heart of hearts.

i have to tell you something. if you pour water into a hole of dirt and put grass in it and mix it around it makes something. Its called potion

hear me out: a lotr game but you play as the ring, throwing yourself wantonly into the path of unsuspecting folk and slowly corrupting their minds as the game progresses

it’s a lovely morning in middle earth, and you are a horrible ring.

The inevitable result of playing the One Ring in a trolly and silly capacity is that you will humanize, empathize, and eventually sympathize the One Ring into a deeply complex and multi faceted character through growth both negative and positive and you WILL enjoy every minute of it

sometimes i forget that bart is canonically a telepath

HES A WHAT

@caitallolovesyou

BLEASE

This post is like getting pelted with marshmallows shot out of a tennis ball launcher

no offense but I heard the evil scientist say he likes studying me better than you

Then why’s he up all night diluting my saliva? Check and mate.

well IM getting moved to a separate chamber tonight so he can keep an eye on me. What about that?

Please, he hasn’t even probed your mind yet. Besides, yesterday he told me that my blood diagnostics were, “abnormal” and “potentially hazardous”. How could you possibly compete with that?

*telekinesis throws a soda can at your head* 

How dare you!!! Evil Scientist!!! Evil Scientist they’re resorting to violence!!! I do not feel very enriched right now!!! I need a bandage and an IV of juice!!!

this is exactly the behavior i’m talking about. You still need juice rewards and screens. I have evolved past these childish activities, I am a model experiment

*sounds of an evil scientist hurriedly scribbling down notes*

It’s also quite bingeable for a work of words. I read it during my half hour lunch breaks and it goes by rather quickly!

For the most part, Gaiman adds detail and character motivations that Snorri doesn't spell out as opposed to actively changing anything. The two biggest differences from the source text is Gaiman does make Thor a much, much dumber jock than the Eddas portray him, and he glosses over the whole Skirnismal coercion deal.

Also, I think this is a thing that’s easy to have happen in narrative: when you have someone who’s reasonably clever, but they’re always in the company of one or more RIDICULOUSLY smart people, they come off poorly in contrast. Especially when “I’m smart/I know things/I’m clever and sneaky” is the other character’s primary trait in the story, their counterpart gets thought of as “the foolish one” just because they’re nearby and get the blunt end of the exposition stick. Think Dr. Watson, or Benn Grimm - very competent people in intellectually demanding professions (a surgeon and an astronaut), but their best friend is an over-the-top supergenius, and their role in the story is to be the muscle rather than the thinker, so we remember them as not very smart by contrast. Hanging out with Odin and Loki is going to tend to have the same effect.

There’s probably quite a lot to that, actually. And modern writers have tended to lean into this, and so we have ‘dumb himbo’ Thor, when quite honestly if Odin had half his son’s common sense he may never have made some of the mistakes he has such as, oh, chaining Fenrir.

Hypothesis: the himbofication of Thor is a classist smear to demean the working class...

wait go on I’m listening

[ID: A digital drawing of Sokka from the waist up with his hands on his hips and his eyes closed. He is wearing a blue tank top that has the words “Women want me, Fish fear me, The moon spirit has conflicting feelings about me” written on it in white. The background is bright light blue. Above sokka’s shoulder the watermark says “Silima” in small gray writing. End ID]

Prompt: You see your younger sibling getting abducted at the park. Panicked, you rush to save them only for the abductor to reveal that they’re not abducting your sibling—your sibling is the world’s Chosen One and they’re here to train them.

Those loony Christian signs listing all the types of sinners who will go to Hell (ABORTIONISTS SATANISTS GAMBLERS FORNICATORS) always make me feel bad because I know I’d fall under a lot more categories if I just got out more. It’s introvert shaming, that’s what it is.