Tulafina

Critical Role, Avatar and so many more that I can't even name all of them. WoT books and show fan. Also anything I find funny, even if no one else thinks so

[o-kurwa]

[teeelsie-posts]

I'm speechless

[unremarkable-gods]

i don’t know if anyones ever considered this (they probably have these books are older than me i’m reading my dad’s copies) but i’ve been wondering about galad being raised an aeil warrior bc tigraine went “i’ll leave my husband happily but my son is coming the fuck with me”.

because as far as we know, the only constraints were that she couldn’t tell anyone where she going and couldn’t return to andor, so if she just. never told galad where they were going and just took him with her. technically, it would be within the bounds of gitara’s fortelling.

galad as we know him would take to be being raised to follow ji’e’toh like a fish to water. one of the main things elayne has to say about him is that his honour and drive to do the right thing is almost always at the forefront of his mind, even at the expense of himself and others. it would genuinely be perfect for him. he may not have the look of the aiel but he would certainly have the conviction of one.

plus, being able to see him and rand develop a real brotherly relationship while they are both with the aiel would make his fight against demandred in tarmon gai’don — He is not here, but his brother is! — even more compelling. the siblings he didn’t grow up with need him, and he will be loyal to them to the end because not only is that how he was raised but, aeil or damodred or trakand, that is simply who he is.

furthermore a galad who didn’t have to suffer through taringail for longer than he absolutely had to would probably have a healthier childhood. janduin would have been able to have a pseudo/second?-son he would have adored. (though i doubt tigraine would have been able to directly raise galad after becoming a maiden, she would have still been in his life. he wasn’t born when she was a maiden so there would probably be some arguing but a compromise could be made i think)

post-rhuidean reveal galad would have jumped at the idea of a free first-brother and two free second-siblings. and maybe a even near-brother in mat, who would be a little freaked out but honestly has bigger problems at the minute so kind of just goes with it. galad and aviendha would have been bickering about the best ways to teach rand about aiel culture and poor rand would just be stuck in the middle of it. galad having a little sulk about the winespring brother’s shelter and not being able to go be with his baby first-brother.

i think i quite possibly need to write this now.

[beardedmrbean]

Next up someone is going to claim that the Narnia series isn't kids books.

Kids books is probably not the best way to word it, you can enjoy them at every age, including your childhood, as you get older you may find new truths in them, but they're still good for any age.

[cookingwithroxy]

I want you to understand this. I NEED you to understand this. My mother read me the hobbit as bedtime story, and I started pushing myself to read before pre-school so I could in fact read the hobbit for myself instead of having to wait for bedtime.

I didn't do so right away but jesus wept I PUSHED myself to learn to read SPECIFICALLY so I could read The Hobbit! It is, in fact, a children's story! And children only see page count as 'there is a lot of this fun story to read!'

[jenroses]

I read Narnia to myself at 7 after my dad read me the books as bedtime stories. By age 9 I was reading 300 page books in about an hour (Black stallion, one of the sequels, I don't remember which ones) The Hobbit and LotR were age 8-ish, maybe earlier. I was reading adult books at that point as well. My library stack was usually 10-15 books and I would read them all in the allotted time. As an adult, I mostly read fanfic, but a million words a week is pretty typical for me. I've read more, sometimes less. I started reading around age 3 or 4, so chapter books at age 7 isn't that wild. What actually taught me reading was books on tape. My parents were exhausted with my endless demands for books so they got me cassette tapes that had books, fairy tales, and they would beep when it was time to turn the page and I hated being surprised by the beep so learning to read helped me predict the beep so I wouldn't be startled. (This is where I turn to the camera and say, with deepest sarcasm, "But I wasn't autistic.")

[katschy]

I was reading at 2 and by the time I was in school the entire community learned fast not to pledge me per book for the annual MS Read-a-thon. I read fast, and was so often so desperate for something to read that I would grab my parents' books from their shelves (romance novels from Mum, cowboy and WW2 serials from Dad) and often books that were even less age-appropriate. Wasn't traumatised by any of it. Learned a lot of vocab from it.

Children are not stupid. They may need help understanding themes they've never encountered, and if something upsets them they will need some loving support to understand why it's upsetting, and maybe they can avoid those things specifically until they're better prepared to deal with them. But to deny them knowledge and understanding is, IMO, more harmful than letting them read The Hobbit or Watership Down or the Gashleycrumb Tinies or The Plague Dogs.

[jessalrynn]

People get this idea that they didn’t like “thing” as a child, (usually misremembering why) and therefore no child would ever like “thing”. It’s another aspect of that “I am the average person. Everyone is like me.”

So they cripple and contain and collapse their child into the same small box they were kept in, the one that didn’t even fit them, that has become so much smaller and more tattered now. And they wonder why their child doesn’t want to experience things.

[crowboy-bebop]

unauthorized fucking thing!!!!!!

