Like a Tree Beside the River of Truth

Multi-fandom. Doctor Who, Marvel, LotR, HP, other fandoms. Currently very deep in Baldur's Gate 3 brainrot. Feel free to ask me about my OCs. Sidebar image: reyskywalkred.tumblr.com

[percyderologf]

"bears repeating" 🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻 <- thats the bears repeating

[dozydawn]

cat’s eye emerald

[aechlys]

Forbidden ibuprofen.

[prokopetz]

I think one of the problems with the way we talk about media in fandom is that we often say "canon" when we really mean "the text". What is and is not canon is at least partly a question of authority and merit, and will inevitably be litigated as such, but you're going to arrive at some very strange conclusions if you try to use the same tools to litigate what is and is not present in the text.

[prokopetz]

Sometimes you've gotta take a step back from questions of canonicity as such and ask more fundamental questions like "okay, that's a fascinating interpretation, but what actual words that physically appear on the page* do we have to support it?"

* or whatever the equivalent for the media at hand is

[remusjohnslupin]

MAKE ME CHOOSE ↳ @cestpasfaux24601 asked: frodo baggins or boromir

"He was a tall man with a fair and noble face, dark-haired and grey-eyed, proud and stern of glance. His garments were rich, and his cloak was lined with fur and he had a collar of silver in which a single white stone was set; his locks were shorn about his shoulders. On a baldric he wore a great horn tipped with silver that now was laid upon his knees."

[nateeseart]

[fashionablyfyrdraaca]

Hawke and Varric at Skyhold

[goth-queen]

[fadetouchedlurker]

Hello! Sorry if you’ve said it before but I’m a new fan of yours. Is there a canon reason why you don’t use your Lavellan’s first name? :)

I'm terribly flattered, and there is, actually. (My own canon, you understand.) I wrote this little snippet, and then just held onto it, so here it is. 🤗

He paused.

“Lavellan is your clan name,” he said. “I apologize for forgetting, lethallan, but I do not seem to know your given name.”

“That would be because I haven’t told you,” she said.

“Why?” he said. “If you do not care for your name…”

“No!” she said. “I think it’s lovely, it’s just… It’s Theravas. Theneras’aravas is the long form. I have enough trouble with people thinking I’m some chosen one without my name meaning…”

“Daydreamer, colloquially,” Solas finished. “To wander in dreams, in the Fade, literally. Given that you have walked physically in the Fade and survived…”

“I’m afraid people might take it as a sign, yes,” she said. “And it’s nice, to go by my clan name. To be theirs. For my vallaslin ceremony, there was a feast, and we told stories, and I was Lavellan, of clan Lavellan. I liked that. It makes me still feel like I'm a part of them.”

[starlitmyre]

[perverted-asexual]

I'm sorry I keep posting my tiktok comments but please. What does this mean. What do people THINK shipping is for anymore???

[scientistservant]

[pro-prin-prinny]

AO3 authors in the lab creating ships purely for research purposes:

[sarapsys]

Creating ships for the tax write-off

[fassina]

I do think there is a lot of straight romance stuff that feeds into heteronormative tropes which are harmful and patriarchal but I gotta be so real with you guys, I read “hetslop” now in so many contexts where it’s just about being a misogynist that it’s lost any meaning.

[nerdisma-deactivated20171202]

If I take one more step, I’ll be the farthest away from home I’ve ever been. Come on, Sam. Remember what Bilbo used to say: “It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no telling where you might be swept off to.”

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

lady lin daiyu by xudahua徐大花

[evalcea]

Dans la Bibliothèque

Auguste Toulmouche

oil on canvas, 1872

[lanaluuart]

Happy Pride

[heyitscuteway]

. ʙᴇ ᴡɪᴛʜ ᴍᴇ ᴀʟᴡᴀʏs - ᴛᴀᴋᴇ ᴀɴʏ ꜰᴏʀᴍ - ᴅʀɪᴠᴇ ᴍᴇ ᴍᴀᴅ! ᴏɴʟʏ ᴅᴏ ɴᴏᴛ ʟᴇᴀᴠᴇ ᴍᴇ ɪɴ ᴛʜɪs ᴀʙʏss, ᴡʜᴇʀᴇ ɪ ᴄᴀɴɴᴏᴛ ꜰɪɴᴅ ʏᴏᴜ ݁˖

[feminismandmedia]