A lazy fangirl, a lazy kind of writer

One Piece, HxH, comics, also MCU, Wincest shipper. That's pretty obvious.

[bitchpleasezl-deactivated202404]

Me, Before watching supernatural: lets see what this show is about. Maybe destiel is going to be my next favourite ship.

Me, After watching supernatural: Did destiel shippers collectively hallucinate a different show? because this ain’t it.

[buffy-summrs-deactivated2023100]

SUPERNATURAL, 2.19 / BARBIE (2023) 

insp by (x)

[maggieblueberry]

man sometimes i forget that some people aren’t even a little bit queer.

[dngrcpckwithmurdericing]

today i went out to lunch with someone who i have known for going on three years. she is cis and straight, white, conventionally pretty, and frm the midwest.

in the course of our conversation (had while sharing avocado toast, guys, like, we were really going for a vibe) she asked me to explain some stuff about polyamory, and what the difference between polyamory and open relationships are, and if i am allowed to call myself bisexual if i don’t really date cishet men.

not even by the end of her ‘craft lemonade with freshly brewed tea’ could she fathom that there is a distinct difference between being with queers and being with straight people, and did not see the irony in this.

i had a ‘black lentil bowl’ and i ordered a latte but they served me a macchiato, and i didn’t complain but i was annoyed. then, just to highlight our differences, we stopped for dessert and she got some kind of oat and bran ‘cookie’ while i got passion fruit white chocolate mousse. while we walked, i explained to her what it means to be demisexual, and it blew her fucking mind that i don’t look at anyone and want to have sex with them ever.

“NOT EVEN BEN AFFLECK?” she shrieked.

[divinedionne]

These ppl legit define their whole identities by what items they consume and who they fuck/the colour of their skin. The race/gender/sexuality obsession is crazy. They’re like some kind of primitive tribe

[rei-74]

No, but... "wE TaLKeD WhILe ShARinG AvOcADo toAst, GuYs, We HaD a ViBe"... what vibe??? normal breakfast for a latinoamerican family???

Srlsy, those people wants so hard to he special, they just look ridiculous

[st-pam]

[just-your-friendly-gay-neighbor]

Sure need that right now

[amoreanonyname]

How Sam and Dean Manipulate Each Other - Part 1

NOTE: This has been a surprisingly difficult meta to write. I wanted to be relatively clinical about it, as I felt I had been for Sam and Dean’s individual metas, and list off the various ways they manipulate each other and how those things changed over the years. Because I knew going in that it did change. But as I got into it, it struck me just how much things changed halfway through the series, and why. And with that, the various other things Sam and Dean do to each other - puppy eyes and controlling protectiveness and emotional love-bombing - were dwarfed in comparison to the other stuff.

I finally realized I had two metas on my hands, because while there are some throughlines to how Sam and Dean put the screws to each other over the years, there’s also a giant shift that affects everything. So, with that - this meta discusses how Sam and Dean manipulate each other up until the end of Season 8. There will be a second meta down the line about how they shift to different tactics in Season 9 and onwards, where I will also discuss in more detail the “throughline” tactics that are less toxic than what I discuss here, but which never completely go away.

But first, I want to go back to the start. Because, it turns out, the Pilot sets the tone for the next eight years.

Part of the reason I started this series in the first place was to specifically discuss the Pilot scene where Dean convinces Sam to come with him - initially, I just found it a very interesting scene in terms of the various tactics both brothers try, resist, and are vulnerable to with each other, after such a long separation. But in writing this, I realized how hugely important the Pilot actually was for Sam and Dean's relationship dynamic - especially the ways they hurt and manipulate each other, and why they do it.

Dean breaks into Sam’s apartment, and pretty well immediately starts pulling every lever he can think of to get Sam hunting with him (or to get Sam to tell him to screw off in such a way that Dean could pretend it was because he was acting like an asshole and not because Sam was rejecting his entire being) - and because they’re Winchesters and dysfunctional, he starts off trying to manipulate Sam with fear, obligation, guilt, and isolation. Dad is missing, in danger, might be dead - don’t you care about that? I can’t handle this alone, you need to help. And Sam consistently shoots him down - Dad’s probably just drunk, and of course you can track him down without help. With this, Sam eventually gets the truth out of Dean - that he doesn’t want to do this on his own, he wants Sam’s help - at which point Sam immediately agrees to go for the weekend.

