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leverage is so funny cause they start out with like, really Sympathetic Pretty Victims for the people who love cop shows like “poor ceo just trying to make airplanes :(” and “patriotic war vet” and “priest” and then like a season later theyre like “anyway landlords are scum, all cops are bastards, have you considered that prison is an inherently racist and violent institution”

like episode 9 isn’t about any sort of mob boss or corrupt person doing secret Evil Crimes, its about how it’s entirely legal to screw poor people over with forclosures just to make a buck, and also includes a cop randomly showing up to do some light brutality against nate just to intimidate him. leverage really said “okay now that i’ve got you on board with how sexy heists are, lets talk about how fundamentally broken the system is and how the law isn’t remotely just”

20 YEARS OF THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS (18 DEC 2002)

I wonder if we’ll ever be put into songs or tales?

Farscape parallels 2x12 || 4x15 - Before I left Earth, I had a lot of things that were very important to me.

Xena Warrior Princess 6x6 The Abyss

Xena Warrior Princess 6x13 You Are There

Xena Warrior Princess 6x6 The Abyss

you know what gets me about lord of the rings? evil is defeated by people who choose to fight against it without possessing absolute, or even very much, conviction that they can actually win. all the converging story threads that lead to the happy ending are carried out by people who are far, far more convinced that they will fail than that they will succeed, who had only the frailest, most foolish hope, who had blind faith and frequently wavering hearts not peace or ease or certainty.

middle earth isn’t saved because no one faltered or came close to despairing or who sank to their knees in weary defeat. it’s not saved by pride or conviction or even strength. it’s saved because enough people do what they have to do even if they have to do it in the darkness. in the dust. with the ashes of hopelessness and bitterness in their mouths. because enough people took another step. Frodo, Sam, Gandalf, Aragorn, Theoden, Boromir, Faramir, Merry, Pippin. And many don’t. For every hero there is someone who gives into the “reasonableness” of despair—Saruman, Denethor, Grima, even Gollum—but enough. Enough people said “it doesn’t matter if we lose, I will keep fighting” and then they do.

And that GETS me. It is the most hopeful thing about the lord of the rings to me. There is so much that sums up its spirit, so many beautiful quotes and moments, but to me it’s never been the most famous of the quotes about hope and love that hit me hardest but a line from the films. Before the battle for Minas Tirith, one of the soldiers says “we cannot defeat the armies of Mordor” and Theoden answers “no. but we will meet them in battle nonetheless.”

And I—That is the spirit that leads to the conquering of evil when it comes down to it, when we’re talking about the part played by humanity alone in the fight against evil. Not the conviction you’re going to win, not farsightedness into a perfect future, not perfect inner peace or certainty. But acceptance of the real possibility of defeat, of that defeat being more the reality, the future, of your life than the victory, and then doing the damn thing anyway because goodness is worth fighting for even if you lose.

you know what gets me about lord of the rings? evil is defeated by people who choose to fight against it without possessing absolute, or even very much, conviction that they can actually win. all the converging story threads that lead to the happy ending are carried out by people who are far, far more convinced that they will fail than that they will succeed, who had only the frailest, most foolish hope, who had blind faith and frequently wavering hearts not peace or ease or certainty.

middle earth isn’t saved because no one faltered or came close to despairing or who sank to their knees in weary defeat. it’s not saved by pride or conviction or even strength. it’s saved because enough people do what they have to do even if they have to do it in the darkness. in the dust. with the ashes of hopelessness and bitterness in their mouths. because enough people took another step. Frodo, Sam, Gandalf, Aragorn, Theoden, Boromir, Faramir, Merry, Pippin. And many don’t. For every hero there is someone who gives into the “reasonableness” of despair—Saruman, Denethor, Grima, even Gollum—but enough. Enough people said “it doesn’t matter if we lose, I will keep fighting” and then they do.

And that GETS me. It is the most hopeful thing about the lord of the rings to me. There is so much that sums up its spirit, so many beautiful quotes and moments, but to me it’s never been the most famous of the quotes about hope and love that hit me hardest but a line from the films. Before the battle for Minas Tirith, one of the soldiers says “we cannot defeat the armies of Mordor” and Theoden answers “no. but we will meet them in battle nonetheless.”

And I—That is the spirit that leads to the conquering of evil when it comes down to it, when we’re talking about the part played by humanity alone in the fight against evil. Not the conviction you’re going to win, not farsightedness into a perfect future, not perfect inner peace or certainty. But acceptance of the real possibility of defeat, of that defeat being more the reality, the future, of your life than the victory, and then doing the damn thing anyway because goodness is worth fighting for even if you lose.

Another modern AU hak x yona doodle.. because they would totally be this close and not reveal their feelings 😂😭

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Close as Strangers 

A Bellarke fic for @t100fic-for-blm​ donation celebration. 

Moodboard by the amazing @broashwhat​

Summary:

“Please don’t go.” His desperate plea shattered her heart. “I don’t- I didn’t have anywhere else to go. Don’t leave me.” Clarke sunk back down next to him, cradling his cold face between her hands. This time he didn’t flinch away.

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Bellamy and Clarke have been best friends since kindergarten, inseparable ever since she’d punched the kid who’d made fun of his freckles even though she knew she’d get in trouble for it. Until the first day of middle school, that is, when Bellamy humiliated Clarke in front of their entire class and acted as if they were never friends. It’s their senior year of high school and they’re as competitive as ever, their rivalry and animosity infamous at Ark High. But when Bellamy shows up at her door in the middle of the night, face tear-stained and left eye swollen shut, Clarke learns that there may have been more to the end of their friendship than she’d thought.

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