#Like hundreds of years in the past

[meteors-lotr]

So was anyone gonna tell me that we’re getting an animated lord of the rings movie about Rohan, or was I just going to find out about that when checking the upcoming movies for my local cinema

#I thought about making the actual meme but I decided against it #Worst part is that I was complaining to my friend about how there were no movies coming out that was worth going to the cinema to watch #And joked that they should make a Lord of the rings four #(Before immediately being like please don’t make a Lotr four that would be awful let’s be honest) #Let’s just say we popped OFF when reading that #lotr #lord of the rings #the hobbit #the war of the rohirrim #Miranda Otto is in it so I’m assuming her storytelling is gonna be the framing device #Cause it’s about Helms Deep #Like hundreds of years in the past #I like that it’s a story abouy men tho #Caude we’ve had hobbits (Lotr) Dwarved (The Hobbit ironically enough) and elves (Rings of Power) #So here’s the human movie #Huzzah!

[spoofyleaf]

Netflix’s The Monkey King spoilers!!!

This is what I meant in my previous post

#I cry thinking about how SWK has been part of pop culture for the past several hundred years #like this character was made and as a whole we can’t let him go #as a whole we said he is the epitomy of human experience #as a whole we said this we can’t let this immortal monkey go otherwise what does that mean for us #what does that make us if we can no longer see ourselves in such a raw character #*sobs* #the monkey king #monkey king #sun Wukong #jttw #lmk #monkey king 2023 #Netflix the monkey king #the monkey king 2023

[23b0075nke]

"draw your characters as they would draw themselves"

#river flows both ways #i love this a lot bc its got so many layers #how do they express themselves how do they see themselves #dog is COOL GUYS INC. pass the glitter glue #gwen is a tryhard who cant let go of the past also has had a couple hundred years to pick up hobbies #beekeeper keeps it real also collages bc they like collecting bits and pieces (and have unsteady hands) #catamount throws it down quick n dirty and is not interested in finesse or persona #anyway this was mad fun and also a good excuse to fuck around with weird brushes more #peace & love on planet earth #👁 #🔦 #🐝 #🌱

[aurorangen]

Not many people talk about Strangerville in Chestnut Ridge as it brought back unpleasant happenings from the past. When Renee mentioned the place, Mel was disturbed. How did an outsider know? There's nothing about it online and even the locals have no clue. She felt like sharing what she knew with them. The more that gets out there, the more people will be informed of the strange town. "Have a safe journey back! I'm gonna remember ya folks!" Mel exclaimed, as they waved their goodbyes.

Transcript:

[Cool air from the fan hits Vincent's face as he enters the bar. He feels much better] Mel: Welcome! Call me Mel! What can I getcha folks? Vincent: Just some water please. Actually, anything cold will do.

Mel: [hears his accent] Where y'all from? It's not every day ya see visitors 'ere in Chestnut Ridge. Renee: We live in Britechester but work in the big city, San Myshuno! I'm Renee by the way and this is Vince. Mel: It's a pleasure to meet ya both. I've always wanted to visit the big city!

Mel: Ooh speakin' of! A fine, young man came in earlier too, said he got some business in San Myshuno! Vincent: What a coincidence. Who knows if we will cross paths one day [jokes around]. Did you get his name? Mel: He didn't share it! But he had a slight accent. European one? Greek? Italian? I know nothin'.

Renee: [suddenly Renee asks] Mel, can I ask…do you know about Strangerville? Mel: Darlin' ya shouldn't be talkin' bout Strangerville 'ere. Renee: Hmm? What do you mean by that?

Mel: Well ya see, a few of us know the place, not much though and not good stuff. Most of us ain't got a clue. Y'know what? I'll let yer in on somethin' [she eyes them both, careful with her words]. Hell knows what's goin' on down there, there's no news. But we've a bit of history with em.

Mel: Back in the good ol' day, they did friendly business. They came to trade or buy stuff. Horses, crops, supplies. Bits and bobs y'know? They don't come so often now, years at a time. When they do, strange folks come, dressed all in black or military attire. Sayin' they're here to get stuff. Supreme order's words.

Renee: [thinks back to the photos she took, the military, it's all real] Did you not ask who they were? Mel: If we asked too much…there were serious consequences [does a slit her throat motion then coughs, she's shared too much]. So in the end yer just get on with it, can't defy those supreme orders, can we?

