#those rings are huge

[nakunatta-fujihana]

Movie date and got proposed to today 💕

#we watched one of those historical films #azul chose it this time because i wanted to learn more about what life looks like in his home #so he chose a biopic of the sea witch #i also told azul about these huge candy rings from back home #and he went through all the trouble of actually trying to find one for me #and jokingly proposed?? #ugh i love my boyfriend #yuu posts #rp blog #twisted wonderland #yuu fujisaki #twst #twst oc #azul ashengrotto #azul-kun

[criticalrolo]

why are so many stories nowadays about the end of things. the fall of civilizations. the end of eras. the sad slow death of the past into a grimmer future. this sense of living in the End Times has permeated sooo many genres for a literal Century and it just makes me sad that the change is. always towards the world getting smaller and darker and less magical

#I guess that reflects a lot of society fears etc #but like just off the top of my head in three seconds: #lord of the rings. pirates of the Caribbean. assassins creed valhalla. red dead redemption. Star Wars #that’s across like six different genres right there #and like yeah there’s obv Some hopeful endings to all of those #but the world they occupy is always about an age Coming To An End and the next one is going to be. Worse than the next #I actually have a lot to say about how wwii is the huge pivot point in literature #and in world society #where people stopped believing things are going to Get Better #and how that idea is reflected ALLL OVER in media from 1946 onwards #basically humanity saw just how terrible we can be and it was sooo much worse than the average person had ever dreamed #and since then. the general consensus has switched from bright new future to. racing against the clock before our time on earth is up #it’s actually a really interesting pivot because it’s SOOO widespread in famous media #anyway. just some thoughts #what if…. a story about the Beginning of a world and the insane hardships involved in THAT #it’s always an old guard story I wanna see. what a new guard looks like

[musubiki]

So now that Lime's on the m34th, will cat ears be a separate character? Possibly a love rival for Lime 👀

honestly im not sure what will become of cat-ears!! cat-ears as a concept as well as the underground ring were both created as catalysts for giving lime a decent skill-set upgrade thats proportional to his role in the story, and now that that is effectively replaced by the m34th i will most likely scrap both those ideas altogether!!

SIDE NOTE no one is a love rival for lime 😤 mochi has two hands and they are both for holding limes face..,,,, other men are there just so we can see lime get jealous and face his feelings faster LOL

#im not a huge fan of recycling designs and ideas and repurposing them #i make things for specific purposes and if i dont need those purposes anymore i hardly ever reuse the thing for something else #if i need a something else i make something new specifically for that #maybe not economical on my brains real-estate but i dont like the idea of (yeah you USED to be this but now since you lost purpose im just- #-gonna throw you into this other thing cuz can) #anyway #the m34th actually does a better job of upgrading lime #and theyre fucking awesome #and makes good use of his og skills (magic res) #so beyond just for lime i dont have use for the ring so its gonna go probably

[cornerful]

Sméagol and the Gift

'Now!' said Sam. 'At last I can deal with you!' He leaped forward with drawn blade ready for battle. But Gollum did not spring. He fell flat upon the ground and whimpered.

'Don't kill us,' he wept. 'Don't hurt us with nassty cruel steel! Let us live, yes, live just a little longer. Lost lost! We're lost. And when Precious goes we'll die, yes, die into the dust.'

Devastated by this. Just a little longer, he begs. Even though his existence is a torment. Even though the will that holds him to life is barely his own anymore. He has long outlived his time but it's such a cruelty that now the only freedom for him is in death. I'm glad Sam didn't kill him but the whole scenario is awful.

When a mortal keeps a ring of power he does not gain more life, he continues, denied natural mortality as the fear of death is amplified and twisted into fear of separation, nothing matters anymore but the keeping, the continuing. In that miserable existence there is no peace, and at its end there is no graceful goodbye to life, there is only dust. Sudden, empty, and final.

It would take murder to spare him that. Or falling with the ring into the fire.

Bilbo let it go in time (did he feel anything when it was destroyed?) Frodo is freed of it now, though the toll it extracted for the separation was at very least a finger. It was too late for Gollum for the price to be anything other than it was, and that's brutal.

If you live long enough, death is no longer the enemy. What Sauron did to Gollum ensured that it would always be the enemy, to be feared and avoided for ever, once time and the ring had fashioned it into the only escape left. Evil.

