May your parts be golden and green

I dream, for I am a coward 

[filmgifs]

THE FALL 2006 | dir. Tarsem Singh

[sluttyquarantinetheory]

I think it's a real shame Inquisition doesn't give the advisors approval. Largely because i think an impecably polite Josephine who hates your guts would be phenomenal.

[igorafvckassbowlcut]

there are days where NO ❌️ video games are played and there are days where video games are played for 10 or maybe 14 hours straight

[s-lycopersicum]

Oh, you think you're safe now?

Nothing can deliver you from these paws!

[skimmer-vode]

Reblog to animatedly boop your followers

[festeredhearts]

[quiet-requiem]

Everything should look slightly haunted.

[pocketss]

distressing things to say to your friends

[winwin17]

🌳🌳🌳

Reblog to plant a mallorn tree in Valinor for Haldir, who said he'd never heard whether any grow there, and that "it would be a poor life in a land where no mallorn grew."

[thegreatasexualwombat]

Noldorin culture is

High context

Middleground

Low context

Voting ended onAug 5

[p1nkiek1ttie]

no, actually, i can’t be friends with someone who has opposing political views. this is mostly due to the fact my views are “people deserve rights”

[winwin17]

The hearty laughter of an elf must be the most beautiful sound in the world.

Too often elves are portrayed as being quite stoic all the time. And maybe in times of war and trouble, they are. But it can't be always.

And I think what a glorious sound it must be when an elf really laughs.

The hearty, joyful laugh of Glorfindel. The golden laugh of Gildor. The dazzling laugh of Finrod. The generous laugh of Fingon. The rare and precious laugh of Elrond, more beautiful than the music of all the minstrels. The contagious laugh of Celebrían, when something's uncommonly delightful. The warm, unmarred laugh of Maedhros, before he was corrupted. The wholesome laugh of Celebrimbor that feels like home and beautiful treasures.

The ringing laughter of Elladan and Elrohir in true, unblemished merriment. The delightful laugh of Legolas, sometimes more than a little undignified. The unexpected, unguarded laugh of Thranduil, that bounces off the walls of his grand palace so that those at the edge of hearing range think, "Something amuses the king!" and have to smile, too. And the comforting laugh of Celeborn, and the shining laugh of Galadriel, and the full and glowing laugh of Arwen when her one true love shows his silly side.

Elf. Laughter. Do you see the vision?

[vintageandroid]

i made a post like this before but I can't find it now. so. I'll just redo it.

What's the first "big news story" you remember from when you were a kid?

It's something I love to ask mixed-aged groups sometimes because I think it's really interesting to see the responses. I've gotten answers from the Olympics of [whatever year] to Watergate to more recent stuff from my niblings.

My first news thing I remember is the OJ Simpson trial. I vaguely remember watching the news with my grandparents before that, but that's the first story I remember, in part because my second grade teacher had us go play so she could watch the verdict 😂

[luna-azzurra]

Something neuroscience-y that helps with prose: attention is selective. A character will not notice everything in a room. They will notice what matters to their goal, fear, desire, training, wound, or obsession. A jealous character notices hands. a hungry character notices food. A soldier notices exits. A lonely character notices pairs. Description becomes character when attention has a bias.

[funny-tik-toks]

[mooned-knights]

is anyone else annoyed that "ai" encompasses both chatgpt and tools we train to do repetitive tedious work for us. and by the ripple effect of articles like "scientists develop ai to detect cancer early" that make people argue for the merit of chatgpt or become anti-medicine. and by the general state of the world and society

[the-punforgiven]

I'm just saying, if you're going to worldbuild magic being a "raw, primal force, akin to and interweaving with nature itself" you gotta explain to me why animals don't use it

[the-punforgiven]

I know the normal answer is "they just aren't smart enough for it" but idk I've seen enough media where a character uses a spell in a moment of brain-off panic ilI feel like animals could probably stumble into a spell or two like, accidentally

[the-punforgiven]

Also how funny would it be to see a completely normal regular bear cast magic missile outta nowhere

[the-punforgiven]

Also there is no way ravens wouldn't figure out spells, tbh

They're smart fuckin birds, I believe in them

Either through observing or just figuring shit out ravens could 100% learn how to cast spells I'm sure of it

[the-punforgiven]

Dogs can also cast Magic Missile but every time they do the projectile is shaped like a bone or a stick and they chase after it

[prokopetz]

Fantasy setting where every species of animal has One Fucked Up Trick exactly like in medieval bestiaries (e.g., panthers hypnotising their prey with sweet breath, pelicans reviving the dead with their willingly shed blood, etc.), except these are actually learned magic spells passed down from parent to offspring, so different populations of the same animal in different regions might have a different spell.

(If a species is domesticated you can teach it any spell you want, as long as you start 'em young enough; every breed of dog has a different "standard" spell, and knowing the "wrong" one is considered both a grave departure from breed standards and a potential violation of animal husbandry ethics.)

[pocketss]

It was important to me that she puts emphasis on the TOK

[bucketofdeltav]

Friend who was visiting Bath just brought this to my attention and is very confused by the hysterics I'm having about it.

This, too, is yuri:

[inbabylontheywept]