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In another world...in another universe...in another reality...

Solar is happy with someone who isnt him. Someone who can give him the safety and reassurance he deserve. Someone who needs him like a tree to the sun, and accompanies him like the breezy wind on a sunny day...

#halisol #boboiboy halilintar #boboiboy solar #angst #SHUTUPME #SOMEONE TAKE MY PHONE AWAY

I spend entirely too much time thinking about the irony that is the Hunger Games movie franchise. To take a story about the dangers pop culture and make it into a piece of pop culture is the most Hollywood thing to ever happen.

First up, stylists: In the book, Katniss has her team and her stylists. Cinna and his team does hair and makeup, Effie markets her to the masses, and Haymitch works on her public image. This is exactly how Jennifer Lawrence prepared for this movie and for press. She has a makeup team, an agent, a stylist, and she has a certain image she is required to present to the public. They got her ready, put her on stage, and made her seem likeable.

Second, age: In an odd way, the movie team did exactly what the team preparing to film Katniss in Mockingjay did in the book: they aged her up. At one point, someone comments that Katniss is just a girl, and a makeup team made her look older. Lawrence is a 20ish year old playing a 16 year old in the books. The age gap isn't huge, but it is really relevant. One of the most shocking aspects of the books is the youth of all the kids in the Hunger Games. To take away the youth of the main actress takes the focus away from the horror and violence of the kids fighting and killing each other.

Third, focus of media: The hype around the movies focused on the love triangle between Katniss, Peeta, and Gale and missed the point, just like in the books. Caesar plays up the romance between Katniss and Peeta, and creates a storyline that focuses on love and distracts the Capitol audience from the killing part. Hollywood decided love sells better, so they highlighted that side of the books.

TL;DR The Hunger Games movie franchise contains unmatchable levels of irony.

#the hunger games #suzanne collins #jennifer lawrence #katniss everdeen #peeta mellark #josh hutcherson #movies #shutupme #irony #hollywood #books #effie trinket #haymitch abernathy

You know some of the stuff Marisha said on bts the other night made me really start thinking about how unusual and honestly really important Keyleth is as a character. Like Marisha said, Keyleth is one of very few charactes I've ever seen who is incredibly unsure of herself and yet is still allowed to fulfill her character arc of growing into a leader, without ever entirely losing that uncertainty; and this is probably one of the things that a lot of people don't like about her.

I think it goes further than that, though. Keyleth is, by the end of the end of the series yes but even throughout, one of the strongest characters in terms of both physical and magical power. She's incredibly versatile--she's a caster, but using her wildshape and especially her elemental forms she can effectively become a secondary tank. She can act as support by healing her teammates in one breath while dealing absurd amounts of damage in the next. Her potential in terms of sheer damage per round is immense by the end of the series. All of this is acknowledged multiple times by other party members. And yet, she's still anxious, she's still uncertain, she still doesn't always have the best handle on keeping her emotions in check. She still stumbles over herself and makes mistakes and is still so clearly learning through the whole series, how to be a leader, how to be herself even.

But she's allowed to be these things. Both the narrative and the other characters support the fact that she can be all of this--she can be emotional and afraid to lose her friends while at the same time utterly obliterating her enemies, she can be rash and angry at the same time as being uncertain and terrified, she can faceplant in lava and collapse sobbing from exhaustion one day and eviscerate the mind of an ancient green dragon the next. One does not preclude the other. And I think that that grates on some people, because we are so used to seeing our heroes as being confident, born leaders, people who don't need to grow into themselves or who have already done the messy parts of that. Some people don't like seeing an unsure, emotional young woman who is still in the process of learning stepping into a role with this much power, both magical and societal.

But it's for this precise reason that Keyleth has the potential to be an inspiration to people. She's imperfect, undoubtedly so. But she's allowed to have those fears and those doubts that we have in real life, and shes still allowed to be strong, to be unquestionably important to her group even as she experiences the growth that is necessary for anyone to develop into a leader, even if she hasn't quite got to that point yet. We've got plenty of arrogant, self-confident heroes already. Keyleth is something different--someone who is a little more like us, who can show us that yeah, maybe you're afraid and uncertain and you mess up sometimes, but you're still strong and important and worth other people's time and respect. If they aren't mutually exclusive in Keyleth, then they aren't mutually exclusive in you either.

#critical role #cr1 #keyleth #cr meta #marisha ray #shutupme #i never express myself properly in these things lol #idk keyleth is one of those characters i didnt like that much at first and when i thought about it i was like oh. its because shes like me.#well shouldnt i like her then?#and then she grew on me a shitton #idk #this is probably weirdly sappy and shit but i have a lot of feelings about keyleth for some reason rn

I know I said I was gonna get the bios and stuff done today. But there was a lot of school stuff and I’m pretty sure I’m sick woo…

-Min June

#not an ask #shutupme #myart #i hate getting sick

Not that i care about Rebel Wilson weight because i dont personally believe weight defines beauty. But this is an interesting photoshop. I find it odd that everything but her boobs were photoshop to look small. I'm not sure if that is a comment on society or what but i think Ms. Wilson is beautiful just the way she is. She drops jaws with her words not her weight

#shutupme #rebel wilson #bad photoshops

Videos where the same person plays all the characters is like when gollum talks to himself in lord of the rings