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one of the horse shows my mom goes to had a ‘red carpet’ theme, so she commissioned me to edit people’s horses on to movie posters of their choosing. here are the results.
there’s no way to make a horse pun with ‘shrek’.
This is- legendary!!
“I will tell you something funny. My voice sounds like I dragged my vocal chords down a dirt road and then doused it in Jack Daniels and mentholated Kools. Sometimes when I go to play a princess, I’ll get about three lines in and they’ll say, ‘Stop. Do you mind reading for the villain?’ That’s what was the magic of doing Princess Kida for Disney. At that time, we hadn’t really seen a princess with balls like Kida had. Now, princesses have become so much more liberated, thank god.”
– Cree Summer, the voice of Kida in Disney’s Atlantis: The Lost Empire
MOTHER OF GOD
ARE YOU FUCKIN
OH GOD ITS BACK
DEAR GOD THIS IS ONE OF MY FAVORITE TUMBLR POSTS IN EXISTENCE.
YOU THINK JUST THE NOISE IS FUNNY AND FITS WITH THE GIF REALLY WELL
BUT THEN
THEN
THE LYRICS START
seriously i have almost crashed my car into a telephone pole, becuase I suddenly thought of this post and started laughing uncontrollably
Hero Rats
@jitterbugjive
THEY’RE SO CUTE AND GOOD AND SMART AND HAVE JOB
I’ll always reblog hero rats!
this same species is also trained to identify tuberculosis in samples by smell, meaning they can test for TB at a rapid rate with a high accuracy :)
The organization that trains the rats is APOPO
You can sponsor a rat and you will get adorable personalized emails telling you how well “your” rat is doing! I did this for my sister a few years ago and she’s still getting emails about Martok the HeroRat’s mine-clearing successes and called it the best gift ever.
SPONSOR A RAT
Here is the page for a pop rat sponsorship!
A time lapse of a cat through the day:
I relate so much to this…
@astro-traveller
I can see me on this video
Has to be one of the best passages of a book I’ve read in a long time
it’s not an understatement to say I think about this all the time
THE WITCHER, 1.06
HE DOESN'T BLINK AS HE KISSES HER
Geralt's age when things happen (based on Netflix)
Age 27: Beginning of the Great Cleansing, elves are slaughtered by humans
Age 32: Yennefer is born
Age 53: Renfri is born
Age 62: Jaskier is born
Age 71: Butcher of Blaviken. Renfri is killed by Geralt at age 18 (18! she deserved better)
Age 80: Meets Jaskier(18) and captured by elves while hunting for the Devil of Posada. "Toss A Coin To Your Witcher" composed.
Age 83: Breaks the Striga Curse. (The Striga is 14-years-old.) Meets Triss Merigold.
Age 89: Claims Law of Surprise (I'll accept his stupidity charges on count of being old).
Age 90: Ciri is born
Age 96: Becomes master of the Djinn. Meets Yennefer.
Age 102: Dragon Hunt. Breaks up with Yennefer and Jaskier on the mountain.
Age 103: Cintra falls at the hand of Nilfgaard. Meets Ciri(13).
Notes: Interesting how Geralt runs into two different teens(Renfri and Jaskier) who both inadverdently cement his public persona. Renfri's death makes him the Butcher of Blaviken and Jaskier's song makes him the hero Witcher.
dumbledore only leaving harry, ron, and hermione plot-significant stuff in his will is fake, he’d also leave them like a rubber chicken and a small jar with nothing in it, just to make the ministry waste time inspecting them
“i am a monument to all your sins” is such a fucking raw line for a villain it’s amazing that it came from halo, a modernish video game, and not some classical text or mythos
classic texts have nothing on the crazy people come up with in modern times tbh
“I survived because the fire inside me burned brighter than the fire around me.”
– Joshua Graham, Who Is A Fallout New Vegas NPC, Something Most People Throwing This Quote Around Don’t Realize
“If the world chooses to become my enemy, I will fight like I always have.”
– Shadow the Hedgehog in what is widely considered one of if not the single worst game in the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise
this is the source for this text and it haunts me on a regular basis
“Pick a god and pray.”
