You are what you love, not who loves you

Dear Imagination, what I love most about you is your unforgiving nature...

[that-one-english-nerd]

a nysm text post??? in the year of 2025??? whattt???

[cc-tinslebee]

the monkey saga (aka the adoption of the ponies and Henlula taking turns being replaced </3)

[disinheritoad]

The full set!!!

then everything changed when the fire nation attacked.

[katestewartt]

The Doctor + speeches

[keikomivra]

DOCTOR WHO | 2.07: WISH WORLD + TEXT POSTS

[notyoujamie]

[sentrysvoid]

Doctor Who The Well | Midnight

[simone-ashwini]

Cordelia Cupp when prompted to be specific The Residence 1.01 The Fall of the House of Usher | 1.05 The Trouble with Harry

[dickymoser]

Matt Murdock "Playing" Blind vs. Being Blind

[einaudis]

Question: What is the greatest magic of all? Answer: Friendship, right? [B]: The greatest magic of all is not friendship, it's chronomancy, the ability to control and warp time. If friendship were the greatest magic, look, it's a pet peeve of mine (...)

DUNGEON MASTER BRENNAN LEE MULLIGAN ANSWERS DnD QUESTIONS (TECH SUPPORT | WIRED)

[lostdemifiend]

"Friendship? Are you, are you, are you, FRIENDS DIE ALL THE TIME! What an insane- ... Friendship?! FUCK! All this 'love is the greatest magic of all;' so, in a war, a mother and her children get fucking iced in an alleyway outside of their home, was the problem they didn't love each other enough? That's crazy Kristen, that's crazy! Magic is magic, love is love!"

-Arthur Agurfort, principal of Aguefort Adventuring Academy, imparting some wisdom to Kristen Applebees

[foggynelsonarchive]

The memories hurt sometimes

[shanisabisaster]

*queue me sobbing my eyes out*

[hedgehogoftime]

Rereading the Lord of the Rings series recently, and it's so fascinating to me how much the series is a denial of the typical juvenile power-fantasy that is associated with the fantasy genre.

Like, the power-fantasy is the temptation the Ring uses against people It tempts Boromir with becoming the "one true king" that could save his people with fantastic power. It tempts Sam with being the savior of Middle Earth and turning the ruin that is Mordor into a great garden. It tempts Gandalf and Galadriel with being the messianic figure of legend who brings salvation to Middle Earth and great glory to herself.

The things the Ring tempts people with are becoming the typical protagonists of fantasy stories that we expect to see. and over and over we see that accepting that role, that fantasy of being the benevolent all-powerful hero, is a bad thing. LotR is about how power, even power wielded with benevolent intent, is corrupting.

And its so fascinating how so much of modern fantasy buys into the very fantasy LotR denies. Most modern fantasy is about being that Heroic power-fantasy. About good amassing power to rival evil. But LotR dares not to. It dares to be honest that there is no world where anyone amasses that power and remains good.

I guess that's one of the reasons its so compelling.

[ach-sss-no]

I think I've said this before, so, sorry about that. But I was taken aback when I read LOTR because I'd heard that it's a foundational work to the fantasy genre, and I was expecting it to be somewhat basic and cliché. I got the opposite experience. It read to me like a thoughtful and detailed deconstruction of the modern fantasy genre instead of the thing that spawned it. Mostly it's because Tolkien took things through to their logical conclusion where many of his imitators did not (the scouring of the shire, the lasting irreparable psychological damage to frodo, the fact that frodo actually can't bring himself to throw away the ring, etc)

[miriamforster]

JRR Tolkien’s world was shaped by war. He knew firsthand that battles are not glorious, that heroes always pay a price, that sometimes you can’t return home because either home was ruined, or you were.

He KNEW it, knew it intimately, the loss and fear and sorrow behind the propaganda. And he knew that what helped, in his time, was kindness and community and small joys and undying friendship.

Tolkien didn’t belive in epic heroics, he believed in simple humanity. Ordinarily people persevering against all odds.

His imitators missed that. Much like Sauron at the end of the trilogy, they were distracted by armies and kings and wizards.

They never really saw or understood the hobbits at all.

[emo-communism]

is anyone else just like. constantly filled with rage about their position under late capitalism and how we are expected to just keep playing this game that we know will literally kill us, is already killing people all over the world, and yet everyone around us is somehow fine with going about business as usual, with pretending we are free by being able to choose between different ways of being exploited. there is nothing more dehumanising than being forced to partake in a system that is actively detrimental to our survival as human beings, that is so physically, psychologically and spiritually destructive, and i don’t know how to deal with this anger anymore

[itsyaboinixo]

[shaperswar]

I love you.

[captofayellowpolicebox]

I wonder if a former companion went on to study psycology just in case someday the Doctor decided that yes, he needs therapy...

[halles-comet]

“Mom’s gay friend from her thirties had a mental breakdown so he’s going to live in our backyard for awhile until his antidepressants start working” is the funniest ending any of us could’ve hoped for God bless

[softestaries]

I'm cracking up at the idea of Fourteen bumping into an old companion in Tesco's or something and them instantly being like 'YOU'RE BACK? WHAT HAPPENED? IS IT THE DALEKS ? IS THE WORLD ENDING AGAIN? DO YOU NEED HELP?' And Fourteen is just stood there like 'i'm just here for milk??'