where the famer is just... objectively strange #i fucking love it #i love the idea of the farmer being some sort of higher being #someone who doesnt understand local conventions #someone who doesnt get why its considered weird to eat whole raw fish fresh from the river #or how it might be offputting to greet someone for the first time using their name #but at the same time #this eldritch entity genuinely wants to be a part of the community #they want to learn and they want to love and they want to learn to love #i see minmaxxer/speedrunner eldritch famer a lot #mainly played off for gags #but not genuinely loving their live in the valley eldritch farmer #at least not often #theres so much temptation to write an eldritch farmer x shane fanfic set in spring 1 or some shit lmao #text post #stardew valley #sdv #sdv farmer

[somethingcorenotsure]

I think it's so adorable that early humans took wild gourds - a tiny fruit that hollows out as it dries, making it float - and decided to make something out of it

they thought the tiny fruit was so good that they bred it for thousands of years, making it larger to form into bowls and cups, and different shapes to become bottles and spoons

and musical instruments

And then, people took the hollow gourds they farmed, and they turned them into houses for birds. We adapted them into the perfect houses for birds, and now there are specific breeds of birdhouse gourd just for making into birdhouses

And humans dedicated gardening space and time and thousands of years of breeding to make the gourds so absolutely perfect for birds, that there is a species of bird that lives almost exclusively in them

#yes I KNOW i posted about this the other day but *crying* i just love plant domestication and the history of agriculture #and humanity's positive affect on the ecosystems we live in #mine #image IDs in alt text #hmm. I'm gonna tag this #permaculture #just to pspsps @ that community to look at how cool gourds are please everyone grow birdhouse gourds and give cavity nesters places to live #i don't think mine will become fully ripe before i get my first frost :( next year i need to start gourds indoors #i didn't want to grow them before because i didn't have much garden space but now i do and i need to grow all of them #i might be. a little obsessed with gourds. but also i saw a pair of purple martins flying by the road last year #and i had never seen one before then! and i need to see more of them #i have a few hundred barn swallows but i need more birds flying around my house. more!! #and also i have a ton of invasive cavity nesting species around here. house sparrows and starlings. #gotta make up for those things competing with native birds for nest dites #*sites #the invasive birds very often win :/ #that's why they're invasive #i really do need to start trapping them....

[chitinleg]

got him off-balance!

#my art #ds9 #star trek deep space nine #julian bashir #elim garak #garashir #watercolor #image desc in alt text #i normally post on mondays but. today im breaking my pattern! getting a little silly. getting a little wild. garashir jumpscare #“tumblr user chitinleg garak would neot easily let himself be swooped off his feet into a hug like that” yes i know BUT! #look at his expression. look at how his arms r pinned. he didnt let this happen LMAO julian just surprised him. grabby huggy human behavior #if you look really closely you can see the tiniest frown in the world on Garak's face. because he's like “EEP !” #cant see bashirs face at all in this only his body but i think we can all imagine that whatevers going thru his head. he needs this hug bad #ALSO. for anyone wondering what the fucked up shadow is that starts at the juncture of the teal sleeve-cap where its set into the armhole #the jumpsuits have a bit of a fold of extra fabric (called an Action Pleat) there which allows for a little more maneuverability of the bod #AND creates a really sleek and flat back panel #because you can see the fabric twists along the side arent grabbing the flat back fabric theyre grabbing the fabric folded beneath it #often times i think about drawing out a dissection of kiras first uniform and this voy era one for other artists to use. bc god knows #i struggled at first to find full body references #they like to shoot ds9 very close to peoples heads. and the camera is so blurry. they smeared butter on that thing. god bless

[imthursdaysyme]

El Hopper

#stranger things #drawing #art #digital art #eleven hopper #eleven stranger things #el hopper #el hopper byers #i just think about how little she was often #how tiny #she was literally a baby #there was no reason #which is why I never take any criticism or hate on her character #I just want to bundle her up and hold her tight #pretty much I relate the most to Joyce byers

[diamondnokouzai]

if magneto knew what the internet was then he would post to r/aita as often as possible and all his posts would be the top posts of the year. thats the kind of drama hes going through. he also gets permabanned from r/mutants for advocating violence

#.din #.txt #marvel #x men #GD I FORGOT HOW OFTEN XAVIER USED HIS GO GO GADGET PTSD ON MAGNETO IN THIS SERIES. JESUS CHRIST. #im scared of getting gwenpool'd into the marvel universe cause thatd be the first thing id think of if i met professor x #and like what if he hadnt used his go go gadget ptsd telepathy yet in that universe? #would i be responsible for teaching him how to give magneto war flashbacks? #would he be offended that i thought about it? might be worse if he wasnt honestly. #that would be my first five questions but my hand would be covering my mouth so hed be reading my mind. #< as in the go go gadget war flashbacks would be my first five questions i mean