Meridaring(s)

Emily.  Formerally: Meridaring.  20-something.  I cry about dalish elves and write small things sometimes.  Dragon Age, poetry reblogs, shitposting, and yelling about Devil May Cry for the foreseeable future, mostly.    

[fiveboos]

I’m not sorry

[happyheart-lonelysoul]

RUDE

[imaginingangels]

@prettypajamassuitedsoldier

[prettypajamassuitedsoldier]

[natasharomanoff]

must you finish a thought? is it not enough to

[memoryslandscape-deactivated202]

“It is hard for me to separate poetry from desire.”

— India Hixon Radfar, April 10 entry, from “Sublimating Paros” in Poet’s Notebook, New England Review (vol. 39, no. 1, 2018)

[insomniac-arrest]

where’s my ghibli moment?? Not the cute one, I mean the one where a wild girl tries to stab me in the neck and I dramatically mumble from the dirt ‘you’re beautiful’ up at her

[shift-shaping]

Local mage runs out of mana and just starts hitting shit with her staff

[whitepeopletwitter]

[turnpikeghosts]

“I have daughters and I would love for them to be able to dream of being equal and not having to fall in love with every bastard that shows up.”

— Guillermo del Toro on Pacific Rim (via 990000)

[noirandchocolate]

“Why does the third of the three brothers, who shares his food with the old woman in the wood, go on to become king of the country? Why does James Bond manage to disarm the nuclear bomb a few seconds before it goes off rather than, as it were, a few seconds afterwards? Because a universe where that did not happen would be a dark and hostile place. Let there be goblin hordes, let there be terrible environmental threats, let there be giant mutated slugs if you really must, but let there also be hope. It may be a grim, thin hope, an Arthurian sword at sunset, but let us know that we do not live in vain.”

— Terry Pratchett, “Let There Be Dragons” (A Slip of the Keyboard)

[accordionsrule-deactivated20240]

This is exactly why grimdark GoT-type fantasy does exactly nothing for me.

[karalora]

I swear I reblog this every damn time

[corezi]

what TLJ probably meant: poor Kylo Ren look he had a reason to come into the Dark Side his own uncle tried to kill him :’((( it’s also all Luke’s fault, blame him, he gave up on Ben so easy!!

what I, an intellectual, learned form TLJ: if Luke “there is still good in you dad Vader” Skywalker takes one look at Ben Solo’s mind and thinks this one is irredeemable then well, shit, I absolutely believe him

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

Kylo: luke tried to kill me when I was just a child!

What Rey Should have Said: And if he had then you wouldn’t have DESTROYED MULTIPLE PLANETS

Kylo: …..

Rey: YOU SLAUGHTERED BILLIONS

Kylo: …….

Rey: YOU MURDERED CHILDREN WITH A LASER SWORD

Kylo: okay but Luke…tried to kill me…

Rey: Because he saw your future where you murdered children and blew up planets

Kylo: Okay but if I WAS DEAD that would be BAD for me personally

Rey: But good for the billions of innocent people who you brutally murdered

Kylo: But…bad…for me…

So

TRAGIC

Rey: I don’t think you understand how this “Sad Backstory” thing works

[hyena-princess]

Not just that, but literally IMMEDIATELY after almost getting killed by Luke he goes and kills all of the other jedi-in-training who won’t follow him. His first action after almost being killed, because Luke thought he was going to be evil, was murdering people.

[avada-matata]

I still can’t find the logical connection here like why would that be your second step

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

Kylo Ren: Luke planned to kill me because he unfairly judged me as being a monster!

He was so convinced I was evil he was going to kill me!

SO I MURDERED A TON OF CHILDREN

And then joined a bunch of space fascists

And helped them blow up half a dozen planets

Rey: Well

you sure proved him wrong

[bartfargo]

Kylo Ren: If Han Solo were here, he would tell you how wrong you are

Rey: Well, isn’t that just piss-poor planning on your part?

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

All I can now think of is that bit from Simpsons

“I can’t help being the way I am!

When I was younger my parents were brutally murdered right before my eyes

BY ME”

[devilmaycamera]

[hotfriend]

cause im mr brightside

[safety-officer-barto-deactivate]

if this isn’t already how you dance to mr brightside you’re lying

[angrybell]

[la-laborista-republiko]

[talkingbirdguy]

Preach it

[argumate]

the human stress response seems so maladaptive!

[cargopantsman]

To be fair 99% of our evolutionary stress response was meant to deal with far more immediately conclusive scenarios than the tedious bullshit we put up with these days.

[argumate]

very very slow tigers are chasing me

[yellbug]

not to leave a serious comment on a silly post but one of the best pieces of advice I ever got about stress was to SLEEP but secondly, when overwhelmed, lay in a bed and intentionally hold all your muscles clenched. clench EVERYTHING. hold it for a few seconds, then let go. It tricks your animal fight-or-flight monkey brain into thinking it had, and won, a fight, and some of the stress response will leave you

[creekfiend]

#turn a slow tiger into a fast tiger with this fucked up trick

[swingsetindecember]

in movies, when a scientist is held hostage and is forced to make a bomb or virus, like my guy, those villains don’t know shit about science. just make a gumball machine, my dude

[january-summers]

eighth grade science fair volcano, but fancy looking

[swingsetindecember]

 i just want once where the villain is like, you are too late, i detonated the device and instead of doom and gloom it is just confetti sparklers with abba’s waterloo playing and the scientist is like, bitch you thought 

[tanoraqui]

every time a scientist gets kidnapped to build a terrible weapon, they think about just bullshitting it, but then a tiny voice in the back of their mind says, but don’t you want to see if you can? don’t you want to laugh madly as you show them all? don’t you want to just go feral?

[thatmadscientistbitch]

Honestly when’s the next time you’ll get this kind of grant funding?

[writing-shitposts]

Villain: You need to build the Weapon of Doom and I will get you everything you need and -

The scientist: Wait, everything?

Villain: Yes, I -

The scientist: All the latest equipment?  The fancy software?

Villain: Yes, I will spare no expense in my attempt to -

The scientist: Can I be first author on the paper?

Villain: ….uh, sure?

The scientist: Sweet!  I’m in.

[bookgeekconfessions]

Eye opening, isn’t it? 

[probablywolves]

Some asshat: YOu JusT doNT liKe EnDgAMe ThOR bEcauSe hE DoeSNT haVe ABs

Me: Actually, i didn’t like Endgame Thor because he was a character suffering from PTSD and addiction and Marvel treated him (and these conditions) like a joke. Fat jokes, alcoholic jokes, jokes about panic attacks, one of which was made when Thor broke down at the prospect of having to relive the day where his mother was KILLED. Thor was reduced from ‘The Strongest Avenger’ who lost his family and his honor to a fat burnout who was mocked for crying when being forced to time travel back to one of the most traumatic days of his life. Thor was not given a satisfying character arc, and his suffering was turned into comic relief.