#we are a plague on the earth

[crescentfool]

with the year coming to a close, i hope that anyone who's reflecting about how the year went remembers to be kind and fair to themselves with how you evaluate the year as a whole.

i think there are definitely times when life throws things that are... Not So Great at you. whether if it's some external circumstance that surprised you, or maybe your mentality wasn't at it's best. i wish for anyone who's encountered those kinds of challenges to be able to triumph over them and be able to say that they got through it.

heck, it might still be a work in progress even though you've kept chipping away at it, and that's ok! the results will show themselves eventually as you work through it! and i hope that we can all remember to be patient with ourselves as we go through these processes (learning, healing, etc.), because damn, it can be frustrating when you feel like you're "not there yet."

knowing that life can be rough at times, i think it's unfair to yourself (and others) to discount and downplay any progress you've made this year- whether if it's something that you did for the first time, or maybe you came to a new understanding and insight that you didn't have in the previous year.

it's not to say that you should undermine the validity of your experience with hardship, but to take the time to remind yourself what makes life worth living. to recall what moments were the most satisfying to you- and use it to strengthen your resolve for the next year and beyond. no amount of hardship will ever take away from the fact that you deserve to have hope that things will get better.

i hope that looking back on the year, you don't leave out the things you cherish. that you can remember the good that came this year. whether if the small victories are things like meeting someone new, trying something out for the first time, or making some strides in a long-term project/obligation...!

i wish everyone a happy new year! may it be prosperous, and that your life can move in a direction that's close to what you want out of life. you're all going to do great! remember to congratulate yourself for what you did well! despite everything, you're still here, and that's wonderful. never forget that!

#lizzy speaks #hello everyone. i know that there are *checks calendar* still 20 days left of december and 2023 #but i've had a lot of strong emotions and feelings i've had to sort through as i've been thinking about how 2023 went for me #so a lot of what i've written here comes from the perspective of someone in their early 20s #it's like... a crash and burn from when you were a teenager thinking that you know everything #and realizing how big the world is and how many responsibilities there are #all while a feeling of overwhelm looms over as you try to sift your way through the world and adjust your understanding of it #for me i've definitely had an underlying thought that 'you should have your shit together by now why aren't you there yet' #and it's! not motivating! at all! to think that way. and it's made me more than ever want to be a friend to myself. to extend a patient- #kind voice to myself that reminds me that others are also trying to navigate these feelings and to accept that i'm not going to have an- #instantaneous understanding of how one goes about adulthood. and neither will they. even if they look 'put together.' #like... these people have also undergone similar stresses and along the way figured out how to navigate through that space #and personally i've found peace in knowing that there are people who are older than me. trusting that they've dealt with these things too i #some shape or form and that them living... being here.. is proof that we shall be fine in the end and that we will move past what plagues- #our mind. there's definitely been some... anger i've had this year that. school didnt teach me these things or skills!! i was so mad lol #but hey if we are little guys who are living on planet earth for the first time we shouldn't condemn ourselves to an unrealistic standard- #of going through life and being able to instantly do everything 'correctly' and know how everything works #i'm still working on improving that patience... and also trying to put in the work to understand these things. #in the midst of a very tough week for me i was tempted to say that 'nothing happened this year it was not productive' #but then i was like. that's. objectively not true if you just look at other things. also theres worth in life outside of 'productivity' #...i think i passed 20 tags at this point. but like. my favorite thing about 2023 was meeting so many cool awesome people! #who would've known that funny lil squid game could bring so many connections and friendships i cherish! #thank you so much! for being a part of my life and changing me for the better! for giving me many fond memories! #and i'm very grateful to anyone who supported me and my art this year... for sticking around even though i wished i could do more #it means the world to me knowing that there's proof that i exist and have touched someone's life in a positive way! thank you! truly! #ANYWAY. happy early new year. i hope everyone can nourish a friend in their head that extends acceptance and patience to themselves #as we try and make sense of the world together. there will be things that we don't understand yet! but one day we will! and it'll be like #wow! look how far i came! i'm okay! i'm alive! yipee! thank you for reading this post i made to get my feelings out! have a nice day!

