Just An Extravagantly Sparkly Blue Princess Fit.

So I made a new phone wallpaper pair and thought I’d share it with you all. The rose picture mayyy have been mine. :3

loki looked so pretty when he was locked up in the dark world, really, his eyes were so big and soft and his eye lashes were so long, and his lips were such a light pink, that's baby 💕

Thank you for putting this into such eloquent words! I also like how you present your takes on this @murtagh-thorn and @thearunadragon.

! I made an interesting realization just now in the shower! On a couple of occasions, Eragon and Nasuada suggest that Murtagh should act in the way Tornac would have as a way to change for the better and, ultimately, change his true name to free himself from Galbatorix and fight for them instead. Eragon insinuates this without directly mentioning Tornac: "Look at someone whom you admire but who has chosen paths other than your own through life and model your actions upon his." But in the context of Murtagh's backstory, this advice strongly evokes Tornac. And Nasuada outright names him: "Ask yourself: what would Tornac have wanted you to do?"

But that's a very curious demand for them to make because Murtagh is already emulating Tornac. Consider what we know about him. Tornac served Galbatorix, he would have had to for the king to entrust him with Murtagh's care. They lived in Uru'baen together as Murtagh grew up with Tornac raising him and he would have had to be in Galbatorix's service for all that time. Yet, he had no love for the king given that, when Murtagh wanted to abandon the Empire and flee, he was immediately ready to join him and help him leave that very same night. So he served the Empire for many years even though he had no true desire to be support them or the king, in order to provide the care and protection that Murtagh needed, until Murtagh was ready to make his own choice and take his own risk and Tornac turned his back on the king for him without hesitation.

That's exactly what Murtagh is doing. By yielding to Galbatorix and complying with his commands, Murtagh is doing the same thing for Thorn. He's bowed to this broad, great evil so he can look after the needs of an individual when no one else is willing nor able to. He does what he does to prevent Thorn from being tortured, to keep him from being broken, helpless against the king were Murtagh to abandon him. So he doesn't, the same way Tornac never abandoned him. And in the end, they rebel in a very similar way too. When Thorn is ready to carve his own path and fight for the right to claim his own life for the first time, and Murtagh wants to reclaim the life he desired but thought lost, they stand by each other and break free from Galbatorix.

For him to act the way that Tornac would requires that period of reluctant subservience so he can save the one he loves most. They ask Murtagh to follow Tornac's example, ignorant to the fact that the actions they so disapprove of are doing exactly that. And I wonder if this is a root of Murtagh's defining anger, an anger at Eragon and Nasuada's implication that the compromises that saved his own life and provided him much needed love and support through his childhood- the compromises that saved Thorn, the partner of his heart, when no one else (certainly no one from the Varden) would have helped him- were wrong. That they were immoral, they were not worth while, they were not enough, they fell short, they were wrong. Because such an implication is really a dismissal of Murtagh and Thorn's wellbeing- arguably of their lives.

I watch Crimson Peak for the plot

The plot:

Thomas' project reminds me so much of real life engineering. It's a brilliant invention with a shoestring budget. He also struggles to get (honest) funding for it, and therefore, his project's most likely understaffed, over schedule, and over budget.

And of course the machine experiences a huge component failure when he finally gets it running because stuff usually never works right the first time in engineering. Then the project has to be scrubbed in the end, namely because Lucille got stabby (but that's another story).

For I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content” (Philippians 4:11)

Paul learned not to let what he didn’t have, overshadow what he did. Contentment calls for simplifying your life. “Contentment makes poor men rich, and discontent makes rich men poor.”

Contentment means my happiness is not dependent upon circumstances. It's saying "My happiness is dependent upon the Lord not on my circumstances in life."

Paul said, “I've learned the secret of contentment in every situation." Contentment is something you have to learn. It's not something that comes naturally. Our happiness isn't dependent on how much or how little we've got. If you don't learn contentment, you'll never be happy. You'll always want more.

the concept and idea of “you can always start trying to be a better person” is extremely important to me both in media and irl and i continue to be deeply deeply disturbed by the trend on this site pushing that these ideas in media are bad writing or even morally reprehensible

because theyd rather someone stay terrible or just straight up die than become a better person 

from a compassionate point of view it’s deeply distressing and from a pragmatic point of view it’s outright frustrating

it’s fucked up. 

His expression is everything.

Results for my poll on Tumblr browsing preferences!

Here's a refresher of the poll. I asked everyone how they prefer to use Tumblr. Many thanks to the 95 awesome people who participated!

(Puts on technical writer's cap) I used glittering.world's Tumblr poll result grabber to get the exact numbers for each option. Since no one selected the last option, I excluded it from my analysis. I popped the results into Excel and made this pretty table and pie chart.

It's not too surprising to see that over half of the participants use the Tumblr app on their phones. Laptop users and phone users who browse Tumblr on their device browser have the second and third biggest numbers.

Here are two more breakdowns of the data! The next pie chart shows the number and percentage of people who use each device listed in the poll.

In case they're difficult to read, the numbers in the pie chart are listed as "Number, Percentage". As we've seen before, phones are very popular!

The last pie chart shows the number/percentage of Tumblr users who use the app (the most popular preference!) vs. a browser.

On an unrelated note, this poll was a great excuse to go aggressively girly with the color and styling of these charts! It was something I had always wanted to do for my college lab reports but ended up toning down to not shock anyone.😅

That's all I've got. Hope you enjoyed this micro stats report. El Droide out!

Ooh, this looks fun!

Hello everyone!

We are announcing a new event as part of our MCUchallenge year of celebrations (see details here) - Superhero Day! 🦸

Superhero Day is celebrated on the 28th of April, so this is when our event will take place. To participate make a gifset/art/edit, post it on this day, adding “@mcuchallenge year of celebrations - Superhero Day” to your caption and the #mcuchallengefilled tag 😘

As usual, for your edits you can use MCU movies, Disney+ Marvel shows, interviews with cast and crew, other videos of actors e.g. from premieres or other public appearances, from Instagram, etc. For more details see our Rules/F.A.Q. page (or for those on the app - the post) - all the same rules that we had for our monthly prompts apply :)

For those who can't create, and for everyone who'd like to take part in that event with another fun activity as well, we thought to launch a tag game, where you can tell us your favourite superheroes. We'll be gathering those (don't forget to mention @mcuchallenge) and we'll make a set for our celebration that will include 10 (MCU) superheroes that will be most frequently mentioned in those posts from now till the 25th of April, 2025 😉 The example post (aka the starting post for that tag game) can be found here. Everyone is invited to take part! 😜