I'm a slut for things I like

Does what it says on the tin

[husbanddaughter]

they literally deleted all existing reblogs of that post from existence btw<3

[m4timel]

[kittyflanders]

I know he's an absolutely abhorrent character, but I, unfortunately, still want to fuck him. hope this helps!!!

[riancstone]

What Your Favorite Dracula Says About You - Part III

People on tiktok are eating these up, so I was forced (via doe eyes and pouty bat faces) to make a part III. Hope people here like them, too! 🙃

[datsderbunnyblog]

I've thought extensively about a Discworld modern AU for several years now but the one thing that always stops me is the thought of making Sam Vimes deal with emails, I'm not that cruel 💔

[datsderbunnyblog]

It just occurred to me that Lord Vetinari would delight in making Sam Vimes deal with emails

[cakesandfail]

^ Sam Vimes probably

[datsderbunnyblog]

#sam vimes would print out his emails in a stack bc he doesn't trust technology and then they would cover his office floor like the reports #wait sorry no he would make FRED print them out and Fred would ask Carrot bc Carrot is the only one the printer listens to #and Carrot would have dyslexia in this world btw. #Vetinari would also force Vimes to undergo mandatory anti-phishing training and Sam would fail #bc all of the emails that Get His Ass would be from Lady Sybil and those are the only ones he opens #vetinari would happily tell Sybil about this over a cup of tea when she comes to beg him to stop tormenting Sam #(after hearing this she smiles and ahrugs and says oh well i suppose the King's Watchmen must take security training) (via @kiteinthedesert)

I love these tags, the idea of Vimes undertaking mandatory phishing training is absolutely sending me - but I also started thinking that that may be the one (1) area of technology that he weirdly excels at?

I just think his combination of deeply-ingrained natural suspicion and a sense of gleeful malicious compliance would have him marking everything as spam in no time.

[cakesandfail]

Vimes marks every single email from Vetinari as spam "because you can't be too careful sir, can you, that could have been anybody" and both of them are fully aware that he does it on purpose

[datsderbunnyblog]

Vimes is marking everything as spam, the Guilds are furious, and Vetinari's like "I think this exercise had the desired outcome" and marks Vimes's phishing training as a "pass".

He knows that there was never any real threat in the first place, the entire cybersecurity team is just Leonard in a hoodie with a laptop and nothing is getting through him.

[connieboldheart]

I love making these - let me know in comments/reblogs where you'd sit! :)

[do-not-u-dare]

9. 3 is the worst choice btw

[teaboot]

1-Any of the 3 seats around 1 WILL have bare Gollum ass foot and taint on them at some point. Those seats appear empty but are in fact occupied by his various alternate identities

2- Seems innocent enough, and Frodo will mostly keep to himself, but Sam will absolutely be waking you up getting him granola bars and shit out of their carry-ons. Will also meanmug you if you try to get up to use the bathroom. Gollum will also be leaning in and hanging over your shoulders whenever he takes a break from kicking the seat.

3- Out of the question, unless you are 7-19 year old extrovert and/or have nothing to lose. WILL clap when the plane lands. WILL eat your crackers if you’re asleep when the flight attendant comes around. Very little consideration for personal space.

4- It’ll be a long silent flight and they’ll both be courteous and polite but there will absolutely be a heavy third-wheel sort of tension, like they’re too nice to say anything but would be way happier if you weren’t there. Your only chance is to offer to switch seats so they can hold hands, but Aragorn WILL take a nap at some point and he WILL talk in his sleep. Also, if you switch for the aisle seat you will need to keep in mind that Legolas is absolutely going to recline his own chair directly on top of you.

5- Faramir is a sleep mask and headphones type of guy, and the window will remain closed. Eowyn’s longing glances to the right may be overlooked, but she’s also the type to monologue at increasing volume if you get to chatting and reach a topic she’s passionate about. Seat 5 is my personal choice, as it presents the lowest possible chance of waking up to a makeout sesh on either side OR a missing eyebrow.

6- Depending where the relationship dynamic is at at this point, it’s a coin toss between “Grandpa’s War Stories” and 8 straight hours of “I’m Not Touching You”, “Stop Hitting Yourself” type shenanigans on both sides. Also, putting the Dwarf in the window seat was a bad idea. You KNOW he gets airsick, and placing him in a corner directly between the only three elves was an act of direct biological warfare on the side of the airline.

7- Not the worst choice, as long as you don’t ask any questions about the family. Boromir is the type to share his political opinions at length unprompted, though, and responding in any way will only make it worse.

8- You are not cool enough to sit here.

