(Not counting naturally occurring things like people and rocks and plants)

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i definitely think eärien is the most underrated out of the rings of power ocs and i say this lovingly i need her to join the king's men go absolutely insane and burn people alive in sacrifice to morgoth (she WILL design that temple.) also think it would be neat if kemen joined the faithful as a direct foil to her downfall. he needs to die as well btw

#her and possibly amelia kenworthy's characters my evil girlies i cant waittttt#no but u dont understand. the sea is always right. the sea drowned her mother. the sea's embrace is the last thing she feels before dying.#she's an ARCHITECT. she was clearly against miriel's decision to march to middle earth. she looked at isildur like she knew something bad-#-was going to happen to him. she turns out to be right (or so she thinks). she touches a palantir which has been known to lowkey drive#people insane. she complimented pharazon in an earlier episode. most of her screentime was with kemen building their chemistry. kemen is#sympathetic and charming but clearly has a lot of strife with pharazon. eärien is the daughter of elendil but (obviously) isn't mentioned in#his family tree. DO U SEE THE VISION????????#DO YOU?????????#im gonna be sooo loud about this. and so wrong probably#earien#elendil#isildur#kemen#trop#rings of power#mine

Whoever invented "open in app" links that redirect you to the app store instead of actually opening the app even when you already have the app installed on your phone should be involuntarily turned into a beanbag chair

THE RINGS OF POWER • Season 2 Teaser

these spot the difference images are getting too hard

the rings of power s2 teaser

I know I've ranted about it a million times, but every time someone brings up Roman, Byzantine, and Egyptian inspirations/influences on Gondor in more mainstream Tolkien fandom spaces (not me, because I don't even talk about it off Tumblr/DW), it seems like there's always someone who gets super weird and defensive about it. I've seen so many "well actually there's no need to consider any influences outside of England, mythology for England blah blah" responses.

And it's like! Oh, you want to play the decontextualized Tolkien quotes game? How about this one:

Or this one:

I know I've ranted about it a million times, but every time someone brings up Roman, Byzantine, and Egyptian inspirations/influences on Gondor in more mainstream Tolkien fandom spaces (not me, because I don't even talk about it off Tumblr/DW), it seems like there's always someone who gets super weird and defensive about it. I've seen so many "well actually there's no need to consider any influences outside of England, mythology for England blah blah" responses.

And it's like! Oh, you want to play the decontextualized Tolkien quotes game? How about this one:

Or this one:

I think people sometimes misunderstand why we come up with such elaborate justifications for shipping two characters together. I don't justify my ships because I feel that I need to; I justify my ships because squinting at the canon with furrowed brow and asking myself "okay, how exactly would this work?" is my idea of a good time.

I didn’t know cheetahs meow I’ve always thought they roar my whole life has been a lie

Ok but the other one is purring so hard

If I ever don’t reblog this assume I’m dead

Fun fact: technically, because of its inability to roar and its ability to purr, the cheetah is not a ‘big cat’ (or Great Cat) - they are still classified as Lesser Cats.

Also you haven’t heard anything until you hear them cheep.

YOU CANNOT JUST SAY THAT AND NOT PROVIDE A VIDEO

I HAVE REALISED MY MISTAKE AND SHALL RECTIFY IT:

Cheeps.

Oh my god

I’m dead now

MURDER KITTEN SOUNDS LIKE A CHICKEN PEEPER

They make that noise to signal their Cubs

It sounds like a bird so it doesn’t alert predators such as lions or leopards to the location of them or their babies

SMRT KITTENS ARE SMRT

Dónal Finn as Mat Cauthon The Wheel of Time 2x08, “What Was Meant to Be”

btw. your search for the most morally upright and ethical piece of media that has the most correct “representation” will destroy your ability to find the most profound and beautiful and human of stories. and may even destroy the stories themselves before they are created. if you even care.

They remain non comparable, but Alastair did partecipate in at least one, perhaps two ""pranks"" that would've gotten James killed if it hadnt been for his powers: the giant piece of wood (tho I might be misremembering this one) and the release of that minor demon on the school grounds. The characters in TLH proper never refer to that particular incident but it did very much happen unless retconed.

I would remind anon that Grace does the shit she does in also no little part because the adults abusing her arent Elias Carstairs-levels of threat and there's no Sona or Risa for her to refer to. "without being forced to" that's called being terrified since 12 and having certain lessons drilled into your head by beatings, come on.

The giant piece of wood has nothing to do with Alastair, it's Christopher's hand slipping (absolute accident) and his battering ram flying at James. I also don't think that the demon was intended to kill James, just give him a scare. It was obviously Bad, but it wasn't to the level of trying to kill him.

I also totally disagree that Tatiana was worse than Elias. We see more of her on-page, but Elias, while he has an untreated illness, is shown as someone who at the very least doesn't give a rat's ass for Alastair's well being. He parentifies him horribly; Alastair has no semblance of a childhood as a result of that. He sends him to an all-white school to be beat up by the other kids, and that is preferable to Alastair than returning home for an entire school year before he caves and joins the mean kids. We also see Elias on-page as someone who pitches fits, smacks the floor, and throws things. It's not canon that he was physically abusive to Alastair, but that's also something to consider and is at least super scary for a 10 year old.

I could also argue that Grace had Jesse's love while Alastair had literally no support for years besides his predatory boyfriend. And that Alastair was trying to protect Cordelia. But that would be a digression.

This isn't to negate Grace's trauma at all. Tatiana's bonkers, fucked up, beats her, and cultivates demons. There's no need to compare these tragedies and these backstories.

But even when you do, their actions are not comparable, and it's unfair to conflate them.

Good for the wood, thanks for reminding me!

We'll have to agree to disagree on the demon, in the -imo unlikely- case the boys didnt intend for it to kill James they were ignorant idiots about it *not* being the most likely outcome ("we didnt mean to kill a boy while setting a boys-killing-beast loose on him" is... not a good defence).

Saying that Tatiana was a more dangerous person wasnt meant to absolve Elias in the slightest, there is none for him (except my confusion in character presentation/narrative differences between Matthew's alcoholism and Elias', which I suspect (but, again, the narrative ignores the thread so idk) also begun as coping mechanism after the Yanluo/Diyu mission). But I still consider her and what she did to be much worse, both as a direct level of threat and in what she put in Grace's mind, which in relation pushed her to do worse than Alastair and for much longer.

They remain non comparable, but Alastair did partecipate in at least one, perhaps two ""pranks"" that would've gotten James killed if it hadnt been for his powers: the giant piece of wood (tho I might be misremembering this one) and the release of that minor demon on the school grounds. The characters in TLH proper never refer to that particular incident but it did very much happen unless retconed.

I would remind anon that Grace does the shit she does in also no little part because the adults abusing her arent Elias Carstairs-levels of threat and there's no Sona or Risa for her to refer to. "without being forced to" that's called being terrified since 12 and having certain lessons drilled into your head by beatings, come on.

i read CS Lewis’ A Grief Observed one time years ago and i’m still not recovered from it

— A Grief Observed: part i-ii, C.S. Lewis x

I need y'all to understand that he wrote this famous passage in the middle of her brief remission -