-Fredrick from Fire Emblem Awakening
Huh, it’s almost like art isn’t just fine art…
this is my addition to this ever growing list of raw quotes originating from unexpected sources
#discovering that the profound is lurking behind the absurd#just waiting for the chance to peek through like sunlight through the clouds#is one of the best things in life once you start to notice it
this is a beautiful way to put it and i’m gonna cry abt it
This, quite aggressively, is my shit.
The unholy trinity
There’s a lovely old English myth that if someone who truely loved and trusted the werewolf called it by name that it would turn back to human.
Others include throwing their human clothes at it and it’d turn back but that’s a bit less romantic
#ok i understand ppl would take the romancey route here#but imagine the werewolf’s mother#or grandmother#some wizened old woman or middle aged woman#with wrinkles or hands toughened from years of labor#just going out into the woods#where even the men with axes won’t go anymore#and facing down the ravening beast#and saying#it’s time to come home
I actually like the “throwing clothes at it” better cause now I’m picturing Grandma stomping out of the house at 3 AM in her slippers, arms full of clothes and facing down this horrible, snarling beast.
And then she just starts flinging clothes at it like “GODDAMN IT JEFFERY IT IS THREE IN THE FUCKING MORNING YOU GET YOUR PANTS ON AND COME BACK INSIDE RIGHT THIS MINUTE”
I love both these versions.
I think we need to talk about the under appreciated Window Seat fandom
I mean really? With the book shelves?
It’s like an alcove of happiness.
You want a whole row of individual seats? Fine, here you go.
Or how about a whole window bed for those snugglers out there.
Curtains.. Guys this one has curtains.
Seriously? This is basically a glass cube of bliss.
You can even get them with corners! Not enough corners? Okay.
Ba-BAM!! Corners for cocooning.
There’s also the Roman-esque themed seat for the historians out there.
If you don’t want to snuggle up in blankets with hot cocoa in this then I don’t even know why you’re on this planet. I mean dat stonework.
This one’s an entire rectangle. Just imagine all the cuddling that could happen in there. It’s practically a fortress.
This one’s fucking curved okay? it’s just chillin, up of the ground, and curved for your lounging convenience.
don’t like rectangles or square? Okay. Have a fucking trapezoid seat.
Quotes from the Harry Potter Books [28/50]
Can you imagine what it must have been like growing up for George and Fred. Notice how I said George and Fred because we always call them ‘Fred and George’ as if they were one person - just like their mum. Their own family couldn’t tell them apart. They didn’t have perfect grades like Percy. They weren’t as cool as Bill or Charlie. They weren’t the youngest male like Ron and they obviously weren’t female like Ginny. So they created a niche for themselves - The Pranksters. Because if people weren’t even going to bother to tell them apart then they were going to make people pay attention by pranking people and acting out. Then some scruffy looking boy in their younger brother’s year (ickle Harrikins) can tell them apart.
There’s a reason George Weasley and Fred Weasley never pranked Harry Potter - because he’s the only one that bothered to try.
I SWEAR I WILL REBLOG THIS EVERY TIME BECAUSE OF THE TEARS WELLING UP IN MY SOUL
I like to thing that George and Fred thought of Harry as their little brother too way before Harry had any romantic interest in Ginny.
Harry was also the one who invested in their niche fully, rather than being annoyed by it, he celebrated them for it. That’s why they gave him the Marauders Map and then he gave them the Triwizard gold:
‘ ‘Take it,’ he said, and he thrust the sack into George’s hands. ‘What?’ said Fred, looking flabbergasted. ‘Take it,’ Harry repeated firmly. ‘I don’t want it.’ ‘You’re mental,’ said George, trying to push it back at Harry. ‘No, I’m not,’ said Harry. ‘You take it, and get inventing. It’s for the joke-shop.’ ‘He is mental,’ Fred said, in an almost awed voice. … ‘Harry – thanks,’ George muttered, while Fred nodded fervently at his side’
It’s why they agreed to his request Ron get some new dress robes out of it. They’re clever not just funny ‘they always get really good marks’ but as OP says they’re not as good as Percy, Bill or Charlie. They helped Ron get him out of the Dursleys:
‘But you can’t magic me out either –’ ‘We don’t need to,’ said Ron, jerking his head towards the front seats and grinning. ‘You forget who I’ve got with me.’
