Bringing up The Royal Book of Oz again because I need you all to be aware of how badly it butchered the Scarecrow and Tin Woodman-

The Scarecrow gets roasted by the Wogglebug in front of everyone and the Tin Woodman just straight-up does not care.

The man who once threatened the Wogglebug with death over his terrible puns doesn’t have a thing to say when the overgrown bug drives his favorite person to tears? Really? Then later on Dorothy is looking for the Scarecrow only to find that he disappeared at some point during the night. Once again, Niccolo Chopper doesn’t give a hoot.

Hey pal, maybe show a little concern over the sudden disappearance of your life partner?

The Tin Woodman spends the rest of the book back at Emerald City with Ozma, who is also quite unconcerned with how the Scarecrow has been missing for several days now. (She’s also pretty unconcerned with how Dorothy left for the Scarecrow’s house days ago and hasn’t come back yet. Bc y’know Ozma is never clingy or overprotective of loved ones!/s)

The only time the characters actually feel like themselves is in this passage near the end-

Someone should write a fic from the Tin Man’s POV where he realizes that he almost lost his husband forever all because he wasn’t thinking about his feelings.

Anyways I just wanted to share this cursed knowledge bc GOD I can’t be the only person who knows about this.

Went to the albuquerque ritual and all i got was these hoochie daddy shorts

[ inspection ] sender holds receiver's face while inspecting an injury they got @val3ntines

it was almost a cruel sort of irony she'd been cursed with. immortality, and yet her injuries wouldn't heal unless she harvested yet another soul to do so. she was tired, and in a brief moment of exhaustion she'd underestimated one of her 'clients'. the next day she was sore, irritated, and so not in the mood for the warlock to suddenly make an appearance at her hotel door.

"wow, you sure know how to make a girl feel special." she murmured, fighting the urge to flinch at his sudden touch. the concern in his gaze was surprising, dark brown hues searching his gaze in confusion.

fun fact: a sword is the last of the seven traditional betrothal gifts in Arradine and sharing/lending someone your sword is considered essentially as good as swearing your life to them. 

naturally, sirion and callebero have both lent each other their sword before ever talking about feelings

ALT ID:

[A digital illustration of two men standing near a cliff's edge during a solar eclipse. Both wear black armor with gold accents and have long undercuts with their hair tied up in a bun and ponytail respectively. The man on the right is standing still, tilting a long, blood-stained saber toward the other and looking offscreen. The man on the left is stepping forward, hand out as if to take the sword. Both are scuffed up and bleeding. The sky is a bright orange with a large solar eclipse forming a yellow crescent over the ocean.]

the *only* thing motivating me to finish my assignments and graduate is the hope that maybe once i'm out of academia and have an adult job i will also have more time for my hobbies

Blood sticks, sweat drips Break the lock if it don't fit A kick in the teeth is good for some A kiss with a fist is better than none

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wait what do you mean a red string of fate ties us together but all we do is strangle each other with it. what do you mean this string can only stretch and tangle but never break and yet we keep biting and gnawing on it to try to free ourselves from it anyway.

barbara and ian's exit is an unashamedly joyful one. they laugh about the missing years! they have a pigeon chasing montage! they whisper goodbye at the sky and then run off giggling! and then as vicki laughs at their joy, too happy to let the loss of her few friends sink in, one just turns his head and very gently says that he will miss them. he will miss them.

wwaid (what would aabria iyengar do)

Imagine the boys getting cursed to bear witness to “some of the most negatively impactful things in their lives” and they’re terrified, thinking it’ll be stuff like the invasion or Shredder or something-

Only to be met with multiple scenarios of their family. Saying offhand, but hurtful things. Doing hurtful things. Lots of scenarios that were inconsequential to everyone but the one most affected.

And they’re all scrambling, desperate to make sure the others don’t look too deep into it haha it doesn’t really bother them- but they all know the truth. Because they’re all in the same position here. It wasn’t on purpose, and they all know it wasn’t on purpose, but it still hurts.

It’s almost a relief, that they’re going through it all together. That they can apologize for mistakes, and accept that they’ve held onto hurt too long when they could have dealt with it sooner.

And that’s how they break the curse, reversing it into something different, as they’re told that before it leaves them for good they’ll bear witness to the most positively impactful things in their lives. And now they think they’ll see some of their best victories, some of their grandest adventures-

The scenes they see then are of the same cloth as their negative ones. Simple scenes, ones that most wouldn’t remember. Times where someone managed to make someone else smile, times where they were just so content to exist by the other’s side, times where they were just happy being there with their brothers, their family.

