thranduil sleeps calmer knowing even if his son married a dwarf at least he married The Supermodel dwarf and singlehandedly crushed the hopes of single dwarves and dwarrowdams everywhere
this is my headcanon and you will never take it from me.
listen, just Listen for a second, okay.
Gimli Gloinul is from the line of Durin okay, he’s from the line of KINGS, his bloodline stands up against Legolas’ perfectly, if the elves and dwarves got their shit together for a hot second they would be like “YES, PERFECT, A DIPLOMATIC MARRIAGE TO BIND OUR HOUSES TOGETHER AND NEVER SHALL THE TWAIN THROW ONE ANOTHER TO DRAGONS…again.” because you have a king’s son and a king’s nephew which, well, I love Dain but he’s not an EREBOR KING and GIMLI IS FROM THE FAMILY OF EREBOR KINGS.
And Gimli acts like he’s from the line of Erebor kings, too, okay, he’s a diplomat and a warrior and a nobleman, he’s the sort of person who SAYS things like ‘faithless is he who says fairwell when the road darkens’ and stares down Elrond Peredhil in his own home when his strength and faith are questioned. And he’s the kind of person who swears his allegiance to people he barely knows because it’s Right and Good and Gimli knows it.
And Thorin Oakenshield was handsome, and his sister the lady Dis is beautiful, and Gimli’s cousins Fili and Kili were fine young dwarrows, and Gimli’s mother is a great beauty.
Basically my point here is that Gimli, proud strong gimli with his firebeard hair and bold laugh and mithril tongue and clever fingers, broke the hearts of everyone in Erebor and not a few people outside of Erebor when he married a goddamn elf. Like. Not even Arwen Undomiel (WHO MARRIED A GODDAMN HUMAN, it’s been a weird couple of years in Middle-Earth, everyone wonders strongly if they’ve been drinking too much). Like he’s not even marrying a great beauty of the elves, Legolas isn’t ugly by elvish standards but also he’s nothing particularly special, and he’s not a great diplomat, and he’s BARELY a king’s son because everyone knows that Mirkwood elves are…a little odd. Legolas is a big cheerful hunter who sings songs he doesn’t remember all of, who chatters to trees and has no sense of the right thing to say even if he’s developed enough self-preservation to know the wrong thing to say, and FOR THE LOVE OF MAHAL HE FIGHTS WITH A BOW.
“GIMLI” Gloin bellows “YOU TURNED DOWN THIRTY-TWO SUITORS FROM FINE DWARVISH LINES FOR THIS”
“Ignore him, amrâlime, he’ll get over it” Gimli says in amusement as he beckons Legolas over to his forge, where he’s carefully smithing mithril-inlaid gold marriage clasps that will grip fine elvish hair. It’s too hot in the forge to wear shirts, if you’re working. Every dwarf in twenty feet stops what they’re doing to watch Gimli’s biceps flex as he holds up a jewel for Legolas’ inspection.
“YOU COULD HAVE HAD A HAREM” Gloin wails from down the hall.
#a headcanon I never knew I needed until this very moment
I love the art but now I love the headcanon just as much
i never thought i could relate to takahashi more than i already did before this episode. we got hints of this before, but takahashi has spent so long trying to make himself smaller and live a generic, unassuming life in the hopes that it would just make people leave him alone. his grandmother, his only family and main pillar of support, passed away, and he basically forced himself to give up on everything he ever wanted to maintain the house in her absence, as if trying to make up for what he lacks, as if it’s all he’s worth and all he is allowed to have.
and then sakuko comes along and not only makes him realize that he doesn’t actually have to be lonely (along with introducing him to eventual friends he can rely on to understand him without constantly expecting him to explain himself), but tells him he actually can in fact have it all. he can have a family in the form of sakuko, a whole support system of people, someone to watch over the house. being by yourself doesn’t have to mean you’re alone, and being alone doesn’t have to mean you’re lonely! they will still have each other even if far apart, and if he wants to quit and go back then he can, and if it ends up not working out for them then that’s okay too!
it’s such an aro thing to force yourself to be smaller, to believe no one will ever understand you so why bother, to feel like you can’t live the life you want because the path was never laid out in front of you so clearly. to force yourself into new boxes to escape the old ones, to chain yourself down to avoid being set adrift. but happiness is subjective, and family is not a place. sometimes, having a family is not having someone to live with, but having someone who understands and supports you through thick and thin. you don’t have to always sacrifice what you want in order not to be lonely! those are fake rules and we don’t abide by them here! live your life! follow your dreams! choose your own family on purpose! build your own castle! FUCK!
honestly I know enough has been said about those posts that end with the entire bus applauding someone, but like it’s just SO unbelievable?? in my experience if anything of note at all happens on public transport we all just kind of quietly look around at each other with this expression
starting to suspect people don’t know the difference between purposefully obscure, inaccessible writing and just… writing that utilizes specialized language(s), the main purpose of which is literally unambiguity and clarity. you can’t write a paper using general language, you simply can’t. and i promise you you having to look up a definition doesn’t mean the author is classist and elitist and evil and wants to gatekeep stuff from you specifically
I feel like a big part of this is that people don’t see the humanities as complex disciplines that require years of study? I hardly ever see people complain about technical language in, say, a chemistry or a medicine paper, because we all seem to agree that scientists needing specific language is a normal thing.
But if a historian or a linguist uses technical language, lots of people act like they’re purposefully trying to gatekeep their field instead of considering that they’re just experts adressing other experts and that not all topics in the humanities can be condensed into a fifteen minute long divulgative ted talk. It takes years of study to get into humanities, same as it takes years of study to get into sciences, and of course we need divulgation and easy introductory materials, but you can’t expect to jump off the deep end into an article written at a phd level and automatically understand everything when you don’t have the basics down.
i say this with love in my heart, but acting like others interpreting billy’s behavior as racist is completely nonsensical is weird.
like, arguing that his scenes with lucas can be seen from a different angle doesn’t mean it’s necessary to desperately try to disprove his actions as 100% non-racist. multiple interpretations of canon can exist simultaneously.
I forgot that one of the most essential rules of cosplay is: Do not start working on your cosplay earlier than one week before the con. You may buy the fabric two months in advance, but don‘t do anything with it!
It’s important that everyone understand that, when I say that I “like” a villainous character, what I in fact mean is that I consider them to be both coolandmorally praiseworthy, as well as correct in their aims and methods andworthy of emulation by people in the real world. Just in case there was any ambiguity on this point.
I further elaborate that I consider them to be An Excellent Role-Model for Impressionable Children.
I almost neglected to mention that they are a worthy sexual partner and that I am aroused by everything that they do.