9- This is an aisle seat, which is good, because you can get up to fake a bathroom visit when the vibes get too bad. Feels like going on a road trip with your dysfunctional parents only for them to announce their turbulent and resentful impending divorce mid way through. When it’s good, Galadriel and Gandalf will lean around you for a catty bitch sesh without you, which will also be bad, but at least you can listen in on the hottest gossip. Only gets worse when the edible Gandalf pops at take-off finally kicks in.

[help-help-i-need-an-adult]

3 because we’re going to make this flight everyone else’s problem

[buck1eys]

trying to work out who would be the weak link at the fellowship garden barbecue. obviously not sam, frodo doesn't really cook but does bring a huge amount of expensive cheese and wine from bilbo's cellar so he's out. merry and pippin exceed expectations which are admittedly low. boromir and gimli bring insane quantities of meat and spend the whole time at the grill cooking it and flexing, which is befitting of these kind of things. might be legolas but i think he would bring a lot of mushrooms, herb marinades, salads etc which is a good balance which unfortunately leaves mr six pack and trail jerky aragorn son of arathorn. (gandalf arrives late with dessert)

[orions-mistletoe-arrow]

My favorite headcannon I have going for LOTR right now is that the elves that are still around by the time Frodo gets on the scene are the elvish equivalent of doomsday preppers.

I forget where I read it, but I'm pretty sure that at some point there were millions of elves on Middle-earth, and by the end of the third age, it's down to a few thousand, aka a very small portion. These are the elves that got told way back in the first age, "Hey, just so you guys know, you're totally welcome to come back and live in heaven now without any worries" and responded, "No thanks, we're good!" and then proceeded to not only hold to that but survived the next 7.000 years of bullshit including but not limited to:

Multiple continents sinking into the sea

orcs

dragons

balrogs

multiple wars with Sauron, a literal divine being

The rise and fall of several human empires

more orcs

wargs

a bunch of their territory being overtaken and burned to the ground

And all of their loved ones either dying or sailing, even though we know that grief can and will kill an elf

Like, you can't tell me that third age elves start showing up in the undying lands, where everyone has spent the last few thousand years basking in the magical equivilant of free therapy and probably have as many defence measures as a suburban coldesac, and aren't viewed as the most feral, twitchy, paranoid mother fuckers; held together by suspicion, stubornness, and at least 25 contingencies for every situation they've collectively encountered during their time in Middle-earth.

My favorite examples of feral, hyper-vigilant behavior include:

Elrond: Security clearance; sure, Turgon may have threatened to kill anyone who tried to leave his hidden city, but he also took an entire army out of and back to the city at once, and then also didn't realize that his own nephew snitched on where the city was. His security protocols sucked. Meanwhile, Elrond had hundreds of strangers coming in and out of Rivendell for over 3,000 years, at one point completely surrounded by enemies and full of nothing but a bunch of refugees, and Sauron still never found it. You can't tell me that he didn't have at least 25 security checkpoints on the way into his city(sorry, house-that means it's private property, right?), even if you didn't know they were there.

Galadriel: Paranoia; This woman was magically keeping track of everyone she knew and even did it often enought that she knew what to look for of those she couldn't directly track (gandalf) and looking into their minds and testing them. All while having Sauron constantly clawing at the walls of her mind, at least for a few years

Thranduil: Spite; it was basically only his sheer audacity holding his nuclear bunker- cough cough- sorry, I meant vast underground halls together, while his next-door neighbor was some cursed ruins, a dragon-infested dwarf kingdom, and evil, man-eating, car-sized spiders on his front lawn.

Haldir: he blindfolded the fellowship when they tried to enter his city (super secret hideout), need I say more?

Multiple examples of groups of elves jumping out of trees fully armed and ambushing anyone who wanders into their territory. And while the characters seem surprised to be ambushed, they don't seem surprised that elves ambush people in general, leading me to believe this is normal behavior.

In summary, while the elves in the LOTR and the Hobbit seem all chill and fun, I like to imagine them as the crazy raccoons of the elvish family trees that wandered in 5 hours late.

[armenelols]

If I might add, concerning Rivendell, in The Hobbit, Gandalf struggled to find a path there. He would have gotten there soon enough even without the aid of tra la la lally elves, but nonetheless, according to the elves, Gandalf and the company were a bit out of the way of the path.

Gandalf. Who has been to Rivendell a shitton of times, probably. Gandalf struggled to fimd his way in.

And in LotR, Elrond clearly controls Bruinen in a way to deter intruders

The siege of Rivendell by Witch-King's armies during wars with Angmar lasted 50 years. Rivendell is a house, not a fortress, and it lasted half a century.

Elrond has very successfuly barricaded Rivendell against enemies. He, cannonically, had the above mentioned 25 security checkpoints

[batsintheshadows]

#lotr#hobbit#silm#->#when you're singing tra la la lally no one pays attention to the fact that you've id'ed every single member of the group trying to get in#and have them covered by archers who can hit a mouse in the dark (@jaz-the-bard get peer reviewed!)

