i do love the silmarillion fandom and your like. fanfiction with footnotes
absolute madmen all of you
self-incrimination without flagellation etc...
guilty as charged...
What's a Silm story without some extensive worldbuilding research that really yields all of three sentences in your fic...
"these researchers published a paper on something that literally any of us could have told you 🙄" ok well my supervisors wont let me write something in my thesis unless I can back it up with a citation so maybe it's a good thing that they're amplifying your voice to the scientific community in a way that prevents people from writing off your experiences as annecdotal evidence
they did the research in the first place because they believed you and wanted to tell people about it. they are not our enemies.
Sometimes "they" are us who got an entire graduate degree for the explicit purpose of saying this stuff where academics might take it seriously.
have you guys ever seen a crocodile with its fingies out
HOW IT FEELS TO LISTEN TO MUSIC!!
4/? BLACK SAILS ✘ EPIC THE MUSICAL
So tell me Would you fall in love with me again?
the girls are breaking up </3
GAGGED HIM
"What do I want? I want to see this whole goddamn city, this city that you purchased with our misery, burn. I want to see you hanged on the very gallows you've used to hang men for crimes far slighter than this. I want to see the noose around your neck, and I want to pull the fucking lever with my own two hands!"
BLACK SAILS 2.08 XVI 2.09 XVII
"I feel very proud to be a black Creole vampire, in the show. I mean, I hope that all it does is opens the gates for more. Let's tell more stories. Let's be monsters! And enjoy it! Yeah, let's be problematic. Give us the space to be a problem." - Jacob Anderson
one time I looked up the ratings of each episode of black sails. I expected to see s2e5 near the top, but I wasn’t exactly surprised when it was actually at the bottom (free us from the clutches of homophobia man). I read some of the comments and they were saying that the reveal felt out of nowhere. Okay, so actually you just have no media literacy skills. For me, the revelation made so much sense that I experienced something akin to ascension. I felt I had unlocked all of the knowledge there was to unlock. My whole engagement with the show changed. That thing that had been bubbling under the whole time, in every interaction between Miranda and flint, in every mention of Thomas, in every display of rage from flint, in each one of his desperate schemes.
I just find it so hilarious that people thought it was out of nowhere? Louise Barnes and Toby Stephens were actually the only two cast members aware of the backstory from the beginning of the show, and you can see it so much in the way they act their characters. So much unspoken, but that doesn’t mean it’s not there. Season 1 ep 7 — that whole altercation they have where he refuses to apologise to England, the way she says ‘if he were here he’d agree with me’, the tension of it all. The note Thomas wrote in the front of their copy of meditations? It’s so obviously not out of the blue, it’s set up so brilliantly so as to evade perception but also to lodge itself in your brain before you even know what *it* is.
Tom Hopper (Billy) said it was the best episode of television he’s ever seen. Literally years later, in a promotional interview for the umbrella academy. I agree wholeheartedly.
saying that it was out of nowhere is just wrong. It’s either a) just a guise for your homophobia or b) a betrayal of your evidently terrible media literacy and critical analysis skills.
When I saw the episode so many things from season 1 finally clicked in to place inside my head. The enigma of Flint, for the first time, began to slightly unravel.
me reading smut and calculating in my head the positions the characters are in
When burning to death in a fiery chasm isn't even the worst thing that's happened to you
This is your reminder that this week is Bandcamp Friday where 100% of the money you spend on Bandcamp goes directly to the artists!!
Worth noting that usually Bandcamp takes 10-15% which means artists get 85% minimum every time you buy an album. Which is still like thousands of times more than Spotify pays per stream.
Run your spotify playlists through Merch Table and it'll pull up all your music in Bandcamp for you you don't even have to do any work.
"biological" really just means "state enforced" at this point
"what is your state enforced sex?" "there are two state enforced genders" "use state enforced pronouns to identify students" "transition is against your body's state enforced purpose"
When some TERFs started saying "biological name" (instead of "deadname") it really said this out loud.