They get him into Hogsmede , they (unknowingly) helped the trio break into Umbridge’s ministry office. They liked Harry for himself
‘This is all your fault,’ George said angrily to Wood. ’“Get the Snitch or die trying” – what a stupid thing to tell him!‘’
And cheered him up when things went wrong, such as Harry being accused of being the Heir of Slytherin
‘They went out of their way to march ahead of Harry down the corridors, shouting, ‘Make way for the heir of Slytherin, seriously evil wizard coming through …’ Percy was deeply disapproving of this behaviour. ‘It is not a laughing matter,’ he said coldly. ‘Oh, get out of the way, Percy,’ said Fred, ‘Harry’s in a hurry.’ ‘Yeah, he’s nipping off to the Chamber of Secrets for a cup of tea with his fanged servant,’ said George, chortling ‘
Or when Ron and Hermione were made Prefects and Harry felt left out:
‘Yeah,’ said Fred slowly. ‘Yeah, you’ve caused too much trouble, mate. Well, at least one of you’s got their priorities right.’ He strode over to Harry and clapped him on the back while giving Ron a scathing look.
They tricked Dudley because they know how crappy Harry’s home is:
‘We didn’t give it to him because he was a Muggle!’ said Fred indignantly. ‘No, we gave it to him because he’s a great bullying git,’ said George
And of course:
‘Give her hell from us, Peeves.’ And Peeves, who Harry had never seen take an order from a student before, swept his belled hat from his head and sprang to a salute as Fred and George wheeled about to tumultuous applause from the students below and sped out of the open front doors into the glorious sunset.
Harry frequently heard students saying things like, ‘Honestly, some days I just feel like jumping on my broom and leaving this place,’ or else, ‘One more lesson like that and I might just do a Weasley.’
Harry’s relationships with George and Fred are some of my favourites
Still my favorite story from the Lord of the Rings set: Viggo Mortensen bonded so much with the horse he rode in the movies that after filming was over he bought it from its owner. If that doesn’t warm your heart I don’t know what could.
don’t forget that he also bought arwen’s horse for her stunt rider when she couldn’t afford it awww
#also don’t forget that for the rohirrim they put a call out for locals #bring a horse show us you can ride it and get a part in the battle scenes #and one women went out roped a wild horse and rode for a few days to set #and got to be a rider of rohan
also sort of relevant viggo also bought the horse that costarred with him in the movie hidalgo and subsequently took the horse (tj) with him to the red carpet premier.
Also most of the Riders of Rohan are actually women because when they put out that call mostly women showed up with their horses and the costume team just stuck beards on them.
if this isn’t the best post i don’t
So you’re saying the entire Rohan army could have killed the Witch-King of Angmar.
Witch King: No living man can kill me!
several thousand riders of Rohan: *rip their fake beards off*
Witch King: Oh fuck…
*screeches* We aRE NO MEN
Why does Rayla fall in love with Callum so soon after meeting him?
Ooh there are so many good answers to this question, anon! @raayllum has a pretty solid answer to it here (basically it’s that Callum is the first person to love her this unconditionally in her life). Many others have also given their ideas as to why Rayla quickly fell in love with him, so there are great answers to this question out there.
But here are my thoughts as to why Rayla loves Callum:
Because he makes her feel safe.
Her whole life, Rayla has never really been allowed to be vulnerable. For instance, she wouldn’t admit that she’s afraid of water because:
This whole show-no-fear mentality is a rather toxic aspect of Moonshadow culture. Basically, Rayla was never allowed to give voice to her doubts, fears, and insecurities. If she did, she would be judged, ridiculed, shamed.
And in the most extreme circumstances, punished.
We never see Runaan or even Ethari talk to Rayla about how she felt in light of her parents’ alleged betrayal. I doubt they ever did, since Rayla seemed to be more comfortable just pretending they’re dead.
For her, it seems much more natural to just bury up those feelings and feelings of worthlessness and failure, than confronting them head on. What’s interesting is that bottling up these emotions actually make Moonshadow elves less effective as warriors; because Rayla was afraid to confront her mistake in letting Marcos live, the assassins had bound themselves to killing Harrow and Ezran before they realized they were discovered, thus committing them to a suicidal mission.
