[jikchow]

Sua

[appaumey]

hell is ours to face

[toastyyjams]

uhmm hi

[sorrowcure]

"I know my love was different from yours - but it was love, too."

Mizisua breaking me yet again ⚰️

[rainformation]

formative years? aren’t they all?

[absolutejamer]

show me a permanent self and i will show you a facade or a corpse

[nortism]

Rules of the Les Misérables magic system (as far as I can figure out):

As long as there is still suffering to be had, Jean Valjean cannot die

Jean Valjean has super strength which cannot be depleted by age or his poor ability to look after himself (up to a point)

Once a person has met Cosette, lack of proximity to her will slowly drain their life force

The dead benevolently haunt those they loved while alive (ily ghost!Fantine)

Javert has an incredible ability to recognise potential criminals (read people from lower social classes)

Eponine has the ability to blend into the background but cannot turn this power off

The only one immune to this power is Javert which isn’t very helpful

[calico-cows]

bonus:

Javert is immune to guns

[jeneralization]

Javert's criminal detection system overrides Eponine's passive camoflague

[kurulover]

I hate that when you’re stressed enough your body just starts falling apart. I think it should realize you’re already stressed and don’t need that and start functioning better actually

[kurulover]

[jeneralization]

In the short term, that is what the adrenaline is trying to do.

[holdenford-deactivated20230430]

Clear your minds…and find Obi-Wan’s wayward planet we will.

[delete3217290-deactivated202105]

See this is what I see and don’t get

Yoda is hella nurturing and funny. He’s obviously personable. He’s obviously kind. He’s disciplined, but when dealing with people who literally have the power to move and control things at will, discipline and virtue are necessary because truly, with great power comes great responsibility.

People talk all this crap about yoda like - no. Yoda is not a space Jedi “god”. He’s a senior member of the order with tremendous strength and clarity of the force but also one with tremendous kindness and gentleness — when anakin comes to him for help Yoda doesn’t manipulate the truth the way palpatine does, he tells him honestly to let go of all he fears to lose, for Yoda knows that controlling the outcomes of everything is something no one, not Jedi nor Sith, can achieve. Yoda tells Anakin the hard truth because he loves him. Palpatine indulges anakin’s darkest temptations and fears because he wants to use him. People have written Yoda didn’t do enough for anakin etc but what exactly could Yoda have done? Anakin didn’t go into details w/ Yoda over his situation out of fear, which is exactly the trap the Jedi are leery of: fear leads to division and anger and to Anakin keeping his secret from the one Jedi who may have been powerful (in terms of just raw power, like Sidious) enough to help him: Yoda. Yoda as a character is written as doing the best he can, with what he knows. Anakin, in trying to play all angles out of fear, fear which Palpatine manipulated in order to isolate Anakin, set himself up for failure — made possible thanks to the manipulative Sidious trying to force (no pun intended) Anakin into a corner. At every opportunity Sidious tries to stoke Anakin’s fears: fear of losing Padme, of being kicked out of the Jedi, of not being accepted —- and Yoda didn’t know this. Force insight, wisdom, and such are not superpowers, in universe, the force is “living”, you can’t just demand to see the possible future (aka what palp was doing to anakin).

Yoda also makes mistakes, and that’s okay. Yoda isn’t a “perfect guru” - hes just a regular flawed mentor trying to do the best he can, given the stakes. Yoda’s “failure” to stop what happened is a testament to his humility - Yoda knows he is not space god and now the audience knows as well.

Let him be a falliable but good character trying his best to love well.

Save yoda from hate-mail 2020.

[thethirdromana]

Putting the term "Catholic guilt" on a high shelf where fandom can't reach it until everyone learns how to identify characters who are very very clearly coded as Protestant.

[vampfuneralpyre]

[ymutate]

Annie Stegg Gerard (American, born 1982) Daylight Reverie, 2023

Oil on board 9 x 12 inches

Private collection

[toskarin]

every time I think about how they apparently made yoda's swamp hut an instinctual thing that his entire species crawls off and builds I fucking lose it again

[toskarin]

[yoda suffering anxiety attack voice] hmm build a mud hut I must. for reasons I don't know.

[toskarin]

[yoda suffering manic episode voice] a really good fucking idea, a mud hut is

[charlesoberonn]

Don't open a PM with a stranger with "hello".

1. You sound like a bot

2. You don't give anything to respond to

Try to say something nice and ask questions that the other person can respond to.

[charlesoberonn]

I was talking about tumblr but I suppose it also applies to this

[charlesoberonn]

Remember Inigo Montoya

[lastvalyrian]

Name: We are the Borg.

Polite Greeting: You will be assimilated.

Relevant personal link: Your biological and technological characteristics will be added to our own.

Manage expectations: Resistance is futile.

[errantindy]

1. Polite Greeting:

2. Name: I’m Luke Skywalker

3. Personal Relevant Link:

4. Manage Expectations: I’m here to rescue you.

You can see Luke makes a hash of this greeting, and the Princess is hesitant to do anything until he supplies their personal relevant link: that he’s here with Ben Kenobi.

[charlesoberonn]

He improves greatly in the later movies

Polite Greeting: "Greetings, Exalted One."

Name + Relevant Personal Link: "I am Luke Skywalker, Jedi knight and friend to captain Solo."

Manage Expectations: "I seek an audience with Your Greatness to bargain for Solo's life."

