I love seeing grown humans setting about little creative tasks out of boredom and then looking quietly pleased with themselves, like maybe a middle-aged woman on her train home from work manages to make a tower out of empty coffee creamers and gazes at it proudly for a few seconds.
I love seeing other people make the overblown OOPS I FORGOT SOMETHING performance for no-one that most of us do when we have to turn around in the middle of the pavement.
I love seeing stony-faced people in queues unable to contain a smile when a baby looking over its mother’s shoulder in front of them locks eyes and does that astonished stare.
– when someone is standing in line and they don’t quite dance to the music playing, but you can SEE their head bop and them mouthing the words
– when someone thinks no one’s paying attention and they sing-talk themselves thru a task
– when they laugh or try to hide a laugh when looking at their phone
– when someone does the thing where they enter another space (such as a supermarket aisle) striding with total purpose, then suddenly forget what they’re doing/looking for, and stop there looking blank for a millisecond while they reboot.
– when people are looking for scissors, in their home or in a store, and they make the scissors gesture with their non-dominant hand as an aid to remind them what they’re doing.
– when automatic social interactions glitch, like when you tell a waiter that you hope he enjoys his food too, or tell the stranger on the phone that you love them.
– the hand gesture people make when they’re thinking at their computer, not typing, and their elbow rests on the table, and they feel the edge of their fingernail with their thumb. This is such a lovely little gesture and to my knowledge I have never seen it in fiction. You’d think it would come up all the time in fic.
– when you’re sharing an experience with a complete stranger (like watching a seagull throw up in public, or waiting for a late train) and you make eye contact, and some comment to each other, and then you guys are, like, ALLIES now. Like you would willingly ride to war to save them. You can’t make eye contact again, but you are very aware of them.
– just evidence of other people’s rich, baffling and complex inner lives.
i love watching couples or friends walking in tandem. i love seeing when they make each other laugh
This is what Hozier means when he says ‘I fall in love just a little bit everyday with someone new.’
OK, but did Tolkien ever specifically state that the Blue Wizards were both male? I know he said the Wizards in general came “in the form of men”, but that could be taken as referring only to their race not their gender. Even Tolkien’s pronoun use is ambiguous: since he almost always discusses the Blues as a pair, they’re only ever referred to by the gender-neutral “they”.
Now the names Pallando and Rómestámo do seem to be pretty definitely masculine in form; but Alatar and Morinehtar are at least a little ambiguous: -r is an agentive suffix in Quenya (the same one found in Istar, in fact) which is often found in masculine names but doesn’t seem to be necessarily exclusively masculine.
So… what if Alatar, the second messenger chosen by Oromë, was in fact a badass female Maia sent to Middle-earth in the form of an old woman? And Pallando was her loyal male sidekick/BFF. (I already find it cute that Alatar brought Pallando along “as a friend”, but making it an epic f/m friendship between a female hero and male sidekick somehow makes it even better.)
Our fangs are none of your business unless they’re in your neck!
Stop 👏 Telling 👏 Sirens 👏 To 👏 Sing!!!
Our songs are not something to fool around with so save yourself the time and possible pain and just stop.
Stop👏telling👏werewolves👏to👏howl!!!
Our howls are only used for communicating and we don’t want to inconvenience our pack members!
Stop 👏 telling 👏 ghosts 👏 to 👏 say 👏 boo
It’s a rude stereotype. We don’t like that shit.
Stop 👏 telling 👏 witches 👏 to 👏 cackle!!!
We don’t laugh like that! Our laugh is no different to yours, and making rude jokes about it really hurts our feelings!
Stop👏asking👏to👏take👏a👏picture👏of👏cryptids
We’re not very photogenic and would prefer people see us in person
Stop👏trying👏to👏sell👏us👏demons👏your👏soul
We have standards
Stop 👏assuming👏zombies👏eat👏brains
They’re not super good or easy to obtain
Stop
👏 asking
👏 dragons
👏 for
👏 rides
We aren’t your taxi and the extra weight can cause problems in how we move and fly.
Deep in my subconscient I knew you were gonna do it..
Stop👏asking
👏Satyrs
👏to
👏play
👏a
👏song
👏for
👏you
Sure, we enjoy playing music and it’s nice to hear that people enjoy it too, but these pipes are magic, and so are the songs we play. We don’t want anyone getting hurt!
“airbenders are able to warm themselves with only their breathing”
ok so this explains why katara and sokka were bundled up in parkas galore while aang was just walking around in his little jump suit like it was a perfect summer evening. I’m so glad this was cleared up. I literally thought Aang’s optimistic attitude is what kept him warm, heavens.
So you remember the firebender prison? And how Zuko kept his bending at full strength when he was put in the freezer box, which disabled anybody else put in there? That’s because Iroh taught him that airbender trick, just like later he taught him waterbending moves to deal with lightning. Iroh was secretly master of all four elements and passed it on to Zuko without him noticing.
“the dragon age fandom doesn’t have a problem with whitewashing!!!!!! it doesn’t hate women of colour!!!!!”
these are all pictures of vivienne, isabela, and josephine i found on google, just in case you couldn’t tell.
the isabela one??? not just photoshop, it’s a mod.
He’s not a girl, of course, but don’t forget that they did it to Dorian too lmao….
omg i’ve never seen that why tf r they gonna make dorian look like gilderoy lockhart i mean
every single person who is new to the dragon age fandom needs to look at this post at least once in their life it’s cruical thank
There is not a single character of colour that the fandom hasn’t whitewashed and I can only assume anyone that honestly says whitewashing ins’t a huge problem for the DA fandom either a) isn’t in the fandom or b) is living under a rock under a rock under a rock.
valar apologist 