[beyonddarkness]

Always Watching: Part 1

This is a spontaneous post, but I will go into more depth later. if you have not read Chapter 4 in my blog, please go read that really quick. Not only will everything here make more sense, but it will hit much harder.

The other night, as I was writing the breakdown to my most recent video, I had to stop for a moment to catch my breath because I noticed something very strange.

First, as many of you may have already noticed, this transition, at the end of episode 8, was not done just for the sake of a cool transition. It has a purpose: to show that Sauron literally watched the making of the Rings.

He watched the whole thing like it was a movie. Sauron never touched the Elven Rings, but he "guided their labours, and he was aware of all that they did; for his desire was to set a bond upon the Elves and to bring them under his vigilance" (The Silmarillion: Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age).

But that was not the only shot that shows him watching. The Bird's Eye View is everywhere in this sequence. That is Sauron's camera angle.

He watched as they brought the melted dagger to the bowl.

He watched them pour the molten metal into the bowl.

He watched Elrond hesitate.

(These are all separate shots, by the way.)

He watched the mithril fall into the bowl, and looked into a mirror. That Eye is no accident.

He witnessed the forming of the alloy.

He oversaw Celebrimbor work his Magic.

He watched this.

He watched the swirl.

He admired the Rings, at the same time as everyone else.

And finally, it is revealed whose camera angle that is.

Hence, the creepy smirk of approval.

Now he knows that the Rings have been made. "You needn't lie to them," he told Galadriel. "Simply let the work proceed." They made three instead of two, but he is pleased that his work proceeded anyway.

He didn't just watch the making of the Rings, though. He saw so much more.

[see Part 2]

#rop meta #rop analysis #the rings of power #rings of power meta #sauron #rings of power #please read part 2 #i am not okay #if you can't tell i'm freaking out #but my sister told me to leave my freak outs for the tags #so here we are #“sauron's superpower is he sees you." #“so he sees galadriel” #“and knows that what she needs more than anything else” #“is to find the evil that has plagued her for so long” #“and save middle earth.” - jd payne #sauron is everywhere #why is he like this #ow #sauron's eye #mygifs #1x08

[boysdontcryboycry]

logs back into the stranger things fandom and suddenly everyone hates stranger things what da hell

#if i see one more vickie hate comment i will go ballistic #yeah we're gonna be plagued by so many bad faith and no context takes from bts for the next two years aren't we............ #you can be mad about argyle heaven knows i am but you cannot seriously be complaining about vickie joining the cast like we knew this #also saw someone bring up karens s4 poster and im just agog. its been two years since that babe. karen has always been important. #fifth fucking named character we meet and she has her own arc every single season what da hell #also please be so serious. loved wayne. who on earth expected him to stick around. #i wouldn't be surprised if he skipped town on account of his nephew being dead and likely facing the scorn of the town for their relation

[lonesomedotmp3]

is anyone writing decent riverdale s7 fic can someone get on that. I don't see how that's possible because it's conceptually flawed but psspspsp gay riverfans we could Try...

#i think the only way it works is either keep jughead's memory or at least have him know that he's forgotten something #and constantly be trying to figure it out #OR have them legitimately be haunted by the previous seasons constantly. we need genuine echoes of the modern storyline #not just the occasional easter egg among these boring as shit classic archie slice of life WHATEVER #i thought we're dissecting the fifties instead of doing poorly written discussions of racism have the extreme violence and death that has #always plagued riverdale continue even when we thought it was safe #and not the dumb ethel muggs shit something jason esque something earth shocking... #kill archie. omg who said that...

[hartmannyoukaigirl]

I love going to school and leaving early. I spent like 1 hour then got to walk home in a pretty empty street with the cool breeze of morning <3

#humanity restored #oh birds... and clouds and sky and <3 okay fine living isnt totally all bad #its just. humanity was a plague to earth #we dont deserve this planet fr

[rearranging-deck-chairs]

learnt on radiolab this morning that coldblooded animals cant get fevers which if i had given it 5 seconds of thought i could have figured out on my own however i didnt so that throws a fucking wrench in all of my sickfic doesnt it

