#even if it's just down the hill

[beatingdrumspouringwine]

hello all and good evening, please have this hot new prayer to Hermes that i came up with about three hours ago: "Hermes please save my idiot soul"

#repeated frantically while driving in a Very Unexpected snowstorm #thank you Hermes for being the patron god of stupid travelers #from now on i promise to always check the weather before going anywhere #even if it's just down the hill #hermes #hermes deity #hermes worship #helpol

[quillkiller]

all im saying is ive never seen someone criticize those marylily or dorlily fanart/fics where they’re harrys mothers and theres no james in sight

#yall will force lily to be a mother bc of ’canon’ but yall dont care about james //responsibility// being a father ?? #yall are not the feminists you think you are #the absolute stupidest reason to be against jegulus fr #’how can you take harry from lily?’ ok and what about all the wlw lily ships where they raise harry ? #where are you THEN ??? asking how they can take harry from james ????? WHERE ARE YOU THEN #a woman will always be nothing but a mother #even before she even is one #*lia voice* ever since she’s been a daughter she’s been a prisoner #why is harry ONLY lilys goddamn responsibility #free lily from being a young mother fr.. #a dad is a babysitter and a mother has to lay down her life and freedom for the child #which is why yall dont actually care #you just want to be anti jegulus and loud about it #i dont even ship jegulus #ahfhsjsj #maybe reevaluate your stance on the heteronormative nuclear family dynamics and how they’re anti women #bc yall are just pushing the heteronormative agenda with this absolutely lacking take #ok anyway #interesting hill to die on from a girl who hates mlm ships having kids and doesnt ship jegulus #but thats a whole other thing #so!

[einaudis]

ALL OF US STRANGERS (2023) dir. ANDREW HAIGH

#filmedit #filmgifs #movieedit #moviegifs #All of Us Strangers #aousedit #filmtvdaily #filmtvcentral #cinemapix #fyeahmovies #dailyflicks #mine* #mygifs #movies* #I can't believe this is done. and you won't believe how long it took me to make it. insane... because it's just a scene #I didn't even use different fonts. or a cool template. or transitions... it was a single scene... but look... I made captures for 10 gifs #and things kept happening and I kept finding little gestures and beautiful things and I just couldn't keep them out the gifs #I mean look at Harry and that slow realization. please look at the glow around his shoulders at the beginning #and how ethereal and out of this world he already is AND THEN when Adam says 'I found you' he becomes more... real and present! #and those eyes and the intensity of that 'you're here' and their eyes and faces and smiles and how Harry's desperate but Adam calms him dow #and his voice when he asks 'how come no one found me?' the realization that people didn't care to check on him. it screamed to my soul #I haven't stopped thinking about that scene since the moment I first watched it #honestly... I wish I could live in this scene forever #now this is a super long post and I know it won't get many notes and it was surely made before... but I needed to make this for myself... #so here it is :) I'm tired but I love it #GOD the way Harry goes full baby when Adam caresses his cheek and he SMILES LIKE THAT! AHHHHHHH! #*runs down the hill screaming*

[pumpkinrootbeer]

i do think it is legitimately very funny whenever someone tries to make the claim that lavabending is inherently a very slow subbending and therefore not good in a fight. specifically when using that argument against Bolin's skill as a bender.

Sure, I feel like in very specific instances with Ghazan that could be a fair argument to make. It takes him a moment to destabilize the Ba Sing Se wall and for him to kick up enough lava to destroy the airbending temple. (to the point I would argue that if Bolin had been versed in lavabending like he was in s4 he would have swept the ground with Ghazan), but in moments where he's actually in a fight his lava is incredibly quick.

Just the lava frisbee on its own is an incredibly quick move

But making that argument with Bolin in particular is absolutely batshit when outside of lavabending he is an incredibly quick fighter. I would say it is one of, if not the, most defining things about his fighting style. He moves very, very quickly and uncharacteristically agile for a earthbender. This is a known thing. Like

I am not the first person to say this but no other earthbender does backflips like he does. And THEN with lavabending he is just as quick if not more so

Bolin since season 1 has had an uncanny knack for bending incredibly fast, and his lavabending is no exception to that rule. It's honestly something that haunts my brain all the time because how quick he is with it low-key breaks the balancing? a little?? Like earthbending was always shown to be very strong but in turn it was slower than other types of bending, but with Bolin that doesn't really seem to be a hangup he has.