But in general, Rayla doesn’t want to admit when she’s feeling vulnerable because she thinks it makes her weak in the eyes of her peers.
And all her life, she’s never felt safe to admit what she was actually feeling.
Until Callum.
Suddenly there was this boy in her life who was always upfront about how he was feeling, even admitting that he felt he was so bad at everything the very first day they met.
Here was a kid who never hides his fears, doubts, and insecurities. And, in spite of having his own feelings of worthlessness, she saw that his vulnerability actually gave him strength of his own, pushing him to commit greater and greater feats of bravery, up to and including yeeting himself off the pinnacle in a desperate bid to save someone he loves.
Moreover, he encouraged her to share her feelings.
But most importantly of all, when she felt raw and broken, he never judged her for feeling this way.
His message was clear—she’s not weaker for feeling this way and in fact, he insists, she can be both amazing and feel this way.
In a way, he even argues that her vulnerabilities are actually what make her stronger:
Callum: “That was brave, Rayla.”
Rayla: “No, I already told you, I’m afraid of water.”
Callum: “I know, that’s why doing what you did was so heroic.”
Eventually, he finally rubs off on her, and she becomes willing to admit how hard it was for her just to be in the antechamber.
And it’s because she’s figured out that, around Callum, it’s safe for her to share this. Safe to be vulnerable, and to be herself, because he is the first person who has ever given her a space where that is possible.
Moreover, her feeling safe around him has a physical component to it as well—whenever her life is in danger, it’s Callum who saves her.
Whether it’s from natural threats—like an avalanche or river monster—or from others—such as Claudia and Soren— Callum is there for her. Even if he has to use unethical means like Dark Magic, he’ll do it if it means he can protect her. Even when he knows she’ll be angry with him for it. Even when he knows it might cost him his life.
Now, Rayla protects Callum and Ezran on their journey, but the important difference is that, as a trained warrior, Rayla probably never expects someone to jump in and save her. He’s not a fighter yet, and is still new to being a mage, but he’s willing to push the limits of what he knows when she needs his help.
So much so that, on the pinnacle, he takes this a step further and for the first time leaps to almost certain death and risks his own life to save hers against impossible odds.
When someone does all of this for you,
When someone makes you feel safe both physically and emotionally.
When someone supports and stands by you no matter how you’re feeling.
When someone will value you no matter how broken you may feel.
When someone will break through boundaries in their abilities just to protect you.
What else could you possibly want to say to them but:
Why does Callum fall in love with Rayla?
Aah I should have expected to be asked this! Especially after answering the opposite (why Rayla falls in love with Callum) here.
So, the show does lay out how much Callum admires Rayla’s heroism, to the point that when he explains to Nyx all the ways Rayla is a hero, he ends up basically getting lost in her eyes and kissing her.
Many others have touched on how Callum falls in love with Rayla largely due to her having those heroic qualities—brave, fearless, caring, strong—that Callum admires.
Something I’ll add (before getting to my larger point) is that the reason her heroism is so important to Callum is because these are the qualities he wished he himself had as well.
When we first meet Callum, we see him drawing and vocalizing a picture of him heroically taking down a monster, which gives us the first taste of Callum’s sense of inferiority and desire to be someone cool and amazing.
We see him go about his day trying and failing to be good at fighting and heroically protecting the King against Moonshadow assassins. Basically, this first episode and a half lays out just how frustrated he is that he can’t protect those he loves, or in his words:
But when he meets Rayla, she personifies essentially all those things he wished he was: she’s fast, she’s skilled, she’s brave, she’s selfless.
She’s the hero he wants to be. Of course, her character is a lot more complicated than that (and I describe that here). But at first blush, this is what Callum sees.
It’s one of the reasons why, in 2x07, we see him drawing Rayla:
He’s already starting to fall for her, and he’s worried about her safety. And he’s drawing her to give himself some comfort. But another reason why he’s drawing Rayla posing heroically or leaping marvelously into danger to save the day is because he wishes he could be that heroic too.