(Dean also behaves dismissively towards Jess in their apartment, and later on tries to undermine their relationship to Sam, in an attempt to "isolate" Sam and get him more aligned with Dean.)

Sam resists the “feel bad” manipulation, but rewards Dean when he's emotionally honest and when he respects Sam's boundaries. He agrees to go with Dean when Dean drops the games and just admits he wants Sam with him. When Dean drops Sam back off at home on schedule, Sam rewards him again with talk of phone calls and visits. Throughout, it's obvious how happy Sam is to see Dean, but also how nervous he is about Dean respecting his autonomy. These are probably the healthiest boundaries Sam ever manages to set with Dean, but then Jess dies, Sam’s Stanford life goes up in flames, and Sam joins Dean on the road.

Dean, who just wants Sam back in the car with him, is more or less at Sam's mercy here, and Sam holds the cards. This is important.

Pilots aren’t always great for characterization things, but this is remarkable in terms of how much it sets the tone for the coming seasons. Namely: Dean has guilt, Sam has leverage. Dean wants Sam, Sam wants Dean, both are afraid of being completely vulnerable about that fact. Dean is afraid of Sam rejecting him, Sam is afraid of Dean consuming him. Both reach for their weapons.

It’s actually pretty incredible, how deeply Stanford affects them both, and for how long. It's an open wound for both of them that doesn't heal for years. Stanford affects their relationship far more than John ever did - the issues John caused between them are mostly healed by the end of the first season. The hurts of Ruby and Purgatory are echoes of the Stanford hurt. Dean can admit that Sam did the right thing by going to Stanford. Sam knows he did the right thing by going to Stanford. But it also hurt Dean immensely, and it’s a wound Dean likes to jab when he’s upset with Sam about other things - you ditched me, you left me, how could you, I thought it was us against the world. Sam feels immensely guilty, but also jabs the wound himself - I can leave, you know.

Sam has leverage, Dean has guilt. It’s how they protect themselves, and how they hurt each other.

For the first half of the series, Sam uses “leaving”, or simply the threat of it, to maintain the upper hand in his relationship with Dean. He stalks off after fights, he sneaks off in the night, he’ll talk about just going and doing the thing on his own if Dean won’t join him (obviously Dean will join him), and it’s a pretty powerful weapon in Sam’s arsenal in the earlier seasons. The Stanford Years marked him as the “independent” brother in contrast to Dean as the “needy” brother, and Sam hangs onto that for years. It's comforting for Sam, on multiple levels (and we all know how susceptible Sam is to "comforting thoughts", even if they're untrue).

Dean buys into the narrative. It’s one of his biggest fears - they don’t need you, not like you need them. He half expects Sam to walk out the door again on any given day. On a deeper level, he knows it’s not true, he knows Sam feels terribly about it. Moreover, he knows that there’s actually nothing wrong with Sam wanting to live his own life. But vulnerability is hard, and Dean lays himself out completely for Sam on a regular basis. He needs to protect himself somehow, and for all kinds of reasons, guilt is the easiest weapon in his arsenal. That time you ditched us for Stanford. That time you chose a demon bitch over me. That time you left me in Purgatory for a girl. That time you…

This is a big part of why Dean is, uniquely, the only person who can manipulate Sam with guilt. Sam is acutely aware of everything Dean has ever done and sacrificed for Sam, and Sam is also acutely aware of every time he’s hurt and betrayed Dean. Even as Sam subtly leverages Stanford, or Ruby, or Amelia, to remind Dean that he can leave, you know, Sam still feels the need to atone for every time he did leave, every time he hurt Dean, every time he wasn’t who Dean needed him to be. Dean trying to guilt-trip Sam about John will just lead to a fight. Dean guilt-tripping Sam about saving people, hunting things is more effective. Dean guilt-tripping Sam about them hits bang-on target. It’s actually too effective - at least twice in the series, Sam becomes outright suicidal over the ways he perceives he’s failed Dean. In Season 4, Dean isn’t aware that Sam doesn’t expect to live through the Lilith confrontation.