#ts4 #sims 4 #ts4 gameplay #ts4 legacy #postcard legacy #postcard gen 3 #renee reichmann #vincent kingsley #this post like a hundred shades of brown its all so brown ahaha 😂 #mysterious guy still remains a mystery #and hes heading to san my #and some history with these two towns. in the past they did business together but as of lately the 'business' continues but its not #friendly anymore. strange people come and if those orders are defied or too much is asked then 💀 so much has changed in #the last 30-40 years and it seems like those people have wiped out info about strangerville online...to prevent people from finding out 👀

[mewtwo24]

Something about Hua Cheng's expression here is killing me--I know this is supposed to be a delicate moment of reassurance but the pure hater energy radiating off of him is just immaculate

#tgcf #hua cheng #xie lian #hualian #words cannot express how much I love hua cheng being a hater #hua cheng in this pic is that energy when you keep spamming the A button when an npc you don't like won't stop talking #like his face when lang qianqiu keeps going on and on about his parents meeting an untimely unjust and grisly end #is so 'it was hundreds of years ago and it wasn't even gege's fault for fucks sake grow up' #'leave my goddamn wife alone he raised you with love and diligence' #'you had your bloody revenge what more do you want. figure it out far away from us.' #spoken like a true ghost king who slaps eming every single time it expresses a single inconvenient emotion he has #every day i have to resist the urge to gush about hc he's just hilarious and peak every single time i love him #no notes just banger after banger after banger #that's the face of a man who was orphaned as a child and clawed his way through life to survive and keep his loved one alive + well #a bastion of unmoving strength for 800 years #unmoved by the whining of a young man born with everything and mourning the loss of his innocence way past his expiration date #10/10 hua cheng you've done it again #hc said 'oh? a traumatic life event? we have several dozens of those git gud' #and honestly i mean that with no malice i just feel like lang qianqiu is old enough to start parsing the world in a more nuanced way ;;;;; #as much as xl thought lying to him was the best outcome hc was right--the truth d o e s matter--and not just to absolve xl #its also about giving lang qianqiu closure and moving on. about qi rong facing the consequences of his actions #so much of what is wrong with the heavenly court is the obsession with maintaining appearances over being sincere #and so much of what hc adores about xl is that xl was never really interested in those empty words and empty sentiments #he truly wanted people to prosper and live well no matter the cost to himself

[brainlessbaguette]

Linktober Day 26, Overgrown

Fi really needs a break after BOTW and TOTK. I'm hoping in the next one we can bust her out of some museum where she has been well taken care of. I might cry if they find a way to break her even more for no reason.

#I know in game story there was a reason #but like both times she got fixed off screen #it lacks the wow factor skyward sword had while we were building her up ya know? #nintendo just let me do a jail break for a fi thats been chillin on vacation the past couple hundred years #the legend of zelda #loz #linktober #fi #skyward sword #ss #botw #breath of the wild #totk #tears of the kingdom

[aquanutart]

xadian field guide

#the dragon prince #tdp #rayla #callum #aaravos #aquanutart #if you aren't waking up at 6am before work to color two hundred puffballs are you really living #there is no other way to replicate the uniquely human experience of looking at your 200 puffballs and going #'i have woken up before dawn to color these puffballs thank god they are done' #and i think that is beautiful #actually i've had this lying around unfinished for three years because i did not want to color the 200 puffballs #in this day and age there has to be a way to make it a photoshop brush #i did manage to copy and paste some which helped but #because i delayed coloring it for three years i forgot where i copy and pasted what #and so i was not able to use it so much for the coloring because i didn't know where to match it up... #and i actually tried making a brush but i didn't know how to make it keep the colors #so it made this shape of like 50 puffballs with their little eyes cut out #but it was all the one color i had selected. only in the shape of the puffballs #anyway damn i feel so alive #at least i did when i originally wrote these tags which is before i actually finished this #then i experienced the other uniquely human feeling of coming home from work and realizing it looked totally unlike what i wanted #and that i was going to have to spend the entire rest of my free time that week recoloring it from scratch #as well as rearranging the panels and fixing some things because i didn't know how to warp text along a curve #so i had made the book page flat in order to have non-curved text and it looked wrong and i ended up handwriting it #anyway it took me 17 hours to recolor this from scratch not in small part because i kept not knowing how to shade the puffballs #i mean the puffballs are individually shaded but the mass of them also has a shadow side and what's it supposed to look like? #i kept thinking the shadow colors looked muddy and every time i tried to change them i had to recolor all the balls with 14 different colors #it was so confusing i finally just said enough. i tried looking at objects covered in multicolored pompoms for reference yet still idk #anyway now that i have talked so much i've completely distracted everyone from the joke. please ignore this and laugh at the joke #the moral of this story i think is that actually i do not recommend individually drawing this many puffballs