But all of this only gets us halfway to answering your question. He could, of course, have just seen her as a role model or an inspirational friend. Why does he end up falling for her?
The reason why Callum falls in love with Rayla is because she sees him.
When Callum first opens up to Rayla, he tells her that:
Callum is described as an “awkward fit for a prince.” He’s not good at anything traditionally associated with being a prince, such as sword-fighting, archery, horseback riding, and military strategy. In spite of that, he’s expected to keep grinding at it because, well, it’s expected.
The people of Katolis see him as a prince, and everything else about him is invisible. He can either live up to those expectations or not, but no one actually took the time to see where his talents truly lied. For this reason, it was quite jarring that Callum proved to be this insanely good at magic, yet no one ever noticed or bothered to let him try magic simply because that’s not what’s expected for a prince.
No one, it seems, has taken the time to figure out who Callum is and what he’s good at. He’s a prince, you see, so no one bothers to notice how much he bristles against this mold. The fact that he’s, for instance, a great artist, doesn’t matter to anyone. Nothing more needs to be known about him.
Even King Harrow, who deeply loved Callum, struggled with the fact that he saw him as his stepson, who must be given space to appreciate and love his birth father. Harrow realizes his mistake, but sadly it’s far too late.
Heck, even Callum can’t quite see himself clearly, because he’s spent his entire life trying and failing to live up to the expectations of others. He sees himself as worthless (even though his closest friends do not). For a good part of the story, Callum believes that he can either do magic or he’s essentially nothing.
So, Callum will either excel at being a prince or not, and everything else about him doesn’t matter to anyone.
But then along comes Rayla.
She doesn’t particularly care about this whole prince business (although “sad prince” does have a nice ring to it). But she’s the first person in Callum’s life who doesn’t lay out some skills she expects him to be good at and get disappointed when he doesn’t. She doesn’t expect him to be a good fighter. She doesn’t demean or belittle him for being “bad at everything” the way Soren does.
But all the same, with or without some special skill, she still values him. Rayla is able to see that there’s so much more to Callum than any particular talent he happens to have.
And that’s something that Callum finds to be quite shocking. He sees what Rayla can do, and thinks there’s no way he could measure up to that. Even when he can help out, he doesn’t expect Rayla to think that highly of him.
Except she does.
“I agree, some humans are evil…but not this one. Not Callum. The only reason the Dragon Prince is alive is because of this human. He left his home and his family and he sacrificed everything so Azymondias could be born. He’s noble and true. When we met, he could have had me captured or killed. But he didn’t, because without knowing me or anything about me, he saw past human hatred and did what he knew was right. He’s smart and kind and brave, and he’s my friend. My best friend. So, please, allow him to pass into Xadia and help me take the Dragon Prince home. Because I don’t think I can do it without him.”
Just look at Callum’s face below. He’s stunned. He assumed that this amazing, brave, and heroic warrior wouldn’t have thought much of him, even if she valued him as a person.
Yet, as it turns out, she thinks the world of him.
However, while Rayla doesn’t expect Callum to be something he’s not, she’ll still push him when she knows he’s capable. And, because she can see him for who he is, she doesn’t take his “I can’t do anything” statements at face value. She knows that just because he can’t use a sword or ride a horse well doesn’t mean he’s weak, and she quickly catches on that his so-called inferiority is just a problem of motivation.
She pays attention to his abilities during their time together and has essentially decided that he’s perfectly capable of doing the things she can do.
Like climbing a tall tree.
Or climbing up an Ambler.
And the thing is, she’s right. All she does is give him a blade or a hand, along with some faith in him, and he can basically do these things. It will still take years of practice for him to truly excel, but Rayla had definitively proven to him that his feeling of inadequacy was all just in his head.
So, all of this works together. Rayla is heroic, something that Callum admires. She’s inspired him to be heroic as well.
But what made Callum fall in love with her is that she saw him for who he was when no one else did.
And when someone can inspire you, value you, believe in you, and push you to be the best possible version of yourself. When someone doesn’t buy that you’re worthless for a second, can see who you are, and thinks just as highly of you as you do of them. When someone reminds you every day that you’re just as brave and strong as you wish you were.
What else would you think but:
