#why people like that 🙃

[adhd-merlin]

when Arthur finally admits his feelings for Gwen to Merlin and says "my father would never let me marry her", and Merlin goes "you want to MARRY Gwen?!" like "shit, dude, I didn't realise it was this serious"

#arthur (2 days after kissing gwen): imma wife her up #merlin: what?? #arthur: what?? #'I think about her all the time' #'I care about her more than anyone' 😭😭😭 #it lowkey bothers me when people make this scene about merthur #'he could be talking about merlin!' mmkay but he's not 🙃 #he's talking about gwen #can we be about gwen for just one minute #also love this scene because merlin is SUCH a romantic #like it's such a fundamental part of his character it's adorable #look at his face when gaius is talking about his ex fiancée alice!! #(of course gaius was also taking about magic there which is why merlin had such a stupid grin on his face) #(love and magic are his two favourite things) #arwen #arthur x gwen #merlin #ep 2x04 #merlin 2x04

[autisticlee]

is it an autistic experience to ALWAYS be the one in a friend group who gets left out, alienated, secretly disliked, then kicked out of the group?

#autistic #autism #actually autistic #autism things #asking autistics #i want/need a friend group but it ALWAYS GOES BAD!!!!!!!! AND ITS SOMEHOW ALWAYS MY FAULT?! idk what im doing wrong. people suck. #but i need people and i hate that about me. why cant i split myself in half a few times #or learn how to do group activities alone....like playing tennis. going to the amusement park ive wanred to go to since i was a kid. #drive alone on long trips where i will fall asleep but talk to myself so i dont or something. walk on the park trails alone where people #get kidnapped and stuff when alone. go to a convention and cosplay a group of characters alone. one for each finger.... #if you cant tell im being sarcastic. and doing a bad job. sighs. i hate that i have to do everything i need/want a group for alone because #i cant make friends or make groups keep me in them. assuming because im autistic and they hate me 🙃 #eother that or im a piece of shit and dont realize it!!!!! how am i supposed to know when no one tells me!!!! 😭😭😭😭 #so is it actually me and my fault or is it because im autistic and people just do this to us for some reason #autism stuff

[nightswatchdisbandmentera]

It's so so disingenuous to claim that Dany should have taken the time to separate xyz privileged persons in Meereen because "not everyone sanctioned the murder of those 163 children 😞". Oh ok. So that very wealthy, very influential man did not personally give the order. Maybe he doesn't even have slaves. But riddle me this: Where did their wealth come from? What are the historical foundations of their political power? In a society that continues to practice oppression (and a society where wealth and status is defined by it), how is it that they continue to hold as much influence and social capital as the "direct evil"? None of this is happening in a vacuum. And like....this is a society where the dehumanization of slaves is systemic. It runs policy and economics. And the people in power obviously know each other and support each other (considering the fact that they can keep wealth and influence!!!). So does it matter if xzy didn't give the order? Does it matter if they were not the ones nailing those kids to the posts? What matters is that they saw oppression, did absolutely nothing in the face of it, and continued to benefit from it. They are not innocent. Evil isn't just related to the guy pulling the trigger. The devil is also the one who's standing in the back, watching, and counting his coffers. And it terrifies me to think about what some of you would be saying in the real world, in the face of oppression. "I cannot be held accountable because I wasn't the one who pulled the trigger"....but you continued to benefit from the privilege afforded to you by the oppressive system AND DID/SAID NOTHING. By turning a blind eye, you have taken the side of the oppressor. So I'm sorry sweetie but you 👏 are 👏 part 👏 of 👏 the 👏 problem 👏 big time!

#saw something and got terribly triggered by it - like I had a whole awoop jumpscare! moment #can't believe this has to be spelled out lmao but everyday I'm reminded why I dread going into 90% of the discussion regarding dany #it's so so tiring #oops hot take -> #IF ONE CONTINUES TO KNOWINGLY AND WILLINGLY BENFIT FROM PRIVILEGE THAT IS BORN OUT OF AND THRIVES IN AN OPPRESSIVE SYSTEM #THEN THEY ARE AN OPPRESSOR #and yeah I have a very emotional reaction to slaver's bay because well *gestures vaguely* I'm bla- #we have these discussions all the time in the real world whether it's about capitalism racism other forms of bigotry etc #it's not even about being a slave master apologist but trying to say that those who knowingly and willing benefit from oppressive systems #shouldn't be held accountable - this is so strange to me and so disheartening #how people talk about slaver's bay is a good litmus test me thinks 🙃 #daenerys targaryen #asoiaf #my stuff #ramblings and rants #le sigh

[ace-of-spaders]

