which brings us back to the hero's shoulders

You know good lives make bad stories

[Sober to Death]

I can't remember how much of this is implied canon or my own interpretation, but I fully believed that Chiron recognized Percy was a son of Poseidon from the fountain incident with Nancy Bobofit, knew that a child of the Big Three being claimed would be a total shit show, and simply chose not to say a word about it

wait isn't it also implied somewhere that Sally was in contact with Chiron at some point before Percy arrived at CHB? Im dying imagining a convo between them about Percy's godly parentage like-

Chiron: Unfortunately, its fairly common for the gods to not disclose of their godly nature, so a lot of parents don't exactly know who-

Sally: Oh I always knew Percy's father was a god! You see I met him at a beach in Montauk and-

Chiron: You know what Sally 😀 I'm going to have to stop you right there.

the plot of prince caspian is so funny to me it’s like “locals bring back ghosts from hundreds of years ago to help defeat the evil king” except it’s from the point of view of the ghosts

the ghosts, not actually being dead, spend a significant fraction of the early book scrounging for food on the deserted island that used to be their house

and that scrounging for food, and uncertainty around where exactly they are, is something that adaptations should lean into more

And of course it’s the “ghosts” of the Great Kings and Queens from hundreds of years ago but right now they’re just kids so no one’s actually sure they have the right guys at first sight

No, but the characters themselves talk about this in the book!

“‘Aren’t there lots of stories about magic forcing people out of one place ― out of one world ― into another? I mean, when a magician in The Arabian Nights calls up a Jinn, it has to come. We had to come, just like that.’

”'Yes,’ said Peter, ‘I suppose what makes it feel so strange is that in the stories it’s always someone in our world who does the calling. One doesn’t really think about where the Jinn’s coming from.’

‘And now we know what it feels like for the Jinn,’ said Edmund with a chuckle. ‘Golly! It’s a bit uncomfortable to know that we can be whistled for like that.’“

I’ve never thought about it like this and now I can’t stop laughing

I love Prince Caspian, and I love the dialogue in that scene. I have to add the line Edmund says next. He says, “It’s worse than what Father says about living at the mercy of the telephone.” If that’s not relevant in our age of instant communication, I don’t know what is. It is also hilarious. Edmund is hilarious.

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What madman christened them / The ships of Terror and of Hell?  - Terror & Erebus, Gwendolyn MacEwen

someone save this man

terror shitposting (46/?)

A Mercy

If you can “sketch” in embroidery then this is a sketch. I feel like Dr Stanley gets all the best visuals on The Terror after all. Also you wouldn’t believe how hard it is to photograph black fabric!

Alex Jones is livestreaming rn and for the first and only time in my life it's appointment viewing. He got evicted from his studio mid-stream and they had to cover for him when he popped up in his "satellite studio" (a room in his house I assume) devoid of the Infowars branding. He's talking about how "tens of millions" of people have watched his final broadcast & you can literally see he has far less than a million viewers in the bottom corner (and this is on Twitter, which inflates views of videos ever since Elon had to convince people anyway gives a shit about Tucker Carlson's livestreams). He's currently whining that they chose not to sell his site back to him at auction, so he could keep doing the crimes that are why he was selling his website.

I didn't see this personally but he's apparently read out the Onion's announcement, which is a fake article by a fake corporation, out loud several times as if it was real. Anyway it should be noted how screwed he is, bc...

...while he can livestream under his own name, they own his warehouses of dubious supplements. He has nothing to sell but t-shirts protesting that his show is going down. Since Infowars was, first and foremost, a lifestyle brand, this leaves him, scientifically speaking, "totally fucked". He doesn't have ads, that's the only way he makes money

He just promised that he will "win the information war" which. You were sued into oblivion for lying about the parents of murdered children & lost your platform so hard you don't even have a studio anymore & your brand was seized by a rival to make fun of you. I didn't think the Infowar was a real thing you could lose, but I'm not sure there's a more definitive way to lose the information war. Anyway he's now ranting about fluoride

Never have I been more proud of the Onion.

Blueberries - Teija Lehto

Finnish, b. 1965 -

Woodcut , 43 x 60 cm.

Conclave (2024) dir. Edward Berger

Actually that no punctuation plot hole ooc wattpad fanfic written by that 12 year old will ALWAYS be better than character ai. And I love that 12 year old btw

Théodred is important to me because even though he dies after approximately two minutes of screen time, the point is that he dies. He's an Aragorn equivalent or parallel in that he was the heir to the throne of Rohan, the traditionally appointed hero figure, and Rohan loses him, the physical and symbolic embodiment of the future, and this comes as a consequence of the evil that overtakes Théoden. In the War of the Ring the stakes are high (as Gandalf must frequently remind the other characters) and among the many heartbreaking scenes in the films, Théoden weeping over his son's grave is one of the most gut-wrenching. Because it's wrong, as evil is always wrong: “No parent should have to bury their child!” And this is where Théoden could have gone the way of Denethor, and given up hope and despaired. Instead, he shoulders his grief and reclaims the responsibility of his kingship, and by keeping faith and fulfilling his duty, delivers a devastating blow to the Enemy who almost swallowed Rohan whole. But he is almost too late, and he relinquishes his own life in the effort to put right what went wrong on his watch. His line ends with a new barrow in Edoras, and the throne passes to his nephew and niece. But because this is Tolkien, we can say that Théodred walks with Théoden, in the halls of their fathers, in whose mighty company they shall not feel ashamed. And that means so very much to me.

Uummm hello? Oh my god?

there’s gotta be an audience for m*cbeth fanart on here

Happy birthday Thomas jopson

(Previously ☞ 1 , 2 , 3)

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