It’s the little things that go the farthest, because that’s what you experience the most in life. And they’ll mess up again, of course. Things happen, and they’ll never really know how their actions and words will be taken. But through the good and the bad, they’re family.

Besides - turns out, there’s a lot more good.

I think the thing that shocks me the most about the discourse, if you can even call it that, around book Alicent vs show Alicent, is the idea that people think book Alicent had full autonomy over all her choices and she wasn’t a “victim” like show Alicent.

Now first, I put victim in quotations bc the way people who do not like her have almost bastardized that word. Alicent is a victim, and those things (rape, abuse, neglect) were done to her. That says everything about the men who did that do her and nothing about her. But people are hellbent on throwing Alicent, a woman in a violently patriarchal environment, being victimized back at people as if it is moral flaw of hers. Which is just terribly ironic bc the same folks who say Alicent “did it to herself” or “deserves what she is getting” also seem to think the crux of the story isn’t about generational trauma catching up with itself, how far people will go for power, or even how all girls and women are harmed - albeit to different degrees. But more the fact that Rhaenyra is the only woman to be harmed - and the only harm done is not getting the throne easily. Those same people wouldn’t be caught dead admitting that Rhaenyra is also a victim in the way they shit on Alicent for being. From the father who sets her up fail, to the baby daddy that’s been eyeing her since she was barely 18, to the uncle that grooms her. It takes away from the fantasy projected onto Rhaenyra if she too is surrounded by men that use her and she never escapes that.

Second, it’s funny how F&B gets heralded by some as this exploration of how history is skewed depending on who is telling it. But people can’t read between the lines (you honestly don’t even have to do that much work) with book Alicent. Showing 14 year old Alicent being preyed on, 16 year old Alicent being pregnant with her second child, and 18 year old Alicent being raped is somehow the show needlessly making Alicent a victim. But reading about a 13 year old bathing, dressing, and taking care of a king who mistakes her for the daughter he abused and neglected, and then that same girl, at 18, marrying another king that killed his previous child bride is just girl bossism on book Alicent’s part?

People hate conceptualizing the idea that (even book) Alicent is caught in patriarchal trappings bc to some that takes away from Rhaenyra’s plight…. Bc they can’t wrap their heads around several women *gasp* all going through hardships, and that ultimately people will respond to trauma differently depending on tools/knowledge they have at their disposal. Alicent neither being gleefully evil nor picking herself up by her bootstraps to somehow end years of patriarchal violence is not the neat box they want for her.

i miss u nhl.com 2015 top prospects features

cant stop thinking about jiang cheng strapping jin ling to his chest and taking him everywhere in the months after jyl and wwx die, falling asleep clutching jin ling to him and sobbing his eyes out, the two of them forming such a strong bond through this that even years later jin ling will always find comfort and safety in his jiujiu's arms, bundled close enough to hear jiang cheng's heart beating

something about perspective, representation, or finding beauty in imperfection, i don't know. i mostly just wanted to say that fake pep looks like shitty ice cream.

lan jingyi: *sitting on a basket that’s making angry clucking noises*

lan sizhui: jingyi, what is that?

lan jingyi: a basket

lan sizhui: i mean what’s inside?

lan jingyi:

lan sizhui:

lan jingyi: let’s say, hypothetically speaking, i found a way to trap a demon in the body of a chicken—

lan sizhui: what?! how did you even do that?!

lan jingyi: “hOw DiD yOu EvEn Do ThAt?” aren’t you the one who told me i can do anything i put my mind to??

lyanna gets written off as a more “feminine” version of arya when lyanna is genuinely MORE associated with “masculine” pursuits than arya lol lyanna seems to have had some skill with a sword and she was trained in jousting too. arya has neither. lyanna dressed in armor and rode in a tourney as a knight for all the realm to see to make a point. arya was forced to pretend to be a boy for survival.

everything we know suggests lyanna was quite an aggressive and defiant character. in some examples, explicitly more so than even arya (ie: bran’s weirwood vision where she beat benjen’s ass). not a damn thing implies she was secretly ladylike and everyones just ignoring it

I hate all the pain Wille had to go through being seen as the “lesser” prince even though he’s more than half the man Erik ever was.