Finally finished and I'm really proud of it tbh! Please click for better quality tho
You want to know why Inigo Montoya remains such an iconic and beloved character even 35 years after the Princess Bride came out?
It’s because he’s one of the few characters in fiction who has a story where he has dedicated his life to revenge, his whole motivation is about getting revenge….and he gets it! and then he isn’t empty or despairing! he doesn’t regret it! he’s totally satisfied!
because so many stories about revenge or rage are about characters “seeing the futility of their actions” or learning “their desire for revenge has only made them the monsters they hated” FUCK THAT.
Inigo Montoya kills the man who kills his father, is allowed to live in the narrative after and be happy about it and it is so satisfying. it’s fantastic. it’s iconic.
let more characters rage against the world, bring it down with bloodied hands, and let them be FUCKING RIGHT about it. Let them celebrate their success with sharp grins, and let them live happy, full lives where they always remain proud/fulfilled for what they’ve done
Another thing that set Inigo Montoya apart from other characters with vengeance arcs is that Inigo’s vengeance drove him but it didn’t consume him. He was wronged and wanted - needed that injustice to be corrected - but his vengeance was focused. Rather than taking his pain out on the whole world, Inigo was a charming, pleasant, good-humored person that treated everyone respectfully, even folks he was fighting. He even asks politely to people he meets about any extra digits they may have.
Would a bitter, angry, vengeance-consumed man swear on the life of his father and help a guy he was planning to duel, then give him time to catch his breath? Would he hand his sword over to his future opponent to lovingly show off his late-father’s skill as a swordmaker?
“You seem a decent fellow. I hate to kill you.”
I think part of what makes Inigo so iconic and beloved is because while vengeance was his story, it wasn’t who he was, so when he achieved his vengeance it was less an emptiness and more of a satisfaction, a story completed, a wrong made right, and a man suddenly baffled at the possibilities before him, not sure what his next story would be.
via @123i321 you can't just leave that in the tags
[Image descriptions in order: two tweets by Joseph Mullins @josephmulli... The first says "Today, nobody showed up to my 8.15am class.
0 students of about 40. Sitting in the empty room, I email them, trying to disguise my hurt feelings.
2 mins later, I get a reply: "Professor, we think you might be in the wrong room." So anyway off I go to live in a hole forever.
The second says "My wife really wants me to mention that I was sleep deprived because I got up at 4am to play Dungeons and Dragons with my friends in Australia."]
[Tags that say #Sad professor in a room alone #Students no love me? Why students no love me 😭 #All 40 in the other room #Where our beloved professor? Why he not here? He ok?!]
All I can think about is the ENERGY in the room with the students when the first one looked at their email... absolutely incredible.
being in your early 20s is crazy bc there’s people who are literally married and people who’ve never even dated and people who are trapped in their childhood bedrooms waiting to get out and people who are trying to live out romanticized dream lives and people who are completely on their own and people with multi tiered support systems and we’re all supposedly peers and none of us think we’re doing it right at all
y'know what? the stained glass window designers had the right idea, we need more angels with kaleidoscope wings.
it's another one of those evenings where I'm really mad about the fact that society tells little kids "Being uncomfortable is good because it means you're growing! You have to face your fears in order to overcome them! Life is going to continuously get harder so you have to learn to deal with scary and uncomfortable stuff!" and at no point does it occur to them to screen the little kids for relentless extreme terror disease they just say that shit to 6 year olds and fuck them up for life
In the popular view, anxiety is one of the most basic, well-understood, treatable, and non-disabling mental illnesses, but in reality it's like, you turn 21 and your brain is 90% stuff that you can't consciously think about or you start spiraling, so you focus really intensely on working and staying busy but stimuli that are tangentially related to something that triggers you give you intrusive thoughts that feel like they're brutally prying open your brain cells, and you feel intense horrible paralyzing guilt about the fact that your body is screaming with distress constantly because you've never had a legitimately "traumatic" experience even though every memory of your childhood is tainted by the background radiation of sick, horrible knowledge that the universe is an evil place and something awful is about to happen to you
children outside screaming: annoying but ultimately for the greater good. children need Going Outside and Screaming Time for proper emotional development. an auditory burden I am willing to bear
neighbor with his car he made louder on purpose: jail for neighbor. jail for ten thousand years
hey guys sorry i took a na💀p has anyone seen The Skull do we know where it went
watch out for that autistic boy. his stim is killing maiming and decapitation
went to the cop slide and got yelled at by a cop
@solardrifter the park is closed i think but also it’s being patrolled by people who hate fun
bro this quote made it into the boston globe 🥲
You think your fandom is niche, try being obsessed with your besties oc
i'm not the praying sort, but i'll probably always have a soft spot for the astronaut's prayer
for those who aren't familiar with it, it's a possibly-spurious quote by alan shepard (and is thus sometimes referred to as the shepard's prayer) on the launchpad of Freedom 7, immediately before he became the first american in space. it goes like this:
"Dear Lord, please don't let me fuck up."
[Plain Text: "Dear Lord, please don't let me fuck up." /end Plain Text]
“If I were human, I believe my response would be, ‘sashay away.’”
“If I were human,
I believe my response would
be, ‘sashay away.’”
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
Ha I wonder how many strokes the most complex Chinese character has like maybe eightee-
Has a Chinese son, names him bèng-dá, and he hates me
My beloved son 䨻龘 just trying to write his name in kindergarten
if i told you what rhis sounded ljke i dont think youd believe me so just listen