fandom bros

This for my numerous obsessions so I stop losing things in the depths of my favorites. Here be SPOILERS.

[ghostapop]

i feel like a lot of fandoms pride themselves on being gayer than the source material but have they considered being less racist and less misogynistic than the source material as well . could be revolutionary

[fandombros]

People being pressed about cosplayers being darker than the character is so dumb. They're not trying to be actors in the show, they're having fun. The point was to have fun but it's become exhausting now.

[blacksalander]

Huge and soft, a fantastic combination - Hornet Hornet is a big plushie apreciator

[fandombros]

I was explaining emojis to my mom so she wouldn't use certain ones in the wrong context and I suddenly had the thought that Frankenstein was like printing out/making his own urban dictionary for Raizel lol

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[biglawbear]

I finished reading The Lord of the Rings for the first time in my life. With all of *vague gesture at everything* this going on.

I Am Not Okay

[biglawbear]

You have to understand. I watched the movies maybe once as a kid when they came out twenty years ago. I've somehow avoided learning like anything about these books my entire life. Literally everything about these books was a complete unknown and surprise to me. Totally blank slate going on. I barely even knew how it ended.

Holy shit.

[biglawbear]

Frodo didn't complete his task. Sam literally carried him up Mount Doom. And when he got to the end, he couldn't throw the Ring away.

But for Gollum biting it off with his finger, it wouldn't have been destroyed.

So Frodo's journey saved the world nonetheless.

And it broke him.

It was too much for him to bear. He could no longer live in the Shire or live in Middle-Earth. He wasn't of the world anymore. He had to go to the Undying Lands.

He took on the task that no one else would. He saved the world. Everyone got a happy ending. Aragorn became King, Sam rebuilt the Shire, Merry and Pippin became heroes. They all lived in renown.

But Frodo had the hardest task of all. No one else would do it. A simple hobbit who came by the Ring by chance. Not a King, not an immortal. Not a wizard. No power save his will and his friends. And he did it and saved everyone.

And he never got to rest. He never got to remain in peace. The task destroyed him. It was too much.

But there was no other way. Nobody but a simple hobbit could bear the ring all the way to Mount Doom and resist its power so long. Not a man, not an elf, not a wizard; they would have succumbed. Gandalf knew this, which was why he chose the hobbits in all his designs.

It's amazing that one of the precedent setting works in the fantasy genre holds up so well because it subverts what ultimately became the genre's core tropes. The hero was not the King, or a chosen one. In fact, the hero not being the King was a key point that allowed Aragorn to distract Sauron and allow the task in the first place. The hero was someone unassuming but courageous, who did the thing because no one else would, even though it was just by chance he came upon it.

But Frodo couldn't resist the Ring completely. He wasn't superior to anyone else in that way. And in the end it left him broken. The burden crushed him. No one else could do it, and in the end, he couldn't either. He wasn't so special that he was invulnerable.

I'm not okay. Holy fuck you guys.

[biglawbear]

It's been a week and I'm still not over this, I'll never get over this.

Something that I've been thinking about, as I struggle with depression and anxiety and *another vague gesture at everything* is that LOTR does not criticize Frodo for being broken. It does not shame him or deny him what he needs.

The task was too much and it broke him and that's okay. His friends nonetheless take care of him and let him go with understanding. The book doesn't treat it as a bad thing.

This seems to be a theme throughout the books. The characters rest and heal. They spend time recovering in Rivendell, Fangorn, Lorien, Ithilien. It's treated as good and necessary. They don't heroically endure endless torment from the second they set out until they're done.

And in Gondor's march from Minas Tirith to Mordor, Aragorn recognizes that some of the very few men he's taking with him don't have the heart to go to battle against the Enemy. And he says that's okay. He gives them other tasks the they can do. They hold other strategic points. They aren't shamed for not going all the way, or kicked out, or told that they aren't manly or whatever. Their limitations are recognized and respected. The task was too big and it was okay that they couldn't do it.

I don't know man. I've held on through some absolutely crazy shit. White knuckled through mental health crises when my doctors were begging me to take a break, to go to the hospital before I hurt myself. My therapist has tried to slow me down and tell me that I've been going through it and it's understandable that I am feeling some kind of way. Even one of my colleagues remarked that I've had an absolutely fucking wild career and that I've seen more as a lawyer of seven years than she has as a lawyer of forty. But I've gotten it into my head that I have to be strong, I have to be independent.

Fuck me, man, I'm currently white knuckling through life and hanging on by a fucking thread. A few weeks ago I was about an hour away from checking myself in to a mental health facility until my best friends swooped in to help me. And then I went right back to work.

And then I read this book. This fucking brilliant and beautiful book written by a man who had seen the horrors of war and spilled it all over the page. And I read it for the first time as an adult with full understanding and experience of what it all means. And it hits me like a fucking truck.

And it says that you can't endure everything. That at some point you need to rest and heal. That if you take on too much you will break. And that all of that is okay.

How am I supposed to move on with my life after reading this?

[three--rings]

Certainly there are many messages within Lord of the Rings, but you have to think that Tolkien would have been happy that this message in particular was still being conveyed all these years later.

