These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise...

tim's moving castle au ... been thinking about that yea

I hate that the stock response for "I'm lonely/I feel undervalued by my loved ones/I want a romantic partner" is "well do you value YOURSELF? You need to learn to enjoy being alone!" as if lonely people aren't very intimately familiar with being alone. Self esteem and love are important but they're not substitutes for companionship or friendship or romance and pretending that loneliness is a personal failure that can be fixed by self-improvement feels not only delusional but pretty cruel

—

Brennan Lee Mulligan, when asked how to create villains for ttrpgs

(I found this quote to be really meaningful in like…life in general which is why I posted it here. When he said “evil is boring”, it felt like something clicked in me that I had known deep down but hadn’t had the words for.)  (via @earthmoonlotus)

mindflayer

I feel like witches are sedentary and wizards are migratory. A witch has a home, a cauldron, herbs, you go to them with your problem. A wizard wanders, disappears, shows up at inconvenient times to fix nothing. am i making sense

Here's my Starfire piece for @dcladieszine

There are still some copies left! Go Check them out!✨

i’m all for peter being portrayed as a teenager bc that’s just classic spidey, and if you prefer him being portrayed as a teenager that’s fine we all have preferences. my only issue with it is that people who only watch the spidey films and don’t read the comics are really missing out on some good adult peter moments. like right now in the comics peter parker is around 30 years old and watching him interact with younger superheroes is really heart-warming, because he’s been there and he gets how hard it can be, he feels responsible for these kids

and then there’s the renew your vows comic where he’s an actual dad married to mary jane, and they have a daughter who’s named annie may. and that series is full of really fun stories, plus it’s interesting to see how peter juggles being spidey and being a dad/husband and how those two things intertwine, also the dad jokes are endless

teenage peter parker is a timeless version, but that version is shown so much (especially in film) that it seems like a lot of spidey fans feel like adult peter wouldn’t be as good or true to his character which just isn’t true, so if you’re ignoring the adult version of peter parker then you’re seriously missing out on great character development/stories that show peter’s journey and his character more than anything

I’M SORRY SPIDER-MAN HAS A KID NAMED ANIME??

you may be dyslexic and thats okay

think again bitch

I get where you’re coming from

🎶 The beauty and the brawn do no wrong 🎶

This is the only good tiktok

[video description:

a person sitting at a table is talking into the camera.

"i have nothing to hide... which is a shame, because i love hiding stuff! i love making or buying secret hiding spaces."

they pick up a leather wrapped book.

"so like, i love hollowing out books. and you now, people- you could say, well probably you would hide drugs in there. well, i don't do drugs"

they open the book to reveal a green pill bottle hidden in a cut out space in the pages

"but i do take flonase for my seasonal allergies, so i put those in this one, because it kinda feels like taking drugs. but my whole apartment is filled with stuff like this."

the camera cuts to the view of a permanent maker on a table.

"like this perfectly normal permanent marker."

they take off the cap of the marker, and put it back on.

"well, it's actually hollow and on the inside is..."

they take off the back of the marker to reveal a small pink marker inside.

"a smaller permanent marker!"

the camera cuts to a bookshelf. they remove a book from the shelf.

"now this obviously is a copy of inside baseball, which is a perfect place, i figured out to hide-"

they open the book to reveal a miniature baseball in a cut out space in the pages.

"-my tiny baseball"

the camera cuts to a storage shelf. they retrieve a giant bolt from the shelf.

"this is a normal looking giant bolt that i just keep in my closet."

the camera cuts to a close-up of the bolt. they are screwing off a part of the bolt.

"you can screw off the bottom, and you can fit a tiny vial in there, which is perfect for..."

they tip the bolt over and a small vial containing white pills falls out.

"-that's my claritin. that's my other allergy medicine."

the camera cuts to a framed print of the great wave painting.

"there is nothing cooler than a wall save behind framed art. and i'm not allowed to poke holes into my wall, because it's a rental."

they move the painting to the side to reveal a wall safe behind it.

"but this is a picture of a wall safe! which is almost as good."

they fiddle with the wall safe, demonstrating that it is just a cut out picture pasted to the wall.

"since i wouldn't have anything to put in the wall safe anyway!"

the camera cuts to a fridge, just as the door is being opened.

"in the fridge i've got a totally normal looking doctor pepper."

they retrieve a can of doctor pepper from the fridge. the camera cuts to a close-up of the can.

"but of course the top screws off, and inside that is my benadryl! or bennies."

they screw open the top of the can and shake some pink pills from the can into the palm of their hand.

"these are for my night time allergies!"

the camera cuts to the boot of a car that is being opened.

"back of my car"

the camera cuts to a bin in the boot of the car. they remove a can of tire foam from the bin.

"looks like tire foam."

they unscrew the bottom of the can and pull out a yellow pill bottle.

"this is where i store my dramamine! which is kinda like i'm allergic to motion too!"

the camera cuts to four copies of shakespeare plays next to each other on a bookshelf.

"and this looks like it's just four shakespeare b-sides together, but if you pull out the bottom-"

they remove all four books at once and turn them over to reveal a hole that is cut through all four books, containing a can, which they pull out.

"there is actually a can of peaches"

they flip over the can to reveal a handle at the bottom

"but the can of peaches is fake, and inside is a rock!"

they open the fake bottom and retrieve a rock from the can.

"but that rock is fake"

they turn the rock over and slide off a cover to reveal a key.

"it's a hide-a-key! and that key-"

they remove a dictionary from the bookshelf.

"is perfect for opening the dictionary!"

they open the dictionary to reveal a keyhole.

