My Voltaire fit. Pardon the shitty balcony, I live in a dump. 😝 The stuff that looks like a nice house is a café. 🤣 Now I just have to learn to do make up 😝

a meme template if i've ever seen one

cc: ig lemon (alt)

Ok what are y’all’s fav horror movies? Or horror media in general

I just noticed the pacing of Miriel's speech with the frame showing Halbrand

"or is it here? amongst us even now..."

taken out of context the juxtaposition is so clever. Because yes guess what, it IS here amongst you 🤫

edit: i put it in the tags but this is as important. the statue carved in the cliff in the background definitely is Aulë.

We get this frame with Miriel's speech weirdly paced to linger on Halbrand and a scenery shot with Aulë in the background I am losing it-

Some cool take on Malenia? 👀

The clacks you hear in fight along the metal slams in her katana are the way miquella figured out to allow malenia to switch katana stances without using both arms, since she was already accepting she was gonna lose the other one. Every time her stance changes the grip on her katana, the metal sound is the readjustment of a metal variating between high/mid/low stance, according what she need to use for the current combat 👍👍 younger Malenia dood cause i havent give her the love she deserves

i also feel she was marika's sweetheart 👍

I'm just going to go on a rant right now for no clear reason.

I really hate it when people look down on stories for having Villains of the Non-morally complex type. Because Hot Take, some stories are best when the Villain has a simple moral structure, or is just an unapologetic evil bastard.

For one not all stories need to be in-depth discussions of the meaning of the human condition, some stories can just be mindless fun, and a simple Villain/Antagonist can absolutely work for that.

But also morally complex villains necessarily make your story more complicated and demand a lot more attention in the narrative, as in order to pull off a morally complex villain you need to ensure the reader understands their motivations and morality, and not all stories have the space for that. It's possible for a story to be too complex, and by making your villain simple that frees up space to dedicate to other things.

Take Lord of The Rings, Sauron in many ways is a simple Pure-Evil Villain, at least during the main story, he does horrible shit and causes immense suffering because that's just what he does. Now imagine LOTR if Sauron was a more complex villain and Tolkien spent a bunch of time diving in-depth as to why he does what he does and how he morally justifies his actions, it'd quickly gum up the narrative, so the story is served better rendering him as a more simple villain so Tolkien could focus the narrative on other themes.

Additionally sometimes simpler Villains/Antagonists serve the purpose of communicating themes better.

I'll use Les Mis as an example of this. One of the main things Victor Hugo tackles in Les Mis is the relationship between the Law and Justice/Morality. In order to make this easier to understand, he writes the Antagonist Javert as a strict legalist Police Inspector whose moral code can be simply described as "The Law is always right, no matter the circumstance" and who never strays in his behavior from what the Law expects of him (at least until the end), this means that in the narrative Javert is depersonalized and instead of being a character in his own right, serves as the personification of the Legal System, his actions are not his own, they are the actions of the Legal System. This means that when Javert does something Unjust, Immoral, or generally harmful the negative consequences of his actions cannot just be assigned to him, but to the system as a whole.

Victor Hugo critiques the Legal System by literally just having a character with power and authority who does precisely what the Legal System expects of him at every turn cause a bunch of harm through his actions. And it works.

If Javert was more individualized and had a more complex moral system that sometimes caused him to stray from the Legalist Route then the consequences of his actions could be attributed to the results of letting a Rogue Cop stray from what he was supposed to do, instead of the system as a whole; making the critiques Victor Hugo has of the system less obvious.

sorry. i love when people are willingly tools and i love when they choose to be tools together. greater than thyself. the transcendental nature of believing in possibilities you cannot accomplish alone as a singular and lonely human. Huge talk for someone’s canonical relationship of their wol to the scions as “really weirdly intimate coworkers.” to me they’re like a bunch of escaped shelter dogs in those stories about animals journeying home together and the wol is like a random wild dog that started trotting alongside them and mauls things really good

my girlfriend is reading the lord of the rings for the first time, and keeps texting me what random words mean, it's the most adorable thing. so far I've had to explain undulating, hewn, helm, and dell.

Damn I can go to the dentist AND the eye doctor on my state's medicaid? Wow guess who gets to finally have answers to those mundane problems

what’s with this weird argument of wanting bosses to fight you with honor in fromsoft games? wtf does that even mean, have they ever played these games before lmao. players will use the most op meta builds and cheese strats to win but then complain the boss is ‘cheating’ simply because they got their shit rocked by them. brother you are playing a video game. malenia hit you and healed herself because you were busy mashing r1 in a blind panic hoping you could dps her down before she got waterfowl off

All the #RyouSweep propaganda got me thinking like. Yeah we all criticize Ryou for STILL FUCKING GOING BACK FOR THE DAMN RING in Battle City (and every other time lbr), and rightfully so, but if we’re being honest. In his defense it WAS kind of horrendously irresponsible of the Yugis to just leave two wholeass Millennium Items just sitting on a table and then leave the room. Why did they do that

I feel like as someone who was a cashier it’s very easy to say I’d hate to be the person ringing up safiya and tylers purchases but I also once rang up like $300+ worth of fake flowers for a rlly sweet woman when I worked at dollar tree and was more like, fascinated than anything

made a new choker uwu

I wish I could love the fuckwit cunty dude protags but 9 times out of 10 I'm just like nah fuck off, where's the sweet kind hearted one that everyone else says is boring, thanks

"who is it that miquella shall bless, if not the low and the meek" hhhhhhhhhh

Suddenly, I don’t recall how to get to the Haligtree...