In Season 8, Dean sees it.

Season 8 is interpreted by some (including me) as something of a reboot of Season 1, and in effect, it remixes the initial Season 1 conflicts, then significantly changes the series going forward. Just as “the Stanford years” became an ongoing, if mostly implicit, battleground for Sam and Dean for the first seven seasons, Purgatory, Benny, and Amelia become more explicit ones that reverberate through the remainder of the series.

Sam has moved on, he’s living a normal life, he has a girlfriend, he’s thinking of returning to college! Then Dean tackles him to the ground and drags him back into hunting - but just “temporarily” (this should sound familiar...). But they’re older, more damaged, and way more enmeshed than they used to be, and now they both start to say the quiet parts out loud. Sam, to protect himself against the guilt, talks about returning to his Amelia life early and often (leverage), knowing Dean hates it. Dean is openly hurt and betrayed, and leans heavily on guilt to get his point across - but now has some extra leverage of his own.

Benny’s existence blows the lie right out of the water that Sam was still (or possibly ever had been) the “more independent brother.” Benny’s existence smacks Sam’s biggest weapon right out of his hand. Benny’s existence - and Dean’s attachment to Benny - exposes every lie Sam was telling himself in early Season 8, and every other time he suggested or implied that he could leave, you know. Benny is, in a certain light, everything Sam isn’t. Benny is physically stronger, a better hunting partner. He doesn’t hurt Dean the way Sam did, he didn’t abandon Dean the way Sam did, he never disappointed Dean the way Sam did. And suddenly, Sam has no leverage. He can just leave - and Dean doesn’t want him to leave, but if he does, Dean now has Benny. Suddenly, Dean will be fine. In fact, he might be better off.

Sam lost his “leverage”, lost the power he perceived himself as having in his relationship with Dean, effectively leaving him entirely at Dean’s mercy - which he didn’t admit until much later. But that meant Sam was left with nothing but the guilt, exacerbated by all the ways Benny had never screwed up.

And without the “comfort” of knowing that Dean needed him more, that Dean would always still be there, Sam had to finally contend with just how much he needed Dean. He also didn’t admit that until much later.

But if Sam had screwed up too many times, if Dean didn’t want him anymore, then what was the point of anything?

Dean introduced a new weapon, not realizing the damage it would cause (because Dean understood “leverage” as something Sam used against him - not something Sam also used to protect himself). Was Benny a manipulative tactic for Dean? I think so - given how relatively easily he discarded Benny, before even knowing for sure that Sam would stay with him, I think Dean had some idea how Benny was affecting Sam, and leaned into that, just as Sam had initially leaned on Amelia and his “normal life” ambitions to needle Dean. At the same time, I don’t think Dean meant for the scales to tip quite so hard in his favour. He wanted Sam to stay. He wanted Sam to drop this Amelia/normal life business and get back in the car and stay. What he wound up with, was Sam’s life in his hands.

Dean, ever self-loathing, didn’t understand the absolute power he had over Sam, because Sam had worked very hard to never admit it. I can leave, you know, protected Sam from ever having to acknowledge it.

The Season 8 finale was the death knell of the “Stanford years” war. It was the episode where Sam finally dropped his weapons - yes I need you, and I need to be the most important person to you, and I need you to never leave me. And Dean (at least temporarily) dropped his - it doesn’t matter if you’ve made mistakes, I'm sorry I ever made you feel that way, you’ll never be anything BUT the most important person to me, and I will never leave you.

From Season 9 onwards, the landscape changes - in some ways for the better, in other ways for the worse. But that will come in the next section!

