Fandoms Help Ease My Pain

Hi I’m Q! 22, All Pronouns, Pan, this blog is Just some book, TV show and movie things to help distract me from life.

[vigilante-apologist]

I love Sam- the fact that “he’s lying about being a cleric” and “he’s playing a cleric with low wisdom” are both plausible scenarios

[garret-spork]

One part of me sees Sam playing a Cleric with a WISDOM SCORE OF 10 and thinks, "yeah buddy. Be the worst Cleric you can be."

And the other part of me sees him Charisma score and thinks, "You're not fooling anyone, Sam"

What are you Really?

[tattooedlane]

In this season of Dimension 20, we have:

The Stressed Side.

The Rambunctious Side.

And the DM who is so sorry for rolling so well.

[blazzlehoochas]

this is my favourite image that’s ever existed

[ratking404-deactivated20260818]

the "i can absolutely take this dinosaur to the mat" to "get this dinosaur out of here" pipeline being so so short made me absolutely lose it laughing. Maxwell Gotch the man that you are

[wealwell-official]

ITS GOLDBEARD, THEY'RE GONNA GET GOLDBEARD'S GOLD. THE GOLD. THE GOLD OF GOLDBEARD, THE GOLD SPECIFICALLY OWNED BY GOLDBEARD, GOLDBEARD'S GOLD. THAT GOLD.

[utilitycaster]

I'm going to *remembers suicide jokes are detrimental to my mental health* quit my job and start making shoes for American Girl Dolls

[eyes-like-alexandrite]

“I have Pappy on my back so he can shoot”

i was so compelled by them idk,,,,, the fighter duo <3

video under cut!

sorry the orientation is weird :/

[samreich]

every single time an episode premise is revealed

[ikimaru]

didn't know which of their songs to pick but chose this since the colors looked so fun! 🩷

[galacticneighbor]

Sam had to raise the subscription price because he blew the budget on Kiss from a Rose

[galacticneighbor]

Seriously though, it's great to see tangible increases in value. It's not like Netflix where they just keep raising the price because people will pay it, all while their catalogue gets worse and worse- Dropout is producing more shows than ever, and they're better than ever. They've got new sets and crazy effects in the dome and all sorts of really cool stuff happening. I love being able to point to a very expensive bit and go "yeah, that's worth a dollar"

[amnesiaguy]

all my haters become tomaters in my lovely summer garden

[lizzienoodles]

@dragonsbloodsnowcone this cannot be left in the tags

[automatonknight]

you can INCREASE your PLAYTIME by being a BAD GAMER

[netscapenavigator-official]

“Both candidates were bad.”

Yeah. Cool. So like…… would Kamala Harris have made the FBI arrest judges for not following her unconstitutional executive orders?

“It doesn’t matter! It was about genocide!”

Do you think Trump is threatening the validity of the judicial branch with the intention of keeping everybody alive and enfranchised, or…..?

[ponponproblems-deactivated20250]

For no reason, here is Art Spiegelman's 1991 graphic novel Maus, for free on the Internet Archive.

Maus : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

all the maus books

[werewolfteacher]

I was reading an interview from two years ago about Maus being banned in a few places and this was in.

Art Spiegelman recognizes that trans people are going to be some of the first targets of bullshit and he’s out there speaking up.

[itspileofgoodthings]

I know that Peter’s Jackson Lord of the Rings trilogy technically has flaws but also….it doesn’t. It’s perfect.

[byjoveimbeinghumble]

‘Are these magic cloaks?’ asked Pippin, looking at them. with wonder.

‘I do not know what you mean by that,’ answered the leader of the Elves. ‘They are fair garments, and the web is good, for it was made in this land. They are Elvish robes certainly, if that is what you mean. Leaf and branch, water and stone: they have the hue and beauty of all these things under the twilight of Lorien that we love; for we put the thought of all that we love into all that we make.”

- Fellowship of the Ring, Chapter 8: Farewell to Lorien

This is how I think of Jackson’s movies. Yes, there are serious flaws - Gandalf’s de-powering, Gimli as comic relief, and Faramir, namely - but come on.