(warning: loud chirping throughout)

source: hellgate osprey cam

[curlicuecal]

[aetherograph]

More context:

the first osprey is the father, the one that comes later is the mother.

ospreys are not eagles, they're ospreys

ospreys only eat fish, that's why they don't register this starling as possible food

the starling got home safely

the starling was not trying to eat the eggs, it was mostly curious and you can see it trying to hop under the osprey every time the osprey tries to sit down again--this is because the starling is still a baby and has the instinct to get under an adult for warmth, even though it mostly has its feathers. this scares the osprey because that is a Foreign Creature near its eggs.

at the end of the video you can see the ospreys starting to turn the eggs. birds do this so the yolk and/or embryo don't stick to the shell of the egg, which is bad for the egg's health.

ospreys have eyes adapted to seeing beneath the surface of the water!

[uglywizardhat]

okay first osprey is the mama, that's iris - named for her extremely striking eyes. the one who files in is her current mate, NG2 (short for New Guy 2 lmao, she's had a few paramours the past several years) who you can actually vote on a new name for right now!

[thememedaddy]

[mclennonyaoi]

reading this deposition that just got dropped where someone sued musk and ohhhh my god it is this funniest thing ever . i can see why his lawyer tried to keep this confidential . they’re both maybe the biggest idiots . this is like ace attorney

[mclennonyaoi]

Elon Musk Didn’t Want His Latest Deposition Released. Here It Is.

Musk is being sued for falsely suggesting a 22-year-old Jewish man was part of a neo-Nazi brawl.

Elon Musk Deposed In Lawsuit For Falsely Linking Jewish Man To Neo-Nazi Brawl

Elon Musk was deposed in a recent lawsuit for falsely linking a 22-year-old Jewish man to a neo-Nazi brawl. Musk, who attempted to keep the

PLEASE read this

[mclennonyaoi]

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[mclennonyaoi]

[mclennonyaoi]

bankston is my HERO he’s tearing these people apart

[mclennonyaoi]

damn

[mclennonyaoi]

HE LEFT

[mclennonyaoi]

????

[mclennonyaoi]

oh my god

[mclennonyaoi]

KILL HIM

[mclennonyaoi]

he is DONE.

[mclennonyaoi]

HELP ME .

[mclennonyaoi]

wow. ok.

[mclennonyaoi]

[mclennonyaoi]

genuinely first two pages he says that he thinks ben’s lawyer is the one who is actually suing him and admits he has no clue what the lawsuit is about .

[mclennonyaoi]

doing a reread now this is so cunty

[mclennonyaoi]

goddamn .

[cryptotheism]

fun fact: the Mr. Bankston here is Mark Bankston, the same lawyer who absolutely ruined Alex Jones during the Sandy Hook trial.

[ex-libris-craux]

how in the fuck did the muskrat's attorney pass the bar

[ruffboi-mags]

Mark Bankston is gonna make me fucking SWOON.

[bemusedlybespectacled]

I don't think Mark can ever top "INDEED, MR. JONES, INDEED" and "AND THAT IS HOW I KNOW YOU LIED TO ME" from the first Sandy Hook trial in Texas (not to be confused with Chris Mattei, the attorney in the Connecticut trial), but this part

MR. SPIRO: Do you give these lectures at all of your depositions? MR. BANKSTON: I do, and you can watch them.

is ESPECIALLY hilarious to me having listened to multiple depositions Mark has had to take in the Sandy Hook case, where he has needed to lecture EVERY. SINGLE. ATTORNEY. at some point in the case about how they're violating Texas Rule XYZ, because they all, to a one, did something seriously ethically questionable during the deposition.

like, YOU CAN WATCH/LISTEN TO HIS DEPOS. HE DOES HAVE TO GIVE THOSE LECTURES EVERY TIME. IT'S NOT EVEN A JOKE.

[babyanimalgifs]

Me thinking about a joke I told last week

[argumate]

what the fuck, that’s way funnier than the screengrabs

[gaslit-dipshits]

[appalachian-werewolf]

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[reasonsforhope]

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[cupcraft]

You never know what color pallette someone's Tumblr is till ppl are screenshotting posts and tags

[aropride]

do u like mine

[cupcraft]

Oh wow.

[cupcraft]

Some people on tumblr are reading ancient scrolls and you'd never know

[beowulfstits-archive-deactivate]

I want to go to this exact point and run around it saying “I’m in Sweden!” I’m in Finland!” “I’m in Norway!” until I get tired

i aspire to great things in life

[therothwoman]

According to Google Maps, that point is in the middle of a small lake.

[leda74]

So we’ll do it in January when it’s frozen.

[nightmigrations]

actually that’s why they’ve helpfully dropped a big-ass cement block with a bridge surrounding it in the middle of the lake: for the express purpose of doing what OP aspires to do

[slaughtermetals]

there’s so much beauty in the world.

[illbeanisland]

There’s also a point like this which connects Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands!