[saint-cecilias]

a pervasive and frankly borderline toxic issue in fandom these days is how popular headcanons are elevated to the status of being irrefutable canon and so insanely clung to and that when they are challenged, majority of fandom lose their damn minds and forget they was the ones to make the shit up in the first place 

[loisfreakinglane]

#im not a CANON IS END ALL BE ALL person at all#but once fandom gets locked in on a specific headcanon and they can find a way to weaponize a moral reason why it is SO#fuggetaboutit#and its EXHAUSTING to watch tbh#going into non-edit tags is like setting urself on fire#and im a FANDOM OLD and  like lol it wasn’t always like this

[saint-cecilias]

#your headcanons might be important#they might enhance your canon experience by a fuckton#they might make all kinds of sense to you#but literally none of that makes them actual canon#LITERALLY NONE OF IT#and its exhausting to see ppl villified for not falling in line with certain headcanons

[yuki-chan23]

Which character did you view totally differently as a child vs. as an adult? - Eowyn

Eowyn

I’m talking about Book!Eowyn. This is important to remember because she’s so very different from Movie!Eowyn.

When I first read Lord of the Rings I was 11, which looking back was way too young to fully understand them. Rereading them when a was as a mature, wise eighteen-year-old (yes, that counts as an adult) I find myself looking at Eowyn differently.

As a kid, I felt like she was a good example of how to not write a female character. She was going to commit suicide just because a random guy didn’t like her, and she ends the story marrying a random dude and deciding to stay in the kitchen. Like a lot of people, I thought her entire character was pretty sexist. Of course, I loved Movie!Eowyn. She was my idea of a good female character: a spunky warrior who smashed the patriarchy.

Between 11 and 18 I’ve struggled with depression a lot. My experiences with that and other mental illnesses put Lord of the Rings in a completely different light. Its funny no one mentions exactly how much it’s about conquering depression. That’s practically the main theme of the book. Every character suffers from depression at one point, every character gives up all hope at least once, and it’s the constant, unseen enemy. The Nazguls personify despair, but we see less blatant examples too. Eowyn’s journey is possibly my favorite.

Eowyn’s situation when we first meet her is pretty terrible. Her cousin has recently died, her brother is banished and on a suicide mission, and there’s a creepy guy constantly trying to make moves on her. Her kingdom is about to be overrun and her people are being killed, and there’s nothing she can do about it. What’s worst, her uncle, who’s practically a father to her, is being manipulated and weakened. She watched him grow weaker every day and there’s no way she can help him. She’s royalty, born for greatness, but she’s stuck helplessly watching everything around her crumble and rot.

That sort of depression, the kind when you fear your own helplessness and inability more than anything when you are unable to fight back, doesn’t have a name. But those who have faced it know how draining and debilitating it is, especially when you feel that you have to stay strong for those around you.

Then Gandalf and co come in and save the day, Eowyn sees a way out. She sees Aragorn and becomes obsessed with him. Not because she’s actually in love with him, but because she sees him as a great king who will give her a chance to fight, a chance to be great, a chance of freedom.

But then he leaves on what seems like a suicide mission, and she knows her uncle and brother are on their way to a battle they probably won’t return from. She, however, is stuck once more, left behind to watch her world fall apart while she can do nothing.

Her soul has been worn away by the endless waiting. She has no hope left that the power of Mordor can be defeated because she has watched it invade her very home while she could do nothing. In many ways, she’s similar to Denethor, who was destroyed by doing nothing but watching the enemy creep closer. But Denethor’s paralysis was by choice. Eowyn has no choice, she rarely does. She has no control over anything. And the one person she thought could save her and her kingdom is leaving on what seems like a hopeless journey.

Eowyn is no longer afraid of dying. She’s reached rock bottom at this point. All she wants is a chance to make a difference, to make a choice for once in her life. So she disguises herself as a soldier and marches off to battle she doesn’t plan to come back from.

And of course, she takes Merry, who might not be as desperate but also feels pretty helpless.

We all know what happens next. That scene is so famous, it’s probably one of the best moments of the books. It’s way better in the book the movie: Eowyn laughs before her “I am no man,” line. But looking further into it the scene is about as heartbreaking as it is awesome. Eowyn’s laughing because at last, she’s doing something. At last, she’s able to at least try to make a choice. A choice at how she will die, heroically, defending her king and father-figure to the last. The Nazgul, whose weapon is soul-crushing despair, has no effect on her because she’s faced it day after day. And that despair had no face and no form and she couldn’t fight it. And now, finally, in her last moments, she has a chance to fight it.

And she does.