S5E01. Smokey Putnam

#the blacklist 5x01 #raymond reddington #james spader #elizabeth keen #megan boone #lizzington #my creations #my gifs #I know that this gifset has been done already a couple of times by other people #but Red and Liz are so cute here and I enjoyed this scene so thoroughly that I wanted to try my hand at gif-ing it nevertheless) #plus I wanted to make a coloring that was bright and vibrant enough for us to be able to see that Red's shirt is actually blue #and not almost-black like it looks in the episode itself #🙃😁 #(seriously what's up with the lightning and the brightness in this show? why is it so dark and gloomy all the time?) #(I mean I get it that they're probably going for the dark and gloomy atmosphere) #(but guys viewers actually wanna be able to SEE THINGS!) #on a sidenote: blue suits Red so well #😍💓🤗 #on the second sidenote: it is still criminal that this and the syrian embassy dance are the only times we saw them dance #😤😒😔

[traitorsinsalem]

bg3 is crazy for being a massive $70 larian + wotc collab game whose accessibility menu features subtitles that are present for less than half of all idle character dialogue and almost zero battle dialogue

#succ speaks #not to be the 'paizo wouldn't let this happen' guy but god this is actually insane #like why even have an accessibility menu at that point? i'd rather watch a youtube video with automatic captions #same energy as devs complaining that everyone was making their pcs a white human guy in early access while they had no asian human options #like bro i just want to know what bestie karlach is saying but if u make her mumble with no captions even tho i have subtitles on #tf am i supposed to do.....🤨😡😭💀 #baldur's gate 3 is fun but this is pissing me off. like i'm prob not gonna keep playing this solo & only play online with friends #it's fun but. not fun enough to mimic the actual wacky bullshit i do with charisma rogues and bards in dnd or pf #i think i'm also used to having real humans around for ttrpg antics and dynamic character interactions so bg3 feels bland in comparison lol #also because irl i can ask people to repeat what they just said 🙃🙃🙃 #joining the mob by accident was admittedly funnier in bg3 than it was in dnd though considering i stumbled into the base out of nowhere #i guess it just falls under ny philosophy that dnd is most fun when wotc has zero actual say in what happens and what we can do 👍 #however as much as pf > dnd...bg3 > kingmaker. i think pathfinder is just to true of a ttrpg to adapt into a video game super well #like. the writing in wotr was WAY better than bg3 but still sometimes bad enough to be infuriating ESPECIALLY in regards to iomedae #but the weird ass iomedae stuff is also true in the adventure path itself and plenty of other people have complained about it #but hey at least in wotr the subtitles told me what she was saying every time she spoke 👍 #wotr was still rly fun tho no hate to the game in general this is a quick slam of being pissed at bg3 again 🙏🙏

[bohemian-nights]

Something I’ve noticed about a lot of Rhaenyra stans (that is so aggravating) is they are always talking about they don’t want Rhaenyra to be "whitewashed" but when you bring up the darker things she’s done/will do (calling for her younger brother to be “sharply questioned,” ordering Ser Vaemond’s head to be chopped off and then feeding him to Syrax, never punishing her husband for ordering Blood and Cheese (and I wouldn’t be surprised if in the show they have her order Blood and Cheese), ordering the death of Nettles for having a romantic/sexual relationship with her husband and yet not extending those orders to her husband, and her blatant racism towards Nettles) suddenly Fire & Blood is just a misogynistic book meant to paint Rhaenyra(and Daemon) in a bad light.

I wonder who’s going to tell them they can’t have their cake and eat it too 🫠

Moving the goalposts is their favorite pastime 😗

One moment Fire & Blood is the most reliable source when it talks about how the realm thought a seven-year-old Rhaenyra was a darling(albeit spoiled) child and how romantic it is that Daemon crept on her at fourteen (cause that’s the evidence they use to support him luving her so very much even though he left the capital when she was a child because he got butthurt over her being made heir, but he realized that he could still be close to the throne if he seduced her and forced his brother to hand her over to him🙃) which is still underage by Westeros standards. The next it’s not to be trusted because the evil men have it out for my Valyrian queen.

