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GodOfLaundryBaskets on ao3 recorded a podfic of one of my oneshots from tumblr!! give it a listen if you have 7 spare minutes, they have a great storytelling voice 🥰🥰🥰
I need people to understand my old woman yuri vision.
Elrond: Let's maybe not swear a binding oath to keep jewelry away from an Ainu at all cost. Let's maybe. Let's maybe just like, pinky promise to do our best. Trust me on this, you don't want to swear any oaths
I find this moment very interesting not just because of the Oath of Fëanor but because of what it says about oaths in general.
Because imagine that all of the Fellowship did swear to go with Frodo to Mount Doom. Legolas, Gimli, and Aragorn would have felt obligated to abandon Merry and Pippin to the orcs to go with Frodo; who knows how the Ring could have used that guilt to twist them. Gollum would never have had the same dynamic with Frodo, because he hated Aragorn. Gollum wouldn’t have been at Mount Doom to destroy the Ring. Aragorn wouldn’t have been there to take the Paths of the Dead. Minas Tirith would have fallen. There would have been no march on the Black Gate that cleared a path to Mount Doom by distracting Sauron.
“No oaths,” means: the world is larger and more complex than you know. You don’t know that the thing you’re swearing to do will turn out to be the right thing, the best thing, in every possible circumstance. Have the humility to recognize that complexity.
@thecryofthegulls you can't leave this in the tags.
#I love how so much of Tolkiens philosophy goes back to that point #the humility to recognize the complexity #or in other words that you might not hear or know the whole music
This one started as a screencap redraw and then this happened.
Marvel Swimsuit Special: Brand New Beach Day #1 (2026)
pin-up by Dan Panosian
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pirates of the caribbean has one million billion problems but I do appreciate that it consistently murders the men in elizabeth's life for the benefit of her character development instead of the other way around I know this is because she's one of like two and a half female characters in the series but I'll take any win from these movies thank you very much
she found this weird bug and refuses to put it back outside
And all of this at once.
The scar that I'm the reason for.
actually palpatine is so fucking funny. like his backstory is literally Politican Even More Evil Than Previously Thought he doesnt have like a tragic upbringing he wasnt raised by like a cult or anything hes just a rich dude from naboo who decided to be the most evil guy ever for kicks
Here’s the thing: authors know when they get a rec on an older story. There’s a telltale uptick of kudos (with a 10-15% comment rate if you’re lucky) in your digest email.
The thing is, there’s no way to know where these people are coming from. In the before, when fandom was more in the corners we all knew about, you could search LJ or a message board or whatever social bookmarking site we were using. You could join the community and participate.
You could get a little dopamine hit by seeing someone tell their friends why they loved your story.
Anymore, those recs are hidden in discords, or in tiktoks or instagram slideshows that you can’t search for. They’re inaccessible, not discoverable unless you’re already there. You may never know why 27 people left kudos on an old story of yours, what they liked and found in your writing. You just get the thumbs up and a kinda lonely feeling, cause these could be your people. You could like them, maybe. You could be friends.
But you’ll never find out why they stopped by, or what people are saying about you behind your back, and that’s sad.
So thank you to the people who still do public rec lists on this webbed site. You are my sunshine, and I’m appreciative of all of you.
If you are recced a fic and enjoyed it, leave a comment telling the author where you came from! We like to know!
Animatic again oughhh
people get so mad when you tell them that their lowbrow entertainment they enjoy is actually lowbrow
everyone wants their self-indulgent romantasy to be considered high literature and whatever new mainstream pop boy/girl to be treated as the next beethoven and their gay fluff show on streaming apps to be revolutionary art changing the world and like, they're not. and that's okay. i'm literally watching the stupidest show right now and it's fine. it doesn't have to be more.
there's also the argument of how pop culture used to be the trickle down from high culture for the longest time but now it's an ouroboros eating itself as access and willingness to engage with high culture have been systematically destroyed and diminished through the last decades so your popcorn flick moviemaker now only gets inspiration from other popcorn flicks when their foreparents used to actually read literally and see art of all kinds and your pop musicians used to listen to all sorts of new and old music rather than just their contemporaries/competition and maybe this absence of any sort of culture outside of our easy algorithms is why everyone's so defensive of what they passively consume and so attached to it as a part of their identity but that's a discussion for another day
this is such a fantastic and reassuring response
Two magicians made a blood oath when they were children that they would never harm each other. Now they are mortal enemies and have resorted to inconveniencing and annoying each other, knowing if they harm one another they’ll die.
I want to watch this show
ok but can you imagine if anakin and obi-wan did some sort of force pact like this
and it’s funnier if you realize that it was 100% ANAKIN’S IDEA because of course it was and obi-wan just went along with it despite the blatant attachment because of course he did
like lil snot nosed padawan anakin wanting to do a best friends forever ritual like a preteen messing around with a ouji board at a sleepover and obi-wan indulges him because he doesn’t know anakin dug up an ACTUAL force ritual from the archives instead of, like, a shitty livejournal page on the holonet because he knows anakin doesn’t have friends in the temple yet and he wants his padawan to feel secure
or even better newly-knighted anakin who is ALREADY extremely territorial about his master getting another padawan and won’t stop drunkenly weeping about it during his celebratory bar crawl so obi-wan (who is also soused because he thinks he’s no longer responsible for this overgrown manchild and is thus cutting loose in celebration instead of on a mission because he’s just that fed up) agrees to always be there for anakin as anakin is there for him or some such nonsense and anakin accidentally makes it into a binding cosmic pact because Chosen One
so on mustafar they’re just whaling on each other with their lightsabers set to the lowest sparring setting for, like, younglings (too bad anakin didn’t use that setting on THEM) and anakin just starts rage crying and obi-wan has to go sit down because he did NOT sign up for babysitting an emotionally unstable sith lord (”YES U DID MASTER U DID THIS TO ME–”) and the next 20 years are a ridiculous galaxy-spanning prank war that vader prioritizes over the ACTUAL star war
like obi-wan is this wise, awe-inspiring last samurai figure and vader is this TERRIFYING eldritch abomination of pain and rage and cruelty but the minute they see each other it’s like middle schoolers flipping each other off when the teacher can’t see them except they both 100% still go around killing people a lot
luke is like “well why the fuck can’t YOU kill him, ben” and yoda just starts cackling
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