#:v #bolin #legend of korra #NO ONE IS DOING IT LIKE HIM.... #the way people will sit down and try to convince me with their whole chest that mako is a better bender is wild. #Like mako has a lot of other strengths but I would not say he stands out as this uniquely strong firebender #honestly except for azula most of the firebenders we see are talented for sure but none of them like Otherworldly strong when in bending #Again not saying he is weak but if you want the Strong bender of the lok group it's Bolin hands down 🤷 #obvs Korra is strong but she's the avatar she's going to be strong #Bolin is just a guy he's a kid for the majority of it a child who has had zero formal training #and I would argue could beat the majority of the beifongs #with the exception of toph but even then it's not gonna be this easy toph sweep #sure toph can metal bend and is an incredibly skilled earthbender but also Bolin is also very skilled and has Hot Rocks #tho tbf I hate comparing those two can't they just both be good? #anyway Bolin solos su and the chief in a real fight I will die on that hill Specifically #s4 Bolin I mean it's the lava diff #god I sound like a powerscaler put me down now guys #anyway. Bolin 🔛🔝

[nataliesscatorccio]

Like everyone else I am rightfully obsessed with Shauna and Jackie's shared wardrobe, but can we talk for a second also about the very specific jealousy sharing clothes comes with? This experience might not be as universal as I think it is, but: The babyish instinct to want to grab it back and say "mine!" and all the self-conscious thoughts of it looks better on her than it looks on me. Feeling protective over your clothes ("I don't want her to borrow it, she'll mess it up!"), or feeling resentment when your clothes get compliments while someone else is wearing them (the instinct then to laugh awkwardly and deny credit, "thanks! it's actually hers.") And even larger scale! That strange push for competition when two girls show up wearing the same outfit. Who wore it better?

All this to say buried under the love stored in wearing the butterfly tops and sharing the flannels and saving the virginity dress there is also that distinctly meaner and pettier voice of a ghost in Shauna's ear saying "did you ask if you could borrow that?" saying "you're going to ruin it." saying "it looked better on me." saying "hey! that's mine!"

The brief and amazing moment in the pilot when Jackie is suggesting outfits to Shauna speaks to this too. Shauna's frustration at finding anything of her own that's suitable. Wear the red dress I gave you! It's such a sincere suggestion. But it's Jackie's old dress. It's Jackie's suggestion. Shauna knows when she puts it on the cruel voice in her head that sounds a lot like Jackie will remind her all night that it isn't really her dress, and Jackie wore it better anyway, and every compliment she gets will be politely redirected to Jackie. "Thanks. It was hers." (This sentiment echoes into infinity).

Then we have Jackie's funeral, and the ferocity with which Shauna insists Jackie keep her clothes. Sure, for the humanity and the dignity of it. But just as much, how could she bear to see Natalie or Akilah or Mari or Misty or anyone else walk around in Jackie's shoes? She didn't want to borrow Jackie's clothes. (I kind of doubt she wanted Jackie to borrow hers either). Nor did she want Jackie's whole hand-me-down life. But fuck if she was going to donate it to Goodwill for just anyone to take, and it wasn't like she was satisfied with her own.

I think of this The Haunting of Hill House post via @2008hondacivic and of Twin Peaks' Laura Palmer yelling "Don't ever wear my clothes!" at Donna. Don't ever become me! But also, there is so little left of me, and That's Mine! Give it back! I'm sure they wish they could.

#anyone else lend a sweater to someone after a night out you never got back and think of bitterly to this day or am I just an only child #surely this is even worse for siblings constantly getting hand me downs or handing down #like I had my first kiss in that top and now you're wearing it to paint #yellowjackets #shauna shipman #jackie taylor #twin peaks #the haunting of hill house

[betasuppe]

Trying not to completely waste my day & winded up with nearly 1k words of a drabble where the reader gives Tron a proper introduction to user etiquette... by means of a kiss, which is absolutely 500% just because I want to kiss this fucker senseless.

