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happy new years!!
I love how if you see the tag, this lovely well-meaning suggestion looks like a lovely well-meaning threat:
Happy New Year's. It ain't a fucking suggestion. It's gonna be happy, or else I'll MAKE it happy.
when i tell yall i CRIED laughing
HAPPY NEW YEAR
THIS IS A THREAT
I assumed this post was from today but uh, it’s a year old XD
you know what gets me about lord of the rings? evil is defeated by people who choose to fight against it without possessing absolute, or even very much, conviction that they can actually win. all the converging story threads that lead to the happy ending are carried out by people who are far, far more convinced that they will fail than that they will succeed, who had only the frailest, most foolish hope, who had blind faith and frequently wavering hearts not peace or ease or certainty.
middle earth isn’t saved because no one faltered or came close to despairing or who sank to their knees in weary defeat. it’s not saved by pride or conviction or even strength. it’s saved because enough people do what they have to do even if they have to do it in the darkness. in the dust. with the ashes of hopelessness and bitterness in their mouths. because enough people took another step. Frodo, Sam, Gandalf, Aragorn, Theoden, Boromir, Faramir, Merry, Pippin. And many don’t. For every hero there is someone who gives into the “reasonableness” of despair—Saruman, Denethor, Grima, even Gollum—but enough. Enough people said “it doesn’t matter if we lose, I will keep fighting” and then they do.
And that GETS me. It is the most hopeful thing about the lord of the rings to me. There is so much that sums up its spirit, so many beautiful quotes and moments, but to me it’s never been the most famous of the quotes about hope and love that hit me hardest but a line from the films. Before the battle for minas tirith, one of the soldiers says “we cannot defeat the armies of Mordor” and Theoden answers “no. but we will meet them in battle nonetheless.”
And I—That is the spirit that leads to the conquering of evil when it comes down to it, when we’re talking about the part played by humanity alone in the fight against evil. Not the conviction you’re going to win, not farsightedness into a perfect future, not perfect inner peace or certainty. But acceptance of the real possibility of defeat, of that defeat being more the reality, the future, of your life than the victory, and then doing the damn thing anyway because goodness is worth fighting for even if you lose.
Doctor Who/Futurama/Star Trek + classical music
any future setting needs this gag
I believe in her.
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For @scullywolf
So…
…I was thinking about the fact that somebody said they weren’t behind lesbian Carol Danvers because they saw the relationship between her and Maria as queerplatonic.
Both are actually pretty well supported by the text, esp. if you bear in mind that the movie was set in the 1990s and they were both mil types, so…late 90s and 00s kids, you don’t understand how much tighter the closet door was back then. If they were a couple and it came out, Mar-Vell might not have been able to save them from a dishonorable discharge.
Then my thoughts went to a different relationship in the movie.
The relationship between Danvers and Fury.
This was the obvious place to put the Obligatory Heterosexual Romance, and they didn’t. A decision I honestly applaud. The last thing this movie needed was an Obligatory Heterosexual Romance.
Some of the criticisms of the movie are that it “emasculated” Fury. Mostly because he does the dishes.
But it got me thinking about the character of Nicholas J. Fury as presented in the MCU. (We’re ignoring the comics here).
Up until this movie, we’ve seen Fury mostly as the ruthless, competent spymaster. He treats everyone as assets. He values people by what they bring to the table. He doesn’t care who you are or what planet you are from as long as you can do your job.
This movie was Fury’s origin as well as Captain Marvel’s. They explicitly show Carol as why he feels that way.
Except that there’s no indication he actually felt differently. All he needed was to expand his horizons. Perhaps part of it was being a black man in intelligence.
But at no time in the history of the MCU have we seen Fury look at a woman in a sexual manner. The dish washing scene was the intimate moment where the kiss would have happened in the Obligatory Heterosexual Romance. Instead, it was rendered explicitly platonic.
And hello, headcanon:
Fury isn’t straight.