[deus-ex-mona]

stretching to interpret nonfan as an aiyuu song like

#n o ok you see meoto takes place in the sengoku era (hundreds of years ago) #nonfan’s beginning line is something like ‘we’ve been in love for 10s and 100s of years’ #a n d they say ‘i’ve been searching for you even before we met’ #(in the chorus or sth i can’t rem i don’t particularly like nonfan) #so. if the theory that meoto *is* about lxl’s past lives is actually right… #lxl have been in love for 10s and 100s of years (chronologically speaking) #and they’ve been searching for each other before they even met (bc they were lovers in their past lives) #and they get married in nonfan (just like how they were married off to each other in meoto) #d o yo u see my vision gu y s— [is dragged away by the ankles] #idek w H Y IM EVEN SO OBSESSED WITH MEOTO IT ISN’T EVEN OUT YET #ok that’s it if i get my lxl cd a day early i’ll tl meoto first thing (tempting fate) #i just. want to see them in l o v e ok (chu!) im sorry for being delusionalllllllll

[katya-goncharov]

i'm five episodes into heartbreak high so far (YES i should have gone to sleep hours ago) and so far the most unrealistic thing is the fact that darren, harper and cash can somehow afford a flat between them on high school job wages. (unless houses are somehow miraculously way cheaper in australia...?!)

and the most realistic thing is spider's mum. it's actually eerie how much she's like the mums of some of the biggest assholes who i went to high school with. some of them genuinely were that bad!

#heartbreak high spoilers #heartbreak high #the spider storyline in episode five just gave me instant flashbacks to the mum of this boy in my year when i was like thirteen who #caught him sort of lightly making fun of me and my friend as we walked past their house. and then started making this big speech to #us in front of the boy about how she'd rather have had a hundred daughters than a son and how awful boys were and a bunch of other stuff #like probably spider's mum was meant to be a caricature but i just instantly thought yep. i've met this person. i've met this exact person!

[theragamuffininitiative]

😅

#i let myself put words on an already words and y'all are being suspiciously quiet about it #which is fine don't get me wrong but like #very sus 🤣 #also going to say here on my own lil blog post that i do think there are many cults masquerading as christianity #i also think there are many churches that are christian in name that are instead cults #i have recently discovered how close i and my family were to falling into one #not like we were being led directly but like... #we were at a not safe distance going 'what a pretty mountain' and then while we wandered to a slightly safer distance #the mountain revealed itself as a volcano and exploded #like i can see and taste the ash but the lava flows didnt find me ya know? #anyways #had a recent discussion in sunday school about how there are several sects of religion that claim to worship and follow Jesus #but he is not the Jesus of scripture #and people have added doctrines to him often in works based salvation styles #of which latter day saints and jehovah's witnesses and several other things fall into #but so have the dangerously patriarchal fundamentalist churches #and we should just be very very very careful #that the God we are following is the one whose revealed word has withstood the test of thousands and thousands of years #and not a doctrine whose god and testimony cannot stand up to its own witness for a couple hundred years #ragamusings in the tags #my views on what makes good religion have so shifted in the past couple years #hopefully for the better and closer to the truth and further from what man has to say about it

[princesssarcastia]

okay listen. airing a u.s. political pet peeve here.

setting aside the issue of to-vote-for-biden-or-to-not-vote-for-biden in 2024 and the arguments for and against,

please don't lie to people and tell them voting for a third party presidential candidate is a good idea. please....please don't do that. it won't work. it won't help you. if you want to vote for a third party candidate as a "fuck you" to the republicans or the democrats or both, okay. go for it. but don't tell people that will help, don't expect it will help, it will do exactly nothing.

vote third party in your village, town, school district, city, county, state elections! vote for third-party candidates in your u.s. house races! in those kinds of races a third-party or nonpartisan candidate can have a decent chance of winning, depending. but it 100% won't work for president, and outside some very specific circumstances, probably also won't work in the u.s. senate.

the "third-party" presidential candidates running with most actual established political parties (green party, libertarian party) are not your friends any more than trump or biden are.

#just saw a post telling people to vote third party in the presidential race and i just... #can't stand it. can't let it go. sorry. #you want to be able to meaningfully vote for a third party presidential candidate? #cool! me too! #you're gonna need hundreds of millions of dollars #and a massive media and influence campaign #to successfully amend the u.s. constitution and eliminate first-past-the-post voting. and also the electoral college #it will probably take you 30 years if you start now (please genuinely start now!) #but in the meantime you get TWO choices for president #and you can pick one or the other or neither! but that's all that's meaningfully on the table #like you can put a third-party candidate on your ballot but it's the same as voting for nothing #....except for the rancid political discourse that will follow after the election results come in #which depending on which party wins will blame everyone who voted third party #for the outcome of the election

[krispiecake]

tell me why i can hear another tenants fucking music from my flat. HE DOESNT EVEN LIVE IN MY BUILDING. HE LIVES IN A COMPLETELY SEPARATE BUILDING ON THE SECOND FLOOR AND I CAN HEAR HIS MUSIC FROM MY FLAT. MY FLAT WHICH IS IN A DIFFERENT SEPARATE BUILDING.

#and staff just say ‘oh we can’t do anything bc its not 11pm yet.’ #ARE YOU FUCKING SERIOUS. #i am autistic person who has just spent a full 12hrs in extremely overstimulating public spaces #i am exhausted and i have had to wake up at ass o’clock in the fucking morning #every day for the past like week and a half and will be expected to do so for the forseeable future #i am extremely sensitive to noise and have no ability to zone things out #like everything is always at the same volume for me #all the fucking time no matter what #and they say like oh well in the community there wouldnt be anything to be done so we cant do anything here #BUT WE ARENT IN THE COMMUNITY. ARE WE. WE ARE AT A SUPPORTED LIVING ACCOMMODATION WHERE I HAVE BEEN PLACED #BY MY LOCAL AUTHORITY WHO ARE PAYING TWENTY THREE GRAND A YEAR #AND I AM PAYING FIVE HUNDRED A MONTH #IN ORDER TO RECIEVE SUPPORT FOR MY DISABILITIES. A BIG ONE BEING MY FUCKING AUTISM. #YOU KNOW. THE ONE WHICH IS BEING DIRECTLY IMPACTED BY THE BEHAVIOUR OF ANOTHER TENANT. #WHEN I AM BEING PUSHED TO MY LIMIT ALREADY. LIKE IDK FEELS KINDA CRAZY THAT THIS ISNT SOMETHING THAT CAN BE SORTED. #i fucking hate men there is just literally no fucking respect or consideration like its genuinely disgusting and so fucking infuriating #and like he says that staff (women. btw) are being too naggy about it. but never fucking stops to consider that maybe. #maybe people wouldnt have to ‘nag’ you about it IF YOU JUST. DIDNT DO THE THING THAT IS ACTIVELY CAUSING OTHER PEOPLE STRESS. #IDK FUCKING WILD IDEA JUST THOUGHT OF IT. #literally die i want everyone involved to die like I CANNOT DO THISSSSSSSSSSSS

[mistergreatbones]

Someone on Twitter confused Jason for Dick and asked why he was going grey before Bruce and I can NOT stop thinking about it

#leo says shit #i mean dick’s always been allowed to grow - from the Boy Wonder to the Teen Wonder to Discowing to modern Nightwing to Batman #whereas Bruce has always been stagnant. #other than his suits and the tone of his comics getting darker nothing about him really changes #his side characters change but Bruce doesn’t #what better way to show that then having dick go grey before his dad #imagine being bruce literally watching your kid out grow you #or imagine bruce dies his hair black to represent him desperately grabbing onto the past and this image of a perfect hero he's made #and dick let’s his hair stay natural to represent his willingness to grow and let go #batfam #bruce wayne #dick grayson #bruce being stagnant isn’t his fault btw. he literally cannot help it for the same reason Superman and Wonder Woman and Spider-Man cannot #in what? 15 years he’ll be a hundred and still just look like a better drawn version of the same character he debuted as

[isasan347]

Guys. Like. Zelda music, Sarias song is great, Lorule castle is top Tier, song of healing is *chefs kiss*, ballad of the goddess is also really good, midnas lament also 👌

But can we like. Talk about Alttp title theme for a sec?

Like. The triforce duduodudodudududodudu and then the

BWAA danana! Dananananadadadaaaaa!

Danananananadadadaaaa!

Baaadabdadadaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

IT JUST HITS DIFFERENT OKAY? It’s just…. So glorious and it also has a hint of tragic with a tee spoon of LEGENDARY and a little bit of fairy tale.

It’s. It’s just my favorite title theme.

Don’t get me wrong. Ocarina of time and breath of the wild and wind waker are GREAT

But

A link to the past? And a link between worlds?

OH BOY

#a link to the past #alttp #loz alttp #the legend of zelda #the legend of zelda: a link to the past #it just hits me right in the feels #and #maybe I’m thinking too much into it #but #the most known hero #the hero of time dies in battle #and then a new hero rises. the Hero of Legend #traveled through so many lands #saved thousands of people #and just #and then it was for nothing #ganon rises once again and takes over Hyrule #hundreds of years after his death #it’s just #like oot Link is tragic #but if you think about #this link #for a second #OOF

[fluffykitteninabox]

me 5 years ago: I'm not gay, I'm a straight ally, I just think girls look aesthetically pleasing and would like to try kissing one one day. But that doesn't mean anything, I still like boys. Besides, attraction isn't even real! Everyone just exaggerates it to fit in! No one actually wants to have sex, that's just absurd and silly!

me of 3 years ago: haha I was so stupid back then, so glad I figured out this biromantic asexual thing. Anyway I'm glad I don't have any more complicated stuff like gender to worry about. Crossdressing is so cool though. My favourite role I've ever played was in Assemblywomen by Aristophanes, because I got to wear my dad's suit. I looked so handsome, I even had a thick moustache and everything! But no I'm definitely not trans, I still like my boobs like... 30% of the time. That's totally normal though every girl hates their body in this day and age, it's the result of capitalism. I'm just a cis ally. Anyway here's my transmasc OC, that definitely doesn't look anything like me I swear, and his shape-shifting demon non binary boyfriend who can give him magic sex change surgery with a finger snap!!!

me right now: haha... ha... hahaha

#lgbtq #queer #asexual #trans #genderfluid #this is like my ocd diagnosis all over again #past me looking at various mental illnesses to self diagnose on the internet: well one thing's for sure #out of all these hundreds of mental illness I'm absolutely certain that I do not have this one! #my psychiatrist 7 years later: so I have some news for you

[doctorweebmd]

I was thinking about this the other day and wondering why it’s become so much less fun to write for BNHA and I think it’s because… I’ve written too much?

Like being a one-off author was fine and fun and novel and people were so cool and supportive, but now I’ve got multiple long fics and people have started treating me like someone that “creates content” rather than someone who is writing for fun. And I’ve shot myself in the foot by continuing to write long-fic and putting my heart and soul into them and it’s like never enough, people just expect more and more and more and I want to keep giving and keep doing better but no matter what I write it’s just not ENOUGH

And like… this started a little after I finished Zero Sum Game but like… people have started forming “opinions” that they share openly about “me” - I can’t stand going into fandom space and seeing people say they can’t read anything I write, or they don’t like me as an author, openly ranking my works, saying xyz is overrated or mention me by name in shipping discourse or send me hate mail or update requests or just straight up telling me they’re not going to read what I write anymore… and these people don’t know me!!! I’m just an empty space to them!!! Just a machine that pumps out thousands on thousands of words to just look at an forget about instantly!!!!!!!!

Where do people get off honestly. Is it like this everywhere or is it just BNHA? Is it because it’s so popular that the community has broken down completely? Sincerely what the fuck how can anyone treat writers like this…

#literally got a comment like yesterday saying ‘I’m so disappointed this hasn’t been updated in a year! I need it’ #…fuck you actually? #I realize fics take 1-2 days to read #but all of this has taken hundreds of hours and YEARS to write #but sorry I don’t have the specific thing that you want to readily consume I guess #I am! not! a! content! creator! #nobody pays me! I get nothing out of this! why are people treating me like not a person! #and it’s just more and more frustrating seeing other writers mention stuff like this too #I realize I’m just venting now but whatever #like i feel like I built something over the past few years that I’m so proud of #but sometimes I want to burn it ALL to the ground #it’s not that deep #it’s just… I put too much of myself into this #which honestly is mostly my own fault #ANYWAY. that’s a big part as to why I’m jumping ship for now #I’d rather have fun and write whatever and have no one give a shit #than to give my heart and soul to a community that chews me up and spits me out #…. sorry I’m being so dramatic #the amazing wonderful kind people that have stayed around for these 3.5 years who still say kind words to me I love you so much #as always the negativity is the vast minority but that’s what hits the hardest I guess #I mean honestly I don’t care and will continue to write and do whatever I want #but wanted to reflect on my frustrations and make sense of it #.