But instead of dying, she’s wounded, and yet when Aragorn heals her she finds that not much has changed. She still believes that their defeat at the hands of Mordor is inevitable, and she’s still determined to die in the best way she can. If she can’t control her life, she might as well control her death.

But she can’t even control that. Aragorn and the others insist that she stays behind to heal while they once again head off to a hopeless last stand. Yet again she’s trapped, helpless, waiting for Mordor to win and overrun everything.

She killed a Ringwraith, but nothing much changed.

Then she meets Faramir. He’s the first person she lets see her as anything but strong. She allows herself to cry before him, and later on, draws close to him when she thinks the armies of Mordor are coming. This is a sharp contrast to the way she treated Aragorn, constantly trying to prove her strength to him. She lets Faramir see her pain and her fear. Faramir knows quite a bit about despair himself, and he’s watched at least one loved one (his father) be destroyed by it already. He wants to save Eowyn from her own hopelessness. The two grow close, and Eowyn allows herself to melt a little.

Finally, after Mordor falls, Faramir asks her if she loves him, or Aragorn. Like many love triangles, this one is symbolic. Aragorn offered what she thought she needed: a chance to have control of her life, to be great queen, to have control over her world. But he was never going to love her back, and great deeds were never going to heal her.

Faramir offered a simple life. He wasn’t a king, her place as second in line to Rohan was much higher than his. But he loves her, and she loves him. He gave her a chance to be a healer, a mother, and a wife. She was never going to heal chasing the impossible, striving for a last heroic stand. She had to stop fighting and let herself heal.

Ironically enough, killing the personification of despair didn’t conquer Eowyn’s depression, finally accepting someone else’s love and letting herself a chance to heal did.

Eowyn’s story is not about a battle against evil hordes or even the patriarchy, but of a battle against depression. She is so much more than a spunky heroine or a tragic lover. Her character is complex and her despair feels very real because many of us have felt it.

Many people, including me at first, felt like Eowyn’s ending was sexist. But Tolkien never saw battle as heroic or good. We naturally see it sexist that our heroine retires to become a healer and wife because we’ve been taught that those things aren’t ‘heroic’ or ‘cool’. But Tolkien’s heroes rarely are skilled in battle, and over and over again we are given the message that true strength is not what it seems.

The great ones: Denethor, Boromir, Theoden, and Saruman are easily corrupted. The small, unimportant hobbits who like to cook and garden (fairly traditionally feminine activities) are the strongest of all. Even Aragorn is recognized as a king due to being a healer, not a warrior.

Eowyn’s story is another one in which Tolkien shows us that true strength isn’t killing a terrifying demon but letting yourself hope again.

[luffywhatelse]

What's the link between Joy Boy and the Lunarians?

Gorosei spoke of a specific and maybe special fruit, presumably Gomu Gomu (for the moment we will call it that, even if we know that this is not its real name). Kaido’s words in chapter 1042 would have already underlined how “special” Gomu Gomu appeared.

This means that Luffy has more skills than rubber specific ones. For example, let’s think of another skill that Luffy can use. We all remember Red Hawk and Red Rock:

… it seems that Luffy can control flames. Which reminds us of a race known for this ability: King’s race, Lunaria.

Marco said: “fire conjuring race that lived on top of the Red Line”. And also Queen: “they were all supposed to be eradicated” and “they were considered gods”

We can thus summarize the characteristics of the Lunaria race: 1 – they can manipulate flames; 2 – people considered them as gods; 3 – they were supposed to be extinct; 4 – they lived on the Red Line.

Now let’s consider Who’s Who’s words about Nika:

Actually, we don’t have enough information about the Sun God but we could try to hypothesize Nika’s characteristics:

1 – as we said, Luffy is able to manipulate flames and this ability could come from Nika himself; 2 – we know that, according to legend, he was considered the “Sun God”; 3 – his identity is hidden by the World Government to the point that the man who told Who’s Who about Nika has been taken away… it’s been said that Lunarian race is extinct but it may actually have been “wiped out” from the World Government. During the fight between Zoro and King, we see a man saying:

4 – why was Nika called “SUN God”? Perhaps because he was able to manipulate flames, or because, if he had been Lunarian, he too would have lived on the Red Line, which is objectively close to the sun.

