Look I'd love to be wrong but I'm just trying to be realistic

I know everyone is reading into the characterisation brought by the masks in Glass Onion, but I love how these clues rely entirely on the audiences shared experiences and connotations made from living during covid. It makes the film so personal, I think.

for people being mad about this, that, and the other part of the Silmarillion which Rings of Power has altered, failed to mention, or glazed over in passing -- claiming that they have no respect for the source material, I am begging you to understand copyright laws. 

Finrod’s death? Still a cool way to go. Definitely not as cool as wrestling a werewolf with his bare hands but they don’t have the rights to that. That’s in the Silmarillion.

Disa being named Disa? Yes, it’s Dis with an ‘a’ at the end. They don’t have the rights to Dis.

The whole glazed-over kinslaying situation? They don’t have the rights to that either. They literally are not allowed to go into too much detail about it or get specific. 

Oh, and all of the details about Elvish hair/aesthetics? That’s all in LaCE. They’re not ignoring it. They don’t have the rights to that either.

And also, I can’t blame them for wanting to separate themselves a little from PJ’s (outstanding) work. PJ was a less than accurate adaption. Especially where the elves are concerned. And it was so utterly white. But his elves are NOT Tolkien’s elves. They’re missing a very distinct joy and sincerity in a strong bid to make them ethereal. And his dwarves are mere comedic relief.

Rings of Power treats Elves and Dwarves much more sincerely, I feel. Their dwarves are so noble and family orientated and smart! They still have some chaos-gremlin vibes but also the culture! the stone-songs! I love them!

And Rings of Power gives us elves who joke with each other and rib each other and elves who feel things so intensely, as Elves canonically do. I never really got that from PJ’s ethereal brooding elves.

Yes, Rings of Power gave us short-haired elves that are much more down-to-earth than we’re used to, but to me they actually feel closer to Tolkien’s work. 

I’ve seen so many complaints but so much of what they are ‘changing’ is just down to the fact that there are things the Tolkien estate has told them they’re not allowed to touch. I understand, then, the question of “then why adapt the Silmarillion” and that’s valid. But honestly I’m just begging you to understand that they’re constrained by copyright laws. That means that there are going to be deviations from canon. A lot of them, actually. But it really feels to me like they very much love and care about the source material. They’re not altering it out of disrespect for Tolkien’s work. They’re making judgements about how to tell the same story, with the characters that still feel like themselves, while having to greatly alter or leave out huge chunks of canon events. And yeah, they are squishing the timeline. Like holy shit are they squishing the timeline. But honestly that doesn’t feel like a very big deal to me. Fanfics have made more egregious sins than compacting the entire Second Age into the span of one human lifetime. 

It’s a fanfic AU. That’s all it is. And IMO it’s actually a very decent fanfic AU. There is so much love here for Tolkien’s work. Is it the best show I’ve ever seen? No, no it’s not really. But it IS a good fanfic. 

(and Robert Aramayo is absolutely killing his role, holy shit). 

The more eddie content i consume the more i love him man OH MY GOD-

HES SUCH A CUTIE PATOOTIE

i just watched Bright Young Things 2003 it was incredibly vibes i very much reccomend also here it is, it's really good and cool and the bright young things were very interesting, although not many of them seemed like very nice people that's kind of the point. plot of movie is rich people would like to get richer, they fall in love and have ridiculous parties take drugs and get up to shenanigans but there are gossip columnists there also and they all lose it a bit, it is also very sad at some points, multiple characters are not very straight <3

and it's one of those based-on-a-book that was based-on-a-true-story type things as well, the bright young things were real and really were Like That

also one of the characters had one of my favourite Cecil Beaton photos up on the wall of their flat which was cool!

References to island life: Númenór, the Land of the Star.

Part 7 in a series on the colours of Númenór.

Just got back from watching a production of Les Mis and yeah man to love another person really is to see the face of God 😭😭😭

(Please note that this is specifically the 1999 versions of these characters, not the characters as they appear across the board. Reminder that ties advance as a team.)

actually lesbian bess marvin is a genius choice . butch george is the obvious pull and i'm still a little miffed that butch george is only a figment of my imagination but i DO love angry alt george so i'm over it it's cool. high femme fluttery pink fraidycat oh my gosh you're so good with cars oh dear i might have a flat. won't a pretty ghost sweep me away into the misty nether lands how romantic bess marvin? god tier if this show does nothing else whatsoever it's done this

Really wish I was a cool gifmaker to gif all palace of desire's and war and beauty's amazing costumes

Doin a lil more Filan

[instagram afffirmations account voice] i will not fall in love with the new cookie run character. i will not fall in love with the new cookie run character. i will not fall in love w

learning abt all the fucking projects the mcu is gonna be doing over the next 3 fucking years just makes me want to get more into dc

"They lied to me, they all LIED to me... but we'll make it through... together"

"New start, new TBD, new mission"

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alright i’ll say it. i don’t hate the new netflix atla

suzanne collins is such a genius... the cultural phenomenon of her series leading to the hanging tree house remixes, mockingjay being milked for two (bad) movies, the capitol-inspired makeup palettes, the halloween costumes, the explosion of the market for dystopia, the butchering of her characters and removal of disabilities, disfiguration, and racial tension + representation to sell more tickets, the extra gale scenes to fuel discourse, and the audience showing up to cinemas to watch what was pretty honestly marketed to them (the jacob vs edwardification of the symbolic love story and also to watch children fight to the death) it's just so ridiculously ironic i would say you can't write this shit, but she did write about it... in The Hunger Games published 2008