Eris

ninjagoforever

occasionalmadness:
“ buggy-heichou:
“ Me when I fight enemies in video games.
”
I feel like this is the GIF I have been waiting for to best sum up my boss fight strategy for every game ever. And I’m not sure which cat I am.
”

Source: thecatsmustbecrazy

kazliin

dinkywinks

i just cant get over the lobster scene. like his friends are actively begging him, do not get into the lobster tank. please eddie. tom hardy you were in mad max fury road dont do this. and tom hardy looks at his friend like “i know i shouldnt do this. i shouldnt be getting into this lobster tank but i’m going to anyway. i’m already mostly inside. cant stop now. i’m sorry i dont want to be doing this either there’s just no other choice for me.” and then he takes a bg bite out of a live lobster that’s still in the shell and everything.

tom hardy doesn’t actually know he’s being possessed by an alien yet in the story. he’s just resigned himself to whatever fucking meltdown he seems to be having. he doesn’t even seem particularly surprised that things have gone this way for him. like ten minutes later he finds out his heart stopped working and hes just like “you asshole” and he throws his alien parasite against the wall like a water balloon. and then he just leaves and is immediately kidnapped. what a fucking wild ride tom hardy is on.

tom hardy’s actual superpower is being the exact same level of dysfunctional no matter what is happening in his life. so when everything’s going ok for him he self-destructs spectacularly, but when literally everything that can happen to a human being happens to him, he does, like, unrealistically well. climbing into a lobster tank and eating a live animal with large claws just like… “well, this is what’s happening to me today. i’m so sorry you have to watch this, man. anyway here goes, i’m going to bite into a living creature with my human mouth and then LOSE CONSCIOUSNESS”

this movie’s fucking killing me from the inside.

dinkywinks

IT WASNT EVEN IN THE SCRIPT TOM HARDY IS JUST A FUCKING GENUINE MADMAN

mother-entropy

THIS SHIT is why finding out he was heavily involved in writing the sequel has made it worth spending “opening night at the theater” money on.

Source: dinkywinks

accidental-child

idiotdotdotdot

imthehuggernaut

Santa Clarita Diet was so good

Source: idiotdotdotdot

blackkatmagic

thatssroughbuddy

U know when avatar does that thing where it flashes back to a childhood memory of a character and then focuses on their face and fades back in on them at the same angle but older and changed....... gets me every time

wildshadowtamer

nothing-more-than-hot-leaf-juice

thatssroughbuddy

EXACTLY!!!!!!!!

lesbianbow

kriits

thatssroughbuddy

Thank you all for successfully breaking my heart!!!! Well done everyone if anyone needs me I’ll be off Coping with this collection of images

cosmickallura

big oof.

likealittleheartbeat

Excuse me @aucatgirl but how am I supposed to deal with these tags 😭

ding-dong-the-bitch-is-dead

@blackkatmagic @wolfsrainrules

Source: thatssroughbuddy

silenceia

livingbythewords:
“Every time I feel bad about my writing, I think of that line and immediately feel better.
”

Source: livingbythewords

imthepunchlord

xxtc-96xx

Newtwo contemplates how she hasn't died from a heart attack yet

Source: xxtc-96xx

accidental-child

actuallyfeanor

Whenever I read LotR and reach the battle between Eowyn and the Witch-king, I get the impression that the reason why the prophecy loophole works isn’t that the Witch-king is unkillable except for some illogical weakness nobody had thought about yet for misogynistic reasons, but that the Witch-king himself derives so much of his power from the fear he instills in others and from his own belief that he is unkillable. Eowyn doesn’t fear him, because she doesn’t fear death. When she twists his words right back at him, she’s not trying to exploit a prophecy loophole, she’s just making a play on the double meaning of the word «man» with fairly standard battlefield bravado.

But, crucially, it gets the Witch-king wondering if there might be an actual loophole in the prophecy. He starts doubting his own invincibility. There’s no logical reason why a woman might be able to kill him if a man cannot, but prophecies are tricky things. What if …

And this is what undoes him, in the end. This last minute doubt. The Witch-king, deep down, believes that Eowyn can kill him, thus making it possible for her to do so.

actuallyfeanor

The elves care about the prophecy. The Witch-king cares about the prophecy. All the old, powerful beings of Middle Earth play by the rules of prophecy and live by the logic of Norse Sagas and Germanic legends.

Eowyn marches up to the Witch-king like Jared (19), goes “that sign won’t stop me because I can’t read”, and because the storybook logic, the fairytale logic, of the prophecy allows for her kill him, the Witch-king as a creature of stories and nightmares has to play by his own rules and die by her sword.

actuallyfeanor

As people have pointed out before, the phrasing of Glorfindel’s words about the Witch-king allow for quite a number of the inhabitants of Middle Earth to kill him, if we’re only looking for possible loopholes in the prophecy.

not by the hand of man shall he fall

According to this, the Witch-king could technically be killed by elves, dwarves, ents, hobbits, orcs or maiar. Why doesn’t Legolas kill the Witch-king? Why doesn’t Gandalf?

As mentioned, elves are very aware of the story logic that governs Middle Earth. They see their own place in the narrative, they know which foes are beyond them. Gandalf, too, knows that he cannot be the one to kill the Witch-king, and the Witch-king knows that Gandalf cannot kill him. Through their combined beliefs, the outcome of their fight is predetermined.

Eowyn doesn’t know what she can or cannot do according to story logic. The Witch-king has killed her Theoden. She sees no reason why she shouldn’t avenge him. And when she hears the Witch-king tell her that no man can kill him, she simply decides that that rule doesn’t apply to her.

Eowyn isn’t the only person who could have been the exception to the rule, but she is the first person who decides to genuinely, honestly believe that she is the exception to the rule, and this is why she ultimately kills the Witch-king.

actuallyfeanor

I thought I was done with this post, but I’m not. Because from a Doylist perspective, the confrontation between Eowyn and the Witch-king is taken straight out of Macbeth, the final confrontation where Macduff kills Macbeth, whom «no man of woman born» could slay.

Macbeth is a play that is all about prophecy and cause and effect. The plot is set in motion by the three witches announcing to Macbeth that he shall be king of Scotland, which prompts him to speed up the process by murdering the current king and then covering up said murder with more murders.

Would Macbeth have done this if not for the witches? Did they simply point out the inevitable end point of the path Macbeth was already taking? Would Duncan and his sons sooner or later have died in battle or of natural causes and the other Thanes chosen Macbeth to succeed them? Would Macbeth in his ambition eventually have aimed for the throne anyway? Or did the witches, through their prediction, directly cause the events leading to their prediction coming true?

These very same witches are the ones telling Macbeth that no man born of woman can kill him, the words Macbeth repeats to Macduff during their fight. Macbeth has decided that the prediction is true, he has decided right from the start to play by the rules of prophecy.

And Macduff, being born by Caesarean section, decides that he is the exception to the rule. You can argue as much as you want that it technically doesn’t count, that a Caesarean birth is still a birth, but ultimately it doesn’t matter. Macduff has decides that it counts, and Macbeth, by putting himself at the mercy of prophecy, must to a certain extent believe that it counts, and so the outcome is decided and Macbeth is slain.

Source: actuallyfeanor

batteryacidjuulpod

Anonymous asked:

can you please tag all your posts with warrior cats or something so i can block them from appearing on my dash? (nothing personal I just. dont like warrior cats)