It is absolutely supported by the text and never contradicted: Nicholas Joseph Fury is not attracted to women.
So I mentally ran another analysis based off of the hypothesis that Nicholas Joseph Fury is, thus, gay.
And that didn’t fit either. The MCU has never been afraid to queer code (and I suspect if it wasn’t for Chinese money and censors we’d see more overt queerness). Furthermore, I don’t see Samuel L. Jackson as being at all uncomfortable with a bit of homosexual tension.
Now, it makes a good amount of sense to set the “ruthless spymaster” archetype aside from romantic entanglements.
But combined with the fact that he doesn’t look at Carol’s breasts once, this has led the text to inadvertently support a different analysis:
Tl;dr: The MCU has had an aroace character from day one. It’s Nick Fury.
And you can pry this headcanon from my dying hands, as I’m pretty sure we are never going to see him romantically involved with anyone…
OP this is a good post
I will take a Nick Fury: Cat Lover as my aroace representation with zero hesitation
Agreed, he’s ours now.
ouat femslash february 2019 mulan and merida
hands down my favourite scene
Top 10 RebelCaptain scenes as voted by our followers:
1. The elevator scene
Fandom Mashup. Deckerstar. Fairy Tale AU x Fake Married
I immediately put myself in a OUAT sort of mood with this, as there are many, many parallels between Deckerstar and Captain Swan.
Obviously, the fundamental nature of the characters still needs to persevere. Chloe is a the equivalent of a detective in her land, and she is secretly employed by the advisors close to the king of the Kingdom of Hell to investigate some nefarious plan the Kingdom of Heaven.
Lucifer, the notoriously single but never lonely King of Hell, has been marked as a target by Heaven, as he is dangerously close to his 35th birthday and has no marriage to bind him to his throne and kingdom. An ancient law states that the King of Hell must marry by this age, or the kingdom will be acquired by Heaven.
Throughout many lineages, however, that law has been ignored, and this time, Lucifer is being held to the law. As a result, he hires Chloe to investigate what is different this time compared to all others. Are there other forces at work trying to subterfuge his reign as king?
In order for this investigation to be successful, Lucifer and Chloe must act as husband and wife. For Chloe, it means working with an arrogant, rich, and flirty man, who constantly tries to get into her pants. She flatly refuses to put up with his ish and rolls her eyes more than she ever has in her life. For Lucifer, a man who is used to getting whatever he desires, it’s a peculiar challenge, one he relishes more and more with each passing day.
As the weeks pass, Chloe realizes that she and Lucifer work really well together. The case becomes much more involved and dangerous than either of them expected, requiring them to maintain the deception of marriage, but before long, the act feels more natural than not. And maybe some Feelings™ begin to grow between them, which of course are not communicated with great precision.
And then one day, when Chloe and Lucifer are close to uncovering a great big bombshell, an agent of Heaven manages to sneak into the castle and curses Lucifer, sending him into an enchanted sleep. Chloe is beside herself but doesn’t waste away with grief; instead, she vanquishes the Kingdom of Heaven with good old fashioned justice and law, initiating the great collapse of the corrupt kingdom with the public announcement of the scandal.
When the dust settles, Chloe finds herself at Lucifer’s bedside, tears streaming down her cheeks. In the eyes of the people, she must remain strong, but in private, her heart breaks. She bends over Lucifer to study his face, and before she knows what happens, she’s kissing him gently on his cool lips.
Insert other stuff along the way. Other Lucifer-isms. Trixie, of course. And Maze and Ella and Amenadiel. And Linda. Dear ol’ Dad will be a major player in some way. LOL.
Welcome to the future. Try not to break it.
The Outer Worlds (2019)
NaNoWriMo
I’ve been writing every day this month! It’s been... irregular. Some days I’ve written as few as ten words, some days close to 3k. Some days I’ve worked on my novel, some days on fanfic.
But I’ve written! Every single day, I’ve written. It’s been so long since I’ve written daily that no matter how this month turns out as far as total word count, I’m considering this a win.