#lotr newsletter #suicide mention in tags #haunted by the au in which gollum goes into the fire with the ring On Purpose #bc he still couldnt separate himself from it but frodo's compassion had somewhat released him from its evil #in a way an honor to frodo's quest and in a way an act of mercy to be able to give up the self-torment #which gives me shrimp feelings bc of the everything but also back to the original point that it is so tragic that death is all that awaits #bc death is natural and that was taken from him. what is the will to live in the absence of natural death? #smth deeply horrible about that #matt bugg screaming we'll be dust. so famous and rent free #lotrn325 #damn it im having more thoughts #wraiths vs gollum: discuss #the nature of the ring kept affects the nature of its possession no? those rings were made FOR thralldom #sauron has power over gollum but not That Much and his own ring is all abt the domination #what would a 2000 year old gollum even be like ._. #the wraiths are probably even more tragic bc at this point they're like...undead. even death isn't freedom #on that topic what happened to the witch-king's spirit fr #I'm pretty sure he isn't ever actually called that in the book but it's epic and gender and way snappier than lord of the nazgul #anyway shoutout to i think yambits for breaking the lore and giving them peace that was sick #where's my gollum rehab fic #i know he's a horrible little man who is constantly trying to murder my boys but i love him so #the au...gollum gaining the willpower to destroy himself because he was given trust and kindness and companionship for once. FUCKED UP. #fucked up horrible i need a minute. being shown compassion and then becoming more self-compassionate. epic #that compassion entailing seeking the freedom of death your soul was denied bc this is fantasy and somehow the exact #arc that usually leads to fighting to live is now flipped. HUH. #yeah jirt alluded to his motivation being For Frodo but i maintain that the willingness to die is HUGE there and extremely relevant #me and my red string keeping me company #ugh tag championships i win i think but at what cost #who wants to spin around miserably in a pool like franknfurter with me as we listen to gollum's song #tam you're already invited i have a floaty for u

[abutterflyobsession]

I pull out so many random facts about the making of Lord of the Rings that people usually respond with, 'how do you even know that?!'

oh, friend.

my brother, a most pretentious lotr fan, snatched up the extended edition hot off the shelf and for weeks it was the only thing on the tv all day long. I've seen every commentary, every special feature . . . twice. maybe more. I didn't have a choice.

#a butterfly obsesses #I've forgotten so much but still #maybe I just don't hang out with nerdy enough people and the rest of you know all this but: #billy boyd every time Minas Tirith is on the screen: I love Minas Tirith #Dominic Monaghan: shut. up. #sean austin forgot to put his waistcoat on for the scene where they all say farewell to frodo so they had to reshoot the whole thing #everybody had to cry again. but the second recording ended up blurry and they had to reshoot a 3rd time. nobody was happy with sean #when sam shows up to fight shelob his hand and sheathed sword appear first like the start of a duel in a western #that's actually peter jackson's hand #sean austin could 'see' shelob when they were filming those scenes. he could very vividly imagine her. #after he saw some cgi test footage of her he lost the ability to imagine her and had to work to get it back #dominic or billy I forget but one stole a skull from the scenes with the army of the dead #after pirates of the Caribbean came out they had to change the design for the army of the dead because the ghost designs were too similar #they built a huge dead Oliphaunt for the battlefield (peter wanted it to be bigger tho) #the people linking up plastic rings for the chain mail wore away their fingerprints on their pointer fingers and thumbs #they basically thawed a frozen stream so andy serkis could dive in and chase a fish in the ice-cold water #I want to say it was billy boyd who had to get a dental procedure done and opted to do with without being numbed #because he had to shoot a scene right after. however he sweated so much his hobbit feet came off #by the time they were put back on the medication would have worn off anyway #viggo mortensen got part of a front tooth chipped off and wanted to finish the scene before having it fixed but they forced him to go #when auditioning horses for the scene the horse kneels down to let the wounded aragorn get on a horse was disqualified for sit on the dummy #the HUGE ring they used for perspective shots

[breadclubrising]

This is probably a ‘you had to be there’ sort of thing, but i FREQUENTLY think about this one cultural trainwreck moment that happened at the show NJPW did at Hammerstein Ballroom a few years ago.

The show started over two hours late. From where I was, it seemed like most of the crowd didn’t even notice until the first hour had elapsed, because it’s fuckin’ New York City, where tbh your show is kind of a dork if it starts on time. To my memory, the crowd was pretty chill—the delay was clearly out of New Japan’s hands and they were doing everything they could to fix it, and in the meantime it seemed like most people were chatting about wrestling while getting plastered off $18 beer in plastic cups. 

However, as you may imagine, the long delay made the Japanese execs running the show extremely anxious and deeply embarrassed (and perhaps a little worried for their safety, given the history of wrestling crowds at Hammerstein). When they finally announced the show would for real this time start in 15 minutes, they sent out an executive of some variety to apologize. He got into the ring, announced the apology, and then did that all the way down face-to-the-ground bow of deep sincere apology. A full one takes like 10 seconds, and he then proceeded to do it three more times, facing the other 3 sides of the ring.