Anyways, might be tempted to post this out on ao3 when I'm done because, damn, I really do love this program & there's something so fun about making him have emotions like DAMNNNNN

#idk i think a lot of times people tend to erase tron down to being just a bland good guy #but like #i live that he can be REALLY aggressive #quite angry & stern moat of the time as befotting a just warrior #but also #HES THE BIGGEST SOFTEST NERD TOOOOO #he's beyond giddy for his counterpart #fucking rolls down a hill like a disaster despite being like the best warrior in the encom system lol #& also he's the biggest MY WIFE IS MY LIFE man youve ever seen #he's got such a fun personality #& even in uprising where he's even more brutal & savage & stern & harsh... #but qnyways #since like TOO LONG NOW #ive always wanted to have this program love me the same way #& would kiss him abSOFUCKINGLUTELY SENSELESS

[plantanarchy]

me this time of year is like. why am i so out of it and tired after work. *checks step counter app* oh yeah

#and i still went shopping after work and made a whole ass dinner and meal prepped #but yeah it was 20k steps and 8.5k miles today #i don't even know why i walked that much it was just up and down the hill a lot

[milliesnotes]

Magenta team really pissin me off w the constant “it’s Fiores fault we lost every challenge last season >:(“

When that literally isnt even true

#disventure camp #Fiore WON the first challenge w the fake flag #Will was the one that didn’t want to go down the hill #NICK was the one that didn’t row the boat fast enough and also fucked up the second challenge #Fiore faced her fear in the fear challenge #the only challenge I can think of where she fucked it up for them was the cooking challenge #and that was just as much Alecs fault as it was Fiores #waaah Fiore you lost us the challenge #y’all where the idiots that wasted time trying to get the wolf across the line and ended up fucking it up #AND HUNTER CPULDNT EVEN GET A FUCKING BIRD ACROSS THE LINE BUT YELLS AT FIORE FOR GETTING HIT BY THE GOAT #magenta team just needs a scapegoat for their incompetence fr

[good--merits-accumulated]

OK, SEVERELY rambly post incoming but - Anderperry Stardust (2007)/ The Little White Horse AU, anyone?

Rundown: I think many of us are familiar with Stardust, originally a Neil Gaiman book but also a great film, starring Claire Danes as a falling star and That Guy Who Plays Daredevil as the lad who promises to bring her to the girl he's infatuated with. The Little White Horse is, to the best of my knowledge, more unknown, but equally very good (for sentimental reasons, I think of it much more highly than Stardust). Published in 1946 by Elizabeth Goudge, it tells the story of thirteen-year-old orphan Maria Merryweather, who moves to her cousin Sir Benjamin's Moonacre Manor in the West Country, where she finds a) a thriving cosy community and a long family history, b) the little white horse of the title, c) a longstanding family feud cutting off Moonacre from the sea, d) her imaginary best friend Robin, real and in the flesh, and e) some of the most deliciously-described food that has ever been or will be. It's a great book even past the rose-tinted glasses of my childhood. Go read it. (The one (1) marring is that you can't find a bloody edition that doesn't have a JK Terfling quote pasted onto the cover, because apparently it was one of her favourite books, but fuck OFF, I'm reclaiming it now. Thou shalt not keep the cosy low fantasy from me.)

Anyway even though I mention Stardust this isn't really part of the AU I have in my mind, except for the bit with the Star, because Todd as a main character who thinks he's a very forgettable bland boy-in-the-corner until he finds out he's a star is a great thought to me. Particulars on /how/ he's a star to be fleshed out later! (I only thought of this AU about two hours ago, lol.)

In my mind this is how it goes - nebulously Olden Times setting (TLWH is set in 1842, so perhaps then). Todd is around seventeen/eighteen and Geoff has just graduated from university, and gone off around Europe, accompanied by their parents. Months go by. Something happens - he's never given the liberty of knowing, but Geoff and their parents stay in Europe, and the townhouse in London is sold, and Todd is packed off to stay at a distant relative's - Keating, as it turns out. It's a blessing in disguise, because Todd is finally away from his family for the first time in his life and around people that appreciate him. He begins to bloom under this new care - but there are strange family secrets only now being revealed to him, and dark forces beyond the valley which threaten to disrupt the haven he's found...

The rest is very cosy fantasy, featuring Mr Perry as the local uptight vicar locking horns with Keating at every opportunity, Neil as his withdrawn but friendly son just longing for a rebellion, and more! (Read: Charlie is here and he is Outrageous as usual. Read also: Pitts as a sailor because I think he'd like it.) Right now I'm thinking of adding an equivalent of Monsieur Cocq de Noir for a villain (Mr Perry is NOT the villain), and Cameron can play a part there so I can give him a good redeeming! Here are a couple of extracts from TLWH to show the kind of mood/tone we're working with:

Thematically, I REALLY like the idea of Todd as a star because it allows me to work in a very fun trope, of "not of the rose but near the rose" - when a character perhaps is shy and a little quiet and reclusive, but inspires other people around them to brilliance and greatness. (Honestly I do think this kind of goes in with the film, where it's not just Keating's teaching but Todd's reaction to it and his presence that galvanise Neil to continue.) This ties in really well if Todd's a star and adds to the overall self-confidence journey - plus I was really thinking about the sun/moon motifs! They're very prominent in TLWH (Maria is a "moon" Merryweather and Robin is a very sunny boy), and I really want to implement them here with slight twists. I think of Todd as a sunny moon; yes he's warm and caring and cheerful but once you go a little closer it's more of a luminosity rather than a blaze, there's a coolness and quietness to him I like. You know, a quiet character doesn't always have to be quiet because there's something "wrong" with them, sometimes they're just like that. For Neil it's the opposite, he's a moony sun; under the thumb of his father he's polite and decorous and demure but somewhere under all of that there's a very loud and booming laugh and a healthy sort of ruddiness. I don't know, I just like sun/moon motifs!!!!!!!!!!

(On a more personal note: this AU, which I already love very much despite not having known very long, would be above all a careful love letter to the West Country. It's been lovely living around here almost all my life and by this time in September I'll be hopefully up very far north at uni, so I'm pre-emptively kind of :') about it. Mutuals who are at uni/college how on earth did you cope?)

#story time! the little white horse was actually the first book i ever read #all by myself in english. i'd only just learnt it #and a friend's grandparents gave me a copy as a present - i must have been four or five #thanks phyllis and peter. i miss you :( #anyway i revolved around that book for the better part of a year #even years and years later sometimes i walk home from school #down the big hill that looks over the valley with the lightning-burnt tree stump at the bottom #and when it gets green and bowery in the summer #and the little hollow at the foot gets very thick with cow parsley i always think i could find the entrance to moonacre #in it. if i really really looked #:') #maybe i will write this over the summer #anderperry #dead poets society #dps #tristan writes #ah. can you tell i'm feeling so so sentimental.

[sunshinechay]

I can’t shake the feeling that Mew calling Boston instead of Chuem about how he was about to have sex with Top was just a genuine display of friendship but Boston took it as Mew attempting to gloat.

Mew was just happy and wanted to shake his happiness with someone else. Someone he thought would be happy for him. So he called Boston, because Boston has a lot of sex and Mew thinks that he’ll be happy that Mew is finally losing his virginity. Boston however, seems to take it as Mew attempting to one up him.

They might both look down on each other for just about everything, but I think this was the one time Mew wasn’t trying to do that. Instead he was trying to connect about something he knows Boston enjoys. Boston has just slide too far down the hill of his own sanity (like many other have said, I’m thinking Hitchcock type slippery slope) to see it as anything other than being in bad faith.

Both are usually so committed to seeing each other in a bad light that this feels like the last time we’ll see either of them making any attempt to connect with the other.