We now know that Joy Boy/Nika has awakened in Luffy’s body. So, most likely, Nika also has the skills of a rubber “human being”. And this seems to be another skill that Nika would have in common with Lunarians. Let’s look at this technique from King, which probably made us smile:

King seems to be “rubbery”. Could we say that Luffy ate a fruit that gives him characteristics similar to those possessed by the Lunaria race?

What we know is that Lunarians have black, feathered wings, brown skin, and white hair. And that the Strawhats already met a race with wings on their backs: the Shandia, the inhabitants of Shandora, during the Skypiea arc. We know that there were four tribes: Skypieans, possessing small wings that are pointed upward; Shandians, who possess wings that also point upward; Birkans, with wings pointed downward. In the Enel’s Great Space Operations Cover Page Serial, it was revealed that all the three tribes once lived on the Moon. When they exhausted the resources of their land, they came to Earth and settled on Skypeia and the nearby Birka. “Luna” is the Latin word for “moon”, and considering the Lunarians also have wings, it is hard to not see a connection with the other “moon tribes”.

In chapter 1035, King finally revealed his face, which he usually keeps hidden under a mask to hide his Lunarian identity from the World Government. When this happened, we could see that he bears a striking resemblance to Wiper, a character that the Strawhats encountered during the Sky Island arc. Wiper had features similar to King’s, and the two also share a peculiar tattoo around their left eye. This could be yet another sign of shared heritage between the Shandian and Lunarian tribes. Perhaps the Lunarians were the ruling tribe on the Moon.

Let’s go back to the Sun God Nika: the word “Nike” in Greek means “victory”, and in the Javanese language victory is “Jaya”. An ancient, legendary king from Java was called Joyoboyo, which sounds a lot like Joy Boy. Joyoboyo was a strong and wise king, who brought prosperity to his kingdom. Joy Boy was the “Sun God” of ancient times, and probably the king of the Ancient Kingdom who fought and lost against the World Government. Perhaps the Lunarians were allies of the Ancient Kingdom and were hunted down for this reason. Perhaps they also have a connection to the sun, an idea that is reinforced by their ability to manipulate flames. Perhaps the Lunarians are precisely the Ancient Kingdom people.

We have already connected Nika the Sun God to Skypiea, noticing how the only representation of Nika shown until now strongly resembles a Shandian warrior, and also looks similar to an image of Luffy dancing around a fire during the Sky Island arc.

We now know for sure that Nika is somehow in Luffy. The same person who rang the golden bell in Skypiea and the same who may have been the wise king who brought prosperity to his kingdom.

On the other hand, the cover of volume 27 has always intrigued me… Luffy with a pair of wings throwing us a half moon shaped wink ;)

[ardastars]

For those who are wondering about my thoughts about Amazon's Rings of Power, I will simply answer this quickly: I will not watch it.

First and foremost; diversity is not a problem whatsoever. I really do not care about the casting choices as long as they fit the character by personality and what J.R.R Tolkien would envision. What does bother me is that Amazon casts people for characters that are not canon and characters (like Hobbits) that didn't exist yet in the Second Age where this show takes place. If you don't follow the lore or even the basics of the timeline, then I know it's something not worth watching.

What also bothers me is that the characterization of canon characters that they are portraying is far off from the source material. Galadriel was not "piss and vinegar" and she was not a commander of an army. She, at that time, became the Lady of Lorien along with her husband Celeborn. Speaking of Celeborn; Where in Mando's Halls is he???? Also, Elrond was not "politically ambitious". He was a healer and lore-master when he lived in Lindon with Gil-Galad.

There are more reasons why I do not trust Amazon with this series but, importantly, I want to say this: AMAZON DOES NOT HAVE THE RIGHTS TO THE SILMARILLION. They only have the rights to LOTR and The Hobbit along with the appendices. With those rights, they do not have enough information and lore to actually make a series about the Second Age period. Not only is this basically Amazon being out of its depth with what they want and can do, but it basically shows that they do not care about the lore and Tolkien's integrity. Amazon fired or forcedly booted out an actual Tolkien scholars like Tom Shippey. Tom was one of THE best experts to help with the LOTR and Hobbit movies. Booting him out was the biggest mistake in my opinion.