Remember when the guys making their chain mail invented a new method for quickly producing large amounts of it by hand? Remember Miranda Otto walking down the street, practicing sword positions? The guys who forged all of the swords - for leads and for extras? The men and women riders who volunteered to be riders of Rohan? The costume designers who designed the inside of Theoden’s armor (which no one would ever see) so beautifully that Bernard Hill said he felt like a king? The friendships between the cast, and their size doubles, and the stuntmen?

When they made that movie, they put all that they loved into all that they made.

[melusinemuse]

#just hundreds of people who went ‘sure let me try this’ #and they made something breathtaking #and then they made it 12 more times in different sizes ( @byjoveimbeinghumble​ )

[phoxxent]

Wait tell me more about that chainmail thing

[byjoveimbeinghumble]

“Kaynemaile has worked tirelessly to perfect the material science behind beautiful architectural mesh, collaborating with architects and designers on projects that embolden urban environments with positive buildings. The company’s patented polycarbonate mesh, inspired by 2,000-year-old medieval chainmail, was initially created for the armor and weapons seen in the The Lord of The Rings movie trilogy and is now used on major architectural projects around the world.

“The film’s art director and Kaynemaile’s founder Kayne Horsham worked with his team to construct each garment from plastic plumbing tubes, coating them in pure silver. Once filming wrapped, Horsham dedicated himself to creating a change to the liquid state assembly process to mass produce the polycarbonate chainmail for architectural applications — products that were light, but strong enough to protect the interior or exterior of a building. Now an industry-leading manufacturer, Kaynemaile produces mesh for everything from small interior screens to large scale exterior façades. Their mesh is easy to install and can be custom created for specialized applications.”

https://architizer.com/blog/practice/materials/kaynemaile-mesh-facade-systems/

How “Lord of the Rings” Chainmail Was Transformed Into an Innovative Architectural Mesh - Architizer Journal

Kaynemaile's patented mesh façade systems are incredibly lightweight and easy to install while bringing a bold look to any scale building.

[byjoveimbeinghumble]

YOU GUYS

[ohifonlyx33]

they took forced perspective and scaled sets to a new level by adding moving set pieces to create the illusion that the hobbits and dwarves were much smaller than everyone else even when the camera moved.

every scene you see in the 11+ hours of glory that is the LOTR masterpiece is most like ridiculously elaborate or expensive–from model towers to the all-new motion capture technology used for gollum to the costumes and sets to the aerial on location shots of mother-fracking new zealand and the big impressive battle scenes and horse charges.

but then the story and the screenplay too–there is just SO much lore that is there in the background lurking if you want to look for it, yet it still remains simplified for the average viewer. Crazy impressive feat.

And the acting is heartfelt and real and makes you love the characters.

ALSO DON’T GET ME STARTED ON FREAKING HOWARD SHORE AND HIS 100+ HEARTSHATTERINGLY BEAUTIFUL LIETMOTIFS AND BRILLIANT SUBTLE VARIATIONS IN THE FLIPPING 13 HOUR SOUNDTRACK. AND ENYA SINGING IN REAL ELVISH.

[amuseoffyre]

There’s so much detail in the costuming that we can’t even see, it’s wild. One of my favourite things I saw on a tour of the WETA collection was seeing a Gondorian sword and on the pommel of the grip, there were concentric rings with a triangle wedge raised about them. They had a representation of frigging Minas Tirith as a part of the sword.

Also, here are a few close-up costume/prop details from the costumes they had on display in the shop and at sites around Wellington:

[marspumpkin]

btw the katy perry/bezos' girlfriend/other four irrelevant billionaires 10 minute space stunt was not the first all female expedition no matter how much they try to market it as such. the first all female mission was in 1963 with soviet cosmonauts Valentina Tereshkova, Irina Solovyova and Valentina Ponomaryova - all three of which were working class and had to pass incredibly hard exams to be chosen from 400 potential candidates. just in case we started falling for the propaganda machine again