[scamcall]

A creature that, even though they knew its true name, no one would dare to invite to their scenario.

[Come! ■■■■■!!]

[that1nkyone]

Me: Huh. Why is it that I seem to gravitate towards characters who are basically magical diminutive cranky old men with a mischievous streak and a hidden heart of gold? Me: i mean there's the Engineer from Toonkind, Cait Sith from FFVII, Chilchuck from Delicious in Dungeon (more techy than magic) currently Papalymo from FFXIV... Me: Me: wait a fucking minute

[ooppo]

I remember one time I got INSANELY high off of edibles while playing Among Us, and it quickly became apparent to the other players online. I forget how honestly but literally anything "sus" I did was ignored by everyone because I was so fucking high. I tested this theory by standing in front of a body and the person that actually reported it didn't even mention me. The funniest part was when I was trying to do wires, I kept fucking up over and over again, so I was just standing in front of wires for actual minutes trying to figure it out. A small crowd of players gathered around me to watch and would get mad every time someone reported a body or emergency meeting because "she's never going to get her tasks done if you keep interrupting them." I don't think anyone cared about winning at that point, they just wanted to see the high crew mate succeed in her tasks.

[the-infinite-casmos]

[ooppo]

THIS IS 1000% ACCURATE LMFAO. Thank you op

[ooppo]

Ohhhh yeah

[fandombros]

It's nice to see a supportive lobby lol

[the-peak-tmnt]

[fandombros]

Thank you omg. Here's a link to the short.

[sunsetagain]

Mirror Phantom

[fandombros]

I love the composition 💕 these overlapping timeline art always get me

[ying-an-sanren]

THE NEW TRAILER FOR AUDIO DRAMA TGCF HAS THE SCENE WHERE AMNESIAC HUA CHENG KIDNAPS XIE LIAN IN THE MIDDLE OF THE STREET AND THROWS HIM OVER HIS SHOULDER LIKE A POTATO SACK I'M IN LOVE 😩🙏🙏

(In case you're wondering, this scene is indeed canon and it's part of the content that MXTX added in the revised version)

[cleobel]

That's so cool 😩✨ How did amnesiac Hua Cheng happen? Was it in the revised extras like the original extras had amnesiac Xie Lian? Or does the revised version has amnesiac Fafa in the main plot?

[ying-an-sanren]

The revised version does have Amnesiac Fafa in the main plot! It's during the Brocade Immortal thing — Hua Cheng uses a spell called "Butterfly Dream" to allow himself and Xie Lian to slip into the Brocade Immortal's mind, and into some of his memories — and in order to blend in the dream will assign them roles (Hua Cheng becomes a local young master and Xie Lian becomes something I forgot the proper English term for bcs I read it months ago but I thinkit's an herbalist/apothecary/smth like that?) The Thing is that the Brocade Immortal's subconsciousness senses a threat in Hua Cheng's presence and sets of something like a "defense system" which causes Hua Cheng to lose his memory and he also gets attacked by "demons".

Later they use Butterfly Dream one more time to access Yin Yu's memories and this time Hua Cheng gets assigned the role of the leader of a cultivation sect and Xie Lian becomes a flower god.

Btw here's where you can read the Butterfly Dream chapter translated into English, for free:

https://tgcf.clearnoodletranslations.com/revised/Book-3-Chapter-16

And here's where you can read the whole revised version with illustrations from various fan artists, but you need to have the CN web novel purchased first:

https://smoothreads.world/c/gwyc/mo-xiang-tong-xiu/heaven-officials-blessing/details.html ❤️

[fandombros]

I don't understand the ferality of some kpop stans. I'm at the music section of Walmart and every kpop album is straight ripped open and I'm assuming the photocards are gone. Yall. It's a card. Just get a printer and print your favorite singer, why you being a whole thief.

[minithzya]

Happy birthday

to the ghost city's lord! HuaCheng ✨🎉

[fandombros]

Fluffy boi~

[fandombros]

So like is Caleb's arm hidden with nanites Detroit Become Human style? A silicone glove? How is he hiding the giant hunk of metal cuz I don't think it ever went over that. Granted I haven't played the latest update but I did read the Skyhaven section and Painful Signal. Does it explain in a different card? From what I remember Painful Signal just said he had no sensation in that arm not how he's hiding it.

[sunsetagain]

Eternal Flowers

Myth + Little Red Flower text message + ⭐️⭐️⭐️ memory Taking Control

中文版

[fandombros]

This warms my soul in the best of ways 🫶

[fandombros]

Was reading Love Notes Scribbled on my iPhone and I had a realization. MC kinda remembers a little of her past life on Philos. The smallest tiniest bit, but it's in there. In one of the calls from Caleb, he offers to fly MC into a hurricane because as kids, she said her home was above the clouds. She loved being held in the sky by his evol since she thought she could fly back home. I wonder if the story will ever let her remember more.

[fandombros]

Every time the mic shows up in lads I get jump scared and I'm so torn between just turning it off or actually saying something 😂 Just read the Hidden Waves card. Stop asking me to sing infold lol