silent cartographer

This election is a tough call because one candidate has spent their entire multi-decade career architecting legislation like the 1994 Crime Bill, the 2005 Student Loan Bankruptcy Bill, Section 1021 of the NDAA, etc., while the other has continued to abuse those powers for four years: all the powers of which were willfully vested in him by the very people who pretend to be the #Resistance in the first place.

Every dang kid I knew waited for their Hogwarts acceptance letter. Reading the books and seeing it on screen gave you this warm, fuzzy feeling and a feeling of longing, even when they were in danger and fighting monsters and evil wizards, you want to be there.

You want to go to Middle Earth, see hobbits and elves and dwarves and run through this land of incredible beauty, mysticism and magic.

You want to be in the TARDIS, seeing the universe.

The more recent trend of fantasy is this gritty, dark realism and places where you would just never want to go. I don’t want to go to Westeros. I don’t want to be in The Hunger Games, I don’t particularly want to be in The Witcher universe. I’m living in the world of Black Mirror and I hate it.

Fantasy used to say “hey our world kinda sucks but here’s a cooler one”, but now it says “hey our world kinda sucks, but here’s an even worse one.”

That isn’t to say that the above are bad. They’re not. 

J.R.R. Tolkien

“[M]y friend Professor Tolkien asked me the very simple question, ‘What class of men would you expect to be most preoccupied with, and most hostile to, the idea of escape?’ and gave the obvious answer: jailers.”

everyone says mulans official outfit should be her armor when it shouldnt

it shouldnt be this

because firstly it isnt even HER amor its her fathers.

shes pretending to be someone else in this, shes not herself mulans acting trying to be like everyone else which is basically what she was doing back home which brings me to this

as you can plainly see this isnt who she is, she doesnt know what shes meant to do, she just copies the other girls. This isnt who she is or what she wants to become, its what shes expected to be, the make up covers up who she is inside (when will my reflection show who i am inside baby)

now i’ll tell you what her official outfit dress thing should be

THIS

THIS IS THE DRESS SHE SHOULD BE WEARING!

this is the dress shes wearing when she is resolved. shes realised what she has to do and shes accepted herself dispite what anyone else thinks

this is what she wears when the emporer of fucking China bows down to her

this is what she wears when she defeats Chinas worst enemy

THIS IS WHAT SHE IS WEARING WHEN SHE IS FINALLY ACCEPTED BY EVERYONE FOR WHO SHE IS

AND MORE IMPORTANTLY THIS IS WHAT SHE WEARS WHEN HER FATHER FORGETS HONOR FINALLY ACCEPTS HER THIS IS AMAZING FOR HER BECAUSE HE IS THE MOST IMPORTANT PERSON TO HER

AND IT IS ALSO THE DRESS SHE WEARS WHEN SHANG TURNS FROM A BADASS LEADER INTO A TOTAL DORK

idk man

she seems a lot happier

stronger and accomplished

in this outfit dress thing then she does in anything else in the whole movie

plus its a dang beautiful dress