The crowd reaction was VISCERAL. Time began moving in slow motion as Japanese religious reverence for corporate reputation crashed violently against deeply-ingrained American sensibilities about public shame and being made to take the fall for one’s employer. The audience tried briefly to clap politely through our discomfort, as we figured was likely proper, but after the second bow began, the crowd fell into chaos—no one wanted to boo, but seemingly everyone wanted to convey OH MY GOD STOPPP PLEASE PLEASE DO NOT DO THIS. People were shouting ‘no! no!’, drunk dudes in the front row were wildly waving their arms for him to get up, and lots of people were instinctively looking away to avoid being forced to witness public debasement.

The thing that is so inexplicably funny to me is the juxtaposition of a Japanese corporate scapegoat performing a gesture of most profound and humble apology with a few thousand horrified drunk American pro wrestling fans desperately chanting “IT’S OKAY! IT’S OKAY!” at him.

#njpw #you probably did have to be there but this is a perfect crystalline moment in my mind #hayley and tsora and tsora's mom WERE there iirc #and i know others were too #i am pretty sure he also had his shoes off (you're not supposed to wear street shoes into a wrestling ring but execs usually do) #but someone will have to confirm that for me #MOSTLY american sorry tsora #it was one of those horrible social moments that seemingly takes SO LONG that you have time to go through all the stages of grief #hard to say what it's like now as i haven't been to a show of ANY kind since before the pandemic #but this was at a time when NJPW was first expanding into the US #meaning if you went to a show it was likely everyone around you was also a huge dork about japanese pro wrestling #i imagine that is what made the crowd a lot less rowdy than one might expect for the venue #we were all chatting with the people near us about japanese wrestling bc we never get to talk about japanese wrestling in real life #anyway

[devotedsims]

a few of their fits

#ts4 #show us your sims #i unironically love to use the eyeball ring #it’s kinda cute in an ugly way idk #it reminds me of those huge rings from claire’s

[graedari]

Cringe is dead- revamp your LotR OCs from middle school with your friends (and possibly make another with your other friend @psychicrebelstarlight 👀)

Do I know that they technically aren't possible within the LotR/Hobbit lore canonically? Yes. Will I also incorporate other characters that shouldn't into their lore purely based on what I like? Also yes. You can't stop me.

Luinaren belongs to @junppga and Elenaril belongs to @radjerda

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#graedari doodles #graedari ocs #graedari ocs: vara #graedari ocs: aren #graedari ocs: elenaril #lotr #Lord of the Rings #lotr oc #lotr ocs #hobbit oc #digital art #ipad #procreate #apple pencil #these are mostly thumbnails #but already a HUGE improvement from their original designs #cause oooh boi #those were bad #but yes #these are our babies #if you want the autism dump™️ about them please feel free to ask #graedari lotr

[toruq]

#there is not much i can say really in tags for this #i guess that #it will never stop choking me #last night was the best sleep ive had in this room in a long time #when i started to think about it it made me feel sick the similarities #part of me wonders if the physical parts of me give up for it #then sleep is so blissful because i gave up #and sleep is like death #another part wonders if my body ever get lost in time #the temperature or some feelings or some words make it feel like those times #the way i toucch my necklace or look at my ring or lay on my side #i feel missing #part of why it reminds me of anne #nothing seems to be right with time and place #like it's all happening at once #time and space unfolds... #now it is a huge mess in your bedroom #and the only way to get out is to open a portal to a place where time moves so slow it's like it's standing in place #then the time and place is right #all the time #because there is no such thing #sso #ssoblr #sso anne #anne von blyssen #sso concorde #star stable winter rider #star stable online #my art #sso comic

[hootenanie]

outfit from the show 🦚

#not including red painted nails and huge red faux jewel ring because i added those after taking the second pic #face

[apricusapollo]

okay so I have two current wips (hoax & paper rings) but I still decided to start writing a marauders oneshot based on attack on titan: no regrets ova (a choice (with no regrets)) but I'm also tempted to take a huge leap and write a oneshot based on a video sarajamss on tiktok made about unrequited eruri where erwin knows levi loves him and still sends him to dangerous missions because he knows levi won't tell him no,,, all of this while I'm crawling towards the end of second semester–

#crys writes #and is a huge fucking mess #fic: hoax #fic: paper rings #fic: a choice (with no regrets) #also forgot to mention that i have school in 5 hours #i haven't done chemistry homework #and i wrote the most horrible disgustingly horrible essay in georgian #also So Much family shit is happening y'all IT'S WILDDD #gonna be a little b1tch and put all of it in notes of new chapter of paper rings #when i (hopefully) post it ofc #simply to be Those ao3 authors with crazy notes #marauders #attack on titan

[oneknightlight]

"Foul rebel, in search of the downfall of the Diamond Authority. Emboldened by the flame of ambition, someone must extinguish thy flame."