#it doesnt really matter though bc my timelords can still do whatever the plot needs them to do #which is exactly canon i think #thats a really fun sorta meta canon trait actually that fits #it was a very interesting episode i didnt realise how we just kidna lucked out on not being that threatened by fungi #and how climate change is changing that #MAYBE shouldnt have listened to this right after starting watching the last of us but hey what can you do #the episode is called fungus amungus if you wanna look it up #anyway so that means that means that timelrods WOULD be threatened by fungi #like where for us it´s viruses for them maybe thats the main plague threat #and gallifrey is hot right? hot and not very wet. they wouldnt have a lot of funguses there #but maybe when they ventured out suddenly there was a lot on other planets and their bodies just arent prepared #i was writing like post-potd yaz/missy yesterday and thinking about how yaz sorta like when they came home in 12x10 #was like maybe a month before lockdown? #they lost the doctor and came home right into a fucking pandemic and yaz lost her mind #like looking for the doctor mustve been like one controllable thing when the entire world became uncontrollable #also a way to get out of the house #shes like im just going for a walk but she just goes to that tardis #anyway but then so i was writing yaz/missy and i had yaz tell her that and missy be like what and yaz was like oh right #you werent on earth then. and then i had yaz ask like you must have seen epidemics #and like have you seen pandemics that spread from planet to planet #and then i realised theres not a lot of that in doctor who? at least not new who idk about old but #theres the girl who waited but there the epidemic or the illness is more of just like a contrivance to create like the actual story right? #about amy and rory and 11 #how different would that be now #i expect we might see some epidemic stuff in doctor who in the next like 10 years #HAS there been a pandemic on earth while doctor who was on? like that it couldve been an influence on the stories? #like you can see climate change as an influence all over the last 60 years in the stories periodically #you know what i mean? #i need to watch more classic #anyway im not gonna change the fic ive already written but this is a fun opportunity to change how i write fever in timelords from now on

[parricider]

scourge how come we don't get a game

❝ WE DID. . . but then th'fuckin' GLITCH GIRL from th’fuckin’ shovel-shit-ware racin’ game, SUGAR RUSH or whatever, deuteragonist-ed her way into our game, an' JACKED UP TH'BIOS CODE in th’main chip in our arcade cabinet before our game even launched. . . an' we've been unplugged an' chokin' on abandoned storage shack dust ever since. ❞

#メ 👑 ━ 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐑𝐑𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐒𝐂𝐎𝐔𝐑𝐀𝐆𝐄 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐂𝐎𝐖𝐀𝐑𝐃𝐋𝐘 𝐇𝐎𝐆 【 crack 】 #i think making a Wreck-It-Ralph reference should be jacked up to the number 1 spot of reasons why i should be killed to hell no matter what #scourge vc: i'd say “” we're just unlicensed plug-n-plague bootlegs “” like the cynical doomer pessimist that i am #but no we were destined to fuck the earth ras; until that 𝐋𝐈𝐓𝐓𝐋𝐄 𝐁𝐈𝐓𝐂𝐇 stole it away from us #timelocker

[thedangerfloofhasreturned]

#what have we done #why does this fit so perfectly #hitting way harder than I expected #feanor #fingolfin #melkor #morgoth #lotr elves #j r r tolkien #silmarillion #war of wrath #arda #history of middle earth #prince of egypt #hans zimmer #music #tiktok #song #ten plagues #brothers #versus #literature #fantasy #lotr #writing #bible #god

[millialani]

You know what I find the Most funny about depictions of aliens or supernatural beings being so disdainful of humans is that people take that as fact now. It's become so common that people rarely write them any other way and so many people I've talked to speak of that trope like it's a known fact of the universe. But like, we made that up. That's humanity's own self hatred, who here has actually had a conversation with a 5000 year old tree spirit and had it tell them humans are despicable creatures that must be eradicated for nature to survive bitch that's just you read an ecology book

