Im working on a shadowgast corporate/office setting-AU rec list!
So far, I have 3 fics- im taking suggestions; Dm or comment your fic names
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“It [The Lord of the Rings] is finished, if still partly unrevised, and is, I suppose, in a condition which a reader could read, if he did not wilt at the sight of it…now I look at it, the magnitude of the disaster is apparent to me. My work has escaped from my control, and I have produced a monster: an immensely long, complex, rather bitter, and very terrifying romance, quite unfit for children (if fit for anybody); and it is not really a sequel to The Hobbit, but to The Silmarillion.”
— J.R.R. Tolkien to Sir Stanley Unwin, 24 February 1950
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Cheery Littlebottom is actually the best fictional character ever, demonstrated below:
Got fired from being an alchemist for exploding the guild council
Consequently eyebrowless when we first encounter her
Not only transgender, but arguably the inventor of transgenderism among dwarves
Immediately becomes girl best friends with Angua
Overcomes her prejudices against werewolves, is defended in turn from dwarvish [trans]misogyny by Angua. Girls supporting girls. I love them.
Have I mentioned transgender
Singlehandedly creates & maintains a forensics department
Has to be the person to tell Vimes that spoons can't be made of arsenic
In the face of transphobic vitriol is still able to show kindness and compassion to Dee when she needs it
Is, once again, transgender
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Me watching the first third of glass onion: man idk, it just doesn't have the same vibe as knives out. I mean we're spending *way* too long on the build up, Benoit Blanc isn't even acting like himself, and it feels like the story's almost over even though we're nowhere close to halfway. Kind of disappointing man :(
Me watching the last two third of glass onion: oh! Ohhhh! OH!! OHHHHH!!! OHHHHHHH!!!!! OHHHHHHHHHHH-
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I'm using a metal band name generator for some inspiration and some of these names I can't
Sonic Pentagram
Heavy Snake
Final Ashes
Demonic Demons
Mutilated Dust
Rusted Force
Immortal Dust
Mega Terminator
Evil Dust
Sacred Goblin
Holy Jesus
Demonic Dispair (yes, with i)
Pulsing Flesh (tbh that sounds like a real death metal band alright)
Then there are some really valid ones like
Atomic Horsemen
Burning Goddess
Suicide Cross
Graveyard Riot
Beyond Enemy
Red Funeral
Morbid Inquisition
Blasphemous Flesh (again, an excellent death metal name)
I love how you can just point out genres from these names like "yeah, that's definitely black metal, that's death metal, that's power and that is a clear folk metal name, and that could work for a doom band".
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Thinking about how Leo says he uses his jokes to cope and y’know, thinking harder on it I think it may very well be because of what else uses one-liners and puns and that type of humor.
Specifically, 80’s action movies and campy sci-fi. Even more specifically, the protagonists of these.
So I can imagine why, exactly, Leo leans toward this brand of humor. It’s directly linked to things he loves! But even more than that is why I think it’s used as a coping mechanism.
In these genres, these quips tend to be said by the winner - or, if not a winner, then someone who will stay alive. So there’s a confidence behind them, an assurance, almost, that even if things go wrong, things aren’t ever too serious. There’s no bad endings here! It’s all good fun, even if the stakes seem high.
Leo canonically has been known to steer his brothers away from the more brutal villains and toward more fun, lighthearted activities and not-so-dangerous criminals. So for Leo, these jokes definitely make things less heavy, make the situations they find themselves in less intense.
It’s kinda not just coping, but also can be seen as a form of escapism. A safety blanket. A way for Leo to defuse the tension of knowing just how dangerous their lives are and replace that with a levity which implies that things will be okay.
Unfortunately, levity alone does not alter reality.
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Prefect… Would you like me to teach you how to dance?
Oh, wow. Offering a private lesson, Jamil?
Don’t call it that-
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they just kinda sorta lost track of time
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shout out to Aardman for making a movie that has a lead female character that's well written and feels like a real person (even though she's a chicken), a predominantly female cast with only one or two supporting male characters (pulling a reverse Smurfette trope) whom all have diverse personalities and quirks, and a main romance between said female lead and the play boy male character that's an enemies to lovers that doesn't at all feel misogynistic or like they actually hate each other. And shout out to him for making the main mastermind villain a woman as well. It's an action-adventure movie with a female lead narrative that feels entirely gender neutral and it's one of the few I can think of that does this. Also shout our to him for making the chickens all look anthropomorphized in a way that isn't overly sexualized (or sexual at all really). If there were an award for "man who actually knows how to write female characters and present them as people" it would go to Aardman. Well done.
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While I do think it's kind of a weird marketing choice for the Sour and Guts albums to seemingly have near-identical aesthetics, I also think swifties have a weird tendency to impose "eras" on every single artist. like sometimes pop artists just want to keep making pop albums that fit the personal aesthetic of who they truly are not everyone wants to completely reinvent themselves and their sound and their vibe every two years xx
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