I suppose for some it is easier to believe a white woman, who is fine with killing her own flesh and blood, innocent babies(I love Daemon, but a son for a son should’ve meant going after Daeron or Aemond, but they weren’t easy targets), is a complete and total innocent victim 100% of the time😗

I’ve never ever heard of a white woman using her privilege to try and commit a hate crime against a Black woman. Like ever. Especially not a white woman who comes from a racist family who’s own grandmother mistook a Black man for a demon because of his skin tone. It just can’t be true 🙃

She was just stressed. You know how that goes cause we've all wanted to commit racially motivated murder when we are stressed ☺️

They are happy with the show painting her in the best light possible and will even cheer on the show doing away with book canon(see how much they celebrated Laena being “unloved” by Daemon) that they claim to love so much if it makes queenie look good🤷🏽‍♀️

#if people want to know why I don’t like Rhaenyra and her stans this is why #they ignore racism and get mad at you for pointing it out and not worshiping the ground that a racist white woman walks on 🙃 #no I don’t have to sympathize with a woman just because I’m a woman #that sympathy goes out the window as soon as you show your self #anti rhaenyra targaryen #anti rhaenyra stans #anti daemyra #hotd ask #bnask #bnasks #in the show she probably wont be a racist but she's still a hypocrite who will blame what happens solely on nettles #plus cheating and accusing someone of witchcraft isn't a good excuse for murder 🙃

[honeysuckle-venom]

Nothing like seeing childhood friends/classmates who later became movie stars on my dash

#text post #my post #we weren’t close friends but like. I’ve been to her house lol #the best part is this could theoretically be about multiple people from my childhood bc I went to Ridiculous Rich Art School #no I don’t have insecurities about being on disability doing nothing while people I used to take classes with are nominated for Oscars #why do you ask? #🙃

[luckthebard]

I desperately need to know what some of y'all think "MLM" means 💀

#Orym's been 'confirmed mlm' since we learned he had a husband #why are people like this #Caleb and Vax were also MLM but apparently they don't count 🙃 #cr discourse #can't believe I literally saw someone tweet 'finally an MLM PC in Exandria!' #like even if you mean 'gay' Taryon Darrington would like a word #cr spoilers

[thirddeadlysin]

my sister makes fun of my glacier phobia* but i just ran her out of the room by talking about how old sharks are so

#*it's an abstract phobia like i'm not afraid of irl glaciers which are very cool (rimshot) #but i am terrified of their literal transformative power to flatten mountains and transport sediment hundreds of miles #and the fact that east coast earthquakes are primarily caused by the earth still trying to get back to where it was pre-glacier #it's so much power and everywhere you go in the midwest is flat because of one or hilly because it didn't have one OR the glacier melted #even the glacier-melt hills are mostly sediment and rock moraines deposited by the glacier!!!! you can't escape!!! #anyway sharks are 450 million years old which is what 449.98 million years older than homo sapiens 🙃 (that's why she fled) #usually older people are less smooth but i guess sharks aren't really people #i don't think my math is right on the homo sapiens thing. 499.8? someone help me my family is dying #i'm not even high rn

[itstimetodrew]

I understand that some people want to watch shows and movies just to have fun in the moment, and that their version of fun does not include analyzing anything. It is entertainment that helps pass the time, fine. But it is so disappointing and maddening to be treated (irl) like a weirdo for wanting to discuss media…like sorry I wanted to get your opinion and do a little brain exercise by trying to pick out themes and allegories. I guess I’ll just go fuck myself 😒

#just general feelings of things I see as important being totally disregarded boooooo #like I think I make a good effort to let people talk about Their Things and make them feel comfortable doing it. even if I don’t get it. #but I don’t always get that in return and it’s a real bummer 😔 #then people wonder why I’m quiet or they feel they don’t know much about me and it’s like yeah you don’t ask #or dismiss things I’m passionate about. so now I’m just a mirror for you to hear yourself talk to and you’re bored by it 🙃

[arsenicflame]

i am going to get a good grade in socialising, something that is normal to want, and possible to achieve

↑ never initates conversations, ever

#talking to people? no #posting every thought that passes through your head on tumblr? yes #that counts right? me posting things and my beloveds liking them is as good as actually talking to them? #embarrassing 🙃🙃🙃🙃 #idk why im surprised im this pathetic i damn near had a panic attack being asked a work question at work #just because it was from someone i don't usually talk to #nyxtalks

[hirazuki]

📓give me yer plots

Plots? Plural?? Okay, you get three ♡

I only included ideas that I am not currently/actively working on.

Maedhros + Mairon team up AU: After Luthien and Beren nab the silmaril and scram, Melkor actually does give chase and follows them south towards Doriath, and he cuts through Nan Dungortheb where he is ambushed by Ungoliant's spawn (I think if he was alone, given how physically weak he is at this point in time + just having woken up from Luthien's spell, he'd be easy prey) who take him and his crown with the remaining two silmarils and bear him to the south of the continent where Ungoliant has been waiting to exact revenge and claim/consume the jewels. Mairon comes home after having lost Tol-in-Gaurhoth to find Angband in panic, not being able to find Melkor anywhere. He decides to infiltrate Himring, it being the closest center of elven activity and information that is also open enough to travelers, etc. for a new face to pass unnoticed, to see if he can find out if the enemy has Melkor. Maedhros, having had him as a visitor for 30+ years while hanging off a cliff, recognizes him pretty quickly despite the disguise. They team up and go on a life-changing fieldtrip to the south of Beleriand to retrieve one dark lord (for Mairon) and two silmarils (for Maedhros).

