Is anyone else like kind of sad that they actually wrapped up a lot of stuff that was left unknown in the books? Like I’m upset about the contents of the sugar bowl for sure (more upset than I’d like to admit) and kind of annoyed that it’s so heavily implied that they get home safe after leaving the island. I really liked the ambiguity of the books and would have been perfectly satisfied with just a few lose strings being tied up, but I feel like wrapping the whole thing in a bow seemed too tidy. I’m just still wishing they would have shown a storm in the distance when they’re on the boat.
Hmmm, I feel like reading the Beatrice files made the End come off very differently for me. Because I already knew that the kids made it off the island, but then, when Beatrice Jr is older, they go missing (possibly on the boat, based on the “Beatrice sinks anagram”. Beatrice basically becomes an orphan, and that’s why she seeks out Lemony. And we know she finds Lemony, but that’s all. All the show filed in was the dialogue that was exchanged and the research timeline.
As for the sugar bowl, I feel like it’s another situation of it working together but not alone. Because the emptiness of the sugar bowl being unknown is an important part of the story. ASOUE is the kind of series that needs to end with and very emotional “huh” by the reader. The people who’ve only viewed the show don’t get that. The contents of the sugar bowl is an answer to the fandom. The game we’ve played for years isn’t fun if we never get an answer, in my mind. (and it’s funny how it is two separate common theories together)
Not long ago haberdasheratwork asked me what I thought of the Event Horizon, this was, all kidding aside, the first ship that ever gave me nightmares, the first time I watched this it stuck for all the right reasons.
My love of spaceships aside, this vessel travelled to hell, and back, through a dimensional jump drive while attempting to transit to a nearby star system.
It scared the life out of me and I wanted to write a reply but I feel the images do a lot to build a picture of the ship and give you a visualisation of how it looked and felt.
The story truly was on the terrifying side, but anyway, the ship. The Event Horizon was an eerie vessel, I liked it, you just knew through the film and time with it something was not right.
Then you find out after the ship vanished, it literally went to hell and back, and turns into a living incarnation of pure evil.
I’ve seen some disgusting attitudes towards aromantic people as a whole on this site recently and although we may be a smaller community than most of the lgbt+ community, we are still valid!! If you have a sexuality but are aro, that’s okay! If you are asexual and are aro, that’s okay!! I don’t know if it is just the areas of tumblr I have been looking at but personally I’m tired of having to constantly validate my own romantic orientation due to others crappy opinions.
im so tired of action-based comics, i want slice-of-life superheroes. give me the batfam game night, harley and ivy’s date night, give me joker’s day off
It’s time for another take that will surely make people want to rage at me! Don’t care because if you can have an opinion, then I should too!
So…sentibeings am I right?
People hate em.
People defend them.
People genuinely like them.
Adrien being a sentibeing?
*Sees flames of war and dust*
Whoa boy, yall clearly care too much about a fictional character?
If we really think about it, aren’t all Ocs sentibeings that we toy with and control?
Think about being a writer. Essentially, we all hold miraculous within us. We are all capable of creation, destruction, illusion, subjugation, etc. So, in theory, we all use the peacock to make our perfect character for a story or assignment or job! That person or creature goes on an adventure, makes friends, and saves the world!
Some people choose to make this character suffer.
Some people kill their main character in a gruesome way.
And some of you who write characters even have them turn evil for the sake of a plot.
How is this different from creating sentibeings? In a way, to me, this just means that holding the peacock miraculous is similar to being a writer.
Sure, some would argue that this is a real person we’re dealing with, but if you want that perspective, look at you for a second.
Aren’t we all just a product of our parents and shaped by their ideals before we change?
Or the ideals of societal norms and customs?
Not to go philosophical, but it seems as if we are all like sentibeings ourselves. Creations based on emotions, linked to a singular purpose, and tied down to some object, person, or place.
Am I for or against the theory at the end of the day?
Kinda neutral.
I like it and I don’t like it. Simple as that. No need for long winded explanations.
Everyone needs to calm down and look at themselves. We are literally fighting over someone’s own sentibeing for the sake of a “good story”.
Just create your own creation children and go about your life.
So here’s a thought about Helen/Odysseus and Menelaus/Penelope: it takes 10 years for Helen to reunite with her husband Menelaus, who comes to seek her at Troy; it takes Odysseus 10 years to reunite with his wife Penelope once he sets out from Troy, and Penelope waits for him.
Where Helen must wait for her spouse to arrive and take her back home, Odysseus must spend the same amount of time traveling rather than stay in the same place. No one is going to come fetch Odysseus from the ruins of Troy.
But I also think that when Helen and Menelaus reunite, the old Helen can never truly go home, just as the Odysseus who leaves Troy is not the Odysseus who finds his way back to Penelope.
Is Odysseus playing at Menelaus by traveling to reunite with his wife? Or is he instead Helen, growing into someone else and estranged from his loved ones during the 10-year interim?
Does Penelope bring Odysseus home the way Menelaus brings Helen home? Does Penelope do it by giving Odysseus ways to prove that, deep down, he is always the man she knows and loves, the man who can use the impossible bow, the man who carved their bed, carved out of something near immovable, an olive tree with its roots deeply set in the arid Ithacan soil?
The party that Manwë throws to force Fëanor & Fingolfin to reconcile is so hilarious not just because Fëanor chooses to go in pajamas to disrespect the attendants in any way he can but also because:
You know, the way you imagine a character’s appearance is directly related to how you interpret their personality.
From what we’ve read of Celebrimbor I think he was good-hearted, had a strong moral backbone, had a strong will, was hardworking, strong, brave, selfless, had a desire for knowledge & a desire for building, he was full of ideas, hopes, dreams & plans, he was open to everyone and was eager to make bridges & friendships, he was deeply lonely and alone & sad & he was determined to make up for the wrongdoings of his family & restore their name.
& I know it would underestimate Sauron’s deception skills but compared to the ‘the wise’ (Gil-Galad, Elrond & Galadriel) Celebrimbor looked rather naive.
So all the reasons listed above, make me imagine Celebrimbor as a very young man. (Other than the fact that elves don’t look old. But even among the elves some like Elrond at the end of the third age look “neither old nor young”. But I think Celebrimbor straight-up looked young. Like he was in his twenties.)
And you know, a youth full of hopes & dreams & plans & ideas, fighting alone & dying horribly under torture because he trusted and welcomed someone and because he was eager to learn & to build is a real tragedy.
That the Amazon series now can’t show.
Idk what they’re going to do with the character but as I said, how you imagine him to look is related to how you imagine him to be.
And how vastly different we imagined Celebrimbor to look, makes me think how vastly different we imagine his character is. So far, the only word the showrunners have used to describe him has been “mysterious”. Which is not at all what I’d use in a million years to describe Celebrimbor. What about him is mysterious?
And with “politically ambitious” Elrond & “brash” Galadriel…Idk I worry how they’re going to write him.
