blorbo based introspection

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[beetle-freak]

putmothmaninamongus > beetle-freak 🪲

[overthinkinglotr]

Another hilarious thing I feel we should talk about more is the fact that *film* Aragorn and Arwen break up right before Aragorn leaves Rivendell……. meaning that film!Aragorn spends most of the quest in an “oh my god my relationship of 50 years just ended what do I even do with myself????” depression haze. 

It explains so much…..

Like. Externally Aragorn is on an epic quest to save Middle Earth, internally he’s crying on the couch in his sweatpants eating a tub of the Middle-Earth equivalent of Ben and Jerry’s

[overthinkinglotr]

Legolas: Aragorn?

Aragorn: Arwen used to call me Aragorn…..

Legolas: Because it’s your fucking name

[overthinkinglotr]

To be clear I actually love the film’s version of Aragorn/Arwen’s relationship, there’s a lot of Dramatic Potential/ angsty meta you could write on it, but–.

BUT

It’s also like– you think Aragorn has to put up with Legolas and Gimli’s annoying romance antics? Legolas and Gimli have to deal with Aragorn spending half the quest staring wistfully into the distance and sighing dramatically about What Can Never Be™…with how often he sings the Lay of Luthien,  basically the Middle Earth equivalent of Adele’s Someone Like You….

[overthinkinglotr]

Gimli: You haven’t washed your hair in MONTHS. We’re staging an intervention.

Aragorn (lying flat on the ground with his face in the dirt): aweralwkerjwae

Legolas: You’re only 87– you’ve got your whole life ahead of you. You can find love a second time!

Aragorn: I did. Boromir died.

Legolas: Maybe three is your lucky number!

[teddy-after-all]

#for me film Legolas’ main character trait#is that he’s incapable of reading the room (tags via @overthinkinglotr)

[sweetiepie08]

Aragorn, any time he gets a moment to himself during the quest:

[starr-bryte]

Gimli: This lovely Rhohirrim woman is clearly into you. She’s a fighter. You’re a fighter. She loves horses. You love horses (also you smell like one). Give her a chance!

Aragorn: *flashbacks to him and Arwen making out in Imladris while the elvish version of “when somebody loved me” plays in the background.

[ruffboi-mags]

He literally did this. (and then imagined Arwen kissing him before getting woken up by his horse)

[trickster-archangel]

At least he managed to wash himself AND his hair

[ryebreadgf]

once I snorted a fat line of nuance and everything started depending. watch out

[unpeeled-human]

stop telling me what not to draw. i do not care

[bravelycowering]

i had a vision

[bruneburg]

[corvidcall]

to anyone in the areas impacted by the wildfire smoke, my #1 biggest piece of advice as someone whos been dealing with wildfire smoke in the NW united states for years, is build yourself a Corsi-Rosenthal Cube

they perform as well as expensive HEPA air cleaners, and are comparatively VERY inexpensive. all you need is a box fan, 4 air filters, a piece of cardboard, and some duct tape!!!!

i think it took us maybe a half hour to put ours together, if that, and we replace the filters every 3 months. it's really made a HUGE difference, both when the air quality is bad, but also with our allergies

[o0fyuu0o]

Saw these easy to read instructions on Twitter. Stay safe 💚

[sun-cheyne]

Also just a handy, DIY air filter in general, if a bit bulky. For a less bulky and cheaper (but also less effective) solution, you can simply tape one filter to the fan, cut a shroud if you'd like.

[snowriddenwolf]

just FYI, this is quite literally what the climate scientists at my work who specialized in wildfire smoke impacts recommend. it works great, it's cheap to make, and it will make a noticeable impact on your air quality.

[mechanicalriddle]

i have asthma & keep one of these running in my room perpetually. after I set it up the difference in my sleep quality was pretty much night and day. Dont waste your time on proprietary air filters; SIMPLY bust out the duct tape

[lavenderprose]

My absolute gospel truth and I'm sorry this is so sappy but--where I'm living, Ilya fully changes his name to Hollander when they get married, like just fully legally changes it. And despite the fact that he continues to use Rozanov professionally ("Just like J. Lo," Ilya says.) everyone who knows them personally obviously knows what Ilya's legal name is and also assume it's a way to kind of stick it to his shitheel father. To this end, and kind of as a joke at first, people start referring to their two-person unit as The Hollanders ("Okay, the Hollanders are in room 508" etc.) but it becomes steadily less and less a joke when neither Shane or Ilya really seems to think of it as one. Ilya especially seems to genuinely love it. He'll say shit like "Oh yes the Hollanders will be there" when asked if they're coming to a barbecue like they live in a postcard. He LOVES to give his name as Ilya Hollander and he LOVES to book reservations under 'Misters Hollander' and he LOVES to say the words 'Shane and Ilya Hollander' out loud with his mouth. I also think that for their last game together in the league Ilya and Shane wear jerseys that say S. Hollander 24 and I. Hollander 81 and it's like. An end of an era type thing. And they frame the jerseys.