They even made a circle there which tells you in which country you are

[consultwithmouse]

And the tripoint of Slovakia-Austria-Hungary 👋😊

[mist-the-wannabe-linguist]

the tripoint of czechia, slovakia and poland is just A Rock In A Ditch lmao

[neongreentoxicity]

Ok that was probably the most fanfic-ass series events I’ve ever read in a published novel.

Aviendha, who is (to the audience; he’s convinced she hates him, for maximum tension and Jordan Oppositional Sexism Moments™️) very clearly in love with Rand and one of the three women he’s destined to marry according to Min, has been forced into sleeping in the same room as Rand for Plot Reasons

She decides to wash up in the room they’re unwillingly sharing (this should not be a problem for her, since she’s Aiel and Aiel are very comfortable being naked around people of other sexes, but this is conveniently forgotten for the scene)

Rand comes back early and finds her naked. She is horrifically flustered and embarrassed by this, yelling that she has to get away, and in her desperation makes a Traveling gate. Traveling is a completely lost talent that no Aes Sedai has been able to use since the Breaking of the World (even Rand, the fucking Dragon Reborn, can’t quite figure out how to Travel, though he can do something kind of close). She’s so freaked out she just does it by instinct though and she runs through. Naked

Her Traveling gate has conveniently opened into the middle of a blizzard in northern Seanchan. Seanchan is a massive fucking ocean away from where they are in inland Cairhien, and is very conveniently the worst possible nation in the world to Travel to, since they either kill or magically enslave anyone who can channel

Despite suddenly finding herself naked in a blizzard half a world away, she’s just so embarrassed that she keeps running away from the gate and Rand when he comes to get her out of the fucking blizzard. She then immediately stumbles onto a frozen lake and falls in

Rand must now pull her out of the frozen lake and warm her up. The gate is too far away by now for them to survive getting back to, naturally, so they have to wait out the storm. Rand uses the Power to create a super-strong igloo and heat the air, but oh no! She’s not warming up fast enough. The only choice is for him to get naked and cuddle with her, using body heat to warm her up (the only choice, because conveniently Rand does not know how to Heal)

This works incredibly well, and very fast. Aviendha wakes up completely fine (and apparently quite energized), with no frostbite or lost extremities or anything, despite running a mile in a blizzard and falling straight into a frozen lake, and upon waking up naked cuddling with Rand, can no longer run from her feelings for him

They have sex

Robert Jordan how did you write this *checks dates* fifteen years before AO3 was invented. I’ve read this exact storyline at least fifteen times from authors who have never even heard of the Wheel of Time. Also why. It’s so fucking jarring.

[pineappical]

thinking about statues of Grace being built all around Erid years after his passing so he can continue to watch over Eridians as they sleep

[cabinette]

[kingbuffy]

Frank Oz and Jim Henson ad-lib as Fozzie and Kermit in this test footage for the first Muppet movie, and honestly it's pure gold.

[evanelleonyx]

This is a professional shitpost roleplay.

[annabellioncourt]

I’m crying becuase this is something I’ve never seen before, something original of that era of the Muppets with both Oz and Henson working on one of my favorite movies, but also becuase this is the funniest thing I have seen in mONTHS.

[whencartoonsruletheworld]

"lupita nyong'o can't be helen of troy because helen was greek and there weren't black people in ancient greece"

DO YOU THINK THESE MOTHERFUCKERS DIDNT HAVE BOATS. THIS ENTIRE MOVIE IS ABOUT ONE OF THOSE MOTHERFUCKERS AND HIS BOAT

[whencartoonsruletheworld]

do you think these people can read

[phoenix]

Best comment I just saw "Helen of Troy was perfectly cast, because all these men are fighting about her."

[kristina100000]

this happens to me every day i dont know how to make it stop

[superioronion]

can we nominate him for the Darwin award

[shadow13dickpistons]

Oh thank God someone explained this.

[dramatic-dolphin]

i love declining birth rates 🥰 "what a horrible problem! society will collapse!" oopsie it looks like you're gonna have to make having children worth it 😊 teehee you're gonna have to improve society in order to fix this problem, or it will all collapse. oh noooooo. how horrible. :3c

[weirdthingifoundonline]

[appendingfic]

"Society needs to extract all wealth from the next generation and then expect them to create enough replacement workers so they can do the same thing-"

you're describing a pyramid scheme

[wotrot]

Audiobook listeners won’t have seen this, but if you read the prologue to Lord of Chaos and skim so you only really notice the Dark One’s speech, he comes off like a clingy ex harassing Demandred via text message. These are quotes from pages 4 – 5 in my copy of the book, caps and all (just gonna go ahead and add Captain Capslock to the many names Shai’tan is known by).

DEMANDRED.

DEMANDRED, HOW FARES THIS WORLD?

THE CHOSEN DWINDLE, DEMANDRED.

WOULD YOU UNLEASH THE BALEFIRE IN MY SERVICE, DEMANDRED?

DEMANDRED, STOP LEAVING ME ON READ*

*ok that one’s not actually a book quote, but you know if TDO had messenger he’d be sending that