#ofts #only friends #only friends the series #only friends meta #maybe…? #boston ofts #mew ofts #gentle reminder that this is not me saying boston is a bad person #he isn’t #he’s just too caught up in himself at this point #his too caught up to notice that he’s coming apart at the seems #but mew hasn’t noticed #so he called boston #even without knowing what happens in the last part of the episode #or what is due to happen in the coming weeks #it feels like the last calm before the storm #this is it #everything is all down hill from here for mew and boston #cap watches ofts #cap speaks

[no-light-left-on]

hi I am still not normal about how we never get much of an epilogue for Emily and Corvo in the second game we are told how the rule turned out and that Emily is the beloved empress now but nothing beyond that and I get that the entire game is very much built on that I get that the first game we have close relationship with Emily and become fond of the staff that work with the Loyalists so we feel alone because we do not quite see eye to eye with our allies and all we have left is this little innocent child that sees Corvo as someone who can do no wrong in this world which is strongly contrasted with the second game where Emily (or Corvo) has few trusted allies that they can actually rely on and it feels like a group of almost-friends working to dismantle the conspiracy but at the very end of it all Emily is all alone, even her return to the Tower is so much more grim, her taking down Delilah, the entirety of Dunwall- it all feels so incredibly and thoroughly isolating, she is all Alone now, and maybe that's why it bothers me so much to see the story end so abrupty.

it would've been so, so poetic if both the first and the second game ended with Corvo and Emily embracing

#li.txt #dh #sorry Im not okay about this I just #ahhh idk I cant quite explain it #but playing as Emily feels so much more lonely than corvo in the first game #she talks about saving corvo so much and we dont even get a hug #one thing that keeps coming to mind is silent hill 3 where heather goes through So So Much after her father is murdered #and when the final boss is beat she drops to her knees and breaks down #and I think Emily deserves a similar epilogue #the final release of all the stress and fear and anger #her freeing corvo and suddenly it clicks delilah is gone and her witches are gone and all the sigils drawn over the tower begin to fade #and it all hits her at once and she finally gets to cry it all out #because shes okay and meagan is okay and sokolov is okay and her father is okay and karnaca is okay #except they are not. because they all nearly died so many times and her father was trapped in stone and she had to see so much #she had to fight and survive all while unsure if it will lead to anything #all while she was worried for the people she loves because if she fails it means the few people she still has left will be gone too #she had to watch her mother die a second time and then hear the voice of her vengeful aunt for weeks taunting and mocking #(and she was her only family at the time and they could have been a family too. but that is too much to consider now) #i dunno. i just think she deserved a bit more there. just that one last hug from corvo before the game ends

[guckies]

Just watching your cubitos build and they don’t use the terrain to their advantage

#especially before they lay down the actual plot of the build #but like guys please just terraform a little bit please 0_o #qsmp #its like everyone on qsmp that does this #the only acceptable person that does it is foolish because he actually knows what he’s building & has already done the landscaping in a day #but tubbo fr just has a flat plot over water #roier is like the opposite he has a flat plot on some hills and doesn’t terraform the land to make paths to the build 😞 #he does terraform paths a little but its so rare #and then jaiden just dug out a hill without a plan for a house which made me so stressed #don’t even get me on bbh sometimes 0_o #i think baghera terraforms nicely but i haven’t seen all her builds yet apart from the castle with is very nice rn

[running-in-the-dark]

okay, so I've been to our new apartment twice now (once when we got the keys, but it was dark and the landlord was there too; and we went back this morning for several hours).

I really like it, it's a lovely space, it's big enough, everything is great. except. we're on the ground floor and the side our apartment is on means that 1. you can look right into our bathroom from the carport, and 2. you can look right into the bedrooms when you're walking to the front door.

and that really unsettles me. obviously we'll do something about it (we'll put a window film of some sort on the bathroom window + curtains too probably, and curtains for the bedrooms).

but. I don't know if that'll be enough to get it out of my head? I have always been very paranoid about being watched, so, I don't know if just knowing that theoretically people could look in would be an issue...

#like. I know it's just paranoia because it even happened when we lived on the second floor and the house was on a bit of a hill so it was #literally impossible for anyone to look inside our apartment #but it really REALLY freaks me out #and now. you can LITERALLY look straight into our open shower if you stand at the window. #so. #I don't know?? #we have electric shutters in all the windows (awesome!) but I don't think it'd be great if I had to constantly have them down?? #I wish my brain was just normal #my husband isn't bothered by this at all and he doesn't get why I am #personal

[laurzzz]

The boys reaction to the princess getting married off during an arranged wedding?