[delavegaaaaa]

“You can’t fix him” I don’t wanna fix him! I wanna FUCK him! I’m a pervert not a psychologist!

[wizzard890]

So I've been watching Babylon 5 with my wife for the first time, and among the things I can say about this show - that it's a genuine scifi masterpiece, that it's a reminder of the great strength of the way television was structured in the 90s, that the level and nuance of its characterization is on par with any piece of prestige tv - the one that keeps haunting me is that there is absolute

turbograde

old man yaoi in this show.

like, sworn ancestral enemies, destined to die at one another's hands, spending the entire series loathing one another until they are forced together, still loathing one another, to keep both their cultures from being annihilated. they are the central figures in one another's lives by the end of the story, they are both like fifty years old and have spent ALL OF THEM being backed over by the midsized sedan of life and now in middle age they have hatred and this last ditch collaboration to show for it.

This is the old way, this is the kind of yaoi on which fandom was first founded, they put fucking heroin in this shit.

[howcanibesureimhere]

I had to go watch the elevator scene again, thanks. Now you have to as well.

[phaeton-flier]

This scene is insanely good, one of the best of the season, and it's in one of the most dog shit episodes of the series.

[tench]

Like you didn't need to convince me more...But it's a good info to have!

[grimoiremanifest]

2026 was 8 years ago. christ

[grimoiremanifest]

Wait. Fuck. Wrong year. Don't

[ghost-doodles]

im trying to get used to sketching and just kinda leavin it so what better to work with than addin some stuff to the Young Dracula fandom

[anonyymoose]

piece of media you feel crazy about at formative age is truly like the hotel california. you can check out but you can never leave

[emmaharwoods]

With 16 nominations, Sinners makes history as the most Oscar-nominated film of all time.

[blackinperiodfilms]

Ryan Coogler’s ‘SINNERS’ makes history as the most-nominated film at the Oscars ever, with 16 nominations!

These nominations include:

*Best Picture – Zinzi Coogler, Sev Ohanian, Ryan Coogler 

*Best Director – Ryan Coogler 

*Best Original Screenplay – Ryan Coogler 

*Best Actor in a Leading Role – Michael B. Jordan 

*Best Actor in a Supporting Role – Delroy Lindo 

*Best Actress in a Supporting Role – Wunmi Mosaku 

*Best Makeup and Hairstyling 

*Best Original Score 

*Best Casting 

*Best Costume Design

*Best Production Design 

*Best Original Song – "I Lied To You" 

*Best Film Editing 

*Best Sound 

*Best Visual Effects 

*Best Cinematography

[apoloniaspiegelgold]

[seaglassdinosaur]

Mad respect to Ryan Coogler for including Sammie’s line, “Maybe once a week, I wake up paralyzed, reliving that night. But before the sun went down, I think that was the best day of my life."

I will sing about it forever, recovery from trauma isn’t perfect. It isn’t linear, and sometimes you don’t recover perfectly; you're left with the scars of what happened. You can't undo what happened and turn back into the person you were before. What you can do is build a way back to yourself, and learn to live with what's changed.

Sammie did. He’s still got that pain and trauma in him, to the end of his days. Sixty years after the events, he's waking up, reliving the shock and horror of the night. And he's still himself. Joyful, doing what he loves and creating something that brings people in. The trauma is there, it changed him, still impacts him, and he keeps living. He found his way back to himself.

The knowledge of the monsters that exist are etched into his skin, would be a reminder whenever he looked in the mirror, but at a certain point, the scars just become a part of your face. Sammie coexists with his pain, and keeps doing that which he finds meaningful. From the moment he left the church, he started his path back to himself, and building his way to the person he wanted to be.

[kazz-brekker]

my actual favorite scene in wake up dead man is the one where jud is on the phone with the woman from the construction company and she asks him to pray for her, the sudden turn from humor to complete seriousness without it feeling like a tonal whiplash is really really good

[maeflowerzz]

literally like one of the most beautiful scenes ever

[hacash]

I also loved how it played with our expectations of the genre. Let me tell you, as a big classic murder mystery fan who's seen this particular trope play out multiple times I was fully expecting the big '...wait, say that again?' penny-drop moment from Jud when we realise she's said something crucial to the case, that she's given us a Clue; because that's always the point of these scenes, that you have to listen to the rambling oddballs because they'll be the ones who share the vital evidence...

...so the fact that the whole point of the Louise interlude is not that her character exists solely as Evidence Provider? The fact that, narratively, she pops up not to serve Jud but so Jud can serve her?

That messed with me in a big way, I can't lie to you. They could not have set up Jud's 'I'm here to be a priest, not a detective' revelation in a more appropriate way.