The End is The Beginning

Big ATLA fan, and Trollhunters fan, and Andor fan, and EPIC: The Musical fan - I'm a fan of a lot

[madrone33]

Short poem I wrote at, like, 1 am lol. Might add more verses later :)

Oh Ignorance!

How simple it is to live there!

To walk those halls with footfalls steady and sure

Expecting to see what you know

Seeing what you know to expect

And finding both are true

For though you walk the floors

Your eyes don’t linger

And you don’t see

That the images on the walls

Are drawn atop glass

That what you stand upon

Is only there because you haven’t looked down

But you cannot see

For you do not look

And why would you

When you already know what to see

And already see what you know

And so you walk the halls with a mind steady and sure

Finding only the simplicity

Of what you know and expect

[sisterofthesouth]

and so life went on in deltora, and life was good.

[disgruntledexplainer]

sometimes when I think back on the Deltora Quest series I am struck by how mind-bogglingly PETTY the shadow lord is. He has basically infinite magical power and is immortal, and he spends his life

-infesting the city of Hira with giant rats and traumatising it's people so much they leave, build a new city, and form an entire RELIGION around avoiding rats, all because the city was the site of his first military defeat

-turning Withick Mire into a garbage dump to spite the artist and author Withick, despite the fact that Withick was long dead

-making Doran Dragonfriend immortal and trapping him on an island as the "guardian" of an object he was trying to destroy, fully conscious of his fate but unable to do anything about it and constantly in pain

-nearly exterminating the Jalis people completely, and keeping the dozen or so remaining tribesman as slave gladiators, because they were the only tribe to resist his second invasion with arms.

-nearly exterminating the dragons because an emerald one once breathed on him

-creating magical devices that slowly kill the crops of deltora so that even if the people throw of his chains they will still starve to death, and making it so that if the devices are destroyed it triggers a "grey goo" event that will wipe out ALL life in Deltora, starting with the cities of Hira and Noradz.

-deliberately starving the people of Del by cutting off their contact with the outside lands and branding all the fruit orchards and farms with his brand so that anyone who enters them will be executed

-enslaving the winners of the Rithmere Games and spreading the rumor that they abandoned their people the moment that they got the prize money so that all their friends and family will hate their memory

-weaving a magical illusion over the sun and moon in the shadowlands so that it looks like they are covered by his brand, so that none of his slaves can even look at the sky without seeing his mark

-turning his own homeland into a blasted heath devoid of most life except flesh-eating snails and forcing them to harvest mutagenic (and probably carcinogenic) clay or face death, all because they rejected him as king over a thousand years ago

-trying to send millions of giant flesh-eating bats to deltora to eat everyone alive for having the gall to resist his rule

he is the king of all haters, truly a miserable old cloud of soot and spite.

[sisterofthesouth]

feel so bad for sharn in series 2. you just lost your husband. your teenage king son is struggling to adjust to his role. he has survived no less than 3 assassination attempts in the past weeks. you yourself just survived months of torture and imprisonment. you are helping lead a very recently un-occupied country and people line up at your door night and day for aid. you do what you can to help. your son the king runs off and goes missing for days. you become the de facto king in his absence. you gotta watch out for marilen. you gotta put up with josef. you gotta deal with jinks lying and stealing and dying on your floor. (doom is helping with this stuff too but at least he and lindal get to run around the os-mine hills for a minute to let off steam.) your friend had a evil worm in her brain and tried to kill you and died in your arms. an invasion of worm-controlled people could happen at any day. it might have already happened. your son the king is still missing. he might be dead. probably not, but you don’t know. you are approximately 37 years old and ibuprofen hasn’t been invented yet

[paper-lilypie]

simon falls first AND falls harder btw, grace just trips over him and doesn’t get up

[ricky-tiki-tah]

I love how the biggest space guys on tumblr right now, Dr. Captain Ryland Grace and Simon the Convict, are played by Mark “send me to space I don’t care if I don’t come back” Iplier, and Ryan “oh my god please don’t send me to space. Why are you sending me to space?!?” Gosling.