I love The Harvester and Elden Ring, one day I decided to combine the two.

#digital art #art #my art #freckledots archives #the harvester #elden ring #fantasy #medieval #walt vault #im a huge medieval fantasy enthusiast and also a TH enthusiast and i just a d o r e combining those interests #I mayyyyy make more of these >:3 #make it a series if you feel

[basilplane]

Just a couple of curse-breathing nasty boys. Just the ugliest little fuckers. Horrible

#elden ring #dark souls #those huge buggy watery eyes #the little toothy beaks #mostly the curse breathing tho #lil guy #creature #illustration

[sirpepperston]

the price changed on the ring i want. anyone got $2k so I can buy my own engagement ring. it's limited edition

#idc ill buy it and then let my bf hold onto it for a few years #i want that damn ring its so cool its perfect for me its so pretty #like i swear im not one of those girls who wants a huge chaos emerald sized diamond ring #and this ring is not that #but i really like this ring

[cinna-bunnie]

fictional or not, dragon lore is always so interesting.

#I'm watching a DS3 lore video on the nameless king bc i wanted to figure out wtf is the dragonslayer armor's deal #but the greater lore around the dragons is SO fucking good and now I'm thinking about dragons lol #i could watch these dark souls/elden ring lore videos by VaatiVidya all day tbh #i LOVE how deep he goes with it. these worlds and their lore already feel huge but #as someone who's only played the third dark souls it rly makes me appreciate how complex and interconnected it is as a series. #sometimes i wonder if the creators ever watch these vids and think “we didn't mean all that but that's a great idea” #or if they watch it and get super happy like YES that is exactly what our subtle storytelling meant. #either way i have So so much respect for ppl who go and put together these lore videos #going as far as to look at game dumps and early releases/cut content and ALL the dialogue and item descriptions #for any one topic the lore is so scattered about and piecing together any single thing seems like such a massive undertaking. #like lmaooo i can't even follow a single questline without pulling up the wiki #a recent rabbit hole i went down too is how there are different times/realities even just DS3 takes place in? #like how in Untended Graves you see a world without light where darkness rules - and in ringed city when ur fighting those #dragons in the base of that big tree that's supposed to be the original firelink shrine and then the shrine u use is maybe The Past? #the past relative to the other shrine from the world where the flame went out w darkness ruling. #idk how the transition works from being in that one dude's garden in ur world to just walking right into the other one but idc. #just say i got twilight zoned or somethn lol. always. very interesting stuff :^} I'm not smart enough to pick up on anything in the moment #but it's SO fun watching what other people pieced together whose whole thing is that they go thru these games thoroughly. #and in a way it makes me not want to stop playing DS/ER bc there's just so much going on here that's so rewarding?? #like. on TOP of the suuper deep lore the gameplay is also just super fun and u get HELLA weapons and special moves #and the modding scene has made some hella streamline tools that are so good these have been the first games I've ever MADE mods for! #like i can't think of any other games that are like this where I'm really encouraged it make it my own with such a helpful and #engaging community. I'm sure there r other games out there that are similarly engaging with deep lore and streamlined modtools #and mod communities but (⁠〒⁠﹏⁠〒⁠) 1. where?? 2. DS/ER are very beloved to me. #it's funny how little u have to know or do to beat their respective storylines. I've played them both a ton and still know so little. #and when i walk away from these lore vids I'm always like Woah 😵‍💫 yk? anyways.. that's my lil rant :3 back to work now

[pursuitseternal]

Okay, here is my latest stayed-up-too-late-brain-rot idea…

Has anyone yet explored how many Taylor Swift lyrics would be perfect over Haladriel moments?

Bad blood? Anti hero? vigilante sh*t?

I have no talent for making memes… or gifs… but just hear me out 🤣

“You made a really deep cut and now we’ve got bad blood”

“Did you have to do this, I was thinking you could be trusted. Did you have to ruin what was shining now it’s all rusted?”

My favorite thing is that I think it means Saubrand is T. Swift. But I kinda like that 😆

#haladriel #the rings of power #haladriel fanfic #halbrand #lotr rings of power #saurondiel #sauron x galadriel #sauron #halbrand x galadriel #lotr rop #galadriel #lord of the rings #rings of power #lotr #i stayed up way too late #taylor swift #not a huge swifty #but those lyrics get stuck in your head #brain rot