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Kat/Katti. fandom blog of @papersky-pencilstars. (questioning aro) ace. i like to talk about headcanons and microanalyze my favorite scenes. Currently head over heels in hbowar. Icon  is William Dukeman (aka the world's worst watch thief) by the wonderful @onelungmcclung

[papersergeant-pencilsoldier]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 5/5 Fandom: The Pacific (TV), Pacific Rim (Movies) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Merriell "Snafu" Shelton & Eugene Sledge Characters: Merriell "Snafu" Shelton, Eugene Sledge, Romulus Valton Burgin, Hamm (The Pacific), Lena Riggi, Jay De L'Eau Series: Part 1 of The Pacific Rim AU Summary:

When Merriel "Snafu" Shelton loses his best friend and co-pilot in a ferocious Kaiju attack, he never wants to set foot in a Jaeger again, but their enemy is getting bolder, the pilots are getting desperate; and no one goes home until the fight is over.

Complete work is now up! 

[onelungmcclung]

"the Band of Brothers universe" jesus christ

[papersergeant-pencilsoldier]

What

[tired-fandom-ndn]

I have a major soft spot for queerplatonic rships where at least one party is actually able to be attracted to the other. Queerplatonic ships where it's not "I would be in love with you if I was allo/gay/straight/bi/etc" but instead "I could be in love with you but I'm not because that's not the right relationship for either us and we're unbelievably happy with what we have."

Queerplatonic relationships are always treated as second string to romantic relationships, with an implication of "this relationship would be romantic if it could be", and that sucks. They're their own relationship, completely distinct from romance, and deserve to be treated as such.

[daggersandarrows]

#see also: one party *is* fully in love with the other but doesn't need them to reciprocate#because they love them for who they are not who they might otherwise be#and they know the other party loves them in return in their own way#and the point of the relationship is loving each other fully and learning to hear a thousand ways that 'I love you' can be said#even if romance and sex are nowhere near the picture (via @aparrotandaqrow )

sorry i know you literally just reblogged this from me but i HAD to add these tags ;_; yes yes yes

[binary-bird]

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[swsource]

#married

[sindar-princeling]

In Fellowship, the Ring's themes recur in similar orchestrations, keys and styles, suggesting the Ring in its dormant state. The Two Towers allows the Ring material to change in degrees - a weightier orchestration here, a connection to Gollum there. But The Return of the King marks the point at which the score's preoccupation with the Ring's themes turns to obsession.

- Doug Adams, The Music of the Lord of the Rings Films

(I love the way this book describes the score of these movies so much)

[barnesdjarin]

BUCKY BARNES WARDROBE APPRECIATION ↪ marvel cinematic universe (2011—) [insp.]

[aceofwhump]

Something for your consideration: Cradling the head, could be to provide comfort as part of a hug, or because the character is too weak to support it on their own etc. (Bonus extra angsty version if the character is already passed saving and this little bit of tenderness is all they can do for them now.)

This ask inspired by your gif of 9-1-1's Athena helping Eddie to sit (I think after the bridge collapse, I watch the show through gifs on tumblr).

I LOVE IT!!!! I LOVE IT SOOOOOO MUCH!!!! Oh my god you have no idea how much I utterly adore this trope. I wish it was used more often because it's so soft and wonderful and I get whumperflies any time it happens. It's like my favorite comfort trope. I include it in my #hand in hair tag as well as the #helped to drink tag and highly recommend perusing it for some good examples of it. God I LOVE IT! SO MUCH!

you meant this gif yes? God it's good. It's such a small whump moment but any time it happens I go feral. I need to create a specific tag for it cause i'm now realizing it's kinda lumped into other tags.

[thewayisset]

The Last Patrol

[ao3commentoftheday]

I've been noticing myself doing this recently, so I figured I'd put it out there in case someone else needs the reminder too:

You don't need to diminish yourself in order to make others feel good about themselves.

You can compliment someone else without insulting yourself. In fact, demeaning yourself will probably make it more difficult for the other person to accept the compliment.

You also don't need to disparage your own abilities in order to give someone else confidence. You can be a capable person and support other capable people.

Don't tear yourself down to build someone else up.