I just think that’s hilarious

[void-of-existence]

HE KNOWS OH MY GODS

I SCREAMED ALOUD

[ironwoman359]

People being like “what’s he doing in our house” like he hasn’t been trolling his tumblr fans ON TUMBLR specifically since at least 2016

It’s not his house, but he’s broken in so many times that we’ve stopped calling the police on him 😂

[lum1natriiix]

happy iron lung day to all who celebrate

[broken-sonnets]

Watching Andor as Tony Gilroy intended to

[briannyssey]

im such a fan of how Andor painted revolution as a movement of a million shitty, desperate, deserving-better people throwing their bodies on the gears, the machinery, and the levers of power. One way out and it might not even be your way out. Maybe there was never a way out for you. But you helped carve the way for everyone behind you, and isn't that worth everything?

[lachouettefr]

What I love the most about that is that it's fucking real.

Heros and martyrs are just stories, narratives built to make rebellions look cleaner, better, greater than they are.

Rebellions are full of love and hope, but also full of desperation and fear. They are messy, dirty, and made of broken people whose only other choice is often death, so why not die trying?

Rogue One was also real for this, a team of criminals, refugees who had lost everything, broken people whose names aren't the most likely to be remembered. Andor kept that part, developed it and you can tell the writers know how rebellions work.

You get crimes and terrorism, ideology, some people like Luthen who are ready to sacrifice anyone as long as it shows how bad the Empire is. It's not "morally good" because it can't be.

(yes, rebellions are always seen as criminals and terrorists, you can't escape that, and even if you were a pacifist don't believe that spreading ideas that defy authority is not seen as a crime or terrorism apology - and propaganda)

And I'm starting to lose my train of thoughts but this is what I like so much about this show (and Rogue One), because all those things have been part of Star Wars since the beginning but the target audience being different allows for a more explicit content.

And I am one of those people who liked that the prequel trilogy had "boring political scenes" I just think the whole thing could have been done better with someone to reign Lucas in. Andor did that perfectly (I may have my complaints about some aspects of it because there's no work on Earth you can't criticise, but it's a freaking good work)

[colleybri]

Love this addition, previous

[tuherrus]

you don't even have a dog

[kateammann]

Happy Pride Month!!! 🌈💕🌼✨

[colleybri]

Pride Month missions

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[nikoisme]

scrapped painting,, thought i might as well post it

[madrone33]

On the surprisingly similar themes of EPIC: The Musical and The Hunchback of Notre Dame

MAN OR MONSTER:

A baby? 

It's just an infant, it's just a boy...

No- a monster!

If you don't end him now, you'll have no one left to save!

Look after him? Me?

I could raise him as my own!

What makes a monster and what makes a man?

When does a man become a monster?

Beata Maria, you know I am a righteous man. Of my virtue I am justly proud…

Pride is a damsel in distress, hiding away where only I can undress her…

The sun caught in her raven hair is blazing in me out of all control!

When does a candle become a blaze?

Choose me or your pyre! Be mine or you will burn!

Want to save your men from the fire? Show me that you're willing to burn!

It's not my fault! If in God's plan, he made the devil so much stronger than a man!

Forgive me, I'm just a man!

SOMEDAY:

All my life, I watch them as I hide up here alone, hungry for the histories they show me...

All my life, I'd have died to know you. Days and nights I wish that I could show you...

All my life, I memorize their faces, knowing them as they will never know me...

'Cause I'm stuck with your stories, but no clue who you are...

All this time I've been certain that my life would be spent alone, but now I'm here beside you...

Twenty years we've wandered, but today you're not alone...

We've done it, Esmeralda! Beaten them back! Esmeralda? You are home!

My son, I'm finally home!

Someday, when we are wiser, when the world's older, when we have learned...

What if there's a world where we don't have to live this way?

I pray someday we may yet live to live and let live...

I can't help but wonder what this world could be if we all held each other with a bit more empathy.

Someday, life will be fairer, need will be rarer, greed will not pay...

I still believe in goodness, I still believe that we can be kind...

And though I will die long before that morning comes, I'll die while believing still, it will come when I am gone...

If that world exists, it's far away from here, it's one I'll have to miss, for it's far beyond my years.

Let it come one day, someday, soon...

You might live forever, so you can make it be...

The world is cruel, the world is ugly...

So close your heart, the world is dark...

But there are times, and there are people, when the world is not.

We can light up the world, here's how to start: greet the world with open arms!

[kyoukorpse]

i know rocky still technically got to play with the measuring tape in the movie but the way it happened in the book always makes me smile when I read it. :]

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[marf244]

Grace sketches