The Blog of a Random Mind

Christen. Filipino. Orlando. Yeah. This blog is meant to be random. Practically, it's filled with anything I like/love, find amusing, agree with, and such. Spoilers included. ko-fi.com/A486PSF coffee while I work please?

[tonightweredrinkingfromthebong]

the crew goes out into the forest just to film random b-roll shit and the director accidentally finds the like..rarest worm on earth so they run back to their house like COYOTE LOOK and then there is a very heartfelt and sincere response to weird worm including an entire mounted piece of wall art apparently

[out-there-on-the-maroon]

I’m real happy that this man is out there living his dream life. All he wants is marvel at nature and writhe in pain for a camera, and he gets to do both as his job. 

[ohdarnitripped-deactivated20220]

Fucking wholesome.

[ilovebrucewillis]

[everets]

I want this to be a gif where it zooms into the turtles face and he does a little grin like ” I’m about to eat the sh*t out of these melons”

[franksino]

OK.

[localbrhuery]

Nova: I would do anything for you

Adrian: sleep for a full eight hours.

Nova: I will not.

[stylampa-deactivated20220516]

Marissa Meyer’s Guide to Fiction

[incorrectrenegades]

Adrian: I love murder mysteries :)

Nova: I've been the suspect for a dozen of them.

Adrian: :(

[kpfun]

Anna, you are the most extraordinary person I’ve ever known. I love you with all I am. Will you marry me?

[bisexualalexclaremontdiaz]

Here have a tlc alignment chart

[dazzledbydisney]

                                                         A beauty, not a damsel! 

                                                         ︵‿︵‿୨♡୧‿︵‿︵

                                                            Fearless & a fighter 

                                                         ︵‿︵‿୨♡୧‿︵‿︵

                                              I won’t be pushed around

                                                        ︵‿︵‿୨♡୧‿︵‿︵

                                                           You can’t bully me

                                               ❃.✮:▹ (insp)  ◃:✮.❃

[disneygifsdaily]

Eventually one of our story artists came up with the idea of these lanterns. So, we did some research, and thought, “That’s really beautiful, and there’s a real scale and scope to it that would be unlike anything else.” And so, we were kind of looking into that. When it came to that sequence, we did our own selves in, because we were trying to develop what is that sequence? And there’s the Kiss The Girl thing, and we’re aware of that. But we wanted to do something bigger and different.

[incorrectrenegades]

Genissa: I wasn't done talking!

Nova, already walking away: I was done listening.

[jesperwylan]

Disney ladies: Megara.

“If there’s a prize for rotten judgment. I guess I’ve already won that. No man is worth the aggravation. That’s ancient history, been there, done that!“

[scurviesdisneyblog]

Hercules concept art 

[barryjohnson77-deactivated20230]

[scurviesdisneyblog]

A couple of Hercules animation drawings by the amazing Andreas Deja

[novainsomnia]

supernova spoilers ahead

so are we going to talk about how beautifully crafted supernova is? before i started supernova i had no idea how marissa was going to resolve the hot mess that was novadrian but she exceeded my expections like

nightmare’s identity being revealed early on in the book so adrian had time to process his anger and betrayal? gorgeous

max revealing to adrian that nightmare actually saved him, planting cracks in adrian’s narrowed views of nightmare? utterly satisfying

the captain sentencing nova to execution and thereby causing adrian to question his views of the council and their rule? unparalleled

alternatively, nova facing her own inner conflict by finding that she actually opposed ace’s ideals and having the balls to voice this concern surrounded by people who cowered before ace? extraordinary

and not to mention the sheer audacity of amplifying callum’s powers during the first battle, exposing to adrian and nova the possibility of a solution that doesn’t involve a war? absolute genius

all these factors contributed to softening the blow of the highly-anticipated love/hate square that we’ve been stressing about throughout the series and i think marissa does this skillfully as well as realistically

it’s also worth pointing out that on top of novadrian being endgame, adrian (because let’s face it we were all more worried about adrian’s reaction to nova’s secret identity than vice versa) doesn’t immediately forgive nova blindly. though he struggled with accepting that nova was nightmare, he was able to hold true to his convictions (up until it was proven otherwise of course). when nova was revealed the second time, not only were his opinions of nova and the anarchists softened by the reasons mentioned prior, but he got to witness nova’s situation and inner conflicts firsthand. nova was being manipulated by ace and struggled immensely with being told to kill adrian. this, combined with the core traits of kindness and openness we’ve seen from adrian’s character, are what make the novadrian resolution realistic and all the more sweet. basically more than i could’ve asked for and i’m glad marissa‘s approach wasn’t rushed or out of character

so yeah anyways that’s all i have to say. thanks for coming to my tedtalk

[honey-harper-official-deactivat]

Additionally

- Nova doesn't receive immediate forgiveness. It's gradual and everyone looks at all they've messed up

- it became more apparent that Nightmare was fighting for revenge of family and was only sided with Ace bc they were family

- the Council didn't try to claim that they had done nothing wrong. Blame was placed on both sides

- Nova does take blame for what she does wrong

- it becomes apparent to the Renegades that not only is Nova fighting more for her own side, but that she was abused and only recently started to understand wrong from right. It also that she's lashing out due to trauma

- Nova and Adrian both want to be with the other, they do truly love each other, but they both acknowledge that their relationship is deeply flawed and they need to work it out

[princessselene126]

We can also look at when they’re in the cathedral and Oscar shouts “So we’re doing this again?... Trusting her?” 

And Adrian says yes. 

He hesitates for a spilt second, but he still says yes. In his eyes Nova’s proven herself time and time again. She saved him, she killed Honey, and she’s plotting the best way to defeat her own uncle.

Yes, Nova has made a lot of mistakes and they have to work those out, but he still believes in her. He knows that she doesn’t want more people to die because of this mess. And he knows that deep down she’s a good person despite how flawed her attempts at fixing the city--because those flaws were ingrained into her by Ace. The ideas that got people killed and neutralized weren’t from her.

AND OSCAR TRUSTS ADRIAN. Danna is a bit more hesitant because of being stuck in swarm mode, but they both go along with it. They trust their leader’s judgement. If they hadn’t trusted him then things could have gone a lot differently.

Marissa Meyer puts so much emphasis on trust in this series, but especially this book, and the end result was beautiful.

[theincorrectbookquotes]

Winter: I can hold the whole world in my hands!

Jacin: Winter, that’s impos-

Winter: *cups jacin’s face with her hands*

Jacin, blushing profusely: W-Winter! I have a reputation to up hold!

[kindasortaameyzing]

im really not at all sorry

bonus:

[personalcathedrls-archive]

Dkskjs I now realize that this probably just implies that these are from like publicity things for the Council/Renegades, but my first thought was “Adrian does modelling????”

[bisexualalexclaremontdiaz]

Now I know 2 fictional characters who are rich and named Adrian what are models and are also superheroes and have secret identities and are JUST missing the identity of their love interest who is also super badass.