#idk I guess because escapism

[what-is-love-babey-dont-hurt-me]

Oof :(

#anyways anyone who knows I was into mcyt probably already knows what I’m talking about #vent #to get that out of the way #it’s kinda funny cus earlier today I took a surgery asking how often I cried and it was like once a year #survey* #anyways here’s the annual waterworks #accompanied with my rambling tags #snappy speaks #anyways I’ve been into Minecraft since elementary school and kept watching content creators for it even after people like Sky lost clout #and tapl was a favorite for a while and through him I found techno #the guy was damn funny and the only one of the dsmp I liked once I got out of the fandom #he played us like a fiddle the iconic mad man #all I can really say is I’m glad he’s not in pain anymore let the dude Rest In Peace #and also the vid made he hella emotional #time to watch something stupid now because #idk I guess because escapism

[lokiusly]

I think that deep down Mobius couldn’t prune the two kids because he subconsciously knew— he felt like it would be like pruning his own children. He was a father and will always have that instinct, no matter how many times he was brainwashed.

#people saying it was Loki or a Loki variant but like I don’t think so #I think that Loki would’ve figured it out if it was him #I think that Mobius would’ve told him it was a Loki #we have seen time and time again that Mobius has a soft spot for kids #and Mobius didn’t suddenly become a Loki researcher. #he was assigned to learn all about Lokis since a Loki escaped because he’s an analyst #because way back in the TVA past mobius knew nothing of loki #idk I guess we can agree to disagree #I just wanted to offer up another explanation #lokius #loki show #loki x mobius #mobius #mcu loki #loki season 2 #loki laufeyson #loki spoilers #loki #loki series #wowki #loki season two #mobius mcu

[anghraine]

I think it's interesting that when Gandalf describes Denethor's ability to "perceive, if he bends his will thither, much of what is passing in the minds of men," he ties it less to his wisdom or general insightfulness (though he possesses both) than to his difference from "other men of this time," his near total Númenóreanness, and as bolded here, the active exercise of his will.

Tolkien also attributes Denethor's resilience against Sauron (by contrast with Saruman) to not only his right to use the Anor-stone, but "great strength of will." He notes that Sauron had no servant with greater mental powers than Saruman or Denethor, and Gandalf remarks that Denethor was "too great" to be subdued to Sauron's will.

Denethor and Gandalf have a strange and unsettling silent confrontation, carried on by their gazes, yet it strikes Pippin as like "a line of smouldering fire" and "as if reading each other's mind." Gandalf afterwards says Pippin was stuck between two "terrible old men," lumping Denethor in with himself. Pippin also sees some kind of kinship between Denethor and Gandalf, as Sam saw between Faramir and Gandalf.

In his letters, Tolkien said that the ancient Númenóreans became barely distinguishable from Elves in appearance and in their powers of mind. In Unfinished Tales, he notes that they loved their horses, and when a Númenórean had a strong bond with a horse, it was said that the horse could be summoned "by thought alone."

In LOTR, Faramir—who has inherited Denethor's Númenóreanness/wizardliness—has a reputation for command over both animals and men. When everyone else is thrown by their horses upon being chased by five Nazgûl, he not only keeps his seat, but mysteriously gets his horse to ride back towards the Nazgûl. And during the retreat across the Pelennor, the soldiers in the city conclude that Faramir must be with the men who are managing to retreat in order, repeating Beregond's remark that he has some undefined command over both men and beasts.

Gandalf suggests that this is a result of Faramir pitting himself against the effects of the Nazgûl in some way, but his abilities (whatever they are) are outmatched. In the event, the effect of Faramir's Aura of Courage commanding abilities remains until he's shot and finally falls to the Black Breath.

Faramir also makes repeated references to perceiving or reading things in Gollum's mind. At one point, he describes Gollum's mind as dark and closed, yet unable to prevent Faramir from detecting that he's holding something back about Cirith Ungol specifically. Noticeably, this only happens when Faramir orders Gollum to look at him (which Gollum does "unwillingly"), and the light drains from his eyes as he meets Faramir's. It seems decidedly reminiscent of the later Gandalf vs Denethor duel-by-eye-contact.

Faramir's exact words about Gollum's secrecy are "That much I perceived clearly in his mind," in reference to his earlier questioning of him. He says that he can "read" previous murders in Gollum and Gollum cries out in pain when he tries to lie to him.

When Faramir gives staves to Frodo and Sam, he says that a "virtue" of finding and returning has been placed on them, with zero explanation of what he means by that. He adds a hope that the virtue will not altogether fail under Sauron's power in Mordor. He describes the people who did the woodwork but not who placed the virtues (it doesn't seem inherent to the wood itself, given his phrasing).