Maeglin in Rivendell AU: Maeglin either is brought back by the Powers to help in the War of the Ring (yes, it's inspired by that one poll a while back XD) or actually somehow survived (I haven't decided which I prefer) and ends up in Rivendell. Not really a cohesive linear plot kind of fic, as much as a series of character interactions/exploration of themes: Maeglin and Elrond, Maeglin and Glorfindel, Maeglin and Eowyn, Maeglin and Frodo, to list a few of my top ones.

Eol makes a stone that outshines the silmarils AU: @melkors-defense-attorney and @mirkwood-hr-department take equal share of the blame credit for this completely wild idea yes it still lives rent free in my head, I have not forgotten about it XD. Basically, Eol is much closer to the dwarves than he is to his own kin, and would probably be more comfortable going to them for courtship advice re: Aredhel. Hence, presenting her with the shiniest rock as a gift early on in her stay at Nan Elmoth. Problem is, she has seen the silmarils, so it would have to be an extra shiny rock. He accidentally makes a stone that outdoes the silmarils; cascading world-wide consequences follow XD (These include: angry Feanorians; angry Melkor, at not having the Shiniest Thing™ and seeking Eol out in his forest a la Evil Queen style, to trade his two silmarils for this one; Eol (in this timeline, never having been to Angband) being so isolated he literally doesn't recognize Melkor and slamming the door in Melkor's face ("no solicitors!!"); angrier Melkor (that's two door-slamming elves now); angrier Feanorians (that Melkor would seek to trade the silmarils with Eol of all people); one very swoony Aredhel at the balls of this elf throwing the Dark Lord out on his ass.)

#thanks for asking!! #as you can see #all of these would require multi-chapter installations #which is why they're relegated to daydream/discord chat status #instead of an actual word processor XD #i might tackle them one day in little bits #maybe have a go at the maeglin one at least once i'm done with my remaining writing prompts #and my 10k+ dissertation on nan elmoth lmao #i think i could probably successfully write them if i wrote snippets; like a couple hundred words at most per chapter #more like snapshots in the timeline rather than a detailed delineation of it #problem is that my brain likes to think that anything below 4k words isn't a 'real' chapter for a multi-chapter fic #which is absolutely not true and not something i apply to other people's writing; just mine 🙃 #basically i just need to get over myself and my issues lmao #one day. i can dream. #silm musings

[bluesidedown]

love how I put off completely innocuous and easy tasks endlessly to the point I'm sure people around me think I'm some kind of oblivious naive idiot or else irresponsibly lazy and meanwhile I'm fighting an epic interior battle against crushing anxiety and literally have been repeatedly on the verge of tears over my inability to do the @#$% thing

#🙃 #maybe there is nothing i hate more than feeling like i am bejng perceived as young (derogatory) and foolish #except maybe when my inability to bite the bullet and get things done hurts or inconveniences other people #why am i like this #i KNOW beating myself up over not having done these things sooner just adds to the shame pile and makes it harder to lift #but also have you considered: im a moron who should get over myself and just fucking do things #(please note i know this sint helpful and mostly i do not talk to myself this way. i am simply having a Moment)

[bugeyedfreaks]

“I own this rare figurine of a character from [insert media here]! And that special limited run piece of merchandise! And that original artwork! And that out of print VHS/DVD set/game cartridge/book collection! And this photograph of me meeting the creator! And these autographs! That makes ME a more dedicated and better fan than you!”

No, what you are is privileged to have access to money and opportunities in order to obtain things that physically represent your fandom. Be grateful for it. You are never no more or less a fan of something based off of the amount of memorabilia you own or clout you have. You are always more of a jerk if you think you’re better than others for it though!

#had this in my drafts! #i wrote this pretty vaguely because it's something I think people need to remember just in general for all fandoms #I’ve had people brag to me about things they have and I’m like #that’s honestly great and all and I’m happy for you #and then they taunt me for not having it as if I’m beneath them… they suck! 🙃 #dude I would give you the ppg shirt off my back why are you saying I’m a ‘fake fan’ for not having an autographed ppg cel or w/e 🙄 #anyway I hope this can give anyone who feels intimidated by those kinds of people comfort ❤️