Nelly

✦ she/her - 24yrs - professional couch potato - aspiring author ✦

[unlockyourmind-wp]

MASTERLIST

MISC.

reviews

The Last Kingdom season 5 thoughts

rants

About that Thor: Love and Thunder trailer...

X READER

daryl dixon

“We can’t give up. We have to keep going” (fem! reader)

X OC

finan the agile

Of Storm and Siege.

[dr-cassie-mckay]

@pscentral​ event 49: literature ↳ Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir – Okay, if I'm going to die, it's going to have meaning.

[remusjohnslupin]

Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

[fawnpalmer]

quarterly reminder that if i reblog something ai-generated it is 110% and always an accident and for the love of god please tell me so i can delete it from my blog

[thefishywizard]

Victors

[avantegarda]

video game and film fandoms will come and go for me but the Silmarillion fandom will never die. because that book came out like 50 years ago and we're all still trying to figure out what the hell is going on there.

[hamletthedane]

Average Silmarillion fan:

[braedenhales]

insp

@pscentral EVENT 48: SILHOUETTES

[moonlightingcurse]

Prince Henry suffers from an arranged marriage, signore... among other things.

Sleeping Beauty (1959) // Ever After: A Cinderella Story (1998)

[prokopetz]

One of my favourite bits of media history trivia is that back in the Elizabethan period, people used to publish unauthorised copies of plays by sending someone who was good with shorthand to discretely write down all of the play's dialogue while they watched it, then reconstructing the play by combining those notes with audience interviews to recover the stage directions; in some cases, these unauthorised copies are the only record of a given play that survives to the present day. It's one of my favourites for two reasons:

It demonstrates that piracy has always lay at the heart of media preservation; and

Imagine being the 1603 equivalent of the guy with the cell phone camera in the movie theatre, furtively scribbling down notes in a little book and hoping Shakespeare himself doesn't catch you.

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

Thou wouldst not downloadeth a car

[hayden-christensen]

STAR WARS: REVENGE OF THE SITH (2005) Novelisation by Matthew Stover

@pscentral event 49: literature

[rosedavid]

PROJECT HAIL MARY by Andy Weir

@pscentral​ event 49: literature

[solidjellyfish]

Back when I drew my husband

[square-enix]

trial by combat is such a funny concept. if youre not guilty then beat my ass

[bananonbinary]

weird take about fiction: sometimes, actions that would be abusive in real life, hit different in a story. and sometimes i see people react very very strongly to those actions, and i totally get it, because like, that can be extremely triggering and ymmv on whether its handled well or not, but it always makes me a bit. hm.

like, i think the most obvious one is slapping/hitting. in real life, there is basically no situation where that is acceptable, unless you're actively defending yourself/someone else. but fiction is inherently larger than life, its about how it feels, subjectively, over what actually happens, literally. sometimes a character who has never before been violent will hit someone, and it's intended as like, an indicator of how fucked up everything is. that shit is going down. or, a character will trash a room, throwing things and destroying everything in their path. and then its never mentioned again, everything just continues as if they HADNT destroyed their own and other people's property in a frankly terrifying display, because it was just a cathartic moment to represent the storm of emotions the person was feeling. and when i see people like 'this character is an abuser, the story needs to address this,' i think maybe its actually okay for fictional characters to do shitty things and not have it framed as shitty, by the story itself or even on any sort of meta level, with the intended audience reaction. sometimes the point is just to resonate with your emotions, not to dissect the literal sequence of events.

[bananonbinary]

like obviously ive been on the 'you can portray whatever you want in fiction, its all a pretend game' train forever. but i think the important thing to me here is that, you can also defend bad things in fiction. not just 'they did everything wrong and i love that,' but even 'they were 100% justified when they did [thing that would be extremely bad irl].' cause its like, ok, they did do that, but like it was the only way to tell the story well. dont worry about it.

[anne-jordan]

I just saw a post of someone calculating how much Boromir traveled to come to Rivendell from Gondor (105 days), and how of that travel, at least five days he did by foot because he had lost his horse. All that just to arrive the same morning of the council, which means that he had barely a couple hours to clean himself and maybe eat something before he had to attend the meeting that decided the fate of his people and of Middle Earth.

Afterwards, he signed up to the longest, most dangerous, most tiring march ever with a group of complete strangers, of which one was the dude who was supposed to be the king of Gondor, but skipped the long ass years of war against Sauron because he felt unworthy.

The man was sleep deprived, on the verge of starvation, probably a bit touch starved because of how little human contact he had during those three and a half months of travel, home sick, and worried that when he would head back, it would be to rubbles and ashes.

Honestly? I already had a lot of symphaty for Boromir before, but after actually putting into perspective what he had undured even before the fellowship? I actually admire the fact that he lasted that long. If it had been me, I would've hit Gandalf on that pointy fuck ass hat with my metal shield after the first sarcastic comment. Would've dumped a bucket of cold water on that sad emo ranger boy the first time he started disney princessing around, singing to the trees and little birdies. I'm murdering either Legolas or Gimli, depending on who's the one bickering too close to my ears while I'm trying to sleep. The fellowship wouldn't have arrived even to Moria, I'm chucking that ring from the side of the Caradhras and letting Sauron's flamey ass dig for it in the damn snow.

Boromir my man, stand proud, you were strong. I would've done way worse after just one bad week at Uni.

[dr-cassie-mckay]

@pscentral​ event 28: throwback ↳ The Chronicles of Narnia movies + William Moseley as Peter Pevensie and Anna Popplewell as Susan Pevensie

[zannolin]

one of the little details i've noticed about the lion, the witch, and the wardrobe specifically—book AND movie both!—is the implicit implication that the white witch's spell did more than just make it always winter and never christmas. i think it froze everything there, including time. for instance, tumnus talks about narnia before things were frozen as though he lived it himself, and by his own admission, that was over a hundred years ago. (he does this in book and movie both iirc but it definitely stands out in the movie.) and you say, okay, well do fauns just live a long time? maybe, but then tumnus is referred to as now being "middle-aged" in hahb, implying he ages more normally once narnia is no longer frozen. the beavers, too, speak similarly, but more than that, in the book, think about the dam. if he built it after the river froze, it wouldn't be properly dammed, but the river there is described as being frozen very specifically after being dammed, as well as looking like it froze all at once (due to magic). and beavers, even Talking Beavers, wouldn't live a hundred years, especially considering our knowledge of how bree and hwin aged fairly normally for horses in hahb. so like. imagine everyone in narnia is just as frozen as the land. never aging. never dying. only being turned to stone. imagine your dam has been unfinished for decades. imagine there hasn't been a child born there for a hundred years. not until the sons and daughters of our world brought hope and magic and spring again.