[darlingofdots]

okay but Shane takes a hit late in the game and doesn't return so in the post-game presser somebody (they're new, they don't know any better, they will never make this mistake again) asks Ilya "how's Hollander's head" and Ilya experiences every emotion at once as he wrestles with the lingering terror of seeing the love of his life take five seconds too long to get up (he's fine) and also the sheer delight at being offered this perfect, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity on a silver platter

[darlingofdots]

and with absolutely heroic effort, ilya says something entirely boring and appropriate about concussions, can't be too careful but thankfully nothing to worry about this time, Hollander will be back in time to crush the Pamphlets, yada yada, because he is a good husband and respects Shane's boundaries, and then they're walking to the car to finally go home and Shane is holding an icepack and there are still a couple reporters milling about and some asshole yells "hey Hollander, you sure your head's okay?"

and Shane looks directly into their phone camera and says, "I don’t know, you'll have to ask my husband"

[aangisdead]

sometimes…….things that are fanon………are worse

[kaijuerotica]

one thing in tlg I'll never complain about is shane proposing when he did

like, when i read it my first thought was "marriage doesnt fix all your relationship problems" and then i thought a moment longer like. actually nevermind this is a very shane thing to do. he saw something traumatic and potentially life-threatening happen to ilya and immediately went for the logistics. "we need a WILL. we need a MARRIAGE CERTIFICATE. we need POWER OF ATTORNEY. oh ok yeah we can come out too i guess. we need a JOINT BANK ACCOUNT"

[virgo-disaster]

I think people actually forget that they talk it out and make up BEFORE the plane incident. Sure, they’re still a little bit on rocky ground and adjusting to the developments that came out of the argument, but Ilya didn’t leave for that roadie with them on bad terms or not talking, and the proposal is in no way Shane attempting to avoid accountability. Plot twist, real people don’t communicate perfectly!

Shane’s proposal was not “he left mad at me and he almost died so I have to propose in order to fix it otherwise it’ll hang over us forever because he would’ve died thinking I don’t love him as much as he loves me.”

Shane’s proposal is explicitly “this man sacrificed for me in ways that I cannot sacrifice for him, because there are risks for me that don’t exist for him, and one day of not talking was hard enough, if I ever lose him for real, it will kill me, and if he had died, no one would have known to contact me, I would have found out from the news, so I have to make sure that’s never an option ever again and it’s just a bonus that taking this step shows him how serious I am and makes an attempt to meet him in the middle.”

[finelytaylored]

[raincitygirl76]

Yes! This is vintage Shane. He realizes that if they don’t have that piece of paper (a marriage certificate) he would’ve had no right to be informed if Ilya had died in the crash. He couldn’t have arranged the funeral, or taken custody of Ilya’s remains, he would’ve had no legal standing.

And if Ilya had been badly injured but not dead, Shane also wouldn’t have had the right to make his medical decisions before he woke up. It would’ve been either Svetlana or fucking Alexei, the brother he hasn’t spoken to in years. Depending on what arrangements Ilya had made.

Marriage isn’t just a romantic thing for Shane here. It’s more like, “I need to make sure that if something like this ever happens again, I am Ilya’s emergency contact. I am his next of kin. I have the magic pieces of paper that makes me the most important person in Ilya’s life. And the fastest, easiest way to get those magic pieces of paper is to get married. Therefore, I need a ring and three hundred electric candles.”

[hermywolf]

the way hudson can have anyone giggling twirling their hair wanting him sososo bad within five seconds of meeting him would be scary enough on its own but on top of that you can tell he's 1) aware of it 2) doing it on purpose. the way you can see him Lock In and turn the charm all the way up when he sets his sights on someone is so scary omg he's like if an evil bisexual siren was a 25yo film nerd from british columbia

[shaneofaragon]

is it any surprise that ilya latent suicidal tendencies rozanov was a club rat in the early 2010s when every single song was a variation of Tonight Is Literally The Only Night Worth Being Alive We Are All Killing Ourselves Tomorrow

[darlingofdots]

they don't really use pet names when they're around other people but their teammates learn very quickly that there is ilya (positive) and ilya (negative) and rozanov (fuck yeah that was fucking gorgeous) and rozanov (if you do not shut the fuck up immediately i swear to fucking good) and shane (adoring) and shane (sad) and hollander (that's how you fucking do it!) and hollander (sit your fucking ass down or we will have a problem) and these distinctions are way more important to keep track of than the five times a month hollander calls cap "baby" and cap's face goes all sappy

[ellisonwongparty]

i love shane so much :( it's peak shaney to ask questions that are kind of weird (i.e. 'sick like crazy??' and 'is it like... very upsetting??' and my favorite 'what will they do to you there???' re: ilya and russia LOL) but ultimately shane will use what he's learned from those questions to come up with a solution so simple and earnest like "well why don't you tell me everything that's on your mind, but in russian??? maybe it will help :)" like guh :'( ilya's so luckyy to have himmm shane just gets him and like pays so much attention to him and just LOVES HIM SOO MUCHHH :'( AND HE'S ALWAYS LOOKING FOR THE BEST WAY ILYA CAN TALK ABOUT HIMSELF BECAUSE HE KNOWS IT'S HARD FOR HIMM :'(

[sreegs]

[sreegs]

[its-funnytwittertweets]

[okthisway]

#the beauty of tumblr is that any new show i start i'm able to say oh that's my friend. from gif.

[yetanotherrepressedfan]