We'll carve our names as the sun goes down...

This scene fucking killed me. Jack keeping his fingers on Belle's pulse all night just to make sure she was still alive is such a romantic yet sad little detail. Man probably didn't get an ounce of sleep that night. 😭

oh no, hang on! what happened to the 'not judging' part? oh, who's judging? i'm not judging. but, you do need to know that it will not happen unless i'm married. ...well, that's not very likely then, is it? and why? am i not worthy of congress?

...the world will never allow us to marry, belle. you are the governors' daughter. you misjudge my family. my mother is your greatest supporter. she fought for you to get this job. she'll support me.

#get you a best friend like Trent Harrison

NEVER HAVE I EVER 4.03 | 4.04

“You like someone because of all their qualities, and you love someone despite some of their qualities.”

Set it Up (2018) dir. Claire Scanlon

SARAH SHAHI as ZAHRA BANKSTON → RED, WHITE & ROYAL BLUE (2023)

Give Amy a raise.

ALEX & HENRY | Red, white & royal blue (2023)

when the hot immortal villain wants to burn the world with you and he's also anti-colonialist

Guardians of The Galaxy vol. 3 (2023) dir. James Gunn

#This beach was a little too much beach for him

“Occasionally vulgar”

Henry looking at Alex like “DONT SAY ANYTHING YOU ABSOLUTE MENACE”

DEVI VISHWAKUMAR & BEN GROSS Never Have I Ever | 4.10 “…said goodbye“

I am a gentleman. My father raised me to act with honor, but that honor is hanging by a thread that grows more precarious with every moment I spend in your presence.

I genuinely love Eragon, I think he's a good person, but his attitude towards Murtagh specifically has this distinct, almost cold lack of empathy. And it's strange he feels like that in this particular situation because Murtagh's fate- his capture, his torture, his dragon used like a hostage, their enslavement- that exact fate in its entirety is bearing down on Eragon through the whole story. Because that's exactly what would happen to Eragon if he's ever captured. That fate is snapping at his heels; it gets close enough to draw blood. Yet Eragon tends to act like he's above Murtagh's situation. He looks on it with pity, but also disgust, all with an air of distance and separation. There's never a horrified realization that this is what's waiting for him if Galbatorix captures him.

For that reason, I think Eragon's lack of empathy for Murtagh stems in part from a rather desperate optimism. He refrains from considering the worst possibilities to avoid despair over what he can't control. But that leads to this jarring disregard for the suffering of a man he is irrevocably connected to. Murtagh is a mirror of Eragon, reflecting what would become of him if the king ever gets his hands on him. Eragon is not above this; he is, in fact, so terrifyingly vulnerable to it. Even as he fails to imagine himself in Murtagh's place and understand him in that way, Eragon is the one most likely to end up in that place.

That alone should warrant empathy, but Murtagh is more than just a mirror. Eragon's luck has not held out, he has not been fortunate enough to outright avoid what Murtagh fell victim to, and the singular reason he's been spared that fate is Murtagh himself. Three times. Once outside of Dras Leona when he rescues him from the Ra'zac, again in Gil'ead when he'd been captured by Durza, and a third time on the Burning Plains when he lets him go despite his orders. Murtagh saves Eragon from capture, torture, and enslavement under Galbatorix and he does it over and over. Murtagh simultaneously exemplifies the worst fate Eragon could suffer while singlehandedly protecting him from it. And Eragon never once acknowledges it.