Thorin In A Barrel From 2021

Proving a point to my boyfriend.

PLEASE REBLOG if you (male or female) believe it is perfectly okay and natural for a guy of any age to cry

List of ship dynamics 

Idiot in denial x idiot in denial

The idiot who wouldn't admit they're an idiot x The self-admitted idiot

Mortal x immortal 

“I’d die for you” x “I’d kill for you” 

“I’m so fucking done with you” x “I’m going to be an insufferable bitch and you won’t get rid of me no matter what” 

Character A pretending to hate the attention they get but actually loves the attention they get x Character B showering Character A with love and attention

“You deserve the world” x “No, you” 

Touch starved Character A x physically affectionate Character B

The shy and reserved one x the loud and energetic one

Instead of the tall sunshine x short grumpball, how about a the grumpy tall one x the short ball of sunshine

THE OBLIVIOUS X THE OBVIOUS !!!!

Shy in the streets and loud under the sheets x shy under the sheets and loud in the streets

Public nuisance number 1 x the one who’s always embarrassed to be near said public nuisance

Grumpy one who has a soft spot for the sunshine one x sunshine one who would kill for the grumpy one

The stressed one x the one who tries to help ease their stress but accidentally adds to their stress

The “you holding your knife against my neck and pressing me against the wall like this makes me more horny than scared” with a smirk on their lips x the “what in actual fuck is wrong with you?” with their left eye twitching, grip tightening around the handle of the knife in utter annoyance 

The chaotic ball of sunshine who can’t keep their hands to themselves x the way too serious one who doesn’t know how to deal with showing or accepting affection but still tries, just for the chaotic ball of sunshine they won't admit they're so deeply and almost foolishly in love with

Grim reaper x the human they might have accidentally fallen in love with and now they can’t bear to collect their soul when the time comes

“I fell first” x “Yeah, but I fell harder”

Idiot hero who keeps winning against the villain for some reason x the cunning villain who has secretly fallen in love with the hero a long time ago and so they pretend to lose against the hero each time

the allergy i am seeing grow up around small talk in any form is troubling to me. do you know how to make friends with people in your physical environment? it typically starts with small talk. do you want to live in community? small talk. do you want to have the type of relationship with your neighbors where you can run over and borrow a battery for your smoke detector when it starts beeping at 10pm? small talk!! do you want leeway from your coworkers when you fuck up something small? you gotta be able to build a relationship and that's small talk, baybeee.

"but i don't need friends and i don't care about community!" okay, lone ranger, what about the people in your community who need you? "but i have social anxiety!" me too, bud! we simply must soldier on. making up lists of questions to ask people helps. and people are predisposed to be generous, i've found. even if you make some kind of mistake, what is this but the natural give and take of human interaction? nobody is perfect.

you were not put on this earth to live by yourself and then die. you need people and people need you. treat those around you with curiosity and generousness of spirit and you will gain so much goodwill in return.

happy anniversary Pride and Prejudice <3

can't believe she's 212 years old

what's the first movie you remember seeing in theaters? don't try and be all edgy and cool and say like tetsuo: the iron man. be honest.

Go!!

Man threatens to say a slur then saves infant from being smothered

the “pleasure to have in class” to overly active tumblr user pipeline

bluey and blue!

This. This, this, this a thousand times over.

How can you support this show

Creating content does not imply unequivocal support. But I'll bite. Despite its many sins, particularly with regard to representation (which is not unique among Lucasfilm stories - please read that linked post if you haven't before), I would ask, after viewing the show:

💀 Could you have more compassion for a veteran struggling to transition, recalling the whiplash of a tremendously capable Sergeant suddenly barely being able to feed his family while they live out of their car?

✋🏾 Could you more readily accept that trauma recovery is a fractious, nonlinear path, and "grumpiness" might actually herald the affected regaining sense of self by re-asserting their commitment to justice?

⚡ Could you have more patience with people whose brains work a little differently, appreciating that a blunt and unemotional communication style might not belie callousness, but represent their genuine effort to connect?

💣 Could you create more space to recognize that a scarred and physically intimidating person might also have the greatest capacity for gentleness, kindness, and emotional intelligence?

⌖ Could you offer more grace to people who are difficult to reach, because perhaps a facade of cool, unaffected competence punctuated by a quick temper is a natural reaction to achievement-based acceptance culture and the fear that if we lose control even for a moment, the consequences will be our fault?

None of this changes anything. It doesn't redeem the show's inherent issues; in fact, the good qualities only stoke my frustration because a viewer has to claw through some pretty devastating failures to see them. But that trade-off is not an anomaly in television, media, or frankly in the world. The meaningful themes that make The Bad Batch more than pretty pixels still persist. I'll leave it there.