We do know that Dúnedain can potentially embed enchantments into items. The Barrow-daggers carried by Merry and Pippin are specifically enchanted against the Witch-king of Angmar by an unknown Dúnadan of the North, and when Merry stabs the Witch-king, the dagger breaks enough spells for Éowyn's ordinary sword to finish the job.

Meanwhile, Aragorn uses his healing powers to help the city, wishing for the presence of Elrond, because he is their eldest of their kind and more powerful. Aragorn, also, has at least some part of this ability to actively exercise his will and mental powers, perhaps an equal share, though he uses it less often.

In the book, he doesn't physically attack the Mouth of Sauron, but instead holds his gaze (again, eye contact is important!). There's another silent struggle that involves no weaponry or any other contact.

He prevails in some way over the Mouth of Sauron (not a warped creature of Sauron in the book, but a cruel Númenórean who has "learned great sorcery"). The Mouth indignantly says he has diplomatic immunity and can't be attacked like this.

But, I mean, maybe they're all just smart and perceptive, it's really unclear.

#eldritch dúnedain WHEN #because i am very aware that this could be deeply unsettling if presented just a bit differently! #but it is wild to me that tolkien can outright say 'this guy is a númenórean who learned sorcery' #and people are still like 'but can númenóreans use magic. i guess we'll never know.' #or have faramir give his whole speech about what gollum's mind looks like to him and what he can see clearly in it #fandom: idk it's just really unclear #gandalf: denethor can see what happens in other people's minds if he exercises his will #fandom: a great mystery ... maybe he's just very wise and insightful??? #tolkien: the dúnadan who enchanted the daggers would be happy to know his spells worked and helped defeat the witch-king #fandom: númenórean craftmanship is /skilled/ of course but how can we make this about elves #honestly it seems like people don't /want/ númenóreans to have supernatural abilities and i'm not sure why #humans who have elvish-style powers and appearance yet can never escape their humanity is SUCH a concept #(yes i will harp on this until the end of time) #anghraine babbles #legendarium fanwank #legendarium blogging #long post #húrinionath

[sherlock-is-ace]

watched the first ep of Dead Boy Detectives today, did anyone also think the dialogue was a bit clunky?

I don't mean it was unwatchable or anything i just feel like it didn't feel realistic the way they introduced the characters and world... It felt like the dialogue was for the viewer instead of an in character thing. We were gonna be introduced to a viewer surrogate within the first few minutes, there was no need to have the characters who already know how the show's world works spell it out for nobody... and then explain it again when Crystal showed up? idk it felt like something I would write (not a complient) 😅

#the line ''we have to hide from death... or she'll get us'' was ridiculous #do you think the boy that's been escaping death since 1919 or whatever doesn't know?! #''we have to hide'' was enough the viewer can put 2 and 2 together and deduce it's bad if death sees them #to then minnutes later have them explain to crystal why they have to hide from death again... #just let the characters adress the camera if you wanna spell it out so easily #or you know... trust that the viewer is intelligent enough to wait 2 minutes for an explanation? #it was mostly just that first few mins of the first ep i think #i didn't pick up on anything else that trully bothered me #but idk it felt condecending dkjfghkdfg or simply badly written #which it was a bit of a let down to have it as a very first impression #i guess i went in thinking sandman and got like idk generic teen show #in the dialogue alone btw i actually really like the characters and the premise is awesome! #it just cuaght me by surprise #maybe it because i'm also watching fallout and the dialogue on that is like very well done and everything is a hint for something later #so i'm comparing it idk #anyways... is it just me? or was it actually clunky? #(don't spoil it past ep 1 pls) #angel talks #dead boy detectives #really liking it so far tho!

[jessicas-pi]

"Yes, I've been brokenhearted"? 👀

Yes, I've Been Brokenhearted (Blue Since The Day We Parted) WAS a funny fic in the Teenage Rebellion AU about Inquisitor Aayla's attempts to get her boyfriend CC-5052 put in her division of Purge Troopers, told through increasingly irate and threatening transfer request forms (and the replies from the exhausted imperial intern handling them.)

but then, as the TRAU is wont to do...

it got angsty.

So now it's about Aayla's escape from Order 66 and eventual Fall, and the silly fic is gonna be, like, a bonus chapter 2 or something. Anyway here's a snippet of the very beginning!