[ao3commentoftheday]

Just going to put some examples here, in case anyone needs them:

Compliment: You write such great angst! I was in tears after that last chapter. Compliment + self-insult: I could never write angst like you. Mine never has that gut-punch that yours does.

Compliment: You look gorgeous! That's such a pretty colour on you. Compliment + self-insult: I wish I had your fashion sense. I just wear whatever smells clean.

Compliment: This piece is awe-inspiringly good! How long did it take you?? Compliment + self-insult: Your art is so much better than mine. I could practice for a million years and never get close to this.

The thing about insulting yourself while complimenting someone else is that you might think that you're making your compliment sound that much better because you're increasing the distance between their level and yours. But what you're actually doing is refocusing your compliment away from them and onto you and your insecurities.

Maybe they'll notice and maybe they won't, but you will. Eventually, all of the insults you've given yourself will make you feel bad about that other person's skills and now, instead of a mentor or a colleague you have someone you're jealous of. Or at least, that's how it tends to go for me.

Keep the compliment focused on that person and their skills or presentation or process etc. And if you want to learn from them, ask them for advice. It can be hard to notice when you're falling into this kind of habit - I thought I'd gotten past it but here I am again - so just do the best you can ❤️

[christophernolan]

[ruegracieuse]

“The folklore among knitters is that everything handmade should have at least one mistake so an evil sprit will not become trapped in the maze of perfect stitches. A missed increase or decrease, a crooked seam, a place where the tension is uneven - the mistake is a crack left open to let in the light. The evil sprit I want to usher out of my knitting and my life is at once a spirit of laziness and of over-achieving. It’s that little voice in my head that says, I won’t even try this because it doesn’t come naturally to me and I won’t be very good at it.”

—

Kyoko Mori, ‘Yarn’

That last phrase especially - “I won’t even try this because it doesn’t come naturally to me and I won’t be very good at it.” It really is like some kind of all-encompassing evil spirit sometimes.

(via blancheparish)

[outofangband]

Sindarin elven sea related words :)

I promise I’ll make other kinds of edits too these are just really fun to make for me

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[valtsv]

the one experience that unites all 90s and early 2000s kids is experiencing at least one work of fiction with a deceptively adorable illustration of cute animals on the cover who live in societies with an established political system, hierarchy of leadership and culture and are driven from their homes by human activity and/or engage in violent conflicts with other animals in similar communities that lead to many of the characters’ brutal deaths, which are described in graphic detail and which left you briefly emotionally traumatized by being confronted with the concept of your own fragile mortality before you were 10

[valtsv]

the 4 horsemen

[valtsv]

it has been brought to my attention that this was an ENTIRE GENRE of children’s fiction for some reason

[teomodo]

porky pine goes online

[teomodo]

now in color

[chamomilegeode-deactivated20221]

did you know that, besides the apple of knowledge and the pomegranate of life, there’s another mystic fruit, one that grants you a sense of purpose?

yeah, it’s the raisin d’être

[thebluewizardsaregay]

apparently i’m a millennial woman

[alatariel-galadriel]

I mean, yeah, valid! but but but I also want to add on the fact that lotr AGGRESSIVELY rejects the “grimdark” and “gritty” settings that is so prevalent in fantasy (and also in general) right now, because I physically can not shut up about it

It is hope and love and compassion that saves each character individually, and because of that, the world. Frodo fails in the end, but his acts of compassion from earlier in the story save the day. And even as the world is saved, it is acknowledged that Frodo failed—without judgement, without blame. He fails, and he is still loved.

And like what can happen in the real world, he is still irrevocably changed by his trauma. But there is still hope—he has to leave, but he leaves with the promise of healing, and the promise that his ever-faithful Sam will follow.

Aragorn, Boromir, Frodo, Sam; each and every one of the characters are driven by their love of the people around them and their hope for the future. They cling to that love and hope throughout their trials, and that bears them through.

Of course people are watching it for comfort!!!! Lotr is eternally consistent in its promise, which Sam articulates so clearly in The Two Towers: “Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines, it’ll shine out the clearer.”

Things are dark and awful and terrible, but it will not be that way forever. That is the promise of LOTR. A promise of hope, and the reminder that it is love and compassion—for our friends, for our families, for the strangers we’ve never even met—that will save us in the end.