#That especially is one of the dumbest things I've heard bc anyone who understands ecology outside of their doomerism would get that the idea #that humans are a virus or a plague among nature is dumb as shit. Humans ARE a part of nature. #Yes humans do things that negatively affect the earth tahst why we're havinf a climate crisis #but removing yourselves from the equation isnt the solution #anyway i think supernatural beings can deal with humans in a normal way #i think it says more about how humans themselves view an existence different from them #than any idea that humans are inherently despicable and doomed as a species #anyway this is also why i love tumblr making supernatural creatures just kind of silly guys #yes you Can coexist wifh the thing that lives in your bathroom and could tear youe mind apart if you looked at it directly #it wants you to buy more cornflakes btw #idk species existing together is far more interesting to me than the 'what if there was racism against humans and we deserved it' stuff

[mothheart]

Tumblr is the only place you can relatively safely and comfortably be a trans man online but then even here it's not perfect lol

#i literally Always see some kind of discourse or ✨️hot take✨️ on every other platform about how testosterone is poison and ruins your body #and being a man is horrible and you are going to become an evil abuser and opressor by transitioning no matter what #they lift trans women up to a standard thats so high its harmful and they treat trans men like we're a plague upon the earth itself #fucking exhausting #i spent long enough hating myself for knowing im a man #i dont care if youre a trans man yourself saying these things and in fact the hate i feel for you is unique #youre destroying other trans men's confidence and pushing them to hate themselves too and sometimes even go back in the closet #because thats what it did to me!! thats exactly what it fucking did to me #im sick to death of the way we are treated as a whole by the rest of the community. even from other trans people. #vent #ask to tag #miles rambles

[crazyspookies]

I’ve just seen that there’s going to be a greedfall2 game and i have Thoughts about it but if there’s somehting I really would like is that, if it’s a sequel, it would be great if we could go back to the continent and, ya kno, maybe assassinate the Prince D’Orsay

Edit: nvm it’s a prequel. I stand by this tho, the guy needs to perish

#greedfall #look #that guy #really needs to die #that man is really the responsible for everything bad happening at teer fradi #like yeah yeah constantin is the most at fault in the moment but #by the end constantin is basically the physical manifestation of all that the continent and the prince have done to the island #so yeah fuck that guy #when i finished the game i could just think of how that guy is the biggest asshole in this whole thing and we dont' ever even meet him #i just thought ''and now my sardet goes back to the continent and works on their plan to assassinate the prince :)'' #i feel like im drawing a target on my back from even saying i played the game becasue #there are so many things wrong with it but #the hting is this game in teh end is like ''yo if you colonize and mistreat natives and their gods and thei earth #then you are corrupt and plague be upon ye'' #one a lot of people don't know or choose to ignore for several reasons #on other news #from what im reading about the second game #it looks like it's going to have soem of the same problms as the first so that sucks

[brydelynch]

BRYDE: A VAGUELY APOCALYPTIC PLAYLIST FOR THE DESIGNATED ANTI-VILLAIN.

#spotify link in the description #bryde #the dreamer trilogy #call down the hawk #mister impossible #yeah i think that the monologuing eco terrorist is cool what about it #have you never seen trash in nature and felt murderous RAGE inside you??? #he's right #we are a plague on the earth <3 #template by aqualvng

[always-a-slut-4-ghouls]

Apparently some U.S. politicians are talking about banning condoms and IUDs. I am at my mcFucking limit right now. There is too much going to hell at the same time. If they keep this up and ban sex-toys I will kill one of them istg.

#emma posts #this isn't just about the sex stuff but that isn't a small part of it either #I can't lust leave the country I'm disabled and depend on programs in my state #I'm close to canada but I can't drive #the earth is on fire we are drowning in plastics there is a plague people are getting killed protesting and they took away rights to your bo #body #this isn't new but it's getting worse #I'm so mad #it's either that or become su*cidal again and I'm not going back if I can help it

[echoblossom059]

He’s just the skrumblo :3

#Can we have Meffols fanart invade Tumblr like a plague over the earth? #I think that’d be really neat :P #Yes I gave him a moth-esque design I think it suits him #Meffols

[marshmali]

Credit scores are so dumb. I paid off my car loan early and it dropped almost 10 points.

#old rich white men are a plague on this earth #what even is the point of this system #you paid off a loan in a timely manner? so we don’t make as much interest?? NEGATIVE CONSEQUENCES

[meatheadmutt]

Why do we allow sports fans to be like this

#barks #yay we won lets riot boo we lost lets riot #plague upon the earth