Aayla had an instant of warning; a single heartbeat when the Force screamed in more ways than one. Then Bly was shooting at her. All of her troops were shooting at her. Bewildered, reeling and half-blind in the Darkness closing in on her, Aayla whipped her blade in a frantic circle, deflecting the first four shots away. Away, but not back at her troops. Not back at Bly. The shots kept coming, deadly blue flashes that she blocked faster and faster. The threads of the Force were fraying around her; thin bonds with childhood friends snapped like old rubber bands, and she felt light after light go out. Whatever was happening here—whatever was turning her men against her—it was happening everywhere. Ten thousand candles snuffed out with a flood of icy Darkness. The only lights left were the blaster bolts coming at her from her own men. Itchy beads of sweat trickled down the small of Aayla’s back as she dug her heels into the fertile Felucia soil. The clones were in front of her and the plants were behind her and the ground was beneath her and the only way to go was up. Aayla jumped.

#aayla 🤝 ahsoka (making a vertical escape from order 66) #thank you for the ask!! #fic snippet #fic sneak peek #blyla #the teenage rebellion au #also yeah idk but hopefully someone got the joke in the title #because. yknow. part of it is ''blue since the day we parted.'' and aayla is blue. #i guess technically she was also blue BEFORE the day they parted but i stand by my pun

[kabukeo]

tonight's little doodles

#doodle #lcb #meursault lcb #meurgreg #im trying to be less self conscious about making meurgreg or any ship art really #twt has exposed me to everyone having an opinion on every ship ever #which has made me back away from making too much art of any one ship #i know meurgreg is one of the most popular ships but because of that i also feel an odd sense of guilt #i cant explain it like i should use my art to contribute to a rare pair or smth idk #its all a bit weird and irrational #but ive realized i have not been able to make art for myself for months #every idea i have and everything i go forward to draw im always thinking about how others will feel about it #and how i can make it better fit or adequate for an audience so i dont let them down or bore them #and that mindset has made art so much of a chore that ive significantly slowed down so much on art at all #so idk #trying to stop overthinking and just draw what i feel to the extent that i feel #escape the perfectionism and wanting to please everyone as much as possible #to elaborate on the weird meurgreg feeling i guess its like #i feel guilty for filling tags even more with an already popular ship & making mutuals who dont like meurgreg see it more #but its just not that deep #people can mute meurgreg and thats just not my problem anyway #sry ab these tags!

[fromtheseventhhell]

Confronting the unfortunate reality that George has no problem sexualizing Arya and his comments indicate it might be ramped up in TWOW. There's the Mercy sample chapter as a whole which is just....yeah, his comments about writing characters older than they are (which he was already doing with Arya so the clarification is worrying), his comments about her flowering/hitting puberty :(, and the fact that he's been doing it since pretty early in the story for her. The threat of rape has been hanging over her since the ending of AGOT, she gets even more direct violent threats of that nature in ACOK, and there are several instances in ASOS where older men make passes at her including greenbeard "joking" about marrying her, that nasty old man hitting on her at the peach, and one of the sailors saying she could be a cabin girl and sleep with him (also if I remember correctly in AFFC another sailor offers to teach her how a "woman" kisses). It's just overall a very uncomfortable subject and Arya's young age makes it feel even worse (though that this is one of the areas where George receives the most criticism, which is appreciated).

Obviously, we aren't really going to know until the story comes out but it definitely is one of the things I'm worried about.

#idk I must have just blocked most of it from my mind because I didn't remember just...all of this being there #it's very alarming to say the least #and it's also wild to know that this all exists in her story but people act like she escapes it because she's /ugly/ or /masculine/ #I guess my main point is that if all this ALREADY exists then what the hell does he mean about writing her like she's older?? #legitimately George what the hell she is NINE when all of this starts

[hippy-pants]

number of days since i opened Pinterest and the first post i saw was an edited image of Neil Cicierega or a personal image reposted from his personal social media with the caption "OMG IS THAT NAIL CIGARETTE? 😍😍😍" and people in the comments calling him a fictional character: 1 0

#i guess maybe i just aged out of pinterest's demographic but like it's fully unusable i can't open it without this shit assaulting my senses #and i can't escape it because it's algorithm is so fucked #anyway kids can and will like lemon demon i guess but i wish they would dial back the weird parasocial shit like just a little #maybe i should just delete pinterest. that app has been so shitty for so long idk why i haven't deleted it yet #neil cicierega #lemon demon #pinterest #mine

[threadsun]

Do any of you blood kink folks have a thing for people who get stress nosebleeds?

#sunshine #18+ only #this is a joke #but also god I bled through fifteen tissues yesterday because my blood is just constantly desperate to escape the confines of my body #I haven't had a stress nosebleed in years but. I guess they're back now. #literally tho my blood will take any chance to escape me #I can't take nsaids because they make my nose bleed so bad that even with tissues I end up with my arms and chest soaked in blood #maybe someone finds that sexy idk I look good covered in blood at least!!

