I Attended A The Oh Hellos ( @theohfficialhellos )  Concert This Past Friday, Which Happened To Coincide

“and the tune he played made lucy want to cry and laugh and dance and go to sleep all at the same time.”

final outcome from a college project!! we had to illustrate a section from a story and i would never pass up an opportunity to draw my babygirl mr tumnus <3

(close ups under the cut)

I like to think I'm funny.

Agents of Shield for the fandom ask game!

Oh, sweet!!!!

Send me a fandom and I'll tell you...

The first character I ever fell in love with: probably May or Skye!

A character that I used to love/like, but now do not: *looks directly into the camera like I'm on The Office*

A ship that I used to love/like, but now do not: Skyeward. Ahhhh, for the good old days.... or something

My ultimate favorite character™: May, of course!!! She's AWESOME

Prettiest character: maybe Daisy? Wait. No. Sousa

My most hated character: you'd think it'd be Ward, because he sucks. And he's up there. But I think I'll go with AIDA

My OTP: Philinda my darlings. Also Dousy

My NOTP: Fitz and AIDA, naturally!

Favorite episode: As I Have Always Been kinda lives rent free. Also, FZZT is SO good. Ooooh, and I really love the season two finale

Saddest death: ohhhhhh gosh. Either Tripp or Coulson

Favorite season: Probably three or seven

Least favorite season: six

Character that everyone else in the fandom loves, but I hate: I have no idea🤣

My ‘you’re a piece of trash, but you’re still a fave’ fave: Lance Hunter!! I love him and yet I freely admit he's a trainwreck

My ‘beautiful cinnamon roll who deserves better than this’ fave: Fitzsimmons. If I had to choose one, I'd say Fitz

My ‘they’re kind of cute, and I lowkey ship them, but I'm not too invested’ ship: honestly? Probably also Fitzsimmons. Don't get me wrong, they're really cute, they're just not my personal favorites!!!

Thanks for the ask!!!

being an older sibling is like. you've never known a life without me. mom yelled at me and it taught her she never wanted to yell at you. I painted my room purple and grey and then you did too. we live in the same house but I haven't spoken to you in months. I don't know your favorite color. I saw it was going to rain so I picked you up from school on my way home so your books wouldn't get wet. i was so worried when you woke up sick when you were three. you don't remember being sick. mom and dad made their worst mistakes with me and I'm glad they didn't make them with you. I'm doing everything for the first time so you won't be in the dark. I don't know any of your friend's names anymore. I used to know them all. if something happens to mom and dad you won't have to worry because everything will fall to me. you don't like to be home alone but even if you don't see me just knowing I'm there makes you feel better. at least that's what mom told me. you still give me jars to open for you because you can't quite get them. I only see you during dinner. i'd never even think about missing one of your concerts. I stand at the counter when I eat and now you do, too. when offered a selection of books you picked the same one I did when i was your age. I'm terrified you compare yourself to me. I love you. I don't know if you like me. I want you to. mom says dinner's ready

AoS + text posts pt. 21/?

Obi-Wan is like I got the kids in the divorce. They aren't even my kids. Or my divorce

sometimes a song is good because you saw it on a fan edit for your favorite ship like ten years ago

During my last re-read of The Lord of the Rings it really sunk in for me how often the protagonists encounter not only danger and betrayal, but unexpected help and friends in unlikely places. Tolkien had a sojourner's heart and said yes, we may be small, but be encouraged. Evil always tries to make itself look bigger than it is. Keep faith with ordinary goodness. Never underestimate the power of simply doing what is right and kind, against the convoluted machinations of evil. The gates of Mordor will not prevail against it.

The Differences Between Hera and Eowyn

Just thinking about these two shieldmaidens, and the stark differences between them.

I think a big one is that Eowyn is a romantic, whereas Hera has no wish to marry.

Meanwhile Eowyn hungers for battle and glory, and Hera, although willing to fight, does not desire it.

Hera seems to have grown up in a time of peace, or at least her childhood seems to have been peaceful. Although she lost her mother, she was too young to remember her, she had a father, two brothers, a cousin and a motherly figure. She had constant love, affection and security. However, Helm seems to have been protective of her, so freedom was her greatest desire.

Eowyn's mother and father died at an age for her to be devastated at their loss. She then lost her uncle, her father figure, as he succumbed to Grima's enchantments, and her brother and cousin regularly left her behind. Her life was marked with violence and loss.

Meduseld was a cage, but the only people close to her leaving Meduseld were soldiers riding to battle. Freedom meant battle, because battle was what went on beyond the walls of Meduseld. Battle also meant a place in the histories, a chance to be remembered. Battle was where her brother and cousin went when they left her behind. Battle was the opposite of the dry nursing role she was ill suited for, yet had thrust upon her.

Eowyn yearned for battle. She yearned for love. To ride to battle, to be loved, to be remembered, would ease her grief over being left behind, abandoned by those around her. Her infatuation for Aragorn was wrapped up in her admiration a soldier has for a captain. Romantic desire and desire for battle were intertwined.

Both of them were royal shieldmaidens who chafed under the expectations of their sex, and showed great courage in times of crisis, but the similarities begin and end there. Hera, we see, was playful, young, naïve, clever but sheltered, until the events of the film forced her to grow up. Hers was a coming of age story.

Eowyn was cold, despairing, bitter and angry. The events of the movie and the books see her regain the capacity for hope that was taken from her.

It's a cliché to say that Tolkien's experiences in WWI affected all aspects of his writing, how he wrote about friendship and grief, how he wrote about desolate blasted landscapes. But I wish someone who knows more about Tolkien's military career could help me understand how Tolkien related to retreats. His description of Faramir keeping his people together on the retreat from Osgiliath is one of the best-written sequences in the trilogy, and hardly anyone remembers it. It's about a desperate retreat, and a leader whose presence, whose strength manages to keep it from turning into a rout. There's something very vivid in the descriptions: don't break formation, don't start running or they'll pick you off one by one, keep together, keep moving, hold all of that fear at bay. Tolkien describes that retreat as genuinely heroic, a superhuman act of will, one that exhausts Faramir almost to death, and Denethor still does not accept it as heroic because it's a retreat. It saved men but it lost territory, therefore in his eyes it's a failure.

Tolkien has strong opinions about heroic retreats, in the Silmarillion he sometimes gives the retreat-through-the-dangerous-wilderness plotline to female characters (Emeldir, Idril), he always writes them with respect. Sometimes, getting out of there and keeping most of your people alive is a great act of valour. I feel like he must have had a personal experience about what it means to retreat, and what it means to hold a retreat together, and what it means to get no thanks for it.