La Luna Splende

(wheeze)

[stuckinapril]

I think part of getting better is complete ego death. Like you’re not above setting a timer for 5 minutes and focusing on a task. You’re not above doing a very simple 3 minute workout to start. You’re not above reading for 10 minutes a day when you first get out of your reading slump, even if you used to read for hours. You’re not above starting slow and then building up to where you want to be/where you once were. What you are above is total inertia. Doing something really is better than doing nothing. Radically accept where you are, radically accept your limits, and go from there. Don’t let your ego get in the way.

[tarydarrington]

[screamting]

in modern day it's very easy to look at batman and be like "WHAT was this guy doing. Insane choice. You do NOT have to fight crime this way" but then you learn literally anything about the US in 1900-1939 and you're like "oh a batman terrifying people would have actually for real improved the situation"

[screamting]

"what did batman do to improve Gotham in ANY WAY that Bruce Wayne couldn't"

Batman is breaking into your landlord's apartment and and saying they would be seeing Batman EVERY NIGHT until they got running water in the apartment building, there are literal plague rats running around

Batman is solving crimes the police ignore due to sexism and racism, finding the perpetrators, and dangling them off a roof, promising if they ever do that again, he will also dangle them off a roof again

Batman is breaking into mafioso bedrooms, tying them up, gluing 500 individual feathers onto them, then taking pictures and sending them to every big newspaper chain in the country to remind people that the ones they're afraid of are still only men

Then he finds police officers on the take and glues feathers to all their uniforms so they can't walk around without everyone knowing they are also associated with the chicken mafia, what a loser.

He is seeing violent crime happen on the streets and swooping in to get in the way as it is happening. Extortion, assault, murders-- get good, assholes, your crime is witnessed and you have been punched in the face, AND he's going to tip off the police commissioner who last year started listening. He is blowing up a mobster weapons depot so they have fewer guns on the street.

Bruce Wayne can help when the system is working. And Batman gets to work when the system does not.

[boitterfly]

ilya entering that hospital room sick to his stomach teeth ground to dust spirit crushed under the weight of their circumstances prepared to have an extremely difficult conversation and shane immediately hitting him with this

[vamptits]

why is it so hot. why is it so hot. I am being punished.

[vamptits]

I'm having my first 24/7 dom/sub relationship with the entirety of the fucking sun

[kerosene-in-a-blender]

I've been thinking a lot about how interesting of a parallel Julien's decision in Episode 30 is to his decision in the cold open in Episode 3. Because in both cases, Julien makes a choice to leave Teor to his fate rather than intervening and trying to save him, but the emotional tenor of the moments is vastly different.

In Episode 3's cold open, Julien learns that Teor knows the truth about his capture of Thjazi, emphasizing to him the fact that they were on opposite sides of the Falconer's Rebellion, and notices the coin purse on Teor's belt and what that means combined with the fact that Teor is traveling to the Mercanaud Coturier. And he actively chooses not to say anything, and simply continue going about his day, with zero compunctions about the fact that he is, through inaction, condemning this man to die. Flash forward to Episode 30 and Julien is faced with a choice again, he sees a vision of Teor and Cyd fighting the undead remains of his father, and his shadow is trying to convince him to go to them and help, as the straights they're in are dire. But he also has the gem cursing his sister Alba that he needs to ferry safely out of the manor, and the words of his mother Maya in his mind asking him not to die in a dark hole somewhere. And so he turns away, but not before acknowledging the brothers' struggle by wishing them good luck as he goes. Unlike in Episode 3, the weight of the choice he's making is both something Julien is aware of and something he is carrying; in Episode 3 he was blithe about his choice, in Episode 30 he seems almost mournful as he leaves Teor to die again. It's also a choice that's still on his mind afterwards, as he does mention to Occtis and Thimble that Teor is in danger. He knows what he left Teor and Cyd to and he is still struggling over having done that.

It's understandable that he chose the life of his sister over that of a near stranger, but he realizes that life was a loss, even in defiance of his own past choices regarding the life of that near stranger. He could not leave him to die coldly and without feeling, even though he'd done so in the past, and even though he was saving someone much more important to him in the process. And that, that he could not in the end coldly leave him to die, in many ways proves Teor's final thoughts correct: Sir Julien is a far better man than believes himself to be.

[avatarkasia-art]

the legend says that he's still waiting for a glass of wine

[jadeandquartzes]

[id: art of julien, drawn in shades of red, black, and white. he stands smirking with his cape and hair blowing dramatically in the wind behind him, his ungauntleted hand raised in the air. an arrow is drawn above it pointing down, with the label "wine goes here." end id.]

[ghostsjogging]

a prequel to the very first shuake/akeshu drawing i ever did.

[halzune]

I'm very angry. You should be.

CRITICAL ROLE EP 30: Here in the Dark

[screechfoxes]

FANGFEST 2026 DAY 4: COOL SHADES Isaac + sunglasses in (almost) every episode

[gremlininho]

[alphacrone]

pulling yourself up by your strap-on or whatever they say

[maestache]

A light still shines

[valhalla-dancehall]

it was a stroke of genius to give James T Kirk a bitchy flip phone in the 60's, truly amazing to watch him slam it shut like a pissed off socialite girl in 2000's teen shows

[noyoucantdonteventry]

[vixvigil]

it’s never a normal temperature anymore it’s always some fucking bullshit

[stickandthorn]

All for some damn gnomes, which is actually such a great story beat showing the cost of heroics. In trying to help a kind old man who helped them, Teor died. He didn’t die for a stupid reason, he died for one of the most genuinely noble reasons one could. It’s just too bad he rolled a 13 and not a 15.

[vykodlak]

of course, the best part of any character's corruption arc is their cool new outfit