[sepublic]

I do think it’s interesting how the novel Dracula is meant to be a modern setting from its perspective. It’s very much that genre of story about an ancient fantasy archetype finding itself in a modern setting, complete with the rules-lawyering that often comes with modern parodies (that isn’t to say the stories of Olde didn’t have fun with loopholes either though).

Except Dracula is a story that plays itself straight. The vampire himself is not stupid. He’s possibly the oldest vampire of all which means he upgraded from animal instinct and mindless echoes of past memories to someone who’s regained his critical thinking skills. The story begins because he’s already adapted to how the modern world works now by hiring a solicitor who understands modern laws.

He knows now that he doesn’t have to march into London with an army like he used to; He can just buy property and the laws of London are forced to respect that. Similarly he’s already experimented in and discovered loopholes to vampire rules and limitations; Vampires are bound by the permission of owners so he simply uses his solicitor to buy and own a bunch of properties. If he needs to be invited in, Dracula hypnotizes someone to let him in.

Vampires need to return to their grave every dusk/dawn (whichever comes sooner), which causes their coffin to act as an anchor that limits how far from it they can travel? Dracula simply rations the earth of his grave into fifty coffins and spreads them across London so his range becomes exponentially larger.

All of these things make the story almost come across as a deconstruction and it might just be! It’s just that Dracula the novel became such a trendsetter that people nowadays see it as playing things fully straight. It almost feels as if the novel is written with the idea that readers have a basic understanding of vampires and their rules, so part of the thrill comes in the revelation of how the titular vampire is working around these rules. Likewise I’ve heard it used to be a trope in English literature for a traveler to visit some foreign land with a monster and escape by going home. But here the foreign aspect of the story is just the first (and final) arc; The monster’s plan hinges on coming to the UK itself!

So yeah. Dracula isn’t stupid and he reflects the idea that people of the past had just as common sense as the rest of us, they just had access to less/inaccurate knowledge and things worked differently back then. Dracula would be like… That bit of someone showing a medieval peasant a meme as they comprehend it perfectly and aren’t even wowed by the Doritos. If Dracula was set in the 21st century he’d probably understand social media well enough to become an influencer if he wanted to, though the issue of being invisible in cameras wouldn’t help.

[bruntalism]

[birds-in-posts]

Yellow-headed blackbird (Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus)

[schrodingers-blursed-kitty]

@sunrisecosmos

[lobotomy-jpeg]

Oh huh! I hadn't realized I didn't post this one here on Tumblr! I finished this study in early March and have plans to have it be one of 3 pieces to go together 🙂‍↕️

[ID: Digital painting of Sherlock Holmes and Toby the dog, a study of Leyendecker's "Man with a dog" (1909) for Collier's Weekly. Holmes is in his coat, striped pants, top hat and grey scarf, Toby following a trace by his side. They are painted mid-motion. /end ID]

[andywarnercomics]

In honor of Day of the Dead, here’s a repost of my comic about the San Francisco Columbarium and the man who spent 26 years restoring it.

This comic originally appeared on Medium at The Nib. Go check out my other work there.

[true-me-snafu]

Emmitt and the Columbarium.

[lakesbian]

ive just seen the american psycho characters drawn as my little ponies and honestly i dont think patrick should have been given that cd as his cutie mark. i think you're doing it wrong if you're not making him a perpetual blank flank

[lakesbian]

look if you're gonna draw characters as my little ponies you have to remember that the cutie mark can't just be any old imagery you associate with them. it has to be Representative. it's their Unique Characteristic. to quote the pony wiki page i just googled, "Twilight and Applejack point out in Call of the Cutie how lacking a mark means that ponies still get to experience 'the thrill of discovering who they are and what they're meant to be'." there's narrative shit going on here there's Themes. and patrick bateman is NOT unique. he has NOT discovered who he is or what he's meant to be. the end monologue of the book is literally about how he has absolutely nothing going for him in this regard & is simply a vacant, hollow person merely vacuously gesturing at the idea of having depth. and when he rants about music, that's what he's doing there, too. his lyrical analysis is shallow/vaguely inaccurate summaries at best and completely warped at worst. everything he has to say about music--and in general--is intensely fixated on commodities and on appearing normal and intelligent while being entirely devoid of any intelligent or individual thought. so no, his cutie mark is not music. mr "missing that hip to be square is about making fun of conformist squares & proudly proclaiming that its actually about how fucking Awesome it is to be conformist and consumerist" does NOT have a fucking cd cutie mark. He's a blank flank. He has no unique identity. There is no future for him. There is no self identity. He's a fucking blank flank. okay? sorry i got a little passionate about this. there is no exit and he has no cutie mark

[lakesbian]

@epeboch see, I agree, but also, being a blank flank is against the social norm, so I imagine he has a fake one that he wears.

ok now this is important intellectual discussion about the subject. i agree i was personally imagining him like. always having it covered with pants or something. but he would have a fake cutie mark. he would totally get a fake cutie mark tattooed or something in my little american psycho world. in fanart however if this cannot be briefly conveyed then i think for the sake of clarity with regards to his character it needs to be blank. just so its clear he doesnt have one

[letourswordsdecide]

After the first time he chops somepony up with an axe he stands there, feeling nothing, no catharsis, but he still can't stop himself from turning to look at his reflection.

It's still blank. He looks at the axe as though it is the thing that has betrayed him.