Lastly, Amazon calling people out who have valid criticism "racist" and even calling Tolkien a "racist" is where I draw the line. If you insult people who simply care deeply about how Tolkien's works are treated, then it shows the world that you are in the wrong. I don't care what political or even religious stand points you have, what I do care is how J.R.R. Tolkien's works and his reputation/integrity are treated. If you care about this despite how political or religious you are, then I would gladly call you a friend through the love of the stories of Middle-Earth.

Overall, if you are planning to watch Amazon's show: go ahead. I can't control that nor do I want to. But simply for me, I am content with the books and what PJ has given us. So, it's a "no-watch" Amazon for me.

[luna-writes-stuff]

Me: Let’s not hate on the Amazon lotr series. It can be canonically different, but the Hobbit and Lord Of The Rings films weren’t 100% accurate either.

Vanity Fair first-look: Dwarf without beard, elves with short hair, the directors throwing in hobbits even after Tolkien clearly stated they do nothing in the second age, actor of Celebrimbor being 50 while Galadriel’s actress is 30, human-looking Elrond, a Californian white boy

Me: today, we riot.

[sindar-princeling]

between describing elrond as an "ambitious political leader" and describing GoT as a "spiritual successor to lotr movies" I see now how stupid it was to think that the lotr series' intended audience would be you know. lotr fans

[lollipopsub]

CherryMaho trailer [ENG SUB]

Looks like we're getting some drama :D

[geniusoflove]

gay culture is being gay you dont have to take it further than that especially if you have terrible taste

[rei-74]

THIS!!!

honestly, a lot of time in my experience as a bisexual was me feeling outcasted because I don't have a "diva pop star" as a referent, I don't like colorful hair or I don't sit differently.

And those things have nothing to do with being gay or bi, but a lot of the culture is "you are bi/gay, so where's your funny quirky personality".

I don't have one. I like woman, and I'm. boring and I wanna have a boring life.

[its-sassyboots]

I used to think the only ridicules people in this fandom are hellers but now I see j2 tinhats calling us "padalecki army" only bc we don't support someone who throws our fave under the bus and has gaslighted him for years

apparently the whole fandom is sick

Parasocial relationships are a problem. They just want to be comfortable with their ship again but these are real people and they can't disregard feelings of hurt like that.

[rei-74]

Read some ones saying "a J2 photo will solve everything". Like, that was their problem. The fantasy. And the hypocrisy of them fighting people being critical of JA saying "but Jared loves him, he wouldn't want you all to be mean to him", to then turn around and laugh and hate Gen. And they aren't able to see how hypocrital they are. Or they don't care at all.

[cmyque]

Books that people read romantically but shouldn’t because they’re missing the point:

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

[ami-saturna-deactivated20210622]

That’s your opinion.

[myutsuumoved-deactivated2014052]

there’s nothing romantic about a pedophile rapist, the senseless murder-suicide of teenagers because families can’t get their shit together or the hypocrisy of the roaring 20s

[technicallythearical]

FINALLY SOMEONE SAYS IT

[imeverywoman420]

This is what i mean when i say like politically economically etc im a leftist but i hold very conservative dad/libertarian dad opinions on things like art. Im a bullshit artist myself i actually only paint squiggles and colors etc. but like. I will never be one of those modern art poser types that tries to convince everybody that this is bad art

But THIS is good

Like if you genuinely truly in your heart of hearts prefer modern art to classical art styles that actually require skill…. You would definitely join a cult. You have a sheep personality type. Emperors new clothes and what not.

[imeverywoman420]

Things people who only like weird bad modern art say. This is about thomas kinkade btw. Modern art consoomer types HATE him with vitriol

These are his paintings. Absolutely beautiful and stunning. These people think its Low Brow.

Just bc u have a degree does not mean u know art… if all art school taught u was that a rothko is somehow more artistically valid than any of these beautiful paintings….. you would easily join scientology.

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the idea being communicated is a love of nature and beauty in otherwise commonplace settings it's not my fault you have a gaping void where your soul should be hope this helps