[hecksupremechips]

My thoughts on Sigma Klim are honestly pretty nonexistent except for one big one that just says “BOOBS”

#zero escape #sigma klim #those thangs are deadly #but hm damn kinda strange how like hes gotta be one of the most important lore characters in the series but i just like. forget about him #it was fun in ztd when he put a bucket on his head and the whole catboy thing is fun #but ah idk when it comes to the lore past 999 i dont really care much unless it involves 999 characters like junpei #its not even that i dont like vlr characters but they just didnt stick in the same way #except dio i guess akdhsk because he is just the most ridiculous character ever god

[quietwingsinthesky]

Lucifer->Chuck & Sam->John is driving me insane it’s. You’re his favorite, which means you must have earned it, means you’ve done something right and he considers you an equal because you see how he treats your brother, a soldier, a tool. And equals get equal say, don’t they? Get a choice in where you go next. So, Lucifer invents disobedience because no one ever tried to argue with God before, and Sam invents disobedience because John never considered it could happen.

You try and try and try, look up at your father as he casts you out and tell him “I won’t become you.” Cage or college, in the end, Dad’s not even got to be there to drag you back into the fight. He can send his soldier to fetch you instead, and a couple protesting words from you does not a rebellion make. Lucifer learns how to make beings who will worship the ground he walks on, and better, learns how to discard them. Sam learns how to leave everything behind to hunt, and better, how to leave all of himself behind, too, in a revenge quest for someone who didn’t ask for it. “I won’t become you.” There’s the problem, you already were.

#like. Chuck is the younger sibling in the cycle. Lucifer & Sam are meant to be him. #I can hold two conflicting headcanons in my head: Lucifer loses scenario and Lucifer always wins scenario #and the latter is like. that’s what Chuck wants. that’s what he always wants. he wants his underdog to win. #he wants to see himself win. because if he watches it happen enough times. it’ll feel like victory rather than betrayal. #but yeah fuck okay just. the fact that Sam & Lucifer are closer to BEING like their fathers #Michael & Dean do what their fathers wanted. they obey. they wear duty well. but they aren’t their fathers they just aren’t they can’t be #but Lucifer & Sam. it’s already there. #no escaping becoming your parents I guess. #idk I’m being rambly again. daddy issues and all. #spn #lucifer spn #sam winchester #chuck shurley #john winchester

[wingsmadeforflying]

Barty and Remus cat animagi (if he had a animagus form and it wasn’t a wolf) Thoughts?

Oooo, interesting... Hmm. With Remus, I think I have the same issue I have with Reg. I feel like cat isn't Remus' animagi (if he were to get one) but I also have no clue what it would be- Wolf just seems cruel- I've seen one where he's a bird? An owl, I think. I got the image of him being a deer, but two deers would be hell-

I'll let you know if I can think of something that I feel fits him more.

#image of James faceplanting as Prongs because long legs and new deers can be stumbly #meanwhile Remus (if he were a deer) just gracefully walking around and taking it in stride #Bambi vs Graceful #also. imagine. #Remus joins the boys in illegal acts #and his fucking. animagi. is a wolf- #“Wow Moony! Guess you would've been a wolf no matter what-!” -gets smacked- #absolute tossers would tease him (probably to distract him from the fact he can't escape the Wolf) #but yeah. in theory? Remus could be a cat. but I feel like it doesn't incompas him fully #same way it feels with Reg #something is missing and idk what it is- #but platonic Moonwater yes. for no matter what he is. #marauders

[allmightyscroll-swag]

scroll okay okay tell me more about monkey in a birdcage ....jujususuy anything you wabr anything at all

something about wukong (who doesn't have any memories either because. It's safer that way y'know. Or whatever) waking up trapped and alone. Stuck in a not corporeal state with no idea how he got there, who he is, and what's happening to him right now. All alone. With no one to talk to. Not knowing if there even IS someone else out there. But deep inside knowing you're trapped, one way or another.

And then, when you connect to someone else, it turns out there's so much more to the world. There's so much he should be able to see and experience but he can't and doesn't even know why. He could bear his existence before because he didn't know anything else. But then he learned and it's like his eyes have opened for the first time.

The connection can't be held forever though, so eventually he's alone again but it's not the same. Because he knows now.

