so don’t get me wrong because a lot of arthurian stuff is super misogynistic. but it’s never really in the damsel in distress way you expect. like the most helpless damsel is lancelot trapped and crying in a tower, completely useless, until this random girl who made him behead a guy in front of her fifty pages ago rolls up with a pickax and rope and is like “ok I’m minecrafting you out of here.” and this works.
Poor John Rogers. He’s gotta be feeling like a writer for The Onion trying to make an entertaining show about justice in an unjust world, and it all just. Keeps. Getting. Worse.
And I promise, just like Q-Anon, you will sound crazy, and your family will beg you to find another outlet for your Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder… But no one will die, except for Gandalf, when he fought the Balrog, too.
I am not a proper gifmaker, but I couldn’t let Stephen Colbert’s unashamed love song to fandom on 1.21.21 go unrecognized. Perhaps the fandom’s newly-acquired QAnons will learn from the follies of the First Age and see the error of their ways. All I know is that their headcanons are going to be bizarrely lit.
Y’ALL i was in the elevator at work and an older woman got in with me, looked me up and down and said, “i just can’t tell you how nice it is to see a young lady with her nose in a real book instead of her phone for once”
which, ew on a lot of levels, but it’s work and an elevator so of course i nodded and said something noncommittal like “gosh thank you” as she got out on her floor
The agonising feel when a character tag is full of shipping that you Simply Do Not Vibe With. The solution is, naturally, to keep scrolling. But the wince, the WINCE.