Just an what if sorta thing. I doubt the princess would stay for the wedding and just run off with the boys.

Also princess disapperes during an outing, only to be found muching on some pastry XD

How would they react to that?

I just see it as those boys freaking out only to see the princess with jam on her nose or something like that, and fully unaware of the panick they caused

I'mma be honest, the first glance I had over your ask made me think of the Princess being married off into an arranged wedding and instead of waiting for their "doom", she would instead walk out during the ceremony and stuff her face with pastry while waiting for the assassins as they were also cordially invited (although as they are masked so no one really knows they're robots atp) as stand-ins for King Afton. So yeah, I think that's the most fitting reaction tbh AHAHA

The boys would be SO ready to gatecrash the wedding and object (since their identities aren't really revealed) but during their arrival they just find that the wedding has been called off and the Princess ran off somewhere-- which they find her raiding in the palace kitchen eating cake or something WAHAHA

#food #majestic oppositions #they would freak out for like half a second before piecing things together like why is their no panic and just disappointment in the faces #of the guests #there's no signs of violence and blood either so #she must've ran for the hills LMAO #aint no way the Princess getting tied down at such an early age pft #esp to some person she aint even know #thank you for the ask as usual!! I enjoy them so much!

[please-picturemeintheweeds]

..

#If we’re talking about power and control in Taylor and joes relationship… #Maybe we should talk about how Taylor was in the depths of something very very dark when their relationship began #And her social power at the time was much much much less than most people retroactively think it was then #And even though she’s the most famous woman in the world now #(Are we forgetting that fame does not exactly equal power?? Famous women are pretty constantly victimized?????? Stalking is very serious??? #A relationship dynamic is more than the sum of its parts- Taylor did not have a lot of power when they met #And their dynamic in her own words was founded in a lot of secrecy #The monster on the hill of it all seems like it might have been used as a way to bring her down- not an empowered identity #Maybe I’m just baselessly guessing but………. #Joever #c #power and control

[starlooove]

I rlly liked red hood the hill bc besides the gift it completely ignored everything else with the batfam which to meeee I’m taking it as the hill has been overlooked by the bats forever (see Orpheus rising) so yeah nobody there gives a fuck about those people and jason knows better than to bring that shit over there

#genuinely tho #I dislike the trend rn of simplifying Jason and Bruce’s issues and making it seem like Bruce was nice and accepting all along and Jason just #needs to get with the program #like the fanficication of that and the Damian Bruce issues or Damian tim issues or even Dick and bruce issues #where everything comes down to the kids being insecure and Bruce being bad at communicating #which has always been PART of the main issues but using that as the crux and lens through which a solution will be acheived is a stretch #a stretch only made in fix it fics that is picked up by ppl who dont read shit and then writers who dont read dont care and get a check #THIS IS MY ISSUE WITH WHERE IT SEEMS BATFAM IS GOING THAT IS NOT AN ISSUE I HAVE WITH RE #NOT ABOUT RED HOOD THE HILL #back to red hood the hill #i DO like them #playing off how jason has always been able to relax there #with a community that has eachothers back #and the flip from #his early red hood days to seeing dana go that path is soooo #what i find interesting tho as that he positions himself as support and backup more than a deterrant #like yes he does try to talk her down a lot but most of the time hes living his life with a worried eye on her #and i think it shows to how he reacted to ppl (bruce) being heavy handed with him #and u know i love the batfam repeating awful cycles shit i think its very interesting that this is one jason didnt repeat #maybe bc hes so close to the feeling or that dana isnt to him what he was to bruce or even that hes just relaxing and thinking clearly and #above all trusts her #most toxic fun future would be for her to break that trust and him to go crazy but thats a diff rant #anyways my entire summary for jasons character is that THAT is what good coochie does to a nigga #carmen thank you for your service another crazy off the street 🙏🏾 #red hood and the hill #oh. still no Orpheus mention #no it doesn’t hurt less anytime 💔 #Jason Todd