"which is secretly a metal safe. and inside that i put-"

they unlock and open the safe to reveal several filled ziplock bags, removing one after another.

"the doctor pepper! and the tire foam! and the pages from the shakespeare books! and the peaches!"

they hold up the ziplock bag of peach slices to the camera.

"which i am allergic to."

end video description.]

I love how all of the Batman villains are like “ah he’s not at the manor, it’s defenseless! and then alfred just racks an AK-47 and is like pull up bitch

Batman’s Villains: The butler will be easy prey!

He’s just an old man…he doesn’t have any of the Batman’s gadgets or training or fighting skills!

Alfred: Oh my you’re right

There’s something else of Master Bruce’s I don’t have as well

(Cocks a shotgun) A CODE AGAINST KILLING

Batman’s Villains: Wayne isn’t here to save you old man!

Alfred:

Alfred is the original “Call an ambulance — but not for me”

@dragonpuppies I spent way too long on this

Bruce: I have a code.

Alfred: And I have a gun.

Bruce: time to remove the guns.

Alfred: good fucking luck.

I’ve peer reviewed @ebonyheartnet’s addition and found that it deserves a reblog.

ds9 art kids ds9 ART KIDS 

there are, a lot of details in this

everyone be quiet !!!! he's sending email

“The Moon & The Stars” dress by Frieda Leopold

dance! dance! dance!

Okay so it turns out that Danny Phantom was the worst possible old show to get a sudden and inexplicable hyperfixation on, because apparently the fandom's been going full tilt since 2004.

Usually when I get a hyperfixation outta nowhere for a completed series, I spend a week, maybe two going through old fanfiction and fanart, and then I burn through what's left, and then I'm done.

Danny Phantom has a pile of fanfiction and fanart that's been growing steadily since, and I cannot emphasize this enough, 2004, and there are still people putting out multiple things every single day. I'm already like 20 AUs in and I've been up till 2:00am every single night this week because I've found a new enormous fascinating fanfic that was so good I could not physically make myself sleep until I finished it.

Help?

I am being pursued through the wilderness by a very friendly and incredibly supportive mob

https://t.co/tQNM37KsB0

I know that Peter’s Jackson Lord of the Rings trilogy technically has flaws but also….it doesn’t. It’s perfect.

‘Are these magic cloaks?’ asked Pippin, looking at them. with wonder.

‘I do not know what you mean by that,’ answered the leader of the Elves. ‘They are fair garments, and the web is good, for it was made in this land. They are Elvish robes certainly, if that is what you mean. Leaf and branch, water and stone: they have the hue and beauty of all these things under the twilight of Lorien that we love; for we put the thought of all that we love into all that we make.”

- Fellowship of the Ring, Chapter 8: Farewell to Lorien

This is how I think of Jackson’s movies. Yes, there are serious flaws - Gandalf’s de-powering, Gimli as comic relief, and Faramir, namely - but come on.

Remember when the guys making their chain mail invented a new method for quickly producing large amounts of it by hand? Remember Miranda Otto walking down the street, practicing sword positions? The guys who forged all of the swords - for leads and for extras? The men and women riders who volunteered to be riders of Rohan? The costume designers who designed the inside of Theoden’s armor (which no one would ever see) so beautifully that Bernard Hill said he felt like a king? The friendships between the cast, and their size doubles, and the stuntmen?

When they made that movie, they put all that they loved into all that they made.

#just hundreds of people who went ‘sure let me try this’ #and they made something breathtaking #and then they made it 12 more times in different sizes ( @byjoveimbeinghumble​ )

Wait tell me more about that chainmail thing

“Kaynemaile has worked tirelessly to perfect the material science behind beautiful architectural mesh, collaborating with architects and designers on projects that embolden urban environments with positive buildings. The company’s patented polycarbonate mesh, inspired by 2,000-year-old medieval chainmail, was initially created for the armor and weapons seen in the The Lord of The Rings movie trilogy and is now used on major architectural projects around the world.

“The film’s art director and Kaynemaile’s founder Kayne Horsham worked with his team to construct each garment from plastic plumbing tubes, coating them in pure silver. Once filming wrapped, Horsham dedicated himself to creating a change to the liquid state assembly process to mass produce the polycarbonate chainmail for architectural applications — products that were light, but strong enough to protect the interior or exterior of a building. Now an industry-leading manufacturer, Kaynemaile produces mesh for everything from small interior screens to large scale exterior façades. Their mesh is easy to install and can be custom created for specialized applications.”

https://architizer.com/blog/practice/materials/kaynemaile-mesh-facade-systems/

YOU GUYS

they took forced perspective and scaled sets to a new level by adding moving set pieces to create the illusion that the hobbits and dwarves were much smaller than everyone else even when the camera moved.

every scene you see in the 11+ hours of glory that is the LOTR masterpiece is most like ridiculously elaborate or expensive–from model towers to the all-new motion capture technology used for gollum to the costumes and sets to the aerial on location shots of mother-fracking new zealand and the big impressive battle scenes and horse charges.

but then the story and the screenplay too–there is just SO much lore that is there in the background lurking if you want to look for it, yet it still remains simplified for the average viewer. Crazy impressive feat.

And the acting is heartfelt and real and makes you love the characters.

ALSO DON’T GET ME STARTED ON FREAKING HOWARD SHORE AND HIS 100+ HEARTSHATTERINGLY BEAUTIFUL LIETMOTIFS AND BRILLIANT SUBTLE VARIATIONS IN THE FLIPPING 13 HOUR SOUNDTRACK. AND ENYA SINGING IN REAL ELVISH.

I loved the books long before the movies came out and… yes, this.

I disagree with a few choices here and there but they’re really, really good.