#monkey in a bird cage au #lego monkie kid #sun wukong is having such a time #idk something about your world view being totally changed and being amazed! but also realizing just how alone and miserable your own #existance is. #I'm thinking LBD took his memories because without them he has no reason to rebel. no reason to be out of line. no reason to want to escape #he won't take her down because he doesn't remember hating her #he doesn't remember wanting her gone. #it's like an extra protective measure i guess #ALSO YEAH HE'S CONSCIOUS THE WHOLE TIME HE'S TRAPPED #because LBD is kinda spiteful

[saltycharacters]

God I'm just. Really tired of sexual shit being in everything literally cant even interact with a relativley general-age media without dealing with it at every corner. Interacting with fandoms especially it's so fucking depressing like it's not SUPPOSE to be there but people never think that their horniness isn't above critiscism and that there's little to no responsibility they have to practice when interacting with media IF THE MEDIA ISN'T SEXUAL/EXCLUSIVLEY FOR ADULTS THEN DON'T SEXUALIZE IT simple fucking logic yet I can't have shit on this bitch of an earth

#even if i wasnt aroace this is just. bullshit #vent #i couldnt escape it so i literally had to gradually exposure therapy myself to it so i could tolerate existing around other people #truly sex is just. its so annoying. people are so annoying about it i live in an annoying world where im suppose to adapt just because #almost nobody has any fucking interest in being idk. responsible or compassionate about it i guess #they shove it in everything because they dont want to care they dont want to be critical of their interactions with things #here i am trying to enjoy something that MAYBE has a teen rating but shouldnt have anything beyond idk. a joke or two #but i cant navigate content without having to deal with people being irresponsible and putting their horniness in it #im repeating myself but its so annoying and its so frustrating because nobody gives a shit they just think with their libidoinstead #just trying to enjoy mob psycho in peace man cant have shit #cant enjoy art without bloking half the people making it fuck meee #and dont get me started on the fanfics like fellas This Is For General Audiences you will NOT die if your practice restraint

[crowcryptid]

lol my job must be dropping people like flies they just gave everyone making under $20 a raise

mine was only 30 cents though

I mean I used to work in the department making IDs for every new hire/deactivating IDs for everyone who left and it was a lot and that was a year and a half ago. I’m sure it’s worse now that things have only gotten more and more unaffordable

This place actually pays more than pretty much anything else here so idk where these employees are going tbh. Take me with you. Please. Maybe they just move out?

#$18.70 an hour now #i wish this place didn’t suck so much #cause when I leave I’m going to be making like $15 #because the whole state sucks #yay. #maybe I’ll finally escape the swamp this decade #saving up every cent rn 🙃 #genuinely don’t know what the end goal of this city as a whole is #if no normal workers can ever afford a house and more than half their income goes to rent (with roommates) #how do the rich keep expecting to have an unlimited supply of servants if your servants can’t afford a bed to sleep in #and the people whose homes/apartments got torn down to build more? where did they go? #at this rate there is no end goal they’re just building till the flooding starts to scare people away I guess idk

[harvestmoth]

Lo. Love your Rejuv art. Just wanted to ask if you have more ideas for the au where nothing goes wrong (lie) for Pokémon Rejuvenation.

thank you!! and im sorry to say i do not! im very bad at coming up with ideas but i would love to hear others ideas on anything, though i will say when i started posting about it i had a brief thought of flora, florin, and talon taking melia and the protag with them to terajuma when they cheak out the tyluric temple as like a way for them to. get to terajuma. but idk how well thatd work out continuity wise. or what the whole terajuma arc would be like because of it

#thinking about it makes me sad though melia wouldve never met crawli thats so sad to me.. the buddies… #anyway uh #something something i was originally thinking of it like. everything that happens still sorta happens just out of order kinda ? maybe ?? #i dont really know …. #i still really like the idea though so maybe hopefully i can think of something to jot down #that and i. dont know if blacksteeple would even.. happen ? #like as in akuwa town would be fine and saki val and adam are still there i guess ? #because xen didnt attack goldenwood forrest and the protag never shows up to goldenleaf #oh and the caratos mountain thing never wouldve happened #so they wouldnt really need a reason to keep akuwa town held captive. but idk about the ss oceana passengers #maybe theyre still there… i have no idea how they would escape though #though as a whole earlier i was thinking of it as like a . what if melia never went back in time. kind of thing ? #but thats mostly from the favt that i cant. really think of any way spacea and tiempa could corner her like they do in amethyst cave #idk i think i need to play love lies finally to maybe understand certain things that are making me unable to really think about it #namely those evil androids who are kind of like the whole reason anything and everything bad happened . i think. idk. #the overall timeline of things is whats getting to me #i think i might be overthinking it all though #oops #oh okay maybe i do have some ideas this is more than i thought i had. sorry #im very unsure about everything though! and no idea how id draw any of it! #thank you again for saying you like it though :] maybe ill be able to come up with something randomly in like a couple months or something